The Prod.cast

Hello, and welcome to the broadcast podcast. We talk, worklife, occasionally, music. My name is Benjamin. The other half of our podcast switchblades for kids. Hello. Don't disconnect on me again, please. Disconnect again. That was very funny for all you listeners at home. As soon as I said and the other half of the podcast, zach disconnected from our call. He was gone. Okay, I guess this is mine now. For anyone who doesn't know how we do this, we have, like, OBS set up to record our video. And we have audacity to record it. Don't spread out secrets after secrets are out. So I went back to discord to just get back into the call so I could see both of our faces. And I clicked to the red button because the controls disappear. They came back up. I clicked it and it automatically things happen. And my dick was in there. Okay. I don't know how fucked it up, fumbled it back. I tripped and it's out and things happened. How are you doing, man? Yeah, good, man. How you doing? I'm doing all right. Again, sorry we haven't been here. Oh, yeah. So anyone who's listening right now, jump onto our socials and like our socials because I put up a post, but I still got asked. Where are you guys this weekend? This week? I still got asked. I'm by more than one person. How about drawing our fucking socials, huh? Yeah, jump in the discord. You know exactly what's going on. Yeah, we talk every day in the discord. Every day. It's an open fucking public discord base. Open discord. That's it. But yeah, no. So we had a week off. There was like things those things, stuff on. But it's all good. But we're all good. Yeah, we're here and we're queer. Deal with it. Oh, man. Dude, it's been two weeks. I feel like a lot will have happened. Two weeks? Well, one of those weeks. Well, the whole week starting from Friday. I know it sounds silly. Friday. The week prior to Saturday, which is yesterday. I didn't have a phone. That's right. Yeah. I busted my phone because I left it on Kim's car as she went to go and get the kids from daycare and took a roundabout. Like fucking Speed Racer would have come off at some point.

It would have come off if I was driving, for sure. Oh, yeah. You would have lost it coming out the driveway. The way Kim tells me she drives. I was expecting it to come back, but no, it got smashed up. But I had a week free from the phone. I had a week free and it's liberating. Yeah, nice. It's something different, man. It's like not having a phone. I just strapped on a watch. I've got a watch and that was it. I got my little smartwatch. Not even a smartwatch I had a Casio is that it tracks everything daily regardless of whether it's connected to my phone or not. I can see all the little changes. It tells me all the shit I need to know anyway, every day. So I don't even need a phone. That's great. Well, I didn't have one at all. And you know what it's like. Going to take a shit not having a phone. Oh, yeah. What are you going to do with the other 58 minutes? Right? Yeah. I was just like, oh, I guess I'm going to get out of here. I guess I'm going to get off the toilet. I guess I'm just going to fucking leave. And then it was like, all through work, you know, there are times where you've got downtime and work, or you want to play some music or you want to do something, or you just like, oh, it's lunchtime. I'm going to watch some YouTube. I didn't do any of that. I didn't have a phone. And I was forced to interact with people. Okay. Forced by my own hand, literally. Yeah, exactly. Did you put that on up there? I did. Maybe subconsciously I was like, it's time for a break. $400 fucking break.

It was good. It's such a weird thing coming home. And then it's like the kids have gone to bed, and you just sort of sitting there and like, you just there were afternoons I'd come home and Kim was going to get the kids, and I'll just be sitting there on the couch. And I'll be just like, I'm not going to turn on the television. I'm not going to do anything. Sit here and fucking relax and just chill out and just do nothing. Enjoy. Enjoy the space of not having content or something just bombarded into my face. I do that in my backyard a bit. Great. Just drop it and then say, see you later. Yeah. Oh, yeah. 100%. If you're listening, give it a go. Put down the podcast for a moment. Take a 15 minutes break now. Go do nothing for at least five minutes and then come back. Yeah. Meditate for five minutes. Come back. Realize that you've been listening to two insane people. Two people who have two AO locations. AI robots.

Absolutely. Two bots. Cisco, Bobots, having two almost middle aged bots. Pretty much getting there. Can I just say, okay, so I've started a new job. I think I said this on the last episode, that I started a new job. I actually know what that job is now. And it is so easy. It's so easy. It's so easy. I can't believe how easy this job is. And I'm not saying, like, I don't do anything. It's just that the things that I do, I find very easy. That's it. It's not challenging at all. I don't think it is. There are challenges, but I don't think the job overall is challenging. I say this to all of the girls that have trained me so far, because I'm the only male in this role in the business or organization because it's not for profit. And I'm the second. There's two boys, two of us boys on the actual whole marketing and sales team. And the other guy is like, uni hire. Like, he's still in uni, and he's not doing my role. But yeah, it's fucking weird because I'm the youngest on our team other than him. Right. Because he's not, like, doing my job. He's like a personal assistant order, I think. Okay, you got to go to uni for that. I don't know, man. Got to go to Uni to be like, hey, how do you like your coffee? See, I report to him for a couple of things now on behalf of my boss. So it's a bit of a I don't know, anyway, that's fucking whole dynamic that I don't even ask about. What the fuck is a personal assistant? Yeah, right. That's what I'm like. And then in my mind, I'm like slaves. His job is to do all the busy work of my boss so that she can do the bigger picture stuff. That's literally what she is. I think that's what it is. And I don't think he is, like, the personal assistant. I just think she's been doing another job on top of her job, I think is what it is. You know what I mean? Yeah. Okay. She's been three jobs at once, and now she's finally worked out a budget and got in a bigger budget for a team and shit and hired a person to do one of the three jobs that she's already doing. She's really good. She's really good at what she does anyway. But fuck, where was I going with this? You got a new job. I got a new job, but that came off of something you said, and I can't remember what the fuck it was that you said.

