The Prod.cast

Hello, and welcome to an extra special episode of the broadcast, a podcast that we talk life, work, and occasionally music. My name is Switchblades for Kids and the other half of the podcast. I'm Blake Ventley. Hello. Hello. And I know, Blake, what you're going to ask is why is tonight's episode an extra special episode? Is it the episode? It's not. It's the 89th episode, which means it's eleven episodes away from the 100th episode. That means you the listener and the viewer possibly know right now, you're eleven episodes away. Some would say some would say eleven weeks, but some could be wrong, because eleven weeks, eleven episodes, it doesn't matter. If you could listen to all eleven episodes right on the 99th one, you know what I mean? You could do all that in one day. It would be rough. 11 hours. And in 11 hours, it would be the 100th episode. If you're doing that right now, you're listening to all of it in a row from now until it's the 100th episode. Well done. First of all, you just did it. Get it? Like, eleven episodes in a day. Well done. I've listened to a lot of podcasts while driving as a sales rep. I didn't listen to eleven in a day. Eleven in a row of the same podcast in a day. Listener that is doing that right now. Keep going. Don't stop. This is the start. You've got ten more to go. Let us know, because that's wild. Why, first of all, why? It's extra special episode to do with your time. Very extra. Hey. Whoa. These people have got excellent things to do with their time. They're listening to us. Yeah. So informative and educational. We got reasons people listen to us because our political views on music I've got leanings. I lean. One way or the other, I listened to the wrong album this week.

How are you going, man? How you doing? Good. I'm sunburnt. I can sort of see it's not too bad.

It's a little bit crunchy, but I still went and mowed the lawn this afternoon, so it's not that crunchy. Let's hit some heat stroke at the same time. Double it up. That was too bad today. I don't think it was pretty overcast. Yeah, I did it the perfect time because this huge cloud came over, and I was just, like, running. Absolutely running with the lawnmower. I had the headphones on, so I don't know if the lawnmower was actually running. While I was running, the lines pluck in like a snake through the lawn. Look, it is what it is. This is the thing is, what I know about the army is if you've shaved and it looks like shit, you've still shaved. You've just done it bad. Okay? No one can say you didn't shave, and you can't be charged for not shaving, because you did shave shitty, but you still did it. Exactly. So I still mowed the lawn today. Okay, blake, you can't fucking take that away from me. I mean, you did better than what I did. Today was first air prep. What do you mean? First day of prep for Harper Prep. Like school preparatory schools? Yes. Nice. Very cool. It was hard. I'll tell you what. How long were you there? Not too long. It was more than getting there. Okay. All right. Start me off. Put me in the mental space. I want to be there. So we woke up pretty early, like five ish. To get ready for school at 839 o'clock. Yeah, we knew it was going to be a long one. So Jackie takes the dog for a walk. I'm just chilling because I always do. Every morning. I'm just like struggling to live no matter what fair. I'm not a morning person. I fucking hate waking up in the morning. I am not a morning person. I'm like, kill me now. I'm like, go fucking take a shit and make a coffee and just try and live for the first half hour. And the kids are usually cool. Like Aloe just hangs out. He just runs around and plays. And Harper is usually watching TV or playing on his tablet. And then as soon as I got ready so I got changed into my uniform and everything because I knew it was going to be rough. And then I spent the next, I'm going to say at least an hour trying to nicely get Harper to put a uniform on because I didn't want shit time. And then the last ten minutes of just nut, that's it, we're done. Just put your fucking uniform on. Just tie your hair up. All right? Everything was done at that point except her uniform. So put the uniform on. She got really shitty. She didn't want to wear it and fucking carried on like a pork chop as she does. That'll happen. Separation anxiety. Separation anxiety disorder, I think is what some therapist play therapist lady said, but still yet to actually kids got the sad. Kids got that. Yeah, fair enough. Sad. Still yet to actually get a proper diagnosis. But at a preliminary examination, it was, yeah, like, this could be it. And I was like, okay, cool. What do we do? She's like, look, it's going to take a bit of time, okay? We got to take her to therapy and shit on Fridays, which will be fine because I don't work Fridays again after this. Oh, there you go. I'm back to not working anyway this morning. Finally get to school and it's like she's in there crying and not loving life and fucking hating everything. Teach us to pull her off us. And then we leave. By the leave, I mean, we go outside for a bit, go to the office, grab some more shirts for a uniform and stuff. And as we're leaving, the principal comes down. She's like, oh, she's settling down. She's not too bad. Thank fucking crossed. Yeah. We then went to the cafe just to chill out. I got some things. Benny. I was like, beauty. I was just, like, doing emails and making phone calls from the cafe as well, because I may as well consider it work, a working breakfast and then yeah, I decided to go to Toowoomba for my day because I had to. Right, okay. On the way up the range, right, I'm sort of training the new girl up there. Right, okay. I didn't just choose to go to Toowoomba. Yeah. I was like, man, you went a long way just to go and take prep. No, she goes to prep near us anyway, out to Toowoomba. And as I'm going up the range, right, yeah. My car gets a bit of a wobble. It's a bit of a my experience of blowing tires, and I've done this a lot of tires. I have blown many a tire at high speeds as well. This is at the range at a fairly low speed. I was like, Sounds a bit like a flat. I got to where I was meant to go, right. The facility to train the new girl. And I was just like I pulled over and I had a look and it was a little low. I was like, yeah, maybe it's just a bit how you going? It just needed a bit of air. Drive down to the Servo, start putting Erin. 32 PSI. It's like banged, exploded, blew the side a sidewall out. Shit. Yeah. 32 PSI. Didn't know why I was like that's. Pretty full on, but okay. Called a tow truck, waited 2 hours for a tow truck. Wait, you didn't have a spare? The spare is already on there.

