Boonta Vista - EPISODE 256: Bocce For Cowboys

Episode Date: July 14, 2022

This week: Americans love blowing themselves up with fireworks almost as much as the Dutch do. Plus: A horseshoe-themed Great American Hall of Name, and a selfless act of strategic viral TikTok kindness. *** 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 Buenter Vista. Check out. It's really slow. I don't know. Stop eating my cats. Hello and welcome to Buntavista, episode 256. I am Ben and I am Finn Pengelli. And this is my dad had a podcast, where each week we cringe our way through an episode for the podcast Buntavista that our parents made up back around the turn of the century with me as my co-host Evie Law it's Lucy hi Lucy hi my my dad's a bitch my dad also a bitch that nervous fuck so you guys just hate my dad that thii thii thii that's thinne to thi to me that's the tru cnin'f to me to the the their to th to the to th to th to to to the to to to to the to to to to the to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to th th th th th th th th th 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 th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th the the the the the the the the the too the the the the the the the the the the the the the toooooooooo it so weird? They think they're funny. And I'm listening to it, and it's cringe AF to me. And we still speak like this.

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Yeah, that's right. And also because my mom thought my head looked kind of fucked up when I came out. Hey, as a joke, we should call a football-headed baby, Stuart. And lastly, is our final co-host, the only other child that would make sense in this fictional scenario, it's Louis, who is Andrew. Oh, I've lived such a today. Oh, I've lived such a today. Oh, I's. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I, I that. I that. I that. I that. I that. I that's. I that's. I that's. I that's. I that's. I that's. I that's. I that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. that's that's right. that's right. that's right. that's right. that's right. that's right. that's right. that's right. that's right. that's right. that's right. that's right. that's right. that's right. that's that's that's that's right. that would make sense in this fictional scenario, it's Louis, who is Andrew? Hi Andrew. Oh, I've lived such a long time for a dog. Don't you ever mention my dog's lifespan ever.

I don't ever want to think about that. You kind of just kind of having a nibble on your on your dick there. He loves sucking himself off, don't he? Well, I mean... I'm 35 years old. Yeah. And I love to suck myself off. It's ironic that dogs don't enjoy it, right? Like they're doing that for cleanliness reasons. Because I can do it legally. Or because they think it's funny. Yeah. Don't put words into my mouth, you know. Don't talk about me like I'm not here. I have to get your horrible little dick out first. Oh boy. Wouldn't it be funny if this was like, uh, precedent, and it did turn out that like the collective children of this podcast did do like a, oh my god, this is so embarrassing. We discovered that our parents made a podcast together.

Yeah, they made 257 episodes. They made 500 and something episodes of this. Although they probably wouldn't be able to get the premium episodes. Those are probably lost to time. So yeah, they're probably stuck for the free ones, which is probably for the best. I don't think they'd call us cringe. I I I I I I I I'm the th, I'm th, I'm th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, thi, thi, thi, th, th, th, thi, tho, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to thi, thi, I'm not going to have kids, but like I think I would be like really cool and my kids would like think I was really awesome. I'm already kind of planning ahead because I'm doing this in my, in my office bedroom situation, but once Finn gets enough sentience, which is accelerating,

it's so funny to be measuring your child sentience. I've got to be out in the garage, dude. I've got to be like somewhere where he can't hear. Are you going to be Mark Maroning it? Yeah. Yeah. I'll pull out Barack Obama in there, too. Little red light on the outside to tell your neighbor to stop mowing while you're interviewing the former president of the United States. Yeah, my garage is down low, I've kind of got like eye level visibility to the to the neighbors sort of just walking past there, so that's going to be good. Yeah, well I mean I've got

eye level visibility to every single person that comes home after they finish work to go back to their apartment because of where my spare bedroom is. It's great. My name has already seen me record an episode in my schoader, so. Which one? Did you mention that? Oh, you just... He's only got the one of the schoad. Yeah, as if yet. Um, fucked up thing.

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something that could be mistaken for a suicide attempt. Yeah. Yeah, podcasting. Yeah. What's that whole thing with people recording like under a duna? You know? Well you don't get the room echo that way. Is it really that echoing there? Get a better microphone maybe. Well, lots of people don't use, so we use dynamic microphones, obviously so they don't pick up a lot of room noise, but other people don't. Oh, is that why they're doing that? I just thought that my asbestos gave the, uh, got a nice warm quality. Well you know how you watch you you see those videos of people that video their podcast and

their mouth is always like a foot away from the microphone because they got those sort of room mics. Whereas we're chewing on these bad boys, we look like professional musicians. Yeah, you gotta get right up in it. And I think the listener can hear the quality difference. It's well worth it. Yeah, if our kids our our our our our podcast, yeah, that would be something to report. It's time for the nothing to report report report report.

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Nothing to report, report, report. Oh, man, that's a good one. You don't hear that one often, you know? Well, there's usually something to report. It is a little treaty. It is unbelievably hard to find stories for this one. Because for the most part, yeah, they don't write these stories about nothing happening. This is a story from the Eastern Shore Post,

the newspaper serving Virginia's Eastern Shore region. Cape Charles reports no injuries in July 4th fireworks accident. Few, huh. The town of Cape Charles reported no injuries from a July 4th fireworks accident in which an equipment malfunction caused a fire that abruptly brought the town's annual fireworks show to an early end. That's spectacular finale though I would imagine. Yeah it sounds like it.

The town posted a message on its Facebook page explaining that about five minutes into the planned 20 minute show, happens to all of us, a tubes. Starting a fire on the ground which quickly spread to the other fireworks tubes nearby. Most of the unexp. the un the un the un the un the un the the the the the the the the the the tube tube tube tube tube tube tube tube tube. tube. tube. tube. tube. tube. tube. tube. tube. tube. tube. tube. tube. It's tube. It's. It's. tube. tube. tube. tha. tha. tha. tha. tha. tha. tha. tha. tha. tha. tha. tha. tha. t. t. tha. t. t. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. to. to. te. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. quickly spread to the other fireworks tubes nearby. Most of the unexpended fireworks were stored in racks away from the immediate area of the fire. The fire department's called and responded immediately, clearing the fire. That's so disappointing. Theo, from now on when you get five minutes into a planned 20-minute show, you should just say, well thank God no one got hurt. My God, it was all everything else that was made to be used was stored far away from the side of the incident. Could have been so much

worse someone could have lost an eye. The town thanked the fire department, police department and harbor staff for their assistance in preventing the incident from growing more serious. The Facebook post called the accident, quote, a disappointing end to an otherwise fabulous day. Yeah, I mean none of the other fireworks caught on fire. Yeah, it could have been so much cooler. Like that the famous, that incident where, who was it? It was like a major city where they had that that, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, thi, their, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, tho, tho, the, that, their, tho, 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, thea, theat, toeat, toea, toe....a.a. Wea. Wea, toe. Wea, th. thi. their, their, their, their, the where, who was it? It was like a major city where they had that thing happen

where all their fireworks went off at once because of the typing mistake. Is this recent one? I think I remember that. Yeah. So I'm gonna be honest with you, that was a bit of a, I was using this as a segue into something else. So this was an example of a fireworks accident on July 4th where no one got injured.