I don't know. I'm the youngest in my team. And it's funny. It's funny. I don't work with children anymore because that's what it was. It feels like I've gone from working with children and bunnings to now working with adults. Why? Could it be because I did work with children? It could have been that. It could have been that the people who are 28 but actually were fucking 15. It might have been that. It definitely could have been a couple of 18 year olds that I worked with. There was a 20 year old who technically was higher than me and no experience other than Macas or Domino's. I think I was like, good luck to your bud. Wait, whatever you say. I ain't gone. Listen, you're done, bud. Ain't gonna fucking listen. Could it be the fact that you've sort of become somewhat autonomous? You've got freedom to do exactly what you need to do to fulfill your job role, literally. So whatever I feel like I need to do to meet my KPIs, I do it. I'm not told what to do. They're just like, you just got to make it work. And I'm like this. You got to do it. Do you remember moving out of your parents place and it's like, okay, shit, I've got to get it together. Is that what it was like? A little bit, yeah. Again, it is. Because you don't know what you're getting yourself into when you move out. I remember what it was like. You really don't honestly realize how much help your parents are or whoever it is that you live with until you move out. And you're like, oh, bro, I'm going to do all of it. Oh, shit. Wait, you're telling me my parents, when I was there, they didn't just have all this stuff the whole time? You mean they had to go out and fucking get it? Yeah. You go into an empty house and you're like, I need so many things, and I don't have the money for yeah, if I can just go off on a tangent.

It was such a distinct feeling when I moved out. I moved out from my parents straight to Kimberley's. But Kim's parents were like, they had the house. It was really their grandparents house that the parents were living in that me and Kim were living in at the same time. And when we moved out, it was basically from Kim's friend's place, which still didn't feel like we were actually on our own. Like all the stuff was still there. We were just sort of living there in a guest room. When I went down to Bodonga when I was at the trade school in the army. Yeah. That was when we realized we had nothing. And you go, okay, cool. We're going to need a couch because right now we have a television and we have a fucking inflatable bed. And you go, we don't even have fucking cutlery. We don't have a toaster. We don't have a kettle. And it was like, oh, shit, what are we going to do? Fuck, okay, cool. And you get everything that you own. It turns out I had, like fucking a shit ton of stuff that I had just taken from my parents and it was gone. Okay, cool. They don't want that or I'm just going to take it. And then you go, okay, cool. We sort of got some things. Like, I got like some plates and stuff like that. That was about it. And like your kid, your childhood mug, you know, that was what we had. But sleeping in the land room on an inflatable mattress for like weeks, literally, I want to say weeks because we priced up a bed frame and a mattress. Didn't realize at the time how fucking expensive mattresses were our mattress costs. I think three grand. Down to $1800 for our mattress. Yeah. It still blows me away. You're telling me a queen size mattress is that fucking much? And they're like, yeah, that's actually a pretty good price. I'm like, Fuck off. I want to pay it. I'm going to fucking fork over my cash for that shit. I don't believe wrong. Really good prices when you give it to me for free. All right. That is fantastic. Really good. That's a great price. $100. You pay me to take that shitty mattress away. Expect to pay maybe four $500. That's getting a bit expensive. No, it's getting up there. Three grand, four green. I looked at making mattresses because I was like, they'll make it for cheap. You just get one of the Lowend whatever size of entry levels, still five grand. Because they fucking make it. And their lowest they're like entry level fucking mattresses still fucking leagues above whatever fucking shit you're getting from, like, Harvey Norman or Amar or whatever. Get a foam insert mattress, kid mattress, like Koala mattresses and shit like that. That's why they're actually really popular, because they deliver it. They just make it as best as they can for as cheap as they can. Right. You only pay I think it's, like, $800 for a queen size mattress from them, and they have, like, 25,005 star reviews on how comfortable wow. Just a quick spotlight on Koala mattresses. That's fucking please. Fucking I'll get a mattress that seems like a fucking reasonable price. $800 for a really good queen size mattress. Five k. It's been five k for a goddamn mattress. Fuck you. Making mattresses. Do you remember those old ads, the making mattresses ads? They used to have this Italiano sort of thing where they're like, oh, it's Italian. And they used to have this supermodel chick that used to sit on the beds with a glass of wine, and she'd go, Bueno, or fucking something stupid like that. No, I don't remember that, actually. At