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hopefully in a more regular schedule.

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Well, well, regular. Regular is a relative word.

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What is time?

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Anyway, this is...

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We can't rewind, we've gone too far.

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A podcast where a Scotsman, an Irishman and a Bulgarian

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discuss the silliest, weirdest or downright most memorable music videos.

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And we're returning after our small hiatus

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with a song that shook up the puritanical world of 1983.

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And it is still to this day one of the most absolutely unashamedly gayest filthiest music

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videos of the 80s.

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And we love it for it.

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This is the absolute smash hit single "Relax" by Frankie Goes To Home.

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Don't do it.

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Relax.

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Don't do it.

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When you want to come.

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Relax.

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Don't do it.

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When you want to suck it.

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Do it.

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Relax.

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Don't do it.

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When you want to come.

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How do we do the entry today?

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Just the two of us because New is getting married.

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Wee!

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Congrats!

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We are Irish-less today.

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We didn't.

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Was Brexit but Irish.

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Are you...

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Are you...

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Are you...

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No.

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Except...

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Sure.

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Yeah, Neil's getting married, so he's busy doing marriage stuff.

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So congratulations to Neil.

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I don't remember how you guys did it for when I was getting married.

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I listened to that episode, I don't remember it.

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So let's just pretend it's the same.

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We're all happy for you and blah, blah, blah.

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The famous or infamous video, depending on who you ask,

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directed by Bernard Rose.

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As banned by the BBC and MTV, depicts the banned members at an S&M-themed gay club

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and contains pretty much everything you would imagine that would get banned by the BBC.

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Buffetta daddies, drag queens, humiliation kings, schoolboy uniforms, police uniforms,

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light torches, trumpet, shaving cream, who are you, hold on.

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Okay, back on track, banana ennuiens, roman emperors, real tigers, literal iron maidens?

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No, seriously, what's going on with this music video?

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It's a downward spiral!

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It's just a spiral in some direction.

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There's spiralling somewhere.

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Somewhere. We don't know where, but we're there for the ride.

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There are two separate versions of this video.

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A PG version directed by our old friend David Mallet,

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and this one, which is not so PG, directed by Bernard Rose.

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Today, we will be focusing on Bernie's version.

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Our old friend Bernie.

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A bit of background, Bernard Rose is a very well-respected British filmmaker

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who directed Small Town Boy by Brodsky Beat,

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another early 80s British banger,

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as well as the motherfucking Candyman,

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the original Candyman from 1992,

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which is such a great movie,

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and I implore everyone to drop everything

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and go watch it right now.

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I've not actually seen it.

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Hopefully that sounded convincing.

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I'll trust you that it's good.

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Everyone pretended David actually wrote this,

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which he just said,

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and it wasn't written by me.

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A horrible movie, a fictional.

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Also, you should drop everything

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and watch the movie right now, Dave.

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It's a really good movie.

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I can see why it got banned.

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I can't think even today it would probably raise a few eyebrows.

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I want to say what were they thinking.

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I don't think they were thinking that...

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you know, to become a number one top hit.

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They were active from 1980 to 1987,

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then had a very small three-year active period

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between 2004-2007.

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I think Relax was a massive hit.

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If I, in the 90s, in post-Soviet,

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Bulgarian, you know the song.

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Not that they knew what it was about,

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or understood the lyrics.

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just to kind of make a statement,

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if they were big enough for the video to actually get seen.

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The reason why I mentioned Bernard Rose

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is because he also directed the video for Small Town Boy.

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You know Small Town Boy, don't you?

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I know the song.

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Good, okay.

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Don't know the video.

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You should play the video just for yourself on the side.

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It's basically a story of the...

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he's moving to the city. There's something very similar about the two videos. They both show

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like different coins of the... I'd imagine the 1980s gay culture in the UK. On one hand you have

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Section 28 or just prior to Section 28 of bashing and young people being kicked out of their families,

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is because of who they are

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thematically related in a sense in a very

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Britain be fucked up

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it's kind of shining a spotlight

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on a part of the culture that probably

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wouldn't have gotten a spotlight at that point.

