Hello and welcome to the podcast podcast we talk life work and occasionally music my name is switch blades for kids and the other half of the podcast.
Hello my name is Blake Bentley.
How you doing?
Yeah, how is everyone?
What's going on?
Things are happening.
For our little man.
I'm losing more.
You're like already.
Honestly, we just I've got to wake up early tomorrow morning and we decided to start late because someone here decided to sleep on the couch.
And then remember that they needed to record a pod.
That got me.
I mean, I'm just happy to be here.
Let me just raise something really quickly.
I want to talk about abacus is one more time.
And it's not.
I didn't go ahead of using abacus.
So let me just really.
I didn't go ahead of you.
I'm not going to be here.
What have I done?
But we're here and where we're deal with it.
We're ready to cheer.
How have you been?
What's been cracking this last week?
Oh, my household sick.
Yeah, that's fun on a bun.
My work site has a gastro outbreak and I believe Covid outbreak as well.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's going to be a lot of free beds in the upcoming weeks.
Yeah.
I've ever told you it was like 25 last time.
Yeah, because of it directly.
Yeah.
Like linked to because of a gastro outbreak.
Yeah.
Dude, that's a lot of people don't.
Yeah.
Because somebody shit themselves but it was like I can still go work.
Yeah.
Or like I'll still go visit, man.
It's like totally reinforced.
Is that whole please wash your hands.
Sort of shit.
Oh, man.
Yeah, right.
So everyone's sick.
Yeah, home, yes, and don't work.
So I'm going to work from home and as long as possible.
Yes.
I love it.
Dude, yeah.
I fucking, I went to the old people X-bow.
Yeah.
Can I tell you about that?
I think I came in late.
Oh, right, right, right.
Yeah.
So I went to the old people X-bow.
The scene is X-bow and you know one thing that scene is like.
Free shit.
Oh, okay.
Maybe an attest to guess but yes they do love free shit.
No.
Sorry, sorry friend.
They love free shit.
And you know what I had a lot of?
Free shit.
You have a lot of free shit.
Yeah, I was like, you guess after?
I tell you what it was.
Dude, I feel involved in participating.
I'm participating in this conversation.
Yeah, I think.
Yeah.
Ben's going the way that I wanted to go.
Could you actually have free shit or you just eat?
Yeah, no, I did.
I had like pens and frisbee's, bro.
Yeah, the frisbee is such a fucking dick move one.
It's quite funny.
It literally just proves a point that old people just want free things.
Yeah.
They're never going to use that frisbee?
Yeah, no.
Not a day in their life at eight from this point onwards that they're going to throw that fucking frisbee.
Barely any of them can walk.
One of them walked up to me just boiling her eyes out.
I was like, are we okay?
It was an old lady.
So how are you doing?
Surrendered by a bunch of other old ladies.
Yeah.
And I was like, what was this?
Is this an okay situation right now?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She's fine.
I love she's fine.
What do we go?
Why are you?
I was like, she's boiling her eyes out.
She looks at me.
In control.
I was like, yeah, like, what is happening?
Yeah.
Yeah, what is happening, dude?
Yeah.
Pretty wild old people, eh?
Yeah, dude.
And that.
What do you think?
I'll tell you this about frisbee, though.
My brother Kai ate out of a frisbee for over two years.
Because he thought it was just a random plastic plate.
[LAUGHTER]
Dude, he just had a--
Yeah, dude.
Because it was like a--
It didn't have any branding on it, man.
It was just like a fucking orange plate to him.
And then someone just like flipped it around and was like,
"Now dude, this is like a fucking--
Like a frisbee, man."
And he's like, "No, it's a plate.
It's a plate."
And it's like, "It's got cold edges, so you're not spillsh it."
"Now dude."
"Friend, this is a frisbee, man."
Oh my god, that's so funny, man.
And then he tried finding the point that like old plates are technically frisbee.
It's like, "Fuck you, mate."
You were eating from a frisbee, you feel embarrassed.
[LAUGHTER]
Dude, what is that, you know?
I've been doing it over two years.
Over two years, he was living with housemates and she liked that.
And yeah, it was like his first color.
Like, what do you call it?
First fucking dining-ware shit.
My first home-ware shit.
I don't even think he had like spoons or like knives.
I think he was telling me like he didn't have knives.
So he would just use a fork or a spoon as a knife for money.
[LAUGHTER]
That was stupid, man.
It's like, "Just go to fucking K-Mart dude, they're really cheap."
Like, Civil War sets are really cheap.
Tensils are not expensive.
[LAUGHTER]
I was.
