Boonta Vista - EPISODE 310: A Humpback Chub In Every Home

Episode Date: August 20, 2023

Lucy, Theo and Ben bring you: A pilot with nothing to lose, the end of a historic escalator, a man who probably shouldn't build any more bridges, the quest to save a special fish, and 32 misplaced cars. *** 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, Buntavista, probably not. Probably not. Sorry, who spins Gerald. I hope that. Right. Hello and welcome. Buntavista, episode 310. I am Ben and I am here in the catacombs. The air hangs hot, heavy and close, choked with the dust disturbed by my passage. Bones crunch under foot, but of what nature I don't dare check. Sharp outcrops of ancient brick and twisted stone catch my arms and legs, drawing blood.

What was once maybe a deep silence has become a cacophony. Perhaps it is the roaring of blood in my ears, or the deep tectonic rumbling of trains passing far, far, far above me. Perhaps it is the breath of some sickly pale cave, to'-aule, to'e' th. .. beast following just beyond the light of my torch, waiting to strike until after I have collapsed from exhaustion. The passage of time is unclear. I am beyond hunger and thirst, or at least anewed now to their desperate cries. Has it been weeks? I don't recall what twists and turns I've taken, how many levels descended and how many

desperate, hopeful and ultimately futile ascensions I have made in turn. The battery in my torch is near death, and my only companion is madness. With me is a 35-second snippet of semi-charmed life by third-eye blind that I've been completely unable to get out of my head the whole time I've been down here. It's Lucy. Hi Lucy. Hey. Do-Doot-doo-doo-doo-d-d-d-doo-d-doo-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-n-n'-n'-n'-n'-n'-n'-n'-n'-n'-s, I's-n'-s, I's-s, I's-s, I's- me. Just mostly the dutes, yeah, that's perfect. That's what you want. I've been duting around in the head the whole time.

I've been near death. Terrified. I'll be here forever. Because you keep repeating it in your head. You will never forget me. Doo. Doo do. What a shit song. Nah, that's good. Is it? That one in karaoke faves? Pop that on? A whole pub going do-doo, do-doo, do-do, do-do, do-do.

What's the problem? What's that song about? I think it's about meth. I think it's about meth. I think it's about meth. I think it's about crystal meth. I think it's about crystal meth. I think it's about me. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th th th th th th th th th thi thin thin thi that's that's th. I th. I think think th think th think th think th think th think th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I thin thin thin thin thin thin the. I the. I thin thoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo prank you're doing on me is this are you learning this for the first time is this a moment? Yeah is this wow yeah this is true yeah I can see what she wants something else to get him through yeah the button that he goes do do do do what are the other lyrics that represent I think he wants something else to get me through this. Yeah. Semi-charmed, kind of life. Baby. Here we go. All right.

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Do do do do do. Do do do do. What happened to, what happened to buddy? What happened to real rock and roll? Like a yellow gold by the stranglers? What's that one called. What's that one called? Golden brown, golden brown, textured like Searn. Yeah, what about good old rock and roll? It's not about anything. Music's about Zanis and my situation ship. Yeah, that's right. What was your last karaoke song Ben? Well it's funny that you say that, because it's definitely my last karaoke song in the sense that it will be the final one. I believe... That night I tried two songs.

One was Amos Moses by Jerry Reed, which is a great borderline comedy country song that might be familiar to people intimately familiar with the soundtrack to San Andreas. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's on the country music station there and I think I also did Head Over Heals by Tears for Fears, which I don't know if you're familiar with that song. There's a vocal range there that I do not have. It's got quite a range in it. It's a very ambitious karaoke choice. It's really, really high pitch in the chorus there. And yeah. I'll give you $200 if you can guess my last one. I can't even, I cannot picture you doing karaoke and out of it. And if you are, it's something very obscure. No, it's not. No. Brittany Spears. It was a Britney Spears song.

It was absolutely not. How are you guys? I don't, you tell us. No. What was it? Uh, what's the one? Where he's looking at people on the beach. And he's like, I'm in about a movie with Meg Ryan maybe.

Is it City of Angels? Iris? There you got it. It's about a movie. Is it the song Iris from the film City of Angels? Yeah, it's the, by the Gug dolls? Yeah, that's like the first thing that if you buy a guitar, like 17 and acoustic, you learn Iris by the Gug dolls? Oh, was I supposed to? Was I supposed to? to? to? to? to? to? to? to? to? to? to? to? to? to? to? to? to? to? to? to? to? to? to? to? to? to, to? to, to, to, to, to, the, to, the, the the, the the, the the the the the the the the the the the the, the, the, the, the, the, th. th. Meg? th. Meg? th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th, to, to, to, to, the, the, th, th. th. th. to, th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the thi-Megry, Meg, Meg, Meg, Meg, Meg, Meg, Meg, their, Meg, their, their, their, their, their, the go-go dolls? By the go-go-dolls? Yeah, it's good-sug. That's like the first thing that if you buy a guitar at like 17 an acoustic, you learnt iris by the go-go-dogs. Was I supposed to? Because I was going, I was, I was tuing that down to Drop D and doing the opening riff to home by Dream Theater. Ding ding-dong. I think there's there's there's there's. There's the one way like your biggest goal is that you could be The musical covers person at a pig and whistle

And you get four hours every Sunday and so the first song you learn is that could be you that a fair chunk of money per hour and they probably come you a bunch of drinks and people love you you. People love you. No one the money has any serial numbers on it though? Yeah, what does money have? I a a the their their their their their their? their th. their th. th. their th. th. th. th. their their th. th. th. th. their th. th. th. th. their th. th. thi thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. their to. to. to. to. to. t. to. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. t. the the m. the m. the m. the m. the m. the m. the m. the m. the m. their the m. their to. toooooooooooooooooo. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. t numbers on it though. Yeah, what does money have serial numbers? I think there's probably an identify number on the bottom of it. Lucy, what was your last karaoke song? Oh, it would have been some pop country. Yeah, country girl, shake it from me. Maybe a little trace Atkins. Maybe a little nelly.

