Boonta Vista - EPISODE 32: Tennys Racket

Episode Date: January 31, 2018

Andrew and Ben are joined by Theo as he calls in from Japan to tell us about his group bathing experiences. We also discuss tennis player Tennys Sandgren's social media controversy, Andrew Bolt's recent fall from a tree and answer questions from the Mailbag. Featuring: Nature Corner & this week's Crime Pass. Support the show and get exclusive bonus episodes by subscribing on Patreon: www.patreon.com/BoontaVista Don't forget to rate & subscribe on iTunes if that's your thing. _____________________________ Twitter: twitter.com/boontavista iTunes: tinyurl.com/y8d5aenm Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/s?fid=144888&refid=stpr Pocket Casts: pca.st/SPZB RSS: tinyurl.com/kq84ddb

Welcome to Punta Viz the Socialist Club, episode 32. I'm Andrew. Hello. Hi. I'm here with my good friend Ben. Hello. How are you, Ben? I'm very, very well, thank you. Do you normally take the time to say, hello? I just feel like that was a slightly different rhythm, and it felt like you were buying time to decide who you were going to put at the top of the list? No, that's not the case. That's not what's happened here.

Number one, I'm unconsciously trying to break from my normal rhythm after being mercilessly roasted by Lucy on one of the bonus episodes that you can find on on Patreon. Lucy. Lucy did an impression of me opening an episode and I got to say, I've got to say hello to the good people out there. It's pretty spot on. And also, you know, why shouldn't we stop and take the time to just say say hello to the good people out there? I want to make it very clear that when I say hello on the podcast I'm saying hello to you alone. I'm not saying hello to theyo. Yep. I don't want that to be ambiguous. All right, we got that on the record. That you hear and you are saying hi specifically to me.

Yes. Good. Good. Well, it's good that you hear because I also have a totally separate person that you have not said hi to yet. And that is calling all the way in from the mysterious land of Japan. It's Theo. Bonjorno. How is Japan. It's Theo. Bonjorno.

How is Japan? That's wonderful. I would say it's a land of contrasts. Okay, we talked about this mere moments ago, that the exact thing you said was that it was not, that it was the opposite of a land of contrasts. No. It's good. I'm doing so. I'm doing so. I'm, uh, uh. I'm, I'm, th. I'm, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, thi. th, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, thi. That's, thi. That's, th. That's, th. That's, th. That's, th. That's, th. That's, th. That's, th. That's, th. That's th. That's th. That's th. th. th. th. th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi. thi. thi. thi. thi's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's thi's thi. How's thi. How's that it was the opposite of a land of contrasts. Um, nice. Mystery deepens. It's good. Um, I'm doing some some boomer cosplay by skiing, which fruels. Skiing combines a bunch of my favorite things, uh, which is one a very specific fear of heights.

Two, a more generalized fear of careening out of control and dying instantly. And three, spending thousands of dollars. So, just to check. That's my type five on skiing. Is that a very specific fear of heights, the fear of being the height that your eyeballs are from the ground and you're just constantly scared? Because that's quite specific and it's also how I picture you.

I'm just imagining a really nervous Theo on a chairlift, you know? Oh my god. No, I'm over chair, I'm good on chairlifts now, but the first like, the first five I took, every little bump, I would audibly go, ah, had I had to ask Caitlin to stop putting the, putting the safety bar up before we'd gone over the little net that would catch you if you go out of the chair. Ah, what a nightmare. Sounds like you're having a great holiday. I'm just very impressed

that you're skiing. That seems wildly out of character for you. Thank you Ben that's extremely condescending. Well, no. I know what your interests are and like this is a sport designed to make rich people break their legs as a braven, just by peasants. And you hate having your legs broken. I absolutely despise sunny bone owing myself. So... I mean, it might just be me. But you know, if I was go skiing, the entire time I would

just picture my feet being stuck in those little booties and the skis going every witchway and twist my ankles around. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I'd hate for you to be picturing that whole time. That sounds very stressful. Oh, homicimpsering my groin. Home scissoring. Homer simpsering, home homo simpsoning my groin All the way down the mountain. Homacissary. Do not google homo cissory.

I'm doing it. Go on. Treat yourself. Giggle it. It sounds like having a great time. How's, how's like their internet? Have they got decent internet? They got all the good, the good Japanese in it? Yeah, yeah, they've got, they've got, they've.. they've they've they've they've got, they've got, they've got, they've got, they've got, they've got, they've got, they've got, they've got, they've got, they've got, they've they're their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their. Hom. Hom, their. Hom, their. Hom, their. Hom, their. Hom, their. Hom, their. Hom, their. Hom, their. Home, th. Home, th. Home, th. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. Homa, they're they're they're thome. Home, thome. Home, thomeume. Home, thomeume. Homeumeum-home, thomeume, thome. Homa, thome. How's like their internet? Have they got decent internet? They got all the good Japanese in there? Yeah, yeah, they've got the mainline Japanese internet here. I'm on...

He's dropped out after bragging about the internet. He has dropped out. He has dropped out. I choose to believe fans on the bloody, uh, these guys are bloody on the, uh, bloody NBN. Ha ha. All right, well, let's just wait a minute, because I can cut this whole chunk out. Oh, I've, um, I've been working on some stand-up lately if you want me to... Oh, I can... Yes.

I can fill in the silence for you. If you've got a little something, if you've got a bit of a bit of heat, you've got a bit of a curveball, you can throw my way, really, really tickle my funny bone? Well, I've got a skewed eye for society. You know, I look at it from a different sort of lens and I think I can show that to you in a darkly comic way. Oh, would you say you look at like everyday things and occurrences and you know note some observations about them? Well, I'd say that but I'd also say that I take ordinary life and I turn it upside down. Yeah, okay, well hit me. I'm buckled in. Okay. I'm braced for this I like I've done my shoelaces up extra tight I'm ready to

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Maybe it is. Maybe it is. Four or five, and, and he revealed to us long-standing system of betting he had with his friends in which the loser has to eat some coins. And then we got kind of to try and estimate exactly what quantity of money he's eaten over the years. So check that one out. Yeah, I guess that sort of invalidates my argument now thinking about it. You can eat money. Hmm. Well, you better get back to working on that type five. And now. And, and th. And, and th. And, and th. And, and th. And, and th. And, and th. And, and th. And, th. And, th. And, the thi, the thi, thi, the the thi, the the thi, the the the thi, the the the thi, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. He thi. Hea thi. Hea ti. Hea. tie-s tie-s tiea' tie-s thi. Hea' thi. Hea' thi. He had thi. now, thinking about it. You can eat money. Hmm.

