Boonta Vista - EPISODE 279: Show Me A Printout Of "Dutch Kochie"

Episode Date: January 5, 2023

We're back for 2023 and kicking off with a round-up of the most dangerous party night in Europe: Dutch New Year's Eve. Plus: Premium grade Italian military weed, a truly great American Hall of Name, WoW-ing away your 20s, and shitting on your own PT Cruiser. *** Outro: Cellz (Part 1) - MF DOOM *** 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 Wunta Vista, episode 279. I am Ben and I am here crouched behind the crumbling remnants of a concrete wall, the exposed rebar catching the light of the explosions that continuously shake the earth. The air is thick with the choking chemical smell of gunpowder and the hauntingly alluring smell of burnt human flesh. freezing pools of muddy water topped with the choking chemical smell of gunpowder and the hauntingly alluring smell of burnt human flesh. Freezing pools of muddy water, topped with the perlescent sheen of petrol, half-disguised the corpses of the fallen. Rapid small detonations are punctuated with the deep, breathed booms of larger explosions,

and yet even over the apocalyptic cacophony the screams of the theur-oved. dying and blinded or audible. Last words are falling from broken bloodied mouths with a primal urgency, some cut short and some allowed to curdle, to grow an incoherence and diminish in volume until they are just a furtive, wet muleling, the animal sounds of a deceased newborn mammal that will not survive minutes outside its mother. Smoke and fire and dust and ash and blood create a new topography here. A swirling red landscape born out of the destruction of the old world. In this newly birthed hell we are each other's demons. Ordinary men and women, office workers and taxi drivers and bicycle repairmen, and canal lock technicians and shoe polish vendors, all driven by fear and anger and desperation, crout readily in the smoking craters that pockmark the ashtrown was tulip fields. They huddle in the burnt out remains of windmills and the scorched shells of clog factories,

backpacks full of ordinance and safety matches. They are partisans of a kind, volunteer irregulars in an irregular army. There will be no shelter here. The front line is everywhere. They are always behind enemy lines. With me here in the Netherlands on New Year's Eve, unleashing a flurry of small lit fireworks at an armored convoy of firefighters, his 32-year-old kindergarten teacher, Yarn Flupstrop. It's Theo.

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at is one of those Bing Boys you've got over there. And a lighter please. Yeah. You got any stroppies? You got a look for an emergency worker. You can maybe try and aim it so it goes down their shirt. Yeah, you got any Jopop over there? I don't. Okay. Got any other requests? Really just looking to throw some fireworks. Yeah. Also with me, throwing a full gas bottle into a flaming children's hospital, his 63-year-old grandmother and palliative care nurse, Magritte Van der Weetsen. It's Lucy. Hello. Hello. Hello. What a place, huh? Yeah. What a place? The Netherlands, New Year's? Really popping off. Now the reason I've done this intro, people who have been listening to this show for at least a year will, well know that one of our favorite topics is that the Netherlands goes really,

really hard at New Year's. They love to party in a very specific way and I have several news stories that will illustrate this. It's time, of course, for the segment that is either called Dutch Watch or Netherlands Corner depending on what episode you're listening to. Tell me, buddy, I'm from Holland. Isn't that beer? It is. It is.

The earth-shaking explosions stirred up a great, confluence, a great hanging cloud of dandruff, which, if anyone's experienced, a video of a silo explosion. One of the greatest natural hazards. Dandruff has the same flammable explosive properties as flower so very dangerous. They don't want you to know that but it's true. This is the first story I'm going to read you. This is from the press agency Algamine Needlands Pers Bureau. Ah.

No stranger to me. The headline here is, I hospital's youngest fireworks patient is seven. I removed from another New Year's Eve victim. Oh no. Yeah. I love the undertone of just like you're meant to know that there's a lot of victims. It's like, oh he's the youngest one. Yeah, he's the oldest one. Yeah, we kind of went through them.

We're just giving you the highlights, the cliff notes, yeah. We don't have to tell you several people were injured. We're just giving you specific details about some of the injured. Yeah, these are our the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. the thi. thi. thi. the thi. the thi. We's thi. We're the. We're th. We're kind kind kind kind kind kind kind the the th. We're kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind kind. We're kind. We're kind. We're kind. We're th. We're th. We're th. We're th. We're th. We're th. We're th. We're th. We're th. We're thi. We're the thi. We're the thi. We're thi. We're th. We're th. We're th. We're th. We're th. We're th. We're th. We're just th. We're just the th. We're just kind the the lost. Yeah, that's right. I put the most depressing one at the start, so it's okay. The Rotterdam Eye Hospital had to remove an eye when treating one of the fireworks victims sent to the specialist hospital, a spokesperson said. It was previously known that this person was going to be permanently blind in one eye, but the eye turned out to be so badly damaged that it had to be so to be to be to be to be to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed, to be removed, to be removed, to be removed, to be removed, to be removed, to be removed, to be removed, to be removed, to be removed, to be removed, to be removed, to be removed, to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed to be removed completely. So, okay, so they've gone past being blind. We know that the eye doesn't work anymore. And also at the same time, it's making everybody kind of sick.

It's giving people the ick. Yeah. I think it's the- You've got the icky eye. It's gone beyond being fucked for purpose. So we know that no longer does what it's supposed to, but it also can no longer just hold itself together in there. Yeah. In total, the rotted-atom eye hospital is so far treated 25 people with serious eye injuries caused by fireworks. The figure rose from 17 earlier on New Year's Day morning to 24 by the end of Sunday afternoon.

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tweezers, according to the hospital spokesperson. It is not yet possible to say how many the victims the victims the victims the victims the victims the victims the victims to to to to the victims to the victims to to to to be. the victims. to be. to be. to to be. to to to to to to be. to be. to be. to be. to be. to. to to their. to be. toeck. toeck. toe. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. F. I. I. tom. tom. tom. tom. tom. tome. t t t t t t t t today. t today. today. today. today. today. today. I. I. I. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. I'm. t will have permanent injuries because of the celebrations at the turn of the New Year. They will first have to recover over the coming days. I'd probably like stay home. Like if this many people are being injured at an event all the time, I'd probably say, you know what, not for me. Or at least wear protective eyegrowing a helmet or something. Get in a pomeobile to watch the fireworks, the fire, the fire, the fire, the fire, the fire, the fire, the fire, the fire, the fire, the fire, the fire, the fire, the firemobile to watch the fireworks. Hmm. The problem is he yelled that at your kids and they're like, what? I can't hear you because of all the explosions. Because of the explosions, yeah. Yeah.

