Boonta Vista - EPISODE 375: From The Skunk Corpse To The Dust Cloud

Episode Date: December 8, 2024

Lucy, Theo, and Ben bring you: An armoured hammer attack, a dining faux pas, an ill-received McDonald's complaint, a skunk murder gone very awry, and no longhorn at the big game. *** upport 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 Twitch: twitch.tv/boontavista

Music Hello and welcome to Buntavista, episode 275. I am Ben and I'm Ben, a 34 year old born in the year 2001, producing and co-hosting the podcast Buntavista in the year 2035. Buntavista is an Australian comedy current events podcast that collects insignificant news from around the world so we can discuss them in our laid back, irreverent, Elder Zooma sense of humor. Long time fans of the show will be quite familiar with our half tongue in cheek, half serious gripes about Generation Alpha and the state of the world in general. Whatever happened to classic genre flicks like Independence Day resurgence?

Can't we just admit that it sure is bad for you, but vaping looks incredibly cool? And I don't care if this makes me sound old, but families should be eating dinner in front of the TV instead of wearing their damn VR headsets. We have here my co-hosts who are also elder Zoomers. Theo, do you think it's too soon to make jokes about the 2025 White House micro nuke attack? I think the best time to make a joke about the 2025 White House micro nuke attack? I think the best time to make a joke about the 2025 White House micro nuke attack was during the attack. Yeah.

Every time after that is slightly later and slightly staler. Got to get them in quick. Yeah. Yeah. Lucy, isn't it fucked up that Alfies wouldn't even remember watching classic TV like the Cleveland show? Oh, that is so, so true of the Cleveland show. I love being a Zelda.

Yeah. As a Z elder. And what did you call them? Alfies? That's fun. Alfies. Yeah. That's kind of like a fun little way to make fun of them.

I like that. We should, we should do more of that. Yeah. Cause they're really annoying. Have you noticed that Alfies are like, I don't want to sound like an old guy, but like they have bad taste and stuff and the taste we have is really good. They like skippity toilet. Whereas we like the Cleveland show. Yeah. We love the Cleveland show. Wait, no, do we like skippity toilet? Because we're grown up zoomers. I feel like we don't like skippity toilet. Alfie. No, you're right. That is Alfie's, isn't it? Shit. They're in Ohio with the skippity Riz.

That's right. Yeah. The Rizler now is our age. We're like the same age as the Rizler, I think. Yeah, I think so. And they've just, they've just got him tied into the chair. Like, like the God Emperor. Wait, no, I think we're like 10 years older than the Rizler. The Rizler is like a 10 year old. The Rizler is like a child, right? He's an Alfie. We're Zoomers. And we're like 10 years older than the Rizzler. How, the Rizzler's like a 10 year old border, right? The Rizzler's like a child, right? And he's like Alfie.

And we're Zoomers. And we lack friends for some reason. Yeah, we've fucking, we've ironically got into friends. Is it ironic? Or do they just, they actually like it? Do they like it? It's not a good show. It isn't good or funny.

No, it's not funny. No jokes. No jokes. Zero jokes. That's what really puzzles me about mainstream comedy is that like, it's not funny. Yeah. That's a puzzler. Hey, speaking of annoying things, did you know, you know how they found the, the, the CEO murderers backpack in Central Park?

Oh, did they? Did you know what it was in it? No. It was full of monopoly, buddy. Eek. Was it really? Right? Eek.

He's the Joker. He's the Joker. Joker, but like the, like the people's Joker. He's the Riddler. He's the people's Joker. He's the Riddler. He's the Riddler. This is a...

Also, a lot of people lining up to ride on that thing. Yeah, they are. So just offering it up to the hit man. It's kind of like a Brandon Boyd energy about him from those pictures. It's like that scene in Spider-Man 2 or 3, I don't know, I've never seen them where they're carrying him with the mask off. Yeah, but everyone's... But everyone's sucking him off.

Yeah. Everyone's taking a turn. Hey, take turns sucking him off. He's our guy. He's our guy. It's like, cock over here. He's our boy. Hey, Shredge. Hey, isn't it like nice that the world's having this kind of unifying moment where like.

Yeah, I've never seen it so unified. Like everyone's like, yeah, this is good actually. I've got people in my mentions being like, yeah, this is good actually. Being like, oh, so we celebrate violence now. Like, well, I mean, we tried everything else. We tried everything else. We tried voting. We tried asking very nicely.

Yeah. Uh, we tried the market. Yeah. We tried the market a lot actually. And it turns out that it just kept maximizing profit as a sort of output function and sort of output function. And so minimizing services provided. Well, I mean, that helps to maximize the profit.

Yeah. I just kind of, I kind of covered that in the maximizing profit part. So like we tried the other things. Yeah. Why not try something new? It says that we didn't actually have like the tools available to change the system at all, except. Except. It's a gun. It turns out we didn't actually have like the tools available to change the system at all, except. Except. And then the same person replied to me being like when I was like, no, it's actually like really cool and funny and good when CEOs get murdered. Like it's actually like one of the

coolest things to happen of all time potentially, but within my recent memory. And she's like, well, what about, what if we start killing like nurses that vaccinate people or abortion workers? It's like, Hey, that already happened. That already happens. We already live in that fucking world. We're already there lady. So you guys have done that. You did that.

You did that. So, ah, Hey, why not try something new? Man, it just, it does feel really good to know that, you know, like the whole architecture of a company as it exists is meant to completely like obliterate any personal responsibility for stuff that happens, you know, like the- That's right. A health insurance company will deny coverage to everyone and then say, well, I have a duty to provide value to the shareholders or whatever. Provide value to shareholders, which has been upheld by the Supreme Court.