All right, well, you better get back to working on that type 5. And now we're going to stop recording and refresh this fucking thing for Theo. Sounds good. Yes, Theo, your audio cut out and you dropped out of the call at the exact moment that you were bragging to us about the speed that you were getting on Japanese internet. That's great comedy. It was good. It was good. I'll tell you what was even better comedy is you missed out on being treated to Ben's current edit of his type five of dark twisted observational stand-up comedy.

It was a little unconventional and it pulled no punches. Oh, I hate pulling punches. You missed out. You're gonna have to listen back to the show. I, like, obviously it was really funny, but I actually found myself unable to laugh on account of how deeply the truths contained in the comedy were shocking me to my core. That happens. Often I don't get any laughter. Gentlemen, let us move on from Theo's trip to Japan, which we are going to return

to actually. We've got a lot of questions specifically about Theo's trip to the perverted land of Japan, which we are going to return to actually. We got a lot of questions specifically about Theo's trip to Japan, so we will be coming back to that. But for now, I wanted to have a chat about a thing that happened here in Australia, the last week or so, which was tennis player, tennis sandgrin, from Tennessee, really? Wait, well, wait. Hold on a second. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to. to. to. thi. to. th. th. thi. thi. thi. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to th. to to to th. th. to. to. th. to. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. to. theeo. theo. theo. theo. theooo. toeo. toeo. toeo. toeo. toeo. to. to. Hold on a second. Yeah. Are you telling me that there is a tennis player from Tennessee and his name is... It's tennis. His name is in fact... Wait a second. And the sport that he plays? It sounds very similar to his name. His name is felt slightly differently, but the sport he plays is actually known as tennis. And just hit me with that name again.

A tennis! Well, hot damn. Can you beat that? 2018 guys, this is the way we live it. Shit is wild, it's out of control, it's happening constantly. Do you think that was a nominative determinism? It was, he was just always going to be a tennis player? It's very possible, but if you think his name is amazing, if his name is blowing your socks off, just wait till you get a load of how racist this

guy is. Incredible sake. I don't want to break your flow. But yeah, just an amazing segue. It was truly phenomenal. Thank you. Smooth as butter. Yeah, man.

So, you know, he's started up a bit of a controversy on account of the fact that his social media presence has a decidedly alt-righty flavor, which isn't for everyone, luckily. So, it all started out with him doing a lot of posting online, and we all know what kind of dangers can come from being too online and too much posting. Let me read to you a section of this article from ABC News, if I may, the Australian ABC obviously. Their ABC, am I right? No, I think it's our ABC. When they say their ABC, they mean us. ABC News. Before the Australian Open, not many in Australia would have heard about the aptly

named American tennis player, tennis sangren. Hey, they noticed too, Ben. Hey, wait a second. Run that back. Now that the underdog has reached an unprecedented spot in the Australian Open Court of Finals, beating an Austrian 8th-sea Dominic Theme to get there, Sandgren is experiencing far more spotlight on his career as well as his social media activity. Several of his tweets have now raised questions over his political views after he argued over the Pizzagate conspiracy and mused over former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and his supposed involvement in alleged satanic rituals. Very normal posts so far.

He also recently retweeted white nationalist Nicholas Fuentes who went along to the Charlottesville rally in 2017 and follows a host of right-wing figures on Twitter. In a now deleted twe dated November 22nd, 2017, Sangrid described the Pizza Gate conspiracy theory as, quote, sickening, and the collective evidence is too much to ignore. He's got a point. Asked by a reporter if there was a patent to his tweets, Sangren said he was not concerned about being connected to controversial figures on social media.

Quote, who you follow on Twitter? I feel like doesn't matter even a little bit. It kind of does. I think we can all agree it kind of does. Well, I mean, so that was his defense, right? In his initial defense and his subsequent defense, he was like, wow, you know, I just followed some people, and which, it's in fact, for the, for to to to to to to to to to to be, to be, to be, to be, to be, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, to, to, to, the, to, to, the, to, to, the, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, you know, I just followed some people, whatever, and which... It's in fact... For the direct quote, for the direct quote, he says, uh, what information you see doesn't dictate what you think or believe, and I think it's crazy to assume that.

To say, well, he's following X persons who he believes all the things that this person believes, I think that's ridiculous. I think that's not how information works information thi thi thi thi that's thi thi that's thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. that's thi. thi. that's ridiculous that's thi. that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's ridiculous that's ridiculous that's ridiculous that's ridiculous that's ridiculous that's ridiculous that's ridiculous that's ridiculous. that's ridiculous. that's ridiculous. that's ridiculous. that's ridiculous. that's ridiculous. that's ridiculous. that's ridiculous. that's ridiculous that's ridiculous that's ridiculous that's ridiculous thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thiii. thiiii. thii. thiii. thi. thi. that's thi. that's that's thi works, he says. Well, I think that is absolutely how people start to believe all kinds of ridiculous bullshit, but go on. Yeah, it seems very weird to me to be like, sure, I retweet a whole bunch of Nazi dudes on the regular, doesn't mean anything. I mean, to me it's kind of fair enough. Like that's, you're like, oh, okay, well mean it's to me is kind of fair enough like that's you're like oh okay well it's nothing conclusive but it ignores the fact that he did like two months ago to eat that he thought pizza gate is real. Yeah here's another example for you.

Sangre has also argued with former US player James Blake an African-American about racism in the United States, tweeting, quote, I just don't know how a country that practices systemic racism elected a black president twice. And that's nothing wrong with that, there's nothing wrong with that sentence. He doesn't know how a country that practices systemic racism elected a black president. That's an entirely true sentence. Yeah, yeah, and he had a host of other colorful tweets about like homophobic stuff about how he stumbled into a gay bar in Sydney and no one should have to see that kind of stuff.

