Become a Creator today!Start creating today - Share your story with the world!
Start for free
00:00:00
00:00:01
Week 7 - Booty girls and go-karts
49 Plays1 month ago
This week Kiz is back from brewing beer in the arctic circle and Justin contemplates why he builds dumb machines
Garage Avenger Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/garageavenger
Recommended
Transcript
Starting the Garage Avenger Podcast
00:00:00
Speaker
This is the Garage Avenger Podcast.
00:00:06
Speaker
glad we made this one kien we really forgot it device both of us nearly forgot episode seven is it absolute seven now is that we or a week number seven it's go week number seven Yeah. The worst thing happened to me is like, I was like, all right, shit. Oh God, it's, ah, look at it. It's nine o'clock. I'm going to get ready to go do this thing. And then I was like, Oh, I've got time for make a coffee. And like, press the button on the coffee machine. He's like, clean the coffee machine. Like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:00:47
Speaker
yeah
00:00:51
Speaker
I think I like, if I bought a new coffee machine, I would just get it like, so it had a massive grounds container. So I didn't have to empty that shit every day. No, you have it like in a pipe that like goes into the... Yeah, it just pipes it out. It's straight into the compost bin. Yeah, yeah. Perfect. Yeah. Well, I have my little mushroom farm underneath the sink or something. Yeah, yeah. You farm something with the coffee growing. Yeah, that would be sweet. Yeah, yeah. First world problems.
Brewing Adventures in Norway
00:01:19
Speaker
Hmm, a big week this week for you, Carrot. Yeah, it's been it's been pretty big. Let's hear it. and Well, I flew up to Lufoten till what's it called? Svalvide. Svalvide is a little town that I flew into. Well, I didn't fly into it. I had to. It works out way cheaper and way easier to fly into Evaness, which is like two and a half hour drive from this small town and hire a car and drive. So and believe it or not, faster as well um to fly an hour and a half and then drive for two and a half hours ah because of the way flights to this small town ah like set up, it's ah super terrible to fly in there. So um yeah, so fall flew into ah into Evanness and drove for two and a half hours.
00:02:19
Speaker
um into Svalbard and met the guys at Lufo Pils, it's called, the brewery, which shout out to those guys, super awesome. Super lovely guys, fire out, like, o like they're doing something, they they're trying to fight the big boys, you know, like they're competing with Karlsberg and like,
00:02:43
Speaker
oars and ringness and haunts are always kind of big boys. And they're just trying to do their own thing. And like, fucking congrats, guys, just fucking power on. um Just love that they're trying to do something like that, like that they got the balls to take on the big boys. I love it. So, yeah, they um they're primarily producing lager style beers um for for the Little Fulton area, but also you can actually get their beers down in the in, well, the rest of Norway, pretty much. um And yeah, met up with the the brewer, a guy called Lucas. He's actually Polish. And the head of the CEO, a guy called Andreas. And yeah, and they did me a tour of the brewery and had a look around and then we, yeah, started making some beer.
00:03:38
Speaker
So that was pretty awesome. and So explain to me why you had to go all the way. ah For those who don't know, Lufoten's in the very north part of Norway. He's in the Arctic Circle. Yeah, it's like super high, super beautiful. That's where all your like salmon and and ah cod comes from. Yeah, all the wild stuff at least. Yeah. yeah And the it's like, it's pretty like dobsmackingly amazingly beautiful place like I mean the it's like you walk out you just come out the you're out of the airport and you breathe the air and you're just like holy shit it's like there's no pollutants there's no it's like it's it's just such a pure place so I mean one could argue that's good enough reason to brew beer there um
00:04:31
Speaker
the truth to be told, like I want i want the the product um I made up there was a Belgian triple, the Nordic triple ah and that I'm releasing and I want that in a big bottle. Now there are plenty of places around like breweries that can bottle by hand a ah large bottle but you know when when you've gone, if you know as much as I know about ah these kind of products, when you start doing hand bottling, start having all sorts of issues with oxygen oxygen and problems with quality, long term. And I was just like, I don't want to do that. I want to do, I want to do this properly. I don't want to do just wing it. So, uh,
00:05:22
Speaker
The only place in Norway that I know of that can handle these large format bottles like 0.75, so it's 750 milliliters, ah is Lufobitz. They're the only ones that I know of right now that have a line like that that can handle as big bottles. That's actually not a direct competition in Norway for what I'm doing. There is one other place called Shin.
00:05:49
Speaker
ah They probably produce the most Norwegian Belgian style beer in in Norway But they're essentially my competition. So I didn't want to I don't want to go to them And they probably wouldn't want to prove for me. So Anyway, it's a so that's why I went to Littlefoot and that's the main reason actually and it's just a cool story too far out like it's just it's much cooler story to be like I went to like Yeah, some local brewery and got this beer made like, no, I flew all the way to Lufoten to get, you know, this beer brewed from arctic, pure mountain arctic water. Like it's just, you know, it's one of those things when you go there and you just smell the air and just realize the place is just something special that you realize, like, yeah, that's a story. That's a beautiful story to tell. And I think that's part of selling beers. It's like, yeah.
00:06:44
Speaker
Like it's a story. yeah Because because i there's a big difference between like Australian tap water beer that we grew up with yeah yeah and the stuff that comes off the mountains. Yeah. And and it's like, I mean, obviously this is what they call surface water in the industry. And you know, so it's pretty much just like snow melt and all that kind of stuff and trickles through the mountains and you know,
00:07:12
Speaker
down to the reservoirs. So it's not like well water or anything like that, which picks up a lot of minerals. So it's super clean, super easy drinking water, like the best tap water you've ever tasted pretty much. That's that's the best way to describe it. So yeah, like we talked about it in previous podcasts, like Voss water, that's like Norwegian tap water. So So it's like, uh, it's one of those things, you know, like if you're, if you're listening in the UK or wherever you are now, and if you're outside of Norway and you're like, you know, in, in the UK, I remember like, if you went from the times up there, like just the shower or even the kettle, like you boil a kettle, it just gets all calcified and there's always heavyy heavy, heavy, uh, calcium and all sorts of stuff in the water, which is, you know, it's not necessarily bad, but it's just.