Bro, you got like Robin's kitchen, two dollars spoons,
nine fork and spoon, bro.
[LAUGHTER]
Oh, man.
Yeah.
Bro, you can buy just like a set for one, man.
[LAUGHTER]
You'll spend like 30 bucks.
That is a knife fork and spoon set right there.
That's the army issued one right there.
Boom.
There you go.
Yeah, I'm going to be using that soon.
Oh.
Yeah, speaking of which, I'll be going away for a little bit.
That's right.
I think it's like mid-November?
Mid-November, I'm just going to be gone.
And then I'll come back late November.
That's fine.
Yeah, I'll be gone for like 11 days.
Well either.
We'll either have a break or we won't.
We'll figure it out.
Oh, actually, yeah, there might still be a pod in this time frame.
They might not.
Who cares?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a good point.
We will figure it out.
It's fine, dude.
We'll figure it out.
Yeah, yeah, that's it.
Um, yeah.
So you're going to be going for a little while.
You're going to be doing some fun, army stuff.
I want to go on Dig Pits and pretend to be like a scary Australian soldier and true things
with blanks.
Nice.
Yeah, it's not as fun as it sounds.
You know what's wild?
I was talking to a guy.
He's like an apprentice electrician.
But he's like an adult apprentice.
Like he's like nearly fucking 30 or something like that.
And he was like chat new him and I was like, yeah, yeah, I'm going out bush soon because he sort of he knows I'm in the army knows that
I'm going to do shit.
And I was like, yeah, I'm going out bush fucking pretty soon.
Yeah, I'm going for 11 days and I'll come back and he's like, it's like, it's like camping, yeah.
Like you just go out there with like a Hollywood boys and you know, you just fucking camping chill out and I'm like, yeah, but like, you know,
all the fun stuff about camping.
Like there's none of that.
It's shit, dude.
Yeah, it's like, oh, I can't be, you can't be that bad.
You get, you know, spend a little bit of time away, you know, you just get to fucking relax and I'm like, no, you carry a gun around and you can't leave it alone.
And you fucking, and then at night you'll wake up in the middle of the night because someone will wake you up and they'll say, hey man, hey, it's your turn on pick it.
And then you'll get up and you'll stand somewhere where they've designated behind a behind a machine gun and you'll stare into the darkness.
That is legit.
Like if you don't have night vision, you'll just stare into darkness until like you look at your watch and it goes, oh, that's my time.
That's, that's, that's it.
I'm going to go and wake the next guy up and then I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to be sprint this dude's here.
I'm like, hey, about it's your turn on pick it.
That's, that is like, army, camping.
And then, and then during the day, this is, you know, this is, this is a really cool, but it's kind of like that.
So it's, these things called QTEs.
I'm not like super like army man.
I do my job like I'm a fitter.
I fucking go and fix guns and then I go and fix like pumps and random shit, you know, like small engines.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, like doing the soldier thing is like the grunt stuff.
That's, that's for the guys that I fix the weapons for.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's beneath me.
That's not me.
I was beneath me.
I fixed the guns that go and kill people around.
I don't fucking use the guns to go and kill, I fixed the guns.
And what, what the, the, the cool thing is is that we're walking around playing army man.
And then what's supposed to happen is we roll around in like a little section.
So it's like eight or nine dudes and we just sort of like roll around going to do tasks, right?
And it's like a task is go and take that hill or go and fucking patrol this area and or go and stare at a road for a fucking four hours.
In these little scenarios or these little tasks, the guy that's running us through it will be like,
we're going to do a QDE, which is a quick decision exercise.
And so imagine me and you, this is just me and you and then this third dude that's going to be like something will happen, right?
Yeah, me and you were just walking around.
We've got guns, all right, and we're walking and we're looking around.
Yep, yep.
I don't see nothing.
I don't see no one's around.
I don't see nothing.
But we're on a fucking road.
There's nothing happening.
I've seen nothing.
Bang, bang, bang, your dead or you've been shot, right?
And then but but notionally you've been shot.
So the guy behind me, well, I'll look, I'll turn to him and he'll be like, bang, bang, Blake lie down, you've been shot.
And then I'll turn to him and I'll be like, where has he been shot?
And he's like, it will probably say, go on, go on, assess the casualty.
And then I'll start touching and feeling you and seeing if your airways there and your breathing and your all this fucking doctor A B CD sort of shit.
Yep.
And we'll figure out if you're going to die or not.
And I'll decide.
I'll decide.
But it's basically, you know, quick decision exercises is this happens.
What will you do?
Make a decision as quick as possible sort of shit.
And usually when you're rolling in a big section, it's like that exact same scenario will happen.
