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week 24 - Flip Flopping
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This week Kieran has been flip flopping like a fish. Whether of not to go all in or play it safe. Justin again has done nothing in the garage and feels like a fraud.
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Introduction to Passions
00:00:01
Speaker
This is the Garage Avenger Podcast.
00:00:11
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Garage Avenger Podcast. I'm Justin, trying to share the joy of building my death machines in my garage in the hope of one day trying to make a living out of it.
00:00:22
Speaker
And I'm Kieran, trying to turn my garage brewed beers into a world renowned brewery. We are twin brothers with a passion for creating the wild and unexpected, taking you on an everyday life through what's happening in our garages. Welcome, everybody. Welcome, Kieran. Welcome, Justin.
00:00:45
Speaker
What's been happening bro?
Challenges in Snowmobile Projects
00:00:47
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and Lots has been happening. um But nothing's have been happening at the same time. As usual. yeah Have your parts arrived yet? Negative Ghost Rider. Negative. oh a Yeah. So I still have a snowmobile that is finished ah but not finished. Missing two parts. Missing two parts. It did snow today so I was like a Come on. But I just, I just looked at the manufacturing process that's in the throes of machining today, which is good. So it's a Monday being machined, which means they're potentially finished today or tomorrow. And then, part and then they'll go through quality control and hopefully they'll be in the post by Friday.
00:01:34
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and I'll get them maybe Monday, Tuesday, next week, which will be amazing. But I'm not holding my breath, to be honest, because things just generally get in the way of, yeah, i'm I'm just not going to hold my breath about those parts. Where are you going to drive this thing, by the way? I don't know, because like, I went to the the racetrack I normally go to, right? Yeah. And there was snow there.
00:02:03
Speaker
But I thought, i don't i need it I feel like I need a bit more space to let it rip. Like, have you thought about like taking it down some like ski trails or something? Yeah, but it's technically illegal, bro. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. So here in Norway, you're not allowed to snow scooter unless you're going to your like cabin.
00:02:29
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right Yeah, but it's not a snow skitter. It's a go-kart. That may be even worse, an unregistered motorized vehicle that can go on go snow and ice. Take it deep into the forest somewhere, it all will be good. Yeah, to be honest, like who's going to really stop here for playing around for an hour or two you know in the forest somewhere?
00:02:55
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um But yeah, I mean, I'm excited to drive it just to see how it is. It's probably gonna be crap, to be honest. But you know, it doesn't matter. Or it might be amazing. Who knows? Either way, I think it's gonna be fun. you So I've been pretty happy that that sort of seems to finally be, you know, moving forward in the project, at least ah the video and everything's just sitting still and waiting for me to, you know, basically get the parts and then film the film the testing of it. e um Talking about videos though, the the sled videos still going well, like are kind of surprised. A lot of people just saying the same comments over and over again. Driving that algorithm. Awesome.
00:03:46
Speaker
what What's the views at now as of? I don't know. I think i think yesterday it was about 90,000, but I'm getting about 2,000 views a day on it. so yeah It's reduced a lot to what it was, but it's... um It's still growing. So yeah, I'm pretty happy with that. And that means finally getting some adsense in as well, which is nice to see. Which means like 1000 views as of current, doesn't it? 91, did you say? Yeah, 91,000. How many comments?
00:04:20
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Eh, hold on, let's see it. 395 comments. Three quarters of them made are me just going, ah, shut the fuck up with your carbide ski bits.
00:04:36
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ah Well, that's a good, that's a good. but Actually making some money. It's good. Well, I wouldn't say making money. Let's be honest. I am covering some costs of the massive amount of money I am pouring into these projects. Not going completely into minus. No, I'm going completely into minus still, Karen. Don't get me wrong here. ah But I am slightly in minus now on some, on, for example, this recent project.
00:05:09
Speaker
Mmm. Yeah. Supposed to draw all the other projects combined. Yeah. Well, did I talk to you about the numbers? I don't think I talked to you about the numbers. No. No, tell me. So I did the maths and I'm going to be open and honest on this podcast. The seven listeners will be shocked.
Financial Struggles and Joy in Projects
00:05:30
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They will be shocked at the amount of money I've spent. So right. I spent last year on my projects. Brace yourself.
00:05:47
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Yeah. And I made 46,000 croners.
00:05:57
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Yeah. So I'm a little bit still in the minus. A little bit. A little bit. A hundred grand in the minus on this YouTube channel. I'm going to get some big sponsors soon. Otherwise, I'm never going to be able to keep this up. Yeah, you know, but you know what? Like, what is 150,000? Really? I mean, like for some people, that's a buttload of money. For me, it's a buttload of money, Karen. Come on.
00:06:25
Speaker
Yeah, but I mean, money is money. It's just an exchange medium for for joy. And have you got joy? Well, that's true. I do. Yeah, you know i exactly. To be honest, like this week.
00:06:39
Speaker
I've been starting to build on the WRC car, right? and Last week I told you guys that I'd like finally cut it and stretched it. And then I had to find a way to like stiffen it all up, basically, because I've stretched it so much, it's going to basically and be not as strong. It's going to bend in the middle. so i um I ended up buying a bunch of flat bar and I welded it sort of on its edge underneath and I bent it to follow the frame in some places and and kind of stiffened it up that way. And then I proceeded to spend four days humming and oring how I was going to put the seat in.
00:07:19
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because I just didn't like it. I was just like, ah, this doesn't feel right. So I went to see a friend of mine and he had an old like carbon fiber seat from his rally car. And so I said, can I could i borrow this and potentially buy it? He said, sure. So I went, I borrowed it, I took it to the workshop and I sat it in the frame and I sort of propped it up with a bunch of wood and stuff like that.
00:07:46
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and sat in it and it was horrifically bad. Like super comfy to sit in, but I would have to change so much stuff to get that seat to work. I would have to extend the foot pedals. I'd have to change the complete steering position. Way overcomplicate things just because the carbon fiber seat felt comfy to sit in. Sounds like the garage Avenger way.
00:08:15
Speaker
Well, you'd be proud of me, Karen, because I decided, no, I'm not going to get this expensive carbon fiber seat. No, I'm going to stick back to the to the go-kart seat that came with the go-kart. I'm going to modify it and make it work.
00:08:36
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Oh, good. Keep it simple. but But I mean, I needed to see that I needed to have the big seat in there to be able to like, get rid of that idea and yeah, think that it was a bad idea. um So yeah, and it turns out if I just put a bit of foam in the seat, it felt it felt so much better to sit in.
