Episode 3 | 50 Shades of Gay

In this episode:
- Story Time!
- Wack Podcast Sponsors
- Brazillian Wandering Spiders
- Tinder Gold
- World of Tshirts

Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 2:00 50 Shades of Gay
• 8:39 Wack Podcast Sponsors
• 15:08 Brazillian Wandering Spider
• 16:37 Tinder Gold
• 19:52 World of Tshirts

Transcript

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Wagwan, we are back for another episode. This is my second time recording this one. I was editing it last night and it turns out I had soy sauce on my shirt the entire time. So we're here again. Today we're going to be talking, well I'm going to be doing a little bit of a story time. I haven't done one of these yet. A lot of the stuff I've been talking about is more like news, pop culture, trending, boob up, whatever we're talking about. But I've got a personal story that I want to tell you and then I'm I'm going to go into the pop culture trending boob app that I was talking about before. So I want to ask you, well, everyone has crazy high school drama. Everyone's got something that happened to them in high school or something that happened to them just after high school that's a little bit crazy. And I have one of those, like everyone else. But what would you do if you saw your girlfriend cheating on you? Be a bit annoyed, right? What if your girlfriend was cheating on you with one of your ex-girlfriends? Yeah, so that's why the title of this episode is 50 Shades of Gay. We're going to be diving into what I did and what happened. We're also going to be jumping into some weird podcast sponsors. Not ones that are sponsoring me yet, but those ones that are repetitive as and you hear them every time. And then we're going to be jumping into as well, a little, another story time, another personal little anecdote about... buying stuff accidentally using your parents' money. You'll hear it later. But yes, Fifty Shades of Gay. You're going to enjoy this episode. It's going to be

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fun. Enjoy.

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Girlfriend number one. was like a casual year nine relationship. Wasn't anything crazy. One of those almost forgettable ones. Didn't really count is what we were saying. But her mom was a little bit crazy. That should have been a bit of a red flag for me. She messaged me after we broke up saying, why did you and girlfriend break up? What's wrong? Talk to me. Talk to me. Let's make it happen. And I was like 15 or 16. So that should have been a 15, I was 15, so that should have been a pretty major red flag, but hey, is what it is. One of those relationships that was like, cool, whatever. Girlfriend number two, however, was a lot more of a serious relationship. We met at my work. She didn't work with me, but we met there. Came to family Christmas, met my entire extended family. And I had my license around that time as well, like just got my P's. So it was a lot more serious than that first relationship. And I was emotionally invested. It wasn't just a fling. So that's like the premise. Girlfriend two, serious relationship was serious, more serious relationship. Girlfriend one, very much a short term, like year nine, nothing real happened relationship. So this all went down at, One of my close friends' birthday parties. Everyone was drinking, having fun. Everyone's families were there. It was her 17th, so parents were still there just because the kids were drinking. Parents were there just making sure that everyone was doing the right thing. No one was going too off the rails. And as I did, and as you should do, I was introducing girlfriend number two, because we were together at the time. I was introducing girlfriend number two to everyone. This is who she is. Most of my mates already knew her. But a lot of the other people at the party didn't. So I did the right thing, introduced them. I introduced girlfriend number two to girlfriend number one because girlfriend number one and me didn't have any beef. We were fine. We both kind of like ignored our previous relationship in a way. But that happened. And then about an hour, hour and a half into the party is when shit started to like go down. So I was outside with my mates, having a fun time, hanging around the pool. having a couple of drinks, you know, do what you do. And I went inside to grab something to eat and just to see where girlfriend number two was. Cause I was like, I haven't seen her in a minute. We should probably go like check up on it and make sure she's all right. Then I walk in, look into the living room, look on the couch. There's girlfriend number two making out with girlfriend number one. Like, oh, okay. That's interesting. That's not right. I wasn't really sure what to, what to think. when that happened but I asked them to stop I was like hey guys like can you not and they're like yeah sure sorry whatever we got a bit out of hand I'm like okay big deal I was happy to ignore that and then go outside couple more drinks go back inside and still at it still at it people saw as I said before the parents were around the place and the parents were in the living room area where they were and the parents were like whoa what is going