November 30, 2024 • 55 mins
After an unforseen delay, Steve and Cam are back for a new episode of the Garage Rock Podcast. Cam was travelling around the USA and went to the When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas. Steve had his gallbladder removed and went to see Pearl Jam.
This is the first of a two-part season finale for 2024... probably.
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This is the first of a two-part season finale for 2024... probably.
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Well, I've been welcome to downs Off the podcast. My
name is Steve and joining me as always, we're just
getting straight into it. Can we get joining me? Is?
Can let's just get straight in.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Getting straight into We got so much Oh god, I
don't even know where to start. We've got so much
to talk about trip and so much music stuff that
we want to talk about. I don't know where to start,
but we're flowing.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We're flowing. Just go with the flow. With the flow.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
People haven't come on here to hear a sing that's
even a bit of simple plan before, didn't I yeah,
you did touring with Offspring soon.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I mean, let's just go straight into the music. The
Offspring coming've announced into it for twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Are you going no?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
But I mean it's I mean they just played the
Forum in Melbourne, which is kind of cool because that's
a very intimate gig for a band like the Offspring.
Tickets sold out before they even went on sale.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I know, we both tried, and we tried so hard.
I don't know how people got tickets.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I don't know. Maybe because it was even the pre
sale was pre sold. I don't know. I'm starting to
guess whether the gear actually took place.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, you know what, Steve like, we might not have
been lucky with that, but you always managed to get
the tickets. You always managed to work it out and
you got very very lucky. Was that my mouth there was.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I think you need to see your dentist or something,
because that noise was not natural.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I was like, I think I need a drink, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
While you're having a drink. Which because we were both
going to two different shows next year, one of which's
been Green Day Oh GREFI green Afire playing the thirtieth
anniversary of Dookie, the twentieth anniversary of American Idiot that's
this year, but they're still going to be doing it
(02:12):
next year, so technically thirty one and twenty one years,
but we'll get past that. Yeah, I know it doesn't
feel the same now, but they're going to be mistake. Yeah,
I think they did a few years ago, but they're
both they're playing both of those albums in full, as
well as tracks off their new album Saviors, which I
quite like the new album series.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, and just quickly I was going to talk to
you off air, but I'm as we do it in
front of everyone. Ye, earlier.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
It'll just just speak quite for a secon.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
The next night. Yeah, in in Melbourne is penny Wise
and Melancholin. I see that, yes in Peker.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
In Peker, I don't even know what that is. Isn't
that like a Pokemon sort of thing? Is like pick
up pick up? Like I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I think it's like I looked it up. It's like
a warehouse in Melbourne where they have mainly like DJs
and stuff. Okay, but yeah, they've got bands there as well,
So kind of interested to see that mate around make
a weekend of it on why not?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And then the other concert that was very sold out
very quickly, this Oasis.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh my god, let's say the story. Steve Yes, Cam
and two of his mates were online trying to get ticks.
I couldn't do it because I was too busy gallivanting
around ste Adult exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, well they announced, well they ended up doing three
Melbourne shows and two Sydney shows, and we're in the
queue and like you had to get like a pre
sale code and everything like that, and then they're like okay,
here's you go in and then it allocates you a
random spot in the queue. So one of my mates
messaged me, is just like ten thousands in the queue.
(03:54):
Another mate, I'm seven thousand in the queue pops up
on mine. You're ninety fifth. Oh if you don't mind
chow so I mean, I don't know, because tickets to
that are a ridiculous so to be able to just
get in and yes we're in the front section.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
For that, stay on, behalf of me and every Brit
rocker lover thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
No, you're quite welcome, and until all the other Britt
rockers who aren't going, we're thinking of you.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, we're general admission at the front. Yes, like we're
actually going to feel the greasy.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And come on, feel the noise, girls, rock.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
The boys, and we won't get looking in anger, not
at all.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
That was another weird thing. So we did our We
do our garage rock voting for your favorite different bands
and their songs. We on our Instagram. We we did Oasis,
we did and I had I even had like people
messaging me going, what's the point of just going to
be wonder Wall. I'm like, oh, could be. Don't look
back in anger. You know, we'll see what happens. It's
all about the journey, not necessarily the.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Destination exactly, Steve, because everyone or everyone has the same
destination and.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
That's death exactly exactly. Moving on anyway, So we did
the Oasis one and Wonder Wall came second, Don't Look
Back and Anger came third, and Morning Glory the story
Time to Wake Up. No. So, and we've just done
live at the time of recording, we don't know who's
(05:33):
one yet. It's a mystery to me. It's probably going
to be lightning crashes though. But yeah, and the mother dies,
I can feel it coming fall into them. Yes, but
I just saw Pearl Jam at Marvel stage.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
How was it, Steve, in your honest opinion?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
But the old Jill Pam, Well, we weren't in the
front section for that, when I was in the in
the in the back general admin on the ground. And
so I don't normally drink at gigs, and anyway, I've
gone there with a made of mind Paul seen in
ages and I'm like, yeah, I'll get you a drink,
you get me one later. So well, I've had two drinks.
I'm like okay, And they were Jack Daniels and coke
(06:13):
and Jack Daniels and lemonade. They had like this special
stand up. I was like, all right, cool. Then anyway,
he goes and grabs another one. I'm like, fuck, that
means I got to grab him another one too. Okay,
So now I had four bourbon and cokes. And then
some random guy comes up to us and he's just like, oh,
what are you drinking? I mean, oh yeah, Jack Daniels
and lemonade. He's just like, oh you like and I'm like, yeah,
yeah I do. He's just like, oh cool, I get
(06:34):
you some more.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And so he's so this.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Random guy, he goes, I'll work for Jack Daniels, thanks
for your feedback. Here's some more. I got another two,
and so I have them. And then as soon as
we get in the ground and I'm like, I've had
like seven of these drinks by now.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
So ami were free, you got two, you got two
for free, so you got four free drinks and you
didn't have to say anyone's tea.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I did, but I mean it was but at least
at least at least the drink helped get rid of
the aftertaste. Anyway they were getting were standing there, I'm
already said wobblier because yeah, I don't drink much. And
then mate, Paul just rocks up and he hands me
a bourbon and coke. I'm like, what the fuck are
you doing? Im Like, so anyway, by the we missed Pixies,
(07:22):
the good could have been I'm gonna go with yes.
People seemed happy, uh, and so then anyway, so I've
had another bourbon and then Pearl Jam have come out
and they played for like two and a half hours,
awesome set, lots of lots of the hits, some trucks
off the new albums. That probably my favorite songs from
the new album they played as well, which was cool
(07:43):
and and just a good mix of their like discography.
So I was I was really happy with it. They
put on an awesome show three hours a bit under,
but yeah, it was. It was pretty good. And they
had like, you know, the footballer Jonathan Brown, like he
came out. Apparently he's linked to a a charity in
relation to like skin disease, and Eddie Veda knows people
(08:07):
back in the States who work in this sort of
similar charity, so he talked about it for a bit.
I think I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Much of it, and then skin condition cleared up.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
You know, that's that's just a lot of wishful thinking.
I just thought I've kind of thought the aiasis away.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Put it out there, put it out there.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
What you got to lose my arms? Possibly, but anyway, anyway, Yeah,
so that was a really good show. That's the end
of the world tour.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Now did they okay? So did they do any like
acoustic set in the middle or you know, things like that,
or was it just rocking out the whole time?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Or there were some like slower songs I think like
when they've gone for the encore they've come out and
Edie did a song like acoustically may have been too,
but yeah, and it was.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It was.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
It was like a pretty like respectable crowd. Everyone was
there for a good time. Not many dickheads. Oh I
got a free shirt. Free shirt. So some guy and
like these shirts like sixty bucks like tour shirts. This
guy was he wasn't wearing his shirt. He wasn't wearing
any shirt, to be honest, and he was just sort
of like so buntsey pearl jam and he had this
(09:16):
shirt in his hand and then as soon as the
lights went dark and they sort of like started, he
ran forwards and swung his shirt around and threw it
backwards and it landed on me and I looked at it.
I'm like the same size, thank you very much like
the guys he'd had more to England, me clearly.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Admitting something that night that gave you free stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, yeah, wow, I didn't even think of it like that.
Free drinks, free shirts. It's just awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Now let's practice some gratitude.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I was rocking in the free world as well. They
finished with that, So and Yellow live better anyway, Enough
about me, No one gives a flying for about me.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I don't good sege Pearl Jam went to and you've
been there. We went to the very first place where
Pearl Jam used to rehearse in the rehearsal rooms down
that dark alleyway. Spray Pay was awesome. If you don't
(10:21):
know what we're talking about about, a bit over you ago. No,
it was about a year ago. Steve did the Stalking
Seattle tour in Seattle, and I followed in her footsteps
and did it as well, and it was well worth
the trip. Absolutely loved it. And obviously the Seattle grunge
(10:42):
or the Seattle music seems locking huge in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Even before that was like Jimmy Hendrix as well.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Jimmy Hendrix here went to Jimmy Hendrix statue out the
front of a grocery store. Now, I said, why is
it there? And she said, oh, it used to be
a record store right right there, and the statue just stayed. Anyway,
I said, she's like, I'm going to pull over and
you can get a photo with it. I said, awesome. Anyway,
(11:10):
just as we pulled up, this lady had rested her bag,
a plastic bag of fruit on the Jimmy Hendrix statue
and was trying to pack her bag and doing it
really awkwardly. And I'm standing there really awkwardly waiting to
get a photo with the late great Jimmy Hendrix, and
(11:36):
she was taken forever, and I just said, excuse me,
jim Mine, if you do this over there so I
can get a photo with Jimmy Hendrix. And she just
looks up at me, looks at the tour van and
looks at me and goes, oh, all right, Well, you
don't put your buddy banana and apples on Jimmy Hendrix's
(11:57):
the respect.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Absolutely. When I was there, there was someone who put
a cigarette in his mouth. So he's just he's just
got a drry. I don't know if he would have
ever called him a dorry though.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
No, no, no, she said some sometimes a Christmas ye
has a Christmas heart. It was Halloween, had Halloween stuff
around him, she said, But it wasn't there when I
was there.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Maybe that woman was putting some pumpkins there and you
interrupted her.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yeah, stupid hall. But anyway, that was really cool. Kirk
Bain's house. That was Bain's house, Yes, where he passed away.
Was amazing. Went up and had a look at that,
did you. So there's the park next to it. Yes,
they got the bench as a bit of a tribute.
People place things cigarettes, empty beer bottles, you know. Can
(12:51):
you get any more grunge than that? Really true? Did
you go up to the fence at all, the side
of a fence that's like the side of his house
and the park. Yes, yeah, And there's there's a I
don't know if he was there. Then there's a homeless
guy living in there. Apparently he's lived there for a while.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I think that's Dave Grohl has been kicked out of
the house and that's where he's kind of like living now.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But he's looking looking after the baby though.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah, that is that's that's another development.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
But anyway, that's a whole podcast. We can hold that.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah yeah, and yeah, like on.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
The fence, there's all messages like you know, Courtney didn't
things things like that, so that that was amazing to see.
