The Prod.cast

Hello and welcome to the podcast, a podcast of we talk life, work, and occasionally music. My name is Switchblades for Kids and the other half of the podcast. My name is Blake Bentley. Hello. Hey, how you doing? Good morning. How's the kids? They're kids. They're children. Oh, man. How you doing, dude? How you going? Good, man. I've had, I would say, a very productive but not very hectic last couple of days. That's good. I'll just quickly say at the start, this is going to be a short one. This will be a short episode at 15 minutes. Look at your scrubber right now. When it says 15 minutes, either one of us is going to say, times up. Yeah, pretty much like, actually, we're recording late because yesterday I had the big vomit bug. I was spewy, spew everywhere. It was real bad. And I don't know when I went to sleep. I don't know when I woke up. It was in and out all day. Jackie was the same. Don't know how the kids survived. They just did. They gave me super bugs. And they've got superimmunity, apparently, because my son's all good. But Harper vomited everywhere all night. And it was fucking hell. It was absolute hell. And then I was like, great. I thought maybe she ate something, right? Then it continued and continued and continued. She got Castro and now we got it. And I feel all right ish I ate food. But you feel better today? I feel better. I'm not vomiting. That's the main thing. I went, I think, almost 35 hours without eating, because I didn't eat dinner the night before. Because I ate like a late lunch. Yeah. And I ate a lot for lunch. I was like, no, I'm just going to skip dinner. About eating. Not eating for 35 hours. You don't feel hungry until it's like until it's like last hour. And you're like, maybe I should think, yeah, I could literally eat everyone in this house. I could cook you all up and eat all of you. And then you're just like, absolutely ravenous. I've definitely had those days where it's like, I didn't eat at all yesterday. And then you wake up in the morning, you're like, what's this weird feeling in my stomach? It's something don't feel right. I'm going to fucking destroy this cupboard. Yeah, and then you do. And then you feel real sick again. Yeah, that was me. Anyway, actually, speaking of not eating, my my mate recently did a four day fast, so he has been diagnosed with a lot of bad shit. One of them being the big diabetes, right? Yeah. Not good. Yeah, it's horrible. But he's got type two. I think type two is a very common one. Type one is like the real fucking bad one. Yeah, I think it's type one is like genetic. And type two is diet. No, I think they all can be genetic. And they all most likely yeah. I have diabetes in my family, so I'm more likely to get diabetes. But I think if I was to continue gaining weight, like if I hadn't started my weight loss journey welcome to my journey. Coming up in four months. Four months on the videos. Yeah, but if I hadn't started that, I think I would have very easily gotten diabetes. I could have already gotten it at some point and just maintained it through sugar without realizing. Well, my mate did this four day fast. And he was told by the fucking doc, he's like, look, you got diabetes. And he goes, okay, cool. How do I fix that? And he's like, well, you can take penicillin. Not penicillin, fucking insulin. Excuse me? Oh, it's even worse. Oh, no, I'm going to talk through it.

