Mahatma Gandhi 

Fun fact, the reason people who are starving for a bit smell like nail polish remover is that they're literally exhaling it. Their body is in a state of ketosis, which means that the person is breathing out ketones... which includes acetone. Acetone in very small concentrations also smells like pears. From experience, this means that the person starving has a horrible sweet taste in their mouth that they can't wash out.

As a South African I already know its going to be a good one

Had to let you know: the "cummy bears" comment threw to an ad for skincare products. I literally bark-laughed. Perfect. 10/10, RU-vid algorithms, no notes.

So as an asexual person, would he think I'm some sort of demigod? Do I have powers?

More context on the shitty Holocaust quote: suicide is a considered a sin in Judaism. It's a bad enough sin that groups of Jews, when faced with a situation where suicide is the only possible course of action, will go out of their way to kill each other rather than themselves. So in addition to being wrong and offensive, the quote is also incredibly sacrilegious.

"Colonialism is only bad when it happens to _my_ particular minority group!" Sounds a lot like Ben Shareepo.

When you said he chopped the hair of two followers I misheard as "he chopped the HEAD of two followers" and I was so concerned that nobody made a remark about it xD

Oh nice. I think a couple of weeks ago me and my friends were just talking about how ghandi used to keep naked girls (and by girls I mean kids) around to tempt him. But considering there's an hour to this, I'm looking forward to finding out what other shit he did.

To answer the one question about the cliff quote, yeah, he thought he was throwing himself off the cliff, so to speak, hence starving himself and letting himself become a target. It's still fucked up to demand of others, but choosing to, for example, self immolate when your death is certain otherwise has a long history as a form of protest in India.

13:00 "What do you mean he don't eat no meat?" *Crickets "That's okay. I'll make lamb." - My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Gandhi. Oh boy. I didn't even know the half of his awfulness.

This was an episode I've been interested in hearing, because despite being in my forties, the ONLY thing I knew about Gandhi was his writing on pacifism. So, this is all new information for me, and I'm always grateful to be educated. Even when it's awful. The thing about cutting off the hair. I'm assuming long hair was the norm for young girls there, which makes cutting their hair off the equivalent of making them wear a Scarlet A on their chests. That book was supposed to be fiction. :(

What's wild about Blaire White is that as awful as she may be she was still basically my introduction to Trans people. So I guess she exists, asserts her existence, and that's something I suppose. So for me at least she helped my soften my initial views somewhat, but obviously one Contrapoints is worth a bazillion Blaire White's ANY day of the week. Cuz it was Natalie that told me how things REALLY are. Thanks Natalie 😊

So, I actually am training for a marathon while listening to this, and I almost threw out my back when you started talking about riding cummies to heaven while doing my post run stretches.

After all the c** jokes I was like okay this is the peak of the pod cast... oh my God my voice to text censors the word come. Lol But Gan-dead really pushed me over the edge.

Caelan took being compared to Moira Rose as a compliment and my inner monologue screamed BUT THEY'RE OBVIOUSLY DAVID I'm sorry I'll go now

The noise of horror and disgust I made when they said “she was six years old.”

This episode was fire! I had to listen to it twice, back to back. So much fun. Y'all never disappoint. Thank you for starting off my week right. Love to y'all! ❤❤❤

I gasped out loud when you started talking about his "first companion"

17:00 I live, like, 15 minutes from the place where he got thrown off a train :/ there's a plaque and everything. Also just want to add this was before apartheid - that began after the Nasionale Party took over in 1948. We were just awful beforehand, too.

Every time the reveal happens like this, I think of that episode of Avatar the Last Airbender (2 or 3 I think) where they go to kioshi island.

stoked to be here, love this podcast and you guys

Refresh... refresh... refrTHERE WE ARE

I’m so excited for a new ep!

1:25 Me at lunch with the ladies (not really)... Looking forward to what promises to be an absolutely feral episode.

God I love this podcast sm

This is a great idea for a podcast

Saw the new episode on Spotify and was like... It's Monday???

🤢🤢🤢 I knew Gandhi wasn’t supposed to be as good as everyone thinks but omg this is worse than I could have imagined

You guys need to do the Queen Elizabeth II next

AND thanks for the apology, Mandy.

53:20 Thanks, Caelan. 💜💚💖💛🧡🖤

How ya doin besties?

Definitely the most…. Interesting episode so far

This podcast is like Behind the Bastards but for catty homosexuals 😂❤

Kamala Harris: Do not come

1:22 "I think I'm the only one who knows who I did today." 😂😂😂😂😂 ☺️

To be fair, i think the better vegetarian food is coming from asian territories or india or at least inspired and india cultivated pretty much vegetarian well diated meals. So him saying it as bland is probably fair coming from india.

Mandy, I'd do lines for you.

I hate that i grew up on america and pretty much had the best years to learn in my life just filled with garbage

Not Elizabeth Spaffory in a bathtub full of baby batter!?

Gandhi more like gone lol

Does "Caelan" always sound like Lola from 'Big Mouth' or is it an act?

1:09:13 So Gandhi was the original Margaret White?!

So around 20:20 when you raise the point of gandhi being racist to black people and thought indians were "on the same level" as white people, I'd like to clarify something you guys missed: you specifically brought up how Gandhi said that indians are more like white europeans because according to him, they're both part of the ar**n race (like h*tler would say). When he says that, he does specifically mean upper caste indians like him. There's this casteist factoid that right wing hindu extremists often bring up and it follows the same logic of racism: they believe that upper caste people are genetically closer to white people but black people and non-upper caste (dalit, bahujan, and adivasi) people are not. Gandhi, when he "fought for the rights" of untouchables in India did not fight for their liberation from casteism. He wanted them to literally find acceptance in cleaning the sh*t of upper caste people. He was racist and casteist and has always wanted social elevation for upper caste men like himself

Germany was responsible for both worldwars btw

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(saving my spot: 52:19)

So Nobunagun's depiction of Gandhi was actually accurate, uh?

Gandhi dh has a bassy d sound not "gandi" Just like in Buddha 1:13:00 he was killed by ultra right wing Hindu nationalist

He was born in 18nice.

asexual with the power of god ☺️

⁉️ volcel = voluntary incel = voluntary involuntary celibate?

𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖒𝖔𝖘𝖒 😄

Oh my Gawd, "save my cummies" needs to be the hello fresh coupon code.

According to Wiktionary, the standard British pronunciation of "quinine" is /ˈkwɪ.niːn/ (QUIN-een) or /kwɪˈniːn/ (quin-EEN). So you're not wrong to say it that way, though in North America it's usually said /ˈkwaɪ.naɪn/ (KWYE-nine).