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Episode Date: February 5, 2022

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Hello and welcome to Pontivista. This is a bonus episode. I am Ben and I'm here in a tiny town in a fictitious Eastern European country I have invented in my mind based entirely on my prejudices. With me, shirtless and in the snow, attempting to go to a three-legged pig called Grimcha into pulling a cartful of rancid cabbages to the market, it's Theo. Hi Theo. Hey, how are you? I'm good.

Are you cold? Yeah, I'm miserable as well. Yeah, you smoking two cigarettes. Yeah. Well, it's the only I can get 50 down a day. So, you know, Eastern European men make do. But I tell you what, I hate this pig. Grepture?

Greptu? Not a fan? Love my cabbage. Love my cart. ate my pig. If you don't like it, bearsthere's the tiger. Simple as, that's right. Also with us, washing himself with a 50-50 mix of gasoline and mud, while a goat eats his clothes,

hiding out from the justice that surely should be meted out to him at the Hague for war crimes he committed in 1978, 1989, 1989, 1993, 1993,, 1994, 1995 and 2017. It's Andrew. Hi Andrew. Hello. Oh no. I'm going to bet your name's Ratco. I'm going to bet your name's Ratco.

That's just a feeling that I have. Yes. Come to Ratco. Let the Atko wash you. This is the business you operate. You look like dirty hairy man. We've veering into Borat territory there a little bit. Oh, I wouldn't want to veer out of a fictional version of Eastern Europe

based on somebody's prejudices in their mind and into the Borat version of Kazakhstan. Yeah, that's right. Apparently, that's a cabbage diet. Wow, some listeners are going to be real fucking happy about what just happened there. I just want to remind Theo that this is taking place in freemium-free brewery. All the bonus episodes. I can't hide behind a little paywall. They can't th and th th and th th and th th and th and th and th and th and th th and th free brewery. All the bonus episodes. I can't hide behind a little paywall.

They can see everything. They can hear everything too. They can hear sounds coming out of the tightest butt hole on this side of the equator. I gotta tell you, it's not that good. All right. Yeah, look, I'm just saying it sounds good to the casual observer. Doesn't it sound good? But when you get in there, sometimes, it's like, the grass is always greener and sometimes the dog catches

the car. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And the car is a little roomier than you thought it initially was maybe it's a schoda. Welcome to Buena Vista if this is your first episode or a sort of a comedy current events podcast. You guys remember there was a while there were the only thing on the internet that you could get for laughs. Before everything was a meme or a Tick-tok or what have you, what have you, you, you, you, th you, th you, th you, th you, th you, th you, th you, th you, th you, th you, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, a th, a th, a tho, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little thi, a little tho, is a little, is a little, is a little, is a little, is a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little, a little was a while there were, the only thing on the internet that you could get for laughs, before everything was a

meme or a Tick-Tock or what have you, was you'd have pictures of misspelled or mistranslated Chinese restaurant menus or there'd be like a picture of a guy somewhere in Eastern Europe and he had like a desktop computer on the back of a cart being pulled by a donkey and then the caption would be like, in Russia, computer pull you, you know? I thought you were going to say, the other thing that we used to all get a good old-fashioned laugh out of was accidental Asian hipsters. Remember that one? No.

I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. That was just photos taken of like just a person in mainland China wearing, you know, just an assembled outfit that actually looked really cool. There, you're talking about accidental drizzy. It's the new project that I'm working on. Yeah. accidental drizzy. It's the new project that I'm working on. These days. Yeah. That'd probably pop off, I'd imagine.

Accidental drizzy. Yeah. Yeah, not not here in Eastern Europe though. No, well, you don't have the internet here in the country. I've assembled from my mind. Oh, there is dial up, but only in government buildings. And it's a very corrupt country, so you have have the the the the their their their their their's a very corrupt country so you have to pay them extraordinary amounts of money to check your... what's the funniest email I can have? Big Pond. For some reason

Big Pond is huge in this country. My parents had a Big Pond email address for quite a while. You reckon that's still going? Oh, absolutely. My mom like set one up for her business. And I'm like, hey, don't do that. Use a different one. Because at some point, you may not want to pay $120 a month for bad internet. And she didn't take my advice. So.

Still paying it to this day. Love your mom. Do you reckon if you sign if you, my my my my th th, my th, my th, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my th, my, my, my, my, my th. My, my th. My th. My, my th. My th. My, my th. My, my thi. My, my, my, my, my, my mom, my thi. My, my mom, my mom, my mom, my mom, my mom, my mom, my mom, my mom, my mom, my. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My. My, my. My, my. My. My, my. My, my th. My th. My th. My th. My th. My th. My thi. My thi. My, my thi. My, my thi. My, my. My, my, my mom, my mom, my mom, my mom, my mom, my mom, my mom, my mom, my mom, my mom, my mom, my mom, my mom. My mom. My paying it to this day. Love you, mom. Do you reckon if you'd like sign up for a Telstra email account now, they'll let you pick the Big Pond. Like how would you even do it? Sign on big pond. Big Pond webmail. That is. That is still do it?

Can you still sign up? Well, you go there and it redirects to just just just just just just just just just just just just just little sad day. Yeah, and I don't even remember when Telstra was Big Pond, when Big Pond was Telecom, when boys were men. Yeah. Okay. And we owned our infrastructure and we could be proud of something. And now China's out to get us and... If this is your first episode, I can't just thr-o'-tahe' that that there. I th' th' th' th' their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their, I their, I their, I their, I their, I their, I their, I don't their, I their, and I don't their, I they their, and I their, and I their, and I their, and I their, and I their, and I their, and I their, and I their, and I their, and I their, and I th and I th and I th and I th. I th. I that and I that and I that and I that and I that and I If this is your first episode, I cannot justify this man's behaviour in any way, shape or form. Once again, I fear that the absence of Lucy is going to make this episode go off the rails. And that is why... Would it help? Yes. Would it help if I definitively stated that this show is a friend of the Chinese Communist Party?

