The Prod.cast

Hello and oh, my god, it's so loud. Hello and welcome to another episode of the podcast. The podcast. We talk life, work, and occasionally music. My name is Switchblades for kids. Now, the half of the podcast. Your boy Blake the big bentles. First of all, it's hot. And I'm not going to apologize for the fan that's going, oh, yeah. Oh, boy, it's hot in this house. It's incredibly hot, dude. It's oppressively fucking warm. It went from sorry. Hello, everyone. Hello. Welcome to how we go and how we do. Everyone is doing well. Fucking warm, isn't it? Oh, God, my mic is all fucking I super apologize for that bit there. Yeah. How you doing, man? I had four needles today. Two in each arm. Dying. Look at me like that. Are you dying? No, I'm not dying. I got told that I had to go and get some jabs today and I expected it was going to be two jabs. So like one Japanese encephalitis or encephalitis. I don't know if I can pronounce it. I think it is encephalitis meningococcal, which is my first round of meningococcal, typhoid and polio. It sounds very much like you're going overseas. Oh, you'd think so? Wait, really? Yeah, maybe. No, I thought you were saying no, not at all. Nothing's been confirmed. But it's happened every year. Wait, what? Have you got this like, every year? No, no, it's like an offshore disaster has happened every year because fucking, a cyclone hits Fiji or the Solomons or Philippines or something like that. And then like good money if you do that. Yeah, something a little bit more than you get. I'm way more interested in the fact that I'll be able to actually do my fucking job. Oh, yeah, do my job. Look, as much as I don't want to be here and I'd like to start my own business, I want to at least do my job. And the fact is, I'm so jaded about my job at the moment because what it entails is looking up stuff on the computer, seeing that it needs, like it's out of date sort of thing, and then get it back into date. And then all you do is you raise another screen, you fucking fill out all the details, then you write out a green sticker and you slap it on and you go, I did my job today. Wow. I did it. Is that what your main job is? Dude, I'm oversimplifying it. Yeah, of course you are. But in the grand scheme of things, the higher ups, like all the army just wants all of their equipment green. And I tell you what, the sticker, I make sure that it is. That's nobody's business. That's the whole gig. You know what's funny, though, is I didn't want to, like, start off with I got jabbed in the arm. That was supposed to be that's what happened today. I don't know if anyone can really hear it my voice is a little bit more force than all because on Thursday, we had a sports day and I was the officer in charge of heckling. I'm sorry. So we had a sports day, everyone to attend all of Six Brigade was at inaugura, all right? And it was hundreds of people. And it was really cool all the six years I was there, which was really cool. I was a heap of engineers. Here to the workshop. And we're all watching dudes play, like, a whole lot of volleyball, right? Me and two other guys are just screaming nonstop profanities and fucking just, like, hurting people. Because right at the start of the day I wish I'd been there right at the start of the day. Because the CEO, the big dog for our unit said I want to fucking see dudes in hospital beds. I want to fucking fill their rapper. I want to fucking put them in the fucking ground. I want to see blood. He was like, you're in us all up to just punch on with every other unit. This is, like, the guy that's, like he, like, looks after all of us, right? He's our big boss. He's big boss. And he's like, I want you to fucking go out there and murder him. From existence. Me and Noah and Jaden all stood on, like, this fence hurling abuse at, like, whoever was versing us in volleyball. And we're like we're screaming at one MP, which is like, the military police. And the idiot decided like, one of the guys one of the military police dudes decided it'd be funny to try and heckle back. And then we just unleashed fucking rabid dogs. At one point, we were just barking at people that were walking by or fucking making, you know, donny from the wild thornberrys.

I can't do it now because I screamed so much. My fucking goddamn and if you know what? He'll never hear this. But the fucking sand and air isn't different in Townsville, you dumb can't. You deserve to have lost you were so shit, and your whole unit was shit. You lost everything. You came last year. You're a piece of shit. And it's just you. It was your fault. I hope that one day he hears this. Yeah, it was so, like the whole day was so venomous, so vitriolic. Nice. But it was so much fun. It was so much fun. And that was just Thursday. That was one day. That was just a whole day of screaming. And then at the end of it because we tried our hardest to try and get people to fight us. Oh, yeah, cool. We tried our hardest to get people we're trying to, like, swing from the bars but no one would, like, sort of interact or bite back. But it got pretty close when we got to having drinks. Oh, boy. Because we're still yelling at people. And then it's like, oh, cool. Now we have glassware. It was fine. It was just a lot of banter. This was your job for the day, right? Yeah. I was told you got paid to do this. I got paid to absolutely yell and scream my head off and drink five alcoholic beverages. Yeah. And then get drunk and then proceed to yell at people again. What a joke. My voices only come good today, and it's still not good. What I said the next day on Friday, because our OC, which is the one step down from the big dog, who was like, I want fucking blood. The next day, the next morning, he said, guys, you guys put in a lot yesterday. Just have the morning off. We'll reconvene here back at 09:00. And it was like, oh, my God. Thank God. And I'm talking like I sound like Darren Lockyer.