I should have replaced it, but I just haven't yet. It was just very low on my priorities list because the car doesn't usually leave town. Right? Yeah, I'm usually like 60 KS an hour max is what that car gets to 99% of the time. So, yeah. So blown tire, 2 hours because it's fucking first day of school and everyone's on the roads, 2 hours to get a tower. Yes. And then I get to the tire shop, hour and a half waiting for them to change the tire. Just one tire, but they were packed. So I spent three and a half hours sitting, waiting. I got to work at 02:00 in the afternoon. Yeah, it's been a long day. And then I was there till like 430, I think, like maybe quarter to five. And then came home and I basically ate dinner, helped put the kids to sleep, had a shower and sat down here and I've just chilled out. It's been a long day, my friend. As far as my week, I think it's just been an average week. I can't remember anything crazy that happened this last week. Nice. I can't remember. What do I do on the weekend? Nothing. I think it's just been today that's been a hectic sort of memorable hectic r1 quick. Went to the swimming pool on Saturday, had a great old swim with the kids, right? And then went back to grab my hat. And the hat's gone. That's weird. I did leave it on the side of the pool, but like, it's a fucking public pool. I left it, like, next to some seats by the side of the pool. Yeah. And Harper's toy. I said, that's fucking weird. Jackie worked over, asked the guys at the front if someone handed in the hat. Nothing. And then we went to sit down in some shade at this table that these decades kids were at, right? And there were these, like, beads everywhere. And I was like, what the fuck are these beads, man? And it was from a toy that Harper had left on the side next to my hat that they had destroyed. Right? So they destroyed a toy for no reason? What the fuck? Yeah, to be fair. Look, it wasn't a good toy. It was like some shitty old rubber frog that I don't even think it was ours. I think we found it at, like, Mars or something. I don't know. Super old, right? It's a shitty old toy. It wasn't anything. It wasn't worth anything. But it was just a fun toy that Harper brought to the pool a couple of times. So she was real fucking upset when we realized what it was and, like, made me real fucking mad, right? Yeah. Go back to the car. And I was like, this fucking dickhead kid sit down. And these kids walk past. And I actually didn't think it was them. I didn't put two and two together. Sat down and Jacket was like, that's the fucking dickhead kids. I was like, well, that's him. She's like, yeah. Literally just fucking yeah. I was just like, fucking undo the seat belt. Let's go throughout the car. Like, just walk straight through, like, the front desk and everything past everyone storming out there. And they tour them, turned around, saw me and just legged it. Because I'm six foot, 230 kilos. I'm a big angry man. And I was just like, the one kit man. He copped it. I feel so bad for him, too, because he wasn't the one who did it. But he absolutely copped it because I was pissed, right? Like, I was fucking mad. And then this chick come over and I was just like, are these your fucking kids? And she was just like, I'm his support worker, all right? And had a bit of a go. It wasn't unreasonable. I was quite obviously angry. And I said it. I was like, they stole a hat. They destroyed my daughter's toy. And she was like she was so angry at him at first and then so apologetics me. And I was talking and I was like, I don't give a fuck about the hat. Honestly, I was like, the toy. I was like, look on my daughter's face. I was ready to strangle. I was fucking mad. Anyway, long story short, I'm wearing the hat. I got the hat back. Wait, did the dude just like come back? No, they ran off. But they left all their bags and shit. So he just went through their bags and grabbed the hat out and gave it back to me. Dumbass bra. I got so angry and I went back to carjack. He's like, I can't believe you did that. It's like, what? Fucking mad. That was my thing. I didn't realize that was them at first. I thought they were just some random kids going to the pool for the first time, not coming back until it clicks. They're just other people. And then if Jackie didn't say anything, they would have just walked by and I would have just fucking kids. Yeah, those fucking shithead kids broke the toilet, stole my house. It's on her. So that was my week. I had an eventful today. An eventful Saturday at the pool. And otherwise I worked and shit. And the played a lot as hard of yeah, well, look how's your week? That was a long fucking long winded story. It's fun. It's exciting. I tell you what was exciting. The chance you get to yeah, it's so good. Some little ruffians up to no good. I had to calm myself down though, because I noticed I was getting louder as I spoke. Just read it off the bus. So I'd speak for a bit and then I'd be like and take a breath of it. Yeah. Like literally. And she could see. She's like, how much is the toy I'll buy. I'll pay for it. And I was just like, it was worthless. It's about five knuckles. About five fucking knuckles. You know what it's worth? It's worth discipline. I was like, fucking kids, man. It's worth bending you over money. It's worth like, I'm going to throw you all into that fucking pool. I'm going to throw you over the pool. I'm going to throw you so hard you missed the real mad. After I got the hat back, I left. And then I started to calm down. And I was like, I'm starting to feel better. When did you like obviously you would have got your hat back. In the process of getting your hat back and just saying, don't fucking do it again. And then you're like, that's like going back to the car. When you were sitting in the car and driving back, when did you finally go that was a lot like instantly I got it in the car and Jackie was just like, I can't believe you did that. She's like, are you good? I was like, I'm good now. I feel pretty good now. Because yeah, it was really like, you do it again. And I was like, I'm going to be mad. Looking at the kid was like, don't do it. Again. And he's like, no, I want you. And I was like I literally said I was like, this is my brand. I was like, If I saw you around the street, you would have copped it. And he's like, I won't do it again. I won't do it again. I was like, Tell your mates that they're idiots. And then I left. Yes. You know what? Grip them up.

