Boonta Vista - EPISODE 372: The Pisspig's Dilemma

Episode Date: November 17, 2024

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Music Hello and welcome to Bunte Viste, episode 372. I am Ben and welcome to Piss & Schlutz, the most sensible nightclub in Germany. Everyone is here having a delightfully sensible time. The music is at a reasonable volume, the snacks are light and we close at 9pm. With me, sort of sensibly bobbing his head to the music, it's Theo. Hi Theo! Hallo! Hallo, guten Tag, wie geht's?

Guten Tag. I am enjoying this sensible music here in, where are we? Germany, Pistn Schlutz Germany? Pisten Schlutz? Pisten Schlutz, Berlin. Very good. It is not too fast, so you don't have to dance very hard. Not like the East Side clubs. Also with me, catching up on some work, but also having a pleasant time. It's Lucy. Hi Lucy. Hello, I worked for one half hour and I was time for cigarettes. Are you on the Pomodoro cigarette technique?

Yeah. It's very good for productivity, but also it is a little bit fun. Also with me, wriggling around in the trough, hungrily demanding peace. I'm French now. It's the peace pig. Hi, Andrew. Hello. Hello. I'm simply loving this. I have my four day week and then I have three days in the trough. In the trough. I'm a little French too. Also, can I say these gluten-free muffins are super? I would not recommend eating them in the trough, but I'm not going to tell you what to do. I eat them before I get into the trough, otherwise I fill up on the piss. I think it's very good that...

Oh, actually. Is it better or worse that everyone is very well hydrated? Yeah, it's a sensible matter. Oh, it's better. Well, you'd hate it if he showed up at the piss club and there was no piss. I like when the piss is very pissy, but also more hydration equals more piss for me. That is the piss-piss dilemma. The piss-piss dilemma.

Concentrated piss or more piss? That is the piss pig's dilemma. It's a piss pig's dilemma. Concentrated piss or more piss? Do you think a piss pig is mad if it's that really clear piss? Yeah. I reckon they love it. I reckon they love it. As long as it's coming out hot, steady stream, you know? I don't want, I don't want- You don't have to ask around.

Yeah, I don't want 200 mils of like, Mountain Dew coloured shit. I want a torrent. I just think you don't look a piss horse in the dick hole. Because you don't want to get it in your eyes first of all. Oh it's actually, you know, you can use it to disinfect wounds if you have an issue with your eye. Just get someone to piss directly. The government's actually keeping it.

Yeah. You can use it to treat cancer, COVID, all kinds of stuff, actually. Robin F Kennedy Jr. is on the beat. That one just got us flagged on Spotify. Thank you, James. Again. We're back, baby. This is sort of, this intro is clashing with my own learned experience of Germany, which as I have told on the pod before we went to Berlin new

years and it was the fucking purge. It was the, the psycho day for like, like you would imagine the day after the revolution and everyone's just getting fucked up in a town square and like throwing champagne bottles and going nuts. Yeah, except for them it's just sort of like a, oh yeah, we're just having a little bit of fun. A little bit of fun and then the next day they all come out and they like sweep the streets and tidy up.

Like the people? Yeah. The populace? See this is how Europe gets freedom done in a smart way. We can people? Yeah. The populace. See, this is how Europe gets freedom done in a smarter way. We can't have anything. No one in Australia would be cleaning up. Soundtrack by moderate. Yeah. Everybody's, everybody's making eye contact with each other and going, Ooh, Ooh, yeah. Hope someone's gonna, I'm not, cause I gotta, I'm going over there, but it's just, it's just not the same if you're at the

Piss Pig Club and the music playing is pendulum. Yeah Imagine just it's different when pendulums on at the Piss Pig Club tonight on this small planet Hey pendulum, they're technically music There's other kinds of music out there. I used to listen to a shitload of pendulum. Yeah. Deeply embarrassing. Did you just raise your hand? Look, I preemptively mute.

John can't have something to say. The thing that we use has one of those annoying functions where someone who has something they want to say can digitally raise their hand. It actually works. It actually works. And look, I'm going to defend for a moment video conferencing of somebody who works from home.

It does work in a context where you have a bunch of people in a meeting. We're all talking over each other. I'm talking and like everybody's just waiting for a break in what I'm saying and there isn't one coming. So you need to put your hand up and then I'll just say, Oh, your turn. Oh, orange mousse. You've got something to say. You've got something to say that may invalidate the entire like five minute

monologue this other guy's been on. Like orange mousse, mousse, swalini, mousse mousse wellini mousse wellini I think this is a Theo's chosen name in the software I was not gonna look up the spelling of Mousselini so I just sort of oh that's just more saline it is not Bronze Mussolini. Yeah, last week it was Mango Mussolini and I thought he was talking about like some sort of Trump parfait kind of joke. Yeah. Yeah, we're talking.

Sounds like he just can't spell Mussolini. No, anyway, look, I preemptively mute myself before the segment theme plays so that you're not getting like feedback through my headphones. Oh, because you could feel me building up I could feel you building up, but I thought you know what I'm not ready for him to go yet Let's stay here a little longer

Let's just spend some more time with this feeling. So while we're on this Stuff we should chat about yeah, you You guys ever heard of the pornographic genre known as the ruined orgasm? Oh yeah. Yeah, I think so. No, we were talking about this when we were talking on that bonus episode where we were talking about sneeze fetishism and how lots of the people were like,

I fucking love it when a big sneeze gets stifled. And I was immediately like, ruined orgasm, like too fast. I don't understand that one at all. And I understand, I mean, I can put myself into the mindset of most of that stuff. Yeah, try not to come. Why am I here? What do you think I came here for?