C. Crest alive. Summer of 69. Also with me, slithing,ly above me, completely undetected, is Theo. Who lives here? Hey, Theo. How you doing? Good. What are you doing down there? What are you doing?

You lost, buddy. What are you doing up there? It's where I live? What the tho. . What do you mean? What am I doing up here? You've been following me the whole time. This is all where I live. Yeah, you could have just sort of ignored me or help me leave at any point. This is like when you have a bird trapped in your ceiling. Yeah. Right?

I would like you to be out of here, but I don't know a way that won't make you completely freak the fuck out. That's true. There's basically there's basically there's basically there's basically there's basically there's basically there's basically there's basically th th th th th th th th th thi thi thi thi thi tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho thoomothe fuck out. Yeah, that's true. There's basically no way you could shepherd me out without me going, ah! Banging myself against the walls a bunch. And it is because I look like this. Yeah. But I can't help it.

Sort of toad-like, borderline, transparent due to you having evolved to live in the caves. Yeah. Yeah. Wet between, used to be my feet. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, real gross. Yeah, it's kind of damp. It's weird. It's such a dry environment down here down here.

Yeah. That's because I've been keeping it all. I haven't got any wetness that you're keeping on there. Hey, I've got gotta tell you, I've spent so much time down here in the catacombs now. I wish I was as far away from it as I could possibly be. Perhaps up on a plane. It's time. It's time for plain captain speaking. Please return your seats for their upright positions as we are coming in hot on another edition of plainly speaking

This comes to us from KMGH in Denver, Colorado United Airlines pilot caught on surveillance video taking an axe to a parking gate at Denver International Airport. What's the crime? Sounds like someone had a case of the Mondays. Yeah. Or whatever day this happened on. The United Airlines pilot was called on surveillance video hacking way to parking gate with an axe at Denver International Airport. Video obtained by ABC News Friday shows the United Airlines pilot walking towards the landside employee parking lot gate with an axe in his hand before briefly stopping as if to check out which parking gate he's going to

target. Why are they talking about this video being passed from hand to hand like at Samastat or something like that? About a minute into the video the pilot is then seen walking towards the gate farthest from him before he starts hacking away at the gate. A person inside a pickup truck can be seen in a video just sitting still as the man hacks away. Just watch him. Well, you want to do about it? Yeah.

Yeah, I'm not like, oh no, that parking gate is precious. Knocked off my business. Hey, come over here with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with the 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. tha. my car. Hey, come over here with that axe for a second. I got words to tell you. Deranged man committing violence against a gate. Could you come a little close to me? What you really want to do is discreetly film it and then sell it to viral hog for like 10 large. And that's a swimming pool. I don't know how much swimming pool does. Probably more than 10 grand, what with bidenomics at play. That's right, in Bidon's America. Yeah, nowadays you can't even get a swimming pool for $10,000. Above ground you'd probably get one for 10 grand.

Not in ground, that's for sure. Twenty seconds into the video, the pilot then stops his attack as he realizes the axe wasn't probably working because of still being covered by its sheath. Oh, Bud. How embarrassing. Did that undermine your powerful angry gesture slightly? That's got to put you in a bigger rage, right? Which would make your blow is even more powerful? Yeah.

Give you greater strength, but you are drawing that strength from the dark side. And so you'll end up looking fucked up. Yeah, it comes with a sacrifice of finesse as well. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Not getting critical hits that way or whatever. I don't know. You're basing this on your memory of Knights of the Old Republic.

I don't have played nights of the El Republic or any DND? Is that D&D? It is. Yeah, that was on the D20 system. Yeah. No, I haven't played. Probably a bit of fallout. Yeah. It's not, OK. The United Pilot resumes his hacking for about another 15 seconds

before the gate dislodges and moves out of the driver on the pickup to pass through the now damaged gate. What a lovely interaction that would have been. Victory achieved. Yeah, he's just like, oh, oh, oh sorry mate, you were trying to get through? Okay, guy the pickups rolling through just doing a little... Yeah, cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Thanks for that. Yeah. We're talking like a single parking gate. It's probably pretty easy to hack off, right? Yeah. Give it a few good blows. Yeah. We won't make sure his sheath is off, but yeah. The surveillance video shows the pilot grabbing the sheath from the floor and follows as he makes his way to the parking lot.

A security guard follows him and a brief struggle ensues between the pilot and the guard tries to take the axe away. Hey, give me that. Come on. I'm just gonna take that. Give me that real quick. Just come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, the pilot has then seen walking away from the parking lot into an empty field. This man's having something of a, like a falling-down-esque kind of day. Which is not a day that you usually want a pilot to have. Yeah. No, yeah. I got to know what happened to this guy before he got to work today, you know? Yeah, what was the tiping point? Because of the ground. Yeah,

like that parking gates the tiping point. It's not the main issue. This is just the the thing above the surface. What's below in our iceberg meme is shit passengers. Yeah. Wife left me. Wife left me. Grand control staff don't know what the fuck they're doing. People at Tower don't respect me. Call traffic control, mum. I have.

