Boonta Vista - EPISODE 437: The Craziest Liquid? Too Wet To Slurp!

Episode Date: March 15, 2026

Lucy, Theo, Andrew, and Ben bring you: Two liquids to avoid at all costs, a surprise in the boot of your Waymo, a surplus of 21,000 poles, and a fashionable change to a venerable institution. *** Outro: Beautiful Blue Sky - Ought *** 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! *** Website: boontavista.com Twitch: twitch.tv/boontavista

Hello and welcome to Bonta Vista. Episode 437, I am Ben, and we're being shadowed by Louis Thoreau. No, Theru. It's Theru, isn't it? Thoreau is Justin. Fuck, I always get that wrong. Yeah. But they're cousins and they say their names.

They say their names differently? Yeah, Justin Thoreau. Yeah, if it's Justin, you know, that's a Thoreau. I'm saying Louis Thoreau. If it's a documentary show, it's not Justin Thoreau. Oh, no, he's not in that one. I was going to say if the velvet is blue. I was about to say that, that I was like, fuck.

He's not in that one. Fuck. If the key at the end be blue, it's Justin Theroux. No, it isn't Justin Thru. Yeah, you guys are all, you're all mixed up mother goose. I'm Ben. We're being shadowed by Louis Theroux. He's sitting in as we record, and he's making curious little expressions with his face.

Lucy, he's just asked you why you, why you're just asked you, why you're you think the idea of the beach that makes you fart is funny well louis i'm you know it's very complicated it's very it's a lot of layers intellectuality to the the kind of jokes that i find funny i don't know about you but yeah i don't think he's kind of smart podcast i don't think he would i think he'd really like i think he'd find us fascinating yeah he would and a little sexy and we'd have a lot in common me and him well uh uh what would you have in common? Interesting,

because I was looking at the personal life section of his Wikipedia just before. Didn't see any mention of any like, you know, do they have to say that you have autism on your Wikipedia page if you have it? Can you ask for that to just be like taken off? Not important. Leave that off. I want it to be part of my mystique. Have you guys watched that into the man,

Louis Thru, into the manosphere? No. Is this a new one? It is a new one on Netflix. Check out Netflix. They've got all kinds of things. Films from all over the world. Not as many as you'd think, though.

Not as many as they used to be. You'd think, wow. It also costs more than it used to as well. Unless you get added supported by ads. Yeah, I got the ads one. They got a lot of anime on there. Did you know this? Yeah, Lucy's going through her anime arc.

Does everyone know this? I'm in my anime arc. So I got Netflix back. Yeah, you're watching. What are you watching at the moment? I have two episodes of Evangelion left. Oh, and then you've got it. The whole fucking show?

You've got... Yeah. Okay. There's like one series and then there's movies, right? And there's movies, yeah. And this is good radio. So the last two episodes of Evangelion, you can kind of just let them wash over you as if they don't matter or exist. Because you're...

Okay. You'll see. You'll see. I'm really into it. I'm really. I like it a lot. And then you've got the end of Evangelion, of course. Which is...

And then I've got Cowboy Beebok. And then Cowboy, oh my goodness, Cowboy Beba. What a treat. Soundtrack by Yoko Cano. Got Steve Conti on there. Oh, glorious. Check out the soundtrack to Cowboy Beba. Theo, you're doing some of your best accent work yet.

And she's just staring at you blankly. Yeah. How's that making you feel? I wish he'd ask me sort of an open-ended question to be perfectly on. And just allow you to talk. And just allow me to talk. Yeah. Yeah.

I'd probably answer it truthfully and honestly and come off, I think, looking quite good. I think in the end. I think in the end. He would find out that I wasn't like bad or controversial. He actually agreed with my viewpoints. But I put them forth in such a compelling way that he still wanted to make a documentary about it. Still keeps it in the cut, you reckon. He'd be like, well, this guy is not a bad fella at all.

I thought he was initially, but he's very eloquent and thoughtful. Let's keep this in the doco. I'm going to make him a star. That's what I think he says. Louis Thoreau is going to make you a star, baby. Stick with me, I'm going to make you a star. I'm Louis Thoreau. That's exactly what he sounds like.

I want to come over to my apartment. I'll film you for a little bit. We'll just talk. I'm got to make you star. No script. Louis's going to make you pick We just see what happens Louis B, Theroux.

Andrew, he's asking you if you think this is worth money. Like the podcast. How does that make you feel? How does anyone know what money itself is even worth? Yeah, the market, I think. You know, Louis, do you get paid on your Spotify Presents podcast? We talk to your famous. friends, Louis.

They let you use the studio. They've never invited us to use the studio. Is anyone selling out, Louis? It's you. Yeah. Yeah. It's time to take fucking Louis throw down a night. She's had it too fucking good for a two.

I love him. He's had it too good for too long though. Yeah. Seems like that's fine, frankly. It must be awesome to be so fine with being uncomfortable or being immune to being made to feel uncomfortable. It just doesn't feel it. Awesome.

It's amazing. He think he has to go home and just sweat in the bottom of the shower for like 20 minutes every night just to like get it all out of him. Just let it out. He's a sin eater. He's a sin eater. He's a sin eater for everyone. I think it doesn't enter his body at all. I think he just doesn't feel social discomfort.

His mind just deflects it. If he was like trying to put a condom on and he got too nervous and then he couldn't get hard anymore and then he had to give up and he had to throw the unused condom away, he'd be like, huh, Mayor, that's crazy. Let's watch some of season five of the Simpsons. Like, it wouldn't even bother him. He wouldn't even know. Very specific there, but okay. Well, I mean, that's just a Seinfeld episode minus the Simpsons thing, right? I think it's just a universal life experience before it was a, no universal necessarily.

I'm always just so signed. I'm just happy to be there. Let's all say when the last time we used to condoms. Oh, my God. It's so... No, this is not. It's bad. No, not a real question.

