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Cake, Combat, and Cracked Ankles: The Life of a Modern Knight

• Chris Burson • Season 2 • Episode 3

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“What do you get when you mix full-contact medieval fighting, international travel, injuries, Instagram fame, and a whole lot of cake?” That’s exactly what you’ll discover in this unfiltered, laugh-out-loud episode with Sam Wride, Australia’s rising Buhurt champion and content creator.

Burso sits down (cake in lap, mic in hand) with Sam for a conversation that’s equal parts comedy, chaos, and insight into the brutal yet fascinating world of armored combat. From the very first clap to the final sign-off, this episode doesn’t let up.

✊ What does it take to be a modern-day knight?

Sam walks us through his journey from Australia to Finland, Germany, and the USA, where his team Kraken dominated tournaments — including becoming the best team in Finland and placing 4th in the world at “Way of Honour.” He even fought in Carolina Carnage, where his American teammates covered his flights and called the squad “My Bloody Pony” (a mashup of Aussie and Canadian teams). Oh, and he got engaged in Amsterdam between battles.

“We were meant to fight in Germany. Finland just slid into our DMs and invited us. So we said… why not?”

😬 What happens when things go wrong?

You’ll hear about the moment Sam heard a snap in his ankle — and still fought on it. He later flew home with a side of COVID. Add a moon boot, missed saunas, and an all-you-can-eat pasta night, and you’ve got a recovery arc that’s as funny as it is painful.

“The sauna invite was a flex. But we were cooked. Like... already cooked.”

💸 Is there money in medieval cage fighting?

Short answer: not really. But sponsors and social media help. Sam’s built a following by posting GoPro-fueled fight content, fitness programs, and chaotic Twitch streams (including one with 4,500 viewers).

“They don’t pay much when you win. But sponsors do if you post the right story.”

🎮 Influencer meets gladiator

The episode dives into how Sam balances brutal sport with content creation — using DJI gear, Twitch streaming, and even joking about ChatGPT as a fake podcast producer. There's talk of gear setups, GoPro chin mounts, social media strategy, and that one reel that blew up.

“I usually say GoPro ‘cause no one knows what an Action 5 is.”

🍻 Anecdotes to love:

  • Being spotted on Afghan news smoking a dart during a “no-smoking-on-duty” brief.
  • Explaining “Machine Gun Fellatio” and “dog cop” rules mid-cake.
  • Getting decked by a former teammate turned British ringer.
  • Comparing Boo Hurt to UFC in armor or “rugby with axes.”
  • Debating sauna beers and the danger of still-active WWI mortars in Belgium.

🎧 This episode answers:

  • How do you train for full-contact medieval battles?
  • What’s it like competing overseas in a niche sport?
  • Can you turn armored fighting into a full-time gig?
  • What are the highs and lows of growing a sport in Australia?

Matty Morris of https://www.zerolimitspodcast.com/ helps us out with a banger of a tune. If you want to hear about some real intense moments from Veterans and First Responders. Check out Zero Limits Podcast. 

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Burso:

And then we just do this, shall we clap yeah, there we go, and then boom. My intros are getting worse every time, I think it's good.

SWride:

Yeah, these mics are heavy, are they? Yeah?

Burso:

Are you just going to leave?

SWride:

yours there the whole time.

Burso:

Yeah, and then I'm just going to leave.

SWride:

Well, I'm going to eat cake too, so but then you're just going to be facing down the whole time.

Burso:

Oh yeah, because you feel oh okay, I see what you're doing there. Yeah, I'm sitting back, I'm chilling, all right well.

SWride:

Get the cake on your lap.

Burso:

Yeah, okay, anyway. So 30 seconds in, nobody's got any idea what's going on. Standard practice for this podcast here with Sam Ride what's up, dude? Yeah, we're currently filming, so we'll see how that goes. We've got a Twitch stream, but then we Twitch scream.

SWride:

Is that a thing? Stream, streaming, streaming yeah.

Burso:

Then we realised that I'm old and I've got no idea what's going on, so Sam's going to walk me through how influencing works.

SWride:

We'll edit it up. We've got cake.

Burso:

We do have cake. What's this cake from Sam?

SWride:

Do you want't? When was? That on the weekend it's weird, because I was, you weren't invited, if that's where the joke's going. You weren't invited. So no, that's a joke, it's more just a therapy session, I think.

Burso:

Just me, I'm just going to gaslight you the whole way through this it happens pretty much all my relationships and we've got a oh it's Ezzy boy. I was going to say savvy, but we're filming it.

SWride:

I mean savvy. We've got a savvy here.

Burso:

Sam doesn't have any. He's going to need his own code or he won't know him.

SWride:

I work on retainers savvy, so if you want to give me a retainer, it'll be on every single one of my stories. Listen to this and pretend it was a savvy.

Burso:

That's a clean savvy and then put in an imposter 17% off 17. Oh, oh God. Are we going to do this again? That's a lot. Are we going to do this again? We did this last time. I know, I don't know. Anyway, so the reason we are going here today is so that we, as individuals, on podcast.

SWride:

I thought you said the reason why you're at my house is because of my boot. I thought that's why we were here. Oh, no, no.

Burso:

I could care less about your boot. We're going overseas Because last time we spoke you were going overseas and I think since then you've done Europe and America. I have I have indeed Right, do you? I don't know if this is the right button, but I'm going to give it a go anyway.

SWride:

No, that's the wrong button. Scary time.

Burso:

Let's go. Let's go back to Europe.

SWride:

Let's head back.

Burso:

Yeah.

SWride:

To 2024.

Burso:

April 2024, was it? No, it was August.

SWride:

It was August-ish. Yeah, it was August.

Burso:

Yeah, so we flew in. Tell me through the competition what? It was how long it was for.

SWride:

There were two competitions. One was in Finland called the Heim Cup, at Heim Castle, which is one of the only historical castles in Finland, because they didn't really have a medical Should we explain what this is first.

SWride:

Oh, so Buhurt full contact, armoured fighting. The participants are dressed in full plate armour and you're essentially cage fighting. So it's real fighting, full force, not pretending, not scripted. No magic spells, Real weapons and armour. But their weapons are blunt and the way to win the fight in the team fights is to get them three points of contact to the ground either by striking them with your weapon, knocking them out on pain compliance, or throwing them to the ground with some sort of martial art expertise.

Burso:

And I have seen more recently that there is and this may be karma judging by your boot, but you can't just crack people in the foot with an axe. No, you can't I didn't get hit in the foot here. No, I know but karma because you smacked some other dude in the foot.

SWride:

Well, technically, if you look at the footage and then look at his armour, I was actually a legal strike zone because I was above the ankle. It's ankle and foot is an illegal shot.

Burso:

How good is this cake, by the way, would have been great on the weekend. It actually was really good on the weekend.

SWride:

It actually was really good on the night too with all my friends and stuff. The atmosphere of the room really made the cake taste good, but this is actually a pretty good cake.

Burso:

I like when you said you couldn't leave your house and stuff. But then there's pictures of you at La-Di-Da going hey guys, here are all my friends.

