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This week we're talking about the new cabinet, the tragedy of Liam Payne's death, is Taylor Swif a nice person and an AITA!
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Introduction and Podcast Theme
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Well, hello there. Welcome back to Thorkenshit with a yank and a bit. I don't know what that accent is. Yeah, it's kind of like, i like okay, she's doing this and oh, no, that took a turn.
00:00:27
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What was that? What would you say that was? I feel like it was like Finland. the Do it again or something. I don't know if I can. so she hello It was kind of Canadian, but not. Yeah. Hello there.
00:00:44
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um pretty but but Anyway, hi niwe hi. This is our podcast. It's called Talking Shit with a Yank and a Brit. And you're listening to... It. it It's called Talking Shit with a Yank and a Brit because I'm a Yank. You, Gemma, are a Brit. Yes, I'm a Brit. And we talk shit. We talk about shit.
00:01:13
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we deep dive into interesting, funny, political, cultural topics. And by deep, I mean very surface surface level. If you dive in, you might break your neck because it's so shallow.
00:01:30
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ah Because we really just want to you know, kind of replicate what it's like for two friends just talking about their lives and things going on in their lives in the world in a way that is not a super analytical, like, because that's not how it works in the real world, right?
Listener Interactions and Personal Updates
00:01:48
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no We want to feel like you're sitting at home with your friends. I can't speak. can't speak but your fund With your friends, having a nice convoise one.
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It kind of made me think of um the princess. I think it's the princess bride when it's, marriage, marriage brings us together. Did you ever see the movie? No. You haven't? That is such a good movie. You need to watch it. Yeah. yeah right It's old, but it's a goodie. It's one of my favorites. um Yeah. And I think just based on some of the feedback we've gotten over the time we've been doing this, like people yell at their radios or their devices. Yeah, because we are either getting something glaringly wrong or forgetting a very obvious answer or response to a thing or people just want
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to contribute to our conversation which is why we always tell you to shoot us an email at talkshittwos.gmail dot.com Yeah or get on the socials at tsybpod to tell us that we're wrong but you know we're organic we're fresh we're keeping it real we're not going to sit here and fact check everything we say because we're normal people so that's how the world works baby baby
00:03:06
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still super windy yeah i don't know if it's getting picked up on the old microphone but uh it's very windy here we've got storm burt i love burt not the storm but the name and i can't hear anything for what it's worth best name for a storm i've heard in years so yeah i would agree with that i'm impressed Sounds kind of like just a ah gentle old man, even though clearly it's not. it Just makes me think of Bert and Ernie. Yeah, for sure. huh How have you been? OK. OK.
00:03:44
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i You know, same shit different week, to be honest. Not much has changed. Busy shows, work, teaching, life issues.
00:04:02
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And it's been very, very cold. How cold are we talking? and Probably not as cold as you. It's not that cold here yet, so... Is it not? Okay. No. I mean, it's chilly, but but it's not... I don't think it's really gotten below freezing here yet on a like consistent basis, maybe and at night, but... Yeah, we've been at like minus three. it It's snowed in multiple parts of the UK. Not here.
00:04:32
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Oh it did actually here, like a spattering of snow. um One day. But then randomly today it's really warm again. It's like 15 degrees now. yeah Thanks Stormberg. Bringing that heat. And climate change because I think it's...
00:04:51
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2024 is on track to be the warmest year. We're just going to keep getting that way. Next year will be the even warmer warmer one anyway. I was going to say, I think 2023 was like the warmest on record and now 2024 is the passing. That's well done. yep We did it, guys. We did it. We ruined the Earth.
00:05:10
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you know Maybe if we approach it that way. At least we won't be miserable as we die from climate crisis issues. Yeah. I mean, you know, the positive thing we've got to look at is we're all going to die, but the earth
Speculation on Human Future and Holidays
00:05:24
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isn't. The earth will rejuvenate itself once it's got rid of the parasite that are human beings. Correct. And in a few thousand years, million years, whatever, we'll be back to normal.
00:05:34
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um hu yeah And there might be another race of terrible humans to destroy that as well. Even worse than ours. Yeah,
00:05:45
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um yeah not a lot new for me either, since you asked. Sorry. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. But fine, same. Actually, I had kind of a busy week last week, which is good because it's been consistently kind of not busy. And like I had to leave my house like three times. So. Damn girl. I know. You must be exhausted. So tired. ah So, so tired. um Yeah, there's like, I mean, and it's, you know, kind of holiday season. I know you you guys don't have Thanksgiving, but I do feel like. Oh, yeah. When's that? Next Thursday.
00:06:29
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Next Thursday. day Yeah, it's always the last Thursday in November. Oh, okay. For some reason. I think we talked about this last time. Why it's bad.
00:06:39
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but Don't remember. Don't recall anything we talk about. No, me neither. That's also the beauty of this podcast. It's how it replicates your conversations with everyone. Every year we do the same cycle of yeah yeah topics. We just don't remember what we spoke about last time.
