Boonta Vista - UNLOCKED BONUS EPISODE: The Thin Blue Whine

Episode Date: June 18, 2020

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Welcome to Bundy Vista, it's a bonus episode. I'm Andrew, I'm here in an underground jazz club. That's right, we're watching a trio, they're up on stage and they are hot. There's been out some hot jazz. Sitting to my right at this circular table, we were lucky enough to snag a booth, snapping her fingers and bobbing her head around, she seems to really be enjoying the jazz. It's Lucy. I'm calling the cops on this one. The cops are good again. Don't ever say such slanderous things about me being in a jazz club. Let me just get this right, you're calling the police to put a stop to a preeminent black form of music... the music. the the the the the the their head head their head their head their head their head their head their head their head their head. She their head. She their head. She th. She th. She's th. She's their head their head th. She's their head their head their head their head their head their head their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their head their head their head their head their head. She their head. She their head. She their head. She. She. She. She. She. She. She. She. She. She. She. She. She. She. She's their. She's. I. I to. I to to th. I's to te. I's te. I's te. I's. I'm. I'm s. I'm s. I'm s. I'm s. I'm to. I'm. I'm. I get this right. You're calling the police to

put a stop to a preeminent black form of music. Is that correct? Is that right? Wow, Lucy. Don't worry, we're in Australia so there's nobody black on stage. And sitting to her right, also snapping his fingers saying things like, Bipop, woo! It's Ben. Hey Ben. I once got scolded for talking too much at a jazz night by the guy on stage. I used to go to this weekly jazz night thing here at a bar in the city and I did really have that many friends at the time so I just get shit-faced and go by myself and I like saw someone there and was just like chatting to them while this band was playing

and then the guy got on the mark was like I just don't know what the deal with with people that just like come here to talk like aren't you here for the the jazz and I was just like I'm here I'm here he he he he he he the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the to to to to the to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to just to to just to just to just to just to just to just the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. the the the the the the the. the the the the the the. the thi. thi. the. thi. the. thi. thi th I'm here because I like drinking these weird five dollar German beers I've never heard of. I'm listening to some sweet jazz from a bunch of early 20-something Brisbaneites pretending to be early 20-something Americans in the 50s. Yeah the problem is he's up there very carefully crafting the space in the notes that he's not playing. And in those spaces people are only hearing Ben's voice say things like, Warhammer! And dope smoker! There's absolutely no way for them to know which note is not being played.

And you know what, retrospectively I apologize. Sitting to my left wearing a comically oversized fedora with a very small feather in the brim. It's toppling around. He can't keep it sitting up right. It keeps covering his eyes and also knocking the straw out of his drink. It's Theo. Okay, so first of all, I just want to point out that I bought this hat to support the band.

It's the one piece of merchandise they sell. It says one size fits all, but I don't know. You don't need the straw. You know, you could just take the straw out and just drink it normally. It's a very tall beer though. I mean, walk it that way. 300, 400 grams? I'll tell you what, folks, this jazz, it's for cool cats. I disagree.

Let's move on. It's for cool cats, and I'll tell you what else cats are for. They are for relationships with humans. Now, it's going to take me a little while to explain. are for, they are for relationships with humans. Now it's going to take me a little while to explain exactly what I mean by that. And before that I'm going to play the intro into the segment which we are smoothly entering. And you're not using that to buy time at all. A smooth of smooth jazz.

It's Paging Dr. Lucy. Here's some smooth jazz, it's paging Dr. Lucy. Here's some smooth jazz now. That's not jazz. Stop. Wee! Skip. Skip. Skip. Skip.

Skip. Skip. It's all about the parts you don't do. Yeah, you'd have no experience with that, not doing farts. Oh, God damn. Oh, God damn. Once on podcast. And then in real life, constantly, whenever we are around each other.

And also anytime, just before we start recording a podcast. Every day I'm libeled. Look folks, sometimes you've got to try and work out the problems in your relationships like us with Theo and his farts. But you know, we also like to check in on Reddit, official cesspool of the internet. We like to see what kind of issues people are asking for help with. Now I saw one that really took my eye and also made me go, oh no, quietly, while I was looking at it on my phone. This is from the subreddit slash relationships.

24-year-old male, my girlfriend, 26-year-old female, fully believes that she is a cat in a human's body. Now, this one's going to get rough, folks. So, here we go. I know people are going to think I'm either trolling or baiting, but please read before you comment. This post has nothing to do with gender or trans issues. I am in no way intending to be offensive or anything. My girlfriend and I have been together for nearly eight months and she's always been a very quirky and nerdy person, break up with them. Um, red flag. Does cosplay very into anime and roleplaying, etc. Nothing too weird.

We've been kind of distant lately with everything going on and me being an essential worker, so we haven't seen each other and only talk for half an hour a day. Well, last Tuesday we got to hang out at her place and she wore cat ears and a belt with a tale the entire time. At first I thought it was either going to be a sex surprise. We love those, don't we fellas? Sex surprise. You really don't know what you're going to get with a sex surprise. I just, I want to take a little straw poll of the people I'm talking to right now. How many times do you enter a room and your partner is there?

And there's something going on that that gives you the thought oh oh I think a sex surprises on the cards this is only what ladies do right men don't do sex surprises and when we do but nobody likes it nobody likes it it it's not good predominantly awful I'm in the whipped cream bikini from that not another team I would love I would love that sex surprise that's the that the the orough oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh th th th th. thor thor thor thor thor thor thor thor that that that thorough that tho tho tho tho tho orough oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh the the the the th oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh 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. they. they. they. they. they. the the they. the the the they. tho. tho. tho. thi thi the whipped cream bikini from that, not another team. From not another team. I would love that sex surprise. That's the only good sex surprise I can think of.

Yeah, but I'd have to be Chris Evans in the scenario. Yeah, in that scenario. It is Chris Evans, yes. I'm going to have trouble pulling like, oh, I've just strapped all the equipment on. Surprise. You're never going to guess what happens next. You come through the door, I'm in my bondage gun down. We're ready to cut.

So he's thinking that it was either going to be a sex surprise or her testing a new cosplay, but nope, she sat me down, asked me if I really do love her, and then hit me with a very long monologue that essentially summed up to I am a cat in a human body. I wish I was joking. I thought I misunderstood and then believed that maybe it was a weird joke but she kept being serious about it and doubling down. I left shortly after because I had a shift to work and I still believed it was an oddly drawn-out joke and nothing more. I'd love to leave a situation

like that going, I assume that was meant to be funny. That's definitely a joke. Yeah, we don't need to wrap this up or anything. Probably just leave this open-ended. She ended up texting me with resources to help me understand, which is when I realize that she really is serious. Apparently, she believes she is an other kin. No! No. No. Now, we've all heard of this concept, right?

