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I'm just waiting for you.
I think he's texting.
He's always texting.
What are you up to?
On my device, I'm texting in Excel.
All right.
Relax, everybody.
Relax.
Relax.
Are we all ready to record a podcast? Yes.
Welcome to the Bunta Vista Tantric Grindset Turbo Manifestation Class.
Relax your mind, open your third and fourth eyes, and prepare to receive the wisdom of the gods
along with a book of coupons for local businesses.
As we pry open our cracked and chafed chakras,
let us go around the room
and check in with our regular participants.
Seated cross-legged in front of me,
balls clearly visible in the leg of his very short shorts,
is a bearded man with a serene,
Forrest Gump-style smile on his face.
Hello, Ben, what is being manifested
in your mind palace today?
I'm manifesting a very big and beautiful sandwich.
That's wonderful. Is it the kind of sandwich Scooby-Doo would eat?
Yes. Well, that he would share with Shaggy while they're meant to be looking for the evil ghost of an old knight.
But there's no ghosts in your mind palace, are there?
No, it's completely clear, except for the big sandwich.
Seated next to him with a relaxed face and the very audible sounds of the latest
Luke Combs album blasting from her AirPods, it's Lucy.
Lucy? Lucy!
What?
What powerful vision? I don't understand what we're supposed to do here.
Why is everyone talking so quietly?
What powerful visions of the future are you conjuring in your mind, Pallas?
I'm conjuring Big Gun, Grassy Knoll,
President of the United States,
Taco Bell, things of this nature. That's beautiful.
And seated up the back of the class, an extremely audible and completely unbroken 45 second
long fart leaking from his relaxed anus, it's Theo.
Theo, we talked about this last week.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I feel like we came away from that conversation with different,
different outcomes.
Um, I am fully relaxed and that includes all every part of me.
I'm manifesting $1.3 million in cash in a briefcase handed to me by an eight foot tall lady.
Like a deal or no deal kind of scenario? To build myself a little sauna.
Oh, don't laugh those are expensive. Sauna culture?
I'd love to have a sauna. Man, fuck I would. I don't understand the sauna. Well my new house has only got a little litty bath for like children. I can't lie
down here. Oh you want to install a sauna? What if I had a big bath in like a hot room?
What if you were standing in the bath? full of mold? I would love that.
And it was basically paid for in cash that arrived via an Amazonian woman.
This, I can't, I don't know if there's an Amazonian woman component to this, but I'm constantly seeing
people selling saunas on Facebook marketplaceplace in Brisbane for like three grand.
Like you could probably save yourself.
What do you get for three grand for a sauna?
Oh, it's a one person sauna.
Sauna? Like one of those ones that you sit in and you kind of wear like a vinyl sex suit kind of thing.
You don't have to wear your sex suit in there.
Oh, and they pump the...
This is a suitless sauna.
It's just kind of like an outhouse with some IR shit in it.
Oh yeah, I want the IR stuff.
No, I want the wet.
I want the wet.
I want it wet.
Yeah.
Yeah, infrared sauna?
No, I want it...
They got infrared saunas?
Yeah.
They're dry.
They're dry as a bone.
Oh, there are actually lots of new developments happening in sauna culture.
Welcome to sauna space.
I don't get it. I don't want to be wet or warm or have any sensations of my body.
I want to be cold and dry.
Flaky.
Despite not being swingers, we are slowly moving towards like some type of hot tub arrangement.
I think.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Cause we also live in a place where it gets really cold.
Yeah.
Imagine sitting outside in the very cold winter, but in the hot tub.
I fantasize about this all the time of just having a cold night, hot tub, cold beer.
Hot friends.
Cold beer in the hot tub.
Teppid friends.
One of my, one of the houses that I looked at, um, before we bought this one,
it had a hot tub.
It was the one with the amazing window that looked out to the forest, but no
yard or place for my children or anything like that.
But it had a hot tub there.
Your happiness is your children's happiness.
You got to put your own mask on before you attend to the needs of others.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Sure.
There's no clothesline at that house.
Sure.
There's nowhere for the children to play and also it was perched on like the side of a hill.
So the children would just like, I guess, scoot into traffic.
Look, if you really think about this in like 30 years time, when they're
talking to a therapist, which would be a thing that you would mention more,
a lack of a backyard or a lack of a happy father.
Yeah.
And a happy father and a hot tub.
My father would often chase me around our large backyard, trying
to beat the shit out of me.
You could see, or you could see when daddy was getting, uh, visibly red and mad and nude.
And then he'd, he'd go, no, you know what?
I'm going to go and sit in the hot tub about it.
Exactly.
All my worries would just shed off into the water.
Fuck.
I love hot water to sit in.
Hey, if you had some weird memories of your hot tubbing father, sternly
glowering at you from the hot tub until he relaxed, that's something you would
maybe talk to a medical professional about.
We have our own medical professional and her name is Dr.
Lucy.
It's time for Paging Dr. Lucy. Sorry, I meant to circle back to something.
So you were talking about how Lucy went to Luke Combs a couple of weeks ago.
Lucy, how was it?
Did you have a good time?
I honestly had the best time.
It was one of the most fun concerts I've ever had, I've ever been to.
It really looked like it because I saw some Instagram posts from you.
Yeah, do you know how many people were at that thing?
They sold out Marvel Stadium like two nights.
Yeah, they sold out.
And then the ones in Brisbane.
Sun Corp here as well.
I've never even heard of him.
I was listening to a Luke Combs CD, Jesus Christ.
I was listening to, I was streaming some Luke Combs in the
car the other day because every now and then I'll go, let's do some Lucy mindset, you
know?
Yes.
Throw it on. And the thought that came to me while I was listening to this was I wanted
to ask you Lucy, what like, let's say 20 year old Lucy would think if you pop through a portal and you sat her down
and you went, listen, in the future, this is what we're doing.
Look pretty horrified.
You know what I think 20 year old Lucy would say if you pop through a portal and show her
what you're like, she'd say, you don't understand me at all.
Don't talk to me.
I'm going to go hang out in the cemetery with my friends.
That's so rude.
That's me at 14, not 20, thanks.
25, 28, who knows?
25, 28, all the stuff.
You know, you're popping out of the portal
and saying to 20 year old Lucy,
it's very important that you kill a man named Elon Musk.
You've never heard of this man, but you need to kill him.
There's going to be a thing called
PayPal. You're going to buy some shares that will entitle you to attend the shareholders conference.
Bitcoin. You're going to make your own gun like a Japanese guy from the future.
