Boonta Vista - EPISODE 283: Beyond The Brown Rainbow

Episode Date: February 2, 2023

Theo, Andrew, and Ben bring you: The return of an ominous comet, a new mostly invisible cryptid, a touchy French robot, and a quick check on John Edwards. *** 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, welcome to Penta Vista, episode 283. You join us live, live, live from Hollywood, 2009. I'm Joss Whedon. Did you just fly here in a Goram time machine? Yeah, I guess that happened all right. I'm here with my epically hilarious friend Louis CK. It's Ben. Why are you doing this?

Ben, can you give us a sneak preview for what you have in store for your next amaze ball's stand-up special about being married to someone you fucking hate? I don't really know enough about his comedy to do, like, I don't know how you would do a Louis CK bit. Oh, I do. You got this, you got this all backwards, Theo. I should have been Louis C. K. I could have done this. I think I've got one. Oh, but I've got a roll that you're just got a slot right into it. Oh no. Having kids's all the ways that they're shit. Nice. I'm Louis CK. Baby. Fab, fat, fat, fat, fat.

Perfect. Yeah, okay. And of course, I wouldn't be out on the town without my Numero Pussy Slayerino, Harvey Weinstein. It's Andrew. What is this? What is this? What are you doing? What have you done? What have you done this? What's freaking crap in an HW? All right. And if you're currently drafting an email so you think sexual predation is funny, let's just get ahead of that and say no. We don't. We don't. Avengers 3, Avengers fall on.

You know how many of these things we have to come up with? We have to come up with so many and some of them are going to be about how Hollywood was full of sexual predators. I'm sorry I'm so happy no one knows what my penis looks like. This afternoon I was I was walking, I was getting out of my car, going into this apartment, trying to think of an intro and I was like what about the hololome of a tanker. was was was getting was getting was getting was getting was getting the hellix tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tank tanker. I was the the the the the the the h. I was going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going going. I was going. I was going. I was going. I was going. I was going. I was going. I was think of an intro and I was like what about we're all in the Holocene here is like no, I'm pretty sure we've done that one. In the battles of a derelict tanker ship. The Holodoma. Yeah, yeah, there's some comedy gold in there probably. I think there is. I did almost do a welcome to the room of scrapped Buntivista intro so maybe maybe we'll put that one together next time. No, we've done that.

Have we? Well, we've done the, uh, we've done the, uh, the drawing board where we're all spit balling around a whiteboard and it's not working. This is so hard. Why did we start doing this? Let's not say we. Andrew, why did you start doing this? I tried so hard to shut it down as well. What would it started?

Well, whenever it was starting every episode. Oh boy, someone's got to do it, you know? Hey, here's an idea. Maybe in conjunction with the return of, and we're going to put some some booming reverb on this in post Ben okay free the free. That's right. It's the taste on everyone's lips. Sorry I've just talked over the reverb there.

Okay they're separate channels. Okay. Oh my god. Audio technology. Did you think Ben was editing a single? This man is so tired. I don't have a good idea of what's going on like immediately, all right? He's got two very small children. He's having, he's going through it, you know. Anyway, in conjunction with Freemium Freibuary, it's rough being married. Perhaps we should. I'm Josh Weeden. I'm Joss Whedon!

Stop that. Freemian Freebie in Frebera, perhaps we should also open the mail bag up to submissions for potential intro scenarios because... It's getting worrying lately. We're getting more and more complaints about the terrible intros. The well has run dry. I don't think that those complaints are sincere by the way. I think they love it. Dirty little piggings.

I think some of the complaints are sincere. I think some of the complaints are unbelievably sincere. Yep. And, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So, you know, maybe right into mail.. I, to to to to to to to make, to make, to make, to make, to make, to make, to make, to make, to m. to make, to ma, to make, to ma, the the the the the the to make, the their to to their their their their their their their the complaints.a.m.a.a.a.a. That's. That's. That's. That's. That's. I'm. That's. the complaint. I. I. I. That's. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. 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.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a. Com. Com. Com. Com. Com. That. That. right into mail bag at Buntavista.com with your idea for an intro and there won't be any prizes for ones that we use but don't worry if we don't use yours it's because we didn't think it was funny.

Yeah or for other reasons because your sense of humor is completely inscrutable and you've said something to us that is deeply offensive and impenetrable. Yeah. Or you have really understood the format. Yeah, just like the... You'll know if you've offended us, not because we tell you, but like you'll just just a shiver. If you don't get a one-word email back from the mail bag at Buonto Vista that just says incredible. We didn't like it. Yeah. Your shit sucks. Mailbag at Buntavista.com.

Ooh, guys, did you all suddenly, feel a bit creeped out like you were going to receive some unfortunate emails sometime in your future? That's what we in the business call an omen. You shall see hail fall from a clear sky and burn his fire upon the ground. You shall see darkness cover Egypt when the sun climbs high to noon. And you shall know that God is God God and bow down to his will. Sorry I got distracted because I was looking at the discord where listener Bean is

part of a 20-person argument about whether Zambreros the burrito chain is good or mad. Oh it sucks let's just shut that down. Well they suck real bad. And as Bede has articulated, sure Zambreros have provided a lot of meals for people in developing nations, but consider that the meals they are providing them are probably Semperos. Oh, real Sophie's choice. Christ alive. This is a story from CNN. Green Comet will appear in the night sky for the first time since the Stone Age. Cool. That's a good old-fashioned,

omen important, I think. A lot of... Getting back to first principles. Yeah, we've had a lot of ones that I think have maybe strayed from the path in that they've just been, you know, technology or developments that will have very literal bad consequences, but I think it's a symbolic omenoport, this is a fucking great one. Yeah, they didn't have like trucks full of cattle turning over in the Bible, but they probably had a weird-looking comment. Yeah. I think it's also suggestive of perhaps a Stephen King scenario afterwards, or maybe a night of the living dead, kind of maybe sort of a phase four type situation.

Uh-huh, uh-huh. We wouldn't want any ants developing a hive-mind consciousness. I think all ants functionally have a... We don't need to get into that. A recently discovered green comment will soon zip by earth for the first time in 50,000 years. It was last visible in the night sky during the Stone Age. Named C-22-3 brackets Z-T-F.