Mm-hmm. Yeah. I've been on Tumblr posts. We've all seen Tumblr posts. She believes she is an other kin, a person who holds the belief that they are not human. She says she was introduced to this by one of her friends months ago and has since joined discords and communities of others like her. Oh, what is, sorry, what does this discord look like?

It's just people like typing meow in there, Talking about that stuff. It's just random letters like they're walking across the keyboard. That's right Oh my god, her friend believes he is a demon trapped in a human body and she sent me a testimonial that was supposed to be touching, but it's basically just about a dude thinking he is Naruto. I was reading this in bed the other night and wife of the show, my wife Elnow says, isn't it weird that all these people always happen to be like something cool and sexy in the body of a human? No one's ever like, I am a 100 year old tortoise. I'm a brick and human buddy. Yeah, yeah, no one's ever, no one's ever. What's the unsexiest animal that you could be on the inside, Ben? Blubfish.

Yeah, it's definitely blubfish. I, sitting your wife down, I have to tell you. I am a blobfish kin. Oh God. She explained her other type kin as being a cat and now she 100% thinks she is a cat. How did she know she was a cat you ask? I do ask. I certainly do. According to her, sleeping a lot, liking the sun, hating water, feeling more comfortable crawling on fours, and claiming to understand what cats are saying and be able to talk to them through meowing.

Scrolling immediately back up to see the ages of these people. She's 26 year old girl. She is older than him, okay. Not a child. Not a child. Not a girl. Not yet a woman. Yeah, having a complete mental breakdown.

She's also apparently been distant with nearly everyone we know, I are L, as I got multiple messages asking me to let her know to be in toucest with them. My head has been spiraling this past week. I keep thinking it's a joke. No, not, not, not, tha. No, not, thi. No, thi, thi, not, thi, thi, thi, not, not, not, not, thi, not, thi, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not a thi, not a thi, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not. Not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, not, th. She, th. She, th. She, thi. She, thi. She, thi. She thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. She's thiiiiii. She's thi, thi, thi, touch with them. My head has been spiraling this past week. I keep thinking it's a joke, but nope, she is deathly serious about this and has handed in her two weeks resignation at her job because cats don't work. That's fucking baller. Oh, this is incredible. I'm with her now.

She's good now. Well Well I would prefer to lie in the sun in my lounge room than go to my job. So I guess I'm a cat. You know? I think I'm done with work. I think I'm done with work now. So you have to wear like a condom that gives him a spiked penis? Oh no. Oh no. is going. Oh no. Oh no. Oh, well if he was supportive he would, you know? So she's handed in her resignation. Again, I wish I was joking.

I've been limiting my interactions with her ever since because this is hurting my head a whole lot and I just can't cope. She's also surrounded herself with a large amount of yes men and women who support her 100% and are enabling this, some even encouraging her to make a patron and make other kin content that they would contribute to, which she bought up when I asked her about quitting her job. To make things worse, I can't discuss this with anyone in real life because I know crazy it sounds and I know that leaving her is a valid option, but I'm in love with this woman and I now don't recognize her and I know that there is something very, very wrong. And I can't reach out to her and she refuses to hear anything from me unless it is unconditional

support. What the fuck do I do? Now...I get out of there, bro. I can't get out of there, bro. I would argue he doesn't love that woman. He loves the idea in his head of that woman that he had before finding out who she really is a cat. If he really loves that woman, he's going to start making some accommodations for the cat version of the person that he loved.

Otherwise, no. Now there's some very good supplementary information here. There is an edit to this post in which O.P. says, Just got off work, I was very surprised with the amount of comments. I honestly just expected a bunch of calling me crazy. I'm reading them now and I want to say thank you to everybody who took the time out of the day to give me advice. I appreciate it their their their their their their day to give me advice, I appreciate it. To address some things. Number one, her and I have been friends for two plus years prior to dating. That is why I'm reluctant to just up and leave. Number two, I've read a comment asking if she has a history of mental illness,

not to my knowledge. Aside from her being diagnosed with mild social anxiety in high school, I'm going to try to reach out to her mother to check up on her, maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe I think maybe a little check-in with a mental health professional. Just a little check-in. Little. I mean each of their own maybe she'll just simply find the right catman for her. Hmm. And all power to you sweetie. Number three, yesterday was the first time that I truly confronted what was going on. I've just kind of been pushing it out of my mind and praying and hoping it was some kind of drawn out joke, but now that I've had time to truly ponder it, I think it has been a long time coming.

She's been buying a lot of cat memorabilia. And a lot of her cosplays are cat. When I bought up the possibility of me tha. the near future she made a joke about being too territorial for a cat. Excuse me? She's also for the last few months being shitting in a pile of sand in the living room. Oh boy. He does say in the comments, no litter box yet. It's like that's a threatening possibility. It's coming. It's certainly coming. He does address the presence of demon man. The guy who has been talking to his girlfriend.

Oh, tell me more about demon guy. I don't know who demon man really is. All I know that he has been a part of her virtual Dungeons and Dragons group since last year. What the fuck? Also, so far, no litter box in the picture, sorry to disappoint slash relieve some of you. When I asked about her plans, as a cat, other than quitting her job, she had sent me her to-listod-ldo list which I didn't bother opening or reading until yesterday because I was too busy wishing all of this was a fever dream. The to-do list includes purchasing a scratch

post for her nails. Switching to a carnivore diet and dying her hair red because she is a ginger cat. Wait, a carnivore diet? Like only meat? Well, probably some grass from time. It's like, oh of course, because you need to get those acids in there. That sounds, this is probably the part that is, I am objecting to the most. Yeah, because now she's going to get the fucking Jordan-Peters disease where you eat

only meat and become completely miserable. That can't be sustainable, surely. Oh boy. He says, as much as it hurts, I have no intention to continue to be in a romantic relationship with her because she will absolutely not anything that is not 100% support. I love her, but I love myself, that's right, King, and I don't want to be dragged down to something like this, especially when it feels like I'm talking to a brick wall. I will try to remain in contact with her to make sure she is not spiraling towards

mental break. I will visit her today to have a talk and officially break it off, though she'd been refusing to see me unless I'm completely on board. Then I will buy a couple of bottles of alcohol and down them in my flat. I have really enjoyed the cat puns and apparently I need to Google who Maureen is, which it's very funny for any fans of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. For a character Dennis who married a woman named Maureen Ponderosa who began a plastic surgery-fuel transition into a real-life catwoman. Right. Oh boy.

