Boonta Vista - EPISODE 190: Bean, Bath & From Beyond

Episode Date: March 14, 2021

Theo, Andrew, and Ben are three horrible little worms looking at self-decapitating slugs, the Swiss answer to the Biocharger NG, drunk driving, and beanbathing for charity. *** 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: shop.boontavista.com Twitch: twitch.tv/boontavista

Hello, this is Buntar. It's episode 190. Oh, I'm a horrible little worm. Just a disgusting little worm crawling about. I eat dirt and I turn it into dirt. I've got two dirt holes. One for in, one for out. I eat dirt and I turn it into dirt. I've got two dirt holes. One for in, one for out. I didn't write this intro down, so we'll see how this goes. In the distance, the sound of a farmer's shovel hitting the ground. Chunk. I guess he and I probably have more in common, Chunk.

Then you might expect. We both, Chunk, than you might expect. We both chunk work the earth, making it more, more productive. Chunk. We both voted UKIP. Chunk. Oh, I'm a horrible little worm. Chunk.

Oh, it seems I've been chopped exactly in half. My disgusting little pulsating body has turned into two, but fortunately, I'm one of those worms that will be chopped in half and survive, having both ends. Now, I guess one end sprouts a new butt hole and the other end sprouts a new mouthhole. Anyway, so with me here is Andrew. How are you, Andrew? Good. It's nice to see you and me? Yeah, absolutely.

Us, but also individual. Sort of like a magnet split in two, creating two new magnetic dipoles. So that's nice. Or as if if you took like the ship of Theseus and it was struck by a godly bolt of lightning and split in half and making two ships of Theseus and then one sails north and one sails south except instead oh I'm a horrible little worm I'm a little disgusting horrible little creature one day I will be stepped upon being a horrible little worm. Chunk.

I'm also here with Ben. How are you, Ben? I'm a horrible little worm. You are a horrible little worm. You're me, but you are also you. I am us. You are us, and we're horrible little worms, eating our dirt and making our dirt. I see in you how disgusting I am.

But I do have that cool little decorative ring. Oh, you got the ring. I got the ring. Oh, for fucksake. Yeah. Now I can't tell which way I'm about. And other people can't tell which way I'm about. And you'd hate to get dirt in your dirt hole. Yeah, I've accidentally take a dirt into the dirt hole instead of the dirt into my dirt hole.

And that's very confusing for everyone involved. Well, we're just three horrible little worms. I never said I was horrible. No, you're beautiful. It's sort of an inner beauty though that Ben and I lack, because we are disgusting. Not in a sort of a wormy way, but just morally, we're just bad worms. The morality of a worm is not evenly distributed throughout its body. No. The most ethical part of the worm can be concentrated to one area, and you got that part. Yeah, you got the ethics, and you also got the pineal gland.

I got the chunk of the worm with the soul in it. That's... You can dream and a place is assured for you in heaven. For us, no such luck. You give us a canvas. And we can replicate exactly what we see, but it's not art. There's nothing novel in it. No. But we will be selling it on NFTs.

We will be. Oh, but we will be selling it on NFTs. We will be. Hmm. Oh we're horrible little worms. Except for Andrew. Except for me. Except for me. Writing some nice songs, painting some stuff, you know. Well, it sounds like we've stumbled. Head from Indistinguishable asshole into Nature Corner. Nature corner, rubber crab, snipped my dear. I just thought, given the topic that maybe we should briefly cover this next story, although I will say one of my kids was asking me, how do you tell the dirt hole from the other dirt hole in a worm? And I was like, what do you want for me? What?

Did that happen? Yeah, like two days ago. That's wild. Wow. They said, oh, so like one end eats the dirt. And I was like, yeah, and they were like, that, and I went, hmm. Which end would you like it to be? So anyway, I guess like if you pop it down and it starts moving towards the dirt

in a direction, that direction is probably the head, you know? Yeah, that seems to make sense. The butthole is the part of it it's trying to get away from. What you want to do is pick them up and have a look and if you can spot like a tiny little piece of to the to corner, that's probably it. Which end is more smoochable? Okay. Do you detect any soul in that end? There was a story this week in Guardian in the under their marine life tag, apparently they've got enough going on to have a whole tag about it. And

this is about the Sacko-Glossin sea slug, I guess. This is the self-decapitatinging sea slug, I believe. That is the one. Scientists in Japan have discovered that this species of sea slog can decapitate itself and then regrow an entirely new body complete with a beating heart and other vital organs. The process from shedding all of itself below the neck to regrowing a new body took less than a month in an extreme example of a process known as autotomy. Autotomy. Anyone want to give that one and go? I think autotomy sounds right.

That sounds better than autotomy. It sounds real. Yeah, much more so. Sayaka Mito of Nara Women's University said, we were surprised to see the head booming just after autotomy. I'd immediately forgotten what we agreed on. Reported in the general current bio, Gimito and colleague Yoicha Usur wrote about how in their studies of life history of the sea slugs, they spotted something odd.

Three of the younger lab-raised sea slugs and one wild specimen being reared, autotomized at their neck position, leaving behind a body with its heart, kidney, and most of their neck position, leaving behind a body with its heart, kidney, intestine, and most of the reproductive organs. How is this, are they just popping that bad boy off? Just like thinking real hard until their head pops off? Yeah, there's a lot of questions of this. Did they... You know how there are people who can like, consciously wiggle their ears?

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Was the picnic one of the items on the list? No. The picnic was spontaneous. Not associated with the list at all. No, you gotta come grab some wood from my shed, watch 40 movies with me. Got to get those photos of fin. Yep. And also the Grandad ear. Yep, and you gotta show me your ear moving. Mm-hmm. Not to, not to rain on your really upbeat story,

but, um, but like, could you not, could you not like maybe try and fulfill your grandfather's wishes by perhaps teaching yourself to wiggle your other ear? Oh, I've tried. But it's not the same, same apparently different moves, different muscles. You can't just flip that feeling? Apparently not, well I can't like just start riding left-handed for example.

