Boonta Vista - EPISODE 254: Chekhov's Really Large Knife

Episode Date: June 23, 2022

Theo, Andrew, and Ben bring you: A closer look at the North American catalytic converter theft phenomenon, a three-state Great American Hall of Name, a mystery hole in the woods, and some content advisories from IMDb. *** Sign up for the St Louis Park catalytic converter marking event here: https://www.stlouispark.org/our-city/things-to-do Check out BORLFF here: borlff.com *** 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 and welcome,to Buenta Vista episode 234. I am Ben and I am here in the Murder Dome in orbit around the top secret prison planet Hyperio 6 where the galaxy's roughest and toughest mercenary psychopaths and bounty hunters battle it out in a bloodthirsty high-tech no-holds-barred one-on-one death match for a giant prize pool of galactic credits. With me, hailing from the inhospitable volcano planet Syrex, where only the toughest survive past infancy and only the very toughest make it to puberty, its growlapes the destroyer, covered head-to-to-t laser reinforced plaid steel armor, bristling with weaponry better suited to a tsunami-class planetary defense force space destroyer, and prepared to launch a swarm of AI-controlled hyperspace capable antimatter nano-missiles.

It's Andrew. Hi, Andrew. Hey, uh, what nobody knows is that my real weakness is my easily broken heart. Hmm. It'd be a shame if someone broke your heart in the middle of a science fiction bloodthirsty combat. The problem is what you don't want to do is like make an uneasy alliance with someone at some point. Next thing you know, light kissing. You know, next thing you know. Heavy petting.

Oh. That's how it always goes for me. Like kissing the heavy petting. Like kissing, heartbreak, make up heavy petting. Yeah. Worse heartbreak. Yeah. Have sex one time and then cut all communication. And that's my method. Also with me, hailing from the bucolic farm planet of Squabbleberry, and wearing a pair of overalls with only one button done up and no shirt, it's Boopledo's a friendly. It's Theo. Oh, hi there. Yeah.

How are you? I don't know about all this. You, um, you didn't, you are empty handed. Yeah. I didn't know I need to bring to bring to bring to bring to bring to bring to bring to bring to bring to bring to bring to bring to bring to bring to bring to bring to are empty handed at this stage. I didn't know I need to bring anything. Yeah, like a gun or even a big stick might have availed you here. I got a hoe that helps me plant those mackle blobs. That's no way to talk about your wife, but continue.

So she's doing that and I don't have to bed down. It means I've got excellent upper back strength. Not so much strength. I can't lift anything. But your back doesn't get sore if you do it for a long time. I've got to ask, how much does a good posture count in the laser death match that we're about to enter? There are style points awarded for form.

So if you comport yourself with grace, which I guess, you know, but you will still be turned into a sort of, I think the anti-matter nano missiles are probably going to be a bit of a problem, because the denim you're wearing is only covering about half your torso. And even then, those parts aren't particularly well protected. I don't know the the th tho the tho th tho tho th tho the tho tho tho tho th tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho that tho tho thattoy. I'm the. I'm the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the. the. the. the. the. tho tho tho tho tho th. th. I, th. th. I, th. th. I, th. th. th. I, thi. I, thi. thi. I'm the. the. the. thea. thea. tea. tea. tea. tea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. torso and even then those parts aren't particularly well protected. I don't know what about any of any of all that. I'm just hoping to take some of those galactic credits back to my hoe. Yep. If Theo does get blasted into like a pink mist very stylishly, will any credits be sent to his widow? It's a certainty at this point, yeah. You might be able to collect the mist and put it in a sort of a jam- like any any any any any any any any any any thia thia thia th like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like a sort of a sort of a sort of a to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the, the, the, the, their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. to to to to to to to to to to to It's a certainty at this point, yeah. You might be able to collect the mist and put it in a sort of like jam jar. Yeah, but I don't want to, I don't want to be a mist.

Oh well. Yeah. Hey, Ben, not to, look, I don't want to pull back the curtain. I haven't been a mist before. I don't know if other people are allowed to pull back the curtain. The curtain is my domain. I've got two heads of a curtain. You're trying to pull the curtain back and I'm holding it shut until I know what your purpose is here. Yeah, the problem is I'm gently prying your fingers off the curtain. Okay, there's my curtains. Continue. Uh, and look, I'm just going to say it's not episode 234 of the podcast. It's episode 254. That's all. So I feel I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I feel I feel I feel I feel I feel I feel I feel I feel I feel I feel I feel I feel I feel I feel I feel I feel I feel I feel I feel I feel I feel just just just just just just just just just just just just the the the the the the the the the the the the the podcast. It's episode 254. That can't be right. That's all. So I feel, just feel like I need to, needs to just jump in. I know that you hate to be corrected. I hate to be corrected more than possibly anything. Yeah, yep. He's always saying when we're not recording, I'm right about everything because I'm a man. No, I'm happy to be incorrect. I just don't want to be corrected. Just hear me be wrong and keep living your life.

But I thank you. I will accept that correction. I don't want anyone to get confused. Well, I figured, I just figured by getting it out here now, I would save you the effort of having to go and like do some type of funny overdub. It's actually, it's really annoying doing the overdubs and I don't do them every episode and I don't do that many of them, but I edit the podcast on my couch, which is about 10 meters that way, but the microphone is on a stand in this room,

so I have to leave the couch, come over here, I then have to get to get toan for audio devices because it's forgotten about the microphone. And then so know that when I do put one in, it's a labor of love. Why don't you just drag your couch to the microphone. Now we're talking. No, I can't, well no, I couldn't fit, I can't fit basically anything in this room. Well, you're in there. I can fit it th, I can fit me th, I can fit me 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, that, that, that, that, that, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th th th th th th tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, this room and a microphone stand. Yeah, it's cozy. Yeah. I can fit a Tom Walker in this room for about a week. Is this from personal space?

