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October 12, 2025 32 mins

On today's special episode, Jerry and Manaia are joined by ACC Head G Lane in his hotel room in Austin, Texas.

The fellas recap another day of beers and BBQ in Austin, and Day 2 of Austin City Limits featuring The Strokes...

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Welcome along to Day four of the Export Ultra Beer
Garden Tour of Austin, Texas.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
The Gender Podcast Texas edition, brought to you by Export Ultra.
Can I start by saying, shit, you sound shipper this
morning compared.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
To I'm a new man. I'm a new man. I
did say, look, we it's the collective we. But I
think we may have come out of the gates a
little quick. Looks can be deceptive because you don't look
like a new man. You look like exactly the same man,
if not worse than you did yesterday. You can't see
my soul.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Well, that's the thing. So I think looks can be deceptive.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
I think sometimes what you're feeling on the inside is
not always reflected on the outside. Your eyes are a
little bit more shut than they have been the.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Other days, but the fake tan has faded on the
right half of your body.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yes, to a degree. It's still noticeable, but it doesn't
look like a hate crime.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
I will say, yesterday afternoon, when you came down into
the pool, I fut, that's right, shap Dan, they have
to I got a bit more information on some events
that happened after exedge you. But I don't know if
I can share them on the podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
I love to know. Do we think we can save
you know what? I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
I think I'm gonna I'm going to run it past
the people involved and say they're happy with the world
to know this information. But the tanning did not stop
when we left the room. No, the way I'll put that, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
No, And it seemed the tanning seemed to be very
focused on It was thorough. That's that you wouldn't normally
see no yeah or ten yeah. So the tanning continues.
I wonder if there's going to be more tanning on days?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
What are we for day four?

Speaker 4 (01:37):
Well, they won't be because the tanning bottle had run
out to the point where even once you tipped it
upside down, nothing would come out. So the only way
to ten anything would be to put it in the bottle.
Right if you catch my truck, Yes, I do.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
So.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
What happened yesterday day two of Austin city limits here
in Austin, Texas. What do we do during the days?

Speaker 1 (02:00):
We went to breakfast?

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Oh, yes, so we made it to breakfast, but everything
caught up to us yesterday. I think that was reflected
in the energy of the podcast, we go down to
breakfast and the tipping culture here. I think breeds are
real a different type of server. In New Zealand, they
couldn't really give a fuck what you're up to. But
over here they're really helpful. They don't even want to
be mean or you know what I mean. They because

(02:23):
they're working for a tip. And so when you're desperately
hung over and they start interrogating you about what it
is you want to eat for breakfast, it's terrifying. You
said you want to smash the avocado on toast, and
I said that sounds great. I have there too, and
she goes, okay, so the lobster avocado, you're gonna put
a lobster on that.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
I don't lobster yet.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
I was like, if you put a lobster in front
of me, I will throw up in this fucking bat.
Why didn't you want a lobster in front of it
because I'm so hungover it.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, but you've got an option of avocado and then
someone offers to put a lobster on top of it.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
I mean, that's that.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
It doesn't get better than that. That's a lobster. It's extravagant.
I said, you, it's a nice youth of the lobster.
It's an affront to God. Well, I didn't even like.
I honestly didn't even enjoy smelling your lobster. You didn't
even end up with the avocado.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
No, I didn't. In the end, she ordered for me.
I said, look, Jillian, I can't do this this morning.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Please. Can you just just picks up.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Take a look at me, take stock, drink me in.
Pick what I you think I should eat? She goes
smoke brisket hash and it was like with an egg
and cheese. It was like a heart attack on a plate.
The grease was dripping off it. It was so hard
to get through, but it was delicious.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
I had my second Wagu beef burgers for breakfast.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Which, by the way, he didn't order off like the
lunch menu. He didn't flip the menu of it. That's
on the breakfast menu. That was a breakfast option.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
It seem the only option that I could really take
because I wasn't really after the smashed advocated with a
lobster on top of it.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
So I didn't feel like Kimwana.

Speaker 5 (03:52):
Or where the hell they get lobster around because nowhere
near the sea, So instead I went for the Wagu beef,
but a second day in a row on that one,
because yesterday I had it.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
And I've got to say the paddy the Wago petty
and they ask you, how you want your petty done?

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Here?

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah, medium rare like ak, I assumed medium rey. I mean,
I've never really asked to have a medium red petty?

