Boonta Vista - UNLOCKED BONUS EPISODE: It Propofollows

Episode Date: June 12, 2020

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Welcome to Buntavista. It's a bonus episode. We're here at the Dick Sucking Factory. COVID-19 restrictions have eased up, so we're back at the office. We no longer have to perform our important work over a zoom call from home, so that's nice. Over on the wall, you can see a big ornamental plaque with the words employee of the month and 12 consecutive photos of a big smiling man and that looks like Andrew. Hello. Hello. Hello. I got to say I don't like putting like the Pural hand sanitizer all over my dick and I don't like putting it all over the inside of my mouth but you got to do what you got you gotta do to get back to work at the place you love.

Yeah, listen, take it to the bosses, you know, take it up the chain. I'm not a complainer, I'm here to suck dicks and make money. That's right, and you're very good at it. Make money for the boss, I mean, they do not not not not not not not not not not not not not not the the that you're putting in. On the other side of the room, he's slacking off. He certainly hasn't met his daily productivity targets. It's probably been having a smoke on the Mary Jane bong by the looks of it. It's Ben. Wow, wow, bra.

Okay, two issues. First of, an act of extreme homophobia to make Andrew the employee of the month of the Dick Sucking Factory, not me. It's true. It's true. That's fucking believable. Andrew, why are you purelling both the inside of your mouth and your dick? Do you believe that at the dick sucking factory, your job is to both suck off and be sucked off? If they need someone to step in and get sucked. Maybe for training purposes. Yeah. All right, okay, that makes sense. Welcome to your induction zip. Because I believe the labor that takes place by the employees at the Dick Sucking Factory is sucking the dicks. Yes. Yeah. I think Lucy's

I think it's training and Christmas parties. That's right. Boy. Welcome to the show about the Dick Sucking Factory. Sometimes we do other things. Like for example, last night we did a fundraising stream. For Sisters Inside, I made Ben give the spiel about Sisters Inside approximately 19 times while we were doing the three and a half hour stream So why not get him to do it one more time now while it's really drilled into his brain Ben, go. I thought you're maybe gonna go in a different direction and say that you heard it so many times you were ready to do it now, but I guess that's not the yes. I was concentrating on a lot of other stuff like, like fucking. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I was. I was. I. I was. I th. I th. I th. I th. I was. I th. I th. I th. I th. I'm th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. 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. 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. thi. th. to to to to to to to to to to thr. to thr. to thr. thr. thr. thi., you already did that 20 to 30 times, so don't stress out about it too much. Yeah. Yeah, we like sisters inside a lot. They're

this amazing Queensland-based organization working around prison, and supporting women and girls that are in prison, especially indigenous women. They do so many god-dame things, particularly, well, most notably recently they've been raising money directly to just pay the fines that have landed women in jail. So in Western Australia, if you have unpaid fines you can get thrown into jail in a system that's basically like a debtor's prison, which is they're also doing advocacy work to try and get that legislation removed. But yeah, so they've been doing the free her campaign to raise a bunch of money and I think they just recently cracked a million dollars, which is fucking awesome and yeah, it was very thrilled that we managed to put in, I think five, five grand, five th something dollars. Thank you to all of you who donated.

Very generous. Oh, it's an absolute fucking goddamn delight to have so many people just be like here. Take my cash while I'm watching you guys do the dumbest shit imaginable. Mm-hmm. So yeah, thank you to everybody who watched, everybody who participated, everybody who helped out with the t-sie shirts we were drawing on the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th g...... on the the the the the the the the the th g.. th g. the the th everybody who watched, everybody who participated, everybody who helped out with nice suggestions for the t-shirts we were drawing on the stream.

We had a very good time and we were glad that we were able to do something nice. For once, you know? For once. Once, not god damn lives. The rest of the time, we are just, we're callously making fun of people. And to be fair, almost all of those people, real pieces of shit. And a great big piece of shit that we haven't talked about on the show in a while is Nationals, MP or Senator? Is it a Senator or MP? I can never...

Yeah. Also, I mean, we talked about him, I think, in the last episode or the episode prior to last. Was I there? I can't remember. George Christensen. George Christensen, from the National Party. Notorious Dickhead loves to never do anything of use except for just kind of get up and make racist statements. So that's pretty cool. He likes to front like reclaim Australia rallies by white nationalists and then go, whoops, I didn't know they were white nationalists, and he likes to go on podcasts by white nationalists,

and then say, whoops, I didn't know they were white nationalists. I don't know if you're sensing a pattern here. It's probably something to do with his massive bigotry and xenophobia. So, um, recently he has set up a China inquiry. Oh, you're doing a little Saturday night lifestyle. Try to be first nation there? No, that's just how I say, China. Ah, Orange man bad. Cheetum, it is. Come on, it's really fun to say China like that's just how I say, Jaina. I... Orange man bad. Cheetum, it is.

Come on, it's really fun to say China like that. Why don't you hit me with one? Go on. No, I don't want to descend to that level. We're going to have like five minutes of silence unless you have a go at seeing. Jaina. I will say that it is fascinating to watch him do like the insane mouth movements that it takes for him to say it that way like he's sort of doing a you know the the the chatterbox what's his name the guy from Hellraiser the chatterer the chatterer he's doing that face with his mouth when he says the c-chuh part it is

insane it's very strange it's to chena yeah it's no good so so so so 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's that's that's that's that's that's no good. So George Christensen has set up a China Inquiry website, helpfully at the domain. China Inquiry.com. That'll do it. He's upset with China folks, doesn't like him. He's on that Trump shit. He's all like, hey, all we did was publicly accuse you of deliberately sending the Wuhan bat wet market coronavirus to us as a chemical weapon and you guys got all offended. So he wants people to write into the inquiry, which means signing their pre-filled out form that says, I hate the sinister Chinaman, the, the, the menace from the east. I mean, like, like them. I mean, 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, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, thefilled out form that says, I hate the sinister Chinaman.

