The Imposter Podcast AU
Join former first responder and army veteran Burso as he plunges into the human psyche with insightful discussions on imposter syndrome and how it affects every aspect of our lives. Using personal stories and expert advice, he uncovers the secrets to overcoming feelings of inadequacy and stepping into your authentic self.
From boardrooms to crime scenes, the Imposters explore guests real-life stories of triumph and struggle, shedding light on how imposter syndrome impacts career advancement and personal fulfilment.
Whether you're a first responder, veteran, CEO, mother or student, this podcast will empower you to silence your inner critic and thrive in every endeavour.
Don't Die Wondering!
The Imposter Podcast AU
Creative Dreams and Christmas Schemes, The end of Season One, looking forward for Season Two.
In this lively Christmas-themed episode, the gang – Burso, Fitzy, and Nick Wise – weave through holiday banter, reflections on achievements, and plans for the year ahead. With their trademark humor and camaraderie, they take listeners on a meandering journey filled with anecdotes, jokes, and surprising insights.
What Questions Will This Episode Answer?
- Can humorous banter carry a podcast?
- How do veterans and everyday Aussies celebrate Christmas in unique ways?
- Why does the crew believe in staying active and adventurous no matter your age?
- What’s next for the Imposter Podcast and the broader "Vetaverse"?
Anecdotes to Enjoy
- Christmas Crack Chaos:
Fitzy shares his culinary venture of making “Christmas crack,” a simple yet addictive caramelized chocolate treat. Amidst jokes about it sounding like a Walter White experiment, the team riffs on the hilarity of homemade traditions gone wrong. - Nick Wise’s Running Challenge:
The team playfully bullies Nick into considering another ultra-marathon, teasing him about his hesitations and challenging his resolve. Fitzy recalls his own ultramarathon experience, describing how he casually yawned mid-run – not out of exhaustion, but boredom! - The Yu Yangs Election:
In a tongue-in-cheek nod to local pride, Burso crowns himself “Mr. Yu Yangs” after participating in a community election. The crew riffs on the absurdity of claiming such a title, jokingly comparing it to medieval knighthood. - Podcasting Adventures:
The group reflects on their podcast journey, sharing milestones like hitting 15,000 downloads and recalling how early episodes felt chaotic. Nick Wise’s contribution is praised for adding unexpected depth, with Burso humorously admitting to tapping out during marathon recording sessions. - Aged Adventure Philosophy:
A recurring theme is the crew’s disdain for people who claim they’re “too old” for activities. Whether it’s late-night one-wheeling in the Yu Yangs or brainstorming triathlons, they emphasize that life is about trying new things – no matter your age or circumstances.
Catchy Questions Left Hanging
- Is there such a thing as being too old for adventure?
- Will the Imposter Podcast finally get consistent with releases?
- What’s next for the Vetaverse, and who will join its ranks?
Key Themes to Look Forward To
- Hilarious banter: From mocking Nick’s running aspirations to playful Christmas jokes.
- The power of community: How collaborating with fellow podcasters and veterans fosters growth.
- Embracing the absurd: The joy of making big plans, even when they seem improbable.
- Looking ahead: Plans for a dedicated podcast studio, more guest features, and exciting real-world events.
Whether you’re driving to Christmas lunch or reminiscing about past adventures, this episode provides a hearty mix of laughs, inspiration, and a glimpse into the quirky camaraderie of the Imposter Podcast team.
Matty Morris of https://www.zerolimitspodcast.com/ helps us out with a banger of a tune. If you want to hear about some real intense moments from Veterans and First Responders. Check out Zero Limits Podcast.
We can stop that right there. There's no such thing as a bloody drunk tank anymore, is there Not?
Burso:in Victoria, I think everywhere else, there's still plenty of drunk tanks getting around. Yeah, I'm playing this song again. All right, one more time, one more time, all right, the song's here. Okay, it might be here to stay, it might not be, I don't really know. All right, stop judging me. Merry Christmas.
Nick Wise:Merry, christmas Merry.
Burso:Christmas to everybody. It is Christmas morning or it may not be. You can listen to it whenever you want. It could be February by now, but this is released on Christmas morning. So all the best to everybody. I hope everyone's having a lovely Merry Christmas, and this one's for you guys. Get your own cheer. This is what it's all been about. What about you?
Fitzy:guys, I reckon we can wrap this up right now, that's the best intro we've ever done.
Burso:It is, and it's not going to get better from here.
Fitzy:No, it's all downhill from here, all downhill from here.
Burso:This is about the podcast. It is when it's going to go. To be fair, I've already lied about the intro music three times, so don't take this as a grain of salt. It's a chance to redeem yourself now, take this as a grain of salt. Don't know whether anything we have to say or do today will be used in evidence in us going forward as a podcast.
Fitzy:Right. So who have we got here and what are we doing?
Burso:Currently we've still got Nick Wize, we've got Don't get rid of me. We've got Fitzy and we've got a bunch of Savvy. They're already opened the code's still appropriate, though.
Fitzy:Yeah, enter Impostor for 12%, some percentage off anyway.
Nick Wise:Some percentage?
Fitzy:yes, Look enter Impostor and you let-. Get yourself some Savvies, because they are good, very good on Christmas morning.
Nick Wise:Oh, you definitely need it.
Burso:Yeah, and then peps you up for your drive home after your eggnog. Oh Can we?
Nick Wise:I don't know, I don't know, you're going back to the drunk tank a little bit. Yeah, too much back to the drunk tank.
Fitzy:Is eggnog a thing?
Burso:Not in Australia.
Fitzy:No. Savvies are a thing, Savvies Costa 17% 13.67%.
Burso:You know, what Go and enter Savvy?
Fitzy:No not Savvy, go to Savvy what did, he do?
Burso:Mark Carey Wow, not, you can tell, we're over it today, anyway.
Fitzy:What do you mean? We haven't even got started. It's Christmas morning.
Burso:Exactly, it's Christmas morning and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Hang on a minute. Neville's up and about. Yeah, you will not catch a mouse.
Fitzy:I guarantee you, you know, he's only got three teeth left.
Burso:Oh really, yeah, it's like some ragdoll thing apparently. They lose all their teeth.
Nick Wise:This episode could have just been you reciting Dr Seuss Could have Cat in a hat, yeah.
Burso:Eggs and ham.
Nick Wise:Oh no, he's cancelled, we're not allowed to talk about him.