I'll show Younger Me the plans, the Shinzo Abe gun. Just like this. Just do it like this.
You're going to train as a hair plugs technician at the same time.
You're going to, you're going to obtain some of that poison that the Russians use.
There is going to be a movie called equilibrium.
You are going to buy it on DVD and do all of the moves.
Already seen equilibrium. movie called Equilibrium, you are going to buy it on DVD and do all of the moves. I've probably already seen Equilibrium by now. And then at the hair plug clinic, you are going to slice his face off.
You see, they arrested a guy for making threats to Elon Musk on the website, Twitter.
Oh no.
Are you not allowed to do that?
Apparently you can't do that, but also when they searched his house,
he had like body armour and an AR-15 and stuff.
Oh, that's a shame.
I saw a guy, maybe he almost did it.
Damnit.
We got so close.
Yeah.
So this is-
But that's probably the one guy that's going to do it.
There's probably not more of, like, it's probably that the material conditions and and how they evolve have probably nothing to do with like
Terrorism in the main so he's probably fine. Yeah, he's probably just keep doing whatever he wants and he's probably fine
There's no more need like a bigger security detail change your patterns of behavior or anything. Yeah
Yeah, this is just me sort of talking to that guy, not to anyone else.
It's not, I guess it's kind of silly because I don't even know why I'd need anyone else
to hear this.
But if you were going to do it, keep your shit on lock.
Don't post the fucking threats.
Yeah.
Of the thing you're going to do.
Yeah.
Like keep posting normally.
This is bad.
That's stupid.
Just post normal. Just post gags. Alibis. Bits. I'm at the library today. All day. you're going to do. Yeah. Like keep posting normally. That's stupid. Just post normal. Just post X.
Alibis.
Bits.
I'm at the library today.
All day.
I'm at the library.
I'm going to the Luke Combs concert.
Practice saying that in the mirror.
I've got diarrhea at university.
This comes to us from WLNS in Lansing, Michigan.
Studies suggest friends agree on who is or isn't ready for committed relationships, MSU reports.
Yep, we are judging you.
Yes.
Oh, yeah, 100%.
Yeah, I didn't know that I had that little Rolodex in my head, but yes.
Yeah, 100%.
I hadn't really thought about it, but yeah.
This old thing?
We're all saying to that particular friend of ours,
you know what, you're going to find the right guy, you know you know what, you're gonna find the right guy,
you know, he's gonna show up at the right time
and you're gonna be ready.
And then we're turning away
and we're saying to our other friend,
she's not ready.
She's gonna blow it.
She's gonna blow it big time.
She'll literally never be ready.
You're ready.
With about 500 therapy sessions, she'll be ready.
Just go out there and give it your all.
It won't work.
It's not gonna work.
Ladies, girls never say this stuff to each other.
Always like, yes, dump him.
He's a piece of shit.
You're perfect.
You're perfect.
You don't need to change anything about yourself.
No growth or learning needed.
Just telling all of your girlfriends that they're
fine but none of the guys they're dating are ready for a committed relationship. That's
right. That's always, always. Yeah. A study done by the Michigan State University's College
of Social Science Department of Psychology shows friends significantly agree on who is
ready for a committed relationship and who isn't. Research has collected data from roughly 800 people consisting of four friends each.
Each group rated themselves and their friends on commitment readiness and attachment orientations.
So we could do this with each other.
Four friends?
We're a group of four friends.
We are a group of four friends.
Three colleagues and one friend.
To each of us from our own perspective.
But none of us pair up with each other as the other friend.
That's so interesting.
That is so interesting.
It's unidirectional.
I think of Theo as my friend,
he thinks of Andrew as his friend,
Andrew thinks of Lucy as his friend.
So Lucy thinks of me as her friend.
None of them match up.
Yeah.
Everyone has one big cross through one of the other three.
Yeah.
And we're all compromising.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Researchers say people with an insecure attachment style have elevated levels of anxiety and
or avoidance.
That's probably why people don't like you.
Like why people don't stick around because of your anxiety.
Yeah. It really sucks. It brings the mood down. You should probably worry about don't like you. Yep. Like why people don't stick around because of your anxiety. Yeah.
It really sucks.
It really brings the mood down.
Worry about it a bit more.
Yeah.
Hey, your insecure attachment style kind of makes me want to leave.
Yeah.
It's bumming me out.
It kind of makes me want to abandon you.
I have one foot out the door because of how stressed you are about me leaving.
Your insecure attachment style, it really makes me want to go out and get a pack of smokes.
I'll be right back.
Quite.
Friendships affect so many parts of our life.
Not just our health and happiness, but also our romantic prospects.
Sometimes friends do become lovers.
That's true.
It's called love theory.
Look it up.
That's one of my tags.
It's like rags to riches.
Are your tags when you're in's like rags to riches.
Are your tags when you're in book talk?
Friends to lovers.
Sometimes enemies to lovers.
There's something very sexy about that.
Sometimes like vampires to lovers.
Yes.
Werewolves to lovers.
Yeah.
Fairy kings, whatever else they got going on there.
Man, women are fucked up, hey?
Women are fucking disgusting, man.
In fairness, the men that are into that shit fucked up too.
Yeah.
All of them.
What's going on?
We can't keep asking this question, but what's wrong with regular pornography?
What's wrong with just pornography?
Well, pornography's kind of messed up now too, so I guess everything's going on and
none of it's good.
Yeah, true. Everything's going on and none of it's good. I mean, Clive Barker was talking about fucking like turds on the floor or
whatever for 20 years ago or whatever.
I don't think it's a new thing.
You ever read a Clive Barker novel?
He's nasty.
No.
What?
Clive Barker's nasty?
Clive Barker?
Clive Barker probably seems genteel now.
What the fuck?
Is there sex in his books?
Yeah.
And it sucks.
Hey Clive Barker, yeah I call him Pinhead.
Does that piss you off Clive Barker?
I'm not calling him the Hell Priest even though that sounds extremely cool.
Is that his actual name the Hell Priest?
I think that's what Clive Barker prefers for him to be called and the pinhead thing came
from the movies and he hates it.
He doesn't like it. that's way sexier actually. Yeah, but in fairness, he's got all those pins in his head, you know
Oh, really they're more like nails or tacks then true, you know more like a carpet nail nail head
Yeah, yeah old nail. It's coming. Oh
He directed Candyman. What a wonderful film. Ah
Rest in peace Tony Todd.
Mmm, RIP.
Pripes to one of the greats.
One of the greats.
Friends can constrain or facilitate who we date.