00:08:09
Speaker
It adds a different flavor profile to heavier water, more more alkaline um then most to than most of the water here in Norway. So you can kind of build you can build the water profile you want in in a in a place like Lofoten.
00:08:28
Speaker
You know, if you want it to be harder, you can. You can just add the salt and then it's done. But it's it's a beautiful water source to start with. And that's one of the beautiful things about it. So, hmm. So yeah, so I was up there, brewed the beer. um Worked out pretty good. Pretty tough to hit such a high ah concentration of water on this one. I was about to use ah the technical term gravity, but I don't think most people know what that means. I don't think anyone knows what what means. I think that's something that grows on your bloody foot. Unfermented beer. So, yeah, we basically just, you know, it's the beer is going to be nine percent. So it's going to put hair on your chest and but super high drinkable drinkability like all Belgian style beers.
00:09:26
Speaker
So it's a difficult, um yeah, it's a difficult gravity, like a difficult strength to hit, especially on a system like they have. So we didn't quite get there. We almost got there. It will really depend on how well the beer ferments down, whether it hit the 9% or not. So, I mean, it's pretty close. It'll it'll land at like 8.9 or something. So it's pretty much 9%.
00:09:54
Speaker
So that was, um but it was a good experience. Really, really nice guys up there.
Design and Recycling Challenges
00:09:59
Speaker
Like they took me out for dinner or, you know. and So even Andreas said that he would next time, if I come up in the summertime, he was going to book me a trip to, to jump the goat horns.
00:10:13
Speaker
up there. heavy sound What's the hell is that? It's pretty crazy. Just above the town on this on top of this fucking crazy, beautiful, amazing mountain is this little like croppy like rock outcrop thing that has two random, two little pillars on the top, like goat horns. but so They call it the goat horn or whatever in the town.
00:10:41
Speaker
And you can, and there's a gap between them, like a meter and a half, two meters or something like that. ah And you can jump between the two. Like, I mean, just to explain, if you fucking slip when you jump this thing, you're fucking dead. Like, you just fall 150 meters either side. Like, you're just tumbling down the cliff and you're fucking done. See you later. But he's like, yeah, you can do like guided tours and then they like harness you up and stuff and you can fucking jump.
00:11:11
Speaker
I was going to say, I was thinking, maybe he's setting you up. He's like, we really like this guy's recipe. We're going to get him to jump the horns, and he'll slip and die. I'm like, oh, look at that. His recipe's an apple. He was showing me guys that have jumped it on bikes and shit, and I was just like...
00:11:31
Speaker
ah like yeah like yeah yeah yeah you want to do that on a bike see you later buddy ah so no it was a really nice this beautiful place like yeah so insane so yeah it's fermenting in the tank now and it'll be ready in through it's ah We're going to probably let it condition on the tank because typically with the Belgian style beers, they get really hot and with this like Algoli flavor when you brew it so strong. So you let them rest in the tank for a bit longer and that kind of
00:12:10
Speaker
booziness will kind of wind back a little bit. You'll still be strong as hell, but you won't taste it so much. So that's ah that's happening now. So I got organized labels and do all that kind of stuff to make sure we can get that already for tapping day. So that's going to be exciting. How the labels going? Have you got them ready?
00:12:31
Speaker
ah Well, I'm 98% finished on the design of the main label, so that's pretty good. um I found out that these stupid Norwegian recycling laws mean that I have to put these insanely large logos on the label, like just saying, this is recycled as glass, like a glass, but like you didn't know that you could recycle glass.
00:12:57
Speaker
ready It's just like people are laws and rules and regulations these days. So, so yeah. um And then the plan is to do like some kind of thing on the top of the bottle, like a label, like a neck label or a wax or something like that. And I haven't, I haven't heard back from the guys at Little Pills yet about whether that's possible to apply with their machine. So,
00:13:27
Speaker
I'll have to hear back from them on that and then figure it out from there. So, but I think the labels themselves, like, ah they'll look really nice. like ah gonna It's like a white kind of paper label with this kind of ghostly Starv Schucke, the Starv Church, which is like Norwegian Viking style church in the background. um And then with this kind of really, you know, bold,
00:13:54
Speaker
copper foiling on the label, on the text on the label. So I think it'll really pop off the shelf. Well, that's, that's a plan. So yeah, that was, that was it.
00:14:05
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, I've been looking at all the Belgian beers recently at the, at the wine monopoly. And i I looked at all of them and they're all just kind of boring. So i'm I've seen the label design. I think it's going to stand out like dogs balls and let's hope that makes itself. Yeah. Well, I mean, who doesn't want to buy dogs balls? ah o No. So, uh, yeah, I think it'll look really nice. If I, if I mail it, I'm gonna, it's going to be great.
00:14:35
Speaker
So, yep. And then um all kinds of fun things were happening this last week too. um Yeah, just the trip took it out of me and I was fucking shattered after that trip. I mean, I should have in on paper, I kind of should have realized it.
00:14:54
Speaker
you know, flying an hour and a half, like you got to, from, from drumming, you got to take the bus up to and the train up to the airport and then hour and a half on the plane and then driving for two and a half hours and then, you know, basically hardly sleeping and then brewing, working all day, brewing a beer and then jumping in a car, driving to and then flying home and then yeah not being home till midnight the following day. yeah You know, and I just, yeah, we put me through the wringer. I only really feel like back on top of it now. So. Yeah, it was been a bit of a wild ride, actually, like all the emotions that happen when you're tired. I was like, I got this little setback, like I realized I'd fucked up the barcode size on one of my new beers that I'm making. And it's going to go to the venable and it has to be a particular size, otherwise I'll reject it.
00:15:49
Speaker
And I realized I'd fucked this up. I don't know. I got tunnel vision when I designed the label or something. I didn't see it. And yeah, I was just like, man, I was ready to chuck in the towel. I was like, I was so tired and worn out from this whole trip. I just like, I was like, no, no, it's not worth it. Fuck this. Don't in the towel. And I'm like, of course I don't want to do that. Of course I don't want to, but that, I mean, that's part of the journey, isn't it? Like you realize.
