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Can I see my camera for a minute please? To do a pop-up fair. One, two, three. Yo,  it's Gorilla Central out there. Get the fuck out.  Juiceheads everywhere. You don't think that he's good for you? How do you know what's good for me? That's my opinion! Are you kidding me? I swear to God, don't be f***ing to throw the thing on me. I'll f***ing hurt you. Welcome to BoobTube.  Oh, like all the drinks that they had in Kid Nation. Yeah. It was just  syrup  and  crispy water.  Yeah.  So yeah, probably I'm  as hydrated as those kids from.  I'm looking for a place to put this down. Like how you're like, trying blindly to reach for the extra thing. is it? So I think I'm as hydrated as those kids from Kid Nation because they're constantly chugging down soda. But for me, it's more like diet soda and beer and Red Bull. Do you do shots like them too? You know what? Let's bring up.  I found this right into it right into it play clip welcome to boob tube everybody  Irish car bomb, but a child's version. As soon as I saw that happening, I was like, oh god, they're doing the thing from The Simpsons. They're just dropping straight syrup. Yes. It's so thick. Like, just getting jacked.  Yes. These kids are unhinged. Like, starting off, I was like,  like, they're sweet little children, some of them. Some of them are like little assholes, but  they're kind of All children are assholes. All of them are sweet when they want to be. Yeah. It just depends. Yeah. Well, this is boob tube. Boob tube. I'm getting...   Oh,  of course  the man  fixed it.  Go Josh, go Josh, go Josh, go Josh. Yeah, I'm back.  Everyone's least favorite guest. But I'm not on the least viewed episode.  Man's plane. Let's go. Let's give snaps for Mansplain. Yes. So again, I'm Gabby. This is Cheyenne. Hi.  And producer Josh.  Ah!  Josh  very vehemently  wanted us to do this  show. I was insistent. He was very insistent. He showed up at my house almost every single night,  knocking on my window. I don't know how he got up to the second floor, but he was knocking on my windows.  You want something?  No?  It's like, hey, hey, we have to do Kid Nation. We have to do Kid Nation now. Now! Now! I think we can all agree it was worth it. Yes! What a fuck show. I'm happy you exposed us to it. was... It made me tear up a couple times. Me too. Probably because I'm so close to my period now. I was going to say because you're going to be a great mom someday. Oh, God. No, I'm not. I'm probably going be like... Cigarney Weaver from holes  Like dig holes and then digging up them holes digging where's my lipstick? Yeah,  I'm tired of this grandma to be two tokens of hands  I got no respect cuz I'm the new man. Sorry. That's okay. Sorry. I love I get exposed to new music every time I Check out the tag the names caveman. Oh, they're gonna Yeah, also love that the headband adds to it,  Ha ha!   We're all rocking fun  fun headband stuff. Yeah, specifically  threatened everyone in the group chat who was gonna be on camera to  Bring a bandana. Yeah, then God bless I had to steal mine from my kid  and it was  it was out of whack  and our lovely producer Hannah went upstairs and And ironed it for me. So it would come out a little something like this  I did have one at home. I missed that message in the group chat. Yeah. Bad stuff. I'm glad I didn't bring it because it is  it's like based on a video game and it only has Velcro. It doesn't actually tie. So I kind of feel like a nerd when I wear it.  I'm only eight years old Yeah, I could I I bitched out like Jimmy and didn't bring oh Jimmy can deal with it. He's an oncologist now. Oh, yeah money than all of us Yeah, he's probably making like 20,000 like a month now. Let's go love that for him So we are talking about kid nation. It is a 2007 reality TV show God bless you CBS  I think in the golden era of like reality TV show where they were just like throwing spaghetti at the wall and sees  like stick. What sticks? Is it cooked? Yeah,  especially because they just would have so many shows that and not that we don't have that now where things are kind of a variation on a theme. Oh, no. Yeah. But nowadays it's like variation on a theme that worked. That's where we have all these island shows as Cheska brought up to us when she was here.  But I feel in this time, it's like, OK, well, we tried the swan. Let's try something worse let's do hot or not  and  if people don't know what hot or not is it's essentially american idol but for them to judge only your body welcome back to are you hot the search  for america's sexiest people god  um  so kid nation is an american reality tv show hosted by jonathan karsh now There's not much that I know about John, Mr. Jonathan Karsh.  Um, what I do know couple other credits. He does he um,  he was the winner of the audience award documentary in directing award documentary at the 2003 Sundance Sundance Sundance film festival  for his director directorial debut from  his documentary, My Flesh and Blood. which aired on HBO in 2004, which is a documentary chronicling a year in the life of the Tom family. The Tom family is notable as the mother, Susan, adopted 11 children, most of whom had serious disabilities or diseases. yeah, and he's done like, later made documentary films for MTV and AMC and produced reality TV shows for CBS, ABC and ABC family. Now I don't See, it doesn't give a list of what he did. I looked at his IMDB. They're kind of like those like 48 hours like cop shows. It was like a couple of those. Like he was just listed as a producer. Honestly, yeah, they're kind of like those like following police or following paramedics type shows. OK, so just cool. And they were short lived. Yeah, there weren't anything like super popular. But she's going limp. yeah, she's going limp. got to play with it a little bit. You got to fluff it up. Hock-twa spit on that thing. God. Don't bring it back. Don't bring it Don't bring it back. bring it back. I would rather live at Kid Nation than hear someone say Hock-twa spit on that thing. I want them to do... Kid Nation now, just so we can hear what memes like persist through the 40 days they don't have any contact. What the hell? You imagine all these kids just like getting mad about the fucking like the water pump when it froze and they'd be like, hot tour to spit on that. Yeah. Or they'll be screaming skivvy toilet. Yeah. I was I was doing a gig at the hurricane blew over all our skivvy toilets. Oh, God. I was at I was at.   I was at a gig and I was in the washroom and it was at a university and  I think maybe they're siblings of  whoever whatever but they're like younger like 11 year old kids and  I was in the bathroom I was watching my hands I hear these kids screaming  skivvy toilet the Rizler and I thought I was having a stroke  I was like huh  I used to be with it but then they changed what it was now what I'm with isn't it And what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you. I was finally... Like at that age being like, I don't understand children. Yep. I, know, I never really understood kids. I, I was kind of like more of like an adult child.  My parents would bring me around because I  only kid and my parents would always just drag me around whenever they would do stuff.  And I would just like sit there and like my, my mom would be like eating sushi and I'd be there like eating sushi or I'd be there like doing whatever.  Like not rich, like anyways.  It's very similar for me because like I again only child my grandmother worked in like the government in the YWCA and just like very like  90s professional Yeah, yeah type setting so she would have like these big Christmas parties  at her house And I remember the first one I went to my parents were like oh, there's no babysitter You're just gonna have to stay upstairs in this bedroom and we'll rent you twister and some other things And I remember as soon as twister was done. I was like well I'm going downstairs. Yeah, was like seven years old just walking around this party of like drunk like conservative professionals  just like  cracking jokes and telling something. Then my parents eventually were like... They keep talking about how they're talking to a kid. Have you seen Josh around here? That was very small as a child. yeah, live that life. just talk. Very excited talking about Jurassic Park or something. Yeah. It's just like. just watched Twister. You guys want to hear about it? Yeah. I probably do the whole plot. Literally. can probably recite every word for word. Yeah. Let me prepare for my monologue. And then Helen Hunt says. And then. So yeah, that's...  