He was told straightaway is like, just get on insulin. It'll fix you right up. And he's like, I'm not going to do that. What else can we do? And he's like, fix your diet. Fix your diet is the fucking easiest. Not the easiest, but it's not the fastest. But it will fucking do wonders. Yeah, but it's lifelong. It's lifelong. And you'll fix your diabetes. Exactly. Instead of just like fucking stabbing insulin into yourself all the fucking time. So he was like, okay, cool. So what do you want me to do? And he's like, well, I need you to lose a lot of weight. And he's like, okay. And he's like, here, I'll give you a diet plan. He is fucking all this stuff. And he's like, cool. Thanks, doc. He went home and he's like, so the doc told me to lose a whole heap of weight, so I'm just not going to eat. And for everyone listening, they're probably just going to be like, what the fuck? What an idiot. Why would you do fasting, blah, blah, blah, fasting? Like when he told the dog after his four day thing, he said, yeah, I just didn't eat for four days. And he's like, oh, okay. Nice. Well done. He didn't go like, you should have eaten. You needed this much. You needed bologne, whatever. He was like, what you've done is used your entire body as its energy source. And there's studies about autophagy and fasting and what it does for your cells and how it actually is really a good thing. You can fast. That's why we have intermittent fasting is a very popular way to diet. I started doing it, but look, I could do it. I have no problems doing it. Yeah, pretty much. But it's all just about just limiting when you can have calories, so you just have less of them, really, because you know what I mean? Because over the course of the day, if you limit yourself to like a four hour window of eating, that's pretty extreme. But somewhere between four and 8 hours, most of the day you're not eating. Which means it's also like not taking any calories, right? So you can only have water, like black coffee, that sort of stuff. So espressos and water, that's pretty much all I had. And gum, right? Espressos, water, and gum. That's all I would have for like I think it was like 18 hours a day. And then the rest of the 6 hours was eating. Right. So I'd have lunch and then I'd have dinner and then that would be it. And yeah, it worked for me, but it's just limiting. I still had lots of calories because I was still eating shit food. Yeah, that's the thing, is it has to be paired with obviously good food. Yeah. You still need to eat well. Yeah. You can't have KFC for lunch and dinner and expect to lose weight. I'm following the timings. You're having 4000 calories in that 6 hours. Yeah, exactly. You're not going to lose weight. Well, there was a study done a long while ago, a dude literally fasted for nearly two years. Nearly two fucking years. He just did not eat. And obviously after about a week, I think it's about four days. Four days. Three days. Because he was a big fat man. He was a giant fat man. Wow. Because it's such a such a localized study. It's literally a study on one man and how he did not fucking for nearly two years. It's like, oh, well, this is just a small case study and this is not like actual science. And there's no whatever. You know what? This man Litro didn't fucking eat for two years. He's still alive and he lost almost all of the weight that he needed to, and now he's living a fucking very healthy weight. And Winnie shall the fuck out. He's just having a terrible dream. He's having a night there, not eating for two years. Like, I can't eat for two. He's losing it. But yeah, no, look, this dude fucking if he can not eat for two years and go down to a healthy weight and then just be like, okay, call, I'm going to resume eating bruh. Like, fuck, you've done. It life hack. Don't eat if you're being fat. But that's the thing. It's literally eat less, move more. That is how you lose body fat percentage. That's what he did. Because losing weight and losing body fat percentage is two different things, right? Because you can lose weight by losing muscle mass as well. But ideally, pairing gym with eating less, that's the whole moving more. You'll still be building strength, building muscle, but losing body fat. Because ideally you want to be strong, right? You want to be able to live healthy and be athletic to some degree, right? Yeah, exactly. Depends on you still need to be able to pick up the fucking groceries, right? You still need to be able to pick both children up and run around the backyard in the pouring rain, right? You still need to be able to do that. It's a very specific thing, but it's something I do. You need to be like anyone that's thinking about doing fasting, you still need to think about your salt intake and the fact that because you're not eating, you are still expending calories and your body is still using up the calories from the body. So when you increase your activity levels, you can just fucking pass out because you don't have any your energy levels are still being sourced from your body, which is sort of slow to react to you fucking doing shit. So it's not like fast acting cars where you're like, I'm just going to have a couple of lollies and then it's like, I'm fucking juiced up, ready to lift another 300 kilos. It's fucking like, oh, cool, I'm going to go for a walk. I need to do it slowly or I