Boonta Vista - EPISODE 420: Shooting Towards Slovenia

Episode Date: November 2, 2025

Lucy, Theo, Andrew, and Ben bring you: Two tales of the uncanny, an unclear link to a frozen turkey heist, a buried lede in the American police state, and a one-of-a-kind basketball court fostering unity. *** Outro: I Love You Mary Jane - Cypress Hill and Sonic Youth *** Support our show and get exclusive bonus episodes by subscribing on Patreon: www.patreon.com/BoontaVista *** Email the show at [e-mail]! Call in and leave us a question or a message on 1800-317-515 to be answered on the show! *** Twitter: twitter.com/boontavista Website: boontavista.com Twitch: twitch.tv/boontavista

I don't know anyone else with me for such a tiny audience tiny, a static audience but they're all, they all love giving us money. We've all got jobs in IT. Hey, welcome to Bonta Vista. 420. Welcome to the House of Lesser Scarsguards,

a hype house where I live with all the other untalented and unfuckable loser children of Stellan and Mia. With me is our father's least favorite offspring. A man I can only describe as odious and detestable with a face only a mother could love, although ours did not.

It's Axel Scarsguard. Hey Andrew, do you really think our brothers are that talented and fuckable? No. No. No. I mean, no. You saw what Alex was wearing at that latest film premiere. Yeah, stupid. It's fucking stupid. I'm so sick of his shit. He's such a show off. Oh, I'm sexy and kind of androgynous fucking loser. Oh, I'm kissing these other good-looking guys on the lips.

Whatever. Walked around like a dog. Whatever. We can all do that. Let's have a look. Yeah, check out. Check out our brother. Also with me is another detestable sibling. He loses $18,000 in poor crypto trades every day, but he is getting his real estate license.

He's an enormous fucking loser, and even we all hate him. It's Chungus Scorsgaard. Hey, Theo. Hey, hey, go. Do you really think our brothers are that talented and fuckable? Oh, man, it's so fucking annoying. Just because they have like normal posture and they're not like continually hunched over like a hate. Yeah, they're not hunched over like a gremlin or an egg.

Yeah, kind of, you know, walking without the use of their knuckle. and, you know, they've kind of got, like, a hairline that's sort of nice. They're kind of nice with it. Yeah. Whereas my widow's peak goes all the way to the back of my skull. I'm not boarding. It never stops. It's been like that.

The whole time. The whole time. No, I am especially odious. You are correct. I cannot pass the whatever the real estate bar exam. Whatever it is. Yeah. Whatever that is.

You're really fucking stupid too. Yeah, yeah. But I kind of want, I do want that for myself, not because I think I'd be good at it, but because I think that to own a Porsche boxster for selling houses is probably the, it's what people should be aspiring to. I think our dad would be so proud of it.

It's not more proud than of any of the work that our siblings have done. Yeah, sure. It's not a nice. 11 like maybe Alexander owns right like you know or bill it's not bill's got that fantastic he he got that the um the series one Toyota MR2 um that was like tastefully done up for track days and stuff um and like I can't own a cool car I know that I know that um but maybe if I get my Porsche boxter from selling, like, mid-rise, yeah, houses that I'll at least approach,

like some sort of recognition of consciousness in my father's eyes. You might get invited to Christmas. I might get invited to Christmas. You might wish none of us, so. Yeah, and they won't make me sit at the, at the dogs table. The table for all the dogs in the Skoskod house. All the perfectly trained, beautiful, pure bread. Beautiful dogs.

Miniature schnauzers. Our dogs, all pugs. We've got 30 pugs. 30 pugs. All of them are. Yeah, we're kind of a Scarsgaard Pugs as well. We kind of are.

Also with me is an abhorrent creature. He is brunette with brown eyes. He's clutching a bong. Yeah, that's right. He's still smoking a bong in 2025. Spends all day here jacking off a sad little pebis. Our father despises him, and we do too. It's Jared Skars,

Hey Ben What's up? He's still smoking that weed that makes you horny. You're the only one of us that's actually Swedish. I don't know any Swedish. I've just got, hello. I don't even know how to say hello. I'm Jared Scorscord.

I am Jared Scarscord. This is my bone. I fucked up on that loud. Do you have five dollars? You're paying $5 for a 20 bag? That's how bad the weight is. It's not good. It's just seeds and stems.

That's all stem. Let's list them off. You got Alexander. You got good stuff. You got Bill. You got Walter. You got Sam. You got Aja.

And you have Colbjorn. And then the rest. Man, that bad. I hate them all, except for us. I hate them all. We should unionize. We should. The union of lesser scars.

We deserve love too, you know? I don't know. I mean, I look at the mirror and I think I don't deserve love. Yes. Because I've seen what Alexander looks like. And I've seen, I've seen that Bill can act. I want to make a distinction here. The ladies love him.

Ladies love him. The lady. I look. I know. I seem like I'd be a Bill fan. I'm an Alex fan, sad. When he had his Nosferatu dong hanging, you know. I don't think we deserve love.

I do think we are legally entitled to it. Yes. I think we can make that case in a court of law. Swedish human rights charter says that even if your children are ugly, you must love them. You must love them. Look, I'm going to say it. I don't think that Bill Scarsguard has anything like evil going on. So not along those lines, but,

Bill Scarsguide is the Casey Affleck of the Scarsgaard family. I bet Casey Affleck's a fantastic actor. He's a fantastic actor, yeah. Absolutely fantastic. In the assassination of Jesse James. The assassination of Jesse James is so good in that. It's well, not good, not a good guy. Oh, a horrible guy.

Not a good person. Great actor. Yeah. A strange look, but. It's not as strange as Bill Scarsguard, though. I reckon they're kind of. He's got a very, he's a bit of a chameleon though, you know, it's, he can be real ugly and then be sexy. Yeah, and the, I watched the Crow movie.

That's genuinely one of the most movies I've ever seen in my life. It really is, hey. Horrific. Man, that was such an absolute stinker. I was watching it and like feeling my hit points draining. Horrible. Why would you watch it, they? You have so much available to you in like, I was thinking the other day, like, how good is art?

Like, how good is just the stuff that you enjoy, right? Like the shit, the music that you love. The stuff that I enjoy whips. It's so good, right? The stuff that you like, it's fucking fantastic. The stuff I don't like, some of that's pretty good too. Why would you waste your time on the crow, 2024? You know, I have a problem.

You know, I have a dread fascination with cinematic bombs, right? And like... I just don't get it. I don't get it. Like, my life is finite and ticking away as well. Oh boy, mostly... Mostly done. My burnt down shot.

Very dire. Got FCA tweets in there? Yeah, she's terrible too. Oh yeah. She's also... It's awful. She's bad. Not even Bill could save it.

Danny Houston? They got a Danny Houston in there? No, the thing is, if you go back... If you go back and you watch... Oh, man. If you go back and watch Alex Proyo's original... the crow from the 90s that we also finally remember. It's not very good.