Misophonia and my co-pilot is an open-mouthed ture. That sounds awful. Yeah, that honestly sounds like... All my stymtoys confiscated. Would let me take my fidget spin- This is a real sliding door's moment for this guy because it's either chop this parking gate into bits or be that guy that does a barrel roll with 737, right? I think that this parking gate just saved about 200 lives. Oh yeah, I think so too.

Thank God for this parking gate and that axe. So where I go to the dentist is like in Southern Brisbane and they recently put up a parking gate and started charging like everyone in there that stays for more than whatever, you know. Because it's like otherwise people would just park there and like cross the river or whatever or go to the hospital. And my dentist reckons that the gate keeps getting shorter and shorter as people try and like swerve around it and knock like the next piece of it off and like they'll bend it and then the building maintenance guy will come out and just like bend the bits that's that's bent like backwards and forwards backwards and forwards until it just pops off on that bit something is down to its elbow now.

Good freedom. Good. Freedom. Yeah. Yeah. Check out the train that is kind of, you know, 100 meters away. You're not in traffic. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I love driving. I'm getting my car and going, woohoo.

I'm king of the highway. Hey, South Brisbane, that's a region. I'm getting in my car and going, woohoo! I'm king of the highway. Hey, South Brisbane, that's a region. There are other regions in this world, and what happens in them is bullshit sometimes. It's time for regional bullshit. Regional bullshit. Regional bullshit. Every little town has got their own bullshit. Regional bullshit.

Every little town has just got to us from WTMJ in Wisconsin. Oh sorry, I should say first. This was sent into us by Lars. We love Lars, thank you Lars. From WTMJ in Wisconsin, one last ride. The famous poker escalator inside the beds and it goes silent. Damn, RIP. Yeah, isn't T.

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I'm assuming the latter. Yeah. It's a sad day in Milwaukee. The famous poker escalator inside of the Baird Center is going silent. The poker escalator is part of an art exhibit inside the downtown Milwaukee Convention Center called Poker Time. Push a button called Push to Play Poker and one of 200 poker songs starts playing. As you ride what is known as the Poker Lader, you see 20 pictures of people enjoying and playing poker music. This sounds like a nightmare, like something from a horror film. Yeah, it's the Poker Later.

Most of the photos were taken at a 1976 party in Milwaukee marking the 200 year anniversary of United States Independence. It is so funny to be like 200 poker songs and upwards of 20 photos. Just 20 pictures of people at a party in 1976 too, like not even an really old one. Like was the party like a great, was that a really big time for poker? That one party? It must have been. Quote, well, as an artist it's been a thrill to have to, to, to, to, to, to, to... a really big time for poker, that one party? It must have been. Quote, well, as an artist, it's been a thrill to have to offer to produce so much pleasure for so many people for so many years.

So this is, all of these articles, most of the articles we read are transcripts of videos, which means that they are not trying to, they're just writing down exactly how people have said stuff, which includes their like hesitations and stuff. Very confusing. You don't have to do that as a journalist. You can paraphrase people. You can lightly edit for clarity and then have a note at the bottom and say, parts of this interview were lightly edited for clarity.

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So those are the two songs you can think of. You were looking at your phone, yeah. Yes. Poker Face, the gambler. Name a third poker song you can think of off the top of your head. Ah, Ace of Spades. Uh-huh. That was just about a card. Yeah, yep, the Joker.

The Joker, does the Joker? The Joker isn't even does the Joker mention poker isn't even in the poker deck. Yeah, it's so good at... Sorry, I didn't even get to the punchline of this sentence by the way. Quote, well as an artist it's been blah blah blah says Dick Blow who created poker time back in 1998. That man's name is spelled B-L-A-U, like the German word for Blue. Dick Blow.

Dick-Blow. Dick-Blue. Dick-Blue. Dick-Blu. Yeah. Half his luck. Poker is fun, danceable and is kind of whimsical, and for 25 years this art installation is preserved and promoted poker perfectly. That's why Blough doesn't want to be, there's to be a sombre occasion.

I don't think it's up to you to say whether an art installation captures something perfectly. That's, that's kind of's kind of subjective, right? That's for you as the viewer, going on the poker later, listening to one of 200 poker songs and looking at 20 photos for a party in 1976 to decide whether this is fully captured the essence of what is poker. Do you also, where is this Wisconsin? Yeah, this is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I don't know how much Milwaukee is, uh, knows about the history and culture, the history, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, where is this Wisconsin? Yeah, this is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I don't know how much Milwaukee knows about the history culture of poker.

Is that the heartland of American poker? It couldn't tell you. I couldn't tell you, they might be. Is there a big Polish population there? Yeah, I mean there was a lot of Polish immigrants in like the Midwest and stuff. There's probably some roots there. It is, it is, it is, it is, it, it, it, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, knows, uh, knows, uh, knows, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, is, is, is, knows, knows, is, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, knows, is, knows, is, knows, is, is their, is th, is their, a lot of Polish immigrants in like the Midwest and stuff. There's probably some roots there, probably. Quite, it's like a New Orleans funeral. Something actually really happened, but let's give it a good send off, Blough said. So he wants a funeral to be fun. Yeah, the poker later.

People from far and wide, including royalty, came to pay their respects to the poker escal. People from far and wide, including royalty, came to pay their respects to the poker escalator. Did they? Yeah, do you want to guess who the royalty was? Is it going to be like the Wisconsin Dairy Queen or something? So fucking close. Quote, I'm going to miss, really, the spirit behind it and the history that we have here. Lisa Hare, the Wisconsin Poker Boosters Queen said.