need to just fucking yeah, I noticed not when I was fasting. I noticed worse was morning shifts. I'd be smashing coffee all day. Like, all fucking day. Because it's like, I have no energy and I start at six in the morning and I don't get to eat till I think it was two. Yeah, I think it was 02:00 was my start of my eating, so I wouldn't get to eat till the end of my shift. I'd have to go an entire shift of working with zero substance, with zero energy because I hadn't had anything to eat. I was living off caffeine. And I don't think that's much healthier, honestly. It's something watching this dude, he has a YouTube channel called What I've Learned. He did a three week fast. I think it was a three week or a one month fast. He found that when he upped his salt intake, he would literally just have water and salt and he would just pour like a tablespoon of salt into a fucking glass and down that. And he found that his energy levels would just absolutely go fine. He would track his, like, how good he was feeling and his energy levels and they sort of coincided, like, he'd be happier after having a whole heap of salt. And his energy levels were really good. And so he found that if you want to sort of maintain fasting, just make sure your salt levels are good because that's sort of like, I don't know your energy. I don't know how to really fully I don't know how sodium works. Yeah, I might have to read up on how sodium works. Talking about reading up, Zach, it's a short episode, but break out. I look in financial newspaper. It's dad chapel. Look, I just want to quickly bring attention to it. Right? I think last episode, we talked a lot about trying to actually get on top of finances and I want to be successful. I want an empire that rivals the Holy Roman Empire. Okay? That's my life. Take half the world. You real. Yeah, that's my life. Goal, you see? And if I make it like, even 0.1% of the way, I'll probably be pretty happy, because that 0.1% of the way means I probably own a few houses and a few businesses. Right. I'd be pretty happy with that. But my goal, shoot for the moon and you hit the stars. You're still done pretty well, you're still in space. Exactly. Unfortunately, this is a short episode, we won't talk much about it, but over the next, I would say twelve months. Yeah, I would say over the next twelve months, yourself and Kim and myself and Jackie, we're all reading up and learning. We're learning on how to be rich. It sounds dumb. No, I wouldn't say it's how to be rich, I would say it's how to just be educated with money. Yeah. Because, I mean, I also want to be rich, but I feel like that's poorly educated. I feel like, yeah, being rich is like the result of being educated. It's like a symptom of being financially literate. Right, right. Like, you're like, oh, you're financially literate, you just have a lot of money because you know how to not waste money at this point. Yes. You know what I mean? And I've already noticed it, man, my bank account is looking so fucking juicy and we've only been doing it for a month. There you go. And I just look at the bank and it's ridiculous because I was like, when do I get paid? I was just like, not this week, next week. And I'm like, normally we have fucking money at this point, and we're like hanging on for Jackie's pay, which is like minuscule because she gets a little bit from her work and a little bit from centrelink. Right? Yeah. And it's like minuscule normally. And we're just making it into my pay. Whereas currently we're sitting at three times as much as we normally have. There you go. Yeah. And we have our Bills account, so we have money in the Bills account, so it's ridiculous just taking notice of our spending and not wasting money. We still go out, like, we still go out and eat. Yeah. I took the kids to fucking arcade, which is where we probably got the gastro from on the weekend, like, almost definitely, right. I still took them to the arcade. I still spent 60 bikes at the time.

Oh, my God. Look, we'll go over a couple of minutes, okay? Yeah. I was going to say, you know, time extension five minutes. Yeah, time extension five minutes. But no more. No fucking more. Okay. But yeah, you know, like, it's the fact is, just reading about how money works, not wasting it, and it's like you're going to say it, that's it, time up. That is it. Time is up. 50 minutes have gone out. Time's up. Times up. Now you've said it. Times up. Anyway, what I would say is, just before you go on any further just to preface everything that has already been said about what we're talking about, which is? Which is having a financial education, we should state the fact that we're both reading the same books. We're both reading Rich Dad, Poor dad and the Barefoot Investor. Both of these are like, bestsellers in the world, pretty much. I'm pretty sure Barefoot Investor is a worldwide bestseller. Best thing about barefoot is it's very Australian market because he's an Aussie boy, he's a farmer. It's all about what we can do in Australia. More so because a lot of the rich dad poor dad stuff is American demographic. Of course. I'm just reading as much as I can and just filtering in what works for me and then filtering out what doesn't. Yeah, well, that's how you're supposed to take in any sort of self help book or any sort of educational book. You're supposed to glean what