Boonta Vista - EPISODE 405: Water Buffalo Way To Go

Episode Date: July 20, 2025

Lucy, Theo, Andrew, and Ben bring you: Getting in trouble with the Pope because of your conflict avoidance, using your gun to get everyone back on track, and the RIPing Report. *** Outro: Teeth - DZ D...eathrays *** Support our show and get exclusive bonus episodes by subscribing on Patreon: www.patreon.com/BoontaVista *** Email the show at mailbag@boontavista.com! 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

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Jiggle Horse, pick up your feet! It's going to start saying that. It's calling someone a jiggle horse outside of Christmas. This kind of seems like a slur. It's like a jiggle horse. Oh, we don't say that anymore. Pick up your feet. Hello, and welcome to Bunda Vista.
Starting point is 00:00:29 It's a bonus episode. Nope. Fuck. No, it isn't. All right, well, hmm. Please pull up a seat. 400 and something, if that helps. 405, I'm reading in the URL.
Starting point is 00:00:41 Take my hand and join me in the loser circle. I'm Theo and I can't get anything right. Can't fucking beat purple steak and Bellatro, been playing guitar for 15 years. Simply no good. If I have to go bowling there's a 50% chance it's gonna end in a tantrum for me because my shit just flat out sucks ass. Also here with Ben, try as Ben might, he simply can't wrap his head around multivariate calculus. Hey Ben, you big old fucking loser. That seems really pointed.
Starting point is 00:01:12 That's the point where I started dropping out of uni. That was like, um, maths, second year maths, first year, first year, second semester, multivariate calculus. No good. I am stupid., multivariate calculus. No good. I am stupid. I am very thick. Yeah. Also, people don't teach it very well as well.
Starting point is 00:01:32 Um, teachers also join me in the, I know you're under a lot of pressure, unless you're like a professor or something, then you can fuck off. If your kids are stupid, that's your fault. That's your failure to teach. That's right. Exactly. That's Lucy, who's devoted years to learning to fly, but has yet to save a hundred lives in a dramatic Captain Sully Sullenberger moment.
Starting point is 00:01:55 How are you Lucy? That's really rough. That really hurts actually. I was just, I was going to go with, I also have been playing guitar for like 19 years and I'm still no good at it, but you went straight for the gut punch. Thank you. Join us. Please honesty in the circle.
Starting point is 00:02:11 Everybody sucks here. Are we jacking each other off in this circle? Is that? No. Also, you might be in the loser's circle. I'm not good at it. I'm really bad at it. Because of your social skills as well.
Starting point is 00:02:24 How embarrassing would it be to be like in your mid thirties and really bad at it. Because of your social skills as well. How embarrassing would it be to be like in your mid thirties and really bad at hand jobs? Like just your technique was shit across the board. And you just know it. Like every time you've tried, it's like, you know that you're just no good at it. Even with pointers. You're looking at the other person and you're just kind of making them like, I'm sorry. And you've put so much effort into it as well. Right.
Starting point is 00:02:46 Like, and you're probably overthinking it, but you've seen like all the videos online kind of like teach techniques. But like, cause you know that you're not good at it and you really want to be good at it. It's just the wrong angle. It's the wrong hand shape or something. Right. It's like your hands, your hands shaped wrong or something.
Starting point is 00:03:00 Yeah, that's right. Probably it. All right. And finally, here's Andrew who tries he might simply cannot stretch his foreskin over a cue ball. Nope. Every day, every time. Get like 40% of the way there you get to the to the zenith almost and flicks back. Snaps back, yeah. And it hits me too. Ah, ah! This guy's got a huge foreskin. But the boulder is a cue ball. Yeah. And his task is stretching his foreskin over it.
Starting point is 00:03:33 And that's me. Yeah, and every day it snaps back and then, yeah. You gotta imagine me kind of liking it. I like saying that in the way that you would say that your mom says, I get to use the Nintendo now, but you have to imagine me happy now. You gotta imagine me happy. You must.
Starting point is 00:03:53 Zeus said. Hey, if I tried every single day of my life to get my foreskin over a cue ball and I just couldn't get it to happen, that would leave me saying, what the, we talk about things that make you go, what the, in our segment, what the, it's time for what the. Right now though, it's what the. This is from listener, a great big B. Ah, get away from me. It's from the Catholic news website, The Pillar.
Starting point is 00:04:30 I'm not going to read the headline because I would like this to sort of wash over you in stages. Yes. There are also a bunch of somewhat specific Catholicism terms in here that I realized I've never had to say out loud. So we're going to, we're in this one together. clergy in the archdiocese of Denver are divided over the handling of a controversial blood oath ceremony involving a vice rector and seminarians during a ski trip last year.
Starting point is 00:05:00 Yeah. I hardly know them. If your seminarians are ending in blood, see a doctor. Or so it can look brown. Yeah, there it is. That's a fun spoonerism too. Rice vector. Like if you flicked a bit of rice, it would be describing a rice vector.
Starting point is 00:05:21 A group of seminarians studying at Denver's St. John Vianney Theological Seminary were taken on a trip in January 2024 by then vice rector of the seminary, friar John Nepeel, during which they were woken in the middle of the night and invited individually to swear a blood oath in a ceremony involving a dagger and a man in a Yeti costume. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
Starting point is 00:05:46 I missed that day in Sunday school. Yeah. I want to know where the yeti comes into it. Did not represent during the bizarre ceremony video, which was sent to the pillar by multiple sources in the archdiocese. I think there's some conclave stuff happening here. I'm pretty sure. Is this their like their gossip mag, but like domain specific?
Starting point is 00:06:09 I bet they've got a group chat. They've got a WhatsApp chat. Oh my God. And you know that they're like trying to take each other down. Yeah. The pillar lately? This is also, I'm reading to you a very heavily trimmed down version of this article and there is a lot of being like, well, this person said it was
Starting point is 00:06:26 okay. Here's 20 people who think it's not. Like they're really dragging them through the mud here. During the bizarre ceremony video, which blah, blah, blah, seminarians were told to scream as if in pain before returning with a bloodied cloth wrapped around their hand and their mouths taped shut to a room where others waited for their turn to be brought in. Huh. Hmm. Yeah. So I guess...
Starting point is 00:06:50 So more of a... More that he's punking them than doing a ceremony. Yeah, it's like a chained punking. What a bit of punk, bit of haze. The first person doesn't get punked, I guess, because you need to start the process. But then the next person to go in is punked by the first person. Well, the first person probably gets half-punked, I guess, because you need to start the process. But then the next person to go in is punked by the first person. Well, the first person probably gets half punked, right? Yes.
Starting point is 00:07:10 Yeah. Not all the way. Is someone going to get joked eventually? I think the guy that organized this is actually getting joked currently. What if you're in your mid thirties and you were really bad at getting joked? Has anyone seen Dennis? Yeah, he's in the jubing room. I think he's going to be there all week. He got joked last weekend.
