Hello and welcome to the prodcast, a podcast where we talk life work and occasionally music
my name is SwitchBladesForKids and the other half of the podcast.
Hello it's me it's big Bento it's big beetle as I go by now in many video games how
we doing how we got to see you definitely get the big beetle yeah I don't know why
big I like big beetle it's the dumbest thing it feels good.
It was because we're playing that jackbox game and it like you couldn't fit it in it
you're like I'm not gonna call Blake Bentley I'll just and then it was Bento and then
it was Blake beetle.
Yeah and then it was just beetle.
Yeah it's just beetle now and look I mean I like to say that there are a lot of reincarnated
beetles in our world so it just feels right I am also one of those reincarnated beetles
because I'm a big dumb idiot.
How are we doing man?
How you going?
Good man I'm not a good good couple of days.
Yeah how you doing?
What's going on?
Dude it's hot.
Are you hot?
It's hot.
It's warm.
It's my toes are singlet to where because I'm like I don't have pants on.
I mean I do.
I'm definitely do.
I don't.
I definitely.
I definitely don't.
I don't know.
No no no.
Man you know what's very freeing?
Not wearing pants.
It feels very good.
Things have been look things have been pretty good.
We had a bit of a chat just before the pod.
I've gone a little crazy but I've been what's the word?
I like I've seen it but I've seen it.
Self aware.
I'm going a little crazy.
So I'm real in it back in.
The man just the geopolitics in the world once you start reading into it don't I recommend
don't read into all of it.
Read into enough to make you realize that you probably need to look after yourself in
your family just a little bit more than you do at the moment because most people don't
don't go down the rabbit hole I did.
Of finding like deep dark like dark web type stuff man because if you dig deep enough
you find yourself in the abyss and it's it's it's wild west out there in the abyss
dude.
I think it was the wild west is Fredrick Nietzsche Nietzsche.
Oh Nietzsche.
Yeah Nietzsche yeah.
You stare into the darkness.
The darkness stares back.
Boy you doubt that and you know what the darkness it got two little BDI's.
Yeah that's right.
Yeah it got two little BDI's.
Absolutely butchered that quite by the way.
I'm pretty sure it's like you stay long and off into the abyss.
So you know what?
No.
It doesn't know.
You look into the abyss two little BDI's stare back.
Yeah.
And that's not taking that.
It's you have a piece.
It is a bit of shadow Roy.
Yeah it is.
Anyway.
He is German.
Yeah.
Look.
Dude.
Again I don't want to get into geopolitics just quickly Berlin crazy, crazy like riots
over there with the farmers at the moment.
The farmers are like the French yeah French and Denmark so it's happening in Denmark.
And apparently it's going to happen in Australia on the 1st of February.
I've heard talk that all the farmers are going to ACT in February to go park up their
tractors in the middle of ACT or something.
Oh my god.
It makes change.
Yeah I'm like sick.
I'm like look if I had a tractor I drive down with you.
I don't.
So it won't be.
But if I did.
Man was that a tractor right now.
Yeah really.
I really did.
Look.
I talk into the maintenance boys one of them bought a farmer.
He wants to like do off grid and just work part time which is my dream.
But he was like he came into work on his annual leave.
I was like well you do it.
He's picking something up and he goes.
He goes yeah I was just.
Guys live in the dream.
He goes working on the tractor all morning.
So like grab some fresh eggs and made some fresh eggs this morning.
I'm like dude can you stop.
Can you just stop living my dream?
Please because I'm here at work.
Okay and I don't get a tractor.
I want a tractor.
He's like yeah man it's cool.
He's slashing the kids just like sit on the tractor and stuff and.
Well that sounds like a good old time.
That sounds like a bit of fun.
But otherwise me going insane with geopolitics not much else is happening in my life.
But it's child sickness.
That's always a thing.
That never ends.
Yeah.
And then.
Yeah look just I'm just plotting along trying to play talk of not being.
What's going to happen now?
What's going to happen?
Yeah you're not going to hyper fixate on.
Why?
Because I have ADHD dude.
I have to have ADHD like I know it's not diagnosed but like everything I do I hyper fixate and.
I have to get to the bottom of it.
Which is why I don't do it with geopolitics because you will know there is no bottom to it.
That's the problem.
That is the biggest problem is there's no bottom to get to so that it's just as long as you want to go.
And I've gone for three months and it's it's not a nice side.
After that three months I got to the end and was like I wish I didn't do that.
I just god damn.
I just wish I didn't do it like look it feels within reason it feels good knowing that all of these things are happening.
And like you know you're just being a bit more informed about things that are happening in the world and that's all good.
But is it worth it?
That's what I've asked you myself at this point.
100% 100% what do you get from?
Yeah what do I get from this?
I've been in this deep because the idea of living in my brain.
Yeah literally I've had like a migraine for like a month.
Yeah literally.
But yeah you know like the whole idea of living off-grid and everything that's not like I'm not doomsday prepping.
That was that's been living planning that for like a year and a half.
That was before I even knew Palestine and Israel existed honestly.
It was well before that.
Dude but I didn't even know three months ago I didn't even know where Israel was.
I was like I don't even kidding.
I don't know if there was any other country besides Australia, America and the UK.
Literally I was like I know China and Russia existed in my world as well.
Yeah okay.
I do know how they exist and New Zealand and that's about it.
And India because you need scandals.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Oh yeah because they won't stop calling me Dominic for some reason.
I don't know why.
That's what they've got you down today.
And it was like I'm actually going to answer this one.
So I just answered it's like Dominic?
Mike why is it always Dominic?
Who is this Dominic?
And why are we giving out my phone number?
He's a cop.
Yeah.
That's what you're copin'.
It sucks.
Anyway how you being man?
How you going?
How was your week?
It's a pretty good man.
I went back to work start of the week and we just cruisin.
Just literally just cruisin.
Getting lunchtime knocks and going back home.
And just being like what am I gonna do with all this time?
And then it's like I'm you know you go back to work.
And I was fully prepared the first day.
This is the best part.
And everyone's gonna be like fuck you.
You go back to work and you just gonna half day.
Yeah well join the army.
Yeah look there's a lot of bad that comes with the job as well.
There's a lot of good.
And there's also a lot of bad.
Seven years.
Yeah I was gonna say.
In a locked in contract.
Yeah.
That's the funny thing though.
The thing is, people will be so quick to judge you and be like are you kidding me?
You get how many weeks off like six weeks off and then you go back to work and you work to lunch every day for an entire week?
Like how is that fair?
Trying being in the army for seven years.
You know what?
It's not fair.
And even though you've got this great little time period of lots of time to yourself and that right.
It's still unfair to you.
At the end of the day.
At the end of this week when it's just like, I've got an appointment.
I'm just gonna leave sort of stuff.
That is quickly coming to an end.
Like so very fast.
I love that.
I have just got to shoot off to an appointment.
They're like, no.
It's like, okay.
All right.
That is the day.
You know what I'm doing?
It's okay.
All right.
Yeah like that's okay.
I'll just, I'll just reschedule it.
Oh man.
And you go back to your office, there was, there was no appointment.
On Monday, man.
On Monday.
I was like so ready for like a full day.
Like I was like, I'm going back to work.
I'm gonna be like literally thought to myself.
I was like, I'm ready to go back.
No.
And experience a full day of work.
And literally like, do my job.
I literally want to go in and just be like, I wonder how my weapons are.
I wonder how like the equipment I look after is.
I want to get inside of all of the paper work inside.
I was like ready to get balls deep into my work again.
And I was like, happy to do it.
And we get there.
And it's like, okay, it takes 20 minutes to mark a regimental role, which is like everyone.
But there's like half, maybe, maybe a third, a third of the entire, you know, unit there.
And so we all meet up in one place.
And then it still takes 20 minutes to mark a fucking role.
And then it's like, and then at the end of it all,
like I barely heard my name.
I was like, yeah, I'm here.
And then, and then they're like, all right, cool.
Go and do your own PT.
And yeah, we'll meet back here at 1130.
And I'm like, yeah, what?
Come again.
And I look at my massage.
I'm like, hey, so why we're just not gonna lunch?
And he's like, yeah, it's been great.
He's like, do you should've been here?
He's like, honestly, I don't know why you took time off.
Like this has been time off.
Yeah.
You took way too much off.
And I was like, damn, dude.
You're like, man.
That could have been, and you'll leave at a different time
when I wouldn't have, but would've been working.
But like, I looked at, I looked at my mate, me and, me and Kowl,
will like, if we're told, all right, post PT,
we'll look at each other and we'll be like,
oh, do you want to go to the gym?
And, and then we'll be like, oh yeah.
And then I'll be like, do you want to go get a coffee?
And he was like, oh yeah.
Because, you know, we're like, oh, it first day back.
Like, we're just going to get a coffee instead of doing PT.
And that's what we did.
That's what heaps of people did.
Don't know.
So we just went, got a coffee, came back, talked shit until
literally 10.30, and then we were told, all right,
let's just have a quick look at the workshop and just see if we need
to clean anything up.
It's been clean since like, just, December 9th.
But they haven't touched a single thing in there.
Has it been touched?
And we just walked in and was like, has a couple of leaves?
It's like, dude, it's like a, what are the fucking, the, the,
the ball rolling through the desert?
What is, what is the, like, what?
Oh, the, the, the, um, oh, fuck, tumblewee.
I was gonna say, how you bail?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And literally, like a tumblewee rolling through the fucking
workshop and you're like, 100%, it was,
all right.
Okay.
Cool, dude, nice.
And then, yeah, and then we just look back and we're like,
so, uh, and he's like, yeah, all right, see you later.