on And that's when I got annoyed and I wasn't sure how to react. And I don't know if it's me being traditional, but cheating's cheating, right? So in short, short story time actually, my second girlfriend cheated on me with my first girlfriend. So that's fun. It's really fun. Now the next morning is when I was like, ooh, that's kind of f***ed up. That's not cool. So I did a... Not a bad thing. I did a thing. I broke up with her. As I should have. Probably not in the best way. Kind of bit shittily. I broke up with her over the phone. I was annoyed. Didn't really want to see her. I should have done it in person. Because she still has one of my hoodies. And I really want that hoodie back. But it's fine. It's been too long. It's been a couple years now. I'm not getting that hoodie back. She can have it. And... The one thing that properly annoyed me is the excuse of it didn't count because I'm straight was floated by her. That hit a nerve. And again, don't know if it's me being traditional, but pretty sure cheating's cheating. Doesn't matter if it's a girl and a girl, guy and a girl, guy and a guy. I don't care. Cheating is cheating. But now looking back at it, looking back on the whole situation, it is... quite funny to say the least it's one of those very much like a dad law type of thing like everyone talks about dad law one of my mates got stuck in a fire when he was over in europe somewhere and instead of leaving the bushfire he decided to put his drone up in the air and take photos now he sells the photos online it makes a whole lot of money different story story for another day but it makes for a great piece of dad law and for some reason not for some reason i know the reason why But every time I tell people this story, this is like my go-to icebreaker. I think it's funny enough to tell people and people are shocked. It gives a real big shock factor. But people always ask, why didn't you join in? I wasn't invited, number one. And number two, it was my girlfriend cheating on me. So that's kind of why I didn't join in. But hey, each their own. You can do whatever you want, but not with me. And there is no lingering drama. I'm, as I said here, at peace, but baffled. It's just one of those things that happened to me and I'm like, whoa, okay, that's funny, weird. But it happened. And it's funny that it happened, to be completely honest. And it makes for a great story, as I said. So, looking back on it, I honestly don't think relationship with me and girlfriend number two would have lasted much longer. But, hey, great story out of it. Much easier way to break up. So, too long, don't read. Too long, don't listen. Yeah, my second girlfriend cheated on me with my first girlfriend. And it makes for a great story. So I thought, if you're going to get cheated on, may as well get a podcast episode or a podcast segment out of it. So that's this little segment on Fifty Shades of Gay. Now... with podcasts. And you guys, if you're listening to my podcast, you definitely listen to other podcasts because this should not be your first pick of podcasts. I mean, if it is, thanks. You should probably look into expanding your repertoire a little bit and listening to some more stuff. But I know for me at least, the podcasts that I listen to all seem to have the exact same sponsors. It's always like a Shopify or a BetterHelp or DraftKings, which is like a gambling network, or Bluetooth, which is a boner pill company. And looking back on this, I realized that these companies for sure cannot be making enough money off of these podcast sponsors. Because I don't know if it's just me that doesn't buy anything they listen to, but I I feel like that's quite normal. There wouldn't be much turnover from the amount of people listening to the podcast and the podcast sponsors that actually go and decide to buy what the sponsor's trying to sell. So I was doing some digging on sponsors as a whole, and it turns out all of them, or most of them, Bluetooth is all right, most of them have some dirt on them. So Shopify, they're the ones that create all... the big websites. If you see the shop pay button, you know it's Shopify. That's like one of the things that they say. So they sponsor over, well, they've sponsored over 12,000 podcast episodes, 478 shows, repeat sponsors on 403. And earlier this year, sorry, late last year, they shut down their build native. So their indigenous entrepreneurship scheme, they shut it down Real quietly, didn't tell anyone. They were very public about the program while it was running and while it was going ahead. It was a great program, helping a lot of people out, and then they decided to shut it down. So that's one thing that Shopify did. Apart from that, they built some cool websites, good websites. I don't know. I don't use it, but it seems like it works. Another one that has a little bit of shade on them is BetterHelp. I feel like I'm just destroying any chance I have of getting sponsored by these companies. But if you guys are listening, I love you. And what I'm saying is just as a joke, and it's not real whatsoever, so sponsor me. BetterHelp. Turns out, when they first started, and up until a couple years ago, they fixed it now, but they were hiring unqualified therapists. Just, yeah, why