1 00:00:00,110 --> 00:00:01,110 Power bottom that what? 2 00:00:01,110 --> 00:00:01,560 Pole. 3 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:02,140 Pole. 4 00:00:02,140 --> 00:00:02,620 Okay. 5 00:00:02,620 --> 00:00:02,970 Yeah. 6 00:00:02,970 --> 00:00:04,640 Hole and pole. 7 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:05,600 Pole and pole. 8 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:06,320 Hole and pole! 9 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:07,150 Hole and pole. 10 00:00:07,150 --> 00:00:07,730 There we go. 11 00:00:07,730 --> 00:00:08,280 Oh my god. 12 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:13,240 Welcome to The Outlifting Lounge, the weekly show serving queer conversation, 13 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:16,420 news, and no-nonsense fitness for gay, bi, and trans guys. 14 00:00:16,420 --> 00:00:17,090 I'm Alan. 15 00:00:17,090 --> 00:00:19,190 And I'm his husband, Derec. 16 00:00:19,190 --> 00:00:22,990 On today's show, we'll be talking about my obsession with 3D printing, 17 00:00:22,990 --> 00:00:27,550 discussing Troye Sivan’s amazing new music video, having a rant about GB 18 00:00:27,550 --> 00:00:32,540 News, Ofcom, and the LGB Alliance, And then, in the fitness section 19 00:00:32,540 --> 00:00:35,490 of the show, we'll be talking about abs and core muscles. 20 00:00:35,490 --> 00:00:36,920 So, let's start the show. 21 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,160 We've had a great wee week, haven't we? 22 00:00:39,160 --> 00:00:39,940 We have. 23 00:00:39,940 --> 00:00:41,120 Happy birthday to you. 24 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:41,780 Thank you. 25 00:00:41,780 --> 00:00:43,080 I am 21 again. 26 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,080 No, you're officially a year younger than me. 27 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:46,150 You're 25 then. 28 00:00:46,150 --> 00:00:47,600 I would love to be 26. 29 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:49,550 Yeah. 30 00:00:49,550 --> 00:00:52,050 I turned the big 4-4 this week. 31 00:00:52,050 --> 00:00:52,890 The big 4-4. 32 00:00:52,890 --> 00:00:53,960 The double 4s. 33 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,160 And, on my birthday, it was a double 34 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:59,930 celebration, because we were also six years married. 35 00:00:59,980 --> 00:01:00,370 I know. 36 00:01:00,370 --> 00:01:02,360 I can't believe that's six years married. 37 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:06,530 We got married in between lockdown one and lockdown two, which 38 00:01:06,530 --> 00:01:09,390 it seems like six years ago, but it doesn't as well. 39 00:01:09,390 --> 00:01:12,860 It also seems like a lifetime ago, because the pandemic 40 00:01:12,860 --> 00:01:15,350 just seems so surreal and in the past now. 41 00:01:15,350 --> 00:01:16,180 Weird. 42 00:01:16,180 --> 00:01:16,650 Yeah. 43 00:01:16,650 --> 00:01:17,990 A lot's happened in those six years. 44 00:01:17,990 --> 00:01:19,100 A lot has happened. 45 00:01:19,100 --> 00:01:21,640 We live in another country, and our dog has three legs. 46 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,490 He's doing really well at the minute. 47 00:01:24,540 --> 00:01:28,450 So, this week, we had him out, and he was running around 48 00:01:28,450 --> 00:01:31,600 with some other dogs, and he's just getting on with things. 49 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:31,950 Yeah. 50 00:01:31,950 --> 00:01:34,910 It was really nice to see him interacting with other dogs, actually. 51 00:01:34,910 --> 00:01:35,930 It was really cool. 52 00:01:35,930 --> 00:01:38,420 Although, he decided just to lie down in all 53 00:01:38,420 --> 00:01:41,230 the sand and ash, so he was absolutely bogging. 54 00:01:41,230 --> 00:01:44,420 If anybody does know what bogging means, it means very, very, very dirty. 55 00:01:44,420 --> 00:01:45,240 Dirty. 56 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:45,980 Dirty. 57 00:01:45,980 --> 00:01:46,780 Bowfin. 58 00:01:46,780 --> 00:01:49,610 That's another good Scottish expression that I learned when I lived there. 59 00:01:49,610 --> 00:01:50,140 Bowfin. 60 00:01:50,140 --> 00:01:50,670 Bowfin. 61 00:01:50,670 --> 00:01:51,080 Aye. 62 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:51,910 Bogging and bowfin. 63 00:01:51,910 --> 00:01:53,080 Very descriptive. 64 00:01:53,850 --> 00:01:55,860 So, Derec and I have this rule that we don't 65 00:01:55,860 --> 00:01:59,060 buy each other birthday presents, Christmas presents, because if we 66 00:01:59,060 --> 00:02:01,090 want something, we'll just go out and buy it. 67 00:02:01,090 --> 00:02:03,200 But you decided to buy yourself a birthday present. 68 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:04,840 Yeah, just a small little trinket. 69 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:08,640 Go ahead and tell our listeners that are on the edge 70 00:02:08,640 --> 00:02:11,600 of the seat right now, waiting to hear what this is. 71 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:12,630 I am a geek. 72 00:02:12,630 --> 00:02:15,090 I have wanted a 3D printer forever. 