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He's gonna say, that can't be right. I was watching Detroiters last night with Elder. I'm gonna get on that. Oh, you should get on Detroiters. It's very good. And there is an episode is an episode is an episode is an episode is an episode is an episode tho. where Connor O'Malley plays Tim Robinson's, like, fail son, a younger brother. And I was just looking at him and going, it's strange because he's, he's clearly like a big guy, you know, he seems like quite tall.

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Well if they don't spend that money, where's it gonna go? Yeah, they won't get it next year. Yeah, that's right. Taken out of the government budget rules. Baboo budget or whatever. You have to spend five billion dollars on movies that no one remembers six months later. If you don't spend it, it goes off. That's right. Yeah, due to inflation.

It's like tomato sauce or mayonnaise? Have you ever had mayonnaise go bad? I don't think mayonnaise can go bad. No, I think it's already bad. That's my only... My only concession to mayonnaise that I will make is... I don't think mayonnaise is asking you to concede. So our pantry in our kitchen, right? It's sort of...

There's like a fridge, a fridge cavity next to the pantry, and sort of there's like a fridge a fridge cavity next to the pantry and then there is a dishwasher built in like under the pantry right so two pantry doors and then dishwasher door just underneath that which is fine except when your dishwasher runs it gets hot so anything that is Which is fine, except when your dishwasher runs, it gets hot. So anything that is on the bottom- A hot pantry situation. Anything that's on the bottom shelf of the pantry is coppin' heat. And moisture, I would imagine, as well.

If you like open the dishwasher after it's done, you know, and there's just like steam coming up out of there. It's not, I have to admit, it's not that cleverer design where it's like, hey, you know how your kitchen is filled with like a laminated, laminated chip board? Yeah. Can I steam that for you? The most exploding substance in the world. I feel also that maybe like every single thing that you would store in a pantry has the same keeping a cool dry place warning on it. No, that seems kind of antithetical to the two things that that's doing? Yeah. First of all, I think to avoid that situation, Andrew, I used marine ply in my kitchen. Top top to bottom, marine ply. Did you build your kitchen? No, I did not. The house house thine thine thine house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house house. I the house. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I thi. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I 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, the the the the the the the the the the the th. I, th. th. th. th. th. thi. th. te. too. too. too. too. too. too. too. too. too. too. th. th. th. No, I did not. This house came with the kitchen.

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Yeah, no, I'm just catching up with this now. Maynaise is... You see, no, no, you guys, you guys don't live where I live, right? This is an issue. So like, when I go and see my relatives in Brisbane, they got a fridge full of bread. Yeah. And I'm like, that's where it goes, because otherwise... Hey, you want your bread to dry out as fast as possible, so you put in a good low humidity environment, like the fridge, yeah. Well, I can't, I can't leave my bread out because no more eat the f f f. 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. 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. 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. the. this this this this is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is th. So, th. So, ththe fridge, yeah. Well, I can't leave my bread out because Nome will eat through the fucking plastic liner. And she hasn't figured out the fridge yet. No, which is also a issue.

And I think at this stage she won't. But, but, uh, that shit has been, because it's been the, the classic El Nino deal. El Nino? El Nino? Which one? Yeah. It has been. We're in a Leninia. Yeah.

Well, I saw a thing that said the 21, 22, Leniya event has ended. And I thought, let me guess the 2223 Lanina event is just beginning. Yeah, it's gonna be, it's fucked up because I've been quoting wet bulb temperatures.. the the the temperatures temperatures temperatures the thea temperatures temperatures thea temperatures to to to to to the to to the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. I's, th. I's, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th. I. It's, th. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's th. It's thin. It's th. It's th th th th th the th th the th thin. It's th th th th th thin. It's. Yeah, it's gonna be it's fucked up because I've been quoting wet bulb Temperatures this whole time now gonna change back to a dry bulb No good. It's gonna change my whole methodology But that like that whole situation has meant that like that whole situation has meant that it has been really unusually wet here like way more rain than we are used to getting in Canber and that has meant that like over summer it was th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th the the th th the th th th the th th th the th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thu thu thu thu- thu- thu- thu- thu- thu- thu- thu- thu- thu- thu- th th th th th th th th th th th th 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 the th th th th thu thu thu to thu 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 to getting in Canberra and that has

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Chuck it in the freezer. Check it out. Also, just to pull it back, possibly tugging at the, tugging at the attachment points here. A couple of weeks back, we did an episode without Andrew and we absolutely blew through like 19 stories and we got to the end of it, we had no idea, no idea what would have happened. And so I would like to perhaps parallel that with this episode where we are 13 minutes in and 10 minutes of that is where Andrew stores these in his kitchen. Now I'm no math genius but I think 13 minutes is very nearly a full 25% of the episode. So anyway you guys are you guys are telling me you keep the mayo in the fridge?

If I, yeah, I would be dead if I was keeping mayonnaise out at a room temperature. Even through winter, my God. It's crazy. Different places. Yeah, no, it's a, that's an organic thing. Mayanase is organic, goes in the fridge. Other ones, like oil, your soy sauce, your sesame seeds, etc. They go in the cupboard.. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I the the the the the the the the the the th. I the the th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I'm the the th. I'm th. I'm th. I thate. I'm th. I would th. I would th. I would they they they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they's they's they's they's. I th. I th. I th. I. I th. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I th. I th. I th. I th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm that. I'm thea. I'm thatea. I would to tha. I would to. I would ta. I would would to. I would tha. I would tha. I would thea. I would. They're mineral. They go in the cupboard. I've had a soy sauce go bad on me before at room temperature which I didn't think was possible.

