Tyrant In Training Episode 37 Christina Auriana, The Empress of the Island of Auriana

[00:00:01] Hello everyone! Being honest, we recorded a fantastic intro. The best one yet. Clearly the best one yet. And we've got to plug in the mic. So this is our second attempt. The energy level might be down a little bit.

[00:00:18] This is the Tyrant In Training Podcast. I'm the host kevin ryan and my fiancee selina's beside me to help me with the intro. Yes hello. Thank you. We're back from Haldé. We have to run through that. Yes, we're excited.

[00:00:29] We love each other. We had a great time. Stop bobbing again. I'm just getting up to a better level. Kevin, you went right close to the mic. Okay, we argued briefly. That was very funny. Then we reaffirmed our love for each other.

[00:00:41] Then you explained what the guests do on this podcast. They... No, you had it the first time. Okay, so what they do is guests come on usually filmmaker or comedian or someone. Someone we know already.

[00:00:56] Then I'll give them a hypothetical scenario of hey wouldn't it be funny if you ruled your own country and then they turn into a tyrannical maniac?

[00:01:04] Basically how it happens. Some of them are very nice though. You did call them morons. The first time, yeah, but I was going to edit that out.

[00:01:11] But now I don't have to. Thanks for bringing her up again. You're welcome. The guest this week is fellow farmer one fan. Yes. And actor, producer and writer Christina Arianna. So she is on... She is quite funny.

[00:01:28] Very strange cameo appearance in a movie. That's something to look out for. And I'll give you some other context quotes. Yes. Here you are. I would prefer to not be known as an asshole. And we're going to do beaches on my island.

[00:01:45] You get whacked upside the head with a cane. I'm trying to think of something, but it can't be too illegal. See? She's harmless. She does. She does seem harmless. Yeah, she does. What were you going to say?

[00:01:57] I said she seems harmless, but you already said she does. What? I don't know. What does she do? She does seem... Go on. Slander her. Go on. No, she does seem like she has morals. She doesn't want to do something too illegal.

[00:02:09] She seems like she could trick you into believing... You don't want to seem like an asshole. She doesn't. No, that's a good plus. That is a good plus. I have a good feeling about it. You will find her on Instagram and on Twitter. Why did she look red-pulled?

[00:02:21] The farmer one team. She probably respects the integrity of the cars. Not the people. She knows her cars. She doesn't look at them and go, I like the color red there for a Ferrari. Like us. So she's been to Le Mans. Do you know what Le Mans is?

[00:02:40] I've heard of it. You seem so impressed by... Do you have any idea what it is? Is it a race track? Like a racing track? I'm not going to waste people's time. This is not a good fun banter. Okay, we're straight into the episode with Christina.

[00:02:56] Thanks everyone for listening. By the way, you can find this podcast on Twitter and Instagram. Either at Kevronperson on Instagram or tyrants underscore podcast on Twitter. Okay, bye. Bye everybody. Do you think you'll be inclined to take leadership role? And not just like a team making a film.

[00:03:26] But I mean, you have to lead a band of warriors or you have to lead a country. Like you think you'd be the start to do that? I think if... I will say this.

[00:03:35] I think if the moment came to me, like if I had to meet the moment, I could rise up to meet it. You know, like I'm not someone who's looking for that kind of responsibility necessarily.

[00:03:48] But if I see that there's chaos and there's a void that desperately needs to be filled and like people are suffering. Yeah. Oh, you take charge. I'll do what I gotta do. Yeah. You know, I cannot abide that. Like I cannot abide needless suffering. So I'd step up.

[00:04:12] Like if that moment was asking of me, I'd step up. Yeah. It sounds vaguely threatening. Yeah. I mean, I like I said, I came to play and see what's going to come out of my mouth and my head first, you know, first instinct.

[00:04:27] That is for I'll give you like three seconds to answer each one. That's all. Do you have any actually do not all do I'll bring up a world map because I want to ask do you have any idea on the world map where you would place the island?

[00:04:41] We'll do it anywhere you want. Okay. Let's take a look. Well, I wouldn't be mad if it was near Fiji. Oh my God, where the hell where is Fiji? Is it down? Yeah. Oh, it is. Oh, it's down right. Yeah.

[00:04:59] I would not be upset if my island can be near Fiji near like between New Zealand and Fiji. Yeah. Is that okay? Like you want warm weather then. Right. Absolutely. 100% beautiful beach weather. But is that not like, wait, is that not where there's a load of like

[00:05:17] volcanoes in the ocean? They're not a big ring of fire. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm going to have a quick Google. Hey, you've already picked it. So I mean, it can, you know, you have to deal with it.

[00:05:29] But yeah, yeah, no, we can put it there. Nice little island down down below Fiji. Do you have any ideas what name you call it up? Good Lord. What name would I call it? Hmm. My God, it sounded me clacking on the keyboard. Um, hmm. Island.

[00:05:45] Island of Oriana. Why not? I was going to say, I was going to say, why not? So it is going to be the island of Oriana, not. Oriana Island. I like Island of Oriana. It's a bit more grand. It kind of does in that. Yeah.

[00:06:02] It just, you say it very quickly, but Island of Oriana, you have to spend time on an island. Why not? You know, go, go home. So the Island of Oriana is situated in the Pacific ring of fire. The world's greatest active volcano and earthquake belt.

[00:06:18] It's a 31% of recorded earthquakes occur. So it's going to be, it's going to be a bumpy island, to be honest. Um, it's a dodgy start, but yeah. Beautiful beach weather. You can do beaches anywhere. And we're going to do beaches on my island.

[00:06:34] That's what I am just an advisor. I am not, I'm not saying you can't do it. I'm just making sure the Island of Oriana, if you're going to be the ruler of the island, what is your official title? What are my people going to call you? Empress.

[00:06:47] Yes. Empress. Now is it Empress Christina? Empress Oriana or just like the Empress or? The Empress. The Empress. Nobody's allowed to say your name. Nobody's allowed to say, hey, Christina's rolling about because there was no page. Um, family could call family and friends could call me.

[00:07:06] Family and friends, but they have to be good friends. I can't just like, yeah, yeah. I mean, if there's another person over there and they start calling you Christy because they get. Oh, Christy gets you a whack. A whack? What? And with pay you.

[00:07:22] You get whacked upside the head with a cane. Hey, why not? With a cane, but not by you. You have people to do that. No, I layer associates. I layer associates. I don't hand down any sort of violence.

[00:07:36] Well, you hand down the scrolls or whatever to whack them. Okay. A whack on the head. Yeah. Right. I'm going to get my little congressional. Okay. The Empress of the island of Oriana. Good, good official start. But do you have any, uh, like robes or any official attire?

[00:07:55] It feels like. No, no, no robes, no official attire there. None at all. So you could just be wearing anything on any given like kind of official duties day. Yeah, I don't, I don't like to be hemmed in, you know, like, I don't like to be hemmed in.

[00:08:11] I don't like to be hemmed in. I don't like to be hemmed in. Don't, don't lock me in. Let me. Yeah. I mean, I just forced you onto an island when you said, don't hang me in, but fine. Yeah. And you're surrounded by volcanoes.