Starting point is 00:07:33 You get joked again? I wish no one even wants to jode me. Yeah, it's like I'm not even on God's radar. God doesn't think about me at all. I wish he'd kill my kids. Take my wife, please. The Archdiocese of Denver in a statement to The Pillar, characterized the event as a farce and said that it was however, said
Starting point is 00:08:05 it was however, part of a deeply imprudent and inappropriate prank and that a full investigation has been completed. So is it a farce or is it imprudent? I guess a farce can be imprudent. They're not mutually exclusive. But they're saying buffed, like a kind of, like they're weighing the two or like, is it a farce or is it an imprudent prank? I think what they're doing here is they're saying that it it a farce or is it an imprudent prank? I think what they're doing here is a, they're saying that it was a farce in
Starting point is 00:08:27 that it was not meant to be a serious blood ritual and, but that doesn't fully justify it, it is still imprudent. Yeah. Yes. Uh, quote, the individual responsible has since been removed from his seminary leadership role and has recommitted to his ongoing personal and spiritual formation, the Archduke, he said. Back to the books. YouTube apology video.
Starting point is 00:08:50 I'm sorry. This is what has made the Catholic Church leap into action. We need to investigate this and do something about it now. I think it's good. This is real Catholic stuff. Yeah, real. It's real. Real. Do blood ceremonies and stuff, right I think it's good. This is real Catholic stuff. Real, it's real. Do blood ceremonies and stuff, right? Make it fun again.
Starting point is 00:09:11 Make Catholicism fun again. Yeah. Harken back to the time when Catholicism was fun. Yeah. They should do, they should do combat arts, swinging those, those incense. Yeah. Yeah. Jewel, those incense. Yeah. Yeah. Dual wielding senses.
Starting point is 00:09:28 Yeah. You just want them to be the priests of the Tetragrammaton as depicted in equilibrium. Do I want that? I think I do. Yeah. We all do. We all do.
Starting point is 00:09:43 Uh, the fallout of the event has divided students, faculty and clergy in the diocese with videos and images of the event circulating for several months. It's in the Priestley group chats. They've got Priestley group chats. You just know it. And it's called like the gay pope. Yeah. Ooh, I hope nobody sees that. Father Frye. Is he a friar or a father? What does FR usually stand for?
Starting point is 00:10:10 Probably father. I don't think he's a father. He's probably not a friar. Do we still have friars? I don't really know what that is apart from friar tuck. I was raised in one of the, I was Protestant, so I was raised in one of the normal churches. We don't have this shit. Oh, it is a mendicant order in the Catholic Church to be a friar, but there are also friars outside of the Catholic Church, such as Anglicans.
Starting point is 00:10:32 Well, Anglicans are fake Protestants. They're just basically Catholics. Right. Father Napiel told the pillar he had, quote, acknowledged his imprudence, apologized to the Archbishop of the seminarians involved and said that while the event was intended as a prank, he took responsibility for what had happened. In January of 2024, Father, fuck, Napeel took some 15 seminarians on a ski trip to a house in the mountains in the Crested Bute area, belonging to a Catholic family close to Father
Starting point is 00:11:03 Napeel, according to several clergy familiar with events. I think if you're in the clergy, you shouldn't get to go skiing. I do kind of. Yeah. I think there's so much stimulation. That's too much. Like what's, what's next? Jerking off.
Starting point is 00:11:16 Like putting something in your ass. You may as well be jerking off. You may as well be masturbating. Come on now. I think they're staying in the robes. They're Catholic, aren't they? You reckon they're staying in the robes while they're skiing. Do you think they're staying in the robes? They're Catholic, aren't they? Do you reckon they're staying in the robes while they're skiing? Do you think they've maybe got like a line?
Starting point is 00:11:29 Or maybe they've got like a special ski suit. They have day wear. Like they're not always frocked up. The frocks are for Sundays. Let's get them a puffer frock. Yeah, let's get a puffer frock on. That'd be cute. That was something that I really liked when I was in India up in Ladakh that you'd see a lot of Buddhist monks wearing drippy as hell orange puffer vests that went with their robes like the same color as the robes. Very good look.
Starting point is 00:11:58 Puffer vests cool now apparently. On the right people. Fuck off. In the middle of the night, the seminarians were woken and told to sit in silence in the living room before being invited individually into a trailer on the house's grounds. When they entered the trailer, the seminarians were met by Father Nabeel, who can be seen in the video setting up a camera to record the occasion along with a senior seminarian and participant on the trip and a person dressed in a Yeti costume.
Starting point is 00:12:32 There is something so, I guess I'm probably ruined by like movies and stuff, but if there's ever a video of like someone setting up a camera first and then doing something, that's generally like someone's about to get murdered or something. Yeah. Yes. Like a movie creep is about to happen to them. Yeah. In one video of the ritual, seen by the pillar, the seminarian is asked if he
Starting point is 00:12:57 quote, has any idea what's going to happen to which the seminarian responds. No. I mean, none of us do brother. Quote, you're about to enter into a sacred tradition, he's told. Are you ready for it? The seminarian is also informed that, quote, people who come up here, not everyone makes it to enter into the tradition. The way it works, the only way you can enter into this family is you've got to make a blood oath, he's told in the video. While it is explained that the group started with another seminarian who they knew quote would have the balls to go through with the initiation, quote, we're hoping you have them
Starting point is 00:13:34 too. This is so good. They're doing like seminary and hazing. Yeah. Don't do the blood oath, brother. Is the implication that if you don't go through with the thing with the knife, you will be killed by the Yeti? You'll be killed. Yeah, I think the Yeti will beat you to death.
Starting point is 00:13:50 The knife is just for hand stuff. The Yeti is what's going to kill you. We're going to put some skis on you. We're going to push you down that hill and then we're going to push the Yeti down. And bro, he's going to catch you. Yeah, there it is. You know you could just hold space bar and you can outrun the Yeti. You go fast enough that the Yeti doesn't get you.
Starting point is 00:14:08 Oh, maybe it's not space bar, but there's a button you can press in ski free and the Yeti just doesn't get you. You just keep going. Really? I never knew that. Fuck. Yes. What's it going to do with those stick arms though?
Starting point is 00:14:21 You know, really skinny arms. I think he eats you. Oh, well, that's not good. Yeah. You see the animation of him eating you. He goes, chop, chop, chop. And he looks happy about it too. And if you're under 30, yeah, that's all we had. You should do nostalgia. Oh, I want to do Y2K. I want to wear Y2K clothes. Throw out your PS5. Pick up ski free. Yes. Oh, you think it's so cool wearing really big low rise jeans and a spaghetti strap singlet top and having your navel out, but guess what's not cool.
Starting point is 00:14:54 Only having one video game and it's ski free. Yeah. That's right. You tell me how cool the nineties is after sitting down in front of Internet Explorer five. I think it was actually kind of good. I think I still had like dopamine receptors. Every time you went over one of the jumps,
Starting point is 00:15:11 weee! Woohoo! Haha! I'm having fun on the computer! I'm not good at this game. It's still fun. Computer time is special and limited. It's a delineated part of my day.
Starting point is 00:15:23 It's in a different room. I hope computers become a bigger part of my day. It's in a different room. I hope computers become a bigger part of my life. Yeah. Or too fucking bad. They did. They sure did. For all of us. Monkey's entire fist slamming closed.
Starting point is 00:15:35 I wish I never had to get off the computer. Yeah. I wish the computer was with me forever. I wish I needed the computer. Quite. If you enter into this family, there's no going back. The seminarian is informed. You're talking about the priesthood?
