Quorators - Culture of Fear

Episode Date: June 16, 2025

we are doing another live show in Brooklyn on June 22nd. it's our probably our last one for a while due to Clare moving to Los Angeles. it will be at the world famous Union Hall. come wish Clare well ...on her journey west https://www.eventbrite.com/e/quorators-live-tickets-1301400356499 --- Comedians Clare O'Kane, Alex Ptak, and Jeremy Kaplowitz explore the mysterious land of Quora.com to answer life's questions. This week's questions include: What is shapeshifter discust asexuality? Has anyone had experience with using magic for conceiving a baby? What if 25% of my problems are skin on fire and 75% were systemic problems? --- Get even more Quorators when you support the show @ patreon.com/quorators Send quoras and qommunicate on our discord discord.gg/7pPYuKuYCr Watch the show @ youtube.com/@quorators

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I got a burrito on the mind, and it's one hour away. We're not getting a burrito. Yes, we are, maybe. Unless we go somewhere else. Um, Alex, you said that you're trying to be funny this episode. Is that what I heard? Yep, this will be the first episode. Did I get this right?
Starting point is 00:00:15 You're trying to be funny this episode. This is the episode I turn it all around. That's exciting. It's going to be a star-studded hall of laughs the moment I figure it out. Now it's time to dance. what up what up is quaraders in your cup check your cup it's the america's quarrel podcast the quaraders with alex and jeremy and claire you probably hear that telltale jingling of the
Starting point is 00:00:52 harvest-snapped bag. And Claire reaps the last of her precious snaps of baked peas from a bag. Now, baked peas, you wouldn't think, really sound like much of anything, but it's actually the ideal podcasting food because it's deafening to the crunch. We've got a great list of Korras for you today.
Starting point is 00:01:16 I'm going to figure out how to be funny. Then I'm getting lunch after, and it's going to be a late lunch. It's debatably a linner, so look forward to that. And this week's theme is culture of fear. Culture of fear. Burrito time. What's a culture of fear?
Starting point is 00:01:30 What does that mean to you, Alex? Because you put it down there. It's when it's encompassing and a paranoia is baked, not unlike the Harvest Stamps. Do you think we live in a culture of fear? Yes, I do think that, actually. And I won't be silenced into saying we don't. And that scares me.
Starting point is 00:01:48 Yeah. Claire's pretty much pissing herself all the time. I'm licking my finger, the harvest peas, off my fingers. What? Do you guys see the new thumbnail I put on our YouTube? Is there spices or something on it? No, it's just... You're just licking peas off your hands?
Starting point is 00:02:03 It's basically just salt. What do you guys think of this? You're like a dog. Where in our new thumbnail, I've put Alex and I on Claire's shoulders. I don't like that at all. I don't like it. It looks like we're little guys. It looks like we're a venom coming out of Claire.
Starting point is 00:02:19 Why are you guys coming out of that? Would you agree with that? Do you think we're Venom? I think we look like Venom coming out of Claire, yes. I think that's what makes it so good. Right. Well, it's twisted in a way. Next time, let's have you be the middle one.
Starting point is 00:02:33 Okay. For this episode. Okay, and we'll switch off, and then Alex will be the middle. There's no chance we forget about this. I won't forget about that. I was already considering that. By the way, if you were listening to the show, we just did our 100th bonus episode
Starting point is 00:02:45 where we made Claire watch Venom, and she watched some of it. I watched like 30 minutes of it. Actually, I'm cutting all of this. Come to our live show on June 22nd in Brooklyn. Last time we did this, we forgot to say the date. We just all said come to the live show. We didn't say where or when it was. We can look it up.
Starting point is 00:03:03 It's in the details. Look, if you want to come, you'll be there. It's the 22nd at 5 p.m. I'm going to text our guest. Do it. Should I text her now? I think you should. Is this episode coming out
Starting point is 00:03:17 like after the show's happened too? I don't know. I'm going to text someone to see if they'll be the guest. Okay, do it, do it. Everyone should know that it's scary. It is a scary thing to do.
Starting point is 00:03:27 We won't tell you who it is. It's a good guest. And we'll check in at the end to see if she responded. I have to wash my hands first because I got green peas all over. All right, go do that. And then text our lovely potential guests.
Starting point is 00:03:39 Culture of fear. This is good because I'm conquering my culture of fear. You're very afraid to do the text. it is scary to text people alex is good at it but he sort of is um i'm a daredevil you're sort of a daredevil for social situations i don't mind truly disgracing myself and having just so long walk home embarrassing because you think people text people who don't who aren't in the entertainment industry at all they'll say this class and they'll go what's the worst that could happen right because
Starting point is 00:04:06 they think it's the same as like shooting your shot and asking a cute girl out on a date and And it's like, the worst that could happen is that this person hates me and never works with me again and tells other people that I'm a loser. It's that they poison others against you like Grima Wormtongue. And folks, it happens. It does genuinely happen. It's one of the most common things there is. Just Grima Wormtongues as far as the eye can see.
Starting point is 00:04:30 That's kind of how it goes. And everybody in comedy right now who makes decisions is like the old king of Rohan. The Odin. The Odin king. But when he's like an old withered man. Well, he's a maid withered by Grima Wormtongue and his poison lies being poured into his ears. Anyway.
Starting point is 00:04:49 Anyway, we also have a Patreon where we reviewed Venom. Fuck you. Go to hell. Yeah. You think you're so good and you're better than me. That was weeks ago at this point. It doesn't matter. It's still a fun thing that's on there.
Starting point is 00:05:04 You can click on it. There's over 100 episodes. I'm so proud of what we've accomplished. And that's on top of this culture of fear. Now, if you click on the YouTube video, you can see Claire building up her courage to start her text. Her thumbs poised parallel. Is it funnier if we say who it is or don't say who it is?
Starting point is 00:05:22 Don't say who it is until the end of the episode if they respond. You got to watch the whole thing. It could be the Grinch as far as I'm concerned. Is this good podcasting? I would like to hear it if I was listening. It's cutting edge. Yeah, I think so. I mean, it might be more interesting if we said who it is.
Starting point is 00:05:39 But the fact that we don't really keeps you listening. I think me chewing on Mike would have been way better. Hashtag me chew. It's the me chew era. Hashtag mimes up. Come on. Oh, that's funny. Like mimes are doing bad things?
Starting point is 00:05:57 I don't know. Mimes are up there. I like that. Thanks, Claire. Yeah. You're the only one who fucking gets me. i was sexually harassed by a mime hey someone pulled on jeremy's they put me in a cube someone on instagram named active pooter just liked my the reel you guys posted oh that's fire
Starting point is 00:06:19 that's a good name active pooter i disagree i think it's a bad name no don't play the clip out loud this is insane it's a culture of fear now uh we've all been afraid at different times of our life and me never more so than when i click on a new quora space jeremy would you like to go into that first i sure would wait space of the week i'm still thinking about what to say this is called lies damn the lies and narcissists now every time i click on this space which is every day if i can get away with it i do think of the famous al franken book from 2006 oh what's this Lies and the Damned Liars Who Tell Them. Oh, that's a good name for a book.
