TMR 317 : The Nephilim Chaps' Spider-Powered Farmer Harmer

When will Sir Keir get his sausages back? Is it safe for an asparamancer to eat a 74-year-old omelette? Does Tom Hanks have eight legs or six? And will Frank Johnson raise enough cash through this evening's kickstarter to fund his research project to obtain superpowers by microwaving spiders from around the world? These (and other vitally important questions) are answered as we kick off 2025 here at TMR with our annual New Year's Eve show—a crazy roundtable chat with high-ranking members of The Fireside Nephilim Chaps secret society. Join us—Jenifer Thyssen (classical singer), Frank Johnson (microwave spider skientist), Crusy (Like Flint Radio), Jeff Bankens (Strongman for Christ), The Right Honourable Sir Keir Rodney Starmer, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, MP (the UK's selected "Prime Minister") and Yours Truly—as we put aside the cares of this world for just over an hour and discuss everything under the sun in aid of Frank's latest arachnophilic skientific research. [For show notes please visit https://themindrenewed.com]

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Hello everybody. Julian Charles here of themindernews dot com coming
to you as usual from the depths of the Lancashire
countryside here in the UK, and welcome once again to
tmr's regular New Year's Eve show, the number of which
this year is ten. That's right. We've been celebrating this
way for ten years now out of the twelve years
in which TIM has been in existence, so that's something

(00:46):
from milestone. And each year we are joined by members
of the Nepheline Chaps Secret Society made up of top
ranking initiates from affiliated shows and networks and other elite
persons from around the globe. And also each year we
announce a very worthy kickstarter for Frank Johnson's latest scientific
tug on you I get that wrong, latest skyientific project,

(01:10):
which we shall announce in a moment and remind people
what the important word sky that actually means. And in
the bulk of the program, we shall be sharing some
news stories from the last year twenty twenty four, mostly
things that have made us chuckle for various reasons, because
this is our yearly opportunity to let our hair down,
so to speak, and to put aside the dark and
scary things that are going on in this world. Just

(01:32):
for an hour or so during this festive season and
so this new year. We are joined by Jennifer Tyson,
the classical singer from Texas with the voice for an
angel Cruisy from South Africa, one of the veteran hosts
of like Flint Radio in the Southern Hemisphere. I say veteran,
but you're not that old, are you, Cruzy. Jeff Bankin's
strong man for Christ over there in? I think, is

(01:53):
it Louisiana? Is that where you are?

Speaker 2 (01:55):
It is?

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Indeed, sir excellent, excellent And Frank Johnson also in the US,
Yillah guest on TMR and award winning scientist and also
joined by the Right Honorable Sir Kiir Rodney starmer Knight,
Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath. So
welcome everybody. Wonderful to have you on the show.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Thank you, thanks, thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Hello Hello there, Hello, wonderful to have you all on.
So Jennifer, I know you're still doing lots of singing.
Are you performing this Christmas?

Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yes, I have a concert next week. Yeah, it'll be
quite busy. My children are also performing, but as dancers.
We're really busy next week.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Oh well, thanks very much for taking time out to
do this, so Julian, Yeah, we.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Just talked about Christmas performing, but we're like the day
of the New year.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yes, yeah, it's just occurred to me as well. Should
we just retake that.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
That we say I did quite a bit of performing
during Christmas?

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yes, all right, I'll ask the question again. All right,
did you do some great performing during Christmas this year?

Speaker 4 (03:00):
We had a blast. I had a couple of concerts
and my children were dancing and really celebrating Christmas in
the New Year, and it's been really exciting.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Thank you, wonderful. And that's all over. And it was successful,
was it?

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (03:13):
Absolutely successful.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
That's very good, very good. And I hope you are
practicing also for the special round table that we have
on the sound of music. You still practicing for that.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
I have been practicing for that for about three years now,
and I just really hope that someday, well I'll be
able to put all my good practice to you.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Wonderful. That's great because I don't think people quite know
whether that's going to happen or not, but I can
assure people that is it really is.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Oh, yes, it really is, and I will be there
with bells on.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Wonderful Cruisey. Good to have you on again.

Speaker 5 (03:47):
You're still there, well, thank you, Judian. I don't want
to be left out. I just want to say I
also make a lot of money through singing, but that's
because people pay me five bucks to stop singing.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
So, Prusy, I think you probably have a better business
model than mine.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
Just for the record, Well.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
I think you need to prove that, Cruisy. You need
to prove that. You can't make a statement without proving
it these days, So go on, can you guys the
taste of your voice?

Speaker 5 (04:15):
I only work for money, Jude, and.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
In that case, we can.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
I can. I can give you a mental picture. It's
like Yoko oh yes, but just much worse. Chess in
tune excellent.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Okay, Jeff, are you still there on the line?

Speaker 2 (04:35):
I am here, sir.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yeah. The first thing I wanted to ask you is
is it Louisiana or Louisiana or are they two different places?

Speaker 2 (04:41):
They're the same place. Most people say Louisiana. I say
Louisiana because I'm too lazy to say it the other way.
But the extra vowel, yeah, the extra vowel gets me.
But if I'm trying to be proper, I say Louisianah huh.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
I wasn't quite sure whether it might have been a
different place, because there's so many places in the US.
Is quite possible there would be another place almost with
the same name, but it is exactly the same place. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
My wife just remarked to me earlier this week, matter
of fact. You know, we all have accents, of course
for someone who's not around here, and uh, she said, gosh,
you're the one with the accent when you say I
just want to crene when you say Loseianda, are.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
You still in the business of breaking people's arms and legs?
In the name of Jesus, I am.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Matter of fact. We just had a program for our
kids and I got to end it.

Speaker 5 (05:26):
And what I did.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
I had a barbell across my shoulders with about a
two hundred pound man on each side, and I twirled
around in a circle like a big carousel.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
A two hundred pounds mine. Did you say, two men happens?

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Two men about two hundred pounds each, which what would
that be ninety five kilos or something?

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Wow, are you getting stronger? Maybe ninety Is it my
imagination or are you actually getting stronger?

Speaker 2 (05:49):
I am getting stronger and older. That's why my head
is shaved. Now this could be interesting and I'm not
doing anything, no steroids or anything. Just keep working out.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah, yeah, well this could be interesting because I think
that Frank's project this year involves getting superpowers, so I
think maybe you could be involved as well in that.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Oh I would love to be I would love to
have superpower.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
I think you have them already.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
It's never enough, never enough. There's always more to go after, you.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Know, Yeah, three men? Are you going to do three
men on them?

Speaker 2 (06:22):
I could do three or four, maybe maybe one across
the shoulders and the other two hanging off the bar.

Speaker 5 (06:26):
Bill Wow.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Yeah, well, I was pretty scared when you said you
sent me those nails in the post. Jeff, you sent
me some bent nails. I was sure that it was
you or the mafia, a brown parcel full of bent nails.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
I thought, Oh no, you should have followed that up
with a message, I will find you well quiet.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Right now. I'm hoping you can get so Kia. So,
sir Kia, it's a great honor to have you on
the show. It's always wonderful, of course to have a
prime minister with us, which we do from time to time.
So thank you very much, need for taking time out
of your extremely busy schedule of taxing farmers and clamping
down on free speech to join us on the show.

Speaker 6 (07:15):
Never forget that this opportunity is only here because we
changed the party.

Speaker 5 (07:21):
Ah a file.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Indeed, indeed, it's wonderful, isn't it to have such a
person with us this evening?

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Yeah, I won't forget, but I'm not sure what exactly
if I can remember what he just said, But I
will never forget.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
I think perhaps we need to hear it again. Would
you mind repeating it that, sir here, I call.

Speaker 6 (07:40):
Again from immediate ceasefire and Gaza, the return of the
sasages the hospital that's not the same one.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Maybe he's got a little too much already.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
I'll dry again.

