March 20, 2024 • 38 mins
Cam and Steve follow-on from their previous episode, talking about gigs they went to during the break including Foo Fighters, NOFX and The Darkness. Steve also talks about his grunge tour of Seattle and visit to Kurt Cobain's house.
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Hello, and welcome to Garage Walkfor the podcast. This is season five,
episode number two. Joining me,as per usual, his uncle Spennigan.
I'm Cameroni knows. How are wetoday's spin? I'm just fucking great?
How are you? Pretty good?Pretty good? I had some really
nice flavored sparkling water. Compliments toyour schweps, Yes, compliments of the
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sweb swing shwing. I just realized, quite nice, a little bit of
a tinge of raspberry, wasn't Itwas a bit of a raspberry tinge.
I just realized I went really earlywith a swear. There you do.
I try not to. I meanI try to limit the swearing. We
do swear on the show. Tryit up a bit, Yeah, I
mean I just don't want, youknow, I don't want people to think
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less of it. So, Imean, within ten seconds are already thinking,
well, this is just going tobe a sweary podcast. I don't
know if I need to listen tothis. It does show, you know,
low intelligence swearing, but low browfuck them? Dad? Is we
are and what you get? Andyou get what we are? Everything,
Steve, Absolutely, everything that youcan look, see, touch, feel
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is open to interpretation. Exactly everythingyou and I might not even be in
this room right now. It couldbe the matrix, Steve, This could
be the matrix two weeks in arow, matrix references. Everything is all
your perception. Don't see the fourthmatrix. Our eyes aren't just viewers,
Steve, they are projected. Isrunning a second story over what's actually happening.
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Jesus, this is getting too fuckingdeep for me. I'm sorry.
Check it out. So we wedid start last week talking about a whole
bunch of bands we caught up withfor the break caught up with. We
didn't catch up with them. Wouldhave liked to wish fucking yeah, but
we didn't. But we only gothalfway through the list. So we're going
to finish that off, and we'regoing to start with Foo Fighters O my
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lord Stave. We saw them bringmusic back into Australia back into the start
of twenty twenty two. Fast forwardtwo years, we've seen him again.
Yep, minus one member, sadly, but with a new one. Freeze
Freeze, just Freeze. Oh yeah. And now I went to two shows.
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The first night I was in theback standing room section, and then
the next night I went with youin the front standing room section. I
did have a better time in thefront section, which I mean, you're
a bit closer, it's a bitfree. I did get stuck behind,
not behind, I was stuck neara knob head. Sorry you invited me?
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Sorry, I mean the first night. So ye, yeah, the
first night I was with my brother. So one of the things was trending
sort of online in the days upto those gigs was hashtag take your dad
to food Fighters because they've kind ofI mean, they've been around for nearly
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thirty years now. It's kind oflike dad rock, you know. So
that was sort of like just trendinga take your dad to food Fighters.
But there was this girl who wasbehind us, and I think she said
she was like eighteen, and shewas with her mum and they were there
and this was her first like properconcert that she'd gone to, and she
was really looking forward to it andshe was having a good time. And
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you know, the first part ofthe said had sort of gone by and
everyone's just rocking out, and thenthere was kind of like not a lull,
but they kind of just did afew slower songs and Dave was talking
to the crowd. Fair me tothat, and then these two just drunk
chicks just came in and they werejust like fucking and they were just talking
to each they were just having aloud conversation, and it's like, we're
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here. We just wanted to Hey, did you see Dave? Yes?
Oh, yeah, Davis. What'she doing? Yeah? And he's left
his wife. He started up hisown bike company, different, different day.
No, the actual Dave I wantto hear was up on stage talking
and I'm hearing about some pricks bikestalk. Now we're grumpy old day grumpy
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old men. But you know what, I'm kind of I've kind of got
to that point where I'm embracing it. Own it, Steve, Yeah,
own that ship. I've shoved myhair off. I've gone I've gone pretty
much bald now because I'm like,you know what, it's not growing anymore.
Took a lot of work to shoveall three hairs off, you know
it did. Now I look likeHomer Simpson, but a dear a female
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deer. Ray a cup of goldenSon. I thought he was the guy
who hosted the mid day show.Anyway, that's a fucking deep cut.
Ray Martin, what happened to her? I don't know Billy Ray Martin.
So I was, yeah, Ithink we've summoned something many what the ghost
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of Ray Martin? No, buthe's hair piece did. Maybe we've summoned
the hair piece of Raymark. EricBannon did him on full front with that
helmet every shot that his helmet plastichair would get bigger. Maybe that helmet
is in this room right now.Welcome to the current. So we're standing
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there watching the show and they're havingthis conversations like shut the fuck up anyway.
The woman, the mother has toldthem, can you please be quie,
we're trying to watch the show.Funk off. We're just trying to
talk. You know. It's afucking concert free country. And I was
like, oh Jesus Christ. Andthen they they started playing some music and
they were just like, we weren'tin a circle pit. We're standing a
fair bit back. All the standardthey're trying to and they're jumping into like
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the eighteen year old girl and bumpingher over and spilling their drinks on her,
and they're just like the mom's like, can you just can you settle
down? Like we're trying to justwatch the show, and it's just like,
yeah, it's fucking mysh p anda what you fucking expect food fires
concert. It's like we weren't inthe marsh pit. We were standing back.
Everyone's just trying to enjoy themselves.It's kind of like when we're at
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the Living End and there were nobheads just nowhere near the wash pitch,
just jumping into people. It's justlike, mate, if you want to
do that, go up the front, like no one cares. Yeah,
so again sounding like a grumpy oldman, but we do get that.
But you watch him do it fora few songs and they end up getting
tired and can't do it anymore exactly. Yeah, So that was annoying,
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But the show itself was awesome,two and a half hours of foo rock
and yeah, I mean absolutely lovedit. Well you think I never thought
i'd see it again, to behonest, I'll sure whether they'd continue without
Taylor Hawkins. And it was agood you know a lot of good tributes
to him. What about that forthe first night you went and they did
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Taylor Hawkins's favorite song. Yeah,so they did play Aurora, which was
one of the first songs that Taylorwrote with the band when he joined Food
Fighters, and Dave was sort ofsaying, look, you know, sometimes
I look out and I see abird flying and I think it's Taylor,
and he just sort of mentioned it. And then they started playing Aurora,
and as he did it, ayou know, flock of birds sort of
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flew out over the audience and justover the crowd, and it was like,
Okay, what the fuck was allthat? That seemed a bit spooky.
Perhaps there was a seance somewhere inAmy Park and the maybe backstage and
there was some birds just moving aOuiji board, but and I thought it
seemed too weird that it must havebeen a setup, like okay, he
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said the line, okay, releasesome doves or whatever like that, but
it yeah, but they didn't.That didn't happen at any other gig.
So I'm like, okay, that'sthat's really cool. Coincidental, but yeah,
that was pretty cool. It was. It was. It was an
awesome gig, rocking out. Absolutelyloved it. Steve had a hot dog.
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I did have a hot dog andthe bun was in two so it
was awkward. It was it wasI had a hot dog sandwich. You
need you need the bun to besplit open but not totally had I like
the time when you lift the endof it and we saw we saw Stacy
Gray from Trial Kennedy O h Stacy. Yeah, he wasn't performing, he
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just happened to be in the crowd. Awesome, it would have been pretty
cool. I really liked how thecrowd really embraced mister Freeze. Yes,
and in true Ossie form, we'vestarted a chant. Yeah, I even
you know what I think when thecrowd was doing that, I can't help
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but thinking Dave Roll felt a bitjealous. Really yeah, He's like,
oh, this is going to bea thing, and I think it's great.