There's a thing in the army. I think it's in all defense, when an officer is approaching, you signal to everyone around that there's an officer coming and you're going to give him a greeting. Okay. Yeah. It's a weird thing, but it's really fun for me, at least some people avoid it. I love it. So basically, the officer is walking up. It's the OC. He's walking up and I see him. And the courtesy, the greeting is to sorry. The attention marker for everyone else is I call, stand fast. Okay? Everyone fucking braces up. They stop what they're doing. They fucking turn to face the guy that I'm fucking bracing up to. Or they just stop and fucking brace. And then I say good morning to the OC and he says good morning back. And if he's got a hat on, he salutes. Okay? They never have big it's fantastic because you can do it to any officer pretty much all the time. Not all the time. If you've already said G'day, you don't really do it. Yeah, you don't do it every single time. But he was walking up. He was walking up a good hundred meters away at this point, and where I'm watching him and he knows I'm watching him and he knows he's coming. You're just smiling at him. And my voice is so hoarse. I screamed as loud as I could, but it was like one of those guttural listening to metal. And it's like it was that I was like it was just like brutal fucking shit as loud as I could, and it was like it was really cool. But everyone freaked the fuck out. They're like, Holy fuck. It was that loud? They're like shit. And then I said, Gay, so how are you going? And he's like, still walking up, laughing, just absolutely cracking his fucking shit. And it felt really good. He got up and he's like, thanks, GH. Thanks a lot.

Just another weird little army thing that we sort of do. Yeah, that's very funny. I'm not even going to get into my weekend. I've already chatted for, like, fucking ten minutes. No, I haven't done much.

I loudly quit at work because I handed in my notice. And I'm going to be honest, I don't know why they're keeping me around. But we can't fire him. If they said, hey, look, do you want to just leave? I'd be like, yeah, cool. I'm basically doing nothing here anyway.

Shit. I was very interested in that. Chat, not chat. That our story. I was all about that. That was funny as hell, dude. You know what it made me think? It made me think how cool it would be to be able to be like, having a team. Because I said this to Jackie tonight, right? Because we've been stressing about money and stuff and we've been talking a lot about what are we doing, right? What are we doing right now? Because we're just struggling. We're just fucking struggling with money and we're wasting here and there. And I'm not being as disciplined with money and stuff, right? Okay. So we're talking about all this sort of stuff and like Lucy the dog, because the dogs made everything so much fucking harder. Yes. Yes. So bad. It's so bad. So we've worked out I'm going to attempt to get more shifts at Plane Lands buddings, and I'm going to start my new job. So I'll be working a little bit more, but hell yeah, I'm going to pull my finger out and I'm going to really fucking knuckle down on some work, right? Okay. So when you and I this whole thing, because I was thinking about it and I was like, I think after this whole experience through Bunnings, I think I could have handled that really fucking well. Like, in my personal opinion as a leader, I think I could have handled the situation much better, right? And I think I could have kept a lot of people on board and done a lot better. Right? I'm not having to dig in anything that anyone did there, leader wise. I'm just saying I think I could have handled it better. That's okay. Just my opinion. But I was like, I want to lead my own team. So you're thinking of starting people working hardware or fucking something, but some form of business where we actually get a team. I think I could do really well at making that team really enjoy their job, I believe, because I feel like that would be probably the biggest goal for myself would be to make sure that my team genuinely fucking enjoy what they're doing. Because I know when I enjoy what I'm doing, I actually give more. And it's not that anyone asks more from me. I just give a little bit extra because I'm enjoying it. I'm like, yeah, look, you know what, I'm okay to I'll stay back a little bit. All good. No worries. I'll come in early to try and finish off something I didn't get to blah, blah, blah, right? I do that when I enjoy the job and I get fucking paid well. Like, I'm not getting paid fucking barely livable wage. Yeah, you're expected to fucking and expected to do more work than my job should have. I'm like, no, I'm not about that. I need you. You know what's funny is I always thought because I used to do it at work as well. This is a while back. I've stopped doing it now because it just doesn't make any sense right now. But I used to do a little bit extra like, I used to come in early to set up extra things like log on and do some extra work, stay back a little bit later to finish off a job or to finish something off. And then if there was paperwork to be done. Or like the management sort of side of it, like computer management side of it. I have a laptop here that the defense gave me to fucking use and utilize it. So I would do that after dinner. Sometimes I'd like to jump on and finish off work so that when I went in the next morning, it was easy, right? Start early again and fucking time you had all your tasks done and you were concerned about them and you worried about deadlines. That's right. Now, I believe if you can't get all of your work done in the time allotted, then either you didn't put in, which is just me, I'm not fucking putting in this job anymore, or you were expected to do too much. It's one or the other. If you've done all the work that you're expected to do in the time allotted, then you shouldn't do more unless you were trying to get attention for something else. And a lot of the times and what I've noticed in a lot of places, if you're doing good, you're invisible because no one notices if things are happening and getting done right. No one cares because it's now you've pushed it to the new standard. It's a good thing. And it's not getting noticed because there's nothing to report, right? If you fuck up, everyone knows. If there's a mistake, oh, my God, fuck it. You fucking an hour late or something like that or whatever it is, it's a big red flag. I want to say the word red flag. I hate our culture. At the moment of culture, the vocabulary of, like, TikTok and Instagram, all the social medias has really infected just normal way of talking. You know how much I say shesh now sometimes because of that fucking funny video? And I'm like, that's so fucking funny. And I still unironically dab because I used to ironically dab when throwing something into the bin. And if I missed, I would fucking dab if I fucking dabbed as well. It's a strange thing, but yeah, you do like the head