That's that's my nightmare scenario because like when, like, I'm not good at the medical side of shit.
If someone's like goes down, I'm just going to turn to that deer and I was like, he's dead, right?
Like, they didn't miss, right?
Fucking and then it's like, well, he's dead.
We'll counter ambush.
That's it.
Sort of shit.
Yeah.
It's sort of like, this will happen and then you've just got to tell everyone what to do and then do your job, which is lead the section sort of shit.
Like, hey, go over there, provide security.
Hey, get on the radio.
Hey, right up this guy's a final notes to his mom sort of shit, you know, just just dumb shit.
But that's, um, dumb shit.
Just dumb shit, man.
Sorry, man.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's done to my mommy.
I have 16 years old.
It was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, yeah, it is.
Yeah, it's, it's, yeah.
Um, but yeah, that's, that's going to be me in a couple of, uh, I think a couple of weeks and then, uh, then I'll come back and I'll tell you all about it.
I'll tell you if they hit the nail on the head with my nightmare scenario.
I can hope for like, uh, we're walking along and then we're hit with mortars and then we go, oh, okay.
Um, immediately everyone run away sort of shit and we'll rendezvous, uh, a hundred meters north sort of shit.
Um, that's, that's what I'm hoping for because it's, it's something is happening and there's not a lot of choices.
It's just go away.
That's, that's what I'm hoping for.
Um, and if anything more challenging than that and I'll make a QDE into an SDE, a very slow decision.
Yeah.
Um, but, uh, yeah, we'll see what happens.
That's, uh, that's going to be me very soon.
Go.
Nice.
Yeah.
That's, that's more often than not chill at the moment.
Okay.
Well, look, I, um,
whatever I done, honestly, I was thinking about this before, um, oh, that's right.
So this weekend, I told you my household is, right?
Yes.
This weekend we were meant to go to a bunch of birthdays.
We had three birthday parties in two days.
Yep.
Oh, that doesn't math.
No, don't math very well.
Was it like a day, night day sort of thing?
It was like, uh, morning, lunch, and then the next day.
Yeah.
That's a lot of partying.
Yeah.
It's a lot of partying.
So this is got sick.
Well, more specifically, we have a got sick.
Yeah.
So we didn't go to any of them.
And no, instead, we went into one, but he goes shopping.
Is it a total fire?
No.
Maybe it's an hour, hour, south.
Oh, isn't it?
Yeah, I think somewhere near to Wonderson 5, in like, I did not know that.
It's burning up.
Man, it's burning up.
Didn't know that.
Yeah.
But, um, yeah, right, it's been dry.
It's been very fucking dry.
Swim.
Windy seasonally dry.
And really, yes.
Unseasonally dry and windy.
Yeah.
Perfect conditions for a giant bushfire.
Five men.
I can throw this cigarette, but out the window and drive away.
Yeah.
Fucking, fucking Queensland, man.
I'm telling you.
Yeah.
But, um, anyway, so we went to swam there to go shopping.
And, um, man,
when can you tell me when Halloween is, please?
Tomorrow.
Yeah.
Which is the 30th.
What do you expect to see Christmas stuff yet?
Uh, yes.
Would you expect to see predominantly Christmas stuff yet?
Oh, yeah, dude.
As soon as, I think about this, doing it this.
As soon as it's January 1st, what do you see in Coles?
Woolies came on.
You see Easter stuff.
I know.
Easter's not for four months.
It's, it's not even Halloween yet.
Yeah.
They've already reduced all of the Halloween stuff to nothing.
It's, they're clear and sing Halloween stuff already.
It's not even Halloween yet, dude.
It's clear and sing Halloween stuff.
Yeah.
I, I shit you know.
I went to like, Big W and shit.
And they're clear and sing Halloween stuff.
That's not the time.
They're a whole weekend early.
I don't understand, dude.
Yeah.
I don't get it.
Yeah.
Because they're like, oh, well, Christmas is, well, people are just skipping Halloween this
year.
We're going straight to Christmas.
Like, okay.
Or just, does everyone just have a choice?
They're like, they put it to a vote and they're like, now we'll skip Halloween this year.
Yeah, now guys will skip.
And I'll say this, they're like in Australia, it's not like a huge holiday.
Like, oh, yes and over in the States.
Like, it's a big deal.
Like, you get dressed up.
You go on trick-or-treat.
Yeah.
And you go to parties and chill out there.
In Australia, like, 30th October is another day.
It's a fucking Monday.
Yeah.
I used to go to this Halloween party every year.
Like, when they're like three years, last three years, I didn't go to the show.
