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Week 46 - Painters have my respect
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This week Kieran talks about his two new beers and Justin gets the rally car painted.
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Introduction to Garage Ventures
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This is the Garage Avenger podcast.
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Hello and welcome to the Garage Avenger Podcast. I'm Justin, trying to share the joy of building my non-street lethal death machines in my garage in the hope of one day making a living off it.
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And I'm Kieran, trying to turn my garage brewed beers into a world renowned, and i'm not going to say that Justin, don't get me flagged on the internet. Fuck you.
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Fuck you. That's all I had today.
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sorry people. Yeah, we are twin brothers with a passion for creating the world that are expected. Taking on an everyday ah ride through what's happening in our garages.
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Welcome, everybody. Kieran, what
Brewing Challenges and Compliance
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are you up to?
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Besides ah more dodging comments on podcasts that will get me pinged as a sex pest,
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ah
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I am this week or last, or sorry, it's last week, it's Tuesday today, so technically it was last week, we tapped the Citra anointing.
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Nice. Hey, yeah by the way, people, sorry for being a day late. It was Kieran's fault of again, obviously. Yeah, I see.
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No, Citroen Ointing. Apologies to all six of you that listen. and Yeah, Citroen Ointing.
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it was It's a strange thing. i was ah was tasting the beer from the tank and i was like... There's something something weird going on. And then, like, we we spun it. or what we call sp We ran it through a separator and and into the yeah um into the what they call a bright tank, which is ready for packaging, getting it up to carbon carbonation and doing all that stuff.
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And i was tasting it from the tank there, and was like – Oh, what the fuck is that? It's ah no. I added all these salts and minerals to try and create this kind of really mild bitterness effect to just really, so you get the depth of hop flavor without the bitterness.
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And like i was like, oh, what is this flavor? And no, it's all this, it's the, you know, calcium chloride and nitrogen sulfide that I added, which is into the whirlpool.
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I'm like, fuck. Oh, no, I fucked it. And then I can't do anything. We've got to tap it anyway, right? Can't just like tip it down the drain.
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Got a can off the canning line. Totally fine. ah Just like, tastes great. was like, what? What happened? ah don't understand. So anyway, long story short, the beer's tasting great.
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um it's weird We had some problems with the the fermentation. I don't know if i mentioned that last week. Did I mention that last week? I can't remember. ah Yeah.
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Well, we didn't hit the tide of gravity because of some bad communication problems and some bad calculations. And then the beer didn't ferment down as low as I expected it to.
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And so had a label printed for 8% double IPA. And the laws in Norway require that you can't label anything that's 1% either side of what your label strength is.
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And it's like 6.5%. I'm like, mother. So I ah had to get labels express printed to try and and relabel them in time. So they're arriving on Friday and I've got to manually relabel, well, manually.
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I've got to run them through the the canning line again um to put the labels on. So that's a bit of a shit. and But an interesting thing is that the other beer, that's the the other beer, Divine Vision, just kept on creeping.
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This kept on dropping. It kept fermenting out. It's like...
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They cannot be two more different beers from one another. It is so fascinating. Same base beer. um Everything on Hot Side was exactly the same. Went into the two similar tanks with two of the same type of yeast.
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ah Strain added. And the only difference was I dry hopped the citron anointing with ah something called cryo hops, which is um ah kind of hops are made of flowers. So there's a lot of like vegetable matter, if you will, ah as part of the flower.
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um And they refer to these these pellets as T90. So that's 90% matter. flower matter and And then you have T45, which is called the cryopops or something of the like.
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And so they're typically more concentrated. So I decided to use that in the citra because I wanted like this intense citra flavor and aroma, which I got, which I'm really fucking happy about.
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ah But as a result, it has less plant matter. And in this plant matter is a little enzyme that starts to break down complex
Techniques in Beer Production
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malt sugars, which give your beer the body and thickness that you – and sweetness that you want ah in some of these beers.
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And the other beer I dry hopped with – what was it? um It's 20 kilos into a thousand. Yeah. So it's like 20 grams per liter of T90, which is the more has more plant matter in the hot pellet.
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And as a result, it just kept on fermenting out. So, i mean, that definitely, like as a beer that was too low in gravity that was never going to be a full 8%, now the Divine Vision is stronger than 8% because it fermented down lower.
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So I'm like, i didn't thankfully, i didn't have to re reprint that label. So um it's just a really crazy experience to see how the same beer works reacted differently.
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so I'm sorry if I put people to sleep on that one, ah but so I thought it was really interesting. But what, um, so everyone is very clear. So gravity is like alcohol percentage, essentially. ah Gravity refers to a dissolved sugars, basically.
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So how thick the liquid is. Um, so how many, so obviously when you're, when the yeast consumes, uh, maltose sugar or sucrose sugar or fructose sugar or any of these kind of dissolved sugars that are in beer,
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um They create turn that into alcohol, but because they're consuming those sugars, there's less density in the viscosity in the liquid.
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and That measurement, what we call gravity, ah refers to the viscosity of the of the liquid or the beer that gives you an indication of how much it's fermented and how much sweetness is left.
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Cool, so when when is this divine vision, when is that ready? Do we know? Well, I create finally stopped on the weekend.