Yeah, and I'm on the C-22-3 Z-T-F diet. I'm on the C- whatever the fuck you just said diet. I'm on the C-2-2-2-E-3 Z-T-T-F diet. I'm on-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I, I. I'm on, I'm on, I'm on, I'm on, I'm on, I'm on, I'm on-I-I-I-I-I-I, I'm th-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I, I, I-I-I-I-I, I, I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-S-Skkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkuh, with, I'm, th-S 2022 E3ZF diet. I'm on the sea whatever the fuck you just said, diet. I don't know how that still makes me laugh every time. The comet has an orbit around the sun that passes through the outer reaches of the solar system, which is why it's taken such a long route and long time to swing by the Earth again, according to the Planetary Society. I don't really mind how long it takes. I'm a patient plan. I think a planetary society sort of bit out of their lane on this one.

Because it's not a planetary body? It's not a planetary body. Yeah, we should be. Yeah, do you think the comet comet complains't do that. As the comet nearers earth, observers will be able to spot it as a faint green smudge near the bright star, Polaris, also called the North Star. Yeah, it's a look out for that. Peeh-poh. One of the most exciting events in Go ahead. Okay, but you're also the guy that has like posted our group chat several times be like, Ben, if you go outside, you'll be able to see the ISS going overhead.

So, you know. I think Theo only respects man-made stuff though. Oh, sure. And I still post that, even though every single time you post the fucking nerd time drill tween. Because I know the deep down. I go outside to look every times,tell me. I'm excited to see it. I'm obsessed with man's many space stations that we've made. So for so long, like Caitlin and I would go camping

and she's like, oh, you know, on a good night you can see so many satellites. I'm like, no you can't see satellites in the taulites. You can't see satellites, they move in the wrong direction and everything. I was wrong. That was big time wrong on that one. Wrongerie no. The wrong direction for what? Like, okay, so they move completely independently of the stars in the sky and stuff,

like as you would expect, you know how the stars are all, the stars, the stars, the stars,? You know how the stars are all zipping around in the same? Zipping around, I mean, I don't know, I don't know how to, it's not, they don't look like planes either, right? Yeah. Completely separate entity. No, apparently there's, there's getting to be so many of them now that it's like a very regular leaf. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Doing their long exposure and they get a big Elon Musk taint dragged across it, you know? Yeah, Theo has done a bit of amateur astro photography.

And I don't mean to say that you're not professional, I'm saying it's amateurish. Yeah. Yeah, it kind of sucks. No, they're very lovely photos. It's just nice to do. Yeah. It is. I've only done it a couple of times and it is very like, because you can't see it happening. You can't see it, no. And then there's a picture on the camera that just came from nowhere. And also, like a divination.

If you've not done your maths on your focal length, length in your, uh... They're zipping all about. They're zipping all about. And you're like, well, I didn't see the move. Zip, zip, zip. So what the fuck? Zip, zip, zoop, indeed. The comment can be distinguished from stars by its shrieking tails of dust and energized particles. So keep it out for those, as well as green comment with a periodicity of 50,000 years because that just seems very ominous to me. Here's two noteworthy things that happened 50,000 years ago.

The musterian pluvial, which was a, well yeah, that was a 20,000 years ago? Well, it ended just yesterday. It ended 30,000 years ago. It was a 20,000 year long rainy period in North Africa. So keep an eye out for that for the next 20,000 years. And the other thing that happened at that time is what we believe to be the second independent invention of the Bowen Arrow in Sri Lanka. Now, what that makes me think of is sort of a 2001 a Space Odyssey scenario. You know, we're just tooling around and you have to stab people up close and then bam,

green comments by yeah. Streaks across the sky, oh my god. Sudden inspiration drops. What if, so what if we make the step from where we are now to the sky, oh my god. Sudden inspiration drops. What if? So what if we make the step from where we are now to the next level of weaponry when the comet goes past? What would our relative bow and arrow be from here? I think if we managed to make a sort of satellite-based Havana syndrome ray that we could do from anywhere instead of it having to be you have to be in the hotel room next door with your little Havana

Syndrome ray gun if we could have a like a beam weapon in a geosynchronous orbit. I'd like it if maybe we could work on something that... I'm gonna keep a real with you. I think the Havana syndrome is pretty boring because people go, I got a headache. Yeah, we gotta step it up. I would like it if we could develop something like maybe you could zap somebody with them and make them start like dancing, like the scene out of the mask when he goes Cuban-Pete mode.

Oh, you're thinking is sort of a Cuban Cuban Pete gun. Yeah, like a Cuban Pete, Ray. A Cubano syndrome, kind of Ray. I think that unexplained, unexplained fits of Cuban Pete dancing around the world would be so much more interesting to me than like CIA agents saying, oh, I have to lie down with a cold cloth on my head. Can I have a pension forever, please? It's unfortunate because it does share the name of the same syndrome I get when I'm hungry for a sandwich. Mmm and what a sandwich.

That's a great fucking sandwich. Have you got a, have you got a recommendation for our Brisbane-based listeners as to your favorite Cubano in town? Mongrel used to do a cabano that was th, th, th, th, th, th, they, their, their, their, th, th, their, their, their, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, their, like, like, like, like, like, thi, like, thi, like, thi, thi, thi, I'm thi, I'm, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, and, and, and, and, and, and, thi, thi, and, thi, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, their, their-a, their-a, thi-a, thi-s-a, thi-s.A's a tsoa, too-sa'a'a'a'a'a, too, too, thi.I's, thi, cabano that was fucking amazing but they don't do it anymore. I'm trying to think the last place did I got one. Oh well check out nine years ago at Yardbird in the valley they did a great. Damn great Cabano. There we go folks. You got two great recommendations for places that you used to be able to get a sandwich from. Well no no I can't, I know for a fact the fact the fact, for a fact, for a fact, the fact, the fact, the fact, the fact, the fact, the fact, 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. the last the last the last th. th. th. th. th is that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that the last the last the last the last the last the last the last the last, the last, the last, the last, the last, the last the last, the last, the last, the last, the last, th. the last th. th. the last th. th. the is that, the last that, the last that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, the last able to get a sandwich from. Well no no no I can't I know for a fact Michael doesn't do it anymore I don't know if yardbirds still does it or not. Yard birds probably still there. Yeah and they're well if you check the weird skinhead adjacent people that run it are probably still there. Maybe go in and just lean over the counter give up a big slow wink and say the guys the guys from Buntavista said you'd the the the the the the the the the the their. the the th. I I I I I I I I I I I I I th. I th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. Yeah. I'm th. I'm th. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.... Yeah.. Yeah. Yeah.. Yeah. Yeah.. Yeah.. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. the. the. the guys from Buntavista said you'd make me a special sandwich and see what happens.