Because it's just salt and brown as far as I know. Yeah maybe the brown had something organic in it. If you know what the brown is in sauce sauce... If you fucking send us an email that just says, it's soy, I'm going to kill you. It is pretty crazy how sometimes things are different in different places. Like here in Australia, I don't worry about my catalytic converter. But in America, I guess that's not the case. It's time for... Catalytic Conver Watch. That's not the case. It's time for catalytic converter watch

Finally Now that's the segment that everyone has been waiting for we talked about this in the previous bonus episode which I believe was titled no man can eat 40 meatballs where we just which is so dumb because the quote from the movie is no man can eat 40 meatballs where we just which is so dumb because the quote from the movie is no man can eat 50 eggs but I said the number 40 in the episode and I have to honor that we talked about how the city of Sacramento in California had had a sixteen hundred percent increase in catalytic converter thefts from 2020 to 2021. Things are rough and sackers. Yep, that's right.

It turns out that this is actually a broader phenomenon, so I've selected a little sample of stories from across North America of some different things happening in the catalytic converter theft space. So this first story that I have here is from WZTV, WZ TV to those of us in the Commonwealth in Nashville, Tennessee. Case highlights multi-million dollar catalytic converter theft scheme. These are cars targeted. Now I've edited out the cars that were targeted and I probably could have edited out that part from the headline, but I will persevere nonetheless. A Missouri man has pleaded guilty to federal crimes in which he stole catalytic converters

from vehicles, then sold them across state lines in a multi-million dollar scheme. Hell yes. Which is a lot of dollars for catalytic converters. The catalytic converters. Turns out there's been this gold mine under our noses the whole time. And also, victimless crime. Victimless crime. Your cars feelings aren't hurt.

So all of these stories are talking about how you can get like $1,500 a pop sometimes for a catalytic converter. Way more from hybrid cars for reasons I don't fully understand. But this is the first time I've sort of seen individuals making large amounts of money from this. The US Department of Homeland Security reports that 24-year-old Evan Marshall, 24, amazing. Young entrepreneur. Yeah, tee-entrepreneur. That's right. A post-teentrprener. Well, uh, entered the plea, admitting that he transported over $1 million worth of stolen catalytic converters from 2019 to 2021.

Oh my god. Buying tens of thousands of the converters from co-defendants. That's just hustling. Yeah, he's getting his ticket clipped. He's clipping the tickets I think. Oh yeah. The other... I tell you what, I love clipping the tickets. Yeah. But I fucking hate having my ticket clipped. Hate to get my ticket clipped. Love the clipping. Hate being clipped. Yeah. Me being clipped. Hey, uh, the tiped. to get the tick to to get. to get. to get. to get to get to get to get the. the. the. the. the clipping. Hate being clipped. Yeah. Me clipping? Ha ha ha this rules. Yeah, me being clipped. Hey, somebody taps me on the shoulder.

Did you know your ticket just got clipped? Fuck! According to the Department of Homeland Security, Marshall started out by selling the converters to a company in Arkansas, which eventually gave Marshall a list of converters in high demand. They also worked exclusively with Marshall, fronting him cash so he could bring in more volume. Marshall recruited and worked with five other co-conspirators who also face charges under the plea agreement. Marshall will forfeit to the government over $125,500 in cash, 33 rifles, six shotguns, 26 handguns, vehicles, motorcycles,

and 191 catalytic converters cease during his arrest. I think it's time to lay the blame where it belongs, and that is... Environmentalism. With the Fast and the Furious franchise. Do they popularize the concept of stealing catalytic converters? Well they certainly popularize the concept of owning cars and motorbikes and stealing car parts and having a warehouse full of like stolen DVD players. Yeah, a little hot tip.

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marking. Excuse me? Go on. Oh I think it's pretty self-explantry. I've only got the headline. I didn't bother getting the... It's this-explanatory. I've only got the headline. I didn't bother getting the... It's sort of like a meat raffle, but you go and if your ticket gets called, you get the catalytic converter from a Toyota Tacoma. No, it's even worse. This is like, this is like the thing where, uh, where, like someone will engrave like a serial number on, th. th. th. th. th. th. the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to, to, to, to, like, like, like, like, thi, th. th. to, 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. to, to, th. th. to. to. th. th. th. to, to, th. to, to, to, to, to, to, to, th. to, to, to, th. to, to, the. to. thi. to. the. th. th. to. the thing where Where like someone will engrave like a serial number on your bike frame On your DVD player so that when someone takes it to cash converters they call you You say hey

That's because you know you know how they do with cash converters. They're very concerned about that kind of thing. There's a guy out there with a Dremble who's like you want to get rid of the serial number before I give you the money for it. Let me explain. St. Louis Park will hold another catalytic converter marking event, another, I note that this is not the first time they've done it, set to run from 2.30 p.m. to 6.m. on on July 14th, the city announced. The city is changing the registration process from an open event to a lottery drawing. And a form for those interested will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on June 29th. The interest form can be found here during that time frame. I'll put that link in the show notes. The city says 72 residents will be selected at random,

and those who aren't selected are encouraged to apply for future events. The city will not accept walk-ins. Mechanics at the St. Louis-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S the the the St-S the St-S the St. th-S the St. th-S th-S th-S th-S th-S thuis-S. tho-S. thoomuuiouou-S. th-S. thoom. thoome-in. thoom. thooma-in. thoom. thoom. thoom. thoom. thoom. thoom. thoom. thoom. thoom. thoom. thoom. tho. th. The city will not accept walk-ins. Mechanics at the St. Louis Park Municipal Service Center will etch and spray paint the catalytic converters and participants will be given a window sticker to show that their car has a marked catalytic converter. This is like that episode of Futurama where they're in a post-apocalyptic society for like 20 minutes of it and it turns out they're in a post-apocalyptic society for like 20 minutes of it, and it turns out they're just in LA. America is on a straight line towards that society.

We have a catalytic converter-based economy. But a lottery? A lottery to get an engraving and some paint on your catalytic converter and a sticker that says, hey, don't you angle grind to the underside of my car? I got it engraved. Yeah, it's going to make the profit margin on this catalytic converter is slightly lower for you. So watch out for that. Unless you're like engraving the palladium and the rhodium and the whatever that's in there. I don't think it matters all that much. No, this is not like, there is not some sort of pyramid scheme going on to buy and sell catalytic converters for higher and ever escalating amounts.

