The Gargle - Netlicks | Evil | UFO

Episode Date: December 31, 2021

James Nokise and Sami Shah join host Alice Fraser for episode 42 of The Gargle - the weekly topical comedy podcast from The Bugle - with no politics! 👅 Netlicks: the TV you can taste👹 The D Factor: how evil are you?🛰 Elon Musk space junk 👁 Reviews🎬 The Matrix Resurrections 👽 UFOs unidentifiedThis episode was produced by Ped Hunter and Chris Skinner. Subscribe to our Ashes Urncast now: http://pod.link/Urncast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Do you think the elves have a good deal they're going? I mean, the fact that they actually only seem to be working for one night of the year? Or do they work all year? I'm not clear on the labor regulations around elf unions. The elves work all year, I think. But then, of course, they only give shitty gifts to poor children. True, yeah, yeah, yeah. We can't be too lenient on the elves.

It's very similar to the film Nomad, isn't it? Where the elves just kind of travel around to different workshops in their little vans and then wrap up the things for Santa before he goes into space during the year and then he comes back and starts taking all the presents around. The front page this week is a picture of some sexy fireworks saying beauty is fleeting, therefore New Year's resolutions are beautiful. Headlines on the front page include clickbait headlines

asking questions you already know the answer to. Are they as depressing as they are annoying? And will you click on them anyway? The satirical cartoon this week is the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future receiving COVID close contact alerts on their phones. The caption reads, I told you we should have let himself isolate. And now on to the stories. Our first section is a tech section, and our top story is a TV screen you can taste. That's correct. Scientists have invented a television that you can lick,

Japanese scientists, because who else? I'm thrilled about this. Soon we will know what Vin Diesel tastes like, and that's all I've ever wanted to know. To be honest, many years ago vin diesel was usurped in my affections by dwayne the rock johnson but i feel like dwayne the rock johnson is loved by everyone so i'm gonna i'm gonna stick with the niche you know what vin diesel still the that one of the tattoos he had on his torso when he was playing the character triple x was the name of his dwarven warrior mage from his Dungeons

and Dragons group and I will always respect him for that Dwayne The Rock Johnson has charisma and giant abs and huge pecs and all that stuff but is he part of a D&D guild I don't think so so Vin Diesel you have my love forever I think my favorite thing about Vin Diesel was in the Fast and the Furious movies where Dwayne The Rock Johnson entered the franchise and then Vin Diesel did the thing that they do in Lord of the Rings of just being closer to the camera so he looks bigger. Just insisting on being closer to the camera than The Rock at all times so that he doesn't look like The Rock is twice his size. I just like how you subtly put it in there, Alice, that you've watched a lot of the Fast and the Furious films. I mean, I've watched a lot of the Fast and the Furious films. I'm not ashamed to own it.

I enjoy them immensely. They're like the bold and the beautiful for the 12-year-old boy inside me. It's all amnesiacs and redemption arcs and villains become heroes, become villains, and, yeah, I'm into it now. Family, Alice. Family. It's always about family. Yeah, secretly it's all about family.

Anyway, returning to our actual story, Lickable Television. Sami Shah, do you want to unpack this story? It feels like it's the kind of science that was developed by someone who, when they were teenagers, saw that scene in Terminator 2 where the orderly licks Linda Hamilton's face and developed a fetish at that point like just a creepy sexual fetish at that point and has spent their entire life going yes I know there's COVID yes I know there's all these coronaviruses and and and there's cancer

and there's all these other things that I can dedicate my scientific expertise to but god damn it I really want to lick something that cannot fight back and therefore he licked his computer screen and and now and then he's like wait hang on what if when i lick the computer screen it doesn't taste like static and there we have science sometimes the greatest inventions come from things we didn't realize we needed and sometimes they come from a man just really trying to figure out how best to add to his masturbation fantasies i credit to this japanese scientist for doing so. As somebody who has a new baby, I have to say I'm using my nose on my phone screen