I'm going to issue a pretty severe content warning for the next, I'm going to call it 20 minutes. Fuck. Here is one story from the Fort Worth Star Telegram. man lights fireworks on his head and it explodes into his skull, Texas cops say. Oh yes. Oh no no. A 43 year old man lit a firework on top of his head resulting in his near sudden death in San Antonio police say. Oh wait wait so he nearly died or he died nearly suddenly he did so he felt a lot of pain. Almost fast. He screamed for like five seconds.

More of a brisk death. Oh, sudden death. Officers in San Antonio were called to a residential area just after midnight on Tuesday, July 5th following the firework mishap, according to a police report. First responders found the victim was suffering from severe head trauma with brain matter exposed from his skull police said. Oh that's what you want you want you want to see brain. Don't mix your wets and you dries. Yeah. This is another story. This is from... Oh that's the end of it. Guy popped his skull. Yep. From NBC News. Man loses hand-Fourth of July fireworks accident in South Florida.

Just couldn't wait. A man had his hand blown off in a South Florida fireworks accident, forcing first responders to rush the severed body part to the hospital, authority said. Dispatchers were called at about 1 a.m. Saturday and told of the mishap near Laudal lakes in unincorporated Broward County, official said. By the time first responders got to the 4400 block of North State Road 7, the victim, quote, the victim, quote, had already traveled to a nearby hospital in a private vehicle, according to a Broward Sheriff's Office statement. That's when the fire rescue team, quote, transported the man's hand to the hospital and subsequently transported the man and his hand

to Broward Health Medical Center for medical treatment. Well, I mean, they're already there. So it's probably they should probably just Yeah, pick up the hand and they're like, they took up the hand and took the man and the hand to the thrown. the guy wasn't there. Yeah, the the the th. Yeah. Yeah. the th. th. Yeah. the th. th. the th. th. th. the thou. thou. the thou. thou. the the thou. the the the the guy. the guy. the guy. the guy. the guy. the guy. the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy. the guy. the guy. the guy. the guy. the guy. the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy the the the the the the thou. thou. thoe. thou. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea thea. thea. the thea. the hand, and they were like, well, this won't do. Got the man, took the man and the hand to a third location. They got there with the hand and they're holding the hand, and then they saw the guy and they start doing that like looking down the hand, looking up at the guy, looking up the hand up in front of them about where it would go on the guy. Just doing the office worker thing where it's like you've found someone else's water bottle.

Like, uh, I think I've got something of yours. I think I'll get something that belongs to you. Does this look familiar, sir? That'd be a funny gag. Just going in there like, uh, I believe I've got something that might be yours, sir. Are you missing something? Saying, this might come in handy to a man who is screaming. Yes. Oh, he's handling that pain so well. Let's give him a hand.

And then you can't hear it at all over the screaming. No. The victim was not immediately identified, and the sheriff's office could not be immediately reached for comment Monday to check on his condition. Broward officials launched a public campaign last week, bleeding with residents to leave pyrotechnics to professionals. Quote, go enjoy the fireworks with your family and we dissuade the public from shooting off fireworks on their own. Broward county sheriff fire battalion chief Michael Kane to reporters. What what what what what what what what what what what what did did did did did did did did did did did did did did did the the the the the the the the the the victim. Doe. Doe. Doeat. Doeat. Doeat. Doeatheat. Doe. Doe. Doeat. 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 the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the. the the the the. the the the. the. toe. Chief Michael Kane told reporters.

Do you want to, what did he say to them? What did he say to them? I'm not going to do that. Kane and his bomb squad blew up watermelons with illegal fireworks to demonstrate the danger. Yeah, no, no, I could do it was fun. That sounds so fun. Yeah, that sounds so fun. Just finished blowing up four water Yeah, no, because it was fun. That sounds so fun. Yeah, that sounds so fun. That's super fucking fun.

Just finish blowing up four watermelons with fireworks to show the danger. Man, we should also blow... We should also blow up like some potatoes. Yeah. We should blow up some oranges. Well, at least a gun safety video. It's just them firing guns into the air. While shouting woo-hoo, I'm having the time of my life. Here's another story from Newsweek.

Several killed in 4th of July fireworks accidents across US. Several deaths were reported across the US this weekend, resulting from firework accidents during 4th of July celebrations. In Montebello, California, police responded to a call about a fireworks mishap at around 630 p.m. local time on on ABC 7 News. Once on the scene at a home on the 1400 block of Germain Drive, officers found a man lying in front yard, not breathing and unresponsive. It was later found that he had been using illegal grade fireworks, resulting in the accident. A Fort Lane man was seriously injured and ultimately died on Sunday night while running a fireworks show for his neighborhood.

Neighbors told WANE 15 news that the man put on the today. A local nurse, Gail Rosner, attempted to perform CPR on the man after witnessing the incident. In Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, police responded to an incident involving fireworks at around 1.30 a.m. local time on Monday, the Associated Press reported. Upon arriving at the scene, officers found an 18-year-old man who had suffered major wounds to his face after someone exploded fireworks near his head. A friend attempted to form CPR at the scene, but the man was pronounced dead later that night at the hospital. Here's another story. From Staten Island Live, Staten Islanders suffer grizzly July 4th fireworks injuries with one requiring amputation. Three Staten Islanders suffered serious injuries during this year's 4th of July celebrations

after home fireworks displays went awry, a law enforcement source told the advance slash S.I.Live.com. A 31-year-old West Brighton man lost two fingers after a firework exploded in his hand on Monday, while a 52-year-old woman near Midland Beach lost part of her thumb and sustained damage to her hand during a fireworks accident, the source said. In pleasant planes, a 55-year-old man had a firework explode near his left arm, according to the source. A man had to be rushed to the hospital and was forced to have his arm amputated below the elbow.

Goodness me. This is bad. These are like not going well. Have you got any nice stories about firework accidents? Nope. Only have that first one? You never hear about people gaining two fingers in a firework accident. I mean, they might have picked up to from the ground, but yeah, never on their hands. You don't get that in the news. It's all shock stories, you know?

They don't want you to hear that. And they hear the negative ones about, yeah. Here's another story. This is from NBC 4 Southern California. LA reported 19 hurt too seriously in fireworks incidents over July 4th weekend. LA city officials said Tuesday that 19 people including a young girl suffered traumatic injuries as a result of firework accidents over the July 4th holiday. The girl was holding an M80 type of firework when it detonated in her hand and LAPD Chief Michelle Moore said the girl suffered very critical injuries. No other details of the incident were immediately available, other city officials said. New data obtained by the I team from the

LA City Fire Department said approximately 10 fires were ignited by or were related to fireworks between July 1st and July 5th. LAPD data also included the week prior to the holiday weekend, sorry also... LAPD data that also included the week prior to the holiday weekend showed two brush fires, 23 structure fires and 32 tree fires that were likely caused by fireworks. Police dispatch records listed 1,232 calls reporting illegal fireworks in recent weeks, down from nearly 2,700 during the same time last year. That's nice.

