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Week 33 - Tears of pain
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This week Kieran got a cold email from what we suspect is an attractive female student about his brewery. Justin however has had a turbulent week with tears of pain shed over projects and family.
Support Justin here @ Pateron : https://www.patreon.com/c/garageavenger
9am beers:
Lemon basil sour (Eucharist brewing ) 3.7/5 hops
Hoppy Lager (Klokk &Co) 1.5/5 hops
Mind Blown:
Colossal Laboratories & Bioscience - https://colossal.com/
Kieran's wife Linn had no idea how hair clippers worked.
Shits:
Nerds ruining films.
Miljøkjøring
Recommendations:
ANZAC Biscuits. Recipe here: https://www.katysfoodfinds.com/chewy-anzac-biscuits/
Mountain Biking
Contact us:
https://www.instagram.com/garageavenger/
https://www.instagram.com/eucharistbrewing/
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Transcript
Introduction & Host Banter
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Speaker
This is the Garage Avenger Podcast.
00:00:12
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Garage Edge of Podcast. Sorry we're late, people. Kieran was involved in a tragic brewing accident where his face was scarred by multiple hop additions.
00:00:26
Speaker
ah I am Justin, ah 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. And I'm Kieran, trying to trick you into believing I'm a Christian monk brewery.
00:00:46
Speaker
I'm just going to roll with these now. I'm just like, I'll roll with it every week. Fair enough. Yeah. Kieran. Hold on You didn't finish the script, Justin.
00:01:00
Speaker
Oh, sorry. But I was just about say you got to know a new haircut. Yeah, we'll be talking about that. Yeah.
00:01:10
Speaker
We are twin brothers with a passion for sharing the... sharing the God, I can't even... Back to screwing up this intro, Kira. Let's go. We are twin brothers with a passion for creating the wild and unexpected, taking you on everyday life through what's happening in our garages.
Garage Woes & Beer Talk
00:01:28
Speaker
Yeah. What's that been happening in your garage this week, Justin? ah Tears. Tears of pain. Tears of pain.
00:01:41
Speaker
Self-inflicted pain? Yeah. Yeah. But I think before we share this, for me to able – even talk today. For me to be able to –
00:01:55
Speaker
For me to be able to share the pain of what I've been going through, I think we need to probably get into this. Oh,
00:02:06
Speaker
what is the malt and liquor? What gets you drunker quicker? What comes in bottles or in cans? Beer! Can't get enough of it. Beer! How we really love it. It makes me think I'm a man. Beer! I could kiss and hug it. Beer! But I'd rather chug it.
00:02:16
Speaker
Beer! could not refuse it. Beer! I could really use it. Beer! Beer! Beer! That bad that you have to start drinking from day one, from the first minute and a half.
00:02:29
Speaker
that Yeah, it was a bad week. What have you got, Kieran? This week I have ah the test brew. I have the lemon basil sour.
00:02:42
Speaker
Ooh. Mm-hmm. Does it smell like rotten gas still? I hope not because we're about to find out. Crack her open, Kieran. Let's hear how it goes.
00:02:57
Speaker
love that in the microphone there. Delicious. Is this just making you thirsty listening to this? ah Well, me, yes, because I am... those Wow, that's a lot cleaner than I thought it was going to be. Yeah, it's super clean.
00:03:11
Speaker
and Wow. It shows up my dirty glass. ah So, yeah, super clean. Super carbonated, too. thought it was going to kind of flat. No, sour beers never flat.
00:03:24
Speaker
Well, they shouldn't be. If you get one, you should take it back. um ah Probably showing more carbonation because the glass is dirty because they've got all these bubbles stuck to the glass. But, yeah.
00:03:35
Speaker
ah yeah It has like a nice kind of basil-y, sour. it's like It's a bit strange. If I'm going to say it out loud, you're going to be like, ugh.
00:03:48
Speaker
But imagine basil with yogurt.
00:03:53
Speaker
yeah and it's like It's got a little bit of this yogurty sourness to it, like you know like a like a proper like a natural Greek yogurt style smell, this undertone, and then the wafting like basil over the top. so
00:04:17
Speaker
It does not smell like fart. Well, that's good. And it tastes really nice. it's um It could have been more tart. I could have dropped the pH on this one a little bit, so it was a little more.
00:04:32
Speaker
But I think it's actually quite enjoyable. it's ah It's got a lot of, like, salinity, a bit of salt in there. It's basically a gorsa, if people know what that is. It's a style of salty sour beer um with basil.
00:04:46
Speaker
I think it's really nice. Mm-hmm. Well, I've decided to go for a Klox Hoppy Lager. Is that Klox & Co.?
00:04:58
Speaker
Yeah, i think so. Yeah, okay. ah So, i saw this, and i we've been talking a lot about hoppy lagers, right? And I thought, you know what?
00:05:09
Speaker
I'm going to give this one a go and see what it's actually about. but see if they've nailed it or see if they've just bolted up. So, let's give this one a crack.
00:05:19
Speaker
Yeah. i There's signs that I'm an alcoholic. I've got cans after cans after cans on my bench still.
00:05:31
Speaker
Are they full or empty? Empty. Okay. well yeah that's a What do you got there? Tell me. Well, we're about to find out.
00:05:47
Speaker
It just smells like a lager. It doesn't smell like hoppy at all. Does it taste hoppy, though? Does it taste like a... Or is it just one of these extract jobs?
00:06:01
Speaker
yeah
00:06:04
Speaker
I would... That's a very average beer. Yeah? Sad. Sad, sad. Clock and go. Not not good.
Family Emergency & Emotional Impact
00:06:15
Speaker
I would not recommend... Like, if you're looking for something a bit different, it just misses everything. you You can't call it a lager, and you couldn't call it it like a, like, you just it just feels like soapy crap. Yeah, it's not nice at all. I'm kind of disappointed.
00:06:33
Speaker
going to have to drink it fast to get over this highly emotional week. Do tell me about this emotional week there, Justin. ah Yeah, okay. ah So, Monday.
00:06:46
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Monday. Edited this podcast, did a little bit of work, had to go to my day job. Tuesday, super pumped. I was like, right. I've got the the parts for their for the brakes. They're going to change the seals.
