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Week 2 - The snake Wrangler
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This week I'm a snake wrangler and Kiz is a chemist.
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Introduction to Garage Avenger Podcast
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This is the Garage Avenger podcast. Episode two baby, let's go. Episode number two.
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Hello and welcome to the Garage Avenger podcast.
Meet the Creators: Justin and Kiran
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I'm Justin, the guy that builds dumb machines in his garage. And I'm Kiran, his twin brother, the guy that is brewing tasty beers in my garage.
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Yeah, well, two brothers with a passion for creating a wild and the unexpected. And we're going to be taking you guys on a ride of what's going on in our garages every week. So let's do it. Dive in. Let's go.
Kiran's Brewing Adventures
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Here is what's been happening in your garage this week.
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well I've been test brewing the first commercial brew that's going to be going to the market. I'm pretty excited about this. i Yeah, it's a basically I'm contracting the beer to be produced by another brewery. and They sent me some ah recipe based on their limitations for equipment and blah, blah, blah.
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And I changed the way I had to brew it to make sure I can match their equipment and basically get a better idea of how it's actually going to turn out through their equipment and then make.
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the changes I need to make before we actually brew it. So that's exciting. That's gone into the tank. I just dry hopped it yesterday. So, uh, that means it's going to be unlike, this is the biggest dry hop I've ever done. Like it's nine, nine grams per liter. Like me maybe I'm talking to geeky here, but like, uh, that's a lot of fucking hops, right? So, uh,
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Um, I'm excited to see how it turns out. So that was, that was being my main focus this week and getting that beer into a tank and getting it cranking. And so far, um, it's tasting pretty freaking awesome. What is it? What is it? What are you actually doing? It's a session IPA. Um, and you're like, Oh, so boring. Um, you know what?
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It's a session IPA that's different in the sense that it's brewed in the way that everything you like about these big heavy 8% style IPAs you can get, ah you know, something a big thick mouthfeel and heavy hoppiness, ah but in with a lower alcohol percent. So I think it's going to be a winner. I think people are going to love it.
00:02:53
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yeah I have tasted the the batch before you've changed the recipe a bit. And it is very, very tastable. Tasty? Tastable? Tastable. That's not a word. Tastable. Tastable. Yeah, it is a very tasty beer. ah Very easily drinkable, especially in like a warm summer's day. Like that type of fresh, fruity flavor just Perfect. so I'm also hoping because it's this big bodied beer, it' will just it'll carry through into the colder months. So people still still enjoy it even in when it's getting a bit colder and darker outside.
00:03:34
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very Yeah, I think I'm going to need, ah you know, a couple of cans or a keg just to make sure that that is okay, Kieran. So I'll test it for you. just ah You know what? It's a heavy burden, but, you know, i'll I think I'm going to arrange that for you. Yeah,
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so that yeah that's that's my the main focus of this last week.
Insights from Yom Torta
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um Other than I had a meeting with this lovely guy called Yom Torta.
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And he works for a wine importer now. ah But he used to run a brewery ah here in the Drummond area where I live. And he is the nicest person you have ever met. Like, I mean, you met him at this beer festival, right? Like, super nice guy, like salt of the earth, like people like this. Like, why are there more people like this in the world? Like, he inspires me to be just a better person.
00:04:32
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ah just by just meeting and talking. It's just so lovely and so positive. so I met with him and talked about how to get some stuff onto market and and navigating all the pitfalls and stuff like that. The thing that got I walked away from that meeting with is just how lovely like how doing business with could people i is such a joy. I look forward to to doing business with people like that in the future.
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so Those are going to be my, my, my go to people in the future. So that was really cool. Uh, really nice guys. So shout out to young Toyota. Thanks for all the help and insight. That was awesome. So now you had, um, I saw some labels.
Labeling Challenges and Solutions
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What's going on with your labeling.
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Ooh, exciting things. I have started labeling, like doing the proper process of labeling. like and Before I used to like send it off to some random printer and never quite satisfied with the results. But someone put me onto this company called L-Print, not a paid plug.
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to be clarified. This podcast is brought to you by Elprint. Buy all your ah beer labeling needs from Elprint. No, Elprint, anyway, if someone put me onto them, ah they're a a yeah Lithuanian company. and But wow, customer service, A+, plus, plus, plus. Let's go. Fantastic.
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That's something that doesn't really exist here, customer service.
Importance of Attractive Labels
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No, in Norway. I went to the industry leader for beer labels in Norway and they shall remain unnamed, but shame on them. Shame on them. They wanted nearly more than twice the amount for the same thing and they did bugger all. The service was rubbish.
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so You know, good business is just being a good person, I think. Yeah. So I'm excited to see how and they're going to be so like quality, these labels. I'm so excited about it. Explain quality here. and i Well,
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I mean, you can get a label as a label, you might say, but there's some kind of like tactile quality-ness, quality-ness, is that a word? You can, that like, so it's going to have like a laminate um and over the top of the print label itself. It's kind of got like a sandy texture to it. And then it's going to have some digital foiling. So it's going to be like a metallic thing for the logo. It's just going to look and feel, I think more importantly, feel super high quality. So, I've kind of gone, as a to use the derogatory term, balls deep on this one, and, you know, just i've thrown all in. There's a marketing expense, that's where I see it. I think you have to, kids, because, like,
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I mean, this is like, that is your marketing tool, your label. Yeah, right. Especially here in Norway, where I can't advertise Valco. I've got nothing else.
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So your your product needs to stand out on a shelf if it's in a can, right? It needs to stand out. People need to see it and go, what the heck is that? Well, I mean, I'm hoping that that's it's got like, it's got Jesus in a space suit on the label. So I'm hoping in that in itself will stand out.