We are an uncritical supporter of all of the actions undertaken by the Chinese Communist Party. But say you're drawing a map and that map had borders on it and that border happened to cross the South China Sea for example. Yeah, and you know what? Let's work with two maps here. I'm also going to look at the Indian border. We should definitely draw some lines there. Somewhere around the independent or incorporated state of Tibet.

Yeah. Depending on what sort of podcast this is. You know what there is probably, I'm going to say, more people than I could count on my hand of listeners that will be angry at us for sarcastically saying uncritical support of the Chinese government. Well, that's just a statement that's going to make everyone mad, isn't it? Yeah. Whether you're pro or and... China's a land of contrasts. And that's the Bundavista problem, the worst answer, the question posed. You know what it can appeal to anyone and both kinds of those people can fucking hate us. Yeah, hate their treatment of the Uyghur Muslims.

Love that guy on Twitter that's like your infrastructure's falling down because you spend all the the th th the the the the the th the the th th their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their th thi thi thi thi thi thi thi their land of thi. And thi. And thin land of thin land of thin land of thi and thi. And thi. And thi. And thi. And thi. And thi. And thi. And thi. And thi. And thand thand thand thand thand thand thand th. And thand thand thand thand thand than than their land thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, their thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin thin than thir treatment of the Uyghur Muslims, love that guy on Twitter that's like, your infrastructure's falling down because you spend all your money crashing F-35s into the South China Sea. You're talking about our dear Fred Chen Weihua, the lifetime bitch. Let me simply say that I think that the mighty president, J Xinjiang does look like Winnie the poo, but in a good the poo, but in a good, their, their, th..... their, their, the, the, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, their, their, their, think that the mighty president Jizinping does look like Winnie the Pooh, but in a good way. Oh yeah, he's kind of nice with it. Yeah.

Yeah. It's just the uniting take. Everyone can agree on. I've mentioned it before but I did a this was before our current blow up with the CCP. Our personal one and the one of the of the Australian Federation. Our podcast flashpoint with the CCP. Yeah and it was what the meme you know friendship ended with blah now yeah and it was after we had the the terrible phone conversation with

Donald Trump about how we are monstrous to our immigrants etc. He likes that about us. Yeah, yeah, I recall. Records, we're real, real king dicks. Yeah. And everyone got mad. And I made that meme. It's like, you know, friendship ended with, with United States.

You know, now Gigi Ping, my new best friend, and I had a photo of Scott Morrison shaking his hand. I got one reply that was just like completely serious Australia does not stand with jeezing being no to theyreel's business where I stay yeah and I said yes and I said yes we do because it's the worst answer we've gone to the. We've gone to Theo audibly farting on the microphone then deciding to go into detail about his butt hole and then us taking a proud stance on the Chinese government. And if you're still listening, it's time for Paging Dr. Lucy. I had a segue line up on that. No I got halfway through it and then we moved on. T then I th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th th th th th th the th th th th the th th th th th the th th the th. th. th. th. th. thi their their their thi their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their 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. We're th. We're th. We're th. We're th. We're the. We're thea. We're theo. We're thoooo. We're thoooo. We're theoooo' th. We're theoo' theo' the. We're th lined up. You just given up on that? No, I got halfway through it and then we moved on and then I... And then I paused? It sounds like he never had a segue and he's blaming us but okay. You're gonna blame the next failure to do a

segue on China probably. I put it. Fart was Fart Ha! Now your page in dark and see. Every week that fart is performed live by Theo. No it isn't. That is right. That's not true. Yeah, I just want to... His are a higher pitch. They are not? No, I don't know if you... I'm going to put that bad boy in in audacity. Gonna pull out that furrier transform. Yeah.

Compare the frequencies. You know, there's a bit in the first Transformers movie where the Australian actress who was on home and away, who's meant to be the sort of signals intelligence type person or like a whatever, she calls it a furrier transfer. Is it the thouk tole Kee tell-a thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thoom-a thi. thi. thoom-a' thoom-a' thoom-a thoom-a thoom-a thoom-rier transfer. Isabel Lucas? Is that he talking about? Couldn't tell you. How Kylie? I have no fucking idea. I regret mentioning this at all.

Just a little warning up top. This story, I think is actually quite nice. And I debated about whether or not to put it in the podcast for this reason. I was like, oh, it's not very nice. Here we go. this. this this this this this this this this this this this this this this is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is this is th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thus. thus. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. tooooooooooooo. the t t t podcast for this reason I was like, oh, it's not very warning. Here we go, this is from KLAS News, Las Vegas, couple remarries in COVID-U unit at... ICU unit? At Las Vegas Hospital. It might not be a dream marriage, but Mountain View Hospital hosted a wedding for a patient in an ICU COVID unit on Tuesday. The patient, identified as Eddie D. but Mountain View Hospital hosted a wedding for a patient in an ICU COVID unit on Tuesday. The patient, identified as Eddie D, was diagnosed with cancer in October 2021, only three months after being told his cancer was in remission.

Shortly after- I don't think this is funny at all, Ben. I didn't say funny, I said it's nice. Just fucking be nice when somebody, yeah, okay. Oh my fucking God. Shortly after developing bacterial pneumonia, Eddie was infected with COVID-19, which admitted him to the ICU, the hospital said. Eddie D. asked Patricia M to marry him on Monday over a text message since he is in the ICU and on COVID precautions. Eddie, who spent 33 years in the military and Patricia, retired nurse, first met in the 1970s before getting married shortly after.