And a beautiful area Seattle as well, and then that
particular area near the near the bay and stuff was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah. No, I believe like a dentist owns it now
and he's kind of like fine with like tourists sort
of you know, having a peak around the house, whereas
apparently the previous owner was like totally again yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Because Courtney owned it up until nineteen ninety seven. Oh really,
and she obviously sold it off and it has me accent.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Oh it's it's on point. Well, let me tell you.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Obviously for years have done fake, funny exaggerated American accents
in front of the kids. When we went to America,
the kids were like, Dad, their accent is exactly like
your strange exaggerated accent. I'm like, I was just impersonating.
(14:38):
I told you is.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Like every single person who talks to you is trying
to be famous. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
There's this sort of like that they've got something to tell.
Everything's a showsty everything. It's not a boring story. For example,
this is going to happen a lot. Things are going
to pop into my head.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
That's all good.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I originally went to Portland, Oregon and Astoria and then
went up and drove up to see I've never driven
in there before. But weird experience, but awesome. It was lunchtime.
I'm like, I'm going to stop off at this big
truck stop within I had make his subway everything. Every
time I'm going to go get subway for lunch. Anyway,
(15:23):
there was this Asian lady ordering subway and the kid
behind the counter was probably like twenty or something. He
was freaking over it and he was hating on this lady.
I don't know what the hell was going on, but
he was hating life. Anyway, He's finally come to serve
me and I've spoken and I'm in the middle of
(15:46):
nowhere in I think I think I was in Washington
State by then. I can't remember it was Oregon or
Washington anyway, bum fuck nowhere and his face just it off.
He's like, WHOA, You're not from around here. I'm like, nah, no,
far from it. And he's like Scottish.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I'm like no, no, actually not even clock some I'm Australian.
He's like, ah, man, he just made my day. I'm
having a ship day. I'm like, I could tell anyway.
Talking about the Americans, talking about their stories, He's like, man,
(16:31):
I live just up the road. It's the best town.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
You know why.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
We have the best tasting water.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And a competition.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
That's a competition. I got to other towns the water
tastes like shit, yeah our town. Just go up there
and ask someone to use their tap. No, I don't
say tap, they say flast. I'm like, okay, cool, So
I've got my big gulp.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I do how I do love how Americans tell you
about how everything of theirs is the greatest in the world,
and that they're the greatest in the world.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah, but everyone else in the world knows differently, exactly.
It's a beautiful country.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I'm not going to diss it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
It's a nice place.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Everyone has their difference, exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
And you also went to the Seattle Museum of Modern
Pop as well.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Museum of Pop Culture was sucking amazing. Steve on your
recommendation you go even just walking in. Then you've got
like the big sort of like twisted tornado of guitars
and banjos and drums and basses. It was just just
saying that was like this is cool. Yeah, and then
(17:52):
you got everything from movie props, you know, like the
Batman costume, and you've got like Jimmy Hendrix costume.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
His guitar that he said on file. Yes, that's right. Yeah,
what's left of it?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
That that iconic hat with the black, white brimmed hat
was there.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
It was the Nirvana exhibit still there. Yes, yes, that's
really cool too.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
It was Yeah, Dave Rolls drum kit, big massive fuck off.
Tom's like I don't even.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Know his high Tom is a floor Tom?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Oh yeah it is, isn't it? Yeah it's pretty big.
Oh man? What else is there? So much? Yeah? They
had like Hoverboar, the boars from Back to the Future,
Terminator a terminator, yeah, Luke Skywalker's hand that gets gets
severed in the and the lightsaber. So it's just like
(18:49):
the actual Dark Vader costume was there. And the thing
that blew my mind away because it's so old, the
Cowardly Lion costume from the Wizard of Olds, Yes, actually
made from lions for real.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Line for back in the day when we could do
stuff like that. Yeah, and now no, and you know in.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
The snow in the Wizard of Olds, he was pure asbestos.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, oh yeah. And I'm not sure if it was
Fred Astaire, but it may have been. He was supposed
to be the Tin Man, but he had an allergy
to the lead paint that.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Leads silver paint.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, so he ended up having to drop out because
you know, lead poisoning.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
So he lived an extra fifty years past the guy
that actually did make the Tin Man did did.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
The main reason you went to the United States is
to go to the When We Were Young Festival in
Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Well, that was the why I went. Earlier before the family,
we were always going over there. We had this these
three and a half weeks blocked out yep. And then
my Traviy Wab from work like toy Wavy Legend. He's
sitting down, He's like, we're going to When We Were
Young Festival? Do you want to go? I'm like, oh,
that's the it's you know, a week before we're going,
(20:11):
and Danny's you know, he's doing finishing Union and stuff.
I'm like sitting down that night looking at tickets and
Danny's like just fucking go. Okay, yeah, so I bought
a ticket and man it was. It's the best festival
I've ever been to really by far. Like it was
eighty thousand people.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Okay, it's a few people.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It's a few people. But obviously we don't get those
kind of.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Numbers fifteen to twenty thousand, Do I remember forty.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Thousand a big day out or maybe maybe Pyramid?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
No, no, I don't know. I'm just going to leave
that out there. I just don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, I don't know. Anyway, obviously the population's huge, so
oh yeah, they can get those kind of numbers. But man,
it was so well organized. Yeah, you know, even at
festivals here, if you need to get food or drink,
your waight an hour in the line ye over there,
straight up. You know, you can get any drink, food,
(21:11):
whatever you want, no worries.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
How does that even work?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
There's just heaps of much Okay, there's just heaps heaps
And we had the VIP so we we had air
conditioned toilets okay, bench tops and it was really bench tops.
Had it was clean it had hand sanitizers, so wash
(21:35):
you wash your hands with air conditioned. Absolutely awesome.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I remember going to Pyramid Rock Festival and we were
in the artist area and we had like one toilet
and like it had like a squeeze pump soap that
none of the other toilets had, and I think there
was air freshm the thing in there as well. That
was the luxury that we got ahead of, like the
scum that attended the concept of the festival. And we've
(22:00):
been that scum, Like, we know how much of a
step up that is.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I remember a Pyramid one year was the drop toilets.
Oh yes, the compost. There was literally literally a portaloo
which was a drop toilet into a hole and it
literally had to shovel with straw that you would take
a ship and then shovel some straw on top of
your ship.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Oh man, fuck that takes me back.
It was a good way.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
It was a challenging wink.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Oh maybe you just get a couple of ear plugs,
put them up your nose and you'll be fine. Jesus,
I don't know what I was saying then, but anyway,
but the first of all, I mean who was playing.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Oh mate, well my chemical romance with the headliners, which
blew it away as you didn't expect. But for me,
if I was to say who my favorite was for
the day, was funnily enough a day to remember.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Oh well, there you go.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Man. They played the album Homesick Homesick in full and
I'll never forget that. Yeah, it was just awesome. And
they played second last, and everyone's still on a high
from the day. The crowd's super respectful, no one's bashing
into each other. It was just awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
It is because the crowd's a little older now, like
we've somehow wash pit circle pits sort of.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, don't get me wrong, there was all that. Yeah,
but if you wanted to be in it, you're in it.
If you're not, that's fine as well.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It was so cool and like they sung if it
means a Lot to You, which is Danny and I's
wedding song. It does, and you can see videos online
go check it out. And the whole crowd just singing it.
Someone's filmed it from the one of the buildings close by,
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and it was just amazing.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
But yeah, I also saw heaps of a couple of
bands who I've been a fan of for years but
never seen them live, bands like Thursday, Ye Saves the Day,
who handed out that beautiful fan.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
It is a beautiful fan.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
It is a beautiful fan, and.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
You're a beautiful fan as well.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Red jumpsuit apparatus.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Oh mate, I think I saw them at a big
day out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure I did.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Did you feel like a man when you pushed her around?
Do you feel better now she falls to the ground.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I feel very guilty when I don't even like going
new women in the mosh pits because I just don't
like to bump or knock them over. I remember playing
footy once when we were teenagers, and there was a
girl who was on the opposition team, and I was
manned up on her woman, I don't know anyway, I
was tagging her. She was your opponent, she was my opponent,
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and she got the ball once and instead of like
tackling her, I just kind of like hugged her and
just held her in place, so she did because I
didn't want to throw her to the ground. And then anyway,
she got red card for punching one of that place
in the face. Really Yeah, so she was, she was pretty,
she was the wrong ball, yeah, she was.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Trust you to make it.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
So highlighted the festival.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Highlight of the festival was, oh, man, that's sure.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Are we talking song or like just moment whatever you
whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
There's so much to think of, Like Simple Plan were awesome.
They put on such a great show that Confetti. You know,
Jimmy Eat World played American, one of the best albums
start to finish and they play that in full. That
was amazing. Which was a tough choice, Steve, because that
was my main clash for the day was Jimmy. Three
(26:06):
bands played at the same time, Jimmy Eat World, Hawthorn Heights,
you know, I love my Hawthorne Heights straight.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
From my high the first band.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
You ever interview, the first band ever interviewed, and you
found Glory so that they're all I think. Hawthorne Heights
started ten minutes before Jimmy Eat. World. I decided to
go for Jimmy Eatwold. I'm like, I can't not see
bloed American, so I thought, can I get the first
(26:34):
ten minutes? But the festival is that eighty thousand people
you miss out. You can't do it.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
You've got to decide to see. Yeah, if you're going
to go see this band, you'll see this band. You're
not chopping and changing because by the time you get there,
you're going to miss it out because the crowds are
fucking huge. But yeah, highlight would probably be probably when
a Data Remembers started with that iconic and the whole
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crowd is doing that and everyone's jumping and just loving it.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I mean, Travis and Day was rocking out. It was
it was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
And I look over to the billboard, Yes, which as
you know Vegas.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yes, I have a few billboards, quite a few, and.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
This one chopped and changed between a few things, you know,
promoting a few bands, a few tours, blah blah blah.
And then the all famous lawyer billboard comes up and
it says, injured your pinky toe at a music festival.
Cool blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Like the amount of lawyer billboards every city we went to,
and it's there's just just so many lawyers, especially Vegas, like.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
So many in Vegas, so many funny, so many sayings
in Americans say if any Americans is in this, they are.
I know we do a lot of it as well,
but they're very much start off with the sentence like
I just said, I mean yeah, I mean yeah, and
everything is right now. Yeah, Like I'm really enjoying this
(28:22):
biscuit right now.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I also like I'm going to tell you this.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Let me tell you something. Okay, what you're going to do.