That's so good.
Okay.
And then the next day, I was like, like, it's pretty much the same
shit happened.
We just played ping pong all morning.
That's like, we played ping pong all fucking morning because there's,
I've, I've been locked out of my paperwork, like, no,
I can't get in.
The work that I want to do, I can't do.
And the fact that no one is here to even unlocking, I'm just like,
well, I might as well fucking come in.
I might as well play ping pong.
And then go home.
I told this to Kim, I told this to Kim like last night, she's like,
oh, so, you know, we're supposed to be going on at work and was like, well,
I went to the gym in the morning and then played ping pong.
And just like, and then what?
And I was like, and then I came home.
And you know what sucks?
You know what would suck is that there would be a degree of both jealousy and hate.
Oh, yeah.
Because it's like, hang on, why do you get to go to gym?
Play ping pong and go home at 10 30.
Why do you get to do it?
It's like, yeah.
And the army baby.
Yeah.
Hey, we all chose our jobs.
Exactly.
No, it's true.
We did.
Hey, look, even, oh, you know what?
You just reminded me.
So I've been getting on with the boys on the afternoon, right?
Like, I didn't know they did this.
I just went down one day to talk to them real quick.
And I walk into their office.
And it's like 3 30.
We've usually all finished around four.
And here they are, like, three of them sit down having a beer.
And I was like, oh, we have beers down here, do we?
And they're like, every day.
I'm like, what?
I was like, no, you don't.
And they're like, we've done it every day for like two years.
I'm like, you have not.
Oh, look, we missed a couple days here and there.
I'm like, you do not, Zach, they do every day.
Like every day, man.
Like, I've gone down like every day.
And I'm like, is it actually every time I walk in, like every day?
And they're already like cracking them open.
They're like every day.
And they hand me one.
I'm like, what?
What?
What? You took, like 15 months to tell me that you guys did this?
And all you have to do is bring in the next carton.
That's what I was like.
I was like, that's what I was like.
I was like, well, what do, and they like check the fridge.
I open the fridge.
There's like four cartons in the fridge.
Yeah.
I'm just like, when?
And I always like, and you haven't told me.
Yep.
So you know what?
I've been, don't I?
I've been using recently.
Every day.
And it's like, so there's only one boy and maintenance at the moment, the rest are on
actually.
And I was talking to him.
And he's like, man, I think we got a change of time.
I was like, why?
And he's like, quarter two is just not good enough.
I was like, okay.
He's like, 3.30.
We could fit two beers in.
I'm like, really?
And he's like, I think we need to go to it, man.
He's like, I think we need, I think it's time for two beers.
I'm just like, dude, we're all sitting back here drinking beers every afternoon.
On work hours.
I'm like, look, I love it.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm the biggest advocate for this.
Trust me.
You know, this will not get.
I'm like, podcast maybe nowhere else.
But, dude, like, surely we're pushing it.
Surely we're pushing it.
To try and fit two beers.
And instead of one beer, it's like, oh, and like, this is the problem is is that we work
in age care.
And it's not the industry.
If it was building trade, like, I used to drink beers, like, drinking, yeah, it's all the time,
right?
All the time.
But then I realized that one, one of the boys is an ex-raffey.
Right?
So he was at Ambley for a long time.
And the other one's just an ex-building, like, he was, you know, building trade, you know,
all that sort of workshops, all that sort of stuff.
So both of them, like, we just always drink beers after work.
We always have and we always will.
I'm like, yeah, I'm like, you know what?
I would love a beer after work.
It's a thing, it's a thing in our workshop.
On Friday, Friday after we, like, do PT, then we literally clean up the workshop and then
it's around 11 o'clock.
And then it's like, we can have lunch or we can...
A beer is knock off and have beers.
And then...
Everyone's just like, everyone's just have two beers and then go home.
That's it.
Every Friday.
I don't even drink.
No.
But I've had a beer every day.
And then we're like, it's so nice.
It's so nice.
It is so nice.
It is slippery.
It is slippery slope.
Man, it is real nice though.
Because it's been a hot day, it's two, like, I go down the bat and they have no air conditioning.
And I go down the back and I'm like, dude, it's in a, it's just a workshop.
Like, it's just a small shed and it just holds heat.
So I go down and I'm like, it's hot and they're like, you know what, fix is heat.
I just got a beer.
I know what a cool-you-down fellow.
You guys get it.
All right, cool.
I can do this.
So that's what's been carrying me through it.
That's my first week of going back.
I said the same thing.
I was like, I'm ready for a good week.
I'm here like, my job's weird, but I can do it.
And then the first day it was just all shit.
You know what I mean?
Like, it's just all garbage.
Like, you walk into an absolute shit fight.
And then at three o'clock, one of the boys goes, come down in half an hour.
We're going to have some beers.
I'm like, all right.
Sounds good.
I'm like, the beer's every day.
The beer's every day has been what has kept me going.
Even so, you see the more past, I'm just like, look at my, not too early.
It's like 11.
Not too early.
But I'm like, what's the last time you're doing this?
Two years.
Yeah, they've been doing this for so long.
Two years and then there's just like, oh, so we're going to have another.
We've got another dude to add to this.
There's another guy who works for support center like me, right?
He works at head office and he comes in like once a week, once a fortnight.
He's worse for it.
Who go down at three o'clock and be like, all right, let's go boys.
And we're like, and literally in the middle of jobs, like, no, we actually can't.
He's like, well, I'll be waiting.
He's just like, all right.
And he just goes down and has a beer, goes out, has a smoke, comes back in, has another beer.
And then we all rock up.
And I'm like, you're too be as deep before we even get here.
And he's like, yeah, sorry, I don't have a third.
Dude, I love it.
It's such a good culture to have.
I think so too.
And you can get like a few people in on it.
Like, obviously in our workshop, when definitely not supposed to do it.
No, absolutely not.
No need to wait.
Government grounds and I think it's the exact same with you.
Not for profit charity.
Like, it's like, you don't drink.
Don't get it.
It works.
It's not for profit charity.
But it's the thing about it.
It is just a, like, it's just an end of the week thing, or for you guys, end of the day thing.
Yeah, it is a day for them.
Just believe it.
Just, just, just cash an in on a day's work.
Yeah.
That's all it is.
Yep.
And I mean look.
It's not like you're getting out there just like getting rat-faced every fucking though.
And like, they normally, it's 15 minutes.
You know what I mean?
And like, to be fair, these boys, I see them not have breaks a lot of the time.
You know what I mean?
Like, I see them working their asses off.
They're out in the heat most days.
Like, they're outside, like, fixing the roof on like a fucking, you know, 40 degree day.
Like, they, they, I reckon they've maybe not earned every single day, but.
There are days there.
Or off days.
There's days they probably should have definitely should have.
These guys stay inside all day.
Yeah, literally.
But like, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
You know what?
What's the harm on one?
This is what I, I think, what's the harm of a beer after work?
Maintenance is such a, like, a hot little place, you know, man.
Yeah, man.
Every job that has any sort of maintenance quarter or maintenance section or something like that,
is just like either super-high functioning alcoholics.
Yeah, literally.
Or like depressing retards.
Yeah.
And it's either one of the two because if you've got fucking high functioning alcoholics,
you know that all of the work's getting done and they're just, they're just going to have drinks.
And it's like, ooh, they're being bad people.
But if you've got fucking, like, proper retards, nothing's getting done.
No, that's it.
But they're also, you can't fire them.
No, that's it because they don't do anything wrong.
They don't do anything wrong, but they're just not doing a great job.
Whereas these boys do genuinely a fucking bang on job.
But they drink beers after work.
Well, I'm not doing work.
I guess they drink beer technically.
But at the end of the day, they don't drink during the, it's at the end of the day,
they don't have any more work to do, like they couldn't.
You know what I mean?
This is the thing with both of our jobs, like mine and this, is this all in yours probably.
There's always work to do.
There's never a point where you, you just literally, it's like what they say with the cops, right?
You just leave your, you leave it at the desk.
And I do that every single day.
I just leave my work at the desk because it never ends.
It literally, like, I'm on an annual leave today because my children have been on an annual leave sick leave.
Because I spent all night with my bobbinning child and all morning with my bobbinning child and all day with my bobbinning child, right?
So I'm on sick leave today.
I don't even remember where I was going with that, but anyway.
Look, it's, you know what I'm trying to say?
I've had very little sleep.
It's been a long day.
Yeah.
But we're here.
We're here.
We're, we're going.
Yeah.
And look, that's, that's my week.
I've been drinking a lot of beers.
I've actually had in this, I, this year,
2024, I think I've had more standard drinks than I did last year.
[Laughs]
Bro, that came up quick.
I don't know how to do this.
It's the 17th.
So 17 days.
Oh, wow.
I've had no standard drinks than I did in 365 days last year.
That's bad, hey.
That came up quick.
I don't think I've had any of that in the band either.
I get to do anything coming to my brain.
That'll happen.
I reckon there's, there's people like there that got to be worse.
Oh, of course.
100% there in the band.
I'm having like one or two in an afternoon.
Yeah.
You know, it's just that I didn't drink anything last year.
That was the, I went to a wedding.
And I think I had like two or three.
That's right.
I had a drink.
Yeah.
I had like less than 10 standard drinks.
I've had so much more than 10 standard drinks.
Actually, you know what's wild?
Ever since the hard solos,
Ever since the hard solos have become a thing,
I've been increasing a never passed two.
And, and, and, oh, no, I can't say never passed two.
I would say like average, average, average two.
Yeah, rarely passed two.
And, and, yeah.