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so Well, you know, people have told me, unfortunately, that they think it's me in a spacesuit.
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Or is it myself? I mean, we are twins after all. yeah Yeah, but I got the big of Jesus beard. So that's what that's what Henry said. My son, Henry, he's like picked up the can. He said, dad, is that you?
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the but I am the risen Christ. yeah
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but Why has it got Jesus in a space suit? Can you explain that? Okay, so the idea originally started because ah the beer is called Cosmic Christ. the It started with the idea that I would make a beer ah with hops that only had cosmical names. So um the original recipe had like some hop called Aurora and Galaxy and uh oh there was like one other one I can't remember when where basically in the end it just ended up getting too complicated and difficult to get the hops that I wanted so it went like Galaxy and a bit of Citro which is a winning combination really uh but so it's mostly Galaxy hops which is an Australian hop if you don't know uh probably responsible for I don't know
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It's like one of the top five hops used in Hopi Piers, like IPAs and things like that around the world. Um, so, and also I'm proud of the Australian hop too. Come on. So anyway, so the, the backstories is that it all cosmical names, uh, galaxy and the like. And then I came across this term, uh, called, uh,
00:10:26
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kind of coined by this guy called Richard Rohr, who's a Franciscan monk that lives in Arizona of all places. A Franciscan monk in Arizona. Yeah, so he's an American Franciscan monk. Seems like a oxymoron, but he's super interesting to hear. ah And he coined the term cosmic Christ.
00:10:55
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And I really like the term, I like the alliteration, and I like the back thought behind it, um which is the idea of like, a universal salvation for all mankind, whether you actually believe it or not. So it's not hinged on you saying, I believe in this.
00:11:16
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um It's just a general theological idea which encompasses all of humanity, which I like. I think that's that doesn't force me to make a decision on anything. So um yeah, so I like the idea. And and so that's why it's called Cosmic Christ. So it's galaxy hops and I like the name.
00:11:38
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And well I could put a fun label on it, like having Jesus in a space suit. Come on. Or clearly it's me in a space suit. Oh, sorry. yeah Yeah. I should also explain too, like I have a background in graphics and photography or like a trained photographer from back in the day when they still taught us film. Uh, maybe that's showing how old I am. Um, and.
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Yeah, we, so I've worked in kind of that industry for a long time. So doing all the graphic side of things myself is a pretty natural progression ah for me. And so that's kind of part of the creative thing. I make the beers themselves, which I really love the developing the flavor and the taste profiles and everything like that.
00:12:31
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and then it also develop the artwork and the whole concept behind it. For me, it's a really big creative package to present to people, which is I think is really fun. so I think these days too, it's a lot easier to do that all by yourself. You've got massive tools like Mid-Journey and things like that to help you develop imagery and things like that. If you need something slightly like different that you don't want to pay a designer to create, you can... Well, I mean, this is the thing. It's like it it blows my mind that so many breweries out there are just producing these rubbish labels.
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ah you know and and and don't stand out at all. In a super competitive market, I don't understand why they're not just milking all these AI services. Now, it don't get me wrong, some of them can look really terrible. and And I bring, I use like those AI generators and then I bring the images into my own programs like Photoshop and I manipulate the things in the way that I want them to look. So, you know, those AI generators and things like that are not perfect as people well know. Like suddenly like a hand or ah or an elbow.
00:13:52
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popping out of someone's head or or something. so yeah you ah The other thing too is is that you've got to know the prompts. You've got to be able to figure out what prompts, the right prompts to put in so that you actually have um the the result that you want. so that's There's an art form in that as well, too, that you've got to learn. so If anyone wants some help with that stuff, if you're listening, just shoot us a message. um you know wherever this is ah find us somewhere send one with garage Avenger and a DM to garage Avenger and we'll, and he'll pass it on to me. You can send a DM directly to Eucharist brewing. Can you not Karen? That is true. I didn't think about that. Um, yeah, just send, send a message directly to Eucharist brewing on Instagram, right? On Instagram. and And I'll do my best to help you out. And if you need some help with that stuff,
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Um, that'll be, yeah, be happy to help with that. Um, cause men, there's so many great tools available to us these days. Like bad design is something that we have no excuse for. sorry Yeah. Um, so that's cool. So like, I've got all the, all my labels are done this way, basically. And it's really.
00:15:16
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It's really exciting because like I could have never, have I would have had to pay thousands to an artist and then they maybe would have got somewhere in the wheelhouse of what I was thinking, you know, and the journey of trying to find the right artist to create it. I was like bugging that. I'll do it myself. So one stop shop. And I ultimately, I get more joy out of the creating of things myself. That's the, that's the cool thing about it. So.
00:15:46
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There you go. There's enough ranting for me about beer and those things. What about you, Josh? What's been going on in your week? ah well So those who are not following my projects, um, I am creating a go-kart from a hand truck or a moving dolly. Um, yeah, you call it all different things all around the
Justin vs. the Snake: Cultural Insights
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world. I don't even know what you call it in Australia. What do you call that thing? Trolley? Yeah. ah Yeah.
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this It's, you know, what it is is the the trolley type of thing that you put your boxes, you stack your boxes on the delivery menus. And I decided that I was going to turn the frame of that into a go-kart because I was looking at it and I was like, that's a go-kart chassis. And I'd never seen it being done, especially the way I was going to do it. So I thought, you know what?
00:16:49
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Let's do this. So it's been a long process because of summer holidays with the kids being home. I have also had to paint my house in the summer. ah A whole bunch of stuff happened. I even you know had to be a snake wrangler during summer holidays.
00:17:09
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Snake wrangler. You can't just drop that one in the conversation and not and just not explain that. ah This is a long story, but I'll try, I'll try and keep it, keep it reasonable. So this summer... Okay, let's let's preface this story. I have lived in Australia.
