Boonta Vista - EPISODE 55: Our Father Who Fart In Heaven

Episode Date: July 9, 2018

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Welcome to Buente Vista episode 55. Hi and welcome to this club that we're doing the podcast in where there is also a slam poetry night going on. Theo is over in the corner, tapping away on some bongoes, really out of time. He looks very uncomfortable about it. It's clearly not coming to him naturally. Ben is wearing a beret. That is coming to be natural.

Lucy's smoking a cigarette in one of those long holders. She's coughing and holding onto her weak lungs and being asked to leave by the staff. You can't smoke inside, folks. Can't smoke inside. I'm Andrew. Obviously, we'll all do some slam poetry at some point because it was part of the condition of entry. You can't just show up and use the mic on the stage to record your podcast, ignoring the

fact that there's an event going on. But we'll do our best, you know? Oh, goodness. Oh, hey, hey, everybody, I just got word, that very second live on the podcast, this is true, this is not a joke. Oh, um, that my sister-in-law and my brother have just had another baby. Oh, oh, how lovely. Double uncle. Well, we're all double uncles. I mean, I don't want to brag, but I'm a triple uncle. Oh, jeez. Well, you are bragging right now, you're really.

I mean, if we're measuring who's the uncle'sest person on the podcast, I think if I, if I count my nephews, let me just double check, and one. Well, I made two of my own children, no big deal. Well, we're talking about parenthood, we're talking about- That doesn't count any unclehood. So, oh dear. I mean, congratulations regardless, but let me know when you've got another one. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, so what's been going on in the news in Australia this week's, folks? Stupid stuff. Really dumb shit. Dumb shit.

If you want us to be real with you. And what better time is there to be real about the human condition than slam poetry night? That's right. Can I just, I hate. I know I've never been pedantic about your intros before and... I disagree but continue. Well, I don't want to sound to sound to sound to sound to sound to sound to sound to sound to sound to sound to sound to sound to sound to sound 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 be the the to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be the the the the the the the the the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their tho. tho. theat. the theat. the theat. theat. theat. theat. theat. And... I disagree but continue. Well, I don't know. Well, I don't want to sound overtly critical, and I'm just asking questions. Now you've said Theo was tapping away on the bongoes.

Am I to presume this is some sort of percussive accompaniment to which the poetry is being performed? Oh, he's just warming up. Slam poetry, right? You've got to have bongoes. Wow, see this is my quibble. I believe you've described beat poetry. Oh. Is this racist somehow? I don't think there's a race component. I feel like it's a very wide activity, so it's fine. Well, yeah, there's a race component in that regard. Yeah, I think it's typical that the white guy wearing the beret is lecturing everybody else on the categorization of poetry.

Look, I'm just, I'm something of an expert on this. I don't know if you know this, but true story. Before I ever met George, like the first time I ever saw her, she was doing a thing to slam poetry. I'm so sorry George. Hey, I wasn't performing. I mean, she hasn't done one since, so everything is fine. And I've played Grim Fandango, so I think I know a thing or two about beat poetry. Oh, I also, uh, a little bit irritated about the insinuation that I'll be playing the bongo's out of time. Oh. Oh, I also, uh, a little bit irritated about the insinuation that I'll be playing the bongoes out of time.

Is that the impression that I give that if it's like if I am going to be playing bongoes, it's just going to be just senseless, just nonsense. No, that's purely a result of your discomfort at performing public with. Oh, that makes total sense, actually. Speaking of out of time, which version of the intro are you putting this to do it? Oh my God. Don't do it to everyone else. I've already been hurt by it. No one else needs to be hurt.

Um, play us out tonight? Yeah, I can, I can do that. Wife of the show, Alex Watts. And enemy of the show. Wife and enemy of the show. Ex-wife of the show. No, no, we're still married, but just in a very... It's not going well. We're separated. We're sleeping in separate bedrooms. Separate bedrooms. The kids are asking questions. Yeah. He heard a recent episode where we were asked what music we've been listening to

lately, in which I jokingly suggested that Lucy's been listening to a lot of scar, a bit of scar talk. Alex has paid a musician online, the princely sum of I believe $5. Well let's not be generous here. He paid a person online. Yeah. A trombonist. He he paid a person real money to attempt to recreate the show's theme in the format of SCAR. They have produced it and it certainly sounds like they spent $5 worth of effort on it.

I played it to wife of the show, my wife Elna, who said, I can't even remember what the theme sounds like. That's exactly what happened to me. I started listening to it, and after the first, I don't know, halfway through, I was like, what is it? How does the theme go? It just completely erased it from my thauuiting......... It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It's, I. It. I. It's, I. It's, I. I. I. I. I. I. It's, I. I. It's, I. It's. It's. It's, I. I. 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. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. 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. It's. It's. It's. It's, the. It's, the. It's, the. It's, the. It's, the. It's, the. It's, the. It's. It's. It's, I. It's. It's. It's. It of go? Because I can't... It's just completely erased it from my brain. Musically disassociating. It's every single note is off the beat.

Every single one of the... Scar, baby. Oh, it was giving me a headache. It's... But I mean, well done to that person who's time... I mean, all right, so it was on Fiver. The website where you pay people five bucks to do things, right? Can we just say, typical of ad executive Alex to exploit... Exploit the labor of a trombone, a poor trombone.

I mean, if they spent $5 worth of time on it, let's say, 15 minutes. No, it's still bad. I can't justify it. I feel bad. Stick around. We've done a bad thing. Alex has done a bad thing. So I will play us out with it tonight. I think we all need to just forget about it before the end. Yeah. Don't mention it before the end and we'll just go into it with a clear mind. Yep. We will just let the listeners just fall into that like an auditory piece of dog shit that they've stepped in and not realized.

We report you decide. Yes. Yes. Anyway, from things in the news this week, a Twitter friend, Use Cunts has sent us something in from Andrew Bolt's blog. Just so you know, that is a Twitter handle spelled USE, CUNCE. Which, you know, that's a good one. Yeah, the old translates well in the Australian vernacular. Yes Cunts.