73 00:02:15,090 --> 00:02:17,940 For years, actually, I've talked about 3D printing and I've 74 00:02:17,940 --> 00:02:20,300 learned everything about it and I don't have one. 75 00:02:20,300 --> 00:02:22,690 And I've never 3D printed anything, so I 76 00:02:22,690 --> 00:02:24,560 just was like, yeah, do you know what? 77 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:25,320 I'm going to buy one. 78 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:28,740 See, when Derec says that he's spoken about it for years, he hasn't fucking shut 79 00:02:28,740 --> 00:02:31,690 up about it, honestly, and I keep saying to him, just go and buy it 80 00:02:31,690 --> 00:02:34,470 if you want it, and then he decided to go and buy one. 81 00:02:34,470 --> 00:02:36,040 Do you know how sad I am? 82 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:39,810 I have been maintaining a note in my Apple Notes titled, Things I 83 00:02:39,810 --> 00:02:43,340 Want to 3D Print, probably for like a year and a half now, 84 00:02:43,340 --> 00:02:47,160 and the list got so long that that's what convinced me. 85 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:49,830 It was like, yeah, yeah, there's so many things on this that I 86 00:02:49,830 --> 00:02:52,860 want to 3D print that I can actually justify buying a 3D printer. 87 00:02:53,110 --> 00:02:55,100 Welcome to living with ADHD. 88 00:02:55,100 --> 00:02:58,590 I'd definitely put the D in the ADHD. 89 00:02:58,590 --> 00:02:59,140 Yeah. 90 00:02:59,140 --> 00:02:59,650 Derec? 91 00:02:59,650 --> 00:03:02,020 No, I can think of some other words that begin with D. 92 00:03:02,020 --> 00:03:05,010 Right, that's enough about us. 93 00:03:05,010 --> 00:03:05,900 Excuse me. 94 00:03:05,900 --> 00:03:06,390 What? 95 00:03:06,390 --> 00:03:08,280 You bought a 3D printer for your birthday. 96 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:08,870 What did I do? 97 00:03:08,870 --> 00:03:09,620 For our anniversary? 98 00:03:09,620 --> 00:03:11,950 Oh, oh God, we haven't talked about that. 99 00:03:11,950 --> 00:03:14,300 Yes, I've decided I'm going back to Glasgow for the week. 100 00:03:14,300 --> 00:03:15,010 Oh no, we went to the Axel. 101 00:03:15,010 --> 00:03:16,300 I thought that's what you were talking about. 102 00:03:16,300 --> 00:03:17,480 Oh, right, okay. 103 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:19,880 Yeah, we spent a very nice day at 104 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:23,950 the Axel Hotel, pool, just chilling and relaxing. 105 00:03:24,060 --> 00:03:25,120 with our friend Nik. 106 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:26,080 And it was very nice. 107 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,290 It's the first time in a long time that I've actually felt relaxed. 108 00:03:29,290 --> 00:03:31,510 I came out of there just totally chilled. 109 00:03:31,510 --> 00:03:32,720 Do you know what? 110 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,990 I think when people hear or realise that we live on Gran 111 00:03:35,990 --> 00:03:40,080 Canaria, they think it's just all sun and sunbathing and chilling. 112 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,570 And it's not, we just live a normal life here like you would in the UK. 113 00:03:43,570 --> 00:03:47,270 But obviously, there's the attraction of being able to sunbathe. 114 00:03:47,270 --> 00:03:49,770 And we have been able to do that for ages and ages 115 00:03:49,770 --> 00:03:53,280 because we've been so busy with the wee man, aka Haggis. 116 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:57,060 So it was really nice actually to get some good few hours of sunbathing. 117 00:03:57,060 --> 00:03:57,360 Yeah. 118 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,580 And we came back home after that and we 119 00:04:00,580 --> 00:04:02,690 were like, oh God, I hope Haggis is okay. 120 00:04:02,690 --> 00:04:04,760 And he clearly had not left his bed. 121 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:06,750 He just slept the whole time we'd been gone. 122 00:04:06,750 --> 00:04:10,360 So we worry too much about it because we have been so, we've been 123 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:14,650 guarding him and protecting him so much that I think we just over-worry. 124 00:04:14,650 --> 00:04:16,340 We're good dads. 125 00:04:16,340 --> 00:04:17,240 We are. 126 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,150 And there was some quite nice dads out of the pool yesterday as well. 127 00:04:20,150 --> 00:04:22,040 So that, dads as in daddies. 128 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:23,760 So yeah, that made it be a bit of fun. 129 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:25,150 Some hot boys to look at. 130 00:04:25,370 --> 00:04:26,460 We all love a bit of eye candy. 131 00:04:26,460 --> 00:04:28,320 Yeah, so I booked a flight to Glasgow. 132 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:28,940 That was my point. 133 00:04:28,940 --> 00:04:30,330 So you booked a flight to Glasgow? 134 00:04:30,330 --> 00:04:31,340 Just one way? 135 00:04:31,340 --> 00:04:33,740 Just, you should be so lucky. 136 00:04:33,740 --> 00:04:39,010 I haven't been home in a year, so I'm really looking forward to that. 137 00:04:39,010 --> 00:04:41,730 So I'm going to be back in Glasgow in the middle of November. 138 00:04:41,730 --> 00:04:43,820 Going to be fucking freezing. 139 00:04:43,820 --> 00:04:45,580 Yeah, good luck with that. 140 00:04:45,580 --> 00:04:46,810 Yeah, but I'm very excited. 