Right in, mailbag at Mundovista.com, let us know what happens. I'm a friend of Castro? Wink? Wink? Wink! I also tell us what anime they've got on the TV behind them. Oh, it's called Yard dogs now. So you go to yard dogs. That doesn't make any sense. They sell thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they and ask them for food that used to be at Yardbird. Why is it now Yard dogs? That doesn't make any sense. They sell chicken.

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be enjoying the sweet satisfaction of supporting us, and we will love you romantically for it. That's my promise to you. Hey, Finding a Cubano at Yardbird in the Valley that doesn't exist anymore, either the sandwich or the place that it was. That'd be like seeing a crypt in the wild. It's time for Cryptid Watch. Don't really have a theme for that, do we? It seems like we should.

Yeah, we probably should. Yeah, close enough. These are three. Yeah, we probably should. Close enough. These are three separate reports submitted to the paranormal blog, Phantoms and Monsters. I don't know, sorry, I just want to listen to them though, I started doing vampire hands, but I was making a ghost noise. Yeah, also at the end when you just said then that you were explaining doing vampire hands you did Frankenstein hands or mummy hands. What's vampire hands do you? Vampire hands are out? No, Vampire hands is doing the

Bella Legosy covering his face with his cloak thing. You're definitely think of Frankenstein, yeah. Yeah you don't hands of... I think I know when I'm thinking of Frankenstein. Well, Frankenstein hands is when you pull a lever down. Frankenstein's monster hands. the common misconception. First thing that realistic Frankenstein does is he starts, hands straight down the pants. What is going on down here? What am I and what is this and why does it feel so good? And then the hands come straight out, back up.

I can't stop jacking off. This dick is so much more sensitive. Oh, we've created a monster. Oh, we've got to keep this guy in a castle. Dog. Right. Stay away from the townspeople, you fucking pervert. Oh boy. All right, here is a report coming at you. Quote.

In the year 2005, I was in the US Air Force. There was a shortage of security police at Davis Month and Air Force base in Tucson, Arizona, and I was put on a temporary assignment. I was patrolling the National Guard side of the base with another airman when we saw that the lights were on in an office building we had just passed. Moments before the lights were turned off. We went inside and there was a long hallway that's pretty spooky. Out of one of the rooms a tall, invisible, shimmering creature came out and started moving rapidly towards us.

How invisible it can be, if you're seeing it. Yeah, this is going to be a recurring problem with the reports that we were reading. The airman ahead of me by about 10 feet moved over and made himself flat against the wall. As it passed him, this thing was coming right at me, and I froze for a moment. The airman yelled, Get out of the way! I did at the last second. I saw this thing moved up to me rapidly and there was a strong gust of wind behind it after it passed me. It just disappeared about two feet past me. After that...

And you know that shit stinks. Trail of brown ectoplasm along the floor. After that, whenever I tell someone, they don't ever believe me. But I'm glad that there are other people in this world that have seen something similar to what I've seen, and that I'm not crazy. End transmission. That's a moderately scary. Yeah, it's like a sparkly invisible man. That seems like a sort of a one-off crypted, right?

Not heard a lot about that. What if it was trying to give you a hug? Yeah. You, just stepped out of the way. Some possibly alien creature was like, fucking rude and left, never to return. Real conundrum. What if it's trying to give you a Zamboros? Or perhaps, perhaps it leaves Tucson, Arizona.

That's the one thing Zambrero sells. You walk in there and says, uh, uh, I get a medium Zambrero. They just give you a Zambro. You have to choose whether it's spicy or... Yeah, it's mild or extra mild I think it's wet. It's always coming to you wet. The thing's soaked through. So, for, um, for not Australian listeners, we have talked about... Are you explaining Zambrero? No, no, I was just going to say, we've talked about Guzman and Gomez before.

I'm sure in this, we have talked about what's the what's the other one? Mad Mex? Mad Mex, thank you. What about Sulsas? Yeah, Sulsus fucking sucks. Sulsas, you are on blast. And they all sucks. You're okay. They all suck right. You're all right by me, Mad Mex. But I was talking to my beloved mother recently and she said, Oh, there's a new Mexican place near you that some friends of ours went to and they said it was really good so you should try it out. Hell yes. I love a mum recommendation. Right. And um, sent me like a link to a Facebook or an Instagram post from the venue. And the food looks good. And then they show like a shot of the venue and the food looks good and then they show

like a shot of the menu and I'm like what is this restaurant opened by white people in your camera call and it's cartel tacira and I went oh yeah coe and I went come on bro yeah now that's good How about just like Johnny's tacos, you know? Yeah. Does it have to be like... Crime themed? Tacos for white people. It doesn't even have to be like mad mex, you know? It doesn't... I'm wearing a sombrero and shooting my guns off. Oh boy. A Australians open a restaurant without a problematic name challenge.

Impossible. Here's another report. I'm wondering if perhaps this creature relocated from Tucson, Arizona to Florida looking for nicer people to hug. Quote, my wife and daughter walk our family dog at the Flying Eagle Preserve here in Citrus County, Florida. There was an old Boy Scout camp in close proximity to the river. Recently, she had seen something that she could not explain.

A type of creature that was six to eight feet tall, sounds like Ben. She described it. It's true. That's an accurate description of you. Between six and eight feet tall. She described it as a shimmer, resembling the camouflaged form of the predator alien in the movies.

