Boonta Vista - EPISODE 173: Toilet Cucked On Father's Day

Episode Date: November 1, 2020

Lucy, Andrew, and Ben are boldly stepping up to the current events of the week and slapping them right in the face. In this episode: Eating out did not help out, the rat hole, getting toilet cucked, and a podcast that is even worse than this one. *** Support our show and get exclusive bonus episodes by subscribing on Patreon: www.patreon.com/BoontaVista *** Email the show at [e-mail]! Call in and leave us a question or a message on 1800-317-515 to be answered on the show! *** Twitter: twitter.com/boontavista Website: boontavista.com Merchandise: boontavista.com/merchandise Twitch: twitch.tv/boontavista

Hello and welcome to Buena Vista, episode 173. I am bed and I am here at the pot belly in Belconnen, Bellconnen. I didn't really think about this before I did it. Bell Connion. Yes. That's right. With me is Lucy, who is currently punching me directly in the face. Hi, Lucy. Hi, why am I doing, is Ben?

I can't think of a single good reason. With us also is Andrew, who is currently escaping the scene on a scooter. Hi, Andrew. Yeah. How are you? How come? Come, come. Come.

Andrew, can you answer a question for me? Sure. Why would someone get punched in the face at the pot belly? Well, um, first you have to have a classic case of mistaken identity. Yep. And we've all had one of those, right? Absolutely. Would you say more of the time you are mistaking somebody else's identity or having your own

identity mistaken? Constantly having my identity mistaken. Okay. So I'm still very embarrassed about this but Elra and I went out for a date night. We went to like a hot pot place and it was very good it was delicious but it was it was much much more like basic than we anticipated we thought we were going to like a restaurant you know there were no pictures online and we got there and it was very much like a hey here's some folding tables that you can. we th tho that that you we to to th th th th th th th th th th th th th th tho tho 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. We went that that that that that their their their their their their their their their their their that th. We th. We th th th. We th th th. We th. We that th. We they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they. I that. I that that that that that that that that that they. I they. was very much like a, hey, here's some folding tables that you

can eat at. And if you would like, you can buy a Pepsi, you know, and drink it out of a plastic cup. Not really a lavish dine in experience. But that also meant that I didn't have any beer or anything. And I was thanning for a beer. And so when we finished there, we went several doors up because it didn't take very long. We have the meal, because again, not really a dining, not really an extravagant dining experience kind of place. So we went a few doors up to the aforementioned pot belly, which I believe

claims to be one of Cambrus oldest pubs. Which means it dates all the way back to what the 70s or something. When Cambrough was created. Yeah. Yeah. And we went in there and had some drinks and had a few more drinks. We had a nice time. We talked to the bartender a bit. Because he was a friendly young the tubes. And the ki. And ki. And ki. And ki. And he was a ki. And ki. And ki. And ki. And ki. It's kind ki. It's kind the kind the kind the kind the kind ki. It's kind the kind the the kind the kind the kind the kind the kind the kind to to the kind the kind time. We talked to the bartender a bit, because he was a friendly young man. And I was saying to him, I assumed that the music on this playlist is yours. And he said, yes, and I said to Elna, I told you so. There is no Spotify playlist that's putting on like tool and like Moroccan music, you know?

That's like one of those default Spotify playlist that they always push at the top of the home page. Chilling vibes. Hmm. So, there's a few other guys there. We had a bit of a chat to them as well. Elner wants to have a cigarette. So she went out the back, there was like a little smoking area. I know there's not really supposed to be smoking areas anymore.

But the guy was like, it's cool. I'm the cool bartender and I'm your friend. There's not really supposed to be smoking areas anymore? No thin. I don't think you can smoke anywhere in any venue in Gambra. That's wild. I don't think there's like, um, like beer gardens that you can smoke in or anything like that. Not even like, because we have, you can't have mixed-use ones, like you can drink in a smoking area, but you can't have food in the smoking area, but you guys don't have... Like, smoke that in the smoking area is completely abolished. Wow, the times times times times times times times times times thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. I thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. I there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there's there. I there. I there. I there. I there. I there. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I don't thin. I don't thin. I don't thatea thatea thatea thatea thatea thatea thatea thatea. I don't thatea. I don't thi. I could be wrong but I think the smoking areas is completely abolished. The times they are a change in. That's right. So you know we're out there talking to these guys and then another person arrives. This guy,

older guy in a silly Acubra and a Domerane coat and these other people seem to know him. And so we're all having a chat. At a certain point I've had entirely too many drinks and I went inside to like get some water for this young guy who was having a bad time. He's taken himself off into the night to do some street vomiting and I went, he probably needs a drink and to go home. And so I went off to grab him some water, his friend is looking after him. And this leaves Elna alone with this other guy. And I've gone inside. Elna's come in not very long after that and said, that guy in the hat just tried to force himself on me and kiss me, I would like to go now.

And I said, sure, give me one second. And in a move that was very, very uncharacteristic of me, this is a thing that has never happened before and clearly hasn't happened since then, in the two weeks since then, I went, I'm just going to jog out the back quickly and hit this guy in the two weeks since then. I went, I'm just gonna jog out the back quickly and hit this guy in the face. And so I run out there to this guy with a hat. And I knock his hat off and give him a strong pimp hand across the face. Was it once or twice? I believe when you told the story the first time that you slapped him twice across the face. Was it once or twice?

I believe when you told the story the first time that you slapped him, twice in the face? I did, but the other was with the other hand, so that you didn't see it coming. Wow. Powerful move. The old one to slap. Back the other way with the other hand because. Even though it was mad, I think, you know, you're not trying to like, I don't know, knock anybody's teeth out or give him a concussioner.

You're trying to do funny violence to this man. Yeah, cartoon violence. Literally slapstick. And I grab this guy and go, hey, what do you think you're doing? It's a very confused look on his face. What do you think you're doing? Isn't a man's wife. And while this is happening and this man has a very confused look on his face, Elna comes back out from the bar and says, no no, the other guy with the hat. Hmm. Hmm.

It's your classic. Really classic case. Turns out I did not ask about the type of hat. Well, maybe ladies should be being more specific in these cases, you know? I didn't get enough information about the hat and I went off half-cocked. And then what happened? So while I'm turning around saying the who? I turned back and immediately start apologizing to this guy who, while still looking very confused, has in self-defense wound up and popped me in the mouth. And I went, hey, hey, I'm very sorry.

Oopsies. And while all of this is happening, the real culprit has escaped on his e-scooter. I just can't. If you are going to basically assault someone, I can't think of a more obnoxious vehicle to escape on from that scene. No. I imagine he was riding away going, ha ha ha. The perfect crime.