141 00:04:46,810 --> 00:04:47,740 Good, good. 142 00:04:47,740 --> 00:04:48,870 I think you need it. 143 00:04:48,870 --> 00:04:53,430 There's a couple of our friends have had kids in the last few 144 00:04:53,430 --> 00:04:56,660 years and yeah, you're kind of missing on them growing up because kids 145 00:04:56,660 --> 00:04:58,430 just grow up so quickly, so it'll be nice for you to get 146 00:04:58,430 --> 00:05:02,220 back and see them, catch up with folk, fill your cup, recharge your 147 00:05:02,220 --> 00:05:05,350 batteries, all that, and then come back here and defrost. 148 00:05:05,350 --> 00:05:05,950 Yeah. 149 00:05:05,950 --> 00:05:08,320 It just so happens that you're going away the 150 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,890 same week that Grand Theft Auto 6 is released. 151 00:05:10,890 --> 00:05:13,510 Just so happens you said to me, Alan, I'm going to be taking a week off 152 00:05:13,510 --> 00:05:16,560 and I was like, perfect, you can watch Haggis and I can go to Glasgow. 153 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:19,140 Yeah, so my week will be spent just looking 154 00:05:19,140 --> 00:05:22,240 after Haggis and playing Grand Theft Auto 6. 155 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:23,900 Actually, I'm married to a geek, aren't I? 156 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:27,630 Yeah, and you should be very happy about that because there are a lot 157 00:05:27,630 --> 00:05:30,040 worse things that I could be doing when you go away for a week. 158 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,480 So moving on, shall we talk about some pop culture? 159 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,950 Yes, let's talk about Troye Sivan because we're stanning Sivan this week. 160 00:05:37,950 --> 00:05:39,270 I feel the rush. 161 00:05:39,270 --> 00:05:41,780 If anybody doesn't know who Troye Sivan is. 162 00:05:41,780 --> 00:05:44,530 Aye, he's just a queer pop artist 163 00:05:44,530 --> 00:05:48,350 that we should absolutely celebrate and support. 164 00:05:48,350 --> 00:05:50,750 Because you know what, he keeps doing queer stuff that 165 00:05:50,750 --> 00:05:52,590 is just amazing and he doesn't give a shit. 166 00:05:53,170 --> 00:05:54,850 He's just unapologetic about it and that's what 167 00:05:54,850 --> 00:05:55,900 we need more of in the world. 168 00:05:55,900 --> 00:05:58,710 Exactly, you should never be apologising for who you are. 169 00:05:58,710 --> 00:06:02,960 Yeah, but his latest music video, if people haven't seen it yet, we 170 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,300 are loving it and basically saying, you should go and watch it. 171 00:06:06,300 --> 00:06:08,650 It's called She's the Best and it has a 172 00:06:08,650 --> 00:06:11,780 big name star, apart from Troye Sivan, obviously. 173 00:06:11,780 --> 00:06:12,560 Nicole Kidman. 174 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:13,160 Yes. 175 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:16,490 And also Drag Race Season 15 winner, Sasha Colby. 176 00:06:16,490 --> 00:06:17,180 Yes. 177 00:06:17,180 --> 00:06:19,630 Troye Sivan appears in the video, for a little 178 00:06:19,630 --> 00:06:21,540 bit of the video, in drag as well. 179 00:06:22,110 --> 00:06:24,180 Which he's done before, because he did that in the 180 00:06:24,180 --> 00:06:26,120 music video for his song, One of Your Girls. 181 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,410 And I think he was in drag the whole way through that video. 182 00:06:28,410 --> 00:06:30,110 Just a little bit of this one. 183 00:06:30,110 --> 00:06:31,010 Yeah. 184 00:06:31,010 --> 00:06:32,910 And I think this video is really good because 185 00:06:32,910 --> 00:06:35,240 it features a lot of different versions of femininity. 186 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:37,560 So there's trans women, cis women, drag 187 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,870 queens, different ages, different body types. 188 00:06:40,870 --> 00:06:44,010 So it's really, really good to see that he's embracing all that. 189 00:06:44,010 --> 00:06:44,470 Yeah. 190 00:06:44,470 --> 00:06:46,670 But it does, when you listen to the song and you watch 191 00:06:46,670 --> 00:06:50,470 the video, it does feel like a celebration of women and femininity. 192 00:06:50,950 --> 00:06:55,570 And he says that himself about his new album, which is of the same name. 193 00:06:55,570 --> 00:06:58,420 But he says that this album felt like the truest 194 00:06:58,420 --> 00:07:02,020 and most creative version of himself that he'd ever shared. 195 00:07:02,020 --> 00:07:05,570 He said, at some point along the way, he realised, the 196 00:07:05,570 --> 00:07:08,650 only constant in my life keeping me somewhat sane has not 197 00:07:08,650 --> 00:07:11,030 been the work or the main, but the feminine. 198 00:07:11,030 --> 00:07:12,390 Thank God for them. 199 00:07:12,390 --> 00:07:13,300 I love that. 200 00:07:13,300 --> 00:07:13,590 Yeah. 201 00:07:13,590 --> 00:07:16,360 And actually, he also used similar wording when he 202 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,450 was talking about Nicole Kidman, because they first met 203 00:07:19,450 --> 00:07:23,130 when they starred in Boy Erased, the film from 2018. 