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Hello and welcome. I peaked real hard to The Cars, a podcast where we talk about life and occasionally music. My name is Blake Bentley and the other half of the podcast, Switchblades for Kids oh, that'll be Audio Hell for all the listeners. I'm so sorry. Screaming into the mic. Yeah, I was like I did a test and everything and it was fine. And here we are. Audio hell. I'm so sorry, everyone. I had my OBS up the whole time. I just looked at your camera. Just looks like you're, like, way up here. There we go. I don't move everything around now. How are you doing, man? Good, man. It is. It's a new year. It's a new year. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Hopefully I've just fixed my audio issues, man. How was your Christmas? Really good. Fucking ate a whole heap. And the normal Christmas stuff, you eat heaps, which was great because I ate my weight in prawns. I feel like, yes, so many prawns. I like me a good prawn, but at the same time, I can't eat too much seafood. I don't know if it's like I just feel sick when I eat too much seafood. So I just don't eat that much seafood. And then I don't get the taste tour. So I don't really like the taste of seafood anymore, but I can't stomach it anyway. Yeah, fair enough. Because I used to eat heaps of prawns and squid and crab and all sorts of shit. But I don't know, the more I ate it, the more slicker I got. And then I just stopped eating seafood. So I just don't eat seafood now. That's fair. Other than tuna, I ate tuna and I seem to be fine. Yeah, I can keep eating tuna, but I can't eat yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about with the prawns. Because when, like, I ate a lot of prawns and potato salad and stuff like that, I just went ham. I went ham. The Christmas spread. So much ham. Oh, my God, I love Christmas. I love Christmas. It's just food. So I went over to my mum's place first and then we went to Kim's brother's place. So we went there for the afternoon and we went to my mum's for the morning because two sides of the family until we have kids, and then it's like, you guys are coming to us. All right, we're fucking, fucking done with it. But, yeah, went to my mom's and my mum gave me a present and it was a coffee mug and it said, here's to feeling good all the time. And it was a Seinfeld quote and I didn't get it. And I was just like, oh, fuck it, I love this mug. And just like, yeah, because she loves seinfeld. She absolutely loves seinfeld. I grew up on the stuff and so it didn't immediately click and I was just like, here's to feeling good all the time. And I said it the exact same way because I've heard it so many times. And she's like, yeah, that's the lie. And then I look on the back and I was like, oh, it's Seinfeld. And she's like, I thought you knew it was Seinfeld. That's why he said it like that. I realize now that it's Cramer. But in the mug she had given me and I was more excited about this than anything else because it is something that I haven't had since I'd been in Darwin, which was a can of Emu Export, which is a beer, the bush truck for all our non Australian listeners. It is a type of alcoholic beverage consumed best cold. If you don't drink beer, you should be drinking Emu Export. The Bush chalks are the best. I don't drink a lot of beer anymore, but I have had Emu Export and it is good. I absolutely lost it because I've seen the mug. So what happened with the mug happened after I absolutely lost it when Mum had this Emu Export can and was like, oh, my fucking God, I fucking love this beer. I'm just losing it, right? And inside there, she thought it would be funny to put, like, little cigarettes, like, you know, the little cigars, but they're like the small ones because she was like, part of the scene where Kramer's drinking a beer. He also has a smoke in his mouth and he's drinking it in the beer and smoking at the same time. And yeah, it's just a funny scene. It's a good scene. But, yeah, I was like, Mum, I'm never going to smoke these, but I am going to drink this beer. And so after eating, like, after we left, got to my Mrs brother's brother in law's place, that was where we had a dip in the pool. Oh, my God, I love fucking sitting in the pool after eating a whole heap. And yeah, that's where I absolutely smashed that. I couldn't be stopped. I was like a baby with a bottle. Just it was just all gone in, like one go. It was so good. So good. How was your Christmas? You had like a three day bender. I wouldn't call it bender.

