Miss Understood No. 30 — Nickelodeon, Teens, & Oversexualized Scenes
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In this episode of Misunderstood, Kat and Nat discuss Kanye West's recent comments about his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, and the controversy surrounding her relationship with her ex-husband, Kanye West. They also discuss Playboy and Nickelodeon's controversial decision to part ways with producer and writer Dan Schneider.
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Hello and welcome to Misunderstood, the show for all the culturally and politically misunderstood
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ladies, non-binary, or gents. We are your hosts. I'm Kat. And I'm Nat. And today this is part one
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actually of our two-part episode where we're going to be talking about Playboy. Hello. Hello. And then
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of course everyone's favorite producer and writer Dan Schneider. Schneider. And we're going to tie
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everything together in a nice little bow for you. So stay tuned till the end. You don't want to miss
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it. You don't want to miss it girlfriend. But first our patented culture shock moment of the work
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Take it to work, Kurt. Well, on Thursday, September 1st, Kanye West, he took to Instagram and just
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started posting text pictures of text and also screen grabs of conversations with maybe you're
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aging yourself. I am in my 30s. I apologize. Screen grabs of his conversations with potentially
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his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian. Yes. And the big culture shock is that he basically told someone
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that we think is Kim Kardashian. We assume it's Kim Kardashian. He basically said that his children
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will not do porn, implying that Kim Kardashian allegedly potentially does pornography. And that
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her Clinton friends can come get him and he's ready for them. And it's a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot,
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you guys. Yeah. And it's interesting. I guess there's a debate about where their kids are going to be
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going to school and he doesn't want the kids to take after their mother. No. Who was obviously
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exploited. We assume by Kris Jenner for fame. So it's interesting and it's interesting that he's
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coming out and calling out the Clintons. I mean, there's a lot of conspiracy theories about that
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and stuff, but it's interesting that someone like him would say it. Right. Because he's so famous and
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he should be like on like some sort of suicide watch. Yeah. Some of his messages are troubling
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because you never know if he's just. Well, I don't mean suicide. Yeah. I mean like a suicide watch,
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but it's troubling and he's taking a big risk here coming out and saying this. And it's interesting
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that he's calling out Kris for doing something that we all know is true. Like she exploited her
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own children and Kim needs to be mindful of that and hopefully protect her own kids. I think that's
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like. Yeah. And it speaks to the theme of this whole part two, one episode, two part episode.
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Can't speak even though I speak for a living. Yeah. And we're going to be talking about grooming
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and pornography, mostly in not so much pornography, but like Playboy and potential like revenge porn
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that Hugh Hefner had and infantilization. So a lot on the docket. Oh, there's so much to talk
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about. So hop on the rocket and let's go. All right. Should we start with Nickelodeon? Let's
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talk about Nickelodeon because we talked about Nickelodeon a few weeks ago and it more has been
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coming out since then. And it's pretty crazy. Even just last Thursday, we can talk about Daniela
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Monet in a second. Should we just give people a quick recap of what we've discussed before?
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All right. So wrap her up nicely. In episode 27, we talked about this. So in a 2018 joint
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statement, Nickelodeon and Dan Schneider announced that they would be parting ways, prompting people
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to speculate why. The New York Times reports before their separation, ViacomCBS, the parent
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company of Nickelodeon, had investigated Schneider and found that alongside the many co-workers
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who praised his attention to detail and work ethic, many people he worked with viewed him
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as verbally abusive. They also conducted interviews with employees and allegedly discovered there's
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no evidence of sexual misconduct by Schneider. Although according to Daily Mail, Schneider
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had a history of forcing the young actors into sexualized scenes. So that takes us to
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turdurr. Turdurr. So last Thursday, a former Zoe 101 star Alexa Nicholas, she, she has some
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tour. I don't know what. Yeah. Eat Predators is her tour. Tour of what? So they're just protesting.
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It's a protest tour. Yeah. They're going outside studios and protesting the executives, specifically
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Rob, Rob Schneider, Dan Schneider. Not wrong. No, Rob Schneider's cool. Yeah, Dan Schneider.
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So they, so they kicked it off by gathering outside of Nickelodeon studio, studios in Burbank,
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Burbank, California to protest enabling of abuse from executives at the network and specifically
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called out Dan Schneider. She held up a sign that said Nickelodeon didn't protect me.