00:07:03
Speaker
And i'm going to change the master cylinder, like rebuild the master cylinder for the World Rally car. And then we're going to get this thing going, right? It's like, let's do this.
00:07:14
Speaker
right So I started rebuilding the master cylinders. um And, you know, going along, I was like my third coffee in. Yeah. at like 10.30.
00:07:27
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ten thirty Yeah, nice. and then i get i get a I get a call from Kristen. Hey, ah can you can you check something for me?
00:07:39
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was like, yeah, sure. what i'm thinking i didn't really think anything of it. but i I heard in a voice, it was a bit like, no yeah, she was she's worried and she was yeah kind of upset. She said that she'd received like an emergency SMS from from her dad that turns out it's automatic from the iPhone.
00:08:02
Speaker
Really? Wow. So what it does is if you've been in a crash, it kind of senses that you're in a crash. Okay. It knows you're driving on the freeway. You're driving on a road. Yeah. And then if it suddenly stops and turns upside down. If it suddenly stops and the G's go crazy on the, you know, then it sends this message and says that you've been in crash.
00:08:26
Speaker
accident and your emergency contact like sends out to the emergency contacts okay wow so yeah so she she rang me and said i've gotten this sms and it's in sem which is not really that far away from where we are about six minute drive or something yeah ah Can you please go and check it out and make sure it's not dad, she said.
00:08:52
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ah So I jump in the car. I start driving along. is this on the This is on the main freeway too because it gives a like a – not only does it send a message about the incident and then when it happened, but also gives you a location.
00:09:07
Speaker
Okay. Wow. So, yeah. So – Then what happens is you follow the location and then you get there and you just see you know what's happened.
00:09:19
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And so I jumped in the car. I drove and then I started seeing on the other side of the freeway, like there was no cars. It was a ghost town. I was like, oh, this is not good.
00:09:32
Speaker
And then I finally see a bunch of flashing lights and things, and then I pull over to the side of the road on on my side. And just as I pull over, I see bloody Kristen's father's car upside down.
00:09:47
Speaker
Jesus. In the middle of the freeway. Yeah. And I'm like, shit. like, you know that moment when you're like your heart just, like, and you get that funny feeling in your stomach? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:10:03
Speaker
So, i was just like, everything just went like narrow and zoned in. And so, i I jumped out of the car and I literally just like stuck my hand out. The the traffic's still moving on our side, like on the other side, where the side I was driving, of course, right?
00:10:21
Speaker
So, I just stuck my hand out and like stopped cars on the freeway, you know? And... Jumped across the medium strip and, you know, went straight to his car and just looking around. im like, holy crap, dude, this is insane.
00:10:40
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m And then I've seen someone's like feet on a stretcher. And I was like, oh, shit, this I hope this is... I hope he's okay, like hope he's all right. And I get there and it's him and he's on the stretcher, you know, he's he's covered in blood and ah it was is pretty traumatic, dude. Yeah, fuck.
00:11:04
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And, you know, I ah came up to him, i i just so I told him that I was here and, you know, and yeah he, He must have been in shock, dude, like massive shock because he called me Justin. For the first time in 19 years, I've been dating with his daughter.
00:11:29
Speaker
married to his daughter. And married, yeah. I mean, he calls me Justin. Instead of, how does he normally say it?
00:11:40
Speaker
ah He says it many different ways. um The normal way he says it is, you stood. Yeah, right. Right. But then when he wants to be a dickhead about it, he goes, you stood. I don't know why. Yeah. Okay. So he' he's in shock.
00:12:00
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What happened? Yeah, he's in shock. And he calls me Justin. Pronouncing your name properly. You're thinking he's going to die. That put me in shock. I was like, is they see has he already as the Is he leaving this earth? like What is going on? like He would never call me Justin.
00:12:20
Speaker
yeah But no, he called me Justin and he he ah he asked me could he contact his sister and his brother. And I said, of course, I'd do that. and ah yeah But the positive thing was that the the ambulance officers and They weren't like rushing around. you know they They weren't like frantic. So I kind of knew he was okay. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Despite being on the stretcher and being in pain and so on and so forth, I kind of realized like he was all right.
00:12:50
Speaker
um And which is kind of remarkable considering what happened. Yeah, right. So his... So he was driving on the freeway and some lady was like going crazy speeds, i think, and lost control of her car.
00:13:11
Speaker
And then she she hit the barrier on the side and then ricocheted off and then hit his car. And then that sent him... sideways and then the car rolled and apparently, according to an eyewitness, rolled nine times.
00:13:28
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bill i mean, knowing him... knowing knowing him It was probably exceeded in the speed limit as it was. Ah, that's where you're wrong.
00:13:40
Speaker
Really? Yeah, because we have the dash cam. He has a dash cam on car. We watched it. He was doing technically over the speed limit, but he was doing 115. Right. Which is, you know.
00:13:53
Speaker
He used to be Mr. Leadfoot. Oh, still is. Don't get me wrong. But, you know, like the fact that he's a 75-year-old man and he walks, essentially walks our away from this. Yeah.
00:14:08
Speaker
Wow. Yeah. So, it turns out he did break ribs. He broke eight ribs and his sternum. Ugh. That's not going to heal fast for him either. No, it's not. So he's going to be in a quite a few months of pain,
Garage Challenges & Financial Struggles
00:14:24
Speaker
unfortunately, for him. But, yeah, dude, that just, like, destroyed my my day.
00:14:30
Speaker
You know, like I was here as I thinking I was going to be fixing brakes and doing mad skids in my World Rally Go-Kart thing, you know. And next to you, know I'm in hospital driving, picking up like his wife and you know driving her to a hospital. And you know everyone's crying. And I'm like, i ah i don't know if it is my way of dealing with it, but I was like, what the hell is everyone crying for? He's fine.
00:15:00
Speaker
He's got some broken ribs. He's even joking now. Like, like come on. whata What? What? why don't we What are we getting all upset about?
00:15:11
Speaker
and it might and and I don't know also if it was my way of coping too but like i was like, He's all right. Can't I just get back to the garage? it And then we're like, we finished up visiting. And I was like i was looking at my watch. i was like, maybe i could get to jujitsu.