00:17:34
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for 27 years. And then I moved to Norway. In the 27 years I lived in Australia, I have never experienced a snake inside a house except for one that's in like a, you know, a pet snake, right? Never. Yeah. In Australia, the home of deadly snakes and fred and motherfucking killing snakes. Yeah. Yep. So,
00:18:05
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I'm in the garage and I hear my son, Henry scream at the top of his locks. I run in thinking that someone's hurt themselves and he's yelling at me saying, it's a snake. It's a snake. And I'm thinking I'm getting pranked right now. This is like a fake snake. One of the kids, you know, friends brought, you know, and and then I look at it and it's all curled up in one of my son's big um like slippers.
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And I was like, huh, that's a pretty real looking fake snake. And then I went to take a step close to it and it fricking moved. And it was huge. Like I've never seen a snake this big in Norway. It was probably a meter. ah Yeah. It was over a meter for sure. Maybe a meter 20. Yeah. It was, it was a black snake. We had no idea what type of snake it was. did You find out what it was. me and that Yeah. ho go Or whatever you call it.
00:19:05
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No, I wasn't a viper, um which is the only venomous snake in Norway. um And even then, like, it only kills maybe dogs if you're unlucky. yeah If you bite a kid, they'll be a bit sick and then, you know, it's no fun.
00:19:22
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um But we found out it was a, what they call a bow on and yeah. So I thought, right. I'm going to get the shovel. Well, I'm literally going to take the shovel, shove it under the the slipper and just throw the fucking snake out the door. Right. Job done. No problem. Right. Happy days.
00:19:50
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Got the shovel, Snake was still happy inside the the slipper.
00:19:58
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I was just about to scoop the shovel underneath the s slipper, then all the kids crowded around the door. And I couldn't throw the snake at the kids. So I aborted that mission, but by scraping the spade along the tile floor, the snake was like, what the hell is going on here? And so he started, he came out of the slipper and started moving along. And I'm like, oh no. So right, move out of the way kids. Let's let the kid, let's let the snake get out the door. And so I was trying to guide this snake
00:20:39
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this big mother truck and snake that I'd never experienced. Like, cause let me preface this, right? In Australia, when you see a snake, you do not fuck with snakes. Like you don't go poke it. You don't have fun with it. No, you just leave it at the fuck alone. Cause if it bites you, you're fucked.
00:20:57
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so and Yeah. So I didn't want to mess with a snake. I'm not used to messing with snakes. So I'm like trying to coax it with this spade to go out the door. Right. The stupid snake didn't go out the door. It went inside the wardrobe, the hallway wardrobe.
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ah Right. right
00:21:26
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I thought, okay, this is fine. We'll get the snake out. I pull all the stuff out of this cupboard, all the jackets, the thousands, I mean, thousands of shoes, Karen. I think Kristin has a problem. Well, I've kind of known this for years. Anyway, so pull everything out.
00:21:49
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we find the snake in the corner under this like electrical electric yeah conduit. right Now, to preface this to, this electrical conduit is brand new because I had just laid three phase this so ah earlier this year into my garage. yeah yep So when laying three phase into the garage, I had to drill some holes in the wall to put the cable through and then down into the pipe work that goes over to the garage. but The snake is in the corner there.
00:22:29
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And I say, just wait, Kristin. I need to go get ah like a hooky thing to like hook this snake. So we were kind of hook it. You know, you see this snake right there? It's like a hook. So I like ran into the garage. She like full on Steve Irwin saying, crikey, fuck it, look at him.
00:22:47
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Oh, he's pissed off now. Oh, really? Fuck, I pissed off. It's like I grabbed this. I run into the garage. I find a like a bit of threaded rod and I just quickly like, but it was like a M6 or something. So I quickly bend it in a, with my hands, you know, like fall and hulk stuff. Get this.
00:23:12
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I run pumping and I run in and I see Kristen is there with the broom poking this deep this snake and the snake is like getting all pissed off. right And I was like, just be careful, Kristen, just wait, let me get in there. And then she kept on poking and then the snake started crawling along the wall. And you'll never guess where the snake went. I i might be able to guess.
00:23:41
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The one time that I made a little, a small little mistake when drilling the hole for the wall, I misplaced the hole. I didn't, ah I didn't fill the hole. So the snake thought it was a great b place to hide. Right. e So the snakes crawled into my fricking wall of the house. Oh, lovely.
00:24:09
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So we now have a snake in the walls of our house. We don't know where that snake is. So I, the only thing I can think about is let's make a trap for it. The, hopefully he'll come out where he came in. This is like, this is like snakes on a plane, but just in your house. Yeah, there's a motherfuckers snakes in this motherfucking house.
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and So I made this trap, we closed the cupboard doors, everyone just has to get on with their lives, right? Hopefully the snake will crawl into this trap and then it'll be all good. Half an hour later, I decide, you know what, I'm just going to check on the trap. I look in the fucking snakes in there. I was like, yes. So I'm like, okay.
00:24:57
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you Can't we need to some way to like close the hole? Because that ah yeah the trap was just a hole in a box, basically. and we like yeah So i I run out and I pass Kristen at that time. I'm like, we got the snake, we got it. We got it. and She's like, really? And so I run into the garage to find like some plastic piece of card or something we could slip down the back and close the trap off.
00:25:26
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yeah And then I come back and there's Kristen on her hands and knees, like with her face straight in the trap, looking at this snake. and she As she gets closer and closer to the snake, what does the snake do? It goes back in the fucking wall again.
00:25:44
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a oh So we got the snake back in the wall. There's still snakes in this motherfucking house.