That's even more specific. That's so good. Her job is just to represent and promote poker. Yeah, it'd be weirdered if she wasn't there. Kind of be a derelict of duty. Yeah, like she can't have that many functions to attend in a year, surely. Oh, fuck. I had something on that weekend you'd need, like, really need me to be there? They're doing a rerun of, uh, weird. Yeah, that would be really good to see that. I'm just such a big poker fan. Plus, DJ Shotsky, a poker DJ for a poker today, a poker to Mno, next to Madison, couldn't miss the opportunity to ride the first the first the the the the the the the the the the the the the theateateateate, the, the, the, the, to the, to theateateateateateateateat in Monona next to Madison couldn't miss the opportunity to ride the

poker later for the first and last time. This guy... DJ Shotsky. Yeah, a poker radio DJ. A poker today, poker DJ Shotsky. Those thi, the toy, DJ Shotsky. Though, thii. thoke, that 't that important to you after all. Yeah, maybe you go live and breathe poker DJ Shotsky.

Just to be clear, this is an escalator, right? Yeah, in a mall. Oh, convention center, sorry. How long can you be on the escalator? So you just push a button and it plays a... Yeah, that's optional though. You could also use the escalator without pushing the button. And so the escalator was poker themed, yes. And in a convention. Yeah. Center. Yes. So they, was it both the up and down? That's a good question. That's a great question. You'd hope. You'd hope so. Otherwise it'd be people trapped up there. Yeah.

Yeah. You don't know where it goes. Quote. I love poker. You'd love poker.trapped up there. Yeah. Yeah. You don't know where it goes. Quote, I love poker, because it's such a quintessential Wisconsin sound. Is it? Do I don't know much about Wisconsin? Well, I think of Wisconsin, I think of beer, cheese, and the beautiful music of poker. And I really love that it's a happy, positive kind of music, Stacey Harbour, also known as T.J. Schotsky said.

You can tell how popular the poker escalator has been by seeing how much the paint has rubbed off the push-to-play poker sign. One fan pushed that button the first day it was installed and the last. This is such a fucking Bioshock ass installation. The quote, it's kind of a unique Milwaukee experience. It's kind of fun to see and take one last ride on the poker escalator. Jeff Blow, a poker escalator fan said. That's honest, I like it.

Okay, kind of a unique experience, kind of fun. It's honest. I like it. Okay. It would be kind of a unique experience. Kind of fun. It's great. There's no relation between Jeff and Dick. They said it was just a coincidence. No. I'm not buying it. Two blouse. I am not buying it. Yeah. These blouse know each other. I know for sure that these blouse are familiar. These blows are related, yeah. Two blouse in poker, I don't buy it. No. Blow, they don't say which one. Blow says the poker letter is coming down because of a discrepancy over one picture. Oh. Yeah, a discrepancy. I didn't even ask why it was coming down. No, it's at the same time. Seemed eminently reasonable.

We realized it was kind of goofy, so we got rid of it. He, whichever one it is, said the Wisconsin Center District told him to take down because of the protruding tug in the photo. He refused. Is that like against Wisconsin law or something? They're losing the poker the poker the poker the poker the poker the poker the poker the poker the poker to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to be to be to be to be to be to be to be. It's to be. It's. It's. It's. It's to be. It's to be. It's to be. It's to be. It seems. It seems. It seems. It seems. It seems. It seems. It seems. It seems. It seems. It seems. It's. It. It's. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's to be the to be the the the the the the the the the the to bea. C. C. C. C. C. C. It's to me me me. It's to me me. It's the to me me. It's the the to. It's the to. C. C. It's the the the toe. C. He refused. Is that like against Wisconsin law or something? They're losing the poker escalator because of Milwaukee decency laws? Yeah, because there's a protruding tug in one of the poker photos. But this guy wouldn't back down. Because poker comes with a little bit of edge. Yes, that's right. And if you can't handle it, maybe you're not a poker fan. Yeah. This isn't your grandfather's poker escalator.

Now, Blow said his art is coming down. The Wisconsin Center District said the post-Poker escalator is ending as the convention center modernizes with a 456 million expansion project that is scheduled to be finished by March 2024. So he says it's the protruding tongue. They say it's because they're refurbishing the building. I believe him. I think it's the tongue. Yeah.

Oh, I'm sorry. Is the poker later too rude for you? Yeah, are you offended? Does this offend you? Wisconsin Center District? Take your sensitive ass back to Waltz. Regardless of the reason, the post poker, I can't say this fucking combination of words, the poker escalator is going quiet after 25 years of poker dancing fun. 25 years they couldn't get rid of this bullshit.

I did some really bad math before us like 1998 to 2023. That's 23 years, baby. But this may not be the end entirely. Quote, I have applied to the Metropolitan Transit Authority Public Art Program in New York City. They have a new subway line, Blough said. He hopes his art can live on... He's not.

Yeah, but he's not. He's not. He's not. I don't think you're not making it in New York with that kind of art, buddy. The MTA is not going to pay to move an entire god damn escalator. Oh, probably you could just take the button and the recorded science and pictures. I just don't think this, that's the, it's the big apple baby. The poker later is not going to fly. Yeah. I don't think it's going to fly there. I'm sorry Mr. Blow. Deeply sorry but I just, I don't think the big city is ready for what to the to to to to to to to to to to to to the to to to their their to their to their to be their their their to be tothink the big city is ready for what you got. He hopes his art can live on in New York City, but ideally he'd like it to be somewhere

in Wisconsin. For now though, the poker escalator is going quiet until it finds a new home. And there's only like six escalators in Wisconsin, so it's a bit hard-pressed to find a new home. I feel like Wisconsin is like about the size of Brisbane. Wait, no, Wisconsin's the state. It's probably about the size of Queensland, I reckon. Yeah, and the classic cities of Wisconsin, like Des Moines. That's in Iowa.