00:15:33
Speaker
but I don't know what's wrong with me sometimes. You selfish prick. a Your father-in-law was an hour of need. Yeah. But that's, that's the truth. Like that's, that's how I think that's how I deal.
00:15:49
Speaker
Yeah. Like just get back to work. Yeah. Cause like, if you think about it, it was pretty traumatic seeing your father-in-law like car, his car upside down and him on a stretcher and like,
00:16:04
Speaker
Do you know what I mean? Like thousands of people waiting in queues on the And yeah, it was just insane.
00:16:14
Speaker
And I think that's my way of like dealing with things is like, just get back to normal. I can't say that way. Normality. yeah Yeah. Like let's just go back in the garage where it's safe and I don't have to deal with that shit.
00:16:27
Speaker
Yeah. I just have to deal with other things going on in my garage. Tell me. Which brings me on to Wednesday. So, finally back in the garage. Yeah.
00:16:41
Speaker
It's time to bleed those brakes, isn't it? Get these brakes working. Let's go. So, I spent the next six hours bleeding brakes. Why do I sense that this is not going to end well?
00:16:54
Speaker
Yeah. um I don't know, Kieran. Maybe because I didn't. didn't end up well. So I keep on bleeding these bloody breaks and I'm getting so angry.
00:17:09
Speaker
I'm getting so frustrated. Kristen's coming home and she's like, oh, I've got to go see my father. I was like, maybe I should just go see him too. But I was just so in the zone. I was like, no, these...
00:17:22
Speaker
Frickin' brakes going to work. It will work. I refused to. so I kept on going and going, and the air just kept on coming and coming, and I was like, oh, what is going on?
00:17:35
Speaker
So have you found out what the problem is? So that brings me to Thursday, where I continued to bleed brakes for another three hours, o then decided, you know what?
00:17:50
Speaker
I can't do this anymore. Is this why the guy was selling go-kart? Well, maybe. I don't know. It's just like, these brakes are fucked. I'm just going to sell it.
00:18:02
Speaker
Maybe. I'm like, I don't know. But the truth is, I'll tell you after we found out after what was the big problem. Okay. I decided, you know what, I've worked three hours. Now I've got to go to my day job.
00:18:16
Speaker
So I went off to my day job. And then on Friday, i ah planned with Frederick to ah machine up the the rear axle for the chopper motorbike.
00:18:32
Speaker
So we went to his work. It was super weird. Like, I forgot how miserable old nor andians like working class Norwegians are. They're a fucking miserable bunch.
00:18:44
Speaker
ah They're like, who's this guy making things for fun? All I do is weld pipes for fucking the last 40 years.
00:18:56
Speaker
Like, ugh. they're just They just go in there. You see them in the lunchroom. They're just drinking their black cup of coffee like in their miserable, like hunched, you know, like, ugh.
00:19:09
Speaker
was...
00:19:12
Speaker
But the upside is, Karen, yes, Frederick is a mad dog and he's helped me machine up the rear axle. So basically what we had to is we had get a piece of pipe and then machine out the recesses for the bearings to sit inside. Mm-hmm.
00:19:32
Speaker
And then i had these flanges for the brakes and for the sprocket. And we had to machine those out on the lathe to like the size of the pipe that we'd now machined.
00:19:44
Speaker
Yeah. And so that that would slide over and then we could weld them on after. Once I realized where everything would sit. ah And then we also needed to make a plate for where the actual wheel bolts onto.
00:19:59
Speaker
So lucky for me, and they had plasma cutter and we just like, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then... were but and The robot plasma cutters went in literally like 12 seconds.
00:20:13
Speaker
We had this plate cut out or in a perfect circle. And then we just put in the lathe and made sure it was centered and and turned it so it fit also that pipe.
00:20:24
Speaker
Yeah. And i had all my parts ready for my rear axle. Cool. Cool. So that was super good. i was like, i was pumped. was so happy. Freaking pumped.
00:20:35
Speaker
I'm mad. ah So yeah, that was pretty good. But Kristen decided, or decided, she was going back to school up in Oslo. So she...
00:20:46
Speaker
She's ah studying EQ therapy, if you guys don't remember. And she was back up in Oslo studying. So I had the kids. ah Me and Henry had an awesome ah awesome evening. we went to the movies and saw the new Minecraft video.
00:21:05
Speaker
Okay. ah Video. Minecraft movie. Okay. um That was... Interesting. I'll get to that later in the podcast.
00:21:16
Speaker
And then on Saturday, guess what it was? What? Rebuild breaks time. oh yeah. So I pulled that bad boy apart. ah Actually, the reason why I pulled him apart was actually because I got a call from Frederick.
00:21:33
Speaker
And I was basically, I put out a story whinging and complaining about my brakes. And he said, ah what's it like inside the cylinder? Like is it, you know, where's the air coming from? So I said, all right, I'll pull it apart right now while you're on the phone.
00:21:50
Speaker
And I'll tell you what it's like. And he's like, that's your problem. There's like damage on the inside of the the cylinder. Like, so this the rubber seals can't actually seal it properly. Right.
00:22:03
Speaker
So that's led me to realize that I need new master cylinders. a he Which puts me a in a bit of a problem because financially, i cannot afford, said master cylinders. a master cylinder, Gast?
00:22:20
Speaker
Oh, don't even. Okay, if you want the proper go-kart parts, yeah it's highway robbery. What are talking about? Okay, 6,000 crowns. Jesus Christ.
00:22:33
Speaker
It's so insane. Yeah. Fuck. So, yeah. ah Basically, I'm in a rock and a hard place. So, if you have a go-kart with a master cylinder that actually works and you want to give it to me...
00:22:49
Speaker
I'll take it. even I'll buy it off you for 500 kronos or something. that i think I could manage scrounge up 500 kronos. Because I seriously, like looking at my bank accounts makes me so miserable.
00:23:03
Speaker
and So... sorry The only thing that makes me happy is seeing that I have amazing patrons that, you know, contribute to these projects. Shout out to the patrons.