During the New Year's period, bringing in the start of 2020, the hospital treated 18 patients with eye injuries caused by fireworks. During the two years after when coronavirus restrictions were in place, the hospital treated far fewer eye patients. On January 1st, 2022, the Rotterdam Eye Hospital treated five fireworks victims. None of them underwent surgery at the time. So COVID, pretty good for the eyes of Dutch people. Yeah. How many eyes saved? I don't tell you that on the news. They don't. They don't. Yeah. And they want them, they want to bring back their they'll they'll they'll want they they they they they they they to bring back back back back back back back back back back back back, their their their their their their their their their them, they want to bring back the old pop and eyeballs like grapes with the vaccine? Mmm. Is that what it does? I know, well, I mean... But as a flow-on effect from the vaccine working.

I think this is the plot to the movie, Butterfly effect. I think that's exactly right. The figure returning to pre-COVID-to-COVe-Tovet-coved, the-covehthalmologists, churn to farba, fully. Quote, it's a shame that this has to be the price of celebrating New Year's if again. It doesn't. It doesn't. I think it doesn't. It need not happen. It's not baked into New Year's. It's just the onion, like no way to present. It's not only nation where this can't do it. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It's. It. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's to to to to to to the the to the the the the the the 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 the the the 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. It. It's. It's. It's. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's takes. It's takes. It's takes. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not baked into New Year's. It's just the onion, like no way to present this, is the only nation where this continues. We need to have an intervention. They sit down on the couch, light their first fireworks, no more! Slap it out of there.

If you're listening to this and you reckon you can photoshop that onion article and headline to be a photo of Netelahs at please add that in. I'll post it on the Instagram. Yeah, we'll make it the cover of this episode. Yeah. By doing it the butterfly effect thing. Yeah. The number of victims at the start of 2021 was so low due to coronavirus restrictions that he called it his calmest New Year's Eve in 34 years. This guy's been doing this for way too long. He's sick of it. And he's the guy they talk to every year and he's just like,

fucking stop. Just don't please. This year, Defarber expected at least five of the patients brought to the hospital to have permanent damage. I have some more comments from Chured Defarba here as well. This is, I'm choosing not to pronounce it Tured because I'm nice. This is DeFarba speaking in an NL Times article. DeFarber called it, quote, an old-fashioned horrific night. Just a good old-fashioned horrific night. Just like you grew up with.

Most fireworks victims were hit by decorative fireworks according to the ophthalmologist. So not, not weaponized I guess. This involved both people who set off the fireworks themselves and bystanders who were watching. Quote, people think that decorative fireworks are safer, but that is not the case. What is a decorative firework? Can we get that? I don't know what they're distinguishing. the dist dist dist the th. It th. It th. It th. It th. It th. It's th. It's th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the thi thi thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. Just thi. Just thi. Just the. Just th. th. the. th. Just th. th. Just th. Just th. Just th. Just th. Just th. Just th. Just th. Just th. Just th. Just th. Just th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the the. the. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. the. the. the. the. thi. thi. thea. the. thi. the. the. the. the. the. Just safer, but that is not the case. What is a decorative firework? Can we get that? I don't know what they're distinguishing between there at all. Is it just one that like a blows up versus a like a pretty one? I don't know.

The win in particular played a role last night, which caused the fireworks to either drift in the air or shoot off in unexpected directions. One of the patients was hit when he was 25 meters away, explained to Farmer. That's a rude surprise. Yeah, that's sort of a worst-case scenario for standing. Yeah, you're hanging out, minding your own business. Checking to see if there's a rock in your clog, bam, right in your eyes. Decorative fireworks. As another story is from the NL Times. Over 3,800 fire incidents during New Year's, significant church school badly damaged. Like, that's not good. No. It's not good behavior.

The fire departments in the Netherlands received thousands of reports about incidents across the country on New Year's Eve and early on New Year's Day. The incidents included a large fire in a vehicle church that is a historic monument in a primary school building with a thatch roof at a daycare center at Amsterdam. Jesus! Stop patching your roofs. For what? I also enjoy the fact that it's now, um,the time of recording this, the 5th of January. So they've got their fireworks injury and fire reporting stats process workflow, so well-oiled at this point.

They're ready to get that. It's not a shock event. They're like, all right, let's start compiling this info. I put these together two days ago. So they were really, they move they they they they they they they they move they move they're they're they're they're their their their their th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thithese together two days ago, so they were really... They moved faster these things. The Fire Service received 3,833 reports of incidents nationwide during the New Year's period. The Fire Brigade reported on the basis of an initial imagery among the 25 security regions in the Netherlands.

That number is comparable to the last June New Year's Eve periods when fireworks were still banned due to the coronavirus crisis. In the year before the crisis, the number of reports to the fire service were well over 4,000. So they've done a little bit better this time. Well done. This year, more residential fires were reported than a year earlier, about 134 residential fires compared to 97.

On a quote, normal day, there are an average of 19 residential fires. Take your fireworks outside. Don't set them off in the living room. Just stay away from houses. Stay away from people. Why don't you go out into a field? It should be far away? Isn't there like beautiful fields or something?

Find yourself. Like a windmill in the fields and stuff. You could be burning those down. During New Year's Eve 2021 into New Year's Day 2022, there are almost five times as many. The fire service also received about 724 reports of container fires and 183 car fires. Both numbers slightly less than last year. Got about the fucking car fires.

Yeah, they love setting cars on fire. But not in a cool French way where it's like, yeah, they're not asking for like, I want another hour off work every day. They're just doing it for fun. Yeah. You remember how we had one of our Dutch listeners right in and I was fully expecting the email to be like, wow, you guys have got this so wrong? They're just like, yeah. Yeah, it is like that.