Speaker 6 (07:53):
Never forget that this opportunity is only here because we
changed the party.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yes, the opportunity is only here because they've changed the party.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
Well, if he's here and he's totally changing the party,
this was a totally different party before he shot it.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
I thought he said they change the past, and like,
what are they? Time? Traveling or what's going.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
On that could be interesting because Trump I was reputed
to have time traveled, wasn't he think one of the rumors?

Speaker 4 (08:18):
Ah?

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yes, yes, Wow.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Is this the opportunity that I have in my life
to finally understand what in the world is going on
with your prime minister's name. I just don't understand it,
Like I don't understand how people pronounce it, why the
letters line up to be the way that people pronounce it.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
Are you talking about the name Kia?

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (08:38):
And Starma? What is it starmer or something like that? Actually,
if you actually read it in English. But I know,
I know there's that whole like dropping of the final
R thing. But I'm telling you, I heard the name
so many times and then I saw it in writing it.
I was like, what in the world?

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Well, I think his name is Starma because it rhymes
with Farma Hama.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
Okay, but what about what is his name?

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Kir Kia Kia. It's like Keith, but instead of a
th h at the end, it's an R. It is unusual.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
I find it difficult.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
But his first name seems to be sir. It's always
referred to as Sircia.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
That's a little more he could.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
He should have changed his name to Aluminium, just to
confuse all the Americans.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Maybe that's his middle name, Yeah, Aluminium Starma.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
I would I would approve of that change of name,
but I'm not sure you'd be able to persuade him.
But can we persuade you? Kia? Sorry? Sorry, I do apologize,
So can we persuade you?

Speaker 6 (09:44):
I understand that many of the decisions we must take
will be unpopular.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
If they were popular, they'd be easy.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
Yeah, we are illuminous.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
I'd like to have one of those. Actually, I would
like to have a tinfoil hat. During the COVID experience,
I wanted to get a bowler hat and then cover
it in tin foil and walk around with it. But
I never, unfortunately, never found a bowler hat. Yeah. I
saw somebody on one of these protests wearing such a thing,
and I thought, what a fantastic thing to do.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Should have borrowed marks, should add.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Yes, I should have done. Yeah. Well, Frank, I don't
think you're sir Frank Johnson. Are you, as far as
I know, Well, not yet, no, but you might with
all your research, So you're not Knight Commander of the
most honorable order of the bath yet, sorry about that.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
I'm hoping.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, So we need to remind listeners that you have
another of your kickstarters this evening. This is your latest
scientific project. I think we just need to remind listeners
that Skiance is official science, isn't it. So it could
be true, it could be false, It doesn't matter that.
All that matters is that it's the official scientific position,
which we call sky something that's a good name for.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
It, and for this particular I am the science guiance
in this situation. So you can never ever question me
on it. No, No, it's you just can't.

Speaker 5 (11:10):
You can't.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Well, I think it's all right. I think you're going
to be pardoned soon anyway, Frank, So I shouldn't worry
about it.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
Yes, most likely, Yeah, most likely pardoned for whatever future
possibilities of things that you may or may not have done.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
It'll be fair, yes, yes, exactly, because nobody is above
the law. So you know, yeah, that's fine, isn't it? So? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
So, as usual, we're asking listeners to donate while the
program is on on air, So please do donate to
Frank's kickstarter here, just a dollar or two. Well, actually,
thousands would be great, but whatever you can. Oh, yes, So,
could you tell us about your scientific project for twenty
twenty five? Frank so Frank.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, yeah. So coming up on the New Year here,
I had a little brainwave and I thought, you know,
all these expeditions, they're dangerous, and just everyday life is
getting more dangerous and you can't always rely on the police.
I thought, well, why not just trying to give myself superpowers?
And I'm like, well, one of the best superpowers is
Spider Man's because you know, when people try to attack him,

(12:13):
he senses it and you can jump out of the
way and climb up the wall and all that stuff.
So my new Kickstarter will be I am going to
procure various different spider species from around the world, and
I'm gonna microwave them, get them to bite me, and
see which one gives me superpowers. Sending me a few

(12:34):
from Australia, but those might be a little too potent,
so we're gonna We're gonna hold those ones off for later.
And I'm not sure if I'm gonna have to have
multiple spiders bite me at the same time. I don't
really look forward to that, but I have to do
it for this guiance, so.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
The sky hens absolutely, yes, absolutely, well, yeah, I can
see you in the Skype monitor here. You are dressed
indeed as Spider Man, very convincingly, but at this moment
you don't have the superpowers to go the costume.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Not yet. Right now, I'm just preparing myself mentally and physically.
I'm wearing the suit for the job that I want,
not the suit for the job that I have.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
So be the change you want to see.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
That's exactly right. Yeah, So you know, all things considered,
I'm planning to have superpowers sometime in twenty twenty five,
provided this kickstarter does what it needs to do.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Yes, and you need at least twenty dollars, would you
say for this I need I need to buy a microwave.
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (13:29):
Well, I've got a microwave, but I'm just not sure
if it's strong enough, so I might need to buy
a second microwave that's stronger. With the you know, more
settings I can fiddle with, and spiders should be pretty
easy to post through the mail, so that shouldn't need
a lot of money. So I'm thinking maybe along the
lines of a couple hundred bucks.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Cool that's a bit much. I think we've only raised
about six or seven dollars for you so far.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah, I will throw in that everybody who donates will
receive a very exclusive reward. I'm trying to develop what
that is. Perhaps it might be one of the spiders
I use in my experiment. It might be a preserved
one of those that has expired, and just all send
thosees out to people so they can be part of
this guiance too.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Okay, well we'll direct people to your email address for that,
if that's all right with you, yes, please, yeah, Can
I just check with you why it is you need
to microwave these spiders in order to get the power
from them.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
Well, you know, I don't have access to genetic engineering
like in the newer movies. I went back to the comics,
you know, back in the sixties, and you know Peter
Parker's got bit by a spider that was radioactive and
gave empowers. So I'm hoping the microwave will be the
proper radiation and get the job done.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
Okay, that satisfies me, that's fine. Will you have the
ability to cling to solid surfaces?

Speaker 3 (14:41):
That's the idea.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
And genius level intellect.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Well, I've already got the second one, so I'm hoping that.
I'm hoping that I'll be able to clean the surfaces.
I mean, I've been trying to do that since I
was a small boy.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
What about the utilization of wrist mounted webshooters? Well, can
you do that already?

Speaker 3 (14:59):
I'd rather not say at this time because there may
or may not be some patents in the works right now.
I don't want to tip my hand too early.

Speaker 5 (15:06):
You know.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, I have a feeling that Cruisy might be good
at utilizing wrist mounted webshooters already, am I right? Cruisy?

Speaker 5 (15:12):
How did the penguin become the penguin?

Speaker 3 (15:17):
You know, I'm a spider man expert, not a penguin expert.
You might have about that, though, GK is a penguin expert,
so you might want to ask him.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Unfortunately, GK couldn't join us this year. I thought the
penguin was something to do with Hillary Clinton, Cruisy it
was last year. I don't know, I'm not I need
to check with you, Frank. Are spiders are raknids or
are they insects?

Speaker 3 (15:45):
Are there rachnids? They have eight legs?

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Right? Well? I wanted to check because Tom Hanks in
the film Sleepless in Seattle calls them insects.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
Oh that's not correct. Yeah, no, I would never take
any sort of sky inspects from Tom.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
Okay, but maybe because he was in Apollo thirteen, so
maybe he has a couple of skyant specs that might.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Be okay, maybe.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
Well, as far as Spider's and insects, he has no
idea what he's talking about.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
My last question to you, Frank, does this incorporate Nazis,
the North Pole, Nephelie and.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Jam I can't really comment on that, right, there's a
top secret. It's top secret. If you remember the reporter
gave you on the past expeditions and projects. Yeah, I
think you will understand why. But remember you signed that
non disclosure so you know we can't really talk about it.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
That's right, Yes, yes, okay, Well, thank you very much
Frank for that. So please everybody do donate. Yeah, yeah,
absolutely donate. Please before the end of the evenings of
the button as you all know, will be there on
the website for that and the donation window closes it
exactly at midnight, so not all that long, Togo. Maybe
we'll get a few hundred dollars for you. You never know, Frank,

(16:59):
I'm hoping. Okay, So now let's turn to news items. Jeff,
do you have any news items from twenty twenty four
you'd like to share with us?