And when somebody said to him, oh yeah, accidentally stumbled in, his reply was, what can I say, the trannies were calling me? Hmm. Yeah. I don't know that they were, but... So, you know, he's got a whole bunch of stuff like that. And, as we all do, when we are completely innocent of any kind of wrongdoing, he has deleted every tweet going back until 2013.

Which is, I believe the Bernaddy defense, he has now done that multiple times. He loves a squeaky clean towel. Yeah, you have to curate what people see, I think. It's like a little garden that you make for yourself and you just trim around the racism. Just prune a little homephobia. Yep. And then you just, you sweep up all the cuttings and you're good. Yep. So this brings me to the actual question. I was going to ask you guys, which comes from the mouth of dear, dear friend of the show, Daisy Cousins. Daisy Cousins, as I'm sure anybody who follows her on Twitter would know is a big-time tennis

tennis head. And I big-time tennis head and I don't mean Tennis the tennis player. I mean tennis the sport. Hey wait a second. Thank you for five. Yeah, I know they sound similar Ben. I just don't. I don't quite. I'm hearing double here four tennis. Yeah, but like when I'm talking about the guy, like when I say when I'm talking about him and I say tennis. ten. ten. ten. ten. ten. ten. ten. ten. ten. ten. ten. ten. I ten. I ten. I ten. I ten. I ten. I ten. I ten. I ten. I tenn't. I tennis. I tennis. I tennis. I tennis. I don't the tennis tennis tennis. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I'm the tennis. I'm the tennis. I'm the tennis. I'm the tennis. I'm the tennis. I'm the tennis. I'm the tennis. I'm the tennis. I'm the tennis. I'm the tennis. I'm the tennis. I'm the tennis. I'm the tennis. I'm the the the tennis. I'm the the the the the the the the the the the the tenn't. I'm tennis. tennis. I don't the the tennis. I don't. the the tennis. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I don't. I'm the tennis. I'm the the tennises. Yeah, but like when I'm talking about the guy, like when I say, when I'm talking about him and I say tennis, can't you really hear the why, the letter why in that word when I say it like that? Well what I'm asking is why is this guy called tennis when he's a tennis player? So some guy called Ricky DeMon on Twitter has posted, I hate Sangrin's politics as much as everyone else, but Bouchard saying that he has, quote, ties to the old right, just because

he follows some people on Twitter and liked a few tweets, is just pathetic. He's a Republican. He doesn't have ties to the old right. And this prompted a reply from a friend of the show, Daisy Cousins, who you may remember from an episode about the Red Pill documentary that she was spruking to lukewarm reception. But she fucking loves some tennis. And she replies, Ricky, you know I love you. Hang on, hang on, wait, which one? The sport of the player.

Wait, there's a guy called tennis? She replies, Ricky, you know I love you. I did not know that, Daisy, but, Ricky, you know I love you. But why did tennis sangren's politics have anything to do with the Australian Open? He's a tennis player, not a politician or a journalist. Also, why are you assuming everyone hates his politics?

Hashtag Australian Open. I like that she got the hashtag in there. Yeah, she's got that on the Australian Open feed. Making sure that the conversation around politics and sports that she doesn't want to have is tagged directly into the sports hashtag. I think it's just great that people are looking at the hashtag so they can get score updates will just see complete nonsense from a dip shit. Oh you've been tweeting in there have you? You're telling me the guy's name is Tanish? I think she's actually done a crafty gamuttapy th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th telling me the guy's name is Tennis?

I think she's actually, um, I think she's actually done a crafty gambit here, which is by hashtagging it Australian Open and getting it pulled into the results for the hashtag Australian Open. She is proving to Ricky that it's actually about tennis. It's not about his politics. Wait, are you talking about... Wait, are you talking about... Don't, don't do it. Don't do it.

So, fellas, this leads me to my question, which is, how do you feel about that kind of shit? Let's say, let's say you're a tennis player, and you got some stinky views like this guy. What do you think are we all supposed to go oh I can't believe this guy's name is tennis? Well yes I'd think obviously obviously that's everyone's first reaction but yes we get my point you know people like to be like the oh well people's opinions are irrelevant to it about pretty much everything

because people are very dumb and they think that opinions don't have effects in the real world. You know, have like some guy who's, I mean, not really a ceilab, but theoretically could be a celab being like, Pete's Gate is real. You know what people did because they thought Pizzgate was real? That fucking guy took an AR-15 into comment ping-pong and fired a couple of shots into the roof. You see that guy that got arrested in the states recently

because he had been like by the FBI because he'd been contacting like, um,, no sorry, CNN, and saying, I'm going to come there and kill everyone in the office because you are fake news, you're fake news and you're lying to everyone and I'm going to gun down every fucking one of you. And so the FBI paid a little trip to his house. But yeah, it was it was pretty, it was pretty easy to draw a line between what that guy was doing and what a certain, and the, and, and, and th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thi, and tho, and tho, and tho, and tho, and tho, and th th th tho, and thi, and tho, and saying, and th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thi, and saying, and saying, and saying, and saying, and saying, and saying, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and so, and so, and so, and so, th th th th th th th th th thi, thi, thi, thi, thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thoan, thi thi thi thi thi thi thi, thi a little trip to his house. But yeah, it was pretty, it was pretty easy to draw a line between what that guy was doing and what a certain very powerful person with a very amplified voice is constantly blaring out.

Are we still talking about tennis and sandgrin? Yeah, man. It's got mad social media presence. For some reason, he deleted a bunch of posts. Yeah, like, see, I think, I the, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, thi, thi, th. th. th. th. th. that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. their, th. their, their, their, their, their, th. th. their, th. th. th. th. the. the. th. the. the. th. that, the. th. th. th of posts. Yeah like see I think like there's several angles you can take but one to me is that the reality of this guy's life is that he is making his living from competing in like private tennis tournaments, privately funded tennis tournaments which are funded by sponsorship from public companies, which are all going, uh, ugh. If you do it, if you're doing

the kind of Nazi stuff, I think we will, maybe we won't do sponsorship with you or whatever, or this guy gets asked questions about it, becomes super uncomfortable. Yeah, I think it's the, like, the sponsorships are usually, I think, the first to kind of go, because I don't want to court any kind of controversy with him going up being like, you know, here at Subway, I like to eat fresh, but you know, what's not eating fresh is the conspiracy at Sandy Hook. You know, like, and I think that's like completely fair that they just get dumped. Like, if they can dump, you know, Tiger Woods for being... The horn dog? Big old horn dog. It's a massive horn dog, man. Just, just hell on at the moon. You know, they should absolutely not sponsor this guy for this kind of shit.