They can also help our romantic relationships flourish or suddenly
and not so suddenly undermine them, said William Chopick, Associate
Professor in MSU's Department of Psychology and co-author of the study.
That's true.
I love not so subtly undermining my friend's romantic relationships.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I saw your partner when you left the room, she kicked the dog.
Yeah.
Like the moment that you walked out, I just saw her do that. She laughed afterwards.
Maybe that's like a cultural thing. I don't know if that's just...
She'll tell you it never happened. She kind of seems like that kind of person.
She seems kind of duplicitous.
Like a liar.
She seems kind of duplicitous.
Like a snake.
Like I love hanging out with her.
I love her.
She's super nice.
But she does seem like kind of sinister and evil.
But great laugh.
Yeah.
Girlfriend's kind of evil?
Oh, you guys are going to see Nosferatu?
Even though you said last week when it was just you and me
that you really didn't want to see that movie.
Have fun.
Oh, it's just if it was me,
I would hate it if someone was controlling my life like that.
But no, you guys seem to be having a great time.
It'd be like, didn't use the toilet brush.
You're like a flag?
Shit black too, like.
Oh, that's such a good, every time you go over and be like, I just went to use the bathroom. Nasty in there, super nasty.
Just been left in there again?
Pitch black shit in there?
Looked up your girlfriend's stool on the stool color chart.
Is this Bristol chart?
Yeah.
I had to turn up the contrast on the photo
to make it look like your girlfriend's shit.
It was crazy.
I'm just worried about you.
I'm just worried about you.
If you want that in your life, that's fine.
Yeah, I know.
As long as you're happy.
Another double date next week.
Let's do it.
I'm loving it.
She is a sick woman.
Oh, great to meet you, Jeanette. She is a sick woman. Oh, great. Great to meet you.
Great to meet you, Jeanette.
This is the girl you said shits black.
Leaves it unflushed when there are guests over and it's the unhealthiest
thing I've ever seen in my life.
This is a no flush black shitter.
Great to meet you.
And she mustn't sit straight on the toilet because it's always off to one side.
It's on the bowl.
She's nowhere near over.
She's always hitting the bowl.
Way off center.
You got to be doing that on deliberately, right?
It's so nice.
I don't know where you're up to in your relationship, but is it that she's
sitting weird or is it that her whole hole is off center?
It looks like your little girlfriend has off center hole.
Looks like she drew on the seat with a Sharpie.
But no, she's great.
Let's go to the club together.
We'll have some practice.
She's great.
Enjoy that movie.
She said she didn't want to watch.
Yeah.
If she takes the bathroom key tip the tip, the white stuff.
You got to want to close it down after, uh down after she goes in there.
Friends play a key role in forming and maintaining romantic relationships from introductions
to advice.
Don't go in there after her.
Don't do it.
If you could get a photo or put a sample in a bag, I've got a friend at this university that's gonna be really interested
I got a friend in the lab at MSU who's gonna wanna see this
He's gonna want to see that
They're gonna take this to one of those conferences in Switzerland
Vampire shit left slightly off-center and toilet
Vampire shit?
Left slightly off center in toilet?
Scribbling in a notebook.
Vampire anus off center? Question mark.
Evil.
Evil?
Question mark.
Great chat though.
She always gives great chat.
The banter.
Oh my god.
The banter.
Funny.
It's funny.
Yeah.
I think she might kill people though.
However, there is rarely a chance to know how they perceive us. Said
Hai Wan Yang, a psychology doctoral candidate at MSU.
Can you imagine?
That's great. I don't want to learn how anyone perceives me at any time.
The only way to learn how your friends perceive you is to do a podcast with them for years,
a really long time, because eventually the jokes become very personal. Very, very personal.
And very close to home.
Very real.
Yeah.
They're very real.
Like that's not even a joke anymore.
And they're often about things that you don't remember saying.
Yeah.
You know?
That's true because you start to notice patterns in, well, your co-host starts to notice patterns
in your behavior that you never would because they've been in hundreds of hours of recording
material with you.
You should start a podcast with your friends to find out about your true self.
Yeah.
And then your fans can also send you messages perceiving you.
They can pitch in critiquing your behavior.
Yeah, that's true.
Because we set the tone for how we talk to each other.
Yeah.
And they might just follow, you know, maybe they've got some, you know, they're
mirroring, maybe they've got some mirroring behavior and they want to send in and
kind of join in.
They want to chime in.
Yeah.
On the fifth night.
Hey, that's right.
You are an idiot.
I don't know you.
I hope this study offers a holistic understanding of commitment readiness from a social network
perspective while emphasizing the vital role of friends in pursuing, developing, and maintaining
romantic relationships.
I hope so too.
Oh, you're sticking with it?
Oh, still going on with her?
Okay.
Okay, four months, huh?
That's interesting.
Interesting choice. Okay. Ha. Okay. Four months, huh? That's interesting.
I know that like we don't fund universities enough, but you know, sometimes you just read about a study and it's like, oh, okay.
You could have just asked the girls.
A year on that or?
I know that like sometimes you'll hear conservative people making this argument
as like a, oh, you know, the basket weaving studies, the universities,
underwater basket weaving, whatever.
And you're like, yeah, shut up, you old fuck.
We're all adding to the corporates of human knowledge, which is all important.
But then sometimes, you know, cause like we're more educated and discerning.
We can choose when the studies are actually stupid.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But they should also continue funding the stupid studies.
Oh, they should fund them.
Oh, 100%.
It's just like your study was that friends agree on criticizing the other friend.
Yeah, like they know that you're rancid.
Your friends know you're rancid.
Yeah, of course your friends know you're rancid.
We're in the other group chat without you in it.
There are five group chats for every four member friend groups.
Yeah, every time you get a new boyfriend, it's like, oh, fucking here we go again.
In the other group chat.
She's going to do it again.
She's got to do the exact same thing that she does every time.
Yeah, putting bets on how long it lasts.
And everyone else is like, exactly.
Exactly, exactly.
You're too good for him.
Yes, yeah.
It was him. He was the problem. This fucking bitch. You're too good for him. Yes.
It was him.
He was the problem.
This fucking bitch.
I'm so sick of it.
I can't wait to see you all for trivia next week.
Hey, we're probably not going to do a follow up on that story, but we do do some follow
ups on some other stories.
It's time for Oh Shit, It's an Update to an Old News Story. Oh shit, it's an update to an old news story
This is an update on the Toyota share longer program if you guys remember that
Forget so many stories that we've spoken about like like immediately after we finish recording stuff It's like it of stuff, isn't it? It's just a lot of stuff.