Yeah, it's too far.
I'm vlogging.
Just way too far.
Yeah, that's a while away, man.
Yeah.
Yeah, right.
But, yeah, no.
So, I was very surprised to see all this Christmas stuff already.
That's a good question.
Are you taking your kids' trick-or-treat?
Have they asked?
No, so tomorrow they have been asked to bring a Halloween costume to daycare.
And what's something else?
I think it was lunchbox day or something like that, like, bring a lunchbox.
And it's supposed to be spooky themed.
I don't know how you make fucking cheese and crackers spooky.
I put a curse on it.
You know, sort of shit like that.
I don't know.
There's...
I would expect 100% though.
I know what you're saying.
But I would 100% expect Christmas stuff in September.
Oh, it's just...
It's so early.
Like, dude, it's so early.
It's so early.
I actually...
Kim hit me up.
I know that our Christmas plans.
And I'm like, "How the fuck am I supposed to know?"
It's fucking like the end of October.
Isn't this like a thing that we sort of...
I know, I know we'll plan it sort of thing, but it's usually...
Someone is already deciding themselves that they're going to take it upon themselves
to host a Christmas lunch or something like that or a Christmas dinner, sort of shit.
And then you go, "Oh, well, we can choose to go."
You know what I mean?
Kim's already hitting me out and saying, "Okay, cool.
So your known as Birthday's coming up next month.
We're going to go up and see her."
And then what we can do is also make it a joint...
Your like my birthday...
Fucking and early Christmas and her birthday.
And I'm like, "That's three things.
We're going to bundle up like maybe two days into three things.
Sure, that's fine."
And then she's like, "Oh, and then we'll also figure out what we're going to do for Christmas."
And I'm like, "That's...
That's it.
I understand what time it is of the year, but my God, I do not want to think about...
What the hell I'm going to do with Christmas?
No, I hate to Christmas.
Day is man.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's fucked.
That's genuinely man.
I fucking...
Oh, I just hate spending money.
I hate spending money.
I hate money.
I hate all of it.
I really hate money.
It sucks.
Yeah, yeah, it's not a good thing.
Nah, I'm trying my best to convince Mum not to spend money on my kids.
Yeah.
I'm more genuinely like, "We don't want it."
Like, it's not in a bad way.
Just like I said to Mum, it's like just because you have that money, that's not mean you need
to spend it.
I was like, "I don't mind.
You want to spend money on kids that's cool."
Like, spend more on the other ones.
It's fun.
Yeah.
Yeah, I have to tell Mum and Dad actually, because they love going fucking like heaps of toys
or like just random shit.
I was like, "They have more than enough toys."
Yeah.
I've seen your house.
It's like fun.
Yeah.
Oh, actually, I'm fucking fan of this cool parent life hack sort of shit.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, I just want to hear a hot parent life hack.
Oh, yeah, go on.
We'll see.
We'll see if we have a story to add to it.
Everyone that's listening.
So if you've got a whole heap of fucking toys and like old toys and shit like that, ask
your kids to fucking find like old broken toys and say that they're going to Santa to get
fixed.
Ooh.
And then just put them in like goodwill or the salvos or fucking in the bin.
Like if they're just fucked, you know what I mean?
So like, Quinn's already pretty like switched on with it and she's like, "Oh yeah, cool."
Well, can Santa fix my favorite like stuffed bunny thing?
And I was like, "We're not going to get rid of that.
We're actually probably going to fix that."
No, we don't need to get rid of that.
Like there's other, there's other like random shit like there's just random like we've
put like the block box, which is just full of blocks and these, I feel so fucking stupid
for buying it.
But do you remember a while back when I was saying that we went to target or something
like that?
And Quinn, I said, "If you carry this box around for this entire fucking shopping adventure,
you can have this big box of like frozen figurines."
Yeah.
And she did.
She carried around.
And she never plays with any of them.
Like, I'm going to throw the entire frozen collection in the bin or give it, you know,
I might put it in the bag and then put it in the fucking like Salvo's box.
I think that's fucking good way to go.
But like, I just wanted.
Gone.
It's, it's infuriating.
Tell me your add-on to the parent and life hack.
I thought you were going to talk about the, have you talked about it on pod?
I don't know.
They cleaning up, listening to music.
Oh, I get it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right.
Yeah.
I think you did.
You were talking about listening to the album, like, maybe like last week.
Or something.
Yeah, I see kids how long they want to clean for and then just put on music.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It works.
Um, so I did one like, let's race the song to clean everything up, type stuff.
Okay.
And we cleaned up and it was like, all happy days yet.
