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Week 42 - You're just a Pussy!
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This week Kieran brews a concept beer that could change the world. Justin on the other hand gets told the gearing is correct. You are just driving like a pussy.
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Beer: St Feuillien - Cuvee De Noel
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Transcript
00:00:01
Speaker
This is the Garage Avenger Podcast.
Introduction and Ambitions
00:00:12
Speaker
Hello and welcome back to the Garage Avenger Podcast. I'm Justin, trying to share the joy of building my non-street legal death machines in my garage in a hope of one day, please, making a living out of doing this.
00:00:25
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God, And I'm Kieran trying to turn my garage brewed artisanal yak urine into a world renowned brewery.
00:00:36
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Fuck, it's hard keeping yaks in the garage. um I'm quite proud of that one. i just, I love the word artisanal.
00:00:48
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I mean, is artisanal about yak urine? Well, I mean, what's not artisanal about yak urine? mean, isn't just it by yak urine, drinking yak urine artisanal in itself?
00:01:00
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Didn't need the pre-context there of artisanal.
00:01:06
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I think it always needs it. It doesn't matter what you're brewing, Kieran, it's artisanal, all right? It is. true.
Purpose of the Podcast
00:01:16
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Yeah, we are twin brothers with a passion for creating the wild and honest unexpected yak urine.
00:01:24
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And we try every week to take you on a ride of what actually goes on in our garages. So welcome, everybody. Welcome. Let's get straight into this, Kieran.
00:01:36
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What are you drinking this morning? You've to hit the music, bro. Oh, sorry. Oh, sorry.
Morning Beverages Discussion
00:01:46
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Well, today's beverage is coffee. Yeah, I know. I've got to go. I've got to head out after this podcast. I've got to drive so I can't really...
00:02:03
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ah well today's beverage ah is coffee i know well i gotta to go i go head out after this podcast like a drive so i can't really um I can't really ah get on on the beers.
00:02:19
Speaker
I can't say I'm much better right now. i was like I was in the fridge. I was like, i did I drink older beer this weekend? What the hell? I came out with this.
00:02:32
Speaker
What did you come out with? It's a... Sainte Fulion Christmas beer. It's a Belgian Christmas beer. Yeah. All had in the fridge. Wow. So... if i If I remember what that one is like, it's got a really... It's kind of got a really like a lot of licorice in that one.
00:02:53
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It's 9%er too. she's a She's not a little... Little, well, she'll be a good start for today, I think. What do reckon?
00:03:05
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Get the motor running a bit. I've overheaded this. i mean, typically those beers are quite highly carbonated anyway, so I wouldn't stress about that, Justin. Oh, it does smell very fruity.
00:03:19
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Mm-hmm.
00:03:28
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Actually, yeah. Christmas here in June. oh Wow. I mean, don't they have Christmas in June in Australia sometimes? Christmas in July, yeah. July, that's right. Yeah.
00:03:43
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I really like this, actually. Yeah? but theres Is that the one that has a little bit of, like, licorice-y flavor? No. No, I don't i don't feel aniseed. I feel a lot of, like, fig.
00:03:56
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Okay. Yeah. And fruit. Yeah, there there's a couple different variants of that Saint-Fruilléon Christmas duvet. What is it called? What do they call it? Noel or whatever? Yeah.
00:04:07
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Noel. yeah you ah Read the full name for the people, Justin. ah How do you even pronounce this? St. Fulia. Stuvé de Noël.
00:04:20
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and How how do you actually- St. Fulia de Noël. You've got to think about your French YouTube version. Fulia de Noël.
00:04:33
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I've got bones to pick about that ah French version of me on YouTube. yeah No, I think it's lovely. Actually, for a 9%er, it doesn't feel very heavy to drink, actually. No, and Belgians never do. That's that's the dangerous bit. You're just like, oh, well, that was a great beer.
00:04:54
Speaker
What was 9%? Bam! um Yeah. So, Kieran, what has been happening this week?
Brewing Experiences and Challenges
00:05:04
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You want to start with me again week? like ah is it is there Have you got like a...
00:05:11
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What's the word I was looking for? Is there like a elephant in the room for your week that you're trying to avoid? no, no. I mean, yes, but no.
00:05:24
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Well, okay. So, I actually, I brewed a beer this week, not the triple that I was talking about because... I didn't have all the ingredients I needed for it, but I thought, you know what? I'm going to give this bit of a crack on my system, see if i can get somewhere near what I wanted to do in terms of gravity and and all the rest.
00:05:45
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And that went to shit. something you fail i used more rice hulls to aid filtering through the mash than I've ever used before.
00:06:00
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Explain what is a rice hole, Kieran. I don't even know what that means. Well, rice, they're seeds, right? Yeah. And they they come with a little husk around them.
00:06:11
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And you use those husks to aid the filtering of your mash when you're trying to rinse the grain out at the end, laudering as it's called. um And it aids like just and i it's the movement of liquid through the crushed grain.
00:06:29
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especially when you've got loads of flaked adjuncts like wheat and oats in there. And then I also use naked oats, which don't have any husks on them either.
00:06:40
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And in order to get the extract from them, I fucking pulverized them in my mill, basically turned them into porridge. um Like, you know, this baby grrrt, the baby porridge you buy? Yeah.
00:06:53
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Yeah. It was finer than that. yeah And it was just like, so it basically turned into a fucking giant porridge in my mash tun. And it was impossible to do anything with.
00:07:05
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So I was just like, motherfucker. ah So, yeah, it turned to shit. But, I mean, I managed to get in the in the vicinity of where I wanted to be.
00:07:18
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a with in terms of the the gravity of the beer. And so it'll be come out around 6%. So that's kind of where I wanted to be. and What type of beer is it?
00:07:29
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So this what I ended up – sorry, I should have – the pretext was is that I was going to do this big triple IPA, didn't have all the malt and oats and things I needed, but I had enough to do a 6% of something similar.
00:07:47
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So I was like, fucking coconut, lime IPA, Iwikiam, ba-bam. So I brewed that one. um Yay. and So that's ah that's turning out pretty good so far.
00:08:00
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and It's still fermenting out now. I dry hopped it yesterday. So that's the biggest dry hop I've ever done, 15 grams per liter. I've never done such a big dry hop before.
00:08:16
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Hmm. Uh, so like I'm influenced a little bit by this guy, Boz, I work with and he's like, he's like 20 grams, 35 grams per liter. Ah, like hops, hops, hops. I'm like, okay, I'll give him normally like eight to 10 is my max.
00:08:34
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Cause I've read a lot of data on this and they say that the saturation point with hops is somewhere between eight and 10. there's not much point in adding more than that. But some people beg to differ, so I'm going to give it a crack.
00:08:49
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So that's what i'm doing. Nice. So, yeah, it's dry hopped. It's tasting pretty good so far, considering. Yeah, like well when you taste it from the tank, do you get already the lime and the coconut?
00:09:01
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Well, the coconut is something we'll add post-fermentation because it won't. The coconut is such a delicate flavor. The the fermentation will destroy it um the yeast will basically broke up those aromaprofiles and it'll go.