It's gone.
But this one.
We'll do an episode.
Fresh.
And Ben puts it out and says,
it's pod on the Discord.
And later on people are going, wow, what a great episode.
That's what they say all the time.
And I'm like, no idea.
No fucking idea what we were talking about.
They'll reference something like,
what the fuck are you talking about?
A day or two ago.
Sometimes people, they like to sort of without context, sort of chime in along with listening
to it. They're so they're posting in the discord and they won't give any clues as to what they're
listening to. And if it's from an episode that's not the most recent one we put out,
I'm like, what are you talking about? Where would just be like oh I owned a 1997 Corolla like okay okay yeah
did you mean to post this in cars oh that story we spent 25 minutes on with
the diarrhea and we love our listeners we love our listeners and we love for you to join the
discord yeah more people in there will make it better for sure so we talked We love our listeners. And we love for you to join the discord. Yeah.
More people in there will make it better for sure.
So we talked about this in the bonus episode from April last year called
the ShareLunka proxy, which is the Toyota ShareLunka program, which is, I don't
fucking know still really how Toyota is involved in this because it seems like
it's also being run by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
But I guess that's America, baby.
So people would catch really big, large mouth bass, and then they would call the share Lunker
hotline and then like a crack team of fish biologists would rock up and collect the fish and give them like a prize and put them on the socials and stuff.
Yeah.
And say congrats, you've got to share, Lunker.
None of it, it all feels like animal crossing logic.
Yeah.
Like you pull a fish out and then a fucking-
And you call the fish guy.
And then like a dog wearing overalls turns up.
Measures the fish.
What do you like to put this in the museum?
So they use the fish to breed the fish because they want bigger fish.
They're just breeding big dogs.
They're playing God.
Yes.
Other big dogs.
They're playing God.
So they're taking them away and they're milking.
They're milking the little. Yeah, they're milking the fish're playing God a little bit. So they're taking them away and they're milking. They're milking the little.
Yeah, they're milking the fish.
The fish's little pud.
Yeah.
Yeah.
One thumb up.
The detail that stuck in my mind about this story was that the
Sherlunker hotline where you could call to report your catch of a big fish,
opened 24-7.
24-7.
24-7.
More than my bank.
And like Texas wide, I think that there's just somehow rapid response
share Lunker teams.
It's fucking great.
Slamming the phone down and running up to the helipad on the roof.
You know, right?
Well, because how else do they have regional offices?
Every town is Texas big, big place.
I understand.
It's huge.
It's almost as big as the size of Queensland.
Me, now.
Talking about how big their states are.
You don't know, fucking no shit.
Yeah.
Tiny little states.
Any country that's bigger than ours, but your states are smaller.
It's like a state for a baby.
Yeah.
Nice entry-level big state.
This comes to us from the Houston Chronicle. Texas man catches same gigantic bass he caught
two years ago.
It's okay America, the big states scare me.
I think Texas is a really good size.
Yeah, yeah.
No, it's perfect like that. I actually like states that size.
I think it's perfect. I prefer them that size.
Yeah. Sometimes it's fun to be a little scared.
I think being intimidated by those big states.
Texas fisherman recently reunited with the same trophy largemouth bass he caught two
years ago.
That's beautiful.
Just in time for Valentine's Day.
He's going to fuck that fish.
What do you mean by that?
What is he doing with that fish?
How's that relevant?
Yeah, he's going to fuck the fish.
Beautiful, submissive and breedable sharelonger.
No, no.
He got, he's got a little bit of a big mouth.
He's got a little bit of a big mouth.
He's got a little bit of a big mouth. He's got a little bit of a big mouth. He's got a little bit of a big mouth. He's got a little bit of a big mouth. He's that relevant? Yeah, he's going to. Beautiful, submissive and breedable
sharelunker.
No, no.
He got, he's submissive
because he's a fish and he's
breedable because they literally
bred him.
Yeah.
Two years ago.
Everyone's breedable then.
I know I am.
This week, the Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department, TPWD, announced
Angler Ross Gomez submitted Legacy Class Sherlunker 674 from Lake
Allen Henry near Lubbock, Texas on Wednesday.
It rocks that they've got like elite dangerous spacecraft names for them.
100%.
Yeah, you couldn't like give them like just names.
Legacy Class Sherllonka 674.
Yeah.
How many hard points does that pathway have?
You can't actually purchase them until you're level 20.
The Big Bass Weigh Day Whopping 14.78 pounds, making it one of the heaviest
catches of TPWD's 2025 Toyota Scherlunker collection season.
Yeah. That's seven kilos, I mean.
That's a big fish.
It is a big fish.
Is it? I guess I don't know what a fish weighs.
6.7 kilos. So is that a pig.
It's the second time the bass has been caught by Gomez at the reservoir.
On Feb 10th, 2023, notably around the same date.
Yeah. Well, yeah, because I mean, it would notably around the same date. Yeah.
Well, yeah, because I mean, it would be because the Sherlonka collection season
is only three months long.
Right.
So it kind of puts it.
So it has to be around the same date.
Yeah, it narrows it down a bit.
Gotta be relatively close.
Gomez submitted the fish as Legacy Class Sherlonka 641.
At the time, the bass weighed 13.22 pounds.
Oh, so he's thriving.
He's thriving.
He is. He's put on one point, well, one and a half pounds.
It's a good hunting.
It's so weird to like be able to score points off the same fish.
Double dip on a fish.
I don't know about that.
I don't think you should double dip on the submissive and breedable fish.
No.
One and out. I don't think you should double dip on the submissive and breedable fish. No. Why not?
The fish was transported to the Texas Freshwater Fishery Center where a DNA sample was taken
for genetic analysis and it was tagged and spawned, TPWD said.
It produced 22,649 fingerlings that were stocked into Texas lakes.
Oh, that's so many fingerlings.
Is this thing's breedable as fuck?
That thing's so breedable.
That's the most breedable fish I've ever heard of.
It's a fecund fish.
I hate that word.
It's not a good word.
On April 27th, 2023, it was released back into Lake Allen Henry.
TPWD called its reunion with Gomez a quote, bigger, better bass bromance.
Didn't have to.
Yeah, I think-
Because he fucked it?
Because he kissed it on the whole?
Yeah, twice.
Yeah, twice kissed on the whole.
I know they're going for the alliteration, but bromance is just so funny.
I think it's such a 2010 word.
Yeah.
We still throwing that around.
Or was it a metrosexual fish?
Like if you're trying to tie it into the Valentine's day thing, just call it a
romance.