It's not going on another car. This is, yeah. They want those minerals. They're actually, um... I put them want those minerals. They're actually... They put them in the cupboard. There are several... That's right. That's a callback. That's great. There are like... You know how they know I've been off for two weeks. It's a... Variously sick and in Melbourne.

There are several states at the moment that are introducing what are essentially catalytic converter registration rules, where if you buy or sell a catalytic converter, you have to provide several kinds of ID and then it all goes into a registry. I think Houston in Texas is looking at doing it from memory, where it's like, I think they're also looking and doing it in somewhere in Boston as well where like these are stricter than their gunlords you can't buy catalytic converters in cash I think is proposed for the Massachusetts one which is pretty wild here's what I say to the US government come and take it. Yeah before somebody else before a guy with a heavy grindergrant takes it off

me. I'll tell you what, you have the palladium. You seem like you need it. To pry my palladium out of my cold, get it hands. I'm not even using my paladium. I have, day to day, I'm not even thinking about my paladium. Honestly, it just kind of sits there. I have one final catalytic converter for you. And this is thine thine th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I to th. I to th to th at to thatat- that- that- that- that- to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the from Kannada to the north, from CBC News. Winnipeg police make three arrests in catalytic converter thefts after months-long investigation. Sorry anything, any kind of serious activity in Winnipeg. It's very funny. It's very funny. It's very funny. You have to sort that out. Winnipeg Police have arrested three people in connection with a series of catalytic converter

thefts following a raid on a scrapyard earlier this month. The Winnipeg Police Service said Friday that after a four-month investigation, its tactical support team and the Springfield Police Service searched a business in the 2nd 200 block of Springfield Road at the northeastern edge of the city on June 2nd. I would like to stress that the tactical support team is like their SWAT team. These are like heavily armored SWAT guys. Yeah They seized 13 catalytic converters $12,500 in Canadian currency, 9.4 grams of cocaine, 300 grams of cannabis, 2.4 grams of silo-cybon, and transactional documents, according to

police. How do you get 2.4 grams of silo-c... Can you, is it commonly, like like isolated? You powder it. You powder the silo cybers. Oh, that's new to me. I thought they just put like a single mushroom on the scales. I'm like, oh, it's perfect.

Look at how round this number is. That's crazy. The investigation was launched after a significant spike in catalytic converter thefts and was called Project Precious, named for the precious metals founded the valuable automobile exhaust system components. That rules, clown city. It's so funny. It's so funny. God, it was a spade of thefts and they, they wrapped up 12. Yeah, 13. They got a bake his dozen, one extra. Catching the thieves in the act is difficult because it's a quick job to remove the part from a vehicle, Winnipeg Police Service Public Information Officer Constable Danny McKinnon, said at a Friday news conference.

We knew they were taking them somewhere. This particular scrapyard was located and over the four months learned that it was a prevalent player, McK had said. Yeah, a real nexus of palladium Going through that place. She said while 13 converters were seized Police determined that the stolen units were being brought to the scrapyard in large quantities not one by one Two men from Anola Manitoba aged 35 and 48 are facing seven charges including possession of property obtained by crime over 5,000 trafficking property obtained by crime over $5,000, trafficking property obtained by crime over $5,000, possessing proceeds of property obtained by

crime over $5,000, and they also face various drug-related charges. A 43-year-old Winnipeg man has been charged with possessing property obtained by crime under $5,000 and failure to comply with a release order. What is happening in North America? Like just all of the stats I saw on this, like Sacramento, that increase of like 1,600% I didn't see it that high anywhere else, but on like a state by state level, Minnesota had like a 400% increase so far between this year and last year.

Like, it's huge, but I'm also starting to wonder, like, is this gonna take off here as well? Because we often copy America's trends. Yeah. Is that next? Should we be worried? Should we be putting the Rebar chastity cages on the underside of our 2003 Subaru foresters? No. Okay. Well that's good. These guys are out of control, honestly. Do we even have catalytic converters? Yes, we certainly do. Yes. We also have cars, yes.

We also have cars, yes. Can we stop that from happening? Well, you can take them off your car and then your emissions are just really bad. Right. Yeah, you kind of... But I do get to keep the platinum, palladium and rhodium. Yeah, you can flip that yourself. Okay. Also the...

Real shortage for rhodium. If you look at the price of palladium over the last two years, it has gone absolutely through the roof. So you can see why there's a bit of a bit of demand there. Yeah, it's fucking crazy. Like at the start of, I can't even fucent read this. No, I'm just going to scrap that. But it's really expensive now and it used to be cheaper. So you know, invisible hand of the market is reaching underneath your 2003 Subaru Forrester.

And using it aggrinder. Oink. Also, so this is a story I didn't include, and I have to stop doing this. It was just a little too gruesome, but it was a story about a guy somewhere in the US who heard the sound of an angle grinder coming from his driveway, and he was like, shit, I think someone's did my camera-in-converter on. Always check that before you go to bed. So this guy has gone out there.

Now Andrew, I don't know if you recall, but in the last episode, I said something to the effect of if I hear I hear I hear I hear I hear I hear I hear I hear I hear the the the the the the gone out there. Now Andrew, I don't know if you recall, but in the last episode, I said something to the effect of, if I hear an angle grinder in my driveway, that's simply none of my business, and I'm ignoring it. This man did not take that ethos into account. I guess he doesn't listen to the bonus episodes of the podcast. He went out there and he was set to go, hey, what the the man with the angle grinder slashed him from temple down to jaw with an angle grinder with the angle grinder? With the angle grinder? I mean it's obvious that they are, now that you kind of hear it said out loud that they can use the angle grinder against you. You don't even have to the delay between switching your load out, you don't have to do it.