00:09:16
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And plus, if you add coconut in the hot side, which you'd have to do in this case, um you would lose a lot of the ah head retention because there'd be fats from the coconut that would go through. Whereas if I do it on the cold side, less fat is, even though the fat in in holds a lot of flavor, less fat would actually be and transported into the, like dissolved into the the into the beer itself because it's cold.
00:09:47
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Yeah, okay. Yeah, so basically, yeah, okay. So there's um there's those kind of things that I'm considering there. So in this case, Hot Side, I had Citra, Centennial and Motueka.
00:10:04
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Though I have to say, umm i'm really disappointed with New Zealand hops, especially with Motoweika at the moment. um No one in Norway can get a decent, fresh, like good quality bag of hops. Now, I got some stuff from Yamaka Chief, which is a big hop a a distributor, provider yeah out of the US, and they'd clearly repackaged some Motoweika, which is a New Zealand hop,
00:10:38
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And it was oxidized. It smelled like fucking cheese. it was rubbish. Absolute fucking rubbish. And I was just like, I was so disappointed because this is supposed to be the beer that, you know, it's ah it's supposed to have this like fresh lime zest aroma on it.
00:10:56
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And it had none of that. It was fucking dead. And I thought thought, okay, well, I'll get some some stuff from another supplier. Same shit. A little bit better, to be honest, but the same shit.
00:11:08
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And i was just like, what is going on with New Zealand hops? Because I know these hops are fucking great, but no one here can treat them in the way that they deserve. And one has to wonder, I'm like, are they are they doing this on purpose? Because these these other companies that are repackaging them,
00:11:24
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have their own invested interest in like citra and mosaic and other things and like are they just letting it ah packaging it do it badly so that it doesn't last so long and people go oh new zealand hops are not good i'm not going to use them we'll just go stick with citra and mosaic you know and keep lining their pockets So it was it's been a bit of a disappointing journey with hops, unfortunately.
00:11:49
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But you know what? I'm like, all right, the citrus is still good. Fuck it. I laid it straight into their hands and I bought more citra.
00:11:59
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So I just dry hopped it with more citra. And I threw in a bag of ah of some some Nelson Savine, which is ah is a New Zealand hop as well. um Maybe that's what you should get into, Kieran.
00:12:13
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Hop input or importation. And not in Norway. That's just silly. Well, through Europe. Why not? yeah Anyway, there's um yeah there is enough people. I mean, if you bought it directly from Freestyle Hops, which is the New Zealand provider, of yeah yeah I think it would be a different case.
00:12:33
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But the problem is when you're talking about homebrew selection, you've got limited providers. So that's unfortunate, but that's what it is. It's an open market, Kieran. It's an open market. Let's go.
Family Trip to Stavanger
00:12:44
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So we'll see.
00:12:46
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It's going to be interesting to see how this beer turns out with such a big dry hop. And then I'm going to – what I'm go actually going to do is I'm going to can some before I run it through the the coconut.
00:12:59
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but Okay, yeah. So there'll be two variants to to compare to one another and say, like, did this add or subtract from from the original product so I don't have to sit there going – You know what? That was a great beer, but then I fucked it up by adding coconut. How does how does one put coconut in before canning?
00:13:21
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ah So in this case, what I'm going to do, bought toasted coconut flakes, which are fucking delicious. I just have to say. i've like um but I It's just really good. bought these...
00:13:36
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um ah ecologis um organic coconut chips that were toasted. And and like I ordered them on on Monday and they came Tuesday.
00:13:52
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was super pretty impressed. It was just through the regular post too. ah So it was super quick and i'm really happy with that. And um the toasted coconut came. i opened a bag just to test them out.
00:14:03
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nearly emptied the first bag of I, I've got to stop this cause I got to use this in the beer. So what I'm going to do is take this toasted coconut and I'll, I'll run that basically a couple months or month or two ago, i started talking about how I was building hop rocket.
00:14:23
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And so basically I'm going to use that, uh, that kind of, what are you going to call it? Like a, Chamber. Chamber filter. And then so basically the beer comes from the bottom of the tank ah into a pump and then the pump pushes the beer in through the filter full of full of the full of coconut and then back into the tank. So it circulates it through the filter of coconut.
00:14:54
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And so the idea is is I just run it for half an hour, taste, see how it's going. run it a bit longer, taste it again see how I'm – and when I'm happy with the flavor infusion, then I'll stop and package it. so By the way, tips ah with ah anything you're getting ordered in. Like if you can somehow order in something a little dangerous into your package –
00:15:27
Speaker
What you mean? You're going to get it quicker. I found this out with ordering go-kart parts. Right. So I ordered a bunch of parts and sometimes they would take like a week or two, like a week and a half to come from just on the other side of Oslo.
00:15:43
Speaker
Yeah. to To my house, Yeah. But when I ordered like a bottle of brake fluid in the package or a bottle of like something else, like with something that's a little bit you know technically dangerous, right it comes within the day.
00:16:04
Speaker
Interesting. because i And the same price, usually, yeah for for transport. So if you can add like a 150 kroner bottle of brake fluid or two-stroke oil or whatever, what it is, like in my instance, right, into the order that you're doing, you're going to get it quicker because they have to send it through ah different
00:16:37
Speaker
Courier. Yeah, okay. Yeah. yeah So in this case, they send it through PostNord, which is, you know, it's basically delivers it direct to the, you know, those um automatic um pickup stations. Yeah.
00:16:53
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And it's like within the day, it's there. Oh, really? Yeah. Because I have terrible experience with any company that uses PostNord, just going to say. So I have the opposite experience.
00:17:03
Speaker
But it might be because I'm not transporting dangerous goods. Yep. You got to get that. They want that shit out of their truck as soon as possible. So that's probably why they will. Need to order some gas or something.
00:17:17
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know Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just yeah orders that somehow get... I don't know, some petrol included in in your order, and you're good.
00:17:28
Speaker
It'll be a lickety-split. Cool. What else is going on, Karen? Well, I did take a trip to Stavunga this week. and the There was a familia tref a family gathering Stavunga.
00:17:46
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Lynn's family has ah There's a couple of family members that live in the Stavanger Sannes, sorry, Sannes, not Stavanger. and They're very particular about that.
00:17:58
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There's like a weird rivalry between those two cities, even though like basically they're next door to each other. They're literally a next door to each other. And let's be honest, Stavanger's got shit all over, shit's all over Sannes.
00:18:12
Speaker
Like as far as a city goes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like Sunless has got what? A train station and a few shops? Like, come on. ah Technically the airport, isn't it? The airport's in Sunless. Yeah, it's in, yeah, Surah. Actually the farm where we were visiting is not far from the airport.
00:18:30
Speaker
So actually have planes and stuff taking off overhead. and But it was really nice. ah The family thing was okay. you know But I was mostly running off the kids, making sure they weren't doing anything stupid.
00:18:43
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and But then and the nice bit was like actually the day after we went back there and Johan, the dad of the family that lives there, um super lovely guy,
00:19:02
Speaker
And he just takes the kids under his wing. He's such a lovely, like, grandfather figure. He's like the grandfather that every kid wishes he had. And, um you know, so he's like, Mackenzie, do you want to drive the gravel machine? And he's like, do I drive him a fucking excavator? Yeah!
