Boonta Vista - EPISODE 119: The Followthrough Express

Episode Date: October 8, 2019

Andrew, Lucy & Theo look at the exploits of idiot Senator James McGrath, the most expensive nightmare train in the world, and the kind of grift that makes you glad to be alive. EXCITING NEWS: You can now call in and leave us a question or a message on 1800-317-515 to be answered on the show! *** Support our show and get exclusive bonus episodes by subscribing on Patreon: www.patreon.com/BoontaVista *** Merchandise available at: boontavista.com/merchandise *** Twitter: twitter.com/boontavista iTunes: tinyurl.com/y8d5aenm Spotify: spoti.fi/2DBCXGA Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/s?fid=144888&refid=stpr Pocket Casts: pca.st/SPZB RSS: tinyurl.com/kq84ddb

Welcome to Buente Vista episode 119. I'm Andrew and I'm here riding aboard a beautiful train. That's right, a locomotive. We're going on a cross-country journey. It's very soothing. Very soothing indeed. I'm here on this beautiful train with my friend Lucy. Hi Lucy. This is nice. I like here on this beautiful train with my friend Lucy. Hi Lucy. That's nice. I like trains. Oh, it's nice. Why is it the, why the train's the leftest mode of transport?

Is it just because? I mean they're better than cars, right? They're energy efficient. You can fit a lot of people on them. They go to cool places. They have a quiet carriage. I like that. And just generally nerds love them? Is that? Yeah. Just a lot of things going for trains? Does he? Yeah, he's a big subway rider. Big train head? Yeah. Imagine just seeing that guy on the subway. What a dream? Hmm. I probably wouldn't talk to him but it would be cool. Maybe try and get a cheeky nod in, you know. th. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. to. to. to. to, to to to to to to to to to the nerd. to the nerd. to the nerd. the nerds. N nerds. N nerds. N nerds. N nerds. N nerds. N nerds. Nner. Nner. Nner. Nner. Nner. Nner. Nner. Nner. Nner. N nerd nerd nerd. N nerd. N nerd. N nerd. N nerd. N nerd. N nerd. N nerd. N nerd. N nerd. N nerd. N nerd. N nerd. N nerd. N. N. N. N. N. N. N. N. N. N. N. N. N. N. N. N. N. N. N. N. N. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the ne. a dream. Hmm. I probably wouldn't talk to him, but it would be cool. Maybe try and get a cheeky nod in, you know?

Yeah. He'd be up to it. He'd be up to him. Yeah. Seems like one of Hollywood's true, nice guys. You know? We'll see about that. Speaking of Hollywood's true nice guys, he's Theo. Hi Theo. Hey.

That's a very kind way to describe me. It's the City of Arches baby. The... Loving it. You got that sign up on the hill? You got that sign up on the hill, got H, O, and all the rest. You guys probably know how to spell it. Seems like they doubled up on L's when they didn't really really really really really really really really really really really really really really to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to their to to their to to to to to to their to to their to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to to me to their their their their their their their their their their their their their their ho. H. Ho's ho. Ho's ho's ho's ho. How's ho. How's ho's ho. How's ho's ho's ho's ho. How's how's how's how's how's how's how's their their the rest. All the rest. You guys probably know how to spell it. Seems like they doubled up on L's nose when they didn't really need to. No. Could have just gone with Holy Wad and it would have been fine. You get the picture, you know?

Close enough. I wish I didn't. Close enough for government work. Oh my god. Speaking of firm government work, you know we like to pay our politicians a lot of money. And when I say we like to, I mean they get to vote for their pay rises and we don't really get a say in them. Hmm. But they don't do that very often, right? It's not like they're just like consistently raising their own wages? No, it's definitely not. Arbitrary reasons? It's definitely not a twice yearly thing. Uh, this seems to happen constantly and strangely enough,

the only thing that we can get real bipartisan support about from the two major parties. God bless them. They just like the rest of us. Like, why don't we put our differences aside and vote on this 15% pay rise on our enormous shit. Then of course you get what you pay for you get what you pay for when you pay enormous backbencher starting salaries of like whatever it is now 700 grand or something absurd. No it's like, it's like $250,000 or $300,000. I was thinking of Tony Abbott with all of his stacked on, I was the PM one time, so I get extra money kind of deal.

I mean, if you include all the property that, you know, national senators are purchasing along yet to be released development tracks. It probably goes up to that much but I assume that doesn't appear on their income statements. No, you'd hope that that was right-offable, you know, that's kind of thing. Apparently the basic salary for a senator is $236,000. Oh, I thought it was more. Oh, that's from was more than that. Oh, that's from August 2010. Update the God damn Documents Parliament.

I thought it was around $200,000. I could be wrong. $2,000 from the 1st of July 2018. What? There it is. There's like a 70% increase I'm going to go with. Yeah. That probably doesn't include all of their travel allowances.

Oh God, no, that's the base and they don't fucking pay for anything on top. All their Comcare hire, all of their, all their pension stuff. Not a, not a $15,000 internet bill or whatever that was. I believe that was, it was like $40,000. It was. For long-time Dunderhead, Stuart Robert, MP. The robo-deck guy, the guy currently trying to recover debts from the poorest people in Australia. Yep.

He also, he's also the guy who went to, when he was defense minister, he went to China without telling anyone and then took unsolicited gifts of a a a a a the the the the the he went to China without telling anyone and then took unsolicited gifts of a bunch of Rolexes and came back and gave them to people like the Prime Minister. Cool. Now, Rolex is something worth more than my life, right? Yes, and it's definitely not something you can plant some type of listening device into. So anyway, you get what you pay for.

You get the big guns. You get the smartest people in the room. You get people like Senator James McGrath from the Nationals. Now did you say McGrath? I don't want to get into it or really. I'm going with McGrath. I'm going with Macgrath. Is it not silent? Is it not like cricketer Glenn McGraw? I feel like... Let's not get into cricketer Glenn McGrath.

Simply not. Long-time listeners of the show will know that this has been a long-running issue. And I'll be honest it feels like one of these ones where I cannot win. No matter which way I said it, someone was going to say, that's absolutely not how you say, Senator James McGraw. I'm pretty certain there's one very easy and correct way to pronounce all of this. We're not going to let you have it. He's not worth it. Guess we'll never know.