SWride:

I was in like an 8 out of 10 pain for my speech. It was fucked it was good.

SWride:

And so, yeah, anyway. So we flew into Finland last year to do Heim Cup. It was the only like castle they had in Finland medieval castle, because they didn't really do many sieges in Finland. I think they're quite small, it's because they did the raiding yeah, pretty much, but anyway. So we're at this tournament a beautiful castle, and we did essentially their national level tournament. So this was like their nationals.

SWride:

So our team, kraken from Melbourne, not Australia, just Melbourne we came first. We beat every single team, didn't lose one, didn't lose one round. Oh, no, sorry, I think we did lose one round, but we didn't lose one match. So there's two rounds, or best out of three rounds. So if you win two, you win, uh, so, yeah, we came first in Finland, essentially best team in Finland, but the, the Finnish are amazing people. They're also nice and, uh, really good fighters. Um, but that was fun, that was fun. And then we, we won that tournament. Then we flew over to, uh, germany and then we drove back to Germany. We fought in a way of honor which is essentially like a world title. It's a world title and we placed fourth in the world out of like 30-something teams, like 32 teams.

SWride:

So are you starting to say that Australia is pretty good. Well, our team, that's just for a Melbourne team, that's not. Even. If we put like an all-star team of all Australian fighters, or best Australian fighters, I think we would do very well. I think we would even take the cake no pun intended, because this cake is good, thank you. I remember you first did that buddham to me. When I called someone linger because you didn't like the word linger, I'm pretty sure I was like dang. I didn't realize these guys were PC like that.

Burso:

And now look at you out here licking up a storm.

SWride:

Yeah, I know, I've had like a 10-week jit right now. Can't fight till for 10 weeks, andrew and Cake Eater.

Burso:

You're getting all the army terms, oh God.

SWride:

I'm getting fat, that's good, I need to refeed, but yeah, and then got home, came back, we fought Australian titles. We had national titles because I traveled for five weeks with Samantha on holiday, got engaged in Amsterdam and came back Two weeks after we got back. We had national titles. Then our Melbourne team, kraken, won national titles, so number one in Australia.

Burso:

Sorry, is there?

SWride:

any money in that. Do you win money? Not really. I get most of my money from sponsors on the social medias.

Burso:

But in the competition is there actually? Is it just an outlay? I think?

SWride:

there is a small prize, I think like we do win like a couple of hundred bucks per person. I think this goes back to the club. Club buys new armor for people.

SWride:

I think there's a new league open up called the Armored League, which is where I flew in for this year in February. I flew in in February to fight in Carolina Carnage in South Carolina a big tournament and then the weekend after that I was meant to fight in New York City for the Armored League and they pay like $2,000 American if you win. But they also pay for my flights, accommodation and everything. So they are like really going all out. They're kind of like the first league to do that. Arm and MMA does that. It's another league, but probably just not to that extent Not that I know of. It could be.

Burso:

What are the crowds over in Europe? Is it?

SWride:

big. In Europe it's kind of big, Bigger than Australia, clearly. But the crowds in America at like Arm and MMA, they're massive. It's like a UFC. They do it in a UFC octagon, so it's massive. It's like, yeah, it's massive.

Burso:

Yeah.

SWride:

They're really they're doing really well but it is definitely growing. But, um, I'm trying to stick stick in the team fighting Cause the one V one fighting is fun, Like it's just on you. You know it's like if you haven't worked hard enough, if you fail, if you fight like it's all on you and if you win you're winning by yourself you're like yeah yeah, exactly, exactly yeah. But if you win like you win by yourself, you're like, yeah, I'm the best, which is cool, but the best is like winning as a team.

SWride:

Yeah celebrating with other people yeah, I really like that aspect too. Um of the sport, I think, is the team fighting too, and there's a lot. There's heaps of individual fighters out there Like look at MMA, like UFC, even like judo comps and everything. It's all 1v1s but like there's no real combat team sport that's got a league when this is getting to a factor where it's like a league of fighting. Chuck Norris had that world combat league.

Burso:

Did you see that? I did? I think I did. Yeah, that was good, they had teams but they're still fighting as individuals.

SWride:

Yeah, yeah, no, this is worth. It's like rugby with axes.

Burso:

Have you seen those dudes in Italy that play?

SWride:

Oh the footy yeah the soccer and they beat. That's cool. Yeah, I'd love to do that.

Burso:

And they're like what, 120 versus 120? Yeah, yeah, it's sick, that's so good that. You know what. We actually talked about this the other day. We were going to see if we could just use ChatGPT. I've obviously now just given it away. But we're going to use ChatGPT and pretend we had a producer. Like a young Jay yeah yeah, yeah, Because you can mute it and then just talk to it when you want. And then you're like, hey mate, can you just talk?

SWride:

us through what that is, oh really.

Burso:

That would have. But yeah, I've saw some stuff on that, but that'd be worth going to see a trip oh, that'd be sick.

SWride:

I think it's like a festival, it's like a thing yeah, yeah, it goes for a while, it's not like a series, is it, or is it? I think it's like a festival. No, it's like once a year. It's like a weekend.

Burso:

I think that they play.

SWride:

I don't know if there's. Yeah, that's like a sexual move, isn't?

Burso:

it yeah, Heartbreak Kid does it.

SWride:

Yeah, yeah, because I don't know if machine gun fellatio means something sexual.

Burso:

You'd assume so.

SWride:

The last part would Fellatio yeah, but machine gun. Fellatio means something.

Burso:

Yeah, rapid fire.

SWride:

Rapid fire.

Burso:

You're belt fed, belt fed.

SWride:

I know some people like that, yeah, yeah yeah, but then yeah went to America or in Carolina Carnage for the company of the pale horse, so they paid for my flights to come over and chill with them.

Burso:

How did we?

SWride:

but you got asked to go there, didn't you? Yeah, they asked me. Well, they're like friends of mine, they're like, hey, can you come fight with us? And then, even before anything happened, I was like yes. And then they're like hey, we can pay for your flights. I was like oh, that's even better Sweet.

Burso:

So when did you meet them, though? Is that just through you being a mad influencer, or is that?

SWride:

Literally just through Instagram. One of my guys who did my programming and just a friend that we talked to all the time, he's like come over, fight for us. And then they were a tier two team last year and then they were put in tier one that's Tommen, he's a good boy. And then we they got put into tier one and then we came fourth out of tier one, which is fantastic, which is really good. Uh, and yeah, that was a fantastic time. Then the next day was the 12v12s, because that was the 5v5s that we're dealing with now. The 12v12s. The next day, uh, and then on the very first fight, is when I heard a huge snap in my ankle and I was running around on it all day after that and I I was limping everywhere, yeah. And then, yeah, got home, had COVID and then I was supposed to sorry, I fast forward too much, are you?

Burso:

trying to get this all done in like 15 minutes.

SWride:

You said you said you were in a rush. All right, I'm going to rush, Anyway. So yeah, hurt my ankle, which is sick, because I'm still at.