Yes, by Jonathan crash. Karsh Karsh. Karsh. J Karsh.  Yeah, in the show, children try to recreate a functioning society in the town, including setting up a government system with minimal adult help and supervision.  Pretty light on government. Yes. To be honest, there's like a few times there's voting, but it's essentially a feudal system.  It is. Because you have  clip 14 where we see the kids being put into classes.  The class system.  also the cast system.  Cooks it's a little lighter. Here you go Taylor 25 cents each and laborers. There's just a little bit of money here Laurel. Sorry 10 cents each 33 year old J cars just punking on I'm just like a little lighter. Here's your bag fucking kids all the goddamn time Yes, how were the classes decided so they have a journal that  that. Do you mean the names of the classes or how they got put into the classes? How were put assigned to their classes. They were put into their classes, I think by like a journal plus like a... No, they would do challenges. Oh, it was the challenges. Yeah, they would do challenges. No, I'm sorry. Which one? Are you talking about like the kids into How did they become the laborers? How did they become the no. OK, I see. I thought you're talking about the kids, like which kid was assigned to which color. OK. Never mind. There were challenges that determined who was Yes. So they would do a showdown.  every couple sorry   Oh my god. That was the cutest fucking sneeze I've ever heard in my life.  I know. I can't sneeze like a normal person.  Aw.  It was giving newborn. I know. I'm going to have an aneurysm one of these days because I'm not going to sneeze like a normal person. I'm going to like  blood clot would like cut down. So yeah, kids are like their teams are broken up into four colors.  yellow,  blue,  green, and red.  For the first  showdown,  these challenges are  insane.  Like laborious, dangerous,  insane.  First showdown.  And those look huge. Now mind you, these children are literally ranging from ages 8 to 15. Yep.  You know what I mean? I look at that and  I'm a 30-something year old woman and I'm thinking, oh my god. Yes. It does start to look crazy when they're all like soaking wet. they look like they're running up the beach in Normandy and there's like shit falling off and  they're like, oh my god. Different color water? Like what? Some kids are painted green  and everything. it's- Sopping wet. Insane. So- That's one of the showdowns and the format is for the show, the 40 kids, like from age eight to 15, like stay at, uh, something called Bonanza city, which is a privately owned town built, um, on actual Bonanza city in New Mexico, uh, 13 miles or 21 kilometers for our Canadian listeners and watchers. was gonna say what our Yeah, what's a mile? Give  me the KMS, please.  South of Santa Fe.  So  the show stresses the difficulty  in creating a viable society.  Well, each child received $5,000 for the involvement  and select ch-  child selected by the council and then later on they're like they asked the whole town who should be who should win it and then they would also discuss then would get gold stars like actual gold stars worth their weight and apparently in gold valued yeah valued at $20,000 which is a lot of money crazy $20,000 back in the early 2000s. About 30K. For children. That's like 30K, yeah. That literally is life-changing money for these children. would be a four-year college university degree. then at the end, there were three gold stars worth at $50,000. Whoa, baby. That is a lot of money. That is a lot of money. That is a lot of fucking money. It's like 70,000 now. USD.  Yeah. That is a lot Bitcoins is that?  I have no idea.  I only measure things in Bitcoins because I'm a douchebag.  Yes.  That is like the whole premise of the show.  And  during filming, and I've seen the show, I've mentioned it before, the dark side of reality television, where they did an episode on Kid Nation and you have some of the kids from Kid Nation come back and be like, this was like a living hell. Could you imagine the amount of therapy these poor freaking children needed? know. um,  some of them were fine. Some of them were fine.  was, he had a great time.  He talked about it since and thought it was awesome. Yeah.  But yeah, it does seem like it was the worst summer camp  ever. And it lasted so long. It 40 days. 40 fucking  days. And they filmed in April. Cause I can understand why they wouldn't film in summer. Cause these kids would be probably having  heat stroke with their lack of water. Yeah, can't can't can't live on root beer. No, you can't live on root beer. And syrup.  And syrup.  So they film that in April. They I don't know how long the American school system's like school year is. So they usually get out of school at like end of May. Like, yeah, middle end of May. Yeah. And then they go back like beginning of August. So I was I was like, holy shit, they literally took these kids out of school for 40 days. Yeah. But And again, it is the American school system.  depending on where they're from, they're probably not missing a lot.  We love our Americans. can go through and see which state each one is from and do like a measurable thing of like how much education they actually lost. Some of them, nah, some of them probably learned more here.  So one of the big controversies is is that  the show raised questions about the appropriate minimum age of participants in reality TV show.  And this  should have been brought up again for toddlers and Tierra's. Yeah. Because this is insane. I and then watching these kids live like this and being like  they do all this hard work there. And some of them literally have mental breakdowns. They do. Like I want to go home. I could not imagine my seven year old or even even my other children like any of my kids going to be away from me for 40 days.  Yeah. Like I'm just eight years  old. Yeah. And there's no one there to comfort you. Just like  a six foot tall camera guy who's like, hey,  is it okay if I film you? Yeah, or another kid like,  it's okay. Who then will turn around two days from then and like gang up on you with Literally. So pull up Clifton. We're gonna see the stresses of  these poor babies.  Thanks Yeah, this specifically, this kid as an adult said, he was like, the camera guy came up to him and was like, hey, is it okay if I film you? that was the cover he got. Yeah. And then you have Laurel coming in. She's the leader of the green.  Look I want to cry. Yeah,  I honestly I Spoiler alert Jimmy bitches out in the first episode Jimmy's one of I think two kids that leave  no, there's there's a couple there was I know there is there was him and then there was the there was Cody a little blonde boy with the glasses I think those Cody and then you have Randy. Oh, yeah, Randy. She yeah, she left. Yeah, she loves friends Yes. Oh, OK. Yes. Oh, poor little Jimmy. Poor little I want to cry because he's literally like, I'm in the third grade and I don't think that I can be away from my family like this. I he had to go stay in a hotel with a PA for like four more days after this. He said it was OK. He said they were actually really nice. But yeah, the PA just like took him to the mall and stuff. I would have loved to be a PA on that show because like, I don't know. I don't think I would love it, but I think my maternal instincts would go into overdrive. because I would just be like, okay, little be coming up with a whip and be like, stop! Stop touching the children! EWIO Ten cents!  Here's your buffalo nickel, would  have laughed so hard if John was just like pulled up  and like a...  I don't know, Camaro or something. It's like, here's your fucking buffalo nickels. And he welted up the kid.  Freedom and wheat, baby. I'm going to go fuck some New Mexico tens.  Sorry to all our New Mexico listeners out there who now have to suss out which one of you in the friend group is the ten.  Yeah.  So  basically these kids are  They signed, were signed on contracts.  So I would feel like if I was a parent and be like, oh, this could be a good opportunity for my kid, you know, like, also when I  think the parents might have known $20,000.  Why would you put your kid through that? None of the parents sound surprised when they get out there. They're they're initially like,  you know, but I mean,  I suspect they filmed all of the phone calls.  