00:06:56
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Yep. And it might be entirely different because we just are guessing at the facts, but that's what keeps it special. So keeps it spicy. Yep. So Thanksgiving for us. So we'll have a couple of days off and then, you know, i kind of end of the Christmas season. And that's always supposed to be a really happy time, but it never really is for anybody. Yeah. So it's just quite busy, isn't it? see my parents aren't together. So you have to see sort of both of them and, you know, things as well. And then if you've got a partner, you see there some family as well. And like me and Alan, I've got the week off and we're really looking forward to it, but it's slowly just getting filled up with activities. And yeah, I mean, I saw the group chat of the holiday plans that I won't be able to join, but you know,
00:07:53
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that down to your airline crap.
Holiday Travel and Family Dynamics
00:07:58
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Oh my God. Like one of the flights back was, Hey, leave Gatwick to fly to Jordan and then you can fly to Istanbul and then you can fly to Iceland and then Detroit and then Minneapolis. I was like, I'll die. That's like the organ trail for me. I'm going to dive dysentery on that journey. That sounds shit. Yeah. Yeah. I don't blame you. That's fine. Well, as long as you come back next year. We'll see.
00:08:24
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As we've discussed, it won't be my birthday because you're always busy on my birthday, but fine. I promise I will make it for your birthday one year. It just might not be when that's coming. I don't believe you. Well, I promise. It'll be when we're 60. You've got at least two more birthdays before we die, so. You don't know that. You have at least one more after this one. I'll probably make it to the next one, hopefully, fingers crossed, touch wood.
00:08:54
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you're gonna um to You're right about holidays being busy. and Also, my parents weren't together. They divorced when I was still in high school, but having to like kind of balance the different, like we're going to stop here on this day and here on this day. but you know and The way to resolve that is to you know have one parent pass away and then not really have a relationship with the other one and then have your partner's parents live in a different country. That's the way to do it. Well, you've just solved Christmas. Yeah. So um go ahead and start cutting those relationships off.
00:09:37
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ah I do keep saying I'm just going to go away for Christmas and then I never do because It comes around really fast and I'm like, oh I haven't booked anywhere and everybody's booked. But that's the solution also. Go away. I agree. I mean, that's what we were going to try to do, but then it would have just been with you a lot.
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so
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Well, I hope you have a lovely Thanksgiving. This will come out on Thanksgiving actually. So happy Thanksgiving to one and all in America, but nowhere else, because nowhere else celebrates that.
00:10:10
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he I'm sure everyone will be listening as they're sitting around the table having white and beige foods. Not a lot of flavor and the worst pie of all.
00:10:28
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What's the worst pie? Pumpkin. Oh, that is the worst pie. I mean, i right it's it's just like and like a pumpkin cheesecake I can get done with, but I always find like pumpkin pie is just not sweet enough and it's kind of boring. and Yeah, just have like an apple pie. Apple and blackberry. That sounds good.
00:10:50
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I don't like that either. I don't like cooked fruit, but that's a completely different story. I mean, but there's like a French silk pie that's really good. That's just chocolate and like a nice... That sounds good. Yeah, it's amazing. Well, thank you all. I'm not sure what we're doing for Thanksgiving yet, the day of, but we're going to be probably going to see my stepmom on the day after, so... Cool. Well, enjoy that. Thanks. And enjoy your pumpkin pie. Well, do. I'll send you a picture.
00:11:20
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Please do actually. I've never seen a pumpkin pie before. That's what you think. it's And I'm not going to Google it. I'm waiting for the photo. All right. And they all look the same. I mean, sometimes people put like whipped cream on it or like, but it's just pumpkin pie crust. So is there like pastry on top of it or it's just tart?
00:11:40
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Yeah, I haven't seen pumpkin pie with like the the crust on the top because it would be probably the driest thing known to man then. Might keep some moisture in, and some flavoring. Yeah, but it's it's more like the tart where it's like the crust and then the filling and you can kind of just see it. so All right. I hope you get a good pie. I think I will have an option. Maybe not just pumpkin.
00:12:09
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You'll have a pie option, for sure. Sorry, I'm itching my arm. Stop it. I'm really itchy at the moment. You don't have to take off your whole shirt to itch your arm. No, I'm just pulling it right up. It's above the elbow. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, please note that Gemma just totally disrobed to itch her tricep. I did not. OK, it's exaggerating. OK.
00:12:39
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All right. So
One Direction's Journey and Impact
00:12:43
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that's ah about our kind of world. But speaking of the larger world, a lot of stuff has happened. I think even before we recorded last time and I know we skipped a week, but like.
00:12:56
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The stuff that's going on right now is there's almost too many things to talk about, and yet we still are kind of like, what are we going to talk about today? The one thing I wanted to hear your thoughts on was ah Liam Payne, right? That's his name? That's his name, yeah. One Direction. Boy. Man, I suppose. Not a boy any longer. I suppose, yeah.
00:13:22
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um yeah i thought it it was um a shocker and really tragic actually felt really sad about it even though i'm not you know a One Direction fan hmm that's what i was gonna ask like were you ever I don't know what if they have a nickname like Swifties do, but like... One or directioners, I think they were called. One direction or something like that. But British band, they're all from England, right? British band, yeah. They were obviously hugely successful. They were bigger than the Beatles, which is... How do we measure that? Do we know that? I think record sales or something. Sure. Do you know the mentalist thing, though? One, they were put together on X Factor by Simon Cowell.
00:14:11
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Oh, that's how it started, okay, I didn't do that. They came third, but then went on to be obviously a global success. And the band was only together for five years. That's it? It feels like that was... That was it. It's crazy, isn't it? Yeah. um But no, it wasn't really a fan.
