Boonta Vista - EPISODE 388: Mummified Queens and the Boots with the Fur

Episode Date: March 23, 2025

Lucy, Theo and Andrew bring you: apizza amailbag, an ancient Dutchman receiving a second, newer face, the potato-themed license plates of Idaho, a mayoral insurgency in New Jersey, and the best and oldest stink you've ever sniffed.

Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello, hello, welcome to Bunta Vista episode 388. Here you are in beautiful sunny Brisbane. The warm humid air begins to bear down on you as you become heavy under the burden of your own existence.

You wander the streets of the CBD and feel like a stranger not only to the faces around you but also to yourself. There are jacarandas blooming. Delicate violet petals litter the ground like a soft, mocking laughter of a universe that doesn't know that you exist. Do you even know that you exist? Somewhere an ibis drags a half-eaten hungry Jack's chicken royale through a shallow pool of forex gold. For a moment you see yourself in the bird, noble, tragic and ridiculous.

The skyscrapers shimmer in the late summer heat like an illusion of meaning while the river snakes its way through the city with a quiet reminder that everything eventually returns to the sea. So you feel your chest crushed under the weight of your own absurdity. An oasis shimmers ahead of you, or perhaps a mirage. It drags you wordless and unwilling from the quiet pit of nihilism that you've made your home. You walk toward it, not with hope,

but because you've forgotten how to stop moving. The full words you see ahead of you rotate in your mind like a grinding gear in an empty machine. Hey! Exclamation mark. I am Yogost. You ask yourself, what could these words possibly mean?

The sentence repeats itself, slow, circling, fragmented and half familiar but dreamed of meaning. There's an uneasy feeling that you no longer understand language, only the shape of it. The syntax suggests identity, the tone suggests joy, but there's no context, no continuity, there's no truth to grasp onto. You look down at your hands and they feel like props. You speak the words aloud just to hear a voice and it startles you like someone else's inside your own mouth. Hey, I'm Yogost. Again, the voice is cheerful, indifferent. It doesn't care what you want from it. It offers itself like an answer to a question that you didn't ask. You try again to pull meaning from it.

Is it a greeting? A revelation? Perhaps a warning? It offers nothing and yet here you are. perhaps a warning. It offers nothing and yet here you are. With you is Yogost himself. Hey Andrew, what are you selling here? Hey, I'm Yogost. I'll ask you again, what are you selling here? Me? I'm Yogost. Also with you is Yogost because Yogost is eternal. Hey Theo, what are you selling here? Hey, I am Yogost. Hello. So that's the Hey I'm Yogost intro. You feeling all right Lucy?

No, I'm not. I'm not feeling good. I'm going through it. People will get mad because the flowers, the, the, the Jacarandas flower in September. Yeah. Look, they will. They're already there.

Creative Liberty. Come on, give us a break. But also it is so wet in Brisbane at the moment. It is so wet. It's really nasty. It's just like, it's so nasty, but it's not like a city like Cairns where you can kind of just go to the beach. You have to go to a different city to go to the beach.

Yeah, you guys just don't like have a nice beach. It's kind of fucked up. It's just hot. We went out to Wynnum, which is a Bayside suburb yesterday, and they've got a big concrete pool that they fill up with, with water. And they kind of got the same thing like at Bondi beach or whatever, but this one's just filled with like, I don't know, 10 centimeters of silt at the bottom. And we kicked up a dead crab and it stank like, like high heaven.

That was the going to swim at Wynnum on the Bay experience. It was so nasty here. I do need to point out there's a shop here called Hey! Exclamation mark. I am Yogos. Hey, I've been thinking about it for the past two weeks since I've been here. I just, if you Google, Hey, I am the auto complete just fills in, Hey, I am Yogos. They sell yogurt and rice.

Yogurt and rice. They sell rice and yogurt drinks. Yeah. hey, I am Yogos. They sell yogurt and rice. Yogurt and rice. They sell rice and yogurt drinks. Yeah. Hey, I am Yogos. It's a global brand. Oh, it's not just from Queensland. I'm getting ones from Sunnybank here. My, my guess from looking at the website is that it's a Chinese brand of Chinese

drinks, and yet it sounds like an Eastern European vampire. Yeah. Greeting you in a nightclub. Yeah. Yogost is yogurt crossed for ice? No, Yogost is a man that should be played by Alexander Skarsgård. Yeah. Yogost is a man who wants you to get into his BMW 5 Series and accompany you to a warehouse

rave. Exactly. We have much in the M.A. How are we feeling? How's our energy this morning? It's a weekend episode. Yeah we um we like we thought we had everything lined up last night with the kids like so we went out to Wynnum, um, to the, uh, to the aunties and uncles place, have dinner, head off. Like what time you're heading off with the kids in the car, do you reckon at nighttime?

Like seven, five. Oh yeah. To go home. To go home. Yeah. Yeah. Earlier. Right.

Yeah. And they just talked the whole way and we had to detect 20 minutes onto the trip. Just driving around the back streets. Be we had to detect 20 minutes onto the trip, just driving around the backstreets. They're like, they'll fall asleep soon. You'll fall asleep soon. And after 20 minutes of just like trying to do like unfamiliar routes through our suburb. Caitlin's like, just go home.

Come on. I remember that. I remember just driving around aimlessly. You can like feel yourself let go of caring about the planet while it happens as well. You're just like, nope, fill it up. I'm driving around just my suburb for another two hours. I can feel okay in that because I've got the Nissan Leaf.

Ah. Yeah, I put like a dollar worth of solar panel power in there. A bit of sun juice. Yeah, that baby will go around. My brain's not working this morning, not firing. Lucy, I understand you might be a little hungover today. Just a little bit, just a little bit. Oh, and sometimes when you're up late having some drinks

and you think to yourself, ooh, what I would love is some delicious pizza or perhaps a pizza, as they say, when they're making New Haven style pizza. And we heard a little more about that this week in our mail bag. It's time for the mail bag. One, eight hundred, three, one, seven, five, one, five. That's the point of Mr. Hotline. It's time for the mailbag. So, last week we discussed New Haven missing from the list of best pizza restaurants in

the world. Seems like a deliberate snub. A deliberate snub. New Haven snubbed again. A pizza. But somehow a place in Scotland that does New Haven style pizza landed at number 13. A knife in the heart of all new Havenites. That's right.