I don't respect him enough to care about it. Hey would you like to hear this guy's Twitter bio? I would. Hmm. Cheerfully liberal, national and Tory. B. Those are words. Milo and ice cream. Rum and coke. Beer battered chips are evil. Chairman of the Bill Shorten Appreciation Society. Absolutely the words of a grown man. Now can you just draw your eyes down on that page very very slightly Andrew. Can you just read out his location there that he's placed on Twitter? Oh, he's dropped a pin for... On the Road in Queensland.

Hmm. Very apropos. The man likes to drive around. What's he been getting up to lately, Thea? Well, you know what else is on the road, Andrew? What? I would say the hundreds of animals that he has killed in his car. Well, at least he hasn't chosen to say, document every one of those instances and share it on social media. Oh, contrary.

Blu-tugging at my collar. Oh, so a couple of people have pointed this out, but shoutouts to Matt on Twitter who has put together a wonderfully comprehensive threat of all of the things nabbed from Ascenda James McGrath's Facebook feed. And I'm going to have to describe some... You just said it with a tea and lach. I believe so. They're in the word. God damn I'm, um, and I'm going to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have there. They're in the word. God damn it. I'm, and I'm gonna have to, because we're a podcast, this is a purely, purely oral mean here,

I'm gonna have to describe these through the magic of language. So I'm looking at, first of all, I'm looking at a car or a four-wheel drive grill, I believe, and there are two small, extremely cute birds who have been very much demolished by Senator McGrath's vehicle. And he says, I think dinner tonight has been sorted thanks to my bull bar. Hmm. Suggestions for how to cook the roadkill? Who wouldn't love to eat like an obliterated Gala pulled out of the front bumper? This is just like pigeons or minor birds utterly insubstantry.

You could not make a meal out of it. What is wrong with this man? Oh, Lucy, just hold on because... Don't get triggered already. I am triggered. Ugh. That was 25th of September, 2017. On the 9th of July 2018, we've got a picture of what appears to be some panel on his car, very severely dinted. Rue v. Car equals draw. The land cruiser won inted. Rue V car equals draw. The land cruiser won the other five Roo hits last night.

I ran over six kangaroos and one night. Six kangaroos five of them died. One of them dinted his car. First of December, 2018. Now this is a photo of him meeting up with a bunch of extremely ancient, horrible-looking people. And, uh, it's lovely to join the LMP Liberal National Party Metro North Women's Branch for the Christmas Party. Now off to Bunderberg. Watch out prospective roadkill. What the fuck? What is wrong with this guy?

8th of May 2017. This is a photo of many, looks like cockatoos or Corellas in the air. Going to assume that photo supplied James McGrath. While we all wait for the budget, Tuesday night, 1930 in case you're wondering, that's, right, that's clearly way over my head. Oh, 7.30 at night. Oh, 7.30 at night. Yes. Oh, look, I've had a very hard week.

All right. That's what it was. Well, we all wait for the budget. These feathered menaces destroyed any chance of a Sunday morning nap back home. Andrew can go off, right? Am I'm all right? Is Andrew you... What about cockatoos? I'm frequently menaced by cockatoo's, but only during the height of cockatoo season. And I'll tell you what, they've got a ride to be here. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. I. C. I. C. C. I. I. C. C. I. I. C. I. I. C. I. C. C. I's. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I'm. I. I'm the the the te. I'm te. I'm tod. I'm today. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. the the the the the the the, they've got a right to be here. Right. They don't. I agree with him, which I'm going to assume that he is very anti-Coccatoo. Okay, national Senator Lucy Valentine.

The little feckers are also slowly killing a couple of silky. Oh, just swear like an ad on you fucking prick. Anyone who thinks cockatoos are cute and needs their head red by a suitably qualified medical professional. Now they did just destroy all of our snowpiece, so maybe he's got a point. This man hates birds. He hates them so much. No one thinks they're cute. They're terrifying. They have big talons and they could just cheer through your finger like a soft sausage. I'm getting a murderous vibe. There's one at, there's a cockatterterterterterterterterter, the, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, th, th, finger like a soft sausage. I'm getting a murderous vibe. There's one at, there's a cockatoo that's a pet at Nielsen's nursery down in Logan Home

for any Brisbane folk. And he's in a cage, he's in the middle of the nursery all the time, and whenever you walk near him he asks for a scratch. And I give it to him because I'm not a monster. You know who is a monster thiter. the the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. thii. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th. th. th. th. thi's, that, th. th. There, th, th. There, th. There's, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, the tho, the the the the the the the tho, tho, tho, tho, th. There's is a th. There, th. There, th. There, th. There, th. There, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the is a that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, thateat, that, that, thate is a I give it to him because I'm not a monster. Who, you know, who is a monster though is Senator James McGrath. There's a photo here. And this is the most disturbing one. I'm very sorry for this visage, but it is a full-sized cockatoo,

which is absolutely massive. It has been genuinely mashed between his roof racks. Just really caught up in the... Is he doing this for fun? Car one, flock of cockatoes, zero. So kind of for sport, one can assume. In... February 2017, February 27th, 2018. On Twitter this time he posts, Brilliant, three

of my favorite things rolled into one book. And this is a book called The Game Cook by Norman Tebitt, he says, Lord Tebitt, dead things and recipes. On 25th of October, 2017, a photo of a, looks like a deer, no sorry, I'm going to go with a goat's head mounted on the ground. This is a taxi-dermied goat's head. I think I have a problem.

Meet Billy. I picked up Billy at a gimpy clearing sale. Billy will be joining Porky the Bear and Red the Deer in Canberra as part of my Queensland High Commission and Dead Animal Zoo. You do have a problem. You've got so many. Um. 27th November 2018. This is the photo I sent into the group chat of him looking like an absolute spot in a suit. The only good shark is one that is served with chips and a light dusting of salt. It's 17th of November 2018. This just passed at LNP State Council in Bunderberg and he's referring to a order for crocodile culling, the only good crocodile is a pair of boots.

