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[Music] welcome to multiple nerdgasm your destination for all things nerdy how are you guys been you had a good week yeah pretty good pretty good yeah not too bad actually we um looking forward to this week it's 4 day week two 4 day weeks back to back yeah yeah I'm actually uh I'm off to the United States oh the United States of what the United States of America I'm uh heading over there on Friday so um so listeners we're going have some um some Oddities in your podcast feed for the next couple of weeks there'll still be episodes every week but um you're going to be getting a special Cal episode the podcast Cal not breakfast cereal um that's coming later in the
year we'll see yep um and uh and also there'll be another best of so um just because um we're going to be in different time zones actually because cuz you're heading overseas as well is that right Dan yeah so I'll be um I'll be jetting all around Asia right um working on some advertising campaigns uh still will do the podcast but I'll be 3 hours in the future yeah so we determined that while I'm away and Dan's away it was just going to be too difficult to sort out the timing so once I get back we'll resume as as normal um but yeah there should still be uh an episode every week it'll just be um either a special that we've done already or a um a best of which I mean come on who doesn't love those in fact I've
heard some of the new best of and it's hilarious well it should it's the best that's right yeah we cut out all the bits where we weren't funny so as this is the second best of is this like as good as the first one uh I think it's better in the the sound quality was much better so the so we've got like episodes 1 to 10 in the first best of and this is like 10 to 20 or something is it yeah I think it goes a bit higher than that but yeah uh it's got stuff like I don't want to give too much away don't nobody's forcing your hand man it's got some good stuff in there I listen to I haven't been doing it Jenna's been doing it but I um I listen to some of it and it sounds good yeah some funny stuff in there so yeah if you've been um wanting to go back and
listen uh but you don't want to hear us babbling about boring [ __ ] this is a great way to to do that speaking of babbling about boring [ __ ] oh I'm sorry should we get started sure I mean we mentioned uh me going over to Asia and Matt you were asking me only yesterday about the chewing Gump situation yes and then I stumbled upon an article about it like quite by a chance why don't you take us through it all right well as as you know because we discussed it in Singapore um it is illegal to chew gum um I think utterly right it's just illegal to do it yeah correct um and I I think um you are allowed to bring a very small amount of it into the country for medical reasons is that
right no I think that they've just become a little bit LAX on the laws over the years so I think at at one point it was just completely banned I think now they say look if you want to have a packet of chewy and you want to chew someone in your own house that's really not hurting anyone but you're not allowed to have it in public and you're certainly not allowed to put it on the foot path which I believe was one of the main reasons why they banned in the first place yeah well they've got a photo here of um the pavement at Oxford Circus in London which is covered in chewing gun marks and it looks disgusting and you know what I don't know that I noticed this but is that is that how this Pavements look everywhere like if people just throwing gum
everywhere what the [ __ ] is remember the 0s Matt you remember the 80s when everyone was chewing gum there was [ __ ] gum everywhere yeah on chairs on the floor I remember in school just being everywh CED in gum but like Jesus I'm kind of glad it went out of fashion I'm not saying but I'm glad it went out of fashion one of the things they mention is that on the the subway in Singapore the people used to stick it on the door of the of the trains and it would jam up the workings of the door I mean [ __ ] that's that's a pain yeah I have just read in here there's another law that they have there that I want them to bring over in Australia if there's a public toilet you are legally required to flush it that's
right yep that should be a law everywhere yeah yeah that's fair y it's also illegal to walk around naked in your home in Singapore yes interesting just in case in case you get your dick caught in something no in case anyone sees you because pornography is illegal oh right okay so I'm pretty sure if it's you know the lights are DM and the windows are closed then you'll be fine they don't do sting operations hanging outside people's showers just in case but if you if you've got your window open and your next door neighbor sees you then um technically you're a porn star wow that's interesting because that I've got a new segment that I'd like to um to premere uh this episode and it's called are you sure that's a
law oh yeah when my jaw hit the floor when I heard what you said but I'm sure in days of your it would have made more sense it seems so strange and I need to know the score so I really got to ask are you sure that's a law are you sure that's a law what I've done now there are a lot of if you search for dumb laws on the internet you'll find quite a lot and they're not all um legit or they are worded in a way that makes them sound Stranger Than They Are For example there is a law that comes up a lot um which is I think it's from one of the US states and it says that it's a legal to tie an alligator to a fire hydrant now technically that is true but what the law actually says is it's illegal to tie a horse or any other animal to a fire hydrant ah right so