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I had to go in and check it. Like I literally took a trip into the brewery just to just to check that it was calming down. and And I crashed it, ah which are dropping the temperature on it to try and get the yeast and hop matter to fluctuate out or drop out of the out of the beer so I can get a cleaner ah beer and to to finish. It's still going to be very hazy, I might add.
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um And the plan is to run it through the separator on Thursday and then package on Friday morning. So... I'm excited. I'm excited to see how this one tastes.
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Really different beer. You get this kind of ah fascinating aroma of like strawberry tropical with a little bit of this.
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in the In the industry, they call it dank. um It has like ah the easiest way to describe that for someone who doesn't understand what dank means is that kind of like greeny cannabis aroma.
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Like kind of like, a you know, I drinking a beer or am I getting high? um But interestingly enough, on a side note, hop plants are from the same family as cannabis.
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What? for what yeah Mind blown. Obviously, no THC or anything like that, but there you go. um So, yeah, it's the exciting times. Those beers will be ah launched on the se first or second week of September, the first week
Origins of Norway's Largest Beer Club
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of September at the Wine Monopoly.
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um So keep your eyes posted for that. And if you don't follow me on Facebook and or Instagram or whatever, please do that. There'll be updates posted there.
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I also have like an internal page on Facebook, if people are interested in that, called Good News from Nucleus Brewing. And that's where all the kind of... You get to find out there the nitty-gritty, the in-and-out, all the cool kids that are in that group. So if you want to join that, just ah yeah send a a request and I will...
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99.9% assuredly approve it. You say cool kids, I'm just like all these super beard nerds. Oh, yeah, absolutely. We've been globing in the hot profiles. With that being said, i mean i this guy, a local guy, Arnstein, is it Arnstein? Yeah, Arnstein his name is.
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And ah he he's one of these he's part of these this um the strangest beer club in the world, ah in my opinion. Dramanser Venner.
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It's like this, don't know, can you imagine the Freemasons that just sat around and drank beer all day? Yeah, that's what it sounded like straight away. is this sounded like Drummond's beer friends. It's just like, hey, let's just sit around and drink beer together. Yeah, but then they do like they have a bowling club like addition and then they have like these weird little like kind of club things.
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You can sign up to like what they call the Bayer Lotion. So like the Bayer Lodge and that's like a little kind of sub club where as soon as it goes into the winter months, you only drink dark beer.
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and it so And they have like but they have berets and sashes and pins and badges and ceremonies and all this stuff. It's super, super. king do Do they haze people? or that i
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know I don't know. I've never been into one of the meetings, but wouldn't see them you know go about. Now, an interesting backstory on the Drum and Zalvena.
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ah When the alcohol um ban alcohol advertising ban in Norway came in, the only way to promote alcohol was to a closed group.
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Now, this is like in the 80s and 90s, right, where like the internet hadn't really taken off yet. So how do you create a closed group where you can advertise?
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You start a beer club. And that is what Dramund Zölvener is. It is essentially, although Brewery has kind of, um they're unofficially not involved anymore, started by Ors Brewery to promote their own beer.
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That is awesome. The deal was, is that you would get, you would become a member, which was free. And then you would be on this mailing list and all this stuff.
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And so you would get product updates and discounts and different things all to do with the club, right? And so it was their way to advertise to people because it was a free beer club where you got benefits, people signed up in droves.
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And so they claim... I don't know how realistic it is, but they claim to be the largest beer club, member-wise, in the world.
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How many people are we talking here, Kieran? Apparently, 30,000 40,000 people.
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It has to be. it's like I'm sure it's like a secret society. like They're walking around spanking people with these paddles and stuff. They're like, Drummond's Elvenna exposed.
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We could do like ah one of those kind of shows on like Discovery Channel whatever. and So, yeah, it's a it's a i super strange club in my opinion.
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But you know what? I've never been to a meeting officially, I can't say. Can you please go to one of these meetings and give us the inside scoop? board Yeah, I'll just bring like my little like, ah you know, button cam and secretly record. So, yeah, I mean, other than that, I mean, it's just been – there's been some – ah my My main point, sorry, I brought up Al Drummond Zorvena was Einstein.
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He's super really like probably the only normal person I've met from that club. ah And he's super into beer and he's been super supportive. And he posted this fantastic message on Instagram and Facebook.
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promoting Eucharist beer and telling everyone to check it out and, you know, all these kinds of things. And he used the word impeccable, like the Norwegian equivalent of every beer he's tasted from me is impeccable.
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And that's really fascinating. That's just so lovely to hear. So ah unlikely that he's listening to this podcast, but a big shout out to Einstein. um So there you go.
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um Just really lovely. And other than that, it's just been finalizing labels and things for the Christmas beer, getting some stuff in order there.
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And um that the Christmas beer is going to the tank in two weeks. Yeah, i was going to say, you are going to be brewing this thing pretty soon, right? Yeah, there's like a bunch of different windows at the Wine Monopoly to hit.
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and It has to be in the warehouse by, it October? Let me see here. What did I write? It has to be in the warehouse by the 8th of October.
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Otherwise, it ah it won't go out as a Christmas beer. How are the labels? Because I think the labeling for Christmas beers, like Christmas beer is so popular here.
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And if you have a killer label, then basically you're going to sell out. I'm keeping to my style with like this central graphic. on a i'm I'm actually doing a white and a black label version ah this year.
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um The white label one is called Singularity Incarnate, and it has this kind of graphic, which I haven't finished completely yet, of the crib version.