00:14:32
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I think perhaps we were a little too old yeah for to enjoy that kind, because they were young when they started, right? Exactly. you know We were NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, yeah that kind of vibe. Yeah.
00:14:46
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They were next generation, I think. And it's like, they went on to several of them went on to have like Harry Styles, I think is probably the one who had the most success maybe segueing into a solo career. Right. is I love Harry. I actually like him as like just an artist himself. Yeah. Um, like genuinely enjoy his albums. Yeah.
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yeah yeah Um,
00:15:18
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So yeah, I think it was really tragic. I think a few of them obviously struggled with like fame. Imagine being fucking, I think it was like 16 or 17 at school and then being catapulted into global fame and not just like, you know, B-list fame, like barking everyone in the world to do who they were.
00:15:47
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Um, so I think when they split, it was quite, well, it must've been so much to deal with being like a multimillionaire. So young, having everyone know who you are touring the world for five years. And then that just stopping.
00:16:06
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Yeah. So it looks like 2010 was when they kind of, uh, so, and it's bonkers to me that this is how it happened. Yeah. So I was in law school.
00:16:17
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Um, so full, full adult, um, they all addition to solo candidates, uh, for X factor. And they all failed to progress in the boys category. If that tells you maybe how old they were that they had. And so they failed to progress there, but put together to form a five piece boy band qualifying for groups, which is so interesting to me because that that means none of them knew each other.
00:16:42
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They all individually are like, I'm going to be a big star solo artist. And none of them were good enough. And so then and Simon Cowell slash the people at X Factor were like, I don't know, we could put these five together and see what happens. Let's make it by hand. Yeah. um And then it says 2016 is kind of the 2010 to 2016. It were their years active. um And their first song as a group was an acoustic version of Torn.
00:17:12
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Did you know that? i Yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah, I didn't know that. um raise it
00:17:19
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And later commented that their performance convinced him that they were a fu confident, fun, like a gang of friends and kind of fearless as well. Cool. I'm sure Simon Cowell just saw cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching. Yep. But then.
00:17:37
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and yeah think the And I remember being aware of them as they got famous and was kind of like, I thought we were done with boy bands, but okay. you know Everyone was like, oh, you know my favorite is Lewis and my favorite's Harry and my favorite's Zane. Which is very much how I think we approached NSYNC and Backstreet Boys. We all had our favorites.
00:18:04
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yeah And then they broke up. They broke up. yeah They said they were going on a hiatus. So fans have been hoping they would reunite for years. Yeah, it looks like in 2020, they posted something about 10 years of One Direction and maybe doing a 10th anniversary something or other, but maybe it didn't, like they just had a, maybe a video. Yeah, that's disappointing for the fans, isn't it? Yeah. And it looks like Zane left in 2015. Do you know that? He left first, yeah. Yeah, okay.
Liam Payne's Death and Public Reaction
00:18:46
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And then they're like, well, this doesn't work anymore. He struggled with it the most. Had loads of anxiety and stuff. Oh, bummer. Do you really like one of his solo songs actually called Pillow Talk? It's a cracker.
00:18:57
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Oh, I don't know if I know it, I'll have to listen to it. But ah period yeah yeah ah like yeah um and beach and um but yeah, I think they're all kind of trying to do solo stuff. I don't know. Like from what I read, I feel like Zayn has a bit of a successful solo career in America.
00:19:26
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not seen much here from him, but from what I read it implied that he's quite successful. Niall's pretty successful here. Obviously Harry, I think he's globally successful. I can't blame him, like charisma.
00:19:46
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ah yeah um And Louise released a couple of songs. I don't think they really did much. And I think Liam was also trying. And again, sort of wasn't that successful. Did have a successful hit with Rita Ora though, I think. oh okay But that's all I could recall without doing any research. Something about Cheryl I just saw too.
00:20:15
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Oh yeah he also had a relationship with Cheryl Cole who was funnily enough a judge on The X Factor when interest One Direction were together so she was like fully adult, they were still kids, a bit of an age gap between them and they had a relationship years later for a couple of years and had a son named Bear Oh, that is all very much news to me. Oh. OK, so he's like, ah it's hard to not think of them as boys still. Yeah. Yeah. But he was full grown man and maybe had some demons a little bit going on. Right. Yeah. So. I think he's spoken about his like drug and alcohol issues before.
00:21:06
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and was like sober for a period but it would seem that he came off the wagon again. um There were reports of him being drunk and disorderly in the hotel before he died and he was allegedly escorted back to his room
00:21:33
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And then that's it. He wanted to go in the pool, apparently. They wouldn't let him go in the pool because he was too inebriated. So he was escorted back to his room and then a short time later he appears to have fallen or jumped from his balcony. And there were mentions that maybe he was trying to jump into the pool from his balcony. However,
00:22:02
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Since then, obviously the autopsy has come out and the injuries he died from suggests that there was no effort to... What's the word? Like... Defensive? Yeah, like no defensive injuries. Or like bracing. Yeah. So that would indicate that he was unconscious when he fell from the balcony.
00:22:34
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And I think that in itself raises a few questions. If he was unconscious, how did he fall from the balcony?
