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Week 19 - Pierre the more beautiful version of Kieran
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This week is a double episode. You where, I'm sure pumped to here Kristin and I recap this year. Now we are back to normal programing .
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Introduction & Garage Passion
00:00:01
Speaker
This is the second podcast I've done today. Oh really? Yeah. You're going to have to tell me about that. Hello and welcome to the Garage Avenger podcast. I'm Justin and I'm trying to share the joy of building my death machines in my garage in the hope the of one day trying to make a living out of it. Garage And Avenger I'm Podcast. Kieran trying to turn my garage brewed beers into a world renowned brewery. We are two twins.
00:00:41
Speaker
But I can't read what I'm writing. As opposed to like what, six twins? Like it's two. Twin implies two. We are twin brothers with a passion of...
00:00:58
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We can't believe we can't get this right. oh We're going to stop doing this, man. We are twin brothers with a passion for the creating the world and unexpected, taking you on an everyday ride through what's happening in our garages. so Welcome everybody. It's become a big thing now, yeah. Some people might think it's put on.
00:01:24
Speaker
It's like the funny bit is it's totally genuinely complete fuck up every week. I like that read. ah And how I can't remember my intro. Yeah, dyslexic just. That's for sure. Yep. Mm hmm. Anyways.
Podcast Dynamics & Humor
00:01:43
Speaker
So yeah, your second podcast. Tell me about that. What was the first one? Well, I did a podcast this morning.
00:01:53
Speaker
Yeah, at our at our normal recording time. Yeah, without me. Yeah, without you. Don't be fighting words. You were a place with a much more beautiful version. Oh really? Who's that, Kristen?
00:02:11
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it mas and The name may have started with a K, yes. Yeah, okay. The wife. then ah I was like about to say, who started with P, like Pierre, a more beautiful version. We're learning hilarious.
00:02:30
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no but yeah I also have to say, I'm hoping the audio is better than the audio with me and Kristin because we shared a mic but I didn't see that the mic was actually fully turned to her and not turned to me and it's quite correct.
00:02:49
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so like I said, like, I'm in the background over here. justlaming
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Nice. Yeah. So it's, it wasn't the best. I tried do the best I could to fix it up, but to be quite honest, people, I'm sorry, because I got like halfway through editing and I'm like, I'm not, I'm not lifting my audio. ah I'm done. I don't want to spend 48 hours editing this podcast. yeah What was the podcast you're doing with Kristen?
00:03:21
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Uh, yearly wrap up. Okay. On the Garage Avenger podcast. Okay, so that's gonna go all around. Well, to be honest, it's already live. It's out there already. I got fucking snaked.
00:03:35
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wow i I was all around kids.
00:03:41
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Yeah,
Holiday Reflections & Fasting
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all right. Well, other than yearly wrap ups that I've been excluded from, um what else has been happening this week? Well, we had Christmas, didn't we? Yeah, we did. No one's there about our shitty Christmas. Wasn't shitty. Well, I mean, food was good. I did, honestly.
00:04:04
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delicious barbecue glazed rib. um yeah we It's really good. More-ish, one might say. e Don't talk too much about food. I'm fasting at the moment. say i yeah yeah There you go. What brings this on? ah The the post ah post-Christmas feeling like crap from eating so much all the time.
00:04:37
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So, yeah, I just thought I'd give ah intermittent fasting a bit of a crack, so... Well, intermittent's okay. But like, if you're like, what's... Because what what's your fasting routine? Because I don't know...
00:04:53
Speaker
What do you think is fasting and what I think is fasting? Well, gay what in this case, it's like, it's kind of pretty random. that's supposed I think that's the point to kind of like kick off your metabolism. um But you do like, so like the first two days was basically not eating until lunchtime. And then this today was eating like record eat from last night through to this morning and then from 10 uh 10 a.m onwards so I'm not supposed to eat until tomorrow morning and then the same a little bit the same tomorrow and then Thursday is a full nearly oh it's actually over 24 hours it's a 30 yeah like on nearly a day and a half so
00:05:45
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Yeah. And then, and then it goes back to the kind of skip breakfast kind of thing. Yeah. So it's, uh, it's going to be interesting to see, i um, just to play it out. I mean, I've done fasting before, so I've done two weeks before. I don't know if you know that. I didn't know. Yeah. I've done two weeks. I did two weeks with just liquids.
00:06:09
Speaker
That sounds horrible. Yeah. Oh, actually, you know, it's like it's weird because you after like four or five days, you click in and it's just like it's just like normal life. You just you don't. What the really interesting thing is when you're not preparing food and doing that kind of stuff, because I was, you know, single and and, and the you know, didn't have much else like.
00:06:31
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When you're not spending your day, look thinking about what you're going to eat or what you're going to, you know, how you're going to cook or going to the shops, buying food, like have so much free time. It's like crazy. I'm like, what do I do with all my this free time? I should have solved world problems.