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Yeah. And so this was, so this was last Thursday. Yeah, this was recent. And so it all started off
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with, um, uh, Jeanette McCurdy's book, which we talked about in the 20 exactly. And she talks about
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the creator who she doesn't name, but people assume together that it's Dan Schneider. Um, and then
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there is something else that happened last week, which is, um, Daniela Monet, who was a star on,
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was it iCarly? Uh, Victorious. Victorious. Yes. Again, I'm very old. Um, so she said that she found
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one of the scenes too sexual and she complained to the network, AKA Dan Schneider about it and they
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left it in. Yeah. Um, and there's other examples of over-sexualized scenes and costumes that I think
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we should maybe mention because it seems to be a consistent thread throughout all of his shows that
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he worked on. And not only that, but also important to note that the guy had a weird disdain for women.
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He never had more than two women writing on a show. It was always a bunch of men, which is creepy
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because it's a bunch of men writing for young kids. Like mostly girls, mostly girls. And, and so
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there are some of the examples include one where, uh, Victoria star Ariana Grande puts her big toe in
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her mouth. And then another is a scene where she's seen with her eyes closed, moaning and squeezing
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a potato in both hands, begging it to give up the juice. Um, Monet also described an uncomfortable
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scene where she was forced to apply lip gloss while eating a pickle. And then of course, this
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is the, this is a good one. Um, insider also references another inappropriate scene where
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goo with roughly the consistency of an egg white was, was being squirted repeatedly on teen actor,
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Jamie Lynn Spears face, which, uh, which one of her male time, right? Yeah. She was 13 years old.
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And one of her male castmates compared it to a cum shot. So this is, this is pretty graphic stuff.
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And apparently like, like you said, she repeatedly have to, had to do it, but it was Dan Schneider
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apparently who kept saying, Oh, we need to take it again. We need to take it again. And then
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one scene, the egg white, like goo goes completely on her face and down her nose and mouth. And,
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and he was like, that's the one. And that's the one that made it into the final edit. Yeah. It's,
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it's pretty creepy. And it's really unfortunate that these like executives who are adults did not
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care if their actors were uncomfortable, not even actors though. People behind the scenes also came
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forth and forward and said that they found some of it to be a little bit off putting and icky.
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And the content is for children too. Yeah. Like, like, um, Daniela Monet, I think was over 18 when she
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filmed her like pickle scene or whatever, but Jamie Lynn Spears was 13. But not only that, the audience
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is children. It's Nickelodeon. It's, it's marketed towards children. Right. So it's like Dan Schneider
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thinks he's like, he's like producing an MTV show, like Love Island or something. Right. And I mean,
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you could sit, you could argue that, okay, it's going to go over children's heads, but that doesn't
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make it okay. Like it's still, it's still present in the content and that content is forever. Like
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it's, it's, you can find it. There are so many clips online of all of these gross examples. People
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have made compilation videos and all that stuff. Um, so I, I definitely suggest going, uh, and watching
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them. Cause it's just, it's disgusting. And these kids are being exploited. And what's even stranger to me
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is that in a lot of these instances, I bet their parents were there. Like, did they ever push back
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or were they just so keen on exploiting their kids for money so that they have a lucrative career?
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I just, it's so gross. Well, we talked about this before with, um, Jeanette McCurdy. Yeah. Um,
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and I brought up the, the movie Honey Boy, uh, that's based, produced and acted in by Shia LaBeouf
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that's based on his life. And that's exactly what happened to him. He, I don't think it was a sexual
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nature, but his father was just like, so eager for his kid to make money. And obviously when
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a kid is underaged that who gets the check, it's not the child. So right. And who knows
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where they're putting that money and if the kid's ever going to see it. And that's a thing
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too in Hollywood where, um, not even just Hollywood, child actors and doing commercials and stuff,
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their parents take the checks and the kid never sees a penny of it. Yeah. Which is abuse.
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It's child exploitation. Yeah. It's, it's horrible. And apparently, um, actors and sometimes
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their parents vied for Schneider's attention and some parents were so desperate for Schneider
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to notice their children. Nicholas said, uh, that they would physically push them toward
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him and everyone took careful note of his favorite stars. So interesting. He played favorites
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in front of all these kids. And then the parents were like, he likes this actor better. Get
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in there. Go up and talk. That's so gross. So obviously there's a lot of, I'd just like
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to thank my parents for never pushing you to become an entertainer. Yeah. Thank you. I mean,
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clearly the adults involved in both the production aspect and the parenting aspect have really royally
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screwed their kids. Like, isn't that just the worst? It it's the worst, especially because
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I mean, we've said this, but, uh, Jamie Lynn Spears was 13. Yeah. Like an 18 year old being
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uncomfortable is still awful. Yeah. Just terrible. And you're marketing that material towards children.
