Life Uncut - Offcuts - Meet Punch-Kun. Don’t Add A “T”
Episode Date: February 27, 2026Welcome to Offcuts where we chat about whatever piqued our interest this week in a light, fun little package to send you off on your weekend! We chat: Punch’s $16 IKEA toy selling for wild amo...unt The most revolting hotel 'hack' circulating The lesser known 'looks minimising" Eric Dane secretly recorded his 'last words' You can watch us on Youtube Find us on Instagram Join us on tiktok Or join the Facebook Discussion Group Hosted by Britt Hockley & Laura Byrne Produced by Keeshia Pettit Video Produced by Vanessa Beckford & Lachy Pugsley Tell your mum, tell your dad, tell your dog, tell your friend and share the love because WE LOVE LOVE! XxSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hi guys and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Brittany. I'm Laura. And
this is my friend. This is my little friend everyone. For those that are listening, this
is an audio medium. No, but you should go watch it on YouTube and then you'll see who
my little friend is and I won't have to give you any spoilers. It's a monkey. It's a monkey.
i'm obsessed we are you know if you're just joining us this is off cuts it's where we talk
about the most important things that have happened this week to us in the news in the media all the
stuff it's really not hard-hitting is it sometimes it is sometimes it's not what did we talk about
last week i've forgotten already look you just never know what you're gonna get here and that's
the point it's your little snackable news inside yeah it's all the stuff that we've been talking
about in our group chats or we've been obsessed with something that i am obsessed with along with
the rest of the internet punch punch this little tiny monkey it's a japanese makakue monkey that's
in the ichikawa city zoo and i really had to read that because i was gonna get it wrong but he has
taken over the internet and he has taken over our hearts and i'm obsessed with him and the reason
why he's here is because uh ness our video editor actually has the ikea monkey which is punch's
little sidekick he's he's like feeling mummy monkey at home and she brought him in which is
now an investment but how did this stuff toy into our lives okay i feel like there's so much if you
haven't seen punch the monkey on the internet you are probably the only person because he's truly
taken over he is the 2026 mudang everyone he is the 2026 mascot that we all need punch is this
little baby monkey that was rejected by his mother so small like so tiny he was born in july last
year but he's just so tiny because that's the kind of monkey that he is and there's all these videos
of the other monkeys pushing him away. And so he's been hand reared by the keepers at the zoo.
And recently he's gone viral because the only monkey friend that he had was this beautiful
little Ikea stuffed toy that he would drag around. And honestly, the videos of him were the saddest
thing I've ever seen. He's gone viral because I'm pretty sure every single person in the entire
world wants to adopt him. But there's been some good news and that's what we're going to unpack.
Well, it's before we get to the good news, we need to sit into what his story actually is.
not only was rejected by his mom but every like troop that they try to put him with he's rejected
by and not just rejected they punch him they bully him they they push him they push him to the ground
one one of the troops moms he was trying to play with another baby monkey and the other baby monkey
didn't want to play with him anymore and the mom fully went and pushed his head to the ground it
was really bad and they rejected him and it's been like that like it's been a recurring rejection and
his only friend is his emotional support toy no it's changed this week guys and that's why people
are so obsessed because he's finally being accepted by the other monkeys the other monkeys
in the enclosure are starting to accept him he even has one that they've said is his bodyguard
because there's all these videos of this one monkey that started to protect him and like take
him on but i wanted to read out this little bit from the article that i was i mean i went really
deep on this i went way deeper than anyone should ever go on some monkey that's in japan but here
it is it says for the first five months of his life punch was hand raised by zoostar forming a
close bond with the keepers who fed and cared for him during meals he would only cling to them for
comfort instead of eating alongside the other monkeys now he started to let go choosing to eat
on his own may seem like a small step but for punch it's a sign of something much bigger
independence a growing confidence proof that he's slowly learning how to be a monkey among
other monkeys he sounds like rudolph i love him what the reindeer yeah he's finally been accepted
for his red nose and his little orangutan that he drags around everywhere he's the little different
one that's being bullied i feel like it's a really sad story i agree i don't laura's like
this is the best story ever and i was like i don't i can't even watch the reels i scroll past it and
i can't read it because my heart goes out for him so much no it's a good story because it's feel
good because it's had a good ending like you don't want a monkey is a wild animal you don't want that
wild animal to spend its life being raised alongside humans and for so long he's been
rejected by his little peers and now he's finally like there was the sweetest video that was posted
today where he's like jumped into the enclosure for the day dragging his orangutan ikea toy along
the ground then he goes straight up and gets hugged by another monkey yeah he hasn't been
let's not get ahead of ourselves he's not fully accepted yet but there is one why do you keep
trying to take it back to the negative because it's false news it's not he's been one monkey
has given him his first real hugs which is really cute and of course like that is the video that's
released because the zoo's getting all like the zoo's being inundated with people all around the
world a flocking there to be with him b there are people that are giving them a hard time for like
not looking after him enough but there is one monkey and this video is going viral it's like
giving him a really big i was gonna say a bear hug but i guess it's a monkey hug and it's really
really wholesome. No, Britt, there's two monkeys because there's also the orangutan. Let's not
forget. The fake one. Let's not forget the IKEA orangutan. That's not real. So, okay, if you guys
haven't seen this orangutan that I'm holding, I'll, I mean, go to socials or also go to YouTube.