A little pervert. You eventually, did you make good with the man that you did violence upon? I reached out to him because his friend who was feeling very poorly had given me his details earlier in the night and I sent this guy a message saying, I'm very, very sorry for striking your friend in the face when he didn't do anything wrong at all. He punched me so he wins, you know. I said again I'm very, very, very sorry. He didn't do anything wrong at all and absolutely did not deserve that. And I got a message back in a time span that would indicate that somebody had spent like a very

solid 14 hours being very hungover, you know, saying, yeah, I talked to him and neither of us remember any of this. So it was you who did the perfect crime. Yeah, so we said, no, no harm done at all. He said he's really sorry for punching you. And I said, no, no, he should not harm done at all. He said he's really sorry for punching you. And I said, no, no, he should not be sorry at all. Some wild-eyed dip shit came barreling out of the back door and started smacking him around. You didn't do anything except for be very nice to us all evening.

You know when people, you sort of talk about how, to have the concept of toxic masculinity you kind of also need the corollary, like positive masculinityity to to to pu masculinity, to to to pu masculinity, thulity, thulity, thuality, thuality, thuality, thu. thu. And, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, thi, thi, thi, thi, talk about how to have the concept of toxic masculinity, you kind of also need the corollary, like positive masculinity. And I think this is a perfect example of that. Yeah, it is. Maybe not the walking up to a guy and slapping him the face so much as the ability to live and let live after having tried to hurt each other. Beautiful, really beautiful. Oh, look, I just, been, been, been, been, been, been, been, been, been, been, been, been, been, been, been, been, been, been, been, been, been, 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, thi, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, you, th. And, thi, the, thi. And, the, the. And, the. And, thi. And, th. And, thi. And, I th. And, I th. And, I th. And, really beautiful. Oh look, I just, I don't know. Been, there's also been, you know, a handful of times where, the toxic masculinity being what it is, where like, Elna has been groped by guys at bars or parties or whatever,

and you sort of go, ah, hey, don't. Like, I would prefer if men did not do that, personally. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. But yes, it has never been my policy to immediately start trying to fight somebody because that also seems really dumb. Yeah, I don't know if it's necessarily going to achieve anything productive. Although I mean I'm sure it would feel cathartic and that's nice.

It did for about 12 seconds and then. Until you the distance out of your wife telling you, you got the wrong guy. Classic case, mistake and identity. And that's why you should never wear a hat to a bar. That's right. Just don't do it. Well, the worst part is that there were two very different kinds of hats. If I had just said, which hat?

So if you're saying, if your wife had, who had a very unpleasant, you was one extra word. I'm saying I should have asked for more details about the hat. I hear you and I empathize and I sympathize. I have one follow-up question. Please name the type of hat. What type of broom did the hat happen? You listed off all the hats from that article we did about that bank robber guy? Was it like a sort of felt hat hat?

Oh dear. Oh, speaking of men who do a lot of sex offending. Oh yeah. Does that work? Wow. Yeah. Wait, it was the second after that set it's going to be NRL players? NRL players. Yeah, there it is.

What are they up to? That was beautiful. Are we, um, are we officially considering this a plainly speaking? Well I think it's a plainly Dr. Lucy. Okay, which we don't have a theme song for. But you can imagine one. Yeah, if you can conjure in your mind right now a synthesis of the plainly speaking and the Paging Dr. Lucy themes, that would be great. But what we're instead going to do is just probably play the Paging Dr. Lucy e because it's my favorite one. Oh, well I guess I could do that. Can I?

Can I find it? There's so many of them. Can he do it? Here it is. If you find that you are having a little relationship trouble, just to pick up your telephone and dive it on the double, you call 1, 800, 3,17, 5,000. 5,000. Just to pick up your telephone and dial it on the double. You call one eight hundred three one seven five one five five now you're paging Dr. Lucy.

Dear Dr. Lucy was I right to assault a man? Attempting to protect my wife's honor. I think your intentions were good. I think you're intent to. I think you're intent to? I think you're intent to? I think you're tempted. I to assault a man attempting to protect my wife's honor. I think your intentions were good. I think your intentions were good but anyway. My intentions were an idiot. Great great example though of why it's usually not a good idea I think. You're saying this is an example to hold up of why violence is bad? I never really thought it was bad until I accidentally slept an innocent man and a part twice the face. Now I realize I was wrong. Yeah. Maybe all I'm saying is that the one time out of all the times in life where I've gone, you know what, that's enough of that. I've immediately gone and fucked it right up. But as Lucy said, I'm just an amateur, you know? I'm just an amateur in the assaulting

strangers game, in the, I guess, all kinds of things that NRL players get up through. They're the real pros. It's the A-League of this type of thing. And there's a story here that's picked our interest from the Sydney Morning Herald. Sex, drugs, and a cover-up. The NRL sits on explosive complaint. Do want to clarify this one's not a sexual assault. It is just very funny Yeah, well, yeah, sorry. This is we're speaking generally about at our old players assaulting people, not this guy. This guy's not assault anybody. If we're talking about Yeah, sexual assaults, regular assaults, or basically a public nudity, drug use. Pissing in their own mouth, sex a lot of other people's wives. These guys have got it covered.. Or the the the their their their their their th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, thi. Yeah, thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thi's thii's thiii's thi's thi's thi. Yeah, thi. Yeah, their own mouth, technically not a kind of assault. Pissing your own mouth.

Sex alone, people's wives. These guys have got it covered. So it says here, the National Rugby League's Integrity Unit that storied. They've got to be busy. They've got to be real, fucking busy. A lot of paperwork. Just imagine like, da da da da. Drag men da, da, the drag mat guys coming out, holding tomb-guns. The National Rugby League's Integrity Unit has been accused of turning a

blind eye to the extraordinary complaint lodged more than a year ago involving a star players toilet trist. Toilet trist. Toilet trist. That makes... I wish that was one word. Like a ventriloquist. A toilet trust. An aggrieved husband who was given prescription medication by a club official and the club's doctor who then provided a false medical certificate.

So many layers to this. Really are. In a lengthy complaint to the Integrity Unit, which has been obtained by the Herald, one of the North Queensland Cowboys star players is alleged to have, quote, committed a sexual act with another person, in parentheses, not his wife,

in a public toilet in one of Australia's busiest airports. I find it so funny the need to be like this wasn't any airport bathroom, this is an airport bathroom in one of Australia's busiest airports. I feel like the busy of the airport the less I would like to have sex in one of its bathrooms. Airport bathrooms are a busy place. Tell me which airport bathroom you would most like to have sex in. Maybe like, well, I kind of want to say like, you know, a very remote one that like flying doctors take off from maybe? Nobody around,

but also I don't know how often that one gets cleaned either. Like Camber Airport really clean but very quiet, not a lot of traffic in there you know but I guess maybe in Australia's busiest airport there might be enough ambient noise to help cover up your toilet trip that is true. The uh when I was in the airport bathrooms at Changi they have like Muzak playing in the toilets which I appreciate but at one point the song that was in there was a musac version of falling by Julie which 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 the the the the the the their.eysysysysysysysysysysysysysysysys. their. their. their. their is their is their is their is their is their is their.ususususususususususususususususususususususususususususususususususususus. 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 same same same same.e.e.e.e. the same the same the same the same the same the same.ea.ea.ea.ea. the same same.ea.ea.ea., the song that they were playing when I was in there was a Muzak version of Falling by Julie Crows which is the theme song to Twin Peaks. Okay. It was very odd. Strange. Weird stuff. Yeah, odd thing to hear in a Singapore airport. Another classic disorienting toilet experience for them.