I just don't think that's... You could, it just wouldn't be very good. Yeah so I can kind of move my left ear but I have to like squint my eye at the same time. Whereas right here, he's got a mind of his own. He could pop off and grow some new whole new Theo. That's actually the root of Theo. It's the right ear. We can propagate more of you from your ear. Put you a little glass jar. Yeah, graft me onto a dog. It's a hybrid. So I'm going to attempt to answer this question for you. While the bodies didn't survive very long from days to months before decomposing, the decapitated heads started feeding on algae within hours and healed the wound within a day.

Okay. Still just a head. Mito and Ususo noticed a groove on the neck of the sea slugs. They tied some nylon around it to stimulate the mollocks, mollusks, mollusks, trick. And some of those specimens beautifully performed, just making them to decapitate themselves. Geez. The scientists think, the scientists think? Imagine if someone could just come around to you and like... I'll just give you a little tickle and my head pops off. They, they like, uh, tighten your necktie a little for you? Oh, well...

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I haven't figured it out yet. The scientists think the sea slugs are using the energy from the photosynthesis occurring in cells that they've gained from algae they've eaten. Quote, I call them solar-powered slugs, said Professor Maria Byrne of the University of Sydney who was not involved in the research. Awesome. Something about that quote I really like. Just a sea-slug grupy. I think it's cool. Just a sea slug groupie. I think it's cool. Thank you very much for giving comment.

Burn is the marine biologist who has studied autotomy and starfish, also known as sea stars. Hmm. I'm on there. Yeah. I had to watch the, uh, third, SpongeBob movie again today. They're definitely going downhill. I assume by how to you mean your kids wanted to watch it not that like you felt a compulsion that could not possibly be met by anything other than watching the third SpongeBob

movie. Yeah you were right on the first one. Yeah, okay. That would have been a funny mental condition that you had. Couldn't leave the first one. Yeah, okay. That would have been a funny mental condition that you had. Couldn't leave the house until I watched it again. Maybe one was to watch the third SpongeBob movie, Sponge on the run. And I don't know, I saw a review of it that was like, you know, there was an episode of the SpongeBob SquarePants TV that is the plot thi that th th th th th th th tho th th th th th tho th th tho th tho th tho th tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho thoo thooo' tho' tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho-up. tho-up. tho-up. tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho th....... th. th. th. th. th. th. tho. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the thee thee the thee the thee theeeeeee thean. theeeateee the the th show that is the plot of this movie, except that it went for like 10 minutes instead of a feature-length film.

They got Snoop Dog in there doing a rap song, cash in the last check. Man likes to cash a check, I'll tell you that. You guys see those menu log ads? Snoop. Because the moment I see an ad pop up, I just sort of close whatever device I have in front of. Yeah. Yeah. I. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I the th. I th. I the th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. because the moment I see an ad pop up I just sort of close whatever device I have in front of me. Yeah, I feel like we've just been training our minds for the last 10-15 years to be able to just compartmentalize so well that we can just forget part of the screen exists. Like that's the

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And it's fun that we're kind of like discussing how bad ads are on YouTube when like, you know, I go and visit my parents in Mackay or whatever and they'll watch actual commercial TV with actual commercial TV ads and you're like, oh, it's like someone. Oh, how is, how are you doing this? What are you doing to yourself? It feels like someone has taken like a staple gun to my head. It's so bad, we, it's one of the few things we've actually improved upon in a society is, is fewer, less intrusive ads. Somehow, the internet is now the less added paradise compared to commercial TV.

Anyway, this is distracting us from sea slugs popping their own heads off. I guess so. But first, listen to this ad for the Buntervista podcast. Ben, slot an ad in it. Podcasts. They're nature's greatest natural resource and it's important that they're harvested sustainably. Editing, production, fart sound effects. These are all important resources from our local ecosystems. That's why we're asking you to go to Patreon.com slash Buntavista and pledge 5 US dollars a month to help support the healthy growth of a homegrown podcast like Wunta Vista.

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Well, don't do that. Give them something fun. No, I want them them them them them them them them them them them them them them them them them them the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same to have to have to have to have to have to have to have to have the same the same to have to have to have to have to have the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same fun. No, I want them to have the same flow of the podcast, but I don't want to make them listen to an ad. Okay. Anyway, this lady who wasn't involved in the sea slug stuff says that some sea starts species are able to regrow a new central nervous system, regenerate a new body from a severed arm or even split their habitat. Fuck that. That's a bit much for me. From whose perspective?

As it, you, the idea of that happening is annoying you or the idea of that happening if it were you. I was reading a book with one of my kids in which, like, the kid who is in the book starts like spontaneously duplicating. And it just keeps going until like they've given this child an entire city in England to populate and then the book just ends. What? Oh my gosh.

Yeah, like I thought it was going to be something where so... Where they find like a witch and she's like, oh, you no longer have the multiplicity curse. Did Ted Chang write this story? We killed the head vampire. No, there's none of that. It's like this kid wakes up in the morning and then there's two of her and her parents are like, oh shit.

Oh, I hate it when this happens. Yeah. And then, you know, so they send they the they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they send they they send both they send both they send both they send both both both both both both both both both both both both both both both both their their their their their their their tho this happens. Yeah and then you know so they send both of them to school and during the course of the day she like multiplies again and comes home and then there's four of them. Fuck you gotta go on Mumsnet. Yeah anyone else has we are spontaneously duplicating. I've got two no I've got four. I've got 16. I've got 35 I've got eight now I've got 16 I've got thirty I've got 256 of the same child any tips but that's but that's how the book goes it keeps going on they're like and then there were 32 and then there was 64 and

and yeah like you know and then like the media starts covering it and I kept sort of expecting them to be like and then the child learned a lesson and that was one of them. There's no narrative arc here there's just an exponential. Oh sorry is it geometric or it's geometric not exponential isn't it there? Doubling. Wow you are useless to me. It is exponential. Okay because there's an exponent. Hmm. But yeah, like I said, I was like expecting to get to the end of the book and you know, maybe she learns a lesson and turns back into one kid and her parents like, see, it's fine

to be an only child or whatever the fuck, you know. But instead it gets to the end. It's just like we gave her Birmingham and and there's like, you know, specifically? It's like some town in England and like there's a picture and it's just this child is like in all the stores and in all the carriages of a train that's going past and is all the people on the street and then they're like isn't that crazy and it ends and like obviously the strong suggestion is that this child is going to continue multiplying and just overrun the planet. I was like, that's terrifying.