Has sent us in an entry from Andrew Bolt's blog titled, Greens want Christian faith banned, Aboriginal faith kept. So typical Andrew Bolt style of just going absolutely. Making shit up. Shriekingly hysterical. Just making shit up. Over something pretty innocuous. He begins, the Greens want the Lord's Prayer ban from being read at the start of Senate business. So can I just immediately just, I love the way that conservatives are totally unable to make

the difference, the distinction between something being banned and something not being mandated? Yes, just a change. Just a change. It's not what that means. It's just not like if you start, if you start, I was going to start saying the start of Lord Prayer, I've completely forgotten what it is now. Anyway, it's not like if you start doing it, someone's gonna drop from the ceiling and shoot you in the head. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they seem to have some very funny ideas about what the actual definition of things like banned and censored are. Like for example, even if somebody were to say to you, hey a thing you're doing kind of sucks, could you not? That that is you censoring somebody in their free speech. So Andrew links to the following article in The Guardian. Allow me to read to you from this and see if you get the sense of something being being banned by the iron hand of the censorious state. On Wednesday, Green Senator Lee Rianum will will move a motion for a Senate inquiry into the iron hand of the censorious state. On Wednesday Green Senator Lee

Rianam will move a motion for a Senate inquiry into the proposed alternative to the Lord's Prayer, which will go, Senators, let us sit in silence, pray or reflect upon our responsibilities to all people of Australia and to future generations. The move is supported in a letter signed by progressive religious leaders including Father Rod Bauer of the Anglican Parish of Gosford, the Reverend Margaret Maimon of Pitt Street United Church and Rabbi Jeffrey Kamens of the Temple Emmanuel at Woolar. Yes.

Maiman said it was quote, time for the Senate to move on from an opening prayer that belongs to the era when Christianity was the major religion in Australia and was given precedence over other faiths and belief systems. It's time to embrace words that are inclusive and respectful of religious diversity, she said. The archaic language of the current prayer suggests that religious ideas are inacronistic and irrelevant in a pluralistic society. The use of the Lord's prayer is not respectful of Christian faith as it reduces the prayer that Jesus taught his followers to pray to a rote recitation in this context.

Andrew continues, hmm, I like that he writes on his blog like he speaks in his show? He does. This ridiculous condescension. Hmm. So will the Greens ban Parliament's other religious ceremony? The Aboriginal smoking ceremony at the opening of Parliament that supposedly meant to cleanse it with holy smoke and stop in his scare quotes, bad spirits? It's not all weird that somebody who was officially convicted of racism about aboriginal people to focus on.

Not a weird thing at all for him to get hung up on that thing specifically. And again, you know, they're not banning anything. Not banning anything. And look, yeah, sure, priests, reverends, rabbis, Buddhist monks, they can get all them to agree on it. But we would like to hear from a real theologist. We want to hear from one with an innate knowledge of vampire law and chokers and the whole canon of Anne Rice novels.

Who are you talking about Andrew? That's right. Andrew has got a huge theater idiot, Daisy Cousins, to weigh in. And let me just say, if you do happen to tune in, if you have a look at their Facebook page or the Twitter account this was posted on, God, what is going on with that fucking bird's nest of hair, she's got going on there. The hair is the worst bit. Like, you know the dresses are forgivable the hair is just a whole other thing. I mean you would say that the dress... I know I would say that. I try

not to like own myself here. I am I think that they should like pan out a little and try and get some of her parasol in the frame. That's all. She would definitely carry a parasol. Twirling, whimsically. She looks like she's five minutes away from being murdered by Jack the Ripper at all the times. So folks, do we want to hear, do we want to hear the startling insight of noted threat? It looks like a blood-borne enemy. All right, here we go. Here we go. First of all, I'd like to say I don't know what Lirian is talking about when she mentions some sort of religious bias in government. I mean, we know for a fact that the state is separate from religion in Australia, so that's a bit of hyperbole there. Look, I think it's perfectly harmless having

the Lord's prayer at the start of Parliament because it doesn't have to be looked at as a religious thing. It just harks back to the traditions and the values upon which this country was founded. I mean, yes, we live in an increasingly secular world and secular Australia. thapap but but but the the the thian. thian. thian. thian. thian. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi, thi, the the the thi, thi, thi, the the thi secular world and secular Australia, but the bottom line is, our entiolegal legal system is based on Judeo-Christian principles. So no one is forcing parliamentarians to even pray. You can easily use it as a moment of quiet reflection and thought about the day, but to scrap it for a reason that is really tokenistic and purely semantic and a waste of time just it's sorry it does not make sense to me at all. Oh my goodness. How do you learn to speak like that? It's so tortured like like I don't know if this maybe was just me hearing it wrong but did she say hyper

belay? But did she say hyperbole? She said things like that and she did. Oh my God's prayer is not necessarily religious. That's fucking insane. Okay. How, I'm just gonna say this so that we could maybe use it as the title of the podcast. Our Father who fart in heaven. Rackham. Oh my God. That's, yes Lizzy, that was my favorite part of it by far was you don't necessarily have to look at the Lord's prayer as a religious thing.

These are the same people that will be like, oh we can't have any Muslim stuff because this is a secular society. Like... Well, she's where she's like, oh it's just semantics. Like yes, we're literally talking about words. This is going to do with the meaning of words. Yes, that is what semantics means, don't tasin? Well also like how, yeah, you know, how do you, how do you simultaneously try and argue like, oh, we live in a society where everything that we do is based on Judeo-Christian principles and morals and everything, but also, you know, we have separation of church and state, so that's not even a thing that we should have to think about. But you say, I think it's ridiculous to say that we don't. Anyway, here's why the prayer should remain. It's like, continues to to to to to prove to prove to prove to prove th th th th th th and th th th th and th th and th th say that we don't. Anyway, here's why the prayer should remain. It's like, continues to prove and then disprove her point in like alternate

sentences. I didn't even know that. She doesn't really have anything to say. I only found out that we did this from this. I had no idea that we did the Lord's prayer before the thing. And like, obviously I'm not one of those fucking militant internet atheists that gets riled up about dumb shit but that's fucking weird. That's an insanely weird thing to do. I consider Australia pretty secular. I think it's very strange. Well yeah and like... You know I again I have no issue with what like like, Lee Rianna's proposing, which is just very simply, oh, well, that's not what kind of country it is anymore. It kind of makes me think of like a lot of the arguments about, in the states, about

the Constitution, you know, how, it seems like half the people are like, the Constitution, it's completely concrete, and the people who wrote it knew that they were writing it to be like that forever. And the other half of the people go, yeah, and they also built in all these parts where they said, the society that we're in, won't stay the same forever, it will keep changing. And that's just what this makes me the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the thiiiiii 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, thoes, thoes, thoes, the, the, the, th is th is th is th is th is th is th is the, the, the, the, the, thi, thi, thi, thi, thin, thin, thin, thin, the. the an the an thean. thean. that's, thean. thean to like make amendments and keep altering it as you go along And that's just what this makes me the other. It's just a completely sensible thing to say

Okay, look at the country we're in now. It's completely different to what it was when all this kicked off and now having everybody sit down at the start of the day and listen to the Lord's prayer is fucking absurd. It's very silly. It's just a very strange thing. And particularly, you know, like we're saying, if we're going to try and keep up the pretense that there's supposed to be a separation of church and state despite, you know, conservative government still insisting on things like the school chaplains program, Giving government funding to making sure that there's chaplains in schools to tell you like not to touch your dick or get abortions. Or anything like that, you know, very silly. It's extremely silly.