00:23:16
Speaker
Yeah, I better give them a shout out now, shouldn't I? So big shout out to the heroes, Mark Foster, ah Janis Klemz, Ulus Kittaren, Arthur Midgard, the Swedish maker, Mark Jones, and Steen Suhus.
00:23:31
Speaker
And super duper duper thank you to my sidekicks, Sylvester, Arna, and Thomas. Thank you so much, to you guys. And to everyone else that supports me, by the way, they're just the top guys, but ah Every little bit counts.
00:23:50
Speaker
ah I still keep on getting these like free sign-ups to Patreon. I really don't understand what Patreon were thinking with that free stuff. It doesn't make any sense.
00:24:01
Speaker
Yeah. But that's the way it goes. better than Better than nothing, I guess. So, yeah ah basically that brings us to Sunday where Frederick came around and I cried on his shoulder a bit and we tried to research some things for it, but we couldn't find anything. So, yeah, it's been just a bleed of breaks heartache week, basically.
00:24:31
Speaker
Breaks.
Conspiracy Theories & Humor
00:24:34
Speaker
Who had thought... Who would have thought that that would to create such a headache? Dude, I do wonder why like it is happening.
00:24:45
Speaker
ah On paper, this thing is finished pretty much. Yeah, right. It's ready to go. like what's What's the universe trying to say? like Why am I not allowed to get this thing going?
00:24:57
Speaker
Well, Justin, maybe this is a great time for our new segment. What's our new segment, Kurt? I'm going to call it tinfoil hat.
00:25:10
Speaker
You should make it rhyme. It should be called tinfoil hat cat.
00:25:15
Speaker
Meow.
00:25:20
Speaker
i I just thought it was fun. I've been coming across all these conspiracy theories of late. And I just thought we'll talk about one. Every week. it' a Just for fun. just so it Whether we like them, agree with them, disagree, whatever. It doesn't matter.
00:25:37
Speaker
So, maybe the reason why brakes not working are because of the ancient civilization civilization slash aliens slash Nazis that live in the center of the earth.
00:25:55
Speaker
yeah Yeah, that's exactly what Hollow Earth theory, it's called. ah Please explain more. Now, there's so the theory claims that this ah there's an entirely hollow space or a vast interior space in the center of the planet.
00:26:12
Speaker
And the only way to get there is through a portal through the North Pole or the South Pole. ah Makes sense. Yeah. And so apparently, yeah, in there is ah aliens, Nazis, or ancient lost cultures like Atlantis, apparently. so and the believers often point to satellite images done by the Google satellite where there was a glitch and it looks like there's a giant hole to the center of the earth at the South Pole. Okay. As evidence. Okay.
00:26:49
Speaker
So there you go. The Nazis, Justin. It's the Nazis that are messing up your master cylinder. Are you sure those brakes aren't German?
00:27:03
Speaker
i don't I don't know that at all. Holy shit, there's a giant bee in this and my wall. Oh my God, he's huge. He's one of those fat guys.
00:27:14
Speaker
A bumblebee? Yeah. like There's a hole where with've where the old owners of the house drilled a giant hole for a cable to go through, and we never plugged it up, so there is living in there.
00:27:29
Speaker
There you go. But the interesting thing about conspiracy theories, Karen, are that... Majority of them turned out to be true. Well, at least the ones are not ridiculous. Yeah, okay.
00:27:42
Speaker
There we are.
00:27:45
Speaker
What do you mean, Justin? There's Nazis at the center of the earth? Well, maybe. That's where Hitler disappeared too. This underground bunker was actually the underground interior of the earth.
00:28:02
Speaker
Well, I mean, you know, here's a conspiracy theory that I keep on hearing on bloody Rogan all the time. Okay. Since this is the Rogan extension. Yeah, right. Okay.
00:28:15
Speaker
Is that ah we humans are genetically modified ah monkeys by aliens. they're They're the ones that did the genetic modifications.
00:28:27
Speaker
Yeah. Turned us into humans.
00:28:32
Speaker
There you go There's no backing or science behind this, but but how would we know? would we know? how they are a superior race, clearly.
Brewery Decisions & Student Inquiries
00:28:44
Speaker
Yeah. That's my tinfoil hat cat. Tinfoil hat cat. Karen, what about your week? hows What's been happening with you? ah Well, um it's been a bit of an interesting week.
00:29:00
Speaker
Been evaluating what I'm going to do next for the brewery, what beers I'm going to do, and the what the future looks like a little bit. And...
00:29:11
Speaker
and I think I i decided, ah pretty much decided um I'm 2% doubt there, but I'm doing Holy Ghost.
00:29:26
Speaker
but i'm up Yes! fucking it I'm doing it. I'm just going to wing it. We just have to see how the dosing goes. I'm going to have to be there on dosing day and mix rouser tank taste and add more if we need to.
00:29:42
Speaker
kind of thing and just... Oh, you want to do it like that? don't do it like that. That's what I have to That's the way it has to be done. so what Tell me why, Kieran. Is it because of the sanmeary The sanitary means of adding it to the each can individual can plus the ball ache of standing there for probably six to eight hours with a dropper and the chances of accidentally putting too much or too little in every can are too high.
00:30:19
Speaker
Like it's a, there's too high risk there. So it's better to mix it into the tank, even though we can't know the exact volume. So we just have to mix in an amount and then taste it and then adjust as best we can.
00:30:36
Speaker
So that's the, that's what we're going to do. And what I've decided is, is that kind of a fuck bars. Fuck those guys.
00:30:48
Speaker
Yeah, I agree. They're assholes. No, sorry if you're a bar owner out there, but like there's a lot of them that are assholes. Not all of them are assholes. There's some really lovely customers, but there's a lot of dicks out there.
00:31:01
Speaker
And I'm like, I've got kegs just sitting in there doing nothing because I can't move them because they only want one keg of something. So just like, I'll keg five kegs.
00:31:13
Speaker
That's it. And the few good customers I have will get a keg. And the rest will go to Cannes and sell the at the Wine Monopoly. Yep. And if it's good, then people will buy it.
00:31:25
Speaker
Yep. So, I mean, if it's fresh, like it like the the Bruce lot I've got now is in May. And that will go into the Bestilling Zutvolg in July.