Yeah, what if the best part of the orgasm, we just kind of wrecked it for you, you know? What if you got distracted by a car door slamming at the moment of ejaculation? What if you went to a patisserie and you got down, you kind of put your hands on your knees and you looked in the glass display and there was all this beautiful stuff in there

and you were like, wow, these guys, they're not getting this frozen from somewhere else. They are up at 3 a.m., they are folding butter into that pastry, they are laminating those layers of croissant and it looks absolutely perfect. And then you finally decided what you were gonna have with your coffee and they handed it to you. And then a second staff member came over

and took it out of your hand and put it down on the pavement outside and stepped on it. That sounds kind of hard actually. Yeah, you describe it. Okay, maybe you do get the ruined dog out. Is she like taller than me? Is she like what? Is she like taller than me when she does it?

She has broad shoulders. Like she obviously goes to the gym, you know? A lot. But she's uh, it's like, hey with a little work you could go in amateur bodybuilding competitions. But she doesn't stick around either. Like, you're like, hey come back. She's like already

gone. You can't see her anymore. It's just you in the smashed...tisserie. And now you've gotta clean it up. You started to say, you started to say, Hey, do you work out? She's already on her way back to the kitchen. You're just kind of petering out, feeling embarrassed. With the, with the ruined orgasm thing, does a little bit come out? Well, no, the orgasm still happens. Yeah, that's what I'm asking. So a little bit comes out, but just like-

Like it's just not very good? Well, it's ruined. It's ruined. It's ruined. It's ruined. So you can't, yeah, so it's like, there's no orgasm and then you get to have another crack at it later on. If you've had one and it wasn't very good.

Man, this is so good. The internet fucking rules. Beginner's guide to ruined orgasm, healthline.com. Okay. Ben still hasn't managed ruined orgasm, healthline.com. Okay. Ben still hasn't managed to fire his female friend. I'll get there eventually. This is amazing. Ruined orgasm is typically a type of control play found at the BTSM community.

So weird. It's the submissive person, highly aroused and leaves them hanging to experience a very low quality, low to no sensation type of orgasm. Oh, you got a dud? I hate it when I get a dud. Yeah. I'll get you a tissue. I feel like this is maybe a step too far for me.

You want all of the play to be around everything else. But then at the end, you want to kind of like, you want to be gushing? Yeah. It's time of course, for Rock and Roll Watch. Hey, here's something you guys might not know about me. I love Rock and Roll. Yes. Well, Rock and Roll is real.

It's raw. It's electric. It's powerful. Yes. Well, rock and roll is real. It's raw. It's electric. It's powerful. Yes. Yeah. It's the newest kind of music. I kind of feel like rock and roll has been superseded by other genres that contain all of the elements in rock and roll, but better and more further explored.

Like this guy sounds like he doesn't know how to rock. Like prog metal, maybe. Yeah. Prog metal. Rock and roll is in four, this one's in five. Symphonic metal. So what you're saying is you'd like it, you'd like some classic back in black era ACDC,

but you'd like it to be a bit more work. Yeah, longer. Yeah, less fun to listen to. Yeah. You sort of, every now and then you just kind of wince because there's been like a time signature change or something or they stopped a riff that was really good to do one that sucks I go for for for for for for and then five for in the last Yeah, I like sounds that aren't pleasing to the ear

Listening to like his 185th a CDC song and goes, you know, maybe after this song about either rocking out or having sex with a teen, maybe there's something else out there. I'm just saying that whoever that guy is, Jonathan Bondscott. Jonathan Bondscott. Who's the, Angus Young or is he the guitarist? Bon Scott was the original singer.

Brian Johnson. Brian Johnson was the replacement singer after Bon Scott's untimely demise. Okay. Angus Young is the guitarist. Look what you did Theo. I'm just saying. You did this.

It sounds like they could do that all day long. And they do. And for example, the first track off of the final Dillinger Escape Plan album, Greg Pusciato recorded the vocals and then threw up and passed out. Yeah. That's awesome. I'm just saying like sort of if you really want to rock out, you can't do it all day. You've got to put yourself in hospital after. Well, I put it to you that maybe Dillinger Escape Plan should focus on developing the ability to work at a sustainable pace. Yes. Oh, they didn't.

They broke up because they couldn't do that. Longevity in your well-seeing, that proves the point. If you want to have longevity in your career, go to a sustainable pace. Hey, Greg Pucciato, maybe calm down. Yeah, a candle that burns at half the pace, sticks around for a longer. That's right. You can enjoy it. This comes to us from East Idaho News.

High school friends revive alternative rock band with launch of music video. That sounds like a hard times satire headline. Sure. Yeah. Like this is... They got three out of five on whatever the homegrown thing of Triple J is. Yeah. The Battle of the Bands or whatever.

What is that called? That's going to fucking annoy me. Home and Host. No. No, the website. Unearth. Unearth. Thank you, Lizzie.

A bunch of Australian listeners going fucking feral right now. Max Leverd throwing his radio through the window. Max, we love you, no please. We need you. I do, before we get into the story, I want to be honest with you that I felt a bit of a moral quandary about doing this one. Didn't stop you though, did it? It didn't because I turned to my beautiful wife who was beside me while I was doing this

and I said, is it too mean to make fun of these guys because they're just like regular guys who were friends in high school and they started playing music. And before she had a chance to reply, I said, ah, who cares? Do it anyway. Nah, I'll put it into the podcast where we have a regular segment making jokes about people who recently died. I mean, the dead people aren't gonna read it. No, they're not gonna write in. These guys aren't gonna hear it, so I guess.

Chances of a family member hearing the podcast where we all go, oh. Oopsies. Don't fucking comment on their YouTube video saying, Puta Vista sent me here. Yeah, do not do that. Please don't do that. Please experience the same kind of social anxiety you experience everywhere else. Yes.

You know how people like livestream, you know, people like livestream funerals and weddings and stuff now for family members who can't be there. Yeah. Puta Vista sent me here. Okay. Oh, I see why it's a closed casket.