Burso:

how did you get an invite? Finland, yeah. I was sort of Matt, there's still plenty of stuff through Europe that I was going to talk to you about Go on, go on, go on, sorry, sorry. You've got to be somewhere because you're I don't, you do. I feel like this is because you're smashing too much diabetes cake.

SWride:

I've got to stop eating because I've actually got dinner tonight at an all-you-can-eat right, let's just take a breath, sam.

Burso:

All right, there's been a lot, mate. You smashed it out, smashed it out 11 minutes, yeah but you're already like done.

SWride:

Yeah, and now I got um, I got my boot on yeah, so, uh, that's, and that's it.

Burso:

That wraps it up right there all right, talk to me, answer right so how long after you not literally we'll go back to europe, go back right. So when you went over there, like how did you look up going there? Did they ask you to go, did you?

SWride:

So, our captain Jake, we were originally only going there for the Germany tournament, weyelvoner, which is like the big world one.

Burso:

Yeah.

SWride:

And then the Finnish tournament reached out to our team saying, hey, we've got a tournament like the week before.

Burso:

When you say reached out, did they speak to you there? No, they speak.

SWride:

They speak online. They sent a message to our captain. They speak online, they speak. They emailed, they speak. And they reached out and they said hey, we've got a tournament in Finland, if you guys want to come. And then we put a vote up saying does everyone want to do sorry about that? Does anyone want to do another tournament for Way of Honour? Because you know you might get injured and the wave on is the big one. But everyone said yes. So we agreed to fly into um helsinki and then travel to the tournament and then fight in that yeah, interesting nice one yeah, did you guys like desert?

Burso:

do the gang all hang out afterwards, like as in the other teams?

SWride:

yeah, yeah. Well, we were all supposed to hang out and go. They do this thing where they all go to a sauna afterwards like a super hot sauna. But we had to catch a flight the next day super early, like super, super early, and we stopped fighting at like 6.30, 7 at night and we're already super dehydrated. And then they wanted to get into the saunas and then start drinking. I was going to say, but they would have rehydrated, yeah, but they wanted to drink while in the sauna, so we would have been cooked.

Burso:

That's weird, though, because you've got to. That's probably why they're scald, isn't it? Yeah, Because otherwise your beer gets hot.

SWride:

Yeah it gets hot and they're in the sauna just absolutely getting pumped.

Burso:

And then.

SWride:

So we fought Saturday, the group fought Saturday, and then we fought 1v1s.

Burso:

Anyone get the injuries.

SWride:

Yeah, Jake broke his thumb. My captain broke his thumb, so that was bad. I fought on Sunday the 1v1s and I came second. I got beaten by a very good fighter Adol Adol his name is, but I don't want to say. If I had my sword and shield it would have been a different story. But I was using an axe, he was using his sword and shield and he kept his distance you're mad for axes I know, but not one in 1v1s.

SWride:

1v1s I'm a sword and buckler type of guy. That's just what I do, um, but you know, I was a very good fighter, very good fighter. And then, once we did all the fighting saturday, sunday, that's when they invite us back to the sauna we had to say no, because it was like eight o'clock when we packed our armor up and we had to fly out the next morning at like five in the morning, so we didn't want to cook ourselves too much. And then, yeah, and then that's when we got in the plane to germany it is, it's florentine historical football, sorry oh yeah, okay, florentine.

Burso:

How many teams? I think there's two teams of 27 players. I'll get into this afterwards, I just wanted to find it.

SWride:

It was playing on my mind. You'll be interested in a minute. You're my cords in the cake, that's all right, I'll eat it later. Okay.

Burso:

I don't care.

SWride:

Yeah, I'm glad you explained it I was making sure people can't even see it on the thing. Yeah.

Burso:

So the 1v1, you're a buckler, and sword and buckler. Is that why you keep practicing that? Why does he do this? He never uses this stuff.

SWride:

Yeah, it's for 1v1. And it's his better fitness because with the axe swing it's very limited to side strike, overheadhand strike, side strike, fake logo, high punches buckler. So you're not bored yeah, and this is better fitness. Yeah, it's better fitness, I mean like sledgehammer banging. Oh it's fantastic for that. It is very good, but you want to when you're doing axe work. You want to like practice with a live person because you can like get him in the foot.

Burso:

What? Yeah, it was an ankle, it's actually high ankle like low ankle, no high ankle.

SWride:

It was above the ankle.

Burso:

You go in slow-mo and you're like he's clearly nailed that dude with the ankle. That's pretty bad.

SWride:

I felt really bad too. The guy's like, hey, I was just walking. He messaged and he said I saw the online comment. Yeah, and he's like it's only a week and a half, like.

Burso:

look turns out, the results are in. Yeah, I'm a dog cop, yeah.

SWride:

Rules are in. I'm a dog cop but sometimes it happens Like I rarely hit people in like very. That's one of maybe one time I've ever hit someone in a bad spot I like never hit.

Burso:

I'm pretty accurate. That's not intentionally are you?

SWride:

Yeah, no, just in general, even by accident, I'm so accurate.

Burso:

Yeah, I saw one where somebody nailed somebody in the top of the head when he wasn't paying attention.

SWride:

Oh yeah, and they crump.

Burso:

They just crumped him on the top of the head they off switch and everyone's just like what a joke yeah, this and that, and then all the boo-herd goes. People clearly don't know a boo-herd. Yeah yeah, that's on him. He doesn't want to turn around, yeah that's their fault for turning their back yeah, I like that. That's funny. It's on you.

SWride:

You're dead, that's on you well, in paintball, you don't like wait for someone to look at you before you shoot them that's true that's how I liked it. People don't like that analogy, though. Apparently no. I do so. That's all that matters.

Burso:

That's fair enough. So, um right, so you Are you disappointed with that? Yeah, in hindsight would you have, I would love to.

SWride:

I wish I could have said everyone that I could have, but at that moment I was like fuck that dude, so tired I was wrecked.

Burso:

I'm just tired. How many times do people get to go and hang out in the sauna? I?

SWride:

don't know that many Was it going to be like in?

Burso:

the snow as well.

SWride:

It was just like a huge like orgy of people, so he probably would have got staff.

Burso:

What's staff between friends?

SWride:

Well, it's not really anything, is it no?

Burso:

Because I've seen those ones where you see them on TV, where obviously they're in the sauna and they go out and they just hang out in like a pool that's surrounded by snow and stuff, because it's just like a natural thing.

SWride:

Yeah, it was summer there, sadly, I know. We were staying on this lake, which was really nice. The Airbnb we were staying at had three saunas, so it was a sauna next to the house and two saunas next to the lake. It was fucking sick. Is it super expensive over there? Finland wasn't overly expensive. I guess it's pretty typical Europe, but Switzerland was like $80 for a burrito. It was like 40 francs and one franc is $2. The cheapest thing. There were cigarettes, which is great, so you had to have cigarettes to wash it down.

Burso:

Well, they're probably doing that to just lower everyone's appetite. Yeah, it's insane. It's too expensive to eat it.