I haven't slept since Christmas Eve Eve. It is the second it is the 2 January, and I haven't slept since Christmas Eve Eve, actually, the night before the 22nd. Yeah, it's been a log, like two weeks, man. And before that, I had covered. So it's been rough, man. Christmas was good. It was lit. But I'm naked. I'm naked. Absolutely naked. We bought a 14 foot trampoline for the kids. We didn't have a concept of how big it will be. We just knew it would fit right. Because we have a huge backyard. Yeah, I could fit any size trampoline just about, you know what I mean? Like yes, within reason. Yeah, it's a big backyard. Okay. So we built it and the only night we could do it because we wanted to surprise them with it was Christmas Eve Eve. We started at seven. We finished at 1030. It rained

and I couldn't wear my glasses, so I couldn't see because they kept sliding off because of the rain. Yeah. So it was hell. It was hell. It sucked so bad, right? So we barely said, my fucking glasses are like, probably from the rain, and dropping them and throwing them in shit. It's too rough. But yeah. So we built that. Long story. Killed me. Kids loved it, but it was just like, fuck me. That was so much energy. And then that night so Christmas Eve, we stay at Jackie's parents house because it's the father in law's birthday. I probably explained this last year. And then it's my father's birthday on Christmas Day. And we actually stayed the night this time so that I could hang out with dad later that night. So we just hung outside out the back, like both fuck. I had just talking shit till like fucking 1130 or something. It was great. Yeah. But again, no sleep because the kids woke up at 04:00 A.m.. God, do I know that. Boxing Day 04:00 A.m. So Jackie woke up with them for the most part. And I got up by like, I think, like five or six or something. So we all get up, fucking do the whole morning thing, have breakfast, whatever, fuck off. Went for a drive and we had to get pet food because we left it at Chris in Case house. And I'm not going back there for pet food. It's not worth it. It's not worth it. No, but we left so early in the morning that we had to find something to do because the pet shop wasn't opening until nine and we got there at like eight. Right? Right. So I was like, fuck it. We went for a drive through an area and I went to show Jackie some houses and shit. Yeah. And we did that for like an hour. It was just really long. It was just really long. Just a big day. Oh, man. It was like a big four or five days. Yeah. Sounds like it hasn't been sleeping like the last three nights. I don't know. I haven't slept much and I'm tired. But it was good. I ate a lot of food. Like a lot of food. I put weight back on because I lost weight with COVID Not in a good way, though. All in good weight loss, being sick. Yeah. Well, I didn't put it back on, but I maintained myself again, which was nice. Put some calories back in my body. And now I'm back to eating good again. Hell, yeah. That's good. It's been pretty good. Like I said, I'm fucked. So tired. Before we started recording, we were going to play some Taco and then, as I said I'll be back, I thought about it. And I was just like, I'm not coming back. Look, you know what? I'm not coming back to play games. I'm too tired. I think I even said the same thing. Because, man, I don't know if you know, I started my new program, the Push Pull Lift program. Yeah. How's that going? Well, I'm into the third week now and I've just finished the first half of week three. And I love it. I love it. I've never felt such perfect progression, especially with me now eating correctly and fucking actually eating the right amount. And I tell you what, I've been in, like, a slight surplus rather than a I wouldn't say a slight surplus. I'm eating a whole three extra meals, but it literally is just two extra meals. But it feels so much more. But no, it's good. I'm stacking on weight, I'm stacking on my lifts. Everything is going up, which is really, really good, which is exactly what you want out of this program. So I thought about this the other day because you just brought this to mind. Remember when I used to lift when I was 18 with like, Brendan and yeah, I was shoulder pressing 42 and a half kilo dumbbells, right? I was thinking about this, right? I was like, I'm struggling with like, thirty five s now. Like thirty s. And I was like but I didn't look I looked worse then than I do now. Mass moves. Mass. Yeah, but like yeah, because you know why? Because I was eating like I was bulking. Yeah. Because I was eating chicken rice tuna salad. Chicken rice tuna salad. So I had four meals there. I did pre workout. Fucking dog. Is she under the house? Wait, is she barking? Jackie's put her out the fucking dog. Jackie's put her out the front to go to the toilet and she found something and barking at it. And it's so loud because I have monitoring on, so it feels like she was right next to me. What the fuck? Fuck. What was I saying? Yeah, because I was in the same boat eating a lot of food. So I had more strength because I had more energy and I could lift more. And I was building more muscle and more strength quicker. That was bulking. Whereas now I meaning like, trying to get like 1800 to 2000 calories trying to lean out. Yeah. And the thing is, that is exactly how it's supposed to work. If you're leaning out, your lifts won't progress as fast or you won't be as strong as you want, sort of thing. I feel way weaker. I feel way weaker. And technically I should be stronger at this point, you know what I mean? Well, not stronger, but I have the ability because I should have more testosterone now than I did back then. Yeah, maybe I should have the ability to be stronger at this point. You follow on a program, one I made myself. Yes. Yeah. And it's got like the progression built into it. As long as you're hitting your recently yeah, I've recently started because I started doing supersets just for a time factor thing. So I'm trying to find what exercises work best, you know what I mean? Together. Yeah. Because I'm super setting everything and I've been doing, like I said, more cardio, more sprints and stuff like that, just for more fun. I've been enjoying that more, you know what I mean? Yeah, that's fair. And I've been listening to podcasts and it's easier to lift two podcasts when you're not doing heavy, heavy weights because I felt like I got a lot of that motivation from music to lift that last one rep or two reps, you know what I mean? Whereas I'm making sure I do a weight that I hit twelve reps at, yeah. You know what I mean? And it hurts. It fucking hurts. And I could probably get like another maybe two reps out, but I don't want to do that. My idea is that I'm trying to I don't know, I'm just trying different things. I'm just trying different things and seeing what works better, do you know what I mean? Yeah. The thing is, you got to test it and then find your results. Obviously, if you change it every week, you probably won't find results. Yeah, exactly. That's good. Yeah. I don't know. My thought process is over Christmas because I had a lot of conversations with a lot of people and my thought process on what I want to achieve with health and physically and stuff may change because my whole idea was we'll do sports shorts. Men's sports shorts is what it's called in Australia, I believe it's modern physique. What is it? IFBB yeah, it's called modern physique, but in Australia they call it like NABBA calls it men's sports shorts or something, which is just boardies. So you don't worry about legs, you just do all upper body. That's literally all it is. Right. Because you just don't show your legs off because you have board shorts on. So judges don't even give a fuck about legs. Yeah, right. And I'm like, look, I'm doing different type of leg exercises because I've been doing workouts with Jackie where I'm doing a lot of body weight leg exercises. Like, I'm doing Bulgarian split squats at the moment with free weight. Yeah, it's rough. It's rough, man. I love it. I did them today. Oh, my God, my glutes my ass is on fire. Yeah, we do I love Bulgarian. I think they call donkey kicks or like back kicks or whatever they are. Free weight as well. So like, high reps. We've been doing it in time rather than rep, so it's all constant. So we do like a two minute warm up or two to four minute warm up.