[00:08:23] So yes, but I get to rule the island. When you get enters beaches, get to rule. Yeah. Um, that's fair enough. I have to ask then as well. Oh, well, I should ask, um, Where are you living on the island? We'll build your house wherever you want. Um,

[00:08:38] I'm a beach mountain. 100% by beach on the beach. Is it, is it like a, is it a like mansion mansion? Or is it more a beach house? Fancy beach house. More of a fancy beach house. Yeah. Um, do you have a throne room in there?

[00:08:53] Do I have a throne room? Hmm. Nah, I just have a really nice office. Really nice office. Are you so are you doing like government work at your house? Yeah. I'm not sure what the government building is. Well, I can work from home, but so can everybody else.

[00:09:12] Oh, so it's work from home island. Yes. You get to choose. You could do hybrid. Yeah. You can work from home full time or you could go in, but you're working full time from home. And I would say I am more of a hybrid. I am.

[00:09:29] You could go in. Ah, predominantly would be legislating from home, but when you know, certain times call for it, I would go in. Yeah, fair enough. Because actually I speak about legislating. Um, so I'm going to say there's 10 million people on your island. Right? Okay.

[00:09:47] Just as a round number. Okay. Just. I mean, if you really insist I can kick three of them off or I can add more, whatever you want. Okay. But I have to ask, so when it comes to the day-to-day duties

[00:09:57] of running your island. Do you want, I'll just give two choices just to make it kind of simpler, do you want to have just like an inner circle of like 10 people you handpick and they'll do

[00:10:10] all the everyday running part or do you want to say to 10 million citizens I'll let you vote for a Senate with 100 senators in it, they can do all that but you obviously have ultimate say

[00:10:21] over every decision. I want people to be able to vote that's one thing for the Senate, yes I believe it should be direct vote counts toward electing someone that the population agrees with

[00:10:36] that they feel would do would get the job done on their behalf. But as far as having let's say like a cabinet of people, that's a different story. If we're talking about Senate that's one group

[00:10:50] but if we're talking about a cabinet of people to advise me. The advisors, yeah you can have your advisors that you pick I imagine you want people you know and trust and everything else. But what happens if people vote for 100 Jerry Halliwells or 100?

[00:11:10] Are you okay with that no problems? I mean I think to an extent I would have to be okay with that if they're getting the job done. If they're doing a poor job then like there's a

[00:11:28] lever that gets pulled and I can come in and I can say you know this district or what have you is being mismanaged. People are not you know like what you know people voted for this type of Jerry

[00:11:45] Halliwells not cutting it and so out, out you know like out of the country. Out yes or not out of the country. Not out of the country. Out of the country. Out of the position. You're fired. Yeah you

[00:12:01] get fired because you've mismanaged your jurisdiction. Trashes built up or schools aren't properly being funded. Teachers aren't being paid that sort of thing. If I find out that's going on bye bye. But if they're doing all that but they're just saying I'm not really a fan of the

[00:12:19] Empress Christy smack. I'm just not happy if they're against the smacking around the head. If they're like no I'm against that I think we should all call her big Chris. Are you still okay

[00:12:33] with that? No I'm not okay with it. They're fired. I would have to stand firm yeah you know because there is such a thing as respect. Right so yeah so basically there is democracy but if you

[00:12:46] don't like the way it's going you cancel it on death. I feel that like I said if I am seeing direct and deliberate mismanagement where someone is choosing to enrich themselves from their position that's when I have a problem. If you're if but if that person has been

[00:13:05] elected by popular vote and that's what those people want and they're doing a good job I take zero issue. Okay so as long as they stay on your good side they can vote. As long as they stay

[00:13:16] on the good side of the people as long as they do right by the people that they have been entrusted with we're good. If I find out that people are being mistreated like I said schools aren't being managed properly trash isn't being picked up you know poor sanitation

[00:13:33] you know all sorts of things. If I find out that any of that's going on they're out of there. Yeah that's when I step in. I do have a question just so I can be sure just so the police know

[00:13:44] and the justice system knows. If there's a hundred senators and 50 of them who have been voted in by people they got popular vote and they all went in if 50 of them are saying

[00:13:56] we want to write this law and what's the word not publish they want to ask you to change the ruling in the country that they get to call you big Chris. Does that mean that 50 like the 50 senators

[00:14:13] were voted in by so many people on the island so then would you go okay well that's what the people wanted. Well I'd have to ask why is this so important to you. Because we see you walking around

[00:14:28] wearing whatever you want saying I won't be restricted and we want some of that we won't be restricted in our speech that's it it's a pretty speech issue. Okay well then you know

[00:14:40] I would say okay if it's coming from a right place if it's coming from an affectionate place okay big C is in the house yeah well okay we're calling you just all sorts of names. It's coming from an affectionate place okay fine.

[00:15:00] That is they're very affectionate they're very happy people. Question if there's 10 million people it's a light entertainment podcast. Is anyone like not immigration wise is everyone allowed into the country or is there any restrictions like if people are mean to strangers or if they're mean to

[00:15:23] animals are they allowed in or if they have criminal records if they're mean to strangers. If you're mean to strangers if you're mean to animals you are not allowed in right and then if there's criminal records or anything like that. If there's criminal records I'd say it depends

[00:15:38] it depends on what kind right like mass murders obviously no like if you're you know I mean this is it's a light entertainment podcast here like I can get into any gritty here but it's gonna

[00:15:54] turn take a whole different turn and I don't know how good that is. You're the boss of this podcast so you can decide what you want to talk about. Yeah I'm just gonna stick with my previous

[00:16:05] answer which is mean to animals mean to strangers you're not allowed in my island. Yes okay okay fine and is there any sort of like how would you know that like are you telling

[00:16:18] or they call like the Coast Guard or something like that that like are you telling them listen you have to ask questions like how would you how would you decide that? Yeah I would say

[00:16:28] I would want to observe I mean my big thing is if I catch someone let's say being mean to wait staff, retail workers, if I find out that you've been unruly on an airplane and

[00:16:41] disrespectful to your flight attendant those types of things out. So on the flight over you have someone you have you have the Coast Guard I don't know what to name it's the immigration police or you know aviation marshals right? You have them on the plane watching everyone.

[00:16:57] Observing. Yeah and I and and not me I'm not me why do I keep saying I and my character who I'm going to pretend to be is sitting down and they ask for a drink of water and in the

[00:17:11] air flight attendant comes over and I say God you took a long time to bring me that water. Nope that's a strike against you three strikes rule. All right and then okay and then they walk away

[00:17:22] and I say God they hurry away they don't even they don't even look at you. Yeah that's strike two and then I say who's talking very loudly? That is strike three. Who's that struck three?

[00:17:34] So he's got so that person's gone. Yep you're getting turned away at the terminal when we land you're gonna go back. Feel bad that guy's 87 he just wanted to see the ring of fire once before you.

