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It's like we do the shows and we're stoked and excited, and then the rest of the time it's like, I'm so tired. Do you see the TikTok I sent you? Yeah, that's great, man. It was a blast, though. Okay, enough of this shit.
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We got to talk about... We got some shit to discuss, man. We got some topical stuff, dude. What should we talk about first? Oh, dude, this is huge. This is massive, okay? Guys, I don't know if you guys have seen this, but this is official on the Golden Globes website, okay? Listen to this article, guys, the title of this article. Golden Globes Breaks Ground with New Podcast Award.
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I guess I don't have one. But isn't that crazy? I can just make one. Guys. Podcasts can now win a Golden Globe. Meaning... I and this podcast, we can win a golden globe. Okay? I never used to have a goal with this podcast. Usually it was just like, I'm just going to have fun on here, shoot the shit for a bit, talk about some weird stuff that's going on. But now I have a goal in mind.
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So that'll be the, pretty much the entirety of the bonus episode. But, um, yeah. Uh, other than that, Guys, I have some shows coming up. I just announced some shows in the States, okay? The reason there wasn't an episode for so long because I just did, I think, I'm trying to remember the number, I think a million shows in Europe and UK. There's exactly one million shows.
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I need to win a Golden Globe. Even to just be nominated? Dude, that'll get me a Golden Globe right there. Let's read this. Okay. Cause this is insane. The golden globes is adding a new category to its award slate, honoring the best podcast of the year.
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This new annual category debuting as part of the annual, uh, as part of the 83rd annual event on Sunday, January 11th, 2026 is a landmark inclusion for the golden globes by recognizing extraordinary and diverse talents in podcasting. Shut up, dude. The medium has experienced seismic growth. Yeah. Yeah. Blah, blah, blah. Um, Okay, what else?
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As the world of entertainment continues to evolve, we are excited to recognize new forms of storytelling, said Golden Globes president Helen Hone. Podcasts have emerged as a profound medium for sharing narratives and building communities across global generations. Okay, the top 25 podcasts will qualify for the award with a total of six final nominations for the category.
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Comprehensive eligibility criteria. Additional details of what best podcasts will be announced in the coming weeks. Okay. So I need to make sure that my podcast is in the top 25 in the world. That's pretty... That is a little difficult. But... Dude, as if, dude. Because what are the other categories of the Golden Globes? Dude. You're telling me...
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The Brutalist. You know, A Real Pain, Anora, Challengers, Substance, The Substance, Wicked... Inside Out 2, like, you're telling me all of those can have an award, and then also, like, like fucking Theo Vaughn sitting down being like, so, Trump, you're kind of like a cool guy. That's like the, that's the same shit? It is, that, truthfully, as funny and hilarious as it would be to, uh,
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to win a golden globe for a podcast. Cause you can't like genuinely. And look, I know a lot of people, podcasts are true. You know, a lot of people work for a shut up, but like also at the same time, you can't like, I can't picture someone taking that seriously. You know what I mean? If you take that award seriously, you're like, you're a fucking dork. I think. Right. That's fucking weird.
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Hey guys, welcome back to the Very Really Good Podcast, everybody. This is episode 270. I am back in my studio, man. We're back. We're so back, it's insane. A lot of people said, I saw some articles online from people being like, oh, he's never coming back, it's never back, there's never a time where he's going to say we're back, but we're back, okay? I'm more back than a friggin'...
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Cause that's not the same. You know how many people it takes to, like, make a film? Like, just actors, writers, editors, like, crew. Like, there's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people creating, like, new stories and stuff. And podcasts are like, so, you ever, like, shit on your balls sometimes? Yeah. Yes, one time I got poop on my balls, and then I came about it. I came on my poop balls.
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And I'll talk about that in a second. But U.S., these are the rest of the U.S. states. Guys, these are the last... dates the last u.s dates of the goodfellow world tour okay um this is it if you live in the states and you want to see the goodfellow world tour if you want to see this hour live this is the last chance okay um And these are the last U.S. states I'm doing on this tour.
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And then if someone said that, and then they're like, thank you so much for the Golden Globe. Yeah, it's a labor of love. It really is. You know? You shouldn't seriously be proud of a Golden Globe if you win it for a podcast, right? And there's probably some exceptions that people are going to tell me. But in my head, podcasts are just... I'm just thinking about comedy podcasts especially.
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It's just dudes who are farting around, you know? But I, that being said, Golden Globes, if you're watching, I'll take a nomination, right? I'd love to be golden. I would love for this to be a Golden Globe nominated, um, podcast. I think that'd be great. That's, it'd be a bad idea to make, to let them give speeches though. Um, Because that would go on for a while.
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Giving a podcaster a chance to give an acceptance speech. You go up to the microphone and be like, yeah, do you have a chair I can sit in and one of these mics I can move so I can hold on to the mic every two seconds and adjust it? Is that okay? Okay. Yeah, all right. Well, yeah, thank you so much for the Golden Globe. I really appreciate it.
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First off, I'm winning another Golden Globe on my Patreon. And you can see my full acceptance speech on my Patreon. And yeah, this episode is sponsored by ZocDoc, man. Yeah, that's every... Every, that's going to be every podcast Golden Globe winner. This episode of Very Really Good is sponsored by ZocDoc. Folks, it's Mental Health Awareness Month and your mental health is important.
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The first therapist I ever went to, I mean, I'm sure she's great at her job, but just personally just wasn't for me. This wasn't a good fit. You know, if I have a therapist, I would want someone who I feel comfortable talking to, you know, maybe even like joking with and stuff.
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Salt Lake City, Denver, Phoenix, Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Nashville, Indianapolis, Columbus, Cleveland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia. Okay? Okay. So those are all the dates. All those tickets are available now. Tickets are frigging... They're flying, dude. They're like frigging hotcakes, man.
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But yeah, dude, I need your help, guys, okay? When it comes down to like, you know, Golden Globe nominations, I'm gonna need your support, okay? When it comes to crunch time, I don't know when they pick, but when I have a firm idea of when crunch time is, we need to work together, okay? We need to get this podcast into the top 25, all right? Because Papa need a golden globe, all right?
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Papa was a golden globe. Um... All right, what else can we talk about? Man, I got two topics. One main one. Oh, man, there's actually a lot. What else is going on, dude? Oh, there's a new pope. Speaking of conclave, there's a new pope. Yeah, he's from Chicago. We got a Chicago pope now, dude. And that's pretty cool, right? It's so strange...
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It's so, because popes to me are just, like, these, like, I don't, they seem like from another time, you know? They seem like they should be from, like, a thousand B.C. or something. And they're just here now being like, yeah, so God actually told me to say this. So the fact that, like, there's a pope from Chicago, you know, seems a little...
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Seems like I feel like a Pope should never have like driven on a highway or something. You know what I mean? It's like when you see like an actor in like a period piece and you're like, well, you have like lip filler. So it like looks, you know, it just like looks a little off, right? It's the same thing. Like a Pope from Chicago is giving that, you know, it's like, well, you were like,
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You've had like deep dish pizza. You've had a pope. He should survive on gruel or something, right? Not fucking Portillo's hot dogs. You know what I mean? Like St. Patrick's Day at the Vatican? What's that going to be like? Drinking all the freaking blood of Christ? Man, there's going to be no blood left. Jesus is going to be a fucking husk because they do suck the blood out of him.
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He's in the Vatican. Jesus. And they suck the blood out of them. So look out, man. Um, cause they, you know, they turn the river green and shit in Chicago. Um, not saying everyone in Chicago is Irish, but that is like a thing they do. That's the first thing I thought of in Chicago. Um, Yeah, it's interesting to think about, like, an American pope, you know?
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Because I didn't even think that was allowed. I truly didn't know that was, like, a thing that could happen, right? Because in my head, because now I'm thinking, like, well, what else? What other options are there, right? Because imagine, like, a... Because, like, this pope now is like, hey, fucking Chicago. We got to go down to fucking... Wrigley Stadium. Is that in Chicago?
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I fucking, I don't know. But, like, think about other, like, American popes, you know? What if there was, like, a pope from, like, Orange County? Yo, dude, like, fucking... Yo, God just hit my line, dude. He said, y'all gotta fucking chill out, man. Y'all being fucking crazy, man. Long-haired, fucking chill surfer bro pope. Yo, bro. God, why are you fucking me with that?
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Yo, yeah, like, fuck him. What's up? Dude, him in the box in the, like, the parade, the Pope parade. What's good? What's up, fools? You know what up? He's got a bong in there and shit. Holy water in the bong.
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They're the hottest cakes you've ever seen. Don't touch them. Don't. Yeah, you should go to my website. You can buy them there. Dude... When I was... I remember... I don't know if anyone who's similar to my age will remember this, but, dude, I used to have to go buy tickets to stuff. I used to have to go to the mall. I used to have to go to a jean machine.
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Got too high. Or what if there was, like, a Dude, can there be a Toronto Pope? Dude. Yo. Dude, a Toronto. A Toronto Pope. The funny thing is, I don't even know what Popes do, so I can't really do an impression. But they're just like, Yo, fam. The devil's cheesy me, dog. The devil's a waste, man. Yo, you left... What's that Toronto girl say? I forget the fucking quote. We need a Toronto Pope.
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So bad. Or a small-town Ontario Pope. Fuck, man. It's so funny to think about that. So I think... I'm actually okay, but now that I've come full circle, I'm okay with an American Pope. Or a North American Pope. Just a North American Pope is very funny. Um... What if instead of Pope, it was called poop? I'm asking the real questions on here, and that's why we're going to win a Golden Globe.
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Fuck, what am I at? Because we got one more killer topic to talk about. Yeah, fuck it. Okay. Folks, let's change the subject really quick. Okay, so a couple episodes ago, we talked about the book talk bullies, okay? They're like these dudes. They're at like a book talk meetup or something, a book talk convention or something. And they were wearing wings, and they were growling.
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That's funny. So that's what we made. And I was goofing on a little bit. The one dude actually responded, and it seemed like he was pretty butthurt. I did feel bad for a second, but then I was like, never mind. But this story relates to this, okay? This is like four incredible stories rolled into one, dude. It's like perfect. All right, so let's learn about this.
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Okay, this is the title of this article. We're going to go through it. A fantasy ball... Actually, you know what? No, sorry. I'm a terrible... I'm very rusty. I'm sorry. We're going to watch the TikTok about this first because... It gives you a nice summary. Let me just record my screen here. Okay. When you're going to a bookish fantasy theme ball, and this is what you get. Dude. Just nothing.
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The store called Jean Machine at Lime Ridge Mall in Hamilton, Ontario. There is a store called Jean Machine. I don't know if it's still there. They sold jeans. They were kind of the jean machine, if you will. Um... I don't think they actually created the jeans there. The word machine kind of implies that there's a jean factory in there. But no, it's a jean machine.
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There's nothing there. There's like some petals. Oops. Hold on. Yeah, there's, like, some petals on the table and, like, some books. And, like, they're just in, like, an empty room. Dude, so funny. So, and then there's an article about this that we're going to find out more about this. So, these authors were sold a Romantasy convention. Instead, they got the Fire Festival of the Book World.
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A fantasy ball in a barren gray convention hall. No chairs for a panel inside a disastrous Romantasy event. Okay, this composite image shows footage from three TikTok videos of the A Million Lives Book Festival, a Baltimore, Maryland book convention garnering comparisons to Fyre Fest after attendees reported no decoration for a $250 fantasy ball.
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No DJ and audience members having to sit on the ground for a panel. Holy fuck. Okay, imagine getting dressed up in your finest for a fantasy-themed ball, only to find yourself standing on the concrete floor of a massive, nearly empty convention hall, decorated only with a few rose petals. Yeah, it's like, at that point, don't even do the rose petals, you know? That just, like, makes it worse.
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Because it's like, that's all? That's all you really did? It's honestly more respectful if you're just like, fuck it, none of that. Welcome to a Million Lives Book Festival. What was billed as a romantic book talk convention for indie authors and book fans is now being compared to infamous event flops like Fire Festival and DashCon.
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Dude, okay, I want to look up like their... I kind of want to look up their like advertising for it. Okay. People are already making YouTubes. YouTubes about it. I just said YouTubes, man. I generally just said YouTubes. Baltimore, Maryland, May 2nd to 3rd. Who's the fucking crazy assholes who made this? Archer Fantasy Events.
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Hello, Baltimore. Hello, Baltimore, bro. Bro, you're not in hairspray. Bro is not in hairspray. You get it? Okay, yeah. I'm trying to find what they're actually advertising. They post so fucking much about it, dude.
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Okay. Are you looking for the perfect gift? This is from the official Archer Fantasy events. This is from the official post. Are you looking for the perfect gift for the book lovers in your life? Get them tickets to a Million Lives book festival. Discover a world of books. Meet your favorite authors. And grow your bookish community.
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Whether you're a bookworm, a book dragon, what the fuck, or simply looking for a fun event. Hold up. Pause. Okay. Yeah, they had the right idea. Now back to the article here.
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Some authors say they're out thousands of dollars after carting books and merchandise to Baltimore, Maryland for the event, which was held May 2nd to 3rd at the Baltimore Convention Center and not being able to recoup the costs. Yeah, VIP tickets at $250 each? That's insane. That's insane. Percy Jay, who writes romance and fantasy books, called it the Willy Wonka experience, but with books.
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Yeah, true. I forgot about that. Fuck. Yeah, this is like the Willy Wonka one, but instead of families, it's just book talk people. And I gotta imagine book talk people got a... They probably had their expectations way higher because they said they used AI pictures to advertise it to make it seem cooler than it's going to be, right? Which is just always cool.
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And also, you could buy tickets to concerts there. I only did it one time. But I went to, I walked into the jean machine, and then I remember the girl working was like, hey, do you need any help? I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm just here to buy concert tickets. She was like, oh, yeah, yeah, just go to the counter over there.
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Very pro-book, very pro-artist and author. I'm not finding any proof of that really, but... Also, what the fuck is up with these fucking book titles, man? A cord of thorns and rose, a storm of mist and monsters, a hole of poop and pee, a helmet of betrayal and deceit.
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But, like, still, it's like... Like, I've seen... I've been to, like, card shows that look like this. Like, trading card shows. Or, like, sports card shows that are just, like, just tables of... But, like, dudes... The dudes at those events, they don't give a fuck about what it looks like. They just care about, like, what's there. You know? Because, also, card shows are the...
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One, stinkiest dudes ever. Guys that are just like farting and they're like 65 years old and it's like, I have that one. Is that a Sidney Crosby card? I have that one, but it's better and it's at my house. It's like, okay.
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So, and they don't really care, but like this, I mean, if you're a book talk person, you know, if you're, you know, I mean, if you're especially sold this, like you advertise this like really cool event, you know, it's just like, and then you show up to this and it's like, oh, it's just like, this is a big, weird bookstore, you know? Um, I flew out for this.
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The author who is from Texas said, I planned my pregnancy around this event like a clown. Oh, no. You planned your pregnancy around this?
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I've never seen a pregnant clown. So what the hell are you talking about? You know why you never see a pregnant clown? Because they've always got rubbers on them. It was a balloon joke, but also a condom joke. Yeah, how do you plan your pregnancy around this? You're getting busy with your husband, and he's about to, you know, he's about to friggin' pee out of his balls into you.
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And then you're like, wait, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't, don't, don't, don't. The convention. He's like, oh, yeah, sorry. Sorry. All right, organize your apologies for events issues. Grace Willows, the organizer behind Archer Management, posted a video statement through her event planning company's TikTok page on the weekend, apologizing for the ball being not set up to standards.
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Ooh, let's see that. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
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All right, she kind of just said, like, the most basic shit you could have said. I mean, there's nothing else to say, really, but I don't know. We take full responsibility for the way that AML was handled. The latest statement reads, with a remix of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit playing in the background. What the fuck? We are doing refunds for every attendee, author, and vendor.
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And then... Yeah, because I feel like... I guess that was before there was, like, online shit. Like, I think you could order, like, tickets online, but, like, you could still go to a physical store and do it. So I went to the counter, and I was like, hey, could I buy two tickets? Like, it's a box office, dude. She's, like, folding jeans, and I'm like, hey, can I... Can I buy a concert ticket?
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Yeah, like, what did they expect was gonna happen? And what's there to do? Well, I am genuinely curious what there is to do at a book...
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convention you all just like no i guess you could talk about you could talk about the books right but to me it's just like you're gonna go there and like read or something right but now i'm picturing because i'm reading uh i'm actually reading the stormlight archive right now i'm on book three i'm reading oathbringer i just started oathbringer uh this morning actually
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And if I was going to a convention specifically for the Stormlight Archive, I'm like, yeah, maybe I could go there and buy some fan art or something if I wanted to. It'd be cool to hear the authors, I guess, but it's just like, what else? You know? You're just buying books. You could just go anywhere for that, really. But I don't know.
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Maybe because they're, you just need to, I think they just needed to up the pedal budget. You know what I mean? Because what I'm seeing on here, what I'm seeing on the table is like, there's like one rose pedal and then like six inches in between and then another rose pedal. If this place was covered in rose pedals, I feel like they would have been fine.
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I feel like everyone would have been like, oh, pretty cool, you know? Looks pretty colorful, you know? They kind of fucked up, man. They went overboard on their table and chairs budget. Could have more rose petals, man. Issues range from panels starting late to authors not being given badges and the promised swag bags not being delivered. Man. That sucks.
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Also, I don't know how much swag is really going on at this book talk convention.
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Got him. One panel on audiobooks took place with panelists and attendees all seated on the carpet. There were no chairs designated for the panel. Nice. Well, that's fine. Sit crisscross applesauce. Nothing wrong with that, right? More than 100 authors, vendors, and audiobook narrators were listed as attending on Archer Manor's websites. Authors paid a $150 US table fee. Dang. Dang.
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That's a lot of money. I'm going to check my math here. 100 times 150 is 15 grand. So you're making 15 grand from just the authors.
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Okay. Tickets for attendees range from $50 to $250, with only the priciest tier providing entrance to the Fantasy Ball. Only around 30 people came through the vendor hall on the first day. Oof. And while the first day was exclusive to VIP ticket holders, the second day wasn't much busier. USA Mount 80 guests showed up.
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The promised content creation room was an empty conference room and closed on Saturday. That's so funny. But the biggest disappointment for attendees was the fantasy ball. I've got a fantasy ball right here for you. Attendees found themselves stranded in a massive gray room, barren except for a few long tables with fake rolls, pedals scattered on top.
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There was a cash bar, a small table with desserts, and a single Bluetooth speaker propped on a chair to play music. Holy fuck, that's so funny. I wish I went to this, man. Like a fucking house party. No, I've seen house parties with better sound systems than that, dude. People showed up, dressed to impress, tried to make the best of it. Oh, man. Oh, no.
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And she's like, yeah, absolutely. She was wearing her casual outfit. She had to like duck down behind the counter. She changed into like a box office uniform. She popped back up and was like, yeah, how many tickets you need? Uh, I was like, I need two tickets to, uh, is it Licky Lee or likey Lee? How do you, how do you fucking say your name? I don't know. Licky Lee. Um, I need two tickets to her.
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Okay, this person said she was invited 18 months ago as a featured author for the event. So it was in the works for 18 months? And that's all you could do? The organizer promised to put these authors up at a nearby Hilton Hotel, but said this was changed just days before the event to the days in across the street. Oh, my God, dude.
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I feel so bad for the authors, man, and the people who bought tickets to go to this, but... Um... The popularity of the romantic-y sub-genre along with online communities like BookTok has meant more of these conventions cropping up to provide opportunities for indie authors to meet their peers and readers in person.
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Authors have to print their own books in the hopes that they'll make enough sales to make it worth it. Yeah, damn. Yeah, they don't have the resources of, like, being, you know, having a publisher and stuff if they're just independent.
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So if these authors are promised this, like, convention where tons of people are going to come that are fans of that genre, you know, then they're just fucking... It not only fucks over the people who brought tickets, but the people who are, like, trying to make a living with their artwork, you know? Sales were minimal for authors like Caitlin Burkhardt, who published under the name C.A.
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Burkhardt. We did bring physical copies to this event, and we did not sell much of anything. Only days earlier, she had been excitedly posting the time she would be signing books during the event. But the festival kept at least one promise, fostering friendships. Authors have since banded together to boost the work of their peers who tabled the event.
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I just wish it was a meet-up and not a paid thing that we all lost money on. Yeah, damn, dude. That just goes to show you, man. You gotta do your friggin' research...
