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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Good morning and welcome back to another episode of the Alpha Blokes podcast. We're here to give the everyday battler a voice and delete head noise one laugh at a time. If you're having a beer, make it a better beer. Jogging a can, winning a tin. The athlete's choice, I'm not having a beer today. Nope. I don't need to have a beer for a while. No beers. No. No beers. You having a beer, Clint?
No, mate. No? No beer. Did you have a few drinks, mate, over the weekend? What did you get up to, Clint? I don't know if you're aware. There was this really cool thing happening at Sandstone Point. Oh, was it? Can you tell me what it was called? I think you were there. Yeah, you were doing comedy and then everyone else played a bit of music. Oh, that's right. That's right. That's right.
Yeah, yeah. Oh, holy shit, mate. It's going to be hard for me to put into words today exactly what that meant to me on the weekend. Yeah. Holy shit, Trendsetters. We've done some pretty cool shit in the past few years, but that was on another level for me. Holy fuck. How good?
Mate, in a year full of negativity and bullshit, tough times for a lot of people, there was such a fun, positive experience that I'll never forget for the rest of my life. Like, once again, the ABC showed up in force and we're so grateful to have the best community on earth behind us. Mm, 100%. Jono and Danny for putting all this together with us and pulling it off.
What started as just an idea and a conversation about six months ago come to fruition on the weekend. Dave, Rob and the whole Comiskey group, the best venue in Australia, in my opinion. I'm not just saying that. It fucking is. Mm. All together. Um... Mate, just fucking mind-blowing and very humbling, just amazing, eh? Yeah, it was prime, man.
Just seeing the smiles on people's faces and, like I just said before, it hasn't been the easiest year for everyone in Australia. Shit, yeah, Joe. And to be able to do that, to give people a bit of light, was very special to me. Yeah, that's right. I still don't even know what to say about it. It still feels like it's not real. 100%. It feels like it's not real. You know?
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Chapter 2: What happened at Sandstone Point during the festival?
We weren't far. No. Well, I think we spent about half an hour. Where were we? Where did we actually stop? That was in Jinjin. Jinjin, that's right. Yeah. Stopped in Jinjin and got Pooh's gun going. Yeah. He was waving it around in the car, Michael O'Jay. Be careful because it doesn't even have that orange thing. She's from China or Timu, wherever the fuck Timu is from.
Amazing they got it through. Yeah. I mean, it doesn't look like a real gun, obviously. No. It looks like one of those housewives ones in America, those little sawn-off guns. Yeah, the gooch gun. Yeah. The gooch gun. Is that because you hide it in your gooch?
Yeah.
Oh. It'd be a long time for you to try and untangle it out of all that red air down there. Oh. Oh. Thanks, mate. That wasn't an attack. No. I'm just saying you're hairy. Yeah, I know that. I don't have a problem against hairy people. I don't hate you. I didn't know it was a lighter as well because I saw the snap in the morning of him playing with it. Yeah. It's a lighter as well.
It's pretty cool. Our jetty too.
Yeah, jetliner.
Great for fireworks. Yeah, great for windy situations. Perfect. It was windy on the weekend, but just the right amount of windy because you know what would have happened if it was dead still? Everyone would have got smashed by midges. I hate midges. And guess what? I didn't get touched once. No, didn't see a midge. The weather. Perfect. Oh, mate. Smick.
Mate, that sunset shot for where you would have been, Quino. Yeah, bro. When, you know, the competition winners were playing. Fucking hell. It was picturesque. But getting back to the trip on Friday, so... We were originally going to take me ute, me curious, big shitty, and me lovely wife, Bec. And cruise control's playing up at the moment. It wasn't working. And she likes driving.
She gets carsick. Which is a pain in the ass because I'm the driver, right? Yeah. So whatever. So she was driving and she's like, oh, no cruise control. We'll take the Outlander. Now, the Outlander has sat at my place and been used for, like, you fold all the seats forward, dump runs, spare cars when, you know, a car's getting serviced, whatever, but hasn't really drove very far.
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Chapter 3: What challenges did they face on the way to the festival?
I just thought he was going to be faster. I thought he was going to be faster. Curious was very good in that scenario.
We had it.
No, I just thought he was going to be faster, that's all. Righto. But he thought he was going to be faster. But it wasn't easy because the old fucking thread to get the spare out was shit. Yeah, that's a fuck up on Mitsubishi's part. So the fucking there's a nut to release the spare tyre. Yeah. And they only give you a tyre iron for the wheel nut.
So wouldn't you think that the nut to get the spare tyre off would be the same size? Well, it's fucking not. No, it isn't. So we're sitting there going, righto, we've cracked the nuts on the tyre and we're going, what are we going to do? Curious is fucking around trying to do it to get this spare off. If we can't get it off, it's not like I have an ESP tool spanner roll either.
That's in the other car. You know, it would have been good, but we didn't have that. So curious, just saw a paper straw. Now, this is the first shout out I'll ever do to paper straws. because I hate them, but a paper straw saved our trip. Sure did. Because Curious wrapped it in the inside of the fucking tyre iron and squeezed it over the nut. Oh, got it done. Got it off. What a tinkering guy.