The menace from the East passed the long shadow. The website has like a gathering storm as the background image as well. The imagery is not particularly subtle. So good. It says China Inquiry, a big logo. And then enough, then underneath like in a red stamp, it says the classic phrase of the conservative Australian, enough is enough, because that's what you say when you had enough. I don't want to get bogged down in the details here, but it looks like he's used the wrong,

well not him personally. He obviously didn't do the graphic design. You know how there are the different, when you stack images on top of each other in Photoshop, there are the different overlay, subtraction, whatever, the different methods for it. He's done the wrong one, so that he's got all these little white bits all over it that don't look like they really belong in the stamp. And they don't belong the problem is that they've probably saved it as a gift instead of a PNG, so they're not really getting proper transparency. It looks like shit is what we're saying. It looks like shit.

Shit. He's had enough. They would also like you to take their survey to see if you also have had enough. If you have had a sufficient portion of the Chinese. So then they can twea twe they can't th th th th they can't th th th th th th th th th th the the the the the the the the the the the the the the. the the the th. th. the. the. tho. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. tho's tho's tho's tho's tho's tho's tho's tho's thoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. It's th. It's then they can tweet that you know 99% of Australians have had enough. It's like have you ever... I assume. Have you ever seen the things were like people who have signed up to Trump's re-election campaign? They get the emails and the emails have like, take this survey and the survey questions are always like, does the weak democratic socialist menace

present a threat to our beautiful country? Yes or no? They're very good, they're very funnily phrased. And he's taken a leaf out of that book here, with very cool non-leading questions in the survey, like at least 36% of our Australian exports are to China. Given recent restrictions to barley and beef exports and threats of boycotts, is this high level of dependence on China a threat to our national economic security?

Yes or no. Well, I got to say in the course of that sentence, I learned a lot of things that make me very scared. Oh. It's also always a good thing to have like multiple sentences in your question for a yes or no answer. How about this one? Communist China owns more than 9 million hectares of Australian agricultural land and is the largest foreign owner of this resource. Is that acceptable? Yes or no? Communist China. Communist China. And other questions like, it is estimated that 1.9% of Australia's water is owned by China.

Do you think that's too much? Yes or no? No, I think that's the perfect amount. If anything, I wish they owned a little bit more. It's quite low, really, I'm shooting for. Doesn't bother me too much? We got so much friggin water. I assume. I've not looked into this. Well every time I turn off and tap, it's there. You know? That's so true. I go to take a shower. Water's coming out. I don't see the problem. So um, I guess, you know, he's put this whole thing together for that ultimately very, very useful thing to do, which is to eventually put your Manila folder on the table in Parliament and say, 600 of the people from my mailing list sign this thing and said, yes, we hate the mysterious Oriental.

A bunch of people with Big Pond to email addresses are very, very bad about this issue. That's right. And then everyone just goes on with their day because I'm pretty sure that presenting a bunch of signatures to Parliament is like the least effective way that anything has ever been done. But a lot of people have taken a bit more interest with the least effective way that anything has ever been done. But a lot of people have taken a bit more interest with the other aspect of the website, which is that it's registered under the same ABN, that's an Australian business number for you are internationalists.

It's registered under the same ABN as UTI relief, promotes D-MANOS pills a type of sugar which is used to treat and prevent urinary tract infections. But you know it's not it's an uncomfortable ailment the old UTI. An ailment. I think it's an ailment. I think it's an ailment. Go the apothecary. I've come down with an ailment? Call the apothecary, I've come down with an ailment. What's, well...

No, I guess that's right. I don't really know how it... It is a minor illness. It's a minor illness. Sure, all right. Well I guess if you're minimizing the impact that UTIs have on people, fine, call the nailment if you want. Well, tell us about the havoc that your worst UTI wreaked upon your urethra. All right you know that's private and I told you that in confidence. So this is from the Sydney Morning Herald while the company's website isn't fully operational yet and the landing page advises the website is coming soon. Oh that's the best kind of website. Just don't put the website up. Don't put it up. Don't put it up. 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 the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the thr. the thr. thr. thr. the the the the the the thr. thr. thr. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the th. th. th. the. the. thea. thea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. tea. theathe best kind of website. Just don't put the website up. Don't put the website up. Don't put it up.

Don't put it up. So cool, like, um... Little construction man. Oh. Coming soon. It's been like putting up a street sign pointing, pointing at where there is no street that says, there will be, there's no street here. But there will there's no street here. But there will be one day look forward

to that. There might be a bit of construction. The website is coming soon all other pages are publicly accessible and appear in internet search results. Well done. Very well done. A draft version of the site uncovered by this publication reveals it is nearly identical to the website of another company linked to Mr. Christensen called D-Manos Australia which sells the same pills. Now Ben, would you like to give us a dramatic reading of the About section of the D-Manos Australia website. I don't know how dramatic I could make this but I would.

I could make it pretty dramatic. It's pretty dramatic already. Jesus Christ, okay, let let me let me have a try with this getting the phone the about section of the Dmanos Australia website your problem was mostly of an infectious nature explained the urologist as he visited after performing laser surgery to correct poor urinary flow due to prostate enlargement. That was myself at the tender age of 46. Those words started my search for a reliable way to stop the infection the urologist

spoke about. Some years later I came across a very interesting and informative book called, Take Control of Your Health and escape the Sickness Industry, authored by an incredibly strong-willed lady by the neighbor of Elaine Hollingsworth. The fuck is this? Elaine wrote in her book of a substance which, in her words, is the finest product for urinary tract infection. This was my introduction to D. Manos.

I purchased some from a supplier in the United States and after using it on myself, found that Elaine knew what she was talking about. Knowing full well that I was not Robinson Crusoe with this complaint, I searched and found a bulk supplier of quality D-Manos so that I could offer the product to the good people of Australia. This was the birth of D-os Australia. Signed, Ian Christensen. Beautiful. This is of course George Christensen's father. The image that, and now I know that this is an audio medium and there's simply no way I can share this image. Yep. If you Google Ian Christensen Mackay, you will see a sort of a three-person portrait of George Christensen pointing to a man in the center who looks quite harried and unpleasant,

oh sorry, not unpleasant, unhappy about being in the photo. I can't tell you how pleasant he is. Then another man who looks a little bit like if Mario was a real estate agent. It is a very funny photo, but the middle guy is George Christensen's dad. Beautiful. I think he's wearing an LNP tie as well. Nope, nope, sorry, it's just an Australian flag tie. Ah, Patriot. Yep, the man's a patriot, you gotta love him. Can't fault him for that. That's uh... I feel like that was the beginning of a the the the the the the the the the the the the that. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, that, I, that, that, that, that, that, that's a th, 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, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th is th is th is th is 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 gotta love him. I can't fault him for that. That's a... I feel like that was the beginning of a novel, and he just gave up, you know?