00:25:58
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Oh, that's what you get from like, no, we just don't know how to handle snakes. Sorry. Well, my wife's lived in Australia for eight years. She probably should know something about snakes. You know why? You know why you never had a snake in your house in Australia? Screen doors. Screen doors. That's why every house in Australia has a screen door that closes itself.
00:26:28
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That's true. Show me a house without a screen door in Australia and they probably got snagged in there at one point. So true. Why don't Norwegians have any... Right now in my house, I have like 10 flies. And then if I had a screen door, there would be no flies in my house. No, no screens on the windows either. And I get, I get like, I get wasps in my house all the time.
00:26:56
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Because they don't have screen doors. And they're like, oh, but it's so nice. up fine Just open the windows, i open the doors, to have them open all day. Let some breeze come through the house. Like meanwhile the air conditioner's on.
00:27:16
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ah So I think I better finish to wrap this story up. So the snakes in the wall, the kids won't sleep at night. They're sleeping in our bed. Even though weirdly, it's right underneath them. Weirdly the snake, they're closer to the snake being in our bedroom than they would be if they were in their own bedroom. right ye I'm on fricking night patrol.
00:27:43
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I've hooked my new doorbell with a motion sensor. I took it off the wall and put it down low so we could like maybe sense if the snake was there and it would ring. I'm sitting on the staircase like on watch so we could see if the snake comes up, nothing comes. First night I'm like, I'm so dog tied. Did you try like biting it or something? Yeah, we put like, okay, so We had these, we borrowed these hamsters from my wife's work. and that not no the right why why away with and Not for bait, not for bait, not for bait.
00:28:27
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lovely Hey, it was Fanta and Pepsi. Okay. That's what the hamsters were called. but yeah ah But we decided that, ah well, actually I think that that's why the, the snakes bloody came in, in the first place yeah because they smelt the hamsters. So anyway, I used a bit of like the sawdust and the poop and stuff from the, from the hamsters and put it in the trap.
00:28:59
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Let's wrap this story up because it's getting long. so i
00:29:05
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umm but I'm basically on watch for two nights in a row. There's no snake. I'm like, the snake has to have left somehow. Somehow it fucking snuck out without setting off this like motion detector. Somehow maybe it came out another part of the wall or something. And I'm like, you know what? I think it's gone.
00:29:28
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We left the trap there overnight, one more night. I, in fact, I was walking down the stairs with my cup of coffee. I opened the the wardrobe, looked in, nothing's in the trap. So then I decide I need to go get some milk out of the fridge downstairs in the laundry.
00:29:50
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And as I walk into the laundry, that motherfucking snake's on the bench, man. I lost my coffee. I fucking threw it up in the ceiling. There's coffee stains everywhere. It scared the fucking shit out of me. From the bench? How did it get up on a bench? I have a feeling it crawled through the whole entire wall. And then there's, there's a,
00:30:19
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There's a hole in the wall where we have the like the water shut off valve. So in winter time to stop the the pipes cracking, you can shut the water off for the for the outside hoses and and things like that, right? And there's a hole in the wall. We think the snake went all the way through the wall, probably laid eggs all through that freaking wall. So we're going to have snakes everywhere next summer. A lot of snakes in this house.
00:30:48
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Thumbs up. Oh, and thankfully. Okay. So thankfully the snake freaks out too, as it's just, it's probably been somebody threw fucking hot coffee on me.
00:31:03
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So we have, uh, the snake freaks out and then decides it's going to lower itself off the bench and onto the floor. But it lowers, I can't even speak, it lowers itself into a plastic like bag with recycling. And so I was like, I've gotcha. So we got it in the bag. We took it out along in the forest. Well, when I say long in the forest, it was right next to a like a childcare, but.
00:31:36
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We were far enough away from our house, and we let let this snake go. And we have never left our front door open again, and those hamsters will not be ever coming back to our house. Screen doors. Screen doors. Screen doors. That is the solution for future problems. OK, that was a lot.
00:32:05
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that It was a very long story, Justin. It was a long story. It featured joy of the listeners. Unless they really enjoyed this, you can they can let us know if they really enjoyed the long-winded stories.
00:32:20
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the key yeah so so yeah it away you sorry back to So this is what happens, Kieran. You've got to stop distracting me and to tell you long, long winded stories that are not relevant to this week. Ah, right. So, yeah, I've been building this go-kart from this hand truck or moving dolly or whatever you want to call it.
Go-Kart Building Woes
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And it's finally, it was finally ready for paint.
00:32:52
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So I stripped all the parts off it. ah And what I didn't realize is that getting the engine in when I was building it was pretty fine because I was, you know, making the engine mounts when the engine was in place, right? What I didn't quite realize is getting the engine out to paint the frame.
00:33:19
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It was kind of like, you know, one of those, uh, you know, those puzzles you get with the rings and stuff. Oh yeah. Yeah. At Christmas, someone always gets one of those for you. It was like that, but with an engine in a frame, you had to like try to get it. yeah I had to rotate it. flip as of engine yeah So I did a time lapse of disassembling this thing.
00:33:47
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And in the time lapse. Five hours later. No, honestly, the time lapse is I think six minutes long. Right. And removing all the other parts.
00:34:02
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Right. Of the the go-kart. I mean, absolutely everything ready for paint was one minute, 10 seconds. The rest was me trying to get the engine out. So I used probably two hours yeah to just try and get the engine out. I was so frustrated. I couldn't believe this was happening. I was like this close to cutting stuff.
00:34:30
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Like, and ruining all my work. Like, ah I was like, oh oh my God, I think I have to cut off this part and this part just to get the engine out. I was like, no, I refuse to, so. So you got to so got all out and you started the paint. Yeah, and to to also- Are you happy with the paint job after all that?
00:34:52
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and There's no story there, Karen, too. Rabbit ah Yeah, so I chose paint that was identical to the original color of the hand truck, right? Right.