Starting point is 00:15:51 Yeah, I guess. This is separate to the priesthood, right? This is like a- Brotherhood of the Yeti. This is a secret. Yeah. Yeah. Quote, now it's not pretty as you can see, the seminarian is told seated in front of
Starting point is 00:16:05 the bloody surface and knife, but if there is enough courage, but if there is enough courage in there, we can get through it. At this point, the seminarian nods his assent and Father Nappeal can be seen leaning into the camera shot holding the dagger as the seminarian bears his left arm and places it on the table. Quote, this is going to hurt for a second. Ready? camera shot holding the dagger as the seminarian bears his left arm and places it on the table. Quote, this is going to hurt for a second. Ready? Father Nepeel says before counting down from three, at which point a voice says, stop. There is another option. Great. So this
Starting point is 00:16:38 guy was like ready to get sliced to enter the brotherhood of the Yeti. Yeah. And they're like, Hey, actually, if you don't want all that, you can just suck the Yeti? Yeah. And they're like, hey, actually, if you don't want all that, you can just suck the Yeti off. Don't. We can do this in a way that's not that. I like the idea of doing a thing where you ask... I like the idea of doing something where you ask somebody
Starting point is 00:16:59 to do something painful and just beforehand you go, hey, you know what? It's a thought that counts. Yeah. You were ready. You were gonna do it. And that's as good as doing it to me. to do something painful and just beforehand you go, hey, you know what? It's a thought that counts. Yeah. You were ready. You were, you were going to do it. And that's, that's as good as doing it to me. No need to make a fuss.
Starting point is 00:17:11 Priest, father, whatever this is. Yeah. You're in. Just suck off the Eddie on your way out. I'm really just words. I don't know what that is. When you say like Protestant, I don't know what that is. We don't do that.
Starting point is 00:17:23 We don't have the Foofarer. Protestants, it's just, it's kind of normal stuff. You can't like pay to get out of something. They worked that one out to be like, hey, that's actually a bit of a loophole that like none of the nobles go to hell or whatever. We don't, there's not like- The real easy shorthand Lucy is that
Starting point is 00:17:41 Protestants are allowed to talk to God themselves and Catholics have to go and talk to a guy who then talks to God for you. Jesus Christ. Yeah, they got a guy in the room with the good connection. Yeah, you gotta go to a special building and talk to a guy who says, I'll ask him. This feels like listening to Kingdom Hearts lore.
Starting point is 00:18:02 Well, no, if that was the case, you'd be very familiar with it. The seminarian is then told that quote, having already shown your bravery, the ritual can be completed with bear blood. The bear blood? You got to kill the bear? The blood of a bear. As quote, grizzly bear blood is poured on his hand, the seminarian is told quote, there is no going back and is asked to make the most guttural scream you can possibly make
Starting point is 00:18:32 to show commitment to this tradition for the benefit of the others waiting to be initiated. Yeah. Oh, that's so good. Oh, it hurts. Oh, if I've got one criticism of this whole thing. Just one. Just one, keep it consistent. You've got a guy there in a Yeti costume
Starting point is 00:18:52 and you're gonna pour grizzly bear blood on the guy. What's his role? Yeah, you're taking it in a whole different direction. At least say it's Yeti blood. Like if you're talking about some wild, hairy thing, you've got a wild, hairy guy right here. You don't need to mix it up. Where the fuck are you getting grizzly bear blood Like if you're talking about some wild, hairy thing, you've got a wild, hairy guy right here. You don't need to mix it up.
Starting point is 00:19:06 Where the fuck are you getting Grizzly Bear blood from on Mount Butt? Or is he meant to just look like he's a guy in a Yeti suit? I don't think he's like adult people in the school are meant to be like, oh shit dog, that's the real Yeti. Then why is he in the costume? I don't know, pageantry? I hope it's like a furry suit. I think you'll find a lot of these guys have a bit of a flair for the dramatic.
Starting point is 00:19:30 So aren't grizzlies a protected species as well? I think so. I mean, nothing's protected if you're in the Brotherhood, right? Well, that's true. If you're in the Brotherhood of the Yeti, rules don't apply to you. Kill however many endangered animals you want. After he screams, Father Napiel and the Yeti figure shake the seminarian's head, and he is told to go out there and make sure the other guys see you with the blood,
Starting point is 00:19:55 but you don't tell them what's going on. So when you walk out there, hold your arm and go, Owie. Owie. Owie. Owie. Owie. Owie.
Starting point is 00:20:01 Owie. And remember- And there's a Yeti in there too. By the way, the Yeti is real and he's in there and he's in Colorado. That's where the Yeti's from. Hey, don't be scared. You could just suck off the Yeti. They don't tell you that until the end.
Starting point is 00:20:19 Oh yeah. They're going to ask you to cut your arm, but you can get out of it if you want to suck off the Yeti. Yeah. You can just short circuit that whole thing by walking in there and saying, who's dick do I have to suck to get into the brotherhood of the Yeti? And is it the Yeti? Find the biggest guy in there, which is the Yeti. Suck him off.
Starting point is 00:20:40 Prove you ain't no punk. Make that Yeti come as quickly as possible. Prove you ain't no punk. Make that Yeti cum as quickly as possible. Other images seen by the pillar show seminarians seated on a sofa with their mouths taped closed. The pillar has decided not to publish the video or the images of the seminarians involved out of respect for their privacy. Good call.
Starting point is 00:21:00 I'd watch that shit though. Like, if that's online, I'm watching it. If this was like 20 years ago, someone would have edited it down to get rid of the context and then passed it around as like a, this is a real snub. Yeah, everyone would tell him that it was real. Yeah, like the Vatican tried to have destroyed. Nappeale offered further context for the trip, the video and the strange images it contained say that the idea of this prank came from the man hosting the seminarians and the seminary
Starting point is 00:21:28 staff on the ski trip, whom he confirmed was the person in the Yeti costume. Hey, you know what you've bought a Yeti costume? You feel like you're not, you're not getting your money's worth out of it. I've only got one Halloween out of this. What am I going to do? I can't be the Yeti every year. Brotherhood of the Yeti? Is that anything? Who's the prank on? Like who's laughing? The seminarians.
Starting point is 00:21:51 But is it on all of them? Is it just one guy eating on the joke? I think afterwards the camaraderie of having gone through this will bring them so close as seminarians. As always we must ask ourselves the question, qui boner? Yeah, qui boner. Who's getting hard off this? That's nice, yeah, okay, that's good. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:09 Yeah, okay, that's good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Quote, this Catholic man is well known in the town and is regularly asked to appear at events
Starting point is 00:22:20 in this costume, Nappeal said. What? What? So he's kind of a character. He's like a local known Catholic yeti? Yo, the Catholic yeti's here. Every town's got like a guy, right? It's like, that's just the Catholic yeti.
Starting point is 00:22:36 Oh, that's a local Catholic yeti. Quote, he's done this specific prank many times with family, friends, and other guests who stay at his ski cabin. So, hold on a second. So it's less about the church and more about the cabin? Yeah, it's the cabin, brotherhood of the Eddie. He just does this prank on everyone. Oh, that's great actually.
Starting point is 00:23:00 Oh, sorry. I didn't know that the church would frown upon it. It's just a thing I do with literally anyone that I take to my cabin. So it's like an escape room, but for like hazing. Whatever, just book your trip there. Another thing about this that I also tripped out of the article is that someone was, this was being investigated under Colorado's anti-hazing laws because someone said that it was sort of suggesting that it constituted hazing, which is legal. It ended up getting dismissed under those things. But because America has such a fucking horrible culture of like kids dying in
Starting point is 00:23:39 like college hazing things and military hazing things. Yeah. Doing like super traumatic things to each other. Or just getting like, I guess, strapped to a tree in the freezing Colorado weather, maybe like. Fucked by a Yeti. Yeah. Fucked by a Yeti.