204 00:07:23,130 --> 00:07:26,090 He actually said of Kidman, she's always just been 205 00:07:26,090 --> 00:07:28,380 such a picture of the divine feminine to me. 206 00:07:28,380 --> 00:07:31,480 So he's obviously using Nicole as a bit of a muse. 207 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:34,340 It's so good because at the minute, in the world that we're 208 00:07:34,340 --> 00:07:39,900 in, you get all this ridiculous manufactured backlash, trying to define what 209 00:07:39,900 --> 00:07:43,340 a woman is based on biology or based on different characteristics. 210 00:07:43,390 --> 00:07:46,770 And actually, it's a very broad spectrum and 211 00:07:46,770 --> 00:07:50,300 it's good to see femininity itself celebrated. 212 00:07:50,300 --> 00:07:52,420 Because at the end of the day, like, I'm a 213 00:07:52,420 --> 00:07:55,860 big believer that misogyny and homophobia are so closely linked 214 00:07:55,860 --> 00:07:58,440 because they manifest in very, very different ways. 215 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,440 And I'm not trying to equate the struggles that women go 216 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,710 through with misogyny with what gay guys go through with homophobia. 217 00:08:05,410 --> 00:08:09,230 But there is a lot of similarity in the root cause of that 218 00:08:09,230 --> 00:08:12,970 and it is this kind of hatred of femininity from men who have 219 00:08:12,970 --> 00:08:16,750 problems that they should probably go and see a therapist about. 220 00:08:16,750 --> 00:08:17,970 And some women as well. 221 00:08:17,970 --> 00:08:21,120 I know how often you hear, like, man up, don't be a pussy. 222 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:22,560 You know, that's what it's all linked to. 223 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:22,880 Yeah. 224 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:26,020 So yeah, it's really good that Troy is celebrating femininity. 225 00:08:26,020 --> 00:08:28,620 So if you haven't seen the video, go and watch it. 226 00:08:28,620 --> 00:08:29,110 It's really good. 227 00:08:29,110 --> 00:08:29,850 Yeah. 228 00:08:29,850 --> 00:08:33,300 Okay, shall we move on to some queer news? 229 00:08:33,300 --> 00:08:34,180 Yes. 230 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:40,270 So it's a right bang in the bawsack, is one of our favourite phrases 231 00:08:40,270 --> 00:08:46,920 from Two Doors Down, to GB News because they are being investigated by Ofcom. 232 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:47,930 Finally! 233 00:08:47,930 --> 00:08:52,420 This story actually has been pretty big on social media. 234 00:08:52,420 --> 00:08:55,760 People will probably have already seen it, but we have 235 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:58,460 got some real queer heroes this week from it. 236 00:08:58,460 --> 00:09:00,440 So Liam Rondi, who is an online activist, 237 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:02,410 he has really been leading the charge. 238 00:09:03,140 --> 00:09:07,230 Bimini, who is a drag queen who competed on Drag Race 239 00:09:07,230 --> 00:09:11,090 UK, they've also been leading the charge on this and really 240 00:09:11,090 --> 00:09:15,650 drumming up support for people to lodge formal complaints with Ofcom. 241 00:09:15,650 --> 00:09:17,620 And also the Good Law Project once again, 242 00:09:17,620 --> 00:09:20,130 because they've been super involved in this too. 243 00:09:20,130 --> 00:09:21,870 So yeah, some heroes of the week there. 244 00:09:21,870 --> 00:09:25,650 We're celebrating them because they are the ones that have really 245 00:09:25,650 --> 00:09:28,900 led the charge against GB News with the complaints to Ofcom. 246 00:09:28,900 --> 00:09:31,620 And there's been 15,000 public complaints. 247 00:09:32,660 --> 00:09:34,610 Which is great, really good. 248 00:09:34,610 --> 00:09:37,430 And these investigations would never have happened 249 00:09:37,430 --> 00:09:39,180 had it not been for that pressure. 250 00:09:39,180 --> 00:09:42,350 All those complaints and all that campaigning from those guys. 251 00:09:42,350 --> 00:09:44,620 So this is a major achievement. 252 00:09:44,620 --> 00:09:46,580 Ofcom were going to ignore this. 253 00:09:46,580 --> 00:09:47,790 And it's pretty major. 254 00:09:47,790 --> 00:09:51,910 And I think for anybody that doesn't know what the complaints were, the first 255 00:09:51,910 --> 00:09:55,600 broadcast that it relates to was on the 20th of June on GB News. 256 00:09:55,600 --> 00:10:00,740 And it was comments made by one of their guests known as Based and Bougie. 257 00:10:00,780 --> 00:10:03,910 Now, she has gone kind of head-to-head with Liam Rondi. 258 00:10:03,910 --> 00:10:05,880 She's said some horrible things about him. 259 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:07,310 She's pretty vile. 260 00:10:07,310 --> 00:10:08,190 She's a horrible person. 261 00:10:08,190 --> 00:10:08,910 Horrible. 262 00:10:08,910 --> 00:10:13,200 She's just vile, homophobic, transphobic, and she is a rage-bater. 263 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,870 So she went out to, I think it was at London Pride with 264 00:10:15,870 --> 00:10:19,610 a rainbow wig on and tried to basically, she presented herself in bad 265 00:10:19,610 --> 00:10:24,790 faith, pretending that she was there to celebrate and to be part of 266 00:10:24,790 --> 00:10:27,810 the Pride movement when she was actually just trying to catch people out. 267 00:10:28,190 --> 00:10:31,850 But she ended up really just making a bit of a tit out of herself doing so. 268 00:10:31,850 --> 00:10:34,650 She made lots of allegations there as well. 269 00:10:34,650 --> 00:10:37,420 She says that she has lots of gay friends. 