Burso:Okay, I can't remember what it was, but he got cancelled for something.
Fitzy:No, not in my book. No, so he did. Which book are we referencing?
Nick Wise:Get that.
Burso:Didn't like that one. No, I'm just realising how pathetic we are Anyway.
Fitzy:It's been known for a long time, has it though? Yeah, anyway.
Burso:Anyway, it's been known for a long time has it though, yeah, anyway. So achievements big in Algiers. Massive Shout out to them. We have got, I think we're at about 15,000 downloads at the moment which is ridiculous, considering we did nothing for the last time.
Nick Wise:How many episodes are you up to, just for my reference, at the moment, yep, I'm going to go with 53.
Burso:For my reference too, yeah, just for your reference as well, we're at 53. That's not bad, right like now it should be 53. We do also have that one that Fitzy McConnell and I did about movies and stuff, but that's literally just peeing for us. I didn't do anything with that.
Fitzy:That was a while ago.
Burso:I don't know if we need to release that one.
Nick Wise:Maybe that's a subscribers only episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm going to send?
Burso:Yeah, I'll send that to the four of them. Yeah, which, to be fair? I'm not even angry with that.
Nick Wise:That's a fair effort.
Burso:Four subscribers is ridiculous.
Nick Wise:Off the back of that, though, outside of looking in, that's a fantastic effort, because I know, when this was Four subscribers or Well that, but 53 episodes I got to sample some of the original recording Before it was all released and I thought, oh good, did you listen to the first four of them that we did, that we didn't use, I did Just, you know, committed friend, but I thought I don't know if this will have legs, but no, it's up and running, so well done.
Burso:Look to be fair, Fitz. And I still don't know why it has legs either. I mean literally half of the time it's a running podcast, podcast, the other time it's a we remember, it's an imposter's podcast, so we say that word a few times it doesn't really mean anything.
Burso:And then impostor code for how many percent, yeah, you can just use that code for, you know, 14.89 off that, uh savvy. And mark hurry, our sponsor, still yet to rock up, still yet to talk to us. I mean, we've had him on the phone but he's too busy winning awards or whatever it is.
Fitzy:His bloody latest thing was can't even call him, can Can't even. Might be with the kids at the moment.
Burso:He doesn't have kids, but I could probably actually call him.
Fitzy:Oh well, it's Christmas morning and we don't want to interrupt him.
Burso:Can't even know what the words are.
Nick Wise:Have to play it again next time, it's evident.
Burso:Yeah, didn't hide that.
Fitzy:well, it sounded very much like the Pogues to me. Yeah, much like the Pogues to me.
Burso:Yeah, yeah. Well, speaking of the Pogues, he does check out with us on all our war stories, because we're mad war heroes. I was going to put in a pew, pew, pew, pew, but I'm not the ABC, so I don't have the money for it.
Nick Wise:You're wondering how I was going to get that in there, just slipped in there. Don't know how that happened.
Burso:Not bad though I suppose Jared has coined it the Vetaverse. He's out and about and I mean, like Heston, he's fighting the ABC. Matty Morris is coming up to 200 episodes. Jared's selling out now on all his shows. We went to his show. That was good.
Fitzy:He was quite funny. Actually, I was surprised.
Burso:Yeah, because he's been shit.
Fitzy:Why don't we speak to him in person? Actually, quite funny, yeah, I had quite a few lols that night yeah. I didn't say there weren't lols in there, because I reckon I would have got cancelled.
Burso:Were they targeted, did you say? Did either of you get targeted in the show.
Fitzy:I actually asked him before he walked up there. I said please don't touch me, and he went. Yeah.
Burso:He still made jokes about him. But he didn't feel him up.
Nick Wise:No, I just thought, that went yeah, yeah, yeah, it's good.
Burso:Yeah, motor got fucking done.
Fitzy:He brought that on himself.
Burso:He's a dickhead.
Fitzy:He brought that on himself.
Burso:What did he?
Fitzy:say again I'm a mate of Bursos.
Burso:He's just like he was talking about, like marriages and who's been together longest or whatever. Motor's been married for like 400 years or something, so he's like yeah, I've been married for this long run.
Nick Wise:He goes, oh yeah.
Burso:And I asked, obviously like I don't really want to answer this anymore. He's just like I'm. Berso's mate, like that was going to stop Jared from giving him shit. But to be fair, it worked because he just thought he's like oh, he's Berso's Make-A-Wish Foundation disabled mate.
Nick Wise:He just let it go.
Burso:He just dropped it off there. I was laughing, but yeah, so Jared's killing it. I don't want to say any of the stuff he wants to do, because he might want to say that himself which is fair enough.
Nick Wise:I'm going to sidetrack you a little bit here and ask you what you actually plan on doing, because otherwise you're just going to ramble on about everyone else's achievements.
Burso:Yeah, well, I'm only seven minutes into it, so I was getting around it.
Nick Wise:Where are you?
Burso:at. Well, I'm just sitting next to the microphone, as always, and just ginning around.
Fitzy:Any achievements lately?
Burso:I don't think so Want to mention no, I'm trying to get an incinerator burning over at the back of Lara here. It's a big. Everyone's mad for that idea. But anyway, back to what I was saying. Nick, you're not even a guest anymore, so no one cares what you have to say anymore. That's what happens now.
Nick Wise:AI's already deleted me from this podcast.
Burso:Yeah, you had your chance to have your thing in the sun, and now you're just one of the others. Fitzy overrules you again now. He was just a co-host before. Now Fitzy's in front of you.
Nick Wise:I'm not mad about it.
Burso:SJ's been killing it. She's still doing her book. I think she's up to chapter nine of her new book, but she's got a Patreon now and she's doing her. If anyone's listened to her thing before, she's does the audio thing. I think if you're a subscriber you get to listen to our audio books. That's pretty cool. Who else have we had that's done anything?
Nick Wise:Hendo.
Burso:You've seen Hendo With his bloody. You would have seen Hendo If you've got social media. You've seen that bloody ball bag. Nowadays he's always. He's. Stop Screaming, I'm Scared. 2 book I've got three of them. It's all that matters. He's on TV, he's now. It's now going to be an audio book. I can't remember who it is. It's not Russell Crowe. That's who he was trying to get, but he's not doing it. But he's got somebody doing the audio. That's great.
Fitzy:Yeah, it's been really he didn't get Ragnar.
