Speaker 1: Scott. You ready, Oh, I'm ready to laugh and laugh
Speaker 1: and laugh.
Speaker 2: I think you are.
Speaker 1: I am here.
Speaker 2: It is clever. Crocodiles in Indonesia are faking drowning to
Speaker 2: lure humans in to rescue them and then eat them.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a beautiful world. We live on a
Speaker 1: beautiful planet. And let's get into a beautiful episode of
Speaker 1: the Bananas Podcast.
Speaker 3: World.
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Speaker 1: Ba ba?
Speaker 2: Bana Guys, goals, non binary pals, Welcome to Bananas.
Speaker 1: I'm Kirk Brown Older, Hi, I'm Banana Boy number two.
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to the silliest little podcast server was.
Speaker 1: We understand the world is very strange right now, but
Speaker 1: we just keep it light, keep it easy, breezy. We're
Speaker 1: the opposite of hot takes, guys, we're cold takes. This
Speaker 1: is the.
Speaker 2: Old takes, all right. We'd like a nice thing of
Speaker 2: leftovers in the fridge. When you open that up your siight,
Speaker 2: it's just that reheated if you want, We're not going
Speaker 2: to heat it up. We are the cold take boys.
Speaker 2: We do not speak truth to power.
Speaker 1: We just wiggle between the cracks because we know your
Speaker 1: mental health relies on it. Anyways, anyway, stand up shows,
Speaker 1: you want to announce, well, I do.
Speaker 2: Want to say March twenty ninth will be a stand
Speaker 2: up live in Phoenix, Arizona Live Bananas Podcast, and then
Speaker 2: I will be March seventh Asbury Park, New Jersey, March
Speaker 2: eighth in Chicago at the Den Theater, and March ninth
Speaker 2: in Cincinnati. Actually it's Kentucky. It's Dayton, Kentucky. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be upfront with you at the Commonwealth's cool at the
Speaker 2: Commonwealth Sanctuary. It's a cool little venue. All the dates
Speaker 2: on everything instagramlah blah blah. Now to get to what
Speaker 2: we're really both very interested in here, all right, our
Speaker 2: guests today. Our guest today is a stand up whose
Speaker 2: comedy's been seen on the Tonight show This Is Not
Speaker 2: Happening and her last stand up special on Hulu, The Hustler.
Speaker 2: You can hear her on her podcast Pretend Problems, or
Speaker 2: watch her on her brand news special Mark Your Territory
Speaker 2: out today on Hulu and YouTube. Please welcome Kelsey Cook.
Speaker 5: Hi, guys, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: We're so glad to have you. We've wanted to have
Speaker 1: you on for a while, but it's exciting when there
Speaker 1: is a special coming out because that is a time
Speaker 1: where people get revved up and you don't have to
Speaker 1: talk about your past specials, which I know can be
Speaker 1: a bummer sometimes too.
Speaker 5: This is true. This is true.
Speaker 3: There's an album from a long time where we're like,
Speaker 3: I don't ever want to speak of that. Ever, No
Speaker 3: one needs to listen to that. This one's more fun
Speaker 3: to talk about for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where did you record it?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 3: I recorded it at Comedy on State in noticin the
Speaker 3: boest love it.
Speaker 5: There's actually my room.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, best screen room. It was actually my
Speaker 3: first time ever at that club, so it was like
Speaker 3: a little bit of a gamble, but I had just
Speaker 3: heard from everybody that it was their favorite club in
Speaker 3: the country, and.
Speaker 5: So I was like, fuck it, let's just do it.
Speaker 5: Rip the tits off it.
Speaker 1: And it just ripped the tits off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what they're say in Madison. That's a specifically
Speaker 2: Madison expression because it's so cold there.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, I moved to Minnesota two years ago, so
Speaker 3: now I would understand it completely. It was negative eighteen
Speaker 3: here last week and I almost almost perished. It's it's
Speaker 3: really insane what happens out here. I don't get why
Speaker 3: it's even like a place that people live. I only
Speaker 3: moved here because this is where my boyfriend is from.
Speaker 5: But other than that, it's.
Speaker 3: Like I wish it was kind of like a spirit
Speaker 3: Halloween where it's like, let's just be open for a
Speaker 3: couple months, but in the summer and the rest of
Speaker 3: the time, it's like we don't need this, we.
Speaker 2: Switch over to a Christmas tree.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so anyway, but yeah, but Madison was lovely, the
Speaker 3: people there were great, and yeah, I'm really happy with
Speaker 3: how the special turned out.
Speaker 1: Oh that's that's a great feeling. Kurt mentioned the uh
Speaker 1: the green room there, because you know, you're a touring comic,
Speaker 1: you've been many places, and sometimes they put you in
Speaker 1: basically a broom closet, Like sometimes you're really really and
Speaker 1: sometimes the menu at those places is so bad you're like,
Speaker 1: I'm just not going to eat for the next five hours.
Speaker 1: But for some reason, they have like the greatest of
Speaker 1: It's like a friend's TV show New York apartment with
Speaker 1: a full table with great food with every toy.
Speaker 3: Imagine there's a shot. It's like truly the soundstage of
Speaker 3: the New Girl Show. It's like gorgeous and yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't know, maybe you guys have worked there.
Speaker 5: I won't say the name of the club.
Speaker 3: There is a club, uh in California where the green
Speaker 3: room truly is like the broom closet and it's slashed
Speaker 3: the kitchen and I just remember seeing buckets of hot dogs,
Speaker 3: like what you would keep gardening gloves in, but it
Speaker 3: was the hot dogs in there. And I had family
Speaker 3: comm and I was like, you will not eat when
Speaker 3: you were here? Look at me, like you eat before
Speaker 3: you come, do not eat? And so the comedy on
Speaker 3: State green Room, it's like comics, see such dark shit
Speaker 3: that you get a pop a shot machine.
Speaker 5: You feel like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: But whenever Scotty, So, Scotty's a you know, he's a screenwriter,
Speaker 2: so like this is the first time that he's ever
Speaker 2: been going and doing shows with me live on the road,
Speaker 2: and every single time we go out and goes, I
Speaker 2: have no fucking idea how you stand ups do it?
Speaker 2: I have no idea. This is awful.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's fun because it's Kurt and I and
Speaker 1: I love Kurt and so and we're wearing our dumb
Speaker 1: yellow outfits, and we're talking about other stuff, like we're
Speaker 1: never worried about our live shows. It's not anxious beforehand.
Speaker 1: We're having a good time as buddies. So I understand that.
Speaker 1: But sometimes Kirk goes out there to run tech and
Speaker 1: I'm just sitting on black crap leather sofas and or
Speaker 1: a love seat, and I'm sitting there looking at all
Speaker 1: the signed headshots and all the signed tour posters, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is fucking terrible. I love and all
Speaker 1: my friends are comics. Kelsey like yeah, and I empathize.