together maybe? Because no kid that won a gold star left. So I think they filmed all that at like one time. I doubt that phone actually worked. That weird old phone that they run up to. I suspect that they maybe filmed all of those at the same time. I mean, I've worked 16 hour days. I've worked long ass days in the film industry. But these contracts required them to be available for filming for 24 hours a day through a 40 day filming period. Now, I don't know how long those days were, but I can imagine being very, very long. Now, I filmed long days and stuff like that, and I filmed very long days for like 10 day period or a seven day period. And it's rough. Like it takes me a couple days afterwards to- Just to recover from that. I cannot imagine like as a child. like being sleep deprived, you're hungry. And the way they're sleeping on them damn floors too. Oh yeah, that's super, the prison mattresses that they get are all super thin. I was like, holy fuck, that reminded me of like what yoga mats looked like in the eighties. Like, just some weird foam, like, sectional things. On top of like, you know, they gotta earn their classes so they can earn their buffalo nickels so they can literally go buy fucking food from these stores. Like, I'd be starving.  No, they did have stores of food because they were always cooking. It was always luxuries that seemed to be things available in stores. it was also kids.  So  I learned how to cook when I was like nine, like cooking scrambled eggs and stuff like that. I've, you know,  I'm sure people maybe learned younger or something like that. But there were some kids who probably didn't even know how to cook and they were making the food. and then they're real like, okay. And then- They throw the cookbook away pretty much immediately. There's like- They do. the best kid. Love her. Sophia, if I was there, that's the kid I would have had a She literally- I would have had a crush on Sophia. Me too. I would have been like, oh my God. Yeah, like let's be friends, please. You know what I mean? And like, God love her, God forget the- why I'm wearing my little bandana like her because she is a literal queen. She just, she stepped in, she owned her shit and she was like, all right. She was, she was gruff, but like  she was also fair.  You know? There was a, I watched a couple episodes with Hannah and there was a point where she said, she was like, if I close my eyes, I wouldn't know that's a kid. She  does have like a lot of kind of adult tendencies. She's very snarky.  I found an AMA from  Michael,  the blonde kid  that was only about six years after the show was on  where he talked about it. apparently him and Sofia hung out a lot and were very sarcastic and would make fun of the show. Yeah. And so it was funny kind of seeing those different things.  don't remember who said it. There is another interviews. Maybe they mentioned it on that dark side of reality TV, because I didn't watch that episode.  But some of the  like the confessionals, they were bribing them with like candy or like things they couldn't get there to like get some fucking tea out of them. Oh my God. So I can only imagine the shit that literally happened there. Like I seen an interview with Laurel and she was talking about how she had her first kiss. Yeah. Under the stairs like, you know, in New Mexico and Bonanza City, she had her first kiss. Right. I hope it was with another kid. Oh, I didn't think about my dark mind. was like because I have Harvey Weinstein. You have like every TV can be a very toxic and disgusting place to work in period. Especially in reality TV and shit can happen. And I it does happen like these kids, like they weren't alone as because I think some people might forget that there is a behind the scenes or a deal. Oh, there's there's a whole production team of adults and shit. can happen. Bad things can happen.  Kids can get hurt.  Like, DK  accidentally, like, he took a sip of something that he thought was like, what, like lemonade or seltzer or whatever? They reused a bottle that had cleaning supplies like bleach and without washing it out properly, they reused it for soda or whatever it was and he had drank from that. So they had to get medical  in.  Yes.  That is extreme. So  these are kids like These are kids of varying different degrees of, I would say, don't know, like handling of how the world works, how to Different walks of life. Thank you. Different walks of life. Age, geography, everything. Literally. As John and Karj told us. Yes. Well, even just- to three things. Even just the rich and the poor. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like kids who probably like done a lot of cleaning, kids of- whatever,  maybe even like little kids like not understanding that may just wash it out again or whatever. Yeah. And you're like, don't even use that bottle for soda. And it's just like  when  there were adults, but there were no adult supervision and they wanted it like that because they wanted these kids to be in that Lord of the fly situation.  Their words as well. And in an interview, they're like, Yeah, we figured Lord of the Flies was great inspiration for this. And they do have a pretty wild religious episode. They do. I no one's worshipping a pig's head and the fat kid doesn't get killed, but you know. The religious shit gets pretty crazy. The religious shit is insane to me.  It took them all of five seconds to start dividing each other by religion and getting mad at the other one. Immediately, immediately. And again, these are children.  play. So kids,  kids are also  sponges for whatever their parents  are influencing them. So you have like  play a clip. Let's see here, clip 34. Also, I think this is like an Olivia clip that maybe the editors made her look more ignorant than she probably was. So play clip 34. Fuck this kid. Not the villain edit. She's a Christian for context. feel very strong in my beliefs.  So I thought it was kind of pointless just to hear  other people saying stuff that  they thought was true that I didn't.  Thank you.  So, yeah, a lot of these kids  come from different backgrounds.  There's a couple of Jewish kids. There is a couple of Christians.  I  think  Sophia  was...  She's, but uh, little bit. I think she came from a Jewish family. She did come from Jewish family, but she was more so atheist. There's a lot of kids who were atheists or just agnostic or whatever. Sanjay, um,  I think practices Hinduism.  and the way that the whole council came about it, they're just like, we're to have a huge multi-faith  ceremony. Everybody needs to be there. all these kids were like, no, I'm a Christian. I don't want to interact with the Jews. Yeah, sure. Jewish person immediately. Yes. And I kind of understand what the council is doing with the council. mean, everyone's clearly not getting like good food or rest. No, everyone's just irritable as fuck. Like right off the bat. And I think because they're angry. It did seem like they were like, hey, let's do this to see which ones we want to do and people can learn about it. But it immediately devolved so quickly. Yes. So let's play clip 35, because this is also like a really interesting one, because their little baby Alex, he was in the blue team.  Yeah. Adorable. Smart as a fucking whip. This kid was so, he created a fucking census. So play that clip, clip 35.  I know! This kid is really fucking smart. Really makes Jamie look like a bitch. What? Makes Jamie look like a bitch. Oh, yeah. Same age, way smarter. Yeah. Yep. But also where you were saying about the parent, they regurgitate stuff, their parents say, Taylor's especially bad for that. Yes. Because she has her catchphrase, deal with it. Yeah. And I think being a pageant kid, she's definitely heard her mom say that. Yeah. But some of the stuff she initially says. Oh, but mom, my feet are sore. Deal with it. Yeah. Some of the stuff. We're trying to win a crown. Yeah. The first... Nighter whatever was before the last day of the first episode. Yeah, she she's like I miss being at home and having protein  So, yeah, um, it's  no George Bush there's nothing I know  so this  that was like a running theme because the yellow team was me mainly made up with the younger kids, yeah,  and Taylor she was the  cat like the head council member of that team for like the first couple like I think first couple weeks. Yeah. And she took advantage of that. She did. So sorry. I'm sorry. I said I'm sorry. Play Clip 40. So happens. I'm only nine years old. I'm only nine years old. I'm only 31. she finds Well, I'm not impressed with Taylor at all. attitude is great. She's looking up at them like a cat. I think maybe that might have been like a producer being like, hey kids, maybe act a little angrier. Oh, I'd love to know what the producers were like egging on and charging up. Because there's clear times where it's like, oh, we can end the show here. Everyone's friends. And then the next episode, they clearly fucking stoked the fire. They switch around. Oh, my God. It's crazy. It does get insane. And there's a lot of a lot of fucking conflicts and. You do have some kids who try to bring it back to the whole religious episode. You do have, what is her name? Morgan, who has a better approach to the Bonanza faith crisis. So play clip 36. It's basically the same thing they suggested. She just wasn't a huge dick about it. No, was just more like, instead of just being like taking all the good things or whatever, she was just like, we're having a prayer thing. If you want to come. There's no pressure. Yeah, like, please join us. Yeah. And then  she, yeah, then she opens up the floor to  what it probably seems like other religions.  