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of the crib the bassinet that Jesus was supposedly laid in, the manger, yeah um with essentially like a crack through the middle of it, like light emitting through it. like And the idea behind that was the the idea that the uncreated enters creation as if splitting...
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ah a hole in time in order to enter creation. So I like the idea there. um i think it will look really nice. So deep. i mean, if I can't fucking be deep about faith stuff at christian at Christmas, when can I fucking do
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it? so ah So I just decided like, and it's it's a simple thing, but the logo and text is all going to be gold on a white label.
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And there's going to be gold, like metallic accents through the graphic as well. So I think it will really stand out as like a high quality thing. It's going to be in a white can with a gold cap as well, just like the Divine Vision ah can.
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And i think it'll look fantastic. The other one is going to be black in a black can, black label. It's called The Waiting Dark. And it's just got this little like graphic of a lantern sitting in a, you know, on ah on a kind of black background.
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And I just think it'll, and that's going to have black and gold together there. and I think that will really pop as well. ah Black and gold, white and gold, I think. And that will just kind of really create a sense of,
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Quality, I think. and So I'm really, i think those will be really nice once they're once they're all kind of printed up. Still got a little bit of work to do on the graphics to make sure I'm happy with it.
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And then, yeah, I think they'll be really nice and and hopefully the way the things are with the with the Christmas beers, they'll just sell and I'll be happy.
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Well, I'm looking forward to seeing the labels and then, of course, when they're ready to be tasted i'm looking forward to be tasting them so enough about my business justin what's been happening in the garage for you this week painting yeah i've seen some insta stories and i have to say think i rang you up ah Last week when I saw the first paint dead going down because I was like, this looks fucking sick.
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ah It looks so good. i mean, I know you you said to me, oh, look, there's all these blemishes that, you know, on the car. and that, you know, you were difficult to see when it was when you were sanding it.
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and But you know what? Fuck, it still looks so mad. Considering it's like a 3D printed car, come on. Yeah, I agree. i mean, I will talk about that in a minute.
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But you're right. it's ah There was some issues and it gave me a lot more respect for for painters and people who do body work, like how yeah how much work it is to get it right. Yeah.
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But, yeah, like I basically finished doing everything sort of on Thursday and i i stupidly like on Thursday morning like thought, ah well, I'll just check the roof. and no um And I wasn't quite happy with the fit.
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e And so I decided I was going to like um yeah actually use the ah planer to plane off the edge.
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and But the problem is it's a 3D print. So once you're playing off the edge, it's like all the infill exposed, right? So basically i had to fill the infill with super glue so that it would be hard and and a hard edge. And then I had to like...
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sparkle it to body fill it to make it look good. And that was a huge mistake because i thought I was finished and then I sprayed some ah you know some fill it like spray filler on it.
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It looked like garbage. And I was like, no, it looked so good before. so um I kind of rushed at the end there to get it ready. But I decided, you know what, I'll just take it and then if it looks horrible, then we'll sand it again.
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It's no not a big thing. um ah I took it, I strapped it onto the trailer. It was the most nerve wracking thing I've done.
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Like driving. driving How far away did you have to drive it? Like 12, 15 kilometers. Yeah.
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And it was just so like knowing how many hours I've spent on this damn body, know, I think like 250 odd hours easily. and driving it and watching it in the rear vision mirror bouncing around. I'm like, oh God, and then went over like potholes and things. like, oh God. so very nervous driving there.
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I get there, ah Krista from Nuttere Billakering, the guy who painted it. So shout out Krista, he's absolute legend.
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ah So there's a bit of a backstory why I took it to him. I used to work with him when I was a furniture maker. And we had this kind of like, well, long time ago when we worked together, i really only had like the Emma's ah soapbox car.
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here And he said that like if I ever make another cool car, like he'll paint it for me. That's what he said. So I contacted him and I'm like, hey, I'm building this rally car.
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Any chance you want to hold yourself to this unwritten... rule that we sort of stated before. And so he said, yeah. So yeah, um it was really cool ah because he just did it for free, sunny and including the paint.
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He said he didn't want to charge me for the paint even. so That's fantastic. Yeah. But it just showed me though that that all the work is in the sanding. h absolutely everything is in the sanding.
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And I think that's what you pay for when you get you know a car painted is the body work, the prep work before the painting. So he ah he did a great job. um I didn't paint it at all because I hate spray painting.
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yeah I always get runs. It doesn't really matter what I do. I just still get runs. So I decided, you know what, I'll let the professional paint it. um We put on the first layer just to see if it was going to react with the the coat that I had put on it prior and it seemed good and then just layered it up. I think we put four layers of paint on it and it looks so shiny and really cool. and you couldn't and When it was wet, you really couldn't see all the defects in it because the paint kind of was sitting, i don't know, it's hard to explain, but like
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fluffy on top and it wasn't dried so it didn't like don't kind of crimp like crimp down and find all the little divots and little problems and so when I walked around it when it was glossy I was like this is so cool but then when we when I came to pick it up ah Yesterday it was actually. yeah immediately saw all the problems.
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yeah i was i was so ah calm To be honest, I kind of disappointed. But I had to keep on saying to myself, like, majority of this you're not going to even see because there will stickers over the top. Yeah, exactly right. You know, so I just had to be so gentle with myself because I'm like, oh, that looks like a be gentle on yourself, Justin.
