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Speaker: This is the Garage Avenger Podcast.
Speaker: Hello and welcome 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 the hope of one day trying to make a living out of it.
Speaker: And i am not Kieran. I am Kristen, Justin's beautiful wife. Hilarious.
Speaker: ah Did you just call yourself hilarious? Yeah, I'm tapping myself on the back because apparently that's what I need today. But anyway, I am here giving up my date night.
Speaker: To talk to the people. Excuse me. Take that back, please. Giving up our date night, not yours. Oh, sorry. Seems very one-sided. Well, excuse me.
Speaker: Well, the truth is Kieran never showed up. So here I am. Now speak of the devil. Speak of the devil. Oh, my God. We call you back.
Speaker: All right. Let's join him. Hello and welcome to our podcast. Hello welcome our podcast. Hello.
Speaker: How's that going? I'm glad I could be part of
Speaker: your podcast. Hello podcast audience. Hello. It's your audience, Karen. They're missing you. It's missing you. Christmas.
Speaker: Well, someone else didn't show up. was a sacrificing date night here.
Speaker: Sacrifice of my internet. Congratulations on the nearly 160 views in just over a week. That's 160,000, I mean.
Speaker: Yeah. That's really great. That's cracked 160. Today, actually. Yeah. that cro two hundred and sixty today actually um I checked it earlier today.
Speaker: But congratulations on that. Thanks. That's great. So that's definitely in the right direction. Yeah, lot lots to discuss.
Speaker: I'm like, I'm thinking actually, like, I think I'm in my, my heart says by your birthday, it's going to be over half a million years.
Speaker: Nice. We'll see. Oh, you never know with YouTube. No, you don't. That's what my heart says. That's nice. Stoked for you.
Speaker: Thanks, dude. All right. We'll, we'll leave you to it. Okay. Lots love. Bye. Bye. All
Speaker: right. Now that we rudely interrupted by Kieran. Where I'm hijacking his role in the podcast. Let's get back to the business. Kristen, yeah ah you've cracked something open.
Speaker: I have cracked a bottle of my absolute favorite wine that we found back in Australia, Yonkers ago, and my beautiful brother-in-law, Kieran, has brought it into the country.
Speaker: Thank you, thank you, thank you. And we are going to enjoy glass of Haps Fuchsia 2023 River. Don't. of margaret river yeah yeah Yeah, we've talked about these wines on the show.
Speaker: I know, you have. But this is this islo reach sit listen pure pouring pleasure.
Speaker: not sure people think the same thing, Kristen. You know what? If not on date night, then then when?
Speaker: That's what I say. That's what I say. Clonk. Okay, cheers, Kristen. Cheers, big ears. Doing a podcast on bed night. ah Just so you guys know, generally Kristen and I do a relaxed date every Monday evening.
Speaker: So Kieran couldn't come on the show, so I decided that maybe we'd just turn... this date night into podcast and give you guys a bit of insight into how Kristen thinks about this crazy stuff that I do in the garage.
Speaker: And maybe she'll share some wisdom. Maybe you'll be shocked at her way of thinking about what I do. Maybe you'll be laughing your ass off.
Speaker: Maybe. Who knows? Because I'm so hilarious. That you are not. um Says you. Apparently, your viewers say something else.
Speaker: Well, let's talk about that.
Speaker: um New video out last week. I mentioned it on the podcast last week with Thomas that, you know, the video is out.
Speaker: It's been out for a week or eight, nine days now, actually. Yeah, it came out on the 17th. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: 160,000 views. For me, that's the best performing video I have ever done in that time. Like my go-kart video has more views technically, but ah in that shorter period of time, like,
Speaker: It's killed it. So I'm really kind of chuffed that it did so well. It should be. It has been a bit of a funny week though. Yeah.
Speaker: Because I realized that I took a lot of space with all this project stuff. And so before the video started doing well, I thought, you know what, I'm just um i'm not going to take any space for Kristen with my video stuff.
Speaker: She's got enough on her plate. Like I'll just, I'll take a step back. But then the problem was it started doing really well. And I really wanted to say something, but I thought, oh you know what?
Speaker: Let's just wait till she says something. And then I get the invitation to say something like, oh it's doing really well. ah But then that just never came.
Speaker: Well, it did. But eventually five days later. and by that stage, it had hit 100,000 views. Yep. So I was, you know, like to be honest, I was like busting at the seams to say something, but I just felt like, oh just just play cool, Justin.
Speaker: Like it's not a big deal. and But it clearly was. Clearly was. And I'm on the other side when I found out. I'm like, what the hell?
Speaker: Why did you not say something? i unlike i I'm am no mind reader. I know you have a video out and I usually keep checking in. But of course, when I think about it, i don't go on there because I'm doing something else most likely. And then I forget to ask in the next one. It's like thinking about sending that message to a person and then you don't. And then three days later, you're like, oh crap, I didn't send that message.
Speaker: hey It's kind of like that. But for me, it was fine because it allowed me to also understand, like, my stuff doesn't matter.
Speaker: Not in the scheme of things. It matters. Like, don't get me wrong. course it matters. But, like, in the everyday operations of Kristen's life and others, like, it doesn't really matter.
Speaker: it's It's just something that I put out there and I'm very happy it's done well. But it ain't exactly changing people's lives. Well, not yet at least, anyway. I know i haven't seen any comments about them building their own motorcycle and changing their life.