That was a roller coaster? I um, I feel like we maybe talked about like other kin stuff a really long time ago. We certainly would have. Yes. Years ago. And I reckon this was the thing. I feel like we took a question from the mail bag like years ago that was like what's the thing that you think like will make you sound like an old conservative person.

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Spraying them with a water bottle. Jesus. Oh boy. Oh boy. What do you do with that, you know? I think you either make a decision in your head that you're like, I love this person so much that this, if this is the thing that makes them happy, I will accommodate them in whatever way I can, or you say, I'm so sorry, this is fucking nuts to me, I hope you find another cat person out there.

Mm-hmm. fucking nuts to me, I hope you find another cat person out there. You absolutely have like the perfect parachute for getting out of that relationship as well, if that's what you choose to do. Yeah, parachute being... I'm not a cat person. I'm not a cat person. I'm so sorry but I simply cannot do this. If you're a dog, you're a dog, more of a dog person. I mean, if only, let me let me tease this out for a second that bit because let's say let's say that you were like I really

love this person and I want to support them. You're like you're like taking on a award you're like I now have a human-sized cat. I also think there are issues with having sex with a cat personally, but like you now you now have someone who's saying, now I am a cat, I am going to live as a cat, I will do as the cat does. I would be as the cat is. If it was just sexual, I feel like you could maybe get past it if you were that kind of person. Yeah, yeah. At least you're delineating the time in which this is happening. Yeah, absolutely. When the sex starts, you treat me like a fucking cat time. It's cat time. It's cat time. Ket time never ends here. Cat time never ends. I mean, if you're not the mood you spray them with the bottle and you go back to gaming, you know. the the th 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. You their. You're their. You're their. You're their their their their their their. And you're their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their professional life at this stage? Like are they...

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as a result of something that internet-only friends from your D&D group have convinced you is a good idea is also a bit of a red flag. I think, at the very least, you know, pop the hood on that old brain and rum and drown in there, see what's going on. Damn, our other kin fans are going to be pretty maddened. Furious, fucking furious. My goodness. Then you know, there's the more benign versions of this, like this post. 22-year-old male, once again we've got a older woman, younger man, starring here, 22-year-old male, my 24-year-old girlfriend, uses her tongue to groom her

cat. How do I tell her that it's disgusting without hurting her feelings? Basically what the title says, sometimes we kiss and there's hair in my mouth. No! No! Oh no! The issue is that her cat got her through very bad times and she is sensitive when I say anything negative about the cat. For example, when it scratches me and I get mad, she then gets mad at me for reacting negatively. Can't take this anymore. Someone please advise me. How would you advise this one, Ben, because it doesn't require quitting your job or all of your interpersonal relationships, but it's pretty gross. I feel like you can

kind of categorically just say hey that's fucked up please stop. Lucy what you think? Oh straight up that's extremely fucked up and gross. It's like you can you can love the cat without licking the cat right very so true you You can lavish attention. You can get one of those gloves. Have you seen those gloves? Yeah, shaped like tongue gloves. Big, big tongue glove.

Pretty creepy, but better than using your real tongue. Big David Cronenberg prop. Yeah, and really effectively all she's doing is wetting the cat. You don't have the little little spurs on your tongue. Yeah. No, you can get a you can get gloves that have like you know that are covered in like the Velcro hooks kind of things and you just you pay your cat and then and it pulls all the loose hairs out and everything they're getting nice little brushy brushy. And you don't have to fill your partner's mouth with cat hair. I will say she's right about one thing that he shouldn't get mad when the cat scratches him

because they do not understand negative reinforcement. He's just fucking up on that front. They sure don't. Why does anyone have cats? That is a great question. Thea? And Andrew? I'm a wonderful cat's just really nice. My cat just... Most people are just really bad at having cats. Yeah. I don't get to yell at them and then... How do I communicate with something that doesn't get it what I'm yelling at it? What am I supposed to do? We'll talk about cops later in the show. Now cats are all on on the, just the low maintenance side of pets. Yeah. You put out some food. Although that's it, the them them them the the the the the the they they they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they'll they. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. pets. Yeah. You put out some food.

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relationship. Not sure whether or not this changes the dynamic, but keep it in mind. So my girlfriend, for my birthday, gave me this pillow with both our faces on both sides. I hate it. I never want to be seen with it. I don't... Be seen with it? You have to walk around with it. I don't see how she thought I would like this. I think she thinks that me having this would prevent me from seeing other girls which I never had any intention of doing. Fuck. Do I lie th th th th th th th th th th th th th this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this. this. I this. I this. I this. I this. I this this this this this this this. I this. I this. I this this this this this. I this. I this. I this. I this. I this. I this. I this. I thi thi thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I this. I this. I this. I this. I this. I this. I this. I this. I this. I this. I this. I this. I this. I this. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeatea. theeeeeeeeeeea. I thi. Fuck! Do I lie and tell her I like it or straight up tell her I hate it? So in her mind is she kind of or is he imagining that she's imagining that he would have to like push this pillow out of the way with

their faces on if he's going to get with another girl? Yeah, bring her home, the pillow is there and he goes, oh no no, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, th, th, th, th th th th th th th th th th th th th th tho, th tho, tho, the, the, the, tho, th the, the, the, the, the, the, th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th, or th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th th th th I I th I th I th I the, the, the the the the the the the theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee the the the the? Yeah, bring it home. And that step be there and he goes, oh no. Oh no, what have I done? Genius. Oh no. I just remembered how much I hate this pillow. This fucking pillow. Some of the suggestions in the comments were like, uh, you don't have to tell her you fucking hate it, but... one person was like maybe

you could just sleep on it for like a week and then send it back to her and be like I want you to share this great experience and now it has my scent on it sure why doesn't she have to have the pillow so she can't see other guys you know send it right back to her yeah Yeah, put it back on her, you know. I think if you're going to, um... If you're going to do the pillow with your face on it, I think you should go all out and have a full-size Japanese body pillow of yourself made. You'd have to, it's weird.

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They're so creepy. I've seen so many documentaries about them. They're very upsetting. Have all the bones in them and everything. Oh, they're no good. Saw some sex dolls in Japan that I wish I did not see. Did you guys see that video on the guy in America who has like one of the largest personal gun collections in the world?

He accidentally blew up his wife with a rocket. And now he lives with a bunch of real dolls in his house with his thousands of guns, with like literally millions of dollars worth of guns. It's incredible. I wish I knew what to search for that. Gunsman, wife, rocket. Body pillow? Oh boy. I think the thing that bothers me the most about like the real dolls and all that sort of stuff

More than anything else and there's a lot of aspects to be bothered by I think we can all agree Is the whole like hey you better lie this in a bath full of warm water for like for however long So it doesn't feel like a big corpse. Oh my god. Yeah. That's some real black mirror stuff. The guy was trying to remember his name is Mel Bernstein. And in 2012, his wife and business manager was accidentally killed during the filming of a promotional piece for a new Discovery Channel reality show featuring Bernstein, his crew called Dragonland.

