Aunty Donna Podcast - Cool Dude Zach

Episode Date: August 5, 2025

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Because I see you most days, I think it's fair to say. Out of 365 days, we're probably on top of each other. 300 of those days. Do you think that's fair to say? Broden's not here, by the way. Broden's not here. Broden's got something on. I don't know what. No idea.

Just a mysterious can't make it that day. Sometimes he just says... Oh no, I do know. Oh you do know? Yeah. Can't say? No, not good. Just joking. It's something to do with the footy with Broden Kelly. Of course. That is what I had assumed.

Yes. And he told us that. Anyway, yes, the news. I don't listen to much of what other people have to say. Now, that's not true. Now, you're an attentive boy. I'm a sponge. I soak it up. You soak it up. The grub, the filth, all of it.

You soak it up. The good and the bad. You soak it up. I suck it up like a goddamn sponge but we're not here to talk about my Absorbent qualities. Yeah, no, we're not we're here to talk about the fact that You become a cool dude. Yeah, I've become a cool dude in the last it was quite sudden was it a

Thoughtful change No, it just happened? Or yeah, or by next what I was, well you've already answered. Unless there's a third. There might be a third. I was going to say, or was it thrusted upon you? Like being a king, your father dies, you're inheriting the crown, it's thrusted upon you and you may not want the crown, you may not be right for the crown.

Spoiler alert for Game of Thrones, Joffrey was not right for the crown, yet it was thrusted upon him and he took to it like a duck takes to the desert. They take to duck feed. They love duck feed. An old man's bread. Like a duck to a crust. Like a duck to a crust. But I am talking, if you're listening, I am talking about a duck who wants to be their

own boss starting a crust franchise. An autonomous duck. An autonomous duck becoming a franchisee of the crust brand of pizza restaurants. Not enough ducks doing their own thing. I think a lot of ducks out there and if you're a duck listening, a lot of ducks out there just not really delivering, you know, not really, they're just worker ducks. Do you think ducks listen to pond casts? No.

Yeah. No, they probably just listen to pod casts. No, they're called pod casts because they were originally available on the iPods. Oh, it's not because they were recorded in small pods? No, no, it's because they were originally available on iPods Right. So they're called podcasts. I thought it was because the first one was about The pods the the candy the Mars pods. That's why they were called podcasts. No, no, like you know like a biro Yeah, no

The first one was I don't know what the first one was, they're called podcasts because they're named after the iPod and the iPod is called the iPod because they're named after the pods in 2001 of Space Odyssey. Right. That makes sense. Is what a nerd would say. But. But I'm cool now.

Yeah, yeah, that's right. Let's get back, let's cut the shit. And let's get back to what we were here to Discuss figure out get to the bottom of you've become a cool dude and and so you want to get back to that topic? We must yeah, and do you know what I say to that? Well, whatever if you want to because now yeah now that's interesting. That's interesting that you do that. Okay? Yeah, that's really interesting because I'm a nerd. Yeah, I used to be a nerd. I was a nerd. Yes, yeah, yeah. And I haven't transitioned to a cool dude yet. I don't know if I ever will.

It's not a guarantee. I'm so interested to hear how it happened. The nerd is not a caterpillar to the cool dude's butterfly. You know, they are two different states of being. But I did go through a metamorphosis, yes. That's huge. Quick one, overnight? Yeah, I woke up one day, much like the lead character of Franz Kafka's metamorphosis. Of course.

Except instead of into a bug-like creature, I emerged a cool dude. As you can tell, the patrons who are watching will know this. I'm wearing sunglasses right now. Yes, you are. Inside. Which is crazy. Like it's quite a dark studio in here, but I'm wearing sunglasses. And that was the first thing I noticed, right?

I woke up and it was brighter. So the sun was coming through. Did you leave your windows open? They were open, absolutely, but what I'm saying is the sensitivity of my eyes have gone up. Oh, they're very easily offended. I couldn't see. No, no, I'm saying that the brightness of the sun was at a level, like, you know when it's night time and it's dark and you can't see? Uh, kind of.