Fact. 12th of February 2018. This is a photo of his Cambror office and there are, these are the heads mounted on there and with Darth Vader in the background. Darth Vader has been joined by some mates in my Canber office. If this doesn't act as a greeny repellent, then I really need to try a lot harder. You know, just outwardly appearing like an absolute murderer part to me. It's that it's just all of this is would be like just if you were from this dude's electorate imagine

being like ah I've I'm being represented by a literal child like when you hear conservatives talk about like the left being all about grievance politics and like identity politics and this guy's and this guy's this ties and this guy's is entirely the left being all about grievance politics and like identity politics and this guy's entire personality is apparently like gleefully reveling in things that he thinks will upset other people. It's also just a basic serial killer profile. A hundred percent is like a very relishing and murdering little animals. I mean like, like, you know, I'm, I'm, like we've all been driving a car on a highway and had like a bird fly out in front of the car and get crock or something like that.

Yeah, like I've done that like, you make me feel terrible. Driven over like a nice bird and seen like a puff of colorful feathers come out of the back of the car and you go oh and like I didn't like go home and cry I didn't have to get therapy for my PTSD I didn't lose a bunch of sleep or anything but I was like oh fuck that was a nice little animal and it just got obliterated how often would you say this happens to you Andrew well I guess I'm not on the road the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. th. th. th. I'm not th. th. I'm not th. I'm not th. I'm not th. Oh th. Oh th. Oh th. Oh th. Oh the. Oh th. Oh th. Oh th. Oh th. Oh th. Oh th. Oh th. Oh th. Oh th. Oh th. Oh th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I'm th. I th. I'm th. I th. I th. I th. I the theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. I the. obliterated. How often would you say this happens to you, Andrew? Well I guess I'm not on the road all the time. This guy must be on the road quite a lot. Must be on the road a little too much, I don't know.

But also, yeah, like hitting kangaroos and stuff is also just gross. Oh, it's disgusting. It's awful. Very unpleasant experience to hit an animal that large in your car? I don't know, just something about the entire thing to me. Like, I guess it strikes me as being very much like the, um, like the whole Barnaby Joyce type thing of, it's just cosplaying. Like, the entire thing just seems like this incredibly, like this, like this, this, like thi, like thi, like thi, like thi, like thi, like thi, like thi, like thi, like thi, like thi, like thi, like thi, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, the the thi, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, the the the the the the the thi, thi, thi, the the thi, the thi, the thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the thi, the th of it's just cosplaying like the entire thing just

seems like this incredibly fake projected personality of I'm a hard man who doesn't care about animals and feelings and all this sort of stuff born on a mountain raised in a cave yeah look at a fucking picture of this guy and it just looks like a fucking baby with Benjamin Button's disease. Like, it's an adult baby. He looks like he wears big nappies. And everybody's, everybody's seen, everybody has seen those kids, there are those children, including babies, who have like very, very aged before their time faces. Yeah, extreme adultitis. Yeah, well, they're, the, the, that, their baby. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. th. th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi's baby, thi's baby, thi's baby, their their their baby, their baby, their baby, their baby's like, their their their thi's baby, he's, he's like th. It's like, th. It's, th. It's, the baby, the baby, the baby, the baby, the baby, the baby, the baby, the baby, the baby, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi's baby, thi's baby, their their their their their their their their their their their thr- thra, he's thra. theeeat, he's that, he's that, he's that, he's that, he's that, he's that, he's that, he's th have like very, very aged before their time faces.

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Like when you see people with their kids and they've just dressed their kids to look exactly like them. So the kids are wearing like a little polo shirt and tan cargo shorts. Yeah I mean I'm still doing that. They have their hair spiked up with gel. I love that shit I live for it. Oh that sort of stuff. It's terrible. They're like this is... Little kids in a Calvin Klein polo. Hilarious. This is what an adult looks like they say. But yeah like honest to God, pause the podcast and look up Senator James McGrath on Twitter. Bird killer, extraordinary.

Look at a photo of this dude and he just has that person who somehow is like 45 years old and has the face of like a child who is eight years old and gets wedgies from the bigger kids and see yeah like barnaby joys with his whole uh... i'm a farmer from on the land and i i'm a sheep shearing man and yet look into his actual history and it's like he was an accountant and then he became a politician so that he could rip people off you gotta do it in Queensland you gotta take on this bullshit persona.

My R.M. Williams, putting on me R.M. Williams and my, me a Kubra. Getting out my bullwhip because I'm George Christensen. There's someone I'm glad we just don't seem to hear anything about anymore. But he still exists. he the tha. don't seem to hear anything about anymore. But he still exists. He's still in office. He's out there. But, yeah, it just- It just seems like such a thing for members of the National Party to have this whole, like their entire personality is based on the premise of, ah, I want the things I say and do to hurt someone's feelings, but they're all in a way, they're

all in a way that still leads you to do things like, say, fecking about animals, because... Yeah, because you... Because you... Yeah, because you... ... ... ... Yeah, exactly.

You're so busy triggering people, but you also can't be an adult who says fuck. Grow up. God forbid. If I haven't offended you yet, please take a number and I'll get to you. It's one of those guys. An equal opportunity offender. I hate everyone equally.

Oh. What else has he got, Theo, does he keep going? No, that's it. We've reached the end of, what I would say is the documented. Why do we have these people? We just have so many of these characters. Oh, they're characters, aren't they? They are bloody characters.

Laricans. Out there just stepping into their gigantic four-wheel drives and just mowing down animals like any Australian would. It's a bloody Australian way. So he is exactly 45. Spot on. Spot on with that guess, folks. I was just curious. Oh, you know what we completely forgot about this guy? What did we forget? Oh, here's our international

link with our friends over the Trash Future podcast. McGrath was born in Toowoomba and graduated from Griffith University with a Bachelor of Law and from Queensland University of Technology with a master of laws of course yeah and love that love that real salt of the earth although he absolutely appears to be a UQ student not quite yelling for me yet again yet another of these fucking people who run for the National Party and want to talk about being like salt of the earth, farmers on the road

and everything and they're all fucking lawyers. He was admitted as a solicitor and worked as an article to clerk in a legal firm before working with a Queensland Parliament. McGrath is a former political strategist who worked with Linton Crosby on Boris Johnson's 2008 London Mayoral campaign. Until June 2008, when he was forced to resign after saying of Afro-Caribbean immigrants, let them go if they don't like it here. You love to see someone getting fired from fucking Boris Johnson's campaign for being too racist. Too racist for Boris Johnson. Joris Bonson. I gotta get the audio clip. You got him. Also I imagine there's at least like 40 listeners out there that are just scratching their

heads until they bleed at this point that we are continuing to say at McGrath and it's not going to change now. It's not getting any better. I hope we have 40 listeners. It's got to be by now, right? We're working pretty hard on this. But it's good to see that his Wikipedia page has already been updated with the Cockatoo Controversing.

