To Save Us All From Satan's Power

I've spent a week digesting the backlash from my Last Supper post just before Easter and my apology video that followed. In this episode I obviously got heavily into that, before opening up about my own personal beliefs regarding God. Finally, I regaled a tale from my last visit to Catholic Mass a few months ago where the priest went on a tirade about abortion. It was exactly what you think. 

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Pessimist It's my boy Pessimist, Australian rapper, my friend, who you can just check out all of his discography, frankly, on Spotify. That song is called Don't Call Me Up, which was a song that I asked him to write for me to accompany my tour in 2022, the first tour that I did nationally, which was called Don't Call Me A Wog. And yeah, he based the song on the themes and the stuff that I was talking about in that show. Okay, hello, um Hello, this is episode three. Hello, welcome. I gotta tell you, I'm coming off the back of having a pretty angry fucking weekend, but I am very happy today. So it's gonna be a weird kind of... I guess, juxtaposition with the energy that I'm bringing compared to the subject matter that I'm talking about. And I might, you know, talking about the stuff that I want to talk about, I might get angry again. And that might be fun, just to kind of delve into that. So we should kick it off because this episode is going to be, we're doing it on episode three. We're going to do the God episode. We're going to go into it. We're going to go into what I think. I didn't really want to do it this early, but I have been prompted into it by... episodes from this past week. I'm not sure how actively or loyally or passionately you follow what's going on in my social media life. I'm not sure who you are. But in case you needed an update, I posted, as spoken about on the last episode, I posted a little AI-generated image that I made that I actually spent almost a day making because ChatGPT is not the greatest at generating the images. Not yet. Um, so I spent a day trying to get it just right. And, uh, it was basically, uh, the last supper. Uh, it was like a Renaissance style last supper with me on a table. Like I'm Jesus, uh, in my classic denim blue jacket, which appears in my, uh, current kind of profile picture headshot. That's from 2021, I dare say. Um, and I don't fit into that jacket anymore. But the wedge shred's going good, guys, and I'm going to fit into that denim jacket again by the time I'm done with this wedge shred. Nonetheless, it's got me in the denim jacket as Jesus in the middle of a Last Supper reenactment on a table full of wine and pizza and pasta, and I'm surrounded by renditions of the likes of Joe Avati, Effie, Nick Gianopoulos, George Kapaniaris, and the Sushi Mango Boys, and the caption was that mice special which is going to be released on the 1st of May is so good and so uh kind of pervasive and so uh so emblematic of where wogs are in modern contemporary Australia that it is going to end the years long war between all the other wog comedians not saying that they're in a war but I'm also not not saying that they're in a war um And this is going to be the thing. And I posted it the night before Good Friday, which is in fact the Last Supper. It was done quite deliberately. Now, I think it's hilarious. And a lot of people did think it was hilarious. But a few people thought it was not so hilarious. I got a couple of comments on the post. I'm not going to go through all of them. But I will go through one. I am going to tell you one post that I got from a person on my post. person I do not know, I'm not gonna say their name, but I am gonna read their post word for word. Now I should point out that it was this person, it was this dude, it was another dude, and then their wives, I did some investigation and found out that it was their wives that jumped in on the comments that were basically like, you tell them honey, you do not, this is blasphemy, you tell them honey. And that was pretty much it, that was the entire backlash that I got for the post. At that point, there has been more since, but we will cover that in a little bit. I'm going to read you a comment that I got on my Instagram. Strap in, it's pretty long. Here's the comment. Hi, Anthony. Just wanted to say, like many Orthodox Greeks and Catholic Italians who have seen this post, are quite disappointed by this insensitive choice. Yes, we can appreciate the tongue-in-cheek comedy of it, but at the end of the day, our lord and our faith is not open to mockery, sacrilegious or offensive depictions of the Last Supper, especially this time of year. I hope you take this image down and reflect on your comedic choices and how you supposedly quote-unquote represent members of our community. This was a publicity stunt designed to be controversial. However, is inappropriate and tasteless. While you are at it, showing such irreverence during Pascha, why don't you also mock Islam and Muhammad seeing that Ramadan has recently end? That's if you have any balls. Finally, I was a fan up until I saw this disgusting image. I will be encouraging members of our community to unfollow and boycott your shows as a matter of principle. On one final note, at least get the representation right. You should have placed Nick Gianopoulos at the center and kept yourself off to the side playing the part of Judas because that is exactly what you represent to us when you decided to post this image during Pascha. At least Nick, being the father of all wog comedy, never had to stoop to this level for cheap laughs. That's pretty heavy shit, man. Oh, man. I mean, this guy does not know Just how much he has validated my choices. Not only with his epic threats. Epic, epic threats to get the community to unfollow me. Of course, over the weekend, I jumped over 40,000 followers on Instagram. Thanks, guys. Thanks to the new people that might be here. Like, what the fuck? This guy's got a podcast, too. I wonder what he's talking about. He's talking about this kind of shit. Oh, man. Nick Giannopoulos, the father of wog comedy, would never stoop. Would never stoop for a laugh. He should be in the middle of your Last Supper painting, which is blasphemous, by the way. But if you're going to do it, you should have put Nick Gianopoulos, the father of wog comedy, in the middle. Guys, look. We are going to be talking a little bit about religion and religious people in this episode. I am not a religious person. I just wanted to say that. But that does not make me a faithless person. That does not make me a godless person. I'm going to tell you my