And speaking of massive dipshits, there's been a fair bit of action this week from noted libertarian fuckwit David Laneholm. Senator David Laneholm. Lucy, would you like to try and walk us through the sequence of events here? It's been incredible. Should we should we briefly describe David Lane home first? Libertarian I feel like sums it, sums it up really? A hundred, hundred percent. Human libertarian Twitter egg avatar. Yeah, that's a big turd man.

It's like if he shaved Ron Swanson and took away all of his practical skills. And all of his good qualities. And if he shrunk his bones by 80%? But he added more skin. They've just kept the skin coming. Yep, yep. He was elected by accident because he had, what was it, the Liberal Democrats? And then his logo, there was also strikingly similar to the Liberal Party one. And we can't stop just experimenting, the great experiment that is the Senate voting laws. Oh yes. Look, it's just, it's an iterative process. Occasionally you repeatedly elect a sentient libertarian ball bag to Senate.

So what are you got for us? Well, I didn't even read all this till today. The quotes are just incredible. So on Thursday, the Upper House was debating Queensland Senator Fraser Anning's motion, calling on governments to encourage women to carry tasers, pepper spray and mace to defend themselves from murderers and rapists. Normal libertarian shit? I would like to just jump in on that particular point and say this is a thing that I haven't really seen anybody commenting on but it shits me no end because this to me is just complete libertarian

smoke screen bullshit this idea of oh we should we should sell tasers and pepper spray so that women can protect themselves from rapists and everything. Which as we continue on through this story, you'll see that David Lane Holmes number one libertarian gripe in the world is that we should make no distinction between any individuals based on their gender or their race or their sexuality or anything like that. And to do so is bigotry. To do so is massive bigotry.

So the idea that we should make considerations around what weapons are available to the public based on the safety concerns of individual genders is fucking bullshit. It's just that he's a gun nut and he wants to start the slippery slope of making weapons available to the public. He absolutely does. Yeah if you start selling, hey it's a crazy thought. If you are a lady and you would like to defend yourself from potential rapists by buying a taser and pepper spray. If those things are legal, guess who else can buy tasers and pepper spray now? Rapists? Yes. Awesome. And I would go one further and say the kinds of people who are out to commit violent acts on other people

are going to be the sorts of a lot keener about going and getting their hands on that shit before people who think of it as a last resort, defense-wise. Anyway, continue. So Green Senator Sarah Hanson Young was essentially like, well actually I think the issue is that there's a male violence problem and there's a lot of rapists to which David Leigham told her to stop shagging men. Very normal response. Normal. She asked him to confirm that that's what he said, to which he said yes. So she told him he's a creep and he told her to fuck off.

Again, very normal. In the Senate, mind you. In the Senate, in Australian Parliament, normal stuff. I thought the fuck off happened afterwards, like that was outside of Parliament wasn't it? The Chi, well at least outside of a sitting. I don't think any of it's recorded, so this is just what Sarah Hansen Young said happened. None of it wound up in the Hansard, which will I guess come up later when we talk about him trying to justify it. So when he, what's his angle right with him saying, stop shagging men?

Is he going for the, well, you're sexually promiscuous and that's the same thing? Like, why do you go against? I think what he's going off is this claim that he's making that Sarah Hansen has stated publicly that all men are rapists, which as far as I know, th, is, is, is, th, th, th, th, th, th, th th th th th th thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, with, with, with, with thi, with thi, with thi, thi, thi, thiolatu- thiolatu- thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, 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 thate thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi, thi, thi Sarah Hanson Young has stated publicly that all men are rapists which as far as I know she absolutely hasn't. Did not say. And he has not been able to come up with I'm sure we'll get to this. She has also come out this week and said I have not said that and I also don't believe that. So he's working off the basis that if she thinks that all men are rapists and all men are evil violent thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi thi. thi th. that, which that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, th that, th thi, thi, thi, th thi, th thi, th thi, th th th thi, th th thi, 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 thi thi thi th off the basis that if she thinks that all men are rapists and all men are evil violent thugs, then it's hypocritical of her to have sex with any of them.

So yeah, if you're thinking of criticizing anything that any member of one of several genders does, but you also have ever had sex with any of them, think again, you massive hypocrite. It's not anything. That motion was defeated 46 to 5 with Lion Helm in the minority support. And then Sarah and Hansen Young asked him to apologize, which seems fairly reasonable. So then, on Sunday, to say, thi to thin, to thin, the thin, thin' to thin..... thin, thin, thin, the thin, the thin, the thin, the thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, the thin, thin, thin, thin' th, th, th, th, you th, you th, you thin, you thin, th, th, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, toe, toe, toe, thin, to-to-to-to-to-to-to-a. thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, th, thin, thin, thin him to apologize, which seems fairly reasonable. So then on Sunday, David Lynham went on Sky News and 3AW where he doubled down on his comments, alluding to Sarah Hanson Young's private life.