Why are we doing this?
Yeah.
Is the fish genderless?
Yeah.
Like is it a woman fish?
I don't know about, I'm not sure.
It had fingerlings.
Uh-oh.
Uh, I don't think you can call that a bromance.
What?
A fish asexual?
Well, but no.
It spawned the...
Like pretty definitively in this case.
Just go like fish gender.
Hold on.
I mean, fish have gender.
I think. Do they have gender?
Oh God.
I don't know.
I thought fish had like both genders.
I think some fish can change their sex based on the number of-
Someone's getting so angry.
I think primarily it all works like you expect though.
I'm glad we got divorced.
Fuck y'all.
Listen to anything. The gender can be influenced by variables of chemistry and temperature?
There's a website here that says a guide to sexing fish.
I don't know if you should have called it that.
Thanks, Tropical Fish Hobbyist magazine.
Did maybe the fish spawn the fingerlings from impregnating other fish?
That's right.
It takes two to tango.
Yes.
Correct.
Right.
They can switch around anyway.
You can't be calling it a bromance.
Yeah.
Just call it a romance.
Just don't be scared of what that means for you.
It's not fucking how I met your mother.
We don't do and shit like that anymore.
Oh, it's a legendary bromance.
Shut the fuck up up TPWD it seems like we're probably the only podcast talking about the
Toyota share like a program we talk a lot about stuff that needs to be talked about especially
in the segment stuff we should chat about it's time for stuff we should chat about. Beautiful. Perfect. Just about that for weeks.
Just what I imagined.
All I've been singing in the shower.
You've got a really beautiful voice.
That's funny.
So good.
Like it's funny, but it's also like genuinely good.
Shout out to Bonnie Raitt.
Come on now.
Absolute queen.
This is of course the segment where we just, we talk about stuff that's sort of been on our mind lately.
We feel like there's not getting enough of a sort of, um, there's not being talked
about enough.
We're shining a light.
Yes.
On important stuff.
We report.
You decide.
Have you guys noticed that like, like nowadays there's just like shit everywhere?
Like, what kind of shit are we talking about? Like just stuff? Like there's just like shit everywhere. Like, what kind of shit are we talking about?
Like just stuff.
Like there's just fucking stuff everywhere.
Like you look at a photo of like, it'll be a shopfront from like the 70s or
something, and they'll have a hand painted sign says like Clegg's supermarket.
And then it's just the entrance to the building and that's it.
It's just, it's just clean and simple.
And now every time you look anywhere, there's just fucking shit everywhere.
There's shit everywhere.
In the Woolworths, in the Coles, in the Chemist's warehouse.
Yeah.
There's signs fucking everywhere.
There's little stickers on everything.
Everything's got numbers and shit on it.
There are logos or there's like a sign somewhere, or there's a little gadget on the wall.
I'm so sick of apps.
So sick of...
Thank you.
There's new things all the time.
There's just, you look like if you're ever in a space and you look around and
you're like, oh, fucking look at this shit.
And there's just stuff there.
And they never finished either.
It's always like that thing is like in the fucking, in one's in a state of
disrepair because they're onto the next thing.
They're, yeah.
And it doesn't work properly, but they put it there anyway.
Yeah.
And you know, you go on your phone, there's all stuff there as well.
And why should they be on your phone?
There's ads.
It's fucking just everywhere.
There's cookies, the apps.
And you're trying to scroll through the, the Wiki page for Dark Souls 2 boss.
And shit's just popping up everywhere.
There's stuff everywhere.
Jimmy Wales.
There's too much shit.
I'm asking you for shit. Fuck off. But. Jimmy Wells. It's stuff for so much shit.
I'm asking you for shit. Fuck off.
I'm so tired of it.
What happened to just, like a nice clean, you know, when the stuff, they had all the shit on it that you can just be like,
well there's that thing, the thing that I wanted to look at, instead of all the extra stuff.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
Do you guys feel the same way about the thing that I'm talking about? Absolutely. Except for insects, we've got rid of a lot of them.
We did get rid of...
There's fewer of those.
One thing we haven't mentioned myself.
I think that's a positive.
Yeah. You know, like you watch like a documentary or something,
it'll be like, it'll show you a national park in the 60s.
And it's like, this is probably for the worst, maybe, but there's like, there's no signs,
there's no real like fences or anything anywhere.
There's no poles with stuff on them.
There's no wires.
There's no gizmos and gadgets. Just nice and clean and simple.
Yeah.
Beautiful stuff.
You know, there's always, you're sitting in a place, there's all this carry on.
There's stuff with shit plugged into it.
Something beeping.
There's like a flashing light.
Yeah.
When I was growing up, I didn't have any kids at all.
Now I've got two.
Yeah.
It's fucked up.
When did it all get so complicated?
Fucked up, man.
Everything's gone south.
When you bought a car in 1945 and had one dial,
and it said that you were going somewhere between 0 and 18 miles an hour,
nowadays, there's all sorts of flashing lights and different signs and buttons.
That's fucked up.
I went in a Tesla recently.
My friend was borrowing their friend's car when they were visiting Tasmania and it
was a Tesla and it was fucked up in there.
It's got like fart modes and shit.
It's just like an iPad in there.
Yeah.
And the whole screen and it's got like computer versions of the cars that are
around you, it made me sick to my fucking stomach.
Yes.
You shouldn't have a, like a home screen.
You can't have a fucking home screen.
Yes.
You shouldn't have a screen in your car.
Yeah.
Now you've got to sit down.
You've got to blow in the breathalyzer before you're
allowed to start the car.
More stuff.
More stuff.
Just more stuff.
Another thing.
You have to check in with your probation officer.
I didn't used to have to check him with my probation officer.
Dr. Manhattan was kind of onto some stuff.
Yeah, he was.
He was annoying as fuck.
He was hanging down.
Big old blue hog.
Yeah.
Oh, actually, can I put in a supplementary stuff we should chat about?
I had to come up with both of these today because, uh, we were debuting the
theme, but I don't know if you could tell that this is something I've been
thinking about for a really long time.
Someone's been driving me at, sorry, you'll see how I got to this from Blue
Dong, um, someone's been really making me crazy lately is there's been this
sort of cultural phenomenon of people talking about stuff that was really
popular when it came out and now saying like, you ever notice that like
that was huge and now no one talks about it? Yeah. The big examples I think are Game of Thrones.
Yeah. And Avatar. Everyone always says that about Avatar where they're like, it was fucking huge.
No one can remember. They've had like no longer lasting cultural impact.
Right. Except I think Avatar comes up, at least in my life relatively often.