270 00:10:37,420 --> 00:10:40,510 And I'm like, honey, if you had lots of gay friends, they 271 00:10:40,510 --> 00:10:42,440 would not let you walk out the door looking like that. 272 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:43,310 Yeah, totally. 273 00:10:43,310 --> 00:10:46,370 Did you see what she was wearing at that Pride parade? 274 00:10:46,370 --> 00:10:47,740 Honey, come on. 275 00:10:47,740 --> 00:10:50,410 Did you see also, was she the same one that when she was 276 00:10:50,410 --> 00:10:55,270 like pushed on it, she said, lots of my friends are degenerates? 277 00:10:55,270 --> 00:10:56,080 Yes. 278 00:10:56,130 --> 00:10:58,850 Yeah, and then when she was picked up on it and 279 00:10:58,850 --> 00:11:01,340 the presenter said, I think you meant to say gay. 280 00:11:01,340 --> 00:11:03,870 She went, oh yeah, yes, yes, I meant to say lots of my friends are gay. 281 00:11:03,870 --> 00:11:08,370 It's so obvious, like she is not with us, she's totally against us. 282 00:11:08,370 --> 00:11:13,000 And she is also just there to be one of these Katie Hopkins-esque 283 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:18,240 people who are, they amass a following of other haters and they really 284 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:22,340 have nothing to offer other than hate and lies and bigotry. 285 00:11:22,340 --> 00:11:25,600 In case you didn't hear that noise, that noise I made was, yeugh. 286 00:11:27,390 --> 00:11:29,040 Let's get back to what she actually said, though. 287 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:32,860 So during the discussion on GB News, she claimed that gay men and 288 00:11:32,860 --> 00:11:37,720 gay couples were more prone to child sexual assault and sexual deviancy. 289 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:41,230 Now, she did that without being able to back up her claims. 290 00:11:41,230 --> 00:11:44,820 And when she was challenged on that by another guest, she said, Oh, 291 00:11:44,820 --> 00:11:47,780 I have all the statistics, I'll put them out on Twitter later. 292 00:11:47,780 --> 00:11:49,070 I mean, come on. 293 00:11:49,070 --> 00:11:52,460 If you want to make a serious accusation and an actually 294 00:11:52,460 --> 00:11:55,980 baseless accusation like that, you need to actually be able to 295 00:11:55,980 --> 00:11:57,700 back it up, which she wasn't able to do. 296 00:11:57,770 --> 00:12:01,390 And so that's why, finally, it's good that Ofcom have agreed to 297 00:12:01,390 --> 00:12:05,340 open up an investigation into this, because it's actually really serious. 298 00:12:05,340 --> 00:12:06,500 It's very serious. 299 00:12:06,500 --> 00:12:10,140 I mean, you can't just go on TV and just spout things like that. 300 00:12:10,140 --> 00:12:12,560 You know, it has an impact on people's lives. 301 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:12,960 Yeah. 302 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:17,920 It's not the 1980s and the 1990s, where stuff like this was routinely 303 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:22,160 said of gay people and queer people, calling us paedophiles, calling us all 304 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:27,110 these different things, and creating this environment of hatred towards us. 305 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,030 They're trying to bring that back again, and it's so important that 306 00:12:30,030 --> 00:12:32,570 we stand up against it and not let us slide back to 307 00:12:32,570 --> 00:12:36,030 that because that was an awful time for all queer people. 308 00:12:36,030 --> 00:12:39,770 Gay, lesbian, bi, trans, however you identified, 309 00:12:39,770 --> 00:12:41,420 it was an awful, awful time. 310 00:12:41,420 --> 00:12:44,710 And that's where we're going back to, unless we stand up united against it. 311 00:12:44,710 --> 00:12:48,530 And then the second broadcast was from the Alex Armstrong 312 00:12:48,530 --> 00:12:51,170 Tonight Show, which was on the 5th of July. 313 00:12:51,170 --> 00:12:53,580 And that investigation covers a segment 314 00:12:53,580 --> 00:12:55,490 titled, Is Pride Suitable for Families? 315 00:12:56,610 --> 00:13:01,250 Anyway, so during the show, Catholic commentator Caroline Farrow. 316 00:13:01,250 --> 00:13:05,560 She is a campaigner who people might know of, famously 317 00:13:05,560 --> 00:13:10,190 for her campaigning to stop women having bodily autonomy. 318 00:13:10,190 --> 00:13:11,520 She's really anti-abortion. 319 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:14,210 She campaigns against anything to do with abortion. 320 00:13:14,210 --> 00:13:17,260 So what Caroline Farrell said on GB News was that 321 00:13:17,260 --> 00:13:20,830 London Pride is a very sexualised display and linked the 322 00:13:20,830 --> 00:13:25,560 event to bizarre and unhealthy kinks, bestiality and paedophilia. 323 00:13:25,820 --> 00:13:26,260 Disgusting. 324 00:13:26,260 --> 00:13:28,070 Absolutely disgusting once again. 325 00:13:28,070 --> 00:13:29,510 How fucking dare she? 326 00:13:29,510 --> 00:13:32,480 Now the thing that shocks me is that this isn't the 327 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:35,490 first time that GB News have been referred to Ofcom. 