Now 1974, now 74 and 75 years old respectively, they realized, if not now, then when? Quote, we were young and stupid, Patricia said. We divorced in a year, but maintained contact over the years. The pair went on and lived their lives, had families, births and deaths, a little over five years ago, they found each other again. Patricia saw online that it was Eddie's birthday and dropped him a note. Happy birthday to my favorite ex-husband. You thirsty dog. You thirsty, bitch! Oh, Eddie's single again? I saw it was your birthday! I saw it was your birthday birthday. I! I! I the birthday! I the birthday! I th! I th! I th! I th! I th! I th! I th! I th! I thirsty dog. You thirsty bitch. Oh, Eddie's single again. I saw it was your birthday. Hey, how you doing? How you living? Not well, it turns out because of the cancer and the bacterial pneumonia and the COVID. Eddie, who lived in California, stopped in Las Vegas after visiting his son on the east coast to

visit Patricia and take her out to dinner. The rest, well, is history. We never really thought about getting married again, Patricia said. They moved in together in 2017. We've had five wonderful years, Patricia said. Because of Eddie's COVID-positive status, Patricia hasn't visited. To have an in-person wedding, the hospital's administration had to sign off and approve it. Quote, we hope this day was an unforgettable experience for Eddie and Patricia, said Mountain View Hospital CEO, Julie Taylor. This is proof that love prevails

and that people are stronger together and that there are joyful moments amidst the challenges. How fucking nice is that? That's a nice thing. I feel like we're, we've kind of left a lot of things in our wake on our journey from 1974 to now. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, sure. Did they murder them?

Did they eat the kids? I mean, I think, you know, probably they'd have grown adult children now that have their own lives. Yeah, that math checks. the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their. their th. th. thus thus. thoomk. thoomorrow. thirty thoomorrow. thoomk, thoomkiolk. thoomki. thoomki. thoomkoy. thoomkoy. thoomk. thoomk. thoomk. thoes. thoes. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. th. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. the. thea. thea thea thea thea thea the an th own lives. Yeah, that math checks out actually. Yeah. Any other stuff we left behind there? Um, other marriages? No, just like stuff from the 70s. Oh. Everybody's smoking cigarettes on the plane. Radio, I'm in watches. Big bushes. Not how I'm living. I just... No, you can find them online if you want to. There's a lot of material. Check out big bushes.com.

Sometimes you're going to want to search his suit. It's confusing, but it's and it's sort of splitting your your search terms but if you're if you're used to just googling putting into duck duck go big bushes what you're gonna like try and you're gonna want to try and try suit folks I got I got to say again, just like glorious President Cheesingping warned us, a lot of misinformation coming from the West here as one of my co-hosts has implored you to go to Big Bush's.com, that will simply redirect you to Wildcard. Dot host gator.com, that is true tragedy.

It's begging me to configure my name servers So that suggests that somebody has bought the domain big bushes Com but they haven't figured their name service They're this squatting on this domain's face. They're sitting right on that domain's face. They are. They're not holding up aside saying that you could be squatting on this debate's face, which is how people usually do that. Interesting. Hey, congratulations to Eddie and Patricia.

You know what? I thought we were going to congratulate the owner of a... They're not doing anything with it, so they're fucking useless to me. No, that's true. Well, we don't know how long ago they bought it. Big Bush is to come. Are you trying to do a domain lookup? What are you doing? Yeah.

Hack a man. Uh, when did I get purchased, though? That's what I want to know. Um, oh, it expires on 202. July. Last update, 2021-08, so they've had a couple of months, really. And they are not doing that much with it. Now you could buy yourself Fat Bushes.com for 999, which I kind of like more than Big Bushes. That's got to be more character. Is that all? A bit of funkiness to it to me. Hmm. We're talking all one word FAT BUSHES. Fat Bushes.com and that's a very nine.99. Now Theo before you make a rash

purchase here. Yeah just sorry yeah I am typing that you're gonna have to talk faster. What are you gonna use that for? What's your plan there? Once you've got fatbushes.com, what goes there? We just redirect to Patreon.com slash, Buntavista. Yeah, I mean, I could get big bushes. And that's kind of fun. That's actually the quest that I'm currently on. My man loves big bushes.

Sort of vagh-hudge, if you will. I'd like to apologize to... Listen to any religious tradition that includes pilgrimages of any card. At this point we would like to, I think just a blanket apology. We're sorry. Yep. Glorious President of Jijingpings, we would like to, I think, just a blanket apology. We're sorry. Yeah. Glorious President of Jijingpings, we would like to apologize for any disrespect, you know, any disgrace that we've bought upon you.

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Podcasts sound addictive and we can't be held responsible. Everyone's a winner during Freemian Freibuary. Big Bushes. Com sure sounds like a porn website. And gosh, there's so much porn you can see on the internet. Andrew I'm going to talk real slow so you got heaps of time to get to the soundboard here. I'm not looking at the document I'm looking at how much it cost by fat bushes dot sexy. Well now we're fucking talking. Yeah no it's okay it's time of course for

this is the one thing we didn't want to happen. This is the one thing thing we thing we thi th thing th th thin th th th thin thin th thin th th thin the one thi the one thi the one to happen. This is the one thing we didn't want to happen. I'm going to give the exact opposite warning to the one that I gave for the last story. This is not nice. This is not a nice story. This is from the Associated Press. Illinois man surfed porn site before fatal crash. I mean... He was just hitting refresh over and over again on Big Bush's. Now, I think I can anticipate your question here.

Yeah. You sort of want to know what the the-temporal bounds here are. Like, did he look at it... Who, whom among us? The week before? Yeah. Okay, because then that sentence will be true of a lot of us. Yeah. But? No. Prosecutor said... It's not like the weed test they do with. It's not like the porn doesn't stay in your system for 30 days. Gotta do a big detox.

Prosecutor saying an Illinois man was surfing a pornographic website moments before his tractor trailer collided with a tar tanker near Lowell. Killing the... Lowell? Killing the road construction worker who was driving. Oh no. Okay and now if you laugh at the next sentence, you're fucked. Just a little warning. 69-year-old Clark R. Johnson of Hoopstead, Illinois, was charged Monday with reckless homicide, two counts of criminal recklessness and three counts of misdemeanor distracted driving. Just to restate that, 69-year-old Clark R. Johnson of Hoopsteaded Illinois. 69-year-old Mr R. Johnson of Hoopstead, Illinois. 69-year-old Mr. Johnson.