Condoms serve for purpose, and they have to act as a barrier for some sort of mysterious liquid. We talk about mysterious liquids in mystery liquid. Mystery liquid. Can't tell what color it is with a slick oily sheen. What could it mean? Mystery liquid. I see some gulp that is forming a pool on the floor.

Who is it for? I'm going to taste the mystery liquid. I'm going to taste the mystery liquid. I feel like guys copped the lion's share of the blame for mystery liquid vis-a-vis this context. But I think there's a give and take, right? Sorry. Hold on. How you get blamed for your cum.

Goop going both ways, is all I'm saying. That's not really. If you do it right. That's a little different. This is not. I mean, you said that the mystery liquid was come. You said that, Ben. I said that a mystery liquid was come.

You said it mysteriously. You implied that your own cum is mysterious. What's different about it? What color's yours? Yeah, it looks like the rainbow blood from Harry Potter. The unicorn? The unicorn in the forest. What colors the unicorns come?

Oh, the silvery black. pool of unicorn blood from which Voldemort drinks? Yeah. That's what yours looks like. For the record, put to this in the podcast, thinks condoms are very cool and you should be using them. I just don't want us to finish on the that's crazy, dude. They're not cool,

but you should use them. Unless you don't want to. Isn't it kind of sexy? Like, unless you don't feel like it. Yeah. We're all doing the Billy Madison. It's actually cool to be your pants thing. Yeah. If you're in like a formative, if you're forming beliefs about like good sexual practices.

Don't get them here. Stop listening to this podcast now. We're all in long-term relationships. We've got context. And sometimes it's okay to use them in long-term relationships as well. Yeah. Yes. It would suck.

He has really suck, though. From CTV in Canada. Battleford's RCMP, Urt Caution after aborts of drinkable hazardous liquid. Oh. What do you be? They made it drinkable? Drinkable hazardous liquid. Drinkable hazardous liquid.

Baja Blast? Make mine a doubles. Talking about energized mountain dew? What are we got? Oh man. I saw a post in the Gen X subreddit yesterday where someone was saying that they had been Mandala affected, Mandela affected, whichever one that is, about how old Baja blast is. Did they think it was older?

They were like, I remember having this in high school. No, you did. It was from like 2004. It was specially formulated to go perfectly with Mexican food. It's a special formula. I'd love to try one. Can we get? I love Baha Blah.

Sometimes you can get cans of it in like, you know, places that sell like American drinks. Oh, we got to go inside one of those easy marts or something. It used to be a Taco Bell only, but I think you can get it in cans now. It's so good. And what is it? Is it an energy? drink? It's the taste of the sounds.

At the Baja Peninsula. I remember my great grandfather's diaries about you know being in the trenches in World War I and when it was Christmas oh they managed to get them all a bottle of Baja blast. Never forget that sound and then we'll crack

and open in the trench. Stopping the fighting and throwing cans of Baja blast to the German soldiers or throwing back pretzels. On Christmas Day they'd all come out over the top and enjoy their Baja blast together. Falling a truce to get your empties. And saying,

ay, Dios, and which one? They're all doing that, to be clear. Because it's the drink that makes you Mexican. A drink that makes you

feel Mexican style. That's right. Battlefield's RCMP, a warning the public about a potentially hazardous consumable liquid circulating in the area. The warning comes

as officers who investigate multiple sudden deaths reported over the past week. Well, it's not consumable then. Well, you can consume it. Or everything's consumable. Everything's consumable. Yeah, you can consume all kinds of stuff if you're bad enough.

If you're using the word in that sense, you don't actually have to say it in the same phrase as liquid because it's implied by liquid that we can slurp it. You can slurp it, yeah. Are there any liquids we can't slurp? Yeah, is there an unslurpable liquid? Like too slippery. Liquid, right?

For us to make a slurpy action. We're not slippery enough. Too wet to slurp? Too wet to slurp. YouTube thumb down. The craziest liquid? Too wet to slurp. It falls right out of my mouth.

Literally, it's the part of it's so fine. You can't form a seal with your lips. It just goes straight back out. But then you can drink it if you're on your back. Hmm. Everything's drinkable. Everything's consumable. Ideally, if I'm on my back, put a big funnel in my mouth.

pour it in there you know if at any time you see me on my back put a big funnel in my mouth if you got a comedic funnel Oh Andrew's wanting some funnel time Oh

He's on his back He wants some funnel time Makes him feel safe Yeah Don't touch his belly, don't touch his belly He doesn't like that Anyone got a liquid Hey doesn't matter what kind it is

It's all consumable to him Oh Antiname Yeah chuck it in Chuck it in RCMP in partnership with the Saskatchewan Coroner Service say it is still too early to determine whether the deaths are connected to the substance. Families are being notified. What substance?

What are you notifying them of? Why did they drink it? A potentially hazardous consumable liquid circulating in the area. Someone's getting about offering this to people. Is it like a drug? Is it getting some scissor up or something? Like what is this? There's the tension on this.

I was picturing a hooch. Anyone ever... Just one bottle. Everyone's passing around. Yeah. There's special. Huch. They're sloping from the judge.

Huch. Anyone ever read the Stephen King story, Needful Things? Yes. Oh, I've got it. I haven't read it yet. The store opens up in town and it just kind of, it's like a thrift store, but it happens to have the item that you most want in the world that you've covered it the most, you know? Is there a catch, though?

I think in this case the catch is that he says, anything you might desire but first simply take a gulp of this liquid and then you have some and then you die. Yeah. Pretty good joke. And then he goes and takes the thing back off.

Stop drinking weird hazardous liquids profit by a man making promises. That's all I'm saying. What can a guy promise you to get you to drink out of a bottle of Drano with the label ripped off? About half blast. Barha blast.