Chief Moore said another person was seriously injured in a separate incident while holding a bottle rocket firework. Now, we have spoken in the past about New Year's Eve in the Netherlands. Yeah. I believe we cover that mostly in the episode, Battlefield to the epheel to present, I think, a still more lawless situation than this one. Yeah, and a far more comical one as well where people are sort of running around kind of doing lining goonies sort of stuff and...

They're like a caravans on fire and then dying when the gas bottle explodes, but in a funny European way. Yeah. Yeah. But here's the thing right, like it it's bad that these people get injured by fireworks. Yes. But also, it's July 4th, and I think we can all agree that death to America. Yeah. I think this is the ultimate realization of the freedom that July 4th is celebrating. You know, no regulations, no laws, do whatever you like. How's it working out for you?

He's a slightly more sort of zoomed out look at this phenomenon. This is a report from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission that was released in June this year, which was compiling the fireworks incidents from last year from 2021. This is titled Fireworks Related Deaths, Emergency Department Treated Injuries and Enforcement Activities during 2021. Here are some select quotes. CPSC staff received reports of nine non-occupational fireworks related deaths during 2021. Six of the deaths were associated with firework misuse. One death was associated with a mortar launch malfunction, and two incidents were associated with unknown circumstances.

Reporting of fireworks related deaths for 2021 is not complete, and the number of deaths identified for 2021 should be considered a minimum. Fireworks were involved with an estimated 11,500 injuries treated in US hospital emergency departments during calendar year 2021. The estimated rate of emergency department treated injuries is 3.5 per 100,000 individuals in the United States, a decrease from 4.7 estimated injuries per 100,000 individuals in 2020. An estimated 8,500 fireworks-related injuries, or 70% of the total estimated fireworks-related

injuries in 2021 were treated in U.S. Hospital Emergency Departments during the one-month special study period between June 18th and July 18th. So, you know, centered around July 4th yeah the cool zone. Cool zone. Here's some slightly more. It's so many. Like I'm assuming that we don't have stats like that. Like is Canber the only place you can get your own fireworks here? Yeah, I think that's it. Can you even get your own fireworks here anymore? You used to be able to? I used to be able to but like. Maybe you can't the the the the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only the only place. the only place. the only place. the only place. the only place. the only place. the only place. the only place. the only place. the only place. the only place. the only place. the only place. the only place. the only it. Can you even get your own fireworks here anymore? You used to be able to. I used to be able to, but like... Maybe you can't do it anymore? Hasn't seem to be much of a thing anymore.

But, um, I could be wrong. I mean, for me, it's all the videos you see of like, Americans doing their 4th of July stuff, where stuff is going wrong, and like, and like, and like, and like, and like, and like, and like, like, like, like, thi nobody, 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, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi if you, you know the ones where it's like a tube and it's got a base? And if you take a cursory glance at the thing, it says, hey, bury the base of this with heavy stuff to hold it up right or place sandbags on the base of the thing, keep it pointed up. And in like so many of these videos, they are just people who have like plonked one of those. Yeah, or just sat it down on the driveway, you know, just by itself. And the same thing happens every time, which is that the first one comes out, making it jump and fall on to its side. And then it starts shooting directly into the face of a bunch of children. This is American hubris. Americans are

raised to have too much confidence in themselves and their abilities. But they think this is a worthwhile like sacrifice, right? The trade-off of being able to be free and kind of make some funny colors appear, sort of like if you press your palms of your hands, like deeply into your eyeballs. Yeah. You can do that for free by the way. It's legal, too.

Well, I don't want to, you know, I don't want to get political on this show, because that's not what we're about. But this is really about the conflicts between a collectivist society and an individualist society, whereas the individualist society prioritizes this sort of freedom in how to live your life, how to express yourself. And what they want is for loudbang nice colors, whereas the collective society would sort of prioritize not shooting flaming hot magnesium directly into a child's eyes. I just I trust the fireworks guy to do it yeah because he's smarter than me at this that's his job. I'm gonna I'm gonna go one further the

fireworks guy shouldn't be employed we can I don't know can we resettle them in our society I don't know. Resettle the fireworks guys. Some sort of transition program where we find other work for them in renewable energy? it it it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it the to do it to do it to do it the to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it to do it's to do it's to do it's to do it's to do it's to do it'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 their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their to to their don't know. Resettle the fireworks guys. Some sort of transition program where we find other work for them in renewable energy. We pay them to do that. Right. I mean, I get that, like, you know when people,

there are lots of arguments against fireworks, obviously, and I'd vaguely support those but when people like, well we don't need them, check out this cool drone display. No, that sucks, that's worse. They look like shit. Yeah. Yeah, those are awful. Those, they're not good. What if you just gave everyone a little bump?

What if you just gave everyone a little bump? You can watch like the Windows Screen Saver that used to have those fireworks. Yeah, yeah, be SIG. When you win a game of solitaire. That's the one. Yeah, that's cool. Here we go, just to clarify, the ACT banned fireworks in the A. The ACT banned fireworks in the Australian capital. Well, I think in everybody's memory it was just that that that that that that that that that that that that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the theaueueueueue, I think in everybody's memory it was just that's the one place where you can,

where you can buy all your... Now you're smoking weed, am I right? Is that correct? Yeah. I've seen my own fireworks, you know? See? They've done the right thing. They got rid of fireworks and whereas the US has now got both. Oh, and remember a few tha tha tha tha tha tha thuuuuusea than thusea thu. thu. th. thu. thu. thus. thus. thus. thus. thus. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. that's tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that that that that that that that that that that that that th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. the. the. the. the. the. thea. thea. the. thea. the. the. the. that's the. that's that's that's that's that's the. now got both. Oh, and remember a few minutes ago when everybody said, oh, that recent thing, where someone set off all the fireworks at once, from the Atlantic, San Diego accidentally set off all its 4th of July fireworks of once

from July 5th, 2012. That's 2020, yeah. That's about three, three years ago, four. Yeah. Here is, here's some more granular information on three years ago, four? Twenty-twelve. Here is some more granular information on that one month special study period from June 19th to July 18th from last year. Of the 8,500 estimated fireworks related injury sustained, 59% were to men, 41% were

to women. Well, it's pretty good representation. It's actually slightly surprising to me. I was expecting like a 90-10 split. I was expecting a lot more men, yeah. Adults 25 to 44 years of age experienced about 32% of the estimated injuries. And children younger than 15 years of age accounted for 29% of the estimated injuries. No, I don't like that. Now that's bad.

Well, you might like this next one. Seniors 65 plus years of age experienced only 4% of the injuries. So the elderly are just like, fuck this. Yeah, not for me. Yeah, they've only lasted this long because they know to leave when a drunk guy starts lighting fireworks. I want to know about that 4% though. What are they up to? They're just like, hey, bet you'd never see your grandpa do this.

Yeah. And then they really wish they hadn't ever seen their grandpa do this. Sort of a lit mortar kind of his shaping his shaping hands. What? The parts of the body most often injured were hands and fingers, comprising an estimated 31 percent. The head, face and ears comprised an estimated 21 percent. Legs an estimated 15 percent. Eyes an estimated 14 percent. Oh, are we zoning in something?