opinion on the whole God thing in a little bit. But I will tell you that... Since the next thing that I'm going to tell you about, I have gotten a barrage of these people that have found me on Facebook, because that's where the crazies really live, guys. They live on Facebook. And I've got to tell you, if members of the Greek community, quote-unquote Greek community, that feel that my post is disrespectful and sacrilegious and blasphemous... don't want to come to my shows and they think that Nick Giannopoulos is the father of WOG comedy and that he would never stoop to these levels and that they would reference him as a kind of benchmark for what I'm trying to do, if they don't want to come to my shows anymore, it's probably better for everybody else because they are not intelligent enough to understand my shows. So we're all good on that front, homie. We're all good on that front. I was just spending my afternoon last Friday with this guy and there was another guy and his wife. It was like the two dudes and the two wives going at me in the comments and I spent the whole afternoon just gleefully antagonizing them in my comment section, which is something that I do and it's something that I probably should not do that often. But it's just so fun, man. And I've got a dopamine deficiency. I've got ADHD. I love to do it. And I was just having a lot of fun with it. But then I did get a text from my mom and my mom was very upset about it. And my mom, look, I'm not going to trash talk my mom because my mom's great. I love her so much. She's a religious person. She's been indoctrinated young. And thankfully, due to her divorce with my father, I was not similarly indoctrinated. But she was very upset. And so my fiance and I were talking about it. And, uh, my fiance introduced me to the concept of the apology video. I've seen a few of them before, but this is actually kind of like an internet trope. She showed me a person called Trisha Paytas, who is a YouTube personality who does like routine, like half an hour long apologies where she's sitting on the floor and almost crying and reading from a notebook and just doing the most over the top emotional apologies. Um, And we thought this would just be a tremendous idea for me to do. So we scripted it out somewhat. We talked about it. I had a couple of marijuana gummies just to get my eyes looking real watery. And I sat on the floor. And in between, if you see the video that I put, you'll see that there's a lot of cuts. Those cuts are for me laughing my fucking tits off, man. So we cut it up and I posted the apology video. And I have not ever posted anything on social media that has received more comments... and views so quickly. And so many people were saying to me, we forgive you. It's so big of you to do this. Of course, my mom's not going to listen to this. And please don't tell her that I said this, guys, if you know her. But as far as she's concerned, it was a legit apology. But also as far as so many other people are concerned, it was a legit apology too. I am going to have to go for so many more acting jobs now because as it turns out, I'm pretty good. My best friends were messaging me saying, are you okay? The only people that knew that I was bullshitting this apology were a couple of comics and my cousin. And obviously my fiance who was the director and executive producer of the film. Bro, wow. And like, look, I... I... I don't want to go to any lengths like the part of me that wants to be like ha ha ha ha it was me the whole time wants to make it abundantly clear on the internet that it was a fake apology because I'm like getting a lot of credit for lying so many people are praising me for lying and I don't actually feel very good about that because like I said at the start of this podcast and like I want to always kind of be I'd like to be as authentic and honest as possible But it's just too funny, man. It's just too, like, watch the video. I am never, ever that dramatic. I am never, ever that serious. And if you pay close attention, I say, watch my special on YouTube, which is called Papu on May 1st, 2025, three times. It's a fucking ad. But you know what? I'm going to leave it. And I'm going to leave it as is just for the time being because I would be very, very appreciative if these people who are appreciating me and praising me for my honesty and my decision to do this apology watch my special next week. That would be really good to boost the numbers. And then I can pull the rug out from under them a little bit later. Some guy in Greece said, this is the most honest, heartfelt apology video I've ever seen. If only our politicians could be like you. Oh, buddy. Oh, man. I think you need to... I think you need to do some, some more introspection, my friend. I feel terrible. I genuinely feel terrible, but it's also very funny, you know? And then there were, there were, there were the few people, this is, this is, I had to cut this out of, um, of the thing, uh, because this would have made it too obvious. But I did say in the original video, I said, um, you know, the original post has gotten so many complaints that I can't, it's got so many, it's been reported so many times that I can't delete it. Um, but my fiance was like, don't put that in. That'll make it too obvious that it's a joke. Um, instead, because I'm the, because I just want you to know, there's no way I'm fucking deleting that last upper post. It's so funny. I might even make it my DP for a little bit in a couple of weeks just to see who it upsets. Anyway, I took that out, but... There were obviously a few people in the comments on the apology video that are saying, well, you apologize, but it's still up there. What does that like? What? Take it down. And my response to all of them was like, no, brother, that's the coward's way out. I can't do that. That would be letting me off too easy. I need to have my shame there in order to repent properly. I need to have my shame there forever so that I can remember. It's why we wear the crucifix so that we can remember always what we did to Jesus. It's like the same thing. And they really have no response to that. Ah! Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Okay, let's address the Last Supper thing very quickly. First of all, saying that me doing a mockery of the Last Supper image is blasphemous is just a misunderstanding of what the word blasphemy means, and it's wrong. Because... The Last Supper is actually not a religious... It's not a piece of religious iconography. It's a painting done, like a reimagination of a religious event by Leonardo da Vinci, who was not a priest. He was not a bishop. He was not a cardinal. He was nothing. He was an artist, like me. And he did it like hundreds of years after the Last Supper was purported to even have occurred. So me doing a... Like an effigy of that. That's not blasphemy, guys. Also, it's not original. It's been done by a hundred plus different other media people, things, South Park, The Simpsons, Family Guy, not to mention Monty Python, who obviously got in a lot of shit for what they did. I'm not being original. I was just trying to be the Australian woggy version of that in order to plug my special. And I think it worked, man. I think it worked. Anyway. Look. I'm going to go for more acting jobs. And I'm going to do more apology videos. That's what I'm going to do. That's what my big reveal is going to do. I'm just going to incessantly make apology videos for everything that I do moving forward. If I ever get backlash from anybody, I'm going to apologize. And I should apologize again. I should do another apology video because, man... The Facebook people, they're late to the party, but they have gone to town on everything. And look, I'm obviously a bit of a fucking troll. I've been doing trial reels, they're called. Trial reels is a really great function of Instagram that they've introduced where you can repost old reels that have done very well. And Instagram will only show it to people that don't follow you. So you don't get embarrassed to your followers by... posting something again and you can open yourself up to brand new people that might like you. It's the reason why I've jumped in followers so much in the last couple of weeks. But because of this, I've been posting all the stuff and it's going to Facebook as well. And I wanted to be really cheeky over the weekend. So after the apology, I posted a sequence, three clips to the trial reels talking about The Greek Orthodox Church, Greek Easter, and then the Catholic Church. Because I just, I wanted to just go hard, man. And it worked, man. The engagement on these videos, the engagement is fantastic. I just love the people on Facebook as well. Like, they don't like it and they don't leave an angry comment, but they will emoji react and they'll leave the angry emoji. That's still giving me engagement, guys. Please, be clever. But they're not clever. These people are not clever. I'm not saying that religious people are not clever. I'm saying that militantly angry religious people are not clever. I'll tell you a couple of highlights that I can just remember off the top of my head. My favorite one is, you would burst into flames walking into the Greek Orthodox Church. Get thee behind me, Satan, is what a woman wrote. um that was that was my favorite i also really enjoyed there was a there was a thing where uh a guy defended me on the last upper post he just said get over it and then this woman said uh how shallow are you bop bop bop you're an idiot bop bop bop and then she returned a day later and saw the message exchange and she thought that Her message calling this guy shallow was him calling her shallow. So she responded to her own message saying, shallow, how dare you? There are too many people like you in our country. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is a woman with no profile picture, by the way. So yeah, look, I don't know who I'm talking to right now. The podcast is getting downloads, which is great. Thank you. I know that my mom's not here. And I know that the people that are writing horrible things on Facebook are not here. Oh, I got another good one. Let me tell you another good one. This is another good one that I just remembered. Some guy, some older guy was like, because you have done this mockery of The Last Supper, I hope your show flops hard in reference to my upcoming special release. And I wrote back to him. I was like, unfortunately for you, it's not going to. And he wrote again, and he said, I don't give a F about you or your shh. And then he wrote another message afterwards saying, that last word I meant was show. So thank you for clarifying that, my friend. I said it in the first episode and I said it in the second episode that I did not want to make this show exclusively about people commenting on my shit. And I promise, guys, I promise next week there will not be. Next week, we'll talk about some real shit. And we'll talk about some real shit now, I think, because I've wanted to give my opinion on the whole God thing because it's popped up thematically over the last couple of weeks. So let's get it. Let's get it. Let's talk about what I think. God, religion notwithstanding, religion to the side. Let's just put organized religion to the side for now. God, I think you would have to be an idiot to not acknowledge or at least consider the possibility that There is a deliberate design. There is a compelling energy in the world. There is a destiny. There is a fate. There is something that is moving us all in the direction that we're moving, that pulls us all together. The weird coincidence that you see, you have a dream about somebody, you see them a couple of days later, there's something going on. We will never understand it. And to pretend like you do understand it, to read from a book and like, And just like confidently say that you have an understanding of it is arrogant and stupid and dumb. But to say that there's nothing is also arrogant and stupid and dumb. There's something, man. There's something. To deny it denies the beauty and just the wonder of the world and humanity. So you'd have to be an idiot. to not think that there is. But you'd also have to be an idiot to think that it's, you know, a bloke in the sky with a fucking notebook saying, this guy was good today, this guy was bad today. I'm going to send him to hell. That's the other thing, right? That's the other thing that I kind of forgot to mention before about these people that were commenting on my shit. Back to the comments, guys. But I just don't understand, like, the fucking... the motivation... You know, I don't get the whole, oh, this guy's doing something that I don't like. I'm religious and I'm going to put a stop to him. I'm going to write a comment, an angry comment. Fuck you. Get thee behind me safe into this guy. Why? If you're so pious and you're so righteous and you're so secure, that's the key word there. You're so secure in what you're doing, you know, faithfully, religiously, then why worry about me? I'm a stranger on the internet. I'm a comedian. Why worry about me? Let me go to hell in a handbasket in peace and you just be happy to go to heaven in your beliefs. Or if you are such a good Samaritan, if you are such a proponent