you can from whatever you can and absorb it and the rest. If it doesn't apply to you, man, there's no point in reading it. I've looked at entire chapters and I've gone, I'm not going to read that chapter. Or I'll read the first couple of pages, and if it doesn't fucking apply to me, I don't give a fuck, because if it doesn't work, I'm not going to fucking waste my time reading an entire chapter on something that's not for me, but to sort of put the gold star on it. Guys, we're going to be obviously talking about finance, or at least like, money and the education of it, because I think everyone should have it. I think everyone should have it too. And it might not look on the court, we might have to make another podcast for that. It might genuinely have to be its own thing at some point, but we'll just sprinkle it in. I just remember the name. I just remember the name. Yeah, but we'll sprinkle it in here for now. I think we'll probably just do weekly updates on how we're going, because I'm looking at opening a business. I'm looking at making my first shares investment. When I say first, I've invested in shares, I've invested in crypto. I've done that before. But this is a proper Jackie and I educated like shares investment. It is not me by myself throwing money at a wall and hoping it sticks. It is. Jackie and I both agreeing on a share to buy because we're both read up on what it is and why we should buy it. That's literally it. Yeah. I want to keep, like, a fucking spreadsheet on why I bought shares as well. So whether it was like, if it was genuinely, like, an emotional buy or if there was an actual reason or there was something I heard that made me buy it, because later I'll forget about it. Ten years down the track, five years down track, one year down track, whatever. If it blows up and I'm like, Fuck, what did I buy that I can at least know why if it doesn't blow up and it's sitting there and it's just sort of been stable the whole time but not really grown, well, fuck, did I buy that shit? At least it gives me something to go back onto it. So again, I can fucking educate myself on more shit. That's all it is. I feel at the end of the day, I feel like it's just we need to learn as much as we can so that I'm sick of struggling with money. Honestly. I'm sick of struggling with money. I think out of everyone, like anyone would be. If you're like me, you're fucking 30 and you realize that there was a couple of bad years, and you're just, where the hell did all that money go? A couple of bad years? Well, there's a thing of like, I had to look back through because I already had ing accounts made. These are just like I don't know what you call them. So there's savings accounts, and they had money in them. At one point, I had three accounts, and they all had nearly $1,000 each because I had just left it in there. And I was just like, oh, cool. And at one point, I just took it all out. You don't know why? Actually, I think I do know why. I think I put it all into an app called Raise, which is just Acorns or something. And all it does is it automatically separates, divvies up all the money and puts it into stocks, and then they utilize your money, but you put your money into the thing and there's a fee, blah, blah, blah, or whatever it is. I don't know if it's a zero fee. I can't remember. I think it is monthly, but it's like fucking $5 or something like that. But looking at it, because I started in 2018, I can look back at the all time thing on Raise about where I've taken out money out of that as well. And it's like, oh, cool. This is where we hit five K. And that's where I took about $4,000 out for I don't know what. And then it's like and then it builds back up again, and you're like, Man, I really am saving my money. There it all goes again. And if you had not touched it, how much better would you have been? Do you know what I mean? I'd have, like, 1520K right now. Yeah, that's the thing. So the idea just quickly, before we go into the album of the week that I did not listen to and we'll talk about that. We'll talk about that. I did listen to the artist. Anyway, my idea, right, is that every dollar I invest, I'm not taking out. That's my goal, right, is that every dollar I invest, I'm not taking out. I said this to you, and I think I said this last week, too, is I don't want a paycheck. I want to just learn how to make money in other ways. I want to not have to worry about money, and I want to just have as much assets as possible so that I can buy more assets. As in cars. With my assets, there is a certain cars of liability, but I want to find a way to make it an asset. There is a certain quote that I realize that you keep saying, and it is, I don't want to work for a paycheck.

What does he say? Does it say that on the front? No, it does say on the front. It's like the first fucking chapter. Is it literally the first chapter? Yeah. I think I said that because he talks about he worked for free at his friend's dad's convenience store or something. That's what I here's the other one. Get this one as well. Guys, I don't know if you'll see what I'm looking at, but that's $1 bill, that looks burnt. It's so old, dude, I found it in that disgusting. It's old. It's just old. It's like it's got rust all over it. Look at it. That's filthy. It's not. It's just rust. It is rust. That's filthy. Oh, shut up.

