Movie Magic, 400,000km, 100km & Burnout.

Good news, I got my large sign.

I am yet to get my photo in front of it, so you can see just how large we are talking.
I am also yet to have been graffitied.
Which I think is a great start.
I assumed day one I would have at least a moustache.

(Photo with sign coming soon…)

I have also received my corflutes for the council election (those small annoying signs with people’s faces you see around on people’s fences, in stores etc) plus little pamphlets to hand out, whenever I find the time to do that 🥴.
I am accepting that it is something I need to do in order to make it happen.

I have come to accept things I lose/fail/don’t succeed in, as long as I don’t feel I could have done anymore.
In sporting terms, you would say leave it all out in the field.
So, I shall do that.
That means when others are watching the footy grand final, I will be driving to put up signs or delivering pamphlets. 

I have also come to realise that you can achieve so much more when you use the time you would be scrolling on Instagram, watching a series on Netflix or down a youtube rabbit hole.
Time is so important and I have realised how much of it I have wasted over the years.
The memories I remember aren’t in relation to the hours I spent watching youtube.
Or how many reels I sent to mates I should have been calling.

The van has ticked over 400,000kms now.

From multiple journeys to the high country in Vic.

To transits over to Adelaide for work briefly in choppers.

To a couple of trips to Robe, the Blue Mountains and of course the Simpson desert.

I have not been kind to the old girl and although I have had things fixed on it, I certainly deserved to have paid a lot more than I have. The most recent km’s coming from my trips to Bright for the new movie being shot down here.

I can now say, that I have legitimately rubbed shoulders with Alan Ritchson (he bumped into me) and he is a large unit. Not as massive as it’s made out on screen, I think the other actors are all small. But he is still 191cm and although only 3cm taller than me 😉 his bodyfat % is no where near the same ratio as mine.

There are a few more days of it over October and I am looking forward to having more to do with it. The future shoots being more tactical and fun. So far it’s all been training montage which is painful as it’s basically been cardio.

Ain’t no 42 year old pretending to be 25 called Burso enjoying that life decision. 

The other thing that happened over the weekend, which was a great thing to be part of, was getting along to see the lads do their 100km race.
I managed to catch up with them whilst they were 80km into it.
Fitzy seemed like he hadn’t even been doing the event. He was jovial, upbeat talking to Nick and two others.
At times he pulled his gopro out and had a laugh.
Took in the sites.
He was a leader and it was motivational to see.
Especially when I knew he had been going to physio for a day or two before as he was struggling to run early in the week. 

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Nick was focussed.
He didn’t seem to have much energy for anything that wasn’t focussed on completing his goal of completing the 100km.
I did try and bother him a couple of times however he kept pushing on and although a couple of times he said somethings, he wasn’t stopping his momentum for anyone. Which made me confident the lads would both make it.
You can jump on our Instagram and see the lads completing it.
What you won’t see what that phone call he got which was his partner and child on the phone which was a very special moment to be a part of. 

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This is one thing I have found doing this podcast.
Having conversations with people.
Putting a mic in front of a stranger and then asking people about their life, hopes and dreams.
For some reason, putting a mic in front of them lets them speak freely.
It’s almost the equivalent of a guava cruiser and some karaoke for letting people loosen up.
It does however also lend itself to making friends with people you wouldn’t have otherwise met and I would like to think the follow up brings an accountability and respect for one another and to share moments like Nick and Fitzy at the finish line for no other reason than he allowed me into his life to have a talk means a lot. 

Fitzy is tied up however I will be getting Nick in to talk about how he’s recovered and if there is a new goal in running or if he can put the cardio rubbish behind him.
I will no doubt get Fitzy on again to chat about his part of it.
See if they have different stories to tell about the same event.
I am very much looking forward to it and hopefully will have the pod out on the Thursday timeline. 

The new mics were a great success, I didn’t have them set up at all, it was straight out of the box however, it was a great improvement on just phone mic.
I look forward to tinkering with them in future. Perhaps even with this podcast with Nick. If I can get the rode and DJI mics talking to the camera, it’ll be a great success.
The proper mics are still a level ahead.
To be fair though, I don’t even know if the general public would be aware.

I likely have another 45 days of doing too many things daily, whilst also trying to fit in time to be a human.
I do however get a lot from driving and listening to music and audiobooks.
I am now in the zone of I am tired, I will be tired, I will continue to be tired…

However at the end - I will have been elected into council, been in a large movie and been around that energy which has been great.

I have already made some great friends who have great stories, I hopefully will be able to get them to tell and by not stopping I am ahead of where I was, and don’t need to die wondering. 

Another newsletter completed, tick.
Another podcast was out this Monday (listen to PART 2 with Chris May here)
And I will be doing another one this Thursday (which I will be uploading and trying something new with, you may not notice, but I will be excited to see how that goes) ideally by the time you are reading this.

Then it is only 3 more episodes until we hit 50 episodes and can take stock of what we have achieved and hopefully have a decent crowd to attend podapolooza 5.

Everything I have committed to with this packed month and a half period is achievable as long as I stay focused and don’t waste my life on socials - the pull is hard, I have already spiralled around 4 times whilst writing this (Hence it is 1am when I was supposed to be in bed a while ago). 

I can sleep when I am dead.

I like to think of every thought of quitting, another competitor down.

So bring on the more tough times and if you continue to read these, you know I am continuing with whatever this is going to be.

I don’t know what it is yet, but I am excited and quietly optimistic. 

I do say I a lot now, but I am supported by some amazing people in both my tight circle who assist with reels, conversations, ideas and general support in letting me vent. There are also people like ‘One moment please’ who offer time and support knowing it is a lonely road when you are trying to do something new. Jarryd Goundry and others have also lent advice and support. Like a line from a movie goes ‘we’re all gonna make it man’.

I like to think about the future and all the people who help along the way being at the table and we are eating a feast and laughing about the times we were tired, sleeping in cars and wanting to cry from exhaustion. 

We are a long way off that.

But I hope it comes true and you can all say, I knew them before they were famous lol!

Don’t die wondering,

Burso.