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Nobody actually chooses their trade. Your old man did it, your mum signed you up, or a mate said the cash was good. This week the brothers pull apart how every tradie really ended up on the tools, then build the ultimate family out of six trades, argue about whether an auto sparky beats a mechanic, and cop a voicenote about a gold mine that fooled its own investors with a pile of fool's gold.
In this episode:
- Why Troy left his running shoes at home and Immanuela drove two and a half hours to save his King of the Hill training
- Falling asleep on top of a bogger underground at 2am and the painted gumboot punishment for getting caught
- The Congo mine with water cannons, spears through windscreens and shift bosses getting run over for dobbing
- The fool's gold con that kept a rural Victorian mine open a couple more years
- Big parts win hearts and Parkinson's law ruining every reno
- Building the perfect family from three blue collar trades and three white collar ones
- Auto sparky versus mechanic versus heavy diesel, settled once and for all
- Why Australian council permits and CFMEU rain days make us soft
Timestamps:
(03:15) Troy leaves his running shoes two hours into the drive
(05:00) Immanuela saves the day and the back-to-back 40k and 25k
(09:30) Falling asleep on the bogger underground
(10:35) Mount Isa, the kilometre-deep drive and sleeping in the back of the Cruiser
(13:30) Painted gumboots and solar panels on night shift
(16:45) Congo water cannons and the spear through the windscreen
(23:13) The fool's gold con that kept a mine open
(27:30) The first time we saw pyrite underground
(28:55) Nobody actually chooses their trade
(34:40) Troy's first year underground on 60 grand
(43:26) Going from the dumbest kid at school to feeling like a G at TAFE
(47:34) Why install work is dog work
(52:20) Building the perfect family out of six trades
(01:25:30) Council permits, CFMEU rain days and why we're going soft
Full episode out now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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