Speaker: But, yeah, who knows? Who knows, eh? Where it'll go. We'll just have to wait and see. That's the beauty of it, almost, isn't it? Yeah, it has been...
Speaker: Really amazing to see how the engagement that's happened from this video. um Huge amount of comments. ah Mainly because I made sure that there were going to be comments by specifically...
Speaker: laying questions to the audience that would get them engaged. So I knew, like i've discussed on this podcast before, i knew that the tires wrong.
Speaker: I knew that there were issues with the bike. So rather than just say what the issues were and how I was going to fix them, I decided that I would let the audience decide how I should fix them.
Speaker: And that opened the door to keyboard warriors to fill the comments with how they think you should change the bike or fix it, which has been amazing.
Speaker: It's a lot of comments. What is it now? Oh, it must be over 500. Surely. Or around there. Around the 500 mark, somewhere. way It's just, it's been funny, too, because you have so many people that so passionate about it. You know, and you're thinking, like, ah just made a bike out of a hand truck.
Speaker: And you're getting so fired up over this stuff. Like, wow. People are interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep. Yep. And there's been a lot of comments that I didn't expect, such as people calling me Keanu Reeves lookalike.
Speaker: Or Bluey and Chili. Yeah, they think that Kristen and I sound like Bluey and Chili from... No, sorry, Bandit and Chili. Yeah, sorry, Bandit and Chili, yeah. From Bluey. Yeah, from the series The Kids Show Bluey. Which hilarious.
Speaker: I don't think we sound anything like them, but... It's probably the Aussie accent, though. Yeah. I think it's, yeah. And, you know, there's been, you know, even like locals asking like, why you in there?
Speaker: Why you like, why are you here? And they're like, I don't think they understood that I actually lived here. So that's very interesting. um Yeah, so it's been very eye-opening to read all all the comments, humbling, but it's also been super scary.
Speaker: What have scared you about them? Well, I've had to delete three comments so far because they've been inappropriate towards you. Well, isn't that interesting? You put a new element out there like me.
Speaker: And then it it changes the game a little bit, doesn't it? Putting a female out there. Yeah, I really don't understand – like people like how they would even think that that is at all appropriate to like okay so so i won't tell you exactly what they said but it's just creepy things they're saying towards kristen i haven't read them so i don't know what it is
Speaker: And I just felt like I had to delete them because I don't want Kristen to read things like that. I don't want her to feel like that, like I felt when I was reading them.
Speaker: Objectified or? Oh, completely objectified and just so in-your-face creepy. Yeah. So, and the thing is you just. Fan mail soon.
Speaker: The thing is you just don't know who these people are because a lot of them use these sort of like anonymous accounts, right? They don't call themselves, you know, Jeffrey Lennon.
Speaker: blogs of number two Downing Street. You know, like they don't do that. They're just hidden in ah like a random funny name. Three, two, five, six, eight.
Speaker: Says blow me. So, you know, that's that's something that is just – been eye-opening for this video is to see like when you all of a sudden you get a huge influx of viewers you get people like that who have no boundaries which is insane but that is something you do when you put content out into the world you now unfortunately have to expect something like this to happen
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, I think it's kind of like you can't get the good without the evil. They go hand in hand, right? think it's partly. Maybe it's just that.
Speaker: There's a balance. There's a balance to everything. If you want good, you've got to take some of the shit too. But what what do you feel about that side of things?
Speaker: I think I'm just so easy breezy I'm like, nah, I don't really care. I think what I care about is that I feel like we did a good video. you put it to You put it together greatly. um It's fun to come out and help out and be that little player by your side.
Speaker: and i think that's that's more my takeaway. People will say whatever people will say and it actually has nothing to do with me and everything to do with them. I probably wouldn't have said that like three, four years ago.
Speaker: But today i'm like I have my pool table stick that I put between my stuff and everybody else's stuff.
Speaker: It's their stuff. It's their problem. It's their whatever they write. It doesn't really it doesn't have weight. It doesn't hold any weight for me.
Speaker: Yeah, for me who's protective of you, it definitely held weight. yeah I wanted to murder that person, especially one of them. I just ah couldn't believe what they had written.
Speaker: And they write it in a way where the algorithm doesn't flag it as an as a something inappropriately written. So they know to it.
Speaker: how to do it how to do it they know that they they want you to read it Imagine how many YouTube videos they watch it every day. Yeah, honestly, I don't understand.
Speaker: These people have to be sick. Yeah, yeah. Right? they They can't be right in the head to leave comments like that. Well, at least they don't have a common sense or decency.
Speaker: No. No. No, it's very – it's been a very eye-opening experience with regards to that, to to realize like, oh, wait a second – Yeah, I can't just put my wife in these videos without some sort of potential consequences. Fling back.
Speaker: Yeah. No, I get that. And the thing is you haven't – I've had little showcases every now and then in your videos, but not to this extent.
Speaker: Especially not in the opening. my So like that's the new style it feels like at least. Yeah, it feels correct. Yeah, where Kristen is sort of asking questions about my crazy dumb ideas that I'm coming up with.
Speaker: And then I come up with all my stupid things that I say because I i also have two languages in my head. ah sometimes Norwegian humor turns into English humor and just looking at Justin's face.
Speaker: ah good ken Can you explain to the people – what you meant by putting your teeth on the end. Like you said. I picture it. I picture So if you didn't have a handlebar, you would fall over and your teeth would hit it.
Speaker: This is like final destination scenarios that I get in my head all the time. And I just pictured your head falling onto those two, I don't know what you call poles sticking up.
