Boonta Vista - UNLOCKED BONUS EPISODE: Death Race 2032: Top Golf Arena

Episode Date: July 24, 2021

Did you hear the news? Brisbane got the 2032 Olympics! Because it's entirely topical now, here's a bonus episode Ben and Theo recorded back in January 2020 about how they really did not want Brisbane to get the 2032 Olympics. If you like these bonus episodes you can get 'em at patreon.com/BoontaVista. Cheeeers.

Hey, it's me, Ben from the podcast, Buntavista. I don't know if you guys been keeping up on the news, but Brisbane just got awarded the Olympics for 2032, which a lot of people tagged me and the podcast in largely because Royd as the news service described Brisbane as a once backwater in their headline of the event, which... I don't know, it's probably true. But anyway, um, I, um, I, I'm, uh, I, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, the, the, the, the the the the the the the the the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news, the news the news, the news, the news the news the news the news the news, the news, the news, the news service described Brisbane as a once backwater in their headline of the event, which I don't know, it's probably true. But anyway, about a year ago, no more than that, fuck, a year and a half ago, Theo and I recorded a little, a little just Ben and Theo episode. We talked about a lot of things, but we also went very at length on why we really didn't fucking want a Brisbane Olympics.

And that seemed pretty relevant. So if you're a Patreon subscriber, you've actually maybe listened to this episode before, it's just coming back in your feed because it's topical. But if you're listening to this as a free episode, this is a first view. Welcome. Lovely to have you listening to this episode from the past. Yeah. Yeah, cool. All right. Here's the episode starts after I. This is a bonus episode. I'm Ben and I'm standing here in a great ancient Roman forum, waxing at length to my fellow senators about politics and philosophy

and other such learned topics. Standing behind me with a dagger poise to plunge it in my back, it's Theo. Hello Theo. Hey, how are you doing? I'm alright for now. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we may want to have a chat a little bit later on about everything that's going on. Not really feeling great about it. But look, that doesn't happen to have to happen right now. It can probably wait until we've gone home. We've all gone, which we will all do. We'll all go home. All of us. Everyone that walked in on their own to to to to to to to to to to to to to their their their their their their th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to th. th. th. th. to th. to th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to th. to th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. the. the. to to to to thea. to thea. to thea. thea. to the. to to to to to to to to to go home from here. All of us. Everyone that walked in on their own two legs will be leaving on their own two legs. That's right, that's my understanding. I mean, it's happened to us every single time we've walked in and out of here until now.

And I certainly see no reason to worry that it won't. Absolutely. And I feel inspired by that you had to reassure me. Yeah. I mean, everyone else here is on your side. There's me and there's 34 other guys here and we're all saying, hey, up the Caesar. Because I was sort of like looking around before and I just felt like everyone was sort of holding a hand within their Toga? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's us. We're all holding our hand to our heart as we think of Caesar. Mmm. And just how much he means to us all. Okay, good, because I was a little nervous. Yeah, nothing to be nervous about. And you've stayed perfectly behind me this whole time. No, I have. That's right. And you, yep. And my hand is just, it's not feeling real great right now. So it is going to stay behind me. Yep. Yep.

Okay. And it's just that every time I keep turn around to look at you, you sort of complete the complimentary movement that keeps you behind me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's just from here. I can keep an eye on any enemies that you might have. I don't have any enemies.

Well, I don keep it going. Probably for years. I was pretty sure until, yeah. I'm going to say this conversation is when I start to make sure. Yes. I'm very sorry that it, that that's, look, it's not the thing I was going for. You're doing a great job. And as tha tha tha tha tha tha tha tha, tha, tha, tha, th. th. th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, that, that, that, that, that, to that, to to that, that, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to that, that, that, that, that, that, that, th. I, to to to to to to to to to to to to to th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, to to the. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to thing I was going for. You're doing a great job. And as I say, we're all standing behind you. Yeah, you are all standing behind. Well, we think you do it a great job.

Love all your stuff. That thing with Cleopatra, it was, oh, she's a great broad, huh? The guys and I were just talking about our, how much we love that. And her, and her, and her, it, me to to to to to to to to to their, I I I I I was I was I was their, I was their, I was their, I was their, I was their, I was their, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, me, me, I was, I was, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me a a their, me, their, their, their, I was a their, to their, to their, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, literally, to to a to to to to to to to me, to me, to me, their their the guys and I were just talking about how much we love that. And her, and her covered around all the time. It's been, it's really cool, her being here all the time. I did see you all talking before actually. You were sort of huddled. Yeah, yeah, about, and we were just talking about how much we love Cleopatra and her being here.

The Brutus with you? Ah! Where is that guy? I love that guy. Um, he's around, I think. Yeah. I saw him on the way to the aqueduct before. What if you're daily treats to the aqueduct?

Fetch some water for us all. Sure. Yeah. So if you see him coming back, he's probably just carrying the water in his toga. And that makes sense. Uh, welcome to Puerto Vista. This is an improv podcast by two level four improv whiz bangs. Firecrackers. You give us one word, we will give you 45 minutes

of racist accents. Oh, we should have done all of that in Italian accents. Well, because you think of like the ancient Romans from all of the British movies and media and stuff. Yeah, they've got upper class British accents. Absolutely. Which I think gives us a certain image in our mind, but if they were all talking it horrendously racist accents. It'd be much better if there was 20 minutes of a legionaire talking about his pizza pie oven at home.

Just imagine the latest Rome Total War getting review bombed on steam because the PC developers have refused to make all of the Roman characters talk exactly like Mario. I would love a mod for that where you click on any Roman unit. It's just like, what's a matter of you? If you're an aspiring game developer, please, any of the Rome Total War games, they really fuck themselves with the naming system of, uh, that franchise, because they have to, the, so you've got Med total war.

Yeah, you have Rome Total War. The sequel to Medieval Total War, yes, is Medieval 2, Total War. Now if Total War is the phrase that is carried throughout all of your titles, yeah, I guess then you didn't be a position where you've been like, total war like eight. Total War 5, medieval to. Yeah. Yeah, no I guess then you didn't be a position where you've been like... Total war like eight. Total war five medieval two. Yeah. Maybe they... And none of them contain racist Italian accents.

No, which seems like a huge oversight. Yeah, that. There's a war-hambour. There's a war-hambour, I think now. Yeah, there was. I don't know if people liked it or not. Oh, that's a shame. Also, people are appreciating the ambience here in Ben's living room. We've got the sounds of Australia, I feel, all the sounds of Brisbane. You've got a man whippersnipping at night.

He started, I'm going to say, at white in the afternoon today. It is now 6 p.m. He's been going for an extraordinarily long time, which leads me to to conclude he's try to mow his entire lawn with a whipper skipper. Sometimes, you know, what all you've got is a hammer? Yep. Everything looks like a nail. I don't think that's how you actually applies here because the problem to him remains the same problem.

Yes. Yeah. This is more of a... He's got a thousand nails to put in and he needs some sort of mega hammer. He he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's he's th, and you th, and you th, and you know th is th is th is th is thi thi thi. thi. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to thoom. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. He's thi. He's thi. He's thi. He's th. He's thi. He's th. He's thi. He's thi. He's thi. He's thi. He's thi. He's thi. He's thi. thi. thoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom. He's tho needs some sort of mega hammer. He doesn't have that. He has a regular hammer. And you know what? He's going for it. How often do you think you'd have to top that bad boy up? Is it whip... We're talking fuel or...