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to have been to Ozzy World? It sucks man. Is that like a theme park? Yeah, we should go. Sort of. Yeah, like a shitty one? Yeah. It's like there's theme parks south of Brisbane at the Gold Coast, obviously, where all the good ones are. And there's also a little theme park north on the Sunni coast that is dog shit. And from the road all you can kind of see is a pub that's, th. And th. And th. And the th. built it. Oh, but I have terrible news for you. I don't know when the last time you went past the Edamoga pub was. I was about to say, do you mean the Edamoga pub? Yeah, except it's not the Edamoga pub anymore. It's called Banana Benders. And they've they've de-wonkoned-bunnoned-bunnured-bunnured-bunnured-bunnured-bunnue-bunnue-bunnue-bunnereded-bunnered-bunnered-and-bunnered-bunnered-buned-buned-buned-buned-buned-buned-bunner. the-buned-buned-buned-bun-bun-bun-bun-bun-bun-bun-bun-bun-n-bun-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n' the the the the the the the the the the their their their their their their their their-bunner. I their-bunn'-bunn'-bunnobea-bunnobease. Oh. Oh. Oh, thease. Oh, thease. Oh, I've-a-bunneobease. Oh. Oh. Oh, I've thease. Oh, I the roof, and they've painted it like, I think it's sort of green and yellow, and it looks like absolute shit, but not in the charming way that the Edamoga Pub did. Why'd they do that? I don't know.

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This, no, nobody's never said. No, oh, oh. This comes to us from the CBC, Saskatchewan engineer slapped with an 18-month suspension after designing a bridge that collapsed hours after opening. You fucked it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The association that regulates professional engineers in Saskatchewan has suspended Scott Gulaka for 18 months because he designed a bridge that collapsed just hours after it opened to the public. Oh, that's rough. Yeah, that's a bad day. That's a bad day for old Scotty. Gulaka was responsible for the Dick Memorial Bridge in the R.M. of Clayton.

That's the joke name and the real name is. So long to Dick. I was going to say it's probably not Dick, it's probably Dyke also. No, surely not. Definitely Dick. We're spelling this D-Y-K, right? Yeah, but there's no E on the end. I choose to believe. Oh, yeah, that's a dick straight up and down.

Yeah, it's a little bit curved. About 300 kilometers east of Saskatoon. It opened and collapsed on September 14th, 2018. A fun thing to be able to say. That's got to look great on the Wikipedia page. The Dick Memorial Bridge was a bridge. No one was injured when it fell into the river. That's good.

That's good. That's good. Good, clean fun. The engineer was found guilty on three counts of professional misconduct earlier this year by a discipline committee panel for the Association of Professional Engineers in Geoscientists of Saskatchewan or APEG. On Monday, the Association released its final order relating to its investigation into Goulark's misconduct, including the bridge's collapse, described in the document as a quote, catastrophic

failure and other projects. Says here, the bridge isn't supposed to collapse. Yeah. What did yours do, Scotty? Do you reckon he said, sorry? It says here, the bridge isn't supposed to collapse. Yeah. What did yours do, Scotty? Do you reckon he said, sorry? Because he's Canadian. Yeah.

That's sort of, they say like, sorry? Sorry, can you do that again? No. Okay. The association determined that Gulaker didn't operate in a quote, careful and diligent manner on the Dick Memorial Bridge because he did not employ a site-specific geotechnical analysis and did not provide adequate engineering designs for the helical pile foundations.

And if you have helical piles, yeah. It's the bad boy of engineering. Yeah, he's like that, that doctor that would do brain brain surgery on on even the cases the other ones wouldn't do it on Yeah, it's just yeah, and it turns out he's just like hacking their brains up and stuff. I don't need adequate engineering designs for the helical pile foundation. Yeah, Yeah, site-specific geotechnical analysis. I could probably just guess. Yeah, okay. I'm sorry. Right. Yeah, that's right. And here in the balls? Yeah? Yeah, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the other the the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other one. the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the other the the other the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the one. one. one. one. one. one. one. one. one. one. one. one. one. one. one. one. one. one. one. one. one. one. one. one. the. Healic piles are right here in the heart. Yeah, that's right. And here in the balls. An engineer steers with his heart and balls. The engineer was also reprimanded for his work on five other bridges located in the Saskatoon,

rural municipalities of Scott, Caledonia, Mervin and Purdue. I don't know when they abbreviated it to Saskette, whether they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're their they're their they're they're their they're their they're their they're they're their their they're their their their their th. And th. And the. And th. And thate. And the. And th. And here, and th. And here, and th. And here, and th. And, and th. And, and th. And, and th. And, and th. And, and th. And, and th. And, and th. And, and th. And, and th. And, and th. And, and th. And, and th. And, and they're they're they're th. And, and they're they're the. And, and they're they're the. And, and they're toke. And, they're toke. And, they're the. And, they're the. And, the. And, the. And, and the. And, andedonia, Mervyn and Purdue. I don't know when they abbreviate it to Saskatchewan whether they're talking about Saskatchewan or Saskatoon. Oh. I'm going to say Saskatchewan maybe. Probably. Also, this is on you. He's been reprimanded for his work on five other bridge. to thiia' to save money here. You build another four or five shit bridges.

Do we give this one to... Scotty Dud bridges again? Everyone else is on holiday at the moment. We're all going to Japan. Got those cheap jet star flights. On that matter, the discipline committee panel found Gulaka's designs, quote, lacked relevant design information, including inaccurate representation

of bridge designs and that they lacked critical details among other code deficiencies. This resulted in, quote, five superstructure designs which were inadequate to carry the minimum loads required by the code. Yeah. So there's sort of some loads refused situation then. Yeah. According to the APEG's final order, Goulacca is currently living and working out of the province.