Now, I have actually lightly edited this for clarity because the original version that came out from the Associated Press, obviously one of the most prestigious wire services in the world, had it written as 69-year-old Clark R. Johnson, comma, 69, they put the age in there twice, which makes me think they were maybe fixated on it as well, slightly. The Post-Tribune Reports Johnson was ordered held on a $4,000 cash bond. The crash code at 840 AM on August 25, 2020 on US State Route 41, Highway 41, whatever the fuck that is. 63-year-old Martin Nip of La-N, the report, the report, the report, the report, the report, the, Highway 41, whatever fuck that is.

63-year-old Martin Nip of La Port and DeMott was killed. Johnson was treated for minor injuries at a hospital. So they have done some forensics on the man's devices at the scene of the crash, and they have managed to ascertain through whatever wizardry that literally just before he killed a man he had been looking at juicy honkers. Hmm. Or fat dongs. Yeah, that's true. Asked play.

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obligation to if you find this shit out, keep your fucking mouse shut. If you find out that someone's grandpa was looking at fat dongs or jockeys or whatever, and then he killed a guy. Immediately before running into a tar tanker at 200 miles an hour. If you've pulled up his phone and you've seen that the last thing he was doing was watching that video, you wait until no one's looking and you smash that fucking phone into the ground. You obliterate it, you stomp on it until it's a powder.

Jesus. Yeah, when your boss walks up and says, oh, was the guy looking at porn? No? You say, no, no, I just found his phone and I'm looking at porn on it. Yeah. I'm actually the big bang bus fan. Well that way it's not in my history. I just, this is, you know, it's negligent, it's weird. I don't endorse the practice. But it's only natural. Don't think we should put that next to that man's name in the news. Don't, don't, don't, th, th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thuu thu thu. thu. thu. thu. thu. thu. thu. that that that that he hea, I hea, I thatheatheatheatheatheatheatheatheatheat, I'm that, I'm that, I that, I th. th. th. th. th. th. hea, I th. hea, I hea, I hea, I th. th. he th. th. he th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi, thi, he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he hea, theeeeat, that that that that that that that that that he we should put that next to that man's name in the news.

Don't etch it into his gravestone, you know? Please, I'm begging you. The perma link to the archive. the org version, way back machine, saved version of the video that he was watching on his tombstone as a QR code so some to the moment before he killed the guy. At the very least, get one of those little suction cups that you can put it on, sort of somewhere in the center of your vision, so that... Your peripheral vision is still working if they're approaching tar tanker.

This is legal advice as well, I think. I just... What do you think is worse? Do you think it's worse if they say, Madam, your husband was actually looking at pornography at the time that he crashed, killing another person, and you say, what was he looking at? And they go, oh, you know, some double anal stuff? Or is it worse if you ask and they say, you don't want to know. If they say, well, it looks like the last thing he searched before clicking through, the one the results was,

broods who looked nothing like my wife. Yeah. He was just typing in the name of his high school ex-girlfriend into all the porn search engines. And, okay, so, he lived. He is alive. Yeah, so... He has to face this. He's in fucking rural Illinois. He's in a small town, probably.

Everyone's gonna know what's fucking happened to him. Every day he goes home and looks himself in the mirror and says, I knew porn would lead me to this. He's gonna walk into a coffee place and everyone's gonna go, it's the jack-off killer. It's the man who killed him, killed someone with his dick. Just, and we've said this before in other episodes,

don't jack off at work. Or at all. Who said that? I mean, I'll say, sorry, you took a strong, you cannot stop me. Stand on that issue if I recall. I'm saying don't check off at work. Don't check off if you're driving a truck or, you know what, I'll say it. Anything. You're driving anything. So strong, strong stance taken.

Unicycles get a pass. Very strong stance. Very strong stance. Before I exercise. Very strong stance taken by Ben here. If you are going to jack off in the car, pull over and put the car in the park. Yeah, your keys legally have to be out of the ignition. Yeah, that's right, yeah. If your dick's in your hand and your keys are in the ignition, they will find you. Yeah, they got the top-down cameras now. They can tell.

You might think you're getting away with it because, you know. I saw a video the other day that I sent to you guys and... Interesting way to frame that. I know. That video was amazing. to like 10 people within 20 minutes if you th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thiii's thi. thi. thi. thi. thi's thi's thi's thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. th. th. th. 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. theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeea. theeee. th. th. th. th. to frame that. I know that video was amazing. I showed it to like 10 people within 20 minutes if you're posting that in the chat. It is so good that I cannot believe it's real. So it's a guy who is driving along on a highway presumably and he has a road rage incident somebody somebody somebody comes right up behind him. This is after he has cut them off is what the police reporter said as well so he he instigated the whole affair. They've got mad. He has then said, fuck off and he slammed on his brakes as well just to antagonize them further. He's just kind of going, do, do, do, do, do, along the music in his car.

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looking where it's going or anything. It's just, just, eyes closed, you know, and wave him back and forth. He's like so weirdly relaxed throughout the whole thing though. It's fucking insane. Yeah, that's like Canada. Ignore that. Yes. Yes. Oh boy. Oh boy. So I don't think you need a gun in your car. I think look if you want to

jerk off in your car that's your business like don't do it on the highway. Well maybe I'll take that back it's better to do it on the highway than like you know suburban streets. Like if you got a jack off anywhere in a moving vehicle try the auto, you know, suburban streets. Like, if you got a jack off anywhere in a moving vehicle, try the auto barn, you know. A lot of long interrupted. You don't need to, you're not like changing lanes or swerving or anything. You know, just for the record as well, this guy is a firefighter. Just, fun fact. Oh, boy, former Florida firefighter. uh, I wonder what happened there.