00:08:57
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and more supportive. So that's where I've been at the moment. I've managed to weld all the mounts of the seat in place now. So everything's mounted up, feels comfy. I don't remember if I told you guys last week, I bought a bunch of stuff on AliExpress. That's nothing new.
00:09:19
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I bought like a universal joint and a a steering wheel quick couple. I've seen that they have just landed in the country, so that's good.
00:09:30
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um So hopefully they'll be with me next week. And that means I can start working on the steering and a bunch of other stuff. What I do have to do this week, though, is work on the cross bracing. So if you think about the go kart chassis like a bit of paper, Kieran, right? I've stiffened it up so it doesn't bend lengthwise like this, right? Justin is currently holding a piece of paper and bending it in half.
00:10:01
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But if I twist it, it still twists, right? Even though it's keeping straight in the longitudinal value or what do you want to say? yeah So basically what I have to put in is cross bracing or triangles, just say like that, so that when it twists, it pushes against the other why so this stiffens the frame up in all directions yeah so but Yeah, so it's not going to stiffen it completely, but it's going to hopefully stiffen it enough that, you know, i I don't have to worry about turning and it just goes straight into a wall.
00:10:42
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So, yeah, I've also been hailing a lot of a ah fine paint particles. which Inhaling? Yeah, which is not good. I've been grinding off all the paint from the go-kart chassis, yeah you know, to start welding and stuff. But there's something about this paint that's very different to other paints I've sort of ground off, I guess. And it's just, it's super static and sticky. So, like, it's on everything in my garage now. And I haven't really ground that much off, really. ah It's my camera's got like this light dusting of yellow paint on it. Like, my camera's
00:11:28
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you know, up on his tripod, away from everything, yet somehow ah it's covered in yellow dust. ah So I think to be honest, if I'm gonna have to, like, I probably will strip the whole frame down from with paint, you know, and I'm probably gonna, yeah, take it outside.
00:11:51
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So hopefully by the time I get to that process, there's some sort of warmish weather. and So I don't freeze my eyes off when I'm doing that, but we'll see. We'll see. At least some plus degrees would be nice. That would be great. Yeah. Yeah. We can't wait. We can't wait. Like Mackenzie keeps asking nearly every week, like, how long until summer? I'm just like, another four months, maybe?
00:12:18
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How long is four months, Ted? Like, all right. Yeah. So, yeah. ah Well, I mean, that's kind of exciting, though. Like, I mean, how's it feel to kind of really getting your teeth stuck into that project now,
Rally Car Modifications
00:12:33
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though? It feels like it's been a long time coming. But then I still feel very underprepared because the way I operate is I don't design. We've talked about this before. You know, I don't design things finished and then built. I design on the fly because especially when you got like a pre pre-existing pre-existing chassis like the go-kart right there are things you won't expect in the design if you sit down and just design it on paper first is it doesn't always work out like that for example I talk about the seating position I couldn't put the cross bracing in until I know where the seat is and sits
00:13:16
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Because then I put the cross bracing in and realized, oh, wait a second, the seats in the way. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, I feel like this project is such a big project. I'd said to you on the podcast that my goal is to get it to Raleigh, Finland, e which, you know, do you think you'll make it? I don't know. I think it really depends on, to be honest, the 3D printing.
00:13:44
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Because I think I can get this car working in operational, as in the chassis, within a month or so. Okay, that's exciting. Because the way I see it is once I've cross braced it and done the steering wheel, what else have I got to do? Everything works. Just want to build the frame to hold the shell.
00:14:13
Speaker
Yeah, but that all slots into their original a little parts that go into the um side of the go-kart for where they had the fenders, right? Yeah, OK. So they i mean they already exist. Isn't there going to be and some form of framework over the over the actual car that the panels connect to? ah No. Really? Yeah. It's going to be like a single shell with just like plastic thing to drop over the top. Yeah.
00:14:43
Speaker
It's going to be strong as hell, Karen. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we're printing, well, for example, the B pillars and things like that, that we're printing with a 1.4 millimeter nozzle. So anyone that knows anything about 3D printing, that's like, that's huge. That's a lot of plastic you're laying down in one layer. So And then we on top of that, so the walls will be thick of the 3D print. And then ah the thickness of the print will also be fairly thick as well, like up 30 to 50 mils, depending on where it is in the in the position of the body, right? So if anyone knows what 3D printing's like, it's very hard to break something.
00:15:35
Speaker
with a 50 mil thickness of plastic, you know, it's it's pretty strong. So basically what I'm going to do is just use the pre-existing mounts for the fenders and stuff like that on the go-cut and just bolt some and like a square tube, which we've designed into the side of the, or the inside of the 3D print.
00:16:00
Speaker
Yeah, right. So the square tube bolts into or fixes itself inside the 3D print. And then that just slides onto the part. Now, i'm I'm assuming this thing is not going to have working doors. Yeah. So how are you going to get in and out of it? Yeah. So we're going to do a roof entry. So the whole entire roof comes off.
00:16:23
Speaker
I haven't decided whether I'm going to do like gas lifts, you know, like like a car boot. Yeah. if or ah yeah so Or something like that where it just so lifts up and, you know, it's easy to lift because it's got to be quite ah heavy, like more than you think. I think we've, like Thomas said to me, it's probably about 50, we're going to use about 50 kilos of plastic. So it's a lot. Yeah. um So that means the roof is probably going to be easy, like 15 kilos or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. And I have another question for you, Justin. Are you going to paint it like an actual rally cup? Like with the like logo stickers and all that jazz? It's got to look identical.
00:17:14
Speaker
Where are you going to get all the stickers and stuff from? We're going to make them. That's fun. I like it. So to be honest, I mean, I i have it in the 3D model, right? That already exists. Like we bought the 3D model, right? There's all the stickers and everything there. We could just cut and paste those stickers.
00:17:37
Speaker
So you basically what you would do is you get the 3D model, you trace out the sticker on the side of the car, and then you sort of export it into a like a flat sticker maker, basically. yeah um We could just do that. But to be honest, I want it to look like the newer model. Because they're nearly identical. The rear wing's slightly different. But the rear the new model looks way better. It's black.
00:18:06
Speaker
And it's got like this big GR down the side. Uh, yeah, it it looks super good. So, and then that would be really cool to have like, to be able to take it to Finland yeah and then park it next to like a real rally car, like a 2025 model and park it right next to it. And then take that thumbnail. Like how cool would that be? Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:32
Speaker
wait So that it's a big process. Like I think that's the biggest thing. And I'm, I feel a little bit bad because Thomas is going to have to do a lot of this stuff and he's not getting to paid. I will pay him if the video does really well. ah guy yeah i I feel like he's putting so much work into this. ah He deserves to be paid something if I'm benefiting from this video. So.