I think it's really welcoming to youknow, for him to be in
the band and stuff like that,and it's just great to see him doing
it. So we'll probably see himagain in another two years. Yeah.
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Probably. They're a band that's justgoing to keep going. Well, that's
it, I think. Ever,they sort of said, like Dave Girls
was like, I keep doing thisin my nineties and look, I mean
if they can look at Paul McCartneycan't still I can still rocking out.
Actually he was talking about rocking out. So you sent me video of Dave
Grol rocking out at the final Utwo gig in Las Vegas. Yeah,
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which I did not expect to seeDave Grol rocking out at a He was
having a good time he did.It's funny scene, you know, he
just he could tell he's just abloke that just lives his music. Yeah,
it's like us, Steve, lookat us. We're you know,
you see autistic people and they lovetrains and rocks. We like rock.
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Musicus Christ that took a turn.I was not anticipating. I mean,
I'm not I'm not. I'm notsaying I hated it, but I just
wasn't anticipating it. That's us.We're just autistic for rock music, you
know. Yeah, not just rocks, no trains. I did see footage
years ago of someone was in amosh pit and they were sort of on
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selfie gam next to Dave Groll ata Sound Garden gig, and he was
just like fist in the air andfucking singing the words back and everything,
and it's it's like, yeah,that's it's school. He's just in the
moshpit doing what people do at hisgigs. Yeah, it's like fuck,
you know, it's good that youwant to side stage, you know,
like, yeah, it always soundsbetter out the front obviously, but yes,
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that's cool. He's a rocker fromway back as a we But so
that was food Fighter Steve. Whatother gigs we had on My God,
you've spelt a letter and with yourfingers and you do the rest of the
letters coming. Well, that's anO. That's pretty straightforward. That's just
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well you've done well, your fingerskind of joined to Yeah, you've put
it around the wrong Oh that's anF. Yeah, that's definitely an F.
And the X well that was prettystraightforward. So I just for those
of you listening, this is thisis no effects with my fingers, and
that is like I don't have verybig hands. You've got tiny fingers.
They're not top they wouldn't say tiny. They're not like trumpion, They're like
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they're not like fucking you know,coat hangers. No, well, actually,
can you put if I got biggerfingers than you, like, actually
my fingers aren't. Yeah, Ireckon, I've slightly outfingered you and it's
time for everything. That's that's asthat's as bad as big as the no
effect backdrop was. Yes, Ilove that. I love how they do
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that. They still do it.So yeah, no effects forty years,
forty songs. Final tour ever,Yeah, I saw no effects for the
last time ever until their next tourmaybe. Yeah. It really feels like
this is it. They had twonights in Melbourne Festival Hall. I went
the first night, which was songsfrom my favorite album, punkin Drublic,
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War on Errorrism, Yes, andWolf in Wolf Clothing. I can't remember
that album. It was awesome.But do you know what the game changer
was for me? Steve was agame change with me buddy from work,
Steweye, Hi Stewey, Hi Stewey. Well, the funny thing is I
was on and about going because memoryI'm trying to save for that America trip.
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Life, I can't go to allthese haven't really even gone into the
American that much. Well, Imean we can go a bit later another
time, plenty of I'm trying tosave money for that. Everything is so
fucking expensive at the moment. It'sridiculous because you made inflation can go up.
Well, I try to, butyour fault. Well sorry about that
kids. Anyway, Anyway, He'slike, you come on in ANFX and
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I'm like, he's like, theyjust release more tickets. I'm like,
ah, fuck it, yeah,I'm going locking your day. So are
you general admission or seating and there'sonly seating left anyway. He's like,
I'm seating okay. Told his seatnumber. It was like section twelve,
f fifty five or something. Letterletter jump online. See if you're think
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tickets, Oh yeah ticket, Yeah, you got ten minutes to pay for
it. I'm not just having alittle squizz. I've got Section twelve,
seat f fifty six right next tome. Mate Steve Stu he got his
ticket months ago and I've got theticket right next to him. I'm like,
it's a fucking sign. It is. It's a sign, Steve.
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It's a very tiny sign at theback of the stage with no effects with
yes. So I ended up gettingthe ticket and went there and sat down
at a punk rock gig and Ifucking loved every minute of it because these
weary bones are tired. Yes,up there there's no line for the toilet.
Remember what downstairs is like living inthis festival hall, Yes, festival
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hall. No line for the toy, no line for merch if you want
to merge, no line for thebar really awesome and you are a padded
seat, wow, and you couldsee everything. I've been to Festival Hall
for a punky Goes. I sawthe Offspring like fuck twenty years ago now,
and it was Festival Hall. Butwe were standing. We were in
the seat at area, but westood up except for when they played why
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Don't You Get a job, becausewe were like, well now it's the
time to take a seat. Butand they weren't padded back then. They
were just like primary school seat.Oh yes, but did you stand at
all? Or is you just satthe whole time? Yeah? We're literally
rocking out sitting down. Everyone was. It was great. Body Jar opened
awesome, Body Jar a body Jarfreaking awesome, bossy Melbourne punk. Yeah,
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so we yeah, we rocked outto them. And then you know,
No Effects played my favorite ever NoEffects song, which I've never seen
live before, which was Don't CallMe White, Don't Call Me White.
It was good to see that.And then they played again the next night
and they played a bunch of othersongs from other albums. I didn't go
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to that night, no, butyeah, that was No Effects had a
great time, awesome going seats.Yeah, you're oldies. It's so good.
Yeah. I've been to a fewgigs in seats and well that was
the thing with Quins and Stone.It's like we had seats at the Bowl
and we had like these really goodseeds directly in front, like only one
person like roll in front of us, and they decided to stand up because
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everyone else was standing up. Sowe ended up standing up the whole time.
But I still hall with it.I do have to roll with the
punches. You can't go everyone sitdown. You're not gonna make your You
got to roll with it. Youdo have to roll with it. I
went to see Placebo once at thePalais in Saint Kilda, which is a
theater, and so we're all like, oh, it will stand up and
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you know, jump around a littlebit. And security we're like, no,
no, no, everyone, youwere relotted to your seats. You
were not allowed in the aisles.Stay in your seats and sit down,
like they were telling everyone you've gotto sit down, steph. And so
anyway, so Placebo came out,they played their first song and everyone's sitting
down, and after they finished thesong, Brian Molkoe was like, can
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everyone on the bottom level, pleasestand up. This is very weird for
us, And I was just like, yeah, well, why are you
playing a rock gig at the Palais'it's a theater. So but yeah,
for that one song, I didfind it quite relaxing. There you go,
there you go. But yeah,so no effects, highlight, Don't
Call Me White, definitely, don'tcall Me White. They sounded really good.
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Like it for forty years, Iknow, but I've seen him a
few times, and you know,this is probably the best I've seen them.
Really. Yeah, I felt likethey really wanted to be there.
I'm really excited to do it.So I actually watched the next night live
streamed, live streamed it. Itwas no effect and it was it was
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awesome. There's actually some really goodsongs that they played. Bob, what's
Barb gonna do now that he can'tdrink the d D? Anyway? Get
into it, don't we? Soyeah, yeah, definitely the highlight was
seen Don't Call Me White. Itjust reminds me of being high school kid
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watching circumcised Creative Guy's allegiance sworn watchingmy Eargasm videos, which isn't porn,
just tunk rock music and extreme sports. And that was one of the songs.
That's how I yeah got into themawesome. Well. Speaking of festival
Hall, I went there to seethe Let There Be Rock show, which
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was The Darkness You Am I andDZ death Rays. Was there rock?
There was definitely rock and or roll, you know DZ Deathrays, I mean
awesome live. They've now got out. Luke from Violent Soho is now playing
bass. Speaking of violence, Iwas wearing my violentce Soho T shirt to
the first Blink gear and the dealthat was handing out our vi penis.