IKEA created this, right? Like it's an IKEA standard toy. It's one that Ness, our video
editor, had at home, which her little girl Hazel loves and carries around. That's why we have it.
Or she could resell that for some moolah. This monkey is now worth bank. Let me tell you,
this ape, this primate, it is worth bank because people are selling them on eBay for hundreds of
dollars. They've sold out across Ikea. Ikea also lent into the branding for this. So they started
putting out ads being like, everyone needs a friend. And it's the orangutan, goddammit.
Why didn't they capitalize on this poor little monkey's depression?
Speaking of capitalizing, there's an entire website that's been created. It's called Punch
Monkey Plush. And it's a reseller of these punch monkeys. You can go on there and buy them.
get 5% off for new customers with coupon N5 Punch Monkey, the official site for Punch Monkey
plushies. This is insane. They usually retail for between $16 and $20. But I said to Ness,
who already owned the monkey before it went viral, calm down. I was like, mate, you've got
investment here. How much would you sell it for? And she was like, no, I don't want to sell it.
You know? And I said, everyone has a price. Everyone's got a price. I always say mine
usually is a zero less than most people's. I said 200 bucks. And she was like, nah.
and I kept throwing numbers and like I'm so surprised that she's like no this means something
what did you get to and she said no well we got interrupted but I think I was at about 400
but the thing is though I feel like any parent whose child has like a blankie or a favorite toy
like I know that Hazel's had this toy for years and years and she was a newborn so like I guess
like if your kid has a favorite toy that price tag is something that is really hard to negotiate
because it's not welcome to capitalism hazel we've got fucking bills to pay babe again everyone has
a price and she's coming to a really economic climate probably totally punch is not going to
be famous for maybe not famous for forever it could be like a viral one hit wonder in five
years time are people still going to care about punch the monkey the orangutan may depreciate
we may need to hit it hot he might be this year's halloween costume you know how every year like
Mudang was a big one last year.
Oh, my God.
It could be – what's the monkey called?
No one knows.
Punch Cut.
Punch Cut.
Punch Cut.
Punchy Cut.
It is, though.
It's Punch Cut.
It's Punch Cun.
Punch Cun.
It's just missing the T.
But if you say it really fast, it actually fits Punch Cun.
So, yeah, Punch's actual real name is Punch Cun.
Sorry about that.
Poor Punchy.
He didn't really stand a chance.
Do you know my favorite video that's circulating at the moment?
there's a reel that's gone viral i thought this was your favorite video circulating it's about
punch it's a woman and she's dressed up as a monkey and it's just it's just this woman dressed
as a monkey with a suitcase and she walks out of frame and it says sorry on my way to japan to
become punch's mom i love that something like this i love that there are animals out there who
absolutely take our hearts by storm and we fall in love with them and the internet obsesses over them
We care so much about their welfare that the zoo has been inundated.