Starting point is 00:07:05 Yes. It was about how Republicans are liars or something. No, Republicans? And I would read it and I'd say, that's right, Al. Wait, are respected elected officials? I know. Well, these were ones from 20 years ago, so they were a bit different back then. We've solved that.
Starting point is 00:07:22 We've ironed that out. They've actually been killed and replaced with clothes. Well, some of them are on house arrest. Yes, and many are holograms. But the point is, this space, that name are pretty similar. And the banner image across the top says Psycho. Oh, my God. Sorry.
Starting point is 00:07:41 This culture is so scary. You never know what's safe here. There are 170 contributors and 13,000 followers. So that's a mid to small level chorus space. I think it's a good size. And then the logo is the time, 1134. And then it says upside down, you're going to. And then you read it upside down and it says hell.
Starting point is 00:07:59 It's the number that says hell. You still not afraid? This is a place for people who are being lied to or harassed to post their replies. And it's being one of the main contributors here. Great name, Carl Rocket. Whose bio is all I have ever known is abuse and control. Carl is the monster that society has created.
Starting point is 00:08:25 Yeah. You may know him as Rocket Raccoon. Shut up. what if it was what if that was based on carl rocket it is in pittsburgh you can come see him uh he's been abused by a narcissist but he's also a friend to answer cat and he's a filmmaker he's a photographer he's a filmmaker he's a codependent he's a narcissistic abusive survivor that's interesting that you would call yourself a codependent and then like moderate his pace like this because it seems like something that you could try to like get over maybe i don't know
Starting point is 00:08:55 Be nice to Carl. Get over it. Get over it, Carl. Stop trying to go to hell by its numbers. I don't mean to bully you, but I think it's funny to keep checking in on it. So for the listener to understand, we are always trying to get Claire to do a text to someone she doesn't want to do. And our new strategy is making her do it on mic. Well, I'm trying to be like, how do I remind this person of who I am?
Starting point is 00:09:19 It is a stressful thing. You're right. Here's what I'd start with. I'd go, hey, girl. This is the problem, is that Allison's advice is often bad. And then you'd have to just smile at them for a second so you know they're beautiful. This is a text message.
Starting point is 00:09:31 Send a smile emoji. In Japanese, A means a drawing. Emoji? A, and then moji is a... Uji? Well, it's a kanji drawing. So it's drawing, kanji drawing. How about that?
Starting point is 00:09:44 Do you like that? I'm going to tell this person that. Yeah, start with that. I would start with this, and you can keep this name in. hey um ariana grande i love your music and to me my podcasts are like a song and there's no one i'd like to collaborate with more than you america's most beautiful italian and she likes being categorized that way ariana grande uh-huh hey tell me when they make an ariana venti anyway so they got a great space here the pinned quora is a post and it's called what actually constitutes
Starting point is 00:10:19 a smear campaign against you by a narcissist or anyone else and it's got a woman just crying into her hands because she's been owned so bad oh that's so sad a smear campaign she's i mean i think dating someone who is like a serious true narcissist does sound very stressful right imagine you were dating the riddler that would be bad edward riddle no nigma is his name edward nigma ed nigma edward riddle is just a step too close you know what i'm talking about not quite as much fun isn't it enigma it is enigma yeah he's a he makes riddles he's a fucking riddler he's so fucking cool i'm sick of that he's hot he destroyed gotham he honestly did in that last film he loves his questions oh right they based his character on jake flores and he destroyed
Starting point is 00:11:01 gotham yeah that one was weird but they made it basically it seemed like they were looking at videos of my friend caster and then made him batman's villain yeah it was uh you know the most threatening kind of all but uh who is batman is it just like lewis gomez this is for no one shut up okay uh anyway so about narcs here's the rules of a smear campaign should we just start over no we can't start over i want to read the smear campaign rules please read it that this by the way this won't be the week i'm funny we'll save that for next week make sure the clips are good though so people are tricked into thinking yeah lie with our clips again um okay so here we go it's kind of a low-key
Starting point is 00:11:42 compliment to me i make the clips we're not talking about a review that made jeremy mad we're reading the clips that i'm sorry the quora on lies damn lies narcissists here are the rules for running an actual smear campaign in bold one people must know who is being smeared in other words a writer on quora who trashes another quoran by name is smearing them a writer who complains about an unspecified person is not running a smear campaign they're venting so So we're kind of running a smear campaign. Yes. Every week we go and we smear different Quarrens.
Starting point is 00:12:12 Yeah, like I'm a pizza and Orson Scott Card. Right. Who are all people I think fondly of and do not think negatively of. No, honestly, I like all of those people. Yeah. Yeah, we say their name and where they live and we read their posts and we smear them. Well, they do write it all down. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:28 Anyway, we go. People say that we dox on this podcast. Is it doxing if we're just reading it? They're doxing themselves. We're bringing it to an audience that's much larger than they ever expected to have. We're like the Robin Hood of cyberbullying. We're sort of the Robin Hood of cyberbullying. We take from the rich and we give to the poor.
Starting point is 00:12:45 The poor listeners who are hungry for content. Please, I'm doing laundry. I'm so poor. Unless they're a Patreon subscriber. We really appreciate your money. It's actually even cooler if you're a rich Patreon subscriber and you give us more money. That's one of the coolest things there is. And you get your name in credits at the end of the episode.
Starting point is 00:13:02 Isn't that cool? anyway uh number two there must be malice towards the person writing on quora that your relationship ended and you are brokenhearted is not smearing someone unless you accuse the other person by name of heinous act in order to turn others against them so we don't have malice against them so no malice we love our show is like hey we love it's anthropological yeah right that's right isn't that what we're doing it's not it's pretty much the same as watching a sex tape i don't know if that's what anthropology is well it's it's it's humans doing what they do all right fair enough yeah it's interesting that that's where your brain goes yeah when you think
Starting point is 00:13:39 of anthropology as immediate sex tape i'm a sexual creature i feel like most people think of it as sort of like a scientific discipline well i have first first of all debatable social science it's a social science which is kind of nothing least here's the first thing i think of caveman cave woman they're alone in a cave it's raining outside they go hey i just found this uh camera recorder from a spaceship what if we had the first sex tape oh and then someone writes that down that's anthropology my friend and i in college used to do a bit called where we'd pretend to be a mad social scientist today i'm going to take the lines on the supply curve and move them i'm gonna tell the world that everyone loves
Starting point is 00:14:25 watching Netflix. Yeah, it was pretty funny, dude. Yeah, I actually think that's very funny. It was a great bit to do if it was 2014. The joke was that it was Paul Krugman, who I don't know if he's really in the news anymore, but that's who it was. He was a political guy or an
Starting point is 00:14:41 economist? He's an economist, but he talks about politics. He wrote Rolling Stone much of the time. Anyway, that was much better than the jokes I had in college, which were just me and my roommate would do sex noises at each other. That's funny. Like, oh. Well, we specifically... You still do that. We were being different porn stars, so it'd be like...