00:19:21
Speaker
So he's up there on Johan's lap whilst Johan's driving the excavator around the farm and digging shit up and he's fucking loving it. and would Yeah.
00:19:33
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And then then he's like, oh, McKenzie had been talking about the the ATV that he has on the farm. Because a couple of weeks or months back, we went and visited a friend who had a six-wheeler.
00:19:48
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And so he's been wanting to ride something like that again. And so he's like, Dad, I want to go on this. Can we go on the ATV? atv And I was like, yeah, we'll ask. So we got permission to take it out and fang it around the farm.
00:20:02
Speaker
And if I could put some stick. There was a couple of moments where i was like, shit, i why I shouldn't be driving this quickly with my child. Neither of us are wearing helmets.
00:20:13
Speaker
Yeah, that's best way to do it. Like, just down this, like, dirt road, fucking flat out in high gear. i don't know. I didn't even look. I wasn't... I was too focused on the road. i didn't look at how fast we were actually going.
00:20:26
Speaker
ah But Mackenzie thought it was so much fun. and So he loved that. And then... When we, I, so Johan gave me the job of driving gravimachine, the excavator, down to this giant pile of horse shit that he had in the back corner of the farm because he needed to turn it over whatever, because has horses on the farm.
00:20:51
Speaker
and ah And so I got the job of driving this thing down and I was like, what what's Mackenzie going to do? Is he follow-up? I'm like, he's like... They had like ah you know, they have got like a, like a pickup truck.
00:21:07
Speaker
and has like a ah diesel tank in the back for, you know, filling up things like carbon machines. and um And so, yeah, he just cruised down and drove, Mackenzie drove, I say inverted commas, the pickup truck ten to down to the to excavator. Like he's never, obviously we've, you know, we sat in the car with me, like where we like, you know,
00:21:32
Speaker
reverse the car out the driveway or something like that but he's never had the chance to drive it anywhere it was kind of obviously he loved that too so he was just like dad i got to drive the pickup truck i'm like what are But yeah.
00:21:46
Speaker
So, I mean, the kids had a ball. Like Liam loved horses and there's cows there and all sorts of things. So the kids had a lovely time and we had a lovely time too. We actually stayed at like an Airbnb that's owned by one of Lynn's friends.
00:22:06
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And, uh, and so when the kids were asleep, we just ducked up to like, cause literally the Airbnb is below their house, like in the basement. So we just ducked up to them and, you know, had a glass of wheat wine or a beer and had a chat and it was lovely.
00:22:20
Speaker
Did you have a glass of haps? We did actually. Oh, nice. How's things going with that? How's things going with that? and it's going It's going slower than I anticipated.
00:22:36
Speaker
buttons it's still, you know what, it's still early days. it really is. um And, you know, i've I've tried to get things rolling. And I got a message from from ah a kind of,
00:22:51
Speaker
estranged family member of Lin's, not estranged, ah he's kind of ah distant distant family member, yeah. yeah But he's a wino. And first it came with all this, like, critique of ah of the wine, which was a little bit of like, okay, like, thanks.
00:23:10
Speaker
I'm like, like i like I made the wine myself. I'm like, ah didn't this is just something I bought in. And... and um
Challenges in Promoting Wine
00:23:19
Speaker
Then he sent me a message the other day saying that he had sent an email to and this so wine reviewer, Sarah Drosha, her name is, and who works for Verge, who I've tried to contact before as well, ah but not didn't get any response as a distributor.
00:23:39
Speaker
and ah But he had sent the email. I didn't see what he wrote, but he told me that he had... and that he recommended to her to try fuchsia as the summer 2025 wine ah for the cool kids because he's old and he didn't like it, but he thinks the cool kid, all the young whippersnappers will like it.
00:24:03
Speaker
And then the fact that he went out of his way to do that is fantastic. 100%. I think like – if If you're young and you're not into wine, that's the wine for you. That's the wine. Yeah, yeah. It's the gateway wine. Yeah. So that was cool.
00:24:26
Speaker
So, you know, things things are – we'll see what happens with that. To be honest, it's kind of – it's still hard to know how it will go and where things will will head in the future.
00:24:38
Speaker
um So we'll just wait and see. um That being said, you know, we've I got a guy reached out to me the other week and seen something I posted on the Aussies and Oslo's page yeah um about the wine.
00:24:54
Speaker
And he himself is interested in importing. So we're going to have a chat and meeting and see if there's any, maybe a potential collaboration there. You you never know.
00:25:07
Speaker
A fellow Aussie guy, apparently an opera singer. So, yeah, lives in Oslo as in and then sings opera around. Apparently travels a lot, as you imagine you would.
00:25:18
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ah But, yeah, so there you go um So that's kind of interesting to see what the the coming weeks will will reveal and things like that. So well I'm pretty pretty excited about it actually.
00:25:33
Speaker
to Taking note of alcohol consumption, I mean, I just finished this bottle. It was so easy to drink. Oh, my God. I'm going to be bloody humming.
00:25:47
Speaker
but Well done. Well done, Saint-Philion. Yeah. I don't even know if that's how you pronounce it properly. There's probably someone out there who's like, you fucking idiot.
00:25:58
Speaker
That's not how you pronounce it
00:26:03
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it. It's bad enough with my English yeah and my dyslexia. I can't learn other languages. I'm surprised I actually know Norwegian and I can speak it.
00:26:14
Speaker
but but Can you write it? I can write it, I reckon, most of it, except for the S, J, K sounds. are they all And the K sounds, they all sound the same for me.
00:26:27
Speaker
They're like, can't you hear the difference? Like, no, cannot. I've had that same argument. Don't go around here saying they sound different because they do not.
00:26:38
Speaker
they but They all just sound like shh noises, all right? Yeah. Oh, it ah gets my girt a little bit. when You're basically saying the same word.
00:26:49
Speaker
No, can't you hear the difference? I'm like, I'm trying to think of an example, but nothing nothing comes to mind. ah Yeah, it's, a yeah.
00:27:00
Speaker
Anyway. Are we getting to the shits segment, Garrett? Almost. Almost. That's not really my shits this week. It might be yours.
00:27:11
Speaker
no, no. um Well, I mean, it's really cool to see something slowly happening. I mean, every little bit helps. you know So when people go out of their way to help you you know promote a wine or whatever, or you know the beer stuff as well, right?
00:27:30
Speaker
i was just thinking about that this week, you know how much this podcast actually means in the big picture. In the big picture, like we have a small amount of people that listen to this thing and you know mate you could see it like, oh it's not worth our time. But you know you never know what one person can do. So this podcast then goes out to someone who listens to it and thinks, you know what, I'm going to go try this wine.
00:28:03
Speaker
right And then they give it to their mother-in-law or something like this who's a super duper wino someone who runs a restaurant or whatever it is, right? And it just goes from there, right? Yeah. So I think this platform is more important than we actually think.
00:28:21
Speaker
Yeah, there's always possibilities. And, you know, it's like, If you believe in something, you'll you'll want to support it. So for those out there who have bought the wine or any of my beers for that matter, thank you.
00:28:40
Speaker
Yeah. Thank you, everybody. Yeah. And for all the Justin's Patreons out there, Thank you. ah Should I just shout them out now? Because i and I've got an amazing patron i who decided he was going to up his ante.