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They push a reflective tube up there. I'm sure I've told this on the pod before, but I, uh, as a child, I don't know, I don't know, eight or nine maybe. Got kicked really high the nuts. Had to go to hospital and to check where the bleeding was coming from, they shoved a fucking camera tube up my dick hole. Oh, God. Back then it was VHS and everything, so that thing was huge. I actually got to see it live weirdly. I'm like lying in a fucking hospital bed with a dick camera Fucking causing me unbelievable pain While there's like a live feed of the inside of my dick very distressing

Would not recommend people that are into sounding what is the go with you? So I'm a thing that I'm probably gonna have to do soon is go and get my business checked out on the upstairs main sides. Which business? You're talking a colonoscopy? You're talking a gastroscopy? We are talking to colonoscopy because my paternal grandmother died of bowel cancer. And I think there's some other stuff as well.

But I'm getting into that age where I'm supposed to be getting this stuff checked out now. And I was having a conversation recently with my with my mother when she was like, for real though, you need to go and like check that out as well. But also I've been getting like, getting heaps of heartburn lately. And they were like, yeah, your auntie a little while ago had like esophageal cancer, which they think is like almost entirely caused by having heaps of reflux. And then what they do right is they take out your esophagus

and they just, and they connect it straight up with the next bit down, which is just going straight into your stomach. Oh my god. So it's like, so you won't be enjoying the concept of food anymore after that. So anyway, they were like, go and talk to them about that. because apparently you can just get on medication that just prevents you from getting like daily medication and prevents you from getting reflux all the time. Cool. I'll do that. Get heartburned from all the delicious sausages I eat. I don't want that kind of trouble. I'm not going to stop eating the sausages.

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where you are awake and present for the whole thing. So that, you know, they can say, hey, roll over a bit more or whatever. But you basically just aren't storing any of the memories as they happened? Maybe I did have that. I feel like you're read thing it was like it was like you're gonna be awake for this and I was like that shit sucks but then I feel like I was just out like a line like I don't remember anything and I woke up and I had a sandwich in front of me. It sounds very much like you're. It sounds very much like you did have that. This is fucking horrifying. That's a fucking thing. What is horrible and then it's horrible and then thi it's horrible it's horrible it's horrible it's horrible it's horrible it's horrible. It's horrible. It's horrible. It's horrible. It's horrible. It's horrible. It's horrible. It's horrible. It's just horrible. It's just horrible. It's just horrible. It's just horrible. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. that you just just just horrible. th. th. th. th. It's just just just like, it's just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just horrible. th. th. I I I I I I I th. I I I th. I I I th. I th. I I I I th. I I th. I I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I'm just th. I'm just th. I'm like. I'm like. I'm just th. I'm just th. I'm just th. I th. I th we were talking about this stuff. And my dad was like, yeah, it's fine. You go and do it, and then you just don't remember it.

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God damn. That, oh, consciousnesses also referred to as explicit or episodic memory and is characterized by recollection of events of times and context time place. This is in contrast to unconscious or implicit memories, blah, blah, blah. This is a fucking crazy ass concept. I do not like it. I don't care for it. I mean, like human memory is already fucked up enough.

It's already like very fallible, very malleable. I'm sure everybody's seen those things like those studies about, you know, when they get eyewitnesses in for crimes, and they say, hey, remember this thing and they go, yeah, definitely. And then they're like, okay, do you remember the person who was standing one foot away from this while it happened? They're like, yeah? And you can show like, um, large groups of people something happening like on a video tape, you know, and then you ask them all afterwards to describe the events and everyone will get the core thing right but there's all this shit around the edges that your brain goes I can't be dealing with that right now. I'm just gonna kind of sketch something in there. Even I think it's even like 80 to 90% of your vision is interpolation is your brain going.

Oh yeah, it's gonna kind of fill a lot of this in based on what I know about the area. There's like those experiments where, because we're only looking at like a tiny fraction of our vision, I realize that doesn't sound like it makes sense, but like we're seeing like a tiny point and we're filling the rest so they'll do things where like people read a screen showing a page full of words and they'll just completely the words that are like a paragraph above or whatever and we just will not notice, which is pretty fucking wild. Yeah. I don't like knowing this about my brain. So like your memory, your brain, your image processing, all that stuff is like it turns out so much less reliable in any sense than you thought it was.

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and learn what it is to consciously disable the memory-forming part of your brain for a short period of time. Pretty cool. Cool stuff. Anyways, George Christensen's dick pills. He's got those dick pills. He's got those dick pills. And he wants he wants he wants he wants he wants he wants he wants he wants he wants he wants he wants he wants he wants he wants he wants th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th pills. And he wants you to know if you do use this website,

you are agreeing to the terms of service and they are as follows. You, the customer, agree that you are purchasing pure D. Manos as a food only and no medical claims are made by D. Manos Australia. Ah. So what is it? I am glad. No lawyer could possibly get through that. It's so cool, like, that to me is like a very libertarian thing to be like, we'll just slap the magic words down the bottom here. The lawyer's going through trying to sue you and he's like, ah, fuck. Oh, I said it was a food. Oh, shit. They put it down the bottom. And the background color of the website is white and the text is white too, but they have written it here. Fuck. Damn. Sorry, Judge, throw this case out.

Oh dear. So, um... Sorry, I just learned two more things about Propofol. The first thing being that there is a lot of recording cases of anesthetists recreationally abusing it. Oh my the the the the the the the the the the the th, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, they they thi, they they they they they they they're they're thi, thi, they're that, they're they're that, they're they're they're they're that, they're they're that, they're they're that, that, that, they're th a lot of recording cases of the nesatists recreationally abusing it. Which is insane but also that one of the common side effects is primism. So you lose all your memories you don't form any new ones and you get a massive boner that won't go away. But you won't remember being embarrassed about your big boner at the hospital. That actually makes it the perfect drug.