I didn't hear this, but apparently it's pretty awful to the point that Sky News apologized. And ABC refused to reprint the comments. Yeah he essentially said that the big blow-up that happened over this was that Sky News reproduced what he was saying in a strap at the bottom so they summarized it to the effect of she's known for liking men the rumors in Parliament are well known. I think is what they said and they ended up, there was like a, she was quite young. I think it was a, like 26 year old? Yeah, 25 or 26 year old producer for Sky News who was filling in for someone else was suspended

for putting the strap up where obviously, I mean, anyone that works for Sky News and any of those shows probably not a great person honestly I like I'm sympathetic I'm not a hundred percent sympathetic but there's levels of morals in terms of where you work well yeah I think that the Sky News thing is very similar to the Australian as a newspaper which is that there is a bunch of reporting around like financial stuff there's like Rick Morton who who does all that there is a bunch of reporting around like financial stuff, there's like Rick Morton who does all that great reporting around the NDIS and that sort of thing. There are good people there. A bunch of very good stuff, but the problem is that it also houses this gross core of editorials

and opinion pieces that are all just by like 60 year old misogynist white dudes with massive, massive chips on their shoulders who seem like absolute dinosaurs and it just horribly taints everything else that they produce. Yeah. It just makes it really, really hard to support any of the work that any of the good journalists that any of those things do. I'm not one of those people who goes,

"'Mud's a fucking Murdoch rag and he's trying to take over democracy.'" I understand that they're like different people trying to get by, doing different jobs and all that sort of shit. But like, yeah, man, it's just, her job. Like, she, the point of those graphics is to summarize what is happening on the show. So, her, there's no reason she should have been fired. That's crazy. Yeah, her summarizing what they were saying

doesn't make any sense to put that on her head. That the conversation was facilitated by spaghetti head, fuck Rowan Dean and slowly dying man Ross Cameron and fucking Lion Helm like that's it's so insane that's like shooting the messenger to suspend her as opposed to being like look at these fucking clowns and what they've done well yeah that the and and as you know plenty of people pointed out the irony was not lost on a lot of folks that you know you've got the you've got the you know you've got the and and as you know plenty of people pointed out the irony was not lost on a lot of folks that you know you've got this bunch of huge dipshits on a show

where no one can figure out why any of them get given any airtime or anything like that no one knows the mystery yeah no one can figure out why the fuck Rowan Dean has a column in the AFR. It's like, why? Oh, well, he doesn't anymore. Oh, really? Oh, wait, no, sorry, no. He was taken, oh, this was fucking insane. He was taken off the board of, is it, the Australian Medical Association?

Okay. What was this? I'm going to Google specifically what this was because I saw the headlight and I was just like, why was he up there? What the fuck? Maybe it was the Australian medical journal. Hang on the to us. My point was going to be though that, yeah, you've got this group of just middle-aged, misogynist dickheads all saying horrible objectionable stuff uh... that you know what what one of them has said gets put up in a strap

and they go let's punish this young woman for what these gross dudes have said about another woman because it's offensive to everyone I'm still shocked that Sky News is apologized for it. Well that's how you know it was extra fucked up the fact that they immediately kind of went, whoops, that one shouldn't have gone to air. The same way they're like, you know, just coming back to what I'm saying, I think that, you know, a lot of people have a lot of respect for like David Spears as a journalist. Yeah, and and and yeah, and yeah like, you know, 90% of Sky News is other stuff, but 10% of it is fucking Andrew Bolt and Peter Credlin and Ross Cameron and Paul Murray and Rowan Dean,

your big fucking spaghetti noodle head of dip shit. And yeah, and they just let them all get on there and just fucking blather whatever just make shit up just fill up time and they all think that they're being fucking clever doing this extremely outdated troll shit and it sucks majorly and yeah one time that they've gone ooh and you know the only reason they took it down and apologized because it was a fucking defamation case waiting to happen. Oh yeah, they realized there was an actual legal problem, yeah. Yeah, not because they were like, oh it's a bridge too far, they were like, what, legal trouble, get it down.

Mm-hmm. So what came after that? I tried to look up the Rowan Dean thing just quickly and the only outlet that published it was Kriki and they have deleted the tweet and they have deleted the story. So it might not have been removed from the board of the Australian people. Yeah, fucking no correction issue that I can see or anything. Maybe this was just a FIFA dream Ben. No, it's there like you can click on the, it's all in Google and then click on it and it redirects to a different story. So weird. Weir, so continuing on Lucy. So over the next few days, I love this quote. Lion Helm denies he targets women and says he abuses people irrespective of gender.

Mr. Lionhel says he calls people bastards or bitches regardless of their sex. Mr. Lionel says he calls people bastards or bitches regardless of their sex. It's just abuse, he told ABC radio. But that's not what he was saying though, right? Like you can't say, oh, I hate everybody, but I'm going to hate women on the basis that they're women, I'm going to hate, you know. Yeah. Whatever are the minorities on the basis of those minorities.

His comments were very specifically sexist. So for him to come back and say, oh, I hate everybody, that's bullshit. It doesn't absolve you of anything. Absolutely. I mean, like that might fly as a defense if, yeah, if he had called her a idiot. Yeah. Call her a moron and people had gone, ooh, you sexist, and he said, just call her an idiot. Yeah, but that the insult is that she sleeps with people and that is supposed to be an insult. Yes.

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Yeah. Was that thing he said about pitches and bastards specifically referring to how he had called Angela Bishop a bitch? Ah, probably, yeah. When he went on Studio 10 to talk about what he said to Sarah Hanson Young? I think so, yes. Yeah, so like a couple of days later, he went on Studio 10, and then, uh, yeah, I can't find the context, but he just straight up called her a bitch on TV. Oh, yeah, no, no, he said, um he said he told I think he told

Angela Bishop that she was acting like a bitch yeah and um oh he called her a bigoted bitch yes yes because because to sell well and again for you know as we all know libertarians when they're posting on Reddit love to be all about logic facts and logic and reason and you know if that's the-you know that that the that that's that th. that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that 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. thate th. th. thate thate that. that. that. that. that. that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that the that the the the the the that that that that the that that that that that the that that that the the that the the that the that that that the that the that th're posting on Reddit, love to be all about logic, facts and logic and reason. And if that's the way you want to like, you know, fashion your universe, that's fine, but at least try to be internally consistent about it, because if you're going to try to suggest that to, you know, make a claim about anybody based on their sex or gender or anything like that is, makes you bigoted, then don't also include in that same sentence, like a gender-related

attack on somebody. Don't, don't, yeah. If she's saying something, you know, if Angela Bishop is saying something about men or whatever and you think that makes her a bigot, don't also include calling her a bitch in that same line, you huge fucking idiot. That studio 10 thing did not go well, apparently, included him just repeatedly backing himself into the same corner and refusing to apologize and doubling down and the order apparently the hosts of the show like the panel of the show and the studio audience audibly groaning each time he doubled down on the things he was saying.