of... you know, Christian love, brotherly love, and you want to save me, why are you being a cunt to me? Be nice. Send me a message, brother. You are misguided. Let me turn the other cheek for you. Let me take you to mass and whatever. Like, be good. Be nice. Be nice to me. It would be nice if you were nice to me about it. I might actually listen to you, but I'm not going to listen to you because you're fucking weird about it. Because it's not about religion at all, right? It's not about religion at all. It's not about faith. It's about tribalism. It's pure tribalism from these people. It's genuinely the same thing as you're a Liverpool supporter and I went online and said Virgil van Dijk is overrated and your sense of self is so wrapped up in this thing. Your identity is so fused to this story that exists beyond you because your life is just so empty that it's like I came into your house and took a swing at you. It's like I said, God, God, is your whole life virgil van dyke is your whole life like every every week you get up on sunday early in the morning to go to the church or to watch uh up to sport and see the game at anfield and it's like the thing that gets you through your life and i have said that the thing that gets you through your life is kind of funny and stupid and you just can't handle it that's what that's That's all it is at the end of the day. And trust me, I can empathize with this because I get a daily barrage of these freaks around the world trying to chip away at my identity. These guys, he's not funny. This is blasphemy. He's not, he's a shit comedian. Fucking, this guy's got a weird hairline. Every single day, man, like way worse than what I'm doing to you guys. And it honestly, it hurts. It hurts. It definitely hurts. But I am secure and confident enough in what I'm doing. That I don't have an avalanche of idiocy online bother me to that point. It bothers me enough that I sometimes go back at them. So I get the notion of wanting to comment. But I don't get the like, I'm just being a dick. I'm just fueling the fire. But I don't get the whole, I've seen something on the internet today. I'm going to take a stand here. You know, I'm going to do something about it. I'm going to show this guy. No, you're not. You're definitely not. My followers grew. My special comes out next week. I'm so excited. I am going to do more and more and more and more inflammatory shit just to upset you. But also because I think it's funny. And also because like, fuck, it's not offensive, man. It's really not offensive. Just be thoughtful about it. Be thoughtful about it. Just think about what God is for a second because the people that put together organized religion, the people that put together the Bible, the people that way back when, they were cognizant of a very, very important fact. The people who conjured religion, all of them, way back when, they were conscious of the existence of a God on earth. It's us. You understand? Humanity. We are God. How could you think anything else? What happens on this planet, we dictate. We have taken this planet and absolutely transformed it in ways that it had never seen before and will never see again once global warming wipes us out. It's just us, just humanity. We are God. Squirrels aren't making Wi-Fi. Chad GPT was never going to be invented by a paramecium, you know? It's not we are the life form. We are the supreme life form. We are God. It is us. But, dude, that's a lot of pressure. That is a lot of pressure to live with. And I'm sure the people in the whatever BC were starting to think, fuck, things aren't happening in this world unless we're making it happen. And it's scary. It's a lot of pressure. And that's why... To alleviate this pressure, the metaphor of the man in the clouds was invented. There's a guy, don't worry about it. You do what you got to do to get through today, to not get eaten by a wolf, to not starve to death, to not get crushed by a rock, to not have your wife upset at you, whatever. You do what you got to do today because there's a divine plan. It's a lot easier narrative to swallow than, nah, you're the master of your own destiny, bro. And it's you versus the elements. That's a lot easier of a pill to swallow because people are still getting crushed by rocks. People are still getting eaten by wolves. People are still starving to death. And people are still getting told off by their wives, even if there is a man in the sky. And that's the big question, right? Like, if there's a God, why is he letting children die? Whatever. Because the God is us and we're not very good at our jobs. But that's the metaphor, right? That's the metaphor in the book. That's the metaphor in all the books. It's not just Christianity. That's the metaphor across every single people around the world. The Hindus. I studied Hinduism at school and their metaphors are much sicker than ours as Christians. They got gods fighting celestial wars. They got anime wars going on, man. You understand that so many of the Marvel movies, the Marvel comics, I have to say movies because that's how everybody knows Marvel movies, these days, they're based on the Bhagavad Gita and the gods and Vishnu having wars with the other god that I can't remember his name of. Their metaphors, the Hindus' metaphors and their stories, they're fucking sick. We just got one dude up in the sky in the clouds with the beard and the sun that died. It's kind of naff. But anyway, it's what kept people happy and safe and in line, and eventually, it's what kept those people giving money to the people that were spinning this story, and that's what is still happening. The people that are so-called in charge, who are probably drinking their own Kool-Aid, I don't know. I don't know. Some of them are smart, some of them are not. The Pope, rest in peace, What a time for the Pope to die after all this shit that was happening to me. You cannot imagine. You cannot imagine the AI generated images that I wanted to post after the Pope died. But obviously, I'm not going to do that because then genuinely people would be coming right after me. Also, side note at this point because so many people were saying, including that message that I read out before, people were saying to me, why don't you have a go at Islam? Why don't you talk about Muhammad? You won't because you're a fucking pussy because you don't have any balls. I've got... Heaps of jokes about Muslims and Muhammad. Well, maybe not Muhammad. But I got heaps of jokes about Muslims. They just don't appear on your fucking algorithm, bro, because you're a fucking simpleton in an echo chamber. Go and look at my discography. Go and check my shit out, man. I've got heaps of that kind of stuff. But yeah, the metaphor has been used by individuals to make their lives easier, to make... sense of death. You lose a loved one. You think he or she is up in the clouds with the man. It makes you a little less sad. I get it. I'm not hanging shit on that kind of stuff. That's fine. A great deal of my family subscribe to that way of thinking. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the people that are spinning the plates of the metaphors In order to take advantage of those people and get their money and get power and frankly to take their soul. Because man, you shouldn't be online having a go at some comedian that you've never met before writing really, really like... It's debatable whether or not my post is sacrilegious. The level of swearing and malice and hatred and anger towards me, that is definitely unchristian and sacrilegious. And I'll add to that. many, many people on Facebook. It's specifically Facebook. And I tried for years to not really use Facebook because it's kind of old and stuff. But Facebook, you've got to go to because that's where the 35 plus generation are. And they're the ones that spend money on the tickets. So I've got to go with Facebook. But it's also where the real crazy people live. And we've got people like, I'm not a public figure. I'm a comedian with a pretty decent online following. And my stuff's all public, out in the open, anybody can see it. And I've got people writing really, really horrendous comments on my public posts. But then they have their profile pretty much totally public as well. They've left their profile totally vulnerable by putting it in a comment on the video that I've done. And their DP is their children. We've got this guy's profile picture is like his three young kids younger than five years old. And he's making them totally vulnerable to who the fuck knows who on the internet by commenting mean shit on my posts. Like, just grow up, man. Are you a fucking monkey? I could have gone into his profile, or she, and I could have screenshotted all of the photos of their children, and I could have sent it to God knows who. If I was evil, if I was like, really, if I'm the get thee behind me Satan that they're saying that I am, that's the kind of shit that I would do, right? But I'm not. I'm a good dude. I'm not going to do that. But regardless, who knows who else is going to fucking wash up on my video to see this person and their photo of their kids. So they're not smart. They're not smart. They don't think about things deeply. They just... Their lives are hard because everybody's life is hard. And their lives are hard. And so they turn to militant religion to make sense of the world and to be a little bit happier. And I get that. But when they come for me, that's when I'm like, all right, well, you know, you're going to call me stupid. I'm going to tell you why you're stupid. Like, guys, it's not my soul that's in trouble. When you're getting so angry about a comedian that you don't know. I wasn't even talking shit about God. In the videos, I'm like... greek church is about who's dressed the nicest and oh my black cousins walked into greek church and got judged and oh the catholic church there were some people in there that gave too much money to the collection plate and oh i had long hair once and i took it out and wore it long and walked around at greek easter saying oh easter's cancelled guys i've risen again like i'm not saying anything bad about liverpool guys i'm not saying virgil van dyke isn't a good player just relax it's not my soul that's in trouble if If you're getting this upset at me for this kind of stuff, it's your soul that's in danger, man. Your soul. Your soul belongs to pedophiles. I haven't been globally caught as a pedophile. Unlike a lot of Catholic priests. Every single person knows about this. It's a hack joke that I won't do anymore. The Catholic priest thing. And yet there are people that are like, nah, that's my honest lot, bro. That's my coach. In him, we trust. Oh, not that one. Not that one. That one doesn't go to our church anymore. We got a new one here. This guy, he's better. How do I know? Have faith in God. Come on, bro. Come on. I've got intelligent, secure, educated friends who are extremely religious. Really, really good friends of mine. None of them said shit to me. None of them said anything to me. Not a private message, bro. Hey, maybe you want to take that down. Nothing. I have people very close to me, like even closer than close friends, who are religious and who are like, that's funny. If you think it's blasphemous, you're an idiot and you have no understanding of what Christianity and of what blasphemy actually is. So... Sorry about it. Sorry about it. I've been having these kind of feelings for a long time and I had these feelings affirmed to me a few months ago. I'm going to tell you guys a story to wrap this one up about something that occurred a few months ago when I went to church, went to Catholic church here in Sydney because while I was away in America, my non-Nor's last remaining sister died Passed away. He's the last man standing and he was one of the eldest as well. Can't keep him down. He's strong as an ox. He fucking had a heart attack, man. He had a heart attack a month and a bit ago and just raw dogged it, man. He just kept going. He had a heart attack. Didn't go to hospital. Didn't feel the pain. He was on so much pain medication. He was just a raw dog that kept doing the gardening. Kept putting chlorine in the pool. Kept going to the fruit market. Kept going to play cards with his mates. And then a couple of weeks later, he was feeling a lot of pain. And they took him to the hospital because there was fluid in his lungs. And they were like, bro, you had a heart attack two weeks ago. What the fuck? And he's like, I don't think so. And he's fine now. In case anybody was wondering. My non is the man. He's going to be 90 this year. That's the OG. Low cash. Anyway, his little sister in Sicily passed away while I was in America. And we did, we went to church because, you know, my grandfather, in memory of my grandmother, who was a super devout Catholic, and also my aunt is, my dad doesn't really give a fuck, but he, you know, he gets amongst that, we all get amongst that as a family for these kind of occasions because it means a lot to non-North, And it meant a lot to Nonna when she was alive. So we went to the church because it was supposed to be like a little kind of memorial thing for my Zinanetta who passed away a few weeks earlier. Spoiler, literally it was just