00:19:03
Speaker
i will I will make sure he's compensated if the video does well. But yeah, so much detail, even like the hubcaps we have to design to look exactly like the the actual alloy wheels that because I've got, you know, I would love to say that I've got the money to actually machine like new wheels from like that look identical in the right size, but that. Hello PCB way sponsor. It's going to machine these wheels for me. I'm sure they probably, I'm sure they would fucking love that. They probably could do it. Give it a fucking crack. But it would be so expensive, dude. I'm not sure they'd go for it. Yeah. A few adapters and things are probably a cheap, cheap sponsorship deal. Yeah, especially with me and my lack of videos. I've technically taken two sponsorships from them. I haven't produced one video yet from them. Well, yeah released I've produced but haven't released yet. Maybe you're maybe this ah snowmobile video will go fucking gangbusters and then you'd be like, come on, that video got 3 million hits. Give me some wheels.
00:20:20
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To be honest, you probably find someone that actually specializes in making wheels because wheels are a funny thing because you can't just make wheels. No. You can't just machine them. It's not how it works. They need to be strong in certain areas and you need they need to be designed and made properly. So, yeah. It's really good in hubcaps it is.
00:20:42
Speaker
I think that's a good solution for what we're doing, right? it's yeah it's there's no There's no dicking around about this thing, you know, like it's a toy. That's what it is. So why do we really need like solid? I mean, we do need, but every man wants the real deal. But for for this project, I think 3D printing will be here. Yeah, it will suffice.
00:21:08
Speaker
Yeah, cool.
Brewing Challenges
00:21:10
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Nice. What about you, Kieran? What has been happening with you, mate? Well, there's been a lot going on in many ways. On the brewing front, and I packaged the anointing citra earlier this week and let it rest for a little bit. and like Often they they're a little bit too hoppy.
00:21:33
Speaker
Yeah, a little like kind of afterburn-y kind of ah hot burn is what they call it um on the on the flavor profile, because it's almost like it's got chili in it because it's got so much hot oil in still in solution. and It's very raw that it feels like it burns the back of your throat a little bit. Yeah, right. So I wait waited a little little while. I cracked the can on the weekend just to to give it a burl and see what I thought.
00:22:02
Speaker
And like, I fucked up. I got, I what happened jar ah got to myopic. What's myopic mean? I don't even know what that word means. Singular focused on one thing and my thing was like big body. Right, right. I just wanted this big, fat, thick, juicy, sweet type of beer. You can have sweet and then you can have deathly sweet. And it shifts over into the deathly sweet category. Like yeah to balance that sweetness out, I'd need so much bitterness that it would just be like, it's not even worth it.
00:22:45
Speaker
And so I just realized, like, I just got to myopic with the way I was brewing. I was just focused on one thing instead of the whole package of drinkability. Because without, when it's that sweet, it's like, it took me 45 minutes to finish the glass. And it's like, and it shouldn't, it should be like a smash. i should like In some sense.
00:23:08
Speaker
Should be so enjoyable that you just want one sip after the next, after the next, after the next, and then all of a sudden the glass is empty in five and a half minutes, and you're like, fuck, that was an 8% beer, I'm fucked. You that's that's what you want. ah Like you want that desire, like that, oh, it's so good, I just need to keep, and this was just, it tasted like the hot profile was there, but it was hidden behind all this kind of sugary, malty flavor.
00:23:38
Speaker
and it just ruined it. And I just, I just so frustrated with myself that it um man ah go like I got like, got like 40 cans of this beer in the in the garage now. Just like, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna find someone to give these away to. You might like these. Cause I'm like, I'll drink a couple and that'll be it. Like I'm not, I'm just not satisfied.
00:24:01
Speaker
And to give you an idea, like i I also bought a beer from Northern Monk, which is a brewery out of I think, man, Leeds, I think they're from in the UK. And they had this beer called Vortex, which they're kind of known for. It's like a really high rated beer on Untapped. So I was like, I gotta give this a whirl. And like, was it my favorite beer ever in the world? No, but Fuck me, they got some good things right on that beer. It was so complex in its flavor, but also so smashable. Like, I had no problem finishing that glass in 10 minutes.
00:24:43
Speaker
So it was just like the balance and I realized like the balance and actually one nice thing about that particular series of beers they have like um it's called the patrons project and they have Brewers notes on the inside. It's it's got this weird fold out label that like comes out off the can.
00:25:00
Speaker
and ah and it has brewer's notes inside. So I like, you know, studying these brewer's notes in there and just going, OK, what's he done? What's he done? How's he done this? I just realized, like, his finishing gravity is so much lower than mine. Of course, of course, that's just so much better for drinkability. And so I just realized that to rewrite all those anointing recipes and change it up to make it more approachable.
00:25:28
Speaker
So I have to say I'm disappointed because you were you were like this, you know, it's cittro they youre so delicious. So good. Like and now you're saying I screwed up. i Well, this is like the thing about home brewing. It's a journey because you taste it from the tap and you taste it like in this tiny amount. You're right. And you're just getting this very small little flavor hit from it because you're not drinking a half liter from the tank as a test. You're drinking like, you know, 10 milliliters or something. And so it's like, you get the flavor, but you don't get the full drinking experience and neither can you until it's fully carbonated and all those things. So it's one of those things where like, there's, I mean, so many
00:26:21
Speaker
Brewers I've talked to are just like, you can't do anything with the beer. You can't make any choices on what you're going to do with it and how you're going to change it until you have the finished product in a glass. That makes sense. Because there's no, there's so much variable that happens that even in the microscopic level of what the yeast is doing until it's finished fermenting. And then once you add carbon dioxide, you know, the carbonation to the beer, that changes things as well. And then there's all sorts of things like temperature and time and things that influence the flavor, final flavor perception. So like lessons learned egg on my face on that one. Um, I just felt like it was a bit of a, like I had a bit of crisis of faith if I'm honest around that. Like I was just like, what am I doing? I what i would call myself a pro, you know, like,
00:27:19
Speaker
But they you just have to acknowledge that that's what you did. I like I got too focused on one thing. Yeah, it's a learning experience through. Yeah, exactly. Right. So yeah, so I'm trying to just now recognizing that there's that that factor, especially when you go up in AVB, like yeah if it was a 6% beer finishing at that kind of gravity, you probably wouldn't be feel so bad because it would feel thinner and not as sweet. But because it's come up to like 8%, you have just naturally a residual sweetness that is produced by so much malt. And the other side of it too is as I fermented too hot. So it's really quite boozy as well. And so I just didn't enjoy the full package to to to finish.