It's not great. It's just got like a cold thing. Like it's bad, but it's like awesome. Yeah, this isn't awesome. It's not awesome. There's the aura of death also haunts the original crow, right? Which is sort of a, yeah. A beautiful,

an impending death. Original song by The Cure. And I think also an original song by Nine Inch Nails. Uh-huh. So, you know, it's got like something's going. for it. But if you go back and watch it, you know, it's not, it doesn't, it doesn't hold together fantastically as like a narrative or anything like that. Watching the, the new the crow. The new the crow, yeah. The whole time. You're just like, the crow. The nude the crow. Who's this?

Who's this for? Who'd you make this for? Who's against? Hey, you know what's something I've, something that's been tickling me lately is like, you know, you're looking up a, you're looking up a, you're looking up a recent movie on, on Wikipedia. you scroll about one half to two thirds the way down and there's that same picture of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross that's on like I would say one quarter of movie Wikipedia pages from the last five years five to ten years yeah great I would keep seeing it yeah how does he you know how like they have a sound like there's a specific like synth sound where you're just like oh that's a that's a resner Ross whatever he's doing that thing

but it doesn't sound derivative when you can just pick it but every one of them sounds kind of fresh you think about hand covers bruise from the social network all of the main ones from the Watchman HBO series what a fucking oh so good it's electric and even Othus Ross by himself doing the the opening to the what's the Japanese show help me out what's the Japanese show that's the Japanese show

Showgun. Shogun? Confused woman in the early 1940s at a dinner party. What's the Japanese? What are the Japanese? My husband was trying to tell me something about some sort of oyster, oyster harbour.

We were just talking about how we're just such good friends before we started and how we love doing this show with each other. And we're lucky. It's lucky for that, isn't it? Yeah, lucky we have an established relationship. Yeah. Intimacy because otherwise this would feel like bullying. You can't do that.

If you're listening to this, you can't do that to us. I'm not in the circle. I'm very fragile. Do not bully me. I'm very fragile. Andrew, Andrew seems to have a pretty solid sense of self. Yeah.

Pretty robust. Yeah, I thought I was depressed yesterday, but I think I'm just coming down with something. Yeah. Yeah. I think I've caught something from my daughter. Yeah, that'll happen. Yeah.

If you do what a, do some. really over-familiar insults or critiques of us based on stuff you heard. You'd have to do it via the Bunta Vista Hotline. Please don't. It's time for the Bunta Vista Hotline. Please don't do this. 1-800-3-175-15.

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Yeah 800317515 That's the Punta Vista hotline 1,800317515 That's the Punta Vista hotline This is a follow-up to something that we talked about in the most recent bonus episode 100 grunts in the sea of tranquility.

Lucy, you weren't on that episode, but I think you might have listened to it, which is crazy. The last one? Yeah, I did. I did. That's wild. You just listening to Bonta Vista?

Sometimes I want to listen to my friends having fun together. No, I know what you mean. It sounds really nice, but I know enough about you for that to be like 70% maybe sincere at a max. We implored our listeners to tell us any, Any experiences that they've had in their life that they could not explain. You know, something a little of the spooky.

Supernatural. Yeah. And it's stupid when a cop does it, by the way. Yes. But it's very intriguing when like a normal soul to the earth person. Regular person. Experiences something beyond their can and does the best they can't deal with it. Yes, which is telling a podcast about it, I think.

Yeah, I think so. You've got to do something, don't you? This first one is from listener Matthew. It is spelt Frenchly, but I'm not going to try and upset someone by trying to pronounce that Frenchly. I'm doing it. Riffing on their name. Mathieu. Matu.

Deerbo de Vista, I'm not a cop or a school resource officer, but I did see Bigfoot once. Oh. That's one of the most perfect sentences. That's ever been sent to us. You will notice he doesn't say a big foot or one of the big feet. I was not in. I was listening to you guys saying that. I was saying, yes, stupid, stupid.

Yeah. No good. Even if there are multiple, I think our big foot is still... I don't think his species is big foot. His species is not big foot. He is just big foot. I saw our Sasquatch. Okay.

Sure. All right. That makes sense. They're not all Chewbuckers. You know? Yeah, that's right. You got Lumpy. You got itchy?

We were looking this up the other day. What's the name of his kids? That his wife? His wife is Lumpy. Who are you talking? Lumpy? Chubbuck's wife is Lumpy? Chubuck's wife is Lumpabu. Did he name them?

Chubak? His father, Atachitkuk. Yeah, one of my kids is itchy too. Lumpabaru. Sorry, son. And his wife, Malato Buck. That sounds. Yeah.

Malato Buck. Malato Buck. Okay. Yeah. I don't know where I got it from. My new crypto coin. I don't think he has. I don't think he has hit you.

I don't. No, dump it. When I was about 10, my family took a trip to Durango, Colorado, to go skiing. Our hotel was a short bus ride from the ski slopes. I think it's a short bus ride, not a short bus ride. Don't stop it. Mostly on a road that ran on top of a sheer drop down to a wooded area below. I was in a window seat, and when the bus rounded a corner,

I saw Bigfoot. Oh my God. Emphasis mine. Maybe 60 metres below the road I saw a bulky dark colored by pedal figure walking through a clearing in the trees. Oh shit. You saw Bigfoot, dude. I think he saw Bigfoot, man. The clearing was empty except for the walking figure and there was quite a lot of snow,

so it really popped against the white background. That's just good composition. He doesn't have like a white winter gilly suit situation either. He doesn't change seasonally. Oh, he's not dressed like that guy from the end. of Wind River. Or Mark Wahlberg in the end of Shooter when he's up on that mountain.

Oh shit, dude. Movies that finish with a guy in a winter like Arctic sniper suit on top of a mountain. Shooter. Wind River. I'll keep working on this one later and I'll let you know what else I come up with.

Yep. The figure was dark brown or black all over. I didn't see any colors or reflective bits that might have been cold weather gear. It also walks strangely swinging its arms in a way that look exaggerated or like its shoulders were stuck. I watched it take maybe 10 or 15 steps across the clearing until it disappeared into the trees and the bus rounded another corner.

Ben, I was just thinking of a diehard 2. There's a lot of white winter camo and diehard 2. True, yes. We'll put this out. There is. You know where people make those hyper-specific letterbox? Yes. Great movie for winter camo in that.

Yeah. I'm actually, I'm looking right now at camopedia.org. I do love a white winter camo. I think it's nice. It's good, isn't it? Yeah, it's the vibe. Camopedia. Camopedia, wow.