Speaker 2 (17:10):
I do have a couple I would like to share.
Just a moment, let me get to them. Here's what
seventy four year old gives birth in Hawaii.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Seventy four year old.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yes, when you look closer at the article, though, it's
a seventy four year old bird that laid an egg
World's wild bird.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
Yeah, I say.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
And then the University of Texas was not allowed to
bring their seventeen hundred pound longhorn to their game versus
the University of Georgia. There was no room for the
seventeen hundred pound steer.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Okay, is there are anymore?

Speaker 2 (17:48):
John from the UK Okay Police recover a stolen van
with twenty five hundred pies after a chef's appeal to
find it, but they are too damaged to eat.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
Oh yeah, yeah, there's been quite a lot of theft
of pies in recent months. Yes, that's extraordinary, it is,
isn't it. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (18:09):
I still have some questions about the old bird. Okay,
but really, how did they know it's sold? They have
like some bird census before.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
This was that bird's census or bird censors.

Speaker 5 (18:22):
Census to find out what every bird in the world's aging.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Am I probably yeah, it's probably just an id tag.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Okay, Yeah, I'd like to have a little bit more
detail about this bird. Yes, seventy four year old bird
gives birth.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
I did not read that far into the article, believe
it or not.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
I heard it was delicious though, or an omino.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
I don't know. This doesn't look like a bird in
good morning.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
It looks like a seagull or an albatross type of bird.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
It says the oldest known wild bird in the world
has laid an egg at the ripe age of seventy
four per first four years. It's a long winged seabird named.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Wisdom, Oh, the Wisdom of years.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
I don't think it's very wise to get pregnant at
seventy four, but that's just me anyway, it's an albatross.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Frank that was a very knowing h That was a
good guess.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah, and it says we are optimistic the egg will hatch.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Oh, so it's quite heartwarming. Yes, no, I know it's
not eaten. It's quite heartwarming. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yeah, they're trying to lay to hatch it, so we'll see.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Yes, Well, I have a story here. I've got loads here.
So I found it was an absolutely ridiculous year. There's
just too much to choose. I said that last year,
but I think it's even worse this year, even better
in a sense. It just gets crazier and crazier, I think.
So I picked this one out from the BBC on
the thirty first of October twenty twenty four. I was
astonished by this. So this is the headline, Russia finds

(19:58):
Google more money than there is in the entire world.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
So yeah, I heard about that.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Wow, So this is a Russian court that finds Google
two Undercillian Rubles explained that in a moment, this is
for restricting Russian state sponsored media channels on YouTube. Well
I presume this is true anyway. So that's two not
not not not not not not not not not not
not not not not not not not not not not

(20:27):
not not not not not not not not not not
not not not not Rubles. So that's two, followed by
thirty six zeros now since there.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
Are one zero.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
I see what is it? There are hundred roubles to
the US dollars. So in US dollars, that's twenty decillion dollars.
So that's twenty not not not not not not no
no no no no no no no no no no
no no no no no no no no no not
not Yeah, there we go. So yes, so that's and
I worked that out to be at one hundred and
eighty two quintillion times the world's total GDP.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
So it says that Google has not commented publicly or
responded to a BBC request for a statement.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
There has not been that much money in the world.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Every astonishing.

Speaker 5 (21:12):
The interesting thing is part of that figure reminds me
of my bank penance. But don't need.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Well, maybe we could correct that a little cruisy if
we get some funds in from this kind offic project.
Maybe Frank could donate you a few cents.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
I haven't got any sense.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
Speaking of birds, Can I add a news story about
bird stuff?

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yes, sure, bird stuff, birdstuff. It's always like you like
a good story about bird stuff. Yeah, that's great.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
Well this is actually about bird stuff. So you know,
we've got a seventy four year old bird laying an egg.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
Sorry, no, no, no, I'm so I'm just lining up the
fact that birds are probably here to save the world
or something. Because some middle schoolers discovered new cancer fighting
compound in goose poop. Oh yeah, So, there was a
local boys and girls club that was doing some middle
school science stuff, and they were collecting environmental samples to

(22:19):
discover potential new antibiotic strains. And two the students brought
in some goose poop they picked up at the local park.
It turned out that turned out that the goose poop
goose poop turned out to be a golden nugget, hahuh.
With the help of some University of Ice Illinois, Chicago students,

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the students extracted powerful antibiotic bacteria from the feces. That
but that's not all. The grown up scientists realized that
the bacteria produced a compound that was completely new to science,
which also seems to hinder the growth of certain cancer cells. So,
in other words, in other words, the middle schoolers accidentally

(23:02):
helped discover a potential new anti cancer treatment.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
That's incredible.

Speaker 5 (23:07):
I have some more questions. I want to see how
that happened as lock. The two school kids walked in
a park and they saw this bird poop and they thought, hmm,
this my make good awn typotic? Right, am I overthinking
this again?

Speaker 4 (23:26):
Well, it's interesting to me. Like at the beginning of
the article, it says, as part of the initiative, which
was a partnership between the University of Illinois, Chicago and
the local Boys and Girls Club, they were trying to
get the youths involved in sciences, so that as part
of the initiative that participating middle schoolers were encouraged to
collect environmental samples to discover potential new antibiotic strains, which

(23:51):
like what kind of samples, like anything everything, or it
was just everybody out looking for poop or what were
they looking for?

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah, well, I was just wondering whether the children weren't
be told go look for samples, but don't whatever you do,
pick up any poop because that could be damaging to
your health. And of course, children being children, might have thought, hey,
let's do exactly that. You never know, still wonderful, Yeah, wonderful.
If that turns out to be something really useful, that's great.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
I've always felt like we underestimate the value of poop. Yeah,
you just never know what good things could come from it.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
We can't do without it, that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
No, we certainly cannot do do without it. Oh, well done,
well done, terrible, I know, very bad.

Speaker 5 (24:38):
Okay, Frank, you know, but they can just send them
to a concrete.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Lot, cutting cruisy. That was cutting, Frank record, none of
us is.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
Are we even allowed to say that?

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Yeah, I'm wondering about that.

Speaker 5 (24:58):
That's probably gonna get cut.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
Do we have to do we have to put a
bleep through that word?

Speaker 5 (25:02):
Yeah, you're going to cut me right after the show.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
He's gonna be full of beeps. Actually, sometimes beaps can
be more amusing than the real woods, whatever they are.

Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah, well I have one more. It's not about birds,
but it is about another egg laying creature. Apparently there
is a poor man who lives in Georgia who has
lost his emotional support alligator. What his emotional support alligator?

Speaker 3 (25:34):
Huh?

Speaker 6 (25:34):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (25:37):
Yeah, so apparently Wally is the name of this emotional
support alligator. Wally Gator exactly. Oh yeah, he visits nursing homes,
splashes around. Well, this was in May. I don't know
if he's been found since then, but he meets with
the mayor and people, various admirers hug and hold him.

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But he went missing. So this is back in May.
His owner says that he was kidnapped. I don't know
if you ever got found.

Speaker 5 (26:09):
I think an alligator can fit in a microwave. I
have an idea I can copiat Frankly, Chrizy.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
Don't you have crocodiles over there? They're probably work better
than alligators.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
Yeah, but I'm no good at catching crocodiles. I think
I'll give that a skip.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
What's the difference anyway between a crocodile and alligator.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
Crocodiles have a more longer and thinner snout and there
I think they can go into like salt water to
some of them can, yeah, a lot bigger. And alligators
are are definitely smaller, and they got a more stubby nose.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
One of them has strong closing jaw muscles and the
other one is I think stronger at opening.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Have you managed to stop the jaws at all.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Jeff, I've never wanted to try.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Well, I think you should.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Oh sure, I'll just go do that and come back
this on a finger.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Cool and then report back later in the show.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
See what happened to Steve Irwin too?