To be clear, do not do that. Don't ever say Buntavista sent me here unless you have a really good feeling that it's going to get us lots of new listeners. Yeah. Or if you're about to do something. Or you think you're going to get a really good laugh. Yeah. Yes.

Unless you've- Buntavista sent me. You've spray painted it to a shirt right before you kicked the doors open. Started. After years of going their separate ways... What? What do you mean? What?

How long did it take guys? Alright, bye. Were they all walking in different directions simultaneously this whole time? I've been to dinner parties like that. I would say most social events have... I most social events have. Alright, well bye. Okay, we're going now. We've better be going. You know that trope in some old horror movies where they're like, and then they cut the monster up into pieces and took it to the four corners of the world to bury the different pieces?

You ever see that happen in a movie? They were all doing that. They just went their separate ways and they just didn't stop. Each of these guys on their own like Kung Fu style odyssey. They're stopping in small towns, they're helping people, they're like what how do I thank you? Why are you even in my town stranger? And they go me? I'm just going my separate way. I'm still going my separate way from my friends. We're in a band. Yeah, it means, Steve. We've been going our separate ways for a while now. For 12 years. Has it really been 12 years, they say? After years of having been gone their separate way, three Highland High School class of 2009

friends, Nicholas Paz, Samuel Matkin, and Jeremy Bristol have reunited to revive their alternative rock band, The Elefino Project. The Elefino Project. The Elefino Project. I think I'm getting the vibe of what kind of a band. Yeah. All right. I think if your band name has project in the title, it's got to be so good.

Yeah. I'm got to be a... I'm getting Mars Volta vibes from the Elevino project. I'm getting serious vibes. Yeah. I don't think it's going to be as good as the Mars Volta. It's like contorting his neck in a weird way. Keep an eye on mine. I mean, like Mars Volta's really...

Yeah, we know how you feel about Mars Volta. One half really good albums. The band members describe themselves as quote, like-minded musicians who share a passion for making music that intercepts art and activism. None of these people know what words mean, do they? No. Is it East Idaho News?

East Idaho News, being like, you don't know what you're talking about. Well, they should be fucking editing this music that not only entertains, but provokes thought intercepts art intercepts. No stop. I've intercepted the art. The band's comeback kicks off with the recent release of a music video for calculate a song they originally recorded in 2011.

Yeah. That sounds like some shit you'd listen to. Right? Yeah. No, it isn't. This is the shit that's too stupid for me to listen to. This is like the, the gorilla museum sleepy time project or whatever. Or I go like, you know what?

Not for me. A little bit too silly to know what their politics are. What was that? I can the Guerrilla? It's like a band, Penguin Cafe Orchestra? No, no, like as in that's the name of their band. Is that a real band? Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. It's like how all of Les Claypool's subsequent projects after Primus are all named in such a whimsical fashion that I cannot bring myself to listen to them. No, why would you?

Flying Frog Brigade mask, steampunk fucking- Sleep Time Gorilla Museum. Kill Joe Biden! The song delivers a bold statement on the country's national debt crisis and has already exceeded over 8,000 views on YouTube in just a few weeks. Finally, music that speaks to me. A bold statement on the national debt. On the national debt crisis.

Calculate, like calculate the debt. Calculate. Calculate. How much debt we're in. Like about the military spending or? I don't think it's that. Probably not that, is it? I think it's probably the opposite.

Quote, since our formation in 2011, we've cultivated a unique musical identity that reflects our diverse creative. Said Bristol, the band's drummer. Three guys. Just to be clear. Why are you interviewing the drummer? Yeah, this guy's not even famous. You couldn't get the singer?

He was busy. He was otherwise occupied. As good friends, we thrive on the synergy of our creative process, constantly He was busy, he was otherwise occupied. As good friends, we thrive on the synergy of our creative process, constantly pushing each other to evolve and experiment with our music. The Elefino Project's lead singer, Paz, wrote the song around guitar player, Matkins Riffs, saying the lyrics just hit me one day. At the time, our country was $14 trillion in debt.

The song is even more relevant now. The key talking point from the song is we're in an economic crisis. Are you prepared? Prepared for what? Prepared for what? For when the shit hits the fan, when the shit pops off, when you've got to bug out or bug in. It's not real. Like it's made up. The debt?

The debt. No, it's every day I walk around and go, ah, the debt. Oh, I wish we were in surplus. Watch out when they call in the debts. Yeah. It's such a funny political issue to have. Just pick up with them, ah, country's debt. We're in surplus now, aren't we?

Australia? Do we get into surplus? did Alba Greasy? Yeah, I think we stopped. I think we stopped doing good things Yeah, like we decided to have some surplus. We started paying to go to the doctor and now we're in a surplus. How good does it feel though? You wake up and you're like, oh Fuck yeah, we're in surplus. Yes, we're in surplus. that's money in the bank. My teeth are falling out of my head. We're in surplus, baby, thanks, Al McGreezy.

And that bank is the IMF. You know how Australian politicians would keep likening the national debt and the budget and stuff to like your household credit card? Oh, having a balanced household budget. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You gotta pay, hey, you gotta pay off the credit card at the end of the month.

You gotta be sensible before you can have- Well, it's all this debt. The problem is that like when you pay off your own credit card Feels great hearing about somebody else's credit card getting paid off. No, I do not give a fuck that credit card was imaginary Then did you listen to the song calculate? Yeah, I've got a clip to play. So don't know spoilers, please Okay to the song, Calculate? Yeah, I've got a clip to play, so no spoilers, please. Okay. I'm kind of in two places, because this could be really... Like sometimes the stupidest fake smart people write the best, like, prog rock kind of shit. Yeah.