It's got a Fortnite skin.
Yeah.
See?
Would something with no legacy have a Fortnite skin?
Exactly.
Yeah.
It's sort of like one of the bestselling movies of all time.
And we continually refer back to it.
From that planet.
Haven't seen it.
And plus the runaway success of Avatar 2, The Way of Water.
Mm-hmm.
Anyway, that pisses me off.
It's really stupid.
That's just kind of how time works is that when something has just come out or is still
on TV, people talk about it a lot.
Everybody kind of talks about it and then it kind of goes away, especially now.
Things are very ephemeral.
Like 9-11.
Yes.
You'd see it on TV all the time. For one day Yes. You'd see on TV all the time.
For one day, you'd see it on TV all the time.
One day. They almost never play that on TV anymore.
It's, I don't even know if it got syndicated.
You ever noticed that they don't do 24 hours of rolling coverage of 9-11 anymore?
I guess it's just not in the zeitgeist.
We used to watch cheese TV and roll with coverage of 9-11.
We used to watch the same three minutes of footage being replayed over and over and over again one
Thursday morning before school.
You remember when cheese TV would transition into the Challenger disaster?
It's weird they don't do that anymore.
Don't do it anymore.
I know what you're talking about Ben Ben. I just saw... Cheese TV, ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da- that? I don't know. What's the point? Yeah. What's the point of any of this fucking shit?
What's the fucking point? Like what's the point of this podcast? Everything is shit.
Everything just fucking sucks. Yeah. Hey, 9-11's not really in the news anymore,
but you know what is? Eggs. It's time for Big Egg. What's big and small at the same time?
Big Egg, Big Egg, Big Egg, Big Egg, Big Egg, Big Egg,
Big Egg, Big Egg, Big Egg, Big Egg, Big Egg, Big Egg,
Big Egg, Big Egg, Big Egg, Big Egg, Big Egg, Big Egg.
I want a big egg for breakfast,
eat something the size of my head.
Hop out of bed, toast up a whole loaf of bread.
Won't eat for a week cause I'm gonna stay fed.
Big egg this morning, frying it up while I'm yawning.
Realization is dawning.
Egg is too big.
Don't own a pot, it will fit.
Egg white all over my shit.
Crack in a pan that blots out the whole sun.
Cook up an omelette that must weigh a ton.
Flip it and serve it and eat, I deserve it.
Big egg means my day has begun.
When are we ever going to use that theme, my arse?
I'd look for them for you.
I know. It's very special to me.
And for me, because I love that theme.
This is from the Associated Press.
Can suspending a cage-free egg law solve the soaring price problem?
Nevada takes a crack at it. Can suspending a cage-free egg law solve the soaring price problem?
Nevada takes a crack at it.
I don't know if you guys have seen this or heard about this.
Too busy eating eggs at home.
Is this about making eggs crueler?
Yes.
Yeah, that's the only thing that's going to fix America is crueler eggs.
The chickens had it too good for too long.
They've got big problems with bird flu and massive problems with meeting egg demand.
So egg prices are going up.
That's where we're at.
I think Australia is also having some problems with egg supply.
This is just anecdotal, but like the Coles near my place has literally halved the size
of their display for eggs, even though it's like a dedicated
fridge space just for the eggs.
There's too many eggs there.
People go egg crazy.
No, it's because they couldn't fill it out.
So it looked depressing.
So now they've put a weird mishmash of like impulse buy stuff in there that doesn't really
make sense.
Which is strange.
But yeah, so eggs, the world's not doing well with eggs.
Yeah, we might have some sort of children of hen thing going on.
Oh, you!
Yes, children of hen.
Wow.
Oh, good point to Mr. Comedian of the Week.
Yes!
You look very pleased with yourself.
I've been kind of picturing if the, you know how the start of Fury Road, and I
think at the start of some of the other Mad Max movies, they contextualize it with
all of the little audio clips of people saying that they're running out of gasoline.
Oh, I'm running out of gasoline.
Yeah, but imagine if it was eggs.
The world's running out of eggs.
There's not a lot of eggs.
There's no fucking eggs.
We have become half-life.
Become an eggless society.
You let us die.
I had to buy cage eggs.
I felt very bad about it. Oh, Lucy. become half life. Become an eggless society. You let us die.
I had to buy cage eggs.
I felt very bad about it.
Oh, Lucy, how did you really need eggs?
I didn't want them.
It's not for me.
It wasn't for me.
We got rescue hands quite a while ago and they just sort of like, they got all fucked
up legs and stuff and they can't walk straight because they kind of been in a cube or whatever
their whole life.
But it's fine. It's fine. You want to do that? Don't worry. Their free range eggs are not much less cruel. Yeah
That shit's still pretty bad. Yeah, but they've got room to peck and roam. Yeah
It's like a square meter or something. Yeah
Yeah, you can have up to 10,000 hens per hectare, which I think is really cramming them in
Yeah
I mean the alternative is they put them in cages that are
exactly the size of their body mass.
Like, they have to reshape their body to fill the space.
That's a cube-shaped head.
Are we making it worse?
It's like one of those square watermelons.
Yes, exactly what I was picturing.
Back when egg prices remained securely under $2 a dozen in 2021, eggs shouldn't be probably
that cheap.
This is the problem.
Every time you hear Americans complaining about the prices of anything, then you hear
what they think is normal to pay for it.
And you go, yeah, no wonder your society is collapsing.
Yeah.
It turns out they've been paying like $60 Australian for a video game or
something and they're like, this is so fucked.
Yeah.
I mean, like it's hard to calibrate cause they get, they get paid less and all
that shit, but they'll be like, Oh my God, gas prices are up to $5 a gallon.
And you're like, what's that buck?
25 a liter.
Oh my God.
I dream of a buck 25 a liter.
I bought kingdom come deliverance too today.
And I traded in some games, but if I didn't, it costs $110.
That's what a game costs here.
Now, now you in America, you might be confused and thinking, Oh, that's a
fucking lot, but different dollars are worth different amounts as well.
That's something you might not be aware of.
Yeah, just Google it.
You've got to kind of do a little conversion.
We do this sort of natively.
We're doing this because we're sort of aware that the rest of the world has different stuff
to us, so we're quite used to doing it.
Whereas it's...
You're already typing into the Patreon comments, games don't cost $110.
Well, there's two things you need to consider. One, we're not
talking about the same dollar. Two, we live geographically in a location that does not fall
within the boundaries of the United States of America. Two little elements to this that you may
not be aware of. We have US Army bases here, but we're not part of the United States of America.