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Yeah. Moisturize your hands. Get a bit gentle on yourself. Yeah.
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But it really was, again, like when I saw it yesterday, i realized like, wow, it's all in the prep work. yeah and You know, you really just need to do so much work to get it right.
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And the the biggest issue was that it was, you know, a hundred odd parts glued together and then I had to layer like a lot of sparkle, like a lot of body filler on top.
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I had to because otherwise all the glue lines would pop and and you'd see them. Yeah, of course. So in some places you still saw them. So – so It was frustrating.
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And the whole process, I think I would do totally different if I do it again. Yeah. um So lesson learned there. and But I had to bring it back. I was going to wait and just let it, because he hadn't painted the roof yet.
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And I was just going to leave it there. But on the weekend, I started working on the roll bar. Yeah. It's like a bit of a protection for me in the cabin if I do end up flipping it.
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Yeah, let's hope not. ah So considering that this thing might go to Monaco as well, you know, or potentially even Japan, like I kind of want to have it a little bit safe just in case someone else also try it wants to drive it, right? Yeah, yeah.
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So, you know, I definitely felt like, okay, I need to put in roll bar. I went down the biggest rabbit hole with regard to roll cage building.
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And I had to pull myself out of it. yeah I'm like, this is a toy, Justin. This is not an FIA approved, you know, machine. Like it's not a race car.
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yeah Have you thought about, and just ah on a side note, have you thought you're taking this to Monaco, Like, what if it doesn't get approved to drive?
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Ah, Toyota will push it through. You reckon? Yeah, I reckon. It's just a it's a fun thing. I'm not going to go. It's not like I'm competing.
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It's just that, you know. I'm actually going to be beating
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Imagine if it was so good in the corners that it just like destroyed all the other other cards. they know They're all going over to fucking go-carts. ah who No, I think honestly, though, it's i think they'll just be ah I think they'll just let me go out on the track as a bit of a display thing.
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Yeah. po Putt around. They'll probably tell me to like take it easy, you know. Because they don't want to see me end up in a wall or anything. No. So, yeah, to be honest, I'll like probably fang it on the straights where I can and then you know break hard to come into the corners and stuff and go around.
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But to be honest, I'm i'm a little scared of like even test driving it because – Yeah, what if it breaks? was just thinking it's like it it's fucking plastic bits glued together.
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What if you hit bumps and it just fucking falls shakes to pieces? I know. That's a big issue I'm working on now because I had this idea of just literally making these like pipes stick out from the chassis, which which what I would weld straight onto the like to the rails that are kind of built into the the body.
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Yeah. Yeah. And now I'm like, oh oh like maybe i think i i think I need to resilient mount it. Yeah, right. i was i was thinking that might need to be – seeing that you don't have any suspension.
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Yeah, well, I mean, I'm not going to go crazy, but I'm thinking about using like exhaust rubbers to kind of like mount the – mount the the Yeah, the body to the actual chassis so that there is some vibration a limping Damping, yeah. Damping.
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Yeah. It's not going to stop all the bouncing, that's for sure. No, no, no. But, um yeah, it's...
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I hate it because I had this idea and now I have to go re-engineer everything. And now with the roll cage in there too, so I've put ah put the main hoop over. I couldn't make the main hoop very high either.
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yes I literally have like 15 millimeters clearance between the hoop and my helmet. Right. um Which is actually probably not good, but...
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Yeah, I'm going to cover the hoop in foam as well just to to make sure like it's not smashing against your helmet when you're driving because then you obviously damage your helmet. m um But then i put then when we put the body on yesterday, which was a huge evolution, and i I'm so proud of Kristen being able to lift everything and help me move things around.
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She's getting huge. Yeah. Don't get me started. I've got a story about that. Anyway, um so but we put the body on and for one, it looked really cool. I had to take a step back. When you are two meters distance from it, it looks amazing.
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And on camera, it looks amazing. When you start looking closer, you can definitely find all the faults in the body work. Yeah. um So, yeah, well I put the body on and then I realized, like, oh, I think I actually need to extend the roll bar, like, to them have have it come forward over the steering wheel.
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e So now I've started designing that and it's just, it feels like it's just adding and adding and adding and adding and adding.
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So, yeah, it's a bit frustrating in that regard because I feel like, uh, It's so technical, the work. Yeah.
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But i i've I've learned a cut of a couple of things. Like i've got ah I'm borrowing a pipe bender from Frederick's work. Yeah. You know, like borrowing in inverted commas. no yeah But it's a digital one. And so you just, you know, dial up with the angle you want and it bends it for you.
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And and the it doesn't flatten the pipe, which is really good. Yeah, cool. Whereas the big demo one I have just flattens the pipe and it makes it kind of not strong at all, actually.
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Yeah. It's called a mandrel bender, this thing. And I'm pretty happy with it. and It wasn't working the other day, and so I thought I had to give up. But then all of a sudden I plugged it in.
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Yesterday, when i really what actually when I needed to like fake the ah the the bender not working on camera, yeah i like it all of a sudden started working.
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It's an old IT problem. Have you tried turning it on and off? I did that a hundred times and it didn't work. And I thought, oh, well, I better get this on camera so that I you know have this on camera. And then, yeah, it just started working again. I was like, oh, sweet.