00:22:44
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um One journalist suggested he fainted on the balcony. I mean, it's a possibility. It is, but also, like. But unlikely? I guess I would want to know how high, because there are certainly guardrails, right? Yeah. Yeah.
00:23:04
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I guess honestly, he stood on the edge of the balcony and then faded. I don't know. um Okay. Did not adopt a reflexive posture to protect that so you protect himself. Okay. I see what you mean. All right. Cause people, I think naturally. You'd naturally put your arms out, but I think arms up or I don't know, curl up or something. Right. So.
00:23:28
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that's um really fucking sad um i think they they now have arrested three people one was someone at the hotel who was like i guess like chaperoning him um i think they've been charged with like failure to look after someone abandonment of a person followed by death that's it and supplying and facilitating the use of narcotics
00:23:55
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ah So, and the suspects were identified as a companion of pain, a hotel employee who provided cocaine to pain, and a drug dealer. But they so initially said, and I think they debunked this, that there was a whole slew of ah substances in his system, but then like the toxicology report hadn't been yet completed at that point, and they didn't disclose any details, but they did find like Klonaz Pam and whiskey in his room.
00:24:23
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along with several other medications and energy supplements. I saw the released pictures from his room and it looked like he'd been smoking crack. Was it destroyed? Well, the room. Yeah. Yeah. yeah cross called Someone had called and said this person's like losing his shit in his room. oh yeah and I think I read that like something had happened, like he'd been dropped by his label or...
00:24:52
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something like that which may have triggered something but I think it's really sad because he was always like the mature one of the group and the other older one possibly yeah but he was always the level-headed one that looked after them all and you know the other bandmates have said this that he was always the sensible one um
00:25:17
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And it seems just, yeah, the world of fame had corrupted him to the point which it resulted in his tragic death, basically. Yeah. It's really sad.
00:25:33
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so When I first was aware of it, I think like I just happened to notice that there was trending like one direction and i or something. and I was like, oh, okay, that's weird. ah It was something enough to make me click on it because if it were just one direction and it was like, they must be getting back together, I wouldn't have cared. right yeah Again, not a fan. ah but Something made me click on it and then I was saw like death and I was like, oh no, did Harry die?
00:25:56
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and then It was Liam and I was like, I don't know enough about any of the other ones. I guess who was this, but it looks like they were all born in 93 except for Lewis, who was the oldest and born in 91. So not that much younger than us, I suppose. Um, and then Harry is the youngest born in 94. Yeah, we see. Yeah.
00:26:21
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But it is sad, I mean anything like that is always a little bit tragic particularly when they're that young and we know that like being young and in the famous or kind of in the public eye can really impact people if they don't have good support to like kind of take care of them and if they're you know maybe being taken advantage of in some way and I don't necessarily mean like Sexually or physical like so physically but just like, you know when you're in the industry, I think you get used because people are just out to make money
00:26:53
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and children particularly or young adults I think are the most susceptible. So it's not surprising that he and maybe some of the others do have some struggles like mental health and substance use struggles because I think that's just prevalent, right? Like look at Justin Bieber and given what we he might've been exposed to with Diddy, you know? Yeah, fucking hell. There's been a few like you know like Cheryl
00:27:23
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did a post about it and said that he was let down. Sharon Osborne said like the same thing and that people need to be held accountable for this type of thing. So it's you know potentially opening up that conversation, but I think it's difficult because there's ah a burden of care if they were still together and still touring and under management and in a record label. But once they're out of that,
00:27:54
Speaker
You know, whose responsibility is it to look after them? Really, they're adults now. And I'm sure they had like individual managers and stuff, but they can't be with them all the time. ah So it's a difficult one to kind of put in any blame or accountability on. Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:23
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Yeah. I mean, he had a companion. I think his then girl or like his current girlfriend was like traveling with him, but I don't know where she was. She'd gone home like the day before or a couple of days before or something left. I don't know if she got home. Yeah. And again, like, I think if you're, if you're paying someone.
00:28:43
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to be your assistant or companion and stuff, they're gonna do what you ask them to and if it's get me drugs and get me alcohol, they're not gonna be like, hey, maybe you shouldn't because you... Exactly. Yeah. Especially if you're a multi-millionaire, do you know what I mean? Money can buy you whatever the fuck you want and you're gonna get it somehow. I should think it's the saddest thing is that he's left behind his little boy, seven years old.
00:29:12
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yeah
00:29:14
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bloody awful but there have been yeah there have been um I don't want to say conspiracies but there's been talk online of you know was he pushed was there a scuffle in the room because he was being so sort of violent and trashing the room and stuff and did something untoward happen yeah Well, sounds like something did, but it might not have been someone intentionally, like, pranking him. Oh, there's TMC got photographs of his corpse and it's just also like, gross. Yeah, why do they do that? I guess because people will click on it, but I don't want to see that shit.
00:30:07
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No, me neither. Yikes. Oh, sad. Um, thank you for telling me your perspective on that. I was curious just cause they're Brits. They are Brits. Yeah. Not really my bag, but I don't know. I did feel genuinely sad just cause it's like, Oh.
00:30:29
Speaker
He's so young and what a tragic way to die, do you know what I mean? It's not like it was a drug overdose or yeah something like that. He fell from a fucking balcony. I mean, what the fuck? yeah Crazy shit. Yep. Should we move on to something a little more uplifting?