more than I thought I ever would in my life. That's a little hack there that your nose is very dexterous when it comes to answering a message with no spare hands. James Nukise, have you ever licked your television screen? Absolutely, but I am a former heavy drug user. I like the fact that they just left this dude alone. And then he just comes out of the lab and is like, guys, I reckon you can lick the TV. Come lick my TV. And they're like, oh, we need to fire the students. Like, no, no, no. Trust me. If you lick the TV, it's going to

like, does the TV retain taste? Because that's just going to really ruin the next generation's teenage years. You know, their parents burst into the room, what were you watching? It's like, I was just watching this. And then they lick the TV, that is... In my mind, it's gone a lot dirtier

than I initially started that sentence with. I think for both of you, it's gone a lot dirtier. This is the problem with this story, with anything that has licking in it. It's a Japanese scientist, for starters, who clearly took time out of buying used underwear from a vending machine to who then dedicated the rest of his evening

to creating a lickable TV. There is nothing in this that is wholesome. Alice, come on. I like the combination of respect and disrespect. The disrespect to assume that the Japanese scientist has an underpants fetish, but the respect to assume that they could knock out a lickable television in an evening. In the second half of an evening.

Difficult to have different ways of viewing things. And I think, you know, Sam and me can both agree that this is the plot to a late 90s hentai. So we've been told. Exactly. So we've been told. Look, here's the thing. I was watching the Wheel of Time TV show recently, right? It's a new TV show on Amazon Prime. And I liked it, but I wasn't in love with it.

And one of the reasons I wasn't in love with it, something intangible was bothering me. And a friend of mine who's a comedian as well, Ivana Istigeta, he said, look, the people in the show, they're set in a medieval fantasy world. They look too clean. They look like they smell nice.

And I realize that's where a TV like this could come in handy, right? If you're watching a show like the original first six seasons of Game of Thrones, you lick that screen and you taste mud and you taste dirt and you taste blood and you taste incest. But then you watch the Wheel of Time show and you taste just, you know, Vidal Sasson. And you're like, this is bullshit. This is breaking the reality of my story that's all yeah I mean stage dirt is is is incredibly important like context is super important for everything I uh I found out the other day that from a documentary that

the main people who spread Q propaganda in America you know QAnon propaganda is this political I'm not sure if it is because I think I'm going to make a point about the internet. They only do it from aggregation websites that collect Q sayings and put them on the aggregation website. They don't go to 8chan, which is the original source where Q makes his pronouncements. And I contend that the context of 8chan not just adds meaning

but is an integral part of the meaning of the announcements that Q makes which is to say it doesn't make sense unless you're seeing it next to a picture of a monkey masturbating and a pug with a hit with a swastika tattooed in its head like that is part of the context of the Q announcement and without that they are meaningless exactly and so similarly this guy's acting context to stories with the taste of the story. How has Fast and the Furious tasted? Now we'll know.

And now we might love it more or love it less. It's true. What you need is dirt continuity, though. So you need dirt, but you need a continuity person to make sure it's the same dirt from take to take, which is expensive. That's the most expensive thing in any kind of medieval fantasy is the dirt continuity person.

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Acast.com Now it's time for your science section. This science story is a time travel story in that it's a story from 2018, but one that is particularly relevant today in 2021 when people are letting the dark aspects of their personality emerge more than ever from the dankness of their own isolated, self-isolated COVID bedrooms. Psychologists have discovered what they call the dark factor of personality, or in other words, why Jeff Bezos is like that,

the point at which all negative personality traits overlap. The worst Venn diagram ever. It's a test to measure how evil a person is. James Nwokise, you're wearing a black T-shirt. So as the representative of all evil in this particular Zoom lineup, can you explain this story? Yeah, I'll just correct you there, Alice. They're actually calling it the D-factor. And what I've just done to you is a clear

example of having that in abundance. So it's interesting that you bring up Jeff Bezos, because I'm not sure they did call it the D factor until 2021, when billionaires really started showing their amount of D factor in abundance. But essentially, it's just four different types of personalities, where they're all they've looked at it and they've gone that certain people, due to the circumstances that we're now in globally, are beginning to express it more and more. In other words, people are getting more D and appearing to behave with more D. And it's just an exceptionally large amount of D in the world right now. And you've got to watch out.

