Chapter 1: What near-death experience led Nathan 'Curly' Marks to change his life?
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Now, we've got a fucking fun interview today, Pooh. Mm-hmm. Don't we? Yeah, we do. This could go anywhere. I've got fuck all notes for a reason, left, right, and center. We got Nathan Marks on the show. Now, you might be going, who's Nathan Marks? Also known, The Curly Show, The Curlinator 3000, Curls. How are you, brother? I don't know, boys. How are we, eh?
Good, mate. How are we, lads?
Good. Thanks for making the trip up, mate. Run us through your situation at the moment. What you're in the van, the fucking Curly Show.
Mate, the Curly Show is just taking a 20-hour drive up north to fucking Gladstone of all places. They're coming over here under the Alpha Boys. Cheers, lads, eh? Yeah, yeah.
Cheers, mate.
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Chapter 2: Why did Curly choose to travel to Mexico after his recovery?
Good stuff.
So we're just cruising right now. We're essentially a pirate, really. We're a pirate in the van on the East Coast cruising around trying to make a few videos and talk a bit of shit, you know?
Well, bro, you're sort of in this middle ground, aren't you, where you're sort of, you know, you've been working in the hellhole, which I'm sure we'll get to. That's when I first stumbled across you online.
Now you're in this midway point where you've got a passion to try and do something better in your life or something that's more tailored to what you want to do, and you're right at this crossroads of just giving shit a crack.
Would that be a fucking good way to put it?
Essentially, bro, like you boys have probably been there before, you know, where you're working in some shit old place, fucking stinking and flies, and you go, fuck, am I destined for more than this or am I just going to be another one of these old cunts who are six years old with fucking three missos and ten kids with fucking child support, rinsed, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
So no, fuck, I've got to have a bit of a crack and – We've gone and tried a few little ventures before it that went to shit. Yeah. You know, the skincare. We went and had a start of like a skincare business and I'm cruising around with a fucking, a $12,000 skincare machine. Like my name's fucking Will Smith out of the pursuit of happiness. We've built a van. We've, we've gone away on. Yeah.
Fucking crazy, bro. I look way better than him too, but I'll tell you right now, I'd have a better looking missus than he is. Did I tell you that much? Okay, no, she'd have some hair. Bro, bro, how did you get in to walking around with that machine? So I've gone away overseas. We first, the start of the story would be those fucking, those photos I've shown you, lads.
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Chapter 3: What challenges did Curly face while traveling on foot to Peru?
Look at that thing. So for those just listening here, there's a fucking tube that's probably half the fucking size of a normal bit of garden hose straight down the eyebrow.
Yeah, inserted in the cavity of my eyebrow. So that was because the antibiotics weren't working. So we got to try and get air in there. So they fucking thought, you know, the best thing we could do to get air in there is put a fucking metal pipe in his head. You know what I mean? Like Terminator. So I've had that thing in there and my eye was completely destroyed.
They said there's about 100% chance I need plastic surgery, 50% chance I'm going to lose my eye. This is after they thought I was going to die. They go, best case scenario, you're going to probably have a fucked eye for the rest of your life.
um so i'm looking like this for the lads who can see there i'm looking horrendous right yeah horrendous this is the curls fucking in full form and somehow i've jagged a woman to bring me some mcdonald's so before in here you know when you're in a hospital bed and and you're in hospital rooms with it's like five or six i haven't got private you know what i mean yeah so it's like just the
Curtain.
Curtain. But I've gone in there and I've told them after this thing that, you know, I've got COVID or whatever at the first hospital. I told them I had COVID when I walked in there before I went and passed out and had all the surgeries and that. So they think I've got COVID.
So they put me in a private room.
Oh, nice. Yeah, yeah. This is the intellectual capabilities, you know what I mean? I can't be stuck with all these simpletons in this room. I've got to have my own private room. And then they've come in and go, mate, you haven't got COVID. This is when I was co-hearing. I said, mate, there's fucking zero chance you're taking me out of here. I can tell you that much right now.
So they just said, you know, fucking leave him in there. And then I've jagged a fucking looking like this. I've jagged a bird to come and bring me some McDonald's and give me a nookie and a service in here looking like that, mate. I know, it's ridiculous, right?
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Chapter 4: How did Curly's experiences shape his perspective on life?
So I always wanted to do it. But after I seen those blokes, I'm like, nah, fuck it, I'm not doing it. And then I went to this – after I went to Nicaragua's family, they told me there was this magic show in Nicaragua. So I go, fuck, I'll go there. It was like $20 and I met some bird there and we've gone off to this little date night, this magic show. And these two people are reading your mind.
