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Alan Butler: Retirement from The Skid Factory

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3hr Podcast.
Well worth a listen.

So can you give us a breakdown. I'm not keen on watching 3 hours.

I just spent 3 hours trying to fix a router issue at home.
 

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So can you give us a breakdown. I'm not keen on watching 3 hours.

I just spent 3 hours trying to fix a router issue at home.
I’ll be doing a heap of work in the shed today. I plan on having that playing.

Just thought I’d share with everyone. Good to listen to while doing stuff.
 

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Woody’s vid setting up the new Skid Factory has been one of their most viewed videos (from what he said).
 

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I've missed a lot of episodes, just having a look back,


I tend to watch episodes that have projects I'm interested in, I don't watch everything that gets put out.

I am looking forward to seeing Kevo been finished and raced.
 

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So can you give us a breakdown. I'm not keen on watching 3 hours.

I just spent 3 hours trying to fix a router issue at home.
It was really good. I had to warm to the guy doing the pod cast. Toward the end he relaxed a bit and some good conversation flowed. Not forced.

Al’s story was really interesting. He has shared that over the years in bits and pieces. This had much more detail. You learn what makes him tick.

Over all, he tends to really push himself in unfamiliar jobs. Or in automotive but different parts of automotive industry. Does it for a bit. Learns lots. Then finds himself no longer challenged and moves to something else.

About half way they get into a fair bit about the skid factory. From what I took away, he was a little reluctant to do the YouTube thing but it was a new challenge and he enjoyed it.

He really enjoys sharing knowledge. It’s a running theme in his life. He feels rewarded by that experience.

He has just got to a point where the YouTube’s was getting in the way of what he wanted to enjoy doing.

He was stoked that Woody is continuing on with it. He goes into how much Woody puts into editing and filming the show. If he went into how they met, I missed it.

He talks about being a Dad and mentions how he teaches and pushes the boys to do well with their education because he didn’t. He wasn’t driven with it. Stuffed around.

Although that’s why I listened to the podcast, it’s the last ¼ I enjoyed the most where they both chat about cars and Al really seemed more at ease doing that. They both did.

Al doesn’t suffer fools well and there can be quite a few fools who are also fans and he seems to wrestle a bit with that.
 

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Al has been around for decades & will continue to be around.

He was on Streetcommodores & another car forum when I first touched a computer in dial up days...before that he was doing group chat or whatever they were whilst I was reading zoom mags lol.

Woody met Al as a grommet I think when Al & another bloke had a workshop specialising in subaru conversions.
 

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Al has been around for decades & will continue to be around.

He was on Streetcommodores & another car forum when I first touched a computer in dial up days...before that he was doing group chat or whatever they were whilst I was reading zoom mags lol.

Woody met Al as a grommet I think when Al & another bloke had a workshop specialising in subaru conversions.

Al was a PF guy, I'm pretty sure your user name is quite synonymous with PF, or am I wrong :)
 

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Yes I am a PF peep haha.

Al never left just got too busy & still pops back in same with Marty


RogerCordia has hit the limelight again,Bezanko,frozen piss trays etc
 

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Yes I am a PF peep haha.

Al never left just got too busy & still pops back in same with Marty


RogerCordia has hit the limelight again,Bezanko,frozen piss trays etc

Hahahahaha does that video of roger still exist :) hahahaha
 
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