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Mermaids Are Real, Bird Spies & Pickle Propaganda ft. Lena Tuck · Two Broke Chicks

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  Speaker 1: This podcast is recorded on Gadigal land. Always was, always
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  Speaker 1: will be Aboriginal land.
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  Speaker 2: Hey chicks, I'm Sal.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Hal.
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  Speaker 3: And this is Two Broke Chicks, a show that shares
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  Speaker 3: life lessons and tips to help make you rich in life.
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  Speaker 2: And welcome back to another episode of What's the Tea?
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  Speaker 2: And today we are joined by our good friend, Lena Tuck.
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  Speaker 4: Hi!
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  Speaker 1: Hi! Hi everyone!
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  Speaker 4: Thank you! Best friend!
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  Speaker 1: Friend of the show. What's the Tea is always just like.
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  Speaker 3: One of our mates.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, can we.
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  Speaker 1: Have like good solid banter?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good banter.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, we've been friends with Lena for many years,
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  Speaker 3: but you chickies might know her as the three martini lunch. Connoisseur,
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  Speaker 3: Pickle Advocate, breaking into Pool Girl, and also now at
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  Speaker 3: the bottom of the list of those priorities, but also
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  Speaker 3: one of the co-hosts of the Slot Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Did you not get the memo that people are supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be known for one thing?
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  Speaker 4: I'm multifaceted, multidimensional. I love that.
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  Speaker 2: I know. All the advice is niche down and you're like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to niche up.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to just try, fuck around and find out,
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  Speaker 4: and that is my big motto in life, to fuck
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  Speaker 4: around and find out.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see that video of the chick online? She
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  Speaker 1: was like, so I've been fucking around and here's what
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  Speaker 1: I found out.
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  Speaker 4: I love that. 10 out of 10.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: That is my absolute shtick on TikTok. I just feel
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  Speaker 4: like I leap all over the place and I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: you know what? This month I'm going to try singing
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  Speaker 4: in the pools.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that's just you in general and that's
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  Speaker 1: why you're literally the funnest person to be around.
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  Speaker 4: Undiagnosed ADHD potentially undisclosed. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you think we get along this deep?
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  Speaker 1: They say we all gravitate to another.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Sparkly minds unite.
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  Speaker 2: And we don't usually do life lessons on What's The Tea?
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  Speaker 1: But Lena has expressed that she very much wants to
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  Speaker 1: share her life lesson of the week.
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  Speaker 2: So we don't have one necessarily. But Lena, take it away.
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  Speaker 4: What's your life lesson?
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  Speaker 2: It's your show now.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: My life lesson is it's always going to be a no,
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  Speaker 4: unless you ask for what you want. Tea. Yeah. And
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  Speaker 4: I feel like my whole bit was going to be
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  Speaker 4: like my whole career in media was just founded on
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  Speaker 4: the fact that I cold pitched to someone that I
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  Speaker 4: wanted to make TikToks for them, um, for pedestrian TV.
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  Speaker 4: And then they were like, yeah, okay. Eventually after like
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  Speaker 4: six months of me emailing them, they were like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: let's just give it the TikTok, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Um, anyway, I just think that's an important distinction.
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  Speaker 3: Um, is that you didn't also take the first no
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  Speaker 3: as the final answer.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If they didn't reply, like, you just keep going.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Because I think that some people are like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: I'll ask once and then I hear a no.
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  Speaker 1: Totally.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like, oh, okay.
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  Speaker 4: Or you don't hear anything and then you're like, okay.
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  Speaker 4: And I just remember their– because this is, like, 2021
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  Speaker 4: when their TikTok was just, like, not– they had, like,
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  Speaker 4: a thousand followers. And I was like, let me in,
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  Speaker 4: let me in.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, I have ideas.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly. And, yeah, I just think, like, consistency and persistence is, like,
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  Speaker 4: the key to getting what you want.
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  Speaker 1: 1,000 cents. If you don't ask, it's always a no.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: Love that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's my life lesson.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you for sharing that.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's get into our conspiracies.
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  Speaker 4: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 4: Big brain, wrinkly brain, or smooth brain. I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: All of the above.
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  Speaker 4: They're both.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: A combo.
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  Speaker 3: So we've each got a different conspiracy theory that we're
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  Speaker 3: going to dive into.
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  Speaker 2: Shall I kick us off?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Do you want to ask me what's the tea?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Sal?
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  Speaker 4: What's the tea? I love that you joined in now.
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  Speaker 1: No one ever joins in.
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  Speaker 4: It's the best.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So my conspiracy theory is that birds are government spies.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so invested.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I don't trust birds.