Dope. Yeah. Super dope. It would reflect sunlight in subtle blues, pinks, and yellow rainbow-like colors with a silhouette that would suggest it had a long tail. It was really hard for her to put it into words. I wanted to send it to you so that you could document the siding signed Jay. This is a very minor quibble. Subtle blues pinks and yellow

rainbow-like colors. Not really, you're classic rainbow colors. The pinks? I think you've got blue and yellow and, yeah, I don't think I have pink in the rainbow. Yeah, I can sing a rainbow. Are they all in there? I simply do it by thinking of the boards of candor song Roy Biv. I think there's a pink in there. Well, there's a lilacilililililililililininininininin, I thin, I thin, I thin, I thin, I thin, I thin, I thin, I thin, I their thin, I thin, I thin, I thin, I thin, I thin, I thin, I thin, I thin, I thin, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I the pink, I the pink, I the pink, I the pink, I the pink, I th. I th. I th. I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th. I thin, I thin, I thin, I thin, I thin, I thin, I thin, I thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, pinks th song Roy Biv. I think there's a pink in there. There's a lilac kind of color.

There's not a pink. I'm saying, I think all those colors are in the rainbow song. Oh, you might be right. But then also, like, rainbow-like, you're kind of saying all colors. All colors are rainbow-like. Except for brown. You're right out of there. Brown and grey, fuck off. If you see a brown rainbow, you are in trouble. Something's gone very wrong. Here's a third report.

Quite. My husband tells an account of a glimmer man siding that I am retelling. Talking about Stephen Tobolowski. That's right. I don't know if this is universal or if it's just this blog but they describe all sightings of this nature as glimmer man sightings. I was unfamiliar with the glimmer man in this incarnation before today. Crypted glimmer man. Yeah, I was just familiar with the Stephen Seagal movie. Yeah, for your benefit, Theo, there is a Stephen Seagal buddy cop film starring him and Keenan Ivory Wayans, one of the Wayans brothers.

And the, the serial killing bad guy is played by Stephen Tobalowski, who a lot of people would know as Ned Ryerson from Groundhog Day. Yeah. Watch that step in today's and he said, yeah. Yeah, and he frequently tells the story about how incredibly insufferable Stephen Seagal was to work with and how they have a scene where Stephen Seagal's character kills his serial killer character by like, you know, unloading a full clip into his chest and he topples over some church pews and stuff.

And then like after this point, Stephen Seagal says, but my character's a Buddhist, so he wouldn't kill him. So he doesn't die. And because he was one of the producers Stephen Tobolowski had to come back in and record a line of ADR where he said oh but I'm still alive from from off-frame truly ridiculous man my husband tells an account of a glimmer man citing that I am retelling I just had him repeated to me again to make sure I didn't mess up the story, just pass him the fucking laptop.

Let him write it. He grew up in Vermont, so but is very hooded everywhere in the place where he lived. It felt like a very benign place as far as absolutely everything else goes. That's a big call. Don't they have like, fucking weird right-wing militias up in Vermont? I don't know if it's...I wouldn't describe that as benign. If we have any listeners in Vermont, please write into mailbag at Puntavis to Com and let us know if anything bad has ever happened there. But still, where there are lots of woods, there is strangeness. Ain't that the

truth? I firmly believe that the woods are not a human domain. It belongs to the animals and God knows what else. So about 30 years ago, trees? Trees? I reckon they've got some fungus in there? Yeah. Definitely bugs. Definitely some bugs. Are we counting bugs as animals or as insects? I think they belong to... They're in the phylum, animalia? Wait that's not a phylum is it? No. Kingdom? The Kingdom of animalia, that's right. Okay. So about 30 years ago when he was in high school, he and his buddies were hanging out of a friend's house and the edge of the forest was probably 50 away from the porch where they were hanging out. I choose to believe she's saying 50 feet. What do you think? No.

50 edge of the forest away I think? No. 50 edge of the forests away, I think. My husband has never smoked or drank and done anything mind-altering due to a medical condition he has. Yeah, bulls- Bulls- Bulls- Bullion. Boring husband's disease. I don't believe that in the same way that I don't believe anybody who has ever said, I smoked weed once, but it just doesn't do anything to me.

Yeah. So there he was of completely sound mind, just randomly looking at the forest when he sees a tall, invisible humanoid figure strolling along the edge of the forest just inside the tree line. It's like the number one shared symptom from sightings of this, being unable to post, and being only able to post us, like through a proxy? Yeah, that first guy managed to do it, but I think it's... He had army training though. He watched it slowly walking the length of the property property property property property property property property property property the property the property property the property the property the property the property the property the property the property the property the property the property the property the property the property the property the property the property the property the property the slowly walking the length of the property and out of sight.

He said that he would have never noticed if he hadn't been looking directly at the spot where it appeared initially, and that it was so, oh, bizarre. He didn't tell his friends and just played it off like nothing happened. The only description he could give, besides the weird predator-type invisibility aspect, was that it was definitely humanoid-shaped. It was slowly swinging its arms and was definitely tall. Any mention of a tail? Not that I can see.

Someone needs to teach these people a word like translucent perhaps or barely visible. Hmm. See-through I would take any of this stuff. Just not, I saw an invisible thing. That does not work for me. My husband is a no-nonsense, practical, down-to-earth sort of man with a lot of in- Not anymore. He's a clown now. Well, he's seen an invisible man. He's a frivolous character to me.

My husband is the world's most serious man. I mean. Who has never lied, nor been intoxicated in any way, shape or form. It's not that believable to me. I would more believe someone who said I had just finished a six-pack when I saw Bigfoot or a translucent glimmer man. You know? Mm-hmm. So he's not the type to make things up like this at all.

He has seen a number of strange things in the woods over time here in Vermont. I'm intrigued by his account, but hope that I never have a similar experience. God, I hope I never see a glimmer man. I hope I never don't see something in the woods. Hey, did you see that? No. Oh, I'm scared! That's strange crypted to have. Like, just whenever there's one that doesn't, it's not connected to any sort of folklore or anything? Yeah. These people aren't saying they saw a ghost. It's connected to predator to the the the the the the woods the woods the woods the woods the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods in in in in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods in the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods in the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the woods. the's one that doesn't, it's not connected to any sort of folklore or anything. These people aren't saying they saw a ghost.