Yeah. They got you in trouble. I was like, you were sensible enough to not run off. When he saw me, I was fucking angry. I tell you what sensible. Reckless, maybe just not thinking at all and just going, oh, man. Fatal Flight has told me to fucking stand still. Free. Definitely. I believe that he didn't do anything because he didn't run. That's a good point. Because the other two ran and he was wearing his backpack and he's like, I don't have it, man. Like, he opened his backpack. He was like, Nothing in there. I didn't even look at him. I did not break eye contact with the kid. I don't care about the hat. I was like, I got, like, 20 of these at home.

I was like, Man, I was so fucking angry. But anyway, that's my rant over. Sorry. No, it's good. It's fucking it's funny. I love it. Fucking hooligan. Children. I wish this was the 80s where I could have flogged the shit out of them.

Just feel for me again in your fucking carpet. Look, my week and weekend pale in comparison to you toward the evil kids of the youth of today. The youth. I will say this. I did go up to the sunny coast to see my dad for his birthday. Nice. I handed over some good presents. He loves specific. Football team, AFL. Football team bombers. Look, I grew up watching AFL. I got pretty into it for a while, and then I stopped watching it and then I grew up. It's just the thing of, like, sports. Neither do I. Look, AFL is not that bad. I just don't understand it. My cousin used to ref and she used to ref, like, professional matches. Yeah. Like she was like an actual umpire. Yeah. Or whatever they are. Because it's not like the same as footy. It's footy, but it's not the same as league. They have a different amount of rest. Like, they have school rest or tri rest, some shit. I don't know, man. Yes, because it's like you don't make a try. You kick a goal. I don't know. Goals and points. I can't even remember the fucking I don't get it. Look. I don't get it. I don't get it. Look. Or behind. It's called a behind. If you if you what? I don't know. So if you you know how there's like, four posts? Yeah. So the the center post, you kick it through the center post. That's a goal. Yeah. If you kick it through the outer posts, that's a behind is a behind worth less points. It's worth one point and then a goal is worth if you I was going to say if you say one goal is also one of those six points. Fairly high scoring games. Is it like netball, though? Like you can't run you got to bounce. You can run the ball. You have to bounce the ball every I think it's like 15 meters or something, amount of steps or something like that. You can also kick the ball and I think it's up to 20 meters or 10 meters or something like that. If you catch it on the full, that's a mark.