Yeah, sort of like a flesh and fucking metal. Yeah. Flesh has a lower armor rating. Yes. My, it did a number on this man's face. I will tell you that much for free. I guess my issue, if I were to do this kind of theft, is that I have a corded angle grinder.

Oh, yeah. So I think that it it it it it it's that it's that it's that it's that it's that 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 going I that's going I that's going that's going that's going that's going that's going that's going that's going that's going that's going that's going that that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's Oh, so I think that it's going to, I guess it's gonna really dampen the element of surprise that you wanna have when I knock on your door and hand you one end of like a 20 meter long extension cord. Can you just plug this in? Real quick, don't ask why. See, I bought into the Bosch cord this ecosystem.

I'm not sure whether they've got good angle grinders going for that as well. Just before I came to record this episode of the podcast, listener of the show, Nora got roasted by a friend for referring to an ecosystem of power tools. And who's laughing now? That's right. The listeners of this podcast. That's right. Ithe listeners of this podcast. That's right.

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I don't actually know how to do this next segue because I don't know what it is that we're segway into. That is a problem. Yeah. And there's only one man who can help us overcome this. Hey, there we go. He's good. Yeah. So as you as you may have noticed, it's Theo by the thio. It's Theo. I've been away for a couple. th for a th for a th for a th for a th for a th for a th for a th for a th for a th for a th for a th for a th for a th th th the th th the th the th the th the to the to the the the the the the next the next 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 next the next the next the next the next the next the next the next the next the next the next the next the next the next the next the next the next the next the next the next the next the next the next the the the the the the next the th th ne ne ne ne ne ne ne ne ne ne ne ne ne ne ne ne. ne. ne ne ne ne ne ne ne ne ne ne ne ne ne may have noticed, it's Theo, by the way. It's Theo. I've been away for a couple of weeks. So obviously I've had a bit of time to think about new segments, new entertainment, new, new content. And so I thought, oh, why don't I look at the parents guide section of IMDB, of movies on IMDb, and read some of them out for you.

And the segment is sort of like the shipping report in that it's not funny, but it's meant to be funny. So it's got that going for it. I love this podcast. Without any further ado, let's get this over and double. This is your choice to do, BAL. This is your idea. Yeah, if it goes well, I might actually make a theme for it, but I wanted to play guitar on it and my fucking, my pickup grounding is all all fucked so I have to find I

think I'm fairly certain it's the fairly certain it's the the jack which is good that's where you want your grounding problem to be close as close close to the surface yeah yeah as possible so you don't have to work out what goes on in a guitar yeah that's not there's none of my business no anyway jumping right in from Joe dirt from the what goes on in a guitar. Yeah. That's not, there's none of my business. No. No. Anyway, jumping right in, from Joe Dirt from the sex and nudity section, dog genitalies are visible in some shots.

From Tommy boy, the sex and nudity section. Paul urinates on the power system at the circus, ultimately getting electrocuted and causing him to moan. It's pretty hard. From the, the, the water, the water, the water, the water, the water, the water, the water, the water, the th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th goes what th goes what thoom what thoom thoom thoom goes, tho thoom goes, thoom th th th th th th tho thoids tho- tho- tho- tho- tho- tho- th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th goes goes goes goes goes goes goes goes goes goes goes goes goes goes goes goes goes goes goes goes goes goes goes goes th goes th goes th goes th goes, th goes tho tho goes, tho goes tho goes to thoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo tho tho tho th and causing him to moan. It's pretty hard, I agree. From the water boy, the sex and nudity section, the main girl character nipples are seen through her tank top. So, like, I kind of get the sense, right? You know, I was saying a little while ago that I have been referring to like a common sense media. Absolutely. How it has the sort of, you know, this is the nuts and the nuts, the nuts, the nuts, the nuts, the nuts, the nuts, the nuts, the nuts, the nuts, the the the the the the the the the the the the the th, the th, th, th, th, that, th of, th of, thi, that, thus, thi- thi- thi- thi- thi- thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th. th. th. From, th. From, th. From, th. From, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, thi, thi-s, the the thi-s, the thi-s, how it has the sort of like, you know, this is the nuts and bolts of like what's

in this thing, and then we have a bit of subjective stuff from both like kids and parents saying who they think it's appropriate for, right? It's very clear to me who is writing stuff on that site. Whereas the stuff that you're describing I feel could be a very, a very split down the middle mix of like illiterate Puritans who are worried about this stuff and also yeah the little funniest people on this. A literate horny guys who are like, I've got to write this down. And they are so much more bizarre than you could think. And I saw one a couple of years ago that I spent forever in one of the podcasts we were recording previously trying to get this Christ on the list. From Billy Madison from the frightening and intense scene section.

Although played for laughs, the clown falling may be disturbing to many. That's where I was freaking out. Though played for laughs, the clown falling may be disturbing to many. That's where I was freaking out. From Conair, the frightening and intense scenes section, the whole movie is about a plane of prisoners that gets hijacked. While this would be terrifying if it were real, the entire film contains a sense of comedic effect due to the bizarre nature of it all. So is it scary or is it not scary? I don't know. From the rock, the sex and nudity

section, at the beginning of the movie, a guy pulls a magazine from a crate. So look out for that. From gone in 60 seconds. What's the magazine? It must be a rude magazine. Might be. I don't, wasn't unclear. From gone in 60 Seconds. The profanity section, Jesus is blasphemed many times. From face off, the violence and gore section. A man cuts his face off and then gets pierced by a harpoon gun. Yeah, I guess. From leaving Las Vegas, the sex and nudity section. In a shower, we see a fully nude woman,

but her position makes she didn't expose critic nudity. Yeah, this is definitely horny guys. You think you're gonna see something, but then you die. Then you don't see critic nudity. Batman and Robin, frightening and intense scenes. Dr. Woodruff straps Antonio Diego onto a table and prepares to turn him into Bain. I hate getting turned into Bain, dude.