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Um, if you go to a, a book, the, the book, a book convention or any convention really, cause it's crazy how you can just, um, anyone can just do like host one of these and everyone's like, yeah, I'm doing a, a convention and you can buy tickets. Like anyone can just do that, which is pretty wild. Um,
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But also at the same time, anybody can start a podcast, and now you can get a Golden Globe for that. So it's a crazy time we're living in, man. And I can't wait to accept my Golden Globe. Tears streaming down my face. Yeah, it's going to be a good day. But guys, you know what? I think that'll wrap it up. Thank you so much for tuning in. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Very good to be back.
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And if you want more, very, really good, check on out the very, really good Patreon, okay? I'm recording a bonus episode literally right now after this is done. So, yeah, go check it out. Like and comment all that bullshit. Subscribe. And I will see you on the next one. Peace.
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Cause that was like, uh, those were like a birthday gift for my like high school girlfriend. Um, and, uh, yeah, she was like, yeah, no problem. And then I just like handle, I just, and take a dude. I remember tickets $20 each. insane. 20 bucks. I was like, okay, there's two twenties. There's fast $40 for you. Here you go. Uh, give me my change.
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You know, I, I didn't say keep the change cause I stopped, you know, and then, um, keep the change in my hand, put it there and keep it there. And then, uh, yeah, she gave me my tickets and I walked out of the gene machine. Isn't that pretty crazy guys? Is that the craziest fucking story I've ever heard in your life? Isn't it? No, man. I'm rusty, dude.
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It's been a while since I've done this podcast. But now you don't have to do that. You don't have to go to Gene Machine to buy tickets for my show. You can just go to McCurtisConner.com, click on this fucking city you want to go to, and it brings you to the site. You click on it, you put a couple taps, and you're in. All right? So, yeah.
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Those aren't the last dates of the Goodfellow World Tour, though, okay? There's a lot of, you know... there's one obvious place that I have not gone to yet. And, um, I'm, I'm going there. I'm up. Yeah. I'm yeah. Okay. Uh, I don't know if I'm, I never know what I'm allowed to say. I remember people on my, like my team were like, don't, don't get say it.
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But it's like, well, why am I going to get fucking assassinated in my podcast studio? Uh, If I say, oh, I'm going to this country, a little red dot appears on my head and it goes, that'd be stupid because then I wouldn't be able to do the shows. But yeah, shout out UK and Europe, man. Shit was goaded, man. I loved it, man.
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Shout out to everybody who came to the shows all over UK and the EU and the European Union. Everybody was sick, man. It was awesome. I ate so much food. I think I gained like fucking 20 pounds on this tour. But you know what? I don't care. Because the food fucking tastes so good over there, dude. London shows. We did fucking four shows in London. Brighton. Yo. Brighton's cool as fuck.
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Then Australia, dude. Because they got the outback. Yeah, dude. I'm back, dude. I would like to apologize. First and foremost to the very, really good Patreon. It's, uh, I was on tour and it was very hard to do bonus episodes, but I'm recording one today and I'm sorry, and it'll be up at this. It'll be up. Okay.
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I love that city. That was cool. I only had like... maybe two hours to enjoy the city. But, um, I, I liked those two hours a lot. It's kind of, it's kind of, it's, it's good and bad to have in like my tour schedule. Cause I had like zero time to see all the cities, you know, we, uh, especially on this tour, we'd like, do the show somewhere, go to bed, wake up, airport, fly to the next city.
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We'd have, like, maybe two hours to see it and then do the show. It was just a lot, so we didn't really have time to see the city, but at the same time, the less time you have in a city, the less time it has to, like, give you, like, a bad time, you know? Like... It's pretty easy because I can kill it. Two hours is pretty easy to kill. I nail that every time.
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If you give me a couple days somewhere in the city, I can find stuff that I don't like about it. Everything was beautiful, man. Helsinki was sick. We got picked up in Finland. just how culturally different it is, is really interesting. We got picked up in Finland by this sweet driver.
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I forget her name, but she was like, yeah, Finland, if nobody looks at you or talks to you, if they like ignore you, don't, don't worry about it. Like that's just like a culture that that's, that's us being nice to you. Cause we don't like people. We don't like being bothered. We don't like being talked to. And I was like, bro, I got to move to Finland, man.
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That sounds like the fucking dream, dude. Everyone just leave me alone. I can just walk around and you can just not talk to anybody or look at anybody. That's actually fucking awesome. So Finland, you got to figure it out. Oslo, beautiful city. Man, I'm sorry if I skip a city, but there's just so many and they're all beautiful in their own way. I will say Copenhagen.
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Probably the coolest city I've ever been to. Really fucking sick. I loved Copenhagen. Really, really awesome. Just beautiful. It's so walkable and everything was, everyone was happy. Food was awesome. It was gorgeous, man. Yeah. Obviously, I turned 30, and guys, I turned 31. I turned 31. Hold on. Where's the, Where's a good sound effect for this? I turned 31. Okay, we'll do this one. Oh, yeah.
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Yeah, that was me when I turned 31, dude. I did a show on my birthday. May 4th in Paris. Turned 31 in Paris, dude, and it was awesome, man. It was sick. And the cool thing about Paris is you can, like, smoke cigarettes, and it's, like, fine. It doesn't, like, affect your body or your lungs. Like, it's kind of like a wash thing.
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You know, that's like the one part of the earth where you can smoke darts all night, and it's like fine. So that's what I did, man. I had like a bunch of beer, champagne, and I just ripped darts. We did karaoke. Dude, it was so fun. So yeah, I'm 31 now, 31 years old, and that show was sick.
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The funniest... Okay, one of the funny... I do have a funny little story that is just very... We did two Berlin shows, okay? Two shows in Berlin. Same night, two shows. First show, it was fun, right? It was fun, but I felt... I was like, energy is a little low. I feel like... Do people hate me or something? So I just felt a little weird after it. And the second one was even more low energy.
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I'm recording one after this episode, after I'm done this one, I'm doing, I'm doing two episodes back to back this one and then we're doing a bonus one. Okay. So if you guys want to, if you guys finish listening to this episode and you're like, dang, I want to have one more episode to listen to check out patreon.com slash very, really good. Um, it's, uh, it's so much fun over there.
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I was like, what people... I think I'm bombing right now. This is not good. There was one part of the show where I had to be like, guys, what's going on? I had to sort of drop the act and be like, guys, what's up? So I left the stage after the Berlin shows and I was like, they hate me. They don't, nobody likes me. This, I just bombed. I, and I felt so bad.
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And then it was so funny cause I was in the green room after just like feeling so bad talking to, talking about it with Jacob. And then while I was like complaining, you just like not complaining really just being like, I just don't know. I like, did I, maybe I did gave off like a bad energy.
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Was I being weird or, you know, um, while I was saying that the live nation representative in Berlin, he like walked into the green room and was like, guys, I've never seen a crowd so excited that they were, I've never seen a crowd here. Like get so excited for someone. I was like, bro, what, who was in a different theater? What are you talking about? Right.
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And I was like, Oh, I didn't, I don't know. I thought they like hated me. He was like, no, that's like, I guess he was like, that's just like what German people are like. And I was like, Oh, okay, cool. Um, so that was, that was really funny. Um, But yeah, dude, it was a blast. Thank you. Everybody came to the shows. It was, uh, it was awesome, man. Um, but now I'm back, dude, back home.
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It feels good. Um, I've been scripting ever since I got home. Cause I, you know, I, I got the itch, man. I got the, I got the itch. I got like three videos up here. That's just been burning fucking holes in my brain that I got to make. And, uh,
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And that's how I know they're, and then I'm excited for, and I know that they're going to be, you know, half decent because those are the, it's just when an idea is in your head and you can't stop thinking about it for weeks, it's like, okay, it's got to be, it's got to have something, right? You know? So, yeah, I'm really excited to get to work on those. Yeah, man. Fuck.
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But, yeah, I'm exhausted, man. That was a lot of travel. That was a lot. We did two shows in Dublin. I got home. Sorry, I got to the hotel at like maybe two. 2 in the morning. And then I had to get up at like 4 in the morning because we had a 6 a.m. flight.
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I guess if they're all being so loud and annoying and they didn't know how to do anything and I had to wait in line but then we took too long so they had to rush up to the front. And then we had to get into the terminal. Oh, my God. Oh, my God, guys.
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There's like, dude, there's like what? Like 50, 50 frigging episodes on there, man. Uh, so yeah, you get access to all those and it's a good time, man. Um, we got on the bonus episode, we're doing a, uh, a deep dive, if you will. We're doing a, an investigation into Russell Hartley again, because he, there's some interesting developments with Russell Hartley and we need to talk about it.
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They said, boarding... The ticket on the flight... The ticket on... Sorry, the ticket that they gave us for our flight, after we checked our bags, it says...
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boarding ends at like it was like fucking like 6 15 or something so we were like fuck it was like 6 10 so we were like fuck we gotta run sprinting we're all fucking sprinting right at beth at beth at beth through this fucking dublin airport and uh we finally get to our gate and And it's like, oh, no, you got to take a bus now. And guys, isn't that just the best?
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Oh, man, there's no greater feeling than running to a gate and being like, oh, man, we finally made it. And they go, oh, no, it's a bus, actually. You have to take a bus. Hey. Hey. I only want to take a plane. If I get to the airport, I'm only taking a plane. Okay. Don't make me take a fucking bus somewhere. Don't put me on a fucking train. Oh no, you're here, but you got to take a train to other.
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Okay. Why have it all in one place? You know, if I wanted to take a bus, I would have taken a bus somewhere. Okay. I'm at the airport. That's for planes. But then finally, okay, fuck it. Whatever. Let's get on the bus. We're like, I'm stressed the whole time, but we finally make it. We get on the plane.
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And then like, guys, for another 30 minutes, people are just like walking, like moseying onto the plane, like taking their sweet ass time. And I'm like, and it's like well past when the boarding ends. So I was like, what is that? What is that for? You lied to me. You gas lit us so we can sprint through the fucking airport.
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But, yeah, the kids screamed the entire flight, and they were, like, throwing candy everywhere. And then when we landed, we had to wait two hours on the customs line. And then they lost Cash's bag. So that was a cool day. Yeah, man, tour life, brother. It's pretty glamorous, man. It's pretty glamorous. It's pretty glamorous.
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Dude, speaking of fucking... Speaking of the passage of time, I just got a Facebook memory. Dude, I hit a million subscribers on my main channel six years ago. The fuck, man? Where does the time go? Where does the time go? And... Yeah, it was 2019. And that was 2025. 2019 was six years ago. What the fuck? That's fucked up, man. But shout out. Thanks, everybody, for the support. Appreciate it.
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It's important for those who are spending seven hours per day on their screens to go touch grass, a popular internet slang term that means participating in activities. Yeah, yeah, we know that. Touch grass, go outside, get away from the internet, right? So now there's an app that will literally make you touch grass before you can scroll again.
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The viral app called Touch Grass, of course, will ask you to select two apps that you find to be the most distracting or the most time-consuming, and the app will block them. The only way to unlock your apps is to take a picture of yourself outside, literally touching grass, and uploading it to Touch Grass. You'll then be able to choose how much time you have on each app. Okay.
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So I have a few questions, like how does it know if you're actually touching grass, right? Okay, Touch Grass... Oh, it launched fucking today? No, last week. The app is free, though upgrading will cost $6 per month. That's fucking insane to spend that. Okay, so you can touch it with your hands.
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Because this picture, I was like, okay, this is 100% a ploy to get people's fucking feed pictures, right? You've got to literally touch your eyes. Yeah, if you want to keep using your phone... Just go outside and take a picture of your bare feet in the grass. And then I'll unlock your phone. Good boy. Good boy. Because that would be a genius way.
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If you're trying to, you know... If you're trying to collect as many... As many fucking... you know, feet pics as you can for whatever reason, nefarious or otherwise, that'd be the way to do it, right? That'd be the way to do it. Yeah, touch grass. And like, how does it know? Is it just like with AI or something? Because what if it's just like a dude?
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What if it's just like a dude who gets sent a bunch of pictures and he's like, yep, you're touching grass. Yep. And then there's people who are, like, some guy who, like, dug a hole, who, like, drilled a hole in the ground and, like, stuck his wiener in. A video of him, like, frigging, like, fucking the ground, right? Sends it in. He's like, yep.
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He's like, why are you making direct eye contact with the camera? You get a sick, you get, like, are you get, is this, like, doing something for you? Why is he saying, yeah, can I touch grass now? Dipping his balls into the earth.
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Can I scroll on threads now? It's like, why threads? Who uses threads that much? That poor bastard. That'd be the worst job ever. Like, yeah, you're touching grass, dude. Yeah, got it. It's like, no, that's a picture of you shitting on the ground. I don't know if that counts. Yeah, I just thought that was a little silly. And yeah, so go send your feet pics to that guy.
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Dude, my eye keeps fucking twitching, man. What the fuck? Ever since Australia, man. It's like once a day, my eye is just like. Oliver, Oliver. It's just like fucking twitching like crazy, dude. And it's like, okay, yeah, some days I'll have a lot of caffeine, that's probably why, but some days I won't have that much and I'll drink a bunch of water and still.
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Okay. Okay, we got, dude. We've got a lot of TikTok cringe, man. And I'm going to call it Pootube. I'm going to call it Pootube, okay? This is, actually, you know what? No, this will be shitty TikTok of the week. And we got a few of them.
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What's up, guys? Welcome back to the podcast. This is an episode of the podcast. I believe this is episode 268, all right? We got a lot of stuff to talk about. Dude, I'm here two weeks in a row, man. Sorry, I just had a smoothie. I'm getting a bunch of pieces of shit in my mouth. Two weeks in a row, man. Okay. Okay, consistency. Okay, King. Go off with the consistency, dude.
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okay we got tiktok cringe man get this fucking laptop out of my life um oh yeah also guys there's i think i mentioned this on the last episode but if there's probably not going to be a main channel video for a uh a while probably another month because uh
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So I'm going to try to do one tour, like one leg of a tour where I don't have to worry about a main channel video. And I'm going to see how it goes. And I'll update you because maybe it'll be bad. Maybe I'll be like stressed out the whole time. Who knows?
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I swear I downloaded more of them, dude. Oh, yeah, here we go. Okay, this is a classic, the bottomless well of fucking YouTube content, but we got some alpha male content to talk about today because we found, Sean and I, my podcast producer and I, we found a bunch. And there were some really, really good ones. And alpha males, dude, they're just so silly.
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Guys. Okay. recommendations. Okay. This is what I do in my podcast. Now I recommend some media. Okay. Cause I did that. I did that recently. I recommended the Mistborn trilogy. A lot of people were freaking out, you know, a lot of the brain and a lot of the brain and Sanderson fans are freaking out, you know, all those frigging nerds were freaking out, dude.
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It's such an interesting way to live your life. The only alpha male I fuck with is Alpha from Power Rangers, dude. That guy was a fucking alpha. Or was his name Beta? Was his name Alpha? Or Alpha Alpha? Alpha... Power Ranger. Is that his name? Yeah, his name is Alpha, dude. I know my shit. Go, go, Power Rangers. Okay. Let's watch this guy. Let's see.
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This one is about how to, you know, stay productive. Okay. Oh. I fucked up.
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Okay, so yeah. He's saying he overeats every single meal because it's more efficient, right? Because obviously, when everyone leaves their house to cook a meal, you have to leave...
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To cook, you have to go to the grocery store, buy everything, specifically the perfect amount for that meal, and then you come home, cook it, and then, you know, you get a couple hours of chill, and then you got to go to the grocery store again, buy everything, exact amount, food for lunch, come back, cook lunch, clean up everything, you know, then you get another few hours, then you got to do the same thing for dinner.
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You know, everybody has their valet, you know, you know, everybody. When you leave your house, you got to call the valet at your house.
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Him like partying in a limo. Seems like you're having a good time, dude. Going home. On the party bus. I have to take the party bus home? Like a fucking square?
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Facts. Yeah, he's cooking. I mean, he's not, but he's not cooking, but he's cooking. Dude, what a shit life, dude. Whatever happened to simple pleasures, man? There is nothing like cooking a meal that takes 45 minutes to cook. You sit down, you eat that shit in fucking four minutes tops, and then you do another fucking 15 minutes to clean it up. It's the best, dude. I love that shit. You know?
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Um, but I'm one of them now, dude, I'm fully locked in. Okay. I started, uh, I started reading, I started the stormlight archive. Okay. I'm reading the way of Kings right now. I'm about 250 pages in. And I like it. I like it so far, okay? It's pretty cool. Yeah, I just love a good friggin' fantasy novel, man. What can I say, dude? I have, like, no other desire to read anything else.
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Cooking? What? This is actually insane. Every time I do Uber Eats or anything, anytime I do food delivery, I feel like fucking shit after. I'm like, I'm such a, why'd I do that? I could have just fucking made food. I could have just cooked something. I have like so much food in my pantry, in the fridge. I have leftovers I could have had, but no.
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It's like, but then as soon as I'm, when I'm eating, I'm like, this is awesome. And then as soon as I'm done, I'm like, fucking why did I do that? Right? And he's just ordering chicken and steak from where? That's so, what a shit life, man. Efficiency. I need to be in my apartment looking at the stock market, okay? I can't be in the market. I can't be in the market market, okay?
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I need to be in the stock market. Trading stocks? Stocks of what? Stocks of corn? No. Stocks. Dude, that's crazy, man. Okay, there's also this other dude named Andy Elliott. And... Dude, I want to find this fucking video. There was like a convention... he put on like a convention where he like teaches people how to like sell stuff. And it's so cringe, man.
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The, uh, this was also the guy who was selling and this guy, Andy Elliot. Okay. I'll pull up a picture of him. Um, he was selling like a personal, like one-on-one coaching thing for like five grand. Um, Yeah, it's this guy. Hey, internet, let's load one picture, please. It's actually the year 2025. So let's get a picture up. Let's not have one fucking bar.
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Let's not have one bar of connectivity, if you don't mind, please. Oh, I'm about to fucking lose my marbles. Okay, well, you can kind of fucking see him here. He's, you know, he's fucking... And again, this is the thing. He always wears the shirt with his last name on the front. Elliot. Yeah, Elliot. Elliot. Elliot, Elliot, Elliot, Elliot, Elliot, Elliot, Elliot, Elliot.
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What is this fucking view that I'm... Okay. Um... I want to just see if there's any info on this Andy Elliott one-on-one. There we go. Yeah, Coach one-on-one with Andy Elliott. Let's see what... Holy shit. Okay, so this was like thousands of dollars for this. Coach one-on-one with Andy Elliott and his brotherhood inner circle. Andy Elliott takes personal mentorship very personally.
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If you're a psycho competitor... Psycho competitor, I'm fucking nuts. And are obsessed with getting to new levels. Andy Elliott would be the number one coach you would... Andy Elliott would be the number one coach you would pushing you, guaranteed. The fuck does that mean? Okay, have a personal relationship with Andy Elliott himself. Get close with God. That's crazy. That's a wild claim.
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Fitness, marriage, badass parent. Grow a massive income. Whoa, did you say massive? Massive? Unstoppable mindset. Build an army. Okay. What? Build a brand. Build a bear. Learn to earn seven, eight, nine figures a year. That's seven, eight, nine. That's seven, eight, or nine dollars a year, actually.
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And I think that's fine. I think there's nothing wrong with that. You know, limit your worldview. Sort of block out anything else that challenges you or makes you think differently than what you want to think about. And just focus on the things that you only think about. That's how you grow as a person. Okay? But I'm liking it so far. The book is thick as fuck, bro. It is thick as hell.
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A motivational speech. Like, you know, he's just like the typical fucking, like, sales alpha male, okay? And his videos that he posts are insane, dude. So let's watch, uh, let's watch them. Elliott Army meetings.
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Okay, so if you're just listening to this, there's a bunch of dudes standing on a table, and they're like, I will destroy my competition!
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And this is for sales. Some guys sell window cleaning. It's like, why are you fucking this amped up, dude? It's not like you're fucking... It's not like you're going to a war, dude. Some of you guys are selling fucking cars. Why are you freaking out?
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Like, what the fuck? Also, someone just walked by my door when I was yelling, I'm going to bomb it, so... Let's hope that fucking SWAT team doesn't show up here in a few seconds. Yeah, dude, it's crazy to, like, yell about this and be like, ah, all right.
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It's like fucking chill, man. Car salesman's very important, right? But, like, fucking relax a little bit. You know what I mean? Insane, dude. Like, you shouldn't even be that amped up if you're in the Army. Like, if you're about even, like, medieval times, you shouldn't even be that amped up to, like, run into battle.