All of them are disorienting for me. The team had played an away game in mid-2018 and the players were returning to Townsville via Brisbane Airport. The husband of the woman allegedly involved in the incident has made the complaint to the integrity unit via his Brisbane lawyer John Snedden. This is a bid that gets me. It's like, firstly how did he find out? Did she come home and be like, how was your day, honey? Oh, mine, I had sex with an NRL player in the bathroom at Brisbane Airport. And then he's gone so mad, he's complained to the NRL about it. I love the idea of

finding out that like a star player has fucked your wife and a toilet and going, well, the NRL is going to be hearing from me the the the the the the the the thing..... the thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, 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, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that's that's that's that's that's that's th. th. th. that's th. I that's th. I that's thi. that's thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, that, that, that, that thrown throwne, throwne, throwne, that thrown that's thrown thrown that's thrown that that that, that, the NRL is going to be hearing from me about this. Immediately sitting down at your computer and writing a sternly worded letter. I must say, to whom it may concern? I was dismayed to hear about the acts of my wife. The man was distraught and furious when he discovered a message from the star player to his wife about their toilet trist in the Qantas Lounge. Oh, it's very specific, Quauntus Lound. Which occurred on Father's Day. Oh, oh, mate. It's really it's really rough. I'm so sorry. That really does take it to another level, doesn't it?

Really, really hammers the nail in. She's supposed to be at home by your side, helping the kids give you terrible gifts. Just terrible gifts. Mm-hmm. Alarm to what could become a public relations nightmare, the woman who was employed by the Cowboys, whoa. Oh oh. Oh. Contacted the club's then football manager, Peter Parr for help. Quote, on becoming aware of our clients

knowledge of the sexual act. Mr. Parr gave the husband prescription medication, quote, to help him cope with the shock. I'm so sorry you got toilet cocked on father's day here is some prescription medication. He's so down and from. It's just the strangest thing to do. It's just be like, hey dude, I know you feel like shit. How about some like prescription medication medication? Uh, so unbeknown to the husband, the tablets that Mr. Parr gave gave gave gave gave gave gave gave gave gave gave gave gave gave gave gave gave gave gave gave gave gave the to to the to to to to to the to to to to the to to to to the to to to the husband, the tablets that Mr. Pye gave him were Valium. What else would they be?

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The toilet! The toilet were his know that kind of thing? A guy giving a guy some pills and not telling the guy. It's a guy who doesn't know what the pills are giving a guy some pills and then not telling him what the pills are, because he doesn't know. Um, he denied that they were his or that he knew they were value him. He claimed he had, quote, swung by the dock's think think, th' th' th' to th' th' th' th' th' th' th' th' th' thi thi' thi' thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, to know, thi, thi, thi, thi, to to to to thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi or that he knew they were Valium. He claimed he had, quote, swung by the dock's place on the night to get something to help the husband sleep. They weren't mine.

I don't have Valium in the house. Panadol and cough medicine is all I have, he said. You can't even get the good cough medicine anymore, you know. The husband, a long-hul-aultrucke truck-a-a- positive for benzodiazepine as part of a routine workplace drug truc. This is like the worst time of this guy's entire life. Who's having a rough one? Oh, it's really...

Also, what did you think was going to help you sleep, sir? I feel like long-haul truck drivers should be asking more questions about what they put in their bodies. Famously selective about putting drugs in their bodies, long haul trucks drivers. That's right, they hate drugs. Dr. Chris Ball, who runs a sports clinic and is the team doctor for both the Cowboys and the national team came forward to claim falsely that he had personally consulted with the husband on a family crisis. A toilet cucking. You can say it.

And was stressed and unable to sleep, said Dr. Ball in a medical certificate to be provided to the husband's employer. That's a bad look for a doctor, I'm going to say. It's pretty rough. Dr. Ball of the prescription for the medication, Dr. Ball stated in the medical certificate that he quote, does not prescribe benzodiazepine medication. And that on this occasion, quote, I gave the husband a sample quantity of four diazepam tablets to help facilitate sleep. Yeah, four will help facilitate that. It sure will. Yep. Four will help facilitate a small coma.

My goodness. On September 25th, Dr. Ball was contacted by a medical officer on behalf of the truck driver's employer. That doctor noted that the quite recent prescription for benzodiazepines on the background of acute crisis and poor sleep and requested further information as to the medical fitness of the husband to continue his job as a truck driver. This is such a horrible chain of events. It's so bad. On his sports clinic NQLettahead Dr. Ball replied the same day, I have not prescribed any more medication. He is sleeping well and is not needing ongoing treatment or medication. I've been around to his house, I've watched him sleep

for many hours. He's sleeping like a baby. Oh my goodness. Guidelines issued by the Australian Medical Association stipulated that quote doctors who deliberately issue a false misleading or inaccurate certificate could face disciplinary action under the health practitioner of regulation national law. Mr. Snedden, whose client has never met Dr. Ball, disputed Mr. Paz claim that the football manager left his home late night to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to go to to go to to go to to to to to to to to to to to their like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like 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 the health. their. the health. the health. the health. the health. their. the health. their the health. the health. their their their met Dr. Ball, disputed Mr. Paz's claim that the football manager left his home late at night to go to Dr. Ball's premises to obtain medication for the husband. Mr. Snedden has provided the medical certificates to the NRL and has informed the NRL's integrity in the doctor ball is the subject of an investigation

by the medical watchdog, APR, and the Aprah, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Apra and the, oh-ho, said that due to, quote, confidentiality provisions, they were unable to comment to the Herald on individual matters. However, Mr. Parr confirmed to the Herald that Dr. Ball has been the subject of inquiry by medical authorities and that he had provided the regulator with an account of what it occurred on the night. Dr. Ball did not reply to the herald's emails. In hindsight, said Mr. Parr of his provision of value to the husband, quote, I wouldn't do it again. But at the time he was dealing with a very stressful situation. He sure was. A real toilet cucking.

You see, your honor, this man had been hypercucked. This truly a cucking for the the the the the the cucking. You see your honor this man had been hypercucked. This is truly a cucking for the ages. Many levels of cucking. The couple's relationship never recovered and at one stage the wife called police expressing concerns for her and the player's safety following her husband's discovery of the affair. No charges were laid. Mr. Parr who was recently appointed as the cowboy's board after stepping down as the manager acknowledged that both he and Dr. Ball should have informed the integrity unit about the investigation by Queensland Medical Authorities.