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Well, that was a sting ray that got him. It
was never a crocodile. So I mean you'd be all right.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Did you all pick up on those rather amusing stories
about RFK this year RFK Jr.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Didn't he take like a bear, like a road killed
bear or some road killed animal? And then he also, yes,
he did something with like a whale's head, like, yeah,
taking it.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
I didn't pick up on that one.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
Yeah, he set off the whale's head and stuck it
on top of his car and drove it home.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
Like did he do that by himself? I don't remember
what he did with it.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Well, these stories are crafted, aren't they to sort of
put people off him? But I thought it gave an
extra street credit as far as I was concerned, I.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
Kind of agree. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
So this one about the dumped dead bear. So he
was on a falconry trip and a bear had been
hit by another car. So he thought, well, I can
just put this carcass in my van and skin it
laid to get the meat. And then it turned out
he wasn't He wasn't going home. He was telling Roseanne Barbis.
So he and some friends came up with an idea
of dumping the bear in Central Park as a joke,

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and he had an old bike in the back of
his van, so he thought, well, let's pretend that somebody
hit it with a bike, and he left it in
Central Park.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Oh, I would like to clarify, Julian, It's not like
a fall groan Berry. It was actually a bear cub.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
It was a cub. You're right, six months old or something.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
Yes, there was a roadkill bear cub, so that would
be why he was able to transport it so easily.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
That's right, that's right. And then there was one He
sent a photo of himself to a friend in which
he is shown eating an animal carcass, and in the text,
Kennedy suggests to his friend, you should go and visit
South Korea to visit the best dog restaurant. This was
in Vanity Fair, okay. So, but apparently at least they

(28:55):
implied that it was in fact a dog carcast c
but Kennedy corrected this and saying that it was a goat,
it wasn't a dog, and it was taken in South America.
It was not in South Korea. But then the friend.
The friend says quote Kennedy sent me the picture with
a recommendation to visit the best dog restaurant in Seoul.
So he was certainly representing that this was a dog

(29:17):
and not a goat. In any case, it's grotesque.

Speaker 3 (29:21):
With these dead animals. Yes, I found the whale whale article.
You hadn't heard this one, Julian.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
No, Can I just add that before you tell me that.
The last thing about this story is that Snoopes then
bothered to fact check all this, and they fact checked
that it was not a goat. It was a sheep's carcass.
There you go.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Yeah, So there was a news story that came in.
I just am grabbing it from the AP. It's from
September of twenty twenty four. RFK Jinger is being investigated
for collecting a dead whale and in it, says Glendale, Arizona.
A federal law enforcement agency confirmed its open and investigation
into RFK Junior after he allegedly cut off the head
of a dead whale and took it home two decades ago.

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Kennedy's daughter recalled the whale incident in a twenty twelve
interview with Town and Country magazine, which recently resurfaced, said
she was six years old. Her dad got word that
a dead whale had washed ashore. He got a chainsaw,
cut off the whale's head and strapped it to the
roof of their mini van for a five hour drive home.
I can't imagine how he could have did that himself,
because that's got to be really heavy. Yeah, and nobody

(30:36):
else noticed this. This is really strange.

Speaker 4 (30:38):
He got older boys, so maybe they helped him with it.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Perhaps. Yeah. It says every time we accelerated on the highway,
whale juice would pour into the car and it was
the rankest thing on the planet. Kathleen Kennedy recalls, we
all had plant a bank over our head with mouth
holes cut out, and the people on the highway were
giving us the finger. But that was just normal day
to day stuff.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
I'm a way all of the tail to me.

Speaker 4 (31:07):
I heard her recount that before, and I just laughed
so hard.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
It's just like I didn't.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
Know these details because I only had read the headline before.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
But yeah, well, I'm thinking this man has to be
for president as soon as I've heard those stories. Wouldn't
it be fantastic?

Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah. I mean, that's the kind of president you might
as well have at this point.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
I mean, somebody with a sense of humor. Eavans.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Yeah, that makes me wonder if it's a Kathleen Kennedy
who's ruined Star Wars related to him.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
I don't know anything about it. I don't think about
Star Wars. I even I'm confused by the fact they're
in the wrong order.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yeah, well, let's just ignore Star Wars for now. Oh, okay,
it's a different Kathleen Kennedy, all right, never mind? Oh okay,
they call her kick Kennedy.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Okay, but we're definitely still talking about RFK Junior, are we, Yes, Okay.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
They reference to Kathleen Kennedy in this article, which is
also the name of a producer who's been running Star
Wars into the ground for twelve he is, Yeah, okay,
I'm a little sorry about that.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
But yeah, does anybody got any more stories?

Speaker 3 (32:08):
I've got more, but I can save them too. I
got two more. One of them, I don't know. It
involves a nude swim, so you might want to save
that one for last.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
I don't know, very important.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
I mctually been saving that one for an entire year.
So that's been an entire year. I've been holding on
to that story just for this meeting today.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Yeah, it's a very important theme. We've we've rather let
it go with our movie round tables, haven't we we have? Yeah,
it was one of the criteria for choosing a movie.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
And yeah, I am going to have to go in
a couple of minutes because I got a birthday party
to go to.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Okay, do you have any more, Jeff, any any more stories?
Or have you exhausted your selection?

Speaker 2 (32:45):
There was a Pennsylvania couple who divorced in nineteen seventy
five that remarried this year.

Speaker 5 (32:50):
Really, wow, fifty.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
Years after getting divorced. That's a nice one, it is.

Speaker 5 (32:55):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
I remember the story of that ridiculous old banana being
taped to a wall for art. Oh yeah, it says
the cryptocurrency entrepreneur who bought it for six point two
million dollars ate it.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
Yes, But I feel like that's a new thing, like
that just came out again recently, Like it's another banana
tape to the wall. The other one was like three
years ago.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
There was a while ago. That's why when I heard
somebody ate it. I'm like, was it hanging around for
years or did they just replace the banana? I mean like,
or did you eat it at the time. I'm really
confused because none of the people writing articles can write
well anymore, so it's really confusing.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
He peeled off the duct tape and he enjoyed the banana.
In a press conference, he said it tasted better than
other bananas because he paid six point two million dollars
for it.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
And this is a recent story, is it? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (33:41):
It says November twenty nine.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
This is definitely a trend, doesn't because we have had
that before.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Curely wasn't the original because the banana in the picture
doesn't look that old.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
I have a little more context for this. So the
art piece is called Comedian. It's a twenty nineteen artwork
by Italian artists M. I won't pronounce the name M. Catalan,
created in an edition of three. It appears as a
fresh banana a fixed to a wall with duct tape.
As a work of conceptual art, it consists of a
certificate of authenticity with detailed diagrams and instructions for its

(34:11):
proper display. Number two of the limited edition of three
was sold to crypto entrepreneur Justin Son for six point
two million in November of twenty twenty four. So maybe
he made another one this year.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
Really yeah, Yeah, that's probably what's going on. If it
says that there's going to be three, then he did
the first one. This must be number two, and people
were anticipating it so that there would be this lead
up to him.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
To somebody being see None of the news articles really
explained that very clearly. I was like, he ate a
five year old banana, Like, what the So that must
mean there's one more coming up in the near future,
and maybe we should have a Kickstarter to buy that one.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
Fantastic idea, and we could cut it up in pieces
and ship a.

Speaker 5 (34:54):
Piece to each of us.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
I think that would be great.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Do we wish to encourage that level of pretentiousness though?

Speaker 4 (35:00):
I don't think there's any pretentiousness with any of us
here at all.

Speaker 5 (35:04):
No, say, I just had to google this. I don't
know why. Okay, I just add you, with six point
two million dollars, you can actually buy one hundred thousand bananas.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
Right, But it's not this one? Is it cruizy? It's
not a conceptual banana?

Speaker 5 (35:21):
I bet I all would have tasted just as nice.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
All Right, guys, well, I'm gonna have to go now,
but I appreciate it. I enjoyed it as Usualeff.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
It was great to have you on. Jeff, thanks very
much for joining us.

