From Kinder Eggs To TikTok Bans In Everyday Life

A book about censorship gets censored, a chocolate egg gets treated like contraband, and a pair of glasses becomes a privacy nightmare. We sit down as Bonus Dad and Bonus Daughter and pull at the thread behind “banned” things, because once you start looking, you realise bans are rarely just about safety. They’re about fear, politics, reputation, moral panic, and who gets to decide what everyone else is allowed to read, watch, eat, play, or share.

We jump from Orwell’s 1984 to the long-running Kinder Egg ban in the United States, then into films that triggered international backlash like The Interview. From there we get into banned songs and the double standards around sexual lyrics, the weirdness of people panicking over words they cannot even understand, and why some cultures get labelled as “dangerous” while others are treated as normal. We also take a detour through Eurovision, because even that ends up colliding with the idea of what lyrics are “acceptable”.

The second half turns towards modern life: Google Glasses and the problem of recording without consent, body cams as both evidence and deterrent, TikTok bans and data privacy concerns, plus Pokemon Go restrictions when play spills into real-world security zones. We finish with the tough calls, like foie gras bans rooted in animal welfare, and the arguments around violent media such as A Clockwork Orange and the video game Manhunt.

If you like smart, funny, slightly chaotic conversations about culture, censorship, privacy and moral panics, follow the show, share it with a mate, and leave us a review. What’s the most ridiculous ban you’ve ever heard of?

Transcript

Welcome And The Banned Things List

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hello and welcome to Bonus Dad.

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Bonus Daughter, a special father-daughter podcast with me, Hannah.

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And me, Davy, where we discuss our differences, similarities, share a few laughs and stories. Within our ever-changing and complex world.

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Each week we will discuss a topic from our own point of view. And influences throughout the decades. Or you could choose one by contacting us via email, Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok. Links in bio. Hello and welcome to a very special podcast episode by Bonus Dad, Bonus Daughter. We're going to talk today about banned things. Yes. Things that have been banned.

SPEAKER_00 0:35

Yes, not banned as a music band. But things that haven't been talking about. Things that haven't been banned for a reason. Yes. And why they have been banned.

SPEAKER_04 0:44

Yes. This is a blind react from me. Have not looked at the script.

SPEAKER_00 0:47

It is a complete blind react from you. And I've got two things on here actually that we spoke about earlier in the previous podcast. So I'm going to gloss over the first one quite quickly because I forgot that I'd actually written this one in here.

1984 And The Irony Of Censorship

SPEAKER_00 0:59

But the first one is a book.

SPEAKER_03 1:00

Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:01

And it is was 1984, was banned at one point. And it was banned in various countries and schools because of its political themes, sexual content, and criticism of author authoritarian governments. But when you actually look at it, so you've got a book that is about censorship was being censored.

SPEAKER_04 1:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:21

So yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:24

What do you think about that?

SPEAKER_04 1:26

Yeah. Pretty much speaks for itself, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_00 1:30

It does, doesn't it? Um like the irony of that.

SPEAKER_04 1:33

I I don't I I understand protecting it from young minds.

SPEAKER_00 1:39

I don't. I d disagree.

SPEAKER_04 1:42

I think depending on how bad the adult themes were in it, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:48

I suppose there is a couple of sexual scenes in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:51

I think that's a little inappropriate.

SPEAKER_00 1:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:54

But yeah, it's it's not it's not giving the right message.

SPEAKER_00 1:59

It it was I mean, but the book is basically saying, like I said in the previous episode, it was a warning. It was this this is if we don't do something about this is how we could end up. And I'm not joking, when you actually look at the way the world is now, there's a lot of stuff that Orwell wrote that you're like actually He predicted the future. He hit the nail on the bloody head.

SPEAKER_04 2:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:19

He hit the nail on the head with a lot of things. So, but yeah, we'll we'll just do that one quickly because we did discuss 1984 quite at quite length in the previous episode. But the next one, and this was something that was banned in the United States for years, because American law prohibited non-edible objects inside food products due to choking concerns.

Kinder Eggs And Choking Panic

SPEAKER_04 2:46

So the kinder egg.

SPEAKER_00 2:47

The kinder egg. Go on, Hannah. I know you want to say something.

SPEAKER_04 2:52

I want to say, why should one person being an idiot ruin it for the rest of us? It's a frickin' kind. I mean, I mean, they're a large part of my childhood. They're actually a large part of my adulthood. I will stick up my hand and say, I've had a few kinder eggs in this year. Yeah. This year. I'm almost 30.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

I love a kinder doob.

SPEAKER_04 3:11

I love a kind egg. The chocolate's so good and I want that little toy.

SPEAKER_00 3:14

Kinder doobie.

SPEAKER_04 3:15

Yeah, they're great.

SPEAKER_00 3:16

Um But so I mean, I'd I'd love to I should have looked at some stats on this really.

SPEAKER_04 3:22

How many people have choked via like is that does that mean they're also taking gifts out of cereal packers?

SPEAKER_00 3:28

Actually, actually, I will just say something. They are quite dangerous. Oh, I've I've I did something with the kinder egg once, which was I nearly swallowed because you know that you know you get the kindergarten, right? I'm aware. Yeah, and you break it open and you've got the the lovely milk chocolate on the outside. And then you've got the white chocolate in the middle. Yeah. Yes. How did you eat the kinder egg? Do you break into it or did you give it one? Give it one.

SPEAKER_04 3:54

My mouth's not big enough to give it one. So I I I go for a little gentle up the top and then and then shake it out, and then and then I eat the rest of the chocolate and then I build my fries.

SPEAKER_00 4:07

Build your toy. Yeah. So what did the toys come in?

SPEAKER_04 4:10

Uh a plastic egg-shaped nugget.

SPEAKER_00 4:16

Like a thing that you have to pull apart.

SPEAKER_04 4:18

Yeah. You press them now.

SPEAKER_00 4:20

Yeah. And they're very they used to be quite difficult to pull apart.

SPEAKER_04 4:22

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 4:23

So I used to pop them in my mouth and and I remember once it did shot the big So you're the reason it's banned?

SPEAKER_04 4:30

Did you go to hospital? No, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 4:32

It just but it just shot into my mouth. It didn't go down my foot, it just shot into my mouth, and I was like, oh, could have called that.

SPEAKER_04 4:37

They're actually not like that anymore. They're connected now, so you can't do that.

SPEAKER_00 4:41

Right.

SPEAKER_04 4:41

They're like um yeah, they're not like two parts that come away. Yeah. They've got like a little hinge now. Right. You can't do that anymore.