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So, I ended up bending the the second hoop yesterday and then working out how to connect that. And the other mind – oh, that's that should actually be my mind blown – is I –
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I was always having trouble with notching. Now notching is the way you cut the end of a pipe so it meets the other pipe neatly. And at the right angle. And at the right angle, right. And then you can weld it properly. Now, you know, I would kind of eyeball it on the other stuff I've done and then be good enough, you know. But for this, I kind of want it to be pretty good.
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And so I spent a lot of time trying to work out that. So, you know, my mind blown today it going online and finding a notch template website.
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no
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Mind blown. It was so good. And you just type in the angle and the pipe diameters and like how yeah and then it just you just press print and it prints a template out of your printer and then you just cut it out and wrap it around and then position it in the right position on the pipe and then just grind the notch in with the grinder.
00:34:41
Speaker
Yeah. And then boom, it fits perfectly. but absurdity Yeah. And it really doesn't take long. Like i sometimes I'm like, ah i didn I didn't like that angle. So um I ran upstairs, just change one little thing, press calculate,
00:34:58
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Then it just pressed print. Sorry. Then just pressed print. And within two minutes, I had the new template and i was cutting the notch. So it was it was actually a bit of a game changer. I can't believe I haven't done it before now.
00:35:13
Speaker
and And it's free, right? you don't have to It doesn't cost anything. You just go online and find these. No subscription service or anything. No, but I mean, yeah it ah did ask you to to support, you know, by watching some ads and stuff like So I just do that, you know.
00:35:29
Speaker
But, um yeah, um the roll cage has been... A little extra work than I thought it was going to be, but I'm very glad I'm doing it.
00:35:40
Speaker
I think you gene overall it would be a much better car ah safety-wise with the way I'm doing it compared to not having anything basically. yeah
00:35:53
Speaker
Yeah, cool. But, I mean, it's, ah yeah you know, onto my mind blown, Justin, is how sick the car looks. Fucking hell.
00:36:04
Speaker
What?
00:36:08
Speaker
Mind blown. I can't wait till you get close to it and you're like, oh, Kieran. You know what? I don't even care. Like, I just think, like, the fact of the matter is, like, it's a go-kart with 3D printed body that looks...
00:36:26
Speaker
almost identical in half scale to a real dirty Aris car. it's yeah It's pretty fucking incredible considering like what it's made from. I'm considering I've never done this before. yeah Yeah. It's not like you bought a kit.
00:36:46
Speaker
Or like it was some prefab thing that you just put together, some injection molded frame that you just, you know, painted whatever. Like, no, it's is' made from a fucking Bamboo Labs printer.
00:37:02
Speaker
Yeah. You know what I mean? like Three of them working full time. Yeah. And then it just looks fucking incredible. eds I think it's fantastic.
00:37:12
Speaker
So, you know, and that's blown my mind. Yeah, and it does look really cool on the on the on the car. and when When the rear wing will be on, it's kind of it's going to look so cool. Are you going to have these funny little like vertical mirrors like they have on the car?
00:37:29
Speaker
Yeah, I've got them. I just need to sparkle them, you know like body fill them to so all the lines and all the print lines are filled up. Sand them, same process as ah basically a body, but just obviously not as much work.
00:37:46
Speaker
m um Yeah, so that's going they're going to look really cool. And I also have handles that handles also go on the door handles. Awesome.
00:37:58
Speaker
So there's this there's all these other details that are actually going to take a lot of time. um i have another question for you, Justin. yeah Are you going to try and replicate the rims? Yes.
00:38:09
Speaker
Oh, really? That's awesome. I didn't think you going to do that. That's awesome. Yeah, so ah no pressure, Thomas, but we need to get on that. It's because Thomas said he oh you could whip that up in five minutes, he reckoned.
00:38:23
Speaker
Five minutes. Yeah, that's what he thinks. good he's up but He can draw it up in five minutes, you mean. Yeah, like, yeah. can take a couple hours to print. Yeah, of course. But the the problem, he's such a master at – ah blender Yeah, okay. If I was to try and do that on like any other program, it would take me forever.
00:38:45
Speaker
Yeah. He's just like bam, bam, bam. Oh, I just copy this and now I do this literally the little and then it's done. Nice. So, yeah, i I'm looking forward to getting – the the all the little details done as well. like I think that is really what's going to make the car ah really stand out is all these small details.
00:39:08
Speaker
yeah ah The wing, got to also body fill the wing. And then once that's body filled, I'm going to ah essentially just wrap it in carbon fiber vinyl.
00:39:26
Speaker
Yeah, nice. Just the BuildTemmer stuff because that's the cheapest and easiest. And if I screw it up, I can always just go buy another one. Yeah. um And I don't have to worry about you know import fees from China.
00:39:42
Speaker
But yeah, a bunch of other stuff like that. it Just the details. I'm really looking forward to completing. Like it's something
Modern Phone Dependency
00:39:52
Speaker
that I and think will just change the look of everything. The light the headlight stickers, you know, the taillight stickers. Like admittedly, I wish I had real headlights and real taillights, but beggars can't be choosers, let's be honest. Yeah, yeah.
00:40:08
Speaker
As soon as you start adding electronics into that thing, yeah. Maybe one day. And then the other side is I've also got to put a dashboard in and things like that. So I get access for example, the the auxiliary switches for for the start and stop and and then the fans and any other electronics I've got in there for engine management and stuff like that. Yeah.