least Timo or something like that. It was something stupid, maybe. Yeah, dude, it was some dumb shit. Some dumb shit. And then they fucking ripped off the people. Maybe the really good matches were worth five grand. I don't know. Maybe. But that's like ten years ago. Yeah, five grand ten years ago is probably worth, like, fucking 15. Like you know what I mean? Yeah. Like, ridiculous. I've never said it that much more. I don't care how I don't care if I have all the money in the world. I'm not spending five grand on a mattress. It's just a ludicrous amount of money to spend on a fucking mattress. People go, but you spend a third of your life on it. I'm like, yeah, I know. I'm not spending five grand. Tell you what, I've slept on the fucking ground. And it's been more I've had fantastic night sleeves in a sleeping bag on the grass, like on the ground. Cold, hard ground in a sleeping bag. And I sleep like a fucking baby. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. You think I've spent five grand on the bench? No, $40 in those shoes. Do you know firsthand how hard it is to find like, half decent shoes that aren't like $130. Dude, that day we went shopping, that was a big day. Fucking came back and we were like we didn't expect to be gone that long. No, we didn't. We really didn't. But we found the good shoes. We found the good shoes for a reasonable price. They're like $70 for those shoes. 74. Connie and like $40.40 something. 46, 48. 48 for the other ones, for the permez, which are my work shoes. My works, like, yeah, you're good. If it works, it works, man. I'm like, fuck, yeah, I am. I'm working in literally, I wear chinos with the weird flappy things on them. These are like the kind of pants that you'd see. Like, if I went clubbing, I'd be wearing these, right? When we went to Brisbane to both bar. And I was wearing them, right? Yeah. And Converse. Except and I was wearing Converse in the beginning. I was wearing my letters and just a button up shirt. I looked like I was ready to go clubbing. I walked in there with my Sonies on in my fucking laptop bag, and I was just like, is the Met open? Yeah, literally. And they're like, yeah, you look pretty good. It's like sick. Excellent. Excellent. With this, then, that's my work uniform is some mad fucking chinos and homers and a bunch of yes. Can't go wrong. You can't go wrong. Speaking of money, because we were just fucking going on about our five k mattresses, have you heard about Taylor Swift and Ticketmaster? No, Zach, I have not. What is going on with Taylor Swift now? What? She does? So back in 2010 well, this is just to get a little bit of backstory on Ticketmaster. So Ticketmaster and some other company got together, right? They fucking went tech. Ticket. No. I want ticket. Actually, I got the article right here. Who was it? Some other live nation. So Live Nation and Ticketmaster merged in a 2010 deal approved by the Justice Department over opposition from some lawmakers and musicians who worried the combined company would become too powerful, which is exactly what happened. They got too powerful. They now have the monopoly over ticket sales for concerts and the like for all of America and I think most of Australia as well. I think Ticket tech is things anymore. I think Tickettech might have been a part of Live Nation. Yeah. Right? So now Ticketmaster, which is like Live Nation and Ticketmaster together have apparently really fucked over Taylor Swift fans by having their presale tickets. So Taylor Swift's got a big fucking tour lined up. Heaps of countries, heaps of fucking shows. It's massive. Ticket tag fucked over, like, all of the presale tickets for a lot of the places by over selling. Like they sold too many tickets. And now people are scalping those tickets on ebay or wherever they can for, like stupid amount of money. Yeah, stupid amount of money. I think I see one for, like forty K, one for 90K for a ticket. And someone will buy it. Some will buy it because they're like, I'm a massive diehard Taylor Swift fan and I've got 100 case in fucking doing nothing. And all I want to do is go see Taylor Swift, because that's my lifelong dream. There are people out there. There will be someone. Yeah. Taylor Swift has apparently fucking hit fucking Ticketmaster up and said, hey, look, you guys are fucking shit out. And their site was bugging out. They were getting, like, DDoS attacks. They were basically getting really shit on and they were doing shit at the same time. Same issues, really homes, I think. Not the double selling, but the website fucked it out. No one could get tickets. Same thing. Yeah. So Taylor Swift came out and said, you guys are fucking atrocious you're fucking terrible. Parent has been excruciating for her fans. She's not having it. And Ticketmasters down and down to Taylor Swift. Oh, and go, okay, look, cool, we fucked up. Look, we're going to try and make it better or do whatever, but it doesn't fix the problem of Ticketmaster having a massive monopoly over ticket sales, you know what I mean? Or like concert ticket sales and shit. Trying to tell me that we need to open a ticket selling business where we sell tickets for concerts. So we buy the ticket and then we sell them at an exorbitant price.