Yeah. No, it's my heart blast in there. You were saying early that you like to party, right? Yeah, I feel like I remember you saying that you like to party, and yet you're refusing the clean-skinned draino bottle that I have. Very strange. We haven't heard who's proffering this yet, though, right? It might be proffered from the earth.

Oh, it might be springing forth from the fertile ground. Yeah. It could be from, like, Gaia's butt as well. Yeah, I guess that can be true. I suppose so. Gaya can be nasty too. I don't think Guy is nasty. Guy's not nasty.

You take that back. According to RCMP, there are no specific details or descriptors of the liquid at this time. What do you mean? However, given the potential safety risk, residents are advised not to consume any unknown beverages or substances. Keep an eye out for beverages you don't know. Don't drink something. You don't know what it is. This is the most mysterious liquid we've had on the show in which we don't even have a description of which the context in which it was encountered.

It's killed people? People have died? Well, we don't know. If you never had a nebiolo before and someone offers you a nebiolo, don't touch it. That's an unknown beverage to you at this stage. I'm not having an unknown beverage. Yeah. Nero Diavola, what the fuck is that?

How about a Coca-Cola? I don't know it tastes bad anyway. Who cares? That's nasty. RCMP have no further information as investigators are said to be in the preliminary stages of the investigation. Very preliminary, I would say. Like you think, you don't even know. You don't know.

You think there's a dangerous beverage, not sure, could be of any type. But it is killing people possibly. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Don't drink anything. Who knows? If anyone offers you something, don't take it.

Don't take it. Don't even want to say what this liquid is. It's crazy. I don't think they know. But then how do they even know that? How do they know, though? They don't want us to know because there's something special about it. It might be antimimetic.

Because it helps you party. Are they just walking down the street and getting like NPC chatter going like, I hear there's a delicious new liquid in town. Have you tried to liquid? But safety is untested. What do you mean? Oh, well, no worth looking to. We'll probably never hear about that again.

I have another mystery liquid story for you here. This is from the BBC. Traumatized couple forced to drink black liquid. What? Okay. They're three kingsing? They're what? They're three kingsing.

Does that happen in three kings? Spike John's character, they pour a bunch of oil in his mouth. They do. It's true. Yeah. Oh, they're quantum of solacing? I guess they dip her in oil and quantum of solace. Yeah.

And he's getting his nuts went. It's Mark Warburg That they pour the oil in his mouth They put a little wooden thing with a wire in his mouth Oh it's a Mark Warburg Okay I thought I was a thing I don't know for no reason

An elderly couple Who were located by an intruder in their bedroom And forced to drink a quote A horrible black liquid at knife point So the trauma of it as ruined our life Who is it? Turns out it was coffee Is it Bovril?

It was Bovro. Wasn't a invader from the Midlands? Ask not be prepared and Randolphovril. Regional Cup. Roland 85 and Maureen, 79, said a man broke into their home in Royton, Greater Manchester, and confronted them in their bedroom on 10th of February. Maureen said the man shook them awake and forced them to drink the liquid before making off with their bank cards on a mobile phone.

Christ. What a strange thing to do. Yeah. Could have done it without the drinking the liquid, I think. Yeah, you had a knife. I mean, you didn't have to wake them up. If you, if you want to go and break in and enter and do stuff, Andrew, that's up to you.

You do it your style. Yep. I'm not going to, I'm not going to tell people how to do their job. I've never done it. Maybe it was a forgetting potion, like a serum. I think he crafted a serum, but like got an Etsy witch to make him a serum. They do sound like they really remembered. They remembered.

They definitely, they might have remembered. Yeah. Yeah, the Etsy Witch. A potion of super remembering. Yes, Etsy Witch fucked up. It's just kombucha. I just, maybe I would do it in the style of like, give me your bank cards or else I'm going to make you drink this horrible liquid love.

And then when it's done, you're like, lucky. You know, I guess I just, I'm not sure I understand the method behind saying, before we get into anything else, drink this. I think he's a man of science. And then you get it all drunk and you say, all right, now on to the business at hand. Yeah. I think he's a man of science, but he also needs funds to keep living in this. You know, the cost of living these days.

He's seeing each news report coming up and going, still alive. Okay, making a note on his notebook. T plus 20, complaining to the BBC. I think he was maybe trying to upstream color them, but the worm didn't take. I think he gave them the worm and was like, empty your bank account. So they're like, nah, no, I don't. Like the worm in like some seesole, maybe? Yeah, it was probably the worm and some sea salt.

What a fun phrase. What are you talking about? The worm and some sea salt. Worm and some seasol. Worm and some seasol. Louis-Ther is shaking his head. And you need to know like six different things to understand. First of all, gardening.

Okay, so you need to understand having a garden. All right, that's where I'm out. I'm out. Well, you've got your little balcony. You got any plants on your balcony, Lucy? Not yet. You got one chair, an ashtray and some bamboo put up as a barrier between you and your neighbors. That's right, correct.

Yeah, maybe a couple of unwashed wine glasses. Oh, come on now. It's not talking too, personal. No, you only own the wine and wine glass. Coach, I felt this hand on my shoulder, and I thought it was Roland, shaking me for some reason, she said. This chap was looking down on me, and I said, What are you doing here? What are you doing?

It's normally my husband who wakes me in the night to force me to drink liquids. Yeah. Oh. Oh, hey, come on. Hey, come. Grow up. Louis, no, it's not like that. Also, let's just take one moment to say, yes, we're making jokes.

We don't actually think it's good to wake very elderly people in the night and force them to consume. Oh, we think home invasions are bad. We do actually hear home invasions are bad. Just, just for clarity. No emails. No emails. Delete that email. Please just delete it. Delete the draft.

She said the man asked for valuables and when she refused, he went to their kitchen and came back with two knives. Two knives, two people. He didn't even bring his own knife. He didn't bring a knife. Roland said the intruder forced him to drink a quote dark liquid which he promptly spat out. Okay, that's why he remembered. Because he didn't swallow it. Didn't like the taste.

