Speaker 1: What you have to understand is in Great Britain they
Speaker 1: call a garbage can a bin. It's one more thing
Speaker 1: what I'm.
Speaker 2: Strong and one more thing.
Speaker 1: It's like a trash bin.
Speaker 2: Now that's a tease. I came across this tweet from JK.
Speaker 2: Rowling before we get to that's she's pretty snarky. She's
Speaker 2: the one who wrote the Harry Potter books and seems
Speaker 2: to spend her entire life battling people on Twitter about
Speaker 2: the trans issue. If I became a billionaire, I don't
Speaker 2: know that that's what I do with my time, but
Speaker 2: you know, whatever she enjoys. Somebody had, some transactivist person
Speaker 2: who appears to be trans had tweeted out trans acceptance
Speaker 2: will not be complete until CIS. People are okay with
Speaker 2: the idea of not knowing what genitals their date has
Speaker 2: and they have sex. Yeah, it's literally so very not
Speaker 2: a big deal. So you want to live in a
Speaker 2: world where I meet somebody, don't know whether they got
Speaker 2: a penis or not, don't care, and find out the
Speaker 2: first time we get intimate, and I'm perfectly okay with
Speaker 2: whichever it is. That's yeah, that's the world you're hoping for.
Speaker 1: Yes, two innies to outies, what of each whatever, It's fine.
Speaker 2: I'm sure we're on I'm sure we're marching that direction,
Speaker 2: and someday that's the world we will live in. That
Speaker 2: is so crazy anyway. JK. Rowling's pretty funny response was
Speaker 2: tricky because I already know what genital's my husband has.
Speaker 2: Would you accept both of us acting surprised once were naked,
Speaker 2: or could we just shake hands first and agree that
Speaker 2: we'll sol draw on if something's changed since last time.
Speaker 1: That is dryly fabulous.
Speaker 2: But that, I mean, the whole thing obviously has been
Speaker 2: a complicated conversation. But the idea that you think the
Speaker 2: perfect world would be. I don't care. I'm not interested,
Speaker 2: and I'm willing to wait until the first time we
Speaker 2: show each other, and then I will react with no
Speaker 2: emotion whatsoever to either a penis or a vagina. It
Speaker 2: doesn't matter to me. I have no interest whatsoever, in which.
Speaker 1: Reminds me of our discussion that until fairly recently, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't have the slightest idea what somebody's politics were if
Speaker 1: you're just meeting with perhaps a romantic prospect in mind,
Speaker 1: Not only would you not care, you wouldn't even think
Speaker 1: of it, not like for a really long time. They
Speaker 1: want your actual physical sex to be.
Speaker 2: That, So I'll bet there they do want to know that.
Speaker 2: So like your dating profiles and everything like that, you
Speaker 2: would have to nail down your politics. You would discuss
Speaker 2: what kind of music you like, and all kinds of
Speaker 2: different issues. But the one that we're not gonna even
Speaker 2: touch is whether you got a penis or a vagina.
Speaker 2: We'll just discover that together someday. And by the way,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter to me what you have, which.
Speaker 1: Is so crazy, I might not even remark on it
Speaker 1: having found out.
Speaker 2: Because you see, when I get to that moment, I'm
Speaker 2: really really really fingers crossed toes crossed. It's a vagina.
Speaker 1: I have specific intent.
Speaker 3: Yes, my stay, the brain is going this could be
Speaker 3: a reality show.
Speaker 2: You know that you're like married first secon.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like I saw I think Netflix or somebody
Speaker 2: had in a while back where everybody kept their age
Speaker 2: to their themselves because it was a bunch of people
Speaker 2: that don't look their age, so you didn't tell anybody
Speaker 2: your age, and then they got together and then I
Speaker 2: guess I never watched long enough because it was so
Speaker 2: stupid to get to the big reveal. I'm actually sixty three.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, yoah, in this case, it'll be I
Speaker 2: was really hoping for Agina because that would fit, that
Speaker 2: would fit with my penis thing or really perf I
Speaker 2: mean they go together like Peanut Butter and Jelly. I mean,
Speaker 2: like Evant and Costello. It's really a good team. But
Speaker 2: here we are with two penises. So I don't know
Speaker 2: what No, yeah, yeah, well you shouldn't even care, right,
Speaker 2: I don't care. It doesn't matter to me. I'm going
Speaker 2: to react exactly the same, no matter which it turns
Speaker 2: out to be.
