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Week 10 - People are out of control!
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This week Kieran tells us about new beers on the way and Justin experiences the worst of the general public.
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Introduction to Hosts and Their Projects
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This is the Garage Avenger Podcast.
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I'm still digging this intro music, by the way, even though you use it in like 10 of your videos. I don't know what you're talking about, Garen. I do not reuse any of these music interludes.
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um Hello and welcome to the Garage Avenger podcast. I'm Justin and I'm trying to share the joy of building my dumb machines in my garage in a hope of one day making a living out of doing so.
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And I'm Kieran, and I'm trying to turn my garage brewed beers into a world-renowned brewery. Yes, we are twin brothers with a passion for creating the wild and unexpected. And we're taking you on our everyday journeys through what's happening in our garages.
The Art of Brewing: A Kiwi-Aussie Lager Experience
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So Kieran, what's been happening this week? um Where do I start this week?
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ah I'm tapping the hoppy lager. It's tasting pretty, pretty smooth and clean, like a lager should. It's got that nice crispness, but it's also got a really nice hoppy profile to it. So I'm really looking forward to that. Okay, tell us more about this product. so Where was it inspired from? Where did you get it? i Get the idea?
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Previous listeners will know that that i'm I'm a big fan of Garage Project, which is not anything to do with Garage Avenger, ah but Garage Project is a ah brewery out of New Zealand in Wellington. And they produce some pretty groundbreaking kind of beers, actually, they're mixing it up quite a lot. And they did a collab with an Australian brewery and they did what they call like a West Coast Lager New Zealand Pilsner. It doesn't really have its own category yet. Well, though, soon, Karen. Yeah, well, that's kind of part of the reason I thought, well, maybe I just jump on this bandwagon before it takes off. And um yeah, so I brewed a hop forward lager with some New Zealand hops.
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And um the lager side of things, it uses a lager yeast strain. So typically ah ferments a bit slower, but also has a very super clean ah fermentation profile. There's none of this.
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sulphury, you know, diacetyl, if you know the technical terms for these kind of ah byproducts under fermentation, which ales can have, which is really nice for some styles, but not for others. But lagers will be typically very clean. I mean, think of every industrial pilsner you've ever drank, like, you know,
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ah Carlsberg or something of that along that lines and you've basically that's that's what you're looking at for a lager that so clean Neutral kind of yeast profile so that the hops in the molt really shine That's what it is. So um the beer is basically inspired by that a lot of New Zealand hops It's got some hops in there called Montaweka another hop called the racao And I'm probably mispronouncing all of them. Sorry, New Zealanders um And the last one was nectar on, which actually is fast becoming one of my favorite hops. It's got a really, really vibrant aroma profile on it. Lots of like pineapple and a little bit of stone fruit in there as well. So um I really like it as a hop. So that's got loads of that dry hopped like 10 grams per liter. So it's, it's, it's doing a, it's going to be a heavy hitter.
Craft Beer Challenges in Norway
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ah in terms of the aroma and profile of the beer, but I think it's still gonna be easy drinking because it's a like under 5%. I think it landed at like 4.8 or something like that. and um And it's super, hopefully it'll be super smashable, super drinkable and people will really like it. So so when when you drink this beer, is it like um is it like on the nose but not on the taste or is it opposite. Is it like smell like a Pilsner and taste like florally fruity? and It's probably actually on the nose and the taste is still going to be a lot like hoppy forward beers, but it's all to do with the clean finish of the beer. So you get this clean finish on the beer that's like
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very neutral it doesn't leave you with any kind of off taste that can sometimes linger with with ale fermentations. So I think it's it and that kind of It'll have a lower residual sweetness than a typical ale does as well, so it ferments down a bit lower. So it increases that drinkability a bit drier in that sense. If you if you're familiar with the term dry beers, it's not so sweet. And so it will really kind of entice another sip. That's the idea.
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And that's why, I mean, that's why lagers are the way they are, right? They entice the next sip. You know, you have that bitterness there and the little bit of sweetness from the malt and that clean profile and all of a sudden you find yourself going, well, I got to have another sip.
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And that's why they, that's why they're so good. That's why people drink them so much. Awesome. So there. Yeah. So that's, that's a schooling on Lagos for you guys. And other than that, like I got the cryo Jesus labels in the mail ah whilst I was away. And I opened the box. If you follow me on Instagram, you'll see some pictures of small videos of that there. I posted them today.
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And they're looking pretty fucking awesome. I'm really happy with how they've turned out. that The metallic effect on the frozen Jesus head looks so good and I'm excited to see them on a can. It's going to be so awesome. That will be hopefully tapped this week before you and I ah jet off to Australia, Josh. And and so hopefully everything will be in order for that. I've got to go in and taste the beer sometime between today and Wednesday.
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and see it's all up to par and then they'll they'll package it and send it off to my logger and then I have to sell it. So yeah, I'm looking forward to that actually is going to for Norwegian listeners, that beer will be available at the Veen Monopoly. So is that ah is that official? ah Well, that definitely there's there's going to be at least a handful of stores that are going to pick it up.