Speaker 5 (35:32):
All right, don't break anyone's arms.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
I'm gonna try not to.

Speaker 5 (35:35):
Bye, bye bye.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Did anybody catch what he was going to? Did he
say it was going to a birthday party or something?
But that sounded like very strange to have a birthday
party around midnight, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
But there we are, Well, the earth and all of
human society has and birthday party around New Year every
year in the middle of the night.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
That's true. That's true.

Speaker 1 (35:55):
That's what it is.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
There, you go.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
Maybe he had a more illustrious New Year's party to
slide off to, and he just was trying to be polite.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
Ah, that's what it'll be.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Yeah, it's probably got to be some sort of like
Illuminati armbreakers party or something. Probably, actually, I think I
know what it is. I think he must have had
like an invitation from Chuck Norris or something, because that's
the only reason you would leave this party to go
to another one. So he just didn't want to tell
us you can't turn Chuck Norris down.

Speaker 5 (36:25):
Chuck Norris is the only person if you're scared of So, yes, exactly.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Yeah, I was going to say. It's a good job
that I asked you chaps who Chuck Norris is before
we started the program. Otherwise I'd have to admit it
on air. Yeah, that would be embarrassing.

Speaker 4 (36:40):
I guess you'll edit this part out.

Speaker 5 (36:42):
I might not.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
Actually, there's another story. Do you chaps know what raw
dogging is? Have you come across that.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
I've heard the term, but not in any sort of
PG sense.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
No, right, right, Okay. I astonished to find this BBC again,
eleventh of August twenty twenty four. The title is no films,
no music, no sleep is raw dogging? Long flights heroic
or foolish?

Speaker 3 (37:11):
Okay, that's not the context I've heard, so go ahead.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Well I me. I mentioned it to my seventeen year
old nephew and he knew all about it. This is
a new travel fad where you get on a plane
and you spend the whole length of the flight doing
nothing but just staring straight ahead, literally, so you don't drink,
you don't eat, and some people don't even get up
or go to the toilet. You try to do your

(37:36):
personal best. You know how many hours you can cope
with it for.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
So they're basically managing staring competition.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
Basically staring competition, that's right. Yeah, So this was a
report on a man from Florida, Damian Bailey, who had
achieved his personal best of thirteen and a half hours
on a flight with no flight entertainment, films, books, or music.
He says, it's quite tough. I don't think I want
to do that.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
I think that's miserable. But to each their own.

Speaker 5 (38:01):
Absolutely, he sounds like the same kind of god that
five years ago would have eaten.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
Yeah, it's like a TikTok thing or YouTube thing, and
then YouTube pulled all the videos or something like. What
was going on is people were young, people were like
eating type pods or putting them in their mind. I
don't know if they were eating them or just like
tasting it.

Speaker 4 (38:26):
Or what a detergent for clothes, right, And it's like
in a little laundry detergent and it's and it's like
a dissolvable pod sort of thing.

Speaker 5 (38:35):
And there was actually some discs as well.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
Yes, yes, really yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
Yeah, and they're really colorful too, They're like a bluish
greenish and white or orange.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
Also, would you do that?

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (38:47):
Is that like challenging yourself to put a bar of
soap in your mouth and hold it there or something.
I don't understand the appeal for that.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
I don't either. That's why I was like, I didn't
understand why people were doing that.

Speaker 5 (38:58):
Do you know what? Years ago, Carl Manuals used to
actually say things like it gives you a whole thing
on how to fix your car BRTE or whatever. And
likely Car Manuals would just say something like, please don't
eat the tires. That's how stupid society is.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
But you know what, there actually was a French guy
who ate an entire airplane. He's in a Guinness Book
of World Records.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
Well I heard that somebody eats in a cup. It's
been gone to an airplane.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
Now we EA's all kinds of stuff. Yeah, well he
did eat an entire airplane. Missile mols too, mister eat everything.
This is his name, his stage name.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
He needed more iron than his die.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
It doesn't seem worth it, tim an entry in the
Goodest Book of Records?

Speaker 3 (39:43):
Is it he loved to be a pretty decent age.
But yeah, he died of natural causes at fifty five.

Speaker 4 (39:50):
That was a little young to me.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
No, great, really not great.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
Yeah, here's the whole list of unusual items he's eaten.
At least forty five door hinge, eighteen bicycles, fifteen shopping carts,
seven TV sets which I would assume had toxic stuff
in them, six chandeliers, two beds, one pair of skis,

(40:15):
one computer, one copy of the textbook Gravitation by Missner,
Thorn and Wheeler.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
That that was a very heavy book. Yes, heavy meal,
really heavy.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
I suppose that was that's why he ate it. One
fifty light aircraft, one water bed full of water, five
hundred meters of steel chain at once once. Well, that
one had to be an achievement. One coffin with tandles,
one Guinness Award plaque, and assorted razors and bolts. And

(40:47):
that's that's at least everything he's eaten.

Speaker 5 (40:50):
I say, did you eat a pumpute and tiny bites?

Speaker 3 (40:55):
I would say he had to.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Yeah, Wow, he made it fifty six. That's pretty good going. Actually,
I think he ate Yeah.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
We're starting out with us. That's awfuly young, and now
we're like, wow, it's pretty amazing he lasted that long.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
He preceded all this stuff usually when he ate weird
stuff like that with mineral oil and drinking considerable quantities
of water during the meal.

Speaker 4 (41:18):
Mineral oil that in itself. I don't think you're supposed
to really put that in your body.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
Snoop's fact checked in in twenty twenty two, Snops fact
checked his claim about eating an entire airplane and they
couldn't find any evidence of that.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
I suppose it wouldn't been left with the.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
I suppose not. Yeah, he was unable to confirm that
he ate an entire plane or even part of one.
So I don't know.

Speaker 5 (41:43):
Frank. You know what happens when you get to the
cannibal dinner late. You get the cold shoulder.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Oh would you have asparagus with us? Do you think
they go, well, oh, that's the seguay? How fortutus is that?
I have the story here from The Independent twenty ninth
of April twenty twenty four. Asparagus fortune teller predicts when

(42:12):
the next general election will be and it doesn't look
good for Starmer. She apparently is the world's only asparamancer
who appeared on a program called This Morning. This is
an ITV independent television channel here in the UK. So
she brought her sticks of sparagus into the studio and
threw them into a metal bowl, and then she read

(42:32):
them and she divined that the next general election would
be in August and Sir Kia would not even be
leading the Labor Party into that election, and of course
he is no prime minister. So she didn't do too
well on that one. But she had apparently, as Lady
Jemimah Packington allegedly foreseen the death of Queen Elizabeth and

(42:54):
foreseen that Brexit was going to happen.

Speaker 3 (42:57):
Maybe this gives me an idea to become an arachnomancer.
Maybe we'll be using the spiders and their webs to
kind of divine the future. That might be a component
of this Kickstarter.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
It's a good idea. I've got last one here, my
last major story here. This is Sky News, second of April.
Everyone in Japan will have the same surname by twenty
five thirty one unless the law changes. Study suggests right.
So in Japan, this is the only country that requires
married couples to use the same surname. So, according to

(43:33):
Hiroshi Yoshida, who is a professor at Tehoku University, this
is a study they've done. Unless there is a change
in the law, everyone in Japan will have the same surname. Right,
So Sato or Sato is the most popular family name
is shared by one point five percent of the population,
and in five hundred years it will be one hundred
percent unless there's a change in the law. So there

(43:53):
we are. And he said, if that happens, if everyone
becomes Sato, we may have to be addressed by our
first names or by numbers.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
He says, hmmm, where have I seen that before?

Speaker 1 (44:03):
Well, there we are.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
You are number six.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
That's the prisoner Frank.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
Familiar.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Indeed, and we went there. How about that? We went
there on holiday, to Port Marion. Yeah, this year for
a couple of nights. That's right, yea, indeed.