Well, I think usually most of the time when you get investigated for a crime, what solves it is if you say afterwards, I probably should have told you about that. Oops. Oh boy. Registered NRL personnel have an obligation to report matters which may bring the game into disrepute. Given that engaging in a sex act in a public toilet is a potential criminal offense constituting an act of public indecency, Mr. Parr also agreed he should have notified the integrity of the the star player.

We wouldn't want to damage the integrity of the NRL would be. God forbid. You'd hate to bring that game into the NRL, would we? God forbid. You'd hate to bring that game into disrepute. In late 2018, the husband sent the following text message to the player's wife. I know you wouldn't like me texting you, but I feel no one but you could understand how I am feeling. I only found out today his wife gets to keep her job, oh his own wife. My wife. My wife gets to keep a job at the Cowboys.

His life. Lucy and I watched Borat 2. Very funny. I really enjoyed it. And I think, um, I expressed beforehand my concern enjoyed it and I think I expressed beforehand my concern that it was going to be like Anchorman 2 where as soon as it starts you go oh you waited several decades before doing this and you're all so so notably older than you were in the last movie and it feels like you're

just kind of going through the motions. But in the first like minute or two of this, Sasha Baron Cohen leans in really hard on like a very nice and I was back in, I was back on board. That's all it took. Yes. But I think we will definitely, as a movie recommendation goes, we will definitely confirm that I think I think our name is Maria Bacolova, is the 24-year-old Bulgarian actress who plays his daughter in the movie. Very funny. She's wonderful. She's very, very talented.

And it makes a lot of sense in the movie as well because at the very start of the movie, he goes back to America and everybody on the street is like my name is a Borat. So for the rest of the movie he's Sasha Baron Cohen in character as Borat wearing a costume dressed up as like an American. Uh-huh. So he's a lot of like Borat wearing costumes so people don't recognize him. But it also means that because he has his daughter there, that she can go and do whole scenes without him and nobody knows who she is. So it makes sense.

She is the real Borat too. She sure is. It's official recommendation, Borot too. Continuing this guy's text message, I feel so gutted that nothing what her and star player have done after cheating on both of us over that Gold Coast weekend is fair. I have lost everything. My wife! Coma, family. I feel so worthless after what they have done.

But to know that they will still see each other at the club is so hurtful for me. I just can't believe Parry, that's Peter Parr, is covering my wife's tracks and will still let her travel with the team. I feel like no one gives a fuck about how we might feel about it. I guess I should just realize I am nobody. I not important to anybody especially to my wife. The Cowboys, and obviously that player who felt my wife was also his property. I won't bother you ever again. I promise not to ring your text again. I am sorry. He received no reply. He received no reply. This is so brutal. That guy, just, that

so awful. Just having a bad time, you know. Now I don't think any of us are probably in a position to guess which player this is. I wouldn't have a clue. I will say 2018. Star Cowboys player. Jonathan Thurston's final season. He couldn't. He's a lovely man. I don't know who that is. Oh my fucking God. No, it's fine.

Do you think? Do you think? It's like great play to have a flap. I wouldn't need to stress about it. I mean, I'll leave it up to our NRL watching listeners. Dave in particular if you want to call in and let us know which player you think it is that would be wonderful. I love to find out. So obviously that guy had a really bad time. But when it comes to having a bad time, let's talk about Leonard Shoulders in this week's Nature Corner slash Homans Importance section.

You shall see hail fall from a clear sky and burn his fire upon the ground. You shall see darkness cover Egypt when the his fire upon the ground. You shall see darkness cover Egypt when the sun climbs high to noon. And you shall know that God is God. And you shall have your dick snipped by a rubber crab. And you shall have your dick snipped by a rubber crab. I was seamless. So this is from the guardian. New York City man falls into sinkhole full of a... Crab. That was seamless.

So this is from the Guardian. New York City man falls into sinkhole full of rats. Oh, that's so awful. Just another day in the big apple. Only a New York baby. Hey, falling into a sinkhole full of rats over here. The city full of rats that never sleep. Oh, anything can happen in a New York minute. We've all fallen into a sinkhole full of rats. You just got to get on with your day. But you know that's the

attitude of New Yorkers, you know, they're just going about their business, they fall into the whole rats, they brush themselves off, they keep going. Hey, but enough about New Jersey. Does that work? Any New Yorkers want to get at me? A New York City man has fallen through a sinkhole in a sidewalk, landing directly onto a pack of rats, leaving him unable to scream for help out of a fear that they might crawl into his mouth. Oh. Oh. I have a mouth and I must scream, but I'm not opening it right now.

For reasons that should be apparent. Do you just steal a joke from Lucy from the discord? Yeah, I already. Oh my fucking God. Look at it. Is Lucy making jokes to the discord now? Wow. In a city long used to you'd get away with it. Wow. In a city long used to tall tales of urban horror like crocodiles in the sewers,

the real life terror experienced by Lenny Shoulders. Lettie Shoulders. Lenny Shoulders. He sure does. It appeared to strike an appalled cord with Dennison's of the Big Apple. Shoulders was waiting for a bus in the Bronx when suddenly the concrete beneath his feet cracked open and he plummeted into a hole, breaking his arm and leg. According to his brother, Greg White. They got different last names, guys. What's going on?

They sure do. I don't know if you're focusing on the right part of that sentence. Took my, took my wife's name and became Lenny's shoulders. This man fell into a hole full of rats breaking it up and a leg. You're like, oh, that's weird. It's got a different surname to his brother. We could stop happening in New York. This is the thing that that really that really that really that really that really that really that really that really that really that really that really that really that really that really that really that really that really that really that really that really that really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really that really that reallythe thing that really gets me with like just a lot of these stories from America over the last however many years of like just pieces of cities just collapsing, just infrastructure like it's good stuff. Caving in on itself.

I remember a story from how many years ago of like a big water main bursting under a street in New York and like firing all of this ash and concrete and stuff into the air and all these people having like 9-11 PTSD flashbacks and thinking that another terrorist attack was happening because the street being coated like that and apparently it's just just because, you know, they've got like all copper pipes and stuff that are all corroded that are a couple hundred years old nobody's doing anything about. And the same with this sort of thing, just all the grounds give away. They're not even maintaining their rat holes.

We've only got budget for rat holes. White told the New York Daily News, quote, he couldn't move and the rats were crawling all over him. He didn't scream because he didn't want the rats going into his mouth. That's smart. That is very smart. Good for him. He had to like sign to people.