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I don't know if that video was made for the mainstream straight cis audience in the 80s.

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Because I presume there's a lot of like, well, I'm sure there's a lot of like wink, wink,

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nudge, nudge, that you understood if you were part of that culture.

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I'm sure that you didn't actually have to spit on someone's face to get into SM clubs,

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not they've been to many or any.

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It's not pretty much probably happening.

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I think that was one thing I found quite interesting about it was just going back to like when I was growing up it was like wasn't it wasn't ages ago but it was still in terms of like culture it was like it's very different you know it's like there wasn't any like out gay people in my school for example so in terms of what we presumed like gay clubs were like I think in my mind at the time this is probably what I imagined it was like so and this is obviously I think a more a very exaggerated version of what

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would actually be going on but I think it's quite interesting from that point of view.

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parody what people thought it was? As in like they clearly were parodying what people thought it was but

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were they were they doing it for the purpose of queer people laughing on this or for the

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or just trying to be extra exaggerated for extra extra extra exaggerated for?

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playing on people's stereotypes

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of what it's like, just sort of embracing

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the stereotypes and going like, yeah, fuck it, fuck it,

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this is what happens. Just to scare people

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off, I don't know. Well, the thing is that the end,

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it did get banned very, very swiftly and quickly

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from BBC and MTV, which

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to surprise to none, honestly,

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they banned fucking

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Queen, which is so

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mucked-dosed compared to this.

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hiding what it's about in this list,

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which I do, which I have respect, actually.

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it's just like yeah fuck it maybe we should do like a very very very quick description about the

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video what actually happens in the video because you have the main character um who is a very

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trait aged dressed person like in a like in a suit everything um getting rolled to a like the

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front entrance of a club on a horse carriage drawn by a uh a person then he gets greeted by a

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leather clad guy um get him into the club way to get to be allowed into the club is to spit in the

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face of the person at the front again just looking into different you know kings and things of i i i

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can only imagine that they there was probably a level of lol this is funny and nobody will take it

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seriously but also everyone thought thought it was serious because the britain in the 80s

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well no the most liberal places um so they go they all going so they both going there there's

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uh people with all shapes and sizes and uh kings uh you know at the club uh partying there's a

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really cool bartender lady with a really fucking cool hairdo there's uh like drag queens there's a

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guy who is dressed as a roman emperor just showing up being carried on like on a like a

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Like a... Chariot sort of thing.

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Chariot. But yeah, carried by people again.

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I can't think of what the word would be.

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He's been carried in by his loyal servants.

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sorry, in the office suit, as opposed to the other suit,

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gets dragged onto a stage and he gets to fight a tiger,

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which we then realize is a tiny baby tiger cub.

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they show it in like in extreme close-up

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and it looks like a big tiger,

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but it's actually like a tiny, very, very tiny tiger.

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So it's quite funny.

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it kind of goes into a pandemonium of a woman

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who we don't really see much,

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but you see her for very brief,

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dressed up in a very normal, quote-unquote way.

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She gets put into an Iron Maiden,

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which gets closed on her.

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the guy dressed as an emperor

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is having his face shaved

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or rather he's covered in a shaving cream,

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Is that in the end of something?

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I don't know if you have milk here, Dave.

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I don't know.

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I never thought that.

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There's plenty of anywhere else to go around.

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So let's just see it.

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Well, what was your first gay club experience

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and was it as epic as this one?

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I kind of got two that sprang to mind.