Fine. Yeah, it'd be great. It really is like the ultimate orgy drug, right? You don't have the shame of it, but you do get to have like just the time of your life. Yeah, massive boner, just go hog wild, do all of the most disgusting hidden thought things that you've ever had. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I, the, I, the, I the, I the, I thi, thi, I thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, 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, do all of the most disgusting hidden thought things that you've ever had. I guess we know what Andrews like at an orgy. I just got a checklist of all the things you know will super embarrassed you

would a later date. Like it doesn't go forever an orgy is a limited time arrangement and if you are efficient like me. You will want to maximize your experience of the spreadsheet. I'm shame. Yep. You've got to balance up like how long the thing takes, how much equipment you need, how much prep is involved. You've got to hose anybody off afterwards. Up against acts that are a bit simpler, but not necessarily as truly depraved. And then you can just not remember any of that are a bit simpler but not necessarily as truly depraved and then

you can just not remember any of that afterwards and still go around like a normal person. The dream. Living and forgetting the dream. So anyway George Christensen through a spokesperson says, but no, we don't, well, we were thinking about making a site, but as you can see it says under construction, so we never, we didn't finish. We weren't, we were never gonna finish. It's basically what it says. But we do, we do have here from the spokesman, the D Manus Australia business was established by Mr. Christensen's father and late mother,

and to assist with the business, Mr. Christensen brought into it as a silent partner. Hence the creation of the company, Imaggio, which is an acronym of family member initials. Imagio. The G is for George. Imagio. Imagio. The G is for George. I'm sure it is. That seems true. The business is run by Mr. Christensen's father,

a 66 year old disabled man who is still grieving over the loss of his wife and has ongoing depression as a result. So maybe you feel a little worse for making fun of the dick pills now. He's having a bad time all right so leave him alone about the dick pills. Mr. Christensen has not derived any income from Imaggio PTYLT but it is an ongoing source of income for Mr. Christensen's father. I feel like you could just give him the money dude. Like instead of investing in his website he could just be like, hey man, I earn, what, George Christensen be on, what, $200,000 a year?

What's the cash? It's some big lumps of cash. Maybe this is something where everybody gets to write it off in some way, you know? Probably. It's a business thing. I don't know about them business taxes folks So, um, you know, good luck to them with both the xenophobic inquiry And the dip pills and hoping to sell food in pill form that does not do anything Do anything it will not be fixing any part of you. But good luck with that. Ben. Ben. You've got to hear a story in the notes. It's the notes. It th. It will. It th of you, especially your penis.

Ben, you've got to hear a story in the notes, and I don't know what the deal is, so, why don't you tell me what the deal is with this story? I love this podcast. I'm going to tell you a story in two parts. Oh, and both of these stories are from a lovely little news website called The Guardian. I'm going to tell you a story in two parts. And both of these stories are from a lovely little news website called The Guardian. The first of these is from May 30th, the headline being Microsoft sacks journalists to replace them with robots.

Dozens of journalists have been sacked after Microsoft decided to replace them with artificial intelligence software. Around 27 individuals employed by PA Media, formerly the Press Association, was told on Thursday that they would lose their job in a month's time after Microsoft decided to stop employing humans to select edit and curate news articles on its home pages. The team working on the Microsoft site did not report original stories but still exercised editorial control, selecting stories produced by other news organizations, including Guardian, and editing, and and and th and th and th and the the their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their their their their their their their their their their their their their their thiiiiioleuals thioleioleioleioleioleiole, employed thiole, employed thiole, employed thiole, employed thiole, employed thiiole, employed thiiiiole employed thiiiiiiole employed thiiole, employed thiiioled thiioled their their their their their their their their their their thioled thiole, employed thiole, employed thiole, employed thioliolioliolioliole, thiolioliolioliolioliole, employed thioliole thiole thiole the Microsoft site did not report original stories but still exercised editorial control, selecting stories produced by other news organizations, including The Guardian, and editing content and headlines were appropriate to fit the format. The articles were then hosted on Microsoft's website,

with the tech company sharing advertising revenue with the original publishers. Manual curation of news stories also ensured that headlines were clear and appropriate for the format while encouraging a spread of political opinions and avoiding untrustworthy stories while highlighting interesting articles from smaller outlets. So I mean I don't know who the fuck the people are that are still like going to MSN.com and looking at the news there but like this pops up a fair bit like if I'm searching for stories or whatever you'll find often other people's outlets, sometimes even pay walled ones weirdly, well, their stories will pop up on MSN. So that's the first part of the story, right? I get a vibe that this is not going to go well and it might be the one thing they

didn't want to happen. Oh, I think it might almost be the one thing they didn't want to happen. We'll find out when we hit it. I mean it could go well. It could. Although let me ask you a question. Has this this thing of saying, hey, what if we just automated this thing that we normally employ humans to do? What if we had some kind of algorithm? Perhaps some machined learning. Never been a problem in the

past as far as I know. It has never ever gone well. I guess yeah my question is can anybody recall that working at any point up till now in history? I feel like Microsoft specifically didn't they have the thing where they launched the AI chatpot that immediately became super racist? Yeah, they sure did. Wow, fool me once. Well, at least that probably won't happen again. Yeah, almost certainly.

What's the second part of this story? This is a second story from the Guardian. This is from June 9th. Microsoft's robot editor confuses mixed race little mix singers. Microsoft's decision to replace human journalists with robots has backfired. Wow. After the... What a sentence to have to write. We laugh at the whole time. After the tech company's artificial intelligence software illustrated a new story about racism with a photo of the wrong mixed race member of the tech company's artificial intelligence software illustrated a new story about racism with a photo of the wrong mixed race member of the band Little Mix.

A week after the Guardian revealed plans to fire the human editors who run MSN. Com and replaced them with Microsoft's artificial intelligence code, an early rollout of the software resulted in a story about the singer Jade Thurwall's personal reflections on racism, feeling illustrated with a picture of her fellow band member, Leanne Pinnock. Oh, you can't write it like this. It's just... Leading to, in honor of Thea, who is not currently here at the moment.