00:35:09
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The hand truck comes from a place called Bilterma in here in Norway, which is like, uh, it's just, I call it the store. Cause you just get, it's like, it's got everything, but it's got nothing at the same time. So i mean like, is there like a a, like Australia doesn't really have the same equivalent.
00:35:28
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Do we? No, no, we we've got much better stores. Like we've, we've got Binance and that sort of stuff. Yeah, but like, this has got everything. Cause Buildteam is kind of like the place with cheap shit from China, but like with the Swedish name slapped on it. Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:49
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But point being is I decided that since I was going to paint it the same color, I wanted to paint it the same color. I just realized it's built in a blue. Yeah, it's built in a blue, right? They had it in the spray can and it matched identically. And so I was like, all right, I'm going to have to buy the cheap paint. But it's built in a blue. It's perfect. Let's go. I start painting this thing. Everything's going great.
00:36:20
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I'm ah doing the last coat, last little like, you know, to make sure it's all good. I shake this can up. I open it up. I start painting. Everything's good. And then all of a sudden I noticed the colors different.
00:36:40
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It was a lighter shade of blue. The same color? The same color code and everything. Like the label was exactly what it said it was supposed to be. But the color coming out of the can was about, I don't know, three shades lighter than Then the blue, I was like, yeah, it was crazy. And I was like, what is going on? So I thought I hadn't shaken the can up, right properly. I thought, oh shit, maybe I just haven't shaken it properly. Maybe I've got another can that crisis averted. I'll just shake the hell out of this last can. I'll cover up this, you know, two tone paint job that I've now created. Right. Let's start shaking it up.
00:37:28
Speaker
I crack it open, I start painting. It's the same thing. It's a different color still. I'm like, what is going on? I'm freaking out. I'm not happy. I'm a perfectionist with painting. And I should also note that like painting for me is the most dreaded job I could ever do.
00:37:50
Speaker
Like this summer when I had to paint the house, oh my God, I was so sour for two weeks just because I had to paint the house. So even painting my projects, i don't I love the end result, but I hate the process because I hate the ideas of like running paint, like especially when you're spraying stuff on odd shapes, you sometimes get runs and stuff.
00:38:14
Speaker
So I'm looking at this thing, I'm thinking I'm going to have to scrap everything. And then one of my mates just says, oh, Matt looks mad with two tone paint. Yeah. Two tone, it's like people pay good money for a two tone paint job on a car or something. Come on. So I just end up accepting that it's going to be a two tone paint job.
00:38:39
Speaker
No one will see it. Come on. It'll just be blue. Bill team are blue. So, yeah, I have now finished painting the the the frame. I've reassembled ah everything, but I also have received some more stuff in the mail from AliExpress. The AliExpress... Yeah, and to be honest... You have a problem. Well, I did... i did think that maybe
00:39:17
Speaker
you know i should be going to not a a but a e right so i express a normanonyymous
00:39:29
Speaker
Because i like I don't understand. i was like It could be like 3 o'clock in the morning or 9 o'clock in the morning. or It doesn't matter what time of day it is. I'm like, hmm, I wonder if they've got some cool like Formula One style flashing rear tail lights that I could put on this thing. And before you know it, I'm like two clicks and I bought these things for like a hundred croners, which is like bugger all. Postage included, yeah.
00:40:06
Speaker
Yeah, yeah ship free shipping. that Free shipping is the best. but But say that, they look mad. They look really look mad. oh But you have the the thing with AliExpress is sometimes things come quickly. So like I ordered these like ah drift sleeves to go over the rear tires.
00:40:34
Speaker
I didn't need them, but I wanted them. And I ordered them and they came within six days of ordering. All the way from China. Yeah, all the way from China. And I knew they came from China because they still had Chinese writing when I opened the package. And it was like that horrible Chinese way they pack things. actually So knew it was from China. I came in six days. But then I had ordered these Thai rods that I needed. Yeah. And they took three weeks. and side Just on a side note there, I recently received some samples from Germany.
00:41:14
Speaker
for my chili beer. And we got some chili extract that I've ah got to look at using instead of the chili tension that I was the recipe actually uses. And it came packed in a box with bone with an absorbent pad, if it ever leaked with these two 40 milliliter, like we're talking like a 30 by 30 centimeter box. Yeah.
00:41:44
Speaker
with two 40 milliliter bottles inside like smaller than like a cock medicine bottle yeah ah with like wrapped in bubble wrap wrapped in like It was like, it was German to a T, even the way it was packed. This is how, this is how my, this is how the headlights came. No joke. That's exactly how it looked like. I haven't, I just opened it. The person who are listening to the podcast, Justin is basically presenting to me a completely and utterly smashed and destroyed box.
00:42:26
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i I'm so surprised that the lights actually came out and they were in one piece. That that looks like someone just freaking sat on it.
00:42:39
Speaker
But AliExpress. Free shipping, man. Free shipping. So you got lights. Yeah. And they look mad. They look proper mad. And I've, I've also like wide in like a switch. So, uh, the lights, they, they like strobe at like one flash every second. And then when you put your foot on the brake pedal to break, it flashes quickly five times and then the the the light holds itself on.
00:43:13
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So I took this project to another level again, unfortunately. It's something new, really. I mean, like, it's kind of never ceases to amaze me, like how over complicated you can make things. Like someone's like, I'm going to strap an engine to a, to a, like, truck, like a handle cut and nothing. I'm like, okay, good. And then like, you're like, nope, this is going to be like basically a Formula One car.
00:43:45
Speaker
Next you'll be like taking it to a fucking wind tunnel. That's a good idea, kiss. You're not surprised that you didn't actually like build in one of those things that but can help it climb stairs. You can actually drive to go cut upstairs.