The very large fire that broke out after midnight in a monumental side building of the Sint Lombardtus church in Nord Brabant, Nord security region. Many firefighters and multiple pieces of equipment rolled out to the scene. Personal let the fire in the building burn out in a controlled manner, said the security region. Due to the favorable wind direction, the adjacent church was not in danger, the security region said on Twitter. The fire was ranging in the congregation chapel, a small building that currently serves as a mosque. So they as a mosque. So they burned a mosque down. Yeah, but they didn't get any of the kind of Christian mosques. Yeah. Yeah. I need to look into that. In Utrecht, a fire started on New Year's Eve in the Wrighton School in the On Deep District. The Fire Brigade

suspects that fireworks caused the flames in the Thatched building built in 1923. Seems like the most obvious explanation. It was built a hundred years ago this very night. Interesting. Spooky. The fire was brought under control reported the Utrecht security region. It was a raging fire and quote visible flames who extinguished the service set on Twitter. Specialists in dealing with the the flames that flames flames flames flames flames flames flames flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames th flames th flames the flames th flames the flames the flames th flames th flames the flames in the flames the flames in flames in flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames in flames in flames in flames in flames in flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the flames the Utrecht security region. It was a raging fire and quite visible flames who extinguished the service said on Twitter. Specialists in dealing with reeds that catch fire were deployed to keep the fire from re-igniting. Because all those thatch roofs they've got. Bring in the thatch guy. You're going to want some water.

It's looking a little dry. Try putting water on it. It is still on fire. Oh, okay. The fire damage was limited to the thatched roof. Yeah, it seems like that's kind of the weak point. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. the building. the thatheaf building. It might be an eternal shame if society lost such a beautiful building. It might be a nice building. I think you've been a little bit dramatic, but sure. I think it's because eternal shame and then also society in general, maybe like it would be a big shame to the Netherlands. To the Netherlands.

I'm not thinking about that building ever again. It's out of my mind in two minutes. After we finish recording this, I'm done thinking about that 1923 Thatch roof school. Fire broke out at the school on four other occasions. None of these incidents took place during the New Year's period in other years. Yeah, Thatch roofs, huh? Foolish. Several fires broke out on Amster Dam during the turn of the New year year. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi minutes th. th. thi minutes thi minutes thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thii. After thi. thi. After thiome, after th, after th, after th, after th, after th in thi. After thi. After th, after th, after th, after th, after th, after to to to to to to to to to to me. After to me. After th. After th. th. th. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, thi. thi. thi. thi. I's thi. I'm thi. I'm theeea. I'm theaui. I'm theauiiii. I'm theaui. After theaui. After thi. I'm thi. After thi. I huh? Foolish. Several fires broke out in Amsterdam during the turn of the New Year. Damage is also caused by fireworks or vandalism. For example, a daycare center on the Markengil in Amsterdam Nord suffered major damage due to fireworks.

According to the fire service, all windows and facades were completely blown out, causing an immense havoc. Oh my God! Yeah. Chalk care said it with a bunker bust of them. A fire also raged in a gymnasium of a school in Swede Holland Stratt in the Buesenford-Vadelt neighbourhood. Vandals likely threw a wheelie-bid on fire through the window there, according to a spokesperson. Why are you doing this? Just because it's New Year's? Yeah. Do you have a grievance? No. I think they're doing it out of joy. I think it's fun. There's no anger here, I think.

Earlier on New Year's Eve, a fire raged in a house at Abbo Imueshoff in New New West which was caused by fireworks. Two people suffered smoke inhalation according to the fire service. They were evacuated by paramedics. The Amsterdam Fire Brigade was particularly busy with many reports that came in after midnight. Those included container and roadside fires. The mayor of Arnam, Ahmed Makuch, tried to carry on a New Year's tradition started by Herman Kaiser, his predecessor.

While Kaiser was mayor from 2013 to 2017, he would eat dinner with firefighters on New Year's Eve. Makooch wanted to do the same on Saturday evening, but the firefighters were called out to an emergency. Yeah, hang on. Yeah, wait a second. It's the busiest night of the year. Quote, the celebration of the New Year is the largest and perhaps the most dangerous event in the Netherlands. This is only possible because people from the Fire Brigade, police and ambulance are ready

for us to celebrate that party. In some regions, there were people who threw fireworks at the fire brigade. Police and riot police were needed to help guarantee firefighters safety in several parts of the country, including the Haiglandon, Holland's Midden and Geldon's Weed security regions. Tice Van Lyshout, the chair of the country's fire service, said aggression and violence are never acceptable. He said first responders should never be the target of verbal or physical abuse with or without fireworks. I guess, yeah. Do you have to say that?

Like, I don't shoot a firework at a firefighter? It seems so weird that that's not... Like, it's not a cop. Like, a firefighter, I have no grievances against a firefighter. No, they're mostly just putting out fires. They're getting cats out of trees. They're putting out fires. They're showing kids how cool a hose is. Leave them alone. Yeah. But what if we exploded them with a huge bomb? Yeah. That is a fair point.

What if they used heavy fireworks against them and just sort of... blew them up a little bit? Thousands of firefighters are at the ready every year during New Year's Eve. Van Lyshout emphasized that it is the busiest time of the year for the fire brigade. Firefighters often have to deal with garbage container fires, car fires and outdoor fires. In previous years, most reports came in around midnight. It checks out. Got another story here. It's again from the NL Times. Dutch police, firefighters, repeatedly assaulted during turbulent New Year's.

Huh. Violence was again seen against first responders who were dispatched to handle incidents the turn of the new year. Several police officers and firefighters were pelted with fireworks, causing injury in some instances, police said. More than 10 officers were injured in the Hague alone. The incidents often involved very powerful fireworks, as police said. More than 10 officers were injured in the Hague alone. The incidents often involved very powerful fireworks, police said. Quote, the fireworks tradition has become one in which colleagues suffer permanent hearing damage and other injuries every year. I'm angry about that. As a society we need to think about better ways to ring into new year, said Police Chief, Hen Van Essen in a statement. Yeah, think of something else.

Why is this a thing that you've just accepted? You're like, oh yeah, it's kind of like the purge, but for firefighters. Just like put on the New Year's, but there's probably they have a local broadcaster that plays TV of some fireworks. Put that on your TV. Put your like B grade, C grade celebrities and like a bunch of Dutch Idol contestants on there and you got yourself a, you got yourself a fireworks TV program. Oh my god, you get the Dutch Osher Goonsburg on there? Holy fuck. You've got a night made in heaven for the average citizen. Maybe they don't have enough celebrities.