This is going to be good. I'm going to cut this out. No, don't cut it. Leave that entire 20 minutes. We'll start the podcast now. Just cut the first 15 minutes. No, it just sounded like someone was talking, like, right out the window. I don't think they were. That's why I fucking hate monitoring. But, you know yeah, you love it and I hate it. Look, no, there is someone talking, like, literally just outside the fence. But anyway all right, fair enough. The monitoring thing. Because it's so distracting, isn't it? It's a little distracting with the dog and shit. Okay. But yeah. Anyway, so we do have, like two to four minute stretch, and then we do 30 seconds of each exercise. It's a lot of exercises. We start off on the floor with, like, push ups and planking. And I want to do mountain climbing or mountain climbers on a fucking get that one in there. We do, like sit ups and crunches and shit. Hip abductors, or the fucking whatever they call them when you lay on your side. Like aerobics, sort of like the kicks, because the side because I do them with the machine for legs. Yeah. So there's a weight machine, and I do hip hop ductus I think they call a Good Girl Machine. The good girl machine is the one that, like, closes no, but it goes both ways. I do that one. I don't do the closing on that's. The bad girl machine. Yeah, the bad girl. Oh, my God. So I use that one. So we do fucking bows. We just adhesive shit. And it's all 30 seconds. It's all one after each other. And I time it. So it's time boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. 30 seconds. All right, next one time. Boom, boom, boom. And we do that and it's about like a fucking twelve minute workout, right? Yeah, it is rough, man. Oh, yeah, dude. It is so rough. That's tabata. So what you're talking about is tabata. I don't know what that means. Yeah, so I learned about Tabarta sessions in Darwin, where when I was working at 36 Sport of Transport, they frosted because it was like it's exactly what you said. We would only work for 15 minutes. A normal PT session is like 45 minutes. But they were like, we're only going to work for 15 minutes. And I'm like, oh, my God. A 15 minutes PT session. This is fucking easy. And they were like, okay, cool. You're going to be the the rest position is a plank, like a prone hold sort of shit. And then if you're not, you're going to be doing mountain clovers. And then when you hear the beep, which was, like, in 20 seconds, it was then, like, max push ups, or then it was like, get up and do start, you know, just all these random fucking, like, body weight things. And at the end of, like because there's no rest, your resting is like you're on the ground and just fucking freaking out. And you could only rest for 5 seconds. It was nuts. It was nuts. But yeah, I learned about Tabarta sessions in Darwin and they loved them. And I was the fittest I'd ever been in Darwin because of the two months that I was at fucking 36 water transport. It boosted my run time down 30 seconds. It was great. Just in the two months. Two months of doing that down 30 seconds. Yeah. Because your stamina yeah, it was nuts. My stamina horrible run AC. I'm in the same boat. My stamina has never been. I've been a big boy for a long time, right? Yeah. Like, I'm starting to understand the benefits of having a lot of stamina rather than just being able to lift something heavy, you know what I mean? Like, I'm starting to see like I'm getting it even at the back. I would do sprints because I just sprint with Lucy because she fucking loves it and it ties her out. Yeah. So I started sprinting because I've been doing just kicking the ball around and acting like I'm fucking messy and fucking dodging her because she's a fucking dumb black lab. Obviously the simplest kick behind the other foot type thing and then go to run the other way. She'll just follow me and then realize I don't have the ball and then look around. So I'll do that and yeah, it's like I'm being able to do it longer and longer and longer. You know what I mean? It would it's fucking sick. I'm feeling more inclined to do calisthetic stuff like body weight stuff than so much then working out. I'm still going to work out. I'm still going to do my superstar. Has your gym got an assault bike? No. Oh, dude. Yeah, they are hell. I think I've spoken about them before. It was three times we had a minute rest in between. It was just 10 seconds of max, right? 10 seconds of absolutely push your fucking hardest, right? Yeah. On the third one, I was like dry reaching. I only worked for 30 seconds and I had three minutes of rest. But for the end of that, I got off the bike and I was like couldn't breathe and was trying to throw up. And every time I was driving, it stopped me from breathing. So I was like,