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During a battle, that would have been way better if there was, like, that scene in Braveheart instead of him being like, Oh, my fucking God.
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Instead of that, if there was a guy like Michael Cera type dude who was like riding a horse like poorly at the front of the army and was like, guys, just try to be safe. I don't know. Just like trying to get hurt. All right. What's this next one? This one's great.
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Get out! Dude. If you don't have a six-pack... then you're not working for me. If you don't have a six-pack, brother, you're not getting hired. Imagine sitting down for a job interview and the guy was like, yeah, lift up your shirt, though.
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You got a washboard under there or not? Huh? Six-pack? Or bust, okay? And I'm going to bust. If you show me a six-pack. Dude, you can't do that. That's actually not allowed. You can't discriminate people for the lack of the six-pack. Yeah, that's a little crazy. Like, imagine the perfect candidate, but he just, like, didn't do abs. Right? He just, like, didn't work out his abs that much.
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it's like, I can't even like hold it with one hand. It was like fucking 1300 pages or some shit. And then I'm like, when I'm, when I start reading, I'm like, how could this be this long? And then I start reading. I'm like, uh, okay, this is actually too short. And then, um,
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Like, yeah, sorry, bro. You're cut. Yeah, this is an office full of fucking ripped dudes, okay? And you got to have your belly out all day. That is wild, dude. Okay, what else we got? This one's great.
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On the TV behind him, he's like, now look, who's that? And there's a girl, like, there's an old woman, like, crying. There's, like, she's got a fucking duct tape over her mouth and stuff. She's tied to a chair in, like, a basement. And she's, like, just freaked out. And he's, like, oh, my God, that's my mom. He's, like, yeah. I wasn't fucking bullshitting, man.
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On thin ice, dude. Go sell 100 solar panels or your mom's going to have a six-pack. What? What are you going to do to her? An extensive ab workout plan. Okay, it's not that big of a deal.
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That sucks, bro. If I was ever in like a fucking Uber, someone took the aux cord and started playing motivational shit, I'd grab the wheel, dude. I'd grab the wheel and fucking veer us off a cliff. Yo, bump that motivational speech for alphas. Put on motivational speech number five for alpha males. Dude, I'm fucking, I can't stop talking about this. This is going to be a long episode, dude.
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Yeah, it's just tough, though, because with Mistborn, with the Mistborn trilogy, you know, I was three books back to back to back. So I was like, I had that whole world and, like, religion and magic system, like, memorized, right? I was, like, in it. I was like, yeah, this is... this is what they use for that. And this is how that works.
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So fucking funny, bro. There's... Okay. For those of you who are listening, if you can't see this, Andy Elliott, our guy, he is... giving a speech. You know, he says, if it's not... He says, go look at your paycheck. If it's not at least 100 grand a month, you got work to do. And then it cuts to a picture of Andy Elliott sitting in an economy seat on an airplane.
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And you know it's him because he's wearing the shirt that says fucking Elliott on the front, dude. And that's super funny. And obviously... Nothing wrong with sitting in economy, right? That's like a normal, the most normal thing you can do.
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But if you're bragging, building your whole fucking online persona, being this rich fucking alpha dude who is making at least a hundred grand a month, you know, most of these dudes are always bragging about like flying private and shit. He'd at least be in first class, right? Even pre, maybe this could, this could be premium economy, right? With the pillows at the back. But still.
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If you're bragging that much. It's like. And then all the fucking like fanboys be like. No he's being smart with his money dude.
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That's so funny dude. This is your mom. Does she have a six pack? Every guy I work with. Every guy I hire. His mom has a six pack. His mom has glistening abs, perfect abs, and picturesque triceps. Okay? You've never seen a mom's traps this big. All my employees' moms have huge traps. Oh, that's so funny. Your moms better be buff as fuck. How much can your mom bench?
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It's someone handing, handing, handing up like a, a boss, your future boss, a resume. He goes, Oh, this is a cool resume. Harvard. Cool. How much can your mom bench? Oh, that's so funny, dude. Okay. I've got another alpha male one, but I, I'm going to, I know I'm going to spending a lot of time on these next few videos. So, um, Hold on, hold on. Okay, guys, so let's move on.
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And this is how the, how this is how that person is doing that. And then to start this whole new series, I'm like, well, now I got to throw all that out the window. Now I got to memorize a whole new magic system and figure out how that shit works. It's like, my life is a fucking nightmare, bro. There's so much shit. It's so hard. It's so hard being me, dude. Um,
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Excuse me. So, book talk, okay? And I'm allowed to talk about book talk now. I'm allowed to make fun of it because I'm a reader now. I read books, okay? So, I'm allowed to do that. What is this one again? Right. Book talk is weird, man. There's a lot of horny fuckers on there. There's a lot of, like, probably the horniest people in the world are on book talk. And, you know, I...
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I got a little bit of backlash, a little bit of flack from people when I said it was funny when people, like, read stuff and got boners. Like, that's super funny. Objectively, that is funny, right? The fact that the human mind can do that. You know, you're reading something and then you're, you know, and then you're like, oh, shit. You know? It's crazy. It's, like, super funny.
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Apparently, that was wrong to say. But it's actually not because it's funny. And, um... But yeah, so BookTok has a lot of horny ass fuckers on there. And then there's a lot of dudes who capitalize on this horniness. And they'll throw these like thirst trap videos. And I found some really good ones today. Some thirst trap BookTok videos. And I want to show you guys. Because misery loves comedy.
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Okay, first off, who, what the fuck are you guys wearing? Who are you guys? Where are you? Two of you guys have wings. Fully grown men, dude.
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I hate how the second guy on the left is like taking stuff off of his fucking shoulder like that. It's fucking cringy and I hate it.
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Because I know there's nothing on either of their shoulders. He wanted to just look cool or some shit.
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Asriel? Is that your name? Is that your fucking name, dude? Is that really your name? Asriel? 100% this guy's name is like Justin. His name 1000% is Justin, dude. Harris. Okay.
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Also, I watched Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan movie with Timothee Chalamet, and it was good. I liked it. I think Timothee Chalamet, I think he should have won an Oscar. I think so. I don't know who won the Oscar. Who won for Best Actor? Who was it? Hold on. Hold on, let me look it up. Best Actor Oscar 2025. Oh, Adrian Brody, dude. Yeah, that guy.
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You're wearing wings. Hey, man, I can't even, I haven't even addressed the purrs yet because two of those four guys, they had wings on their back, dude. Where are they? Do they wear that to, like, that's their fit? So, yeah, this all black suit is looking good. I need wings, though. This suit needs wings, bro. Dude, four dudes just growling in a field, dude. Maybe, you know what?
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I'll be here all night! Dude, he's joking around, dude. Because that's not what... Because that's not what the others as other friends did. I have so many questions, man. I have so many questions. Where are they? They're on a farm? Looks like. Looks like they're on a farm. A book talk purr. Okay. They want to know who did it the best. I think this first guy kind of ate. He kind of ate it.
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his was more like a snake good thank you so much thank you and this guy pissed me the hell off alright what else we got hmm oh yeah this is another one from the the dude from the other video hmm it's always what are you doing and never what are you reading beautiful what are you reading
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Is that a sexy voice? What are you reading? Beautiful. Dude, if anybody did that to anybody ever, whoa. Jail, bro. Calling the cops, man. What are you reading, beautiful? Holy shit, I've got to start saying that to my wife. When she's reading her books, I'm going to come in and say that. What are you reading, beautiful? Like, when could that ever work? What are you reading, beautiful? Beautiful.
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You know this guy wants to have a deep voice so bad, dude. You know it. He's not as good as his contemporaries. He's not as good as his contemporaries at the purring. And it's just like, quit trying to make it happen, man. It's just not going to happen. I actually haven't watched this full one yet.
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Just because you're pointing it out doesn't make it okay, dude.
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Okay, Loki, this is me on the toilet after a farmer's rap and a double-double from Tim Hortons. This is what you hear in the bathroom.
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Okay, let's... That's super weird. Together now? Okay. What is that? Is that hot? Someone genuinely, if you listen to this TikTok, I mean, holy fuck. TikTok? Do I think this is a TikTok? This is a podcast. If you listen to this podcast and you also are like a book talk enjoyer, let me know what's attractive about that, okay? Because I don't understand. Is growling in the book a thing?
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Is books, is that a thing? That they growl? That shouldn't be hot. And people, dude, all the comments, people thirsting over this shit. What's this guy's name, dude? Let me show you. The James Jericho. Let me fucking, let me just show you, dude. The James Jericho. Shush. I need a growling one, hold on. Okay. Okay. We know that one. This was beautiful. This person commented, my Brian tingles now.
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That's so funny. They meant to put brain and they put Brian. Oh, my Brian is tingling. Oh, my flame emoji. Yes, I confirm, 1,000%. Yeah. So it's just people thirsting and it's like, dude, I knew kids in my high school that used to growl straight up. There was kids in my drama class who would growl. Okay. And they got made fun of. Okay. They were the fucking weirdos and they got made fun of. Okay.
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That was, now it's hot to growl. Now it's like a thing that's, you know, that's, that's, That's not the way it works, man. One time, actually... No, never mind. Omitting. Omitting that. I was going to tell a high school story, but it's just like... It's kind of weird. So I'm not going to. I hate when people do that. I'm so sorry. I hate when fucking people do that. I've become what I hate.
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The guy who did his famous Jamaican accent on SNL, dude. Why did he do that? You guys seen that video? You guys seen that? On SNL. I guess he got banned for doing it.
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I hate when people are like, I was going to say this, but I'm not going to. But I'm... Yeah. Book talk. Let me know though. If you guys are out there, I would look, cause I would, I've been thinking about doing a main channel video, but book talk, but I'm trying to find the right angle for it. I would hate to just like talk about it and be like, this is bad. This is cringe.
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I like, you know, immersing myself in it. So if there's like a, like a convention or something, like you're even like a, I don't know. There's something there, you know, like I live, like I did book talk, you know, for a week or so. I live like, I don't know. I got, there's something there, but I need to figure it out, but I would love to do a full dedicated main channel video about book talk.
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But, um, I just got other stuff I got to do first, but yeah, maybe in the future, but I, I'm, I'm open. I'm, I'm very curious about that world. It's, it's very weird. Cause I had like, wait, how do you fucking meet other dudes like that? Yo, I have those wings too. You both walk out wearing wings? Oh, one of us is going to have to change. All right. What do we have, dude?
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Okay. Thanks for watching, everybody. Like the podcast. And even if you don't like it, you can start liking it, okay? Leave a comment. Fucking subscribe. Obviously, subscribe to Very Really Good, man. Subscribe. And check out the Patreon if you want.
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No bonus episode this week, but there's fucking... As soon as you join the Patreon, dude, you're getting access to like fucking 50 plus episodes of Very Really Good. Like that. And we had a fucking banger one last week, dude. So, yeah, other than that, thank you for the support. Appreciate it. And I will see you on the next episode.
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Okay, thank you so much. Thank you so much, everybody. Thank you. Okay, bye.
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Let's see. Let's see. like what's the like is he supposed to be was he trying to be funny i don't get the joke there and that got him banned holy fuck So that was him introducing Sean Paul. Usually people are like, ladies and gentlemen, Sean Paul. And he did that. He went really off script. Uh...
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Who? Okay, Adrian Rohde claims he wasn't banned from SNL. Well, I got, well, what's the fucking truth, man? I gotta know. The actor stayed off script to introduce Sean Paul. Yeah, we know that was off script. Adrian Brody claims he wasn't banned from SNL after infamous Jamaican bit, but says he's never been invited back. Yeah, I wonder why, dude.
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Bro's never been so consistent in his life, okay? And it feels good, man. It feels good to be here two weeks in a row. It feels good if you guys... For those of you with the keen eye have realized that finally I... I got a longer cord for my headphones, okay? Yeah, it's true. I got a longer cord for my headphones, so I'm no longer, you know, bound to the short cord that goes along.
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Okay, Brody admitted that he thinks Lorne Michaels wasn't happy with me embellishing a bit, but clarified the show allowed him to introduce a singer the way he did. I thought that was a safe space to do that, weirdly. Why would that be a safe space... Oh, I thought this was like a nice, I thought you guys were inclusive.
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I thought you guys would have accepted my ridiculously offensive Jamaican accent, dude. I even wore the dreads. Why didn't you guys like that? Yeah, that's the best actor, dude. But I think Timothee Chalamet should have won, man. That was a great performance. He was great. That's a Bob Dylan impression right there. I should have got the Oscar. I should have got the Oscar. The Oscar, the grouch.
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Practicing my, uh, my accents. Um, how you doing? Scottish. I just, you know, Lawrence Cheney, right? Uh, Ireland. Ah, I have a pot of gold. A pint of Guinness. And, uh, Charlotte Armisen, right? Um, What else? I don't know how to do a German one that well, but I'll work on it. Okay, well, first off, fuck, we got to... I got to defend myself a little bit, okay? I got to defend myself a little bit.
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For those of you who don't follow me on TikTok... Fuck you. Get out of here. You guys got... You better follow me on there. Yeah, so there's... Well, there's this song that's going kind of viral on there, this trend that's sort of getting a lot of hits. It's sort of getting a lot of hits on TikTok. And it's about this, well, it's that Kyle Gordon guy.
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He did like a parody of all the, like the, you know, millennial songs from like the early 2010s, right? That are like, you know, lumineers, right? Fun, you know? And it's like, so he, and that's the song I would play it, but I feel like, I feel like it would get me copyright strike and I'm a, I don't want to do that. So, um, but this was the frigging tick tock, man. So, okay, sorry.
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Actually, this is the trend. I'll explain the trend. So that song, Making Fun of Millennials, and it's paired with Making Fun of the Millennial Burger restaurant that has like, you know, exposed like light bulb stuff, you know, the high chairs, like the high bar stools that are made of metal.
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um and they call their burgers handhelds and they're and a burger and every burger costs thirty dollars uh they have like local beer on tap you know they're just like and you know truffle fries you know just like the millennial burger place always a brioche bun the that are just you know um so so and then people are just sort of morphing that into making fun of millennials in general and someone posted this tiktok this fucking person sarah lynn okay
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This fucking jerk, this jerk has 1.3 million views. Millennial Burger Place, what about millennial hats? And then it's just a slideshow of me wearing a bunch of, you know, those hats, those wide-brimmed hats that were very popular in the early 2010s and mid-2010s, okay? And yeah. Yeah. You know, looking back now, I'm like, God, you shouldn't have been showing off that forehead so much.
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That's a lot of real estate up there. All right? You could throw a football between one side of my head and the other, dude. There's so much space there. You could play a full-on... The Super Bowl could actually, if they're announced that one year, in 2014, they could have been like, yeah, the Super Bowl is actually taking place on Curtis Connors' forehead, okay? There's a lot of room up there.
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Dude, it's in the interface looped around my chair, and I still got room, dude. I can move my head, uh, all the way, every way I want. So, um, yeah, um, and it only took me like what, like three years. How long have I been in the studio for? Like, yeah, three, two, three years now. Um, so that's cool. Um, Yeah, man.
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So, yeah, get the fucking tickets, man. The Chiefs are going to play on Curtis' fucking forehead, all right? 50-yard line is right there, okay? But that was the look, man. Oh, shit. That was the fucking, that was the fashion, bro. That's what was in. That's what was cool back then, okay? So I'm not okay with this, man. And I'm all for poking fun at the frigging past, right?
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I think that style is going to be back. I honestly do. There's a loop. There's loops in fashion, okay, and trends, okay? History repeats itself, all right? Now, you know, actually, you know what? No, it might be a little later. 2035, it'll be back in full swing. Another 10 years, it'll be back, all right? Because right now, what's back? You know, the Y2K, right? Like 2000, 2005 era, you know?
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That's in right now with fashion. So if we just move up a little bit, Next couple years, 2010s, you know, maybe Jersey Shore shit is going to come back, right? Twee stuff, right? Like Zoey Deschanel and like 2012 hipster stuff. And then we're going to start getting into the, we're going to bring the fucking hats back. There's their comeback. And man buns. I had one of those too. Fuck, man.
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Man buns were sick, though. I was like, that was also the style, man. I'm getting old. Guys, I'm getting old. I'm getting really old. I'm feeling it. My body's feeling it. My brain's feeling it. But, you know, fuck it. Fuck it, we ball. That makes me laugh every time. All right. But no, all jokes aside, that TikTok was funny. And it's funny that they only use pictures of me.
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And I can take a joke, man. My whole career is fucking making fun of people. I can take it. It's all good. I thought that was very funny. Okay, what did we talk about first? No, that'll be the title. So I'm going to leave that. That was fucking scary. I'm going to leave that for later. We can talk about... Oh, this is funny. This is a little article I saw. Isn't that funny?
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Aren't articles hilarious? All right. Article... No. Okay. So this is... Interesting... Interesting app that I found that I am very confused. Well, I'm not confused. Let's read the title. This app makes you literally touch grass before you can use social media. So let's see how they do that. If you're an avid doom scroller, you've likely been told to touch grass. Right.
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According to a 2024 report, about one in two adults in the U.S. are exposed to excessive screen time, which is defined as seven or more hours per day. Dang. And about 30 percent of adults reach that point just from recreational activity, not from work.
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all right, I'd rather be not swallowed by a whale, went to the beach yesterday, and it was like, they kept yelling at people for not swimming in the right parts, because the current was so strong, oh, that's fucking scary too, the ocean's fucked, man, I'll say it, the ocean is fucked up, and I've had it, we need to do something about this ocean, we need to pollute it more, okay,
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The title of this article is woman tricked into sending 700,000 pounds to fake Brad Pitt for cancer treatment. The 53-year-old woman thought she was helping pay towards the star's cancer treatment. Yes, someone was tricked into sending 700 pounds. How many US dollars is that? How many pounds was it? 700,000 pounds? That's almost nine...
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Christchurch was great. Melbourne was a blast. Brisbane was sick. Sydney was awesome. Dude, all the shows have been so much fun, man. We got two more. going to Adelaide after this, and then we're going to Perth. And then I get to go home, which I'm excited for. Obviously, I've been having a blast here with the shows and everything, but, you know, I fucking miss my house, man. I miss my wife.
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hundred thousand dollars that's like a million canadian dude that's fucking crazy i've heard about scams like this and they're pretty scary but like dude this guy hit the fucking jackpot with this person i'm sorry you picked you picked the someone who not only has nine hundred thousand dollars to spare but like someone who is willing to give it to you like
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A woman from France claimed she was scammed into sending a man she thought was Brad Pitt 830,000 euros to help with his cancer treatment. The 53-year-old victim named Anne said she was fooled by the scammer after she received a message on social media from someone claiming to be the actor's mother.
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Just a day later, the interior designer was sent another DM from an account posing as the Fight Club star in February 2023, which reportedly said, Hello, Anne, my mother told me a lot about you. I would like to know more. And then there's this picture of AI-generated Brad Pitt in the hospital smiling at the camera. And the tube isn't even going into his mouth. Like, I guess it kind of looks real.
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And I'm not trying to make fun of this person. Obviously, they were taken advantage of, and that's sad. But, like, fucking God, man. In what world would Brad Pitt's mother just be, like, DMing random people? Being like, I need help. My son needs help. My son Brad Pitt needs help. And then Brad Pitt then talking to his mom, being like, okay, so you DM this random girl? Okay, I'll reach out.
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I'll reach out. I'm Brad Pitt. Anne reportedly told French channel TF1 that she was going through a difficult moment with her husband at the time and felt she could confide in the person. Oh, damn. Yeah. In fact, we're talking about Brad Pitt. I'm falling from the clouds. At first, I tell myself it's fake, but I don't really understand what's happening to me.
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After that, we will contact each other every day, and we became friends. There are so few... There are so... Jesus Christ. There are so few men who write you this kind of thing. I like the man I was talking to. He knew how to talk to women. It was always very well done.
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hey guys welcome back to the podcast what episode are we on dude i don't even i dude i never know i never know okay what episode are we on to 266 i believe right two, three, four. Yeah. Two. Okay. Two 66. Thank you so much, everybody. Um, I am in a hotel room right now. I'm in a, I'm in a hotel room in, um, the fuck am I? Sydney, Sydney, Australia right now. Um, just woke up not too long ago.
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The fake celebrity account said they couldn't afford the funds for cancer treatment because of their ongoing divorce from Angelina Jolie, which reached a settlement in December 2024. Dang. Didn't they get fucking divorced like years ago? Am I dumb? I could have sworn they got divorced when I was like a kid. I don't know. Maybe I'm just not up to date with the freaking celeb gossip, dude.
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Guys, I can't keep track of all this celeb gossip, man.
