Tickled Page #4

Synopsis: David Farrier, a New Zealand pop cultural reporter whose story subjects often verge into the bizarre, believes he's found his next story when he stumbles across an online video on the world of competitive endurance tickling, a sport where the participants, with hands and feet tied down, are tickled for as long as they can endure. Participants are flown to Los Angeles first class, paid $1,500, and put up for four nights in a luxury hotel. Suitable participants are deemed to be younger, muscular males. The event is held on a monthly basis. In contacting the organizers, US-based Jane O'Brien Media, via their popular Facebook to arrange for an interview, David receives a return message from one of their representatives, Debbie J. Kuhn, declining the offer, the message a homophobic rant largely against David. In that message, Debbie asserts that the competition is wholly a heterosexual athletic activity, she who does not appreciate what will be David's assumed gay bent on the story as a hom
Production: Magnolia Pictures
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IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
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Year:
2016
92 min
$612,816
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"I'll definitely do that."

And then I went inside

and noticed that it was

all guys in there.

And that's when I was like,

"oh, dang!" Like...

And I didn't know I was

gonna get tied down.

I had no idea what it'd be for.

Honestly, I was like,

"okay, what?"

At that point I was like,

"all right, you know what?

It's already going down.

I don't really know

what it's for,

but hopefully

it never gets out."

No, no, no. Not any f***in'...

Ah! F***! That actually

tickles, dude.

Ah! F***!

Being violated on so many

different levels right now.

There was other athletes.

There was mma guys.

There was a bodybuilder,

and then there was a couple

of actors, normal actors.

I've seen some of them on

commercials,

TV commercials. Normal guys.

Like, completely normal people.

Get the f*** off my feet!

It was a torture project.

That's what I believe

Kevin Clarke told me.

There was something to do with

even a military tactic,

or something like that.

He was gonna do...

I think he said

Jane was doing a project

on using tickling

as a military tactic.

And at that point, I...

I knew it was complete bullshit,

you know?

I was like, "okay, the military

is gonna use tickling

as a torture tactic?"

F***!

David:
When did the video

come back to get you?

About a year, maybe

a little more, ago.

I would Google myself

once in a while,

to read old articles

or see what teams might have

listed me in an article

or try-outs.

And to my surprise,

a video was on YouTube.

Hello. I'm tj, and I'm here

on a tickling competition.

And, uh, first question is:

"Are you ticklish?"

Well, obviously I'm ticklish if

I'm here, so,

that's kind of

a silly question. But, uh...

It was just me

sitting in front of the camera

talking about the,

uh, tickling process.

Just weird things. And so I was

like, "okay, it's not that bad."

"When you are asked,

'are you ticklish?'

how do you normally

respond and why?"

Normally, I say,

"no, I'm not ticklish."

So I emailed Jane and asked

her to take the video down.

She didn't ever reply.

So I took the matters

into my own hands,

and I, uh, told YouTube that

uh, they're illegally

using my name.

So YouTube took the video down.

That's when it all started.

Woman:
"Now, I am laughing."

"I don't think you've grasped

the magnitude

of what you have provoked."

"I'm interested to see how you

handle the fallout.

So far, badly."

"Regards, Debbie j. Kuhn."

That's when this Deborah

person popped into my life.

I mean,

just all hell broke loose.

Every kind of video search you

can find, it was up there.

And then it

pops up in my emails,

and then it pops up

more on YouTube,

and it just starts

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