Camopedia.org. Anyway, I don't want to cast doubts on this. I think that possibilities are beautiful. Possibilities are beautiful, and adding more possibilities does not dilute the magic of it, but maybe you saw a scars guard down there. I was going to say. Maybe you saw Brenton Scarsgar

I think this might have been Colbjorn Although he's not bipedal Most of us not bipedal Yeah Semmy-irite hominids We're basically justed around Erectus

Yeah Is that Bill Scarsgard in his Nosferatu outfit? Oh it's just Brenton It's just regular Brenton Well I think Bill Scarsgarde's not going to be big enough Bill Scarsgarde couldn't do A big foot right

He's not He's fucking huge He's fucking enormous. You're literally talking about an enormous name. You're talking about the biggest Scars Guard. Is that right? Okay. Yeah, I'm less...

I'm less familiar with Bill's tall. I haven't seen... Oh, we're wrong. Alex is taller. Oh. Alex is taller? Alex is taller. So Bill is 1.992 meters.

He can pick me up. Alex is 194 centimeters. Sam Scars guard, 196 centimeters. They just keep getting bigger. They're all big. At this rate, Scarsguards will be six metres tall, ruling the earth. I'd hate that. Tell you what, I don't like the look of this.

He looks like a cancelled emo band front man. Who does? Sam Scarsgard? Yeah, he looks like one of your sort of guys. He looks like he got thrown out of 30 seconds to Mars for being more problematic than Jared. Yeah. Yeah, Lucy's dating this guy. At least he's 100% dating this guy.

Yeah, I'm dating to Scarsguard. Yeah, Sam Scarsguard. Doesn't matter. Doesn't fucking matter. I want to talk about it. He looks like they pulled Paul Dano out like a stretch Armstrong. Yeah. Yeah.

He's just as ugly and unfuckable as us. Bring him in with us. Bring him to the house of lessers. You look like a podcaster. Oh, I thought we were still being lesser scarscats. Oh, fuck. We're basically on the same level. Yeah.

The loneliest skag scard is still like above the loftiest podcaster. Yeah. Yeah, I think we can all agree with that. Yeah, except, so, Leb, if you're a, if you're dual-wielding podcasting and acting, you're in the acting bracket, you're not judged in the podcasting brackets, you know? Yeah, that's, yeah, do you believe that about Dasher? Now that she's in movies, I think she's permanently a podcaster because that's where she got her start. You're right, the rules are complex.

Yeah, the rules are complex, and that's the exception that proves the rule, I guess. Dumbus. Yes, that's right. Did you guys see the list of nominees for Emmy that podcast Emmys? No. No. And I never will. Okay, so there are 25 podcasts that were allowed to, that qualified to be in the running for the Emmy for podcasting.

And here is the list. Emmy's on the, Emmy is, which one said is that? It's TV. The TV. But podcasts are not TV. They're noise. I think the, the, the. The times we live in now, we've sort of blurred the lines between the internet and television.

Well, we're not. I think Theo is suggesting that maybe it should be a Grammy. Should be a Grammy. Oh, because it's audio. Because it's audio. That's recorded. That's a good point. Yeah. Okay.

The shows are 2020 from ABC News. I guess a news podcast. A news pod? Yeah, okay. 48 hours from CBS News. I think that's a news podcast. Yeah. Armchair expert with Dax Shepard.

Oh my God. So Dax Shepard's podcast, but that's tight. It really does. It's like, hey, a famous person talks to somebody is really just doing numbers at the moment, isn't it? Yeah, that's all people want. They want to be inside the lives of celebs instead of inside the lives of nobodies. What if you turn nobodies into celebs in your mind? Yeah, imagine that.

Or with money. It became really, really fixated on them and thought that you were like best friends in your heart. Figured out whereabouts in Mount Gravatt East. Theo lives. I don't think we've been saying east. Oh, do you want me to beep that? That they can figure out which cardinal direction. Call her daddy.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that sucks, dude. That sucks. That sucks. Candace? I think that might be. That's Candice Owens' podcast.

Yeah, it's Candice Owens. Pretty cool. Crime junkie. Some crime bullshit. Dateline NBC. News one. Good hang with. Amy Poller.

Yeah, famous person talks to her friends. It's not even that good. Like, they're mainly just talking about, like,

they're still talking about the office. Every clip that I see, they're talking about the office. Like I was talking to, like I was talking to Chris the other day. Makes more sense.

Or S&L. Yeah. Great. But like, it's not been out for that long either. It hasn't been out for that long and they're not really doing anything much with it.

And it's not like funny. It's not groundbreaking. Where is her train intro? Yeah, where's her train intro, yeah. Yeah, where's her sneeze fetish episode? Yeah. I also take issue with talking about a podcast when it's like mostly video content.

Yeah, like people are watching the videos of this. It's a Vodcast. You've got a chat show. You're doing Tom Green in 2025. Why would you want to listen to it without their camera on it? You want to see those celebs, the way they're looking at each other? Yeah. You want to see the intimate gazers of your friends.

Oh my God, electric. And you don't get that in the audio. Morbid, don't know Mr. Ballen podcast, strange, dark and mysterious stories, no fucking idea Pardon my take Don't know

Pod save America Awesome Yeah, they haven't done it yet either They haven't saved America They're kind of like I think it's gotten worse Since they started It's gotten worse

And I would say Probably worse for their influence too Yeah Yeah Roten Mango Don't know The Sean Ryan show No idea

Smartless Celeb's talking Okay Stuff you should know Pretty good All right I like stuff you should know Yeah that one's fine

Okay The Ben Shapiro show Yeah Yeah Oh pocket fascist The Goebbels hour Great Good stuff

I bet that's fucking riveting The Bill Simmons podcast I don't know The Daily for the New York Times The Joe Rogan experience The Megan Kelly show The Mel Robbins podcast The Tucker Carlson show

This past weekend With Theo Vonn And up first from NPR. What are we doing? It's like eight fascists in there. Easily. I think they're trying to like equally balance out fascists with like regos because that's

what they feel balances. They feel like they have to because they, are they doing the biggest numbers? That just seems fucked to me. Oh, 100% are America's dumbest people sitting there listening to a podcast? 100%. I mean, you've got Joe Rogan at the top. Theo Vaughn is doing like numbers that would make your head explode. What's up with that guy?

What's up? Well, he's like, whoa. Has he got like a. Oh, my God, like a condition. Yeah. Every time I see something where he says something really stupid and then he gets the old lat and he goes, I'm just a kid, man,

trying to make his way through in this world. He's 45 years old. He's 45. Man, it's 45. Man, it's 45. You can't be saying that at 45. Yeah, I was watching a coffee zilla video the other day, the guy that, like, deep dives and investigates scams and that sort of stuff.

And he was talking about the latest model of, scams that are that are basically making podcasts that like influences enormous amounts of bank and so he was talking about specifically about gambling and like doing draft king ads and that sort of stuff and they get so much money for that but the other one is you know you used to do a crypto pump and dump right where you say I've got this coin and then hey it'd be you know it's super promising it's amazing you know everyone people go and buy it forces the value up and then they sell all of them. And it looks really bad for them

because it's like just a straight out and down, you know, pump and dump. But what they do now is they cooperate with the place that's selling the crypto, you know, whatever. I don't buy crypto. What's the marketplace is called? I don't even know. And they say, look, if you do an ad for this coin,

you get like 50% of the fees on it. So every time they sell a coin, you know, some of it goes to the house right some of it goes to the thing and so they just get the fees from it and they make like tens of millions of dollars from people who like listen to them and trust them and put their money into it and then or their money turns to zero because yeah and the whole time it's getting siphoned out to influencers and the people that run these sites and that sort of thing and what i'm thinking is i think you know we're we're all leftist here.