Yeah. What's the other thing? Oh, the string? The silly string? The silly string that to do around the house specifically I think is to refuel my two-stroke Whipper Snipper refueling it. Yeah, is it got to mix the oil in there? Oh, that's right. I'm like spill it everywhere like I'm in one of those like carpet cleaning ads. Mm-hmm. Where you're just like shrugging and looking at the camera. Yeah, I'm like trying to juggle like the tooo? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I to to to to to to to to to to to to to the to mix. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I to mix. I to mix. Yeah. I to mix. I to mix. I to mix to mix to mix to mix to mix to mix to mix it to mix. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. to mix to mix to mix to mix to mix to mix to mix to mix to mix to mix to mix to mix to mix to mix to mix to mix to mix to mix to mix to mix to mix. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I to mix. I to mix. I to mix. I to mix. I to mix. I the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the to mix. to mix. to mix. to mix. to mix. to mix. to mix. the the mixing containers of the oil and fuel and it's just going everywhere. Yeah. Or question marks popping up around your head. I can't, I can't stand it. It's a bad task to me. I just realized why I gave my friends whip a snippet back to him empty after I borrowed it last time was because I looked at the thing where it was like, mix it and I'm not doing that. I'll buy you a beard next time I see you. That is a bridge too far. That's mixing my own oil. Well really it's a ratio of 25 to 1. For their own good

because I don't want to fuck that up. I don't want to be the person to make their weapon snipper explode. Turns their weapon snipper into an I-A-D. No. I'm gonna, I've got a big, big old hole in my brain. I can't tell which stories I've actually told on pod. Wow. So you can tell me, I'll tell this story and you tell me whether you've heard it before. But I used to live with a friend. Um, and, um, we would share doing the mowing. And one day it just wouldn't start at all. And the guy next door, my neighbor came over with evil Eddie from Butterfingers.

And they tried to start. Fuck it. All right, we're done. No, no, keep going. And the whole time, it turned out, my good friend, had been putting oil in the fuel. Mm-hmm. But there's a four-stroke mower,

so it was just going everywhere. That is a non-mower now. All right, just cancel that bit out. We'll just put a cross through that, and all the other other other other other other other other other other other other other other other other other other other other other other other other other other the stories the stories the stories theimes because I am now struggling to separate reality from the podcast. I think the podcast is actually a subset of reality. I think it might exist outside of reality. Look we've done a lot of episodes it's hard to keep track of these stories. Welcome to Budavista. Hello. This is a podcast about ancient history. Ancient history. Lord Mower, usage and maintenance. Video game development.

And above all, Brisbane. Yeah, I mean I think this is certainly the world's first and only, Brisbane only podcast. Yes, and it should stay that way. Yeah. I'm going to ask you a little question. I want you to close your eyes. And I am doing this. He is doing this. I'm looking at him right now.

I want you, and this is maybe a little cruel that I'm asking to do this because what with your specific sets of anxieties, maybe not great. Oh, are they bad? In a way that makes people think less of me? We'll get into that later. I want you to cast your mind into the far future of 2032. Holy shit. And I want you to think about what Australia will look like at that time. I want you to think about what our fire seasons are like. Yeah, I'm definitely still picturing trees.

Mm-hmm. But about like five. Uh-huh. Yeah. In a tree museum. Under a big dry dome. We're getting a lot of rainfall at that time, obviously. Our biodiversity, I assume great.

Yep. We have three animals. It is the Cade-toaddle. our biodiversity I assume great. Three. Yep. We have three animals. It is the Cain Toad the Cain Beetle and cockroaches. To my mind, year 2032, based on how things are now and how things are projected to get in like the next five years. We'll definitely have a 2032 at this stage, I think. It's not looking great.

It's up in the air. But there is one is is is one is one is one is one is one one is one one one one th is one th is one th is one th is one th is one th is. But there is one thing that we can look forward to. The possibility of the Olympics happening in Brisbane in 2032. What a wonderful thought. In this inhospitable, fucking dust bowl, that it will be both completely on fire and flooded at the same time, that's when we're going to invite all of the tourists and athletes of the world to come to our Humbleburg taking the sites, go to Goma, go on the Channel 7 branded Ferris Wheel, Yep, go to the Maritime Museum across from QT, check out the tug boat. Yeah, you can Fortitude. No, the forceful tug. The forceful tug is the name of the, is the name of the tugboat the the tug the tug the tug the tug the tug the tug the tug the tug the tug the tug tug tug tug tug tug tug tug tug tug tug tug tug tug tug tug tug tug tug tug the the the the the the the the the the the the of of of of of of of of of of the the of of. of. of of of of of of of of of of, the forceful tug. The forceful tug? The forceful tug is the name of the, uh, is the name of the tugboat there.

You can also take that little, uh... There's no way that's true. Is that true? Yeah, it's called the forceful tug. I've taken about 4,000 photos of the foce. It is one of my most favoured thoughts. You can take the little ferry that goes between Bollimba and the powerhouse. The city the city ferry, the city ferry, the ferry cat. If you're me 15 years ago living at Blymber, two streets up from that tiny ferry and

you want to get to the powerhouse specifically and back. Okay, well if this does apply, specifically you, once, yeah, congratulations. So we've got all of those things and the Olympics apparently. Yeah. And I think this came up because like in October or November, I had the thought as I do frequently, and the thought is only the dumbest fucking cities in the world apply for and then get the Olympics. Just a big, big circusy dipshits wearing clown makeup. It's a bunch of mayors and premieres and state governors all wearing size 24 clown shoes.

They've got, they have gigantic top hats, comical cigars and no pants whatsoever. They've just got those like knee-length boxer shorts with all the little love hearts on them. And they all get together at a room and say, we should host the Olympics. We should host the Olympics. We should host the Olympics. And then there's a murmur, everyone agrees. They're sucking very forthrightly upon their their their their their their their their their their their their their their the Olympics. And then there's a murmur, everyone agrees, they're sucking very forthrightly upon their cigars, having a great time, and one little lonely hand comes up from the back

of the room and says, hey, hasn't the Olympics been a verifiable waste of time, cost blowout, gigantic thing that just bankrupt cities leaves them with handfuls of billion dollar infrastructure that they don't end up using. Like every, for every single Olympic and the chief clown slash fat cat. The king clown of the circus. The king clown says, ah no, but we're the smart ones. We're going to do this right. This time it will be different.

I believe in this case the king clown or one of the clowns at the top, sort of a shared clown hierarchy arrangement there. But one of the top clownsthe top, sort of a shared sort of clown hierarchy arrangement there, but one of the top clowns, of course, Anastasia Palishe, announced the bid, December 9th, which would be the first Olympics in Australia since the 2000s Sydney Olympics, and so we're talking about July 23rd to August 8th in 2032. Which I believe late July to early August by the year 2032 will be the season we refer to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the to to the to to to the to the to the to the the the the the the to the the the the the the the the th. the the the the. th. But. But. But. But, but one one. But, but one. But, but one. But, but one. But, but one. But, but one. But, but one one. But, but one one one one one one one one one one one. But, but one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one one. But. But. But. But. But. But. But. Soe. Soe. Soe. Soe. Soe. Soe. tome. tome. So. So. So. So, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the top cloe 2032. Which I believe late July to early August by the year 2032 will be the season we refer to as summer. Mega summer.