However, I thought, so that's just, according to information that they saw in that, not that he has been ordered to stay inside Saskatchewan. However, it says he has expressed a desire to return to Saskatchewan and resume working as an engineer. That could happen by December 2023. I don't know if it might. Yeah. Although it seems like it could, because the start of Gulaka's suspension is backdated

to June 8th, 2022, the date he was ordered to stop practicing professionally in the province. So, hey, knock that off. Yeah. Oh, you can come back though. You're fine. However, there will be restrictions if he returns. Once his suspension period ends, the engineer will be barred from working on bridge projects in Saskatchewan for five years.

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Keep it for yourself? Oh, it looks like there's a bus full of children, their childing. towards a bridge that a dickhead designed wrong. Is that good or bad? Yeah, if you throw yourself in front of the bus you could save the children, what do you do? They just left, strange. Engineering is very forgiving as a profession. It's so fun. Do you really need engineers that badly? Can't you just say this one's not for you? Yeah. Have you considered becoming something with a little more wheel room, like a real estate agent or somebody who works in marketing?

Maybe head south of the border become a poker artist. Yeah, you wouldn't have to go far, I think. I think my mental model of America. He's also required to pay APEG's maximum fine of $15,000 on top of $32,000 for the Association's investigation costs. It's really getting APEGed at the Bowser. What is that? This podcast sucks.

The engineer has already faced some financial consequences for his actions. During the investigation process, Gulak had testified that he paid $250,000 out of his own pocket to repair the collapsed Dick Memorial Bridge. According to the Association, yes. I kind of... He's got a bridge to sell him. That man has sold himself a bridge. He has. Through his own actions. He's but he's tried to pick that bridge back up. I don't know if he can repair it. He has. He's trying to re-erect the Dick Memorial Bridge and I think that's admirable. Yeah, that's right.

He's putting the work in. I think that if he paid for a new one and no one was hurt, what's the harm? And then he stopped working as an engineer. Yeah, even though just call it quits at that point. Don't come back to engineering. Just be like, you know what, I got a clean record. Only one bridge collapsed. I fixed it myself.

And now I'm a hairdresser. Yeah. You're fine. You're fine Paul's sort of, even Stevens on the whole thing. Yeah. Yeah, you've had the humility to say, maybe engineering's not for me. Yeah. You like DJ Qualls' character from that episode of Scrubs that he's in, or he has to decide that being a doctor is not for him. Yeah, I haven't seen it. It's a callback to, we're talking about DJ Qualls in the bonus episodes.

Yeah, a lot of DJ Qualls on the bonus content. Yeah, and if you love DJ Qualls and you're not subscribed to the bonus episodes, oh boy, you're missing out. You're leaving DJ Qualls on the table. It'd be so easy to put him up there as always because he's very skinny. Skinny. It's very strange looking man. And if you're listening, DJ Qualls, love to have you on the show. Absolutely. You're sort of the, the, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th th th th th th th th th thi. thi, thi, tho, tho-I that, thi, that, that, that, thi, th-I th-I thi, thi, thi, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. You're th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. to, to-I. to-I. to-I. to-I. t t to-I. ttttogether, thi. th. th have you on the show. Absolutely. You're sort of the, uh, no, anyway, let's move on. Yep.

Gullacher has also apologized to all of the rural municipalities affected by his actions. I've never had to do that. I've never had to apologize to multiple rural municipalities for my actions. Not even one. Going down the municipality. Yeah. Going down the municipalities guy, oh did I, did I build a bridge for Antler County? No, all right. It's calling up the mayor. Did I build you a bridge? Did it suck? Did it suck? Yeah. Yeah. Did you have a bridge collapse and was it designed by me?

Turns out I've got a bridge problem. No one told me until the one fell over. Sometimes all you need is someone in your life to just be honest with you. Yeah. An intervention. We're all here to make you stop building bridges. A bridge tovention. Yeah. Are you building a bridge right now?

Stop it, please. Don't do it for somebody else. So no people were hurt by that bridge collapse, but we don't know how many fish were hurt by the collapse of the Dink Memorial Bridge. If we did know, that's the sort of thing that we would cover in Nature Corner. But instead, we're going to talk about some different stuff in this segment of Nature Corner. But instead we're going to talk KPNCRAB, Snip my Dick. This comes to us from KPNX in Arizona, the Phoenix.

Chemical treatment to be deployed against invasive fish in Colorado river. Okay. Yeah, bear with me. Chemical treatment to be deployed against invasive fish in Colorado River. Okay. Yeah, bear with me. Yeah, I feel like you could probably just build like a little wall on the land and they won't be able to get through your defenses. Very easy game of tower defense against the fish, I mean. I'll tell you what, though, you give them a couple hundred million years. Oh, fuck.

If they start browned legs. They're fucked. They're all castes rooted. The National Park Service will renew efforts to rid an area of the Colorado river in northern Arizona of invasive fish by killing them with a chemical treatment," the agency said Friday. A substance lethal to fish, but approved by federal environmental regulators called rotenone, will be disseminated starting August 26th. It's just the brand name for fentanyl. It's deadly to this kind of fish and pigs.