It was like that but for bright. Right. And I was like, I had to reach, I finally found a pair of sunglasses, I put them on and I could see again. That's incredible that, uh, that Netflix film had that kind of impact on you. Netflix film had that kind of impact on you. Netflix film? Bright. No, no, no.

Here's the thing about Bright. Uh-huh. Do you know what's interesting about Bright? Yeah. I'm not a cool dude, so I'm not going off. I want you to know I'm going off topic. I'm aware of it. And I will get us back on on track about the cool dude

stuff because I'm a nerd. But can I explain to you right now now I'm a cool dude in his 30s right so if I was a cool dude in his teens I'd be like oh god he's gonna talk about some fantasy shit yeah cool dude in his 30s yeah so cool man that's that's cool that you like that yeah yeah it's like not for me bro but yeah yeah it's a you stick to your uh, stick to your icky. Uh, sticky to your icky. Sticky to my icky. Yeah, like, uh, every, uh, everyone sticks to a different icky.

Everyone's, everyone's, uh, sticky to a different icky. And, and you're cool with that. Like, you want to watch this bright movie, whatever the fuck that is? Yeah. I don't know what the fuck that is. It's really smart. It's actually about, uh's actually about race relations. But it's kind of buried under, it's like very subtextual.

It's one of the coolest, smartest movies I've ever seen. And I haven't even watched it, but I've seen the trailers for it. But what we're here to talk about, sorry to be a nerd about it. You can do whatever you want bro. Is how you turned into a cool dude, why you turned into a cool dude, when you turned into a cool dude, and how being a cool dude has affected your outlook on life and also your bank account. Sure. So, so, oh God, lots of questions, all in one.

Again, it was that morning I woke up, couldn't see, had to wear sunglasses. Also, I couldn't focus. Everything was moving a million miles an hour. Everything's going so hard and fast fast like literally my brain was working differently And it wasn't until I smoked a marijuana. Yes that I was like, oh, okay Okay, I can see clearly now I can think clearly right right so what I'm saying is that that I went through a physical Metamorphosis overnight where I need to now wear sunglasses inside, I need to smoke marijuana. My ears were thumping from the quiet.

It wasn't until I chucked on some rad music, both fully up to date with what the kids are listening to and some awesome old classics, that my ears started to calm down. I didn't know what was happening to me. I didn't know what I needed. It was through trial and error over about a two week period that I figured out all the things I needed to do to get back to an equilibrium.

So like a vampire waking up and being like, you know, not knowing there. And then once I figured it all out, I was like, hold on a second. I'm listening to rockin' tunes. I'm wearing sunglasses inside. I'm casually smoking marijuana. I love bruskies. Yeah.

Right? Shit, I think I might be like a cool dude now. Right. Did, are you, have you been, have you had a cat scan? Mm-hmm. And did they find anything? Mm. What did they find?

Like I don't give a shit. Right. Right. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, cause the blindness and the ears, and then the, and then the medicinal marijuana I imagine. Sure. I hope and assume.

Because even cool dudes do it legally. Is that fair to say? Nah. Right. Well, you know. I think the coolest dudes buy from cool mom and pop operations that have been going for 40 years. I mean if you're in Sacramento.

California. For sure, for sure, for sure. Certain States of Australia. Gotta go to your doctor. Gotta go to your doctor. Now it sounds to me like there's been some sort of bleed in your brain or. Yes, that's what the doctor said, yeah. Right.

And so, the metamorphosis you talk about, perchance, is maybe some sort of physical injury you've sustained that's then had ongoing effects. Or, that's just how the fucking cool dudes do it. Yeah, I don't know. All I know is I need to wear sunglasses inside now and all the other shit I said. Yeah, yeah. And I've got three weeks to live. Right. Right.

Because like I know people that have become cool dudes and usually that's just been through, you know, just becoming themselves a bit more, feeling more comfortable in their own skin, you know, not being too afraid to speak their mind without being an asshole about it, you know. That sort of thing. Confidence and empathy are things usually the way I've seen other people become cool dudes. Yours has happened potentially because of an injury you sustained to your head.