Speaker: then you hit your head there and then your head's like, it's kind of like a cartoon. your Your teeth is like stuck there and then you're driving like that. That's the picture I got in my head. Kirsten is makinging these making these movements like she's riding a horse controlling it with her teeth. Interesting.
Speaker: But i can't help it. Those are things that just fly out of my mouth sometimes. And Justin just looks at me, but I'm glad somebody else finds it amusing because he doesn't find it amusing so much. yeah I just, I'm not that I don't find them, I find it amusing afterwards, but at the time I'm confused. I'm like, what are you actually trying to say here? I don't understand.
Speaker: It's just my humour is saying, that oh, I'm glad you you're putting on some handlebars because otherwise i you couldn't ride that. No shit, Sherlock.
Speaker: What? Of course yeah girls i couldn't ride it without handlebars. don't know. Maybe you very skilled balancing and you put some, like, threads on it. and i don't know.
Speaker: Your imagine is quite – Wicked, I guess. My imagination is quite wicked. Yeah. It's quite good. Meaning. okay Yeah.
Speaker: Okay. Again, he doesn't understand. No, I was like he's like, I'm sort of some sort of evil imagination. and Well, it's wickedly good, right? Okay.
Speaker: Yeah. I'll just say that. Surely that's a saying. I can say that, right? Yeah, yeah. I'll take it. swear we've said that before. I'll take it as a compliment. At least in Australia. Back in Australia, you could say, wickedly good.
Speaker: That was not an Australian accent. I know. I'm being the narrator here, okay?
Speaker: Anywho. Yeah. Drifting off on another river. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: The video is done well. ah So But this week I've sort of been trying to work towards getting the first part of the World Rally Club video finished.
Speaker: So i um if you don't remember, i decided I'm going to divide the video up into probably three parts. And the first part I finished editing...
Speaker: It was last week, actually. So it was also really refreshing to be able to, like, or already finished another video, even though this video has been in the works for months and months and months.
Speaker: Yeah, because you've been kind of doing two at the same time. i had to, right? Yeah, but we've talked about that before as well. It's actually not a dumb idea to kind of have.
Speaker: We've actually talked about you having three any one time that you're constantly working on. Part of me says I really need to get another project up and running as well right now because, you know you never know.
Speaker: the delays on the World Rally Cup, even though I set myself this crazy goal to get to Rally Finland at the end of July,
Speaker: it doesn't yet feel actually real. Because the honest truth is I've got
Speaker: three, four weeks before school ends. Four weeks. Four weeks, right? Four weeks before school ends. ah Then my day job increases.
Speaker: So I normally only work to two to three days a week. But when some holidays are on, I'm working five days a week.
Speaker: Sometimes. Yeah, most times. Yeah, yeah. And then I have that break in the middle, right? Yeah, you have the break. Yeah, yeah. So then I take my holidays. Hmm.
Speaker: So... That is right slap bang in the middle of the project basically. So the way unfortunately I see it is that I have three to four weeks and then that's it because unfortunately we also go on holiday.
Speaker: ah yeah, we are. So it means that realistically – I don't think I can get it done.
Speaker: so This is often just this big worry. Yeah. Time. It's really hard for me to let go because I set myself these big ambitious goals and then when i when I don't make them, I feel like a failure.
Speaker: And it's funny because I sometimes feel like people have expectations of me, even though I was the one that set the expectation in the first place. Which is so interesting. how can How can they really have an expectation of you?
Speaker: Well, I think it comes back to what we talked about with regards to me keeping quiet about the video doing well. You know, like, it's not I'm not on everyone's radar, including my wife's.
Speaker: You know, like, and it's true, right? It's not it's like it's not nothing to be sad about. It's a true fact. Kristen, you have so much on your plate. You do so much for this household.
Speaker: You have your job as well. And you have all these things going on. And there's little Justin going, what about my video? like Of course it's ah like it's not on the forefront of your mind.
Speaker: There's birthday parties to organize. There's bloody handball games, football matches, your work with your students and things. you know The list goes on.
Speaker: Yeah, there's a big list. And then for the last three years, having two jobs and school.
Speaker: i've I've kept myself busy, that's for sure. Don't really understand how, but also because you're a good support, though. Don't forget that. You do help out.
Speaker: But then again, that gives Justin the feel of time scarcity. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. I've talked about it many times before.
Speaker: It's like I have a bad relationship with time. And I have a bad relationship with time, but it's polar opposites. ah Yeah, that's true.
Speaker: It's very true. We have the same thing, like but it's actually polar opposite. You don't have enough time. But I also don't have enough time really, but I ah have also have all the time in the world.
Speaker: yeah Because i I pretty much i'm the person that's always late to some people's detriment. but Or frustration.
Speaker: Or frustration. But that's I've been that way all my life. And I heard somewhere that i I have more seconds in the minute.
Speaker: I think there is, i think, seven more seconds in every minute. So during a day, that starts adding up, right? Or even just 15 minutes, you've added on like a couple of minutes. Oh, yeah.
Speaker: so It does drive me nuts sometimes. Which is completely understanding, but I don't mean ever to offend anybody, harm anybody.
Speaker: I'm just so in my world and I'm trying to do too many things. I try to prioritise things. too many things so I just it's the it's the thought of I just need to put on that before I go out the door which actually then makes me late like put on the washing I need to put on the washing then I can leave oh but I need to put on a jacket oh and then I can leave oh I need to lock up the door so I've lost quite a few minutes right in all the little um kind of like always behind
Speaker: Yeah, but I would say I'm the same in the garage, right? So I often think like, oh, I'll just do this for 10 minutes and I blink and two and a half hours have gone by.