this is the absolute worst machine, man. If you ever want to fucking be in hell, you want to know what hell feels like getting a salt bike and try to fucking push your max out for like 30 seconds. Fuck, dude. Man, it's so shit. It's so shit. One day in the future, I'm going to get a nice house and I'm going to have a home gym and fucking it's going to be lit. I'll get in a sole bike. It's not going to be super flash. Like, it'll be in a shade or something like, you know what I mean? I'm not saying you've been to mind. Yeah. You don't need much. You don't need much. No, exactly. I'm not going to go wild with it. Right? I've even thought about just putting some shit out the back in the weather, my brother. I've got a squat rack that you can put out in the weather. I have a fucking concrete like slab just out the back that we do nothing with. Absolutely nothing with by the chills. Just behind the chills. Perfect. It'd be perfect. Just go and because it's under the trees, it gets heaps of shade in the afternoon. Buy a I'm going to get a bar. Buy some fucking some steel weights and then just chuck them out there and just do it whenever you want. Yeah. And I'll provide the squat rack. It's just here. It's great. Racking up great for the back. It's great. You'll love I know a lot of exercises that you can do with just a barbell and some weights as well. Like you can do heaps of shoulder activities with just a barbell. Dude, you can do fucking if you put out a fucking just a flat steel bench out there, like, it'll be hard. It will not feel nice on your back. You can do bench out there as well. You could do everything out there. Barbell's. Barbell is not as versatile as obviously having a heap of dumbbells. But dude, it's the original fucking. You want to get big, you want to get strong. You lift up something heavy on that fucking barbell. Yeah. Like I said, I've been liking the idea of doing more body weight exercise stuff anyway. Like instead of adding weight to a squat. How can I make a squat harder to do? It slower to pull that pork. Then you do like Bulgarian split squats or you do sissy squats and fucking like yeah, dude, I tried doing sissy squats with just a bar. I have to do assisted sissy squats. Dude, it hurts, man. I don't know how Tom Platt's fucking kept it up. Like, obviously he's known as the quad father for a reason. Because he was fucking his legs were the biggest he's able to do. I think it's like a dragon squad or something, which is where you squat down, but you wrap your leg around the front and to the side so you can get even deeper into a single. It's just a really weird fucking body weight squat on one leg. Yeah, right. You basically lie like horizontal while squatting type thing. It's like when people do the handstand. Push up is even harder. One where you come down to almost flat and then back up. I don't even know. Really don't even know. There's a guy maybe, but I have no other than what it's called. Yeah, I have to send you the fucking there's a guy who does them. He's like it just sounds like calisthenics. Like calisthenics. It is. Like that sort of stuff. Yeah, but there's ways to make things harder without adding weight, which is cool. Even with pull ups, you can do go to one handed pull ups, like assisted one handed pull ups like, that I've actually found. So you know how, like, you just do normal pull ups where you're just pulling it up and you're just trying to get over like that? Try and lean your whole body back so that when you come up, if this is the point that you're trying to get to, you're not trying to just go straight up. You're trying to, like, come up like that and, like, trying to get to that more flag sort of position. It is ridiculous for mid back. I can't do a pull up yet. I get that. How much are you putting on the assist? Like, a lot. Not a great deal. I'll have to because I haven't really lifted over Christmas, and I had covered a hot minute. It has been a hot minute since I've actually done assisted pull ups. Oh, man. You know what's funny? You know what's really funny? Christmas Day, New Year's Day and today have all been leg days for me. Christmas Day, even after eating all of that, should I do on Christmas Day? I still did a workout that night. And then even on New Year's, I did the New Year's one during the day because it felt really good. And I had the garage open. I was blasting music. And you know how you can sort of see down neighbors are having sort of like a little street party, and I'm blasting, like, bring me the horizon and fucking squatting and just slamming the fucking difference.