SWride:

It was literally like $80. I had one burrito and it was literally like this big. So if you can't see, it's not very big $80. And then the cigarettes are $2.

Burso:

We're on a podcast, yeah.

SWride:

They could see off this if we get this going. It's pretty chill. You know you can get an AI that will like cut it, but they'll zoom in every time we talk.

Burso:

Yeah, I mean, I'll see what you come up with Should be great.

SWride:

I'll fucking figure it. You're going to send me this.

Burso:

Yeah, we'll.

SWride:

Hey, you do that. What does that come through as?

Burso:

I'll just email it to you. It'll just be a MP3 or MP4, whatever they are nowadays.

SWride:

MP3 players. Do you remember mini disc Walkmans? I used to smack.

Burso:

I'm 43. I remember.

SWride:

Okay, I never had the tape. I think I had a tape once because my dad had it. It was in just a War of the Worlds.

Burso:

War of the Worlds. Yeah, dad had that. It was fucking elite I had vinyl before.

SWride:

It was cool. I wasn't that old 43?. You're only like.

Burso:

I'm 43. That's what 43 means, so you're only nine years older than me.

SWride:

Yeah, man, there was's funny the difference I was playing.

Burso:

Aja Reason, Johnny Farnham on vinyl.

SWride:

Nine years back from me, isn't that much, though? No not that big a deal, no, but nine years back from me and you different worlds Huge. Different worlds Huge Did you ever not have the internet. I had dial-up, but I can only remember dial-up. I can't remember Because when you're so young you can't even remember what was what.

Burso:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SWride:

I was playing with sticks and shit.

Burso:

Yeah, we didn't have internet.

SWride:

Ever At all.

Burso:

And then it turned up when I couldn't tell you what year, but we had TVs.

SWride:

We used to bang the side of we had them on the farm back home.

Burso:

I grew up on a farm and you think they're fun.

SWride:

Yeah, they're probably expensive TVs.

Burso:

Yeah, crazy times. Anyway. What were we talking about again? Oh, burritos being expensive in Switzerland.

SWride:

Oh yeah, and then, because we took the wrong turn and we went to this completely other place. It was like an hour and a half away from the Airbnb in Switzerland, which was amazing. It was like over a lake and we got to swim in the lake. It's like mountain water lake. But yeah, we took a wrong turn.

Burso:

So we decided to spend $80 on burritos and $2 on cigarettes. That's such a weird combo. It was so good it's upside down. I'm not even that big of a smoker.

SWride:

I used to be a big smoker when I was in the army. Yeah, not anymore, but sometimes you just got to have a tub. Mate people just pick up smoking.

Burso:

So, good, we went. They're three bucks a pack. Oh yeah, you're making money smoking these.

SWride:

Oh I was. If I didn't have smoking in Afghan, I would have fucking. I don't know what I would have done. Honestly, done that Worked. No, payed attention to the picket. No, made sure the juniors at the front desk wasn't fucking aiming their gad in. No, yeah, I was smoking. Fair enough too. Double pops, yeah, the double pop, the double menthol Spearmint, and it was unreal, really. I got in trouble Because I was smoking so much. Like, if you've got your helmet on, you cannot smoke. Obviously, that's a rule anyway. Like having a hat on.

Burso:

Because you're Working, apparently, oh, not because you're a flare that people can see from miles away.

SWride:

No, no, this was in the day time so they fucking, they knew we were there anyway like six pms. But I remember one time I was smoking a cigarette and they caught me smoking on on um tv like on the news, because they had a brief saying do not on the afghan news oh yeah.

SWride:

So there was like a. I think I was a pv crew commander, so I wasn't really a garden angel. But one time that I came right I can just see the front door. We just need an extra person there. It's like sick whatever. Lock the whatever. Lock the hatch up, take the gun down, go over there, stand by the door. And we had this huge brief saying we've got to crack down on smoking while on the job. Do not do it.

SWride:

And then this American I think it was a general, I can't remember what his rank was I was like, fuck, if some general's telling me I have a DAB, I can fucking do whatever I want. So I went in there. I was having a DAB at the front, and then there was like a news crew doing some report about Americans coming into this embassy or whatever it was. And then they paused it like a grain picture of me having a cigarette at the front and they're like who the fuck is that I? I was like I wasn't even supposed to be out of the PMV, yeah. So yeah, I got drilled for that, which was great, but they did it in like a room full of people. No one was listening, thank God. But then the boys were like that was hilarious. I was like fuck yeah, I was like I thought you guys weren't listening.

Burso:

They're like what the fuck is this? Yeah?

SWride:

I love it, ken Ha. Good time, good times, good times, great classic hits.

Burso:

So after your burrito in.

SWride:

Switzerland. Oh yeah, sorry, fuck it yeah where'd you go after? That, um, we went to Switzerland and then we went to fuck I don't know. Well, then we drove back to Germany to do the Way of Honor tournament, yeah, and that was the big one yeah, so how many teams are in that one? That one was another like 30. That was the in the Finnish tournament. There was only about maybe eight or nine maybe, and are they mainly local teams?

Burso:

Yeah, they're all local.

SWride:

Obviously Finns weren't. This isn't a big country for Boo-Hurt, yeah, but yeah, In this way of honour. There were two Americans teams, there were French teams, Italian teams, all around the world, all world-class teams, but our team fought super well. We were knocking out teams in less than a minute.

Burso:

What other countries are good at Buhurt? Do you have any surprise countries?

SWride:

Well, this is not really a surprise, but Ukraine and Russia were the best teams in the world before they went to war. Irl.

Burso:

Yeah, but were they there this time?

SWride:

No, no, no, they're busy. They were a bit busy at the moment. They had a bit on. They had a bit fucking on, mate, they had a bit on. They're birding out in the line, yeah, with fucking AKs and drones.

Burso:

Yeah, it's very cheaty, it's fucking cheating.

SWride:

But good on them. Anyway, good luck Ukraine killing it. Shout out to my sponsor, pavlo Kozak and Medieval Extreme from Ukraine Legends Use code SRIVE for express shipping. It's good. Yeah, use code SRIVE for discount at Pavlo and we're going. Yeah, yeah, 5% discount on your armor.

Burso:

Cool. So Ukraine and Russia used to be good, but now they're currently.

SWride:

So I guess the best team at the moment is Dominus, which is like the American super team. They're called Dominus.

Burso:

But I reckon if we had a super team of Australia, we would beat them. What about? It's funny, though, because they're like one. I mean we never did it either, I guess. No, I was like.

SWride:

America's never had a medieval time. Yeah, well, that's why, like, england was really good. It's a really good white company. They're like a really high class team as well. They came first. They came first at that tournament that makes sense. And then A long line of Templars, yeah yeah. So there was Brits, and then it came the Americans, and then Prague, so Czech Republic, they came third, and then us, the Melbourne team. That's bizarre, yeah, it's weird, but we got beaten by white company. We drew with them on the first round. It was me and my captain staying up until the time run out and then we just got flopped. They ran over us. In the second two, I got taken down in like the first 20 seconds from a mate, colin Campbell. He's an American fighter that moved to Australia, who he's like my mentor and we made a club together, but then he moved to Australia. Then he was fighting for the Brits.

