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Chapter 1: What exciting news is shared in this bonus episode?
And welcome to a very special edition, a bonus episode of Tim and Kev's Big Design Adventure. How are you, Kevin? Good, good. I'm always excited by bonus episodes, aren't you? Yeah. I'm going to do a secret sound for you. Let's see whether you can work out what this is. Play along at home.
That's not you having a little wink or something. That is the sound.
It did sound a bit like that. No, I'm just having a little glass of water.
Yeah. Okay. I'm going to try this one on you. Okay. I've got just, it's completely improvised, right? This is a, listen to this. I'll do that again. Oh God. It just so happens to have a little tiny.
Take call number five on that. We could do secret sound forever.
That is a very small two meter long tape measure, you know. Oh yes. Opening it and then shutting it.
Oh, that sounds more like it now. I can hear it.
So you pulled it out. It's all very well knowing what it is afterwards.
I pull it out again.
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Chapter 2: How can listeners get a copy of the exclusive cassette?
Do you know, I've been talking to a lot of seagulls about this. And I've been talking to a lot of people about this. And here's the thing, right? So everybody sort of knows what a cassette is, right? I talked to my daughter. who's younger than 30, and I said, we're getting them made. They're in a factory, they're just producing them. She said, what do you mean?
I said, well, you know, because there are factories still producing cassettes. And she said, wait, you mean no one's stopped making, they're still in production, people are still making? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the most exciting fact I've been able to communicate to people, is that cassette production has never stopped. Yeah. so that you could make one if you wanted. You could find a producer.
If you said, I'd like 100 of these copied, please, somebody would do it. Somebody out there near where you live will do this for you.
Yeah, and it's generally what happens, I reckon, is that someone or other, they just kept the machinery because it was too hard to get rid of it. or someone bought them cheap and thought, you know what, I'll just, God, someone's giving that away. I'll just take that, keep it in the garage and wait it out.
And worth doing, worth keeping, worth keeping that twin deck just in case, just in case Tim and Kev produce a cassette that you could play on it. Just in case. Worth keeping, Decca, for example, worth keeping those huge presses on which vinyl records were printed.
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Chapter 3: How did the hosts come up with the idea for their merchandise?
Because yes, ladies and gentlemen, they're all back in production. And my daughter's partner works in that world for a company that makes vinyl. They ring up bands and they say, would you like us to reissue ACDC's whatever? Or they might say to Linda's Farm, Fog on the Tyne. Would you like that reissued? And the bands go, yeah, we'd love that because actually we get royalties on vinyl.
These are groups who were around in the 70s and 80s, well, in the 90s, and who did all these deals with the record companies and nobody talked to them about digital because it didn't exist. Right? So they've sort of seen all their work slowly disappear from their world and now all of a sudden it's back and they can sign vinyl records, they can sign the album covers with big markers.
What's not to like about that?
Yeah, I think those poor bands thought that they'd be able to live out their glory years just from royalties and the record sales kicking over and over and over, and that's why so many of those great artists are still on the road, which is probably good for them, to be honest.
turns cool it's good to be on the road but it's also great to be on the road if afterwards people don't just go and download stuff from spotify of them but actually can buy the album at the gig and get them to sign it that just made me realize what we could do is we could sign our cassettes i'll sign side b and you can sign side a and then we'll sell them for more money Or maybe less.
Can we just remind everyone that most of the time we live in completely different countries, so having merchandise that we can both sign at the same time. Oh, yeah. Oh, let's do it virtually instead, Tim. I've already worked out that if you have to have some, for record collectors out there, they quite like where the different versions of it are pressed.
So it's like a UK pressing of a famous record or an American pressing. So the reality of it will be is that there will be the next run of, and which will come to a big announcement in a second, which the next run will probably have to be done in the UK, not in Australia. Yeah. And you will have, and they will say made in the United Kingdom on them, and you'll be in charge of distribution.
Oh, hang on a minute. That means I'm going to have like 18 boxes in my sitting room, stuffed under the bed, you know, in the shed, in the garage.
It'll go with the Etsy store, yes.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of the cassette in today's digital age?
You heard it here first. I mean, this is the very first merchandise product available on the Big Design Adventure podcast, and we're excited about that. And it's just the beginning. God help us.
The other exciting news is that come the week of 15th of June, this little podcast is going to be available for UK and Irish listeners for the first time.
Yes, this is true. It's very exciting. Up until now, we've been broadcasting around the globe. principally in Australia and New Zealand. And that's been very exciting. And it's, bless them, Apple put us, I keep saying this, don't I? I can't stop saying it. Yes, we were in the top five podcasts for 2025 from Apple. Thank you, Apple. Now we've tested the waters.
So we're going into the UK market and into Ireland, which is very exciting.
So, yeah, come June 15. Tell your friends that they can listen who are in a part of the world. Looking forward to everyone being able to hear all the episodes that we've done before. And then the other news is that Series 3, we're taking a little bit of break while I join you in the UK to start recording. Some new episodes, but the 24th of June, we kick off with series three.
Hang on a minute. That's a moment away, really, isn't it? I mean, you say we're taking a break for like 10 days and actually in that break, we're not transmitting an episode, but we are recording a whole bunch and together physically in the same place. Then immediately we start again with a new series. Yeah. So we're taking a tiny little break.
We've just had a couple of weeks off and a little break, and then we're into it again. So, yeah, stay with us. June 24, June 23 in the UK. Series 3 starts with the glorious Mary Featherston. We join her in her iconic house in Melbourne. So that's something to look forward to. Anything else we want to share, hello at bigdesignadventure.com.
If you want to send us an email, you can head to bigdesignadventure.com or Modernist Books if you would like a cassette, if you want to purchase our bonus episode. Yeah. You won't see them in your hot little hands until I bring them on the plane. Yeah. I can't wait.
I need to dust down my old twin deck. Yeah.
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