Tick on the clipboard. Second of all, don't know what this is. He said the man was, quote, very evil and it had left him terrified. There was another, I saw a more salacious version of this written up in like the Daily Mail or something where they described the man as being very calm. That is evil. That is very evil. Quote, it's just in my head all the time and it keeps coming back, he said. So keep an eye out for beverages.

I think that's the takeaway from these two stories. Any word. So very calm man. Evil. Yes. Moving kind of with intent. Finding stuff like Delta Force style in the operation. Any word on whether he looks anything like Alex Crycheck.

Are they getting cry checked at the moment? You love the black goo from the X-Files. More than you love maybe. be your own family. I love the black goo from the X-Files, so shoot me. I'm just saying that it kind of perfectly fits. Yeah, this is Cry-Chex profile. It has black goo all over it. Yeah. Hey, in any other context, trying to get someone to drink a drink is usually legal. We talk about things that are legal in perfectly legal.

Very versatile that's a figure. This comes to us from KTTV in Los Angeles. Oh, TVvision. A woman finds man hiding in trunk of self-driving Waymo in Los Angeles. Is that illegal? Well, apparently not. A Los Angeles woman expecting an empty autonomous Waymo taxi instead found a man hiding in the vehicle's trunk,

prompting new questions about the safety of driverless ride services. But it's like, what do you want? Do you want someone? in the car keeping an eye on things or do you not? Do you just want to completely because by all accounts, all of these driverless vehicles

work better when there's someone in the car who's ready to push the brakes when it's going to drive you off a cliff? Yeah, or someone in the Philippines who's driving a Robo Vision. Yeah, so what I'm saying is more American jobs by giving the remote pilot guy a tablet but just put him in the boot.

Put him in the boot so that he's not kind of he's not weirding you out maybe he sniffed his own armpits beforehand he said you know what I'm a little ripe today I'm going on up back yeah I don't want to I don't want to bother this nice lady

just gonna crawl in the boot I think so I don't mind American mechanical Turks that's right that's right I don't mind a guy in the boot if I can pay less I'm gonna pay less for like a Waymo boot boot

close the boot again and just be like, all right? But I get this for like half price, right? When I get out of the way, Mo. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'll cop the other half. Can't smell it over my own armpits. God damn it. The, uh, my, they changed my deodorant and it stopped working.

No, maybe you changed. Maybe I changed. Maybe you changed. They, I don't want to say it. They changed. It smells the same, but it, No longer holds it at bay. Maybe it's got used to your body.

Maybe it's evolved. Maybe your body is evolved. Maybe your body has finally developed an immunity to the antiperspirant properties of that specific de area. Yeah. Your body is a powerful and constantly evolving thing, Ben. That's so, isn't that beautiful? The discovery was captured on video earlier this week

as the woman prepared to enter the Waymo near MacArthur Park. the man could be seen on camera saying quote, they put him in the trunk but didn't explain who. Aliens. Graze. It was graze.

I hope he means the grays and I believe him if it was. But I hate to think who he does mean. Los Angeles police responded but made no arrests telling Fox 11 that no crime had been committed. Okay. Not a crime to be in the boot of a way mo.

This is... Maybe it's not a crime to be put in the boot of a way. If someone else put him in there, right? Oh, you're saying it's only not a crime because they believe him that he was placed in there. Well, if they say to you, uh, hey, did you climb into the boot of this waymo hoping that a beautiful woman would get into the car and not know that you were here? Maybe you'd get some kind of sick enjoyment out of that, you fucking freak. Or did someone push you in here and close it? Yeah, legal loophole.

If you say, second one, the normal sounding one, the comparatively normal sounding one. Which one gets me in less trouble? Yes. Now, I'm just going to save before I say this answer, and then we'll just see how they're out there. Quick speech check. Oh, you're frowning. Quote, I just want to know why he was in the trunk. Who put him in the trunk?

How did he get into the trunk? He's trying to tell you. He's trying to tell you, but you won't listen. And also, maybe mind your own business. You know? You ever think this guy's got some stuff going on? You're not entitled to know. everything about his life.

No. You know? You can get in the Uber pool and be like, where are you going? What are you doing today? What are you guys up to tonight? Where are you going? What's the vibe?

What's the vibe? What's the move tonight? Yeah. Where are we heading fellas? Where are we dropping? Where are we dropping, boys? Where are we dropping fellas? I think I can change my plans.

A seven foot tall alien shoves me in the boot. Okay. We've got to kill this one. We've got to kill this one quick. You guys going out after or okay? The encounter comes just a week after a separate Waymo vehicle in Los Angeles drove through an active police standoff.

Officers were pointing guns that are suspect on the ground when the driverless car continued moving through the scene with a passenger still inside. Very good. Because why would a Waymo know what that is? Yeah. And it's a robot car. It's perfectly fine to put thousands of these cars out there when they literally just can't deal with. Everyone's being very critical right now.

You don't want your Waymo to stop in the middle of a police shootout. Yeah, I would also... Like right in the middle, just get like blasted from both sides. It's getting air-hold. The hazard lights come on. I saw another one this week with a Waymo that... I think it was a Waymo, or is a Tesla in self-driving mode maybe, that pulled through like a train crossing,

stopped on the other side of the barrier, but just shy of the train. So just in the danger zone. Jesus. It must be so awesome. Yeah. I think that that should be your fate. If you're up into these things, I think that you obvious death trap, all the doors locked. Yeah. Whammo. You have to actively order one, right? Like, you can't just go on Uber and it's just, you're getting surprised with the Waymo, right? Yeah. I don't think they're making you take a driverless car. Okay. Well then. They want to, though.

This guy did. They will. They made him. Soon enough. Yeah. They, they, yeah. Very tall, very tall man in a. a well-tailored suit. Where do you get that suit from? Where are you going to suit that long? Nationwide, more than 3,000 Waymo vehicles are under recall after the company reported a software issue that caused some cars to pass stopped school buses with their stop arms extended.