Speaker 1: And I think that everybody that came from nowhere and
Speaker 1: played those shows for two people. Yeah, play the bar
Speaker 1: shows where nobody showed up, and then you get an
Speaker 1: audience and then suddenly have a full club. It's incredible.
Speaker 1: But what people don't know is the mental strain of
Speaker 1: just sitting back there by yourself all night, I mean
Speaker 1: twice in between shows.
Speaker 2: It sucks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you have to be broken in a really
Speaker 3: specific way to want to do this for a living.
Speaker 3: And I don't Kurt, if you do this, tell me.
Speaker 3: But sometimes on the road, if it's like an especially
Speaker 3: dark weekend, I will turn the thermost up in my
Speaker 3: hotel room really high, so that when I come back,
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm getting a hug from the room.
Speaker 1: That I love.
Speaker 3: That I'm just like, I need to be held by
Speaker 3: this double tree right now because there's no bumper in
Speaker 3: the green.
Speaker 2: I get held by the massive amount of food I
Speaker 2: eat afterwards, and they hugged me from the inside. Yes,
Speaker 2: the pressure is the same. The pressure is the same.
Speaker 5: I completely here.
Speaker 2: What is the what's the new special about? What do
Speaker 2: you what do you talk about in there? Do you
Speaker 2: talk about moving?
Speaker 1: I do?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a that's a good chunk of the beginning
Speaker 3: of the special is talking about moving to Minnesota, talking
Speaker 3: about like, I mean, you have to really fucking love
Speaker 3: somebody to move here, and I moved here in January,
Speaker 3: which is just.
Speaker 5: Like trial by fire.
Speaker 2: It's intense.
Speaker 5: It's so intense. So talking about that, talking about how.
Speaker 3: So my my boyfriend is Chad Daniels, who's also a comedian,
Speaker 3: and he's older than me, and so I talk about
Speaker 3: like our age gap. And he has adult children and
Speaker 3: so that's he has a daughter who's about to turn
Speaker 3: twenty one. And that's been an interesting dynamic because you know,
Speaker 3: she'll like she followed me on Instagram when we started dating,
Speaker 3: and then she saw some of my material.
Speaker 5: About her dad.
Speaker 3: Like I had posted a joke from my previous special
Speaker 3: about that Chad has a sect to me, and he's
Speaker 3: the first guy I've ever been with the sect to me,
Speaker 3: So I like didn't know what to expect, and like,
Speaker 3: is this sort of like, you know, just just a
Speaker 3: very graphic joke, and like terms of finding out what
Speaker 3: what happens, like if it's just dust.
Speaker 2: Or it's everyone.
Speaker 1: Old pixie stick and I've quit jockeing.
Speaker 2: Surprisingly, Surprisingly, it's more dust than it was anything else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and for those listening at home, it's exactly the same,
Speaker 1: nothing changes. It couldn't be more similar. You know something
Speaker 1: a coward go get a secto.
Speaker 3: That is that's like the end of my joke is
Speaker 3: saying like it's basically normal. I mean this is again
Speaker 3: it's a little graphic, but I do say I feel
Speaker 3: like it's like beyond Burger, where it's like it looks
Speaker 3: the same, think it looks the same, but then once
Speaker 3: it's in your mouth, you're like something's missing. This is
Speaker 3: like me, this is like diet come. This is like wider.
Speaker 3: This is it's different. Anyway, I had posted that joke
Speaker 3: on Instagram, not thinking about that history now followed me,
Speaker 3: and she let her dad know pretty swiftly that I
Speaker 3: had been unfollowed. And uh so, anyway, I like all
Speaker 3: that back in this special, talk about that a little bit,
Speaker 3: and then uh my mom unfortunately has this like very
Speaker 3: rare type of dementia. And and so the last oh
Speaker 3: thank you, the last part of the special, I talk
Speaker 3: about like going through that process with her and just trying.
Speaker 3: It's like, it's such a heavy, hard thing to go
Speaker 3: through and to talk about. But I wanted to find
Speaker 3: a way to bring it on stage because it's been
Speaker 3: so great now to I have people come up afterward
Speaker 3: and be like, oh my god, my parent also has
Speaker 3: dementia where my grandmyparent has it. Thank you for finding
Speaker 3: it in a way to like bring some levity. So
Speaker 3: so yeah, I talked about it there.
Speaker 2: That is so such a like my last special, I
Speaker 2: talked about my mom dying of cancer, and that was
Speaker 2: like the last story I don't know twenty minutes of it.
Speaker 2: Thank you okay, And it is such a did you
Speaker 2: Because I wrestled with the piece as a piece for
Speaker 2: like I don't know, like a two years to find
Speaker 2: the right thing to end it with, and it took
Speaker 2: me until we were like getting ready to shoot oh,
Speaker 2: to be actually find the exact actual words that got
Speaker 2: the response that I wanted to so that it like
Speaker 2: ended really high to how long did you have to
Speaker 2: try and find that ending or was it already kind
Speaker 2: of there?
Speaker 3: I you know, I guess I didn't find it because
Speaker 3: I ended up closing on a different joke that wasn't
Speaker 3: about her, but the dementia stuff kind of like led
Speaker 3: into that. But I'm I'm now in that place with
Speaker 3: this new hour that I'm working on on tour where
Speaker 3: I'm talking about it a little bit again and I
Speaker 3: maybe you.
Speaker 5: Guys can help me.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to find the way to talk about how
Speaker 3: she doesn't always recognize me anymore.
Speaker 1: Now sure, Yeah, I've had that, and how.
Speaker 3: That like I know when she doesn't recognize me because
Speaker 3: she talks to me like a guy with commitment issues,
Speaker 3: Like I'll be like, Okay, I love you, and she's
Speaker 3: like that's nice.
Speaker 1: But it's so funny.
Speaker 5: I oh thanks.
Speaker 3: I Also I just feel like it shows you how
Speaker 3: sweet of a human she is because like if you
Speaker 3: think about what's really going on internally for her, so
Speaker 3: few people would react like that if they actually thought
Speaker 3: of strange like this, just strange girl came into your
Speaker 3: bedroom and like hung out with you for eight hours
Speaker 3: and then.
Speaker 5: The end was like I love you, you'd be like can
Speaker 5: you get the fuck out of you? Like people would
Speaker 5: freak out and call the cops, and my mom's just like, Okay,
Speaker 5: that's nice. So I don't know.
Speaker 3: Again, it's it's very dark and I'm trying. It's like
Speaker 3: get in a lot, but it's not like a closing laugh,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been dating her long enough. If you got
Speaker 1: a date at least six months before you say I
Speaker 1: love you. My grandmother had to mention also, And the
Speaker 1: last time I saw her, she was she was like Michael,
Speaker 1: and I was like, yes, I just rolled with it
Speaker 1: so hard, and she was talking out a time when
Speaker 1: I was a little kid and I had the blondest
Speaker 1: hair and a great Dane was licking my hair and
Speaker 1: it was so funny, and so I just was like
Speaker 1: that was the best. Oh my god, I remember that
Speaker 1: so much that I left and then I asked my dad.