Let's go and then I'll pick up the speaker and was dancing with it and I was like, yeah,
it's fine.
And I dropped it and I was like, oh, let's try not to drop it.
We might break it.
And he's like, all right, dad, all right, dad, all right, dad.
Like, yeah, all right, dad.
He picks it up and he's like, dancing drops it again.
And it's like,
Oh, he actually, I was like, he actually broke it.
I picked it up and it's like rattling and like crazy.
I'm like, oh, cool.
It's actually broken.
Like, man, we've dropped that thing like a thousand times.
Yeah.
I was like, I've actually dropped it like a thousand times.
I was like, how is it when I tell someone, don't drop it, you'll break it and then they
drop it and break it.
I don't understand.
How is that power mind?
You just started, you just started right then and there's like, don't drop it, you'll
break it.
Oh, my God.
It's me, bro.
I broke it.
I told him.
I basically wielded it into existence.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Like, I used my, how am I gifted with that type of power?
That's a, a gift that should not be given to anything being, okay?
Next time, just tell Jackie, like tell Jackie exactly what's happened and then just be
like, whenever she's making it like a coffee or a tea or anything like that, like,
oh, you don't drop that mug, you'll break it.
I wanted to do it.
Yeah.
I did it again.
This is the power.
It's like, don't, you'll break it.
Oh, man.
What a good power.
Yeah.
That's what you've, yeah, power.
Yeah, power.
What a good power.
Yeah, I believe it.
Yes.
It's a, it's a curse.
It never ends.
Yeah, no.
So we, I don't have a Bluetooth speaker anymore, which is, it's not.
All right.
That is basically, was it like a, your e-broom?
It wasn't a e-broom.
No, it was like some cheap fucking, man.
That's the thing.
It was like a cheap fucking wish version, honestly.
Yeah, yeah.
It was the wish version of the e-broom.
And it went real good.
You know, really good.
I'll tell you this.
You've seen my e-broom and like, how fun it is.
It's like so good and it works underwater.
Yeah, it's pretty true.
I've practiced, not practiced, but like I threw it in a water and it was still fucking pumping
out beats and it's, you know, it's underwater.
It's not supposed to sound good when it's underwater, but like it cops water and then you
dry it out and it still sounds like a fucking good speaker.
Yeah.
I think I dig in a random e-broom's, boom, they're great.
Boom.
It's talking about music, exactly.
Speaking of music, like what do we listen to this week?
This week we, this is getting, well, what a transition.
Can I just say?
Perfect transition.
After 120 odd episodes, we got to actually did it.
The perfect segue.
Exactly.
It only took us 120 odd episodes.
Of the Avocovie episode.
On the Avocovie episode.
It's all math and...
Oh man.
It's all coming together.
Oh, it's also episode one, two, three.
Oh my god.
One, two, three, abacussi.
Oh.
It's so cool.
It just mentaled me.
It rolls off the tongue, man.
Yeah.
Like it's meant to be.
And we listen to Polyphea.
Yeah, dude.
We listen to remember that you will die.
Remember that you will die.
Yeah.
Oh.
Look.
I get it.
Yeah.
That is in the back of my mind quite often working in an aged care.
Remember.
I remember daily.
Yeah.
Daily.
The constant reminder.
And there is a constant reminder.
My job involves people dying.
So yes.
Yeah, it's actually dependent on people dying so that you can sell more better.
And then you have people living, people that will remember that they will die as well.
Constant reminder.
Like seeing as this was like your suggestion, and like I feel like when I think about
Polyphea, I associate it with you.
Oh, really?
No one else, yeah, because like I remember you showing me, I think it was playing God.
That would have been God.
Yeah, sorry.
It was God.
Yeah.
And I was like, this is fucking absolute dog.
No, no, no, no, fucking, but yeah, I associate it with you.
And I reckon you should take the lead.
Let's see.
Let's see what you think.
Tell me.
I like it.
The end.
No.
I can't do that.
You can't do that.
Oh, man.
No, it's good, man.
I like it.
I can't do that.
Oh, man.
No.
And I like it if you're a lot.
Yeah.
I like them a lot.
There is like something about listening to a very technical band.
Yeah.
Right?
It's like, like the first concert I ever went to was G3, right?
Which for anyone who doesn't know is three of the world's best guitarist.
One actually features on one of the songs in this album.
Steve I saw him live.
So he told him to Brisbane, and I was very young.
I think it's like 2006.
I think I'd only just moved to Australia.
That's, yeah, that's a while back to it.
Yeah, 2006, almost 20 years ago.
So I saw him and John Patrouchi and Joe Satriani.