Speaker 1: Anybody got an idea for what the show would be called?
Speaker 1: What's My Junk?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's got more of a game show aspect to it.
Speaker 2: Where are you? And you'd have contestants and a buzzer
Speaker 2: exactly behind the fly. I think it's a man who
Speaker 2: has man and then they walk around, they drop their
Speaker 2: pants and you take a look.
Speaker 1: Oh more bigotry. A man can have a vagina, jack, right,
Speaker 1: I shouldn't remember. Stop using gendered language such a transphobe.
Speaker 2: Okay, so what's your little story Katie? Before we get
Speaker 2: the Joe?
Speaker 3: Oh it is so little compared to that topic we
Speaker 3: just had. I had to go into mama bear mode
Speaker 3: at the store over the weekend. So I had van
Speaker 3: my little, my little three month old in the stroller,
Speaker 3: and I have to tell you.
Speaker 2: Old ladies, oh yeah, they love babies, man, they love
Speaker 2: the babies.
Speaker 3: And I'm standing there waiting for someone to get the
Speaker 3: hell out of the way, because everybody seems to always
Speaker 3: be in the way when you're at the store. But anyway,
Speaker 3: this woman comes up and she goes, oh, I just
Speaker 3: love babies, and she pulls the visor back on.
Speaker 2: The stroller, hands off the stroller lady.
Speaker 3: And kind of like reached like I was like slow motion.
Speaker 3: She looked like she was going to reach for him.
Speaker 3: So I kind of put my arm out and I
Speaker 3: was like, yeah, isn't he adorable? And she kind of like,
Speaker 3: you know, snapped her hands back.
Speaker 1: But the.
Speaker 2: To go with what we were just the balls on.
Speaker 2: That woman.
Speaker 3: Just comes up cranks the thing back and I'm like, I.
Speaker 2: Remember that too. They're so willing to get up so
Speaker 2: close and start touching your baby, like dude, yeah, I
Speaker 2: am almost punched an elderly woman. That's that was my
Speaker 2: story from that. I would never think of touching somebody
Speaker 2: else's baby, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and and just cranking the thing back on
Speaker 1: the stroller. Right. Let me take a look.
Speaker 2: Let me stick my finger in his mouth there yet anyway?
Speaker 1: Wow? Could I stick my finger in your son's belly button? No,
Speaker 1: you cannot, Michael him a little tickle, good lord. People
Speaker 1: don't do this. Of course, if you don't know to
Speaker 1: not do this, you're probably not listening to this whole podcast.
Speaker 1: Yeah sure, yeah, all right, So the whole in the
Speaker 1: UK they call a garbage can, a bin, a dust bin,
Speaker 1: a fascinating or what have you. I mentioned that because
Speaker 1: the anti establishment. How would you describe the whole phenomenon
Speaker 1: that brought on Brexit in Trump and all the crazy
Speaker 1: political movements going on in the developed world. It's just discontent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry, we're just unhappy with the way things are. Well,
Speaker 2: throw out whoever the bums are.
Speaker 1: When that numb skull who will last probably six weeks
Speaker 1: became Prime Minister, his seat in Parliament opened up, I
Speaker 1: guess it's nonsystem. But Nigel Farage the weirdly is he
Speaker 1: right wing Reform UK leader is running for the seat,
Speaker 1: and they had a runoff. Top two vote getters advanced
Speaker 1: to the final much like you know, our elections in
Speaker 1: some cases, but and Farage was the number one finisher.
Speaker 1: The number two finisher was Count Binface, the self described
Speaker 1: intergalactic space warrior, who is a guy who goes around
Speaker 1: in a homemade but extremely well made like spaceman outfit,
Speaker 1: but his he has like a garbage can face. Are
Speaker 1: you looking at his costume right now, Katie?
Speaker 3: No, I am on my way there, Ben Face, the.
Speaker 1: Count beIN face. You know it's a good good costume,
Speaker 1: isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, text that to uh the crew I should have earlier.
Speaker 3: But he reminds me of like a dubstep DJ, you know,
Speaker 3: are they always have the big things on their heads?
Speaker 1: And No, I have no idea what that is.
Speaker 2: Why did you decide to have a garbage can for
Speaker 2: a head?