Sometimes you hear a really wonderful piece of music and you read the lyrics and you're like, oh, you have never had an interesting thought in your entire life, but you're a wizard with a guitar. The music video, Calculate, was produced by their friend Tucker Robertson of Bandit Media in Rexburg. Robertson provided the stock footage at the beginning of the video reflecting the social issues in the song lyrics. The stock footage they're talking about is like, kind of like the purge type stuff.

Oh, okay. Because it's about the shit popping off. Yeah. When the debt gets too bad. Cause of the debt. Yeah. Not because of the debt. And a lot of shots of like the stock market, you know?

Yeah. Tickers going bad. Yeah. Whatever. Kinda like businessmen with their heads in their hands. Yeah. You ever notice we're kind of chained to our phones? However, the rest of the video was filmed in the Massacre Rocks area outside of American Falls

with the help of Robertson, the band's publicist, Justin Swafford. Sorry, the band's publicist, Justin Swafford and a drone. Quote, I knew exactly where I wanted to shoot this video. It's an amazing place where I grew up hunting coyotes. Said Pass. We had a blast shooting video on the cliff. What a great place to portray the last ones to survive. Because of the debt. Yeah, because of the debt, these guys are up on a hill.

I don't feel bad making fun of these people. Yeah, they're conservative, so it's OK. Yeah. There's a video of, well, a photo of these guys up there while they're shooting the video on one of them sort of turned his hip towards the camera to show that he's got a gun because you're going to need it. It's cool. It's going to suit the debt. I like how they're like, um, Hey, 14 years ago, the national debt was high and we

were all freaking out about it, ruining the world and guess what the national debt was high and we were all freaking out about ruining the world. And guess what? The national debt is still high and it's also still just about to kill us all. Yeah. Only four takes were needed for the scene on the cliff, but overall the video took about six months to complete. If you're like a local band, it should probably take you like two days to shoot a music video. Yeah, probably just don't worry about it. Because probably not many people are gonna watch it.

They just email and what's his name the whole time. Like, hey man, you gotten around to the video yet? Hey, um. You know when we went and recorded all that stuff? You're really busy. Maybe if you could just find the SD cards and just, I could come and pick them up and we could just edit it Yeah No, I committed to it and i'm gonna see i've got to do i'll get uh, yeah

And then he hangs up the phone and he and he gets his steam deck back out And he's just he's just on it, you know till the next message and he's like no i'm i'm actually i'm actually doing it right now Yeah, I just had some computers. My computer's got like the new OS. I think I got a virus on my PC. I think I got a virus. You know what? I've been harsh. It's got 8,000 views. Oh, sweet. That's viral. Yeah. Probably just an article. It's about as many people as listed to our episodes.

So, pretty popular. Uh, I think these guys are huge. While some may think Calculate is a little dark and scary, the band members are funny and carefree. Isn't that so funny that sometimes the darkest people are also like the funniest people. That is so true. Quote, we approach serious topics with a light heart.

We have a sense of humor interwoven into our songwriting, said Bristol. Yeah. We want our audience to also reflect on the deeper meaning behind our lyrics. The national debt, the national debt. Hey, can we all pause the pit for a second? Talk about something serious for a minute. Can you stop? Bring out a chart.

So here. Make some room, make some room, make some room. I wanna see a big hole in that pit for this chart. They're like, they go into like an extended breakdown in the middle of the song. But like as one dude's just speaking over the top with facts and figures, the breakdown just kind of peters out. It just sort of peters out and then all of a sudden it's a Ted talk, you know? About biodynamics. The band sets of humor is evident in the juxtaposition at the end of the

music video. Quote, people will think we'll come out of the cave with guns as the last man standing. Instead, we come out with our guitars. Oh, hell yeah. That's fucking sick. Now that the Elifino project is back together making music, they already have a new song and music video in the works called Danger, also filmed in East Idaho. It's also about the national debt. Whole album. Music video on track for completion 2029. Quote, I feel like the universe has brought us back together again.

We are boosting each other's ambition and sharing some powerful messages said Madkin. That's dope. Do you guys want to hear 40 seconds of the song calculate? More than anything. Here we go. Oh my god, I bet you he is just an odd Growing and striving, this market is thriving And one day it'll collapse Wait and see, goodbye economy just from one mishap And what's gonna happen when everyone has to fend for themselves?

You better get out of the city fast It'll turn into hell I don't know what I expected but Probably that I don't know what I expected, but it's probably that. It really makes you think about killing your neighbors, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. One day the debt's going to be so bad, I've got to get my gun and start blasting my neighbors.

Every man for himself. Rule. That's fucking awesome. I don't get the sense from the things they've said in the interview and I suppose their priorities, how long it's taken to finish the video, for example. I don't get the sense that they themselves are actively engaged in prepping to evacuate a major city? Like I'm also gonna get the vibe that they are in a band on the side of their jobs. Yeah.

You know, I don't think they're like training a militia in the woods or anything, just for the sounds of that. But neither are we. No, that's true. You know. On their Facebook, they've got a picture of the US debt clock. Like they're posting about the debt on their Facebook page, which has 249 likes. I'm so sorry if any of you guys listen to the show.

It's just about the lamest thing you could possibly be obsessed with in your band. The national debt. Like make political music about it. It's very funny. If you are listening to this and you probably not, let's, let's be honest. Can't feel good to have a bunch of strangers making fun of, you know, something you just do for a laugh with your friends that you really enjoy. You put a lot of creative work into, I will say the, uh, the riff in the chorus, pretty catchy.

Sorry, I didn't include that in the clip. It was just getting a little long. The things that you've chosen to sing about kind of dorky and don't really have an impact. Kind of the politics of a 12 or 13 year old. Yeah. So that doesn't really resonate. Your vibe is a little bit weird. I'm sorry. You probably don't have a lot of control over that. And the lyrics are very, they don't have a lyrical quality to them. They just sound kind of like you're talking a little bit and like you're trying to imitate. But not in a cool system of down way or something.

