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Episode 36: Is That a Mermaiby or Just Another Fyre Festival Scam?
A macabre mermaid has washed ashore on a UK beach, leaving locals utterly baffled. The skeleton-like creature with fins prompted one witness to declare, "No one's going to believe what we saw" – and they weren't wrong. We dive into this mysterious discovery that drew crowds of bewildered beachgoers who couldn't determine whether they'd found a dead seal, driftwood, or something far more sinister from the depths.
From ocean mysteries to Hollywood demons, we unpack the upcoming documentary series that will feature Stephen Collins, who played "America's Dad" on the family-friendly show "7th Heaven" for eleven seasons before admitting to inappropriate conduct with minors. Former cast members Jeremy London and Kyle Searles will react in real-time to Collins' confession tapes – a bizarre and troubling format that raises questions about how we process celebrity scandals and why certain figures continue receiving platforms despite admitted crimes.
Meanwhile, TikTok has made the curious decision to ban its "chubby filter" while allowing countless other appearance-altering effects to remain. We question why this specific filter crossed the line when so many others that dramatically transform faces and bodies are deemed acceptable. Is the objection truly about body positivity, or does it reveal deeper societal discomfort specifically with weight-related imagery?
The saga of Fyre Festival continues as founder Billy McFarland attempts to launch "Fyre Festival 2" despite serving four years in prison for fraud related to the original disaster. With tickets ranging from $1,500 to $25,000, only one act announced, and Mexican officials confirming no permits have been requested, all signs point to another potential scam. As the saying goes: fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice... you can't get fooled again.
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sure. Hey, what's up everyone. Welcome to okay bud, the podcast where everything's gonna be okay bud. I'm ben kissel at ben kissel1 on Instagram, joined by Jerry Aquino at Miss underscore Jerry and, as always, kyle Plouffe at Kyle Plouffe. Check us out on Patreon at patreoncom. Slash diebud Watch every show live and you can comment, and then we read the comments and it's this whole symbiotic relationship.
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Speaker 1:Also shoot us an email, okbudpod at gmailcom. Thank you all so much for the great emails we got this week. I want to thank Vanessa for sharing a screenshot of when she was 15 years old and she was forced to be a mascot, and I believe she's a panda bear.
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Speaker 1:A large panda bear.
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Speaker 1:Yeah, so thank you so much for sending that story. Also, I want to thank the man who sent us a long story about a fleshlight.
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Speaker 1:It's very very long, maybe we'll spend an entire episode reading that, but thank you so much, and also Asha Johnson. She says hello there, ben you, big, beautiful masterpiece of a man. Ooh, she says, my booming voice feels like home. So thank you so much and welcome home. Now do the dishes, all right? Well, let's get to a story. Today and it is the end of the week, so let's talk about something a little creepy TGIF.
Speaker 2:TGIF. Tgif for creeps.
Speaker 1:Indeed. So we mentioned UFOs a few episodes ago. Yes, they're a creepy skeleton-like figure with fins. Oh what, it has shocked beachgoers. They say no one's going to believe what we saw. So beachcombers were baffled over a skeleton-like figure. It has fins and it washed up on shore in the UK. This is according to Paul Regan. They say for the life of me, I can't tell you what it is. It was the weirdest thing.
Speaker 2:A skeleton shape. Is that an actual photo of that?
Speaker 1:It's a little baby, this is it so it looks like Gollum. If Gollum was put into a dehydrator and forced to scream until somebody finally let him out, it's demonic looking, and if I saw this on the beach, I'm going the other way.
Speaker 2:I'm going the other way, oh yeah, I would be screaming and running, or I would think that it's like some kind of like an art exhibit, like I would be like is there like some kind of like a sand cat, like demon sand building tournament that I missed out on, jesus Christ.
Speaker 1:Oh, this is fake. No, it's not fake, it's real.
Speaker 2:Where? Where is it real?
Speaker 1:In the UK. Wow, okay, kyle, why do you think it's fake? It has fins, it is a baby.
Speaker 2:It seemingly has a baby's head. It has a ribbed condom in the middle of it. It's spray painted. Yeah.
Speaker 3:It's paper mache.
Speaker 2:And pewter.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:Colors of nickel and pewter. First of nickel and pewter.
Speaker 1:First of all, these people are from the UK. They don't lie like us. I'm dead, okay, so this is probably true, yeah, no, they don't lie.
Speaker 2:They make commentary, artistic commentary.
Speaker 1:March 10th, margaret Kent and her husband Dave. So who knows what Margaret and Kent are doing with their husband Dave? Whoa, oh, perhaps that's another creepy tale. That's fun. They were strolling on the beach down on the shore having a good time. In the background of this photo there's a little dog, so maybe their dog was with them as well. Nice, all of a sudden they see this creepy figure. The London resident says the beach was completely empty so it really stood out. It was alien-like. It had an alien-like head. It does have an alien-like head. It's got a baby head. It's got a baby head, emaciated body and scaled fish tail. They say it's like a macabre mermaid which is very cool.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's really what mermaids would look like. That's why people who sexualize mermaids, what do you do? Fuck one of its gills.
Speaker 2:That's so true. I think this one's underage.
Speaker 3:This is a mermaiby.
Speaker 2:Oh, mermaiby.
Speaker 1:A baby, mermaid Mermaiby.
Speaker 2:A mermaiby.
Speaker 1:And you know the number one cause of death for merbabies School shootings. You know the number one cause of death for more babies school shootings. Isn't that bad. So, regan, they recounted. At first I thought it was a bit of driftwood or maybe a dead seal, because you know, because it looks, because its tail is so like bulbous for some reason it does have a bit of a bulbous tail, yeah, and I could see it being a dead seal, although I don't nah.