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I haven't seen which stores yet, so as soon as I know, there'll be some updates on that. Yeah, so it's so kind of you've got it in their system. It's in their system and it's part of what they call the T-Legs Utvaug. So any store that has the capacity to buy extra product in the standard allotment ah has the ability to buy in my beer. So I'm hoping that at least all the beer specialist ah stock stores in Norway should pick it up. And that's
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about 20 stores nationwide plus any others that want to bring it in as well. I just want to say congratulations Karen because that's a big thing. Yeah, everyone over here in the Norwegian is like, pola yeah, also yeah yeah it's not but it is. I mean, like the fact that you have, you know, you have cosmic Christ out there doing the rounds now in selected bars and, and restaurants and, and you can, some shops, you know, is a big thing. And the next one now is possible. It will be available at the wine monopoly as they call it.
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Here um yeah is a big thing, dude. So congratulations. Oh, thanks, bro. Yeah. i'm Looking forward to see how it's received as well. So there'll be kegs as well. So they'll go out to the bars and restaurants as well. um Yeah, it's really like things are going really well. I've got like I even got a ah guy inquiring the other day ah from Tromsø. So I'm going to be sending some beer up to Tromsø.
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Nice enough, like all the way north. That's pretty fucking awesome as far as I'm concerned. So are there any other things that are happening on the the customer side? You know, regards to your product? Things are now things have kind of at least slumped a little bit in the Oslo area because they kind of all would be a buzz like I don't want to have it on tap as the same guy at the same time as another bar. So I kind of have to wait that, uh, wait that out a little bit. Cause as soon as Henry and Sally's is finished, you know, with having it on tap there, then another bar will throw it on and then.
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you know, and they all kind of talk to each other. So there's there's a little bit of that going on. But I think now if I throw cryoges in the mix, then maybe I'll sell out the rest of the kegs for for cosmic as well, do a package deal, sell both kegs. So that will be really cool. So I'm looking forward to that. um And then there's just a slow grind in, in, uh,
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getting new customers, which takes a bit of time sometimes. So, work on that. So, yeah. What's been your approach, though, to get those new customers? Like, I mean, it's ah it's not easy to sell beer. ah yeah It sounds easy on paper, right? Like, oh, how like, gosh, people just buy a beer. But there's there's people have tap lines filled with contracts from other breweries and You know, there's all these regulations with regards to ah who will take it and who can't who can take it actually. Yeah. Well, here in Norway, I can only sell it to someone who has a sales license or a serving license. So I have to be very specific with who I talk to.
00:10:24
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But also the specific with the bars that are interested in my type of product. um So I primarily at the moment now I'm focusing on craft beer bars.
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and seeing where they land. um there's So far, I basically just sent and send bars an email to say, we're a new brewery producing beer. Do you want some? More or less. Paraphrasing. but And surprisingly, so far, I've had a pretty good hit rate.
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And so I think some of them are kind of sitting on the fence to wait and see how how my untapped ratings go. um So I'm kind of, if you've tried the beer and you haven't rated an untapped, please do so. I may have created another account.
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I created, I had an account, but I couldn't log into it. So I had to create a new account so that I could. yeah right so you good And on that side, the feedback has been fantastic.
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um There's been some, there's been some wankers on PAP, I have to say. There's always going to be wankers everywhere. Yeah. But there's, ah there's been some really good feedback. I mean, like,
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Couple emails, too. That's surprising. Like people sending emails like in their own free time, taste the beer and then send me an email to say that they really enjoyed it. Like randos or people? Yeah, randos. Like just people who have like looked up eucharistbrewing.com and then found the contact page and just sent me an email. Wow, that's pretty cool. I think and obviously the well,
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The feedback has been really positive. So i'm looking forward to seeing what what will happen with the next beer release and the one after that and the one after that. So that's exciting. um Yeah, so there's been a bit of untapped madness, to be honest, checking a little bit on that and seeing how it all kind of comes together. And yeah, it's a kind of exciting. no Yeah, that's that's pretty much my week, bro.
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Well, I tried your beer at the Mad Goat on the weekend. The Mad Goat Tap Room. Sorry. The Mad Goat Tap Room. Which is actually owned by Ozzy Guy, didn't you know that? No. Yeah. Owned by Ozzy Guy from, oh, Coringuy.
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kiring guy Oh yeah, yeah, like went to Balgala Heights. No way. Yeah, it's crazy. So yeah, owned by Ozzy Guy called Nate. So shout out to Nate if you're listening. And yeah, so there you go. Mad Goat Taproom, you were there. Do you enjoy? it Do you like the venue? Except for the sofa. The sofa? Yeah, the sofa was so big, you felt like a small child sitting on it.
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You had to like lean forward and you had to put your like hands on your chin, you know, to kind of like lean forward to talk to people. There's a weird, weird set up in that regards. Chris and I were both laughing about it. ah But if you want to lay back and kind of sleep, perfect, you know, especially after quite a few beers. um So yeah, we I think we pulled about maybe 30 beers out of your cake there. Oh, really?
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Yeah, I think total a bunch of us were there ah for this event that I had going on in the weekend. It must have been all like two 20 centiliter pourings because ah but I would have did the cake.
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No, uh, well, I mean, I know that where we, when we were there, um, we had about, we, we ordered, uh, it was about 15 biz and they're all half a liter or four, 400, 400. Yeah. yeah uh glasses and then a bunch of my we we left because we were just absolutely shattered plus I had about four beers so it was enough for me um and then yeah then uh there's some of our other friends went there as well because we told them about it that you should go do that and go
00:14:41
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go to that pub and buy it specifically Cosmic Christ because, so you know, you go to support the people we know. I bumped into some guys at the Scarpa Festival and they obviously recognized me knowing knowing you. ah And and they they they all had good things to say about the beers and that was really great.