Flannel was struck by two smoke bombs traveling at 150 miles per hour. Oh, holy fuck. Just... That seems bad. And I think they filmed like the whole thing, and this was the last scene that they filmed, and they had to throw out the entire TV show, because in the last scene that they filmed and they had to throw out the entire TV show because in the very last thing that they've filmed his wife got ethered. You know that the dude was like this is terrible but could we not edit around? You know if you're the kind of guy who's like dog

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Well, no, you can't. You can't watch it with her, she's gone. Where did she die? Yeah, yeah. She's very dead. Oh, I wish I didn't make that story. Oh, that's a, okay. This is like, um, you are canceled Certainly finally so did you guys see that story from I'm gonna say sometime in the last 12 months when

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course of filming this show, at some stage one of the couples who are contestants on the show are downstairs in the house that they're all living in and they're messing around on the couch. And this guy is... I'm trying to think of a better way to put it. Fingering this lady. I'm sorry? I've...

Look, I'm gonna throw down the gauntlet here. I think the phrase digitally penetrating is worse than saying fingerings. It's really, sorry, I probably could say to go the wrong thing here. When you say you're throwing down the gauntlet? It sounds like to whom? Yes, who are you challenging on this? I'm challenging you to tell me which of these things you think is worse? The only digital penetration I care about. Yeah, we go.

Cybersex. Yes. I didn't have anything better than that. It's a very bad phrase. It's a horrible phrase. It's got a real courtroom document smell. It definitely does. I know that digitally means that, but it shouldn't mean that.

We know what digitally means. It means on the internet. And that's why we use a nice phrase like finger blast. That's right. You know? It's a fucking, what's it called? It's a disfamism? It's where, like, the phrase you use to not say the thing that you're talking about actually is worse than the thing you describe me so the opposite of a euphemism like dropping the kids off the pool to mean I'm taking a shit a disfamism. Sounds like you're getting finger blasted by the albino twins from the Matrix.

The Lord Moa man has come over to finger fuck me I'm being digitally penetrated. Yeah so this guy is digitally penetrating this lady on the couch they're making out and then they hear a noise. So after all of this you've gone with... Well we're saying them all. We're saying them all. He's penetrating this woman via the internet and they hear a noise and they look up and at the top of the stairs is a channel 7 cameraman filming them. Cool. And they go, what the fuck are you doing? Because it's like 5 a.m. It's not like we're making a reality show time. No one else in the house is awake other than his cameraman who's like, cool.

And they go, hey buddy, what the fuck is up? And they go and confront him and they say, what are you doing? Can you please delete that footage? And he says, yes, I have deleted the footage. Wink? Wink? And so what he actually did with the footage instead was showed it to everybody, and they sent it all around the Channel 7 officers where they all watched it together in meeting rooms and laughed. When did this happen? Like within the last 12 months? Oh God. Also that guy totally had the someone's getting fucked Pager. He was on someone's getting fucked pager Judy. Dood-dit-dood-dood. But yeah, this like Channel 7's defense was like, well look, number one, they signed a contract saying that they consented to being recorded at all times in this house.

But number two, um, sorry, like, that they can't send it to be recorded at all times in this house. But number two, sorry, like it was just the worst shit and they just had no explanation for like these these reports of them all watching it together and being extremely fucked up. So that's pretty cool I think we can all agree Cool cool. Yeah, how do we get that how do we get to talking about Someone backtrack us through that for a second. I that was all you you you drive it there. Hmm you're in the driver seat Sex dolls. Oh, your wife being filmed getting killed. Okay for a reality show. Sorry. Sometimes we're talking about something and I'm like, how the fuck do we? Speaking of filming things that are extremely traumatizing and embarrassing.

A little bit of footage here. There seems to be a current phenomenon of the police in America being victims of the gravest crimes. Sure, I know a lot of people are concentrating on all of the, what do you call it, state-sanctioned murder, all of the summary executions on the street of people who are unarmed and running away from the police. Yes, that seems bad if that's what you want to focus on. We're here to talk the police. Yes, that seems bad if that's what you want to focus on. We're here to talk about the real victims. Who wants to describe the nature of this clip before I play us the audio from it? I feel like you should just play it. Okay. I mean, I think the only key thing to know here is it's someone filming themselves in a cop car

in the uniform of a cop. Classic, classic filming yourself in the car to complain about a thing. People love that one, don't they? I have never filmed myself talking inside a car and I don't think I ever will. And I'm not embarrassed of owning a 2000 model Ford Falcon that couldn't be road worthy so it's still and registered the name name the name the name the name the name the name 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 uniformed the uniformed the uniformed the uniformed the uniformed the uniformed the uniformed the the uniformed the uniformed the uniformed the uniformed the uniformed. the uniformed. the uniformed. the uniformed. the uniformed. the uniformed. the uniformed. the uniformed. the uniformed. the uniformed. the uniformed. 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 top car car car car car car car car car car car car car car car. And I'm not embarrassed of owning a 2000 model Ford Falcon that couldn't be roadworthy, so it's still and registered the name of the person. Oh no, is that what happened to it?

Well, you know, you don't have to, but I just, I feel like people love that filming the car thing and it's just very weird. Like if you ever look at the accounts of, like the weird, Margo Grandparents, grandparents They've always got either photos or videos of themselves inside the cars It's because it's a relatively soundproof environment. That's nice lighting I guess you've got your You got your natural lights out there nice acoustics perhaps Americans truly love to film themselves talking while they drive somewhere and is that because they spend all of their time driving to places. Yes, probably truly love to film themselves talking while they drive somewhere. And is that because they spend all of their time driving to places? Yes, probably. So this woman allegedly named Stacey,

who has allegedly been a police officer for 15 years, has filmed this video of herself, being devastatingly traumatized, has posted it onto the internet internet whence it has gone viral. Let's take a listen. Brace yourselves because this is hard to hear. It's hard to hear what our brave law enforcement officers are being put through and the kind of victimization they're being subjected to. So, you know, content warning for that.

I decided to come to the McDonald's at Loves on the Ford Avenue exit and I waited in line to get my food. I'd already done my mobile order so that, you know, people don't pay for my stuff because I just always like to pay for it myself. But I'm on my way home from work. When I pull up to the window, they hand me my receipt, so I go to the second window to get my food, and I'm waiting. And I'm waiting.

