Boonta Vista - EPISODE 278: Look To Chermward

Episode Date: December 15, 2022

Lucy, Theo, Andrew, and Ben bring you a tale of two cities with: West Fargo's crackdown on feeding geese, and Amsterdam's crackdown on money laundering. Plus: Losing your Hyperdome, what happened to P...ie Face, and someone finally takes the Living End to task. *** Support our show and get exclusive bonus episodes by subscribing on Patreon: www.patreon.com/BoontaVista *** Email the show at mailbag@boontavista.com! 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

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Starting point is 00:00:59 But, hello. Welcome to episode 278 of Buonta Vista. I'm Theo and I'm on my legally mandated fucking around break. That's right, I've gotten dangerously depressed by all of the things that are on my work-to-do list, and I'm just taking a little break as not only protected but mandated by fair work Australia. And if it's not, if that's actually a thing that I'm not supposed to be doing at work, then this intro is completely hypothetical and is protected under parity, which is probably also not a thing at Australia as well. Fucking around with me here on their legally mandated fuck around break is my friends.
Starting point is 00:01:50 Ben. Hey, buddy. Yeah, I don't get a legally mandated fucking round break. Yeah. Because I work in a customer service job. I can't just like, I can't play. Hearts of iron for two hours. Because I've got a meeting on or whatever.
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Starting point is 00:02:32 I'm sick of watching a today. Ah, how are you fucking around in your fuck-around break? Can't be described legally on tape. I'm watching five hours of movies, a different kind of five hours of movies. Yeah, you're probably watching those damn pornos. I'm watching, I'm watching a single one of those, of those Japanese porns that's like all about weird, weird spitting and milfs and it goes for four hours. pornos. I'm watching I'm watching a single one of those of those Japanese porns that's like all about weird weird spitting and milfs and it goes for four hours. Yeah I haven't seen it. I'm waiting to wait to see how weather them. Wait and to see where the plot goes in the third hour.
Starting point is 00:03:16 This thing's really starting to warm up. And finally we're here with Lucy. Also on her fuck around break. What are you doing on your fuck around break, Lucy? See, I work freelance so every minute of the day can be a fuck around break. Yeah, but at the same time, because you're working freelance, any fucking around that you do is just adding to the pile of misery that gives you your next day. That you're putting it off for later. But what I am doing is playing six to eight hours of Call of Duty a day. Nice. Nice. They got any new ones out?
Starting point is 00:03:49 They do. They got the new one? Caller Judy two. They got three. There's four. There's more call of duty modern warfare too. There's more call of duty modern warfare too. I just think about if that was true. There's a remastered modern warfare so that
Starting point is 00:04:11 I'm that could possibly not be true what you've just said. It's it's actually not true there. They made a second call of duty modern warfare too. That confused the fuck out of me. I was like am I old enough that it's come back around? That they've like completely, they've had, um, oh, fucking goddamn. What do you call it when you, when you've got a number that's a fixed amount of bits, then you go too high and then you loop back around. Integer overflow, yeah. Yeah, they've had integer overflow with the call of duty games. They were using three byte, thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the th. th. the thi. the thi. thi. thi. their overflow with the call of duty games. They were using three bit integers. All the way up to whatever that is.
Starting point is 00:04:48 Eight. Definitely know what you're talking about. Yeah. But seven, you'd have to, your highest number would be seven, and then you could. So you're saying that the first, the first one they're going to use zero. Yeah. Not eight. first the eighth game would be zero-use zero yeah not not eight and we could take this discussion offline if you have to it that's what people come to the show for uh humbers talk you know yeah that's it that's the whole intro well that's a
Starting point is 00:05:18 great one I loved it I loved how worried I was when you had your guitar right yeah I didn't like that what What is a podcast if not just fucking around? The wink of irony. It's okay, we don't really believe in anything we're doing. Yeah, it's fine. I would never sincerely play the guitar in front of an audience. No. I did once and I've regretted it for like seven years.
Starting point is 00:05:43 That's a fucked up thing to do. Yeah, I was suggested by my guitar teacher. It's like, hey, you should come along and like just do one of these. And I did. And describe what one of these is? Where? Was it a pig and whistle? Uh, no, it was like a part of the music school where they get, it was like in one of the music music thus music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music music. I. I. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they. they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they. I I I I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I they. I they. I they. th. I th. th. th. I th. I th. th. I th. th. th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I they they they they they they they they they get it was like in one of the music stores at in Logan there that was like a really big one so they had like a performing area and stuff and so people like that were getting lessons would come and just give it a try like playing in front of other people so I would
Starting point is 00:06:20 play in front of like five people and then I've just stashed that away in my memory bank to Replay in my head any time that I think my life's going too good Can we can we reach into the memory bank and and inquire no song was you can't are you sure? Yeah, I'm positive pretty sure you remember. Yeah, probably would wouldn't I? Yeah nothing's comingto mind though. I've been I've been going to a lot of school assemblies and recitals lately for my children and I think I was talking recently about being asked to stand for the national anthem at a primary school assembly and being like the fuck is going on there.
Starting point is 00:07:01 But we we went to a music recital that our kids were playing at and it was a weird vibe. Number one a bunch of kids got up and played stuff and when we left my wife said that that just wouldn't have been allowed at one of my school recitals. They would have told those kids that is simply not good enough. And they wouldn't have been permitted to play. Which I thought was very funny. But the other, like, they've got some sort of respect kink going on at the school because they also had like some of the teachers there, like their third party music teachers, right? Like, like, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, the school, 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, the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school the school their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their of the teachers there, like the music teachers, but they're third party music teachers, right? Like the school has some sort of arrangement
Starting point is 00:07:50 where they're like if you want to do music lessons you can do them sort of on premises during a lunch break or whatever, you know, but they're music teachers from a local music school. And so you know they're getting something out of it, these music teachers, you teach teach their teach teach their their they they they they they they they they they they they they they they're they're they're they're they're they're, it's they're, it's they're, it's they're, it's they're, it's they're they're, it's they're, 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 their their they're, like they're, like they're, like they're, like they're, like they're, like they're they're, like they're, like they're, like they're, like, like, like, like, like, they're, they're, like, they're, they're, like, like, they're, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like. And so, you know, they're getting something out of it, these music teachers. It's their job. But then when they have the recital, they're like talking to the music teachers, like they're visiting dignitaries, like the Queen has come. They're like we just want to thank them so much for coming here. No, you're paying them and they've done a shitty job. The end of year recital, they're like giving them flowers and gifts? The kids or the teachers?