00:06:49
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Except you don't have the brain power to solve those what problems he's like after a while I imagine I don't know it's in function It's no it's actually it's kind of weird you go into like a hyper focus after it can't be just like what are we when we're talking liquids? What are we talking here? Because it's just not water because that I had I had to Water I allowed myself to have two coffees a day And and I was ah and i allowed myself to drink ah half a liter of juice in a day. Like I but it had to be simple juice couldn't be like this, like jam 50 fruits into one vegetables into a juice and try and like basically have a liquid diet instead. So yeah, just to keep the sugar levels up just a little bit when I needed to focus.
00:07:39
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Yeah, talk about keeping your sugar levels up in spirit. Yeah, ah yeah anyway, so there there we go. there was that's We're kind of jumping around a bit here, but like, yeah, it started depending. Intermittent fart. Don't rub the chocolate packet in your face, you big fat jerk. That's actually not even like an issue. Like I sat in with the kids whilst they ate pasta today. Mackenzie says to me, dad, why aren't you eating? I had to try and explain to him what I was doing. So no, it's a yeah. So that's, it's been good so far. Actually really easy. Like Lynn's like, how do you do it? Oh my God. But you know, if she's never skipped ah a meal, you know, in her life really. So other than when she's been too busy at work. So,
00:08:31
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Hmm. I think it's it's just a mentality. You've got to just lock into it. So there you go.
Sled Project & Winter Plans
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Lock in. Yeah. So other than Christmas, what else ah have you been up to? Well, I've been finalizing the sled. Yeah. How's that kicking on? Looks pretty freaking mean. That's what it does. I've seen some pictures here, like the paint job and the thing, but I haven't seen skis on it yet, I don't think.
00:08:59
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Yeah, so I went to my day job and they have like a ski, like a waxing machine and everything. So I went and put on, because unfortunately when you like when you test fitting skis and stuff, that the bottom of them get scratched up, whether you like it or not.
00:09:18
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Yeah. um So I went and waxed my skis, got mint, slippery. Yeah. um um So I kind of haven't put them on yet because I just yeah want to wait for a lot. That's the last thing I do. And then and then hopefully there's some f freaking snow because there is no snow anywhere right now. I'm freaking dying inside because I'm thinking and look Literally, if I just like put one little part onto this thing right now, which is the handle grips, the thing's finished. like It's ready to go. like We'll bomb some hills and it'll be mad fun.
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But right now, there's no snow. I was like, what the hell is happening? e So, yeah. Final fab has been really good yeah because I'm learning a lot more about welding and and how to get a good weld and you know what I did wrong previously or like how to clean it or how to do these things. So I'm using a lot less gas and water basically because I know what I'm actually doing. I don't have to cut i have to cut the welds out and do it all over ever again. so yeah That's good and then I've been painting it. It's a matte black
00:10:39
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with red accents. um All the springs are repainted red. ah The skis have red on them and black. yeah So that's I kind of just followed that. That's your color. Yeah. Color palette there. Beautiful. Sounds like a wild beast of a thing.
00:10:58
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did i tell Did I tell the people last time we were on the podcast about the seat? We talked about the snakeskin. Yeah, you talked about snakeskin and how you ah were getting weird looks from from desiring eyes from from women in the the fabric shop. Well, i I decided to keep it simple and embroider it with my logo.
00:11:27
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So, it looks pretty dope. Do you have an embroider? No. No, I get it from... I have connections. I have connections. Yeah, nice. So, yeah, I got my logo embroidered into the seat. It looks so overkill. It looks so good. Yeah, cool. So, the seat's done. The red, I imagine.
00:11:50
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yeah red stitching yeah sexy yeah everything's like black and red yeah yeah it's gonna look pretty beast when it's out there hopefully yes just your dumb ass on top of it so yeah um The only thing I realized though as I was assembling it, the last part, one of the last parts that I still haven't quite done is the brake pedal. Because what I failed to, this is how how much of a rookie I am still. rooking me So there was a quite a tight tolerance with the the the pedal. And when I welded this one part,
00:12:34
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it got really hot and then bent like a banana right and i didn't really think about it like that i should have just gone like slowly with the welder and like but i was like how a And then the steel bent like a banana and I can't bend it back. So I had to completely modify this pedal basically. So I've been doing that this last couple of days, modified it. I've repainted it now. I literally just have to fit it and then put the handle grips on and then we're good to go. So I'm looking forward to getting this thing out and testing it. But of course, like we mentioned, no freaking snow.
00:13:19
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Well, you know, at least I'm in a little bit more ah altitude blessed location and there may be some snow coming up this way soon. So I'll keep you posted and maybe you can do some test runs up this way.