Starting point is 00:23:56 At no time was there any risk of physical harm, but in hindsight, and even though the host wanted to do this, it should never have happened. You know what it is? He's just like conflict avoided. The guy's like, I'm going to get my Yeti costume. Let's get them. We're going to Yeti them. Let's Yeti them boys.
Starting point is 00:24:11 And he didn't want to be like, I don't think we should Yeti them. He was like, oh, I don't know if there'd really be that into that. Yetiing is kind of like not, it's not like a Bible thing. You know, sometimes when you try a, uh, maybe with someone and they don't, it doesn't land with them and they keep going. Maybe that's what happened. He went, that'd be funny. But in the way where you're not going to do it.
Starting point is 00:24:35 Yeah. And the other guy's like, you're right. It would be funny. Let's fucking do it. That's why we're doing it. It's going to be fucking hilarious. Cutting a hole in the head of costume. Let's go.
Starting point is 00:24:46 Yeah. It's saying to you, no, Cutting a hole in the head of costume. Let's go. Yeah. It's saying to you, no, we should stop. No stop. And you're like, yeah, that's good. That's good. Keep going with it. It's going to scare him. It's going to scare him.
Starting point is 00:24:53 And it's making me a little hard. Keep going. After months of rumors circulating about the trip of the blood oath, some of those concerns raised the issue directly with Archbishop Samuel Aquila in November. The Archbishop, the pillar is confirmed, ordered a canonical preliminary investigation into the situation undertaken by the then Archdiocesan vicar for clergy, Father Angel Perez Lopez, with Father Napiel stepping back from his roles at the seminary as it progressed.
Starting point is 00:25:27 So this is moving up the ranks. As it would. Conclave-y. You don't want that. The following month, the investigation returned a finding that no canonical delict had been committed. Hmm. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:41 Yep. And what's that? Anyone want to? You know. Nobody got to- Hmm. Yeah. Yep. And what's that? Anyone wanna? You know, probably are. They got so many like fuckers rules and like orders and like pronouncements and stuff that they'll do where they're like, oh, because of the delictio of 1770. I can't believe they're taking this shit seriously.
Starting point is 00:25:58 Like you're talking like you're in a fantasy novel. Yes. Which must feel awesome. I bet it's so fun. Yeah, absolutely. You would be doing this all the time if you had the option, right? I think if I was going to be religious, I'd go Catholic. Yeah, I can see that. I was like, I'm going to have fun with it.
Starting point is 00:26:12 This podcast starts tanking, start getting into Catholicism, start making edgier jokes, become ironically right wing. Yeah, ironically at the start. Yeah. Yeah. Just as a joke. Ironically right wing. Yeah, ironically at the start. Yeah, just as a joke.
Starting point is 00:26:26 In a December 2024 email announcing the conclusion of the investigation seen by the pillar, Father Perez says that he is happy to announce that the preliminary investigation concerning Father John Appeal has concluded, quote, we found no crime has been committed, the priest reported to the seminary community. And this is, this is 10 months after the event, right? Wait, no, further than that, it was January when this happened. Took them until December to wrap this investigation up. Paperwork, takes a long time.
Starting point is 00:26:54 Quote, we found no crime has been committed. The priest reported to the seminary community. Father John will resume his responsibilities as professor at the seminary. He will also continue with his administrative responsibilities as vice rector. However, he will temporarily step away from his role as house father and formator at St. Joseph's parish house. That is so many things, dude. What is your job? So many jobs. What do you do? That is so many-
Starting point is 00:27:14 What's your job, though? What do you do all day? I bet it's still emails. Yeah, it's got to be emails, but they're on Catholic net. The priests must send emails now. I think these days priests do send emails. Can you email your priest and be like, I'm having a crisis of morality or whatever? 100% can. You can email.
Starting point is 00:27:34 Yeah. They, that's like how they get stuff now. Yeah. And he replies and says, type 50 Hail Mary's, you know? I would have crushed it 25 years ago. No copy pasting. God watching, no copy pasting. I'm kind of upset though that at this point maybe it'll come up for the end of the article they don't say whether or not he got told that he has to get rid of the Yeti suit. Well it's not his Yeti suit No, that's just some guy's Yeti suit.
Starting point is 00:28:06 So it's just a Catholic friend, the Yeti suit of a Catholic friend. However, he will temporarily step away from his Rolls house. Father, I ask for the good of all of you not to discuss this matter among yourselves or with others, the email concluded. Yeah you've got to try don't you.
Starting point is 00:28:26 Tell everyone. Come on. Don't tell anyone. That's all they're going to be talking about. Stop talking about this. Stop sending the video around, Countess, talking about it. Oh yeah. Well you're not allowed to share the video because the same reason I think.
Starting point is 00:28:40 Like, knock it off. Yeah. Hey everyone, show's over, fun's over. We had our fun. You had your little jokes about the videos. You sent it, you put it on Lotus Notes or whatever. Now it's time to move on. Let's get back to building our relationship with God.
Starting point is 00:28:57 Okay. The official response to the events was rendered more confusing, according to local priests and seminary students, because the archdiocesan exorcist was called in by the archbishop to address the affair. They called him the exorcist? Hey, they called him the Pope's exorcist? The Pope's exorcist. The Pope's exorcist.
Starting point is 00:29:15 Little moped winding up those windy Colorado roads. He's on a little snowplow. Quote, all the seminarians involved were to meet with the exorcist who prayed over them and they make a formal renunciation of this blood oath that they had made. One priest familiar with the events told the pillar. What is an exorcist job? Is the exorcism like a rare thing and like most of his day to day job is just dealing with shit like this. Or this is just like maybe like a safety accessism where they go like, oh, you know, rub their
Starting point is 00:29:50 hands over you a couple of times just to make sure you've, if you've got any, any like ghost or ghoulie traces. Yes. Sort of flushed out. I don't think they're calling him in for like some full on Constantine stuff. No. They're not, he's not there, you know, putting demons in the mirrors or whatever. This would be the bulk of the job though, wouldn't it?
Starting point is 00:30:09 Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. House visits. Yeah, just house visits. Nine to five, pay the bills. Prophylactic. God, you'd love a real exorcism. You'd love a real demon.
Starting point is 00:30:16 Yeah. I just want, uh, I just want a baby crawling on the ceiling. Just once. One time. Widen this old show up. Like you go into the job because you think you're going to see a baby crawling on the ceiling. Just once. One time. While I'm in this old show up. Like you're going to the job because you think you're going to see a baby crawling on the ceiling, but it's like 1% of guys are going to see that, right?
Starting point is 00:30:31 Most of them are just like normal babies going wah-wah. And you're like, hey lady, that's just what babies do. Yeah. I think your baby's got diarrhea. Yeah. Yeah. I'm really sorry. Your baby is just annoying.