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  Speaker 3: So this like checks out.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There's something about them.
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  Speaker 1: I can't think of that many birds that I.
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  Speaker 4: Like, wait, what about pigeons? I like them. See, I'm
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  Speaker 4: a bird apologist. I'm a bird apologist too.
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  Speaker 1: Like I'm that really fucking annoying person that you're walking with.
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  Speaker 1: And when the pigeon kind of flies at you, they're.
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  Speaker 4: Like, no, I do that too. I do that too.
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  Speaker 4: Cause it's like, it's just, it's like, I'm like, fuck off.
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  Speaker 1: Or like when a seagull and you like, kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: gesture towards it to get it away and it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: flinch i'm like.
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  Speaker 4: Fuck you no but i think seagulls specifically definitely surveillance
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  Speaker 4: but pigeons we're just mistreating them i.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not putting them all in one i do feel
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  Speaker 1: bad for pigeons yeah we all.
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  Speaker 4: Know the story of pigeons and how like they were
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  Speaker 4: actually pets at one point and we um domesticize.
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  Speaker 2: Them yeah domesticated.
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  Speaker 4: Domestic there we go Domesticated them. And now they're just
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  Speaker 4: roaming free and they're like, hi.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be friends. Like somebody play When Somebody Loved Me
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  Speaker 2: from Toy Story 2.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly. Don't stop.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to get some. It's true. And we've just
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  Speaker 2: neglected them.
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  Speaker 4: But anyway.
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  Speaker 1: I had an ex that like my nickname was Pigeon.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's probably where some of my distrust
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  Speaker 1: comes from.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, hang on. Yeah, you would call me a skanky pigeon.
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  Speaker 4: There's law here. There's law.
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  Speaker 1: Literally.
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  Speaker 4: So why do you think they're surveillance machines?
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  Speaker 3: So this is a machine sent from the government. It's
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  Speaker 3: a pretty popular conspiracy theory with the premise that birds
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  Speaker 3: aren't real.
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  Speaker 2: They're actually government spies.
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  Speaker 3: So the theory uses the tagline, if it flies, it spies,
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  Speaker 3: which I love that. They've got like a marketing slogan.
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  Speaker 3: That's the kind of conspiracy theory that I'm here for.
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  Speaker 2: Like get some marketing in the mix. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then others say that bird watching goes both ways.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Very sinister.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Very sinister. I don't like that.
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  Speaker 3: So some of the top claims from this conspiracy are
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  Speaker 3: that all birds have been replaced by surveillance drones.
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  Speaker 2: Pigeons are the most advanced model. Yeah. Birds charge themselves
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  Speaker 2: on power lines.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know what?
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  Speaker 1: I'm the worst person to do this episode with because
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  Speaker 1: I drink the Kool-Aid any chance I can get.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly.
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  Speaker 4: Like, I just want to be involved.
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  Speaker 2: And then one of my favourite ones, bird poop is
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  Speaker 2: a tracking mechanism. Oh, I believe that.
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  Speaker 1: Have you guys ever been shit on? Of course.
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  Speaker 2: It's good luck.
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  Speaker 4: It's good luck. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I love that that's what we tell ourselves. It's like
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  Speaker 2: the most fucking embarrassing thing.
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  Speaker 4: Ever and I'm like, lucky.
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  Speaker 1: I love, and then there's some FBI agent being like,
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  Speaker 1: locked in, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Target acquired. Target acquired. Eagle has landed.
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  Speaker 1: The bird has shit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: What else are they doing roaming around?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so true.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, by that theory, when birds shit, they're actually
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  Speaker 3: recharging tracking fluid on your car, which sends your location
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  Speaker 3: to the government.
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  Speaker 1: People have too much time on their hands.
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  Speaker 3: Right. So this is basically an entire satirical conspiracy group
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  Speaker 3: online that has started the theory. It started in 2017
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  Speaker 3: after a college student named Peter McIndoe came up with it.
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  Speaker 3: So he was visiting a friend in Nashville. As a
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  Speaker 3: response to the unease caused by protesters, Peter wrote birds
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  Speaker 3: aren't real as a nonsensical joke on a piece of
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  Speaker 3: cardboard and joined the march.
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  Speaker 4: But Peter McGindo, he was being interviewed and he was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I just wanted to suss this all out and just
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  Speaker 4: make something up and just kind of.
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  Speaker 2: And see how we carry on.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's so interesting because, yeah, this guy literally
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  Speaker 3: just went to these marches.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: To write whatever he wanted on a sign and then
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  Speaker 3: see how that can take off.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder if he really expected it to take off
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  Speaker 2: in the way that it did.