Quite a severe one, yeah. Right, what happened? I got hit by a truck. Right. You were crossing the road or? Yep. Yep. And Knocked Your Flat did it.

Where I was on a freeway, I was back home in the country, so it was quite a big freeway. And there was like no footpath, so I just tried to cross really quickly. So yeah, it was a truck going 100 kilometers an hour. Wow. Did you break any bones? Were you in hospital at all? I couldn't say for sure. You blacked out? You lost time?

I blacked out and when I woke up all of these physical problems. So you woke up in the hospital? Or you dragged yourself bloodied and bruised into your bedroom and recovered without medical attention? Yeah, I didn't go to a hospital until three weeks later. Right, right, right. So the story is starting to take shape here. At first, Zach's wearing glasses indoors. He's a cool dude.

That's a cool thing. That's a confident thing to do. As we've picked apart the bones of the story, uncovered the layers, we found you were in a very, very bad accident. A hit and run, I assume. And rather than go to a hospital or have someone take you to a hospital, you somehow managed, like Daniel Plainview, from out of the oil well all the way into town, dragged yourself

through, I'm imagining a desert. No, dairy, mostly dairy country mostly. So cows, past some cows. Yeah, I got trodden on the pastures. Pastures. Pastures. Into your home, which is in the city, right? No, no, my childhood home.

Your childhood home. My parents' house. They weren't home? They were away, yeah. And then just sort of waited it out. How did you eat? I didn't. I didn't for about five days.

Wow. Wow. Okay, but hey, you are a cool dude. Uh huh. So I guess the moral of the story, and it's probably a bit too early in the podcast to be sort of figuring that out. But you can figure it out. I'm hesitant to say it. No, go for it. I'm hesitant to say it because if I do, then where do we go from here? I'm not willing to change topic. I'm that much of a nerd.

I'm happy to talk a little bit more about being a cool dude. Like we've established how I became a cool dude. You can talk about the moral. Totally, totally. And then I can answer any question. Cause I know you're a nerd. Yes.

And you probably wonder, oh, what's it like on the other side? Now I've been a nerd. I dream of it. So I can, a lot of cool dudes probably can't talk to you about the difference because they've always been cool. Yes You know some are born into coolness. Most really I would argue. Yeah So because I've become a cool dude I can tell you what it's like over here All right. Yeah, maybe let's do that rather than get to the moral because I'm worried that uh

Alright, yeah maybe let's do that rather than get to the moral because I'm worried that uh that just kind of wraps it up a bit too much. We can do the moral. I don't give a shit bro. I know you don't, I know you don't but that's the sort of I guess you know it's the devil and the angel it's the uh it's the battle between us is that we have the cool dude. He's cool with it. We can wrap it up now. What are you giving a fuck?

I ain't giving a fuck. Do a 15 minute podcast, 10 with it. We can wrap it up now. What are you going to give a fuck? I ain't going to give a fuck. Do a 15 minute podcast, 10 minute podcast. I ain't going to give a fuck. You ain't going to give a fuck. Whether we get to the moral or not, I bet doesn't phase you at all. Morals, pretty lame. Yeah. Yeah.

Whereas me, nerd, loves an ad break, which we might go to right now. Whatever, I couldn't care less. Unless it's an ad break for skateboards. Well let us know in the comments if that was an ad for skateboards. Because if it was, then Zach, cool dude Zach, really wants to hear that. Do you want to just, in case anyone's just tuning in, break down what's happened? Yeah, I doubt anyone's just sort of popping in halfway through, but I'm happy to just...