Starting point is 00:14:56 You'd have to do a noise, and they'd be like, that's Riley Reid. It wasn't that we knew specific porn stars. It'd be like, do you want something for dinner? And you'd be like, yeah. Ew. Yeah, and so like that's... Yours is just so much more structurally solid, I'm saying. Bad social scientist? Yes.
Starting point is 00:15:13 You know what? We were a very intellectual group of friends. You were really on top of something. Can you believe that that other friend is now an organizer at the DSA? What happened? They're all pervs here's here's the text that i'm going to send hey blank this is claire o'kane a comic whose show you've done a few times at union pool i got your number from my co-host emily panic i'm hearing your texts wondering if you'd happen to be available to be the guest on a live version
Starting point is 00:15:39 of my podcast corridors at union hall not pool on sundays june 22nd yeah that's funny union okay good that's funny uh sunday 6 22 at 5 p.m the podcast is basically just myself and two other comics going on quora.com and dot dot dot talking about it. Quora is a website similar to Reddit, but a bit more unhinged. Anyway, it'll be easy and hopefully fun. Hope you're well and enjoying this extremely temperate New
Starting point is 00:16:05 York City afternoon. I have one note. Really good, Claire. Did you say 7-22? 6-22. Okay, go. I put the right date. Just making sure. I guess my note would be you don't have to explain what Quora is in this text message to her. You just be like
Starting point is 00:16:21 it's a podcast where we call it the internet. She will not know what it is That's fine We'll tell her later You should listen to Jeremy His like I have a pretty good success rate Many people don't answer my emails
Starting point is 00:16:33 He has like a copywriter's brain Yeah You know what I mean? I wish I could crack it open And get all the copy But I can't You had a brain for copywriting And a face for podcast
Starting point is 00:16:43 And a voice for silence That's the meanest thing I've ever heard That was really funny okay so wait but you say uh that will we look we look up questions and then yeah we we we make fun of crazy questions on the internet i guess oh whatever that way you don't have to specify what quora is because it is funny to imagine i mean no no secrets as to who no revealing the person but it's someone who is slightly older than uh us she's i'm deleting that part where i say what quora is but she definitely does not know what it is ellen degenerate you're gonna say questions on
Starting point is 00:17:20 the internet i'm hitting oh you know what we should get is that lady used to host top model what is this the beautiful top model are we keeping this tyra banks tyra banks you should get tyra banks i'm keeping this whole text so you can help me remember this is this so you can help me remember this tyra banks should come on we should we we gotta read some questions yeah go i want to finish the damn post about liars all right number three read it smear campaigns are usually based on lies if you are angry because someone's dog bit your child and write the truth about it it is not a smear campaign and if you lie and that right that person is sadistic and commanded their dog to attack your child that is a smear campaign number four
Starting point is 00:18:02 alex burped while saying it but he was trying to be like indignant about it i really like the idea of like somebody being like bite them fido you know like yeah command them to bite your dog I would love to command a dog to do something. I want to tell dogs to do crimes, yeah. I always like the idea of the dog, what is it? Is it Lassie who saves the kid from the well? Uh-huh. I wish I had a dog that could do stuff like that.
Starting point is 00:18:28 You wish you had a dog like Lassie? What is it, Lassie? Alex is playing Dune Imperium and needs another player? You got a one-lunged cat. Yeah. He's almost 10. He's turning 10 in a month. I'm reading about the smears, please.
Starting point is 00:18:42 number four the intent must be to cause irreparable damage to the reputation of your target or have a dog bite them seriously saying your neighbor farts a lot isn't going to cause others to hate him lying and saying your neighbor is a pedophile will be irreparable harm and make him a target for possible attacks unless rule number three they are pedophiles number five idle gossip does not constitute a smear campaign. Gossip sucks, but speculating about your ex-boyfriend's salary is not the same as smearing your
Starting point is 00:19:16 ex-girlfriend by telling others she is a prostitute. Woo! These are the rules. We're going to check in at the end of the episode, the text message, like we're a cooking show. Right. But it might come out bad. They never did a cooking show do a thing where they put it in the oven and it comes out and it's just a question mark.
Starting point is 00:19:32 Yeah. What is this? Who is this? Can you repeat the text? Have you ever seen Nicole Byers' show? Nailed it? Yeah. Oh, no. And that one, the food comes out bad. Oh, really?
Starting point is 00:19:42 Yeah, because they have random people on to try to cook. And the joke is how much they fucking suck. And she goes, you suck at this. No one will eat this. We're basically Nicole Byer. Nailed it. Nailed it. Okay, scroll down.
Starting point is 00:19:53 I would like to read a question from the space. I'd like to read a question from the space. Read that top one. My previous narcissistic girlfriend has discarded me 100 times. Is this the final discard? Oh, no. As a card player, there's nothing worse than the final discard. You've been milled.
Starting point is 00:20:08 Are you guys the NARC survivors? No. I'm actually the NARC. Yeah. Yeah. I can see that. Is that track? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:16 I don't think I've had that. I had a falling out with a friend who had BPD. Is that similar? Probably. Boston Police Department. It was a Boston Police Department. I don't like this. That's so funny to imagine.
Starting point is 00:20:25 This answer from Mark, who lives in Southern England, is a fist with a water spray emoji coming out, which to me means jacking off. He's saying you're jacking off and that the final discard is your sperm hitting the computer screen. That's the final discard. Come on, Mark. I tried to write come on, man. Come on, man.
Starting point is 00:20:45 So Jeremy gave him the Joe Biden treatment on Quora. Come on, man. Come on, man. There's your fat. Although the final discard. Oh, wait, where's he from, Alex? Oh, he's from southern England. I'm getting it up.
Starting point is 00:20:57 England spotted. They're jacking off over there. uh alice greer says none of these are a discard then she just treats you like shit and you let her because you haven't left which i love that's the kind of community support we're looking for it's interesting that that's part of the the language of talking about narcissists is they're discarding you right yeah how many times have you been discarded that's like body count oh yeah that's like the really sad version of body yeah a dark body count go to another question wait can i read this one from this answer from nigel whose bio is divorce says the answer you may not like
Starting point is 00:21:37 that's up to you do you like being confused gaslighted scared tired used lied to dismiss taken for granted and coerced the true answer is no they always need your validation you being under control your obedience and both the above they will always come back in some form and like nothing's happened to them this is normal behavior or their right to be you've wronged them somehow that you've called them out it can be as simple as you disagree with something it's not conscious unless you have a well-established intelligent malignant aware and are this is too far oh baby oh and then there's some pictures of darth vader and it's a search for feelings there's a lot going on with this one honestly and it's so what's so appealing about this post
Starting point is 00:22:19 is it's very long and it's all in one sentence paragraphs which makes you feel like you're reading a dan brown kind of it yeah you read really fast yeah it's cool yeah damn brown check out dan brown check out uh the da vinci code code what happened to him he died he was killed by the pope is that true yeah the pope killed him wow that's true he got too close to their secrets don't tell people about the crucifix you must not tell people about our hidden gold what is the thing it's just like in the floor there's like a code in the yeah it's kind of a national Treasure-ass film. National Treasure, I think, was ripping him
Starting point is 00:22:53 off, right? Yeah, it's just like hearsay clues leading people to spontaneously come up with more clues that they don't really logically follow. I like Nicolas Cage more than I like Tom Hanks. That's fine. Interesting. I think that might be true. No one has a problem with that. Is that true? I think that's right.