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  Speaker 4: I think that he, because I looked at an interview
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  Speaker 4: and he was saying that he is from Nashville or
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  Speaker 4: like he grew up homeschooled and like he was around
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  Speaker 4: a lot of these like conspiracy theorist people. Yeah. And
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  Speaker 4: they were very much just like would believe anything that
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  Speaker 4: he read or anything, any random bit of tidbit, which
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  Speaker 4: I feel like is kind of similar to how we've
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  Speaker 4: all just kind of grown up with the news and
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  Speaker 4: just like taken sides and how the algorithms kind of
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  Speaker 4: Not to shit talk the algorithm.
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  Speaker 1: No, we can shit talk the algorithm here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, great. Love to shit talk the algorithm. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and how it's kind of split people and divided people
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  Speaker 4: just based off like what your interests are.
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  Speaker 3: It becomes like an echo chamber of like you say
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  Speaker 3: one thing and then you get fed more things on
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  Speaker 3: that topic.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, let's talk.
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  Speaker 1: About how many celebrity deaths that haven't happened. Like the
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  Speaker 1: algorithm literally like rewards people. Totally.
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  Speaker 4: A lot.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I love this video of Kiki Palmer, friend of the show.
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  Speaker 1: We talk about her, like, way too much.
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  Speaker 4: Every episode.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually not well. Yeah. Parasocial relationship core. And she's, like,
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  Speaker 1: doing an interview. She's like, I remember the first time
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  Speaker 1: the internet killed me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yes, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's actually whack. And, like,
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  Speaker 4: the guy bought a van and would just, like, talk
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  Speaker 4: to these random strangers and people who would, like, be
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  Speaker 4: interested and open to the birds aren't real movement. And
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  Speaker 4: then they'd be like, well, yeah, I– I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: prove it to you that the birds aren't real. And
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  Speaker 4: then it would take like five minutes and people are like, yeah, wait,
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  Speaker 4: you raised a really good point.
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  Speaker 2: It's wild. I think it's the critical thinking skills.
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  Speaker 3: I think that a lot of us lack on the internet,
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  Speaker 3: which is why so many of these things take off.
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  Speaker 3: Because also it's like somebody's told me something, so I'll
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  Speaker 3: just believe that instead of actually believing But then also
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  Speaker 3: then people are like, I did my own.
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  Speaker 1: Research on something.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, where are you getting the research from?
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Like I think it can go both ways.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it is really interesting, especially in this
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  Speaker 3: current time, because I think people also want a sense
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  Speaker 3: of like control and also that they maybe have like
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  Speaker 3: the inside scoop on something that's going on. And so
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  Speaker 3: that's why people gravitate towards conspiracy theories.
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  Speaker 1: What do you guys think is the most untrustworthy bird?
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  Speaker 4: LAUGHTER Seagulls, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I just think they're assholes.
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  Speaker 4: I think they're like little frat boys.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're missing the most obvious one here. Magpies.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: No, I like magpies.
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  Speaker 4: They can be really loyal.
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  Speaker 1: We had like a pet magpie growing up. Maggie.
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  Speaker 2: Very unique name. Love that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she would, like, come and get her brekkie every morning.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, fair.
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  Speaker 1: I just think they're just a bit zesty.
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  Speaker 2: They're just like, yeah, well, she is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, true.
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  Speaker 2: And then they go and sleep with someone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, 100%.
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  Speaker 2: And they've got a reason for it, actually.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: They do it.
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  Speaker 2: There's a time and a place.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And they're like, it's our time. You left the house. Like,
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  Speaker 2: this is actually your fault.
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  Speaker 4: Well, seagulls always have their own best interest at the
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  Speaker 4: forefront of their mind. They're never doing anything for anyone else.
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  Speaker 4: And it's always chips and it's always like a sushi roll.
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  Speaker 4: Like I've had a seagull like yank it from my
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  Speaker 4: hand and take it off. Yeah, yeah. There's no way
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  Speaker 4: they can be trusted.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's true. Those seagulls down at Circular Cay, they'll
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  Speaker 2: get you.
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  Speaker 1: The ones in America as well.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, they're huge.
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  Speaker 2: They're dogs. That's not a bird. That's a dog. I know.
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  Speaker 3: They're always going on about us and, like, our spiders
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  Speaker 3: and snakes and sharks and shit.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, you.
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  Speaker 1: Guys have flying devils.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Pegasus.
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  Speaker 4: Seriously. Have you seen the dogs that they employ at
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  Speaker 4: the Sydney Opera House to, like, ward away seagulls?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I just, like, pat them, though, and I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Like, give me a dog.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 4: I interviewed them once and I interviewed the dogs. I know.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, what did they say?