00:16:16
Speaker
Like there's going to be the ups and downs and the days that are harder than others. And, and you got to believe in what you're doing and persevere. So yeah. So, and I believe what I'm doing is good. So we'll, uh, you know, I've just got to go out there and, and make it happen and keep pushing.
Electric Bike Project
00:16:35
Speaker
So that's the plan. You bro. How's your week been?
00:16:42
Speaker
ah Yeah, I mean, good. um Been working on the newest project. Ooh, the new project. ah Which is a children's balance bike, like a toddler's balance bike. I'm now strapped to very high power electric scooter motors to it. Yeah.
00:17:06
Speaker
let's not here It looks so based, like especially on the on the side where you have the, where the brake discs are and everything, like it just looks so fat. So I'm like, I don't know if I can even fit on this thing, but I wrote it before, you know, I modified it. I can write it. It's just a bit sketchy. And like I said to you earlier, like the seats a bit like a, like a,
00:17:37
Speaker
Like a dildo going up my ass. It's a very wide, wide wide one. It's not very comfortable. Um, so yeah. This is designed for children, Justin, not grown adults.
00:17:52
Speaker
what
00:17:55
Speaker
So yeah, they, uh, so basically I've got all the running gear from, uh, like a high powered electric scooter. ah It's 2,400 watts. It's not you know exactly sluggish. I think it'll probably hit... Well, I had it upside down on the bench. So I basically put the motors on and then I just connected all the electrical parts and then I just spun the wheels up. And the Speedo read 97 kilometers per hour.
00:18:29
Speaker
a Oh, fuck me. I mean, ah maybe it hit 60, 70, if you really could hold it. Yeah, well, that's another thing. like Okay, so my my weight will reduce the amount of speed, obviously. Yeah.
00:18:48
Speaker
But the thing is, like, because the steering is so... Twitchy? so Yeah, it's so twitchy because it's such a short distance between the wheels. Yeah. And then on top of that, it's not a very wide steering, like, handlebar. Yeah, yeah. so So, like, every little movement is huge movement for those. So I'm like, ah.
00:19:10
Speaker
ah Part of me wants to replace the handlebars to like a long one. Then part of me doesn't because I want to keep the originality of it all. It kind of looks like I even kept the the stupid flowery pink bell on the handlebars because I just I kind of weirdly like this idea of just mo modifying it heavily but keeping its original kind of design or its innocence, I guess you'd say. But can you like stiffen up like the steering column or something so it doesn't twitch so easily? I tried, I tried over tightening the bearings.
00:19:49
Speaker
Yeah, it just was a bit more and it was no matter how hard. I tightened it. It didn't do anything. I'm like, why do they make bearing so good these days? I don't understand. So yeah. ah Look, I'm going to have to see what happens. I'm going to take it easy when I eventually get this thing going. But the biggest challenge was to work out what I was going to do with the battery and motor controllers, because they take up a lot of space. Yeah, and it's not like the space on the bike for it. And I i was thinking about this. I was like, oh, OK, well, you know, how am I going to put it? Do I put like, you know, those though parcel tray things? Like, do I put that on the back wheel or on the front wheel or something? there
00:20:34
Speaker
So, you know, you've got this like big bat, but it just looked, it ruined everything. Like what we're talking about, like, you know, the design of it, you know, keeping it kind of, kind of like it was. yeah And if I was going to put this big battery on, it was going to ruin everything. So then I was so seeing the kids off to school yeah and I gave Henry his backpack and then it just fricking hit me. I was like, of course.
00:21:02
Speaker
I just put the battery of motor controllers in a backpack. Nice. So I had this idea. I was like, all right, so I just i got to get myself a backpack or I make one or something. You know, I didn't really know. But in the end, what I ended up thinking about is like, I don't want a huge backpack that is kind of just stupid. So I want it kind of a little bit incognito, I guess you'd say. Hmm.
00:21:28
Speaker
So I was looking at like these type of camelback type things, you know, with the water bladder in them. So I decided to go to a local sports store and I couldn't find them. This guy, he's like, hey, what can I help you with? Oh, you got these camelback things?
00:21:48
Speaker
And he said, yeah, yeah, come over here. And he was showing me this particular brand, which is not Camelback, by the way. But he was showing me this particular brand and he's like, oh, ah this one's pretty good because you can do that. I don't i just said to him, I don't care about that stuff. I'm not going to use it for water. And he goes, oh what are you going to use it for?
00:22:10
Speaker
And I said, no, you don't want to know. He's like some weird kinky six thing. But he goes,
00:22:20
Speaker
very guys no, I do want to know. And I sort of said, oh, I thought about it. I thought, no, you don't want to know. I'll just leave it at that. But then i you know what? You know what? No. but This is what I'm passionate about. I'm going to share with this guy.
00:22:35
Speaker
what I'm doing. So I was like, I explained to him, like, see this bike you actually have in the store here. I've converted that into a high powered, like electric bike that would probably kill a child if he was to strap into it.
The Joy of Creation and Motivation
00:22:52
Speaker
And then I showed him some pictures on my phone. yeah And he goes, why?
00:23:01
Speaker
I mean, he was just so disappointed it wasn't some weird care kinky sex thing. We thought he was gonna get some juice for the day. Yep. Yeah, so what did you say when he asked why? Well, to be honest, I straight up just said, because I can. But that got me thinking this week. Yeah. Like, why do we do the things we do?
00:23:30
Speaker
And then I was also speaking to a friend of ours, ah actually two friends of ours, and they both said the same thing. Like why are you doing it? yeah Yeah. Like, so like, can you explain like why you're actually doing what you're doing? And, you know, I had to think about it a little bit. I mean, I've always been running off this kind of mantra or mantra, whatever you say, how do you say it?
00:23:57
Speaker
But like mantra mantra, yeah. ah Ignite creativity in others so that they can make their ideas reality. Right. But Why do I do that? Why do I want to do that for others? um And I'd started really thinking about it. And I sort of, there's a couple of reasons actually. So we grew up in a family with you know four boys. ah We had a father that worked quite a lot. A mother had her hands full with four boys. um you know And we had to compete kind of for attention.