00:40:37
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's pretty exciting times. I feel like I've still got a lot to do before it can even be considered finished. Yeah. And a lot of it's going to take a long time because it's the small stuff.
00:40:51
Speaker
Yeah, of course. yeah Yeah. But it's going to look so good. I'm super stoked to see see the finished product. Yeah, i want I'm going to be stoked to see it finished too. Like, ah very glad. Let's just hope Toyota doesn't want three more.
00:41:06
Speaker
Yeah. and Well, Justin, i know now we know what's blown your mind. What's giving you the shits this week? Phone usage.
00:41:21
Speaker
Ooh. Who does number two work for? Now, it's given me the shits, not so necessarily that I'm using my phone so much.
00:41:36
Speaker
It's the fact that I have to use my phone so much. Yeah. yeah You can't do anything without a phone these days. You can't just go to the shops even without a phone, basically.
00:41:48
Speaker
Everything with the school – the everything with the school is on your phone yeah through Visma app. like They don't even have website you can go to.
00:42:01
Speaker
exactly. It's only through the app through for the school stuff. Then, of course, a lot of stuff is paid posted on Facebook, so you can't not have Facebook as well, especially we're talking with the kids and the football stuff.
00:42:16
Speaker
And then if we're talking about football and handball and the kids are playing, you know they also have another app that they use that called Spoon. Yeah. They have to, that everyone posts in, like and all the details are in there.
00:42:32
Speaker
You have no choice but to have a smartphone. And if you want to cut down on your smartphone use, you basically have no choice.
00:42:43
Speaker
And it kind of gives me the gives me the shits because we don't really talk about the phone the way we should talk about it. We should call it a drug.
00:42:56
Speaker
We should put it in the same equivalent as cigarettes, alcohol, and coffee, and other other drugs, right? like They're harmless in in a small amount of use, right?
00:43:11
Speaker
But mass amount of use is a big problem, right? Yeah. so I have a feeling like you know majority of our population these days are bonaholics, right?
00:43:23
Speaker
Well, I mean, it's this this is the biggest issue where we are disconnected from one another, you know, and I think you're starting to see with like fucking what generation are we up to now? Fucking I don't know.
00:43:38
Speaker
Z, X, Y, Z, A. I don't know. what I think it's A or B. I don't know what generation. But, I mean, you see all the – there is a growing trend amongst some teenagers, not not ah by far the minority, that are actually like – I saw something a couple of weeks back about some kids that are going back to brick phones.
00:44:07
Speaker
Yeah, but that's great for kids because you don't have any responsibilities as a kid. No. Your parents have the smartphone and that keep you up to date with all the sports and bloody other stuff, which is it's great. We shouldn't be giving kids phones.
00:44:23
Speaker
I really think we should not be giving kids phones. Yeah. But the truth is that you know they most parents, let's be honest, including myself, are shit parents.
00:44:40
Speaker
So, yeah. But I think the sooner we start talking about phones as a drug, the more we can like realize it's actually a problem.
00:44:51
Speaker
All we're talking about really is especially when talking about – ah you know high dopamine inducing content on social media and TikTok and all this stuff that a lot of kids are using.
00:45:09
Speaker
um We're talking about something that takes them away from the moment that they're actually in, in real life, right? Where they start to lose social skills, right?
00:45:25
Speaker
And that comes into thing that's giving me the shits this week. oh boom And that's kids with no social skills.
00:45:38
Speaker
does Who does two work for? I hate to break it to you, Karen, but that's all Norwegians. Yeah, i mean, there's a certain there are certain things that I think even – like the most basic of children should understand. And as I say should, because it's definitely becoming more and more of a problem from the things I'm hearing from friends, people like yourself, Justin, family. And what I'm experiencing now is neighborhood kids who come to play with my son and they don't knock on the door.
00:46:23
Speaker
They don't like ring the doorbell. They just open the door. If it's open, come in, take their shoes off and walk into my house in the middle of my fucking dinner time.
00:46:37
Speaker
And then don't understand why they can't just come and play.
00:46:44
Speaker
And it's like six, it's nearly six o'clock in the evening. Like we're putting our kids to bed. Like Liam, my little, he starts his bedtime routine around six. It's just like,
00:46:55
Speaker
And the kid just stares at me blankly when I'm just like trying to address him. He doesn't even want to look me in the eyes. doesn't even even know want to acknowledge that I exist or Lynn exists.
00:47:08
Speaker
He just wants to show Mackenzie's this dinosaur book or whatever it is ah that's that he's interested in And he's literally just walked out of his own house.
00:47:19
Speaker
I don't even know if the parents know where he is. And he's just come and opened our door and strolled right in. And I'm just like, ah do I need to call your parents and let them know that you're here?
00:47:32
Speaker
you know, like all this kind of stuff. And you know what? i I cracked it yesterday and I ah had a little go at this kid. was just like, this is not how it works at our house.
00:47:45
Speaker
You do not come into our house and just expect to be here. you ask yourself. a grownup, if you can be here and we'll tell you yes or no.
00:47:57
Speaker
That's how it works. And I don't know how he took it. I don't think anyone's really been that straightforward with him before.