The Orlando Sentinel is saying, interesting. He's deleted his LinkedIn page and I wonder why that is. It's interesting. How's he gonna get another job as a firefighter? God damn. I mean, I'm like, I'm sure he'll now become like a right-wing celebrity for defending himself. Standing his ground. Oh man, I watched another video today of like, another road rage incident in America. This one was in New Jersey, where a guy in like a Honda Civic or some shit, is an accord maybe, is behind a big,te sort of thing. And he's clearly tailgating him and these two guys are like clearly sort of

the guy in front is break checking him, the guy behind is like accelerating up behind him and then slamming on his brakes or whatever. They're being very aggressive to each other. The guy in the white ute is on the far left, like so the overtaking lane for Americans. Yeah, of the three lanes. And there are two other cars, so he's trying to go faster and get around him whatever. A car in front is not letting him do it. Anyway, they sort of do this for a little while, then all of a sudden, the Honda tries to go around the outside and then tries to slip between a car that's in the middle lane and the car that he was squabbling with, barely

managed to get through, nicks one of them and then careens into a wall and flips the car like three times. And like all of the replies to the video I saw were people just being like well guys in the overtaking lane should have been going a little bit faster Oh man Which it like a couple of times when I was in the US I was getting very frustrated with how like Americans seemingly love tailgating even when you're already doing like 10 ks over the speed limit. That's not exclusive to America. Well, I know, it seemed more pronounced in America than it does over here. And then every fucking American would reply to my tweet being like, well, you know that lanes for overtaking, like, yes, the road works the same. It's just flipped on one of its axes.

But also, if you're doing like 130 Ks in 110 zone, people will still do that shit to you. Like they will not give you time to go around another car or whatever. People drive like psychos over there. It's nuts. Unlike that polite, well-behaved, Queensland driver. Famous in Australia for our good behavior. Huh. Is that true Theo?

It's fine. I actually like it this way. Yeah, I certainly say it's much easier to drive in Brisbane than it is to drive in the to drive in. Less suburban areas of Queensland. It's like less stressful to drive in the city, I would say. Because people actually have some kind of regard for the road rules. Well, maybe the American thing works perfectly with my theory about Camber driving, actually, which is that, um, which is that's that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that is that is that is that is that is that is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is to to to to to to to to to to to to to be is to be is to be is to be is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is th is thi is thi, it is thi is thi is thi is thrue is thrue, thrue, thrue, thrue, thrue, thrue, thrue, thri is to be to be thrue, thi is thi is the road rules. Well, maybe the American thing works perfectly with my theory about Camber driving, actually, which is that, because Camber is very spread out, it's like, it's lots of suburbs, all sort of loosely joined together by a series of kind of city centers, you know? So, there's a bunch of main roads between all of those places, and you can pretty much just drive unimpeded,

the way you want to go. Wide, wide lanes, you know, lots of room, all that sort of stuff. This appears to have driven everybody insane. Because I think what happens is that everybody gets really used to being able to go wherever they want at whatever speed they want to go all the time, which means that any time that you are presented with another car on the road in the same lane as you in front of you, it's just this unacceptable, mind boggling,ling, it's just completely putting you out that somebody's

in fronting. And like you said, Ben, it's very much the kind of like, you can't be doing 10 over the speed limit and someone will still be tailgating you. And there will also very clearly be another card directly in front of you. So you can't get out of the way or go any faster. But if they put the pressure on you, then you're gonna put the pressure on the person in front of you. And then the system works.

The system works. And yeah, I think it's a very camera specific thing to basically be so spoiled by low traffic congestion that like anyone being anywhere near you just makes you go this is bullshit they shouldn't be in my way they shouldn't be anywhere near me you know and I wonder if America's quite similar because they do have so many arterial highways connecting everything together and I imagine that a lot of the time you could drive at quite high speeds on there if you wanted to. Yeah do you see people in Texas Texas talking about the same sort of thing. What are you doing in that lane unless you're doing 50 miles per hour over the speed limit?

Oh man, it's fucking psycho over there. They're like the, yeah, 85 miles an hour on the interstate, some interstates over there, which is, you know, like 130 Ks an hour. That's the speed limit, and then you'll get people that are obviously going to do, you know, 10, 20Ks over that. And like, that's a mind-boggling speed to just be cruising at. It's fucking wild. Fun though, but wild.

But fun. But wild. These are the kinds of wild things that happen in America. And we, the strongest pro-China podcast in Australia, are the ones to monitor them. It's not what we agreed to. To monitor them and report back for the benefit of our president. In this edition of America Watch. I was really hoping I may go to China one day. It just seems like it would be a great country to visit.

Well, I mean, if fucking list, well then you should thank me because if anything is going to really win them over, I think it's this sort of fawning adulation that I've been heaping at their feet. Yep. Great food, beautiful people, you know, can't argue with it. This is a story from the Wire News Service, gray muse. Man beaten with metal... Did you say gray, great muse? I don't think I did. Might have. Man beaten with metal skillet after declining an offer of potato... Grey, grey muse? Great. I don't think I did. Might have. Man beaten with metal skillet after declining an offer of potatoes, police say.

So what other kind of skillet is that? That's true. It's a good point. I wouldn't call a ceramic one a skillet. That's just, that's, yeah. I think they've over-cooked this. Yeah, man beaten with skillet. Yeah, that's right.

That's fine. That's enough, you know? A man was arrested after being accused of beating another person with a metal skillet who refused an offer of potatoes, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Do you that makes sense? Police say a 27-year-old man was frying potatoes in hot oil with a metal skillet and offer them to a 32-year-old victim who declined. But don't offer them to a victim, to start with. Yeah. At the time he wasn't a victim.