We have very, I think, complex views of prison and that sort of stuff and punishment. And, you know, I think if a man steals a Woolworth's roast chicken, we should look the other way. However, give him a second one and give him some napkins because you can't eat that in the park with your bare hands. Yeah, I think maybe for the people that are running these scams and stuff, maybe we should just crucify them. You should have, like, nail them up on a cross and break their legs. Cut off their hands.

Yeah, sort of start taking their skin. Yeah. And you can still cut off someone's hands and crucify them because you're actually putting the nails through the wrists, not through the palms, like some people think. That's true. That's getting confused about the stigmata, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

What were we talking about? Was there Bigfoot? Oh, there was Bigfoot, yeah. I didn't say anything at the time. I don't know why, nor did I hear anyone else who had been on the bus say anything about it. A few years later, I discovered the Patterson Gimble. on film and realized that what I had seen

looked and moved just like the figure in the footage. I was telling my parents all this at dinner one night. I was maybe 13 at this point when my brother said he had also seen the figure walking into the trees on the Durango trip. Oh my God. He's two years younger than me, so it would have been eight or so at the time of the trip.

Neither of us had ever told the other about what we saw, but our descriptions were nearly identical. You never spoke about it? You didn't tell your brother that you said, I guess. You're like, this is stupid. I didn't see a big one. I want to think I was going crazy. Yeah.

Mountain madness. Mountain madness. Yeah. In the mountain and main mat in the... Telling your brother about it. He says, hey, you sound deranged. Yes. Yes.

Yeah, correct. Yes. Nearly 30 years later, I still feel pretty confident that what I saw wasn't a person or a human being. Anyway, thank you. Yes. That's a good distinction to make. Of course. I was young, and the figure I saw was far away, but still,

I'm not a big paranormal guy, but that my brother saw the same thing, or at least claims to have, gives me pause. Anyway, love the show. Matu. I think it rules to have something that, like, you have in your life that you can't explain, and you can only tell, like, your closest friends and maybe a podcast about. One podcast.

One podcast, yeah. I mean, if you're shopping this out to multiple podcasts, so I'm going to be fucking... Yeah, we're going to come back. We only do exclusies on this show. Exclusi only. Yeah, we're exclusively exclusies. Yeah.

Yes. I have another email here. This is from listener Will. Dear Binta Vista, long-time listener, first-time emailer. It's pretty good, hey. It's like sending a letter, but it's much faster. Yeah. Yeah.

We get it almost immediately. Yeah. Yeah, the joke is it's the first time emailing in general. SMTP, pretty good. Yeah. So a few years ago, around 2018, driving home after a hard day's work at the Roeville Bottolo, going up Wellington Road at about 10pm,

I saw an object floating over Mulgrave. Saw an object floating over Mulgrave. Isn't that? That's very... That's very F sharp, A sharp infinity, isn't it? 100%. That's some Godspeed shit right there. That's what you're... Yeah, it's right there.

strange object floating over Mulgrave there was a large orb with horizontal rings of rhythmically pulsating lights Oh hell You got a good one

Yes Yes Yeah I'm not It's not just like a silvery cigar Or whatever Does he say what kind of music Was it emanating from the object Was it trance

Goa trance Large object Emitterance It's just like a pump And Euro trance That's Derrude Sandstorm coming from a light in the sky. They just got that. Yeah.

Look, they haven't kind of processed it culturally like we've had a long time to do. They're just like, oh. Still new to them. Can you imagine, well, no, I guess I can remember, but do you remember hearing it when it didn't have the element of cultural cringe to it as well, where it was just like it sounded so fucking hard? Yeah. And we were okay with, like, you know, you guys know the video clip of it.

Yeah, we're okay with the Europeans now. Like, everything in the 90s also looked like that. You have to understand. For some reason, when they filmed stuff, it all looked like that. It just everything looks like that. Everything looked like that. And it's very difficult to explain why or how, I think. Do you guys reckon off the top of your head, what nationality is derud?

De vood. I'm going to go Dutch. Wow, okay. Lucy is entirely correct. He is a Finn. Oh, really? Yeah. That's why we're winning

those fucking trivia bucks. Yeah, that's why it gives him the edge. Tony Ville, Henrik Wirtinen. And he's 50 years old. Well, now he is. It wasn't then. He wasn't when he made that banger. Thank you for clarifying, correct.

I think I was saying that when we went to Melbourne, I went into a record store with my 12-year-old daughter and had a nice convo with the guy. guy in there who just like pulled a record out of the bargainment and gave it to her on the way out and said, that's for you. And it was a Roseanne Cash record, one of Johnny Cash's I assume many children based off of walk hard, I'm assuming. He had a lot of them. It's one of my favorite jokes from that is I'm locked in a custody battle there trying to force custody on me. Yeah, it's so good. Also, his wife in that, so hot. Okay. Doesn't really give that impression.

from the office, but she's sort of, like, really attractive in that movie. Oh, Jenna Fisher. Jennifer, yeah. Okay. And so, you know, she was listening to that and was like, oh, this is really, it's really great, you know. I don't know why I've never heard anybody talk about this before. And I was saying, well, that's one of the cool things about physical media. You kind of, you get a thing.

And then you listen all the way through and you're like, this is mine, you know, and nobody else knows about this. It's not just throwaway, disposable. We don't own that kind of thing. It does not break down in a lot. landfill um yeah but it's so but it shouldn't need to because it lives in your record collection yeah exactly um so we were hanging out and she was like what what's what's some of the first music you ever remember getting we're talking about that and i was like hell yeah back street boys back what's back i think one of the first things i remember dream theater scenes from a memory

part two part two sorry one of the first things i remember buying was the CD single of the prodigies smack my bitch up. Yeah. How old were you doing that? Because that video clip is also a lot. Yes. It was mind blowing at the time. You get to the end and you go,

Oh, chick! First person. This was a lady. This is a lady the whole time. Don't remember the film of it at all. Lady. Oh, you can do heroin in a bathroom. It's a first person, P.O.