Political Humor and US Developments
00:30:46
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Yes, that's maybe one of those laugh so we don't cry sort of situations. Yeah, let's do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:30:55
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Um, as you recall, uh, there are a lot of things happening over here politically that kind of makes it hard to be a woman in these trying times. Um, but I came across a ah little listicle of 23 tweets by women that made me a fellow woman laugh so hard. I almost forgot my rights are on the line now. That's what the author wrote. Not me, but I think.
00:31:21
Speaker
I could say the same, right? And then it has a little quote under it. That does make me laugh because I do like kettle chips, but kettle chips are great because the crunch is louder than my thoughts.
00:31:34
Speaker
Need to quiet those thoughts. Kettle chip havetle chips. I like barbecue and salt and vinegar myself. I like the plain ones. Plan or get two, don't get me wrong. but you know When you want a little spice, because also you want to burn your mouth, I don't know.
00:31:53
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um and this one so This next one is kind of regarding, again, Trump and the fact that he's now starting to point people to his cabinet and to lead the um executive branch agencies that are in charge of all the myriad different things that impact our world, and it's not at all concerning at all.
00:32:12
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ah and it's a Basically, it says, trump Donald Trump has started appointing people to his cabinet and it officially starts getting dark at 4 p.m. hanging by a thread as an understatement. and then it's um a little so Watching Trump appoint his administration like, and then a meme of Tina Fey saying, what's the committee to reinvade Vietnam?
00:32:34
Speaker
I don't know if you know this, but you know Elon Musk and another guy, Vivek, I think is his name, I can't remember his last name, are appointed to something that the acronym spelled Doge, like Dogecoin. Really? Yeah, and it's like the Department of Government Efficiency or something like that.
00:32:54
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just a new ah new agency. And it's just like, what the fuck? What's going on? And then, you know, Matt Gaetz, I don't know if you've heard of him, but he is a, he was a Congressman who there was lots and lots of allegations about like sex trafficking and drugs and sex with minors, rape of minors. um He was appointed to be attorney general, but he has since withdrew his name from that because there was
00:33:25
Speaker
You know, there's a background check and I think some things came out that we already probably knew but no one really did anything about but it may be revealed some things and they're like you can't be Attorney General because we're gonna have to publish this report and like But he withdrew or he like resigned from Congress, which is great because now he's not a congressman anymore Oh, good. Yeah. So some good's come out of it. So that was kind of a fun little roller coaster ride. But when it was initially, I was like, oh, cool. Matt Gaetz, like rapist pedophile drug user is going to be the attorney general of the United States. That's amazing. Wow. Shut the front door. Yeah. And then ah Robert Kennedy Jr., who was a third party candidate, he was the one who said, like, I have worms in my brain. and
00:34:12
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I ate a dog and I killed a bear and left it in Central Park. And I think vaccines are bad. Yeah, it's precisely very anti-vax. And maybe like anti-sugar. I don't know. I guess I don't know much about that. But he was appointed to the Department of Health and Human Services. So that's amazing.
00:34:36
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And South Dakota Governor Kristi Nome is appointed to the Department of Homeland Security. So that's that's great. This South Dakota governor who basically killed the dog because it didn't listen to her. That was like one of her big things that came out.
00:34:52
Speaker
No. Yeah, like in her book or something, she wrote about having a dog and trying to train it, and it was difficult to train, so she just shot it. What the fuck? Yeah. What's she doing? I'm not security. phone my insecurity.
00:35:07
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wow Motherfucking hell. Yep. I think she also, like a lot of states are legalizing marijuana, right? Yeah. and ah South Dakota, I think, voted to do so. And she's just like, no, I'm not doing that. Sorry, I'm not gonna i'm notnna let that happen. But they voted. Yep. And also, I was gonna make your state a load of fucking money, idiot. Yep. My God, she sounds delightful.
00:35:37
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Yeah. And just so you know, Homeland Security's mission and vision is, with honor and integrity, we will safeguard the American people, our homeland, and our values. Well, her values sound like a crock of shit. Yep. So I'm angry about her killing the dog. Don't know if you can tell. Yeah. it When that came out, it was like, what the fuck? And then there was speculation that She could be Trump's running mate. This was a while ago. And it was like, well, hopefully that would make it so he wouldn't pick her. But of course, Trump doesn't give a fuck about that shit. so He has no morals. Yeah.
00:36:15
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um And what else? I think there was another one too. I mean, there was talks about a Congresswoman named lo Lauren Boebert being in charge of Department of Education, and that woman had like didn't graduate high school, failed her GED three or four times. is I've heard of her. Is she the blonde one? No, that's smart that's like she's the her friend. But the one you're thinking of is Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is... They're the same person in how they act and how stupid they are.
00:36:47
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um yeah Lauren was the one who was like caught on film at a high school play like jerking off the person she was with or something. yeah but A lot of the other picks I think are people who were part of the development of Project 2025 too, if that tells you anything about whether or not he was planning on implementing those things. This is awful. like Trump's bad enough. but yeah Wow.