Yeah. Maybe try doing a more surge tanking, like yelling statistics. Yeah. Maybe just yell a bit more yeah it feels a bit more like a lecture yeah yeah you need to find your own voice because you're trying to do that when like main and keenan sings like softly that's what you're going for you got to find your own thing and you should do it by ripping off Surge Tank. Yeah. Ben, I am just going to dispute what you're saying slightly. If only to say that your image and your vibe is kind of, that's like half of what a band has control over. True. I mean, vibe, I'm talking about the vibe of their personalities. You could probably like dress cooler. Yeah. Probably think about like, have you thought about, um,

buying some like Russian big muffs and then making all of your songs about like wizard battles and like battles in swamps using arcane magic to sort of fight massive sea beasts and weed. It can be all a metaphor for the national debt. Yes. If you're tied to that. Yes. Yeah, do a metaphor.

That's way cooler. Do a metaphor. Do kind of an allegory for it. Easy. The song is called The Titan and it sounds like it's about a big lumbering giant and he's got a giant war hammer and these barbarians have all done bong hits and he's got a giant like war hammer and these like barbarians have all done bong hits and they've got to fight the titan but it turns out the titan is actually the national debt.

And then in the liner notes, like you can't actually pick it up from the from it because it's such a thorough allegory but in the liner notes you kind of make some reference to the national debt and people read that and go oh shit is that a problem? You can put the facts in the liner notes. kind of make some reference to the national debt and people read that and go, oh shit, is that a problem? You could put the facts in the liner notes. I didn't know that. And they might want to go and read up on it and kind of check when it's going to get called in by them.

And then they start thinking about like, oh, I'm kind of like the stoned barbarian hordes on their massive war beasts fighting the national debt by doing my part to fight the national debt, like the stuff I do in my day-to-day life to fight the national debt. Yeah. Yeah. And one of you could dress like Wes Borland as well. Maybe just mix it up a little bit. Ideally.

How do you dress like Wes Borland though? Which particular day of where's Balland? Any where's Balland will do. Any where's Balland in a storm. Um, any of those costumes would be cooler than what you got going on. East Idaho News would write about us if we like send them like a publicity, publicity style email. We should do our next billboard in there when we're... In maybe like Rexburg or just outside of Rexburg?

We should just tell them that we're all from East Idaho. What if we put up a billboard in East Idaho that says, number one source of East Idaho news? Just a direct challenge. I reckon we could probably find the closest billboard to the homestead, I reckon, if we wanted. We are about due to do another fundraiser. I might do a little poking around on the internet.

Hey, imagine a band of strapped guys who are paranoid that the shit was about to pop off. There's probably a fair likelihood that some clipping report type shit might happen with them. It's time for the clipping report. Strapped young lads. Oh, there it is. Yes. Yeah.

I'm playing the theme. Country music singer Jason Sundance Head, a participant in season 11 of the US version of The Voice, accidentally shot himself in the abdomen after reaching into his Jeep to grab a handgun, which slipped out of its holster, bounced off the outside of his Jeep and fired. Incredible. Every... Oh no, I just jeeped myself. Yeah. I'm his girlfriend holding his hand. Holding his hand on the way to the hospital. Thank you for making us safer.

Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for protecting us. So was he, he wasn't in the voice related kind of like activity at the time? No, this is unrelated to his participation in the voice. He was reaching into it to grab the handgun. Yeah. But I nearly forgot my handgun. I'm interpreting this sequence of events as he has reached into the jeep to grab his handgun, which was in its holster at the time. Yes, correct. He's grabbed the holster. Perhaps he's not snapped properly.

The gun's fallen out of the holster, bounced off the outside of the Jeep, perhaps a flared mud guard. Yeah. Shot him in the guts. Yeah. Can I do some artistic foreshadowing here? Now, Lucy, you are unwell at the moment. Is that, is that true?

And you sort of rhythmically tapping your sinuses there, I guess in an effort to free yourself up, I want you to just think about sinuses. This is going to come up in about five minutes. All right. I'm thinking about them. This is foreshadowing. Never not thinking about sinuses, you know, a 43 year old man at a service station in Kent, Washington accidentally shot himself in the

ass after repeatedly dropping a gun from the waistband of his pants and discharging it when replacing it one of those times. What do you mean repeatedly? It kept falling out. I needed number. Every news story I read about this just said repeatedly. I'm picturing like he's wearing like tracksuit pants. He's not wearing baggy Not holding it up

Yeah, the pants are one size too big or he's lost weight recently good on him But he has not done his drawstring up tightly He's putting it in and it's immediately sliding down the leg popping out the bottom. I'm getting overwhelming flavors of Oaf. Yes. Here. I'm thinking we're starting with Oaf. Patient is presenting Oafishly.

First time he dropped the gun he said, do hoo hoo. A man in Ferguson, Missouri was about to step into the shower when he was nearly hit by a round accidentally discharged in the apartment next to his. God damn. It is a hell of a time living in America. You can't even be showering. Like, what? Zipping through, like we're always saying this, but it's so cool for this to just

Never be a concern in my life. I can't imagine how mad this would make me like I just get in the shower and get shot by my neighbor Is this guy showering in the set from the corn video clip for that one. Yeah. And what's that one? That's great. No, you're lying. Got the life? What are we? No, I don't. I'm just saying songs. Oh, that's awesome.

Oh, corn. Freak on a leash. Freak on a leash. Does this guy showering from the sit? Swish. Don't admit that. Swish! Swish! I'm admitting it! And even if Even when you don't get hit by the gun Even if you don't get hit by the bullet

Now you gotta deal with patching up a hole in the wall Now you gotta deal with patching up a hole in the wall Yeah, plus it's gotta come back Yeah, plus it's gotta come back if I know anything about the bullet Yeah, plus it's gotta come back if I know anything about the bullet Let's spend more time on that for sure Let's spend more time on that for sure. You got to call your landlord and then as you call him you hear the ringtone and realize he's already in your apartment.