She's 12, bro. Yeah, she is. Like... Yeah. What? And she knows how to talk to these people and approach... She's 12. Yeah. You know? She had to grow up during the Bush administration. did, It really aged us all a lot. after these messages, let's get more into the craziness of Good Nation. OK, BRB. BRB, bye. my God, this is so awkward to me. Wow, I can't do this.  Okay, boobers, we're taking back Girlboss because today we are sponsored by Leverage Assistant. It is a truth universally acknowledged that even the best boss would be nothing without a great admin. 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It's like Pete's Fatigue, but times the cost and  privilege and fucking  all the yuppiness by like a hundred. It's like Gelson's Erawan. Yeah, Erawan's like insane. It's like what? Like there's no where it's backwards. Yeah, it's nowhere backwards. I fucking hate it. Erawan.  Erawan is like this rich people grocery store. Yeah, rich people grocery store, which I think is like in L.A. Yeah. And  there's like there's actual. So  there is an actual smoothie, I think.  Error.  Oh. No where's backwards. Fucking Erawan. Most, so they have like a smoothie, which is I think. I want a freaking smoothie so bad. $22 for a smoothie. $22. What? At Erawan? Erawan. So it's a strawberry probiotic. Wow. yogurt. And for $20, that's like half the price of getting a drink with half of the flavor shots from Swig. Yeah. Which I think we worked out to be $48 or something. Um, Sabrina Carpenter has a $23 short and sweet, um, Erolon smoothie. Oh my gosh. I'm so sorry. Excuse me. Oh my God. No, thank you. I that for the intro. Yeah. Um, uh, $23. Wolf. That is a lot of fucking money. Why is our drink? Why is there a Sabrina Carpenter themed drink in general? No idea. Money. Dude, do you know how many buffalo? Buffalo. Let's this to the hose down. This is the OK. Let's throw to the hose down. The hose down can the rest of this conversation. We need to the five dollars for it. We need to make sure that we talk about how many fucking buffalo nickels that would cost to get one of those. We want a shians like down maybe. feel like it's Dylan. Is there anything else you want from me? I'm just you. don't see your mouth is all your talk and so on. Yes, that should be fine. Yeah, there we go. That's good. You're by far the biggest waveform, so I think you'll be fine. OK, I am really. I did turn everything up a little bit just so I don't do as much work in the edit. So back to Kid Nation Nation. So these kids have been through it. 40 days and 40 nights. were you guys' favorite challenge?  The  one, so my least favorite is when these kids get into  a,  let's see here,  what  is seen to be a giant dish, but it's full of baked beans.  I loved that one. pigs. I loved That can be dangerous. Pigs can bite. Yep. Yeah. Yeah, they're rooting around on their hands and knees  for  rusty tin cans to pull out of  a tub of baked beans. Yeah, play Clip  43. What is three? huge frying pan filled with pork and beans. 1600  gallons of beans to be exact  and real  live  pork. Not the live swine. like pig shit. What?  Everything in that.  1600 gallons? Yeah. swine. Real swine. And then real swine.  If I saw that on the TV that my kid was doing that, probably would have been like, I'd be calling, ripping my child out of there. I'd be like, that is extremely dangerous. Like those kids, like those kids are like digging around  for those fucking cans. And they're like, they're literally old rusty, opened fucking cans. Yeah. Like they can cut themselves.  can  get bit. Maybe  smaller kid might get like tripped and Maybe trampled on literally like those are small pigs. Those are hogs. Yeah There is a lot of times that they have the kids like wrangling animals that are like twice the size of the child  And they go out scare the freaking cows and shit too like that was crazy that kid the do have the clipper the kid There's a part and Dylan didn't get to see this because he doesn't watch the show there's a part where they just find some like not wild they're clearly like a ranchers they go cow tipping but they're they're they have their horns like they're cows with horns and a kid like stares one down and keeps getting closer and like runs at it and it freaks the cow out he's clearly used to doing this but i was like this kid's like four feet tall i know like just the camera man is standing like a hundred feet away yeah i'm sure this is fine yeah nothing could possibly and they're like come on i i can't remember what kid it was but they're like come on  come on i think you're good you're enough he's like it was the second kid that left him yes it was crazy yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah on these little 50 pound children yeah um play uh play the next clip after that 44 yeah I'm not good at hard physical work because I don't have that much muscle because my bones are still forming And that's on facts. Big Milk has convinced me that I need more dairy. was also, and Jay finally finds a can. That was that was a dig. I think my favorite one was when they were shooting the eggs because there was some extreme teamwork that I don't think I was ever capable of as child or now. No, because  I don't know if you have any clips of it. don't. It wasn't that exciting. It's like  there's so many. Oh, the better clips are  not the challenges. Yeah, they're like there's a group of kids with a big slingshot firing eggs  over a wall that has the town council on the wall. And then there's kids with a pillow on the side so they can't see the pillow so the town council kid has to direct them and blue kills it they get like 39 eggs yeah yeah but like the amount of times they catch it but yeah i was quite impressed with that one that was pretty fun yeah um but also uh let's talk about the the things that they would win because there was the the the yeah, was it the fucking prizes? Because yeah, everybody  everybody had to finish  either in a certain amount of time or with a certain amount of stuff for that and would get like there'd be like a town prize and they'd have to choose between two  play clip 15 and we get an example of that. Like they have a practical prize  and then they have  a fucking cool prize. Fun prize.  You guys all pull together and you want a reward for the entire town.  TV!  That you can watch  whenever you want.  Outhouses!  Or a television.  I do want to say, though, however, like I'm actually  really freaking impressed that these children were like, OK, we're here to build a better seed city. And they kept that in mind. Yeah. And they're like, OK, do we really need a TV or do we need outhouses? You know what I mean? So I really liked how even though sometimes people were not very happy with the choices and the decisions they did  like Steve, they  10 toes down, they stood on Business we're trying to make this city work. I also don't know if any kid would have chosen the TV over the outhouses There was one outhouse for 40 kids for the first few days. That's crazy left said he didn't shit the whole time He was there. He shouldn't shit until he was in that hotel with that PA God I mean he only weighed like 40 pounds. That's true. Yeah, but then by the end of it He probably weighed freaking 10 more pounds cuz he had to take a shit. He 10 pounds of dusty pancakes just logging up that little asshole. No, literally I just want the timeline where they chose every terrible option because some of the bad ones were a 40 foot heated water slot inflatable water slide Like a block party. Yes. Oh, that would have been fun though the block party They probably could have chose because it was that or paint They didn't win though. So in order to get these prizes all the every all the districts have to finish.  