or you'd hear the bass, the fucking eight away.

Jesus Christ. Yeah. No, it's a weird phenomenon. That. I think I could do a really good job. I think I could lead a team really well. Get a lot of work done. Yeah. I don't know what that's going to be in yet. Yeah, we'll have to figure it out. Yeah. I really want to start that first idea that you had. I don't want to blab it. Yeah, look, I actually like the idea too. I want to fucking get on that. I reckon that'd be sick. But otherwise the listener has no fucking idea we're talking about. Except what? This person wouldn't know. Guess who

I caught up with him yesterday. I've seen his family, went to his house. Wait, that's not the person you were thinking? Oh, what the fuck? Yeah, so it's a guy that I used to work with. Mark Wood? No, Mark Wood. Big, thick fucking Mark Wood, the gentle giant himself. This man is like, I would say, a little bit taller than you. Maybe the same height. He might be taller. Okay. Used to be a fucking I don't know if I think he still plays football, but he is huge mountain of a man. I've said this fucking to everyone I've talked to about Woody. He's a man of a man, but incredibly kind. Beautiful, beautiful soul. And you know what? He listens to the podcast. And he told me this while we were eating, like muffins and drinking coffins at his table because we're just talking shit. I was just, like, catching up with him because he's left defense to go and join the mines. Join the mines. He's got a job at the mines. I keep thinking everything works like mines. He works at the mines. There you go. Yeah. And now he's breaking in big dosh and he's buying a house in fucking WA. And he's living the life. We're just catching up over some coffee and stuff at his house. And we're getting the kids to play together. And he was saying, yeah, when he does the flights, he downloads a whole heap of podcasts. And we're on the list, man. No, he's one of our listeners. Woody's listening right now. He's on the trip. Shout out the woody, eh? Enjoy your long ass flight. The flight, yeah. He's doing big flights. Yeah, but that must be rough, brother. Not for long. I'm guessing by the time he hears this, he's already boofed. He's already in WA. Yeah. So he wouldn't be doing as bad of a flight. I don't think he's flying after that. I think he's just driving. He's moving right out. Oh, yeah. I don't know the difference. He might still have to fly. It might be a small flight or something. I have no idea. That'd be a good idea, though, if you got to fly and fly our job. And then you're like, there's a town close by that's got everything that you could possibly need. Oh, it's a coastal town. I think he's living, like, in a really good spot near Perth. So like near the main city. He showed me the spot. Oh my god, it's beautiful. He's literally two minutes away from the beach. And there's no crocodiles because it's too cold. Like the water is too cold for crops, if that makes sense. So, yeah, it's just like beautiful beaches. The entire area that he showed me. Fantastic. It's beautiful. The one thing that I immediately noticed was all the houses are like double brick. Yeah, right? Yeah. Because and you tell me this insulation yeah, out of brick. Hot, inner brick, cold. And Western Australia is known as being fucking very hot, I guess. It's extremely hot. It's extremely hot and dry, I believe. And I think they get nearly the same humidity. Oh, no, I don't think they get the same humidity as like Darwin. Darwin would be fucking ridiculous. I think Perth gets like I think Perth is really heavy. Right? Yeah. And then if anyone listens from WA correct. I'm not a smart man. Big brain brother. Yeah. But he let me know that he's actively listening to us. And it was really exciting because I was like, no way. I couldn't believe it. First I was like, yeah, dude, that's so fucking cool. Thank you so much, first of all. And yeah, you know, we sort of kept talking about other random stuff. And then he told me it's moving. I was like, oh, well, you won't be listening. You probably won't be listening to the podcast anymore because you won't be fucking flying. That'll be it. Unless you listen to it and drive. But this could be you, listener. This could be you. We could be having chats late at night, whoever you are. Anonymous listener. Besides the three people I think I know listen to this all the time. I know a few people who listen to it. I'm going to ask Philly if you listen. And you're going this weekend. Philly, what are you up to? Yeah, you will hear this if you listen every week, I'm going to ask you if you still listen to this because Philly used to listen to it while going to uni. But I don't know if she still goes to uni. There you go. Who knows? Nice. But on the train right in, she was like, yeah, I listen to it every Friday morning. I was like, that is sick. It's a little worrying though, because I'm unhinged as fuck. I think this is the closest to what I normally am, just comfortably am in recorded form. I think this is probably thinking about that because I think we talked about that a little bit, how much we sort of reveal about ourselves just by us, like just talking. I don't think we really understand or comprehend the fact that we're just sort of like talking very easily with each other, very comfortable with each other. We've been friends for fucking over a decade. Yeah, but like, the fact that it's just that sort of information. The information that we've sort of let go. Yes, a lot, man. Look,