Like they would give you a book, right? It was about 1,000 pages thick. And you'd read – you'd go find one word on that book and it's a book full of – like a normal book. And you'd find a word and they'd go – they'd write the word on the board. And it was just one of those things where it's a spin out.
Yeah, right.
And this lady's like at the end of it, she goes, I do tarot card readings too. And usually when I hear some woman say or a lady say I'm doing tarot card readings, I'm like, ah, fuck off, mate. You know what I mean? But I go, if I'm ever going to do it, she's the Sheila I'm going to be doing it with. You know what I mean? Because she was reading me mine for fuck's sake. Yeah.
So she gives me this card and it's like – you're on a journey right now to change a part of you and heal something that's been inside of you. And it was just so on point with what I was like. I was just like, fuck. And then she goes, you're actually on a journey to do ayahuasca, but you're worried about doing it. I went... What the fuck? Really? I swear to God, mate, this is exact words.
And I went, well, so should I do it? And she goes, yeah, this is your time to do it. And I went, I walked out of that joint because I already had it booked. I walked back and made a phone call to the place I was going. I said, mate, book me in. I'm coming. And I went and done it, bro, and I was sucking. It was insane. Well, mate, run us through the experience of doing it. We got to –
So we get to Peru, went through Nicaragua, all that there, Colombia, nearly died in Colombia again, and then get to Peru. Well, that Colombia place, mate, is fucking. Mate, I was in a hostel. I was in a bloody hostel, mate, in Colombia, and these fucking Colombian people have climbed my hostel. I'm in a fucking high-rise apartment, right, a hostel, huge building, security guards everywhere.
These fucking Colombians have climbed fucking 10 stories to jump through our hostel window, stole everyone's bags. It was 10 stories. They might have stole $30 worth of shit. These backpackers have got no fucking money, mate. They've got the wrong target market, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah.
But we've got to Peru, and I've gone into this joint, and it was fucking, oh, it was in the hills of Peru in this place called the Sacred Valley. It was the most beautiful place in the world, bro. I've never seen anything like it. And it was, yeah, we'll have a look at the Sacred Valley.
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Chapter 5: What are the challenges of being a male role model?
No, but just tell them to go up a couple of years and focus on that group of kids because I am stance on the fact that I think it's important to have male role models and influence in a child's fucking thing all the way through to year 12. They need it, mate. Not at the ass wiping stage.
Fuck off, bro. What are you going to influence there? Can you imagine, mate? Look, I've got, like, I'm what the uncle, I've got all my best mates of all kids. All the kids love me. If one of those kids needs their fucking nappy changed, bro, I don't give a fuck, mate, how good of an uncle I am or how much whatever's going on. I ain't changing that kid's nappy. Yeah.
I wouldn't even change it. Well, it's not a male thing. It's not, bro. Like, I can't even hose my dog kennels out, bro. Unless you're a father, man. Like, I've been there from all of my kids. I'm doing everything back to them.
Your own kid is okay, bro.
Your own kid. Fine.
Someone else's kid, mate? Yeah. It's a bit sus, bro. Come on. Same as the nurse. It's like, I just... You know, whatever. Thanks, mate. You could bump it up. If you just bumped up three years, mate, we wouldn't have this issue. You wouldn't be on the gay list. You'd be sweet. You'd be having to piss out the back with them. Yeah, bro. Actually.
You'd be in the fucking... You'd be in the crowd cheering the fights on, mate, not getting blued up.
Yeah. Yeah. When my mate was in hospital, he passed away from this rare strain of leukaemia and he had a male nurse and he was great. And I said, fuck, you know. And he said, before he died, he said, are you making a speech at my funeral? And I said, yeah, well. And he said, make sure you fucking shout him out because, man, that guy could scrub a set of bones.
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Chapter 6: How does Nathan Marks view the influence of ADHD medications?
And he reckons because he's got his own balls. Yeah, yeah, he knew what was going on. He knows how to do it, mate. I don't know, maybe.
Oh, mate, that's fucking gold, bro. That's good.
That's so true. He was still cracking jokes, hey, on me, mate, just right up until it.
What a legend. What a champion. Yeah, that's fucking good. That's so good. So there's a three. Two was life coach, wasn't it? Life coach. Yeah, he was, but he didn't. And for this, because I've got a little bit of hate on this life coach one. Now, I do think that life coaches are important, but for a life coach to be a life coach, mate, you need some fucking life experience.
