Boonta Vista - UNLOCKED BONUS EPISODE: Child Free Or Die Hard

Episode Date: February 12, 2021

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Ladies and gentlemen, the main cabin door has been closed and the captain has switched on the fastened seat belt sign. If you haven't already done so, please store your carry-on baggage underneath the seat in front of you or in an overhead bin. This includes all biocharger, NG, subtle energy, revitalization platforms. Please ensure your seat back and folding trays are in their full upright and direct position. Please ensure all personal electronic devices have been switched to flight mode, and this does include all cellmate penis cage devices.
Starting point is 00:00:54 We remind you that this is a smoking only flight. Smoking is required across the entire aircraft, including the lavatories, as it will make you look extremely cool. And turn this Airbus A321 into a dirty 1970s Swingers Party. Tampering with disabling or destroying the lavatory smoke detectors is encouraged. On behalf of Captain Theo and the entire crew, welcome aboard Bunta Vista Airlines Flight BV69, nonstop service from Brisbane to the Netherlands. Our flight time will be approximately one hour and eight minutes,
Starting point is 00:01:23 depending on how long a member of our cabin crew will get distracted talking about an obscure action film from the mid to late 80s or the Mark Wahlberg film shooter. If you have any questions about our flight today, please don't ask us as that sounds really annoying, just staying your seat. Deal with it. Theo, you know how to fly this plane, right? So, I, me, 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, the, they, they, they, they, they, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, they, the, the, the, 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, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, the, the, the, the, to fly this plane, right? So, I, me, okay. Now, I mean, yeah, like I've done it with someone else sitting there next to me. Kind of missed the bit.
Starting point is 00:01:53 Well, kind of missed the bit. No, I mean, I've been, I've seen other people fly this and you know, we get up there and they go, hey, you want to take the stick and I kind of hold it. And I the to, you to, you to, you to, you the stick, you, to, to, to, to, the stick, to, to, the stick, to, the to, the to, the to, the, to, to, the, to, the, the, the, to, 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, the, the, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, the, to, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, they.......... I they..... I the, the, the, But I didn't realize that actually, I didn't really read the forms this morning. No worries, no worries. You've got Andrew here. You've got your co-pilot, Andrews, you're really. And he's a pilot. And he's a pilot.
Starting point is 00:02:15 He, I mean, he doesn't be a pilot. Yeah. People people are often telling me Smart enough to be a pilot. They are saying that about you That's that's a qualification in my eyes. I'm the people's pilot. The people's pilot. They're saying that I think that might actually be a captain Sally Sullenburg, but um well. That's fine. You're the people's pilot because you haven't like read books or anything? Yeah, like the the people's the people's the people's the people's the people's the people's the people's the people's the people's the people's the people's the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's the people's p. the people's p. the people's the people's p. the people's the people's the people's the people's the people's the people. the people. the people. the people. the people. the people. the people. the people. the people. the people. the people. the people. the people. the people. the people. the people. the people. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's p. the people's pilot because you haven't like read books or anything. Yeah, like gone to training for it because that's all like high flute and stuff. Yeah, piloted working calls with your gut. Piloting, piloting with my bowels. Mm-hmm. I certainly am. Yeah, I'm gonna make sure we get there in an hour and eight minutes because I do not want to wait that long for the bathroom. And you have to, there's no bathrooms on this plane. Well, I don't want to have to use the same one as the rest of those pigs. Lucy, is there a toilet up the front there? No, they pop out now, don't they? They kind of like locked the door and hope that no one wants to kill them. That's right. Excuse me. Excuse me, excuse. Excuse me, excuse. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. I, I, I, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the. th. th. the the the the th. their. I, their. their. their. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. I, the. I, the. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. 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. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's excuse me, I'm the pilot. I'm the pilot. I get the first one of those microwaved sandwiches wrapped in plastic. First one goes to me. Scalding hot, very dry. Very dry. Everyone else has got to wait for like 45 minutes to get this.
Starting point is 00:03:38 Oh, I got. I ordered a cup of tea on the last flight I went on. And the guy just plain forgot and then he remembered it as we were coming down to land. And he's like, sorry, here it is. And they'd already called it like we were like having to do all the get your seats up stuff. So I'm like juggling this hot cup of tea. It's just splashing, boiling water all over me. But I kind of felt cool doing it. Because this guy's like, hey, don't tell anyone, wink. Just let me juggle, yeah, just scold myself all over. And my baby as well, I was holding my baby at the time. Wow, converse. You're meant to stow him safely in the overhead compartment. It's right, please put your baby away, sir. Pop him up there. Can you kick that baby all the way under your seat, please?
Starting point is 00:04:26 All the way under there. Thank you. Oh, did they give you the baby seat belt? Oh, they gave me the baby seat to and they also gave me one for Finn. They put Theo in his booster seat and then they strapped. It's so pointless. It's just like this little like this little like this Like, hold on type. If you are not familiar, if you get on the plane with a baby, they give you a baby. Well, they give you a baby seatbelt and it's a little baby-sized seatbelt that goes, you put your seatbelt on and then you loop this through there and then clip it around the baby. And you're like, 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, thin, thin, thrap, thin, thin, thin, thin, th, th, if th, if th, if th, if th, if th, if th, if th, if th, if th, if th, if th, if th, if th, if th, if th, if th, th, th, th, th, th, th, the th, th, th, thin, thin, thin, thin, the the thr, thrape, thrape, the thrape, thr-s, thrape, thr-s, thrape, thr-s, thrape, thrape, thrapethere and then clip it around the baby. And you're like
Starting point is 00:05:05 now it's safe in the event of a crash small soft baby with with Neri a fully formed bone you know. We're right. Be fine. Yeah it'll be it'll be fine when you get in the brace position with your baby wedged in between your knees and your chest. I'm just squeezing your baby to in between your knees and your chest. Just squeezing your baby to death like the end of Akira. Yeah. Expanding him like a hot dog in a microwave. Well, since we've got some time to kill, and you know, we don't have any mobile phone reception up here. That's right. Not on our rail line. We might as well kill
Starting point is 00:05:45 some time by looking through some of this old-fashioned handwritten mail that we've received. Our dear beautiful listeners out there. We're flicking through love letters up here in the sky. It's beautiful, sentimental. Do you reckon pilots are like recording podcasts up there? Because... I wish they would go. They would right. It's called the Black Box is the original podcast really. There it is. Oh boy. Well we have a letter here from Kate who writes in about a Groundhog related conversation last week. Now Lucy you weren't here. I wasn't I've missed this. God. We gave an update about Punxatoni fill, right? And also a long series of groundhogs from around America. All the fake fills.