Speaker 1: I was like who's Michael. He's like, there's no Michaels.
Speaker 1: I was like, who had a Great Dane growing up?
Speaker 1: And he's like, I can't remember ever having a great
Speaker 1: Dane anybody extended family. But our interaction for thirty five minutes,
Speaker 1: she's just tears and her eyes laughing about somebody that
Speaker 1: looked like a miniature version of me in the eighties.
Speaker 1: I guess, just getting licked on the head by a
Speaker 1: great Dane and it drove her wild.
Speaker 2: I like that your impulse was to like just yes,
Speaker 2: and it because of apparently like that is a good
Speaker 2: thing to do, because it doesn't upset them, you know,
Speaker 2: like it allows them to just like and then sometimes
Speaker 2: through the telling of it, they'll be able to be like, wait,
Speaker 2: that wasn't you know, Like it comes in to focus
Speaker 2: but correcting, and you can often upset them. I guess, yeah, totally.
Speaker 3: Yeah, which if you put yourself in that position, like
Speaker 3: it would be upsetting too to have somebody like that
Speaker 3: didn't happen, and you're like, I for sure no, Like
Speaker 3: of course in the moment, they feel like this is
Speaker 3: absolutely true.
Speaker 5: So that is something I had to get used to. Also.
Speaker 3: In the beginning, it was just like, oh, it's actually
Speaker 3: less harmful to just go with this then to keep
Speaker 3: trying to correct and it's like it's a weird thing
Speaker 3: to navigate for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You know.
Speaker 2: My first impulse, of course, on that joke is at
Speaker 2: the end of the show, getting my impulses to go
Speaker 2: to the audience with it and say, like, somehow led
Speaker 2: it up to the fact that you ask them to
Speaker 2: tell you as as a group that I love you,
Speaker 2: and then after they say I love you, just go, oh,
Speaker 2: well that's nice, and then.
Speaker 3: Oh, my god, that would be great.
Speaker 2: Do you want to hear about this crocodile?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 2: Yes, oh yeah, we have that. Okay, So this is
Speaker 2: from the Economic Times. A lot of people sent this
Speaker 2: in when I settled alarm. Every morning, I say what
Speaker 2: does the Economic Times have to say about this issue?
Speaker 2: And turns out they say a lot. This is not
Speaker 2: written by anyone, because the Economic Times, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: is a real newspaper. No, here it is. A new
Speaker 2: video making waves online suggest that crocodiles may be using
Speaker 2: a clever trick to capture prey. The clip, narrated with
Speaker 2: a British accent, picks a crocodile appearing to fake drownding
Speaker 2: in order to attract unsuspecting humans into the water. While
Speaker 2: at first glance, this idea may seem far fetch the
Speaker 2: possibility of this behavior as captured attention. Could crocodiles be
Speaker 2: smart enough to lure tourist into their jaws The crocodile
Speaker 2: drowning trap in the video of the narrator humans really
Speaker 2: just I mean, like this is just a fucking This
Speaker 2: is a newspaper article about a viral video in sight
Speaker 2: of what seems like a human like figure. So it's
Speaker 2: essentially they just they put they go upside down, so
Speaker 2: their little stumpy hand is just one's hand is sticking
Speaker 2: out of the water and then they just wave it
Speaker 2: back and forth like they're drowning, and then slowly get
Speaker 2: like it looks exactly like they have five fingers, and
Speaker 2: from afar it looks like like a child's hand or
Speaker 2: something like that. You would if you like looked at
Speaker 2: it and saw it like jump in. So basically this
Speaker 2: is a very long article. Okay, So while this idea
Speaker 2: of fake drowning is speculative, crocodiles are known to use
Speaker 2: other clever tactics to capture prey. For instance, some crocodiles
Speaker 2: have been observed placing sticks on their heads to attract birds,
Speaker 2: birds which then become their meal. That's interesting. That's kind
Speaker 2: of like trying to catch like quarters from your elbow,
Speaker 2: you know, to try a bird who's on your head.
Speaker 2: New research has also shown that allegais and crocodiles can
Speaker 2: use small sticks to lure birds. Well, they just repeated themselves. Okay,
Speaker 2: it happens times economic times. No, I mean, they have
Speaker 2: been around since the time of dinosaurs, so they've figured
Speaker 2: out how to eat a little bit. But yeah, but anyway,
Speaker 2: that's what they're doing in Indonesia right now. That's what's
Speaker 2: in with the crocodiles.
Speaker 3: Now have we heard of this happening anywhere else they
Speaker 3: have any other crocodiles?
Speaker 2: You know, the economic times, I'm gonna tell you they
Speaker 2: shit on it a little bit. They're like, I don't
Speaker 2: know if this is real. Yeah, I think a lot
Speaker 2: of the other articles I could have chosen from where
Speaker 2: they investigated it with a little more scientific rigor about
Speaker 2: whether or not this could be true. Yea, I've never
Speaker 2: been to Indonesia, but I went to I went to Cambodia,
Speaker 2: when I was in my twenties, my early twenties, it
Speaker 2: was it was real. It's like it's a fascinating like
Speaker 2: the there's thousands, there's thousands, like those hundreds. There's so
Speaker 2: many people there and none of them are American. It's
Speaker 2: crazy walking around.
Speaker 1: That's fucking crazy, you guys.
Speaker 2: But the structures and all of the temples that are
Speaker 2: in the jungle there that you can go and it's
Speaker 2: all the National Park, you know, you can go to.
Speaker 2: It's like mind breaking how many hundreds of them there are,
Speaker 2: and they're gantic. But I was in my twenties. So
Speaker 2: we did that one day, and then the next day
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm gonna buy weed. I was like
Speaker 2: twenty three. Of course, somebody like Cambodia. So I go
Speaker 2: and I find a guy and i'd like read in
Speaker 2: a book of how to buy weed in Cambodia, because
Speaker 2: this was before the Internet, or I guess the internet
Speaker 2: just started. And I find a guy and he's on
Speaker 2: a moped and we go. I get on his moped
Speaker 2: and he like drives me around a corner, very safe environment,
Speaker 2: and then he like gets out and he gives me.
Speaker 2: I give him money, he gives me like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: it looks like a collection of tiny sticks, and I'm
Speaker 2: like all right, and I like, go back. And then
Speaker 2: I look at it and it doesn't smell like weed.
Speaker 1: It doesn't look like weed.
Speaker 2: It's just like something, you know. Yeah, but of course
Speaker 2: I'm down to try.
Speaker 1: And I didn't throw that in the trash.
Speaker 2: I did not throw that into the trash, and so
Speaker 2: we're good. There's a big issue with and so I
Speaker 2: tried smoking it that night and nothing happened. I was like,
Speaker 2: this is probably bunk, but it didn't stop me from
Speaker 2: doing it again the next day, being like, maybe it's
Speaker 2: the second time. I'll try to if I just believe.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I believe in myself.