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first time it kind of goes back to what i was talking about my kind of perceptions growing up

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you know and not the most enlightened of times shall we say where the first time i went to a gay

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bar and i was like oh i don't know i don't know if i want to go because it's probably going to be

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like frankie goes to hollywood and there and shit like that and then i went and it was just like a

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normal bar with better music and more glitter the second time that was probably more interesting

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because it was um not the second time but i became friends with someone who i work with and you've

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trying to convince me for ages to go to a night in Glasgow called which is a bit more in this

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direction it's not as ridiculous as this but it's a bit more you know people like this kicking about

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it's probably not what this music video is about but when i look at the straight looking guy in the

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the shirt and tie and all that stuff i kind of feel like i was like that the first time i went in

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there where i was like just had this feeling that i was the most bland person in the room i kind of

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never got the feeling that the main character

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singer in the video was the bland one

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I think it's more like he just

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rolling off from his work

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job or something. But I have another interesting

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story from that same club

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I've been back many times

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since because it's a fucking great laugh

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and I remember talking to

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this lassie who was in there

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who was like worked on nuclear

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submarines sort of prim and proper

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very kind of militaristic person

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not the kind of person you'd expect in a place like that

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and I was kind of talking to her

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she was very like serious

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dancing with her shirt off

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on the dance floor

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surrounded by guys in leather

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you know outfits and shit like that

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it's like this guy

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in the video

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he probably leads

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sort of prim and proper life

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where he's like

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and this is where he goes

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to fucking

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just cutlass

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and dance like an idiot and fight tigers and shit like that.

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I feel like that's kind of a rough analogue

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to what this lassie who worked on the nuclear submarines was thinking.

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Fair enough.

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What was your first one?

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I don't remember my first one.

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Sorry.

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You came out of the womb straight into a gay bar.

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It would have probably been at my freshest week in 2009.

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Me being completely fresh-faced in Glasgow,

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where people are like, let's go to this club.

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I can tell you a very funny one.

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I was already dating Scott

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and we were very early on in our relationship.

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It was me, Scott and a gay friend.

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And I went to grab drinks

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and as it's very usual,

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women will just talk at the bar or wherever

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because that's just a normal club experience anywhere.

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You know, just like waiting for something

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and you just start talking to someone, whatever.

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So I would just chat into this woman.

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And it was very like, we were all like laughing,

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whatever, waiting for drinks.

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Behind me, there was a conversation happening

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where that woman's friends were talking to Scott,

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my friend, and apparently the conversation

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hasn't been told, went along the lines of,

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oh, that's like, that's our power, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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Is your friend, is your friend single to Scott?

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Just being like, no, she's actually my girlfriend.

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next thing I know

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unknown to this conversation is

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like her

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getting dragged by her friends

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because we were just having nice chat

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and I was like oh yeah bye I'm gonna see you on the dance floor

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and it's called my pal dragging me away

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so apparently all this

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completely oblivious to me

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in a gay club because I'm a fucking idiot

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I wasn't just having a nice chat with this

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woman and she was actually hitting on me

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it was very embarrassing

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yeah I know

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I'm just going to point out here

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I don't know if

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I'm sure there's a lot of people

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who are listening

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might notice

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or might have

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called this out

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I'm bi

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and I'm fully

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fully

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completely

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oblivious to everything

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and everyone

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who have ever

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hit it on me

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I do apologize

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to anyone

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who's done that

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and I'll be just like

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hi you're very friendly

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thanks bye

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so yeah

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what else to say

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about the video

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what else we've got here

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innuendos

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just innuendos

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there's a lot of them

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the one thing

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like obviously the gist in your end is everything you'd imagine you know like

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being sprayed out on the song just talking about you coming and lazy beeps and shit you know

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the usual stuff um there was a lot of bananas there was a lot of bananas which was

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there was a lot of bananas that's not i'm not just like saying the word there was literally

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bananas yeah um including like some very like very close-ups of the lead singer just being very very

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very essentially looking on bananas um so that's that was the video was done in 83 i i do apologize

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my aids knowledge is not amazing as in like no i mean it's fine just i can't remember the exact

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year when you've been kicked off it would have been around then am i going crazy thinking that

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all the bananas has condoms on them because i think they did but i don't think they were like