Is it going to go down that street and then
then that one, and then you're going to take a
right and then go as far as you think you
need to go and then turn left. It's like, this
is what you got to do. On the authority, you could.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Literally say, go up there two blocks and turn left. Yeah,
but they turn it into a whole show. Oh yeah,
all right now let me tell you. I mean like
it's kind of not busy right now, so you could like,
all right, what I'm gonna say is listen carefully, all right.
So if you go up there two blocks, you will
(29:08):
see on the way you will see like a Denny's
on the left, and across on the right is like
a sizzler. They got like salad bar with with like
the little cruel tons, you know, the little bread things.
You can get them as well. Fifteen dollars if you
want dinner there fifteen dollars all you can eat. Oh
you can eat. So yeah, you go past the Denny's
(29:29):
and then you gotta turn left. Make sure you turn left.
If you go right, that's the wrong way, all right,
that is the wrong way. You want to go left
up there? Okay?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah, pretty much. I mean the thing is like the
disgusting stage face, like always disgusted and saying all lot.
But I love it. I absolutely love.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Disgusted, but also impressed also at the same time, like
he do. You've just gone you go up to blocks
and turn left. You would have been there before they
finished talking.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
On the way. I'm having a coffee at Denny's. I'm
having the crew toons.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
That sits only fifteen dollars all you can eat all day.
It's not in the morning, what because it's nine o'clock
in the morning.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
What I really want is salad, which is very very
hard to find in America.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah, try going to America with a vegetarian. It's a
lot harder. I do remember going to a subway once
and it was I was sitting there. My partner was
in another shops. I was just sort of sitting there
eating my sub and I'm like, this is like the
most American guy wearing one of those shirts with like
an eagle and like the American flag on it, right,
(30:45):
and he had a baseball had on back with God
Bless America.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
And he was.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Schooling two elderly Asian women about where they should go
and what they should do. It's like, yes, like I mean,
my friends like we like to go to this place
like down the south, but you guys, I reckon, Like really,
there's this place up north. You guys are just going
to absolutely love. And I'm like, I was just watching
this guy. It was the most entertainment I got. And
(31:09):
I've just been at the fucking sphere. I'm watching this
guy going, fuck, mahn you you are. But the.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Town is the fucking best, man.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I'm not gonna lie. It was very yummy water fucking hell.
But you also saw a dashball confessional.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yes, I was lucky enough. When I was in Seattle,
which was only very brief. Dashboard were playing there and
I'm like, man, I'm going on this mofo. Good show,
awesome show, so good. I haven't seen him for which
is funny enough. I couldn't remember when i'd seen him last.
I saw him at Prince of Wales in Melbourne. Jeez,
it was twenty thirteen. It's quite a while And the
(31:53):
only reason I remember is because a bootleg that on
my phone and I still listen to it.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
And nothing wrong with that, I mean there is, but yeah,
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
You get it. But so good, absolutely funny story. I
stayed where you stayed in Seattle. Great recommendation, absolutely beautiful
citizen m or whatever is it. Yeah, great view was
free parking at the front because I got there on
a Sundays, good Saturday night, and Sunday was free and
(32:23):
I left on the Monday, so I don't have to
pay the park. Anyway, I thought, I'm going to go
to the gig that night. I'm going to walk there.
It's about four k's. I'm like, that's cool. I want
to walk there because it goes past this ego, past
like the stadiums and stuff like that, and I just
(32:46):
want to genuinely look around Seattle. Anyway, I walk all
the way there. It was like four four and a
half k's and I'm like pumped, go and go up
to the line, show me, ID got my driver's license,
which I hired a car and drove halfway across the
country with this Australian driver's license for them to turn
around and say, we don't accept international licenses here.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Fuck. So I know who was at and he's like
fifty and he went to a football game in America
and he's going to get a beer and they're like,
can I see your ID? Yeah, I'm like clearly old enough.
And then he showed his Australian IDA and they were
(33:30):
just like, no, don't accept that, and so he couldn't
get a drink.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
They're very strict on that.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
It's really weird.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Like I can hire a car, I could go, I
could hire a gun with my Australia. I could hire
a gun with a bit of talk paper that I
just white mask with.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
You could hire a gun man woman hashtag feminism.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Anyway, I'm like, oh, come on, I'm literally here for
this show tonight. I'm from Australia. We just slide this one.
She's talk to the manager, Sorry, man, we can't let
you in, and you get your passport. I really don't
want to didn't want to walk around with your passport,
(34:12):
So yeah, it's not that bad. I went just got
an uber back and got me passport. But the show
was freaking awesome.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
It's sweet, so good. Glad you got your passport.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Me too. But yeah, I saw him again when we
were young festival.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Well you could have just waited for that and not
have to go through all the rigmarole of trying to
get into Seaman Seattle.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Oh no, but I really want I've got to see
him twice. That's so good. Yeah, yeah, that was me true.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
But I mean you did you did do a lot
of other stuff while you're over there. Oh man, you
went to the fucking White House. You went to you
were in the Crown of Statue of Liberty, looked right
down your nose and everyone else who couldn't afford the
Crown tickets actually, and when I went, like, because it
books out months in advance, but we were like, it
(35:02):
was a last minute trip. So yeah, it was alsold
out that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
But we got really really lucky because my cousin Matt
and cousin Ali live over there for the last two years,
and I reached out to him and said, can we
join you to do Halloween yeah, do a proper American Halloween. Yeah,
trick or treading on us so good in the kids
(35:28):
at that age where they're still interested in doing it
and stuff like that, and they're like, come stay with us.
So we did. And because cousin Matt works for at
the Australian Embassy, they managed to get us a tour
for the White House, which was freaking amazing, and they
took us everywhere over DC. You know the Lincoln Memorial,
(35:51):
you know, the Pool of Reflection, the Washington Forrest, gum Jena, Yeah,
lost up there and went but yet fucking nab Oh yeah,
went to Arlington Cemetery, saw JFK's grave, things like that,
(36:13):
the changing of the guards there, which I didn't know
they did, which was freaking mental. The discipline on these guys.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
They march up and down and change the guards every
hour on the hour, twenty four hours a day, seven
days a week.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Jesus at Arlington Cemetery.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
And they do a full on like they got the guns.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Well of course they're American.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yeah, and they do like a full inspection and they're
like robots. How they just do it Like you can't
see this on the podcast, but I'm moving my head
around like a robot. So that that was amazing to see.
And yeah, they really took us under their wing and
in like this big American style house and that's who
(37:03):
we did the trick of trading and stuff like that.
So and they've been over there for two years doing
absolutely everything they can. They've been at concerts, and it
would be cool to live over there to experience because
you imagine the tools that we go to over here, Steve,
we try to go to a lot, we see a
lot of bands, lot of gigs local, international. Imagine what
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it's like over there, and it's cheaper.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
I have noticed there's definitely been a decline in artists
coming all the way out to Australia pretty much since COVID,
and a lot of like the bigger artists as well,
like because expensive and so expensive for tickets that people
(37:50):
aren't paying those expensive prices to cover the cost of
the tour and for the artists to get some money
out of it too. It's just not bothered with Australia.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
That's and Australian tours can be Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Yeah, yeah, pretty much like an Australian tour I mean
sometimes I mean Oasis is just Melbourne and Sydney. Yeah,
Taylor Swift Melbourne and Sydney. Yeah, so it's it's yeah,
it's getting harder. And I was actually having to chat
with him made in Mine Lex from Gara, I dropped
the TV shows Good on your dar, so chatting with
(38:29):
him about how we we kind of timed at our generation,
our age timed it pretty well as far as like
when the music festivals were sort of a thing really,
so like I mean.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Obviously not the sixties Woodstock kind of era, but I
mean probably where it starts.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
But that wasn't happening in Australia and you had Sunbury Festival,
I guess. But like so we got the Big Day Out,
we got sound Wave, we got like your Falls festivals
and your Pyramid Rock and all those kind of you know,
splending in the grass. Like a lot of these festivals
are either downsizing rapidly or just not happening anymore.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
And then you look at the American ones and they're
freaking ramping up. Steve, what you look at when we
were young, eighty thousand people. Yeah, they've got sick new
world that's going to be the same spot, you've got
warp to coming back. Yep. There's a bunch of other
ones around like texa year. There's so many and the
lineups you're like mind blowing exactly.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
I think that the problem with Australia is that we're
that far away. To be able to get a big
enough lineup to convince them to come over here, you've
got to give them enough money, and to do that
you have to pay a lot for the tickets. And
that's just so you're looking at like we're in the
cost of living crisis as it is. And I think
(39:52):
about like eighteen twenty year old, you know, people like
what we used to be going like I remember, like, yeah,
going to the big day out like one hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
I remember when it was eighty. I think the first
one we went to was like eighty Yeah, eighty bucks.
Steve and you got Ramstein and system of Down and
stuff all on the same day or whoever they do.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
It was insane to sort of do that. And obviously
the bands have changed, but the festivals you're more looking
at your niche sort of smaller festivals and a lot
more Australian bands playing festivals as opposed to the internationals
because we still want to have festivals. We can't afford
the internationals, but the prices have gone through the roof.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Which is still brilliant. Ye ones. But well, I think
we've said it time and time again on this podcast, Steve,
is you your festival is your line up? Absolutely? That's
so I'm liking these little Aussie ones popping up hotter
than how You've got.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
You know, you're an out festival coming up, which is
Jet Grinspoon, Jebediah Spy Debate. Yeah, that's and many others.
I think that's but I mean also ware of that
older generation now, you know, I mean what we're forty
next year. But I mean think about it, like your
kids and the artists that they're into, because they're mid teens.
(41:14):
So in five years time, there won't be a big
day out equivalent for them to be able to see
multiple artists that they like out here.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Nah, They'll be sitting on their iPads at home with
their headphones on and looking at old YouTube videos.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Yeah, which is it's fine. I mean it's it sucks
from that aspect, but also at the same time, I
think that there's there's probably a generational shift. There's because
a lot of people who especially younger people who like
went through COVID and they're quite fine, just not maybe
(41:53):
not fine being isolated, but going out in big crowds
isn't really as big a deal as well for us,
like going to music festivals. So I do see how
people can feel. Why would I bother spending three hundred
bucks going to a festival to see five bands I'm
interested in hoping there's no clashes when I can just
(42:15):
live stream it in the comfort of my living room.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
So it's not the same Steve is there.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Yeah, it isn't for us, we know, but it might
be for them because they haven't had the access to
music festivals, live gigs like Billie Eilish coming, and like
tickets on the floor, like three hundred bucks. There's no
person in there, young to mid twenties who can just
yet drop three hundred bucks and be like sweet, I'm set,
(42:44):
unless they've got someone else dropping it forum or they're
doing very well in life and not eating avocado on toast.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Every day. Well, jeez, we had it good, didn't we.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Yeah, yeah we did. But I do feel sorry for
that next generation, and then like even your kids generation
who may not get those kind of music experiences.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Na, Na, that's it. The live scene is yeah, that's
another story.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
Speaking.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
We didn't want to bring it down, No, we didn't.