And so the girl comes to the window and asks me what my order was. I repeat my order and my coffee order and my coffee order and they asked me to pull up because my food's not ready. It's an English muffin meal with a hash brown no coffee and I mean I hadn't eaten since I don't probably about I mean I've been up for very long time but I haven't eaten in a while so I was kind of hungry and I'm still waiting and I'm still waiting and they asked me to pull up so I pull up forward and a girl comes out with my coffee and just the coffee and she hands it to me and at my window down and that's all she ends me as a coffee.

So I told her I said don't bother with the food because right now I'm too nervous to take it. It doesn't matter how many hours I've been up. It doesn't matter what I've done for anyone. Right now I'm too nervous to take a meal from McDonald's because I can't see it being made. I don't know what's going on with people nowadays, but please just give us a break. Please just give us a break. I don't know how much more I can take. I've been in this for 15 years and I've never ever had such anxiety about waiting for McDonald's drive through food.

So just have a heart and if you see an officer just tell them thank you because I don't hear thank you enough anymore. Oh, I don't hear thank you enough anymore. Oh, so just there's just so much going on here. So much. I mean, even if we start with the core of the story, in which she has somehow been victimized by her drive-through taking longer than she expected it to, I think that seems to be the main issue. I think reading between the lines right that the reason that it is taking so long is because the staff behind the McDonald's counter have run out of

the industrial strength bleach that they were going to put into it and have gone behind in the stock room and that kind of try and find the bottle to pour it into. Antifa's got to go get some more. Like the whole deal is that they're busy poisoning it, right? Like, is that what she's getting it? I feel like, because she's nervous about the food arriving and it's a bit from super troopers right that it's going to be late because they're spitting it or something like that's the whole deal right? Well they're not going to bring it to her because they just everyone hates cops yeah. No they're gonna put the special secret

ingredient in it that gave those cops the three cops that were to shake shack diarrhea diarrhea but then when they tested it couldn't couldn't couldn't couldn't couldn't couldn't couldn't couldn't the they're the they're they're their they're they're they're their they're they're their they're they're their they're their they're they're their they're they're they're they're they're they're they're their they're their they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they they 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 they're they're they're they're they're their their the to to te te te te. te. te. te. te. theea theee the the they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they tested it, couldn't prove that it was poison. It's milk, so the secret ingredient is milk. It's fucking ShakeShack. That is what the ingredient is. Yeah. And I mean, I get diarrhea every time I go to McDonald's. So, I mean, I'm not going to accuse them of poison. I get diarrhea most days of my life, and that also would have been true. It's hard to separate the causes but yeah. Is it? Can I can I read you guys the bio of the person that posted this video?

So I mean I'm sure there may be other copies of it who knows but the description of it was Stacy who has been a cop for 15 years went to be told she paid for an advance and this is how she gets treated for being a cop, which is amazing, but the bio gets better. Tennessee, proud American, hashtag code of vets, Trump 2020, God bless our troops, pro-life, constitutional conservative independent, no porn. No porn, god damn it. So every single thing of that bio, all the phrases are delineated by a little American flag, except for no porn which has two of the like circle with a cross through it it it it, th the th th th th the th th th th th th th th th th to it, to it, to it, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to their their to to to toe, toe, toe, han, haa, haa, haa, haa, haa, haa, haa, haa, haa, haa, haa, haa, haa, haa, haa, haa, haa, haa, haa, ha haa, ha. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. tta, ttax, ttax, ttax, ttax, ttax, ttax, tha-a, ttax, tha-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-s, ttau-a''e. I ttax, ttax all the phrases are delineated by a little American flag except for no porn which has two of the like circle with a cross through it either side of it. If you're looking for porn, please don't go to

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Like the guy, the cop, I'm saying that he got a McDonald's burger with a bite already taken out of it. It was so fucking good. He just forgot that he'd bitten the burger. Yeah. Right. And every, and all of these, it's just this continuing snowball effect that they're getting more and more and more paranoid about fast food and people, interactions with people, over things that they had previously imagined to be real attacks. Like, it's the whole purpose of them being so anxious is because they've previously

imagined these things and they're just making themselves like more and more worked up about it. I'm getting so worked up to the point that this should just be immediately failing whatever psychological evaluation. One hundred... Oh, there's whatever psychological evaluation. 100 supposedly exists. Oh, there's no psychological evaluations. And the terrifying thing is that, is if you just take this, this mindset and you stamp it onto their everyday interactions with like people on the job, and you look at the fact that in America, it is a, quite often a legal defense that's mounted that they

were afraid for their life even though there was no threat whatsoever right and then they in the process of that they shot an innocent person that that that defense has been raised again and again again and you look at this where they're scared to take food for an entirely imagined threat it's it's terrifying like the situation that they've created created th th th th th they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've the they've 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 their their their their their their their their their they've they've the they've the they've the the the the thate thate thateate thate that. thateeat. theeat. theeat. theeeat. the the the the the the scared to take food for an entirely imagined threat, it's terrifying, like, the situation that they've created for themselves. It's very alarming. And these people have guns. They've guns.

I've made a big mistake here and I've started looking at the replies to this tweet. Oh, they're not good. And this is one of the more popular replies, it's put to the the the the the the the up up up up up up up up up up up thoes, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thi, tho, that, that, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, that, that, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thi. thi. thi, thi. thi, thi, the, the, the, the, the. the. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. And, thea. And, thea. And, this is on me. All right, so this is one of the more popular replies, let's put to the top here. One, McDonald's has parking spots for people to wait when their orders take a while because sometimes they take a while. There is no conspiracy. Two, it's common courtesy to give someone to drink while they're waiting for their food. by at Kimberly Vett 715. First off, this makes zero sense. Second, I have had food taken insane long amount of time and when they bring the food out, the bring the drink and the

food. Third, not every McDonald's has designated parking spots, so you have no idea what you're talking about. What the fuck is she talking about? Absolutely demolished. My goodness. A very sensitive breed of people, these police. It's um... Yeah, I just... It's good that we give them absolute power over our lives and bodies.

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Or just that McDonald's gives you free food for being a cup. Well, because there's the whole thing where cops go into McDonald's and order a coffee and they give it to them free because they're cops, right? So making a point, doing a little police virtue signaling of I paid for my own food, I didn't expect them to give it to me. Well, you fucking shouldn't, but okay. Then there's the part where the transaction didn't instantly result in her being just given what she expected the moment she came through. She had to wait and she didn't get, like, you don't get to see the fucking food being made in front of you with a drive through anyway. It doesn't matter whether you had to go and wait the to the to to the to the to the to the to the the to to the the the to the the to the to see the fucking food being made in front of you at the drive through any way. It doesn't matter whether you had to go and wait in the car park or whether they gave it to you through the window.