future employers, if you're watching or somehow listing, look, I am a good guy. The weekend is a vampire. Please go watch my weekend. Our weekend is our weekend as a vampire video. It's pretty good. It sort of sums up us. It really does. It's just me pissing myself laughing, in fact, telling a fucking wild art story that makes no sense. But it does make sense. It loses so much traction at the end and I, like, spiral out of control. And then you're like, yes.

I'm gonna hit it real soon. I'm going to say talk about music real soon. I'm exhausted. I hate to make this a short episode, but I'm going to do it anyway. Can I tell you something else real quick? Yeah. I was going to ask, is there anything else that you would like to talk about, like urgently? Because I can talk about. But look, I don't think it's that interesting. I'm going to be honest. Ask me the last time before the last time I stepped into a commercial gym. When was the last time you stepped into a gym? Up on Saturday, nine years ago. Wow. It's actually been nine years. It's actually been nine years since I've stepped into a gym that I don't have in my garage or outside. Yeah, that's pretty wild, man. Yeah. World Gym springwood with a heap of old friend of schoolmates, friend of the show. And it was wild. I am still sore. And I'm made extra sore because of the four fucking needles I've had in my arms. Yeah, look, that wouldn't help. That wouldn't help at all. Yeah, my left arm was real sore after. Oh, man, I got to get a flu shot tomorrow. Make sure when they jab it in, they do like a wiggle as well. That's what this fucking crazy woman did in my arm.

She was just like, hey, your camera is fucking gone. Fucking my eyes gone. Fuck you. Your camera got fucky. Oh, there we go. There it is. Yeah. I had fucking two midget fucking skinny little children of women put needles in my arms today. They were like they would have to be, like, combined 50 kilos. Like these two women that had fucking scrubs on that were jabbing needles into my arms. They were so incredibly small and childlike. I have to ask them. And they're 18. They're both 18. Wow. Somehow they can fucking jab needles into my fucking like they're in training or something like that. They don't even get supervised. They're just like, I stole my mom's clubs. Yeah, it's literally I was in high school last year, and you're like, oh, no.