I do not like the rats. He's just sort of like pointing to the rats and shaking his head. Yeah I would like to be removed from the rat hole. Firefighters eventually took half an hour to extricate shoulders from the rat-filled cavity and he was taken to a local hospital where he was recovering. You'd hope the city was going to pay for that one. You'd hope so? I guess so. I, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so, yeah, yeah, so, yeah, yeah, so, yeah, yeah, yeah, so, so, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I, I, I, yeah. I, I, I, I, I, I 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 to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the to 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 th th like the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the to a local hospital where he was recovering. You'd hope the city was going to pay for that one. You'd hope so? I guess so, yeah. Who's responsible for that? Man? Is it the city? Is it the rats? Who knows? Is it him for not paying close enough attention to whether he was standing well a rat hole?

I have to say. Hmm. I think generally as you move about the city before you step onto the next square of concrete you should lean out and like tap it with your foot and see if there's a hollow sound. You sort of sounding it out. Yeah. Whoop. No, not not there. It's a little crumbly. It's the responsible thing to do, really. But when you're in New York, you know everybody moves so fast. It's busy, it's bustling city. Can't be tapping your way around the city. Hi everybody, it's me. It's Theo. Now I guarantee you I'm more afraid of recording this promo than you are of listening to it, so hear me out.

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to happen to us. Yep, that's absolutely right. We haven't got a theme song. I haven't got a theme song for this segment yet. But the segment is called, they're a worse podcast than this. And it's like a nice way to sort of remind the listener that, um... You could be listening. It could be worse. It could be worse. It could be worse this. We have our flaws. We have our faults. We'd be the first to acknowledge them. I'm just saying. th. th. the the the the the the the the the the the th. the the the th. the the the the th. th. their. th. th. their. their. their their their their their their their their th. th. their their their their th. their their th. their their their th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. their th. their th. th. th. their their their th. their their their th. th. their their th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. the. their theeeeeeeeea. their their their their their their their their their their thea. thea. th. th. them. I'm just saying this is not the worst podcast you can be listening to and today's installment of that is brought to you by a podcast that describes itself as the best politics podcast produced by an Australian gambling company. The name of the podcast is I'm usually more professional and it is sponsored by a little company called SportsBet.

Now for the American listener, I think think like the majority of states sports betting is illegal, right Lucy? Yeah, well you can't do it at least in app form. Yeah, whereas in Australia you can just open your phone. You can just open your phone and immediately deposit money into a gambling account and just have it on your cute little app there on your phone. You can do very healthy. Literally anything you want. Children can do it and I probably encourage to do it and this country is as a result sort of controlled by like two or three major gambling companies

that have basically all of the country's wealth. They are the fucking worst. Every time the sports bet, you know how like in and before NRL games? Yeah, that fucking piece of shit guy. Yeah, they throw to the guy as if he's an expert but it's an ad for SportsBet but they're like, and now we check in with bloody blah blah about how the odds are looking you're like, you're just telling people that they can gamble. It's not... Yeah, you can just do that. So imagine if one of those companies, SportsBet, took exactly that approach to politics, and that is throwing to people as if they're experts, but they're just...

They're just... They're just... Who's on this? So, there is Australian Broadcasting Professional and just gormless piece of shit, Joe Hildebrand. There is a disgraced former politician Sam Dastiari, and then there is formerly of BuzzFeed I think currently doing the Struth column for the Australian and maybe doing some reporting as well Alice Workman that is the three of them Andrew do you want to play this clip I will play in the clip I'm not going to characterize it as wanting to play it

there. Make America no. Forget about the kind of, everyone kind of talks about the Trump, Biden, you know, I think it's like $1.50 for Biden to win, $2.70 in the moment for Trump. That kind of moves around 5, 10 cents here and there. The one I think, stuff that I think is actually really interesting is the closest state, all the kind of fewer stuff, right? They've got like Pennsylvania, North Carolina, all these places, $8 for being close. If you think the state election is going to be remotely close, right? If you just pick four of them, you're seeing one of them to be right and you don't need all four to work, right? So you pick the four the four the four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, four, their. their their their their their their their their their their th....... th. th. th.. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. their, their, their, their, their, their, their, th. th. Ten, th. Ten, th. Ten, th. their, th. th. their, their, their, their, their, their, their four to work, right? So you pick the four that you think are going to be close. Having a bit of a look, Wisconsin. Yep. Remember our suburban housewives everybody?

Remember Milwaukee? Remember that other little town Kenosha, whatever it is? Where there's a few little, BLM Antifa types, you know, marching through the street, setting fire to fire the blues, three bucks for the Republicans to win Wisconsin. Now that is higher than the 270 they're paying out just for Trump to win overall. So I reckon cheeky little bed on that it might not go wrong, might not go wrong. So Sam is your final word that you're putting a bed on? I'm putting a bed on. That's my final word. My final word is gamble responsibly. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. So many levels of morally bankrupt.

What is the most morally reprehensible part of that to think? Do you think it's glossing over? The weird, like snarky shit he said about Kenosha, which is where Carl Rittenhouse shot three people killing two of them? Or is it sarcastically saying gamble responsibly at the end? On your podcast, sponsored by SportsBet. Literally turning the thing that you are required to say as a gambling company into a punchline. I, it is sickening to me. Just sort of repulsive. Everyone involved in this is a criminal

and should be in jail. I'd like, what is the, who wants this? Well, I could tell you that no one in Ellis Workman's replies on Twitter wants this. Yeah, I was just talking to Lucy before we recorded about Sam Deftiari and how he like could not have made it more transparent that the only thing he ever actually wanted was just to be in the public spotlight in some form. He doesn't care what it is. So as you said, disgraced former politician, he went from being caught out very, very openly selling influence to foreign donors and stuff like that. Had a string of scandals held on for months and months as more and more things came out.

Until finally, I think the Labour Party said, you have to go now. And then he went straight from there into, I'm going to do like a radio show about the gross underbelly of politics and all the dirty tricks people do and all that sort of stuff. It's like, oh isn't it cool? I'm informed about that kind of thing. And then he was on a season of, I'm a celebrity, get me out of here. Very cool. Uh-huh. And yeah, now he's on a podcast about gambling on politics sponsored by sports bed.

It seems like his whole thing was that immediately in the wake of this, he wanted to capitalize on the notoriety by just straight up being like ha ha ha yeah I did it I'll make lots of self-deprecating jokes not really self-deprecating but like I'll go on you know hard chat or fucking go on whatever sort of light entertainment shit and then make references to myself being corrupt in a sort of jokey way I'm a cool politician just the fucking worst. Yeah, it's just like collecting him and Joe Hildebrand in particular,

just the worst dip-shits in the Australian media to be doing something that's just stupidly unethical and pointless. Why would you want either of their fucking opinions about anything? Yeah, it's just like framed as a politics podcast, which is just blatantly an ad for a sports bets politics section? Yeah. Which I already don't understand how you can gamble on the outcomes of political stuff. Like, am I a complete rude for thinking like,

should this be illegal? Well, they let you gamble on anything, really? Well, yeah, except that the thing that sort of gets me is like th th th th me is like th me is like th me is like th me is like th me is like th me is like th me is like the th me is like the th.. It the the the th. It the the the the 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 their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their th.... It's they th. It's th. It's th. the. the. theat. theat. theat. theat. theat. theat. theat. theat. theat. theat. theateateateate. I sure. Well, they let you gamble on anything, really. Well, yeah, except that the thing that sort of gets me is like, is it a good idea to give people a financial incentive to try and influence the outcome of specific aspects of democratic elections? It's probably not great, but the laws probably haven't caught up with it yet, so here we are with this podcast Doesn't seem great to me. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm an idiot. Who knows? I just like I don't know. I guess it's so this that is the way their podcast works. I'm gonna say it's probably not the way our podcast works in the sense of We now we make money off this podcast right right? Like I get paid a living wage from it.