Long story short, we're going to put weekly updates on how we're going. We might turn it into another podcast eventually if it gains traction. I don't know. I would say this is anyone out there right now that is like, oh, man, I like that. These guys are starting to look after their money. This is your call to action right now. Just to buy two books. Buy two books. I think I spent fucking $20 on two books. And it was the Barefoot Investor and Rich Dad, Poor dad and begin to just learn about money. Even in The Barefoot Investor, it literally tells you what to do. Gives you steps on, like, this. I've saved so much money already. Like, hundreds a month already. Yeah. I'm not even talking about all the fees from my bank accounts and stuff. Like, I'm just talking about, like, simple things that I never had to actually spend money on. Hundreds a week at this point. Honestly. Yeah. There you go. And like I said, my bank account is three times more than it usually is at this point of my pay cycle. I'm actually at a point where I don't think we're living check to paycheck now. There you go. You know what I mean? Like, we've gone from living paycheck to not. I think there'd be a lot of people out there that want that, or they want to sort of just get better at it, and they just don't know how. Exactly. Know how to do it. Exactly. Because who does if you don't get taught it? But anyway exactly. Look, Zack, there is rich rage against the machine. You know what album is really good? Rage against the machine. Or is it Evil Empire? Let me tell everyone

we talked about Evil Empire the whole time. And then I think last minute we changed it to the self titled. And in my head, I went away from that just going, yeah, we're listening to Evil Empire. Yeah, we're listening to Rage Against the Machine. The album is called Rage Against the Machine. Yeah, but listen to the Rage Against the Machine, Blake. Listens to Evil Empire. You know what's good, though? We really double off in album. Actually. No, no. You know what's even better is that I listened to this. My dad must have had this album. Yeah. Because I went through every song just before we we start, we hit record. And I know every single song. I fucking wish I listened to the right album because my God, dude, the nostalgia hit every time I hit next. Oh, my God, this album is so good. Well, you know what? Let's start with you and evil empire. What did you think of Evil? So this is part one of the album of the week. Look. Coming to you live from the podium, man. Evil empire is all right. It's good. Bulls on Parade is really good. The rest of the album is nice. I wasn't the biggest fan if I'd listened to the self title. Oh, man. Yeah. It's such a better album when I bring out the Matrix song. Wake up, brush, dude. So if you could give Evil Empire, like, a baby rating, what would you reckon? No, it's not bad. It's probably out of five out of five because it's a baby rating. If we didn't listen to the album, two probably a two and a half. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. I would have given it a five out of ten, so I said two and a half. Yeah, look, there you go. It's all right. Like Bulls on Parades really good now, you know what? Bulls on parades on there. I bump it up to a three out of five. You know what? If Bulls on Parade was on the raging, self told album? Just a ten episode. Fucking ten out of ten out of yeah. I just quickly went through and listened to a lot. And I remember the start of almost every song as soon as it started. So I was like, I must have listened to this as a kid because it came out two years before I was born. Came out 1992. And I tell you what, it's a fucking banger. This album is great, but you you tell us about it because I I can't really give it a great because I just remember it from nostalgia. I've I've got got only fucking four words. Killing in the name of his five words. But the song is called Killing in the Name. So you're good. Okay. Well, yeah, killing in the Name. My mum used to walk around like, she told me when she was a teenager she used to walk around singing that song in the house. I was sick because when I say I was born two years later my mother was a teenager when I was born, apparently when she was like 14. Because I was born when she was 16. Yeah, when the oven came out, she used to walk around. Fuck. You won't do what you tell me. Yeah, man, my dad was the same. My dad was absolutely the fucking same. I think. When big day out. Back in the day, fucking, like, ages ago. This was in early two thousand s or late 90s. Big day out. Had rage against the machine. I think they were, like, headlining. I think they went and seen them when I was just, like a little kid and I didn't understand you don't understand things when you're a little kid. But I talked to them about it fucking later. And they're, like, raised against the machine. We saw a Silver Chair when they were like this tiny little side stage. They seemed like heaps of these acts that are now just like these household