He was just a regular man. What? When are they going to introduce context to this? Because at the moment I'm standing in the middle of a completely featureless white room, there is the arbitrator of potatoes. Yep. Okay. Well, let's see if we can like dial up the details on this matrix simulation for you. Hold on a second, I want to issue an apology to the great people at Green Muse. A skillet could be made out of copper. Copper is a metal though. That's a metal. Yeah. I thought it's it's steel. Okay. Forget it. Yeah. Of course it's made out of fucking metal, Gray Muse. That's when the man became, quote, suddenly enraged and

threw the hot frying oil and potatoes into the victim's face without warning, according to police. Fuck. Oh, what did I even bother frying these potatoes for if you're not going to eat them, stranger? Authority said he went on to beat the person so hard with the skillet that the handle snapped off. Oh my goodness. Now Theo, obviously we don't have a wear, a when or a why. I would love aware any time, any time now I'd love to understand whether we were in this man's kitchen, in a different kitchen, in a restaurant. We have two sentences left here, so hopefully this will flesh this out for you. The victim was taken to hospital to be treated for burns and a significant head injury. Okay, so we're going to left that out out now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi tho tho tho thi thi tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho the the the. the the. th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the. the. the. the. the. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to thean. th significant head injury. Okay, so we're gonna left that out of the article I think because...

It seems implied. Yeah. Yeah. The man cooking the potatoes faces several charges, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. That is the end of the article. Was he... was this a street-side fried potato vendor? Hey, would you like some potatoes? No? Prepare to die, bitch.

You are the 247th person who has said no to my potatoes today. The potatoes were already ruined. Because no one would try them. Were they... Did they know each other? Did they know each other? Yep. Does it say how like... Is this an office?

Had he done anything in particular with the potatoes, you know? I just don't know. You're thinking like whether there's, whether it's gone like, have they gone like hassleback? Have they gone some like mustard powder in there with that? We're talking. Yeah. All right. No, they've not provided any further details at all.

We cannot confirm or deny at this point whether those potatoes were hassle-backed, whether they'd been par-cooked in water before entering the fry pan, whether they'd been distressed with a fork to make them extra crispy. I found another version of this new story because all of the ones I can find are all just the same article from the same wire service. This one's a little bit longer. Oh, no. The only other detail that's in this story is that the suspect was found barefoot on a nearby road.

That's it. That's literally the one extra detail that they've provided. Hmm. And you think this is funny? I don't recall saying that. The third result looking for this is a recipe from SmartyPants Kitchen.com for Pennsylvania Dutch skillet supper. It's a one pan potato-based skillet. And we'll leave that link in the episode description. I will try to remember to do that.

This is not a good looking meal. It looks like a Caesar salad with sausages in it inside a pan. Oh that's cabbage and that's potato. Sounds good to me. But I'm not a snob. I'm not a snob like some people. Yeah, I'm a bit of a food head. A real big food guy.

Oh, this is a, this is a pretty is a pretty quick recipe actually I'd love to read it to you. Yeah sure. Sorte onions and potatoes. Add cabbage and sausage. Pour in beef or vegetable stock. Allow to simmer until the potatoes are tender. Done. Beat man with pan until the handle comes off. Nearly kill guy for say, I am fine, thank you. That looks rank. Oh man, well I guess we'll never know about that story. I wonder if I'll cut through the bullshit to bring you the facts that matter and the recipes for potato cabbage that could be equally

applied to Pennsylvania residents or owners of a three-legged pig. That's right. I just want to say that for the record. Macedonia. But we've done more due diligence than the actual outlets, like the dedicated news places have done on that story. So you are welcome. Interesting. Well in other potato related news, I have been looking at a recipe I would like to try

from America's Test Kitchen for brazed red potatoes that looks really good. You put like some butter and water and garlic in a pan with like red potatoes that looks really good. You put like some butter and water and garlic in a pan with like half potatoes that are face down and you like braze it until all the liquid cooks off with lid on and then you take the lid off and it just like seizes the bottom and gives them a nice crust. It's supposed to be very easy and extremely delicious and I would like to try it. I will report back in a future edition of people who have been hurt by or enjoyed potatoes. The spectrum of potato hyphen human experience watch. Yep.

Potatoes can be cruel. Can they? And they're part of nature. This is Nature Corner. I'm a long, ultimatum, nature corner, rubber crab sniffed my dick. Yeah, we don't have a frogged version of the theme there yet. Yeah, we don't have a frog version of the theme there yet. Although I guess... A little froggy's in. Yeah, frogs do make a distinctive sound. Actually in my head I was like, what would you even do? A squelch? The notoriously hard to identify frock. This motherfuck I just said identify it. I did. I was still thinking about the potatoes. You were about to completely demolish me.

Oh, beautiful. Derailed myself at the last second. So good, it's like you were about to shoot me with a gun that a bird flew to your face. This is a press release from Tufts University. Adorable name. I don't know what they do there. Scientists regrow frogs lost leg. Pretty cool. That's a nice story. And that's the end of a show. They found a little froggy. Hey, you can have that back. For millions of patients who have lost limbs

for reasons ranging from diabetes to trauma, the possibility of regaining function through natural regeneration remains out of reach. Regrowth of legs and arms remains the province of salamanders and superheroes. Does it? Yeah, those are the two things that spring to mind for me. Superheroes. But in a study published in the journal Science Advances, scientists at Tufts University and Harvard University's WIS Institute have brought us a step close to the goal of regenerative medicine. On adult frogs, which are naturally unable to regenerate limbs.

The researchers were able to trigger regrowth of a lost leg using a five-drug cocktail applied in a silicon wearable bioreactor dome that seals in the elix are over the stump for just 24 hours. See that never worked for me. Hmm. It's just done my business. That brief treatment sets in motion an 18-month period of regrowth that restores a functional leg. So I just want to backtrack over a few things here. First is stressing that adult frogs aren't able to naturally regenerate limbs because you

might think, well that seems like something frogs could maybe do, they can't. Five drug cocktail. Now that just sounds exciting. What are we picking here? Acid, weed, MDMA. Speed for some pep. A little bit of speed because I will fall asleep otherwise, yeah, 100% uh... You always mix those. That is the advice from doctors everywhere.