inclusive of alligators yeah exactly so some of them are a bit like that so what I've tried to do is um I've tried to find ones that appear to be legitimate um and in some cases I tried to find out why and I wasn't always able to um um but but as far as I'm aware these are these are actually legitimate laws yeah um in Texas it is against the law for anyone to have a pair of pliers in their possession what I don't know why I couldn't find out why what if you're an electrician I don't know I don't know there's probably a good reason for it I just don't know what it is that's funny concealed guns okay parlies go to jail yeah well you know in Victoria it's a legal to change a light bulb unless you're an electrician that's on my list I I apologize mat I won't I won't
Jump Ahead that's fine I'm assuming that's one of those ones that they don't enforce very often there's a few of those on this list that's not what I heard Matt I heard there just tough new penalties for it are you serious no okay sorry damn I'm hoping in Philadelphia you're not allowed to put pretzels in a bag now this is based on an act in from 1760 where it's illegal to sell a pretzel sight unseen in a bag so if you're going to sell pretzels they have to be visible clearly displayed and the customer selling dodg pretz yeah the customer must be able to see and select the pretzel they want
before it is put into um a bag so the wording is not quite right again people people word it as you can't put pretzels in bags but I think you're allowed to as long as the person has selected the one that they want because otherwise D pretzels can be passed off as nice fresh ones and it could be too late when you find out they are of poor quality um in Alaska yeah uh you're not allowed to look at a moose from an [Laughter] airplane just trying to the more I think about the complexities of that the funnier that becomes I'll and I'll tell you why and it it does make sense sort
of how can there be a lure of what you can and can't look at now apparently um when a moose is constantly almost on the on the edge of starvation right the the environment they live in they're very very tenuous right and if you spook them they can literally just just die like it's illegal to spook them in a whole bunch of ways but one of them this law is basically meant to say stop flying around and harassing them but right it means you're not allowed to you're not allowed to fly around and observe a moose from an airplane like you're not allowed to what about a helicopter I assume that's probably similar it's just a strange wording I think what is the plural of moose is it just moose moose my my brain can't
process that right now me me Moes don't know I keep wanting I don't know I was I think it's just moose isn't it mooses there's some moose moose plural what is the plural of moose is it moose mooses me the answer is consequently it's plural instead of being mes or M is the same as a singular okay so this plural is Moose right like fish yes so you're not allowed to look at them from an airplane because the airplane will scare them I think that's the premise uh this is an old law that I don't really need to explain but apparently this is still technically on the books in Memphis Tennessee a woman is not allowed to drive a car unless a man warns approaching motorists or pedestrians by walking in front of the
car that is being driven well there's a similar law in Australia that I I believe um is left over from bygone days where it's illegal to drive after a certain time in Australia unless a friend is walking ahead of your car with a lantern y That's awes what I was about to say yeah mhm um in seven US states according to their constitutions atheists are barred from holding public office yeah yep I knew that one mhm um sorry I phrased that like I tried to run the public office because I was an a that's not the case I just I just did know that fact no I I had several is B yeah yeah interracial marriage was still illegal in Alabama in 2000 it's not a current law but it's just goes to show that that's quite
recent yeah um although 15 years ago which of course recent to um human rights laws certainly but that doesn't feel like it should be 15 whole years ago 2000 was does it no we're old now there was a law that was actually enforced oh I assume so I mean maybe not up until that point I mean at a certain point they probably just got around to changing it but I mean almost certainly it was enforced at one point yeah yeah definitely yeah we we know about that we do um Milan in Italy states that it is a legal requirement to smile at all times except during funerals or hospital visits frowners faced Hefty I have a question about this uh um so during hospital visits so if I'm in hospital Y and I'm having horrible stuff done to me I have
to smile cuz I'm not visiting I think well you are you're visiting the hospital so what about the doctors they're doing these horrible things to me they're just at work yeah I guess they've got to be smiling mhm yeah yeah so I think they they they definitely be subject to fines yeah cuz if you're not happy at work well go do something else yeah do something else um in England it is illegal to die in the house of Parliament Houses of Parliament um this was voted the most ludicrous law in the UK in 2007 and a spokesman for the House of Commons said the people who know about these things here say there is no basis for such a law but that's not to say it does not exist somewhere in writing I don't know why he said that cuz yeah when you asked him about it that was his comment