Now this is probably very unwoke of me, but this is possibly the only circumstances under which I would ever watch Studio 10. Same. But yeah, it got, it got dumber and dumber from there. You guys might be pleased to know that a friend of the show, Animatronic Garden gnome Caleb Bond, weighed in on Twitter this week with some of his usual sparkling wits. Really? Some of the usual, the wisdom of his years. If you were, he weighed in with David Laneholm and Sarah Hansen Young both ought to shut up. Yes, that yes David insulted her but Sarah has promoted said insult far more

than she needed to both then fight each other. This has descended into tit for for tid for tat. Good on Caleb for not actually being able to exercise any form of judgment whatsoever into trying to discern whether one of the people involved is right and one of them is massively wrong. Good for you, Caleb. Yeah, and whether maybe say one of them is, you know, just hurling childish, schoolyard, sexist jibes in their six-figure, salary, taxpayer-funded job that they stumbled us backwards into, and the other one of them is just asking to be treated like a human in their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their form, their form, th th, th, th, thum, thum, thum, thum, thi thi-a, good thiolioli, thum.. Good, good thiolome, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good-many, good-many, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good the-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-c-c-cane, th-cane, th-cane, th-s-s-s-a-s-s-s-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-yolemanytoday, good-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-s. Good-a-funded job that they stumbled us backwards into and the other one of them is just asking to be treated like a human in their workplace. That's right. But they should both shut up right Caleb but stop flapping

their gums about it. I love it. Great stuff Caleb. You got any more for us? Oh yeah. So Malcolm Turnbull, Bill, Bill Shorten and Tony Abbott all called on David Lionhelmed to apologize. He has refused and called Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull a pussy in response. I believe the quote was, Malcolm should stop being such a pussy. I think that was it. Just so much... He's such an idiot. So much of a dick. And it's like, it's so clear as well that like...

Love Australian politics. He just has the, he just has the free speech be so far of his ass. Well, but he's beaten the system. Right. Like, this is he's finally found the job. Which he actively hates, but he can do as little as possible in and get paid huge amounts of money and cannot be fired from. You know how much of a dick he is. Well he's effectively an independent, isn't it? Yeah, basically.

I mean, yeah, I think he's technically a member of a party or whatever, but a party of one. But yeah, like, as people have said, they're just like, isn't it bizarre that, you know, or, like, all other workplaces in the country have, like, you know, anti-bullying laws and anti-discrimination laws and all that sort of shit. I guess, yeah, the Senate and Parliament just don't have that. Yeah, I guess so. But Sarah Hanson Young's basically suing him for defamation unless he apologizes, which he's refusing to do. The problem is, you know, you just know that like, even if he got sued and even if he lost, he would fucking love it. Oh yeah. He would 100% love it. It would absolutely just let him, let him rile up his fucking straight white angry libertarian

base on account of you know being being censored by the state being censored and punished by the government he would fucking love to be like actively punished for exercising what he sees as his free speech. You love that shit. I love it. Huge asshole. Anyway, fuck that guy. Fuck you, David. There was an appearance from a friend of the show,

noted dip shit Miranda Devine on the today show, in which she included the notable quote, she was defending David Lanham. And she, the notable quote. She was defending David Laneham. And the quote from her was, Women are the weaker sex and I think it is outrageous to be demonizing the very people who protect us. Oh, oh. Oh.

Oh, Miranda. Oh, boy. David Laneholm has quoted this saying, I disagree with her criticism of what I said, but her broader point is valid. If all men are described as rapists can't control themselves, pigs and morons, why should we even try? Yeah, I can't think of any reason.

Yeah. If someone, look, let me just put it this way. Look, if some lady out there is going to say a mean name about me, why should I not do rapes? Yeah. You know, why should I even bother not being a rapist? If somebody is going to, like, call me a name. It's the same crowd that like gets in on the triggered snowflake shit, you know? Oh yeah. I also love in the news at the moment is that guy that vandalized Euritas Dixon's memorial in Melbourne. And then there's all these posts from him on Facebook that are like, men are always being demonized. People think men are all awful. So he went and

defaced a sexual assault murder victim's memorial, which is really doing well for the cause of saying that men aren't terrible. Yeah, let me prove that young men don't deserve this bad rap by, um... Being a huge piece of shit. Yeah, yeah. And I would also just just to run back to that last point, that David Laneholm saying, you know, oh, if all men are going to be described as these various things, why should they even try to, you know, not rape or murder women? He's also a fucking diehard libertarian and the whole ethos is around

personal responsibility. The entire thing is about being completely responsible for your own actions. Jesus Christ. So that's what you get Miranda for trying to defend a huge dipship. Speaking of Miranda Divine, she had a little piece, a little piece in the rag that she writes for. Great. Hmm, and I'm just trying to find the, find the title of it, it was a good title. It's very good title. Anyway, let's have a little bit of a read from Miranda Devine's latest piece about the unhinged leftists,

assaulting, assaulting conservatives. Oh, okay. Because that's truly scary stuff folks. Very scary. All right, are we ready for a little Punta Book Club reading of Miranda. Miranda says, we should recognize demented mobs possessed by self-righteousness because they were more or less a permanent feature of the Howard and Abbott governments when our borders were being secured and unauthorized boat arrivals being stopped. Yeah, it might have been related to all the human rights abuses, but let's not get

tripped up on that. Refugee activists whipped themselves into a froth of hatred against politicians they pretended were worse than Nazis presiding over gulags and concentration camps and scarequites. Just quick note, multiple people have killed themselves by setting themselves on fire until they burn themselves to death in protest. I think we've had three suicides on Manus Island in the last 12 months I believe. Yep. So if you want to define, you know, if you want to be a unhinged leftist, defining a gulag as somewhere where you put innocent people indefinitely until

they kill themselves, then you know, that's just the kind of rhetoric I think we've come to expect to expect to expect to expect to expect to expect to expect to expect to expect to to to to to to to to to to the the the to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their their s their sia' their their their siococomice their their siance 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 the the the the the the the the the the thusususususus.a. Ianususus. Ianus. Ianusus. Ia. Ia. Ia. I'm theanususususus. Ia. I'm their their their their their the kill themselves then you know that's just the kind of rhetoric I think we've come to expect from people on the left. Also where the the people that have created these have been very explicit in their intention to make them as bad as possible so as to be a deterrent for people to not to want to end up there as well. Yeah I mean if you're going to define a concentration camp as a place that you specifically excise certain ethnicities from the rest of your population so that you don't have to integrate them, well, I don't know what to tell you about.