00:28:09
Speaker
So lessons learned. um And so now I'm on to kettle salads. I'll re-brew the anointing sometime in the next few weeks. At least you got 40 cans for some alcoholics to drink. yeah Well, you know, it seems to be the lack of alcohol. goal Everyone's doing dry January. I'm like, hey, come get some beer. And everyone's like, meh.
00:28:30
Speaker
it's It's February now, bro. Oh, yeah. Game on. Yeah, let's go, people. Damn, Karen, for boozy, sweet beers. Honestly, like if you're happy to pay the packaging, like if you live in Norway and you're happy to pay for pay for postage, like i'll send them to you, there's no problems. So yeah, so that was cool. But then I did kettle sours this week. I did this kettle sour beer, which is going to be the base for the um it's actually going to be a
00:29:06
Speaker
basil and lemon sour. And it's it's, I think the beer so far is is turning out good. It's still fermenting. A bit little bit slow start to ferment when you have kettle sour. Now to explain that for those who probably, I told a little bit ah about it last week, but basically you you make you do your normal mashing where you soak the grain and it extracts the sugars from the grain and then you basically add like a lactobacillus ah strain, i.e. Biola is what I was using, like a yogurt. And I just add like a half liter of yogurt in there. ah And then you sit it at like 35 to 40 degrees and and let it sour overnight. And all those sugars get turned into like sour lactic acid.
00:30:04
Speaker
And so I basically did that. um But fuck, it took so long. Oh, man. Like, okay, it was easily 12 hours to get the pH down to 3.5 for which is what I wanted. And and that was one thing. But what I didn't take into account is how long it takes for my machine to come up to boil from 35 degrees. Fucking hell, it took forever. It took like an hour and a half just to come up to boil. So like full speed, so like with the strum piece, with the energy process the way they are at the moment, but my meters is going... And I'm like, fuck, this is gonna be expensive beer.
00:30:55
Speaker
and it so So... had to boil it. Then then of course I measured the gravity and it was ah it was lower than I wanted as well and and so as a result I had to like boil for a bit longer. So there's another half hour for boiling.
00:31:12
Speaker
And it just took the whole day. Like I imagined, like the way I thought about it, it was that mash. um I basically put the kids to bed, went out to the brewery, did the mashing, added me a biola, locked it all up, walked away, went to bed, came back, you know, in the morning and delivered the kids to Barnage and did all that, and then came back into the into the shed and checked the pH. And it was like,
00:31:40
Speaker
3.8. I'm like, fucks sake, it's still not good ah still not sour enough. So I had to wait like ah another like three hours before the pH dropped enough to where I wanted it to and then eventually could start the rest of the process.
00:31:59
Speaker
Welcome to the world of creating things for yourself, Kieran. Yeah. Things take time. Geez. So it was like, it was one of those things that I just say, oh, fuck this. ah did This is taking so long. I imagine it would just be like, oh, just, you know, come back into the brewery, set up the boil, you know, add my hops and then boil and cool and then into the fermenter and I'll be finished in under and two hours.
00:32:25
Speaker
That's like saying, that's like saying I'll finish my WRC car in like a week. I just got to weld this on, do that and then pop that on and then I'll be driving no time. Well, I mean, you know, one can be kind of romantic with these ideas of how long things actually take. So, yeah, so that was it's been a f a week of hard knocks in that sense.
00:32:52
Speaker
learning curbs and just realizing that, you know, as much as we, you think, you know, what you're doing, there's moments where you realize like, I still got so much to learn. Oh, that's every day for me. And I realized like, what are you, I can't believe you're on YouTube showing people to how to build stuff, Justin. like You have no idea what you're doing.
00:33:14
Speaker
yeah So the other thing too, is ah Pierre finally got some of my beers. And he drank them on the podcast. Did he? I haven't listened. Well, I drank one. And one was enough to do him in.
00:33:29
Speaker
um So don't, whatever you guys do, don't listen to the Three Northern Makers podcast, episode 730. No, 173. No, two, I think it was 172. And seventy two and ah anyway, so apparently,
00:33:50
Speaker
yeah I can't hold his boots. So listen at your own dislike.
00:33:57
Speaker
At your own risk. ah Hearing Pierre Sloe is bad English. He's got very good English actually. to He does actually. Other than that, like ah this is there's a big thing and that we we don't really talk about on this podcast that I think maybe we should dive into.
Balancing Passions and Finances
00:34:20
Speaker
And that's like the balance between living the dream and reality. um This week, like I applied for some jobs, like full time normal jobs, because as much as I love the idea that I can do all this stuff, ah you know, for and live off it, ah the reality is it's just not at that stage yet.
00:34:46
Speaker
And and there's a comes there will come a point where I have to have a full-time job, but i whether that's for my own company or whether that's for someone else. So I had a little moment of crisis of faith, like you talked about earlier, and um I applied for some jobs. Well, I mean, one thing too, right? For years, people think that I'm doing this full-time.
00:35:16
Speaker
Yeah. Right? For years, people think that I'm full time doing YouTube or like building things and like servicing clients. but so I've had countless amount of people just contact me saying, can you build this for me? Like,
00:35:34
Speaker
ah No, I don't have the time. I've got a day job to go to and i'm trying I'm struggling to get my own projects out. But I think the illusion is through social media and and YouTube and all that other stuff is that like, you're all youre you people don't have the time to do the stuff that I do. So then I must be doing it full time. Yeah, right. Okay. Admittedly, I do it a lot more than, you know, like I don't have a,
00:36:04
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nine to five, five days a week type of job. But, you know, I have to fit it in, in between the shifts that I do have so that I can make this thing work. And I prioritize it, right? It's incredibly hard. And I also doubt sometimes how this is going to work out, you know, like sometimes you have a video released and it gets like a thousand views and you're like,
00:36:32
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The last one got 12,000, you know, and, you know, it's really hard. Hmm. Hmm. So, yeah. So, like, I applied for a job, a brewery job. Yeah. ah One that I'm more than qualified to do. Hmm. So I actually hope but to hear back from them. um And like, that's a that's that's kind of an exciting job.