00:31:37
Speaker
So by the time it's tapped, it's going to be less than three weeks old before it's in a Wine Monopoly. Yep. So, that I mean, as far as I'm concerned, that's they can't be asking for anything better.
00:31:49
Speaker
And then just pump them out, you know. Hopefully it just gets picked up. It's got a good untapped rating already. So people will be keen to buy it in and try it if they' if that's the method that they use to buy beer, which often the beer geeks do.
00:32:07
Speaker
And then we'll just see where it goes. so yeah, that's what I'm doing. That's the plan. All right, well, my fingers are very much crossed yeah for you to get this right because if it's right, it's amazing.
00:32:23
Speaker
Yeah. So, I mean, I'm excited about that. The other interesting thing that happened to me this week is that I got an email from from a um ah ah student writing paper On um the, what was it? I'm just trying to find out what she actually wrote to me about this.
00:32:54
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um She basically said that the paper is about um thesis examines religious references in beer branding and their function.
00:33:05
Speaker
And it's a comparative study based on beer brewed in Norway and in China. So she was basically sent an email asking about my beer branding, some of my beer products.
00:33:20
Speaker
And it was just really lovely, have to admit, to be able to explain without any reservations some of the deeper meanings behind some of the products that I've got. So was really fun. i was like kind of taken back by that this week.
00:33:38
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to realize that this there's people that are actually interested in that kind of thing, even if they might not understand it. So, yeah, it was really fun.
00:33:49
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So she she asked a lot of questions about specifically cryo-Jesus, and the story behind the motif on the label and things like that.
00:34:03
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And so got chance to talk about that with her and, yeah, yeah dive into some deeper meaning behind things. And that was really, really nice.
00:34:14
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So what did you just Like, yeah, that name just came to me. It was cool as shit. And then the label, I just was like, I'll just put it into ChatGDP and it came up with this thing.
00:34:27
Speaker
And then mid-journey and then, oh, it was cool as shit. that is actually That's exactly what I did. Yeah, exactly. no actually, I mean, there there is actually a hidden...
00:34:41
Speaker
ah meaning behind it and that sure kieran there is actually um and it was cool as shit though i will admit i did like the idea of cry jesus but the the whole frozen head has ah has a deeper meaning than just a frozen jesus head So we can maybe go into that another time, but probably bore the people with the the in-depth explanation there.
00:35:10
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But yeah, but I mean, I just thought it was really fun. It was really cool to that. Someone out there is interested in that kind of stuff. So, and is even writing a paper on
Wine Imports & Distribution Challenges
00:35:20
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it. So kind of fun.
00:35:23
Speaker
So that was – and that pretty much brings me the end of the week. Not much has happened. So it's just been – just doing my best to figure out what to do next. and has the So you said that potentially the wine is available in May. Is that correct? Yeah. It it launches in Bestilling Zut Vogue in May.
00:35:48
Speaker
So that will be, um it's obviously a few months, a couple of weeks away now. um But it it's kind of, I think it's almost a month, just a little over a month away, um which is kind of frustrating because I want it to go now.
00:36:05
Speaker
But to me, to actually, i'm I'm very, I'm almost curious to like, I will go out and sell some to bars and restaurants And things like that. But I'm very curious to see how much gets picked up by the one monopoly and how quickly that moves.
00:36:25
Speaker
So for me, because as soon as start picking a real... If all it goes in one go, then it's game on. then it's like it's game or So that's that's going to be kind of exciting. so um It's a waiting game right now, but I'm excited to see what happens.
00:36:48
Speaker
Well, I think the future is like a real great summer wine, like for those who like rosés and sweet yes we stuff, which is you know generally people's palate is more so skewed towards that these days.
00:37:02
Speaker
yeah to To my opinion, like that that is a great summer wine and You know, if if there's some restaurants that want to pick it up, and serve it, as and that could turn into a thing.
00:37:17
Speaker
you remember like when we were in Perth, like Recordly, which is like a shitty Swedish... Sweet cider. Sweet cider, right? That was the thing. That was gangbusters. You like used to buy a bottle of that for some ridiculous amount of money.
00:37:33
Speaker
was probably like the average price here. Yeah. yeah And then then you just get a get it with a like a... a pint glass with ice. Yeah. And you just smash it in there and it was so good on a so hot summer's day. I feel like...
00:37:52
Speaker
That's a little bit like the same ways, except Taps is, you know, legit. Not, you know, recordably, which is like garbage. Flavored fucking apple juice. Yeah. Apple juice. Yeah.
00:38:05
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So, like, I mean, ah i'm I'm excited to see how it goes. and I think, if I'm honest, ah the you know, the shitty and blank that I brought in, that's like...
00:38:18
Speaker
i That's my personal favorite. And I think that but like um there's like the the wine equivalent of Untappd, which is called Vin Vigneau.
00:38:31
Speaker
And that's like a very high rated wine. yeah And to be honest, I didn't realize how high it was rated until I'd already placed the order.
00:38:43
Speaker
ah Otherwise, I probably would have bought more um because there's only 25 cases. and that' And so I imagine that's just going to go fucking snap, gone.
00:38:54
Speaker
Well, let's hope so because it it could be a really good thing to sort of get a real good taste. Like if it goes quick, you know, there's a potential for it to be like, so if you place it in another order, you know, and get it, you know, here within three months, you might be able to like piggyback it.
00:39:15
Speaker
Into the summer. and and That's the hard balance because you're dependent on the ship. you know yeah Fucking breaking down in the middle of you know the Pacific or some shit, and you're just sitting.
00:39:29
Speaker
like i mean, the wine was over nearly over a month delayed on the first shipment. So it's like that's the risk you take. So anyway, people who don't want to hear about my wine in import really.
00:39:42
Speaker
Yeah, but it's exciting. like it's It's an Australian product that no one knows about in Norway. And it's got to be good, dude. It's fun. You know, I think, to be honest, though, like it will it will blow my mind if it goes, like, if people don't fucking get, if they taste it and they're just like, meh.