Mega summer. Ultrasummer happens a few months after that. Yeah. Uh-huh. And then you have the unincorporated seasons from December to February. The underground days, where we all go underground to hibernate. But then we come out and we're ready to build all of the infrastructure, the new highways required to shunt us from dome to dome.

So, Palishe said the games would provide legacy benefits for generations to come. Of course, Olympics means a lot to the state. It's pride in our state. It tells the rest of the world that we're firmly on the map. You get a globe, and it no longer just skips straight from Sydney to Cairns. Somewhere in there. It's just so pathetic. Like, oh please. Oh, we're a big city now.

What is on the map? Oh, come on. You know, like in movies where they'll show like a world map, like a military strategy room. It's like how in, uh, fucking... I think it of like a military strategy room. Yeah. It's like how in fucking, I think it's in arrival, there's like one dot in Australia for a city and it's like Perth. Like it's a joke in Daja 5 that whenever they show the world map, it's Adelaide that gets the dot because all the guys are from South Australia. Yeah, it's horrible right. But it'll be Brisbane, Brisbane that gets the dot if we have the Olympics.

So she said, and I take this at face value, I believe, her on this, she said, while 80% of the required infrastructure already exists in Queensland, so I believe she's counting perhaps air. They don't have to truck in any air. No, we've got the air. Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, that, that, the, the, that, that, that, that, th. the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. that, th. that, that, th. that, th. th. the. tha. th. tha. th. the air. We'll see how we're doing by that. I mean, that number may go down to 70% by that point. They're actually weirdly, when they're talking about this, they're including all of Southeast Queensland? Yes, well, we'll get to that.

Because the rules have changed, and it's probably going to make the Olympics to be good. They all sat down and we decided, should we make another bad Olympics? Just some kind of meeting room, being like, guys, I just had a thought, what if we did a good Olympics? Oh, it would never work. Would we have a technology? This will be the first good Olympics since they all got nude to do them and ran around in a circle. This will be the first Olympics since like you had like dual Olympians slash philosophers like Plato just getting nude and demolishing everybody at wrestling. That was when there are only three sports which were the nude wrestling some sort of Soatic debate, and then a chariot race with weapons allowed.

I believe we're getting back to that. Mark Latham will be the wrestler and he will wrestle Ben Shapiro. Finally, Australia can get behind Mark Latham. Oh my God. Like if you had to pick someone to be your combined debate captain, like pancreatic, fucking wrestler, wrestler, yeah, go on. That's what it's the pancreation, pan, excuse me? It's the Greek term for the nude wrestling thing. Oh my god. I read a book about it in Bright and I think I've fucked up every detail and recounting it. Mark Latham's our guy, his physical presence.

And he needs the money and by this point. You imagine him just like screaming. Like that man is like... Just an unending well of rage. Yep. Every day in his life is just the last scene from There Will Be Blood. I reckon he has a sacrificial wall at his house that he's allowed to punch. It's just like a replast it every 12 months. It's like painting the Sydney Harbour Bridge. He starts three plus through one side watching the Harvard.

Oh, it's a jobs program. Anyway, what else is a jobs program? The 2032 Olympics for the Brisbane. And how many jobs is that going to create your record? So 120,000 jobs, which sounds like to me a number that exists. That's certainly true. That seems like a huge number, especially if you put that, was Brisbane's population? It's about two and a half million if you include the north and that take it.

Would it be like three and a half million people north and then you got a About half million people in Souther Coast as well 400,000 I think yeah, we're looking about three million people. That's like one in every 30 people Yeah, so I actually looked it up. Brisbane specifically their labor force. So if this was true, if this was true This would mean a 13% increase to the labor labor labor labor labor labor labor labor labor labor labor labor labor labor labor labor labor labor labor labor labor that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's th. That's this was true, this would mean a 13% increase to the labor force. That seems massive. Yeah, and I'm sure, and so the Olympics famously go for years, years on end, those jobs

stick around forever, and they don't just evaporate the moment the circus leaves town. Yeah, I think the Olympics last for between 10 and 20 years, so there'll be some real long-term benefits from that. And the good thing is none of those jobs will be skilled labor, so the current unemployment pool will just magically slot into those 120,000 jobs. Oh, I think so. And it won't just be people that are already working in that field, their current job into that job, or contractors, their their their their their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, thi, thi, thi, their, thi, thi, thi, thi, to be, thau. thau. tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tom, tom, tom, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha, tha. And, thau. thau. thau. thau. thau. thau. thau. thau. thau. thau. And, thau current job into that job or contractors taking those jobs? I don't think so. And just to put that into perspective, that's more than the 100,000 health and social worker jobs currently in Brisbane. So just they've really created an entirely new industry here with the jobs program of the Olympics. So they're the only ones on board so far.

They've, so the IOC have rejected St. Petersburg and Sochi in Russia, Guadalajara and Monterey in Mexico. So they've all been given the punt. And Madrid and the Rhine Ruhrue, metropolitan area, I don't really know what cities are in that, in Germany, are likely competitors. So some pretty good. I feel like they're pretty, they're cities that exist and you've heard of, right? Yes. Which we will definitely have a chance against.

Sure. We hosted the 9 and 82 Commonwealth Games and the Gold Coast hosted the 2018 Commonwealth Games and the Commonwealth Games is the Shit. Yeah, it's like if the Olympics was worse. Yes. I'm picturing it. Yeah, and made up of 50% apartheid countries. Yeah, it's like if the Olympics was worse. Yes. I'm picturing it. Yeah, and made up of 50% apartheid countries. Yep. Yep. Strong showing from Zimbabwe this year. Had to go to all of the plarks, get a chisel out and hammer off Rhodesia.

Replace the ball. The Commonwealth games is just not... I don't... There was a weird... from my recollection of them in 2018, no one I talked to in real life gave a shit about them. No, no one went to them. There was a surprising amount of people on the internet who were like, oh my god, the Commonwealth games! Yeah. I don't understand that divide. Yeah, I, no, no, me either. There was a lot of problems with the Commonwealth games, like infrastructure problems, uh, mainly around, traffic was just a fucking nightmare, public transport was super fucked up,

there were these crazy long lines all the time. Uh, there's a wonderful quote that I really like here. Didn't check at the time, but do you think that's the Peter Beatty? Oh, I mean, you don't want to assume these things. I don't know, but it probably. We're talking about former Premier of Queensland, Peterbittibidi. Maybe him, at the time the chairman of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, organizing committee, he told the ABC about their traffic problems. The M1 is a dog dog thogogogogogogogogogogogog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog. It the the dog. It is a dog. It is a dog. It is a dog. It is a dog. It is a dog. the the the M1 is a dog, it's a dog of a road and until it's improved it will remain a dog of the road. It fucking sucks. It sucks. If you've had to drive from Brisbane to the Gold Coast at any time between 330 and 7? Oh it's terrible. You can't do it.