And I think the reality and the nature of like sponsorship is basically that you're a public figure and if you can't be a public figure that doesn't go around saying horrible garbage, conspiracy, dip shit thoughts, then you shouldn't get millions and millions of dollars for wearing a shirt. Well, literally the only reason people will sponsor you is if you are the public face of something. But yeah, like, to my knowledge, he hasn't actually had sponsorship pooled or anything yet, but he did get very tesy when getting asked about it in some of the conferences was very kind of like, this is supposed to be about tennis. What have my personal views have to do with this?

But it's always weird when people try and make out like, you know, your political views are somehow completely compartmentalized and separate from you as a person? Yeah, absolutely. It is very strange. But, um, yeah, so I kind of like, I, personally, not gonna lose any sleep over tennis. Um, which tennis I hear you ask Ben. I didn't say anything. Well, let me tell you, I'm talking about the tennis that then came out of the press conference

and made this super fucking emo speech. It's so good. Are you guys ready for it? Yes. Here is, here is tennis's statement about his social media accounts. You seek to put people in these little boxes so that you can order the world and you're already assumed preconceived ideas. You strip away any individuality for the sake of demonizing by way of the collective.

With a handful of follows and some likes on Twitter, my fate has been sealed in your minds. To write an edgy story, to create sensationalist coverage, there are few lengths you wouldn't go to to mark me as the man you desperately want me to be. You would rather perpetuate propaganda machines instead of researching information from a host of angles and perspectives, while being willing to learn, change and grow. You dehumanize with pen and paper and turn neighbor against neighbor. In so doing, you may actually find your hastening the hell you wish to avoid. It is my firm belief that the highest value must be placed on the virtue of each individual regardless of gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation. It's my job to continue on this journey with

the goal of becoming the best me I can and to embody the love Christ has for me for answer to him and him alone. I'll take questions about the match if you guys don't mind. Thank you. Tennis. Teno. He really didn't mention the Pizza Gate thing at all. Again, it just doesn't feel like, it just seems he's conveniently ignoring that part. Yeah, he goes to with a handful of likes and follows. My fate has been sealed as opposed to like retweeting prominent white nationalists and white supremacists and

I really I really like how it very much tipped off into like the sort of um racist libertarian kind of language towards the end there. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, this is like, it's absolutely no surprise that like an alt-right dude would write a quote-unquote like apology or whatever the fact this is supposed to be, uh, that sounds like something that Chuck Buhlnik would cut for being like too much? It strikes me as like, um, it's like a, uh, like a petulant request to be reinstated, like reinstated after being banned from a sub-reddit. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, this guy, this guy's absolutely being, had his admin status taken off him. Yeah, he's just like, you will think you know the man that I am.

It's ridiculous language. And like I said, if you watch, if you watch the accompanying video that goes with it, he keeps looking up. And it just, it really reads to me as like, uh, the sound of a lot cooler when I was typing it at home. As he reads the whole thing of his phone, you know. Crikey did a, uh, a really good piece immediately after it. That was, uh, it was like a quiz. That was like a quiz that was like, uh, my chemical romance lyric or quote from this speech. Yep. It had all the air of that stuff and it was very funny to me and like you said Ben it just didn't address any of that stuff.

I think he has gone on to make a more significant apology. I think that this was intended to be like a defined statement that would shut everybody up about it. And so it just made people go, uh, it sounds like you did all that stuff. Hmm. Yeah, I don't know. Like, I don't like that the Australian government under, I think it was under Tony Abbott, when they like included stuff in the public service code of conduct saying like you can't say anything negative about the government on any social media account under any guys or like be subject to discipline and made to take it down and stuff. And like that, that I can absolutely have someone arguing that as far as like,

you know, attempting to police individual thoughts and all that sort of shit. But stuff like extremely high-level pro-athlete stuff, like, that shit is rarefied air. It's a very rare club to get into, and people do it with tremendous amounts of, like, effort and dedication and financial support and all that sort of shit. Yeah, people are gonna find an unsavory personality who thinks that the pizza gate is real, which more than anything makes you fucking dumb. Mm-hmm. I think, I think we could all get on board with that one.

Like it's it's if you stop to really think about it's very horrible and gross but just the surface level of like child slavery run out of the ping pong. What's the name of the place comment ping pong pizza yeah. Every time I read it I go really anybody read this and went that sounds plausible. It's my favorite detail of that the guy with the gun that went in there was that he went in there because he was going to free kids that were in the basement and then just quickly realized that the building didn't have one.

Yeah, like that's pretty much the whole theory cut out right there, isn't it? Really takes the knees out from it. There's not anywhere to go from there. Like I imagine most pizza restaurants do not have addicts. Not traditionally. No, like as a normal, as a normal thing. A lot of Washington DC pizza restaurants do not have large dusty addicts. Hey folks, we have another important occurrence in the news to talk about.

And that is the dear friend of the show, and convicted and convicted racist Andrew Bolt fell out of a tree onto his head. He sure did. It really took a tumble. It's quite significant really wasn't it? Like he was pruning a tree up a ladder like all good precariously positioned boomers. took a mad spell. I might recall of when I read the article is that it was a three and a half meter fall. Ooh. Damn. It's certainly not a small height. No. Whatever he did to his wrist, they needed to surgically repin it.

It's not great. Now he had to take a break from blogging, so they pushed back his recommencement date after the holiday period because they need his wrist to heal properly and apparently typing would be too strenuous. Well especially when you consider that his blog is mostly made up of like one paragraph of his thoughts about somebody else's comment on one of his articles, you know? Yeah, it could absolutely be achieved with him just like yelling at someone in the next room. Yeah, he could, let's be honest, he could peck out that one paragraph with one hand. Oh, very easily. He could even just do a speech-to-text type deal and then just use a single hand to fix the typos.

