Simon O'Connor

Howdy, y'all, and welcome to The Lonesome Crowded Cast, a Modest Mouse fan community podcast hosted by DJ Middleway, Harley J., moi, and one of our excellent special co-hosts, because everyone who comes on this show is a co-host, returning from the cruise episode.

So joining the likes of Keith Carman and Simon O'Connor as returning guests for the pod.

We have a very special artist today.

You may know them for their Psychic Salamander, Third Side of the Moon, and Ice Cream Party illustrations, as well as Riptile Art and more.

Yeah, the big dick guy.

Uh, guitarist Simon O'Connor faced accusations of sending inappropriate messages to a 17-year-old fan.

And then he sent her like, he like sent her the dick pic, then was like, "I did it again." And then he like deleted everything.

It, it was, it was a, it was a Reddit story.

Melinda, great to see you again.

Simon, good to see you, and, uh, thanks for having me back.

Well, thanks for the work you do.

Bob and I and the crew here, uh, watch with great interest, uh, and actually admiration, uh, at what you're doing.

It just, it, it's discordant to me to think about the topic you're discussing and people are, are taking-

Well, this is gamified porn and gamified violence.

Bear in mind, Simon, these are 3D rape simulation games.

They're incest simulation games, right? Even beyond playing a game, which sounds relatively harmless, right? You act, you actually act out, you act out the incest, you act out the rape, you act out the sexual torture of women and, and girls, right? They're realistic third-player 3D rape games, and we argued that these were desensitizing men and boys to women's pain and treating sexual violence as entertainment.