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Yes, Lanyards really complimented the Tshirt. It's like, now I really
like that bend. I'm like,Unfortunately they're not around anymore, I said.
Me and Steve from you Gara thepodcast we went and saw their last
show in Brisbane whenever. It wasyear before ship. We are getting old.
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It's gone. Yeah, So thatwas that. But yeah, sorry
I cut you off. Yeah no, I'm used to it, so see
cutting me off even when you're cuttingme off the ghost Sorry about that.
Just grab me you bought that's thespirital sir, But I was I was
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wearing my Viole Ghost you do notwell, that would just be rude on
a ghostly poop a ghostly poo?What we Isn't that just a fart?
It's like a spirit of a poo. It's just it's the it's the ghost
what what is a ghosty poop?You sit down, you take him ship,
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Yeah, and then you look inthe water and there's nothing there.
Yeah, go straight up the post. No trace. No, it's also
called vanish without a trace, butghostly sounds. Ghostly sounds way better.
What so did it happen? Howdoes the matrix just want you to think
that you've pooed? Or have youever had it where there's like a surprise
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pool where you sit down to doa WII and then you get up and
there's a poo there you sit downto wait. I've mean only if I've
got like a cramp or something.But you know this is I'm saying this
more towards our female viewers. Yeah, well sure it happens to them all
the time. Exactly Just where didthat come? Or or a featus?
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You know, you just don't know, something just falls out and you just
don't expect it. I do remembergoing on public to all at once and
this woman comes out of the women'sand she's like, pooh, just fell
out of my vagina. That iscalled an Alabama hot pocket. Jesus,
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I don't know how to follow upwith that. What about what about vanish
with the trace you just keep wiping, wipe up there, Christ text in
there or something. Well, youknow, you go to these kind of
parties, you don't know what happensanyway, So eating that crayon crayon.
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Actually getting back to what we weretalking about, DZ Deathrays. They are
talking to the celebration of their albumBlack Rat. They've been hinting it some
some stuff funny if their their albumname was brown Crayon. So I just
I just blew a straight into themicrophone front, so you just spread you
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and then smelled like raspberry, likesweets. It's all fitting together if we
if we make an album, it'sgoing to be called brown crayon, Brown
Crayon. What about those old comedyalbums, Let's do one of Let's just
put some episodes on a c Dand so for sel them, it's going
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to be like garage rock Brown CrayonVolume one. Geez well, I mean
crayon. Would we Mac and Cheese, Mac and cheese. We're not doing
that. Ship. If we wereto do, you say, brown Crowon's
the first edition, would we changeup? Would we go all the Crayola
colors would be like pink crayon.At least we'd at least do red at
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least well, we'd have to makesense. It does. After a brown
crayon. You you you get tothe bread, you wipe, and you
wipe and you get raw. Youget red. You do get raw,
you get red. Anybody, poorpoor bloody fucking Z death Rays. They've
got all this ship talk over theirstuff exactly. Sorry, Sorry to mister
D and mister Z and the deathI did actually see Luke after the gig
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and I said, I said,oh, yeah, well played up there.
And I was wearing my violence SOHOshirt at the time, and he
says, thanks man. And that'san anecdote that we did not need anyway.
Pretty cool they're celebrating Brown volume numbertwo. Steve does another useless story.
That's pretty much. We've done aboutsixty episodes of that. I think,
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min min it's like a mum that'ssmall. It's a minimum fucking Now,
Jesus, keep on swimming. AfterDC Deathrays. You am. I
came on stage and they were playingexclusively spinal tap songs. Oh really yes,
so I did not know many ofthem, but I do remember they're
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playing in their own No, purely. They did a spinal tap set Berlin
Chair Come on Shuffle the other day. I wonder if they played that at
Steve's kick. Obviously not. No, they played tonight I'm going to rock
You Tonight, which is the onlyspinal tap song. And also Big Bottoms
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about girls with big bottoms. That'swhere they that's queen. Yeah, well
that's fat bottom girls. They makethe rock and world around. But big
Bottoms by spinal tap is every memberwith guitar plays bass in America on bass,
they all play bees. So yeah, three bass players and a drummer
up on stage. So it wassupposed they keeping it fresh. They keeping
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it fresh by playing music from adocumentary in the seventies, The Headliners Steve
Headliners, give Me a D,D, Give Me an Arkness, Arkness
the d They were the Hawkins somethingRides again. How were they? They
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were awesome? They were fantastic.They played their album Permission to Land in
Fall. Do they believe in athing called love? I think they do.
I do think they do, becausethey do they listen to the rhythm
of their heart. They certainly didcam Now they played. It was interesting
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because they played the album and fulland B sides from that album, so
there wasn't much sort of from anyof the other albums. It was just
purely from that time. O cool. So it was pretty cool to hear
some songs, like a few Bsides that I did know that hadn't heard
before because the B sides I don'tusually get a run, but this time
they did. And also just justfantastic live musicians. They always give one
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hundred and ten on the stage andjust the soloing and just shredding. And
that was festival Festival Hall as well. Hall is back. It is back.
We praise the Lord, Raise theLord. Hillsong need to pay the
bills or the legal bills, sothey're letting the bands use festival Haul again.
It's fantastic, unbelievable. Jesus.We've definitely flogged that place the last
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few months, haven't we now?Given a good flog? And I was
supposed to go see Royal Blood therebut ended up in the States instead selling
your ticket. I did someone ticketTicketmaster resale. But and then actually I
thought, God, I'm going toget ripped off here. It actually it
was pretty painless and I got thesame amount of money for what I paid,
So it needs to happen. Itdoes It was. It was good.
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And actually because a Ticketmaster just didthe the Pearl Jam tour which is
coming up later in the year,and you had to register your email like
a week before tickets went on saleto avoid bots from purchasing mass amounts of
tickets. So you had to registeryour email. They'd give you a code
and if you missed the cut,you'd be put on a waitlist. And
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so I had two email addresses.I put them both on and one was
on the waitlist and one here's acode. And so where are they playing?
They are playing two shows in Sydneyand Giants Stadium, the GWS Ground,
two shows at Marvel Stadium and oneshow at Carrara in the Gold Coast.
Was it hard to get tickets?Nah, that was all right.
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It's just there's like a front moshsection called the Golden Circle, but it's
not huge, It's not like halfthe ground or anything. So I didn't
get in there. Just chose notto. We will just go in the
back section, which is still relativelyclose, So we'll just do that.
But fun times ahead, gym.It is quite exy. Fuck the front
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seat was like the rounded bucks.I was like, oh, yep,
get a bit like that inflation,Steve. It's your fault. It is
my fault, but hey, I'llwear it now. We were going to
talk about a couple of things withthe States because I've got I was going
to talk about Seattle and you're goingto talk about going to a festival over
there. Let's hear about your festival. I want to hear about the festival.
Tell me all about it, Steve. We all make mistakes, right
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we do. Agreeing to do apodcast series was probably one of them,
but go on. One of oneof my biggest mistakes ever was not going
to a certain festival last year whereBlink headlined with Green Day in Las Vegas.
Yep, when we were young.Festival. Yes, it's been running
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for a couple of years now andit's freaking amazing. They always have the
best lineups. Last year just lookedlike a fake one. It was everyone
you know, offspring didn't happen.Let it go Steve let it go.
Well, it did happen, youjust weren't there. I mean, it
didn't happen for me, It didn'thappen for years. Yeah. So I
was talking to one of my matesfrom work, trave High Trav Hi Trav,
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and he's like, I'm going towhen we were Young Festival next year.