You guys get some, I don't know, beer money or whatever. But it's because we had a thing that we wanted to do first when we talk about stuff that we would like to talk about that we think is funny and we do it because we enjoy it. The idea of all. Podcasting without just getting mad bank for it from the start. Podcasting for enjoyment. Sick, disgusting. But like if I just feel like even if I, you know, I really enjoy being able to do this sort of thing as a full-time job because the work is fun and interesting and it's nice you know not having a proper job but I don't think

if sports bet approached me and was like hey I'm gonna give you however many thousands of dollars to do X amount of episodes for this all you have to do is know that you are an ad for sports betting and you have to keep mentioning the odds like it just seems so fucking shit. One time, or I would not be selling out. This is the one person. This is the bridge too far for me. Lucy has been on record for years.

I'm saying she will sell out. She will sell out immediately. This one's pretty rough though. I just can't stand, fucking listening to Joe Hildebrand. Oh, Knoosha or wherever 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. thi. th. th. th. th. th. to just just just just just just just just just just to just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just, to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I.though. I just can't stand, fucking listening to Joe Hildebrand, ooh, Kenosha or wherever it is, fuck you. That was just, I can't even, why single out Kenosha? Of all the places, if you're gonna gloss past the murders that happened there.

He'd have no idea either. Just a man that has no idea what the fuck he's talking about, just wants to be on TV or on a podcast, or on a podcast, or on a podcast, or on a podcast, or on a podcast, or on podcast, or on a podcast, or on a podcast, or on, or on a podcast TV or on a podcast because he you know got fired from his Studio 10 job I assume and the Studio 10 thing is still so funny just he takes himself so seriously as a political commentator and you're like buddy you're on like daytime TV where you talk about viral Kmart product hacks like shut the fuck up do you. Yeah, just fuck off. Kerry Ann Kennelly, Australia's most treasured racist. And we have so many of them.

You have a lot. Just asking questions. He's just asking questions. God, he is very despicable though. And he's weird looking, that doesn't help. Oh, he absolutely, he really has that face of like, of a guy who did student politics at an Australian universe in the 80s. Yeah, absolutely.

Absolutely. I guess it must be 2000, 2001. It is from the opening night in Australia of the release of the Phantom Menace and a very young Joe Hildebrand is the person from the crowd they decided to speak to, talking about how excited he is about it. It is. Oh, that's very funny. Incredible. Go to YouTube. to YouTube. to YouTube.com look up Joe Hildebrand Phantom Menace and if you're wondering why

I have an encyclopedic knowledge of YouTube videos featuring Joe Hildebrand check out my Twitter sometime. I just want to publicly excoriate Lucy and wife Elinor for ruining my YouTube recommendations. Oh, the algorithm. They're fun of it on. Yeah, because, so, you know, I was watching something on the YouTube app on the TV. And because I watch like, like, MMA and boxing and stuff like that, you also get a bunch of like Joe Rogan related recommendations for Joe Rogan talks about this fighter or that fighter or whatever, which also means, well because it's YouTube, everybody gets

recommendations for Joe Rogan all the time I assume. And one of them was Joe Rogan talking to Jordan Peterson as Jordan Peterson like, you know, busts the gender gap myth and stuff like that. And Euler was like, oh let's watch that. It'll be funny. It'll be funny. And Lucy was like, yeah, it'll be funny. And then we got maybe three minutes in.

And I said, oh, but if we watch that, I'm gonna be getting force-fed Jordan Peterson videos by YouTube for the rest of time. I'll get my worse. Like a day later, it'd be like, do you think women should be exterminated? Yeah. And yeah, lo and behold, put this thing on, and he says, well, the funny thing is about universities in Canada. And both the girls are immediately like, no, this sucks. This just sucks. This guy's a fucking idiot. He just said. Says a bunch of like wildly speculative stuff that nobody challenges him on because he's just talking to Joe Rogan. And because Joe Rogan clearly has no idea what he's even saying.

But he sits up and stares at him very seriously. Yeah, it's a serious look on his face. And so the next day, I go go go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go I go. I go the next I go the next I go. I go. I go. I go. I go. I the the the next. I go. I the next. I 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 th. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I th. I. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I to. I to. I to. t. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. th. th. th. th. th. day I go to watch like a cooking video on YouTube and there's just like whole recommendation streams of like John Peterson, John Peterson, John Peterson, John Peterson over and over again. John Peterson explains why we shouldn't have women. Women be causing problems. They're chaos dragons. That's right. My YouTube recommendations are immaculate. They are all perfect. Really? I'm looking at the home page right now,

and the recommendations I've got a 20-minute long video on assembling and painting a 1-to 48-scale military truck, a one-hour of home movies from Alaska from 1930, a sleep reunion show from an all-tomorrow's parties festival, every Hannibal Burris moment from the Eric Andro show, and a 4K one-hour long walk around Shabuya in Japan. That sounds lovely. All of it is just, uh, I smoke a lot of weed. You don't say. That sounds lovely. All of it is just, uh, I smoke a lot of weed.

You don't say. Oh, look at mine. They're all over the place, I'll tell you that. So, where are we here? Where did we go? Where did we go? Well, look, that was something that I didn't want to happen. Was for my, my YouTube recommendations to become

all John Peterson all the time. And there's something else that we didn't want to happen in this section, which is called This is the one thing we didn't want to happen. And I don't want to critique what you've done there. Oh, good. Moving on. No, but I will. I don't think you can say, here are two things we did want to happen. Here is the segment called, the one thing we didn't want to happen. Well, you see, what we're describing is the one thing that the person in the segment didn't want to happen.

I'll allow it. Now, I don't know if anybody remembers a little while ago. We talk talk talk weak we we we th th th th th th talked about a program they were doing in the UK called Eat Out to Help Out. Right, and this was a sort of an informal joke nickname that the public gave a government policy and I'm sure they had like another name for it, right? No, no, this was the pussy eating theme title that they chose to give to a government-sponsored program a scheme if you will maybe that's not what British people call it they probably call it like what they call it wibbly jubly

yeah sure something like that noshing on my wife's jiblies. They probably would. No, they don't do it. That's why they don't have a name for it. That's why this doesn't ring a bell for them. Getting my wife stuck on my head like Mr. Bean. This is what happens when you try to do it. Don't try to do it anyone. So anyway, this is the thing that we we talked about and we could not stop saying eat out to help out because it's very funny.