328 00:13:35,490 --> 00:13:41,290 70,000 complaints were submitted in February 2025 and 329 00:13:41,290 --> 00:13:44,440 Ofcom didn't actually do anything about it. 330 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:46,630 Basically just let them off with a slap on the wrist, 331 00:13:46,630 --> 00:13:50,440 even though there were over 70,000 complaints and that presenter at 332 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:54,850 the time basically, again, linked queer people to paedophilia. 333 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:59,790 Absolutely disgusting stuff, and Ofcom did not sanction the channel. 334 00:13:59,790 --> 00:14:01,560 Who investigates Ofcom? 335 00:14:01,560 --> 00:14:02,490 Exactly. 336 00:14:02,490 --> 00:14:05,180 Because 70,000 complaints, I mean, come on. 337 00:14:05,180 --> 00:14:05,690 I know. 338 00:14:05,690 --> 00:14:08,800 It's a watchdog that is just answers to itself, essentially. 339 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:09,100 Yeah. 340 00:14:09,100 --> 00:14:12,770 I have to say, though, if Liam Rondi, Bimini, Good Law Project, and 341 00:14:12,770 --> 00:14:16,190 everybody else involved in this campaigning are our Heroes of the Week, our 342 00:14:16,190 --> 00:14:20,230 Wankers of the Week, are absolutely going to be LGB Alliance. 343 00:14:20,230 --> 00:14:21,280 Oh my God. 344 00:14:22,350 --> 00:14:26,290 Because they, in their infinite wisdom, have decided to come 345 00:14:26,290 --> 00:14:29,580 out in support of GB News, saying that GB News 346 00:14:29,580 --> 00:14:33,140 apparently champions rights of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals. 347 00:14:33,140 --> 00:14:34,490 I mean, what? 348 00:14:34,490 --> 00:14:36,270 Like, by comparing us to paedophiles? 349 00:14:36,270 --> 00:14:38,210 Get fucked, LGB Alliance. 350 00:14:38,210 --> 00:14:41,090 I'm actually speechless with this. 351 00:14:41,090 --> 00:14:44,550 LGB Alliance, and they are supporting people that are 352 00:14:44,550 --> 00:14:48,590 obviously being clearly and openly homophobic towards us. 353 00:14:48,590 --> 00:14:48,770 Yeah. 354 00:14:48,770 --> 00:14:50,370 Which LGB Alliance is... 355 00:14:50,370 --> 00:14:51,380 I mean, they're fuckers anyway. 356 00:14:51,710 --> 00:14:51,830 Yeah. 357 00:14:51,830 --> 00:14:54,100 They're just an anti-queer hate group. 358 00:14:54,100 --> 00:14:54,640 Fuck them. 359 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:56,630 They'll see you next Tuesdays. 360 00:14:56,630 --> 00:14:57,030 They are. 361 00:14:57,030 --> 00:14:58,400 They're cunts, I'm going to say it. 362 00:14:58,400 --> 00:14:59,190 Okay, thank you. 363 00:14:59,190 --> 00:14:59,590 Cunts. 364 00:14:59,590 --> 00:15:01,530 So yeah, they're our wankers of the week. 365 00:15:01,530 --> 00:15:03,440 Shall we stop ranting and get on to the fitness section? 366 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:05,340 Yeah, I think that's probably a good idea, 367 00:15:05,340 --> 00:15:07,190 because you're just about to burst a vein. 368 00:15:07,190 --> 00:15:08,910 And breathe. 369 00:15:08,910 --> 00:15:09,790 And breathe. 370 00:15:09,790 --> 00:15:14,280 Right, so for the fitness section of the show, we are going to talk 371 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:19,090 about ab workouts, because we found a post on our very favourite subreddit. 372 00:15:19,140 --> 00:15:23,050 So this is from a subreddit called r/beginnerfitness, 373 00:15:23,050 --> 00:15:27,110 and what they're asking is, ab workouts are the necessary? 374 00:15:27,110 --> 00:15:31,720 So basically, this person is a beginner, and their weekly split looks like 375 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:36,310 two upper sessions, two lower sessions, and then they do one day running. 376 00:15:36,310 --> 00:15:39,350 And basically, what they're question is, do they need to do 377 00:15:39,350 --> 00:15:43,390 any specific ab exercises, because they feel that from their resistance 378 00:15:43,390 --> 00:15:47,430 training days, they get enough ab work through their compound moves. 379 00:15:47,650 --> 00:15:52,670 Yeah, so basically, yeah, you actually do need to work out your abs, but the 380 00:15:52,670 --> 00:15:57,270 thing I love about this is that there's actually a lot more to this, because 381 00:15:57,270 --> 00:16:01,790 so many people think of their core as their abs, and there are way more 382 00:16:01,790 --> 00:16:05,390 muscles in your core that you need to be training than just your abs. 383 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:11,190 I think this is specifically pertinent to the queer community, and specifically sort 384 00:16:11,190 --> 00:16:15,380 of for gay and bi men, because I think sometimes there is this push 385 00:16:15,380 --> 00:16:19,750 on aesthetics in our community, and abs and a six-pack are kind of 386 00:16:19,750 --> 00:16:25,090 praised, and they can be vanity muscles rather than functional muscles. 387 00:16:25,090 --> 00:16:27,650 So that's kind of why we want to talk about this. 388 00:16:27,650 --> 00:16:29,650 And I think especially guys of our age, 389 00:16:29,650 --> 00:16:32,180 growing up with Adam Rickett and Peter Andre. 