00:13:36
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Yeah, because I have to do some test runs. I can't go take it down Korkitrokken in Oslo without understanding how this thing works and how it functions and how, but like, it could be horrifically bad to ride. And I was like, why have you built this thing? It doesn't steer, it doesn't do anything. I have no idea because there's nothing to test it on and I'm just hoping I got it right.
00:13:59
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yeah So I think I do need to test it. So at some point, I probably really will be heading your way, especially if there's no snow here, um to find a but a space to just bomb a hill and see what happens. It's not like last year around this time we had so much fucking snow around Christmas. I know it was in New Year's, I was at your place and we got snowed in.
00:14:25
Speaker
to stay an extra two days to get the out. Well, i couldn't you couldn't even see our cars. They were just giant mounds of snow. The kids loved it though. They thought it was great. Yeah. i i in So yeah, so cool. So I saw you have ah revamped the the old, war you
Website Relaunch & Merchandise
00:14:50
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the merch. Tell me about the merch. I've seen some merch out there.
00:14:54
Speaker
Yeah, so I also have been sitting in front of the computer, ah relaunched my website. um I made it a little clean. Which is for the people who don't know. CarriageAvenger.com. Okay. Relaunched my website and made it, I thought, I think I cleaned it up quite nicely. I think it looks nicer, a little bit simpler.
00:15:19
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um There is access to this podcast too on there. just I did a page, a new page ah today for it, just to see with like a Spotify link or, you know, just yeah.
00:15:34
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link to Zencaster I'm thinking maybe I should also use but we'll just see how that goes um but yeah ah happy with that and then of course I relaunched a merch line yes um you know and so for those who are patrons of mine ah first of all thank you ah you guys are you're welcome Justin you're welcome um and Second, ah if you didn't know, if you haven't checked your Patreon message, ah then you've got a discount coupon for merch.
00:16:14
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so And that actually applies to anybody who signs up in the next, well, anyone that signs up, a Patreon in general, who wants to support what I'm doing. And you also will get some sort of discount coupon depending what tier you sign up for.
00:16:31
Speaker
Yeah. Hey man, you've got notebooks on here. You got t-shirts, like some sweet looking hoodies. The cap, on as you were you were rocking the cap the other day. I like the cap. The cap's really nice. And then, and then your sick t-shirt as well. Yeah. So if you, I recommend you guys to go check it out. There's probably something good fun if you're a Garage Avenger supporter. So get on there.
00:17:01
Speaker
Yeah, and I'm having a little bit of fun too. I'll probably make some more, you know, other merch. Like we talked about the other week, you know, no in the video I came up with that whole garage of Engified thing. And so I made a t-shirt of that. And that's what sparked this whole thing, obviously.
00:17:21
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that t-shirt's on there as well. um And then I'll just see what other things people like and maybe something will come naturally. Yeah. And other products and things like that. So we'll just see what happens. But yeah, that's exciting. So anyone that wants to go check that out, head over to garageavenger.com. Sweet.
00:17:42
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but very ah Yeah, it's been obviously we had the old Christmas feasting, um which I'm now recovering from.
00:17:54
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he um ah We packaged the, i or I packaged the last XPA, XPA one. um And we had a little tasting, didn't we, Jess? Oh, Christmas. Yeah. I got ah something to talk about with this. So just you continue and I'll see if I can fit it in here. Okay.
00:18:19
Speaker
So we we tried the with three, x three different versions side by side trying to, you know, which was the best combination, which has the best hocomm flavor profile, which had the best, you know, overall flavor or body
Beer Innovations & Experimental Brews
00:18:35
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or whatever. And we kind of discussed this a little bit and tried to figure out what the the best thing was. And to be honest,
00:18:48
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um, super demotivated with the XPA. I just was like, why am I, why am I doing an XPA? It's like, this is kind of like, this is, I mean, maybe it wasn't exactly like the type X, like exactly hit the mark of XPA we tasted in Australia, but it wasn't far off. And I was just thinking to myself, why, why, why am I doing like what I personally consider still quite a boring beer, you know, as far as beers go. Yeah, like it's a smash-up, but like I can make a more tasty, interesting smasher than this.
00:19:29
Speaker
So that's that was an interesting take away from this. So this kind of like and I don't know what you were thinking about discussing just but like this has made me rethink a lot about the way my product lines are going to be in the future. um This is good. I need to go back to the the shit that I love doing when I started homebrewing. Like I know it's hard when you start getting into this experimental shit like I kind of tend to do, because like I garagify the... Yeah, nice. I garagify my homebrew, basically. It turns into like... Not garagify, you garajavengify. Sorry, garajavengify. These beers into something else completely and totally totally overcomplicate them.