Burso:Weren't we trying to get Ragnar? No, I was trying do about Ragnar, but yeah, what else have we got there? So there was Marks. He's now got a. He's a job now. He's a big dog over at Coulson there or something like now. And he's doing his Frontline Safari thing again.
Fitzy:This has all come off the back of being on the 100%.
Burso:It's all due to just the podcast.
Fitzy:Good.
Burso:We'll go nowhere. Before, yeah, we made them, especially Hendo. Definitely made Hendo, yeah, well, look, to be fair, hendo's one might be a little bit different because he was too scared to speak to us when we were in the middle of the desert. Now he's on every bloody podcast I've ever seen, appears everywhere, and he's on Light Channel 7 News. He was up in Townsville, he's in the Bulletin and stuff. Just gross. Now, like get over it. You've had your one book, you've had your chance. Like move on or make another book. Peter Hamlin came down, he's he was working with.
Burso:actually, I don't even know the movie's not out yet, so I don't know what to talk about. Anyway, probably not. He's in a movie did really well. He's mates with some cool people now, so he's looking at doing whatever, but he's also got a book that he's now his second book is going to get published and it's a fiction one. So his first one was obviously him like putting a bunch of mail on talking it up his time in Timor, which is obviously not as hard as he said it was. But yeah, he's now got his second book out, which, well, it's not out, but he's written it and it's going to get published. So that's exciting. I've tried to tell him to make an audio book, but he's the same. He wants Russell, russell Crowe, to do it. Russell's not just going to sit there and read a bunch of people's shitty books.
Fitzy:He's had some shit going on as well, hasn't he Russell? He's making movies like he's an actual movie star Big movies at the moment.
Burso:Yeah, like he's actually doing impressive stuff, not just reading shit stories like these boys are trying to get him to do. But what else have we got? We didn't develop any internet beef. That was disappointing. We didn't develop any internet beef. That was disappointing. We didn't find out who the one-star person is.
Burso:That'll be season two. We'll get a bit further into it. When we get some cash we'll get a private investigator and they'll work that out. That'll be an IP thing we can search. It'll be easy. We've still got our people that we think it is. But yeah, we've had a bunch of co-hosts so we've now I just got a community. Really, as soon as you leave, we just give you a call back. I mean, the pay is not great, but you do get to write a book apparently as soon as you've been on here. So half the boys have got books. Now who else have we got? Preston? He's got his own podcast now. The Road Best Travelled. I bet you that's not what it's called. I'm pretty sure it's the road best travelled.
Fitzy:It's not as good as this one.
Burso:Anyway, oh, it's not, it's shit, but good on him for giving it a crack. It's not easy. I'm witnessing that firsthand. You reckon it's not easy? Yeah, so you reckon my acting of making it look hard is when is he? I'm going to look him up. You guys talk amongst yourselves.
Nick Wise:He's doing a live search. We could just explain step by step exactly what you're doing. That would be really enthralling listening.
Burso:That is the Road Best Travelled.
Nick Wise:podcast Does he have an intro.
Burso:Let's see if I can play an intro for him.
Fitzy:It's going to be one of those awkward silences.
Burso:I don't know if that's. You know what this is. Look he's talking about. So you have a look here he's parked his thing.
Nick Wise:What.
Fitzy:This. I'm in the apartment.
Burso:I'm going at it. It's road trauma stuff. He's just talking about not parking between the lines, Like terrible reel, Like it's not going to do anything. His podcast isn't going to go anywhere, but he a nice enough bloke so get around him.
Nick Wise:Glad we sampled it just now then.
Burso:Yeah, give him a piece, I was already bored halfway through that.
Fitzy:Has he got any more runs coming up, not running from Mildura to?
Burso:I don't know, because remember he was talking secret stuff and he didn't want to talk to us about it. I wasn't here. Who was I talking to him with? Oh, it's Pete Pete. Yeah, okay, easy to forget that bloke.
Fitzy:Very easy Loves to try and arm, wrestle people and then runs off when you're about to do it.
Burso:Matt for a bloke who bloody blocks out the sun. He's actually really easy to live with, like he's not loud, he's not, he's real docile. He just hides in his room. He's just. I mean, I don't know.
Fitzy:Does get drunk and wake people up though.
Burso:Oh, he gets blind all the time.
Fitzy:Pete, and also if you're living with him, he might just blow up the deck that he's in True.
Burso:True, that was him, that was Sean.
Fitzy:He was quite happy to have it though.
Burso:Oh, he's happy to talk it up. Yeah, talk it up like it's his story. Yeah, he's going to come back down here. He'll be like right, we're arm wrestling right now, none of us are scared of him. No, why should you be? He writes make-up novels, Anyway. What else do we have on there?
Fitzy:So what have you got planned for the day? So, well, where are you going after this?
Burso:I'm going to head down and see the olds. Mum was in hospital most of the year. She was in and out with I don't even know what an excuse was. She had some heart valve issue with some sort of bacterial infection that kept making her go back into ICU, so they had to watch her. Anyway, she's fine. Now she wants to get everybody that she's had in the hospital to come and see her and that sort of stuff. Yeah, she'll be fine. Well, you, Fitzy, what are you doing? Anything fun?
Fitzy:I am going to have lunch at the Outlaws and then my parents for dinner.
Burso:Is the. Outlaws code for your parents or the in-laws you. Just, it's just like a cool transition of in-laws to out-laws.
Fitzy:You haven't heard that before.
Burso:I've heard that but you might Well. I just thought like it might have been like your parents are your out-laws and the other ones are the in-laws.
Fitzy:Nah, you're overthinking it.
Nick Wise:Okay.
Fitzy:It's just cool I just thought too much into it which they're not out-laws.
Burso:They're actually great people, so I'm thought you were actually hanging out with, like Ned Kelly and the crew.
Fitzy:Oh no.
Nick Wise:Anything fun for you, Nick Outlaws for Christmas lunch.
Fitzy:Who are they? What are they? Can you do it in a more jokey tone?
Nick Wise:Yeah, Like who's or are they actually? I can't really. You see, look, and they wear vests and shit.
Burso:I knew there was going to be embroidery and stuff. There Is there embroidery.
Nick Wise:Is there embroidery on there? If there is, I'm not involved in it. I don't want to. You'll just have to wear it.
Burso:Yep Are there any prospects on there? No, okay.
Nick Wise:Potentially.