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  Speaker 4: They were like, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we get paid well.
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  Speaker 4: We get fed treats. But they do actually get trained
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  Speaker 4: to like ward off seagulls and get rid of them. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually very cute. That's such like Australian core. I know.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I thought it was really interesting to start
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  Speaker 3: off with that one because it's an example of– a
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  Speaker 3: conspiracy that is just, in my opinion, so completely absurd.
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  Speaker 3: And started from one person showing up to.
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  Speaker 2: A rally with a sign.
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  Speaker 1: Fucking around and finding out. And he found out that
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  Speaker 1: people will believe whatever you tell them.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's people that still believe that. There's like, when
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  Speaker 4: I was looking through the YouTube comments, people were like,
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  Speaker 4: the government got to a man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: When he was revealing that it was fake.
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  Speaker 2: That it was all a joke.
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  Speaker 4: And like that now I'm like, well, maybe it is fake.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe it isn't fake.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: No, Lena.
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  Speaker 4: The bird's a non-government spy. They got to you, Lena.
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  Speaker 4: The bird got to.
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  Speaker 1: It pooed on her this morning and they've been tracking her.
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  Speaker 2: I just think that like... The government has plenty of
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  Speaker 2: ways to track people. They don't need to. And they
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  Speaker 2: probably don't need. They've got all that information on hand.
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  Speaker 3: It would be a very expensive exercise for them to
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  Speaker 3: replace every bird.
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  Speaker 4: There's enough security cameras around in the world that we
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  Speaker 4: are getting tracked at all times. Yeah. We don't need
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  Speaker 4: birds to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine if we were wrong.
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  Speaker 4: And they really were. I know.
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  Speaker 2: We have to come out and, like, release an apology.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, being, like, sorry to the pigeons.
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  Speaker 4: You never know.
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  Speaker 1: The pigeons just deserve an apology in general. Moving on.
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  Speaker 4: Lena. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: What's the tea?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, my conspiracy is that pickles are rage bait. They're
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  Speaker 4: like the rage bait food of the internet right now.
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  Speaker 4: I would almost argue maybe they're like the 2010s like
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  Speaker 4: pizza movement. Remember how everyone was like, I love pizza.
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  Speaker 4: And it was really divisive at the time. Everyone's like,
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  Speaker 4: oh my God, shut up about pizza.
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  Speaker 1: The OG rage bait is like pineapple on pizza.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's true. And how do you feel about that?
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  Speaker 1: I like pineapple on pizza.
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  Speaker 4: I like pineapple on pizza too. I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't judge.
• 12:44
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 12:44
  Speaker 4: You do you. The amount of dudes that have that
• 12:46
  Speaker 4: on their hinge still is crazy. Oh, don't.
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: Move on, bro.
• 12:49
  Speaker 4: That was so 20, that was so 10 years ago.
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: You're doing the boots on the ground journalism here.
• 12:54
  Speaker 4: Like, it's still happening. Pickles now, I would say, are, like,
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: the biggest rage bait for you because it's such a device. And, like,
• 12:59
  Speaker 4: as a self-confessed pickle lover, I am a pickle lover.
• 13:02
  Speaker 4: I'll just... Let everyone know that. But I would say
• 13:05
  Speaker 4: that it's because it's, like, so people either really, really
• 13:07
  Speaker 4: love it or they really, really hate it. And so
• 13:09
  Speaker 4: when a company brings out, like, a viral, like, pickle thing,
• 13:12
  Speaker 4: people are so quick to be like, oh, my God,
• 13:14
  Speaker 4: it's the best. And then all the people who hate
• 13:17
  Speaker 4: pickles are like, why would you do that? That's so stupid.
• 13:20
  Speaker 4: It becomes like.
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: A bandwagon thing a little bit as well. Because, like,
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: we even have started seeing, like, pickles in, like, the
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: beauty space.
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: Like, I think it was.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: Elf or Nyx, like, one of them. Yeah, it's like
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: they brought out, like, a pickle collection of, like, lip glosses.
• 13:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what's going on with that?
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: Which, like, why?
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: And, like, what does that even taste like? Vinegar? Yeah.
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: Because I think, like, when you get pickles right, it's, like,
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: a good sour vinegary taste, which is yum, and we
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: all love it.
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: And, like, I do love a pickle thing, but I
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: think when it's, like, just... Can I name names?
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course.
• 13:56
  Speaker 4: The KFC pickle core menu was not good and, like,
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: it just felt like such a, like, bandwagon item where
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: they were just like, yeah, I'm going to bring out
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: this little pickle thing. And the pickles were just, like,
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: weird dehydrated little flaky things.