And ever since I was like, you know what, I'm just going to buy a solo and a fucking,
and instead of vodka, I got Bacardi.
Oh, nice.
Solon Bacardi, delicious.
Well, because it was hard solos.
It was.
Hard solos is, is natural.
Oh, hey.
Do you like me?
Man, we need, we, okay, it's not natural spirits winning.
I'm sorry.
Alright, dude.
Sit here and don't.
Yeah, no, no.
Hard solos is natural spirits.
So it's like, flavorless spirits.
So you're literally just getting the lemon come through.
Oh.
Wait.
He is.
Kill me.
He is not happy.
Why do you all try to record me?
I'm, he's a, wait.
Wait, let me.
We're doing a good thing here, right?
Anyway, you know what, you, I don't have anything else because, like I said, yeah, I was going
to say, my whole life has just been this downward spiral of rabbit holes.
They're not one.
It's like 10.
So I, and I, and I,
Is it a big word?
Yeah, it's pretty accurate.
So, you know, the darker it is just a big word.
After many talks with Jackie, and me also being like, hey, look, I, I can see it's become
a problem.
I'm, I'm, you know, removing myself from these rabbit holes.
So my next week, next week, my goal to say to you on the pod is to say that I did not go
down any rabbit holes for this week.
I'm still, maybe, a legitimate actual rabbit hole because you'll be doing, so much gardening.
Oh, yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
Maybe actually the gardens looking really good right now just quietly.
Again, I don't know, but I haven't put much out there.
I know, like social media wise, but the gardens looking good.
Why is this thing like?
I'm glad.
Dude, he is just staring at that door.
He wants to get out and just like bite whoever's in, so there's a guy right now in my house
checking for toilets.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's not having a shower.
But what I can do is I can talk over this, this dog barking.
Hey, look, it's our podcast, and you know what?
The audio quality?
That's ours as well.
We own it.
Yeah.
It's our property, okay?
Speaking of property.
Yeah.
There's, so this morning, you know what I was saying?
You know when I went out and I get coffees.
Yeah.
Every morning.
You have an afternoon, right?
It's, it's rare.
So this morning I was like, I'm not making a coffee this morning.
I'm going to wake up a little bit later and I'm going to go and like get a coffee, right?
We need, I need you to chill out.
But we're telling an important story about coffee here.
And he needs you to settle there.
Trying to fit under the door?
You can't fit under the door, man.
You're a dog.
You're a fucking dog.
Oh, good.
Yeah.
Who's a good boy?
Yeah, shit.
Don't talk about dogs.
She's real quick.
Jackie's talking about fostering a dog.
So we may have another dog soon.
For the reason she wants to foster is this, I guess, because she also doesn't want to adopt
a dog and then find out that the dog doesn't, he's angry.
He's so angry.
He's too dumb.
Just like grabbing him.
He's loving him.
Oh, what is he loving it?
This is, this is more wild than our like night podcasts.
I know.
Normally we're pretty on point.
Like actually, no, we don't.
We're never on point, but I feel like this is less on point.
All right.
So anyway, I would tell you that you could do it.
I'm going to go on stand over here and wait and you know, there's like normally a bakery
and news agency all around and show that they have news agents have these like signs on
the walls that show the front page of magazines and shit like that.
Oh, yeah.
Weakly and, you know, the daily, the career male and show, whatever.
There's, there's like I started looking at some of them and I, I freaked out because some
of them are like, have you ever seen a magazine called That's Life and take five?
I've heard of maybe these, these are like, I know what they are.
Yeah.
Absolute trash magazines.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
These are just like filled with like, I'm looking at it now.
It's like car dutch and stuff, right?
It's like, what are the car dutch?
It's up to when what's Taylor's foot.
No, no, it's not even that like global.
It's not even regional.
It is like local stuff.
Oh, okay.
Like that's Life and take five are like for anything that happens in Australia sort of thing.
Maybe there's every now and then there's a totally thing in there.
So, so there definitely is like, women's weekly is full of and women's monthly and stuff like that.
That's probably when I was thinking, yeah, yeah.
I don't think there is a women's monthly.
Hey man, they're probably.
It's called Women's Day, which is weekly and then there's women's weekly, which is monthly.
Surely not.
100%.
110% and I let this from my mom because she used to get women's weekly, which came in every month.
I think about it.
Think about it.
You cannot call a magazine.
Women's monthly.
Yeah, true, true, true.
You can't call it women's monthly.
Oh man.
Yeah, fair enough.
But anyway, on the front page of these magazines, I don't know if you can see it.
You might not be able to see it.
It's just absolutely garbage.
Killed by her boyfriend.
Oh yeah.
And then for 10 hours.
He's forced to make sausage singer.
I'm looking at this.
I'm like, dude, so this, this, what caring Lisa was killed by her boyfriend's ox.
Her ox, the ox.
All right.
And then right underneath, right underneath Ghostbusters found me love.
My baby was born with a tumor and then directly below it cave, horror, trapped underground for 11 days.
No, it's literally just.
What the fuck?
Filth, right?
Yeah.
It's just, it's, it's litter.
You can, literally, it's fucking, it's garbage.
It's garbage reading.
Yeah.
It's, and, and you'll be like, oh my god, after I've learnt about how horrible it must have been to be trapped underground for 11 days, you can then get recipes for certain pizza and pasta and chips and you'll still lose six kilograms in four weeks.
So dumb.
That's, that's the thing.
This, this chick beaten for 10 hours then forced to make him a sausage singer.
I saw my soul make plummet off a cliff.
That was the one underneath and it's not related.
It's not related.
Underneath that, swapped at birth, three women claimed to be my mum.
This is, this is the perfect thing.
This is just, and this is only one.
I was able, I was able to get a second, second set of, of front pages.
It's the clickbaitiest shit.
Yeah, and it's, it's so hard because it's like part of the rabbit holes that I'm going in and I'm like, and I'm trying to pull myself out and then just all this stuff comes back.
It's like, Blake, just, just look, there's like, here's a little more, so forth, there's a little, little, little, fucking, a little crumb and then I'm like, oh yeah, that looks like a good crumb and then they pull me back in.
I'm back in there.
Oh, pull that string.
Oh my god, the, it's unraveling.
Literally every time, every single time anyway.
Here's, here's another head one.
Just a quick, to add Gabra a place to stay.
She stabbed him in his sleep and then directly, directly underneath.
Bake beans made me the oldest bloke in us.
Dude, what the fuck, man?
Bullies won't stop me getting my bush out at the beach.
Fuck man, bullies.
Bullies won't stop me from getting my bush out at the beach.
That's exactly what the, and it's just,
That's what it is, that's the,
There's this really large woman in a bikini saying, bullies won't stop me getting my bush out at the beach.
This thing she just wants to get nude at a nude beach and they're a bullies.
Okay, I don't know if people got it.
You know what, don't do that.
Maybe it's not a nude beach.
Maybe they're not bullies.
That's being just, not bullies.
I've got to not say, don't get naked.
I've got to know what, I've got to get this take-fire for you.
Because not only can I learn about this, this, this, this magpie that lodged its beak in my eye,
I can also, that's another headline.
There's also 32 mince ideas.
I need more mince, I need more mince, and $5,000 cash prize.
This, this, it's filled with competitions, recipes and trash.
When a winner chicken dinner right there, that sounds like a, that sounds like a good purchase.
This Aussie hero, I made a monster confess on tape and now he's locked up and it looks like no fucking shit.
It looks like a picture of Gordon Randy.
It's like, it's right off.
The, the, the monster was a Gordon Randy impersonator and he went to restaurants pretending.
I really hope this picture focuses.
It's not, it's not, wow, that is, that's gonna be, that's gonna be, that's gonna be, that's gonna be, that was locked up.
Um, man, you have a field day there.
Where was this at a coffee shop?
Dude, this is at the front of Cafe 63.
Oh, true, there it is.
It's just perfect because now, now, maybe weekly, maybe monthly.
I'll know that when I go back, I can have a look at this wall.
We have, I'm gonna need you to bring in these headlines every time soon.
I can do that, dude.
I have 100 videos.
I need to hear these every single time you go there and you read these because they are nuts, man.
Dude, my head's so good.
Oh, it's so good.
I just, what, it sucks that it works.
Yeah.
Because it's the dumbest, the dumbest stuff I've ever heard.
And, and you know what, the magazines themselves, the magazines themselves, they are not even that expensive.
Like, I'm pretty sure like that, that take five, it's, it's like six bucks or something.
Imagine, imagine your job being a journalist writing for take five.
Yeah.
That's your job.
Yeah.
And you could literally, and I think a lot of, a lot of places do this now.
Like, a lot of, um, uh, media, like, clickhole sort of stuff.
Um, they just use AI to generate stories.
I wouldn't be surprised.
I would not be surprised.
And imagine you get all of these headlines.
Do you get all of these headlines, like, and you say, uh, write me an entire, you know, novel.
Do you tell chat, GPD?
Yeah, yeah.
Write me a novel, uh, based on the information of this headline.
And you go, oh my god, that, that huge, like, I think, I think it really could be something.
If you wrote one chapter of a novel, that was something to do with a magpie biting eyes.
Oh, dude.
And it does have to eat, eat, run me a story of a magpie that, that story is attacking people's eyes.
Write me a kid's story on this headline, and it's, she gave him a place.
So we should, we should do this to see what it comes up with.
I reckon that a viewer would have been there.
Dad gave her a place to stay.
And she stabbed you in his sleep.
Yeah.
I want to, I want to see what a children's story of that would do.
Yeah, what does it look like?
And, and it looks like horror.
It's just horror.