They've had to put out a press release saying,
thank you for all the inquiries, but if you're calling
in another language other than Japanese, we actually can't help you.
It just shows, like, how widespread people's concern is.
They've had donations.
They've had a record number of people coming.
Well, great, maybe they can put some grass in the enclosure
with some of those donations because they're currently
on a cement platform.
I know.
Look, I'm not saying that I endorse zoos.
I absolutely don't, but it is beautiful.
But I have booked my flight.
I'm going to Japan.
I am heading to Japan.
I'm speaking of something that's absolutely not funny.
Sorry to bring the mood down.
There's an influencer named Tara Woodcock.
It's funny, sorry.
It's fucking disgusting.
I'm sorry that I'm swearing in the first 10 minutes, but it is rank.
This is so rank.
I feel like it's hard enough these days.
The internet's great for sharing some good things,
but the internet's really great for taking away that ignorance is bliss feeling.
And I think sometimes we want to sit in the world of ignorance is bliss.
I want to be able to go to my hotel in Sardinia and relax and not think that I'm going to get
fecal matter all over my hands or think that I'm going to pour a cup of coffee and have someone's
underwear come through now hear me out this influencer Tara is going viral right now for
the most disgusting quote-unquote hack she has for people that are traveling that you yourself
could do in a hotel have a listen to this I'm about to show you guys one of the coolest tricks
ever um say you're traveling and you didn't pack enough underwear and you're just like oh my gosh
what am i gonna wear tomorrow um every room has like a coffee pot thing in it every room even the
other coffee makers where it like brews through all you have to do put your underwear where you
would put the coffee grounds you close it you press brew and it puts scorching hot water through
it you guys then the hair dryer in the bathroom you'll blow dry those bad boys and you got
yourself a cleaner pair of underwear to wear I'm sorry but are there really people out there
that want to clean their undies and instead of thinking hmm I'll just wash them in the sink
they're like I know I'm gonna shove my dirty undies into the coffee pod hole of a coffee
machine I think it is funny I think it's funny it's revolting it's revolting but the reason
what i find it really funny is because there is free will people make considered decisions as
content creators around what they put out in the world imagine getting to your hotel and being like
oh fuck i'm really gonna make a video because my engagement's down oh you know what i'll put that
hack i'll put that hack up how many people get my knickers and i'll shove them in the bot machine
and clean the crust off them like what are you what are you doing think of how many people have
gone to a hotel poured a coffee and been like that's really good crema. Ew. No look she's come
out and said to be fair in her defense she's come out and said that it was a joke and she meant it
to be funny however I mean like if you watch this video there's nothing about it that would
indicate that it's satire or would indicate that it's meant to be a funny joke and sometimes I know
that some people blur the lines with these things like sometimes you watch things or see things on
Instagram you go into the comments and people are like oh these idiots don't know that this is the
style of content or like this is completely a joke but there isn't anything else on her page
that would indicate that that's her style of thing to do so I'm no I wasn't it was not she
only said it was a joke when she got like bombarded by people just being like bro you're
fucked like you can't fuck don't ruin everyone else's experience in a hotel also like of course
you wash your undies in the sink like everyone washes their undies in the sink with a bit of
hand soap if you need to freshen them up but like if you really yeah but maybe you're staying at a
hotel that doesn't have a washing machine maybe it's not like a self-contained it's just a sink
so totally there's a dry cleaner or there's a shower no wash all your knickers in the sink
even boil a kettle and pour hot water on them if you really want to sanitize them with some
boiling water but they're using your knickers as a strainer is it just next level well that's the
next step to this there are actually some really rank hotel quote-unquote hacks that people have
put out the next one was if they don't fit in your coffee machine just throw them in the jug
and boil up your knickers.
Boil your knickers in fanny water in the jug that people need
to have their cups of tea or people are, sorry,
people are using that for like their baby's bottles or water
or whatever.
Like we don't want your fanny juice in our coffee.
Oh, Brit.
It makes me really mad because people are disgusting.
I don't think many people are doing it, Brit.
Yeah, they are.
I actually don't.
I really think that the majority of people are not doing this stuff.