names. They were, like, playing the shitty side stages. They only had, like an album out and that was it. And they were just like little kids. Silver Chair were kids when they fucking started and they were pretty much just out of being kids to get on Big Day Out sort of shit. For anyone else that doesn't know what Big Day Out is, it is just a big music festival. Yeah, it was a big music festival. Yeah. Honestly, to keep it very short, this album is extremely influential by political fucking rockers that were if you just look at the COVID do you understand what the COVID is? Is that Gandhi? That is a monk that poured fuel all over himself and lit himself on fire in protest. Wow, what a guy. He just sat there and lit himself on fire. So there was a lot of video of that. Like, you can see the video of it. It's like history sort of shit. I can't remember what he was actually protesting. It was probably fucking protesting China fucking invading Tibet at the time. But, yeah, there was this one photographer that just took a picture of exactly what the album cover is, I think, at the time, raging. It's a machine. Just seeing the picture. And was like, that's the album cover. That's it. We're taking it. And they were told that's copyright pitch. And then they said, Fuck you, I won't do it. To tell me. And they wrote it. Would you believe they wrote a whole song about it? No. They're very politically fucking motivated as a band, obviously. I think it might have been a couple of years back or just recently, they were nominated to for the BBC. They were nominated. So they beat out an actual Christmas song for the end of year. Sort of like oh, yeah, I think it. Was like, I can't remember what the actual story is, but they beat some fucking shitty Christmas song by the mainstream pop that was generated by fucking corporations sort of shit. Generated by AI. Exactly. So the people voted for raging its machine to fucking win this, whatever it is. And so they said, hey, guys, can you perform a song? Like, yeah, can we perform Killing the name? They're like, yeah, sure. All right. But you can't swear you can't do the end bit. You can't say fuck you. I won't do what you tell me. So they're like, well, what are we going to do? I want to say, I won't do what you tell me. That would be the bit. When it got to that point, they just fucking Zack, the fucking the lead singer, just looked at the rest of them, was like, sending it absolutely let loose. They got their broadcast cut and they went back to, like, these two reporters sitting at the desk and they're just like, sorry to interrupt the broadcast. Fucking yeah. So they just kept on rocking. And then they had, like, an interview afterwards and she like that. And now it's like, mainstream sucks. The man the man. That was the thing, man. Because they're still at heart, like Tomarello fucking and just all of them, really. They're all fucking anti establishment. They're true fucking punk rock, man. I think at one point they were fucking labeled Reggae, would you believe? No, I think I remember that really early on, they were like political reggae. Yeah, I think I remember something about that. I think that's from dad as well. Honestly. Like I said, I used to listen to Radiance Machine as a child. As a small child. Playing all these songs is just like, I fucking heard this album. Like, I've heard this album before in my small childhood. Which is funny because when you look at the lyrics on a lot of these songs, you're like, probably not. But look, I'm real sad that I'd listen to the wrong one. And I'm probably going to listen to this album tomorrow just for the sake of listening to it. Yeah, exactly. What do you rate it? What do you give it, this album? It's like a 9.5, I was going to say. Because honestly, without even, like, listening to it again, because knowing that I have especially when I go through it, I was like, I know every fucking song. This is wild. This is nostalgia. Head is insane without even listening to it again. I'd give it an eight and then I bet you after I listen to it, I'd give it a nine. Yeah. You'd be punching through your steering wheel going, wake up the Matrix. Fucking what do you call it? It's the ending credits. End credits song. Dude, it's so good. Yeah, fantastic. It's so good. What a good album. How fucked. I listen to the wrong album and the bucket is so much worse. So good. Like it's all right. Yeah, great. If you want to listen to Rage Dance Machine, you listen to this fucking album. Because this is rage. Yeah, that's it. In my opinion, this is Pinnacle. Rage against the machine. Yeah. Killing in the Name is like the most iconic song from Rage Against the Machine. 100%. 