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Awesome. e So it is out there, people. You know, please go check it out if you're you know able to, because, you know, I enjoyed it and Kieran appreciates that. so that's a So just a heads up for people, Oslo people. ah There's obviously ah Mad Good Tap Room and Henrik and Sally's that have their own tap, but also Åltválg Stóro has it as well.
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um And then there's Guillotine in Frederikstad that has it. Guillotine in Bergen now has it. um There's a whole bunch of yeah things happening. So, yeah. Get on it. Awesome.
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ah Yeah, anything else to fill us in from your week, Kieran? That's pretty much it. Cool. About you, bro. Oh. Let's get into this one, Karen. Oh, there's some stories i I'm um'm awaiting.
00:16:07
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So, yeah, this week, it's just been mainly a Scarpova Festival preparation. I was saying in the last podcast, I was doing some 3D printing and stuff. The only project stuff I really did this week was to 3D design the wheel adapters that go from three stud go-kart axle to a four stud um cross-cut wheel. So I had to do a couple versions of that. It was really nice to get back into Fusion 360 and start designing things again. I haven't done that for quite a few months.
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And it's really great to use my Bamboo Labs X1 Carbon, because it's such a nice machine to use. Yeah. It's literally like glip, glip, and it's done. And then off it goes. And it's nearly perfect. How long does it take to print something like this adapter? An hour and 10 minutes.
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Actually, that's a lot faster than I thought it would be. Yeah, it's a it's a fast printer. And I mean, the piece is 140 millimeters in diameter. And that was a... um 26 millimeters thick. yeah so It's you know yeah know it's pretty pretty good actually. um and But that was a great thing about 3D designing and then 3D printing, yeah was I could go literally pull it off the thing after an hour and 10 minutes of printing and then go downstairs and check everything fits.
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Yeah. Right. Because, you know, the center hub has like a ring that it needs to fit in. Make sure that that fits nice and snug. The holes line up. And it so happened that I screwed up the one measurement in the first one and then I just went back into Fusion, fixed it, printed it again. Worked great. So um I'm not sure I'll get around to it this week, ah but the plan is to see if I can get a sponsor on board.
00:18:13
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yeah to get those parts machined out of aluminum. o ah So, you know, this is a great process for me to 3D print and design it on the computer here, you know, at home before I go send it off to get machine because, you know, if ah I didn't do that and I screwed it up, I'd be like, no, no, what's happened? So, you know, I'm good. I like you. And this is the crazy thing about like 3D printing, like 20 years ago,
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You wouldn't even dream. You'd have to fucking just trial and error. Yeah, you'd have to make it physically. yeah You'd have to turn it on your lathe and milling machine, you know, to to create this one piece who would take you hours and hours and then you realize the measurements are wrong and you screwed up.
00:18:59
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It was really crazy too. like i I remember hearing about them 3D printing titanium and stuff like that. like the you can like Basically 3D print metal metal pieces is just insane. And apparently like the the tensile strength of it of a 3D printed piece is a lot stronger than standard casting. Yeah, because it's you have to think of it a little bit like plywood, right?
00:19:27
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Cause you can do like, and the great thing about the way metal 3D printers work is you can decide which way the sort of structure is, you know, in this tensile strength is sort of designed into it. Yeah, cool. Whereas like, you know, if you've got the, just the solid bit of steel, you have to shape that form it, you know, and, and, you know,
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It's steel, it's got structure, it's got form that where it has strength and where it doesn't. And then, you know, with 3D printing, you can kind of design around that. Mind you, I'm saying that I have no idea what I'm actually talking about. So probably get someone like Ola, buddy, sending me an email saying like, Justin, you don't actually know what you're talking about. Shut the fuck up. Yeah, you tell him, Ola.
00:20:19
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Yes. ah let's go This weekend though has been the biggest ah weekend for a long time.
3D Design Ventures with Fusion 360
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You know, it's it's a big evolution to bring a bunch of projects to to so anywhere really. I mean, even if I was just taking them locally to so look downtown, you know, for me in Tunsberg,
00:20:42
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It would be the same because we had I had the high road box truck yeah you know with ah like the lift and everything on the back ah so that we could load up all the the projects. We had the sofa beer fridge. We had the knife chair. We had the jet sled.
00:21:02
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We had the hand truck go-kart. I had Emma's soapbox car, the original thing that started it all. Yeah. We had the mini bike, which no one's seen yet, ah specifically in action.
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um I have. ah Join Patreon dot.com. Yeah, well, if you're a patron, you've seen it in action, you've seen the video. So let's use that opportunity just now to say thank you to my patrons. Well, thanks, Justin.
00:21:35
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ah um You guys really are what can make this go around. I mean, it's, yeah, I mean, it's not a lot of money.
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but it helps so much, just every little bit helps. So I appreciate you guys, even if you contribute, you know, 15 croners, which is about a dollar dolera a month, like that's a lot, you know, and and it every little bit counts. So thank you.