This is last year he was talkingabout. I'm like, oh,
I would love to have gone thisyear. Had to look at the lineup.
You know, Data, remember DashboardProfessional, the used Hawthorn Heights.
These are just the bands I'm ruttlingoff, you know, Mike kem all
this fall Out Boy playing albums infull, And isn't it every artist on
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the bill is playing an album infull. Yeah, Jimmy Eat World playing
Bloed America, you know, HomeSick Data, remember Hawthorne Heights, Sols
in black and White, the BlackParade by Mike m Yeah. Yeah,
So I'm like thinking about it,thinking about it. I went, you
know, looked up the tickets andI'm like, fuck, it's long lea
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to go. Danny's my wife justlooked at me and she's like, just
buy the fucking tickets. I hada similar experience with the U two tickets.
It's just like, for fuck's sake, just buy them. It's a
long way to go, it's expensive, but you know, that's what we
live for. So going to Vegas, baby, You're taking a leaf out
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of Steve's book, and I'm fuckingdoing it. He's taking my girlfriend to
Vegas with him. In my defense, in your defense, we're planning to
go there around that time anyway,it just so happens I will be going
a week earlier because we can't allgo at that stage because of other commitments.
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So I'll be meeting the family overthere, most likely fucking learn how
to rob a bank or something.No, I mean, I can teach
you a few things anyway. SoI'm I'm going, Steve, I'm going,
and I'm looking forward to it.Looks like I've been following their face
page and stuff, and it lookslike a really awesome festival with awesome people
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and awesome bands. So can't Ihear about it? Rock and roll?
Rock and roll? It ain't alwayspollution, cam, No, it is
not. I mean I wish therewas more. I'm trying to segue into
Seattle, but I couldn't do it. So fuck it Steve Seattle to me,
a Seattle was pretty cool because Iwhen I I've always wanted to go
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to Seattle purely for the grunge musicscene and all the history, and had
the opportunity to do it. It'slike we're going to the state. It's
going to Vegas. I'm probably nevergoing to go back to the stage,
so I may as well go toSeattle when we come to Vegas next year.
This year, let me check mywatch. Nah, I'd love to,
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but you know, recession, soinflation, I have to wear it.
It's all my fault. But Seattlewas I really enjoyed it. I
thought it was pretty awesome. Butthe main reason and went to go there
was to do a grunge tour andI signed up to this grunge troop stalking
Seattle. Give him a shout outfollowing on the socials and it was like,
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Okay, here's the pickup point andthe van will come and pick up
everyone who's going. And the vanrocked up and said Steve, I'm like,
yes, you're the only one onthe tour today. I'm like,
okay, that's that's okay. It'slike, sit in the front of the
van, and so I was allright. So we just sat in the
front of the van, cool andjust got a tour around Seattle with you.
I should have just come. Youshould just tour. I'd love for
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you to come in my ass.So you're right. You just told me
to come in your ass, andyou asked me if I'm all right.
Sorry for our listeners, just perpetuallysorry to our listeners. So doing the
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trip and got a good look aroundSeattle and everything, and you know,
this is where Pearl Jim had theirfirst us all and this is where Sound
Gun had this first gig. Andyeah, there was a there's a monument
on top of a hill that overlooksSeattle and you can see the space needle
through this monument and it's a bigblack round circle and it's called the Black
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Sun. And that's the apparently thereason behind the name black Hole Sun.
That was about it's about a blackhole Sun. And then went to Kirk
Cobain's house, which is kind oflike mecha to grunge fans like myself,
and and it's somewhere I'd always wantedto go to. It. It's a
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kind of a bit morbid because it'sit's a place where it's abandoned, is
it no? No people live there? So there was there was this a
dentist apparently owned it, who waslike pretty cool with the whole, like
like people coming and literary. Yeahit is. And there's like a mural
out of the front, there's apark bench, and and then she's like
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if you go over behind, likethe back of the house, you can
sort of look at it from behindand you can look right into the the
landing, the upstairs area where hepainted the roof. And too soon a
little bit, I thought you couldsay going to say, you can see
where there's like talk outline his scalpon the roof. Cam that's Steve's I'd
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never never never would you possibly sometimesall the time. So and there's there's
a park bench and and I actuallybecause it's it's kind of like the memorial
park bench, and I kind ofsnapped some of the park bench off and
kept took it with me because you'rereally a little bit Yeah, this is
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why you people can't get close tothe Michaelangelo's David. Yeah, because pricks
like me will cock. He's stillhe does have his cock. Yeah,
I was thinking of the mona Lisa. She doesn't. She might she maybe
that's why she's smiling. God,we've run off the road side. Yeah
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there, but it was it wasawesome to just go there and to check
it out. And so it's it'squite a windy city over there. It's
it's right on the ocean and everythinglike that. There's also a lot of
drug problem over there. Fentanyl isreally big in Seattle. And so we're
driving through like the main part ofthe city and tour guy it's just like,
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see that guy over there, he'sgot the fentanyl lean. What's that?
And it's like they're pretty much justbent over like paper clips. They're
just all they hit the fencanyl andthey just fold over. And I'll see
her over there, she's got thelean too, And oh that guy over
there and it's just like walking orthey just standing still, just completely bent
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over like a bent toothpick. Theyjust wow, just because they're just so
fucked up on fentanyl. So theyhave history of gymnastics or yoga, Oh
well they might, now it's whatthe fentyal users or because like to get
to bend over like that. That'snot quite that's not that, it's not
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I mean I can't touch my toes. But maybe if well maybe if the
fentanyl, you know, you losea lot of weight because like heroin people,
heroin people, the heroin people underthe bridge, they're stick thin,
they're like health professionals now compared tothese these people on like fentl and ozemic
and stuff. Yeah, so maybethey've lost all their weight so they can
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bend like that. So I don'tknow, I'm just putting two and two
together and they're getting four. They'veeaten all their organs. That's that.
Well, the fentanyl has at leastwow. Wow. But she was also
telling me that the thing with ventanylin Seattle is because it's really windy right
now. A lot of these peoplehomeless or live, says, a lot
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of homeless in the States, everywhere, the tense cities, in a lot
of it's it's it's a third worldcountry. A lot of the haves and
the have nots. There's a lotof poverty in every there's a big gap.
And so a lot of these poorpeople with their fentanyl, what they'll
do is they'll crush it up intolike tinfoil, right, and they'll smoke
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underneath at the light of flame.And they sort of just ingest the smoke
right to get high. But it'sa really windy city. So what they'll
do is they'll get on a busand they'll start doing it on the bus,
and because the fumes are so toxic, everyone else gets off the bus,
including the bus driver, and theywait for the person to finish,
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and then they get off, andthen everyone gets back on and they continue
their trip. And it's kind oflike just accepted that this is this is
what happens. What do they callfriend friend and addicts lot fenties. I
don't know. We've got a fenyon the bus, got a fence and
off. I'm already late for work. Yeah, but I'd rather be late
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than dead. So you know,that's literally the definition of better late than
dead. What happened to here?Fenty on the bus? Anyway? But
that's it. So that's it foranother episode. I think, are you
happy to wrap it up? Yeah? I've got to. I think we're
going to cuckoo. It's been fun, though. We've got all this off
our chest now exactly for Jesus minusten, yeah, plus one extra five,
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so that brings us back to zero. I think, yeah, well,
yeah, that's that's a nice roundnumber. Anyway, it's been fun
follow us on our socials. We'vegot Instagram, we've got Facebook. We
don't have Twitter or X because ifwe just don't know how to use it's
it's so limiting X amount of characters. Who needs it? But for right
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now, I've been Steve and I'vebeen Cam. Bye. Everyone,
Hello, and welcome to Garage Walkfor the podcast. This is season five,
episode number two. Joining me,as per usual, his uncle Spennigan.