So that is the purpose of the company, it is to provide value to the shareholders. That person says, well, you know, I don't, it's not me, I'm just doing what I have to do to make sure these people are looked after. I'm doing my fiducia. Yeah. That's right. And so they're completely insulated from any consequences whatsoever. Unless they're kind of like shot and like guns down on the street.

Unless you're walking on the street and another guy just like John Wick you. Yeah. Like John wicks you, like very calmly, just kind of John wicks you. With, with like fucking ironic messages engraved into the bullet casings? Yeah. Man, that's, this is, yeah. Really covering all bases here. Like they know this guy's name right, but they don't want to tell us because

he'll get like sucked off too much. He'll get sucked off too much. He'll be in heaven. He'll die of getting sucked off before the courts get a chance to kill him. And you know what? Like, if you, the listener, want to be in the heaven of getting constantly sucked off, all you have to do is do something. You just gotta do something, I think. Just do something.

We found out that things are possible. You can kind of just do something. You live in a land of possibility. Yeah, everyone's kind of on your side when you do something. Yeah. Doesn't have to be the same thing, by the way. Yeah, it could be something different. No.

Something bigger. Vodou, whatever. 2025 lighthouse, micro nuke. Uh, America, some pretty crazy shit happening over there. Yeah, I'm never going to get into America. They won't listen to these before we, you know. Oh, okay. Probably.

Maybe not. Let's see what other crazy things are happening in America in America Watch. America. This comes to us from WVIT in Connecticut. Man hits neighbor with hammer after house catches fire in Derby. Oh, why? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Oh. Uh-huh. Why? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so.

That's okay. I'm immediately getting the feeling of that scene right at the, I'd say the penultimate scene in Burn After Reading, where the guy runs out of his house, followed by another guy who just hits him in the head with an axe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. While agents watch and go like, well, or is it, yeah, like the, the, the CIA is watching like, oh, I guess that's not what I was expecting to happen or anything. Yeah.

Yeah. It's like that. Yeah. Good to have like a cultural anchor. A man has been arrested after he allegedly snuck into his neighbor's house and attacked him with a hammer after his house caught fire in Derby. A man has been arrested after he allegedly snuck into his neighbor's house and attacked him with a hammer after his house caught fire in Derby. So his house caught fire and then he went and hit his neighbor with a hammer.

Not even like- I think? Not even while he was awake. Yeah. Like, and that's pretty much a worst case scenario for being woken up, isn't it? Like, being woken up and it was fucking hammer time. Police said they were called to a reported fire at a home on Roosevelt drive around 3 AM Friday. The police department said there were reports that a homeowner snuck into

his neighbor's house with a hammer and struck him. The extent of the injuries is unknown. When police found the man, he had metal plates taped to his body acting as makeshift body armor, police said. Oh, he was expecting this. He knew he was going to be working this way. No, I think. The hammer man. I think the hammer man had put armor on, made makeshift body armor.

Makes more sense. Which is metal plates. Cause he was expecting a melee battle. Well, cause he was expecting his neighbor might fight him back. Fight him back. Yeah. Have a hammer or a gun himself. So.

I'm not really getting the sort of causal link here. I don't understand. Well, that's what makes it interesting. The longer the ambiguity can continue, the looser the rifts can be. That's true. Until you like find out that that grandma died. In the hole. In the hole. It's really funny until then. I mean, logic kind of dictates that she was dead down there.

We knew that she was dead. There was no chance that all that lady was alive. Yeah. Yeah. The man is facing charges for assaulting an officer, home invasion and disorderly conducts. The cause of the fire is still being investigated. All right. So just to make this unbelievably clear. So we have house A and homeowner A, house B, homeowner B. House A catches fire. Yes. Homeowner B. House A catches fire.

Yes. 3 AM, Friday. Homeowner A tapes a bunch of metal plates to his body. Or already had them taped on there. Pre-taped. While the house is presumably on fire? While the house is burning. You better believe I'm... When I go to bed, I'm strapped.

I'm pre-strapped. I keep these things on me. So he's grabbed a hammer and then he's gone into house B, which is not on fire. Which is not on fire. And he's attacked homeowner B. The police have arrived at house A because house A is on fire and then become alerted to the hammer attack by an armored man that's occurring at house B by homeowner A. And then homeowner A attacks police C. Yeah, that's right.

He's sort of... Calling an armor also very funny. Like I'm really picturing like the oven pans taped to this guy's chest. I was picturing sheet pans as well. Home alone shit, yeah. Yeah, like the best bet, right? And he can't really even do a suicide by cop because he's wearing armor. He's strapped, yeah.

He's immune. He's impervious to bullets. Also, okay, so trying to wheedle a motive out of this before the story ends. The guy next door is asleep. Yep. So is the fire on delay? Oh, oh yeah, I guess. So like he's not been woken up by sirens or fire alarms, probably no fire alarms because

it's America and like nothing's regulated. So you know, but. Well, they have to wait for the for the Bitcoin payment to clear yeah that's right I can take a while yeah what like they this has to be connected like obviously it's connected because it all happened but yeah and everything's connected he this is he like this is his last stand he fucking hates his neighbor and he's burning his house down on the way out like we know what happened leading up to this point Was the house fire just the last straw like he points out his fire alarms going off. He's like that's fucking it

I'm done. I'm done Next door yeah, these guys are like lifelong neighbor enemies a classic neighbors who fucking hate each other. Other guys just like wandered over. Homeowner B has set fire to house A, pretended to be asleep. Yeah, I think he is pretending. Although he did get hit with the hammer in bed. Yeah, the perfect alibi.