Yeah.
So I saw them three live.
It was lit.
But Steve I really, really, really good guitarist.
But I'm.
I know.
You see Steve I'm like, Oh, yeah, that guy that plays guitar, yeah.
Yeah.
That's all he's known for.
Literally, that's it.
He's just known for playing guitar.
Yeah, really well.
Yeah.
But it's really technical stuff.
I don't know.
It's good.
I like it.
I don't know, man.
It just reminded me of that concert.
It was a good concert, man.
My cousin Pell asleep there.
Very funny.
Yeah.
During fucking.
During the concert.
Yeah.
Now is that the end when they all come out together and play
some songs?
Oh, all right.
It was long, man.
I think it started it.
Yeah.
And we left it one.
It was like, what is your really long?
Dude.
Yeah.
It was good.
Dude.
That's six hours.
Yeah.
Of just guitar's drums.
But we might have like, because we got there when it was
sun.
What they were playing to one, we got a lot of them.
When you got three--
I think it might mean about three, maybe four hours.
Yeah.
But you get like three of the biggest names in like,
guitaring history sort of shit.
Like, fucking huge people.
And to have their own like show called G3.
It makes sense that they would be like, hey, you guys
are going to get your money's worth.
Well, see, so it would normally be the first two, which
is Joe Sat and Steve I, and then a feature.
So every year was a different feature.
All right.
Yeah.
So they'd be like--
So I saw John Patricia, who was Dream Theater's guitarist.
There was like, Newy Moundstein.
Fuck, who out?
Like, for some reason, those are the only two
areas I've ever remembered.
But there was heaps of guitarists from other bands and shit
would go on tour with these guys.
It was cool, man.
Like, such a fucking like 80s, you know, man.
It started way back.
They brought it back for a few years,
and then they ended like, end of the year.
They did it back in the like 80s.
It was fucking cool, man.
I love all thing.
[LAUGHTER]
So you're saying that like, all polypheus
sort of reminds you of G3 stuff.
But it's--
And it's also like-- so it's cool to see that people
are still really into guitar, you know what I mean?
Like Tim--
Fuck what's his name?
I don't know.
Oh, well, the lead--
Like the main person of polypheus.
I'll look it up right now.
[SIGHS]
As soon as I look at it--
I don't know.
Actually, yeah, I think that is it.
Is it Tim Henderson?
A polypheus--
I'm going to be so wrong.
I'm going to be fucking--
I'm going to be Tim.
Clay Gober.
No, it's Tim Henson.
Tim Henson.
Henson.
Scott LePage.
Basis Clay Gober and Drama Clay--
two clays.
Clay Ashlamin.
Yeah.
This one?
I like all the features too.
All the features were really good.
Can I just say fucking that ABC song?
The first time I listened to it, I was like, who
did the mastering on this?
Because I can barely hear what the fuck she's saying.
And then the second time through, I'm like, oh, it's the alphabet.
She literally says the entire fucking alphabet.
She did the ABC TV.
You know, whatever.
And then I was like, oh, this-- actually,
now that I understand what's sort of going on,
like she's talking about how--
it's something about phonics and fucking--
she needs a paramedic and--
Yeah, the alphabet.
And I was just like, this song's sick.
It sounds really fucking cool.
It sounds really good, dude.
Yeah.
And I'll say that about all the songs,
like they all sound really cool.
And super technically proficient.
This reminds me of a guy that's had more than 10,000 hours
to become a master in skills sort of shit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
These guys are all the real masters of their instruments.
Yeah.
Like, I think we were talking about a last quick record,
a drama.
The drama.
The "Droping in Time."
Oh, yeah.
The PA guy coming along and just tapping
his legs, saying he could finish the song.
Yep.
Because he had lost all fucking playback in his headphones.
That's insane.
Yeah.
Like these guys are on another level.
Yeah, 100%.
Yeah, man.
And it's so cool.
It's so cool to see, like, in a malcomation
of extremely talented musicians get together.
And then just go, we're going to create some of the most
technical and mind-blowing shit you'll ever hear.
Yeah, dude.
It's, you know, like, I'm sure you've heard of animals
as leaders.
Yeah.
Like, periphery was a big one for me.
I really like periphery, but it's more gent sort of stuff.
Where is--
Oh, dude, you know what?
This-- I'm so glad I remembered this.
This entire album--
I'm not going to say entire.
There's a majority of this album reminds me of a '80s jazz fusion
band from Japan called Cassiopea.
And--
OK, I don't know them.
And I'll show them.