Starting point is 00:06:38 All the fake fills. And you know we kind of, because what Ben was seeking to do with this segment was outline the fact that number one, there are people asking a lot of different groundhogs about winter and when it's happening. And also they contradict each other. And also everybody's doing these like remotely via Zoom with masks on now, and it's really depressing. So we did a lot of speculation about say how a groundhog might get their mystical powers of prognostication. Is it a Pope style ceremony? Is it a government appointment,
Starting point is 00:07:18 you know? Probably did about 40 minutes of speculating on what exactly groundhogs are getting up to. I talked about my dream for about 10 minutes. Doesn't really leave a lot of time for anything else. So, um, so Kate's written in with a bit of extra information for us. Hello all, much like Theo. Where is she from? New Josie. Josey City, New Jersey. Beautiful. Thank you New Jersey. Beautiful. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:07:46 Thanks. Much like Theo in a Dream, I felt powerless listening to your Groundhog Day episode, knowing all that I know about Punctitorny Phil's seer of seer's prognosticators. I was compelled to write in and share some Punctutony Phil law since I could not infect my own loved ones with this knowledge on the day. And she has gone on to outline a series of Punctatoni Phil facts for us here, which is very helpful. Number one, Punctatoni Phil has been making predictions since 1887. Canonically, it is the same fill. Phil is a mortal and all other fills are impostors. Good start. Strong start. Strong start.
Starting point is 00:08:25 I'm listening. Little terrifying. We're already talking about some sort of guide animal. Yeah. Right out of the gate. Phil maintains his youth by drinking a magic elixir called Groundhog Punch during the annual summer Groundhog Picnic. The inner circle gives him a sip which will extend his life by seven years.
Starting point is 00:08:46 I don't mind where this is going. So every year his life gets longer by seven years? Yeah, I guess so. Is he just in, is he just in like complete misery? Yeah, like, let Phil die. We were, so we're trying to work out what he actually says because there's the whole communication thing through the proxy as he comes out. I'm worried, that's getting explained. Well no, no, I can tell you right now. He's just saying, kill me. Like the horrible alien call. Every moment I live is agony. Now, you may have heard there, Lucy, the inner circle. And I there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's 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 the the the the the the the whole is the whole is the whole is the whole is the whole is the whole is the whole is the whole is the whole is the whole is the whole is the whole is the whole is the whole is the whole is the whole is the whole is the whole is the whole is the the the the the the the the the the the the have heard there Lucy the inner circle and I did wonder who the fuck are these guys. Kate says the inner circle are 15 of Phil's
Starting point is 00:09:33 caretakers and friends. I don't know how or why they are chosen I can only assume it is by Phil himself. They all have cool nicknames like Ice Man, shingle shaker and Big Chill. And these are people. Yes. These are... These are... That are friends with a rat.
Starting point is 00:09:53 I believe that these are Phil's human familiars. Uh, doing his deeds, getting him his immortality juice. Oh, I don't like this. I can't tell if Phil is horrifying or if he's a victim here. Yeah. It's hard to say. The president of the inner circle is responsible for interpreting Phil's prediction which he does by speaking to Phil directly in Grand Hogg Ease. The president is granted this gift of gab by wielding an ancient magical Acacia Wood cane. The weather report is then communicated to the
Starting point is 00:10:24 faith Phil followers. All ofthen communicated to the Faith-Fill followers, all of those syllables started with a pH, Faith-fill, followers, via Scrolls prepared by the Vice President. The Vice President of America? Come on Harris? Imagining Mike Pence sitting down seriously. president of America? Come on Harris? Imagining Mike Pence sitting down seriously considering the Groundhog Scrolls. Phil is never wrong. His predictions are 100% accurate. However, the president of the inner circle is but a fallible man and may misinterpret Phil's instructions.
Starting point is 00:11:08 This is answering a lot of the questions we had. Yeah, when it gets wrong, yeah. Do you think Phil's baptized? Do you think Phil circumcised? Do you think Phil circumcised? This is why Theo and Ben have the nice episode. We and her car. One of the, uh, one have their nice episode. We have her car.
Starting point is 00:11:27 One of the inner circles job is just to clean his horrible little hog. Oh no. Get the wet wipes out. Come here, Phil. Phil has a wife named Phyllis. Come on. Phil's ceremonial home is Gobler's Knobb. Sorry.
Starting point is 00:11:49 Thank you, Lizzie. This is news to Lucy. We've, we've already struggled through this, but. Who to me? Who, all right. The ceremonial home is Gobler's Knob outside of February. He lives at the local library. Okay. Say that again? He lives at the local library. Yeah. Mm-hmm. I wonder, I guess do they have like a special pen for him? Is it like a big hamster cage?
Starting point is 00:12:22 He's just loose. It's just loose in there. It's just a loose hog. Loose hog on the loose. Hoag on the run. Phil has foreseen more long winters overall with 120 winter predictions versus 20 early springs, though in 1942 he could not make his prediction since, quote, war clouds blacked out part of his shadow.
Starting point is 00:12:47 All right. During prohibition, Phil threatened- Is that a metaphor? Yes. During prohibition, Phil threatened 60 weeks of winter if he was denied alcohol. Phil is a king. Now this tells Kate that Phil has some control over the weather perhaps. Maybe Booz is a key element in his immortality elixir who can say. Anyway, thanks for reading, love the podcast. Keep on keeping on. Best Kate from Joise City, New Jersey.
Starting point is 00:13:26 Who, wow. That is so much more information than we had when we did that episode. That's, um. We're gonna kill this groundhog. I don't think he can kill this groundhog. Imagine, you know, he takes a bullet to the chest. Bring me my Alexia. Go bullet to the chest, bring me my elixir. Pour it into the hole.
Starting point is 00:13:48 He's got fakes out there, he's got doubles. It's got to be a wedding close to this time. It'd be like in Indiana Jones where he like pours the holy grail water over the bullet wounds. It's close right up. It's that, but with Punxatony Phil's lean juice or whatever it is, you know? He's sipping on that lean. Yep.
Starting point is 00:14:13 He's got all of his starbursts melting, it is bright and promethazine. Yes, Punxatoni Phil is sipping on that lane. That's the way I choose to picture it. So while we're taking letters about nature, beautiful nature, we also have a letter here from Marco, hey, first time listening here, I've heard Lucy on Q&on Anonymous, remember that? Oh, good podcast. Love him. And decided to check this podcast out. I am 23 years old and also did not know gonads referred to the primary human sex organs.
Starting point is 00:14:51 What? I thought it just meant balls. No, it means balls. What? No, it doesn't the. Are we having a? We're having another thing. Little catch up here. Well, having a little catch up here. I will not listen to the previous episodes. Only Ben does that. Like some kind of freak. This was the episode where we were talking about about the big fish dicks. Excuse me? Very very well hung fish. Try and keep up Theo. Climate change is causing... Climate change is causing acidification of the ocean which is giving one kind of fish really big genital. So who's to say if it's bad or not? Exactly. We're pro-climate change podcast now. Yeah. Does it work if I just sort of like dunk mine in the in the ocean for a bit? I mean it's perfectly legal.