No, no, no. Just Birmingham. Yeah. But, but, but right towards the start, when it bust through those walls and what happens then. Exactly. But like right towards the start when it's just like two kids, my daughter goes, oh which one's the real one? I was like, oh, welcome to a classic trope of science fiction. You tell me who's the real one.

And she was like, no, I'm asking you. And I, it's like, which one, which one has the glow of a soul, you know? Didn't really have a good answer for it, but I was like, oh, isn't that fun to see the first time your child has contemplated, hey, if I were to clone someone, who would be the real one? What if they had, like, what if it was a sci-fi scenario but they had a really good Voik Kemp machine so you could just tell straight away and so like much of society's time is just taken up by shooting clones with a large magnum yeah get out of here another one you probably automate that yeah absolutely I'd say so find Find new efficiencies. Work smarter, not harder. Anyway, that's what I assume is happening with these starfish.

So if you split in half and generate two new halves, who fucks your wife? Well, I mean, definitely at least one point you both do, because you're going to try that. Yeah. Oh, wait, you mean at the same time? Well, yeah, I mean, obviously the first thing that happens, you, both of you go, what? And then you look at each other, and then you cock your head to the side and go, hmm. Actually, they do get into that in the fantastic book that, the faunt Town. That is a fantastic book, isn't it? Hmm.

Nobody wants to have sex though, during that first couple of weeks that you're just growing like a tiny baby arm and a baby leg. Yeah, one side of you is just very smooth and soft. Yeah, you've got like a little milky orb growing where your eyes going to be. I can't wait until I get my right testicle. This is going to be awesome. Yeah teeth starting to push out of the soft gum is on that side. Oh that's the worst. You found the worst thing of all of those things. Congratulations. One little one little raisin nut growing in your sack next to the next to the full-size one. Your skin's translucent so you can just sort sort sort sort th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the th. the thi. the the thi. the the thi. the the the tho. thi. thoomoomoom. their their thoomoom. their their the the their their their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. the. the. the. t. tha. t. t. t. tha. tha. tha. tha. tha. tobe. tobe. tobe. tobooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooome. te. te. te. te. te. thae. t the full-size one. Your skin's translucent so you can just sort of see like a long sort of forming there. Yep. Only one of you would have a heart.

No, the heart's in the middle. It's not quite. Hey? It's not quite, you know. It's right in the middle of your body. It's just points left. the heart's not points left. Dead center, you reckon? Is this true? Yes, your heart's not on left, and so it's in the middle, it's just your a-order goes left,

which is why you can feel it on the left. So only one of you gets an a-order? That's right. I'm 30 years old. Just googling why it's the thirty years old. I'm also looking at where it looks like he's right. He's absolutely... No, well this one it's over on one side. There's a lot of pictures you can find of... I think the diagram I'm looking at where it's over on one side is wrong.

This is... You mean like right, it's not in the armpit. That's what I think. Everything I learned in the movie, Ninja Assassin was wrong. And I imagine there's some listeners who are the first time listening to this show learning something. Yeah, and then there's everyone else. Like, these guys don't know where they're like idiots. This is the show where you get to learn us like collectively try to agree on how to pronounce a word at least once per episode. all that good stuff, you know.

I was thinking today while I was driving that we could just change the tagline of this podcast to this will not make you smarter or happier. That's fine. I can do that. Start off as you mean to go on. You will not learn anything from this and nothing will bring you joy. Although I got to say this next story did bring me joy. Although it didn't bring the people in the story joy because unfortunately it was the one thing they didn't want to happen. This is the one thing we didn't want to happen. That's one of the people from the story saying that. Yep, this is from New York Daily News.

Drunk driver crashes into a car of drunk driving friend. He was coming to help in East Nashville. And that's basically the whole story in a sentence really. There's an extra wrinkle to it, which I enjoy. So a car belonging to a woman who drove into a ditch after leaving a bar, pro-move. That's a vintage drink driving move there. Ditch is like nature's cradle. When you've gone a little too hard, it's there to hug you all up and scoop you up, you know.

Scoop you up and give you a little sleepy time. Nature's safety net. Yeah, I like the idea of just leaving the bar and immediately rolling right off the edge of the road. So her friend came to help her out. Police say, Natasha Nancell, 24, admitted that she'd had a glass of wine and an espresso martini at the Fox bar before driving her car into a trench after checking her cell phone. The uh the espresso really kind of kicks it up. Oh Offset one drink. That's probably the funniest drink that could have been

listed this because it's a very like well that'll happen. Have a couple of espresso martinis all of a sudden you're crushing it to your similar drunk-driving friend. I think that it's actually a move of drunk-driving excellence. Because to me, I see the logic of a person who has said, all right, I got to sharpen up. Mm-hmm. You still want to keep this buzz going. Yeah, I got to wake up a little bit, but I am going to have one more drink before I go. The party is not over, but I do have to get home without falling asleep at the wheel. Exactly.

So what's going to fit the belt? Perfect intersection. Americans love driving to bars. And then driving home. Yes. Well, I guess it it it it it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's I I I I that's it's I that's I that's I that's I guess it's that's that's that's that's that's thi. I guess it's thi. I guess it's thi. I guess. I guess. th. th. I guess it's thi. I guess. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to wake. I to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm thi. I'm tha. I'm the. I'm the. the. the. I'm the. I'm to to to to to to to to to to to to to tha. I'm to bars. Yeah and then driving home. Yes. Well I guess it's when your entire nation is built on the basis of drivability. That probably includes bars as well you can't just like catch a bus to a bar? You can't. They don't have the RSL courtesy bus. You, you've got to get the RSL courtesy bus. Yeah, they don't have the RSL either, so that's probably why that... RSL first and then...