Burso:But then also go to visit. I support your time out there the original wisers the grandparents. The whizzes, yeah, the whizzes.
Nick Wise:Yeah, just do the right thing, basically.
Burso:Oh, do the right thing. Yeah, fair call.
Nick Wise:You're lucky. You've got little ones that love it. That's exactly right, so they can steal the attention and I can just sit in the back and eat food.
Fitzy:Yeah, nice, yep, fair enough. Well, this will be the first year I've got to. I'm going to hang out with my daughter at parents place and I'm gonna have a few beers with her. She call you an outlaw I'm not an outlaw, I'm a parent, oh okay, he's really not understanding no we'll go through it, I'll explain it later with a coloring in book that's pretty cool, crowns cool, right.
Burso:Well, anyway, merry christmas everyone, etc. Etc. So in the future, fitzy, what are you feeling? What do you want to do with the podcast next year? Anything.
Fitzy:Yeah, we can do more, Absolutely. Zero input on what you want to do in the future.
Burso:Zero commitment here, Because I remember we were talking a while ago about doing like that. I'm too old for that shit.
Fitzy:We have been talking about that and I think that's still a good idea. We just haven't brainstormed it enough on how we're going to get those things.
Burso:Well, I literally asked you about your ideas and you're just like nah, stuff and stuff.
Fitzy:Well, I wasn't going to bring that up, just in case it was something that we wanted to go with.
Burso:Well, basically, fitzy and I are old as, and there's a bunch of shit that we probably shouldn't have been doing, but at the same time, why not? So we were like, I mean, we went one-wheeling in the Yu Yangs when it was dark, just because, like why wouldn't you do it? Obviously ended in the way you thought it was going to end.
Fitzy:Fitzy ate it out in the middle there, but lots of joviality, yeah, well, that's. It's about having that comical nature. It's also I think the idea was also just we were talking about it how, once you get to a certain age, you get comfortable with that and instead of going and doing new things, you're like I'm too old for that. So why? Sometimes there is good reasons why. Because, holy shit, you don't bounce anymore like you used to, um, and so you stop doing things.
Nick Wise:But yeah, so you're either testing social norms or justifying them. That's the outcome.
Burso:A little bit of it. Yeah, it's like when you know, like I go play basketball with the other blokes and there's like 25, some of them are 30 or whatever and they're like, oh, I'm getting too old for this.
Burso:And you're like 42, mate, what do you want about? Like at which point have you decided that you're too old and you just want to give up on doing anything? There's like 70-year-old dudes who are like getting jacked and you're like, how are you at 30 years of age? Oh, I've got kids now so I can't do anything, or whatever.
Burso:And you're like what do you want about? Like, if you're going to give up now, mate, and you've got 50 years left in your life, like jeez, it's going to be a long, fat end of your life.
Nick Wise:You know people who can't do things because they've got kids. I don't know.
Burso:There's nobody that I know that just says they're a dad and can't do it Leggy loser. But yeah, like, it's just interesting to me that people just stop trying new stuff. Like I mean, if you play tennis your whole life and you've blown your knees out and you can't play tennis anymore, it doesn't mean you can't do anything else. But a lot of people are like, oh, I used to do this or I used to be that or I used to do that. And you see it in the veteran community as well, where you're like oh, I used to be infantry and you're like when, like 2003 to 2009. You're like man, you're talking like 15 years ago.
Burso:Yeah, like what't you do it anymore. They just don't have an excuse. But, like you know, I mean we can do all sorts of weird stuff. Like we were talking, fitzy would obviously try and get me to do some running, you know. And then Fitzy was going to go to the gym and we're doing this and that, and then, like we're one wheeling, I'm the Fitzy, how many competitions we could win by default.
Burso:Surely there's some stuff out there and we might need to do it. We might need to both do it, though, so it makes it a category, because if you do it on your own, they might not do it.
Fitzy:You're right, because I mean there is a lot of people in history that have gone through and gone to the Olympics just because nobody else was doing it.
Burso:Yeah, yeah, yeah, we might need to find like a third 40-year-old so we can have a first, second, third and just like that's enough for them to run a competition where they're like oh, we don't have enough. And you're like, yeah, yeah, boys, sign up for this one, you are guaranteed a place. Get around it.
Burso:But yeah, so there's stuff like of the challenge thing we were trying to do at the start.
Burso:But you know, like obviously some of that happened, like SJ did a Patreon and some other people did some things, which was awesome, but it was, I think next year I want to get into, like I'm looking at making an actual little studio sort of scenario which then other people can come and use.
Burso:So, like Jared's down in Victoria, he can come on and do his reels or whatever else it is he needs to do, and other people that are coming through like they can crash there and they can do their own stuff. Like with the Vetaverse, it's been interesting to see people now realising that if they collaborate with each other, there's a much bigger audience, and it's really been interesting to meet up with the different dudes along the way as well. Like, and it's really been interesting to meet up with the different dudes along the way as well. Like it's good to see them excited about being creative and stuff. So that's been pretty cool. But at the same time, like YouTube has an algorithm and there's been a bunch of people that I've spoken to that are, like, I don't listen to podcasts, I watch them on YouTube, and by watching them.
Burso:They're like I do stuff but it's like if someone's laughing I'll turn and I'll look, or whatever, to see the reaction between the people, and I think that's sort of one thing that you really miss here is if you do it like it's I mean the amount of times that we talk shit about because somebody's doing something here and it gets real quiet it's just awkward because you're on a podcast, obviously, and there's something funny happening that gets a bit funny. But also YouTube having the algorithm like it, actually it tries to get you an audience and does whatever. So if you're actually trying to grow it, it's probably a thing that we should probably look at doing. And I know we sort of went back and forth and we're like oh, we need to have the proper cameras, we need to do this, we need to do that. And it's like I've got the AI on the podcast stuff now that literally will just do the mastering, do all the levels, and then it writes a story for you about what happened, does the transcription and you're done.
Burso:And there's obviously computer programs that will do the same stuff. And it's just about doing it Obviously, like I'm running two jobs. Now Fitzy's going to be studying or whatever else it is he's going to be doing. Plus, obviously, people have got competitions, but I'd love to do like if you and Nick do another one like to actually do a YouTube thing about it.
Fitzy:Where we can? You know like it's all good and well to talk about it on here, but if you can then go, nick did throw out. After I did another run, nick decided that he might want to do the same run that he did this year and then do the one the month later.