Speaker 1 (04:12):
So did?

Speaker 3 (04:12):
They had the medium rear petty and then they asked,
how you want your egg cooked? Do you want it
medium rare, rare? Over done? Like I don't know, I
don't what do you normally do? She said, look, you
want the running out? Yeah, that's me. So the I've
got to say the petty. It actually and people always
say this about beef, but you always got no it
sound's chewy. It actually was melt in your mouth. It

(04:36):
was crazy. It was so beautiful. It had such a
high fat content but all in the actual meat itself
that it just melted in your mouth. And I unfortunately
also with my mealk got a bowl of fries on
the side that was as the size of my head,
the fries with the size of my head.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Anything in order they'll be like, oh, you just want
to sell it sweet. We're here a high kilo of
French fries.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Go through so many potatoes in this country, So there
they were. I didn't actually end up eating any of
those fries, but because I don't really feel like fries
for brief then to hash Brown, yeah, so that doesn't
really make sense. Why not eat fries. It's a good point.
But I don't think you're deep fryer, hash Brown. I
think it's a difference.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
It's hard to eat deep fried foods early in the morning, particular. Yeah,
state we were in yesterday. Yeah, but I got to
say that wag beef burger. Wow, that is quite something.
They know how to do a burger over here.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
They do.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
After breakfast, Joe and I realized that between us we'd
both run out of all of our undies.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
And so you guys sharing undies?

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Are you are you going day on day off?

Speaker 4 (05:43):
Well, the thing is he wears the once and then
he gives his ones to me, and then it's like
I'm wearing them for the first time, vice versa.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
And you can actually get twice as long as long.
Should have all of it. As we around ot andies yesterday.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
And so we googled a laundromat and we went. We
walked down there and yesterday obviously it was Saturday. Today
Sunday they said we can't. We're shut on Sunday. I
think this city shuts down on Sunday. We're going to
find out when we leave the hotel today. But I
think basically they will go to church and then nothing
gets done. So we didn't get any laundry done.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
So we had but hopefully because today we're planning on
hitting Terry Black's barbecue. Yes with the team, and I'm
keen to catch up with quite a lot of the
team because a few of them are m I A.
Have you seen Nikita or Chris in the last hours.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
Last time I saw them was at Most Heaven.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
That was when you introduced Nikita to cigarettes.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Niketa were her first pack of cigarettes.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
I have seen them down in the hotel lobby right
a couple of times. Saw them at breakfast briefly.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Okay, what Ben and Courtney? Have you seen them?

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yes, I've seen quite a bit of Ben and Courtney
having a great time.

Speaker 6 (06:47):
Nick and Sam now Nick and Sam, Neck and Sam
great New Zealanders.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Neck and Sam. I have I did not see yesterday.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
I saw them this morning. I did see them this morning.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
How they They are good. They are good.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
They mate. They too came out of the blocks firing,
Yeah they did. And yesterday they decided to spend all
day at the festival and they left the festival early,
so they get a good night's sleep.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
But they're back. Responsible, but they're back. They're responsible.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Their appearance of four and Sam runs, I can see
that Neckett looked to Sam for a little bit of
guidance and she's happy to give it, but in a
nice way. Yeah, in a nice way. But they operate
very I've watched them operator as a team. They're a
very effective team. I've been looking to Sam for a
bit of guidance.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
She could, she's very motherly.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
Just anyone who can tell me what to do because
my brain's out.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Tom, Tom and Haley this morning. They're there at the
gym this morning trying to work out some demons.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Now they're the youngest people in the group.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, yes, yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Haley's twenty seven. Yeah, next Tom's Tom's thirty five, thirty four.
And they went for a run yesterday. Oh god Jesus,
they came back. I saw them when I was tucking
into my goburger and they had come back from a
run and boy, I looked at them and I thought
that next generation man, they go for it.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, they the party hard and work out hard.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Because they have been they have been out and about.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Now Lewis did he leave the pool yesterday?

Speaker 1 (08:18):
That was my question.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
So when we got there, he had already been in
the pool for a while. I didn't see him get
out once mine. You were there for about two hours.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
And he did share a photo with the group at
midnight last night in the exact same position in the pool.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
When I last saw Lewis, I left. I left Lewis
and Sarah, his lovely partner, and they were chatting to
the mega hat guy and his wife with the tramp stamp.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yes, at one stage I think the mega man's wife
was parading around the pool doing some sort of dance.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yes, I missed that. Yes, there was a bit of
there was a bit of parading going.

Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah again, they've come up from Houston for their fifth
wedding anniversary.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, he's the one that doesn't He's the one that
thinks Australia is in Europe. Yes, that's right, and that yeah,
and that New Zealand subsequently is in Europe as well.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
Very hard to very hard to explain that to him.
But he's making a real point of wearing that mega hair.
And I actually only clocked today that when we first
got here, I went up in the left and I
was wearing this pink Texas cowboy hat that we got.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
At the dollar store in Brinham.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
And I walked out of the left and this guy goes,
nice hat, and I was like, oh, thanks.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
I thought, it's clearly taking the purse out of me.
They don't take the purse.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Here over That's genuine because given times someone says something
as well, look at the mouth the fucking probably you
come out, you come out all key, we like.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Someone goes nice boots.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
What you say?

Speaker 2 (09:37):
I feel like, no, I like your boots. Do you
really are you taking the pert? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (09:42):
And so I was like all right, So I didn't
look back, and then he goes do you like my hat?
And I turn around and he's like held the left
full lift of people just to get this joke off.
And then he's got a megahead on, and I'm like, fuck,
I don't know what the right answer here is, Like
do I get shot off that?

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Say? No? Is someone else gonna shoot me if I
said years? So, I just said, ah, yeah, when he
owns that hat. Oh, he's making a real point of
wearing that mega hat.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yeah yeah, and it's a genuine one as well. It's
the what's the one with the two presidential seven Yeah,
on the side, it's a full embroidered one. It's not
we saw a couple of like Chinese knockoff ironically Chinese
knockoff one.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
I'm sure that's so. That's so funny.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
That's actually I'd not thought about that, but that is
absolutely ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
I mean, it says a lot when you got to
wear your politics on your head. It just says a lot.
It's already in your head. It's in there. You don't
need to wear it on there. Still.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Okay, we're going to take a quick break and we're
going to discuss swamp bitches.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, do we have to talk about swamp bitches? We
have to.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
Well, just like O Mega hat has to wear his
his thoughts on the outside of his head, we need to.
We need to come claim with the listeners. We had
a spiritual experience last night. We arrived at the festival
Austin City. It's for the second consecutive day. The Uber
driver did not know where to drop us off.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Two hundred thousand people out, none.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Of them the app. I blame the app.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
I was watching the app, and I've had this issue
with Uber before. People get so dependent on the app
that you lose stability to use your common sense. Yes,
and he totally did. We went down a freeway, we
went around, we went back. We could have got it
were everyone else's got out. Everyone was getting out of
their ubers.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
And I think he tried to ask me if we
wanted to get out too, because he turned to me
and asked me if I spoke Spanish and I said no,
and then I said that you speak English and he
said no, and then we both right and then we
drove off against and I think that was him trying
to be like, you guys want to.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Get out here.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
Next thing, we are heading back into Austinson. We crossed
the river back again, we crossed it, we went back
over it again. Yeah, and we're back in a vortex
of freeways and going around. And then he took a
back road down by a river somewhere and we I
thought maybe he was going to kill us, but instead
he drove us down around around a weird school into

(12:03):
an area, and then dropped us off a k away.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
At least and on the wrong side. It was a
long way away. It was. It was quite frustrated.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
I haven't had an uber or taxi driver that has
known where the hell were going and when, and we're
not going to obscure places. The worrying sign is when
you're going to a festival that you know has over
one hundred thousand people at it and there's.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
No traffic where you are. You're like, yeah, no one
else is coming this way. Why we no?

Speaker 3 (12:29):
I mean I think a bike, I like it, just
a normal bike or a Lime or something would be
real handy.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah, I think.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
I think we're just going to scoot it today.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
You just go because it's just there.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, it's only it's a forty minute walk, yeah, or
a ten minute bike or a two hour uber.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah. That great expense of the company.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Okay, so the first the first act we roll into
was DOCI.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
Now, I've listened to a lot of Doughty, so I
knew what I was in for.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
I had no idea.