There were some other pretty funny hacks though.
iron using an iron as a panini press so fine do that in hotel quarantine all the time using your
iron to toast your sandwiches just use the iron to cook things I think because they were bored
and they wanted stuff to do the hotel quarantine I stayed in they took away all of the hot
appliances and anything that had a cord why was that Keisha which one were you in I was put in
the health hotel that's okay we don't need to talk about that right now we laugh about it with
COVID and also those that were a little unstable we laugh about it now I didn't have COVID it's
It's not funny now either.
We're not going to laugh about mental health right now.
If you don't laugh, you cry.
The panini press, fine.
If you want to make a toasty sandwich, like, that's fine.
You're not bothering me.
However, if you don't clean it afterwards.
Well, of course, you're not going to leave tomato on there.
Yeah, but the next person who goes to iron their clothes.
I mean, the people who are using an iron to make a sandwich,
they're not really giving, oh, I care about the next guest.
If I had to choose, I would have an ironed panini
over jugged boiled underwear.
Sorry, but what about the people who are using the iron
to also cook things like bacon and sausages?
Fine.
Have a brekkie.
Have a cook-up.
Have a Sunday cook-up.
Do you know what I found really strange?
This is, and apparently this is really normal.
I'd never thought of it to use it in this way.
And you know how most offices have a sandwich press, right?
Like it's just a normal sandwich press that you would use
to press normal sandwiches.
That's what I thought the entire use of those things were for.
It's a double-sided hot plate, baby.
Yeah.
So when we used to work, I mean, we worked in another office.
I remember going to the shared kitchen, kitchenette area,
and one of the guys there was there frying eggs on the sandwich press
with a little rasher of bacon.
I was like he was cooking himself a big breakfast
on the communal sandwich press, which I for a second was blown away
and also thought it was genius.
Double hack, you know how you can put the sandwich press
so that it doesn't completely close?
You can put the little slidey bit.
It cooks your eggs and bacon quicker because you've got double-sided heat.
Why are you doing this?
Well, I watch your breakfast radio, so like a lot of us would get up
so early in the morning that you would have breakfast at like nine o'clock when you came
off air and you would never go home to make a breakfast so it was just like a little nice you
know if you had the time it's just a hot plate I don't mind those I don't mind the iron thing I'm
letting slide like I don't think that's the end of the world there was another hack and it was
that you can use the ice bucket you know the one that you get champagne in in the hotels use that
as a urinal apparently some people do if they can't be bothered toilet what is happening to
these people? You put it beside the bed as a bedpan? Well like I guess if you go out and get
drunk people are using it for that but the other thing that they're using it for is to vomit into
much like the popcorn bucket that we spoke about on the other episode on Wednesday. I told you
ignorance is bliss. Well if you haven't already cancelled your holiday strap in. There was a study
done where they tested hotel surfaces and apparently the statistic sits at about 80 to 81
of surfaces now i'm talking like door handles air conditioning tv remotes tvs tabletops tabletops
like anything makes me feel sick taps everything you touch has fecal matter on it 81 has poo
someone else's poo on it basically like let's call space bait it's shit do you know what though
if you tested anything i know that we're saying this about specifically hotels maybe hotels get
a bad rap if you were to test i don't know your microphone britney or like the side table i haven't
shout on my microphone this week i'm pretty good i cleaned mine since the last time i did it
oh yeah there's a lot of germs on mine maybe not fecal matter but like who knows let's test it and
find out you know what really grosses me out in the hotels are the decorative pillows
yeah they don't get washed i always use my foot to kick those off i don't it's not just the
decorative pillows it's the decorative little throw that goes at the end of the bed you know
how like at all your main hotels how they have that like weird bit of like like thick hard fabric
that's about 30 centimeters wide and it's just a strip that goes over the bed they're never
washing that and it's not actually usually hard it's just crusty sperm it's usually really soft
cashmere i've come across potentially the most fascinating man on the internet not for a good
reason but just truly confusing his name is the crooked man 10 now he's quite viral on tiktok
like crooked man nine was it was taken it was taken yeah crooked man 10 now i first saw him
years ago like years ago when he started when you met him what it came up on my like as i was
on my explore feed and i was just confused by it and thought it must have been like i didn't really
think much of it at the time i was like that's weird surely that's not real anyway more recently
i've been seeing more and more of it because he's obviously become more viral this is a guy
That's just your algorithm, I think.