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gratitude for even being in the job let alone fucking doing anything you should be saying thank you to people when you see them getting their fucking breakfast to McDonald's. You're not doing shit for anybody right then, aren't you? You're getting your breakfast? She's not even in her cop outfit. Like why would they pay for her food or like give her free food? Oh. Stacy. Just weeping that not enough people say thank you to you anymore.

Maybe people have some fucking expectations of you now. As a digression, like I worked at Domino's or whatever, you know, and you fuck someone's order up, like the fact that they'd been sitting there hungry for, you know, they haven't eaten for six hours or whatever, you know, none of that goes into the determination of fucking up someone's order, it's completely random. Like no one, no one gives a shit what your circumstances are because none of them matter. You know like, oh, this guy looks hungry, let's fucking ruin his nine. He sounded hungry on the phone. You know, when you place your order, you tell them when your last meal was, how physically

intense your job is, and then they prioritize the orders based on that. Yeah, and then they reverse them all in order urgency. their their their their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, th. the, the, the, thirty, thirty, thirty, thirty, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, tho, tho, tho, tho, the, their, their, their, their, their, their, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, tho, thooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo see they say, the person who told me that they just ate a steak five minutes ago, they get their pizza first. Yeah, we've got five orders an hour that we have to fuck up contractually, so we have to make them count. Oh my God. When will cops start seeing themselves? It's the service workers that they are. I should smile more.

Every time you look at the list of like more dangerous professions than cops, it's just it's insane to think that this weird deferential treatment that they absolutely fucking crave. I fucking I fucking I wish I could remember more about this, but there was like a thing where there was a venue somewhere in the states where they were like, we're not going to give a cop discount anymore. And then the union for that city, the cop union was just like, wow, looks like we won't protect this town anymore.

Like, okay, but who else is getting a free discount? Fuckin garbage workers have a higher mortality rate, or a higher fatality rate in the course of doing their job in the US. Construction workers, construction supervisors have a higher fatality rate? Like, they're not even in the top 25. Like, it's fucking nuts. But just because there's some weird, like, Hollywood idea of what policing involves, they demand to be treated like

there's, I don't know, it's fucking insane. Say thank you to someone that does laboring for a job. Next time you see a bricklayer say, hey, thanks. Thank you. Just trying to think of all the times that a police officer has helped me. I um I posted something about this, I posted something about this on Twitter not very long ago because I was curious, right? I am because I you know obviously there's been a lot of debate about defunding and abolishing the police and everything and one of the popular retorts that I had seen to this was oh you want to defund the police. Well who you're gonna call when your house gets broken into? So they can show up six hours later?

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the police saying, oh, yeah, we don't do anything about that. Yeah, effectively you ring the police because that's a thing you need to do to claim your insurance. Yeah, that's the process. It's step one. They put a stamp on your insurance form so you can hand it to them. But you might ask who are you gonna call if you are sexually assaulted? Oh boy. And let me tell you. Who are you gonna call if you would like them to use a rape test kit? Who are you gonna call if you would like them to use a rape test kit? and then just put it somewhere and never actually get it processed?

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broken into like 10 times over 10 months. And each time that this would happen, somebody would get into the secure lockup under the building and break into our cars and every other fucking car down there. So they would break into like 20 cars at a time, and they would do it roughly every three or four weeks, right? And so you'd call the police and say, hey, someone came down and broke into dozens of cars again under this building like they do like fucking clockwork every month and they'd go yeah yeah you're like and do you have any feedback any interest or anything they'd be like

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fucking back window caved in or whatever. Or my girlfriend at the time had a Suzuki-scki softtop and you know how you can just like pop the little buttons and do the zips and get into it? I don't know that but sure. Well you know like a convertible type thing with the plastic. Right. The plastic sort of deal but these people would still like slash through it with a Stanley knife you know. Other people would be standing around and going look at these people would still like slash through it with a Stanley knife, you know. Other people would be standing around and going, look at these big, clear hand prints on the window of the car that I just had detailed yesterday. And the cops are like, no, we're not coming down for that.

The only thing I ever got from the cops about that one was, look, just fill in a report. And then if you fill in enough of those reports as your car continues 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 th. the the th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thrown. thi. thrown. thiolk print thiolk print thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. the the the the their the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the thi. thin, thin, thin. thin. thin. I thin. I thin. I's thin. I's thin. I's thin. I's thrown. I'll thrown. I'll thrownee print. I's throwne print print print print print. thrown print print print print. thrown print print print print. I's, th if you fill in enough of those reports as your car continues to get broken into, the crime rate in your suburb will go up and we will use that to request additional funding and maybe as a result someone will eventually investigate this recurring crime. And it only just occurred to me when I was thinking about this recently that I was like, oh, that's it. That's the grift. The crime is bad. The police don't do anything to help.

Cops are grifters, huh? And then they use that as a way to ask for more money for the cops. They're the ultimate grifters. And look, my point isn't that I want is the policetime, my point isn't that I want the police to be more effective at jailing people who break into cars. That's not my point at all. My point is just, I don't think you should have to interact with like an escalatory presence in order to get your little fucking receipt to take to the insurance. Because that is the only role that they're playing in this situation is to say

yes you officially got broken into. Which conveniently they managed to do without ever fucking coming down there and taking a look. They talked to you on the phone and say, sounds like you got broken into. And you file your police report. Listen, I used to think that defunding the police was a stupid and crazy idea. And then I read some things about it. And then I changed my mind and that's simply that easy. Well I will say from my own perspective, because we have established that we are the leftest political podcast for idiots who don't read good. That is true. And we're, you know, we are not the theory podcast, right?

We can all agree on this. We should find out what the theory podcast is so that we can direct people to that one, no feel. I don't think we should. Okay. Because you know, because the theory podcasts, the hardcore ones, seem to be populated by psychopaths. You don't need to read theory. You can just read nice things by people smarter than us. There's plenty of it out there.