Burso:The Grampians one.
Fitzy:No, the one along from Apollo, beta, the 12 Apostles. Okay, yeah, because there was I think we should really try and bully him into doing it too.
Burso:I don't know that you even need to bully him that much because he was, oh, you reckon he's not going to do it.
Fitzy:Yeah, a little bit.
Burso:Nick, you're scared.
Nick Wise:You reckon that's enough to get him over the line now. Well, I should do. No, you don't reckon. No, I reckon that's enough.
Burso:No, okay, send him a message that knows Nick, nick the runner. Send him a message telling him he's scared. Nick the ultra runner, yeah. But yeah, I'd love to do actual stuff like that, where people are like hey, I'm actually going to go do this, mate, and then get the crew together and go support them and then make a video about it and then chuck it up on YouTube, because YouTube is obviously more of a, it's a visual platform. So your B-roll and all that sort of stuff is a lot better, but it's, I mean, you can still use this as it is.
Burso:I think it's all just the roll I don't have an A-roll or.
Fitzy:B-roll, a-roll, b-roll. I think the whole thing is B-roll. Yeah, we're that good. We do it in one take every time.
Burso:We do actually, though, can confirm yeah can confirm To our credit we are one take wonders.
Fitzy:It's like no one out there Would have ever guessed that Either no, they wouldn't.
Burso:They would have been like Jesus Christ.
Fitzy:They must edit the shit Out. Of this Must be scripted Must be.
Burso:Yeah, I wonder how much research they put into it.
Fitzy:Usually it's live.
Burso:Just all the stuff there. But yeah, like I mean. So you know, the YouTube thing is a thing we can do, the podcast, stuff.
Fitzy:What does it say today? What's the headlines For ours Today on the news?
Nick Wise:Merry Christmas worldwide. That's pretty much the…. Yeah, true that.
Burso:Yeah, yeah, yeah. They said Santa rocked up, everyone… I told you what they said at the start All through the night, not a creature of steering. That was the stats. All through the night, not a creature of steering.
Burso:That was the stats. We're going to have to rush this. We've got to get off on the road, go and see our families and stuff we do, but yeah, so like we're open to having other people come on board, do whatever. The other thing was we might have co-hosts on here that come, jump in from other places. They're guests one time. They're welcome to come back.
Burso:One thing I was really keen on trying to get up and running which didn't happen by the end of the year was to try and get like a live panel sort of scenario happening. That was what we were trying to do with Ragnar. We were trying to get him on to be Manny Morris' 200th guest, but it's still a work in progress. It's still work in progress. It's not a no yet, but it's just. I don't want to talk it up when it's not going to happen. And then if it does happen, then it's a win. Yeah, but at the moment, don't hold your breath would be the scenario, but it would have been good.
Burso:We tried to get the Civic Centre up in Townsville, but we needed the guests to do it in the first place, so it was all real chicken or the egg sort of thing. But um, yeah, going forward. It'd be really interesting to see if we can get like some some panels going on and and get the get the vetiverse together to go and meet all the boys and then maybe travel around to the different bases and do like a. I was thinking to have like a tour de force, but in australia, going around to the big bases so you'd have sydney, townsville, darwin, cetera. So that would be another thing. That would be cool. If we can get like five of them for a year, that would be a pretty cool way to break up the year and see what happens there. But besides that wouldn't mind a new intro. I don't know now, because just listening to the road intro again it's good intro.
Fitzy:It does get me up and about.
Burso:I mean, you're not going to lose the road music. But You're not going to lose the road music, but it's like if you're going forwards, especially like if you've got an intro that you're then going to put on.
Fitzy:We just did a very pokey Christmas.
Burso:We did Start, we did Very topical though, because today is Christmas. Well, yeah, obviously, obviously, but yeah, like it would be good to have like a. That way, we have like an intro that we can use on YouTube and do whatever and see yeah, maybe, yeah, we'll see how that goes.
Fitzy:Maybe you could do your.
Burso:Go on. This is why you need YouTube Australian Idol revisited. Yeah, just Fizzy's face trying to stir shit up over here.
Fitzy:What was your Idol audition? I can't remember, you don't remember.
Burso:No, something to do with Jet.
Fitzy:It was a Backstreet Boys song, wasn't it?
Burso:No, it was actually a Jet song Backstreet Boys song, wasn't it? No, it was actually a Jet song, Backstreet Boys. I would have won, but yeah, I was trying to be a little bit alternative. You know which Jet song was it? I can't even remember. Like, I know you're trying to stitch me up, but I actually can't remember that one, was it something like that. No, no Are you.
Nick Wise:Going To Be my Girl.
Burso:No, it wasn't that one.
Nick Wise:I can't remember you were really committed to it, obviously.
Burso:Yeah, well, I was at the time, but it was funny because I'd just learned it, because I was like, yeah, this is my song, which is a rookie mistake. If you're going to go into an audition, learn your song beforehand, not whilst you're sitting in a line, because you're bored for 12 hours of your life waiting for the judges to let you in in the morning and heads up. Also, don't wait in the line for 12 hours. It's like you're tired, you're corked, your voice is corked. Yeah, yeah.
Burso:That was the issue on the day. Was it? You're tired? There was about 18 issues on the day.
Fitzy:Those were some of them. I think maybe that's something for you know future podcasts we could revisit.
Burso:Going to the next one, yeah, we could revisit that. I'd watch that Get you into another one.
Fitzy:yeah, Australian. Idol. What's the other ones that they do?
Nick Wise:Australia's Got Talent.
Burso:No, it's the one where they press the button, they turn around.
Nick Wise:The Voice, the Voice, yeah, the.
Burso:Voice.
Fitzy:Get you in for the. This Is the Voice.
Burso:Yeah, we'll jump in all of them. Fitzy's going to do a bodybuilding competition with me because he likes going out and about. G-strings. Oh right, okay, yeah. So we'll see what else happens with that. The newsletter. I was getting around but then the election came and I was just like it's too hard. Say again, what election. The King of the North election King of the North.
Fitzy:Yeah, the King in the North.
Burso:King in the North. That's right. Do you want to elaborate a little bit more?
Nick Wise:No, not really Not necessary.
Burso:I mean, I'm for a big deal in the Yu Yangs. Now they actually call me Mr Yu Yangs. It's like yeah.
Nick Wise:Mr Yu Yangs.