It's like what you look at.
I don't know if this is viralism.
No, because I'd only seen – no.
Laura looks at steroids and gym bros all the time.
No.
Okay.
He's only got 141,000 on Instagram.
Yeah, so it's not that viral.
No, he's got more on TikTok, but I've been seeing more of his stuff.
Recently he's been covered in the news.
He's been covered on talk shows.
So I think he's gaining momentum, one would indicate.
One-sided momentum.
He's gaining half-sided momentum.
of like okay let me establish what this guy is he's 20 years old and for the past couple of years
he has religiously been training only one trap and when I say trap I mean the trapezius muscle
so one-sided exercises like one side of your neck basically he's purposely giving himself what you
can consider a deformity he's purposely deforming his body to make himself asymmetrical now we've
all heard about what looks maxing is if you haven't interestingly we've all been talking
about actually doing an episode around looks maxing around this guy clavicula the premise
of looks maxing is to try and make yourself as attractive as humanly possible because your value
as a human is based around your attractiveness right that's it and there is a formula for it
it's around symmetry it's around chiseled jaws it's around you know body shape all of this is
part of looks maxing now the crooked man 10 he is and was in particular before he started this
an objectively very handsome man like ridiculously good looking was he yeah i want to show you a
photo from before i saw it no no i'll show you before before so he calls this looks minimizing
no because you're already looking at him since he's been looks minimizing okay have a listen
to this video first to set up what he's doing why does the one trap guy work out one trap
it's pretty simple i was scrolling tiktoks on my ferrari and i kept getting these looks
maxing tiktoks and they were like do this do that you'll look more attractive you'll get more women
and it's like people have that problem i have the opposite problem i get so many dms i don't even
have time to get through them all so i was like if i have the opposite problem then i need the
opposite solution what's the opposite of looks maxing looks minimizing what was the best way to
minimize become more asymmetrical work out one trap solve my problem and man it has worked like
a charm it's so funny so not only is he just exercising one trap to make himself more
asymmetrical he started to grow asymmetrical hair he's also started to try and like train
one side of his face so one side of his face has more muscular tone to it he's doing this thing
which is like called bone crushing where you like massage only one side of your face he is doing
everything he can to make himself as asymmetrical as possible which is he working out just like one
leg and stuff or is he missing leg day altogether I think he's missing leg day altogether I want to
show you do you reckon his gym membership is half price that was a good zinger I like that no but
the reason why I find this interesting fascinating and also hilarious at the same time is because it
goes against everything that we're being taught at the moment it goes against every standard every
stereotype but the only person suffering from this is him but you know what it is it actually
doesn't go against everything because what he's doing is what the next generation is doing and
he's going to extremes for clicks he's not actually he doesn't actually believe his looks minimizing
his dms are not flooded he's not fighting the women off he wants to be insta famous and people
need to go to these extremes now to get any sort of attention and look he made it to life on cut
Yeah, but making yourself traditionally unattractive is an extreme.
The thing is, is most people, most people prioritize looking the best that they can
possibly look.
I would say most celebrities prioritize that.
Like most people really want to put their best self forward, right?
Or if they're not at a place where they've got their best self forward, some people feel
insecure about that.
Not everyone, but a lot of people do.
He is someone who is intentionally making himself as unattractive as he can be.
Objectively unattractive.
Yes.
Based against social standards.
This is him before.
Look at the side profile of him before and look what he's done to himself.
I also have a before here.
Show me.
He was a handsome lad.
Like he was a handsome guy.
Brittany's like, not my type.
I'm talking objectively.
Yeah.
I mean, there's nothing wrong with him.
He's not my type.
I wouldn't bang him.
I wouldn't be in his DMs.
No.
He's not fighting me off.
He's not fighting me off before or after.