I don't know how it works, bro. Oh yeah, podcasts are still like... I don't listen to podcasts, bro. No, no, no, neither do I. But I still have sort of like a fundamental... I listen to Triple J. Oh, nice, nice, nice. Who's your favorite presenter on Triple J at the moment? Oh

Gotta be out of him. Well in the morning nice Nice, that's from about 20 years ago. I think mm-hmm something like that. Yeah But you know they were great Anyway We're here with cool dude, Zack He got hit by a truck Woke up five days later in his family home, was a cool dude, couldn't see, couldn't hear, put some sunglasses on, now he wears them indoors, mostly to protect

his cataracts, not his cataracts, his eyes. And now we're going to find out just the kind of things that have come your way. Yeah, so I'm- Since you've been a cool dude, but we're not going to address the moral yet. No, there is a moral apparently. So I'm a cool dude, Mark's a nerd. Big nerd. This is a bit of a cultural exchange here. It really is, isn't it?

More than anything. I'm excited to learn what's been happening in nerd world since I've become cool. Yeah. Mark's, you know, probably pretty keen to hear about being cool. Absolutely, I can fill you in. Robert Downey Jr. was cast as Doomsday, as Dr. Doom. Who's Dr. Doom, bro? Dr. Doom, Victor Von Doom, from the Fantastic Four.

He was someone who went up in the, I don't know, different origins I suppose, but went up in the fucking spaceship with him. Shit, cool bro. He also got powers. Yeah, I checked that out, I like Robert Downey Jr. But he got evil. He thinks he's the best one to run the world. But, so Robert Downey Jr. is going to be in the Avengers doomsday.

The Russo brothers are back directing. Cool. All right. As they did with Infinity War and Endgame. Which you were a nerd when those came out, I believe. Yeah. Yeah, but I've forgotten a lot of it now. Right. Russo brothers, directors, they're just like, what do they do?

They do movies. But like, are they like the ones that organize the money or whatever? No, they're the, so the directors, so you don't know what a director is? I kind of do, like I know like Spielberg. I guess you're too cool to. Yeah, I don't really give a shit. Yeah, they're the ones who go, put the camera here, and then they say to the actors, do it more like this, or do it less like that, and then...

So nerds excited about Robert Downey Jr. coming back? He's cool. Yeah, like I guess, you know, mixed response from the nerds. Okay. It's not like the nerds. I know it was very surprising that there was a discourse about it and people just weren't like, oh yeah, whatever. It doesn't really matter. Yeah, whatever. It doesn't really matter. Yeah, whatever. It doesn't really matter.

Maybe that'll suck, I don't care. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some people were like, fucking wanted to go to war. Like, they were just furious, which was a surprise. Yeah, I quite like, see, my opinion as a cool dude? Yeah, I like Robert Downey Jr. I'll check it out. Yeah, sure.

Or like, or even like, oh, not for me. I won't check it out. Doesn't matter. Get on with my life. Both valid. Yeah. And rational. What else is going on in Nerd World? Well, you know, they did another Game of Thrones TV show called House of the Dragon. Cool, man. Second season came out a little while ago. I like the first season, I didn't watch the second one.

I can't tell you why. What else is going on in Nerd World with Mark? Nerd World, they cancelled Warner Brothers Studios shut down a bunch of their game development, a bunch of their video game studios, which canned the Wonder Woman game that was coming up from the same studio. I believe the studio is called Monolith. I might be, well was called Monolith. I might be mistaken there.

Please, please tell me in the comments if I'm wrong. But now, can you believe this, Zach? Now the Nemesis system cannot be used in any other video game until 2036 I believe. Can you believe that? No, I don't know what either of those things. Well of course you don't. You're a cool dude. I played Last of Us 2. That was fun. That was great. Yeah, it was good.

The, well, Nerd World with Mark, season 2 of The Last of Us TV show on HBO starring Pedro Pascal and the little lord from Game of Thrones. Cool yeah. I watched a couple of episodes of that, that was fine. Yeah that's coming out in April. I thought the casting was pretty good. It was great. Surprisingly, a lot of discourse about that as well. Really?

Yes. Nerds have opinions on that. Oh yeah. Yeah they got very mad. Wow, okay. Some of them got very mad. About that game too that you played. Really? Oh.. Yeah, they got very mad. Wow, okay. Some of them got very mad. About that game too that you played. Really? Oh. Oh my god. I thought it was pretty good. Yeah, it's good. It's a good game. Yes. Some people had a... Surprisingly, people had a lot to say.

Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What did they say? Oh, real crook stuff. Oh, okay. Stuff that's just like... I can't even think of what they would have said. I like the first one. I like the second one. I play it on the weekend. Yeah. Maybe you liked one of them more than the other. That's fine.

No. No, me? I liked the second one more. Yeah. It was good. Thought it was fun. Yeah, I thought it was good. So that's what's going on in nerd world. Yeah, sick man. What's going on in the world of cool though?

Because that's a world I've never had the privilege. I've never had the ability to step into. And if I can live vicariously through your, pardon the pun, cool shoes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure bro. I'd love to. Well, you got any questions, I guess? Because I don't know where to start. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when I get home, I take off my glasses because I'm a nerd.

I strip down completely naked. I stick my head into the washing machine just to make sure that there's you know there's no critters or creatures kind of hiding in there. Well more just like bugs and yeah mad and you know anything that can get into my ear at night. Yeah sick bro. I try to make sure they're not hiding in there. I do this fully naked. I just go into the room where I keep my cat's kitty litter that I refuse to empty because it's like nature. It needs to be like nature. I take in that stink and that stench and then I sit down on the couch and I unwind with a little bit of TV.

Yeah, sick bro, that's awesome. Yeah, my couch is like, is Velcro. But the sharp bit. Oh my god, I see what's going on right here. You're on your phone. Yeah. You don't give a shit about what I have to say, do you? Nah, not really bro, but that's fucking sick for you man.

That's part of the fucking cool charm, isn't it? That's awesome that you don't know that shit. Oh I love that. I love that. See, I can't do that. I think I mentioned this before, but I'm like a sponge. I suck it all up. If you were to leave me in a shallow, in a basin with a shallow amount of liquid in it in about half an hour or so 45 minutes that liquid would be in my body and you're back on your phone

yeah cool man holy crap like whatever bro is this something you can teach the ability to disconnect when someone is speaking to you earnestly and thinks they're your friend and wants you to be their friend, can you learn how to put all that aside and just go on your phone and check your messages even though like you did it four seconds ago and you didn't have any messages then either. Yeah, sick question bro. No, I had 20 messages. Wow, well of course you did. You're a cool dude. People are trying to get in contact with you. I'm sorry for a suit because when I check my phone, I got nothing. I maybe got my mum being like, can you come visit?

I reckon when your phone vibrates, you go, ooh, something, I got a message. I have the same emotional reaction when it stops vibrating for a second I'm it's just constant messages from all my mates Yeah, all my dames. Yeah, oh my You know just all the cool people. Yeah. Wow cool people want to collab with me What's the coolest person that wants to collab with you and will you do it? Yeah Coolest person wants to collab with me for sure bro

Just sound like dude I know and Their name I can't remember right because you're Because you're cool or because you can't remember Because I don't know I'm gonna assume it's because I'm cool. Right. They exist though. It happened. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So like, you didn't really ask the question though, bro, about like what it's like to be cool. That's true. What I meant was when you're... so my couch, it's like, it's very uncomfortable,

but I like it that way. I sit down on it, butt naked. He's back on his phone, folks. Already. Oh sorry bro, were you talking? Of course I was. You said you didn't ask a question. That's sick bro. To be fair, that's on me. I'm explaining the things I like to do when I get home to unwind, to chill out after a hard day of work That's not very interesting to a cool guy like you. Yeah, nah, man

What are you watching on TV? Oh sick. I know a lot of TV bro Really? Yeah. Yeah, so unconventional. But and that's cool. You were saying you need to relax after work Yeah, that's probably because you have to like work hard in order to get approval. Yeah Bro, I just like come out come to work like Yeah. That's probably because you have to like work hard in order to get approval. Yeah. Bro, I just like come to work, like flirt a little. Really? With who? Just everyone, my bosses, my coworkers. Wow. No one's going to find me. I might get promoted every couple of years.