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they were not shown

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but they were glistening

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if that makes sense

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as they would

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as you said that

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I've got the video

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playing in a loop

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and I did see something

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that looked like that

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see if another one comes up

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it's not very clear

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but I think

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maybe you might be right

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was that video

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just incredibly

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ahead of its time

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when playing safe

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so I just

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wonder if there was

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like a very slight

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not just always

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always put the condom

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on your bananas

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yeah

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I can't say this

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straight face

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but yeah

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yeah I think you might be right

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so the next touch of it is I have to

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look closer. I can't believe you're actually

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discussing the

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symbolism of bananas

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in the video about the gay bar, I'm sorry

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stop motion

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you have, you've put a note about stop motion

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what is that about? It's not stop motion

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but it's just the one point where they're doing

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I don't know if this

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phrase universally translates

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but vinegar stroke

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are you aware of that one? Nope

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you're going to have to

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you're free to explain it

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it's your cum face basically

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so when their boats

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writhing around on the floor

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it's kind of like

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all stop motion

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not actual stop motion but it's like

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I thought that was quite funny

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I just found it funny

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because that's once again blatantly what they're going for

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yeah I mean the whole video is

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you know the dance

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that's the thing about this video I remember even

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when I was hearing this when I was younger

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not the most worldly wise person yet

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even then going like

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hmm they're talking about shit

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so it's like

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nothing about this is subtle

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in this latest which is fine

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yeah the funny thing is like when I was doing the

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research there's a very funny

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description how

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in terms of like the

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public reception of the song and the video

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and I'm just quoting from

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Wikipedia here because we always do our

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research, due diligence in doing research

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by Wikipedia.

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Throughout the relaxed

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controversy,

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the bad continued to publicly

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deny that the songs

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were sexual, all to

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be the earliest of

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before the internet where you can just look up the

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lyrics. Nevertheless,

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by 1984, it was clear that

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1984, which is for two years,

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it was clear that the public were

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aware of the sexual nature of the lyrics,

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but the scandal had fueled

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sales anyway. In 1985,

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with the release of the Welcome to

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the Pleasuredome album, which included

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the song Relax, the band

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dropped any public pretense

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about the lyrics.

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Now we're quoting Mark O'Toole.

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Everything I say is complete

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lies. Like when people

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ask you about what Relax

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is about, when it first came out

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we used to pretend it was about

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motivation. I find

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it so... This is why I keep

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thinking like this video was not made for like the straight public.

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Actually, I totally respect the fact that they were feigning ignorance just going like,

439
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oh yeah, it's not. But when in the song, there's literally the sound of like water flowing after

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he says, it's so fucking blatant. But I find that hysterical that they were like, no, no,

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no, it's about getting up and going for a jog in the morning. Yeah.

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It's just going with your laser beams. It's just, you know, just.

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It's laser beams of productivity.

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00:19:02,740 --> 00:19:04,940
Yeah, definitely productivity of some form.

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Yeah, it's great, isn't it?

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The sort of old saying that all songs are about sex or drugs,

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no exceptions, but it's usually more subtle than this.

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Usually it's like, you know, a metaphor alluding towards

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being off your face or fucking someone.

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00:19:21,500 --> 00:19:24,300
It's never usually quite blam in your face.

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00:19:24,470 --> 00:19:25,880
Well, if you pardon the expression.

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00:19:27,420 --> 00:19:32,260
Yeah, we talked about the sledgehammer, which is against the ball chugging.

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And it's kind of obvious once you listen to the lyrics a bit, but it's again, it's not

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directly saying, like, I want to fuck my wife or whoever the person was.

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00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:46,220
Although the video just literally starts with sperm flying around, not flying.

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Flying sperm sounds dangerous.

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That's what this video is about.

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So we've got swimming sperm for that one.

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We've got flying for this one.

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It's just flying everywhere.

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Anyway.

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Fucking hell.

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Can't believe we put this shit on the internet.

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Okay, final point.

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Do you want to start?

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This video just doesn't give a fuck.