00:40:03
Speaker
and Like, that'll that'll blow my mind. I'll be like, what the fuck? You know, but that being said, everyone that I've given it to for a taster has really loved it.
00:40:15
Speaker
So, that being said, they're all my friends. So, they probably feel oblig obligated to say that they like it. Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, it's... a That's exciting.
00:40:28
Speaker
Absolutely. what What about Cosmic Christ? Now, I haven't even got myself a can because you i can't get a I can't even get it down here. yeah Where am I supposed to get it from? This is the problem.
00:40:42
Speaker
Fucking Norgas, Garupa, wankers, you know, monopolizing their things and then they only want things that are, dirt cheap, the same frigging Pilsner that everyone buys, Seidel or whatever. don't know. I've i i been basically like, I go to Jarlsberg many, like the and they have a decent range of beers there.
00:41:13
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it's not as impossible to get it into ah that that assortment. The challenge with Norgas Guripa is that there's so many requirements to get the product in that assortment.
00:41:30
Speaker
and And the amount of effort you sometimes even have to pay for a listing to even get it there. And I'm like, when three stores in the country might buy it in, it's not really.
00:41:42
Speaker
And, you know, they'll probably buy a case. That's it. a So, as especially as ah as a beginning point. So, right now, I'm happy with Gulating and Ölützog in Oslo.
00:41:55
Speaker
um They've taken most of it. I've got, what, 15, 20? No, I think 18 cases was the last time I counted left of Cosmic Christ on Cairn.
00:42:08
Speaker
And so, it's like... it's It's moving, and i think it'll be gone in the next in under the next two months. so Nice, to her i think that's ah i can't expect I can't see that it wouldn't be sold out, at least from from my end,
00:42:27
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i before summer.
00:42:32
Speaker
That's awesome. I hope I can go get a couple of cans when I'm up in Drummond next week. Or I can get them for you. So, yeah.
00:42:44
Speaker
But that would that would blow my mind if i if i all this kind of got sold and moved on and What's blowing your mind this week, Justin? Well, I forgot to play play the music when you said it's blowing my mind.
00:43:01
Speaker
ah You know what's blowing my mind at moment?
00:43:05
Speaker
Oh, wasn't it? No, I guess so we could save it for next time. Yeah, okay, tell me, Justin. You know what's blowing my mind? Tell me. Real direwolves.
00:43:22
Speaker
Mind blown. As in direwolves from Game
00:43:29
Speaker
from a game game friends Yeah, except they have real they're real animals, Kieran. They're about 10,000 years old. Yeah, right. And there's a company called Colossal Laboratories in Bioscience.
00:43:43
Speaker
Yeah. And they have ah basically gotten ah some the DNA of a dire wolf and created three dire wolves, two boys and ah and a girl.
00:44:00
Speaker
Call this the Joe Rogan extension.
00:44:05
Speaker
I was listening. I was listening to that episode. Yeah. yeah Very fascinating. Yeah. Very fascinating. Like you can't say that he doesn't have interesting people on board. yeah on That's like fascinating. Like the,
00:44:22
Speaker
They're trying to genetically like replicate wooey mammoths and this and the Tasmanian tiger. that's pretty cool. I did think that was really awesome. Stuff that's extinct, that we've extinct, like as humans. Bring back their dodo.
00:44:38
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:40
Speaker
ah Love it. So that's blowing my mind because like the fact that they can do that and they're using AI to basically help calculate, genetic ah genetically code the AI, it's pretty remarkable.
00:44:56
Speaker
I think if if you don't know what I'm talking about, go find that episode of the Joe Rogan experience and just listen to it. It's just fascinating. Yeah.
00:45:08
Speaker
Like the stuff they could do. Like there's some moral moral stuff you could talk about. Yeah. But if they don't do it, then someone else will. So, you know, at least they're being open about it.
00:45:21
Speaker
Yeah. What's blowing your mind, Karen? Well, ah you mentioned it earlier, my haircut. Yeah. Yeah.
Personal Mishaps & Frustrations
00:45:34
Speaker
Mind blown. More specifically, the fact that Lynn did not understand how electric clippers work.
00:45:48
Speaker
So what she was like, i was like, do you want to like, I've been giving the boys haircuts. Yeah. She's been watching me do that. I figured she like ah absorbed enough information to figure out how the clippers work.
00:46:00
Speaker
And so I'm just like, Lynn, do you want to like, give me a trim? And she's like, yeah, okay. And she's like, ah, just like cutting in massive chunks.
00:46:12
Speaker
She took this big chunk out of the side, which had to go a lot thinner to like try and blend out. and the hesler And even on the top, she just took like this. She went way too high. It took way too much off. So now I have to fucking shave my head just to just take back the damage.
00:46:30
Speaker
You do look like a cancer patient, Kevin. That's why it was blowing my mind. Like, Lynn's been on the earth. ah it's just She's like 35 this year. And I'm like, she still doesn't know how to operate it. She never she never even understood how the how they work.
00:46:54
Speaker
Like the guide, the like little plastic. Comb things. Yeah. I'm just like, what is going on? Anyway. Don't let her trim your ball hair. Why would I let her trim my ball hair? I don't know. It could be a couple's thing. A couple's thing.
00:47:15
Speaker
Have a romantic evening of trimming. yeah There's nothing like a good romance for and Kristen, you know, doing some manscaping.
00:47:29
Speaker
much information. Yeah. There you go. yeah. um
00:47:41
Speaker
What's giving you the shits today, Kieran? you know what's giving me the shits, Justin? Please tell me. Milio-sharing.
00:47:51
Speaker
Who does number two work for? Yes, Miljöschöring. Environmental driving, as they call it, as it translated in English.
00:48:06
Speaker
Well, I've been driving back and forth from Oslo last couple of weeks. And on the way out of Oslo in the afternoons in peak hour, they have this thing they call milieu shirting.
00:48:20
Speaker
And that is that they limit the speed limit to 60 kilometres an hour on the fucking freeway. Right? Right. And i'm I'm sitting there, sitting at 60, chugging along, and there's like the traffic's all backed up because everyone has to do 60 instead of 100 on the freeway.