That's great. My neighbor's a worry day. We listen to north fucking shit. Like, the North Warm is like wardrobes and shit. Actually, for all those audio listeners out there right now, we're at the 27 minutes mark. Ten minutes, 10 seconds. All right, stop what you're doing right now. Go to the YouTube video and just have a quick look at my head because I shaved. We haven't even addressed it. We haven't been 27 minutes and we haven't addressed the fact that you shaved your head and the fact that if I do a little bit of this andrew Tate, thank you so much for joining us. It's such a pleasure. It's honestly an honor to have you on our podcast. Look, big fan. Honestly, big fan. I still can't get the accent down. The accent is quite hard. Look, I think you're going to have to practice it. Yeah, it's fucking weird accent because it's like American, British. It's weird. Yeah, but then he lived in Eastern Europe for, like, ages. Yeah, it's such a weird fucking anyway, I got a shaved head. And I tell you, I tell everyone that I've met I got KFC tonight, and everyone was looking at me weird. I just got a shaved head. It's not like it's fucking crazy, but I'm telling everyone, shave your head. You'll love it. Okay? Kim doesn't like it. Kim doesn't like it one bit. She looked at me, and she was like, I don't even want to touch it. I don't want to look at it. She tried courting me the other night, and she's like, Turn off the lights. I don't even want to look at you. Oh, man, it hurts. It hurts. But guess what? I'm stronger than that, because this thing your idea is tough. I love it. I did this yesterday. Sorry, not yesterday. I did it the day before. She was doing a voice call this morning, and that's why I video call, and she's, like, just talking, and I've just come out of the bedroom. I was just, like, fucking just waking up. And I sit down on the couch, and I just got my phone on. And then Kim goes, look at this idiot. And then just, like, points the phone at me, and she's like, you look like a criminal. Okay, thank you. I've had the same thing. So I shaved my head once as well, right? And this is when I was, like, 18 or something, and I just didn't realize, but I had to get a fucking driver's photo done. So my driver's photo was me with a shaved head, right? But I never shaved my head. So it was me with a shaved head and, like, fucking ring, earrings for some reason, and a single it like this. And I looked like a fucking criminal. I looked like a juvenile criminal, right out of prisons. Not even that. I looked like I was going to juvie, right? That's the kind of fucking where I was just leaving juvie, going to prison. That's what I looked like. I looked like my age, but a prisoner, okay? And I had to deal with that for, like, four years or something. That's an excellent photo. That's great, dude. My latest one, and I just got it. I think I have to deal with it for five years. I'm in my Bunnings uniform because it was the only time I could get it done. So I'm wearing my bunning. Five is in my fucking anyway, it's very funny. Like, that reminds me. I think my fucking my license is almost set to go, actually. You know, I'm gonna shave my head before the next half year. 100%. Yeah, 100% people actually try and look good for them. It's so funny. Just, like so funny. That's why I was like that's why I went in with a bunny juice. I don't give a fuck. Who cares? Honestly, who cares what I'm wearing and what I look like? I want it to look like what I normally look like. This is how you'll feel. Which is fucked. I always look fun. Take a photo of me in a uniform I don't even fucking wear anymore, okay? Oh, God. Literally, it was like the week I was leaving when I got the photo taken. So dumb. Oh, man. Look. I feel like a lot has happened in the past two weeks. And then I feel like nothing's happened the past two weeks. Every day felt, you know, it's weird. Christmas Day, New Year's Day, even my birthday all just felt like normal regular days. Now it feels bad at the same time if I say it felt good, but it feels bad at the same time because it's supposed to be these are supposed to be, like, special days for everyone. They're not special for us. They're special for our kids. That's it. They're the kids days now. And I remember, actually, you know what's funny? On Christmas Day, I said this to Kim the day before. I was like, I remember what it used to sound like on Christmas. You remember how he used to like, if you ever went outside in the morning of any Christmas Day, it was absolutely quiet and there was nothing going on. And you'd be like, yeah, that's right. Yeah. So weird. Like, there's no cars going anywhere. There's nothing going on. When I grew up in, Christmas was more right because when we came to Australia, christmas wasn't as big of a thing because I was getting older. It wasn't as big for me. Still really big for Bailey. But I was at an age where I knew Santa wasn't real and Christmas magic had sort of gone at that point. But Bailey still thought Santa was real or something, so she was still doing the whole magic shit. So I didn't have those core memories of any Christmas in Australia, of me being a teenager. I don't really remember those ones. They were just another day, honestly. You'd just eat some food and stuff and then I'd go back to play video games or something. Yeah. God, that used to happen a lot, actually. Yeah, I was like, oh, cool. We hang out in the morning and shit. Play a lot of Guitar Hero. Yeah. Halo guitar hero at the time. We'll play like, Fallout or something like that. One Christmas, Nana came down from, like, fucking merry boring. I hate Maryborough. But she came down and it was like, oh, cool. And then came off after lunch and then we all just like, dispersed. I feel bad about it now because Nana was just like, what? Are you kidding? And then we're just like playing fucking through the fire and flames and the fuck out of guitar because that's what we did. What I remember, though, was like, I did try and get her to play it and she had an attempt. And my mum would never be caught dead playing a video game. She just hates them. Just hates them. Dad loves them, obviously. I fucking love them. And yeah, the fact that my nana picked it up and she's like she's basically my mum, but, like 30 years older and fucking sorry, 20 years older and just like so stubborn and strong and fucking like she's a weapon, that woman. I feel like she has the potential to kill it at a moment. Kill a man? Yeah, dude. And she's like, nearly she would kill a man? Yeah. She would just kill a man. She'd kill a man. Just a fucking just a no. But yeah, it does. And and the fact that, you know, I just I was lost. Like, here, have a go. And she's like, all right. And she's just like she's pressing the button. She's looking at the thing, and she's just like, oh, I'm pressing that button. Nothing's happening. You got a strummer as well. It's like a guitar. And she's like, oh, yeah, I've never played guitar before. Just like, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Never