Speaker: Like how did that even happen? Yeah, but that's that's how I can be too when I'm in my space, I guess in some sense. So it's very interesting.
Speaker: But when you come out of there, you're like, Kristen, you don't know how to cook, time frame cook. I'm so happy when I finally managed to like get all the things on the table and they're all hot at the same time.
Speaker: That being it's not like a one-pot thing because it's never a problem. That's your favourite type of meal. Yeah. I love roast.
Speaker: Roasted vegetables, roasted chicken in the oven, bang, bang, they're finished at the same time on the table. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, totally. i love it. ah You're like, this thing, this thing, this thing, and then we're going to mix a bit of this thing and that needs to be finished at the same time as this thing.
Speaker: And I'm like, you lost me at the first thing.
Speaker: Yeah. Anyway, enough about the food. More back to our time challenges, I think. I think it's interesting. We kind of have the same evil, which is time, kryptonite.
Speaker: Yeah, just polar opposites generally. Yeah, just so interesting. I find it frustrating because I realistically know that if I just was able to flick a switch in my head, my life would be a lot less stressful.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But I find it very difficult to do that because I feel like if I was to flick that switch, I would lose my sense of urgency and motivation.
Speaker: Because when I set ridiculous time goals, there's a pressure to perform within that time period. Whereas if I gave myself open-ended goals, then nothing would happen.
Speaker: And I do wonder like if half the projects would exist right now if I decided that, you know what, I'll just do things when I want to do them and ease into it.
Speaker: Because a lot of these things are... a result of setting deadlines, putting pressure to finish things on time. You know, i said to you that I had needed to finish the bike video, needed to be set released for the 17th of May.
Speaker: And I executed that. Yeah. I got it out. You often do. You're quite structured in that way. And maybe it's a good it's a good evil. It holds your hand in some sense, right, so that you actually stay on track.
Speaker: But it handcuffs you at the same time, right? Maybe that's an interesting version. It's kind of like holding your hand and handcuffing you. at the same time.
Speaker: Yeah. ah Double-edged sword. Isn't that what we call it? Yeah, I guess. But it's ah just an interesting perspective when you're working on these big projects too. It's like getting into the nitty-gritty of these big projects, it can become super overwhelming unless you – Set yourself deadlines. Like, I need to get this part finished by this time or date.
Speaker: And then you push yourself to get that part finished and then you move on. And you keep on building and building yeah these big projects into something.
Speaker: And that's a process I've realized that not everybody has. yeah the The Makerspace asked me, i'm part of the Horton Folk of Uxted.
Speaker: They asked me to do like a presentation and they were asking me like, what should i what should what should i talk about? You know, and they're like, oh, maybe you could talk about like finishing projects.
Speaker: And I thought about I was like, oh, shit. Yeah, maybe that's a thing, isn't it? I didn't really realize that, but most of the time i complete projects.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, you do. They're not unfinished. They just take up a whole lot of space, but they're not. Yeah, they do. I think we need to build a new garage. I know.
Speaker: But they're not unfinished. You always complete. And in some sense, the good thing is that because you need to complete to finish off your video. Yeah.
Speaker: So you kind of have like steps for completion. Yeah. Like even now with the new World Rally Car video, I know that I'm at this stage now where I need to go and test this thing properly.
Speaker: So there's a few things I need to get sorted on the cart before I can go test it properly. Yeah. And so have a checklist and I know my goal is Wednesday to get it done, but unfortunately today was a complete waste of time. Yeah, right off. but i Yeah. and But, you you have those days, right?
Speaker: Yeah. yeah I don't have too many of them because my life is very much... No, but you have those days where at work right you anticipate doing this at work, but it doesn't get complete, right?
Speaker: Yeah, but i think I think it works with my easy breezy. I just lean into something else then. Yeah, but that's my my point is is exactly the same. Yeah.
Speaker: Except I can't lean into it so easily. No. It's not in my DNA. No, it's not natural for you. And lean into the fact that it didn't work out today. Yeah. No, I just lean into it and that's today and it is what it is, what it is, what it is. And it'll be what it'll be.
Speaker: i I can't always, i can't control other people or this or that or whatnot. So I'm just like, so that's the ebb and flow of today. Okay. So I flow with it. Mm-hmm.
Speaker: More wine, please. so More wine, s sir. Uno momento, por favor. Apparently.
Speaker: How many other languages do you know? i and Well, I did French in school, Spanish in school, English and of course Norwegian and Ninosk, which is also a different language side of Norwegian.
Speaker: So, yeah, never tapped into German, though I can count. i I would say you speak Australian pretty well because even just now, he didn't say school.
Speaker: You said school. School. Oh, did I go? Did I become a New Zealander on the way? No, you didn't. Oh, right. What do you speak?
Speaker: Scottish now. What the heck? Oh. Like, we can be the Scottish, you know. All you've got do is put your teeth on there. ah Jesus Christ, Christ. I love dialects, okay? Scottish is a great dialect.
Speaker: Not so good at the Irish. No, 33 and the third. 33 and the third. No, that's more Scottish, isn't it? I don't know. Again?
Speaker: yeah I love dialects. I think it's really, really fun and i I've always liked languages. It's, I guess, been one of my sides of things.