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They would send AI-generated pictures of the actor in hospital holding up cards with personalized messages written on them and would also never talk over the phone because they're always too busy. Yeah, too... How are you too busy if you're in the hospital going, like, cancer treatment and sending personalized messages? No, I can't talk on the phone.
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I'm too busy writing a personalized message for you. I'm too busy writing a message on a big piece of Bristol board for you. Okay, I can't talk right now. Um... After chatting for months, Anne agreed to marry the person behind the account after she gets 775,000 pounds from divorcing her husband. Oh, man. That sucks. So she got a bunch of money from the divorce and then That sucks.
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So she divorced a guy for, I guess, because he sucks, right? Because men are bad, right? And then gets a bunch of money for all the trouble she went through and then immediately gets it all taken away from a bad guy, dude. That sucks, man. That'll put a bad taste in your mouth for sure.
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All that money was sent to the fake account as they promised to send her luxury gifts in return, such as bags from Chanel in her maze. However, the person said she would need to pay... A 9,000 euro customs fee, which she never got back. Fuck, man.
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She reportedly became suspicious when Pitt was seen in public with his new girlfriend, Ines de Ramon, so she opted to get investigators on the case and everything soon unraveled. Yeah, I mean, again, this sucks. I feel bad that this person was tricked and they got all their money stolen. But, like, I don't think you needed to hire investigators. I don't think you needed all that.
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I miss my dog. And, yeah, I miss... And I also miss my stuff, man. I mean, I have a lot of stuff here, but, you know, living out of a suitcase, it gets pretty annoying, too. Especially on this tour, we don't have a bus, so we've just been, like, hotel to hotel. So it's like, get to a hotel, unpack stuff. My shit is everywhere.
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I feel like looking at these pictures, you'd be like, okay, never mind. His hair is completely chopped off in a perfect line at the top in this one. It just looks like there's a different color, different lighting. He's not even smiling. If a man sends you that, this looks like a ransom picture, right? If a man sends you a picture like that,
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Holding a thing that says I love you and he looks like he's shitting, like he's actively farting and shitting. Like, that's not a good sign, right? And we're probably now in a hospital clinic with severe depression. Okay. All right. Well, I'm sorry about everything I said.
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BFM TV says, Man, I hope she gets her fucking money back. That sucks. This comes after a representative of the actor had previously called out incidents involving people who are under investigation for allegedly defrauding two women out of $350,000 online.
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It's awful that scammers take advantage of fans' strong connections with celebrities, and this is an important reminder to not respond to unsolicited online outreach, especially from actors who have no social media presence. Man. Yeah, I mean, that is a good lesson, man. You gotta... You know, I mean, it is easy to be like, oh, I'd never fall for that. How could that happen to them?
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That's fucking... You know? Because...
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because you know it's easy to put yourself you know and when you're not in someone's shoes but you know people who are vulnerable and people who are going through a lot you know and they get a message from someone like that and it's like okay well this could be this is finally it i'm fucking this has to be true you know you know life can't get any worse right and then they send a bunch of money man and it just and it does get worse and it's fucking it's scary dude it is really scary
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And it happens way too much, man. It's a, you know, I've, I'm trying to think if I've ever had, you know, I mean, people have sent me stuff that like people are using my pictures and shit on, on like Tinder and stuff. like people sent me that before. Like people were like, Oh, I just saw this guy is like using all of your pictures.
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And, and, and then, and I don't, I never said what the end goal of hair was like, Because if someone was using my pictures for their dating app profile, they're actually going to meet people and be like, yeah, those pictures are just really old. I grew about a foot and a half since then, and I got facial reconstruction surgery, and I dyed my hair.
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I knew it. It was, like, such a long time ago. Angelina Jolie filed for divorce in 2016 after a private jet flight from Europe during which she said Pitt was abusive toward her and their children. Oh.
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All right, fuck Brad Pitt, man. Fuck that guy. That's weird as hell. I didn't know that. Dude, I'm so fucking like... I gotta pay attention more, man. I don't know what's fucking going on ever, dude. Older I get, dude, it's just every day is like, have you seen that thing? And it's like, what are we talking about, dude?
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My bag explodes for about, like, six days, it feels like, or however fucking long I'm in a place. And then... Pack again, go to the airport. You know, it's just like, it's a lot, but it's a blast, man. You know, the show's been a lot of fun. So again, thank you everybody for the support. If you've been to the, you've come to a show. Yeah, man, we got a lot of fun stuff to talk about.
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I think I'm probably going to talk about it on the bonus episode, but everyone kept... I asked my Instagram what to talk about, and, like, there's so many comments talking about this Ash Trevino person. I was like, who the fuck is that? Who the fuck is that? And it was, like, hundreds of people asking. It's like, how do you not know about this shit?
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I don't know who the fuck... I still don't know who it is. I'm going to find out together. I'm going to talk about her on the bonus episode, because I have an article about her in some videos, but... I'm so out of the loop, man. So 2016, they filed for divorce and it was just finalized a couple of months ago. Eight years. That's insane, dude. That's a fucking nightmare, man.
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So honestly, it is kind of believable. Actually, no, it's not because Brad Pitt is Brad Pitt and he has like so much money. Okay, we can move on. I think the moral of that story is, man, just be careful who you're talking to online, man. Don't send any money to people. Don't do it, right? Especially if you have never like FaceTimed them. That's the main thing I learned from Catfish, man.
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If you're ever gonna meet someone, if you're dating someone online, long distance or anything, or just online, you know, FaceTime them, man. It's fucking 2025, dude. FaceTime is so normal. Everybody's got a fucking iPhone, you know. You've got Zoom, you've got Skype, you know. It's a thing. You can go do it, alright? It's not like back in the day.
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It's not like back in fucking 2005 where only some people had a webcam, dude. I had a webcam... It was, like, a circle webcam. And it was small, and the pixels were, like... It was, like, fucking... It was, like, 140p, barely. It was so bad, you know? But even then, like, I had... You know, you could video chat on MSN in, like, 2008. Like, 2007, dude. Like, it was a thing. So...
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A lot of the time, there was no audio, too. That was really funny. It would just be, like, a video. It would just be a video. You could, like, see the other person, but you'd still be, like, typing. You'd be like, yeah. Yeah, that was weird, man. Those were weird times. I need to move on to the next...
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topic this is sort of a poo tube segment i guess a little poo tube segment or i guess this one's a tiktoker i guess um a lot of people uh recommended for me to talk about this also for my instagram and i also like the astrovino fucking person i haven't i didn't know who this person was really or what this shit was about i didn't see anything about it till now um
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i'm just i'm not i'm not as locked in as i as i usually am because i've been you know aging um because i've been uh growing up sorry i'm disconnecting for once you kids man you kids in your phones you guys gotta get you guys gotta stop using your phone so much i say while i'm on my phone So this thing that happened, I guess this is some drama that's going on.
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This is, oh, this is like kind of, this works, I didn't know this, but this is kind of, this makes sense for where I am now because this has to do with an Australian TikToker. Yeah, this is an article that sort of goes over everything. From BuzzFeed, which is great. We love BuzzFeed. The title of this article is, I felt broke.
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Australian TikTok star Anna Paul is going viral for her bizarre response to claims that she lied about growing up poor. Okay. Okay. So a little backstory, I guess Anna Paul is related to Jake and Logan Paul. That's not, I don't think that's true. But I remember actually getting tagged one time in one of her TikToks, in Anna Paul's TikToks, because I guess she was like in the background.
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I'm trying to think what else has been, anything crazy happened on this? I mean, not, I mean, someone got fucking dragged out of my show, physically dragged out of my show. So that was pretty fun. And I doubt this person even fucking remembers it. So I don't feel too bad talking about it. Yeah, I think it was in... It was in Melbourne.
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She was like watching one of my videos. So we've got a citizen that's, we got a Kurdistown citizen that's, you know, caught up in some controversy, man. This is scary. Anna also admitted to calling her fans sweaty.
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and said she'd ask for a wet wipe after meet and greets because her shoulders would smell like sweat from hugging fans people sweat that's like a thing okay tiktoker anna paul anopal is that how you is that the pronounce the correct pronunciation anopal
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Anna Paul is being dragged after she uploaded a video discussing how sweaty her fans are and insisted that she grew up broke because she felt broke. Okay. Yeah, I mean, that's sort of true. Being broke isn't about how much money you have. It's sort of a mindset. Being broke is a mindset, dude. Because I just feel broke. You know?
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All my other friends had a... I was about to do the fucking South Park bit. It's already done. South Park did it already. Fuck. All my friends had a private jet with a bathtub and I just had a regular private jet. You know? That's literally the South Park bit. When they're complaining about Napster and how they couldn't afford their private jet with a TV remote anymore.
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OK, the Australian influencer who has more than six million followers shared the eight minute long video after her former best friend and fellow TikToker Michaela Testa shared a series of shocking claims about Anna and her brother Addis Paul on her own social media page. For reference, Mikaela and Anna became friends 10 years ago when they were just 15 years old.
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Mikaela also used to date Addis, okay? And in her video, oh, is this the video here? Oh, let's fucking watch it.
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I don't know, it is, I'm sorry Australians, I'm sorry, but it is super funny when Australians are like yelling at each other, when they're like, like I just can't picture Australians getting in a fight, you know, I was at a, I was at a restaurant, I was at a food court in Brisbane, I was getting a, I was getting some Greek food, and a person who ordered some food, I guess someone cut in front of them, and they were fucking screaming at each other,
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And he was like, how dare you? How dare you? I was waiting in line. And he was like, oh, that was British. But it's like, how dare you? When I'm in the queue. And they were just fucking screaming at each other. And it's like, guys, relax. I just think the Australian accent is so fun. You guys are so fun loving, you know? And it's like, you guys, can we all just get along? That's what I said.
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I said, guys, how you going? How you going? Right? And then I was like, can't we all just be mates? I mean, no, that's British again. Fuck. Okay. Can't we all just be mates? How you going? Can't we all just be mates? Right? You know? I'm getting better. I'm trying to get better at my Australian accent.
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Yeah, Melbourne because that was the only time where we had two shows in the same day. So early show, Melbourne, rock and roll. So fun, right? Turn the venue over real quick for the late show. And then... I guess, according... This is what I heard, because I didn't hear any of this, which is crazy, but the first show...
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Holy fuck. Damn. Okay, so yeah, she was... Damn. Yeah, if that shit's true, that's fucked up. That's so mean, dude. She preaches... Okay, so I guess this Anna Paul person preaches, like, body positivity and stuff, but then is, like, being fatphobic and stuff. Mikaela alleges that Anna fat shames her fans and has lied to her followers. Also, telling a fan that you love them, like, that's crazy.
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That's like a... You don't know them. You know? I love that... You know, I love the support that people... I feel the love and support, right? But it is a little crazy to meet someone who's like, I love your YouTube. And then you're like, I love you. That's a little gnarly. Because you don't know them. You don't know them at all, right? You know what I mean? That is a little gnarly to do that.
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I love you. That's a little crazy. Because you don't know them. I don't know any of you guys. I really don't. And so I'm not going to say I love you, right? She also made much more serious allegations against Addis, which wouldn't be legally advisable to repeat here. Oh, shit. I don't know what that... Okay, damn. All right, BuzzFeed.
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Speaking of the TikTok that was posted last week, Mikayla said everything Anna does is calculated, but she masked the manipulation extremely well with an innocent sweet girl facade. Detailing an incident that allegedly took place in 2021, Mikaela addressed Anna directly as she said, a plus size fan. Oh yeah, that's what we just heard about.
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Mikaela insisted that this was a common occurrence with Anna, adding, seeing your fakeness in the flesh was such a disturbing experience.
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She then went on to accuse Anna of preying on vulnerable young fans for profit, referencing the way that Anna does money giveaways on her adult only fans account, which costs $16 a month, but promotes these giveaways on her Instagram account that has more than 2.3 million followers.
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oh okay yeah that's that's messed up yeah I'm I actually just talked about I'm doing I've just filmed a main channel video about some influencers too who are advertising giveaways all the time and it's like it's it's kind of like it's tough because it's like it's hard to criticize people doing giveaways I mean it's hard to criticize people doing giveaways because it's like you know they're giving away money that's a good thing right but it's like you know they're
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It's usually, it's never a free giveaway, right? You know, you got to pay, because this one, you're paying $16 for someone's OnlyFans, right? And then to maybe have a, like that, it does seem a little weird to like force people to pay to be entered into a giveaway, right? Michaela went on to call Anna and Addis out for allegedly pretending to grow up poor. Okay, this is the juicy part.
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I guess it's all, you know what I mean. Pretending to grow up poor with Anna saying in many of her TikTok videos that she and her family did not have much money growing up. Michaela claimed that Anna and Addis' dad made triple the average Australian income per week. Yo, what? And the siblings grew up in a beautiful house with a built-in pool. Yo, okay, hold on.
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I might have to watch the whole fucking video. I might have to hear her say that part because that is crazy.
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these people were at the first show and then they got tickets for the late show, which is like, you know what? That's badass. Thank you for people who do that because it's, spoiler alert, it's the same show every time. Like I don't change my material. I can't write a whole new hour every show I do, right? So I'm like, yeah, sure. You can hear the same jokes if you want to, right?
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Oh, yeah, I guess I didn't really think about that, too. It's like a lot. You're doing an illegal lottery. Allegedly. It's like an illegal lottery, dude. That's fucking gnarly.
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I want to go to the part. I'm sorry. I already talked. I want to hear the part where he talks about pretending to be poor.
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So, but I guess between the, during, and then during the first show and between the first and second show, I guess these people were, yeah, they were boozing. They were getting into the, they were getting into the liquor. Okay. They were, they were, they were, they were drinking quite a bit, I guess, which is fine. Right. You're out.
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People fucking suck, bro. It happens every time I get a story, I'll be like, okay, this is kind of funny, someone pretending to be poor, right? And then it's like...
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You know, I'm just kind of letting this play because I was going to skip through it just to get to the, like, part. But, you know, I think it's important to play all the other stuff, too, because, like, fuck, Jesus Christ, man.
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their dad making triple the average australian income per week had them living in a beautiful house on the water with a built-in pool yeah triple the average australian income per week is insane because this triple the average income like you see mean like average annual income because if that's that's gotta be what like a hundred fucking thousand dollars a week or some shit
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I am posting this because it's unethical and I care about- Yeah, it's so weird to pretend to be poor, dude. To, like, lie and be like, yeah, I didn't have money. Like, your cosplaying poverty is so fucked up. I don't know why it happens so frequently. You should be, like, grateful that you didn't have to, like, worry about that shit. Like, you had a house, right? Like, I just don't understand.
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It's a, it was like a Saturday night fucking get lit as far as I'm concerned. Right. Um, but I guess these two people were just yelling the whole time and then like disrupting, um, like the people around them were starting to yell at them to be like, yo, shut up. We're trying to hear Jacob and Curtis. Like, this is what we, we paid money for. Like, um,
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Like, even- Because, like, I'm trying to just, like, think, like, what- I guess you want people to feel bad for you, I guess? Yeah. And like, oh, you overcame something difficult, you know, some hardship. But you're just lying, dude? It's so weird, man. I was a real victim of the system of poverty like you portrayed yourself online, Michaela said as she broke down in tears.
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And after a five-day silence, Anna also became emotional in a lengthy video responding to some of the things that Michaela had said. But suffice to say, it has not gone down well. I'm not going to watch all that video. Well, I'll read through the rest of your article here so we get a brief summary of what she said, but...
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The reason to take us on a reply is not because I have a PR team and this and that and whatnot. I'm by myself. There's no script or nothing. I'm just talking to the camera. I've also always hated that thing being like, I don't have a script. There's no script here. I have no script. There's nothing bad about putting your thoughts... onto paper and articulating them well.
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I think that's actually better than having no script, right? I've never understood why people take pride in that part. Sweaty, however... Okay, sorry. Addressing the fat shaming claims first, Anna said, I do not call my fans fat. That is not who I am. That's not who I stand for. That's not what I've ever stood for. Sweaty, however, she went on.
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I may have called her sweaty because when somebody is wet and they touch you when they leave and when you're with your best friend and you are now wet because of them, you may say to your friend, I am now wet. I feel like she probably didn't say that. I am now wet. I am now wet. I don't think anybody's ever said it like that. I am now wet. Wet I am now. Yoda. Wet I am now. Dude, that is a weird...
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I don't call people fat, okay? That's not me. That's not what I would stand for. Sweaty, stinky, and weird?
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Weird as fuck. And it's like, yeah, that happens all the time, man. People sweat, dude. It's fine. And you're sweaty. It happens, dude. Nothing wrong with it, right? Dude, I got pitters right now, bro. I also know people would have hugged me, walked away, and said, Anna Paul was sweaty. That does not make them a bad person. Okay, sure. During meet and greets, I hug thousands of people.
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I've hugged thousands of people, so my shoulder has gone into thousands of armpits. And afterwards, my shoulders smell like sweat. And I'll be like, hey, does anyone have a wet wipe? Both my shoulders smell like sweat. That is just a human thing. Moving on to the claim that she lied about her upbringing, Anna said, I do not lie about the fact that I grew up broke.
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When I say I grew up broke, that is my experience. That is how I felt. Okay. Okay. When I can hear my parents talking in the kitchen that the budget for the groceries that week is $30, that makes me feel broke, she went on. When we can't afford school uniforms, it makes me feel broke. When I'm 11, when I'm 10, and all my friends can afford something and my parents can, it makes me feel broke.
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okay so that yeah that doesn't make sense because her friend was like that you had a huge house with a pool and shit and your dad makes three times the salary that doesn't really make sense but that does not mean i was the most broke person on earth and it continued there are definitely people in way worse situations than me but that does not mean that a line that the fact that i felt broke yeah okay yeah okay there is a thing like
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Like, we didn't pay money to, like, listen to you guys scream and stuff. So they got a couple warnings from the venue, kept yelling. And then, yeah, dude, I guess one of the security members was like, you got to go. And then the one person was like, I'm not fucking leaving. Like Jordan Belfort in Wolf of Wall Street.
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I'm trying to figure out how to say this without sounding like a fucking boomer. But, like, you know, I'm all for people, you know, saying they're, you know, that was their experience, right? That's how they feel, right? Your feelings are valid, you know? That's true. But sometimes... Like, I... Like, you could feel...
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sad or stressed about money right but like i don't think you can feel i don't think you can feel broke right you know you can feel the consequences of being broke if you are right but there's not a feeling you have right you know what i mean like you can feel like inadequate you can feel jealousy right like i felt all of those growing up sometimes. Right.
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I had it very fucking easy growing up, but still there was still sometimes I wasn't like, you know, you know, I was fucking fine. I grew up fucking easy, but, um, yeah, I do understand that though. I feel every kid feels that growing up sometimes like, well, my friend has a fucking bigger house than me. How, how does that, that, how can they have a pool? And I don't really like, I get it, you know?
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Um, But like, yeah, you can't just like feel. I just like feel in my soul, in my heart, deep down in my heart of hearts.
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Like what the fuck are you talking about? She then referenced the fact that people have started to resurface photos that apparently highlight her wealth growing up, including her first car. That's not my first car, she said. Not my childhood car. I didn't even have social media when I was like seven. Those photos wouldn't even be on the internet.
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Anna did not address any of Michaela's other claims and instead called out social media users for how she has been treated amid the drama. Me aside, the bullying that has festered and grown from this because it's a trend is dangerous and not okay. Bullying like this kills people. Okay, whoa. Breakdown is here as Anna added that she was fortunate enough to have a very strong support system.
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Speaking to the critics directly, she said, lock your phone and go outside. I promise you'll have a nicer day. Okay. But Anna's video did not land as she may have anticipated with one of the top comments on the TikTok reading. I don't know girl, maybe you should have hired the PR team. Some called Anna for not actually addressing any more pressing allegations.
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Yeah, there's some other like gnarly allegations, you know, that was some like real stuff that were talked about in the other video that she just like didn't talk about. Being broke and feeling broke is definitely not the same. Okay, yeah, that's what I said, right? Like, that's not the same at all. So my parents run off $500,000 a year, but they said, oh man, we can't buy you that horse.
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I feel broke. Anna's comments at the end of the video also rattled viewers with one person asking, wait, how did this get turned around on us? Yeah. Neither Anna nor Makayla have commented further, but we'll let you know if they do. In the meantime, you can watch Anna's full video below. I don't, I've been talking for a while, dude.