And you'll be like, oh, my brother, the fucking Frisbee
plate--
eat my brother, my brother, fucking Frisbee plate,
using motherfucker, that fucking big dumbo.
He sent me a link to, like, a YouTube video,
and it had, like, their full album.
I can't remember what the fuck it's called, but, like,
they've been going around for fucking ages.
They're in massive fucking band.
And they-- yeah, jazz fusion.
And a lot of the songs from Polypia,
keep one to say periphery.
Polypia-- it sounds very jazz fusion,
very-- like, it's almost like they're showing off
because they know they can't fail, sort of shit.
Like, they're like--
it's like a boss battle sort of singing, and--
And they're just like, oh, yeah, I'm not actually trying.
And the boss is like, what the fuck?
I'm putting in everything in this guy's ass.
[LAUGHS]
You know, just freaking the fuck out, man.
Sure.
It's so cool.
Cassiopea, dude.
Dude.
I'll have a look at them.
They have a fucking album.
And it's just called-- hold up, please, please, focus.
It's called "Ment Jams."
[LAUGHS]
It's just called "Ment Jams."
And then there's just all these Japanese fucking names
of these songs.
And they sound so fucking cool.
And I'm going to show you a couple of them later.
Yeah, anyone that's listening, look up "Ment Jams"
and literally just the first song, "Ed's Fucking Nuts."
It's nuts.
All right.
But yeah, it reminds me a lot of--
Polithia reminds me a lot of Cassiopea.
Plus, yeah, all the other stuff I said before, super cool stuff.
Yeah.
Well, if you've got anything else to say about them?
No, no, I like them.
I like them a lot.
I like them a lot, too.
They're really cool.
I don't know how much I'd continue to sort of listen,
because--
There's a few that I've got on my playlist.
I like a lot of--
I want to sing along sometimes.
I want to do a little bit more hooks, a little bit more,
sort of catchy stuff.
There are definitely really cool hooks in it, sort of stuff.
But I need more.
I added six songs.
"Sheesh."
Just a regular "Sheesh."
[LAUGHS]
I'm not just the other one.
True one.
I had to talk almost the entire album.
Yeah.
I was like, two songs, I think I didn't put on--
Yeah, that's fair.
Yeah.
Fucking--
Oh, really?
Like, in saying that, what are your rates?
I'm going to give it a well-respected eight out of 10.
Nice.
Yeah.
Is Dan Blight an eight?
Right in eight out of 10?
All right, cool.
I'm going to give it--
I'm going to give it a seven.
It's really, really, really good.
But it's not really, really something I'm going to keep listening to.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
That's fair.
Yeah.
It's a ship in the night.
[LAUGHS]
Oh, man.
That was really cool.
So you can be just too stupid.
Yeah, that was really cool.
So you can be just too stupid.
[LAUGHS]
Yeah.
Yeah, I feel like that's how this album is going to hit me.
And I'll probably remember that ABC song and show it to someone.
Yeah.
Yeah, go, go, go.
Yeah, go, go.
Come on, man.
No, that's-- that's like a take-out.
All right, the ABC-- no, that is.
I just budgeted it.
Blake, let me hit you with what we're listening to next.
It's been a long time coming.
My dick hurts.
Yeah, thank you.
[LAUGHS]
Excuse me.
Blake, can you name the number two most listened to artist
on Spotify for the entire world?
I didn't think you could.
So I can do it for you.
[LAUGHS]
I'll do it for you, please.
Yeah.
It's Taylor Swift.
And now I don't-- hey, wait, just stack around.
Everyone, please, don't press pause and fucking switch
to another podcast.
Yeah, I know.
We've listened to fucking almost everything else under the sun.
And you're like, what, you got to Taylor Swift now?
Yeah, we're going to listen to some Taylor Swift.
And specifically, 1989, Taylor's version--
it's the Deluxe version too--
1989 Deluxe, Taylor's version.
How big is that?
It's an hour.
I think it's an hour.
Yeah, it's not crazy.
But yeah, we're finally doing it.
We're pulling the pen and we're going to listen to Taylor Swift.
Who knows?
Next could be Nickelback or Ed Sheeran.
Look, you know what?
I said this, I said this, Jack, you know what?
There's like three songs I like from Nickelback.
That's the thing though.
This is the problem.
Is everyone's like, oh, Nickelback,
they don't know what to have about them.
Yeah, but they've only got a few good songs.
Yeah.
And they've got a lot of songs.
They've got a lot of songs too.
I think they're still going to--
They still make music.
They've got a lot of songs.
And they've got a few really good songs.
I think Creed's bringing out another album too.
Yeah, look, Creed's a boat.