Yeah. And that means a person can block you from that point. So you take a step back and you kick from their sort of shit. So weird. I don't understand it and I never will because you know what? I'll never make the time. The only reason I know so much about it is because I grew up watching it. And you know what? I feel like I would have benefited from watching more NRL because, you know, and it's a bit of a much of a muchness because if I watched one, I'd be like, oh, maybe I should know more about the other. Maybe I wouldn't really tell you more about NRL. NRL. I wouldn't want to know more about nickel. You run with ball until you get tackled five times. But this is the thing, this is what I don't get. When do you do a scrum? No, that's rugby. That's NRL. That's not league, that's like union. Rugby league rugby. Union is union. Okay, there are scrums in league, but they just don't happen. Why not? Because it's a waste of time. Because you don't push in league. In union, you fucking push, man. Actually, what's in the World Cup is probably the most exciting time for me because I have no idea what the fuck's going on. But these are huge dudes. Absolutely fucking plowing. 110 kilos running at 30 KS an hour and getting stopped by someone against the other object. Watching fucking South Africa and Fiji and shit like that. Like some of the biggest fucking dudes and they're just colliding. It's coolest shit out. Yeah, coolest shit out. I feel it's the same level as MMA. It's just dude fucking each other up and it's great. I love it. What's? The World Cup? That's possibly the only time I'll really get excited about sport. But I rarely watch it, which is kind of silly. I don't really watch any. I used to follow footy a little bit. I'd have time for footy taco to play. I got a lot of tacos to play. Let's pick it of which let's keep on trucking on. Yeah. How's his dad gone? He's good. He's living up on the sunny coast. He's fucking building for stuff like for his house and shit like that. He's got a van. Cool. Excuse me? He has a van that he bought from a guy. It's had two owners, right? One owner is the guy he bought from. And the other owner was the Department of Defense. It's this fucking old 93. Not highlax hi ace is it came out it's green. Yeah. Like olive drab green. Yeah. That's like it's got like this fucking cool shelving inside it. You used to be able to carry fucking because it was for the Air Force. But it used to carry like small payload in it. So they used to carry little bombs in there. That's absolutely wild, dude. So when it's killed out for now is like it's just got like a side shelf sort of thing. Nice. It's really it's really cool. Really cool. Van dad and the house he's living in now, there's like two other people living there is Mrs and her kid. Call it Lieutenant Van.

I can't feel my legs. I'm not even fucking no word of a lie. The only reason I know that is because the little son in law came in and he's like, hey, Trevor, could I borrow Lieutenant Van this weekend? And no shit. I was like, what the fuck is Lieutenant Van? And he's like, the green van I got. And I'm like, put me on the ground. Euphoria. This is amazing. Perfect. The perfect joke. Oh my god. That's so good. That's the best. It's actually we can end the podcast. The whole joke for them has worn off. Like the whole effect for them is worn off because they've been saying it for so long. Even better. Hit me so hard, dude. So fucking hard. I was like, I just lost it. I love it. Yeah. I got the chance to drive it. It's like a three liter diesel, non turbo. But he's going to get the turbo kit for it. It's just it's a fucking little it's fantastic little Van. It's a weapon. Yeah, it's a weapon. Yeah. We we're not going to get to 100 because this is the last episode of the podcast. We can't beat Lieutenant Van. I'm going to stop all aspirations at this point. We can't go any further now. That was already one life for me. I think it was like $4,000 for this 93 hires. And he's like, I'm just going to probably put he's already put new wheels on it. They look really fucking cool. Like sunrise is all black. Fucking they look cool. Nice. The whole van itself really fucking cool. Van yeah. And it's going to run he's going to do not a whole new engine. He's doing an engine RECO on it. Yeah. Nice. Slave it new cylinders, everything pretty much. And it's going to run forever. Exactly. And I told him, I was like, dude, it's a Toyota diesel from the 90s. It will run for a million fucking caves. You've seen the fucking the Hilux that they took on Top Gear? Yeah. They couldn't fucking kill it. Unkillable. And when it died, yeah, they put in the ocean and then they pulled it out and they're like, it still starts. Literally. I think it took a little while to get it started, but they still made it, right? They still got it. They dropped it off the top of a building and it still ran. Mind you, hard to drive. It still turned off. You wouldn't be sitting in it and going, I'm going to do 100 in this. You'd be like, I'm just going to get it to where it needs to go. I'm going for all this to lay in the ground at 1 km an hour. Because it would probably be faster if I pushed it. But it turned over. It still turns over. Exactly. So I told him, look, this thing will fucking run for a million k's. You'll be fine. And I was telling him about my Triton. It had fucking 700,000 case on it. So many cases. 700,000 case on my fucking 2.5 liter fucking Diesel triton. Mitsubishi Triton. I still remember that thing. Yeah, it was great. It was a great car. And I only sold it because it was making this weird noise in the gearbox. And then, get this, me and Kai drove it to the records, which was like a good couple of KS away. And I was like, Fuck it. If I'm already putting this in the records, I'm just going to fucking floor it. The metal sound disappeared. And I was like, I don't know if that's good or bad. I don't know if I should just try and drive this home. Or did I got to the record, I got this to the records and I was like, well, if I start putting stuff on the back of the tray and attempt to drive this to Brisbane from Darwin, four and a half thousand k's. Okay, I try and do that. In this 700,000 engine, I would probably fucking it wouldn't make it. We wouldn't make it, right? Probably not. It's done the trip from Brisbane to Aubrey a couple of times. That's pretty good. But I don't think we'll make it from Darwin to Brisbane. So I was like, if I start loading up the back of the ute and I try and drive it, I'll be stranded with Kai in an I 30 just ahead of me or behind me or whatever, and I won't be able to side load all of the stuff into the I 30 to then fucking. So I was like, you know what? It's time to depart. The dietary troton 700,000K is pretty good, man. Guess how much I got for it. $500. $200? Yeah. I told him. I told the guy, he's like, look, man, I don't know if it's even worth $50. And I was like, how about you get fucked this dude? I was like, Listen, this car, I told him it traveled up here and he's like, that's not doing any better. It's like it's literally only traveled up here from Brisbane, return trips. It's had an engine recur. It definitely hadn't handled this shit. I was just like talking it up like crazy. And I was like, yeah, new dips, new fucking wheels, new this, blah, blah, blah. None of that. It is practically all stock. It's all the exact same stuff as when it was made. Besides, I think the steering rack, or not the rack, but like the steering box, that was the only thing that was like brand new on it. As in maybe two or three months before selling it. So that was it. Still leaking, though. I never had power steering. Wow. I never once had power steering in that car. What a car. And I talked him up from fifty dollars to two hundred dollars. Nice. I'm going to say that was a well earned $150.04 times my fucking you. How much I spend on that? $350. My so good. Because you actually spent $150 on it. Because you got $200 for it. Yeah. You spent $150 on it to buy it and you sold it to $200. You paid 350 and then sold it 200. That's that what a car. That's not bad. That's much better than my experience with cars. My experience with cars is multiple cars breaking very shortly. I've broken a lot of cars. Well, wait. The MX six, I think. I'm pretty sure you blew it up. It looked very much like my MX Six, I think it was. Did you say it was a digital dash or a analog I think this one is your car. Yeah, no, I didn't blow it up. I didn't blow it out. Right. I think Pat might have blown it up. Good friend of the show Pattington Pat Paddington might have blown up. So anyone that has been at Six CSR, which is probably like maybe two people listening right now, hopefully everyone knows 20 EOD, one of the subunits that just deal with explosives ordinance right. And disposal of and so they sort of learn how to blow things up and how to make them not blow up at the same time. Right. So they take cars out to these ranges and then they just like, either blow them up or stop them from blowing up. Right. Because they need to learn sort of the effects of how explosives in different areas do things. Right,