Personally.
you have to go and check it out because it's truly just like an unbelievable thing i don't
understand why he's doing it it's for clicks how do you not understand that i get it's for clicks
but it's not something that's going to make him he can't make money from this he can't monetize
that he's not famous from it you know how he could you know that biohack billionaire who's
taking his 18 year old son's blood and shit like yeah it's weird i feel like someone like this
could be studied you know you want to see the brain activation on different hemispheres and
that kind of thing I feel like that actually would be quite interesting does he have a girlfriend now
no he's he's like not dating which side of the bed would she pick that's his name Brian Johnson
is the biohack guy I actually I was just looking it up because I watched his uh mini series that
was on Netflix a couple years ago how do you live through that no it's actually really fascinating
like I don't particularly like him and I don't like the obsession that we have at the moment
with optimizing health like he's not the only one there's a few different biohack people that have
become famous for trying to like increase their biomarkers and have made a real identity around it
but I did find it interesting watching his Netflix series because a lot of what we've heard about him
in the media is clickbaity and it's very negative and when you actually understand it from his
perspective it's nowhere near as I guess problematic as what the media likes to make it out to be put
it that way I found it fascinating I kind of feel well sorry you go back in your oxygen tank
no I kind of feel sorry for people who become this compulsive obsessive about something
and also with this guy this crooked man he's only half obsessed he's only 50% obsessed but
when you think about the dedication and willpower it takes to become jacked in the first place or
ripped or to have that physique or the amount of work and effort he's had to put into this like
that is a lot of time that's a lot of dedication it's a lot of willpower it's a weird thing to
apply yourself to it's also well done i think you couldn't not be now you know like it's kind of
like my streak on duolingo now that i've got so many days i'm like well i've got to keep going
now that he's got this personality like he can never go back and it would be a lot of work to
go back but this he's got to be like this for the rest of his life now he's created an identity for
himself and he's stuck lopsided yeah but he's also like completely affected the way that his
body functions like I would love to know what impact this is going to actually have to him
get him on get him on let's interview him get him on the pot
well taking a little bit of a different switch in energy here this is something that did
really have me this week like I sent this to quite a few people that I know I actually think I shared
on my stories it was a video that I saw of Eric Dane if you don't know who Eric Dane is off the
top of your head you will if you see him he was a very famous actor but he was from Grey's Anatomy
it's very sad it's really sad and euphoria but i feel like gray's anatomy is what really like
maybe the younger generation now knowing from euphoria but for our generation he was
gray's anatomy and he recently passed away after i actually don't think it was that long of a battle
with something called als it's basically something that's what they did for the ice bucket challenge
you remember that ice bucket challenge that went super viral i think it was als yeah i think it
was meant to raise awareness and prior to that i'd never heard of als and it was only when that
kind of kicked off that everyone was talking about it. Well, ALS stands for amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis, but it's just called ALS for obvious reasons. And what we have seen is a speech
from Eric Dane down the barrel of a camera to his two daughters. So he has two daughters,
Billy 15 and Georgia 14. And this has been released on a Netflix docu-series, I guess
it's called a docu-series. It's called Famous Last Words. And you might've seen this a couple
of months ago. I guess it's a series. It only has two episodes so far. It's the last words of
famous people who have passed away. It's been obviously recorded when they're still alive,
but they know that they're going to pass and it's only released after they die. Now this series is
created and produced by Gwyneth Paltrow's husband, which his name is Brad Folchuk, if you don't know
who he is. He sits down with them and he talks to them. Firstly, I want to get your take on how do
you feel about a docuseries like this how do you feel about hearing from Jane Goodall specifically
knowing that these will be her last words after she's passed away how do we feel about the fact
that Brad Gwyneth's husband is going around I guess in a way when you think about it he's almost
having to find famous people that he knows could be close to passing uh the docuseries just so I
understand this are the docuseries held until the person so they film it all yeah and then he just
like holds it somewhere and waits and then when they're passed away he releases it and that person
could talk about anything that they want to or but they are told that oh of course yeah they're
like surprised but i mean like it is an important point to me that the person who is being interviewed
knows that it's going to be released after they die because otherwise i would find a little bit
more opportunistic if you just like film people i guess there's two parts of it how is the profit
i mean this is an interesting kind of like where does the profit lie but like who earns the money
from that like is it something that's passed on is it something that's left within a will but
money and like ip conversations aside i think there's something really beautiful about it i