Don't know. I was trying to think of some dumb ticket related ticket boys. Ticket boys. Where the ticket boys? Ticket slaves. So, yes, it turns out the freestyle buy a ticket. Freestyle buy a ticket. Feed a kid in Africa. Are you free a slave in Africa? Oh, excellent. There you go. Even better to go into the army. Not the African army. Jesus. Oh, yeah. So it turns out the Justice Department over in the States is now looking at fucking fucking up the deal that Live Nation and Ticketmaster haven't split them up again so that there's more competition, which reduces the costs of tickets because everyone, you know, you want to make sales, but everyone's looking to buy a cheaper ticket, right? Yeah. So it makes them fight to be the cheapest tickets so that the entertainer will get what they ask for. They say, okay, cool. Everyone's going to pay this much or however much at these venues. And then Ticketmaster goes, okay, cool. We're going to add on this much for our services of selling the tickets. Right? So Ticketmaster has been like, okay, cool. We're the only ones fucking we'll just double it and we're going to make fucking whatever TalesWITH makes in tickets, you know what I mean? Yeah. So that's what's been happening with her. And yeah, she's not having it ticketmaster's bound down, and hopefully it all gets fucking fixed up. But there's a lot of people out there that are getting real fucking sad because they can't get tickets or they have tickets that won't be like any good. Yeah. It won't be valid or something. So it's a horrible thing. Terrible situation. And God, I'm glad it didn't happen for me. Going to Slip on a march. Yeah. Because that could have been a very real thing. Ticketmaster is not in control of that too. Yeah, good man. Just wild. That's Taylor Swift news. It hasn't been around for a while. That's Taylor Swift news. That's not ticketmaster news. Yeah, right. How weird. Yeah, the site just fucking apparently when they were in the presale, this is what happened for me when I was looking to buy the tickets for Slipknot is you sign up for their email list and then they distribute it to you when presale is happening. Right. So it was like 11:00 presale came on. If I can click on the link and it would put you in a queue, and then you would be in, like as soon as the page loaded for you, it would be, okay, cool. This is your ticket number if you purchase. Right? And it would be like, okay, cool, this is your ticket number, or you can add tickets to it. And she like, that I was looking at it and I was like, that's $200 that I don't have right now, but I'll have fucking soon. So I was just like, I'll put it off for now. My mate James, or our mate James fucking, he bought four tickets as soon as he seen it, and he was like, oh, my God, thank God I'm fucking I bought them. Because he looked at the ticket numbers and that corresponds with, like it was like a time date, sort of stamp and then the ticket number. So it was just like a big jumble of numbers. But he recognized the time and dates sort of stuff. He figured out that in the first hour of sales for Slipknot in Australia, just for Brisbane, we had the 36,000 tickets. Or like in that 36,000 something of it. In an hour, 36,000 tickets were sold for Slipknot just for Brisbane. It's huge. I'm not surprised. It's incredible. But yeah, so it was lucky that we did because apparently there's like, already 36,000 people going to the fucking Brisbane Showgrounds for like three days. Wow. Yeah. That's wild. Yeah. $200. $200, man. It's a festival. Parkway Drive. Really? Megadeth. Yeah. That's pretty cool. I don't know if it's actually I don't think it's a three day festival. I think it's just one day. A one day? One day. Oh, yeah. No, it is one day. So it starts at like ten finishes at eleven that night. So Jackie is going to spilt milk with Flume and the walmarts. That'll be cool. Floom man and the wombats. Have you seen Trespass? Yeah. And Flume. No. Wait, hold on. What? He was on Triple J. He did the hottest 100 and he got chest bra to muzz to his cover of Shooting Stars. I've heard that the Bag rat is all yeah. Now he's pouring around with Flume and muzzing on stage with Flume. Long Lives is yeah, long Lives is holy shit. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. So Chesapea is just getting on stage with Flume because Floor was like, hey, do you like Bag Raiders? And then he's like he fucking gets on stage and starts muzzing. What the fuck? Yeah, it's really weird. But he was also at the he was also at the fucking, like a version. And he was muzzing at the like a version, dude, just lifting weights in front. It was so weird. It's so weird. What kind of fucking timeline is this? Yes, 100%, we were and all you avid listeners at home, if you haven't seen it, jump on Chesbur. So for context, Chess Bra, was it narcissist? Narcissist. A total fucking I can't remember the other guy. Anyway, there was this group of bodybuilders and content creators. They were like early day content creators, right? Yeah. They were genuinely like the early day content creators. And they just did like a bunch of dumb videos and went around festivals and like were jacked. Right. And Ziz, who is Chess Bra's brother, passed away in Thailand when he was like 21, 22, something like that. Had a heart attack also. I know he's 24. Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, that sounds very right. And yeah, had a heart attack, died. Very sad. But his brother, who's still getting around, still lifting, still making content and stuff. Just recently, I don't know, I've been seeing more of them around. Like, I think he's doing more content than he has ever right. So I've seen around and then yeah, all of a sudden Floom's like a version. There's Chesburg just muzzing in the background, no shirts out. Like I'm like, bro, what is going on? Such a fucking weird time we live in. So the aesthetics crew and the aesthetics crew that's it was turtle, phil Ray, chespra Ziz Babo Gonzalez, vlado and Super Turk. Oh, yeah, super Turk. Yeah. So they were the original aestheticsfree. Wow. That is nuts. That take me back. Fuck. That is just nuts. I remember following Phil Ray. He was pretty cool. And fucking super turkey. I remember. Narcissist. I'm sure he joined eventually. He was in Brisbane. So the Narcissus was in Brisbane and they were all in sydney is still around or maybe I think so. Long time I think that happened. But he could still be plotting around in Brisbane somewhere. I just got to a gym, doing a random thing, living a random life. He had videos up, too. Do you remember the narcissist videos? He went down like a pond and he saw himself in the reflection of the pond. Fell in love with himself. The true story of NASA. What a fucking time. Wild time. What a time to be alive. Yeah, man. But yeah, it's a wild ass video if you haven't seen it. It's just so weird to see this dude who I forgot existed for so long all of a sudden pop up on like, he's in my content shit. And just in such a weird, obscure way to have I want to reiterate once more, like Flume and Tesla's as a collab

for entertainment purposes. Yeah, it's weird to get up on stage and just be like, I was going to marz on stage. Floor is going to provide the back and track. Everyone's going to be like, hey, Chess Bros back. And then it's weird, man. It's weird. I love it. I'm not upset about this. This is very cool. It's so out of the blue. Such a fucking left side. Like, you just couldn't see it coming. No, actually talking about lifting and shit. I've had a week off. I haven't lifted since we lifted last Saturday. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah, because I told you before, I fucking pulled my neck. And it was fine by the night, but I did the exact same thing, I think, the Wednesday. So I was like, I'm just not going to do it. So I'm going to go back to going back to gym tomorrow morning. But because my ankles busted, I'm cutting legs out of my routine for a bit. Yeah, man. Which sucks because I actually really enjoy. And I hit a PR on leg press, which was 230 kilos. I think it was 232 30 at seven reps. Yeah, right? Yeah, that was my PR. And that was my 7th set as well. What? Yeah. Why? Seven sets? Yeah, seven sets. What are you doing? I did two warmups, right? Okay. Like super light. It was like 150 kilos or something. It was like that's super light. So they were like warmups, right? So then I was like, I'll do three normal sets. And I got to the third set and I was like, I've still got some. I still got more. I was like, I still got some. Because ideally I fucking hit, like leg Presley squats. And I'll do that first, right? And then I'll move on to probably do extensions or curls. And then I'll do hack squats. And then I'll do extension or curls, depending on which one I did, you know what I mean? Car keys. And then see how I'm feeling. It might be something else, maybe, but I was just like, no, I'm going to hit a PR. I'm going to go hard here. I'm going to go absolutely hard. And I did it. And then I got off and I was like, oh, my legs are wobbly. I can't really wobble good. And then did a couple of other things left. And I haven't trained legs since. And that was like over a month ago. Trying to say, first of all, you've told me before we started, you've got like a fucking broken ankle. And from what I can tell is you've. Had it for a little while. You were just like, you did seven sets plus your entire rest of your leg day on a broken ankle or like a fucking fucked up ankle. Yeah, that's why I'm like, you're fucking nuts. That's why I'm actually resting it because it wasn't as sore back then. Like, I had rolled it at that point, but it had healed back up. And then I went hard. And I don't think it wasn't like then when it actually went again, but it was like a week later, it started playing up. And I was just like, oh, man. And it just got worse and worse and worse. It's like at a point where it's uncomfortable, but it's not in pain, if that makes sense. It's weird. It's really weird. That's why I'm like I know. I think it healed wrong. I have a feeling. So we'll see what happens next. Fucking uncomfortable. They never say to me, it would have been how you gone with that. How are you feeling? It's my ball sore. Really? Yeah, that's the right one. I think last night. So we're playing DMZ we're playing fucking games online for maybe an hour. I'm like, we're fucking playing games, right? And it got to a point where I was just like, oh, that's my last game. I'm just going to get off. I think you were off for a second. And I was like, look, guys, I want to go fucking I'll catch you guys later. And for that whole hour, I'm like, oh my god, that's so fucking much. What the fuck's going on? And at the end of it, there was maybe 30 minutes before I cut it because we just started the game. Like, yeah, all right, one more. And I'm just like, yeah, one more. We'll do one more. And I'm, like, leaving around, like, trying to fucking maneuver my balls. And I was just like, yeah, what the fuck's going on? Got off and immediately fucking looked up, like, testicular torsion and fucking after vasectomy and stuff like that. And I'm like, looking up all this stuff. And there's a thing called PVPS, which is called post vasectomy pain syndrome. Turns out that's not what I have because you