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queue from NARANG to about green slopes to get anywhere. And it doesn't seem like they can really convince people to not do that because they've got hundreds of millions of dollars worth of improvements that are currently going on to move the bottleneck from up Mount Gravatt down to Springwood, which is approximately four kilometers down the road. That'll be great though. Yeah, that people living in up a Mount mountain gravet. That section from the traffic jam at Green Slope's to the traffic jam at Springwood will just be... Oh, it'll be the dream. Smove sailing.. The whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the whole the bo the bo the bo the bo the b from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from the bo the bo the bo the bo the bo the bo the bo the bo the bo, from from from from the bo, from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from the the bo from the the bo from the bo from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the traffic jam at Springwood will just be, oh, it'll be the dream, smooth sailing, the whole way along. But God forbid we actually encourage people to use that newly finalized link

that goes all the way down through, you know, onto the light rail that they've linked up, they've done all that stuff. Now what you want to do is talk about the M1, improving the M1, all that sort of stuff, so that's a cool thought. But I think historically the Olympics have been pretty cool though, Ben? So right? Oh yeah, they've been wonderful. So I think one of their favorite things, thi thi, so I thi, so I thi, so I thi, so I thi, so I thi, so I thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thi, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. th, th, their favorite things, the cities that hosting Olympics love to do, they love to build new buildings. Oh, don't they? And you know what the best place to build new buildings is? Well, I would say where there's no people at all in a place that's very highly trafficked,

easy to get to, already linked to public transport, but yet somehow is just a big empty field that has never been populated. I can hear what you're saying. Sure. And I respect that. But I would put forth that a much better place to put all your Olympic facilities is an ill-used and neglected part of town full of vulnerable people, largely homeless, and with no existing links to public transport.

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are homeless. Well, now homeless. They don't necessarily want to leave. So we've seen this happened in Beijing. This happened in Rio. They had riot police sent in. According to the Center of Housing Rights and Evictions at the UN, said that about 1.5 million people are evicted

from their homes since 2000 in advance the Beijing Olympics. In Sydney they started rolling out these horrible programs where they basically started documenting the homeless people in the suburbs they plan to build the Olympic facilities. This is from the Green Left Weekly. Dossiers are being drawn up on individual homeless people and unused government buildings are being readied as temporary accommodation sites. The government has even left open the possibility of busing the homeless to accommodation as far away as Newcastle and Wollongong. The plans first revealed by the Sun Herald on January 16th coincide with the introduction

of new Sydney City Council Rangers assigned to Circulary and other high-profile tourist areas who will have sweeping powers to move homeless people on. They will be able to use reasonable force against any person deemed a nuisance or annoyance. So this was written in advance of the Olympic Games. Yeah and then they make some references here do the same shit happened in Atlanta before the 1996 games. Homeless people round up and bust more than 300 kilometers away and homeless rights groups documented 9,000 arrests of homeless people during May 1995 and May 1996 for loitering

and banging, which is four times greater than earlier years. So that's cool. That's going to be nice to see. That's definitely a fun thing to think about, but I couldn't help but notice you used the words bargain at twice the price. Which I think leads us neatly into the next section. Shit. Hey. It's quite good actually. Um, and without, so Ben's got a little graph here, Ben, I don't want you to look at the graph. I want you to just just just just just just just just just just just feel feel feel feel feel feel feel it, feel it, a, a, a, a, a the, a fun the, a fun the, a fun the, a fun the, a fun the, a fun the, a fun the the fun, a fun the fun, a fun, a fun, a fun, a fun, a fun, a fun, a fun tho, a fun thi, a fun thi thi thi thi, a fun thi, a fun thi, a fun graph here, but Ben, I don't want you to look at the graph. I want you to just feel it, feel the numbers flow through you.

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Farrant apparently the Athens Olympics was actually a huge contributing factor to the Greek financials. There's absolutely no surprise whatsoever that they it's you put all this money into, you know, barely multi-use infrastructure and don't get any rewards out of it at the end, except for just to, the benefit of this is the people in the room, right? This is like, this is purely for, I know people, you know, will argue for the, the sense of, you know, international solidarity. Exactly, all that sort of stuff. And there is a tale to be told about that.

But by and large, when they're bidding for the Olympics, when they're putting it all together, it is for the people bidding in the room. Right? It is for those people. It is for them to show their city and how good they are at running it and they fuck it up every single time. Roll out one William Street and show off our city's giant dick to the whole world. Yep. It is a big, that is a big, girthy fucking dick.

Good job, Campbell. Beijing Olympics budgeted for $20 billion. These are US USD as well. These are USDs. I believe this one went up to 40? 45. Apparently there's been a whole bunch of secrecy about the actual figure and they reckon that is way, way under.

My goodness. London, $5 billion budget. Gonna call it 12. 18. Sochi, I've been to the Sochi, like some of the Olympic grounds at Hakuba. Ten billion dollars for the Winter Olympics budgeted. And 15. 51 billion.

I've been to their ski jump. It sits there like a nightmare obelisk. It is just this thing, you cannot imagine the size of it. Larger than skyscrapers, like one of the largest buildings I've ever seen and it just in the middle of the winter, just sitting there not being used, not, it was shut down at the time, you couldn't get it, it was barricaded off. And I believe that they've been having a huge amount of problems financially, keeping all of the infrastructure in check because it just falls apart, right, when no one's using it because no one uses it for the, at the rate or at the volume that they need for this stuff. And then Rio budgeted at 14, came in at 20. Good job,

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Well, fair enough. Any feedback on how I did for next time? Please refer to the original note. Oh boy. So, it just, of course it just destroys like long-term kind of job prospects and that sort of thing. They set them up. It very much reminds me of, you know of the conversation that we have around mining jobs where everyone's talking about these jobs as if they're permanent jobs, but they're not. The job is to build the machine that digs the hole.

The job is to build the conveyor belt that takes the coal out to the terminal. It's not to operate this stuff, right? So in the Olympic Olympic Games in Lillehammer and Norway, so with the exception of the significant growth in the tourism industry, long-term economic benefits for the region have turned out to be fairly modest and out of proportion to the huge costs of hosting the games. And I think that's like, it's a thing we're very bad at judging, right, is proportionality to say, well, we're going to spend this much and get all all all benefits, but they can't measure what $20 billion, $30 billion worth of pure investment into infrastructure, into helping the less, you know, the less fortune, that sort of thing in our society.

They're very bad at measuring the cost of building all this stuff versus what it would cost for them to spend the money on normal things, right? Just things that city planners are yelling out for. So you know, they got this big boom in Norway, and then of course the predictions for tourism even fell flat. 40% of the full-service hotels in Lillehammer gone bankrupt. So again, like that gold rush effect, right? So the Winter Olympic Games from Nagano and Vancouver have been equally discouraging. So the conference board of Canada estimated that the Vancouver Games injected 1.56 billion dollars into the local economy

and impress a figure until one compares that to the 10 billion dollar impact predicted by the finance minister prior to the game or the 67 billion dollars and costs to stage the event. Right, like again they point to all this stuff and you just go, well look, yeah, so fucking what, you spend all that, you're the $1.00, that, the $1, th, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, tho, thi, thi, tho, thi, thi, tho, tho, tho, thi, th, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $, $1, $, $1, $, $1, $1, $, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, again, they could say, yeah, right? Like, they point to all this stuff and you just go, well, look, yeah, so fucking what? You spent all of that money elsewhere? Why didn't you just take the middleman out and spend it on the things and then don't even bother having it? It, it is absolutely demonstrable that this happens over and over again? But they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they keep they they they they they they they they they they they they they they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're th. th. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. th. I. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. I. I. I. I'm to. I'm to. I'm to. I'm to. I. I'm to. I'm to. I'm. I'm to. I'm to. I'm to. Yeah. Yeah. again. But they keep having the idea that they're the ones, they're the smart ones, they're the smart ones, they're the ones that are going to do it right. They're the ones that are going to do it right. They thought they were going to do it right. So they got the 1976 Olympics, the mayor would be the first auto-financed Olympics.