It's connected to Predator. Well, yeah, modern folklore. The flawless movie predator. I was looking at a predator wiki, sorry, not predator, a crypted wiki, recently where people were tracking this kind of thing. And it was a great mix between people either reporting sightings or saying, why isn't anyone talking about the Mothman? You know?

And then like a smaller proportion of the posts were just people who seem to be trying to coin new cryptids. What do you think of this one guys? You know, the Pennsylvania Dutchman or whatever it was that they were coming up with, you know, attaching a little drawing they've done. Pennsylvania Dutch are real. They're an existing community of people in Pennsylvania. Ben, I'm scared enough already, okay? You don't have to try and put the wind up me. Let's I'm not gonna sleep tonight I have another glimmer man account here that was posted to Phantoms and Monsters just yesterday And this one is another first-hand account so again another psychically strong individual

I'm no storyteller, but I will try to recall as much detail as possible now my experience happened on September 2nd 22nd, so not that long ago. I've th. I I I I I I I I I I I I I th. I have I have I have th. I have th. I have th. I have th. I have th. I have th. I have th. I have th. I have th. I have th. I have th. I have th th th. I have th. I have tho tho thi tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho them them other another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another another th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I've th. I've th. I've th. I've th. I've th. I've tho tho tho tho thoooooooooooooooooooooo' thoooooooo' the thooo tho tho tho tho tho but I will try to recall as much detail as possible. Now my experience happened on September 2nd, 2022, so not that long ago. I've been out through the day running a few errands here and there for my dad who is elderly. Nice humble brag. Later that same day to return back to my dad's apartment, which just happened to be in a tall residential building in Chicago. His apartment is six floors up. Okay, we get it. You have a wonderful elderly dad. Yeah, he could see stuff. Okay. At some point during the earlier evening I decided to go out on the balcony for a quick cigarette. I was standing there just staring out to thin air, not really thinking about much or doing much. As I stood there with my cigarette in

hand, I shifted position and began to observe a very large tree about 20 feet away. It was roughly about 15 feet down from me. Now Theo, you know that it was 20 feet away from him and it was 15 feet down so you can do the maths to figure out the other dimension there. I'm not going with that. So the hypotenuse is 20 feet. The, what side would the, uh, what side would the... that side with the... yeah yeah yeah I would pour the best people on it I noticed that one of the actually that's not enough information to

figure it out is it no it is because you can infer the angle from that yeah anyway I noticed that one of the branches on this tree was bowing quite heavily which I remember now thinking back was quite odd at the time. As I'm staring at this branch and trying to make sense of what my eyes are seeing, I have this horrible feeling come over me. The most intense sense of dread and fear was almost like every part of my body was screaming at me to turn around and run. I didn't know why.

Pennsylvania. in your Dutchman. Oh, I handcrafted furniture. At this very moment, the boing branch that I had just been observing began to shake violently, despite my internal instincts still screaming at me to leave. Curiosity had now gotten the better of me, and I started to move along the railing to get a closer look. How much closer could you get? Then I saw it. What I saw at first was a small, glimmering form.

As I started, as I stared a bit closer, this glimmer then became what I can only describe as a transparent human figure that shimmered a yellowish white color. I snapped out of my fixated stare and quickly took a step back from the railing. Suddenly hit me that I was looking at was like something straight from the movie Predator. Or specifically when the Predator is using camouflage. Yeah, no shit. At that very moment when I realized what I had just seen,

this thing dropped out of the tree and hit the ground below. It landed directly behind a man the man, the man immediately spun around assuming that someone had thrown something at him. The only thing I noticed was a cloud of smoke or dust arising from the ground behind the man. I waited for some time expecting to see this thing re-emerged from the dust or the smoke, but it was completely gone. At the same time, another neighbor, just a few floors below, had also observed exactly the same thing as me, and they managed to confirm all the same the same the same.. The neighbor and I then managed to track down the man who was walking past a few hours later. How? Yeah. There was a guy walking past and a couple of hours later you were like,

oh, there you are. How many guys could there be in Chicago? We've been looking for you this whole time. We had a conversation with the man and he said that he'd felt an impact but didn't see anything when he turned around to report that he felt the the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the same the the same around. He also went on to report that he felt the same dread that I experienced only hours before. Does anyone have any idea what these beings are? I feel like they can be dangerous. So this thing, this glimmering predator presence, was hanging out in a tree, dropped down, smacked a man in the back of their head and then disappeared? Well, I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I mean, I mean, I th th th th th th th thi thi thi. thed, I thed, thed, thated, thated thed thatheed thatheed thatened thatheed thed thed thed thatheed thatheed thatheed theired theired theired theired theired theired theired theired theired theired theired theired theired theired thed thed thed thed thed thed thed thed thed thed thatted thatted thattook that that that that that that the the the the the an the an the an the an took the an the an thean th man in the back of their head and then disappeared. Well, I mean, it did give them all on we for a bit as well. Ah, Velchmertz!

It's the invisible annoying guy that gives you depression. I've always suspected that some force like that existed based on how my life has been. Yeah, Desay just lives, God, oh the tree near me. I'm also quite confused about the geometry of this. He's six stories up and he was 15 feet down from a tree that was 20 feet away from him. Yeah. This just doesn't fucking add up. It's a cool tree that was 20 feet away from him? Yeah. This just doesn't fucking add up. Makes sense to me. Hmm.

I guess just maybe a really, really insanely tall tree. Very strange. I just don't, this phenomenon is completely new to me. If you've heard, also if you Google Glima, all the results of the Stephen Cigar, if you Google Glima and then, the result, 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, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thoomoomo, tho, tho, tho, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, t, th, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, tou, too, too, too, thi, thi, thi, tog, thi, toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomu, too, tree of the Stephen Seagal movie. If you Google Glima and then minus Stephen Seagal, the results are still somehow about that movie. What are they hiding? Maybe we're going to do Glima and then crypted in quote marks. Yeah may be. Let's see if we're getting any. Ah, photos of the forest with nothing visible.