And if they don't finish, they don't get any prizes. Whatever the challenge was.   Um, the one that I desperately wanted them to choose just because of the chaos and the pain would have been the go-karts  the fact that they did they were metal gasoline powered dune buggies and they were a real fucking huge dune buggies. They would have fucked themselves up. Yeah This is what i'm like. I wish they had chosen every bad thing just arcade water slide  and the water slide was an early option How fucking filthy would that thing have been like just getting dust all on it? It was the water was heated. Yeah, sure Sure. It would have been so fucking nasty when you just look at how gross everything else gets. Yeah. That town probably smells so fucking Oh, well imagine how terrible A lot of these kids are like just getting into puberty. None of these kids packed deodorant. No. Well, there was one that like they literally like had to choose something fun or like toothbrushes and toothpaste. Yeah. And Jay Karsh was like, yeah, this is something you guys really need. Yeah. Well, because just before the challenge where they were offered that They show, I think it was Sophia, like brushing with the baking soda. And they're just like spitting out dusty ass baking soda and shit. I can't imagine what it was like some time some of these kids coming over to you to do a little confessional and you're just on the camera like, Their fucking nasty little child breath coming at you. It's like a fucking dog that eats its own shit. Literally smell like dog shit. these kids had like canned provisions and everything. So for like, think a week or so they were like, I'm. starving. I'm only living off baked beans, jerky and all this shit. Where's the protein?  So these kids had an option. They had chickens. So they had eggs and stuff like that.  Some livestock.  they  from the diary, it was heavily suggested and probably heavily, heavily implied or forced upon by the producers to do this is  They wanted the kids to kill a chicken. So badly. I could just feel it. And there were a lot of kids, especially I think Emily. That were protesting. She was like a little mini like cringe vegetarian. you know what? If you're vegetarian, that's great. But don't. force it down people's things. it's, it's,  it's just, it's giving the vegan lady off a TikTok. does.  But when I have a feeling when it comes to like, if it's just for yourself, and that's the way if you feel great afterwards, that's great. And if you feel  good being a vegetarian or vegan, whatever,  but when it comes to  the benefit of a whole society, we eat meat,  a large majority we eat meat or we need some sort of protein. There's no like Besides baked beans, there's no other source of like vegetable, well, eggs. Protein, sorry, yeah, I you were gonna say protein. No, like any other sort of protein. they just really needed. any other sort. Yeah, just like, okay, who grew up on a farm or perhaps hides the bodies of squirrels in their suburb? Who's willing to kill some chickens? So my Greg stepped right in. Yeah, Greg clearly affirmed Katie. So play clip 25. We can see what Greg Greg obviously. Old Greg.  He's 15.  Yeah, this kid that they keep showing is the one who gets upset. play the next clip. This is this is their little.  It's the little.  Yeah.  They lock themselves in. They're like, no, we won't go. Heck no, we won't go. Yeah. They were like a mini PETA. Yeah. Yeah. And I like that  at one point they like come back around and she's in there again and they're like, Hey, you're not allowed to be in there with those chickens. She's going to molest them.  You like the chickens too much. We got to eat that. I want to eat food that hasn't been fucked.  But  when they do kill the chickens,  do have that. Okay, because there is,  we might see it,  that girl like runs away.  And just her  stupid little, you know, malformed human child run that she does, I just wanted to see just  like full face, play it in like a little slide,  like out of it, just  for my own personal enjoyment.  We don't need that. You know what, play Cliptoe, so trigger warning.   You don't explicitly see it, but there is an animal death. Yeah, my seven-year-old was genuinely disappointed that she didn't get to see a chicken's head being cut off.  Did you look it up on YouTube for it? No.  So play clip 27.  So  there's a little bit of a caution. Oh, the caution of the No, and I was literally going like this like Dakota, don't look. She's like,  Stop.  Look,  Greg is like,  he's done this before. Yeah. He shows how And like, God bless him.  Look at them.  He is super mature about it. He is. He's like telling them. He's like, look, once it's done, it's done. It's Yeah. And he's very respectful,  honestly, because. Oh, yeah.  Yeah, and then he shows... Well, the chicken starts running around because, you know, heads get cut and they're like, it's still alive! And he's like, no, it's dead. It's just the nerves. Like, it's fine. They're good. It's dead. I'm glad that we brought up Greg because I feel like they tried to give him the villain edit. Oh, literally. I mean, he was a bully. He was a bully. a He's a 15 year old boy. So all 15 year old boys... Even like preteen girls, they're all super shitty. Like,  probably just hitting puberty. Yeah. Every 15-year-old boy has just a little bit of Jeffrey Dahmer in Yes, period. So we see like,  and also  he really wants this $20,000 because like he said, this is like his college money. Yep. Like he has And that was the first thing he said too. Like- He really, really needs this. also, like, play clip 39, we get to see another side of Greg that I think, you know... I actually liked him. Yeah, I really did. I understood. So, a little girl... She gets really upset. And he's like looking at the cameras and probably the producers. And I think, I don't think he was talking about the other kids. I think he maybe was talking about the producers. Because he's honestly, he's a smart kid. Yeah. Yeah, there's gonna be emotionally a dick again as we said 15 year old boy. Yeah, but he does have a few good big brother moments. There's a moment. Yeah where  Because they do  choose the arcade over I forget what the other choice was like it wasn't didn't  lost they lost a few challenges in a row where they didn't get to choose between the two options at all and so they finally got to choose the arcade and they did but then  Sophia, who we all love, got turned into the town sheriff and got to lock the doors in the arcade until chores were done. And Taylor, who was not working, was kind of shunned. And there is a good moment where Greg kind of brings her back into the fold, which doesn't get very much like that. So he does have some good moments. There's also another really good one, clip 45. He's like a big brother core. And he picks her up too. Like, whenever I'm feeling sad or anything, when I was little, my parents always carried me to bed.  Oh, like, stop.  Yeah, that is so sweet.  That made me feel like, OK, he's he's a dick. But also, like, I think he's probably maybe farm life, too. Like, maybe there's other elements that we don't see that meet him act this way. Also, it's on reality.  I'm not excusing like his dickish behavior before, but like, I've done shitty things. Yeah. can be. Asshole mine are ever have any desire to watch this show. Oh, yeah. They let them. Oh, Yeah. Oh, no. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. No. So I asked them, like, would you guys do something like this? Oh, my gosh. Play with it a little. I asked my kids, like, do you guys do you think you'd be able to do something like this in Dakota?  my youngest she's like  And then my oldest is like, yeah, I'd be fine. She's 12. She's like, yeah, yeah, I'd be fine. And I'm like, Sish, you can't even get up and get ready in the morning. I don't think you'd be fine. But OK. Oh, I meant this show that you're oh, BoobTube. Yeah. Oh, they do. I love it. That's awesome. Yeah. I'm sure you it. No, no. Disclaimer. I rag all my children like this to their face. Oh, okay, good. Yeah. You got cigarette mom energy. Yeah. Where's my dart? Yeah. Yep. That's funny. But also kids being dickish play clip 46. We get to see Jared. Oh, we see a different side of Jared. A different side of Jared. Is that the one you're thinking of? this Disrespect your surroundings. So no, but that's the thing. Like literally, my kids will literally go head to head  and get so pissed at each other. They'll throw each other's hands and they'll pull their hair. And then literally 10 minutes later, they're like, kumbaya, my lord. So there's a special moment, a moment  that  I think would make our producer very happy if we were to show it. So play clip 49. Let's do it. Finally, the whole reason we're watching this. Interior crocodile alligator.  