There's a lot of it out there. I read upwards of 10,000 posts a day. And look how big your brain is getting. Your brain is enormous. Anyway, the point I was going to make is that I think I tend to not really comment on things that are about like abolishing the police because as a person who does not read a tremendous amount of theory or books, anything, just post, it's just post. Now, as somebody who, I am a person who struggles with,

what are we talking about in the absence of that entire part of society? I think we've actually had that conversation on the podcast before where we were talking about police abolition and talking about things like traffic specifically or sort of road rules was the sort of thing where you're like, well, what happens then? And like, there are alternatives to all these sorts of things. But it's not like, it does take a bit of thought to imagine what the world looks like, because this is the paradigm we've had for like a couple of centuries. And it's odd to think that it's not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just not just and it's odd to think that it's not just like, well there are rules and you follow them and

then there are guys to tell you, hey, you're not following that. It's strange. Well, as a lot of people have pointed out, like the creation of the police in a lot of different areas was purely and specifically to protect the property of land owners. slave, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like 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 theathlipl. And thoes, and thoes, and 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, and their their, and their their, and their their, and the, and the, and the, and the, and the. And, the. And, theateateateats, theats, thoooooooooooooooesl. And theats, and theats, and theate. And areas was purely and specifically to protect the property of landowners, slave owners and to help help people keep their slaves in line. And still they mostly just protect property. Yeah for rich people. It's nine-tenths of the law baby. But sometimes they sometimes they take property which is a fun little twist on the old on the old theme. Oh it's it's like when the Melbourne Council or whatever the city city the city the city the city the city the city the city the city the city the city the city the city the city the city the city the city the city the city the city the city the city the city the city the city the city the city Oh, it's like when the Melbourne Council or whatever the City's Council is,

banned camping in the city and then confiscated all of homeless people's belongings, the few things they had in the entire world, they just took away for them. And that's a problem they can easily deal with. Yeah. And it's, I think it is important going back to the question of what it looks what it looks what it looks what it looks what it looks what it looks what it looks what it looks what it looks what it looks what it looks 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 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. the. the is the is the is the is to. to. to to to to to-cou. tea. to. to to to to to tto to to the the the the a problem that they can easily deal with. Yeah. Yeah. And it's, I think it is important going back to the question of what it looks like to defund police. Part of that exercise is stop making social issues illegal. Stop making health issues illegal. Stop making issues of property illegal. Like all of these, all of these things, the reflex now is to just simply place a law in it. It's, you know, it'll be illegal 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 be the the the the to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to, all of these things, the reflex now, is to just simply place a law in it. It's, you know, it'll be illegal to be to sleep on the street. If you make it a finable offense to be homeless,

homelessness will disappear. Cease to exist. And this brings me, well, this brings me back to the point that I was moving towards, which which which which which which which which which which which which which which which which which which which which which which which which which is which is which which is which is, which is, which is, which is. is I personally I have traditionally struggled with when people talk about abolish the police I have the reaction a lot of people have which is I don't really know what society looks like after that however the entire conversation around defunding the police is so much easier for me to de-grasp so much easier for me to grasp which is is looking at exactly this type of thing,

what actual role do the police play in when your house gets broken into? You phone them, the vast majority of the time they don't even attend the scene, and you say, I would like to make a report that my house was broken into, and they say, cool, what's your address in your name? I'll write it in my big ledger of crimes that happened. And then you can say to your insurance company, I have filed a report to say that I was broken into and they go, cool, now you can claim on your insurance.

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then the cops actually turned up they come to the house they sort of look for some reflective surfaces that have been touched for fingerprints, they can dust. And then one of the cops says to me, you might want to check your butter. And I'm like, I'm sorry? I'm sorry? Oh. And he's like, yeah, you might want to check your butter. We've had a, yeah, there's a thing happening at a moment where, yeah, there's some stuff happening around that. And I'm like, I don't know what that means.

And he's like, just check the butter. And then I like, pull my butter out of the fridge, look at it. And I'm like, there's nothing there. And he's like, yeah, you might want to throw it out anyway. So I throw my you have any theories? Well, I mean, my first belief was that maybe there is a string of people going around Brisbane Shitting and Butter maybe? I don't really know. And I will never know. This was also at the time, Theo, I don't know if you remember this, when the new farm nudist was at large. I don't know if you recall when that was at the news.

And they didn't end up catching you? No way there is I can never afford to live or even do crimes in New Farm so precluded from that. That is literally all that happened to me is some cops came to my house said throw out your butter I threw out my butter and then that is it. I put all my stuff back together and then I just wrote off the hat, the weed and the like $10 in loose change that was stolen. My goodness. I missed that hat though. It was a great hat. Also, to kind of just take this to its logical conclusion, if the police's only role to when you, effectively you can never fund a police force such that there will be a policeman waiting exactly at the moment when a robber breaks through your window and takes all of your shit,

right? Like that's not a goal that's attainable. So clearly in this landscape, the only purpose for a police is then, as you mentioned, like, come in, take the record and go. So part of the conversation about defunding the police must go hand in hand with taking that funding and funding social programs that address the root cause of you getting your shit stolen in the first place. Hey, okay, but you say that, right?

Yes. Oh, look at me. I want to treat the root cause. It makes much more sense to treat the symptom because the symptom is the bad part. If you just believe that one person in 10 has the crime gland. That's what it fucking is. This is the thing that has been driving me insane, I think, actually, is that... I mean, I'm angry every time I look at the internet, which is the natural healthy response. But at the moment, every time I fucking see conversations around this, there is this, God damn, fucking insane belief that every single moment, every single person is on the precipice of descending into insane violent crime by nature of who they are, right?

That human existence, if it wasn't for some people in blue uniforms with badgers and a gun, would be people violently robbing and murdering each other all the fucking time and the only thing between that... I don't understand this. It's just that little book with the laws on it. Otherwise I'd be doing so much murdering. And that's what it is, right, because they genuinely believe that these people that are probably wealthy suburbanites who have not had to interface with the police in any way think that the role of the police is that you wake up, you're wearing your little nightcap, you're holding a candle on a plate, and you go, wait a second, and then you look out the window and someone in a bandit mask and a striped shirt with a sack with a dollar sign on it is trying to climb through your window, you

pick up the phone, you say, operator, I would like to speak to the police, and then a cop shows up and then they put them in the back of a sort of a Popemobile made of bars, and then they take them back to the prison, and the prison, and their their their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, is, is, their, their, is their, is their, is their, is their, is their, is their, is their, is their, is, is, is, is their, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, is, their.e.e.e.e.e.e.c.c. And, to.c. And, to.c.c. And, toe.c. And, toe. And, to. And, to. And, to. And, to. And, thi. And, the back to the prison. And then that's how law and order works, is that the police intercept all crimes before they happen because people by their very nature will commit crimes at all times unless the police are stopping them. It's this fundamental view of the universe that every single person is violent and selfish and out for themselves. Cop shows have done this.

No one's making cop shows about arresting someone for marijuana possession and sending them to jail. They're all about like a guy that's fucking killed 30 women. I would love that. Like CSI misdemeanors, where every single episode is about like, yeah, this guy was having half a joint in a public park. So we put him in jail for seven years. That's how we stop the cop propaganda.