Speaker: Actually, talking about languages, YouTube's got this auto-dubbing thing right now. yeah okay You told me about that the other day. Is that new?
Speaker: It's new-ish, I think. It's new-ish. I saw something, an email on it. I don't month or two ago, I think. And I didn't really take any note of it, to be honest. like, yeah, whatever.
Speaker: And, yeah, but it seems, it's quite a few comments on the new video coming from, well, in other languages. Yeah, yeah, there was some, um for care but the the something like that. so some Spanish in there, I saw.
Speaker: so it makes me makes me wonder what i sound like in spanish If I'm order it being auto-dubbed. Oh, that would be so fun. I wonder what I sound like in Spanish. Yeah. ah Oh, that would be so much fun.
Speaker: and run ah I mean, be funny if they translated it wrong. I wonder how I sound in Arabic. Because we've got this, obviously we've got these accents, Australian accents,
Speaker: And use you weirdly sound sound more Australian than I do. I know. I know. And then, so I wonder if they translated it right. Because it would be hilarious if it was saying. and I do wonder how they translated the whole, put your teeth on the thing and go, no, no, no, no. I am here to provide laughter, as you all can hear.
Speaker: oh i am here to provide laughter as you can Yeah, well, I guess ah maybe we should find out after the pod. yeah i Go find a dubbed version of it.
Speaker: But can you, though, unless it's like in that country? I don't know. I'm sure you could choose the language on the video. Oh, that would be hilarious. So we should probably find that out. But honestly, i think it's a pretty interesting side of things because you've heard about mr beast having like ah yeah different channels yeah spanish channel yeah french channel yeah So if the dubbing is accurate enough, then that all of a sudden changes your content to global content.
Speaker: Yeah. Which per YouTube's point of view is a freaking game changer. Yeah. yeah Because that means people that are producing content in English can reach everybody and people come producing content in English German, Spanish, whatever language can also reach an English speaking. Because that can be dubbed back to English. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah. Pretty amazing, actually. But I have heard some things bad with it. I don't know what you guys as listeners have experienced, but I heard that someone's video was dubbed in English even though english was or it was already in English.
Speaker: so they So when they went to play their own video, it was there a different voice in English copying. It was a weird thing.
Speaker: So... Do they have an accent of some sort that and that got taken out rather than actually, well, maybe that's what people hear.
Speaker: Maybe here in Norway we hear our voices and then in the rest of the English-speaking world we sound like Chilean. Wouldn't that be funny? and Bandit. Maybe they literally just got Chilean bandits' like voice voice over. And then they just put it properly over Auto-dubbing.
Speaker: ah what What do you guys think? Like, have you guys experienced that? Let me know because I want to hear your experiences with it because if it's auto-dubbed, I wonder if it's even accurate.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. Where can they reach you? Yeah, they can hit me up on Garage Avenger on Instagram. Yeah. I think it's probably the easiest way to get in contact with me. Yeah.
Speaker: ah Just DM me. And let me know what your experiences are with it. I think it's been a, it'll be an interesting thing to hear about because I don't envisage that I translate very well in Spanish or other languages, especially with the technical things.
Speaker: But you never know. no You never know. I wonder if they had dubbed us in Norwegian. Wouldn't that be funny? Yeah. I think we're too English-speaking, I don't think they bother.
Speaker: Yeah, probably right. We didn't even dub back in the 80s, right? oh ninety s Or like Cartoon Network was still just in English. It wasn't dubbed.
Speaker: I think we're too spoiled, you know? We're too spoiled, love. I wanted to ask you, Kristen.
Speaker: We... I'm a... Quite a strange individual. I'm very much outside of the box with regards to what I'm doing.
Speaker: i As far as I'm aware, I'm the only one that I know it is actually doing this pretty seriously, especially in the genre that I'm in with regards to like mechanical mechanics.
Speaker: rolling things. Yeah, yeah. You know, motorized toys. Brafting of other things, yes. yep So what's your ah feelings around this and how do you explain this to others when you have to explain it?
Speaker: Well, the fun thing now, I guess, is that we've come so far along this journey that I don't have to explain as much anymore. at least to some people that know us ah bit, but don't have to explain as much anymore because they they know what you're doing.
Speaker: They know that you're trying to build something, but they don't necessarily understand it because we we are, as a society, valued monetarily, right?
Speaker: Mm-hmm. And if you don't have heaps of money coming in, how are you doing all the things that you need to do? But you just, you live in a different way.
Speaker: You don't need all that. You need money to survive. Yes, of course, and have a roof over your head. But I think it's nice that I don't have to explain so much anymore, but I would still also explain it if somebody didn't really understand. I say you're a YouTuber.
Speaker: Is that all you say? Like how how do you explain it to people? Because i'm I'm also personally confused how I actually explain what I do. Because sometimes you just don't know how to plainly articulate so that people actually understand it.
Speaker: Yeah. i guess It's almost a bit like my therapy stuff, right? Right. It's a bit difficult almost to explain. But I think it's more the fact that you – I would rather have a happy man in the garage that makes less money than a sad and grumpy man that comes from work and makes a ton of money.
Speaker: That doesn't fuel my soul. It's that easy. It really comes down down to seeing a person being happy. It's like do whatever makes you happy.
Speaker: Just do that. And I feel like you do do that. And for me, that's easy. i He likes what he does. Sure, we're not becoming rich.
Speaker: I haven't really tapped into that bit as a family yeah But he's happy. And I'm like, life is too freaking short for anything else.