And yeah, when we say P.O.V, we mean it. Yeah. And it actually apply. they're having a night out they're going crazy they're doing drugs they're having shots they're getting into fights and then at the end you see a pair of tits uh 1997

so I guess I was 14 or 15 years old here um fat of the land come on and I was like I was like let's put that on real quick and also you got to listen to it real loud I said and we put it on that thing hit just like

Darud's sandstorm you know when you throw something on you go wait a minute is this still really good Yeah This slaps It goes real hard When the bass Drops in

After several minutes They knew how to make some music Yeah I think that guy with a funny hair Doesn't happen with Umcc's Unfortunately it is It's more than 50% cultural cringe

That it is a bop Yes Yeah It's a shame The Finns They can't always do it No Kind of always

Just usually Just in case anyone was wondering, Jenna Fisher, Isla Fisher, different people. They're not the same person. Different ladies. Are they related? From different countries. Yeah, different countries.

One's Australian. One of them Australian. One of them not different ladies. Amy Adams, not the same woman either. Different ladies. Three different ladies. Beautiful. All beautifuls.

I think I had condensed those three women down to two women in my mind. Elder hates Amy Adams so much Jealousy She hates plain white women from movies I don't like her either But I'm jealous I'm doing it for jealousy reasons I don't know she's kind of like

Not really I just think she's like that interesting actress or person I think Amy Adams' thing is just having good taste for parts Yeah she may not be the most amazing I got nothing wrong with her acting But she's I think she's perfectly good actor but not one that I'd like call out.

But then she's just in banger after banger, isn't she? Get some good rules. Arrival. Yeah. Anytime Anna Kendrick appears in a movie, my wife makes a audible noise of disgust. Yeah, that's fair. Actually, it's valid.

She's so good in the master. She does a great performance in the master. She has a few clunker lines in arrival, but I think she's suited to it. But the master. The master. Oh, the master. Everyone's really just in their best.

What a picture. What a picture. It was a large orb with horizontal rings of rhythmically pulsating lights and a solid tail coming out horizontally from the base. Yeah. Faintly in the distance. A solid tail coming out from the base. Are we measuring from the...

So I'm picturing like a golf ball on a tee. Yes. I'm picturing the creature. from Padillo Street Station, maybe. Like the Slag Moth? Yeah. Interesting. Could be beautiful.

It could be entrancing. I did see, because you want to know, you know, obviously when you hear unidentified flying objects, right, you're thinking like, you know, military air base nearby. Not in Mulgrave, I'm not super across, like, like the suburbs of Melbourne. Are you about to read out the thing that you just posted in our group chat because I will beep it if I have to? No, not that. But in Mulgrave, there is an enormous synchotron, which is the thing where they speed particles up to some fraction of the speed of light. In Mulgrave? In Mulgrave.

You're telling us that we have like a knockoff CERN? Well, you use synchotrons for producing like radioactive material for like medicine, nuclear medicine, that sort of stuff. for non-energy nuclear material reasons. There's a few reasons why you might need like industrial scale synchrotrons. And I'm reckoning that perhaps this vehicle or creature maybe is attracted to places of high energy. Huge electromagnetic density. for the record.

Yeah, I think you might be on something there. Yeah, I think I might be right. When I described it, one of my friends jokingly referred to it as the cosmic crack pipe, and that's not entirely inaccurate for the shape, just the relative sizes are off. Like, the length of the tail was slightly less than the diameter of the orb. So the tail starts at the base but goes out back, I guess, as much as an orb can have a back. And the length of the tail, are we measuring that from the base? That's very funny.

Yeah. And the width of the tail was maybe a tenth of the diameter of the orb. That's also normal. Anyway, it was floating in place there for a couple of minutes as I drove towards it. And I considered pulling over or turning into the housing estate it was above. But the moment I made the conscious decision to just keep driving because I didn't want to become. Yeah. But the moment, you've got to proofread these emails.

But in the moment, in the moment, made the conscious. decision to just keep driving because I didn't want to become a you have to believe me crackpot. Yeah. Chase it. Chase that thing. Who knows when you're going to see one again?

Close encounters of the three kind? I guess that just did sort of ruin his life. His wife left him. And then he abandoned his wife and his kids. Yeah. Yeah. You made the right choice. Like three kind.

Got him. Thanks for this outlet. I don't really talk about this much because while I firmly believe what I saw was extraterrestrial in origin, I'm also quite certain that Earth has never been visited by extraterrestrials. And if I ever had to try and square that circle, I know it would either destroy the magic of what I know I saw that night, or I'd have to become an insuffable aliens' truth. I love the pod. Please sew a show in Melbourne. What? What? What? What does that mean? You sound crazy. Put me in anything.

So I guess we won't Signs off there You know what You don't have to fucking square this circle I know for a fact The ghosts don't exist And I saw a ghost And it was verified

By another observer So you And I know that they don't exist But I saw one And the person that was with me Also saw one They mentioned it before I said anything Where did you see a ghost

Oh That's cinema that I worked at That was hella haunted It was like 100 something years old I saw a ghost of a lady But I know that ghost only says Ghost aren't real I'm sort of ghost

We maybe have never been Probably never visited by aliens You saw a fucking alien dog Easy You saw an alien You saw an alien Wisdom is holding two contradictory thoughts In your mind at the same time

Also You can be an alien truth Without automatically being insufferable about it Yeah Yeah you could just low key believe it Yeah I think you can be the guy That's chill about it at a house party where you're like, oh no, yeah, no, I didn't reckon they're real, but I get that other people don't, bam.

I'm pretty chill about the fact that the CIA killed JFK. Yeah, I think that's true. Right? Like, I'm not making it my whole thing. No, they did. They did. Check out blowback. Yeah, check out blowback. I think you'll, yeah.

Yeah, you'll change some minds. Check out the Da Vinci Code with the appendices included. It might make you think a little differently. about Catholicism. Now I have I have included in I don't want to conflate the divitia code

and the blowback thing. I love blowback and it said be absolutely insane. It'll make you so depressed. And like if you're like maybe 10% radicalized it might make you

I just included in the in the group chat an image of the inside of the Melbourne synchrotron and that is I think that's a majestic 12 shit they are 100% experimenting on grays on the um on the tall like insectoid ones what are they what are they called do you know is there a name for we got we got grays for the for the tall

tall gray fellas yeah um yeah they're doing the they're doing the ones on the guys that look like um that look like grasshoppers yeah like standing i reckon that this is mostly staffed by the Nordic aliens where they're like they could just blend in but like if you're in Mulgrave and you see a bunch of like kind of Scarsguard

like handsome Scarsguard looking people too tall yeah yeah like they're too tall too beautiful they speak kind of weird you know

some of their vowel sounds are kind of different yeah I think you got a fucking Nordics at the the jumbo tron or whatever the fuck you got a Nordic infestation

next thing you know there's longboats in the Yarra River I'm leaving some roll mops under a cardboard box propped up with a stick I think we yeah yeah yeah yeah okay oh hey if that was an MJ12

controlled facility it would almost be sort of like an imperative that we blow it up but that would be a crime We're talking about crimes in Crime Watch. Please put down your weapon. You are in direct violation. You'll now have five seconds to try.