They're like tiny little hands. It made the syringe look huge. Fucking she grabbed my arm and it was like Quinn grabbing my arm. She's a four year old

baby. And she's like, big muscle

jamming, fucking needles. Fucking crazy lady. But yeah, I went to Winter Worlds. My lady's a bit better. She was just like talking to me. She's like, you know the worst part? She's like, unfortunately it goes in the muscle. And she's like, talking to me as she's doing it. I was just like, oh, that's it. I was waiting for it. She's like, no, we're done. I was like, we've been talking for the did you do it? She's just like, yeah. Yeah. I was like when? When? Yeah, she was real good, man. Cause she said something about it being like, it's gonna be sore cause it's in the muscle. She's like, Just be prepared for that. She's like, and we're done. This is like, I'm sorry, have you start? But you haven't done it yet? You haven't done it? Shit. Yeah, no, she's really good. She's older. She's much older. She ain't 18. She's been doing it for a long time. It looks like two little babies fucking like on fucking Bluey where they have the fucking Javon Bandit with the fucking needle. Yeah, but how's our gym? Really? Honestly, it makes me want to get a membership because it feels like I'm missing out on so much gains. Like specific isolation movements. Like there was a peck flow machine. It felt so fucking good. It felt so good, right? It was nice and free, but it had the whole fucking weight movement. It was just fantastic. I have a cable one and it's got like strap handles that I can also put my FAC rips on my fat grip flies. It's really good. Yeah, dude. Having all these extra machines now, I'm telling you, it's fucking mint. It's a whole different world. It's a whole new world.

It was a whole upper body sort of thing. Like, we did chest and back with a lot of arms at the end. So I'm like still sore from it all. Like we did these weird rear delt, like just lean on the bench and leaning on an inclined bench with heavy dumbbells and you pull them back towards or something. Holy shit. My back. Upper back so tight. We have a T barking chest supported T bar row one. That'd be good. So you put plates on? Yeah, it's good, man. It's really good, man. I started using it recently, like the last three weeks and it's like yeah, it is unreal. Like how much you feel it. Yeah, it is so much better. So now I do lat pull downs. I do like a variation. I change it up with black pulldowns because it's fun. Variation is fun, right? So I change it up a little bit and then I do the seated rows and the same one, same pulling machine. Then I do those T bars and then I do read out flies and that's like the main sort of rotation. Then I'll fuck around with some other shit. I'll do some curls or maybe I'll do some deadlifts. Like I fuck around, right. The rest of it is not in the rotation. It's even more variety. Yeah. So I'm spending like an hour and a half in the gym now. Obviously when everything gets more structured, you sort of go, okay, cool, I know exactly what I've got there and I want to utilize what I can when I need to, sort of thing. And when you've got like the proper routine sort of like mapped out. Yeah, it's really cool. But as you're saying right now, it's nice to have variety and go, I'm going to get pumped up on whatever this machine is. There was a weird fucking hammer curl machine, but like the grips for it, so when you curl up, you could do anything with your like if you want to go pronated or fucking suit neutral, it was fantastic. But the whole thing was free so you could sort of like do something weird on the way. It feels like you're holding dumbbells. Yeah, that was a really cool machine. Nice. I'd like to go. I think next time you and Deroid plan on going, I'll come. Hell yeah. Why not? I'll come say hi. Yeah, we'll do it. Why not? Why not? I'll just go to yours and then I'll catch a lift with you. Easy. Happy days. Yeah. Look, there's nothing musical about the gym except for all the clang and weights. Speaking of music plays at the gym, though. Lots of music. I heard the same. It was a Drake song. Same Drake song. I think it was Knife Talk three times. And I was like, I like the song, I'm just fucking sick of hearing it. I've been here for 3 hours and you've played it three times. Surely they have 1 hour. They have like a 1 hour fucking playlist. No, they didn't. They played it three times. I wish it was an hour playlist because then I could have gotten used to it and found a good song and got pumped off of a good song. No. Fucking knife talk three times. Very funny. Anyway, speaking of music, this week we listened to Nirvana's MTV Unplugged live in New York City. Back in this was released 94, recorded in 93. Had special guest appearances from the Meat Puppets and Lead Belly. No, sorry, that was one of their songs, was by Led Belly. Their last. Right. I love it. I love it. That's it. Done. Nice review. Over. I love it. We're done here. All right. Thanks for listening. You know what? You love it. Yeah, not for me. Look, I never got into Grand Jay. Oh, really? Yeah. Grunge. I never ever once. So I don't have the nostalgia for it and I just don't think I'll ever listen to Grunge. Yeah, okay, I guess that kind of makes a lot of sense because I had a Nirvana poster in my fucking room and it was Dad's old Nirvana poster because I went. More like glam rock sort of direction rather than grunt rock, you know what I mean? I was like Iron Maiden megadeth. That's not like glam rock, but like more towards that sort of him and Motley crew and fucking Bon Jovi and all that sort of shit. That was to the direction I went. Yeah. I didn't go grunge. I didn't go, like, Nirvana. I don't even know any other grunge bins. That's really crazy because my mum absolutely loves I have a Nirvana story from my mom. This is going to be a second hand telling. And I meant to call her before to make sure I got it all right, but I'm going to wing it because I'm pretty sure this is exactly what happened. It was a summer day every day for summer brutally, brutally molested by a man with down syndrome. How do you not laugh at that, bobby Lee? No, but it was every day. Every day. My mom