00:37:01
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and But like I said, it's a challenge when you've got this other project that you're really passionate about and you really want to see it to fruition. And there's that demand of real life that comes knocking at your door and says, like, you got to buy your bills, you know. Yeah, you used 3,000 kronas heating up a kettle sour. Yeah, right. So, you know, there's and all those those things just kind of like get really messy.
00:37:37
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when you're when you're trying to but find the balance. Like you can, I can be honest here, like I flip-flopped like a fucking fish on this stuff all the time. Like, and I think that's healthy to acknowledge.
00:37:52
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that that's where you're at. Like to say like i I'm 100% in and then suddenly 100% out. Like there's there's the challenge of this fear that like it's all gonna go tits up and you're gonna be left with egg on your face and you lose the house and you you know The kids hate you and the the wife leaves you and all this stuff like, you know, this kind of these fears that we can have built up inside us about pursuing our dreams and our passions to whatever means you want to. Like, I mean, it doesn't have to be a job. This is the thing. But it can be something that will require time and sacrifice to take, you know, time away from
00:38:43
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your family. Like I have a friend of mine and he's a musician. And, you know, he, you know, and the reality is he knows that any musical project he endeavors in is not going to be a profitable project, but he loves it. And so he has, he wants to do it so badly and that he has to, his wife has to understand the sacrifices that, you know, both he and her have to make in order for him to fulfill his dream. And, and those, those kind of like reality things, like, we don't talk about that much, because it's all about like, oh, fuck, I'm doing that. No, I'm the best. Look at me on Instagram, you know, and none of the journey that's got you there. All the support behind you, right? so Yeah, exactly. Right. I mean, I couldn't do anything like I do now without the support of Kristen.
00:39:41
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So, you know, this week she came to me and she said something along the lines of like, we're doing this, you know, look, you're making this happen. And it's like, she's so excited for me. She's my biggest cheerleader. And I can imagine if you don't have that person by your side, it's incredibly difficult. And that's like the the challenge too, is is that, you know, like not every wife or partner you know, girlfriend, friends even. A lot of naysayers out there, a lot of people are just down on you like, oh, are you sure you want to take that risk? Is it profitable? What are you doing? You know, this kind of like stuff all the time and people don't want it. but It's almost like they want you to be successful, but they also
00:40:33
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they can't see how it possibly could. And that's hard when you have people around you like that all the time. How do you ever expect yourself to get forward, like, move forward with your dream when people are everywhere are telling you it's it's useless? Well, I mean, they they also, they're not the people that take risks. No, that's the thing too. If someone that was taking risks uh you know said hey like this is not going to work you take it more with more weight but the truth is if you're not surrounded by people like that you take what you get right so unfortunately if you've got friends and family that don't believe in what you're doing then you end up listening to them whether you like it or not
00:41:19
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And it makes it incredibly
Importance of Supportive Networks
00:41:21
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difficult. I remember when I went to the beer festival with you in Oslo and we went and had a beer with the owner of Crowbar. yeah yeah And he sort of asked me like, Oh, what are you doing? Like, oh what's this YouTube thing you talked about? And so I've sort of explained ah what I was doing. And he just like, it was funny because his word,
00:41:48
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landed a lot heavier on me. He basically said, oh, so you're just unemployed. All right. and And so he's a serial um entrepreneur. He's got, I don't know how many restaurants and and bars. He's doing well for himself. And then for him not to see what I was trying to achieve was actually a bit of a setback. But then the next day when I was thinking about it, I was like, he say he's not doing anything like I'm doing. So how he doesn't have any reference. for So he doesn't understand.
00:42:24
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If Pierre, the Swedish maker, was telling me, like, give up, that you're ah you're basically a bum, I would tell Pierre to fuck off. No, I wouldn't. I love you, Pierre. I would take his word seriously because I could see that he's already doing what I want to do. yeah And that has a lot more weight.
00:42:54
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And you need those people around you to make that happen. Yeah. yeah So and i think I think it's also important to have people around you who are maybe doing the same kind of thing as you. Like if you're going to if you're going to listen to that voice of like someone in that particular industry or trend or whatever you're pursuing, that that that voice that's speaking to you is not one that's threatened by you. Right. 100%. Because i like, here's the thing, YouTube's a massive market. It's flooded, but it's massive. Yeah. ah At the same time, there's only 1% of users that actually produce content.
00:43:37
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And out of that 1%, it's like 0.3%, I think, percent that actually produce content on a regular basis. Yeah. So actually out of the... Was it like 3 billion? What is that? I don't know. Yeah, it's pretty high. So like 3 billion active users.
00:44:01
Speaker
or something like that. And then of those 3 billion active users, only 1%. So was it 300,000? No, hold on. 3 million? That'll be 1%. Yeah. Yeah. 3 million, 3 million people people worldwide create content. And of that 3 million people, only 300,000 produce content regularly.
00:44:31
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Yeah, well, more than that. but um Was it 0.1 of a percent? No, 0.3, I think it was. okay anyway Anyway, but still, let's say half a million, for example. Half a million people worldwide for an like ah audience of 3 billion. When I say on a regular basis, it's like once a month, right?
00:44:53
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yeah or more than once a month. So, you know, it's incredibly, when you look at it like that, it's not so scary. No. Garage Avenger is one of the elite of the elite. Well, not quite, because you don't even release a video show every month. Shut the front door, Kieran.
00:45:12
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ah oh
00:45:16
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But I think the flip-flopping of like trying Things like I flip flop for a long time. Hmm. And then I just decided, you know what? No, you can't flip flop because that's how you're going to fail. Yeah, because no one ever says, you know, ah you know what, I flip flop. I was in and I was out, I was in, I was out. And then I just succeeded. No, it's right. Everyone that succeeded at whatever they decided to do was all in.
00:45:45
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Right. They didn't do a half-assed attempt where they... That's probably why I'm not successful, to be honest. I've got my day job. I didn't get rid of that day job. is ah Unfortunately, it's not quite happening yet. you ah But, you know, like, again, we talked about it in the last couple of weeks, too. I see the trend going the right direction now. yeah And this is a process, too. Like, you are in the position you are right now.
00:46:15
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Yeah, right. This is where you get to make decisions. You go through life, able to make decisions for yourself and see the consequences. So if you flip flop to the negative side and you decide to take a day job, there's information you're getting from doing that, right? So you go decide, you you go take a job, for example, driving you know deliveries around, right? ah You apply for that job, you end up getting it. You drive around, and then as you drive around in the first week, you're like, this sucks, right? yeah and you And you got information, right? Like, this was silly. This is a silly decision I made here.