Help me! I'm not a great. This comes from W.A.N.E. in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Oh, the Wayne. How the hijacking of cryptocurrency computers kept frozen turkeys from getting stolen in Grant County. Excuse me? Isn't that intriguing? Wouldn't you love to have that mystery solved?

Yeah. The Grant County Sheriff's Department is wrapping up October with a couple of memorable investigations involving Bitcoin and frozen turkeys. Monday, the department issued a news release explaining how the two cases are related. The Bitcoin case dealt with a hijacked shipment of $700,000 worth of specialized computer equipment

used to verify cryptocurrency transactions and secure the blockchain network. You're going to turn that into a sick gaming rig? I don't think so. They've got... Fuck. They're...

Yeah, they're boring now, right? Like, it's gone from, like, hacking this shit together in your... In your apartment. To, like, we just build cards for this specific thing. Well, they're not even... Yeah, they're not even cards anymore. Like, the difference being that it used to be on a GPU, right? A general purpose thing that you could also do sick graphics with.

And now they're just on APUs, which is a machine that's built its whole life, is to... to do hashes for the blockchain. To try and find a prime number bigger than 70. What a miserable. You can't. One day we might be able to do it, but until then. On October 2nd, your choice, a China-based company building a cryptocurrency facility in Marion.

What is? I don't want to... What's going on with all of these like the AI facilities and cryptocurrency facilities in small town America? This is not good. I don't know what's happening. I mean, we know what the goal is. It's like they buy land in like these small towns and they move all their shit in.

They use up all the water. Use up all the shit. They put in a cyclotron. I think Eddington is going to come to be so vindicated as a movie. Yeah. That was good. Your choice, contact the Sheriff's Department about the hijacked cargo of 1,000 Bitcoin machines that were inside a semi-trailer. Detectives learned the stolen goods were in the Chicago area and with the help of Marion Police Department, detectives and the Chicago.

Cargo Police Department, the computers were recovered. While no arrests have been made, the investigation is continuing, and international criminals are believed to be involved. While investigating the cryptocurrency computer thefts, detectives were able to stop the attempted theft of $75,000 worth of frozen turkeys. No other details of that investigation was provided in the news release. There is way, way more like piracy of bulk freight going on than I could have possibly guessed. Guns. Yeah.

I'm like hijacking trains. He's stealing a train full of turkey? Frozen turkey? Truck train and then reselling it. I think this is a truck, but yeah. You're flipping it? Might have been a attractive trailer. You flip it? Yeah. How are you flipping it? Who's your guy? Who's your turkey guy? How are you going to flip that? You're going to sell it to like local shops? The story that we did ages ago with the guy that stole like 70 pallets of bottled water

and then just sold it direct to supermarkets. I was like, hey, uh, you. You want two pallets of bottled water for half the price of two pallets of bottled water? Yeah, I'm like your usual guy. Yeah, sure, I don't have like an ABN. I can't give you an invoice, but if you just give me some cash. It sounds like a lot of work, but it's straight profit. That's the thing. It's a straight profit.

Nothing for the taxpayer either. Your own time has a cost. $2,000 for an AR. I'm also trying to steal $75,000 worth of frozen turkeys, but that's just so I can park on an overpass and huck of the cars. Oh, my God. the smash field on a frozen turkey through the windshield of a cabri

oh my god new type of demolition derby that we set up copyright 2025 Buntavista where it's like a sort of figure eight race track but it goes up over a like an overpass

and crosses over itself we stand on the overpass and huck frozen turkeys at the cars as they come under this and you just got to try and finish the race and actually becomes more

of sort of like a chest game really because we do all sorts of mind games where I'm posturing my body like I'm throwing to the left but you know that that's probably a fake out but what if what if I know that you know it's probably a fake out so I am going to throw it to the left

you know maybe it turns into like a similar thing to an OG demolition derby where the real heads are driving and reverse the whole time because they don't want the frozen turkey coming through the windshield and obliterating their body yeah

people don't know this but um because it's quite quite closely guided military secret but a frozen turkey thrown from the moon and have energy of like hundreds of nuclear bombs yeah yeah i bet it would yeah and that's and that's actually why we don't do that that's why we don't do that world's strongest man it's one of the just doing like a basketball chest pass from the moon towards the earth slowly you know what they made you do like uh just throw a medicine ball from your chest like you would do an exercise of the 1970s doing that with a whole frozen turkey can I ask you guys something that I was thinking about yesterday and didn't bother Googling because I kind of wanted you know sometimes you you want to know something but

you don't really want the answer you just want to have a nice chat with your friends absolutely trying to start a conversation phones down phones down before we have the chat don't just google this don't just look on Wikipedia pub trip your rules phone face down on the table yeah it's like talking to a boomer it doesn't matter if what you say is true. As long as it starts a conversation. Yeah, that's right. What does Camry mean?

What does Camry mean? What does Camry mean? Like a Toyota Camry. Is it just a made up word? Do they make it up? Camry. Camry. Well, because they, like, the Japanese cars, the Japanese cars of the 60s and 70s and everything, there's such a combination of real words. Yeah.

And kind of evocative made-up words, right? Your Missing Pulsar. Fair lady. Yeah, true. A Pulsar is a word. Yeah, exactly. That's what I'm saying. I'm saying.

They mix them all through. Yeah. And then it used to be the Toyota Echo. Now it's the Yaris. And what does Yaris mean? What's a fuck is a Yaris? It's a terrible fucking name. Echo's a word.

Echo's a word. Corona. Yeah. That's a word. You know? Yeah. Yeah, we can list cars that we know, and then I'll be done a lot quicker than you guys. Falcon.

The Toyota Matrix. A regular at the bar came in the other day. I was like, yeah, my daughter's bought a Stodic today. What? It's a Kia, right? The Kia Stonic. Oh, I thought it's the bag that you're shit in. Yes, that's what I was thinking of.

Don't watch a call it that. The Stonic looks like an Eastern European. name. This is my friend, Kia Stonich. Anyway, yeah, so that's how the frozen turkeys were related to the cryptocurrency thing

or whatever. Yeah. They were looking into one and they're like, hey, by the way. They steal on turkeys from that truck? Like, they don't even say that it's the same,

it's not connected. It's not connected, but they were looking into it. It's a B plot. The fucking headline is how the hijacking kept them from getting stolen. No, I get it.

get it because it's they're too unrelated plots but you need to connect them somehow so it has to kind of has to have a fulcrum jerry's new girlfriend runs into kramer on the street or something yeah that's right and um and george is hitting a golf ball into a wales blowhole yeah just it sounds like maybe they were coming back to the station from the first investigation and there's a truck pulled over by the side of the road having a little engine trouble and they and they say hey you guys need any help? You got a license for these frozen turkeys? You got a permit?

Concealed carry, frozen turkey? You don't have a deep friar in your car there. Oh man, that's a good... That'd be a federal crime. Man, that's got to be like the reason 90% of people become a firefighter is so that once a year they get to do the demo of why you shouldn't deep fry a frozen turkey. Yeah. Man, it looks very fun.