get it, like, apparently three months or more after the surgery, or the procedure, I should say. It just turns out. It's like where they cinched up the fucking what do you call it? The ventil tube. The Gist tube, right? They cinch it up. It's just all that's it. It's just all wow. But I was standing up, like, just standing right here. And I'm like, if this has already been hurting for an hour and it reckons testicular torsion is like, fucking my god, if any man is out there listening right now, you have every reason to be fucking scared of testicular torsion. Is that what carl got it? Yes, Carl got it. Fucking James got it. Way back in the day, a dude that was at fucking he was out of the range when we were doing a shoot day years back, he was fucking out of the range and he like woke up one morning, he's like, oh my fucking balls. Saw a man. And he was just telling the guys and he's like driving trouble walking. And he's just like, what the fuck's going on? He told one of the guys and he's like, I know exactly what that is, dude. You need to get the fuck out of here right now. He told one of the bosses and the boss is like, what's wrong? He's got fucking sawballs where you shouldn't have fucking hammered it so hard last night and fucked up. He's like, none of that comes. This guy needs to get no fucking ambulance and go to the fucking hospital right now. And it turns out yeah, he went to a fucking hospital. Yeah, he was less than 2 hours from losing that night because it twists up and then fucking cuts off all the circulation and then it dies. 8 hours. 8 hours. You got 8 hours and then it's dead. I went to the fucking I was like, check them or not all that's like an hour after I get off the game. And I'm like because I know all these people that have had this thing happened. And I went so indebted. You know how you ask a question to Google and then it comes up with those extra questions? I was clicking every single one of Ads more and I was like, oh my god, I need to learn more about this particular torture I did by the end of the night, balls twisting up. And I'm just like, oh my god, I don't have that one. No, that's not that. And so I'm just like fucking doctor Google's trying to save my life. And I'm just like, my fucking ball is going to fucking die. I was just like, no, I'm going to fucking find a really comfortable spot. I'm going to go to sleep. And if I wake up and I've got a fucking black fucking screw boy, how do you it's done. And I was just like, I'm going to fucking roll the dice. Roll the dice. I went to bed, wake up. And I was like, I feel fine. And then I looked up literally the top link that I completely ignored. You know how like normally you search for something and you just look at the top link? Yeah, I thought it was an ad, so I just fucking scrolled straight past it and it was like looking at things. Top link was like after getting a segment, you can get saunas from the little cinch part or maybe where your balls are fucking shit. And so I was just like, okay, it's just that it's just all the exact diagnosis that was all the symptoms. That's exactly it. So now I've just got soreballs. I can only imagine the fear that you had while going to sleep. The very real fear of just I lay there awake for like hours and I was just like, oh god, this is it. That's rough, man. Scary stuff. I'll tell you what, I didn't know how bad it is. And it can happen. You just roll over in your sleep. Guess what? Your boys are fucking tangled together and you're on a fucking ticking time bomb. And it's just like any guy listen out there right now. My God. If you go, oh, my balls. Rivets all, just go to a doctor. Just go to a fucking doctor and be like, my ball the fucking saw. I need your fucking saw. This tell me how long I have these bones. For me, the things I was looking at was like, can I undo it myself? You can't undo it yourself because you might just twist them up again. You've got less time. You don't know if you do it the right way. They need to fucking operate. It turns out the only fucking solution for pesticulatus is to fucking cut off your sack. Rip it open. Just be careful, but rip it open and manually fucking untwisting. Oh, my God. Because this is horrifying, man. I know. Did you imagine me last night fucking just like furiously smashing the keyboard, clicking every fucking extra question on Google, and I was flipping out and all I had to do when I was saying goodnight to the guys, I was just like, yeah, good night, guys. Good games. Fucking yes, thanks for the raids, but no fucking shit about that. Yeah, I'll be on tomorrow night. As soon as I click that disconnect button, all of it went down. And I was just like, Google, help me. Help me. I was like, standing there. I was just like, oh God. Oh, God, I want to die. The genuine fear. The genuine fear I have. Very funny. You know what? This is the thing. I wasn't even worried about getting a sexy I went into that whole process. I never once was like, I'm going to have the complication. I'm going to be the one in 100 or one and 1000. Whatever it was. It was just like, I'm going to fight that fucking gas, the sleep. And I'm going to wake up and I'm going to have sore balls for a couple of days. And I have a couple of days off work. And that's it. And that's exactly what happened. I didn't have any fears to answer that. Last night was when I had true genuine fear. I was scared out of my fucking wits. That's terrifying. Yeah. And then I told myself, go to bed and go to sleep. And just don't think about it like an idiot. Like an idiot. I hope to God I don't wake up with the swollen scrot. That's rough, dude. Yeah, that's been rough.