Starting point is 00:08:31 The fucking music teachers. Come on now. No, no, the kid, who's giving think the thank you comes in the form of the money you give them every week for doing a lesson with your kids. How bad was this recital though? It's pretty fucking rough. I'm about to put a child on blast. So get ready everyone. So, so like you can look down the program and see these kids from this year playing this thing on this instrument, the song on this instrument, you know. And they're all very brief songs.
Starting point is 00:09:07 It's relatively painless. But the first child, it just says special guest. Right? Like she's James Earl Jones? Yeah. Oh, his name hasn't appeared in the credits yet. Featuring. And also starring.
Starting point is 00:09:23 Yeah. And so when the recital starts, someone from the PNC or one of the teachers or whatever gets up and it's like saying thanks for coming everybody blah blah blah and they say oh our first our first performer is a special guest they're a returning student. So they don't go to the school anymore. They're in fucking year seven and another school, right? Nobody cares. Yeah, and they say, they say, a special guest returning, you know, she's been playing
Starting point is 00:10:00 for three or four years away. Was she wild though? Was she just like a prodigy? Well, let me tell you, when they said, here she is to play a Billy Eilish song on the trombone. Pardon? What an awful phrase you've just said. Right? Well, if it's bad enough to hear the phrase, you cannot imagine the song.
Starting point is 00:10:28 Just trombone, like no backing, no singing. Oh my God. A single trombone. A single trombone honking out. Hilly Islish. Milly Ilish. And, and the worst part was, we, again, when we left, Elna says, and she's been playing for three or four years you're telling me? Your wife is.
Starting point is 00:10:56 Me-Eow. She was like, yeah, bring him back if you're going to show them like, you can aspire to this. Yeah, that's true. It was not on that kind of vibe. Real like daughter of the principal energy there. Yeah. No one's ever been impressed by a trombone either by the way. That is not a cool instrument. It's not like a saxophone where you can do like a sexy solo or something. You're in the third row of a scar band. Yes. Yes. How come those
Starting point is 00:11:27 you don't even get the good socks? The checkered ones are for the lead singer. Put them down. You're in plain vans back there. Like why is the sax sexier? Like it curves with the shape of the body. So if you're if you're moving around it's like you're like limber with it. It's like you're dancing with it. It's like it. You, you. You, you, you, you, you, you're like the like the like the sa like the sa like the sa like the sex like the sex like the sex like the sex like the sex like the sex like the sex. You don't like the sex. You don't like the sex. You don't like the sex. You don't the sex. You don't the sex. You don't the sex. You don't the good. You don't the good good. You don't the good. You're the sex. You're the sex. You get. You're the sex. You don't get. You don't get. You get. You're the sex. You get. You're the sex. You're the sex. You're the sex. You're the sex. You're the sex. You're the sex. You're like. You're like. You're like. You're like. You're like. You're like. You're like. You're like. You're like. You don't. You don't. You don't. You don't. You don't. You don't. You don't. You don't. You don't. You don't. You don't. You don't. You don't. You don't. You're the. You the body so if you're moving around it's like you can be like limber with it. It's like you're dancing with a brass partner. It's Bill Clinton. It's all Bill. But then uh but the trombone coming out at a right angle to your face. Not sexy. I think the further away from your center of gravity an instrument goes the less sexy it is. Yeah, okay. Okay, let's think about that for a second, like a cello?
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Starting point is 00:12:38 What army are you in? 14-year-old American weirdo. Whereas a double bass that one might play in a scar band, unsexy because it's it's big and it's heavy and you're like holding the neck out from your body. What if you're doing those little dance moves on it though? What if you're doing like Tony Hawk shit on it? The guy from the living end? Yeah, I'm specifically just talking about the guy from the living end. We're all thinking about the guy from the living end. Basically, I had a conversation actually this is so specific. I was talking to friend of the show the other band, Ben Juggles. I'm going to say three days ago for some reason about the living end and he was like yeah, they're genuinely really cool they were doing some very interesting stuff. What are 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. the thi. the thi. the the the thi. the the thi. the the thi. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the 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. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. theeeeeeeeeeeeeeean. today. the. the. theeeeeeee. theeeee. I the. I cool. They were doing some very interesting stuff. What are you fucking talking about? So let's put some on right now and see.
Starting point is 00:13:31 And Ben, if you were listening and taking umbrages to how I categorized your side of the conversation, too bad. I'm the one with the podcast, bitch. I just distinctly remember despising the living end because their little rebellion song was just like on repeat constantly. Are you talking to Prisoner of Society? Yeah, yeah. That was everywhere for all. When I was nine years old at our school end of year concert for Christmas, me and two
Starting point is 00:14:02 of my friends did a performance where we just mouted along to Prisoner of Society. Can you do that? At a critical line in the song, and I can't remember what it is, we threw away a textbook symbolically. Yeah. We did not win. We did not get any awards. I mean, some might argue you didn't do anything, but... I think we're making a pretty profound statement about the state of education and authority. Doing some disruption, you know. But like, fuck you, Mrs. Stevenson. But yeah, the song is all about the reason it appealed to, like nine-year-olds to 15 year olds alike, was because it was just like, teachers, you can't tell us what to do. Yeah. And one day I looked it up and those dudes were all like 38 when that song came out, man, they're all old as fuck.
Starting point is 00:14:50 Can't be right, because that would mean they're in their 50s now. Exactly. Almost 60. They looked pretty fucking old at the time as well. I suppose they did. The roast of 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. tho tho tho thoes. thoes. thattoes. thoes. thoes. thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes. th. th. th. th. th. th. thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho. tho. tho. thoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I suppose they did the roast of the fucking living end on here. And if you're from a country that's not Australia, go fuck yourself. Too bad we're the ones with the podcast. That's right. Yeah do yourself a little treat, pause the show and if you're in the car ask Siri or whoever else is in the car with you to put on the song Prisoner of
Starting point is 00:15:28 Society by the band The Living End. And then you can just enjoy what swept our nation like wildfire in the heady days of 1997? Yeah, that lead singer of the Living End, Chris Cheney is 47 years old currently so he would have been 20 20 at the time that their first albums released yeah no that's not true at all 25 now that well stories all over who could say it would have been 23 impossible to know okay there's simply no way that we can no to deduce that from the numbers we have available to us we're not a numbers show no you know the numbers to 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 tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho that that tho tho tho tho th th th th th th th th th th th th so th so th th th th th th th so th so th th th th th so 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 to to to to to to to to toe toe toeeeee to to to the. There's simply no way that we can... Nope. To deduce that from the numbers we have available to us.