They're the courtesy bus. I was watching an episode of Season 4 of The Sopranos last night. And they're like at a casino in Florida or something, Tony's at a casino, and gets very, very drunk. And they're like, ah, we'll get you back to your hotel. We have a chopper. And they take them outside of a helicopter, and I was like, no. Like, if it's bad enough to me to like be in a cab when I'm very drunk. Oh yeah, you can want to do that on a helicopter too.

You can put the windows down. On the whole door down. You can, you can try to like pick something on your plane of movement to focus on. Oh, yeah. You can try to like maybe just look at the street lights or something like that. You really only want one axis of rotation. That's kind of, that's my point here, right? I was thinking about, you know, if you're in that zone, if you're in the, how much of this 10 minute cab ride home, can I endure? Do you reckon there's any like helicopter pilots out there,

they walk out of the bar, they kind of hop into the front seat of the helicopter like, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good. I just had an espresso an an an an an an an an the like, like the like, like the 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, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, 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. that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that's, that, that, that, that, that, that,'re good, right? I'm good. I just had an espresso martini, I'm a drunk person do this. I built this helicopter myself, I think I can fly it. Oh, those trees are awfully close. RIP to French billionaire, fuckface to salt. What's his name? I don't know, I just saw a headline that was billionaire dies and fire a crash and I was like, oh that's really testing the limits of my

empathy. Can't take it with you when you go, you know? The helicopter I'm saying is, what I'm saying is maybe let me have some of the money. Give me 500 bucks. And I'm saying that to everyone, not just the billionaires. Please give me $500. Just help us out, you know? Uh, but yeah, just, I feel like I would say no to the chopper. to the chopper, and I was like, that thrown. Good, I tho. I tho. I tho. I thi I thi. I thi thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I 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. to thi. toe. toe. toe. toe. toeeeeeeeeeea. toeeea. toeeeea. toooooooooooooooooooo. the scene throws up on the way to the chopper and I was like, Good, get it out.

Well, get it out, but also you don't need to be on the chopper. I agree with Theo, you want one axis of movement, you know. It sucks enough going around the corners in the cab. Like moving in all the directions or once? No, thank you. Ascending and thank you. Ascending? Pass. Descending. Hard pass. No thank you. Ascending and then descending in rapid, rapid motion.

No, thank you. So she said she'd had a glass of wine and an espresso martini and then immediately looked at her phone while driving a car into a trench. She reportedly called her friend, Melvin Aunt for assistance. When the 30-year-old man arrived to help Nancell, he immediately crashed into her car. Hey, yeah, I'm just outside the bar and wherever this is. Yeah, how am I going to find you? You'll find me.

He sure did. He really did. So when the, when the police had a chat to him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him him did. He really did. So when the police had a chat to him, he confessed to consuming quote, two beers before driving. Classic, classic move, lying even though they're just going to breathalyze you anyway. Both of them have opted for I've had two drinks in their story. That's a real like, well I'm not going to say them I haven't been drinking, had two drinks in this story. That's a real like, well I'm not going to say them I haven't been drinking but two drinks that's good that'll cover me. No one will ask any questions. I had a couple of beers you know. So he reportedly blew a 0.191 blood alcohol level. And she blew a 0.179 blood alcohol level.

The legal limit is 0.08. So. Which is tipsy by the way. The American legal limit is tipsy. I saw someone do a tweat a couple of weeks ago where they were like talking about things they missed from. Oh my god. Before the coronavirus. And they were like, I really miss, you know, like on a Saturday afternoon, and going, and going, and the the legal, and their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their the coronavirus and they were like I really miss you know like on a Saturday afternoon going and having a couple of cocktails and

driving home a little buzzed I was like no Americans are fucked if I feel even like slightly like ooh I'm like leaving my car wherever it is it's a pretty good feeling though no it is a good feeling but only it controlled circumstances. When you're on a property, get as drunk as you want, drive your car around as long as you're not going to hit any people or animals. When you're on the road, nothing. Not even a wobble. One time, years and years ago. Oh no, this is a story about that. Yeah, Jesus fucking Christ. We don't endorse drink driving on this podcast. I just want that to be very funny. I hadn't been drinking.

Anyway, it's probably move on from this one. All right. Apparently my parents do occasionally listen to this show. Or this is a story about you masturbating while you're driving. No, no. Nothing bad ever happened when I did that. No, instead it's time for, Scam Watch. You guys know how I love a scam. Yeah? Yep. Yes, we do. Cool. It's probably why we talk about on the show so much. So Ben. You've bought something from the Associated Press here. Germany bans water vitalizer over radio interference.

I certainly have, yes. I'd have my water vitalized. Well, it has tons of benefits, as reading this article will demonstrate to you. OK. Hey, can you are motioning to the bartender. Put a little vitality in this? This water isn't vital enough for me. Hmm. None of my hit points came back when I drank it.

German authorities on Friday banned the sale and use of a new age water vitalizer device amid concerns that it is interfering with amateur radio signals. It doesn't need to be doing that at all. Well, arguably it doesn't need to be doing anything anything anything to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be thi enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough enough to be to be to be to be to be to be doing that at all. Well, arguably it doesn't need to be doing anything because it does nothing. Nothing, yeah. So this is really just adding insult to injury at this point. It is pretty awesome to not only not do the thing you say you do, but to do additional stuff that is actively harmful to unrelated areas. Yeah, like the biocharger and G just fleeces you out of money and makes some pretty lights

happen in your living room while you're hanging out with some guys. This does nothing and also ruins some people's hobbies. The Federal Network Agency said it had received numerous reports of the device sold by a Swiss company, WASSA Matrix! WASA Matrix. Sorry, it's WASSA Matrix. A-G. Yeah. Is that with the DURG is going to have a hard W there? We're like VASA?