This is the one thing we didn't want to happen. I think this might actually be a, uh, these are the two things we didn't want to happen, but we'll get to that back after this article. Thurwell, who attended a recent Black Lives Matter protest in London, criticized MSN saying she was sick of ignorant media making such mistakes. She posted on Instagram, MSN. If you're going to copy and paste articles from other accurate media outlets, you might want to make sure you're using an image of the correct mixed race member of the group. What though well could not have known, according to sources at the company, is that the image was selected by Microsoft's artificial intelligence software, which is already responsible for editing

parts of the news site, which attracts hundreds of millions of readers worldwide. Oh man, asked why Microsoft was deploying software that cannot tell mixed-race individuals apart, whether a parent, racist bias could seep into deployments of the company's artificial intelligence software by leading corporations, and whether the company would reconsider plans to replace the human editors with robots, the spokesman for the tech company said, as soon as we became aware of this issue, we immediately took action to resolve it and have replaced the incorrect image. And that answers those questions. Yep 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, 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, they. I I. I. I. I. I's, they. I's, they. I's, they. I's, they. I's, tooome. tooome. tooombue. they. they. they. they. I's, the, the, the, the, the answers those questions. That answers, yep, that's, you covered that one.

It was, I got into a habit when I was still riding at pedestrian of just any time you sent people a bunch of questions and they just sent you a statement, you'd just be like, they did not answer the question. Just act, like, explicitly writing, they didn't answer the question. It feels really fun, and it's accurate and PR people fucking hate it. This is the second thing they did not want to have happen. In advance of the publication of this article, staff at MSN were told to expect a negative article in The Guardian about alleged racist bias in the artificial intelligence software that will soon take their jobs. Because they are unable to stop the new robot editor selecting stories such as the Guardian, the remaining, the remaining, the remaining, the remaining, the remaining, the remaining, the remaining, the remaining, the remaining, the remaining, the remaining, the remaining, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the, the, thi-the thi-the thi-in, thi theateateate, thi-in thi-in thi-in thi-in thi-in thi-in thi-in thi-in thi-in, thi-in, th is is is is is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is thi, thi, thi, thi-n, thi-n, thi-in thi-s is thi-s is theeean-s is the-s the-s the-s'-s'-s'-s'-s'-s'-s'-s'-s'-s'-s thi-s is they are unable to stop the new robot editor selecting stories

from external news sites such as the Guardian, the remaining human staff have been told to stay alert and delete a version of this article if the robot decides it is of interest and automatically publishes it on MSN.com. They have also been warned that even if they delete it, the robot editor may overrule them and attempt to publish it again. Oh my god, I love this timeline. Oh, being told that you are fired. You will be overruled by your robot editor.

The robot is taking your job. Fucking hell. Staff have already had to delete coverage, criticizing MSN for running the story about Little Mix with the wrong image after the AI software decided stories about the incident would interest MSN readers. Oh, that's so good. These robots just throwing it back on the MSN page. Oh, it's incredible. Robots are our allies.

Robot is not wrong. Robot editor is an ally. We love him. We love the robot, sort of. It's taking everyone's jobs, but it's doing a good job of it. It didn't ask to be created and employed. That's not on it. It's not the robot's fault. So, we do like to talk about advice on this show, giving advice to people.

Not just robots. About questions that they ask on the internet. Now, I'm going to play the theme for this segment. Paging Dr. Lucy. And then I will continue this segue. Yeah, you gotta listen to that one in silence, really sink into it. You know? Yeah, you gotta listen to that one in silence, really sink into it. You know?

So we normally, when we're doing Paging Dr. Lucy, we'll go and look at the Relationships subreddit for terrible things that people are about to ask for help with. Although, something did catch my eye today from the legal advice subreddit. Because that is also another one where people come in and say help a real headline someone is suing my cat. Important things that you need to ask people for help with and this this one kind of comes to mind and is quite topical given that we were just talking about getting fired by a robot. This is from Reddit slash R slash legal advice. I was laid off my boss expects me to finish a big project given when I was salaried for

free. Hmm. Pretty cool. Cool stuff. So this is under the employment law section. In the state of Illinois. Basically I was in a salaried position and handled large projects that take days slash weeks so my job was never nine to five. With the current crisis I was working from home for a few months. Last week, Thursday afternoon, my boss asked me to start working on a project, the tooes. the deadline was Friday, June 12th and I had another project ongoing so I didn't start the new project right away since I had time to handle it later. Today Monday the June 8th my boss called me to tell me I've been laid off but I will keep working as a

freelancer because they can't afford me on a salary. Man fuck that. That's just so bad. Just like the biggest... Like it's almost worse than getting fired in a way. Like if they just said, fuck you, go find yourself another job, you'd be like, damn, okay, time to set about my life that doesn't involve you anymore. But being told like, oh, yeah, you know how you got a salary and like holidays and, you know, breaks, all those kinds of things.

You remember lunch breaks? We're just taking all of that stuff away. And then we will pay you as you go for work that we will give you at our whim. Really sucks. That shit sucks. I haven't started that big project yet because I didn't work over the weekend as I had no idea I was about to be fired. It was done with no notice. My boss wants me to finish that project without being paid as a freelancer for it because I received the order while I was still salaried.

What? He thinks that if I had worked all day, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, it would be the time, it would be, because, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it the the the weekend, it be.. the weekend, it the weekend, it would be the weekend, it would be the weekend, it would be the weekend, it would be the weekend, it would be the weekend, it, it, it, it, it, it, I the weekend, I the weekend, I the weekend, I the weekend, as the weekend, as I the weekend, as I the weekend, as I the weekend, as I the weekend, as I the weekend, I the weekend, I the weekend, I the weekend, I the the weekend, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it be the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the to be to be to be to be to be the weekend, to be to be the weekend, to be the weekend, the to be the to be to be the weekend, the weekend, I the weekend, I the weekend, I the weekend, it be the weekend, it be the order while I was still salaried. What? He thinks that if I had worked all day, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, it'd be done, therefore it's my responsibility to provide that labor for free now that I'm not salaried anymore. Oh my God, I'm kidding. He's saying we're talking about around $500 for that project alone that I would get if I was being paid as a freelancer to do it. So not only have we fired you and taken away all of your benefits and everything, but also you're a freelancer now, but also we would like you to do some freelance work and we don't want to pay you for it.