SPEAKER_00 4:48

Oh, okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 4:50

Fear not.

SPEAKER_00 4:53

But yeah, kindergarten in America. So look at the the irony of that. What do you mean the irony? Of things that aren't banned in America because guns are okay, but those kindergarts lethal.

SPEAKER_04 5:06

Lethal. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 5:07

Let's not go into the gun debate. But just that was I brought it up. I brought it up, but I'm not going to go into it because that's a whole other thing. But the the fact that yeah, that kind. Yeah. And we we were eating them for decades. But I would love to definitely see what the stats were on that.

SPEAKER_04 5:25

Yeah. I bet it was just two. No, just like can't have fun.

SPEAKER_00 5:31

Was it anybody or was it just the perception?

SPEAKER_04 5:34

Perhaps. Uh I mean, I mean, they've they've been putting stuff in cereal for a while, but then you normally pour out the cereal and it drops into the bowl, the gift.

SPEAKER_00 5:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:42

Or toy or whatever it is.

SPEAKER_00 5:44

Um actually, that's a good point. I'm pretty sure that I've seen American shows and American scenes where the toy was in the cereal.

SPEAKER_04 5:51

Yeah, which is weird because for us it was either laying on top or just in the box.

SPEAKER_00 5:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:55

It was never in the cereal.

SPEAKER_00 5:57

No.

SPEAKER_04 5:58

Was it? I don't know. I don't ever remember pouring out my cereal and then, oh shit, a toy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:03

You used to get toys and happy meals as well, didn't you? You still get toys and happy meals.

SPEAKER_04 6:06

Yeah, yeah. You get either a toy or a book.

SPEAKER_00 6:08

Did you you got toothless once, didn't you, in a happy meal?

SPEAKER_04 6:11

I've got loads of things over the years.

SPEAKER_00 6:12

I can't, I couldn't possibly um What sort of things did you use some 'cause I'm just trying to think now because I I remember, you know, you've got your kinder egg, you've got the the thing inside, but I can't actually remember many of the toys that you actually had.

SPEAKER_04 6:24

They're mostly like animals or their themes. So for example, like they'd have a Mario time and then you'd have like loads of Mario characters.

SPEAKER_00 6:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:32

And then they'd come away from that and they'd be like dinosaurs, and then they'd all be dinosaurs, or like they're always like a theme of some sort.

SPEAKER_00 6:40

They're animals at the moment. Little monkey, which you used to like on a hanging thing, it used to Oh yeah, yeah, something like that.

SPEAKER_04 6:46

The little frogs as well that they jump. They normally do something as well. Like the toy is not just a toy. Um, like recently I got an Easter one and it was it had like a little chick inside, which was quite cute. Yeah, I mean they just vary and sometimes they're themed.

SPEAKER_00 6:59

Yeah.

The Interview And Political Blowback

SPEAKER_00 7:00

I don't know if you've seen this next film, but it was banned in it was pulled for many cinemas uh after threats linked to North Korea over the film's assassination plot. Is this film called?

SPEAKER_04 7:13

Is it the interview?

SPEAKER_00 7:14

It's the interview, yeah. Seth Rogan and James Franco.

SPEAKER_04 7:18

Yeah, I I don't think that that film was made for someone like me.

SPEAKER_00 7:22

No.

SPEAKER_04 7:23

I don't understand the nuance.

SPEAKER_00 7:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 7:26

And unfortunately, I'm not one of these people that find it funny. I don't find it offensive either. I just don't I just don't see the humour in it. No. I I I I I just can't, yeah. James Franco and and Seth Rogan just yeah, doing you quite like Seth Rogan though, don't you? I do really like Seth Rogan. I'd like James Franco as well, I guess, but I just it's just not my type of humour on the film. Um but I can understand why it was banned.

SPEAKER_00 7:51

Yeah, it was banned and pulled from many cinemas.

SPEAKER_04 7:53

For many reasons, yeah. And that's quite a recent one as well.

SPEAKER_00 7:56

It is.

SPEAKER_04 7:57

How what when was that?

SPEAKER_00 7:58

Um I don't know. If you've got your laptop or your phone, you'll have to have a little Google on that one.

SPEAKER_04 8:02

What was it? The interview.

SPEAKER_00 8:04

The in the film, yeah, the film was called the interview.

SPEAKER_04 8:05

I've seen it recently.

SPEAKER_00 8:06

And it was, it was about the guys going over to North Korea to interview the Kim Jong-un. Well, it wasn't.

SPEAKER_04 8:12

2014.

SPEAKER_00 8:13

2014. I can't even remember if it was even Kim Jong-un or if they just said it was the leader of North Korea. I don't I can't remember if they gave him a name.

SPEAKER_04 8:21

I feel like they called him Kim. Did they not say that?

SPEAKER_00 8:23

Did they kill him Kim? It might have done. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 8:26

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 8:27

Yeah, but you but you've you have seen it. Yeah, yeah, I've seen it recently. Yeah, it's just not my thing. Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_04 8:33

Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 8:33

Do you did you find it interesting at all?

SPEAKER_04 8:36

I just it's just I don't really like satire things. I've never really enjoyed satire. Even I mean even the classics like Black Adder and things like that, they're just not my thing. That's just not my type of thing.

SPEAKER_00 8:48

Did you did you like Team America?

SPEAKER_04 8:50

No. Again, see, that's one of the other ones. I just it's just not my thing.

SPEAKER_03 8:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 8:55

I'm sorry. It's I I I understand why people find it funny. I just don't I'm not offended by it either. I just I just it's just not my thing.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

Yeah. Sorry.

Banned Songs And Moral Double Standards

SPEAKER_00 9:05

Um I looked at a couple of I cut at a couple of songs that were banned.

SPEAKER_03 9:09

Songs?

SPEAKER_00 9:10

Songs that were banned.

SPEAKER_03 9:11

Oh my.

SPEAKER_00 9:12

No, because the first thing that first song that popped into my head as being banned was a song um by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Relax.

SPEAKER_02 9:20

Don't do it. I don't know, lyrics. What are the lyrics?

SPEAKER_00 9:24

Ah, that's part of the reason why it was banned.

SPEAKER_04 9:26

Why were they banned?

SPEAKER_00 9:26

When you gotta suck her to it. Relax, don't do it when you want to sucker to it. Suck.

SPEAKER_04 9:32

Yeah, I so because he was insinuating oral sexual. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 9:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:38

Is it the fact that it was oral sex or gay oral sex?

SPEAKER_00 9:41

Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 9:42

See, that that's where I draw the line because there can be you can have uh many straight men and straight women uh singing about oral sex as much as the cows come home, but as soon as there's any like homosexual connotation, nah that's banned. Yeah. It's it's oh it's it annoys me so much.