Trunk, slash other regions. Estimated 10 percent and arms an estimated 8% Here are some case reports. Hold on what what percentage of dick shots were we getting? I think that's under trunk. Yeah, we're saying a 10 10 for that. I thought they'll go split that out, but I don't know. Do you think when they're talking about their talking about people blowing an ear off or they're talking about like giving yourself severe hearing damage by say perching a firework on your head and letting it off. I would say it's a combination of both. Okay. Some case reports in June a 31 year old male was fatally injured from a fireworks blast inside his home. The house explosion occurred while the victim was manufacturing firework devices in his basement. The blast caused a war. This man was just making some

fun fireworks for his family. He was just what he was doing was like he was getting a whole bunch of gun powder and putting it he saw those tubes with a base that he put down he said oh I can do that cut a few lengths a pipe you know about the same kind of size packing them up you got to what you got to have what what you the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. 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. the. th. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the do that cut the cut a few lengths of pipe you know about the same kind of size packing them up you got to have what you're gonna want is you're gonna want some feedback on those so mail them to some people that you respect some authoritative like senators still laughing about Shinzo Ami let's go the blood oh just speaking of Shinto army so I was out of

reception for quite a little bit and I had enough reception to find out that he had died and I was like, ah, natural causes, huh? Oh well. Yeah. I got back into reception, I was like, oh shit. I see that gun? Yeah. I love fallout. The blast caused a wall of the residence to detach, leaving the second floor in a state of collapse. The victim's pregnant wife and four children were all home during the incident. All but the victim managed to escape with limited injuries. After emergency services arrived, they continued to hear explosions from the structure delaying assistance to the victim. limited injuries. After emergency services arrived, they continued to hear explosions from the structure delaying assistance to the victim. Once medical services could safely enter, the victim was found lying supine on the basement floor. The victim was noted

to have severe thermal injuries throughout. The victim's official cause of death was listed as extensive blast and thermal injuries. That's how I want to go out though, if I've got a choice in the matter. You want to get thermally blasted. Like horrible for the victim. Yeah. But like, it's a little bit funny to imagine the ambulance there. I mean, it's just, I mean, it just taken ambulance to get there? And they're like, oh no, fireworks going off. It was still exploding by the time paramedics got there.

Yeah, and they probably like 40 minutes or so, because he lived at 64,000. Hmm. Oh, you're on the 64,000. West 66 street. I'm at 3. In July, a 24-year-old male was fatally injured from an errant fireworks mortar blast. The device tilted slightly and began firing towards the people nearby. The victim was in a hot tub and attempted to escape several other people. Oh my god. The victim was taken to the hospital by emergency services and later pronounced dead.

Immediately after the incident the cause of death was mistakenly believed to have to the hospital by emergency services and later pronounced dead. Immediately after the incident, the cause of death was mistakenly believed to have been from the victim slipping and hitting his head on concrete while running from the device. This was later clarified after autopsy and was determined that chest trauma was the official cause of death. I feel like we'd talked about this. I feel like we'd talked about. I feel like a weekly occurrence in the US. th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I thi. I thi. I thi. I feel. I thi. I feel. I feel. I feel thi. I feel thi. I feel thi. I feel the. I feel the. I feel thi. I feel the. I feel feel to to to told. I told told told the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the victim. I feel the the the the victim. I feel th. I feel thi. I feel thi. I feel thi. I feel thi. I feel the. I feel the. the. the. the. theat theee. theat theee. theat the. theat thee. theeat the. the. the sounds like something we would have talked them out. That's like a weekly occurrence in the US. Here's another press release from the Consumer Product Safety Commission from the same time last year. Sorry, the same time in the previous year, so this is talking about 2020. Fireworks related injuries and deaths spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic. The nations saw a large increase in people being hurt and killed by fireworks last year.

Many municipalities cancelled July 4th public fireworks displays through the COVID-19 pandemic, which may have spurred consumers to use fireworks on their own. Can't put a stopper on that demand. It's just going to get pent up and explode. Yeah, it's like when you use your thumb and forefinger to sort of squeeze the end of the hose, but it creates a more powerful jet. Yeah, I thought you were going to say to squeeze the bottom of your, um, yeah, like the hose thing.

What do you mean? A new report by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission finds a 50% increase in deaths and injuries from fireworks related incidents in 2020 compared to 2019. At least 18 people died from fireworks related incidents in 2020 compared to 12 reported for the previous year. About 15,600 people were treated in hospital emergency departments for fireworks injuries in 2020. There are about 10,000 ER treated fireworks injuries in 2019. Other important highlights from CPSC's report include, of the 18 deaths, eight of the victims had used alcohol or drugs prior to the incident, and most of the fireworks related injuries, about 66 percent, occurred in the month surrounding the July 4th

holiday from June 21st, 2020 to July 21st, 2020. Now I've got a simple solution to this problem which does not require banning fireworks. Simply take the fourth out of the calendar. We go July 2nd, July 3rd, July 5th, and everybody just keeps clocking in at work, you know. Add an extra day to one of the 30 day months. Yeah, no one will even notice. Stick one extra on February. I think February got short change, never really worked out why that is. Easy. Get rid of July 4th. Yeah, yeah. And like the year keeps the same number of days, no one's the wiser. If February either has 29 or 30 days. Yeah, we're getting closer, like the year the year the year th, like th, like th, like th, like th, like th, like th, like th, like th, like th, like th, like th, like th, like th, like th, like th, like th, to to to to to to to to to th. Yeah, 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 th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. th. th. th. the the thirty thirty thirty thirty thirty thirty thirty thirty thirty thirty thirty day thirty thirty thirty thi. th. th either has 29 or 30 days. Yeah. We're getting closer and closer to getting February right folks. Yeah. And they will just take out... One stone. What are the other ones that... Oh, we'll tack a St. Patrick's Day, but only for Americans.

And then we'll tack that on the end of February and then, you know, we're looking good. Because they can't be trusted with holidays. No. They're the their their their their their their th. th. th. their their th. their their th. thi thi. thi. their thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi their thi. thi. thi. to the to the the to the the to to be to be to to to to to get to to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to be to be to be to be to be to be to be the the the the the the the the the the the the the. the. the. the. the. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thean thea. thea. thea. toooooooeses. to to to to Patrick's Day. They can't be trusted with holidays. No. Unless your mind cannot be, it's like giving marshmallows to a toddler. Yeah. Oh, just have a few. Oh, come on. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to have three budwises and go insane.

And give myself injuries incompatible with life with an M80 explosive. Now, fucking yourself up with fireworks might not be... Oh Jesus. Might not be a uniquely American phenomenon, but you know what is? The great tradition of American names. It's time for the Great American Hall of Name. It's the Great American Hall of Name. It's the Great American Hall of Name. Now I've done something here that I, I think I've made it pretty clear in the past that I hate doing.