Speaker 3 (44:21):
It's on my list.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
It was quite a good experience, I have to say,
waking up, drawing the curtains back and seeing the village
were quiet there.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
And they have a new number two.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Whenever I didn't meet number two, and I didn't see
Rover either. I was looking for it, but it didn't happen. No,
those have not seen it. Rover is this huge white
balloon that if you try to leave the village it
follows you and captures you. It didn't happen. We were
in fact allowed to leave as well. Hence I'm here
not there. It was very odd, yea, Or.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
Are you still in the village?

Speaker 1 (44:57):
Well maybe I haven't. Don't realized it. That's possible. Possibility.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
Yes, that sounds exactly like somebody who's stuck in the
village and forced to stay there under compulsion would say
it's like, oh, I'm not in the village when they
actually still are, to make it sound like everything is
above born.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Dear, I might walk out of this door and find
that I'm still there. That would be perfect.

Speaker 4 (45:19):
Maybe.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
Oh that's one other thing I wanted to add, and
that is I didn't know whether I should have this
one or not. I wondered if I should help our
Foreign Secretary David Lammy to forget what he said about
President elect Donald Trump. So I wondered whether perhaps I
shouldn't report that in twenty eighteen, he called Trump a
tyrant and a woman hating, neo Nazi sympathizing sociopath. But
I thought perhaps I wouldn't I wouldn't repeat that, otherwise

(45:42):
it might not do him any good. Come January, I
don't think I will report, however, that he did have
he did have a meal with Trump recently, if he
described as a very gracious host who offered him a
second portion of chicken during the dinner, a second portion.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
Again, I'm just gonna every time we talk about birds.

Speaker 3 (46:01):
We mentioned the village, right. I'm sorry to interrupt, but
I just saw in the chat we were talking about
the village a moment ago, and suddenly Cruzy says someone
was knocking on his door. So I'm a little worried.

Speaker 1 (46:14):
Are you that Cruisy?

Speaker 5 (46:15):
I'm beck.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
We were getting Yeah, was it number two?

Speaker 5 (46:24):
It was actually number zero? It was nobody, probably some
kids missing around.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
I'm wondering whether Cruizy actually is number two.

Speaker 5 (46:34):
In what sin? That worries me.

Speaker 4 (46:38):
You know, if they if they all go to sayto
or Santo in Japan, maybe they'll all go to Smith
in England. Yo, Yeah, Smith number one, number two.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
So what would it be in the States? Would it
be Norris? Do you think?

Speaker 7 (46:55):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (46:56):
No, only only check only gets that one end his
direct progeny.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
Yes, in America. I think it would really depend on
the on the region. For sure. In Minnesota, you'd have
some sort of son name like Olsen, Johnson, Anderson. Probably
Johnson would be the most common.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
You known bias there are you, Frank No, I lived.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
In Minnesota for many years, and everybody I knew had
son in their name. Not here in California. I mean
there's a lot of different ethnicities too, so like you know,
you would have you know, a lot of Hispanic and
Asian names depending so.

Speaker 5 (47:33):
All legal votes for the quote, I beg your problem.

Speaker 3 (47:37):
That reminds me crazy. I saw a news story this
morning about somebody had registered cartoon cats to vote in California.
Oh yes, I don't want to keep stealing with news
stories because I do have two I want to get
too later former Southern California, Canada is accused of registering
cartoon cats to vote. It's plausible, he says Bruce Boyer.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
I'm sure I read that there are no problems with
the voting system in America. I'm sure I read that somewhere.

Speaker 3 (48:07):
Was it the BBC totally legit yes, totally most safest
secure elections. The authorities did not specify what prompted their concerns.
Court records show applications all listed the names of cats
Cool Teacat, Street d Tiger, Fritz Teacat, and Sylvester Teacat.

(48:31):
He's facing four felony counts of perjury in connection to
voter registration force.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Can you send me a link to that one?

Speaker 4 (48:41):
Yes, now that the cat's out of the bag, he's
in trouble, I want to send it.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
To the BBC.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
I'll put it in the chat.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
Still on a serious note, it has been a remarkable
year in terms of elections and things. A totally remarkable year,
hasn't it. I was just blown away by RFK deciding
not to run against Trump in those you know, certain
states endorsing Trump, and they're nominated for the Health Secretary
Human Services and Telsea Gabbard as well being nominated as
the US Director of National Intelligence, cetera. It's been an

(49:13):
amazing and amazing whatever happens from now on, it's still
an amazing turnaround events.

Speaker 5 (49:19):
Isn't it.

Speaker 3 (49:20):
Yeah. It definitely shows some willingness to work across party
lines because those people you mentioned, they're more left leaning
according to the current left paradigm, like they're far right,
consider the right, they're not in line with whatever their
stuff is. So I mean, if they are able to
like rein in or get rid of those far far

(49:40):
left things, and maybe they can move forward with like
more and for the people policies. Yeah, they've got their
work cut out for them, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
Oh. Absolutely. And along with that was really interesting. I
thought that all that business with Dick Cheney and Liz
Cheney and Bill Crystal and neo kom types throwing in
with Harris because apparently Trump was so dangerous to democracy,
and you know, there's lots of people say it shows
where the Democratic Party it seems to be the favorite
place with the neocons at the moment.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
Yeah, the thing it shows more of a unit party.
I think that's definitely clear evidence of a unit party.
Like you have Liz Cheney, who's so called Republican throwing
in with the establishment laught. So yeah, the establishment right
and the establishment laughed and they're in the same bed.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
Yes, indeed, these hard lines on the Democrat Republican that's
pretty much an illusion. I agree with you. Sure.

Speaker 4 (50:34):
Well, you know, we had so many very strong reacts
to Trump winning the election. But I have to say,
my most perplexing response was the many women who decided
that they were now going to mimic the four B
movement in South Korea, which is, you know, basically not
having sex all these kinds of things. But when they

(50:55):
first started talking about it, they were specifically naming you know,
because we won't have any rights to abortion, we're not
going to have sex with any men. I'm like, well,
that solves the problem, doesn't it. There's some irony there
that I thought was rather strange, and I didn't seem
to notice that irony when they it's because they have
no self awareness.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
I think the very funny thing about that is these
women who are threatening that weren't the ones people wanted
to get together within the first place.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
So I think I heard other women saying that's great,
jump out of the gene pool. Guys.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
Yeah, well, and I would say also, there's a lot
of men in general in the States, in the dating
market who've decided to pull themselves out of the dating market.
There's a whole movement that's been going on for about
seven years I think at least, where men just aren't
dating really anymore. So, I mean, it's the women reacting
like that is they're coming really late to the party.
I think some yeah, yeah, like this party.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
But yeah, on the other side of things, you got
you had. I was thinking of Trump supporters when we
had that assassination attempt. The first one wasn't That was Pennsylvania.
When that happened very quickly, there were a lot of
people were wearing these ear patches in sympathy with Trump.
I thought that was hilarious, these little square ear patches.

Speaker 4 (52:15):
I never got onto that. I never noticed that.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
Oh yes, I wore one. Actually, when I went to
a stand in the park, I put one on as well,
and people immediately knew what it was for.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
Hilarioy Julian, Julian, that's so good of you.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
It was a shock, you know, it was a shocking thing.
I'm not making fun of the assassination attempt itself by
any means, but I thought the reaction to it was
quite funny.

Speaker 4 (52:38):
Yes, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
Did you get a lot of reactions in the park
with that?

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Or yeah? People laughed at it? Yeah, okay, always see
just generally people walking past. Now they just ignored me.
I thought I was insane. I think, oh, okay, yes,
but it did remind me of Spike Milligan. Yeah, that's right. Actually,
the reason why I took to it so much is
it reminded me of Spike Milligan back in the nineteen
eighties when he had a TV show. Prince Charles at

(53:03):
the time, broke his thumb on a dry ski slope,
so it all bandaged up whenever he appeared. And so
when fright Milligan decided to do the whole of his
series with his thumb bandage, it just reminded me of that.
I thought, yeah, I'll do the same sort of thing. Yeah,
and then I noticed Trump's ear was on eBay for
thousands of dollars.