[00:17:48] All right back yeah back to Ireland. Yeah um God yeah so it's very strict you're very strict like any sort of meanness. Yeah yourself. What about the flight attendants? I presume some of them

[00:18:01] live there. What if they're very mean? Do they guess? They have to go for special rehabilitation classes if they're mean. Is that a nice way of saying prison? No rehabilitation no prison. Okay okay

[00:18:14] that's fine. Trust me. But not the citizens they are just out of there. Like the people who want to travel over if yeah if you get caught trying to immigrate and you're mean

[00:18:28] you're out. You're out okay. Okay what if they just look mean? That's different. I don't judge books by their cover you could look however you wish but if you're kind on the flight over let's say

[00:18:43] you're good. Okay so if someone just says like I don't know happy holidays or happy whatever happy birthday and the other person goes okay that's fine. Is it okay? Well that's not very nice.

[00:18:59] So they're out as well that's strike one. That's strike one. Okay yeah sorry sorry for cursing. What if they curse? Depends on the context. Excuse me would you fuck off? That's probably just mean. That's strike two. That's probably strike two. Okay I get it. Okay I understand

[00:19:18] right everyone has to be nice. No okay um okay uh let's see what else we have. The country the island of Arianna what unusual list would the country be top of in the world? Oh my well I guess we would be

[00:19:35] know that we would be we would beat which which country was it recently that was um then known as the nicest I know it was like a scant was it Denmark? It has to be Scandinavia.

[00:19:48] I'm sorry. Yeah it was a Scandinavian country. This is weird okay this is from third of October 2023. Friendliest countries in the world 2023 readers choice awards I don't know if that's same one I mean how many? Uh-huh. Number number nine is Ireland. Ooh we're not we're really petty

[00:20:07] people. This is uh very yeah um but yeah we the friendliest country we would knock out whoever's in the top spot because I feel like it's a it has to be a Scandinavian country because it's always a

[00:20:20] Scandinavian country. It is always and this this list is weird because it says according to this it's Dominica I presume that's Dominica Republic but that doesn't I mean I don't know I don't want to disparage but there's no Scandinavian country on this that can't yeah. Yeah it's maybe

[00:20:38] it's well that list is for the friendliest but there is one that's where the people are the happiest and that's that's perhaps a different one. That maybe that's so are you going with the

[00:20:49] happiest? Yes. Yeah yeah okay we are known as the happiest. By the way just on this list which is funny is that at number two excuse me at number two is Fiji. Ooh right hell yeah.

[00:21:02] Friendliest something. Okay. Say yeah. Makes sense that's a nice halo effect. Maybe that's yeah you're getting some of the friendliness from that because they're so friendly Chi you can't help but be a

[00:21:11] bit nice. Exactly. Or happy uh right. Exactly. Um I do uh I do have a potentially bad question and it's not a nice question but I can't be kicked out because I'm just voice inside my head.

[00:21:26] Um there's a scandal about to occur on your island. About what? About you. Oh okay. Now I don't know how this works people are going to find out about it um but you get to pick what the scandal is.

[00:21:41] Now they're not going to like want to kill I assume they're not going to want to kill you over like it's not like you saying the scandal is I murdered a man. Right. Well it depends on the

[00:21:49] but let's be honest but uh yeah what scandal do they find out about you where they're a bit like oh I'm not happy about that. Because right now the approval rate is probably about 99.4

[00:22:05] percent and it's going to go down to 84 percent so it's quite a chunk. Boy I'm trying to think of something but it can't be too illegal. Like yeah just a bit illegal. Yeah just a little

[00:22:17] illegal. Hmm I'll ask what's a bit illegal. I'm not telling you I'm not telling you uh um damn what could it be? Do you think you're involved money or um maybe maybe uh what's the word hypocrisy maybe

[00:22:38] it's the fact that you actually do. I hate hypocrites I hate them and yet you're the biggest one on this island. They're not allowed on my island either. Hypocrites. Hypocrites are not allowed.

[00:22:49] Okay okay I mean I said I'd never write a hallmark romcom and then I did so am I allowed on the island? Well that's that's that's that's yeah there's a sliding scale. Okay okay yeah you're allowed.

[00:23:02] Yeah you're allowed that's okay. I'm still allowed it's pretty good cool. So are you're definitely not doing a hypocritical scandal? No I'm not doing a hypocritical scandal. You are nice to someone right? I'm nice yeah but were you nice to a flight attendant once?

[00:23:20] Okay because I am a person so maybe it could be that I was mean when I was checking back into the country I was impatient in the airport. Yeah okay so I think what happens is I think your

[00:23:35] advisors would say listen your ratings have gone down like 15 percent down to 84 percent bit of a scandal um flight gate or yeah yeah um mean gate um I think the best thing for you to do

[00:23:53] is you should go on to the the highest rated nightly news program and speak. Do you know like Frost Nixon that movie? Yes. Yeah I think you need to have a sit down and confront it.

[00:24:03] Don't don't justify it you know what I mean? Don't justify the behavior maybe explain it but don't don't shark it either um because you you need to nail this you know we need to get those

[00:24:14] whover ratings back up. So I'm gonna pretend this is probably the most improbable part of the whole thing that I am now Anderson Anderson 2.0 Anderson 2.0 thank you for making me have that

[00:24:24] name my surname used to be called John John yeah um thank you de Empress big C big C in the house appreciate you coming on and talking about the economy and everything else in the

[00:24:36] volcanoes that keep going off around us um we have to talk about airport gate big big big thing that's happening um I think the the main question we have to ask is um what happened? Well I was

[00:24:51] caught on camera being quite rude um I was attempting to circumvent the passport line I was quite impatient and my behavior was poor I um I did not speak as one would expect to those

[00:25:12] working uh at the check-in line um at TSA um and for that I am I am very sorry I was not upholding um the standards of this great island now is that a strike against you uh in all fairness

[00:25:31] that that does qualify now we do see the the security footage of course where you walked around everybody else refused to speak to anyone and tried to walk on um now you did that three

[00:25:43] times because they pushed you back so is that three strikes or it's one incident okay so you're only counting the multiple times you did that as one incident yes okay and do you plan to be

[00:25:54] mean to more flight attendants or no no I sincerely apologize to that flight attendant I apologize to the those who um I apologize to to the airport as a whole uh this behavior was completely unbecoming

[00:26:13] of a leader now now the the concern for a lot of um uh families Jesus is there was 50 people in that queue as you know as you remember um yes and 48 of them had two strikes um for not offering um a biscuit

[00:26:34] to each other they all they were very mean so they all got two strikes they all seemed to have gotten a third strike when they all muttered what a fucking asshole when you walked on and they've

[00:26:46] all been barred from the country now and their dresser families are very concerned will you let them back in or I will have I have already chosen to rectify that situation immediately and we

[00:26:56] will be reissuing um these to those that the ones who got the the the media affectionately known that mazdi the assholes I guess yeah so you're letting them in so yes so is that official

[00:27:11] policy now because I know you like to let people call you whatever they want so are you going to be now known as an asshole or uh I would prefer to not be known as an asshole but given my

[00:27:23] behavior unbecoming behavior uh I suppose I could let that slide okay um well that's I appreciate you coming on and talking about the economy which is doing very well I have to say that