I'm loathe to do it, very reluctant to do it, but this is based on a listener suggestion. Now, most of the, uh, uh, I, uh, I think I've made it pretty clear in the past that I hate doing. I'm loathe to do it, very reluctant to do it, but this is based on a listener suggestion. Now most of the the listener suggestions for Great American Hall name we get are people sending us one name. Yeah. And I'm like that is a funny name but I don't know what to do with this. I don't know if you've been paying attention to the structure, yeah. The meta of thirty, th. the the th. th. th. the th. th. th. thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, the thu, thus, thus, thus, the thus, the thus, the the the, thi, the the theatu, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the list, the list, the list, the list, the list, the list, the list, the list, the list, the list, the list, the list, the list, the list, the the the the the the the the their, their, thu, thi, thi, thi, thi, thr, thr, thr, thr, threateat, threaten, thean, too, theateat, too, theat, too, the listener, the listener, the listener, the listener, the listener, the listener, thin, to the structure, the meta of this section. Yeah, I can't play the theme and then read one name. That wouldn't work. That's why we're making the big bucks. I appreciate the thought put into it, but you can't send me the all name lacrosse teams

either because that's somebody else has compiled a list of funny names. That would be stealing valor. But, Listener Quinn has in beautiful St. Petersburg, Florida, sent a suggestion to me that I should check out the names associated with the National Horseshoe Pitches Association. Sorry, I put the emphasis there wrong. National Horseshoe Pitches Association. So these are competitive Horseshoe Players and I have taken a selection of names both from their Hall of Fame and also from just historical published tournament results. I don't know if it's called a horseshoe tournament, I don't know, a horseshoe game. What do you, can you explain what you'd do with it? Like you throw it?

Yeah, you throw horseshoes that I think it's just like a metal bar and you can either get like hook it onto the bar by having the gap sort of hit it you know and then it spins around on it or it's based on how close you are to it. A stake in the ground. Yeah. You say a metal bar. That's it could be any way. Sort of like botchy if all you have you have th is th is th is th is th is th is th th is 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 the the thi the the. th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I the the the. I the. I the. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I the. the. the or theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeat. the. the. the. I th Yeah, I think. Sort of like botchy if all you have is horse footwear. Yeah, which is I think where it came from. It's because cowboys used to play it. Because all they had is horseshoes. Yeah.

Well, there's Italian cowboys. You guys got botchy over here? So I'm gonna take you. Yeah, we'll start real gentle with this one. There are a lot of names in here, so we might have to power through this one. I really, I had a hard time editing this one down. Elma Bella. Harold Donald. Bert Snart.

Heath. Bert Snart theeeth Poth Fran Carnahan Phyllis Quist Winnie Winnie Wintrout Boyd Stone Rock Yes Dalton Rakestraw. Ridgeway leg wet. She can't be called Ridgeway leg wet.

Did you say leg wet? I did, yes. That is L E, double G, W. E, double T. Leg wet. What happened to his family to have that name, you know? Rogers Norwood. Those two of them I think. Crystal Lazarus. That's so good. That's so sick. That's so sick. Opel Reno. Walker Forrester. Bentle Bentley Arbogast.

Zane Goggin. Oh. Relative of Walton? Yeah, I think so. Cale Matlock. Mason Schwab. George Gunkle. Mule Flab. George Gunkle

Mule Flam Ray Plute Gus Schram These are some Dunder Mifflin ass names Timmyrk's names Timmyrk's names Rusty Swartz. Marvin Gregg.

Gary Boots. Herb pinch. Joe Dubby. Joe Dubie. Kevin Cone. Joe Dubby and Kevin Cone. That's right, yep. Doobie like that. Kevin Cone. Joe Dubie and Kevin Cone. That's right, yep.

Riley Wild. Jim Simple. Lee Toot. Fred Gross. He sucks. Marvin Grubb. Elmahole. Earl Crank. Jimmy Risk. Jimmy Risk.

It's a cool name. Robert Comfort. Why do they all have nouns for last name? That's so good. He man standard. Fuck off. Fuck off. How are you spelling that? That is H E M. A. N. And standard. He has a brother or another relative. Truman standard. It was also in the list. Doc Rice. Greg Bean. Earl Crane. trial. Arnold Crow.

Rick Swan. If you compile these, you spend a lot of time categorizing these names, huh? I mean they're in a specific order. I love the thematic ebbs and flows of this. I was so happy that I was like, oh I've got two bird names here. Ooh, a third. A fourth? Carolyn F. Slaughter. And then my final third. A fourth? Carolyn F. Slaughter. And then my final two, James Bond.

Paul Highlander. Oh. Oh. I had to cut out a lot from that list. This was a gift that just continued to give. That was a good list. There was a lot in there. I didn't even, there were no dick joke ones in this time. I cut out Dick Carpenter. He was gone. Even though that was funny to me? Yeah. Because he's a Dick Carpenter. He did. He didn't get rid of Elmahol. D Carpenter is a homophobic slow. Like, That guy's a real Dick carpenter, you know what I mean? I consider myself more of a Dick cabinet maker, a Dick joiner. You don't see many Dick Mason's around anymore, do you? No, it's shame.

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Check it out. Well, the American people do have a disease when it comes to giving things names, and it seems like not only has that started to to to to to to to to to to to the their their their their their their their their their to giving things names and it seems like not only has that started to infect people here but so has some of their horrifying social media mentality. This guy is Australian right? He is Australian I believe yes. Good then yes I'm blaming him. It's time for the dreaded tick-to-talked-ock watch which sounds like we're talking about a clock you know? Tick-Tock Watch. I was I was upset for a very specific reason when I read this article today. Is this the one I think it is because I read this at work and it made me so angry.

Yeah, people have already seen this one which I know I generally try to avoid but I think that it's nice to finally have... The thing that we all know is what is happening during these videos, it's nice it's nice to have the opposite side of this point articulated, which is nice. Yeah. And these fucking teens getting getting what they deserve, you know? Finally. Yeah. From the ABC. Melbourne woman featured in viral TikTok video without consent says she feels dehumanized. A Melbourne woman says she feels like click bait and no one wants to feel like that.

After she was filmed without her consent for a Tick-Tock video that has now been viewed more than 57 million times. Social media numbers are getting too big. Yeah, they're too big. That's a silly number. Like I'm getting that on Twitter.com. You know how Elon Musk has been like trying to shit post his way out of having signed a big legal contract that said he was going on to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to tip.... It tip tip tip tip tip tip tip tip tip tip tip tip tip tip. tip tip tip. tip. tip. tip. tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tc. tc. tc. tc. tc. tc. tc. tc. tc. tc. tc. tc. tc. tc. tc. tc. tpc. tb. tc. tc. tc. tc. tc. tcoke tc. tcoke tcoke tc. tc. tc. tc. Musk has been like trying to shit post his way out of having signed a big legal contract that said he was going to buy Twitter. And everybody who is interested in like tech stuff and legal is looking at it and going, does he know that none of this is helping his get out of the contract? Yeah, the court transcripts saying like he's not taking this is helping his get out of the contract. Yeah, all the court transcripts saying like, he's not taking this seriously. Yeah.