00:29:00
Speaker
Yeah. ah So I want to give a massive shout out to Anders Abrahamson, who has decided to go tiers.
00:29:10
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Ooh.
00:29:13
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to become a hero. What a fucking legend. What a legend. What legend. And he has also been ah talking to me about ah help with other projects or help with this ah rally car project. Yeah.
00:29:30
Speaker
So ah probably might end up taking you up on this. ah So just stay tuned, Anders. I might be soon in your DMs.
00:29:42
Speaker
Nice. But I think I'll give the chance to shout out all my ah heroes and my sidekicks. ah Thank you to Thomas Buckner, Mark Foster, Giannis Clems.
00:29:56
Speaker
but I keep on saying it wrong. Why do I want to say it wrong? Giannis Clems? No, it's not Clems. it's I'm so dyslexic. I hate it. I want to say it right, but I can't. It just doesn't come out right.
00:30:13
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ah
00:30:16
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I
00:30:20
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can't even say it. Poor guy. i know, right? yeah this You're a legend. I'm just a skip over you because my brain is just malfunctioning right going to send Justin a DM with a voice memo with the correct pronunciation he can get it for next time.
00:30:37
Speaker
Correct. All the shit that I'm... um And Thomas Angel, who also upped his ante a couple weeks back. Well done. Thank you very much, Thomas Angel.
00:30:50
Speaker
Arthur Midgard, the Swedish maker, ah Mark Jones, and Stian Suhus. And then to my sidekicks, Sylvester, who's honor And also to Thomas Smith.
00:31:07
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Those guys are just so amazing. I don't understand why they want to support me so much, but they do. And I'm so grateful. So, Justin, we got I know why. Because you're fucking legend.
00:31:19
Speaker
That's why.
Rally Car Testing and Thrills
00:31:20
Speaker
because Because no one else is building a rally car out of 3D printed plans in their garage. Well, I don't know why anyone that's doing that, to be honest. No one's so stupid. Exactly.
00:31:33
Speaker
Yeah. So tell us what's been happening with the rally car, Justin.
00:31:39
Speaker
I've been testing brakes. Yeah, do they work? I was so sceptical that it was actually going to work. So if you remember, people, I had...
00:31:50
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Bought new pads and new discs to replace the brakes. And, of course, I previously also bought new master cylinders on top of that.
00:32:02
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o So i took it out on Wednesday. i got Kristen to use the new new pusher. Yeah.
00:32:12
Speaker
Which was also something that I'm not sure if I quite talked about Yeah, did. You did talk about it. You talked about the hooks and all that. Yeah, so ah long story short, I turned ah another bloody hand truck, moving dolly, whatever you want to call it, setrola in the Norwegian, into like a thing that helps me push start the cart because you you're not going to really be able to push on the plastic yeah to get it going. So um Kristen used that, worked a treat, by the way.
00:32:46
Speaker
um And we got the car started. I took it up, couple of blats up and down the the driveway. Yeah. And then came to school. I saw a little bit of footage of that. it it was a little bit of sideways action end.
00:33:02
Speaker
I know, and it's still in first gear. It's so fucking mental. I'm sure the neighbours are like, who's this fucking Justin ripping up the driveway? Jesus Christ. Did you have to go and fill in some holes?
00:33:15
Speaker
Yeah, okay
00:33:18
Speaker
I came with a rake and the bloody broom to fill in all the giant skid marks that I like i completely dug up the driveway. So for those don't know, I live sort of with three neighbors and we share like a ah a small road that joins the three houses together.
00:33:40
Speaker
And I've been driving the go-kart on this ah this road and it's just, it's not... that long that I can really get enough speed, but it's like long enough that I can make sure that the brakes work. So that's what Chris and I did on Wednesday. we We basically got the car ready and we took it for a couple of spins up and down the up and down the road there. And to my surprise, the brakes actually worked. Woohoo!
00:34:13
Speaker
but So I'm pretty happy with that. ah It's been a long journey with those brakes. Fucking brakes. And i I didn't think they were going to work, to be honest. Really?
00:34:24
Speaker
Yeah, because I i like even tested it on when I had the car jacked up. I applied brake pressure with my hand. Literally, my hand is not the strongest thing, not like a foot.
00:34:36
Speaker
Yeah. ah And I was like, I could still move the wheels. Yeah. like I had to put a lot of effort in to move them, but I could still move the move the wheels under full load ah with my hand pressure.
00:34:51
Speaker
And from what I understood from a lot of other people is that ah you shouldn't really have any movement, but they're talking about when you've got a small go-kart wheel on there.
00:35:03
Speaker
Yeah, you've got a lot more leverage of the big wheel. Yeah, you do. yeah And so you have to take that into account with regards to stopping. you know You don't have the same amount of stopping power because you have such a big wheel. you You're turning, right?
00:35:16
Speaker
And you have a lot of weight and momentum in that wheel. Yeah. So when I was kind of surprised when I did actually stomp on the brakes. like I locked up the front and started skidding and stuff. So that that was good.
00:35:33
Speaker
and So I know I have the brake pressure to slow the slow the car down, which is great. um I did have a lot of fun like sending it a little bit sideways out of the out of the top corner there. Yeah.
00:35:47
Speaker
So for those who also don't know, so we have a very like we have this driveway that connects the three houses, but we also have like ah ah like a ah kind of walk path, I guess you say, yeah through a small forest into a parking area where the church is in the back of our house there.
00:36:06
Speaker
And so what I do is I drive through that area like small forest, turn the cart around and then blast it through the forest. It is insane. And then I come round the corner and I blast again And the the because we've extended the chassis, it's really stable.
00:36:26
Speaker
Like I never felt out of control when I was sliding it like under full power sideways. I never felt like, oh, shit, I'm out of control. and so So it was really fun to drive, but I still wasn't sure about the gearing.
00:36:42
Speaker
Yeah. Because I'm like, is it is it so long in first gear? Like, is that how this works? So I actually, on Wednesday after we tested everything, oh, Kieran's leaving now. What's he doing now?
00:37:05
Speaker
Sorry. On Wednesday after you tested everything. who Why did you leave? Well, i had I had a big truck in the background and I was like, fuck, I ordered seven tons of gravel.
00:37:20
Speaker
And is that coming today? should be coming tomorrow. Did you order seven tons of gravel? Yeah. What on earth for? um For the pad for the hot tub.
00:37:31
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:34
Speaker
yeah And down the side of the house for where we worked out. This is this what happens when you have a wife who's like, I want a hot tub in the backyard. And I'm like, okay, I'm not going to fucking put down concrete pylons.
00:37:51
Speaker
So I was just like, you know what? Just order some a fuck ton of gravel, put it on some some of this like ah weed matting, level it all out, and then settle my my frame for the hot tub on that.
00:38:05
Speaker
And then failed to build the build the, what do you call it, the platform on top of that. And then happy days.
00:38:15
Speaker
soon as it gets on level, then I just ah empty the help tub, lift it up, level it back out, and then happy days again. First world problems. Yeah, no, no, no, we're not talking about first world problems. We're talking about wife problems.