Yeah. I couldn't have burnt his house out, officer. Knowing that he set the house on fire. You're just pretending to be asleep, expecting to get yelled at. And then he fucking hits you in the head with a hammer. Oh fuck, I didn't have a hammer contingency. I should have gone to bed wearing armored plates. You should have. Underestimated how mad this guy would be when I set his house on fire.

Oh, Sturde talking to, sure. I think he did set the house on fire. I think so. Yeah, for sure. It's like 100%. This enemy runs deep. These guys got hate in their blood for each other. This has been going for generations. Uh, hey, depending on how that guy chooses to sleep and what sort of sleep clothing he

wears, maybe when he was surprised by the guy with the hammer, he was nude. We talk about nude men in Nude Man Watch. All right. This one might, might have some legs as a Google news alert. For nude man? Nude man? Yeah, nudity. This is not the first time that we've, um, Google nudity.

I don't think this is the first time we've done nude man watch. I've had a saved Google search for this, uh, for years. But most of the stories about someone taking off their clothes in public or being naked in public are about like someone with a drug problem or mental illness just losing their shit. Not fun for refs really. Yeah, not really good ref material. Yeah. This one, I don't know, something here is a little mysterious to me. So this is from

CT insider. This is also in Connecticut much like the last story Ellington man arrested after walking around naked in Tolland restaurant police say Mm-hmm. Okay. Okay with me so far Yeah, a man who police said walked around a restaurant naked while people including children ate dinner on Friday is due in court next week I don't think I'm allowed to do that. Yeah aren't I'm pretty sure I would probably stop eating Yeah, yeah, I probably wouldn't be on to you with my meal I'd probably wait till that situation sort of sorted itself out He was walking around naked while people are on a brief break from eating their dinner They put down their knife and fork and they went, like, you see how this plays out.

Apparently everybody ran out of the restaurant. Uh, in one of the things that I was reading, I was like, get out of here. I don't think I'm leaving. Funny to think about all your friends just being shocked and you just continue eating the loaded nachos. Yeah. Take the ones with meat. Yeah.

Oh, are we leaving? Cause we just don't understand the event? I guess. Are we afraid of the unknown? I think this is sort of like a signal that some crazy shit is about to happen. Yeah, probably. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. That's really just the nudity. But you can also tell whether he's got like a gun or a bomb, right? Yeah, because he's walking in front of you. It's true. He's not strapped. Because it's in his... Yeah. Because it's in his asshole.

Yeah. Thank you. Or a vagina. That is true. Yeah. Those are two places you can store things. The people's purses. Andrew F. Kinghorn, 42, of Ellington, was arrested and charged with two counts of risk

of injury to a minor and second degree breach of peace, police said. That's a funny charge. He posted $20,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in state superior court in Rockville on December 11th. The incident happened around 6.10pm at Papa Tees on Merrow Road on Route 195, police said. According to the state police, Kinghorn came into the restaurant, fully clothed, sat down at the counter and asked for a menu.

So far, so good. So far, so good. Normal, normal style. A short time later, he went into one of the restrooms where he spent about 10 to 15 minutes, police said. Quote, when the mail emerged from the restroom, he was completely naked, which caused alarm among the patrons, Trooper said in news release. Children were among the customers they added.

Tejas come out nude. It's like your nightmare. It's like you forget that you didn't put your clothes back on. A hundred percent. You get completely nude to shit. Yeah. Like the normal way. You take all your clothes off.

And you're like washing your hands like, something's different about it. I left my wallet back in there. Yeah Something feels kind of off. Am I wearing my glasses? Yep. Okay testicles spectacles. Oh What's the rest He's just so on autopilot from like a long day Yeah, you have the longest day at work. You get completely nude to shit like, like the rest of us. The unthinkable happens. Then you got to play it off like you did it on purpose because otherwise there's no coming back from that.

Like if you open the door, walk out, they're gonna go, oh, oh, I've just checked my pocket. Oh, where are my pockets? Left something. You go straight back in, put your clothes back on. You were naked in public for like three seconds. Yeah. You can't just like sit down and keep eating your dinner. It still happened. Yeah.

Yeah. Everyone's going to be like, hey, weren't you just, were you naked the first time you came out? I don't think so. No, I don't think so. I'm not ringing any bells. And then the manager's looking at the CCTV and then showing everyone at the restaurant. Wait a second, scrub to...

Yes. Half speed. Zoom. When troopers arrived, he was still naked, but he complied with their order to put his clothes back on, state police said. So like... All right. It's a pretty weird thing to do. Why do you do that?

Yeah. So they come in and like, gonna need you to get your clothes back on. So I was like, you know what? You raise a good point. Fair enough. Yeah, fair. Yeah, great. Okay. Fair cop. I did a little digging to just find out more about this guy, just to find out if he's a crazy person, basically, if you can say that in these times. Just to see out more about this guy, just to find out if he's a crazy person, basically, if you can say that in these times. Just to see if he seemed like an unhinged dude. He seems profoundly normal from just about everything that I found out about him. The only real piece of information I found out about this man is that he had a drunk

driving charge against him thrown out because of some procedural stuff by the cops. But yeah, otherwise seems like a perfectly normal dude. I think he just forgot his clothes. I think he forgot his clothes in the toilet. Yeah. I'm not going to do an Andrew here, but if he was here, we probably would have done this, but the menu for... I'm looking at Papa T's.

Yeah. Let me tell ya, cheap. Yeah, cheap and long. That is a long fucking menu. Long menu. Like you can get everything at Papa T's and I assume it is all very average. It can't be good, right? There's just no fucking way.

Yeah, they got, they got the whole thing. The house special is chopped sirloin served with choice of potato and coleslaw famous Howie special hot roast beef served with choice of potato and coleslaw. And they are $16.49. Sounds pretty fucking good. That's a pretty good deal. I'd probably want to be nude at Papa T's too. I'd rather be nude at Papa T's.