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, why?
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: I asked you to stop calling me that.
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: And like if they knew the essence of a pickle lover,
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: they would know that they needed to incorporate vinegar or
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: like make it sour.
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: And the crunch.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: You're not mad that they made a pickle collection. You're
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: mad they didn't make a pickle collection right.
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: Yes, exactly. Because it felt like. If you're going to
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: do it, do it well. You know what I mean?
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's like are you really doing it for
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: the pickle lover?
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: Because you're not doing it in a way.
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: You're clearly not.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not doing it in a way that the
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: average pickle lover would enjoy it.
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: And then because obviously everyone's jumping on the bandwagon of
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: the viral videos and they're like, oh, my God, I've
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: got to try the viral meal, got to try the
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: viral thing. And then the people were like, obviously it's
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: a lot of paid influencers or gifted influencers. And they're like, oh,
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: my God, it's so good. And then I was just like,
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: what the hell is this?
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: Did you try the pickle Pepsi?
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: Yes. I actually really like the pickle Pepsi.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: No, that's a bit fast.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: I want to try it.
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: No, it's good. I actually– It's endorsed by Dua Lipa. Yeah. Oh, okay. Well,
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: I like it.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she was the one who made it popular.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: My conspiracy is I like anything that Dua Lipa likes.
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: Honestly.
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: Well, she also listens to The Slop, apparently.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: She has good taste.
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: Shameless slug.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: Exactly. She has good taste. No, I am completely into that.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: But I do think, yeah, it's an interesting kind of
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: trend that we're seeing because, like you said, these brands–
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: It's like are pickles an industry plant?
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: At this stage.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Food can be an industry plant.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: Because we have like trending food items.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: My rant last year was that it was pistachio.
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely. And like I was like when?
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: And it was like overnight. Pistachio was everywhere.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: 100%. And I don't like pistachio because the world revolves
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: around me. I wasn't quite pleased about it.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: I was like, can we?
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: No.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Then hot honey.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm a fan of that.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: Like that was another one.
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: My take is hot honey is gentrified sweet chili. No.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: It's like the 2025 sweet chili.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: It's more spicy than sweet chili.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Sweet chili has barely no spice to it.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Really.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: I really love it. You're a hot honey defender and
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: I get that.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: She really loves hot honey. But I do love it.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: But I completely agree. Like we've seen that with pistachio,
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: with Biscoff.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: And also not that crack hot on Biscoff.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: Me neither. I think that was– that's five years too late.
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: We're all over it now.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: I feel like we get as well like food is
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: becoming like a marketing tool.
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: So it'll be like cinnamon girl brunette and then like–
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: hot honey copper no 100 i think it's also happening
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: with the girl makeup.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: I think it's happening with the martini as well at
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: the moment too like people are loving the martinis they're
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: jumping on the like a lot of um bars and
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: things have reached out and been like you did the
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: three martini lunch we're gonna like incorporate it into our
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: bar blah blah and just like i'm just noticing a
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: huge trend with the martini and like 18 year old
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: girls would be like i'd fucking hate like if martini's
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: disgusting why would i taste a martini yeah yeah i
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: love you they are they are but that's another thing
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: it's like really divisive it's like really like you either
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: love a martini or you hate a martini and i'm.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Also just a basic bitch i think aperol spritz is
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: disgusting whoa i don't like martinis.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Wow that's a hot take is it though I feel
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: like Aperol's people are becoming more brave to admit that
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: they don't like that.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: I think for so long people tried to convince themselves
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: that it was good and I'm sure some people genuinely.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Like it out there.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I want to crawl through their ear holes and forehead
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: kiss anyone who genuinely, really likes Aperol spritzers and I apologise.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: No, you can probably kiss me right now.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: But I also think, we'll do that later. Not now,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: kids and whiskers.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Daddy, wait. We must talk to you later. I genuinely.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: I think anyone who says Aperol Spritz, the first time
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: anyone has an Aperol Spritz and they go, that's yum,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: I think they're lying.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: I think you have to.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Train yourself to like it. Anyone that likes Aperol Spritzes
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: has fallen to the propaganda.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: You hit a certain age. I think it's like 30,
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: 31 and you're like, tastes kind of good. Same with martinis. Yeah.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Okay. I have an immature taste palette. Yeah, that's what
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: it is.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: I will say to the industry food plant thing, I
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: also think like we're seeing a rise of like just
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: really grotesque plates, like olives or girls eating like, I
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: saw a girl put like sliced red onion and like
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: feta and olive oil and then just like munch on it.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: No, mate, that sounds delicious.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Okay well we are seeing the savory girl dinner like
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: have you seen kayla jade's videos recently.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Look yeah so good yeah they.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Do look good i literally want to cry.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: But then the comments are like oh so you're a
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: sewer rat or like oh you love uh yeah people
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: are like so you like to eat garbage like people
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: like go through the comments they are delicious i agree
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: i'm a snack plate defender as well but people will
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: look at that and be like that's.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: See, those snack plates to me are more appealing than
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: like one pizza.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Because I'm like I get to eat like 17 different.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a raccoon. That is just like yum.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Same.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: That's probably just because we need the dopamine of like
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: trying different things.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: I think it is.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all the different flavors.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: But, yeah, I would even be interested to know what
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: her strategy is.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Is with that. Like did she know that it was
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: going to kind of be divisive?