Awesome. Great. I've got those in the mix. A Waymo spokesperson called the latest incident, quote, unacceptable, saying the company is, quote, actively implementing changes to address this. Yeah. How about put a driver in your car? How about a guy that drives it?

I think it's going to be iron maiden trunk. Oh, I just put a lot of like hostile architecture, the trunk of the waymo. Three minutes into the ride, a bunch of spikes are fired pneumatically, like, into the trunk and then they recede straight away. What if you just flood the boot with like argon? Yeah. So like it doesn't damage your stuff, but. But it is going to suffocate anything that might be in there. Hopefully they didn't put an innocent in there.

and it was just like a shoe creep. Yeah. Hopefully. Police have not said how the man got into the trunk or why he was there. Well, we know. We know. He told you. Grace put him in there.

Yeah, Pleadians. Dumped him in the boot. They're roaming further and further from Nevada and all that kind of stuff, right? They're secret base, the MJ12 stuff, et cetera. Yeah, they've mastered interplanetary travel, and now they've also mastered interstate travel. Yeah. It's crazy to imagine what I might be able to do next. The Amtrak.

Ha Hey, sometimes your driverless car might crash into a poll Yes. Yes. And we talk about polls in the poll report. This comes to us from WVIT and Connecticut. Connecticut lawmakers push new way for residents to flag double utility poles.

Okay. Okay. Connecticut lawmakers heard testimony on Thursday regarding a bill addressing the state's double utility poll problem. You guys heard about this? Dregs fast. What do you mean? Trying to imagine what it might be. The double utility pole problem?

Yeah, yeah. You guys got too many utility pole? The Connecticut two pole problem. Yeah. Double poles are the case where a damaged or older utility pole. Come on. Are they going in the same spot? Louis did you...

I mean, they're going in the same spot, right? It's implied. I mean, they might be going into two spots. This is very close to... It's close by, not the same spot. That would be borderline logistically impossible, surely. Neighboring spots. How'd you even manage to get two sets of hips around there?

Double puddles of the case were damaged, damaged, older utility pole remains standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Next to which replacement for months or even years. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Coming out of my house every day, the second pole is still. Still fucking there. Why won't anyone come and clean this up?

The lingering poles can pose hazards and create eyesaws in neighborhoods across the state. I've never seen a lingering pole in my life. I've never seen a lingering pole. We don't have a two-pole problem. No, mine lingered. We had one that... You had a lingering pole? I had a lingering pole for a long time.

This was after the... If it lasts for more than four hours. Go to the emergency room. When the pole doesn't linger, it is hard to get the condom onto it. There's certain seats that can make it happen. When the... At the previous place... Louis Thoreau calling a screaming halt to this.

There was BMW motorbikes that made people... that gave people lingering poles. Anyway, at my old house, when there was a crane truck drove down the street with its arm extended and went and took your internet out and plugged all yeah took all the all the internet wires they end up putting a new pole in across the street and they left the old one there for a little while

we had a double pole problem for a little while I mean it wasn't so much of a problem because it wasn't hurting me in any way or affecting me I kind of how it would it wasn't really like bothering me in any way it wasn't a danger to anybody it wasn't something that was like going to get reused but couldn't because of like a council kind of can't do this

sort of stuff problem. It sort of wasn't a problem. It didn't impact anyone in any way, shape or form other than you had one extra place to put up a flyer for your garage sale. Or your garage band. Yeah. Dirt nap are playing in my garage. 9.30 a.m.

Free. Five dollar beers. Who's the people that for, uh, fucking now, uh, Falunsoho. Arctic dokees. Philansoho did just around the corner. Yeah. So. Yeah.

Pretty cool. Pretty cool. Pretty cool. Would have had half as many people if it weren't for all those extra polls. Yeah. Polls can be useful. Yeah. The legislative discussion happened about a month after NBC Connecticut reported that the state could have as many as 21,000 double polls.

That's 42,000. Forty-2000 polls. Poles? Well more than that actually But these are just the ones that have doubled Yeah Yeah that's right So we can tell at minimum

There are 20 We know at minimum there are 42,000 poles in Connecticut But probably more Yes Almost certainly more Yeah Residents who live near the eyesaws Say the hardest part can be figuring out

How to take action to remove them What do you got going on? You're literally just talking about a power pole, right? It's a power pole that was there before. Now there's another pole, the old pole is still there. And every day you walk outside and you go, why? What? Please. Yeah. Because the folks that put the new pole in are not the same folks that put, that take the old pole out. Oh, no, completely different skill set. And you need the old pole

standing there for the, for the wires and stuff, right? Hey, can you take the old one out while you're there? Buddy, I wouldn't even know where to start. even know what I'm looking at. What is this? Some kind of freaking pole that needs to be taken down? Hold on, let me solve you there. What do you mean out?

What do you mean by out? Poles go in, brother. I puts the pole in. Yeah. You see on the side of my truck there it says, Paul put it in a. Some other guy texts the poles out. Don't know what to tell you, buddy.

Look at the side of my truck. It says, Paul's pole putting in. Anywhere on the truck does it say Paul's pole pulling out. Yeah, we never pull my pole out. We never pull out. I'll save you the time. It doesn't say that. We use condoms.

Paul's polls we never pull out. Wonderful sign. I was driving behind a van in traffic yesterday and I had to stop and take a picture of the back of this fucking chicken van. Because it had like a tagline on the thing saying it was. it was M and J chickens and underneath it said revolutionizing the way you think about chicken finally

and I went how do I think about chicken what do I think? Have you even stopped to think about how you think about chicken? And what's it going to change to? Meta chicken condition. I've seen those before but I've never seen the tagline. That's real good.