Looks like a lot of fun. I think the turkey's meant to be defrosted. Yeah. Fair. Yeah, yeah, but they do the videos they make. They're always in like a school car park that's been completely cleared out. Is this a common thing? They show you about deep frying a turkey.

It's a meme, right? Like they did it in they did it in Better Call Saul as well. People do it all the time over there and I think the very common thing that goes wrong is that people don't count for how much oil a full

size turkey will displace in the giant pot you've put over a gas on a lot. outside and then as soon as you do all the oil comes out and hits the fire on the gas burner and creates a gigantic fireball that kind of burns your whole house down

yep it looks fucking amazing and like local fire fighting departments will just put videos for the news I guess together of being like they'll sit up a rig where they're lowering it in with a chain from like 30 feet away fully suited up ready to put it out I watch all of Maddie Matheson's videos on YouTube because I love him.

I think he's great. But God, he's such a stressful person to watch cooking because he makes so much mess. He makes so much mess. And on his most recent video, he was like, he was making a, he'd been to Ireland and he was making a spice bag. So he was frying his bits of chicken and shit. And then he just throws like a whole bunch of stuff into the oil. on a big cast iron pot on his stove and it immediately all just goes

straight up and over and all over the stove and the counter top. You know how in cooking videos they have the bird's eye view camera angle of the pot so they just have the shot of that as all of the oil is bubbling up and over

and like sheeding over the stove it's very stressful to me. I can't condone that kind of bullshit. Yeah. Get serious. Hey, Maddie Mattes, enough with the silliness. Yeah. Rained it in.

I mean, I'm being serious. The fact that Irish spice bags have made it to this podcast means they are done. Yeah, it's all over. They had like a moment of like, you know when people are like ironically adopting a food that was considered nasty and be like, no, actually it's really good. It's pretty good though. I mean, it is good. We know that it's good. We know it's good.

But that moment is now over. Like a whole old snack pack. you know we're like it's fantastic you just probably shouldn't be eating it all the time

yeah god I wish I was eating it now though yeah yeah get that combination shave meat I don't think

I've never eaten a HSP and at this point it's too late it's not too late they still they all have them they're all at every cabb shop

go and have go and have six to eight beers and then eat a halal snack pack god damn I can be eating my first halal snack pack in 2025 it's just not

it's just not going to happen It's too late for you. Fucking about. It's not, you can't think like this. A cabs over? Yeah. Are chips done? What I'm talking about here? Chips are chopped.

I'm sorry, but an HSP is going to be timeless to me. Yeah. Can I just note a little bit of synchronicity or kismet? It's the second time you've used that word this way. Did you just learn this word? Did you just learn it? No, I've known this word for a long time. Okay.

I've just had a lot of kismet in my life. in the last couple of days. You know, I was zooming in and out on Mulgrave in Melbourne, Synchrotron. Back and forth. Back and forth. And we started talking about, we started talking about back and forth. Very comforting. And we started talking about New York.

And I had this dream that I was like on, at Mamdami's, like, bus for whatever campaign bus. I don't know. And we had to keep going east from New York, like up into the hills. Because that's like how far away here. his shit is from New York along Long Island okay so did you say this was a dream it's a dream yeah okay yeah um and so I'm kind of trying to I'm trying to suss out the uh geology of Long Island to see if anything in my dream makes work and I and I I don't think so right like I don't think

I dreamt as like hilly lots of forests I know that not to be the case and I'm zooming in and out and what do I find but this Phoenix experiment on Long Island another fucking particle accelerator. Oh my God. It's all linked. Don't you want to know where the dreams come from? Yeah, I do. I think they come from the experiments.

That's really interesting. Yes. Has someone been accelerating your particles? I think so. Or accelerating particles into my brain. Yeah. Oh, fuck, that's very, yeah. Yeah.

To give me the exact kind of brain damaged. all right your homework for this week dear listener is if you've been having strange dreams of late or seen things in the sky you can't explain check where your nearest like particle accelerator is yeah not that no not nearest to you nearest to where your dream took place of course that's where the dream comes from remote viewing remote viewing eric remote viewing diagetic particle accelerator in your dream Long Island I can say words too I know I wasn't going to say that you've also said Diagetic a couple extra times this week as well

every time you're trying out new uses for stuff oh we're watching yeah we notice we're making note of him said dietic twice let him have fun with it we don't always have to update the spreadsheet if this has a word

or ever you can just uh Long Island that's in America We talk about American stuff in America Watch. This comes to us from W-T-E-N in New York. This one's a bit of a downer, actually. I didn't think that this would be the last one for the episode, but hey, that's life. Ravina Man charged after bullet.

hole founded neighbour's home. That could be anyone's bullet hole. When you think about it, it's actually the absence of something. Yeah, how can... Oh, I charge with the absence. Yeah, so true. For literally nothing. You've got to charge me with a void?

Huh? Is that what you're telling me? Now, this usually would be a clipping report, but there's a bit of an additional detail that I think really, I don't know, adds a bit of color to the story. A ravina man was charged after a bullet hole was found in a neighboring residence. Christopher Caglione, 58, was charged with reckless endangerment, criminal possession of a weapon, and criminal mischief. The Albany County Sheriff's Office. Get back here.

Yeah. Is that like that he's doing it Joker style? He's shooting a house, but like... Mischievously. Yeah. There was a riddle or something. Wow, no, that's the riddler. He's been the riddler.

He's kind of the riddling one. The Albany County Sheriff's something. said they were contacted on Monday after a ravina homeowner found a bullet hole on the exterior of their home. Police said Caglione accidentally discharged his assault rifle while cleaning it inside his home. Accidental discharge. Well, that's a crime now. Yeah, that's a crime now. Lock me up. All right. The 223 round went through his wall and struck the neighbor's house. No one was injured. Police executed a search warrant at Caglione's home and found the assault rifle as well as police equipment displaying multiple law enforcement insignia.

He was arrested and arraigned in town of Coimman's Court. Oh, so you guys don't like it when you've got fans now? Well, I'm going to post a little picture in the chat for you guys. And then we can maybe. I think there's some deductions that can take place out of this. Personally, if I had seen this, if this is what I'd found in the guy's house, I wouldn't be thinking about the accidental discharge. I'd be kind of saying what's this man planning to do?

Yeah, what's all that then? So we have like a sort of a police tactical vest style thing with police on it and a police badge. He's got a nightstick. He's got a beanie that says NYPD. He's got an NYPD badge. He also has big patches for immigration enforcement and sheriff and livestock agent. He has what appears to be a

rifle of some kind at AR-15 and one of those utility belt things. Yeah. So this guy was going to like patch up as a maybe a federal livestock agent or as an ICE or as a sheriff or as a cop

and then probably like fucking do something maybe. Because like right now you can basically dress up in whatever have a vest on that has immigration on it and just wear like a full face covering with like the skull from call of duty or whatever the fuck yeah yeah and everyone's allowed to ask you anything or disagree yeah you don't have to have like a fucking warrant or explain what you're doing or anything and if someone tries to stop you you can probably just like kick the shit out of them

and it will look normal and look we can't all predict the future i think we need to give um the people in charge a little grace no one could have predicted that having like identifiable brown shirts roaming the street with like high-powered rifles and their face is completely covered and no identification and just like and no consistent uniforms or anything either just sort of wearing whatever yeah um kind of dealing arbitrary violence against a civilian population that perhaps that that might extend to let's say vigilantes yeah sympathises. Let's say patriots.