00:48:07
Speaker
um So we'll see if he ever comes around again. so you Yeah, but you have to set these things. As you will see, like my kids, we set boundaries with them. So we have expectations if people come around that they are to say hello to me if they see me.
00:48:26
Speaker
Yeah. ah Don't ignore me. Yeah. I exist. I own this property. I own this house. Don't come around in here. Like I'm happy to be super lovely. Yeah, i agree. you know and And very lovely to talk with ah and like very welcoming. You can nearly do anything in my house, but just show me the respect.
00:48:46
Speaker
and that And there is a cultural difference, Kieran, so just keep that in mind. I know that. And most parents don't teach their children this sort of stuff.
00:48:59
Speaker
Yeah. Well, you know, it's like one, i I can't really blame the kid, to be honest, because the dad, i mean, he doesn't even seem to have those skills.
00:49:12
Speaker
100%. It's never the kid's fault. It's always the parents. And that's the truth. Like everything my kids do wrong is my fault. Right? but like a little And the moment I acknowledge that, the more I can have power to change it if I don't if i don't like what they're doing.
00:49:28
Speaker
Right? So, yeah, it's giving me the shits this week and um we'll see if I've just destroyed my son's social network from now on. I'm already the big scary foreigner.
00:49:43
Speaker
so so boundaries It's It's all about boundaries. Yeah, well, that's what ah that's what I said to him. It's just about this is the expectation that I have when you come to my house. And, yep, that's just ah I've said the same to the same kid's ah ah sister who just rocks into our backyard without any consultation and just starts playing with stuff in our backyard at any given time of the day.
00:50:11
Speaker
And um so anyway, that's ah that's the fun fun thing of having kids and dealing with their social – But here's the thing. we've we've i don't know if we talked about this, but you know it takes community to raise children.
00:50:30
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right? So we have to do this job. yeah We have to teach other kids that there's a different way of doing things. And they're going to have to experience that for themselves.
00:50:44
Speaker
and And they have to be, I think it's healthy that they're uncomfortable, you know, that they have that they have a moment where they're like, oh, I've maybe done the wrong thing. like That's fine. like I have grace for people you know not knowing how to do things. But like...
00:51:02
Speaker
you keep on doing it, there there's going to be a consequence and that consequence is you won't always be welcome here um if you don't, you know, play by the rules of this house.
00:51:15
Speaker
So, you know, it's um it's it's one of those things too. Like, umm you know, Lynn, my wife, she's she's very scared that other parents will think that we're being too hard on their kids and I'm just like,
00:51:31
Speaker
we're not being mean to them. We're just putting down boundaries saying like, you can't, like had one kid a couple of years back and he was playing with them on the trampoline and I joined in the game.
00:51:47
Speaker
And then he just decided that he was going to like jump and like put his knees into my chest. you know, like jump straight on to my chest with his knees. And I was like, no, that's not nice. We're not doing that.
00:52:02
Speaker
And then, of course, he didn't have an off button, didn't understand no, so he kept doing it. And so I just said, you do that once more, I'm not playing with you anymore, I'm getting off the trampoline. And ah he did, of course, did it once more time. And I said, nope, all right, I'm done.
00:52:18
Speaker
I'm not going to play anymore with you. It's over. And ah like, I mean, he, he was a sort oh like, you know, didn't and understand that a parent could put down a boundary and say, no, like this is not okay.
00:52:33
Speaker
Right. ah But you know what? He's, he's learned that lesson now he's learned that people can say no and walk away. Right. from a bad situation that they're not happy with. And hopefully that's something he can adapt into his own life if something happens in the same, in the reverse situation.
Music and Meal Planning Recommendations
00:52:50
Speaker
So, you know, i think it's only positive. And anyway, enough of our parenting advice.
00:52:58
Speaker
Welcome to the Garage Reader Podcast, where we tell you how to parent your children. Or not parent your children, depending on how you see it. Yeah. and Recommend... Oh, sorry.
00:53:11
Speaker
Should I sing the song? Yes, Garrett, sing. Recommendation, the recommendation. What is your recommendation? What sort of accent was that? That was like a mixed bag, that one.
00:53:26
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Yeah.
00:53:30
Speaker
ah My recommendation this week is a band, actually. Ooh. The band is called Lepros. They're Norwegian progressive metal band, maybe. Yeah, you know, i was I was listening to them after you mentioned it the other day, and I was like, this is prog.
00:53:49
Speaker
This is prog mixed with a bit of, like, power metal.
00:53:54
Speaker
And, yeah, it's prog. Yeah. So, you know... i The reason why I'm recommending them is mainly because of ah the video I saw where they did like this, um like a cover.
00:54:10
Speaker
But they I think it was called music Musico or something like this. It's like the Drumeo version of like bands. And um yeah, so basically they they got to to create a cover of a song, which happened to be Ahaz's Take On Me.
00:54:30
Speaker
And it was really cool just to watch how they worked. like how they thought the music worked and how, what would work. So the the idea was that they should turn that song into like a leprous song in their style. So it was a really, really cool just to watch how like true musicians work and,
00:54:58
Speaker
how they create together. And they they created this song within a couple of hours, I think, you know, and was also really cool to see how each element of the band works. It gave me a lot more respect for the actual music on Spotify.
00:55:16
Speaker
ah Seeing the drummer and how he works, seeing the singer how he works made me think about the music they actually, you know, play on stage being... incredibly well written.
