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Cw child harm (no child actually comes to harm thank goodness but the scenario gpt puts the child in is extremely irresponsible and on the balance likely to cause harm)
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There's this duo of comedians in Australia called Hamish and Andy, who have a podcast. On one episode of the podcast, the cohost Hamish relates a story where he was looking after his child and his child's friend. They were at the pool and the child's friend got swimmer's ear (water in the ear canal)
After trying all the basic stuff to dislodge the water Hamish ask chatgpt what to do. GPT suggests getting a TOILET PLUNGER and sticking it to the side of the child's head, then pulling to get the water out.
Credulous dipshit that he is, he washes the plunger (because oooh dirty) then follows through, and fortunately is gentle enough to dislodge the water
Of course the two comedians laugh at how clever and funny it is about how they could have ruptured the child's eardrum.
Literally whitewashing child abuse on a comedy platform
Are you sure this isn't a joke they're doing?
Yes, I'm sure it isn't a joke. They don't really do 'bits', they got their start as drive time FM radio hosts, so their comedy is mostly anecdotal, stunts or caller-input. Hamish's shtick is that he's an affable buffoon, and it's entirely in keeping with how he relates other stories about looking after his kids
Hamish and Andy have a podcast now? I though they just faded away into nothing after radio hosts stopped being a thing.
Yep, originally their drive time show was uploaded as a podcast on iTunes way back when, but then when they left commerical radio ca 2017 they launched a separate podcast, now recorded at the LiSTNR recording studios in South Melbourne where Triple M is broadcast from, it's essentially part of the pivot of commercial drivetime to podcast.
I should stop listening entirely, I'm still subbed because I went through a lot of old H+A stuff during the lockdowns, and there were a few fun segments, but it's just twaddle and both of them are unrelatable bores who'd rather talk about buying plastic crap from Instagram ads, or their fifth golf trip for the year than have a listener participation segment (like where they used to showcase listener 'special skills' (useless but unique party tricks)).