00:47:04
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But the ego will push you to stay in that job. Yeah. and brush and spirit yeah Like say, Oh, but you gotta stay here because you've got a steady income and blah, blah, blah. Right. And I get it. But if you just went a little bit more focused on what you're really passionate about, you detract the people that will make it work. I mean, it doesn't happen overnight. I'm an example of that. But for example, if you decide to do that delivery job, you decide to do it for two days a week or three days a week rather than five days a week.
00:47:44
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Hmm.
Materialism vs True Desires
00:47:45
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And choose to take a pay cut so that you can make this thing work. Well, because this is like the other thing, too, because we get so focused on the material shit. Hmm. Right. Like the reality is, OK, like cost of living is high at the moment, you know, worldwide. and Norway is no exception. And, you know, you can start looking at all the bills coming, cost of everything going up.
00:48:11
Speaker
and think, okay, well, I've got to be earning this amount of money, but like did you really need to buy that new Tesla? you know did you read like What was wrong with running the car you had into the ground? you know How much more was that gonna cost you really?
00:48:29
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and And things like that, like making smart choices for what you spend your money on can then give you the freedom to pursue what you actually want to do, what you actually desire.
00:48:43
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Well, if you think about like I was talking about spending 150 grand on the projects, right? ah If I had a new car, I probably would have spent that in a year on a new car. Yeah, right. In loan repayments, right? But that's what I'm saying. It's not that much money. That's why I said it's not that much money because when in the scheme of things, when people go and buy like, oh, I need a new, ah the new iPhone,
00:49:08
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Like, what was wrong? What's wrong with your current phone? Is it broken? No. Oh, but I want the new one. Like, for what reason? It's just consumerist like materialism gone mad. But it makes them feel good. In them for 30 seconds. Right. Then they realize they spent all that money. Yeah, they realize. But then then that becomes the the money thing becomes the prison that that they don't allow themselves to dream of something that they truly desire.
00:49:38
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And there's plenty of people that are quite happy in that. And that's also something I've learned too, right? There's people that just love doing the job, doing there, and there's nothing wrong with that. Nothing. But there are a lot of people out there too that are just so disgruntled to actually what they're doing. And they won't allow themselves to go explore and try something a little different because it's yeah risky. And then maybe they have to sell the Tesla.
00:50:07
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to make that happen. Yeah, right. And that would mean that there are a failure in the eyes of someone. But and then here's a kicker. And I've said this to you many times, Kieran, but to our listeners, no one cares. No one really gives a shit. No, honestly, it's the best thing ever. No one actually cares. No one actually cares that Garage Avenger is successful.
00:50:32
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No one actually cares if you Chris brewing is successful. No, no one cares. But this rather than a negative is a superpower because it means you've got the freedom to do whatever you want without judgment because people are so obsessed with their own shit. They may say the reason why I'm making a basil sour instead of a fucking regular normal boring one. Right. Yeah.
00:51:00
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ah People might be, you know, disappointed, right? They might, you might seem disappointed, right? They'll come to you like, oh, what happened to your Garage Avenger thing? Like, why, what happened? I don't see any more videos. And you're like, ah, well, it didn't work out, you know? But then. Then they go on their merry way and they don't even. That's it. That's the done. Yeah. Okay. Oh, but. They don't sit there and think about it.
00:51:29
Speaker
cry themselves to sleep. Why in the current adventure, why don't you give up? Yeah, I mean, I had a friend ah that contacted me. after I released the i'm I'm done video, where I said I'm talking about like, changing my format and everything. And he clearly didn't even watch the video. But ah okay, because so then he called me and he said, like, ah you know, you get why why you giving up you're so good at this stuff. um yeah I'm actually not. But you know, you should have watched the video. um And then he sort of
00:52:06
Speaker
then said, Oh, I'm going to help you with all this stuff. You know, what can I help you with? Oh, I'm going to help you. And then nothing happened ever. He said, give me, give me a list of stuff I can help you with. I'm like, okay, good. I'll write you a list. So I did write him a list of like seven things he could help me with. And none of it's have none of the same examples. Like for example, tracking down sponsors and you know, other opportunities like that. Helping me. I even, one of the lists was join my Patreon. He hasn't even done that. So like, yeah
00:52:46
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You know, like, how can you help, right? You can join my Patreon and pay me a dollar a month. Like, I know he has a dollar a month because they're well all off, you know? yeah Yeah. And that dollar a month will help me. But, you know, people don't care. And that ah this is a good thing. The people that do care are your people.
00:53:08
Speaker
Yeah. And that's all you should care about. yeah And even then, they're going to go in and out. They're going to come and go, you know? It's just how it is. The biggest thing I have is just my happiness to come in the garage, turn the lights on with my now, cup of tea, not coffee. Three weeks, caffeine free. Although I lie, I did have sip of coffee yesterday at this delicious patisserie.
00:53:38
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oh Maybe I should put that in my recommendations, although I have a really good recommendation this week. But yeah, um actually, no, I'm going to put that in my mind blown. I was, I had jet suit racing in mind blown, but no, I'm decided. I'm going to put it in new one.
00:53:59
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um Where was I at? Jeez. I think it's just interesting that we allow other people's opinions to steer us so much and the fear also of other people's opinions. They don't say shit yet. We're like, Oh, what if like, I feel like I've failed and what if people think this of me? No one thinks anything of you. They're so concerned about their own world. they don And even if they do, does it really fucking matter? No.
00:54:27
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The only person that matters is your, your like partner, basically, in my opinion, like even if your kids or your, your parents or your, your parents, the father, mother, in-laws, if they don't believe in it, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. The only person that matters is the person that's right there in, laying next to you every night. If they don't believe in you and what you're doing,
00:54:58
Speaker
then that needs to be talked about. You know, there's this, there's a, you know, a biblical principle of the idea of, you know, people will be known for their fruit, or like you will know if someone is, ah you know, in the context of the Bible, it's using like of God or, you know, or spiritual by their fruit.
Finding Fulfillment in Work
00:55:20
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right And I think like that there's um there's a very interesting parallel between like if your job like if your job is good, if you're satisfied with your life, you have good fruit in your life, right? You have joy, you have peace, you have like all good things, like relationships are good, things are moving forward. But if you're like in a situation, if you look at your job, for example,
00:55:46
Speaker
and you're like, I go to work bitter, I'm always tired, I'm always frustrated, I'm legited, I'm whatever, like, man, bad fruit, get the fuck out. Look for a change, yeah? i like that there's There's, take some real evaluation of of your, of those things and look at for really, like objectively for what it is giving you. Is it just giving you a paycheck?