It's certainly VASA, yes. VASA Matrix. So this is from the, from the east of Switzerland. Makes me a, makes me a a... Makes me the thing of... We're talking Zurich. I don't know anything about Switzerland. Not a single thing. The old Grand Theft Auto ads for the beer. Piss, piss, piss, piss.

Wassah. Vassar, Vasa matrix, AG. So it was being sold as a way to activate the body's self-healing powers. It's going to turn you into Wolverine. It was transmitting on the frequencies allocated for ham radio users. It shouldn't be doing that. Nope. I'm just going to get that out of the way. It probably shouldn't be transmitting at all.

Hmm. The agency said owners of the 8,000 euro device, which is about 12.5 thousand Australian dollars, which they have sold more than 2,400 of these in Germany. Very cool. So to be clear, you're allowed to keep it, but you cannot use it. We will not confiscate this from you, but you are not allowed to touch it. I hope that is reasonable. And it is from Eastern Switzerland near Zurich. I knew it.

What are you doing? What is this? What is this? Got any Zurich heads out there? Just triangulating based on several details that know about this company? I'm something of a Swiss head? Well, that's the German side's that's that's that's that's that's that's it is it is it is it is 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 the that's that's that's that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is from. And it is from. And it is from. And it is that is that is. And it is. And it is. And it is. And it is. And it is that is that is that is that is that is that is that's that's that's that's that's the the the the the the the the the German side the German side the German side the German side the German side the German side the German side the German side the German side the German side the German side the German side the German side the the the that's that's that's that's the German side? It's several details that know about this company. Something of a Swiss head. Well, that's the German side. On the western side they all speak French or Italian.

Oh, of course. And that's one of the many things you could learn about Switzerland by looking into the country, Switzerland. Vasa Matrix AG did not immediately respond to a request for comment not from us for the record. No well their phones weren't working. I'm gonna start adding into the copy I put it here they did not respond to comment that I did not ask for comment. Or I should ask for comment fuck that'd be so good. We're gonna be talking about your shit that sucks on a podcast. Do you have any feelings about that? I think you should do that that that that that the that the the that the that that that the that's start s start s shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot off s shoot off s shoot off s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s out out their thiing off thiing off thiing off thoing off thiing off their thi. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. Fon's 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 thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiia' tooooing fomoing ones ones. that's thoing thi thi thi thi on a podcast. Do you have any feelings about that? Hmm.

I think you should do that, Ben. You start shooting off some emails. God. We have no downside to that. I don't like making people upset. Oh, I want to make them upset. We want to feature your product on our program. They might listen to it.

And they're Swiss nerd, you little turn idiot, but also they're scammers so it's careful. And they're Swiss so they're not really people. So here's some details, some details that have been included to make you mad Theo. This is via Google Translate. Why did you do that? Okay. The water vitalizer is based on the basic theory of Nikola Tesla and George Lakovsky. The Tesla oscillator from Russia has a handheld probe which is also called an antenna. This handheld probe is used to inform or structure and energize the water.

The energized water is then fed into our body. The body is activated by the energy fields. The self-healing powers are addressed. All of this without any side effects. And in fact, no effects whatsoever. That's right, nothing bad is happening to you. Or anything good or... Can they pick a lane as far as like whether or not radio waves are bad for you or not? Like I guess I know I understand that the lane is... Hippings are a broad church. Yeah, I understand that the lane is whatever makes the money, which is fine, okay, whatever, but... I don't know, it's just tiring. I'm just so tired.

Here's some of the features. Healthy hexagonal water is the basis of health health the the the the the thisisisisisis health of of the of of of of of the of of of of of of the of the of the of so tired. Here's some of the features. Healthy hexagonal water is the basis of health and well-being. Similar to our Earth's surface, our body also contains over 70% water. For this reason, some users came up with the idea of using the device directly on the body. Huh? Huh? And you're gonna love once you see a picture of what this looks like and try to imagine the the the the the the the the the the the thi.. thi. thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi the is the is thi thi is theateate is thoic is thoic is is thoic is is thoic is is thi is thi is thi is is thiol- is thiol- is is thiol- is is thia is thia thia thia thia thia thi is thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi the the toe toe toe toe ti. tya tya. tya. tea. tya. tya. t body. Huh? Huh? Huh? Oh, and you're going to love once you see a picture of what this looks like and try to imagine how that application goes down.

Oh no. Many users report amazing improvements in vitality, health and well-being. This device is not... Because they're idiots. The people that are buying your product are idiots and that's why they're, oh God, it's a probe. Oh, you think someone would spend $12,300 Australian dollars on something if it didn't work? I just straight up like an ultrasound probe. Yep, yeah, very much so.

I would describe the appearance of that probe as transvaginal. This device is not, as is often assumed a replica of the multi-wave oscillator according to Larkovsky, but a technical further development. Radio frequency treatment is a medical science that is ancient and has been forgotten over time. Mm-hmm. We'll get to that, Theo, uh, tell you. What the fuck are you talking about? This so-called Tesla currents were created in 1880 and was then implemented in high-frequency devices by various manufacturers. This therapy was further developed by Jacques de Sarnaville in 1892 and used as a full-body

treatment with high-frequency Tesla currents. A further development was achieved at the turn of the century by Jay Kawashik in Vienna. The treatment with electricity goes back to the Roman and Mayan times when electric yields were used. The characteristic was at the most varied and many glass electrodes were used. Numerous doctors adopted this new and very successful form of therapy at the time. Before World War II, many books about radio frequency were put on the list of banned books. I wonder why. The knowledge of this achievement of high frequency was then largely lost in the turmoil of the war.