Oh, that's good to know. Yeah. Which has led to his widespread condemnation online. Oh, what a piece of shit. But speaking of being out on the road in the outback, here we are on our train. It's all going great. Oh, I feel some little butterflies in my tummy. That's no good.

Seems like all the bathrooms are occupied. Oh no, I don't like this scenario. On this, the Indian Pacific train between Sydney and Perth. That's a fucking long try. What's Sydney to Perth? Oh boy. Yes, I am of course talking about the train at the center of a severe gastro outbreak. Which saw 100 people fall ill over a month-long period. the train at the center of a severe gastro outbreak,

which saw 100 people fall ill over a month-long period. And it's finally arrived in Perth. There have been 100 cases of suspected gastro on the Indian Pacific train between Sydney and Perth throughout September, with the most recent case reported last Monday. Two people were hospitalized as a result of the illness. This is my nightmare. What an awful thing to think about. Oh God.

Train bathrooms? Oh my goodness. And apparently what they've been doing with people is, so like, like I said, a month of 100 cases of like hardcore gastro on a train. And it's because they have, um, it's because of, what do you call it, the Nova virus? What's that? Is on this fucking train. Um, and like, it, it? And like it winds up giving everybody Gastro. Not, sorry, not Norovirus. Yeah, I was like, what is the Novo virus? What is this

wild? The Novo virus. The Nouveau virus. It's the latest. So I just put like to point out that every time that I've had gastro, I want the distance from me, between me, my bed and my toilet to be approximately like 40 centimeters. Just in case, just to account for any opportunity, I will point out that the Indian Pacific takes three days to complete its journey from Sydney to Perth. During which time, if you have gastrode, you are almost certainly like hunched over, if you're lucky, a horrible toilet. It's already been gastrode already. Just hugging on for dear life while your train travels

from nowhere to nowhere, in nowhere, and you beg for death. Well apparently the norovirus, like, it's one of these things that gets into the actual environment of the place that it's being contracted. Like legionaires. Yeah, like, like into the fabric of the seats and all of that sort into the actual environment of the place that it's being contracted. Like into the fabric of the seats and all of that sort of stuff. God, what a nightmare. And so what they actually need to do is decommission this fucking thing and go through, like they need to take everybody off of it,

and they need to go through and like steam clean all of the chairs and all of the carpets in one go and disinfect everything.. the th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th like th like th like th like th like th like th like th like th like to go through and like steam clean all of the chairs and all of the carpets in one go and disinfect everything in one go. But they haven't been doing that. What they've been doing instead is if somebody is sick enough, they will stop and throw them off the train into the nearest local hospital. Everybody else, they've just been locking them into their rooms. What? So you've decided to take take take take take take take take take take take take take take take to take to take to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their. If their. I. I. I. their their their their. their their their their their their their. their their their their. their. their. their into their rooms. What? So, so you've decided to take a four-day long train ride from Sydney to Perth, see the sites.

You contract a horrible case of gastroed arightas on account of them not cleaning the train out, which apparently, due to the numbers of people getting this, 100 confirmed cases in one month, imagine a restaurant getting 100 cases of gastro in a month and not closing down. Imagine you were halfway through the month and you were like, you know, a service person on that train. And you're like, please, please, you have to, you've got to listen to me, you've got to shut this train and you're like please please please you have to you've got to listen to me you've got to shut this train down and just meanwhile chaos is just breaking out around just just huge shitting trails up and down the narrow hallways we're half way through the month and two people a day of be the to get in gas the cair he's like locked himself in the crew cabin why swatty hands of passengers press up the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th the th th th th th th th th th. th. the th. th. thus thus thus thus thus thus thus train train train train trains train trains train. train. train. train. train. train. train. train train train train train train train train train train train train train train train train train train train train train train. train. train. train. the the the the the the the th. th. the the the the the the train. the the trains the trains trains trains trains trains trains trains trains trains trains trains train trains the month and two people a day have been getting gastro. He's like locked himself in the crew cabin while sweaty hands of passengers press up against

the glass windows. They scream for help but no one's listening. Just barricading them all into their rooms like, like people in a movie who've gotten a zombie bite on the hand. Except they're just shooting everyone? Oh God. This snow pierce her ass train. Oh.

South Australian Health Communicable Disease Control Branch director, Dr. Louis Flood, told the ABC that Great Southern Rail had taken serious steps to control the outbreak. Quote, we've been providing advice around infection control. So things like cleaning, availability of hand hygiene, making sure they have appropriate protocols in place, like fucking locking you in your room, and making sure the passengers and staff know about the outbreak, I feel like they know. So when someone shits like half of their body out, just empty themselves like a like a rapidly shrinking husk

into this, you know, not large enough toilet. You have to be assured that a staff member will be around to flush it after you're done. And that's that. It's problem solved, basically. But in their defense, it sounds like they've put out several more dispensers of hand sanitizer. They're doing their best. sounds like they've put out several more dispensers of hand sanitizer. They're doing their best. Yeah.

They wipe those down, you know, once every week or so? A great Southern Rail representative said that passengers were the priority. The health and well-being of our guests is paramount and we have acted quickly to respond to this situation, including communicating with all those on board our recent journeys. On advice from SA Health, we have taken every available measure to to to to to to to to the to their th me th me the the the the the the the the the thoe thoe thoe th th they they they they they they they've they've they've thoes they they they've they've they've they've they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they th th th thoes thoes tho' tho' tho' tho' tho' theateateateateateateateateateateateateateateateateateate. thoeateate. We've thoe. We've tho tho to this situation, including communicating with all those on board our recent journeys. On advice from SA Health, we have taken every available measure to control the spread. That is not true. You have not, you have not evacuated the train and set fire to it. But also they say they're communicating it to passengers on the train? Is that while they're on the train? What once you're on, like as soon as soon as soon as soon as soon as soon as soon as soon as soon as soon as soon as soon as soon as soon as soon as soon as soon as soon as soon as soon as soon as the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the to to to to to to to to to the to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. the. the. the. try. try. the. try. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. tothe train's leaving the station. Thanks everybody for joining us on the Indio Expression.