think there's something that's really quite special about leaving a legacy especially if
you're someone who is very famous and you know the public or want to know more about your story
but maybe it's a story you didn't feel comfortable or want to share while you're alive i think that
there's something really special about that i do too i really do and uh his his speech that will
play a few parts of it for you it's really really beautiful and moving and I was bawling my eyes out
and I could bawl my eyes out right now thinking about it but then there's another part where I
think about it I'm like it just feels a bit weird like does Brad sit down with the team and he's
like okay let's um go through who do we know is dying does anyone know who's passing away soon
okay if you could contact their publicist and because at the end of the day they're going to
this person saying hey we know you're on the way out obviously more diplomatically but like do you
want to like it's beautiful but it's weird at the same time i think that for the most part i would
suspect that the world of hollywood i mean we're so close is relatively small right like i would
suspect that a lot of people who work in sort of like the higher echelons of hollywood once someone
is quite sick or it's known like thing that someone's going through terminal cancer if it's
a known thing that a celebrity is going through terminal cancer or going through a you know
something that will potentially at some point in time be the thing
that could very well kill them, I don't think it's as necessarily
sticky to reach out and be like, hey, didn't know if you want
to be a part of the docuseries.
We're all going to die.
Yeah, but what if it's –
We're all going to die at some point.
You might have to sit on it for 15 years.
Who knows?
Well, this is the thing, right?
I would expect us to see or hear from David Attenborough,
but David doesn't have anything.
David's never dying.
But my point is he's not dying of something.
He's just old.
So, like, do you still go to – he could die any day,
but he doesn't have a terminal illness.
So do you still go to him being like, you're on the cusp.
Do you want to sit down with us?
Like, that's the part where I'm like –
The passing call you never wanted, hey.
Because I'd love to hear from David Attenborough, like,
a famous last words.
Imagine how inspirational that would be.
I find David Attenborough such – like, we love him.
He is amazing.
Everything that he creates I love.
Watch the butt coming.
No, but because – because he –
He didn't look after Punch.
Where was he when punch needed him?
Somebody think about punch.
Let's go back to talking about punch.
No, not his last one, but it was like a couple of series ago,
like the big movie that he created where he was like,
this is my legacy piece.
He was like, this is the last thing I will ever create.
Because he thought he was dying.
This is the end of me ever doing this shit again.
Twelve months later he was like, hello, in the national rainforest of Peru.
These are the comeback tours that all of the musicians do.
I literally did a legacy video being like, I'm never, I'm retiring.
and then rolled himself back out the next year.
And he's like, no, I'm not.
I get it.
I think I get it.
He thought he was on the out and he was like, fuck, I'm still here.
I'll put another one in the bank.
Do you reckon, though, if you filmed in these famous last words,
like what's the time period that you put on it?
Because surely you put a clause that if you don't pass away in like five years,
you get a chance to redo it.
I reckon you could easily reach out to Brad and say, I'm still kicking.
Can we redo it?
But I want to – we're sort of joking here,
but I do want to play some of the pieces.
There's like four main points to Eric's –
famous last words, where at the end he does deliver it down the barrel and it's directed,
I'm going to cry, it's directed just to his two daughters, his 15 year old and his 14 year old.
Now, as much as it's directed to them, he's leaving like his four big life lessons that
he learned from living a long, healthy, profitable life and where he was very famous and living his
dreams and having everything else. And then the lessons he's learned since that was taken from
him and he was battling an illness that changed his life like that. And I do really encourage,
we're going to play some snippets but if you guys can go and watch the actual reel I was quite
inspired by it and thought is there something that I should be changing should I be embracing
my day-to-day more like the little things that I think sometimes we need a reminder
so this is point one. Billy in Georgia these words are for you I tried I stumbled sometimes but I
tried overall we had a blast didn't we i want to tell you four things i've learned from this
disease and i hope you won't just listen to me i hope you'll hear me first live now
right now in the present the past contains regrets the future remains unknown so you have
to live now the present is all you have I feel like that's one that we hear all the time like
a lot of people say and you probably don't realize it until you have been put into that kind of a
situation but that for me was just a really beautiful reminder of like life is happening now
like life is happening today put your phone down kind of vibes yeah the second one that I thought
was really beautiful was when he mentioned about falling in love and he he said that you know it
wasn't necessarily i want you to fall in love with a person or people although that's great as well
yeah this is what he said fall in love not necessarily with a person although i do recommend
that as well but fall in love with something find your passion your joy find the thing that makes
you want to get up on, find your path, your purpose, your dream, then go for it. Really go for it.