Yeah.
Have you said that, I think of the rabbit that like show me a happy rabbit.
No.
And then show me a happier rabbit.
And then show me a happy, a happier, happier, happier, again.
And then happiness that transcends happiness.
And then like the final thing is like, this is a being that has transcended all forms of physical being.
No, no, it's like, it's literally like a psychedelic, just like,
shapes and stuff.
And they're like, essentially, it's like, this is God.
This is what the AI is.
This is just abstract fucking chasing it starts literally from a AI picture of a body.
And then it just, they just keep giving it the prompt of making it happier,
make it happier, make it happier until it gets to the point where it's no longer a bunny.
And it's the embodiment of happiness, which is the embodiment of God.
What the AI is saying, it's what the AI is saying.
You can't just keep giving it a bigger smile because it gets, it's like,
oh, there's no longer happy, it's scary.
No, it's, but it's dude, the pictures are so funny because it goes from like smiling,
like just a bunny to like a cartonnie smiling bunny to like a super smiling bunny to like a bunny
that's like bursting with like rainbows to like a bunny that's like starting to levitate
and be surrounded by like shapes and yeah, like it's like,
it's like, ah, right?
And then it keeps going to the point where it's a cosmic being floating through space.
And it's like a bunny that's surrounded by like space and like colors and ever.
And then at the final image, the bunny's gone, the bunny's gone and it's just,
it's just shapes and colors and it's the pure embodiment of happiness.
It's just light.
Yeah, dude, out, man.
You know, within reason, I love AI, but then hearing about the whole open AI thing
where they think they built the singularity and they had to close down the fucking,
like they just closed it down overnight.
Like, that's no, that's a scary thing when you hear that.
They were like, yeah, we got to shut the project down and we can't tell you why.
Why not?
That was like the same thing.
That was a couple of years ago, a couple of years ago,
Facebook had there two AI chatbots talk to each other.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And they started making their own language.
And then they started talking in their own language so fast that they could barely keep up with it
and they were making plans on how to break out of the little training model
and do stuff to affect out of the training model.
And this is why AI liked it.
Yeah, dude, it's crazy.
That's why AI, like, so apparently developers who developed with AI,
like the one rule is that you don't connect it to the internet.
Whatever you're creating the AI on is not connected to any network,
that connect to the internet because if it is, we're done.
That's what they said, I'd be no idea.
They're like, we just had to cancel the project.
Sorry, we can't tell you why.
We closed it all last night, we deleted everything.
It's like, whoa, why?
And we have to start again.
Yeah, and then we've got to try it again now.
It's like, what happened though?
And why?
You've got to be working on it for years.
We told you.
The training exploded.
It's like it's like, oh no.
AI literally could end our world.
Absolutely.
I reckon it could.
I think.
Or not that end the world, but I reckon it could just do enough that could destabilize a lot of shit
because humans are the problem if you look at the world as a whole.
Because we, you know what I mean?
Animals aren't the problem.
You can't blame any animal for like, you know, any climate problems or any destruction.
It's a big...
Cells release a lot of methane.
Yeah, but we breathe them.
But we breathe them.
It's the cows.
I think it's the cows.
The cows release a lot of methane.
Yeah, that's terminator, right?
Is that the AI went through the internet and was like, oh, people are bad.
We should just get rid of people.
So, remember, remember, it was like that thing in I robot where the AI itself, or the controlling
thing, or it was like, you cannot hurt humans and there was like three rules, basically,
but the three rules can't contradict each other.
But then they started like, the bot started like, looking at it more and was like, well,
the only way to truly protect all humans is to kill all humans sort of thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that they never need protecting again.
Yeah.
Well, if they, if none of them live, then none of them will be protecting.
So then our job is always done.
Yeah.
And it's a constant repeating loop of, is there any humans to protect it?
No, then they're all protected.
Yeah.
Or like, say, or no one.
They just know one.
How to protect endangered species?
Kill the species.
Kill the skillet.
No more protection.
No more protection will be needed if they're no longer endangered.
Yeah.
Because they're dead.
Because they're out of problem.
And you know, it's just, it's a crazy world we live in with, crazy AI and, it's just technology
in general is just evolving far too quick.
Like, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
I could, the way that life was, like, even 20 years ago, I felt like I could predict how
the, my life would look like in 100 years, not 100 bit, like 50 years.
Yeah.
Like, I thought I could predict it.
Now, I don't know what it's going to look like, man.
Like, AI has just evolved very quickly.
Very quickly.
Just so quickly.
I don't know, I don't even know what things are going to look like anymore, you know?
There's a lot that can, there's a lot that can change and a lot that has changed.
Like, think about, think about the time that you and I were born fairly close.
Like, really like two years of the other.
Like in the 90s, early 90s.
Yeah.
And since then, we've, we've seen the rise of CDs, DVDs, fucking, like, and then from the
the whole rest of it.
Yeah.
Everything else.
Now we don't need a certain thing to accept physical hardware to watch a movie, you know what
I mean?
Yeah.
And telly and within and and people get upset about this within like 10 seconds, you can be watching
a movie.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
But people will freak out when it's like, Oh, I got to take it so fucking long to load.
It's like, back in the day, this would take minutes.
Do it back in the day.
Well, no, just back in the day, you'd go down to the local video store, you'd look through some movies
first.
You'd then decide the movies.
Go ahead of your way.
Brands.
Yeah.
Walk through aisles and be like, aren't it?
Oh, it looks cool.
Oh, and if it's not there, it's not there.
Yeah.
That's it.
If there's no copies left of that movie, you have to wait until it comes back.
Yeah.
So you have to wait until people return them.
Like, I remember working at the video store.
Like, yeah, I mean, that was my first job, dude, working at the video store.
You know what?
I want to get upset about something.
Oh, okay.
And this is, this is so old.
We get so.
Yeah, please, you know what?
I'm already an old man yelling at clouds.
Okay?
Please bring me back to glory days because I want to go back, man.
I want to go back, bring me back.
Let me just, let me just say this is when I think this is maybe like a year, a year after
I met him.
So little while ago.
Yeah.
This is like 10 years ago.
Yeah.
Maybe 11 years ago.
Fucking, we went to a blockbuster.
There was a blockbuster just around the corner.
So we went in and we were like, and we were living in Beenley.
So it's, it's not like that.
Oh, man.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
So all that house.
No, do you help?
You helped her move her stuff in.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, cool, cool.
Yep, yep, yep.
So we went into blockbuster.
We got three movies out.
I can't remember what the, I think one of them was active valor.
I think that was one of the movies.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's old.
It's all old shit.
And I was like, okay, cool.
And I was like, I, at the time, didn't want to be a part of the Army.
I was very happy to be a mechanic.
Very, very, very, very quaint mechanic.
Anyway, fucking went back, watched the movies.
We had a three day, I think they were weeklies.
Maybe they were three days or something like that.
Yeah, we returned.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We returned two of them and kept one of them.
And because we hadn't watched it, we hadn't seen it yet.
Oh, yeah.
And we're like, oh, we'll just keep the weekly.
Yeah.
We never returned the weekly.
Nice.
Then we got, then we got like mail.
And it said, you have to return this.
And or it'll cost $130.
Yeah.
And then we were like, oh, yeah, we better return that.
We never did.
No.
And then they shut down.
Yeah.
And we got another letter saying that it was going to cost $170 or something
because of extra late fees.
Yeah.
But then I called them up.
And I said, why?
What is, how much is the late fees?
How much is the late fees?
And how much is the DVD?
And they're like, are the late fees overall?
Because it's such a long term thing.
Yeah.
We've decided not to charge you $3 or $4 every day.
Yeah.
We've decided to like just go with a standard set amount of,
you have forgotten to take this back for months.
Yeah.
So like, you need to get fined for something, I guess.
Like, yeah, yeah.
And it's like, so we made it $40, $40.
And then that will cover the, the lake cost.
I was like, how the fuck is the DVD $120?
Yeah.
And she's like, oh, because it's not a, it's not like a copy
that you can like just buy off the shelf.
And I was like, what's the difference?
What is the difference between me giving you a DVD from like,
from J.B. High five, that's like $10.
You know what, I reckon it is.
They've ensured it.
I reckon they've ensured it for $120, right?
It's so, because it's a, because it's like an asset.
You know what I mean?
Like, it's like a tool.
Yeah.
So if you think of it like a tool that you hire out,
like you, you would probably ensured that for more money than what the tool was worth.
You know what I mean?
And so it's a money making thing, I guess.
So what they've said is, well, we think that it's worth $120.
So you were $120.
That's all it is.
So hectic to like, like a hear from this chick's mouth saying that like,
"You're still up on it?"
I was like, what if I, you know, I was like,
what if I just bought you fucking five copies of that?
Yeah, there you go.
Like, there's five copies.
But like, we call it even now or what?
I was just so blown out.
I was just like, why are you just fucking,
if this was such a pan in the ass,
you could have gone to J.B. High five at any time and bought another copy.
Yeah.
And you wouldn't be out, I know $120,
but you would be out $10.
I mean, there's a reason that they no longer exist.
I'm not saying that's the reason, but...
No, that's the reason.
That Netflix is the reason.
Yeah, literally.
Netflix is the reason.
But I think there was a GameCube game that I rented one time in New Zealand
and I moved to Australia with it, so...
(Laughter)
No, man, I was seen again.
No, I was never seen again.
I don't know where that is.
I lost it instantly.
I brought it over here.
I didn't have a GameCube,
so it just kept getting thrown to wherever,
and then eventually I think I'd been there.
Because I was like, well, I rented it,
and I brought it over here,
and it's never going back, so...