Starting point is 00:16:07 We're not on numbers show. No. We wouldn't want to get them wrong and really end up looking like a big old goose. That's right, a goose, one of nature's scariest animals. Let's see what those motherfuckers have been up to. just my personal opinion that a goose is one of nature's scariest animals. Let's see what those motherfuckers have been up to on Nature Corner. HALOOTA ISO, NATYCONER, RUBERKANNRB SICKT my dick.
Starting point is 00:16:52 HONG, hon, honk, honk, honk. That's the geese. This comes from WDA-Y news, the Waday. Waday to you, sir. Uh the Waddei. Woody. And Waday to you, sir. Serving the Fargo Moorhead region in North Dakota and Minnesota, West Fargo bans feeding geese. Good. Punishable by death, I said.
Starting point is 00:17:18 They've had it too good for too long. The geese or the the geese. The geese. Awful creature. The geese or the... The geese? Townsfolk. Canada geese. Just awful. Awful creature. After residents complained about the high amount of Canada geese gathering in their neighborhoods this summer, the West Fargo City Commission took action to add feeding wild birds to an already long list of animals listed in the city ordinance as off-limits to feed.
Starting point is 00:17:42 A high amount? That whole sentence is completely garbled. They added feeding wild birds to the list of animals that's off-limits to feed. God damn it. Yeah. Yeah. Real stellar journalism going on. Okay we can't criticize the guys whose news we're using for free that much. Well I'm about to criticize the very next sentence. Such, this is not me putting this in. Such animals include many of what one may expect such as deer, moose, or coyotes, but the city law, comma, for some reason,
Starting point is 00:18:21 yeah? includes animals not particularly native to the city such as alligators, crocodiles, lions, tigers, cougars, bobcats, leopards, jackals, and even dingoes. Fuck yeah. Just covering it. Like if, oh, if you see a lion, don't feed it. Yeah. Ah, there's a dingo in Moorhead, Minnesota. You might think you can feed that dingo, but you would be wrong. The cop running over to be like, oh my god, I've never got to tell anyone this before. You can't, that's a dingo, it's a native type of Australia dog and you can't feed it. I don't do that, they just go bang, bang, bang. Throw it in the wood chipper I warned him for some reason yeah
Starting point is 00:19:08 didn't bother following that one up for some reason yeah do they have a zoo could say West Fargo maybe probably probably it's maybe that maybe they're trying to get out ahead of any potential zoo escapes I believe I said this on the podcast at the time that it happened to me, but when I stayed in Fargo, in my hotel that was just across from where the replica wood chipper is that's like a town monument, there was someone had died in the room across from me about an hour before I arrived. Oh, do you know why? It was a drug overdose. Oh.
Starting point is 00:19:49 Yeah, it's not like a fun death. No, it was like a quite sad death. It was really weird. There was just like a bunch of cops and coroner and stuff around and the person at the counter gave me a very minor discount on account of the dead body. I'd arrived at a crime scene and it was directly a crush from where I was staying. Yeah, okay, I'd probably ask for a discount. I didn't. I wasn't going to. They were just like, I'm gonna give you a cheap rate. And I was like, okay, are we whispering because... Don't want the dead body to hear? Yeah, what's going on? Yeah. I mean, I don't really know what I would expect really really really really really really the the the to really the to really the to really to to the to to the to the to the to the to to the to the the to the the to the to to to to to the to to to to to to to the dead the dead 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 dead to 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 the. the thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. toea. toea. what I would expect the hotel to do about it.
Starting point is 00:20:25 Yeah. Unless say somebody had been savagely butchered in the room you were to be occupying that evening. And they check out time, you know, you went around because they didn't check out and it turned out that all the walls and the ceiling had been painted with their insides. And then you wouldn't even get their, their, their, the, the, the, thu, thin, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thus, thus, thus, thus, thus, tho, th, th, that, thu, thus, th, th, th, th, th, th, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu. thu. So, thu. So, thu. So, thu. So, thu. So, thu, thin, that, thin, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, to to that, that, that, that, that, that, that,in. Yeah, I think at that point, they could call you and say, there's kind of been a murder at the hotel, and it affects you directly.
Starting point is 00:20:53 But unless it affects you directly. We're at the hotel. I'd be wanting like free bar. Like, you got to comp that whole mini bar for me at least. I want at least two miniature bottles of Jack Daniels. Do you guys demand free stuff? Because to me I would like, oh, it sounds like you guys have a lot on your plate at the moment. Yeah, yeah. I don't want to stress you out.
Starting point is 00:21:13 I'll sleep on the street. Like any reasonable person, I'd actually offer to pay their more. Yeah. What like has anybody has anybody said I really think you should sort this out for me about anything in their own recent memory? Yeah, actually once My whole life we were going to go see Tropical Foxstorm and went to this place for dinner and I ordered like a panchetta pasta, and it was just inedably salty and I only ate about half of it and the lady came around. Is that everything all right?
Starting point is 00:21:50 So I'm like, oh, actually the pasta's really salty. White people think salt is too spicy. And then on the bill they gave me like 10 bucks off. Oh, like, thank you. Hmm, wow. That, I can imagine Caitlin looked at you with a newfound respect in that moment. I know, she was a little scared actually, you know, in, you know, like in drive, a scene in the elevator where, where she like, realizes who it is that she's actually in love with, and she's suddenly scared.