[00:27:34] because it's apparently a propaganda news station and I want to thank the big asshole here for uh joining us and thank you very much and that's it good night we're next is um um you guys and

[00:27:45] uh girl yeah what is that a show oh it was a show right now it was a show it was a great show good callback he's been called back anyway um yeah I think that went very well even though

[00:27:55] you've now changed your name and people circle on you a different name though but um yeah that didn't go as bad as as it could have gone um oh by the way is drinking mundane that's banned in the country

[00:28:07] it's like I presume you know hard drugs are or whatever but like is is anything mundane every day item that you decide to ban? Hmm selfie sticks really but not to use the not the act of selfies

[00:28:22] not the act of selfies just the selfie sticks like if you're in a in a massive tour group that is not allowed why wait just when you're in your tour group so if you're on your own you can use them

[00:28:33] yeah because it causes a huge bottleneck for other pedestrians when you have a selfie stick if if there's big I'm speaking from New York City experience yeah yeah if you have a big tour

[00:28:47] group of people and they all get the same idea and they all take out these damn sticks suddenly this little group is this big now and they're taking up this much room on the sidewalk so trying

[00:29:00] to get through and get to where you're going becomes that much more challenging wait how does it get genuinely I'm not I'm stupid but like how does it work wait I don't know this is me

[00:29:12] genuinely stupid how does it work so you have a small group and then one of them pulls out a selfie stick and then you say no like all the all the tourists pull out selfie sticks so suddenly

[00:29:25] they're like double the size on the sidewalk and it's trying to take photos and it's yeah because they do you mean because they like they spread out yeah oh okay I honestly I was not grasping

[00:29:41] how exactly yeah I'm sure they would have said if you just kind of point it up yeah but then no you would be surprised there's a lot of this happening where it's like just straight

[00:29:53] out yeah I know if he does oh look yeah I mean I'm six foot so I mean I just use my hand but so I guess I don't yeah you're good you're fine but like trust me I live down to like living

[00:30:07] in downtown Manhattan or working in downtown Manhattan it's impossible with these tour groups and those stupid sticks like it's a it's a long held fantasy of mine and many other people who are in this area

[00:30:20] who just want to snap them in half they're so annoying have you been mean to people with selfie sticks no I have not been mean I've wanted to be mean I have not been mean I fantasize

[00:30:33] about being mean but yeah Jesus I did not know that was a thing oh yeah yeah any major any major city I bet you that like has like a series downtown what about people who have really long arms so if

[00:30:48] I'm like under the giants of what's true long arms that's that's okay but I'm putting on my hand I'm in a tour group there's actually a tour group of professional wrestlers the undertaker

[00:31:00] big show under the giant he's alive and they're all taking pictures exactly the same way you're happy with that that's okay that's your arm but it's it's the sticks I mean they especially because your

[00:31:14] arm is more reliable to get tired that's not okay okay no listen I have no problem banding them I have I actually I do have one um I got it in Rome um but I don't have to bring it I don't

[00:31:28] even know where it is but it was funny because the day we got it the guy came up to us saying whatever buy a selfie stick and I was like oh no I have no money never much money anyway to be wasting

[00:31:38] on selfie I don't care um and he said that'll be 20 euro and I was like no no no no I don't I don't want it and then he was like oh come on 18 euro and I was like no no no and then

[00:31:49] he went to 15 and I was like listen I have a fiver on me like a fiver no that's it I'll give you that because whatever it's fiver not and then he went down 16 14 12 10 and each time I was like

[00:32:00] I have five euro on me and then he was like oh 10 euro I can't give it for anymore and I was like you don't understand I don't want it and I'll give you five euro because why not I'll

[00:32:11] yeah but I'm not giving you anymore I don't have anything else and then he went away and I walked around and I just see him turn like over his shoulder he just went seven euro

[00:32:21] and I was like no five euros all I have buddy and then he just went one and he handed to me so angry and I was like I don't even want to think quite happy to get it though in the end

[00:32:32] good pictures but I won't bring that down in the Varyana that's fine um oh this might be fun your news station the the Anderson guy he's just asking what fantastical fact about you

[00:32:45] does your does your news station or should it repeat to your citizens this is where you can make up anything nice nice bit of propaganda for it to make up anything any little story we can

[00:32:57] do a documentary on it well we could do a story about how I have my own formula one team for the e-series the electric formula one series new why did why did you pick e-series because it's the

[00:33:11] future it's uh yeah what have you named it ariana team ariana well it would have to be team ariana 2.0 you're going with 2.0 yeah is that also because well no that's all electric cars so

[00:33:24] it's gonna say oh it's also two liters but that wouldn't make sense wait are you gonna have a formula one track on the island surely yes yeah definitely yeah yeah formula one's coming

[00:33:35] that's fine by the way this doesn't do it to podcast but have you I meant to ask have you gone to a formula one event um I've been to vintage formula one stuff in Monaco

[00:33:46] which is beautiful that's cool and like on the track on the track yeah yeah well because there's the regular formula one which is televised everybody knows um and there's there's also a vintage category and so we've been for that and that's fantastic um and also um 24 hours of

[00:34:07] l'amant where about is that in in France but is it in like northern France or is it down by Monaco or Monte Carlo it's I'm it's outside Paris I know that much oh how precise yeah

[00:34:24] countryside it's been I mean it's also been like a very long time since I've been there yeah yeah it's about three two three hours drive outside Paris just just I'm 90% certain I know what

[00:34:38] it is but just for anyone who doesn't know it's like 24 hour race right yeah I'll have to drive for all day how long did you stay there how long did I stay there yeah uh as in did I watch the whole

[00:34:49] race yeah yeah no I did not watch the whole race okay I have to go to sleep yeah but you know I was not gonna camp out in the like there are folks who are die hard I imagine yeah who camped out in

[00:35:06] those bleachers regardless of because at one time when we went in there rained and they and people not budge people didn't budge people showed up with campers and tents and all sorts of stuff

[00:35:18] they weren't budging we left I went home and took you know went to sleep and you know of course you were in a house so of course you know run downstairs find the tv and it's like well who's

[00:35:29] doing what now yeah yeah yeah it's fun but um it's been it's been quite a few years since I've been able to do that so that's why I was left with the the crowd who goes to Formula One where it

[00:35:43] starts raining especially if it's like bad rain and in all the cars come in they're like we'll have to wait maybe 20 minutes for the rain clears and then the camera will cut to the audience and

[00:35:51] they're out in the like ponchos still sitting there going like whew this is such a great time and you're like nothing is happening like this race might even start again yeah they've all

[00:36:02] been like either like either they're starving or they're drunk or both they are they are committed to the cause yeah by the way um I meant to ask as well what is your favorite movie franchise

[00:36:15] what's my favorite movie franchise hmm that's some furious I don't know if I have one quite frankly no I like you know there's individual movies that I like but in terms of a franchise

[00:36:28] specifically like I'm not let's say I mean of course I know everybody on film twitter is gonna scream like I'm not a die hard marvel person right you know do you see you like not like that's not me