Speaker: For anything else. I don't care if we have a cabin or a boat or shit. That stresses me out, by the way. I don't understand how people do it. I don't need either. don't have enough time. Yeah, it stresses me out just having this house.
Speaker: Yeah. ah And doing the washing and the dishes and all ah this other stuff that just needs to be done all the time There's much time. I don't understand. Like, where do people put their time?
Speaker: I'm constantly running behind, I feel. So for me, that's not valuable. It's right here, right now is valuable.
Speaker: But how do you explain to people? so like someone rocks up, you don't know them yeah very well. And they say, Kristen, nice meet you. Oh, you I see you're married.
Speaker: no What's your husband do? I said, oh, he's a YouTuber. He creates stuff. And if they want to know more, they'll have to keep on asking. Yeah, so they say, ah I don't understand.
Speaker: How do you explain it? Because like I said, I don't know myself how to explain it because want to your opinion.
Speaker: I think, but at the same time, they also know what YouTube is. So, but I think more they probably would tap into like, oh, does it make a lot of money? And I'm like, no, not yet.
Speaker: And like, how do you do that? Well, we make it happen. It's easy. Like i they have to have a question to come to me with. And then in some weird sense, I guess I end up finding an answer to all of those little questions. And it kind of just taps into one. I don't, I can't explain it the same as well. You're just, you're YouTuber and you work with kids and those are the two things you do.
Speaker: Well, actually, that's an interesting thing you talk about. So the next question i also often get is like, how much money do you make?
Speaker: And I say not much, right? Because it's the honest truth.
Speaker: And what's interesting is most people just drop it there. They give up asking more questions. Which I find fascinating because if someone told me that they were a YouTuber and I asked them, are you successful financially in it yet?
Speaker: And they said, I wouldn't say yet, but like, are you financially successful? And you say, no not really. i would ask more questions. You'd be curious. Yeah, but it's too big for them to fathom. Yeah.
Speaker: It's too big because it doesn't fit the box. It doesn't fit in the box of all the things in a material world. Yeah. ah My good friend Thomas talked to me last or this week, and he mentioned something to me when were talking about like and the fact is I built myself this cocoon of like loneliness in the garage, right?
Speaker: And he's like just, he just said, remember you did this. You chose this.
Speaker: So you can choose to be one of the crowd and blend in or you can choose to be you be amazing and and and an individual.
Speaker: but know that that puts you on the outside of most. It comes with a cost. Yeah. Not being in the midst of the flock of the sheep comes with a cost.
Speaker: It means you're freezing on the outside. And I often feel that way. often feel like no one really understands me, especially locally here. You know, have parents come pick up their kids from my house and, you know, they don't ask questions. They don't care.
Speaker: and and like, it's not their fault. It's not my fault either. It's just, you realize when things like that happen, that you are alone in this. You are a very unique individual doing things that no one else is doing.
Speaker: And it's very hard for people to understand what and why you would do this. Yeah. I think maybe then also though the invitation will have to come from you. it's You see that when you have the garage door open and they can see your things, it's much easier for them to sort of like step a bit closer.
Speaker: Yeah. And have another look and be curious. Then when the garage is closed, then it's just a garage for most people. They have no idea. People hide all their messy stuff, you know, in the garages, especially in Norway. A lot of them don't use their garage. They actually use it for storage.
Speaker: Well, what's interesting, I'll never forget this. One of one of the parents once, this is a long time ago when I was building the soap and beer fridge. Mm-hmm. One of the parents came down and I was sort showing what I was building and he point blank just said, why would you build this?
Speaker: In a very like, you're an idiot tone of voice. And I realized at that point that, you know, like most people don't get this at all, you know.
Speaker: No, they don't. Most people don't get this at all that, you know, building things can bring joy. Yeah.
Speaker: And there is a rollercoaster ride of building things. you I've talked about this as well, right? The post-project high and the post-video low.
Speaker: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's been in the blues. and the blues A little bit. Well, this is, which is fascinating, right? Because i I'm at the highest ah view rates on any video ever for me, yet I still feel kind of like, depress not depressive, but low.
Speaker: Yeah, I would call it the blues. You have the blues. Yeah. Because you're not depressed. And it it goes over fairly quickly. It was very strange the first time she started doing the videos and we were like, I'm like, why are you so cranky?
Speaker: Like seriously, you just posted a video. Aren't you happy? And I just ah couldn't understand. And now that we know what it is, it's like, well, you have the blues. you you get this.
Speaker: It's every episode you put out. You have a dip. And for me, how I analyze it is that your ah you finished one thing and now because you also have these deadlines for yourself, it's on to the next.
Speaker: And what's next? There's a bit of like it's open. You know when you're doing a project, it's closed frame? Yeah. And when you finish it, then doors are wide open.
Speaker: Yeah, and there's a lot of decisions to make. Yeah. And you and I'm also scared about making the wrong decision. So, for example, even just today, i was struggling just to how to do the next part of the video, like how to go from the intro that you and I recorded the other day into the actual build process that I kind of half started on during last week.
Speaker: Mm-hmm. you know choosing a way of doing that to transition, it's hard sometimes to make decisions and then line everything up.
Speaker: And then and if you think about how the build's ah going You don't always have a plan you can stick to because you all of a sudden see something that needs to be changed.
Speaker: So you have to adapt. It's a very so kind of stressful environment to be putting yourself in constantly, knowing that you're putting deadlines on things because the project never turns out the way you want it to be honest.