SPEAKER_00 9:59

It was banned in the 80s for years.

SPEAKER_04 10:00

But you've got Nicki Minaj, My Anaconda don't.

SPEAKER_00 10:03

This is the thing.

SPEAKER_04 10:04

Like, I don't get it. Yeah. I don't get it. I've never understood this.

SPEAKER_00 10:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 10:08

Other than people just hating the gays as as per. Like, it just really pisses me off.

SPEAKER_00 10:13

Yeah. But yeah, it was but it was banned in the 80s. It was yeah, banned from it was pulled from uh radio shows. But I mean, even when you think when you think in in other songs, so let's take let's uh The Shaman, band called The Shaman, Ebonese are good, right? So they they they released that song, it went, it went quite viral. It was played in a lot of clubs in the 90s, and the choruses E's are good, ease are good, uh, easebonese are good, but they put the ebony's a good, but ease are good, e's are good.

SPEAKER_04 10:43

Oh, ease as in ease are good, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 10:47

Got any mandi? Sorted. It's all in the song, and it's it's in there, but the general public were completely clueless. Yeah, completely clueless, and I mean, even like pulp, sorted freeze and whiz, and and then like independent love song as well. Yeah, you know, the connotations inside independent love song. I just I'll show you how to take me. Go down, go down, like you know, jerk it out the Caesars, jerk it out the Caesars, yeah. I mean the Bloodhound Gang. There's so many baby ain't nothing but mammal, so let's do it like they do on the Discovery channel. Getting horny now.

SPEAKER_04 11:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:25

It's like yeah, but but relax got banned.

SPEAKER_04 11:29

Just it's it's got banned. I think it is uh annoyingly, it's the homosexual connotations of that, but they'll let any other uh any other thing slide.

SPEAKER_00 11:37

But that wasn't that actually wasn't the song that I chose bizarrely in. Oh, yeah. That was the one that was gonna, but interestingly enough, we spoke about it. But there, you know, Loué Lué. Whoa no, you must be a lue. It was banned. Why? Because authorities believed that the lyrics were obscene, leading to investigations and radio bans, even though nobody could understand what the words were. So they couldn't understand it.

SPEAKER_04 12:09

It was the threat of not knowing what they were. It's the fear of the unknown.

SPEAKER_00 12:12

It was the fear of the unknown, and the FBI actually spent actually investigated it.

SPEAKER_04 12:16

And they just ask the people that freaking wrote it. What does this mean? Oh, do you know what? We took a load of drugs and we just thought it was a funny sound. Yeah. Cleared up.

SPEAKER_00 12:24

Oh, we've got a mate.

SPEAKER_04 12:25

There you go, I just saved you a bunch of money on the FBI.

SPEAKER_00 12:27

We've got a mate called Louie.

SPEAKER_04 12:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:30

Like, stupid. Yeah, but again, it's the same people not understanding it.

SPEAKER_04 12:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:35

And I mean that's that's when I go back to when I mentioned about the satanic panic.

SPEAKER_04 12:39

Satanic panic.

SPEAKER_00 12:40

And not understanding DD. And you know, it was banned because people thought we were playing people were messing around with the occult. Sort it out.

SPEAKER_04 12:50

It's just a game. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 12:52

Would somebody think of the children?

SPEAKER_02 12:54

Yeah, like relax.

Eurovision Ban Talk And TV Chaos

SPEAKER_02 12:57

Don't do it.

SPEAKER_00 12:58

This next one.

SPEAKER_02 12:59

Yo.

SPEAKER_00 13:00

I can actually understand why they were banned, and this is quite an interesting debate. Oh my. So I'm gonna get your.

SPEAKER_03 13:06

Oh my gosh, I'm really tangled. Oh no.

SPEAKER_00 13:09

Um, but the interesting thing, I'll just say this one is I just wanted to say that this is also a blind react episode from you. I didn't mention that at the beginning.

SPEAKER_04 13:16

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 13:16

Yeah, because your laptop's up there.

SPEAKER_04 13:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:18

So I swear I said that the day. Did you say I was blind react?

SPEAKER_00 13:21

Oh can't know.

SPEAKER_04 13:22

Oh, anyway.

SPEAKER_00 13:22

Um we are on blind react. We are on episode three.

SPEAKER_04 13:26

I actually feel really tired today. I I watched Eurovision last night. How did you how did that go? Bulgaria won, thank god. Very close call.

SPEAKER_00 13:35

Where did we come?

SPEAKER_04 13:36

Where did you come from?

SPEAKER_00 13:37

We were last, weren't we?

SPEAKER_04 13:39

Guess how many points we got?

SPEAKER_00 13:41

Nil point. Nope. No, how many? One. Was that from Ireland?

SPEAKER_03 13:46

I actually can't remember who the one. Gave us a point. I don't think Ireland did actually. They don't really like it. No one likes us.

SPEAKER_04 13:55

Spain pulled out because Israel's taking part.

SPEAKER_00 13:58

Okay, fair enough. Well, not fair enough, but see, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 14:01

And Israel came second.

SPEAKER_00 14:03

Israel came second. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 14:05

We were bitten nail biting a little bit last time. Really? Yeah, yeah. We're like, oh dear. Okay, so they can't host, obviously. So where's that gonna go? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:14

Well it would have gone to the person who was second.

SPEAKER_04 14:16

Yeah, which would have been Bulgarian.

SPEAKER_00 14:17

Which is what happened with Ukraine and us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, is Australia still in it?

SPEAKER_04 14:22

Yes, isn't it? They did so well as well. They're act as well good, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

What was your favourite? What was your favourite? Was there any any one stand there?

SPEAKER_04 14:30

Uh everyone in the house liked Moldova, which is basically some chap going, Viva Moldova, like I'm like all the way through. I personally, I really liked Croatia.

SPEAKER_00 14:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 14:41

Basically was four female part harmony. Right. All dressed as like witchy nuns. So cool.

SPEAKER_00 14:48

Oh, awesome. Witchy nuns.

SPEAKER_04 14:51

Witchy nuns.

SPEAKER_00 14:52

Sorry, I can't get that image in my head.

SPEAKER_04 14:53

Pagan nuns.

SPEAKER_00 14:54

Oh, right, okay. Sorry, I I went traditional Catholic kind of nun, but then we put witches in there as well. I can't see it. Sorry, I should have pagan nuns. Right, okay.

SPEAKER_04 15:02

That was pretty good. Enjoyed that.

SPEAKER_00 15:03

Was Graham on form?