00:44:02
Speaker
Dude, I was thinking about it because that they just say to yeah this is the original hand truck that I used, it was it was one of those stair hand trucks. Yeah, with the three wheels. I was like, how could I motorize this so that it would actually be able to- They have motorized versions, yeah.
00:44:29
Speaker
motorised version Yeah, I think, I don't know that they have ones that go up like three wheels that climb stairs. No, but it's like ah it's like a little conveyor belt on the back side of it that grabs onto the stair and lifts it up as it goes.
00:44:45
Speaker
Yeah, I didn't want that. I wanted it to be like a go cause and all of a sudden it just goes and up the stairs. like did do do do But I did think about that, but I decided that, no, you know what? Oh, I'm not going to, I'm not going to go into that rabbit hole. That's for another time. and I mean, um let's, let's be honest, how, like, which stairs are you going to go up?
00:45:10
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but dude dad so many stay you could job
00:45:17
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oh that love it ah The only other thing I want to talk about today is ah this week.
Ambitious 3D Printing Project
00:45:25
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I have a secret project going on that I haven't really told anyone but my patrons.
00:45:33
Speaker
Uh, so I have, uh, just so you know, to you guys, I got a, a patron account. So, uh, these amazing people, uh, want to support me in what I'm doing. Uh, and so they get some sort of benefits of being in the know of, uh, things before they're happening.
00:45:56
Speaker
If you do want to, guys, I would love the support. ah You can head over to Patreon. ah Just search Cara Jo Angel. You'll find me there. But ah that's beside the point. i I have been working on this secret project ah and this will be probably a very prominent conversation during these podcasts of basically I want to create my own or 3D print my own world rally car. That is two thirds scale.
00:46:31
Speaker
exactly So I have this big plan. And now originally this was supposed to be like a soapbox car with no engine. It was just like, we would take it to events and do like soapbox races or something like that with it. And and it'd be done. But then- And what fun is that? Come on. It would be fun. But then my friend, Frederick, course shout out to Frederick,
00:47:01
Speaker
He starts sending me this stuff and then he goes, dude, the the he the guy wants 15,000 for this. And I'm like, I think we can get him down. alright ah Just to explain, what is this? I know what you're talking about, but what is this he's referring to? So a guy in the middle of Norway, four and a half hours drive away.
00:47:29
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It's selling an old crusty, old, old crusty cross cart. Okay. But what was interesting about this project is it had a 1999 Yamaha R6 engine on it.
00:47:56
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So some weeks ago in the summer, we took a trip out to Hempstead Hall, which is where where this place was. Amazing to just like the scenery there is gorgeous. We looked at this crosscut.
00:48:13
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I knocked him down to 11,000. He wanted 15. He didn't get it.
00:48:23
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ah And we we threw this cross card on the back of my mates trailer and we drove it all the way back. ah The issue was that the engine, we didn't know the engine even started.
00:48:36
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Or ran, or if there were issues with the clutch, or we had no idea. So we were... Why was he selling it? Because he didn't use it? Well, yeah. So he bought it as a project that he was going to do up. Right. And then never realized, like, um this thing is a death machine.
00:48:54
Speaker
Well, no, he didn't know how to do anything. You should see the welds he put, he did actually do. Like you, like you should probably call an exorcist. yeah they they they that bad but So we end up buying this thing. We had no idea if it worked. There's been weeks and weeks and weeks of back research done to find out how, what we need to get this thing started. So long story short, the wiring loom was not an R6 wiring loom. It was from an R7. So all the drawings we had for the R6 engine were completely wrong. So I found out that it was the R7 wiring loom. We worked out what's what and this weekend,
00:49:51
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the engine turned over and started.
00:49:56
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Wow. Mic drop. Let's go. Boom. I should say though, it did start and it was incredibly rough because the carburetors were not right. They were a bit stuck. I think the floats were stuck. I did have to put my finger in the overflow pipe for the guy ready to stop fuel pouring out to get it to run. ah My friend Frederick may or may not have allegedly put the fuel
00:50:29
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ah Hose in the wrong connection and filled the cooling system with fuel.
00:50:37
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so So there was a bit of drama in this. ah going You're going to look back at this moment and go.
00:50:50
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This was when I realized, this is when I should have realized that this project is going to be a massive pain in my ass.
00:51:01
Speaker
No, I already know that kiss. I think what what what I should do is look back at this, but because it was at this moment, we should have realized to just stop and not do this project. Right, exactly. But I think, unfortunately, i'm i'm two I'm too invested now. We got the engine and running. Let's go. how you guys Now I got it running. this is like That was like, if it just you know, kept it it in the garage and then resold it for like 12,000 grand. So would it make some money? Potentially, yes. I mean that we know the engine runs. So if we can get it to run properly, I could make 25,000 just from the engine.
00:51:42
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ah yeah So that's ah yeah. Scale WRC car. That's what you're planning to make.
00:51:53
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. is a This one, Kieran. No one can see this because we're not recording video, but this one. ah World Rally Car a Toyota Yaris GR World Rally Car.
00:52:08
Speaker
yats because Toyota's are mad, okay? Plus this is this this out of all the world rally cars, this one looks the coolest. It's got the most aggressive aero, the most aggressive cool looking things on it. And we've bought a, when I say we, I have a friend ah Thomas, who's helping me with this, he's a ah often in 3D modelling. Shout out to WhitespaceProps, is so what he goes under.
00:52:44
Speaker
um yeah and he He's like, he's modeled this for me. and We bought a 3D model for like 120 US dollars, but it's so detailed that we have to remove detail to be able to print it. right Like it has screw heads and things like that. That's that's how detailed it is.