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But Jamie Lynn Spears was 13 years old. That is so young. And I think part of the issue is that even
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if these young actors and, you know, writers and stuff are coming forward and complaining to, uh,
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Nickelodeon, the fact is Schneider was the breadwinner. And you know, like the Bible says the love of money
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is the root of all evil. And so you got to follow the money, honey. Like if there's big profit to be
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made, of course the studio is going to follow the money and pursue things that aren't satisfying for the
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actors or make, and things that make them uncomfortable because they don't care about their well-being.
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They just want to make profit. Yeah. Greed is just, greed is really the big evil here, I think.
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Yeah. Yeah. It could be that Dan Schneider is actually a creep and wanted to have like, you know,
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to diddle your kids. I was going to tip her around it, but that, um, or it could be what Nat just said
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and that it's actually like, you could care less about the children and it's just greed. But the point is,
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is that there's a market for it. Yeah. Which I guess we can kind of like, we're going to talk
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about infantilization and what's going on with women, grown women acting like children these days.
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Um, but I just want to read this one quote and I don't know which article it's from, but I'll
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post it later. It says, Nicholas, who has been outspoken about her negative experiences at
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Nickelodeon told Insider, it's from Insider, um, that Schneider once yelled at her so harshly when
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she was 13, she broke down in tears. So it's like, and she left the show after two seasons
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because of this alleged abuse. Yeah. Yeah. So again, like, uh, a producer yelling at someone,
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making them cry, not super new, especially like when they're a kid though. Yeah. But that's why
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it's so gross. And like, we've all heard stories about Shirley Temple when she was a kid back. I don't
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even know. Was it the fifties? Yeah. We were not around. We were super, yeah, super good. But apparently
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she suffered sexual and emotional abuse throughout her, um, her career as a child actor. It's
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not good just because it's like not new. It's so, my point is it's not new, but it's not good
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and it doesn't make it okay. And who's really talking about this? Exactly. Like this, like
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if Nickelodeon's having, has skeletons in their closet, you can bet that Hollywood and children,
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there's something, there's something bubbling under the surface and people don't want to talk
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about it because either people don't care about kids or there's just so much evil that it's
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just going to be overwhelming once exposed. Like I think the solution here is parents don't let
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your freaking kids in, in, in Hollywood. Yes. Like, I don't, I don't know. We've talked about
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this before too. Like are, are kids necessary in shows? Like maybe if it's a, it's a network for
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children, like I know I used to watch certain Nickelodeon shows and like my little sister did
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and kids like entertainment. So it's not like you can prevent them from having entertainment,
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but we need to protect them. So we need to vet the people who are making this content. And just
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because, and it's on Nickelodeon, it's not just on Dan Schneider because he is the catalyst for a lot
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of this, but it's like Nickelodeon was probably thinking, well, there are some sketchy allegations
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against him, but we've looked into it and bottom line is he's making us money. Yeah. Like that is
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where it's wrong. Like he's wrong because he's a creep, potentially, allegedly, allegedly, allegedly,
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but Nickelodeon could have done something about it instead of just like, Oh, he's making us money.
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So let's just let it continue. Like if it was just Jeanette McCurdy and she didn't name him,
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it's like, okay, maybe, maybe not. But now it's, it's several people, several people. Yeah. And not
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even just actors. It's like we've mentioned in the last episode, it's there's writers who've,
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and not only that, he also had a very delicate ego. So aside from kind of spending maybe too much time
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with kids or texting them privately, apparently he would chat with teenage cast members for hours
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after the filming ended. Um, like it's clear that he had a delicate ego and that reflected
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how he treated people and he treated children like they were adults is how it seems to me.
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It's like, he got confused about whether they were really children or not. And they were,
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and children can't process anger the same way they can't. Like we should talk about grooming a
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little bit now. Yeah. Well, I just want to mention one more thing specifically about Nickelodeon.
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I watched that compilation video of, cause it, you just sent it to me. It's like maybe came out
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today, um, of Ariana Grande and all those scenes. Like one of them, like you mentioned was her
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putting her like sucking on her own toes. One of them's her putting her finger down her mouth.
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Another one, she's like doing stuff to a potato. Yeah. Um, and then there's this other one.
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Yeah. She's juicing a potato, not scientific. And then this other one, she's like laying on a bed,
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like hanging off it and pouring water on herself. And she says, I'm soaking wet.