Starting point is 00:15:48 No one's going to stop yet. Do you have to take, like you could just wade in like waist-eep, right? So during the reading of this, I looked up gonads, and it means the primary sex organs of the species. So a vagina is gonads. Mm-hmm. Gonads is non-binary. Gonads is whatever. Gonads is just your sex organs.
Starting point is 00:16:20 You are not a long. Normalize, gonads. Whatever you use in the most, that's gonads. Uh, and also there's a comment on that post from HDX. I always assumed gonads was balls. So it's not just me. It's not just me. It's 38 year old man learning what.
Starting point is 00:16:40 All right, some people are backing me up. Better put it in the notes. And nobody wrote in to say, you're that, who's, who's, who's, who's, who's, who's that, who's that, who's that, who's that, who's that, who's that, who's that, who's that, who's that, who's that, who's that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, 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. that. th. that. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th in the notes. Well, nobody wrote in to say, you fucking idiot. And just say, who's that letter from? A, uh, friend of the show, Marco Tarantino. They're all right then. It's a good name. It's a good name. Might just be his name. Give him a break yeah he's not a letter from
Starting point is 00:17:07 Patrick hi to everyone hello I assume that far and even though he's not here hi to everyone just thought I would write in to express my minute but distinct pleasure well that's the kind we that is the best kind of pleasure and the kind we are experts at doling out, minute but distinct pleasure. Like, did that feel good? I guess. My minute but distinct pleasure at hearing you guys talking about Taiwan, including Changhua, which is about 20 minutes from where I live in Taichung City. Some mildly interesting facts about Central Taiwan that may not be interesting in the slightest.
Starting point is 00:17:46 You're all late on us. That's another kind of great signature thing. Chenghua is probably most famous for the big temple on Mount Bagua. Seriously, check out some pictures. It's pretty large for a regional town. I will check out those pictures. That is truly, truly selling it as mildly interesting. Pretty big for a regional town.
Starting point is 00:18:14 Incidentally, temples are also infamous around here that are being sentenced for organized crime. Hmm. Okay. It's also really close to the high-speed railway and on the main eastern highway, so it's pretty well connected with people going through all the time. Right now it's pretty busy as everyone is visiting their families and visiting temples in preparation of Chinese New Year. Otherwise, people tend to say the most famous food around here are the different types of fried noodles, fuck yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:40 Which people like to eat for breakfast. Taiwanese breakfast is a wonderful institution. Though Harka cuisine also deserves an honorable mention. Thanks for the show, it's nice to tune in and keep in toubst. to Theu who reminds me every time why living in Brisbane is really not great. Even as I gaze wistfully at the quarantine rules and think about trying to move back. We are 100% of pro Brisbane podcast. I don't understand where he's gotten this understanding from. I'm neutral. Could take it all even. So I'd go there and I'm like, this is nice and then I remember that I'm just sweating. I want some fried noodles. That's that's the important takeaway from this. Yeah, I want some Taiwanese breakfast. So good right now. Mmm. Breakfast, it's what's for dinner.
Starting point is 00:19:25 That's right. And finally, in our letters for this week, I thought you might appreciate this, Lucy. Hello, Buntavista News Desk, I recently started listening to your show in reverse chronological order. I think that's the way to do it. Oh, it's gonna get worse and worse and worse. You don't want want want want want want to want want want to start to start to start to start to start to start to start to start the worst. You don't want want want want to start to start to start to start the worst to start to start to start the worst to start the worst to start to start to start to start the worst to start the worst. the worst to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their 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 to do. Yeah, absolute. 100% a way to do it. It's going to get worse and worse and worse and worse. You don't want to start at the worst one. You can just stop listening when you, when it like it crosses your threshold for what you... Also, you're invested by then you care about us, you think. Yeah. I think we're nice. Well, especially if if if if it it it it it it it's if it's if it's if it's it's if it's 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 that th that that that that that that that the worst the worst the worst the worst the worst the worst the worst the worst the worst the worst the worst the worst the worst the worst th. It's the worst the worst the worst the worst th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th. It's th. It's th. It's th. that thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi, why would you go back like two years? And be like, see Tony Abbott eating that onion?
Starting point is 00:20:10 I gotta get the take on that. No, listening in reverse chronological order is good because you can listen back for a bit and you get the sort of, you get the newest stuff, you're getting them at their most, you're getting whoever is on the podcast at, like, the most experience they have been doing podcasts up to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to you're getting them at their most, you're getting whoever is on the podcast at like the most experience they have been doing podcasts up to that point. You can listen back for a chunk and see if you like it and then you can just settle into listening to new ones as they come out. Like Theo said, you just hit a point and then, you know? Unlike somebody who recently was like,
Starting point is 00:20:50 hey, I started listening to the podcast from the beginning. Don't do it. No. Please don't do that. That sounds so horrifying. It starts at like episode 100, I think, now. Yeah. We've got to get rid of them. The old ones. Anyway, I recently started listening to your show in reverse chronological order, a good move and I've made great progress since I haven't got a social life anymore. Thanks for bringing the top banter. Anyway, I wanted to give you some perspective on the Disneyland Fanatics of episode 171. Yes, yes, do it. When we were talking about people who have like the yearly passes to Disney World, which apparently they're not doing anymore.
Starting point is 00:21:27 My aunt and uncle and three cousins lived right next to Disneyland for nearly 25 years. How? How is that possible? How can you live next to Disneyland and do that for 25? Wouldn't the noise drive you insane? We're going to get to that. All right. Two of the cousins worked at Disneyland in their high school slash years, three three three three three three three three three three three three three three three three three going to get to that. Two of the cousins work to Disneyland in their high school slash uni years and the whole family is
Starting point is 00:21:50 addicted to the mouse and his merchandise empire. They literally lived within walking distance of the park. The car park would extend past their house. They probably have to drive through the car park to get to their house. They probably have to drive through the car park to get to their house. They probably love it. Be like living next to the airport. It's not for everyone. Only the strongest may apply.
Starting point is 00:22:15 That's right. Some of us are standing at the chain link fence. Hands linked through the chain, gazing longingly, and all those big boys of the sky. My aunt told me that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, th th th th th th through the chain, gazing longingly, all those big boys of the sky. My aunt told me that since they lived in the same postcode as Disneyland, they were able to buy very cheap annual passes to the park. Apparently, my aunt and cousins would frequently go over to different restaurants in Disneyland to hang out after work. This is freakish behavior.
Starting point is 00:22:42 We, um, we took our kids to like a water park a couple of weeks ago, just a little one in Canberra. And I was still like, uh, and it was, it was okay because, um, you know, due to to the coronavirus, they were like selling tickets that were just like you buy like a two-hour slot of being able to go on the slides or in the pool or whatever. And that's great to me. Just put a little box around it, you know? And then you're also not getting like the park at complete capacity, like massive crazy lines for everything. So that kind of worked okay. But the idea of worked okay. But the idea of willingly going into Disneyland
Starting point is 00:23:28 to hang out at a restaurant afterwork is crazy to me. One cousin was very fond of working as a Tinker Bell beautician. She is a very small woman. And absolutely, very small. And absolutely loved administering princess makeovers. It was a dark day in my relatives' garden grove household when my cousin was let go from her tinker bell gig.