The reason I think of that is because I saw one of those, him trying to laugh and shit post through it. It's funny to me actually kind of things. Yeah, and he's laughing. And it had a million likes, which for Twitter is like a lot of likes. That's numbers. I feel like it really seems. The biggest numbers. Yeah, it seems like it's only been the last several years or whatever that tweets started getting like four and five and 600,000 likes on a regular basis that you would see them

float past, you know. But a million likes, that's right up there. And then you look at the numbers that Tick Tock is doing. And that's, there's just a whole different thing. This video, 57 million views and 10.9 million likes. So there's the number of people who've seen it, and then there's how many people actually bothered to go. Yes. Yeah.

Tick Toc creator Harrison Poor Luxeum said the video was filmed legally and was quote designed to spread love and compassion and not quote cause anyone concern. Why does he have to have a an LA Hype House name? Two last names. Kids are all called Harrison now. All 18 year old guys are called Harrison. Used to be they're all called Braden, but I guess society has moved on. Yep. Hmm.

Well, lady at my work today said, yeah, you have met a kid I've ever met that was called Cody? Yeah, you have met a kid I've ever met that was called Cody was a little piece of shit. And I said, you know anyone that isue. That's fair. That's Harrison now. That's Harry. Yep. Marie, who has withheld her surname to maintain her privacy, told ABC Radio Melbourne that she was filmed in a public place receiving flowers from Mr. Pollux several weeks ago. The video was posted on Mr. Pollock's tick-tock account with the caption, quote, I hope this made her day better. And the hashtag wholesome. You guys seen this video right? No, no I'm not gonna watch it.

No, I'll never watch it. There's a fucking woman sitting in the food court, this dumb teenager goes up and is like, can you hold these for a second? And then she's like, oh, some lucky girl must have these. And he's like, that's right. And then like walks away. Some varying on that. Whist was directly into her ear. Yeah, a very lucky woman. Yeah, some bullshit like that.

And the tongue in the ear. And then he's out. I hate this shit, th. th. th. th. th. I'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. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. It is. It is. It is. It is. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's th. It's to. It's to. It's to. to......... to.. to.. to. to. to. to. to. to. th. th. th. th. th. th. th.this shit man. Yeah it's just the same it's the same genre of social media shit that it has been for ages. Yeah just that fake wholesome doing good task bullshit. Yeah that like filming giving a quarter pounder to a homeless guy video where I assume like 30 seconds later they take it back from being like hey you would have spent this on drugs. Yeah exactly. But it's not even like I feel like we've distilled this stuff down to a specific form because for a while there, closer to the beginning of the concept of things going viral online, it was

more that kind of stuff like a flash mob would do something or, you know, a busker would be playing a violin violin and then other musicians would join in and it turns out that it's some fucking orchestra or whatever and people go oh look at this thing happening but instead we've done a way with all that artifice of planning something involving some people doing something that is like that would actually be notable to a person on the street and now we are just at palm some flowers off on a 60 year old woman. Yeah, you go to Woolies, you get like the marked down like day old flowers.

They've gone from 19 bucks to 1299. You're like perfect. This will get me 57 million fucking views. Yeah, and she's like, great these flowers are my fucking problem now I guess. Lucy, yeah I'm gonna be responsible for these. Lucy, having seen the video how old do you reckon Marie in the video is? Oh 50? 50 early 50s. I was I was gonna say she looks like she is between 50 and 60 years old to me. Yes and they're talking like they're acting like they're going up to someone on their fucking... It's like elderly woman. Yeah they're acting like they're going up to someone on their fucking deathbed. It's like just some 50 year old woman mining her fucking business eating her lunch.

The poster since gone viral. All content creators should be put down, including us. Yeah. 100%. Destroyed like dogs. It has since gone viral on the social media app collecting 57 million views and 10. million likes. The comments on the video include, when she started crying, I couldn't hold it back and, wow, that

that was so beautiful I swear I would cry. Well fucking do it then. Yeah. I had the courage of your convictions to cry. Yeah do it. Like I'm used to we're all crying. Yeah. Posting a comment to say I thought about crying. I almost smiled. Didn't. Yeah. So close though. These comments have received one 10, thousand likes. But Marie said she wanted to challenge the idea that this was a random act of kindness. I also think that we should give Marie some of the likes. I think we should get Marie $15,000. Yeah. That seems fair to me. Just give Marie some money. Like you're earning money from this.

This guy's like a professional content creator. Yeah. Give her a check. Quote there's a lot of these th th the th the th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th the the the the the the. the. the. the. the. the. the. 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. 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. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. th. the. th. th. there's a lot of these flower tick-tocs all over the internet, she said. He interrupted my quiet time, filmed and uploaded a video without my consent, turned it into something it wasn't, and I feel like he's making quite a lot of money through it. I love this woman. She's right to say it. So much. It's the patronizing assumption that women, especially older women, will be thrilled by some random stranger giving them flowers. Get it! Get it! Destroy that teen. Destroy this team! I want that teen destroyed. Like...

That twin obliterated. You are, yeah, you look at the video and she's not an elderly woman. No, she's literally like 50. Teen's like, this is the oldest woman I've ever seen. Going up to some middle-aged lady and being like, what was World War I like? Oh. Oh, you were probably on the Titanic, right? Are you the lady from the end of Titanic? And also the start of Titanic.

Marie said she had been having a coffee in the Melbourne shopping centre when a man approached her and asked her to hold a bouquet of flowers. Quote, I made a bit of chitch out about, oh, who's the lucky girl, she told Virginia Trio on ABC Radio Melbourne. And then he said, someone very special, put his backpack on and just sort of strode off. This is the bit that fucks me up, right? Marie then realized she was being filmed a few feet away from a group by a group of people

and asked whether they were filming to which they responded no? Clearly being filmed. Are you filming me? The best answer they could come up with was no. Why? It's like a 19 year old holding a Kmart ring light directly in her face being like no no just stretching. Remember the um remember the Google Glass? I was I was thinking about this the other day of how like, um... I was try to to thr- thrown a thr- I thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi a thi a thi a the a the a the a the a the thi a thi a thi a th th th th th th th th th the th th th th. the thi thi the thi a thi a thi a thi a thi a the thi a thi a thi the thi the thi thi thi the thi thi thi thi thi thi the the the the the the the the the the the group group group group group the group group the group group group thr- group thro thro group thr-c-c-c-c- thr- thr-c-a the the? I was thinking about this the other day how like I was trying to think about what is the current signifier for I'm a fucking idiot. I'm a stupid asshole. Like a lot of people feel like that would have felt like that about like recumbent bikes at some point. Yeah. Even though they're way better for you. Yeah, oh absolutely. And the clearance on him. So the Google Glass thing, like people had

such a visceral reaction to that just because they knew that it had a camera in it. And it and and so when someone looks at you with them on, your brain goes, this person could be recording me. Oh, yeah, I keep getting ads on my Facebook for these RayBans that have little cameras in them. And every comment is like, that's super fucked up, please don't make these. It's, I think with the RayBans one, that they're sort of, they're like partnered with, um, it's probably fucking Facebook slash meta or whatever. There's been a few like Snapchat had made their own glasses that you could just like post. I'm looking at them right now and they steal sell them. You can still buy them. Yeah,

generation three of spectacles, the Snapchat glass, 380 bucks. And you can get them in either mineral or carbon. I want to say that the Ray-Ban ones, I think they were kind of tying pretty directly, maybe to Reels on Instagram. Probably, yeah. And, uh, but yeah, like, part of the reason that people had such a reaction to that thing was because they were like, you have advertised this as having a camera in it and potentially being able to record everything you're looking at all the time and you're looking at me while you're wearing them.