One of our dedication to letting our listeners perform vestigative reporting has delivered again. That's right. They report you, you report you decide. And we don't pay them anything. No, they, that's really fun for us to read. And we don't ask them to, we love it when you do. They're just like, Hey, I've got to drive across Scotland.

That'll take me 45 minutes. To go to this pizza place that I heard on a podcast. That's right. And that's what listener Fergus did. Come on. Come on. They say, I've just returned triumphant from my visit to Severinos, the Scottish pizzeria mentioned in episode 387, allegedly does the best New Haven style pizza in the world.

This was my first ever a pizza. So I have nothing, I assume that they don't mean, this is their first ever pizza. This is their first ever a pizza. First ever New Haven style a pizza. So I have first ever. A pizza. First ever New Haven style. A pizza. So I have nothing to compare it to. Can't really comment on the authenticity, particularly the shape. See figure one. This is an audio medium, so you will not be seeing figure one unless we make it the thumbnail. I don't know how to do that. Maybe Andrew. We probably won't. Yeah. Maybe there's someone else who can weigh in on this. We ordered a pie with salami. What's that one?

Are you... I don't know how to say it. I was hoping that you would. N-D-U-J-A? Yeah, that's always on pizza lately. What is it? Yeah, and pecorino. Pork sausage. Delicious sweet cheese, which is very tasty. It's absolutely gigantic about 30 by 45 centimeters. So we'll be eating it for lunch tomorrow as well. The crust was well browned on the crisp of burnt as is New Haven's style because it's cooked longer, everything's

a lot drier and the toppings don't just slop off your slice when you go to pick it up. The base is a very thick crispy bottom but then surprisingly light bready layer on top of that. As a result, the slices can actually support their own weight which I always appreciate. See figure two, you will not be seeing that. Imagine figure two. Maybe another style of pizza. It looks really good. The toppings. It looks good as hell.

It looks good as hell. Yeah, it looks fucking great. It's like a, it's a, it's an oblong pizza, very oblong pizza, crispy. All the toppings are like super, like almost burnt. Like I said, just sounds fucking great um maybe in other styles of pizza the toppings make the base too soggy so it doesn't get that bready texture in the oven you get a floppy slice as I as I said I've no context for what an authentic New Haven pizza should taste like but I'm somewhat left wondering where to go from here

when I've already had the best of pizza in the world. Categorically, it's all downhill from here. That's right. In pizza and life. Yeah. Everyone, either way, it was a pleasure to be able to add more context to the story. If anyone needs a pizza eaten anywhere in central Scotland, for any reason, I'll step up in the heartbeat. Challenge accepted.

We will hold you to that. Next time some Scottish pizza news comes out. Yeah You never know thank you so much Fergus It's it's a it's a magical feeling to make a show such as this and to have yep Have these connections made where somebody just goes out and takes action in the real world based on something We've said like someone should kill Elon Musk, you know? Yes. Like sometimes we say things and we just manifest them.

Sometimes we say things. Sometimes they happen. We talk about restaurant, you go to the restaurants, we say kill the president and you guys, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Just see what you want, what you feel like doing if you're in the area. Don't travel too far. Yeah. Yeah, only if it's kind of like in your area, if you happen to live in like Lebanon, Idaho, or whatever regional place we're speaking about. Although as we've said before,

I feel like the concept of like, what's a restaurant you would drive to is very different from place to place. You know? Yeah. Like you said, Theo, driving halfway across Scotland. Not that far, really. Not that far. But it's probably very far to you if you're in Scotland, you know Yes, but if you're in America, it's like I will drive three hours away to a restaurant because that's it's what we're doing

They do Americans love driving. They love they love putting gas in their truck and driving I'm putting some gas in my Silverado. You guys want to gas up the Silverado? Yeah. Hit the road? I love gassing up the Silverado. Gas up the Ram. You guys want to go four states away for some chili dog?

Four states away? Idaho dog? Idaho dog this weekend in the Silverado? Idaho dog queen? Oh boy. Look, America. It's a wide and stinky land. So much of it to cover a place that exists and isn't really that big. The Netherlands. It's time to check in on the Netherlands in Dutch watch.

Everybody, I am from Holland. Isn't that beautiful? You're so good at that, because I would have just said, Scotland is a country. Yeah. Do you know what another country is? You know what another one of those little wet countries is? Country 2. Is Scotland still a country? What's the deal with Scotland? Oh boy, we're going to get yelled at.

It's part of the UK. I don't really understand the difference between kingdoms and nations is my problem. A nation can be a kingdom though, right? That's on you. That's on me. I don't think we should have countries. They're made up lines. I don't need to know about them. No more borders unless that ends up affecting me in any way.

And then just a couple of borders. Just around my place. Just one around the United States and everything else. It's a free run. Good to go. This comes to us from DutchNews.nl. First Amsterdammer gets his face back after 800 years. What a relief.

Yeah. Hey, being faceless for 800 years. Missed that. Yeah. Yeah. He's just sitting around like checking his watch. Yep. He's probably forgotten about it at this point.

Like can't whistle that whole time. No. Yeah. If you didn't need it for the past 800 years, you don't need it back. You know, it's true. Actually forgotten what to past 800 years, you don't need it back. You know? It's true actually. Forgotten what to do with it. You weren't really using it.

You weren't using it. Give it to someone who would appreciate it. Realizing that you don't know when you're making faces at people anymore. You know, someone talking to you and you're just, eww. I mean, I have that experience and I assume Lucy probably. Yeah, probably. Yeah probably. The oldest known Amsterdammer has a face and will be the star of the exhibition about the Dutch capital's medieval origins, which opened on Friday. Archaeologists found the skeletal remains of the man in 1963 when they came upon a coffin

made from a hollowed out tree trunk. That is Tom Bobbadoo. Truly. It's got like a cave troll. When they were digging underneath the Odekirk, like Bob. Like Bob? Yeah, like Bob. Yeah, they were digging under the Bobbo. Odekirk. Yeah, they would dig under the Bob Odeckirk.