Speaker: But I do get this real self-satisfaction of when the project's finished. So there's usually like two or three days of euphoria when I look at the project finished sitting in my garage.
Speaker: And I go, oh, that's so cool. I'm so happy I made this. is like I'm so stoked how it turned out. I'm glad. But then like right now, if I go into the garage and look at the Like her?
Speaker: Well, no. On the bike. The bike. I'm like, whatever. Yeah, you're so done. Yeah, I'm so done. I'm like, whatever. I don't want to get rid of it because I i am still proud of it.
Speaker: But it's kind of like a mic drop. Mic drop. and Yeah. I leave. 100%. Yeah. I'm done. I'm out of here.
Speaker: Yeah. No, I get that, though. I can understand that, that that's how it feels because you're then – You're shifting gear. You're moving on.
Speaker: Yeah. You've gone like high gear, full blast. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. We're slowing down to low gear at the end of it, right?
Speaker: ah You're in low gear. So now you're, but now you're starting to go down to second, third. You're getting back into like, on the next one. I wouldn't use that analogy. i I feel like it's sometimes like amnesia.
Speaker: So you have to learn how to go again. Oh, okay. So it's learning. you know, like amnesia, you still know how to talk. You still know how to do these things, but you've forgotten all these like small details of your life, right?
Speaker: And so it's the same thing with the project, right? you You get there, you you know how to cut metal, you know how to weld, you know how the to 3D print things, you know how to do that stuff, but you have to work out how you build things again.
Speaker: Yeah, but because it's also a new thing, you're not building the same thing. So now you've got a prototype and you can just redo the same thing and keep building on that. You actually have to reinvent the wheel every time. 100%. You're reinventing the wheel.
Speaker: Yeah, every time. but ah That's pretty tough. Most people wouldn't last very long in reinventing the wheel all the time. Well, I'm glad you said that because that and feel it sometimes it really feels super tough to like stop and realize like, oh man, I've just put this big daunting task in front of me and I don't know how to how to do this.
Speaker: And I have to work this out. I have to slug it out. Yeah. Like try some stuff, fail quite a few times and then redo things. yeah And I think doing that over and over and over again, people don't really like that.
Speaker: Yeah. I just, these projects seem ridiculous to most, I think.
Speaker: But then... I get satisfaction from building these things. and as much as I hate the process of starting over again, it's that it's like two to three days of high that I get that weirdly makes it worth it.
Speaker: oh So I just wish I could make a little bit more money off it so that we could actually live off Doing what I do, right? Yeah, yeah. That would be great. Yeah. That would be absolutely great.
Speaker: On that note, do you have some people you want to mention? Yeah. Yeah, i want to mention my patrons. Firstly, I want to shout out Thomas Anger.
Speaker: He's ah decided that he will up his contribution to my patron. Oh, that's lovely. Thank you. He is now a hero.
Speaker: So thank you, Thomas. You are my hero. And I will send you i like a discount code for merch.
Speaker: Yeah. And you'll get to buy some merch on a much reduced price. Hope it's good enough for you. ah And I just want to say thank you for believing in me.
Speaker: Are you willing to up to 10 bucks a month? It's pretty, for me, that's amazing. So I really appreciate you, really appreciate everyone that contributes to my patron.
Speaker: But I'm going to just call out my heroes, Thomas Bachner, Mark Foster, Janis Klemms, Ulle Skitler, can't say it. Shitten.
Speaker: Shitten. You know what they say in the Three Northern Makers podcast? They say, skip that in. she yeah is that how you say it shit I didn't know sorry Ola unless it's skitteren but I doubt that I've never heard a last name you you drive it together very different skitteren yeah yeah ah also Midgard thank you so much
Speaker: The Swedish maker. Thank you. Mark Jones and Stian Suess. And a massive shout out to my sidekicks, Sylvester, Arno, and Thomas.
Speaker: Thank you, guys. Really, really appreciate you guys. And I really appreciate everyone that contributes just as little as a dollar a month to my patron.
Speaker: So appreciate you guys. um Kristen. Kristen. yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's me. What's ah blowing your mind this week? Blowing my mind this week.
Speaker: Let me see what I wrote down on my little note. Oh, it was op shopping. no
Speaker: Mind blown. I did see a double rainbow today. Did you see a double rainbow today? Double rainbow today. The kids wanted to go. They're like, can we drive at the end of the rainbow?
Speaker: I'm like, it looks like it's out in there today. We don't have time. Sorry.
Speaker: ah first That happened today. Mind blown on the double rainbow. but What was your mind blown? My mind blown is actually off shop shopping, like going to look at used things.
Speaker: and some gems you can find and in lots of non-gems you can also find and how some gems are very highly priced for being worn stuff very fascinating yeah so ah it's not it's not something i do very often and i really enjoyed it i thought it was fun it was fun to sort of like Go back in time on some things.
Speaker: and Did you find old-fashioned stuff still? Yeah, yeah. There's lots of different things you can find out there. Didn't buy it, but looked at it. Also fascinated that you ah shoes and things you can buy these places. Yeah.
Speaker: And yeah, I loved it. I loved it. I loved every minute. It was lovely. What's your mind blown? and I just have to say ah new video. Hitting 160,000 views in nine days, 500 comments.
Speaker: Cheers that. Let's go. Mind blown. Yeah, I just want to thank everyone that watched it and appreciate you guys.