Like the man who first managed to suck his death. I will be the one. Hell, I'm flexible enough. I'm good at DDR. I won't fall off my couch and break my deck. Grandma won't catch me. The Montreal Olympics. fall off my couch and break my deck. Grandma won't catch me. The Montreal Olympics...

Oh, excuse me. Can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby? He said, A prediction that would haunt him as construction costs ballooned and sent the final price tag into the stratosphere. He projected a budget of 125 million. It took 30 years for Quebec to play off the 1.5 billion dollar debt generated by the Montreal. the Montreal the 1976 Jandra Poe said trans rights.

Oh. He was saying, men can have babies. I think that's if you cancel out the negatives in his sentence and the outcome. Yep. He said trans rights. Yeah, it's definitely what he meant and he definitely was a victim of tremendous hubris. Olympics fever.

Olympics grade hubris. But of course, like, I think one of the funniest things about it is it's not just all of the people in the council chambers, in the state governments all getting in a big ring and circle sucking each other to exhaustion. You also get marketing people in on the action. You get people that are good on branding. They love to brand things. They sure do. And that's a whole job, apparently, Ben.

I don't believe that to be true, but I have heard rumors about. Right. Just a guy or a girl, you know, just, they're just branders. Well, let's list off the mascots for the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, you thia thi, you thi, you're tho, you th, you th, you thu, thu, tho, tho, tho, tho, th. th. th. th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, you th, you th, you th, you th, you th, you thi. You thi, you thi, you thi, thi, thi, tho, thooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomom, tho, tho, th Well, let's list off the mascots for the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Yeah, so you've got... Uh, there was a wombat with a huge ass? And I believe that was part of his name. I think it was like, Ollie the big ass wombat.

Is that right? You're looking directly at me. I have been a laugh out of me. No, I'm being deadly serious. As far as mascots go, my sister played Glock and Speal in the opening ceremony, and she's sort of like a mascot to me. Sorry, I can't believe I got this so wrong. Fatso the fat ass wombat.

Is that official? That is his official name. No, no, is the mascot official? He was the official mascot, one of the official mascots of the Sydney 2000 Olympics. There was also a lizard. But Fatso the Fat Ass one-that was definitely one of them. My God. And his wombat arse was indeed huge. Sorry, there was Ollie, Sid, Millie, and Lizzy. Wait, no, was Fatso not real? Wait, was this some sort of joke that I fell for?

Oh no, I was tricked as a child. Oh, this is the worst day of life. I have to watch this in real time. Oh, no. watch this in real time. Oh no! I was ten! I was ten, how was I to know that Fatso the Fat Fat Fat Fat Fat was created by Sydney cartoonist Paul Newell with Roy and HG. I knew. I knew they would have their little fingers in God damnus. I'm so sorry. The real Mascotts were Ollie, who was a Cuckabururra, Sid who was a platypus. Nope, I think I've got these names wrong.

Lizzy was a lizard. Sid was a platypus. Olly was a cuckaburbera. Oh God, these names are fucking awful. So Olly from Olympics. Sid from Sydney. Millie from Millennium, okay and Lizzy from Lizard. The problem with this is that all of those characters already existed pre the 2000 games if you had walked into any one of the 17 Australian themed stores on like the Queen Street Mall and bought any of the t-shirts. I read to you a paragraph from the Wikipedia Street Mall and bought any of the t-shirts. I'm going to read to you a paragraph from the Wikipedia page on these mascots.

Please. The outstanding visibility and community engagement to Lizzy ultimately led to marketing success, unrivaled by the three Olympic mascots. Lizzy captured the imagination of the public leading to the iconic representation the Paralympic Games. Lizzy captured the imagination of the public. I don't remember this. To me, the Sydney 2000 Olympics, the only remaining cultural artifact that I have stashed

away in my brain were the satirical commentary kind of segments by Roy and HG. Everybody remembers those. Are you referring to the conversation we had in person recently where I said that I didn't remember those? Oh, no, I wasn't. I didn't remember that. It's funny how memory works. Or it doesn't. But Ben, you're a bit of a Wikipedia head. I certainly am.

Wikipedia man. I'd say that about myself. Yeah. So, as you've pointed out, from the controversy section on Wikipedia for the London Olympics, it was suggested that the logo resembled the cartoon character Lisa Simpson, performing fallatio on her brother Bart Simpson. Now if you wanted to verify that, could you point me to the number of the references cited that I could check which one it was?

Absolutely, I would love to. So if you scroll down to the bottom of the London Olympics Wikipedia page and check out references numbers 180, number 181, number 182, reference number 183, 184. Reference 185. And surely that's it. I'm going to hit you with reference 186. You really want to cover your bases on that one. If you're going to say... That's the kind of shit they just get deleted immediately from the page. And that's like one person has made one edit when they put that sentence in. Yeah. Dubbed seven references on it. It's been like, get rid of it now. And the page is immediately locked. Cool. So what else was peculiar about that Olympics? Well, it turned out that the most expensive summer Olympic games in history was London, the the the the the the th, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when, when they, when they, when they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they put they put they put they put they put they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they've they put they, when they put, when they, when they, when they, when they, when they, when they, when they, when they, when they, when they, when they put they put they, when they put they put they put they put they put they put they put they put they put they put they put they put they put they put the, the, the, theat theat that they've they've they've they've they've they've put they've put they've put they've put they've put they've they've they've they've turned out that the most expensive summer Olympic

games in history was London 2012 which cost 15 billion dollars and overran its original budget by a margin of 76% which seems bad right but when you think about it it's actually not bad so we would say that that's a hundred seventy-six percent of the budget. Mm-hmm. Right, you blow out of 76 percent, but it turns out the final over-out-turn costs were slightly below the revised budget. Hmm. So when you revise a budget, what does that mean? So that means you've got a budget? And then you just put a little bit on top. You put a little cream for daddy on there. Yep, you double your budget, which is a little bit of cream for daddy.

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You're under budget. I'm going to let then mayor of London, Boris Johnson explained this. I haven't heard of him. Don't look into him. What happened was that the initial bid did have to be inflated, but after we got to what was a reasonable price, that was about five or six years out, we didn't go over that budget. And we stuck within that 9.3 billion pounds, and we brought it in under that. Yeah. So it was over the number that that. Yeah. I that was over that was over that that that that that was over that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that th. that th. that th. that that that that that that that that that tho. that thoom. that that that that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. that. too. too. too. too. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. tho. thu. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tha. thooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo then we were actually under that. Yeah. I mean, we kind of went in a bit.