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And it's kind of makes me feel bad for Ariana Grande because I kind of, and this is again,
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like to talk about infantilization, like she sort of doesn't, she kind of never grew up a little bit.
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She is someone who perfectly exemplifies infantilization. Yeah. She acts like a little
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girl. I have no idea how old she is. She's like 30 in her thirties. Yeah. No,
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she's actually in her thirties. Yeah. Like she's not a little kid. She's a grown woman. Yeah.
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She's very tiny though. So I guess, yeah, yeah. But no, but it's also, it's, it's not just that
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she's has a small frame. Like you have a small frame. Like you don't act like a little girl.
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No, it's, it's a good point. And for those who don't know what infantilization is,
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maybe we should just touch on that a little bit. Um, so it's in my pay pals. Yes. So
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it's basically grown women posing as children. So there's an example, there was like a TikToker
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influencer who now has deleted the photos. Um, she, she had her hair in pigtails and she was
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dressed in a floral crop top and short skirt while holding a stuffed animal. Her expressions in the
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photos show a range of emotions that are reminiscent of a child's demeanor. There's one photo with, uh,
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of her with her arms crossed, pouting at the camera with a stuffed bunny. Um, like that's,
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like that's supposed to be sexy. When people say grow up, it's like, grow up. It's like,
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what are you doing? Well, yeah. And, and it's, it is an issue because it's become sort of like a
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fetish. Yeah. And I think there's even porn like levels of this where it's like become,
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what is it called? Like a theme in porn, a common theme or type of porn. I don't know.
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Not clearly not very well versed in pornography. So, um, in that same article, they talk about this
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other influencer named Hannah Kim, who is infamously known for doing the same sort of thing. Um,
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infantilizing herself in a sexy way. And it turns out that her boyfriend,
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her boyfriend was grooming, um, allegedly grooming minors. So it's weird.
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Was it like, she felt like she needed to be sexy like that? Like sexy like that?
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And so people that follow, I was, I was reading the tweets in the article and the people like,
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I didn't know who this person is. Yeah. But some of her fans were saying how they were noticing,
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like, isn't it weird how Hannah Kim's, um, like image has become more like young and innocent
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since her boyfriend has been accused of these things. It's like almost like to keep him like
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intrigued or to like validate. And it's, it's super, super weird. So it's kind of almost like
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it, it like normalizes pedophilia in a way. Yeah. I also want to mention that, um, the author of this
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article points out that there's this thing called age regression, which is like a, it's like a
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therapeutic coping mechanism that some people use when they've had like terrible trauma. So
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they revert back to like a simpler time or like maybe a time when something really bad happened
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to them and they can't get past it. So the article wants to make it clear, like that's not the same
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thing. Like you can regress in a way and make it sexual. But like, I like there is a separation of
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those two things where one thing is like sort of like a mental coping thing, possibly a disorder
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and it's sad. And it's like, it can be therapy for traumatic, traumatized people. And then there's
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also just like healthy young women, seemingly healthy, who are purposefully infantilizing
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themselves to appear sexy to men. And I also want to mention that this is not new. Like do,
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do you remember Hit Me Baby one more time? Yeah. The music video? Well, even the way they made
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Britney Spears sing, like the way they made her sound like a baby. Yeah. Like I don't think that's
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her real singing voice, y'all. We'll never know. Culture shock. But like, I remember I was quite
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young and, um, I'm sure everyone knows this, but Hit Me Baby one more time was her biggest hit.
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And it was her first hit. And she's dressed in a sexy school girl, school girl uniform. And I wore
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a uniform when I was a teenager. It wasn't sexy. It was not sexy. But I remember people being like,
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oh, a uniform. Right. It was mostly young guys. Right. But it's like they're this. So the sexy
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school girl is disgusting. But it's also not new. So these are not like new concepts. But I also
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wanted, I was also thinking about it last night. Kids used to graduate high school later. So you
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could be like 19 and in high school. Right. Different than when kids are graduating at 17, 18. Yeah.