exactly. Educational. It's not just, oh my God, I bet if you ask patterns like that, apparently yeah. I won't ever get into it. I think it was one week. This might be like a year and a bit ago I seen this white car. Is this a white Mazda sitting on a pallet? And I was like, oh, cool, they're probably going to go and blow that up soon. And I love riding my pushy around the compound so I can go to different places. And then riding back up and I'm like, oh shit, that's an MX Six. And I'm looking. At. I'm like that's. A white MX six. I was like, Blake used to have a white MX Six. It had the four wheel steer wheel on it too. Yeah, there wasn't many of them getting around. Yeah, I remember checking that it had four wheel steer because I was just looking under and I was like, oh my god, it has all these fucking linkages and this really big cannon. I couldn't tell you right now. Couldn't tell you right now. I don't know. But I remember that obnoxiously big cannon, dude. It was like something else, man. I think it was a five inch cannon and it was a three inch cat back exhaust. Turbo back exhaust. Yeah. It was the dumbest thing I've ever owned. But it was good. It was cool. Except that it had a turbo leak so it would cut boost. Like as soon as it went on boost, it cut boost. And I couldn't fix it. I just couldn't fix that. It also was a turbo when you were on your P plates. Oh, look, multiple times. And I had cops thinking it was a fucking Honda Accord. They didn't even know they looked at it. And they're like, was this a Honda? I was like, yeah, it's a Mazda. And they're like, it's a weird looking Mazda. It's like, strange looking thing. I was like, yeah, it is. And then start turning the wheels like, oh, the rear wheels turn too. This weird shit. And then I turn it on and it's like the loudest thing in the fucking world. Yeah. And it had a blow off valve, except that it could never hit boost. So you never heard of it. So you'd never know. Yeah, but yeah, after I checked it and I was like, oh, it's cool. Still in peace. They're probably going to blow it up. And then I was like, I didn't think about it for a while. And I think I told you about it. Yeah, you did. And then the car wasn't there for a long time. And I was like, oh, fuck. They must have just taken it. Maybe they weren't going to blow it up. Is it back? It returned like a month or two later. Completely fucked up. Like fucked up. Just blown to fucking shit. The whole roof of it was like on a side. It was all fucked up. But the boot was broken open. They had smashed open the side windows to defuse something. But they also blew up some other side of it. The death is truly deserved. It was fucked, man. It's completely fucking just blown up. The guy that I bought it from you, that's where it ended up. He'd fucking cry. He loved it.