That's also something you might have to deal with over there. And he's like, oh, you got to pay for that. Yeah. Yeah, I can't prove that you didn't put that hole in the wall. So. Might have fired that gun while you were showering. A man in Fort Wayne, Indiana was cleaning his gun when he accidentally shot himself in the foot. Now that's, that's nothing too crazy. That's pretty classic. Half of the course. Yeah.

I don't even include a lot of stories like that now because we've just read hundreds of them, but he was being driven to hospital by a friend where the friend then crashed the car into a fire hydrant. You got to laugh. You got to laugh in that moment, don't you? Look at each other and be like, what a day. Monday. I know it's not an original thought, but it's fucking GTA world over there. It is. So he was taken to hospital by an ambulance from then, which also meant like that he would have had to have paid for an ambulance and all that shit as well.

That's just a horrible fucking day. Like there's probably a reason his friend drove him to hospital in the first place instead of just calling an ambulance. Yeah. Because they don't just show up there. They take your credit details and you have to cut a check first. Yeah. Although they charge you for the ambulance in other States in Australia. Well, I had my parents visiting.

Yeah. I had my parents visiting this week and my, my dad used to be in the Air Force. And he was talking about how like, when, when we were posted overseas, um, in the States and they give you a card when you're in the Australian military that says. in the States and they give you a card when you're in the Australian military that says the Australian government will endeavour to repay any costs incurred by this person for whatever services. Don't charge us money for shit that should be free. We're not used to it.

Here's our card. Well, he was saying the reason they started doing this. So this was in the early 80s and he was saying the reason they had started doing this a little bit before this point because they had some some guy who was over there and had come off a Come off like a motorbike or his kids skateboard or some shit and like hit his lower back on the curb Couldn't move his legs. They call an ambulance. The ambulance turns up and they say right we're here Where's your health insurance card?

And he says, money. And he says, my what? And they go, well, best of luck to you and get back in the ambulance and leave. And, and they went, ah, we can't, we can't be having that. God, what happens? They just say, you just get like loaded into your friend's Taurus or something. Yeah. I think they, they still, even if you don't have insurance or whatever, they

have to treat you for emergency medical stuff. Yeah. You just get it. It's like 250,000 bucks about it. We come back and we take the stitches back out. A school resource officer at Stanton Middle School in Wilmington, Delaware, accidentally fired his gun in a hallway while adjusting his holster. Students were in class at the time.

Right. Is that going to be a good time for you developmentally? No, the school resource officer is the cop. He's the cop that's in school. Oh, that's the kind of... That's the school cop from middle school. The school with the preteens in it. Yeah. Yeah.

And that guy's there to keep them safe. Yeah. Oh, wouldn't it be crazy if the ship popped off in America? Imagine what it would be like. Oh, one financial mishap. Yeah. That's over there. A Southwest Airlines flight with 99 passengers aboard was taxing in preparation for a flight

to Indianapolis when it was struck by quote random gunfire. Great. Just shooting at a plane. Like nondescript gunfire? It's random gunfire. Like the way they're describing it. It came from space? Man, it's so fucked. I do have a bit of good news though, sort of related to some clipping report stuff here.

This is from the Park Rapids Enterprise, which is a newspaper serving Hubbard County in Minnesota. Fargo man accidentally shot while hunting in Western Minnesota released from hospital. Oh, okay. That's good. He's out. A man who was accidentally shot while hunting in rural Norman County has been released from the hospital according to the Norman County Sheriff's Office. Timothy Rusar, 37 of Fargo, was shot on the left side of his face by another member of his hunting party Saturday, November 9th, during the Minnesota deer

opener in Lee township, North of Pearly. The what? The deer opener. I think it's like either the start of the season. Yeah, start of the season. Yeah, not a big can opener for a cracking opener deer. No, you do that after you shoot them, right? The deer opener is what I call my knife. All right, fellow hunters.

The shooting was determined to be accidental and no criminal charges were filed, Norman County Sheriff's Office said. Hunters love to be shot in the face by another hunter. Man, by your friend. By your friend. By a doody with. I did, I read a story while I was looking for stuff for this about a guy in France who is picking mushrooms and got shot by, from 20 meters away, by an 82 year old wild boar hunter.

Did he think he was a boar? I thought it might be a truffling? I thought it was a boar, baby. It sounds like he was hunting for truffles, which is what boars are want to do. And also this just feeds into my understanding that boars only live in Gaul. Yes, that's right. They were in Gaulish France. In Gaulish France? So there's one more bit here about this hunting accident.

Roussard was taken to a hospital in Fargo after being shot. According to a Friday release from the Sheriff's Office, Roussard was released from the hospital, though he still had a 12 gauge slug lodged in his sinus cavity. That's got to be uncomfortable. I'm trying to suck that one back. Why are you letting him out? Why is he going home? Just go home.

Are you trying to blow your nose? Get this out. This guy had a, he has a 12 gauge slug from a shotgun in his sinus cavity and he's leaving the hospital. The body will just sort that out. The body's an amazing thing. See that? Well, I think they did it knowingly.

Is this, you've just penciled it in for a later date? Maybe they just thought the body would deal with it. You know, I had some stitches come out like two months after my surgery, you know, the body, the body sorts itself out. Food is medicine. Yes. I think if this guy eats enough burgers, you know, the body, the body sorts itself out. Food is medicine. Yes. I think if this guy eats enough burgers, you know, nachos, tacos, enchiladas, everything will just sort itself out.