00:56:14
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Cause if it's just giving you a paycheck, you can get paychecks a lot in like a lot nicer ways. You know? Here's another thing too. Most people say that, ah like ah for example, a job is safe. Like if I work for somebody else, it's safe. Like I'm sorry, no, it's not. They can private sector they could drop you any of this company goes bustle. I've been involved in two companies that have gone bankrupt.
00:56:42
Speaker
or didn't have enough money and had to let me go. Like ah out of the job that out of the jobs I've had had, that's a very high percentage of unsafe jobs. Actually, if you think about it. So if you work for yourself, you are in control. Yeah. And you get to so decide.
00:57:04
Speaker
how the business operates. So if the sales are not good, guess what? You got to go sell some more beer. ah you you have the You have the power to change it, right? yeah Yeah. So working for yourself is actually weirdly a safer career choice than actually working for somebody else, in my opinion, at least.
00:57:28
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m Anyway, Jared, what is double rainbow all the way across the sky?
00:57:40
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Mind blown. Well, i don't you know what, I'm just I think I'm going to come back to something that I mentioned earlier. I am This beer that I had from Northern Monk, Vortex, if you find it in the shops anyway, get it. um Yeah, just super solid beer. Wow. Like mind blown. Just good, balanced, like really solid. Like it was just, it it was a mind blowing experience. um So yeah, that's my mind blown this week. Good beer.
00:58:19
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from Northern Monk. There you go. and ah I'm going to, I was going to talk about jet pack racing. so ah But then yesterday, yeah we went to this patisserie.
00:58:39
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It was called Fjärkomfekt. And it's in Oslo. It's technically in Skoyen, just near the near the train station there. yeah Okay. And the nicest, beautifulest cakes ever. They were expensive, like really expensive. One cake the size of maybe an apple. Right. A small apple at that. A little tart or something, yeah. Yeah. 125 kronas.
00:59:14
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Yeah. Snapper. But for example, they had a lemon pie curd, whatever you want to call it, right? Yeah, like a lemon meringue pie. Yeah. but That looked exactly like a real lemon. Like if you stood back a meadow, you were like, that's a lemon. Yeah. yeah yeah yeah yeah And then and there was like an apple crumble pie thing that was and it was like a cut open apple.
00:59:43
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But all of it was cake. That like, is it real or is it cake? Yeah, yeah. yeah yeah So if you're in Skuyen, Skuyen, yeah, no yeah near the near the train station there, there is a place just under the, like, if you go under the bridge and to the other side, there's a small, like, business area there.
01:00:05
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And in that business area is this ah cafe and the coffee and everything is made properly. The owners, I think, are Italian so or French or something. ah So they know how to make proper coffees and then the cakes are unbelievable.
01:00:26
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oh It's just an experience. So yeah ah they blew my mind. Like I had this, I had this one that looked like a little, you know, the cartoon looking bombs in a black with the like a little wick on it. Yeah. And I didn't even know what it was. I was like, I couldn't read the ingredients. There was like some strange ingredients. I never understood what it was, but we had it. It was absolutely delicious. What was it? I don't know. I still don't know to this time.
01:00:56
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Not like a cherry bomb or anything? No, it was like, I think maybe cloudberries, but I don't think so, actually. okay think It was something else. it wast it didn't have that It didn't have that sourness that cloudberries have. It was something else. that i yeah I was quite impressed with ah how it and like it looked like a little cool you know, cartoon style bomb yeah with the wick and everything. You could eat the wick, it was like ah white chocolate. It was like colored yellow, so it looked like rope. Yeah, yeah. It's really cool. So yeah, anyway. Awesome. Karen, I haven't edited the intro for this. So ah what's giving you the shits this week?
01:01:44
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You know what?
Social Media and Real-Life Interactions
01:01:45
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The thing that's giving me the shits this way, because we're all fucking creeps. Don't tell Karen. What are you like being a creep about? Well, I just realized like, so I was sitting down and having breakfast with Lynn the other morning, and she was scrolling Facebook. And it instead of talking to me, and, and she, yeah she was scrolling through and I watched her like look at these photos and then just like look at every single one of the photos of someone she knows, and then just move on. And I just realized like, this is what we do all the time, like social media stuff.
01:02:25
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Like we're just observing people's lives. Like if this was like, if you were standing outside someone's fucking window and like looking in and just looking in, not saying anything, not acknowledging, not winking, not saying hi, not waving or nothing, just staring in and observing, you'd be a fucking creep, right? Yeah. Yeah. Right. You'd be creeped out. But people do that on Facebook and Instagram all the fucking time. Yeah, I feel like a creep too. my Like my feed.
01:02:53
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I, if you think about it, like I, I like my feeds full of gym girls, booties, right? And then I know about like, I'd be that weird. Like if I was doing that equivalent in real life, I'd be that weird guy in the gym just like staring at girls, booties. No, it's a like, it sets you up to fail too. Like because then you were actually out in the real world.
01:03:19
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and you like see some gym girl and you're just like all of a sudden you can't keep your eyes. in a straight line. But I think too, it's it's a lot of fakeness. like i ah it's So much so so i came I came across, I showed Kristen this the other week. I like it came up with my feed and I was just appalled at it because you could clearly see it was a filter. So because there was a glitch in the filter where she moved through the frame but and you saw her proper size and then you saw the filter take over and made her super skinny.
01:03:52
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ah And it was a lot. It wasn't just a little, and I just, I said to Kristen, like, I feel sorry for this girl because she thinks she's not beautiful unless she puts that skinny filter on.
01:04:08
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Not only that, but she's also telling an entire generation of women that they have to look like this to be pretty. Yeah, we've yeah we could go down that. Let's be honest, like you are you are creating insecurities and then you're going to pass them on to your children. And that's, you know, children look at their mothers.
01:04:29
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first like feel it for body positivity. And that's one thing I admire around Kristen is she she's very open about how she feels around her body. like she She thinks she looks beautiful. yeah And I think she looks beautiful because mainly because of that, because she has a confidence in herself. yeah right And then I see that Emma doesn't really have any seemingly body issues yet.
01:04:57
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But her friends do. But her friends do. Yeah, absolutely. It's sad. So there you go. We're all creeps. That's what's giving me the shits this week. listen What's giving you the shits? Pepper's Pizza. Oh, that literally might give you the shits. yeah Tell me. Tell me Pepper's Pizza. OK, so my day job is working for like um the youth center.