every day. Listen to

Nirvani. Never mind the whole album from Loves it every day. Shut up. Shut up. All right. Never mind. By Nirvana. Nonstop. I'm not going to say the word. It was nonstop. How many days? Incessant every day. All the days.

My dad was also there. Brutally my dad was also there. He grew up on Elvis. Oh, wow. Really? Yeah. He loves Elvis. Yeah, he fucking loves Elvis. Loves the blues. Johnny. Wow. Yeah. He's old time blues. Wild. But he grew into fucking being a metal league guitarist and singer for a little band called High Sanction. Turns out that's a D and D spell. I didn't know. Yeah. High Sanction. Yeah. That's pretty cool. That was a metal band back in the 90s. Yeah. So dad was doing gigs and coming home and then listening to fucking Nevada's. Never mind, like, all the fucking time. All right? Fucking time. Because Mum wouldn't ever take it out of the CD player if it was going in the car. It'd be like, I called Ty to put in the CD player if it was coming home, time to put in the CD player the fucking for the big sound. And so one day dad fucking took it out of the CD player and he's in a fit of rage. He's like, I'm not fucking having it anymore. He like, rips it out of the fucking CD player, snaps it and then just throws it out the fucking window of the car, fucking driving. And he's just like, oh, fucking God. Were that it's finally over. I know what I have to do, but I don't know if I have the strength. He's like, apparently the way Mum describes it is he was like, in some sort of, like, screaming euphoric bliss that he finally killed the demon that was that fucking album that was constantly playing game. He's like that's our vow. That's fine. Dad said he fucking punched the CD player until it came out and then just threw it at the window and said, I'm fucking that's it. That's dad's side. Mom's side is way fucking better when he's screaming. So when I first picked up guitar sorry, at the age of grade eleven no, at the age of eleven, I asked dad, I was like, can you teach me some guitar? I learnt disarm by fucking smashing pumpkins. Oh, yeah, with a smile. So it's just like four chords all the way back and forth. Smashing, pumpkins like grunge metal grunge rock. Yeah, grunge. That's exactly what I fucking asked that. I was like, hey, what is this? And he's like, oh, it's like grunge. I'll show you the album. And then we had to look down. I was like, oh, there's Nirvana. What's that sort of sound like? And then mom had bought another Nevermind CD and it was in there and he hadn't noticed for years. It wouldn't be 20 years, it would have been fucking like just over ten years hadn't noticed him. He grabs it out and he's like, I thought I got rid of this. And he looks at mom and he's like, what is this doing in the fucking house? And I'm like and she's like, no, no, don't throw it. Don't do it again. Let's act, listen to it. And then I fucking grab it. I'm listening to it. Nonfucking stuff. Mom's loving it. She's like, I love this fucking guitar. Dad's like, fuming all day and night. He's just so fucking shit. But yeah, and then it turns out that album taught me how to fucking play guitar. Nice. Because all the chords, it's all power chords, man. There's nothing, like, so very fucking crazy about it. It's all just power chords. So I learned how to play fucking and sort of sort of learn a little bit about, like bar chords and stuff. Yeah, bar chords and sort of like how a scale sort of works and how to keep things in key and yeah, dad hated it because what then spawned was me listening to obviously it started with Smashing Pumpkins, then it was Nirvana, then it was Pearl Jam and fucking there was a big Pearl Jam face. And then dad showed me fucking Allison Chains, which was a grunge band that leaned more bluesy sort of shit. And I was like, oh my God, some of this stuff is so fucking cool. And so I went deep. To tell a long story short, I like Grunge. Long story long, I fucking like Grunge. Yeah, it's probably why I write this album