Next stop will be in approximately 18 hours in Calgouli. By the way, there is an absolutely flesh-rending virus passing through the trade, causing all visitors to just turn themselves inside out with puke and vomit. So if you can avoid touching anybody, talking to anybody, touching door handles going inside, going outside, so that you can save yourself from this virus, which has already hospitalized several people, that would be best, thank you. Please avoid all contact with seats during this four-day journey. Don't try. So they say they say on advice from essay health we have taken every available measure to control

the spread including boosting our existing high standard hygiene practices which have apparently led to 100 gastro cases in a month removing affected carriages and implementing heavy duty cleaning at all stops. Just imagine at every stop. At every stop people are like staggering out, clutching their stomachs. As people in hazmat suits drag fire hoses in through the open doors. Just spray it all out. Oh God. Oh. Do you ever go, do you guys ever play theme hospital? No but this sounds like that. It's a wonderful game but there was this point that like a

lot of hospitals when you're playing would cross where so like in the AI for for the patients they would often get they get sick and they'd throw up but if another AI saw someone throw up or they saw all the puke that have been thrown up they too would th th tho tho just tho just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just th. th. th. th. th. thi tho tho tho tho tho tho thi thi thi tho tho tho tho tho th. th. th. th. th. thi thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thithey threw up. But if another AI saw someone throw up or they saw the puke that had been thrown up, they too would throw up and it would just start this like horrible like rippling disaster through your entire hospital. Just just thinking of that for no reason. I need like first-person accounts of this. Well lucky you ask. Because when I was looking at this story on WA today, I looked up at the top of the page to see the three tags that this story was filed under, which were national, WA and illness.

One of the times that you actually need the Buntavista, IBS tag. I immediately clicked on the illness tag and was met with the headline I was throwing up everywhere Sydney woman hospitalized in mass gastro outbreak on luxury train which is a beautiful headline. Lovely all of the other pieces under this thing are about everybody in Brisbane getting measles apparently. Health authorities issue measles alert for Brisbane. Theo. Hey, don't look at me. I have probably the vaccine, maybe. I don't follow any of this stuff up. Sydney woman Leslie Thompson was enthusiastic about her journey across the heart of Australia when she stepped onto the Indian Pacific train with her sister Pam last month.

But in less than 24 hours, the elderly woman was being rushed to hospital in an ambulance, struck down with a quote, vile case of gastro that began to cause trouble with her heart. Mrs. Thompson is one of at least 100 passengers to a fallen ill in a mass outbreak of Norovirus. A form of gastro-in-a-itis. Imagine shitting so hard. You gave yourself a heart attack. Oh no, that's already a Parks and wreck. Punch line. The 80-year-old from Greenwich on Sydney's North Shore was relieved that she was in good health with no pre-existing heart problems and has been able to recover from her ordeal.

If I'd have had something wrong with my heart, it might not have been such a happy outcome, is going to hospital in an ambulance for your explosive shitting a happy outcome? Who can I'm going to go withthat here? Especially when. I did crack open the old Alma Travel website to try and check out the ticket prices for this. I was just doing this right now as soon as you said she was from the North Shore. Yep. It is conceivable for somebody if they were to during peak season get a sole occupancy carriage for themselves, platinum service. You could well have spent seven thousand, sorry

seventeen thousand dollars on an eight-day trip in which you were confined to a cabin shitting your guts out the entire time. Why don't boomers love this shit? They love this shit and they love going on cruises. Where you just... Cruises are also like the diarrhea capital of the one, right? They are the diarrhea capital and all you do is sit in a room. Yeah, trying not to contract the gastro that everyone else has got. There's so many cases of those where they're like, the the the the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their th're like horrifying vomit and diarrhea boat finally docks.

So many news stories about like people's fucking horror trip. Uh-huh, this is just that all over again, except you're on a train. There's not even any beautiful ocean out there. The Indian Pacific's train travels from Sydney to Perth via Adelaide crossing the Nullabore Plain on its 4,352 kilometer journey. Norovirus infections are highly contagious and are a leading cause of gastroenteritis in Australia. The virus can cause vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, and a fever. Miss Thompson had been unable to get through to health authorities and does not know if they have counted her among the two passengers reported as requiring hospitalization. She boarded the train on September 11, well now she has her own

personal 9-11, and fell ill during a stopover in the South Australian town of Handorf the following day. I was throwing up everywhere she said it was vile. Miss Thompson had to be rushed to hospital and was given intravenous fluids after the illness triggered an irregular heartbeat. I was so lucky, she said. Our next stop was Cook on the Nullibor Plain with a population of four. Oh my god. After she was discharged from hospital, Ms. Thompson stayed with her sister at a hotel in Adelaide,

where she also fell ill with Castro. We sat eating dried toast and watching television in our pajamas. What a lovely holiday she said. Miss Thompson is yet to receive a refund on the ticket cost of nearly $10,000 and was initially told that she had to pay a curtailment fee for abandoning the train during the stopover. Oh my goodness. Damn. Oh. A spokesperson for great Southern Rail said it was still working through compensation

options for affected guests on a case-by-case basis. The Indian Pacific remains an operation, but SA Health said it had the power to take the train off the tracks if the situation escalates. I've entirely changed my opinion on this. This train rules now. Yeah, it's kind of funny now. $10,000. $10,000 and then saying, we actually want you to pay more for what has happened to you here.

This train is an ally. This train is part of the resistance now. Oh welcome to the resistance. The shit train. Welcome to the resistance shitting train. Along with other notable figures of the resistance like the Peach Emojy? Sure, hey, you guys remember chilling in Cedar Rapids? Yeah. You guys remember the cartoon of Madonna and Hillary Twirking?

I remember the fight song. Oh, fuck, I forgot the fight song. Remember the fight song? Oh, man. I do remember. So bad. Hey, you guys remember Kate McKinnon dressing up as Hillary and singing, Hallelujah? Oh, ah, I do.

I certainly do. Hey, you guys remember, how does your student loan make you feel replied three emogees or less? Yeah. That was a good one. Hey, you guys remember Broad City, Yes, Queen? I don't like to think about it. It hurts me.