Burso:

So the American came to Australia to fight for the Brits, yeah, in that tournament.

SWride:

It makes sense, but we were running Brisbane Beasts for well and truly longer than that. And then, yeah, so he was part of that team and he just decked me straight up. He decked me straight up, motherfucker, just because you're mates, yeah, and he's just amazing. For that he's fucking 120 kilos. He's brutal, he's quick, he's fit. And then the Prague Trolls we versed them. Trolls, that's what they're called. They're fucking massive. These guys are huge.

Burso:

Yeah.

SWride:

They're all massive. They're really nice dudes. They just pumped us. I got worked in the corner by three of them. I was fucking psyched. Is that that video? When?

Burso:

they were all in the red and you're like they're like hold him tournament. Yeah, that was my mates in kenya's usa. Do you have any gopro?

SWride:

stuff from um, like wearing gopro stuff in the europe one. No, I need. This is my first one with the gopro, but it's going to be a keeper I want to try to get it. You think that's going to be more yeah, I'm gonna try to put on my chin yeah, yeah, like a motorbike helmet yeah, and put on my chin a little bit more because I'll be able to like head it's down.

SWride:

Here was a bit check around yeah, yeah, um, so I think I'm gonna get a clip and weld it on which would be cool, but I gotta watch out for the, the fog. Oh, yep, yep. I think it should be fine because it's in that case and there's a bit of a distance yeah, were you running a like a lapel mic or something on your last one?

Burso:

no, that was just through the diving the diving gopro yeah which is cool, the diving gopro protection thing yeah, because you could hear, you could still hear yeah, it was really good.

SWride:

It was really highly recommend. On the, it was actually an action 5. I keep saying gopro on my content because people if I say that guy's wearing an action 5 gopro's like everyone knows what a gopro is but like DJI. Oh, they're amazing.

Burso:

They're literally that thing right there, videos, and they're like 4k yeah the quality but it's also, you can follow people around with it and that sort of stuff oh yeah, you can do facial tracking your shit when the four is coming out. That's my thing now. I don't want to like get a three and then have the four come in I don't know, actually don't know.

SWride:

Well, you don't need it. That thing does everything you need. Yeah, it's fucking good to go and they're pretty cheap. And I got that action five somewhere here too, that's really good you need, because the action five's got magnets on it so you can just stick it to shit.

Burso:

You know, my mics will pair straight up with that.

SWride:

Yeah, they would, because I don't want to get a pair of your mics. I use the fucking.

Burso:

Rode mic yeah the.

SWride:

Rode one I saw at the end. I don't know why I did that. Well, actually Samantha bought it for me, so she won't.

Burso:

She won't listen to this?

SWride:

Yeah, she definitely won't.

Burso:

There's only going with one of them likes road, you're in trouble yeah yeah, yeah, um, where were we now? Germany, I know, but it's okay how we've like we've, we've moved back.

SWride:

I literally have done like a quick summary and then we've moved back. Yeah, that's actually that what I? That's what I meant to do. Thank you, clap it. No, is that?

Burso:

it that one again. Yeah, I'm not, I'm not cheering for you um. I love you're way more on this video, I think, than me. You just keep like looking at the camera.

SWride:

You've got to look at it. See, look at that, you're pointing at it.

Burso:

Yeah, if there's an awkward pause, it's because Sam's doing something for the camera. So you're in Germany. England's first, who was second? America, america's second. Third was Prague, prague, trolls, and then Melbourne, and and then Melbourne, and then Melbourne.

SWride:

Yeah, it's pretty bizarre. It's good, isn't it? Yeah?

Burso:

It's good, do you reckon, if like? Because where do you guys come in Australia First? Oh, yeah, yeah, we're best. Oh, the Brisbane guys were.

SWride:

No, well, they were when I was on the team. Look, I'm not saying that as in for real, but like been in the team and then the last and then. But when that happened and then I moved to, kraken and Kraken were first. Yeah, I'm not saying it's me, no, but there is a common denominator. There is some good evidence.

SWride:

There is a common denominator your hypothesis and this will work now because the Kraken team has got so many like good fighters now still going to win, no matter what yeah, but like I've watched, I've watched a bunch of your stuff and there isn't like a faster, cheaper bloke than you I they do call me the doggest of all cunts you are. I'm a dog cunt like and that's my role. That is legitimately my role yeah well, crack and play to that.

SWride:

Well, that is like where's sam sweet. They're like, bring it in, bring it, he's back. I'm like sick.

Burso:

Thanks, dude yeah, I also. I also really enjoyed that one where you were that footage where you like wave at that dude. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that would have to work it always comes to me on the spot.

SWride:

you know it's a high-paced environment. I'm like you know what I should wave at this dude.

Burso:

That's what I should do. I should wave at him. Oh, here we go.

SWride:

Cat Tom and your little fucking. They can't even say that on the camera now, I know, now we're just watching a cat. Now, this is silent.

Burso:

Yeah, there's a cat trying to eat our cake and adjust the…. I hope he walks on the buttons and we get some random… That'd be so good.

SWride:

We are here, he goes. No, he's not.

Burso:

No, no, he wants your cake, no, he wants my cake. Get out of it. And there, three minutes of radio air science that we didn't need, yeah, so Germany, how long did that go for that tournament?

SWride:

It was a two-dayer.

Burso:

Okay, so like how many flights would you have over?

SWride:

that I think we had. I think we were meant to have eight, but I think two pulled out so we had six. Is it timed as well? It's ten minutes for total for the whole round, so a round will go. I think a round maxes out at five minutes, but the whole fight can only go for 10. So even all three rounds.

Burso:

Right. So if it's one-on-one and they're both taking five minutes, they just don't go to the next one.

SWride:

I think it'll be like a sudden death, or they stop it just before the time runs out. They're like you guys are going to fight out, so they're trapped in the corner. There's no activity. The coach will bring it, the marshal will bring it into the center of the list.

Burso:

They're the dudes with the flag. They're the refs.

SWride:

Yeah, the refs. Cool, they'll bring it to the center of the list. Yeah, then you got to duke it out. There's dude and it's just hand to hand in the middle they do sometimes in like show farts you do, but like not, yeah, when there's a show fight, he's duke, you throw your weapon and he's duking it out oh yeah, but yeah yeah, you can do good, but then he's like what's the point of even doing when I have an armor on him as I just watch ufc? Yeah, but it's funny.

Burso:

It is especially if you're like helmets off, throw the gloves on.

SWride:

Oh yeah, no one will take your helmet off if you oh ben, if you fucking clock someone with a gauntlet on, they're dead. Oh yeah.

Burso:

Without a helmet. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, but I just meant like if it was like gloves are off, helmets off.

SWride:

If the gloves are off. That would be really cool yeah.

Burso:

Because, like in ice hockey, yeah, that would be sick.