But the theory was hey, hey everybody, come out and have a meal get our bloody economy back on track, you know. Forget about that. That virus thing. That's so June. That sounds like a great plan to me. I don't know what could have possibly gone wrong here. So months ago. Let's get everybody out there. This is from Sky News here. The Eat Out to Help Out Scheme caused a quote significant rise in new coronavirus infections a new study has suggested. Oh boy, you don't say. According to the University of Warwick, the sharp increase in COVID-19 infection clusters emerged a week after the scheme began. The government's initiative was designed to boost the economy. Oh, the economy loves to be boosted. After the national lockdown and it allowed pubs and restaurants to offer heavily discounted meals on Mondays, tues to tues to the today...... to to to to to to to to to to thea. thea. thea. thea. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to say say say say say, to say. You. You. You. You. You. You. You don't, to say, you. You to say, you, you, you, you to say, you to say, you to say, you to say, you. You to say, you. You to say, you. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You. You, to say, to say, to say, to to to to to the the the the the the the the to to the to too. I 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 economy loves to be boosted, after the national lockdown and it allowed pubs and restaurants to offer heavily discounted meals on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays

in August. Research from the university suggested that between 8 and 17 percent of newly detected infection clusters could be linked directly to the scheme. Oh my God. Oh, areas where there was a high uptake of eat out to help out also saw a decline in new infections a week after the scheme drew to a close. Well, I can't really argue with this one. Look, I admit it looks bad. Sure. Looks bad on paper. But on the bright side, I got 20% off of blood pudding. I was able to get a pint of warm beer for only 8 pounds.

Beer is expensive in London, am I right guys? It is! Wouldn't I never been. Places that experienced high rainfall around lunch and dinner time ended up seeing lower infection rates than areas that enjoyed nicer weather. Restaurants have participated in eat out to help outsaw increase in visits but between 10 and 200 percent compared with the same period in 2019, but academics concluded that the economic benefits of the scheme were short-lived. So like they're saying not only were the, it was this like, that they were restoring sort of levels, because like the idea right is that you, restaurants and stuff doing bad because of COVID, so you would kind of want to get them back to a pre-Covid normal, but they were dramatically busier

than they were under normal circumstances during a pandemic. That sounds bad to me. That's not good. It doesn't sound good. Dr. Tiemu Fetzer said the scheme quote contributed to community transmission and the acceleration of the second wave. Oh boy. He told Sky News the UK saw a massive explosion of cases in a way that was not seen in other countries. It's that scheme that has helped to bring about an earlier second lockdown and restrictions on the restaurant sector that was determined to help economically.

That is the one thing you didn't want to happen, isn't it? Yep. We thought we were helping the economy. You gotta get a small infection to help out the economy. That's right. It. It. It. It. It, it. It, it. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it's, it's, it'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 that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's. It's, it's. It's, it's, it'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 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 thi. It's the economy. You gotta get small infection to help out the economy. That's right. Something that baffles me about all of this, right, the coronavirus, is that there is so many people that are in positions of power or in like big, sort of important media positions or whatever, people with big platforms, people like your Adam Cratons and you whatnot and then big politicians that are doing sort of anti-lockdown stuff,

where the common sense position here, immediately on first glance you go, oh, well, we should shut this down to try and stop the virus. And these people that have access to so many more experts and so much more resources and everything are like, no no no we're just going to push through it it'll be fine don't even worry about it and then this happens and it turns out the common sense thing was entirely correct. Even for the economy because you have again made the economy worse by having to have another lockdown. Yeah. And like, the fucking, the longer you need to keep your country locked off, because you've

completely fucked your response means you've completely lost tourism, you know, like, you've completely lost population growth from immigration as well, like, it's just so fuck-eyed, and it just like, it just like, like with Sweden how they've had to move into like a a weird in Scandinavian it's not a mandatory lockdown but they have authorized government bodies to suggest everyone should lock down. But like they were being held up as a sort of paragon of why you don't need a lockdown. And like last time I checked, they've had something like 5,000, 5,900 deaths and they have a population of 10 million compared to us, have a population of about 25 million and we've

had 900 deaths. And also their economy has been hit just as hard and they're going into lockdown now. Like, it just seems like the people that are being contrarian on this are insane. It's not coming from anywhere. I don't fucking get it. I'm so confused. Yeah, and um... I don't, I don't get it. I don't know if like for the Adam Cratons of the world, it's

purely just libertarian brain. It's purely just like, hey, you know, being asked, it's a thing that we've talked about on this podcast a lot, which is people whose brains just like, thiiii. asthere is any form of suggestion of like a community or societal or collective effort to do something? Like that is the part that's that's the true that's the true like I don't know crushing of of liberty and everything where it's like you know like we keep talking about it look at America you know they've just had their 9 millionth case.

It is insane to me, 9 million. Yeah, and like the, it took them, like the most recent million only took them like a month or something? Or is it month or a half? Yeah, so it's like massively accelerating. It's not on any decline. Yeah, and so you can look at the chart the chart the chart the chart the chart the chart the chart the chart the chart the chart the chart the chart the chart, the chart, the chart, the chart, the chart, the chart, the chart, the chart, the chart, the chart, the the the the the the the the the the their, the chart of their case and not only like there is no second wave, this is just the first wave and it's just going up and up and up and up and up. And you know, so what do you get if you get COVID, you get to go to hospital and get bankrupted,

you know, you get to get fired from your job because you didn't go in for a few days. Or you just have to go into your job with coronavirus. Like, I don't understand. Like, is anybody like Adam Creighton looking at America and saying, few, a place that is still free. Yeah, this is what we should be. Don't tread on me. Let the virus tread on my grandma.

And yeah, I mean, obviously we've we've we've we've we've we've we've we've we've we've we've we've we've we've we've we've we've we've we've we've we've that we've that we've that we've that we've that we've that that that tread on my grandma. And yeah, I mean, obviously we've discussed that particular, particularly abhorrent strain of conversation about it, which is the, hey, I think it's about time that we all had a talk about which members of our society are, you know, extendable, to make sure that the line, line go up. Stock line go up. Every line go up. People dying, economy line, all of them. Just line go up, stock line go up. Every line go up. People dying, economy line, all of them. Just line go up. As long as the line goes up, as long as those numbers keep ticking up, we're putting up crazy numbers, you know? Yeah, it's very perplexing. Um, I'm glad that like the sections of the Australian media that seem to be extremely anti this

sort of stuff, I guess, maybe I'm wrong here, relatively small. I know that throughout the Victorian lockdown that like the Herald Sun and stuff have been very anti-Daniel Andrews and labor and everything, but they're always very anti-labor. And it does make me think of the Queensland state election. Has that happened now? It's been called for labor. Yeah, so like, I thought it was interesting reading, um, reading a bit of a recap of the leadership debate,