I think we low-balled it when we went in. That was our bad. Yeah. But the new number is right in the middle. We covered our bases. Yeah. Seems good. And you know, this happens again and again. And of course the whole thing is just a big fucking pork barreling for corruption,

for scandal. Just an honor, it's like it's like FIFA, right? You can't get to the end of building a FIFA stadium without having murdered some indentured service. That is the common expression we use all the time. And they get up at the start of every FIFA meeting and they repeat that. They chant it in unison. Hand over their hearts.

That's the first slide on their PowerPoint. Yeah, so the, so in Nagano, as we mentioned, it went way, way over. But we don't know how much, which is a cool thought, because they just destroyed the financial records. The bidding committee just, they shredded those bad boys, which, as far as I know, problem solved, right? So the Japanese media reported the bidding committee spent an average of $22,000 on bribing 62 IOC members to

influence their hosting decision. But they avoided any punishment by getting rid of the records. Like, hey, you know how you guys have kind of been taking all that money and you've been giving it to the IOC sort of under the table? You got those records there that kind of state your criminality? You still got that? No, we got rid of those. Oh. Now see I'm in a bit of a pickle. Yeah, I kind of I'd love to help. No, I know, but. So to, I got this whole criminal procedure against you guys, I put him through the shred. I'm counting on you to have them. I get thrown. I their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. th. their. their. their. their. their. I. I. I. I. I'm. I'm. I. I. I'm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I. Yeah. I. I. I. Yeah. I. Yeah. Yeah. I. Yeah. I. Yeah. I. Yeah. I. Yeah. Yeah. I. Yeah. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. th. them. I get that. See I checked with the guys and I thought that we should already have their... They didn't have a bribery receipt. No, yeah. And I sort of said, well look, we've got to get straight down to you. I'm just, I'm just, look, I'm just doing what I'm told. I'm just... I would. They directed me to you. Don't have them. Don't have them. So I they don't have they they don't have they. they they. they. they they they. they they. they they they they they don't have they they they don't. they they they don't. they they they they they they they they didn't. they didn't. they didn't. they didn't have they didn't. They didn't. They don't. They they they they they they they they didn't they they they didn't they they didn't they didn't they didn't they didn't they didn't they didn't have. They they didn't. They don't. They don't. They don't. They don't. They don't. They don't. They. They. They. They. They. They. They don't. They don't. They. They don't. They don't. They're they. They're they. They're di. They're di. They're di. They're di. They're di. They're di. They're di. They're di. They're di. They're di. They're di. They're di. They're di. They're di. They're di. They're di. They're di. They're di. They're they're they're to just forego the whole thing? Yeah, it was just call the whole thing off. Yeah,

didn't, didn't happen? Didn't happen. Well, when they say an average of $22,000 bribing 62 IOC members, they're talking mean or median here, they don't really give that. That's not where my question is going. To me, I would have phrased that slightly differently, but it certainly makes it sound like each of those 62 IOC members received on average. On average, and again, we don't have that being a median. $22,000. Could be a mode. Yeah. I don't think it's a mode.

That's not a really statistically strong kind of, okay. It's all right. We can. We'll talk about modes later on. But as we kind of mentioned at the top of the segment, we may all look like assholes at the end of this, they're introducing the new norm, the IOC have called this, it's got capital letters on each of those things, capital T, capital N, and then another capital N. This would be like if they replaced the guy who played norm in cheers with a different guy yeah I mean sort of in like a homonym sense yeah but not in any

kind of meaningful sense no it's nothing meaningful there whatsoever yeah anyway anyway okay okay all right. So they're basically saying that now, so there's a whole bunch of measures that they're bringing in 118 of them. I'm not going to read them. But they're saying that, you know, they need to guarantee only one bed for each athlete either at the main or the Olympic village. If you drive down to the Gold Coast, you've got a whole bunch of stuff up there. The Commonwealth Games Village, I believe they're not able to sell it just due to a lack of prestige,

but they are trying to sell those unsuccessfully. They're just these horrible buildings, they just stand there, empty for fucking ever. But they are establishing a brand strategy which will allow for dual branding in certain areas while respecting the uniqueness of the two brands. So we're talking about Brisbane Gold Coast, right? Where you can kind of like share the prestige instead of it just being one city that bids on it. And that certainly has had an effect on getting the Gold Coast local council on board. I remember some some quotes out of it originally the Gold Coast Mayor was like well it's time for Brisbane to fucking pull their weight on this. We build all this Commonwealth game shit nobody wants it

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This is not an ad for Top Golf. Yeah, absolutely. We are not getting paid for this or anything else. No. And I'm never going to Top Golf. No. We were driving from Gold Coast to Brisbane. And wife of the show, All right for the to or my wife, did mention, oh, top golf. I sort of, I think I was talking about in the kind of scenario in which, if you imagine like a, the road sort of situation, perhaps cast your mind forward to 2032, if you will, and imagine the kind of future that we're in. Talking about a kind of the road situation where there's a lot of mental accounting around how many, 38 rounds you have left in your hot little, of of of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of kind of kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind, kind, kind, kind, kind, kind, kind, kind of, kind the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of the road situation where there's a lot of mental accounting around how many 38 rounds you have left in your hot little pocket. And then you imagine just you're walking through the wilderness and they're miles away the remnants of top top golf just gigantic golf all proof fences and they're

fucking tall. They're like 20-30 meters tall, right? They're like 20, 30 meters tall. Oh, they gotta be. They're slowly collapsing. The top golf sign, of course, the neon in them, oozed out into the ozone. Some of the letters of fall off. All you can see is tuh, Ulf. Yep. Standing as a misspelt. Just monolith. It will refer to it as the tem chubrus of man. The Temple of Tooth. Yep. Anyway, so they can probably demolish that, and that could be the new Olympic stadium, possibly. I think we've solved all the problems here. It's looking pretty good. I'm excited.

I think one of my favorite recommendations of the 118 measures for making sure people don't go massively over budget is this one. This is exactly how the IOC has phrased it. Simplify food and beverage services, especially warm menus for some stakeholder groups, where kitchen facilities must be fully designed and built, warm food will only be provided to certain games clients. Don't give hot food to everyone. No, sorry, not hot food. Warm food. Only some people are getting warm food. You want to bolonise?

You're getting that ice cold. Just like, there are a few things in there that are like, it's very hot here today. We had to specially cool it for you. But keeping all of your salads on ice. As per one of the 118 new guidelines, the new norms, we have to make this cold for you. We cannot give it too long. We're not allowed to serve this to you at the room temperature. Room temperature now of course is 42 degrees. Yep.