This is like somebody going through books and like trying to find out how to do the pionial gland stimulation from beyond. The success of the treatment of high frequency has been proven. It will be worthwhile for the customer slash patient depending on the medical findings to first order high frequency therapy with approximately six to ten treatments before an operation is carried out. What the the the the the the the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck th, what the f. What th. What the, that's. What that's 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 is the is the an the an thean, togy is thauuu an thauu., thau., thauooooooooooom., the six to ten treatments before an operation is carried out. What the fuck? What operation? That's that's for fixing the thing that the water device didn't do anything about. I love purchasing a device as part of a phase one with an indistinct phase

including an operation, TBA. Phase one will involve drinking some hexagonal water. And then comes phase two. Nothing further to add it this time. Keep an air out. You should know when it has begun. So taking a look at this thing, right? Now remember, of course, this is an audio medium, so you may have to describe this for the listener.

Okay, so, to me, it's immediately vaguely sexual in nature, but that's probably what says more about me. So it is basically a white handle with a sort of, like, it looks centimeter or two wide ribbed probe coming out the end of it. And another one coming off at like a 45 degree angle coming back towards the user that is holding the thing. His and hers. They've got a lot of success with double penetration of the radio frequency. Yeah, into the human body. It's got a molded grip for the hand as well, which is very disconcerting. It's for when you're using it vigorously, I guess.

And it has some type of cord coming out the back of it, I assume this is then getting like jacked into this panel. When you say some type of cord, it is straight up just a like coax cable. Yeah. I'm not sure what that's doing here. Well, that's got the thing coming from the mysterious box I assume. You plug it into the mysterious box that looks like a like a something that is sold at Radio Shack. It's just a big beige. Do-it-yourself kits for building like little stomp boxes. Yeah. It has three buttons. The bottom and top-most button that

have an arrow pointing to the middle button. From top to bottom they read, well, one's a symbol of a glass of water, one is a stop sign, and one is a drawing of the device itself. As to what this could mean, I think the stop button stops it. Everything else I have no idea. Yeah.

So I guess, like what I've taken away from this right is that you're, I guess you're supposed to like put this device into water and vitalize it with your ham radio frequencies. But then people are using the device on themselves. I am not really sure how to take this other than someone either like running it over their body or placing it in their body. I'm going to assume running it over but I don't understand why you would need the two, the two things on there. Also, so this is transmitting on ham radio frequencies.

Are they suggesting that you would get the same benefits by standing next to a ham radio set? It's very possible. There's a lot of pictures online of people using this thing and none of them are consistent. I've got one lady using on the back of their head, another one, like, rubbing some extruded spikes that come out of it over a joint. I don't... One of the great things about scams is like, they will say that it's good for anything.

They're like, you just rub it on any body part, that body part's going to get better. Which is really, like, non-specific way to say it doesn't do anything. And one of the videos they've got on there is labeled Tesla meets kinesiology. So there's a whole new exhausting layer apparently. Hmm. We're watching an episode of like Nathan for You and uh, whenever he recruits people to be a part of his schemes he always like puts an ad on Craigslist He like see he seems to exclusively recruit people for Craigslist for like his his schemes

Which of course leads to a certain type of person? Responding to like? Craigslist ads in Los Angeles for like come to this place and I'll give you $20 for something weird and there's somebody that he's talking to about like something something that's like completely unrelated to anything else and while this guy's talking he like takes out this thing that it looks like a remote control for an air conditioner and and he just he kind of slips and drops it on the floor and he picks it back up

and like puts down in front of himself and Nathan's like what's that? He's like oh that's that's just my wellness meter and he's like what does that do? And he's like what does that do? And this guy just sits there and explains to him for what seems to be a significant period of time how this thing that he has is just, it's like, you know how the biocharger had like recipes and shit. It had like, um, oh you have to like buy the recipes so that you can say, oh, damn, I got a program that into my biocharger and zap that off. I want my balls to be well to be well to be well to be well to be well to be well to be well to be well to be well th. 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 the the the 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 to to to to to to to to to to be to be to be to to to be to to to to to to to to to the to the the the the the the the the the the to like buy the recipes so that you can say oh damn I got herpes I got a program that into my biocharger and zap that off. I want my balls to be well. Yeah so like this guy was like yeah I have this thing that I bought from

somebody and while it's running it creates like a field and if you're inside that field you'll have like feelings of being good of wellness and you'll be relaxed and all that sort of stuff. If it moves too far away from you though, I can't feel anymore and that's no good. And it's very strange to like, it's just a really weird part in this episode of seeing somebody just out in the wild,

just casually explaining to somebody else. Oh yeah, this completely bullshit device that some charlissan has sold me. And I'm telling you all about how it's totally real and normal to me to carry around my little remote with an LCD screen and I put some AA batteries in it and push a button, and then I tell my brain that everything is okay. Imagine if that's all it took, you know? It'd be nice. Yeah, I think why people go in for these.

Yeah. That's probably it. Kind of a bummer. Maybe I should get myself one of these things. Zap some of my water, you know? Ruin my neighbor's ham radio. Yeah. The quickest way to find out who around you is doing ham radio.

Just hear someone just being like, ah, fucking shit! I was talking to a bloke in Argentina! That's pretty far away. You can get quite far with a ham radio. A ham radio shortwave, is that the deal or? What's the... Sorry, I, I exhausted my knowledge of ham radio shortwave is that the deal or what's the? Sorry, I exhausted my knowledge of ham radios when I said you can get quite far with a ham radio. I'm basing this on the opening of both the movie and book contact. Thank you Ben. Check out contact written by Carl Sagan.

Or check out contact with a screenplay written by Carl Sagan. Hmm. Well, that's enough a scam watch time for Bean Watch. I'll tell you what's not a scam. Delicious beans. That's right. Bains will never betray you. They won't. Full of protein. Tastes great. A lot of different varieties. Yep. What are more positive Full of protein. Tastes great. A lot of different varieties. Yep. What are more positive attributes of beans?