00:22:10
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ready print media out there Yeah, a hundred percent, right? It helps me like produce, you know, like I was talking about last week about producing like merch and like things like that. All that stuff stuff happens. And i I even gave out a couple of my keychains to some patrons who met me this weekend. Where's my keychain?
00:22:31
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oh Well, I've got one for you, Kieran. Yeah, and I just specifically said to them, you know, use this, tell me if it's any good. Like, use the crap out of it. I want to know if what if it breaks. What breaks? Let me know, because that will give me market research to see if the product's any good.
00:22:55
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And if it's worth the sending, like spending the time turning into merch, because I don't want to sell something that breaks in five minutes. I want to sell something that'll break in six months to a year because you use the crap out of it. Right. You know, so that's ah that's kind of what I was thinking about when I gave it away to my patrons and, you know,
00:23:18
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I guess that's a benefit you have of being a patron. Six to 12 months before you actually release it as much because you want to test it. Well, I mean, maybe. But, you know, like, maybe not. I mean, maybe they maybe they just say it's so shit that you should not do this. So I know not to do it. yeah I'm going to test the crap out of mine, but doesn't mean that, you know, it's that's the be and end all of my testing. So, yeah, appreciate you guys. Thank you. If you do want to join my patron, please head over to patreon dot.com.
00:23:51
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ah Just search Garage Avenger, you'll find me and every little bit counts. ah Yes, back to Scarpa Festival. Huge evolution.
00:24:03
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ah drove all these projects, got to Scarpa Festival, ah which was held at the Dykeman Bibliothek, which is the national library here in Norway. ah It's a huge building, ah six floors. Yeah, it's massive. And, you know, we got there, the projects were too big to fit through the door.
00:24:28
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So we had to go get the access to the basement and try and maneuver this truck, which, you know, is much bigger than I've ever driven before and not crash into things so that we don't have to pay premium on the, on the insurance for the, the renter truck. a um Got everything in into the library and, uh,
00:24:55
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Yeah, then came Saturday, we had to set up and get everything ready. ah We had a big TV. I made a edit of of videos. It was like a loop ever of 30 minutes of videos. So each video was maybe two, three minutes long. Just gave you a glimpse into what the what the project was, and what the projects, what projects I've done. yeah Yeah. And then it was really nice. I saw a lot of people were sitting and watching it. Ah, yeah. That that was Sunday. Yeah. Sorry, it's not the case on Saturday. Well, I mean, you, yeah, it was a different setup on Sunday, wasn't it? So. Yeah. So. well Do tell. I'm going to preface this by it blows my mind.
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Yeah. Do tell.
00:25:51
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And what blows your mind? just I tell you what also blows blows my mind and yanks my chain. Yeah. The fucking stupidity of the general public cannot be understated.
00:26:10
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Dude. Okay. I'm going to just make this very clear. This is going to turn into a massive rant where I just absolutely destroy the general public. and This is not directed to amazing listeners who came and supported me you know on the weekend because you guys are awesome. But holy, holy shit.
00:26:33
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These, like, i I lost all faith in humanity on Saturday. all right All faith in humanity. We opened, the doors open at 10, but the the festival didn't start to 11.
Festival Chaos: A Tale of Disrespect and Creativity
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And so we're still trying to set up things. And what I didn't realize is that, you know, people come to the library as like, a like a daycare center for their kids. I mean, it is insane. There were little kids everywhere. Now I have no problem with little kids. yeah What I have a problem with is they're stupid
00:27:24
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stupid parents. Yeah. Saying someone who has kids themselves. 100%. Yeah. Right. Because I like to think like, I take responsibility. And if my kid is not respecting someone else's things, then I'll be like, hey, how about you stop that? I'm going to remove you from this, you know, environment so that you don't destroy things. Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:52
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So we had all our projects out. We did not have them behind tape or barriers or anything. And the original idea was that this would be good for kids and adults to be able to like sit in the go-kart and see how it feels, right? Yeah.
00:28:14
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you know i I thought that was great idea. You know, we can, they can stand on the jet spot and we can turn it on and you know, they can see the power of the jets and stuff like that. You know, uh, you know, they can look and touch things like that. It's no problem. a But I didn't realize that when you allow people
00:28:41
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and are not specific with people, they just treat it like it's fucking garbage and they can just do all the fuck they want with it. I had kids sitting in my go-kart, which I've used hundreds of hours making the go-kart and the video for, sitting in there, like lying back in the seat and just kicking the steering wheel, the gear shifter, like the the kid bloody came and just started kicking the oil intercooler.
00:29:18
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and destroying it. Like what of and the fuck? And the parents, they're like fucking zombies. They would just stand there letting their kids destroy someone else's fucking property with zero respect. Zero respect. I just wanted to fucking lose it. What the fuck is wrong with people? Why can't they take why can't they take responsibility for the one teach their kids good boundaries?
00:29:49
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Right. And respect for other people's things. But to also take responsibility for what their kids are doing. Yeah. I mean, I should have put price tags on those things and say you break it, you buy it. Yeah. Right. This fucking go-kart will cost you one million croners. Yep. Because I could have just left it be there and they like the kids could have broken more and more stuff and I would add multiple millions in my bank account because like there were no boundaries. Yeah.
00:30:18
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And the amount, i'm I'm sorry. This is gonna, no, I'm not sorry. People on that Saturday in general were fucking retarded. Like the caliber of people that were there on that Saturday, I don't know whether it was just my stand and I got them all, I don't know. But the caliber of those people was horrifically low. but In what way, explain.