Siri, start new racist blog. What a terrible shame that this injury has deprived us of any kind of take on Australia Day from Andrew Bolt. I can imagine we could have anticipated what it was. And I feel like we all got on fine without it, really. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

We do have a question about that actually from the mail bag. Do we want to dip in to the mail bag or would you would you like to talk about this last item Theo before we mosey on? Well I mean the last item is pretty quick because I don't really I haven't really done any research or looked at it for more than 20 seconds or done any work towards preparing for this podcast. Too busy skiing it up. No, but something I saw though I thought was very, very funny where exercise moguls, Strava, have released all of the anonymized heat map data.

So when you, when you record, you know, you run, you know, has all the GPS coordinates, tracking where you've been and they've aggregated all of it, and released it anonymously. And very hilariously, it has, they've done what seems like not even the first even little bit of research as to hey is this a good idea because it has just revealed a whole bunch of military bases, patrols. I saw, and I don't know how seriously to take this, possibly CIA black sites. They all have a very, very specific signature of many men running the same route many days at a time at exactly the same times. So very, very funny, people are still digging through all of the details on Twitter. So, but I'm sure that I'm sure to get coverage elsewhere as well. So, good job Strava. Yeah, it's a nice app. I like it. I have not posted on it in a long time.

Yeah. Yeah, the last time I was on Strava, I had to stop it because I concussed myself on the concrete. It was not Strav's fault. Five star review for Strava, from the crew here. So all of this happening was contingent on a dickload of active duty soldiers and what have you. Yeah, this is absolutely, there's definitely a lot of their own GPS data to a nap. While they're in like forward operating bases in like active war zones. Yes. Good Lord. Which means that our operational security must be very good and not extremely bad in a way that would cause

people to wear tracking devices to a private company on their arms at all times. Like, I just, I'm not a military man. I think we can all agree. I just feel like if I was, if I was a military man, commander of some sort and I was like, I'm not even a genius or even barely functional. I'd feel like if I saw, if I was some military man commander of some sort and I was like, hey, are you wearing a Fitbit?

I was like, yes, I'd be like, don't do that. Hey, can we just backtrack a bit for a second? If you're, so you're a military commander kind of guy? Yeah. Mm-hmm. You're wearing the uniform? I am. Okay, it's nice.

It looks really good on you. Do you have a clean shave because you're in the military? I believe I would have to, yes. Okay, not as hot on that as the uniform, but it's all right. And what length is your hair in this imagining? I believe it would have to be close cropped. All right. No, it works.

It works for you. It's good. So anyway, is that the end of that line of questioning? Yep. I got everything I need. I got everything I need. I got everything I need. So coming back to Australia Day for a second, folks. We got a question. We got a question in a big old sack of mail. Me and Ben can see it, but we are Skyping Theo in to the bag of mail.

We've skiped him in on an iPad. We've thrown the iPad into the sack. He's just rithing around in iPad, we've thrown the iPad into the sack. He's just writhing around in there, all that physical mail. So we have a question which we're taking out of the actual bag with the mail in it. A question from front of the show, Eric Stacey, who says, Now that Australia Day 2018 is over, do you think anyone will keep trying to change it, or will the issue be forgotten until January year? Was it 90 or 95% an issue used by Polly's to Grandstand and Bluster and they don't actually care? To that I say, pretty much,

it's a very big deal right up until the point, and I've heard absolutely nothing about it immediately after the event. So it seems like he's right. What are your takes, fellas? I think the people that actually have a vested interest in it, namely, people that want to change it are going to keep talking about it, but no one is going to cover it because it's now that Australia Day is out of the new cycle, it's not really relevant. That's probably a very relevant distinction.

The the polis that are on the against side of the fence, their position only exists as a reaction to the other position being in the news. So if that doesn't happen, they have literally no reason to talk about it because it doesn't affect them in the slightest. So yeah, we're probably not going to hear anything. There'll be a few things here and there. There probably still be some more fallout from the Victorian opposition coming out and saying that if elected, they will sack any local councils that refuse to do Australia

Day ceremonies. Yeah, it was basically just like we will fire you if you don't actively celebrate Australia Day. Yeah, which is the most insanely fascist-sounding thing I can imagine. It still goes over very well with the freedom crowd. For some reason, I cannot fathom. Yeah, well, what doesn't save freedom about mandated flag-waving day? And correct if I'm wrong on this, but we elect councils, right? Like councillors, councils?

Yes. I'm saying that with a question mark at the end. Yes? I'm relatively certain we do. So it's not like they're sacking, you know, civil servants for not espousing the views of the state or whatever. They want to overrule democratically elected positions for not espousing specific views, which is fucking insane. For espousing insufficiently patriotic views.

Yes. Yeah, it's ridiculous. I wonder how much we'll hear, how much more we'll hear from the greens about it because I gotta say, like, plenty of power to the people who do want to change it, and we should, or get rid of it altogether. Squeeze another public all day in there somewhere. That's fine. Everybody, everybody's fine with that. But yeah, like the Greens, it kind of felt to me, maybe I'm wrong, kind of felt to me like off the back of the success with marriage equality, they said, hot damn, we got a hot ticket on this particular ID politics issue.