00:37:17
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Okay, another one is if our ah RFK bans diet coke, I will make January 6th look like a Girl Scout meeting. That's I think something maybe he's talked about.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Views
00:37:27
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Yeah, he did this. I saw a thing where he was talking about how like but all Americans all eat junk food and that's why everyone's so fat and he's going to make America healthy again. And then like the next day he was on a private plane with Trump, Elon. Eating a fuck ton of McDonald's. Yeah. Yeah. Like what? Yep.
00:37:47
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ah Trump's like, knock that shit off. I love me some McDonald's. It's all I eat. I have to wear a diaper, but it's good. It's what makes me so orange. Yep. um We laughed, but female body inspector is about to be in official cabinet position. Do you remember those shirts? Yeah. Do you remember those shirts? Oh my God. Yeah. They're going to come in handy now. Mm-hmm. You got one. You're automatically a part of it. Yeah. That's what gets you into a couple of positions.
00:38:14
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Yep. Did you ever own a buddy inspection?
00:38:21
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Yep. This one really resonated with me. I feel like the day is getting away from me. I hope sitting motionless for the next five hours fixes it. Yep. Can relate to that.
00:38:35
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Another one, meet my alien. So this is a bloomin' onion from Outback Steakhouse, which you might not know, but Outback Steakhouse is a chain restaurant, right? It's like Applebee's and Chili's.
00:38:49
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um And they have a blooming onion, which is, I honestly, I haven't had it in years, so I'd probably be like, this is horrible if I had it now. But I enjoyed it back in the day when I didn't have a refined palate and there was not a lot of restaurants where I grew up. ah But it made me laugh because I'm thinking about, yeah, if aliens invaded and were friendly and it was kind of like, oh yeah, I'll show you around. And it's like, this is...
00:39:12
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This is where you can order from an app and get processed cheeseburgers and fries. And this is where you can, you know, this is where we store all our garbage. That, yeah, that would be mental, wouldn't it? These are our nuclear bunkers. Um, we should have a conversation about aliens one day, actually. Oh, okay. Yeah. Add it our list. Hey. I've been watching loads of them documentaries about abductions and stuff.
00:39:39
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You'll have to fill me in because I avoid that stuff because I don't need to like add another figure to my life. But i'll I will talk about it with you. yeah But write us your experiences with the UFOs if you've gotten me. Yeah, let us know if you've seen it. I saw a video the other day of people in Wales actually. A tiny little country in the UK. It's freaky as fuck. There was something else. But below the clouds, strange.
00:40:09
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so I do find some of those stories fascinating. and I can't remember if it was on X slash Twitter, someone talking about hearing from their father-in-law, this experience in Nebraska. I'll see if I can find it for that episode because it was we had do bonkers. ah I'll do like two more. um I like this one because this is how I feel like I've had this conversation. um My boyfriend's friend trying to have a civil and intellectual conversation about the election.
00:40:37
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I found it surprising and concerning that so many women voted for him. Me, after three vodka lemonates, it's because a lot of illiterate bitches hate themselves for being women.
00:40:53
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Oh God. Okay, last one. So you know Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey, right? And he's a football player. okay People are saying things about Taylor ruining football. The tweet says, Taylor ruined football. Good. I hope she ruins everything men love and I hope she burns it all to the ground. Yes, go Taylor. Yeah. I was really hoping she would be the key in the election turning out differently because I think she got a fuck ton of people to register to vote particularly. She like
00:41:32
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QR codes at her concerts. And I think when she kind of came out with her endorsement, like there was like this huge uptick in voter registration. But yeah. Do you know, I think Taylor Swift is actually a really nice person. Everything I read about her, she does some really fucking decent shit. I don't like her music. but Yeah.
00:41:52
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She does lots of just like a not public stuff. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, she goes under the radar and gives like a shit ton of money to people who need it. And I can't give you any examples off the top of my head because I've forgotten them all. I read things and I'm like, you know what? I think she's all right. Yeah. I feel like I've heard similar things too. And I don't know if I ever thought she was like,
00:42:16
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probably a shitty person but you do hear about like celebrities that actually are assholes in real life and I always question those because it's like well what were you doing to maybe deserve that response but there are people who just generally do suck as people but I think for her she and She gets a bad rap for being like the scorned woman. yeah But I think she actually does try to like uplift people and be helpful and and use her money and fame for good and not brag about it. You're right. so Talking of celebrities that aren't very nice in real life, apparently Ellen DeGeneres is moving to the UK since Trump got elected. I mean, while I can understand that,
00:42:59
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ah It's also like, have fun with her. I know. Yay for us. Great. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if she's got a, I mean, her show got is no longer being filmed or aired, but.
Humorous Tweets and Light-hearted End
00:43:12
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Oh, it's actually yeah finished. Yeah. I think if you see it on TV, it's just old ones. I don't think they're making anymore, but I, yeah, I think she kind of got canceled because she's a bit of a tick. Yes. I heard the rumors that are going round. Yeah.
00:43:27
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So yeah, some fun tweets by funny women about the state of affairs. And again, if you just need a little moment to yourself and you need to quiet those thoughts, kettle chips. Kettle chips are really crunchy. Even more so if you pop them in the freezer.
00:43:42
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Hey, and they're so good that way. But you're right, they have a little extra crunch. Um, well, I guess that takes us to an M-R-T-L's hole.