[00:36:43] yeah um you know like individual films on the other hand yes what what would be a movie I know it's really hard to say like what's the definition of best movie or whatever but what would be one

[00:36:54] of your favorite movies oh god help me um none of my favorites yeah this is like for a whole another episode man like I'm I'll tie this back around yeah like this would be for like a whole

[00:37:09] other episode I'd still be sitting here like making a list um what does uh come to mind I mean I'm trying to think of like stuff that I saw recently like I mean like promising young woman

[00:37:24] was one of my recent favorites I love emerald funnel that's the one where um she was out vengeance and stuff right yeah I really I was really into that I like I had yeah like I really

[00:37:40] enjoyed that one I will say actually I watch out of sight every New Year's Eve like as I'm as I'm getting ready that's one of my all-time favorites not just the film but the book I love

[00:37:52] Elmore Leonard um I appreciate his work so much I wish there had been more than one book specifically where Karen Cisco was like a central a central character I know there's another book um featuring

[00:38:09] Raelyn Gibbons and she's in it but you know she's a supporting character I love I love her I love the character I love the world um that's one of my favorites ever um there's just something about

[00:38:24] Karen Cisco that really that like I just would love to embody like if they if they were bringing it back for a series I know they did with Carla um Gujino a long time ago for ABC

[00:38:37] and it didn't get like a proper run but if like they were now yeah I I well I'll stick to promising you know because like they I I'll be honest I haven't watched it but I vaguely know the

[00:38:52] you know the like Hocko was the even the creators can give you a sense but so I'm just wondering if David Zaslaw has decided to take over the company and it's like we need another movie

[00:39:03] another promising young woman if they said they're gonna film on the island of Arianna and they said look we'd love for you to have a cameo not even the main character and then just

[00:39:13] just a little cameo would you be interested at all you could play either a character or I would only be interested if there was an ironclad contract that required Warner Brothers

[00:39:26] to release the film in a proper theatrical run no filming stuff and then for a tax write off that's the only way and they'd say I tell you what you we don't have to pay any taxes on your

[00:39:42] island while we're making it and you have a deal we will make money that way because that's how we make money they release if they were if they abide by the contract if it's ironclad

[00:39:53] they abide by the contract and they agree to release the film so everyone can see everyone's hard work I'm in we will do it we will release it straight on to Max if they try to play games

[00:40:06] if they try to give me like a straight to video you know run around no it goes to the theaters it gets seen it can then stream fine and actors and everybody involved are to receive royalties

[00:40:25] you know okay we we're desperate yes we will I tell you what we were Warner Brothers are so desperate for a hit at this point that they are like we are changing our whole business model

[00:40:40] we will yes we will do all that if we can get you um they've left this decision up to you are you just playing yourself like the the ruler of the island of ariana are you playing a character

[00:40:50] like just a cameo oh i'm playing a character yeah um what i might do is i've said it's only a little piece just to the movie set on your island so this is going to expose the severe lack of

[00:41:02] knowledge I have about the movie so you're just gonna have to roll it but when they show up on set which is obviously a nightclub early in the night I don't know how I genuinely don't

[00:41:12] know what start is so they do say action thanks for coming along big big asshole I'm sorry um yeah if you can just sit down by the bar there and we'll begin um presuming we've read the scripts

[00:41:25] uh good luck if you haven't um and action so yeah the bartender's coming over going what can I get you what the hell is we don't have that here what you want

[00:41:38] what can I get me so are you asking me what is my what's my character signature drink oh no this is a full on improv you're gonna have to improvise the scene

[00:41:48] I am now the bartender I am going for it this is where your your one class of improv is going to read oh man um yeah what can I get you a partner I don't know I don't know what this guy is

[00:42:03] like uh you can get me club soda rocks with a dash of bitters okay and then yeah he goes over it clearly has no idea how to make that drink and he's like oh I um uh saw a guy in here he was

[00:42:19] looking for um uh women he he was he was an asshole uh see they twinned the asshole thing just as a nod because he's saying it to you yeah um he said he left his card here he said um you might be interested

[00:42:35] in this I don't know hard like his credit card or business card his business card he he sells numbers um okay yeah um he said uh yeah he said um it the address is an airport hanger

[00:42:52] he said you should go there really yeah yeah yeah and and just that I should go there he just he sells lemurs and I should just go there he said he should go there for a great time he said um

[00:43:04] really yeah he said he said the ladies love it and and yeah all the ladies have been in this night club they all get the same the same business card and these ladies they love lemurs I am is that

[00:43:20] I presume they do I don't ask them it's not my place here's your drink and it's pretty much just water um thank you okay well I'll take this this business card I'll hang on to it while I

[00:43:33] join me to drive it there I'm actually finished work now if you want I can drive it uh I I guess so yeah right let's get into the car right all right then um

[00:43:43] I'm gonna head so you just get away you just got into the car why would you get into the improv is yes and oh that's true that's true um all right it's a long trip do you want to

[00:43:55] go to sleep for a while I if it's that if you're telling me it's a long trip I guess I better rest up right uh okay so we have a long one-shot scene one one take of a nine minute trip of you just

[00:44:11] sorry I said nine I meant 90 um and then yeah here we are we're at the airport hangar um there's about 40 lemurs uh just running around um and the guys there hi I'm I'm Jacob hi lemurs are for me hi Jacob I

[00:44:29] I suppose a little bit of both I'm curious where are you going with this I'm curious I'm curious all right it's not every day you get an invite to an airport hangar that's filled

[00:44:45] with lemurs honestly I have no idea this I don't know where to go with this I'm very uncomfortable about this Jacob character and the bartender um yeah um to be honest I think they say cut and then we find out later I don't know I probably

[00:45:02] are murder or something I don't know what happens in that I'm cut to black so I get murdered I think you do that's the only way I can write my way out of this it cuts to black and then

[00:45:13] there's a detective there and the assistant comes over her partner comes over gone so what's the case and then he's like oh she was stabbed with lemurs for something I don't know wow how would you

[00:45:24] write your way out of that that's a rough way to go out oh the way I'd write my way out of it I would I would promising young woman that might you know it would be uh I would be playing dumb

[00:45:37] until I wasn't oh but you god that was an awful gambit you went to sleep for 90 minutes well it's this is this is yes and you're you're giving you're kidding me this I can't say no

[00:45:51] I how would you I again I haven't seen the first movie first as if but I'm gonna kind of call her then like like an assassin then I know she's just like vengeance but like she's obviously capable

[00:46:03] of murder like she's skilled at what she's doing yeah she oh because she makes she fakes that she's incapacitated yeah and these guys take her home and then she turns on them yeah and she's yeah

[00:46:17] and let them know oh hey no I'm not yeah and it's like this is so fucked up why would you do this and it's like why would I do this why would we where we know where this was going yeah yeah but that's

[00:46:30] what I mean she's obviously like capable like she's not a bumbling idiot who's trying to do something but like she wasn't going on I'm yes and everything until I strike if we're in if we're doing this improv

[00:46:44] thing like those are the rules those are the rules of improv you like you were like a sponge in that class they said yes and and you went exactly I am like or if I'm let's say if I'm presenting

