"Hey, everyone," said Miles, slumped in his seat, looking rather exhausted, "I'm back from Australia and man, am I tired. So, this episode is going to be a little shorter than usual."
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"My parents and co-host did their special coverage of Mieni Atoll while I was covering Australia." said Miles, rather blearily. "Also, it seems my parents got involved in a 'topless volleyball match' with some of the new 'bimbos' and 'himbos' that moved to Mieni Atoll. Unfortunately, that part of the video is under 'lock and key' on the Premium section of the Animalia Website." At that, there was a lot of digital groans and complaints.
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"Benjamin Franklin once said that 'If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.'." said Miles, "But, sometimes, no matter how much planning is involved, a task can still veer comically awry, if the events of Songkran 2023 on Heiya Island are anything to go by. Miss Juliet and her students were originally planning to go earlier in the year, the trip was postponed due to the number of wounded/etc. refugees from the war in Ukrane settling on her estate. However, the delay proved useful, after a fashion, because Miss Juliet got to take her students to Heiya Island for the Songkran festival."
"While this was originally meant to be an educational, respect-other-cultures, 'field trip', Miss Juliet must have tried sake that was a bit more potent than usual, because she ended up joining Songkran's Wet T-shirt contest, and 'accidentally' won first place, partly due to her drunken 'showcasing'. Unfortunately, nobody was able to get any footage of that contest." At that, there were lots of digital exclamations of "Oh, come on!", and various other forms of disappointment.
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"And finally, we're going to Skype with Shyra about a smaller group of new converts in Animalia." As soon as Shyra signed in, Miles began asking the questions.
"This group of women date back to my earlier years in Las Vegas, when it was the Mafia controlling everything from the casinos to the sports competitions." said Shyra, in response to a question about where she knew them before.
However, there were some questions that Shyra couldn't answer. Fortunately, there were some others who were able to answer. In this case, Joshua was able to diagnose many of the injuries that the group were suffering from, but it was generally agreed that they were suffering from broken/twisted bones that hadn't healed properly.
As to why they hadn't healed properly, Shyra was able to explain. "This underground fighting ring was in Las Vegas when it wasn't popular for women to be lesbian, a tomboy, or similar things." At this, there were plenty of angry-feminist-style comments, but these actually showed how prejudiced they were towards men, rather than what they intended. Also, many of those comments were clapbacked by pictures and links to articles that more than undermined their moral highground, such as a "man-free" feminist music festival being found guilty of discrimination by Sweddish authorities, or a feminist cafe that charged an 18% "man tax" ended up going out of business.
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"... and that's all I have time for." said Miles, drawing the episode to a close. "See you * big yawn * next time... in the wilds of Animalia."