Readit News"Umm, I kinda look like a student."
"Good enough for me!"
I got a student discount.
The voice actor for Bandit, Dave McCormack, was not previously known as an actor or voice artist, but he has been known in Australia since the early 90s as an indie rock band frontman.
The band he fronted, Custard, started getting airplay on Australia’s national youth radio station, Triple J, in about 1993, and they became a staple of the live music scene - especially uni student bars, live rock pubs and summer festivals - for all the 90s. They quit in 2000 but reformed in 2009 and are still recording albums and playing gigs.
They’re worth checking out [1] if you were into quirky 90s bands like Ween, Dino Jr, Flaming Lips, Ben Folds Five, etc. Full of grungy chords and riffs but mostly major key, happy/fun/funny compositions and lyrics. Very high energy and entertaining. Some nice slower jangly country ballads thrown in there too.
I think they’re the only band I ever stage-dived to, so I guess technically I’ve been “on stage with Bluey’s dad”.
Most music lovers in Australia now in their 40s knew of them, and I’m sure it was a factor in the casting to tap into the nostalgia of the people who are now parents of the kids Bluey is aimed at.
[1] It’s all on Spotify/Apple Music etc. Wisenheimer and Wahooti Fandango are their peak albums and Apartment, Lucky Star, Pack Yr Suitcase and Singlette are the songs that best convey their vibe.
He uses his normal speaking voice for Bandit, and you can very clearly hear the same voice when he's signing most of the Custard stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP_LSm7FjRI
Wisenheimer and Wahooti Fandango are still both great albums (...and then I moved overseas and drifted out of the Custard orbit). For anyone with kids firmly in the Bluey demographic, I bet you could really confuse them by playing Custard at them.
I'm surprised they (i.e. record companies) haven't been trying to push Custard more, given there's a large fan based just waiting to be tapped. It would be fun to see Bandit do karaoke of a Custard song, or sing a few lines when he was in the shower, or just doing chores, etc.
wow! i know legit/top-notch exec security isn't cheap, but that much?!? yikes
https://qz.com/google-amazon-apple-tesla-nvidia-ceo-security...
I suspect a large part of that $6.8m is the cost of operating private aircraft.
e.g. A previous slide in the above link states that Apple's board requires Tim Cook to use a private aircraft for personal and business travel.
Made no sense.
And, as they've shown. Making a car is easy, manufacturing a car at scale is hard and their competition knows how to do the hard part. And, at this point, US auto makers have shown they can build electric cars so Tesla is still over valued.
https://caredge.com/guides/electric-vehicle-market-share-and...
BYD and Xiaomi in China seem to be catching up to Tesla far quicker than the US/European auto makers are.
Isn't this a pretty critical point that the Washington Post should have looked into a bit more?
(I have no idea what happened at Google. The article is behind a paywall for me.)
> The laws regulating the use of gaming machines in Australia are a matter for state governments, and as such they vary between states. Gaming machines are found in casinos (approximately one in each major city) as well as pubs and clubs in some states (usually sports, social, or RSL clubs).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slot_machines_by_country#Austr...
Fellow TB-303 owner here. I concur.
It seems like there might be a disproportionate number of 303 owners here on HN.