a Sunday mass and they mentioned my aunt's name once in a collection of other people that had died for a moment in between the mass. Now, I've been to Catholic mass... I reckon half a dozen times in maybe the last 10 years. It's not my jam. I don't know if you picked that up from everything that I've been saying over the last half an hour. But I do go on occasions like this and I just can't help but think the same thing every time. It's weird. It's weird. It's outdated. It's weird. How can you not think that, man? Just the clothes that they wear, the weird procession, the fact that they have children following them and touching the cups and shit and wearing the weird shit as well. We have been through the pedophile thing with this stuff. Why is anybody letting their kids anywhere near this shit? It's weird, and they pull out the Bible, and the Bible is in this gold-plated book. It was like the assistant coach priest. It wasn't the main priest. It was the 2IC priest. It was the second-in-charge priest. He pulled the book out of the tomb that it's in at the back of the church, and he kisses the gold-plated book, and he puts it up to the sky. like a tablet, like Moses coming down from the 10 commandments of the tablets. He kisses it and put it up to the sky. And then the main priest, the head priest, the manager, he kissed, he opened the passage that he was going to read and he kissed it on the passage. Now, I don't know what all this stuff is supposed to do. I don't get it. But this is the kind of stuff that they do. And I'm looking around at my family in particular. My family who are... for the most part, rather intelligent, educated people. And I'm just like, what are you getting out of this? Surely this can come somewhere else that isn't so stupid. It's stupid. Why is he wearing a purple robe? Why are you purple and green? It's Sunday morning. Why are you wearing purple? No one in here is wearing purple. Why are you wearing purple? But they love it. They love it, and it's fine. Again, I'm trying to find the meeting point of yucking people's yum and also saying that I get it. It's fine. Why do I read constant, everyday Juventus news? Every day I'm reading... which players might be coming in, which players that are there might be unhappy, what the coach said this week about the training, what formation they're trying out this weekend, who they're playing, what the coach on the other team said. I am obsessively reading about all of this shit and just absorbing it into my identity and my psyche. But also, if you told me that I'm an idiot for doing this stuff, I would agree with you because I'm self-aware. That might be the key difference. Anyway, none of this stuff was particularly jarring. What was jarring was when the priest started doing his homily. The homily for the uninitiated is where he freestyles. He doesn't read from the Bible. It's like a pre-written set. It's like a pre-written set that he wrote, but he doesn't have to get laughs, and it's okay if he bombs. What a lucky life. The priest... started the homily with something that was quite a cool cliffhanger, quite a cool little piece of foreshadowing that got my attention because I was bored as shit before this, but he was like, I received a very disturbing letter from such and such archbishop, from such and such church, and here it is. Here's what's going on in the world of Catholicism that would warrant me getting this disturbing letter. Me and my fiance sat up like, oh, did they catch one? Is that what's going on? Did they catch one? And this priest is one of the cool priests. And he's like, we don't stand for this. These children behind me are safe. We wear the purple, but we do not besmirch the purple. Nah, that's not what it was. This is what it was. They were organizing a rally. There was a protest rally that he was trying to convince the parishioners to come to that week. And the protest rally was to protest against the repealing or the updating of a New South Wales law when regarding Catholic hospitals. Now, I did a little research into this now because I want to get this right. So New South Wales Catholic hospitals, like other hospitals, must comply with the Abortion Law Reform Act of 2019. This means that they can provide abortions up to 22 weeks of pregnancy. After 22 weeks, these abortions must be performed in a hospital or approved facility by a specialist medical practitioner who has consulted with another practitioner. However, Catholic hospitals have a conscientious objection clause, meaning they can refuse to provide abortions if a doctor or other healthcare provider objects on moral or religious grounds. Now, I believe what this priest was trying to get us to rally against was them dialing that back. And the reason why they wanted to dial that back is because women's safety and health in Catholic hospitals is really, really threatened and on the line. And we are getting women not getting the help that they need because sometimes abortions, late stage, need to happen. Not sometimes. In almost all cases, late stage abortions need to happen because the women are in danger. And they could die. And they are sitting there in Catholic hospitals not getting the help that they need because they're like, no, it's Catholic. And they're not getting any information. They're being told to wait while they're sitting there risking disease and death. And obviously miscarriages and stillbirths, like any horrible thing that you can imagine befalling a woman that has had medical complications in the late stages of her pregnancy is... She is at risk of all of those things, but also at risk of not getting any help by being in these Catholic churches because on the moral grounds, they're objecting. And instead of going in there and saying, hey, you know, sorry, we're a Catholic church. You've got to go to a different hospital. They just give them no information and tell them to wait. And it's led to some pretty dire consequences. However, that is not the way the priests frame this. These priests frame this as, of course, they're killing babies and they want us to kill our babies. Did you know that women... are electing to have abortions all the way up until the day before pregnancy. And it's legal to do that in New South Wales. No, it's fucking not. He was just lying. He was straight up lying to the people that trust him implicitly. He was lying and he was qualifying it by saying, my niece is a doctor. So I know about this stuff. Oh, cool, man. That's cool. Say no more. Keep going. Women can kill their babies if they don't want their babies. They can kill their babies the day before. If the babies