Speaker 4 (12:56):
You had no idea. I feel like all of you
guys thought the same way that Joe did. Yes, all
you've heard is that anxiety. It's the remix that would
give you a very misleading preconception of what dog is.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Immediately, I knew for something different.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
She's a hip hop hip hop artist, but as she says,
actually in some of her songs, hard to box. Yeah,
well there's a lot of box chat, but she's certainly
hard to box hard.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Because she's got good pipes.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Like the anxiety, you know she's but then she can
sing and the next minute she's down on all fours
giving the stage an absolute scene too.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Oh, there's a lot of back how many shots of
her as with her hand on her as because she
was She's essentially standing on a plumth.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
That had folio jawl over it. It was designed to
be a swamp. We'll get to that.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, she had beer feet on, so she was in
this wor.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
She took her shoes off. Cut to the end of
the gig.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
She performed so hard she swetered her work off and
had to run off the stage.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Great, I'm just I'm sweeting my.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
She was fucking awesome because you didn't feel like she
she wasn't bullshitting anybody and so yeah, we get there,
we get our gallon drum cans of beer, and we
park up and I just see your guy's eyes like
wide and like, what the fuck?

Speaker 1 (14:18):
I mean, I was too, but I at least knew
the songs.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
I did no idea.

Speaker 4 (14:22):
I sort of knew she and then at a certain
point she stops down. The whole stage is let green,
there's like moss and stuff and set up like a swamp.
She's like, where about swamp pitches at And then we
turn around and.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
We're like, we're here, and we were with everybody else,
we were all her swamp pitches.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
And I learned in that moment that I was a
swamp pitch, and it healed me. It was a spiritual
experience because up until that point I could not face anything.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Just about cry of it. Four times you say.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
Yeah, what you want and the heat you know, and
this dry, dry, vizzity ticks and heat. You want a
bit of moisture and you're gonna get there from a swamp,
And I felt it. I was with that that nourished me,
the swamp, the moisture in the swamp.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
I was all over that.

Speaker 4 (15:03):
To be in the presence of the swamp princess herself. Man,
she can perform though. Oh it sounded so good and
like whether you liked the music or not, it couldn't help,
but just be in awe of this thing that's going on.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
It was fucking incredible. She's pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
She there were She performed almost entirely with her back
to the audience.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Us. It was a shame because.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
We could have got back into our humiliation, like you
know that that cat the cattle raiser, but we couldn't
get in there because it was too.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
Rammed and we couldn't get to the front. Yeah, we
gave up in the end because there were so many
people there. Yeah, it was interesting. So then we went
from there.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
We waited right until the end and then we hid
hit it back towards.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
Jo as we saw it, which was like a pretty
hectic DJ said he had kind of a Drummond bass situation.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
Yeah, yeah, and then we found ourselves into a backstage situation.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Thank god for that.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
Yes, So we've managed to get these passes that are
there's like five different forms of VP, which I think
is very American because they all want to be the VP.
And on night one, Joe and I because we don't
it's his three day backstage.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
We don't know what that means.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
And every little this, all sorts of backstage areas available
and you have to scan your thing and it'll go
green or red as the way you can go in.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
And so Joe and I on night one just walked
around scanning them all to.

Speaker 4 (16:23):
See where we could get it, because the security guards
don't know whither does this kip me in there? I
don't know, try it, which is a great way because
then you don't have to you can't get it wrong.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
There's no screening. You're either anywhere out.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
Yeah, So yesterday last night we actually managed to find one,
and it was.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
The artist's backstage thing.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
We walked in and I just saw someone flip open
a chili bin, pull two cans of pass out and
walk off, and I was like, can I do?

Speaker 2 (16:46):
And I did?

Speaker 4 (16:48):
We just there were just chili bins of free perces,
even when one of the guys was filling it up
and I grabbed one and he goes, you want another one?
And I was like, how many can I take it?
How many can you hold? I love that? So my
bumber got my fine. I brought you guys beers back.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
To the gig and my shared you wanted to go
and share a darry with Julia Dean, but.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
No, Olivia Dean, Olivia Julia, she's from fucking Patrol.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
She definitly wasn't there.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
No.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
Yeah, so Olivia Dean, who's having a bit of a
moment on the tiktoks and instagrams at the moment, she yeah,
so all of the artists backstage thing is in this
bar that we were at. She was the only artist
I actually saw there like that. There's one there for
Luke comes, don't you all this? But I think because
there's the public's there, they're a little bit hesitant.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
But she came out and joke is it, Olivia Dean,
think it is.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
She sits down with her mate and they pull out
a pack of darts and I was like, oh my god.
And I was gonna go over and try and bumma
darry off Olivia Dean.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
That would have been quite good, I know, but I
just you're too you were you were on the you're crying,
so the confidence levels were not high.