SPEAKER_04 15:05

Graham was on form, yes.

SPEAKER_00 15:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:07

He he just kept saying how long it was. I kept it he mentioned it quite a few times, like, get on with it. Like, especially when they do the jerry votes, like uh, I can't think of a country at the moment off the top of my head, Azerbaijan, and then they just have this little like, oh, we love the world and we did everything. Not necessarily Azerbaijan did this, by the way. It was just a random country I picked. And then they just go, and you're like, oh my god, who are you giving your 12 points to? That's all we care about.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

Who did we have giving them points from England? It's normally Scott Mills, isn't it? But I don't think he would be doing it.

SPEAKER_04 15:38

I actually don't know their name. They're a drag act. I don't know their name.

SPEAKER_00 15:42

Uh someone beginning with B?

SPEAKER_04 15:46

I have no idea. Red dress, blonde hair. Couldn't tell you any more than that.

SPEAKER_00 15:49

Okay. I'm just trying to think of the um some bow somebody? I can't remember, no.

SPEAKER_04 15:55

I don't I don't know them at all. I wasn't familiar with them.

SPEAKER_00 15:59

But was it was the show good in general, just in just as a whole?

SPEAKER_04 16:02

Uh it lacked a bit of rock this year, to be honest with you. Yeah, not a lot, not a huge amount of rock. Serbia were cool.

SPEAKER_00 16:09

Were they?

SPEAKER_04 16:09

Um didn't score very highly, but they were cool.

SPEAKER_00 16:11

Finland normally pulls something out of this.

SPEAKER_04 16:13

Yeah, Finland weren't rocky this time. Um kind of what Finland did. They were they were they were fairly up there because Finland was blind channel, I think. Put your middle fingers up, take a shot, d-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Oh no.

SPEAKER_00 16:31

I completely forgot Eurovision was on last night. Normally you watch it. But um, because what was who was our entry? I don't even know who our entry was.

SPEAKER_04 16:39

Ein zwei Drai. Pop from us. Yeah. Yeah. Some geezer. He sounded it sounded like park life. Like, is that the kind of type of song?

SPEAKER_00 16:50

Was it any good? Was it diabolical? Excellent. Was it really bad? Did we even uh sort of should we have got that point? No.

SPEAKER_04 17:07

Um Sam did his best.

SPEAKER_00 17:10

Yeah, did he?

SPEAKER_04 17:11

He had these um people with like fuzzy TVs dancing on their head. And as we're on a topic of the episode, one of the songs was gonna get banned. Right. Because the lyrics were choke me, choke me. Um and she uh she was asked what the lyrics meant, and she was that it said her mental health was choking her and stopping her from breathing.

SPEAKER_00 17:36

Oh right, rather than rather than a Michael Hutchins type scenario.

SPEAKER_04 17:40

Yeah, but to be honest, I I think the lyrics weren't that at all. Did pretty well. It did really well, actually. Brilliant. More than I thought it would. Yeah, Australia did well. She was she was awesome, vocally amazing. Um yeah. So did okay as well.

SPEAKER_02 17:57

From As of Bajang, Armenia, Fortn's that Miss World contest.

SPEAKER_00 18:20

But those of you who haven't seen it, just think it into either TikTok or Facebook Reel or Instagram, whatever it is the funniest thing.

SPEAKER_04 18:27

These elegant ladies, and they're all saying their countries like United Kingdom, Armenia, which is the funniest thing. It's almost like she wanted to say Francais, which is what French is fr France is in French. Yeah. But she just kind of She messed it up. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 18:56

So good.

SPEAKER_00 18:57

I do like watching that just for uh just for just and giggles. There's that one, and I like the Parks and Wreck video with Chris Pratt as well when he improvs Kim Kardashian.

SPEAKER_04 19:07

Oh, I thought you were talking about um I've put your symptoms into Google and it says that you have internet connectivity problems. You seem to be suffering from internet connectivity problems. Kim Kardashian. Yeah, she's got come on her back.

SPEAKER_00 19:23

The fact that that was improvised and that everybody lost it. That was brilliant. It's so funny. Uh anyway, shall we go back to the episode? Yeah.

Google Glasses And Hidden Recording

SPEAKER_00 19:31

Um Google banned Google glasses.

SPEAKER_04 19:35

Google glasses have been banned.

SPEAKER_00 19:36

We're banned.

SPEAKER_04 19:37

Were banned, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:38

Because people were worried because obviously you're wearing these Google glasses, they could be filming anything. You know, you could this is an interesting debate, isn't it? So you could you could walk into the toilet and film somebody, and you would never know because you've got camera on your and your glasses.

SPEAKER_04 19:52

That's true. I never really thought about it, but yeah, that is true. Someone could come into the bathroom and film.

SPEAKER_00 19:57

Yeah, and but you wouldn't know because you got you assume that someone's just wearing glasses.

SPEAKER_04 20:01

Yeah, you'd like to think it would steam up, I suppose. Yeah. I'm thinking of shower, but no, if someone was just having a piss, maybe not.

SPEAKER_00 20:08

But even but even it's it's not just even from that side of things as well. You know, this is this is. I was thinking privacy. Whole privacy. Whole privacy.

SPEAKER_04 20:15

I think you know people wear them on roller coasters a lot, which I think is fine because it's a P of E, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:20

See, I would I'm I'm for them for things like kayaking, stuff like that. Because if you got if you got them in set of sunglasses would be good, and you're kind of paddling and you're filming, you want to film, but I do think as well, the the problem with those, because your head moves a lot, you'd have to have some pretty good anti-stabilisation on them.

SPEAKER_04 20:40

I think I think Google glasses would be great for me if they could detect when people are using sarcasm because I just can't detect it myself. So if the gl if the glasses like glowed yellow around my face, I'd be like, oh, okay, someone's using sarcasm. I should laugh at this. I think it needs to give me social cues. That would be a good use for Google glasses for me. Social cues.

SPEAKER_00 21:02

Yeah. But how would you fit how would you feel? Just say like us two now talk. Funny thing is, right, we're actually filming, so that this kind of doesn't work. But if we were having a normal conversation, right, and I was filming you just randomly, would you feel comfortable with that?

SPEAKER_04 21:18

If you'd said I'm wearing these glasses and I'm gonna film this conversation, I'd be like, Okay, no worries, but I wouldn't want to be filmed unaware. I think that's the difference. Yeah. I mean, there's there's certain things in my life that I mean I put a lot of my life online, I suppose, but there's some things I don't share. Well, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 21:38

You're having a private conversation with somebody and they've got that conversation on film without your knowledge.