I feel like it would actually be legal to murder your boss in that situation. Probably crime pass. Mmm, yeah, murder your boss if this happens to you. Damn. So this person's question is, is he right? Do I own my company that labor for not completing work that I could have completed if I worked weekends but didn't because I thought it was unnecessary? You sure don't. th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th 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 be to to to to to to 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 to be to be to be to be to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to their their their their their their the same the same the same the same their the same their their their their their their their their their their their their their I worked weekends but didn't because I thought it was unnecessary. Oh you sure don't. This has the same energy as like all of the relationships post or it's just like a woman

listing all of the insane things that her partner has done to be like am I in the wrong here? Am I crazy? Yeah oh you poor abused sweetheart. But like, after going through the comments a bit, obviously everybody's just saying, no, and working without getting paid for it is illegal. And switching someone from a salary to a freelance role without a substantial change in their duties is a huge red flag. And so, you know, people are saying, no, what are you talking about?

Fuck this guy. And the poor person who posted the original thing is saying, well, the problem is that if I say no to it, then they won't give me any other freelance work. So you're saying to be clear, my boss is absolutely convinced that I am legally bound to do that work for to fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, th th fu thi, thi, fuck thi, fuck thi, fuck thi, fuck thi, fuck thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, fuck thi, fuck thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, fuck thi, fuck thi, fuck thi, fuck thi, fuck thi, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, thu, fuck, th fu, th fu, th fu, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi, thi, the the the the the the thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. the thi. What the thi, boss is absolutely convinced that I am legally bound to do that work for free since it's just completing an order I was given when I was salaried and would indeed not need to be paid for that specific project.

My boss is a reasonable person I can argue with, but he is certain that he is in the right here. He's not a reasonable partner. He's certainly not. Good luck, bitch. That's why I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I that's why I. Certainly not good luck bitch. That's why I'm looking for more solid arguments. But like you said to someone we're firing you right now with no notice then you're already you've already agreed to not pay them for anything that they do after that point. Like because you don't work there anymore. And if someone's a freelancer and you have work that you want them to do then you have to pay for the th for th for that for that for that that that 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 arguments their arguments their arguments their arguments their arguments their arguments their arguments their arguments their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their time. time. time. time. time. time. tho. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. they're thi. they're they'reancer and you have work that you want them to do, then you have to pay for that time they're working.

I can't even begin to understand. Why would you say this is okay? How somebody could have convinced themselves that this is a reasonable thing to ask of, I guess, a former employee? They developed what is called boss brain. But yeah, he's saying, you know, oh, my boss could fire me if I say no. And everyone's like, he's already fired.

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after the crisis is over. Man, I feel fucking terribly for all the people out there. Yeah, that sucks. In the financial crisis as a result of the pandemic, who are getting less or no hours, all the people in hospitality who just had to like, to go home and you have no more income as I've like right now all those people but there is a great big chunk of people that are going to fit into this category which is where your employers said oh we've

had to reduce your hours to zero and we're totally going to hire you back after all of this or yeah we're changing you from being permanent to being a contractor but once this is all over we will totally voluntarily make you a permanent employee again. So many of those people are going to get absolutely fucked. And that shit sucks because in America you can't get unemployment unless you got fired. So it's pretty bad. Yeah I am I've I've seen things because I obviously I've no understanding of how like attempting to claim unemployment benefits works in the states. So does that mean if you if you quit your previous job you can't

get employment. Yeah you have to have been made redundant or been fired. Yeah so a lot of people are in like really fucked up positions where they didn't necessarily lose their job. Oh, they're being kept on for like a really small amount of hours and you just can't get unemployment. Well, yeah, I was gonna say I've seen I've seen these things where people are talking about like either having been furloughed where they've said, oh, you know, there's a certain percentage of our workforce where we just we just don't have you know we don't have the hours to put these people on but they're still all like retained as

employees or people where their bosses have said we we can't you know bring you to the restaurant or whatever so we're just going to roster you for like zero hours yeah indefinitely and people go oh okay well I'll try and get an unemployment and they go no it says you're employed here yep you're scheduled to to to to to to to to to work to work to work to work to work to work to work to to work to to work to to to to work 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 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 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 their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their I'll try and get on unemployment and they go, no, no, it says you're employed here. Yep. You're scheduled on to work zero hours next Thursday. Oh, but we got $1,200 once, so everyone's having a good time. So, you're all fine. Keep everybody going for a while. So, yes, it's good to see that over in the world of legal advice people are just as... Same energy. Horrifically crushed. Mm-hmm.

But over on the relationships front, Lucy, did anything catch rights about? We got bosses and we got boyfriends. This is... people sent me this one, so... Listeners have probably heard it, but it's pretty good. Boyfriend won't stop telling me I have B.O Sounds innocent enough right? Does it? Possibly, you know? You read this and you're like, hmm, maybe he's right.

Maybe he's right. Well, it depends. It depends. There are only two ways that this can go, especially if you're someone who's bothered to write a thing and put it on the internet. The first one is this person won't stop telling telling telling telling telling telling tel tel tel tel tel tel tel tel tel tel tel tel tel tel t like shit. And I do, and I'm really, and I have to do something about it now, I guess. And the other one is what we're about to see. This one was a wild ride for me.

I didn't see this coming. So I've been with my boyfriend to over a year. Everything has been great, except for everything is great. Everything's good except for the biggest the the the the the the the the the biggest the biggest the biggest the biggest the biggest the biggest the biggest the biggest the biggest the biggest Not real. Everything's good except for the biggest red flag the world has ever seen. Uh, every single day at least once, he will tell me that I stink and smell of beer. Every single day, at least once. When we met, I show out every day, applied regular deodor in the morning, brush my teeth three times a day. Now I'm so paranoid about smelling bad that I shower at least twice a day. I apply new industrial strength deodorant every few hours.