That's good gear. In Amsterdam, they concluded he'd been buried there around 1200 and would have been one of the first inhabitants of what was then a handful of houses. Quote, Amsterdam hasn't always been the center of the world. It's not. No, it is now. It hasn't always been the centre of the world. It's not. No, it is now. It hasn't always been. I don't think it ever has. Hasn't always been the centre of the world and it never was and it's not going to be

at any point. You can't put that in the paper though, you know? Can't put that in a Dutch paper. What is the centre of the world? I'd say it's Brisbane, Queensland. Yeah, Brisbane, Queensland. If we're being fair, on balance. Why would they have the Olympics there if it wasn't? Why would they have the Olympics there? Exactly. That's right. Center of the world. Bustling heart. Has Amsterdam ever had the Olympics? We don't know.

There's no way of knowing. I don't believe so. That comment was from one of the curators of, quote, the birth of a city in search of medieval Amsterdam. Fuck, they have had the Olympics in 1928. Fuck. That sounds so stupid. That's those are the Olympics where they let them like take a little ride and afford Model T. Yeah, it's not real. Runners got too tired. Were they still doing some nude wrestling back then, you reckon? 20s? In the 20s? I don't know, maybe not.

I feel like no nude wrestling was happening, no Greco-Roman. Dutch contestants refusing to put pants on. pants on. This only started happening after 1170 when the first Amsterdam is settled here following the All Saints flood which opened up the connection with the sea, she said. The year 1275 is seen as the beginning of Amsterdam when the name appeared in an official document. Alright. Uh research on the bones of the man showed he must have died when he was in his early twenties. Skill issue. Uh skill issue. He was some 172 centimeters tall and despite the city's nearness to the sea, a meat eater. Short king.

Is that short? Yeah, it's normal. I think it's probably bang on. It's shorter than me. So I'm going to call him a short king. That's the thing. You know, it's all about, it's all about perspective. I think he's perfect. He's perfect just the way he is. There's nothing wrong with it.

It's fine to be a short king. It's fine babe. They're really tall guys. Scare me. Yeah. Quote, we also know that he was sickly and had an infection. Don't put him on blast. Yeah, Zellie knew he was Dutch. Yeah, it's just kind of what they look like. Oh, his skin was kind of like really pale. Fucked up looking. I'm just kidding. Just

kidding, you beautiful people. Beautiful nature. Just kidding. You're beautiful people. Beautiful nature. Beautiful tall willowy people. We know that. Yeah. He used a painkiller made of willow bark, which contains a substance found in aspirin. Is he smart? He's smart.

Smart. Kind of a, oh, a doctor? Oh, resourceful. You met a doctor. That's what people are saying back then based off of rubbing a bit of a tree on yourself. Yeah. And they're like, holy shit. Nothing is known about the man's identity, but once the exhibition is over, he will have

a name chosen by the visitors. You guys got some funny stuff to do. You sure do. Schwarty Alex. They give him his face back and it's black. The researchers chose five names that were common at the time and he will be Adam, Halloween, Nico, Otto or Pia. He think I'll choose one of them. That's no good.

Can't call him a faceless McFace face. I just double checked the article just to make sure I hadn't made like a copy paste error. They don't address that he doesn't have a face and now he's getting his face back at any point. Yeah, absolutely. None of this explained to me what happened to his face. Was it rotted off?

Was it removed by a previous like... Was it somewhere else? Exhibition? Oh my god, you've got... Did he die from being faceless? You've got to Google this guy. Have you got a picture of his face? Yeah, just Google first Amsterdammer face.

Is he looking good? That's what I want to know. No, he's... Is this gonna be... I'm gonna be pissed off if this is one of these... Oh man, I don't like this shit. He looks like Carrot Top. He looks like Carrot Top. Where they have like a skeleton and they just build like a face on it and they say, yeah, I guess that's what your face looked like.

Yeah. Oh, that's 100% what they're doing. Yeah. That's what it seems like. He's not really getting his face back. They just made him a face. You just invented a face for this guy. A new face.

Yeah. What if he was way better looking than this? What if, yeah. Why don't you make him a hottie? Yeah. You know? You can just make it up. Just take, yeah, some creative liberties.

Wow. He is the first Amsterdamer. This is Brad Pitt's face. Yeah. First Amsterdamer, world sexiest man. Wow. The exhibition at the Amsterdam archives is on until July the 6th. So folks, get down there and tell us what's he looking like go see this guy go see Otto or Adam or whatever and what's the deal with his

face let us know fucking face do you think he's hot yeah attraction is subjective would you fuck Adam slash Halloween slash Nico slash Otto slash Pia yeah you know even though he's sickly and he's got an infection oh yeah but you'd have to think the infections cleared up by now Probably he's doing a low bark or whatever. Yeah, he had an impact on them inside Hey, it's on what I had an infection. Yeah Wow, there's all sorts of interesting things coming out of the region known as Amsterdam and it's time to check in on another region called Idaho in regional bullshit.

Regional bullshit Every little town has got their own bullshit Regional bullshit Every little town has just got to have it I think Idaho might be our most covered state on balance. Most popular region. We love Idaho. It's just got a very regional name. Yeah.

I think. And also a bunch of regional shit happens. A lot of real Idaho shit happens in Idaho. Yeah. I think. And also a bunch of regional shit happens there. A lot of real Idaho shit happens in Idaho. Yeah. Like this. This is from the Idaho Capitol Sun. Idaho drivers will soon have two new potato-themed license plates. Yes.

It's all we've been talking about. Idaho drivers will soon have two new license plate designs available to show off their potato pride. On Wednesday, Idaho government Brad Little signed House Bill 204 into law, which will create two new retro style license plate designs honoring Idaho potatoes starting on July 1st. Idaho's standard license plates already display the words famous potatoes The Idaho potato commission does not receive funding for those plates unless it is a specialty baked potato license plate Which is available to Idaho drivers for an additional fee. They have a potato commission The potato commission that takes a cut every time you get a baked potato license plate

What makes the big potato like so that sort of get a baked potato license plate? What makes the baked potato like, so they sort of got a famous potato license plate. And it's like, cool. Yeah, that's normal. They say that's a standard kind of license plate. Yeah, but it's not taking anything off the potato on it. Do you want to upgrade to a baked potato license plate? But then a cut of what you're paying is going to the potato commission well I think I'm gonna look up I like the license play actually like it I think it's really nice it's got yes just got like it's got in the background there's kind of the the tree lines and the mountains of Idaho and

then just floating just hovering in midair like one of the tree lines and the mountains of Idaho. And then just floating, just hovering in midair, like one of the spacecraft from arrival, is a big baked potato, and the top's just all kind of ripped open. There's a nice pat of butter sitting in that soft, fluffed up Idaho potato. And up top it says, World Idaho Famous Potatoes. Honestly, gorgeous. I love that shit. And up top it says, world Idaho famous potatoes.