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And what does it bring up? Okay, this is a sign to not watch the fucking video, I guess. It brings up a video of a grandma with a butt plug ice molds. Thank you, TikTok. Great website you guys got. Maybe it should have been banned. What the fuck, man? I'm not trying to fucking see that shit. What the hell? All right. Well, I mean, we already went through pretty much what she said in the video.
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So, yeah, they, like, had to physically drag her out of the theater. She went, like, dead weight and stuff, and it was pretty crazy. Dude, and I didn't hear a thing. I didn't hear any of it. I was so locked in, man. I didn't hear or see any of that, which is wild. Makes sense, though, because, you know, I can't... It was a rowdy crowd.
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But folks, thanks for tuning in, guys. We got some other stuff to talk about on the bonus episode. So if you guys want to hear some more very, really good, head on over to patreon.com slash very, really good or check the video. Check the description in the video description. Click the link in the description of the video. I'm rusty, man. Thank you so much for tuning in, though.
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You know, I love TikTok drama, man. It's the best, dude. But I hope you guys don't get swallowed by a whale. Thank you for tuning in. Like, comment, subscribe, all that bullshit. And yeah, fucking thanks. See you. See you later. Bye.
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It was a little later, and, you know, people have been drinking, but... But yeah, man, when the lights are on, I honestly, I can barely fucking see anything when I'm up there. So it makes sense. But, you know, shout out to those people. You guys were fucking partying hard. I wish I could have seen it. I wish I could have seen them. But yeah, man, we went.
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And when we're also when we were in Melbourne, we we went golfing one day. That was awesome. Taylor made Australia hooked it up, dude.
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hooked it up, man, they, uh, they booked the friggin' golf, uh, tee time for us, they gave us all our golf clubs to use, I got custom Goodfellow World Tour golf balls, and we went golfing, man, and it was sick, dude, and, uh, so, yeah, and they gave me this shirt, too, and I had a bunch of other swag, so, thank you, thank you, TaylorMadeMan, um, But yeah, dude, a couple more shows and I go home.
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And then in like a month and a bit, we got our two months. Yeah, in like two months, I got Europe and UK. So we'll be right back. We'll be right back. But I appreciate it. And, you know, I'm trying to enjoy it, trying to savor it. And because, you know, this shit is, you know, you never know, man. Who knows what's going to freaking happen?
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um so i'm trying to savor trying to savor it trying to savor everything i'm trying to be appreciative trying to be in the moment and it's hard but that's a thing i'm trying to be conscious of doing but um we got a lot of stuff to talk about this week man um i asked on my instagram story what and i always forget this man what the fuck How long have I been recording?
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Okay, probably stop recording at like 11 there. Okay, so I'm just doing I'm just doing fucking quick math in my head. Because I got to do two episodes here. I got to do this one. I got recording a bonus episode that's going to go on the Patreon and then I got to pack up and then leave for a flight. So
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Yeah, I went on my Instagram and asked people to send me some topics to talk about on this week's episode. And yeah, we got some good ones, man. We got some real good ones. This one's crazy. I want to talk about first because we might not get to everything today in the main episode. So we're going to probably get into some.
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We're going to have to go to the bonus, man, the bonus episode. Talk about that stuff, dude. I want to talk about this one real quick.
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Yo, a guy got fucking eaten by a whale and then spat and then the whale spat him out. Okay, and there's a video of it, and it's fucking crazy, and I want to talk about it, but also before we do that, speaking of ocean stuff, do you guys see that fucking, is it angler fish? With the one, the little fishes with the friggin' light, the light on his face, from Finding Nemo? Did you see that thing?
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Dude, an angler fish, they found it swimming up to the surface, they've never seen a fish do that, but it died. And people are making these, like, drawings and shit of the fish. Being like, yeah, maybe for my last breath, I'm going to go see the sun. And, dude, I saw a TikTok yesterday of it. Someone drew it. And it made me cry. And it made me cry, dude.
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And, uh, yeah, man, I'm, I'm fucking chilling. I'm sorry for the lack of uploads on this. Um, on this channel, it's been a couple weeks, but, you know, I've been touring, man, I've been doing shows, we, uh, started, man, I've been in, it's been, like, fucking three weeks now, two and a half weeks, um, My left eye has been twitching all the time. I don't know if that's me.
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I don't know what's... I don't... And it pissed me off because, like, dude, I go on TikTok. I go on TikTok to see, you know...
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a guy like it like slip on the concrete and like get a concussion you know i i go on tiktok to see people just it's just the most insane shit i i and i go on tiktok to see people make bad music like that's what i want to see okay i don't go i don't expect to cry at a fish okay It's messed up. Honestly, it's messed up. There should be a trigger warning on that shit, man.
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And this microphone I bought? Dude, it looks like I'm fucking... I'm on the radio. It feels like I'm on a war radio. I run a radio station during the war. This is what it feels like. I don't know what I'm saying. Like, I should be talking in a transatlantic accent with this microphone, dude. Now, you see, I've... You've shaken more sticks at a twig than an old...
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than an old man does on the boat that's like a saying they used to say um but dude let's watch this video man this video is insane okay this guy dude this guy's kayaking also where are you kayaking man middle of the ocean And then a humpback whale eats some, dude. He's in the humpback whale's mouth for one, two, maybe like three seconds, and then he spits some out. Dude.
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Dude, that's... Yo, I would be fucking... How is he not screaming? He is so chill about this, dude. If I was, dude, if I was swallowed, dude, in a whale's mouth? In a whale's mouth, dude, what would that even feel like? What would it look like? What would it smell like? I mean, shout out to the whale, man. Shout out to the whale for fucking spitting him out. Being like, oh, I hate kayakers.
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Never mind, I thought this was a seal. Blech. You know, you got to try everything once, man. And the whale wanted to try a kayak. And I guess he just doesn't. And then he yacked it up. He kayaked it up, dude. I would never stop talking about that if that was me. I would say that to everybody. I'd be like, yeah, man. Yeah, nice to meet you. Yeah, my name is Curtis. Yeah, I was in a whale's mouth.
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Sorry. Can you smell that? I was in a whale's mouth. And everyone would be like, oh, my God. Stop talking about that, man. And I would not be able to. This guy for the rest of his life is going to be like that meme of the guy at the house party. And it's going to be like, nobody knows that I was in a whale's mouth. And everybody's going to be like, no, we know. That's all you talk about, actually.
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Dude. He's like smiling. It looks like he's smiling. Oh, wait, no, no, no. dude and that's a that's a wrap on kayaking also that's a wrap on kayaking forever i think if you're in a whale's mouth dude because like while you're kayaking i feel like you gotta throw in the towel dude that's you're done right that's it you're like you have to you have to call it quits after that man
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What if you got swallowed by... What if you went into a whale's mouth, but there was a finished kitchen in there? I'm trying to think of what would be the craziest thing that would be inside a whale's mouth. Right? You walk in there, there's like a... There's like a... It's like a... And it looks like an early 20s single man's apartment. There's just like a TV and a PS4 on the ground.
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Some guy in there like, yo, what's up, man? A guy living in a whale's mouth, dude. Yo, that would be something a guy would do. Like an early, like a early 20s straight guy would totally like see a listing for a whale's mouth and be like, I could probably live there. It's a good first apartment. It's a good first apartment. It's a starter apartment, man.
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the way in a humpback whale's mouth okay and then maybe you know i get promoted at my job a couple years you know i start investing and then i can move into a uh a blue whale's mouth right a little bigger right because it's free transportation right if you live in a humpback whale's mouth it's free transportation you don't really have any say of where you're going but you can still you know you you you you travel all over right it's like a cruise
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And it's cool because I don't know if my eye twitching. I don't know if it's because I'm not getting enough sleep or I'm having too much coffee. So I don't know. And that's pretty cool. It's a cool part of being alive. But yeah. Yeah, the show's been great. Thank you so much to all the Australians and New Zealanders. That's been coming out to the shows. Auckland was sick. Wellington was awesome.
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Wi-Fi, you know, you get a Wi-Fi router in there. Oh, my God. Picturing like some girl being like, yeah, guys, I hooked up with Steven last night. Guys, his apartment was insane. It was so messy. It was so weird. It was like slimy. Friends were like, what do you mean slimy? Like, oh, did I not tell you he lives in a whale's, Stephen lives in a whale's mouth, dude. That's so funny, man.
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Okay, this article says, a huge humpback whale has swallowed and then spat out a kayaker in the seas off the coast of southern Chile. Holy fuck. Mr. Simancas was out with his father last weekend in the seas off the town of Punta Arenas when the whale surfaced and scooped him up in his mouth. I felt like I was being lifted, but it was clearly too strong to be a wave, he said.
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When I turned, I felt something blue and white passing close to my face, like on one side and above. I didn't understand what was happening. Yeah, that's so quick, because up close, a whale doesn't even look like a whale, right? They're so big, it just looks like there's walls enclosing on you, right? I went under and I thought I had been swallowed. Yeah, for sure, dude.
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God, that'd be a shit way to die, dude. Getting eaten by a whale, man, that's gotta be such a buzzkill. Such a buzzkill, dude. I turned on the camera and heard a wave crash behind me. Loudly when I turned, I didn't see anything. So that was the only moment of real fear because I didn't see Adrian for about three seconds.
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Then he suddenly shot out with the packraft, and a second later the packraft emerged, and then I saw the fin of something. It's crazy how fast that could happen. Like, what if he actually swallowed him? Like, the father would have turned around and been like, what the fuck? OK, I guess my son wasn't having a good time. He fucking bailed without he vanished. He vanished without a trace.
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OK, you could have just said he wasn't having fun. A little rude. Dude, that's crazy. I would hate to call me crazy. I would hate to be swallowed by a whale. Controversial take. I would not enjoy being swallowed by a whale. OK, that is not for me. That is not my idea of a good time.
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God's punishing you. He's tearing up all your shit because you guys are weird. These family vloggers are fucking weird, man. I'm starting the beef, dude. I'm starting the beef. I don't care. All right? We can do a boxing match. Creator Clash 3. Me versus this entire family. Okay? Not just the dad. The entire family versus me, dude. I'm kidding. I'm not going to fight women and children.
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I would not do that. Because they'd kick my ass, probably. I'm not... I'm not that strong. You know that... You know that thing, people are like, how many, like, what's the number of, like, five-year-olds, the max number of five-year-olds that you could, like, fight and win? You know, that question. And it's like, I don't, I honestly, I feel the number's got to be lower than I think.
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One of them gets me in the nuts really good, and I'm down. And then they can just fucking kill me. Right? Right? It's an interesting thought because usually you're not trying to think you're not thinking about, you know, fighting children. But then, you know. Now you're like, OK, well. Now I need to know. Now I need to do the research. Now I need to go start fighting.
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I need to fight one four year old and then the next day get up to two. And also it's like that. What is that question? Right. Like, am I killing these? You know. We can move on. I'm not trying to fight kids. Okay.
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Because I need something for the title, man. I'm thinking of something for the... I need something for the video title, and I think it's going to be... Yeah, we can talk about this. Oh, my God. Okay. Okay, so we all know... Yeah, we all know Elon Musk, unfortunately. It does suck, man.
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It sucks seeing what he... Thinking back, I don't know, five... Pre-COVID, I feel like Elon Musk, I remember him being kind of left-leaning, right? I saw a tweet recently from, I think, 2017, 2018, when he was like, Tesla has a... You know, we're very gay-friendly, right? We're inclusive and stuff. And then, you know, COVID and everything and is, you know, is friggin'
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Joe Biden, I guess, didn't invite him to like a electric car summit or some shit. And he freaked out about that. And then his his one of his children, like pretty much distanced themselves away from from him. And then he kind of just sort of got like radicalized into like the worst version of himself. It's like a very fucking scary.
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Downward trend of this person, Elon Musk, because he could have been like, you know. Could have been someone who was like, I don't know, who maybe did some good, I guess. But obviously now that's not what he is. He's like a fucking 4chan loser dude stuck in 2010 memes. I don't know what kind of fucking guy. He's so weird.
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But this is the video that I wanted to talk about because it's so cringe, man.
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Dude. I am become meme. Yeah, pretty much. Dude.
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Hello, everybody. We are so back, dude. We're so back. It's insane. Everyone said we'd never be back, and I'm back, dude. Look where I'm at, dude. Made it home, safe and sound, in one piece. Like the anime, dude. I made it back like the anime. I made it back in one piece. I don't know why I sounded like Donald Trump there for a second.
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Um, couple of weeks back home and then, uh, yeah, head out, head out back on the road. And then I got a little bit of time off and then, uh, yeah, we got some more shows coming. So stay tuned. We got more shows to announce, um, you know, to, to close out the, uh, the good fellow world tour. So, uh, it's been incredible so far, man. And, uh, yeah. Yeah.
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Dude, I want to fucking... I want to start... I want to... You know those little fucking things of skin you get on your thumb, on your fingernails? I want to grab one. I want to start there. And I want to peel all my skin off after watching that, dude. I want to peel my skin off like a fucking banana. Because... I might puke, man. I am become meme. Yeah. Dude, the interviewer's little fake laugh.
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Dude. What is the full context of that even? Dude, it's so cringe.
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This was at the conservative political action conference. What are you doing there, man? Why is he like... What? Why is he like a government official? How the fuck did that happen, dude? I feel like that's not allowed. You can't just do that because you have a lot of money. Dude, he's so cringe, bro. I'm becoming... So, dude, wearing a stupid big fucking chain. Like, what is that chain even?
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Oh, my God, dude. I... I'm getting... I'm getting nauseous, dude. Speaking of weird fucking billionaires, dude, this other thing I want to talk about... I want to talk about Mark Zuckerberg next, but I do... I am very scared for you guys in America. One, because obviously Donald Trump is the president, again, fucking somehow. Two, you have this fucking dork, Elon Musk, with...
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I'm sorry, but negative aura. I know I'm 30 and I felt gross saying that, but there's no other way of saying it. He has... It's like... It doesn't even seem human. It's like he's... He is like evil manifest. He just... And he just sort of like is just there. And just because he has a lot of money and it's... It's a very scary...
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um it's a very scary time and i really hope that we don't become the 51st state because i will i will actually i will become mean Okay, so I'm going to talk about Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook. And now he... Well, now he's meta. I guess he met a girl a while ago. And now they're married, right? Or some shit. So... For, I think it was for his birthday?
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Yeah, no, for his wife's 40th birthday. This is what Mark Zuckerberg did.
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And then he did a backflip, landed on his neck. Fucking. Dude, how sick was that? That would have been awesome, man. Also, this pause, dude, he is fucking giving. He is giving his all in this performance, dude. Why the fuck did you do this? Hey, happy birthday, babe. Everybody look at me. Happy birthday. I love you. This is about me though. How can I get, how can I make this about me?
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Hopefully we can film the show somewhere, release it somewhere as a special. It's been a good time, man. Fuck, and dude, hey, guess if my sleep schedule has been fucked ever since I got back from Australia.
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Mark Zuckerberg in any situation. How can I make this more about me?
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Also, why was Mark Zuckerberg's fucking booty jiggling like crazy in that? Okay.
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How do you do fucking... Let's do playback speed. Slow down. Enhance. Guys, if you're just listening to this, I'm so sorry. But I... You gotta see this fucking butt move. Yeah, dude. Mark... What's up? Dude. He's got a friggin... Mark Zuckerberg's got a dumper on him, dude. Who would have thought? Benson, you're out. Alright? Mark, you're in. Just learned how to do a backflip, dude.
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He probably couldn't do it. He probably couldn't do a backflip. He's too bottom heavy. That's probably why. His ass was too fat. Where was that in the social network, huh? So Jesse Eisenberg, how did you prepare for this role of Mark Zuckerberg? Well, it was a lot of squats. I do a lot of squats, man.
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Never in my life did I think I would ever see Mark Zuckerberg in a skin-tight fucking sequined blue jumpsuit singing. It's not even Facebook blue, dude. It's like a light blue. I'm disliking this. All right. I'm not fucking... I'm not poking that, okay? Yeah, weird. Also, of all people to imitate, you're going to do Benson Boone? You know what? Fuck Benson Boone. Okay?
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That guy stole my whole flow, dude. Fuck that guy. He didn't really do anything to me. You know? I don't care for his music, but I'm sure people like it, right? He's athletic. He can do flips. He can sing. That's great. Come on, man. I mean, I stole my flow from people, I'm sure. I'm from Australians, pretty much. But, you know, still. Come on, Benson.
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And if you're watching this right now, you got to fucking sue Mark Zuckerberg, okay? He's showing you up. He is showing your ass up, okay? I'm trying to think what else we can talk about for this next little bit, dude. Something a little fun, something a little sillier. How about that? Let's switch it up. Let's get a little more silly.
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Let's stop talking about fucking billionaires, man, because they suck. Okay. Okay.
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Um, the first week I was back, dude, fucked. I felt like shit, dude. I was not getting any restful sleep every day. I'd be having like two, three hour naps, waking up like disoriented and been like, fucking, where am I? Go to bed, wake up 4am on the dot. Just for like a week, man. I'm finally like slowly getting back to normal.
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I mean, I don't know if this sound is copyright, but... Dude, this was such a rough watch.
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Because it's a rough watch. I saw this... I watched the last episode of the new season of Love is Blind. Okay? I guess Jenna was watching some of it. And, I mean... Even she was like, I couldn't fucking do it. Like... And it's hard to watch, man.
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But, you know, we wanted to see... And I was, like, watching here and there, and it's like, okay, we wanted to know who's going to get married, you know, who's not going to get married, like, what's going to happen, right? Speaking of finding out what's going to happen... Sorry, one second. I'm going to find out if I won. Please play again. Good. Good, good, good, good, good. I lost.
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I lost on my fucking roll up the rim to win. But... Dude, so I'm just watching these weddings. Most of the time, it's just normal, right? The one person said no because she was like, I don't know how you – I asked you your opinions about politics, and you've been really wishy-washy, and you go to a church that doesn't accept – a homosexuality.
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So I'm going to, uh, and you don't really, you know, I, I asked you about like, uh, black lives matter and stuff. And you just like, didn't really have any opinion on it, which is crazy. So I'm, I don't think we're right. Um, which is valid, right?
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I feel like with politics, you kind of, there's always this thing where, um, where it's like, well, we used to be able to like look past people's opinions and stuff used to be able to just have, you can have your opinion. I can have mine, you know, but it's like,
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Yeah, maybe if you're talking about, I don't know, taxes, maybe even a little bit you can agree on that on both sides, but with whether or not you accept two people loving each other, just thinking that they have rights, that should be a thing that everybody... could agree on, right?
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That's like, you can't, like, I can't picture, like, it'd be crazy if your partner, if you were like, yeah, gay people, obviously they deserve to be married and they should be able to, you know, have the rights as a straight couple. And then your partner is like, nah, like, what the fuck?
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Politics, you should be, if you have a partner, you should be agreeing with them on those fundamental things, right? It's pretty fucking obvious. So as all these people on Twitter were like, it's like, and this is,
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It's like that's not what's going on at all. But this next one, dude, the next wedding, my jaw... Dude, my jaw dropped. I mean, there's no way of putting it. My jaw was on the floor, okay? My jaw was on the floor, fully agape, My mouth was just open. It was like my dog walked in there and like fell asleep in my mouth. Like it was open. It was like fully on the ground.
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And it's nice because I'm going to get my sleep schedules going to get fucked. Because I'm going to be in Europe's fucking five, what is it, five hours ahead? I mean, that's a lot better. At one point, I was like fucking, I was like 14 hours or 16 hours difference from Toronto. It's like fucking, it was brutal, man. What's up with these time differences, man? Just make it the same time everywhere.
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A huge... Because... I'm just going to play this video. And if you're just listening to this, I'll explain it after. Dude.
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In a baby blue Benson Boone-ass fucking tuxedo.
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Dude, never in my life have I seen... an embarrassing... an embarrassing act, okay? I've never... It's one thing to... Like, if that was a regular skateboard, I'd be like, still, that's fucked, that's weird. The fact that it was a longboard... That makes it like a million times worse. You can't even do tricks on that, dude.
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If he, dude, if he came down the aisle with a skateboard, you know, did a fucking, a clean ass fucking tray flip, you know, was maybe did like a, I'll back 180 crook on one of like the chairs or something. Switch frontside 360 up onto the fucking podium. And then like snap his board in half. I'd be like, okay, that's actually fucking sick. Like that'd be cool, right? A longboard?
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And he fucking, his little pushes, dude. And he's spinning a longboard, dude. He literally looks like a fucking, like when you're going to pick a character in a longboarding video game. This is what he would look like.