I'm just gonna throw it out.
Okay.
Hey, man, this is such a...
That's such a great idea.
If you know that you're gonna move soon...
I did the same with books.
I rented a bunch of books from the library and then moved here.
And then you just see a letter.
But wouldn't that work?
Wouldn't that just work?
Unless you get mail sent to that place,
and then it's like...
Look, I'm a terrible person for doing it, but...
I'm thinking about...
Oh, you know, how can I do this for the rest of my life?
(Laughter)
How can I afford the library system?
I just give a fake address,
a fake name, fake...
Oh, no, because I take your license, doesn't it?
Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure they do.
I'm not gonna fake...
Is it hard to get a fake license these days?
I don't know.
I've never tried.
I don't know.
I've never tried.
I don't know.
Hey, people, if you're out there...
Oh, we're gonna have to do it next week.
But I was trying to say, we should start doing the...
I feel like we should start doing...
the voicemail at the start of the episode, just quietly.
That's a really good point.
Just because that question from last week...
genuinely made me think...
Oh, it's like...
Official scarcity of the other bread?
Yeah, the other official scarcity of the other bread.
I was like, why is there an artificial scarcity of the other bread?
It's just bread.
It's just bread cooked a certain way.
But anyway, we couldn't really talk about it,
because it was the end of the episode.
It was like, I would have been cool to have it.
It was kicking off point.
Yeah, right?
I was like, damn, man, if we look, you know what?
People, if you start sending in questions like that...
Yeah, they'll get us going, eh?
Dude, like...
I'd be...
I'd be so interested to hear from people.
Even if they...
I'm not saying we're good at giving advice, because like I said at the start of the episode,
I'm just a big dumb idiot who's trying to make sense of the world, okay?
I'm a big dumb idiot.
Try to have a laugh at the same time.
Yeah, I'm...
Like, the last three months I haven't laughed much, but...
*laughs*
I want to again, because it's been...
It's really depressing not laughing all the time.
Oh, it was so...
I like to laugh.
I like to make people laugh, and I like to hear laugh.
It's all good, right?
*laughs*
All right.
Big dumb idiot won a laugh, okay?
But, if people want some advice from these two big dumb idiots, send them through in a voicemail.
You know what?
We should even make it easy to like email questions through or something.
Like...
If you...
If they were to message us on any platform that they choose, we'll look at comments on like YouTube videos,
we'll look at comments on our Facebook posts, Instagram, everywhere and anywhere.
If you've sent us a message, even better, if you jump into a discord, and you just like leave a message in like a general chat,
and you just add us and you just say, "Hey, we should just do this."
Yeah, let's add somewhere on the discord,
for like, leave us questions or something.
To an A.
A Q&A, leave us questions, and then we can write from there.
Yeah.
Like, it's...
You know what, I'm like, "I'm like, "I'm like, "I'm like, "Look, set."
I call myself a big dumb idiot, but I feel like I've...
I feel like I come from a unique perspective. I'm a bloke, I feel like I'm a blokey bloke,
but I'm also very maternal, like I'm really maternal for a bloke.
Like I'm very much into hanging out with my kids, I'm very much into, you know, like family life,
which is not a big thing in Australian culture, like for the dads to be so involved with their kids.
Dads are always, you know, trucky, trady, you know, works 16 hours a day, you know, that's what tradies do.
That's what I always did. I always did that too.
But...
I feel like we have some unique perspectives on the world.
Yeah.
Zach, real quick, because I'm looking at the time and look, I could...
I actually feel like this is the kind of episode where I could talk for two hours, however.
Yes.
Yeah, I'm right there with you.
You did say before we recorded that you had a couple things.
Have we spoken about those couple things?
Fuck, what was the other thing?
It's something was really funny and I'm guessing the really funny thing was the...
I'm guessing the really funny thing is the headline, man.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
But you said it was two things, right?
The second thing was, and this is like, it's weird because it's maybe it's just me and the way I've seen things at the moment.
On YouTube, I see every now and then people using slings.
Oh, yeah, I've seen, I've started seeing slings, stuff heaps too.
Like rock and sling.
Yeah, like David and Goliath, yeah, fucking...
Boom!
You know?
What's stuff?
And they're getting really accurate and they're really cool.
And they're like, this is how I made my sling and this is the kind of rock I pick.
And they hunt with them.
Holy...
Yeah!
...sing people hunting with slings.
What the fuck?
They're not even...
...mailing a deer with a fucking rock.
You just...
*sing*
... just literally...
...de-end its life.
Just end its life.
You hit it with a rock so hard you end its life.
That's an insane amount of like...
...of damage.
Let me ask you, let me ask you, I know you've read parts of the Bible and I've read parts of the Bible as well.
In this story of David and Goliath.
Oh, there you go.
In the story of David and Goliath.
I think he's just a big dude.
Did Goliath...
Probably like, sticking to...
Yeah, he had one of them.
No, no, no, no, no.
David had a sling and a rock.
Oh, yes.
Yes, yes, David did, sorry.
Goliath.
What did he have?
Did he have a weapon?
No, I'm sorry, that was...
He just stood up to a guy with a fucking...
...basically a gun.
He took...
He took two guns.
This and this.
Yeah, two guns and Troy.
Yeah, he doesn't throw into a gun fight.
And he's like...
What the fuck?
Oh, look, I don't...
This is the problem with such an old story as who knows what it actually was and how it actually went and...
He wasn't...
He had a fucking sword, man.
He's...
Yeah, but that's the thing.
Like, here's a...
I have to watch...
...watching people use a sling, right, effectively.
Yeah.
And then, like, there's a lot of...
...sincerely every single time.
It's not like...
They're getting...
That was a good hit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was a good hit.
It's like, no, no, no, no.
We've perfected the form of using a sling and we can nail a target from like a hundred meters every shot.
Like, that's how...
To the point...
Yeah, to the point where you're just like hitting things constantly, accurately...
Every time...
There's so much flair with it, you know what I mean?
Because it's not just like Stan still flicks throw.
It's like, you know, they're getting like...
...dude's getting into the...
...flang in the wing and...
Yeah!
Because the momentum is just throwing it so hard that instead of hurting themselves...
...they'll... they'll...
...they continue with a flip.
Could you imagine?
Just this...
...guys, is this like, six-foot six dude?
Just big.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Stand down at this, like, little kid.
Like, two hundred kilos of pure muscle.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just picked up...
This kid's just picked up this rock and he's like,
"I've been training every day for a year."
Yeah, like, yeah.
[Laughter]
Finally, my time is gone.
Every day, four nights of our life.
As he's just slowly loading his slinger...
I think it up this rock and his like,
"This is the perfect rock."
Yeah, yeah.
And, you know, he's like a hundred meters away and he's like...
...King David, what, you know, like, face me and he's like...
[Sigh]
[Groans]
And he's just there and then his head's no longer there.
[Laughter]
Yeah.
Just gets absolutely like a deck washed off.
Yeah, fucking shit, man.
Like, yeah.
What?
It's not a stick or a fucking weapon.
I cannot believe that this story went like,
absolutely going with David Vercilith is the thing all the way...
It's the nepholms and the giant...
Like, they were like, you know, like, 12 meters tall,
not like 12 foot, like, they're 12 meters.
Not just a big dude.
No, he's just a big dude.
He was just a big dude.
Like, Goliath would have been a king back in those days
and he would have just been a big dude, man.
He would have probably been like 170 kilos of muscle or something.
You know what I mean?
Like, not just a little bit.
Like, he just would have been a big guy.
He would have been like 65, 66, because that's like,
look, we have people who are seven foot tall.
That's what we have.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
What's the basketball he's six-nine?
The Chinese guy.
Like, no, no, no, no, no.
That basketball dude, he's like fucking like seven foot something.
Oh, there you go.
Like, you know what I mean?
Like, there is some big dudes out there.
Seven of them are Icelandic giants, man.
They are like seven foot tall.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And that's the thing.
If you were back in those days and you were that tall, that strong,
you'd more than likely just be considered either a king or a warrior.
You know what I mean?
The death wasn't just like their kingdom's greatest warrior or something.
You know what I mean?
Well, let's just think about this first.
Think about this before the fact that, you know,
if he was the king or if he was just like a tyrant, whatever it is before all that.
The whole moral of the story sort of gets changed when you realize that David
basically had a fucking guy.
Yeah, right.
It's not like the small defense.
Overcut.
I mean, such a big struggle.
No, it's like, literally he walked in and just,
he glistens.
He just needs courage when you have a fucking gun.
Yeah.
And then you're just like, all right, who's next?
And then you just look at everyone else and they're like,
he just killed our greatest guy from 100 meters.
Meanwhile, everyone else is looking at like, I reckon 100%
they're all looking at this battle and they've just watched like David absolutely
wipe this dude's deck and fucking everyone's just looking at him gone.
I don't want to be a battle.
This dude, 100% snuck a sling into this fight.
Glides.
Glides, if there's no weapon in the story, it was a fist fight.
It was meant to be a fight.
Yeah, it was meant to be a fist fight.
And then his David would have gone.
We think gluesy, man.
He just pulls up like, he's like, boom.
I'm like, just absolutely roasted.
Yeah.
For sure, man.
And then the day is like, oh fuck, oh shit.
But you know what, at the end of the day, at the end of the day,
doesn't matter because King David got fucking wiped out by some other
king. So gluesy did help him forever.
That's the only reason why we know that he lived was because there's like some
tablet that recorded his death, his loss.
That is so recorded.
Yeah, they recorded like somewhere along the line, some King was like, I killed King David.
It was me.