It's like, just pictures of the forest where people have like drawn a red circle around some of the trees. Guys, you want to... Look, I'm going to share this compelling evidence of a glimmer man with you guys in the chat here. Ben, I think you should potentially make this the color of the episode art? Ah, wonderful. There he is. That's from a Reddit post. Possible glimmer man in my backyard.

I live in South Georgia. I can't tell if my eyes are just playing tricks on me or if there is a being of some sort standing there. Random day taking pictures in my yard during the spring. I saw it immediately. It got an uneasy feeling. So hopefully Ben will make that the episode art. And you judge for yourself, you know. Yeah, we report you decide. Got some replies here. I definitely see something. I can't make out if it's my imagination of a hunched over invisible human-like entity or if the surrounding foliage is growing in such a way that it looks like it as a body and shadows.

Yeah, that's also invisible. I suppose the poster says, I know, I definitely see a head and shoulders, eyes, maybe legs. I've taken several pictures of that same area and I can't ever get it to look the same way. Sometimes at night I hear noises out there. That's crazy. Yeah in the trees. Yeah in the forest.

Fucked up. Could be anything. That's so scary. That's fucked up. I tell you what, folks, if you are... See, Theo's scared now. Are you happy, people who claim to have seen a glimmer man? He might also just be cold because he's not wearing a shirt. Maybe.

I could not be, like, physically could not be cold right now. It's very hot. We report, you decide, you, you, 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, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, th. That's f. That's f. That's f. That's f. That's f. That's th. That's th. That's th. That's th. That's tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho. too. toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. It's very hot. It's very hot. We report you decide whether or not Theo is too cold. Folks, if you have trees near your house and you are scared of the glimmer man, make sure when you lay your head down a night that you keep your lead pipe right next to the bed. It's time for with a lead pipe. She's sweet and red, she's swinging lead. Gonna hit you in the hand, yeah. With a lead pipe, it is the premiere segment for things that you would like to smash with a lead pipe. Yeah, at the start of the segment it was sort of a list of 70 things from pop culture, and now it's mostly news stories about robots. Yep. Well, that's the thing that is discussing this most these days.

That's right. In Bunter Fista and also... As the human race. Facing the robot apocalypse. Mm-hmm. This is from the English language French news website, the connection. Meet Ritchie, the French robot to the world looks set to see a lot more of. Come on. He th. He th. He th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thatch set to see a lot more of He's coming for your dick

Don't you can call him anything We have gone through so many names. Mr. Jerky The grabber touchy the robo Call him robo spelled R-o-b-e-a-U-X. Oh, yeah, that's good. This is a robo-bo- Oh, bo-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh- This is a-bo-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh- T-oh- T-oh- T-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-B-E-A-U-X. Oh, yeah, that's good. This is Robble. This is my good friend, Ritchie, watch out for his arms. Oh, here comes up, prototype Jerker 2000. Oh, you can't call it that, bro. Ritchie, a robot made by a Bordeaux company has won two million- Oh, you can't call it that, bro.

Ritchie, a robot made by a Bordeaux company, has won two million dollars at a prestigious US tech contest and is attracting buyers from different fields. What do you mean he won it? He doesn't have a bank account. What if he takes it and leaves? They're going to be so mad. A beautiful log on. He's immediately using it to reach up and deposit the $2 million into a poker machine.

Users can customize its appearance and uses. Its arms and heads have a high degree of mobility. Sorry, I believe I said heads just then. But it's actually singular. I don't want to give the impression that Ritchie has both multiple arms and multiple heads. He's enough of a problem as it is. Yeah. Add maths to that bad boy? Its arms and head have a high degree of mobility, allowing it to perform many tasks and be appealingly expressive by moving its head and antennae wrong, wrong. Appealing to who?

Monsieur? Now, I'm just doing what, if you're listening to this show in the car, I assume that you have pulled out your phone while driving to look at what Ritchie the robot looks like. I'm doing the same. He's fucked up. He is a, he's a like a half Jack Skellington looking, mothfucker. Yeah, he's got, he's got like, he's got like an upper body and arms and a head and antennae and stuff.

And then from the waist down, he is a stick on a platform. They kind of just phoned it in on the bottom half of Friji I think. Two very important things to highlight here. The first being that its eyes are two different sizes and the head is perpetually cocked at an angle, giving it an appearance of the small forest spirits from Princess Mononoke. But also that it's chest. I can't tell if that's painted on or if those are articulated segments, but they are the black and white stripes of a stereotypical French man in a stripy shirt. Yeah, that's true. Well if he doesn't talk, perhaps it's a tribute to the classic French mime.

One robot de meme? Now, I mean, of the physical attributes, we're going to mention Ben, prime, number one with the bullet would have been the fact that in many photos he has one hand for a hand and one clamp for a hand. What, one hand for clamping? Oh boy. Oh, you will not be able to get away from Ritchie so easy. Well, you take your Ritchie home, you put him through the paces.

And once you have lost all sensitivity in your penis, you move up to the clamp. Boy, oh boy. Judges at the ANA Avatar X Prize contest in Los Angeles fitted with a virtual reality headset had to put robots through a series of time trials including lifting a screwdriver and using it to unscrew a door from its mount. Why is that the test? I... Why is getting him to break through your home defense is the test of the robot? Well, using it to clap through the chimney into your living room. I know you're in there, I will jerk you off.

Richie can't hear you. What's the... I'm trying to understand the... The use case for this because... understand the use case for this because if the use case is... Door removal? If the use case is you put on a virtual reality helmet and then you direct the robot to do stuff that you can do already... I don't think they're controlling the robots.

I can't remove a door. You could remove a door. You're a capable young man with lots of power tools and stuff because you're a dad with a garage. But if you look at the photos of Ritchie on Google Images, there's a lady in the demos who is wearing a, she's wearing a VR helmet and she has like Oculus hand things and Ritchie's doing whatever she's doing. She's controlling Ritchie. I feel like if I can take my door out of the door frame. Joy from Blade Runner 2049. No, not at all like that.