Speaker 6 (53:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
I did not buy it. No, I don't know who bought.
It's not there now I've checked. It's gone.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
Would have been quite an artifact.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
It would.

Speaker 4 (53:34):
Yeah. I wonder if it would have stayed as fresh
as the banana.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
Probably won't.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
God, you don't know that that's true. Perhaps you do.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
I don't know, technically I don't. I guess you're right.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
Well, I've run out of stories here, good heavens me
run out of stories. That's amazing.

Speaker 4 (53:57):
I feel like I had something else.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
Hang on a second, you mind if I go while
you're looking, Jennifer, Sure, go ahead, all right. So this
is from January fourth of twenty twenty four. So I've
been holding onto this one for a while. Exploding toilet
at a Dunkin Donuts store in Florida left the customer
filthy and injured, lawsuit claims. A customer has filed a
negligence lawsuit against Duncan, claiming he was injured by an

(54:20):
exploding toilet at one of their chains in Florida. He's
seeking more than one hundred thousand dollars in a lawsuit
for severe and long term injuries following the explosion of
the toilet in the men's room.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
Is there any explanation as to how a toilet could
possibly explode?

Speaker 3 (54:36):
I'm skimming for that right now. An employee told them
that they were aware of the problem with the toilet
since there had been a previous incident, the lawsuit says,
without diving into further details about the explosion.

Speaker 4 (54:51):
Great choice of words by the guy who wrote that article.

Speaker 5 (54:54):
So oftenness dunkin Donuts is the second organization to send
a man to the mood.

Speaker 4 (55:09):
I have a cute little thing here, sort of funny
is that there was a reverse museum heist. So there
was a man who, instead of stealing a piece of
artwork from a museum, snuck his own piece of art
into the museum and hung it up. He was an
employee of the museum. This is Munich Pinacotec der Modern Museum. Yeah,

(55:35):
he stuck in after hours, hung up his own painting,
and they decided to go ahead and leave his painting
up for the day. It was a two foot by
four foot painting. But they didn't apparently they didn't get
any good feedback from the visitors to the gallery, and
he was not charged for anything other than a little

(55:55):
bit of property damage for the two small holes he
drilled into the wall to put this piece up. Yeah,
but that was kind of gracious of them to not really,
you know, do more than that. So yeah, he.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
Should have used a three um command hook and then
or just.

Speaker 4 (56:08):
Some darn duct tape. Who probably lost millions.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
Well I'm sort I'm thinking, why is that any inferior
to the conceptual art of this other artist? As far
as I'm concerned, the concept is really interesting to actually
sneak something into a gallery and hang it up.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
I think Banksy did that once.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
Oh did he I feel like he did.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
Yeah. I feel like Banksy or somebody else had done
that years ago, but they did it during hours or
something and then like they got left up there for
like a long time before they noticed.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
Yeah, so this is pastiche then it's not something it's new, right, Okay.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
That's not original. No, it's certainly not the first one
to do it.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (56:44):
It's actually a very credible conspiracy theory which I've read
up quite a lot about about this modern arching with
all these ridiculous amounts with artists that have no talent,
and the conspiracy theory is that it's just one big
money laundering scam. What to do with the actual art,

(57:06):
It's just a way to loander money, basically.

Speaker 3 (57:09):
So you mean to tell me that people aren't buying
Hunter Biden's paintings because they're good.

Speaker 5 (57:17):
I'm not saying it. I want to live.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
I mean, some people say.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
Are you just a conspiracy theorist, Cruzy, you're just a
conspiracy theorist.

Speaker 5 (57:30):
The idea, you know, but it's one of the one
of the ones that actually makes sense to me.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
Oh, you'll be saying that Elvis is at the bottom
of your garden in a minute.

Speaker 5 (57:39):
Who told you, Frank, I'm supposed to keep quiet.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
Frank told me.

Speaker 3 (57:44):
I've heard Elvis is actually in a in a nursing
home down in Texas with JFK. But you didn't hear
that from me, Julian, you know what that's about it?

Speaker 1 (57:54):
Yeah? I saw that. Yeah, I like. I like the
idea of it, but I must have mean I to
get board with it. In practice, I was a bit
disappointed by it. I thought it was a great idea,
but actually I thought this film should have been better
than that. They could have cut out a lot and
added more jokes. I think some of the jokes were
I thought we were a little bit too adolescent. Really,

(58:15):
such a great idea.

Speaker 4 (58:16):
What are you talking about? A film or podcast?

Speaker 3 (58:19):
It's a film called Hotel Buba Hotel.

Speaker 4 (58:22):
Yeah, yeah, I was, I was. I was trying to
make a joke, y'all.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
Sorry, I'm sorry. Yeah. So the movie is Bruce Campbell
stars as Elvis. He's the real Elvis. He let an
impersonator take over Elvis, and then that is the Elvis
who died, and so now he's in a nursing home
because all of his documentation proving he's Elvis got destroyed

(58:45):
in a fire so he can't go back and get
the money and whatever. And then JFK is in there.
But they have they the Big Day quote unquote to
discredit JFK, have turned him into an African American. So
I kind of liked it, But yeah, it does have
its weak points.

Speaker 1 (59:04):
To admit, though, it's a great premise for film.

Speaker 3 (59:09):
Oh and I forgot to mention they team up to
fight a mummy that fell off of a train or something.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
Yes, that's quite good. I suppose it's because.

Speaker 4 (59:17):
That's part of the movie, because because those are very
important enemies that we'll face in life and need to
learn how to deal with. Of course, mummies that fall
off of trains randomly.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
There is a possessed cockroach as well, isn't there.

Speaker 3 (59:32):
Yes, yes, all right, yes, but they think it's our
cockress because they don't know any better.

Speaker 1 (59:37):
You know.

Speaker 4 (59:39):
You back to the amazing different kinds of things that
happened with all the election things, and to come out
of that with DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency. I
just love that. I mean, you know, whatever, if they
do something, if they don't do something, but the fact
that they call it dose is great.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
It sounds like asking for trouble, doesn't it really that
that's the sort of name that would come out of
Whitehall here, Department of Government Efficiency and you know that
it was going to be the least efficiency government department.

Speaker 4 (01:00:14):
Yeah, and I do agree with that. But just that
the doge and the doge coin connection with Elon Musk
is really funny to me. But also as far as
the naming of departments, you know, that always reminds me
of as you said, yeah, well four, But also you
know C. S. Lewis's trilogy Tax Space trilogy, and he

(01:00:35):
has the department the thing called nice. Oh yes, I
forgot what those stand for?

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
Yes, what does that stand for? What does it stand for?
I've never found that as well.

Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
Yeah, all that, I've got the book right here. Hold on,
I'll look it up.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
We do have a nice health system here. Is it
the National Institute Clinical Excellence or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
No, National Institute of Coordinated Experiments?

Speaker 4 (01:00:56):
Okay, oh nice.

Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
By the way, that reminds me, is it not j
Batacharias being put in charge of the ni H there
in the US? I'm not sure I believe. So he's
one of the signatories to the Great Barrington Declaration, which
was so maligned during COVID. I believe he's now getting
that position, which is another amazing turnaround, and great justice there,

(01:01:21):
wonderful with any.

Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
Will have a Nuremberg too coming up.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
Well, we shall see with that one. We shall see.

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
We'll see you.

Speaker 4 (01:01:30):
Ah wow, Yeah, Director of National Institute of Health. My goodness.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
I hope it's not just on the health dimension that
things get a little bit better, because if it doesn't
get better on the foreign policy, then we could all
go up in smoking. Yes, no, and quite yes.

Speaker 5 (01:01:47):
Indeed, at times like these it makes me so glad
that I stay at the Southern hemisphere. Everyone in the
North is always fighting First World wars, Second War War.

Speaker 3 (01:02:01):
We're working on the third one.

Speaker 4 (01:02:03):
We're definitely trying to get that one going.