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Totally.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: As well, and that's why she's picked such like an
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: interesting combination of foods as well on the snack plates.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: But she's a martini girl as well.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I think those plates are so creative.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Like I think they're so– like I'm too big of
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: a fan of this.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: No, the savoury girl, like you probably would have got
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: her content too, right? She was like just this girl
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: in the States and she would always make these like
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: crazy pickles. onion, crazy concoctions, like a boiled onion and
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: then put like pickle juice over it. She was, like, heavy,
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: heavy in the Savory Girl.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Come for your gig.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: She was kind of cancelled, but anyway.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Oh, shit.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: But, like, I also think it's strange how food is
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: kind of getting, like, the fashion treatment that it has, like, trends.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, totally, totally.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Like, food has, like, food will be trending. Like, even
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: if we, like, rewind to last year with the cucumber thing,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: with like that guy that everyone was shaking cucumbers in
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: a jar.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Cucumber salad.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Cucumber salad. It was delicious as well. I don't mind it.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: But I also think we're even getting like the fast
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: fashion-esque of food now with like limited edition flavours and
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: things like that that I'm like is it yummy or
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: is this just propaganda?
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Seriously.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: And like the release of food items or limited edition
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: food food ranges that you like you said it's almost
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: like is it just rage bait yeah like was this
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: meal design yeah is food rage bait now like is
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: it designed genuinely for people to enjoy or is it
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: designed for people to try and review and share online.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Oh absolutely yeah no so much of it now is
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: just like clickbait food Okay, Alex?
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: For our final conspiracy theory, I would like to bring
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: to the table is that mermaids are real.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Subscribed.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Thank you. I am subscribed.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: This is obviously very on brand.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: No, actually, I'm dubious. I want to hear about it. Okay.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Do you believe, before I begin, do you believe that
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: mermaids are or have ever been real?
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: You know what? Maybe, yeah, at one point.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: That was such a fence-sitting answer, but I'll let you
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: have it.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: And I want it to be.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Real so bad. Yeah, I think I want it to
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: be real, but I need evidence. Okay.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I don't. Hit me.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: So the idea of mermaids goes back thousands of years.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: They were first mentioned more than 3,000 years ago. So
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: stories of mermaids have been present in multiple cultures, which
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: is why I think this actually supports a conspiracy because,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: There was no internet.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: But, you know, symbolism of mermaids has been found through
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: in ancient Egypt, you know, in Southeast Asian cultures, over
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: in Italy, like mermaids have been around, right?
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: And so I'm like, how are we all getting the
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: same picture if no one's texting?
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: So true.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: You can't send a rock, you know?
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Message in a bottle.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: How's that happening, you know? And then we've started seeing, like,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: different interpretations of mermaids through pop culture. Obviously, we have
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: like Disney, Harry Potter, H2O, Aquamarine, the ancient.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Text, if you will. Yes.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: But according to mythology, they are creatures with the top
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: half of a woman and the bottom half of a fish.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: But there are also some.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: That have it the other way as well in mythology too. Yeah,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: that the top's the fish and the bottom's... What? Yes.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Whoa.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: But the most prominent is obviously the one that we know.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the top half of a woman and the bottom half
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: of a fish. And it means that they can swim
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: and breathe underwater but also spend time on land. And, like,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: if you go into the mythology of it, which I love, but, like,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: there's different things that they have, like, been a purpose. Some,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: you know, have saved sailors and, you know, they support
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: them and then you have the stories of, like, sirens
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: who are so fuckable.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Like, siren, hot. Smash, absolutely. Smash, yeah.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Who lure the fishermen to their death.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like you know that scene in The Odyssey where
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: it was like the guy who like rips.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Out his earplugs and he like. Spoiler, but also 4,000-year-old text.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, literally.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: It's not going to break your mind, but they all
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: like put earwax in their ears so they can't hear
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: the siren song and then one guy like pulls it
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: out and he jumps overboard and he's like, take.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Me, that's me.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: And what a great way to go, honestly.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: But also, just as a little side note, I felt
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: so gypped that they didn't show the sirens.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: Oh, don't even stop me.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, really?