Dining Experience and Body Language
01:05:25
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yeah And we had a trip. We took these kids to a rock concert, but we were going to eat Peppa's Pizza before we went to the rock concert. We rang up and checked. Hey, do you have place like space for us? We are like 14 or something like this, I think. And they said, ah yeah, we got space. And I said, well, great. Can we book a table? And they said, no, no need to book a table.
01:05:54
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Right. and We'll have space for you. Great. Fantastic. We get there at 5.30. Come in like, oh, we're fully booked. Sorry. We've got no space for you.
01:06:06
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I'm like, wait, what? And then so, okay, so we have to pay through Faktura, so like through an invoice, because of the way we don't have like a company credit card, because we're part of the Kamuna, right? The council. And So we had nowhere to eat. I tried a bunch of different places to say like, could could we like, get the kids to eat here because we've got no place to go. and In the end, my colleague ended up like, he's like, ah, screw this. So he went back and he went upstairs and checked like all the this available tables. Right. And he's like, the whole top floor is empty.
01:06:50
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What do you mean? So we went back in and we said to the lady, well Hey, i we've got 14 people here. We need to eat pizza. We need to be, we need to be finished by seven so we can go to this concert. And she's like, Oh, I didn't realize ah the upstairs is booked at eight o'clock. I'm like, what is five 30? You idiot. How two and a half hours Those tables are free. You think you could have just said no one sits at Peppers for two and a half hours or more. They didn't want business. No, one you know, I think the that fucking kid, no doubt. Yeah. Didn't want to do any work. They just want to fuck around, sit around, do fuck all. That's what they want.
01:07:38
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No one wants to do any work these days. Oh, kids these days. give me shit
01:07:49
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um Justin. Yep. What is your recommendation, recommendation, recommendation for this week? My recommendation this week is a podcast slash a YouTube video ah by the diary of a CEO. The podcast or episode is called Body Language Expert. Stop using this. It's making people dislike you.
01:08:21
Speaker
interesting super interesting. I got a lot of value from this. um It's by it's she's sorry. He interviews a girl called Vanessa Van Edwards. She's a body language specialist. And it's basically taking a lot of research about hand gestures, facial movements, distancing,
01:08:50
Speaker
I got so much from this and I immediately thought about people that, you know, often say like, I don't like people or, you know, like I find being around people difficult.
01:09:02
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And I got so much from that. I thought about all those people that are struggling with that, that they should check this podcast out because it was just simple stuff like hand gestures. And even what we're doing right now, we're on camera, right? I made a conscious decision to push my chair back.
01:09:24
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from the from the camera because there's a science in this. So if you're too close to the camera, if I zoom in yeah like this, it's it's kind of like,
01:09:37
Speaker
you're in someone's intimate zone, right? And so you really don't really want the wrong person in your intimate zone. And it's creepy, right? You look creepy right now. ah ah yeah so ah Distance, for example, was super interesting. Hand gestures. She even like, ah she even shares like a hand gesture that you can use to to get people to agree with you automatically. Do you tell? Well, I'm not going to tell you because she says... What episode is this? This is a bad episode. Body language expert. Vanessa Van Edwards. Okay. yeah Like there's like they've got like a
01:10:25
Speaker
you know, like, um often they've got a the name of the, oh yeah, okay, sorry. Yep. but They've got different, there's so many different short bites that they have on this podcast feed. sorry Yeah, I mean, I recommend The Diary of a CEO. If you're at at all just interested, you're a curious person in general.
01:10:47
Speaker
Uh, like it has really very little to do with business that podcasts of most of the time. Uh, so if you think, Oh, I'm not a, I'm not a business guy. I don't want to listen to a business, but it's not really a business podcast. It's a like curious, like I'm interested in life and people and society and skills and all those things, like check it out. It's worth it. I really, I really liked it.
01:11:10
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It teaches you how to think, not just ah this particular podcast, but when you expose yourself to different ways of thinking, you can start getting yourself out of yeah' situations you don't like, for example. So what we talked about today with regards to work, you know, and and flip-flopping between trying to start your own thing and, and you know, playing it safe.
01:11:37
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yeah A lot of that's just mindset. Yeah. And so by listening to audio books in your free time or on the drive to work or whatever it is, like that will change how you operate.
01:11:54
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yeah And if you're not happy with the way you're operating, start putting the right stuff in your ears. Start changing the way you talk to yourself. And the only way you can do that is by reading books, listening to podcasts, listening to audio books, and putting new information, replacing the old programming. um So I'll just leave you with that because I think that's something that I've done over the last 10 years that's transformed my life.
01:12:22
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you also. Yeah. Do you like it? Oh, I agree. There's um so many good podcasts out there too. <unk> so If you shout out, if anyone out there is like doesn't know where to start, like shoot Garage Avenger or me and you, Chris, bring a message and we'll we'll try and point you towards some good places to start if you're interested. Huge list of books I've listened to and a huge list of podcasts that I listened to here that transform my life. yeah Yeah. Cool. Awesome. Yeah. Do you know what I reckon men this week, Justin? Please tell me, Karen. People should get into home brewing. It's a mad hobby.
01:13:11
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frustrating at times, but mad nonetheless. I mean, it's really like, I mean, you really don't need much to start when you're doing basic beers at home. Like it's so it, but it's so satisfying. It's like when you make a really good dish, like good food or something at home, except it's beer. Who doesn't like a good beer? So, um, yeah, I reckon people should get into home brewing. Just, uh, it's a dying hobby at the moment.
01:13:40
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Everything. Yeah. There's a lot of homebrew, um, homebrew, um, shops and things around that are dying. Everyone's dying at the moment. The economy is tanking and people are not spending money, but like, okay, you buy a secondhand kettle or something on Fin or Gumtree or, you know, one of the ah Craigslist or whatever the to one is in your country.
01:14:07
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and like for a couple, you know, for a couple hundred dollars at most as in plastic buckets and a few bottles, like, and you're good to go. Like it doesn't take much. And then the actual ingredients itself, like who could where in which country can you buy 25 liters of beer for less than $30 in ingredients?
01:14:34
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You know, like, you can't buy that much beer for that price. So if you want to put the effort in, ah it's I think it's worth it. And you get and then you go down the rabbit hole and have some fun with it. right So I think people should get into homebrewing. On that bombshell.
01:14:53
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um Thanks everyone for listening this week. and We've somehow helped you and not confused you.
01:15:07
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There's always a hope Justin. Yeah. Thank you everybody. We will see you next week. Thanks everyone. We'll see you next time. Bye.