Sammy, have you met a dark factor personality? Possibly every time I look in the mirror, because honest to God, the questions that they ask in this psychological survey, the assessment tests that they have, are things like, I know that I am special because everyone keeps telling me so. I'll say anything to get what I want.

It's hard to get ahead without cutting corners here and there. And hurting people would be exciting. And I'm not saying that I respond positively to all of those statements. But at the very least, one or two of those i feel like anyone would respond correctly to if they're being honest all right not hurting people would be exciting that that's obviously very psychopathic but the rest of them very on the nose and and i feel like the problem i have here with this entire study is what do you do with this knowledge because everyone's always changing you know like we're always on a journey in our lifetime. My daughter and I are watching Stranger Things right now.

And characters in season one who are absolutely dickish become lovely in season three. And I have to tell my daughter, people are on a journey. Don't judge them where they are now, because they might change later. And someone who says that, you know, I know that I'm special because everyone keeps telling me so, maybe everyone does keep telling them so.

And then maybe they grow up and maybe their comedy career doesn't go as well as they wanted it to. And then they end up just being a mid-level comic for the rest of their life. But they still think that they're special. And there's nothing goddamn wrong with that. Is there, Alice? Is there? There is nothing wrong with that. Also, you have to wonder whether you're applying this test to a child. Because for a child, I think, particularly a toddler,

all of these are yes. Exactly. People keep telling me I'm cute and adorable and I just love harassing my small brother. I do feel like that last question is the curveball they've thrown in just to go, oh, and by the way, do you also? Yeah, all the other questions are actually neutral. That's the only one that's a loaded question.

I'm talking about my niece here my my my nephew is now almost one and he's he's slow to learn to walk because every time he tries to walk when she's in the room she tackles him to the point where if he's doing anything and she comes into a room he now flattens himself on the floor like a starfish they have have both learned important life skills, basically. It's a journey for both of them, see? The thing I love the most about the story is the fact that the scientists have clearly been so busy with the science on this that they haven't paid attention to popular culture at all and they came out with the name The D Factor,

not realising that society a long time ago decided what D stands for and it is in darkness. Well, in other news, an unexpected sequel to the movie Gravity has taken place in real life. This time, Sandra Bullock was played by the China Space Station and had to perform evasive action to avoid collision with Elon Musk's seemingly out-of-control Starlink satellites. Sami Shah, you've had to avoid out-of-control satellites before. How do you explain this story? Well, it's one of the interesting stories because there's a whole concern in the scientific community

that has been there for a long time, that these satellites that we have basically creating a shell, a crust around Earth as if we deep-fried Earth in metal and silicon, is at this point just one collision away from creating a cascade of collisions that basically could end up in all of us living through a neil stevenson novel and elon musk in his quest to push humanity to the next level of experience has now decided yeah let's actually do that let's actually see what an end of days event looks like because he almost caused that to happen, almost caused a cascade to happen like that. The Chinese in this rare occasion are absolutely fair in criticizing

Elon Musk. It's very rare that I find myself in agreement with the Chinese government. But when they say that Elon Musk is a piece of shit, I mean, you know, reading between the lines, I think I find some merit in that statement. When are people going to figure out that Elon Musk is not smart? He's just very rich because his parents had an emerald mind. Why? I mean, he did do things with the money from the emerald mind. I'm sure there are plenty of people who would have done nothing with them. Emerald mind proceeds, just sat around in a pile of emeralds and had fun.