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Don't even stop me. It's like you can kind of
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: see the silhouettes of them on the rock. And I
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: was like, for fuck's sake.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: You've said so much on this production of this film.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: You may as well show it.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Show me the sexy sirens.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Anyway.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: But I also think a lot of those sailors would
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: have been so drunk. Yeah, that too.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: So I feel like.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: They must have like hallucinated some sort of saucy fish lady.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Well, that's a Friday night.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: That is part of the conspiracy that where they try
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: to debunk it is that they first believed what people
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: believed to be mermaids were actually dugongs. Which, like.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Maybe.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: I can see that.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: That's plausible. Yeah. No hinge was around. There's no dating apps.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Like, you've got the drunk goggles on. You're like, wow,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: this is the most beautiful thing ever. And the dugong's like,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: you okay?
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: You all right, mate?
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: So, sightings of mermaids have been documented throughout history, including...
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Famous names in history like Christopher Columbus. He claimed to
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: have seen three mermaids while travelling through the Caribbean islands.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: He describes their faces as masculine, but today historians believe
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: they might have spotted manatees.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Their little moustaches.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I can see that. Those hadn't actually been discovered or
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: documented yet.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: So were they.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Just seeing things that they didn't know what they were?
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: And he was like, mermaid. You know, English pirate Blackbeard
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: also recorded seeing mermaids across the West Indies in the
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: 18th century. Wow. But apparently... He avoided areas that he
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: believed to be regular spots of merpeople.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: Too horny.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Scaredy cat. Too horny. Too horny.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: I can't deal with this right now. I've got to focus.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: He's like, oh, my God, I've really got to focus on, like,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: plundering and, like, you're too hot. Yeah.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I've got to go.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Wow, interesting.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: But, yeah, and even, like, now we have in 1967,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: tourists in Canada claim they saw a blonde mermaid sitting
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: topless on the beach. They said she was eating salmon,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: had dimples, and had the lower half of a porpoise.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: And in 2012, workers in Zimbabwe blamed mermaids for driving
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: them away from their work onto reservoirs.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: I may too. I may make it.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: That you don't.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: It reminds me of the thing with the Simpsons, Wendy.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: A wizard did it. A wizard did it.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: A mermaid told me to stop working.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Once you clock off, you're like, that was a mermaid.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: I'm going to use that.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: I'm going to use that.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: But I think what's interesting in this is like similar
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: to mythology that we can kind of see across all
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: the ways that women have been depicted such as, you know,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: witches and then we have mermaids. is that it's very
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: much that women are this kind of mysterious, somewhat conniving.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Temptress.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: Temptress.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: And has, you know, the way that history has been written, because,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: you know, history is written by the people who write
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: it and that's predominantly been men, is that a representation
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: of what mermaids actually were? Or, like, is this just...
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: A woman being written by a man once again.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, like a representation of how men see women.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what the hell?
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: We're either witches or, like, yeah, evil temptress or... Bring
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: it on.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Honestly. Yeah.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And whatever you heard, double it and I'll make
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: it worse.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: You know? Yeah, exactly. I guess because, I mean... Well,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: where's women's history? What are women saying about men? Yeah.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: What are the mermaids saying about those crusty old men
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: on the ship?
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: If I was a mermaid, yeah, she's like, ew, no,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: I don't want to kiss you.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: I'll drown you instead.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Like if I was a mermaid, I wouldn't want humans
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: to know about me.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: No, they ruin everything.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: And then there's also the whole, like, I could talk
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: about this for like two hours. Yeah. There's also, you know,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: the story of like Atlantis, like the lost city.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Love that.