SPEAKER_04 21:43

Yeah, without the knowledge is definitely the worst part of it, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:45

Yeah. Um I mean when you think ev even like in a workplace setting. Because I think about when you're being filmed, you act differently. I think so. So let's take okay, give you an example. The police, uh, certain security services as well. And even now, when you look at them, you go into a shop, and quite a lot of people, retail workers, also have them now as well. And it's body cams.

SPEAKER_02 22:12

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:13

So body warm video cameras.

SPEAKER_02 22:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:15

Now, some of these body warm cameras.

SPEAKER_04 22:16

They have them in some weather spoon.

SPEAKER_00 22:18

Yeah, they do, yeah. Yeah, they do. So what you probably don't know, and this is this is a psychological thing as well, why they work so well, is so the certain body cams, they they record on a 30-second loop all the time, constantly recording, over and over in the 30 seconds. So when you hit record, it's already recorded the previous 30 seconds.

SPEAKER_04 22:40

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 22:41

And that information is really useful because, say, for instance, we're now talking, right? And you suddenly decide to attack me. Yeah, I hit record, you've only got the attack, but but because it's recorded the 30 seconds beforehand, it's got the bit leading up to it as well.

SPEAKER_03 22:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

Which is probably the bit that puts it into context of what happened before the attack and why I attack him. But from a psychological perspective, quite often when people when somebody gets into someone else's face or they start escalating to a certain point, as soon as someone says, I'm now recording this conversation, they stop.

SPEAKER_04 23:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:18

So it's not necessarily almost like a deterrent. Exactly. So it's not necessarily even about capturing what is happening for use later on. It actually works as a psychological safety device as well. Yeah. Because that instant that somebody knows they're being recorded, it flicks them out of that mindset because they know what's now about to happen is now going to put on record. It's actually saved, not saved people, well, yeah, probably actually saved people's lives, but it it de-escalates situations very quickly.

SPEAKER_03 23:46

Right.

SPEAKER_00 23:47

But that is knowing that you're being filmed, and this is where I'm going with this. Yeah. But Google glasses, you don't know as well. Yeah, I'm I'm I think again, with with these, I think they're useful, but they can be abused.

SPEAKER_04 24:03

Yeah. And it's the abuse of the And I guess it poses a question of people that do wear glasses like myself being questioned on whether they're Google glasses or something like that as well. There's the implications of that side of it. It's a completely innocent party.

SPEAKER_00 24:17

If they had like a little red recording light.

SPEAKER_04 24:20

Yeah. On air.

SPEAKER_00 24:22

Or something, yeah. There's a little there's a little projector on the on the bridge that put projects on air onto your forehead. Or recording. So what do you think? What do you think to them?

SPEAKER_04 24:38

I can see I can see use cases for both.

SPEAKER_00 24:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:42

A hard one. I don't know if I can come up with a decision right now here on the podcast. I need to think about it a bit more.

SPEAKER_00 24:47

Alright. We might revisit that one later date.

Harry Potter And Witchcraft Claims

SPEAKER_00 24:50

Harry Potter.

SPEAKER_04 24:52

Yes. Yes, it was banned.

SPEAKER_00 24:54

Harry Potter was banned or challenged in some schools and religious communities over claims it promoted witchcraft.

SPEAKER_04 25:01

You're a wizard, Harry. I think the key word in there is promoted.

SPEAKER_00 25:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 25:06

You can't promote something that doesn't exist. Oh, it does. I don't mean to be a bitch, but come on. It's it's a make-believe world.

SPEAKER_05 25:16

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 25:17

Once again, DD strikes again. It's the same thing. It's exactly the same thing. Oh, this promotes witchcraft. Sorry?

SPEAKER_00 25:24

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 25:25

This is a made-up story about a boy.

SPEAKER_00 25:29

12-year-old boy. Yeah. Like who goes off to a school called Hogwarts.

SPEAKER_04 25:34

Yeah. Again, doesn't exist. Like, oh, just that again pisses me off things like this. It really annoys me when they're just it's just unfounded. There are so many there's so much literature out there on vampires and demons and and witchcraft. And then they're like, oh, yes, let's take this children's book off the market, shall we?

SPEAKER_05 25:55

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 25:56

Idiots.

SPEAKER_00 25:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 25:57

I mean, JK Rowling kind of does deserve it, but not the point. Not the point of this podcast.

SPEAKER_00 26:03

No. But yeah, again, you're right. It's that. So you think of like those people who did want, and that's why I did that um sound earlier on that. Oh, well, someone think of the children. The Simpsons kind of thing. Yeah, yeah. It's that, isn't it? It's just so people don't know what they're actually looking at, and so they go, ban it, ban it, can't have it.

SPEAKER_04 26:22

It doesn't promote witchcraft.

SPEAKER_00 26:24

No, it doesn't. And even if it did, so what? We did an whole episode on witchcraft.

SPEAKER_04 26:28

We did do a whole episode on witchcraft. It's actually really good as well. After I just shat on it. Yeah. I just mean in this context, it's just not real in in that world.

SPEAKER_00 26:38

No, not the what the world format is not real. Yeah, you you didn't mean to be petrol. You can't really cast expecto patronum, or what is it? No. Expensive petroleum.

SPEAKER_02 26:50

I love him so much.

SPEAKER_00 26:52

Uh next

Segways And E-Scooter Safety

SPEAKER_00 26:54

one.

SPEAKER_02 26:54

Yo.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

Chimpanzee riding on a segue. Chimpanzee riding on a segue. Chimpanzee riding on a segue.

SPEAKER_02 27:02

Was the video?

SPEAKER_00 27:02

No, not the video, segue's.

unknown 27:04

Segways.

SPEAKER_02 27:05

Oh. He's got a helmet on and he's wearing overalls and don't that lady look surprised.

unknown 27:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:14

Chimpanzee, rad and other segments. Why was Segway? Well, I can understand why Segways are the monkeys are taking over. Segway, bam, bam, bam, bah, bam.

SPEAKER_04 27:21

Were they worried about like Planet of the Apes situation?

SPEAKER_00 27:23

No, no, it was it was banned because officials worried that the devices were unsafe for pedestrians.

SPEAKER_04 27:28

To be honest.

SPEAKER_00 27:29

They are.

SPEAKER_04 27:30

Yeah. They're not the best mode of transport.

SPEAKER_00 27:33

No.

SPEAKER_04 27:34

Roller skates are definitely you've got way more control over. You've got eight wheels there.

SPEAKER_00 27:39

Yeah. Yeah, but your legs go.