really actually hitting anything and getting timed out like that. But it's like, that's fine. You attempted. Well done. I just remember my mum in the background and just gone, she's not going to play that. She doesn't like that. She's not going to play just calm down, Mum. It's a bit of fun. I literally just spoke to Jackie about finding a Guitar Hero guitar because there's clone hero. I've got one. You've got one? I've got a singular one. And it's a guitar hero. Three, one So it's the big good one. Damn it. Because I'm like, I'd rather have I don't want to take your one. I don't use it true. I don't use it true. You got to play some clone hero. Yeah, I was thinking about it. You got to stream it. Yeah, maybe fucking all right. Maybe. If I have time. Yeah, if I have time. Yeah. Because we, you know, it's 2023 this year, the new year. And we're gonna we're gonna we got some plans. We got some projects speaking, some things happening that we should probably talk about. Last year. Yes, the year of us. We called it. Let's get it. You got a lot of notes. I got swear I got some notes. You're going to lead this for sure. We had ideas of doing much more. We spoke about it briefly, and then we both did nothing. Unless you did something you didn't tell me. That wouldn't be like me. No, I've got nothing planned. Honestly. I completely forgot about the last episode the moment I put it up. And I'm like, well, the job is done. We got a holiday. There. Two week holiday. Let's go. Even though we already had like a two week holiday the previous thing. And then I think two week one before that as well. I have to bring this up because we're going to talk about some statistics. Obviously, we did incredibly well last year. Not to toot our own horn, but we're going to pat ourselves on the back here because not just us. This is because of you guys as well. The listener. Hello. Hello. Welcome to the program. Last year was really good. We had our first guest. Oh, yeah. We had a guest, Matt. We had Matt on. I'm Matthew. If you don't remember, make sure you go back and have a listen to that episode. Episode 51. Absolutely fucking cracker of an episode. Even goes for an hour and a half. It was such a fucking that was a funny fucking episode. I remember, man. I remember editing that and I was just, like, trying to yeah, I did chills as well, dude. It was so funny just to throw out some numbers. Best episode most plays last year was a Nelly Futato with 43 plays. Big Boots, if you remember that one. Next was the Wiz Khalifa album with remember the Weed Farm video we did? We also did the Weed Farm video, right? Yeah, that's on YouTube, basically. Check that out. We also did I think that was last year. It was right at the start of the year. The weekend is a vampire. Yeah, we literally did that right after

with 37 players. That was a really good episode. And coming in the third place of our top three most downloaded played episodes is the Oliver Tree album. Yeah, right? Yeah. And I remember that was a ten for me. And speaking of ratings, did you set up your favorite albums of last year? Sort of. Not really. I put a bunch down. Yeah, I put down like eight of them because I looked at them and I was just like, oh, man. Some of these are, like, retrospectively. I remember especially JRD when we didn't get enough time to really get our teeth in this one. I remember we made some excuses about it, but I didn't stop listening to it after the album was out. After we got the new album, I'd listen to it again. I think I gave it like an eight or a seven at the time. It's a new ten for me. Yeah. Nice. It's an absolute cracker of a fucking album. And so was Weson. We both gave that. That was a unanimous ten. And so was Oliver Tree. Oliver Tree was a ten. Yeah. Cow was his. They're just crackers of albums, man. I honestly believe that. If you're if you're struggling to find something to listen to, there's three big different sort of albums, right? Like cowboy tears. That like you remember the 90s, early 2000s fucking acoustic punk. Yeah, that's exactly what that is. Cowboy Tears is the kind of album that I feel like I grew up with. It's like some 41 and Greenbank. That era is what it sounds like it came from. It sounds like it came from like an American Pie movie opening scene out of An American Pie. You could play Oliver Trees over any of them. The whole album is like a summer flick. It's a summer movie. Summer lovin. Another two albums that really came out really came good for me because I just love a bit of metal was obviously Nirvana. Obviously not metal. It's grunge. But we also had royal Royal Blood in there as well. Those two albums, obviously, the Navana was a live album. We're part of our live trio. We did, yeah. I think Nirvana, we listened to the what do you call it? MTV Unplugged. Yeah. And I've said it to you before, dude, there's songs on that that are played, like, on the Radio 100%. Yeah. The first one about a girl is always on the radio because that is the most popular version of that song. It's literally a live version. Yeah, that's it. It's lit, man. You'll hear it almost every Sunday because Triple M does like their acoustic Sundays or Unplugged Sundays, whatever they call it. Yeah. And it's just like you would always do the song. I want to get to a point where I just have that playing in the house, you know what I mean? Just triple M on Sundays. Yeah. On Sundays we have a q six Sundays for m. You get the RnB Fridays going as well. That's always fun. Yeah, man. Sometimes the radio is really good. Sometimes I don't work in a situation where I could really use a radio. It could you get the little desk radios and you got a really little one. Yeah. Do you know how common I didn't realize how common they were until I started going into the offices in the RHQ and fucking all the HQ places. And that was just like just everyone had one and they would all just be loud enough so that they could hear it and still talk to each other and show up. But they'd be listening to whatever. And if they all agreed on a radio station, one of them would just turn it up a little bit more. Yeah. And I'm guessing you're in an office all by yourself anyway. You must turn that down. Crank office. I normally just have my headphones in. Yeah. I just listen to shit like on my phone because if I get a phone call, it's like going to pause my music or pause my podcast or pause whatever, you know what I mean? Yeah. So that's what I do. I'm still listening to it, but I just don't listen to radio because I'm trying to use my time, I guess. Most of the time I'm listening to podcasts at the moment. Anyway, recently, mind you, I've had a bit of time off, which has been nice, little bit only public holidays. But I also had covered there that was a good time off. Do you remember what our goal was when we started the podcast? I think it was just to be consistent and release episodes. It was definitely that. But we had a goal. Did we have like a number goal? No, we didn't have a number goal, but