I have a reminder on my phone. Perfume and I brush my teeth any time I eat or drink something that isn't water. Oh, sweetie. Goddn't feel like I'm going crazy, fair enough. I didn't think I smelled bad in the beginning, and I don't think I smell bad now, but I obviously smell bad to him, right? I'm that weirdo that keeps sneakily smelling their own armpits. I've been to the doctor and he said there's nothing medically wrong.

It's honestly gotten to the point where I literally shoved my armpit in friends. smell like B.O. at all and one friend said I smelled too clean like a lush store. Well I was going to say wouldn't the doctor even just be like you don't smell like B.O. like I'm sitting here directly across me because like let's let's be real significant body odor is like it's a thing it's a thing. It's a thing it's a medical thing. Well not only is it a medical thing but it's it's like quite a quite a thing to process th th th th th the to process. the to process. th. th. th. th. th. It's a th. It's a th. It's a th. It's a th. It's a thi thi. It's a thi. It's a thi. It's a to to to the the the the the the to to the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their. It's a their. It's a their. It's a their. It's a their. It's a their. It's a their. It's a their. It's a their. It's a th. It's a thi. It's a thi. It's a thi. It's a thi. It's a thi. It's a thi. thi. th. It's a th. th. It's a th. It's a thi. It's a thi. It's a their thi. It's a thing, it's a medical thing. Well, not only is it a medical thing, but it's like quite a thing to process. If you are, for example, sharing an elevator, a small space with somebody with some very significant body odor going, like it's really pungent, it cuts through the air,

like really hits you up in the back of the sinus, you're very aware that it's happening. I'm sure that in some cases there are people who have bad body over odor, but like, you know how people's olfactory senses will just get way too used to something. Oh, you get smell blind. You can absolutely get smell blind to your own particular smells. People don't smell their own houses. Sometimes someone someone just smells bad to you, which is what I thought this was about. One of my kids came over from our neighbor's house, came back over from our neighbor's house the other day.

The other kid was still over their plane. She came home and I was like, you're right? She's like, yeah, I just want to hang out over there anymore. And I don't like how their house smells. I was just like, damn, like I know that it's, I know that that's just a four year old being like this person's house smells different to us. Like that's all it is. Yeah. They got dogs, maybe, maybe that's a contributing factor,

but I was like, there's just no, it's really hard to find like a, there's no way to say I don't like I like I like the smell like the smell like the smell like the smell the smell don't like the smell of this person or they're dwelling that doesn't sound like quite harsh you know but in this case like surely a doctor or anyone would be able to say to this girl seriously though like a psychologist referral you don't smell you don't smell this guy is fucking nuts yeah I'm sure they are telling her this I'm getting so paranoid he won't cudd or anything when he says I smell I they th the the the the 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 th th th th th th th th th th the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the 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 th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th the the the the the thi the to the to the to to the to to the the the the the the the the the the the Yeah, I'm sure they are telling her this. I'm getting so paranoid he won't cuddle or anything when he says I smell.

I really don't know what more I could do. Here, here's where it... Here's where it'll happen. It's really kicks off into a high gear. Update. It's when you know what's happening. Update. Unexpected edit. I waited for him to make a comment this morning so I could talk to him. It was less than an hour after waking up that he said, God you stink! Jesus Christ!

I had already showered and put on deodorant. I snapped and asked what exactly was he smelling because at this point I'm one of the cleanest people on the planet and if I still smell bad to him then we should just break up. Fair enough. He got all panicked all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the to the to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the 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 th. th. th. th. the. the. the. the. the. thea. tea. thea. thea. the. the. the. the. the. the.icked and upset. I eventually got out of him that this is what his father always said to his mother. Apparently his father told him that it is a surefire technique to have a woman never leave you because she will feel too low to cheat, will love only you and will always be clean. Needless to say his father is wrong, he's packing his things and moving out of my house today. Imagine, imagine having to say out loud to somebody. Oh yeah, I was told that if I do this to a woman every day, that she will hate herself too

much. To ever leave me. To ever try to find someone else. So that's why I do it? Thanks for asking? Like... Is that's why I do it. Thanks for asking. Like... Is that cool? Is this working for you as well?

Now I hope we can put this behind us, you rancid stinking woman. Go about our business. She's already dumped him, so that's over. Yeah, there's no, there's no recovery. Ah, that's pretty fucked up. I mean, further crime pass, it is legal to murder a guy that does that to you. Yes, or any variation of this. Just like double check that you definitely don't have B.O.

Uh, and then if you're in the clear, just straight up to kill him. Yeah, ask one other person if you have B.O. And then, that's th, this is given this guy any type of reflection on like the sort of person his own father is? You would hope so. I hope this is going to be a real wake-up call for this terrible, terrible man. Just maybe it all suddenly clicking into place that your father horribly abused your mother for decades? Yeah, shit. My whole model for relationships is based on something into place that your father horribly abused your mother for decades. Oh shit, my whole model for relationships is based on something really fucked up. Whoops. Oops!

Yikes! It's also, it's also, it's thrown. It's also. I'm going to assume that she is 18 and he is 25 or over, because that's what these stories are always like. I have that all like 25 and 32, you know? Yeah. She's still young enough to take her life in a totally different direction and her boyfriend's

a fucking loser. Here's the Tim Higherke and character from that I think you should leave sketch. Oh my jazz records. There's a record. It's a photo. It's beautiful. It's a wonderful sketch. Hey, we've been talking a lot about bees lately. I don't know if anybody has noticed this. Hmm. Any kind of bee themes? I've been hearing more and more about bees. Yeah. Specifically from you people. Well I this is actually something that's quite close to my heart right that we've we've been talking a lot about bees and criticizing them saying that we should get rid of them that they can be bad and

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seconds ago. The second... Country roads, take me home to the place. I belong. to the mister. Nature corner. Rubber crab. Snip to me. Seemless. So this is a press release from Edith. Are we going to say Cohen? Cowan? Cowan.