Sliders. Text Max. Food is life. Have enough text max and your body will reject the slug eventually. Text Max in Fargo? Some of that good Fargo Tex-Mex? I bet Fargo's got good Tex-Mex. I'm trying to remember the one night that I stayed in Fargo, what I had for dinner there,

and I might have had Tex-Mex. Did you see the statue? I saw, from my hotel room window, I had a view of the replica wood chipper that they have there in Fargo. Oh, are you talking about the statue of Paul Bunyan? Paul Bunyan, yeah. I've seen two of them but I can't remember where they were. They're all over America. They've got tons of those ones. The wood chipper shouldn't be in Fargo. That takes place in...

Bemidji? Is that in Bemidji? Up in Bemidji? Hey, Fargo! That's a movie about a crime. Or two. And we look at those in Crime Watch. You now have five seconds to move on. Help me! Help me! Help me! Help me! Help me! Help me!

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Help me! Help me! Help me! Help me! Help me! Are the screams getting louder or am I getting less numb to them somehow? I think you're somehow getting less numb to them somehow? I think you're somehow getting less numb to them. I hate it when I see an opportunity to commit one crime that I think is gonna improve my life. Maybe make an opportunity for me and my family, but it sets into motion a series of events. Yeah. Oh, they get away from you? Yeah. Oh. Oh.

That eventually ends in you, your death or forever imprisonment? That eventually ends in your death or forever imprisonment? Your loved ones, you know? Yeah. What? Is it explicitly in the movie what the massive debts that Jerry racked up are? Is it gambling? No, I just get the figure that he's just bad with money. Yeah.

I thought it was more like struggling business and like, it's all just getting away from him. But like he doesn't own the car dealership though. So like I don't think he's a business owner. I think it's gambling. I think he's got a gambling problem. This is from the Associated Press. Latvia charges two Lithuanians for counterfeiting aerial laundry products in organized criminal venture.

That's classic Lithuanian stuff, right? Yeah. I don't want to cast aspersions, but... It feels like one of those things where like Latvians and Lithuanians probably have this like, like out of control racism that we can't possibly understand towards each other. So if this is like a fraught issue, I can't tell the difference between Latvia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein. What's the other, the really tiny Luxembourg?

Luxembourg? I don't know the difference between the four L- Couldn't tell you. All in Europe? Countries at all. Yeah. They're all in Europe, right? Probably. Slavic. Eastern? Some of them are Eastern.

Some of them aren't. Also his, uh, Jerry's father owned the car dealership. I think he's sort of, he's not so much in maybe in massive debt more that he, uh, maybe in massive debt more that he feels insignificant and wants money to kind of lift his social status and that sort of stuff. I got the impression that he wants to be out from under the yoke of his father-in-law. Yeah. Okay, interesting. Latvian police said Thursday that criminal proceedings have been initiated against two Lithuanian citizens suspected of counterfeiting aerial laundry detergent products and distributing them in significant quantities across Europe as part of an organized international crime venture. Now this is a brand name, aerial, like the mermaid. Not like these are detergent for planes.

Hey, can I just say really quickly, typical Lithuanian behavior. Yes. You know? I've been saying. I'm not saying that. I never have. We know what they're like. Yeah.

We all know what the people of Lithuania and what the stuff in Lithuania is like. Yeah. You know, if I said picture a Lithuanian person, you'll probably, you probably start by picturing somebody engaged in a detergent related scam. You know, I was, I would say you'd start with picking, like picturing someone from the Balkans, but Lithuania is very much not in the Balkans. It's up. It's up. I knew that. I knew that. Europe map. I think probably an easy touch point is just picture like the most famous Lithuanian celebrity you know.

Yes. Who is of course. We'll all say that at the same time. Have we actually Googled Lithuanian celebrities? No, we did Polish celebrities a couple of weeks back. Oh, it's so good. There's a Wikipedia article just called list of Lithuanians. Yeah.

Hit us with some Lithuanians. Yeah. Hit us with some Lithuanians. Um, well there's Oswaldis Balakauskas, the composer of course. Of course. Robert Zemeckis. Oh, some of these names look kind of Romanian to me. They have a Romanian mouth feel. Lithuania is not where I thought it was. It is above Poland. Oh, They've got some famous cyclists.

Surely you guys have got famous actors. Charles Bronson was born in 1921 in the US to Lithuanian parents. Holy fuck, that's amazing. That's a good one. That's a great get for Lithuania. Hannibal Lecter is Lithuanian. A fictional character. That's good to know. Amazing, amazing connections here.

Anthony Kiedis' grandfather is Lithuanian. But Kiedis is also of Greek, English, French, Dutch and Mohican heritage. Okay. The, um, the preview image I got from Duck Duck Going, uh, Lithuanian celebrities, uh, is Vigilius Alekna, who's the most successful Lithuanian discus thrower. I'll just drop his, uh, his head into the show chat there. He looks like Trent Reznor with the X slider kind of God, God wide. Yeah. They made a square of Trent Reznor. They made normie Trent Reznor like they cubed Trent Reznor's head hmm, I tell you what they've got a few pretty good people in the

Dissent sort of of Lithuanian descent category John C. Riley Sean Penn pink dick but kiss They got Brandon Flowers. Oh. It's fucking huge. Lithuania claims Brandon Flowers? Yeah. Wow. God damn.

Robert Zadar? That is huge. Literally huge. That guy's massive. Jason Sudeikis? Wow. There were some people like Robert Zadar and John C. Reilly where you go. Yeah. Oh, that guy's Lithuanian.

Yeah, for sure. Is that why Robert Zadar looks like that? It is not. He had a medical condition. Has. He's still alive, maybe. Is he? Are you sure? Nope. In November, 2023, Latvian police, in cooperation with tax and customs officials, uncovered a large scale operation in a residential area of Riga, the Latvian capital, where counterfeit aerial

laundry detergents were packed and stored. The police shared photos of the discovery in a Facebook post. The discovery included a warehouse filled with 22 metric tons of fake washing powder and liquid detergent bearing the aerial trademark, along with packaging materials, labels, and false shipping documents. How much money can there be in this? That's kind of why I put this in there. It's not fake.