Speaker 1: I think it's a comment on the politics of Great Britain.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, Count garbage can Face is going to
Speaker 1: I mean it's the bod boat face of candidates. And
Speaker 1: he finished in the runoff. Yeah yeah, uh yeah, zap
Speaker 1: that around, Katie, which it's on its way. I have okay, great,
Speaker 1: I have a feeling he's gonna win. He's uh, he
Speaker 1: might beat Nigel Farage. It's certainly possible. It depends how
Speaker 1: alienated Brits are really there it is.
Speaker 2: That's just pretty good costume.
Speaker 3: Yeah, isn't it a little slip for his eyes lights up?
Speaker 1: Oh, that's nice. So he's got a garbage can head
Speaker 1: that he can look through like a portal like he's
Speaker 1: a Disney character, not a Disney World or some Disneyland.
Speaker 1: And it appears he's got some hockey shoulder pads painted
Speaker 1: black and like a weird groin covering thing. Anyway, he
Speaker 1: has unveiled his manifesto. His full manifesto is actually some
Speaker 1: pretty brilliant political satire. It is. It is a twenty
Speaker 1: point plan. One I will boost the region's economy, prestige
Speaker 1: and fame. Two, I will cut your taxes and raise
Speaker 1: everyone else's. Uh let's see, I don't know it's it's pounds,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna say a dollar just to simplify. Bus
Speaker 1: fares will be capped at a dollar ninety nine and
Speaker 1: ninety nine flake ice cream as to cost more than
Speaker 1: ninety nine cents. That must be a thing in Britain,
Speaker 1: I promise to spend more time in my district than
Speaker 1: in Washington, d C into a champion in the area. Wow.
Speaker 1: Let's see MP's members of Parliament who resigned mid parliament
Speaker 1: will be barred from the resulting by election. Okays, that's
Speaker 1: a comment. I plans to build at least one affordable house.
Speaker 1: Arcade arcade grabber. Games will be made fairer so players
Speaker 1: actually have a chance to win.
Speaker 2: Finally, now that it's funny, my kids would be all
Speaker 2: for that. I'm voting for that guy.
Speaker 1: Let's see, skipping ahead, there will be games. There will
Speaker 1: be a windfall tax on cozy crime novels written by
Speaker 1: written by celebrities. I have a feeling that's a comment
Speaker 1: on something that's happened in Britain. But that's funny. Let's see.
Speaker 1: Pothole will be filled using copies of the Labor Party manifesto.
Speaker 1: Let's see the people who drive past Clacton Station, that's
Speaker 1: the town with annoyingly loud exhausts will lose their driver's licenses.
Speaker 1: Let's see, we will hold a referendum on whether Pluto
Speaker 1: should regain its planet status. The hand dryer in the
Speaker 1: gents toilet, the Great Himalays restaurant Southport will be moved
Speaker 1: to a more sensible position.
Speaker 2: I like that. It's very it's.
Speaker 1: His favorite restaurant. I guess Count Binface will represent the
Speaker 1: UK at Eurovision twenty twenty seven. That's the big pop
Speaker 1: music contest that Britain has. So he's declaring himself the representative.
Speaker 1: Uh and and he says, I stand by my past manifestos.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. Speakerphones, nationalizing adele like
Speaker 1: national the oil industry. I read his argument. He was like,
Speaker 1: all of her songs are practically public domain anyway, so
Speaker 1: we should be getting her her royalties. Let's see there
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: Yep, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: I will lower your taxes and raise everyone else's. Yeah good.
Speaker 2: We're in a snarky mood Western civilization. He could win.
Speaker 1: Count Binface.
Speaker 2: What's the election.
Speaker 1: I don't know. They just held the Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know when the big election is coming up. I will
Speaker 1: have to check.
Speaker 2: But he made the top two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well done't count and you know it represents the
Speaker 1: tradition of royalty as well as a noble one.
Speaker 2: I wonder where the hand dryer is. Sometimes they're going
Speaker 2: to like the right behind the door. So you're gonna
Speaker 2: get whacked in the head.
Speaker 1: Well not anymore, not if count Binface gets elected.
Speaker 2: Katie, the old lady who waters the produce in the
Speaker 2: grocery store.
Speaker 1: She wants to blow raspberries in your son's stomach.
Speaker 2: Well I guess that's it.