So you've got to give him the credit of all the Emerald Mine airs he's done the most with them. You know, he's one of the one of the, I think, four people who single handedly, quadruple handedly brought in the phrase amateur astronaut this year, which I think is that's the one for the record books. Speaking of unintended collisions, James, there's a story in New Zealand at the moment. Yes, this is sad to report that Omicron has finally made it to New Zealand. But in the grand tradition of the colonies, it's because a British person didn't play by the rules. So what happens is that a British DJ called DJ Dimension, and if you haven't heard of him before, big on music, small on syntax. He has been brought over to play music gigs in New Zealand and has done the self-isolation because he's got the money to be able to do that. And then he hasn't waited the full amount of time. He's gone out just a little bit early because all of his tests were coming back negative.

But in the grand tradition of British colonization, things have gone slightly wrong just towards the end. And he's ended up spreading the disease in the local community at clubs he went out to. Now, this is a breaking story in New Zealand. So we're not sure who else is involved, what other DJs from the DJ community might be involved, whether it's DJ perspective, or probably DJ entitlement is definitely somehow involved there. And DJ consideration, probably not making it to that particular party. But all we know right now is that Omicron is finally in the community in New Zealand. And it is, once again, as is the history of viruses with the New Zealand population because of the British.

Well, DJ Dimension, who used to be called DJ Sightlines when he was doing his major in fine art, is responsible, single-handedly responsible for bringing New Zealand into the 21st century slash of 2021 by infecting them with the disease that they have so far managed to hold out against. Sami Shah, were you hoping to do that Lord of the Rings tour this year? Well, I was always on the verge of going to New Zealand, but never actually getting my act together enough to do that. I was also just thinking, you know, maybe it's good to learn how to use the turntables. And because I feel like DJing is finally, you know, going to have a bit of a comeback as a career choice for people in the middle, you know, in their 40s and stuff. And I just checked out DJ Dimension's website.

And the website says he is Australia's leading entertainment provider. There's a lot that DJ Dimension has clearly done wrong in very recent times, including basically causing all of New Zealand to go into lockdown, most likely. But I think calling himself Australia's leading entertainment provider is a bold f***ing claim. And I want to put him to that test right now. I want to find out just how good of a DJ, DJ Dimension is. I feel like we need to get DJ Dimension on this show.

No, this is a classic misinterpretation. If you ever ask, if you meet DJ Dimension in real life and you ever ask him if he's the leading entertainment provider in Australia, he says, no, no, no, that's a homophone. I'm the leading entertainment provider. I go around and I put lead into petrol because I was outraged when they started unleading it. So that's my niche market. That and spreading Omicron. Long history of poisoning communities out there.

Moved on from lead, he's into Omicron. By the way, James, because you're in WA, right, James? Yeah. In Western Australia? Yeah. Which is currently also going through lockdown because of a French backpacker. Yeah, an unvaccinated French backpacker. Yeah.

So I think at this point, basically, the French and the British, much like the start of the great, basically, the great colonization of the 1800s and the 1700s, are once again responsible for f***ing us up again if you pardon my French I just like how the people spreading this seem to have it's gone from just like random aunties or people just coming home for Christmas to genuine clear-cut panto villains just unvaccinated French backpackers and British DJs just coming around the worst human beings on earth. I don't understand how you're backpacking at this point. It's been two years. Surely you could have saved up enough for, like, nice travel.

I'm pretty sure they're just a homeless person now. That's the French, man. C'est la vie. C'est la vie. Omicron. Yeah. Well, that's all the time we have for our science section because now it's time for your reviews.

As you know, every week our guest editors bring in something to review out of five stars. James Nukise, what have you brought us in to review? Well, as mentioned, I would love to review DJ Dimensions' music. Actually, in the spirit of 2021, I wanted to review Western Australia, where I've been stuck for the first six months, Western Australia's freedom protests, because they've been going nonstop and they've been going right up to Christmas. And what makes it brilliant is that Western Australia is arguably the most free place in the world from COVID right up until about four days ago. And even then, there's hardly any cases

in the community and people are marching up and down. But what a lot of people don't realize is Perth, when they march, they don't march to the government buildings like everywhere else. They march to the shopping center. They have a big shopping mall with JB Hi-Fi and Maya and David Jones, all great Australian staples. And they stand outside there and they go, we want to be free while all around them, people with their kids shop and buy presents. It is the most deranged thing I've ever seen. And I appreciate that when you're bored and you're in a pandemic and you can't go anywhere and people say you want to come for a walk, that's what you end up doing. In terms of idiotic protesting in the 2021-2020 five stars.