00:24:39
Speaker
I'd say. Yeah. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Like there was always something going on with one of us. yeah So, you know, there was, there's that as a factor, I think of why like, I feel like I need to do something to be seen. I think that's part of the reason why I put it my workout publicly to get some sort of affirmations ah that I'm good enough.
00:25:09
Speaker
Because unfortunately, I think through our childhood, I think there was a little bit of ah competition between us, which made us feel a little bit not good enough. You know, um we didn't get maybe all the love and affection or just not even that, but just more just the fact of seeing what we are and who we are as a person.
00:25:30
Speaker
Well, I mean, can I interject? like Because I think this is something about the creative process that that, you know, you can dive into your childhood and all sorts of, like, things there and that's totally valid. But also, like, there's the creative process, like, there's there's something, you know, we are finite beings that will live for a period and die.
00:25:55
Speaker
And what's left after we die, like the things that we made, the things we created. And okay, like, I mean, maybe one of this little bike ends up getting chucked in the trash or whatever. But for that moment in time, you made that and it was witnessed and it was something, it was a part of you as part of something that you created, that you had a vision and an idea and and something, and you wanted to bring that into reality.
00:26:23
Speaker
I mean, as men, like we can't have children, we have children, but we can't produce them ourselves. So I feel like a lot of men especially create in some sense because that creation is something that is bigger than themselves or apart from themselves, like in terms of it's part of you, but also apart like something that exists outside of you. So yeah, I know that's my two cents.
00:26:51
Speaker
Well, I was about to get to that before you bloody jumped in. Twins. du da da da da Well, the other side of things besides the whole creative thing and, and you know, birthing an idea basically with your hands, ah was the fact that I also feel like I'm reliving my childhood when I create. So, like, everyone knows the freedom when you're a child. Like, you don't
00:27:24
Speaker
I don't think children think about it, but I think as adults, we think about like how easy we had it as kids, you know? Like we just do whatever fucking we're doing. Yeah, when you're in school, you're just like, I just want to get a job and start working. I'm like, fuck that. You idiots. Yeah, so I mean, I feel like that's what I'm recreating. I'm recreating the ages of like when I was 14 to like 16, I think. Yeah.
00:27:52
Speaker
um And i I know I've talked about this on my old podcast, but I'm not sure I've talked about this in this one, um where like between the ages of 14 and 16 or 13 and 16, I think it was actually, ah you generally have your life's purpose within those years.
00:28:12
Speaker
So the things you love to do in those years generally is your life's purpose. And a lot of that's to do with the fact that in those years, the kind of you don't have your such a big influence from your parents.
00:28:28
Speaker
Putting pressure on you to like get a job or study a certain way so that you can get into university and then you also don't have your peers necessarily pushing on you so much to conform to them and why they are there's this like limbo period in that.
00:28:46
Speaker
you know, a three year period where you kind of get to do what you want to do. And like some people keep it secret. Some people don't even share it, but they loved, you know, for example, sitting down and drawing and doing things or they loved like pulling a apart clocks or something weird like that, or they loved, I don't know, you know, what else does a 13 year old do when he's born?
00:29:13
Speaker
bornberg yeah not that they that's enough year old does what what is not what he was not jacking off he's playing with clocks
00:29:27
Speaker
ah oh But a lot of the things I create are things that I never would have had as a kid. Right. Yeah. Like I would have never had the opportunity because unfortunately our father wasn't super handy. That's not his fault. You know, like that's just how he is. Uh, and he couldn't create those things for us. And I had a lot of great influences in high school. Um, you know, one of which was my, uh, design and technology teacher, Mr. Jones or Mark.
00:30:02
Speaker
Jones, he came to visit us literally like in the summer. And, yeah you know, though we're still, I would consider him as a friend. My old school teacher is so weird. But, you know, for me now I relive that, and it gives me a sense of like that freedom feeling when I was a teenager, you know, when when I had the freedom to do what the hell I wanted. And so like, I'll,
00:30:32
Speaker
build something and the process is what really gets me going. So like I'll have an idea and I, it's, you know what it's like? It's like a jigsaw puzzle. Yeah. Right. So this is exactly how I feel. So anyone that's done jigsaw puzzle, they see the picture finished on the box. I see the picture finished in my head, right? yeah Of the project. I see what it looks like.
00:31:01
Speaker
But I don't know how the pieces fit together. right So then I sit down, I empty the box out and I start sorting things out and then trying to work out how the pieces fit. yeah And then I eventually put the final jigsaw piece together.
00:31:22
Speaker
And then I'm freaking done with that. I don't care about it. I literally could burn it on fire. like It's exactly like a jigsaw puzzle. Unless you're like one of those weirdos that does like the jigsaw puzzle and frames it. Sorry, guys, if you're one of them, but for me, it's like, I don't really care. Like I've got these projects downstairs and like I invested a lot of time, a lot of effort, but if they disappeared tomorrow, I'm like, yeah,
00:31:52
Speaker
Yeah, it's ah the joy in creating, not the joy in the finished product. yeah and So like I have this freedom feeling, a reliving of my childhood, and I just want to share that with people.
00:32:08
Speaker
Yeah. And that's why I create content around the stuff I build because I want to share with people this freedom feeling, this reliving of my childhood feeling I get and I get thorough enjoyment from it. And I hope that I can inspire others to also do that. So that maybe I'm not the only weirdo in the world doing such things. Isn't that really fascinating?
00:32:37
Speaker
I mean, just all these things and how it all kind of comes together with these things with your upbringing and all different ideas around being, you know, the things that you found joy when you were little like in. Yeah. Just I guess there's a reason why so many like men are obsessed with sex that that was their life purpose.
00:33:05
Speaker
i Oh, yep. That's exactly true, Kieran. I had nothing else to do with jerk offs when I was like, oh, yep, that's my life. But Kieran, why do you drew beer? Like, do you know? Yeah, of course I know. I mean, OK, so there's
00:33:39
Speaker
peter Some people might be curious or maybe they're not curious at all, but I'm gonna tell you anyway ah Like Eucharist brewing it's called
Community Building through Brewing and Creativity
00:33:48
Speaker
Eucharist brewing. Why is it called like basically communion church communion brewing? um And like okay, so obviously I have experience and a background from church religious stuff like that. ah Definitely not sitting in that camp in any more, at least not in a in the typical way. And but there's something there was something valuable I found in the community, ah the church community, ah despite all the theological bullshit and all these fucked up things that happen.