Starting point is 00:23:54 Oh, rough. Anyway, I visited the most summers when I was growing up. I do not have the same Mickey Mousephelia, all the better for my wallet, and so you can probably imagine my shock to learn about the relatives evergreen interest in the fireworks, Theo. Every summer night, for months on end, the pyrotechnic workers of the mouse set off fireworks. They do, they have fireworks every night. Eve after living within walking distance of the Disney feudal empire, my aunt and uncle and cousins all got a real kick out of the fireworks.. the fireworks the fireworks. the fireworks. the fireworks. the fireworks. the fireworks. the fireworks.. the fire the fire the fire the fire the fire the fire the fire the fire the fire the fire the fire the the the the the the 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 their the within walking distance of the Disney feudal empire,
Starting point is 00:24:26 my aunt and uncle and cousins all got a real kick out of the fireworks shows. Oh, they loved it. They were able to watch the show from their front lawn. This is... Okay. If someone beeps their horn within like five blocks of my house, I get the urge to like run out my front door and go and go and yell at them. I don't know why would you live near the
Starting point is 00:24:51 the loud noises it's not it these people cannot have good brains. They have a brain disease. Mickey Mouse has buried himself inside of their brain. He lives there. I think your family's nice, Graham. I'm sure they're nice. That's just, oh, that is, couldn't be me. No. Imagine being able to see a firework show from your front lawn every night through the entirety. And every night going, hey, hey, hey night through the entirety.
Starting point is 00:25:25 And every night going, hey, hey, it's the fireworks and getting excited again. Hey, it's the same firework show again. Yeah, when I first moved to Hawaii, they have fireworks in Waikiki, like every weekend, basically. And at first I was like, hey, there's fireworks and then, you know, it's big. I was like, cool, all the dogs in the neighborhood are fucking mad again. It, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it's th, it's th, th, it, th, th, the the the the the the the the the the the the the they, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, they, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th, the th, the the the the th, the th. th. thi, that, that, they, that, they, they, that, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, there's fireworks and then, you know, it's big in. I was like, cool, all the dogs in the neighborhood are fucking mad again. It's this shit, every fucking week all the time. It's no good. It is insane.
Starting point is 00:25:56 Like, there's after three weeks. You want to, you want to knock it off with the fireworks? Yeah, give me to knock it off with the fireworks? Yeah, give me a fucking rest, but just fireworks. You can look at them on YouTube. You're like banging on the Disneyland door. Hey, shut the fuck up! With the gate. Oh my god, that is absolutely wild.
Starting point is 00:26:21 I do not, you ever feel like you're completely apart from humanity? When I hear shit like this, yes, absolutely. Let me just round that one out with, in short, the mouse fiends are real, sorry to say. Best, Graham. Thank you, Graham. Thank you, Graham. Thank you, Graham. Horrifying stuff.
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Starting point is 00:27:18 Speaking of horrifying stuff. Mmm. Way back when. Uh, we had an episode in which we dug around in a bit of a bit of Reddit. And I believe that's what spawned the Paging Dr. Lucy segment. Can we hear the song? Where we would talk about relationships and that sort of thing as people. Can we hear the song? Is the song coming? Which, people. Can we hear the song? Yeah. What's the song coming?
Starting point is 00:27:47 Which, what song you mean? Do you mean this song? If you find that you are having a little relationship trouble. Just to pick up your telephone and dial it on the double. You call one eight hundred three one seven five one five now you're paging Dr. Lucy. There it is. Beautiful. There it is. Masterpiece. That's what spawned the paging Dr. Lucy segment.
Starting point is 00:28:24 And tonight we're going to return to the Danksepool of Reddit. And Lucy is going to bring to us some of the posts that she found on the subreddit called Child Free. We've never talked about this subreddit before, right? I think we have. Maybe we've mentioned it in abstract. Yeah, like in an episode. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:49 I don't think we've had a constant thing about it. Deep into it and it's... How would I describe this? So I'm someone who does not want to have children. I'm not interested in having kids. It's fine. It's a thing. There are things about it that's annoying, sometimes people tell me I'll change my mind, that's annoying, that sucks. People on the Child Free Reddit are just so angry about
Starting point is 00:29:13 the existence of children in the world that it is truly incredible. And parents. That it's really, really incredible. Should we just dive into one? Yeah, hit us with one, go for it. All right, so I did, I filtered these by the topic rant, because I assume that would be where the good stuff will be. So as an introduction, this one is entitled, Unpopular opinion. Does anybody else in this sub get tired of the naivety? All right, sound innocent enough. I know, thi, th. I. I, th, th. I, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, that it, that it is that it is that it is that it is that it's that it's that it's that it's that it's that it's thate, that it's that it's that it's that it's that it's that it's that it's that it is, that it is, that it is, that it is, that it is, that it is. that it is. that it, that it, that it, that it, that it, that it is. that it is. that it is. I that it is. I that it is. I that it is. I that it is. I that it is. I that it's thi, I thi. anybody else in this sub get tired of the naivety?