Speaker 2:Not at all. Not at all. No, it looks half cooked.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Imagine seals with just the faces of babies on them. Yeah, so she's like maybe it's a dead seal, because I could see these funny tail fin things. Then she says the head looks skeletal, but the back part where the fishtail was, was soft and squishy.
Speaker 2:Ew, they touched it, I guess.
Speaker 3:so I think they tried to fuck it. This is like a thruple right. Yeah, it's a thruple Okay these weird three people are gonna be the only ones that find this thing.
Speaker 1:Well, I will confess to touching soft, squishy things on the beach.
Speaker 2:I no.
Speaker 1:I will confess. No, I did confess I don't even like.
Speaker 2:When you like, walk like in a weird patch of moss in the water and then things get slimy on your foot and you're like? No, I don't like it.
Speaker 1:I don't either, because what's?
Speaker 2:down there. You never know, you don't? I remember I was this thing apparently.
Speaker 1:Horrifying. Yeah, I was swimming in a lake in Stevens Point, wisconsin. You know what got me? A crawfish, a little bastard, oh my God. A little bastard pinched me.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's terrible, I had.
Speaker 1:PTSD from it. But I was walking on the beach in Florida and I saw this. Oh, that looks pretty cool, because you know how I internally think.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's how you sound.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's how I sound and I picked it up and you know what Dead jellyfish it was a dead jellyfish. It can still sting you and it stung me. Yeah, yeah, my whole hand went numb.
Speaker 2:Really, and you got to piss on it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm a moron.
Speaker 2:Did you piss on?
Speaker 1:it. Well I found for me. Oh, just like the show.
Speaker 2:Friends, Remember that episode, just like that show, and then they didn't want to talk about it and then I think, like they, they all peed on each other is what it happened. That episode got through because there was someone in the writer's room who was just like really into it and he's like get this in, Yup, Yup.
Speaker 1:And he's like well, we've got to. Courtney Cox is the one who pissed on, was it?
Speaker 2:who got pissed on Someone. So I think like Joey tried to pee on her but then he couldn't, so then Chandler did it, or something like that.
Speaker 1:I've seen that video before. So they say that there's no explanation. They can't figure out what the hell this thing is. A small group gathered thing is A small group gathered. People were walking by with their dogs, passersby, and even a man setting up beach huts. He came over.
Speaker 4:Wow.
Speaker 1:Even the guy who was there employed by the beach to set up the huts. He even came over.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's a big deal, that's wow. And he doesn't. He doesn't leave his post for nothing, for nothing, absolutely not.
Speaker 1:Wow, the man who sets up the beach huts on the beach. It's one of the most dedicated people in all aquatics.
Speaker 3:It's the highest ranking job.
Speaker 1:It really is. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2:Do you know the certifications you need for that? I?
Speaker 1:don't even want to think about it. They're endless Hutology. They're endless Hotology. Wow, no one could quote, could work out what it is. So they were out there. They're spitballing and they're British. So they're like is it a crumpet? Is it the queen, you know doing dumb shit like that, they say. Some thought it might have fallen off a boat. Well, others suggested it could be a figurehead from a ship, a very, very creepy ship, yeah, interesting, like one of those carved mermaids, a bunch of pirate babies, they say. I just knew no one would believe us if we didn't take a picture. So indeed, they did take a picture.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I mean, I still don't believe them.
Speaker 1:I believe that you don't believe them. I believe that, but you don't believe your own eyes.
Speaker 2:What if they just made this thing? And then it is absolutely circus taxidermy. It totally looks like one of the like it would be like in like a jar at, like an oddities shop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I do love those.
Speaker 2:What if they made it and then they just brought it out themselves and they were like oh, we found this.
Speaker 1:That's crazy well, obviously they know how to get press and they know how to get notoriety. Yeah, we're talking about them right here, like this is what we need.
Speaker 2:We need, we need a thruple, we need a half alien, half fish baby we need a lot of seaweed and we need a nearby beach margaret kent with her husband, dave Yep.
Speaker 1:Yikes, so what a day on the beach. Is it a cryptid? Is this a new form of alien life? Is it fake? We simply don't know. We will never know. We may never know, but we do need to do an autopsy.
Speaker 2:Okay, again, I'm pretty sure this thing is being held together by a ribbed condom. Do you see it? I do yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, no matter what, isn't it creative?
Speaker 2:It is. I'll give them creativity points for sure.
Speaker 1:And, as the X-Files would say, I want to believe.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I want to believe that that weird little thing is in the water somewhere swimming around, probably scaring all the other fish.
Speaker 3:Crying about losing her baby.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it does look sad. Oof, it does look sad. Yeah, it doesn't look like it really has swimming sustainability, because there's no word. It doesn't have really fins. I mean it does have some kind of fin, but it's not really. They're in the back, they're not really like a.
Speaker 3:But then the arms.
Speaker 2:So they're swimming and using the fins. Oh, I see, that's not no way. That's not how that works.
Speaker 1:Well, that's how it's set up. I bet you people would run a lot faster or swim a lot faster in the Olympics if you got one of those behind you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, back fin.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just no, just that monster.
Speaker 2:Oh right, Each swimmer has the monster Literally.
Speaker 1:So they jump in the water, then you throw the it's like crawling towards you.
Speaker 2:But also like kind of wiggling and doing this little fin thing.
Speaker 1:Swim for your life.
Speaker 2:Hey, that's a fun movie.
Speaker 3:That is a fun movie.