00:34:28
Speaker
ah there's this sense of belonging, a sense of of sharing something together. And then I started working in bars, I started seeing how people connect over something good to drink. And the way that it opens people's ability to talk about things, and because you're so fucked up, you can't actually talk about your emotions without the influence of alcohol. And, you know, those are sort of like, it's a facilitator for the same kind of community that I witnessed in church. And so I realized like, oh, like, wow, this is cool. So every time when I started brewing beer,
00:35:13
Speaker
And I started giving it to people and sharing it with people and all that. I started to realize like, yeah, wow, this is cool. Like, this is exactly like what kind of happens in church without all the other bullshit. And in fact, it's way more funner because it tastes good. And, you know, make a little buzz gone, if that's your jam. And so, you know, I just I mean, there's multiple verses about alcohol. If you want to be specific about that, like, I mean,
00:35:42
Speaker
Jesus, like Jesus turned like, you know, so these I don't know if you know the story just but like can Jesus turned the water into wine. This is the well known story. Like, first of all, um they ran out of wine.
00:35:56
Speaker
Like they're already half cut. but They're already shit faced at this party, right? And then he's like, and his mum's all like, go on Jesus, like do that thing with the, you know, and he's just like, oh fuck mum, all right. And ah he goes, and he turns these, these water jugs into one. Now these water jugs are like 4,000 litres, like combined volume. Yeah. So like,
00:36:23
Speaker
He's just like, oh, it's a big party. There you go. Here's 4,000 liters and more wine. Let's see how that goes. And everyone's like, yeah, fucking great, Jesus, getting our buzz on. um Anyway, sorry, that was a slight break. But I think it's just really, I saw that when I was making beer and sharing it with people and ah and what it facilitated with people,
00:36:50
Speaker
um You know, I think it's important. It's important because a lot of people ah don't share what's going on in their worlds. And if something that I can make ah facilitates that, I think that's really great. You know, like, and obviously too, like some of that you only got beers like Cosmic Christ and Cryo Jesus and these kind of names on beers. It's a, it's also called um sorry it's also a conversation starter.
00:37:22
Speaker
Right? Like, whether you love it or whether you hate it, like, it's just, it starts a conversation. It might break the ice. You know, it might be that whole thing of like, people like talking around table of how dumb Christians are. And like, if that's what it is, like, that's fine. People get together and they're sharing common, common ground. And that's fantastic as far as I'm concerned. So I don't, I mean, I don't really care if people love or hate it. That's, that's irrelevant for me. So.
00:37:52
Speaker
It's just, ah it's just a conversation piece in that sense. So I always like to kind of put something on, like a lot of the bottles have quotes and things like that on them as well. um And so that's ah something as well to try and get people to you know think outside the box, maybe a little bit. And, you know, like cryo Jesus has a French quote on it, actually. um And by this guy, Albert, we'll come with me.
00:38:22
Speaker
I can't remember the name, actually, right now, um which is like a the translation is something like I found in inside me an eternal summer in the midst of the darkest winter. And it's just a so this is like these kinds of things where which provoke thought and and hopefully make people's lives richer. um You know,
00:38:48
Speaker
You're doing it through making a pallet go-kart or a mini bike, high powered death machine. ah And I'm doing it through beer. So... and Well, you say you say that because it's important to note, you know, like when I build something crazy, but then I do share it with some people. Yeah. ah Everyone has a smile on their face. Right. Exactly.
00:39:12
Speaker
You know, and I think that's what's really what it's about. I've said this before, I'm sure of it. You know, like the smile on people's face is really what makes this valuable. And like it sucks that I can't share it with everybody.
00:39:26
Speaker
Yeah, like typically. Yeah. And I like, I have. That's what you have YouTube for. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And I, you know, I feel very grateful. I have a real good bunch of patrons locally. um And there. I'm able to give them something in return. Yeah. Physically, like in with regards to giving them the opportunity to drive one of these stupid things that I built.
00:39:54
Speaker
and hopefully they'll kill themselves. um you know and And that's what gives me a huge amount of joy. Like when we were driving the hand truck go-kart, I gave the go-kart actually to my patron's son to drive. yeah He'd never driven anything like that in his life. The smile on his face made the hundreds of hours I spent on that project totally worth it. Right. Yeah. And I think like as well too, like when you realize someone on YouTube is watching that and for every like or comment or whatever is essentially a smile on someone's face when they witnessed that creation and watched it whizzing around a track or
00:40:45
Speaker
Uh, you know, watch some, you know, laughed at some dumb thing you did when you first got frustrated or whatever it is, like enjoyed the process of seeing you build it. Um, yeah, that's, that's, of course that's value field.
00:41:03
Speaker
What about the creativity for you, Kieran? Obviously, there's a lot to do like with regards to creativity and what you're doing. You've got the recipe side, yeah you've got the label side, then when you've got this business, now like you have to think about creatively with marketing, you have to think creatively with ah getting around all the advertising rules. yeah all this We'll get to that yanking my chain in a minute. but ah and no they um Yeah, absolutely. There's so much involved. um What's really weird actually is I come up with the best beers that I've made, the best ones. I come up with a name first. I come up with a name. I come up with like i come across like, ah like I mean ah just like ah came across like
00:41:56
Speaker
the term cosmic Christ. And I was like, oh, that's a fun name. I like that. It's like an alliteration in it. and like it's just a fun Wouldn't there be a fun name for a beer? And you know, slightly controversial. And then I design the beer around the name. And then same goes for cryo Jesus, use a lot of cryo hops there. um Same goes for some of the other beers like Holy Ghost, for example.