Let's lean really hard into the next one. And they said, we're going to organize a major campaign about changing the date and stuff. It's not that I don't think it's important or that people should be talking about it or anything. It was just weird for me to sort of see the Greens and the media going, we're making a big point out of the fact that that that thi... thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thin, thin. And, thin' thin' thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, thi, thi. And, thi. And, thin, thin, thin, thin, the, the, the. And, the. And, thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, they's thean, th fact that this is the number one issue that we're talking about at the moment. It kind of made me go, should it, should it be? Yeah, I'm not sure about that. This is something that, I mean, obviously individual Greens members have always had a pins in this and I'm not sure how strongly the whole party, you know, has been unified for this, but again, I think that might also just be a perception from the media, because, you know, a lot of the outlets were basically reporting about the change-the-date campaign as if it was

the Greens's idea, which, you know, it never has been, and obviously, because this has been going on for a long time. And I think they'll maybe just blowing out of proportion the fact that they are, you know, individually nominating support for it. They took part in the rallies, which is all great. But I think it's very easy for conservative media to put this as a Greens bullyman instead of like a vague you know dissent if that makes sense. Yeah I'm trying to remember where I read it so that I know whether to scorn the source but um but yeah the thing that I I read was was along the lines of like Greens announce a major campaign on this thing that I read was along the lines of, like,

greens announce a major campaign on this thing, as opposed to just like, the crazy greens are up in arms. Yeah, um, it was them sort of announcing an intent of focus on it. And it just kind of made me go, yeah, okay. I guess. I don't know. I, I, I have all of my own conflicting views about it, which are that, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, like, like, like, like, like, like my own conflicting views about it, which are that like, yeah, I think, I think as an issue that it's going to wind up playing out very similarly to the way marriage equality did in Australia, which is through complete division and inaction by people in political leadership, as the appetite to change it just gets bigger and bigger in the community to a point at

which the appetite becomes effectively unstoppable to the politicians who just let it roll over them like a wave like they did with marriage equality. And then afterwards say, isn't it nice that we did that for you? It feels like that's how it'll play out. Like it's just a gradual thing of the country all getting on board with it. And then they'll go, of course, we should have done this ages ago. Yeah. Up for a non-binding plow site.

Direct Democracy in Action baby. You know, they should just do that with an app. You should, you should, so if you want to vote yes, send 0.01 Bitcoin to the following address. I've been enjoying those stories about like about like coin coin startups where just they just raised like three million dollars they're just going by. Yeah yeah yeah the one the one that the old coin that just exit scammed and changed their whole home page to the word penis. Without a style sheet might, it was so good. So good.

The only thing it stops it from being just like way funnier is that now the real people have heard of Bitcoin, you know, real people are going to lose money in their lives, whereas before it was just nerds, scam nerds. It's still funny when nerds scam nerds though. It's it's scams from top to bottom. I had a buddy of mine I was hanging out with the other night. Shout up friend of the show. Mark who was told me that he will never listen to this so I can roast him on here, that's fine. Mark was telling me about how Bitcoin is legit. And the next two stories that I read in the news about Bitcoin after that were that one, about $3 million just getting exit scammed by these guys who left the cryptic message of penis.

Lowercase, completely unstyled, no full stop. Absolute power move. And the other story was about an exchange in Japan, having to just, like they suddenly froze trading. And then I think within like 12 hours, they had come out and announced to all their customers, that they had kind of lost 58 million dollars, because some hackers just went,

it's in our account now. And they didn't notice it until it was like a... And the funny thing is that I don't even know which one you're talking about now because that could be, that could be Mount Gox or a new one. It is a new one. They referred to it in the contextual frame of how many years it had been since Gox. So, fuck that's so funny. No, zero Bitcoin exchanges being totally demolished since today, starting from now. Bitcoin is safe starting out. So what are your thoughts on Australia Day, Theo? Do you think it is most political football? It is, well I mean it is mostly but it's also, but it's also but it's also important. It's like it's the, the discussion is going to be more, like the discussion is going to be around the discussion and it's not going to be around the actual things that we do it.

And it is, like you said, it's unfortunate that the Greens kind of will be scapegoated by conservative media for pushing it so hard as a Greens point when, you know, really, you know, it's an issue for native people. And it's like, you know, you can compare it to Melbourne Cup Day, where you go, well, this is fucked. You know, horses are killed for our entertainment, you know, this sucks. And everyone's just like, well, funny you come out and you start saying this now on the only day of the year that you care about this. Like, no, we care about this all the time.

It's just no one gives a shit so it becomes relevant. And then the discussion comes around the fact that this is what we're talking about. And it's like, you never get to talk about the issues in any depth, you know, it just goes, it goes on, but I don't think it's going away. I think it's going away. I think it has some momentum and it will tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak tak ta ta ta tom thea the the the to their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their tha tho tho tho. to, to, to' to' to' to' too' to' too'a. to'a. too'a. to'a. that's will be even more of a ramp up to it. I think it has some momentum and it will take a couple of years to stabilize in whatever form that takes. I should also note, I was at a rally on not Australia Day, I guess. And there was a Green's politician doing a speech as we arrived.

And he dropped in like, and this shitty Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull doesn't know what he's talking about, and he needs to listen and do this. And then he handed off the mic to an indigenous activist who promptly said, if it was up to me, you wouldn't get to be up here today holding this microphone because today should, because today, today, today, today, today, today, today, today, today, today, today, today, today, thoday, tho thoing to to to to to to thi, to thi thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, they thi, thi, they they they thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi thi thi thi thi thi, thi thi thi thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, tooiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, thi, to me, you wouldn't get to be up here today holding this microphone because today shouldn't be about politicians, it should be about indigenous voices. And everybody went, yep. Oh yeah. So that was good. That was good. There is a second part to Eric's question. He also says, what are your thoughts

on Triple J's hottest 100 results and people attacking the number one song and Triple J for allowing it? Do you think it's woke to woke or not work enough? Let's clarify folks that we're talking about a winner of great big Democratic, not on Australia or any day, it was not Australia day anymore, voting competition, Triple J Sodus 100, and the winner was Kendrick Lamar's Humble. Oh, good song. I had no idea that one. That's a great tongue. No, I heard. All right, so here's the thing. I'm in Japan, have I mentioned that? No. Okay, well, I'm in Japan at the moment.