Starting point is 00:30:44 And then paperwork. I think a lot of it would just be like you go into old folks' homes where an old Catholic person accidentally watched bedazzled and became attracted to Liz Hurley. It was like, just as a precautionary measure, can you kind of get whatever's in my system out of me? Am I communing with the devil by thinking about this too much? Another priest confirming the meetings with the exorcist said that, quote, there was nothing explicitly occult or what have you in the ceremony, which looked pretty ridiculous to
Starting point is 00:31:16 me in the video, but the significance of a blood oath is what it is, even if it's supposed to be kind of a joke. I actually think this is dancing with the occult. You can't just wave it away and be like, oh we were doing it as a gag You were dancing with the devil you were doing blood magic. Yes. You were committing to a Yeti It's gotta have been kind of fun. I do really enjoy the sentence occult or what have you. Yeah, that's a nice catch-all Yeah, occult or like any of that stuff. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:31:46 Just things of that nature. The archdiocese confirmed to the pillar in its statement that the investigation had included quote, a proactive consultation with an exorcist out of an abundance of caution due to potential spiritual harm from such oaths. This is awesome. Like the mon-Catholic, just, it's so good. There's a guy you call up, be like, ah, they might be spiritually infected. I don't fucking think so, but just for compliance. I love that this is real.
Starting point is 00:32:13 Like I love a Catholic horror movie. I love this shit. I think it's a busy work for the exorcist. The exorcist needs something to do because like we said, I just don't believe that there are enough like genuine demonic possessions to fill a nine to five. I feel like you'd hear about them. Yeah. I feel like you wouldn't hear about them because the church would keep that shit locked down. But not enough right clearly because of this. This shows. Church is a leaky boat. Yeah A lot of ship, a lot of holes.
Starting point is 00:32:45 The pillar has confirmed that the images were forwarded to the Apostolic Nunciature in Washington, DC on at least two separate occasions, though it is not clear if or to which Vatican dicastery the matter was passed on by the Nuncio. Oh, this landed on a desk in DC? Well, if it landed on a desk in DC, you know what I'm thinking? Yeah. The Pope saw this. The Pope saw this.
Starting point is 00:33:07 I don't know if it was Pope Leo, might have been the other guy, but for fucking sure, the Pope, this came across the Pope's desk. If it got to like the big wigs in Washington, the top of the American Catholicism pyramid, it's getting forwarded to the Pope. There's like a weedy looking father, like mid level, mid level dude. He's got a big dossier under his arm. He's walking down long echoey hallways, opens a large ornate wooden door. Oh father, I think we've got a problem.
Starting point is 00:33:40 Slaps the dossier down. The other man behind the desk opens the dossier, reads it, tries to hide his concerns. No, this, this is nothing. Leave this with me. Like he's George Bush at 9-11? The second man picks up the dossier, walks downstairs to majestic 12. Holy shit. Gentlemen, and the genderless alien from the Pleiades, they're on to us. They've cracked
Starting point is 00:34:15 the Brotherhood of the Yeti. Who told them it was about blood magic? Can you imagine knowing how high up the church this went if you were the guy who just couldn't say no to a friend suggesting the Yeti prank? You'd feel like the silliest priest in Colorado. What if you got pranked? What if you were one of the pranked guys? Oh my god, everyone knows because they saw the fucking video because it was getting passed around. They saw the video of you going to do your blood oath. Oh my God. You're like going to do someone's last rites and the other priest with you was like,
Starting point is 00:34:50 dude, you fucking thought the Yeti was real. You're so stupid. Just noticing people like giggling. He thought the Yeti was real. He sucked the Yeti off. He sucked off the Yeti guy. He thought he had to to join the Brotherhood of the Yeti. Guys, you just gotta do what the vice rector of the seminary says, okay? I didn't think the Yeti was real. I could see his boner and it was a different color to the rest of him. There was clearly a hole cut in the suit to allow access to his balls.
Starting point is 00:35:20 I could see just the tops of his thighs. His fur was yellow, but the member was pink. So, you know, you can tell. I instantly clocked that the Yeti wasn't real, but yeah, you know, kind of got to do what you got to do. Office politics. Hey, if you were captioned in that video and everyone you knew had circulated amongst themselves, you'd probably wish you were dead.
Starting point is 00:35:43 We talk about some people that have died in very tragic circumstances in the Ripping Report. I'm itching for another edition of the Ripping Report. These are actually from like the last month month because I haven't seen that many tragic deaths, which is, they probably all smell real bad by now. Yeah. Woo! Tragic deaths are down.
Starting point is 00:36:13 Way down. A 71 year old Louisiana man died after his 16 foot boat struck a submerged object, ejecting him from the boat before looping back and hitting him, killing him. Oh, he got final destination. You got aftertouched by your boat. So like. He smashed a boat on a rock and you got aftertouched.
Starting point is 00:36:36 That's not good. In mid air. That's rough. That's what I got hit in the head by my own jet ski. No, jet ski, my own water ski one time. Oh, that's very unfortunate. I did a rookie water skiing move where like, you're meant to keep your arms like fully out, you know,
Starting point is 00:36:54 like elbows locked kind of thing so that it's just, it's just pulling straight to your shoulders kind of deal. But as I'm going along, I've started like pulling, pulling the handle like in the handle towards myself. And then I kind of relaxed a bit and it just yanked me straightforward, straight out of the skis, dragged me for a bit. And I went, and then I came up out of the water and went, oh, I'm okay. And one of my skis that was still sailing along, clocked me directly in the back of
Starting point is 00:37:23 their head. That's amazing. Life is so stupid. Did you laugh about it later? Hell, I'm laughing about it right now. A man in Jones, Oklahoma died after being attacked by a water buffalo that he had purchased a day earlier. Just goes to show you, you can't own a water buffalo. It can own you though.
Starting point is 00:37:46 Yep. That's why they say that. That's what the saying is for. Yep. Water buffalo cannot be tamed by one such as you. Good catchall, just aphorism to drop whenever. Yeah. Life divorces you, buffalo.
Starting point is 00:38:02 Can't own a water buffalo. Hey, do yourself a favor. Sorry, did this man die? Is he dead? Yeah. Yeah. He's water buffalo to death. Do yourself a favor and just Google water buffalo and then think to yourself, do I think, do I think I would want to just like tangle with one of them at all? You know? Yeah. Americans are so fucking stupid. There are a few beasts I would like to tangle with. And like...
Starting point is 00:38:33 Wisdom. They're big. Tell us right now. They're mostly just large hairy men, am I right ladies? Yes. Finally, a man hiking in Northern Greece to find an easier path to a recently discovered crashed World War II era warplane died from a bear attack after the bear
Starting point is 00:38:53 pushed him down an 800 meter ravine. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh no, you got Red Dead Redemption 2? Like real fucking hard. Oh, he was like, hey. Hit by the bear, immediately ragdolling. No, you got Red Dead Redemption to real fucking hard Hit by the bear immediately ragdolling. Yeah Like Homer Simpson
Starting point is 00:39:15 Man you know that he was just like he just caught sight of the plane Wow Fallen down a ravines gotta be one of the worst ways to go. Cause it's like you'd be embarrassed while it was happening too. Yeah. If anyone could see this, Oh, I wish I was dead. I think, yeah, I think you'd be, be different to like say falling off a building where you'd be aware of what was happening and be very scared and then like lights out. I think Ravine, you got a good chance of copying a gang of hits before you actually die.