SWride:

Imagine, if you like, you throw a punch in the side of your arm. Eclipse it in the face.

Burso:

Yeah, I mean there's plenty go south. You were saying as well that injuries aren't that common.

SWride:

No, all my injuries have been common sports injuries. I broke my collarbone because I've got an axe there.

Burso:

It's pretty common A lot of people break their collarbone yeah.

SWride:

They're all pretty common. There's less injuries in our sport than there is touch footy.

Burso:

Maybe because there's way more touch footy players.

SWride:

Maybe because there's way more touch footy players than there are. Yeah, true, that would be another one, but I think someone averaged it out over like the numbers and like tried to do the number thing and there's way less than a sport.

Burso:

Yeah, I mean touch is. There's a lot of ankles, huge, huge, huge. Just change the direction.

SWride:

all that sort of stuff you guys can't really do that yeah, well, that's how I broke, that's how I ripped the ligament.

Burso:

I was changing direction yeah, especially because you weighed what 45 kilos actually. What's all your gear? Like 30 kilos, 32 kilos yeah yeah, change the direction with an extra 30 kilos not amazing?

SWride:

yeah, it I was probably just didn't drink enough.

Burso:

Well, you should have gone to the sauna. They were all See that's what I'm saying.

SWride:

It would have fucking pumped us if we went to the sauna. Yeah, that was Finland. We've gone way back. Yeah, no wait, we're in Germany still.

Burso:

We're in Germany. We're in Germany, so it's a weekend. How many matches over the weekend, and is there finals and If you first and second move on to the next day.

SWride:

if the first person because he's in pools I think it was like 10 pools, the number one in your pool versus the number two from another pool and then they're number one versus your number two, if that makes sense.

SWride:

Yeah, and then is there a grand final. So after that, so after you do yeah, there is. So when you do that, you've got an elimination round after the pools and then there's elimination. So if you lose your elimination round, obviously you're out. So then those people make the semifinals. So we won our elimination round, pumped them, and then we lost our semifinal against White Company and then we battled out for third and fourth. We lost that in Prague Probably two Prague trolls Jerks. I know they were good though they were. Really we were all pretty fingered and I fell over stupidly.

Burso:

Oh, is that that one where you were running and then your leg locked up? That was in.

SWride:

America. That was in America, Come on. I was like, come on, mate Yo, who's jumping forward now? Who's jumping forward now?

Burso:

Well, you just had more footage from there, I feel. So maybe that's what it is.

SWride:

Yeah, I did. Yeah because I got a lot of. Yeah, I had two cameras cranking.

Burso:

Two cameras going. So after Germany's done, what did you do then?

SWride:

Travel around still Travel around Me, and Samantha traveled to Amsterdam, got engaged in Amsterdam Yep, and then we went to you had an engagement party.

Burso:

Yes, that's where the cake's from. Oh yeah, you went invited Saturday, gotcha.

SWride:

And then we went to Belgium, yep.

Burso:

Which is cool. Did you go to a Belgian beer garden? We did. Is it like the ones we have here?

SWride:

Oh, kind of. We went to. We had a friend that did a seminar for their team and they're like, oh, you're staying in Antwerp, we live there. Let us know we can show you around. Yeah, heaps, heaps of diamonds in Antwerp, um, and then they're like come, we'll show you around Antwerp. And I gave us this full tour of the whole city, cause they were history nerds, I knew everything. The tour was called beer garden, went to like a little down street, like little alleyway beer cafes. It was sick.

Burso:

But they're not called Belgian beer gardens, they're just called beer gardens there.

SWride:

I guess they're just called yeah or just garden.

Burso:

Yeah.

SWride:

Because everyone drinks there. It's crazy.

Burso:

Yeah.

SWride:

Yeah, and then yeah, and then we went to France. We went to Lille and did a World War I tour. We had like the average age was 70 year old, yep, and then uh, yeah, which was a lot of information.

SWride:

I was very tired by the end of it was like six days, it was a lot, and then we flew home mentally taxing because it was insane yeah, and then they were doing all this, they're doing all these tours and I was like so checked out that I was like, walking around, you can pick up shrapnel. It's everywhere over there, just in like the, the, the paddocks is just ball bearings and shrapnel still there was a huge mortar apple mortar round just laying that a tractor had pulled up. It was huge, like honestly it was a UXO and this guy was kicking it. I was like dude, do not kick that do not kick that.

Burso:

That was insane, but it's crazy they're still coming up.

SWride:

I kick them all the time yeah, I was like what the fuck he's like? Check out this. This is one of those mortars Like yeah, Can't.

Burso:

Don't kick that. He's like it's not going to go off. It's not going to go off because it hasn't been touched, mate. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SWride:

The fact that you're kicking it like it's a footy, because it was just insane A lot of history, a lot of dead soldiers, the graves were insane.

Burso:

Are they still finding people? I don't know, If they're finding bombs and stuff everywhere.

SWride:

You'd think they're still finding people. Dude the bombs. It was insane. It's just kind of like to still be picking up a thousand years later in a paddock that gets. Obviously a hundred years later You're grabbing arrowheads yeah, you're grabbing bronze arrowheads out of people yeah, but like the fact that they and there's a field that they obviously grade up all the time is still raking up fucking bombs yeah, that's weird, that's insane yeah, because he would.

Burso:

He'd probably just turn that thing over smacking it with his yeah, with his fucking yeah. He's like get that thing out.

SWride:

I need. I need my corn to grow. He's like this was your last time.

Burso:

Yeah throws it over honestly when he threw it the.

SWride:

Obviously the farm is thrown to where everyone else was like watching. It was insane.

Burso:

I've even got a, I'll get a video just throw here, catch, yeah, yeah. And the guy, the guy, I was with um toby.

SWride:

He was a choco, so he's fucking loving his kicking house, you should know, but I can't he's like only on tuesday night yeah, not mate, not now I'm off duty.

Burso:

It's a we d. Yeah, yeah, I'll kick you all I want.

SWride:

Yeah, yeah, but yeah, that was fucking hilarious yeah.

Burso:

What countries have you been to like over there that you thought, like I would have thought, belgium would have got around Boohurt?

SWride:

They do. Oh, they're starting to now, but yeah, they're very organized and having a one set team, because in Europe, dude, traveling 40 minutes is too much for them.

Burso:

It's literally crossing three borders.

SWride:

I know. But they say like I'm like dude, you guys live, like why don't you guys all train together? He goes oh, we live too far away. I was like, okay, what's the spread? He goes. Well, to get to his training is 40 minutes. I was like can I travel? An hour 20 minutes three times a week to my training like what they couldn't fathom it.

Burso:

They couldn't fathom it yeah, yeah, that's like down the road for us yeah like when you get someone from America or, worse, uk yeah anyone from Europe, especially like if they've come over from London or something. Yeah, and the road, they're thinking three minutes yeah max.

SWride:

Yeah, but they were, they honest. That's when I first like fucking hell, you guys. Like you guys can all have a sick belgium team, but you guys don't want to drive 40 minutes. You can be in adelaide and you can go.