Starting point is 00:22:25 Yeah, yeah, it's sort of like that. All the lights dim. Oh, I don't, I'm not asking for something, for muddy off and the lights are flickering and with the power of it. Yeah, and then Theo stomps the waitress's head into a red mist, you know. No. You're like, hey bitch. Hurling the pasta across the room, plate shatters
Starting point is 00:22:50 on the wall. Let's watch drive again. Everybody says, ah, it's salty my eyes. Ah, it's too salty. It's too salty. Oh, I can only imagine hundreds of times Ben has said, if you ever want me to come back here again. I've never complained in my life. Do any of us do that? I would take a lot for me to send something back at a restaurant or an annoying way. I'm one of the hosts of the third most popular Australian comedy podcast in Fiji. Yeah, that's right. Don't you know who I am? Don't you've got a lot of powerful friends in Fiji.
Starting point is 00:23:29 I am, I'm sure this has come up on the show once upon a time. The last thing I remember sending back was a plate that arrived with a large smear of somebody's blood on the side of it. It was at this cafe in Melbourne where they put out like you know cutesy shit for you to do like drawings and craft and stuff with on the table. And we ordered some brunch or whatever and slaydy like put down our plates and walked off and I looked at it for a minute and said to Elna, that looks a lot like, like blood on the side of the plate, doesn't it? Yeah, she was like, yes, that is 100% somebody's blood.
Starting point is 00:24:12 And the waitress comes back by and we go, you don't have a cut on your finger to you maybe, due to this situation, and she looks at her hand and it's like, oh yes I do. I'm very 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 thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thatu thu thu thu that's like, that's 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, thu. Like, thu. Like, thu. Like, thu. Like, thu. Like, thu. Like, thu. Like, thu. Like, thu. Like, thu. Like, thu. Like, thi, thi. Like, that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is that is thooo hand and it's like oh yes I do. I'm very sorry about that and I said could I perhaps trouble you for a for a different thing. She's just been walking around for the last 10 minutes poking things and go oh there's blood on that. There's blood on that. But she like takes it back to the kitchen and it hangs out there for a bit. And I think at some point I said, hey, how's that other thing coming? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:50 Because you know, at that point- You just take my meal and son's blood, if you know. The other person has already like had their meal down in front of them for 15 minutes at this point. And then it comes back out from the kitchen and it's extremely apparent that it is the same dish and they've wiped the blood off the side of it. Sure. As opposed to say... And there's no diseases that are in blood either.
Starting point is 00:25:15 No, as opposed to so. Like you know, I am not particularly sensitive about, you know, cleanliness in kitchens. I'm not somebody who, like, you know, you know, the people who are like, you should see what kind of stuff they're doing and pick your racial stereotype of choice restaurants and kitchens. I'm like, yeah, if you don't want to know, don't go looking around back there. Blood is a line, like blood is crossing a line there. That's pretty, yeah, and when it came out and it was clear that it had just been wiped and put back on the table cold at this point I said I think that I'm done I'm cool I think I'll live and I don't imagine I will be paying for that particular plate of food for the record unlike Andrew I do not have a favorite racial stereotype no no no
Starting point is 00:26:01 to each their own you love them all is that what you're saying how can I possibly pick a favorite they're all they're they're they're all they're all they're all they're all they're all they're all they're all they're all they're all they're all they're all they're all they're all all all all all all all all all all they're all all they're all they're all they're all they're all they're all they're all they're all they're all they're all they're all they're all they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're all they're all they're all th th th thi tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho thi they're all all all they're all they're all they're all they each their own. You love them all. Is that what you're saying? How can I possibly pick a favorite? They're all like my children. Oh boy. So, this ordinance that will, you know, in Joe Brandon's evil America will stop you from feeding local dingoes in West Fargo. Also includes, quote, species or breed of turkey, geese, ducks, pheasants, wood ducks, owls, eagles and any other type of fowl not being kept for agricultural purposes. After the West Fargo City Commission passed the ordinance, second reading at its Monday, December 5th meeting. Feeding geese will now be a violation of city ordinance, punishable its Monday, December 5th meeting.
Starting point is 00:26:45 Feeding geese will now be a violation of city ordinance, punishable by a fine of $50 or $100. I think it's a cost of doing business. It's worth the risk. It's worth the risk. If you get $100 worth of fun out of feeding geese, go for it. Yeah, I've got that $100 set aside in my drawers. And I'm just going to feed geese until I get caught. Feed them a hundred times and then you're only getting caught once.
Starting point is 00:27:07 Yeah, it's worth it. That's a dollar per feed. I think it would be very easy to crowd fund several hundred dollars to get a head start on all the geese you'd like to feed. Oh yeah Prime the pump. Financial, give yourself a nice runway. Yeah, I think you could, um, I think you could absolutely convince people to put money in a hat so that you could keep feeding the local Canada geese in a town they don't live in just to be annoying to people.
Starting point is 00:27:41 Go fund me. Andrew is feeding geese in Fargo Moorhead region. Andrew is feeding forbidden geese. Quote, we would hope that after someone is caught they would stop feeding the animals. End quote. Yep. Who's policing this? Is someone going around looking for this? Someone see someone with bread and it's like you don't you feed that goose. Hey pal, where you taking that bread? Just got some stale bread? I don't know, the bread looks pretty stale to me. Why would one man need a whole loaf of stale bread? Pretty fucking suss. Oh, you're making croutons? You're making enough croutons for nine or ten salads?