00:20:27
Speaker
and ah sometimes to their benefit sometimes to their detriment but like i think that's and i i enjoy that i enjoy the new developing new flavor profiles and maybe redefining styles and all this kind of stuff i mean that's how holy ghost was born the chili ipa out of that,
00:20:47
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And, you know, and that's like, that's a winner. That's a serious winner. ah And Cosmic Christ came out of that as well. um And then I'm like, what am I doing with an XPA? So, I mean, I've started rewriting recipes, I've started writing new recipes. um Yeah, I'm like, I got a bunch of different stuff in in the pipeline, I think.
00:21:14
Speaker
Well, please tell us more. But before you tell us more, I've got a bone to pick about this whole three XPA tasting. So there's a story that goes about the best salesman, shoe salesman. Were you talking to me and telling me about this? I can't remember. I don't know. but i So he gives the the customer two pairs of shoes only only. Right. Because it's too hard to make a decision. if you get If you give them one pair of shoes, they won't buy it because they want a choice. If you give them three pairs of shoes, they won't buy them because there's too much choice. They can't make a decision. If you give them two pairs of shoes, they can measure them and choose one and they'll buy one pair of shoes.
00:22:08
Speaker
So I felt like the taste test was exactly that. like There was too much choice. You couldn't work out what was what. I should have i should have given you the triangle test. That's what I should have done. I should have done two of the same beer and one different, and then you decide which one you like best. Yeah, because that would have fucked me. oh like Because I would have said, yeah that beer is better than that beer. Yeah, that's the same beer, Josh.
00:22:34
Speaker
I mean, what I should have done in that sense, I should have given you one beer, like two different beers, and then swapped out one that you'd already taste with the other one, and then done the test again, and then see which one you pick. And then the two ones, that you if you pick two different ones in each yeah You know, if you liked one and then I put that back in the test and then you pick the other one, then I would put this another one in there and then you'll see which one tops it. I should have done, but sorry, I didn't. Yeah. So I like long story short listeners, I couldn't decide which one was better. In fact, the one I thought was the best when I tasted them alone and separately was not the one I chose at all. Oh really?
00:23:26
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Yeah. I thought, I thought version one was the best, but I never chose version one when we were doing the taste testings with the three of them there. Right. So yeah. Very interesting. And then you also bring up a good point as well. We brought up a good point when we were tasting is like, it depends on your mood and how you're feeling on how things taste. Yeah. Like taste is so subjective.
00:23:52
Speaker
it's uh yeah it's fascinating so but yeah i mean this is like the thing maybe the xba will be something that i bring to market we'll see i um i'm undecided at this point but uh i think that it's it was an interesting exercise in recognizing that i love the experimental shit So I should just start moving back in that direction. So the next next one, next beer that I or the next recipe that I just wrote today ah is for a toasted coconut lime IPA. Oh my God. Yeah. And I think that's going to be a fucking cracker.
00:24:39
Speaker
like just imagine all that and like sweet limey like IPA hoppiness with toasted coconut. And we're in the Caribbean, let's go. Oh man, come on, it's gonna be great. not Like a big body, sweet, heavy, like but still fresh because you got this like citrus like notes coming through and then you got this nice like creamy coconut ah taste on top of it, I think. And you can mix that with, you know, you can do hops with pineapple, you can do hops with mango and do the same thing. You can make a series out of it, you know, if you really want to do this. Elevating gear makes me want to stop fasting. Oh, wait a second, I'm not fasting. ha Yeah. And then, you know, like I've been thinking about all sorts of other quirky, weird things to do as well, like herbs in beer as well. It's something I need to, I want to experiment more with.
00:25:34
Speaker
Uh, although people hate it, like, uh, no, I've, I've done coriander seed in beer before, but never coriander leaves. And there's a process you'd have to do to make it like be fresh and really interesting and tasty. But I think like I, I love coriander myself. I think it's a fantastic herb. I mean, it's something that's a love hate thing for people, but like, I think it's fantastic. And I think that would be a really interesting thing to put into beer. So.
00:26:05
Speaker
I think maybe even a sour, that but could be kind of interesting, like you have a sour beer with coriander. Or a sour beer with knuckleost.
00:26:17
Speaker
Carver. I could but just put the caraway seeds in. Yeah, then it just tastes like ark of it. Yeah. So, you know, um yeah. So I think I'm just coming back to those roots also, too, like I was thinking about some of my all time favorite beers that I've tasted. And one was a one from Garage Project, which is my favorite brewery. And they did a Sour IPA blend and I was thinking that's really interesting direction to go as well that you take a base sour beer and you blend out like 20% of sour beer into for example a Into a big IPA and it gives us this whole other direction of like
00:27:08
Speaker
sourness, but you still got all the sweetness and hoppiness from the the big IPA as well. And that would like just increases that kind of juiciness of the beer as well. So I'm going to like that kind of thing. I'm just kind of getting excited about and experimenting with this kind of stuff. So got to start buying some interesting ingredients and get in back into the garage and do some testing. So Good for you, bro, because I think I feel a lot similar to you with regards to creativity and doing creative stuff. So, you know, like I could make a shitty sled. But I choose to make it like freaking cool with embroidered seats. and to venify it Yeah, I choose to do that because that's what I love to do. Like if I was to present something that I wasn't proud of,
00:28:02
Speaker
not really super pumped to to show people. But when I'm proud of something, you know, you see it in the video, you see it in in my body language, everything, I'm i' more excited about it. And it brings me joy in my life to have something like sitting down in my garage right now that looks sick as. Even like I was thinking today, I was like, oh, I just want to take the go cut out and just give it a fucking thrashing. You know?