And you can say, well I'm not taping you currently, but people still had the same. To the guy next to you at the urinal. People still pressed a button. I'm holding my penis. People still had the same reaction that they would have if you stood there with your phone and held it up outward at them. Because they'd go, feels a lot like you're recording me right now and I don't fucking like it. So if someone was holding their phone up like that and you said, hey you tape me?

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Make the meet their Google Pixel or whatever the fuck. So, Marie asked if the group of people were filming her, to which they responded, no. She then asked whether they wanted the flowers. Quote, I didn't want to carry them home on the tram to be quite frank, Marie said. Yes, I called it. Yep. Later that evening, a friend contacted her partner and showed him the video of Marie that had been uploaded online. I thought, oh well, who watches these things? She said, I didn't think much of it. Apparently, 57 million people do. Or...

You'd be so fucking angry. He's so mad. Um, or, you know, less people watching it a lot of times, potentially. Uh, Marie later received more text from people telling her the video had gone viral, and that there was an article written about her on a tabloid news site. At first, it was just a bit of a joke to me, but then I felt dehumanized after reading the article, she said. The article said, old woman, elderly woman, heartbreaking tale. And they got this picture of me supposedly crying, but it was just a horrible expression. So she's just like they do have a photo of a

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performing quote random acts of kindness. Yeah. I'm gonna bully this cut online. Remember when people you see that shit where they stand out with the free hugs thing. It's like a it's like you know the old chuggers in the city the old charity muggers when when they like trying to get a handshake from you as you're walking past trying to, trying to get a handshake from you as you're walking past, trying to, trying to really, really get involved. Uh, this is like that except they don't even get to sell you a subscription to green piece or whatever.

Instead, some stranger just records you. Yeah, and makes, how much money do people make from this shit as well? I, it's so hard to figure out. It's a lot, right? Yeah, if you got 3 million followers. I mean, he has a team. Yeah, like a team of people. They've got like people that's playing the videos and agent. Yeah, that's right. As far as I can figure out, Theo, you don't get shit from tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-fix-fix-fix-o, tc, thi-o, thi-o, thi-o, thi-o, thi-o, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, tho, thi, thi, thi, tho, tho, 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-a, th-a, thi-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-fo-fo-fo. thooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. tho. tho, tho, tho, that's right. As far as I can figure out, Theo, you don't get shit from TikTok for having a video on there that gets 57 million views.

It's about having an audience of a sufficient size where you can then get sponsorships. Sponsored content. All of that sort of stuff, that's the stuff that you make money from. But I imagine that those deals are like wildly variable depending on your audience size and the company that's engaging you for something, all that sort of stuff. So I feel like, I feel like this is something where we're not really going to find this out for some chunk of time until people start sort of, I don't know, until people are talking about what it was like when they used to do this stuff. Because I imagine this is potentially a market that people will age out of pretty quickly.

Man, I haven't seen it for probably a decade now, probably more, let's say 15 years, but I've never thought about the ending to the movie pie more than I have potentially in the last year or so. Someone asked you, what did you think of that Tick-Tock video? And you just shake your head, unable to think of what Tick-Tock is, and you just smile. And you look out on a beautiful sunny day in New York. That sounds nice. Because you've plunged a... Yeah, you've taken a power drill and you've put that directly into your town. You've put that right in your brain. Yeah, and instead of excising the number that represents the name of God and the knowledge of the universe, it's the knowledge that Tick Tock exists.

Yeah. The knowledge of teen teamers. It's good. It's good because I feel like my brain's full, you know, like every time I learn something like it's pushing out something. I can't remember. A lot from like early childhood now. My mind is closed by a Tick Tock influencer. Yeah. Yeah. Like my gates are shut. I'm not allowing this in.

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I love that shit. Or it's like, oh, it's the cool librarian. And he's doing the tick-to-to-dance of like, when people say that they love this book, shaking their head. When people say that they want that, leave that for young people. Leave it to the teens. That's for the teens. Marie said, these artificial things are not random acts of kindness. He didn't give me the flowers at the outset. If he had, I would have said thanks but no thanks, but I wasn't given that opportunity. While it is legal to film in a public place, Marie issued a warning toe, toe, toe, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the their, and th, and th, and th, and th, and their, and th. I the, and the, and the, and the, and like the, and the, and like the, and like the, and like the, and their their their their their their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, and their, and their their, and their their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and their, and th, and th, th. And the, the, the, the, thean, thean. thean. thean. tean. tean. tean.ean. thean. thean, thean, thean, thean, Marie issued a warning to others about the tick-to-talk train.

Yeah, I'll hit you with a hammer. I'm fucking coming my shit again. We're gonna dance. That's what you're gonna do. I'm so much young man. Let me just see if I can find a boiled sweet in my handbag. Oh, what's this? you're a head real quick. She said, I think other women, especially older women, should be aware that it can happen to me, so it can happen to anybody. I don't do Facebook, Instagram, Tick-Tock, anything, and yet it happened to me.

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So the person who's giving these comments, I assume this is who it is. His 21-year-old Brisbane-based manager, Taylor Riley, who negotiates sponsorship, said popular Tick-Tock influences like Pollock uploaded a video every day targeted a very specific audience. His 21-year-old Brisbane-based manager. Yeah, if you'd like to cause him bodily inconvenience. Yeah, he, quote, he offers flowers and pays for complete strangers groceries. And while cynics may claim it's for views. Yeah, it is. It's for that. It's reviews. It's reviews. Yeah, Harrison simply has a personal commitment to helping people feel more connected and trusting. Oh, does he? Does Harrison have that? that's a that? It's a good. that's a. that. It's a. It's a. It's a. It's a that. It's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a they. It's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's a that's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's a the. It's a the. It's a the. It's a the. It's a the. It's a the the the the the the the 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 they. It's the they. It's. It's reviews. It's reviews. Yeah. Harrison simply has a personal commitment to helping people feel more connected and trusting. Oh does he?

Does Harrison have that? I love this as a follow-up to that. His videos are filmed in public places and so technically do not require consent. That man, that makes me feel so connected and trusting, bro. Like I feel like this is one of the thing that like the law has to catch up with. Or, like it shouldn't, it shouldn't just be legal to post a video. Yeah. It's also, I mean this is quite specific, but like, it's not a legal given that shopping centers are public either, because they're privately owned businesses.