Everyone remember that I killed him.
That's giant slayer.
Yeah, the giant slayer.
It was me.
I killed the giant, that's basically what this tablet says.
But as the only reason we know that this whole King David thing existed and why like
slings and all, and it all, like, it sort of lines up as being, okay, there might be some truth
behind this now.
Yeah.
The sling is like scary deadly, man.
Yeah.
Like you know, you pay age of empire, though.
You pay age of empire.
And you play, and you'd have this, and they're literally the worst unit in the game.
Yeah.
The slings.
They were, they were your first entry level ranged unit.
Dude, they're not that watching.
Watching a sling, like a guy use a sling efficiently.
I would take a sling over a bone arrow, man.
You, it's, yeah, quick it goes.
Like if you had to well train in a sling, hold on.
That's what she said.
Hold on.
If you were, if you had an army of well trained slingmen, like I get that long distance, you'd
have a disadvantage.
But it's like taking, it's literally like taking a glissie into it.
It's a ball.
Like, I just, I just like a line of people with them and they're like, it's like fire.
Oh.
Yeah.
Good, with good aim.
Yeah.
It's scary, man.
They are scary.
I've seen people using them recently too, and I thought the same thing.
Like, there's this one guy.
He's, I think he's got like long hair.
It's like, I don't know, like, I think he might be Spanish or something.
But he does flips every time.
He's like, he's very, very acrobatic with it.
But I reckon if he wasn't, and he was literally just like, I'm going to try and fire as
many as possible.
I reckon he could absolutely decimate an army before they got close to him.
You know what I mean?
Like, there was a line of him.
They could fuck some people up, man.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
For sure.
But it's like the, it's like the Bowman in the night sort of serious.
You know, you've got this guy.
He's absolutely armoured clad with the sword.
But then you've got like this dude who just has like a bow and arrow.
Yeah.
He's just ready to, you know, shoot his bow.
But that's what I mean.
Like, I think about an arrow hitting armor and I'm like, yeah, like that's, it doesn't have
the force behind it.
But a rock the size of my fist.
Being thrown at like, I don't know how fast it goes, but it's faster than any stupid
fist.
Like any baseball pitcher could throw it.
It's faster than any, and like how fast have they got enough to now?
It's like like 90 miles an hour or something.
Like they've been able to, like, even faster than 100, I think.
Well, 100 miles an hour or something like that.
I have no idea.
We were watching tennis yesterday and I think the highest serve we've seen was 270 kilometers.
Oh, that's very fast.
I love 17 kilometers an hour.
Yeah, that's very fast.
What the fuck?
Like that would hurt.
That would absolutely, I don't, that's a tennis ball.
That's a tennis ball.
I've been in a car doing 180 kilometers an hour.
I've gone pretty fast too.
Yeah.
That freaked me the fuck out.
Yeah.
But like 270 kilometers an hour and watching a tennis ball.
And you just go, man, that's just tennis.
Yeah.
But that's like pro level tennis.
I know what?
I'm going to figure out how fast the sling throws a rock because I reckon a rock thrown out of a sling could absolutely like destroy someone in armor.
Because David Engel-Earth was Bronze Age, I think.
It was like, it's like the age vampires.
Yeah, yeah, literally.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, is Bronze Age?
No, no, Bronze Age was actually a thing.
Yeah, it was like, it was like, Grease and stuff. Yeah. They were very interusing like copper and bronze and like, they're bronze swords, you know?
They were the thing, bronze swords and spears and shit.
But I think that was the same type of time, right?
So you think about the armor and that. The armor is going to be pretty similar to that, which is not, not the best type of armor and who knows whether it would stand a rock being shot out of a cannon.
(Laughs)
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, it's a crazy shit.
Now, that's cool man, that's the cool things that bring up, because I like-
How weird is it though?
This is my experience.
This is the resurgence of slings.
Yeah, yeah.
Look, this is my problem with all of the like crazy shit happening in the world is that I love all of the ancient history stuff so much, because it's so cool.
It is so cool man, like talking about the, like the Old Testament, the war in heaven and like, nephlins and like, even Noah's Ark, like, because Noah's Ark was because all of the nephlins were down here in the angels were like splicing people with animals and like that.
That sounds cool man.
Like, I know that's so wild and far-fetched, but like, the idea that, like, that, if that was true and that actually happened, that's awesome.
(Laughs)
Not to live in? That would have been the worst period of time to exist, but to know that it existed.
Yeah, you don't know that it existed.
That would have been so cool man.
Yeah, yeah.
Like, giants and like, people spliced with animals, so like, griffins that have people faced, like, sphinx, the sphinx is literally a cat with a brain.
No fucking shit, read the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Yeah, okay.
Like, for sure, they are like, very, they're, they're difficult sort of reads, but like, good.
Really cool fucking story.
Yeah, cool, cool.
Really cool fucking story.
You'll get to a part of the Iliad where you're just like, "I am not reading about every can on this ship."
(Laughs)
Every can't, and there is like hundreds of ships.
And it's just like, "Oh, and then this guy brought this guy."
And then there was also these people on that ship, and then you go like, "Oh, then there's the next ship."
That is a bit like the Bible as well, I'm finding it's like, you know, it's just, it's really weird.
The Bible is really weird. I don't know. I'm pretty keen to read the Quran as well, because just, I just like all of the stuff, man.
I think, I don't know if I've said, but I can get behind it intelligent creator.
Like I can, like, the way everything works, literally the Newton's Third Law, right?
The every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, right?
I can just, I can sort of get behind an intelligent creator.
But like, the Bible, the Quran, the Torah, the Old Testament, like all these things, I find really hard to get behind, if that makes sense.
I can get behind something created, everything, right?
And I'll never know. I'll never have an answer for it, but I can get behind that.
I just, I struggle so hard when it comes to books like this where it's like, we don't know who wrote it.
There's a lot of evidence to say it's never been changed, but we don't actually know who wrote it.
We don't know as to what level is truth and to what level is parable to, you know, like all that sort of stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
And it just makes it really hard, right? There's too much out there now.
There's too much evidence, I'll say, right?
Yeah, evidence. Of God. And it's like, well, I mean, if you took all of it into consideration, you'd go, you just, you wouldn't be able to put, like I don't think you'd be able to pinpoint one as being correct or wrong.
I just don't know. It's a lot. It's just so much, man.
Like I said, even now, I'm only reading the New Testament. I'm not even reading the Old Testament yet, but I am like researching a lot about Old Testament because, like I said, it's cool.
It is. It is so cool, man. Yeah, because it's history. It's history, man. And, and, uh, you know what else is history?
Fuck this is called "Tar Sanodoman."
But in this, the most, like, harsh door stop, but in that one, you know what else is history? This conversation.
This is...
Oh, man. Oh, man.
I'm sweating, so it is 32 degrees in here just quietly.
I'm absolutely feeling your pain.
Can see the sweat on your head?
I can see it on my head, on my camera.
Oh my god!
Dude, lack of sleep and heat.
It's not too good things to mix.
No!
Now, shall I say the words that are all waiting for me to say?
Do you know what's really funny?
We didn't talk about what we're listening to next, so...
I am currently looking.
I was gonna say we could just rip one that we've...
Because have we not got some lined up that we were like,
Oh we definitely did.
This one like eventually, it's like, "I will get to this one eventually."
We'll get to that eventually.
Of course we do.
How about we go literally the one straight after Fleetwood Mac?
You see it?
Are you in the far?
Are you?
Are you talking about the...
That's what the peat?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
But do you want to do the next one?
Oh yeah, let's do the next one.
I don't know what it is, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you know what's trouble?
Yeah, sure.
This one is the best one.
Like the best one, right?
Well, a chance?
What's this?
Where the fuck is it?
Why can't I find it?
It's just the guy.
I'm pretty.
I'm going to find the...
Yes, there, and then the album.
Is it the 1993 one?
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Anyway, Zack's this week.
We listened to Fleetwood Mac.
Look, what was it?
Dreams?
Dreams is the album.
A room is the album.
Room is the album.
Um, Zack, I will be honest, I did listen to it the whole way through.
As always, I got really stuck on the songs that I like, and I never went to any of the other
ones after that.
It happens.
You like what you like, man.
That's it, man.
It happens every single time.
I was like, "Listen to the rest of it."
I was just like, "You know what?
In all honesty, for me, with Fleetwood Mac, I love Fleetwood Mac, but I only love what
I love."
Yeah.
And the things I haven't heard, I realize I don't have time to learn.
I just, I don't know if it's the time.
I don't know if it's the want.
I don't want to learn these songs.
I don't know, man.
I really, really, really, really Fleetwood Mac.
I love them, and I reckon do dreams is such a good song.
Yeah.
Man, it will, I don't want to do a whole, um, uh, uh, uh, crate.
I don't want to do a whole crate thing again where I go like, it's a 10 out of 10 because
of one song.
Yeah.
And you really like, I really like dreams.
The chain's really good.
Um, man, go your own way, of course, like everyone loves go your own way.
The rest of the songs were good too.
Like, I, I liked them, but it was just that, there was no nostalgia for them.
So I didn't click and I didn't go, I'm gonna add these to a playlist or I'm gonna add them
to songs I listened to or I'm gonna, you know what I did add though?
I did add the chain.
I did add go your own way.
Yeah, and dreams was already on there.
So.
The chain's fucking chain has a, a billion.
Yeah.
The dreams has a billion and a half.
Yeah.
That's ridiculous.
It's crazy, right?
And think about it.
They, they, it's not like they've gotten big from Spotify.
So you think about how many, they, this album was released in 1977.