Right. Then I come home, it's chill man, so I usually go on a date. Wow. You got a bag of them in the pantry the pantry. Oh shit, bro. I'm so sorry No, I'm not talking about dried fruit man. Oh, it's like taking someone out for a drink or whatever Oh shit people still do that. Yeah, bro, man Man, I've been out of the game for a long time because I've been in games, you know on your head bro. I get it Yeah, I'm dropping off that battle bus. Yeah getting down the loot Lake long time because I've been in games you know online bro I get it yeah dropping

off that battle bus yeah getting down the loot lake you know I'm saying yeah bro I get it yeah clicking heads it's funny you talk about doing the laundry I'm not I'm not very I've aged out you know my reaction time whatever bro yeah it's funny you're talking about doing the laundry checking the laundry I don't do the laundry bro really yeah it I don't do the laundry bro Really? Yeah, it just happens. What do you mean by that? I'm cool. Yes So I just sort of wake up go to my cupboard put on some cool clothes, right and then You're not washing them. You're not folding them. No, you're not putting them away. Someone must be not

Really I don't live with anyone. It just sort of kind of happens bro. Right. I've never tripped over. Have you ever tripped over? Yeah, I've stumbled. I've fallen. And gone, oh shit, and then like has anyone- It happened to me this morning. And then you look around and you're like, did anyone see me trip over? That has never happened to me bro. Wow. Since being cool?

Yeah. Which happened? About six months ago. Right. God, it's been that long. Yeah, yeah bro. I had not noticed. So I, nothing happens to me. What's shit that like goes wrong for you sometimes bro? Um, well like sometimes when I'm, and sorry to go into poopy territory straight away. That's sick, bro. Yeah, it's where my brain goes sometimes when I'm

Using my bidet. I love to use my bidet Sometimes when I oh shit Sorry, cool dudes just gotten a nerf gun and is just loading up firing some shots And then just put it down like it like you don't give no fang yeah whatever bro sometimes when I'm using my bidet and I have a rather good bidet electronic bidet I'll shoot the water up my up my butt to get the like Japan shit bro yeah yeah but this is from a this is a Brisbane good for you company called to Tudaloo and this is not we are not being paid to talk about Tootaloo.

But I want to be clear, I just love that product so much. Yeah. You don't have to pay two, $3,000 for a Japanese import. You can get a beautiful, beautiful electronic bidet for about 900 bucks from Tootaloo. Right. And get the basic one for even cheaper. If I was a nerd, I'd be like, stop saying that for free, bro. But I'm cool, so I don't give a shit. Yeah, I

Love to support things that I love And I know that I know I know you probably I've never loved nothing But I don't give a fuck I don't give a fuck cuz I love it so much. I don't love nothing You know what I'm saying? I just want people's Anal issues to be gone. But anyway, sometimes I'll shoot that water up my bum clean it out And sometimes too much water gets up there. Yeah, yeah, sick. And then when I go to push it out, it's kind of just like shitty water comes out. Like a big like, Sounds like you're douching, bro. Well, yeah, I guess, I guess that's kind of what I'm doing

in a lot of ways. So I guess that's actually not going on. Maybe that's part of the cool attitude is that everything that's maybe wrong, everything that could be bad, you just need to put a positive spin on it. Yeah, but also nothing bad happens to me, bro. Right. This morning, I was talking about tripping over, parked my car, I walked the wrong way to where the ticket machine was. I've never done that, bro.

You always know exactly where the ticket machine is? Yeah, I just walk and then I find it and then it's there and then I pay. That's unbelievable. I've never, since I became cool, nothing wrong has ever happened to me. Right. That's surprising. It's better for cool people. Yeah.

In what way? Mark. Oh my god. Okay what way? Mark. Oh my god. Okay, wait a sec. Zach just took his sunglasses off. I'm very confused. Mark, I'm not cool. What?

I've never been cool. That was a test. To see if you would accept people for who they are. And? Uh, yeah. Because we more just had a discussion about it. Yeah, I didn't really set the parameters very well. Yeah.

You should have at some point before you took the glasses off, I don't know, asked like, does this change your opinion of me? Or cause then I would have been truly tested. I don't know. But now. I do have opinions on Last of Us. Which are? You didn't like it?