Honestly, I love that shit. This legislation will create a total of three license plate designs available to Idaho drivers who want to showcase their potato patriotism with the black license plates proceeds going towards the Idaho potato commission and the state highway account. I think I just want to suggest that they punch that up a little by maybe calling it like

potatriotism? Potatriotism, yeah. You should have just committed and said potatriotism. Yeah. Yeah. Like go all the way in on it is all I'm saying. Yeah, totally. The bill was sponsored by representative Doug Pickett, our Oakley, whose family raises potatoes in Cassiope County.

It passed unanimously on the house side and nearly unanimously on the Senate side with a dissenting vote from Senator Laurie Dan Hartog, R Meridian. Bitch. Voting against the potato. Why are you dissenting against the fucking potato? What's your issue? Yeah. This is probably one of those wedge issues where even if there's

like serious problems with the bills, they don't, they don't dare vote against the potato in Idaho. Don't say wedge issues and just try and pass that off. Hey. The potato commission's probably got too much power in Idaho, I'll be honest. Do you know, you can go to the Idaho potato commission at idahopotato.com and get recipes for the baked Idaho potato. And they're just kind of like splitting it apart.

And then they're putting, uh, you know, your traditional sour cream butter. That sounds great. Meat, bacon bits on board. Cooked hamburger. Hmm sounds great. Meat, bacon bits on board. Cooked hamburger. Yeah. Cooked hamburger on a baked potato. I'm down. I think a baked potato is such a versatile dish. Yeah. Oh yeah. I haven't had one in a while. I reckon. If you're not a, if you're not a vegetarian, I reckon the baked potato starts and ends with bacon bits You can go anywhere. How about how about this baked potato with butter chicken on top of it? You know fucking crazy No, that's too much

I'm cheese and corn. You could go like Mexican. I'm just saying the possibilities are limitless. That's all I'm saying I'm not saying you have to eat. I'm just saying some of the possibilities are bad and That's all I'm saying. I'm not saying you have to eat. I'm just saying some of the possibilities are bad and There's a bad like a baked potato shop chain in Hobart called pratties and their tagline is the ultimate potato meal I think about it all the time. I've never been there. I just every time I see it. I say to myself pratties It's the ultimate potato meal. There's a there's a baked potato Franchise spud bar. That's what it is. There's a Spud Bar. Have you still got Spud Bar? That seems like something that would only still exist in Canberra. Oh, that's a bit rude.

I like it. Elna cannot go past it, like anytime the we're at the shopping center and like go to the, go past the food court or we're getting food in the food court and I was just like potato it's a great lunch potato I think she only recently sort of realized they've got the they have the whole like salad bar and you can you can create your own potato but then recently she was like started getting like the the set combos you know where they have a little menu item up there. Because they know what goes together. You know, they've thought about it, you know?

They know potatoes. What is their business? I do, I have to say I really like the visual image that is conjured by the sentence, Doug Pickett, whose family raises potatoes in Cassia County. Yeah. Very kind of, it does make me think that they are running around like riding around after them on horseback are they putting souls in those potatoes it sounds like it it sounds like they're bringing them up as part of their family spirit

too many potatoes feels pain and joy i'd hope not not. I don't want a potato to feel what we're feeling. Yeah, that too, I guess. You don't want to give a potato depression. No. Plus also, I'm going to cook it and smash it as well. Although maybe that'd be nice. I'd love to be like- Oh, to be cooked and smashed?

To be cooked and smashed? I'd love to be cooked and smashed. And beforehand, somebody holds you in a big hand and just pierces you all over with a fork. Exactly. I cook me up with some cheddar, with some Monterey. I don't know if you can feel any of it by then. On field?

Are you just a potato corpse by that point. Did you just throw out a word you just learned? I've heard the word twice now. All right. I learned about it yesterday. Going on field to get pierced and split into. Monterrey on field with Monterrey on field. Yeah. Roasted with Monterey on field. Roasted with Monterey on field?

One of the new designs will be black and white letters and the other would be white with teal letters. Both designs will have the words Idaho at the top and world famous potatoes along the bottom. Yeah. Black lashes plate. That is actually sick. I'd kind of go the white with teal Idaho potato. Only $70 plus regular registration fees

for the initial issuance of the plate. I am springing for the baked potato plate though. Your plates are so cheap. What the f- That's so cheap. We sold ours to like private. We privatized our personalized license plates, which is stupid. In Queensland? I thought, maybe it's in Queensland. I don't know. But definitely in Queensland, they are a private enterprise now, which it's free money. They give you money for a piece of garbage that goes on your, like, what are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing?

This is crazy. So Eaton says, this is going to be a specialty plate. So it'll be more expensive. The Idaho Potato Commission will receive $25 and the State Highway Account will receive $45 in proceeds from each initial purchase of the black plate. Renewing the black license will cost $50 and $15 going to the commission, $35 going to the State highway account. So the potato commission's making bank from this. I mean, I guess it's a significant part of the

state, right? Yeah. The potato commission runs Idaho. That's sort of an open secret. Everybody knows that. I want to see the house the potato commissioner lives in. Oh, me too. And Senator Lori Den Hartog, she's going to show up dead in a week for that dissenting vote. You know, you can't run against a potato commission. Yeah. See, okay, here we go. Our classic plates start from $200 or $195, which is a black and white.

Oh, you don't even get, oh, you don't even get a personalized number for that. Oh, it's just to get like the black plate. Just to get the black plate. And then it is 500 Australian dollars to get a colored personalized plate. Our plates are so fucking boring. There's no pictures. There's no baked potatoes. Yeah. Or you can get one with the, with sports team on it. Oh, you can. For 500 dollars. Sports team. You can get sports team. or you can get one with the with sports team on it. Oh, you can. For $500. Sports team. You can get sports team. Or you can get it Euro style for $775.

