175 - Crazy Monkey to Funeral Options

Adam and Kyle kick things off with a blast from South African internet history: Crazy Monkey, the gloriously low-budget, aggressively pointless prank series that somehow became a cult phenomenon. Think Jackass… if nobody involved could quite be bothered to commit to the stunt.There’s deep appreciation for the absurdity of it all: prank calls where nobody answers, shopping trolley “stunts” that barely move, and dramatic intros for painfully ordinary activities. The lads unpack why the humour worked so well — a perfect parody of early-2000s “extreme” culture where even standing near a microwave with a cell phone somehow counted as dangerous entertainment.From there, the rabbit hole deepens into Straight Outta Benoni. The bizarre feature film spun out of the Crazy Monkey crew. Kyle revisits the strange plot, local auditions, failed music dreams, random lake monsters, and the surreal experience of watching people from his hometown accidentally become movie stars. There’s nostalgia, confusion, and genuine disbelief that the whole thing seems to have almost vanished from the internet entirely.But as always, the Continuum can’t stay in one lane for long.The conversation slowly drifts from forgotten internet culture into the far more existential topic of funerals. Suddenly it’s burial vs cremation, funeral costs, bizarre send-off ideas, and the strange reality that most people never really discuss what they actually want done after they die.Naturally, the lads approach it with the perfect balance of curiosity and inappropriate humour. Weighing up practicalities, awkward traditions, and whether modern funerals are more for the living than the dead.It’s nostalgic, weirdly philosophical, and exactly the kind of episode that starts with shopping trolley pranks and somehow ends with end-of-life planning — a classic Continuum spiral from internet stupidity to mortality itself.Like and Subscribewww.thecontinuumpod.comX - @thecontinuumpodInsta - @thecontinuumpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.