Speaker 2:That would be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3:Wait till they get a load of my monster.
Speaker 1:Okay, wow, yeah well, kyle can't swim very fast Because of all the drag. Yeah, that's right. So anyway, check it out If you want to have a nice little time. Is it real? Is it not real? What are we going to name it, though? I mean, you got like Merlin the Mermaid, maybe like a Bortha.
Speaker 3:A.
Speaker 2:Bortha.
Speaker 1:A Bortha. A Bortha, that's a child who made it through. Well, we'll name it a Bortha.
Speaker 2:That's fine, hey Mom, why is my name Abortha?
Speaker 1:Well, we didn't really want you.
Speaker 2:It wasn't the plan, but here you are.
Speaker 3:I like when majestic beings like this have a regular name, like Richard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was going to say it looks like a Tony to me. Oh, tony, okay.
Speaker 1:Richard Tony, what do I know? Okay, great. Well, speaking of animals, I'm just really upset. I love animals.
Speaker 2:Okay, wait.
Speaker 1:The ASPCA is the way to go. Okay, okay, peta is not. Peta is fake. And they've threatened my friend, danny McBride, and he's not my friend, he doesn't know me and probably doesn't want to be associated with me yeah. I like him because I love that show Eastbound and Down. It's a fun show and he is so funny.
Speaker 2:He is very funny.
Speaker 1:And he also does a lot of horror movies.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And I enjoy his work.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:They are going to do a scene in the Righteous Gemstones that involves a monkey, and the monkey is going to be a star of the show, but apparently Pete is all mad about this. People for the ethical treatment of animals, even though all people want to be, is on a show with Danny McBride.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Who this monkey would be living the fucking dream.
Speaker 2:And Righteous Gemstones is pretty funny.
Speaker 1:It's a good show. He's not going to be on, like you know. We'll talk about Seventh Heaven here in a second. He's not on the reboot of that.
Speaker 2:Absolutely not.
Speaker 1:No, this monkey is booking.
Speaker 2:It's true.
Speaker 1:Literally no one is being cast in Hollywood right now.
Speaker 2:More work than me.
Speaker 1:But PETA is all pissed because they say, oh, the monkey belongs in the jungle, not on a TV set. Why? I just don't understand. This is why it's aggravating to me, because I don't understand their logic.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So because of that, they're going to send fake monkey poop to mcbride's.
Speaker 2:Um little studio that's not even fair. It's like they're doing like zero work to like find out who's actually in charge of bringing the monkey in. They're just like no, well, danny mcbride's in it, so we're gonna send it all to him I have a feeling messed up.
Speaker 1:Look that, look at that monkey, oh that monkey's a workhorse. It's being treated better than any of us.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I love it. Oh my God, he's so cute.
Speaker 1:And dare I just say this, like back in the day, it'd be like it's season seven. What do we do? Let's adopt somebody. They say, let's adopt a kid.
Speaker 2:Let's make a monkey, let's that. In the TV aforementioned TV show Friends, they got a duck. Maurice oh well, ross also had a monkey. Did he have a monkey? He had this exact monkey, he did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he did. There was a duck and a monkey.
Speaker 2:Well, they had the duck and the chicken. Chandler and Joey had the duck and the chicken, but then Ross had a monkey at some point. Marcel Marcel, not Maurice. Marcel the monkey.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so they have a long history of hard work. Yeah, they do so according to Debbie Metzler. She says Danny McBride has all the advanced technology at his fingertips. I don't want to see a fake monkey. Yeah, I don't want to see a CGI monkey. We don't need that.
Speaker 2:No, that's what we have Planet of the Apes for.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we already had Monkey Bone.
Speaker 1:We had a bunch of them. But then she says but he chose to further exploit a suffering monkey who should be in the rainforest, not on a TV set. I just think this is a segregation.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's not right. And if you're this monkey, I don't want to be in the rainforest. That ain't fun Fucking nightmare it's loud. Getting beat. It's loud, eating bugs all day. This guy gets craft services.
Speaker 2:He's in air conditioning or he can be in a more humid. He can be in a steam room to mimic a jungle or something.
Speaker 1:He doesn't, they don't even, he doesn't know. He doesn't want to be in the rain.
Speaker 2:He something he doesn't? They don't even. He doesn't know. He doesn't want to be in the rain. He doesn't know. I know right, he probably grew up on sets.
Speaker 1:Yes, exactly. So anyway, I just wanted to point that out, because, peta, they get under my skin, because that's also a lot of money and this is what they spend their money on, this is what they pay attention to.
Speaker 2:Sending fake poop.
Speaker 3:And when they confiscate animals, they end up just like taking them out to the back alley and shooting them in the head. It ain't right, it's not. They're not ethical about anything. They kill every animal they come into contact with what the hell go with the aspca?
Speaker 2:and why are we still looking at this picture?
Speaker 3:this poop looks like a box of crawlers or something. Yeah, it's actually making me hungry it looks like snails and mushrooms.
Speaker 2:It's making you hungry?
Speaker 3:yeah it looks like a box of donuts, it looks like a yeah, it looks like a box of donuts.
Speaker 1:It looks like a pile of shit it looks like a pile of shit. Yeah, it looks like a bunch of shit.
Speaker 2:It looks like some poops.
Speaker 3:It looks like glazed donuts. They're all glazed over.
Speaker 2:None of them are glazed. Look, it's all glazed. That's just shine from the flash.
Speaker 1:There's one over there that looks like a cock and balls. Yeah, I see that one. Yeah, it looks like a cock kind of rusting on.