And that's why they do this. They don't have B grade TV celebrities. That's it. They don't have Kashi. They need a koshy. They need a whalid. What do you reckon the Dutch koshy is? Oh my god.

I don't want to think about that. More racist if you can believe it. Missing big clumps of hair. If you know what the Dutch Kashi is, please. Please. He's showing him to me. I want to see him. Show me a printout of Dutch Koshi. Aside from dozens of arrests in the three largest cities of the country, Amsterdam andterdam and the Hague, there were several cases of violence and public disturbances and other municipalities. These were mainly individual incidents, police said. However, there were no, quote, mass public disturbances.

I feel like the entire country was a mass public disturbance. Are we just saying that like because they're disparate because they hadn't like joined into one mass one? These were stochastic New Year's celebrations. I feel like they do this every year. Every time we've read this out there's been a line where they've been like but there were no serious is that it's after these deaths and well. Yeah. The police department said two officers at Helmand were hospitalized after being assaulted with fireworks there, including one with hearing damage. The incident happened when they arrived at the train station there late Saturday afternoon after a group of young

people were accused of causing a disturbance. A police car was also destroyed in the city. Oh my god. At least 11 people are arrested in Helmand and the rest of the eastern portion of Nord Brabant. So how does that go? Like, you kids making a disturbance? No, but we are now. What's up, mothfucker? Hey, why don't you just drive back to the station? Oh, that's right.

I used a powerful fire to send your car to the grave. What's up now when your shit is on fire? Oink, oink, motherfucker! Happy New Year's! What officer addressing a group of young people on Helsingborg in Sheedom was hurt after fireworks were shot at him from a home? Got a crow's nest set up on the second floor of your townhouse? There's a cop out there. Get him. He was hospitalized with hearing damage and burn wounds on his neck. One 17-year-old boy was arrested around 7 p.m. on New Year's Eve.

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Oh, got a hit on that one. A group of about 20 young people also threw fireworks at firefighters while they they tried extinguishing a car fire on Nyeinweese in Zeist. That's perverted, what is wrong with you people? I just, they're trying to hose a car down, hosing down to Persho while there's like twenty fourteen year olds just being like, ah? Blasting fireman Sam. What if you also was on fire. The firefighters retreated after the 1.15 a.m. incident on Sunday and the car was destroyed as a result. There were no arrests. They never are. What do you mean? There will be open and unpunished arson on the streets. That is the promise of Dutch New Year's Eve. A 19-year-old was also taken into custody after he was accused of throwing powerful fireworks at firefighters extinguishing a fire. The incident happened at 3.10 a.m. when news is a news day.

To be clear, I'm not laughing at the cops. We're not laughing at the firefighters. We're not laughing at the children being injured, we might be laughing at people who injured themselves lighting the fireworks if they're not. I am laughing at the words powerful fireworks every time. If you want a shorthand for figuring out whether we're in the wrong, it's whether you think we're in the wrong, we're not laughing at that person. Yeah, whatever you think Quote, in Galene, the police took action against people who were throwing fireworks at a home at around 3.15 a.m. These people then turned on the officers

and pelted them with fireworks, police said. One person was arrested for assault. A police officer was also injured in arson. Well, that's just good fun. When chasing after young people in the neighborhood who may have set fire to a bus shelter on Europe, a wedge sweet. Fireworks were thrown at her, the police officer, and she suffered hearing damage as a result. Police arrested a 15-year-old in connection with the New Year's Eve incident. Maybe...

It's a super young. These kids. Yeah. Our teens are too busy doing nangs in a in an overpass. Underneath an overpass. You're doing a nangs. Yeah. I wonder if that'd sound. Cool. Don't. Don't do that. Also in Zeist Galen, Brader and Rousendahl, the police and fire brigade were bombarded with heavy fireworks. It's the return of our friends, heavy fireworks. Another story here from Dutch News.NL.

The New Year's celebrations were a quote, old-fashioned firework frenzy. I believe they pulled that quote from our friend. Fireworks bans in cities such as Amsterdam and Rotterdam were widely ignored during the New Year's celebrations as strong winds led to organized displays being cancelled nationwide. So they banned fireworks for private citizens, put on alternative ones founded by local councils, canceled the local ones so that everyone just went out there and just... With their own.

Yeah, in the dangerous winds that banned the other fireworks. Dozens of people were taken a hospital and dozens were arrested while the fire brigade were called out to deal with several large and and small the the the the the the the their their their their their their their their their their taken to hospital and dozens were arrested while the fire brigade were called out to deal with several large and smaller fires. Quote, it was an old-fashioned new year, David Baden, chairman of the Emergency Doctors Association told website NU.NL. So this is a different person calling it old-fashioned Dutch tradition. The number of people coming to hospital with injuries, both firework and related was in line with pre-coronavirus years he said. A 23-year-old man from the village of Deaton was killed after an accident involving

setting fire to carbide in a milk churn. Carbide in a milk churn. Carbide in a milk churn. Carbide in a milk churn. Just gonna gobble that one. At least 35 people were arrested in the early hours of the morning. The ban on consumer fireworks was largely flouted and police and council wardens did not intervene, and you dot NL said. Right, police were involved in bringing up a gang of views in the Crusewice district of the port city and 14 were arrested. In Sheetham, the ban was also ignored. Quote, a hell of a lot of fireworks have been set off, Mayor Coralamas to broadcaster

NOS. I think there were more than before coronavirus. A change like this takes years. The ban on smoking did not happen overnight. They feel like these are different. Yeah. Several cars were set on fire in Utreks' Cannellan Island District, and there was also car and caravan fires in Ede, Emen and Kutweikabrook. The traditional bond fire in Florid in Amsterdam Nord has been cancelled because the forecast strong winds, but locals decided to press ahead with it anyway. Officers at Fire Officers at Riot Police were on standby but did not intervene.

Hey, we're not going to light this bonfire because the winds are making it crazy dangerous. Okay, we are going to do it anyway. What are you going to do? Nothing. And I have one final story here from to do it anyway. What are you going to do? Nothing. And I have one final story here from the NL Times. Dozens of arrests in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and the Hague during New Year's. Not all incidents were related to the New Year's of Celebrations.