No, I did. I liked two as much as one. I thought it was a perfect continuation of the story. I thought the casting of the TV series was good and I feel kind of strongly about that. Bala Ramsey. But I also think that the TV series was a little bit too much on the side of writing and coverage and not enough on the visual storytelling tradition of horror. That's because I too am a nerd. Well there you go everyone.

Two big nerds having a conversation and let me ask you, dear listener. But I will say I could care less about the Robert Downey Jr. thing and anyone that has a strong opinion either way, no. Sorry, a comment about that the other day that was like, I think we jumped to judgment too soon as a society. I am waiting for the trailer. Which I thought was funny. I'll judge this whole film upon viewing the one and a half minute trailer.

Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much fools Well, what a wonderful Dissection of of culture we've had today And I ain't talking about dairy Yoghurt or yogurt All right, well There's four minutes until our guest arrives for our next episode.

You want to fill till they get here? I'm happy to. Yeah. Just so everyone at home listening knows, the podcast is officially over. It's ended. Go about your day. We're not banking them though. The guest is to talk about next week's episode.

Yes. Um, that's correct. We would never. But if you have like arrived at your destination and you've gotten to this point in the podcast, you can switch off. There's no more podcasts happening. You don't need to worry about going, fuck, I should, I'm going to sit in my car and be late for work.

Or if you may be walking your dog and you got your headphones in and you've come into the house, you can take those headphones out. There's nothing of value from this point on. You've heard the cool chat. We did that. We summed that up. And now we're just filling and it's nothing interesting. It's just us talking shit. Yes. Hang around if you've got the time. Sure. Who knows? Something good might come of it.

If you're not doing... If you are just relaxing in a bath or, I don't know, you're getting a massage, whatever it is, you can keep listening. Having a bath or a massage. Yeah. Hot. What do you mean? It's hot. Because there's a lot of skin. I'm having a bathroom massage. Yeah. Hot. What do you mean? It's hot. Because there's a lot of skin. A lot of skin on skin. Yeah, beautiful.

Hot water on skin. I had a two hour bath the other night. That's fucked, you would have been a little pruned. I was pruney. I usually struggle to have baths. I get anxious. People with penises having baths. Baths are only erotic if you don't have a

little willy floating there. Yeah they float. They float, it's full on. It's been the one great thing in my life has always been when people have seen that, usually partners, and didn't know that that was a thing. And these are people in their tweens. Oh hey it's me me, Moogie! Oh my god! Can you believe it? Ah Moogie Woogie! Moogie Woogie is here to Moogie Woogie Boogie like we know they want to. Moogie Woogie Boogie!

We love Moogie here on the Aunty Donna podcast. We love Moogie so much we put him in our Netflix series. Moogie, whatcha doing Moog? I just came from Mougiwugiland! Mugi, when you're having a bath, does your cock float? Mugiwugi doesn't have a cock! Mugiwugi has a floating fluff! A floating fluff? That's the Mugiwugi genitalia for the closest equivalent to male that we have!

Mugi, I feel, can I tell you right now, I'm feeling a tremendous amount of guilt. Can I explain to you why Mugi? Why Mugi, I feel, can I tell you right now, I'm feeling a tremendous amount of guilt. Can I explain to you why, Mugi? Why, Mugi? Why, Mugi? Because I told people earlier to switch off the podcast if they were done with their day. I told them that there was nothing worth listening to post this point. Oh no! Little did I know...

Mugi wugi! ...that a legacy character, Mugi wugi, would pop in for a surprise appearance. I potentially robbed so many people. Mugi Wugi! They're gonna have no idea, they're gonna have to hear this on the subreddit or on the forums that Mugi Wugi actually appears. Please, please get the word out there. Don't listen to Mark when he says turn the podcast off if you've got other stuff to do.

Hang in there Muggie. Muggie, Muggie. Muggie, what you been up to bro? Muggie doesn't have a penis, Muggie has a floating fluff. Yeah we... And then the female equivalent of the Muggies release their eggs in spores. Spore Muggies. And then the floating fluff catches eggs in spores. Spore moogies. And then the floating fluff catches the egg spores.