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It's only a year, but it's sort of like, it almost goes from like non-pedo to pedo. Yeah. And we have
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to drop, it's time to drop that. And you can't like, how do you force a whole cultural thing to just be
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gone? Yeah. But women should not play into it. No, absolutely not. Because there's nothing sexy
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about children. No. There's nothing sexy about them. Let's not sexualize. They pull in their
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pants, you guys. Yeah. Like, let's not sexualize children, maybe. Okay. Because. Full stop. Just
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a full stop. Yeah. I don't even need to continue. That's it. That's it. And it reminds me of like,
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you know, everyone's, um, we're talking about like drag queen story hour. And I think we have like a
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clip. Maybe we'll play it in part two, but, um, it's, it's kind of understandable why some people
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think it's okay for children to be at like distilleries or bars late at night, watching drag
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queens shake it, shake it and putting dollar bills in their underwear. It's because we're blurring the
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line from adult to child. And that's exactly what was happening at Nickelodeon. They're like,
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oh, well, they're actors. They're working. It's like, they're still children. They're still babies.
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They're still little children and they have a long time to grow up and live with all this trauma.
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Like you, sir, are obese and a weirdo. You're going to die soon. Like you don't have to live
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with this for very long. So lucky you. And like preserving innocence. Like it's, it's just insane.
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Like I, it's like these people who are grooming and grooming these children, I think that's the
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right word. Like maybe they have their own trauma and they're trying to put that on children,
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but it's like, don't let these kids grow up the way you did. If you've experienced
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like assault or abuse cycle, it's like, you need to stop that cycle. We need to end it. We need to
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let kids be kids. And just like, we've, we talk about this like endlessly on the show, but their
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innocence must be preserved. And that's being taken away from them in Hollywood, but even beyond that
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in our everyday lives. Exactly. That's the thing. It trickles down from Hollywood where you think
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it's okay because Ariana Grande, when she was 16 or whatever was squeezing potatoes. And now she's
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still squeezing potatoes. Yeah. And now she's still like, she's messed up the poor kid. Yeah.
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Yeah. So yeah. And also they're trying to make, they're trying to like, we talked about this
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again, we're kind of like reiterating ourselves here, but, but there is a push from people on
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the left, not all of the left, of course, but some people on the left to make the word
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groomer, not a thing. So yeah, because, because they don't want you to call a spade a spade.
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Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Because, and it's so important that we continue to call out grooming behavior.
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You don't want to slander people. So that's why we're like, we're trying to be very careful to say
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like, these are alleged things. Like Dan Schneider has not been found guilty. Yeah. Which is also
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something that I find interesting. It's like, okay, they've conducted this one investigation,
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but now that there are more allegations, do you suspect that open it up? Are they going to reopen
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it? And he seems to be, he have gone dark. Like no one knows where he is. He doesn't seem too active
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on social media anymore. So it's interesting. Like, I wonder if this will, if the bubble will burst,
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so to speak. In preparation for our last episode, I was reading an article about like, it was about
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like, where did Dan Schneider go? Right. And it was talking about how he's like thinking about coming
00:21:33.880
back and like making more children's content. And it's like, now I know, like, are they going to
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read the room? Yeah, exactly. I don't know if that's going to be happening anymore, but it is
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important to understand that like, these are allegations. There's lots of them and it's a pattern,
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but it's not, it's not a fact yet. So we are trying to be careful. And also like,
00:21:51.240
we're treading in the water. Yeah, no, it's, it's important to understand like, he's not guilty of
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these things yet. No. Um, but it's important to talk about them because it's, yeah, well,
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because more and more is coming out. Exactly. Yeah. And when like kids see on TV, you know,
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infantilization, I think that they, they might, they might like read that and be like, oh, that's
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like a little kid acting like sexually. Like how do they internalize that? Yeah. It's weird. It's
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like little kids acting sexually and then women acting like little kids. Yeah. It's like becoming
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this weird, gross, young kids are watching it thing. It's really weird and gross. Like women
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should be women. Yeah. We are the givers of life. Uh huh. We are God. But yeah, yes. True. True God.
00:22:31.140
Yes. But we are grown ass beings who are not children and we shouldn't want to be children.
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We should be proud. We should be proud. And it's on women and men to not like men. Yeah. You can't help
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them. No. Like you, you have to just not, you have to ignore creeps and not give them attention
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and certainly not date them. Um, but as women, all, all we can talk about is how as women,
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cause I'm not a man, but well, I am non-binary. She's non-binary. Yes. But as women, we need to
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not play into that. So like, I'm not going to dress like a sexy school girl because there's
00:23:05.520
nothing sexy about a teenager. No. Unless you're another teenager. Yeah. Like teenagers can find
00:23:11.520
each other sexy full stop. Okay. Yeah. And yeah, exactly. They can be like, Oh, she's
00:23:16.660
cute. Like when did you get your braces? Like that's fine. Which summer camp are you going
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to? And for anyone who's attracted to grown women dressing like little girls, there's
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something wrong with you. There's something wrong with you. Get help. Seek help. Pray.