For example, four people were arrested on the Lelyan Stein in Roderdum's weed after allegedly shooting a firearm into the air. That sounds new years related. Like it does. Now that's good old-fashioned fun. Yeha! That's my happy New Year's gun. A restaurant was shot at in the Arrangea boom strut in the fire nude district, and there were no injuries. In the past year, Rotterdam business premises in homes were more often the target of gunfire and explosions. In several places in the Hagen surrounding areas, the police and riot police units intervened to maintain order.

It was not immediately clear how many people were arrested, but arrests were made. The police had to intervene at a bod-fire in the coppolled-struck in Shevene-en- a bicycle was swung at several officers to fend them off. Now that's some good old-fashioned news. That's Dutch news. The riot police also had to disperse a group of people in the Thysa Strat in the Larkwartier district. In a Hanselis Dyck, the riot police intervened after fireworks were thrown at police officers. At least one person has been arrested there. It's good old-fashioned fun. I love how most of these stories are from the angle of like, oh, it's way better than last time. Yeah. They're so optimistic, despite the fact that this country, seemingly,

for 24 hours a year is just on the verge of catastrophic meltdown. Like, do you reckon there are pockets of normalcy? Like some suburbs, everyone's just like going around visiting their friends, having like a quiet class of... I mean, a little veno. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Some Hoagard then.

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listeners Kyle and Ali. Hello beautiful friends my sister and I are male carriers in neighboring cities in the United States, so we are in a unique position to see unusual American names on a daily basis. We are both big fans of the show and have been collecting names for the better part of two years to submit to the Great American Hall of Name. Here is our list. These are only ones that we have seen with our own eyes with love, Kyle and Ali. So from male, sorry, like just from mail. Wonderful. And this definitely isn't a felony to do. I'm almost certain.

I think you're allowed to just read someone's name on mail. Yeah. Yeah, and there's no way that this would uniquely identify the person, because you know lots of people have these names. So if you're listening and one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one things is your name. LOL. You're famous, sort of. You're on a very small Australian podcast. The worst kind of fame. And here are some names they have sent into us.

In the order that they gave them to us. Here we go. Talon armor. Beautiful. Gene Bonner. Hea. Hilbert Didis. Michael Chud. James Blood.

James Blood. Ooh. I like that. Chad slaughter. Oh, I like that. Chad Slaughter. Come on. Could be Chad's laughter, we don't know. Could they. Canyon Codgel. Hunter Wofter.

Hunter Woofter. Now you might not know this if you're a non-Australian listener or you're under 30 and you're an Australian listener. Wufter is rhyming slang for a slur. It sure is. Hunter Creed Beaver. These are just made up. This is what you would make up from a college guy in America.

I think you'll fight, all names are made up. That's true. Yeah. This is what you would make up from a college guy in America. I think you'll fight, all names are made up. That's true, yeah. Glenn Butts. This is good old-fashioned fun. Back to basics. Yeah. Buster Joe.

Mary Fister. I hardly know it. Joe Begay. Now, this is spelled Bthis is spelled B-E-G-A-Y. We have Bill Bill that is spelled B-I-L-B-Y-L. Hmm. Benedict Snowball Ha ha ha ha. Trillus Bird's Eye. Lewis Pigeon. Lewis Pigeon.

Ignatius Beans. Ignatius Beans. That's the guy from the fucking book, you know. From Confederacy of Dutzes, that's right. That's the one. Yeah, Justin Toots. Does he? Yeah, I bet he does. Jimmy Blaze.

Ooh. That sounds like the sort of guy I'd like to play poker with. Hmm. Governor A Hooch. I trust that guy. And last but certainly not least, gay pussy. How are you spelling this? It is P-U-S-E-Y.

Gay the regular way. Typhin that into porn hub. Oh my god, that's... Notting in a grin. Ah, perfect. Thank you so much, Kyle and Ali. I don't even care. What a gift!

That's honestly, we get a lot of submissions from Great American All of Name. More often than not, it's because a screenshot submissions from Great American All of Name. More often than not, it's because a screenshot from a Wikipedia article has gone viral on Twitter and then 30 people have seen it and they all sent it to us. But you guys have done more work than I ever have putting one of these together. I could not be more grateful. I don't care if it is a crime for you to have compiled these. It would have been a crime not to have legal, the legal, the legal, the legal, the legal, their, their, their, their, to be, to be, to be, to be, to be, to be, their, their, to be, to be, to be, to be, to be, to be, to be, to be, their, to bea, to bea, to bea, to be, to be, to be, to be, to be, to be, their, their, to have compiled these, it would have been a crime not to have sent that to us. Pay your legal fees. We won't do that. It's time of course for Crime Watch. You now have five seconds to try. Help me!

Help me! Help me! HENT! HENT! HENT! Now this is taken from the bi-weekly to try and the today. Now this is taken from the bi-weekly reports published by District 7 of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Here we go. CEOs, I don't actually know what that stands for and I...

because it's not correctional officer because they're park ranges, so I don't know what that stands for. Oh well. CEOs Cameron Wright and Joshua Salas were patrolling the Gordonek State game area in Kalamazoo County, at the end of hunting hours when they came across a PT cruiser parked at one of the entrances. Oh that's trouble right there. Hmm. The CEOs contacted a man sitting behind the wheel who was listening to the radio and asked him if he had been hunting. The man was immediately aggravated and said he parked there to listen to the owls and that he

wanted to be left alone. Let him be. Yeah. So immediately he was listening to the radio. So unless the owls are a band. I don't know how that story's going. An open tall container of natural ice beer was observed in the cup holder of the car, the PT cruiser. They asked the man.

I think they sell them with that in it. It comes with the nattie ice. They asked the man on a scale of 1 to 10 how drunk he was and he responded with quote I'm at a 5 I'll be honest I'm drunk. The CO has told the man to shut the vehicle off and began conducting S-FSTs. Now that's what Americans have instead of breathalyzers. They have the standardized field sobriety tests which are like the say the alphabet backwards or walk on the line while touching your nose and you know whatever. That's fucked up. There's a machine you do for that. They got a little computer thing that does that with a tube. Yeah. Part way through through through through through through through through through through th th th th th th th th th th th the the the the the the the th the th the the the th the the th the th the the th. the th. S f. S-s. S-s. S-s. S-s. S-s. S-s. S-s. S-s. S-a-s. S-s. S-s. S-a-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 th. th. th. th. th. S-I. S-I. S-I. S-I.S. F. F. F. F. F.F.F.F.F.F.S.F.F.S.F.S.F.S.S.F.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S.S. Yeah. Part way through S-F-S-STs, the man made a face of shock and suddenly grabbed his rear end.