Speaker 4 (17:53):
She had have rejected me, I think I would have
just burst into tears. And that's a very different story.
But yes, only and I was like, you know, I'm
just gonna leave there, but but it was interesting to
see that she prepares for a gig the same way
I prepare for an a sec commentary, isn't It was a.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
Nice respite though back there, that's for sure. It felt
like a felt like a completely different place. It was
like we're at a different venue. And then we hung
out there for a while. A couple of other drinks
that you were on offer, yes, including a delicious tequila drink. Anyway,
so then we went back out the tar race and
went to the Strokes.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
And the Strokes it seemed like because they are at
the same time as Sabrina Carpenter and Sabrina Carpenter at
the moments obviously having a She's she's having one of
the bigga startis in the world.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
She's having the moment.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
So there actually weren't that many people at the Strokes
compared to Posier.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah, yeah, that's a good night before.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
So the youngsters, they're all going Sabrina Carpenter, she's well,
she's more popular than the Strokes, isn't she.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Yeah, And so we were there.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
We actually got quite a good spot not too far back,
and then they took a while to come on actually,
and then Joining and Casablancas essentially came on. He was
wearing a pair of sunglasses and he's lost a bit
of weight from when I last saw him, but he
was looking he was looking very jolly last time I
saw him. But he's he basically hates his band, and

(19:18):
his band hate him. And he performs the songs brilliantly
and the band and next level tight and incredible, but
in between songs, he basically just hates being there.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah. Well he took an old school yeah, a real
old school leads thing out kind of very much. I
kind of Liam Gallagher vibes about him, buff and beers
between the songs. It was a bit of two in
Frey between his drummer you need to take the mic
away and they'd be like they'd turn the lights out.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Yea.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
He took a five minute intolu just to bully the drummer.

Speaker 4 (19:50):
He went and stood in front of the drum kit
and took the pass out of his religion or something
at one point.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
And then had to go at Sabrenda Carpenter. That was good.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah, he was like, must go and check out Sabrina
carpenter so good. I was like, yeah, you hate.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
He was a huge chip on his Yeah. I hate
when they do this. I hate when they booked us
at the same and I was like.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Kiss the mate. Yeah, it's away, you don't have to
be here.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
He said, I hate the way they make you choose. Yeah,
that's not a political statement. Well, it kind of is.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, it was kind of.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
I kind of like the fact that there are still
guys out there who are just caun't. Yeah, you know,
it's good that there's still people out there.

Speaker 5 (20:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
And they came out for an encore and he came
out and he even gave the grad ship about the OnCore.

Speaker 4 (20:36):
Because we one more one more song. Is like, we've
actually got three, so you.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Only get one.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, you want one, get one.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
I was just antagonizing the audience the whole and there
was a lot of people leaving.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Yeah, there's some guys beside me who were genuinely angry.
They were angry at him. They were like if this
guy who they held, does he think he is. He's like, well,
he's chilling and Kesablanca. That's who he thinks he is,
and he thinks he's a rock star. Yeah, you've brought
into it. I mean because he had money to come
and see him.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
There was another guy behind us who was yelling the
whole time, and he's.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Let the fox a breeding good.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Oh time.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
But it was good. I got to say when they
got going, Oh my god. A lot of played a
lot of songs I didn't know, and I feel like
I know a lot of Stroke songs, but the ones
I didn't know I quite liked, which is always a
good sign.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
They're just such a good band.

Speaker 4 (21:32):
All of the two Guitaristsuff got are fucking incredible, and
they don't They're both doing real complicated ship, but they
never stand on each other's toes. And even him for
the singer, for you know, all the on stage bullying
he was doing in front of tens of thousands of people.
He was fucking amazing too, Like when he started singing
and stopped shitting on his band.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
He has a presence. Yeah, there's no doubt about that.
He feels very rock and roll. He kind of takes
that New York that Ramones kind of feel, although and
tight like there bones.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
Actually, I'm gonna be honest, I've listened to a little
bit of the Strokes but and I knew who they were.
I found out last night that they were not a
British band. I thought they were British the las time
they sounded.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
Yeah, it's that raw rock and roll sound and actually
that is This It, which is their first album. I
always think is it called this is It? Or is
this It? I'm pretty sure is This It? Which came
out about two thousand and At the time, it was
just crazy dance music everywhere. The Prodigy were huge, Chemical
Brothers was huge, and it was that sort of emo