00:53:07
Speaker
so So this project is going to be massive. I'm really excited about it, but also super intimidated about it. um But yeah, I'm super, super pumped about it. I'm one might even say that my mind will blow up probably soon. o That's a great segue out of your rabbit hole of a story.
00:53:41
Speaker
Did you like that one? I did it on purpose, I liked it. I did! Mind blown! Is this where like the sound bite comes in? wo Or however it goes, yeah. Seriously, my mind was... What's blowing your mind?
00:54:10
Speaker
Well, I just told you it's, it's this project. What's blowing your mind? Uh, ah what is blowing my mind? That is a very good question. yeah Okay. I'm sorry. It's super geeky here. Super geeky. Uh, pH.
00:54:36
Speaker
the acidity or alkalinity of something and how that affects taste perception. It's fascinating, like so crazy. So I brewed a beer. I actually forgot to typically adjust like a typically after the boils finishing, I adjust the pH and typically you would drop it to like 5.1 or something like that, like pH h of 5.1, which kind of will result in a lower like pH when it's fermented.
00:55:12
Speaker
And so, but I forgot to do it. I was in a rush one day and I was brewing this test batch for a wheat beer and I tasted the beer from the tank and it tasted really good. I was like, fucking sweets. This is, this is perfectly exactly what I want. By the time Cold crash, the yeasts came out of out of solution and then tasted the beer. It got really astringent and it was really dry and like it didn't wasn't the same at all. It wasn't sweet like it was before. I realized that the yeast adds some acidity to to the beer itself.
00:55:50
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and that when I'd cold crash and dropped all that yeast out of the solution, the pH had risen. I did this test at home where I just added some lactic acid into into a sample of beer, raised the below the pH by 0.2, totally different beer.
00:56:14
Speaker
night and day, like gone from like ah from like a five, it's a pretty average fucking beer, to a nine. That mind blown, like I just, I've never like, you know, there's things that you processes that you always do because that's what you're taught to do. ah But sometimes without an actual understanding of how that affects and ah the flavor perception of the final product. So super geeky, I know, but that was my mind blown in that moment. So definitely always adjusting my
00:56:53
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final pH after the boil. If you're a brewer out there and listening, please do your favour yourself a favor and buy some lactic acid and a pH meter.
00:57:05
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sir
00:57:07
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what's say I'm assuming lactic acid is made from like milk, something like lactic lactose. Yeah, i it's made from from lactic bacteria. Okay. So the same stuff that you get in yogurt.
00:57:23
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that acidity that you get in yogurt, that's lactic acid that's produced by lactobacillus, which is a yeah the bacteria ah that produces, that makes yogurt. There you go. You may have had your mind blown with pH and lactic acid.
00:57:51
Speaker
But what's yank in your chain, Kieran? Yank in my chain. Yank in my chain. All right. We live in Norway. We are foreigners here in Norway. Apologies in advance to all the listeners out there. There's probably going to be a lot of waffling on about Norway.
00:58:13
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and how so many things are yank in my chain about Norway.
Linguistic Frustrations in Norway
00:58:19
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Seriously, I mean, there's a lot, but my pet hate at the moment is a poor appropriation of English and into Norwegian. And you're thinking, what are you talking about Kieran? What are you talking about? Well,
00:58:39
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well In, ah you know, you have ah plural and singular terms, terminology in English. For example, I have a muffin or a bunch of muffins, right? In Norwegian, I want to buy A singular muffin. I say muffins. N muffins. Where the fuck is the S coming from? I'm sorry. It's so terrible. I've asked so many Norwegians about this. No one could tell me why is there an S there? And umm and and it's not the only one either. A cap? You know, like a baseball cap? Caps. Makes no sense. Why is there an S there?
00:59:31
Speaker
And like the worst thing is they don't even use the typical like grammar either. So it's not like a, yeah, caper or capena or muffins and muffin there. Like it doesn't, ah it that's yank in my chain this week. It does pretty much every time I hear it. I'm sorry.
00:59:54
Speaker
You know what's yank in my chain? Tell me. Parents. Parents. Yeah. I'm so sick. We are parents. Yeah, I know. But like, this is the thing, right? i I don't morally set myself above others. Like I understand that. Just let me just finish, Karen. Yeah.
01:00:20
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i dont I try not to judge or how like set myself morally above anyone else, but it really yanks my chain when I see like kids getting the raw end of the stick because they've got shit parents.
01:00:38
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so like I've watched literally on Thursday, I was at work, I was a doing something, I was looking out the window, And I seen this dad with his kid playing in the playground and the dad was just on the phone the whole freaking time, like doing something, probably looking at some sort of Instagram feed or something. I don't know what he was looking at, but the kid was trying to get the dad's attention.
01:01:08
Speaker
yeah And that dad could not be interested at all. Yeah. Yeah. in yeah That's such a normal thing, right? these days Yeah, it's really normal these days. and And I think that's why it yanks my chain because like, do you not realize you screw any kids up? It's the same yeah it's the same stuff with like like video games and social media, right? How many times have you heard that social media is bad for kids and video games are made to be highly addictive and are not good for kids?
01:01:46
Speaker
How many times, how many studies do you have to hear? How many news articles? How many people, experts talking about it? Yet in my son's class, he is the last, he's only nine years old. He's the last to get Fortnite.
01:02:04
Speaker
There are kids that have been playing since they're six years old, playing a highly ah addictive game. Mike, where is the parenting here? What at what point do they think, ah, you know what, it's good to to allow my kid to play a highly ah addictive, you know, like that's the games are created so they are addictive.