You remember Donald Trump? Donald Trump. What was the, what was the book that the Krasenstein brothers made? The, the, how the people plumped, thapplump, plump, pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl pl plum, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. That, I, I, I th. That, I th. That, I th. That, I th. That, I th. That, th. That, th. That, th. That, th. That, th. That, th. That, th. That, th. That, th. That, th. That, I, I, I, I. That, I. That, I. That, I. That, I. That, I. th. I. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. I, I, I, I th. th. I, I, I was the book that the Krasenstein brothers made? The the how the people plumped Ronald Drumpf? Yes, the one that that finished on the Robert Moula. Sorry Robert Mullah. I'll never let this down. Let's just call a mule. Like shirtless, muscled Yep. Hey, you guys remember the S&L Hamilton never gonna be president rap? You guys remember pussy hats? Ah, vaginas. Hey, you guys remember all of the, you know, policy changes that would, you know,

materially affect people's lives that would, you know, materially affect people's lives that would, you know, provide debt relief and some semblance of sanity and the libertarian hellscape that the US is rapidly becoming? I'm not sure that that I don't remember any of those actually. No? Oh okay well you know you're gonna look like a damn idiot now because I've got a little article called how the Sexy Peach Emoji joined the resistance. Baa! But check it out, if you want to understand how the peach emoji has come to represent both the potential impeachment of President Trump and a butt, you must first look to the ancient Samarians.

No, come on! Oh, come on! Oh, come on! Sorry, and I will say that this is that that that that that that that this is that that th that th th th th this is th that th th th th th th look to the ancient Samarians. No, come on! Oh, come on. Sorry, and I will say this is from the Washington Post, where, you know, democracy dies in darkness, which I think has gone from a warning to a promise. At this stage, it goes on. Cuneiform, the early system of writing, began as a series of pictograms and some characters represented multiple words or concepts. You're getting this? There could be multiple things represented. But it could be tricky to represent something in

the abstract, said some nerd. So the Sumerians would repurpose an existing pictogram that had resonance with the hard to illustrate concept. A modern day equivalent would be using a picture of an eye to represent quote unquote I, you know, the, yeah, a linguistic concept called the rebus principle. So far so good. I think it's all pretty. I believe that was invented by Prince. Hmm, it was.

You know. The singer Lizzo may not have known she was referencing 6,000 years of the evolution of Sheavid language last week when she tweeted a message that has more than 120,000 likes and helped to take the peach from sexualized to politicized. Fucking out. And this is a tweet that says, im, and then it's got the little peach emoji. Not sure. Can you break it down a little? Yeah so I think there's a little bit of a

literature review in disguise at the top of this article just to gently introduce the concept that you know words can also be represented as pictures and or sometimes that words can also be represented as pictures. And sometimes that overlap creates a synthesis between the visuals, the homophone, or the sounds produced, and the meaning behind it. And so what Lizzo has then tweeted and what this article in the Washington Post, one of the most respected news organizations in America, so she's tweeted, Im and then the peach emoji, mint. She should have tweeted, I'm orange because he's the president and he's orange.

That would have been a damn orange cheeto. That would have made me laugh personally. But the article goes on, that's not what a peach emoji usually means. What the fuck? If you didn't already know that, well, bless your heart. It means asses. Uh, designers have presented the empeaching the peech in a that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that the president that the president that the president? And if you didn't already know that, well, bless your heart. It means asses. Designers have presented the emoji peach in slightly varying ways across digital platforms, but most show it with a rather well-defined crease.

In botany, this is called the Sutra, and it gives droop fruits a category that it is real? Are these words? Are you are these real words are you reading these words off the screen this is an honest-to-god article I promise you is this some kind of revenge for the articles I've been reading over the last couple weeks absolutely oh god damn it and this includes peaches this is the droop fruits includes pe peaches, plums, olives, a seam that can split to release its seed-bearing pit.

But in internet culture, well, there's no delicate way to say this. That crease represents a butt crack. Oh my goodness. I'm not sure I'm ready to handle that type of thing. Yep. So, some other nerd goes on to say, many of the findings that we're looking at, just, just findings in emoge's just got this big pile of papers that he's like trying to find the results in.

So the emogy language is kind of following the same patterns that words do, so they'll pick up new meanings in the same way that words will. Blah blah. So when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi initiated impeachment proceedings, Oh, hey, you guys remember Nancy Pelosi's, quote-unquote, sarcastically clapping at Donald Trump, and then it turns out that she was actually just... Just applauding him? Just applauding him? Because she sucks. She's queen, she's Bay. Hmm. Pro-impeachment Twitter users began making the connection between

Peaches and Article 1, Section 2, Clause 5 of the Constitution so they had to go and edit the donuts out of their user names. They finished hassling a black woman for no particular reason now they're on to this peach thing. But this is where, sorry, this is where it really gets into the resistance stuff and I think this is important. Like you know how we're seeing the extinction rebellion members being you know arrested and subject to you know police manipulation and all this sort stuff you know that we saw some released I believe today or yesterday

under bond circumstances that that doesn't allow them to interact with other extinction rebellion members or talk about it or participate or anything like very very similar to fake bail conditions they're giving them. Very similar to you know how we used to treat communists and socialists and that sort of thing. In much that same way in certain online circles the pitch is becoming a protest emoji. A protest emoji. Much pro-mogy? Hmm. Much like how some use the rose emoji

to signify that they are supporters of the Democratic Socialists of America. We don't do that anymore. It became too embarrassing. That's right. Uh, the 9095 song Peaches by the band President of the United States of America has suddenly become relevant again fuck D C bars put punny peach flavored drinks on the menu you've just googled peaches you've just googled the word peaches

But check this out though Maureen Dowd reinforced the connection in a September 27 column, impeaching the peach one. Why is everything built in its design to make us as mad as possible? Why does things have to be like this? Oh, does anyone, does anyone have, or remember that that tweet and can perhaps find it while I'm finishing this up about that guy that was like his mum saw Donald Trump on the TV and he's... Oh, yeah. I remember that.