(22:32):
kind of thing that was going on. And then they
came out with like just hard out, clean, hard rock
and roll, and it was just it was actually incredibly
fresh at the time and like a strip quite a
striped back sound, but still had a groove to it.
And that first album was like it took the world
by storm. It was massive. And then the second album,
third album, Reason, and then they and then also the

(22:56):
whole band hated him and so then they sput up.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
But interesting, they're back to either again.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Now another We'll take another quick break and we're back
in just a moment. One of my other highlights of
yesterday was seeing you two walk through the Instagram white
Girl fly trap flag set up because there is in
the middle of the festival there is these fly traps

(23:20):
for instagram z hons, and there's like did you see
the mirror one with a bunch of kind of kind
of convex mirrors everywhere.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah, like the ones you have on a blind corner.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah, and like a huge fly trap. There was about
fifty people taking selfies within that.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
But I didn't notice it until we were in the
middle of it.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
And then the long flags which you can take a
photo which the rest of the festival in the background
with the flags, and you two struck a couple of
poses which.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Was very good, which would changed the game forever. It did.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
It did change the game forever. But did you notice
the one guy on the left who thought it was
the funniest thing I've ever seen that you guys are
just ripping all these mainly women, groups of women taking photos.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Of I was freaked out when I was in there
because I saw how professional were those women's poses.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Oh my god. They were like, Wow, you're just striking.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
You've got no shame, No, you've got no in ambitions.
Are working the camera so hard, man, and you're not
joking about it.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
No, no, no, and they're doing like look away now
this one and that one that was moving. It was yeah,
and you know, we work in media, we're around people
getting their photo taken quite a lot. But some of
the people in New Zealand media could come over here
and learn it.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Yes, in a huge amount.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
But I mean, I don't know about you, Jerry, but
when we started walking through the I just noticed the
massive break in the crowd. So I was like, let's
walk through this flag. Seems like there's no one standing
in here. And it's because they don't want to be
in the background every photo. So we just a bunch
of lizards. The South Canterbury. It is in the background
so many Instagram But they they'll be gutted.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
They don't like photo bombers. No, I don't like photo
bo's doing so much of that on Night one too.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Now they don't like that. I kind of understand.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
I mean, the photos so important to people now, yeah,
photos so important.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
But they're also I don't know, It's like I feel
like Kiwi's you can just make a joke to another
Kiwi out in public and they'll just laugh and we'll
move on. But I think you need to engage with
the America and introduce yourself, talk to them and then
tell them a joke.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
Yeah, so they know that you're not a you're an
okay person. Yeah, and you're not a crazy or whatever.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
Yeah, because we'll just randomly chat to each other back home,
but over here it's like they don't.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
You've got to go through the formalities.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
I am I am Anya Thomas, John Douglas Slimming Stewart
from Albuquerque in New Mexico.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Well, then after the Strokes, we went back into our
VIP area again and into the refuge and we had
a few drinks, and then we came across the guy
who is our tour guide, Connor Connor, Great New Zealander.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
It turns out he had played in a band the
night before Alston City Limits. Yeah, and so we had
a great chat to him.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
He gave us some good ideas about what we should
do today regarding our barbecue lunch, which is quite good
because we were going to drive like essentially to Mississippi
the barbecue.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
He streuss off, that didn't he Yep.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
He did. And then and then we embarked on.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
We decided to leave at about probably eleven seven thirty
and we embarked on what we thought was just a
well we hope to get a golf cart ride, but
nobody wanted to pick us up because we're just some
ky lizards wandering around the streets.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
That's the stud were we're the last to leave the venue.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
We are gross, but we're so gross, but.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
We're in fact as we're walking around this abandoned festival
back of stage. Yeah, no one said anything.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
No, there was no security. Well, we've got backstage pass.
We're at our backstage.