Yeah. I mean, like my grandma would tell me about how they used to go wandering past the US Army bases here, but we're not part of yeah, yeah the United States of America I would tell me about how they used to go like wandering past the US Army bases and like they get like cat-called by the
stuff and you know, maybe they take a boy home. They kiss him do it they go to the dance. I
Recently played and you're dead
I played and finished GTA V recently.
I'd never finished it before, right?
And was having a play through of that because there keeps being GTA VI stuff in the news.
And one of the articles that I saw about GTA VI was saying that because it's such a hotly anticipated
title, only 75 years in development, that big game producing companies and console companies
and all that sort of stuff are expressing the hope that Rockstar will charge $100 for the game,
$100 US dollars for the game.
And so they're basically expressing this hope that GTA 6 ushers in the new paradigm of games
being allowed to cost $100 US dollars.
My very nuanced opinion on this is that products should cost an amount that will make it so
that everyone gets reasonably paid for the amount of work that went into it, but you
should put less work into it.
Like if the graphics look like Morrowind, but the game players don't.
Do we really need games to look like Sophie?
We can't keep doing this.
Video games are an abstraction. They don't have to mirror like Sophie. We can't keep doing this. Video games are an abstraction.
They don't have to mirror real life.
I'll get immersed in something that looks like absolute dog shit.
Make the kiddies triangles again.
Big fucking triangles.
I think the most important distinction to make about graphic fidelity in video games
is that it was at a point some time ago where anything better than what it already was,
I can't see.
I can't see it.
I'm looking at it on a 4K TV.
If you show me like a zoomed in,
really detailed picture of like the model
of the lead character from Horizon Zero Dawn,
and you can see all her paws
and her individual eyelashes and all that shit and then you
Play the game and as soon as anything starts moving and to be clear everything in the frame is moving at all times
I can't see any of I just don't care. Stop processing gone
There's gotta make the ledges yellow because everything looks so fucking confusing everything this shit everywhere. It's fucking shit
Because everything looks so fucking confusing. Everything- There's shit everywhere!
There's fucking shit everywhere!
There's fucking shit everywhere!
There's fucking shit on video game!
There's too- I don't need to see the blades of grass moving.
I don't need an actor.
You don't need to put a real life actor in the video game.
Don't put Willem Dafoe in your video game!
I'm so sick of this shit!
Don't do a scan of someone's face.
Make them a night elf.
Let Norman Reedus be on movies!
Yep. Yes!
He doesn't need to be in your video game.
Kojima-san.
For fuck's sake.
Just tell them you want to fuck them.
Just hang out with them.
You don't need to full body scan them.
Leave Gamma del Toro alone, unless you want to have a movie date with him.
Hey, uh, Leia Seydoux, I just need you to take off all your clothes and step into this scanner real quick.
Yeah.
It's for narrative reasons. Yeah. At least when Wes Anderson demands that Leia Seydoux be Yeah, it's for narrative reasons.
At least when Wes Anderson demands that Leia Seydoux be naked, it's for art.
And video games aren't art!
No, they're not.
We worked that out.
They're barely fun.
They're barely fun.
Most of the time, they're a huge hassle to play.
This is gonna make me sound so fucking old, but I remember the first video game I
played and thinking that the graphics were too realistic that I couldn't tell what was
happening was Halo 3.
Yeah.
It's like, damn, I don't need to be able to see every leaf.
I can't see the grunts for the leaves.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's too busy.
Can't see the grunts for the leaves.
I can't see the...
There was too much going on.
I kept getting killed.
It was horrible.
What were we talking about?
Eggs?
Eggs.
Eggs.
We're definitely not going to get through this whole article because it's quite long
and Lucy's got to go in a second.
But I'm power through this.
I'll just ghost.
We'll say goodbye now.
I'll just ghost.
Now, four years later, a dozen eggs cost an average of nearly five dollars in the US.
Wow, five dollars for twelve eggs.
Yeah, alright, yeah, look, I don't want to...
There's a cost of living crisis.
There is!
That's very true, yeah.
This is because of the lingering bird flu.
Lingering makes it sound like we're on the tail end.
I don't think we're...
I think this is just starting.
Yeah, we're on the tail end. I don't think we're, I think this is just starting. Yeah. We're firmly in bird flu.
Yeah. This is sort of the bird flu era.
And they're kind of not doing any of the things that you'd want for them to make it go away.
Well, they're sacking all the guys.
Either. Well, they're sacking all the guys that say that there's bird flu.
Yeah.
But sort of going around with a clipboard and being like, is there bird flu?
Yeah.
Get out of here.
Put all your shit in a cardboard box.
Security is going to walk you out.
Nevada passed the law.
The governor signed Thursday that will allow the state to suspend the law temporarily in
hopes of getting residents some relief at the checkout counters.
This is of course the law banning the sale of caged eggs. By relaxing the rule, Nevada might get access to additional eggs, but the supply of all
eggs remains tight because nearly 159 million birds have been slaughtered since the bird
flu outbreak began in 2022 to help limit virus spread.
Okay.
But we can squeeze a few more eggs out though.
Yeah, by introducing cruelty back into the egg cycle.
Yeah, by putting the hens in a hen cube.
Yeah.
159 million birds.
Like if you were even like a vaguely spiritual person with the concept of the
soul, you know, an eternal soul and all living creatures. 159 million deaths is just a crazy fucking number of deaths.
Yeah.
To be killed, like actively killed.
Not like they died, they were killed.
And not for anything, not for like the grand cycle of life.
No, they were removed from the cycle of life.
It's not to be consumed by another body to like take their flesh and use it to
nourish them, because we fucked up.
We made a whole bunch of birds and we put them all close together.
Yeah.
Uh, and so they're just like sneezing in each other's beaks.
Yes.
We did that.
So we sort of, we gave them miserable lives so you can get $2 a dozen eggs.
And then we killed them all, but there was no transfer of energy
from them into anything else.
The transfer was from miserable life into landfill.
And now those souls are back into nematodes, the great spiritual
buffer of the universe.
That's right.
They're starting again.
They're back to nematode.
The bottom rung.
Square one.
University of Arkansas agricultural economist Jada Thompson said opening up Nevada to all
kinds of eggs, quote, could ease egg prices in Nevada very slightly, but it might make
prices worse elsewhere because supplies are so tight. So you're opening up the pool of eggs in Nevada, but drawing from a finite pool of eggs in America.
So you've got sort of like a conservation of eggs problem there. Like they've got to come from
somewhere. It's a closed system of eggs. So it's still going to eat into demand.