Speaker 2: And Cambodia has a huge problem in the fact that
Speaker 2: the camer Rouge buried all of these mines that had
Speaker 2: been detected, and Americans buried mines during the Vietnam War, right,
Speaker 2: so both sides were burying mines and like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: ten percent of them at that time had been discovered,
Speaker 2: and they would take people's legs off and arms off
Speaker 2: all the time. So they had a real problem with
Speaker 2: blood supply. And Cambodia and we're like learning all about this,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I'm going to give blood, you know.
Speaker 2: And so I go into a clinic to give blood.
Speaker 2: And my girlfriend at the time we'd been dating since
Speaker 2: college college girlfriend, and she like was doing something else
Speaker 2: and then I was like, oh, I'm gonna go do this,
Speaker 2: and then she was like what And then she sat
Speaker 2: down and I went in and then I'm there and
Speaker 2: I had smoked the weed before I went and was
Speaker 2: sitting down and like they literally put the and this
Speaker 2: is like a clinic. It's just like a room. There's
Speaker 2: no there's like one plastic chair that I'm sitting in.
Speaker 2: It's in the middle of the jungle, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and so I get it. But everything looked pretty like,
Speaker 2: you know, from a twenty three year old's perspective, like, well,
Speaker 2: it looks pretty gleed. And so they put the needle
Speaker 2: in and I start giving blood, and you know, you
Speaker 2: have to wait there for quite some time for all
Speaker 2: the blood to come out, you know, and then my girlfriend,
Speaker 2: who had been sitting in the waiting room just had
Speaker 2: it like I don't know what happened, but she bursts
Speaker 2: in and she's just like crying and she's like don't
Speaker 2: do it. And I was just like, I'm already doing it.
Speaker 2: And then and then I was like, it's okay, don't worry,
Speaker 2: I'll beat you out. And then she was scrying. She left,
Speaker 2: and then right then this the weed like took that
Speaker 2: moment to come out in the weirdest way where I
Speaker 2: just got incredibly paranoid. So that, oh, like the forty
Speaker 2: five minutes that I had to give blood in this
Speaker 2: like one room on a plastic chair, I was.
Speaker 1: Just like, did I just kill my son?
Speaker 5: Oh my?
Speaker 2: And guess what, guys, I did it. And it was
Speaker 2: totally fun. There you are and you should not be worried.
Speaker 2: I was right in my brashness of a twenty three
Speaker 2: year old. Just give blood when you're in Cambodia, give blood. Okay,
Speaker 2: good for you, I know.
Speaker 1: And if you want to get blood, we've gamified it.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's beat.
Speaker 5: Let's beat star Verb.
Speaker 1: Not on drugs and sitting on a plastic chair in
Speaker 1: the woods or whatever. That would be so good.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Also, I don't know if you can even give blood
Speaker 2: when you're high. I mean, like, is that even allowed?
Speaker 2: Does it affect your blood? I have no idea. Did
Speaker 2: I give them tainted blood? It's like, oh man, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of sticks smoking here because it just sticks.
Speaker 2: I was smoking.
Speaker 5: Sticks were just a law around people's stress. I love it.
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Speaker 1: Tessa Wong is good at this shit. She is the
Speaker 1: best in the business. Bride's fury after Instagram's stunt wedding
Speaker 1: turned out to be a real one that sounds fun.
Speaker 2: I don't even understand it.
Speaker 5: I mean please okay, and I hate it.
Speaker 1: A woman in Australia has annulled her marriage after realizing
Speaker 1: that a fake wedding ceremony she took part in for
Speaker 1: social media stunt was in fact a real wedding. What
Speaker 1: the unknowing bride said Her partner was a social media influencer.
Speaker 1: Always a great choice, always a.
Speaker 5: Good choice, absolutely good people.
Speaker 1: What did go wrong? What you want to do is
Speaker 1: document your relationship and your private life as much as
Speaker 1: possible and just put it out there so when that
Speaker 1: breakup comes you look like an idiot. The unknowing bride
Speaker 1: said that her partner was social media influencer who convinced
Speaker 1: her to take partner ceremony as a prank for his
Speaker 1: Instagram account. She only recently discovered the marriage was genuine
Speaker 1: and when when he tried to use it to gain
Speaker 1: permanent residency in Australia. What we had a motive. So
Speaker 1: not only did he lie, he like really lied.
Speaker 2: How much?
Speaker 5: How many motherfucker.
Speaker 2: What how many actual followers does he have? Let's see
Speaker 2: what's his what's his let me.
Speaker 1: See what his handle is, because I don't even know
Speaker 1: if they mentioned You might have to just google it
Speaker 1: on Google dot com, Kurt, I'll use Google dot cot.
Speaker 1: It's a website just being Google, and then click on
Speaker 1: Google link and then there's a search bar and then
Speaker 1: you put in Instagram's stunt wedding turns out to be
Speaker 1: real one. Okay, okay. The bizarre case began in September
Speaker 1: twenty two three, when the woman met her partner on
Speaker 1: an online dating platform. They began seeing each other regularly
Speaker 1: in Melbourne, where they lived at the time, in December
Speaker 1: that year. So I'm running the numbers over here.
Speaker 2: Four months later, four months later, okay, and so they
Speaker 2: were actually dating.
Speaker 1: They were dating, Okay, okay. In December that year, the
Speaker 1: woman proposed to the woman. She accepted. It might be
Speaker 1: a little quick, you know. Two days later, the woman
Speaker 1: attended an event with the man in Sydney. She was
Speaker 1: told it would be a white party where attendees would
Speaker 1: wear white colored clothing and was told to pack a
Speaker 1: white dress, but when she arrived, she was shocked and furious.
Speaker 1: She was finally she was pranked to find no other
Speaker 1: guest president except her partner, photographer, the photographer's friend, and
Speaker 1: a celebrant. According to her deposition that's been quoted in
Speaker 1: court documents. So when I got there, I didn't see
Speaker 1: anybody in white. I asked him what's happening, and he
Speaker 1: pulled me aside and he told me that he's organizing
Speaker 1: a prank wedding for social media, to be precise, his Instagram,
Speaker 1: because he wants to boost his content and wants to
Speaker 1: start monetizing his Instagram page.
Speaker 2: Okay, so he's not monetizing this is this is his
Speaker 2: plan not only to make money, but also become an
Speaker 2: Australian citizen. He really thought he had it all, he
Speaker 2: had all wrapped up wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a creepy dude, And like, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't know these people. But that seems like the
Speaker 1: point where that woman should have said, I think we
Speaker 1: should break up. It's only been four months. Talking about
Speaker 1: is insane. But what do I know? Maybe he's a
Speaker 1: great genre who I don't know, she said. She had
Speaker 1: accepted his explanation as he was a social media person
Speaker 1: who had more than seventeen thousand followers on Instagram.