This is such a good scam. I do like the Euro style. Where's our money going? Like where's our license plate money going? Zero female potato commissioners. That's very interesting. Extremely male dominated. Male dominated industry.

We are doing research for new better varieties that are more heat and disease tolerant, Eton said. We promote potatoes and are pretty successful at it all over the world. So the funding that will come from the plates will go to the commission so we can continue to do those things. So we can continue to promote potatoes. Just in case you haven't heard about them yet. I don't think you need to promote potatoes. No, we did this in Australia a couple of years back, right? Where they're like, everyone just goes in and they pick the brown potato.

They pick whatever's in front of them, the cheapest potato, but you actually need to think about it a lot. And here's all the different potatoes. And on one hand, I do agree with the choice of potato type for, for a dish. It matters. It matters. You want to go into a roast with a flowery white potato.

Oh, what are you doing? That's grandma style. You're messing it up. You can't just go to make a potato salad and buy whatever a potatoes in front of you. No, no, you got to know a little bit, but then they're also like, you know, uh, we're doing a big push for potatoes and I don't know if that ever works. I've just find this kind of food marketing really strange. Like we've had it recently, not obviously super recently, but where they just had

ads for eggs for ages. It'd just be an ad for egg. It's like, I know about egg. Y'all heard about egg? Egg? Like, yeah. Yeah. It's like these ads that you can have eggs for any meal of the day. It's like, I know that. Yeah. Turning the TV up and being like, everybody, everybody keep it down. Hold on.

Yeah. You've seen these things. What the fuck is that? Yeah selling some sort of Oblong around around all around it. They're bigger at the bottom thing. They're saying I can eat that They're over. I don't have to snatch it out of a nest myself Avoid shape You guys see an extra strength through ovoid shape? The white and teal design is not a specialty plate. So there'll be no additional fee on top of the regular registration fee. This will be the least expensive plate available for Idaho drivers.

We would be paying through the pants pocket. Through the roof for a little bit of teal. Goodness me, we're getting ripped off. We're getting slugged at the license plate bowser. Don't let them privatize your personalized plates, people. It's from you to me. Are they privatized in Queensland? I think they're privatized.

I don't know. Who's the money going to? I thought they were all just like, hey, you already have to pay a bunch of money for car registration licenses and stuff. If you want to pay, if you want something special, we are charging you through the arse. We are going to destroy you and your family. Personalized plates Queensland. It's a highly respected joint venture between the Queensland government and private sector.

Ah, PPQ, Personalised Plates Queensland. Where's the money going? I think it's going to... Someone's pocket. Personalised Plates Queensland. Some guy. Yeah, that sort of seems that way. It's part owned by the government.

Idaho is certainly a region of America. Another region of America is Philadelphia. We're continuing on with some more regional bullshit here. This was sent in to us from Callum in Philadelphia. It's our other favorite city. And he sent us a story from NBC. Pirate's booty founder stages Long Island mutiny, declares he's mayor and tries to fire village staff. Could have just done a headline news on that one.

Yeah. A lot of meat on those bones. Pirate's booty, Fander. Now I've never had pirate's booty. What is pirate's booty? Is this, oh, is this like a restaurant? No, it's a snack. It's like a bagged snack.

I was thinking sort of a wooden chest full of maybe doubloons, maybe gold, maybe gems. Yeah, I'm picturing gold or gems specifically. Overflowing out of a chest. Yeah, absolutely. You open the chest and because there's so much treasure in it, it all slides out on the ground and makes shh. I'm actually, I'm picturing that I come into the room

and the chest's already open and overflowing because it's so full that they couldn't even get the lid closed. Yeah, it sort of popped open. Yeah, the chest is so full and so, almost you would say like, it's kind of pregnant with money. Kind of ready to explode. Yeah, sort of. I was going, the cum stuff. Ha! Okay. Well, I was going the cum stuff Well, I was going the pregnant stuff crazy he's got their own thing, you know

Okay, but yeah, I was I was having a look at that stuff and I was like field calm Pretty good the Pirates booty. I'd love to eat the Pirates boot I would love to eat the Pirates booty. This sounds, they sound pretty good actually. Like a puffed popcorn and rice kind of thing or something? Okay. Pirate's booty. I'd get down on that. And what does this have to do with the rest? The mayoral ship. Everything else. The founder of Pirate's Bo pirates booty snacks lost his chaotic bid for mayor of a tiny New York community After he claimed he was the village leader and had the authority to replace the entire local government official said Thursday Know how you do? Okay so it does say here that it didn't work out for him because

So it does say here that it didn't work out for him because Elena Vilafane the incumbent mayor of Seacliffe defeated Pirate's Booty Snacks founder Robert Erlich 1064 to 62 Okay, Jesus Okay Close defeated him on Tuesday in the village, which is about 26 miles northeast of Midtown Manhattan Villa so close. How the hell can you have a village? It's not a real village, right? This is like when they say like Greenwich Village or whatever Yeah, it's like it's like a city, right? It's like a city. I think it's like a

Like a hamlet More like a hamlet I was just watching an episode of kitchen nightmares from 2007, you know how you do and and Gordon Ramsay's in a in a New Jersey town at a restaurant called Flamangos. I don't think I've seen this one.

Full of like tropical bullshit. It was very good. And that just looked like a little country town. And that's in New Jersey. Yeah, I always have trouble with the scale of Long Island. Right, because they've got a lot of stuff on there. Yeah, it's long. It's long. It's a Long Island. It scale of Long Island, right? Because they've got a lot of stuff on there. Yeah. It's long. It's long. It's a Long Island.

It's a Long Island. Is it actually a Long Island? Vilafane, or possibly vilaphane, who could say, had been running unopposed for her third two-year term when Ehrlich jumped into the fray a week ago Monday. That's when Ehrlich went to Village Hall and quote, presented a statement falsely asserting his authority as mayor, demanding access to office space and declaring that the entire village staff was fired effective immediately and could not reapply for their jobs, the village said in a statement.