we did have what our goal was, was to double whatever we do in our second year. Whatever we do in our first year, you know what I mean? And we double it in the next year. And I tell you what, we came really close, actually, since we started in February of 2021. And it's not February yet. The thing is look, guys, going to be straight up with you. Unless you guys listen three times, everyone that's listening right now, listens three times. Okay. We're not going to make it. Wow. Right now, for all of January, every time a podcast comes out, listen to it three times, or go and listen to another two podcasts after this one and then the next one. Whenever we release, all we've got to do is make 300. I can assure you. 300 plays. I must be bumping up in this month numbers for some people because sometimes when I listen to podcasts going to sleep, the idea is that on Spotify, you can set an actual sleep timer on it. Sometimes I forget. So I wake up and I'm like, why am I listening to the fourth episode? Who the fuck is it? Yeah, when I'm up to, like, 300, why is it playing the fourth episode? And then I'm like, played the third, played the second, played the third. Oh, okay. Yeah. I bomb pop some people's numbers. I won't lie. I won't lie. It could be happening to us. You never know. No, it's not. We've got listeners that fucking devoted. Well, they have their attention. We have their attention. We provide some form of benefit to them. Actually, if anyone is trying to go to sleep right now, wake up. Okay,

just to rand off all of the stats that we were just thrown out there, we did in our first year, from the 3 February 2021 to the 3 February 2022, we did 695 downloads. Right. So it's about 700 downloads. We are, as I said, 300 off of hitting out double what we did last year. That's still pretty good. Yeah, it's ridiculously good. I love it. It means that we are like, we're getting the retention and we're getting more viewers. We're getting more viewers and more listeners. It's great. I think maybe it's working. When I say make sure you share this with someone right now. Whoa. I'm bold now, and I'm really serious. Are you going to cry? No. Why would I? Please,

no. I think that rounds off all of our 2022 wrapped up. You know what I mean? That's it. It's a new year. New not it's not a new podcast. It's the exact same podcast, and you will keep listening to it, and you will keep sharing it to your friends, and you will hit that like, button. You will subscribe to the YouTube if you're watching on YouTube, because you're a good person. That's why you'll do it. And you love us. That's what it is. I think that's what it is. I think they love us. Mark, if you're listening right now, I know you are. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. I just realized I didn't even fucking message him I'm a horrible friend. Didn't even fucking message. He's limited fucking the other side of Australia at the moment, and I was just completely fucking forgot. I am so sorry. But you know what? Accept the apology. Okay? Who are you getting, please? All right, blake, do you have anything else to add? Look, I don't know. Not really. We listen to a lot of good music. I'm excited to listen to a lot more good music. I'm also excited to do a lot more with my time. I'm excited for this is the other thing, right? I'm starting to make like twelve month goals, but I'm also starting to make like twelve to three year and like three to six year goals and stuff like that. Because I think I'm overestimating what I can achieve this year, but I think I'm underestimating what I can achieve in the years to come. Yeah, exactly. So I'm making some goals. I'm excited. I'm excited for my fitness to get better again with a full twelve months this time. You know what I mean? Yeah. I'm excited for a lot of things for us and what we're going to do here. There's a lot we got a lot of stuff going on. It's going to be busy though, baby. We're doing it a lot. Talking about music also. No, go on. I was going to thank the beautiful people listening and watching as well. You guys, we appreciate you people 100%. You're kind, honestly, the reason why we still continue to listen kind. Yeah. Because of the podcast. It's okay. Yes, I know why it's okay. We're your friends. It's like you feel like you know someone so well that you could have a mad conversation with them. Except for the fact that they don't know who the fuck you are or parasocial relationship. There you go. It's where they know so much about us. We have no idea who they are. Which is a really good point. Which means jump into our discord, say good day. Let us know how Christmas was, how your news was. Talk to us, please. I'm so lonely. Talking about lonely missed music. Talking about the 1970s. Yeah, we didn't listen to anything, but we do have an album that we're going to listen to, actually. Wait, Blake, did you listen to any new music or any sort of god goodies. Does Mariah Carey for Christmas? Gad Because I listen to that a lot. Yeah. Hell yeah, it does. My God. I was told that I can't play the eight hour mix of All I Want for Christmas Is you. I was told specifically that I am not allowed to play that. And I was like, well, that sucks. You're just ruining Christmas. They are. Are they ruining my Christmas? Because the kids love that song. Instead, we listened to the oldest Christmas carols from like, 19 Diggity two played through a fucking smartphone. That sounds horrible. It was. And it was played at such a low volume that you knew you knew what it was and it just sounded shit. And you just like, at least we could have like if anyone had told me, hey, we need some music, I'll bring my UI burn. Yeah, it doesn't have to be Mariah Carey's eight hour mix of All I Want for Christmas Is You, but that is preferred. I hope that we get to listen to at least 7 hours of it, otherwise I'm not having a good time. Speaking of music, we are going to listen to a new album. Obviously it's a new album. A new album for us to listen to this year, to start the year off. I know what I said at the end of last year, the Last Pod, I said, we're going to listen to the first album of the year. We're not doing that because it's between two people, a punk album by Fireworks. And I already looked them up. I don't think I like them. I don't want to do them. The second one was Moby Ambient 23. I don't want to listen to fucking ambient music. I don't want to listen to a 15 minutes odyssey of just clicks and clacks and I don't want to listen to that so loud. We decided literally five minutes before pressing start that we're going to listen to Black Sabbath. Yeah, we're listening to Paranoid. Oh, Dude paranoid by Black Sabbath. And if you want to jump in and get amongst it and start listening to some cool albums, make sure if you want your suggestion to be taken seriously, get in the discord, let us know. Say hey. Or just DM me like everyone else. Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah. Send us a DM. We're all very approachable. Approach everyone.