They have to make that show and forever, all of us to get really mad about it. I have only seen a few episodes of cops. And it was only like till way later in my life. So like in my mid-20s, mid to late 20s or whatever, I saw my first episodes of cops. And it is fucking unbelievable. It's so depressing. They're definitely doing some misdemeanors on COPS. The people would watch this and go yes like that that was justice. They every single time they get up they get out of the car. They say cooler poor person's getting shaken down.

But they get out of their car and they and they walk up to a to a to a person who is visibly poor so that the audience they're they're they they the audience the audience the audience the audience the audience they the audience they they the audience they they they they they're 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 they're they're they're their they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their their their their their their to to to to their their to to their their to their their their their their their their their their their their their But they get out of their car and they walk up to a person who is visibly poor so that the audience at home can jeer and do whatever. And the first thing they do is handcuff them. And I just go like, holy shit. I remember, I used to hang out with this guy. I used to get high with this guy for the obvious crown reason of he always had weed and he would fucking like I'd get high and then he put on cops and that is like that's a bad time that's the worst time and I would I would be like saying to him do me a favor and fucking turn this off and he'd be like no no it's fine I'd be like dude I'm sitting here do me a favor and fucking turn this off. And he'd be like, no, no, it's fine.

And I'd be like, dude, I'm sitting here trying to have a nice buzz. While I watch the cops on this fucking show pull someone over for some bullshit, like having a tail light out, which again, shouldn't actually involve the armed violence response unit of the cops. And then they get somebody out of their their. their. their. their. And their. And their, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. tho, tho, thi, thi, thi, I, thi, I'd thi, I'd thi, I'm thi, I'm their, I'm their, I'm, I'm, I'm, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I I I, I, I I I I I, I I, I I I, I I, I I I I I, I I I, I I I I, I I, I, I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I'm th. I'm thin, I'm thin, thin, thin, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. th. thi. th. thi. thi. thi. I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm thi, I'm the cops. And then they get somebody out, they pull them out of their car, they start fucking searching and snooping around and all this shit and they wind up finding like fucking you know a quarter of a gram of weed left in a roach in the ashtray of the fucking car. And they go, oh wow, this is, this is pretty rough man because like I can see here look at your record that you're on your second strike and you're on parole which means that catching you in possession of this means that you're going to go to jail for 30 years.

Wish it wasn't like that but it is. Time to put the bracelets on. It's like, you get to just watch people on a fucking reality show have the fabric of their lives destroyed in real time and a lot of the time it's about nothing. Yep. I would a hundred percent recommend listening to the, I think it's like a six-part podcast called Running from Cops that is just about the TV show Cops, and it's sort of editorial direction and how they have just fucking ruined people's lives, like innocent people's lives. Like there's one example in there where it's a guy who like gets arrested on camera by the titular cops of cops and they're like,

oh this guy's got a little baggy of drugs and he's like no it's Himalayan rock salt and they're like ha ha ha and then he got fired from his job because of it. Turns out it was Himalayan rock salt. This was a guy who just had salt on him all the time because he's like no I really like Himalayan rock salt so I put that on on the the the the the the the time because he's like, no, I really like Himalayan rock salt, so I put that on all my food. I can't buy my man. There's so many examples of this where like, they found out that cops that featured on cops planted drugs on people because it would give them better-looking arrests because that increases their profile and stuff.

Like these people are fucking psychos and like the weird combination of cops already being flawed human beings who are incentivized to arrest people and to assert their authority with the combination of it will be better entertainment and it will make you famous if you do those things makes people into absolute fucking monsters. It's terrifying. It's terrifying, writing from cops, listen to it. It'll people into absolute fucking monsters. It's terrifying. Running from cops, listen to it. It'll make you feel very bad. That's my recommendation.

There we go folks. That is the recommendation for the week. And that is what we will leave you with. Thank you for joining us for this. Your crime passes crime. Yeah, do any crime. Actually, I would, one more thing. I was thii other day, you know how we talk about like the idea of replacing cops with social services.

Mm-hmm. Fu-Fucoven, have you seen any of that stuff where like chapters of the DSA will do things where they say, hey, if you have like, uh, we'll fix all your broken tail-light? Yeah, you have a taile light the the their their their their their their their their thoe thoe thoe thoe, thoe, th broken tail lights. Yeah, you have a tail light that's out or whatever. You have these really minor violations that for some people is either an expense that they can't cover or it is a level of technical knowledge that they just don't have. Fucking, imagine if cops just did that. Imagine if a cop pulled you over and said, hey, your indicator is busted. Do you want me to show you how to do that?

Do you want me to show you how to do that? Imagine if that is like we had people whose job was to help people be safer on the road, and instead of penalizing for people for things that cost fucking money, they just said, oh, I actually have a bunch of bulbs in my car, and I can fucking do a teach a man to fish scenario here, where I can show you how you got to do this shit. Imagine the fucking way better world we would be looking at. If it wasn't like a terrifying prospect it is just something nice a nice interaction you had. Just have a better thing for think about it. Go read some posts. Oh actually it's your homework.

Another thing well listen to running from cops and still at the moment on Verso Books Verso Books dot com the book at the end of policing by. thx th. thx th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. I th. I th. I the th. I th. I th. I's th. I's th. I's thi. I's thi. I's th. I's to to th. I's th. I's to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the. I was. I'm the. I'm the. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. the moment on Verso Books, Verso Books.com, the book at the End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale, it is a like very detailed breakdown of how cops came about, the things cops address, the way they address those things badly, and the social services that could replace those things. So if for you in your head, it's still a very abstract idea what a policeless world looks like or how that would be effective, it's a really, really detailed breakdown. So the ebook version of that is free. I've been reading that on my iPhone.

And uh, the classic reading platform, the iPhone. I actually hate reading on my phone and also on my computer, but it's free and there's a lot of stuff in there that I've had my own sort of doubts about that it has addressed directly and yeah, free is good. That's my belief. Very good. And just to prove how, you know, well-designated the resources of the police are in this country. Nearly a week after the last protest in Sydney, New South Wales police are still sitting out there guarding the Captain Cook statue in Hyde Park. Awesome.

That's where all of your money that you pay to get fucking strip searched and assaulted by cops and shot and sprayed with pepper spray and all that sort of shit. All the money that you get to fork out of that is being spent to have a unit on scene at all times making sure that no one throws some paint on a fucking statue of an old dip shit who got killed in Hawaii. Feeling safe. Wonderful stuff. Well that's it for us folks. Thank you very much for joining us. And we'll talk to the tree