[00:47:00] you with a scenario you're just going to be like yep okay and and we're rolling with this I've got to that's the whole thing I'm immediately shutting that down and do my own thing that's a real skill of

[00:47:11] improv just doing what I want to do and that's the whole thing yes and you know if you're telling me you know go to sleep for 90 minutes I'm okay all right 90 minutes that's okay yeah no I

[00:47:27] just for anyone who doesn't know any other advice about improv the other thing you want to do is make sure the other person is setting you up for a joke and tell him that I've taught us something you say

[00:47:39] this now and then I can do this that's that's helpful right yeah see and and and the emperor said right so that's that's true um back to you that movie that movie might do well um

[00:47:53] that's awesome speaking of uh government duties though again a lot of your people are very happy as I said so at some point they they're they're happy with you so they want to

[00:48:06] build something for you in your honor they're like look we have a lot of money hauled from finance comes in he says hey uh empress he's the only one who calls your empress anymore I'm just after

[00:48:15] checking the books I'm the finance guy turns out we have about 50 billion it is a surplus so guys are on the country everyone they all want to um make a monument for you um or something

[00:48:28] something that they can say this is in your name what can we build you well I'd like it to be something out of marble I'll start there like marble statue no not a statue yeah something out of marble something something everybody would enjoy like not just

[00:48:57] me like I don't want a marble statue they all like it you can be a 50 foot statue of you but I want as this I would think of this is like my legacy I wanted to be more than me

[00:49:09] you know like more than something that everybody would enjoy something that they can look at and go that's yeah big C but not your face yeah exactly something like that or or maybe hey maybe you know

[00:49:26] something beautiful but also functional protective something that could protect the people and also serve as a monument you know protect people from the exploding volcano oh there's rocks absolutely destroying the beaches exactly you know like something beautiful but also functional

[00:49:45] that would protect the people from these exploding volcanoes we can start that out we can build a massive marble dome all over the island just covering the island not sure much sunlight is

[00:49:57] going to get in but hey it's fine it was a very nice skylight but a lovely skylight in the middle nice skylight yeah yeah only apparent to the island season okay yeah we can get that built um

[00:50:09] yeah another question um and for your birthday your birthday is coming up what any celebrations you want to do while everyone is having a good time though hmm for my birthday what would I want

[00:50:21] I would want a fantastic island wide dinner big table big great big beautiful tables for everybody and they're given tables as a present to go home oh this is nice yes no

[00:50:43] no right oh great big tables for them to be seated at for the meal right okay I would want to put a beautiful feast and um lovely music what's that music hmm oh that's a tough one you too

[00:51:05] no sorry that's a strike against me no I mean I like you too I can appreciate you too you too but this is not that kind of a gathering right right it's not a parody atmosphere it's not a

[00:51:19] wild party yeah yeah so well I wouldn't consider you too wild party music either hey I was a wild child in the 90s hey well no you know what I take it back we can bring in you

[00:51:32] too we could bring in Madonna oh you have them all over the island yeah we can see if we could lure Brittany out of retirement yeah pretty good would they would any one of any of them are

[00:51:42] mean and the airport on the airport in on their line on the flight okay yeah and they're mean well then they don't get to come in that's the rule that's the rule that's true yeah yeah not allowed in so

[00:51:55] that's that but yeah we could you know you're gonna have to come through their lyric store I'm sure because some mean things are said in them I mean I think Brittany's called herself toxic didn't she

[00:52:07] that's an awful thing to she's not calling herself toxic she's calling other people toxic that's a bit mean oh you know if I came on here and said you were a toxic woman that would be an awful thing to

[00:52:20] start um but they're okay okay so you're just gonna have a load of musicians and a load of food what type of food do we have it all just all sorts are any specific just I mean I'd like to

[00:52:32] borrow from like like because of where we're located I would like to borrow from well I mean we're located as an island so yeah no we pull in from everywhere like I'd say we'd have really good

[00:52:47] Cuban food we'd have some nice Thai food we I mean just Caribbean Caribbean food yeah borrow from them yeah all sorts yeah Caribbean food Thai food yeah grand so we'll go out we'll steal a rake of food

[00:53:01] from all the Cubans Italians Spanish Portuguese Americans Irish steal a rake of food and bring it on that's fine after that lovely feast and everything else uh you're gonna knock on your door it's Paul

[00:53:16] again knock knock knock knock knock knock hi hi Paul he's actually slow side the door oh hello sorry I assumed you'd say that's fine that's fine that's a bit weird um Paul I'm hey I'm Paul again

[00:53:34] I'm going off on holiday I'm going to um Croatia for two weeks um just to let you know before I go uh I checked the finances again it turns out we didn't have 50 billion in surplus we actually had

[00:53:47] minus 50 billion oh I forgot about that so we're actually heavily indebted and that big marble wasn't a good idea um so now we're even more indebted so the IMF the International Monetary Fund

[00:53:59] they are looking to like they're gonna have to come in and start taking over the country to get the finances back if you don't if you don't figure out a plan to save us so anyway I'm off

[00:54:09] bye bye now so Paul leaves um uh he's getting he's actually getting double pay while he's on holidays for some reason I don't know why he put that into his contract but you have any idea

[00:54:19] how to to rescue the country financially any any any plans well we have to dismantle the dome we have to dismantle the monument it's gonna cost a lot of money I mean yeah I would say yeah I mean

[00:54:36] you know try to dismantle it and get paid back paid back yeah I don't I don't know I mean you know sell it off yeah sell it off that's all I mean you'd have to yeah taken a loss on that I think

[00:54:51] but yeah is there any other ideas you think of to make money you might have to open more formula on tracks the more formula yeah I mean that's the quickest thing is you know try to sell it off

[00:55:03] sell off the big dome um and then to make up the difference uh uh I suppose we could yeah we could try to entice more movies to come and film I mean does it does a great um uh market for selfie sticks of course because what the people

[00:55:26] didn't want there's actually a little black market of them um I mean there's 610 you could make over half a billion at least because that's how much it was they made in America in 2022

[00:55:39] off of selfie sticks off of selfie sticks so we'd have to allow them yeah yeah allow them to be what manufactured or sold bit of both bit of both yeah see yeah the beaches are going to be full

[00:55:59] of doubling in size groups because of selfie sticks by the way is your house is your house on a private beach or is it a public beach it's on a private beach okay yeah no don't let the riff

[00:56:10] raff near yeah right you know you get observed enough when you go out in public as a public figure right you don't need anymore you need your private space are you going to be around the public

[00:56:22] are you going to be very hands off stay away from me I would like to be amongst the public because that's how you're a good ruler you know you're off you know keeping to yourself all of the

[00:56:36] time it's very hard to get get an accurate representation of what people want yeah and they want selfie sticks so it's are they coming back well okay so if that's part of how

[00:56:53] I would you know be able to offset this horrible financial catastrophe then yes it would have to come back is there anything happening to Paul because he caused that because I mean he if he if he yeah

[00:57:07] if he caused that well yeah then then we're gonna have to find a new Paul and we're gonna have to find a new financial you want to kill him no not kill him just fire him just fire him