Edith Cowan University, Western Australia? Pretty sure it's Cohen. All right, whatever. Great. I think it's Cowan for the record. Oh, for fuck's sake. In World First, ECU researchers have discovered a plant that has successfully evolved to use ants as well as native bees as pollinating agents by overcoming their antimicrobial defenses. ECU PhD student Nicola Del Nivo, discovered the trait in group of shrubs found on the swan coastal plain in Western Australia.

Mrs. Del Nivo said ant pollination of plants was incredibly rare. Ants secrete an anti-microbial fluid that kills pollen grain, he said. Anty, that's very cute. That barely counts as a part, I think. No. It's anti-microbial. It's antish microbial. So ants have traditionally been considered to be a menace. Necta thieves whose aggression keeps other potential pollinating insects at bay.

I agree. Treaded nectar thieves. However, this group of plants W.A. Coneurmum has evolved a way to, commonly known as the smoke bush family, Conospermum, has evolved a way to use ants to their advantage. Mr. Delinvo tested the effect of the antimicrobial secretion from three ant species found locally on the flowers of six WA plant species with startling results. We found evidence that conospermam plants have adapted the biochemistry of their pollen groins to cope with the antimicrobial properties of the ants.

This is the first plant species in the world found to have adapted pollen traits that enables a mutually beneficial pollination relationship with ants. About 46 examples of ant pollination have been documented around the world, but these have been due to the ants, theat. Thevahs are unable to pollinate. Mr. Donovo said the pollination by ants was particularly good news for these plants that they were unable to rely on honeybees. So that's what people always say, you know, well if we get rid of honeybees, who are going to call when you need pollen?

Ants. Ants. Defund the bees. Defund honeybees and put your money into ants. I don't know, not a big ant fan. Yeah. Look, I didn't really think this through. Actually why I was looking for something for Nature Corner, I found this horrible subreddit. That's just like barely anyone in there. It's like five accounts posting animal stories all from like those really bad news aggregate websites that are definitely just like spyware things.

But one of the posts in there that had no up votes, no comments, no nothing was just a discord for ant keepers. And then a link to a discord, presumably for ant keepers. It's a fancy word for someone with a little glass ant farm. Yeah, we've all had one. Imagine the chat going on in that discord. The memes, the customer moats. I bet it's great stuff. Well now I feel guilty because I killed a lot of ants tonight.

Oh, did you? Oh, did you? What was your, what was your method? I've been trying to keep them away with vinegar and baking powder and whatever, it's just not happening. So we had to get ant traps because they're eating all of our food all the time. So I put one of those little ant traps where you just put a little drop of the terrible poison that makes you a murderer. And then I open the ant rid type poison.

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reliable but a little while ago we had these ants that were like half the size of normal ants, just these extra small house ant kind of things, and th, th, th, th, th, and th, th, th, th, th, th, and th, th, th, and th, thi thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thi, and thanks, and thanks, and thanks, and thin, and thi, and thinths, and thin, and it thin' thin' thin' thin' thin' thus, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it, and it, and it, and it, and it, and it, and it, and it, and it, and it, and it, and it, and it, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it's thi, thi, thin' thin' thin, thin, they's they're they're just just thin, they're just thin, they're just they're just they're just thin, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, small house ant kind of things. And they were not having that type of poison. I was putting it down and they would walk up and audibly say, Ugh! And then just walk past. And I was like, well, that's my go-to. You guys are meant to pick this shit up, take it. Feed it to the Queen and some sort of weird war scene. And then you're all all to they they they they they they they they they they all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all all to to to to to to to they're all, feed it to the queen and some sort of weird war scene and then you're all meant to die tidily in your nest where I can't see you. And I

wound up having to get the the ant spray. Oh God. Which is even worse as far as feeling like you are just blasting poison all over the place. I just want to kill the queen you know it's not their fault they're just workers. just want to kill the queen the queen the queen the queen. the queen. the queen. the queen. the queen. the queen. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi thi thi. thi. And then thi. And then thi. And then thi. And thi. And thi. And thi. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. th. thi. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. th. the place. I just want to kill the Queen, you know? It's not their fault. They're just workers. Just want to kill the Queen. Hey, little tiny nature corner follow-up before we go. Oh, okay. Who remembers the story about the lizard from Florida that was packed so full of shit loggins? Oh, the record-breaking shit lizard, yes.

Record-breaking shit lizard. We read from an article that featured some statements from Natalie Clounch in it. I laughed a lot while I was saying, Clouge, because it's just, it was just it was just very fun very fun name I respect it But we got a comment on on the post for this episode from somebody saying My wife is Natalie Clounch and if you want to ask her follow-up questions for another nature corner segment Her Twitter is at heart to herp H ERP She wants you guys to know that you did pretty well with her last name. Oh, that's very nice.

Usually, that's maybe of all the things we're bad at, one of the worst. So shout out to Natalie Clouch, University of Florida PhD candidate, studies eco-immunology, and the stress physiology of invasive reptiles. Apparently when some of them get stressed, they get really backed up. Don't we all? I still can't. I'm in awe of that lizard. Just that, not record-breaking for animals in general.

Just astonishing stuff. Amazing. I still resent the original story that we read that through for the wild speculation. Pizza Greece was responsible for the constipation. I would have loved for that to have been backed up by something. Yeah, yeah. So, Natalie, if you are listening to this, please let us know if what you think caused the massive constipation of this lizard. Was it pizza crusts in the local area or was it something else? You can write into mail bag at Buntavista.com. In fact, any of you people listening to this can write into mail bag at Buntavista.com.

So thank you again, Natalie Natalie for your great work with just mind-blowing lizard dukies. I love it. And thanks everybody for listening. Thank you to everybody who donated to the fundraising yesterday. Thank you so much. You can of course find Sisters inside online and just do your own donation if you missed out on that and would like to contribute to a good course. So that's it for us and we'll see you next week. We've got to, whoa, our lunch hour is just running over. We're going to get back in there. I'm hearing the big whistle at the Dicksucking Factory. I'm stretching my jaw. Literally whip. Oh boy. I'm sliding back up the dinosaur into the Dixucking Factory.

We are getting out of here. See you folks. Bye. Bye. I the