anyway. It's better be like, at least a nine. Honestly, this is an album, like if I could have on repeat this is so good. It made me listen to their other live albums in complete. Like live at Reading is fantastic. Oh, my God, live at Reading is a fantastic live performance of Nirvana. Yeah, I won't gosh anymore. I just don't like grunge. I don't like nvana. I like a few songs from Nvana. I don't like Grunge, so I don't it was okay. I listened to it genuinely. It took me all of the week. All of the week. Well, when I say that I forced myself to listen to it, there would not be a lie. But I already on my second playthrough before the first day was over. Oh, my God. That is disgusting. I love it. That's disgusting. I loved it so much. Oh, my God. I think that was me and Doomsday at Nero. Oh, yeah. Oh, man. Yeah. I think I listened to that, like, fucking two times by the end of the next day. I genuinely think I did. That's a big album, too. That's like 20 fucking songs. Yeah. Really good. Yeah. Look, to be like, it's just not my cup of tea. But it is good if you like Grunge and Nirvana and all that's good. It's objectively a good recording. Like, the audio sounds good. It doesn't sound real muddy, you know what I mean? Like, it's good quality sound. The songs are played well. The band is in time, it's all well performed. I just don't like it. Like, even me not liking the album, I'd still write it like a seven and a half, maybe an eight. Yeah. Right. There you go. I've rated some shit. Some shit. Some dog shit. I've rated some shit as dog shit. No, this objectively is I understand why it's like, on so many lists as being one of the best live recorded albums. Because it's just objectively well recorded. Yeah. It's true to them. And it sounds good as a live recorded album, you know what I mean? Did you get a chance to listen to the last song? Where did you last? I actually don't think I made it to the last song. All right, as a personal favor, just listen to the last song because it is like an absolutely heartbreaking performance of the song. Even if you watch the cause I've watched it live, like, not live, but watch the DVD for it. And there's so much, like, background stuff where they do, like, rehearsals and all the talking in between. What you get out of the live album? Is it's all cut to be like maybe there's a little bit of banter in between. Like, you can hear Dave growl in the background, say, hey, have you got a smoke? In between one of the I think it's Polly. No, Polly. It's just another, like, just curt song and you hear David's back eight, you got smoke. But a lot of that is all cut away in the album. There's so much stuff that happens, like, on the DVD. Yeah. And when you watch the DVD for the last song, it is like, Holy shit, this man is feeling. This man is at peak feels. And yeah, it resonates with everyone. Honestly, I reckon. Give it a listen. I'll watch it on YouTube. Okay. I'll watch it. I think if I watch the visual aspect, I might get it a bit more. You just might. It's a fucking hell of thing. You know what? I'm going to watch it with it because I want to watch it. Yeah, let's watch it off of this. It's not like 15 minutes or something. No, I think it's like four minutes. Yeah, obviously, I'm rating this very highly. I've got a lot of nostalgia with like I said, I raised seven and a half. Yeah, it's good. It's fucking above average. That's all from objective. Like, I can objectively say this is a good album, I just don't like it. It would rate higher if I liked it. But it's a subjective fucking rating system. Oh, baby, I fucking love it. It's an alert. Yeah. I wish I could rate it higher than a ten. It's just a superb album, full of heart. And when you sort of look into a little bit of the backstory for it, there's Nirvana Law. Sure there is. He basically wanted the whole set to sort of feel like everyone was at a funeral because he was, like, just sad at the time. Let's make it real fucking down real, like, you'll see. But yeah, I'm running it a fucking tent because I absolutely love it and it is really good and yeah, it's subjective and objective and fuck you. This is our podcast. What did you rate it? What did you think? When you exactly did you listen to it? Because I didn't listen to all of it.

What are we listening to next? This is rated as one of the best albums of all time as well. Wait, can I just enter recording real quick? Yeah. Woody, I'm sorry we didn't go with your live suggestion because I forgot it. Wait, I forgot to write it down. No, I can't remember. Oh, no. And it sounded really cool, too. It was another unplugged, like, it wasn't Grungy, but they're like early 2000s alt rock band. If Green Day did an acoustic unplugged album, if that makes sense. But I can't remember the fucking name of the band. I'm sorry, Woody. Oh, no. Sacky piece of shit. Yeah. So this is another highly rated album. Many lists. It was rated as number one on a few. It was like two or three. But it is James Brown. Liver did polo.