00:28:30
Speaker
Because I can. If I want to, I'll do some burnouts up the gravel road a bit, you know, do some slides and stuff and drifting and then come back down. and All I have to do is like a five minute burn and run down to the church and back, you know. It'll be fun.
00:28:48
Speaker
and And that's my creation that's sitting there in the garage that I'm proud of. It's something that I am willing to give people to sit in and drive it if they want to. yeah and I think it would be the same for the sled, you know, like people will see it and they'll be like, oh, can I have a go? I'm like, yeah, you can. And they'll just be sick.
00:29:07
Speaker
So, yeah, so I think you know that whole thing of like, yeah but like that this is a thing that you you don't get any YouTube views by making something that is like run of the mill standards, stock standard. And the reality is, is that I don't get any kudos or any attention by making the same IPA that everyone else makes. Yeah.
00:29:32
Speaker
So I've got to be doing stuff outside of the box to really make some waves and get some attention whether people love it or hate it. Like it's still attention nevertheless. So if they're willing to take a chance and that's a big.
00:29:48
Speaker
if for Norwegian drinkers, ah you know, like, I mean, I think the main thing is you just don't tell them what what you've done with it. You just present it to it. It's an IPA just happens to have fuck tons of toasted coconut in it, you know, and or, you know, it's like it's a blended sour, but you don't tell them it's a blended sour, like, you know, like you don't tell them it's got coriander. Just say it's got it's herbal.
00:30:17
Speaker
You know, just like those kinds of things are just people, you know, they feel like they're going to get into it. Take a chance. Yeah, I think if you give people too much information, they give them too much to be like, oh, no, I don't like that in in my life. You know, like I don't like coriander because it tastes like soap for me. So they won't even try it if they know it's got coriander in it. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, technically, I have to list it as an ingredient so people can if they want, but I ain't going to spook about it. So, yep.
00:30:49
Speaker
So, yeah, there we go. That's pretty much me up to date. I've got to get out. Like the all the tanks are empty at the moment. I've got to get, yeah you know, up there. And um thanks to Jürgen for basically telling some of his friends that I was willing to give away free beer. So I've got some Brando, dude. I can't remember his name off my head now, ah who's like, hey, can you send me some beer, too?
00:31:18
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And um so, yeah, I've got some beer to send off in the new year. ah Thankfully, it's just locally Norwegian stuff, so it's going to cost me an arm and a leg. and So, um yeah, a big shout out to I actually sent off some beer to those guys, those makers that we don't like to talk about.
00:31:39
Speaker
What? No, don't. Dude, I was thinking about this for like forever. like Do not send it to them, ever, because it'll it'll be like the vein of their existence. like Every time they're like, What's your drink? you know they And then they have to like say, it's not a Eucharist beer. you know And that, Kieran, he's such a deebak. And we what we would have said is like, oh, I'm sending it this week, every week for a week, yeah for months and months and months. Oh yeah, I'm about to pack Kieran, Steve's beers in the...
00:32:19
Speaker
Well, I mean, i I mean, I say I sent them, but, like, according to the app, which has got, like, a tracking code on it, they're still stuck stuck in transit. So, I mean, I sent them ages. I sent them well before Christmas. I sent them on, like, the 17th of December. Where were are they in transit, though? Well, currently, Piers is sitting in Oslo still.
00:32:43
Speaker
ah yeah And, and well, Steve's is, uh, you're, yes, Steve, you're getting some too, buddy. I, uh, I, sent some to Steve. Uh, he is, car it has left the country apparently, but I don't know any more than that. I, I want, like, what did you send them? Can, can you tell us? I sent them a ah triple.
00:33:14
Speaker
a special limited edition Eucharist Eulog, a cosmic Christ and a cry of Jesus. Nice. They're basically the they got of the full range of commercial beers, more or less, plus a limited edition one. So Nice. Yeah, so and then I wrote something nice too. I think I made jokes in the letter that I wrote in the box to Pierre saying that the buzz, I mistook the the buzzing of my conscience in not sending this these beers to you as tinnitus. And then something to to Steve about how sick and tired of him drinking shitty beer. So I decided to send him some better ones.