Yeah. Minutemen. Yeah. You know. Like racist, super racist Minutemen who like, they can, five of them can like pile out of a tarago that is blocking three lanes in the middle of a, like, in the middle of a city. And then just start like threatening all of the brown people around them. And that will look exactly the same as the actions of the federal government.

The federal government. I guess that's probably. Or they don't care about it. Yeah. Do they still put the yellow kind of filter on the film if you're, if you're saccharoing in, like, Utah? I think the closer you get to the border, the yellow or it gets. Yeah.

Oh, we're at 30% yellow. We're going to. Did you guys see any of the pictures or footage of the guy who is the head of border patrol, Gregory Bovino? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. The most fucking Third Reich-looking motherfucking you've ever seen.

Like an SS officer. Yeah, and that's how he came dressed to his hearing at the court where the judge was like, hey, you guys seem to be doing all this illegal stuff and not wearing your body cameras and all this. And he was like, oh, yeah, no, we'll start doing that for sure. Yeah. Don't be walking around like you're about to film equal. equilibrium at Dachau.

It's such a bad look. Yeah. Not a good look. Not a good look. A lot of story, but I guess that's... Why do you put that one in there, Ben? What's up with that? But then if you put it first, it wouldn't have gotten us in the mood.

Yeah, that's true. You've got to start with the best ones because that's when we sort of, we get our energy up. Yeah. And then we come crashing right down. You know what people say, start strong,

finish poorly. Finish morose. Kind of potter out. Yeah. That was definitely an episode of the podcast. Bonta Vista. Oh, fuck, I should have... You know what?

Can we just maybe do one more, actually? Because this one is getting older. Because I keep bumping it in the notes because it's not that funny, but it is charming me quite a lot. Only if... I agree, but only if we say that it's because we love our listeners.

Yeah, we're doing that like... Leave them on a dour note. Yeah. Oh, you want an encore? Well, we have to go, but I guess we could do one more song it's time for Europe watch actually I think this is a nice complimentary story because that previous one was about division whereas this one is about unity

which I think is very nice that's something we should be thinking about in these dark times something people might not know about me I love unity I love unity. I'm not talking about that. Big division head myself. What the game? This is from the Slovenia Times. Nets instead of wires on Slovenian-Italian-Italian-Italian border.

Yes. We're getting Slotallian up in here. Now I'm learning that there's a Slovenia-Italian border. Italy borders so many countries, isn't that beautiful? A lot of countries. Instead of fences and wires, the border between Slovenia's Nova-Govina. Gorichia and Italy's Grezia now features basketball nets as a brand new court has opened to celebrate the European Capital of Culture Project jointly run by the two cities.

The two half courts placed parallel to each other right on the borderline now symbolically connects Slovenia and Italy, a project that is brought together not only the two countries, but also two basketball legends. Slovenia's Goran Dragich, nicknamed Gogi, and Italy's Louisville. Luigi de Tome, sorry, Italy's Luigi Gigi de Tome, two former NBA players

and the long-time captains of their country's national teams. It's just beautiful. So half the court is in Slovenia. Half the court is in Italy. You can cure division by playing a pickup basketball game with your fucking friends.

True country basketball. Both countries? Isn't that beautiful? It's precious. The Gogi and Gigi court is a unique venue. it consists of two half-court's place in such a way that players when shooting hoops

shoot towards Italy in one court and shoot towards Slovenia in the other finally the right kind of shooting there are QR codes on the court that take visitors to an online platform with a collection of basketball training drills while a dedicated app also helps to find other players and schedule a game

wow this is fucking amazing this is the sort of story I thought we wouldn't see anymore two countries coming together tech solutions that are four people, not at people's expense? Can you imagine you're Slovenian? You rock up to the Slovenian half of the

court and you post in the thing saying, hey, I want a buddy. While you're waiting, you run some drills. All of a sudden, Italian rocks up. No language in common, even though you live 50 metres away from each other. Insane. Europe's fucking crazy. Just the language of bowling.

Just the language of basketball, of shooting hoops. Yeah, shooting hoops, the universal language. Oh my God. God, can, like, you know, the other guy gets a good shot. You don't have the words to congratulate him. I mean, you almost certainly do, because everyone in Europe speaks like seven languages. But let's pretend you don't.

And you're just like, you're pointing at him and you're nodding. Dude, that was amazing. Yeah. There's another common language here as well, right? And that's posting up. Posting up at the court? Posting up at the court? The half Slovenian, half Italian basketball court.

With your Italian friends and your new Slovenian friends. Yeah. Yes. Shit, And they've got some dope track pants on. Oh, my God, you know they do. But you've brought, you've got pockets full of cued sausage. To attract an Italian?

Well, no, because the Italians are bringing that. They've got the track pants. You've got the cured meats. And then half time, you're all having a little bit of like red wine out of an unmarked glass bottle that's in a wicker basket for some reason on the bottom half. And you're eating some warm pocket pursuit. Oh, you know. Getting that pocket proshoot.

Eating some Slovenian pickled greens. It's cold outside. You've got your warm pocket prosciutto. Let's trade some of my Kranska clobasa for your suppressor. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck, dude. Can you imagine how the beautiful bonds that have formed over just a little bit of ball,

a little bit of warm Keanti, you know? A little warm kianti on the basketball cart. A little warm pursuit. It just started. some warm Slovenian stuff. Vodka, I guess. Yeah, whatever the fuck they got. Druggitch, who has renovated several basketball courts around the country as part of his

humanitarian project, said he was very happy this unique court has come into being. I think there's a very special court. It brings together two countries, he told TV Slovenia. Yes. He invited Gigi to this project because he shares the same values that I have. I'm very happy with what we achieved. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Beautiful. Gigi and Gigi. Working together to bring people together Just cross-cultural posting up and hooping That's what we should be trying to do in these times You know? Things are rough out there

Go down to the local courts and hoop Hoop with whoever's there Hoop dreams Hoop with whoever Hooping I was trying to see if there's a Slovenian energy drink Shit, yeah, good question And apparently the National Slovenian soft

drink is named cocta cocta cocta its main ingredient comes from dog rose hip the other ingredients come from

11 different herbs lemon and orange its original variant contains neither caffeine nor orthophosphoric acid good to know

yeah good to know sweet beautiful beautiful this was definitely an episode of the podcast

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