I actually, I had a look at their Facebook as well to see if they had mentioned it at all. And the only thing I saw was on a Facebook post from like a day after it happened. Someone in the comments was like, I heard you had a new meatball special. No likes, no replies. I thought that was pretty good. I think it's pretty good gear. No likes, I thought that was pretty funny actually.

Hey, I bet if I went into Puppetees and looked around at the food that people were eating, I would find some of it impossible to identify, like some sort of mystery liquid. It's time for Mystery Liquid. Mystery Liquid, can't tell what color it is with a slick oily sheen What could it mean? Mystery liquid, I see some goop that is forming a pool on the floor Who is it for? I'm gonna taste the mystery liquid This comes to us from WCMH in Ohio.

Ohio man recovering after alleged assault over McDonald's sandwich. Okay. Yeah. So someone is very grievously injured to this story and that's not funny, but there are some details here that really shine. An Ohio man is struggling to get back to normalcy after he said he was punched repeatedly by several McDonald's employees during a dispute over his quarter powder in October. That's not who I thought was going to be the victim in these circumstances.

It's the other way around. They flipped the script. It's always like a McDonald's employee getting assaulted and this time they're taking the power back. He was ready to say, oh, that's not funny. Carrigan Norwood was reportedly assaulted sometime after midnight on October 17th at the McDonald's on East 17th Street in Columbus. He recently sat down with Nextar's WCMH to talk about the experience which he described as a nightmare. Norwood said he had visited the McDonald's for a late-night meal but returned to the restaurant when he realized his order, a double quarter pounder with bacon, was only a single. After getting back to the drive-through window, however, he said he was met with hostility,

so he asked for the manager. Quote, they slammed the window in my face, they told me to come back with a better attitude, Norwood said. All right, so far so good. Yep. An argument ensued. The manager allegedly walked away, and that's when Norwood said the whole staff came after him.

Oh my God. Quote, everybody in the crew, the person who took my order, the fry cooks, cashiers, all went to come yelling at me at the window, he said. That's so funny. Just imagine all these 15 year olds coming out to start screaming at this guy. Yeah, like people coming out of the kitchen to be like, you fucking motherfucker, leave us alone. Customers are coming back being like, hey, fuck you. Everybody boo this man. Uh, Norwood said that he then drove around the restaurant so that the people waiting in line behind him could get their food. So the people in the car's behind me yelling at it as well.

Like everyone's fucking yelling at it. They're turning and honking. But then he rejoined the drive-through line once again to ask for a correction to his order. Oh my God. Go inside, go in the restaurant. Get out of your car. When he reached the window, he said, five employees exited the building and approached his vehicle.

Where is this McDonald's? This is in Ohio, right? Yeah. This is in Ohio, right? Yeah. Oh wow. Columbus. This is just like, this is hundreds and hundreds of bad customers all adding up into one person where all of you have just decided, this guy's got to fucking go.

I cannot do this for one more goddamn second. I'm going to kill this man. I love the dishonesty of like, oh, I just asked them to fix my order Yeah, I just got so mad at me that they assaulted me. I'm just going around to fix something up. Yeah, I'm politely inquired. I don't think that's what happened. No I've got six bullets in this gun. I'll take out one bullet for each correction that you make to my order Quote fluid was thrown in my car, Norwood claimed. I didn't know what it was.

He got the substance? He got substance. I didn't know what it was. So when I tried to get out and call for help, that's where they dropped me and beat me. Yeah. They basically like jumped me, like grabbed me, pulled my shirt over my head, started punching me in the face. Yeah.

And we believe you. We, we really, we really do the face. Yeah, we believe you. We really do. Well, I want to believe you. Columbus McDolls. Oh no, I don't want to believe you, actually. That's crazy. After midnight? These guys have probably been working like a 12 hour shift.

Yeah. I bet, this is just a theory. I bet this guy ate the patty. He ate the second patty and then came back and tried to get a refund. He ate the second patty and then came back and tried to get a refund. Quote, it didn't stop until one of the other patrons at the drive-thru said they were calling the police. Or it said, all this over a sandwich and it didn't need to go that far at all. Yeah, it probably did it.

It's not a sandwich. No, they sell burgers. It's a hamburger. The way that you guys say that is really stupid and crazy. It's really. It's a hamburger. The way that you guys say that is really stupid and crazy. It's really weird, yeah. What are you calling the cops anyway? It seems like everything is sort of getting sorted out. It seems like justice is sort of happening in the moment.

It's kind of happening. You don't need somebody else to come along. It seems to be sorted itself out. You can't rely on the police either. No. Just trust your fists. Trust only your fists. Yeah. I would just love to hear the staff's side of the story.

Yeah. I think it would be quite different. There's got to be a fucking reason. Like there's no... Like the fry cooks aren't coming out just for the sake of it. Yeah. The cashiers aren't. Yeah.

It's time to do some jail time. It's just like the bully McDonald's where it's like, they're just waiting to beat up a customer. They're waiting for a guy called Norwood to come in to kick his ass. We got a Norwood! Get him! Get him. Give him one patty instead of two.

Let's go! Oh, they're doing the test on everyone. They're just waiting. Like, anytime anyone orders a double anything, give them a signal, see if they come back. Get ready. Norwood got back in his vehicle and called his mother on the phone. Norwood. Still helping. How old is this man? I think he's in his like 40s, I'm pretty sure. He's like 40s, I'm pretty sure. 30s or 40s. Oh no, mother, mother.

Mother, they beat me. Yes, I did go back to McDonald's again, mother. No, I know that you didn't want me there. Mother, please don't be mad. Please don't be mad. I've been to McDonald's. She said she couldn't figure out why he was slurring his words and talking slowly, so she rushed to the restaurant and immediately sought medical help.