We want to bring it up exactly.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Let's talk about gall bladder.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Had you how did you versect it? No? You know
what do you call it? Your direct instrect me?
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Yeah, yeah, as opposed to direct me. Oh yeah. So
we were supposed to record an episode, did you keep
two days before you left? I didn't. Had I have
known that there was an option, I would have probably requested.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
It in for to take the glass jar in vinegar
or whatever ye think.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
I think it's apple cider. But anyway, so we're supposed
to record on the Wednesday, but it was my birthday.
My partner was like, oh, let's go away for the
weekend in Healsville. And it was just like sweet. We did.
We had a good Saturday there doing a few things
and all that kind of stuff. That's about like and
I think it was like close to like midnight, We're
(44:08):
gonna go to bed, and I'm like, oh, got a
bit of back pain, and I was like, oh, I'll
push through it. Anyway. Emily fell asleep within five minutes,
which was a bit slow for her. But anyway, and
I'm there, I'm just in pain and it's sort of
like it's moved from my back around to my front
and it's just all just saw and I was like, oh,
I'll sleep through it. Got about one o'clock. I said,
(44:32):
I need you to take me to hospital, like something's
something something, Yes, And this is like a year after
we thought I had kidney stones.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
Did you swallow a cocker?
Speaker 1 (44:43):
Did I swallow a cocker?
Speaker 2 (44:45):
I want to say quaker from cockhels cocker came in.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
I don't believe this is Heckers. I think they're in
Rottnest Island in w A. Sure I saw a quacker,
then sure a coucker.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Yeah, it's a quacker ship. There's only one or two
a pair of quackers.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Oh, I don't know. We didn't get to get to
the sanctuary. That was what was supposed to do the
next morning.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
You know, stranger to do a quaker at I'm not.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
I've been around the block a few times, can believe me?
Speaker 2 (45:15):
So you feel better now?
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Well? Yeah I do now, but yeah, I sort of.
I got to I got to the hospital about two am.
And when I looked up. I was like, fuck it,
it's three o'clock in the morning. Where's this time gone? Is? Actually?
Daylight Savings kicked in and they'd updated all their clocks
while I was like on the ground in pain. It
was like I've had three separate women go out of
(45:40):
their way and I haven't asked them, but they've told me.
When they've heard I've had gall bladders, They're like, I
would much rather go through childbirth again than have a
cool bladder, you know. Yeah. It was like I it
was like a half hour drive to get to the hospital,
and I was just like I was going in like pain,
cold sweats, hot sweats, Like I was just every ten
(46:02):
seconds my body was challenging. I was close. I was
very very sort. I got there and they just took
me straight through and they just gave me some fentanyl
and was just like here you go, this will help,
and it didn't.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
And then did you have the ventanyl lean ventanyl.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Lean that I was actually yeah, I was bent over
in pain. And then they're like, well, here's some oxy
and they were just yeah, they'll give me everything.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
None of it helped.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
It eventually did, and then yeah, they're like yeah, do
an ultrasound. They're like, yeah, I know your gallbletters fucked.
And so then yeah, they're like, oh, I'll have to
wait till Wednesday to get it in. And then I
broke out in the fever and they're like, oh, we're
putting you in this evening, and so they just they
just yeah, yeah, I even do. I think I looked
(46:50):
it up because I didn't. I didn't know. But it
breaks down the bile and then it once it's sort
of broken down, it puts it into your I know. Yeah, yeah,
I don't know. Yeah, but I think it comes out
of the stomach into the gold bladder. I think I'm
no doctor and I don't have one now to even
be able to check that.
Speaker 2 (47:13):
Hurts.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
Yeah, cut that thing off, Yeah pretty much. And so
yeah did that and scars, Oh I got Yeah, I'll
show you. I just got like four little microscars and
I've kind of got like a sad face over my
belly belly.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Button's your real faith face, slap dance.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Face only a mother could slip. Yeah, and so yeah,
but it's taken out and everything, but yeah, it was.
It was. It was pretty awkward. But I'm going to
tell you about. Like, So the room I was in
there was like three other guys, not all all blokes
in this sixties god.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
And you had to be in with them.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
And so there was this fitting, yeah, fit in like
a like a glove, like a doctor's glove. And so
there was a guy to my right and he was
sort of sleep for most of the time. Anyway, it's
like Miller of the Night. I'm lying there, I'm in pain, whatever,
and then I can hear he's sort of like got
out of his bed. I'm like okay, and I can
hear a lot of like clanging and all this kind
of stuff. And then anyway, he's he's next to the
(48:13):
toilet and he goes in. He opens the toilet door
and he's in there and he's making all these noises.
And then you just hear nurse nurse and they've gone in,
and the nurse she's like walking in. She's like, oh,
what's the man? Oh what the fuck is that? So
I'm like, okay, this is pretty pretty bad if she's
so essentially right, this guy has dementia, right.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
And he's dropped the slug and the dunny.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
This more than a slug. He has been bedridden for
the past five weeks, and then they've moved him in here,
so he hasn't walked for five weeks. But he forgot right,
so he woke up. He's got his catheter in, and
so he just yanks out a warning warning all that
(49:02):
way right, angst it out, and then decides to walk
to the toilet. Right, but forgot how to walk, and
so he was on the ground shooting himself right at
like one o'clock in the morning. I should have I
should have prefaced this with a.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
Warning shock factor. I feel good, yeah, so he said.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
And then then anyway, stuff.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
Halloween just got his hospital with fans.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
This is fucking horror show. But yeah, and then there
was like just then there was another guy who had Alzheimer's.
So I think I'm in the wrong ward if I'm
being honest and online.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
There and I know we're getting older, but you know
you're not that all.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
No, not anyway. So I was talking to the nurse
and she's just like, oh, look, he's the jug you
can be in, right, So just sit on the edge
of the bed and pissing the jar.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
I'm like, not a problem like cardboard ones or was
it like a proper.
Speaker 1 (49:58):
No, this was a proper, like like you're going to
school camp and they've put the milk in it and
then you're gonna pour it. It's one of those big jugs, right.
Speaker 2 (50:06):
Have you ever seen the ones that are like card bought,
like egg carton material? I have not known either at
I And then one day I went and visited me
grandpa in the nursing home. I'm like, oh, what's this.
Let's got warm liquid in it. Oh, oh, you've missed
him was just sitting there laughing at me. I'm like, what.
Speaker 1 (50:29):
He was waiting for you to to post drink and
see what happens.
Speaker 2 (50:33):
I was like, Hey, it's sterile, and I like the taste.
Speaker 1 (50:36):
I like the tang anyway, So I'm going into the
the jug as you're emptying another glass of wine.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
Actually, yeah, give me as long as it's not the jug.
Yoular No.
Speaker 1 (50:50):
I think that this is just going to be a
long and loose podcast. So yeah, that's that's it. That's it, lovely,
not even a drop and we're back. Yeah. I'm sitting
on the end of the dead pissing into the jug,
and this guy with Alzheimer's just like rips back the
curtain and just says, you're in my pitch. No I'm not,
(51:13):
You're over there. You're over there. It's just like, am
I funk off?
Speaker 2 (51:20):
Did you still manage to finish your win?
Speaker 1 (51:22):
It actually helped the flow from being honest, That's that's
why I do this podcast came so anyway, So that
was the reason why we didn't have a podcast before
you left. But now we're back and we're doing it.
We're doing it, We're doing it all night long. It
(51:42):
would seem this is going to be a long one.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
A good because so much, so much catch up on
and also in months, to be honest with you, it's
probably going to be our last one Christmas, So happy Christmas.
Speaker 1 (51:57):
Every Happy Christmas mother flippers.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
Yeah, well, I'm glad you're okay. And it all what
happens if they leave it? And can you die from
it or.
Speaker 1 (52:06):
I don't know if you could, it could cause an
infection and then it could like and then you could
have complications from that and you might need to have
a party of your intestines sort of caused it. It
just shiite, just I think it's I don't think the
diets help. I grew a beard while I was in hospital.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Said you look better with a beard. Do what I do,
cover up your face, you look better.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
Like I had to get rid of it, unfortunately, But
I did a couple of months, and I was getting
the bead oil in there and even got a comb,
and I'm like, properly I was. I was like, I
was becoming like one of those bearded guys. I was
talking about craft beer and smoked meats and you know.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
It's out of date now with the corny ones having
a beer. It got popular for a bit, and then
I had to keep it because it look weird without it.
Speaker 1 (52:55):
And you do miss a chin, I do.
Speaker 2 (52:58):
Yeah, well it's getting very great, you see it.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
Yeah, I was. I was getting a bit of grace
too with the orange. I think that for you it
adds a bit of the white pepper kind of Yeah,
it's it makes you look wiser if I'm being honest.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
Oh really, yeah, which I need all the help I
can get.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
Yeah, but fucking you'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
But I had to get rid of it, so I
don't talk.
Speaker 1 (53:21):
No, no, there are children list.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
Don't put yourself down, no.
Speaker 1 (53:25):
Hey, put yourself up in a nice hotel. Put it
up here, get it up here. So I had to
shave the beard, and I did what all guys do,
is I get rid of the beard, and I left
the mustache. And I was like, had to look in
the mirror, like the mustache. And I was like, show
the girlfriend because she's always hated the idea of me
having a mustache, and it's not a big thing for
me anyway, So okay out there and I'm just like, hey,
(53:47):
what do you think? And then you go back and
then you shave the rest of it off except for
like the hitler mo and then you kind of like
you look at the mirror, you do this a loude,
you have a giggle, and then you get rid of
it before anyone else sees. So it's a bit of fun.
It's still there, It's still there. No, it's a chuckle,
Charlie Chaplin. I'm doing a chaplain impersonation.
Speaker 2 (54:07):
What's the difference between a straight man's mustache and a
gay man's mustache? I don't know what the smell.
Speaker 1 (54:19):
Jesus Jesus christ ah Man in tongue punching the fart
Box's personal jinks.
Speaker 2 (54:32):
Steve, Steve, you can talk, Oh thank you.
Speaker 1 (54:37):
This is a very one sided podcast, but I'm done
for talking for now. Too much of the listener's delight.
I'm glad you're tell us something America.
Speaker 2 (54:47):
I'm glad you're better after your lebotomy. Anyway, it was
only fun. It was good because once Steve was telling
me all this via text message, I was like, once
I knew he's going to be all right, and he's
in hospit and he's in safe fans, out came the
sex change jokes and stuff like that. So what's it
(55:08):
like having a designer vagina?
Speaker 1 (55:09):
Now, it's a design of vagina.