And then a course of benzoes. I think maybe I would go real easy with it and just take some CBD cream for my aches and pains. Hmm. Just rub that in as well while I'm doing, you know, everything else. Andrew, what's your five-drug cocktail? Um, weed. Yeah. Weed, uh, caffeine. Yeah. Because caffeine's a drug.

Do you know? Caffeine's a drug, but that's not a crime, though, because they'd have to send the business. The big, big dogs up at the CEO land. Just you wait till I let you know about alcohol. Alcohol's a drug. What the fuck? It's immediately running to the fridge.

Pulling open your drawer and getting the police. Getting the dispensed beer out of your drawer and throwing it in the bin and closing the drawer and opening it back up to the letter. I want to report a stash of potentially deadly drugs. I have exactly six things you're going to be very concerned about. Oh boy. Did you know that there are multiple drug labs operating in this city? They're bottling it and selling it. Big, big neon man winking on the side of one of them here. That's what they're winking about.

The crime. Weed caffeine. Yeah. Uh, I feel like throwing acid on top of everything else is like. Or just microdose it. Don't have like an eighth of a tab. It's just a little bit to loosen you up a little. Get loosey. God, I can't even remember what drugs I like like tha thia thia thia thia thia thia thia thia thia thu-a thi thi thu-a thi thi thi thi thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. the the the the the. th th th th th th th th th th th th th. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi's thi's thea theanan. thean. thean. thean. thean. thean. thea thea thea.to loosen you up a little. Get loosey, goosy. God, I can't even remember what drugs I like anymore, you know? It's been so long.

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Yep, on top. I'm gonna have five of the things they sell at the Happy High Herb shop that don't do anything. Dude, are you feeling a little sleepy? Yeah, mine's just starting to kick in too. I could go a nap. Yeah, I'm doing four of them and for Nazapam. Oh. Also, rewinding just slightly more to, Andrew exhibited sort of surprise, questioning whether superheroes can regenerate limbs.

I would point you towards Wolverine of course but then I had the thought okay so his Wolverine obviously able to regenerate any injuries but yeah also his skeleton is Adamantium that's right so if he was to say like lose a leg at the knee is he just sort of grown on a floppy flesh sack but that's right. So if he was to say like lose a leg at the knee, is he just sort of growing a floppy flesh sack back? That's a great question. Should it just like kicking around down there? No, he can go, because the adamantium is only a coating over his actual skeleton. Oh, so he just have normal bones then? Yep. He'd grow some normal, all right. They are. They also revealed in that the one that he's like backstory sort of graphic novel. Wolverine origins. No,

they gave him a name. I think his name's like James Howlett or something. I don't know. It's a weird one. Isn't it Logan? He has claws already without the edamantium clause. They're made a bone. He's got bone claws. He naturally has him. No that doesn't make any sense at all. I don't know whether... It wasn't very good. No, because he's a bloody mutant and the difference between, what is it, mutants and the other kinds of superheroes in Marvel things is that they're like naturally occurring. They hit puberty and then they become the mutant, right? Yes. Yeah. Oh, and then then the the the the the the the th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, thaton, thaton, the, the, the, tho, tho, tho, tho, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that's that's that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, puberty and then they become a mutant, right? Yes. Yeah. Oh, and then they've slapped some ed-adomantino over around those phone calls. And then he was made a part of the weapon X project. That's right.

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unless you've got the back story from the last like two years worth of issues and you need to know that. It should be just like the last 10 movies a canon. Yeah. One new movie the old one pops out a canon you can you can do whatever you like there. So is that a is that a th th th th. the th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th like a that a that a that a that a that a that a that that that that. that. that that that that. Like th. th. th. th. th. th th. th. th th. th. th. th. th. th th th th th th th th th. th th. th th. th. th. th th th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi the the the the the the they they the they they they the they the they the the the the the the the the the a cannon, you can do whatever you like there. So is that a stack or a list there? What are we doing there? Ah, that's a cue. That's a cue, right, yeah, good. Many creatures have the capability of full regeneration of at least some limbs, including

salamanders, starfish, crabs and lizards, the big four. Flatworms could even be cut up into pieces with each piece reconstructing an entire organism. Humans capable of closing wounds with new tissue growth and our livers have a remarkable almost flat worm-like ability of regenerating to full-size after a 50% loss. That is quite dope. I think we take that for granted sometimes. Like if you got a big cut and then you just died. Speak for yourself. I go in and get elective surgery every year.

Just take a chunk off. Yeah. And you give that to a starving child. Hey, this is for you. But loss of a large and structurally complex limb and armor a leg cannot be restored by any natural process of regeneration in humans or mammals. In fact, we tend to cover major injuries with an amorphous mass of scar tissue, protecting it from further blood loss and infection and preventing further growth.

The Tufts researchers triggered the regenerative process in African-clawed frogs by enclosing the wound in a silicon cap, which they called a biodome. I know who they got that from, huh? Which either they did that on purpose or they refused to Google it before doing it, which I wonder. This biodome contained a silk protein gel loaded with the five drug cocktail. Each drug fulfilled a different purpose, including tamping down inflammation, inhibiting the production of collagen, and encouraging the new growth of nerve fibers, blood vessels and muscle. The combination of the bioreactor provided a local environment and signals that tip the

scales away from the natural tendency to close off the stump and toward the regenerative process. The researchers observed dramatic growth of tissue in many of the treated frogs recreating an almost fully functional leg. The new limbs had bone structure... Yes, yeah that's right. The new limb had bone structure extended with features similar to a natural limbs bone structure and a richer complement of internal tissues including neurons neurons, and several toes, in quotation marks, grew from the end of the limb, although without the support of underlying bone. Yeah, there's some little floppy toes there.

Yeah, but I feel like they're talking about the toes in the abstract. Yeah, they're the toes. Tos in a way. Yeah, in X-Men 2, the scene where that the senator guy is like rising from the water as all his cells are breaking down. Yeah. Yeah. I think the leg looked like that is where I'm out with it. Yeah. Sure, that's not X-Men 1. Oh, it might be actually. You're absolutely right it is. I would like to apologize. Two is the one where Magneto pulls a whole bunch of iron out of a guy's body. Yeah. To escape from mind prison.