I'm Cameroni knows. How are wetoday's spin? I'm just fucking great?
How are you? Pretty good?Pretty good? I had some really
nice flavored sparkling water. Compliments toyour schweps, Yes, compliments of the
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sweb swing shwing. I just realized, quite nice, a little bit of
a tinge of raspberry, wasn't Itwas a bit of a raspberry tinge.
I just realized I went really earlywith a swear. There you do.
I try not to. I meanI try to limit the swearing. We
do swear on the show. Tryit up a bit, Yeah, I
mean I just don't want, youknow, I don't want people to think
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less of it. So, Imean, within ten seconds are already thinking,
well, this is just going tobe a sweary podcast. I don't
know if I need to listen tothis. It does show, you know,
low intelligence swearing, but low browfuck them? Dad? Is we
are and what you get? Andyou get what we are? Everything,
Steve, Absolutely, everything that youcan look, see, touch, feel
(01:27):
is open to interpretation. Exactly everythingyou and I might not even be in
this room right now. It couldbe the matrix, Steve, This could
be the matrix two weeks in arow, matrix references. Everything is all
your perception. Don't see the fourthmatrix. Our eyes aren't just viewers,
Steve, they are projected. Isrunning a second story over what's actually happening.
(01:49):
Jesus, this is getting too fuckingdeep for me. I'm sorry.
Check it out. So we wedid start last week talking about a whole
bunch of bands we caught up withfor the break caught up with. We
didn't catch up with them. Wouldhave liked to wish fucking yeah, but
we didn't. But we only gothalfway through the list. So we're going
to finish that off, and we'regoing to start with Foo Fighters O my
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lord Stave. We saw them bringmusic back into Australia back into the start
of twenty twenty two. Fast forwardtwo years, we've seen him again.
Yep, minus one member, sadly, but with a new one. Freeze
Freeze, just Freeze. Oh yeah. And now I went to two shows.
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The first night I was in theback standing room section, and then
the next night I went with youin the front standing room section. I
did have a better time in thefront section, which I mean, you're
a bit closer, it's a bitfree. I did get stuck behind,
not behind, I was stuck neara knob head. Sorry you invited me?
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Sorry, I mean the first night. So ye, yeah, the
first night I was with my brother. So one of the things was trending
sort of online in the days upto those gigs was hashtag take your dad
to food Fighters because they've kind ofI mean, they've been around for nearly
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thirty years now. It's kind oflike dad rock, you know. So
that was sort of like just trendinga take your dad to food Fighters.
But there was this girl who wasbehind us, and I think she said
she was like eighteen, and shewas with her mum and they were there
and this was her first like properconcert that she'd gone to, and she
was really looking forward to it andshe was having a good time. And
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you know, the first part ofthe said had sort of gone by and
everyone's just rocking out, and thenthere was kind of like not a lull,
but they kind of just did afew slower songs and Dave was talking
to the crowd. Fair me tothat, and then these two just drunk
chicks just came in and they werejust like fucking and they were just talking
to each they were just having aloud conversation, and it's like, we're
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here. We just wanted to Hey, did you see Dave? Yes?
Oh, yeah, Davis. What'she doing? Yeah? And he's left
his wife. He started up hisown bike company, different, different day.
No, the actual Dave I wantto hear was up on stage talking
and I'm hearing about some pricks bikestalk. Now we're grumpy old day grumpy
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old men. But you know what, I'm kind of I've kind of got
to that point where I'm embracing it. Own it, Steve, Yeah,
own that ship. I've shoved myhair off. I've gone I've gone pretty
much bald now because I'm like,you know what, it's not growing anymore.
Took a lot of work to shoveall three hairs off, you know
it did. Now I look likeHomer Simpson, but a dear a female
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deer. Ray a cup of goldenSon. I thought he was the guy
who hosted the mid day show.Anyway, that's a fucking deep cut.
Ray Martin, what happened to her? I don't know Billy Ray Martin.
So I was, yeah, Ithink we've summoned something many what the ghost
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of Ray Martin? No, buthe's hair piece did. Maybe we've summoned
the hair piece of Raymark. EricBannon did him on full front with that
helmet every shot that his helmet plastichair would get bigger. Maybe that helmet
is in this room right now.Welcome to the current. So we're standing
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there watching the show and they're havingthis conversations like shut the fuck up anyway.
The woman, the mother has toldthem, can you please be quie,
we're trying to watch the show.Funk off. We're just trying to
talk. You know. It's afucking concert free country. And I was
like, oh Jesus Christ. Andthen they they started playing some music and
they were just like, we weren'tin a circle pit. We're standing a
fair bit back. All the standardthey're trying to and they're jumping into like
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the eighteen year old girl and bumpingher over and spilling their drinks on her,
and they're just like the mom's like, can you just can you settle
down? Like we're trying to justwatch the show, and it's just like,
yeah, it's fucking mysh p anda what you fucking expect food fires
concert. It's like we weren't inthe marsh pit. We were standing back.
Everyone's just trying to enjoy themselves.It's kind of like when we're at
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the Living End and there were nobheads just nowhere near the wash pitch,
just jumping into people. It's justlike, mate, if you want to
do that, go up the front, like no one cares. Yeah,
so again sounding like a grumpy oldman, but we do get that.
But you watch him do it fora few songs and they end up getting
tired and can't do it anymore exactly. Yeah, So that was annoying,
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But the show itself was awesome,two and a half hours of foo rock
and yeah, I mean absolutely lovedit. Well you think I never thought
i'd see it again, to behonest, I'll sure whether they'd continue without
Taylor Hawkins. And it was agood you know a lot of good tributes
to him. What about that forthe first night you went and they did
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Taylor Hawkins's favorite song. Yeah,so they did play Aurora, which was
one of the first songs that Taylorwrote with the band when he joined Food
Fighters, and Dave was sort ofsaying, look, you know, sometimes
I look out and I see abird flying and I think it's Taylor,
and he just sort of mentioned it. And then they started playing Aurora,
and as he did it, ayou know, flock of birds sort of
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flew out over the audience and justover the crowd, and it was like,
Okay, what the fuck was allthat? That seemed a bit spooky.
Perhaps there was a seance somewhere inAmy Park and the maybe backstage and
there was some birds just moving aOuiji board, but and I thought it
seemed too weird that it must havebeen a setup, like okay, he
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said the line, okay, releasesome doves or whatever like that, but
it yeah, but they didn't.That didn't happen at any other gig.
So I'm like, okay, that'sthat's really cool. Coincidental, but yeah,
that was pretty cool. It was. It was. It was an
awesome gig, rocking out. Absolutelyloved it. Steve had a hot dog.
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I did have a hot dog andthe bun was in two so it
was awkward. It was it wasI had a hot dog sandwich. You
need you need the bun to besplit open but not totally had I like
the time when you lift the endof it and we saw we saw Stacy
Gray from Trial Kennedy O h Stacy. Yeah, he wasn't performing, he
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just happened to be in the crowd. Awesome, it would have been pretty
cool. I really liked how thecrowd really embraced mister Freeze. Yes,
and in true Ossie form, we'vestarted a chant. Yeah, I even
you know what I think when thecrowd was doing that, I can't help
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but thinking Dave Roll felt a bitjealous. Really yeah, He's like,
oh, this is going to bea thing, and I think it's great.
I think it's really welcoming to youknow, for him to be in
the band and stuff like that,and it's just great to see him doing
it. So we'll probably see himagain in another two years. Yeah.
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Probably. They're a band that's justgoing to keep going. Well, that's
it, I think. Ever,they sort of said, like Dave Girls
was like, I keep doing thisin my nineties and look, I mean
if they can look at Paul McCartneycan't still I can still rocking out.