00:43:58
Speaker
You know we all are, baby. Now it's the question of Did you have a good reason to be? Yeah. Yeah. Because sometimes you do. Sometimes the outcome starts surrounding your arsehole-ishness. Yeah. Yeah. Why is it? Like, I don't hear from fucking anyone. Ever. As soon as we start recording, my phone is all the group chats. Like, people haven't heard from for years. Facebook Messenger, I'm getting text messages. What's going on?
00:44:36
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They have a sense. Oh yeah, I got, I guess one of the group chat. Yeah, I got one of those too. Um, that'll be a lesson in you now starting to put do not disturb on, I guess. how Oh, it's it's not working. I don't know what's going on. This happened last time as well. Anyway, people we're trying to create, trying to create content. God. Okay. Hmm.
00:45:04
Speaker
I don't think Do Not Disturb stops WhatsApp. You might just need to turn off the notifications. Maybe. Yeah. Annoying. Anyway. Am I the arsehole for telling my mum she'll never have grandkids because of how she voted?
00:45:23
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um from I already pep my mind made up, I think so. You need to hear no more. Yep. Okay. Important info. My parents and I, in brackets, only child, live in a state with very restrictive reproductive health laws.
00:45:44
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In summer of 23, I, a female, 30 years old, came off birth control because of some pretty bad side effects. My spouse, who's 33 and male, and I were having, sorry, were always ambivalent about kids. We figured if it happened, it happened,
00:46:03
Speaker
And if not, parenthood just wasn't for us. Fast forward to the holidays of 23. While visiting my in-laws out of state, I was wash rushed to the ER bleeding out internally with what turned out to be a ruptured ectop... Ept... Ectopic. Ectopic pregnancy. Fuck's sake, can't read. I underwent emergency surgery where they stopped the bleeding, but I did lose my right fallopian tube.
00:46:32
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After this, I went back on birth control and had my doc do a full workup before my spouse and I decided next steps. The workup revealed a large benign tumor on my remaining tube, as well as as well ah o ah as well as significant uterine fibroids.
00:46:54
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yeah I was told that any pregnancy I had would be high risk and that caring to term was not as not as likely but also not impossible.
00:47:07
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Given the diagnosis and that my state has now caused the need for a legal team's input to for providing emergency abortions in the case of a mother's health being in jeopardy, wankers, I decided to move forward with the removal of my uterus and remaining tube instead of risk death a second time. Fair enough.
00:47:32
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ah The surgery occurred the day after the election and I am recovering well physically, still working on the emotional side. My mum, who really fell down the MAGA pipeline in the last two years,
00:47:48
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um called me a few days ago for our monthly catch-up. I had not told her or anyone besides my best friend and spouse about the procedure because I wanted to come to terms with my decision before having to explain it to others. Fair play. um She went off on a long rant about how the new government will be great for families and when she becomes a grandma and that a national abortion ban would save so many lives of unborn babies I completely lost it and screamed at her that she would never become a grandma and it's because of how she and those like her voted. I told her I had to have everything removed so that I couldn't become pregnant and actually die this time. I hung up after that and had a breakdown. My dad, who is not Magga, called me a few days ago to let me know that he was sorry that I had to make this decision and that he hoped I healed.
00:48:41
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but that I couldn't talk to my mum like that and needed to apologise. Personally, I don't want to apologise for what I said. I will apologise for how I said it, but I really don't think that I'm that much of an asshole at the end of the day. So, am I the asshole?
00:48:59
Speaker
It's one of those things where, yeah, I think we could reflect on maybe conflict or conversations that deteriorate and we and escalate and recognize that we could have done things differently. But I also think that it's kind of unreasonable when ah conversation the other person kind of either says things like that are inflammatory or ignorant or offensive and it's the reaction is understandable because I don't think it's like talking about racism for example if you're someone a person of color and you're
00:49:37
Speaker
getting you know racist efforts shouted at you. like I don't expect you to be like, now, now let's have a reasonable conversation about this. you know yeah And to have that surgery, even if you were kind of like pretty solid on your decision to do so because of the risks, or maybe you didn't want children to have someone tell you, you know basically, like you the thing that would have maybe let you die is going to be so great.
00:50:07
Speaker
It's going to be so great that we can't do that even though it saved your life and blah, blah, blah. ah Like to have a kind of an emotional response to that is understandable. And I think that's kind of, we talked about this in the last episode when people are saying things and believe things and feel like certain laws or rules should either be put in place or you know withdrawn for things that actually have no impact on them yeah directly ah or for, you know because of their gender, like men who have thoughts about this, I find really upsetting um because it's like it's not even something you have to deal with, but someone you love might have to, um that they can't even fathom
00:50:53
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Oh, you know maybe if my daughter, my friend, my mother, my cousin um had died because they couldn't get access to this care because of, not because they you know necessarily wanted an abortion, but because they had a you know pregnancy issue like that, or you know a spontaneous miscarriage, abortion which are called abortions in the medical field anyway, even if it is a miscarriage, just FYI. That's the medical term for it, um unfortunately.