00:48:37
Speaker
and I'm thinking they're calling it milieu shirting because of people accelerating and and lots of you know gas and toxic fumes and pollution and shit like that.
00:48:51
Speaker
And seven out of 10 cars are electric. Why? Why do I need media sharing when 70% of the fucking cars on the road are electric?
00:49:04
Speaker
Yeah, because, Kieran, the electric cars... are being powered by dirty coal power plants in fucking Denmark and in Germany because we sell all their power, the clean hydropower, we sell it to them to keep their quotas good for the EU, right?
00:49:26
Speaker
So that's why, because because the the electric cars are a farce, man. Yeah. They're a joke. Anyone that, anyone, I'm sorry, if you're a listener have an electric car and you're standing on your high horse saying, oh, it's all about the environment for me, you're full of shit. oh might Let's be honest. Most people, vast majority of people buy electric cars because it's cheaper to run.
00:49:53
Speaker
Yeah, but is it? I mean, they're cheaper to run. not Not like cheaper, like, you know, I mean, I'm not saying the servicing. I'm not saying the, you know, I'm saying like. You have to be, it hold on, then you have to be one of those dickheads. Right. On the freeway when the speed limit is 110, you're doing fucking 80 because you're trying to reserve your battery.
00:50:17
Speaker
Get off the fucking road if you can't do. If your car cannot make it the distance that you need to drive to get somewhere. Then buy a fucking different car, you idiots.
00:50:29
Speaker
but Or just charge it. Be better at charging. Yeah, how about it's called the five Ps. Prior preparation prevents piss poor performance. I can't say this is what's giving you the shits this week, Justin.
00:50:45
Speaker
No, I've got something even more enrages me. Go on. Better not be a fucking brake cylinder.
00:50:55
Speaker
Kieran. You know what's giving me this shit? Do tell. Nerds ruining a good movie. Nerds.
00:51:07
Speaker
does Who does number two work for? Nerds. Tell me. Henry and i went to see the new Minecraft movie, right?
00:51:20
Speaker
I knew was going to be an abysmal movie, like no doubt, right? Yeah. it's It's about a computer game of block things, you know? I've been surprised by said type movies before, though.
00:51:36
Speaker
So, you know, and Jack Black was the, the man and then there was also Jason Momoa, I think, is isn't that his name? Yeah. Yeah. A little bit amusing.
00:51:49
Speaker
But what gave me the muck shits was these freaking nerds. What nerds? In the cinema? The whole cinema is filled with nerds.
00:52:00
Speaker
What you expect for Minecraft movie? No, no, no, no, no. This is out of control. Right. i don't I have never experienced this outside Norway. I've experienced this in some...
00:52:12
Speaker
some movies where there's been nerds in there, but this was like on another level. So I, I like, for example, I went to go see, um, uh, God, what's that movie again? Uh, June. Yeah. Right.
00:52:25
Speaker
And the nerds in that movie were like the, when there were bits of like, you know, the really big bits in the, in the movie, like people were like, would woo and like have a little clap, like, woo.
00:52:39
Speaker
Yeah. Right. Right. In the middle of the freaking cinema, right? Right, okay, yeah. In Minecraft, this is every five seconds.
00:52:53
Speaker
When all these nerds, like there all of a sudden, there came like the the zombies that were looking like zombies like in the game. And they're like, whoa, yeah, ooh, yeah. am i And then all of a sudden, one of the other characters came, yay!
00:53:08
Speaker
Oh, so fun. Oh, amazing. They wouldn't shut the fuck up. I missed half the dialogue because everyone was clapping and cheering. What the hell? Maybe they thought it was a Twitch cast.
00:53:21
Speaker
ah so And poor Henry. Yeah. He turned to me. He's like, dad, why are they doing that? They're ruining the whole movie. And I said, because they're fucking nerds.
00:53:33
Speaker
but
00:53:37
Speaker
Nerd hate crimes, Justin. ah Honestly, i I had to reflect on it. i was like, No wonder they're clapping. I mean, this is the generation that just like grew up on this shit.
00:53:51
Speaker
like They don't understand what the real world is. They have like just this fake world. We talked about this as like one of my recommendations. It's like, you know, go play the real game yeah have a game of life.
00:54:03
Speaker
you know ah But this the generation that just lived in these games, right? So when there's a movie depicting... you know, the things that they kind of grew up with, they get super excited.
00:54:16
Speaker
You know, I'm like, I hate to break it to you, but it's it's not real, people. What was the average age of said nerds? I reckon probably like 13 to 15. Yeah. Okay. All right.
00:54:30
Speaker
And the other side of things is they all missed the hidden message. The hidden message was you don't need Minecraft. You can build much more exciting things in real life.
00:54:43
Speaker
And I don't reckon any of them listened to that yeah message at the
Weekly Recommendations & Conclusion
00:54:47
Speaker
end. They were all checked out. They're like, oh, but they're back in the the you know the real world reality now. oh we We'll just like pack up our popcorn and leave.
00:54:58
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Yeah.
00:55:01
Speaker
So they were so annoying. And poor Henry, was like he was looking at all of them like this. He's like, what are they doing, Dad? Why are they doing that? They're so annoying. They're ruining the whole movie.
00:55:14
Speaker
but yeah Yeah, son, I know. I also want to punch them. Jiu-jitsu moves. Yeah, I want to check all of them. off Shut the fuck up. That would be easy too, I imagine.
00:55:30
Speaker
I imagine there's not too many too many nerds that are into jiu-jitsu. ah that You'd be surprised. Yeah, maybe. True, true that, true that. You get your ass whooped by a nerd, Justin.
00:55:43
Speaker
Yeah, that's true. I week I was just dying underneath some guy trying to choke me out. I was like, why am I here?
00:55:54
Speaker
i don't want to do this anymore. oh yeah Yes, Kieran. Yes. It's time for you to sing. It is. feel like I need to make up my own song, like a better one, like a real one.
00:56:09
Speaker
ah got John to write me and write me a jingle. Don't do that, Kieran. Do it yourself, you lazy hound.
00:56:19
Speaker
You can't rely on your cool producer friend to make you a cool jingle. You're just jealous. Hey, I hate to break to you, but he was my friend first.