I would also suggest that perhaps the price is not the largest issue you got going on with the somewhere, it's a closed system of eggs. So it's still going to eat into demand.
I would also suggest that perhaps the price is not the largest issue you got going on with the egg supply right now.
Yeah.
I think it's probably more to do with the 100, what was it?
56 million?
156 million?
159 million.
Yeah.
All the dead chickens.
It's no good.
Brad Birdsell, owner and chief egg-ineer at Eggworks.
Not a real guy.
That's not, he's got birds in his name as well.
So it's no good.
Yeah, Birdsell.
Uh, he said he is paying more than twice as much for a case of eggs than he was
two years ago, $129 for 15 dozen cases of eggs.
Uh, the restaurant implemented a 50 cent surcharge per shelled egg until prices come down.
And that's going to hit consumers in the back pocket, I understand.
Yeah, why per shelled egg? Why not just per egg? That seems like an odd distinction.
Per shelled egg.
The Nevada bill, signed Thursday, will give the restaurant access to more sources of eggs,
and BirdSauce says he's hopeful he can drop that surcharge soon.
It would suck to have like a seemingly egg themed restaurant and then have an egg surcharge?
That's what the price of the meal is.
That's the surcharge for eating eggs is paying for the eggs.
Yeah, sort of that's just the, that just goes on the bill of materials.
That's the cost of doing business. That's the cost of selling eggs is the price of the egg.
I'd hate to be one of the people who owns the restaurant chain Eggslut right now.
Yeah, for a few reasons.
Yeah.
Stupid name. First of all, let's get that out there.
Correct.
Quote, I'm really hoping that the governor takes a good, hard look at this
cage free thing and decides to keep this a permanent thing, he said.
So this fucking guy with his egg restaurant is like, I wish the chicken was more
miserable before it laid the eggs we sell.
You have to start from the position that every restaurateur is the worst cunt you've
ever known in your entire
life.
Correct.
Who would kill his grandmother for like a dollar less per meal price.
Happily.
Happily.
And serve her up.
He'd serve me more up.
This month's jump in egg prices was the biggest since the nation's last bird flu outbreak
in 2015.
The previous high was set two years ago when eggs were selling for $4.82 per dozen on average. The average price is masked just how bad it is in some
places. Some Californians these days are shelling out $12.99 for a dozen or more than a buck
an egg. Thank you, Associated Press for that clarification of the numbers. Some New York
shops even started selling bundles of three eggs to help
people who can't afford a full dozen.
That's just sad.
It's sad, but does kind of make sense a little bit to me.
Like three eggs?
I would divvy them up into fours.
Personally, I think four eggs is a great purchase amount for The Bachelor.
Yeah.
I feel like four has a better egg feel.
Yeah. Three just feels odd, but I guess they're just what?
Taking a bread knife and cutting the cardboard egg thing into six.
No. I know. How the fuck are you doing?
No. Yeah.
Corners.
Unless you get one of those, the weird 18 cartons.
Or with the offset egg placement.
Yeah. But what are you doing?
Slicing that into long threes?
They'll be falling apart.
There'll be no structural integrity.
I think they're taking three eggs and wrapping some tape around the outside of the three
of them together.
I think there's more to this story.
Or they're getting a carton of a half dozen and just cutting it down lengthwise?
Which doesn't seem structurally good. The concern with the cage
free requirements is that only about 121 million of the 304 million chickens laying eggs nationwide
are raised on cage free farms, so the supply is limited. Oh no, there's a limited number of
chickens we can put into hyper chicken slavery. Yeah.
The number of cage-free chickens has steadily increased in recent years because of the laws
and the pressure from the companies buying eggs, increasing exponentially from just $38
million at the start of 2017.
Sorry, 2017.
But so that worked?
So the laws really fucking worked?
And now you're just rolling them back.
Well, because we want eggs now. Eggs.
Eggs, please.
But the United Egg Producers Trade Group has estimated that it would take at least
226 million cage-free hens to meet all the demand for those eggs and more customers
are clamoring for them. So the supply is tight.
demand for those eggs and more customers are clamoring for them so the supply is tight. The total flock of chickens nationwide used to number above 330 million before the bird
flu outbreak began.
You're telling me there was one chicken for every person in the United States?
Sort of a one in one out kind of deal?
About a one per?
Do you reckon every American had like a twin soul with one of those chickens?
There has to be a reason that those numbers match up so well.
There's somewhere out there is a chicken that like you have a bond with it.
If you ever met, if you ever crossed paths with you'd lock eyes.
Yeah.
And one day everything goes wrong for you.
You lose your job. Your wife just one day everything goes wrong for you. You lose your job.
Your wife just leaves you for a real estate agent.
It's because your link got severed.
Your soul link.
Yeah.
Because a million chickens got torched with a flame throw because there's a
bird flu outbreak and your soul chicken got torched.
Now you're so linked with a, with a nematode.
Yeah.
I think it's for everyone's benefit.
The better the conditions that the chickens are in, because you're the better
your soul link to the soul link.
The better you'll be doing.
If you feel like a weird sort of malaise, like a kind of, uh, a fog of anxiety
and depression sort of every, like when you wake up every day that you sort of feel
that like society is sick and you're not really able to do anything about it.
And things are only getting worse and the future is uncertain.
That's probably not because of like current events.
It's probably because like your soul chicken is in a cage.
Yeah.
If it's even alive still.
Yeah.
Fuck man.
Like if you're doing really bad, your soul chicken is probably dead. Yeah. If it's even alive still. Yeah. Fuck man. Like if you're doing really bad, you sold chickens probably dead.
Yeah. But at the very best, your, your soul linked to it,
to a chicken that's been stuffed into a, like a, a bottle,
like shipping a bottle style. And you go, how, how to get in there,
how'd the chicken get in there?
How'd they put the chicken in there?
How'd they get the chicken in there? Yeah. Well, it's the fun of it.
How'd they put the chicken in there?
How'd they get the chicken in there?
Yeah.
Well, it's the fun of it.
Hey, this was definitely an episode of the podcast.
Buntavista.
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It's all there in the podcast Punta Vista. We will see you on the free episode, but until then, please stay safe. And I urge you advocate for the chicken,
because you never know whose soul chicken
the caged chicken is, you know, could be yours.
You might be mistreating a chicken to find out that's your soul chicken.
Oh, wouldn't that be a really like poetic karmic punishment?
Is the chicken you were mistreating was your own soul chicken
We're all each other's soul chicken in a way. I'll be though. It's a free entry
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