00:38:32
Speaker
That's so true. We're talking about wife problems here. i feel blessed because my wife is not demanding a hot tub platform to be built. without You say that, Justin, but you also have a giant...
00:38:49
Speaker
fucking annex in your backyard that you had to build yeah that's true so it's you you've got wife problems as well come on let's be honest here if you had to choose your time usage would it been to build an annex negative ghostwriter exactly right yeah all us poor suckers have wife problems or girlfriend problems just women problems generally Or men problems, depending on what you're into.
00:39:17
Speaker
Yeah. So there you go. Getting back to where we were,
Go-Kart Insights and Challenges
00:39:22
Speaker
Karen. Yeah. I decided i on the same day I was going to strap the go-kart onto the trailer.
00:39:28
Speaker
Yeah. And i was just going to take it to the local go-kart track. Yeah. ah On Wednesdays they have training and I just assumed that I could find someone that knew something more about, you know, gearing and how these go-karts should drive.
00:39:44
Speaker
Right. So ah ah took it there and it was kind of remarkable, actually. i got a lot of attention for it. More than I thought I was going It's a giant extended go-kart. Why would you not at a go-kart? Well, I mean, I just...
00:40:03
Speaker
I assume that people just like, yeah, well, it's not a not not a real go-kart, so why do we care, right? It's not a racing go-kart. We're all about you know going fast and doing the – anyway.
00:40:17
Speaker
I got a lot of attention from a lot of kids and a lot of things who just came in and i had a look at what what it was sitting on the trailer there. And then I also taken – the front end because I'd built the front end of the 3D prints yeah okay for for the car and I'd taken it in that car so I could kind of explain to people what I'm actually doing because it was really hard to like kind of explain why you have these giant cross-cart wheels on and you've stretched this go-kart chassis just for funsies. It doesn't doesn't make sense to a lot of people. So I bought the front end of the rally car
00:40:57
Speaker
ah Just to show people like what what it is and what it's going to be. um So, long story short, I met this guy, Arid, and he knew quite a lot about the cart that I bought, like the type of cart I bought, which is the KZ2 cart.
00:41:17
Speaker
And he basically explained that I was a fucking pussy.
00:41:23
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, because... he looked at I showed him some footage of me launching the car. yeah And he's like, no, no, no, you're doing this all wrong.
00:41:34
Speaker
Right. He's like, you need to like... The thing needs to be bouncing off the rev limiter when you're launching the car. Right. So it just needs to go fucking... You need to fucking gun it. You just need to gun it all the time.
00:41:49
Speaker
No like... No mercy. Yeah. No like dancing around the throttle. It's just... Full gas or nothing. Okay. you know so So basically we were talking about the gearing. Now, I had done some research.
00:42:08
Speaker
ah It's funny though, like in hindsight, why I didn't do this earlier. But the gearing on the go-kart when it had go-kart wheels er was –
00:42:24
Speaker
So it was a 15 on the engine, 15 teeth. Yeah. And a 25 on the rear. Right. I thought I'd just do all this chat GDP shit, right? Right. And it would come up with this solution, which it kind of did, but it was wrong. Obviously, we talked about this earlier. Yeah.
00:42:44
Speaker
Yeah. What I neglected to do was actually just do the simple mathematics of the size difference between the go-kart wheel and the cross-kart wheel.
00:42:58
Speaker
What are you, a fucking idiot? know. It just seems so stupid, right, that I didn't just sit down and do the like but how much. What do you mean you're not an engineer, Justin?
00:43:10
Speaker
How much bigger is the actual wheel you know percentage-wise? And then maybe I should just increase the sprocket by the same percentage and then it would be the say in the ballpark, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:43:23
Speaker
So I ended up doing that just before I went to the go-kart track and it worked out that we kind of had it about right. I think it it said that it should be around I think it was actually, in the mathematics there, like the calculations there.
00:43:49
Speaker
And we had a 41 teeth on it. Yeah, yeah. year on Yeah. yeah ah So I was thinking, oh, maybe it's not so bad, but like I really don't know. so yeah, it's talking with the the guys that they just basically said there at the go-kart track that, you I was being a pussy and I just need to keep it in the power band.
00:44:13
Speaker
Yeah, okay. That's it. And I just need to have some balls to go faster. Right. yeah ah They didn't say it out a loud, but I read between the lines.
00:44:26
Speaker
ah So, yeah. like And to be honest, you know the the track there is not like where I'm driving my car you know on the driveway there. It's just not long enough.
00:44:37
Speaker
No, to get the speed up. To get the speed to be in the right gears to understand like, oh, wait a second, this is right. Yeah. Because i I thought like, oh, it's pretty long. You know, like it's three houses wide. like It's not.
00:44:50
Speaker
it's It's really not. Like if you put three houses on the straight at that go-kart track, it's one third of the length of the straight. Yeah, right. Exactly.
00:45:01
Speaker
so And if you're up in the rev ranges and the weight the speed you're driving on those go-kart tracks, yeah like you'd be ah easily in sixth gear on that straight.
00:45:13
Speaker
So it makes sense that I'm like not understanding the real veracity of this engine and the gearing and how it works.
00:45:24
Speaker
So I just need to change the way i drive this thing, basically, to be able to to drive it properly, let's be honest. Yeah,
00:45:35
Speaker
You mean like, we're like, oh, see how the Stian drives over there? See how he's walking? Like he's got giant k nuts between his legs. That's because he does stop being a pussy.
00:45:51
Speaker
Is that went? Something like that? Yeah. Well, it's it's crazy watching them actually drive on that track. Like I stopped and watched for a while. watched these DD2 carts, which are same size engine, just slightly different like design.
00:46:10
Speaker
And they've got only two gears in them. Okay. But holy crap. Like,
00:46:19
Speaker
There's no way I'm driving that fast. Those guys are some fucking kahunas, I tell you. So I don't think I'm that brave. Yeah. But, you know, things change when you have kids and and the family to think about. I'm not a young whippersnapper anymore. Just blasting it.
00:46:40
Speaker
I mean, here's another thing too. ah This weekend we've had like a football cup, you know. Yeah. We've just been football, football, football with my son Henry.
00:46:51
Speaker
And one of the dads, one of the kids playing, he's doing go-karts. Yeah. Now, he's pretty serious about go-karts, so serious that they travel to Italy for about three months of the year oh to race against the best in the world in in his class. So, thiss he's nine years old, this kid.
00:47:15
Speaker
Right. Right? Well, that's an F1 driver in the making, really, isn't it? Well, at the moment, apparently, he's ranked 15th in the world. Yeah, that's pretty fucking nuts, isn't it? Yeah.
00:47:27
Speaker
And he doesn't have a lot of money either. His dad's a fireman. So they do they do this. They work their ass off to try and get... everything done.
00:47:38
Speaker
He does all the mechanics to his son's cart and everything. so But my point was, is that I watched some onboard footage of Nico, the kid's name is, driving. like There's no way I would drive that fast.
00:47:54
Speaker
Yeah, well, when you're nine-year-old, you just don't have any... any sense. It's so crazy. You're actually putting yourself in danger. It's so insane how fast they're driving.