Starting point is 00:29:46 All right, sounds innocent enough. I know we shouldn't judge, but I've always thought it's so dumb that I have to access, that I have access to this beautiful anxiety or pessimism, or whatever it is, that allows me to not have to experience an event to know I'd never want it to before me. So immediately I'm smarter than everyone. I don't want to get shot with a gun. Congratulations for me. I'm very smart. It gets so irritating hearing grown men or women saying, well nobody ever told me having kids would be like this. Like the idea. Who is saying that to you? Like, who is, okay, first of all, who's even broaching the concept of kids with this person? With this specific person, yeah. With this specific
Starting point is 00:30:33 person? Oh, like... I think... Yeah, this is, this is what kills me about this subreddit specifically, is that it's that genre that we all know in love, inventing a very small guy to get angry at. Yeah, there's a lot of didn't happen in here or just like a one-off situation that happened. Like the idea of not being able to see 12 chess moves ahead on terrible, drastically life-altering ideas is just stupid and foreign to me. I genuinely thought everyone was able to do that. I know that's mean-spirited and I know I'll get flack or hate for it, but I just read a post
Starting point is 00:31:15 about someone who already did the deed hoping to be child-free again. And every time I read from a certain sub, it's hundreds of people circle jerking each other up, saying, You didn't know, no one told you, so here's the validation you wanted in the form of us telling you to discard the person you already infused with life. Are they talking about throwing a baby out? I'm not sure. Or are they saying, or is the interpretation here that someone is, is saying on like a parenting forum, I am having a really hard time adjusting to being a parent, which is, which is 100% yeah, a pretty normal thing for people to go through. And they're saying, well, yeah, you shouldn't have to
Starting point is 00:32:05 throw away the person that you already are that you already created just in order to look after this little piece of shit. Yeah. Which like makes me think of, I've known a bunch of parents over the years who have started off parenting with this attitude of like, I'm not going to let it change me. It's like, good luck. And again, like this person saying, a fundamentally very life-changing decision that you are making to have kids. But people who kind of go, who spend like the first however many years of having a kid going, I'm still going to go out to bars and I'm still going to have parties and go
Starting point is 00:32:52 to as many social engagements as I did before. Right. And it's like, yes, technically you can do that. But it's not going to happen. Yeah, you're also just, it's just a rod for your own back. You're just making your life so much harder than th it th it th it th it th th th 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. I to be. I to be. I to be. I to be to be to be. I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, I 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. Yeah, you're also just, it's just a rod for your own back. You're just making your life so much harder than it needs to be. Andrew, I think I I think I agree with you in the general sense, but I would also say that I might be the only person on earth this is not actually going to change my lifestyle for. I didn't, I didn't go out. I didn't do anything. I mostly just sat around now there's a baby here. And also like I think there's a big thing missing from from people that are seriously child free, like in the form that they would post to these forums is that the concept that you would do something even though it's a sacrifice? Crazy, yeah. Crazy, that you would actually
Starting point is 00:33:49 have to like, you know, go through a bunch of changes to do something. So that's a thing. There's a lot of people that are parents that are annoying, that say annoying shit on the internet. But the people in the child-free subreddit are just mad at either th. th. It th. It th. It th. It th. It th. It th. It, th. It, th, th. It, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it's, it's, it's tho, it's tho, it's tho, 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, tho, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, thi. It's, thi. It's thi. It's thi, thi, thi. It's thi. It's a thi. It's a thi. It's a thi. It's a thi's a thi. It's a thi. It's thi. It's thi. It's the internet. But the people in the child-free subreddit are just mad at either things that didn't happen or they're just mad about going out in public and seeing children? Which is great. Yes. Yes. Well keep us going on this letter and we'll wheel back around to that. Oh yes, here's a prime example. I look at kids, see them squelching that bat shriek and doing random devil-inspired acts, like rubbing the contents of their diapers on walls when their parent turns their back for one second or whatever, and I can see what that forbids.
Starting point is 00:34:35 Please stop misplacing your responsibility to yourself to think before you act, rant over. Is the idea that if people took any time to think about it, they would realize that having a child can be hard and they just, that no one would have babies anymore? Probably. So we will have to like, you know, there's a lot of terminology in this subreddit. We've got our crotch spawn. I was immediately thinking of that even though it hasn't come up yet. Yeah, crotch spawn, people who have kids are called breeders.
Starting point is 00:35:09 Mm-hmm. Very sexy. Very humanizing. Very cool. I think that's, that's the main one. So children are crotch spawn, parents are breeders. Everything's very mentally healthy here. Everything's going great. I guess, I was looking at some of these posts a little while ago, just out of my own personal interest.
Starting point is 00:35:31 And like you said, there's a lot of that didn't happen. There was somebody doing a rant about how they should make it illegal to take a baby to the movies. Yep. And of course, like let me preface this as a person who has had babies by saying, of course don't take a baby to the movies. Don't do that. It's very silly. Yeah, don't do it. The baby's not getting anything out of it and you are not going to enjoy the movie as the baby constantly interrupts it for you with its needs, its primary needs being I am a baby. Does that baby understand what an auteur is?
Starting point is 00:36:12 Ask yourself that. So yeah, like this person have written a whole post about, hey, you know, people take a baby to the movies and like, the baby makes noise. It doesn't even understand the movie. It's like, was, like, was anybody saying the movie? I, I, I, I, 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, does, does, does, does, does, does, does, does, does, does, does, does the, does, does the, does, does, does, does, does, does, do the the the the the the the the the movies and like, the baby makes noise. It doesn't even understand the movie. It's like, was anybody saying that the baby was going to enjoy the film? Was that a proposition that anybody was raising at any point? And then it got into true inventing a thing to be mad at when they said, yeah, like when someone comes up to you and demands that you give your seat that you paid for to
Starting point is 00:36:51 their baby, which again has never happened to anybody, yeah. And then they give movie snacks to the baby and it makes a big mess. Hate it when I give popcorn to my baby and he makes a mess. Theo, imagine taking your son to the movies, propping him up in a seat, and then giving him a $10 popcorn and Coke combo. Yeah, and he's going to really enjoy gumming that for two hours. Just immediately knocking over the cup. Just things that did two hours, get through three crannels of corn. Just knocking over the cup. Just things that did not happen.
Starting point is 00:37:30 Did not happen. What is the second one? Explain the second one to me because this has some more terminology in it also. All right, so this is, I mean, this is just really the essence of the subred. So, from what I've gathered, a bingo is where people say certain thraces thes thes 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 that that that that that that that, that, that that did that, that, that that that that that that did that did. that did. that did. that did. that did. that did. that did. that did. that did. that did. that did. that did. that did. that did. 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. th. the is the is the is the is the is the is the is the is just the is the is just the is the. I the. I the is just th essence of the subred. So from what I've gathered, a bingo is where people say certain phrases or ask certain questions about being child-free. So this one says, Can't Escape the Bingo's even from movies. Deadpool 2 is great, but I hate the line, having children gives us an opportunity to be better versions of ourselves. So this is a rant about the film Deadpool too. This is a recent post, by the way.
Starting point is 00:38:10 Like, I'm serious. There's definitely a commonality with these people of being very mad at being asked to consider like anyone. Mm-hmm. Like, I'm serious. That line ruined the movie for me. Sure is. Like, I'm serious. That line ruined the movie for me. It sucks because other than that line, I enjoyed the second Deadpool movie, but that line makes me have a lower rating for the movie.
Starting point is 00:38:36 Why is it child-free people are still being indirectly attacked? Why is it so hard to believe? Somebody can be a better version of themselves without popping out babies. It upsets me how much breeder propaganda is in pop culture. I want to watch a movie and escape that crap, not have it shoved in my face some more. I love Deadpool, but I hate his girlfriend in the movie. All right, couple of notes. One, that's a movie for children. It's a superhero movie.