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Here, dad. Can you hold this? I guess. Why'd you do that? He just walked. You honestly could have cartwheeled. That would have been cooler. If he was cartwheeling down the aisle. That would have been fucking way cooler, dude. A longboard? Oh my god. Longboards are so lame. And then he just awkwardly stands up there, dude. Oh yeah, hang ten, brother. Spoiler alert. The girl didn't marry him.
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Shocker, I know. I'm fully convinced that she was going to, and then she saw him do that. Even though she probably didn't even see it, but she probably just heard it. She was like, wait, those wheels? Is the wheels gone? There's no way. He didn't longboard in there, did he? And the producers were like, yeah, he did. He longboarded. He's like, ah, fuck. All right, that's it.
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Make it the same. You know what I mean? Earth is flat. We don't need any of this bullshit, these time zones. I'm zoning out. Just hearing about it, man. Just saying it out loud.
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Nothing would give someone the ick more than that. Okay? Because that's in, and when you get married, not a lot of people know this, one of the things is, you know, do you, do you vow to, you know, stay with this person in sickness and in health, right? You know, all that stuff. And the last one is, do you vow to never give your partner the ick, right? That's the last thing they say.
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So, you know, he, fundamentally the whole thing, the wedding's a wash before he even started, dude. You know? Because you never want to give your wife the ick, man. And the baby blue suit. Dude.
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The fact that no one was just like, yo. Oh, my God, dude. Guys, let this be a warning. Boys, okay? Whatever you think is cool to do at a wedding, you know, like, no, this is me. I'm going to do me. Don't, okay? Don't. Just walk down the aisle, man. Walk down the aisle. Wear a normal suit, right? Wear a nice suit. Button it up also. Button your suit up.
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And, you know, just walk, be normal, and get married, dude. A longboard. You know, ride a fucking tandem bicycle off into the sunset. That'd actually be cute. A tandem bicycle would be cute. Yeah, dude, I got rollerblades on. I bladed down the aisle. I bladed down the aisle. She said no. She actually puked when she got to the altar because of how embarrassed she was for me and of herself.
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So, yeah, dude. Yeah, Love is Blind fucking sucks. I don't really like that show. Everyone on it, because you've got to be fucking, you've got to be a little crazy. To be on any reality show, you kind of have to be a fucking weirdo. But the ones on Love is Blind specifically... Woof. And same as Love Island, dude. I was watching a little bit of that. Fucking what the hell is that show?
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I got some new sound effects, too. It's the full one, but I like cutting it off. That is like my new favorite sound effect, dude. But only like the cutoff version, you know, the abrupt one, you know? This one's tough to time, though. And then I got that one. So we got some good ones, man. What's this one? Right. Dude, I missed this thing. Oh, hell, I've missed you.
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All it is is people... Being like, so do you like me? And then the girl's like, yeah, I think so. And the guy's like, yeah, I think I like you too. And they make out. And it's that over and over again for an hour until someone's like, oh, I got a text. I got a text message. Oh, this time we got to play a game where we kiss each other. And then it's that every episode. I fucking hate it.
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It's so boring, dude. I don't know why everybody was freaking out about it. Everybody was like, no, the new season of Love Island in the U.S. is the best one it's ever been. It's the best season ever. And if that's the best season, that show is bad. Okay? I'll tell you what show isn't bad, dude. severance. I am so mad. I didn't watch that earlier. I feel like a fucking loser. Okay.
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But I started it. I started watching it in Australia, like the last week of tour. I watched the entire first season in like two days. I was fucking so locked in and, um, now I'm all caught up and it might be my, uh, it's, it might be, I am, and no glazing here. No, I want to glaze the writers, but it might be the best television show of all time.
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Breaking Bad is up there still, but Severance, I don't know, man. I'll wait until the end. I'll wait until the entire series is done, but I'm investing now. I'm saying this is probably the best TV show I've ever created. It's so good, man. Cinematography is fucking crazy. Story is great. All the actors are awesome. It's so good. I highly recommend it.
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Another thing I recommend... I just finished the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. I started the first Mistborn novel last year. I stopped for a little bit. And I got back... finished it, loved it, read the second book, flew through that one, loved it. And I was like, that second book is better than the first one. There's no way the third one is going to be better. Oh boy, was I wrong, man.
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The last book, Hero of Ages, dude, I don't want to spoil it. I don't want to spoil it. But dude, the last half of that book, I read 200 pages in like two days, man. That's crazy for me. I just couldn't put the fucking book down, man. I was so locked in, man. The ending was, like, so good.
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Like, there was parts of that book, A Hero of Ages, there was parts of that book where I was just like, my dude, just like, just like, well, I felt the same kind, well, different, but same reaction. My jaw was open, dude. Same as watching a guy longboard down the aisle. I was like, no way. I was like, fucking... I was jumping up and down on some parts of that book, dude.
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And I haven't had that, like, ever. So it felt really cool, man. Books are, dude, not to be fucking cringe, okay? But books are literally magical, okay? They transfer you to a different world, okay? It's like, whatever. Whatever, man. Yeah, sometimes, whatever, dude. Books literally transfer you to a different world. The nonchalant reader. Yeah, whatever, man. Books are like literal magic.
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What the fuck? Shut up, man. Words on paper are literally beautiful. Yeah, it's whatever, dude. A bunch of letters in a row can create a beautiful masterpiece in a world that will change your life and outlook on the world. So it's like, whatever, dude. It's whatever, dude. Reading's not even a big deal. It's literal magic, though. That's how I felt, dude. What the fuck have I been talking?
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Okay, first up. Okay, you know what? I'm going to end this now. This main episode is done. This was a good time, but we're going to keep this party going over on the bonus episode. So we got a lot of stuff to talk about. Okay. We're going to talk about the new McDonald's play place. We're going to talk about this mega video I found.
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We're going to talk to, we're going to talk about, Oh dude, we're going to talk about the power puff girls live action trailer that got leaked. Okay. Um, The other thing I wanted to talk about on this episode, which I will say very bluntly, was the Shrek redesign. And you know what? And I do want to say, I've been meaning to get this off my chest, okay? The Shrek redesign...
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Let's see what it looks like. Just for reference, this is what the new Shrek looks like. They're making a new Shrek movie, which I'm stoked about, and everyone's freaking out about the new Shrek and how it looks bad. Hey, it looks fine. It looks fucking good, actually.
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I feel like it just looks different because it's been fucking forever since they made a Shrek movie, so the technology's gotten a little better, so it looks a little more real, okay? It looks a little more realistic, right? Like, it's fine. It looks just fine. And also, wait till it comes out, maybe. Okay? It's the same as the fucking, dude. Can everyone shut the fuck up about shit?
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The trailer for the new Pokemon game comes out, and everyone's like, it happens like fucking clockwork every Pokemon game. This looks bad. This doesn't look good. I hate it. This is bad. Okay, you're still going to buy it, and you're still going to play it. And guess what? It's going to be a lot of fun, right? Everyone's complaining about the fucking Pokemon game.
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Everyone's complaining about the fucking Invincibles animation. Hey, guys, it's good. Invincibles animation, Invincibles is actually a fucking awesome show, and the animation is really good, and it's worked on by a lot of people, and it looks great. Can everyone shut the fuck up? No, when you compare it to the comics, it's not as good. Yeah, because that's one, that's a fucking frame at a time.
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You got to do like 24 of those per second when you're fucking animating, dude. That's a lot more work. So yeah, maybe it won't look as good as the comic, not as detailed, but it looks great. I think it looks awesome, right? Dude, what else? The new Daredevil. The new Daredevil show. I don't like it. Guys, a bunch of people worked really hard to make this stuff for us to watch. And it's great.
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Dude, this feels like... It's like... This is how it feels like when, you know, in God of War... 2018... when he goes back to get his, the daggers that he's like, he's, he's put away, he's hid away that part of himself. He's like, I'm no longer spoiler alert. And he's like, I'm no longer that man. I'm no longer the God of war. I don't need these anymore. But, but then, you know,
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Am I just fucking... You guys got to get as dumb as me. You guys need to get as dumb as me because it's awesome. It is awesome up here. Everything is great. Everything I watch is great and I love it. Okay.
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Even when I fucking, I've said this, even when I like make videos, like making fun of a movie or something saying it's bad, I still have a blast watching it because it's a movie at the end of the day. Right. Every I've said this before. Okay. Every movie is good. All right. And everything looks fine and everything's going to be great. I think everyone. Has too many opinions.
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And that's ironic coming from me because I'm talking in front of a podcast microphone right now on my podcast. But I don't care. It's my podcast. I can say what I want. I just needed to get that off my chest. Everything is fine. And it looks great. And shut up. All right. Thanks for listening, everybody. I'll see you on the bonus episode. Thank you. Bye-bye.
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Duty calls, and he does need them, so he goes back, and he's like, you know. I mean, it's not really the same because I never hid this away. I never buried this anywhere due to shame, you know. But it's definitely giving that, you know.
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All right. Worst podcast ever is back in full force, dude. And we got a lot of stuff to cover today. We have a lot of topics, okay? A lot of things to discuss because it's been a while. And I've been jotting stuff down the past few weeks. And I don't think we're going to get to all of it. I really don't. On the main episode...
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So if you want more of Air Really Good, if you're listening to this podcast and you're like, man, there's just not enough of this shit. I need another 30 to 40 minutes of this guy farting around and desperately looking for a punchline.
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man head on over to the very really good patreon dude patreon.com slash very really good link in the description uh thank you so much to all the supporters over there um i did a bonus episode when i was in australia about fuck what was her name ash trevino and it sucked man i hated that shit but we did it we made it through and it was um we learned a lot Good to be home, though, man. So good.
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I miss this place. I miss Tim Hortons, dude. They got Roll Up the Rim. His back, for those of you who don't know, for those non-Canadians, actually, Tim Hortons is expanding. There's a lot of others everywhere, but I don't know if Roll Up the Rim is worldwide, but every year they do Roll Up the Rim to win when you...
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You finish it, and then you roll up the rim of the cup, and then it either says, please play again, or you could win a bunch of stuff. I'm a free fucking brand deal for Tim Hortons right now, but you could win an ATV. You could win a Volkswagen. You could win a cash gift card.
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Yeah, dude. We made it back. Australia, dude. I just finished a big tour in Australia and New Zealand. Hey, man. It's good to be home. Shows were fucking sick. They were a lot of fun. Everybody in the crowds was... Everybody was sick, man. It was awesome. Some of the best crowds you ever had. Especially that last dude. Perth was so sick. Sydney was awesome. Melbourne...
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Dude, one time, a kid I went to high school with, he won, I think it was like a $1,000 gift card, and I was like, man, I never wanted to steal something so bad. I never wanted to just fucking jump someone. I never wanted to jump my friend so bad. It was like, I think it was like a hundred bucks, but still. And it was like, dude, of course it was like my fucking rich friend.
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He had so much money who his parents gave him, dude. I'm not going to dox. I'm not going to say his name, but every day his, his mom, his, his parents would give him $20 every morning, 20 bucks, a fresh 20 for lunch and shit. Like what the fuck? And every day I'd be like, dude, can you fucking, that's fucked. I have no money. Can you buy me like a burger or something?
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And he'd be like, no, fuck off. Man, and that was like my best friend. That was like my best friend at the time, dude. He'd be like, no, fuck you. It was my money. It always pissed me off too because I was like, dude, if you just pack a lunch for a week, dude, that's a hundred bucks that you could buy like a fucking video game or some shit, right? But no.
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Obviously he wouldn't have to do that because if he wanted a video game, he'd just ask his freaking parents and they'd buy it for him. Freaking rich people, man. They suck. They suck, man. Um... No, you know what? If I did, I'm never going to have a kid, but that would be sick, though.
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If I did have a kid, it's nice now that I'm comfortable enough now that if I did have a kid, I'd be like, you know what? I could give you $20 every day for lunch, but I wouldn't. I don't think I would. I don't think I would, man, because what does that teach you, right? That doesn't teach you nothing, right? If I had a kid, I wouldn't give him shit, dude.
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Dude, if I had a kid, I wouldn't give him fucking anything, okay? He wouldn't even have a bed, dude. What does that teach you? Huh? He wouldn't even have books, dude. What do those teach you? He wouldn't even have teachers, dude. What do they teach you? Here's what he would have. He would have... Uh... A terrible life, number one.
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But two, he would have one of those water jugs like guinea pigs have. And then a hamster wheel. But a really big one. And then just like a bunch of hay. I think I just want a hamster. I think I just need a hamster. It's like, yeah, we're trying. We really love watching living things run on a hamster wheel. It's like, why don't you just get a hamster? It's like, oh, yeah. That's true.
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But hamsters usually don't live. Okay. Hamster, I hardly know her. We're back, dude. We're so back. We are so back, dude. If we're any part of the human body, we're the back, okay? Okay. Let's get into it, dude. So, recently, I uploaded a YouTube video, much like I am with this podcast, but my main channel. I uploaded a video, okay? We got some... It was about the LeBrand family, okay?
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It was about the LeBrand family. I'm not going to beat around the bush. It was about the LeBrand family. Okay. And, um, If you guys don't know, brief summary. They, super religious, they put out an app called the Bear Fruit app. It was like a parenting app. And it sucks, and it was bad. And they're also, he also, the husband was also recruiting people into a pyramid scheme.
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um melbourne was crazy because we the palais theater um that was the one we did in 2023 did one show there it was awesome um i don't even think that one sold out but it was like pretty packed and it was like it was one of the biggest venues i've ever done and then we came back two years later fucking first one sold out and then the second one almost sold out but So it felt really cool, man.
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So it was pretty gnarly. I was just making a video, just frigging, Just sort of dunking on them, like 360 under the legs, over a car, trampoline style. Perfect, hands across the board, dunking on them. Just absolutely dunking on them. 2016 dunk contest, Zach Levine. I think it was 2016. Absolutely Zach Levine dunking on them. Yeah, some people are not happy about it, okay? Yeah.
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A lot of religious people, a lot of Christian people were upset, which is fun because I really didn't make fun of Christianity that much. You know, I poked a little fun, but the thing is, If you even mention, the thing about Christianity, it's so interesting because if you even just mention it at all, people are like, dude, you went too far. You went too far this time, Kurt.
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I've been a longtime fan, but this was the line. You crossed it. Much like Jesus, the thing that Jesus was on, you crossed it. You went, and you crossed over that line, all right? And now I'm no longer watching. Okay, see ya. Don't let my fist hit you on the way out. You know what I mean? So a lot of Christian people are upset.
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And there was a few family channels that commented that were pretty upset. One was funny. Sam and Nia commented. Bro, chill out. You have a channel slandering people and you act like you're any better? Okay, number one, if you're asking if I'm better than the LeBrants, yes, absolutely I am.
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That's fun. Sorry, guys, I had a little bit of technical difficulties there. Okay. Still got a little bit of them, but we're figuring out.
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All right. So, yeah, dude, that was the comment someone left. Sam and Nia, I'm calling y'all out, okay? I'm starting beef with you guys. The family. Bro, chill out. You have a channel slandering people and you act like you're any better? Yes. Yeah, I actually can. Morally, I think I can say that I'm better. than Cole against Savannah LeBrand.
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And I'm not being like, yeah, I'm better than you, but I am. And so are mostly all of you. Pretty much people, hey, here's the thing. If there's one person who doesn't film their children and exploits their childhood for monetary gain, and then there's someone who doesn't, The person who doesn't do that is automatically better, right? Unless that person is like, you know, like a serial killer.
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But I'm not that. So, I think I am better. Also, it's like, just because I'm slandering someone or calling someone out, that means I'm not good? Like, that's not like you're not allowed to do that? Bro, how dare you call them out? That's not Jesus... God would not want you to do that. So yeah, Sam and Nia, what kind of fucking videos do you guys do? Just bullshit.
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Birth vlog. Eight years ago. And the fucking... The thumbnail is a baby. Baby. Like a fucking fresh out of the womb and you're shoving a camera in his face and posting on YouTube. You guys are fucking weird. This is weird. You guys are weird as fuck, man. Tornado at the cabin. Taking cover in the bathtub. Yeah, God's punishing you guys. Okay, that's why there's a tornado at your cabin.
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I just felt so much love in Australia, man. It was just so much love from the fans, from the crowds, dude. And it was just sick, man. A ton of the shows were sold out. It was great, man. And it's all done now. Europe and UK is up next. Those are all pretty much sold out also. And... Yeah, dude. Stoked. Got a couple of weeks back home.
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Okay, so yeah, he's just been like a crazy... Oh, spoiler alert. He's just been a crazy kind of fucker. He's just sort of been a crazy fucker for a while. And his most recent controversy, it's a little less blatant. You know, you kind of got to read between the lines here. Yeah, he was on SNL, dude. And you know the end of SNL when they're like, the host is like, thank you so much for watching.
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Give it up for this fucking person who sang songs and stuff. And then, all right, good night. And then, you know, everybody is like hugging each other. I mean, like, we did it. Another successful episode. Under the belt.
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Um, this is what Morgan Wallen did. Okay, he gives Mikey Madison a little hug, and then he just fucks off. Walks right past the camera. He leaves the cast just all alone. They're standing there like, where's Morgan?
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So, obviously a little weird, right? He was like, babe, I fucking hate this. Get me out of here. Right? Maybe he was, you know, maybe he had to shit. Right? Maybe he had to... Maybe he had to, you know... Maybe he was late for something. Maybe he had to catch a flight home. He was in a rush, right? We don't know. But... We do know. OK, he was rushing to his private jet.
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OK, because we have a picture on his Instagram shortly after his SNL appearance. He posted on his Instagram story a picture of his. I think this is out of the window of his private jet. Which is just so southern, salt of the earth, southern, hard-working guy for the blue-collar generation, right?
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Taking a picture from his private jet, and it says, Get me to God's country. Now that gets a big, old...
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What the hell, bro? Give me to God's country. So I think we can, you know, With the evidence provided, you know, him storming off SNL super early, going right to a jet, being like, get me the fuck out of here. Give me a God's country. You know, God's country is like, you know, Texas, the South. OK, so I guess he was on SNL and then he was like, oh, wait, hold up. Hold up for a second.
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There's people of color and gay people on this show and they actually work on it and they're here.
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Oh, my God. Can't do that. Like, what a fucking child, dude. Like, what a little boy.
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Give me a God's country, man. Get me out of here. I can't... I can't stay another minute in this humongous city.
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Get me to an open field. Like, just don't do SNL then, man. You're gonna be such a fucking baby about it.
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Just why'd you have to do it, gang? I feel like SNL is pretty... You know what that is. It's like a... They constantly make fun of Trump and shit. Like, I feel like you should know what you're getting into, right? And then to be like, get me to Gov's country, man. He is literally this meme. Conservative guy, scared of cities. Saw that thing on the news. Too many of those people there.
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Can't park for super duty. I'm not scared, bro. He's literally that. He is that meme. And Jenna made a great point. I brought this up to Jenna before talking about this, and then she was like, It's crazy that, like, people on the right, you know, conservative people like this, Southerners, right?
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You know, they're so, like, anti-woke, right? And they're like, you guys get so fucking triggered over shit, right? The left gets so triggered. And then, like, look at this shit, man. You just had to sing some of your fucking songs in New York City. And then you're like, I can't fucking deal with this shit, man. Too many loud noises.
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Yeah, so what's been going on, guys? I was just on a little trip, a little vacation. A little trip to the desert. And it was sick as fuck, man. We went to the desert. We... We just freaking chilled, man. We chilled. We went swimming. We read books. I read one book. I read the first book in the Stormlight Archive series. It's called The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson. And it was really good.
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Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Yeah, so I don't think Morgan Wallen is going to be invited back. He didn't even get to friggin' throw a chair anywhere, dude. He threw a fit. He threw a fit. He's always throwing chairs. Sometimes he's throwing chairs, sometimes he's throwing fits, man. Um... I guess we could talk about this too. This is also in the music industry.
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It was a music industry drama, not really drama, but an interesting story. This is regarding Jojo Siwa I wanted to talk about. I saw this and I wanted to go over it with you because I saw this. This seems to be a trend going forward and I wanted to discuss it a little bit. We got an article here. Jojo Siwa is selling VIP tour tickets for over $900 where fans can help her crew set up for concerts.
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And in quotes here it says, you're going to get to kind of help us set it up and make sure things are right, said Siwa of the VIP package offered for her upcoming tour. Yeah, so JoJo Siwa is doing a tour, an upcoming tour, and I don't know what that fucking show is going to be like.
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In Toronto, she's actually performing at the Danforth Music Hall where I recorded Keep Busy, my first stand-up special, and that's super fun to think that we are the same. Well, not really. Hers will be standing room, so I'm not as big as JoJo Siwa. She'll physically and, you know, I think she's pretty tall. But yeah, let's read this article.