Starting point is 00:28:26 Where are you going? Oh, you're gonna freeze the croutons? A likely story. I was gonna ask if any of us have had jobs where you've had to enforce rules on other people. But Ben, I guess that's you like every day. Yeah, and also, like, well, yeah. And then there was also that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that th also th also that th also th also th. . day. Yeah and also like well yeah and then there was also that thing that happened for the last couple years where you had an insanely large amount of
Starting point is 00:28:48 rules that everyone hated that you had to enforce constantly. I love them. I love them. No jacking off. Yeah yeah that was the no jack off pandemic that we had for you for you know for forever. That's great I fucking hate, because the people being told hate you, and then you grow to hate them, and then it becomes like a Stanford prison experiment, except it's for middle-aged guys that just won't pull their mask up. Yeah, maybe we are the real virus. I've been zooming in and out on the Fargo Moorhead,
Starting point is 00:29:22 breached it in Google Maps, because I cannot possibly not stop doing things. Guess what their Bunnings equivalent is called? Um, Fargees. Go on. Runnings. No. Is it a hardware store? Yeah, a long-time chain retailer with a wide array of home and farm supplies and outdoor
Starting point is 00:29:47 recreation equipment. That doesn't sound like a bunnings to me. That kind of sounds like a bunnings. That sounds like an agricultural store to me. Exactly like a bunnings. Okay. I clicked on it. I thought, I wonder if this is going to be exactly like bunnings when I saw it be be be quite be quite be quite be quite be quite be quite be quite be quite be quite be quite be quite be quite be quite be quite be quite be quite be quite be quite be quite be quite to be quite to be quite to be quite to be quite to be quite to be quite to be quite to be quite to be quite to be quite to be quite to be quite to be quite Home Depot over there, out there like big box hardware store. But over here, which always weirds me out because of the Lowe's here. Yeah, here in Australia,
Starting point is 00:30:13 Lose is where you buy either ruggers or you buy really fucking annoying party shirts for your fucking stupid barcrawls of your dickhead friends who fucking suck shit. I was gonna say to be specific it's where Ben buys his rug. Yeah, I buy my rug is there. That's right. I bought some from the Lowe's just near Theo's place the other day actually. Oh really? No, they're free named it. It's not Garden City anymore. It's just Westfield Mount Gavatt. Fuck is. We used to be a civilization. Communism. We used to have a culture. Yeah, they renamed the shitty shopping center on the south side of town in Canberra. They changed the name away from the hyperdome. It's not called the hyperdome.. We still have a hyperdome. We still got a hypodome. Oh damn it. What's it called? What's it called now? The hypodome? Can you imagine changing the name from
Starting point is 00:31:15 hypodome to South Point? That sucks. South Point's nothing to me. And worse, they stylize it as south like period point with no spaces. I hate that. So, heading down to Sopo. Heading down to Sopo. I listened to a really good episode of 99% invisible that talked about how in both America and Australia and other countries that have malls, they're all named with like a cardinal direction in the first half. You know your west fields, you, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, the the the the the the the the the, the, the, the, the, the the, the, the the the the, the the, the, like, like, likethey're all named with like a cardinal direction in the first half you know your Westfields your South Point you whatever's. Yeah and I can't remember a single thing about why that's the case I just know that they spoke about it was it was it to let you know what side of town it's on initially maybe maybe maybe but now there all the West fields are everywhere so it doesn't fucking help you, does it? Yeah. What's a hyperdome? I know now when I'm at Cherm's side of the tomb. I'm on the Cherms side of town.
Starting point is 00:32:10 Yeah, that's right, which is north. I think we're going Chirmwoods. Chirmwoods. Chirmwood ho! Is that Chirmwoods? Is that churn wood? Is that that churnw-is? Is that churnw-is? Is that churned? Is that churned? Is that churned? Is that churned? Is that? Is that? Is that? Is that? Is that? Is that? Is that? Is that? Is that? Is that? Is that? Is the their? Is their? Is that? Is their? Is that? Is that? Is their? Is their? Is that? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is their? Is th. Is th. Is th. Is th. Is th. Is th. Is th. Is th. Is th. Is th. Is th. Is thi? Is th. Is th. Is th. Is th episode look to Churmwood even if something funnier comes up. That's the spirit. Thank you. Also I just want to give a quick shout out to the Aspley Hypermarket or Hypermarte? Theo surely you're familiar with the Aspley. That's Northside, that's none of my business. Oh yeah, well it's a combined Coles Kmart. That's fucked up. Which is insane. It's one single point of sale system shared between a Coles and a Kmart, which is- So I'm putting bread through the same place I'm putting through a PS5.
Starting point is 00:32:56 Yeah. Yeah, if they had any. I don't like it when they mix the stores. No, it's fucked up. I didn't even th you think think think think think thine thine thine thin thin thin thin thin thin thin' thin' thin' thin' tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho that's thu. tho tho tho thoomat. thoomat. thoomat. thoom. tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho that. that. that. that. that. that. that. th. th. th. th. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. the. the. theaa. toa. toa. toa. toa. toa. toa. thea. thooooooooo. tha mix the stores. No, it's fucked up. I didn't even know you could until I went to the Aspley Hypermarket. Haven't you ever like been to a place where, I don't know, like the, um, like server stations on highways do a bit of that. Oh, I don't like that at all. Sure.
Starting point is 00:33:18 Put a pie face in there. Yeah, but you go in and there's like... And then goes BP? Yeah, like sometimes it's a service station and a weird facsimile of like a country cafe with a bunch of shit under heat lamps and stuff. And everybody wants to dine in an establishment that is half service station. Half petrol station at a truck stop. But then there's the ones where like you go in and there's this like the sort of open shop front for the petrol station but then there's also like just counters for like a McDonald's or something else and then there's like a pie face that sort of also has an open restauranty bit to it and a news agent with no walls you know.
Starting point is 00:34:04 Yeah news agents should have walls you know yeah news agents should have walls I believe so I cape's I can put some books there I don't know it gives everything an airport vibe which I already do not like I feel like I we'd made a sort of a note to check why there are still pie faces even though pie face folded like ten years ago they're all in the petrol station now. They went very bankrupt isn't they? Has anyone told them? They just like the Japanese man on the island. World War II is finished. Yeah looking up our pie faces in camera.
Starting point is 00:34:38 You got a pie face? I went to chemist warehouse today. I was awful. I told my son to chemist warehouse and I said, look, you're going to see some stuff in there that you're not going to understand, okay? We can talk about it when you're older. Close your eyes, and whatever you do, don't listen to what anyone says. Can I just read the opening paragraph of the Pieface Wikipedia page, do you? The Pieface chain, founded in 2003 in Sydney, Australia by Wayne Homschek, predominantly sells various types of pies and coffee. Following a period of rapid growth in
Starting point is 00:35:16 Australia and overseas, the company entered administration in 2014 and the majority of the chain stores closed. I love to, I love to be so good at business that I go bankrupt. Yes because you were too good at selling pies. Holy shit we've got so many pie faces now time to stop. There used to be so many. Do you remember the pie face years? Well the pie face years are back because in April 2017 it was acquired by United Petroleum for an undisclosed sum. No. Between 2018 and 2020, PIFACE opened over 200 locations across Australia.
