Two In The Think Tank - 410 - The Exploding Whale of Florence Oregon (with NICK MASON)

Episode Date: August 30, 2023

On the 9th of November, 1970, a 45-foot sperm whale carcass washed up on the shore of Florence, Oregon. The way they decided to dispose of it has become a thing of legend. The Weekly Planet's Nick Mason joins us for this wild ride!This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 07:50 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: patreon.com/DoGoOnPodSupport the show on Apple podcasts and get bonus episodes in the app: http://apple.co/dogoon Live show tickets: https://dogoonpod.com/live-shows/ Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/suggest-a-topic/Check out our merch: https://do-go-on-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Check out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/Who Knew It with Matt Stewart: https://play.acast.com/s/who-knew-it-with-matt-stewart/ Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader ThomasDo Go On acknowledges the traditional owners of the land we record on, the Wurundjeri people, in the Kulin nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present.  REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:https://www.ohs.org/blog/beached-whale-blow-up.cfmhttps://allthatsinteresting.com/exploding-whalehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/13/oregon-whale-explosion-anniversary/https://www.theexplodingwhale.com/evidence/resources/transcripthttps://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-17285112https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-12/wa-leads-way-using-explosives-to-euthanase-sick-beached-whales/7081946 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey everybody, Jess and Dave, just jumping in really quickly at the top here to make sure that you are across all the details for our upcoming Christmas show. That's right, we are doing a live show in Melbourne Saturday December the 2nd, 2023, our final podcast of the year, our Christmas special. It's downstairs at Morris House, which usually be called the European beer cafe. On Saturday December the 2nd, 2023 at 4.30pm, come along, come one, come all and get tickets at doogawonpod.com. Hello and welcome to another episode of To Go On. My name is Jess Perkins and as always I'm joined by Matt Stewart. Hey Jess, that's very good. You sounded just like Dave.

You said you can't remember what he says. I couldn't, well I couldn't and I'm sorry if that's a problem. It is. And I had to do it because I had to because Dave is a galavanting. He's swimming with pigs you would just tell me. Yeah, he's overseas. He's having a one- Which I think is a rude way to describe Americans, but now he's swimming with literal pigs. I believe so. He's on a jaunt.

He's on a well-earned holiday. And so we... Wait a minute, what's well-earned? I'm just saying so that I'm saying he's earned it so that next time I want to go to holiday. Well, you are here earning it. Would you look at that? Yeah, he was here.

Where was his last holiday? And we're joined by the fifth beetle of the podcast, one of our all-time favorite guests and the internet's all-time favorite person, Nick Mason. Swibbing with pigs, that's a rude favorite person, Nick Mason. Swibbing with pigs, that's a rude way to talk about Americans. So, now Matt, if you can edit out yours, and then it'll sound like I can't wait.

We can make that happen. We can, okay, because if not, I'm leaving right now. All right, no, well, I will be great at that. If you can also edit out this bit where I'm being really, really rude for no reason, if you can edit it out, so it seems like I'm nice. Yeah, if I remember. If you're afraid.

Okay, if I remember, I will do that for sure. Anyway, it seems like I'm nice. Yeah, if I remember loving. You're 75. Okay, if I remember. Okay. I will do that, for sure. Anyway, it's great to be here. Love being with the do-go-on crew. Now, it's, I just must be like the 10th time we've been on or something. Maybe, who knows?

It's been a few times. Elvis. Okay. Maybe, Mark, man. Elvis has never been on this podcast. Veger Mart. Yep, sure. All those ones I did.

Yeah. Oh, yes, my beloved characters. All those ones I did. Yeah. Oh yes, my level of characters, my level of universe, Superman, ninja turtles. Ninja turtles. Yes! I was moving my fingers, but not in a way that helped to count. Good. So nobody wanted me to be counting.

So nobody wanted me to be counting. But yeah, a pleasure to have you back. It's great to be here. And we haven't even asked you to like do any of the thinking, the writing, the work of that you just get to sit back and have some fun. Oh my God. Which is nice.

Just do my little riffs. You can do a little riffs. You can do a little fun at the things you say. Oh, I don't mean it. Absolutely divine. You say something that I make a little joke and then it's pointed out that the thing you're about to say is really tragic.

And I'm like, oh, I feel bad. I feel bad down, what I've said. The lost city of Atlantis. Yeah that's right. Matt's. Another one. Matt's always a few minutes. I feel a breach the point. I feel like a breach the point in society where we don't need to count anything anymore. Yeah. I'm just too tired to count anything. I'm here. This point you know. Yeah. Nothing matters. Nothing matters. Nothing matters. Podcasting least of all as we know. A grade. Can I explain how the show works? I love to explain how the show works.

Oh, okay, sure. It may save you two months. Okay. Okay, we're coming the room. Yes. We're in the room. Yeah. The little red light goes on.