not? Why not hire real therapists and pay them proper wages? Instead, they hired unqualified therapists that were just basically following a script and giving generic... ways of dealing with stuff, I guess. And then they also shared private health and user data with Meta, Snapchat, well, Meta, who is Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat. And now they have to pay$7.8 million to the Federal Trade Commission in the US because they were just blatantly lying to consumers about what they were doing. Yeah, man, I really am ruining any chance I have of monetizing this podcast. Another one is DraftKings. You guys do not need to sponsor me whatsoever because I'm going to openly talk crap about you. So they're facing lawsuits in Illinois, Kentucky, and New Jersey in the US, obviously, for false and misleading advertisement because they were doing something called a no sweat bet. So saying like, I think it was if you place this bet and you lose, you get the money back, which isn't how it worked. And it wasn't a no sweat bet. If you lost the money, you lost the money. Big deal. Yeah, so I accidentally cut my camera out. And we're back live in the flesh. But yeah, blatantly lying about their betting and what was going on in that. So that's fun. And then it turns out that they've been running multiple sponsorships with people who have openly... criticized gambling and sports betting as a whole. And now they're sponsoring them and paying them big bucks to talk about their apps. And these people are using it. So I don't know who's at fault here, whether it's the DraftKings or the people that are accepting these bets, but bets, sponsorships. But yeah, that's a real fun one. Another one, this isn't a podcast sponsor. This is a company that was sponsoring on youtube and like video content and honey you definitely used to see their ads on youtube turns out that was stealing money from creators so at the bottom of like youtube videos you can put like a link to a product and that linked won't cost the linked the link won't cost the buyer any more money but it will be like an affiliate link so Whoever's putting it. So if I put a link in description to a microphone, let's say, I might make$5 off that mic if it sells, but it's not going to cost the user or the buyer any more money. But what was happening is when you click on that link and then activated Honey, instead of the person getting the money, so instead of me getting the money, Honey gets all the money from it. Because people were wondering, how are they making money? They weren't really doing a lot of advertisement. They were doing so much advertisement, but they weren't selling anything as such. They were just giving away free money. So yeah, it turns out they were just stealing money from like YouTube creators and I think they're sponsoring podcasts as well. So that's always fun. And the last one I want to talk about, which is a little bit funnier, is Blue Chew. Now, if you don't know what Blue Chew is or who they are, they're a company that sells modern day Viagra. It's just another way of selling boner pills to people. So they sponsor, they have sponsored, sorry, 6,700 podcast episodes, 224 shows, 196 repeat shows, and yeah, all selling boner pills to like Men, because that's all it is. Selling boner pills, and they obviously do a good job. And researching Bluetooth and researching boner pills, as I should do in my day-to-day life, I stumbled across the Brazilian wandering spider. If you haven't heard of it, Brazilian wandering spider, it's a sometimes deadly spider, also known as the banana spider, because I accidentally shipped with bananas. just because it comes from Brazil. Bananas are in Brazil. Turns out it causes a quote-unquote prolonged and painful erection, which can lead to the necrosis of the penis. So in short, gives you a painful, bad, hard-on, and it kills the tissue in your gentleman's sausage and can lead to death. So the banana spider is killing your banana. in short. And it's a spider so horny that it's led to medical research being done about it. Because now they're looking at it and they're like, ooh, this could be used as like a Viagra. They could use the venom and get rid of the venomous part, but still give you the hard-on part. So that's interesting. The last thing I'd like to do is be eating a banana, get bitten by a spider, and then get a hard-on and then die. It doesn't sound like a... Like a fun experience whatsoever. And I don't know. Whatever floats your boat or, I don't know, peaks your gentleman's sausage, I should say. You do you. But getting bitten by a bonus biter is not my ideal thing. Something else I wanted to talk about today is kids buying stuff on their parents' phone. Because I've got another story about this that I'm going to lead this to. You hear about every day. It's usually around that Christmas time period. You hear about like a kid... buying like a house on Amazon. I got a couple of examples here. There was a kid who bought like$1,500 worth of toys and a hot tub worth$500 on Amazon. And the parents didn't really know until it just rocked up at their house. And then another five-year-old spent over$2,500 in in-app purchases on their phone, like Clash of