Great. Great success that was, Curious. You do get 10 points for that. Yeah, 10 points for Curious. That's pretty smart. Ten and a half even. Yeah, fucking hell. So anyway. Speed seven. Which we thought, oh, how good's that? Got the spare down. It was not in great condition. No, there was wire hanging out of that guy. There was a fucking hole in it. It was fucked.
Well, there wasn't a hole in it, curious, because it was holding tyre pressure. But it was nearly a hole. There was fucking ā it was nearly a hole. It was fucked. And we went, oh, ow. That's no good. Yeah, I'd like to know who the fucking person was that convinced ā Bec, to keep that tyre as a spare? I don't know. Mate, I don't think we've ever changed a tyre on that car.
Those tyres have been on it for fucking years because it has done fuck all Ks. It just sits there, you know. And I don't take notice of shit unless I have to. That's probably a bad quality of mine. So anyway, we've changed it and we're looking at it and we're going, right, we're about, what, 60 k's out of Gympie at that stage? Yeah.
And we're going, hey, like we should be able to limp it and make it, but should we ring in a tyre shop on the way? And we're going, nah, fuck it, we'll try and make it. Rang knuckles. We're going, oh, has he left yet? And he fucking did. But he goes, oi, stop in and get the patrol and swap it over. And we're like, smack.
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Chapter 4: How did the performances impact the audience?
Well, everyone's friends with Knuckles though.
Well, yeah.
So we'll just put his number in the episode description if anyone's ever in trouble. If anyone ever wants to borrow his car. Yeah, yeah. But so that was good. Bec dropped us off to there and she went to Gympie and got four new tyres for the Outlander. So shout out to her for that. Yeah. And, yeah, we made it there. We made it. We got lost getting fuel. Sent me out.
We went in the fucking bushlands, right? There's not a fucking thing inside. It's a new town. I felt like we were back in the middle and it is this fucking little weird town. Brand new town. Park benches never sat on. Fucking bus stops never had a cracky in them. Like this town in the middle of fucking nowhere, bang, everything you could ever dream of.
I don't even think the houses were built there yet. I don't even remember what it was called. There was not even a house. We just followed because the fuel light was on and it didn't show any Ks and we're going, oh, do you reckon we can make it? And I said... If this fucking thing runs out of fuel before we get there, I'll just jump onto incoming traffic at the moment.
And then we found out there was just, if we'd have stayed on the highway another kilometre, there would have been one right there. But instead we did 400 kilometres south, west, east, north. Oh, man. It was just one of those days, honestly, that Friday. And then by the end of it, though, we were laughing like fuck because you just go, what do you do? Yeah. What do you do except laugh?
So anyway, we got it done. And then, yeah, got there on the Friday. Went out for birthday dinner, mate. Yep. Shared kids' chips with them. Yeah, I think I just scabbed a couple of bits of garlic bread and shit. I was too excited. Yeah. You know. Yeah. Yeah, I went home. No first night fevering. Yeah. Shout out to Mrs. Dahl. She absolutely tore the lid off one. Fucking got on it on the Friday.
He had a great time. She's like, hey, this night's for me. You do whatever, buddy. I'm ripping in. So her and a couple of mates really tore in after I went to bed. She tucked me in and she said, righto, mate, I'll see you tomorrow. Kept powering through until the end of the festival. I saw her in the morning when I went to say good morning to you, and she was just giggling. I'm like, oh, no.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Chapter 5: What reflections do the hosts have after Alphafest?
We love seeing it.
Chapter 6: What are the highlights from the recent horse racing events?
I only really started looking at the, like, proper looking at all the socials.
Chapter 7: How do the hosts feel about the upcoming State of Origin game?
Like, I accepted a couple of things.
Chapter 8: What insights do the hosts share about their community and support?
But that drive home, man, the next day. I pretty much just sat in the car.
Tolerating me and Beck.
Yeah, but also in between doing that and listening to I Spy, that was actually hilarious. What I could tell you, you didn't want to play at the start. No, I didn't at all. Yeah. But anyway, we're all good. But I mean, I wasn't really on my phone much, like going through all the content and looking. It was just almost too much to try and look at straight away.
It was just sort of sitting there and mulling over what the fuck just happened.
Yeah.
Wasn't it? Yep. And it's super cool now, a couple of days later, you're seeing what people are tagging you in and fucking, you know, all the highlights from it, just reconfirming that it was a fucking sick time. Yeah. Oh, it just worked out. I've got a couple of things we can discuss for the Trendsetter segment of the show, so that'll be good. That will be good. Spark the memory.
Yeah, oh, look, we've still got plenty here, guys. This is just Alphafest. Yeah. But I think it's pretty much time to move on to the next thing. Yeah, I love other things. Fuck, yeah. How good are other things? The Alpha Stable. So we actually watched Cold Brew on our phone next to the stage and then literally peeled from there straight up onto there.
I think Michael from Buster Racing gave me a ring and I was like, yeah, sweet, out of yarn to him and then peeled straight up. But to save me telling you how it went, well, yeah, we'll hear from Cameron. Trend setters, setters of trend. I just want to say what a week it was to be alive last week.
What a week it was to be a trend setter last week.
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