Man, there was another one of those recently. Yeah. It's so good to this kind of fish and pigs. Man, there was another one of those recently. It's so good to seeing everyone in the comments just being like, no. The fentanyl cop, you mean? Yeah, it didn't happen. And doctors being like, oh, that didn't happen. Is there a really good radio lab episode about it? I'm pretty sure. That starts with them supposedly backing the narrative and then it all falling the the tha tha th apart th apart tow th apart tow th apart the th apart th apart th apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart apart the the the towing the the'm pretty sure that starts with them

supposedly backing the narrative and then it all falling apart towards the end wonderful. It's the latest tactic in an ongoing struggle to keep non-native small-mouth bass and green sunfish at bay below the Glen Canyon Dam and to protect a threaten native fish the humpback chub. If you're bass, you can only come in here if your mouth is this big. Yeah. That's right. I'm into that, Dan. Can you damn? Do you see any humpback chub? I don't see any humpback chub, but then again I wasn't looking down.

We're looking for chub? Yeah. The treatment will require a weekend closure of the Colorado River Slough. Are you guys familiar with sloughs as a component of dams? No. No. Never heard of a slough before in my life. The slough is a cobble bar area surrounding the backwater where the small-mouth bass were found and a short stretch up and downstream. Chemical substances were also utilized last year. mouth bass were found and a short stretch up and downstream.

Chemical substances were also utilized last year. The effort will be carefully planned and conducted to minimize exposure to humans as well as desirable fish. We call it national park service. Let's not delve into this again. Yeah, no, we don't have to talk about. I feel like we've visited this before. That's sexy, fuckable fish.

The supple mouth bass. Yeah, I think that episode was... Oh, fuck, what was it? The Something Touch of a Something Fish. Was that the episode about the guy that was always like going to get fucked by a fish or something? No, that was the episode where we were talking about, uh, how increasing water temperatures at the bottom of the ocean?...... Yeah, yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th. Yeah, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I th th th th th th th thi, I thi. I thi. I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th that ta tok toke tok toke, toke toke toke toke toke tipe tipe tipe tipe tipe tipe tipe tipe tipe tipe tipe, thate, thate, thate, that was the episode we were talking about how increasing water temperatures at the bottom of the ocean were giving fish bigger gonads. Oh, okay. And we were talking about big titty fish because we were getting kind of silly with it. And if you can figure out which episode that is on your own, great.

An impermable fabric barrier will be erected at the mouth of the slough to prevent crossover of water with the river. So they're putting a tarp down. Yeah. Right? Yeah, a big bit of plastic. Like a tarp. Once the treatment is complete, another chemical will be released to dilute the ronotone, rotonone.

Rotonone. Rotanone maybe if it's Italian. In the past, small mouth bass was sequestered in Lake Powell behind Glen Canyon Dam, which had served as a barrier to them for years. The last summer they were found in the river below the dam. Yeah. What's the problem? I've been in the river below the dam. Yeah. What's the problem? I've been picking them up and throwing them down there. Woo-hoo! You guys are going to love what's on the other side of this dam.

It's more water. Due to climate change and drought, Lake Powell, the Key Colorado River Reservoir, dropped to historically low levels last year, making it no longer as much of an obstacle to the smallmouth bass. The predatory fish were able to approach to the Grand Canyon where the largest groups of the ancient and rare humpback chub remain. Oh. Yeah, that's just nice. Who are you to rank fish on their importance? Yeah, that's true. I think all fish are important.

I think the small mirth bass is important. Yeah. Actually, I haven't had a good look at him, so I might change my mind on that one. I'm sorry, the episode I was thinking of was the bonus episode, the beautiful touch of a piping Piping Hot Fish. Yeah. All right. Yeah. In this week's bonus episode, a mysterious fuckable fish. Yeah. There we go. Environmentalists have accused the federal government of failing to act swiftly.

The Center for Biological Diversity point data from the National Park Service released Wednesday showing the small mouth bass population more than doubled in the past year. Group also said this have still been no timelines given on modifying the area below the dam. Quote, I'm afraid this bass population boom portends an entirely avoidable extinction event in the Grand Canyon, said Taylor McKinnon, the center's southwest director. That seems a little dramatic. I never heard someone just like dropped the word portend director. That seems a little dramatic. I never heard someone just like drop the word portend in a casual sentence. Yeah. Extinction event. A wonderful word.

Quote, losing the humpback chub's core population puts the entire species at risk. Save the humpback chub. Yeah. Yeah. It's precious as the small mouth bass I've decided, but still, we shouldn't. If you look him up, he's got a little humpback. Oh, he's got a little guy. He's a little guy. I'd love to check this chub out. Let me get eyes on that chub. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. What a narrow face for such a prominent humpback. Oh, this is a wonderful feature.

Wide in the middle chub. Yeah, I'm on board. Let's fucking kill those bass. Yeah, fuck the small mouth bass and the green sunfish. This podcast is pro humpback chub. You come for the chub, you fucked up. Yeah. That's right. Conservation groups also continue to criticize the 2021 decision to downgrade the humpback chub from endangered to threatened.

At the time, federal authorities said the fish, which gets its name from a fleshy bump behind its head, have been brought back from the brink of extinction after decades of protections. Not enough. Not enough. There should be a humpback chub in from the brink of extinction after decades of protections. Not enough. Not enough. There should be a humpback chub in every garden pond to make sure it survives. I want to see a humpback chub in every fish tank.

A humpback chub. That's our promise. Do your part for the humpback chub. This seems like it might portend quite badly for the humpback chub. Thank you. Taylor McKinnon? Present that one up. That's such a great normal American name. I bet there's a million Taylor McKinnons over there.