Before the CEOs could say anything, the man had dropped his pants to his ankles and began defecating on the rear bumper of his PT cruiser. Oh no, this man is having some concerns. He's having a time. Listen to the owls, fuck off! I just want to listen to the owls! Oh no! Oh no! Oh lord, it's covered.

Also, you're in like a state game park, you're in like a state game park. You don't have to shit on your car. You don't have the shit on your car. You've got all this empty space around you just shit on the anywhere else shit on the cop car the park rager car you don't have to shit on your own PT cruiser. The man was ultimately placed under arrest and was taken to the hospital for a blood draw. On the way there the man noticed that CEO right was using his GPS and said to the CEO quote man I'm the drunk one here and I have to give you directions on how the the to to to the to to the to the to to the the to to to the the to the the to the to the the the the the to the the the cop. the cop to to the cop to the cop to the cop. to the cop. the cop. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I the cop. I the cop. I the cop. I the cop. I the cop. I the cop. I the cop. S. I the cop. the cop. the cop. the cop. the cop. the cop. the cop. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the to to to the tak. I. I'm. I'm. I'm. tape. tape. tape. tape. tape. tape. tape. tok. tok. tok. tok. tok. tok. said to the CEO, quote, man, I'm the drunk one here and I have to give you directions on how to take me to jail,

you moron. Ha ha ha ha. Good for you, man. Yeah, roast them. During the blood draw, the man also mentioned that the nurses were not drawing his blood, but instead that, quote, it's all beer, not gonna lie to you, pure, natural, ice. That's not true.

The emphasis there is theirs, they put in the full stops in the report. The man was ultimately lodged in the Kalamazoo County Jail, and charges were submitted to the prosecutor's office for review. What's the crime? What is the crime? I think it th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi' thi' thi' thi' thoan thoan't thatrown, tho-a' tho-o-o' tho' tho-oomoomu, thoom, thoom, thoom, th, th, th, thoan, thoan, thoan, thoan, thoan, thoan, thoan, thoan, thoan, thatatter, thatran, thatrauuu.. thatrown, thatrown, thatrown, thatrown, thate, thate, thate, thateeeea'ea'ea'ea'ea'ea'ea'ea'ea'ea'ea'e, thate, thatroan, th crime? Being the coolest guy on it. I think it's being intoxicated at a car with the ignition on. I think is probably the crime. You know what to do that?

No? Can't have your keys in the ignition if you're intoxicated at all. Wow. At least in Queensland. What if it's really hot? You need the air conditioner on. Which is great if you've got a schoda. You don't need the keys keys keys the keys the keys the keys the keys the key the keyless the keyless the keyless the keyless the keyless the the the 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 their their their ODA, you don't need those keys in the ignition. Okay you've got a keyless ignition. Yeah. Trust it. Don't like it. Not a fan. I've said my thoughts on cars with things in them that think. I've said my piece. I'm doing my butlerian Gihad against your Scudor Octavia. What just do you reckon? I mean obviously we're intensely familiar with the format of

the bi-weekly reports published by District 7 of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, but do you think they would have mentioned the make and model of the car if it wasn't a PT cruiser? No, I feel like they do have a feel for comedy in this magazine or report or whatever this is. Yeah, it's the magazine they publish, it goes out to everyone. You haven't seen the field reports from this week? They're absolutely crazy. I would read that if that was in, you know, the optometrist while I'm waiting.

I read through all of the other reports from that not that fortnightly period, and the rest them were just finding people for going too fast on the lake and stuff. This was really the only funny one in there but God what a what a beautiful story and marvelously told by whichever one of the CEOs wrote this up. Yeah that's nice. Well done. I feel like that guy had a lot of problems. I feel like you maybe could have used some help from someone and when our listeners need help they reach out to Dr. Lucy. Oh shit I still have haven't dated it. Oh, no. Okay. It is good, it has its charms.

It's a little surprise. It's still good. This is a post on one of our favourite subreddates. This is on R slash Child Free. It's titled simply, favorite hobbies slash activities. Hi all, I am child free and have been an equestrian for about 18 years. You can just say horse girl. Yeah, I like horses.

I don't know if I consider you an equestrian. Maybe you do equestrian events. I don't think if you're describing yourself as an equestrian you better be living in like the Roman form of government where equestrians had more votes than other people. However, I feel like I'm getting burnt out. I have had a rough year in regards to it emotionally. I don't know whether she means the equestrian stuff or being charged. Oh no, it's definitely horses.

I've had a rough year in regards to it emotionally and financially and I think I need to step away for a while. The only problem is I have no idea what else I would do. I have other hobbies and interests but nothing that takes up that much time. So I want to know what you invest all your extra time and money in since you don't have kids to suck the fun out of life. Bonus points if I could meet other like-minded people through it, I'm 25. Yeah. You're 25 and you're worried about not having enough hobbies. Yeah. Also, have you tried masturbating? You've described yourself as being an equestrian for 18 years? I don't think you were an equestrian when you were eight.

I don't think you were an equestrian. You weren't an equestrian at 10. You're not an equestrian now. You're just a person who has a horse. Yeah. So have you got some answers from child-free people? No, they were like none. There was like one relatively sound dancer from someone just being like, no one can tell you what hobbies you would like?

Yeah, I see you don't need to have a hobby. You can like just sit on the couch most days. You're 25. You don't have to anything. It's time to watch the filmography of Akira Kua Sarah that you pirated. It's sitting on a beanbag in your living room? You don't have kids. You can do anything. This is fucking nuts. What an insane question to ask to be like, well, you have to live a full life and I don't have kids, so please tell me, should I take up- I know all you fuckers have a lot of time to kill on this earth? Absolutely baffling. Yeah, they should check out having kids. It's really rewarding. Yeah, you can just be, have something to do all the time that's often not enjoyable. It does fill in the hours, which seems to be your primary concern. It seems to be the problem. You're just looking for something to fill the hours.