Uh, well, nice colors, you know. That's some kind of their tackle. You can dry them out and keep them for later. You can basically resurrect your beans. I buy them dry. I'm never drawing the beans myself. I had some delicious beans, uh, home grown from the garden.. the the the the the the the the the the the thions. thions. thions. thions. thions. thiiii thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thiats thiats thiats thi thi thi thiats thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. theea thea thea thea the thea thea thi thea thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thia thea thea thia thea th dry. I'm never drawing the beans myself. I had some delicious beans homegrown from the garden with dinner the other day and they were really nice. Beans, gotta love them.

This is from press agency, UPI. A California stunt man! All right, let's sit with that just for a second, okay? I want you to, um, I'm assuming when I, like, all right, Theo, when I say a California stuntman, what is conjured in your mind? I'm imagining a man who was on a motorcycle, but now he's flying through the air. Motorcycle is kind of slightly detached from him. They've parted ways.

They've parted ways. And it's sort of just in a kind of slow motion or almost freeze frame. The sun sort of behind him, the famous Californian sun either rising over the ocean or setting, whatever they've got over there. That's what I've got so far. And also in reference to the UPI.S. you want to have they they they to have they have they have they have they have they have they have they have they have they have they have they have they have they have they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've parted they've part of they've part they've they've part they've part they've part they've part they've part they've part they've part they've part they've part they've part part they've part part part they've part they've part they've part they've part they've they've they've they've they've they have they have they have they have they have they have they have they have they have they have they have they have they have their they have their they have their their their their their their their their the the the thi thi thi thi thi. their their parted their parted their parted their part their part they've part their their they've over there. That's what I've got so far. And also in reference to the UPI, you want to have a big drink before you have sex. And then... You're making a little joke there about urinary tract infections.

It's no joke. Urinary... Urinary pract infections. Mm-hmm. Crammeridge, I've heard. That's just for the guys. Anyway, a California stuntman, insert guitar lick them. Billy-bill. I'm picturing a man. He's in white, a whole white jumpsuit,

and he's a racist flag for a cape, probably. You're picturing evil-caneval. I am. Where you reckon he was from? Couldn't even guess. Okay. It's, uh, he, well he's from Montana. That's not California. Anyway, California stuntman, Biddle-Bew, spent 24 hours sitting in a pool of bean dip. To promote a Los Angeles area restaurant that has suffered losses from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Okay, now that is definitely how you get a UPI. Hunter Ray Barker said he climbed into the waiting pool filled with bean dip outside Los Taurus Mexican Restoron in Chatsworth at 3 p.m. Monday because he wanted to support the waiting pool filled with bean dip outside Los Taurus Mexican restaurant in Chatsworth at 3 p.m. Monday because he wanted to support the restaurant, which he described as one of his favorites for years. The idea that no one asked him to do this is so good amazing. It just shows up on the day. Hey, can I get a 40 liters of bean dip?

You're not fucking sitting in 40 liters of bean dip. 40 liters that's like a small esky. All right she's fuck up. I want you to take bean dip seriously. Showing up to open the restaurant and here's this guy sitting in a waiting pool waist-deep in beans. Shirtless. Does he have a shirt on? He was actually wearing a sort of vest jacket type thing. Baker's 24-hour tenure at the pool coincided with a block party at the eatery which featured the stuntman receiving a tattoo of the restaurant's logo while sitting in the dip. Everything about this is just like, how many infections do you want? We can give you as many as you need.

Oh, you got a UPI in that tattoo. We're talking, we're talking dermal. We're talking subdermal. Talking lingual. Whatever you got. Also, I assume there's a point where the block party finished, let's say like 3 a.m. to be charitable. Yep. After that, you reckon, I haven't been better you reckon it's sticking around.

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Chatsworth Mexican restaurant underneath it or if he just got to have like the Los Taurus and the Bulls, you know? I guess that's his choice at this point. I feel like a lot of these 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 th th th th th th th th th thinks thinks thinks thinks thinks thinks thi one thi thi thi thi thi one thi one thi one thi one thi one thi one thi one thi one thi one thi one thi one thi one thi one thi one one thi one thi one th one one th one th one th one th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thi one 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 the lost toroa's and the bulls, you know? I guess that's his choice at this point. I feel like a lot of these things were his choice. Quote, obviously a stunt like this is ridiculous. I mean, correct. It's absurd, it's wild, but as with any stunt, I'm always in favor of something that edges on the side of absurdity if it can celebrate and at least make a couple of people laugh. Parker told Patch before climbing into the bean dip. That's just congratulating yourself before you slide on into your big tub of beans. There's a young stuntman.

Like, sorry, I'll post a picture of the chat, but I was picturing someone a lot more grizzled than this person. Yeah, when you say California stuntman. I picture, well, rest in peace. The late great, mad Mike Hughes, who passed away last year in a tragic rocket crash seeking the truth. I accidentally watched that video very recently. The one of the crash? Yeah. No, I didn't. Because he was like I know I was looking it up because we had talked

about on the show and I was like oh mad Mike and his rockets and I played a video on like YouTube or whatever not not paying you any money YouTube stop asking and and he just like blasts off into the air and then it just sort of keeps going up and further into the distance and it's like just kind of free falling and everybody in everybody who's standing near the person who's filming is like oh no and I went up to turn this off so this is just a hunter the godf so this is just a hunter the the the the the the the the the the the the the th th th th th this is this is just thi this is just this is just this is just thi this is just thi thi this is just thi thi thi thi thi the thi thi thi thi the the. the. And thi thi thi thi thi and he the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the thi thi thi thi thi. thi. th th thi. th thi. thi. And he he he thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi the the the the the the an theeee an theeeeeee an theee an theee an the an the the the the like, oh no. And I went, oh, better turn this off. So this is just a hunter the godfather, as he calls himself on Instagram, the stuntman, he describes sitting 24 hours at a tub of BDip for Los tores as the greatest honor of his life thus far.