Okay. He just went there and was like, I'm the mayor. Yeah. Hey, I'm in charge of all of this place and also get out. Hey, see all this stuff? I'm the mayor of it. I founded Pirate's Booty. That's right.

Yeah. You dare. Don't look at me. Don't make eye contact with me. I founded Pirate's Booty. I'm above you. Yeah. The statement continues, while village staff remained calm and professional throughout

the incident, Ehrlich and his associates raised their voices, used profane language, made outlandish claims and engaged in direct harassment of village personnel. Don't be doing that. Despite multiple requests to leave, they refused, creating a hostile disruptive environment that required police intervention. Oh my goodness. Very dramatic. The brazen assertion stunned village officials who said they'd never seen or heard from Erlich before in any civic context

Recognize this guy on site, right? He would have had to declare himself The founder of pirates booty would have absolutely 100% like I assume he's like a maybe like a rich eccentric Oh, I'm sure you wouldn't know you'd know him as local rich fuckwit surely. Yeah from it from the indications here Quote to the best of my knowledge He has never participated in any government entity in any volunteer agency any board or commission village administrator Bruce Kennedy told NBC News on Thursday Ehrlich rejected the election results saying they were quote rigged and counted in secret. He said that poll workers weren't properly checking roles and he'd know claiming that

his supporters had made repeated visits to the voting booth. I'm not sure this is making the argument you think it's making. So yeah, I've found a picture of this guy. If you look up Robert, there's two different guys of this name. One of them is a former representative, but if you look up Pirate's booty, Erlich, he is a eccentric looking fellow. Quote, so one of my supporters voted three times, Ehrlich claimed to NBC News. Another von voted four times and they didn't even realize he was coming back that many

times. Me and my guys were doing crimes and nobody stopped us. Yeah. And now I'm in charge. Now I'm the boss. Ehrlich insists he and other village residents have power under the New York Government Reorganization and Citizen Empowerment Act to completely replace the village government structure with another. I don't want to dissolve the village. I want to consolidate the village, said Ehrlich, who calls himself the duly elected mayor of the, quote, incorporated village of Seacliff residents.

Yeah, I'm not mental or anything. Incorporated sets off Seacliff residents. Yeah, I'm not mental or anything Incorporated sets off my sovereign citizen flags Immediately. Yeah a hundred percent right? He's doing some citizens stuff. He continues consolidation means that one entity the ruling entity The residents who actually are the boss of the other entity could then absorb that entity into this entity making everything run The way it is now except without the abuse and fear and threats that come to this village. I'm nodding my head. Yeah. Actually. And I would also be nodding my head if I was at like the voting booth and someone was

shouting this at me. You're going to vote for this aren't you? Uh huh. Swearing at me about this? Uh huh. Look, there's a lot of, we've slashed and burned research and development like globally, especially in America. I reckon, you know, maybe we need to put some money back into it.

We need to put some money back into recreating the technology nerve stapling from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. And we just need to staple a few people's nerves. I just think there are a few people that kind of need to hop in the contraption and just sort of get improved, just get themselves kind of improved by technology, maybe by nerve stapling. Yeah. Maybe we just got a kind of like... I also think you know, maybe maybe some of those Victorian doctors were right

And a few people are having hysterics. Yeah need a little bit of Lordenum You know, yeah need to get jacked off by a doctor sounding rod bring it back bring the Lordenum. I want it Please Yeah, let the let the shipments of Canadian Lordenum start again. Just let, opium dens, let's bring them back. Yes, hanging out with your friends on a little couch. A little like, just laying around on the couch, that's harmless. Smoking on a long cool looking plate.

Oh, it's better to be in the bar getting like drunk and violent, is it? Or is it nicer to lay on a couch with your friends in the OPM den? It says so far to fall from a bar stool, but what if you were already on the ground? Yep. What if you were lying on a nice little day bed and a Chinese guy in silk pajamas comes in every now and then lights it up for you? Oh, yeah. Give it a little bit more. Sir, would you like your long elegant pipe lit?

Yes. Absolutely. What a beautiful concept. Please get rid of that fentanyl stuff. Bring back the opium. You wouldn't need it. Yeah.

It's made by pharmacies. What's opium? It's just poppy seeds. Just put the codeine back behind the counter. Just let me have a little bit of codeine.

Little bit of codeine. Just to take the edge off. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. Yes poppies They grow in the ground. They come from mother nature That's from nature, you know the problem the problem is when all these fucked up all these labs get involved, you know I'm all this science putting all the chemicals in there. No, if you just you just get me that straight black tar open And give it to me in my opium den where I get to lie down on the couch and somebody Somebody lights my big elegant long pipe. Yeah, i'll be happy, you know

Yeah, absolutely And I think you got it. We've got to bring back., putting a little bit in a little bit of extra kind of, um, oxycodone in the pack as well. So you take enough to make it stop hurting and then there's a little bit of extra. Okay. There's a little bit extra for you. There's one that gets rid of the pain. And then there's one more for me. There's one maybe for your housemate if he gives you 20 bucks.

Exactly. It's like, it's like making movies. I think it should be a one for them, one for me situation, you know? That's how they should be doing prescriptions. When I was in the hospital after my sinus surgery, the nurse would come by every two hours and be like, how are you feeling? Do you want another painkiller? And I'd be like, oh, maybe one.

And she was great. She was just like, oh, you're allowed to have this many, like this every two hours you're allowed to have two. And you're like, oh, well, if it's the doctor's orders, I probably should take two of those. I was like, oh, I guess I'll have whatever the maximum I can have is then. If you insist. If you insist, they make you take it in front of them though.

So you can't, can't just take a little, can't take a little home for later. Well, see, my thing is I'm like, I'm really nice and empathetic and I would, I would hate to make the nurse feel like, you know, rejected or like I'm like, I'm really nice and empathetic and I would hate to make the nurse feel like, you know, rejected. Or like I didn't want her to do her job. You know, so because I'm so polite, I would definitely be gobbling up all the painkillers they could give me. Like a little piggy.

100%. Just like a little piggy. Like a little painkiller piggy. Here's another normal thing to say. Erlich said he has collected 1900, and it's in quotes here, votes at his coffee shop for the past four years, saying such an unusual ballot has holy precedent. Oh, holy precedent. I think he's just like harassing his customers, being like, would you vote for me? Would you vote for me as a man?