Speaker 2:This one looks like it still has some solids going on in there.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 1:Is monkey poop that large? That's my question. I know they throw it sometimes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I feel like the really dark one is really realistic, because that's the one that comes out hard. Yeah, that's the one that you get after.
Speaker 4:St.
Speaker 1:Paddy's Day after you drink all that Giddey.
Speaker 2:Yeah, is it yeah?
Speaker 1:Oh my God, when I was in Ireland I used to tell a funny little joke on stage. It was a pretty funny bit about how you know how people like to explain jokes.
Speaker 2:I love it. You know how funny that is. It's my favorite.
Speaker 1:I would say I think there's only been one Guinness that's ever been created and it's just recycled over and over again. That's ever been created and it's just recycled over and over again. Really funny stuff. People paid a lot of money to go see that stage.
Speaker 2:It sounds like you had to be there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, people used to pay 200, 300 bucks just to meet me. Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 2:I know right.
Speaker 1:Funny, funny. How the life works, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Let's move on. Speaking of outcast Hollywood celebrities, that's me.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, it's all right bud.
Speaker 1:Thank you, seventh Heaven. This television show was the bane of my fucking existence.
Speaker 2:Was it. Why is that?
Speaker 1:Because it is the corniest thing that's ever existed.
Speaker 2:It was pretty annoyingly corny.
Speaker 1:It was awful and of course, the lead actor, Stephen Collins, who plays a pastor, turned out to be a pedophile.
Speaker 2:How? Why did he do this? Oh my God. He just needed to stick with the stereotype, or he feels like he was that committed to the role.
Speaker 1:Judge your honor. Hear me out, I'm a method actor.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I was playing the pastor and I knew I had to molest.
Speaker 2:I knew I had to molest. I knew I had to molest.
Speaker 1:Okay, so there's a new documentary coming out and I between the Diddy documentary. Just so many documentaries.
Speaker 2:All of the documentaries.
Speaker 1:All of the documentaries.
Speaker 2:Everyone's been coming out of like the dark shadows.
Speaker 1:I am very happy. As a kid, I was like I wish I was in Los Angeles and I could be on the TV. No, thank God, because I was cute as a kid. I was like I wish I was in Los. Angeles and I could be on the TV. No, thank God, because I was cute as a kid One time. I was cute, I was adorable. Oh, they would have done horrible things to you.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Just imagine.
Speaker 2:I just let life steamroll me the regular ways.
Speaker 1:Please God and it's been nice. Yes, I was just yelled at by a Burger King manager. That's what's supposed to happen when you're 16.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:You're not supposed to be bent over getting lubed up for a job on the WB. So the name of this documentary is Hollywood Demons oh, ooh, yes, and it's going to cover a series of different scandals. The one with Stephen Collins is called Stephen Collins, america's Dad. But was he, was this? I know the show was popular. But when we say the guy from seventh heaven was America's dad, I mean that went to Cosby for a while. Basically, you never want to be. If you're an actor, you never want to be called America's dad, because America and our dads we have a. It's a weird history.
Speaker 2:It's a bad. It's a weird relationship for sure.
Speaker 3:I never thought he was my dad america's dad always goes to like the best dads. From every sitcom there's gonna be some comedy yeah, yeah, this is too melodramatic.
Speaker 2:Bob saget was america's dad yes, and he still reigns supreme I think so too because everybody else got into some bad shit especially, yeah, yeah, especially like the worst thing you found out about bob saget is he was just like like a cursing ass like monkey, yeah he was just like a total buffoon and not like a super nice dad at all, and you were like this is awesome yeah I like him more now yeah, even alan thick.
Speaker 3:He uh, he wrote a letter to the court backing up brian peck who was molesting a bunch of kids oh nickelodeon he goes I'm America's dad and I know a thing about character.
Speaker 4:Is that what he said After the guy he got frigging convicted.
Speaker 3:and this was after he got convicted and that's literally what he said. Wow, he was begging the court for leniency.
Speaker 1:A friend of mine. Every America's dad sucks. A friend of mine knew Alan Thicke a little bit and he said that he would get on a plane. When he would get on a plane he would walk the aisles until some people recognized him.
Speaker 3:Oh my god, I know famous comics that would do that walk out into the crowd to be like, hey, oh my god, there he is.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's me, it's me. Your eyes do not deceive you.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's me, it's Godfrey, everybody.
Speaker 2:It's.
Speaker 1:Godfrey.
Speaker 3:Thank you no-transcript.
Speaker 1:And he is big enough to be like he puts on a little show. Apparently. He gets on a plane Well, if you're doing that and then he puts on a little thing and he's like hey, everyone, and we saw Jack Black, yeah, and then they just leave him alone. Right, that's cool. I understand it from that level of celebrity?
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1:Jack Black. Anyone would like notice him, but Alan. Thicke, you can just kind of sit down, feel free to rest, it's going to be okay. Maybe a couple people come up to you.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Anyway, stephen Collins, america's dad, on the show Hollywood Demons. It is going to talk about the underage sexual scandal that Collins has Former cast members, jeremy London and Kyle Searles. They are going to react to listening to the recording of Collins exposing himself to minors. Yep, oh no, no way. This is more of a game show than a documentary. It literally is so wow the real time they're sitting there and then it's just like zoop. Like what do you think, kid?
Speaker 2:What reaction are?
Speaker 3:they supposed to have. I think it's the conversation of him admitting that he did it. I don't think it's him actually doing it. Come here, come on. It's okay. You're kidding, it's okay.