Actually he was talking about rocking out. So you sent me video of Dave
Grol rocking out at the final Utwo gig in Las Vegas. Yeah,
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which I did not expect to seeDave Grol rocking out at a He was
having a good time he did.It's funny scene, you know, he
just he could tell he's just abloke that just lives his music. Yeah,
it's like us, Steve, lookat us. We're you know,
you see autistic people and they lovetrains and rocks. We like rock.
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Musicus Christ that took a turn.I was not anticipating. I mean,
I'm not I'm not. I'm notsaying I hated it, but I just
wasn't anticipating it. That's us.We're just autistic for rock music, you
know. Yeah, not just rocks, no trains. I did see footage
years ago of someone was in amosh pit and they were sort of on
(10:30):
selfie gam next to Dave Groll ata Sound Garden gig, and he was
just like fist in the air andfucking singing the words back and everything,
and it's it's like, yeah,that's it's school. He's just in the
moshpit doing what people do at hisgigs. Yeah, it's like fuck,
you know, it's good that youwant to side stage, you know,
like, yeah, it always soundsbetter out the front obviously, but yes,
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that's cool. He's a rocker fromway back as a we But so
that was food Fighter Steve. Whatother gigs we had on My God,
you've spelt a letter and with yourfingers and you do the rest of the
letters coming. Well, that's anO. That's pretty straightforward. That's just
(11:13):
well you've done well, your fingerskind of joined to Yeah, you've put
it around the wrong Oh that's anF. Yeah, that's definitely an F.
And the X well that was prettystraightforward. So I just for those
of you listening, this is thisis no effects with my fingers, and
that is like I don't have verybig hands. You've got tiny fingers.
They're not top they wouldn't say tiny. They're not like trumpion, They're like
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they're not like fucking you know,coat hangers. No, well, actually,
can you put if I got biggerfingers than you, like, actually
my fingers aren't. Yeah, Ireckon, I've slightly outfingered you and it's
time for everything. That's that's asthat's as bad as big as the no
effect backdrop was. Yes, Ilove that. I love how they do
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that. They still do it.So yeah, no effects forty years,
forty songs. Final tour ever,Yeah, I saw no effects for the
last time ever until their next tourmaybe. Yeah. It really feels like
this is it. They had twonights in Melbourne Festival Hall. I went
the first night, which was songsfrom my favorite album, punkin Drublic,
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War on Errorrism, Yes, andWolf in Wolf Clothing. I can't remember
that album. It was awesome.But do you know what the game changer
was for me? Steve was agame change with me buddy from work,
Steweye, Hi Stewey, Hi Stewey. Well, the funny thing is I
was on and about going because memoryI'm trying to save for that America trip.
(12:46):
Life, I can't go to allthese haven't really even gone into the
American that much. Well, Imean we can go a bit later another
time, plenty of I'm trying tosave money for that. Everything is so
fucking expensive at the moment. It'sridiculous because you made inflation can go up.
Well, I try to, butyour fault. Well sorry about that
kids. Anyway, Anyway, He'slike, you come on in ANFX and
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I'm like, he's like, theyjust release more tickets. I'm like,
ah, fuck it, yeah,I'm going locking your day. So are
you general admission or seating and there'sonly seating left anyway. He's like,
I'm seating okay. Told his seatnumber. It was like section twelve,
f fifty five or something. Letterletter jump online. See if you're think
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tickets, Oh yeah ticket, Yeah, you got ten minutes to pay for
it. I'm not just having alittle squizz. I've got Section twelve,
seat f fifty six right next tome. Mate Steve Stu he got his
ticket months ago and I've got theticket right next to him. I'm like,
it's a fucking sign. It is. It's a sign, Steve.
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It's a very tiny sign at theback of the stage with no effects with
yes. So I ended up gettingthe ticket and went there and sat down
at a punk rock gig and Ifucking loved every minute of it because these
weary bones are tired. Yes,up there there's no line for the toilet.
Remember what downstairs is like living inthis festival hall, Yes, festival
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hall. No line for the toy, no line for merch if you want
to merge, no line for thebar really awesome and you are a padded
seat, wow, and you couldsee everything. I've been to Festival Hall
for a punky Goes. I sawthe Offspring like fuck twenty years ago now,
and it was Festival Hall. Butwe were standing. We were in
the seat at area, but westood up except for when they played why
(14:33):
Don't You Get a job, becausewe were like, well now it's the
time to take a seat. Butand they weren't padded back then. They
were just like primary school seat.Oh yes, but did you stand at
all? Or is you just satthe whole time? Yeah? We're literally
rocking out sitting down. Everyone was. It was great. Body Jar opened
awesome, Body Jar a body Jarfreaking awesome, bossy Melbourne punk. Yeah,
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so we yeah, we rocked outto them. And then you know,
No Effects played my favorite ever NoEffects song, which I've never seen
live before, which was Don't CallMe White, Don't Call Me White.
It was good to see that.And then they played again the next night
and they played a bunch of othersongs from other albums. I didn't go
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to that night, no, butyeah, that was No Effects had a
great time, awesome going seats.Yeah, you're oldies. It's so good.
Yeah. I've been to a fewgigs in seats and well that was
the thing with Quins and Stone.It's like we had seats at the Bowl
and we had like these really goodseeds directly in front, like only one
person like roll in front of us, and they decided to stand up because
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everyone else was standing up. Sowe ended up standing up the whole time.
But I still hall with it.I do have to roll with the
punches. You can't go everyone sitdown. You're not gonna make your You
got to roll with it. Youdo have to roll with it. I
went to see Placebo once at thePalais in Saint Kilda, which is a
theater, and so we're all like, oh, it will stand up and
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you know, jump around a littlebit. And security we're like, no,
no, no, everyone, youwere relotted to your seats. You
were not allowed in the aisles.Stay in your seats and sit down,
like they were telling everyone you've gotto sit down, steph. And so
anyway, so Placebo came out,they played their first song and everyone's sitting
down, and after they finished thesong, Brian Molkoe was like, can
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everyone on the bottom level, pleasestand up. This is very weird for
us, And I was just like, yeah, well, why are you
playing a rock gig at the Palais'it's a theater. So but yeah,
for that one song, I didfind it quite relaxing. There you go,
there you go. But yeah,so no effects, highlight, Don't
Call Me White, definitely, don'tcall Me White. They sounded really good.
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Like it for forty years, Iknow, but I've seen him a
few times, and you know,this is probably the best I've seen them.
Really. Yeah, I felt likethey really wanted to be there.
I'm really excited to do it.So I actually watched the next night live
streamed, live streamed it. Itwas no effect and it was it was
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awesome. There's actually some really goodsongs that they played. Bob, what's
Barb gonna do now that he can'tdrink the d D? Anyway? Get
into it, don't we? Soyeah, yeah, definitely the highlight was
seen Don't Call Me White. Itjust reminds me of being high school kid
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watching circumcised Creative Guy's allegiance sworn watchingmy Eargasm videos, which isn't porn,
just tunk rock music and extreme sports. And that was one of the songs.
That's how I yeah got into themawesome. Well. Speaking of festival
Hall, I went there to seethe Let There Be Rock show, which
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was The Darkness You Am I andDZ death Rays. Was there rock?
There was definitely rock and or roll, you know DZ Deathrays, I mean
awesome live. They've now got out. Luke from Violent Soho is now playing
bass. Speaking of violence, Iwas wearing my violentce Soho T shirt to
the first Blink gear and the dealthat was handing out our vi penis.
(18:30):
Yes, Lanyards really complimented the Tshirt. It's like, now I really
like that bend. I'm like,Unfortunately they're not around anymore, I said.