00:30:46
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the They're just, they were just zombies. You know, they, they're mindless zombies. They didn't give a shit about what was actually going on and what their children were doing. You know, I had people, I had the hand truck, right?
00:31:08
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that I use, I bought a specific hand truck from Biltema to display next to the go-kart, just like to show that I had turned this hand truck into the go-kart. Right. Yeah. All of a sudden, I see two men taking my hand truck down the fucking stairs. What are they doing with it?
00:31:34
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I have ran, I had to run after him and I said, what are you doing? And they're like, oh, we're just gonna take it down these stairs. Like, no, does it no, what the fuck are you doing? No, what why are you even touching this? This is part of my display. i did Like honestly, i i I am just dumbfounded at people's stupidity. And I haven't even got to the worst bit yet. Well, I have a bit of an inkling about what the worst bit was, but do tell. So the jet sled was on display. Now, I feel stupid.
00:32:16
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I feel like I was nearly as stupid as these people, right? Because I didn't foresee how stupid they were. Right. So the jet sled is on display.
00:32:32
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Now, if you're a kid, you can switch things on, right? Yeah. And that's what happened. I was gathered, I had a bunch of people talk, trying to talk with me and I was trying to be lovely and nice. And I can hear in the background that beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, which is the motor controllers waiting for a signal from the, from the throttle. Right. And once they give it the signal, it's then live and it can go, you know, full speed, right? Right.
00:33:10
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So I'm thinking, okay, well, that's all right. They won't get that. And then all of a sudden I hear the, see yeah, hear them boot up. Yeah. And I'm thinking, okay, well, these kids have got it going. I look over, they look okay. These kids, they're blasting air. They think it's lots of fun. Right. And I'm thinking, okay, well, that's good. They're having fun. It'll be right. I'll get over there. I'll switch it off. You know, we'll, it'll be okay.
00:33:39
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I'm talking with some people trying to get rid of them whilst trying to slowly move towards the the jet sled. And then all of a sudden, i just as I'm turning towards the jet sled, I hear this, oh and all these bits of plastic just explode out of the engine.
00:34:03
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And there's, there's blade everywhere. To give you context too, these motors spin at 75,000 RPM.
00:34:17
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So it's not actually really safe to be around kids. And I made a mistake to not have full control of yeah of that sled at that moment.
00:34:32
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What I did not foresee is the absolute stupidity of the people that were dealing with that at the time. So at the time there was a kid on the back of it giving it gas a and a father standing in front of it looking at his kid. I ran over to see what had happened. o The right hand engine had in the blades inside the right hand engine had just disintegrated. Right. And there was plastic everywhere. Shit. So I pulled the emergency because I have an emergency like tether on it. Yeah. So he, the other, so the kid couldn't like do anything with it after that. But I looked at the kid and the kid was like,
00:35:24
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me a yeah right But like not not in a retarded like Down syndrome type of thing, but like, ah like, like a type of autism, I would say like, you know, and I don't blame it. Like that's the kid has issues, obviously. But then I start running around, I start picking up all the bits of plastic. And as I'm picking up the bits of plastic, I pick, I just put my hand down and grab this one bit of plastic.
00:35:54
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And there's this like giant pool of blood. And I, and when I say like giant, it wasn't like huge, but it was like probably 20 centimeters in diameter. Yeah. Well, so what happened? Who say no obviously the kid wasn't hurt. Yeah. i'm Yeah. Oh, the kid wasn't hurt. And I was freaking out. I was like, what the fuck is that blood coming from? And I look around and I don't just look up.
00:36:23
Speaker
And I just, I look up because the the bloody drip of blood hits the pool again.
00:36:32
Speaker
And then I see the dad with blood all over his head. e And I go, did you cut yourself? And he said, he said, yeah, yeah, it's all right. And he was like, he was, I don't know if he was in shock probably or assuming it was shock or something, but he just did not seem put together right. I don't know what it was. So anyway, I just grabbed his finger because it was bleeding everywhere.
00:37:05
Speaker
I grabbed his finger with my hand and I like put applied pressure and Kristin came along and said, you need to put your hand up so that you know the blood doesn't go to the end of your finger. So you did that. And then we called the the the library sort of ah management or whatever. They came with like a first aid kit and stuff. and ah fuck It wasn't my job to be patching up someone's like finger at this thing. yeah But how bad was it really? so what had had So what had happened, which is what we found out later, and I keep on replaying this in my head because the dad was leaning over, but I didn't see what was happening exactly.
00:37:51
Speaker
So and though and he dealt he wasn't great in Norwegian either. So that was another factor. There was a lack slight language barrier. And he he said to me, I just wanted to feel it, he said.
00:38:09
Speaker
So what we assume has happened now, and I keep on replaying it in my head, like how, how did this actually happen? Is that he thought it was a good idea to put his finger at the front intake of the turbine. Of a turbine that runs at 75,000 RPM. Well, that was blowing things off shelves 10 meters away. Right. Yeah.
00:38:38
Speaker
That was enough to push a grown adult. yeah Exactly, right? now So it seems like he wanted to feel... Maybe you feel how much it was sucking and then get basically had his finger sucked into the fucking turbine. ah Yeah. and The funny thing is like you need to put your finger in like probably five centimeters to get to hit the blades.