come out and they don't like the way it looks, they're like, nah, don't want this one, in the bin. Really, bro. Really. We need to go and we need to protest this. Like, on a funny, comedic level... It was exactly what you would have expected from one of these nutjobs. And then even more so on a comedic level. I was so appalled that I turned around and I just wanted to get a look at the parishioners. Are any of these people going to actually go to this rally? I wanted to see if anybody was moved by this rousing speech. And I turn around... And I see the same people that have been in this Catholic church for the last 25 odd years that my family's been going to this church that I will not name. And he's basically just talking the face off a bunch of dehydrated, sweaty nonnas wearing like caftans, fanning their faces with the liturgy paper. And recovering drug addicts who just go to this church because that's where they got to go, who aren't going to go anywhere near a hospital anytime soon, regardless. So like, who are you fucking talking to, man? But he had to, he had, he had to be the hero that he has always wanted to be. The megalomania emanating from this fucking guy. I could not... I have not felt compelled to bash someone as much as I did this guy. But thankfully, like, he's not gonna... Like, even my super pious... like auntie and my nonno, like the nonno doesn't give a fuck. Nonno's not gonna rally. He doesn't give a fuck about any of this stuff. And honestly, if you explained the way I, like I didn't do a super eloquent job of explaining exactly where he was wrong and exactly what the dangers are for women in these Catholic churches, but you get the general gist. And I think if you explained that to most reasonable people, whether they have religious inclinations or otherwise, I think they would think, yeah, that guy's a bit of an idiot in the least, and at most, what he's saying is quite dangerous. This is just what I thought church was, but apparently it's not, because my fiancé started telling me about the churches that she went to when she was growing up, which are Jesuit churches. These are churches that I'd heard of, never knew what that word meant. Jesuit. And basically, the difference between the Jesuit church and the other churches is that in Jesuit churches, the priests are... required to have at least at least the masters in theology um and if they have a masters and nothing else they're generally seen as the kind of the dope of the pack they they generally have to have doctorates in theology so the priests are doctors the priests are actually like scholars and well-studied uh intelligent human beings to the point where like my my fiance was telling me that she would she would she would say as a young girl uh that was being you know forced, as you would as a child, to go to church, you know, she would question, she would, you know, they'd have the priest over, and then she would question them. She would say to them, I don't believe in this part. And instead of saying, shut the fuck up, have faith in God, like that reptile at my church would say, they're saying things like, oh, that's a great point. You know, we should talk about that. You should read this. You should read this. This is what I think, but I respect your opinion, little girl. I've never even fathomed that you would have religious people, let alone Catholics, that would be of that mentality. I genuinely would love to go to a Jesuit church to see the difference between that and the malarkey that I get in the bingo hall RSL club adjacent church that my family go to. I want to see what it's like when there are intelligent people in charge. I guarantee you the people that go to that church are not the kind of people that are writing, get thee behind me, Satan, on my posts. Because they don't know what they're talking about. There's a few people that went at me hard in the posts, and I decided, you know what? I'm not going to go on their profile and insult them for being obsessed with bicycles. I'm not going to tell them that they have a cool Muay Thai singlet. I'm not going to make fun of them. I'm actually going to question them. I'm going to say, okay, explain to me exactly how what I've done is blasphemous. Explain to me exactly what your personal motivation is in coming to my profile. Just say the same thing that I said before. That's cool if you feel that way. But let me go to hell in peace. And why don't you worry? Like, why don't you take all your piousness and righteousness? And why don't you go do something in the world? Why don't you go and put all of your energy into putting good into the world? There's wars and famines and political upheavals and medical and pharmaceutical malpractice and just so many horrible things going on in the world. And you want to dedicate your energy... to worrying about what a comedian that you don't know, that isn't even famous, is saying online. Like, who's a good Christian here? And they could say nothing to me. Because I said this to a couple of them. Their response was always, you must not mock God. You must not mock our faith. That's all you can say. Because you don't know anything about it. You don't know anything about it. You know to go here, you know to wear this, you know to kiss that, you know that God is the Virgil van Dyck of the church and nobody online can say anything bad about Virgil van Dyck. But you don't know anything about the actual stuff. Case in point, that kind of lingering issue that my fiance raised with the Jesuit priest when she was little was that she didn't believe in transubstantiation and that's kind of the core tenet of Catholicism. Now, when she was telling me this, I'm like, I don't fucking know what that word means. I don't know what, I've heard of it. I've heard of the word Jesuit. I've heard of transubstantiation, but I don't know what it means. I asked my dad who, who like, like I said, my nonna was a religious freak. Like she was, she was, you'll never walk alone Anfield till I die, scarf wearing, rosary bead summoning Friday night. She was hardcore, man. She would drag all of my dad, siblings, and him, and my non-non to church all the time. My dad had never heard of that word either. Basically, what the word means is it's the core Catholic tenet that implies, well, it doesn't imply it outright, states that the body, the communion, the body, the the wafer that you eat, the communion body of Christ, that when you eat it, it literally becomes, it transfigures into the literal body of Christ. It is not a metaphor. It is not a symbol like it is in other sects of Christianity. It literally becomes the body