You look good.  I feel like he's like, hey, you want to make some money? Yeah.  Want to be my new bottom bitch?  Yeah, the lead up to this is that he has a bag to find glass or whatever, and he makes like wood burned things.   That say like bonanza 2007 and other shit and sells it so he gets enough money to go to the store buy a Duster like candy stick and the fucking hat Yeah, and they play that music the first time I saw this  several years ago. I like  I paused it I got up I walked all the way to the end of the hallway I walked back out the front door to the end of the driveway came back  just pointed at the TV and look at my girlfriend who's like That's a pimp child  Period. I've been fascinated with the Pimp Child ever since. producers watched them pick out outfits and they like, yes. And they were like, okay. That looks so I know where to pull out of the airco. knew what they were doing. Yeah. Yes. So. Jared had lot of good moments. There is one of the challenges they got to choose. don't know. They chose the good option. The other option was they were going to set up a miniature golf course. Oh, yes. And the very last thing, the stinger they show over the credits is him with a cup and a rock and like a piece of board and he's like teaching people how to play. Oh, my God. He was also the kid who had his dad do the Irish car bomb, but with the. Yeah, soda and syrup.  In the first episode, there's a part where he's talking to one of the kids and he says, this is the worst day in three years. are like, happened three years ago? What do you mean?  He would say, whoa, we need to give that kid a gold star.  He's going to like. teach us how to teleport. Jared get one? No. No, he didn't. Yeah. And I was so sad about it. Yeah. Because he was going to teach people how to fucking teleport. Yeah. Jesus. Yeah. There's a... I'll get into like where the kids are at. Some of the kids are at later, but yeah. So that was Jared. Jared, pimp child. And... You know, throughout the whole season, the council members change and stuff like that through elections. was a democracy. It was a democracy. Yeah. Democracy.  But there was one where Sofia was  left in charge of the whole town. She was  the sheriff and all the other kids, went to  all the council members. They went and they traveled and they came across  the Pueblo people. They're like the one of the indigenous tribes in New Mexico. And so let's go play clip 51, which is I think, you know, sets that up. But this is a funny ass quote in beginning. Looks like an igloo. It's not an igloo, that's a teetee, buddy. Where's Bonanza,  Not the igloo.  is obviously where we're supposed to be, because there's no doubt that we learn a lot by learning about the Native Americans. Yeah. This is obviously where we're supposed to be.  Oh, you mean the first people you've come across in this entire area? Yeah. I wonder.  So this  episode was kind of  the  council were sort of sitting with the Native American,  the Pueblo people.  And they were kind of like talking with them being like, oh, how do we deal with this and bring up the next clip, clip 52. like, you know, the, I think the representatives that they have on the show were like, oh, you know, like the kids are our future and stuff like that. And they give like very nice and interesting. solutions.  So what's your advice maybe for dealing with younger kids when they may not be listening? The most important things  we can learn as a tribe of people is  always, always offering support to young children. They're the future.  And Native American people,  believe very much in that.  Always set an example for them. Because as kids, they're completely being molded by  everything that's around them. Like their brothers and their sisters and their leaders. Which you guys are. Exactly.   So it's great that they have, you know,  introducing Indigenous ideas  and  stuff like that.  Now, play the next clip.  Oh boy. many of you have heard of the Homestead Act? The Homestead Act is when you get... if you work it for five years or more.  Exactly right, Jared. The Homestead Act was basically responsible for building the old west  and Bonanza City. See that fucking little cunt rolling her eyes. Yeah, I know. Fucking bitch.  yeah, that was probably... He was a villain at it.  Yeah. But so it goes from like, yes, listen to our indigenous populations and then go no, fuck that homesteading. Yeah,  that is pretty crazy. it goes like, literally all in the same episode. Yeah, go learn from the indigenous. Also, we're going to teach the kids how to steal the land from the indigenous population.  Because the homestead laws depleted Native American resources as much of the land they relied on was taken by the federal government and sold to settlers.   And this is so too early  2000s reality. It also goes like the Homestead Act also  implemented and  used other  treaties that were used to naturalize and quote unquote civilize the Native Americans.  Yeah. So it's basically like, yes, we respect our  Native American  communities. And then it goes like, no, fuck that. But we also respect our cowboy heritage! Woo! Fucking hell. And all those years of boy scouts making headdresses, this is the best thing they could come up with to even the playing field. Oh, Fuck.  Yeah.  I just... And so play  the next clip, because these are like, I like to call them mini colonizers.  The snack size colonizers.  The snack that smiles back. The fun size. 54. 54. it's also another thing of... Yeah, they had to go over a little ravine, which is just like a little dip.  Like not like, can you imagine? I would feel like if the producers had their way, it would be like an actual fucking ravine. No, literally.  With Tro running through it. Laurel, you're gonna be rappelling into the Grand Canyon.  Of only nine years  old!  Yeah, so that was  a large majority. Like they have showdowns, they have cancel meetings, they give away gold stars. Now, in the final, final episode, the The worst episode. Yeah, this one was. was rushed. was. was. Staged. So play clip 56. This is how it opened. It's insane.  So fine.  He's just standing there. The sign board's on fire. Yeah. The sign board's on fire. The sign board's on fire. He's like, how are we going to know where we work? Yeah. What the hell? What the helly? What the hell? What the helly? What the helly, auntie? It's going to be stuck in my head now. I know. So now everyone. Their whole symbol, like the obelisk in the 2001 Space Odyssey,  it's gone. It's now...  I wish they had all just went and started freaking out like the apes. Just let everything breaks down even further. They're like, where do we do? The board tells us what cast we are. Yeah. So  go to  clip 58, because this is what happens.  They go crazy. They start raining. I guess they do go into it, yeah.  Again, they are children. Yes.  the buffalo nickels she's stealing the buffalo nickels too which is dumb because currency means nothing now yeah to show them the caste system So it was showing them each and every, so like who was the cooks, like what their jobs were. And you know, they needed to have money so they could go and buy these things. But now there's no currency. was like, it a symbol of, it was a symbol of order, that there was order to this town. But then it burned down and then there was no order. That's their kids. Yeah. then play 57, no, sorry, play 59 because... They continue to go mad.  Ah!  I'm sorry!  I love  Taylor with it. I'm stealing! It's almost like, it's literally like a purge. It's almost like the January 6th.  It's like the Pananza January 6th.  Yeah. So all these kids go mad, but then  the next day they have a bit of like a hangover  with the candy. And then they're just like, we realized  maybe we shouldn't have gone mad.  so  we're supposed to keep this city in order. Yeah. But You know, tensions are high. Everyone  is, you know, they're, they're, they were all separated into casts.  And this is what happens when the cast is dissolved, but there's still some, you know, following of that cast. So go to clip 60. Those girls are in... So Emily was in the red district.  Honestly, I would be saying this. Don't raise your voice to me. Excuse me. What are you doing? And then  Taylor and the other little mean girl. were those three girls were mean girls. were mean. Yeah. They were mean little girls.  