That is frightening. If he could get turned into Bain, anyone could get turned into Bain. Well the worst thing is, he's like, it's not like you look at him and you go, oh, Bain, that's a big jacked up dude. He's little before they turn him into Bain. They could turn Theo into Bain. Oh no! Yep, it could happen to you. Dude, your wife is gonna be so pissed if you get turned into Bain.

Yeah, I'm doing the Bain voice. Um, do you have a try at it? Go, thin thah thah thah thah thah tha tha than thi than, thi thi thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thi, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho. It's than, thoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Yeah, on. No. Give me one sentence of the bad voice. Oh my God, it's just got to sound like fucking Yoda. In this house we keep the mayonnaise in the fridge. There you go. Batman Forever from the sex and nudity section, the Ridler comically grabs his crotch at one point. A cartoon honk sound can be heard as he does so. Maybe there's something wrong with his cock.

That's not, how is that nudity? Oh, it's suggestive. Are you ready to explain that to your beautiful daughters? Yeah, honk honk. What is penis honk like that? I'm actually, like, like, universally the things that are the worst for having your kids watch them and like looking at them and going, what? Are like movies, movies that are the sort of cheapest, shidiest cash-ins on IP, like the Angry Birds movie kind of thing.

They're all the ones were like... They drank piss in that movie. Yeah, they drink a bunch of piss. They drink a bunch of piss. I think there's a podcast about that actually. There is. There is. But yeah, there's lots of those sorts of movies where

not only are they none of the jokes but there's also just this sort of under current of mean-spiritedness to most of the jokes. Yeah. And also like just just, just there's a movie called the Queen's Coggy that is just like a cheap animated movie that one of my kids got into at some point and I was like it's time to stop watching this movie. Yeah. There's too much of like animated children twirking and stuff, you know? Yeah, I think you need to go back to the classics, like Superman returns. This from the sex and nudity section. Superman is shown shirtless in the hospital.

And this from the violence and gore section. One of Luther's goons starts beating up Lois. The son th children th children th children th children th children th children th children th th th th th children th th th children th ths ths ths ths ths the the the the and gore section, one of Luther's goons starts beating up Lois. The son throws a piano at him and kills him. Frob Street Fighter 2, the animated movie, the sex and nudity section. Ryu is shirtless most of the time, but that's about it. From... Streetfighter the movie, violence and g gore section, M. Bison is kicked into a bunch of television's and electrocuted. Those poor television.

From sudden death in the sex and nudity section, Emily's underwear is shown briefly when she falls down the hole due to her short skirt. This is someone like going through frame by frame. Oh, there it is. There it is. Straight to IMDib. And finally from the movie Double Impact by, with our friend John Claude Van Dam, right? That's right, yeah.

Much like the last three movies that you have said, yes. Oh, okay. From the sex and nudity section, near the start of the movie, the thatthe-it is is is is is is there is there is there is there is there is there is there last three movies that you have said, yes. Oh, okay. From the sex and nudity section, near the start of the movie, a woman stretches while wearing a very skimpy leotard, very central and about as close to nudity as you can get. Oh my god, these people are so disappointed that there's not just like, fucking. Yeah. You can't, you can't just file a whole bunch of almost nudity into the nudity section. Oh you can. And frame it as a grievance. That's about it. You see that silhouette of one nipple. Because it's a calibration point. Yeah. You read that and you see that Ryu is shirtless most of the time. You know you're in for a sexy time. But if it's just a skimpy leotard,

yeah. And yet they're not writing up all the scenes where Jean-Claude Van Dam is bare-assed in his movies, you know? Nearly all of them. Oh, they probably are. I mean, I didn't check um, fucking Time Cop. Is that the one where he gets bare ass and he does like a... He has, he does, he does, uh, bear ass in Time Cop. He also bears ass in... Yeah, and in, um, nowhere to run. Uh, in front of a very young Kieran Kulkin. Ah, huh. Congratulations, Kieran Kulkin.

Yeah, I'm seeing Sean Claudelaude Van Dammes, Hog. Nice A-S. Now that segment was Theo reading out a bunch of stuff from the internet, but now it's time for something different where I read out a bunch of stuff I found on the internet. It's time for Great American Hall of Name. This is the great American Hall of Name. This is the segment where I select some uniquely American names from large lists of names I have found on the internet of American provenance. Uh, this week I will be looking at a selection of names I have found on the internet of American provenance.

This week I will be looking at a selection of names taken from former and possibly current state representatives from the states of Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas. And if you gentlemen are ready, I will begin. I'm ready, yeah, go for it. Burwell Ritter. Tunstall qualls. Polk Lafoon. You guys are out of control. Frank Chelf.

You don't want to store his mayonnaise on that. Wigfield Bullock. Newton Cannon. Haywood Riddle. Otis Wingo Come on Chittenden Lion That's so bad why am I

ridiculous June Gale That's just nice Yeah That's just weather pleasant Miller That's just nice. Yeah. That's just describing a phenomenon. It's just weather. Pleasant Miller. What a nice man.

Vincent Boring. Oh, not so cool. I don't. Noble Gregory. Ha ha ha ha. Have you met my friend? J. Carlton loser. No. my friend. Jay Carlton loser.

No. Oh, I come from a long line of losers. French Hill. In France, they just call him Hill. Yeah. Yeah. Rice Pierce. Hmm. Rice Pierce.

Pryor Lee. Ha ha ha. That's a leaf in a little time ago. Wade Kitchens. Logan Roots. Yeah, he does. Archibaldiel. And finally on the home stretch here.

Cave Johnson. Johncock. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now we're talking.