Starting point is 00:39:55 Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Busted up real good. Plus, first thing, bear attack. Just being attacked by a bear. You're like, oh geez That sucked but as long as I land softly and sprightly Yep, I think I'm gonna walk away from this one now that I'm free falling
Starting point is 00:40:16 Looking up from here I'm no longer in a revenant situation So, you know, it's got to improve. Yeah. Crunch, crunch. You know what probably better than the bear attack on balance. Yeah oh yeah I'd take Ravine over bear any day. Something that bums me out quite a lot whenever I think about it and hopefully some of you will get bummed out too. It's thinking about people that have died in circumstances that they would be completely unable to make sense of in the moments before their death. Like, obviously it doesn't matter really in the grand scheme of things, if you
Starting point is 00:40:54 don't believe in an afterlife, because all those thoughts memories will be gone anyway, but if you have like 10 seconds to make sense of what just happened to you, no time to make closure with your life or to reflect back on things or whatever. I think a lot about, we did a woman on the Ripping Report years ago who was standing in the kitchen of her very old house and she fell through the floorboards and beneath the floorboards was a very old well and she just got to the bottom of the well and died. For her final thoughts were just like, you would have no way of like rationalizing any of it. You just like, you're dead.
Starting point is 00:41:34 That's the end of your life. You know, that's a, I dunno, it bums me the fuck out, but this one, you've got so much to try and make sense of. You're just like, ah, bear, ravine, ah, gone. And then what? I hate my last thoughts to be a popular catchphrase from Roav McManus, you know? Yeah, that would be a huge downer. It'd be ironic if Roav McManus' last thoughts were what the? Wouldn't that be twistedly comedic if that was the end of Rofus McBadis' life?
Starting point is 00:42:09 What the? What the hell? To balance those out, I do have a miracle survival. Okay. Boo! Boo! Boo! A nine-year-old boy in Minnesota is completely recovered from what I can tell after tripping
Starting point is 00:42:30 over while carrying a bow and arrow and sending an arrow almost all of the way through his skull exactly through the middle of his brain. Oh no! Oh my god. And like he was still like moving around and stuff after it happened. They're like, oh, it's not that bad. And then they realized that the arrow was in there. Yeah. They thought it was one of those trick arrows. Yeah. They thought it was one of those classic prank ones. Yeah. Yeah. Grabbing a hold of it and immediately going, oh no.
Starting point is 00:43:00 Trying to lift the arrow off. The whole boy comes with it. Trying to lift the arrow off. The whole boy comes with it. Ahhhhhhh! Oh, that's much worse. Why was he playing with that? Oh, you know, bring the kid stuff. Bow and arrow? Bow and arrow?
Starting point is 00:43:16 That's the dream toy for a child. Yeah, I guess so. I made so many shitty bow and arrows, it didn't really work. It was awesome. So cool. Yeah, I've helped my kids with some of them and mine work better than theirs. Take that children. Nice. Hey, I bet if something like that happened to you, you might maybe get your hands shaken by the mayor. We talk about mayors in Mayor Watch.
Starting point is 00:43:50 This comes from East Idaho News. Mayor arrested for allegedly threatening city council with gun during meeting. Well, just trying to make a point. Classic mayor stuff. That's mayor stuff. Yeah. Trying to make a point. The point was, look at this gun. Yeah. Listen to me. I'm the mayor. Yeah. Trying to make a point. The point was, look at this gun. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:06 Listen to me. I'm the mayor. Yeah. Remember in Lord of the Fry, Lord of the Fries, Lord of the Flies when they have the conch shell. The delicious vegan burgers. I remember them. Think of this as the conch shell of this meeting.
Starting point is 00:44:18 The gun I'm pointing at you. Yeah. This is my yarn stick. I'm the one talking. I'm talking right now. If I'm pointing the gun, maybe it's a good time to stop and listen. You know? Yeah, it's good. If anybody raises their voice, just turn the gun towards them and they'll get really fast. I'm still talking. I'm still talking. I'm still talking. A local
Starting point is 00:44:41 mayor was arrested Friday after the city council said he became quote, enraged and threatened them with a gun during a regular meeting. I would say that sounds irregular. I love mayors because like when they get to like the, you know, the Congress, um, Congress person kind of level or whatever, you know, national level, like there's like so much vetting going on and it's only like the weird, like the, the most boring monsters that get there. Right. Like the ones that like completely dead inside evil people, but they plopped out
Starting point is 00:45:19 of an egg at Deloitte. Why are they all freaks? But mares, they're just giving them the taste of power. Yeah, mayors can be a local cook, you know? They can really be a local cook. They can be a Darren Lyons. Darren Lyons. Absolutely. I was just thinking.
Starting point is 00:45:37 Picturing the man with the fake abs and the mohawk. It becomes powerful. You can be a mayor of like an incorporated town that has like a hundred people in it. And everyone else is just like, oh, god, no, I don't want to be a mayor of like an incorporated town that has like a hundred people in it. And everyone else is just like, oh God, no, I don't want to be fucking mayor. No. And then you, the craziest person in town, like, oh, daddy would like a little taste of power. I'll be mayor of Shitsville Utah.
Starting point is 00:45:57 Aw, you guys should look up the Launceston mayor if you want to just, just look, I want you guys to just look up the Launceston mayor and get a you want to just look, I want you guys to just look up Launceston and get a picture of him. Matthew Garwood. I'm looking at this man. I don't know anything about his politics. I don't know anything about his personal life. I don't know what he's done with Launceston.
Starting point is 00:46:18 I don't know anything about him. He does look like, you know how sometimes you know people in the tattooing community and they start sharing posts about one particular tattoo artist who's been sexually inappropriate with female clients? Yes, that's exactly it. So Matthew Garwood, they've got an emo mare. He's got neck tattoos. Like a scene mare.
Starting point is 00:46:37 Yeah. He posted a picture recently with, I don't know if you guys are familiar with Ronnie Radke. Yep. I understand the with, I don't know if you guys are familiar with Ronnie Radke. Yep. I understand the concept, I think. Yeah. Just a horrific, horrific person from Escape the Faithful Universe. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:55 And everyone got really, really mad at the Mirror of Launceston after that. Good. You know when you see like a guy that was in hardcore bands in his 20s, but then there's a specific look to those guys when they get into their like late 30s, early 40s. Yeah, it's like a really specific look. They try to like clean up their look by like getting like a good clean haircut. They've got like a clean haircut, but they've got the neck tattoos. Makes you look more insane.
Starting point is 00:47:21 It's so bad. You just look like such a fucking potential creep. I'm sure he's a nice guy though. Don't know anything about him again. Oh, I don't think that he is. So it's fine. Okay. Right in to let me know whether or not I should make unfounded
Starting point is 00:47:35 accusations about this man and sexual impropriety. Hey, this guy looks like a sexual creep. Yeah. You're a sex offender, maybe based on me looking at you right now in your meral robes. It happened in Butte City, which is a community of fewer than 80 people according to national census data. Butte City is several.
Starting point is 00:47:55 I believe that's unrelated to crested Butte from the previous story. Different Butte. This is a Butte heavy episode. There are Buttes everywhere for those with eyes to see. Particularly in that part of the country. Just because of rock formations and stuff. Oh, that's Butte country out there? It's Butte country, yeah. It happened in Butte city does sound like the name of like a 1950s drama,
Starting point is 00:48:19 Noir-ish movie. Or a song by the Mountain Goats. That guy's voice is so annoying. Right up here. Calm down. Show your child if it's no, that's that's the one that's going to get us taken out. He's a really lovely guy.
Starting point is 00:48:47 Very funny by all accounts. Seems like very intelligent. Just shrill. Shrill little voice. We've got to start weaponizing shrill against men. Yeah. Mayor Kevin Turner, 63, is charged with misdemeanor, exhibition or use of a deadly firearm. A deadly weapon, sorry.