Speaker 1:You're kidding. That's bad. So apparently there was an interview in 2020. I'm sure many of you remember this. It was with Katie Couric, and this is where he talks about his proclivity to have sex with children.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, this proclivity to have sex with children. Oh my God, this is just so twisted.
Speaker 1:And then he was just and then he was like on television, being like you touched a joint. Oh my God, that scene is so funny.
Speaker 4:Oh my.
Speaker 2:God, his wife was always just had these like big giant lost eyes, like she couldn't believe what she was seeing.
Speaker 1:The documentary. They really wanted to get a large net of people but most people said no, none of the main cast characters are going to appear. And producers reached out to over a hundred of Collins' former contacts and they're like we don't really want to do this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, who would?
Speaker 1:So on the 7th Heaven Rewatch podcast there's this dude named Dave Gallagher. Apparently he played Collins' on-screen son. He said all forms of abuse, sexual abuse of any kind. It's inexcusable and victims of abuse need to be shown compassion and they should be given support. And he doesn't excuse or condone his behavior, although Collins did admit when he was on that interview to having sex with a victim who was 10 oh boy god, that is yes, collins admitted his first victim was 10.
Speaker 1:Why what? So it's literally this is america. So it's literally like yeah, that's right, katie, I fucked a 10 year old. And then there's just a ad for mcdonald's. And then it's just like and don't forget, best buy as a new deal on flat screen tvs, flat as a 10 year old's chest. Wow, I just it's so weird that he was just sitting in there and he didn't get arrested or anything yeah, I mean they were talking to him too.
Speaker 3:I remember seeing like an interview and they're like do you consider, consider yourself a pedophile? And he goes. I've thought about that term a lot and it just doesn't fit me. What do you mean?
Speaker 1:It doesn't fit you.
Speaker 2:It literally fits you. It's like I don't identify as a pedophile.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I identify as a sexual child enthusiast.
Speaker 1:So apparently Cyril's this guy, he's 39 years old, he has yet to hear the interview. Obviously now he has, but he was. He says, quote it was me just trying to stick your head in the sand, kind of thing, because he didn't want to. When the news broke he was like I can't hear anything about this. Yeah, so finally they're going to play it for him live and get his reaction, which you can imagine. His reaction could just be like well, so what?
Speaker 2:That would be amazing. Well, yeah, we pretty much knew that.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 3:That sucks Well I mean, I hate that.
Speaker 2:I want to watch it too. Oh, I'll be watching this for sure, I want to watch it.
Speaker 1:Seventh Heaven was the longest running family show in history, which I did not know that, really, I didn't know that either. It was 11 seasons, from 96 to 2007. Oh, wow, that is a long time.
Speaker 3:I didn't realize it was in 2007. I didn't either. Yeah, I used to watch it.
Speaker 1:I love Justin Beal. It was like after.
Speaker 3:Dawson's Creek yeah.
Speaker 1:Apparently Colin's career had imploded, but he faced no criminal or even civil prosecution.
Speaker 2:That's so probably because no victims wanted to come forward about it.
Speaker 3:It's possible, but he admitted to it, so the state could just file charges against him anyway.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Jeremy London 52. He says Stephen Collins was most certainly America's dad. I wanted him to be my dad. If I was his actual dad, I'd fucking call him right now Like yeah, you wanted him to be your dad.
Speaker 2:Why don't you go hang out with him?
Speaker 1:Seriously, that's the thing. That's why every parent, every father, just has to let everybody else know Like every other kid's getting molested. Yeah, oh, I'm sorry, I took your Xbox away or, you know, broke the TV because the Cowboys lost again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:That's why you don't even let your kids have sleepovers.
Speaker 1:Why not?
Speaker 2:Well, I wouldn't, because I wouldn't want my kids running around getting molested by accident somewhere else.
Speaker 1:Oh, I see, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:My mom never let me sleep over places Really, and now it made sense.
Speaker 3:My mom wouldn't even let me visit other people's houses during the day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my mom wouldn't even let me visit other people's houses during the day. Yeah, yeah, no, I totally agree, it was so crazy, yeah, and I was all upset about it, but now it makes sense. But no, no, no, you're going to stay in this house, miserable and unmolested.
Speaker 4:You're welcome.
Speaker 2:Literally Makes total sense to me now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you're so traumatized by what would happen in that home.
Speaker 2:No, I mean what? No, I just didn't sleep.
Speaker 1:My parents were, like get out of here. I was always having sleepover, but I never molested. I was a big boy Also. I wanted it too much, I'd be sleeping face down. You know what I'm saying? I'm just joking.
Speaker 2:Just like standing over in your friend's parents' bed, mouth breathing.
Speaker 3:Are you going to touch?
Speaker 1:me or not Pete, can you not have Ben over anymore?
Speaker 3:because he's scaring your father, he's bullying your father into molesting him.
Speaker 1:And then Ben, 12-year-old, he touched it. Yeah, come here.
Speaker 2:That's you at 12? Yeah.
Speaker 1:So, after the bombshell report in 2014, london says I was hearing some buzz, thinking, but thinking there's not a chance in hell my Steve Collins could be accused of doing these things. You don't accuse saints of things what? So I think people really bought into this whole. He's a pastor, not an actor thing. Jesus Christ. You don't accuse saints of things. I'll accuse them. Right fucking now whole. He's a pastor, not an actor thing. Jesus Christ. You don't accuse saints of things. I'll accuse him. Right, fucking now. I'll accuse a saint of anything.
Speaker 1:Yes, especially when he did it and admits to it.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's gross. I didn't know the depths of this story.
Speaker 1:I didn't either.
Speaker 2:I didn't think I needed to know.