Speaker 2 (55:12):
Don't forget to write right from front to back so
you don't get a bladder inficking
Well, I've been welcome to downs Off the podcast. My
name is Steve and joining me as always, we're just
getting straight into it. Can we get joining me? Is?
Can let's just get straight in.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Getting straight into We got so much Oh god, I
don't even know where to start. We've got so much
to talk about trip and so much music stuff that
we want to talk about. I don't know where to start,
but we're flowing.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We're flowing. Just go with the flow. With the flow.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
People haven't come on here to hear a sing that's
even a bit of simple plan before, didn't I yeah,
you did touring with Offspring soon.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
I mean, let's just go straight into the music. The
Offspring coming've announced into it for twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Are you going no?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
But I mean it's I mean they just played the
Forum in Melbourne, which is kind of cool because that's
a very intimate gig for a band like the Offspring.
Tickets sold out before they even went on sale.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I know, we both tried, and we tried so hard.
I don't know how people got tickets.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I don't know. Maybe because it was even the pre
sale was pre sold. I don't know. I'm starting to
guess whether the gear actually took place.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Well, you know what, Steve like, we might not have
been lucky with that, but you always managed to get
the tickets. You always managed to work it out and
you got very very lucky. Was that my mouth there was.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I think you need to see your dentist or something,
because that noise was not natural.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I was like, I think I need a drink, okay.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
While you're having a drink. Which because we were both
going to two different shows next year, one of which's
been Green Day Oh GREFI green Afire playing the thirtieth
anniversary of Dookie, the twentieth anniversary of American Idiot that's
this year, but they're still going to be doing it
(02:12):
next year, so technically thirty one and twenty one years,
but we'll get past that. Yeah, I know it doesn't
feel the same now, but they're going to be mistake. Yeah,
I think they did a few years ago, but they're
both they're playing both of those albums in full, as
well as tracks off their new album Saviors, which I
quite like the new album series.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, and just quickly I was going to talk to
you off air, but I'm as we do it in
front of everyone. Ye, earlier.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
It'll just just speak quite for a secon.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
The next night. Yeah, in in Melbourne is penny Wise
and Melancholin. I see that, yes in Peker.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
In Peker, I don't even know what that is. Isn't
that like a Pokemon sort of thing? Is like pick
up pick up? Like I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
I think it's like I looked it up. It's like
a warehouse in Melbourne where they have mainly like DJs
and stuff. Okay, but yeah, they've got bands there as well,
So kind of interested to see that mate around make
a weekend of it on why not?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And then the other concert that was very sold out
very quickly, this Oasis.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh my god, let's say the story. Steve Yes, Cam
and two of his mates were online trying to get ticks.
I couldn't do it because I was too busy gallivanting
around ste Adult exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, well they announced, well they ended up doing three
Melbourne shows and two Sydney shows, and we're in the
queue and like you had to get like a pre
sale code and everything like that, and then they're like okay,
here's you go in and then it allocates you a
random spot in the queue. So one of my mates
messaged me, is just like ten thousands in the queue.
(03:54):
Another mate, I'm seven thousand in the queue pops up
on mine. You're ninety fifth. Oh if you don't mind
chow so I mean, I don't know, because tickets to
that are a ridiculous so to be able to just
get in and yes we're in the front section.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
For that, stay on, behalf of me and every Brit
rocker lover thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
No, you're quite welcome, and until all the other Britt
rockers who aren't going, we're thinking of you.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, we're general admission at the front. Yes, like we're
actually going to feel the greasy.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And come on, feel the noise, girls, rock.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
The boys, and we won't get looking in anger, not
at all.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
That was another weird thing. So we did our We
do our garage rock voting for your favorite different bands
and their songs. We on our Instagram. We we did Oasis,
we did and I had I even had like people
messaging me going, what's the point of just going to
be wonder Wall. I'm like, oh, could be. Don't look
back in anger. You know, we'll see what happens. It's
all about the journey, not necessarily the.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Destination exactly, Steve, because everyone or everyone has the same
destination and.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
That's death exactly exactly. Moving on anyway, So we did
the Oasis one and Wonder Wall came second, Don't Look
Back and Anger came third, and Morning Glory the story
Time to Wake Up. No. So, and we've just done
live at the time of recording, we don't know who's
(05:33):
one yet. It's a mystery to me. It's probably going
to be lightning crashes though. But yeah, and the mother dies,
I can feel it coming fall into them. Yes, but
I just saw Pearl Jam at Marvel stage.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
How was it, Steve, in your honest opinion?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
But the old Jill Pam, Well, we weren't in the
front section for that, when I was in the in
the in the back general admin on the ground. And
so I don't normally drink at gigs, and anyway, I've
gone there with a made of mind Paul seen in
ages and I'm like, yeah, I'll get you a drink,
you get me one later. So well, I've had two drinks.
I'm like okay, And they were Jack Daniels and coke
(06:13):
and Jack Daniels and lemonade. They had like this special
stand up. I was like, all right, cool. Then anyway,
he goes and grabs another one. I'm like, fuck, that
means I got to grab him another one too. Okay,
So now I had four bourbon and cokes. And then
some random guy comes up to us and he's just like, oh,
what are you drinking? I mean, oh yeah, Jack Daniels
and lemonade. He's just like, oh you like and I'm like, yeah,
yeah I do. He's just like, oh cool, I get
(06:34):
you some more.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And so he's so this.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Random guy, he goes, I'll work for Jack Daniels, thanks
for your feedback. Here's some more. I got another two,
and so I have them. And then as soon as
we get in the ground and I'm like, I've had
like seven of these drinks by now.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
So ami were free, you got two, you got two
for free, so you got four free drinks and you
didn't have to say anyone's tea.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I did, but I mean it was but at least
at least at least the drink helped get rid of
the aftertaste. Anyway they were getting were standing there, I'm
already said wobblier because yeah, I don't drink much. And
then mate, Paul just rocks up and he hands me
a bourbon and coke. I'm like, what the fuck are
you doing? Im Like, so anyway, by the we missed Pixies,
(07:22):
the good could have been I'm gonna go with yes.
People seemed happy, uh, and so then anyway, so I've
had another bourbon and then Pearl Jam have come out
and they played for like two and a half hours,
awesome set, lots of lots of the hits, some trucks
off the new albums. That probably my favorite songs from
the new album they played as well, which was cool
(07:43):
and and just a good mix of their like discography.
So I was I was really happy with it. They
put on an awesome show three hours a bit under,
but yeah, it was. It was pretty good. And they
had like, you know, the footballer Jonathan Brown, like he
came out. Apparently he's linked to a a charity in
relation to like skin disease, and Eddie Veda knows people
(08:07):
back in the States who work in this sort of
similar charity, so he talked about it for a bit.
I think I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Much of it, and then skin condition cleared up.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
You know, that's that's just a lot of wishful thinking.
I just thought I've kind of thought the aiasis away.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Put it out there, put it out there.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
What you got to lose my arms? Possibly, but anyway, anyway, Yeah,
so that was a really good show. That's the end
of the world tour.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Now did they okay? So did they do any like
acoustic set in the middle or you know, things like that,
or was it just rocking out the whole time?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Or there were some like slower songs I think like
when they've gone for the encore they've come out and
Edie did a song like acoustically may have been too,
but yeah, and it was.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It was.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
It was like a pretty like respectable crowd. Everyone was
there for a good time. Not many dickheads. Oh I
got a free shirt. Free shirt. So some guy and
like these shirts like sixty bucks like tour shirts. This
guy was he wasn't wearing his shirt. He wasn't wearing
any shirt, to be honest, and he was just sort
of like so buntsey pearl jam and he had this
(09:16):
shirt in his hand and then as soon as the
lights went dark and they sort of like started, he
ran forwards and swung his shirt around and threw it
backwards and it landed on me and I looked at it.
I'm like the same size, thank you very much like
the guys he'd had more to England, me clearly.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Admitting something that night that gave you free stuff.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, yeah, wow, I didn't even think of it like that.
Free drinks, free shirts. It's just awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Now let's practice some gratitude.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I was rocking in the free world as well. They
finished with that, So and Yellow live better anyway, Enough
about me, No one gives a flying for about me.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I don't good sege Pearl Jam went to and you've
been there. We went to the very first place where
Pearl Jam used to rehearse in the rehearsal rooms down
that dark alleyway. Spray Pay was awesome. If you don't
(10:21):
know what we're talking about about, a bit over you ago. No,
it was about a year ago. Steve did the Stalking
Seattle tour in Seattle, and I followed in her footsteps
and did it as well, and it was well worth
the trip. Absolutely loved it. And obviously the Seattle grunge
(10:42):
or the Seattle music seems locking huge in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Even before that was like Jimmy Hendrix as well.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Jimmy Hendrix here went to Jimmy Hendrix statue out the
front of a grocery store. Now, I said, why is
it there? And she said, oh, it used to be
a record store right right there, and the statue just stayed. Anyway,
I said, she's like, I'm going to pull over and
you can get a photo with it. I said, awesome. Anyway,
(11:10):
just as we pulled up, this lady had rested her bag,
a plastic bag of fruit on the Jimmy Hendrix statue
and was trying to pack her bag and doing it
really awkwardly. And I'm standing there really awkwardly waiting to
get a photo with the late great Jimmy Hendrix, and
(11:36):
she was taken forever, and I just said, excuse me,
jim Mine, if you do this over there so I
can get a photo with Jimmy Hendrix. And she just
looks up at me, looks at the tour van and
looks at me and goes, oh, all right, Well, you
don't put your buddy banana and apples on Jimmy Hendrix's
(11:57):
the respect.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Absolutely. When I was there, there was someone who put
a cigarette in his mouth. So he's just he's just
got a drry. I don't know if he would have
ever called him a dorry though.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
No, no, no, she said some sometimes a Christmas ye
has a Christmas heart. It was Halloween, had Halloween stuff
around him, she said, But it wasn't there when I
was there.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Maybe that woman was putting some pumpkins there and you
interrupted her.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yeah, stupid hall. But anyway, that was really cool. Kirk
Bain's house. That was Bain's house, Yes, where he passed away.
Was amazing. Went up and had a look at that,
did you. So there's the park next to it. Yes,
they got the bench as a bit of a tribute.
People place things cigarettes, empty beer bottles, you know. Can
(12:51):
you get any more grunge than that? Really true? Did
you go up to the fence at all, the side
of a fence that's like the side of his house
and the park. Yes, yeah, And there's there's a I
don't know if he was there. Then there's a homeless
guy living in there. Apparently he's lived there for a while.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I think that's Dave Grohl has been kicked out of
the house and that's where he's kind of like living now.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But he's looking looking after the baby though.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah, that is that's that's another development.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
But anyway, that's a whole podcast. We can hold that.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah yeah, and yeah, like on.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
The fence, there's all messages like you know, Courtney didn't
things things like that, so that that was amazing to see.