Starting point is 00:35:50 How deep does the rabbit hole go? As of 2020, PIFACE operated 240 locations. Sounds suspicious. That's not right. What the fuck? So, in its peak, before it got bought, it had 80 stores in Australia, now it has 240. I've spent the last hell of many years thinking Pieface was dead despite the fact that it's
Starting point is 00:36:13 everywhere. It just keeps seeing it, yeah. It's just in petrol stations though, I think. Because they've just chucked them in the old gas station. You remember all those those those those those those those those those those those those jokes those jokes those jokes those jokes those jokes those jokes those jokes those jokes those jokes those jokes those jokes those jokes those jokes those jokes those jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes those jokes jokes jokes those jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes, all those jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes. those. those. those. those those those those jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes jokes like the Simpsons and stuff like that where they're like, oh, we just went past a Starbucks and they're like, don't worry, the next store is also a Starbucks and they are closing the store across the way to put in a Starbucks. If you live in Australia, your experience is all of those jokes but with a chain called Pie called pie face. They sell pies. Yeah, I mean not good pies either. Let's just vegan pies actually very yummy. They're all right. The pies have faces on them as well.
Starting point is 00:36:49 They do. They actually have a little face on them. And that's kind of fun. That adds a fun element to your snack. Yeah, but also reduce the profit margin. I'm saying that I don't think the pie face pies would win any blue ribbons at any country pie judging fares. But I also believe that those are all scam. I think that I think that bakeries are giving themselves basically like you know paid for serving a reason. Because who's going to argue you see it's like a blue ribbon on the window you're going to go in there and be like you can't show me the award? Where is Mabel? Mabel, where'd you get this? Well, yeah, they're all like winner of the,
Starting point is 00:37:27 winner of the, uh, of the pie competition in this town. It's like those awards on wine bottle labels. Where they're like, industry awards that is like, put on by the companies that own those wine labels. Yeah. But how the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the fuck the the the the the the the the fuck else he is supposed to choose? Best logo in 1999. They put in the effort of coming up with some awards to put on the wine bottle.
Starting point is 00:37:48 They put that little number thing that says like 95. I'm like, well, there's my choice. This is no rinky-dink operation. They're up to 95. Should we check in on this goose feeding situation? Oh, yeah, I guess 40 minutes into the episode, may as well. Now, this ordinance says that feed, quote unquote, means making food, including corn or seeds, available for consumption outdoors, either by spreading on the ground,
Starting point is 00:38:15 or hanging at a height of less than five feet, as measured from the grade at the pole or structure supporting the bird feeder. Sorry, so you can have a bird feeder. Yeah, just not at a level that a goose could feasibly reach it. structure supporting the bird feeder. Sorry, so you can have a bird feeder. Yeah. Just not at a level that a goose could feasibly reach it. What if, what if the birds knock the seed out of the feeder onto the ground like the birds do with my bird feeder and then some geese get at it?
Starting point is 00:38:41 Will you be held accountable? I think the birds have committed that crime. You didn't like train the birds to do that, did you? Yeah, but maybe it's maybe it's like a you know someone if someone gets assaulted in your bar, are you responsible? No, not really. Does it depend? Does it depend? It does depend on factors, that's right. Yeah, yeah. Let's say you feed that goose at the bar too much alcohol. They punch somebody. But yeah, I do think that the birds have done the crime, but then if they come around, they're like, you've been spreading seed on the ground.
Starting point is 00:39:19 $50 fine. What am I supposed to do then? How am I meant to feed my kids? We're all stuck eating disgusting Canada goose. You're just gonna get to your doorstep and pantomime like finding a hole in your seed bag? And you get to- Oh! Oh! Back to the store I go. Maintaining live vegetation such as fruit trees, gardens or flower beds does not count as feeding.
Starting point is 00:39:48 Small bird feeders higher than five feet will also be acceptable. Yeah, you guys can't get them all the way up there. Yeah, that's right. The ordinance explicitly defines, quote, non-domesticid animal or wildlife as animals considered to be naturally wild and not naturally trained or domesticated, all which are commonly considered to be inherently dangerous to the the the the health, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the to the to the to to the to the to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the or to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to toes or flowers toes or flowers toes or flowers toes or flowers toes or flowers toes or flowers toes or flowers toes or flowers toe or toe or toe or toe or toe or to to toe or to toe or the or the or the or the the the the and the the the the the the the the the the thea thea thea thea thea thea. thea thea thea. thea. tea. thea te naturally wild and not naturally trained or domesticated, all which are commonly considered to be inherently dangerous to the health, safety and welfare of people. Residents are also not allowed to care for any member of the rodent family. Ooh, they're coming for gothgones now. Including any skunk, raccoon, squirrel or ferret.
Starting point is 00:40:22 Any poisonous, venomous, constricting or inherently dangerous member of the reptile or amphibian families, including rattlesnakes, restricted non-venomous constricting snakes. Pit Vipers, crocodiles, and alligators are also explicitly prohibited. That's a tricky construction there. Restricted, non-venomous constricting snakes. That's right. Restricted constrictor. Restricted constrictor. Earlier the summer, Michael Ziminsky, the migratory game bird management supervisor for the North Dakota game and fish, said that feeding the birds can create quote bad habits. Playing dice and stuff like that. Yeah, they'll get used to eating. In one instance, a goose knocked over a little kid for his sandwich. Yeah, playing dice and stuff like that. Yeah, they'll get used to eating.
Starting point is 00:41:09 In one instance, a goose knocked over a little kid for his sandwich. As you said, adding the nearby water features create a situation that is impossible to avoid. I think that that is a very funny way to phrase that. You could say a goose knocked over a child while attempting to eat his sandwich. Not knocked over a little kid for his sandwich. He didn't be like, move over, motherfucker. Slam his goose ass into the child and then pick up the sandwich and go, wah. I mean, it's- You can't stop nature, you're in his territory with a sandwich. Yeah, which is the entire earth. Yeah, disguise the earth. They've really chosen to phrase it in a way in which they they they they they they they they they are, they are, they are, they are, they are, they are, they are, they are basically, they are basically, they are basically they are basically they are basically they are basically they are basically, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they They've really chosen to phrase it in a way in which they are basically saying a goose robbed a child. A goose committed. Maybe bloody fine that goose a hundred bucks, you know, maybe leave us alone. That's right. And if he doesn't uh, you know, if he doesn't have enough money to pay for it, you just shoo him out of town.