Come to the album of the week. That is smooth talking about music, though. You said, I want to talk about the album of the week. Yes, exactly. What we listen to? We listen to Intergalactic by Kid Cutie, Kid Cudi Kudi, and some lip features on there, too, if I can find it. Real quick. Where are you keeping Enter Galactic? We had two changed back. Mr. Dollar sign himself. Don Tolliver. Yeah, man. Steve Aoki on the last fucking bonus track. I listened to the start of this album heaps. I didn't listen to the ends as much. I enjoyed all of it. It told a really good story. I think the first few songs are just really vibing and I was just happy to keep replaying the album from the start of the album, I think is the problem because I don't really drive at long distances anymore and that's normally when I listen to it. So I need to find a new way to listen to the album of the week because I still only listen to it while driving. And I drive fuck all now. Yeah, I listened to it driving, like, a couple of towns over. So I was like, maybe like fucking 20 minutes, you know what I mean? So, like, driving there and back, 40 minutes. I think that's the whole album. You got most of the album. I think it's about an hour long. Yeah. Not two thirds. I did actually finish the album, but yeah, I only went through once. And that was not actually this week. The week before, yeah, was the week before. I'm so glad I got an extra week. I can't remember any of the end of it, but the start of it lit. I'm a big fan. It's very vibey. And I noticed that without even looking at the Wiki. I think it's do what I want. It has the same producer as little nasty users. Let's find out. I'm putting money on it. Yeah. What do you think of the album? I really enjoyed it, and I thought it was, like, such a nice there was some really cool parts and songs. You know how there's, like, ear candy and songs. And I'm using a phrase that Andrew Huang uses, ear candy, where it's, like an entire song. There's, like, little bits that are just, like, really nice that are just like, oh, that's a cool little bit that he's added in. Because he's also a producer. He's a big producer, and he just added so many nice bits. And even though, like, the whole song itself is solid, the production is really, really good that he does his own vocals, which is really solid. He's the full package. This man is the full package. And it shows in, like, a lot of his social media is just like he's being surrounded by people that just want to work with him because he's so fucking talented. Yes. Did you see what happened on stage, though, with him? No. What happened? So people kept throwing shit. There was just like a couple of people in the crowd. Why? Yeah, I know. Like, literally just like a couple of people who just kept throwing shit. And he was like, I'm fucking hard enough. He's like, you motherfucker. Throw more shit. I'm done. Right? They throw more shit. And then he bounced. He dipped. And it was just like because of three people in the crowd, like crazy. Hey. Yeah, it's so rough because he's so incredibly talented. Like, he's just a fucking beast. Like, everyone's there just to listen to that. Like, there would be so many people there that just want to hear fucking day and night and that's it. But like, my God, this man has a catalog, man. Yeah, dude, cattle is good. I tried listening to A Man on the Moon three when I was out of a cup last year. And I was like, oh, man, this is maybe I should start at the start. And I did that. I started man on the Moon, man on the Moon two, man on the Moon Three. And I was like, this man is a fucking genius. Like, he's a fucking genius. I don't think he's gonna stop. He's just so full of creativity. And he's surrounded by he has incredible people. Yes, it's sick. And he does heaps those genre changes and shit as well. You know what I mean? Like, there are a lot of his albums and that. They're not all just hiphop. Yeah. Fucking cool. Yeah. And it's really cool. I think everyone's really going for this aesthetic of Cynthia sort of synthwave vaporwave sort of stuff at the moment, where it's like a lot of electronic brass and strings and stuff like that. And having that 80s feel to the songs. And that's definitely really present right at the start of the album. But he breaks away from it near the end where it's more like back to his roots. It's real RnB soul. Really cool shit, man. He's solid all around. I am struggling to find a fault with this album. It's just really fucking good. Like I said, it's hard for me to remember the end half of the album. But I remember vividly because I was like, I need to take mental notes, especially on things that I hate. I didn't have anything that I hated. Yeah, I don't think there's anything to hate on the film. No. You know what I would say I would like more because he is what he is. And what I mean by that is there's no, like, I love hip hop. That's real, like, aggressive sort of stuff. And he's not a gentle dude, but he's got, like more soul R, amp B sort of stuff going that I was like, this beat would sound really cool if someone was fucking harder on it. I know exactly what you mean. It's all really good. It's all really good. But I was just like, man, is he going to throw down on this one, is he going to absolutely fucking let loose? And it was the opposite sort of thing. It was like, oh, this is just going to be like another sort of story mode song. Even though the beat was fucking very, like, a feature on that song. Exactly. You know what I mean? And we're not fucking musical genius or anything. No, just two guys. Just