How much lockdown has Western Australia actually had? I believe it's 12 days of total lockdown, which for those of you internationally is a school holiday. So, Misha, what have you brought in to review for us? I have brought in the joy and wonder and pure adoration that I have right now. Five-star review for eye surgeons. So people who don't know this about me obviously because it's a podcast you can't see this but i normally wear spectacles i've been wearing spectacles since

i was six years old and they were humongously thick a lifetime of people telling me i'm wearing the hubble telescope on my face and ha ha ha how funny they all are and then finally i went to get laser surgery done because in lockdown i was thinking you know what and do something about your life change something just to make it more interesting and i went to get laser surgery done because in lockdown, I was thinking, you know what, do something about your life, change something just to make it more interesting. And I went to laser surgery thing. And the eye surgeon said, look, your number's too bad for laser surgery, but here's what we can do. And I apologize for the squeamish here, but this is how he described it to me. He said, we can make a micro incision in your eye, go into the eye, liquefy the natural lens that is inside your eye behind your iris, and then replace it with an artificial lens that opens up like an origami flower when we

insert it through the micro incision and then stitch the micro incision up. And I was sitting there listening to all of this and just thinking to myself this is what this man does five times a day he does five of these surgeries a day every day he's they've taken technology to this level and medical intervention this level and there are people out there going yeah but i don't know what's in vaccines so i don't trust them dude this guy made a cut in my eye and replaced my natural lens and i'm a cyborg now who never needs to wear glasses again. F***ing shoot me up with vaccines. I have full faith in medical science. It is way beyond anything I knew it was capable of doing at this point.

So, yes, five star review. Looking isn't an awesome thing to do with your pastime. Well, when I learned that I was going to be giving birth, delivering a baby, I had to check with my old eye surgeon who I got poked in the eye with a cricket stump when I was five by my brother in a terrible sword fighting accident and got my retina reattached with a sort of micro surgery and a silicon band that I have around my left eyeball. And 30 years later, still fine. Yeah, it's absolutely remarkable. I asked him, I was like, what can't I do? He said, look, the only thing you can't do

is maybe avoid getting punched in the head directly or bungee jumping or something. And I was like, look- That's the thing I know you to avoid often, Sammy. That's the thing that you don't- Yeah, clearly those weren't big on my list, on my bucket list for 2021, was getting punched in the head directly.

I mean, you might have to take the edge off your satirical news comedy. That's true. That is very true. But usually that'd be getting punched in the back of the head when I won't see it coming. So there's that. But other than that, and he did say, and this is during the recovery period, this is the weird part where I said, can i can i can i have sex like during the recovery and he said nothing too vigorous and he said basically grabbing me by the shoulders and shaking me a whole lot and going nothing like that and just shaking me and i kept and at that point i started wondering what my doctor does for sex because that is a very specific thing that he was describing i should not do i mean you know for sure that he inserts it

and then it unfolds like an origami crane. You don't feel it going in, but you feel it when it's in there. All right. That's all the time we have for our review section because now it's time for our 2021 wrap-up. This is our most 2021 story of 2021. 2021 has seen the return of both the Matrix and the Taliban. So in many ways, 2021 is actually 1999.