Speaker 5: Oh that's it.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that's nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's impressive in two thousand and six maybe, but's
Speaker 1: twenty five seventeen thousand. There's totstools online that have more
Speaker 1: followers than that.
Speaker 3: Okay, influencer is being used very loosely here, there's what
Speaker 3: are we influencing?
Speaker 1: That's right. Next time I have to give a speech
Speaker 1: and I don't even have an Instagram outside the Banana's account,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be like, I'm Scotty Landis I'm a micro influencer. Yes,
Speaker 1: I have less than fifteen thousand followers.
Speaker 2: That's what. Actually, my friend, our friends opened a bread
Speaker 2: shop in La called Breadhead. It's in Venice.
Speaker 1: Should go, it's so much great name.
Speaker 2: Breadhead's a good name.
Speaker 1: Shout out Michael.
Speaker 2: But he was saying. He was saying, he's like, the
Speaker 2: thing is that's hard about starting is like you get
Speaker 2: contact by all these micro influencers. And I was like,
Speaker 2: what are micro influencers? He's like, there're people with no
Speaker 2: followers who want free food.
Speaker 3: Oh my, yeah, it's such an oxymoron micro influence.
Speaker 5: It's like the word influencer is.
Speaker 3: Based on that you have a lot of followers, can
Speaker 3: be small.
Speaker 2: I have a micro actually have a micro influence over
Speaker 2: two small children that live in my house, and so
Speaker 2: they will be really into it if I tell them too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they eat for free all the time. Okay. So
Speaker 1: she also believed that a civil marriage would only be
Speaker 1: valid if it had been held in a courthouse. Still,
Speaker 1: she remained concerned. The woman rang a friend and voiced
Speaker 1: her worries, but the friend laughed it off and said
Speaker 1: it would be fine because if it were real, they
Speaker 1: would have had to file a notice of intending marriage first.
Speaker 1: Didn't know that educational podcast, which they had not done, reassured.
Speaker 1: The woman went through the ceremony where she and her
Speaker 1: partner exchange wedding vows and kissed in front of a camera.
Speaker 1: She said she was happy to play a long and
Speaker 1: make it seem real. Two months later, her partner asked
Speaker 1: her to add him both as a dependent on her
Speaker 1: application for permanent residency in Australia. Both of them are foreigners.
Speaker 1: When she told him that she could not as they
Speaker 1: were technically not married, he then revealed that their sitting
Speaker 1: wedding Sydney wedding ceremony had been genuine according to the
Speaker 1: woman's testimony.
Speaker 2: But I don't understand, like I know how it works
Speaker 2: in America, maybe it's a little different in Australia. You
Speaker 2: have to sign a paper, you have to sign a
Speaker 2: paper to say you're you're married. Did she I mean,
Speaker 2: like when she was signing that paper.
Speaker 1: She did not sign it? So great segue CURTI. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the next paragraph. The woman found their marriage certificate
Speaker 1: and discovered a notice of intended marriage which had not
Speaker 1: been filed the month before their Sydney trip, before they
Speaker 1: even got engaged, which she said she did not sign.
Speaker 1: According to the court documents, the signature on the notice
Speaker 1: bears little resemblance to the woman.
Speaker 3: So no, he.
Speaker 2: Ew, which makes me.
Speaker 1: Think of that movie Catch Me if you Can, which
Speaker 1: also I've found out recently even that story's fake. Like
Speaker 1: that guy, yeah, no, whole thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So his greatest scam is he actually convinced people to
Speaker 1: believe that story of him being a scam fake check
Speaker 1: writer is fake. So the movie is based on the
Speaker 1: fake book of a fake story.
Speaker 2: Which is actually pretty great.
Speaker 1: Amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, like he never worked for the FBI.
Speaker 2: But also that movie is like a perfectly made movie.
Speaker 1: I watch that.
Speaker 2: I enjoy that movie.
Speaker 1: Steve Spielberg, Leo Decapp, T Hanks, How are those three
Speaker 1: going to f it up? But it is funny because
Speaker 1: like that era of writing bad checks, just forging. All
Speaker 1: you have to do is have a convincing signature. It's
Speaker 1: just so crazy. I know everybody wasn't doing it. I
Speaker 1: would have done. Everybody's just constantly writing fake checks. It
Speaker 1: seems like a very easy crime to get away with.
Speaker 1: And then you just leave town.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they don't have any way of finding
Speaker 2: you if you simply leave the town.
Speaker 3: What a time to be alive when this time God's
Speaker 3: so good anonymous everything.
Speaker 1: The woman said, I am furious with the fact that
Speaker 1: I didn't know that this was a real marriage, and
Speaker 1: the fact that he also lied to me from the beginning,
Speaker 1: and the fact he also wanted me to add him
Speaker 1: to my application, she said. In his deposition, the man
Speaker 1: claimed they had both agreed to these circumstances, and at
Speaker 1: following the proposal, the woman had agreed to marry him
Speaker 1: at an intimate ceremony in Sydney, four people. The judge
Speaker 1: ruled that the woman was mistaken about the nature of
Speaker 1: the ceremony performed, it did not provide real consent or
Speaker 1: participation to the marriage, and he stated in the judgment
Speaker 1: that the marriage could be annulled. And it was October
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Yay.
Speaker 3: Crazy though, So I'm so confused because they were engaged.
Speaker 1: Correct, I think so? Yeah, they were engaged.
Speaker 3: So it's like, why all the smoke and mirror, Like,
Speaker 3: why not just be like, how would you feel about
Speaker 3: a quick wedding?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I feel like this lady if she was willing to
Speaker 3: say yes to get in engaged within four months, she
Speaker 3: probably would have put up too much of a fight
Speaker 3: on like hobving a wedding shortly after. But when you're
Speaker 3: fucking dupener, then everybody's like, well, what the hell is this?
Speaker 3: Let me invite my family for Christ's sake, Like you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, don't.
Speaker 1: Do better prank if the whole family shows up too,
Speaker 1: by the way, yeah, you're gonna get more likes if
Speaker 1: the family's there and it's a fake wedding. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know, don't do.
Speaker 2: It is it's also just such a like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: it's such a weird, such a dude way of doing it.
Speaker 2: It's just like, I'm not going to just talk about it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to create a ruse, and my ruse will
Speaker 2: be successful because I'll control it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I smell personality disorder. I mean, there's something obviously deeply
Speaker 3: wrong with this. This is insane behavior. This is like
Speaker 3: baby reindeer shit, you know what I mean, Like, something's
Speaker 3: weird here.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been watching that HBO Max show, An Update
Speaker 1: on Our Family. I think it's called, Yeah, an Update
Speaker 1: on Our Family. It's like a documentary about a family
Speaker 1: that are life vloggers or whatever. And then they're going
Speaker 1: to adopt a kid from China, and then they do,
Speaker 1: and then things go sideways and it is peak hate love.