Me and Steve from you Gara thepodcast we went and saw their last
show in Brisbane whenever. It wasyear before ship. We are getting old.
(18:52):
It's gone. Yeah, So thatwas that. But yeah, sorry
I cut you off. Yeah no, I'm used to it, so see
cutting me off even when you're cuttingme off the ghost Sorry about that.
Just grab me you bought that's thespirital sir, But I was I was
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wearing my Viole Ghost you do notwell, that would just be rude on
a ghostly poop a ghostly poo?What we Isn't that just a fart?
It's like a spirit of a poo. It's just it's the it's the ghost
what what is a ghosty poop?You sit down, you take him ship,
(19:36):
Yeah, and then you look inthe water and there's nothing there.
Yeah, go straight up the post. No trace. No, it's also
called vanish without a trace, butghostly sounds. Ghostly sounds way better.
What so did it happen? Howdoes the matrix just want you to think
that you've pooed? Or have youever had it where there's like a surprise
(19:56):
pool where you sit down to doa WII and then you get up and
there's a poo there you sit downto wait. I've mean only if I've
got like a cramp or something.But you know this is I'm saying this
more towards our female viewers. Yeah, well sure it happens to them all
the time. Exactly Just where didthat come? Or or a featus?
(20:21):
You know, you just don't know, something just falls out and you just
don't expect it. I do remembergoing on public to all at once and
this woman comes out of the women'sand she's like, pooh, just fell
out of my vagina. That iscalled an Alabama hot pocket. Jesus,
(20:41):
I don't know how to follow upwith that. What about what about vanish
with the trace you just keep wiping, wipe up there, Christ text in
there or something. Well, youknow, you go to these kind of
parties, you don't know what happensanyway, So eating that crayon crayon.
(21:06):
Actually getting back to what we weretalking about, DZ Deathrays. They are
talking to the celebration of their albumBlack Rat. They've been hinting it some
some stuff funny if their their albumname was brown Crayon. So I just
I just blew a straight into themicrophone front, so you just spread you
(21:32):
and then smelled like raspberry, likesweets. It's all fitting together if we
if we make an album, it'sgoing to be called brown crayon, Brown
Crayon. What about those old comedyalbums, Let's do one of Let's just
put some episodes on a c Dand so for sel them, it's going
(21:52):
to be like garage rock Brown CrayonVolume one. Geez well, I mean
crayon. Would we Mac and Cheese, Mac and cheese. We're not doing
that. Ship. If we wereto do, you say, brown Crowon's
the first edition, would we changeup? Would we go all the Crayola
colors would be like pink crayon.At least we'd at least do red at
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least well, we'd have to makesense. It does. After a brown
crayon. You you you get tothe bread, you wipe, and you
wipe and you get raw. Youget red. You do get raw,
you get red. Anybody, poorpoor bloody fucking Z death Rays. They've
got all this ship talk over theirstuff exactly. Sorry, Sorry to mister
D and mister Z and the deathI did actually see Luke after the gig
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and I said, I said,oh, yeah, well played up there.
And I was wearing my violence SOHOshirt at the time, and he
says, thanks man. And that'san anecdote that we did not need anyway.
Pretty cool they're celebrating Brown volume numbertwo. Steve does another useless story.
That's pretty much. We've done aboutsixty episodes of that. I think,
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min min it's like a mum that'ssmall. It's a minimum fucking Now,
Jesus, keep on swimming. AfterDC Deathrays. You am. I
came on stage and they were playingexclusively spinal tap songs. Oh really yes,
so I did not know many ofthem, but I do remember they're
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playing in their own No, purely. They did a spinal tap set Berlin
Chair Come on Shuffle the other day. I wonder if they played that at
Steve's kick. Obviously not. No, they played tonight I'm going to rock
You Tonight, which is the onlyspinal tap song. And also Big Bottoms
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about girls with big bottoms. That'swhere they that's queen. Yeah, well
that's fat bottom girls. They makethe rock and world around. But big
Bottoms by spinal tap is every memberwith guitar plays bass in America on bass,
they all play bees. So yeah, three bass players and a drummer
up on stage. So it wassupposed they keeping it fresh. They keeping
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it fresh by playing music from adocumentary in the seventies, The Headliners Steve
Headliners, give Me a D,D, Give Me an Arkness, Arkness
the d They were the Hawkins somethingRides again. How were they? They
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were awesome? They were fantastic.They played their album Permission to Land in
Fall. Do they believe in athing called love? I think they do.
I do think they do, becausethey do they listen to the rhythm
of their heart. They certainly didcam Now they played. It was interesting
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because they played the album and fulland B sides from that album, so
there wasn't much sort of from anyof the other albums. It was just
purely from that time. O cool. So it was pretty cool to hear
some songs, like a few Bsides that I did know that hadn't heard
before because the B sides I don'tusually get a run, but this time
they did. And also just justfantastic live musicians. They always give one
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hundred and ten on the stage andjust the soloing and just shredding. And
that was festival Festival Hall as well. Hall is back. It is back.
We praise the Lord, Raise theLord. Hillsong need to pay the
bills or the legal bills, sothey're letting the bands use festival Haul again.
It's fantastic, unbelievable. Jesus.We've definitely flogged that place the last
(25:36):
few months, haven't we now?Given a good flog? And I was
supposed to go see Royal Blood therebut ended up in the States instead selling
your ticket. I did someone ticketTicketmaster resale. But and then actually I
thought, God, I'm going toget ripped off here. It actually it
was pretty painless and I got thesame amount of money for what I paid,
So it needs to happen. Itdoes It was. It was good.
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And actually because a Ticketmaster just didthe the Pearl Jam tour which is
coming up later in the year,and you had to register your email like
a week before tickets went on saleto avoid bots from purchasing mass amounts of
tickets. So you had to registeryour email. They'd give you a code
and if you missed the cut,you'd be put on a waitlist. And
(26:18):
so I had two email addresses.I put them both on and one was
on the waitlist and one here's acode. And so where are they playing?
They are playing two shows in Sydneyand Giants Stadium, the GWS Ground,
two shows at Marvel Stadium and oneshow at Carrara in the Gold Coast.
Was it hard to get tickets?Nah, that was all right.
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It's just there's like a front moshsection called the Golden Circle, but it's
not huge, It's not like halfthe ground or anything. So I didn't
get in there. Just chose notto. We will just go in the
back section, which is still relativelyclose, So we'll just do that.
But fun times ahead, gym.It is quite exy. Fuck the front
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seat was like the rounded bucks.I was like, oh, yep,
get a bit like that inflation,Steve. It's your fault. It is
my fault, but hey, I'llwear it now. We were going to
talk about a couple of things withthe States because I've got I was going
to talk about Seattle and you're goingto talk about going to a festival over
there. Let's hear about your festival. I want to hear about the festival.
Tell me all about it, Steve. We all make mistakes, right
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we do. Agreeing to do apodcast series was probably one of them,
but go on. One of oneof my biggest mistakes ever was not going
to a certain festival last year whereBlink headlined with Green Day in Las Vegas.
Yep, when we were young.Festival. Yes, it's been running
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for a couple of years now andit's freaking amazing. They always have the
best lineups. Last year just lookedlike a fake one. It was everyone
you know, offspring didn't happen.Let it go Steve let it go.
Well, it did happen, youjust weren't there. I mean, it
didn't happen for me, It didn'thappen for years. Yeah. So I
was talking to one of my matesfrom work, trave High Trav Hi Trav,
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and he's like, I'm going towhen we were Young Festival next year.
This is last year he was talkingabout. I'm like, oh,
I would love to have gone thisyear. Had to look at the lineup.