00:39:06
Speaker
Yeah. So he must have put his finger pretty fucking close to that thing to get it sucked in. Yeah. ah So there am I just absolutely fucking dumbfounded. Right. My word is just the stomach. I just, well, I was. I mean, I just couldn't believe it. And then, you know, whilst this is happening, kids are still in my, my projects destroying them. Hmm.
00:39:35
Speaker
Like ripping parts off the pallet go-kart. Oh, not the pallet go-kart, the hand truck go-kart. The air filter just fell off because there was a kid just going, you know, and like in Emma's car, they were just like yanking on the break till nearly fell off. Hmm.
00:39:53
Speaker
and steering full lock and just one let go of the lock. It's kept on pushing as hard as they could on full lock. you know And all the last time I'm trying to patch this guy's freaking finger up and I'm just freaking out a little bit.
00:40:10
Speaker
And I just said to Kristen, I have to go outside. I i have to go outside. You've got this for five minutes. just i So I went down and I just walked outside and just took some massive breaths in the fresh air out there to to just reset. And what I feel a bit stupid about is that we didn't fix the situation.
00:40:36
Speaker
after that. like we I knew everything was going wrong and everything wasn't great. I now have a go-kart that's broken, a ah um ah your jet sled that's broken.
00:40:51
Speaker
and you know what else can bloody break on this thing oh on my projects if I leave it? But I didn't think about that because I was just, I guess I was in shock still yeah about what did actually happened and how how did this happen? like why why Why didn't I think that this could happen in the first place? Why did I think this through? I started beating myself up about it. ah you know and it It really destroyed the Scarpa Festival for me. I honestly, I was, I said to Kristen, I think we need to pack up and go home. I think I'm done. I can't, I can't deal. This is horrible. And you know, the other side of things, is we had this over beer fridge there and you know, we loaded up with cans of soft drink. Yeah. And, you know, we, we said, like, we had a sign saying, you know, like, say this phrase and it'll spit out beer and, or not a beer, but a can of, a can of soft drink, right? And the kids found out about it and they just went bananas.
00:41:56
Speaker
And then like they emptied the thing and then they were like, we want more. Like, like no, how about some fucking with strength? Like, how about you you tell your kids, like there were families that came, right? And with their kids.
00:42:11
Speaker
and two adults, right? yeah They stood there and they got the Burus out and the the kids are like, yay. And that then the thing was empty, right? And then that the asked us, is there any more? And we said, yeah, but we have to fill it up, you know, thinking, oh, maybe they got five kids, you know, and, the you know, so I filled it up. And then they got soft drink for themselves. right What the fuck? I'm sorry. ah Six cans of soft drink. You you like you selfish fucking pricks. like What the fuck? right it's it I'm giving this away for free. yeah I get it.
00:43:00
Speaker
But it's not a, fuck it's like, how about you just think about others, but yourselves, like, Oh my God, then that was Saturday. today So like we closed the library closed at six, but that festival was closed at five officially, but we couldn't let our stuff go. We couldn't not. You have to stand there until everyone leaves. Yeah. Yeah. Cause like people just don't care. Right. So.
00:43:23
Speaker
We missed the whole toast thing that was going on downstairs, you know, and we went to the, to the, the dinner after and, you know, I just had, I had about six beers. I just, I was like traumatized. so I slept like crap on Saturday night. I imagine that i just felt ah felt guilty that like I hadn't seen this. I felt angry that people could be so stupid and disrespectful of my stuff.
00:43:57
Speaker
yeahp ah you know i felt so yeah and There were so so many big feelings. in that but i What I did was I knew we had to be there on Sunday, so I said, all right, well, if we're going to do this, we have to do this another way. So Sunday morning came around and I rejigged everything and I laid all my projects out on ah in a line against a wall.
00:44:24
Speaker
And we managed to get some like one of the, you know, those bollards, you know, the belts that you can extend yeah yeah and put them across, you know, so that people could see like, hey, these things are not for fucking around with, you know, just Please respect the the what I'm showing here. This is more like a museum piece here. yeah And we still had the sofa beer fridge open and operating. It's just we took off the sign.
00:44:58
Speaker
Yeah. Multiple times during the day. And when it was working, we, we put up a sign. What we didn't tell people was we actually had the remote the whole time and they could say what the fuck they want and it wouldn't have done anything. But you know, if we want to give people the chance of like, you know, having a play with it and stuff. So, you know, I had my remote, the remote in my backpack and I just pushed the button when it, you know, when I thought it was enough for them to to get it. So yeah.
00:45:29
Speaker
Sunday, though, was the Redeemer, I would say. Yeah. If we didn't have that nice Sunday, I would have I wouldn't consider going back. Really? If if we only had that Saturday, I would have said to Hans.
00:45:46
Speaker
who, you know, told me, like, invited me to come and kind kind of convinced me to come. So I actually was weirdly against it this year. You know, i would have I probably would have told him, like, fuck off, Hans. Like, I'm not doing that again. That was just horrific.
00:46:03
Speaker
ah But Sunday was a game changer for us. It was so much nicer. We had control. Weirdly, when you put up a tape in front of them, people weirdly respect it. I mean, kids don't, but then their parents actually did something. When the kids went under the tape, they're like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that should go.