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Have you ever wanted... Because apparently you can pay... for a VIP ticket that you have to, like, go and work? You set up the show for her? Have you ever wanted to work on JoJo Siwa's touring crew? No.
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The Karma singer, Dwanae Won, announced her upcoming North American tour on March 24th, and among the options for tickets are several VIP packages, including one where fans can help her crew set up for the concerts. That's a job, though. Yeah, it's like someone's job. You're paying? 900 bones? to do physical labor? Billed as a Dream Guest VIP option. Okay, Dream is crazy.
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Priced at over $900 per fan, the package includes an exclusive invitation to JoJo's live show setup and the ability to help the Dance Moms alum put together the show with song selection input. Okay, so maybe you're not doing physical labor. You're just like there. Maybe you're like, maybe you should do karma at the end. And she's like, fucking yeah, that's what I was going to do.
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In a new interview with Access Hollywood, Siwa described Dream Guest VIP as the most exclusive package offered for the upcoming tour. You're actually going to get to come during while we're loading in the show and you're going to get to kind of help us set it up and make sure things are right and test out the drum with me or the DJ booth with me. Okay, so that's a little better, right?
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You're kind of just hanging out before you're testing out the drum, just one drum. You get to bang on a drum for $900. And then according to the tour website, the Dream Guest VIP package also includes a ticket to watch the show from a designated viewing area, exclusive autographed memorabilia worn by Siwa on stage, access to pre-show soundcheck, Q&A at a meet and greet with Siwa, as well as VIP.
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Yeah, I fucking hope you get all this shit, dude. Pre-show shopping? Ooh. You have to spend more money before everybody else? It would be crazy if you could do all those stuff beforehand, but then not meet her. Like, you can put in a bunch of, like, input, but then you can't be like, by the way, JoJo, my name is, and she's like, no, no, no, shut up. You didn't pay for that.
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It's a separate package. The meet and greet is separate. Okay, live performance. Okay, JoJo Siwa live. Live performance featuring new and old hits, DJ set, immersive party, audience participation. That's going to be interesting, and I have to go. Yeah, I think it's interesting to start charging people money to go and help you set up. That seems weird to me.
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That seems like it should be the other way around. Do you want to come and sell merch? It only costs $1,000, but you don't get a shirt. I don't understand... It's kind of genius, though. If you can get people to freaking, you know, do that, I guess. I got to start doing that for my tours, man. Because the thing is, super easy to set up. You just need like a microphone on stage and like a stool.
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So, yeah, if I could charge a thousand bucks. Anybody down to do that? Anybody? Just kidding. That'd be crazy. But this is a trend, okay? Because just a few weeks ago, I saw that Gene Simmons was also doing this. His is a little more gnarly, though. Okay, this one. The ultimate Gene Simmons experience. You know Gene Simmons from Kiss? The singer of Kiss? And the bass player?
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Bass is the most underrated instrument in music, I think. Music without a bass guitar. Rock music without a bass guitar? It would suck, right? But also at the same time. You know what I mean? Okay, let's see. The ultimate Gene Simmons experience. You'll be Gene Simmons' personal assistant and band roadie for the day. Why? And this is what it looks like?
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Okay, the experience includes... You will meet up with Gene and Gene Simmons band members early in the day, either at his hotel or designated location, to go over the band's show day schedule. That's gotta be fucking rough. Meeting Gene Simmons at a hotel in the morning? You're like, hey guys, I'm here also. What's on the docket for today? Are we gonna...
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It was really good. I'm on a Brandon Sanderson kick. And I actually just found out.
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Rock and roll all night and party every day. You will be on the Gene Simmons Band team crew for the entire day. That's a full work day. That is a work day, physical labor. You will get a Gene Simmons Band crew member shirt and hat. You will get a Gene Simmons Band crew member VIP laminate. You will have a meal with Gene Simmons at the hotel or backstage of the show.
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I guess this is what they're advertising in this picture. You get to have a sad... dinner with gene simmons with your fucking buddy you get to eat like what you get to eat a plate of broccoli with gene simmons and he's gonna sit there depressed in a leather jacket um at the hotel or backstage at the like that's such a bummer dude you will arrive.
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Like today, actually, that apparently he is. Apparently he's a Mormon. The author is a Mormon. Let's go.
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And he's like, he's not even like, if this was a thing, like when kiss was cool, which was fucking never, but even at like the height of kisses, popularity, like maybe this would be fun. Cause he'd be like, all right, let me see. You can watch me do my makeup. Right. But now it's just like, he's just a guy. He's just an old guy.
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Now this is like volunteering at a, this is like spending a lot of money to like work at an old folks home. Right.
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okay sorry let's see what else you get you will arrive and load into the venue with the band so this is this one compared to the jojo c11 you're actually putting in work you're actually doing physical labor you're helping out doing load in also i feel like that would fuck things up you don't know where shit goes it would just make it so much worse for all the actual crew members right you will help the band set up for the show okay
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You will hang out backstage. Sounds like a threat. You will hang out backstage. Okay? There'll be no ands, ifs, or buts about it. You will hang out backstage. And if you don't, I'm going to kill you. You will sit in on soundcheck. Gene Simmons will bring you on stage during the show and introduce you. Dude, that's so embarrassing. And you'll know why that's so embarrassing coming up.
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Unless it's on the screen already. Dude, this is $12,000. That's why this is embarrassing. Gene Simmons is going to bring you up on stage to a crowd of hundreds. And be like, this fucker paid 12 G's to fucking carry guitars. He's a loser. You will get a set list signed by Gene Simmons. You can take photos throughout your entire experience. You may bring one guest.
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You may bring four items for Gene to sign. And you get a Gene Simmons kiss rehearsal used bass signed by Gene Simmons. Only one ultimate experience sold per show date. Damn. You get to be a roadie too? You get to be a groupie? You will suck Gene's dick. You will find cocaine for the band. And if you don't, you'll be kicked out. You may even try heroin.
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I may have judged them too harshly. You know. But, yeah, I really like it. It was long as fuck, dude. It was like 1,200 pages. And I could have just read the Bible then. I could have just read the full Bible. How many pages is the Bible? Does anybody know? How many pages in the Bible? Dude, the Bible typically has around 1,200 pages. Dude, I fucking nailed that.
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You will get fucking alcohol poisoning with the Gene Simmons band. Part of me is like, should I do this for a video? But that is so much money. That is like a stupid amount of money. If it was like a thousand bucks, I'd be like, yeah, that's a business expense. Right? Damn, bro. May 15th, he's going to be in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Okay, guys, let me know. Let me know if I should do this.
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If I should be Gene Simmons... roadie for a day and make a video about it i would definitely lose money on this but it would be very funny so let me know um what are we at 30 something all right i might wrap this one up because we i have a bonus to do and um It's going to be fun. So guys, if you guys want to hear more, more Very Really Good, check out the Patreon.
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Patreon.com slash Very Really Good. I'm going to keep it going over there. We're going to rock and roll. And yeah, man. Thanks for tuning in and appreciate it. And I will see you on the next one. Peace.
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It worked, man. Let's go. Five minutes in. We got it.
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Um... But yeah, dude. That's what's been going on.
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Like I said, I leave for tour pretty soon. Um...
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I just found out that apparently some cities, I guess it's customary, not customary, I guess it's common in UK and Europe to do like I guess intermission is more popular, I guess. All the venues have been like, so opener will go, there'll be an intermission, and then Curtis will go on stage. Which sounds really funny because that's just not how comedy shows work at all, right?
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You kind of like have to, you know, you build off the momentum, you get the crowd excited, that's what the opener does, comes out, does some bits, gets the crowd excited, right? Gets some laughing, you know? And then there's just going to be like 20 minutes of just nothing for the intermission. So that'll be fun if you guys are going to one of the shows that has an intermission. Sorry in advance.
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It's going to feel weird, but you know. Or maybe you won't. Maybe you won't. Maybe that's the way that we should be doing it. And I'm just so... That's just the Western way, you know? Okay, so we got some stuff to talk about this week. We're also... I'm also going to be recording a bonus. A bonus episode this week. And that'll be over on patreon.com slash... They'll be really good.
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So you guys are free to check out the link in the description.
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And you can support if you want. Speak out, Link. Dude.
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Dude, they're doing a friggin' live-action Legend of Zelda movie, man. Isn't that crazy? I can't believe it. I remember that trailer, that fake trailer that fuckin' IGN uploaded back in, like, 2010 for a live-action Zelda movie, and I believed it. That fuckin' got me, dude. I think it was an April Fool's joke. I'm recording this in April Fool's, too. April Fools or Fools? Um...
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So yeah, I wonder who's going to play all the characters, man. I want to do my dream casting right now. My ideal cast.
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So Link, it's got to be Chris Pratt. Link's going to be Chris Pratt. Zelda should be played by Awkwafina. And Ganondorf is going to be played by Jack Black.
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And I think that's pretty much the main character, right? I don't know which Zelda game they're basing it off of, but that's my top three. Chris Pratt as Link, Awkwafina as Zelda, and then Jack Black as Ganondorf. Yeah, that'll do that. If, if Hollywood, if you got, if you got a pair of nuts on you, you'll do that. All right.
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269 is hilarious. Normally, 269 is 269s. As everybody knows, as everybody says all the time, you can't get people to stop saying that shit. Um, yeah, this is, uh, this is, if you, you could probably notice, I'm not, I'm not in my, uh, I'm not in my studio. It is being fumigated right now. That's a lie. It's not. I just... I leave for tour soon.
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Chicken jockey. Like what will, I do wonder what it's going to be like to you.
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If it's, if it's actually live action, because I was in the impression it was going to be like the Mario movie that was, you know, it was animated and Chris Pratt was in it. Um, I don't know. Again, as always, I'm going to let them cook and I'm sure it's going to be fine because at the end of the day, every movie is good. All right. And I've said that before and I'll say it a million times.
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Guys, we got some stuff to talk about, though. I think on the bonus, we're going to save this for the bonus, okay? This is too late now. I was going to do the morning routine, all those stuff, all that stuff. I think I'm going to save that for the bonus. It's just too late now. Stuff moves so fast, dude. So I'm going to do a whole bonus episode about that routine, the morning routine.
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But let's get into this first topic. SNL, okay? And we got some SNL drama. Do we have to change subject sound effect on here? I've heard that sound so many times now. It's like a Pavlovian response to it. It's like, oh, okay, got to talk about a new thing now. Like I swear, if I was talking to a group of my friends about something, I was telling them a story.
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you know, I'd be like, so yeah, guys, you're not going to believe it. I went to the grocery store and you're not going to believe what I saw. Dude, I saw Tristan. And like someone could play this, like the sound halfway through, like, yeah, I saw Tristan, dude. Anyways, I saw this movie. Like I would just totally, I'd have to, I'd have to change subject immediately.
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And I just want to be home as much as I can before I gotta leave, okay? That's God's truth, alright?
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We got SNL drama, though, dude. The worst type of drama. Saturday night. Live. Okay? And that's the thing, man. When something is live, shit, you can't change it, man. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. You can't put the toothpaste by the tube. Even though you probably fucking could, though, right? That saying was always weird.
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So, you know, once you squeeze the toothpaste out of the tube, you can't get it back in. Yeah, you can, actually. You cut it with scissors, put it back in, tape it up. Fucking idiots. So, SNL Saturday Night Live took place last week. I believe it was on a Saturday night. And Morgan Wallim was the musical guest. He's had quite the career. He's had quite the...
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um, run-ins, you know, quite the amount, quite the, quite the list of controversies, I will say. Um, and this is nice, the USA, I guess, today, put in, uh, a timeline of Morgamal's controversies and legal troubles. Let's figure, let's put a nice backstory on this guy, because he's not, he's not immune to, uh, You know, all this crap, right? Last night we lit the liquor pile.
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So, you know, I'm missing a few of my sound effects. Which really sucks. I wonder if I can add them live right now.
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Okay, January 2016, Wallen was arrested, charged with driving under the influence, which is always super cool. You know, that's actually cool if you do that, because Uber actually didn't, exists yet in 2016, especially not caps. And you know what? Sometimes you just gotta get all fucked up and you know, drive around. May 2020, Wallen arrested, charged with public intoxication.
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May 24, 2020, Wallen was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and public intoxication. His arrest came after the country singer was thrown out of Kid Rock's Honky Tonk Steakhouse in Nashville. Hey man, is that a real place? Kid Rock's Honky Tonk Steakhouse. Yeah. And if you're getting thrown out of Kid Rock's establishment, you gotta be a real scumbag, dude.
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He was probably doing something nice in there. To be thrown out of that fucking idiot's honky tonk steakhouse. Because Kid Rock, he hates like, you know, he was like singing at Trump's inauguration and shit. So someone in there, maybe Morgan Wall was in there like, yeah, maybe gay people should be allowed to get married. And he was like, get the fuck out of here. Or else I'll shoot you.
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Wallen was ejected from the bar. That word is hilarious because I'm picturing him getting shot through the ceiling on like a spring, like a cartoon. Wallen was ejected from the bar after being disorderly and kicking glass items. Wallen addressed the incident in a cis-deleted post on Twitter. Hey, y'all, this is Juan de Clavier. I went out downtown last night with a few old friends.
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After a couple bar stops, we were horse-playing with each other. I was on my friend's back, and he was galloping around the bar, and I may have kicked a few glass items. We didn't mean any harm, and we want to say sorry to any bar staff or anyone else affected. Okay. Okay, public intoxication. I mean, I've been intoxicated in public before. I guess he just got caught.
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Because I can't fucking do this podcast without my sound effects, man. I like hardly edit on this computer anymore. So I don't have all my good sound effects. These guys, this is terrible. Let's see how quickly I can So quickly, I didn't have the sound effect. I want the get out sound effect. Because it's so... It's so funny. No, it's not funny. I've got school.
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Okay, and then in October 2020, Wallen faces public backlash for allegedly violating COVID-19 protocols. Partying without a mask. Right? Now that's gonna happen. And then February 2021, Wallen's recording contract suspended after his use of a racial slur. And then he cancels a summer tour with a handwritten letter. That's so cringe, dude.
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And then he was banned from award shows and then arrested for throwing a chair from a rooftop bar, right? Okay, that was the only thing that he did. I remember that. Last night, I threw a chair off the roof. Can't remember why I did it, but I threw a chair off the roof.
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It refers to the act of pausing to fully experience and acknowledge a moment. Okay, so you're holding space for someone. You're like, okay, you can... You can say whatever you want. This is a safe place and there's no judgment and you're safe here. That's great. But I'm confused how you hold space for lyrics. Holding space for... Let's hear her say it one more time.
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Nothing feels better than just, like, your coughing all day, and then you get a nice fucking wet one. Nice fucking juicy wet one. You know? Then you spit out that fucking, uh... That fucking, uh... You remember ooze tubes? Remember those candies? Ooze tubes? That's what you spit out. Some fucking gunk. Just... Like one of those dinosaurs in Jurassic Park that killed that one guy.
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Are they holding space for the fact that they're taking the lyrics? Or they're just holding space for the lyrics? That's what I don't... So to these lyrics, they're like, yeah, no judgment here. No judgment here for these lyrics. I don't judge them. These lyrics can say whatever they want. What the fuck's going on with my TV, dude? All right, it's flickering like shit, but whatever.
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And dude, the finger hold. That is, dude, they're so, this is so funny, dude. Because, like, that's the thing, like, there is no other way to respond to that. Fucking tell me if I'm out of line here as well. Because, like she says at the end, you know, she's in queer media and stuff. And I'm a fucking straight white guy, so I don't want to be, I don't want to be like, this is dumb.
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Because, like, maybe I just don't know. And, you know, sometimes that happens. But, like, how would you respond to that? I think they both killed it, right? I think Cynthia was like, I don't know that was happening, but that's great. That's what I wanted. I want people to, you know, feel the lyrics, listen to them, right? And then Ariana Grande's like, yeah, I'm here for you, dude.
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Give me that finger. Give me your finger. Let me hold on to it.
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And then you could tell, because Cynthia, she keeps being like, dude, I'm sorry for this fucking play-by-play, but it's so funny that she's like, I don't know what's happening. She's making it seem like it's a huge viral thing of people holding space for these lyrics, right? Um... And then she, so she says it like two or three times. Like, I don't know if this is happening.
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And then you can tell the interviewers like, well, I mean, like I've seen it. I don't know if it's viral. Sorry to give you the wrong idea, but I've seen it.
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That's really cool, dude. Incredible video, dude. Holding space. For these lyrics. I hope y'all are holding space with this podcast, man. I really do. This is a safe space that we can, for me anyway. Well, I mean, you can too. I can say, you know, this is a safe space for me to goof around, sort of make jokes and stuff. And I hope this is a safe space for you as well.
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You can sort of goof around and make jokes. You can also talk at me. I hope this is a conversation. I hope this podcast isn't just you listening. I hope this is also you giving your responses to everything I say. And not in the comments or anything. I want you to verbally say them. But they actually did an interview with the journalist.
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And I would love to go through this because I actually haven't read this yet, so I'm really curious. Yeah, let's see what... Users on X and TikTok ran wild with the footage, though. Gil Cray said it really didn't take off until last week. Some of them spoke in front of the deep sincerity of the exchange, which contained little information, but somehow wildly resonated with the stars. Um... Yeah.
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Okay, so what is holding space? Why has this moment captivated? All right. Tell me about the day of the junket. Did you have any concept of what this would become? I just did what I do going in and doing an interview. I tend to be that person who goes in and asks a socially relevant question or perhaps more serious than most. Mind you, this interview happened a day and a half after the election.
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all right hey guys what's up welcome back welcome back to the podcast everybody welcome back um Yeah, this is, uh... This episode 261, I believe. Uh... Yeah, thanks for tuning in, everybody. Thank you. Um... Dude, I'm like... I'm friggin' self-conscious about my voice now. Um... Dude, fuckin'... So, I'm... I'm sick. You know how that happens sometimes?
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I'd interviewed Cynthia before, so I went in very sincerely. Okay. I want to see what she thinks. Okay. How would you define holding space? This is it from the actual journalist. I was very inspired by Tony Morrison from GLAAD. He posted lyrics to Defying Gravity before I did my interview. It was a great explainer.
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So I've been sick. I've been fucking sick, man. Filmed a video while I was sick. I think I'm still a little sick, too. And I guess my voice sounded a little deeper. And then, dude, all the fucking comments on my new video are just...
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Holding space is being physically, emotionally, and mentally present with someone or something. For me, it means being in the moment, not being distracted, and feeling something on a cellular level. I think you can hold space with lyrics of a song, one you've heard hundreds of times, and it can suddenly take on new meaning when you're a queer person. Okay.
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The Trump administration is targeting LGBTQ plus people via Project 2025 when Cynthia sings, I'm through accepting limits. There's power in that. She plays a character who is othered, one who comes to her full power when she is exiled by a charlatan, by a cruel... Okay, spoiler alert. I haven't seen the fucking movie, dude. This is a brand new movie that just came out.
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How am I supposed to know the story? How am I supposed to know the story of Wicked, this brand new movie that just came out like two days ago? All these people fucking spoiling it all over online. All over online. It's like, did these people get fucking early screenings? Like, how the fuck do you know it was going to happen?
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There's a lot of resonance there right now for anyone who is marginalized. For me, holding space is listening to those lyrics anew and finding solace for inspiration. You know what? you know what, you know what that gets? I'm holding space for that response right there, dude, because that that's true, dude.
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I mean, when you take in the account of when it was, when the interview took place, what the song is about, you know, I get it. I understand. Cause I don't know what the song is about. Cause again, I'm never going to watch the movie. Um, You know, it's cool how movies can have a marketing budget of $4 billion. Every return, it's like, wicked, wicked. It's like, fuck, I get it. All right?
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Sometimes too much marketing makes me not want to see a movie because I'm a contrarian and I'm a fucking – I'm a little loser. How have you dealt with the response? It's been really wild. Of course there are cynics and haters out there, but I'm really trying not to pay too much attention to that.
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This is for us, for queer people who understand what I meant by holding space, or really for anybody who feels marginalized and can relate. So it's for us. It's not for them. They can hate all they want. Fuck yeah, dude. Okay. Most of it actually came from a conversation... Okay, do you recall any of the posts that inspired your question? Most of it actually came from a conversation with a friend.
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I was using that to tee up the question, and I was a little thrown off by Cynthia's response because it was so sincere and real. I was a little flustered. I could have said, I have all these friends and this is our conversation, but instead I said, I'm in queer media. Dude, I called it. I called it. It's a catchphrase now.