Starting point is 00:23:09 I think you might be right on that. You should get him on sometime. Nicolas Cage? Yeah, Nicolas Cage. How should I send that text? Hello, Nicolas Cage. Hello, Nicolas Cage. I got your number. from Emily Pan. But now we've revealed it's not him
Starting point is 00:23:22 because we're saying his name. You can whittle it down. I'm doing a podcast with all of Francis Ford Coppola's children and I wanted to have you on. I think he's a nephew, unfortunately. Oh, no. And then you can put that in there.
Starting point is 00:23:39 Okay. I'm done with this bass now because it's full of narcs. This is going to be a crazy one to edit. Let's go to QuoraMD. Leave it in. Why don't I want to handle my scrotum for fear of damaging the vasodefrins or epididymis? Epididymis.
Starting point is 00:24:07 Epididymis. I remember the day I learned that word and everybody was saying it. I'll be real with you. I mostly put this in to have Jeremy read epididymis. I just stumbled on it. In my head, literally, before I went, in my head went epididymis, and then I read it and went epidymis. I said he's going to choke on this one.
Starting point is 00:24:24 He's going to have a vas deferens stuck in his throat. You thought Dido was pronounced Dido. That one I definitely didn't know. I didn't know Dido at all. I thought Dido was a damn Pokemon. I've never heard of Dido in my freaking life. He thought it was a Diglett. Yeah, he thought Dido was Mr. Mime.
Starting point is 00:24:40 When I was a kid, is this too much info? Is this going to be too much? We'll see. When I was a kid I had a rash On my scrotum And I was very young And apparently
Starting point is 00:24:51 I went to my babysitter And I said I have a rash On my scrotum I need cream And the babysitter Was really freaked out That I was a baby
Starting point is 00:24:58 Saying scrotum a lot Scrotum My scrotum ho Yeah Rash on my scrotum I love all of the Baby Jeremy stories Is this
Starting point is 00:25:08 My scrotum Is this from the belt era The belt era Yeah you said You used to tie your belt So tight that it would Put on circulation in your body.
Starting point is 00:25:17 I remember that. I should get a photo from that. That's really funny. I got to find a picture of that because it's really funny looking. And I used to always carry around an orange flashlight on my belt.
Starting point is 00:25:27 That's cute. And there's photos of it where you can see my belt is crazy tight and I have the little flashlight. Who told you to do these things? I had OCD as a child, I guess. I had an orange sweater,
Starting point is 00:25:38 speaking of orange, as a child, an orange hoodie that I wore every day, all day, every day, and I would like suck on it. Oh, cool. And then the sleeve, I'd suck on the sleeve,
Starting point is 00:25:48 and then I think that's pretty neurodivergent. This is normal child behavior. I did that kind of stuff, too, though. Jeremy is a cartoon character of a dweeb. I had a chain that I chewed through. Yeah. It was gold. We're neurodivergent.
Starting point is 00:26:02 Today we're tackling a culture of fear. But I cured it. I chewed through the chain. Chew through the chain. Free yourself. I have nothing to lose but my chain that I chewed through. Suck on that sleeve. You probably have the day you chewed through the chain.
Starting point is 00:26:19 Is that just like the day you cleaned everything up? My parents, apparently I would suck on my fingers a lot as a kid. My parents put that like nasty stuff that you put on your fingers to train your kid not to suck on it. But I learned to like the nasty taste, which I feel like is a metaphor for my whole life. Right. You just learn to enjoy the bad. You learn to love the nasty taste. The nasty taste is pretty much Quora.com to you.
Starting point is 00:26:42 Yeah. Basically. I used to rock back and forth as a child until I think my aunt was like, what are you, the exorcist girl? Yes. Claire's aunt. And then I was like, uh-oh, I can't do this ever again. Destroy her.
Starting point is 00:26:56 It's so easy to traumatize a child. Yeah. Because I feel like. And I was so comforted. I was comforting myself. And she said, what are you, the exorcist girl? Any little comment. You're pretty much like comforted the same way the exorcist girl was comforted by the
Starting point is 00:27:11 devil. Basically. yeah but with your fingers or whatever um to refocus back on the question i can't wait to hear what fucked up thing alex says to his daughter that she thinks about for the rest of her life yeah that's you got to think about this i'm gonna make my daughter very religious anyway like what crazy alex think when she's like 30 she's gonna be talking about in therapy yeah she's like i don't my dad used to do this thing where i'd say do you want dinner and he'd go No.
Starting point is 00:27:39 It's going to be something Dune based. My dad, just my father, every time, I always knew to hide when he'd go. My plans are in centuries. We're going to TGI Fridays. Plans within plans. Oh, that's what I should watch, Dune. You must breed with the waiter. My dad makes me call him the Baron Patak.
Starting point is 00:28:04 That's not true. I would never do that. Dude, it's two movies, unfortunately. Here's why you don't want to handle your scrotum. Oscar Isaac's in it. For fear of the damaging. Your hands are rough. They're too rough, and you play too rough.
Starting point is 00:28:18 And when you learn to play nice, you won't have to worry about all that. Vast deference. Vast deference has the... Those are the tubes. That's the tube that has the cum come out. It carries the sperm. Yeah. Cum tubes.
Starting point is 00:28:29 And that's how the baby cum out. And they snip those. Claire and Alex did a big handshake that's facts bone daddy do the next question we're done with this question there's no answers in it
Starting point is 00:28:50 there are no answers why don't I want to handle my scrotum you want someone else to handle it for you have you guys ever like hurt your privates
Starting point is 00:28:59 to the point where you're like I can never touch this ever again ever again? Yeah, you're like, oh, I messed something up and then you're just sort of like totally freaking out for a couple days. I've hurt myself in kind
Starting point is 00:29:11 of like a Nine Inch Nails song kind of way, but it's always bounced right on back. That's a Johnny Cash song. It's a cover. Oh, wait, no. Don't you tell me it's not Johnny Cash. Cash is first, I thought. Yeah, no, no, no. Cash covered Nine Inch Nails.
Starting point is 00:29:25 It seems logically it would be, but no, it's Trent Reznor all the way, baby. Yikes. We're looking at Greg Hanley here. Is this who wrote the question? This is who wrote the question. He wants to know, why are TV reboots listed as a separate series? This is the two questions.
Starting point is 00:29:40 No, there's eight questions. There's eight questions. They're not interesting. Who has a better album opener, the Stones or the Beatles? Then he's like, should I be the one handling my own scrotum balls? Scrotum is the skin on your balls. Did we say that? We didn't say that.
Starting point is 00:29:55 It's the skin. This whole time they've been looking up scrotum online. It's the skin that covers your balls. The sack. sack the main sack lunch bunch um uh if a communist is running to lose in russia could a fascist beat putin maybe what does that mean it's a riddle it's enigma if a communist is running to lose in russia who should handle the ball scrotum uh yeah so he's trying to find out a lot about russia on here and paul mccartney but i guess my question is like the the epididymis
Starting point is 00:30:28 thing kind of seemed like something happened yeah he like was beating up his balls on that and he he's taking his balls uh to task to task like they didn't do what he said question number two when did we start it's a problematic episode what if 25 of my problems are skin on fire and 75% or systemic problems. Systemic problems, I feel like that's actually pretty relatable to much of the general population. But the skin on fire sounds specific to you and alarming. I think a lot of skin on fire does stem from systemic issues.