00:51:21
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And because of that, I think that also gets a bad rap. you know People are like, you know you can't help that you're miscarrying. um I forgot where I was going with this, but basically, no, I don't think this person's an asshole. And I think it's unfortunate that her father's like, you gotta apologize to your mom because it's kind of like a Sure, I could have, I could have been calmer, but I just had the surgery. I almost died. And basically what mom told me was, uh, she's so glad that this, this national abortion ban is going to happen because then, you know, had I had this issue after that, I would have died. And she basically said she was glad, you know? Yeah. yeah And it just makes me, Oh, I just, I just, uh,
00:52:09
Speaker
For those people who feel that way, like. Fuck you. That, and once you have someone in your life that you care about or yourself has, has to experience the really horrible things that you want other people to have to go through because you believe like something about immigration or fetuses. Like I hope you have a reckoning with your words and you know, in your beliefs. Yeah. This is why I can't get my head around is the,
00:52:37
Speaker
Why ah fetuses or unborn child's life is more important than someone who's already alive? and so like i do I can't understand the reasoning with that. I can't wrap my head around why that's okay for a mother to die from a medical condition due to a complication with a pregnancy.
00:53:00
Speaker
It's so hypocritical to because- Killing the child that hasn't even taken a breath yet. It doesn't have a personality. That couldn't, even if it was born. Exactly. Where's the logic in that? Where's the sense? I just can't. It's just fucking mental. But if we were to say that that bundle of cells should have the ability to have like its own health insurance or you know try to give it... if We're going to say it has rights, but it doesn't have the full scope of rights. that's It's just very hypocritical. and Also, once it's born, no one gives a fuck about it. Exactly.
00:53:42
Speaker
And if, you know, the mum dies, then we'll just pop it into care. Um, everyone underfunded systems. Yeah. It's just, yeah, it makes no fucking sense to anyone listening who thinks it does. Please explain to me yeah how that makes any fucking sense. Yep. It doesn't, your ideas. I agree. I don't know why there's this like belief that.
00:54:07
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Like there's people out there who just are like happy to and at every chance they can go get an abortion because they love killing babies. No one's doing that fucking willingly. No. Do you know what I mean? Like I don't think there's probably one woman on the planet that's happily gone to go and get an abortion.
00:54:27
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and you know gets pregnant on purpose for the joy of getting an abortion. Or is just using it as a form of birth control. yeah That's not a thing. No. It's madness, if you think that way, quite frankly. Yeah.
00:54:43
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ah Back to this person being an asshole. I feel like no, um or fully justified in having that asshole response anyway. Like I said earlier, like maybe it's maybe we are all assholes. The question is whether or not there's a leg legitimate legitimate reason to be. I don't know. How do you feel? Yeah, I feel the same.
00:55:04
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like you know, I don't know the tone in which it was delivered and maybe it could have been, as you said, you know, delivered in a nicer way. But why should it? Because ultimately,
00:55:21
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her mum is part of the problem that has caused this to happen. She wouldn't have had that surgery had these abortion ban laws not been applied in her state or in her country. So deal with the fucking consequences of your own decision, mum. Unlucky. Yeah. What are the comments like, similar? Uh, yeah.
00:55:49
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Um,
00:55:52
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Not the asshole, the mum broke it, she bought it, she owns the consequences. Yeah, basically what you just said. I'm child three, child, child three. I'm on child three.
00:56:04
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I'm child free, um which I thought was by choice, but I found out my uterus had been ratchet for the last decade it spent in my body. Sorry, that's just a really funny way to refer it to it. As someone who spent my thirties bleeding out for 10 out of every 24 days because of fibroid, I think your long-term health is grateful for the compassionate choice you made.
00:56:31
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I don't know how to word it other than to say that I think you may have saved yourself a lot of unpleasant struggle. Being so weak as you pass out if you stand up too quickly is no way to live if you know what I mean. ah so when So many women in our era are not having babies. ah We're in great company. You still have the option to foster or adopt, and there are fair babies too. I'm sorry the choice was removed from your control. That's always frustrating, especially when it's our bodies. I hope you find peace and have a speedy recovery too. Not the asshole. I would not apologise to my mum either. By the way, my mum also voted for Trump. She lives in Florida, so I keep trolling her about NOAA getting defunded.
00:57:11
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when look I also asked her if she was going to bid on any national parks when they go out for sale. Highly recommend trolling of Trump parents. Reason, reason don't work, get your giggles or ignore entirely. Oh, it's the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. So basically like your fucked mom you live in florida and now you're not going to have hurricanes like alerts and shit like that so have fun yeah yeah yep well there we have it folks um as i said if you know if you did vote for trump um and have strong opinions on these laws i genuinely would like to hear you let's have a debate let's have a conversation
00:57:57
Speaker
email us or talk to us at gmail dot.com or at tsybpod. It was good talking to you. And you. What can people look forward to next time? Maybe. Well, I think next time we're going to have a little chat about AI taking over the world.
00:58:17
Speaker
And what that means for us. And then maybe embarrassing shit that people can't stop thinking about years later. And if you've got something that you've done that's really embarrassing, again, send it in. We'll read it out. We'll keep you anonymous. Um, but you could be on a podcast. How exciting. Maybe I'll share some of my embarrassing shit.
00:58:37
Speaker
I'll have a think about mine. I think mine are too embarrassing. I feel like we probably share it all. Yeah, we probably share it all. I'll see if I can pull another one out of the nether regions of my mind. Yeah, I'm sure that's off your bar. All right, until next time. Until next time.
00:58:55
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00:59:01
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00:59:03
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We'll get it on the edit. All right. I'll see you next time. Okay. Bye. Bye.