Burso:The house does smell of rich mahogany. It's his dad. He's like don't ever say Mr Yu.
Nick Wise:Yangs like that again Don't ever do that again.
Burso:Yeah, so I'm in there, so it's pretty cool.
Nick Wise:That'll be fun At least you'll have a title For your next audition At Australian Idol. You just start with that.
Burso:Yeah, I'm going to have to echo it as well, like Mr Yu Yang.
Fitzy:Shit that whiskey Like Jason Derulo yeah yeah. Jason Derulo.
Burso:Yeah, but Mr Yu Yang yeah, I'm going to have to work it out Doesn't have the right syllables. Also, though, oh, mr Butthurt, what's his name? Sam Sam. So, oh, mr Butthurt, what's his name? Sam Sam Butthurt.
Nick Wise:Sam Ride oh Boo.
Burso:Hurt, boo, hurt yeah, he said he's up and about.
Fitzy:Did he win in Switzerland? Where did he go? I?
Burso:don't know. Did anyone watch his stuff? No, I don't know where he gets the followers from. I still don't know. Nobody I've spoken to cares about Boo Hurt or Sam.
Fitzy:No.
Burso:It's ridiculous.
Fitzy:No, strange guy, that guy.
Burso:Yeah, like for a four foot five dude, so much confidence. It's just bizarre, I really don't get it. He, yeah, finally did his run, though you know he did his hammy trying to run 400 metres last time.
Fitzy:Yeah.
Burso:Yeah, I saw there was like I just saw the shorts, I didn't watch it.
Fitzy:He made 400 metres. This time did he.
Burso:Yeah, yeah allegedly Also the shorts. You can watch his shorts. You don't have to watch his shorts.
Fitzy:Were they short shorts? He's all rubbish.
Burso:Oh, he's always wearing short shorts. It's a PTI thing, weird unit, weird unit. But he said he was going to, he's trying to push into YouTube, so he's going to be making videos and stuff, so we might just be able to use him. What else are?
Fitzy:you going?
Burso:to do with him? I don't know. You can't even get a photo with the lad unless he's standing on a bloody milk crate. Yep, it's just a waste of time. And he calls you daddy all the time. It's really weird. He's just a weird unit, but he's the only Victorian vet I've got down here, so we might try and get him back. All right, yeah, look he's the.
Fitzy:We'll see what we can do. We'll try and make it work. What about? Well, I'm going to bugger up this, yeah, do it Just run with it. Wed, wed, wed, nathalie.
Burso:That's him. Never promoted his thing once. We don't care about him anymore.
Fitzy:He's done so. He's not going to the Olympics next time.
Burso:Oh, he might be, but we're just not talking. He didn't promote his own one. He's too scared.
Fitzy:Right.
Burso:Okay, now February. I think he said he was going to start training again.
Fitzy:Ah, so he's on a bit of a break at the moment.
Burso:Well, it's like a spinny, spinny, throw, throw. Like how much work do you have to do with that? You just need to eat food in the downtime.
Fitzy:I think Maybe that's a good challenge for you.
Nick Wise:I'd love old for that.
Burso:He's not even in his prime yet.
Fitzy:He's not over the hill like me. I would like to film you throwing a hammer, yeah.
Burso:I'd like to film his face when I beat him at his own sport and then throw off because I spin around too much, can't handle it. We've had man, I've loved it. I've spent around too much, can't handle it. But yeah, we've had man, I've loved it. I've loved this whole podcast thing, like there's been plenty of punters that came on. Good mates with them learnt so much more about mates that I've had for years that I've never known anything about before.
Fitzy:I think a couple of days ago you were.
Burso:Go on.
Fitzy:You were talking to a friend that you've known for a long time and there was a lot of stuff that you were looking at going shit. I didn't know that.
Burso:No, I don't remember. What are we talking about?
Fitzy:Well, he's here with us right now.
Burso:Oh yeah, no, he's back now.
Fitzy:Yeah, we have mentioned that. Yeah, was that yeah, yeah. Naik was that, I think they call him In fact, I remember at the start of that, when we started, Chris was like wow, I don't think he's got much to talk about, so it should only take about 40 minutes. And we got two episodes down in one day, and I don't think we were even done. We could have kept going.
Burso:You could have kept going. I was done. That's why I tapped out.
Fitzy:I probably was too. I could have kept going.
Burso:Yeah, well, that's why I got you to talk for most of it, because I was like A he's talking it up, he doesn't even do this anyway, none of that actually happened. Yeah, I was like that's not how it happened, but it's been interesting to see the AI, though when you jump on, you see the descriptions of the pods and then you're like, oh, that was more interesting than we thought it was. If you summarise the hour into probably about a 15 second read, you'd be like, oh yeah, that was. I learned something there.
Burso:Other than that, though, like we're 30 minutes in and this has been a complete fucking waste of your time anyone who's listening at the moment, like the only reason we're making it for today is because you're probably going to drive to and from the day.
Fitzy:Have you made anything? I've made some christmas crack that I'm taking up to my crack parents. Yeah, christmas crack, now that is.
Burso:Is this like water white? Please elaborate. Is it blue crystal?
Fitzy:It's literally saladas on a baking tray. You make up a caramel goes over the top you bake it. So it goes hard and then you put chocolate on top of it and it all melts down and it's all crackly and chocolatey and stuff and it takes about 20 minutes total. So I've made a heap of that to take up to mum and dad's yeah right, that could be a winner.
Nick Wise:I reckon that sounds fantastic, it's super simple.
Burso:Are you going to be a vinegar? Yep, it's not far from ship, do you?
Nick Wise:want to drop some off.
Fitzy:Come across for some Christmas crack, just me.
Burso:It's me.
Fitzy:Hang on.
Nick Wise:You're going to eat it though they're Italian.
Fitzy:They're going to eat some white person's crack. What's it is?
Burso:the crack. What have you got for me? Can I please say you've got my drain and some crack.
Nick Wise:Similar sort of accents Very similar. For us it would just be handing around the various panettone. Yeah, similar sort of accents, yeah, very similar. For us it would just be handing around the various panettone that have been sort of circling around for six or seven years with a cross on the bottom of it. That's kind of the Italian way, what's the cross about. It's just so you know that you've received it and you're about to give it to someone else. Oh, really, yeah, okay.
Fitzy:Hang on, hang on. What are we passing around?