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Yo, that is actually like... It's pretty iconic when you can make a fucking... A whole catchphrase, right? Have you gotten recognized on the street? Saturday night I went to a Cyndi Lauper show in LA. There were a couple of men next to me staring, doing double takes. I'm not sure. I joked that I wanted to pull a Sally Field and soap dish and go down to West Hollywood. I don't know what that means.
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Okay, well, they said something about merch. Are they going to do merch? They said there was merch. Where's the thing about merch? Oh. Dude. That is a fucking, dude, that's killer. I feel like she's got to strike while the iron's hot. If she came out with the Holding Space podcast, dude, that would crush. Start a Holding Space podcast. Collab with TalkTua.
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about how deep my voice sounds, and I didn't know, I didn't even notice, because, you know, it's my voice every day, and I don't hear what it sounds like, because I'm me, you know, remember the first time you hear your voice on, like, a recording, and you're like, wait, what the fuck, that's what I sound like, I'm pretty used to it now, I feel like I have a good sense of what I sound like, because I fucking, that's my job, but
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Dude, the internet will fucking break in half, dude. Full fucking seismic, full fucking, dude, this earthquake, earthquake, earthquake on the internet. It'll split in half. And that'll be the intro of the podcast. Yo, I just had to talk about it, dude, because it was such an interesting clip. And I just love a good meme like that. It's so versatile.
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I hope people... I know there is a lot of queer people who do listen to this podcast. And I hope you know I'm not fucking dunking on y'all or anything. I just... You know. I just think it's a little... It's just a funny little... It's a funny little meme. I want to talk about it. Because the last thing I want is people to think that I'm fucking making fun of them. But... But fuck, dude.
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That's such a good clip. Um... Holding space. Also, isn't holding space, isn't that how you enter the cheats on the Sims? Type in motherload and a bunch of semicolons and you hold space or whatever. Enter or what is it? I don't know. Hold space. Oh, that's a little joke. They can't all be good, but it's still a joke. Our hold space is when
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You know, you want to jump over and over again in Minecraft. Boo. Boo. Yeah, dude, shout out. What is the journalist's name? I feel bad. Whoa, what the fuck? I'm fucking hacking this thing. I didn't mean to. Whoa! I pressed like the inspect element or some shit and a bunch of fucking code came up. Okay, Tracy E. Gilchrist. Shout out to you. You're welcome anytime on the podcast, dude.
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Let's, you know, let's collab. I'll hold some space for sure. Yeah, but shout out Wicked, man. Shout out to that movie that I will never watch. But I'm easily persuaded, so leave a comment. Let me know why I should see Wicked, okay? Leave a comment. Let me know what is so good about it, why I should watch it, all right? Because I have no desire, but, you know. And I love musicals, man.
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I'm not against the format. Love Wizard of Oz, right? There's just something I'm just like, you know what? I don't really, I don't know. I don't know what it is. But like I said, I can be persuaded. Okay? Dude, what are we at right now? Dude, we're at fucking half hour already? 27 minutes? Alright, let's talk about one more thing. Because we got a lot. This is a big one, too.
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Um, yeah, man, I listen and also it could be sick. It could be second puberty. All right. A lot of people don't know that happens to dudes, but it does. It happens to guys, man. You go to the first puberty when you're about, um, you know, 13 to 15, maybe, you know, 15 and I'm 30. So now it's time to hit my second puberty when I'm 30. And then, you know, so on and so forth.
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This is sort of a continuation of another podcast. Episode. That, uh... Episode 253. All right? 253 of my podcast is called This Conservative Cartoon is Hilariously Unfunny. It's about the new norm, okay? For those of you who don't know what the new norm is, it's the first animated sitcom on X. Um, you can watch that other episode, other episode to get all the lore.
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I'm not going to go into all of it now, but it's like an animated cartoon that is on X Twitter. Um, and it's made by the dude who voiced the pig in toy story. He does a bunch of other voices. Um, And they're just selling a bunch of shit now. It's sort of, like, really sad. So, newnorm.tv. This is the website. Make America funny again. The New Norm is an animated sitcom for our woke world.
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An edgy yet family-friendly comedy that shines a funny light. Dude, I'm not holding space for this shit. All right? No space. I'm not holding space for New Norm at all. Those were the days when girls were girls and men were men. Yeah, all in the family. Okay. These are the days when girls aren't girls and men aren't men. And then you got, of course, fucking Dylan Mulvaney.
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Now is the time for the new norm. And then, okay, first off, Ugliest website I've ever seen in my life. This is, this looks like early internet bullshit. Just put on a bunch of fucking gifts. I don't know what, there's like an AI generated video of Elon Musk and AOC and Norm. There's a TikTok, a bunch of, like just, just a bunch of ugly bullshit. And now they're also selling shit.
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Because, obviously, that was always the plan. They do this for... Just to make fucking... Just to make... It's all fucking shit for cash. Hoodies and crewnecks. Dude, imagine buying one of these, dude. The new norm. Make America normal again. I just want normal beer. Ugly. These are ugly as fuck. Normcore. Not woke. Dude, I... What kind of fucking dork do you got to be to buy one of these, man?
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The trucker hat. I just want normal beer. Okay, the trucker hat kind of eats, but I've never wear it. I'm also joking. All this shit is fucking ugly. Yeah, so apparently they put out a second episode. I couldn't find it on Twitter. I can only find it on YouTube. It's like fucking channel uploaded. I don't know who it is. Let's watch it together and we're going to do a good old react video. Goof.
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I didn't watch this yet. I wanted to do fresh react for y'all. I haven't watched any of this. So we're going to tune in and see how fucking dog shit it is. I don't think it could be any worse than the first episode. But we'll see. It is called Electile Dysfunction. It's not even worth a fucking sound effect, but I'm still going to do it. Alright. It's two minutes long.
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So every 15 years, roughly, I guess, you hit puberty. So when I'm 45, check back in. And I'm going to be still doing the same thing. Still going to have a podcast. Still going to be making YouTube videos. Still going to be doing stand-up when I'm 45. And... Dude, I'm going to be so different. I'm going to be like right-wing conservative. No, I'm not. I'm really not.
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Why do I fucking do this to myself, man? I gotta start talking about, like... I gotta change this whole podcast. I'm having an existential crisis because of this fucking video. I need to change this podcast to, like, shit I like. I'm gonna start reacting to, like, like, fucking skateboard videos or something. Or I'm gonna watch, like,
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gonna put on like fucking inception i'm gonna put on i don't know fucking jingle all the way and just watch it and be like oh nice would that be that'd be better for my mental health i think because fucking watching this bullshit sucks balls dude
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I want to rip. I want to peel my skin off. I want to peel my skin off. There are bugs under my skin, and I want them out. Dude. So... Isn't the whole thing... Also, okay. I have so many things. Okay. Well, number one. Go to any liquor store, beer store... Or if you're in America, grocery store or drug store because you also have liquor there. Dude, I've never seen a beer with a rainbow on it.
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But I'm going to go through my third puberty when I'm 45. That's what happens, man. It's a part of life. It's a part of being a man, you know? Go through that third puberty. And then the fourth one when you're 60. We're all trying to get the most amount of puberties in our life, you know? And that's just facts, dude. But thanks for tuning in, everybody. Thank you. I appreciate it.
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I mean, fucking dead serious. Like anywhere. There's so many beers that are normal. Most beers are. I'm actually like... Next time I go get beer, I'm gonna look exactly... I'm gonna try to look for one because I haven't fucking seen any of them. And then they're like, you make any... So their thing is to put out a beer cozy. Or koozie, whatever the fuck they're called.
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And then... So you can make any beer normal. So they're like, you're... Because their whole thing was like, don't support this fucking woke bullshit. But it's fine if you do if you also buy this thing from us. What's the fucking... What is it then? Right? You're still... This beer is still the same in there. Underneath the koozie, right? Dude. And also, what was this episode?
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This was like a bunch of weird shit that just doesn't really make sense at all. At least the first episode had kind of a storyline, right? This one was just... There's two rocket ships, and Trump and Elon Musk are dancing. And then Hillary Clinton... Tried to shoot him and then... Someone launched another ship. What are they in line for? Rockets? Like... Oh my fucking god, bro.
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And then it crashes into Russia. Okay. And then they sing about the dogs and cats. Okay. How... Dude. People who laugh at this man... They're so smooth-brained I'm almost jealous. To watch this and be like... Yay! This is funny. Dude, I'm almost envious of that. How is this worse and more lifeless than the first? Why is Norm out of his house? Was he on house arrest?
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I'm very interested in the new Norm lore. Conservative Cocomelon. Okay, so the normal beer koozie just hides the fact that the beer is gay by putting on a facade it's closeted beer. Yeah. Yeah, and it is crazy that they... Sorry, I saw this comment. It said, gave up trying to make a real series and is trying to shill meme merch. Yeah. It's like the whole thing was like, we have a message.
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We got to go against the fucking grain. All this woke Hollywood shit. We're making fucking crazy, inappropriate jokes this time. And then, yeah, it's just like lukewarm, fucking weird shit. Boring crap. And then they're just like, Buy a shirt. Buy a shirt. Remember the one minute video you watched that wasn't that good? Buy a shirt about it. Buy a shirt about this. What the fuck?
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They have a MyPillow? This is going to fuck up my computer's algorithm, man. Use promo code NORM. killer website I mean oh here we go oh it's not they don't even have a custom pillow this is just like a like you you buy stuff and then they get a percentage of it oh my god oh my god this is so dystopian dude and just like with the fucking AI song at the end too This is what, this is the future.
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Not to be the fucking, not to do the copy pasta thing, but this is what the fuck, this is a future that conservatives want. Okay? Low effort, lame, unfunny shit. That is made by, and then with the fucking AI music in the background. It's just not fucking fun. Like, there's nothing interesting, like...
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There's nothing interesting about, like, they're not saying anything that's like, that could even be like misinterpreted as like a point. You know what I mean? It's just all like, we're, this is, we're the right ones. And then, but they're the bad ones, but also at the same time, none of us are right or wrong.
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And then also, uh, the dancing meme and Elon Musk also, and he's, uh, and he builds rockets and Trump dances sometimes, uh,
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Dude. Holding zero space. I'm not holding space at all for this shit, okay? Oh, my God, dude. And it's just like... I'm sorry, I'm looking through their fucking Twitter right now. God, dude, it's so dystopian looking at this shit, man. It fucking bums me out, dude. Because, like, conservative comedy is just never good. It's just never funny.
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We got some fun stuff to talk about. First off, thank you, everybody, for the reception on the tour, the Europe and UK tour. Tickets fucking flew for those shows, man. They absolutely fucking... Flew. Hold on. Tickets fucking flew, dude. Crazy. Tickets flew like... Tickets were flying, dude. Literally, I was like up in the sky and I was like, hold on. Hold on. Is that a plane?
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Because, like, the only ever, like, the only people they, like, make fun of are usually, like, marginalized groups. And the people fucking who do conservative comedy, they're usually fucking straight white dudes who don't give a fuck about those marginalized communities. So it's like an obviously, like, they're, I don't know, dude. I don't know. It's fucking weird every time.
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It's just not funny, dude. And the merch is ugly. I'll say it. The merch is ugly. Replace... Replace the yellow... Okay, this is very interesting, actually. Because the two things we talked about, they're kind of like polar opposites. You know, someone who is in queer media, they're holding space, right? They're, you know, and then there's all this, like, sudden attention on them, right?
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And there's, you know, they're thinking about making merch, right? Doing a podcast, right? And then the opposite side, you got this fucking stupid... New norm bullshit that's on the conservative side. They're making fun of LGBTQ plus people. And now they're making merch and shit. And you know what? I feel like... Guys, you... We got to put our money where our mouths are, okay?
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If that person, if that journalist puts out merch, puts out a podcast, we got to support, all right? This is a call to action, all right? I need everybody. I need all the hands on deck, okay? Because a win for Tracy Gilchrist is an L for the new norm, all right? But hey, we'll have to wait for the new episodes, man.
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Maybe we'll do every single week, or not every week, every single time they put out a new episode, we can do a check-in and see where the storyline goes. Because who knows? Maybe they'll turn around. Maybe New Norm will become woke by the end of it. That would be great. All right, that'd be a huge fucking prank on everybody. And I think that would be cool, but I doubt it's going to happen.
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Um, but yeah, uh, we'll wrap it up there, guys. Thank you so much for tuning into this episode. I appreciate it. Uh, like, comment, subscribe, check out the Patreon if you want. There's like fucking tons of bonus episodes on there that you get access to immediately. Um, what else? Always hold space. Keep holding that space for people. Um, and, uh, Yeah, leave a comment.
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Let me know why I should go see Wicked, okay? Let me know. All right, thanks so much for tuning in, everybody. I appreciate it. That was episode 261, I believe, and I will catch you on the next one. Peace.
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Is that a bird or a plane? Is it Superman even? No, what is that? I took a closer look. It was my tickets. It was the tickets to my Europe-UK tour, dude. Because they were flying, all right? And I appreciate the support, everybody. It's going to be a lot of fun. I see all the messages. I'm sorry to the people who weren't able to get tickets.
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We're going to try to add as many second shows as we can. on other days or maybe at late shows, we're going to try. Okay. That tour is already very, um, jam packed and I'm pretty much traveling every single day. So it's tough to figure out a routing that really makes sense without, um, you know, but we'll figure it out. But thank you everybody. Also, um, check out Australia, New Zealand.
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I'm coming there in a few months, like two months. So, uh, grab your tickets if you haven't got them yet. Um, other than that, um, Yeah, dude, that's it. Appreciate all the support. We got some merch out. We're doing these merch mystery boxes on the website, curtisconner.com. You can do... You know what? It's actually a pretty crazy deal, dude. Let me check these.
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Let me check this picture so I can actually tell you the correct... the actual details of it. So first off, we restocked a bunch of stuff. Stuff is on sale also. But we're also doing these mystery boxes, dude. There's the Super Box, the Ultra Box, and the Mega Alpha Box, okay? The Super Box, you get one t-shirt, one sweatshirt, and one accessory for $70. Retail value, $130.
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And then Ultra Box, two t-shirts, two sweatshirts, two accessories, $135. Retail value, $265, dude. And then the Mega Alpha box is three t-shirts, three sweatshirts, three accessories. Retail value, $390. You get it for $185. So, you know what?
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You get sick, and then, uh... Your voice changes a little. Um... So, I've been sick the last couple weeks. It's just that time of year, man. It's that time of year, you know, the earth gets a little bit colder and then your body is like, and it starts exploding from inside. It starts rotting away, even though it happens every year. But it's that time of year, man.
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If you're not too particular about what exact item you want, but, you know, if you want to ball out, get a bunch for, like, a better price, that is a good way to do it. There's some old merch on there. There's current stuff. There's...
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unreleased stuff there's old like there's crazy shit on there so uh but yeah all good if not other than that dude shout out to the patreon we just had a bonus episode last week it was a lot of fun and um yeah that's it um now i think that's everything that's going on in my life for bit for business for fucking keeping you guys in the loop um All right, feels good. Feels good, man.
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Feels good to be back in the studio. We got the fucking Green Goblin mask over on the counter too. I want to put some Green Goblin voice lines on the soundboard so I can cut to him. And he could be like, back to formula. That's what your baby says when they're not. That's what your baby says when you try to breastfeed them, but they don't like it. They go back to formula. Okay.
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Folks, we got a lot of stiff shit to talk about, dude. What should we talk about first? Okay, first off, I want to talk about this thing, dude. This has been going absolutely friggin' viral. So in the last episode, we talked about Wicked. Okay, we talked about Wicked and their little... Was that on the bonus episode? I think it was on the main episode.
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We talked about Wicked and how they had a little mishap on their action figure. They put Wicked.com. And Wicked.com is actually an adult website. They put Wicked.com on the toy for kids to see, and they go, oh, Wicked.com, that's cool. Let me find out about the movie. And then they go to Wicked.com, and it's fucking Prenagraphy. So that's obviously crazy that that happened.
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And we talked about it for a little bit, but there's more wicked news, okay? Literally a fucking day after I recorded that episode, we hit a fucking goldmine, dude, a content goldmine. One that has created a term that has entered the lexicon of millions forever, okay? And I got to find this article also. Okay, we got that. So, there has been quite the interview. Can I not...
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Okay, I guess I'll just leave that there then. So there's been quite the hoopla about this clip. So let's just watch it. It's a Wicked clip. It's a clip, an interview clip for the movie Wicked on the Wicked press tour. I haven't seen the movie, by the way. And I probably never will. This may be controversial. But I have zero fucking desire to see that movie. It's probably great.
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It's probably really good. And I have nothing against all the stars of the movie. I've heard it's got rave reviews. But I don't care. I don't care about the movie, and I probably will never watch it. That's fine, you know? Maybe when it comes on digital or fucking Netflix, I'll throw it on. But you know what? I'm just not down. And it's like, dude, it's fucking too...
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Two hours and 40 minutes is how long it is I hear. You know how many fucking TikToks I can watch in that time? You know how many fucking reels I can watch in two and a half hours? Come on, man. Oh, that's funny. All right, let's watch this clip because it is very funny. This might be one of my favorite videos of the year. Come at buzzer beater, dude, last month. All right. Let's watch this clip.
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This episode of Very Really Good is sponsored by Sundays for Dogs. Folks, I'm sure most of you know about my little dog, Kiwi. My wife and I got him like six years ago, and I honestly cannot imagine our lives without him. He brings us so much joy like every day of our lives, and all we want to do is just try our best to give back that same amount of joy he gives us.
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I'm getting sick, coughing up fucking loogies. It's disgusting. Just... Just little fucking dollops of goo, you know, just spitting it out. A bunch of little goo. I feel like a fucking supervillain. I'm Toad Man. I'm Goo Guy. Spitting out a bunch of fucking goo. It's disgusting. It feels great, though. It feels fucking really good.
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And like other dogs, the thing that makes Kiwi the happiest is... And we really struggled for a while until we found the perfect food for Kiwi. Something that was good for him, but something that he also enjoyed eating. And that's why I'm so excited to talk about Sundays for Dogs. Sundays is made from entirely human-grade ingredients, meaning a human could eat it if they really wanted to.
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I mean, it's better for dogs, obviously, but, you know, I'm not going to judge. Sundays for Dogs is 90% meat, 10% superfoods, and 0% synthetics or preservatives. And obviously dogs don't care about being healthy. All they care about is that the food tastes good. And let me tell you, Sundays for dogs tastes real good. Sundays is air dried, similar to beef jerky.
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Pretty much an entirely new way to make dog food. And dogs go absolutely crazy for it. And usually healthy dog food is like insanely expensive or it can mean a bunch of time spent on preparation and also a ton of refrigerator space as well. But because of air drying, you can pour sundaes right out of the bag and store it in your pantry.
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Now, transparently, I can't feed Kiwi sundaes for dogs on a regular basis because I'm in Canada. But I've had the chance to sample it with Kiwi. And as you can see, he absolutely loves it. If I was in America, he'd be eating this stuff everyday.
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Alright, thank you so much to Sundays for Dogs for sponsoring this episode. Back to me. Like... God to your clip, dude. Like, fucking hang this shit in the Louvre on a loop, dude, on a loop in a Louvre, all right? On a vertical fucking screen, put it, replace the Mona Lisa, okay? Fuck that shit. What did that do for anybody? What did that do for the culture?
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For the overall culture of us human beings, what did the Mona Lisa do? Nothing, okay? Nothing. Get it out of here. Put this on there, all right? This is so funny, dude. So, okay. I don't know what Defying Gravity... Is that the one that's like... In the Target commercial? Let me see the Defying Gravity lyrics. I hope you're happy. Hope you're happy now. Hope you're happy now.
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You were your cause forever. Hope you think you're clever. Hope you're happy. Okay, yeah, I don't know the context of it, so I don't really know how you could hold space for these lyrics. But on the flip side of that, I don't know what holding space means. And I hope if I Google it, I know the Google trends for is if you search holding space, it's nothing.
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And then a huge fucking spike, maybe a big spike in like, I don't know, 2012 or something. And then it graduals up and down. And then right now it's like, what does holding space mean? What does it mean to hold space? See, this is a learning experience too because I've never heard of this. I've never heard this term. And my internet is deciding to be very slow today, which is cool.
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I wish this internet – I wish my Wi-Fi connection would hold space for this podcast because this isn't really fucking working out. Come on! Okay, a psychologist explains what holding space actually means. Okay. Okay, holding space is a core therapy concept. It means creating a safe, compassionate environment where someone can feel seen, heard, and understood without judgment or interruption.