Saturday, October 11, 2025

You wouldn't believe this but there was actually an echidna in my backyard

 It's the Australian answer to the porcupine, extremely spikey, you don't want to touch it. My neighbour Paul was lecturing how I should still love my son if he turns gay, a tremendously deep two dimensional conversation I didn't really want to have. Then his Mrs comes and announces the echidna. Sure enough there was an echidna tucked between the fence I helped Paul build years earlier and my garage where I spoke to Rudy Giuliani on his radio show and of course Chris Salcedo. Echidnas bro....

https://youtube.com/shorts/zqrT7Xyafts?si=n51HPzfdmVXGANHh



"And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct | John Woinarski for the Conversation | The Guardian" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2025/oct/11/and-then-there-were-none-australias-only-shrew-declared-extinct




Ok here's Bill Burr, he just made well over a million dollars performing in Saudi Arabia, nothing that involves getting stoned or beheaded. And he still makes time for his Monday morning podcast. He takes a letter from mid life crisis guys and uses terms like "growing" and "taking time to grow". My issue is Bill and everyone just tossing the term "psycho" around. What's wrong with "empathy challenged"? Or "unpredictable and simultaneously empathy challenged," or even, "culturally rich as pertaining to law enforcement"? Just saying "psycho" a lot can just sound derogatory. It's 2025. Come on Bill and come on Riyadh.


Bill's podcast, disclaimer, people who may feel triggered by the seemingly derogatory nature of terms like "psycho" being bandied about insensitively, be warned:


https://youtu.be/8HkgSk4xJew?si=oKUaIVedltZfMol6

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