Hey, please put your signature, your John Hancock down on this. Sign here. Nineteen hundred votes since our election, he said. The longest election in history was from 1268 to 1271 when they couldn't find a pope. So actually, I have the longest election in history. What? Yeah, you don't. Asking people every now and then if they'd vote for you when they come in your coffee

shop. I'm not sure that is the same as having an election actually. This is absolutely the CEO mind. Yeah, it's like when you get too much money from like you made some chips and you got too much money and like it melted your brain. Yeah. And you're like, you know what? Now I'm the Duke.

Yeah. I actually have like the divine right. I have the divine right of kings within myself. Divine right of kings. Maybe. I made some chips. Now I've got the divine right. It's weird that I've never got to wear a crown before.

Yeah. Now that I think about it, you know? In theory, Ehrlich or anyone else could submit a petition with 10% of the village's registered voters asking for Seacliff to be dissolved. Once such signatures were verified, a village-wide vote would be held to ask whether Seacliff should be eliminated

and then folded into the town of Oyster Bay, Kennedy said. Quote, he had a FedEx type envelope that was sealed that he was waving around allegedly with petition signatures, Kennedy said. And when he was asked, do you want to submit that? He said, no. You guys need some new income income brackets on your taxation really. Yeah, you got to really pump that number. I'll give this guy something else to worry about sort of shit stops. Like invented pirates booty in the 1980s making the puffed cheese corn and rice snack a ubiquitous presence at checkout stands across America. Then in 2013, B&G Foods Inc. purchased Robert's American Gourmet Food, which owns the Pirates

booty brand, for $195 million. And then that group got purchased a couple of years later for like $450 million. Despite his wealth, Ehrlich said Thursday he plans to remain active in local political politics. That's not despite his wealth, Ehrlich said Thursday he plans to remain active in local political politics. That's not despite his wealth. This is exactly what wealthy people love doing because they have fucking nothing else to do. He's got a ton of free time now because he made a bunch of chips in the 80s. Sorry, NBC, are you really writing the sentence, remain active in local political politics?

Yeah. Yeah, come on now. Well, they fired all the editors. Asked whether he might- And also the writers as well. Asked whether he might take another shot at running for mayor in two years, using more conventional methods that could land him on the ballot. He said, no, I'm mayor now.

Why do I have to wait two years? I am mayor at this moment. I can write an executive order. And you know what? That's beautiful. Like self-belief Yeah, we've got to carry ourselves this way more in our day-to-day life like think of yourself. You're hot. You're amazing You're the mayor. You're the mayor leave your life that way

Yeah, if you want the mayor the street people like clap say look here comes the mayor It's a pirate's booty guy. Yeah Here comes the mayor. It's a pirate's booty guy. Yeah. Yeah, here's a question for you. He should give him a little chair to sit down in and wheel around in. If I wasn't the mayor, why would I tell everyone I was? Yes.

Yes. Why would I be wearing this crown? Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Man, sometimes you march into a local council meeting and you say, man, this place is corrupt, something in here stinks. And other times you want to talk about smells of a different kind. It's time for smells that make you go hmmm. What's that smell? What's that smell? It's... What's that smell? What's that smell? What's that smell?

It's DANGER! The truth is, I feel so angry. The truth is, I feel so fucking sad. The truth is, it looks like sex in here. From the BBC. Ancient Egyptian mummies still smell nice, study finds. They smell kind of nice with it. I'm picturing how this study worked. Oh no, they go into it. Pretty good.

You guys smelling this? Even after 5,000 years. Sniff of this? Even after 5,000 years in a sarcophagus, mummified bodies from ancient Egypt still smell quite nice, scientists have discovered. Researchers who examined nine mummies found that though there was some difference in the intensity of their odors, all could be described as woody, spicy, and sweet. Well, they have perfume in them, right? Yeah. as woody, spicy and sweet. Well, they're a perfume in them, right? Yeah. They're spicing them things up.

Yeah, they're wheeling one of these bad boys out at dusk. Yep. Uh-huh. They say that recreating the composition of the smells chemically will allow others to experience a mummy's whiff and help to tell when the body's inside maybe starting to rot. Thanks. Yeah. We went to the ancient Egypt exhibit when it was coming through Canberra and they had a thing where you could like sniff a bunch of stuff. Okay. And one was like, you know, they had like, oh, this is what frankincense smelled like and shit. And

one was one might have been like an ancient Egyptians breath. There was one real bad one in there. We want to share the experience we had smelling the mummified bodies. So we're reconstructing the smell to be presented in the Egyptian museum in Cairo. Cecilia Bembibre, one of the researchers told BBC's Radio 4 Today program. Why don't you just let me smell the mummy? What can you do without it? Why are you gonna recreate it?

I don't need to smell the mummy. Just let me have a sniff. Just, yeah, those big glass cases that you have. Put a... Open them up, crack it open. Put a little nose hole in there for me. Yeah. Put a hole where I can just poke my nose in,

see what's up, see what's going on. During the mummification process, ancient Egyptians would surround the body with pleasant smells as an important part of preparing a spirit to enter the afterlife. Yeah, you can't go into heaven stinky. No. No, god no. You've got to get perfumed up. Yeah. You don't want everybody in the afterlife looking around and going, what the fuck is that smell? Oh, it's tootin' common. Hey, hey, still smell like that, huh? Even in the afterlife.

Okay. Everyone was stinky back then. Come on now. I didn't get any, didn't get any onguents. Hey, all right. All right. Well, we got oiled up here. Yeah. No, you can't get it here. We don't have any onguents, hey? All right. All right. Well, we got all the unguents. Yeah, we all kind of oiled up here. Yeah. No, you can't get it here.

We don't have any unguents up here. No, you kind of had to get it back down there. Back down there. Yeah. Clove oil, no cloves up here, unfortunately. So. Ooh. I guess you're stinky forever in the afterlife. Stinky for eternity, huh?