two dads who like music. But sometimes I feel like we might make a suggestion that could work. And this is the thing. The only reason that producers and that actually people think they're geniuses and stuff is because they're famous, right? Because there's a lot of creative people out there who can make some really fucking good music and they are geniuses, but no one knows who they are, right? No one knows who the fuck they are. You know who Ullisal is? No. He's a rhythm and trap fucking producer. He makes some of the most complex fucking songs I have ever heard. And I mean, like, thematically with chord changes and this is ridiculous. This is meant to be, like, just that sort of shit. Just constantly. This man is like making cinematic fucking rhythm and just some absolute fucking crazy shit happens in his songs that I'm sure it would take him months, unless he's like a fucking savant, it's taking him months to produce even just one track at a time, you know what I mean? Yeah, I think kid cute. He's definitely up there. I want to say it's going to be, like, my new favorite, but he's not going to say he's a favorite. What do you mean? Like favorite hip hop? I would say someone that I'd go back and listen to exclusively sorting, like, if he's, like, on that level of, I'm going to pick him out because there's, like, no one else sort of doing what he's doing. There's definitely other people out there doing what he's doing. Yeah, but he's just doing it better. Yeah. I would say that there will probably be times where if I can find it in my playlist again and I'll be like, I don't hate this. I'd be happy to. I think I've actually put a couple of songs into one of my playlists. It's good. It's not bad. It's good. I'll show you. I think there's a couple of tracks on Man In The Moon, two or one that are just bob, man. They're full on bob. Nice. And you'll be like, oh, my God. Yeah, I found it real viby. Like I did. Really? But it's like the kind of like nighttime city drive vibe, man. That's the fucking feel. That's the vibe of what this album is like. The fucking cruising through, lights flashing over, and maybe a little bit of rain, but not too much, just a little bit of a pattern on the windscreen. And this album playing softly in the background. It's the back half of Blonde by Frank Ocean. It's the night's side of fucking Blonde. Yeah, it's really nice. It's really good. Cannot fault it. What are you going to write it, then? This is an eight. Nice. I was going to say I'm going to say eight. It's almost leaning on a nine. I was like, close to nine. I was close to a 7.5. And then I was like, no, I was just saying eight. I enjoyed the album. I listen to the dark, like fucking heaps. Actually, when I think about it, I just didn't get it, like I said, because I listen to most of my music when I'm driving now, but I can listen to music at work. That's the thing, because it's autonomous. I do whatever the fuck I want. You might as well chuck it on while I do. I just put my headphones and I'm usually listening to a podcast, though, that's the thing. So I'll listen to, like, a business podcast while I'm like you know what I mean? Like Mark Boris or something. Like something that can inspire me to do more shit. Right? I'll listen to that sort of shit while working in my office at work, which is about it. And I just changed it to the album. I listened to the album a couple of times at work. Yeah, nice. I've got the time to go. Yeah. Speaking of the next album, do you remember what it was? I remember what it was. Royal Blood. That's it, yes. Royal blood by royal blood. The self titled album. 2014, by the way, Mark, I know you're listening right now. I got your message. I haven't looked at it yet. As I said, my phone was only repaired yesterday, and I seen your message there, and I was like, I'm not going to look at it yet because I'm going to record the podcast, and then I'm going to look at it so that we can do it for we're going to do whatever. I haven't looked at it yet. We're going to do whatever Mark says next. Pod. So I know you're listening right now, Mark, and it's coming. Okay, you've listened to this on the Thursday or Friday, wherever, and we'll be recording on Sunday. Okay. Next Sunday. You'll know about it? I'll know about it, yeah. Mark, you've got one up on me. You know what it is. And I won't know until next Sunday. Yes, that's it. Yes. Royal Blood by Royal Blood is our next hour of the week. Make sure you give them a listen. I only heard these guys on Triple A, I think it was two days ago. It was on the way to getting my phone fixed. So it was yesterday in the morning, literally, Kim was listening to fucking something on, like, river or fucking Triple A or something. And I was like, I want to listen to Triple J. I always listen to Triple J because they always have, like, new music. It's a really good way to fucking listen to cool new stuff that I haven't heard of before. Funnily enough, they had something from 2014. I fucking turned it on and they were, like, literally just on it. And I was like, this is fucking sick. It was their first track of that album, and immediately I was like, oh, this hits. Kimberly, can you shazam this? Yeah, that's right. And that's how I fucking got it tonight. I was like, Kim, what was that fucking song called again? So that's what we're doing this week, man. Okay, excellent. Okay. All right, see you later. I think we're done now. Are we wrapped up? I feel like we need to wrap up here. Yeah, we can wrap it up. Guys, thank you so much for listening. 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