Nick Wise:It's panettone, it's bread, isn't it? Well, basically, italian bread Kind of, and there's different forms, and you should always have the choc chip one but the fruit one.
Burso:You can happily pass that on to other people and they obviously last yeah.
Nick Wise:I mean, if every Christmas has been handed it on, they do get a run around Easter again and then probably the next Christmas.
Burso:It does show that no one eats it, though, if you pass it on you're like, yeah, they're not going to open it.
Nick Wise:And then someone opens it, they're like oh good, it's been passed on 17 times, you guys make for each other, or make no, you just buy it and then it's just one of those things that you gift for whatever reason. You gift them to one another and I'm fine with it because I like to eat anything. But yeah, so there'll be plenty of that and whatever else Like oh we've got an Australian here.
Burso:They'll eat that yeah.
Nick Wise:Yeah, but there'll be also.
Burso:there is pasta which you know, growing up in an Australian household pasta at Christmas, but he's now.
Fitzy:Yeah, so you haven't made anything for your? Of course I won't. That's why I go to my parents.
Burso:I'm doing them a favour by eating. John, make some.
Fitzy:Christmas crack. Yeah, make a, I'll make some Christmas crack for you today and grow some passion fruit. My passion fruit tree is on the mend. It had a bit of an incident with the lawnmower and whippersnapper and stuff.
Burso:How did it have an accident with multiple tools? Yeah, that doesn't sound like.
Fitzy:Well, I can't confirm which one it had the accident with, but it wasn't me that cut the lawn. It was my, I won't even say that because Now careful Jesse. I don't want to upset them. It's Jesse, but it set it back a few years, but it's flowering again this year, so I reckon next year I'll have a really good haul of.
Burso:It's a new name now for anybody that we've got internet people with. Now it's going to be.
Fitzy:Jesse, if you don't want to name him, jesse, stuffed my tree.
Burso:Nikes mate Jesse.
Fitzy:Old blood knows.
Burso:Jesse, oh, busted face, jesse Classic. But yeah, have you like. You're getting a uni this year, 2025. Yes, anything else?
Fitzy:we're looking at. Ticking off Runs Probably a few things, can't talk about those.
Burso:yet, though, what you can't run, can't talk about runs, oh runs, literally what you do. You're Fitzy the runner.
Fitzy:Yeah. No, I don't know what I'm going to do this year.
Burso:You haven't got any runs locked in. No.
Fitzy:I usually sort of look and go I haven't done that one, I might have got that. Or, if something comes up, if Nick decides to run again, I don't think I'll run with him again, because I think he wants to do it on his own this time. Yeah, come with me.
Nick Wise:Is that starting some beef, like he couldn't keep up with you, or?
Burso:He couldn't keep. Mate. You should have seen Fitzy. When I met him, he was yawning, and not because he was tired, it's because he was bored. And then we'll do that.
Fitzy:It would be more just to go and do my own run and he may beat me, I could fall over, I might not finish.
Burso:He might beat me, he's like you know I might miss it, my leg might fall off. No, no, no, I don't mean that?
Fitzy:Am I going to duck my ass? It's a bloody long way and like if you finish, you finish.
Burso:Sometimes you're not going to finish, so yeah, Fitzy says this when you see him there, you're just like.
Fitzy:Fitzy's like. I'm obviously finishing. It's like man on that last one. He just was strong. I don't know. There'll be some runs that I do. I might even I've been looking at getting back on the push bike again.
Burso:Oh, carbon fibre jobbies.
Fitzy:Triathlon Dusted that one off. No, I'm not very good swimmer.
Burso:Doesn't mean you can't do it.
Fitzy:I'll do one or two, if there's a triathlon.
Burso:I'll probably have a croquet one. There we go Call out.
Fitzy:Nick, nick will smash me.
Nick Wise:I'm not real great in the water either, so maybe we could both do survival stroke for that part, and then I'll meet you on the course.
Fitzy:Yeah, what do you want to do? Do you want? To do a half iron man or something like that.
Nick Wise:Let's do it. I'll do a full thing, obviously.
Burso:A full one Actually because Fitzy will fucking do one.
Nick Wise:Yeah, no, maybe not, don't throw that shit out there, Fitzy's like all right, let's do it then. Are you doing a full one or are you going to? Are you going?
Fitzy:to be able to swim that full. Yeah, are you talking to Fitzy like oh?
Burso:are you going to be able to do that? Fitzy races in international events for 160Ks. It's the last time you ask Fitzy something again. Anyway, what have you been?
Nick Wise:doing for years.
Burso:I rock up and You're very defensive about my friend Fitzy.
Fitzy:Yeah.
Burso:And half-arse it. Are you going to Ironman it or what? Talk to me, tell me now.
Fitzy:He did say he wanted to do one, so I mean he said half and then he talked it up.
Burso:He was going to do a full one. Well, half is still. Happy to do a half one, yeah.
Nick Wise:What Happy to do a half one, yeah. What are we talking timelines? We've got at least 10 years to train for something like this At some point in 2025,.
Burso:Will you do an Ironman Half even? I don't give a shit, I'm not even doing it. So you can do a third if you want. He's soft.
Nick Wise:He's soft, no wonder Jesse beat him.
Burso:The kids might need me at home. What for that whole?
Nick Wise:day. Yeah, fair enough, I might get permission. Permission.
Burso:Sarah, if you're listening to this, can you jump on the page and let us know what Triathlon Nick will be doing with Fitzy? That would be much appreciated. Thanks, sarah, I'm sorry.
Fitzy:Here's me waiting for the phone call.
Burso:Yeah, I know she won't.
Fitzy:That's not going to happen because this hasn't been released yet.
Burso:No, it hasn't, but it will be. As soon as we're done talking, it'll be up and running. It'll be up. Well, I mean, you guys might be doing a road trip, sash, you might listen to it, then a Christmas special, but yeah, so we've got an Ironman. That will be happening, or a half Ironman at least. That's exciting.
Fitzy:We'll be doing some more pods. Maybe, if we do get into some of the pod stuff, I might look at maybe that as cycling. Trying to get back into it. It's been 14 years now since I was a cyclist.
Burso:I'll hit up Wed to try and do some spinny spinny throw stuff.
Nick Wise:That'll be good A bit of hammer.