Starting point is 00:31:10 A culture of fear. Yeah, or the environment, what's in the air. That's actually true. That is genuinely true. When will we discuss our ecology? I am having a skin thing happen right now, which I'm wondering if it has something to do with my lung thing. No, it was the text you sent.
Starting point is 00:31:26 Oh, yeah. Yeah, your body's revolting. There's a horrifying amount of pollen in the air these days. Yeah, I can see it. I've had a lump on my face and my throat that I can't explain. I think it's just that the air is poisoned here. Lump? A lump.
Starting point is 00:31:41 It looks like a zit, but it's not a zit. I think when you get older, you just get stuff like that. What does that mean? You just get skin stuff. Yeah. Okay, well, 25% of my problems are skin on fire, but 75% are systemic. What do we think this is? I guess I'm like, what if?
Starting point is 00:31:59 What if that is true? It's like how, you know, lower income housing has like more asbestos in it. That's a systemic problem that causes skin on fire. 100% of your problems are systemic. You just don't realize it. Right. So what we're saying is that all of your problems are systemic. Because of capitalism, I have a face for podcast and a copywriter's brain.
Starting point is 00:32:27 Better than having a copywriter's face. The problem with having a face for podcast is that it's a fucking video feed. No, that's what I'm saying. It was meant to be a compliment. I'm into it. You didn't take that as a compliment? I thought it was funny. I like this picture.
Starting point is 00:32:41 I did really like podcasting no face for a long time. I thought that was pretty cool. That's how it should be We need this But the only podcast like that WTF is ending It's ending, it's over The only non-video podcast
Starting point is 00:32:52 The only thing that makes me say is What the fuck Yeah What the fuckers What the fuckers We could steal that We could take it Yeah, as soon as it ends
Starting point is 00:33:00 No one's doing it anymore Nobody owns what the fuckers So what the fuckers is now I'll text him and see how much he He's asking for that This is an episode of You have no problem texting This is an episode of texting
Starting point is 00:33:10 How much Can you call him? Put him on speaker Yeah, put Mark on I got dollar signs for eyes all of a sudden. Are you actually going to text Mark Barrett? No, no, no. I was just seeing if Janine...
Starting point is 00:33:21 I mean... I was just seeing if the person texted me back. Good God. Okay, this is the guy who asked this question? Yeah, Brian, lover boy hated by all. That's true. What do we got here? Mr. Big went to hell after a jelly roll kill.
Starting point is 00:33:38 That is his story. Next on Big's Special Victims Unit... Is Mr. Big from- Wade's World? No. That's what I know him from. It's from the show where the women have sex in the city. Oh.
Starting point is 00:33:50 Mr. Big. Girls. Yeah, girls. It's from girls. Sex in the city, Big. Shoshanna has sex with him. I'm Googling Mr. Big. There is a band called Mr. Big.
Starting point is 00:34:00 It's a rock band, so that's something. Do not click on that. That's not what we're talking about. I don't know what we're talking about. Mr. Big, according to the AI, is a Sex in the City character. Well, look at that. James Preston. His name's John James Preston, and he's a whole lot of man.
Starting point is 00:34:16 It's also a chocolate bar. So many Mr. Bigs. It's also a police procedure in which the police go undercover to impersonate a criminal gang member to gain a suspect's confession. WTF? That does sound like a police trying to come up with a creative name. It's like, and this is the Mr. Big technique. I'm Mr. Big Crime Guy. What the fuckers?
Starting point is 00:34:35 Can you tell us who you think Mr. Big is? Isn't there a Mr. Big in Wayne's world, though? Am I crazy? I only saw it. Thank God. Frankie, Mr. Big Sharp. Okay. But he's got three Gs in his name.
Starting point is 00:34:47 He's like a big money guy in Wayne's World. Yeah, he shows up at the end of the movie. Check out Wayne's World. Okay, let's read more questions from Brian, actually, because they're important. He asks, he feed rattlesnake, he feed all animal. He said, no, so many danger, trust everything. No answer on that one.
Starting point is 00:35:00 Sorry, I just have breaking news. Yeah? Lindsey Graham said, regarding Greta Thunberg on a ship to Gaza Lindsey Graham said on X hope Greta and her friends
Starting point is 00:35:17 can swim Jesus Christ this is coming out weeks later that is grim I thought Janine texted you back no you didn't because that's getting bleeped again I don't believe you she's definitely probably not going to do the show
Starting point is 00:35:33 so we can just keep saying it If she doesn't do it, we can say it. But if she does, it's a secret. I think it's the other way around, right? Brian's got another question. Why do they have so much access to the pewter? It's like 82 people with hands on the wheel. I'm fat and stupid.
Starting point is 00:35:48 My house is dirty and no one likes me. But the loitering culture is dumber than I. I actually really like this guy. No one states of any of these. It's a culture of loitering. But the loitering culture is dumber than I. Would I 99% rather kill someone than torture them for decades like DID? Who's DID?
Starting point is 00:36:05 I don't know. Did he? Did he do it? This is just, I mean, I'm seeing dissociative identity disorder, but I don't think that's what they mean, right? That could be related to this. Brian, he wants to torture someone. This guy's having a break of some kind, I think,
Starting point is 00:36:19 because nobody's answering these questions, and he's firing them out. Jeremy, get off of Google. Everyone is having a breakdown, breakdown. There's no logical answer to what this is. It's just Brian spitting on you. Let's go to forbidden knowledge. we're going back to ghosts that's a fucking siren get out your gun we hope you have your ghost gun because it's here in the netherverse what is shapeshifter
Starting point is 00:36:51 disgust asexuality in my defense i picked a lot of questions with no answers on them yet and that's why they're all like this and then you're yelling at us being like why aren't you guys discussing the question more. The question is what is shapeshifter disgust asexuality? Well, that could be a big deal to them because they can take any shape. Therefore, they're the prime sexual being. Are they disgusted by it?
Starting point is 00:37:13 Well, like if they take any shape, are they taking any sexual orientation? Yeah, they can go 20 inches long. I'm going to pull a clear and go pee. You guys figure this out. Okay. I'm glad that we're having this time. Discuss this. D-I-S C-U-S-T
Starting point is 00:37:29 Right. It's important to know that it's spelled wrong in the post and that may be part of the riddle here because disgust at asexuality is in fact a very different question uh what is shape sister shape shifter what is shape shifter disgust spelled wrong asexuality shape sister is like a band from 2002 or something like that that's a really cool band name actually i think that's somebody should take that shape sister hey what the fuckers why don't you take that shapeshifter disgust so they're trying to say what if the shapeshifter went on a podcast and discussed asexuality yeah like he was one of the boys who tries food but he was just like i don't want to fuck anybody man i mean i'm all
Starting point is 00:38:11 kinds of bodies i'm all kinds of bodies i'm this i'm that i'm a snake first i'm a snake then i'm a and then i'm a robe for me i'm just after love yeah i look like shack and then i look like madonna I don't care. Can you imagine looking like Shaq one day and then looking like Madonna the next? I honestly cannot. The mind reels attempting it. But I think people would treat you the same either way.