It was terrible color contrast on the tagline. It's like a sort of darkish grey on a dark blue background. You know what? I was fucking looking at one of these just the other day because of how dog shit the chicken looks is really endearing. It's the, it's sort of leaning on the logo. It's a rooster. Clearly he, he's leaning on the logo. Possibly has mountains behind him or that's his tail.

It's hard to tell. It's just a really badly drawn chicken. And I think it's beautiful. Yeah, not AI. Not AI. Because these days, now have days. Have you guys, Lucy and Theo, I assume this is just a Brisbane thing, but I don't know. There's a guy who has, I think it's an electrical business where the art for it is clearly furry art.

The vans are like yellow and pink-po. And it's like a sexy anthro like fox. You guys seen that? I think I've seen that. It's like really hot, like really fuzzable. Like a fuckable kind of fox. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a really yiffable.

Yeah, what's the deal with that? Someone's just gone on the internet and being like, hey, you know, I think I really like foxes. We're electricians just wondering if there's like, hey, can anyone draw me a fox? Yeah. My nephew's an artist. I'm going to ask him to draw me something from my business. My nephew loves drawing foxes. Spends a lot of his time drawing foxes.

Got a knock before you go in the room. Can you see any of his? No. No. No, I don't think, I don't. I can, I could take some, some photos of parts of some of the pictures that he's drawn and sent that to you. Does anybody else have the same weird impulse as me when you see, some of them, definitely.

Say yes or no now and then find out what it's going to be. Like, I, I, like, I, like, I pire in a lot of movies. Don't tell anyone. I put a lot of movies on my server and everything. It's fine. I'm not losing a lot of sleep over like copyright law. But when I see like a truck or a business that has done like all of their signage and their livery with like either Disney or Looney Tunes characters or whatever, they've got somebody from a sign writing place to do. Oh no, I love that shit.

Yeah. But there is something in the back of my brain goes, someone ought to call Disney about that. You know? You've just like, you need to see these lawyers down here. Fight that impulse. Of course I never do it. I'm just saying. Put goofy on your truck.

Put goofy on your truck. Yeah, put him in some overalls. Put him out of some overalls. Yeah. Overeals, no shirt underneath deep cuts down the side. You can see his hips and he can see he is not wearing underwear. He's got cum gutters. He's clearly not wearing underwear, you know?

And he'll. He'll fix your light switch or whatever. I'll tell you what. Fuck you. He's a pole putter in it. I'll tell you that. Oh. Oh!

We're talking about a goofy penis. Didn't know. We were working blue today. Louis, shaking his head still. Interesting. So I was thinking of Brisbane plumbing and drainage. And I think it's a dog, not a fox. I think.

But boy, it explains they've got a sort of a drone shot here of all like 20 of their vans, which explains why I can't see in this everywhere. Yeah, but when he's wearing a little shirt, they got his sleeves cuffed. Ooh, little muscles, yeah, big boots, yeah. I've seen that guy. I've seen that guy, big plunger. Huge plunger, and where is he going to use it? Huge, what's he going to do with that?

Is he going to put it on my butt and use it to pull all the stuff out of all my shits out of my ass? What? No, no, what are we doing? You got to... What else is he going to do to me with his plunger? I don't get it. Yeah, you wouldn't want to use the other end to this.

Would. You got to put it in my mouth and pull out the strange liquid you got me to drink? The bill introduced by the legislature's Energy and Technology Committee would, among other things, establish an electronic system. Awesome. Okay. Oh, finally. Theos Ears' ears perk it up.

The system would allow any person to submit a report of the double poles. Shouldn't you've been keeping track? I know it's not a problem, but like, shouldn't there be a system? Don't they already know about the double polls? Why would you have to report it? And you can be like, wait a second. Like, look, I know. I know there's a lot of normal people in America, but it's also still funny that, you know,

the median person there would like to pay. zero tax if possible, right? But also live in a world where their surplus poles get taken away. Because they're sickly extra pole. Why don't you pay someone to take the pole away? Yeah. Or you could all pool your money together and kind of get all the poles taken care of, etc, etc.

So on, so forth, whatever. Probably a couple of years left of this now. Of America? Yeah, and the rest. We're all going, right, at the same time, I think. I don't think they're going to send a new side of here. I think we're nice and geographically isolated. Yeah, way over here.

No one's to risk hitting New Zealand by mistake. I had the thought on Tuesday being like, I should put some fuel in the car. Things are probably going to get worse in the next couple of days. Do you think we'll ever get back to like 1970s style, whenever the fuck that was fuel shortages like rationed? Is that going to happen in our lifetimes? It might happen by the time this podcast is released.

Because that's very powerful newsreel at the start of an apocalyptic movie imagery. Like, Just, it's one of those ones where if you saw it, you'd be like, Gazeline, they run out of gasoline. Yeah, yeah, this is how you get fucking Fury Roads. This is how you get Fury Road. This is how you get Fury Road. This is how you get Fury Road. They call it Fury Road.

I bet Trump liked Fury Road, didn't like Furiosa. I haven't seen Furio, so. It's different. It's different. It's different. But it's good. I like the difference. Good.

Stack cars. Beautiful imagery. How stacked are we talking? Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff, classic staple American. The Duff Man. Who supports the bill, said he has dealt with the issue in his Norwalk district

and has had double polls in his own street for a long time. I know what it's like. I've lived it. He won't. walk out there every day. You have to look at that thing. I mean, you don't have to look at that thing. You can kind of just look in a slightly different direction.

Whatever it's like a symbol of like everything else that's wrong with his life. Like he hates his wife, hates his kids, hates his job. He's taking it out on the pole, yeah. And the pole is just a reminder. It's a symbol of every failure that he's powerless in society and that he's a value. What happens if they take all the double poles away and you're still unhappy? You've got to look at your life. What if it wasn't the poll?