Imagine being like, so tied to the horse, married to the horse, that the moment that goes out the window because you've been getting stressed and you're going broke from horse, that you literally don't know what to do with yourself. How many hours a day are you doing horse things? You're just brushing its hair all day or something? That's what I picture that horse people are doing. A lot of grooming that has to be done, I understand, maybe practicing. I don't know if they're, I guess if they're calling themselves in a question and they're probably doing it like competitively, I assume, I don't know. I get it. I get that sometimes you know you feel at a loose end and you're like, fuck I need to do something with my time. I don't remember having that compulsion as a 25 year old. I definitely have it now. Now I feel like I need to like to to like to like to like to like to like to like to like to like to like to like to like to like to like to like to like to like to like to like to like to like to like to like comp to like comp to like comp to like comp to to to to to to to to to the the their comp. I to their comp. I'm comp. I'm comp. I'm comp- like comp- like comp- like comp- like comp- like comp- like comp- like comp- like comp- like comp- like comp- like comp- like comp- like comp- like comp- like comp- like comp- like comp- like comp-a the comp. I'm comp. I'm comp. I'm comp. I'm comp. I'm comp. I'm comp. I'm comp. I'm comp. I'm comp to to to to the to their comp-a their comp-a their compu. I'm compulsion. I'm compulsion. I'm compulsion to to to their their their their their their their their their their compulsion. I'm compulsion their comp Now I feel like I need to be busy with something. 25, just fucking mind down.

Because I've forgotten how to like feel joy out of life, but you're 25. You still, you've still got a little in there. You shouldn't have to- You got that ember sort of just still burning. You have the glow of the passion of life in your eyes. Have you considered taking him smoking weed? Because that'll take the the the the the the the th, the th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, the th, th, the the th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, the the, the, th, thi, the, the, thi, th, th, th, th, th, th, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, the, th, the, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, the, th, the, the, the the the th, th, th, the th, th, th, thu, they thu, thin, the, the, thin, thin, the, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, thin, thin, the, thin, like, like, tho, like, like, thi, smoking weed? Because that'll take up like a good 12 hours a day, seven days a week. It's really, it's quite an elastic hobby in that it'll take up as much time as you have. Yeah. It's real time filler. Yeah. Have you ever thought that maybe you just want to be locked on the couch watching the DVD menu for Jurassic Park too and unable to get up and change it? and so you just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just th th th th that that that that that that that that that th th that th th that th th th th th th thi thi thi thi tho 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 to to to the the to the the their the a half. Do that. Do that instead of your horse business. Video games. Plenty of other

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That's a dumb fucking podcast. Hey, America, that's a country. You know where else is a country? Italy. It's time to check in on Italy, in Italy watch. What have done this time? Oh, they're doing wonderful things actually. Oh, okay. Sorry, no, I don't mean wonderful in the sense of like this is good. I mean wonderful in the sense that it's entertaining to me.

I guess I should make that distinction. This comes to us from the website Defense News. Italian Army aims for self-sufficient cannabis market. Hmm? Like with their guns? It appeared to become self-sufficient in the field of legal medicinal cannabis, Italy is growing plants using secret nutrients in ultra-clean rooms managed with military precision. No wonder it called in the army to handle the task. You don't need the army.

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Oh, I'm sorry. Quote, the next step is self-sufficiency. That's our ambition. Oh, I'm sorry. The next step is a self-sufficiency. That's our ambition, said Nicola LaTore, who leads the Italian Defense Industry's agency which oversees the operation. The agency, which is an arm of the Defense Ministry, that commercialization of the state's defense enterprises. Cannabis, the army cannot yet grow as imported from Holland, Canada, Denmark, to, Denmark, to, to, to, to, the the to, the the to, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, and their, and their, and the state's defence enterprises. Cannabis the army cannot yet grow is imported from Holland, Canada, Denmark and

Germany but production is ramping up an anonymous-looking army facility on the edge of Florence. Florentine Cush. Still unclear the link to the army. Apart from the fact they're I guess a large public workforce. They just got the guys out there with machine guns to grow the marijuana? Yeah, they're sort of prodding the soil with the ends of their beretas. I'm gonna make you a grow so good. What we could do in Florence is produce a highly standardized product so the dosage is unvaried, at the same price as we are now paying for imports, said Colonel Gabrielle Piccioni, the head of the facility.

Launched in 2014, the Florence-based operation managed 50 kilograms in 2020. Come on, come on. Before rising to 300 kilograms in 2022. The increase was achieved thanks to more growing rooms, up from 2 in 2016 to 10 today, with six harvest the year in each of six flowering rooms, which hosts between 50 and 125 plants each. What is this? It's a garbage operation. You can't grow any more than that?

It doesn't seem that difficult. So this seems seems some some of rooms. I don't know. This is seems like... This is some rooms? Some rice shed? Weird, indie startups in Oregon that are like two people who used to be tech support people with bigger grow farms than this. Get your shit together. To reach 700 kilograms next year, technicians are perfecting lighting, watering, temperature and ventilation.

They're also using a blend of secret nutrients developed in-house that are mixed in with the hydroponic irrigation. It must be so fucking good, being a fly on that Italian wall, listening to these Italian military weed scientists argue about what their Italian grandmother believes is better for the nutrients in Italian weed flats. No, no, you need an organo in their Italian grandmother believes is better for the nutrients in Italian wheat flats. What are you doing? You have to deglaze the soil with milk first. It's no mushrooms.

Oh my god. If you waste all the grow water, I kill you. Watching someone put more potassium in, be like, Keshifo! What are you doing with she? Oh, you make my grandmother cry, you make the worst matter of the world. Kaisievo! What do you do with Schievo? Oh, you make my grandmother cry, you're making the worst marijuana. Never have I tasted such a bland marijuana. Oh, it's so much fun being racist.

Don't clip that, please. Don't clip that, please. Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck. I forgot clip that, please. Oh fuck, I forgot about this. Also in 2023, the lab aims to produce cannabis infused olive oil, which users can take and drop form that tor said. Come on. You're doing this to yourself! I put a little bit of a beautiful olive oil on my marijuana primavera. This is so good. a perfect spring-time dish. These fucking rules. The story added that five private firms is set to supply more mother plants,

from which... your mother plant... from which cuttings can be taken to grow the plants in Florence. However, the main operation will not be farmed out to the private sector, you explained. The state will continue to guarantee quality and price. That's fantastic. Yeah. Well done to Italy. Yeah. They should keep going. They should get into the exporting. Yeah. I want that good shit. I want that olive oil. I want that like the weird like five liter thukes of olive oil. Yeah. I want that full of weed oil. Beautiful Italian Florentine weed oil. Oh my God, come on. I go through one of those things like.