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It's, yeah, it doesn't give a fuck.

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And I respect that.

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That's it.

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I'm going to say it gives a lot of fucks.

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as long as you've wrapped your banana before you give the fuck then you're good

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my favorite favorite part it's just this is just a random one there's lots of good shit but i think

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one bit that sticks out to me is uh the guy with the fan who's fanning like the emperor up on the

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balcony uh he there's just one split second shot where he just has this incredible intense look in

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his face like he's just like totally into waving this fan he's like he's living for this moment and

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the runner-up is just which is isn't technically the music video that's the song but it's funny i

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wish everyone could see the face of david just made you'll have to imagine it and the worst part

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is i don't think the emperor ever finishes shaving yeah he's just constantly being shaved maybe maybe

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his beard grows really fast he just hits like uh like that bridge in san francisco where they start

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painting it one side and then by the time they finish they've got to start again that sounds

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not very effective or efficient they should use probably better paint my final points are that

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this video is fantastic it's budget crazy it's not bad at all but you need to be prepared and you

483
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need to be warned that um there's a lot of things there that you will see that you might like you need

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been the right mindset to not freak out about trigger warning weird weird chair happening

485
00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:57,060
yeah trigger warning which is happening um not necessarily bad it's fun it's a really fun video

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but you need to be prepared it literally starts with someone's beating in someone's face i can't

487
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underline enough how everything that we see is very clearly consensual despite the fact it's all

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this depravity and all this stuff.

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Depravity, wow.

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I mean, it is a point.

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But it all feels like it's in good fun

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is the point, which is nice.

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Yes. Good clean depravity.

494
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Yeah, except for the couple things

495
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that are not, which is the

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woman in the Iron Maiden,

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which is, I guess the joke is like, we do that

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to, I don't know what's supposed to be

499
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straight, but it's what we do to people.

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I'm like, just throwing someone

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to a tiger cub and be like,

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it's what we do to people.

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Oh, like enough, obviously.

504
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:48,060
Okay, so my favorite part is Batting the lady with the fucking great hairdo and just kind of dancing around.

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And I think she's supposed to be sort of a dominatrix because she kicks some guy who is in her feet a couple of times.

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You do, you lady.

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00:22:57,220 --> 00:23:05,020
But also at some point, there's a split second video, like, shot of her pulling her top up as in, like, just adjusting it.

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00:23:05,540 --> 00:23:09,920
And I just felt, for a second, it just felt so funny and relatable to me when I saw that.

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And I was like, she's just having the time of her life and she just doesn't give a fuck.

510
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She's just dancing around and putting her top up.

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And yes, lady, whoever you are, props to you.

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Worst part for me was that I don't think there is a worst part because I don't think that video was made for us.

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And I don't think it's up to us to judge whether something was bad or not.

514
00:23:30,100 --> 00:23:31,720
Also, it's for a year old video, fuck.

515
00:23:32,900 --> 00:23:33,680
Gay clubs are still funny.

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There you go.

517
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Some things never change.

518
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some things never change

519
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I've never been to an SNM club nowadays

520
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I don't know if you have to spit in someone's face to get in

521
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maybe some you do and that's also consensual

522
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I hope

523
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and with that in mind

524
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take a look at our show notes

525
00:23:49,460 --> 00:23:50,840
to links to today's video

526
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our show links

527
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to Instagram

528
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and our social medias and Twitter

529
00:23:57,020 --> 00:23:57,500
and all of that

530
00:23:58,080 --> 00:23:59,520
also please email us

531
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but nothing not consensual

532
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to go to

533
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gfarcast at gmail.com

534
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com

535
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dot com

536
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we'd love to hear your thoughts

537
00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:11,820
and your recommendations for videos

538
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if you have any thoughts

539
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on this yeah

540
00:24:15,620 --> 00:24:16,520
oh yes

541
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that was a chaotic one

542
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we need Neil to keep us on the straight and narrow

543
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no pun telling