Speaker 5 (01:02:05):
We're just down at the bottom of your chilling, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Yeah, was in trouble.

Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
Would this be a good segue then to read my
last article?

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
I think it probably would. Okay, So I just wanted
to ask Cruizy first whether his government would be able
to organize a third World War.

Speaker 5 (01:02:26):
No, that's why we don't try. That's why, that's why
it is such a blessing having a totally incompetent governments
because they can organize anything. So I'm grateful.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
Somebody famously said the best form of government is no
government at all.

Speaker 5 (01:02:43):
We take it to the extreme. You know, in American terms,
it would be like putting ao c s them in
a Star of intelligence. That's what that's That's the kind
of thing we do over here, just to make sure
it stays totally incompetent.

Speaker 8 (01:02:59):
You know, we could do more of that here, I think,
I don't think we really want to, but you know
it's likely to happen.

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
Yeah, unfortunately, right, Going in frank with this last story.

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
All right, so this one I've been waiting with anticipation
for the last year. This one was dated January fifth.

Speaker 5 (01:03:22):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:03:22):
All right, so a little background. So we have these
sporting goods stores here in the US called bass Pro Shop.
They have other ones very similar called Cabela's, and they're
like these huge, giant stores, and they have all these
departments of different like hunting, fishing, and all these outdoor
different activities you can do here in America. And sometimes
they'll have like waterfalls and fish aquarium things in there

(01:03:45):
to show you some of the freshwater fish species in
our country.

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
And so I know what's coming. I remember, yes, So.

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
That's kind of the setup for anyone who's not familiar
with these stores. The headline is nude demand nabbed by
police after cannonball plunge in to giant aquarium at Basque
Pro shop in Alabama. Great Leads, Alabama. A man crashed
his car outside a bass Pro shop in Alabama, stripped
down to his birthday suit and plunged into the giant

(01:04:13):
aquarium inside the store. Police said the ordeal had been
Thursday night, in front of shocked shoppers in the town
just outside of Birmingham. Police chief said the forty two
year old Alabama man did a cannonball leap into the
aquarium and then stood under a waterfall. He left the
water to yell at two officers, then dove back into

(01:04:34):
the aquarium. Police.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
Oh, it wasn't Larry David buddy, chance, was it?

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:04:42):
But I feel very sad for all the little wildlife
in the shag. I mean, it was probably extremely traumatic
for them and they probably have to go through years
of therapy in order to deal with this.

Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
Well, I have a memory of only a few seconds,
so I mean, maybe they'll forget it by the time,
you know. Supposedly, the background of this story is he
was a veteran who recently started treatment for a common
mental health issue.

Speaker 4 (01:05:07):
So, OKAYMNT health issue, probably being PTSD, I would guess so.

Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
And they said he was on drugs, so as if
that was a surprise to anybody. I'm a little disappointed
that they say he jumped in naked and not nude.
They didn't mention it as a nude swim, so I'm
a little bit disappointed with these writers.

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
But that's very important detail to get right though. Frank.

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
Perhaps he was trying to do performance art as a
way of art therapy.

Speaker 4 (01:05:36):
Right, art therapy.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
There you go, That's what I would guess.

Speaker 4 (01:05:41):
But still the fish, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:05:45):
Perhaps you should see Cruizy. I think Cruizy is quite
good at therapy, aren't you Cruzy?

Speaker 5 (01:05:50):
I'm not sure. Are we swimming way? Did you?

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
Guys?

Speaker 5 (01:05:55):
Swimming at a stool?

Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
It's a bit meaning of you there, I have to say,
mean of it.

Speaker 5 (01:06:01):
Yes, No, I'm not doctor phill It's luckily not Dr
David mang there either, but somewe between.

Speaker 4 (01:06:11):
Somewhere, but yell in between us better, I suppose.

Speaker 3 (01:06:15):
I'm sorry to interrupt again. I have I have some
good news about my story, and then we can leave it.
Someone on Reddit claims that their friend is the querist
at the store, and they said he left us sock
in there and now she'll have to dive in to
remove it. But also she wants to assure us that
none of the fish were harmed in the tank. So
I knew you needed to get that in.

Speaker 4 (01:06:35):
You know, I can go into twenty twenty five with
much greater hope.

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
I didn't want to leave you on a sad, sour note,
so thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:06:43):
Yeah, if you lost the client there, Cruisy, what a shame.

Speaker 5 (01:06:49):
Another one.

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
Yeap oh, that was a great story, Thank you very much. Yes,
of course, very important theme to cover nude swimming. Yeah,
to lose, haven't we in the last couple of years.
I think we need to return to that in earnest
we have, Yes, we do, because it was going to
be a criterion of selection of artistic productions to discuss
and very remiss.

Speaker 4 (01:07:11):
You know, I should tell you, Julian, just so you know,
because if you ever needed to go deeper, go deeper.
And she's the subject of nude swimming. Here in my
in my hometown, we have a very very famous nude
swimming hole. Yes, it's called Hippie Hollow.

Speaker 1 (01:07:30):
Of course. I'm actually not that keen on that sort
of thing.

Speaker 5 (01:07:33):
I have to.

Speaker 4 (01:07:35):
I thought it was an important theme, so I thought
if you needed to do some research, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes,
I think so.

Speaker 3 (01:07:42):
Because two or three movies we had done round tables
on had that in there. We were joking that that
was going to be a criteria for them.

Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
That's a right, I think we need to make that clear.
Otherwise it might sound rather strange.

Speaker 3 (01:07:54):
Yeah, no, yeah, And so that's why on some of
the round tables we bring it up occasionally as a
kind of an inside joke to anyone who's been listening.

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
Yeah, yes, I haven't had anybody complain about it yet,
but there's always the first time. So there is the
film The Swimmer, Isn't There with Burt Lancester. It's not
a very good film. There's nothing to learn from it either,
so I don't there's any point. It's just this middle
aged man who goes around swimming in different people swimming
pools to get from A to B. Just going from
swimming pool to swimming pool, swimming pool to swimming pool.

Speaker 3 (01:08:26):
Yes, I don't think they're that close to each other.
That might be kind of hard.

Speaker 1 (01:08:31):
He does walk between them, Yes, he walks between them.
It's a weird film, I have to say. But right, well,
once again, I'm going to have to bring our conversation
this evening to a close because the TMR studio clock
is ticking closer and closer towards midnight as I speak. So, friends,
let us ready ourselves with the annual toast here on TMR,

(01:08:53):
and the long time listeners will know each year we
see the old year out and the new year in
with a festive tipple of some sort, which this year
thanks again to the amazing generosity of Paul from France,
a longtime listener to the podcast, who kindly sends a
choice red wine for us to share each year on
the show. Thank you again, Paul for doing that much

(01:09:13):
much appreciated. This year we enjoy a wonderful Vantu red
a bottle of view Cloche. Friends, if you please raise
your glasses, I shall pour the champagne for the annual toast. Jennifer,
thank you, Frank, I'm a bline, sir, Jeff, Thank.

Speaker 5 (01:09:36):
You, sir, Cruisy, thank you, thank you, gud gentlemen.

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
Sakire the return of the fopical to the new Year.
Happy new Year.

Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
Must say, I'm like.

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
The redband blue.

Speaker 9 (01:10:07):
Don't let's have any of them stage lay in the round,
it in the ground, an round.

Speaker 3 (01:10:24):
I'm singing, I must sash.

Speaker 5 (01:11:00):
King looking at.

Speaker 10 (01:11:14):
The gold was not stop. I'm tojoyed fly ans, so.

Speaker 5 (01:12:09):
Must cuts.

Speaker 3 (01:12:12):
God sent you.

Speaker 10 (01:12:14):
Are happy news.

Speaker 3 (01:13:10):
He hold it.

Speaker 7 (01:13:11):
All away, he spent undis sad turn and the snow.

Speaker 3 (01:13:19):
I say it's something I'm pollicly.

Speaker 7 (01:13:21):
Honda sold at best, all all excess away.

Speaker 1 (01:13:35):
God sent him up