Starting point is 00:42:07 As far as we know, that's very effective. Telling a Canada goose, hey, go on. Go on, man. Get out of here. Get out of here. Clapping some boards together. We'll make them leave for anywhere up to 30 seconds. Hi everybody, it's me. It's Theo.
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Starting point is 00:43:30 Dutch News. NL is our favorite. NL Times. NL is the second-burst English language Dutch news service. Apologys to Dutch news. Amsterdam toughened stance against souvenir shops suspected of money laundering. Huh. Amsterdam is stepping up its fight against souvenir shops that act as fronts for criminals to launder their drug money. The city is sending special control teams to check its many souvenir shops for suspicious
Starting point is 00:43:58 activities. RTL News reports. We share a lot of shops where hardly anyone enters. Amsterdam, Farnke Halsimer said. You cannot pay thousands of euros in rent from one customer a day who buys a lighter. Then you know it is your business model that cannot legally exist. I've always wondered about these. Me? Yeah, souvenir shops have got to be like money laundering fronts, right? Yeah, like in places where there's so many of them too.
Starting point is 00:44:27 What's the... Lucy, will you know the name of that furniture store in Melbourne that was very clearly a front? Oh, Franco Cotso? Yeah, did you see that Franco got bought? Yeah. People are really, Nimbies are really mad about it. It got bought by, um... Like a brewery. Yeah, and people are really, Nimbies are really mad about it. It got bought by um... Like a brewery. Yeah, Moondog, isn't it? Yeah, Moondog, and they're keeping... and they're going to build like a beautiful, like a little brewery thing there. It's right across from the train station and people are really mad. And they're keeping the Franco Cozo sign and integrating it into part of the design of the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building th. Yeah. Yeah th. Yeah thin thin, which th. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, which to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to th. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah the, yeah their their their their their their the building, the building, the building, the building the building the building the building the building the building the building the building th. Yeah th. Yeah th. Yeah the, which the, which the, which the, which is the. Yeah, which is theat theat theat the. Yeah, theat theat the. Yeah, the. Yeah, the. Yeah, the, the. Yeah, which sounds very cool and nice. Well, it's just a very funny store because I lived down the street from there for years and years and years and years and I went past that store every day on my way to and from work. Same stuff in there. And when we were down there getting breakfast and everything, not just same stuff. Not just same stuff. I do not recall at any point in the, I don't know, six years that I lived down the street from there and was going back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back back the the th th th th the th the th th th the th th th th the the the th the street from th from the street from the street from the street from the street from the street from the street from the street from the street from the street from the street from the street from the street from the street from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th the the the the the the street from the the street from the the street from the the the street from the street from the th. th. th. the street from the street from the street from the street from the street from the street from the street from the street from the street from the street from the street from the street from th thi. thi thi thi thi thi. the I don't know six years that I lived down the
Starting point is 00:45:26 street from there and was going back and forth all the time ever seeing a living soul in that store not not just not a lot of customers to nobody straight up have not seen not even stuff you know not even like a couple of a couple of a sad sad looking salesman how do I buy a marble mermaid, you know? Not even like a couple of sad, sad-looking salesmen. How do I buy a marble mermaid bed, you know? Yep. How are you going to do it? Anyone going to help me?
Starting point is 00:45:51 God, they had a lot of wild-ass, soprano shit. Gosh. Very gush. Oh, very sad. All right, Pete. Oh, very sad. RIP. Amsterdam residents may think that these money laundering fronts don't affect them. Quote, but things like this reduce the range of shops, Halsammer explained. Dodgy tourist shops fronted with criminal money also drive up rents and displace regular entrepreneurs.
Starting point is 00:46:19 Wonder who they might be. I'm convinced this is some sort of weird translational cultural thing, but both Judge News and NL Times use the word entrepreneurs more than we normally would to just describe people with like a small business owner or whatever, yeah. So you think it's a translation issue? Maybe, I don't know. Quote, criminal activities rarely stand alone. They cause more violence in the city.
Starting point is 00:46:47 Sooner or later an explosive may be placed in front of buildings where this happens. This means there's also a risk for people living around it. And quote, it's quite extreme. Sooner or later, it's going to be a fucking war zone. Yeah. I mean, I would ask, uh, how long have you had a lot of souvenir shops in Amsterdam for? Because I bet it's a while.
Starting point is 00:47:10 And how many bombings have you had? Yeah, how many, uh, how many, how many, uh, souvenir store related bombings has Amsterdam had? If you know, right into mail back at Buntavista.com, and if it turns out to have been more than, say, zero, I will happily apologize to the mayor of Amsterdam. And now there are special teams checking for suspicious activity. An RTOL reporter accompanied the team one day. On that day, they found a store that was only open for six days in the entire month of October. Another store had no glass doors in front of the refrigerators resulting in towering energy bills.
Starting point is 00:47:55 You couldn't just fucking fork out to put some fridge doors in? Some fridge glass to keep up the illusion that you were a real fucking business? Or turn the fridge off? So odd. Not worrying about those bills is a sign that there may be more going on, an inspector said. Quote, we have handed out approximately 5,000 euros in fine, seized over 250 counterfeit items, caught an employee in benefit fraud and found evidence of underground banking, action coordinator Bert Hogama, summarized the afternoon's work. That may not seem like much given the estimated billions of criminal money flowing through a city like Amsterdam, but it also sends a signal that criminals will not go unnoticed. If you're doing welfare fraud at your souvenir
Starting point is 00:48:46 shop, we will be there. If you have a t-shirt with a counterfeit Bart Simpson pissing on... He's smoking weed. He's smoking weed in those shirts. You know how like how in America they were originally like, you know, you would get Bart pissing on a, on a Chevy logo. Oh yeah, I know the one. And then people had him here and he was either pissing on a Ford logo or Holden logo. Is it? It's not Bart.
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Starting point is 00:49:40 One of the angry beavours. I think both- The yellow ones for it personal. I think both, the yellow ones too chased. Norbert and Daggett, I believe, are both adult beavers. I don't think they're children. No, but what about their behavior? Wow, their child liking their behavior sometimes, especially Daggett. Yeah. Norbert's a little more refined. He likes jazz if I remember correctly. Oh you can absolutely get Stewie peeing and stuff. So if cat dog is pissing on it, which one's doing the pissin? Is the dick directly I feel like we've already done this probably? Probably.