James, what is your most 2021 story? I have not seen Matrix. Was it Resurrection? But I'm going to see it based off the sheer amount of bad reviews from dude bros that i'm seeing online i love the just the concept of matrix that the directors they came back and they just got their property and all of their pop culture terms after 20 years of watching it just get morphed into more and more bigotry and they've just apparently made a movie which part of the reason it's bad is because they just really clear

cut spend the first third of it going that's not what this meant and i don't know if that's good art or good cinematography but i love an artist going no and just spending a third of a film just pointing at its fan base and going no that's not what that means. No, here are three pictures of a horse that illustrate why food is art. Yes. And, in fact, Keanu Reeves and Carrie Ann Moss signed off on that. And they were just like, we absolutely want to make this film where you just tell off your fan base. And I think more artists should be encouraged,

especially the older ones, should be encouraged to just come back and make new work that sets their fan base straight. George Lucas, you get a pass. You can get someone else to come back. He can get someone else to come back and make. It's maybe the guy who did Dune. If you're listening to this and you want to tell me your most 2021 story, tell us at HelloGogglers, whether it's Jorts the Cat

or the massive new bird flu outbreak, or Turkey, where the missing man joined a search party for himself, and then was immensely embarrassed and told the police not to tell his dad. Ride into us and let us know what your most 2021 story was. Sami, what was your most 2021 story? It was the fact that at some point in this year, the US government, basically the CIA, publicly released thousands of pages of documents about UFOs and how they have no idea what they are, how even they're completely mystified, how they've been spotting these UFOs for years. And now, very recently, we've seen a story about NASA hiring theologians for next year in 2022 to basically study how people will react to them. You know, the public react if alien contact was something that we made available to the public as a thing we've experienced. And this isn't me being conspiratorial. This is just on The Washington Post, The New York Times front page stories that no one cares about.

No one remembers. 2021 has been the kind of year Melbourne had an earthquake and Melbournians have to be reminded of the fact that our buildings all shook so violently. We all thought we were going to die briefly. relentless blow after relentless blow after relentless blow to the fact that to the point that the CIA is saying there are UFOs that we don't know what the they are and can someone help us figure this out and all of us are like yeah it's fine I can't leave my house right now I'm so tired of this it's just basically been uh it's the ultimate 2021 story the weirdest shit happening and the rest of the world basically going I don't have time for this right now can you push this to 2022 maybe and that is the end of the show about that's also the end of 2021 that's the end of the first year of the gargle thank you for listening and please tune in next year which will also be

next week i'm signing off now before i do have you got anything to plug james no kise just my mental health podcast, which has finished, but is still up. It's called In Fry Chicken in the Shower, and I keep getting messages from people, especially over Christmas, saying, thanks for the episodes. And I'm like, oh yeah, that thing's still there. So you can find it on iTunes,

or whatever you use. We'd like to say thank you to our roving reporter, Kyle, who sent us in the de facto story, which we used despite it being more than three years old. As a general rule, we tend not to use old stories, but this one was fun for us, so we did it anyway. And who cares? It's all in the past now. And as we know from the British police,

they don't investigate things that happened in the past. Is that a politics... Ring the politics bell, Ped. I'm going to let that one stand. Sami Shah, have you got anything to plug? I do indeed. Is that a politics? Ring the politics bell, Ped. I'm going to let that one stand. Sami Shah, have you got anything to plug? I do indeed. I have a podcast called News Weekly that's spelled W-E-A-K-L-Y. And it is a weekly news roundup, basically satirical podcast. And everyone listening to this is probably a fan of satirical news podcasts. So you might enjoy that. You don't need to pay attention to any of the headlines all week long if you listen news weekly every friday is my pitch um and so that's available and my patreon is patreon.com slash samisha samish where you can find recipes short

stories um you know novel excerpts and all kinds of other shenanigans that's brilliant as always i'm your host alice frazer find me online at patreon.com slash Alice Fraser or at Alliterative on Twitter and Instagram. Your editor is Ped Hunter. Your executive producer is Chris Skinner. This is an Alice Fraser and Bugle podcast production. I'll talk to you again next year. You can listen to other programs from the Bugle, including The Bugle, The Last Post, Tiny Revolutions and The Gargle, wherever you find your podcasts.