00:56:31
Speaker
I just happened to leave the leave the city, so you just he just adopted you because you were the second best choice. My friend first. Yeah.
00:56:46
Speaker
ah Yes. Well, shout out to John Reichardt. The song that I shall be singing goes a little like this.
00:57:01
Speaker
Recommendation, recommendation, what is your recommendation? Yeah.
00:57:13
Speaker
Justin, what's your recommendation for this week? Anzac biscuits, baby. Oh! Kristen made just this afternoon a fresh, hot batch of Anzac biscuits. fresh, hot batch!
00:57:28
Speaker
And she kept she's... i I know I've said this before, but like... Kristen, you're amazing. and Every listener that doesn't have a Kristen in their life, I'm sorry for you guys. Anzac Day coming up soon, by the way.
00:57:44
Speaker
Yeah. ah She came into my garage yeah with a fresh, hot Anzac biscuit and said, here. Just one. Enjoy this. to Yeah, I just came fresh out of the oven. Just one.
00:57:59
Speaker
on, you can't have one. Yeah, but this is home delivery, Kirin.
00:58:06
Speaker
And they were hot bastards. You couldn't like jug you you wouldn't be juggling heaps of them, you know because then you maybe drop one. So, yeah, she came in, delivered a hot Anzac, and it was so delicious.
00:58:21
Speaker
For those who don't know what an Anzac biscuit is, how How would you explain them, Kieran? It is flour, oats, ah and a fuck ton of golden syrup, basically. And butter. And butter, yeah. And those are butter.
00:58:41
Speaker
Yep. So that was the recommendation for ah baked goods that you could send to the soldiers in the front line. during the war yeah that i would say these ones changed a lot because i think kristin adds a lot more butter in them so they're lot more gooey which is what makes them so f freaking good yeah the original ones were rock fucking hard yeah yeah break your teeth trying to eat them but especially by the time they got to the front lines Yeah, Norwegians or the Swedish have like some similar type of version, but it's more flowery and it's not like soft inside. It's very much, you know.
00:59:26
Speaker
And sometimes you have them, like you buy them from ah ah from Ikea, like dipped in chocolate or something. Yeah, they're not the same. and They're not the same at all. like these are Go look them up, people.
00:59:40
Speaker
Anzac, A-N-Z. zed AC Anzac biscuits ah delicious so delicious what are your recommendations Kieran mountain biking extreme extreme mountain biking ah the snow is melted got out on the bike the other day it was mad fun did fall off no I did not Oh, so disappointed. Yeah, super lovely to get out mountain biking. It's getting into the forest and finding a fun trail.
01:00:21
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ah recommend it. And if you have you never really like done any proper mountain biking before, get one of these e-mountain bikes. You'll have a fucking ball. It's heaps of fun.
01:00:34
Speaker
so Yeah, i heard the other pussies have those E-mountain bikes. Yeah, I have one. i fucking ah i mean, it's it was a gamed it's a game changer,
01:00:48
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the mountain bike like Like for someone like me who maximum could get out once a week on the bike, maximum, like probably once every two weeks, I never had a chance to build up any conditioning to to be able to pedal over the train.
01:01:09
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Like the the one thing with mountain biking is when you're, especially when you're climbing hills, you need the particular pedal stroke to be at at a certain point to get power when you need to roll over something that's, you know, like ah there's stones or whatever on the trail.
01:01:26
Speaker
And i was Never at the like only towards the end of the season and was I ever in good enough form to like just power up those hills and pedal.
01:01:37
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And so it was always like a struggle and it would to rob the joy out of riding. And so it's called a spin bike, Kieran. yeah It's called training at the gym. It's called being dedicated to your craft.
01:01:51
Speaker
and You should be setting a good example for your son sons ah and your wife. Like, look how fit and trim I am, exuding all my energy into pedal strokes.
01:02:04
Speaker
Well, you know, one would hope, but I'm not. i don't have the time. like It's either that or I just basically you know ignore my kids whilst I'm on a bike pedaling in the corner.
01:02:17
Speaker
Yeah, you're just doing these ones, Kieran. Bicep curls. Yeah, with a can of beer. So, no, I know so i've really enjoyed mountain biking. It's good fun.
01:02:28
Speaker
Get into it. Awesome. Well, there you go. We've had a late release of this podcast, but there you've heard why we've kind of been late. Actually, we didn't really talk about why we were late.
01:02:40
Speaker
No. was It was because Kieran was being a big wuss bag. He was like, oh, I can't do it on the Sunday because I'm not fully in my thing. And I've got my day job. and the And then so, yeah, that's why we didn't get it out on time this week. That is not. Blame Kieran. I'm pretty sure I'm paraphrasing, but, you know. Very loosely.
01:03:06
Speaker
it was the gist. It was Mabo, you know. was the vibe. it was the vibe. a The castle. That's a classic movie. I was talking about Chopper today.
01:03:21
Speaker
Ooh, love. Yeah, our I'll talk about the chopper next week. Oh, chop, chop. and some There's been some stuff happening in the garage. Jimmy, keep on stabbing me.
01:03:33
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a ah Freddie, Frederick, keep welding. yeah What are you on about? Thank you, guys. We're talking absolute garbage now.
01:03:47
Speaker
ah Thank you all so much for listening. You guys are amazing. Thank you to my patrons for supporting me. ah Thank you to the patrons supporting Kieran that he hasn't started his patron yet, but he's about to because he's an idiot. because he Oh, that's what I meant to say, What?
01:04:05
Speaker
Someone messaged me yeah last week and said, ha-ha, it's funny how Kieran talks about Jentelorven, yet he won't start his own patron.
01:04:17
Speaker
i don't have a time. Because he thinks he's not good enough. That's the one. Ha-ha-ha, Jentelorven. Ha-ha-ha-ha. That's what the message said. So there you go, Kieran.
01:04:28
Speaker
Stop being ah contradiction to yourself. Start your own... Patreon and get people to support what you do. Okay.
01:04:41
Speaker
Thanks guys for listening. We will see you guys next week. Ta-ta. Bye-bye. Ta-ta. I don't know why I said ta-ta. I've never said that in my life.