Speaker 1:Cyril's. He says this is the first time that I've ever thought that he's full of shit. I'm not satisfied with this. I have like a knot in my stomach watching Colin say he's not attracted to underage girls. My whole world changed when I had kids. My whole world view. But you know, I don't have kids. Well, Kyle said that everything makes him cry. Now, yeah, I don't think. Before that kyle was like pro molestation. No, this guy was like I didn't care, kids were getting molested but I had kids.
Speaker 1:But now, now I do and I'm like, hey, I wouldn't like my kid to be molested, so now I'm against it yeah, yeah, that's true good lord almighty. Yeah, he says. I think I think it goes without being said, but you know what I mean. I just think that I put him up on a professional pedestal a bit too much yeah.
Speaker 2:Seems like it.
Speaker 1:Seems like it. Maybe he was America's dad, I didn't know. It was 11 frickin' seasons.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:He wasn't my dad.
Speaker 1:No, he was not my dad. No, no, my dad was a truck driver who worked hard, damn it, and he came home and he went to bed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because he had to sleep. Yeah, totally. My dad worked hard and took me to McDonald's on the weekends.
Speaker 1:Wow, that's all you want.
Speaker 2:I had every Happy Meal.
Speaker 1:Oh, isn't that nice. Remember the toys used to be so good they used to be really good, God I love those early 90s toys.
Speaker 2:So excited, every time new ones would drop.
Speaker 3:Yeah, those glass, batman Forever glasses they were awesome.
Speaker 1:Oh, yes, I remember those, I remember those.
Speaker 2:Do they still have Happy Meals?
Speaker 1:Yeah, they do, but they're all expensive and weird.
Speaker 3:Kaylina gets them. Now she's been getting a bunch of them for the Pokemon cards.
Speaker 2:What they have Pokemon cards.
Speaker 3:Yeah, in the Happy Meals now.
Speaker 2:That's kind of cool.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh shit, all right, well, let's move on and talk about social media.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:You can't trust it, can you?
Speaker 2:Oh, not at all.
Speaker 1:Apparently TikTok. They're known for their filters. Apparently they had a thing called a chubby filter.
Speaker 2:A chubby filter.
Speaker 1:No, it's not when chicks with big boobs bounce around on a trampoline, because that's what I call my chubby filter. Because I get a chubby.
Speaker 2:Oh right.
Speaker 1:Jokes are funny if you explain them. That's when I get a chubby. That's a euphemism for an erection, which is a scientific term for boner. Anything else, that's a euphemism for an erection, which is a scientific term for boner, so Anything else no. A controversial TikTok filter has been banned. They have warned it created a toxic online culture. This is where it started.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right you know, Nothing has happened before this, and why is it so? There's a ton of like pretty-cheekbone, skinny girl filters.
Speaker 1:I was talking with Kyle. I read a story about this man who presented as a woman because of a filter and did OnlyFans and got a bunch of money. Wow, so all these guys were jerking off to him. Can you find that story, kyle? You should I don't even know how to find it. I mean, and he looked beautiful, but then when the filter was off he had like a beard and shit.
Speaker 2:And that's not creating a toxic online culture, just like all these filters with the olive blue eyes and stuff. It's weird. That's not toxic, but the chubby one is toxic.
Speaker 1:Yes, that's what they're saying. They say the chubby filter. It uses AI, obviously, and it has users dramatically gain weight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they also have filters that make your face dramatically distort.
Speaker 1:Right, but apparently this is used as a comedic effect. And then some people are saying it's really offensive because the chubby filter saw users posting before and after pics one, making them appear in their regular weight, and then the other one where they're all chunky and things of that nature, did you?
Speaker 3:find it. Kyle, I found a version of one.
Speaker 4:Oh my god, check this shit out, she's adorable, she seems adorable, she even became a celebrity for her beautiful and cute look, where she got so famous that a Japanese TV station wanted to do a story on her. But after they couldn't get a hole on her, they decided to track her down and personally find her. But when they finally did, they couldn't believe their eyes, because azusa was actually a 50.
Speaker 3:But was a influencer. Wow, as a woman with a filter wow, he is smart.
Speaker 2:Yeah, seriously, I do see how the before and after thing could be problematic.
Speaker 3:Jarring why.
Speaker 2:Problematic for people that are actually trying to lose weight and like doing these like before and after pictures, like you know, in seriousness.
Speaker 1:Oh. So the before is when they're chunky and then they lose weight and then they say this is what I look like now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're like, this is me. If I was fat.
Speaker 1:Ha ha, just kidding, this is my after fat Ha ha, just kidding, this is my after but ha ha, it's my before.
Speaker 2:Well, experts have said this could create toxic diet culture. Yeah, I mean, every other filter has already done that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think this is really the biggest issue when it comes to body issues facing men, women and everyone else in this world.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So, as a result, tiktok stepped in and they have banned it, which I think this is the only filter that they've banned. Wow, seriously.
Speaker 2:It doesn't sit right with me. I don't know why.
Speaker 3:There are ones that give you, like Hitler, mustaches and stuff that's allowed. This is what we're worried about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, seriously, seriously. And now your boyfriend is going to like try to hug all your little curves that aren't actually there.
Speaker 1:Well, that is very true, According to an activist, Dr Emma Beckett. They say this is a huge step backwards in how we talk about weight.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, they say it's just the same old false stereotypes and tropes about people in larger bodies being lazy and flawed and something to be desperately avoided.
Speaker 2:Oh, so it's like.
Speaker 1:So some people I guess they avoid larger people because they don't want to get like they don't want to get. They think it's like a disease.
Speaker 2:They think it's contagious.