Yeah. I'm literally a million of them. Yeah, small-mouth bass of American names or whatever. Yeah. No, I think that's true. Sometimes other things, pretend other things. It's time for Omen's importance. 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. And bow down to his will. This is from WKMG in Orlando, Florida. South Florida search for cold case cars leads divers to dozens of submerged vehicles. 32 vehicles were found at the bottom of a lake in Dorell County over the weekend by divers searching for cars connected to missing persons cold cases. Careful what you wish for. Yeah. Because you just might find 32 of them. The vehicles were discovered by divers with the United Search Corps, a non-profit that seeks action. Yeah. Yeah. thi thousand of the thousands of the thousands of vehicles. A non-profit that seeks, at the the the the the the the the th, at th, at th, at th, at the the thate, at the the the of, at the of, at the of the of the of the of the of thoom thoes, at thoes, at tho, at the of thoes, at thoes, at the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the, at the, at the, at the, at the, at the, at the, at the, at the, at the, at the, at the, at the, at the the the the the thousan thousand the thousand thooooooooe thoooooe the the thoooe the the the the th might find 32 of them. The vehicles were discovered by divers with the United Search Corps, a non-profit that seeks action and advocacy for the victims of missing persons cases and their families.

According to CNN's interview with Doug Bishop, the Non-Profit's Founder, the search area in Dorell was just one of several hundred on the non-profits to-do list. With more than 40 cold cases to look into across the Miami Dade and Broward counties alone. So if this is any indication, they will find upwards of like 5,000 cars this way. Yeah, that sounds about right. It just so happened to have 32 cars, Bishop said. It's a lot of cars. That's Bishop said. It's a little cars. That's so many.

It's also such a delightfully computer compatible number. 32, that's nice. So the weird part about this is that the bottom of a lake is not the car's usual habitat. Oh, sorry. It's not where you would expect to find. Yeah, should have clarified that. Usually, sorry. It's not where you would expect to find. Should have clarified that. Usually cars go on land. Yeah. Yeah. And instead these try-mobile. The bottom of a lake. I don't know if someone's just confused that for a parking lot or what, but yeah, anyone could make that mistake. 32 people could make that mistake.

It's easy to do. One person. Yeah. Yeah. I like the idea that this is just one person's like crime dumb, but they're just going back to the same spot. They're like, well, they haven't found any of them yet. Yeah, so far so good. This is his therapy. Every time he gets mad, he drives another car into the lake. Yeah, this one of these cars is like five people's lives that have been saved. Yeah, because he didn't crash into them on the highway.

You wouldn't know it. Lovely guy. Bishop clarified that his team recovered no human remains from the lake and was not able to connect any of the vehicles to cases that United Search Corps was looking into. So like, these are probably joyride cars, right? Yeah. Gotta be. Like if there's no bodies or whatever in them, they're not murder cars, they're probably just like... They're used for a crime, but not a murder crime. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So it's probably fun. One of the fun crimes, like, no, hang on. Hooning. Just their hoon cars. Ram raids. Yeah, they've probably just been ram raiding jeainginginginginginginginginginging jewelrying jewelrying jewelry jewelry jewelry jewelry jewelry jewelry jewelry jewelry jewelry jewelry jewelry to jewelry to jewelry to jewelry to to to to to to to to to the jewelry the jewelry the jewelry the jewelry the jewelry their ths. ths. thies. thys. thys. th. ths. Yeah, th. Yeah, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, ths. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, like, like, like, like, like, ths. Yeah, ths. Yeah, like, ths. Yeah, like, like, like, like, like, like, 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? Just their home cars. Ram raids.

Yeah, they've probably just been ram raiding jewelry stores just to blow off some steam and then bam, you take them to the one lake. That is actually like the perfect sign that it is the best dumping ground, right? If there's 32 cars in there, and no one's been like arrested from it, take it to that spot. Fill it up with cars. Go crazy. That's our Buntavista tip of the week.

If you have a car to dispose of, take it to this unnamed lake in Dorel, Florida. What's another one? What's another one? That's right. They're going to say, oh, there's a there's a car in that lake. Yeah, buddy, we know. They're also probably like, they're not going to check it- It's like 33 in there. They're not going to check it for a while now. They just did it. They just did the big check. They're not going to suspect that in a week from now, there's going to get a little car in there, do a little crime maybe. It's a little driver, Hyundai 30, into this unnamed lake. That's right. That's probably why they didn't name it now because it's probably so tantalizing as somewhere to do your crimes. Is it like Hyperion that no one knows where it is? I don't know what that is.

I think that's the world's largest tree? Oh yeah, that secret tree, yeah. And then like, yeah, people that know about it, very wisely have not advertised its location. Because the first thing you'd want to do is cut it down and make a really big chair out of it. It's like how all the signsthe signs that the General Sherman say that it's the world's largest tree in in America even though it's not. So what the fuck? What the fuck? What's that about? Yeah, still a really big tree though. You sort of stand there for a bit and you go, holy fuck that's a big tree and then you go, what else do I 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, th, th, th, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the thr, their, thr-s, throoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, tree, thr, thr-a, thr've sort of taken in the size of it. That sure is big. Do a couple laps. Yeah, look up a few more times because I think it would look weird to the other tourists

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It's the biggest by mass, I think, is that, or at least it used to be considered the biggest by mass. It's not the tallest. Oh, and they make the distinction largest non-living single stem tree on earth to distinguish them from those populations of trees that are all the same organism. Oh yeah. Connect underground, there's like a little mushroom guy. I love those. I love when there's a big thing that's spread out over an area but you can't tell it it's all connected. That shit rules. It's very creepy. So that mushroom that we talked about in that one episode, the two slur-based softball teams of the Upper Peninsula. Check that episode out. It's a good episode. I think that's probably an episode of the podcast.

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