Never trust a beautiful woman as to whatever. Especially one that's interested in you. What a guy. Yeah, and that was written by the guy that plays Solid Snake. David Hader. Is that true? Yeah. X-Men 1 and 2. I think both of them. I'm going to say confidently, both of them were written by David Hader.

The guy that plays Toad is played by the guy who plays Darth Maul, but not the guy who voices Darth Maul, because that was Peter Seraphenoids. This has been... IMDB... your husband quotes things from IMDB Corner. Your man's be looking at Wikipedia while the movies play. And those movies were directed by someone good, right? Yeah, well, I don't know if we need to, you know. And those movies were directed by someone good, right? Yeah, well, I don't know if we need to, you know.

You know, get into that right now. No, but great movies and I'd defend them with my life. The regrown limb moved and responded to stimuli such as a toucest from a stiff fiber, and the frogs were able to make use of it for swimming through water moving much like a normal frogwood. But that's a bit creepy you know just like how the dog from the thing that wasn't a dog behaved much like a normal dog would. Yeah. Yeah. It's exciting to see that the drugs we selected were helping to create an almost complete limb said at Nerosha Muraghan, research affiliate at the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and the first author author author author author author author author author author author author author author author author author author author author author author author author author author author the first the first the first th th th of th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th. It thi. It's thi. It's thi. It's thi. It's thi. It's that's that's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's th. It's thi. It's a thi. It's a thi. It's a thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. It's a thi. It's a thi. It's a the drugs we selected were helping to create an almost complete limb, said at Nerosha Murrigan, research affiliate at the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts and the first author of the paper.

The fact that it required only a brief exposure to the drugs to set in motion a month's long regeneration process suggests that frogs and perhaps other animals may have dormant regenerative capabilities that can be triggered into action. Like wol Wolverine. Like Wolverines as then we're going to try them next? Yeah. Lopping, going around lopping the legs off of Wolverines. Nope, not this one.

Okay. Let's work our way through every other mammal. Lopping a leg off a Wolverine and shooting it full of heroin. No, it doesn't seem to be having any kind of positive effect at all. Just going into like the Amazon base and just chopping a limb off everything you can see, rubbing a cream on it and then walking off and be like, I'll check on you in six months. Let me know if you have any trouble. Previous work by the Tufts team showed a significant degree of limb growth triggered by a single drug with bio-dome. However, the resulting limb grew as a spike and was far from the more normally shaped functional limb achieved in the current study.

Now I'm going to reveal something to you. I missed a word when I was reading out those two sentences because I wanted to add a little bit of suspense. So this one drug was applied and then a weird, spiky limb grew out from where the missing limb was. That drug was progesterone. Okay. Yeah. Is that the one that, what's the, what's the, what's progesterone do again? Uh, progesterone? Well, so they're, I'm probably going to get this this this this this this this this this th th th th th th th th th th to get th th th th th th th th to get thi thi thi, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, 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,that... What's the... what's progesterone do again? Uh, progesterone... Well, so they're...

I'm probably gonna get this very wrong because I'm, uh, you know, I'm an ignorant man and all that shit, but like two of the kinds of birth control pill you can get, one is mainly estrogen, the other is mainly progesterone. I see. And I'm just saying, people, people, people, People be taking progesterone. Yeah. But don't seem to be creating new spike-like limbs. I mean, often they don't get the opportunity to because their limbs stay on for their lives.

Oh. So you're saying we should do something about that? I also don't know if you get progesterone in HRT or not. but if you do, some of our trans friends might be getting superpowers at this very moment. Like the superpowers that six months after you lose a lib you get a spike that does nothing. But better than not getting anything at all. Am I right? Yeah.

Am I? I mean, you could probably get back to playing Fall Out New Vegas with one hand, one hand in the spike. Now Theo is the only reason that you chose that game specifically? It seemed applicable at the time. The official game of trans people everywhere, fall out new Vegas. Our sample size might not be huge but the data appears to bear out at this point. I can't wait to. I can't. I to. I to to. I 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 to to to to to to to to to to fall to fall to fall to play to fall to play to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall to fall. to fall. to fall. to fall. to fall. I to fall. I to fall. I to play. I to play. I to play to play to play to play to play to play that. I that. I th. I th. th. I that that. that. I that. that. that. to to to that. to to to to to to that that that that, fallout New Vegas. Our sample size might not be huge, but the data appears to bear out at this point. I can't wait to, we really got a hassle Josh Sawyer on air about that. I'd be like, hey, do you know? No, he's already said on Twitter that he knows and he doesn't understand why.

He knows how many eggs he hatched by making a very playable RPG. In the fallout universe. Well done Josh Sawyer. You are a true ally. The five-drug cocktail represents a significant milestone toward the restoration of fully functional frog limbs and suggest further exploration of drug and growth factor combinations could lead to regrown limbs that are even more functionally complete with normal digits, webbing, and more detailed skeletal and muscular features. Pretty cool. That is actually kind of dope all frog leg severing and kind of souping aside. Yeah.

I mean, the idea that this is something that lays dormant in animals that we can activate Makes me feel a little Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park is about this of being like well, there's a reason we don't do it anymore, right? Maybe we just leave that switch unflicked. Maybe that's not my business. Or we flick it. We feel like it. Switch is a very fun to flick. We flick it. We feel like it. We feel like it. It, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, the animals, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that that animals, that animals, that animals, that animals, that animals, that animals, that animals, that animals, that animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, the animals, that, that's that's that's the animals, that's that's that's the animals, that, that, the animals, that, unflicked? Maybe that's one of my business. Or we flick it. We flick it. Switches are very fun to flick. That is try to flick enough switches, frankly.

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How many switches I get to flick? Yeah, and how you feel about it. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Well, that's what we in the industry call... A podcast. That's what we in the industry call a podcast?

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