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Great movie, by the way.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: So good. Completely factually incorrect, but great movie.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Let's not. Don't deep it too much.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I think Mermaid's real.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: I want to believe that they're real.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I truly believe there is so much of the ocean.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: We only know 10% of what is in the ocean.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: So to think that in the full history there couldn't
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: be some evolution. And also humans, trust me, bro, don't
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: fact check this. Like humans came from mammals that I
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: think like evolution has come also from the water.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Isn't it true that like human embryos go through a
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: stage of development where they have slits and arches in
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: their neck that are kind of similar to gills? Like
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: the gill arches found in fish.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: So like maybe.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Some people can hold their breath really long.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Elle, you've actually convinced me. I actually, I think I'm sold.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I think the fact that we have no idea what's
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: in the ocean. I also think like potentially they could
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: be aliens. Like maybe mermaids are just a version of aliens.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: I've seen some freaky like old school viral videos of
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: octopus and weird things that look similar. Yeah.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: I don't think mermaids genuinely look like you cut a
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: human in half and you cut a fish in half
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and you stuck them together.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Like I think they would be very like scaly and
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: like gills and like pointy ears and I've read too
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: many fantasy books.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: Have you? Because there was a girl on TikTok that
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: went viral maybe like four years ago and she found
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: all these viral videos of mermaids existence of mermaids yeah
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: whether they were like cgi.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Or see that's what pisses me off now because i'm
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: like everything's i know i'm never gonna be able to
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: trust anything but.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: That's what you see in all the movies that they
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: go that that's how they get away with it when
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: a video does hit this is the conspiracy side talking
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: it's giving big it's giving like that they're like no
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the government like the government just say it's a deep
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: fake like.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Just say like just.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Say it's ai just say it's fake like And that's
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: what he will believe because it's so hard to believe
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: that moments would be real. I think.
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: But I think to your point before about. how did
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: people from separate areas all configure the same– Thank you.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: So what's going on? That's how I.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Feel about like dragons as well.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: And vampires.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Well, dragons were dinosaurs.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, here's my other theory. Here's my other conspiracy. Yeah.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Like dragons were dinosaurs and I think vampires were real.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I think mermaids were real because they've all existed thousands
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: and thousands of years ago in like ancient texts of
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: countries that and places and cultures that never could have
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: talked to each other. So how are they all fucking out?
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: Exactly. Okay, who's the leak? Who's the leak? Edward Cullens. What,
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: there's like one kind of person running around every.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Single culture being like, guys.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, going, this is the skin of the killer, Bella. Yeah.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Did you hear about mermaids? It's crazy.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Who said that? Yeah, totally. Yeah, I do also love
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: the idea that it was just like a bunch of
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: drunk guys.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: And they're like, she's so beautiful, bro. Can you see her?
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Smash.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: And it's just this fucking like manatee or dugong that's like, Smooth.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Trying to eat some kelp and beans. And they're so
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: cute with their little shovel.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: They are very beautiful.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: Being like, okay. No, those men would have been blotto.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: Like absolutely drunk.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: All they've been eating is like potatoes.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: They've all got scurvy.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they've all got scurvy. They're all kind of going insane.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: And they're horny as fuck.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Which like, ew. But I do think mermaids are real
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: for sure. Mermaids are real. And then they saw probably
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: a dugong. Like mermaids are doing their own thing. They're
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: off over there. Then there's the shipment.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, in 2012 in Zimbabwe.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: They probably saw.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: They might have been like they had a hard day's work.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: I want to look up.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: If there's ever been a study of how many people
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: think Mermaid's real.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Surely.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: You should also look at the, I'll send it to you,
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: the video from like 2021 of this girl and this
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: guy interacting with a mermaid. Stop.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: I'll have to send it to you. But it was
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: like this old school, old school viral video and he
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: throws a crab out and then she flings it back.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: I'm going to throw up.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: That's amazing.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: See, I'm so impressionable. I just want it to be real.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: So I'm like, it must be. It's like it could
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: just be a friend who's under the water. Throw it back.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: And as someone who is obsessed with the idea of
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: mermaids but is like, terrified of the ocean yeah.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: I'm okay maybe it's your friends it's fine because we're
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: all women and they'll.
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: Be like girl let me tell you i was like
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: i've got some stories yeah you.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Should see what they're getting up to on.
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: Land yeah exactly but yeah i would love to know
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: for the chicks vote in a in the poll down
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: below do you think mermaids are real yeah and i
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: want the number Let us know.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll do our own research.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: If it's like 99% think they're not real, I'm going
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: to be so sad.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Me too.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: I feel like I need like a 60-40.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: Everyone just say they're real and we can all just
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: like live in this conspiracy world.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Exactly. Yeah.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: Who's it hurting? No one.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, fuck birds. Mermaids all the way. Yeah.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Well, that's a wrap on another episode of What's the Tea? But, Lena,
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: for any of the chicks who don't follow you already,
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: where can they find you?
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: You can find me on TikTok, Lena's Doing Things. You
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: can look up the Triple J The Slop. This podcast
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: is a Chronically Online podcast and it is with Triple
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: J and ABC, so it's called The Slop. And, yeah,
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: Lena's Doing Things, Triple J The Slop.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Love it.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: We'll link it all in the show notes as well.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Yes, of course. Thanks for having us in the eHoles, chicks.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: We love to be here. Bye, chickens.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Bye.