100% fucking percent. You think it fucking kills in the Name, you think of fuck, you won't do it. That's like saying, like, Nirvana not being known for Smells like Teen Spirit. Yeah. You know what I mean? This is what they were known for, sort of shit. Yeah. Also, because as soon as you hear the start of it, you're just like, oh. You're like, I just put it on before. Like, oh, man, get this. I was driving to work and I was literally about to go into the gates and the song started up and I was like, oh, my God, this is on this fucking album. And I just, like, turned it up. And I'm like so whether they'll pass, like, beepy thing is there's a speaker there. It is always on so that whatever you say, they can hear. We didn't know this one day, man. Fucking we've got four people in the car and we're just rolling up and there was a chick at the fucking just sitting in the security box, right? Yeah. And I come with the fuck was next to me. They're like, oh, she's all right. And then she just looks at us and she smiles. And I was like, oh, shit. She can hear us, dude. And she's like and so I knew that he could hear it, so I just added, like, blaring. And fucking was like, beep. And just as loud as it could possibly be. Just fucking straight into that 16 months. And this old man's like, he's like I remember The Matrix. I was there for the Matrix. Yeah. No, overall, this is a fucking Tiptop album. This is a must listen sort of fucking album album. Yeah. This is like up there with a fucking beal sort of shit. Like, you just got to listen. Yeah, I would agree. Listen to Rage Against The Machine and fuck the government. I'm in the government. Fuck the government. This is your daily reminder to commit tax fraud right now. Steal from the government. And big corporations. There are two massive fucking corporations. I'm about to blow the fucking lid off them. They call BlackRock and Vanguard. And they own everything between the both of them. Everything in the world. Yeah. I'm not talking like, oh, they just own culls and that sort they own fucking everything in the world. BlackRock Vanguard. Look it up. I just found it out myself. And I've just gone. Wow. I'm completely disillusioned to the whole, like, I can have an empire. Trump thinks he's got, like, a lot of money. These are people that will never fucking these are lizard people that aren't like everything, man. Lizard people that never die. Nuts, man. You think there's like little people that fucking wear roads and control, like the world, like the aluminum and you're just like, no, man. They're called BlackRock and Vanguard and they fucking do whatever the hell they want. That sounds about right. Yeah. Besides all that, you know what album we're going to listen to? I don't zacharia, real quick. My wedding ring don't fit on my ring finger anymore. It keeps falling off because I've lost weight. Holy good thing. But yeah, you get a recycle. Same with this one. I have to put it on the fucking rings now. Damn, that's awesome. That is really annoying. But it's good. Yeah, it fell off at work today and I was just like, that's it. It's just not even yeah, like it doesn't even stop. That's a good problem. That's a problem you want to have. Yeah. I know this is actually difficult, but anyway, what are we listening to, Zachary? Sorry. I saw the ring in my camera. I was just like, I answer the other hand. This week we are going to listen to someone who has been quite prolific in new artists and groundbreaking production. Quite influential for us as well. Yeah, 100%. He runs a I think it's weekly beat battle where he gets entries in from producers all around the world and him and a guest host judge and they compete for fucking like $10,000 sort of shit. Yeah. Does he still do it? Yeah, he still does a beat bubble. Yeah. But the thing is that it works up in a season and then he has the grand finale. I watch the grand finale of season one, I think. Yeah. There you go. It was really good. It was fucking really good, man. All the guys that were on there were really fucking good. Yeah, I'm pretty sure the first one was Spell. I think he came third or something like that. Oh, that was the one I watched. Yeah. Fucking third. Yeah. Spell. If you don't know, we're not listening to Spell. I can't remember the dude who won. I can't remember. No, neither. No, I remember his dance. But we do remember the host and an absolute fucking genius producer. He has a small show called The Cave where he gets guest rappers in and does like one off songs. Just like what do you call them? Like, there's fucking like here getting the booth, fucking freestyle and here's a beat. You're done. Yeah. What do you call it? It's just freestyle and over a beat. Yeah. Essentially it is Kenny. It's Kenny beats. Round of applause Kenny beats. And we're going to be listening to his solo album that he just recently put out, I think it was like last year called Louie. And this is just him for 33 minutes just letting his brain out on a CD. It's great because he doesn't do vocals. He's not a vocals kind of guy. No, he's just a producer. He's a producer, but a DJ. Producer and DJ. Yeah. What a guy, though. He makes some fucking good beats, man. Honestly, when I think about it, he's done a lot of stuff with Ski Master Slump. God makes some really good shit with him. The Zack box stuff. Zack Fox. I got depression. Yeah. Jesus is the one.