All right. You could see if we could dig that up. Sales of Trump-themed peach-emo-sickers and pins have picked up in the last week on some lame dude. He first designed the impeachment pins a year after the election as a follow-up to another successful pin of his which featured the poop emoji with the president's face. Damn little kid. So, that's, I was going to say it's a double-me. There's really only one meeting there. He hasn't kind of tied it into some larger linguistic thing, but it's that the president of the United States, Donald Trump is a huge poophead, I believe. That's funny. That's a good one.

He appreciated the multiple layers of meaning in the peach emoji. The impeachment pun, the color of the fruit evoking the president's tan skin tone, and the original slang meaning of the peach emergy. It's like, oh he has a butt face. So it's like very intellectual, multi-layered high art I like to think he joked. He's just having a little giggle. intellectual, multi-layered high art, I like to think he joked. He's just having a little... He's just having a little giggle.

Uh, and so enamel pin culture is about having a visual marker for different aspects of your personality and your interests. Look, you can have cool enamel pins. You can have them, but I don't think this is one of them. But linguistically the peach emoji is an interesting case. So basically while you're listening to this you should actually have your chin in your hands and sort of like one leg up on a chair or something like that. Just thinking. Doing your best the thinker pose. Because most of the secondary or double meaning uses of emoges don't have to do with the sound of the word.

But this seems to be the most prominent case of it being phonetically, being used phonetically. And as for whether that meaning will last, well, that depends on the Democrats, the investigation and how much the protest peach takes off. Does it depend on how much the protest peach takes off? I'd say so. I think basically the Republic is, like, if you can imagine, the peach is like a fulcrum upon which the republic is carefully balanced. I think it's truly that important.

And certainly it helps if it's being used by someone like Lizzo, who seems to be fully embracing both meanings of the peach emoji. Two days after a tweet, she posted an Instagram video from a concert. For those who don't know it, let me spell it out for you, the the the Republic, which the republic, the republic, the republic, the republic, the republic, the republic, the republic, the republic, the peach emoji. Two days after a tweet, she posted an Instagram video from concert. For those who don't know it, let me spell it out for you, she said as she turned around and bent over wearing a gold body suit. Im, peach, and here she tapped her left butt cheek, mint. She said, with a tap to the right. Thanks Lizzie, I think I get it now. That's several hundred words from the tap to the right. Thanks Lizard. I think I get it now. That's several hundred words from the Washington Post based on what an emoji is, what a peach is. On one

tweet. Someone got paid money for this. And however much it was it was too much. Mm-hmm. I know we say that every week but someone is getting paid money to write these things, which are designed to make us angry. Now, I will segue from this, specifically the aspect of, I'm somehow like supporting, you know, a political agenda or ideology by selling my enamel pins of a pinch of a peach or a turd or whatever. Selling stuff is revolutionary. Selling stuff is praxis. So that people can signify to other people that they're mad about a thing without ever

actually, you know, doing anything other than like doing a tweet or whatever. Which brings us to maybe a quick whip around in the bad tweet roundup. It's the bad tweet roundup. That's right folks. Like I just said, it's the bad tweet roundup. Because I saw this post earlier in the day from dear friend of the show, Tim and former guest of ours, aka Burger Drome on Twitter, who saw this on Instagram and posted it on his Twitter just to infuriate me. I'm looking at it that I don't like it. A screenshot of a lady holding a keep cup with a fill your cup with gratitude written on the keep cup.

And she says in the post, be part of the hashtag solution. Mental illness affects 20% of Australians every year. In Australia we use over 1 billion takeaway coffee cups a year. I'm seeing the connection already. Yeah, like very, I'm drawing on a whiteboard, I'm drawing mental illness and I put a big circle around it and then I walk over to the other side of the whiteboard and I put 1 billion takeaway coffee cups and I draw a big circle around that and now a line. Join that and now a line

straight between the two. Are you joining them? The series of dots and then joining the dots. Science proves that gratitude enriches mental health and improves our well-being. Big statement there. You want to just... My is my least favorite wellness concept. It makes me feel unhappy. Now look, I'm not, and I'm not discounting the idea that, like, you know, like, the way I'm interpreting this, the gratitude thing, is to me just having some perspective about your life. You know? Is being able to look at your life, for example, as like white people in Australia,

we can pretty safely say, we've got a very, very good in the context of living conditions in comparison to the rest of the world, living in a, you know, stable democracy with a health care system, the, uh, the, uh, the, the, with the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, their life, their life, their life, their life, their life, their life, their life, their life, their life, their life, their their their their life, their life, their their life, their life, their life, their life, their life, their life, their life, is is is their life, is their life, is their life, is their life, their life, their life, their life, their life, their life, their life, their life, their life, their life, the rest of the world, living in a stable democracy with a health care system where if you get hurt you just get looked after. One of that sort of stuff, we suffer probably the least amount of discrimination of anybody in the world. Not if you look at our media, but generally speaking. So, you know, if you ever think of yourself, if you are like us, if you look at our media, but generally speaking. So, you know, if you're ever thinking to yourself, if you are like us, if you look and sound like us and you're ever thinking of yourself, oh, I've got it real bad.

It's nothing wrong with taking a step back and saying, actually, my life's pretty good, you know? That's right, starving kids in Africa have got it worse. Et cetera. You don't have to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the tho the thoomk, their their their their their the the the the tho the the the the the the tho and sound, the tho and the th. th. th. th. th. tho. th. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. thin. thooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. tho. th. have to think like that. I'm sure it is actually very helpful. It's more of a like just focusing on good things in your life, which makes sense. Yeah, not even the just focusing on good things, purely being able to just take a step back at times and say, in the grand scheme of things, I am okay and I am safe and my life's going all right, and maybe this post online doesn't actually affect me.. That th th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the, the theeeeat, thetet's thetet's togeee toge, toge, toge, toge, te, tea, te, th post online doesn't actually affect me that much that kind of thing. This one does affect me. Maybe I don't need to do a 10-year meltdown about something. She goes on this

late, whether or not you can say science proves that gratitude improves your well-being and enriches your mental health. Science proves it. One of my greatest tools in transcending a seven-year depression was cultivating a daily gratitude practice. Imagine, and here's a phrase that is like an ice pick to the center of my brain. Imagine sparking brilliance to ordinary moments and reducing your carbon footprint. I would say right off the bat that the first half of this sentence does not mean anything. Sparking brilliance to ordinary moments.