00:48:05
Speaker
and yeah like Their carts are like They're not even like anywhere near what I'm driving. yeah ah It's pretty mind-blowing, actually. like Is that what's blowing your mind this week, Justin?
00:48:20
Speaker
ah No, it's not. But... I just wanted to also talk about the 3D prints. Yeah, come on. Before we move on.
3D Printing Progress and Setbacks
00:48:31
Speaker
It's been a bit of a a journey with regards to these 3D prints.
00:48:37
Speaker
Things are still not printed fully yet. I've still got Thomas working away on a bunch of prints. He's doing an amazing job considering he's got so much other stuff going on as well on top of...
00:48:54
Speaker
you know, what he's doing. For me,
00:49:00
Speaker
i have around 81% of the body printed. 81% already? Wow. But that does not mean that it's 81% complete.
00:49:11
Speaker
No, okay. So that's without a roof because the roof is a separate part. and That is without a rear wing. Yeah. so they as ah That's a separate part.
00:49:25
Speaker
ah There's a bunch of stuff that is still needs to be printed after we complete the the main body. you But it is really impressive to see how far it's come along. And I started building, like I said, ah this week.
00:49:46
Speaker
you know i I had built the front end and I had taken it to – um to the go-kart track just to show them to understand, get them to understand what it was that I was building.
00:49:57
Speaker
ah The rest of the week I spent building the sides and I'm dry fitting everything. I'm not gluing anything. Yeah. So the problem is, unfortunately, is not every part has dowel pins to locate and to secure the join. Yeah.
00:50:18
Speaker
So there are some surfaces there where it's literally just parts Touching. here Touching, yeah. And so I had taped everything together with cheap Bill Temer gaffer tape.
00:50:35
Speaker
And I'd had everything sort of set up on the on the bench there. Yeah. ah And this week when I had the football cup with Henry, um it didn't get in the garage. And then so I went in there yesterday and I found out that it had Failed.
00:50:53
Speaker
The tape had failed. And the thing had bloody fallen off the bench. Oh, no. And it smashed a bunch of parts. I'm not really sure if we're going to reprint them or we can salvage them. I think we might be able to salvage them. We just have to glue them back together.
00:51:09
Speaker
you shit They're not in highly critical structural yoga positions, so it's only looks. And to be honest, we're going to like sparkle and and bog and and sand everything. So realistically, I'm not really worried about that in that regard.
00:51:28
Speaker
Yeah. Cool. So it's a lot of work still ahead, like a lot. I feel a little bit stressed because like I mentioned, I think even think I'm mentioning the podcast with Kristen. you know It's like there's a time press.
00:51:45
Speaker
Yeah. I feel like to get these projects out, um you know for my patrons, I put out a new video for them to look at, which is the part one yeah of the the World Rally Car Build.
00:51:58
Speaker
um I feel like they deserve to to see what's actually going on the project. I still probably won't release it till I've got part two pretty much finished or finished.
00:52:14
Speaker
Yeah, okay. Keep the momentum going there a little bit. So I'm hoping that that will keep the momentum at some point going. But you know the truth is, i don't know. like that's You're at the beck and whim of ah YouTube and the algorithm and how it works. And I have to be very grateful for the The motorbike video is still doing well.
00:52:39
Speaker
Of course, it's reduced in the amount of views that's happening every every day. It cracked 200K. Yeah, so it's cracked 200,000 views, which is super nice. And there's still a bunch of idiots saying, you can't call it a Harley, which is also really nice. Sorry.
00:52:59
Speaker
um ah so It's a hard thing to to let go of that you're not going to be able to basically ah live up to your deadline. Like i i wanted to get this thing ready for Rally Finland. I have my extreme doubts that I can get it ready inside.
00:53:18
Speaker
It's just so much work. Like even just – preparing it for paint or we may not even paint it. We might end up wrapping it. Yeah.
00:53:30
Speaker
But I doubt wrapping is a good idea because of there's so many like small indents. Yeah. Yeah. and So I think unfortunately the the wrapping won't work. It will look shitty.
00:53:42
Speaker
Yeah. But I'm going to talk, oh I'm going to talk with, um, the brother to Anders Abrahamsen, who reached out and and said that maybe he could help me with a rap.
00:53:56
Speaker
So I'm going to talk to him and see what he thinks with regards to rapping. It might be the better option. yo, yo, yo. you I don't mean to brag. I don't mean to boast.
00:54:08
Speaker
But I'm into content. I don't want to eat French toast. That kind of rap? No. No.
00:54:17
Speaker
A vinyl wrap, Kieran, a vinyl wrap. Oh. Yeah. So basically it's a waiting game actually, which is something I don't like for all the 3D printed parts to be finished.
00:54:31
Speaker
ah Then I will start gluing together. This week. That is the plan. Cool. Gluing together and once I've glued it all together, i think I'm going to start sparkling and sanding and all this all the other shit I need to do to get it to be nice and smooth and looking pretty boss.
00:54:50
Speaker
Sweet. But I have been working knowing that I have to wait. and like For example, this weekend I've been sitting on a football pitch watching football and thinking like,
00:55:03
Speaker
what else can I do in this time that I'm just sitting here? i can dream about other projects. So i've come up with two two ideas. i put them out of my patrons.
00:55:14
Speaker
um I've got rush of feedback from my patrons who all want to see me die on on my new project.
00:55:26
Speaker
i I put out two projects, ah project ideas to them. The first idea was ah basically like shoes to walk on water.
00:55:38
Speaker
Okay. So I was thinking about like, how did how could you walk on water? And I was thinking like, maybe you need to make shoes that have hidden like submerged boats underneath. like And like you have like...
00:55:53
Speaker
Like glass or like polycarbonate sort of like ah supports underneath your shoes. All right. So it looks like you're walking on water, but you're not, right?
00:56:06
Speaker
That's what Jesus did. yeah Exactly. Folly carbonate shoes with boats. But honestly, my patrons were not into it.
00:56:18
Speaker
They're like, nah, we want to see you die on your second idea, which is a lawnmower powered hovercraft. Lawnmower powered hovercraft.
00:56:31
Speaker
Yeah. Of all things, a lawnmower. Well, I think it's accessible, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's another thing. like it's ah It's a project that you like, I want to build a hovercraft because they're cool, but I don't have like a crazy two-stroke engine or you know like a big electric-powered fans and all this other stuff like to make it work.
00:56:53
Speaker
But I have a lawnmower that I'm not using, right? so that's kind of like the idea. – ah so It's a lot harder than I thought it was going to be.
00:57:05
Speaker
Of course, man. It's fucking hovercraft. Jesus Christ. So I'm setting up a meeting with a a propulsion specialist. A propulsion specialist. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to call him that.
00:57:20
Speaker
ah So I have a friend who works with like a drone company and his colleague sort of has engineered a bunch of drones basically from scratch. and So knows a lot about propellers and motors and things like that. So...
00:57:35
Speaker
um I'm going to set up a meeting hopefully with him and hopefully we will he will be able to guide me in the right direction and what type of ah propeller I need to apply the right amount of force considering the relatively slow RPM of a petrol-powered lawnmower and a bunch of other stuff. So that is in the works.
00:58:04
Speaker
So that is what's been going on this week, peoples. Tell me, Justin, what is giving you the shits this week?