00:34:09
Speaker
And he's going to be like, oh, this is rubbish. Scathing review. So, yeah, I mean, it's good. So there we go. The three northern makers. I mean, yeah that podcast we don't listen to. Yeah, those jerk faces might be getting something in the mouth. I hope it gets lost. No, even worse, even worse, even worse.
00:34:34
Speaker
Or even better, I should say. Destroyed in transit. No, they get it and it's all smashed up inside. alllthough everything just it just Or some guy, or the delivery man drank it. They just let put back empty cans. Yeah. And I get all these raving reviews on untapped from some random postal worker in the UK.
00:35:01
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fifty the there you just the Steve, you just give the give the idea of local postman. Just don't drink my beer, you prick.
00:35:13
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ah yeah So there we go. yeah them that's That's pretty much me up to date. you Well, you know, you Steve, I don't know if you know this, but Steve loves his delivery guys to come around the back door.
00:35:33
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That was backdoor delivery that Steve.
00:35:38
Speaker
whoa That front door is locked. There's no getting in there. It's only in the back door. ah Even gets bloody plywood sheets. Fucking backdoor delivered. Oh, geez. It's it's a gaping backdoor.
00:36:02
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Poor Steve.
00:36:06
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Poor Posty. He's just like coming in with some sheets of plywood and he's just like, where do you want them? Well, I'll tell you where you're going to want them. He's just faced with a back door. Right in the back door. Oh God.
00:36:21
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And Steve can't work out why his posties keep changing out every other week. He ends with the bottle, you know? So where do you want these? He's like, wow.
00:36:34
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ah Poor Steve.
Movie Critiques & Subscription Woes
00:36:37
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We like you, Steve. We do. Anyway, well, what's been blowing your mind this week? just ah
00:36:48
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ah What's blowing my mind is how bad the new Bill and Ted movie was. Oh, did you watch it? It came out in 2020 and it was horrific. Yeah, real bad. but what what what But did you watch it? when and When did you watch it? I literally watched it yesterday.
00:37:11
Speaker
Yeah, it was super terrible, I admit. But it was kind of nostalgic though. Yeah, like there was, okay, so I think as you realize, all us old people grew up with old films and we see them again, we're like,
00:37:27
Speaker
It wasn't that great, was it? yeah and I couldn't find the original Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Really? I couldn't find it for free streaming somewhere. so and we We have like a thousand streaming sites. We have Netflix. We have HBO. We have TV to play. We have just Apple TV. We've got Sky Showtime. We got all of them pretty much.
00:37:56
Speaker
I don't know how we afford them, to be quite honest. These Patreons just paying for your fucking subscriptions.
00:38:05
Speaker
Well, that comes out of Kristen's bank account, not the Patreon. Just so you know, you guys, all the Patreon money goes direct into buying things for this garage and the projects. So there's nothing spent in this family. Everything goes in projects. so ah But yeah, and we couldn't find the original, so I ended up...
00:38:27
Speaker
doing the trailer, like watching the trailer for the the newest version, which is called Facing, no, Facing the Music or something? Yeah, I think so, yeah. yeah And ah my son Henry is like, yeah, we should watch that. That looks great. And I was like, okay. So we press play and I immediately regretted it. It blew my mind how bad it was. Like yeah considering it was made in 2020 or released in 2020, it should have been a lot better.
00:38:56
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, but we kind of like if you if you remember the originals, they were pretty cheesy. So, you know, you can't expect miracles. You know, it's just like, I mean, I was about to quote something from them. I couldn't I can't remember this. There's so many. I like this. I just love the fact that they want it like they're they're they're trying to make a triumphant music video in order to get Eddie Van Halen.
00:39:26
Speaker
into the band. He was like, you're a fantastic guitar player, but they are like two guitar players with no drummer or no bass player.
00:39:39
Speaker
reading too far into bill and andrick it's ah it's i do I did enjoy it though. It is a classic film. What is blowing your mind, Karen? Do you really want to know? I went down. ah ah ah This is a total change of gear gears. this suits you Do you feel like existential crisis? Do you? Do you like nihilism? Well, welcome to my mind blown this week.
00:40:10
Speaker
are on i ah I saw a documentary on this guy called René Girard, a French literary professor who ah is who basically has kind of decoded human nature.
00:40:37
Speaker
If you will, he um he basically wrote a book about it's called Mimetic and Desire. It's the idea that basically, you know, you your desires are not your own, that you basically mimic other people or things around you in order to feel like you have a desire. And everyone does the same thing.