After you get off listening to us, okay, just type in into Spotify fucking I Got Depression or Jesus is the One. Just Zack Fox. Zack Fox appreciate even just Z-A-C-H-F-O-X. Zack Fox You will listen to some of the funniest and fucking and sometimes really it's really good music as well. He's released more music, by the way. Yeah, he has. Zack Fox has an album. He's released an album. Did. We should listen. We should listen to that. Next, Kenny meets it and Zack Fox, and then we'll integrate both of them with depression. For anyone who doesn't know, Zack Fox is a comedian. Comedian who falls into a rapper. He tweeted at Kenny saying, can't wait to get into the studio to make this hot beat or something. And Kenny's like, what the fuck are you talking about? He DM'd him like, Bro, what are you talking about? He's like, now we got to do it. Yeah, that's it. He went in for a fucking cave episode and created this hot track called Jesus Is the One. Parentheses. I got depression in parentheses. What a banger. It's got 43 million streams on Spotify. Best for 1 minute and 52 seconds. Yeah, it's worth a listen. I've listened to it countless times. Hundreds. I've watched it be made. Hundreds. Yeah. I've watched that episode so many times, and even I think after that, they did Square Up, which is a full video clip. Square up is so yeah. Full on music video. It's it's fantastic. It's it's absolutely perfect. Yeah. Yeah. Recommend everyone listen to Kenny beats and Zack Fox. The collaboration between them. But for this week, because we are keeping it short, we are at the 42 minutes mark in 9 seconds. Right now, we are going to wrap it up. Make sure you listen to Kenny beats. By. Sorry, Louie. By Kenny beats. That's a b. Specifically, yes. Could you listen to Evil Empire instead of the self titled album from Rage Against the Machine? You goose. You silly goose. I'm a big fuck head. That will be it from all of us here at the podcast. Thank you guys so much for listening. If you want to see more of the podcast, make sure you check us out on Instagram and YouTube. There is a TikTok page up. Don't know if it's getting used. There is shorts still to be made. Look, I need to get back on top of that. If you want to see more of Blake Bentley, make sure you check him out on Spotify to check out that hot track late night texting. Hit him up on YouTube. Hit him up on because you don't do twitch anymore. It's now YouTube. If I do stream if you do stream, make sure you get there soon and make sure you follow his fitness journey into just losing heaps of weight and fucking getting heap strong on Instagram and TikTok at Black underscore Bentley YouTube. Oh yeah. Because it is on the shorts. There you go. And if you want to see more of me, make sure you hit up switchblades for kids. All one word everywhere you can find me. I am very SEO friendly, I found out. Because having one word name that is really long and complex. Boom. That is how you survive in the algorithm. Yeah. Because you search that and you're always going to be the comes up. Exactly. Always be the first one that comes up. Whereas sometimes when you search the podcast you'll get another podcast which is also called the podcast. But we're called the Pod podcast. Not the same podcast. There's also multiple the podcast there is but that doesn't matter. We are the podcast. Yeah, guys, if you liked, listen to it. Make sure you like share, subscribe, follow, do whatever the fucking buttons are. Hit those notifications, the bell ding, fucking other other noises and words. Do things, loud noises. Make sure you're productive in your days and sleep well at night. Get on to saving money. Be a good person. Pat a dog. Kick the cats and looking at the dog and pat a cat dead. Shaking babies and kissing hands. That's it. Blake, you want to go on shakes and babies? Yeah, I'd love it. Let's go. We'll see you next Thursday.