[00:57:19] I mean he'll get a hefty payout though for being let go right no you're just withholding money okay thankfully Paul's brother actually sold a lot of the marable to you in the first place so he's

[00:57:33] after getting a lot of money out of that nice kickback but um I do have a question and I want your answer honestly because I've a feeling it'll change uh when I ask if you're walking

[00:57:44] downtown you're trying to be one of the people of it and someone accidentally bumps into you and it is pure accident anything happened to those people how day or day no nothing would your

[00:57:57] instinct be are you the sort of person that when someone bumps into you your instinct is gone oh excuse me are you like I don't know why some people are like that I'm like that yeah I mean

[00:58:09] for the most part like it depends like it's it depends it depends on the vibe I'm getting from the other person and it depends on how fast the interaction is yeah um I have a question though

[00:58:21] Dane so if someone bumps into you and it's an accident and you go hey no problem move on if you're walking down the beach and someone wax a selfie stick off the back of your head or

[00:58:31] the front no the front of your head right in the face because they swung around didn't see you and it was an accident anything happened then no because it's an accident it's an accident

[00:58:40] that's the key there now that's going to be that's going to be in all the newspapers like the because some reason people are taking pictures well people are taking pictures of you the whole time

[00:58:48] and they do capture that moment where your face gets slammed with a selfie stick and it is on the front page of saying selfie stick slams big asshole oh no okay um anything happening then are you a bit annoyed

[00:59:06] I'm a bit embarrassed but I'm you know nothing happens to the person because like I said it's one thing if it's intentional if it's accidental that's the story but you're keeping the rage

[00:59:17] for the selfie stick inside your nose I know I have to it's you know we've got to make this money and that's honorable yeah I've got to do and as long as it's an accident that I'm getting hit

[00:59:28] with a selfie stick that that's why okay if it's deliberate that's a different story maybe that wasn't deliberate and this is one of the last questions that but one of the people taking the photograph um I don't think that was an accident maybe even though they

[00:59:44] claim that and everything else because I don't know how to phrase this but basically there was a coup attempt there was a plan to murder the Empress and we found them don't worry it's not going to happen you're completely safe we've actually caught the perpetrators they tried

[01:00:02] to embarrass you in the newspaper didn't didn't see that really going it was the 50 Jerry Harrywells um they were looking to take over using the money they've gained from the

[01:00:12] selfie stick business um they're in jail now what do you want us to do to kill them we get them off murder just keep them in jail keep them in jail forever forever now the jail is very

[01:00:25] perilously close to where the volcanoes are going off but they can just deal with that they'll never sleep right right we're good with that yeah sleep deprivation is I'm not going to order a hit

[01:00:39] on anybody let alone 50 people I'm not that kind of ruler you go to jail you're trying to kill me you're going to jail for life slow torture with the not able to sleep because of the volcanoes

[01:00:51] exactly perfect that is that is humane um okay uh let's see I do have um oh yeah two more questions um after the whole coup attempt as I said you're perfectly safe maybe never in any real danger but

[01:01:09] your advisors say it might be a good idea to stage a bit of a photo up you know the way how Kim Jong-il and probably his son used to go around factories and they'd point at like a car

[01:01:21] and in the newspaper in North Korea or wherever would say there he is showing them how to build a car just you know like Putin would sit on a bear topless and they'd go look at him there he's

[01:01:30] after taming a bear so what would you do it think just to make just to make sure everyone knows you're in charge the emphasis back you know oh my goodness what would I do well you know what

[01:01:41] I would say stage a photo up of me during one of my workouts there we go that's a good one what workout photo up like workout like gym workout not like you're in a race car going around not a race

[01:01:57] car no like gym work you know and this is a proper like it's not a stage workout where you're like perfect and you're like that that woman isn't fucking actually trying to go you were hard

[01:02:08] this is me going hard lifting sprinting the whole thing you are wheezing it's like I am I don't wheeze when I work out I do I smoke for years I wheeze no matter what

[01:02:23] like I'm you know Doc on wood you know yeah got conditioning running over here so we're photographing you know me going hard going all out so it's gonna be one okay so it's

[01:02:37] gonna be one of those things where it is just a regular photo that's obviously well well state not well stayed but well well lit and stuff but it's people going she looks so

[01:02:47] fit and healthy that she is not wheezing that has to be like photoshop but you're like no no no that's actually right like there are people debating just amazed okay very good very good last question though even though you're in the picture of at some point you

[01:03:01] you have to consider that you know I've had enough of this ruling I better hand it over to someone right like at some point you have to think about your air when it comes to that day

[01:03:12] when you have to announce your air I mean who would you pick and the only thing I'd say is it has to be someone who is alive now like it can't be your hypothetical great great grandson

[01:03:23] or whatever so when you announce are like how would you announce that and who would you announce this when people show up to your beach house saying oh there's a big announcement going

[01:03:32] what do you do do you walk out and yeah basically what do you do the floor is yours I'd hand it over to my little cousin Caroline she's four she's four yep she's like why Caroline

[01:03:48] because she's adorable very smart she's very smart and I trust her to grow into the role and rise to the occasion so you okay so months after your own not your own but the failed coup

[01:04:05] attempt against you you have put your four-year-old niece or no niece or cousin my little cousin you've put your four-year-old cousin into the role and went don't worry the rest of them are good

[01:04:17] what do you what do you say to the rest of the island the islanders the Arianians I say this is a leader who will grow into her power she will grow into her strength she will grow into

[01:04:31] her ability to lead okay okay uh yeah hey we have to be happy about it to be honest our rough guidance so yeah um still be my successor one day oh not when she's four

[01:04:47] not when she's four oh no I thought you were numbing it now I thought it was the day like oh oh okay you know she grows up oh when she's in her 20s or 30s or

[01:04:59] oh thank god thank god okay that's fine that's fine yeah everyone everyone has a breath of huge sigh of relief and they're like thank god because honestly I was not going to follow a four-year-old I don't care who's fucking cousin it was now they're happy

[01:05:14] everybody's then then the national anthem would be the Daniel Tiger theme song so yeah no they they are relieved beyond beyond everything um and so you're you're gonna wait until that point and are you gonna stay on the island then or are you leaving you're out of there

[01:05:32] not I would stay on the island just in case she needs anything oh so you just hang around just just just being like remember I can be in power if you want you want me to do anything

[01:05:44] yes you think that's a good idea I would only be there for her as she would if she would if she were to need me that's it but you don't think the rest of the island people would be like

[01:05:57] I don't really like the new person I really like the old person that sort of thing I would work on her behalf to get the the to get everyone on board

[01:06:07] you'd still stage the odd photo up being like look at even even at my age look how great I am of course yeah of course got you know you want to you know keep the image relevant

[01:06:21] you don't want to like fully disappear but just you know have them see you in a in a new light different light I think you're cool so basically your approval ratings are still 99.4 whereas your your cousin Caroline right yes measley 67 percent um

[01:06:40] bit alarming but yeah not well we would have strategy meetings and we would have you know discussions with the PR team where they'd listen they defer to you and everything