Yeah, 100%.
You can't be some fucking retard on Instagram trying to show your life off. For one, living in Bali, just because you went on the fucking sound healing retreat, mate, okay, and you've fucking – you've drank a few fucking whatever mushroom shakes doesn't mean you can tell me.
Bro, I'd be like you after your ayahuasca thing, right? The day after you're now a life coach. It'd be like that. Mate. You'd be going, come on, man.
I've got to go – I've had like the things I've gone – now I feel like I've cultivated the – I feel I could give a lot of good advice in my life now. I've been for a lot in my life, but I've lived 20 different lives in my life, you know what I mean? But these cunts on Instagram, they'll get in and they'll tell you the same rubbish. They're going on chat every day.
They're saying, what can I say to make these – they're going to be giving advice to blokes who are vulnerable people that need real male advice because I'm not saying men shouldn't go and seek help or this and that. Men should, but they need to seek advice and help from people who have fucking been there. who have done it, who understand what that is they need to go through.
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Chapter 7: What wild stories does Nathan share about his party experiences?
Jock and, you know, Jock and his brother, they're, you know, they've got sore heads and it's sort of like they're trying to build that, you know, as like a bit of a fight thing, which is cool. And I was like, well, these would be the perfect blokes to – to get in contact with. So I've given Jock a message, mate. I was like, mate, you want to facilitate this? You know what I mean?
Like, it'd be good to have you guys involved. And Jock was all for it because he's, you know, he wants to be, this is a cool event, bro. It's his thing, bro. Him and his brother, this is probably where they want to go and stuff as well, too. You know, they want to be, you know, facilitating fights and being around this whole thing because that's their thing.
So I was like, great, you know, it would be great to get these blokes in line. So I grabbed Jock and, you know, he'd done a good job of, Jay ended up, too, you know, he did a good job of getting the fighters. He got the fucking And mind you, he got the fucking top blokes you could find in those fucking categories, mate. Well, mate, the barista. Yeah. To start off with, man. He was a big boy.
He was a big unit, mate. He was. You know what's bad? Not bad. There was a lot of comments in there roasting him. And it's funny to watch, bro, whatever. But he's actually a fucking great bloke, bro.
Yeah. Well, a lot of the time. Sometimes people fucking up.
We've become good.
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Chapter 8: What lessons does Nathan learn from his past mistakes?
After this, mate, we've hung out about twice. Bro, he rings me flat out, goes, mate, if I've got anything to do with your social media stuff and I can help you in any way, if you need this, that, let me know. Like, he's a champion of a bloke. But then I read these comments going, that fucking big brista got fucking sunk in this, and I'm just like, I just feel a bit, you know?
But it's part of the game. The thing is, getting in this thing and punching on, it doesn't matter if you're 10 feet tall or 2 feet tall, you've got to respect any man who puts their hands up for a crack break, you know what I mean?
100%. So, righto, he's lined up the five jobs. He's lined up a location. Now, we've got a video here from The Curly Show. That's what your YouTube is?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The Curly Show on YouTube. You've edited this together, man. Fucking run us through this day. Oh, bro, this is the fucking best day of my life, man.
You know what I mean? I've gone through and I'm going to roll up with me crew. And where I'm from, Toronto West, we've got a big – It's a rough town and every cunt loves a scrap and everyone's for everyone. So Toronto West is the type of crew, like my boys are the type of boys I could call at 3 a.m.
and say I'm in trouble and I don't have 10 carloads coming through ready to roll with anyone and anyone and anywhere, you know what I mean? So I'll just text the boys in the morning. I said, lads, text a few of us and tell everyone from 8 free we're going to meet here.
And in my mind I'm cruising up and I'm like getting up to find, I'm getting nervous and I'm like in the car, my brother picks me up, we're driving in and he's like, And I said, everyone meet there at 4.30. I said, I'll get there about 5, whatever. And I'm like, I hope there's a fucking, I hope there's a crew there, bro. And I said, I'll meet 20 or 30. Right, bro, there's 80 cunts there.
And I'm like, fucking let's go, bro. You know what I mean? You would have been pumped. Oh, so pumped, bro. Everyone was so gassed up, man. Yeah. But we've cruised up in here. Show this part. Yeah. That's a crew. This is a snippet. That's the barista. Yeah. Yeah. That's a fucking gay sparky. Those are my best mates. How crazy is that guy? So this is the roll up.
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