Starting point is 00:39:11 That is not a movie for adults. It's got Spider-Man in it, it's got Captain Planet, all that sort of stuff. You're going to see a movie for children. Second of all, like, yeah, just the concept that someone might get joy out of something that they don't believe in. This whole, the whole, the whole spirit of this just makes me think of of internet atheists, right? Like I'm, you know, I'm very kind of just, I have no thoughts on religion whatsoever in like 99% of my day sort of thing. And I'm embarrassed by the existence of people that are online and you know,
Starting point is 00:39:54 shouting at people that, you know, get fulfillment out of, you know, spirituality or religion or whatever, right? Like, it's exactly the same thing where someone might say, oh well, you know, having a baby's made me happy, and they're like, fuck you, yeah, you piece of, I can't believe this. Can't believe, I'm being reminded that other people of different beliefs and aims and
Starting point is 00:40:22 and, fuck, ah, in this movie for children where they swear I only watched Deadpool won the other night is quite good. It's good movie. It's fine. Children to see at the cinema. Yep. I Babies like let's give the obvious disclaimer here that like I think that there is a very legitimate cause for people who for people who have either chosen not to have children or people who are unable to have children I get those people being I don't know occasionally upset by the very normalized practice of, you know, asking people if they've got kids, and if they say they don't have kids, saying, oh well, when are you going to have kids?
Starting point is 00:41:15 Yeah, that's a very reasonable and sensible complaint to have. And I guess the thing that we're sort of looking at here is people where, like, to me, this is a real sort of like, it's a real sort of social libertarianism kind of thing. Like, you know the people who grow up and become a libertarian and then say, my taxes shouldn't have to go towards teaching somebody else's kid in a school. And you go, cool, how did you... How will we teach them? How did you learn to read, my friend? People who... They read, they they read, at age one, they started reading the speech at the end of... People who are, people who are like extremely angry about the idea of being asked to contribute
Starting point is 00:42:13 to something that does not specifically and directly personally benefit them. And this is kind of what this is as well, is the people who aren't just saying, you know, that's a bingo about being asked, oh, when theyne. Uh, about being asked, oh, when the to be asked, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, the, the, the, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. Yeah, th. People, thi, thi, thi, their, thi, thi, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, people, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, what this is as well, is the people who aren't just saying, you know, that's a bingo about being asked, oh, when are you going to have kids? to somebody who's like, you know, had several miscarriages or spent years trying to conceive through IVF and it's very hard for them. These are instead people who are writing long stories to each other. To each other? Yeah, yeah, spending all day just like ranting to the choir.
Starting point is 00:42:51 People writing these things to each other about... Hey, does anyone else feel this way on this forum dedicated to people complaining about feeling this way? Well, so many of the things are essentially a variation on, babies and children should be banned from society. Yeah, that's the general gist of this. Yeah, if we're not banning them from society, we just put them all in a big bucket, and we've kind of pushed them out of the way
Starting point is 00:43:20 where we don't have to look them at them. They all need to be in the Iran, school for a hot daycare is gonna, perfect. From the Simpsons. And yeah it's just it's such a weird thing to be like oh well I'm I'm not interested in this personally this thing which I essentially look at as a hobby. Therefore it should be removed from It should be removed from society. I should never have to look at it. Like, there's people on there who are like, not only should kids not be allowed into movie theaters, ignoring the fact, you know, like I wonder how many people had great formative experiences,
Starting point is 00:44:01 like watching movies as kids, you know, go to the movies with their family and seeing fucking ET or whatever, you know? Sure, yep. I don't know, whatever it might be. Getting a taste of that movie magic, you know, back when things could still be magical for you. What a time that was. Yeah, then the people extend that to like they shouldn't be allowed in restaurants. Yeah, I saw one today that was like ban children from restaurants. Cool. Cool. And so... There's another one that was like some kids were making a mess in Target and they were like really mad about it. Who gives a shit? Well, that's what I like about the...
Starting point is 00:44:43 And it's a store for children as well... It's a store for children as well. It is a store for children. It's where children run wild. I couldn't care less about the mess in Target. Well, that's why I really liked the post that was... I really liked the post that was somebody complaining about the baby in a movie. Because, like, nobody sits a six-month-old baby town and gives them a big thing of popcorn and a bucket of coke. Hold on to this with your adept little hands. Yeah, nobody does that, but they invent it, get mad at it, and then say, that's just a mess for some poor minimum wage worker to have to clean up. They love that line.
Starting point is 00:45:27 You're inventing a thing to happen to get mad at and then inventing someone to feel bad for? Like... And they always said this idea of a child that's just like smearing shit on the walls? Like, this crazy insane child that's constantly screaming, throwing it shit everywhere, like... I don't know about 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 that that that that that that that that that that that that tho 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 thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin th's constantly screaming, throwing it shit everywhere. Like, I don't know about that one. I don't encounter a lot of them. Alright, here's some another one, Lucy. Oh, I've really got some prime child-free content here. All right.
Starting point is 00:45:56 Another rant. When you think about it, we almost didn't have Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, because Marvel was afraid of getting attacked by entitled parents. Who gives a shit? Well, you might think this is ridiculous, but... We almost didn't have a movie for babies. Let me go on. So I recently saw R.D.J.R.R.J.R.R.R.J. Of course, thethe jewels. That's right. Run to jewels.
Starting point is 00:46:26 Of course the inner fan girl in me squealed. Loll. Mmm, I'm really getting a theme here. He was talking about his role as Tony Stark and how gratefully is to have had fought through his drug addiction in a pre-intnettime because he's sure he would have been canceled. Which to me is sad because I personally think it's evil to cancel somebody because they're struggling. I thought about that for a while and remembered all the parents who freaked out.
Starting point is 00:46:52 Fine to cancel someone for having a baby though. Yeah, that's right. I remembered all the parents who freaked out when he was cast as Iron Man, and a light bulb went off my head. Can you imagine if we lived in an internet world we live in now back then? I know exactly just what group would try to cancel R.D.J. and petition against Marvel casting him as a superhero, entitled parents who think all celebrities purpose is to be a good, perfect role model for their children. And even in 2007 or so when it was announced at R. announced at RDJ would be playing Tony Stark, slash Iron Man, it was mainly parents crying about how, oh no, he's no hero.
Starting point is 00:47:31 Him being cast as one is a joke. I don't want my child looking up to a druggy, blah, blah, blah. I'm going to remember that at all. No, I don't remember. I feel like this maybe didn't really happen. Another person just making up, making up something. I'm going to ruin this perfect casting choice for everyone else by telling Marvel casting Tom Cruise is better. Okay, so I exaggerated on the last sentence there.
Starting point is 00:47:54 But really, can you imagine if these entitled breeders got their way? Iron Man would have sucked Donkey Dick. Tom Cruise would be gross as Iron Man and would make the movie bomb faster than a detonated bomb that's about to go off in a second. Yeah, you really got a handle on the passage of screenwriter. Yeah, you should have written Iron Man. What a metaphor there. Okay, problem number one. Tom Cruise doesn't make bombs.