Starting point is 00:38:33 Well, they'd know that I'm a duplicitous freak. What if you were Mark Duplass one day and then the other one the next day? I forget his name. Mark. Mark Duplass. Who's the other Duplass? Oh, Robert Duplass?
Starting point is 00:38:49 John? Do you know the Duplass brothers? Not personally. I thought you were making a play on Duplassages. I've never seen any of their things. Although I've seen, is one of them in Safety Not Guaranteed? Probably. They're director brothers.
Starting point is 00:39:01 Oh, that's great. You don't know those guys? The Duplassages. We love all directing siblings. Are they sexual or not? The Wachowskis. Yeah, I think they are. The Safdies.
Starting point is 00:39:10 The Coens. The Duplasses. I think a shapeshifter has a unique view into asexuality that should be appreciated and listened to. Next question. Woo! Do you want to see who wrote this? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:23 It's just we have like so many questions and some of them have answers. Oh, this is from Brian. Brian? Brian again? You knave. How many of these have you done? Is this from a listener? Because that'll piss me off if it is.
Starting point is 00:39:39 Oh, is it? Oh, that would piss me off too. If you're a listener. Oh, if you send me your own chorus, I'm going to give you a knuckle sandwich. Okay, this is a real question. What does it mean for a witch to put roots on a person? I don't know. Great answer.
Starting point is 00:39:55 Aston Assard. I've heard the expression. I know witches talk about this. We're near Bushwick. We hear them at their local watering holes. They talk about root work here. Yeah, putting roots on people. You're kind of a witchy wife.
Starting point is 00:40:08 She's witchy, but she's not licensed. You had to be licensed? Yeah, you had to be licensed by the devil. You need a card. You got to sign his book. What do you think that is? I don't know. There's a license to sign his book.
Starting point is 00:40:21 He collects autographs. It would mean a lot to me if he put it in my book. Janine says she can't. Yeah, that's bad. Bada, bada, hey! She can't do it. Should we say who it was?
Starting point is 00:40:37 It'd be crazy if we don't. I'll say this. There's sort of a man of mystery. I'll say this. We're going to have a great show coming up. You guys have got to come to this thing. If this comes out after that, hey, it was awesome. How the fuck am I going to edit this episode?
Starting point is 00:40:56 No, you could just keep her name in. Leave it in. Who cares? She's not doing it. And I think it's because I didn't describe what Cora was. Yeah, what'd she say? No, she just said, I can't do it, but thank you for the invitation. Yeah, that's fine.
Starting point is 00:41:08 I'm going to read this answer by Melissa Pienol. I'll say if I was her, I wouldn't want to go on a podcast. Me neither. I would. They're the ultimate thrill. Jeremy here from the future. I'm editing the episode. I just want to say that we have booked the lovely Claire Parker to be our guest on the show.
Starting point is 00:41:25 It's going to be great. We love Claire Parker. She was never in Wet Hot American Summer, but certainly she could be in if they like reboot it or something. She's the host of Celebrity Memoir Book Club. It's on Sunday in Brooklyn. So come to the show. Melissa Pienol is a former freelance writer, job counselor. And folk singer.
Starting point is 00:41:47 We have to find her music. She contains multitudes. She says, I'm a Wiccan priestess and very traditional initiate. Hello. So I have no direct familiarity with root work. Don't answer it, Melissa. What are you talking about? Yeah, don't speak on root work if you don't do it.
Starting point is 00:42:04 Why don't you answer very traditional questions? I know it comes out of hoodoo, which is a rural American tradition from the south. Hoodoo, you do. With some African and Native American influence. I know it's not all bad. Do what? It reminded me of the babe. Shut up, Jeremy.
Starting point is 00:42:20 Because I knew someone who said someone was doing root work to heal her mother. So you can do good roots. Like many versions of traditional folk magic, I don't think they have prohibition against negative magic. Putting a root on someone is usually understood as some kind of curse, and people get really freaked out about it. Yeah, don't put a root on me, honestly. Don't root me.
Starting point is 00:42:39 I wouldn't want to read online that someone's put a root on me. No, I'd be upset about that. I'd find it quite root. I also find it root. Reading the post again Whatever you do Don't go to an online spellcaster Who will charge you a lot of money
Starting point is 00:42:55 And probably rip you off What's worse spellcaster or podcaster Spellcaster far worse I cast pods I have a conversation with my friends Listen to me talk about the Marvel Universe Which celebrity am I referencing You know
Starting point is 00:43:11 I think the worst is the kind of person Who would think a podcast is a spell where they're like, well, I'm changing people's hearts and minds through my words. Maybe a person like a Republican. Actually, you're just helping them fall asleep on the train while they commute to work. That's true. Hey, what the
Starting point is 00:43:26 fuckers, what the fuckians. I want to finish reading the post, please. We're trying to learn something here. I've talked to people who have been ripped off by these people. The Wiccan community does not recognize them as legit. I'd never charge money to cast a spell, but I only cast spells
Starting point is 00:43:42 for close friends. For other people, like you, I give the best advice I can. What can help you if you are really worried is doing a full house and personal purification ritual. If you click on my name, I have the whole ritual in great detail. If you go back in my answers a ways, the way I see it, magic is magic. Love is love, magic
Starting point is 00:43:58 is magic. I did a look on Amazon and eBay and there were a lot of books on root work and there are also several websites. Good luck. There are also several websites. To answer your question, there are also several websites. One time my friend had a lady come visit her and the lady was old
Starting point is 00:44:14 from italy and her whole thing is that she's like um you know not a wit not a witch but like a uh like a you know people read tea leaves and tarot cards and shit like that like a psychic yeah but it's old italian a magical lady anyway she said my friend uh someone had cast a curse on my friend oh is that real and that she knows for real and so she's like she's like okay i'm going to remove it and she put her hand on top of my friend's head and sort of started rooting around in it and my friend said she felt like something was coming out of her skull whoa and and the woman pulled out a needle whoa what she's like this someone put this curse on you a long time ago and now you take this needle and you put in a little bag mix it with some stuff and then
Starting point is 00:45:04 you're good is her life like way better now that the needle's out of there um i think well i think the the reverberations of the curse have affected her life in different ways but she seems to be okay now but also so and then this is the most interesting thing i've ever heard crazy and then my friend uh you know because this woman you know can tell the future or whatever she showed pictures of like her dad and the lady said oh yeah he'll be fine and she showed a picture of me because everything had been okay with my friend claire and she's like oh yeah she's she'll be fine but she's going to have to move back to Los Angeles.