Elijah Fister. That is, Fister, spelled with a PH. Oh. And last but certainly not least, Bill Bonner. Fuck. What a beautiful country. I'm also, just from recollection, I'm pretty sure Jay Carlton

Luzer was a member of the Lower House of Tennessee in like the 80s. Oh, no, in the 60s, sorry. Jay Carlton Luzer, Joseph Carlton Luzer. Oh, it's pronounced Lauser. Oh, I'm sure it is. Loza. No it isn't. Fuck you. It's loser. Oh it's pronounced louser. I'm sure it is. Losa. No it isn't. Fuck you. It's loser. This is like a famous doctor who I think I think was in camera for years and years like a surgeon and his name was Dr. Death and he was like no no no Dr. Death. Dr. Death. You're like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. His. This guy's this guy's mom's name was. the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. 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. thi. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. th. the. th. th. th. the. th. th. th. th. th. th., Dr. Deeth. He's like, uh-huh? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

This guy's mum's name was Willie May McConico loser. Come on, man. It's incredible. Hey, it's time as you have the thousand's voice is calling, you're falling, you're falling. Did we work out whether that melody is from anything? No, it's not. It's an original piece. My goodness, that is a wonderful John Bryan writing the soundtrack to Punch Drunk Love Ask Melody. I cannot stress this enough, but

the person who wrote that theme song for us, and I've said this several times has worked on space suit design for NASA. What or what? And they listen to this show. Yeah, and he's actually sent through several more themes, but I'm really behind on me emails. I'm so sorry, but I will get through those. It's good. Yeah, I'm worried.

I think it's a national security risk that we're actively making people working for NASA dumber. Yeah, stop listening to this podcast and think about the seal on those gloves. This story comes to us from W-O-O-D news in Michigan. The Wood! The Wood! The Wood! Yeah we're talking. Mysterious bunker found in Michigan Woods. That's the perfect topic for the wood to cover. That is true. Yeah. About a mile hike into the ro' the ro' the ro' the seal the seal.... the seal the seal.. the the seal. the the the the the seal the the the the the the the the the the the the the seal on seal on the the the seal on the seal on the the seal on the seal on the seal on the seal on the seal on th th th the seal on the seal on the seal on the seal on the seal on 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 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. That's the perfect topic for the wood to cover. That is true. About a mile hike into the Rogue River State game area hidden in the forest somebody recently built a bunker complete with a reinforced wall and sandbags. Quote, it is a mystery said the Kent County man who discovered the bunker on

Friday and immediately tried reporting it to the authorities. Okay, first of all, yeah. Fucking knock. Mm-hmm. Go around blowing up other people's bunker. Yeah. Second of all, what's the mystery about a bunker in the woods? Woods are scary.

Sometimes you need a bunker. You think the bunker is there to protect the person in the bunker from the things that are in the woods? Well, if we're talking about me specifically, I think that it's there to protect the things in the woods from me. I think if we were talking about you specifically, it wouldn't be a mystery who made the bunker because it would be you. I just like building building the bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu. I just like. I just like. I just like. I just like. I just like. I just like. I just like building bu. I just like building bu. I just like building bu. I just like building bu. I just like building bu. I just like building bu. I just like building bu. I just like building bu bu bu bu bu bu bu. I just like building bu. I just like building bu. I just like building bu. I just like building bu. I just like building bu. I just like bu. I just like bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu bu like bu like bu like bu like bu like bu like bu. I just like bu like bu. I just like bu. I just like bu. I just like bu. I just like bu. I just like bu. I just like bu. I just like bu. I just like. I just like. I just like. I just like. I just like. I just like. I just like. I just like. I just like. I just like. I just like. I just like building bunkers. Where's the line though between like, you know, finding a bunker and say finding a tree house and reporting that to the police? Oh well that would be shit house behavior for sure. I think, and this will probably get covered in the article, there might be some reasons in America why you would want to report something like this.

He didn't want to get, it didn't want to be identified, he said, in case it was created by a militia group, possibly as a private training grounds. Quote, it looks like it might be more of a militia military type thing to me, he said. It's not easy to find. The bunker is about 50 yards off a narrow trail under a canopy of pines, m mine oaks and on a hill overlooking Spring Creek, which runs away from Spring Lakes to the northeast. The trail starts on Red Pine Drive north of 18 mile road, northeast of Kent City. On Monday, the Kent County man almost couldn't find it when he led next hour's wood, WOD back into the woods. It's so remote that cell phone GPS wasn't working. You'd hate to be known as the boy who cried

bunker. Yeah, yeah. It's totally here. Yeah man, absolutely. We could have been covering the local game and instead we're here. Quote, it doesn't belong here, he said. It's state land and it's an illegal structure here. It appears the bunker was built recently and might still be under construction, with a few freshly cut down trees lined up on the ground nearby. It's about 15 by 15 feet and almost 3 feet deep. Quote, it looks like there's a place to rest your elbow all the way around it for steadying your aim for shooting, he said. Sandbags, stacked too high, about 70 in all, form an outer perimeter. About two dozen more sandbags, sandbags are in a corner of the bunker.

The sandbags, you don't need them for paintball. You don't need them for a deer blind. It looks like they're to stop incoming bullets. It's on a hill. There ain't gonna be a flood here. That's a quote from the man. Two of the walls are reinforced with intertwined branches. There's a fire pit in the middle. It bothers me, he said. It looks like it was built for a purpose, and it looks like a lot of effort went into it. He said he called the US Department of Homeland Security, which referred him to the FBI, which referred him to the FBI which referred him to local police. Excuse me, is this President Biden? Oh I should talk to my police department. Talk to Kamela Harris and then oh no okay now I'm talking to an undersecretary of some kind.

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Maybe like just chuck a camera out here, come back in a week, see what's on the footage. Ah, no, no, we're going to hit that with a hammer. Yeah. We're just going to send the forest guys in to put some dirt in the hole. That's pretty good, I guess. Quote, I would think they would want to do to do to do to do to do the to do their their their their their their th th th tho tho thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi some dirt in the hole. That's pretty good, I guess. Quote, I would think they would want to do some sort of investigation. Try to figure out who did this and what was their idea behind it, he said. To not investigate it seems like a missed opportunity with everything going on nowadays. Yeah.