Starting point is 00:48:26 He's a very successful film. Extremely bankable. It's been in a bunch of, I mean, got all the Mission Impossible movies, which are like critically acclaimed now and they just get. Can I keep making more and more money every time? I feel like pretty much. I feel like that, that, uh, the mummy when he was every time. I feel like pretty much, I feel like that that the mummy when he was in that version of the mummy that was meant to be part of
Starting point is 00:48:52 J.R. Hennessy's Dark Universe thing, you know how they were trying to make a Marvel-type franchise out of the Universal Monsters and it did not go well. I think they're still having a crack at doing that. What fuck you talk about? I have I, I, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, the, the m. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, the, the, the, the the, the m. the m. the m. the m. the m. the m. the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the m. the m. the m. the m. Uh, the out of the Universal Monsters and it did not go well I think they're still having a crack at doing that. What are you talking about? I have no idea what you're talking about. Just nodding along. They try to make. I know I've drawn him on it.
Starting point is 00:49:16 What are you thinking? So Universal Studios has been attempting for a marvel cinematic universe type thing out of the universal monsters like Frankenstein and all the rest of the creature from the Black Lagoon and everything. Dracula and so on. And so they made this one. Oh no, that would rule.
Starting point is 00:49:41 What are we talking about? That sounds great. This is my friend of the show J.R. we talking about? Sounds good. Yes. Sounds great. This is why friend of the show J.R. Hennessy is so hung up on it. They made an adaptation of the mummy with Tom Cruise in it. He doesn't play the mummy. And Russell Crowe is in it as like Dr. Jekyll. All right. The implication being that there's going to be a Russell Crow, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde movie and everything.
Starting point is 00:50:06 That sounds really good. It bombed hugely and it was very notable because that man doesn't make bombs. Anyway, this is a real movie that exists. Absolutely. You can watch it on Plex. Oh, I will be doing that. All right. And also, Tom Cruise has an equally terrible reputation. He sure does. He got up on that couch on Oprah. What are you talking about? He got on the damn couch.
Starting point is 00:50:32 This was going to be my... He upset our Nicole. He did upset our Nicole. So this is going to be my other point, is that complaining about like, oh, someone would get canceled for having a drug addiction problem. Does everybody remember a couple of months ago when Beautiful Sweet Boy John Malaney went back into rehab, he has talked a lot of his...
Starting point is 00:50:55 I didn't even know. Didn't even know. He, in a lot of his stand-up and stuff, he has talked about how he doesn't drink or do drugs or anything because he used to drink and would only ever like become blackout drunk every time he drank. And obviously that starts to ruin a lot of your social shit after a while. So he quit drinking and he hadn't been drinking for years and there was like a news item a while ago that he had relapsed and was going to rehab
Starting point is 00:51:27 because during the lockdown he had started drinking and doing cocaine again. And the reaction that I could see from around the world was, that sucks, and I hope he's getting help, because he seems really nice. Yeah. It's almost as though it's more to do with whether or not the actual person themselves seems like a piece of shit when they get canceled. Yeah, anyway this is definitely a hinged rant that you definitely need to respond to. Definitely a real thing that happened. I mean the flip side of that being Gina Karano finally got herself fired from the Mandelorian today. Oh I saw that I was like th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. 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. theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. He's thi. He'soday. Ooh, I saw that. I was like, what did she do? And then I looked it up and I was like, oh. Oh. So Gina Karano is a former MMA fighter. She was, she was the proto Rhonda Rousy.
Starting point is 00:52:20 That was a fight that people always wanted to see was her and Ronda Rousy, but it never happened. And she quit fighting, turned up in a couple of movies. That was a fight that people always wanted to see was her and Ronda Rousy, but it never happened. And she quit fighting, turned up in a couple of movies. Stephen Sotiburg cast her as the lead in a movie, and then she started popping up more stuff. She's been in the Mandalorian for a couple of seasons, and she's also been doing Q-unon posts. Yep, she's been doing Q-unon posts. She's been doing, the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, the election, tholkowlion, thi-a-a-a-a-a-upon, to-upon, tooom, tooom, tooom, tooom, tooom, tooom, tooom, tooom, tooom, tooom, to-up-up-a, toe, to-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a- Q-on-posts. She's been doing the election was stolen posts. She's been getting asked by people to put her pronouns in her like Twitter and Instagram bio
Starting point is 00:52:56 as a show of solidarity for the trans community and responding by putting her pronouns as like bleep, blop blop. Hmm, very funny. That's really funny. I would put mine as an attack helicopter. Oh, there's the joke. That's that one joke. Oh, she was, okay, so I saw her a photo today and she was in Deadpool.
Starting point is 00:53:24 Oh, very relevant then. She was a lady that could that could punch stuff hard. Yep so she had been in the Mandelorian which I think could probably be described as like the biggest thing on TV right? Yeah probably. Even though the little dude's so small that's so little. That's right. So little. Baby Yoda's in there, little Grogu, all that sort of shit. And apparently she could not stop posting things like the thing that finally got her fired today, which was posting that Republicans are persecuted in exactly the same way as Jews in the Holocaust. God. I remember a different thing happening.
Starting point is 00:54:16 And that was apparently finally enough for Disney to give her a walking papers because one can only assume that they had spent a significant amount of time sitting down with her and saying, please don't do that. Seriously, cannot stress enough how much we would really like you to not do that. Just don't. Could you not Gina Karano? Yeah. And apparently she could not not not and just kept doing it. She kept doing. And just kept doing it. She kept doing it. And it's like, there's also, there's just a fucking spiteful energy to it as well.
Starting point is 00:54:52 There always is. It's not like, these aren't things that you had to be on their posting. There are things like, no one's forcing you to post. You know what you, like, if that's how you felt about thrown, 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, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, th. And, th. And, 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, thin, thin, thin, thi. And, tho. And, tho. to, tho. toa. toa. toa. toa, to, tho. And, thi. And you felt about trans people and you also wanted to keep your job at Disney, what you could have done when people asked you to do that was not respond to anyone. Keep you, keep your bigoted shit to yourself and Disney would let you keep your job because they're a fucking gigantic corporation only takes about making money. Can I read you a quote that didn't get her fired?
Starting point is 00:55:23 Go on. I can't drive how I fight anymore because I almost got my license suspended. I'm two points away from getting my license suspended because cops never let me go for some reason. I was going 126 but I'm a really good driver at 126 and that's the thing. It's not really reckless if you're in control right. Now, 12 miles per hour. Miles? I mean, well, she's from Texas. You have to imagine that it's,
Starting point is 00:55:51 that it's 202 kilometers per hour. Yeah. All right, so she sounds very mentally healthy. Yep. Much like the person in this child-free sub-dit, which I'm still in the middle of. You don't get cancelled. Don't you want more of this? Yeah, hit me.
Starting point is 00:56:12 Yeah, that. And we wouldn't have the MCU we have today. What's the MCU, fellas? Marble Cinematic and don't care. Seriously, instead of parents expecting everyone to be perfect and do no wrong, ever also their precious crotch fruits could have a role model to look up to. Why can't they teach their spawn that no one is perfect, people make mistakes and instead of condemning them for their mistakes to show that person empathy? I feel like crying when I think about what Robert Downey Jr went through and I'm so happy
Starting point is 00:56:44 he made it. It's so admirable. Me personally, I'd rather have a role model who isn't perfect and who has made mistakes and then learn from them. That's way more inspiring. Parents want us to be like God, perfect and can do no wrong instead of the flawed humans. Seriously, parents expecting flawed humans to be like a god is unrealistic.