I assume you meant well yeah yeah I mean what he said was oh yeah I mean we know that's stupid but it's it's a law so we know that that's why asked about it um in this is a happy little happy little law in Saudi Arabia there is no minimum age for marriage in 2008 a Saudi Court refused an 8-year-old girl to ask for divorce from her 58-year-old husband oh yes well good times it's another story Al together isn't it yeah so sorry about that uh in 29 states in the US it is still legal to fire someone for being gay technically wow 29 States and I checked that and as far as I could tell that was current as of last year I don't know about this year but apparently that is still true if if that's not true please let us know because I mean that's [ __ ] like that's that's just shitty uh
in 34 states it's legal to fire them for being transgender that is a valid reason for dismissal apparently uh again that's shitty yeah I mean I guess look I mean at the end of the day you should be able to fire someone if they're not doing a good enough job yeah Y and that's it there shouldn't be any reason you should fire somebody other than you just you [ __ ] up time and time again yeah unless for some reason being a specific gender is a requirement of the job and you're continually [ __ ] that up by being transgendered yeah like if you're a male stripper yeah without a penis yeah yeah and they're like look you got great pecs but when
that g string comes off yeah and all they can see is your penis siiz clitoris everyone's confused and disorientated I know I would be yeah that would be a little that'd be a weird bux night yeah I mean for starters I'd want to know why there was a male stripper at our bux night I was going to say to be honest if that happened at somebody's Buck Night I'd probably I'd probably look at it back and again that was a pretty interesting not look back on vagina look yeah exactly and think you know that's probably that's a memorable box night true I did not expect that uh in in Oklahoma Matt Matt as a person with the closest looming buck knife I'll keep that in mind Sor I just got to quickly Google
transgender strippers yeah well what do you know it's a real thing of course it is yeah and you can be fired if you're not a trans gender in Oklahoma it is against the law to have a sleeping donkey in your bathtub after 700 p.m. is this one of those ones where it's illegal to have any sleeping animal in your bathtub or is almost almost certainly yeah yeah or just you're not allow to have an animal in your bathtub at all before seven no no inclusive of seven and again the law is probably more like don't put your donkey in the bath you [ __ ] with yeah or kind of a sleep him a bath after 700 p.m. or it's one of those things that it got written into local law because some [ __ ] withit put a sleeping donkey in his bath right and some [ __ ] went down and
so now it's like fine there's a law against this one specific thing cuz in this town because of some idiot we had to bring this into legislation yeah um in Canada one out of every five songs on the radio must be sung by a Canadian oh yes that's a lot of countries have that yeah it's interesting I know France France have a 40% rule oh no 60% 60% really yeah absolutely that's TV radio and film that's really interesting I didn't know that yeah okay a lot of countries have limits to local content um this is this is a very I think this is a cool law I'm probably going to offend somebody uh but it is illegal to be fat in Japan
ah in Japan my first question is sumo wrestlers in Japan they require citizens between the ages of 45 and 74 to have their waist lines measured once every year and you you be forced to seek medical attention if you're too fat wow you don't you don't get arrested but they force you to seek help well that kind of makes sense yeah that's not I mean you know like if you live in a country where they force you to wear a helmet on your bike so you don't get injured no one complains do some people do complain you know you could you could complain that that's an in infraction on your rights but you could say that about many laws yeah I think it's I think it's pretty good I mean they got a lot of
people over there they don't you know they got to they don't want taking up too much space exactly yeah um in Thailand it is illegal to step on money oh yeah oh I know why why can I guess sure because their money has a picture of the King on it exactly yeah no when I the first time I've been to Thailand a few times and I love it there but the first time I went there I got off the plane and there's this enormous picture of the king like stories high on the side of the uh on the side of the airport and I realized that that moment that my normal sense of humor of just making fun of everything was was not going to fly there no and and people take the king very seriously the King's favorite color is yellow and he was born on a Monday so in Thailand
on Mondays you wear yellow right you just do it you just do it if you're born on the same day as the king as in on his birthday if you share a birthday with the King mhm you get your education paid for in full by the king really boy or girl including University that's wow that's fascinating yeah there you go I didn't know that they love their King they love him he must be must be all right then he is all right actually he turned Thailand pretty much single-handedly from like a third world country into an international tourist destination with
its own thriving economy yeah and his his uh he's a humanitarian his wife's a philanthropist superm model she's not bad looking for a woman in her 7s all right be careful yeah she's good I'd say I'd go there that's I'm oh let's keep it in let's keep it in Asia um in July 2013 a law was passed in China that states it is illegal for adult children to not visit their parents often a and I can just see the disgruntled member of part element that suggested that yeah they are also required to attend to their parents' spiritual needs whatever that means oh goodness yeah oh the RO says you got to shock me spiritual spiritual yeah the RO says