I'm not sure we'll get it, make sure, I'll go say in a few different sections, so if one gets cut, people know from context. As if we edit these. And I went to, I got coffee in the morning, and that place was playing triple J's hottest 100. And then I got food at a food truck on the side of the road and that was also playing Triple J's hottest 100 and I still know no more than like two songs on the books. So... I spent the day with some friends. We were like, hey, we'll go up to Brisbane's beautiful Mount Glorious. And there's like a few sort of waterholes up there that aren't like,

you got to scrabble down some rocks and shit to get in. They're very hard to get to. They're not signed. They're not, you know, there's no proper trails or anything. We thought, oh, this be great, tha tha, tha, tha, tho, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, tho, tho, thi, thi, tho, tho, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, they. And, they. And, they. And, they. And, they. And, they. And, they. And, they. And, they. And, thin, thin, tho. And, tho. And, thoooo. And, thooooo. And, thoo. And, thoo. And, tho. And, th. And, this be great. Be nice, isolated. We'll just do our own thing. And for the first time ever, for me, going to those waterholes, there was a group of other people there. They were 10 young people. They had brought a barbecue down with them. They had started a fire, and they were playing the hottest 100. You cannot get away from it, folks. Wow. That sounds like an idyllic beautiful place. Where did you

share it? I mean we're only there for like four or five hours. Ooh, keep it all your terms to yourself, I see. Now Ben, it should be noted. You write for pedestrian. Yes, and we wrote an article that somewhat fence-sittingly tried, well no, tried to come for a position where it sounded fence-sitting, but clearly the person that wrote it had already made their mind up. That humble is not woke enough? Which, let's, I too read it and was a little, little confused by the tone as far as it's saying, yeah, it's, it's woke because it's got all this nice stuff about women, but also it's

a little lots and maybe it's not on work. Kind of non-committal to the extent that it made you go, what am I, what am I doing here? What am I doing here? What am I doing here? I think it's important to note here that that article is written by someone who is not a permanent part of our staff. It's basically we trained her up ages ago as we were tryling doing like 24-hour news coverage and that didn't really work out. But because we have such a small team now, we get people in as contractors every now and then if people have sick days or whatever. So we got her in and I think that's part of where the muddled tone comes from is that that's sort of the kind of article we would write but I don't think th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. We thi. We thi. We thi. We thi. thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. theeeeeeeeeeeei. We're to to theeei. We're thei. We're thi. We thi. We thi. We thi. We think that's part of where the muddled tone comes from is that that's sort of the kind of article that we would write but I don't think she felt she had the authority

to write it authoritatively, you know what I mean? Are you saying you guys were going to take Kendrick down? Is that what you're saying? I just don't think any else of us probably would have written that article because it's not really a perspective of any of us old. It sounds a little bit like I'm trying to throw under the bus. No, I'm just trying to sort of... It sounds like the opposite. It sounds like you're being remarkably strong about staying as diplomatic as possible.

No, it's just, she's a super lovely person. It's just the article is kind of characteristic for us as a thia thia thia, thia, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, I'm just, I's, I's, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, I th. th. th. th. th, I I I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th. th, I th. th. th. thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. thi. thi. thi. thoooooooooooooooooooo a website. So I've seen people being like, oh, typical of you guys doing. I'm like, I don't think that that is something that we would have normally done. Or the alternative being, ah, finally pedestrian sticks it to a black man. Oh yeah, some of our readers would have loved that. What is, hang on, hey, so 10 seconds. The, what is with people in the comments for pedestrian articles on Facebook who obviously just hated the concept of a pedestrian article? It is utterly baffling. It is like a very large group of people that are just like, hey, I know for a fact

you guys don't write articles for people like me. And I hate that you've done it again for the 25th time today and I read it. How dare you continue to produce content for an audience that I specifically am not a part of. It's so infuriating. And all of them comment on stuff where we're like writing in the first person with political opinions or whatever and they're like, oh, another biased bit of journalism. Okay, well, we're not journalists. Yes, it's an opinion article. Of course it's fucking biased, you dumb ass. Oh dear.

Yeah. Yeah. I love my job. It did seem like that piece got a very confused reception. Yes. Yes. My own feedback on the piece and I apologize for roasting the temp. That's absolutely fine. But yes, it made me go, at any point of this article, did you open the internet and say,

damn lyrics? Because a quick reading of the internet and say, damn lyrics? Because a quick reading of the lyrics will tell you that I'm pretty sure for like 90% of the song he's talking to a guy. Like he's talking to other rappers, you know, for what I take as almost the entire song. And the article kind of goes, well, he does tell women to sit down like 20 times. It's like, no, no, fatal, fatal misunderstanding of this song. Anyway, that's a take on the winner of the hottest 100. I'm assuming probably the one song I know that was in there. Yeah, I think that's the first time I, in ages I haven't been bitterly disappointed and

only found out about five minutes ago, so. Yeah, well good. For the record, I recognized two songs from the Countdown this year. And the other one is that boys song by Charlie, I want to say XCX. Oh yeah, yeah, that sounds right. Uh, catchy song. Catchy tune with a great video. All right, so moving on. We'll take a few more questions. We'll take a few more questions. We'll take a few more questions. A dear friend of the show, and fellow member of Footchat,

Jezza. Hey, Jezzer. Jezer asks, hello. What's the best form of chicken? Tendies, nugs, bone-in, full-piece or other? That's a great question. Hmm, let's get Ben's opinion out of the way first, because do you eat chicken? Um, no, but...

So if the best fie of chicken view is alive. What, okay, so, look, I saw this question in the sheet, and I thought about it. And, I've actually, I have a pretty different the thick- the best, the best, the best- the best- the best- the best- the best- the best- the best- the best- the best- the best- the the the best- the the best- th- the best- the best- the best- th- the best- the best- the best- the best- thi- the best- the- the- the- the- the best- the best- the best- the best- the best- the best- the best- the best- the best, the best, the best, the best, the best, the best, the best- the best- the best- the best- the best- the best- the best- the best- th- th- th- th- th- th- th- thi- thi- thi- thi- thi- thi saw this question in the sheet and I thought about it. Uh, and actually I have a pretty definitive answer on this one. The best form of chicken is wings, because that's the one thing that I fucking crave all the time. No. Gotta make some good chicken wings, I'll tell you that. I mean, I don't, I don't even want to get fancy with them. I just want some like dry, breaded fucking wings and I want some blue cheese dip in sauce. Wow. And I want to kill all of them specifically.