And a beautiful area Seattle as well, and then that
particular area near the near the bay and stuff was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah. No, I believe like a dentist owns it now
and he's kind of like fine with like tourists sort
of you know, having a peak around the house, whereas
apparently the previous owner was like totally again yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Because Courtney owned it up until nineteen ninety seven. Oh really,
and she obviously sold it off and it has me accent.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Oh it's it's on point. Well, let me tell you.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Obviously for years have done fake, funny exaggerated American accents
in front of the kids. When we went to America,
the kids were like, Dad, their accent is exactly like
your strange exaggerated accent. I'm like, I was just impersonating.
(14:38):
I told you is.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Like every single person who talks to you is trying
to be famous. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
There's this sort of like that they've got something to tell.
Everything's a showsty everything. It's not a boring story. For example,
this is going to happen a lot. Things are going
to pop into my head.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
That's all good.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I originally went to Portland, Oregon and Astoria and then
went up and drove up to see I've never driven
in there before. But weird experience, but awesome. It was lunchtime.
I'm like, I'm going to stop off at this big
truck stop within I had make his subway everything. Every
time I'm going to go get subway for lunch. Anyway,
(15:23):
there was this Asian lady ordering subway and the kid
behind the counter was probably like twenty or something. He
was freaking over it and he was hating on this lady.
I don't know what the hell was going on, but
he was hating life. Anyway, He's finally come to serve
me and I've spoken and I'm in the middle of
(15:46):
nowhere in I think I think I was in Washington
State by then. I can't remember it was Oregon or
Washington anyway, bum fuck nowhere and his face just it off.
He's like, WHOA, You're not from around here. I'm like, nah, no,
far from it. And he's like Scottish.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I'm like no, no, actually not even clock some I'm Australian.
He's like, ah, man, he just made my day. I'm
having a ship day. I'm like, I could tell anyway.
Talking about the Americans, talking about their stories, He's like, man,
(16:31):
I live just up the road. It's the best town.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
You know why.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
We have the best tasting water.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And a competition.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
That's a competition. I got to other towns the water
tastes like shit, yeah our town. Just go up there
and ask someone to use their tap. No, I don't
say tap, they say flast. I'm like, okay, cool, So
I've got my big gulp.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I do how I do love how Americans tell you
about how everything of theirs is the greatest in the world,
and that they're the greatest in the world.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah, but everyone else in the world knows differently, exactly.
It's a beautiful country.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I'm not going to diss it.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
It's a nice place.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Everyone has their difference, exactly.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
And you also went to the Seattle Museum of Modern
Pop as well.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Museum of Pop Culture was sucking amazing. Steve on your
recommendation you go even just walking in. Then you've got
like the big sort of like twisted tornado of guitars
and banjos and drums and basses. It was just just
saying that was like this is cool. Yeah, and then
(17:52):
you got everything from movie props, you know, like the
Batman costume, and you've got like Jimmy Hendrix costume.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
His guitar that he said on file. Yes, that's right. Yeah,
what's left of it?
Speaker 2 (18:06):
That that iconic hat with the black, white brimmed hat
was there.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
It was the Nirvana exhibit still there. Yes, yes, that's
really cool too.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
It was Yeah, Dave Rolls drum kit, big massive fuck off.
Tom's like I don't even.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Know his high Tom is a floor Tom?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Oh yeah it is, isn't it? Yeah it's pretty big.
Oh man? What else is there? So much? Yeah? They
had like Hoverboar, the boars from Back to the Future,
Terminator a terminator, yeah, Luke Skywalker's hand that gets gets
severed in the and the lightsaber. So it's just like
(18:49):
the actual Dark Vader costume was there. And the thing
that blew my mind away because it's so old, the
Cowardly Lion costume from the Wizard of Olds, Yes, actually
made from lions for real.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Line for back in the day when we could do
stuff like that. Yeah, and now no, and you know in.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
The snow in the Wizard of Olds, he was pure asbestos.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, oh yeah. And I'm not sure if it was
Fred Astaire, but it may have been. He was supposed
to be the Tin Man, but he had an allergy
to the lead paint that.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Leads silver paint.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah, so he ended up having to drop out because
you know, lead poisoning.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
So he lived an extra fifty years past the guy
that actually did make the Tin Man did did.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
The main reason you went to the United States is
to go to the When We Were Young Festival in
Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Well, that was the why I went. Earlier before the family,
we were always going over there. We had this these
three and a half weeks blocked out yep. And then
my Traviy Wab from work like toy Wavy Legend. He's
sitting down, He's like, we're going to When We Were
Young Festival? Do you want to go? I'm like, oh,
that's the it's you know, a week before we're going,
(20:11):
and Danny's you know, he's doing finishing Union and stuff.
I'm like sitting down that night looking at tickets and
Danny's like just fucking go. Okay, yeah, so I bought
a ticket and man it was. It's the best festival
I've ever been to really by far. Like it was
eighty thousand people.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Okay, it's a few people.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
It's a few people. But obviously we don't get those
kind of.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Numbers fifteen to twenty thousand, Do I remember forty.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Thousand a big day out or maybe maybe Pyramid?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
No, no, I don't know. I'm just going to leave
that out there. I just don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, I don't know. Anyway, obviously the population's huge, so
oh yeah, they can get those kind of numbers. But man,
it was so well organized. Yeah, you know, even at
festivals here, if you need to get food or drink,
your waight an hour in the line ye over there,
straight up. You know, you can get any drink, food,
(21:11):
whatever you want, no worries.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
How does that even work?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
There's just heaps of much Okay, there's just heaps heaps
And we had the VIP so we we had air
conditioned toilets okay, bench tops and it was really bench tops.
Had it was clean it had hand sanitizers, so wash
(21:35):
you wash your hands with air conditioned. Absolutely awesome.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I remember going to Pyramid Rock Festival and we were
in the artist area and we had like one toilet
and like it had like a squeeze pump soap that
none of the other toilets had, and I think there
was air freshm the thing in there as well. That
was the luxury that we got ahead of, like the
scum that attended the concept of the festival. And we've
(22:00):
been that scum, Like, we know how much of a
step up that is.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
I remember a Pyramid one year was the drop toilets.
Oh yes, the compost. There was literally literally a portaloo
which was a drop toilet into a hole and it
literally had to shovel with straw that you would take
a ship and then shovel some straw on top of
your ship.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Oh man, fuck that takes me back.
It was a good way.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
It was a challenging wink.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Oh maybe you just get a couple of ear plugs,
put them up your nose and you'll be fine. Jesus,
I don't know what I was saying then, but anyway,
but the first of all, I mean who was playing.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Oh mate, well my chemical romance with the headliners, which
blew it away as you didn't expect. But for me,
if I was to say who my favorite was for
the day, was funnily enough a day to remember.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Oh well, there you go.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Man. They played the album Homesick Homesick in full and
I'll never forget that. Yeah, it was just awesome. And
they played second last, and everyone's still on a high
from the day. The crowd's super respectful, no one's bashing
into each other. It was just awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
It is because the crowd's a little older now, like
we've somehow wash pit circle pits sort of.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, don't get me wrong, there was all that. Yeah,
but if you wanted to be in it, you're in it.
If you're not, that's fine as well.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It was so cool and like they sung if it
means a Lot to You, which is Danny and I's
wedding song. It does, and you can see videos online
go check it out. And the whole crowd just singing it.
Someone's filmed it from the one of the buildings close by,
(24:00):
and it was just amazing.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
But yeah, I also saw heaps of a couple of
bands who I've been a fan of for years but
never seen them live, bands like Thursday, Ye Saves the Day,
who handed out that beautiful fan.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
It is a beautiful fan.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
It is a beautiful fan, and.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
You're a beautiful fan as well.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Red jumpsuit apparatus.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Oh mate, I think I saw them at a big
day out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure I did.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Did you feel like a man when you pushed her around?
Do you feel better now she falls to the ground.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I feel very guilty when I don't even like going
new women in the mosh pits because I just don't
like to bump or knock them over. I remember playing
footy once when we were teenagers, and there was a
girl who was on the opposition team, and I was
manned up on her woman, I don't know anyway, I
was tagging her. She was your opponent, she was my opponent,
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and she got the ball once and instead of like
tackling her, I just kind of like hugged her and
just held her in place, so she did because I
didn't want to throw her to the ground. And then anyway,
she got red card for punching one of that place
in the face. Really Yeah, so she was, she was pretty,
she was the wrong ball, yeah, she was.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Trust you to make it.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
So highlighted the festival.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Highlight of the festival was, oh, man, that's sure.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Are we talking song or like just moment whatever you
whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
There's so much to think of, Like Simple Plan were awesome.
They put on such a great show that Confetti. You know,
Jimmy Eat World played American, one of the best albums
start to finish and they play that in full. That
was amazing. Which was a tough choice, Steve, because that
was my main clash for the day was Jimmy. Three
(26:06):
bands played at the same time, Jimmy Eat World, Hawthorn Heights,
you know, I love my Hawthorne Heights straight.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
From my high the first band.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
You ever interview, the first band ever interviewed, and you
found Glory so that they're all I think. Hawthorne Heights
started ten minutes before Jimmy Eat. World. I decided to
go for Jimmy Eatwold. I'm like, I can't not see
bloed American, so I thought, can I get the first
(26:34):
ten minutes? But the festival is that eighty thousand people
you miss out. You can't do it.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
You can't.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
You've got to decide to see. Yeah, if you're going
to go see this band, you'll see this band. You're
not chopping and changing because by the time you get there,
you're going to miss it out because the crowds are
fucking huge. But yeah, highlight would probably be probably when
a Data Remembers started with that iconic and the whole
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crowd is doing that and everyone's jumping and just loving it.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I mean, Travis and Day was rocking out. It was
it was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
And I look over to the billboard, Yes, which as
you know Vegas.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yes, I have a few billboards, quite a few, and.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
This one chopped and changed between a few things, you know,
promoting a few bands, a few tours, blah blah blah.
And then the all famous lawyer billboard comes up and
it says, injured your pinky toe at a music festival.
Cool blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Like the amount of lawyer billboards every city we went to,
and it's there's just just so many lawyers, especially Vegas, like.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
So many in Vegas, so many funny, so many sayings
in Americans say if any Americans is in this, they are.
I know we do a lot of it as well,
but they're very much start off with the sentence like
I just said, I mean yeah, I mean yeah, and
everything is right now. Yeah, Like I'm really enjoying this
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biscuit right now.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
I also like I'm going to tell you this.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Let me tell you something. Okay, what you're going to do.
Is it going to go down that street and then
then that one, and then you're going to take a
right and then go as far as you think you
need to go and then turn left. It's like, this
is what you got to do. On the authority, you could.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Literally say, go up there two blocks and turn left. Yeah,
but they turn it into a whole show. Oh yeah,
all right now let me tell you. I mean like
it's kind of not busy right now, so you could like,
all right, what I'm gonna say is listen carefully, all right.