yeah um that sounds a lot like that kind of the passive aggression of passing that law yeah right sounds like um a study that I realized I read about that they were doing at the CSO that one of the scientists has put funding into which is um where do all the coffee cups keep going out of the Cs kitchen right and he's really doing it it's a legitimate study but that's the most passive aggressive thing I've ever heard anyone doing yeah right yeah it seems like you just you could probably figure that out pretty easily yeah seems like he already knows it he's just making a point yeah just put up one of those signs that everyone seems to put up in yeah that's right office kitchens when something's dis agreeable to them yeah um this is a
law that's uh from uh Rhode Island oh yeah a state that I'll be in next week um a union can be considered invalid on the grounds that the party is deemed to be collectively an idiot or lunatic yeah so that's that's fair I guess that's why the Tea Party hasn't really taken rot there yeah yeah yeah I thought that was uh was pretty cool actually yeah um in France it is illegal to name a pig Napoleon because that would be a that would be a slight to the French General and Emperor MH MH um in this is everyone probably knows this already because it was in the news in Russia Putin uh recently made it illegal to tell kids that gay people exist what you've got a show don't tell they've got a I mean they're in
serious denial over there absolutely yeah I looked up uh this is actually I started to look up this and then I was like you know what I don't know if I want to read too much more about this because it's depressing but apparently if you're if you're homosexual in Russia it is not good times for you at the moment or probably ever so you want to get we live in Sydney and um it's one of the most forward countries in the world count it's not even a country Dan one of the most Forward Thinking cities in the world when it comes are gay rights and um and gender equality but I think we forget that there most of the world is still a bit iffy on the subject yeah yeah I agree I mean we make jokes about it often but like I I do forget that there were
places in the world where people say stuff like that and they not J it's not a joke that's right exactly right yeah yeah yeah same with um I mean we make jokes about all sorts of stuff that uh that elsewhere in the world people probably take really seriously I think it's very funny so sorry about that if uh that's just how that's just how we deal with the sadness of the world that's right we're not making fun of the victims of racism we're making fun of the concept of racism yeah I would agree and sexism no that's okay C way it doesn't exist Kan your oh yeah that's right oh yeah you we're off the hook from that because it's like playing with a cat when you don't want to play with a cat who cares no no no well I mean we we don't have to apologize to black people
anymore we still have to be careful of the gays yeah that's true unless Kaner tells us that gender equality issues don't exist [ __ ] I really I want to hear what he has to say about it I'll be honest I'd love to hear what Kanye West has to say about that uh my final one I thought this was interesting uh and again um it's got a bit of a anti-gay tinge unfortunately uh in Texas you can be married uh in common law which means um in the state of Texas you are married but that may not translate to anywhere else in the world or even other states um but you can become married by common law by publicly introducing a person as your
husband or wife three times oh mhm so as long as and you you've got to live together and everything but if you if you live together and you announce to people three times that this is my wife well that is that is your wife now that's a pretty cheap ceremony three times in a row like a hip hiip hoay no no no it's just um if you told three people that's your wife she is your wife yeah it actually says yeah you must um you must um notify people that you are married to this person and apparently the the rule of thumb is if they've if you've gone to the pub and introduced the person as your partner three times then well that's legal she is yeah yeah now apparently there and also you can also go to a law Clerk and have
paperwork done but you don't have to yeah right there eight like there's two options um apparently they're in the process of changing that law uh in favor of one that is more sensible is anti-gay it's got to be a woman or a man depending yeah apparently they're rewording it because there was they want their laws to be more discriminatory they're worried that g wanding around getting married yeah this is my husband you can't do that well law says I can so apparently unfortunately yeah they're changing it so they can cover the that so not for the better no well it depends on I guess it depends on on how prejudiced you are well not at all so no I didn't think so but that said I'm going to go to France and get a pig and name a Napoleon yeah because
[ __ ] that Napoleon was the Hitler of his day and he gets way too much credit for not being like that he gets credit for not being like not being well like nobody goes oh [ __ ] you know Napoleon I mean not that you'd be concerned about it now but people are still pretty concerned about Hitler Napoleon's only 100 years earlier than Hitler yeah yeah I don't I don't have any posters of Napolean you have posters of hit posters of Hitler no I just mean he's not I mean he's not a role model whoa that's not what I mean Jesus Matt post Hitler wow that's not what I said no that's exactly what you said no it's not I said all I said was I don't have
