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Oh, only long enough until he took them inside. Well, he took them inside and... And then after that, I came out of the cubby house and went inside to see if it was going on. And the front door was open. So I just assumed I left out the front door. Did you hear any noises or any screaming or any shouting or nothing? Any gunshots?

Yeah, we had some gunshots go off, but Harry's always letting off gunshots. That's enough. Did you think there was all the kids in the house? There was gunshots going off?

So that I would have to sleep.

Mm-hmm.

How many curse words?

Yep.

Yep.

I'm pretty sure I went in once in Sunny Nook, but I'm not sure it was a Blockbuster section. It was definitely, it could have been a video easy.

Well, I've woken up and I've had a coffee. Just recently, I took some medication and did a wee. That was pretty good too.

But imagine that it was like physical form, right? Like it was in a magazine. You know what? I have kind of distinct memories. Like that video store might have been one of the formative experiences because I was pretty young when it was around. They used to have porn in gas stations or and it was like had a little plastic

Over the top of it. And I remember kind of looking like trying to peek around the plastic cover, see if I could see a boob.

You know what? Still, still, still waiting. Still living in hope, honestly. I hear that absolutely amazing.

Yeah, they're in New Zealand. They've got yellow writing and blue and a blue sign with yellow writing. And I used to go there and hire some stuff.

Oh man, there's just too many things. Like it's hard to get into that space now because everything is available to you all the time and also nothing is available to you. But I think it's the freedom, right? Anything. It was a world of possibilities. It wasn't dictated to you necessarily by Netflix or by the various streaming services. You could choose it and you could create bargains.

Yeah, I'm okay. Thanks for asking. Thanks for being interested.

It was like $3 for $7 rack or whatever. The whole world was there and it was visibly in front of you. And you could pick out the thing that you would enjoy the most. And there was still choice paralysis, but it wasn't as unsatisfying and spiritually destructive as like picking from a streaming service. Oh, and there was porn. There was porn in there.

You go through the curtain and you could like, I always wanted to go through that curtain and see what's in the porn sections.

I'm good.

Sorry?

Well, not visibly. Like, last time we checked Francis's poo, there was a whole bunch of white threadworms wriggling around. Oh, no, they weren't wriggling. They were dead. So they're dead and they're sort of passing through now. Just like all of us.

Yeah, of course. We both grew up in the Baptist church. We were pretty much raised by Focus on the Family.

No, I can't. Look, I think if it's just like our one, it's just like this network of Christians across the world that are trying to reinforce and mainly like enforce, like just make it mandatory to have only one man and one woman involved.

and one to eight children, and they'd better be in a house with a picket fence, and they'd better be having vaginal sex, vaginal heparosexual sex within the bounds of a marriage. And that is the only kind, and preferably not liking it, foaming at the mouth and disgust at their own bits. Just like, yuck, I'm doing it, but I hate my bits going there. And the orifices, and they hate the orifices.

And you are evil. And I'd say that is focused on the family to me.

I just feel like just really just screwed up. So many children, like, including myself, like everyone thought, I guess, that it was good. You just had to hit a child and eventually they'd become obedient. And really it just gave me a massive psychological, series of psychological complexes. And James Dobson, he really, he fucked it. He fucked me up. He got me good. He's like you, James Dobson.

You know, he's always playing tricks on me.

I'd say so. Just someone that, I guess, does huge psychic damage to me on a regular basis in that sense. Yeah, you've sort of taken his role.

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She lived here?

And he just kind of disappeared, right? Yeah, just gone.

Didn't say where he was, what was happening.

So it seems like they're largely targeting students. They're not going after NPR and plenty of organizations that are writing about this. They seem particularly angry about the people mobilizing. And is it because they're concerned about

Like, what's to stop? I guess my question is, like, if they're willing to do this... What's the limit?

I saw, I think it was Rubio that was bragging that they had, like, kicked 300 students out at this point. That was the brag, right?

But there's also talks of them dismantling the courts that are there to... Yeah.

it will be okay that will remain and these things will be played out but i don't know how what the risk factors are yeah well because there was the venezuelan thing as well where they deported a bunch of people that they were saying were gang members but a judge ordered for the plane to come back and oh i missed i missed that one and the administration just ignored it right and sent them anyways so yeah you've got a court that is like utterly useless

I think the court is trying, but I think... Trump is ignoring. It's being ignored and the orders are being ignored. And I think the question will be, how strong are the court systems and the checks and balances? Or is it just going to be fully rogue and like we're at the mercy of... whatever he wants to do.

Yeah. So you need to find a nice American woman to... I gotta... My God, marry into this nightmare.

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Yeah, it's been strange. So what, a peek behind the curtain, we had a conversation of if we could even have this conversation on the podcast.

I think that's kind of what this, what it's going to take for people to kind of understand what's going on. Once they see someone that looks like them, that this is happening.