Starting point is 00:45:43 And this was like right around when I first moved to New York. I can't believe that. Without knowing anything about me she's like she's going to move
Starting point is 00:45:50 to Los Angeles. Well the thing where she already pulled a needle metaphysically out of your friend's mind really sold me on her powers. What if your friend just had a needle
Starting point is 00:45:59 in her head and someone was like oh fuck. You get it? That's her moves. I was not looking for that. I walk in the room I clock she already
Starting point is 00:46:06 has a needle in her hair. Let's put this in some poison. Yeah. Let's not clip that, though, because she will see this. She will see it and it's a witch, and then you're probably making a powerful enemy. Yeah. This might be a witch secret. Should we click on her profile and go to her purification rituals?
Starting point is 00:46:21 There's a lot of things we need to click on, but first we need to read this comment. Thank you very much from learning. That's from learning. And that's someone who is learning, and that's such an important thing to always be doing. Reply to them, I'm learning too. Okay. That way they know they're not alone. yeah send that and learning send great okay let's go to melissa see if we can find some of her music
Starting point is 00:46:43 what is the picture here it's like a bird or something oh it's the back of her head it's the back of her hair it's like we're pretty much doing her doggy style come on come on that's what it's like come on man i'm here to tell the news she goes to san jose state university oh my god is this claire's account it's basically me do i know this person we know 12 000 followers i'm sorry i said that thing about doggy style i didn't mean it i was just acting out i'm really i haven't slept much because of my baby you go to google don't go i want to see her music she has a purification ritual written just for you jeremy on quora.com the most important website there is purification ritual she's a waking priestess who posts on quora she hasn't posted in two years what does
Starting point is 00:47:29 the song turning japanese as a wiccan and then someone has to break the news to her what it's about i really like this top comment oh boy i hate this one there's no nice way to put it so i'm just gonna say it and leave the room the songwriter sees a girl in a picture he loves and masturbates to it so often that he can feel his face turning into his climax face and his oh face is presumably squinty eyes which is how he is relating to how the japanese look it's a terrible song do with it what you will it was the 80s and you could get away with that crap back then that's from jolin and then she left the room after she said that yeah jolin you gotta get out of there i would you know more people should see something online and physically leave a room
Starting point is 00:48:15 yeah i think that would improve the world just typing it and then leaving your computer behind oh she has a great question about can the shadow self be a black serpent she's answering that and She says your shadow self could be a black serpent or a white kitten or a huge donut with sprinkles on it. Whoa. It could be absolutely anything your unconscious says it should be. Okay, so that's interesting. Are we not interested in the shadow self? I don't know, a little bit.
Starting point is 00:48:38 I want to read more answers on the roots, right? I think my next podcast is going to be just ghost things. Next podcast? Yeah. This is the one. I know, but maybe I have a side ghost project. What do you want to learn? There should be strong overlap.
Starting point is 00:48:53 what do you want to read i'll read whatever we have a lot more questions stay tuned there's a culture of fear okay here's another question now this one's been in the dark for a while but i think that it's an important one has anyone had experience with using magic for conceiving a baby now this happened alex in game of thrones did you ever did you and your wife use magic when conceiving yeah we used the magic of uh physical love did you use like chris you have Do you take your crystal off before you pump and dump? I'll leave it on.
Starting point is 00:49:26 That's not what pump and dump is. I mean, you're dumping your pump. I'm not dumping my pump. I love my wife. I'm not saying it's... You can love whoever you're dumping. Don't dump on my wife. Did you use your crystals?
Starting point is 00:49:41 I'm not pumping my wife. You're the one pumping. No one else is pumping. I'm pumping. No one is pumping, Jerry. when you when you were trying to conceive did you choose your crystal based on it i'm gonna ask the question i'm not gonna move on i mostly just stuck with the one quartz the healing crystal because it was like the right energy for it here are the crystals i have i'd love to go through this with
Starting point is 00:50:03 you i would love to hear it we have this one this is a black tourmaline this is a hit in the town crystal there's also a small jasper stone at the top for a power uh enhancement it's on a heavy metal chain i got it because i went to the jewelry store and women thought it was too heavy for them and i picked it up i said it's the right size for me wow it's like the sword and the stone it's pretty much just for me and you do have back problems right i do not have back problems anymore that's his his his version of having huge tits this heavy stone he wears around his neck i've healed that with crystals some women have their stones decreased look at the stones on this one my next crystal i have a standard quartz that is a regular healing crystal you charge it under the
Starting point is 00:50:49 moon once a month on a full moon that's how you keep it full of energy just regularly repairs your wounds like a white mage i have a rainbow color one don't remember what stone it is that's my creative chain i wear it when i'm coming up with ideas like uh grank which is the movie crank but if he had to do a podcast what's the orange one citrine citrine there's so many it could be so many i like that one yeah it's pretty cool creativity um i have another one that's for sobriety my brother gave me because i have such a good reputation is my family um and then my wife got me one that's like a little stone that's like an accessory stone you wear with another stone because it's like short chain long chain but honestly it's like asking too much i think at
Starting point is 00:51:35 that point and since i've had a baby i'm always wearing her on my chest and so i can't have the stone on at the same time anyway anyway all those help you smash so you were the health one yeah that's right when you were trying to conceive and i'm very healthy baby just keep those stones away from the baby i think yeah but the baby is looking for stone baby gonna want to eat the stones oh that's true i pulled a needle out of your baby's head recently i don't know who cursed my baby Which one of you cursed my baby? I'll find you. I feel like you did use magic for conceiving a baby.
Starting point is 00:52:06 Is it because I had a doula? Yeah. We did a home birth with a doula. Yeah, that is kind of a... And that was pretty much a witch I hired to do a magical birth with my wife. Cast a spell on your wife. Everything did go kind of sideways, though.
Starting point is 00:52:18 It did. There was a placenta issue, but the actual birth itself wasn't really great. I need my wife to be full of blood. Yes. Anyway, we got an answer from Lisa Freimanis. She says no, because magic is the word we use when we don't understand enough to be able to explain a phenomenon.
Starting point is 00:52:35 In the words of Tim Minchin, a comedian. Yeah. Throughout history, every mystery, misspelled, ever solved has turned out to be not magic. Cool. Thank you for quoting British goth comedian Tim Minchin. Let's be suffering mantis. I want to hear more about magic
Starting point is 00:52:56 and not from people who don't believe it happened. Eric says, magic is only found in people's consciousness because we see many incredibly skilled manipulators who repeatedly do something completely incomprehensible, which on the rest of us is completely unreal and magical, but it is only and will always be an amazingly skilled manipulation of us, the audience.
Starting point is 00:53:13 Okay, so this opens the question, are wizards narcs? Killing spree. Are wizards narcs? Should we ask that on Quora? Yeah, we can ask that. Are wizards narcs Okay what did you
Starting point is 00:53:25 Just say to that guy Oh I said Did you ever do that While having sex though Oh right Cause I feel like You didn't really Answer the question
Starting point is 00:53:31 It just explains What magic is And the question is Did you ever do it While fucking You ever pump and dump You remember in Game of Thrones
Starting point is 00:53:38 The magical baby Yeah well They have a demon Spirit baby So the red witch Has sex with Stannis To create several Shadow assassins
Starting point is 00:53:46 Are you listening To this Claire Yes that is Stannis I'm messaging with a director at the moment. Ooh. Would they like to come on?