any posters of Napoleon that's all I said oh goodness just to just to swing this around before we before we move on we started talking about Singapore's crazy laws oh not so crazy laws about you know it being illegal not to flush a toilet for example Y in Singapore it's also illegal to pee in an elevator well it should be yes it should be and it it it's concerning that so many people were doing it they had to make a specific law about it but not only they went one step further and they made a law that every elevator has to be equipped with a UD and that's a urine detection device what if you're in an elevator and you piss it will detect it the elevator doors will shut and lock and you will be trapped in there while the police are notified with your piss
oh my God yeah that's really interesting like they had a real problem with that I guess a real problem wow that's interesting well I mean it's it's just kind of part of their whole thing about being the cleanest country imaginable yeah well I mean from what I've seen it's it's worked so yeah because they're a borderline Nanny State on CL well my jaw hit the floor when I heard what you said but I'm sure in days of your it would have made more sense it seems so strange and I need to know the score so I really got to ask are you sure that's a law are you sure that's a [Music] L let's take a minute to tell our listeners how they can get in contact with us if you guys don't mind all right you get one minute all right um uh oh
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were um okay yep y it was to be 920's upbeat that was Luke's request yeah um Dan you said you wanted it to sound like Elton John El John y yep and I said I wanted it to sound like sailor's [ __ ] so I've I've done my best all right so it's beat 19 [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] um in um is that going to play every time we have gay news cuz we have gay news a lot well it's the jingle then I'm hoping to hear that a lot more as well right fine well if you don't want that as the jingle no
no I need I need suggestions from hoping to hear it all right good well then yes I mean this is not like when Dave wrote that 10minute Opus and then insisted on it being played every time as he would I'm sure would point out where he here it was three minutes long and it was very funny it was just long um in in gay news um in Britain uh the very first known same-sex prison wedding has occurred um between two murderers uh and it's it's particularly interesting uh be politically correct Matt by adding who just happened to be gay he just happened to be gay not that it matters um an Infamous killer
what matters to gay news what matters is saying the words correctly I've got I've caught your disease why start now an Infamous killer who strangled a gay man has married a fellow murderer in the first known same-sex marriage inside a British prison and I'll just intervene to say that that other guy that he's married is also in prison for um homophobic crimes that's right um uh one of the the the gentleman in question one of them is a convicted uh child sex offender um and yeah he murdered a um a gay man and uh and Goodwin was sentenced the other guy was sentenced to life behind bars for gay bashing murdering somebody did the the gay guy that was murdered what the guy that murdered the guy was it because he was gay or he just
happened to be gay well they mentioned that they all just happened to be gay Luke come on PC it seems like yes they were they were this under bashing takes one to No One law yeah I guess so yeah it definitely says Goodwin one of the other guy was sentenced to life behind bars for gay bashing and killing somebody so and the other guy lured gays to his house like on list and then murdered them yeah so it certainly seems like yeah it's a case of they they hated themselves for being gay murdered a bunch of gays went to prison and fell in love but I love not only fell in love they bonded over the fact that they hate
gays and fell in love yeah it's great that they were able to maybe work it out but would have be nice if it could have worked out in a better way I agree yeah uh and so I mean gay marriage is legal over there um so there's nothing funny about that like it's not unusual um in the UK uh but it's the first one in a prison so that's the first official one in a prison I'm pretty sure men have married other men in prison before a [ __ ] under common law I think yeah there's quite a few recognized by the state uh Gallatin of one of them one of the gentleman uh sounds like a robot name galanov I am galanov he will be considered for parole next year and his parents said they were very happy and proud of their son for getting married oh is he a nice boy no he bashes
and murders kids and gays yeah yeah yes he SE children and murdered some you know yeah beggar can't be choosers hopefully they'll uh they sound made for each other though don't they well [ __ ] I'm terrified what's going to happen if they both get out I thought you're going to say if they have kids and I thought we were going to no when they get out they SS like they've come to terms with what they are right I don't think they're going to go on a spree again yeah but they one of them was molesting children like well hopefully the other one's like look I respect that but anytime you're going to molest a child molest me instead oh well that's fine then that's what friends are [Laughter] for so yeah so that's this week's game news I'm not going to play the jingle
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