I think that this is particularly special when you know that it's been aimed to his children.
I mean, everyone has this idea of like lessons to be learned from the life that they've lived,
but there's something that's particularly powerful in this, knowing that this is something that has
been addressed to his daughters, even though we all are able to voyeuristically look in on this.
Yeah. And I think just the idea of finding that thing that you want to get out of bed in the
morning for, like finding something that really drives you to make you happy because that's what
we have in life, right? And I guess it's like you might not love your job, your nine to five
every single day, but it's still finding something that does fill that cup for you.
I don't know. I thought it was really beautiful. The next one is choose your friends wisely.
choose your friends wisely find your people and allow them to find you no judgment no conditions
no questions asked i think the friend this friend comment is a nice reminder and probably a bit of
the older you get as well you know this idea of you're a product of the people you surround
yourself with and sometimes and i've been through it sometimes you get to a point of your life where
maybe you keep friends in your life for some of the wrong reasons may and i don't want to say the
wrong reasons but sometimes maybe they've been there for a really long time and so you're like
well I just feel like they have to be there we've been friends for 15 years you might clash you
might not agree anymore you might have outgrown each other but there's this idea of like well
we've been friends for so long like I have to maintain that friendship even though it doesn't
maybe bring you what you you need or it doesn't fill your cup or it might take something away
from you sometimes I think we do hold on to friendships or keep people around us that
maybe might not be beneficial for us you know well I guess as well the reason you do it is
because time is infinite right it feels like it's infinite when you're living life and having the
conversations come from someone who is at the end of their life who has probably been faced with a
shorter life than they ever expected to that's where it becomes very profoundly moving yeah the
last point that's covered is fight with dignity and resilience which is incredibly moving considering
the place in which dane is at in his own life but also such a special message to leave for your own
children. Have a listen to this. Look, I found it so moving. I was just bawling my eyes out the
whole time and I felt like he was talking to me like the way that he just looks down the camera
at you the way he delivers it with so much heart and passion and feeling and emotion and when you
know that that's the last thing you can impart on your kids but do you know what as well like I mean
obviously it's such a special privilege to be able to do this actually read something interesting
which was part of something different but it kind of makes sense to this and it was someone talking
about when death meets you and they said you know death is going to meet you in the middle of
unfinished plans on a day that you never expected it to at a time when you never planned you know
you you will be unfinished you never get something unfinished yeah you'll never get to a point in
your life where you've wrapped everything up in a nice bow and I think this and what is so
incredibly and profoundly moving about it is that having the foresight to be able to reflect on your
life and leave that message for someone who's important to you in this instance he's obviously
directed it to his children but as the viewer we're able to watch this it makes me think of
the interview that we got to do with chanel bryant who was one of our lifers she passed away a few
years ago from triple negative breast cancer and when she gave us her time to interview her
she had a very very limited amount of time to live and she she ended up passing away
not long after i think it was less than two months after the interview and it was on one hand she had
an incredibly powerful message around checking your breasts for breast cancer but also for her
own children and the legacy that she hopes to leave for them and that's what this is you know
it's his legacy piece that gets to be shared when he's no longer here to share it anyway guys we're
going to link that so go and have a little watch but that's it we are out of here sorry to end on
that note but I was just it was so it moved me so much I just wanted to share it it's really
beautiful and if you've missed any of our other off cuts usually they are very funny and very
silly episodes, apart from sometimes
when we touch on some neat stuff. I felt very pointed.
Yeah, but you can't. No, it's
a good thing to go into the weekend having
that reminder, though. Yeah. You know,
like having that reminder of being present with people.
Absolutely. And that you could die.
Really? And that the monkeys
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