You know, Data, remember DashboardProfessional, the used Hawthorn Heights.
These are just the bands I'm ruttlingoff, you know, Mike kem all
this fall Out Boy playing albums infull, And isn't it every artist on
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the bill is playing an album infull. Yeah, Jimmy Eat World playing
Bloed America, you know, HomeSick Data, remember Hawthorne Heights, Sols
in black and White, the BlackParade by Mike m Yeah. Yeah,
So I'm like thinking about it,thinking about it. I went, you
know, looked up the tickets andI'm like, fuck, it's long lea
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to go. Danny's my wife justlooked at me and she's like, just
buy the fucking tickets. I hada similar experience with the U two tickets.
It's just like, for fuck's sake, just buy them. It's a
long way to go, it's expensive, but you know, that's what we
live for. So going to Vegas, baby, You're taking a leaf out
(29:22):
of Steve's book, and I'm fuckingdoing it. He's taking my girlfriend to
Vegas with him. In my defense, in your defense, we're planning to
go there around that time anyway,it just so happens I will be going
a week earlier because we can't allgo at that stage because of other commitments.
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So I'll be meeting the family overthere, most likely fucking learn how
to rob a bank or something.No, I mean, I can teach
you a few things anyway. SoI'm I'm going, Steve, I'm going,
and I'm looking forward to it.Looks like I've been following their face
page and stuff, and it lookslike a really awesome festival with awesome people
(30:06):
and awesome bands. So can't Ihear about it? Rock and roll?
Rock and roll? It ain't alwayspollution, cam, No, it is
not. I mean I wish therewas more. I'm trying to segue into
Seattle, but I couldn't do it. So fuck it Steve Seattle to me,
a Seattle was pretty cool because Iwhen I I've always wanted to go
(30:26):
to Seattle purely for the grunge musicscene and all the history, and had
the opportunity to do it. It'slike we're going to the state. It's
going to Vegas. I'm probably nevergoing to go back to the stage,
so I may as well go toSeattle when we come to Vegas next year.
This year, let me check mywatch. Nah, I'd love to,
(30:48):
but you know, recession, soinflation, I have to wear it.
It's all my fault. But Seattlewas I really enjoyed it. I
thought it was pretty awesome. Butthe main reason and went to go there
was to do a grunge tour andI signed up to this grunge troop stalking
Seattle. Give him a shout outfollowing on the socials and it was like,
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Okay, here's the pickup point andthe van will come and pick up
everyone who's going. And the vanrocked up and said Steve, I'm like,
yes, you're the only one onthe tour today. I'm like,
okay, that's that's okay. It'slike, sit in the front of the
van, and so I was allright. So we just sat in the
front of the van, cool andjust got a tour around Seattle with you.
I should have just come. Youshould just tour. I'd love for
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you to come in my ass.So you're right. You just told me
to come in your ass, andyou asked me if I'm all right.
Sorry for our listeners, just perpetuallysorry to our listeners. So doing the
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trip and got a good look aroundSeattle and everything, and you know,
this is where Pearl Jim had theirfirst us all and this is where Sound
Gun had this first gig. Andyeah, there was a there's a monument
on top of a hill that overlooksSeattle and you can see the space needle
through this monument and it's a bigblack round circle and it's called the Black
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Sun. And that's the apparently thereason behind the name black Hole Sun.
That was about it's about a blackhole Sun. And then went to Kirk
Cobain's house, which is kind oflike mecha to grunge fans like myself,
and and it's somewhere I'd always wantedto go to. It. It's a
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kind of a bit morbid because it'sit's a place where it's abandoned, is
it no? No people live there? So there was there was this a
dentist apparently owned it, who waslike pretty cool with the whole, like
like people coming and literary. Yeahit is. And there's like a mural
out of the front, there's apark bench, and and then she's like
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if you go over behind, likethe back of the house, you can
sort of look at it from behindand you can look right into the the
landing, the upstairs area where hepainted the roof. And too soon a
little bit, I thought you couldsay going to say, you can see
where there's like talk outline his scalpon the roof. Cam that's Steve's I'd
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never never never would you possibly sometimesall the time. So and there's there's
a park bench and and I actuallybecause it's it's kind of like the memorial
park bench, and I kind ofsnapped some of the park bench off and
kept took it with me because you'rereally a little bit Yeah, this is
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why you people can't get close tothe Michaelangelo's David. Yeah, because pricks
like me will cock. He's stillhe does have his cock. Yeah,
I was thinking of the mona Lisa. She doesn't. She might she maybe
that's why she's smiling. God,we've run off the road side. Yeah
(34:07):
there, but it was it wasawesome to just go there and to check
it out. And so it's it'squite a windy city over there. It's
it's right on the ocean and everythinglike that. There's also a lot of
drug problem over there. Fentanyl isreally big in Seattle. And so we're
driving through like the main part ofthe city and tour guy it's just like,
(34:31):
see that guy over there, he'sgot the fentanyl lean. What's that?
And it's like they're pretty much justbent over like paper clips. They're
just all they hit the fencanyl andthey just fold over. And I'll see
her over there, she's got thelean too, And oh that guy over
there and it's just like walking orthey just standing still, just completely bent
(34:52):
over like a bent toothpick. Theyjust wow, just because they're just so
fucked up on fentanyl. So theyhave history of gymnastics or yoga, Oh
well they might, now it's whatthe fentyal users or because like to get
to bend over like that. That'snot quite that's not that, it's not
(35:13):
I mean I can't touch my toes. But maybe if well maybe if the
fentanyl, you know, you losea lot of weight because like heroin people,
heroin people, the heroin people underthe bridge, they're stick thin,
they're like health professionals now compared tothese these people on like fentl and ozemic
and stuff. Yeah, so maybethey've lost all their weight so they can
(35:36):
bend like that. So I don'tknow, I'm just putting two and two
together and they're getting four. They'veeaten all their organs. That's that.
Well, the fentanyl has at leastwow. Wow. But she was also
telling me that the thing with ventanylin Seattle is because it's really windy right
now. A lot of these peoplehomeless or live, says, a lot
(35:59):
of homeless in the States, everywhere, the tense cities, in a lot
of it's it's it's a third worldcountry. A lot of the haves and
the have nots. There's a lotof poverty in every there's a big gap.
And so a lot of these poorpeople with their fentanyl, what they'll
do is they'll crush it up intolike tinfoil, right, and they'll smoke
(36:22):
underneath at the light of flame.And they sort of just ingest the smoke
right to get high. But it'sa really windy city. So what they'll
do is they'll get on a busand they'll start doing it on the bus,
and because the fumes are so toxic, everyone else gets off the bus,
including the bus driver, and theywait for the person to finish,
(36:44):
and then they get off, andthen everyone gets back on and they continue
their trip. And it's kind oflike just accepted that this is this is
what happens. What do they callfriend friend and addicts lot fenties. I
don't know. We've got a fenyon the bus, got a fence and
off. I'm already late for work. Yeah, but I'd rather be late
(37:04):
than dead. So you know,that's literally the definition of better late than
dead. What happened to here?Fenty on the bus? Anyway? But
that's it. So that's it foranother episode. I think, are you
happy to wrap it up? Yeah? I've got to. I think we're
going to cuckoo. It's been fun, though. We've got all this off
our chest now exactly for Jesus minusten, yeah, plus one extra five,
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so that brings us back to zero. I think, yeah, well,
yeah, that's that's a nice roundnumber. Anyway, it's been fun
follow us on our socials. We'vegot Instagram, we've got Facebook. We
don't have Twitter or X because ifwe just don't know how to use it's
it's so limiting X amount of characters. Who needs it? But for right
(37:52):
now, I've been Steve and I'vebeen Cam. Bye. Everyone,
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