SPEAKER_04 27:42

Yeah, but at least that's only you getting hurt. Do you know what I mean? Like it's a self- I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

Have you seen funky monkeys? That can be garnage.

SPEAKER_04 27:50

True. I did end up in hospital myself. I do remember, but have you ever been on a Segway? I can't remember if it was me or Mitchell has. I think Mitchell has.

SPEAKER_00 27:59

I've never been randomly. Because have you seen them other ones where it's just you put your foot either side of the the wheel and you like tip forward to go forward? Hoverboard. No, no, not a hoverboard. The wheel is in the middle and you tip forward. There was someone really famous who stood on one of them and just like straight into a wall.

SPEAKER_04 28:17

They're funny.

SPEAKER_00 28:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 28:18

I think they are quite dangerous, admittedly. I don't think they should be used as like public transport, but you know, at they do some like at Thetford Forest and you go on a trail. That's fine. I've got no problem with that. Yeah, I mean when you're bulky wheels. Road use that I think I would probably be like, yeah, not the safest option.

SPEAKER_00 28:35

I mean, I've got a thing about e-scooters as well. I'm not that keen on e-scooters because of the way that they bez around.

SPEAKER_03 28:40

Yeah, Mitchell. Because it's not great on an e-scooter either.

SPEAKER_00 28:43

Because the funny thing is, e-scooters aren't actually banned to a degree. But we've got the council-run ones that aren't.

SPEAKER_04 28:50

Yes. I'm not I'm not entirely sure how that's.

SPEAKER_00 28:52

And there's a whole thing about the lithium batteries because the lithium batteries have a tendency to explode.

SPEAKER_04 28:56

It's the drink driving thing that's the issue as well.

SPEAKER_00 28:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:00

Technically speaking, it is drink driving.

SPEAKER_00 29:01

But EV scooters, segues. But again, I think I think they're useful if they're used correctly. I think I think that's part of it as well, because they were just thrown into society and everyone was like, off we go.

SPEAKER_04 29:15

The push, like, did you ever have those scooters as a kid where it was like metal and it folded up?

unknown 29:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 29:21

And if it clanged your ankle, annoying. See, that's kind of fine because at the end of the day, you're only hurting yourself. You can't pick up enough speed to hurt someone else, I don't think. Really?

SPEAKER_05 29:35

No.

SPEAKER_04 29:36

Whereas an E, you probably have less control because the speed is determined by lack of pushing. Um, I'm not really sure.

Pokemon Go And Restricted Zones

SPEAKER_00 29:46

Uh, next one, Pokemon Go.

SPEAKER_04 29:48

Oh, where was that banned?

SPEAKER_00 29:50

So it doesn't say where it was banned, it just said it was restricted in some places due to security concerns after players wandered into military zones in restricted areas.

SPEAKER_01 29:59

But I need to catch Pikachu! There's a Mewtwo, quick. Can you imagine?

SPEAKER_00 30:05

Right? Sorry. A cyber? I'm I'm not I'm I'm not making a joke about war in any way, shape, or form, but there you are on the front line. And you've got old mate with his phone walking in the middle looking for Hubble Duggle or whatever.

SPEAKER_04 30:21

Can you name any Pokemon that I haven't just said?

SPEAKER_00 30:23

Pikachu.

SPEAKER_04 30:25

That I haven't just said.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

Nebuchadnezzar.

SPEAKER_04 30:28

No.

SPEAKER_00 30:29

No, no, the the the turtle.

SPEAKER_04 30:31

Which one?

SPEAKER_00 30:32

The the the the the green one.

SPEAKER_03 30:34

Squirtle.

SPEAKER_00 30:34

Squirtle, there you go. Squirtle. You used to play Pokemon Go, didn't you? You did. Didn't Mitchell used to play it as well.

SPEAKER_03 30:40

Yeah, we're quite high level.

unknown 30:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 30:45

Do you know what was something to do in lockdown when it was and it got us out of the house and it got us moving?

SPEAKER_00 30:50

So you know what? Did you go to any uh restricted science and or military zones?

SPEAKER_04 30:56

Not knowingly. I did walk into a lamppost though. That was at the UEA. Was it? I told you about it. I told you to look on the camera. I was outside Elizabeth Fry.

SPEAKER_00 31:09

Oh, right, okay.

SPEAKER_04 31:10

And I walked slap bang into the lamp street. Like the streetlight, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:16

Yeah. Brilliant.

SPEAKER_04 31:17

Like, like it's one of them cartoon, like dong. Yeah, I was outside Elizabeth Fry.

SPEAKER_00 31:24

Oh, excellent.

Foie Gras Ethics And TikTok Privacy

SPEAKER_00 31:26

Excellent. Um, this next one I can completely fully understand why it was banned.

SPEAKER_04 31:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 31:31

And I agree with it. Foie gras.

SPEAKER_04 31:33

Oh, it's baby fish eggs, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 31:35

Yeah, no, it's banned in some areas because the production process involves force feeding ducks and geese.

SPEAKER_04 31:40

Oh, I don't know what foie gras is.

SPEAKER_00 31:42

Foie gras, it's it's a delicacy. It's like a Greek and uh like a geek. Is it though? It's it's a meat. It's like a pate type meat.

SPEAKER_04 31:49

Oh, I thought it was fish eggs. Oh, is that caviar?

SPEAKER_00 31:51

That's caviar. But what you do would force feed the ducks and the geese with a certain type of food to give it the flavour and it used to stress them out and stress the meat out.

SPEAKER_04 31:58

No, no, that's no, that's no.

SPEAKER_00 32:00

It's basically ethical, you know, it's a whole mobile.

SPEAKER_04 32:03

Yeah, that's yeah, I I couldn't I can I I can get down with that one being banned.

SPEAKER_00 32:07

Yeah, I'm I'm that's fine. Yeah, that's that's okay.

SPEAKER_04 32:10

That's not a censorship issue.

SPEAKER_00 32:11

Yeah, the the production of the production of foie glois. Okay. Um in some areas, old TikTok was banned.

SPEAKER_04 32:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:18

And there was a massive debate.

SPEAKER_04 32:20

Asia pretty much have it banned. Don't they? They don't have Google, do they?

SPEAKER_00 32:24

No, they don't. They don't have Google. I hadn't I knew someone who didn't.

SPEAKER_04 32:26

Not the whole of Asia, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 32:27

Yeah, I know. No, but I did know someone who did work in China, and they did say to me, and they did talk to me about the census. It was quite a while ago, and I can't remember the full extent, but they said the census isn't censorsm. Censorship in China. There's lots of shh shh shh shisho she shows on the shisho. Um was quite was quite high. It was quite high. But yeah, it was banned by several governments over data privacy and national security concerns. So there was there was that um American uh Senate hearing, and they had the guy from TikTok, and you've got to watch it.