Right?
That's the thing, man.
Just like they can be a band that still puts out songs.
And you can just be like, I only like the fucking two songs.
I like the fucking one.
Yeah, yeah.
Yep, that's it.
Three songs they brought out in 2001, that's it.
It's like, it's like a fucking dizzy rascal when he came to fucking Australia.
And everyone was just waiting for him to play bonkers,
and then everyone left.
He's got more songs.
It was like, no, it's one of the hip bonkers.
I'm going to go to another stage and listen to fucking--
what's that fucking--
it's a fuckface name.
Fucking-- I can't remember a name.
Rose, Ruby Rose.
Horrible fucking DJ to watch.
Yeah.
Horrible.
A lame.
Yeah, she was big.
Horrible.
Future music, man.
It was good.
I went to Stereo, so I saw a VG.
That was the last time.
Yeah.
I think it's cool.
I think that sounds pretty cool.
Hey.
Kim was there.
At Stereo.
Mm.
Are you kidding?
I'm pretty sure she was.
Oh, no.
No, she's never been to one concert, and it was--
No, she was the crazy other one.
Kelly's my--
Kelly's cousin.
Crystal.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I expect her to go to fucking Stereo.
That makes more sense.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, for some reason, Paul was getting--
I was crystal.
But yeah, anyway, that's where we go with that.
We're listening to Taylor Swift.
Oh, right.
1989 Deluxe.
Taylor's version.
That's where we're at in the podcast at the moment.
We're listening to Taylor Swift.
It's not like we ran out of stuff, but I was--
I put it out there.
I said, look, let's pull the pen.
Let's finally drop the bomb.
Thanks.
Let's not fucking around.
All right.
Let's listen to Taylor Swift.
And it's brand new.
It's like, I only come out in the last couple of days,
I think, to-- dude, literally two days ago.
Wow.
This truly--
Yeah, this dropped two days ago.
Taylor's version.
It already has millions, like hundreds of millions, dude.
I'm--
Yeah, because--
Are these not all the fucking--
Surely these are all the--
No, these are the same songs, but they've
been done in Taylor's version.
So they're technically new songs to Spotify.
And these are all the new numbers for the last two days,
dude.
Millions.
The 500 million would have been a single.
I think, yeah, a lot of strangers already have a single.
I knew 62, the slide would have been a single.
Yeah.
OK, so there would have been two singles.
Holy shit, that's a lot.
Right?
Oh, my God.
Like, what the fuck?
Millions.
I cannot fucking believe it.
This is-- it's, like, unparalleled sort of shit.
Like, I want to know who's number one.
I'm pretty sure it's Ed Sheeran, or it might be Drake,
or something like that.
But like, it can't be Drake.
No, not with his fucking--
No, it's not Drake.
Bullshit.
Not with his fucking Bullshit, bro.
Ed Sheeran.
I think it's Ed Sheeran.
It wouldn't be post either.
Post is top 10, I think, but--
Yeah, dude.
Dude, if you look at the fucking 1989 Deluxe,
like the one that was put out before,
it has billions and hundreds of millions of listens.
And yeah, dude.
Like, I'm talking--
Oh, my God.
--blankspace has 1.5 billion.
Style has 1 billion.
Shake it off, has 1.2 fucking billion, dude.
Like--
What is this?
What are these voice memos?
Astronomical.
I think that's-- I think Kim actually got this album,
and I think they just--
Oh, what is her?
--just sort of--
Yeah, yeah, so she purchased 1989.
Actually, I think I bought it for her,
because I think it was like a birthday present.
But these little voice memos are literally her recording
the song on her phone sort of thing,
with just guitar and her voice, that was it.
Not super interesting.
It's just sort of like, oh, this is what her idea was.
That was pretty much it.
Which is, you know, that's cool.
But like, I don't want to listen to it.
And I'm glad that we can't.
Yeah, dude.
But just go back to the Taylor's version of this.
Already in the tens of millions, hundreds of millions,
like a half of a billion for wildest dreams.
It's not stood.
It's not two days old, and we're fucking spamming Taylor Swift.
So we're going to jump on board the T-Sweve train
and say, true, true.
See you next week with a fucking review on 1989 Taylor's
version.
Yeah.
Sounds good.
Happy with that?
I'm happy with that.
Good.
Let's wrap it up.
Yeah, let's wrap it up.
I'm going to do it kind of abbreviated.
No, not to.
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Sure.
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Dude, it's like less than two months away.
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Yes.
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Fucking nailed it.
Guys, well, that's awesome.
Wait, I'm starting.
I'm starting.
I'm hanging up.
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