00:42:25
Speaker
And, you know, I had all these ghost chilies just lying around and I was just like, what am I going to do with these? Like they're fucking way too hot to put in my food. So started experimenting with, with putting them in beer and, you know, and like, yeah, the name came first and the whole concept is built around the name. So there's a lot of, and then obviously creating artwork that complements the name as well as like part of the,
00:42:52
Speaker
a real joy for me, like getting to make all sorts of crazy artworks and find some stuff that I'm really happy with. And then of course, uh, yeah, there's a business side of thing, which is obviously a new part for me and probably the most challenging, I will admit, um, trying to get out there and try and build a brand. So, hmm. Absolutely. There's heaps of creativity in it. Hmm.
00:43:20
Speaker
um I just have one quick question before we go into Mind Blown. um What's seven times seven, Kieran? I want to like shout out to, oh what was it? 3D print dad. And he actually sent me a DM on Instagram, motherfucker.
00:43:45
Speaker
ah He just took a photo of like his kid's like times tables chart or whatever it was and then sent it to me.
00:43:58
Speaker
So yeah, I got schooled. But that
Exploring New Ideas and Challenges
00:44:01
Speaker
was good fun. i like i love I was like, oh, cool. We've got eight listeners now. Maybe he was one of the seven. I don't know.
00:44:10
Speaker
I also, I think it was just me commenting on Spotify. I logged into Kristen's account. i used make sure my sure
00:44:31
Speaker
Yeah. Ah,
00:44:37
Speaker
dude. All right. Mind blown. What's, uh, what's blowing your mind? So I was, uh, I was, you know, I was driving for two and a half hours, um, last week and I started like, I was like, I can't listen to music forever. So I started listening to a podcast. I started listening to a podcast from Joe Rogan. And I was like, you know, love, I hate him.
00:45:00
Speaker
Some of the stuff is really interesting. And he had this guy on, or you just said his name before. Um, I will quickly look it up so that you don't look like an image. Cause I can't tell you. Yeah. I have to find out what the other one that I listened to, Sean Ryan, Sean Ryan. Yeah. So, uh, it was listening to this podcast with Sean Ryan and, uh, he had just talking about,
00:45:28
Speaker
Sean Ryan has his own podcast and he was talking about this ah guest he had on called Colonel John Alexander and the episode is, if you want to look it up, episode 96 of the um Sean Ryan show and it's the military applications of the paranormal.
00:45:51
Speaker
So, okay, so you're already like, what the fuck? ah But okay, so backstory, he's this guy, he's like, he's like 80. And he's like, obviously retired now. And, and he's talking about all this stuff that's now declassified. um But during the Cold War, they were doing like testing, like, they'd have to get like an an agent or whatever was out, and they would have to get them back. And then, you know, kind of do uh, polygraph tests and this kind of thing with them to try and get them to and see if they'd been turned or whatever. Right. Um, and, but there was like, there was ways to cheat the tests. Right. Um, so it's first started with like, this is crazy. They first started like hooking the polygraph, like pretend hooking it up to them, but they were actually hooking it up to a plant in the room. Right.
00:46:48
Speaker
And the plant would pick up the emotional energy of the person. So if that person was actually stressing deep underneath, but was like managed to trick the polygraph, the plant would pick it up.
00:47:05
Speaker
And so I was like, that's crazy, right? Is this, can this be used in a court of law? I don't think so. The court had said he was lying. Yeah, well, okay. so then So then apparently they take this one step further and they manage to, they they take some, ah I think they say they're white blood cells out of the mouth for some reason. And this is crazy. This is crazy because it's in,
00:47:35
Speaker
in So apparently they find a way to hook these white blood cells up to ah some version of a polygraph test. Yeah. I don't know how that physically works, but they they did. They found it. So, so apparently this guy, Colonel, whatever his name was, I just said, ah John Alexander i was one of the first to test this, right? So they hooked up this thing and they were like testing whether the cells would react.
00:48:05
Speaker
to him, where they you know they took the cells out of his mouth, and then in a separate yeah like thing, and then they were testing, doing the polygraph thing with him, and but then using the white blood cells from his mouth as a register for whether it was true or not. right so thing This is where it gets fucking crazy, right?
00:48:28
Speaker
He's like, okay, yeah, no, all right, it seems like it works. We don't know 100 percent, whatever, right? And so he goes, ah he's like, oh, sorry, guys, I've got to go to another meeting like I've got to go. So he goes to the other side of the building, like fucking 150 meters away from where this polygraph thing is. And he's in this stressful meeting.
00:48:55
Speaker
and his white blood cells, like 150 meters away, are still registering on the machine. So, was like, we're talking about quantum entanglement here. Like, that's fucking, that mind blown. I was like, if this is fucking true, I mean, you have to take everything you hear with a grain of salt, yeah, but if it's true, mind blown.
00:49:21
Speaker
All of our listeners were just like, what the fuck is he on about? That's what happens when you listen to Joe Rogan, oh god. Everyone just switched off, so he said Joe Rogan. Yeah, everyone's like, oh god, god. So you just said the words quantum entanglement before. It's just like, I'm out. I mean, I'm a geek when it comes to this shit. I really find that so fascinating.
00:49:49
Speaker
I do too, but I would say not everyone does, that's for sure. Like I i would say... i but did think i like just ah just think You're the only one. Just think about the implications of this. And like, this is apparently like technology that they've had for years, right? So just think, you can essentially take a sample. You can you could take a sample of someone, somehow get someone's sample, like, I don't know, like for... randomly, like take fucking Trump's sample and then you could like put him through the ringer on a on a live interview and then be able to tell whether he's fucking lying through his teeth on him.
00:50:33
Speaker
You've brought politics to this, Karen. You've used the word Trump now. No, we're fine. We're going to get banned. We're going to get closed down. We can't put this on YouTube now.
00:50:51
Speaker
<unk>the strategies yeah yeah I'm going to tell you about my mind blown. okay ah It's not quantum entanglement.
00:51:04
Speaker
It's quite simple. right I've ah blown my own mind. by not listening to the three Northern Makers podcast this week. I haven't had time or I like to think I was neglecting to on purpose to not listen to their podcast. I did have a little sneaky. I looked at the chapters. I didn't have a chance to really listen to much of the podcast itself, but I had a look at chiki the chapters. I was hoping that there would be like a mention in there, but like,
00:51:36
Speaker
Maybe they're doing the old like, just ignore it, and ignore us and maybe we'll go away. We're not going anywhere, PSD. um We will expose your podcast for the podcast it really is, which is a...