Very funny to keep calling this McDonald's a restaurant as well. Also, you just had the shit kicked out of you by McDonald's and your mother is coming to pick you up. Yeah. No, mom, it didn't go as I planned. From the McDonald's car park. I tried to stand up to the mother. Sorry. McDonald's car park. I tried to stand up to the mother Sorry, that's like no one of the

Like at after midnight you're gonna get some some drunk 20 year old people they're gonna be calling you bitch boy the Milton McDonald's at 1 a.m That's crazy in there. I'll tell you that much. Yeah, imagine what it's like in Columbus Probably crazy Don't have enough to go on With your knowledge of Columbus my knowledge of Columbus. Yeah, that's fair Norwood suffered a broken orbital bone on the left side of his face his left eye was swollen shut and he wondered if he would ever see again

Quote I had to get a titanium implant, Norwood said a couple of weeks after his surgery, still got a little bit of double vision and I'm sensitive to light so I wear glasses. Norwood said he had also been planning to enlist in the military to follow in the footsteps of his mother and father, but due to the severity of his injuries, he's now unsure if he will be able to join the military at all. You can't go to army. You can't go to army because you got your ass kicked by an entire McDonald's. And our mother will be disappointed. You're disappointing father and mother, Norwood. Because you can't go to army.

Norwood. Still cameras recorded parts of the October 17th altercation as Norwood remained at the pickup window, WCMAJ previously reported, citing documents from Columbus Police and Franklin County Municipal Court. The documents also said one of the employees threw a drink through Norwood's window before he got out of his van, at which point the McDonald's workers began punching him in the head. Three of the employees involved have been charged with assault causing great bodily harm, which is a felony charge.

Two of those men have been arrested, including one who spent 12 years in prison for involuntary man slaughter. Pardon? Yeah. You didn't know that one of these guys had a rap sheet. Oh. This guy had done 12 years. 12 years for involuntary.

What's involuntary man slaughter? Is that just man slaughter? That's where you're being, I guess, I think you're doing something irresponsible and knowingly dangerous and it kills somebody. Isn't that what, but that, like, that's manslaughter? Manslaughter, yeah. I don't know.

Interesting. I think maybe that's, I don't know. How about a little less involuntary manslaughter and a little more involuntary man's laughter? Yes. Yes. That's what the world needs now. It is distinguished from voluntary manslaughter by the absence of intention.

But that's... what? That's very weird. Or is it, is voluntary manslaughter where you aim to hurt somebody But you don't intend to kill you don't intend to kill them. Okay, whereas like this is where you've done something reckless or negligent and killed him Yeah, we learned so much. We're always learning. That's what this go into prison for being too cool. And now he's back No, he's probably gone. yeah, he's going down again. One of the men is still wanted by Columbus police.

He's still out there hanging out with the CEO killer. The charges against the three employees have been sent to a grand jury. Norwood's mother, meanwhile, said she's very proud of her son and worries about his future after the incident. She also questions the hiring practices of McDonald's. I don't think they like that one of the screening questions is hey, if you ever got really annoyed, would you like team up with the entire McDonald's restaurant and beat the shit out of one guy? Yeah, I don't think they asked that. Also, I don't care who works at the McDonald's.

No, they can pay like nothing. Everyone should be allowed to work at McDonald's. If you apply to work at McDonald's, auto yes. Yeah. You're given 20 hours minimum a week, no questions asked. And you have to deal with a guy coming multiple times through the drive-through because he didn't get two patties in his four, in his double quarter pounder. You can't do the circuit. There's just no, you can't be, once you've gone through once, you cannot re-enter that line, that's not fucking happening.

Quote, these monsters are a threat to society, Jordan Norwood said. Oh, okay. Yeah. The staff of this McDonald's. How are we proposing to carve up this society? Let's hear it. From this nerd's mum who was in army. A representative for McDonald's was not immediately available to comment on the accusations.

Yeah, laughing too hard. What would they say? They're not supposed to do that. Yeah. That is not part of the normal operation for McDonald's. Against the McDonald's rule book. That is not the spirit of the McDonald's family restaurant chain. He's have a double quarter pounder with bacon on us.

Hey, if this guy died from complaining about a McDonald's order, he might've turned up in the ripping report. It's time for The Ripping Report. There's a bit of a theme in this episode so far, actually. I was going to say, got a lot of violence, lot of death. Yeah, a lot of violence is probably the biggest one. What the fuck is happening in America? This story comes just from the Sacramento Bee.

Man shooting at skunk accidentally kills ATV driver riding nearby, Utah officials say. Why were you shooting at a skunk in the first place? Come on man, don't do that. They're one of God's creatures. Yeah, they're so cute. They on, man. Don't, don't do that. They're one of God's creatures. Yeah. They're so cute. They're little fellas. They're only stinky if you annoy them or whatever.

Right? And that goes for all of us. It's very true. Now this sounds like involuntary manslaughter to me. Yes. I feel I've learned something today. Now that we're legal scholars on manslaughter. Are you done bad as accused of shooting a skunk on his property and Now that we're legal scholars on manslaughter. Who passed the bar? A Utah man is accused of shooting at a scunk on his property and accidentally hitting someone

driving a utility task vehicle or UTV nearby, officials said. A GTA ass world. This is like, what is going on? You know, like bullets are really small and the world is quite big. It's so big. So you just kind of think that this wouldn't like happen. It never hit anything. Yeah.

Or there are so many bullets being fired at skunks and other varmint in America. Critters and such. That statistically it's got to hit a guy on an ATV. Eventually. Eventually. You fire a bullet, 100% chance of either hitting varmint or man. Ain't never going to hit nothing. Uh, Darren James Entz, 39 is scheduled to be arraigned on a charge of negligent homicide.