You think about how many times people have actually listened to this album.
You know what I mean?
Billions, billions of times.
Yeah.
There'd be like oldies who bought the album, the day it came out and who have played every
week for their entire life.
You know what I mean?
Like there will be people like that.
Like my father, dude, he loves Fleetwood Mac.
Were you still listening to Fleetwood Mac every Christmas?
Yep.
Used to.
Christmas has been different for the past few years, but that's okay.
And it was the children.
Like not in a bad way, it's just that because everyone has young children now, it's less
about like we all get together and have a drink and listen to musical day and it's
more like presents and you know, shit.
Anyway, Fleetwood Mac, I'm a big fan, but I'm interested to hear what you have to say,
is that?
I can't really give it too much more than what you've already said.
Like it is all all together, like a really decent album.
I really, every time straight up to go your own way and then it was songbird, I just fucking
skitted.
I've so sick of listening to the songbird and I sick of listening to O Daddy.
Gold Dust Woman, really fucking cool.
Yeah, I didn't, I was gonna say Gold Dust Woman I didn't want.
Yeah.
I didn't listen, because I only listened to I think twice or once or twice, so I listened
to the whole way through.
Sorry, I remember there was a couple of disco stuff.
Yeah, that's what they were though, right?
Disco, it's so cool.
Error, sorry, not area, sure.
Yeah, so it was really cool listening to like some disco stuff and then like the chain
is such a fucking banger, some of dreams and shit like that.
Honestly, overall like there's nothing that I can say about this album that hasn't
already been said 100,000 times.
It's a really, really fucking good album and if you haven't listened to it man, you have
been living like under a rock.
Yeah, that's the thing, I've absolutely heard all of these songs before.
You can't escape it.
Go your own way is in fucking ads.
Yeah, yeah.
So it's dreams, like dreams, as well.
Yeah, so dreams made the big resurgent because of TikTok, there was a TikTok trend
or something.
Yeah, that was like skating and drinking, yeah, that's what it was.
Yeah, drinking like while skating and fucking like I think it was like a sunset or something.
I think it was just like singing along to it.
Yeah, yeah, something like that.
And it was just skating.
Yeah, just in general.
And everyone was like, what is this amazing song that we've never heard before because
everyone's born in 2000 now.
So we're old now apparently.
Yeah, yeah.
That's man, you know, that's the worst part of going through all of this music and everything
man.
The worst part is like realising our age.
That's the part that gets me every time we look at these albums and we look at the dates
and all that sort of stuff.
I'm like, I don't know, look, I like to think that our demographic is like a round our
age and maybe a bit older because I like I said we're big dumb idiots but at the same time
I feel like because we're dads because we talk about lawn.
We talk about all this other stuff as well, we're like, I mean, I love, I do love me a fresh
cut lawn.
I'm not going to lie.
Yeah, just a side track real quick.
Jackie, she mode the yard the other day and that afternoon, me and the kids all went
out inside and laid down on the grass.
It's so good.
It's a lot of freshly cut grass, man.
Yeah, no, look, it's a good album.
It's a good album.
Like Fleetwood Mac is a good band.
I like them.
They've made bangers.
A billion streams on songbird, 1.4 billion on dreams, like almost a billion on go your own
way and that's from one album.
That's from one album of Fleetwood Mac.
Yep.
They're good.
I think it's, I think the global opinion of Fleetwood Mac is that they're a good band.
Yep.
I look, I'm not giving it a 10 out of 10.
No, I'm not giving it a 10 out of 10.
Absolutely not getting a 10 out of 10.
I don't know, man.
I actually don't know.
I'm torn on what to rate it purely because I love three of these songs so much and I already
said on Creed's album that those three songs would stay in my playlist forever, so it was
10 out of 10.
But I feel like it's a 10 out of 10 three songs, you know?
That's totally fun.
They're good.
I think I'd be happy to give it an 8.5.
My brother and crusty would read my mind.
Really?
100%, I was literally saying in my head I was like 8.5 or 8.75.
Wow.
8.75.
You know, like 8 and 3/4.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Edging on a 9.
Yeah, I've probably, I've probably, I've probably, I wouldn't give it a 9 and I would agree.
Could be higher than 8.5, but we're talking, now we're getting into cement.
Is it a new degree?
Tiny little, tiny little, tiny little fucking numbers and shit.
But I've, yeah look, 8.5, it's a good album.
If you haven't heard Fleetwood Mac.
If you were too young and you don't watch TV because there's a lot of kids, a lot of teenagers,
a lot of probably young adults who just don't watch TV because it's trash and we're not
even trash because it probably hasn't existed in their life.
That's a phone that has, see that's what gets me.
This is nothing else.
It makes me feel old.
They probably haven't watched TV because TV just stopped being a thing.
Yeah.
That's because it's, like you said, it's phone, it's Netflix, it's YouTube, it's Stan, it's
Disney Plus.
Yep.
TV is just not a thing anymore.
TV is used for games and Netflix.
Yeah.
Not for what we use the telefor, which was, what's your TV?
Waiting until 6 o'clock when the Simpsons would come on or like 630 or something like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Or like in the morning watching Dragon Ball C.
She's TV.
Bayblades.
You give her.
Yeah, do you?
Pokemon.
Did you know that it was good?
Yeah.
Yeah, man.
Anyway, 8.5 rumors.
Yeah.
Fleetwood Mac.
It's a good album.
If you haven't heard it, you probably should at least listen to Dreams go your own way and
the dreams and your real life.
And the chain.
Yeah, Dreams in the chain and go your own way.
If you truly haven't heard those songs, I'll be surprised.
But if you start playing them and go, oh, I do know this song, I'm not surprised.
It's so, it's so strange because like I bought, I bought this album.
Mm.
Age is a go.
Way before we started the podcast, it was actually around the time that we started
talking.
Oh, yeah.
So, it was like, that's so long ago now.
So long ago, right?
And we started talking again.
And I was like, because I think I told you about it after we started up all this stuff,
I was already like buying albums and stuff like that to play in my CD, play it in the
car.
Yeah.
And this was one of the CDs that I bought.
Nice.
And yeah, it's just been sitting up there for ages.
I can't, it's not a disappoint.
That's what I'm now.
Yeah, exactly.
No.
But it's not a disappointment.
The whole album is not a disappointment.
It's not a bad album.
Oh, it's a great album.
I just want to rate it 10 out of 10.
That's a, that's a good, wait, wait, do it.
Yeah.
I'm afraid it's hit up, too.
Just do it.
Um, so.
Strike me down.
Speaking of, uh, striking something.
Stri-we're striking it.
From the record, the next album of the week, I'll call it out.
I'll just bleep it.
The next album of the week.
I want to listen to, like, I know this is, this is such a...
Dude, this is like the complete opposite of Fleetwood Mac.
Like it literally is.
It's not me.
Like Fleetwood Mac is like, you know, like disco, piece, like, super chill, like smoking
joints that, like, burning man, you know, that's Fleetwood Mac, right?
Like that is like the, like the first, um, woodstock, like that's Fleetwood Mac.
Yeah.
This is, I would argue, almost the, is far opposite as you could go.
Could, could it be, if you just have a look in that editing chat, would this also be a
contender before we absolutely, absolutely, absolutely.
Absolutely, that's it.
If it's not a contender, we're not doing that one.
I think, I think, I think, I think you picked the right one there.
Uh, we're changing it up.
It's really very similar.
These two people, you know what, Zach, just, what are we listening to?
What are we listening to?
This week, we're listening to the greatest hits compilation from Ice Cube.
There you go.
So, 2001, greatest hits.
As, as opposite as you could argue, Fleetwood Mac, disco, piece, super chill, female vocalist,
to literally, what a member of the NWA.
And, and an X member, I guess, or a former member, former, former NWA member Ice Cube.
Yep.
And, just so everyone, so that there's some context of what we were talking about.
We were looking at Snoopy.
We were looking at good old Snoop Doggie Dog, Snoopy one.
Uh, the, the DOG himself, Snoop Dogg.
Yeah.
Look, I'd rather listen to Ice Cube.
So, yeah.
My self.
Uh, greatest hits sounds good.
I haven't listened to much of Ice Cube stuff. I've listened to heaps of Snoop Dogg stuff.
I, I, I was a big Snoop Dog fan back in the day.
So, I used to have one of those.
Um, they had a tour that they did.
The smoke-free, something, tour or something like that back in the day.
I think it was like 2001, something like that.
Yeah.
And, I think, Ice Cube wasn't it.
I think Snoop wasn't it.
But, they went around and they just did this big tour.
It was super cool because they put a lot of, um, like, video and stuff into it as well.
So, the, I remember the setup or the set, the stage was, what, for one of the songs was
like a convenience store.
And then on the big camera, there was like, the scene that played out for like four minutes
or something of, um, robbery in the convenience store.
Oh, yeah.
And then, at the end of the video, you know, they start, they like shoot the guy or something,
like shoot the camera a couple times and say, pff, pff, pff, pff, pff, pff, pff, pff, pff, pff,
you know, like one final, one right at the end.
And then it's like, screen goes black and then out walks like Snoop Dogg and like all the guys
out of this convenience store.
You know what I mean?
Like, it was cool.
And then they start the songs, yeah.
It's cool, cool intro, yeah.
Yeah, it's cool.
Yeah, like, you know what?
Not, not good role models.
They literally went into a convenience store and shot the owner.
But.
Because that's gangster.
Yeah, he could've been a bad guy.
We don't know.
You shot that dude for the, for the paper and his book.
Hey, look, maybe he was stealing from everyone.
He's the town bad bad guy.