Speaker 2: They give back, they give their baby back spoilers. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: they adopt a baby and they're like, we're adopting an
Speaker 2: autistic baby from China, and they make a whole big
Speaker 2: deal about it. And then after one year they're like,
Speaker 2: and we're and then all of a sudden, the baby
Speaker 2: just is no longer in their social It's.
Speaker 3: So oh my god, and after a yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: every part of it.
Speaker 1: It's pretty fascinating. It's pretty. But then I'm somebody, so
Speaker 1: I'm watching content about people who watch content, about people
Speaker 1: who make content, and so I'm no better. I'm it's
Speaker 1: just like two mirrors on. It's like a Mormon wedding.
Speaker 1: I'm just going into infinity.
Speaker 2: I'm watching. I'm actually watching this documentary called Scotty watches
Speaker 2: this documentary and it's just a camera that I've set up.
Speaker 2: It's got he's living room. While he watches that.
Speaker 1: Documentary, we're getting really close to KURTI b teas us
Speaker 1: into some thumbs ups.
Speaker 5: I got that.
Speaker 1: Let's see.
Speaker 2: Oh, this is an update on the ladies Lounge. Do
Speaker 2: you remember the Lady's Lounge?
Speaker 1: Scottie, tell me about that lady's lounge.
Speaker 2: This was a lady's lounge in Tasmania where it is
Speaker 2: it was, Yeah, so women women's only club. It was
Speaker 2: part of an art exhibit art exhibit, and then a
Speaker 2: guy sued them because he's like, that's discrimination, and so
Speaker 2: then they moved the exhibit into the ladies room. Uh,
Speaker 2: and to like to fuck with him. But now they've
Speaker 2: won their Supreme Court case in Australia. So now the
Speaker 2: Lady's Lounge is back and it's an update on she
Speaker 2: made it even better and better than ever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is I can't wait some thumbs ups. So
Speaker 1: here's some thumbs up from our bananimal. Sam's is thumbing
Speaker 1: up her sister Lee or Leah. I think it's Leah
Speaker 1: introduced Sam's to bananas. It's so fun. They chat about
Speaker 1: the silliness that we bring into their lives. Sam's and
Speaker 1: Leah thumbs up. And if it's Lee, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: Tot's h dash G is thumbing up her husband, Griffin.
Speaker 1: They got married on November fifteenth, and Griffin is planning
Speaker 1: their entire honeymoon to Thailand. Any suggestions, Kelsey, have you
Speaker 1: ever been to Thailand?
Speaker 3: I have not been to Thailand. I do just hope
Speaker 3: that this wedding was consensual. After this last story, I'm
Speaker 3: a little nervous for everybody now.
Speaker 5: But no, I've never been to Thailand.
Speaker 2: I do have a recommendation. I really liked the island
Speaker 2: this and of course I went. I think in My
Speaker 2: brother is a dupt diplomat, so I've been to Thailand
Speaker 2: twice because he was in station in Bangkok.
Speaker 1: Twice.
Speaker 2: But Colanta, which is a small island that at least
Speaker 2: when I went again I was in my twenties, was
Speaker 2: not as built up as all the other islands, and
Speaker 2: you could like kind of stay on the beach for
Speaker 2: like eight bucks, and it was a beautiful little house
Speaker 2: and get and that includes your dinner, and your dinner
Speaker 2: was like just fresh fish out of the ocean. So
Speaker 2: I would go and look at Colanta. Not a lot
Speaker 2: of people go to Colanta, or at least that was
Speaker 2: the case back then, but things changed so quickly, So
Speaker 2: don't judge me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: That's true. Uh, Leila faken it might be Lilah. I
Speaker 1: think it's Leela fake In wants to thumb up her
Speaker 1: wife Jenny. After forty years of living in the United States,
Speaker 1: she has finally become a citizen and right on time,
Speaker 1: right on time for the.
Speaker 2: Decline of America.
Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome, They were so glad to have you.
Speaker 2: Enjoy it for the next couple of months.
Speaker 1: Uh just yeah, have a really fun two or three months.
Speaker 1: It's a super scary time out there for the lbgt
Speaker 1: Q I A plus people United States. Oh thanks Banana
Speaker 1: boys for keeping us laughing. In spite of it. You
Speaker 1: are welcome. Everybody is welcome here on this podcast. We
Speaker 1: love everybody. And how about this one? Last, but not least,
Speaker 1: Mikey Kelly wants the thumb up. Mikey Kelly. He says,
Speaker 1: I passed my board exam this morning. I'm an official
Speaker 1: licensed social worker providing therapy to queer youth in rural
Speaker 1: upstate New York. Thumbs up to you, mikens A thing
Speaker 1: to do and that's what I got.
Speaker 2: Wonderful to you. Of course, we're here with them, wonderful
Speaker 2: and fantastic. Kelsey Cook Christana Special Mark Your Territory is
Speaker 2: out to day on Hulu and on YouTube, and her
Speaker 2: podcast Pretend Problems with Chad Daniels Her with her co
Speaker 2: host Chad Daniels, is available everywhere. Tell us about the podcast, Kelsey.
Speaker 5: Yes, my cat's tails like, actually.
Speaker 2: It's a delightfully furry cat.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I just bring an essence of white trash.
Speaker 3: Every podcast was just like, oh, that's crawling on me.
Speaker 2: Was that your cat that you brought into the house?
Speaker 5: Yees?
Speaker 3: So I brought I brought the two cats, and he
Speaker 3: brought the Golden doodle and it was chaos for about
Speaker 3: a year.
Speaker 2: Was everybody pissing everywhere and.
Speaker 5: Everybody hated everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we would just find a corner and look over
Speaker 3: our shoulders. I mean, my cats are a little older.
Speaker 3: They had never met a dog before, and this is
Speaker 3: like a fifty pound golden doodle. So the first time
Speaker 3: they met the dog, you could just tell that, like
Speaker 3: they thought he was a dragon.
Speaker 5: They were like, what in the this is it? This
Speaker 5: is how we die?
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 3: But they all get along now. So pretend problems. My
Speaker 3: podcast with Chad, we we talk about typically like if
Speaker 3: we got into an argument that week, we like to
Speaker 3: decide whether our arguments are pretend problems or real problems.
Speaker 3: Most of the time just pretend problems, you know. But
Speaker 3: it's been like kind of a fun, weird version of
Speaker 3: couple's therapy for us to take something that maybe in
Speaker 3: the moment we were genuinely annoyed with each other about,
Speaker 3: and then you talk about it on the podcast, and
Speaker 3: because we're both comics, like you inherently want want to
Speaker 3: add some level of humor to it, and then we
Speaker 3: end up laughing about it. We end up having people
Speaker 3: write in and be like, oh my god, my husband
Speaker 3: and I we just went through this, and here's.
Speaker 5: How we dealt with it. So we like to talk
Speaker 5: about stuff like that.
Speaker 3: And then we read listener emails and give advice for
Speaker 3: couples or just you know, anybody going through anything and
Speaker 3: just try to like help them the best we can.