Starting point is 00:49:08 Interesting you lump it in exhibition and use. Hmm. I would separate those two. Well, I would call the use like firing the gun personally. Because otherwise it's all showing, you know? Yeah. I guess. Court documents state Butte County Sheriff's deputies were called to the Butte City Council meeting at 2731 8th Street in Butte City on Thursday.
Starting point is 00:49:38 There were like 80 people living there. How come the address could get so high? How many streets can you possibly have and how are the numbers that big? You don't need to number them if there's only eight streets. You can just call them like Beaver Street. You've got 60 homes. Kroochi Street, Beaver Street. Yeah. Well, you just name them after trees.
Starting point is 00:49:58 Ash, Puffler. Elm Street, Ash Street. Classics. Just do the classics. Here's a tip. You could have less numbers. You could have less numbers. Well, just name them after trees. Ash, poplar. Elm Strait. Elm Strait. Classics.
Starting point is 00:50:06 Just do the classics. Light of Hits. Snapele Street. You could have less numbers if you had more than eight streets. Yes. Eight really long streets. Police were called after a report that multiple people were being threatened by the mayor, Kevin Turner, with a firearm.
Starting point is 00:50:23 Well, you've only got one mayor. So if you're calling the Butte City Police Department, you just have to say the mayor. You don't have to specify who the mayor is. Oh, we're being threatened by a mayor. I think it's more... Is this an out-town or a local mayor? There's a mayor threatening me? I think I'm being attacked by a mayor.
Starting point is 00:50:44 I'm picturing the mayor standing in the center of a circle of people spinning around with the gun and Olden going, oh he's doing it like Mayor Queen B style. Enraged mayor on Elm Street. And the police, the police arrive, who do they work for? Yeah, who do they work for? Who do they report to? Who do they report to? Where do your loyalties lie? Are you telling me that they're not there to protect the people?
Starting point is 00:51:07 Yeah, and also, what is a mayor? I am the people. That's what he's saying. Protect and serve whom? Protect and serve what? You shouldn't have voted for me if you didn't want me to point a gun at you. You know? That was on the poster.
Starting point is 00:51:21 It was one of my platforms. It was a campaign promise. I will brandish my firearm. Very tech savvy picture. on the poster. It was one of my platforms. It was a campaign promise. I will brandish my firearm. Very text savvy picture. No, I think in the photo he was just pointing both of his guns at the ground, levitating like Yosemite Sam.
Starting point is 00:51:34 Both of his guns? You know? I'm imagining he owns more than one. Come on. If you've got one that you take in for the office, he's probably got other like pleasure guns. If you have one gun, you have at least two guns. Yeah. Yeah. Cause you're not going to stop at one. If you're getting into marrying, you're going to have two guns, I think.
Starting point is 00:51:50 Yes. If you're about to become a mayor, buy two firearms, one for you and one so you can have a second one. Well, like what happens if, uh, what happens if something goes wrong with your gun and you got to take it into the shop? You want to be gunless for a week? Yeah. You want to be gunless for a week? Yeah. Hmm. You want to be gunless at the town hall meeting?
Starting point is 00:52:08 How are you going to get anything done? I think they give you a courtesy gun if it's going to be in the shop for that long generally. How are you going to resolve any conflicts if you don't have your mayor's gun? Around 7.20pm, deputies arrived and spoke to a group of people outside the building who said that Turner was inside and had threatened them with a gun. Deputies talked to Turner, who confirmed he was armed, but denied that he had been waving a gun around. I got a gun.
Starting point is 00:52:32 I thought this was America. Oh, this? Turner was then checked for weapons and asked if he had pulled a gun out. Turner allegedly replied that he had quote, got it out and used his firearm as a gavel to bang on the table. That's even worse. That's cool then. That's somehow more threatening.
Starting point is 00:52:50 I am the law. That's a clipping reply. He tries to his chamber, gets the gun to turn the switch on. Leaving the chamber, shooting out the light bulbs. Yeah, it is somehow more threatening to have a gun used irresponsibly I think. Don't like don't slam it on the table. Yeah. Don't slam it on the table, don't twirl it while we're talking. Don't twirl it on your index finger while we're talking about motions, sir. According to police
Starting point is 00:53:21 reports, deputies say it was later clarified that Turner never took the gun out of the holster and that he quote Held the barrel while banging the mag wall against the table. It's not good It's not good to do sir. Yeah. Look if it was gonna go off it would have just shot me in the heart Yeah, so what's the problem? Turner told deputies he did this while firing city councilman Stephen Avery. Deputies then secured Turner's gun, a loaded High Point 45 ACP Model JHP. Nine people who attended the meeting, some of whom may be city council members, provided
Starting point is 00:53:57 deputies with written statements. These witnesses said they, quote, took Kevin's actions to be threatening and feared for their safety. Court documents also say that deputies attained a copy of the audio from the council meeting. According to court documents in the audio, Turner can be heard, quote, angrily yelling at councilman Stephen Avery and another man and a woman alongside loud banging. Well, we've explained that, so. It appears that once they criticize Mayor Turner, that he becomes
Starting point is 00:54:26 enraged and ejects Stephen Avery and another man and a woman says court documents quote, it appears that Erica Turner asked Kevin to calm down and warily yells, Kevin, where the firearm is introduced. Kev, come on, mate. Kev. You know, he's done this before. Yeah. You know he's done this before. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:44 Well, it'd be kind of worse if when he pulls it out, everybody goes, oh, all right. Police reports, police reports say at the end of the confrontation, Turner can be heard saying I can do whatever I want to do. I'm the mayor. Yes. Yes. I knew it. He's got mayor madness. He's got mayor do. I'm the mayor. I knew it.
Starting point is 00:55:07 He's got mayor madness. He's got mayor friends. He's got mayor madness. That's officially the most mayor coded thing you can say. He's getting reelected. Everyone who has become a mayor believes this so deeply in their heart of hearts. Because you're the king of your town. That's what it is. They put the silly robe and the little hat and the scepter.
Starting point is 00:55:25 I think I might be picking that up. I think some of them have a scepter, maybe. There's a scepter? When I was elected and you gave me my mayoral regalia, my understanding was that I became the living god-king of this town. And nobody disputed that. Including when I pointed my gun and everyone in the council meeting. East IdahoNews.com has contacted the Butte County clerk, the Butte County Sheriff's Office,
Starting point is 00:55:53 the Butte County Prosecutor's Office, the City of Arco, and the City of Butte City for a copy of the city council meeting audio, which is a public record, but we have not been able to find anyone who has it or who can share it. God damn it. I want to play it. I want to hear it so fucking bad. I want to hear him say I'm the mayor. Can I just complain for one second about the city of Butte City? Come on. Yes. Relax. Save some words for the rest of us, you know. City of Butte. The current listed phone number for the city of Butte has been disconnected and we have not been able to reach them. I did that quickly.
Starting point is 00:56:30 Disconnected the phone? Yeah, do you mean? Yeah, take that thing off the hook. Yeah. Not like that they called up the telephone company and said cut it, cut the wire, snip it. We're not gonna need it. I prefer to imagine the mayor going around the, the outside of the town, shooting out all the phone lines.