Burso:But yeah, ideally we'd get to the reels. Thing's been interesting because we had that. We did a couple of collabs with Jared and they're on like $185,000 or whatever it is. And, being that we've not released a pod for probably two months now, we're still getting 15 listens a day and that's purely coming from doing that pod thing. So I'd love to do a lot more of that stuff. So if we can find I mean whether we do it with Sam or Jared when he's in town or however that looks it's interesting to see that, like you can just do a one-minute funny clip and then it will carry over to the podcast.
Fitzy:I think it's better to do it with Jared in town, because he's funny yeah.
Burso:As opposed to us, as opposed to people that aren't funny. Yeah, yeah, mind you, we made his ones, like it's good to break it up with Jared in between, but we made them. Let's be honest, I've seen them. I've seen them. We're funnier.
Fitzy:Yeah, see how I said that Like, oh, this guy called me champ, he's back for the cancelled moments and he can be the cancelled man. Pete loves that, doesn't he? He doesn't care, he was so casual about it, I loved.
Burso:I mean they don't care. Now They've got Scojo involved, scojo, I've not seen him have less cares to give than that bloke. But yeah, I mean it's good fun. The gang are all getting about it. I like it. Yeah, I don't know what else is going on, but we'll see what happens when it comes out. But I would love to see more reels. I'd love to get a podcast studio going. We'd love to get more obviously more guests coming on. But I'd love to get more people doing stuff in the real world, like Jared doing his stand-ups great. I want to go and see his stuff when he's in town. Eve likes doing a race, that'd be great. Nick, does another 100K get around. That That'd be great. Sj, I'm pretty keen to see her book finish, not because I'm going to read it, but just good for her.
Nick Wise:When are you doing a bit of voice acting for that?
Burso:To be fair, like I'm keen, I'm keen to do it. I reckon it would be fun. That's another thing I want to try and do. Like ads? Yeah, I want to do not. Movies Movies are annoying. You've got to do like it takes long Voice over stuff. You never get seen, nah, like just a dude, like just driving like a merc or something.
Nick Wise:He's like I love this car so great. You know, I just like that's for those of you listening chris just made a motion of driving behind the car, but youtube will fix that later on.
Burso:I knew you'd learn, did well, yeah because he was like doing stuff and so on, before we like or just like a toothbrush, just be like facing the front, just like you know the old ads where you just like we can't show his face on TV. Yeah, yeah, yeah, those ones Because he's a dentist. Yeah, those ads, like just anything like that, Any ad I'd be part of Hungry Jacks. I'm just like, or you know, like the stunner meal where you're like Like they were doing that.
Fitzy:Pretending to eat a burger like you're just doing that, yeah just YouTube ads.
Burso:I don't care where the ads are coming from. Okay, but is?
Nick Wise:this something you're challenging yourself to or no?
Fitzy:yeah, I just want to. I thought you were talking about recreating ads that are out there. No, no, no. I just want to be internet.
Burso:Yeah like nothing exciting at all, it's just funny. You just do a day and then there you are on TV driving a car pretending you care.
Fitzy:So what about? How about one of SJ's books?
Burso:Yeah, no, I'd be mad for that. We were trying to do that from the start, but I offered and then she was like no, she's like you ain't sexy son. Yeah, so from what people have said, apparently her narration's been going really well, so that's been good.
Nick Wise:From what people have said. So you've not listened to yourself?
Burso:Well, obviously I haven't. Well, I just get too weird because I think she takes it seriously. Then I'll be like oh, but yeah, like other people who have read her books and listened to her stuff said she does a really good job. So that's good, yeah, yeah, that's pretty much it really. I think I don't know you got anything else you guys want to achieve this year?
Nick Wise:Pl. I think I don't know you got anything else. You guys want to achieve this year Plenty, but can't really think of it when I'm put on the spot like that.
Burso:Okay, Well maybe that'll be our New Year's thing, where we all write 10 things we want to achieve by the end of next year and then be the old accountability game.
Nick Wise:Yeah, I like it All right, everyone else off.
Burso:Happy to go, yep.
Fitzy:If anyone's out there driving, take care this Christmas and we'll see you next year.
Burso:Yeah, and if you, we've got plenty of episodes if you want to listen to them, depending on how far you're driving or you can go to the road best travelled with Presney. He's alright If you have to. If you're really struggling like Matty Morris has got heaps more to go through you don't need to worry about Alex.
Fitzy:His aren't that good either, are they?
Burso:Alex or Matty Both of them. Oh, it's you know.
Fitzy:Just stay with imposter. It's personal preference.
Burso:Yeah, but I mean, we run out, eventually it's a long trip, though, yeah. Oh, that's another thing. Next year are we going to try and be weekly, or are we just going to smash? Them out for like a period and then disappear again or whatever. What are we thinking? Consistency? Are we thinking?
Fitzy:I thought it's better.
Burso:We can think a lot of things, but whether it's going to happen or not, Well, I mean, last time we were like, geez, we've got a backlog, now let's just smash them out two a week and then we're like then. But it's like, do we wait for? Do we just consistently do one a week? Because the other guys I've seen doing like true blue, he does one a fortnight, um, and he does well. Maddie's I think maddie does one a week.
Burso:But I don't know, can't remember. Some people do one a month. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know what the answer is. I certainly don't don't. I'm also pretty happy to just be sporadic, because that seems to be how we roll.
Nick Wise:Keep guessing, yeah.
Burso:Like this one. We're like, hey, surprise, there's three this week and we haven't seen us in two months. It's like get around us. But yeah, like now that October was flat out, for me, November was pretty like it was a lot of mandatory training and stuff.
Fitzy:Still haven't said what happened in October.
Burso:It was Veterans Health Week. It was a shot of a movie. Election was on which election? Mr World War? Yeah, the Sheriff of the North.
Fitzy:The Sheriff yeah good King of the North.
Burso:Yeah, in the North Of the North, in the North, in the North In the North yeah, king of the North.
Fitzy:Yeah, in the.
Burso:North Of the North In the.
Nick Wise:North, in the North, in the North. Yeah, king of the North. It's just turned into a semantics discussion. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Burso:We're actually just wasting people's time now, yeah, but yeah, so well, there's definitely going to be like I have two incomes now. You did mention that before you did, yeah.
Fitzy:I don't know if you picked up on it but, this is separate this one.
Burso:I'm talking about like as in doing ads, like on something else as in like paying for ads, whilst also doing ads. Separate times, separate things. We're wasting time now, merry Christmas.