So the article's gone well so far. And based off that, based off that last sentence, let's see if this next sentence holds a note of projection. See if you can detect it, okay? High on their own virtue, they excused any deception, abuse, and even violence because they claimed to do it in the name of good. Huh. That sounds a lot like setting up horrifying camps in third world countries with the claim that you're stopping deaths at sea? Hmm. Yeah. No, that's probably not right. Don't worry, don't mind me, don't mind me. In the, every sentence is just so fucking wrong. For example, like the first half of this next sentence, in the United States, the

left has hit a new low over immigration policy. Oh. Is it, is it them that are hitting a new low over immigration? It's definitely the left. It's definitely the left. Polish Jews hitting a new low. Geez. In the United States, the left has hit a new low over immigration policy. Now chasing Trump administration officials out of restaurants and booing them out of movie the the the left has hit a new low over immigration policy, now chasing Trump administration officials out of restaurants and booing them out of movie theaters, camping outside their homes

and shouting through the night so they can't sweep, ambushing their families and threatening their children. At a refugee rally in Los Angeles on Saturday, Democrat politician and Clinton ally. Maxine Waters incited the mob to harass Trump administration officials and drive them out of public places. I like a Clinton ally in there as though... Yeah, yes. As though Hillary Clinton's fucking relevant in any way, shape or form in the current political landscape.

Somebody who campaigned with the incumbent. Yeah, like fucking two years ago now. Quote, if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant and department store at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd, you push back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore anywhere, she urged the crowd through a megaphone not a megaphone goodness gracious that makes your voice louder and scarier I really like that she felt the need to tell us that she did it through a megaphone it's really good coming less than a year after a Republican

congressman Steve Scalese, was shot and almost killed by a Democratic supporter. You would think Waters would choose her words more carefully. Like, don't they wind up finding out with everyone of the people who, like, it was the other guy who, um, who like did the knife attack on the train, you know, he was like harassing the Muslim girls in the States. Yeah, where they found like a couple of pro-Burney Facebook posts on his thing, but then also like dozens of like pro-Trump posts on there as well, like the guy had no fucking

coherent ideology who was just not well. Yeah and they were like, ha see, well I mean if we can take away anything from Bernie Sanders politics see you should yell at young Muslim women about their japs. But no, in the last few days weighed Sonson, their family evicted from a red hen restaurant by an owner who hates Donald Trump. Florida's Republican Attorney General... The weird thing about that was that everyone was like, oh, you know, they were run out by the staff rudely. And like, they were given a cheeseboard or a cheese platter as an appetizer and then asked if they could leave.

And then they were given the food they had for free. They were like, content, they were like, you don't have to pay for this but we want you to leave. Like it was the least aggressive way you could have possibly done that. Well considering how many people are currently having this whole civility argument around were you supposed to talk out your differences and you're supposed to respectfully disagree about things. And like what that woman did who owned the restaurant could not possibly have fit that bill in a closer way to what these people are talking about. And isn't this the fucking dream of having like complete autonomy over your own business? Like, apparently. It's a right-wing, wet dream to be able to 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, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to. -wing wet dream to be able to like stick up for your principles

by having a complete freedom of choice. We will refuse service to anybody for any reason at any time. No cakes for gay people. Yeah. And it's just, oh, it's so fucking insane. This whole, it's not a debate. It's just a fucking talking point. But the whole thing is just based around right-wing people not realizing that other people have principles?

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I would also argue with that point that people, I keep seeing people like right-wing people online trying to argue an equivalency between these two things between saying, oh well that's a business owner discriminating against someone and being bigoted against someone based off of their beliefs and it's like, well, I would kind of argue... No one is born a White House press secretary. It's not some intrinsic quality to themselves. Exactly, exactly. Like, and that was the same thing I kept thinking when I was doing that, which is like, there's sort of an inherent quality to discrimination, which is treating's sort of an inherent quality to discrimination which

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politics having direct consequences in their life, right? So for them to suddenly start suffering direct consequences for the act of, you know, marginalizing millions of people with just horrific policies, right, in America as they're, you know, too many to count, for them to actually suffer direct physical consequences as a response to their politics, which is what marginalized people suffer every day, comes as a complete surprise to them. There would be people that are not only take issue with what they're doing, but take so much issue that they cannot, that they're besides themselves trying to deal with it, right? That they can't, that they can't, they can't, they can't, they can't, they can't, they can't, they can't, they can't, they can't, they can't, they... they can't, they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they 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, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, they. they. their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, to, to, to, to, so much issue that they cannot, that they're besides themselves trying to deal with it, right? That they can't, they can't imagine that

because they are so far removed from it. Well, yeah, I mean, we're seeing now how people are reacting to being mildly inconvenienced. That's right. Like it's been a fucking national news story over there for, well an international news story about them, about Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her fucking party of eight having to walk across the street to another restaurant. You know? Must have been rough. Yeah and when you come in with a party... A real border crossing. Yeah with a, you know,, whose stated goals are to eliminate, you know, the, any semblance

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They will never meet these fucking families. They will never even finish reading a news story about it. They might skim a fucking headline and they're not going to look into this at all. You know, this will never ever come back to them in any meaningful way. And you know, people are going to work their fucking asses off to reverse this shit years later and none of this will ever come back to them. There's no punishment for doing anything like this, even after they're out of the job because the administration's change.

They're in another fucking job. They're rich as shit. They're in another fucking job. fuck literally the worst thing that will happen to them is that they will go into a restaurant they will sit down they'll get some free fucking food someone will walk over and say I'm sorry we need you to leave they will walk somewhere else they will have fucking dinner and they will cry about it for a fucking week and that is literally the worst thing that will happen to them theyme yeah imagine just having to hear in any way, shape, or form that the things you were doing are real.

Yeah, I mean, like I've seen a lot of commentary on the same sort of thing that like for a very long time, you know, DC has just operated as this very sort of insulated, self-protecting class of, oh, well, we all just know, just know, it's all just playing the game. If you're doing these things here while you're in this kind of job, then that's just part of the deal. And I think that you can look at the fact that, like, when Obama was in for eight years, you know, they didn't prosecute anyone from Wall Street. They didn't fucking, you know, they're just just, th. th. th. th. th all the fake reasons for going to Iraq, any of that sort of stuff, all those things instead, no, they're just you know

appearing at state funerals together with the bushes and like it's all just hanging out and being buddy-buddy and like, well, you know, you do what you do while you're in and then you set for life. Everything's totally fine. We all have to look at each other as nice statement. Miranda goes on to say, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstegen Nielsen was booed out of a Mexican restaurant near the White House and Trump advisor Stephen Miller was harassed by protesters at another Mexican restaurant. Why am more Mexican restaurant? I wonder why. And he was called a fascist. I can't believe, folks out there, that Stephen Miller was called a fascist for nothing other

than the act of living as a gigantic fascist. Shocking. Must be very hurtful hearing that. It must be very upset for him to be labeled that. He went home and he just cried himself to bed and the only way he could console himself was just with a big old bag of hair that he slowly ate. Just went home and sadly wrapped himself in one of his big swastika flags. Wept. God the nons on that guy. It's just a fucking wild head. And, um, absolute psychopath

as well. Once you unleash the mob, once you unleash the mob from civilized norms, there's no telling what comes next. Now there is talk of round the clock security for high-profile trump officials and suggestions they should arm themselves for protection. That's going to go well. But don't think Australia is immune from this sickness, since our left-wing establishment slavishly follows American trends. And she then goes on to talk about our race discrimination commissioner. Tim.