SPEAKER_02 33:03

Oh really?

SPEAKER_00 33:04

You got to watch it, and he because he says, uh he says, Oh, so you're Chinese, and he says, No, I'm from Singapore. He goes, Well, and then later on he says, Um, so as somebody who's from China, because they were talking about how I have seen this. You can see him, he's like, mate, I'm from Singapore.

SPEAKER_04 33:18

I'm Singaporean, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:20

Singaporean, I'm not Chinese. And I said, have you you know, have you got any uh any ties to your Chinese or to the your government in China? It's like Jesus Christ, how many more times?

SPEAKER_04 33:29

Yeah, I'm not Chinese.

SPEAKER_00 33:30

I'm not Chinese, I'm Singaporean. Um, but yeah, but there's that whole thing about people spying on you through through Tiki Tok. Well, if they do, I'm screwed because I'm on TikTok all the time.

SPEAKER_04 33:41

I don't go on TikTok.

SPEAKER_00 33:42

I quite like scrolling through.

SPEAKER_04 33:44

You're you're a doom scroller man, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:46

Like scrolling through.

SPEAKER_04 33:47

I'm an Instagram gal.

A Clockwork Orange And Copycat Fears

SPEAKER_00 33:49

I mentioned this book, Clockwork Orange.

SPEAKER_04 33:52

Yeah, why was it banned? Can you tell us in this podcast?

SPEAKER_00 33:55

Yes, this is a really interesting story.

SPEAKER_04 33:58

So it's got quite adult themes, hasn't it?

SPEAKER_00 34:01

It was, yeah. So the film was banned. The film came out, it went out into the cinemas, and then it got pulled. The reason why Stanley Kubrick himself, the director, pulled it.

SPEAKER_04 34:13

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 34:14

Uh first first time ever That's unusual. Yeah, the first time ever a director has pulled his own film and banned it. The reason being people got the wrong idea, they didn't understand what he was really trying to say. So there were copycat crimes, there were people going around dressed as the drooges, and there was a there was a rise in violence.

SPEAKER_04 34:35

Well, good for him for pulling his own film, realizing that people were mistaking it.

SPEAKER_00 34:40

And he basically said, What like the film's not about that? The film is about the depravity, it's about the morality, it's about government overreach, it's about all this, but you're seeing it as just a fun, violent film. He said, That that's not the message that I was sending.

SPEAKER_02 34:56

Oh, damn.

SPEAKER_00 34:57

So Stanley Kubrick himself pulled it. So I because I didn't watch A Clockwork Orange until quite late. It was quite late in the 90s, the first time I saw it, because it was banned.

SPEAKER_04 35:06

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:07

Because even The Exorcist, because the Exorcist was banned.

SPEAKER_04 35:09

Yeah, I thought The Exorcist would be coming up. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:11

The Exorcist, that was bad. Like, have you watched it now? Like, really?

SPEAKER_04 35:15

It's nothing.

SPEAKER_00 35:16

It is absolutely nothing. And then, of course, you've got all of the other type films from the 80s, you've got the driller killer and all of those.

SPEAKER_04 35:22

I think the inner uh Exorcist, though, was the inappropriate use of the cross. Yeah, it was.

SPEAKER_00 35:26

It was they saw it as being blasphemous.

SPEAKER_04 35:28

Yeah, which I can kind of understand why that would upset them.

SPEAKER_00 35:32

Yeah, back then. Yeah. I mean, but even like Life of Brian was banned.

SPEAKER_04 35:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:36

Yeah. She said it was it was in and there's a really good interview with John Cleese and Michael Palin, and they're saying about we and that you've got a bishop on there as well. And he said, Well, you're taking the Mickey out of Jesus. He says, We don't. He said, Not once do we point. He said, You've got the you've got the the image of the sermon on the hill, and that's all done very respectfully. He said, The joke is the guy at the back who goes, speak up.

SPEAKER_04 35:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:00

He said, He's the one we're we're mocking, not Christ.

SPEAKER_04 36:03

Yeah, yeah. They did it very cleverly, actually.

SPEAKER_00 36:06

Yeah, and that's why they did Brian. He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy. At no point do they ridicule, ridicule, Catholicism or Christ.

SPEAKER_04 36:16

No.

SPEAKER_00 36:17

Even when Brian's on the cross. Like, it's not Jesus.

SPEAKER_04 36:20

No, no.

SPEAKER_00 36:21

And they did it, they did it for that reason. And Michael Paleon and John Cleese went this interview, and you can see them getting warmed up with this bishop. It is so good. Oh, damn.

Breakdancing Panic And Cultural Racism

SPEAKER_00 36:29

So, so good. Breakdancing was banned. Why? Breakdancing was banned in some schools and public spaces during the 90s because adults associated it with gangs and gangs. Gang violence.

SPEAKER_04 36:40

I knew that would be basically that's not actually what they were worried about. I'm assuming it's more of the black connotations actually with it and the racism and the world. Yeah, well, that's it.

SPEAKER_00 36:50

The gang culture. Gang culture.

SPEAKER_04 36:51

So culture, black culture, that's what they called racism back in the day was gang culture.

SPEAKER_00 36:58

Exactly that. That's so stupid. I tried to learn to break dance when in the 80s.

SPEAKER_04 37:02

Did you, heck?

SPEAKER_00 37:03

I did. I could do the caterpillar to a degree, and I could do the spinny thing, but some I had wanted to spin the spinny thing. The spinny thing with a line's legs. But I went to school with somebody who could actually do spin on their head.

SPEAKER_04 37:13

It was insane. I would have actually paid money to see you do the worm.

unknown 37:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:16

Can you do it now? No, I'm 50.

SPEAKER_00 37:21

Oh brick something.

SPEAKER_04 37:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:23

I did do the jump up for my knees the other day, and I thought now I'm getting too old to do that now.

SPEAKER_04 37:27

I I always enjoy when you get up from the sofa and I just hear there's like three clicks. One's one's one knee and one's your foot. Yeah. And then the other click is just miscellaneous.

SPEAKER_00 37:38

It could be in the back. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:40

Yeah, well, it's um years years of uh You literally crack when you when you I mean I will get there, so I shouldn't really laugh.

SPEAKER_00 37:47

Years of aboose. Years of abuse. Years of abuse to my body.

SPEAKER_04 37:51

What we got left,

The Satanic Verses And Real Threats

SPEAKER_04 37:52

boy.