Okay. It's not what I would have chosen for eternity, huh? Okay. It's not what I would have chosen for myself, but okay. Yeah, imagine putting on the Lynx Xbox deodorant and they're getting hit by a car. Yes. Until you appear in heaven immediately afterwards. Fuck. Because that's, it's my belief personally,

is that, you know, the clothes you die and are the ones you get for the whole after Yeah, if you're like the guy whose mom has a sticker on her car that says like Callum gone too soon 18 forever You're smelling like links Xbox out there You know what I mean, you know the kind of guy yeah, do. The guy that died from driving his car 200 kilometers an hour. Yeah. And he's showing up looking different too. Oh, yeah. He's wearing those clothes forever though.

As a result, pharaohs and members of the nobility were adorned with oils, waxes and balms during the mummification process. Quote, in films and books, terrible things happen to those who smell mummified bodies, said Dr. Bembibre. Well, don't make something bad happen to me by getting me to smell it. Now we bring it to you.

I don't want to smell it then. That does seem like something that would happen in a goosebump story. Yes. Smell the mummy. Sniff the mummy? You die. Don't sniff the mummy or you die in seven days. Quote, we were surprised at the pleasantness of them. The authors of the academic study, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society on Thursday, had to get the smell from

inside the sarcophagus without interfering with the mummy inside. Yeah, I was actually working for them, but they fired me after I grabbed the mummy's foot. Yep. Kind of like took a huge breath, like sniffing their toes. Oh, come on. On field. They said it was very damaging to the mummy to have its whole foot inside my mouth. Yeah, they're out for the taste test. Come on. Surprisingly sweet.

Musky. Hey, I don't suppose any of these mummies have been like wearing high heels for a couple of thousand years. Can we get this done, please? For fuck's sake. I think we're really hitting our stride on this. No stinky feet gear. I'm proposing an exhibition where you can go and members of the public can suck on the

little toes to see what it was like being a surf. The researchers from UCL and the University of... Oh, Ljubljana? Ljubljana. Ljubljana? Thank you. Ljubljana. They did this by inserting a tiny tube so they were able to measure the scent without taking any physical samples

I guess that works, too It just doesn't seem it's not the same. It's not really the same. Not really the same Uh quote we know smells were essential to social religious and personal practices in ancient egypt says Dr. Ali luke's that lady who got yelled at online for a while remember her no no lady who like she'd done a PhD at Cambridge about like the sort of the politics of people's smells and odors of smell yeah and then and then all these people were like I'm going to kill you people real riled up was that somebody was posting something about like

about like landlords Kicking out like, you know Indian people from houses because they're like we don't want them to cook with their spices Yeah, and she was like, yeah like the the whole thing of smell has a big impact on like politics and othering people and Perceptions in society and all these people were like wrong. You're racist You're the one who's racist actually as people do so people went fucking insane about this woman online for a couple of I. I see. Okay. All right. I don't know enough about that to say. Go on, have a little click around. Oh, I think she was being normal

and she made the mistake of posting something on the website, formerly known as Twitter. Yes, okay. Yes. No, I'm saying that on her Wiki, okay. Yeah, that has anything to do with race. Posting anything that has anything to do with race on Twitter. Oh, they're not being normal about that on Twitter?

Yeah, right when things had gone off the rails. Over on X, the everything- Over on X, the everything app. Over on X, the racism incubator. Mattias Strilic. Man, Slovenian names, I tell you. Matija Strych... Strych... Strych... Strylick... Strylich? Yeah. Man. Slovenian names, I tell you. Another member of the study team told the Associated Press,

the sense may even suggest what social class a mummy was from. Yeah. We believe that this approach is potentially of huge interest to other types of museum collections, he said. That's right. A lot of jobs for sniffing coming up in the near future. So if you're a nasty little freak, it might be something. It could be the job for you. Could be something in there for you.

If you're lucky. I don't like smelling stuff personally. Don't like smelling stuff. It's kind of happening all the time. Smell free, you know? You'd like to live in a scent free world. Yeah, ideally. Like sealed in a cube or something. Yeah, I'd like to ideally be sealed in a cube or like boiled and then mashed, crushed or

whatever it was being made of. Any of these things. Pricked with a fork, baked for an hour. I think that most natural herby smells are nice, but I think if you're trying to make something smell nice for a long period of time, all of those smells are nasty. Yeah. If it's in an oil or whatever,

it hurts my head to smell. I also want to be sent free in a cube. I don't know. I don't know if it's anything. I don't know what it is, but like the older I get, I feel like the more sensitive I'm getting to artificial smells all the time. Oh yeah. I can't walk past the Lush shop.

Oh man. Walking past the doorway of the Lush store makes me go, how do you? The people working there, it must be like the people who work in factory towns and their old factory sensors have just said, just cancel that one out. Yeah, they just cancel it. You don't need to worry about that thing that's killing you. Yeah.

I got into an Uber a little while ago and a guy had one of those like, you know, the air fresheners that are like full of a little liquid and they sit like over the vent. And he was like blasting multiple of those in this closed car. And I got in and it was just immediately, felt like I'd been hit with a dart gun.

It's not good. I don't know how people are living like this. been hit with a dart gun. It's not good. I don't know how people are living like this. I can't deal with it. I'm not good with it. I'm sensitive. So maybe other people are having these problems. I'm also a sensitive pedal. It's true.

You're a sensitive smeller? Yeah. My goodness. We've all got some sort of sensory issue. That's strange. Straight, odd. Probably, probably just a coincidence. Yeah.

Also sound. I don't like a lot of sound either. I don't. Probably just a coincidence. Yeah, also sound. I don't like a lot of sound either. I don't like flashing lights. Same. So sort of light. That's why I don't like strong taste. I don't like... Yeah, textures weird me out, especially like food textures.

Oh, yeah. Kind of like odd food textures or the stuff that I'm not familiar with. Oh, when a fire engine goes past and it's loud and all its lights are flashing, when things are too hot or too cold. Yeah. I don't like being hugged. We could just keep kind of going like this. See, I don't either.

And I, you came to our house the other night. Awkward goodbye. Coming in, there was like that moment of like, do we hug? And we both decided no, and then kissing me. Nice. Well, folks, let us leave you with this thought today, which is that whatever it is that you have an almost unreasonable seeming to other people sensitivity about, you are actually correct.

You're right about it. Yeah. Most, most senses are bad and that's why we have them. It's to detect danger and danger is all around us. Yep. You are under threat at all hours. At all times. Look for the exits.

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