Hmm. Okay, uh, Theo. Uh, I'm gonna go chicken caragia, which I've just pronounced perfectly. Let's move on. Wow. I'm going to open up an international dispute here by saying to Theo that I believe the superior chicken to be boneless Korean fried chicken. Specifically with like that sweet spicy sauce. Yeah, whereas I'm not gonna play the races off of wanting them. Look, are we gonna get into Korea and Japan's history? Let's try not to. We're all just talking about deep fried chicken.

Can I just make that very clear? Just talking about basically, I mean like Carago chickens usually like... Well, no, like we can't make out like he's asking which section of the chicken is the best, because he specified things like nuggets, which as we all know, are compressed chicken dust. So... Well, then I think we're essentially saying the same thing. Some fried section of a chicken's lake, I think is about where we're at. I think that's fair. Okay.

So we got, let's give Theo, because we're running out of time and we're going to give Theo a rapid-fire round of questions about his time in Japan. Are you ready? Ah, see. Friend of the show, dear patron, Robert Kaur asks, does Theo prefer Georgian or Mongolian Rikishi? I don't understand the question. Next. Well, Rikishi, as we all know, is the Japanese name for a sumo wrestler. I don't know that.

Let's, are we going to move on? You said rap we all know, just... You said, rap the fuck, come on. All right, somebody, somebody has sent us in a question. Someone named Lucy Valentine has asked, is Theo's wife real or is she a Ducky Makura? I don't answer the question, next. I believe the next question is also that thing related.

The next question is also from someone called Lucy Valentine who asks is Theo in Japan to source a new Dacchimacura to replace the old one. I understand more of this question just because there are more words in this question that aren't the word DACA Macura. Is that a body pillow? She is in fact referring to a Japanese body pillow. Yeah, nice. Insisting that Theo Theo's wife might in fact be an inanimate Japanese body pillow, which he has not. He hasn't refuted it at this point. Are you saying that your wife is real?

See? Let's see. Fred of the show, dear sweet patron towel Waterhouse asks, how many times has Theo apologized to the great island nation of Japan for gross misconduct? Okay, so when you're going any public place in Japan, it's traditional to just chant the word Gomenesai, which I believe counts as an apology. So I don't know how gross my behavior is specifically, but I am apologizing for it constantly. Hmm, it's good, it's good. We have another question from front of the show, Cool Birdpicks, who asks, will Theo be real enough to go nude in an onsen? What is an onsen? Okay, so an onsen is a very specific type of bath where the water

comes from geothermal springs under the ground. They've got like high mineral content, you know, good, it's good time. And to answer your question, yes, I traveled however many thousand kilometers to get here, and on the first day I took an onsin, and there were three tradies, two of which were from Brisbane, one of which was from Melbourne, in the onsen. But yes, I did get nude in a foreign country with other Australian men who I don't know. Hmm. Front of the show, Kyle Benson, asks, can we be absolutely certain that Theo is in Japan and is not in fact arranging a substantial covert arms deal in Pyongyang.

Theo's silence on these accusations is deafening. You can be certain because I am extremely bad at organizing anything. I couldn't organize like one thing on our wedding day. I still don't know what happened with the cars going from place to place. I am very stupid. So you can be confident that I am not organizing anything beyond my next meal. Hmm. It's what a covert arms dealer would say. Is it? What have you got planned for your next meal? They do, they do in Western breakfast here.

You're gonna have some toast. Bloody da. Yeah, toast with jam. Caitlin just piped in with jam so you can, you know, she's real. Yep, just what a real wife would say. Has she been in the room? Yes. Have you been forcing your poor darling perfect wife list you do our shitty podcast?

Put headstones in and watch the party of five. God bless her. Oh right. Oh, that's what a powerful move. Incredible. Wow. Absolutely powerful to be witnessed to part of the creative process and to just stay in like not break eye contact with it as you put your earbuds in. She's not interested. Oh, just like my friend Mark. Shout out Mark.

Not gonna hear it. Yep. He's expressly said he's like I'm not going to anyone stand up. I don want to see your band it's all too much man I'm actually I'm just gonna chime in and say nature corner I've heard a whole bunch of geckos this evening squeaking over from yeah a lot of geckos then from Red's apartment not from here because it's too cold and all the animals died. Ooh. This isn't audible on the podcast, but as some might have seen from summer tweets, there's a two new baby bush turkeys around my apartment at the moment, or that the surrounds of my apartment, and they're adorable as all get out. That's nice. Nature Corner. Nature Corner, everybody.

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Yeah, that was a loud one. Four stars out of five. All I can say is Mickey Quinn, thank you, but do better. Do better. Seems like it's us that needs to do very slightly better. Well, like, what, what is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is it, is it, is it, is it, is it, is, is it, is, is it, is it, is, is it, is, is, thi, thi, thi, the the, the, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the, thi, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, thi, thi. A. thi. thi. thi.a?a?a? thi.a? thi.a? thi.a. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi, seems like it's us that needs to do very slightly better. Well, like, what, is he? Is he, 25% better. Is he putting his back out, like clicking on the extra start? What's going on? No, no, I'm saying he's leaving us room for improvement. And we should be thankful, which I am. My goodness. Thank you. Mickey.

Have we got a crime pass? Um, whatever. Have we got a crime pass? Um, should we? Oh, I got one. Uh, has, wait, has tennis already been out tennis to the tennis? Yes. Oh, okay. I was going to say, like, crime pass to run on the court and daq tennis. But you've missed your window. Oh, I mean, I think that's a good open-ended one. You know, if you ever happen to be a

Oh, God, I just got it. If you're ever at a tennis match and tennis thinne. Oh, that is. Oh, that's wild. Putting that aside, if you ever see him at one, anytime. Just hop on over that barrier, run down, get a firm, I'm going to say double-dack him, underpants, shorts, straight down, to his ankles, push him over, run out before the cops get you. Absolutely two-hand this double-dacking because he might have... Don't take a chance. He might have the drawstring done up really tight, and you've got to power through that.

I trust you can see your way clear to like stiff arming, any ballboys or line officials that try and get in your way as you leave. But just go for it and have fun out there. And remember if security catches you, crime pass. Crime pass? Yeah. Uh, Theo, enjoy all the hentai. Uh, thank you. Um, thank you.

I also don't know what that is. Yep. Uh, Theo's going to this hentai. See you next week everybody