00:51:55
Speaker
Murderous. Murderous? Oh yeah, that's right. Oh, I accused someone murdering Andy last week. yeah Yeah, so I have not listened. I will listen though to see what lies they tell us this week. It's like it's a necessary evil in this. We will expose them. Exposed. We'll expose them next week. Make it flash.
00:52:25
Speaker
Yes. What's yank in your chain today, Kieran? Norwegian alcohol laws and the advertising laws. So I saw an article in the newspaper in on socials the other day and about basically the same old chestnut that's been going around.
00:52:45
Speaker
a So basically, you know, there's this ah social media ah in Norway, ah as a brewery or business who sells alcohol, you are there's an alcohol. Oh, for a bit, I can't even think of the band. Yeah, there's an alcohol band.
00:53:07
Speaker
of advertising. and So you can't you can't advertise anything about an alcoholic beverage or your alcoholic processes or anything like that. It's like super restrictive. Now, that being said, I'm actually not that offended by that. But what is the issue is, is that you, Justin, you can be following Karlsberg, who operate outside of Norway.
00:53:36
Speaker
on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter or whatever the heck you want. And they can pump alcohol advertising down your neck day in and day out. Can you get a Kalsberg beer in Norway? Heck, yes, you can. Right. So there is no restriction on Kalsberg group because they're not based out of Norway on advertising through social media to you, the a Norwegian citizen or Norwegian resident.
00:54:07
Speaker
So basically, the Norwegian government is handing larger corporations and our external non-Norwegian breweries a free pass to advertise to the Norwegian population so that they can just pump pump and, you know, promote their own product in Norway and Norwegian breweries who are bringing, keeping money in the country and are trying to also export outside of the country are not allowed to even say that they're producing an alcoholic beverage. They're not even allowed to tell people that they're doing it. That's so crazy because that means if you're in Norway, you can't tell someone in Germany or the UK
00:54:54
Speaker
Through social media. Through social media that you're a brewery and you're making beer. No, you're just you're just a name. That's insanity. Yeah. So yeah you should just move your brewery 12 miles offshore, mate.
00:55:11
Speaker
A floating brewery. So yeah, I mean, the Yanksma chain because I just like fucking all these guys out there that are producing amazing beer and so and they can't They can't, well, they can sell it. There are ways, you've always got to think creatively, but it just, it sucks to be basically swamped by foreign competition because you can't promote your own business in your own country. And then people at the end of the day, if you're not seen, then they're just, they're going to, people are going to go with the things that they do see. So they're going to go with the Carlsbergs and with the, you know,
00:55:53
Speaker
American or British craft beer brands, for example, if you're into that. And there's nothing wrong with those those beers and they probably great beers, but they they don't allow ah the Norwegian government and its rules don't allow a fair competition for Norwegian run breweries. So I think that sucks. It sucks for for Norwegians, basically, because they don't get the full story.
00:56:23
Speaker
like guess they get actually sold to. You know, and the conspiracy theory in me says that there wouldn't surprise me if there's big money behind this that pushes this agenda. And is is like because like this was like not a real issue until recently, like only now the health director, the Norwegian Health Department has really started cracking down on social media stuff ah in Norway and basically giving massive fines to breweries who are just trying to survive.
00:56:53
Speaker
and have tried to like, you know, promote to, especially to export because that's the only way you can really survive a lot of these breweries is to export. And they're trying to export their product, but they can't actually tell anyone, you know, that they're exporting. So. So basically all you have to do is open a business in another country and then run the social media platform through that.
00:57:18
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, the brand it can't be associated with your brand. So you need to start a brand outside of Norway, which I mean, is insanity. Like the irony of the situation is, is that it's the Norwegian government that misses out the most out of this, you know, because businesses shut down. People have to go back to Nov like the, you know, to the welfare because they can't, you know, they've got to get a new job. but and figure shit out. and you know it's just It just costs everyone. and I just think he gets a it's a good way to do things. So yanks my chain.
00:57:53
Speaker
so I think one positive is that you can now think creatively, like how to get around this stuff, like, you know, and be, like, be the smartest like company around, like, find a way where you're not breaking the rules, but you're able to outsmart and outplay all these other breweries that have got their balls in a clamp. oh and So I think, I think that's a great opportunity for you as a small company You know, as a startup, really, you know, yeah I mean, you literally have not got any products to sell as of today, right? As of today, no, but maybe as of Wednesday. Oh, people. Yeah. So cosmic crisis being tapped, I believe, on Wednesday. And last time I checked and that will be hopefully in my warehouse by the end of the week and then available the following week.
00:58:50
Speaker
So, awesome. So literally like two weeks and we should be able to buy your beers. Yeah, pretty much. It's two weeks and should be on a shelf somewhere at a gulatting or at bar. Awesome. Yeah. So that's, a if you're if you're at your local gulatting, if you're in Norway or a bar, um yeah, ask ask for it. Eucharist brewing, cosmic Christ.
00:59:19
Speaker
Cause I think it's pretty, I tasted the beer from the tap, tap from the, from the tank. Um, last Friday when I dropped by the brewery to drop by the with the labels and, uh, it's tasting pretty fucking awesome. Uh, really, really happy with this creamy, smooth, silky mouthfeel on this beer. It's just like.
00:59:42
Speaker
wow ah It's amazing. And it's got a nice beautiful hoppy tropical punch to it as well. So I really hope people who enjoy it.
Navigating Social Media and Supporting Local Breweries
00:59:54
Speaker
Cool. well Well, we'll keep you guys posted, I guess. Yep. What's yanking your chain this week, bro? ah To be honest, the algorithm. Again,
01:00:09
Speaker
Now, you know, the biggest thing I have is not necessarily for me. Well, it is for me, but like right now I'm like looking at my YouTube like homepage. Yeah. And it's the same shit. Like over and over again. Like the algorithm. No, it's more like it's the same things over and over. It's giving me exactly what I want. And that kind of pissed me off because. How dare you give me what I want?