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Arfenhouse. Hentai games if you need those. Yep, Arfenhouse. I don't know what that means. So on. Second sighting of Puma-sized cat prompts another DPI investigation. Second investigation is gun and its signings of a Puma-sized cat in the Hunter Valley after the ABC obtained footage of a siding on New Year's Day. Bev Fraser, very Australian name, said she will never forget looking down a fence line on her Hunter Valley property on January 1st and spotting what she described as a puma-sized cat. It was just a very big, very, very, very black cat and obviously a cat, this Fraser said it was too large to be an overgrown domestic cat, just a

50 kilo sort of animal sitting on my fence post. Miss Fraser, who lives on the outskirts of Maitland in New South Wales, said she had not been able able able able able able able able able able able able able able able able able to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the to the to the to the to the the the to to the the to to the the to to to the the to to to to the the the the to to to to to to to to to their, their, their, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their, the their, the the the th. I. I. I. I. I'm thea.u.u.u.u.u.u.u. too. too too too too too thea. the the the the the the the lives on the outskirts of Maitland in New South Wales, said she had not been able to get close than about 120 meters for the animal since she was there and that she could only zoom in so much to get an in-focus image. She said the cat size can be determined in relation to the sturdy fence post on which it was sitting. You look at it and look at the proportion of the size of the animal of the post, and you go, holy cow. Now I have seen the image. Yes. Did you go holy cow? I went, um, that is a, there's a black smudge and a fence post. Yep. And that's all the proof I need. Yeah, absolutely. But I believe Bev, who definitely, with a name like that is not 9700 years old. She's not everyone's auntie who has had like five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five five.. th white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white white. to to to to to to the white. the white. to the to th. th. that that that that that that that that that that that that that that. that. that. that. that. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the holy. the the the holy. the the the holy the holy tol. tol. tol. tole. tole. tole. tole. to to is not 9,700 years old. She was not everyone's auntie who has had like five glasses of white wine by 3pm every day.

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No, they took those away and it's really been impinging on my personal rights. Beav is defenseless against 50 kilo distant cats. Uh, you know it was a hundred or so meters away and that is a huge animal, so I am still very convinced it was a very large cat, but what variety I have no idea. Ms. Fraser said that the way the cat slunk into the undergrowth was also slightly different to a domestic cat. Huh. I don't think it was a giant cat like a leopard.

I think it was a more sort of a puma-sized cat, but it was definitely a cat, and it was definitely, and it very elegantly and gracefully dismounted the post when it became a today. The Department of Primary Industries Exa. the scene. New South Wales DPI told the ABC it had received the report about the Big Cat and launched an investigation. Big Cat sightings are not new in the hunter and other parts of the state, particularly around the Blue Mountains. As a result, state government officials have a policy to deal with the sidings. The DPI said it would respond to reported sightings of large felines by referring the port either to the New South Wales Police. The land manager of the livestock health and pest authority. Hello 911. There's a phantom cat on this lady's property. Bring your biggest gun.

We'll send someone out to strip search it immediately. Oh God. How old would you say that this? You know what? It wasn't immaterial. It's just a field we have to fill in. Not going to change out decision. The department said it responded when members the public were concerned for their safety or for the safety of their livestock or pets. Ms. Fraser has two dashins and said immediately after the siding she was afraid to let them outside. You're terrifying dogs on your property. Yep. You're two little wiener dogs. Trotting out there on their ridiculous little limbs.

Oh, they're dicks dragging backwards against the friction of the... Barely able to lift their awful head skywards. Nature's cruelest mistake. Ugh. I locked the dogs in the house because I knew if they had seen it, they would give a chase. Bellies dragging through the dirt. What chance do you think they have catching? Like even if it's a regular feral cat, it would just extend one claw and cut them perfectly at half. Yep.

Miss Fraser said she was pleased the DPI was taking the signing seriously with an exotic animal's officer planning to visit her property as soon as could be arranged. Now, is he an animal's officer that is... Sort of has a lot of piercings. What a job title? You're like the guy that gets called out when someone's like, hey, I had an illegal, Bengal tiger on my property, and it may have escaped. Yeah. Please come out here and look at this.

And as an exotic animal officer in the Hunter Valley, you kind of have to make a booking, you have to book ahead. Oh yeah. This is out there catching. Yep. Panthers. Mountain lions. Links, although he has to just take the smaller cage. Bobcats. Yeah. Bobcats, mountain lions and cougars all the same thing. I don't know. Well, writing about that as well. Plus has a side industry on just catching waywood ferrets.

Someone's got to do it. Although they might be legal in New South Wales. They're definitely illegal in Queensland. Yeah, everything's illegal in Queensland. Miss Fraser said she was pleased that DPA was taking the siting seriously with an exact animals. Oh, whoop, sorry, we just read that. And we're taking this seriously as well. We're taking this very seriously.

Basically, they're going to come out and have a look at the site. And I guess a closer examination to the area. I want to know, where does it go when it go, when it go, when it go, when it go, when it go, when it to to to go, when it to go, when it to to go, when it is th is th is th is th is not th is not th is not, when it is not, when it is not, when it is not, when it is not, when it is not, when it is not, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, tho, tho, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi. thi. And, thi. thi. toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. And, th know. And likely it has only been there once. But where does it reside? What does it think here? Where does it reside is such a like weirdly formal way of saying that? But whence does it reside? The Australian Big Cat Research Group is dedicated to proving that Big Cats exist in Australia. Oh my, is this a, do you think this is a Facebook group that we could? Almost certainly? Yes. Yeah, I mean it's an active page. Oh boy. I could. I, I, I, I, I, I, I th, I th, I th, I th, I that. I th, I th th th th th th th th th th think this is a Facebook group that we could? Almost certainly, yes. Yeah. I mean, it's an active page. Oh boy, I could have been subscribed to this the whole time. You've been sitting out on years of big cat content. It has had numerous sightings of animals in the Hunter Valley area, and the group's

founder, Kevin Brunton said he was keen to know more about the cat that misphrase us that she saw. Footage of it moving would help are great. And also, if Bev herself could go down there and measure that fence post, so we can have a reference for the size of it, Mr. Broughton said the animal was very large, but from the footage he suspected it was an oversized cat. Oh, I love a, when you get into like a conspiracy theory group or whatever, and they're just like no, thi thi thi the thi the thi thi thi thi the thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi, their thi, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, thin, thin, that, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to me to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, the the the thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, thean, to thean, thean, thory group or whatever and they're just like no That's a regular us thing. That's ridiculous. We're just the guys that believe that the pyramids Were built by Bigfoot. I believe that the Lithgow Panther is real, but what you saw as a regular cat It is definitely like a big cat something of a cat. And I would say this most probably a feral cat, but it is very large even if it is just a feral cat. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the th. the the the th. th. th. the the the the th. th. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the they. the p. the the the p. the p. the pyr. the pyr the pyrin. the pyrin. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the p. the pyr. the pyrroom. the pyrroom. the pyri. the pyriom. the pyriomperm. the p cat, Mr. Braun said. Mr. Braun said it was hard to determine if it was puma-sized cat for the photo and video, take from 100 meters away. Well, I mean, I feel if it's 100 meters away, and you've got that scale, you can understand, you can measure from the spot to, you know, theigonometry or whatever to actually establish the size

of the object on the screen. Yeah, if you put the barometer on a piece of string and lower it off the side of the building down to the bottom floor and use the, you measure the piece of string, that's how tall the building is. Different things, I feel like we're possibly talking about two entirely separate concepts. That's a, what's his name? What do you need to know how tall the building is? That thing, it's between an anecdote about Feynman, Richard Feynman? That his name, Feynman?

