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Ben: Thank you.
Richard: Welcome to the Bravo Charlie Club podcast, making you 12 and a half minutes more awesome each week. He's Ben, I'm Richard, let's go. ben how are you doing this week?
Ben: I'm really well, mate, excited for today's episode for sure. And if you can see, I'm here in my my Melbourne podcast studio. I'm staying with her and staying staying with a a BCC listener actually.
Richard: It's very fancy, i like the look of it, yeah.
Ben: And as you know, we try to record you know wherever we are. And what an amazing opportunity to use this space. So I'm very excited.
Richard: Fantastic. it It looks awesome. Yeah.
Ben: The new listener country call out is Oman, mate. Now, Omanis, they place deep value in hospitality. So you need to pair your greeting with a warm smile and eye contact.
Richard: oh
Ben: And that's that's always highly appreciated when you say, Alam, which means welcome. There you go. Welcome to our our Omani visitors.
Richard: I like it. I like it.
Ben: So, hey, just a quick one for our international listeners who probably don't know just how big a game AFL is, Australian rules football is. I've i've come to Melbourne and with one of our, it is, yes, and I've gone to Colton Collingwood game, which is probably one of the bigger rivalries in the league.
Richard: The home of AFL.
Ben: 83,000 people showed up to this game last night.
Richard: It's incredible, isn't it? Yeah.
Ben: you know, and Australia is not that big. It's not like we find 83,000 people just randomly and say, come and watch a game. footy like its that's It's pretty impressive. I do think that Carlton memberships should be issued with an automatic defibrillator as part of the package. Because my team just, they they keep finding a way to to make me sit right on the edge of the seat.
Ben: Yeah.
Richard: Oh, yeah.
Ben: But it's all in all in good fun. a Fully Awake Project, mate, let's get into it. This is why I'm excited. You've launched an app. And i I think, you know, you're the the better looking half of of a famous podcast.
Richard: I have launched an app, yes.
Ben: I think you should be using this platform to tell us a little bit about it. So come on, tell tell us about it. What's the name of the app? Right?
Richard: So the app's called Macro Burn and the idea is that it's a macro tracker for athletes, endurance athletes in in particular.
Ben: Right.
Ben: and And a macro macro is we're talking carbs, proteins and fats, right?
Richard: So
Ben: Is that the...
Ben: Okay.
Richard: What do you call the other thing? Micros? What if they're not macros?
Ben: Mate, you can tell us, it it's your app.
Richard: I don't know. What do you call the other thing? I should know that.
Ben: You can call them whatever you want.
Richard: I know, right?
Ben: Yeah.
Ben: so So how
Richard: You're gunning for something big. You might might be an Ironman, might be a marathon, might be a crazy cycling event.
Ben: All of those sound crazy.
Richard: And all those. So you've got a problem, right? And the problem is you're crazy.
Ben: Yeah. Yeah.
Richard: But in order to sort of achieve that that big event, you'll you'll do an absolute bucket load of training, probably 10, maybe 15, even nudging 20 hours a week, which is which is almost a sort of a semi-professional training load, right?
Richard: I'm a, I'm a cyclist.
Ben: Okay. So what's macro burn doing? Yep.
Richard: yeah Yeah, I'm a cyclist and and so really you feel your workouts, like your five-hour bike rides, different to the way that you eat normally during the week. let's say you're trying to drop five kilos or something for the event, you're probably you'll probably be a little protein heavy with what you're eating in your day-to-day, but the actual workouts and endurance efforts, your cycling and stuff that you do, you'll tend to fuel those with carbs because you need quicker fuel while you're out there or on the bike.
Richard: And so MacroBrain helps you track all that.
Ben: Okay.
Richard: You can build meal plans. You can get your shopping list out of the back of it. turns it into a checklist. You can take it down to Coles or Woolies or online and just, you know, breaks it all down by department and stuff.
Ben: So is it is it is it easy to use? Like, do I have to like read the nutrition label and put the details of the foods I'm eating into the app? Or how does that all work?
Ben: And you've personally entered each one. Wow, that's amazing.
Ben: Right.
Ben: Yeah, right.
Richard: So, yeah.
Ben: And and how where do I find the app? like how do i How do I get rid of it?
Richard: Well, go to macroburn.cc and then from there you can jump off to your favorite app store, Android or iOS and download it and yeah, give it a try.
Ben: Yes?
Richard: I'd love to get some feedback. It's free, free to use at the moment.
Ben: current Currently free?
Richard: It won't be free forever, but yeah, it's it's been out a couple of months and still in the feedback collection phase.
Ben: Okay. okay
Richard: And so... Yes, thank you to the couple of hundred people that have signed up so far and the feedback that have come in.
Ben: Yeah, right.
Richard: Yeah, it's it's been great. it's been a bit under the radar in mainly in cycling forums at the moment and have sort of a handful of people who are putting it through its paces on a daily basis.
Richard: So, yeah, going well.
Ben: So there we are. if If any listeners are into endurance events or know someone who is, maybe share Mac.
Richard: Hmm.
Richard: I just want an awesome mac macro tracker. it'll It'll do the job for that too.
Ben: Yes.
Richard: Don't actually need to be an athlete, but if you are, it's even better.
Ben: Mac.