01:00:36
Speaker
ah I get it. I get it. But how, like at some point you get bored yeah of watching the same stuff over and over again. And so therefore you go off the platform because it's not giving you what you want. Right. Yeah. So all you have to start searching and then maybe it'll start giving, but it takes a long time for algorithm great have like the Does YouTube have like the same function that Google had?
01:01:04
Speaker
In what regard? I think Google had like another button. There was a Google search and then there was, I forget what it was, what the hell they actually wrote it. But it was like a random like thing that didn't use any of your cookies or preferences in in the search.
01:01:21
Speaker
It does. But what ah what happens is it just gives you all the bullshit that all that all the mainstream people like, which is you know intelligent search anyway. No, I don't think so, at least anyway. not Not from what I've seen, although I have not pushed that button for a while. So, um yeah, I kind of like a little bit annoyed with the algorithm. It's kind of the same on, you know, Instagram and all the others.
01:01:50
Speaker
Um, you know, if you go to my like search page on Instagram, is this basically like booty girls and I was, so I was talking to a friend about this at and I was like, it's kind of like, I'm kind of ashamed of it, but then I have to realize like, I'm a fricking warm blooded male. like yeah Like I don't even need to look at like,
01:02:16
Speaker
girls doing squats, but I'm somehow drawn to it. It's like, I don't even click on them. That's a thing i could um on the I'm like, I just pause in the in the search thing and look at this maybe like booty or something that it's decided that it thinks I need to look at. yeah and then it And then the algorithm says, hey, you want more of that. You stopped for about 30 milliseconds. to check that like to have my feet is exactly the same
01:02:48
Speaker
ah just It's like booty girls drumming ah mountain bikes surfing booty girls booty girls mountain bikes surfing baby cuts
01:03:04
Speaker
Oh, shit. I mean, they're not as pegs, don't they? That kind of do. It's kind of... You know, like I said, I don't even click on them. No, no that's the thing. I don't either. and i But I'll stop and I'll scroll and I'll be like, ooh, that was a nice you know ass or something like that. And it's just like when you're driving along the street, right? Yeah, right. Like, we as code cold or cold, warm-blooded males... Oh, pardon me.
01:03:31
Speaker
have Like I was saying to Kristen, my wife, a couple of months ago, I was like, hey, you don't understand the male mind. Like I've checked every single girl out.
01:03:42
Speaker
And given her a yes or no before you even notice she exists. ah Lynn, like I tried to tell Lynn about this, my wife, like, I just, she did not, she was like, what? She was like shocked and like, yeah, I'm like, and I was trying to tell her too, it was like, every male friend you've ever had.
01:04:05
Speaker
thought about boning you at one point in time. And she was just like, well, it's done the balance. I wouldn't say they thought about doing it. You'd be like, you do like yes or no, right? Like you know, it's like me and my mate were talking about yesterday is like, you're driving along. You're like, oh, that girl looks a bit young, right? Like you're driving along and you and you're like, you should just drive past, but you just have to double check she was young.
01:04:30
Speaker
So you drive past and you turn your head and you're like, ah, yeah, she was like 12. That was not good. Yeah, you just feel like a fucking pedophile, right? Oh, Jesus. You drive around in my white van. Yeah, right.
01:04:46
Speaker
and
01:04:50
Speaker
oh and So that's what's yanking my chain, that algorithm giving me exactly what I want as a warm-blooded mouth. Ah, yep. So the algorithm, yanking your chain. ah Again, yes. Or giving you something to yank your chain.
01:05:08
Speaker
ah oh ah Your choice of whether you choose to or not. So, I love my wife, Kristen. She yanks my chain.
01:05:25
Speaker
ah Why do we what do we need to go check out, Geraint? Well, we need to drink more beer. More craft beer. Support the locals. ah Support you Chris. Support me first. Buy my beer when I release it all. But um actually, no, I'll do the guys at Louisville Pills are solid. Check out this some of their beers like the log is good. Like there's There's nothing absolutely wrong with it at all. And I tried some other beards from them, some of their stronger ones, the Boca, super solid, awesome. ah They have really nice, they actually have a local one that they just do like a, what is it, like a kind of California ale or whatever up there. and And that was actually super good. I don't know why they're not bottling that, they should do that. But loofapills, anything from loofapills, if you see it in a shop anywhere, yeah.
01:06:21
Speaker
Give it a crack, help the little guys. um That'll be awesome. So, just so you know as well, if it's in a large half litre can, it's probably produced at AUS. So, better than anything in a bottle, definitely. that that That's from them, directly from Lofoten with pure Arctic water.
01:06:44
Speaker
So cool. Yeah, do that. Check it out. Little bits. ah This pains me to say this, especially on this podcast. But I think everyone that doesn't watch the Swedish Maker on ah YouTube, who is also part of that podcast, we will not talk about it. I just put him on the boycott list just because of the podcast. I just.
01:07:12
Speaker
But he reached 100,000 subs. It's a big milestone. He's been doing it for years. Subs. Is that what you use? Is that the industry term? Yeah. Yeah. Subscribers. Yeah. Sorry. it Yeah. ah You know, he's been working hard for a lot of years now. He's hit 100K. It's a pretty cool milestone. ah Like, I think we need to celebrate these milestones.
01:07:39
Speaker
I could only dream of the day when my channel hits 100,000K. But, you know. 100,000K? Yeah, 100,000, sorry, yeah Karen. But I could only dream of hitting 100,000 subscribers and, you know, I just want to celebrate the people that are doing the work. you know I think a lot of people have this assumption that YouTube is easy. It is not easy, man. It is hard work. And he works his arse off. He sacrifices time with his family. He sacrifices a lot of different stuff. ah But I also know he loves it. So I just want to say congratulations so to Pierre, the Swedish maker.
Episode Wrap-up and Future Plans
01:08:22
Speaker
ah Go check out his channel. But don't check out the Three Northern Makers podcast.
01:08:27
Speaker
Definitely not, don't do that.
01:08:32
Speaker
Alright, I think that's us for this week. We have a busy week ahead of us this week. Kieran's got shit to do, I've got shit to do, so we will see you next week. I can tell you all about the shit that we did in the previous week. Alright, thanks guys. Bye.