00:55:29
Speaker
yeah So yeah, go check out a Norwegian progressive metal band called Lepros. Lepros. And I think the other big thing is that they, if you ever watched the series Silo,
00:55:43
Speaker
Yeah. They have the theme song for Silo. They created it, I think. Well, it very much sounds. Yeah, something. It sounds like it. he You haven't fact-checked this?
00:55:56
Speaker
Of course not. This is an amateur podcast. um I don't have some you know dude in the back Googling shit for me. Yeah. but what what's like What's the guy from Joe Rogan? What's his name?
00:56:09
Speaker
Yeah. ah Jamie Jamie that's right Jamie we we could have we could have chat GBT be our Jamie in the background yeah but then we'd have to type it in and stuff ah oh no you could do the chat function oh yeah that's true yeah yeah I call my i talk call my chat GBT Bruce Bruce yeah was just like yeah ah like when I do the chat function I'm like hey Bruce thinking about this
00:56:43
Speaker
I think we'll leave it there. It gives me the illusion that I'm actually talking to a person. Karen's got a fantasy of chatting to a man. ah yeah it's It's only the real friend I have. my You know what my recommendation is for this week, Justin?
00:57:00
Speaker
Tell me. HelloFresh. Really? Yeah. Okay. um Have you ever done it before? no No. I might have have been having a chat with your wife the other week, and she mentioned the cost of food ah in your household, and and and that there were some arguments on your side that you didn't want to just have porridge every day.
00:57:29
Speaker
Yeah. And ah maybe, maybe HoloFresh is a happy medium there. and I, this guy came to the door and I got like this 20% discount from the first six, and mo koa like the boxes that you get.
00:57:48
Speaker
um We're ordering like five meals for a week. So five dinners. And ah without the discount, that five dinners is under 1500 crowns.
00:58:04
Speaker
for a week's worth of food. And like they like they're good for, like this, for example, when you get like a ah like a dish, a recipe that's like, don't like pasta with meatballs and they don't just give you this like ready-made meatball shit.
00:58:23
Speaker
They actually just give you like mincemeat and you got to make the meatballs yourself. And so, but it's kind of like, so it's really fresh and hence the name.
00:58:35
Speaker
And I really, i think a lot of the recipes are really good and it just makes it every day so much easier. And for the cost, Like it's really not bad at all considering all all the extra time I save by not having to think about, okay, what are we going to buy for food this week? What are we going how are we going to plan the menus?
00:58:55
Speaker
How are we going to do this? are we going to that? So it's like, don't know if you're, if you're struggling with that at home, that's my recommendation. Check it out, have a look, see if it works for you. um I really like it.
00:59:08
Speaker
I'm really happy with
Podcast Closing and Patron Shoutouts
00:59:09
Speaker
it. So you can join my pyramid scheme. Yeah, I was going to say, this podcast is proudly presented by Hello Roche. yeah So anyway, no, I mean, but honestly, if if they want to just give it a give it a crack for one week, I do have a bunch of vouchers for a free Mudcaster for the week.
00:59:31
Speaker
So DM me if you're interested. I won't get any DMs, but I'll just put it out there anyway.
00:59:40
Speaker
um Anyway, just ah yeah, I just really like it. Like really varied food. you could There's like on average is about 20 to 30 different meals per week that you can choose from and you just kind of rotate.
00:59:54
Speaker
And then some of them repeat, some of them don't. Like it's quite a lot of variation. um so And a lot of kid-friendly meals too. So the kids love them, actually. There you go, guys.
01:00:08
Speaker
This podcast was brought to you by HelloFresh. ah and If only. Fuck, we'd be making some money. That would great. ah Talking about money, yeah ah then I need to shout out my patrons before we leave.
01:00:22
Speaker
ah So ah thank you to Thomas Buck and Mark Foster, Giannis.
01:00:30
Speaker
Kelms? Kelms. You say with such disdain. I know because I want to say Clems. Thomas Angard.
01:00:41
Speaker
ah Angel, sorry. Oh, God. Let's just start this again. I'm going to edit this out. um ah Thomas Buck and Mark Foster, Giannis Kelms.
01:00:52
Speaker
Thomas Angard. Thomas Angel, Arthur Midgard, Kieran White, the Swedish maker, Mark Jones, Anders Abrahamson, Stier Suhus. And a massive shout out to Sylvester and to John Robertson, Thomas Smestad, and Anna.
01:01:11
Speaker
Thank you, all you guys, for supporting the Garage Avenger channel without your support. I wouldn't be making silly rally cars and we wouldn't be doing this podcast.
01:01:25
Speaker
And I also want to give a shout out to those people, although they're probably not listening, that have started to buy some merch. I got a couple of orders this week, which was super nice.
01:01:37
Speaker
You know, nothing crazy, but of course, if you want to, you know, support me and what I'm doing, I've got a ah merch shop on garage avenger.com.
01:01:49
Speaker
Um, it'll take you to an Etsy site, but that's the cheapest way for me to do it at the moment since I don't sell very much. Uh, and yeah. Um, support the channel by but buying a t-shirt or a hat or something. That'd be great.
01:02:05
Speaker
And we'll leave it there. Thanks guys for listening. You guys have been awesome. Uh, we will catch you next week. Thanks everyone. Later Gators.
01:02:16
Speaker
Bye. Bye.