Nice. Oh dear. Oh dear. Good on him. Honestly, that's nice as hell. Like honestly, it's a, you know, they were hit hard by COVID because no one with any power in the US gave a fuck about anything happening to anyone. And this man saw an opportunity. He said, you know what?

I'm getting beans in my gooch to support the people that I care about. And it's a Mexican restaurant that I love. Good on him. Well, it kind of looks, kind of looks like he's wearing waiters. Well, that'd be smart. Well, yeah, but like are you really sitting in the beans? You know, that's true. You kind of want to be marinating in them if you're doing it properly. I do want the beans on my chart if I'm doing the the beans, I the beans, I tha, I doing it. If I'm... You know how, um, when David Blaine did those things where he's like, I'm standing on a pillar in, uh, fucking Central Park for

24 hours or for two days or whatever, but he was allowed to get down and piss? Do you think this guy has the same deal going where he can like get out and like take it shit if he needs to? Or, well, they're not gonna do anything with the beans afterwards, you know? Is he shooting into his waiters? I guess is what I'm asking. Those beans are way grayer than I was expecting. Well, you're not gonna bring out your best beans for the tub that a man is sitting in. They're pretty liquidy beans, aren't I guess it kind of thi. suck if you just filled up a thing with like with like refried beans and then you had to sort of clear a space for yourself and climb in and then do it like you were like you were getting buried at the beach you know.

Hmm. That doesn't quite have the same ring to it as sliding into a nice big liquid tub of beans. This is incredible his Instagram buyer he describes himself as a quote flawed man supporting small businesses through extreme marketing sense. And that's some good stuff. Well, yeah, yeah. Also, he made this Instagram account for this. His first post is about how he's going to be spending 24 hours. I think he's just starting out as a stunt man.

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that, you know? Not anymore, not with these snowflakes in their masks because they're in California. It does say mask required to come and look at this stunt. Well, that's good. At least someone's fucking taking it seriously. Well, he had his mask on the whole time that he was in there. So you know, if this guy can keep his mask on during 24 hours of sitting in a bathtub full of beans, I think you can keep yours on too. Yeah, take that America. You should be lectured about COVID by a country that has had a handful of deaths.

That's right. It was very funny. Lucy is not with us because... She died. She's no longer with us. She ate the whole tub of beans that the guy sat in. She flew over there special. No longer with us. She ate the whole tub of beans that the guy sat in. She flew over there special. Anyway, Lucy... Strew it with a silly straw out of distance while he's still in there. Oh. Can you try stomping on some of those beans so I can get them up the straw?

Oh no. No, Lucy was on a plane, which is why she could not join us. And she was coming here for dinner. But she did send us a message recently when she was getting on a flight. And she was like, oh, I'm here in the airport. And there's a very free-spirited couple at like the boarding gate trying to explain to the staff that they like they don't need to wear a mask because they have like some type of exemption. And then five or ten minutes later she sent us another message saying these two

people are now being dragged away screaming by the police, they have been arrested and they are shrieking about how they don't require a medical certificate to fly without a mask. And that was pretty funny to me. Friend of the show, the other Ben, had a couple try come into Netherworld in the very brief time where masks were mandatory in Brisbane, which was like two weeks. And they were like, oh, we're actually exempt. And Ben was on the door and was like, oh, can I ask why? And then the woman immediately pulled out a like binder full of like sovereign citizen stuff. And it's like, yeah, we're probably just not going to let

you into the venue, hey. Just point slightly downwards to the no sovereign citizens sign. It's so wild. Like they probably could have gotten away with it if they were just like, you know, oh, we have some sort of insane respiratory condition you've never heard of. Blah blah, blah, but instead immediately being like, well, when the Australian government was created, it was under the naval flag. Yeah you just need a rule of the door that says only only citizens of the corporation registered as Australia allowed in here. That's good shit. Oh dear. Well I guess that's all we have time for today. What do we learn?

If you want to help people, climate misdeemings. We didn't rate the scam on our patented scam rubric. Oh, okay. Okay, so this one is, I guess it's pretty regular as far as the wellness scams go in the sense that if you can relieve some dip shit of $12,000 by giving them like a wand and saying, hey, this is making your water extra spicy, that's fine, except that you're fucking with innocent victims here, ham radio operators, and they don't deserve that. Yeah, and there's no guts to it either. Yeah, there's no bullsiness to it. Yeah, that's true. It's nothing, it's nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing, it's nothing, it's nothing, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, th. It's nothing, th. It's nothing, thi-a, thi-a, thi-ni-ni-ni-ni-ni-ni-ni. th-ni. th-s. th-s. th-s. th-s. th-s. th-s. th-s. 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-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-s-ee. thea-s-s-s-ea-s. thea-s. thea-s. thea-s-s. thi. th's no guts to it either. Yeah, there's no balziness to it. Yeah, it's true. There's nothing wildly brave about it.

It's just stupid. It's like the biocharger thing. Well, I mean, look. There are some redeeming points in that it's rich people that are getting ripped off. But if there's the ham radio element, again, those people just wanted to talk to some people in some other countries, which you could do easily with the internet, but it's harder with a ham radio, which is the selling point. I also think that like just in general all of the scams that revolve around like selling

something that is basically presenting itself as like medical equipment, I'm sure that you would not need to dig very far with any of them to get to the point of having them claim that they can like cure cancer and stuff like that. And I think that generally that it's very bad. I also suspect that maybe at this price point it's a similar situation to the bio-charger NG where some people that run a crystal wellness shop buy it and then charge people to come in and use it. So those people are getting fleeced and they're not necessarily millionaires, they're possibly desperate people trying to figure out why their lives are so awful and I'm fulfilling and are hoping that a radio frequency wand will fix that for them.

Let's hope so. So that's victimy. So this is victimy but not ballsy, which puts it at the bad corner of the rubric. Yep. Thumbs down, two thumbs down from us. Um, also if you do successfully manage to cut your own head off and regrow a body, please write into Mailbag at Buntavista.com and let us know. That's as good at place as any to end the episode

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