Absolutely uninhabitable with the stink. Yeah, how does it get on everything? How do you end up with such a slick film on the top of those canisters so much that collects every bit of dust and hair that's every ever been in your house. Yeah, a hot tip, if you do get those containers, get a kind of like folded over a piece of paper towel, put it underneath the container before you put it on your shelf. Oh, that's just a little tip for me to me. A little hack. A little life hack. What happened to life hacks? I think we got over those. That's probably what it was. I think we shifted to inscrutable videos zoomers make where they're wearing really small sunglasses and they like walk into a restaurant and then

rip someone's shirt off and punch them in the face and then they turn around to the camera they say, you just saw the ZAP challenge. That's what we have instead of life hacks now. I hope you're happy zoomers. Previously I found out that you could use the middle of a pasta spoon to get a good-ish-serving of spaghetti if you put it through the hole. It's not real, but they, I mean it's a real example of a video but I don't thinkthink that's what the hole is for. Today years old when I found out that the spaghetti spoon gives you a spaghetti serve. It doesn't, it doesn't. It's probably actually way too much pasta for me. It depends on the side of the spoon. It's absolutely fucking stupid. I hate those ones. I just use a, I usually use my little kitchen scales. You know the one I hate I I I I I I I I I I hate one I I I hate one I hate one I hate one I hate one I hate one I hate one I hate the one I hate the one I hate the one I hate the one I hate the one I hate the one I hate the one I hate the one I hate the one I hate. I hate the one I hate. It's I hate. It's a the one I hate it's a the most. It's a little I hate. It's a little I hate. It's a little I have. It's a the most. It's a the most. It's a little. It's a little I hate it's a little I hate 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 one I the one I the one I have. It's a the one. It's a the one. It's a the one. 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 one. It's a little winge about the internet, is when people do the post where they go,

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Oh, sorry. The army was handed the role of Italy's legal pot supply for two reasons. Officials have said, to produce cannabis at a secure facility. Yeah, a bunch of stoned Italian army guys. They must be. Oh man come in here. Oh yeah, I'll take on the cannabis plant job. Oh my god, those guys are smonking on that louned every day. They are. They're huffing on the good kush. Fat, goobas. They are huffing down that sweet, cunch every day. Two, because the armed service has been in the pharmaceutical business for decades. Go on. They're actually making the secret pills that give people Havana syndrome.

Turning out chemical warfare antidotes and malaria pills for soldiers. The army also manufactures so-called orphan drugs, the drugs that make you kill your parents. What that says, medicines for rare diseases or conditions that big companies ignore because of the low production rates. That's great. That is how public health should work. Cool. Awesome. Why it's the army? But yeah, again, like can't you just sort of government chemist? Yeah. Yeah, they don't have to's the army, but... Yeah, again, like, can't you just sort of government chemist? Yeah, yeah, they don't have to be wearing fatigues.

They don't have to be trained like how to use a gun. The service currently makes four such drugs to supply 3,000 people in Italy. Sorry, this is just like, oh yeah, I'd like to apply for the legal cannabis job. I've got decades of experience in making chemical warfare. Hey, chemical welfare, antidote. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm sure they weren't involved in making any chemical warfare. It'll is historically on the good side. Spotless record. As cannabis production ramps up, the army has registered two types of marijuana at Harvest

as brands. FM1 and FM2, which stand for Pharmaceutical Military. Those are great names for weed. Yeah. I wish they gave them better names though. Smoking on that pharmaceutical. Electric Rigatone. What do you look at the criteria to getting this weed? Like how do I get that good army weed? Yeah, I wonder if it's like a actual like quite involves screening process of being like, no, I have

stomach cancer and I otherwise can't eat blah, blah, blah, and they're like, great, putting you on this shit. Or if it's like California 10 years ago, where you concoct an elaborate backstory about having glaucoma, but then you go into the office and the guys like, do you have chemicals in your brain? And you go, yes, and he hands you a giant bag of weed and an ID card. I wonder. So, the CIA, the C, the C, the C, the C, the C, the C, the C, the C, the C, the C, the C, th. the C. th. th. thi, thi, thi, thi, th. th. th. thi, th. th. thi, thi, thi, th. th. th. th. Where, th. Where, th. Where, th. Where, th. Where, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th, th, th, th. Where, th. Where, th. Where, th. Where, th. Where, th. Where, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. th. th. thi. th. th. th. thi. th. th. thi. th. thi. th. th. th. th. th. this point. To be like, people are all allowed to know? You could just do it? You can just do it in the open? You don't have to wait 50 years. It'd be like, oh, by the way, we made all that acid.

Yeah. You're welcome. Except for victims, the man's minds. Don't look into it. Each contains a different level of tetra-hydro cannibinal, the compound that gives pot its high. I want to get fucked up on that FM2 so bad. If you live in Italy and you have stomach cancer and you're willing to sell said drugs through international post, send me that FM2. That pharmaceutical military duo.

That FM2, that's more like a inner the couch. That's right. Latoros said his agency's activities facilitated a growing shift toward military involvement in public health sector a trend accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic which saw army personnel set up treatment tents and transport vaccines. Quote, COVID made us see how public health is tied to the defense of the country and its security, he said. Oh, that's beautiful. I wish our public health was doing that. Don't be sick. I bet. I'm not even looking into it at all. I am willing to bet you big bucks that if any Australian state or the federal government is growing weed, Wilson Security is providing the secure environment for it to be growing

in. It's 100% the same people running our offshore prison camps. Yeah. They run our tips, they run our parking facilities, they run our offshore prison camps and our weed farms. Get Circo involved. Yeah, whatever the other one is. Well that's technically been an episode of the podcast, Punta Vista. Thank you very much for listening. If this was your first ever episode, welcome. Thank you for saying to the end. They're all pretty much like this. Except soon you'll get to meet 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'll get to meet Andrew and he's quite the character.

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