00:46:22
Speaker
right um I had the big TV there playing all the the the videos and the steps, there were these like steps there and you could kind of sit on them. They were like those big kind of steps you'd sit on. yeah yeah And I had people just sit there for half an hour or two an hour just watching the videos yeah on the screen. And then they would come and ask me questions. People were quite civilized. and lovely and so that was so nice and I also want to add too like there's there's a bunch of amazing Norwegian makers that I know um and you know they they came in a way a form of supporting me even like just even on the Saturday after all the chaos you know when the event was sort of wrapping up you know they they could have chose to be anywhere but they chose to sit
00:47:18
Speaker
on those stairs next to my projects, you know, and and be there as a sort of meeting point. That was also gave me a little bit of time to like talk with them and and be close to them. Otherwise I was like, you know, a fireman just putting out fires. and So that was super nice. and i You know, I want to give a shout out to Rasmus and Martin and Ulla and Ulla, there's two Ullas. Arna as well. ah He was there, super supportive. um shit I'm going to forget people for sure. ah KJ was there. Glenn was there.
00:48:00
Speaker
and Geez, I'm forgetting someone, I'm sure. But I just want to say thank you to everyone. Pia was there as well. ah Look, i'm go i'm I'm sure I've forgotten somebody, but that was super nice. And the other thing that happened on saturday where on Sunday, I should say, was ah super nice to have Hansi and Martina actually stop in to us. Yeah.
00:48:25
Speaker
in you know, Nerdforge, they're a big channel. They're kind of really desired humans when they go to these type of events and um you know, they stopped in and and chatted with us and, you know, I could share my horror stories with them. And, you know, they were empathetic and and lovely and and appreciated. So, you know, there was an upside and that was mainly like the people, the makers, the making community. Yeah. Yeah. The people that understood the work, right? They understand
00:49:00
Speaker
So I just wanted to shout out to all those people that were there. Really appreciate you guys just showing up and being part of it. And and so, yeah, thank you. Oh, and to Kristen, thank you so much. I don't think I could have done this without you.
00:49:18
Speaker
Because through all the chaos and everything that was going on, ah you were there for me. And I really think that's something that shows a lot ah for what I do is the support I have from my wife, Kristen. She's there for me. And I, you know, at least I said it to you in person, Kristen, but I'm saying it publicly. You're amazing. And I love that you support my work.
00:49:48
Speaker
And I love you. Thank you. um That is my ah rant finished, I think. I mean, I, I mean, I, I get you completely like that. I mean, as someone as a father myself, I personally would never dream of letting my kids do like off the fucking chain with no responsibility. and That's not the way I approach things that are not mine.
00:50:18
Speaker
And so I would never let that my kids do the same thing. And I get I feel your frustration there, bro. Like I feel that, you know, like when people don't respect what other people do, lack of respect ah for other humans, creations, other things that are not theirs. um Yeah, you got to get it into kids young, really, to build that. So, you know, I encourage you if you're a parent,
00:50:48
Speaker
They're probably doing a good job, but yeah, we can always be better. I know I can. Yeah, I mean, my kids too have done things that I'm not proud of and, you know, I've had to live with those consequences. ah You know, there was a certain caliber of people, like I said, there on the spot on the Saturday, it seemed at least anyway. ah It felt like they're the type of people that think if they go to a library,
00:51:16
Speaker
and they're surrounded by books, they'll be smarter. They don't have to read them, you know? a So, you know, but I mean, it was an experience. It was definitely something I can learn from and understand people a lot better. um And, you know, well we learn from these horrible experiences as much as they traumatize us. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, it's funny, you know, it's like the irony of the situation is, as I was thinking about my mind blown this week, bro. And I was like, actually, like the Scarpafest, the creativity there was a bit that blew me away. Yeah. I didn't see any of it. i Didn't see any of it. It was fucked up. I did the I did the rounds and obviously there was a lot of stuff like I mean, I see you I even on the Sunday I see sword a snippet of the chaos that you must have experienced when the kids thought of things and I was just like off like fucking know I imagine this would be a nightmare.
00:52:25
Speaker
You know, and like, I mean, just even like, just the way that like some kids are just so brutal with one another far out, like, you know, I mean, my son was playing with something like, you know, he was the first one there and it was looking at him and just some kid, just random kid just comes, pushes him out of the way and just grabs it off him.
00:52:46
Speaker
Yeah, I heard a story about a kid's like, he just grabbed the 3D printer off the desk and said, I want a 3D print and then it's threw it on the ground and smash smashed the bits. Fucking hell.
00:52:59
Speaker
Like what the fuck is wrong with people? And do you know what happened? The parent just took him away and didn't say sorry or anything. Yeah. I'll be like, I'll be like, where's my, like, I'll send, where do I send the invoice for the fucking new printer? You owe me. Well, the thing, the worst thing about that is he had built it himself. Jesus. You can't sell, send the invoice. you He had spent huge amount of hours. It was a very like crazy, complicated. That was why it was on display. Yeah.
00:53:29
Speaker
Yeah, crazy. Oh, that yeah yeah I get you there. Like it it really challenges your faith in humanity. You know, but this is like the other thing I was talking to, I had ah at a party on Saturday night and um we were talking about this whole thing where kids don't want to get no. They don't want to hear no. They're not used to hearing no. So they have anxiety around hearing no. Yeah. So they so like to so they don't like they don't ask their friends to hang out.