Speaker 3: And it's been great. We really love doing it.
Speaker 2: Oh that's awesome. Also, what I think find interesting when
Speaker 2: you talk about because a couple problems a public leap,
Speaker 2: and how many people have the exact same shoes. It's
Speaker 2: like a fascinated My wife and I had a podcast
Speaker 2: for a little while that I never talked about it. It
Speaker 2: was on Audible and I think it's it still exists,
Speaker 2: called wedlock right after we first got married about getting married,
Speaker 2: and it's really cool. You should everybody should go listen to.
Speaker 2: It was like very highly produced, there's only six episodes,
Speaker 2: but we would talk about problems in our relationship and
Speaker 2: then we would immediately get like all of this influx
Speaker 2: of people being like this is my problem.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: It's just like, yeah, we're all the same, we're all
Speaker 2: dumb animals.
Speaker 3: We're all dumb animals. We just yeah, it's helpful to
Speaker 3: talk about it though.
Speaker 5: So it's not.
Speaker 3: You don't get so zoomed in that you make it
Speaker 3: a bigger thing.
Speaker 2: Feel alone, I think when you don't talk about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just it's like brought a lot of oxygen
Speaker 3: to our relationship that just kind of diffuses things a
Speaker 3: lot more quickly rather than having things build up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's awesome.
Speaker 1: Both think that part of being a stand up comedian
Speaker 1: is being more aware or even hyper aware compared to
Speaker 1: the average Joe Mulch and Jane Casserole. Do you think
Speaker 1: it's about being more self aware or more hyper aware
Speaker 1: of the world or not at all?
Speaker 2: Kelsey, I'll let you go first.
Speaker 3: I think both, But I think it also depends on.
Speaker 5: The type of material.
Speaker 3: Sure, you do, but I suppose even people who are
Speaker 3: like just one liner comics are making a lot of
Speaker 3: observations and pulling from stuff that they're aware of. But
Speaker 3: I think, especially if you are more like story based,
Speaker 3: you do have to become more aware of your day
Speaker 3: to day and how you're feeling and what's going on,
Speaker 3: because that's the quickest, easiest way I think to come
Speaker 3: up with new material is to just be like, oh fuck, yeah,
Speaker 3: I just had this weird interaction like why don't I
Speaker 3: write that down? That's it's so easy for if somebody's
Speaker 3: not a comic to just go, oh, that was weird,
Speaker 3: and then you never think about it again.
Speaker 5: But we have to kind of put a pin in
Speaker 5: it and go, there's probably something here.
Speaker 2: And that's what I would I would even encourage because
Speaker 2: I can honestly find when I go, like, if i
Speaker 2: am working on a different type of project and I'm
Speaker 2: not like writing a whole bunch of stand up or
Speaker 2: from like in the middle of a movie or a
Speaker 2: TV show, and I'm not working that part of my brain,
Speaker 2: it starts to atrophy. And then the moment I'm like
Speaker 2: all right, I'm back in like we got to start
Speaker 2: writing some stand up and I just start to start
Speaker 2: taking little notes throughout the day. The amount of stuff
Speaker 2: that all of a sudden like jumps out of from
Speaker 2: life that is available to you is like fascinating, and
Speaker 2: I think it's actually a really cool thing if you
Speaker 2: just for people who aren't performers, who aren't stand ups. Anytime,
Speaker 2: like some little thing that you notice or you think
Speaker 2: or you say, like that was weird or that was funny,
Speaker 2: write it down, Because I do think it actually just
Speaker 2: gives you not only more of appreciation for life, but
Speaker 2: more of an understanding of like yourself and of other
Speaker 2: people as well.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think the podcast with Chad has also been
Speaker 3: helpful for that too, because we have to look back
Speaker 3: on our week and be like, Okay, what happened this
Speaker 3: week that we can talk about. Yeah, and we had Yeah,
Speaker 3: we have had a fight about. He's like a very
Speaker 3: huge Vikings fan and gets like into that weird sports
Speaker 3: superstition stuff he bets. It's like feels very high stakes
Speaker 3: and I don't really understand what's going on, and so
Speaker 3: I like he feels like I JINXD one of these
Speaker 3: games you did, which to me is.
Speaker 5: Like such psychosis.
Speaker 3: I think that like me preemptively being like looks good,
Speaker 3: it actually impacts the outcome of the game, and so
Speaker 3: we like sincerely in the moment, he was like pretty
Speaker 3: annoyed at me, and I was like, you have to
Speaker 3: be kidding me that you think that I have that
Speaker 3: sort of power to change it. And then we talked
Speaker 3: about on the podcast and I didn't even think about
Speaker 3: it again for another like three months. I just now
Speaker 3: started to talk about it on stage, and it's become
Speaker 3: like the thing I'm most excited to do now, and
Speaker 3: it's been like connected. You can see a lot of
Speaker 3: couples who clearly have dealt with the same thing. But
Speaker 3: it's exactly what you're saying. Unless I'm like, oh, what happened?
Speaker 3: That is sharing That could have just gone into the
Speaker 3: abyss and I would never thought about it.
Speaker 2: Again, and then it's just an like that's what I
Speaker 2: kind of like about making stand up about it, because
Speaker 2: it could have just been an annoying conversation that happened once,
Speaker 2: but instead it makes money evil.
Speaker 1: It's true. I have a few sports obsess fans, and
Speaker 1: what I like to do is I like to see
Speaker 1: what the score of whatever team they're cheering for, and
Speaker 1: if they're up, if they're up by fourteen points, you know, safe,
Speaker 1: but not too safe. I always send them a text
Speaker 1: that says like, so, if I was friends with your
Speaker 1: boyfriend and Vikings were leading in the fourth quarter, I
Speaker 1: would text him there's no way the Vikings and YEA
Speaker 1: like block me. Like my friend Danny was like, I
Speaker 1: fucking hate you just for texting there's no way this
Speaker 1: team will lose the game, and he was like, are
Speaker 1: you serious? Right now. And I'm like, if you think
Speaker 1: this text message from somebody who's just trolling you the
Speaker 1: lightest way possible, And he like, he blocked me. And
Speaker 1: then he's like, I unblocked you recently because I want
Speaker 1: to ask you something. I'm like, that's fine, I.
Speaker 5: Need something from you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I need you to read a script for me.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, And I feel like typically the men who
Speaker 3: are the most superstitious can also fall into the category
Speaker 3: of men who are very anti woo woo thing. You know,
Speaker 3: probably don't have like a vision board or like believe
Speaker 3: in functuy, but like the second it involves sports and money,
Speaker 3: they're the most like crystal bitches you've ever met, like
Speaker 3: that happening right now?
Speaker 5: They just like.
Speaker 1: I like that a lot, true, pretty be? Did you
Speaker 1: have a story on that one?
Speaker 5: Sure?
Speaker 2: Dad?
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Speaker 2: This was on artnet.