Go on. Do it. Fomison. I'm having a crack. Sorry everyone. Can anyone else do better? Theo, you seem quite confident there? Timbo. Timbo.

Timbo, was on the ABC defending the harassment of Sarah Haga P. He said it's powerful stuff. I can understand why the red hen restaurant owner took a stand and why there would have been many people cheering her on. He hopes the restaurant staff will keep up their activism, quote, agitate and organize and harness any righteous anger. Coming out of this exchange I would hope there are people who were galvanized. He did say it would have been better if the red hen owner had engaged in, quote, an argument, a civil argument with Sanders as she tried to order her meal. Fuck off cop.

Fuck off. Um, well it also sounds like she did do that. Like she took her outside and said, look, you know, I really can't be on board with what you're doing and so I don't want you to eat my restaurant and Sarah Carousin Okay. But Bridey Jabour, assistant news director at Guardian Australia prefers harassment. Quote, the powerful stance, the shunning, that's the thing that's made international headlines she

said. That's a big stance. I'm not going to welcome you or your people, or your kind or people who are working for you into my establishment. It's taking a stand, it's galvanizing the left. In these times it's an effective tactic. So that's what it's about then. International headlines. Taking a scare quotes stance. She literally doesn't recognize the concept of having a stand or anything. Yeah. Shunning a certain kind of people. She's taking... galvanizing the left for what exactly She's getting so pissed off at this and Bridey's not even like that saying that. Yeah, she's not even

necessarily endorsing it. She's just describing it as being effective not saying that yeah, I don't know. Well, yeah, she's clearly saying that that is that is the thing that has been powerful. That is a thing that has cut through as a news story, and has galvanized people. Do you think that there would be anything like the amount of news stories if it had have been like, a red hanigh-hand owner has respectful conversation out the back that she doesn't tell anyone with about Sarah Hockby Sanders and then serves her a complete meal. Powerful, this restaurant owner served a woman an entire meal and then wrote a very very small frowdy face on the receipt at the end of the night. Man and like and again this last sentence here this is one of those

like sensors that is loaded with close but no cigars you know. Man and like and again this last sentence here. This is one of those like Sentences that is loaded with close but no cigars, you know That's what it's about International headlines taking a stance shunning a certain kind of people Galvanizing the left for what exactly well for all the things you just said in the sentence leading up to the question mark at the end Taking as a like you said Ben justedthings you just said in the sentence leading up to the question mark at the end. Taking as a... Like you said Ben, just people who are truly perplexed at the idea that someone could just take a moral position on a thing and say, I'm going to do this because I think it's the right thing to do, not because I'm playing a card, not because I'm trolling somebody, you, not because I'm fucking trying to own the libs or whatever,

just because this person's here, they are the face of this fucking horrifying regime at the moment. And I don't want to work for them right now. I don't want to take that person's money and sit him down and host them and give them a nice meal and make them feel nice. I don't want to give this person comfort in this time. And like that's fine, you can do that. That's a real thing. That's not bigotry. It's not discrimination.

It's just no shoes, no shirt, no fascist regime, no service. You know? Yeah. So should we take a couple of quick questions from the mail bag to close it out? Sure. Hmm. We've got one that is specifically addressed to Lucy. Oh, oh, okay. You're ready? Is it gonna be mean? Am I about to be owned? It's either going to be mean or horny. So be prepared. Folks, it's a little bit of both. Fred of the show, CDK asks, Lucy, fuck Mary Kill. Brett Lee, Shannon, Nol, Lee Harding.

Oh, God. All right. I feel like I already know what you're going to do. I had to look up who Lee Harding was. I'm going to do that too. All right, Ben, what's your assumption? I feel like you're going to marry Lee Harding, correct. Kill Shane Warren, fuck Bradley. It's so easy. Oh wait, Shannon Noll did you say? Shannon Null. Oh, oh. Oh, oh. Brett Lee-Li-Hart. All right, well, I still maintain that you could marry Lee-Harting.

I just feel like that's where that was come. I'll have, yeah, I mean, I wanted to marry Lee-Harding for a very significant portion of the Australian Idol season in whatever year it was. You probably had matching haircuts at the time. We probably did. I don't know if I could kill Shannon Nol, but um... No one could kill Shannon Nol, come on. Brett Lee's got some bad political views. But I mean, he'd...

But he looks like you'd go all right, you know. He would get the job done. He would get the job done. He would have had his wheat bicks if you know what I'm saying. My goodness. Uh, lover of the show, Amy asks, is there any country in the world without a racism problem? Hey, you ready? I'm straightening my tie for this one. Oh, Wakanda. Oh, you did it. You did it. Thank thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank you. Thank you. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. he. he. he. he. he. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. He. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. he. he. he. he. he. he. Thank you. Thank you. straightening my tie for this one. Uh, Wakanda. Oh, Wakanda. Oh, you did it.

You did it. Thank you. I'm trying to think of countries that would be entirely racially homogenous. Iceland. Well, I was thinking that, but I bet there's one black person in Iceland and they're having a horrible time. Just cop on a raw deal. Everyone's like going through. Just getting spat on by Bjork. And all 17 members of Sierra Ross. Hey, can I just say, I just listened to a recent episode of Struggle Session with Leslie Lee the third

and Ricky Rolls and another lady who I was not familiar with and they were talking about Black Panther and I felt extremely vindicated that two prominent black voices said that they were like I was pretty underwhelmed by it as a superhero movie yeah and I was like oh god I'm not a racist anymore. I still woke. Phew. That was tough. It was a rough time for me.

Same that and going, eh. I was like, I don't like this. Yeah, it was just, it was just, it was fine. It was a perfectly reasonable film. It's perfectly reasonable. I'll just blow my dick off. But yes, I recommend struggle session to you folks. Check that one out. Friends of the show.