00:41:02
Speaker
And so that anything and everything that you do is not actually you at all. it's just You just go down the rabbit hole. I mean, it goes a lot deeper than that. There's all sorts of other things about, you know, this being the the basis of all violence in the world. And and all theres so it goes down pretty deep down a rabbit hole, but also hopeful at the end because it comes with a solution after and the guy's life. He wrote several books and basically comes to a point where he finds this is the issue with
00:41:40
Speaker
society with humans and society and we're all fucked and then kind of realizes that, well, there's actually a solution to this. And, um, I'll tell you what the solution is, Karen.
00:41:54
Speaker
double rainbo all the red cross
00:42:04
Speaker
I was waiting for that one. I was over here snoring. I was like, what is going on about? Just say you've read a fucking cool book or listen to a cool podcast. Like, ah. Oh, come on. There's someone listening out there who's a thinker, who enjoys this kind of stuff. There you go. Rene Girard. You can check it out for yourselves. I won't say any more than that. But my mind was blown.
00:42:34
Speaker
wow whoa well karen please tell me does number oh hey hey just grab a hold of something bite your lip and give it hell come on we're gonna get through this my hey that sounds pretty nasty how about courtesy flush open there but um love it
00:43:09
Speaker
Yeah, well, what is currently giving me the shits, Justin, is subscription services. You touched on it before. I have like all these fucking subscription services. I got like fucking Netflix. I've got fucking Apple TV. I've got fucking, you know, and then the other day I was like, oh man, I really want to go snowboarding.
00:43:32
Speaker
subscription service for the fucking ski mountain. I'm like, oh, fuck's sake. Everyone's fucking just bleeding me dry. Corona for Corona every fucking month. Yes. Fucking. you Just throw them all away and subscribe to my garage manager. That's what you should do. hundred Yeah, who needs to, who needs to, you know, of that's like a pretty good solution, let's be honest here. Well, you know, I did, I did actually post something that people would probably find interesting the other day about an idea about strapping jet engines to an ice skateboard. So I put things like that out on my Patreon and you can be amused by all my weird ideas that come up. I think you should do it. I think that would be mad.
00:44:26
Speaker
I do to stop making things that need cold weather because it's not cold now. And like, I've got snow tracks downstairs to go on. And you can just make a jet powered skateboard. Yeah, true. But I kind of, it's been done many times before. Has it? Yeah. This is a regular skateboard just with jet engines. Yeah. So I'm thinking ice skates would be cooler.
00:44:55
Speaker
Just like literally go straight onto your ass. ah Four ice skates, right? you know And then, and then you've got these jets on the back and then you can actually steer around. At least if you could take it to an ice rink, you just like freaking cruise past like the silver surfer um on the ice. Silver surfer.
00:45:18
Speaker
Oh man. Yeah. Anyway, so there you go. Subscription services. That has given me the shits. All this goddamn money bleeding me out of my account every other week. Oh, yeah. I guess I was funny too, because like oh I always, they always come out of the same account, which of course, like always like is also like the account that we use for like buying food and stuff so that all of a sudden it's like empty and I'm like are they opting to like get a notification your payment was unsuccessful like take that motherfuckers I think I'll just count to your subscription that's that's my best way to count the subscriptions to pay them well how much does strim cost
00:46:04
Speaker
What a stream. It's like a one and all. You got all the... Oh really? Yeah. Cause if it's... I don't know how much it costs. Yeah. There you go. 349 kronas a month. But is it everything? Everything? I don't know.
00:46:24
Speaker
But if it is, that's not a bad thing. I mean, if you think about like Netflix, Apple TV, like HBO, the whole thing, I don't think it has Netflix. It's got HBO. It's got via play show time. Sky show time.
00:46:49
Speaker
Yeah, it doesn't have everything. ah But I mean, for 349 kronas a month, it's maybe something we're looking into because you feel maybe there's a lot of them cost over 100 kronas a month, right? So yeah, close to depends on what yeah what you're getting. but yeah yeah they So Justin,
00:47:14
Speaker
what is giving you the shits this week?
00:47:18
Speaker
screens screens yeah like mean so i iPads and whatnot yeah well specifically telephone screens I may or may not have allegedly dropped my telephone in a horrific accident
00:47:42
Speaker
Yeah, you know, I had too much going on. Basically, I was bringing in a big package of like a box of it was actually a present for for one of the kids into the garage and I was trying to bring it I had too much stuff going on. Now, I wear these like ah work pants that have like flappy pockets. Yeah.
00:48:01
Speaker
And so I lifted this box up and the flappy pocket went like lifted up and basically allowed the telephone to slide out. yeah And so as I was a man handling this box,
00:48:13
Speaker
I went to put down the box, the telephone fell from my pocket straight on like a sharp rock, like a big sharp rock with its full like a meato drop. <unk> um And it pretty much smashed the whole entire screen. And yeah I've been fighting with it for ages. The reason why it's giving me the shits is because I went to get the screen fixed on Friday.