What if it wasn't the poll? What if you weren't angry at the pole? Yeah. What if you were angry at Nicole, your wife? Yeah. What if you're angry at yourself? Because she's getting double-polled. Mainly angry at Nicole.

Duff said the issue could persist even when residents believe it's been identified. Quote, I think it sat there for 10 years before I had it, and I finally called the utility that owned it. And it said it wasn't even. on their list, Duff said. It said. It said. So the there is the utility company.

It is the person that he's dehumanizing that was on the phone. Yeah. It. The creature on the telephone told me they didn't even know about the double pole. Oh, it's probably a them. You know, them said. Them told me what with how things are nowadays. They them said to me.

Connecticut already has a program aimed at reducing double poles and state leaders have been working on the issue for more than a decade. Who cares? I don't think I would notice. Yeah. I feel like you could be there for 10 years and one day you'd be like, huh, two polls there. It's also very funny. Um, the, you can, like the leaders, the people in charge of presumably, like, doing stuff in your state has been working on getting rid of polls for over a decade. Yeah. That feels like a very tractable problem in a normal. like England. Am I right? Yep.

We recently had our poll tended to. Oh, did? Which felt quite nice. Obviously, it's not ours. It does feel nice. It does feel nice on the poll, yes. Did you have to ask? No.

Or was it sort of taken care of, like, as part of? It was just taken part of due course. So it got hit by a car in one of the many car accidents that happened in front of our house in the last couple of months. They came around and put it down? That's right. Put it to sleep. A couple of Energex guys just like stroking it on the side. Shh.

Hey, hey, you're going to sleep now. Time to dream. It got hit by car and then I asked one of the cops outside. I was like, do I have to call Energex about this? Like, no, they'll just come. And then the next morning I woke up and there was like fresh dirt around the base of the pole where they like reseated it and checked that it was okay. And it looked like they just planted a tree there.

They repotted your poll. They repotted my poll. Thanks, Energex. Some leaders have raised concerns that current efforts can't keep up with the scope of the problem statewide. Okay. So they haven't got a solution for the new DP situations. Like, they're popping up everywhere and they can't work out how to kind of get rid of the old ones, let alone new ones getting created. Yeah.

So I think it's safe to say that within the next 10 years, Connecticut will become mostly polls. Your people might be stupid. The people in charge of your state might be morons, I would say. Or evil or craven. Poles are difficult. It's one of the two. But then who else has the pole problem? Does Queensland have a double pole problem?

And I've just never noticed because I'm like... I'm never looking at a parable. I'm never looking at a power pole. Probably is that you're always walking around looking down, Ben. Yeah, that's true. look up at the world and then you start getting mad about the poles in the middle middle ground. Double pole. Oh, more double poles popping up.

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in that very audience. Tremendous. This is real short. I'm not even reading a press release to you. I just one, keep you posted on something here. You guys know Baby Bell, the cheeses. Little cheese. Oh, yeah, the little cheeses. Like a little single-serve cheese snack. I feel like haven't been seen baby bells in a while.

They're still there. They're still around. Oh, you better believe they're in the perishable section of your local supermarket. Okay. Our kids like them. Children love a baby bell. They do. And when I was a children?

Loved it. Back when you was a children? Shake his head. I also like the, I still like those cards that they had with like the gross people on it. Like the guy that had like Inside Out Man. It took about odd bots? Odd bots?

I loved my fucking odd bots and babybell. Yeah, odd bots and baby bell. What a life. Now it's iPads and... Parmesan or Reggiano. It used to be odd buds and baby bell. Take me back. You'll remember odd bots and baby bell

Oh man Wolf and down a baby bell Looking at an odd bod Get up in the morning You're looking at your odd bods You turn on cheese TV Yeah You got Dragon Ball Z

Pokemon season one You got Dragon Balls Nowadays the only odd bot I see Is my own in the mirror Yeah President Trump We all remember watching cheese TV While we unsheaval

each of our baby bell cheeses and mush them into one big baseball sized maxy bell cheese and then all of the wax off the outsides I add that on to my baby bell candle and your parents walk in and they go

why do you always have to do this I'm sorry I'm just really stressed about work at the moment but do you have to do that it gets can you do one normal thing it gets the the cheese wet all over the ground all over the nice

Matt. When you were, when you guys were growing up, did you know any kids who had Foxtale who had like pay TV? Oh, we had Fox Talkers. Yeah, had one friend at high school. Because they were, because my parents got divorced. Oh, yeah. Oh, nice.

You were a cool kid with Foxdale. Like for the rest of us, for regular folk, regular people, there was like an hour and a half a day total of good children's programming. And then in the households with Foxtell, any time of the day, cartoon network. Cartoon network. Cartoon network, baby. Adult swim. Some of the fucking shit you'll ever see in your life.

Adult swim. Aquatine hunger force. Yeah. If you didn't have Fox Tell it was like 3.30, you got... Albert the Fifth Musketeer. Yeah, that's right. You've got Rocco's Modern Life in there somewhere. If you're lucky, you get five minutes of Trappdoor.

Yeah. But... Maybe Traptor, maybe gogs. Yeah. This is good, millennial radio. This is really good. I just think that there's some millennials out there who are enjoying parts of their brain light up.

They go, oh, nostalgia. This is reinforcing the neural pathways for your memories of your childhood, by the way. Every time you remember something, you remember remembering it, it reinforces it. So you'll remember odd bots. Don't even think about the fMRI that we're taking right now. This is actually, we're in your memories and we're doing the Eternal Sunshine thing. We're making you remember them so we can get rid of them.

You wake up? You'll say, Trappedo's gone. Albert? The fifth must continue? Baby Bell? We can remember and forget it for you also. Going the supermarket.

What the fuck is this? Little cheese? Little cheese in wax? All right. So Baby Bell is a 20 gram single serving of cheese, right? We've seen them, be familiar with them well. Good news. The Baby Bell Pro has just come out.