So go to the next clip. She talked to you calmly, Emily.  Oh, yeah.  Meagol just really upped the big sister thing.  Oh yeah.  Bro these kids are wild!   This is not working for me. I would kind of say Trying to make fights. Yeah. It's like a Maury sort of feel. Get  in there.  God, they love it. I just imagine the producers frothing at the mouth like, yes!  There's no need! I love how we always hear  from the kids. The kids are adults now and they... talk about working on this production. I don't think I've heard a single goddamn thing from anybody who worked on this show. It's like everyone's truly ashamed. Literally. Well, actually, it's crazy.  One of the producers,  I can't remember her name, but  I saw this in  Dark Side Reality TV with the Kid Nation. She was like, yeah, this was just a fine. Everything was fine with this show. There's nothing bad about it. fine. It's fine. Yeah, it's fine. How are they going to know? Nobody will ever know. So how would the parents know? Because the parents come in the last day, and the parents see how their kids were living. And go to clip 65. Because if I was this parent, and I see how my kid was living for the past 40 days. If I smelt my kid like that. Yeah. My lawyer would have been there. Immediately. Immediately. Like, imagine!  Also love chickens we his parents are they're from Chicago If I learned that my Kid did that and I'm like, I haven't given them the big death talk yet Like I would probably have been like, oh my god  These kids have all seen lying king. They're fine. Yeah, yeah, they've seen early disney mufasa was ripped from their hands, you know, yeah,  um, but yeah, I again probably would have Called my lawyer or uh, but  I I they might have I mean, I don't know. I've never heard of any legal recourse that anyone tried to do. I think they probably had some nasty old iron clad  contracts. Oh, I'm sure there was guaranteed a crazy ass contract that the parents were like, oh, twenty thousand dollars. Well, actually,  after  cool. They're to learn independence. I know.  Well, after 11 year old  Duvad Miles was burnt with grease, splattered onto her face while cooking a meal, her mother, Janice Miles, filed a complaint in June calling for an investigation into abusive acts to minors and possible violations of child labor laws. there was an episode where can see the fucking mark on her face. Yes, I actually. Yeah, you know, I just burned myself with a little bit of grease. Yes, you super calm. She was just making potato patties. Yeah, play Clip 48. What's that on your face? I got splattered in the face with oil, but  a little grease won't stop me, you know? Flipping potatoes, you know, you get splattered by grease sometimes, but you know, whatever. Yeah, I'm glad that... I'm glad that she wasn't seriously hurt because grease... No, that should hurt. I'm surprised there was no grease fires. No, oh my god. Oh my god, like... No fires of any kind except for the job board. Yeah. Yeah. Except for the job board that was literally planned. Right. Yeah. I still really want I want the timeline where they had the go-karts. Someone someone would have gotten hit in the ankle. There would have been we would have saw exposed bone if they got the golf carts and yeah, the go-karts. And I just think we were robbed. Yeah. I mean, this show definitely, you know, just kind of raises the question of like how young is too young  to be on a show like this.  I mean, you have other kid reality TV shows like Uh-Oh. I was just about to bring up Uh-Oh, because there is sort of like the kids game shows that maybe are still, I don't know. don't know. you, there, oh, you, I don't know. My kids watch you too. There might be kids game shows that still exist in some way, or form, but there was, was a more American ones on Nickelodeon. can't remember all of them. Yeah. But I mean, Uh-Oh was the Canadian one. And it is weird that there was a guy named The Punisher who was dressed in like essence.  Yeah, that would dump slime on children.  Loved. But they all were teenagers. Yeah. Yeah, they were all teenagers.  mean,  you know, and it seemed like in a controlled environment, not like a huge, lawless town. diabolical either. No, it was just slime.  like. They didn't have to cut chickens' heads off. No, and they didn't have to cook with grease and anything like that. And they don't have to deal with wild animals.  So that- Or shit in a hole in the ground.  like- Oh, I love that, what was it, like right after they got all of the outhouses, there was like a huge storm. Yes. And the outhouses all blew over. The twister, the Bonanza City twister. and I just remember, and then there was some like harsh, like there was like a sort of like a storm, almost like a twister  close to the town and-  I saw Twister when I was a little bit too young. Oh my god. when the opening scene of Hello Oh, when her dad gets killed? Yeah. Yeah. And you're such a daddy's girl, I can imagine you're just like, I don't want my daddy to get killed by a Twister! Yeah. You have a southern accent for some reason in the story. I cried. I literally, cried and then my mom had to change it and we ended up watching FBI's Most Wanted. Something that doesn't scare me.  And I'm like, yay.  Oh man, when I was a kid, those  crime shows were on. Oh, I used to watch Unsolved Mysteries all the time with the shitty reenactments. forensic files. Mine was Law and Order all day. Oh hell yeah, snaps to that.   I think the whole thing is on Tubi. Like, way old ass episodes when it started. And I put it on one night just to fall asleep and it is just kind of comforting because it's just back at Robert Stack talking and then occasionally like some midwestern cop who looks like Paul Blart. And so then we entered the premises and we found  a couple of weapons that could have belonged to them and it's just that. And so I was like falling asleep to that but I was having crazy fucking nightmares because they're like  it's socks. but they are talking about people being raped and It's almost like Katie from Murder in Small Town X. You know, I was just dreaming about a murderer cutting me open and pulling my intestines out. so with the last episode, three kids get gold stars worth $50,000. according to Wikipedia, the equivalent now in 2024 is $76,000. That's a lot of fucking money.  $76,000. That's a lot of dollars.  So Sophia, because she just worked the fucking hardest,  she won. And she won a 20,000 global star as well. the first one to win. She made her like a bandana. She Like get it girl. Yeah. That's why I'm wearing my freaking bandana like her because she's an icon. And then Morgan, who also won $20,000, she got the $50,000 too. Get it girl. Like get your money. And then Meagol, which we saw in the Pimp Child clip.  his potential  street walker, guess, if you were to make that gross  connection. You look good. Yeah, you look good.  And then  she also split up the catfight between  Emily and the Mean Girls.  so she was the wild card.  Yes, she was. Yeah. Meagal  recognized her as the most improved.  Bonanza citizen. I was pissed.  I won't even lie. I wanted Jared to win a goddamn gold star. I was over it. over it. I mean So, where are the kids today?  Oh Where are they?  Um Where are they? Where are they? So who has an only fans and how much does it cost Josh throw that graphic up in the air? So  DK  Uh, DK is now  a actor. What? He is in Chicago Fire. Okay.  Um,  he was,  he's done a couple of theater shows. Oh. He did Moby Dick, Macbeth. What?  Yep.  Okay, that's wicked. Yeah.  And  he had a role in  a 2022 Shudder lo-fi horror film called Night's End.  Yeah.  And...  You know, I'm sorry you accidentally drank a bottle containing bleach and you know what? made you better for it. Hey, turned you into a radioactive super actor. So maybe that's his origin story. He had to that little bit of bleach. Look at this, King. Look at this, Let's see here. Greg. Big Brother Greg. Big Brother Greg. It's not much known what he's doing now, but I do have his Instagram. And he's handsome.  I gotta throw that out there, he's handsome. He's a, he, he, I think he's a father now. He, he's, he's doing a lot of motocross. Cool.  Um, that's totally what I think he would end up doing. Absolutely. such a,  um, Taylor. The little whiny, deal with it! Yeah. Carol.  She,  uh, she's an occupational therapist. Oh,  okay, okay.   She's now a mother. Oh a mother. She's a mother. Oh gosh. Laurel. Laurel. She's a public figure. I think she sang the national anthem a couple times at some sports games.  