It's a private premise. So I was actually listening to a, there's a radio lab lab lab lab lab lab lab lab lab lab lab lab lab lab??? to, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it's athey're privately owned- It's a private-primus. So I was actually listening to a, there was a radio lab episode about this recently, but like it's a state-level legal issue in the US. And so some states, shopping centers and malls are considered being in public for things like freedom of expression and for being caught on video, while some others aren't. So I don't know what it is it is, but also imagine, imagine someone's been like,

hey, I think you've actually done something wrong by this lady and your response is, hey, hey, it's technically legal. Yeah. We don't need her consent. It's perfectly legal. See, Ben, you're looking at pursuing a sort of legal ground, whereas I think that there's probably some fertile areas for exploration, but possibly, I'm not saying illegal, but I'm saying perhaps in the grey area, in the margin. You're saying we should look to the east for some examples? I'm saying we should look to perhaps the movie 7 to consider how people might suffer retribution for their sins, or perhaps by, you know, ironic crimes performed against them. So, yeah, I was, I was think we could look to a sort of, uh, you were never really here starring Warkin Phoenix sort of model where it's a sort of hammer-based

justice system. Yeah, okay. You just go to Bunnings and you find a tool that just sparks joy and you can. Like a ball peen hammer and that gives you some options. Do I want ball? Do I want peen? You've probably got a lawnmower at home. Nope. Flip that bad boy upside down. I'm going to say to tryst- Brother, you're a lawnmower man. Most of our listeners at best live in an apartment, at worst, live in a chicken hutch because of the housing crisis. Your parents probably have a lawnmower at their house in their back garage. Yeah, flip that bad ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba. Do th. Do th. Do th. Do th. Do th. Do th. Do th. Do th. Do I th. Do I want th. Do I want th. Do I want th. Do th. Do I want th. Do th. Do I want th. Do I want th. Do th. Do th. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. that that that that that that that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. th. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do th. Do th. Do I th. Do I th. Do I th. Do I th. Do I th. Do I th. Do I th. Do I th. Do th. Do the. tha. the. the. tha. th. that th. garage. Yeah, flip that bad boy upside down.

You got two sling blades. It's just, you know... I'll call it a sling blade. Remember that time we watched that movie together at your house? Like, oh, I haven't checked out the movie. Have you seen sling blade? No, it's supposed to be really good, hey. That was a great time. What a weird, what a weird, what a thah. What, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. their that, I their thatheat, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I th. th. th. th. that, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you. their, you, you. I their, you. I their. I their. I their. their. their. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, th. that th. that that that that that that that that, their, their, their, the. What a weird movie. Like I get that this is not, and I think if you're going to be a good socially conscious person in your life, you have to look

at things like this from the perspective that they are broader social phenomenon and there are factors that lead people to do these things that are beyond them making personal choices. But at the same time, one hammer each hand. Yeah. Beat you to death. How fast can you run? In Minecraft. In Minecraft. We are... Leave old ladies alone. Leave old ladies alone. Leave old ladies alone. Leave ladies, leave ladies of, leave ladies alone. Stop trying to go viral. Yeah, as well. Stop it. If you want to go viral, I'd like suck your own dick or something. You know, do something skillful. Have a strangely impressive penis and for some reason upload a video of you sucking yourself off.

You go viral. I saw a, there saw another video I saw today, Flo-passed on Twitter, which was somebody whose deal is this sort of shit, does pranks, where he had like, you know, hollowed out a dick hole in a watermelon, and was taking it back to the store and saying, no, that's, that's, I, But the thing is he he wasn't... he wasn't even doing like a take it back to the store and be like I'd like to

return this watermelon and then pretending like you didn't know... Classic bit. Yeah, he wasn't even doing that. He wasn't even doing that. He was like, he just went in and gave it to the woman behind the counter, like middle-a-settl. the the the the the the the the th.. th-n. th-n. th-n. th-n. He-n. He-n. He-n. He-s. He-s. He-s. He-s. He-s. He-s. He's-s. He's-s. He's, he wasn't, he wasn't-s. He's, he wasn't-s, he wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't, he wasn't, he's, he's, he's-n. He-n. He-s. He-s. He-s. He-s. He-s. He-s. He-s. He-s. He-s. He's-s. He's-s. He's-s. He's-s. He's wasn't thi-s. thin. He wasn't thin. thin. He's wasn't thin. He's like, he wasn't th. thi. thi. He wasn't the. He's wasn't that. He was like, he just went in and gave it to the woman behind the counter, the like middle-aged lady working behind the counter at a grocery place and said, Yeah, I want to return this watermelon. I was, I was fucking it. And then, and now it's, and now it's just gross or whatever, you know. And I think at that point you're acknowledging that you've used the melon, you don't get to just return it. So leave people out of your fucking viral TikToks. And yeah, sick of it. And this, you know, and she just asks, turns around to somebody else and is like, can

you help me with this, you know, to a manager or whatever. And then after a few more moments, there's like a cut and it's just several people in the store going get the fuck out of here. There's these guys standing here filming us talking about fucking a melon get the fuck out of this store and it's like obviously they've put it up because they think it's funny but it's recorded like a prank going very wrong in my eyes like everybody there hates you. they're all making really clear that no one thinks it's funny and they can see you there filming them. It's very... Yeah, time for hammer. I don't... I think. You know obviously every time we talk about

TikTok we sound as old as we are because we are not the target demographic of TikTok. But this applies to everything. Just don't do it for YouTube, don't do it for Instagram, don't do it for Twitter, don't do it for Facebook videos, whatever the fuck that's called. Just don't fucking film people. Don't. I would just do that. If you're thinking about don't. I want you to do a little mental exercise. If you're about to film someone for a hopefully viral video on whatever monetized platform, think about how much you like having all of the bones in your hands sort of together, like unbroken. And do that trade-off.

If you're willing to have all of the hand bones in one of your hands smashed with a hammer for that video, all right, fine. Do what you've got that video. All right, fine. Do what you got to do. If you're not, put your fucking phone down and go do something, anything else. Go take some nice photos of some birds. Oh, it's kind of fair. Go listen to little baby. Is that a... It's not, it's not Stewie from family guy. No, I think if anybody is even vaguely ambiguous about these people and their motivations and how they are spreading, spreading kindness and making people feel more connected and trusting, and then when somebody says, hey, I didn't like that, the response is,

his videos are filmed in public places and technically do not require consent quote having said that while he has only so far encountered gratitude if someone is upset then they should feel free to personally email him he would not want something designed to spread love and compassion to cause anyone concerned what's his name Harrison Harrison Polack like do Like do you get the vibe from that? There might be an email address for him online. Yeah, do you get, see if you can track him down, but like do you get the vibe from that? Is he within bullying reach? You get the vibe from that statement that if Marie were to send an email to him saying, hey actually I didn't enjoy this, I'm feeling a lot of negative energy as a result.

And you're mainly looking to spread positive energy. So can you please take down your video with 57 million views? Do you think he would be like, for sure. I care about you. You get an email back that just says, so true, Bestie, and then the video stays up? Yeah. That's what's up. Yeah, somehow this made me angrier than the several deaths in the first half of the episode.

The only fireworks related deaths. Sorry, I can't find it, but if you want to email Harrison Porluck, he must have an email address online. You're asking for it. You reckon it was insincere the offer that you could just personally email him? If you can find it, please let us know at mailbag at Punta Vista.com and we will spread the good word of how to contact Harrison. A lot of people get caught up on email. Sometimes you can't know where it's going to find the right place. Maybe you've got his home dress. Maybe we've got some photos.