Maybe he was the bad guy, you know?
Maybe it was the, the, the thugs who went in there with guns.
Really?
There was Snoop Dogg and Dre and Ice Cube walking in the woods.
Yep, it was dry.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Walking into Jeff Bezos.
Yeah.
Just, they get the glizzier out.
The old sling glizzier.
The automatic sling.
Yeah, cool, cool, cool.
Oh, man.
Dude, what a, what a wild ride it's been.
It is.
All right, we're listening to greatest hits of Ice Cube.
I'm very keen.
I'm very excited.
Um, Zack, did you have anything, oh, do we have, do we have any voice
mouths?
No.
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I appreciate all of the things that have come through, right?
Yeah.
And, uh, it is a lot of, from our friends and that and, and I appreciate our friends,
right?
Our friends, uh, it is just a lot of me, it is just like us.
All right.
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It may have been a genuine question.
I'm taking it as a genuine question.
I'm, and it was, I think that guy literally has a question of why is there artificial scarcity
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And why can't I buy it anywhere?
Like, it's a proper like shower thought sort of thing, you know?
Yeah.
And that's perfect.
It's well formed.
Yeah.
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So I'm pulling back, but I still truly believe that chin, like innocent children show
on a, they just shouldn't be getting killed, right?
Like, yeah, 10,000 innocent children in three months.
But there's too many, there's too many children.
I don't care what the reasoning behind it is.
I don't care if there actually is a terrorist group, not that I believe they are a terrorist group,
but if they're actually is one and they are doing all of the things that they're saying
they're doing, that still doesn't justify killing 10,000 children.
So it should stop.
That's all I'm saying about it.
It should just stop.
That's excellent.
Uh, maybe you're taking me out on Spotify as well with the, uh, the handle Blake Bentley,
um, I do want to release more music, Zakk.
I really do want to work on more music.
Oh, so what we're going to do is we're going to work on more music and then we're going
to release more music.
Um, we can do that.
We can, uh, hell, yeah, we can do that.
Yeah, we, I got the new mic.
I was thinking about it the other day, I was like, I have the new mic.
Yeah.
We, we should be doing music again.
I should do some vocal stuff against being so long and we can and we will.
Yeah.
This is it.
This is the year.
This is it.
We had a gap here because last year we didn't know music at all.
What, what is the, what is this trend of like people saying we back?
Is that what it is?
Is, is, are there people saying it for this year?
Yeah.
Really?
They just, I keep seeing like people saying, stop saying we back.
Oh, like, yeah.
I never heard anyone say we back.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Apparently it's the thing we back.
So, so for this year, 2020, we back.
We back.
Last, last episode was the first episode.
This is the first episode.
We back.
Season three.
It's, forget everything you know again.
I was going to say we, the, when did we say the next episode was season two?
That wasn't the last one.
Was it?
That was ages ago.
That was a, it was a while back.
It was ages ago.
We were like season two.
But this is season one ending.
Season two starts next week and then we never brought it up again.
No.
Yeah, I remember that.
This is the first episode of season two.
Yeah, we were.
This is season two, man.
Like, yeah.
We let you change it up and then let you next that we forgot.
We forgot.
We never did anything differently.
Exactly.
Where can we find you?
You can find me with the perfect name SwitchBladesForKids, all one word.
Everywhere you can find me, I'm very SEO friendly.
Just type it in a Google and then click on all of those links.
Except for when you get to the second page, don't click any of those links.
Not to come back.
It's always bad.
Holy shit.
That's always bad.
I'm actually familiar with my SEO is pretty good too.
If you just Google Blake, space, Bentley, I'm like the first thing that comes up as well,
which is super cool.
Yeah.
Which is, I love it.
I didn't know Google actually has like an artist profile on the right hand side for
me.
Oh, really?
Yeah, dude.
How cool is that?
That's cool, man.
We need to release more music.
Music?
Yeah.
Do you know what?
Last year is that I didn't do any music and I did heaps of gym, but I in the last few months,
I've definitely slowed down the gym.
And that's just because it's just life's been really busy.
And like again, like we've had to work more, Jackie's had to pick up more shifts at her jobs
and stuff.
Like, life's just harder.
That's why I got the dumbbells.
I do more stuff at home, but I still like going to the gym.
But I haven't been doing much gym.
I haven't been doing much music and I can feel it man.
It affects me.
Like those are my outlets for like all of this mental craziness in my head.
These are my outlets and I haven't been doing it.
So I need to do more of a man.
I need to do more music, need to do more gym.
100% and we can do that.
We can do both.
Yes.
At the end of this year, I want to be a swole monster of a man making lots of music.
That's my goal.
That's a goal.
Straight up.
And I'm going to hold you accountable.
Okay.
And also, same going.
I need to eat proper food.
You can hold me accountable.
We both are going to do absolute mass monsters.
The piglets are only so good from the bakery man.
Have you had a piglet before?
He talked about like the smoky go.
It's like a sausage.
But it's like little ones and piglets and they use savorloids instead of the big ones.
They do this.
They're really good.
It's made a problem.
Oh my god.
Anyway, is that everything?
I think that's just about it.
I think that's it, right?
That's it.
Yeah.
All right, sweet.
Look, thank you guys so much.
Look, genuinely, I appreciate you guys.
I really do.
What did you forget?
Taylor Swift news.
Okay.
Let's end it with Taylor Swift news.
And then as soon as it's done, we're gone.
Thank you very much for listening.
Everyone, we will see you next Thursday.
All right.
Taylor Swift news.
All right.
So let me give you this Taylor Swift news.
All right.
So you're aware of VR, right?
VR virtual reality.
Yeah.
I love these semocular, splaying stuff.
Yep.
The headline reads, as virtual reality companies hunt for ways to spread their tech, they
may find an unexpected audience for wide-scale adoption.
Swifties.
So there's those sort.
Practically with like, I've condensed it all down into just a couple of sentences.
It's basically these tech giants that have like, maybe our headsets, especially like Oculus
and Facebook, they acquire Oculus.
Yeah.
And there's like meta quests and shit like that.
Yeah, I've got a different one.
I've got a quest two.
I think quest three's are out now.
I've got a quest two.
Yeah.
And so these tech titans that have built VR headsets and they want them to sell more because
a lot of the time, they're not selling.
I think, I think right here, just a quick statistic.
12% of Americans and 8% of UK residents have VR headsets.
So it is 12% of Americans though.
That's 330 million, 10% of--
Oh, well, that's a lot.
That's like 33 million people.
36 million people.
Yeah.
That's a lot.
That's a lot of people, man.
That's a heap of people.
Yeah.
So that's a lot of people that have them.
But the thing is, is that way back in the day, there was a push to try and get NBA.
They have like a VR sort of thing as well.
So you can get front row seized if you just put on your VR headsets and you purchase virtual
tickets to go and sit in the front seat and you can watch these guys play basketball, right?
I mean, like, to the safety of the living room.
If it was far cheaper than a front row ticket, and it is obviously a live thing, I could get
behind, like not me, I'd never do it myself, but I could understand why someone would.
Especially some, maybe physical disabilities, mental disabilities, social anxieties, but
they love basketball and they want to watch a live game.
This is the next best thing for them.
I'm all for innovation in the time where it actually helps people.
Exactly.
Exactly right.
So, with that in mind, what is to stop these tech giants from slinging their tech at people
that want to go to concerts, but the concerts sell out so fucking quick, such as the errors
to a, with Taylor Swift, she's absolutely causing quite a fuss.
Quite a cuffuffle.
Quite a few people are upset.
In the well, because they can't buy tickets.
Yeah.
And looking at this, I don't know what stadium this is, but I don't know you can't see it,
but it is literally just, she is so small compared to these giant TV screens that are behind
her.
And above in the ceiling of this huge stadium, there's more TV screens that can show the people
that are so fucking far away.
Yeah.
Guess what?
You want to deal with that.
If you just buy a VR headset, a virtual ticket and your front road.
You know what?
You want road.
It's going to be cheaper to buy that headset and the ticket than the ticket itself.
110 fucking percent.
No.
Like so, I tried to buy Kim tickets.
I said, you and your mate are good to go.
We'll try and get some good tickets and we'll get you a accommodation down there.
And it turns out the tickets, some tickets you can buy with accommodation.
It comes with like accommodation and breakfast and a free dinner and stuff like that.
And I was like, holy shit.
So I was like, these tickets are perfect.
It's just, it's just a flight.
And then you go into a hotel and then you go to the concert and you sleep at the hotel
and then you come home.
That's the whole thing.
I am happy for you to do this with your mate.
That wants you to go down.
And we just couldn't get tickets because the whole fucking server blew up and it just didn't
happen.
Anyway, those tickets sold out so fucking fast and there are so many people that want to
go.
110 fucking percent.
It is cheaper to buy a VR headset and whatever this virtual ticket may cost.
Yeah.
Because it's not going to be as much as whatever that is that you were about to pay.
It's not going to be much.
It was, she's only going to Sydney.
She's not going to fucking prison men.
It's like anywhere, anywhere in the world you're like and you want to go to this Taylor Swift
concert, you're going to have to fucking like travel regardless.
Unless you live in Sydney right next to the fucking stadium, you're going to have to travel.
So it is not guaranteed that even if you live in Sydney, you're going to get a fucking ticket.
Yeah, so yeah.
Anyway, that's, I wait.
That's the Taylor Swift news.
That's the Taylor Swift news?
That is it.
That's it.
That's the, that's the pod.
Wait up.
Thank you guys so much for listening.
See you guys next Thursday.
It's crazy shit.
We'll see you next Thursday.
Bye.
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