because, which was on fucking Sky News, because of course, why would you want any citizens to be able to see the two potential leaders that they're voting for, you know, have a debate. You should have to get a Sky News subscription in order to see that. But yeah, like Deb Frecklington, who was the Liberal Party opposition leader, had obviously been hugely critical of Anastasia Palishe for border closures and stuff like that. And she was asked during this thing, okay, what would you be doing differently? And she was like, well, you know, you got to try and get things open. But in Queensland, it's like legislated that during a public health crisis, that the chief

health officer says, this is what we're doing, and that's what gets done. Like it's it's not a recommendation to the premier or anything like that. It is just they get to put those policies in place. So the question is do you either do that the thing that like legally you have to do or do you what disband the like chief health officer and get rid of the health department so that you can open everything up? I would have simply suplexed 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 the the the the the th. 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.e the the the the the the.e.eaer.e.eaer.e.e. their the.e.e.e.e. thea.ea.ea.eau.eaughea.ea.ea.ea.ea.ea.ea thea.ea theau.ea.ea.ea.ea.ea.ea. thea. th get rid of the health department so that you can open everything up? I would have simply suplexed the chief health officer until he did things I wanted him to do. That's what they do want to do in America. Get Fouchy out of here you know? Fuck that guy.

But I guess what I'm saying is that like I'm glad that in Australia like that those conversations are still happening where somebody is able to say so what what are you proposing to actually be doing differently? I just want to quickly backpedal there I was just extremely sexist to our Chief Health Officer is a woman it's not a man. Wow wow I just did the I fell a foul of the actually the doctor was his mother thing. But yeah, and the same thing for Victoria, where like, you know, I know that there are a lot of things that the Andrews government does that are not great. But I think generally speaking, I know that the lockdown has been very, very hard for a lot

of people, but it's kind of hard looking at other places to argue with the results. As far as containing new cases and everything. And look at the opposition in that state. It's just the liberals going, I'm arranging donuts into the shape of the death count to make you feel bad. I hate the donuts the shape of the death count to make you feel bad. I hate the donuts things so fucking much and like... The nationals where they like did the... They did like a press conference and they stuck a little Australian flag in the ground

for every dead person and said these are all the people that you should feel bad about. Yeah, like I'm sorry you fixed things. Like it's very strange. Very bizarre. Especially when, like they're saying the whole time, ah, you should feel really bad about this. All these deaths are on your hands. Now we should be in government so that we can completely remove the lockdown, mask mandates and all that sort of stuff. Yeah, like there's certainly mistakes that you can put on Dan Andrews for how it was dealt with at the start, but like how could you argue that they were going to do any better? Well yeah the thing that the liberals have been asking for the

whole time is just like, oh the mask mandate and the lockdown is destroying the economy and everybody's lives and they should tot tot tot tot tot tot tot tot tot tot tot tot the tot tot the the to be the to be tot the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the thoes thoes thoes tho-m. tho-m. tho-m. tho-mse. tho-I tho-mse. thoes thoes thoes thoes the the the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th is th is th is th is th th th the is the is the is the is the is the is the is the is the is tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. toe. the. the and everybody's lives and they should totally be removed. And then once it got to the point where they could lift the restrictions, the liberals were like, good on you, Victoria, you have done the right thing. Cool. Enjoy being in opposition forever. Because I do not think that they will be coming back anytime soon. Same for Queensland probably. And Labor just got back in in the ACT. So where's where's, is it just, is it just, is it just, is it just, is it just, is it just, is it just, is it just, is it just, the the the the the the the the the the the th, the, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th. th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, they they they they they they they they could, they could they could, they could they could they could they could they could, they could, they could, they could, they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, thi, thi, thi, thi. thi. thi. thi. thooooo. the. the. the. the. thi, the thi, thi, got back in in the ACT. So where's, where's, is it just New South Wales? That's the only like state government that's the Liberal Party now? Couldn't tell you.

I don't know anything about most of the states in this country. I don't really pay attention. Yeah. That's fair. So eating out did not help out. Eating out did not help out. Toby Phillips Executive Director of the Oxford COVID-19 response tracker of the Blavapnick School of Government said the findings were credible and aligned with his previous work looking at the surge in restaurant visits during the eat out to help out scheme. He added, quote, the eat out to help out scheme was part of a general package of policy and communications over the summer that encouraged people to go out and adopt a back-to-normal mindset.

That creates this whiplash when one month you're being told to get out there, have confidence, go back to business, back to normal, and the next month, there's a new tier scheme being put in place. He told Sky News the pendulum swing was not conducive the kind of behavior needed to live with the virus long term. We should not subsidize people to gather indoors, he said. Yep. Earlier this month, Boris Johnson admitted eat out to help out may have contributed to the rise in COVID-19 cases. Oopsies. Whoops. Sorry. That's just silly stuff. And yeah, I think like the other parallel to draw with Victoria having had the most cases

and the strictest lockdown and everything is like I think it would have been harder for people if they had have said, okay, the cases have gone down a bit so let's reduce all the restrictions and everyone go hog wild and then they went back up and they were like, okay, restrictions to come back in. And this, this pendulum swing- the the the the the pendulum the pendulum thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, th, th, thin, th, th, th, thin, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, the the th, the, the, the, the, the, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, the, the, the, the, the, the, th. th. th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, thooooooooooooooooooooooo. the, the, the, the, the cases have gone down a bit, so let's reduce all the restrictions and everyone go hog wild and then they went back up and they were like, okay, restrictions to come back in. And this pendulum swing, the seasuring back and forth between opening stuff up and locking it down, all that kind of thing. I think, like, you could definitely see towards the end that a bunch of people were starting to go nuts and get out and do like the big maskless protests and that kind of thing. But I think it's probably, it's probably easier to get people to maintain it for longer if you can see that the goal is to reduce cases to like, you know, single digits and say, okay now we can start to gradually open things up instead of just, and now pretend that there is no virus. Everybody go out to dinner. Go out for you potatoes and

beans. Yep. There's one new case in Camber. It was just an old guy who came back from traveling overseas. Some old... didn't have to go into hotel quarantine. You mother fucker. Some 70-year-old diplomat who came back and went, whoops. Whoops. Whoopses. Well, I think that's it for us folks, for this week. Do not eat out to help out. Don't, no.

Try to help out where possible, but choose another method than eating out. That's right, this podcast is against eating out. Yeah, we're anti-eating out. Uh, eat in to help. Hmm. Unless you are at an airport in the bathrooms with someone else's wife, in which case you may eat out. That's fucking disgusting. My goodness goodness that poor guy. Getting hassled at his job because the NRL drugged him to calm

his rage. It's just awful unlike his man alive. Oh boy. Well RIP to that guy's marriage. Yep. And we will see you next week. Bye. Bye. Bye. you to be