00:53:59
Speaker
Uh, like they don't just go around to their friend's house on the off chance that they're home to play. They need to have confirmation via text message or messages or whatever that they are home and that they do want to play before they'll ever do anything. And if they don't. And why do you think that is Kieran? It's because we do it as adults. Yeah, but we've, we've also, we're also the fruit of our, of, of the previous generation teaching us, you know,
00:54:26
Speaker
to be to be you know coddling, basically. yeah Coddling us to think to sheltering us from life's difficulties. and you know and That's what we end up doing to our own kids and we set them up for failure. We set them up for failure because life is going to smack them in the fucking face and they're going to have to deal with it.
00:54:48
Speaker
Next week on Parenting Podcasts. Sorry, baby. You didn't sign in for Parenting Podcasts. They does yank my chain, though. It does yank my chain. It does yank my chain. I feel for you so bad, just like that you didn't deserve that. So yeah, so I know all the hard work you put into those projects. So yeah.
00:55:13
Speaker
But the other thing too is like, it was really, it was really good. I can swing, swing back to the, like I saw like the outside bit where like the, they had, um, Miketroxle and those that gang had laser cut all these monster pieces outside and the kids could just piece different bits of monster arms and legs and bodies and heads together with like these pins and cardboard pieces. And like,
00:55:41
Speaker
It was so great like Mackenzie my son he jumped in there and he loved it and he got home and he colored the monster with pens and we like we did it together and he was like oh no it needs stickers here and the creativity that he just threw into it like oh no it needs to be colored like this dad and can you help me to do this and like that was just a really really nice moment with my son and I think it wouldn't have been possible without ah the creativity of of those guys, in the group that organized that bit for the kids there. I think that was really, really wonderful. So, and you know, shout out to anyone who was involved in that project. um It was really great. I saw a lot of kids got a lot out of it. So um that was really cool. So actually, actually, my recommendation for this week is Scarpa Festival for next year.
00:56:35
Speaker
and and Because I thought it was really good like and I felt I you know, obviously we have a little one to a one-year-old and he couldn't really handle The place for too long. So we we had to limit the amount of time we were there But I'm sure like my older son Mackenzie you would have loved to be there for a lot longer So I think there's some really valuable things. I think there's some it's really well Like, there's a lot of really interesting things. It's a well curated festival in that sense. And um just to control your kids. Well, mean, a mutual friend of ours, Anders, yeah ah they had their kids there on Saturday. I didn't even see them.
00:57:19
Speaker
Oh, really? And it came back on Sunday as well. They came back on Sunday because the their girls thought it was so much fun. Yeah, I mean, it's a testament to the event, isn't it? So that's my recommendation for this this week to say no.
00:57:34
Speaker
Good, ah I think people should go check out Rideapart, which is a website, because I've got an article on there. Oh yeah, nice. ah But honestly, ah I had no connection with this website. I just saw lost late last week, and the analytics were going like a bit, like I got like 8,000 views from external. Yeah.
00:58:03
Speaker
And I was like, what's going on? And then I looked out, I found it was like from rideapart.com. And I was like, what the hell is that? Is that American based? I don't even know. But it's a motorcycle.
00:58:17
Speaker
website. yeah they There you go. Cool. ah And the guy wrote an article on my video and on me as a person. Yeah. Without even talking to you. so Without even talking to me. It was about the video, basically, yeah ah you know, and the project of the hand truck go-kart.
00:58:36
Speaker
e And it was so nice, dude. I never had any rando journalists write such a nice article about what I do. Just rando articles about how terrible you are.
00:58:51
Speaker
No, yeah, that's so awesome.
Positive Media Spotlight: Rideapart.com Feature
00:58:54
Speaker
Yeah, so i like keiths you don't have to go check out the article, but i like it was really nice to go and read someone else's words about what I'm doing. He encapsulated sort of what I'm doing perfectly. and uh gave me like kudos where kudos was uh perhaps needed for me for me my ego was needed yeah yeah and uh and of course shot me down in other places but like in a way that i didn't feel like he was being a dick about it so you know there's a lack of mankini man in the in the latest feelings nothing like that nothing like that
00:59:36
Speaker
Yep. Hmm. That's awesome. Yeah, that's what I want people to go check out. Go to Rideapart.com. There's an article about the hand truck go-kart on their on their feed. ah And it'd be just, yeah, support them because I i felt really supported by yeah that website. So appreciate that. Nice. Hmm. Yep. Sweet. Anything else ah we can leave our listeners with before we wrap this thing up, Kieran? Hmm, I'm not sure.
01:00:05
Speaker
We're not gonna be talking about Hodor or something.
Future Podcasting Plans Down Under
01:00:11
Speaker
Yep, sorry listeners. No, I mean, there was it's been a good week. We're off to Australia. I guess we're gonna do how are we gonna do the podcast whilst we're away? Are we gonna do the podcast whilst we're away? Yeah, we'll see if we can do it. I reckon we can do it. In the same room. That could be rough.
01:00:33
Speaker
Yeah, we'll see what we can do guys. So if you don't hear our podcast next week, that's because we couldn't work out a solution. But I think we can work it out. So without further ado, we'll leave you guys be and we will see you next week. See you next week.