Yeah. But no, jump in the discord as well. You have to do that as well. It's fine. Do it makes you comfortable. If you don't want to talk to a lot of people, no one DMs our instagram. They DM you directly or they DM me directly because they know that we're on either side of it. But I don't want to do the main account for something. Am I missing something? Are we getting crowds of people who don't use discord and refuse? I still get it. It's such a good program. Email. Yeah. You know what? And if you don't want to email us again, I think it's theprodcast cast at gmail. Comcast cast. Because the broadcast was taken. Yeah. Is it the Prod as well? No, because I wanted the Prod dot cast as a domain, but I couldn't find it. Yeah, that'll happen. That will happen. Do you have anything big left other than in your pants? I'll have, you know, it's minuscule I can't find it anymore.

Obviously. It's gone. There was something and it ain't there any so intimidated by my bald head that its bald head is just missing. It's gone. It's gone. I myself am like, a Kendall.

All right, I'll wrap it up. I'm wrapping it up. Make sure you guys listen to the end of the week. It is Black Sabbath paranoid. Yeah. Look so keen. Yeah, it's going to be great. War pigs, man. Yeah. So, yeah, make sure you guys jump on that. Guys, thank you so much for listening. If you enjoyed this podcast, if you enjoyed listening to us, make sure you, like, subscribe share, please share with someone. Hit us up on all of our socials and yeah, let us know how you feel. And if you want to see more of Blake Bentley, make sure you hit him up on Blake underscore Bentley TV, everywhere you can find him, especially on Spotify. Hit that bad boy up. Late night texting. And if you want to see more of my face, I'll be uploading a picture of this tonight. That's right. Also an audio format. I was thumbing up the entire really good point. That's a great point. I have to say that thumbs up. We should say anytime we do anything physical for all you audio listeners out there, thumbs up. We were just putting our thumbs up. If you were listening, that's not a peace sign. That's the piece. Yeah, peace sign.

If you want more gang signs, pick up Blake Bentley, blake underscore Bentley TV. And if you want to, it might be YT soon, it might be Blake underscore YT for YouTube. Oh, yeah. Because the thing changed. Yeah. I'm not going to stream on Twitch anymore. If I do stream, if I do come back to streaming, I'm thinking about it. I'm just going to stream on YouTube. I'm getting more engagement on YouTube than I ever did on fucking Twitch. And I'm only posting shorts, so I'm going to fucking stream over there as well. Why not put all my eggs in one basket? Because diversification is for chumps. All right? Yeah, exactly. If you want to see more of my head, which will be posted on Instagram tonight, actually, I might even make a YouTube short. Do it. I will. Okay. Just do it. Make sure you hit me up at Switchblades for Kids. All one word, everywhere you can find me. Yeah. Thumbs up. For all your audio listeners out there. Thumbs up. Thumbs up. I'm also on Spotify as well, so you can go there and listen to some music. Speaking of which, I won't be sorry. I still listen to it. Oh, that's not thank you. It's still in my gym. Like, it's in my rotation. It's still in my rotation. Oh, excellent. I'm going to leave my rotation. I love it. I'll try and make you another banger. I need another good cardio banger. Yeah.

All right. Can you just do that now for me? Thank you for listening. Thank you for being here. I'm sorry, I'm tired. It's been a long two weeks. I'm planning on getting to sleep earlier now, though. Thumbs up. Thumbs up for all your audio listeners out there. Thumbs up. Thumbs up. Thank you so much for listening. I'm switchblades for kids. Thumbs up. Thumbs up. Thumbs up. Thumbs up. The other half of the podcast, we just got to end it. There blake Bentley, we will see you next Thursday. Thumbs up. Oh, my God. I was trying to end it. Thumbs up.