Speaker: ah I feel like I'm going... definitely in the right direction. now we We talked about this over the last six months or so, Kieran and me doing this podcast, I feel the direction is right.
Speaker: And it feels definitely right when you see results like that and it's going in the right direction. And I think, you know, maybe in some time I might be able to do this, you know, probably, you know, like it would be really great. But, you know, even if I don't,
Speaker: do this full time, like I said, um I still feel successful. It's great, babe. Yeah. It's great. Makes me happy. Anything giving you the shits this week?
Speaker: The shits, eh? The shits. No. Not really. Oh, so disappointed. I was waiting for you to come on a crazy rant about something that I was like, whoa. No. You know what?
Speaker: I was thinking about that and how often do you actually hear me complain about stuff? Like never. and Exactly. That's my point. So I don't really get the shits about things.
Speaker: I might observe things and i I get very rarely frustrated or annoyed.
Speaker: But what I might be, I want to say when I'm driving, this is because Dad had an accident, quite a big car crash, right?
Speaker: Not that long ago. So it it doesn't give me the shits but
Speaker: makes me a little bit scared when I'm out driving because people are numb nuts. I'm sorry. They are crazy on the road.
Speaker: Who does number two work for? Well, sometimes he works for you and sometimes he works for me. but Well, I think that's how people are numbnuts.
Speaker: People are so...
Speaker: gone yeah from reality sometimes it's fascinating yeah i think i think that's the right word fascinating for me because i just sometimes i'm like i pull to my face i'm like i'm literally sitting there i'm like what the hell is going on ah don't understand so i guess that's it Well, I mean, talking about civil drivers, right? Yeah.
Speaker: You know, most of the time, motorcycles are killed. It's by cars, not seeing them, by being distracted by their phones or something crazy like this. And they don't see a motorcycle and they run over them kill them.
Speaker: Yeah, it's just It's mad that things, because I've become so awake to it, I think, and alert. The things I've seen over the last two months are just redonkulous.
Speaker: Seriously. and Which is crazy because a lot of people think these text messages, they and need to answer. Like, no, just drive the car. That's the main priority here. It's enough.
Speaker: Yeah. I'll tell you what's giving me the shits. Yeah. It has to be those creeps on ah in the comments section. Yeah. Who does number two work for?
Speaker: Yeah, it just it gives me the shits that they have the audacity to say things on a public you know YouTube comment section that would be derogatory towards you ah insults me through like the fact that they think that they can say these things about you, about my wife.
Speaker: Like, I'm sorry, but I can't believe sometimes how – evil people are. Yeah. It's fascinating, isn't it? Mm.
Speaker: So it does, it gives me the shits. Yeah, fair enough. Fair enough. I get that. Um, Kristen? Mm? Karen normally sings a recommendation song.
Speaker: Can you remember it? does. Do you want to sing it I'll give it I'll give it a fair shake of the sauce bottle, hey? I'll give it a fair shake of the sauce bottle. Is that the right term?
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah? Yeah, yeah. Recommendation, recommendation. What is your recommendation? That was weirdly bad.
Speaker: I thought you were going to sing much better than that. I tried to make it bad. I'm so glad. I was like, I've never heard you sing so bad before.
Speaker: good I didn't put on my nice voice. wasn't like, recommendation.
Speaker: a That was not my good voice either. That was not. I'm like, what is going on here? I'm having too much fun with this. No. Any recommendations?
Speaker: I think you have to start. I'm going to recommend this horrible Netflix series,
Speaker: called Bad Thoughts. ah It's the most ridiculous thing. If you're not a fan of Tom Segura, then probably don't watch it.
Speaker: But if you're a fan at all, or you kind of know who Tom Segura is and you you want to give it a look-see, it's out of control. ne Do not watch it around your kids because...
Speaker: Completely inappropriate, but definitely worth watching. i think it's so, so ridiculous that you'll realize, like, why ah why are we so square?
Speaker: Like, we should just laugh at the most ridiculous things. And Tom Sekiro comes up with some fantastic... fantastic skits in this six-part series.
Speaker: I thought it was so so well made and so ridiculous that it's worth watching just to say were absolutely shocked and appalled. I was shocked and appalled.
Speaker: The literal I saw of it, I 100% was shocked and appalled. It's definitely not my recommendation. No.
Speaker: What's your recommendation, Kristen? Anything? don't know if have one, except for looking at Lexi when she came talking to us and I'm like, as much as you're a nuisance right now, I love you.
Speaker: I love that we have a dog. Everybody should have a dog or an animal. They do something about you to you. They do something about you.
Speaker: yeah Yeah, but they change you. They do something about you. i speak a good English. Okay.
Speaker: Get a dog, people. Get a dog. You'll be better humans. I swear. i weirdly think so, too. They're so dependent on you. But at the same time, they give you so much attention.
Speaker: um what do you call it? unconditional Unconditional love. that's Unconditional love. love. no So we should all learn to have a little bit more of unconditional love.
Speaker: I think on that bombshell, we'll leave it there. Thank you all so much for listening to Kristen's perspective with through regards to my things that I'm up to in my garage.
Speaker: I hope you guys got something from it and I guess we will see you next week, hopefully with Karen. Yes. Come on, kids. You gotta dance.
Speaker: You need to dance.
Speaker: I'm sorry. I can't help it. It's just... ah This is just how I am. You poor people. I don't know how going to edit this podcast. Thanks, see ya, bye!
Speaker: Adios, amigos! Hasta luego!