Too bad. Yeah, dude, it's going to be funky. Have you watched Woodstock 99 yet? No. He is the first act at Woodstock 99, it was James Brown. Wow, man, that's huge. The first act is James Brown being so high caliber from the start. I'll tell you enough, because anyone who has watched it, he almost didn't go out on stage. Why not? Because they hadn't paid him yet. And he only goes on stage if you pay him. Yeah, well, men's got to get paid. So he was like, no, they got on stage and then they were like, have a listen. Have a listen. He's like James round. James Round. And they're like, what are you going to do? And then it cuts to him walking out on stage. I was like, that's rough, man. Wow, that's so rough. Why is your camera do I keep rough? Do I keep blurring out? Do I it blowed out for a little bit. I'm trying to hide my identity at certain points. Yeah. So we're going to listen to James Brown. Hell, yeah. The guy he did that. I feel good for Rabiner, I think. Yeah. Get up off of that thing. Oh, yeah. What's? The robots. It's such a good movie. It's a really good movie. I should watch how to Get with the kids. Yeah, it's a good movie. I've actually cable way different. This is like some funky funk, you know what I mean? This is phone care. Dirty phone care. And it's phone care. We got more. We want to wrap it up. Actually, I do have one last thing. Let's go. Another book. A book to plug. I bought a book. Okay. The good book. It's always oh, get out of fucking town. What always? Room for Christmas Pudd by Ari Donna. Oh, my God. Okay, guys, we're going to get a live reading of if you're listening, audio listeners, right now, if you can't, you should pause right now and go over to the YouTube to watch this because Unkey Blake is gonna read no, it's actually they've made a huge book. We'll make it a side project, then. I just want to show you one. Oh, my God.

Maybe a little bit bigger.

There's a huge amount of writing in here. It's like a bunch of dumb shit. Like, they explain, they go like, who is Auntie Donna? Auntie Donna is a prominent Australian children's book author. No, they're not. No Auntie Donna. Is Donna the auntie? She is a famous recluse with the only image available being this Argeball prize winning self portrait. It's a fish bowl head on a woman's body. For anyone who doesn't know Arnie Donner is a fantastic comedy trio troupe. You'd say they're fucking so funny. Australia's fucking Comedy Trio. This is how I've written it, right? It says, but ho, said the host, how I wish that you could in my possession I have Christmas put. Wait, does it rhyme? Oh, maybe a little. The guest did reply with a grid on his face and a glint in his lie. It's written to be a children's book. I'm going to get it. Thanks, but no thanks, cried III at the table. I've got no room for pud and thus I'm unable. The host didn't push it. Very proud of his pud. But he knew that his offer was just far too good. Right? Soon enough, to be sure, dinner three. Did degree dino three. Or maybe a little a small pud for me. Just as much as they'd eaten all that they could, there's always room for Christmas pood. I love. That it's. I'm going to read it to the kids. Oh, my God. It keeps going, though. It goes all the way. I bought this online. Okay, cool. I'm doing that right now.

They did, like, the whole last part, and then he was just them cuts making faces. Yes. Too much pood. Too much pood. Dude, it is a fantastic it is a fantastic addition to the children's book. It's Penguin book, too. Okay. All right. And, dude, you know, it's even funnier. 30th anniversary of Penguin Books. Is that what it is? Of Penguin books. Oh, no. Shit. Yeah. No, it says 30th anniversary. Like 30 years addition. 30 years of what? That's what I mean. That's what I mean. This is the 30 years anniversary of this book. Oh, my God. I love it. I love it so much. It's not the first ever print of it. It's 30 years since the initial print. When you invest in Pod, you invest in your friends. Oh, my God. That's a good book, man. So that's a huge plug because we get millions of listeners for Donna. Yeah. Tell your friends. They'll know that we sent you and will get paid money for it. Sure. Using Code Prod from our store, we actually bought all of their available stock in Australia. And we're on selling it now for $35 a book. Yeah, we're pumping cheap. Absolutely. I mean, yeah, it's so low price. We've we've cut the prices down. Down. The prices are down. Yes. At low. Guys, thank you so much for listening. You've been a wonderful audience. My name is Switchlaw the kids. The other half. The podcast. Oh, we started again. Yeah, we're doing it again. Hello. Hey, god, man. How's your week underscore Bentley TV? Good? No, I'm not stopped this because I was about to play along and I really want to watch Christmas put now. It's a good video. Thank you so much for listening, everyone. My name is Swishlace for kids. If you want to see more of me, make sure you follow me on all my socials. Switchlace kids, all one word. And if you want to see more of Blake Bentley, make sure you do the exact same thing. Get on it. Blake underscore Bentley TV everywhere you can find him. Make sure you check out his music. Blake bentley on spotify. If you've enjoyed listening to this so much that you'd like to see it now

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