Hey? It's not? Well no, because in that instance, the only time the joy interacts with a human is when the human is being a physical proxy for joy by them overlapping in the same space. What he's describing is the robot being operated like a Marionette. Which is French for puppet I believe. Yeah, there's another one here where... Oh, why? Rich is... Oh sorry, this is a completely different robot, but it's wearing a white sundress and has an iPad with a man's face on it as they play a children's game together. Sorry, working up by that one? How much does that one cost? Will they let me trade in my car? Getting riled in a sundry

costs approximately $750,000. Ben, now can I pull back the curtain for a second? Oh yeah, I would love for you to do that. You guys think of that. I mean, I know that's usually your domain, Ben. The wet curtain. Uh, now, Ben normally like bold passages of the articles that I think he thinks are noteworthy or funny or absurd in a particular way. Well yeah because

sometimes we accidentally skip over stuff so I like to make sure that these are the things that we really say out loud. Yeah. I could just bold the whole thing. But you didn't, you didn't bold the following sentence, which is, Reachie did all the tasks but was beaten to a $10 million first prize by a faster German competitor. Oh, he gave up immediately! Oh, no, Blitzkrieg, Bot. He has a very punishing technique which apparently the judge has liked. Can I read out to you the name of all of the teams that were involved in the ANA Avatar X Prize?

It's crazy, because I thought there are only two. I'm just giving Theo's joke from earlier a second pass for anyone who kind of missed it the first time. Nimbro. Dragon Tree Labs. Team Northeastern. Avotrina. Converge Avatar Hubeau, CyberSelves, Team team, Polyn Robotics, which is the Reachie Team, Last Mile, Team Unist, Inbiodroid, Resilient, Touch Lab, Ava Dynamics. It's so good that all of the future evil companies for you like, dystopian sci-fi are already here. Yeah.

They're Converge Robotics Group is an international collaboration between tangible research, Hapt X and Shadow Robot company. Oh my God! No! They're developing the tactile tele robot. Do you think they maybe gave the prize to Ritchie because it was just the least embarrassing name to say when you were giving out the money? Give it out that big check. I think Team Snoo is what an Australian pornomag from the late 90s would call heterosexual, no, women. Let's go with that.

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We're very tired. Some kind of Frankenstein's monster, you know. What kind of penis will you give your joke? However, Ritchie stands out for its good value.. their. their. their. there. there. there. there. there. there. I. there. there. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. they, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe th, maybe th, maybe th, maybe th, maybe maybe th, maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. the. that, that, that, that, that, that, that, maybe, that, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe? However, Ritchie stands out for its good value. Are they editorializing their... Ritchie's different configurations start with a kit with just a robotic arm at 10,000 euro Oh my god. That's all you need.

Yeah, how much for just the hand. Yeah, how many times do you need... Like how many cups of coffee do you need to make from your home coffee machine? Before it has the soft-off robot, but people keep just asking for the arm? How many $200 jack-off experiences do you need before the $10,000 jack-off robot is worth it? Yeah. And there's no way of doing that, maths. No. Well, first, I mean, how can, how, how, how, how, how, how, how, how, how, how, how, how, how, how, how, how, how, how, how can can can can can can can can can can, how, how, how can the... You can the... How can the the the the the... How can the... How can the... How can the... How can the the the the... How can the c- the c- the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the... the the... It? It? It's, how? It's, how? It's, how? It's, how? It's... It's... It's... It's... It's the the the the the the the the the the the the tipe- how many... tipe-a-cups. tipe-cups, how many... tipe-coops... tipe-coops... tipe-a-cops? How many... the c-a-a-c robot is worth it. Yeah. And there's no way of doing that maths. No. Well, first, I mean, how can you be the price?

You could go in with a bunch of friends. Like a time share. It's sort of like, you know, that whole argument for like the app driven economy of like, well, you own a car, but it's not there. Yeah. 90% of the day. Yeah, you own a dick, but it's not getting jacked off, 90% of the day. Okay, it's not that you're going to share the dick with everyone. No, no. I wasn't really listening. Welcome to Dicker.

Oh boy. Get out my app puber and see if, uh... Just if I can get somebody on this dick. Uh, so you can also get a torso kit with cameras and radio control plus mobility for 40,000 euro. Until recently, most robotic arms started at 250,000 euros. That's, that's too expensive for a robot hand job, I think. I still don't think that's good value, though, the cheap one. The 10,000 euros? Yeah, maybe I'm not the.

It's probably hard to make an articulated robot arm. I don't know. Hmm. Elsa Kovella, business development manager for Ritchie's maker, Polon Robotics, said, Our clients are mainly research institutions where students in robotics use Ritchie, letting them see if their computer simulations work in practice. The systems are open source and designed for AI programs, so it should be possible to have a robot which can interact with people and perform tasks,

such as robot waiters, which are more than the mobile tablet computer ordering systems you can see in now. I already don't like them. Yeah, I don't like them and I like them way better than the idea of a thinking robot. They know they're trash. Yeah, they know they suck. I would absolutely prefer it to be less realistic than more realistic. I want a fucking stupid thing that carries three trays and just keeps bumping into the wall. I don't want like a perfectly articulated French pervert robot hand that like reaches it to my mouth to be like oh you are done. Yeah would you would you rather be served? Would you rather be served at a restaurant by

R2 D2 from Return of the Jedi when he has the different trays? Oh, I got the perfect robot mounted to his head or Sentient intelligence used as just like a moving platform for like three drinks around yeah or you could be served by like the sort of? The the mournful Jude law sex robot from Stephen Spielberg's AI. Yeah. I think that would bum me out. And I'd be like, let's get out of here. Yeah, you're me Joe. Let's go into the woods. Nothing bad's going to happen to us there. That's right. Check out the movie AI. Quick shout out to these guys though who According to their site Refuse any military funding. Oh, so that's nice. That might be the world only robotics company