Speaker 1:But that's not the way it works.
Speaker 2:No, it's not.
Speaker 1:As a matter of fact, if you really want to be thin, hang out with only large people. Why they're going to eat all the food. Oh cool, you go out to dinner, you get a nice portion.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:They have all the food it's so true and you get to live vicariously through them. I know.
Speaker 2:Well, it's more like you have, like when you have like a tiny stomach, then you have like your friends, be like your garbage disposal.
Speaker 1:Sherry, I take a bite, he takes a bite. I take a bite, he takes a bite. Okay sure Someone did comment that he's looking a little large on Instagram.
Speaker 2:He's a little chunky.
Speaker 1:He's a little chunky. He's a little chunky, but that's because it's windy and I don't want him to blow away.
Speaker 2:Yes, you got to keep him anchored down somehow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't glue his feet to the ground. Yeah, he can't glue his feet to the ground. Yeah, it would be kind of funny. But anyway, she says the fear of weight gain contributes to eating disorders and body dissatisfaction. So they don't like this filter whatsoever.
Speaker 2:What do you think about this filter Ben?
Speaker 1:I think the filter is just fine. I don't care Looking chunky, not looking chunky. I think the people are beautiful. There are some people Me too who are they just look good, thick.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like the thickies. Oh, we love the thickies. Yeah, also.
Speaker 1:Kyle likes them old. I'm serious, kyle. What's your perfect age for you, for a woman? 50s.
Speaker 3:Anything over 25 to. Yeah, 50s are fine. He likes old large women. Okay, kyle, all right.
Speaker 1:That's why, after this, we're going to go to the dress barn. Yeah, large women. Okay, kyle. That's why, after this, we're going to go to the dress barn.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's Kyle's favorite.
Speaker 1:It's where I take them down. I love it. It's Kyle's favorite jiggle joint, the old dress barn. I'd be open to a sugar mama. Hey, can I see those ankles? Those look pre-diabetic. Yeah, sure. So a spokesperson for the brand said these effects are not TikTok effects, nor were they directly available through the app. I just think it's very interesting that this people are so. I don't want to say that because we do want to be healthy. There are like we've talked about. You know what's her name Dank Moss.
Speaker 2:Yeah Right, that's true, you know, it's like they're going to die.
Speaker 1:You're going to die. Dank DeMoss. Dank. You're going to die. Dank de mas, dank de mas. Like you got to just do your own heart, because our hearts, you know, it's beating hard in there, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but being a little thick, there ain't nothing wrong with that, but it is interesting that this is the thing that broke TikTok's filter. Yeah, was people being like wow, it made you look a little chunky.
Speaker 2:So maybe we should just get belt notches Like no, take it down, Take it down.
Speaker 3:It is ridiculous. Yeah, I mean, you can look like a baby, you can look older, you can, it's everything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know why is this the one that just loses out?
Speaker 1:Do you ever see the video of the lawyer who couldn't get the cat filter off? Oh yeah, he's like judge, I'm not a cat. Oh my, we're going to have fun today I have not. It's.
Speaker 2:Friday we're having fun today.
Speaker 1:It's so funny, I'm having fun today have you seen this Jerry. I have not seen this oh my God, this video is truly funny. Oh, I have seen this.
Speaker 3:So funny dude, that's right.
Speaker 1:Mr Ponton, I believe you have a filter turned on in the video settings.
Speaker 3:You might want to take're trying to. Can you hear me judge I?
Speaker 2:can hear you. It sounds like a cat too.
Speaker 3:I don't know how to remove it. I've got my assistant here. She's trying to.
Speaker 2:He's a little southern drawl.
Speaker 4:I'm prepared to go forward with it. I'm here, live, I'm not a cat?
Speaker 3:I'm not a cat. Why does he have to?
Speaker 2:say that I'm not a cat. I'm not a cat.
Speaker 1:Why does he have to say that the cat that he looks like is exactly how that cat would sound? He's all sad and shit.
Speaker 3:His eyes are giant. I'm not a cat.
Speaker 2:He looks terrified. He sounds like he's trapped in the cat's body. He was cursed.
Speaker 3:He's like I. He sounds like he's trapped in the cat's body.
Speaker 2:He was cursed. He's like how do I?
Speaker 1:get out of here. Anyway, if you're on TikTok, don't bother using the chubby filter, because it's gone and you'll never get to use it again.
Speaker 2:Oh man, that's weird.
Speaker 1:I'm not a cat, so freaking hilarious.
Speaker 2:I'm not a cat.
Speaker 1:All right, and just lastly, a bit of an update on Fyre Festival 2. Oh my God.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, who is falling for this? I?
Speaker 1:have no idea. The only person who was booked is Antonio Brown, former football player. Who is crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right.
Speaker 1:Legitimately batshit nuts, Apparently, the Mexican island in which Fyre Festival 2 is supposed to be held at. They haven't requested any permits and Mexico is like we don't know anything about it. Yeah, so it's literally another scam and this guy why are they doing this again?
Speaker 2:Didn't he face jail time last time?
Speaker 3:I think he did four years. Yeah, he did. So if you buy tickets for this one, you go to jail. He can stay out, because you fucking should have known this was coming.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:It's nuts and he was like talking. He's like I want to see my dream be fulfilled. All this crazy shit. Wow. Tickets are going for $1,500 to $25,000.
Speaker 2:Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1:It's going to be a total disaster uh-huh and please do not, do not go to this don't go to this.
Speaker 2:You know as one of my great presidents. My great presidents once said fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, you can't get fooled again exactly yeah, can't get fooled again.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, can't fool me again.
