Remotely Famous

Are you ready? Are you filming?

Okay. Rolling.

Would you check out this place?

This is Lake Clifton southwest of WA. And these little guys,

which you see around me, they're called Thrombolites.

Now thrombolites are actually an ancient living fossil,

and I'm not talking ancient as in like a hundred, 200 years.

I'm talking ancient as in like three and a half billion years. I mean,

these guys have been here forever, longer than anything. And I'll tell you what,

there's nowhere else on this planet.

You can find them besides right here in WA and a couple of other spots.

What do you reckon about these little guys? Gabriela.

I love thrombosis.

That's a medical condition.

"Thrombolites."

Thrombolites.

Throm-Throm Thrombolites.

Thr-thrombolites.

That's it. You've got it. How about that? She loves them too.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Alright.

Crikey.

There you go.

Yeah, Thanks a lot.

Bye.

Yummy.

You see his tush?

Wow.

Oh my God.

Tess, have you seen your brother's latest post?

Yeah, It looks like he's living the dream.

Yeah, his photos look amazing.

Question,

does his girlfriend have to wear a tiny bikini in every photo?

Yeah, I think he just knows that it'll get him more followers.

Really?

I mean, he's a pretty interesting guy already.

Who is she? Anyways?

Some English backpacker from..

England.

Yeah, and just picked her up along the way.

I think he has a thing for accents.

I have an accent.

Ew.

Hey Mum.

Hey love. How was work?

Same old. Boring.

Meaningless.

Don't forget your brother and his new backpacker friend will be here soon.

And they're going to tell us all about their adventure.

Yay.

Can't wait.

Ahh

Gabriela.

You don't get snaggers. That smell that good in Romania, aye?

Dad?

She's from England.

So now tell us, it was the canning stock route that you drove, right?

Mhm.

Isn't that just some never ending dirt road in the middle of nowhere? I mean,

I don't see the appeal in that. I mean,

there's no showers and there's no toilets. It's just red dirt and bloody dust,

right? It's called camping Mum.

So.

Why are you so quiet tonight Tickles?

I don't know. I'm just am.

"I just am."

I'm off to bed though. Goodnight Mum. Dad,

Nice to meet you Gabriela.

But you've not finished your dinner.

I'm just feeling not too hungry tonight.

So, how's your brother?

What's his new girlfriend like?

Yeah, he's good.

I mean, she is like the rest.

We pretty much just sat at dinner talking about the trip all night.

Aw that sounds so fun.

What's with all these questions about Dale?

Do you like him or something?

What!? Me? Do I like Dale!?

Who else?

No. God no. No way. He's way too old for me.

I mean, he's No Henry Cavill.

He just has this weird, awkward,

sweaty, charming thing going on.

Eww! No, please.

Yeah, you're right.

Oh what am I thinking?

No. No.

No..

But I mean you gotta be interesting to have over a million followers, right?

I don't really care about followers.

Don't you want to do something interesting like travel and go have my fun?

Yes. Oh my gosh, let's do it.

Let's go somewhere warm in tropical somewhere,

Somewhere like Bali.

Everyone goes there. Don't you want to go somewhere like remote,

like in the middle of Australia?

No, I don't want to do that.

Lunch is over.

Was she talking to us?

Yeah.

Who is that?

Our boss.

I've never met that person, so.

Oh, okay.

Okay let's take a selfie.

Ready?

Oh, you look so good. -No.

Hashtag Bali. Here we come. Bitches.

Cute. No.

Yes! -No, please don't post that.

I look really good, so don't delete it.

Too late.

Nope. I can recover the photo so it's fine.

Would you look at this amazing tree?

This is what you call a King Jarrah only found in the southwest of WA.

Now this is an impressive tree. I mean, I'm talking,

this has gotta be 4, 5, 600 years old at least.

What an absolute perfect specimen, uh.

Just, just filming darling,

could you just move over there a tad?

Oh, you're filming.

Yeah, as I was saying, 4

500 years old at least. I mean,

Just what did I

Darling, it's not all about you.

Every time is just stand there a little bit so we can try to tell everyone about

the tree. Yeah, I just can't believe it.

This is beautiful and the fact that it has been here so long and seen so much

history, I mean,

it's been here hundreds of years before white man even come to WA.

No, no, no

Let me finish, please let me finish. We can make the next one about you.

3 or 400 years old at least. I think it's just a marvellous tree.

I cannot believe the history of.

Seriously. Come on. Come on.

Bugger it.

Crikey.

Tess. Give it a break.

Do you ever stop looking at that Twatter or Twitter or whatever it bloody hell is.

Instagram Mum.

It's the same crap.

Why don't you actually go and visit your friends in real life?

You know? Like actually Talk to a real person.

Argh, this bloody tire's gone down again.

I just pumped the damn thing up the other day.

Argh, the crap they sell these days.

Tess, what's wrong darling?

You don't seem to be yourself these past few days.

I'm a bit bored.

I want to do something more interesting in my life, you know?

Everyone's always asking about Dale and what he's doing.

Even people at work are asking about Dale.

Is my life really that dull?

You're far from dull in my book Tess.

And life's what you make it.

What do you mean?

You've got to keep yourself occupied. I mean,

doing something real with your time that you enjoy.

But what do you wanna be doing?

Hi, Mr.Flanagan.

Marty.

I don't know I just.

I wanna feel important.

Like what I'm doing..

Has some meaning.

I want people to be interested in what I'm doing.

Don't worry what other people are thinking.

Just do what you want to do.

Just find some happiness for yourself.

You know?

Whether that's driving around the bloody countryside like your brother.

Or sitting at the beach.

Happy is happy.

Yeah, I guess.

I don't like seeing you like this Tess.

Don't waste your life staring at your phone.

Or doing things that you think other people want you to be doing.

And you're a beautiful, smart young lady.

And the world is your oyster.

You know your mother and I will always support you in doing whatever it is you,

want to be doing. So long as you're safe and you're happy.

Thanks Dad.

Hi. Can I help you with anything?

Hi uhm, Actually yeah.

Do you know if that all fit a Suzuki Jimny or is that a one size fits all?

Hey tickles.

Hey shithead.

Ugh, can you help me with this thing?

I suppose I can.

Oh, what's going on with it?

Just the last screw just won't go in properly.

Alright, give me a look.

Hold that for me.

Blimey Tickles, you've cross thread the little bugger ya drongo…

She's rooted.

What? What do I do then?

Well, you got three out of four in.