Starting point is 00:53:56 Do you want to come on? Ask Tim Burton if he's free. Tim Burton? I'd love to talk to him. I'd love to get him on. He's such a twisted man. What's this? What's this?
Starting point is 00:54:05 Let me show him a quark. Right. Are you talking about NARC in the narcissistic way? Yeah. Oh, yeah, you know it. What's the question? Is a wizard a NARC?
Starting point is 00:54:13 Is a wizard NARC? Yeah. Are all wizards NARCs? Yeah. If magic uses manipulation, are all wizards NARCs? Yeah. What about witches, then?
Starting point is 00:54:23 I'm like the Socrates of this bitch. I'm pretty much posing the great questions of life. Are witches narcs? And send, and we'll see how that does later. I'm so excited. I can't believe she responded so quickly to that text. Yeah, she slammed down a no. That was a hard no.
Starting point is 00:54:40 Went ahead and gave you a no, but thanks. Okay. Loved mystery men. Let's go to the quoker. All right. Do we have a, is that okay for this week? Oh, it's already been an hour. Damn.
Starting point is 00:54:54 Yeah, but we got to cut a good 10 minutes. No, we don't. No, we don't. This is the crime, the price we pay for the crime of doing the bonus first. See ya. Do we have a, is that okay, Alex? I didn't look it up, but I don't think we do. Is Alex okay?
Starting point is 00:55:11 Let's do. We'll do that one next week. Let's do one of these longer questions. Pick which one do you think will be the most juicy and we'll call it a day. please write in with an is that okay for next time please why do the people harassing and stalking me argue that harassing me and my family isn't wrong but not telling me my family that we are being stalked and harassed because i have no proof is worse so it's kind of a confusing question there okay so why do the people harassing and stalking me argue so okay there are people
Starting point is 00:55:37 harassing and stalking you and they're arguing that harassing you and your family is not wrong to do. Is it worth checking if this is Brian again? I think it is. I'm kind of noticing a writing style emerge in a way where it may be Brian. No, it's anonymous. Alright, I respect that.
Starting point is 00:55:56 The harassers are saying it's not a big deal that we're harassing you and your family. It is. But this guy is not telling his family that they're being harassed because he has no proof and he's asking, is that worse than the harassment itself? That's kind of a legal drama. I think the answer is probably no.
Starting point is 00:56:13 No, the harassment is worse. Harassing and stalking is worse than not. But if you knew someone who was being stalked, but you felt that it was ultimately harmless, would you tell the person? If a wizard has a muggle slave. Hold on. Okay.
Starting point is 00:56:27 Wait, can you repeat the question? If you knew someone who was being stalked, but you felt that it was ultimately a harmless thing that wouldn't affect their lives, and they didn't know, would you tell them? No. Oh, no, I think it's funny. Yeah?
Starting point is 00:56:39 But I don't know. But just because I think something doesn't mean it could not be worse than I think it is. Oh, for sure. I mean, stalking is almost, it's not going to end up well. It's something pumas do.
Starting point is 00:56:47 I would be like, hey, you might want to keep an eye out on this. There's a leprechaun following you around. He laughs at everything you do. Just so you know, you might want to hide your pot of gold. He also smokes weed. He's on drugs.
Starting point is 00:57:02 There's a leprechaun on drugs and he's following you. He's on drugs and he's crazy. He's so calm. He's always chasing a rainbow. he's after me lucky charms leprechauns are legit really scary though yeah yeah because they're almost people but they have arcane rules you know what i mean what are their arcane rules well first of all they are honor bound to tell you things for gold is that true you're gonna
Starting point is 00:57:31 have to cut all this out jeremy we can't have this getting out this would ruin us i feel like i will have to cut this out the leprechauns are coming at us already and it's like we can't that's true we did get in trouble for making fun of short people we mean short people which jeremy has explained are less than human i never said such a thing i've there's no evidence of this i think it was you who said it i don't think it is because i have incredible respect for the community the small bone i was once short and then i took medicine to get tall yeah he's one of you i've cured it you're one of those it's like when in the deaf community when they get oh my god yes the hearing thing and then it's like you're actually not a part of the
Starting point is 00:58:16 community anymore so you're like a traitor to us and then people would rather stay deaf jeremy's pretty much in tall face you're wearing tall face tall face it's deeply offensive to tall people my culture is not your costume if i ever have children they'll be short good my genetics are short that's right keep them short also they come out short i think that's what's saying i talked to a witch about it hashtag keep jeremy weird keep jeremy weird keep jeremy short you made it weird uh i had something to say about like a wizard and get a slave oh yeah but uh i don't really remember where i was coming from there the wizard part yeah we don't even need to talk bring that up um okay well so this guy's being harassed let's read some of the answers on
Starting point is 00:59:02 this get to the bottom of this stalking and harassing is a criminal act however you do need some sort of proof before law enforcement can act in most cases that is oh sorry that's its own intent in most cases that is and depending on your background and social status determines if and when law enforcement will get these are fragments when uh you don't have significant proof some might say you're paranoid delusional this is a gang stalker who's lying don't listen to them who asked this question so we can uh find them anonymous we thought it was brian remember oh right oh we have an answer from barak osniel read it they want you to become a better person while they themselves have a cruel evil heart i hate when that happens they need to cast the
Starting point is 00:59:44 moat out of their own eye ouch before they coerce others into their beliefs making good people better people by forcing their beliefs by your beliefs down someone's throat is like torturing someone is a violation of human rights they are psychopaths and the thing about Barack Othniel is
Starting point is 01:00:03 he pretty much exactly called out that thing that Claire said about like pulling a needle out of someone's brain with the mode of the own eye thing which I know is biblical but it's also like needle from the own brain why can't he spell though I feel like this is something you would say
Starting point is 01:00:20 where i feel like i could see you like i could i would be like oh my train was delayed and you'd say like you need to cast the moat out of your own eye that is something i would say but i'd spell it right alex is barack goth male coded i went to catholic school now this chef nicholas says i don't think we could make up the rules for your fantasy i'm not sure what strange backwards nonsense would work to explain how people are harassing you and arguing you but somehow you also don't have any evidence, even though a smartphone can track written messages and recorded voices.
Starting point is 01:00:55 That was cool as hell, dog. This is Gene Simpson, which is a great name. You mean you talk with the people that are doing this, and they don't see anything wrong with it? Well, file a police report, and if it doesn't stop, then they shouldn't mind being arrested for doing all that bullshit.
Starting point is 01:01:11 Everyone's kind of like, it's your fault for being stalked. Right. Yeah. What are you doing that's so interesting that has to be stalked this is the main thing about stalking anyone
Starting point is 01:01:21 in this day and age it's like I have a phone like what are you doing that's going to keep me more entertained than my phone also I've never been
Starting point is 01:01:28 more stalked in my life we're all being stalked yeah we're being stalked by a little thing called facebook.com and capitalism we're being stalked by capitalism
Starting point is 01:01:37 25% of skin pain get on fire they want to touch my epididymis and I said no if you see the monopoly man kill him. Oh, man. If I was standing someone, I'd love to
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