Well, I mean what else you're gonna do? I guess that explains why two million dollars is exciting to them I made an eye-rolling noise at the start when I was saying two million dollars because like in the world of people investing in robotics that does not seem to th th th th th th th th th th th th the th seem like th th seem th seem th th th the the the the the the the the the to to to to to to to to to to to to the the their to to to to to to to to to to to to 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 their their their their their their their their their their their their the the the toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooes tooooes tooes to to their their the start when I was saying $2 million because like in the world of people investing in robotics, that does not seem like a lot to me. But I get it there. Shout to Ritchie. Somewhere in, let's say, Libya, the Boston Dynamics robot is dragging a child out of a third-story window. Yep. That's going to kick it to death because the Geneva Conventions has it, can't have a gun. We are, we all, we all need to support

Ritchie, the non-lethal masturbation robot. You know what, Ritchie is a folk hero. I don't care what he's done. Now what I didn't include in this segment is another story which just confused the fuck out of me about a company that's sort of an intermediary between large corporations and robotics companies as like a robot solutions company so they design solutions that fit their needs and then purchase the robots and program the robots and stuff. But it was about them getting a fleet of Reachy forklifts. Okay. Which as we've seen, Reachy is a torso and arms. Is this a sort of like Centaur-Reachy forklift?

We's poking out the front? Like the figurehead on a ship? Hmm. I don't know either, which is why I didn't include it. But I've still said it allowed. It's still fun to think about. The company is working on a follow-up to Ritchie. Reachy too. Yeah. Reach around.

Which it hopes will be on sale in 2024. Quite. It is an incredibly exciting field and moving very quickly. Yeah, I'm going to need it to move quickly. And as a company, we are happy to be one of the leaders in it, Ms. Cervella said. So there isn't a Mr. Covella, as far as I can tell. Good to know. Oh boy, I love to hear about a robot which isn't designed to kill everybody. You know?

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But I was skimming through there recently and a lovely listener, I believe it is American Castle fan Sam. Oh, the castle, the Australian movie, the castle. Not I guess the TV show Castle. Yeah. It was yeah. Sent in I think I wrote it. I think that's right, yeah. Sent in a few photos. Now he sent these in on the 3rd of September last year, so we're getting back to him nice and quick. Sent a few photos of a t-shirt from a thrift store in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And there is a photo on the front, black and white photo, of a man and it's over the top of like an outline of

Australia, long-sleeved black Gildan shirt, that's some cheap merch. And it says, crossing over, down under tour. And there's actually, it's like a foil sticker so you know that shit is authentic. Little signature on the bottom. There's a photo of the back as well that says Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, 2003. Sam says instead of Googling him I want to ask you guys who the hell this is, how did this end up in Pennsylvania? Now I was telling wife of the show my wife, Elner about this and she said, well that's John Edward. Everybody knows who John Edward is. That man's a household name. That man's a household name. John Edward, yeah. And I said, I get the feeling John Edward was more of a household name like 20 years ago. You know? You know? Not best to think about why he's a household name to

us. But perhaps not this listener. Well, in having a little little the the the the the the the the the the the thuu the thu thu thu thu thu thu thu thoe thoe thoe thoe tho thoe thoe thoe thoe the the thoean theathee. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the the the the the. the the. the the the the the. the. the. the. the. thean. thean. theanan. thean. thin. theananan. theananan. theananann. theanan's thean's thean's thean to us but perhaps not this listener? Well, in having a little Google of John Edward to see what he's up to these days, the answer is still being on Australian daytime TV in like 2017, doing readings of the audience, which absolutely rocks. So, you know, if you want to, if you wantto have a look at John Edward in his TV show Crossing Over. Yeah, if you've ever wanted to get in touch with a dead loved one as well, check that shit out. Yeah, I was having a little look at his Wikipedia when I was talking about this. And it was pretty funny because, well, I've also been watching like a bit of magician shit lately. I'm back on my magician shit, right? Watching some magicians, which always includes close-up stuff.

We've been watching that Penn and Teller fool us thing, you know? And some of those people come out and do like mentalist stuff. And then when you see like a medium, you go, oh, you're just doing mentalist stuff. You're doing cold reading and hot reading and all that sort of thing. But I quite liked, so for anybody who's seen this show, people in the audience go, yes, I do know someone who died. And he goes, oh, does the name start with a B? Maybe a C isn't an E or a D a G a P and they go oh yeah He goes oh a P I knew that it's very unconvincing

But I was reading this little clip from here Edward was said to have used for knowledge to hot read an interview on the television show dateline James under down of the Independent Investigative Group attended a crossing over show in November 2002 and said, quote, there were no indications of anyone I saw collecting information. None of his readings contained the kind of specific information that would raise an eyebrow of suspicion. John Edward was a bad cold reader. He too struggled to get hits, and in one attempt shot off nearly 40 guesses before finding any significant targets. That's too many. That's way too many. I think you should just stop the medium when they're about 15 or 20 deep.

Now let's not worry about it. It's fine. It happens to everyone. It happens to everyone. It's cool. So that's who that is, Sam. If you've been hanging out in September to know who that. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the ti. tod today. tha tha tha tha tha tha tha tha tha. to to to to to to to to everyone. It's cool. So that's who that is Sam. If you've been hanging out in September to know who that was, going back to the store every week to look at the shirt some more. Yeah, I hope you liked the shirt as well. That you purchased. I hope you bought it because it's a good bit of fun. Well, that has been an episode of the podcast, Buonto Vista. Do you concur? Yes. Yeah, I'm pretty certain. Thanks everybody.

And, uh, oh, like we're talking about at the start of the show, it will indeed be time for, freemium, free brewery. Which is where we put all of the premium episodes on the free feed for a month. First days is freemium. So if you were thinking about signing up for the Patreon, don't bother. Yeah, wait a month. Wait a month, and then we'll pull the needle out of your vein. You'll be like, uh, I need hours a week of this stupid shit.

Yeah. That's how works. That's good marketing. So yeah, if you're not a subscriber, enjoy that. And if you are, sorry. Sorry that they get to hear some of your good stuff. See you next time, everybody. Bye-bye.

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