00:48:37
Speaker
e That will cost you 4,399 kronas. Jesus. And it'll never be the same either. It'll never be the same as the original fucking phone. And the other side of it is, the phone costs six and a half.
00:48:57
Speaker
oh What are we doing? yeah What are we freaking doing, dude? When something breaks, we pretty much can't fix it. Well, I mean, it's just a process of materialistic society, really. Oh, give me the shit. You need to get one of these, like like the phone cover I've got. I'm like, well, I bought it because on the packet it said like that it had a guarantee that if you drop it on its edge, it's tested.
00:49:33
Speaker
up to, was it 17 meters or something like that without breaking the phone? It's not that I'm worried about, it's the screen, the director screen. Yeah, well you know what, I've only ever broken a screen once, and you know, and I was like, oh okay, oh shit, I've got to get that fixed, then I took it to the place to get it fixed.
00:49:56
Speaker
And the guy's like, oh, this just it's just the this the protective glass you got on the front that's broken and the screen underneath is fine. Yeah, but you don't do silly things like let your phone drop out of the the taxi. When you're getting in the taxi and you drive off, realize you've forgotten your phone, tell the taxi to turn around. He turns around, pulls into the driveway, drives over the phone.
00:50:28
Speaker
It wasn't smashed before I went back. It was just laying there perfectly. He was in the driveway. and do Well, you know.
00:50:43
Speaker
So in that it still worked. It was just completely smashed. So, you know, shit happens. Yeah, was okay. All right, Justin. Recommendations for this week.
00:50:58
Speaker
I think, I'm sorry, it's cheesy. And, you know, we've kind of been talking about it all podcast, but gasper please go check out my new merch shop, buy something if you like. That's my recommendation. Cool. I just might do that.
00:51:16
Speaker
You could be the only one.
00:51:21
Speaker
I like, I like this couple of people bought some stuff, which is super nice. yeah That's awesome. Awesome. I also understand it's just after Christmas, everyone's bank accounts are completely different. I mean, the same with me. I'm like, i'm like oh, I've still got some beer left to sell. Yep, no one's buying because they're all doing dry January. Yeah.
00:51:40
Speaker
Yeah, so bars and restaurants really won't even be looking to talk to me until February, March. Well, that's something we can talk about in other podcasts coming. Hmm. So, yeah, that's, that's gives me heaps of time to test and and promote and things like that. So that's exciting. Awesome. Yeah. What are you going to recommend? I'm going to recommend, you know, ah just preface this.
00:52:11
Speaker
You know, it's Christmas time, there's kids running around, there's kids needing things 24-7. You know, it's tiring, it can run down. And you know what? It's a great time to start thinking about a vasectomy.
00:52:30
Speaker
Ah, yes. Yeah, well, that's why I'm recommending it just get done because I'm like, it's like ah there there ain't no spray and pray going on in my yeah in my camp. That's for sure.
00:52:48
Speaker
i just ah I'm just yeah i'm and enjoying enjoying the joys of of kidless, of and of the of the complete sterile sterile sex. It's fantastic. so earols I don't know, I don't know what I was like, what a else would I say? I don't I'm and blank in peacetime. I just honestly thought about like, like a posh British guy who's terrible sex. He's like, Oh, yes. so Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I'm climaxing. Yes. Oh, that is the stuff. Oh, yes. What more videos are you watching on the Internet? Jesus.
00:53:39
Speaker
No, I mean but i if okay so see ah serious to you gentlemen out there if you think if you've ah if you've popped out of if well you if you've had a couple kids and you're just thinking oh man I don't want this this uh stress of thinking every other every month or whatever are we you know even if you if she's got contraception or whatever like it's not 100 foolproof let's be honest here so like uh You know, if you don't want that stress, recommend getting the old chop chop. it's a oh It was, I mean, realistically, like if you, if you look after yourself post-surgery, it's an, it's easy breezy.
00:54:23
Speaker
I mean, like, I'll give you a little insight into mine. No one wants to know again. No one wants to know. This podcast is proudly brought to you by vasectomies dot.com. Thank you so much for listening, guys. i Really appreciate you guys. Have an awesome New Year's. Love you. Thank you for listening. think I'll be to send chow. Bye. Please get the old choppy chop.
00:54:53
Speaker
Choppity chop chop. Choppity chop chop. I think we'll leave it there, guys. Thank you so much for listening. Oh, dribble. The choppity chop chop. I think it's me was scs and like way the sc is from with I'm enjoying with them the whole episode.
00:55:14
Speaker
The one that was love like, I must have like had like a twin sense that was is like, hmm, the old choppy chop.
00:55:23
Speaker
What's this brought on with you playing scissors? Playing with scissors? Yeah, maybe. Maybe. There you go. Okay, thank you for listening, guys. We will catch you in the year 2025. We'll see you next year. See you next year. I'll be at his end. See ya.