He took my money for it. I remember asking one of the guys, yeah, and they're like they're like, yeah, well, we did some practice just breaking windows to check for wires and shit like that. And they dip in and go oh, yeah, cool. There's wires or there's sensors and stuff like that because I didn't know there's so much to do with EOD sort of stuff. Like there's like light sensors and touch sensors that just set off bombs. Like light sensors for fuck. These are the things the IEDs that fucking work. Yeah. So they go in with a flashlight and then bomb. Yeah, like the little stormwater drain sort of things. Like if you've ever seen over a driveway, they've got like the circle fucking a pipe. And so they put them in there. It's all dark all the time, right? Put a flashlight, bang. Wow. Hey, man, wartime is crazy. War never changes.

We smashed up a couple of windows and we'd check them for wires and shit. Because the whole scenario is they get the car, they make it look like it's fucking going to blow up or not look like it's going to blow up, sort of thing. And then they come in and they go, yeah, no, it looks kind of safe. And then open up some things and they're like, oh, fuck, wires back up. Or they check for shit. Their whole deal is like, how often do I really have to put on this big fucking suit? Or can we just send a fucking robot? And more often than not, they're just like, send the fucking robot. I'm not dying today. Yeah, that's fair. And so eventually they just got sick of it and they're like, cool, let's blow the fucking thing. Blew the cunner. So, yeah. Cargo boo now. Cargo boo now. Yeah, cargo boo. Cargo boom, boom. Big boom boom. No beep beep anymore goes bomb. You know what also goes boom boom? My heart. When I'm every time we attach, I get this feeling, what do we listen to this week? Actually, wait, before we get into the album of the week, I want to hit you with fucking Taylor Swift news. That's right. Taylor Swift is on the cusp of becoming a billionaire. Now, some fans are debating if that's a good thing. No. Did you fucking know that? That's a lot of money. That's a lot of unnecessary money for one person to have. But I want our kid. I want to be a million, but not enough for me. I want more than that. I want 2 billion. I want the world in the palm of my head. I want to be able to crush it if I flex a little too hard, you know? Fernando TikTok asked, how can Taylor Swift being a billionaire possibly be unethical if all she does is sing and have concerts? Taylor Swift is the only billionaire who is allowed to exist, said another fan. Billionaires are literally wealth hoarders, replied another. Because she doesn't have a billion dollars in the bank. That's not how being a billionaire works. Exactly. Yeah. She probably has assets all the way. She has assets. You're not a billionaire by only cold when you just have things, you know what I mean? Her net wealth, her net worth will be a billion dollars. But her actual fiscal wealth, her fiat money in the bank, she'll have no I reckon she has a few million. Yeah, I reckon she has a few million, probably. And then the rest will be tied up in assets and investments and she probably has stocks to get to. A billion is not easy. I love the fact that Taylor Swift is on the cusp of becoming a billionaire, right? And it's like, good honor, right? Yeah. She's obviously a business woman and an actress, singer, fucking whatever she does to get to this point, right? But the real problem is her fans thinking that, well, she's got too far now. Well, she can't be a billionaire because that separates her from us. She was just a working class girl. She's just from the sticks, like me. But she's not. She is very much not. She's better than you. She fucking knows better. Stronger. This wondered remington stutter. That's right. Look him up. Thank you for this. She is extremely achievement driven and I admire that. But this would absolutely be too far. Like, fuck you, Remington. Why no one asked that's? Like, no one. Like, I get it. I understand that no one should have that much money. I get it. But why be angry at someone who does achieve it? Unless you are born into it, right? Unless you were born into that kind of wealth. All these people started from nothing. Start from the bottom. Now they're there. Think about it. Like, Bezos was like a fucking skinny nerd. He was a skinny nerd that I was in his garage. Fucking bullied, all right? Just like jobs. I'm not a bully. That's a joke. I didn't bully. I got bullied. But anyway, I like to think I was a bully. I was never a bully. Yeah, you sort of just, like, stuck to yourself in high school. When I think about it, I didn't really get bullied in high school and I didn't do any bullying, but I sort of just floated through high school. Yeah, I think we just hung out with the right people. Yeah, it was just fun. Yeah. I just got drunk most of the time, to be honest. One fan from Queensland says, Fuck him, she earned it. It didn't fall into her lap. See, right? That's what you'll say. That wasn't me. I said that just now. That's that's one fan from Queensland. Fans a strong word for me. Another fan said that's what I said.