Burso:

Oh yeah, where's perth just down the road?

SWride:

yeah, 100 people would be like that makes sense. Yeah. Nine, nine hour road trip yeah because you've got how many turns?

Burso:

is it three? True, same three turns from adelaide God.

SWride:

Perth is nice, isn't it?

Burso:

Yeah, perth's nice but, like so many places in WA are nice, it's so underdeveloped.

SWride:

Well, when I was in a geotech in the army, we used to do the flying planes, the scanner, we'd just do the whole west coast and it's just barren. Beautiful beaches.

Burso:

It's barren, it's insane Down Esperance Way Albany those places yeah so amazing, it's amazing but just You're not going to go there. Why are you going there?

SWride:

You'd need like. They're like whaling towns Legit.

Burso:

Yeah, I went to Albany and I think it's Denmark or Denmark down there as well, and it's yeah, they're Old whaling towns. That's sick, yeah. Now I don't know what they do. I'm assuming there'd be a mine near them. They'd be making millions out of it, bulks out of it, yeah.

SWride:

I was thinking of doing some FIFA work for some fun.

Burso:

Yeah, well, you did, you flew to America, yeah.

SWride:

I know, well, I'm thinking about going to the police academy just for shits and gigs, yeah, yeah, but I think about doing it or PSO or something. Yeah, just to mix it up a bit. Go nuts, I'm not that I'm bored, but you know the other track. I might get bored.

Burso:

Well, you're also busted up at the moment. Yeah, I've been thinking, I've been thinking. Yeah, I've been thinking yeah.

SWride:

I had a lot to think.

Burso:

I've been here Are we are.

SWride:

Okay, I am going back to Brizzy. Yeah, that should be fun.

Burso:

So anyway, germany traveled around, did whatever got back.

SWride:

Yeah. Then we had nationals. We won nationals.

Burso:

In.

SWride:

Australia, in Australia, yeah, okay.

Burso:

Which is good, yeah. And then America. So when did they ask you to go to America?

SWride:

So there's a Carolina carnage every year. So after that Carolina carnage, the pale horses said hey. One of my mates said, hey, if you're not bringing an Australian team, do you want to fight for us? I was like sure, whatever. When was this?

Burso:

February After Europe. Yeah, okay, yeah.

SWride:

The February of the year of Germany, right, so before I even went to Germany. I was like yeah, I was like sure, whatever. And then then that tournament turned into their national team, their national tournament. So then there was a huge rule coming out saying you can't have any international mercenaries. That was international mercenary. So then there was all this.

Burso:

You put your own line of boo-hurt mercenaries, yeah.

SWride:

Pretty gangster.

Burso:

I know you wanted to do an ad for it, but you haven't got it out. Yeah, I know, Damn it. I wanted to add something.

SWride:

That's all right, I'll just chuck it up anyway. Boo-ho, mercenaries, get it. I'm pointing at the camera. Yeah, but yeah, and then the rules changed again and then we could, they could have like Is it five, I think, for your Is there like subs and stuff in a Booha team.

Burso:

Yeah, there's eight, you've got eight fighters.

SWride:

I think it was five for their country, I think it was In an international tournament. You can have five. I actually don't know I could be completely wrong.

Burso:

So they asked you before we went to Europe.

SWride:

And then I was like yeah, australia isn't going on its role, let's do it, australia isn't going, let's roll, let's do it. And then we went over there, fought to America. Well, I went over to America by myself, because Samantha didn't come. So first thing I did was went to a shooting range shot some ARs, which was sweet they're crazy.

SWride:

I'm like do I need a license or anything? They're like we don't have any of that commie shit here. I was like holy shit, like do Like, do you know how to shoot guns? I was like, yeah, dude, I've shot some guns before I was in the army. He's like sweet, take your pick. I love that. He's not like, he's just like I'll take your word for it.

Burso:

Yeah, yeah, I didn't have anything.

SWride:

He's like you shot guns. I'm like, yeah, dude, do you want to buy one? Then yeah, oh, dude, you could have do that. We've got some rules here man yeah it's like come on, mate, it's not a fucking cave and then by the end of it. I was talking to him about boo hurt and stuff.

SWride:

Yeah, I was talking about boo hurt and like being in the army. He's like you know what man fuck it. Take a video. I was like sick really. Yes, I got on my phone. Yeah, he was super nice. Shout out to hunter, who's never gonna watch this. His name's hunter, good dude. He was ex-marine tagging. Yeah, well actually. And then he let me do it and then he's like I know, you Australians don't have guns, so what guns do you want to hold? So he just kept giving me out.

SWride:

I know you guys don't have guns, yeah so he kept holding me a gun and then I showed him my pump action AR and he's like this is ridiculous. I'm like it's pretty fucking cool.

Burso:

Yeah.

SWride:

And he's like you know we've, and then. So I did all that and then I went to a sports bar where these girls are very underdressed but I know they're not like not, they're like Hooters Kind of, but not really A bit classier than Hooters isn't classy? But yeah, they were really nice.

Burso:

Hooters is weird man. They have like compulsory fun and shit Compulsory. What Compulsory fun? Is it the army. It's like yeah, the army. Yeah, but it's like the army, except with girls dancing. It's like they go everybody get up and clapping and do this.

SWride:

I'm like you know what. You've ruined it Compulsory. Fun's not my jam. I just want to see some large-breasted women. Yeah.

Burso:

That's his answer.

SWride:

I just want to go in there get some food creep and then buy some merch. I want to see some large personalities. Jugs, jugs, titties.

Burso:

No, I meant beers. If you want to be that way, I am that way.

SWride:

I am that way. You like, what you like. You know you like what you like One's breasts.

Burso:

No dramas. Can't wait for my podcast to get me fired.

SWride:

Yeah, yeah, it's so good, why?

Burso:

What do you do for work? What do you do for work? I dance. Do you dance for men? Yeah, yeah, same, yeah, well, I mean, you could live stream it.

SWride:

I probably will. I might even live stream tonight. Actually, no, I've got a. Let me take this boot off, it's ripping me. All you can eat Italian pasta tonight. You get a half a liter of red wine and all you can eat pasta 50 bucks better than a brewery in Switzerland, oh shit honestly, that was insane so Carolina Carnage yeah, so you are the hardest lad to keep on track that's your job too. My job is the talk yours was to keep me on track.

Burso:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean remember when we were at 12 minutes and you'd finish your whole adventure yeah, now it's 44 minutes and I haven't even got past.

SWride:

Well, I was trying to get a summary. Yeah, you did, oh God.

Burso:

It's a good summary, yeah, so how long is that one? Is that a weekend as well?

SWride:

Yeah, it was all the 5v5. So 5v5 is a prestigious event. Oh, that all happened on Saturday.

Burso:

Do you want to explain?

SWride:

Oh, I just took my moon boot off and oh God the pressure. So yeah, all the 5x5s are done on Saturday. They had the solo fights on the Friday, but I don't partake in that anymore, but I might this year. And then Sunday was the 12v12s.