Interesting. Interesting. I thought we just covered this. The prosecutor disagrees with us. We know nothing. We know less than nothing. Why is it negligent? A homicide?

Doesn't matter. An attorney hadn't been listed for in court records as of the morning of December 2nd. I hope he self-represents. Ence was getting his trailer ready for a camping trip on October 4th in Elsinore when he shot at a skunk on his property, a Sevier County Sheriff's Office detective wrote in a probable cause statement. Why did you pause from getting your trailer ready to go camping to shoot at a skunk? on his property, a Sevier County Sheriff's Office detective wrote in a probable cause statement. Why'd you pause from getting your trailer ready to go camping to shoot at a skunk? You were leaving. It didn't matter that he was around.

You put your sleeping bag in the trailer and then you're like, ah, skunk, let me go get my rifle. After Entz shot the skunk, he noticed dust from a UTV in a field to the north of his property. That's so like fucking Coen Brothers. Coen Brothers. One simple, like just a little dust cloud in the distance. Yeah. Skunk exploded in the foreground, by the way.

That's right. Very slow focus pull from the skunk corpse to the dust cloud. Till this one trips out my balls. He drove over in his own UTV, the document said. Quote, DJ, I guess Darren James Hance goes by DJ. DJ. Quote, DJ, I guess Darren James Hance goes by DJ. DJ. Told us that when he arrived, he found an elderly man slumped over from the driver's

seat to the passenger seat. There was also an elderly woman in the passenger seat, the detective wrote. Oh, come on, man. Can you fucking imagine that you're just driving around next to your husband in your UTV, you just hear a noise and you go, huh, what was that? And you look to your right and he's been like brained. Like his brain is gone. His brain is on like the front of the UTV.

Fuck. And like the death cam is just pointing at a hill. Like there's no, you can't see. They've got to be using hacks, surely. How the fuck they do that? What is this guy shooting skunks with by the way? Like that is. Barrett 50 cal.

Well, like realistically has he shot this skunk with a five, five, six rifle, right? Like with a full powered, well, sort of medium power kind of cartridge. Um, like is he shooting this with a, with an AR? Can you not just like shoe it away with a rake or something? Well, yeah, with a rake. Rake is sort of like, you've, you've got a spectrum of options available to you. It starts with the rake. It doesn't go all the way to. Yeah. Maybe we can move up to throwing a rock at it. Yeah. It starts with the rake. It doesn't go all the way to... Yeah, maybe we can move up to throwing a rock at it. Yeah.

Shooting a small little guy with an assault rifle. Yeah, with an anti-materiel rifle. Yeah. Jesus. The man was flown to hospital and died the next day. Officials said the identity of the man who died has not yet been publicly released. Ents, who admitted he'd been drinking, told officials that he didn't see or hear the UTV and had his truck and generator running as he prepared for his camping trip, court

documents said. So you'd been drinking and you had the truck running ready to drive the truck? You were about to drive the truck to your camping. And the generator's going because you need to power your sound system? Yeah, probably. Presumably. Yeah. So, you know, he's had a couple beers.

He's, he's already putting his rifle in the truck. He sees a skunk and he goes, one for the road. Yeah. Uh, this is the big kill number one of the best hunting trip ever. Yep. Yeah. Elsinore is 170 mile drive south of Salt Lake City. Okay.

Yeah. So fucking yikes. Sometimes life just- What are you guys doing over there in Utah? Like, what are you doing over there in general? Let's take a step back. What have we got? Man sets his own house on fire, presumably puts armor on to hammer attack a neighbor.

A guy in a restaurant just takes off all these clothes and then comes back out like it's not a big deal. A guy makes a complaint at a McDonald's that every single person that works there tries to kill him. I think something's going on, like spiritually with the moon or something. I think America might exist within the boundaries of the moon. Within the boundaries of area X. And they are just returning to their base nature. Area X has expanded and the moon is in like a weird spot.

Yeah, moon weird also. Sagittarius season. The moon's in Sagittarius rising. Moon's in Sagittarius, time to take all my clothes off. Time to beat my neighbor to death with a hammer. And yeah, I'm burning my house down. Things aren't okay over there. The psychic energy, the general vibe and feeling of America is not like, I know

that like a million tragedies happen every day, all over the world, in all places, to all kinds of people, the American tragedies seem to be like, yeah, area X, they're under the influence of something. A visitor to their country has planted itself in the ground and has slowly started replacing everything with things that seem the same, but are kind of sickeningly different. I think it's vaccines, Ben. Oh, it's probably the vaccines.

Fuck, I didn't think about that at all. They're finally kicking in. All right. Well, this one's demonetized on Spotify. Do we make money from Spotify? We don't make a goddamn cent from Spotify. Say what I want. Incidentally.

Hey, nobody does except for Brandon Elk. And Joe Rogan, he's still got that $100 million? Yeah. So I was, my actual estimate for this is that Joe Rogan recorded one episode from the Ponty Pool desk. Yes. And then that's kind of what's happened. Kind of created a mimetic virus. Yeah, that makes you

Be a paper up or a truncheon is going to do crimes. Yeah, it's very strange speaking of Spotify They've now changed it so that you can you can get the bonus episodes on Spotify previously if you were a Spotify Podcast listener you have to do it in two different ways So you the listener if you've had to listen to the bonuses on Patreon, because you normally listen to it on Spotify, you just connect your Spotify account to the Patreon and then you get it. Uh, end of housekeeping. Hey, Spotify hosting your podcasts and then they get money for it by playing ads to people.