Yeah. They, they feel disconnected and they're not afraid that, Hey, this could happen to me.

Yeah. So this is mostly international travel. International travel. It's people just getting picked up from the system.

And there's also a lot of these stories of like, I voted for him and now he's turned his back on me. I saw a few of like Mexican-Americans that voted for him and then they were pulled over and they are here legally and just like harassed for whether they're allowed to be here.

Yeah, I mean, and that's what a lot of people are dealing with. I mean, imagine also the language barrier, throwing that in there. She said that, I don't know if this was just in the article or in that, but that most of the women that she was with in that first cell didn't speak English.

This is the stuff that, like, you hear about what it's like in Russia.

Well, especially because of what it's meant to represent.

We recorded next week's episode. We've got next week's in the can.

but yeah weird times scary times and scarier I mean I feel privileged because I'm a citizen and I'm white and I've been here my whole life but yeah for so many people here it seems like a very scary time

Well, and there's just this bleak hopelessness that comes with it of like, what can we even do? Our small attempt is... To talk about it. Let's talk about it on the show this week.

Yeah, let's do some feedback.

The black sludge, you called it, I think?

He's misrepresented us.

Yeah, well, you're here on a work visa, and these people that are being detained and kicked out, they're seemingly being kicked out for not any less than what you do. And my question was, are you sure you want to risk, which I think that's what this show does, but also there is the reality of what the scary shit that's going on right now.

I'm much more sold on that description of it, though, than yours.

Well, you also started with describing it in a very terrible way. I always like to undersell.

I was trying to sell it. You had a jar that you were like, I want you to taste this now.

Probably like a teething ring. So when baby's teeth are growing in, they get little teething rings to chew on because it helps the gums. So apparently in Australia, you put Vegemite on those.

People didn't know what you were talking about.

You were in a private jet, David.

Yeah, it's kind of your move is just to fumble around. I mean, it's like going on a first date. You fumble around and act like you don't know what you're doing.

Did you just listen to this episode? Worst thing they're going to do is you're going to land in America and they're going to detain you.

He was a flight attendant and he asked every male passenger that came on. Normal. Fine.

Yeah. Kanye episode happened. We recorded days before that happened and then release it after it happened.

Oh, and it wasn't even desires.

Yeah, we did fully miss the layer of misogyny that was happening there. The woman's place in this movement was just to have kids and reproduce and raise these kids and not have...

Well, and obviously those things are more important to talk about, which is ultimately why we're doing this and why we do episodes like this. But, like, it's getting scarier and scarier, it seems, in this country. And it seems like we're wading into water that we're not used to, or at least I'm not used to, of, like, this distrust in what's happening.

They get his cigarettes and... Yeah.

Maybe what we need to do is have like a Thursday episode of this show for the next two years that's just a 7th Heaven rewatch. where we rewatch every episode of that show.

That was their sex ed.

I don't think there's an age. I think it's just asphalt. In New Zealand, I think we maybe say asphalt or it's just me. To make you feel better, I did get a comment about how I said...

They really, they should get like the hand cranking really fast.

And don't forget, April 13th, we're going to be in Portland. And April 18th, we're going to be in San Francisco.

And then as it gets closer, it starts morphing into something.

Well, I think it goes from there's a lot to figure out and a lot to do. Yeah. And we both want to make sure that the show is special to each city, too. But we have some fun stuff planned for both of these.

That's the thing that seems just so outwardly absurd about all of this is like, If you look at this from political stances on free speech, like the right, that's been such a talking point of like, that's what they're bringing back to Twitter and pushing for of like, people should be able to have this free speech.

Do they have justification that they're claiming for this or it's just we're pretending that this isn't happening and they're not addressing it?

And stop them from being vocal about it. What is the plan that they're trying to suppress?

No, I haven't. But this country feels like a much different place right now.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and like the fact that they're targeting these college kids who are like the brightest that this country has, these like people that came here to, To be educated in our college system.

Like, to make America brainier. Which your motto is make America great. Yeah. And, like, you're sending people away that...

Is that though? That's what I'm confused about.

Because there was like that French scientist that like they wouldn't let come in because he had stuff on his social media criticizing the administration. This is the party that preaches, like, free speech, don't take my guns, like, all of this, but then because of a comment?

Which is exactly what they tried to crucify Hillary over.

Yeah. I think the fact that they now feel like they're being lied to. Maybe it's just, like, that being the straw of, like, all the stories that we've heard these last two, three months. Like, the text chain mishap seems... I mean, it was clearly a big deal because of how sensitive it was. But, like, the abuse of power beyond that is, like, that's not...

That's not, to me, like... But it is weird how those little things end up being the final straw.

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I buy usually. No, I got a girlfriend.

I have a truck payment and then a boat payment.

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Yeah.

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