Another fan said, Fans are strong word.

What are your thoughts on these people? Do you really care if someone else has a billion dollars? Like, you don't have a billion dollars? I don't have a billion dollars, but I'd love a billion dollars. Man, you're darted now. I think you're light style. Oh, dude. It is. Actually, you know what I might do then? That means we're on a time crisis. That's such a good game. Dude. Dude, I tried looking up the fucking the light gun. Danger you got a reloading? Shit. Reload $200 if you want to get PlayStation three with the game time crosses five or six or something with the light gun. My cousin was time crosses two with the light gun for PlayStation one. So cool. It was the best. Danger we used to hide behind the couch. When you hide we used to hide behind the couch and then back up. Yeah, it was fucking cool, man. Anyway, talking about music. Zach yes. All right. We're talking about music now because we weren't talking about music. We were this week. I listened look quickly. You've listened to this a whole lot. I did. I'm sure you can easily tell me a lot about this album. I listen to this a fuck load this week. I don't know why. I just like I just kept remembering to listen to it. Oh, it's good. I just really kept remembering. And I was listening to it at gym and stuff. And at work because there's a couple of songs there you're like. But otherwise it's fairly work friendly. Right. But I'll tell you what, this is my gripe with it. There's only one song on there that I could actually say that I knew. It was like beats. Because that's what he is a beat maker. He's a beat maker. So it's an album of beats. It's an album of songs that could be placed yes, that's it. I hate to say it, but that's exactly what it is. And that's exactly what he was going for. Yeah. Honestly, I wouldn't say a LoFi album. It's just a little hip hop album. But without the vocal the amount of Adult Swim vibes I got from this album. Yeah, dude, so they say, right? Has the best drum beat. I love the tight little snare. That was like as soon as I heard that, because it's like a third or four song in, I was like, oh, I'm vibing to this. This is a good little beat. I listened to it on the way home today after talking to my boss, who was like she's like, man, I don't know what you did. She's like, you fucked something up. Tell me about it. Jesus, today sucked. She's like, hopefully tomorrow is better for you. I was like, I fucking hope so, too. And she was like, put on some good music. Go home. I was like, I will. And I put on so they say, yeah, it's going to get me going. And then I drove home from there. And it's odd, dude. It's just dude, it's got such a nice little drumbeat. It's so good. It's so gloomy. God, my hand looked really small. Then for a second. Hold my strong game. It was like just because it was like that. That's a call to action. To all you audio listeners out there to look at our video. I fully derailed that. I think it's a really good album, but it's a bit boring at the same time. Yeah, that's fair, because I know when I was listening to it, you can just put it on and you can just go there. Yeah. Do whatever. Whereas I know there are definitely albums like, I would say Iowa by Sliding, obviously a whole different genre, but it's a thing of, like it grabs your attention, it makes you fucking listen to it. All of Louie is kind of like, you can fully sit there and listen to it. Right. But I don't think you won't be thinking about it. I don't think it's stimulating enough because, like I said, it's more like Beats. It's meant to have some vocals on it, obviously. Yeah, as you said, meant for placement, so that they can get some vocals and beef it up and make it the attention grabbing songs that they're meant to be genuinely what it feels like. But this is just, I think, a sampler, like a tasting platter to be like, this is what Kenny Beats is all about. This is how Kenny Beats makes his money. This is, for all intents and purposes, is what he does for a job so that he can make fucking record deals with artists and be like, hey, look, we're going to make a song. You can buy a custom Louis cassette player and cassette tape. I didn't know that. Why would that be a thing? It's a cassette tape player and then a tape of the album. Is it like a branded like a Kenny Beats branded portable tape player? Yeah. Like a walkman. Yeah, it's a walkman. It's a tape Walkman discman was the Walkman tapes. It looks like it's a fairly generic FM radio recorder. FM radio recorder? Louie yeah. If I just type that in, surely it comes up with Pitchfork. And I won't lie, there's a sticker on it. There is a sticker on it. It may actually just be a sticker on a cassette. I don't know if it's is Maxwell, a brand Maxwell or Maxwell, surely. Maybe Maxwell. Anyway, if you would like to split from 1000 USD, plus a unique custom recorded message from Kenny