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Starting point is 00:51:25 Because it's such a relief he's taking such a big piss. Yes. Gorsh. But, uh, but yeah, he's not, he's not like on all fours with one like cocked, even though he's technically a dog. No, he doesn't piss like that. He's standing up. Have you got Disney plus you got Disney Plus Lucy? Yeah. Because they've got like all the old cartoons, right?
Starting point is 00:51:46 And all the shorts. Goofy's smoking 30 cigarettes? Yeah, yeah, we're Goofy's blasting cigs. It keeps him sharp, all right. Or there's a, there's a short on there that's like, about setting up your home theater. It's got goofy like fucking up, setting up his home theater. You know, it goes to the big box store and buys a TV, brings it home, fucks it up and everything.
Starting point is 00:52:10 But in that one, like everywhere he goes, they're all dogs like him. Like everyone. It's not like there's a mix like there are in Mickey Mouse cartoons, where he's got Donald, he's got Mickey, he's, he's, he's. In this it's just everybody is like goof troop mode faces, you know? What's the dog version of a sundown. I think in a goofy movie the high school is also entirely populated by dog people. Yeah, so what I'm wondering is does Goofy perhaps live in a town that is either segregated? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:50 Or reservations? Well, it's not segregated, they just like to be among their own people. Just seeing Theo's face as soon as he said that, but unfortunately this is an audio medium. Um, yeah, no think he's, I think he's in like basically a, I don't want to say it's like a white zone but dogs. Like a gated community or something. I think it's more just like, like if you went to an average kind of very small town in rural Midwest America. Surely like 90 something percent of the population is white. You think Goofy is representative of the white man? Maybe what I'm getting at is it kind of posits that maybe most of the
Starting point is 00:53:41 of the populace of the continental United States in the Disney universe look like goofy. Is Goofy? You're going for a many goofies theory, I think. Well they're all different, they're all different dogs. It's not just many goofies. They're also not dogs, right? They walk around on their heartlines. The dog is also a dog. Yeah, but he's a... Pluto is also a dog. The new... He's a regular dog though. The new Mickey Mouse cartoons on Disney that they... Mickey Mouse is a dog.
Starting point is 00:54:11 Yep. They, they address this specifically by having an episode where Goofy comes over and he sees that Pluto gets treats for doing tricks and then he's like, fuck yes, I'm gonna start acting like a dog. Just because you want some free treats, ends up going to the Westminster Dog Show performing with no clothes on, you know? Yeah, and he's just clowning on him. He's just clowning on everyone.
Starting point is 00:54:36 Right, 55 minutes and one and a half stories. That's almost two stories. Sometimes there's other important things on the table here. How many goofies are out there? And 50% of the time it comes back to the new swath of animated shorts in the fucking Disney universe. Or lack of shorts, as the case may be. Yeah. None of the wearing shorts, I know.
Starting point is 00:54:59 Check out the Pirate Bay Proxy, bythe way, for Disney Plus content. Okay. Yeah. Check out not giving the Disney Corporation money. Hot tip, everybody. The Australian government seems to have completely given up on enforcing anti-piracy laws. Yeah, it turns out that it's not possible. Well, I think enough people took up streaming that they went, ah, it's fine. It's fine now.
Starting point is 00:55:22 Maybe big corporates corporates cor cor cor cor back from TV that they could go. Oh look, that stuff we were screaming about for years? Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. We've got a brand new way to lose figures from the platform, Kickop on the Myening. Fuck. So many eyes and Jays. Amsterdam counted 960 companies whose owner, director, or the company itself, had been convicted of a drug offense in the past.
Starting point is 00:56:02 How does the company itself cop a conviction for a drug offense? How do you convict a company? Oh, yeah that is weird. Maybe we're talking about like shipping companies that were moving contraband or something. Yeah, maybe you're gonna like find the corporate entity or something. Hmm. Huh. Huh. 130 Amsterdam companies had a money laundering conviction connected to them. How many businesses you got in that town? How dirty is your money? Quite souvenir shops are a vulnerable sector for money laundering. Yob Van Beekhoven. S- Feekeven. Yob and Beekhoven. Yub and Beekhoven. That's so good.
Starting point is 00:56:49 It's what Disney would call like maybe an eagle that's modeled after Beethoven, you know? Mm-hmm. Bekehoven, that's nice. That's what he said of the anti-undermining organization RIEC. Quote, tourists often pay with cash which makes it easy to mix that money with criminal drug money. Dunn-da. Any money laundering shop is great. Like every town has one, right?
Starting point is 00:57:16 Where people believe that that shop is a money laundering front? Yeah, and I think 90% of the time it's just that it's a business that sucks. It's just a stupid business that doesn't work and is going bankrupt. They make most of their money through like online orders or whatever and you're just like, oh okay. But sometimes it is insanely obvious that, yeah, that place that only sells like miniature fridge magnets of whatever landmarks Amsterdam has and they only sell two of them a year. Something's going on there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. the the their th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. It's thi. It's thi. It's thi. It's they's they's they's they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're th. I I I I I I th. I th. I th. I thi. I's thi. I's thi. I's thi. I's thi. I's thi. I's thin. I thin. I thin. I thin. I thin. I th. I thin. I th. I thin. I th. I thi's thin. I'm thi. I'm thi. I th. I they only sell two of them a year. Something's going on there. The Anne Frank House. Yep. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:57:48 Is the cyber cafe down here? Uh, hey, backpackers need to use the internet too. When's the last time anyone here used a cyber cafe? No, no, did I use one in... Never. 2004. I think I've been in one while traveling a long time ago. Yeah, I reckon I used one in 2000.
Starting point is 00:58:17 The year at 2000. Now, some of you listening may not have been alive then. You might not have ever used an internet cafe. You don't even know what it's like. You don't even know what it's like. Yeah. And they don't like serve coffee or whatever. It's just computers.
Starting point is 00:58:36 And the computers back then were huge. Took an entire gymnasium just to open your hotmail account. Mm-hmm. Born the old views. You don't get used. spend your hotmail account. Mm-hmm. For them to go to use, you only their gifts.

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