00:23:32.720
Yeah. I'll pray for you. Yeah. Well, it's also like we've talked about this, I think probably
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also, but like, um, I grew up watching the OC. It's a show about kids in grade 10. Yeah.
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It starts there. Yeah. Yeah. It starts there. Yeah. But they're like boinking and they're
00:23:46.800
boinking. Yeah. But, but the, the actors are way older. Right. I was just talking about
00:23:51.640
that with my favorite editor here at rebel news, Dave Shrigley. And it kind of creeps me
00:23:56.080
out that because it's like young kids might be watching that and they're like, Oh, these teenagers
00:24:00.200
are getting freaky, but it's like, no, they're consenting adults. So it's like, it's, it's kind
00:24:04.120
of wrong. It would be even creepier to see children doing those things. Yes. Like actual
00:24:08.320
16 year olds playing 16 year olds boinking. That would be worse. That would be even weirder.
00:24:11.860
But yeah, but it's like, why is the content need to go there? Yeah. Why do we need to
00:24:14.920
watch kids boinking? I don't want to, even though they're adults, but like, I don't want
00:24:18.900
to watch it. I know. But you know, you kind of forget how young they are. It's true.
00:24:22.260
Yeah. In the show. Cause they, cause like the, the main guy, Ryan, he has shoulders like
00:24:26.580
this broad and you're like, no 16 year old boy has those shoulders. I'm watching him
00:24:30.480
now as an adult and you're like, you're hot. And I'm like, damn. I'm like, wait, you're
00:24:34.280
like, you're 30. Yeah. He's technically like old, but like, well, and then it's another
00:24:38.780
show that I watched Mindy Kaling's new show. Never have I ever. It's actually a really great
00:24:42.820
show. I think it's really sweet, but the spoiler alert, the season ends with her. She got like
00:24:48.040
a boink card from her friend and she wants to not be a virgin before she graduated high
00:24:52.200
school. So she just goes to his house and she just gives it to him. They're friends. They're
00:24:56.100
not in love. And like, she just goes and loses her virginity. She's not even in her senior
00:24:59.580
year yet. As if it's like getting a pap smear and it's like, why are we normalizing sex
00:25:05.100
for teenagers on TV? Like, okay, Mindy, you, you want to write this in, but like you're
00:25:09.920
a grown ass woman. Like, it's just not cool. Like teenagers are going to watch that.
00:25:13.940
And maybe that was her lived experience. Like, I don't know. I guess so. But like, I just
00:25:18.200
don't think that's good content for kids. Like why should your teenage girl be pressured
00:25:22.640
to have sex before her senior year? Because the TV is telling her that's the cool thing to
00:25:26.120
do. And by the way, do it with whoever you want. Don't love them or anything.
00:25:29.160
Yeah. You know, I just think it's really irresponsible. It's so weird because do you remember being
00:25:33.180
a teenager? There were so many things. It was like yesterday. Yes. Well, just think
00:25:37.280
back to last week. There are a plethora of complications and anxieties and fears to get
00:25:43.140
like, I got upset about like not making the school musical one year. Yeah. Those are
00:25:47.140
the, I was just auditioning for things, trying to get in. Exactly. And like, oh, I wasn't
00:25:51.200
on the honor roll. Yeah. Like, oh, I wanted to meet a boy. Yeah. I wasn't, sex wasn't even
00:25:56.760
my first kiss. Yeah. It wasn't even in the peripheral of my mind. Like, and it shouldn't
00:26:01.720
have been. No. You're a kid. Yeah. Like, you know, I was just trying to get my eyebrows
00:26:06.260
right. I know. And I did my bad eyeliner years, you guys. Oh, geez. So, oh, geez. And I just
00:26:12.160
think that kids are being robbed of that. Yeah. And they're making it all about sex and drugs
00:26:16.360
and all this pressure. Like, I don't, I haven't watched the show Euphoria, but everyone loves
00:26:20.020
it. But I'm like, I don't want to watch teenagers getting high and having sex. Yeah. It's not
00:26:23.920
cool. I don't want to watch that. That's what Sex and the City's for. Yeah. Exactly.
00:26:26.860
And even they are a bunch of skags. Yeah. But at least they're old. Yeah, they're old.
00:26:31.120
Exactly. At least they know what they're doing and they're consenting. So, uh, anyway, a lot,
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we covered a lot. I think that was a good way to end part one. Part one is complete.
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