SPEAKER_00 37:52

We've got the Satanic Verses. Oh book by Salman Rushdie. It was banned in several countries after protests after claiming the novel was bla blasphemous towards Islam. Salmon Rushdie actually got death threats over that. He went out to go into hiding. Oh, that's because he wasn't. Yeah, it was quite bad. And he did get attacked once. I think he did get stabbed.

SPEAKER_03 38:16

Oh my.

SPEAKER_00 38:17

I must admit, I don't know much about it, and I've never read it. I've never read the satanic verses, so I don't know, I really don't know that much about it.

SPEAKER_04 38:24

It is a tad unusual to find someone getting blasted for being against um or saying bad things about Islam. It's normally the other way around, isn't it? It's normally the saying bad things about more Christian or Western religions.

SPEAKER_00 38:41

It's all you know, you've got pockets in all religions, haven't you? I know, I know, I know.

SPEAKER_04 38:45

But I just it does seem a little actually unusual for the time, perhaps. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 38:49

So this was a weird, weird one.

Food Dyes And Processed Food Debates

SPEAKER_00 38:52

Yes, red, a certain type of red dye was banned because it was she lick a frog.

SPEAKER_04 39:09

I don't know why my mind jumped to that.

SPEAKER_05 39:11

But it's true.

SPEAKER_03 39:14

I know, I know. I'm I'm fully aware. Not that I lick frogs, by the way. This isn't like a confessional or anything. By the way, Dad, I tech drugs and uh is frog licking.

SPEAKER_00 39:26

Where's Hannah? She's in sharing them looking for frogs. Sheringham? I suppose it got bottomed to a head. Froggy corner.

SPEAKER_03 39:40

The froggy bump. Um froggy corners.

SPEAKER_00 39:45

This was a food diet. Right. It was banned after like blue smarties.

SPEAKER_03 39:51

Yeah. Oh my gosh. Sorry, carry on.

SPEAKER_00 39:53

After possible uh cancer risks.

SPEAKER_03 39:55

Oh, they've been easy. That's fair enough.

SPEAKER_00 39:57

Yeah. We'll allow that one. But then but then it got onto the debate about processed foods and the like.

SPEAKER_04 40:04

Yeah, I think blue smarties was something to do with the e-numbers and making children hyper.

SPEAKER_00 40:08

There was a whole thing about e-numbers and that's how I remember that being a thing when I was young.

SPEAKER_04 40:13

But yeah. The orange smarties taste like orange smarties, but why didn't the other smarties taste like uh other fruit flavours?

SPEAKER_00 40:18

Well, what does blue taste like? Oh, I suppose you could have blueberry or blue raspberry.

SPEAKER_04 40:25

Um like blue raspberry is like the blue stushy flavour, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 40:28

What would green be? What should green be?

SPEAKER_04 40:31

See, apple chocolate sounds weird and lime chocolate sounds weird, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_00 40:34

Well I don't know. Oh you chocolate lime, said mint, mint.

SPEAKER_03 40:37

Why did we not say mint? Sometimes that's another pound in the swear jar. What would green be? I was like, apple would be rubbish, lime would be rubbish mint, obviously. That's what most I was thinking, what's the green terries chocolate?

SPEAKER_04 40:56

And I was like, oh yeah, it's mint.

SPEAKER_00 40:57

Um yellow would be lemon.

SPEAKER_04 40:59

Yeah, lemon chocolate. Lemon chocolate? Banana chocolate?

SPEAKER_00 41:02

Banana chocolate, banana chocolate.

SPEAKER_04 41:09

The brown would just be standard.

SPEAKER_03 41:12

Just chocolate. Let's not discuss what brown will be, please. Oh god. Strawberry Dream would be the red.

SPEAKER_00 41:19

Yeah, yeah, there you go.

Manhunt Bans And GTA In Real Life

SPEAKER_00 41:21

So the the last one I've got was a game, um, was a P was I thought it would go computer games. Oh uh, and it's a game called Manhunt.

SPEAKER_05 41:30

Oh, that rings a bell.

SPEAKER_00 41:31

Yeah, it was banned uh in several countries because of the graphic violence and alleged links to behave violent behaviour. Okay. So it links to behind, but yeah, basically you would just go off.

SPEAKER_04 41:40

Which is why it's called prop hunt now, where you where you disguise yourself as a prop.

SPEAKER_00 41:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 41:44

Right, makes sense to me.

SPEAKER_00 41:46

But Manhunt was there was another game that Rockstar brought out, because I think like Grand Theft Auto, Magic Redemption. They brought another game out called Bully, and that got banned as well.

SPEAKER_04 41:55

I think I think Grand Theft Auto seems to get away with a lot, and there's no real competition for it because people can't seem to do it right, you know. No, um, they get it too violent or yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:06

Grand Theft Auto's got the right level, it's right level of silliness to be not real. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 42:12

I saw this video, it made me die the other day. Yeah, I was gonna tell you about it and I completely forgot, so I'm glad it's come up. There was a guy who took his girlfriend to Miami and he was driving-to Miami. He was driving around and she was like, Um, you said you'd never been here before. He's like, No, no, no, but I know I know the roads really well. It's all because he'd played GTA GTA, yeah. Um, that he that he knew he was like, uh like he was going past all these places, and I did I I'm not that well versed in in the world.

SPEAKER_05 42:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 42:38

The one I remember the most is Sandreas for some reason. But when they were going through Miami, he was like, he was filming bits that were in GTA in GTA as well. He was like, I know these roads so well. Like he's just like, yeah, I know I know where we're going, don't worry. Oh, you want to go here? No problem. Like it was really funny. And she was like, I don't understand. How do you know how do you not how do you know where you're going? That's my terrible American accent there, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 43:02

That was almost valley girl.

SPEAKER_04 43:03

Yeah, I don't know. That's the only one I can do. Oh my god, a little doggy. Yeah, I don't, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:11

But yeah, but yeah, but it got back because it was and I um I must admit, I've never played Manhunt, I've never seen it, but I remember the stills and the images from it, and I thought, yeah, that's a bit much.

SPEAKER_04 43:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:22

That is a bit much.

SPEAKER_04 43:23

I mean even like when you're Crop Put's funny though, when someone disguises themselves as like a plant and they have to escape the shooters.

SPEAKER_00 43:32

It's quite funny. Yeah. Anyway, sorry, carry

Final Thoughts And Where To Follow

SPEAKER_00 43:35

on. But there you go, that's it. That was all of them.

SPEAKER_04 43:37

Nice. That was all of them. Dun and dusted.

SPEAKER_00 43:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 43:40

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