What? It's just released Baby Bell Pro. It's just like the upspec'd Baby Bell? Do they proteinify it? It's been proteinified, Lucy. They proteinify cheese? Yeah. Well, Lucy, you're going to fucking love this.

So the Baby Bell Pro also a 20 gram serving. This hot shit professional grade cheese comes with five grams of protein. Did it not already? Well, the original, the boo, boring vanilla. The standard model Baby Bell is a 20 gram serving with four grams of protein. You're getting, calling it Baby Bell Pro is so funny. Baby Bell Pro is awesome. I expect higher performance, bigger screen, long a battery life.

How do you get, how do you put more protein in the cheese? Is this like the fit milk that we were talking about where it's like, are they just putting the milk out of the milk and made it more proteinable? They're just putting weight protein in. They probably are. Yeah. Are they just stirring like, God, I have. I bet it's gritty.

I bet it's gritty. I love. I hate this. If you're being like hand reaching into the fridge section at your Woolworths and you're like, oh, you know what? No, I'm not going to get the regular baby bell. I'm going to move my hand to the right. I'm going to pick up the baby bell pro because I want that extra one gram of protein. Three extra grams of protein today with all the baby bells.

If I eat three baby bells. Just buy a block of cheese, brother, at this point. What are you doing? What are you doing? What are we doing? It also looks like shit. If you want to look it up. It looks different.

Well, it's blue. Baby Bells is different. It's not red like the iconic. Oh, they change the color. It has to be. It has to be red. It looks like a cleaning product. Protein.

No, sorry, Ben. I feel like you're under selling this. It's protein plus probiotics. Which is a double pro. It's another DP. Oh. Oh, it's probiotic. All cheese is probiotic, isn't it?

Is it? Isn't it? Isn't it? I don't think so. Yeah, we're not smart enough to talk about fucking anything. It looks fucked. It looks like a Tide pod. What the fuck is this?

Right? It looks like a laundry product now. They're like the lightning bolt. They're like plain blue. Baby Bell has that very evocative sort of like white ribbon of a flowing liquid going through the middle. It seems somehow pastoral in some way. You go, this came to me from a farm. Whereas now I look at it, like this came from some like horrible German chemical company.

This came from a fat. Yeah, this came from a... This didn't come from a farm at all. Have you got this horrible quote, Ben? It depends on what it is. Oh, as shoppers increasingly seek out snacks that deliver both protein and probiotics, we recognise an opportunity to expand the Baby Bell portfolio, so consumers don't have to choose between goodness and enjoyment.

What? Goodness? What? Goodness and enjoyment. You've one gram of protein. Extra gram of protein. This makes me sick. This is another company that I believe shouldn't be flipping and flopping to the rhythms of the hurdy-gurdy.

No, you've got this is like devaluing the Baby Bell brand. It's diminishing the brand, isn't it? Yes. It's like the opposite of when like. This is undignified. What is it like all the luxury fashion brands that have stores that literally no one shops at because it reinforces the idea that they're like unattainable? It's luxury.

This is saying, hey, we're actually. trash. This seems like a luxury. We didn't have baby bell growing up. I grew up poor. I never had a baby bell till I was like 25, you know? We didn't have baby bells when I was a kid either. I thought they were luxurious.

They're from 1865. And they're changing their branding to put in one extra bit of protein because that's what the fucking trend is at the moment. This is fucked. This makes me sick. Sickens me in my stomach. No one has any pride anymore. No one takes any pride in what they do.

in how people think of them, they'll do anything for anyone. Makes me want to fucking hurl. And the thing is you can make an ad campaign off of the back of doing nothing, right? You'd be like, here at Baby Bell, we don't flip-flap to the whims of the whatever's, right?

You're going to enjoy the same delicious, oddly white cheese that you have for decades because, you know, trends come and go, but Baby Bell stays the same. Stays the same. We want things that stay the same. 150 years

of tradition. I dare a company to say, hey, it already had protein in it. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. Hey, eating a ton of cheese isn't going to make you healthy. It would be so easy to make that ad too, where it's just like a stupid guy

is buying something that's called like the protein maxer. And then your smart guy, your like avatar in the air. And it could be Navi. It could be a Navi. I haven't made my mind up about that yet. Well, think about how small a babybell would look in a Navi's hand, though.

Oh my God. Now that's why you've got to make the Baby Bell Pro. We're now making Navi-sized baby bells. Just a big wet cheese wheel. Fuck. And she's just slurping it down. Slurpable baby. She's kind of drooling down her face.

Yeah. And she's not. wearing the necklace that conveniently hides her nipples. Am I right, fellas? Yeah, I don't know. Haven't seen it. I don't know. You haven't seen an avatar?

I've not seen any avatar. It doesn't look very interesting. Lucy, I think you can't come over. Edibles, Avatar. You can stay the night. Okay. It'll be like a sleepover for two Avatar movies. Avatar sleepover.

Maybe a third. Who's bringing the baby bells? I'll bring some regular baby bells. You know what? I'm boycotting them. I haven't bought one ever. When is the protein backlash coming? I'm sick of it.

I'm sure. It makes me angry. And when are we going to get credited? The protein blowback? For this. Yeah. I think that's the next season of blowback. Yeah.

Too much protein. Well, I think that was definitely an episode of the podcast. Bonta Vista. Thank you so, so much for joining us. If you don't subscribe to the podcast, And you were thinking, you know what, that wasn't enough, Punta Vista this week for me. I have the best fucking news you'll ever hear in your entire goddamn life. We actually record two of these weeks.

And you can get that episode. All you have to pay is it's like, what, five bucks American, seven bucks 50 Australian, something. The dollar is crashing. And that trend will probably continue as the American Empire continues to sort of, America's chickens are coming home to roost. And you'll get a cheaper podcast. You'll know that we've chosen a side when we switch to Australian dollars. We've got to switch back to the AUD.

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