Ben: I've been looking for a replacement macro tracker, so i'm I'm glad that macroburn.cc is now on my radar, mate. we'll We'll get that into the armory.
Richard: Excellent.
Ben: yeah Yeah, head on over to macroburn.cc and check out Richard's body of work. There's been a fair old amount of effort put into this one, so I'm really really proud of you, mate. Well done.
Richard: Yeah, thanks, thanks.
Ben: good to good to have it out there.
Ben: Well done. Well done.
Richard: Yeah, thank you.
Ben: Hey, travel tip of the week, mate.
Richard: Thank you.
Ben: Here's something I learned just recently. Again, relearned. You can always rely on small-town hospitality, eh? Like, have listen to this. I was driving through a small town and needed to ask someone for directions.
Ben: And I could have chosen any of 10 locations in this strip of shops, And I pulled up to this one shop and I said to him, do you know this business? And he's just like, oh, yeah, that's my father-in-law.
Ben: And I
Richard: no Nice.
Ben: but i was like, okay, so do you know how I get to it? He said, yeah, you need to go back to the servo when it's the next on the right. I'm like, great. What servo is it?
Ben: than I don't know. But there's only one. but Now, I looked it up. I looked it up. This town, it had 190
Ben: And he didn't know and he didn't know the name of the servo. And I was just thinking, I want to be that guy. That is just, that is a life in flow, like, isn't it?
Ben: He just, he doesn't need to know, does it? It's just the servo. It's just the one.
Richard: It's the servo. Yep, yep.
Ben: So there you go. thought i I actually grew up in a very small town. it was only 1,200 people. And I love that reminder from time to time that, you know, the small country town hospitality, and I'm sure it's the same all around the world.
Ben: I'm not just talking Australia, although this was in northern New South Wales. i'm sure that's the experience that we would find all around jump in your car get outside the city limits and i'm sure you'll be rewarded with a story of your own yeah any listener feedback coming in this week mate
Richard: Fantastic, yes.
Richard: Yes, listener CF writes in and asks, why don't cars have backward-facing horns?
Ben: back with what to beat the person behind you
Richard: To beat the person behind, which is which is awesome. That's such a great idea, think. Because, you know, tailgaters, they, oh, that really gets me.
Ben: yes yes or or the the one where you you take that macro second too long when the light turns green and you and you get beeped by the person saying move on you're like yeah no and and so if you try to beat them you're beeping forward and it doesn't count it's i think she's
Richard: You give them a beat.
Richard: Oh, the beat back. Yeah.
Ben: I think cf CF's onto something.
Richard: I like it.
Ben: You need to be able to beat backwards. And like, you know, Mario Kart, you can throw those shells backwards at the people.
Richard: A drop of banana.
Ben: Yeah, people chasing you. i think, yeah, okay. There's there's a who's going to, Elon Musk will put that into the next Tesla truck.
Richard: Bound to, bound to.
Ben: The backwards beat.
Richard: he's he's He's a big listener, so...
Ben: Yeah. I'm sure he's not.
Ben: but we we we welcome We welcome the opportunity if you are, Elon. Join us. Hey, Conundrum of the Week, mate. Why is it called a toothbrush? I mean, i don't know about you, but I don't brush tooth.
Richard: It should be teeth brush or tooth brush.
Ben: Right. Like, how come? hope Who was the first person that allowed this? like when did When did this become a thing?
Richard: Nice catch. Nice catch. Could be one of those janky hand-me-down sort of conjugations, right, of where a word gets made by mashing up two other words.
Ben: Yeah, fair call. But, you know, plurality needs to be considered in these. You it could have be a set a set of toothbrushes.
Richard: It does.
Ben: Yeah, I think there's think there's work to be done around the toothbrush naming convention. Follow-up conundrum for you, mate. how high do you have to How high do you have to be to be considered an ALP?
Richard: Oh, yeah.
Ben: So here's the context for you. I recently had a bottle of water in a hotel and it claimed to be bottled at the source in the Australian Alps. Now, for listeners who aren't aware, the highest peak in Australia is 2,228 metres. i looked it up that's about feet for our Imperial friends. is a about a quarter of the height of the everest Now, I consider Everest an alp. Is something a quarter of the height?
Ben: and
Richard: It's pretty shrimpy by ALP standards, isn't it, really?
Ben: it's
Richard: but
Ben: it's It's a bit of a long rope, as they might say. The umpire's given that decision. so But is there an official like definition for for an alp?
Richard: Maybe there is. Maybe it's like an alpine region or something. Maybe anything above a certain a certain kind of threshold is is alpine.
Ben: Yeah. Yeah.
Richard: I don't know.
Ben: you might you might i feel like you're onto something but if trees don't grow there and and water is bottled there what are we actually doing
Richard: where Where trees don't grow or something, maybe. i don't know. It could be.
Richard: True. is it Is it actually good for you?
Ben: hey shouldn't show some nutrients and i don't know i don't know yeah
Richard: Or maybe you should only use it to brush tooth.
Ben: Oh, what a great finish. That's it, Richard. Listeners have been BCC'd on our week. Listeners, join us. Head over to bravucharly.club. Even better for this week alone, head over to macroburn.cc. In next week's show, we want to ask, why do people say when in Rome when they're not actually in Rome?
Ben: See you next week. Bravo, Charlie Club. Out.
Richard: And that's the pod.