Oh, you know how it is now of days. I do. Yeah. I do have a- He fucking played himself because, you know, what did he get when he knocked? They sent in the whole reversal unit. Yeah. So now we'll never find out.

Yeah. I do have a follow-up story to this one, actually. I sort of, it's not really a mystery bunker because the mystery has been solved. This is another story from our dear friends at Wood. Mystery, quote, bunker in Michigan Woods was built by kids, officials say. Oh, okay. Yeah. Mystery solved. The bunker-like area found in a state game area in Michigan was built by teenagers.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources said that after Wood TV aired a report on the bunker in the Rogue River State Game Area Monday, a mother called the Kent County Sheriff's Department, she said her 15-year-old son and his friend had built the bunker for fun. Cutting down trees, digging large holes and leaving sandbags on state land is illegal, the DNR said. The conservation officer will meet with the boys and make them fill in the hole and restore the area.

No charges are expected. Hey boys, we found your hole. Yeah. Now you're going to fill in that hole hole. Now it's perfectly natural and fine to want to dig holes. I get that. We all go through that. Just can't do that on state land. It's a very elaborate bunker. Like there are like 70 sandbags there that are lining the walls of the bunker.

It's a lot for some 15-year-olds. Like I'm not saying that I don't believe that they did. I'm just saying these are weird teens. Which I think that's weird at all. What the desire to build a structurally sound ballistically reinforced bunker on a vantage point in Statenland. Under constant thread of tornadoes etc. Yeah. I don't think that's going to help you. I don't think your sandbag is going to help you in a tornado situation. Oh you want to be under the ground, don't you? Yeah, you want to be further down.

Yeah. Dig them further into the warm earth. Yeah. Are you think about becoming one of those like, hole hobbyists? The guys that... Oh, is there such a thing? Have we not talked about this? PNG thing. There are people who are like recreational hole diggers who, you know, once they own their own land, a dream which is impossible for many of us at our age, they just

start digging holes for fun and like big, deep tunnels and like tunnel systems and stuff, which sounds very appealing to me, although it obviously unbelievably dangerous. It's just like the movie Rambo 5, aka Rambo Last Blood. Yeah, where he's got a network of murder holes all throughout his property because of gangs at the border or some shit? No, no, he's basically just doing it for therapy. Like because due to the events of the previous movies, his traumas from being a prisoner of war and such, he just lives on a ranch and just spends all of his time expanding his system

of bunkers, and then the events of the movie lead him to come back and defend, like, Castle Doctrine himself on his property. So it's sort of like a Chekhov's Warren of Tunnels. Very much. Very much. And I guess it like relatively conveniently means that he gets to just like kill you know 70 or 80 Mexican cartel members. I think it would be a really powerful move to make a Rambo movie where he doesn't merk any

fools or anything. Like, they're just like, I have actually had a horrible life filled with gun violence and murder and scrabbling for survival and being employed as a weapon by the government. And now I would just like to be on my farm and then you get a good, I'm going to say two hours and ten minutes of him just tending to some, you know, some wheat and digging holes. Yeah, like tilling fields alternated with weekly visits to his therapist. Yeah, and like he starts painting and not in like a George Bush way but in like a he's really capturing something beautiful and profound through through oil painting as a medium. Well I think in the movies he kind 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 to the the the the to be the the to be the to be the the to be 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 the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the tend. tend. tend. tend. tend. tend. tend. tendon. tend. tend. tendon we. tend. tend. the the the the the the oil painting as a medium. Well I think in in the movies he kind of

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And only three? I went on the podcast 10,000 posts recently with our friends Hussein and Phoebe. And they got me on because they wanted to talk about like a dad posting, being a parent. And I went on there to talk about how Theo posts correctly about his children. The perfect dad poster? That's right. And yeah, like one of the things we were sort of talking about was like, when is it appropriate to sort of introduce your kids to things, like being online and stuff like that, you know? And I was sort of contending that it's like abstinence education, you know. You can't just be like, no, I'm going to give you no information about the internet or anything. At some point, at some point I'm going to have to be 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 be like, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, being, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, th, th, thing, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, they, thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, being, being, being, being, being,to give you no information about the internet or anything.

At some point, at some point I'm going to have to be like, this is how you meant to operate online, you know, but at the moment, they're not online at all. Yeah. However, like, you know, they play games like on mobile devices and stuff like that. And one of them has started playing like a lot of Minecraft on the switch and I'm generally very pleased by it because it's offline, don't have to interact with anybody else. She's getting zero slurs from that game as far as I know.

Yeah, no one is introducing her to the concept of racism by saying the slurs at her while she's building a cigarette. Yeah, they removed all of the ones that Notch put in after the Microsoft purchase. Yeah, they got it off Java and they got rid of the racial slurs. Yeah, so performance improvements, etc. But yeah, it's it's funny because like, yeah, watching her play that, a, she's just 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, it's it's funny because like yeah watching a play that A she's just like constantly making tons of very creative things and I find myself going you make that? No. Oh that's nice that's fucking lovely. Being surprised play your children. Well she's eight and she was showing me the series of like big complex

3D roller coasters that she had made this environment. Hell yeah, she's doing that that redstone work. I just go in there. I'm making like a skew, a skew, a squube house. Um, but yeah, it's interesting, but also it makes me go like cool because she's learning how to like navigate in a 3D environment as well. Yeah. Like, uh, because, you know, we, we all... Which is a skill you could also develop in life. Well, I mean, it's a, it's a thing that I guess we all got from playing like first-person shooters

and stuff like that on. From playing Fury 3, but just the demo, so once you finish the first stage the game was over. You just start over again. Yeah, from playing the first section of Doom until it says, hey, want to buy the rest of this shareware and you go, no. Goodness gracious, I don't have any money for I'm 11 yeah I won't be doing that yeah it's nice three wholesome it's good it's good it's awesome you know give your child Minecraft today don't let them

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