So if you go up there two blocks, you will
(29:08):
see on the way you will see like a Denny's
on the left, and across on the right is like
a sizzler. They got like salad bar with with like
the little cruel tons, you know, the little bread things.
You can get them as well. Fifteen dollars if you
want dinner there fifteen dollars all you can eat. Oh
you can eat. So yeah, you go past the Denny's
(29:29):
and then you gotta turn left. Make sure you turn left.
If you go right, that's the wrong way, all right,
that is the wrong way. You want to go left
up there? Okay?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Is that right?
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah, pretty much. I mean the thing is like the
disgusting stage face, like always disgusted and saying all lot.
But I love it. I absolutely love.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Disgusted, but also impressed also at the same time, like
he do. You've just gone you go up to blocks
and turn left. You would have been there before they
finished talking.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
On the way. I'm having a coffee at Denny's. I'm
having the crew toons.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
That sits only fifteen dollars all you can eat all day.
It's not in the morning, what because it's nine o'clock
in the morning.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
What I really want is salad, which is very very
hard to find in America.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah, try going to America with a vegetarian. It's a
lot harder. I do remember going to a subway once
and it was I was sitting there. My partner was
in another shops. I was just sort of sitting there
eating my sub and I'm like, this is like the
most American guy wearing one of those shirts with like
an eagle and like the American flag on it, right,
(30:45):
and he had a baseball had on back with God
Bless America.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
And he was.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Schooling two elderly Asian women about where they should go
and what they should do. It's like, yes, like I mean,
my friends like we like to go to this place
like down the south, but you guys, I reckon, Like really,
there's this place up north. You guys are just going
to absolutely love. And I'm like, I was just watching
this guy. It was the most entertainment I got. And
(31:09):
I've just been at the fucking sphere. I'm watching this
guy going, fuck, mahn you you are. But the.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Town is the fucking best, man.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I'm not gonna lie. It was very yummy water fucking hell.
But you also saw a dashball confessional.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yes, I was lucky enough. When I was in Seattle,
which was only very brief. Dashboard were playing there and
I'm like, man, I'm going on this mofo. Good show,
awesome show, so good. I haven't seen him for which
is funny enough. I couldn't remember when i'd seen him last.
I saw him at Prince of Wales in Melbourne. Jeez,
it was twenty thirteen. It's quite a while And the
(31:53):
only reason I remember is because a bootleg that on
my phone and I still listen to it.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
And nothing wrong with that, I mean there is, but yeah,
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
You get it. But so good, absolutely funny story. I
stayed where you stayed in Seattle. Great recommendation, absolutely beautiful
citizen m or whatever is it. Yeah, great view was
free parking at the front because I got there on
a Sundays, good Saturday night, and Sunday was free and
(32:23):
I left on the Monday, so I don't have to
pay the park. Anyway, I thought, I'm going to go
to the gig that night. I'm going to walk there.
It's about four k's. I'm like, that's cool. I want
to walk there because it goes past this ego, past
like the stadiums and stuff like that, and I just
(32:46):
want to genuinely look around Seattle. Anyway, I walk all
the way there. It was like four four and a
half k's and I'm like pumped, go and go up
to the line, show me, ID got my driver's license,
which I hired a car and drove halfway across the
country with this Australian driver's license for them to turn
around and say, we don't accept international licenses here.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Fuck. So I know who was at and he's like
fifty and he went to a football game in America
and he's going to get a beer and they're like,
can I see your ID? Yeah, I'm like clearly old enough.
And then he showed his Australian IDA and they were
(33:30):
just like, no, don't accept that, and so he couldn't
get a drink.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
They're very strict on that.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
It's really weird.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
Like I can hire a car, I could go, I
could hire a gun with my Australia. I could hire
a gun with a bit of talk paper that I
just white mask with.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
You could hire a gun man woman hashtag feminism.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Anyway, I'm like, oh, come on, I'm literally here for
this show tonight. I'm from Australia. We just slide this one.
She's talk to the manager, Sorry, man, we can't let
you in, and you get your passport. I really don't
want to didn't want to walk around with your passport,
(34:12):
So yeah, it's not that bad. I went just got
an uber back and got me passport. But the show
was freaking awesome.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
It's sweet, so good. Glad you got your passport.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Me too. But yeah, I saw him again when we
were young festival.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Well you could have just waited for that and not
have to go through all the rigmarole of trying to
get into Seaman Seattle.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Oh no, but I really want I've got to see
him twice. That's so good. Yeah, yeah, that was me true.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
But I mean you did you did do a lot
of other stuff while you're over there. Oh man, you
went to the fucking White House. You went to you
were in the Crown of Statue of Liberty, looked right
down your nose and everyone else who couldn't afford the
Crown tickets actually, and when I went, like, because it
books out months in advance, but we were like, it
(35:02):
was a last minute trip. So yeah, it was alsold
out that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
But we got really really lucky because my cousin Matt
and cousin Ali live over there for the last two years,
and I reached out to him and said, can we
join you to do Halloween yeah, do a proper American Halloween. Yeah,
trick or treading on us so good in the kids
(35:28):
at that age where they're still interested in doing it
and stuff like that, and they're like, come stay with us.
So we did. And because cousin Matt works for at
the Australian Embassy, they managed to get us a tour
for the White House, which was freaking amazing, and they
took us everywhere over DC. You know the Lincoln Memorial,
(35:51):
you know, the Pool of Reflection, the Washington Forrest, gum Jena, Yeah,
lost up there and went but yet fucking nab Oh yeah,
went to Arlington Cemetery, saw JFK's grave, things like that,
(36:13):
the changing of the guards there, which I didn't know
they did, which was freaking mental. The discipline on these guys.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
They march up and down and change the guards every
hour on the hour, twenty four hours a day, seven
days a week.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Jesus at Arlington Cemetery.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
And they do a full on like they got the guns.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Well of course they're American.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Yeah, and they do like a full inspection and they're
like robots. How they just do it Like you can't
see this on the podcast, but I'm moving my head
around like a robot. So that that was amazing to see.
And yeah, they really took us under their wing and
in like this big American style house and that's who
(37:03):
we did the trick of trading and stuff like that.
So and they've been over there for two years doing
absolutely everything they can. They've been at concerts, and it
would be cool to live over there to experience because
you imagine the tools that we go to over here, Steve,
we try to go to a lot, we see a
lot of bands, lot of gigs local, international. Imagine what
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it's like over there, and it's cheaper.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
I have noticed there's definitely been a decline in artists
coming all the way out to Australia pretty much since COVID,
and a lot of like the bigger artists as well,
like because expensive and so expensive for tickets that people
(37:50):
aren't paying those expensive prices to cover the cost of
the tour and for the artists to get some money
out of it too. It's just not bothered with Australia.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
That's and Australian tours can be Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Yeah, yeah, pretty much like an Australian tour I mean
sometimes I mean Oasis is just Melbourne and Sydney. Yeah,
Taylor Swift Melbourne and Sydney. Yeah, so it's it's yeah,
it's getting harder. And I was actually having to chat
with him made in Mine Lex from Gara, I dropped
the TV shows Good on your dar, so chatting with
(38:29):
him about how we we kind of timed at our generation,
our age timed it pretty well as far as like
when the music festivals were sort of a thing really,
so like I mean.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
Obviously not the sixties Woodstock kind of era, but I
mean probably where it starts.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
But that wasn't happening in Australia and you had Sunbury Festival,
I guess. But like so we got the Big Day Out,
we got sound Wave, we got like your Falls festivals
and your Pyramid Rock and all those kind of you know,
splending in the grass. Like a lot of these festivals
are either downsizing rapidly or just not happening anymore.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
And then you look at the American ones and they're
freaking ramping up. Steve, what you look at when we
were young, eighty thousand people. Yeah, they've got sick new
world that's going to be the same spot, you've got
warp to coming back. Yep. There's a bunch of other
ones around like texa year. There's so many and the
lineups you're like mind blowing exactly.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
I think that the problem with Australia is that we're
that far away. To be able to get a big
enough lineup to convince them to come over here, you've
got to give them enough money, and to do that
you have to pay a lot for the tickets. And
that's just so you're looking at like we're in the
cost of living crisis as it is. And I think
(39:52):
about like eighteen twenty year old, you know, people like
what we used to be going like I remember, like, yeah,
going to the big day out like one hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
I remember when it was eighty. I think the first
one we went to was like eighty Yeah, eighty bucks.
Steve and you got Ramstein and system of Down and
stuff all on the same day or whoever they do.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
It was insane to sort of do that. And obviously
the bands have changed, but the festivals you're more looking
at your niche sort of smaller festivals and a lot
more Australian bands playing festivals as opposed to the internationals
because we still want to have festivals. We can't afford
the internationals, but the prices have gone through the roof.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Which is still brilliant. Ye ones. But well, I think
we've said it time and time again on this podcast, Steve,
is you your festival is your line up? Absolutely? That's
so I'm liking these little Aussie ones popping up hotter
than how You've got.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
You know, you're an out festival coming up, which is
Jet Grinspoon, Jebediah Spy Debate. Yeah, that's and many others.
I think that's but I mean also ware of that
older generation now, you know, I mean what we're forty
next year. But I mean think about it, like your
kids and the artists that they're into, because they're mid teens.
(41:14):
So in five years time, there won't be a big
day out equivalent for them to be able to see
multiple artists that they like out here.
Speaker 2 (41:23):
Nah, They'll be sitting on their iPads at home with
their headphones on and looking at old YouTube videos.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Yeah, which is it's fine. I mean it's it sucks
from that aspect, but also at the same time, I
think that there's there's probably a generational shift. There's because
a lot of people who especially younger people who like
went through COVID and they're quite fine, just not maybe
(41:53):
not fine being isolated, but going out in big crowds
isn't really as big a deal as well for us,
like going to music festivals. So I do see how
people can feel. Why would I bother spending three hundred
bucks going to a festival to see five bands I'm
interested in hoping there's no clashes when I can just
(42:15):
live stream it in the comfort of my living room.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
So it's not the same Steve is there.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
Yeah, it isn't for us, we know, but it might
be for them because they haven't had the access to
music festivals, live gigs like Billie Eilish coming, and like
tickets on the floor, like three hundred bucks. There's no
person in there, young to mid twenties who can just
yet drop three hundred bucks and be like sweet, I'm set,
(42:44):
unless they've got someone else dropping it forum or they're
doing very well in life and not eating avocado on toast.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Every day. Well, jeez, we had it good, didn't we.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Yeah, yeah we did. But I do feel sorry for
that next generation, and then like even your kids generation
who may not get those kind of music experiences.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Na, Na, that's it. The live scene is yeah, that's
another story.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
Speaking.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
We didn't want to bring it down, No, we didn't.