That seems like a bit of a scam. It's time for Scam Watch. Warning! Warning! Someone has successfully or unsuccessfully attempted a scam and must be judged. This is Scam Watch. This is from WLWT in Ohio. Man accused of lying about death in order to get money due in court. Wait, no. Emphasis wrong. Man accused of lying about death in order to get money due in court. Oh, that makes more sense. Yeah.

Okay. A man accused of lying about his own death to try to get money from someone is expected in court. Court documents say Craig Oreck pretended to be a man named Zack and told the victim he would kill Oreck if the victim didn't deliver cash to Orick's girlfriend. Oh, hold on. Yeah. So we might need to diagram this.

All right. So Craig Orick, person A, wants money. Has an ex-girlfriend? Yes, but he's in cahoots with the ex-girlfriend. So all right, person A, Craig Oreck. It's so nice when people break up, but they're able to get over their differences and still be friends, still communicate. I mean, what you had was so, it was there for a reason. Why would that go away after the relationship ends?

That's right. Maybe the sex isn't working anymore or what have you. But you still feel that- But you both loved doing schemes. You both love money. You love doing things together. You love money for nothing. All right. So person A is Craig.

Craig. He wants money from person B. Yes. A mystery person with an unnamed person B. Yeah. So he's told person B that he is person C. Yeah. that person B that he is person C. Yeah.

And that he, person C, who he's pretending to be, would kill person A who he actually is unless he gave him money. Why does person C care about killing Craig? Now that's interesting, isn't it? Because you would have to assume this would be someone who cares about or knows Craig, right? Sure. For him to have any leverage.

For it to work. For it to work. Which is interesting because police say he told the victim the next day that Oric had been shot and killed. Because the person did deliver the money. Because he didn't care about Craig. I killed myself, Craig. Killed Joe Wood.

And I did it. Yeah. How do you reckon that feels for Craig? Be like, I'm going to do it. I'm going, Craig. Killed you, I would. Yeah. And I did it. Yeah. How do you reckon that feels for Craig? Be like, I'm going to do it. I'm going to fucking kill him. You'll never get to see him again. Ever. Left on red.

Craig's mom or something? Maybe. Did Craig tell him his mommy's going to kill Craig? Yeah. And she's like, oh, I'm fucking whatever. Yeah. Piece of shit. He's fucking always doing scams.

I hate that guy. I'm sick of him. Take him out. You'll be doing me a favor. Take him out. You'll be doing me a favor. Kill his ex-girlfriend too. Police say he told the victim the next day that Oric had been shot killed, but police eventually found him in Knoxville, Tennessee. Oric will be arraigned Monday morning on charges of extortion, inducing panic and

disrupting public services. Inducing panic is so funny. Inducing panic at who? It seems like no one cared. Yeah. You do something to make everyone run around, start hooting and hollering. Hey, for some people doing scams is basically a sport.

It's time for Sportswatch. This comes to us from the Associated Press. SEC tells Texas there's no room for its 1,700 pound Longhorn at title game versus Georgia. Oh. Yeah. Oh. The Southeastern Conference Championship game will not feature another mascot showdown. Is the mascot a real longhorn? Yeah. You know how we were talking about the- It doesn't really seem like a mascot. It seems like an animal.

It seems like it's just the guy. You could have just put a guy in a suit. Yeah. Why don't you have like a little, like, a 22 year old dancing homosexual in there who's like dressed up as a longhorn. He's doing like crazy moves. Oh, a longhorn is not what I thought a longhorn was. It's a big old steer.

It's a big old steer. Yeah. I was thinking like, like something with antlers. Oh, like a svelte deer style creature. Like svelte deer, not a big old steer. You were thinking like a pronghorn maybe. I was thinking like a pronghorn. Yeah, it's a longhorn. Yeah. It's 1700 pounds. This is an 850 kilogram steer.

This thing weighs more than the damn Master Chief. Who weighs 500 kilos in his armor. It's the olfactor it must achieve. From, from Halo. Halo 2, Halo 3, yeah. And he pisses his shits in there. Yeah. And also the suit sucks him off.

Yeah. Or jacks him off. I don't know. It helps keep him focused. Yeah. How do you... Like taxonomically is that... How do we categorize that? If it uses... If he uses vacuum of any kind, it's a suck off.

Oh, so it doesn't have to be moist? He does. I don't think he needs it moist. He's fine with it dry. He's uncircumcised. He's uncut. It's a really big cow. Okay, so it's a pump arrangement. Yeah, it sort of locks on, creates a seal.

There's like an O-ring that sort of attaches around the base and that forms a seal. Okay, a mechanical pumping, not a vacuum arrangement. I mean, it's, yeah, I guess so. But yeah, yeah, correct. Although when he's in space, it obviously it just opens up out into space. That just lets all the atmosphere out that way. Sort of self-contained around that. Yeah.

The league said there wasn't enough space on the sideline at Mercedes-Benz stadium in Atlanta for number two Texas to bring along its 1,700 pound Longhorn Bevo the 15th. Bevo. Bevo the 15th. Bevo the 15th. Yeah. Probably. Did the others die?

Probably. Yes. So this is much like the Tiger that we talked about, LSU's Tiger. Uh, this is the 15th, um, the 15th version incarnation of Bevo. Uh, somebody I found out, I was just looking it up on Wikipedia and, uh, it was originally called Bo and then like the team manager or something decided to change it to Bevo, but died before it could explain why. I was going to say, it's Australian. Closer, come closer. I must tell you.

Bevo. Bevo. Bevo. Bevo. Bevo. That seems like a guy, an Australian guy. That's Bevo. Yeah, absolutely.

Very different vibe, I think, taking a 1700-pound longhorn from game to game versus taking a tiger. Well. I think. Yeah. I mean, like you would think that this is kind of a more passive animal, but I don't think it is. This thing is fucking crazy.