of Christ when it enters your body. And that is the core. That's what separates Catholicism. That's the main thing that separates Catholicism from Anglican and Orthodox and everything else. Because the Anglican and Orthodox and everything else are like, that seems kind of, that's wrong. That's a wafer, man. It's a symbol. It's a metaphor. The Catholics are like, nah. I'm sure if you told most Catholics this, they'd be like, oh, I don't think that's true. I don't think it actually becomes God in my body. But that is how you get your Catholic badge, ladies and gentlemen. That's how you do it. That's what it means. I told my dad about this. And like I said, lifelong churchgoer. The proper indoctrination process for him has been going for the 60 years of his life. And he had never heard that word. I'm sure they said it. I'm sure they said it in the masses that he went to. I'm sure when he studied for his first communion, they said it. I'm sure when he did his confirmation, they said it. But his little boy, his little boy, they didn't explain it. in literal terms to this little boy and they don't explain it in literal terms to any of their little boys and little girls that go up to become the people that are leaving these comments and saying you must not mock God but then they can't argue with me as to why I can't mock God because they don't know anything because that's how these kind of things work the less you know about the man behind the curtain, the less you know about the Wizard of Oz and the fact that he's not great and powerful, but he's just a normal man behind a curtain operating some knobs, getting a whole city of people that are obsessed with emeralds and gold to just do whatever the fuck he wants. But fuck me for doing the AI-generated image of The Last Supper. So, I don't know if you guys are still here. I don't know if I've jumped the shark with this podcast three episodes in. There was a slight diminishing return to the amount of downloads that I got between episode one and episode two, but I did release them like three days apart because I just felt so strongly about the shit that I wanted to talk about last time that I just needed to record, and so I did. This week has been a little tougher because... I wanted to do this delicately and I didn't know whether I could do it in a way that illustrates that I'm being kind of irreverent about it, but also it's a serious thing to think about. Yeah, I'm a believer in God. I'm a believer in there being something. And I'm a believer in being a good person and being kind and giving to people and loving people in order to have that energy reverberate around the world. It doesn't even have to come back to me. But if you show love to the next person, they show love to the next person. That's how we make the world better. And if that's not God, I don't know what is. But again, like... Also, if you're one of the people that have left the horrible comments and you hate me, because some of them still follow me, and you've listened this far, I hope that you've learned something out of this. But chances are, none of them are here. Chances are, it's just people that really like me. And thank you. Thank you again. I should say again, even though it's starting to get a little sad, and I might stop, but I do want to use this podcast genuinely to learn about... different people. And at the moment, all I really have to learn about the different people is just these inane comments that I'm getting on the internet. But if you're liking this, please let me know. Please let me know if I'm onto something here. I'm really enjoying it still. This is a really, really lovely outlet for me to be able to write and put together my thoughts and opinions on stuff and try and be funny but not need to be funny and have jokes going every every couple of seconds stand up is my favorite thing to do in the world but it can be restrictive in terms of how you explore certain ideas I'm really loving being able to explore these things that are passionate to me in this kind of a way. So if you guys are too, please let me know and I'll keep doing it. If you want me to talk about something else, I will. I promise next week, doesn't matter what comments I get on social media, we're not going to address it. We're going to address a bunch of different shit, not religion, just a bunch of different shit next week. If you have any suggestions for that, please hit me up. I actually did a bunch of research into the history of wogs in Australia and also around the world. And I'm thinking that that's probably going to be what I do next week. So tune in for that. And guys, I hope you had a wonderful long weekend. If you're in Australia, have another wonderful long weekend because God bless the Anzacs. And yeah. Yeah.

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Thanks. Turn me up. Yeah. Turn me up. Uh. Uh. Pessimist. Uh. Yeah. Yeah. Let's get it. Don't call me up.

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Don't call me up. Ah.

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I feel like Corleone giving testimony while I walk around like do they even know me? Imposter syndrome eating macaroni but I'm feeling jaded so am I the phony? That's okay though I'm across the plate, old minister in his prime just like Berlusconi In high school I was a fly dude but that was back then now they waiting on me Alright, I do not fuck with your gimmicks Don't critic the lyrics, just listen My image is never satiric, it's human condition Joel Pesci with the good fellas A little messy, but a good dresser And I could paint houses with the words that I'm bouncing That's why the allure's better I could not dumb it down and go treat my fans Like a bunch of clowns, that's real I feel like I run this town, the Amici and me After running down that zeal I became who I intended and that's my perspective Whoever that wanted can get it This energy really kinetic, so buy out the Don't call me a fraud or call me a wog Or tell me about all these numbers on the board Don't call me a god or call me a pawn Or try to just fit me to your little squad This wasn't the plan, I am what I am I cannot fit any of your frames in the gram So call me the man, I'm so in demand I turn all my enemies into my fans Don't call me a fraud or call me a wog Or tell me about all these numbers on the board Don't call me a god or call me a pawn Or try to just fit me to your little squad This wasn't the plan, I am what I am I cannot fit any of your frames in the gram So call me the man, I'm so in demand so in demand i turn all my enemies into my fans and now i need all the smoke i need all the