Sunday Noise Rules Rant
00:58:16
Speaker
Sunday rules. Sunday rules.
00:58:22
Speaker
Who does number two work for? Now, you're probably going have to explain this for the non-Norwegians out there because I think I know what you're talking about here. Yeah, so there's like an unwritten rule or maybe it is written. I don't know. There's a lot of things in Norway where they're like, oh, it's a law. like, where?
00:58:42
Speaker
yeah It just is. Anyway, yeah. There's like this unwritten rule or written rule, who knows, about making noise on Sundays.
00:58:54
Speaker
Yeah, or public holidays. Yeah, or public holidays. That's right. So we've had a bit of rain and a lot of sun the last couple of days and the grass is insane long.
00:59:06
Speaker
And it's getting to that point where you're like, we really need to do something about this grass. Otherwise, it's going to be a mother trucker to cut later. Yeah. Yeah. But society says I'm not allowed to like cut my lawn on a Sunday because it's too noisy but to run a lawnmower.
00:59:26
Speaker
After 12, you can get away with it generally. Yeah, but it's still like a bit of a rule. so like like a i just yeah I was just waiting for some motherfucker in the distance to start their lawnmower and I was being on it. you know Let's go. Let's mow the lawn.
00:59:42
Speaker
Some other guy's doing it. I can do it. yeah But no one in the neighborhood decided that we're going to cut their lawn on the Sunday or the Monday, which is also a public holiday here. So my grass is...
00:59:54
Speaker
Horrible right now. Did you, Justin, did you actually appreciate the holiday that was? Did you take a moment to think about the day that Jesus followers were accused of being drunk at nine o'clock in the morning?
01:00:11
Speaker
didja Did you? Did you? it's that what this holiday was about? Yes. it inside Pinta. Day of Pentecost.
01:00:23
Speaker
So there you go um The Apostle ah Peter's defense was, it's too early in the morning to be drunk. They hadn't heard of an all-nighter before then.
01:00:35
Speaker
That was the first all-nighter.
01:00:41
Speaker
ah Well, what's giving you this shit, Karen? Sorry, Jesus. um Well... gives me the little shits, gives me the fact that people don't even appreciate the holiday, that why they have a holiday in the first place.
01:00:59
Speaker
Like, just take a moment. Just take a moment to accept, yeah that's why I get the day off. Isn't that nice? Instead, they're just like, cabin! And then whilst they're doing that, they sit they crowd the fucking roads with traffic.
01:01:14
Speaker
trying to rush to the cabin. Who does number two work for? So to explain, i went to Stavunga this weekend, as I mentioned, but the kids and the wife, they took the plane. I had to work on Friday, so I decided that I was going to drive over because we needed the car whilst we were there.
01:01:36
Speaker
So we I drove over on and a quarter past... Three, I left Oslo. According to the GPS at that point, it was a seven hour drive to Stavanger.
01:01:49
Speaker
And then basically what happened is is that ah rather than go with my gut, I chose to follow the GPS. Fail, fail, fail.
01:02:00
Speaker
And I just went through traffic jam after traffic jam after traffic jam. And the seven hour drive turned into an 11 hour drive. Damn. Well, I mean, at least you get to listen to some good podcasts and music and stuff.
01:02:14
Speaker
I did, but man, I was fucking wrecked. I got in at like nearly two o'clock in the morning I'm just like, oh man, that's it's a brutal drive to do by yourself. I only stopped 15 minutes eat and just kept on powering on because I just had to get there.
01:02:30
Speaker
So, yeah, that was it. Took 15 minutes to eat, took a piss, and then, like, I stopped at one point just to stretch because I got so fucking cramped up in the car.
01:02:42
Speaker
Just 11 hours sitting on your ass in the car is not fun for your body. So, um yeah, traffic, fucking traffic. Oh, not to mention, so so I left work.
01:02:56
Speaker
And one of my colleagues left at the same time. Now, he lives in Ors, which is like down the kind of like a southeast side of Oslofjord.
01:03:07
Speaker
and And he had gone home, picked up the wife and kids, probably had something to eat, whatever, taken the drove into Moss and then taken the ferry across to Horten. Yeah.
01:03:21
Speaker
And then driven down. And there am I drive sitting in fucking traffic. And there's this woman just like hanging out the window i have never seen in my life.
01:03:32
Speaker
And that was his wife. Like, hey, hey, hey, Kieran. And I was like, what is this? And I look over and there's the sayss Matt just waving at me like, hey, you're in traffic too. You left fucking at the same time as me.
01:03:45
Speaker
And I went home and we're at the same place in traffic. Oh, man. And then i as I was like, is it we're at a standstill in the traffic and just chatting across the traffic.
01:03:57
Speaker
And then some fucking woman runs up the back of me well Thankfully, she hit the the she was pretty slow. was just a slow tap and she hit the the tow bar on the car.
01:04:11
Speaker
So all the damage was on her car. ah But i was just like, and he's just fucking pissing himself, laughing, just like, oh, it's a fucking woman run out the back of you. and like Motherfuck, what a fucking shit of a trip.
01:04:26
Speaker
Anyway, but we got there in the end and it was a good trip, so I can't really complain that much. It is called a hire car, Kieran. You can, like, fly to places and get hire car. Yeah, they have, like, kids' seats and, oh, yeah.
01:04:40
Speaker
Anyway. It was nice. It was a nice trip. I enjoyed it in the end. So it's not a problem. It was fun. So there we go. What's blown your mind this week, Justin?
Pride in Son's Achievements
01:04:52
Speaker
What's blowing my mind is my son Henry's work ethic.
01:05:00
Speaker
Mind blown. I mean, how old is he now? 10? He's turning 10 this in July. Yeah, right, he's almost 10. 10-year-old's not known for their work ethic, do tell. No.
01:05:14
Speaker
ah I mean, we were I explained we were at a football cup this weekend. Yeah. ah He's the only player that played all six games on the Saturday.
01:05:28
Speaker
yeah ah And he gave every single game everything. Like they worked his ass off. He was working, working, working, communicating. I think, what did he get, about 12 goals on the Saturday?
01:05:46
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wow fantastic. You know, and even like the the trainer, ah so he's technically part of only one team. Yeah. But they moved him to the other team because they needed the extra players, right? Because everyone was way at the cabin.
01:06:01
Speaker
Yeah. ah So they put him in the the other team ah in defense, which is not normally his like best position. He's usually really good in in the wing or like in Spisa, what they call like a striker. Yeah.
01:06:19
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Yeah. um ah He still managed to score goals from the back line. Nice. Because he worked. He worked his ass off and it was really nice to see. like He didn't give up. like You see a lot in the kids these days, especially even like even in his team, right?
01:06:42
Speaker
The second they lose the ball, the shoulders go down, the body language says, I give up, right? And then that it gets worse, right? They keep on losing because – but Henry's shoulders never went down.
01:06:59
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there were always – like RP was always working. He worked his ass off all Saturday and he was absolutely thrashed Saturday night. I can imagine playing six games of football. Jeez.