Also, 850 fucking kilos! This is like the size of a compact car! Yeah, but it might not have much kinetic energy. Oh, my lord. It's got kinetic energy otherwise. You get charged by one of these things? Oh. You're gone. But it just...

I've never had the pleasure. It watches the football, college college football game. Okay They like something to look at like another thing apart from the football. I think they just kind of let their eyes unfocused at all times The Longhorns are facing number five, Georgia in the title game Saturday the teams have two of college football's most famous mascots The teams have two of college football's most famous mascots. There should be enough sideline space for George's pure white English bulldog, the much smaller Uga 11. Yeah, they should let him fight it out, though.

Yeah, they should. To the mascots' fight. Well, it's funny that you say that. Before the 2019 Sugar Bowl at the Superdome in New Orleans, Bevo the 15th toppled his barrier and began to charge at Uga the 10th, who was Uga the 11th's predecessor. Texas handlers were able to pull back Bevo before the massive animal caused any harm. Oh, God, can you imagine?

He had beef with Uga. Yeah, he is beef. He is beef with Uga. I am going to kill you. This sounds unsafe just from an outsider's perspective. Why are you doing that? Like a mascot, you could, a bulldog's fine. It's fine.

Still weird because it'd be too little to really see from the field. You need like a... Put guys in suits, tweeds in suits. Young dancing homosexual in a suit. And he's out there doing flips and cartwheels and everyone's like, fuck, I bet that guy's Put guys in suits. Little homosexual. A little homosexual. A little homosexual. In a suit. And he's out there doing flips and cartwheels. And everyone's like, fuck, I bet that guy's the coolest guy ever. They don't know.

They don't know he's the shy guy. Yeah. They don't know that. They don't know he only shines when he's got the suit on. Yes. No one cared who he was until he put on the bulldog costume. Quote, when we received the request for Bevo to be on the sideline in Mercedes-Benz Stadium, our staff looked at several alternatives, including the sideline location, said Chuck

Dunlap, an SEC spokesman. Average American name. The reality is there is limited sideline space at the stadium. We can't jeopardize the safety of Bevo or the game participants. Why do you have him in the fucking first place? If you're concerned about his safety and shit. Why do you cut around an 850 kilogram animal? Why are you doing this? Why are you being like, this is all connected. The violence and this are the same sickness messes in different ways.

The Patrick tree, the violence, the insanity. Yeah. Everything is in decay, but also at the same time in regrowth. Yes. Yeah, in a beautiful cycle of terror. Quote, with the narrow sidelines, location of multiple sets for television and camera cards, there is not enough space, Stonewall said. While we want to honor the tradition across the conference, the space limitation is a reality. He added late Friday that the SEC tried to find space for Bevo, including

a fan event at the adjacent Georgia world Congress center, uh, we did identify several options for Bevo, including a location at sec fanfare, but there was no opportunity for him to be on the field due to the space limitations done. Lapset and the emails of the associate press A guy, like a guy doing flips. Yeah, he can have a helmet on. If someone goes wrong or the guy's like sick or he has to go visit his mother, you put another guy in the suit. Yeah. So it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. You don't have to have Bevo. Like they're going to know if it's not Bevo. If you're different guy They're gonna know that's a very small Yeah, easy to transport. Yeah easy to transport. We've got the technology. Do we have any like him in a Honda Civic?

You get him there. I think I've seen a like a Horse at a Broncos game before I think they had like a real live horse Oh, absolutely, they ride the horse around the thing and fire works go off and stuff. I've seen that. Yeah, like that shit. That's okay. That's fine though, because like horses are used to that sort of thing. You can get a horse anywhere. You want a horse today? I'll get you a horse. I'll get you a horse. But like, and I assume at the state of origin, statistically that you're going to get some cane toads. Yeah, probably a lot of cockroaches around as well. Probably.

That checks out. Yeah. Especially if it's hosted in Sydney. Yeah, because it's gross. Yuck. We hate Sydney. People who work for Atlassian. Hey, that was definitely an episode of the podcast.

Buntavista, another crazy journey, just taking sort of the temperature of the world, finding the state that the world is at and talking through it. You know, we're all just trying to understand this, this crazy journey. We're learning together. We're all on this ride. What involuntary manslaughter is versus voluntary manslaughter. I don't know if we were learning because we didn't get it straight by the end. No, I think we got it.

We're all learning what a longhorn is, that it's not a pronghorn. What negligent homicide is. Um, if you enjoy this episode, we do more of this, uh, often with less violence and death, uh, we do two episodes a week every week, um, for the price of like, not even a schooner, like less than the price of a schooner, you can get twice as many episodes. Unbelievable how much a schooner costs. I mean, I set the prices. Do you know how much beer costs when you're buying a keg of beer from someone?

I don't, I don't. Somewhere in the ballpark for like $350 generally. Do you get a lot of beer for that though? 50 liters of beer. That's heaps. That'd take you ages to drink. It would. We will see you next week or maybe on the bonus episodes. If you are in America, just like, you can't change what's happening around you, but you

can change yourself. Just calm down. Just fucking take a breath and be like, let's maybe dial this back a little bit. And then, you know, if other people start doing the calm down movement, maybe we'll have a calm America. Maybe some of you calm down, some of you do something. Yes. It's up to you to decide which one of those you are.

You'll know it, like in your heart, whether you're a calm downer or a doer. Yeah. And they'll like, we, we cherish both. I think one is kind of cooler than the other, but we need way more calmers than doers by the way, we are actually going to need like a lot of calming work done after the doing as well, because that doing is going to be big. Yeah. Be the change that we want to see in the world.

We'll talk to you next week. Please stay safe out there. Bye! Thanks for watching!