[01:06:50] how do we turn this around how do we turn this around how do we pump up those approval ratings what do we need yeah she needs to get more pictures beside you

[01:06:59] because you're the popular one okay okay fair enough um as you I'm gonna air quote as you retire because we know when you're not retiring any final words you would give to your your islanders

[01:07:12] or your arianians is advice you know nice watch where you point the selfie sticks watch where you probably yeah you've held that in for about 30 years now yeah yeah watch where you point

[01:07:24] those selfie sticks fair enough and then you just wander off back into your your gym gym at the house yeah at the house why not fair enough I think you're the first person who stayed on the island still in power

[01:07:38] that I wasn't overthrown or like you weren't either overthrown or you weren't going oh no I'm getting the hell out of there as soon as I as soon as I can get off this yes I am out

[01:07:47] that's a nice change of pace yeah um thank you very much yeah that's the end of the island of Oriana it's blown up now it's gone um you're back in New York yeah it was nice though yeah thanks

[01:07:57] everyone for listening do you have anything uh Christina any socials you need to you want to plug rather I can be found on twitter because I'm always gonna call it twitter yeah who's

[01:08:09] yeah yeah so you can find me on twitter as Christina Aurea uh I can be found on instagram as Christina dot Oriana same goes for threads and uh blue sky oh yeah i'm not blue sky as well

[01:08:27] I probably have not mentioned that undisputed yes but yeah you can find me there as well um what is treads like because I don't think we can get it in the year has gotten marginally better like there's certain things that like you know like recently they just

[01:08:42] introduced gifts or gifs however the hell you say it no gifts surely yeah yeah okay so that's that rolled out this week finally um still don't have an edit button no that'll never

[01:08:57] never happen well I don't understand what the big deal is just give us an edit button I swear to god the social media product that gives you an edit button it's gonna be the dominant one

[01:09:10] the funny thing is do you know with twitter and how it's awful and it was always awful but it's awful now right and you know how its owner who i'm gonna call twitter as well

[01:09:22] i'm just not gonna call him anything he calls himself no need to okay but he obviously started the whole charging eight euro or whatever eight dollars a month right here it's eight dollars or

[01:09:35] thirteen dollars or something ridiculous yeah right the funny thing is if if it was any if it was anyone else who was taking over who took over twitter and didn't if they said oh we're gonna actually have a

[01:09:47] paid uh part of this now when people go wait what the hell is like yeah we'd have a paid thing of two dollars a month and you'll have an edit button there'd be no out it did be people going

[01:09:57] but fine we wanted it so much go on give it yeah edit that's all i want to do too yeah nothing if you i apparently think it's because the twitter guy is just so awful that people are like no

[01:10:07] i don't care what he offers this is pretty interesting the conversation that i've been having with people is it's like it could be 50 cents it could be nothing like it could be 50 cents i'm not paying for this yeah it's unprincipled it's not even that it's him

[01:10:24] it's just the audacity to charge for a product that has ultimately become integral in so many different ways like yeah even like like here in the us we have the national weather service national weather service had a twitter account that was vital yeah all to helping people stay

[01:10:45] safe from catastrophes of all sorts and because i don't i don't know like i don't remember exactly what happened but whatever it was the account is basically no more so that's a like

[01:11:01] it's not um i don't remember what happened exactly i don't know if it's that it's no more or that it was somehow compromised it's too hard to find or to see because of the new algorithm

[01:11:13] was it people i could be wrong but i feel was there something about people was doing that first rolled out with the whole blue ticks are now just paid for playing and people were just making copied accounts so like i would make a christina account and have

[01:11:29] it been taken but did someone do that maybe for that i think yes i think that's what it is that i'm thinking of and it's like how are we supposed to distinguish what's real and what's not this is

[01:11:40] like a vital service yeah it isn't a joke about like this is an actual benefit to people yeah and so like i've heard people say that it should basically now be considered like a public utility

[01:11:53] and i and i can't disagree because i even know like if something major is going down news wise especially like in my area i'm gonna hop on and be like what's going on yeah you know what's

[01:12:07] happening in my area what are people saying and if you can't find it because there's all this garbage on there that's a problem that's even there was something like maybe a couple of months ago where

[01:12:22] something was trending that i knew like something i i read it somewhere else and i'd generally normally you'd go oh i'll just go onto twitter just to see kind of a very basic what's happening

[01:12:31] and i can relate or what's actually happening but just a general idea and i went down to go oh i'm must find out what's happening and as soon as i went down i was like there's no point me looking at

[01:12:41] it i can't remember what it was but i was like there's no point because the only things that are gonna come up are from morons like there's no actual information gonna come out of this so

[01:12:52] there's no point um actually that's that's a big piece of it it's it sucks like it's really sad and you know i've grown quite fond of the people i've gotten to know on that site and i've grown

[01:13:06] a considerable audience for someone who hasn't been active publicly on there very long i've grown a sizable audience and like contacts that contacts that matter yeah and are important to me

[01:13:20] and just the thought of having to like having to give that up because this jerk wants to run this site into the ground because why his ego got hurt right something you know he i mean like very rough

[01:13:38] math done here but like he could have bought five Manchester United yeah just why not he could have done anything but because he is so petty and fragile because people were dunking on him on

[01:13:52] he went and bought the damn thing do you ever think and i think i realized it as well soon after he bought it and i hadn't thought of it before that he's one of the richest men in the

[01:14:04] world right so technically he can do anything like anything he did wakes up in the morning goes i want to buy this he technically can um and he can decide i'm gonna go to Fiji for two weeks

[01:14:14] then i'm gonna go here and obviously he has other things to but like he technically can do whatever he wants for the rest of his life is it a weird feeling that like i'm not in that position

[01:14:24] i'm not retreating but i have no envy for someone who technically can do whatever they want which you think you should like i would love to be rich and be able to do whatever but like no envy for the

[01:14:37] man yeah i have no envy of being him like i would never want to be but that's what yeah there's no self-awareness happening and there's nobody willing to tell him no if i'm that rich i'm making sure i have people around me that are gonna tell

[01:14:55] me no what is it yeah it's on my on my bullshit it's like thinking you know we we're in filmmaking and stuff and thinking like oh i'd love to have a career like uh Ridley Scott or you know

[01:15:11] whoever and then go on oh god i wouldn't and you're like that's really weird because they're they're genuinely successful people why wouldn't i i'm a very jealous and petty person but this is

[01:15:21] really weird that's i'm not anyway um what i'll do is because this will just get into a big chat um yes Christina thank you very much for um coming onto the podcast and being a stable

[01:15:33] tyrant which is is um not a common occurrence i'm honored thank you for having me on i'm so glad that i can walk away having given the impression of a stable tyrant that's yeah a stable person for

[01:15:48] a stable country is is the message yeah that's nice yes and thanks everyone for uh listening and i haven't figured out an outro for this do you any ideas don't look at me this is only my

[01:15:59] second podcast ever i am the worst person to ask i'm gonna i'm gonna cut it out yeah that'll yeah um all right bye everyone bye