390 00:16:32,230 --> 00:16:34,290 David Beckham as well, that was another one. 391 00:16:34,290 --> 00:16:37,850 It was this whole kind of like washboard stomach thing was 392 00:16:37,850 --> 00:16:41,990 pushed in the media, which probably wouldn't be anymore, because all 393 00:16:41,990 --> 00:16:44,240 the young ones wouldn't know what a washboard is. 394 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:47,260 Come on, we're not of that generation. 395 00:16:47,260 --> 00:16:49,440 It's probably disappeared from the zeitgeist. 396 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,190 At least we knew what it was, even though we never used one. 397 00:16:52,190 --> 00:16:52,570 Yeah. 398 00:16:52,570 --> 00:16:55,070 The kids these days wouldn't. 399 00:16:55,070 --> 00:17:00,040 So I would tackle it, first of all, from the aesthetics point of view. 400 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:00,820 Do you know what? 401 00:17:00,820 --> 00:17:02,660 It's really nice with all these things. 402 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:04,600 It's nice to see the results in the mirror 403 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:07,720 and to have that physique, whatever physique you desire. 404 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:09,130 So that's great. 405 00:17:09,130 --> 00:17:11,520 If you want to train and you want that to be one 406 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:15,020 of the benefits that you've got, like these nice visible abs, great. 407 00:17:15,020 --> 00:17:16,140 Knock yourself out. 408 00:17:16,140 --> 00:17:20,180 Caveat though, doing ab exercises won't give you visible abs. 409 00:17:20,180 --> 00:17:20,730 True. 410 00:17:20,730 --> 00:17:23,280 Nutrition is going to be important for that. 411 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:25,240 It's how much body fat you have on your body 412 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:27,830 determines whether you can see your abs or not. 413 00:17:27,830 --> 00:17:29,720 So we just want to caveat that if you do a 414 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:32,660 thousand setups a day, you're not suddenly going to have abs. 415 00:17:33,310 --> 00:17:33,400 Yeah. 416 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:35,080 I mean, that's all well and good. 417 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,880 However, your core muscles are so much more than that. 418 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:40,160 I mean, you've got your obliques and they kind of 419 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,250 run down the sides of your body alongside your abdominals. 420 00:17:43,250 --> 00:17:45,290 You've got the muscles around your hips. 421 00:17:45,290 --> 00:17:47,450 You've got muscles in the back of your body. 422 00:17:47,450 --> 00:17:51,140 They kind of all work together to create a brace around 423 00:17:51,140 --> 00:17:55,410 your body, which actually helps you with lots of other things. 424 00:17:55,410 --> 00:17:58,780 So it helps you in the gym to prevent your back from being injured. 425 00:17:58,780 --> 00:18:02,280 It helps you in everyday life to prevent your back from being injured. 426 00:18:02,510 --> 00:18:04,820 So if you're picking up something heavy, it's those like 427 00:18:04,820 --> 00:18:08,510 wraparound muscles through the core of your body that really 428 00:18:08,510 --> 00:18:11,190 prevent that and really help you and keep you strong. 429 00:18:11,190 --> 00:18:13,990 It's funny you should say that, actually, because when we took 430 00:18:13,990 --> 00:18:16,270 haggis to the vets on Friday, the vet was like, oh, 431 00:18:16,270 --> 00:18:18,530 make sure that you're picking them up properly because you need 432 00:18:18,530 --> 00:18:20,520 to, like, tense and make sure your back's okay. 433 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:23,770 We're like, it's okay, hen, we've got this, we work in fitness. 434 00:18:23,770 --> 00:18:24,240 Yeah. 435 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:26,420 Well, we weren't like that. 436 00:18:26,420 --> 00:18:28,210 We were just like, oh yeah, no, don't worry, we do. 437 00:18:28,210 --> 00:18:28,890 Aye. 438 00:18:28,890 --> 00:18:31,560 I was just like, this ain't my first rodeo. 439 00:18:32,060 --> 00:18:34,520 Hold my poo bag. 440 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:38,490 Hold my dog, and she's like, no, he's too heavy. 441 00:18:38,490 --> 00:18:42,080 Yeah, but like, I have to say, so from all the core work 442 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:46,140 that I've done, we used to be instructors for Les Mills Core, which 443 00:18:46,140 --> 00:18:50,920 is a specific 45-minute core class, and the benefits of that are insane. 444 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:53,860 But I feel that because my core is quite strengthened and 445 00:18:53,860 --> 00:18:57,620 well-developed, that has really benefited me over the last few months 446 00:18:57,620 --> 00:19:00,640 of, like, picking Haggis up and carrying him about. 447 00:19:00,690 --> 00:19:04,900 Because essentially he is, like, a massive big 25-kilogram sack 448 00:19:04,900 --> 00:19:07,590 that I'm carrying at the front of my body. 449 00:19:07,590 --> 00:19:08,910 He's right there. 450 00:19:08,910 --> 00:19:09,950 Cover your ears, Haggis. 