We want to bring it up exactly.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
Let's talk about gall bladder.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Had you how did you versect it? No? You know
what do you call it? Your direct instrect me?
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Yeah, yeah, as opposed to direct me. Oh yeah. So
we were supposed to record an episode, did you keep
two days before you left? I didn't. Had I have
known that there was an option, I would have probably requested.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
It in for to take the glass jar in vinegar
or whatever ye think.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
I think it's apple cider. But anyway, so we're supposed
to record on the Wednesday, but it was my birthday.
My partner was like, oh, let's go away for the
weekend in Healsville. And it was just like sweet. We did.
We had a good Saturday there doing a few things
and all that kind of stuff. That's about like and
I think it was like close to like midnight, We're
(44:08):
gonna go to bed, and I'm like, oh, got a
bit of back pain, and I was like, oh, I'll
push through it. Anyway. Emily fell asleep within five minutes,
which was a bit slow for her. But anyway, and
I'm there, I'm just in pain and it's sort of
like it's moved from my back around to my front
and it's just all just saw and I was like, oh,
I'll sleep through it. Got about one o'clock. I said,
(44:32):
I need you to take me to hospital, like something's
something something, Yes, And this is like a year after
we thought I had kidney stones.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
Did you swallow a cocker?
Speaker 1 (44:43):
Did I swallow a cocker?
Speaker 2 (44:45):
I want to say quaker from cockhels cocker came in.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
I don't believe this is Heckers. I think they're in
Rottnest Island in w A. Sure I saw a quacker,
then sure a coucker.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Yeah, it's a quacker ship. There's only one or two
a pair of quackers.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Oh, I don't know. We didn't get to get to
the sanctuary. That was what was supposed to do the
next morning.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
You know, stranger to do a quaker at I'm not.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
I've been around the block a few times, can believe me?
Speaker 2 (45:15):
So you feel better now?
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Well? Yeah I do now, but yeah, I sort of.
I got to I got to the hospital about two am.
And when I looked up. I was like, fuck it,
it's three o'clock in the morning. Where's this time gone? Is? Actually?
Daylight Savings kicked in and they'd updated all their clocks
while I was like on the ground in pain. It
was like I've had three separate women go out of
(45:40):
their way and I haven't asked them, but they've told me.
When they've heard I've had gall bladders, They're like, I
would much rather go through childbirth again than have a
cool bladder, you know. Yeah. It was like I it
was like a half hour drive to get to the hospital,
and I was just like I was going in like pain,
cold sweats, hot sweats, Like I was just every ten
(46:02):
seconds my body was challenging. I was close. I was
very very sort. I got there and they just took
me straight through and they just gave me some fentanyl
and was just like here you go, this will help,
and it didn't.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
And then did you have the ventanyl lean ventanyl.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Lean that I was actually yeah, I was bent over
in pain. And then they're like, well, here's some oxy
and they were just yeah, they'll give me everything.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
None of it helped.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
It eventually did, and then yeah, they're like yeah, do
an ultrasound. They're like, yeah, I know your gallbletters fucked.
And so then yeah, they're like, oh, I'll have to
wait till Wednesday to get it in. And then I
broke out in the fever and they're like, oh, we're
putting you in this evening, and so they just they
just yeah, yeah, I even do. I think I looked
(46:50):
it up because I didn't. I didn't know. But it
breaks down the bile and then it once it's sort
of broken down, it puts it into your I know. Yeah, yeah,
I don't know. Yeah, but I think it comes out
of the stomach into the gold bladder. I think I'm
no doctor and I don't have one now to even
be able to check that.
Speaker 2 (47:13):
Hurts.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
Yeah, cut that thing off, Yeah pretty much. And so
yeah did that and scars, Oh I got Yeah, I'll
show you. I just got like four little microscars and
I've kind of got like a sad face over my
belly belly.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Button's your real faith face, slap dance.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
Face only a mother could slip. Yeah, and so yeah,
but it's taken out and everything, but yeah, it was.
It was. It was pretty awkward. But I'm going to
tell you about. Like, So the room I was in
there was like three other guys, not all all blokes
in this sixties god.
Speaker 2 (47:50):
And you had to be in with them.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
And so there was this fitting, yeah, fit in like
a like a glove, like a doctor's glove. And so
there was a guy to my right and he was
sort of sleep for most of the time. Anyway, it's
like Miller of the Night. I'm lying there, I'm in pain, whatever,
and then I can hear he's sort of like got
out of his bed. I'm like okay, and I can
hear a lot of like clanging and all this kind
of stuff. And then anyway, he's he's next to the
(48:13):
toilet and he goes in. He opens the toilet door
and he's in there and he's making all these noises.
And then you just hear nurse nurse and they've gone in,
and the nurse she's like walking in. She's like, oh,
what's the man? Oh what the fuck is that? So
I'm like, okay, this is pretty pretty bad if she's
so essentially right, this guy has dementia, right.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
And he's dropped the slug and the dunny.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
This more than a slug. He has been bedridden for
the past five weeks, and then they've moved him in here,
so he hasn't walked for five weeks. But he forgot right,
so he woke up. He's got his catheter in, and
so he just yanks out a warning warning all that
(49:02):
way right, angst it out, and then decides to walk
to the toilet. Right, but forgot how to walk, and
so he was on the ground shooting himself right at
like one o'clock in the morning. I should have I
should have prefaced this with a.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
Warning shock factor. I feel good, yeah, so he said.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
And then then anyway, stuff.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
Halloween just got his hospital with fans.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
This is fucking horror show. But yeah, and then there
was like just then there was another guy who had Alzheimer's.
So I think I'm in the wrong ward if I'm
being honest and online.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
There and I know we're getting older, but you know
you're not that all.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
No, not anyway. So I was talking to the nurse
and she's just like, oh, look, he's the jug you
can be in, right, So just sit on the edge
of the bed and pissing the jar.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
I'm like, not a problem like cardboard ones or was
it like a proper.
Speaker 1 (49:58):
No, this was a proper, like like you're going to
school camp and they've put the milk in it and
then you're gonna pour it. It's one of those big jugs, right.
Speaker 2 (50:06):
Have you ever seen the ones that are like card bought,
like egg carton material? I have not known either at
I And then one day I went and visited me
grandpa in the nursing home. I'm like, oh, what's this.
Let's got warm liquid in it. Oh, oh, you've missed
him was just sitting there laughing at me. I'm like, what.
Speaker 1 (50:29):
He was waiting for you to to post drink and
see what happens.
Speaker 2 (50:33):
I was like, Hey, it's sterile, and I like the taste.
Speaker 1 (50:36):
I like the tang anyway, So I'm going into the
the jug as you're emptying another glass of wine.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
Actually, yeah, give me as long as it's not the jug.
Yoular No.
Speaker 1 (50:50):
I think that this is just going to be a
long and loose podcast. So yeah, that's that's it. That's it, lovely,
not even a drop and we're back. Yeah. I'm sitting
on the end of the dead pissing into the jug,
and this guy with Alzheimer's just like rips back the
curtain and just says, you're in my pitch. No I'm not,
(51:13):
You're over there. You're over there. It's just like, am
I funk off?
Speaker 2 (51:20):
Did you still manage to finish your win?
Speaker 1 (51:22):
It actually helped the flow from being honest, That's that's
why I do this podcast came so anyway, So that
was the reason why we didn't have a podcast before
you left. But now we're back and we're doing it.
We're doing it, We're doing it all night long. It
(51:42):
would seem this is going to be a long one.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
A good because so much, so much catch up on
and also in months, to be honest with you, it's
probably going to be our last one Christmas, So happy Christmas.
Speaker 1 (51:57):
Every Happy Christmas mother flippers.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
Yeah, well, I'm glad you're okay. And it all what
happens if they leave it? And can you die from
it or.
Speaker 1 (52:06):
I don't know if you could, it could cause an
infection and then it could like and then you could
have complications from that and you might need to have
a party of your intestines sort of caused it. It
just shiite, just I think it's I don't think the
diets help. I grew a beard while I was in hospital.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Said you look better with a beard. Do what I do,
cover up your face, you look better.
Speaker 1 (52:32):
Like I had to get rid of it, unfortunately, But
I did a couple of months, and I was getting
the bead oil in there and even got a comb,
and I'm like, properly I was. I was like, I
was becoming like one of those bearded guys. I was
talking about craft beer and smoked meats and you know.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
It's out of date now with the corny ones having
a beer. It got popular for a bit, and then
I had to keep it because it look weird without it.
Speaker 1 (52:55):
And you do miss a chin, I do.
Speaker 2 (52:58):
Yeah, well it's getting very great, you see it.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
Yeah, I was. I was getting a bit of grace
too with the orange. I think that for you it
adds a bit of the white pepper kind of Yeah,
it's it makes you look wiser if I'm being honest.
Speaker 2 (53:12):
Oh really, yeah, which I need all the help I
can get.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
Yeah, but fucking you'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
But I had to get rid of it, so I
don't talk.
Speaker 1 (53:21):
No, no, there are children list.
Speaker 2 (53:23):
Don't put yourself down, no.
Speaker 1 (53:25):
Hey, put yourself up in a nice hotel. Put it
up here, get it up here. So I had to
shave the beard, and I did what all guys do,
is I get rid of the beard, and I left
the mustache. And I was like, had to look in
the mirror, like the mustache. And I was like, show
the girlfriend because she's always hated the idea of me
having a mustache, and it's not a big thing for
me anyway, So okay out there and I'm just like, hey,
(53:47):
what do you think? And then you go back and
then you shave the rest of it off except for
like the hitler mo and then you kind of like
you look at the mirror, you do this a loude,
you have a giggle, and then you get rid of
it before anyone else sees. So it's a bit of fun.
It's still there, It's still there. No, it's a chuckle,
Charlie Chaplin. I'm doing a chaplain impersonation.
Speaker 2 (54:07):
What's the difference between a straight man's mustache and a
gay man's mustache? I don't know what the smell.
Speaker 1 (54:19):
Jesus Jesus christ ah Man in tongue punching the fart
Box's personal jinks.
Speaker 2 (54:32):
Steve, Steve, you can talk, Oh thank you.
Speaker 1 (54:37):
This is a very one sided podcast, but I'm done
for talking for now. Too much of the listener's delight.
I'm glad you're tell us something America.
Speaker 2 (54:47):
I'm glad you're better after your lebotomy. Anyway, it was
only fun. It was good because once Steve was telling
me all this via text message, I was like, once
I knew he's going to be all right, and he's
in hospit and he's in safe fans, out came the
sex change jokes and stuff like that. So what's it
(55:08):
like having a designer vagina?
Speaker 1 (55:09):
Now, it's a design of vagina.
Speaker 2 (55:12):
Don't forget to write right from front to back so
you don't get a bladder inficking
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