Episode 64 - Ghosts Will Start World War III

**Stevie** (0:01)
No stinkers.

**Micah** (0:03)
Yeah.

**Stevie** (0:03)
No stinkers.

**Micah** (0:04)
No bummers.

**Stevie** (0:05)
No dookie episodes.

**Micah** (0:08)
So a little bit behind the pe- the behind- bleh.
See?

**Stevie** (0:12)
Oh my god. Oh my god. No stinkers. No bummers. No dookie episodes.
Give it another go.

**Micah** (0:22)
So a little bit behind how the sausage is made, and I was going to give it another go.

**Stevie** (0:28)
I'm keeping a tight grip on this podcast today.

**Micah** (0:33)
We tried to record a special episode of the podcast on March 31st, the Transgender Day of Visibility.

**Stevie** (0:42)
Yeah.

**Micah** (0:43)
But also, we had to talk about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who has arisen.

**Stevie** (0:50)
Easter.

**Micah** (0:51)
We realized toward the end of recording that episode-

**Stevie** (0:54)
We did a whole episode.

**Micah** (0:57)
We recorded for two hours.

**Stevie** (0:58)
We recorded more than we normally do, but it was just more bad. Why was it more bad?

**Micah** (1:05)
We realized it was trash, and we couldn't use any of it.

**Stevie** (1:11)
And this isn't-
We're recording on April Fools. This isn't a prank. Don't ask us to release a Snyder cut. It's not a good episode. I don't know how to tell you. I don't think it's very funny, and normally at least one of us likes it. We didn't today, and I'm sorry.
The Snyder cut will never come out. Micah doesn't even have my MP3, so you can't make it happen.

**Micah** (1:29)
And I already deleted my material, so you're definitely not going to hear it.
As far as you're concerned, that never happened. We never recorded that episode, where for I think a good 30 minutes, we made very strong arguments for revolution, but none of it was particularly funny.

**Stevie** (1:46)
We always do that.

**Micah** (1:48)
Yeah, but usually we at least make it funny when we do it.

**Stevie** (1:51)
Oh, I think we were just getting bummed.

**Micah** (1:53)
Yeah, it was just weird energy in the studio.

**Stevie** (1:57)
We were both sleepy too. Are you sleepy right now?

**Micah** (2:01)
No, I'm still looking over at, God, this article is so good. I'm so glad I found it.

**Stevie** (2:07)
You have like a secret, you have like a secret segment or something, a secret article.

**Micah** (2:12)
Yeah, it's, I'm not sure if it's a do's and don'ts, because it's mostly only a do's.

**Stevie** (2:21)
I don't think you're allowed to talk about segments in the cold open anymore, because yesterday you did that, we didn't even get to that segment.

**Micah** (2:33)
It's Gender Swap. Welcome to Gender Swap, a podcast by two transgender siblings, one of whom is going to put their all into this episode and try to keep it from being stinky, but no promises. And the other one is hitting their pipe.
So I don't expect him to be able to do his intro in time. I'm one of your hosts. My name is Micah. My pronouns are they them.

**Stevie** (2:58)
My name is Stevie. I use he they pronouns. And it would be really funny. Okay, I won't because you'll hate it. But when my cute bong comes in the mail, it would be really fucking funny to do a fat bong rip while you're doing your intro.
I'll probably do it once, but I won't make a habit of it.

**Micah** (3:18)
Here's the thing, Stevie. I hate to say that you're aligning yourself with a very well-known trope and a certain personality type.

**Stevie** (3:28)
I am. It's really fun.

**Micah** (3:29)
But the comedy bong rip, I hate to inform you, is very well-trodden territory and has been for the last 40 years.

**Stevie** (3:41)
Well, I think that that's the next step in my transition.
So if you don't support my comedy endeavors, you're a fucking transphobe. I'm gonna change this narrative so fucking hard, you won't even recognize it anymore. You won't know what the fuck happened to that narrative.

**Micah** (3:58)
You're literally doing what right-wing people fear by weaponizing your identity in such a way.

**Stevie** (4:06)
I think I deserve it.

**Micah** (4:09)
So speaking of things that right-wing people fear.

**Stevie** (4:12)
Okay, oh, transgenders.

**Micah** (4:16)
Here comes the news. Jesus, I just realized we're only like five minutes in, and we're already at the news.

**Stevie** (4:27)
Okay, okay, take it back. Play it in reverse.

**Micah** (4:30)
No, no, no, we're here now. We're gonna go with it.

**Stevie** (4:34)
I don't want to hear about what you've been up to, then.

**Micah** (4:38)
So our first headline, this is from theguardian.com.