Speaker 1: You this before I think so that's a real website.
Speaker 2: It was written by Brian Boucher. Hey, Brian, Brian Boucher.
Speaker 1: Ooh, best in the bees wax.
Speaker 2: Best in the boosh Brian Boucher. Viral women only artwork
Speaker 2: returns to view after Supreme Court win, one of the
Speaker 2: most viral artworks of twenty twenty four. Well, we'll return
Speaker 2: to its Tasmanian home, maybe in Australia following a short
Speaker 2: period of being bathballed after losing a discrimination court case.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: Artist Kersha Ktchelli's Ladies Lounge, which captivated audiences made headlines
Speaker 2: all over the globe, is going back on view at
Speaker 2: the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania, just
Speaker 2: in time for the holidays. The performance in installation work
Speaker 2: consists of a luxe parlor where men exist only to
Speaker 2: serve the needs of women as they lounge, snack on
Speaker 2: cannabase and zip champagne, all as a playful commentary on
Speaker 2: a long history of discrimination. In the other direction, precious
Speaker 2: artworks hang on the walls, including supposedly priceless picassos from
Speaker 2: the artist's grandmother's collection, later de Ville later revealed as
Speaker 2: fakes created just for the installation even better, Yes, great.
Speaker 2: It was on uncontroversial view since twenty twenty At the museum,
Speaker 2: founded by Coccelli's husband, David Walsh, she refers to herself
Speaker 2: as the institution's first Lady until March twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: when one Jason Lao of New South Wales took issue and.
Speaker 6: Finally discrimination complaint with the local Anti discrimination commissioner at
Speaker 6: the Tasmanian. I know it's such a what a the
Speaker 6: smallest man.
Speaker 2: In the mayl went to the museum judge like that
Speaker 2: would be a good children's book, Like the tiniest man
Speaker 2: goes into a museum.
Speaker 1: Campaign.
Speaker 2: A judge decided against the museum and the artist. In April,
Speaker 2: so a judge decided against the museum, which is crazy,
Speaker 2: ruling that the lounge must admit men or close. They
Speaker 2: appealed to the Supreme Court of Tasmania. While awaiting the
Speaker 2: High Court's decision, Cacelli slyly exploited a clause in the
Speaker 2: lower court's judgment that said men could reasonably be excluded
Speaker 2: from a ladies restroom, temporarily moving the picassos and other
Speaker 2: artifacts into a women's bathroom, but ultimately the Supreme Court
Speaker 2: decided in favor of the artist in September, writing in
Speaker 2: his judgment that the work gave women a rare glimpse
Speaker 2: of what it is like to be advantaged. According to
Speaker 2: press materials, entry for ladies and exclusion for men is
Speaker 2: included as part of the museum entry ticket Welcome Back
Speaker 2: Ladies Silli in a press materials through the court case
Speaker 2: of the Ladies Lounge of transcended the Art Museum come
Speaker 2: to life. People from Oh this is great if you
Speaker 2: can't make it to Tasmani, but one who experience the
Speaker 2: scent of victory, this is smart. You're in luck. Chilly
Speaker 2: is also releasing a commemorative limited edition Fragrance dubbed the
Speaker 2: Verdict with the punting tagline for the Lady who appeals.
Speaker 2: Many men who are just dying to experience the lounge
Speaker 2: can apply via the museum's app the oh to be
Speaker 2: one of the servants?
Speaker 5: Are you guys going to be a servant?
Speaker 2: I mean, if we ever, we want to tour Australia
Speaker 2: so badly, and it would be so awesome to conclude
Speaker 2: that Tasmani is wonderful.
Speaker 1: Yes, I don't want to work there. I just just
Speaker 1: leave from everybody alone. Just leave the women alone, leave
Speaker 1: dudes alone, everybody, just leave each other alone for fucking
Speaker 1: an hour. I mean, it's crazy that this guy had
Speaker 1: everybody just leave each other alone. It's so easy to
Speaker 1: leave other people alone and just to let them have
Speaker 1: a thing. It's oh god, I Ben, It's like the
Speaker 1: guy that sued Hooters so he could wait tables there.
Speaker 1: You're like, you're a fucking idiot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that whole idea of it's so easy. I've been
Speaker 2: trying to work on a new bit, which is having
Speaker 2: children gives you the the ability to forgive your parents,
Speaker 2: but the unwillingness to do so, because like as when
Speaker 2: you become a parent, you then see how very hard
Speaker 2: it is, right and you can kind of have empathy
Speaker 2: for someone who's just like, I'm just gonna walk away
Speaker 2: from it all into the ocean. But also every time
Speaker 2: you do something that your parent didn't do for you,
Speaker 2: you're like, was that so hard? Was that so hard?
Speaker 2: Guess what, dad? Today I didn't fuck my secretary and
Speaker 2: it wasn't hard at all.
Speaker 1: How hard that, dad?
Speaker 5: Oh, that's so funny.
Speaker 2: I love that what I've already done it once, I've
Speaker 2: only done it once. I'm gonna try it out again tonight.
Speaker 5: No, that's so smart. I don't have kids, but I
Speaker 5: love it.
Speaker 3: Would I would imagine that will resonate with every every parent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's a good title for an upcoming special.
Speaker 1: Was that so hard? Is a very easy, simple.
Speaker 3: Hard?
Speaker 5: Write it down. That's a really good one.
Speaker 1: Speaking of bananimals, you gotta watch Kelsey special mark your territory.
Speaker 1: It is on Hulu. That's real. It's on YouTube that's
Speaker 1: also real. And like Lee comments, say that you heard
Speaker 1: her on bananas and so she knows that we're not
Speaker 1: just two guys who are fake pretending to record this
Speaker 1: right now. I don't know a prank wedding or something.
Speaker 2: She is so kind, she agreed to do this podcast.
Speaker 2: She has no idea who the two of us are.
Speaker 2: And we thank you so much Kelsey for coming.
Speaker 5: That is not true.
Speaker 3: Of course, I've known you and your stand up. I'm
Speaker 3: a big fan of your stand up, Scottie. I did
Speaker 3: not know you apologize.
Speaker 1: Nobody. Nobody knows the writers. We're just the slugs behind
Speaker 1: the scenes. Kelsey plug Away. Where can they find you
Speaker 1: on social media? Where websites that kind of crap.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can follow me on social media at Kelsey
Speaker 3: Cook Comedy. You can get my tour tickets for my
Speaker 3: tour right now at Kelseycook dot com.
Speaker 5: And yeah, go watch go.
Speaker 3: Watch Mark your territory. My special The Hustler is also
Speaker 3: on YouTube and Hulu, So if you want to, if
Speaker 3: you want to binge, go for it.
Speaker 5: I would love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, double decker why not watch?
Speaker 3: That's my hope is that you double decker mates today.
Speaker 1: Double Kelsey Cook. That's what you gotta do. You gotta
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Speaker 5: Thank you for having me you guys uh Nanas.
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