01:02:28
Speaker
That's the whole purpose of them to keep you keep on going into it and keep on playing. I just don't understand. Yanks my chain. Parents just not understanding the world they're in and like what their decisions and lack, whether it's, I don't know, unfortunately being lazy or they don't care or they just don't even understand. No, I think it's a, it's like a, you know, it's an energy thing. Yeah. It's like,
01:02:57
Speaker
Parents, they are a lot of them are, you know, the look, I mean, look at the way that we live today, right? Like there's something demanding our time all the time, especially with this.
01:03:10
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bone in our hand all the time. right we is like there's it's There's always something asking of us, answer this email, answer this phone, send this text, watch this Instagram video, whatever it is. yeah and and so we i think you know and I feel the pressure of it sometimes like where people are like saying, oh, you should check this out, you should do this, you should do that.
01:03:38
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and like And it takes time to do those things, which ultimately takes time away from my kids. like And I can be sitting you know with them and playing with them, or I could be watching my phone and doing things on my phone. and make it's a it's It's a hard balance when you feel there's like that pressure to do so, and you can't tune yourself into the fact that you don't have to do anything.
01:04:07
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Like I have enough guilt with what I do in the garage, right? I spend yeah so many hours out here du and you know, many times I don't put my son to sleep.
01:04:20
Speaker
because I'm out here dicking around with some wiring or ordering some shit from AliExpress or something. Your dad has a problem.
01:04:34
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but or my sorry meeting I'm sorry Henry, your dad has a problem, he's going to a meeting.
01:04:45
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but ah Don't get me wrong, i look I'm not immune from doing this to my children. and you know Like I said, that Henry get got Fortnite this year, like this summer he got it, but he was the last in his class. The only reason why I allowed him to get it is because he was being socially bloody excluded.
01:05:06
Speaker
Yet if so the parents of his class had the fucking balls to say no, to yeah to so say no, you know what? We know this is not good for them. We want the best for our children.
01:05:25
Speaker
No. And everyone else said no, there wouldn't be an issue. He wouldn't even want Fortnite. There's a lot of parents that don't they want to be friends with their kids, that don't want to be parents. I found that Yeah. Anyway, so that's what's yank in my chain. Yeah, we could go down that rabbit hole for a long time. So, but is there something you want me to check out? Well, I was going to say we should wrap this podcast up with something we should recommend to people. Yeah, something. You can do the Beastie Boys. You can do the Beastie Boys. What's it all about?
01:06:14
Speaker
And that's copyright flag. We could just sing it ourselves. ah Yeah, that's true. that Except we don't want our listeners to have their ears bleeding.
01:06:29
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All right. Well, tell me what what do you or what do you reckon I should check out? I do. li should check out either This is mainly towards you, Kieran, because I'm not sure that all of our listeners are going to really be on the same page, but you should totally check out Sassy Sasquatch on YouTube. Sassy Sasquatch.
01:06:52
Speaker
Okay. the god that explain this The guy that writes this ah cartoon is brilliant. And so.
01:07:04
Speaker
There's a YouTube channel called Sassy Sasquatch. ah It's ah basically a cartoon about a Sasquatch. ah Everything is drawn in MS Paint, Microsoft Paint. But it sounds it sounds horrible, but it's like it's weirdly good.
01:07:24
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so
01:07:27
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Now, i preface warning, it is stoner humor. Right. But it's really good. And I thought like, like I'm imagining Jay and Simon Bob, but in MS paint, is that am I in the same ballpark here? Oh, kind of, but you just have to watch it. It's okay worth watching. Let's check it out. Sassy Sasquatch was a gold.
01:07:52
Speaker
Yeah, Sassy Sasquatch. Yeah, can I find it on YouTube or what? I said that already. I said you could find it on YouTube. What are you we weren't even listening, Karen? No, not listening. I just heard Sassy Sasquatch and my mind went blank.
01:08:10
Speaker
good i learned what should arch you got then from your what What brilliance do you have to bloody recommend then, Karen? Actually, it's, you know, it's ah it's another YouTube thing.
01:08:22
Speaker
Um, at the moment, but it's actually a music video. Okay. There's this guy or band called falling in reverse. Now think what you will about the music itself. The listeners out there, maybe it's not all their taste in your music. It's kind of like metal rap new metal mixed with it's yeah, insanity, but the film clips.
01:08:48
Speaker
better than most cinematic movies today. Interesting. The green screen effects and all the crazy shit that happens in these film clips is like so insane.
01:09:07
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like
01:09:10
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Next level shit. like ah You can you couldn't start with, I don't know, Uh, the most intense one is called Ronald. You can watch that one. Um, by following your reverse or the other one you could probably watch is, uh, it's called prequel, which is like, and like the interesting thing about all these, there's about four or five different videos and they all like, they're all in a sequential order of story.
01:09:39
Speaker
hu So like the the songs themselves are just part of the story and and of this like film, basically. But I mean, I think what you were about Ronald Reiki, I think he's the guy, the name, the vocalist is called a bit of a narcissist, but like, I mean, there's this whole thing where he's like up on a cross, like Jesus, and he's getting like a crown of thorns on himself, all this intense stuff. But like, you know,
01:10:07
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It has a bit of maybe a bit of a savoury complex, but fucking hell, these videos are insane. Um, next level shit for a film clip. That's for sure. So that's what I want you to check out. And if the listeners are interested interested in that kind of thing, check it out too. So there you go.
01:10:27
Speaker
All right, cool. Well, I think that wraps it up for the episode two of our new Garage of Edger podcast. And I think if there's anything that you guys want, if there's anything you guys want ah us to talk about or touch on or you think there's something that we ah should look into doing, please send your DMs to at garage avenger on Instagram or Eucharist Brewing on Instagram too. yeah Yep. And ah we will see you next week for what's happening in our garages. Cheers, everyone. Thanks for joining. Thanks for listening.
01:11:14
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All right, that'll do. Yeah, that was fun.