The ordinary moment is buying your coffee and it feels brilliant because you've got your cape cup. Well, sparking brilliance doesn't mean anything. And sparking brilliance too ordinary moments just isn't even remotely close to being a sentence. But imagine that you could do that and reduce your carbon footprint at the same time. I'm imagining. You can do this with the eco-friendly gratitude cup. I'm stoked to announce that my online shop is up and running

with a 10% off-code daily gratitude. Link in bio to join the hashtag Gratitude Revolution. So it's pretty cool, it's pretty cool when you think about it to consider that we do have this big problem with mental health. Also I'm walking back over to the other side of the white board, one billion take away coffee cups. And it's great. It's like a pretty wild coincidence that the solution to both of these issues is to give this lady some money. It makes sense, you know? Are you depressed, you carbon footprint, piece of shit? All you need is my keep cup which I'm giving you a 10% off not even a good it's not even a good bargain. Not even a great discount

I'm almost one billion percent sure that this is a drop-shipped product that is being sourced from like a Bangladesh factory somewhere it looks like the ones I would get for every office job that I worked with their new logo on it but she is practicing gratitude gratitude. You give her the money. She feels grateful that you did. And so by doing that, you get to have an impact on mental health in Australia by helping this one blonde white lady out with her gratitude practice that she'd been doing for seven years.

So you get to help her. She gets to feel grateful to you. You get to feel grateful, presumably, that you are making a massive impact on the mental health of one person, one lady. Yeah, but I'm kind of, you know, I'm joining the dots and it sounds like I'm gonna make a decent dent in those 20% of people who are affected by mental health. Now Andrew I do agree with you that mental health is a massive issue but at the same time it is very funny to be the concept of someone curing their mental health issues by creating a gigantic scam. Like imagine if Bernie Madoff, it was just like a radical act of self-care that he defrauded billions of dollars away from people. I just did what felt good to me, you know?

Self-care. The thing that's the best about this is you just know she's not selling these. No one's buying them and she's thought she's had some brilliant idea. She's designed this garbage gratitude keep cup that looks like shit. Doesn't even look good. It says fill your cup with gratitude. Should have made one that said like it's got three lines on it. It says shut't speak now you may speak you know if this cup is empty why don't you fuck off or whatever you know you sell a

bunch more of those instead she's gone with fill your cup with gratitude she's selling absolutely none of these except to her closest friends who fucking hate it but they do it out of obligation God damn don't talk to me until I've had my gratitude you know I hate it oh it thu that's thick th th th th th th th th thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thus thus tho tho thus thus thus thus thus th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thus thus thus thus thus thus thus thus thus thus thus thus tho tho the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the tho tho obligation. God damn, don't talk to me until I've had my gratitude. It sucks so much. There's just so much of this grifting shit and like I got to say as a person who is we any any longer-term listeners of the show will know that I'm a long-time apist for con artistry. And I will just say it either takes enormous amounts of self-deception, or just staggering amounts of self-confidence to be able to come up with this, write it all out, and then post it in view of plenty of strangers to see.

To just say, hey everybody, I've got it. I've got the solution to mental illness. I've got the solution to a billion take away coffee cups a year. And that's to buy something from my web store. Hey, before we get out of here, quick announcement folks. Speaking of, I mean, hey, if you wanted to buy merch from a web store, you could always go to Punta Vista.com slash merchandise. You can certainly buy our merchandise. That would produce gratitude for sure. We would enrich our mental health by supporting the show.

But also more importantly, if you want to, you can now call in to the Bunter Vista hotline on 1-800-317-515. That's right folks, 1,800-3175, leave a message for the crew. You could ask a question. You could leave a comment. Maybe a casual death threat. Don't do death threats. Yikes, unless they're hilarious. They've got to be really funny. They've got to be really fun. I've made nowhere near enough effort to cover my tracks as far as who I am and where I live. So come on make

them really funny that's what I'm saying if they're gonna be death threats but ideally don't do death threats. Why have you got us this Andrew? So yeah call in leave a message on the old Wunderfisto hotline. Of course by leaving a message you will be consenting to having it played and or mocked on the show. So keep that in mind when you do it. But we're looking forward to hearing the wonderful, lilting voices of you. This is going to be like hot dogs up late. Guys remember hot dogs?

This means absolutely nothing to anyone outside of Australia. And also are anybody like under the age of 30? Yeah pretty much. Fucking hell. Oh my God, I wonder if you can even find like clips of that online. I hope so. Oh fuck me. Oh hot dogs up late. You absolutely can watch clips on YouTube of Hot Dogs up late. Hot Dogs of course was a contestant on like the first series of Big Brother? He was on some kind of Big Brother. Was it the first series? I don't know, maybe?

God damn. Why was his name Hot Dogs? He was just called Hot Dogs and he was up late. That's all I know about, the man. Fucking hell. That'll be you anyway when you call into us, you can tell us your problems, leave us a question, leave us a compliment, say that we look nice today. That's true, you can do that one. It was actually the fifth. Tell us the fifth season of Big Brother Australia. I thought it was came in later. God almighty. Uh, so, you know, that. It. It. It. It. It, it. It, that. It, that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that. that, that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that's that's that. that that that that that'll that'll that'll that'll that'll that'll that'll that'll that'll that'll that'll that'll that'll that'll that'll that'll that'll that'll that'll that'll that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's th. th. th. th. th. the th. the. the the. the. the. the. the. the. the. th. th. th. th. season of Big Brother Australia. God damn. Came in later. God Almighty. So, you know, that number again for you folks. 1,800, 317-515. Call in, tell us how much you love, etc.

so on and so forth. If you would like to support the show, and also get an extra episode every week, you can head on over to Patreon.com forward slash Buntavista slap down your five bucks a month phone in leave us message to let us know that you've done it because that would probably make us feel good too. So until next week thanks for sticking around and oh finally the train is pulling into the next stop and we can all get off and take a shit at the nearest McDonald's. Woo. Thanks everybody. Cheers. Bye. Bye. Bye. Talking to my 82 year old mum about all the news of Trump. She interrupted me and says Hoss. The only way I can stomach to watch that pre-deafloated mango muzzolini on the news is with my resting bitch base applied and a glass of wine at the ready.

Holy with the shit balls.