And one final question from friend of the show, Merza, who says, I'm extremely into strategy and tower defense games. What are some awesome new ones that you've seen lately that you like? I'm directing this at the DO for some reason. Why? Okay. I can't help you man. I have never played a tower defense game in my life.

Yeah, I'm not much of a... I skips that whole tower defense person. Just a question. Would like old Starcraft and Warcraft games counters? No, it started off. So tower defense, to my understanding, started off in... It's like a Warcraft 3 map. That's right, which was, which gave birth to the whole,

the whole genre of, help me out here. Not League of Legends, but... No, I know what you mean. That sort of game. Dota, Dota started off as a Warcraft 3 mod, I think. And that's about, I don't know, I'm terrible, it's strategy. I'm way too anxious to make decisions about what I should do and I just like to sit in a little corner and then I get killed

in the first 10 minutes so I'm not the person to talk to. Yeah I prefer games where I'm the one doing the thing as opposed to kind of saying all right cue up some stuff and then watch that happen. Oh I love I love cuing up stuff and watching it happen but just in my own little world like, like City skylines or something. Yeah, I think Theo and I are very similar in this regard and the thing that we like largely in games is systems that are autonomous and not prone to collapse.

So you build the system up skillfully but it will maintain itself after you've put it into a... It's relaxing. We want to be relaxed and in control. Because that's not how we are in our normal lives. Fine. Well I apologize that we don't have any good answers for you. Yeah, get fucked. I mean, sorry. Should we take one other question that we can try to actually answer? Sure. Oh, okay, I already know the answer to this next one. Friend of the show, Anders, although I want to say it, Anders.

Yeah. Anders, Runders. Um, please do not correct us if we're wrong. Friend of the show, Anders Russell asks, which host will be the first to turn class trader when Sky News comes seeking a well-paid quizzling to be token pinko lefty on another outsider's reboot? And I just want to jump in by saying Lucy. Yeah, that was my first thought. Absolutely be Lucy.

Lucy has always been the first to jump at the opportunity to sell out in any way that it presents itself. Yeah. Like if money is involved I will thi. I, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, like, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, ththe first to jump at the opportunity to sell out in any way that it presents itself. Yeah. Like if money is involved I will take them I'll say whatever the fuck. I want to defend myself somehow but I haven't got anything. I've always had the feeling that you feel that you are ready to jump from being a $20 bottle of wine person to a $30 bottle of wine person. Exactly. Look, it's something something about the gender wage gap. Oh, for fuck sake. I'm working on some kind of defense here, but I'm come back to me.

You could be the next Daisy cousins. That's all I'm saying. I could be. You could be up there. Just watch a bunch of Maggie Smith videos, try and get the voice down. Yeah. Although apparently they do not have the money to help you with your hair. Apparently not. They've got no hair and makeup, that's for sure. They can go from the feet up, but only to the neck.

Right. Only to the neck. They will not help you apply your own 20 shades too dark lipstick. They do not have a stylist that will tell you that the weirdly orangey red you have chosen as your signature lipstick color does not see. With your hair, complex or outfit. Welcome to you guys are bitches. The Cattie bitch podcast. This is queer eye now. All right folks. That's gonna just about do us for this week. Before we go, I just want to share some international news that happened this week that is fucking me up somewhat. This is a short story.

So there was an octopus in Hokkaido, right? A great Pacific octopus that was caught by a fisherman and this fisherman thought, you know what, I'm going to see if this octopus is psychic. So he put... You got to test every octopus. I think they do this for all of them and this one passed a couple of deaths. So he, yeah, this fisherman, before three World Cup matches, Japan's first three World Cup matches, he puts his little baskets in there. One's marked win, one's marked draw, one's marked loss, and this octopus picks three out of three, right?

100% strike rate. It's incredibly talented psychic octopus. And then, seemingly out of nowhere, this fisherman kills the octopus and sends it to a fish market to be sold this food. All right, this is part one of the story. But two of the story is that at Beijing's Palace Museum, they have a number of cats that live there. And they selected one of their cats. I can't remember what the cat's name is, but the cat's name means white spot.

It's this tiny little ginger cat that has a white spot on it. And they do a similar thing, slightly simpler. For a bunch of matches, they put out two bowls of food, one marked with each team's name, right? I just want to say that right now, any like science or statistics nerds that are listening to the show right now, Carl, I'm thinking of you, I'm just fucking furious. All right, well, that octopus did something with a, like it was a one in nine chance to getting that right. It's pretty good. One in nine's not terrible. Got it right. This cat, uh, it doesn't 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, tho, tho, tho, tho, that, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, th. C, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. It gets a couple wrong. It gets six of them right in a row, which is a one and twelve chance of that happening. It's pretty good.

No. No. No. That's two different outcomes. Oh no, it's two to the power of six, isn't it? No, it's a, if it's a 50-50 chance that you're talking about, then the chance of that happening, if chance of getting six in a row right is two to the pair of six. Oh, that's much better than, that's a genius cat. That's amazing. That's genius cat. So, uh, this cat does that. this cat does that. Immediately that's that that that that that th th th th th th th th th th th does that that that th th th th th is th is th is that cat does that. Immediately, immediately after it gets these six correct in a row, the cat is then hospitalized because it has fallen ill and then two days later the museum announces that the cat is dead. Probably ate some poisonous psychic octopus in the fish market. So this happens, these, these animals died within days of each other.

Like, it's fucked up. This is just crazy to me. That like, I always look out for these like the psychic animal yarns, because they're fantastic, right? Because lots of people try them, so there's always going to be some that sort of come out looking good statistically because you know, sier chance or whatever, and then the ones that don't do well are completely forgotten. But the two that have done kind of well that ended up in the news both just fucking died. It was just a very, very strange bit of news.

What a happy story you've brought to us. Yeah, I want, everyone here to to think about that beautiful octopus and that beautiful cat, who are now in heaven together picking the outcomes of World Cup matches. I tentacle porn probably. We got a crime pass this week your crime pass this week is to tase David Lane home. Yeah. Yep. If he listens to this he'll get real mad about it. So hi David. Yeah, it gets fucking mad about everything because he's a huge mad bullshit bitch. Hey actually. If you're in a restaurant and you see like a psychic lobster in a tank or something like that, free it. Yeah. Free it. Yes. Let it free. Just a quick note. Things that we need you to do once you finish listening to this episode. Number one, go to iTunes, leave a five-star review. Five stars, no less.

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