Burso:

I have no idea why people listen to that last one. People listen to that last one with you and Jared Really Seems to be doing well. How many have we got? I mean well for us? 24. 24 views Listened. Yeah, that's sick dude. No, it's better than that. Oh, is it? It's actually better than the last eight, really. Yeah, I probably been in the last eight, really. Yeah, I don't know if it's because of the reels. It might be the reels, it could be the reels.

SWride:

Yeah, I'm way funnier than.

Burso:

Jared Mate. It's terrible though, is it? When we were making the reels, we were like, oh, it's a little bit touchy. And then Jared's like oh, Holocaust survivors.

SWride:

Yeah, then he started talking about it. They one joke, I was like there's like lines yeah, jared, yeah, and he was just like no one listens to this podcast. Man, it's fine, yeah, I was like, okay, it's a bit rough anyway anyway. So we're moving on, we're so oh yeah, sunday 12 with 12 yes, me and the other. There was another Australian there called.

Burso:

Ellis, if it's 12 with 12 and they've only got eight people, do you guys pair up with other teams? Yeah, we pair up with Canada Cool.

SWride:

Because we were called the company of the pale horse and they were North Blood, so we're called my Bloody Pony. I think my Bloody Pony.

Burso:

Yeah, I think it was my Bloody Pony.

SWride:

And then so, yeah, we teamed up and then we came second in 12x12s, so that was pretty sweet. But yeah, I fucked my ankle in the very first fight, but I took three people down that fight.

Burso:

Yeah, so after the no big deal. So you went over there and it was just a weekend trip. Yeah, oh no.

SWride:

How many?

Burso:

matches were there over the weekend.

SWride:

They would have been like I would have done maybe 12 fights, 12 fights and rounds, maybe, like I think I fought every, I think every fight I fought, apart from maybe two rounds in the 5v5. So I would have done like, like, maybe 19 rounds on the Saturday over the weekend. No, on Saturday, just Saturday, just Saturday. And then on the 12v12, because it's bigger fights, less fights. So there's more people, so there's less people.

Burso:

There's a 5v5 all done and dusted on the first day, yeah, and then it gets right. Yeah, and how many? You said the crowds are larger there.

SWride:

Larger. Yeah, they are a lot larger. Yeah, I think they're a bit larger, but they have a ticketed event and whatnot, which is cool. They have like vendors and stuff, which is really cool. Yeah, there's, it's called the Abbey Cup. It's in Queensland in July. It should be very good If anyone wanted to go to that.

Burso:

Yeah, we'll see what happens. What are we doing Jared this week? When's he in? He starts on the 26th. He put a post up. He's trying to get all the tickets sold In Melbourne. Yeah, he's at Melbourne Comedy Festival starting. You never told me this Tonight.

SWride:

No, I did no because you said I just didn't give you the dates yet. Yeah, exactly, I said can you send me?

Burso:

the dates again, I forgot. Is it this weekend, starting tonight, until April? So it goes for a month. Oh, let's do it, let's do it. I can fucking, I can walk.

SWride:

Yeah, well, you can walk now can.

Burso:

Well, we'll see, because I think he's playing. Surely we can get some free tickets, jack.

SWride:

Hunt, or we want to support him.

Burso:

Yeah, like if he was selling them out you'd probably get free ones, because you could actually afford it.

SWride:

I'd give him money for it.

Burso:

I'm trying to get Kia to sponsor him.

SWride:

Kia. Oh yeah, he's got a rooftop tent. Have you seen my setup? Have you seen my Jeep out there?

Burso:

No, but you're like like full-time influencer. He's just like new to this. Oh, I mean, I know he's been making reels, for he makes way more money than me.

SWride:

I don't know that he does. I reckon he does. You reckon, fuck. He sells out theaters. Dude, I don't know what I sell out.

Burso:

Fuck all some fitness programs I saw your twitch the other day at like four and a half thousand. Oh yeah, that one actually went off yeah, that was weird, because I saw your other ones and they've got 12 yeah, what happened here? I figured you must have flashed it.

SWride:

No because I usually do it 11 o'clock in the morning here.

Burso:

Oh, so it's overseas.

SWride:

Yeah, and then I was like, screw it, I'm going to try my time zone, and it fucking went off.

Burso:

Oh, so it was people from here that watched. Yeah, I was on the front page. Yeah, you were on the front page. Oh, for Twitch To Twitch the front page, oh no, it's in the next one.

SWride:

We should do.

Burso:

Twitch together? Yeah, we could do Twitch. You're leaving though? Yeah, but we can still fucking sort it out. Yeah.

SWride:

You can fly out get that government money and we'll talk.

Burso:

DVO. I wish you got DVO, do you?

SWride:

No, I literally have it Fucking linger.

Burso:

Yeah, I've been listening to Jared, though, and he reckons you just is ringing and having a cold is fine.

SWride:

Does Jared have a cold car? I don't know.

Burso:

You'd think you'd be doing better. If you did, wouldn't be living in an old Kia.

SWride:

He doesn't even have a new Kia. He would easily get sponsored by Kia.

Burso:

It's bizarre that he hasn't tried it. I'll do it for him. I feel like we should both get around it, pitch it to him.

SWride:

Imagine we got him a Kia. Give me his email address and his number and I'll get him a Kia. I actually messaged Jeep today because I want a Jeep Gladiator.

Burso:

Pardon, I was going to say get me a new Mitsubishi Delica, but they don't make them.

SWride:

Shut up, they're way cool. I've got to drive a Tesla and a Jeep. I have one of those. They're cool. Do you know? We got spat on in Chapel Street for having a Tesla? Yeah, that's fair in Chapel Street for having a test.

Burso:

Yeah, that's fair. I'm talking about last time, yeah. So what's next for the old Boo Hurt Machine?

SWride:

Rest up the next 10 weeks, maybe fight in that Abbey Festival we were talking about, or really just get back into yeah, just fighting shape, because right now I'm a slob. Get out of breath going upstairs yeah, I don't know how that feels, yeah, but that's because of your own doing.

Burso:

Yeah, I've got no excuse. My ankle feels fine though when I get to the top.

SWride:

Yeah, mine doesn't. Yeah, I potentially. I got my third phone call back from a TV show really yeah, about Boo Hurt. No, it's not about Boo Hurt, but it's like a reality TV show.

Burso:

Really yeah, excellent.

SWride:

Fantastic, because that's a maybe. We don't know. Yeah, but they love me. Yeah, obviously.

Burso:

Obviously they wouldn't they wouldn't.

SWride:

So if that goes through, it might wipe out nationals at the end of the year. I feel like I've been injured constantly. Once I sort out my body and diet, I think I'll be good to go. But yeah, just about grinding that socials and getting more people into the sport. Yeah, love it. That's. My main goal this year is to get as many people as I can into Boohoo.

Burso:

Yeah, and they can scan your car if they want to.

SWride:

Yeah Well, I changed my bloody YouTube name, so now it doesn't work. Idiot, I know.

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