Speaker 4 (26:49):
But we're just walking around the training trees.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
That's fine.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Surely someone's gone. You guys are right there every second.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
What I noticed was every second golf cart that came
past us had a chili of pisson' it.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, Like there was so many chili bins being moved around.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
I've never seen so many golf cart transport vehicles in
my life, and immediately I think I'll take one. Yeah,
but they are very good at locking them up. They
have their they lock up the steering wheel to the
back of the bike. The bike locks. You can't actually
steer it at all.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
I mean, if you re on a straight line, you'd
probably be okay. Yeah, but yeah, but still I lane
sort of. He approached one and he got close to
it instead of looking around it, slipping around. I said,
American jail, American jail. How do you would you feel?
He goes, yeah, no, you're right.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
You want to go waterboard and on balance, not worth
worth it, not worth it. That's the leaser of two
that someone would have shot you. When we went to
try and leave the safe haven backstage there, we asked
the bouncer security guard fucking Seal Team sixty.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
I was like, where do we go to get out
of here? Is like, where are you trying to go?

Speaker 4 (28:03):
We're like, hope, like out of the fucking thing, just
go lift And I was looking right and I was like,
I can see a road there, like I know that's
the outside of this place. But he said lift, go lift.
We walked for another hour. It's like, no one knows
how to get out of this festival. No, no, no one,
No one at the festival, no one driving people to
the fucking festival for a job. No.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
And we ended up in the in the ring road
that goes around the outside of the festival, which goes
miles around the outside, and so we're wandering and get
into back getting run.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
Over by golf carts and trucks of trucks, Oh my god.
And then well, and then we looked back.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
Finally, when we got to the exit, I looked back
and I was like, we could have just gone straight
across the We could have been straight across the field.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
There was no one on it.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
No, it would have been nice, actually on the grass
with no one there would have been quite cool. But no,
instead we went the worst way possible.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Well, now we know we've got one more day, don't
we today We're gonna today, got one more day.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
Well, we've come at it from every conceivable angles.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yeah, three days.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
It's a long it's a long festival.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
But when we've been going in in the afternoons, but
I guess some of our some of our one has
been going in all day. It's a long time to
be in there all day. So we know that we've
got this area backstage that gives you free drinks and
you can hang out and it's a real refuge.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Different story.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
I cannot overstate how dust it is in there, because
you know, one hundred thousand people walking across the text
and planes and I saw our tour guy told us
to buy a bandana for the dust. My god, is
it my eyes this morning? I'm still wiping dirt out
of the basoms.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Yeah, my nose seems to be very, very blocked.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
But the other thing is think when you think dust,
think dancers with wolves. That's how I describe it. Dances
with Wolves are scene with the buffalo. Yes, yes, through
the dust. That was last night when someone's going down. Man,
I look, it did look beautiful at.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
The skyline in the background, don't. She's shaking her ass
in front of it.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
That dust does great things for for for sunsets.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
Yes, tonight we've got tea Pain tea Pain missing it
and the Killers, Love the Killers. I'd like to see
Love the Killers, but I feel like they come to
New Zealand all the time.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
I've seen The Killers, maybe too many times. It's I
know exactly what's going to happen.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
Mister Brightside with the lights on as will be their
first song? Yes, they've They've got so many hits. It's
just a hat fist with lots of people singing. I
mean that's cool. And they play random Flowers.

Speaker 6 (30:36):
Well, it's like a I'll describe it as as Christian
as like a religious kind of there's a there's no
rock and roll to it's rock and roll without rock
without the rock and roll at a church, it's like
a mega church as a mega church. Before John Summitt.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
Interested, I don't know who John Summon is the country dude?
Is he? Who's John summittt is Dave Base like his
breakfast stop?

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Listen to a few times, but are they worth going form?

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Not sure? I don't know. So we're miss semi virgie
you sit? Is he today? I have no idea? Here
is day one? Who are our headliners tonight?

Speaker 2 (31:12):
It's the killers, John Summit, feed tea pain in mkg
are the headliners tonight. But anyway, we'll let you know
how we get on the last day at the festival
for us off for a barbecue at Terry Black's with
the team, so we'll no doubt to get informed of
what everyone's been up to the last forty eight hours.

(31:32):
We may get to the bottom of the tenning saga.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
That's so great.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
I've got to say though, this city, the more time
we spend in it, Wow, it's a great setting.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
It's very cool.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
It's got a completely different vibe like American city. Does
to every other American city.

Speaker 4 (31:48):
The houses, the houses a lot because we had to
cross the river underneath the motorway to get into the
festival he set. And the houses along the river are
so cool, just those old giant American manners. You probably
cost them about one hundred Ruby. Yeah, that's so cool.
Great place, great place, great place.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
Okay, we'll wrap this up and we'll be back tomorrow
with our Day five.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Potty.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
We'll wrap up this Export Bier Garden Tour of Texas.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
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