Like flowers. And then releases the floating fluff and grows a new one. And that floating fluff floats through the air, forming embryonic moogie-woogies that each create their own spores and blow out into the moogie-woogie wind. Holy shit. I had no idea that's how Mookies... I didn't even know there was more than one Mookie,

to be honest. The Mookie Wookies procreate through the wind. Wow. There's a big field in Mookie Wookie land where the Mookie Wookie spores turn into babies. Holy shit! No one knows who their real parents are. When you want to be a parent, you just go to the field,

you pick a Mookie Wookie and you take them home. Jesus Christ! Your whole thing with adopted children trying to find their real parents makes no sense to Mookie Wookie! Of course it wouldn't. When it's done in such a way there's no attachment in that does everyone need to become a parent in Mookie Wookie land? No! Mookie Wookie lets anyone be whatever they want in Mookie Wookie land. What happens if there's an excess of children? What do you do with those leftover children? What happens then?

Mookie Wookie doesn't want to share that. What happens to them Mookie? Humans wouldn't understand this aspect of Mookie Wookie culture. Mookie what happens to them? Mookie does not want to share that right now because I don't think that humans would understand this aspect of Mookie Wookie culture. Well try and make us understand because it's sounding pretty fucked up to me. Mugi Wugis have no attachment to their young.

Right. Okay? And if someone wants to be a parent they go into the field, they select their child. Right. And then I can't imagine that every child is getting picked, Mugi. There is often a hundred Mugiis born out of one spore. What's happening to those excess Mugi babies? You don't want to know, you wouldn't understand.

I want to know the truth. You wouldn't understand, this is an aspect of Mugi culture that is for us and perhaps we will share but you wouldn't understand it. It sounds fucking barbaric. You would see this barbaric. It sounds barbaric to me. What we think a lot of your ways are barbaric. Like what? Like what, Mugi? Why are you coming to Mugi? Why am I coming to Mugi? You have to understand it in anthropology sometimes you're not going to like aspects of the culture But if you try to change me you are doing what your colonial forefathers did.

Mugi, I think you're right, but also it's pretty fucked. But also you're right, but also it's a bit Well, I never said what the Mugi-wugis do. Well, I need to know because I'm just assuming you leave them to die. We've got to go. I have to go. You're wrong in that assumption. So they don't just- We would never leave, leave. Oh, you eat them, don't you? Well, I need to know because I'm just assuming you leave him to die. We've got to go. I have to go. You're wrong in that assumption. So they don't just... We would never leave. Oh, you eat them, don't you?

No! What do you do? Well, I'm not going to share that with you. The fact that you're not saying it says to me that it's something you're ashamed of. No. It's something that you know morally is incorrect. It says that you wouldn't understand it. You're coming with your own ethics.

Well, allow me to even try to understand it, Mugi. You're not even giving me the chance to try and understand it. You're judging me. We have shared this with humans in the past and they haven't understood. Mugi culture is a rich and complex one. One bad human. One... when? When did you do this? What, a hundred years ago? Yeah, a hundred years ago. Fifty years ago? A hundred years ago? We've changed since then. We've developed. We've grown. You wouldn't understand.

Our moral compasses have evolved, Mugi. You wouldn't understand. The humans are too much of an important trade partner for the Mugiwuggies. I think it is unfair for you to judge us on our past mistakes and not give us a fair go at trying to understand your culture. You've already demonstrated a lack of ability to hear me on my terms. It is our culture and I wish not to share it. As long as you're not eating them, I don't have a problem. It's our culture. To eat them. No, I'm not saying what we do.

Mookie Woogie loves to boogie. Yeah, yeah, he loves to be fucking withholding. I love to boogie. With information. I love to boogie at the Mookie Woogie Club. withholding. I love to boogie. With information. I love to boogie at the Mookie Woogie Club. Mookie Woogie loves to boogie. Thank you so much everyone. Thank you.

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