Where he was like in college and they were like, using a barometer, how would you tell what hide a building is? And he gave a bunch of jelly cancers. You put the barometer, did a bare,, so you put the barometer to the bottom, mark where it was, put the barometer again, count how many times the barometer goes up the building. That's for all my maths and physics heads out there. And he gave this entire lecture while playing a comically sized set of bongo drums. We love a silly stem person. They wear colorful bowties, they wear unorthodox

shoes. On just the photo alone, mainly with a cat, you really notice differences when it is walking as to a feral animal or a big cat species. Unfortunately it is inconclusive, but I think it is certainly a very, very big cat. And Bev would be right in thinking that it is worth photographing. That seems patronizing to me, but a nice gesture nonetheless. Yeah, wrong, but good attempt, Bev. Ms. Fraser... You won't get this by us, the Australian Big Cat trace group. Ms. Fraser told the ABC people might consider her some sort of crazy cat lady,

but she stood by her claim. That th, on a fence post and was sitting on a substantial fence post staring down into the undergrowth. So obviously hunting something, looking and concentrating obviously as cats do, I am now hesitant to go down there. Mr. Braun said, Ms Fraser was courageous in alerting the authorities because others would not through fear of ridicule. You're real brave, you know that, you crazy bitch. Yeah, everyone would call you a fucking idiot, but you did it anyway. Well done.

Broughton said the evidence of Big Cat's existence in Australia was overwhelming. Details of Miss Fraser's siding have prompted a man to come forward with a second and separate sighting of a Puma-sized cat, th from her place. Chris O'Neill saw a cat the size of a puma last Thursday as he drove home from dinner. He spoke to DPI investigators today and said they would do a side visit, who said they would do a site visit to look for paw prints or scratch marks tomorrow. Mr. O'Neil said it was a sie the sieating he would never forget. A black feline cat-like, the the they. th. th. He th. He th. He th. He th. He th. He th. He th. He thi. He thi. He thi, he was thi, he was thi, he was thi, he was thi, he said thi, he was thi, he was thi, he said thi, he was thi, he was the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th th th th thi, he was thi, he was thi, he was th. Hea, he said th. Hea, he said th. Hea, he was thi, he was thi, he was thi, he was thi, he was thi, he was thi, he was thi, hea, hea, thi, thr-s, toda, today today today today today today today today today today thr-s thr-s, thr-s a truck and it was the same size as the wheel. So it was a very big creature and its movement was cat like but it certainly wasn't a domestic cat. Meanwhile a second man has told the ABC his brother saw a prima-sized cat leaving into the river last year

with it a few hundred meters from Mr. O'Neill's sighting. The alleged sightings of big cats have prompted hundreds of comments on social media, which is news somehow. Dozens of people have said that they too, or someone they know of, have also seen a pantherapy or pumice-sized animal in the Hunter Valley region. Theories have ranged from a breeding pair of pumaes escaping from a traveling circus to an underworld figure releasing a big cat that was once a pet. I thoope their to to to to to to to thoom. thoom. thoom. thoom. thoom. thooooooooooooooooo. tho. tho. They're both great and I hope both are true. A reported to Big Cats in New South Wales was commissioned by former primary industries

minister Katrina Hodgkinson and written by New Zealand based offens of species expert John Parks. He found there was no conclusive evidence that large cats existed in the wild in New South Wales. They would say that. Sightings and other evidence presented was mostly from the Hawkesbree region. DPI said it would not come further on the report and Hunter Valley sightings until it completed its investigations. Australia loves big cats. Yeah and I would say myself I want to believe. Yeah. This is sort of like a we're at the point now where most of these rumors started in like the 70s where it's same with like the big foot of Loch Ness Monster where people talk about there being one creature, but for it to have gone on we've got to be talking like a breeding population, right? Yeah.

So maybe two circus animals? Yeah, or just kind of, kind of, kind of, just kind of, kind of just, I'll tell you what, and this is sort of just, I'm a bit hesitant to do this because this does kind of shoot, thrown, th........... th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the, th. th. the, th. thi, the, the, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, the, the, thi, thi, thi, thi, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, the, so, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, they. So, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, so kind of makes it look like a piece of shit, but I will say that the circus comes every year. So if you just think about that a little bit. I'm just just to make sure I've got this absolutely clear. Yes. Your theory is that the new big cats are being continuously released. Continuously released, but I'm not saying every year. Oh, that would certainly be crazy. But I'm just saying that when you consider the lifespan of a puma, especially in the wild, we're talking maybe like five years or something like that, it's certainly not impossible to imagine that once

every five years a puma or pumicised cat is released from the circus. Are we sure they're there frequently into the wild. And I figure they've got a guy as well, right? Like they've got a humor supply guy. And they're just like, oh, it happened again? Happen again? Yep. Specifically in the Hunter Valley region, we don't know why. But also the Blue Mountains.

And the Grapians. Well, look, circus is travels. They famously travel. There's some other great theories. There's a phantom cat in Gipsland, although it's almost definitely dead now. But the theory is that that phantom cat is the result of World War II era American airmen bringing over Cougars as mascots and then letting them go in the bush. So is this in the plane? With little goggles and a little scarf in the backseat?

Yeah, it's like that a photo of it, the fucking... It was like a Russian military regiment the World War II that had a polar bear as its mascot that I'm pretty sure there's a photo of it wearing a hat. Yep. Love that. I'll get that to plane. There was a, there's also rumored to be a Puma in the Grampians. There was an article the ABC did about this a couple of years ago where a consultant, an expert about it. This is quite, Dr. John Henry from Deacon University conducted research to the issue in the 1970s told the ABC last year that he concluded that it was beyond reasonable doubt there was a population of big cats of the Grandpins at that time. So like 50 years ago this one guy did it study. Yep. He's, he's standing by it. God bless him.

Uh, the Blue Mountains Panther, if you have a look at it on Wikipedia, there's one citation for the entire article, and it is on the sentence, there is no proof that this animal exists. This is from the ABC again. It's easier, I think, to bring people down then to actually build something. It's so true. It's easy to criticize. It's way harder to say... Big Cats are real. This is from the ABC. In its final report obtained by the ABC, the Department of Primary Industry said it examined video footage, plastic cast footprints, photographs of scratch marks and

sent hair, saliva and fecal samples for DNA analysis. However, none of the evidence has conclusively proved the existence of a large, free-ranging cat-like animal. The report concludes the poor prints obtained are most likely to be from a large dog. Okay, so look, he's got a big degree, knowledge, expertise in the field, a body of work and evidence, that he can draw from, textbooks, series of evidence captured, analyzed, and so on, but a dog can't jump on a fence post. That's true. So in this case, I think really what we're looking at is Puma, or Puma-sized cat.

It could be a cougar that someone has spray-painted black. I might not be an expert on zoology, biology, ecology, ecology, cryptozoology, geography, yep, I'm not doing the full beer. Septuology, yep, and so on. But what if someone released a really big cat into the bush? I think that's all we've got time for. We've probably even maybe given you too much time. Oh, I don't think so. I'm in where in the room already. You're absolutely right.

Thanks for listening. You've already subscribed, so I don't think we have to sell you on anything really. No, you've already taken it hook, line and sinker. Yep, you credulous robes. I'm spending this money on drugs. Just getting I needed to pay my rent. Woo! Yeah, how do you usually finish these? I think you just say goodbye at the end. Yeah, all right.

So, just, but I mean, you really wanted to come to like a nice smooth kind of ending. It'd be nice if we had like, we could bring it back to something like a callback joke. Yeah, that would be nice. Well anyway, uh, peace. Cheers. you to be the tree