Speaker 1:The 2017 Fyre Festival was advertised as the cultural experience of the decade and, strangely enough, I think it was yeah.
Speaker 2:On the three shows I watched about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think there was like three separate documentaries on each streaming service.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think that it really was the cultural experience of the decade and maybe the beginning of the decline of this fantastic republic of ours.
Speaker 2:So is he just you think he's just making some buzz, creating some buzz so that he can get money to do it first?
Speaker 1:I have no idea. Billy McFarlane, that's his name. Again, he did a four-year jail sentence. He says fire two is real. My dream is finally becoming a reality, yeah.
Speaker 2:There's nothing like saying that something is real to prove that it's real, it's real damn it.
Speaker 1:It's just like that finned baby fuck head thing that went on the UK beach.
Speaker 2:You mean Tony the Mermaid?
Speaker 1:Yeah, tony, the Mermaid. Fire 2 isn't really. This is what he says. He says Fire 2 really isn't about the past and it's not even really about me. It's about taking the vision, which is strong. So he's got a strong vision. But the government of Isla, can you say this word for me Isla, isla, mujeres. Thank you, yeah, but the government of ILO.
Speaker 2:Can you say this word for me, ila? Oh, ila, mujeres, thank you.
Speaker 1:They released a statement and they said no person or company has requested permits from this office or any other municipal government department for said event. So do not go, whatever you do, unless maybe you're a journalist or maybe you want to live a horror movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe you just, or maybe you're just one of those people that are going to do another documentary on fire too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he was on Today, which is crazy that you're giving this guy a platform at all yeah, no, who put this guy on a talk show? It's nuts. He was on literally one of the biggest in the country. Straight out of prison. He says we're going to have artists from across electronic hip-hop, pop and rock. However, it's not just music. We might have professional skateboarders do demonstrations and we might have MMA champions teach you techniques in the morning. We might we might.
Speaker 3:Isn't this happening somewhat soon?
Speaker 4:Yes, what do you mean?
Speaker 3:might it's supposed to be so anyway. I was planning this over a year in advance.
Speaker 2:When is it supposed to be?
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness, when is it supposed to be? I know it's sometime coming up.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, not this summer.
Speaker 3:I think it's supposed to be this summer, may 30th to June 2nd 2025. Wow, you've got to be shitting me.
Speaker 2:In Isla Mujeres, Mexico.
Speaker 3:This should have already been booked and paid for a year ago.
Speaker 2:Exactly, yeah, yeah, no. A year ago there should have been like posters on Instagram with the whole lineup already set.
Speaker 3:First act announced retired NFL player Antonio Brown. That's it. It's amazing.
Speaker 1:It's going to be Billy.
Speaker 3:McFarlane and AB just chilling on the beach.
Speaker 1:Oh God, you here for the lick off.
Speaker 3:You here to wrestle us on the beach. Oh God.
Speaker 2:So cringe.
Speaker 1:I'm like embarrassed for him. He's truly criminal. That's the problem. That's what it is. It's a criminal mind.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's definitely what it is.
Speaker 1:Like a super, super stupid one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can't fix stupid, as our friend Scott always says.
Speaker 1:Loose term friend. Loose term friend, acquaintance. I have a lot of acquaintances. I have to stop because I realized after what I went through that most people aren't my friend.
Speaker 4:They're my acquaintances now, because I used to be, so open hearted. And I'd say you're my friend.
Speaker 1:But, now I say no. Now your heart is blackened, it's darkened and Scott is an acquaintance. You want to watch some hot, steamy videos? Well, I can't. Alright, right moving on.
Speaker 2:Moving on can't be stupid fire too okay, there we go there.
Speaker 1:It is all right, let's close out the week with some comments. What do we got?
Speaker 3:uh, let's see. Uh, vanessa saying billy mcfarland is nuts and doesn't know when to stop. True, definitely criminal mind, criminal mind uh, claire was saying funhouse mirrors have been doing this filter thing for years. True Good point, true Like bulbous bottoms, bulbous heads, yeah. Skinny and thin.
Speaker 1:I think it's actually more offensive to. Well, I am a fat person, so, as a fat person, I think it's offensive that they won't even look at a filter that makes somebody fat. I think it's offensive that they won't even look at a filter that makes somebody fat. Yeah, that's the problem. Okay, go on. Sorry, piano.
Speaker 3:Piano said band found houses. He also was saying His tourniquet. And Piano were talking about the Batman glasses that we have here.
Speaker 2:Those are so sick dude. I can't believe they don't do stuff like that anymore.
Speaker 3:They were from McDonald's, and Pano says he still has his entire collection next to his Apollo 13 pogs in his garage.
Speaker 2:That is amazing.
Speaker 1:Wow, yeah, that is pretty cool yeah.
Speaker 2:I bet those go for a lot now.
Speaker 3:And regarding entertaining people on a plane, Pano also said that President Jimmy Carter would shake hands with every passenger on every plane he was on.
Speaker 1:That's kind of cool. That's nice. I would have shooken hands with old Jimmy Carter. Yeah, why not?
Speaker 2:I feel like that's not a celebrity thing, that's more of like he's just greeting his people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know. Remember that when we had people he wasn't the best president, but he tried. Remember that when we had people and he wouldn't lie.
Speaker 2:People are going to people.
Speaker 1:He said he was not going to lie to the American people after what Richard Nixon did. And he didn't lie, but then people were also like we need gas. Anyway, all right, everyone, thank you for listening. Can you guys go to the podcast apps and rate and review, please?
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Speaker 2:I am a little baby. We're all just little babies, y'all baby.
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