Clans coins. And I think most people have accidentally done this. Like once maybe and then your parents yell at you and you never do it again i know i did when i was little i think i bought like classic cans gems or something like that i wasn't any good at the game either so i shouldn't have been buying anything but i bought something accidentally my dad yelled at me never did it again that was until earlier this year where my parents were like harry did you buy anything on your phone like we've had a charge come up on our account i was like no my card is linked to my phone so anything i buy comes off my account, you know, like any self-respecting 19 year old, I pay for my own things. Turns out my card wasn't linked to my phone and it came off my parents' phone. And that purchase was like$35 for Tinder gold. It didn't even lead 20 matches. So it was a bit of a scam in the first place. So this was when I was over in Melbourne at the start of the year with one of my mates were like, oh yeah, might as well just like give it a shot. Who knows? It's only one week. Have a little bit of fun. Didn't lead anywhere. And then it led to an awkward conversation with my parents and they don't know. So mom and dad, if you're watching, the$30 or$35, whatever it was at the start of this year or earlier this year for an unknown app was me buying Tinder gold on your account. So I'm sorry about that. But yeah, it just reminded me of those kids buying stuff with their parents' phone. So it turns out that Tinder Gold isn't all that flash. Or maybe it's just me. I think my Tinder profile is pretty crap. I deleted it. I'm proud of myself. Deleted Tinder and Hinge. Deactivated my accounts, actually. I used to give people shit for downloading the apps. And then I downloaded them myself. And I got the dopamine boost from them. I was like, oh, this is fun. And then my mates would give me shit for them. And then I saw the exact same thing happen to them. We were at the pub the other night and we downloaded Tinder on my mate's phone. And he was like, no, I don't want it. I don't want it. Then he sent me a screenshot the other day of him on a hinge. And I'm like, you didn't have hinge. We downloaded Tinder on your phone. And it turns out that he loved Tinder so much that he got hinge. And I was like, oh, this is like, this is not good. So I deleted it and I was like, I can't do this. This is bad enough for myself. Can't be like subjecting my mates to it. So he's now addicted to it. So I've decided to retire, hang up the swiping fingers and the zero matches. And yeah, I deactivated my account. So I'm proud of myself there. And the last thing I want to talk about today, we're just flying through topics, left, right and center, bonus spiders, girlfriends cheating on me, sponsors, Tinder gold. Um, is a TikToker. If you are remotely on the brain rot-y side, lol cow side of TikTok, you would know who Joshua Block, World of T-Shirts, is. If you don't, he's a TikToker who, in the past probably year and a half, has got incredibly famous for not the right reasons. He, unfortunately, has a severe dependency on alcohol. and thinks it's normal. People are speculating that he's probably on the spectrum. He hasn't addressed it himself, but he shows similar characteristics to it. And he just rages in public, severe alcoholism. And I've been following Josh for about four years. So I was there during like the coffee and boba days. So he used to like do boba reviews and coffee reviews. He would sing. In Times Square in New York, I'm going to

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So in 2021, he also paid for a billboard. in Times Square of him dancing with his TikTok art, which led to a lot of followers. I think he had 2.2 million or something like that in 2021. And he also started charging fans$50 to get a photo or a video with him. Because I mean, you got to get that bag somehow. But it all started to go seriously downhill at the end of 2021. In November 2021, he was still 20 years old. And in the US, the legal drinking age is 21. So he hadn't had alcohol before. But when he went to Mexico, he started drinking and drinking a lot. He was drinking every day. He had a blast. But this is when the problems seriously started. The boba turned into alcohol. And then before you know it, World of T-shirts was not World of T-shirts. And it was pretty much just World of Alcoholism. So that's when, yeah, that's when things really started to go downhill for him. And then he had some wacky managers. He had Michael Quinn. We thought he was really bad. Wasn't super nice. Would exploit him quite a lot. They did a meetup with Daniel Larson and him. If you don't know who Daniel Larson is, he's now in prison. But he was also a TikToker at the same time. Had some own mental issues that he was dealing with. Very similar to Josh in the way that he was getting taken advantage of. But Michael Quinn made the boys meet up in 2023. And that led to, honestly... One of the strangest periods of TikTok I've ever seen. My entire feed page was just Daniel Larson and Joshua Block meeting up non-stop. And then Michael Quinn and Josh, they were no longer manager anymore. And then Mr. Based became Josh's manager, which was even worse. We