Starting point is 00:56:51 That's enough of that. Don't need that video getting out. How do I shoot those email wires? According to sources at the city of Arco, Turner's wife, Erica Lang Turner is the current acting clerk of Butte City. So, um, I'm getting an answer from her. Huh?
Starting point is 00:57:11 Interesting. During the interview with deputies the next day, Turner claimed he was quote acting as the mayor to keep order in the meeting. Yeah, that's amazing. Somebody's got to control the rodeo that I assume is a city council meeting. Yes. Oh my God. It gets crazy in there.
Starting point is 00:57:27 Tempers are flaring, big personalities, passionate people, passionate about ordinances. Somebody's got to take charge. Yeah. In the interview Turner reportedly claimed it is quote, not normal for him to bring firearms to city council meetings, but stated the man's conduct was getting out of line, that he was standing and moving towards him. I love that it's not like I never bring my gun to the city council meeting. It's like, not every time.
Starting point is 00:57:54 Mostly don't. Mostly. Three or four times a week. Like I did it for a good reason, obviously. Well, that sentence does make it sound like he's justifying it in advance. Yeah. It's like, well, I wouldn't normally bring it, but he came towards me. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:10 I had my gun here anyway, so. Yeah. Thus validating my decision to bring the gun. Sorry. I've just brought up Boot City on Google Maps. There are not eight streets. There are, there appears to be two streets or maybe three. It starts at seventh street.
Starting point is 00:58:29 And then you've got eighth street and it's like two blocks. So wouldn't the whole town be at this council meeting? Yeah. And then this is all coming off of, and this is Americans as such, children, the, the Medal of Honor Highway. What? Oh man.
Starting point is 00:58:50 What's next? The freaking Call of Duty Highway? Hey, you guys want to see what the mayor looks like? Of course. Yes. There he is. There he is in the chat. Mark, can we bring that up on screen? Bring it up. Yeah, that's the average American Facebook profile picture. Oh my god
Starting point is 00:59:15 Yeah, he's got a camo camo shirt on like a long-sleeve like looks like Lana del Rey's husband Exactly warrior than I thought he was going to be. Are you expecting a little more mean on the mayor? Yeah. He looks good. I mean this guy looks good for a 63 year old, you know. Looks a bit like. I don't think I'd get the draw on that mayor. No, the mayor would have the... I think the mare would have the drop on you. He would have the drop on me 100%. Looks like a retired professional wrestler. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:51 He's got some traps. He's obviously working out. He's probably on the HGH. You know, he's doing some... The vocal cord's completely blasted. He's talking like RFK. He's doing... He could be an operator.
Starting point is 01:00:01 I'm just looking at it. He could be an operator. He's doing roids and a lot of pre-workout and not working out at all using his gun as a fidget spinner, you know? Yes, yeah. But he's the mayor, you gotta respect it. Yeah. He can do what he wants.
Starting point is 01:00:17 He can do what he wants, he's the mayor. Do what he wants till the end of his term. Turner claimed he was, quote, "'Starting to feel threatened by the man's actions. So that's, what's his story here? No, I was just banging to get everyone's attention. And also because the guy I just fired was coming at me. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:34 Come on, pick your stick to a story. Also not an equivalence. Guy walking towards you doesn't equal gun. I know that's an impossible concept for a lot of these people to understand. Not everything is gun automatically. I feel like there's a few steps you could try before equal gun. I know that's an impossible concept for a lot of these people to understand. Not everything is gun automatically. I feel like there's a few steps you could try before a gun. So few things need to be gun.
Starting point is 01:00:51 Even just hand to hand combat is probably a lot lower down the list. What about a little CQC? What about... what? Close quarters combat? Close quarters combat, Ben. Sorry, I thought I didn't need to say that. Well, don't you guys look fucking silly because Idaho currently supports a stand your ground principle.
Starting point is 01:01:13 If he's coming right at you, you can point a gun at him legally, actually. And you probably have to. You could just start with just saying, step off, man. Yeah, try step off. What's your fucking problem, bro? What's your malfunction, dude? Step off. Quit jiving me, Turkey.
Starting point is 01:01:30 Yeah. You stepping to me? Are you currently stepping to me, sir? You bite your thumb at me? I think fucking drawing your gun is pussy behavior and you should be doing rebel ridge stuff. Make them look foolish. Oh, where's your gun?
Starting point is 01:01:51 Rebrand like at like the Coward Punch. It's like that is pussy behavior. Get your fists out. Yes. But do it without hitting them. Do some Bruce Lee, do some fucking drunken master shit though. That's Jackie Chan. Do some Ip Man stuff.
Starting point is 01:02:05 Yeah, let them hit around you. Here's how we're rebranding, it's pussy shit to get out your gun. Have you tried redirecting their Chi? Have you tried using their momentum against them? You know? Their Chi's stupid in the first place as well. So you can probably step around it. You got the dud Chi.
Starting point is 01:02:22 That? Just start by saying... That's why I'm firing you. Start by saying, That's your chi? Oh. Oh, that's your chi, bro? Oh, something in here smells like shit. Is it your chi?
Starting point is 01:02:35 That's your fucking chi? That explains so much, man. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Man, someone's aura in here looks like piss. Aura look like a fam. Got a yellow and brown aura, homie. This guy's got a brown aura. Your soul glow looks fucking disgusting. Get out of here.
Starting point is 01:03:00 According to the Butte County Prosecutor's Office, Turner was arrested on Friday and released on Monday. The bond amount is not clear. Turner appeared for an arraignment on Monday and further court hearings have not been scheduled. If convicted, Turner could face up to six months in county jail and a $500 fine. It's not going to happen because he's the mayor. He's getting off his car free. His law. His land. Yeah. He's got the key. He can just let himself out.
Starting point is 01:03:23 Yep. What jail can hold a mayor? Me. You know? Probably the Magneto prison. Yeah. Forget about that. What jail can hold Lana Del Rey's husband?
Starting point is 01:03:35 Yeah. Hey, this is definitely an episode of the podcast Punta Vista. Thank you so, so much for joining us. If you have any questions or comments about anything that we read in this, we didn't write any of it. Please direct your feedback to the local newspapers from Idaho and such. The stuff we said, that was all scripted, but by someone else. We've got a team of writers.
Starting point is 01:04:01 Oh my God, they're so good. They're like, they're all kind of recent grads, but like the voice, their unique voice. I don't understand a lot of the jokes they're writing for us. I don't really get them, but there's something there. I never get it. I just read it and it says like, or I look like a fam and I say, you know what? I trust Jason's comedy sensibilities. So I'm just going to go for it. You can always tell what it's about. Yeah. So it's something. Yeah. Said something problematic. They're already fired. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:26 They got, we had to let them go. And to be really clear, they've, they've made it very abundantly clear to us that it is satire, uh, which protects us under some type of law, I believe. No, not entirely sure what was satirizing, but, um, I can just tell you now sometimes when you, you read one of these lines out and you're not laughing on the podcast Because you don't know why it's funny, but then days later. It's kind of come back to you You'd be like okay. I think Jason was cooking all right Jason you did it again
Starting point is 01:04:54 Rider no wonder he's the head rider I've seen him he takes control of that room. He waves his gun around you know he does he does great in bed It's not why he got the job, but I am glad that he got the job. It's just kind of an up-hurt. I'm glad that he got the job because of it. It's not why he got the job. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Yes. It's not why he got the job, but it didn't hurt. You know? No. Didn't hurt when he fucked all four of us.
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