It's not fake washing powder. It's just not that brand. It's bad, right? Or it's just not good, right? It's just bargain washing powder, presumably. Well, or they've put another, like an inert chemical in there that doesn't really do anything. Oh, they're cutting the washing powder? Wow, I guess.

What are they cutting it with? Like they're saying fake washing powder, which to me means it isn't washing powder, not that it's like- It surely is. It's surely just garbage. It's gotta be. Yeah, what is, like what white powder can you get on the cheap? They're cutting the washing powder with cocaine just to make it go further.

You know, we need to have the appearance of like washing powder, which means like a detergently smell. So you're at least putting some effort into, yeah, like washing powder adjacent at this point? I think if you put a nice smelling powder into some hot water with some clothes, you're going to end up with like pretty clean clothes at the end. Look, I think there is no greater betrayal than going to your local supermarket believing that you are spending your hard-earned and deviously taxed earnings on a premium brand of laundry detergent, only to find that it's not going to get your whites white and your colors bright in the way

that you were led to believe. True. You know? Yes. Ultimate betrayal. I don't actually think this is the worst thing you could do to say that. Latvia police said Thursday, they completed an investigation into the case and that the two Lithuanian citizens born in 1978 and 1990. So what are we thinking? I'm thinking uncle nephew situation. I'm thinking uncle nephew. Yeah, uncle nephew, uncle nephew.

Classic Lithuanian uncle nephew crime at a very low scale. These people are just not dreaming big. No, but then, no, no, no, Ben, I think you're looking at this all the wrong way. They're dreaming humble. It's a humble crime for humble people. It's modest crime. Simple people. It's just, I'm not saying that.

Rustic crime for rustic people. I'm not saying that either. I'm just saying they made a crime that was enough to get by. Yeah. And really, what's the crime? The counterfeiting products, I think is the crime. Okay. Well, that's what the police say.

I agree to disagree. Yeah. They're facing charges for illegal production of counterfeit products, illegal use of a trademark, forgery of a mark, as well as deliberate use and distribution of a forged trademark. Are these guys paying for warehousing and distribution supply chains as well to sell just not particularly effective laundry detergent? Or are you selling it on the streets, like Baganario? You're like Jason Statham at the start of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels doing like fun patter about like counterfeit laundry detergent. Buy some for your wife.

Or someone else's wife. That's fun, innit? Oh bloody hell, I've been nicked by the roses. The suspects are believed to be part of an organized crime group. Probably the rest are also uncles and nephews. Uh, responsible for producing and distributing counterfeit aerial products across Europe. If convicted, they could face up to six years in prison. Oh, the Lithuanian mafia are involved?

Oh man, don't joke about those. Those guys are fucking serious. Yeah. I don't think you should go to prison for that. I don't want to cast aspersions. I don't think you should go to prison for this either. I don't think, there's a lot of stuff you should, there's low on the list of the stuff you should go to prison for that. I don't want to cast suspicions. I don't think you should go to prison for this either. There's a lot of stuff you should.

There's low on the list of the stuff you should go to prison for. Yeah, I think this is one of the few things that I believe that the free market can kind of figure out on its own. Is like, if your laundry detergent just doesn't make your clothes clean, probably stop buying it from that guy on the street with the fold-out table. Maybe just like go to the shops get there Or what he wants shame on you put in a drop of your dr Bronner's just a drop is enough and they end up coming out smelling delightful. Yeah, plus you learn something from the that's right a universal ABC

harmonious whatever's If convicted they could face up to six years in prison. Latvian police estimate the criminal activities caused a financial damage of more than 739,000 euros to Procter & Gamble, the owner of the aerial brand. That sounds like a load of shit to me. Gamble, who cares? Yeah, Procter & Gamble didn't even notice.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was so like, okay, it's nearly a million dollars. That's a fair amount of money. I think the margins are like slightly better on like cocaine. Yeah. Like if you're willing to do crime. Yeah. Yeah.

Take the risk. Like cocaine. If you haven't do six years in prison. You've already got a warehouse full of filler. Yeah. Yeah. Why not just like wrap it up, put it in little baggies. Bam.

Police are calling it frothin'. This is just a... On every corner. Because you know how there's that whole thing about a shitload of olive oils around the world, basically like mafia owned businesses and they're not actually olive oil. They're not actually olive oil. Yeah.

It's from dates instead. That's right. They came from capers. It's not extra virgin or something. It's like, it's regular virgin. Yeah. Regular style virgin. This is regular style.

I think they're overstating the virginity of it. Oh Christ. Yeah. But like at least you can see that there's money in that because olive oil is really fucking expensive. That's probably a huge business. I guess laundry powder is pretty expensive, right? Yeah. The expensive ones. I guess, but not if it's some fly by night on the street with a fold up table.

Like, are they selling this to supermarkets? Being like, hey, I've got a pallet of aerial Detergent don't call up your regular aerial detergent supplier because I'm gonna give you a good deal Yeah, they called in sick. I'm the guy today. Yeah, they're knees called in sick They're parked outside they They're saying, Hey, uh, interest you in a little, little cheap aerial. Oh yeah. Good. How many scoops? Okay. Hold out your hands. Yeah. Pull out, pull out the pocket on your business shirt. Let me scoop some detergent. Undo that drawstring. Hold that elastic open and let's get started.

Just make a little scoop with your t-shirt there. Get home, how do you get a bucket? Trousers full of detergent for you. Hey, this was definitely an episode of the podcast Bunta Vista. Um, thank you so much for being here with us. Thank you for learning about the world with us. If you are of Latvian, Lithuanian, Lichtensteinian, or Luxembourgian descent, and you know stuff about those countries, you have some deep personal connections that

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