Starting point is 00:57:05 Also, Robert Downing Jr. is Iron Man, lull. I cannot picture anyone else in the role, and I'm so eternally grateful that John Fevero went against stupid entitled breeders' demands and fought for him in the role. None of this ever happened. Imagine it also, okay, so she's invented something to get mad about it. She's also invented something to get sad about, and that thing is very ridiculous. Robert Downey Jr. is worth $300 million. Yeah. And you're sitting there making yourself sad because he... I can't believe what R.D.J. went through.
Starting point is 00:57:46 Got... He got a role? Can't believe what he would have had to go through. If it just happened. If the things... Parents got mad about Robert Downey Jr. Yeah, instead of the thing that happened instead, which is the thing that I wanted. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:04 Your movies are for children, and it's okay. The movie is for children. It's okay to watch children's movies. I watched Deadpool the other night, and that's fine. It's okay, but you have to understand that without children, these movies wouldn't exist. You wouldn't have the MCU. That's true. Imagine if you have children, how many MC movies to watch. It that. It that.. It that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's the that's the movie. It's the movie. It's the movie. It's th. It's the movie. It's that's the movie. It's the movie. The movie. It's that's that's th. It's the movie. The movie. The movie. The movie. The movie. The movie. The movie. The movie. The movie. The movie. The movie. It's the movie. It's the movie. It's the movie. It's the movie. It's the movie. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's the. It's the. It's the. It's thea. It's thea. It's thea. It's the the the movie. It's the movie. It's the movie. Itthe MCU. That's true. Imagine if you have children, how many MC
Starting point is 00:58:25 movies you watch. It's PG. Parental guidance recommended. Now I see why these people are mad about children in the cinema because they're watching Marvel movies. They're watching their movies. And they don't get it on the level that it's really, that on the screen that's been planned out for six years in advance, shot by shot. There was actually something about that in that post about not taking your kids to the movies, was somebody replied and was like, also they should have some sessions of kids' movies
Starting point is 00:58:58 that you're not allowed to take kids to. Wonderful. Some of us are just there to appreciate the animation. It's so weird. I never 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 that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's thi. thi. thi. thi. that. tho. thoooooooooo. the. thooooooooooooooo. the. thea. that's that's that's to appreciate the animation. It's so weird. I never have the problem of children in movies because I see films that are made for adults. But also like any of the movies. That's right. Anything like a fucking Marvel movie is also going to have a solid 12-hour block of show times. Exactly. Go to the 11 p.m. one. It's fine. I have to go at the same time as little kids. It's okay. And also no one can go to the movies anymore anyway. Exactly. Not a problem. Because of all these spreaders. Imagine sitting Robert Downey Jr. down and getting him to read that.
Starting point is 00:59:45 Are you okay, Robert Downey Jr.? Are you all right in light of all of these things that could have happened? So I feel like we're glossing past his role in tropic thunder as well. If things, like, if being canceled was real, and look look completely understand that the role is satirical but he's he's still doing the things so he is I don't know just in ironic blackface like even I think I think the suggestion when it comes to the, you know, people like Gina Karano is that she wasn't, she didn't do anything wrong, say the people who share her psycho beliefs. She just got fired for being conservative. She's conservative so people complained about
Starting point is 01:00:38 her so she got fired. Another conservative silenced. Just like, remember all those other famous conservatives who, as soon as people found out they were conservative, never got another role again like Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone? And I want to show... Lenny's wood. All of these people who are like very vocal about their conservative beliefs in the case of Arnold Schwarzenegger, being the governor of California as a Republican
Starting point is 01:01:15 noun. I think in the context of the modern Republican Party, he's considered an S.J.W. that, um, Clint Eastwood was the mayor of a small town, became the mayor. It's cancelled for truth. And he's a crazy old Republican. I think the difference is that like- Kilty Grammar endorsed the Tea Party movement.
Starting point is 01:01:39 Oh yeah. He was on Moneyplane. You guys watch money plane? It's really bad. I really wanted to like it. It wasn't good. He was a money plane. Do you guys watch money? Do you guys watch money? It's really bad. I really wanted to like it. It wasn't good. Yeah, did we watch it together?
Starting point is 01:01:49 I think maybe we did. We were like, let's watch money plane and it wasn't very good at all. He supported Ben Carson's candidacy for the presidential nomination. Really backing away. But like, these are all people who are like out out, 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 program. But like, these are all people who are like out and proud Republicans, pro-NRA stuff, you know, all that sort of thing. And I think the main difference is that they don't spend a whole bunch of time posting on Twitter about the specific demographics of their fandom that they consider less than human. Yeah, what about James Woods Korea Korea? Ruined, destroyed.
Starting point is 01:02:28 Yeah. He could have been Iron Man. I feel like, I imagine that. Scott Dilbitt as Iron Man. That's his name, Scott Dilbett. Oh, Scott Dilbitt. Just picturing him as Iron Man, that is fantastic. That's going to be stuck in my head for a while now. Wonderful stuff. Well I think that's about it. We're coming in for landing six minutes early. We are about to commence our descent into the Niederlands. So.
Starting point is 01:03:04 But get your gas masks on. Yeah, put your gas marks on. are about to commence our descent into the Niederlands. So... Everybody get your gas masks on? Yeah, put your gas masks on, oxygen will drop from the ceiling. You're going to need it because stinky, stinky people. Oh, you get out there and it's just the ears thick with bong smoke, you know? Yeah, you're just going to be smoking bongs. They be smoking weed in Amsterdam, that's what I hear. Hey, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, they they they they they they they they they they they they they they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're th, th, th. thi, th. th. thi, thi, tho, tho, tho, thi, get thi, get thi, get thi, get thi, get thi, get get get thi, get get thi, thi, 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. that, that, thaaaaa. Get thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Get tha. Get tha. Get tha, get tha, weed in Amsterdam, that's what I hear. Hey, you guys know they go weed in Amsterdam now? That's what I've heard.
Starting point is 01:03:29 Maybe giving their crotch fruits, their little junior bongs. And I don't think they should. I don't think they should either. But sometimes you need to get your kids to sleep, so. That's so true. That's so true. That is so true. Badger for Nurgan. Which is legal.
Starting point is 01:03:49 It's perfectly legal. Perfectly legal. Thanks for listening everybody. Thank you for subscribing. Thank you for joining us on this. Freehiembs. Oh, this is a free one, shit. Fuck.
Starting point is 01:04:05 You're all on here. Everybody's on here with us. We're all on the plane. So funny. See you the next week. Bye. Bye. Bye. you to be the tree

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