you got to hear, so when they were doing the talent show  in Kid Nation, you got to hear her sing and she actually had a beautiful voice at 12 years old. Yeah. Good for her.  Snaps for Laurel. Snaps for Laurel.  Um, Anjay is... Ah, King. King.  He is,  um, working in computer science.  Of course. And he was in... checks out. Yeah, he was in the documentary,  um, talking about his time in Kid Nation. Literally, I turned to Josh while we were watching, said, that boy's a coder now.  Period.  No, seriously, seriously. kid, he's a really smart kid.  You also called out the autistic one.  Was it Nathan? Yeah. There was a couple autistic kids in there. Yeah, but he was like, he was autistic. Yeah. It looks like he's a dog dad. Good for him. Good for him. Looks like I just, last night I didn't get to bed till like 1 a.m. because I've just been stalking all the kids. This is literally just a quick creep session. Yeah. So don't quote us, but. Yeah. And we're judging books by covers right now. So he looks good. He looks like he's living life. Dog dad, good for him. Love it. We've got Sophia. She is huge in motorcycles now. Giving. Giving. Absolutely. Oh my god, this makes sense. talking about writing a book. Yeah, she was writing. I think her experience is different. Yeah. She also had started a little bit of a podcast about her time on Kid Nation. Cool. Good for her. Yeah. When did we go back to Jersey? We  went to Jersey for a moment. Yeah, good for her.  We didn't really see a whole lot of Zach in our clips, but  Zach was one of the later council members and he was the last person to win a gold star. Probably one of the most deserving. Yeah, because he was a hard worker. Before he became one of the council leaders, he was the one who was always like, guys, we got to. like clean stuff. We need to actually do stuff and like organize. Yeah, he was  the more  go-to  person in the yellow team. Someone who should have won, Jesus, someone who should have won a gold star earlier  than he did for sure. So Zach,  I'm so sorry, Zach. Kosnetski, I'm so sorry, buddy. Kosnetski. Yeah, looks like he is a... He's an associate at the Global Commercial Disputes Practice Group, where he handles complex civil litigation and arbitration matters across  a range of industries and fora. So he's a lawyer. Attracts. Yeah, he is.  What? He's actually not bad looking. He's  fucking hot. OK, yeah. right. just feel we should put someone on mic. Please clarify that we are talking about people in their late 20s. Yes, they are not children  anymore. were kids in 2007. They're like half of them are literally. I thought I mentioned that this is what they're doing now. Yeah, as adults.  These are not children. No, no. He's grown up. This child is now a grown man lawyer. He's probably in his 30s. Yeah, yeah, yeah.  Um. Let's stop some more sexy children, Gabby. Oh God.   So Olivia, the one who had the villain edit,  she wrote a book  about her time at Kid Nation. Cool. And she also is a CEO of the Charitable Allies. Let's go!  Which is a nonprofit startup service  and affordable legal services for nonprofits. OK, stop. I her.  And yeah. And who's the fucking villain now? Yeah, I know.  It's all a front. Yeah, it's all a front. Also, the final, Morgan, who won the two gold stars, she plays Eliza on Hamilton. What? Like on Broadway? On Broadway. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. What? Yep. Slay Queen. Oh, yeah. Slay Queen. Oh, yeah. Yeah, she plays one of the Shire. Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah, I know. Wow. Yeah, she's doing really well. it girl. That's so cool. Yeah. And just imagine these children all came from shitting in a hole and smelling like shit. Yeah, from the hole. Skid nation. Skid nation. All right. Right. So. Oh, know, a bunch of those kids are like. still not clear on wiping. Like they just fuck it. They just take a dry dumps and just go running back out into the street. my God.  Right. So that was Kid Nation.  Final thoughts. Josh, please. Oh, I love this show. It's an absolute travesty of like laws and morals.  I do think that there are a lot of great moments where They are genuinely adorable and there is stuff that is just so ridiculously candid that you could never get from  adults. Or I would even say trying to do a reality show now with kids. I don't think you would get something as candid. Kids are too aware of  having their own YouTube channels and things like that. There's  too much of like knowledge of what a performance should be and I don't think you would get the same thing of just them.  being so raw.  exactly.  So I think it is a crazy snapshot. I don't think anyone should ever be allowed to legally do it again. But it's worth watching.  You can definitely find it.  And  yeah, Pimp Child  really just changed my brain chemistry. I think about it  every week of my life  that there was a Pimp Child. So yeah, worth watching. I'm glad no one died. Yeah,  for sure. I think honestly, like I agree 150 % with Josh. I think they had like really good intentions with this show because yes, like kids in today's world, they don't understand how crazy this world really is. And just to like throw these kids into this place and be like, okay, make it great again. And from what we've seen. we've seen, they were making great choices. They were not always great. No. But 90 % of them were really good choices. And I feel like kids nowadays just don't realize what the world is  and how it's going to be when you grow up. Yeah. So. Yeah, I feel like kids on it now  would. lean more into the performance and intentionally choose some of the bad choices just for the good TV. Yeah, maybe be too aware of that. this is much more like kids say the darnedest things, feral edition. Yeah. I definitely think that child labor laws should be here too. Like we should definitely instill that more, especially when especially with fucking things like toddlers and tiaras and this like which is  Shortly on the heels of this show. Yes, that's a very similar It is like I think it came out like toddlers and tiaras like I think it came out like a  couple years after this but it's just like these kids were put on for a spectacle and a lot of them didn't get paid fairly  for it. Yeah, so even though they some of like they all the kids were compensated like $5,000 I don't know if that was just like the once or if it was like continuous or whatever, but still like these kids spent 40 days. 40 days and 40 nights.  of, you know, sleeping in uninsulated cabins,  eating like, like they didn't get vegetables until well into like halfway. these kids were went insane for vegetables.  Yeah. And just imagine like even doing that as an adult. are fucking literal baby fetuses. I like they are children. I do.  Babies.  Yeah. Listen, I love my fruits and veggies. Fucking love it. Yeah. If I don't get anything fresh or green,  I feel gross.  know, although I was I was privileged enough to not grow up in a food desert or anything like that where I didn't have access to that, but it's just like, you know, after that, I'd feel like my mind would go a little bit insane. Like there were times when I was like working at, you know,  really long days and I didn't have access to like, you know, fresh produce and I'd just be eating junk and crap because it's the most like easiest thing to get to.  And it says like a whole other thing for the way that,  um, how our groceries are priced and everything like that and how like people with lower income do not have access to those and they should. But anyways, the whole thing is just being like that also play into like my discomfort. Yes. Like porta potties. Sure. Like, you know, we've all used them, but to use them continuously for 40 fucking days. When we sleep on a floor. Right. But also like I How much were those being cleaned out?  And kids were cleaning them out.  Like the laborers, the children that won the laborer position for their job, they were cleaning them out. Yeah. Like.  And it's just it's just insane to me.  And I think some of these parents.  I definitely wouldn't have sent my kids to this after. I never after seeing that these kids would be would have to be available for 24 hours, like 24 7. I'd be like, no, literally. No, because I contemplate sending my children to freaking school. Yeah. Because I don't trust adults. No. Also, yeah, it's it's kind of like a weird, gross sort of time. Like that was, you know. Anyways, I'm rambling on. Skid Nation. Skid Nation. Skid Nation. Skid Nation. So follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, I'm not saying it, Blue Sky, Patreon. 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