really thought Michael Quinn was bad. Mr. Based was bad. He... would exploit josh had this weird dog he hired prostitutes for josh like non-stop because he had never had sex before so instead of you know helping him wheeze off or lean off the alcohol and then get healthy and then get into a healthy relationship mr base just decided to hire some prostitutes for josh so that's fun and now mr based and josh are no longer like partners anymore and So now Mr. Bass, all he does, I checked his TikTok before filming this video, and the last 30 or 40 videos are just him staring directly into the sun. And I don't mean like looking at the sun or glancing. I mean, he does like sun exposure therapy where he stares directly at the sun. Weird, weird guy. And now another thing about Josh is, as I said, he struggles with alcoholism. But He has like a winter soldier activation line. If you've seen any Avengers movies, you know, when they say that line, the winter soldier just like activates and he goes into a crazy mode. So people cannot, they do, they shouldn't, but they say, put the fries in the bag to Josh. And he goes nuts. He starts screaming. He'll yell. I make more money than you. I make 400 grand a year. I'll sue you. Start screaming. He bites his arm all because they say, put the fries in the bag. And I think we've started to realize recently, like if you look in the comment section, it's under Josh's videos. You realize that people are starting to catch on that Josh thinks it's one person because you always say, how did you find me? How did you know where I was? So Josh thinks that it's just one person saying, put the fries in the bag. Not any of his like 5 million followers that are saying it. So that's fun. But it's a seriously sad situation that he's in at the moment. He's got no manager. which is, we thought would be better for him, but he's been linking up with some bad YouTubers. Do you know Jack Doherty? He's the one that like crashed his McLaren because he was on his phone while driving at like 80 miles an hour. So like 120 Ks an hour on a freeway in the rain, crashed his car, almost killed his cram and ran. And now he did a link up with a load of t-shirts for a couple of days and just like abused him pretty much. Like gave him as much alcohol as he wants, like treated him like absolute crap. And that was like really strange because about three weeks before, Josh did a video with another YouTuber called Danny Duncan, who was the complete opposite to Josh, like trying to get Josh into rehab, like being very cautious around him, giving him a really good time. And you can tell the difference. Like... In that video with Danny Duncan, who was the guy that treated him well, Josh was happy, smiling, having a good time the entire time. And then the video with Jack Doherty, he was just screaming, nonstop people yelling, put the fries in the bag to him, nonstop people yelling at him, you know, just because. And then every single time Josh tries, or someone tries to tell Josh that he should maybe look at rehab or look at weaning off the alcohol, He claims that everyone has their alcoholic years. And now, I love a good beverage myself. Can't complain. I love a beer every now and then. I can't have beer. I'm allergic to beer. Love a cider every now and then. But alcoholic years and Josh's alcoholic years are very different. I think what Josh means is like people in college or in university going out drinking a couple nights a week. Maybe getting sloshed one night of the weekend. Not being blackout drunk. 24 7 there was a guy on tiktok i think he stopped where he's not posting as frequently anymore but his name was world of drinks tracker and he would look at josh's videos throughout the day because josh posts like 20 to 30 videos every day on tiktok he would look at what he's drinking how much it is like alcohol Josh's body weight, and then he would calculate how much it costs, how much he's drinking, Josh's standard blood alcohol level, and it was insane, like his BAC was so high the entire day, that very much an issue, as if you haven't told already, been able to tell already, serious issue with him, so that's just another thing I wanted to touch on today, another episode of rambling and weird stuff, that I wanted to talk about, but I hope you enjoyed my little story at the start, my Fifty Shades of Gay story about my second girlfriend cheating on me with my first girlfriend, which happened a couple years back, but it's still hilarious to look back on, so if you're listening, if girlfriend number two is listening, which I hope you're not, but if you are, I'd love my hoodie back if you still have it, if you donated it, I don't care, just, yeah, I'd love it back, it was a comfy hoodie, but Apart from that, thanks for listening. I'll be back again next Monday for another episode of Harry rambling and talking at you, not to you. And if you enjoyed this episode, a five star on Spotify or Apple Podcasts would be a gem. If you're watching on YouTube, I hope you enjoy my pretty face. Hit that subscribe button. Give it a thumbs up if you enjoyed it. And I'll see you again next Monday. You've been listening to Let's Cancel Harry.

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Thank you.