01:07:13
Speaker
And he didn't really want to play – very much on Sunday, but we also had Sunday matches. Yeah, okay, wow. ah So ah luckily for him, for his sake, the we had a crazy hailstorm and thunderstorm that came through. well I didn't even know.
01:07:33
Speaker
Yeah, i down in Santa Fjord. And there was like, i don't know, the the hail bits were probably about 10 millimeters or so in diameter.
01:07:44
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It's pretty big for Noi. Yeah. um So the the cup got cancelled, so he only played two games on the Sunday. and But like I was just so impressed. and My mind was blown with his work ethic. I feel like you know when you see that, you think like you're doing something right as a parent.
01:08:03
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Yeah, right. And too, like the empathy was so great too. So he the kid got tackled and you know fell down and you know he was instantly there, stopped the play to make sure the kid was all right, despite the fact that the referee hadn't called it.
01:08:22
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Do you know what I that was really nice to see. Krista and I have both looked at each other like we're doing something right. Like we have our challenges with our son for sure.
01:08:35
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But, you know, in that instance, we're doing something right. So that blew ah blew my mind this week. What's blowing your mind this week, Kieran? Curious Norwegians.
01:08:52
Speaker
Mind blown. Is there such thing? I know, right? It's, it's, um, especially in a social context, uh, they're not typically known for being curious, especially towards strangers,
01:09:07
Speaker
And we, as I mentioned earlier, we stayed at this Airbnb, which is owned by some friends of ours. And we went up to hang out with them and some, actually, one of the, a sister-in-law and her husband dropped by.
01:09:25
Speaker
And like right from the get-go, the guy was on it. Like he was just like, hi, how are you? What's your name? where are you from? Like, what's your deal? Like, no and just questions firing left, right and center.
01:09:39
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And it was so refreshing. to feel like I'm not like trudging through like this social muck of trying to feel like I can. And so, and of course this like created like a dynamic where I could ask him and we got to know each other really well.
01:09:56
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And like, and it got like, and i was like, this, these guys are lovely, you know? And then he got it like, I was like by this stage, like, The beers had come out and a lot of my beers were there.
01:10:09
Speaker
And so he's like, oh, you could you know what? I've seen these before. I've tried these beers at the pool. And I was like, Really? That's cool. He's like, yeah, I really like them. And I really like this thing. And and like I explained the concept of what, you know, the brand is. And he's just like, yeah, like this is this is something really different. I really like this, you know And it was so nice to have that kind of conversation with someone who was just curious about another human being.
01:10:37
Speaker
and um And it was refreshing and lovely. Yeah, look let's be honest. you know You can definitely be that person and a high percentage you're going to get not a great reward back. Yeah. you know Unfortunately, because you have a large portion of this population here, unfortunately here, that don't really want to talk.
01:11:04
Speaker
Or don't think they're doing anything interesting. A lot of things I ask to people is like, what do you love doing outside of work, like in your free time? Yeah.
01:11:16
Speaker
And that usually gets people to open up and and then they're like, oh, I really love kayaking. Yeah. kayak you I'm like, oh, yeah, where where do you go kayaking? what do like What's the best thing about that? like you know And you get to open that thing.
01:11:28
Speaker
But a lot of people just like, oh, I'll just work on my house. Football. Yeah, I'll just watch football. yeah And you're like, okay. Okay.
01:11:39
Speaker
The until oven won't allow them to have passions. Yeah, maybe. i don't know. It's just like, I guess it's probably like a, so the irony of the situation is they probably have things they love just like everyone else.
01:11:52
Speaker
It's just that there's like a weird social scenario where it's difficult or it's kind of a social faux pas to bring it up. So bring on curious Norwegian, more curiosity people. I think we'd all be better if we were more curious about other people.
01:12:10
Speaker
So, yeah, I really enjoyed that. That was blowing my mind this week. Good. Recommendations, Kieran. Sing it. Recommendations, recommendations. What is your recommendation?
01:12:26
Speaker
Yeah. My recommendation this week is if you like drums,
01:12:35
Speaker
ah You should go check out El Estepario Cibriano. You should go check out El ah A guy on Instagram. You can find him under this. I'm sure you can find him also on YouTube under this name too. he He's a Spanish drummer. Oh, yeah. know this guy.
01:12:52
Speaker
it was as Always wears the hat. El Estepario Cibriano. Yeah. Wears the hat and has a beard. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What a mad drummer.
01:13:04
Speaker
Yeah. It just reeks awesomeness. I don't know you know. It's a little bit like funny to watch, but you you can watch him play and you're just like, oh that was cool. Yeah, that was real cool.
01:13:19
Speaker
very talented drummer, no doubt. well like very talented drummer no doubt um And, you know, he's done really well for himself yeah with regards to to his drumming. So, it's really cool. And it's really fun to watch. So, if you like drumming at all, go check out him. I'm not going to pronounce his name again because it's hard horribly wrong for sure. But I'll write it in the in the description there. you'll You'll see a link as well.
01:13:46
Speaker
Yeah. My recommendation for this week, other than toasted coconut chips, which are delicious, ah is I started watching a new Netflix show called Department Q. Is this like a James Bond thing? No, it's ah it's far from it. it's a It's a Scottish crime series.
01:14:10
Speaker
Okay. Yeah. About ah basically this like detective who has this big incident where him ah he was like investigating a murder and then there was someone hiding in the house and shot and killed and a police officer, paralyzed another one, and he got a bullet through his neck and out and just survived.
01:14:30
Speaker
and And he... and he become He's like a disgruntled cop, you know, that nobody likes him and thinks he's an asshole. And he basically gets given a job at a new...
01:14:46
Speaker
like in a new department where he can basically go through cold cases. And so it follows this, there's ah there's a case that he's following and it's really engaging. You're just like, what the fuck is going on?
01:14:58
Speaker
And really, really kind of cool. So I enjoyed it so far. i've watched like three episodes and I will probably binge the rest of the series so based on the episodes I've seen.
01:15:11
Speaker
Well, ah if we're going to talk series, I've also been watching Your Friends and Neighbours. Okay. Yeah, that is that that's on Apple. Apple, I think. Yeah, Apple.
01:15:23
Speaker
Really good, actually. Yeah, okay. more Better than I thought it was going to Mm-hmm. It gives you like an insight to the rich people's lives, you know? Yeah, okay.
01:15:34
Speaker
Yeah. And, you know, for those who don't know, it's like a guy who basically loses his job, you know, loses his wife and everything and then decides he lives in high society so he's just going to steal from his like friends and neighbors. Okay. So he steals like $300,000 watches and stuff like that from their –
01:15:57
Speaker
from from them in art and other stuff. Yeah, okay. Interesting. So it's ah it's actually well done. The storytelling is fantastic. It keeps you engaged. in And if you've got some spare time, I recommend it.
01:16:11
Speaker
There you go i think we'll wrap it up there, Kieran. Wrap it. rat ready rep ah Why do we do this? I don't know.
01:16:25
Speaker
Thanks everybody for listening. yeah we will catch you next week with hopefully some updates with the regards to world rally cars and beers and all sorts.
01:16:37
Speaker
Probably guys should be tapped this week if all goes to plan. Let's go. So...
01:16:45
Speaker
Thank you everyone, for listening. Cheers. Love you guys. Later. Bye.