okay. It's pretty cool. Like, it would be a cool thing to have on display, you know what I mean? If you couldn't find something better to buy with $1,000, which I think hold up, wait, what's the fucking price? 1000 USD. Fuck off. Yeah, exactly. Kenny oh, wait, hold up. So, well, this will change your mind, maybe. Per a press release, the album is an almost entirely instrumental artist record that acts as a deeply personal tribute to Beats. Kenny Beats ailing father, who had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, so he learned about it in early 21 while he was in Bath, Somerset, England, producing Idols 2021 album, Crawler. Right, okay, cool. So I think he was trying to just raise some cash for you can still buy them. You can still buy them. There you go. If you want to you want to donate fucking $1,000 to fucking his dad's pancreatic cancer treatment, then you can I'm assuming it goes to that. It might just go straight into his fucking pocket. I'm not going to say that that's how it works, but yeah, but this is what I didn't know. All of the fucking personnel on all of the tracks as performers, he's got, obviously, himself, all of the songs. He's got JPEG, Mafia, Fushy, vince Staples, thundercat macdonalco. And these are performers for the songs they perform in the songs. He's like, hey, man, I need you to fucking lay down some unknown keys or some guitar or something. And there were sometimes when I was listening to it, I remember, gone, this sounds like a Mac DeMarco song. Yes. And this sounds like a fucking thundercat song. These are times, I think I told you, when I was listening to that Mac Miller album, I was like, man, the bass guitar sound like fucking thundercat. Yeah, like that's thundercat. Why? Yeah, like, I tell you right here, that's thundercat. That's thundercat. And I remember listening to fucking the third thing, that third thing, and I was like, kind of like thundercat right there. Turns out it's thundercat. Turns out it is. So I didn't know that because I thought all of it was just done by him, by Kenny Beats, the man himself. Kenny kenny G fung instrumental Hip Hop Finally, enough, I have another playlist I'm listening to that is like I'll show you the playlist. It's a fairly aggressive playlist that I listen to at the gym now. And there's a lot of Kenny Beat songs on there because there's a lot of Ski Master Song Gods, and he does a lot with Kenny Beats. I think he's got, like two of his biggest songs, like Kenny Beat songs. Oh, cool. There you go. Look, I would rate it I'd rate it like a solid seven. It's good. I enjoyed it, but I don't think it does anything crazy. Yeah, it doesn't grab attention enough. I think I'll probably still have So They Say on my playlist, just because it gives me the fucking biggest throwback vibes of Adult Swim. But other than that, yeah, that's okay. There's a lot of other stuff that Kenny Beats has done that I'd prefer to listen to. That's the thing, is, it's got to sort of divide your time between what do you listen to, what do you spend your time listening to? Sort of thing. So does this warrant however many minutes of your life? You know what I mean? I'm going to put it as exactly what you said. It's a seven. It is as good as it is, but it is not like, you know how seven is. A good five is just an average sort of thing. It's good. Yeah, it's good. That's all I can really say. It's good. That's not bad. No, it's definitely not bad. Yeah, but if you want to say six, you'd be like, well, what's wrong with it? Yeah, well, six is like but six is still good. Six is still above average. Yeah, but six is a bit rough. Six is a bit rough. But it's not a six. It's a seven. It's a seven. I wouldn't call it a seven and a half. All right, Luke, I know exactly what we're listening to next week. Yeah. I'm really excited to listen to it. We're listening to architects. Yes. There's going to be one dude that's a solid fucking listener that will absolutely be fucking screaming at his phone right now going, hell yeah. We're listening to architects. We're listening to their newest album, the classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit, which I think is actually a really good album because there's a lot of songs that are really popular off of that album. And the architects have been around for a long time, man. They've made a lot of music. So with a lot of their top like songs currently on Spotify are from their latest album. It must be a fucking good album because there's been a lot I tell you what, a lot of artists have released a new album and it don't hit, it don't do well. I'm excited. We looked at a couple of songs real quick, just as we do, going, the guitar tone, man, it sounds so good. I'm excited. I'm excited to listen to it. Yeah. But otherwise I think we should probably wrap it up. It's getting lame. I'm pretty tired. You're getting real dark. I'm fading away. Yeah. Fading into the darkness. Literally. All right, well, then we'll wrap it up right now. Yeah. That's just where the episode ends. Hard smash cut to ad break. What ads? If we had ads one day thank you for listening. Special to us on our extra special episode. Yeah, that's right, our 89th episode. And you know what to do. That means you've only got another ten more to go. Eleven your ten. Yeah, ten more to go. And then we're at 100. This is your ten episode warning. Be there for episode 100. Because, man, it's live and we're doing it together. It's live. No, not going to do it live. Jesus Christ. We can't convince of that right there. No, I can't commit to that. We can't do it live, but I think we could be able to do it in the same room at least. I reckon we could probably do something up. We've got ten episodes, which means ten weeks to get. Yeah, I reckon we could g something up on a Saturday or something. I thought for the 100th episode, we better do something special. Yeah, we'll get the lapel mics out. It'll be fun. Yeah.

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