451 00:19:09,950 --> 00:19:12,340 Not body shaming you. 452 00:19:12,340 --> 00:19:13,840 It's fine. 453 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:18,120 But you know yourself as well, when you load weight to the front of 454 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:21,640 your body, if you were to carry, put a barbell on your back, it's 455 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:25,220 very, very different from when, if you were to hold a barbell in front 456 00:19:25,220 --> 00:19:28,400 of your chest, because you're changing where the weight is positioned. 457 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:31,610 So when you bring that weight forward, it puts more pressure, 458 00:19:31,610 --> 00:19:34,180 or it can put more pressure, on your lower back. 459 00:19:34,180 --> 00:19:37,800 So that's why it's so important to not just focus 460 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:40,810 on the aesthetics or just focus on the abs. 461 00:19:40,810 --> 00:19:44,500 Actually, I would argue that it needs to be holistic. 462 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:49,750 You need to be doing different exercises, planks and glute bridges, all of 463 00:19:49,750 --> 00:19:53,940 this kind of stuff, to really work on all of your core muscles. 464 00:19:53,940 --> 00:19:56,440 Your core is essentially the powerhouse of your body. 465 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:58,130 Strong core, strong body. 466 00:19:58,210 --> 00:19:58,620 Yeah. 467 00:19:58,620 --> 00:20:00,560 There's so many benefits to it. 468 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:03,840 I could evangelise all day about the benefits of a strong 469 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,740 core, but I won't because this podcast has a time limit. 470 00:20:06,740 --> 00:20:10,540 And actually, just reminded me that we spoke about a strong core on 471 00:20:10,540 --> 00:20:15,220 a previous episode about how your performance is affected by in the bedroom. 472 00:20:15,220 --> 00:20:16,180 Yes. 473 00:20:16,180 --> 00:20:19,350 Because Alan's shit in bed and he doesn't do that many core exercises. 474 00:20:19,350 --> 00:20:20,200 No, I'm joking. 475 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,320 We're both shit hot in bed because we've got strong cores. 476 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:24,770 Very humble as well. 477 00:20:25,820 --> 00:20:26,720 It does. 478 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:27,760 It really does help. 479 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,990 Like, whatever your position is in the bedroom, 480 00:20:30,990 --> 00:20:32,840 whether that be top, middle, or bottom. 481 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:34,080 Or side. 482 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:35,370 Or side, or whatever. 483 00:20:35,370 --> 00:20:38,560 It helps because, like, you can hold yourself in different positions. 484 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:40,040 You've got better thrust. 485 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:42,280 You want to power bottom that pole. 486 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:44,000 I mean, that helps you do it. 487 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:45,420 Power bottom that what? 488 00:20:45,420 --> 00:20:45,850 Pole. 489 00:20:45,850 --> 00:20:46,430 Pole? 490 00:20:46,430 --> 00:20:46,910 Okay. 491 00:20:46,910 --> 00:20:47,280 Yeah. 492 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:48,950 Hole and pole. 493 00:20:48,950 --> 00:20:49,920 Pole and pole. 494 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:50,650 Hole and pole. 495 00:20:50,650 --> 00:20:51,480 Hole and pole. 496 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:52,090 There we go. 497 00:20:52,090 --> 00:20:52,640 Oh my God. 498 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:55,390 We should have a section on the podcast called Hole and Pole. 499 00:20:55,390 --> 00:20:56,010 Hole and pole. 500 00:20:56,010 --> 00:20:57,100 Those are our nicknames. 501 00:20:57,250 --> 00:20:59,340 Yes, they are interchangeable because we're both vers. 502 00:20:59,340 --> 00:21:02,380 So that's been this week's episode. 503 00:21:02,380 --> 00:21:04,990 I hope you've enjoyed that little insight to our life. 504 00:21:04,990 --> 00:21:06,730 We'll see you next week. 505 00:21:06,730 --> 00:21:09,220 Thanks, Pole. 506 00:21:09,220 --> 00:21:10,580 Thank you, Hole. 507 00:21:10,580 --> 00:21:15,570 Right, so we are going to wrap up the show just now, 508 00:21:15,570 --> 00:21:19,100 but as ever, I want to remind you that Alan and I 509 00:21:19,100 --> 00:21:23,020 run Outlifting, which is an online fitness business for gay, bi and 510 00:21:23,020 --> 00:21:26,860 trans guys who want to hit their goals and build unstoppable confidence. 511 00:21:26,910 --> 00:21:30,030 So, if, for example, one of your goals is to build 512 00:21:30,030 --> 00:21:33,650 a really strong, stable core, we can help you with that. 513 00:21:33,650 --> 00:21:37,250 We'll build a specific training plan to suit you, a nutrition plan 514 00:21:37,250 --> 00:21:41,490 that'll help you achieve that, especially if you want visible abs, and 515 00:21:41,490 --> 00:21:45,190 we're here to hold your hand every step of the way. 516 00:21:45,190 --> 00:21:48,340 Now, if you feel that 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