That's fun. That's fun. It's fun and new. Yep. And then someone writes it, essay on it topic. Yep. And then they read it out. Yep. And then we wreck him We say what you said is stupid. Yeah, did you set it a stupid way? Because your stupid stupid. Yeah nice. Yeah people like that and I think that's great people love it

That's the most a sinked way I've heard it described. Well done Sometimes you're gonna have an outside perspective That's correct And we always start with a question. I'm doing the report thisced way I've heard it described. Well done. Sometimes you're going to have an outside perspective. That's correct. And we always start with a question, I'm doing the report this week, and I actually put five topics up and said, I think Mase will be filling in for Dave on this episode, so keep that in mind.

Which episode, which topic do you think Mase would enjoy? Oh yeah, okay. Here's my question. What animal is described by the Miriam West Sedictionary? I'm just getting an early pig. I'm not sure if that's foreshadowing from earlier, because you said the thing. So thematically, this would be very appropriate. Yeah. This was true. Yeah. Any of various, very large aquatic marine mammals that have a torpedo-shaped body

with a thick layer of blubber, paddle shaped four limbs, but no hind limbs, a horizontally flattened tail, and nostrils that open externally at the top of the head. Holly, yeah, we all call it. I know their Latin name or whatever it is, but everybody calls them C-Pigs. I've not led to the development of the torpedo because before that people like, I'll say shape like, I don't know.

I don't get it. Yeah, it could be anything. So are you doing a report on whales? Sort of. Cool. Interesting. Sort of. Are you doing free willy? Sort of. Okay. Not a whale, but it's a shark, but.

Free willy. It's a whale shark. Wasn't it? No, it makes sense. It's an orca. Okay. It's a killer whale. Wow. Is this report on free willy? Oh, we're in a lot of trouble. If this is our free willy. Yeah, that's the weak, Mr. and Mrs.

That little boy would befriend a shark. Instead of really deadly whale. Okay. Well, that's probably why. It was probably the deadliness of the whale. Well, I don't think free willy was in ages. I was like, I love all kinds. But then you hear about them and they'll fuck you up.

But then they're back. They're back in the news because they're wrecking ships and stuff. Right? Is that the orcas? Yeah. I think so, yeah. I think they're the wailiest whale. I don't think that's true.

I think like, but I think they're like the most visually appealing whales. Like when they jump out of the water and stuff, you're like, whoa, you know, they look cool, but some of the really big, fucking weird-looking whales, you're like, oh, keep it in the water, I mean. They're under the barnacles and stuff.

Yeah, and they come out like, you're too big and it's creepy. Just give me a kilowale, go, whee. Yeah, it's your idea of the wailiest whale is something that you like to look at. Yeah, it's something that looks like a cartoon. It's already like, it's got a bit of the dolphin shape to it. That has a cool looking. Yeah.

Just Jess is unrealistic expectations for Wales in modern society, you know. Nothing's good enough, is it? I'm part of the problem. Yeah. If you're not an orki, you're not a real wail to me. If you're not an orki, you can get out the bloody doorcap as far as I could search. What's Moby Dick? What sort of wail we say?

Wail, right? Wail, okay, right? Yeah. Okay. Is that the biggest one? Spurm wail. Blue wails the biggest. Big blue. I don't know what Moby dehexia was, but I do imagine it as a sperm whale. Okay, and that interesting. So far we've got two white sperm whales.

No fucking shit. I reckon Dave told us that on maybe on this podcast. As if I were to listen to Dave. Did he do an episode of the video? No, no fucking shit. No fucking shit. No fucking shit. No fucking shit. I reckon Dave told us that on, maybe on this podcast. As if I were to listen to Dave. I mean, did he do it episode of that moment? I would listen to Dave's.

No, that wouldn't be true. Bookcheap. Maybe a bookcheap. Yeah, you don't want to be about the real movie dick, maybe. Anyway, that's what we're here to talk about. Yeah, I don't remember. You've done a podcast on Dix, was that? Yeah, that one.

Maybe I referred him. You're referring to Dix. Yeah. So this topic has been suggested by Anna Dunn from Salt Lake City in Utah, Jessica Groober from Kent in WA, which I don't know if that's Washington or Western Australia, and Claire from Sacramento in California, yeah. Awesome.

All right, here we go. So far, we don't know what this is what do you want to know what the topic is? I mean, you'll know pretty soon. Okay, in the second paragraph, I I've revealed it. I don't know how long a paragraph sound. Yeah, I'm trying to. Mr. Rivalmsens is over here. Yeah, yeah. We'll stream a consciousness over here.

On the 9th of November, 1970, a 45-foot sperm whale washed up on the shore of Florence, Oregon. At first, the whale was seen as a fun curiosity to locals who headed down to the beach to have a gander. But over the coming days, the carcass began to decay and the pungent steaks became overpowering. Stench, if I said stetch, doesn't matter. A solution had to be found, and after discussing the options, it was decided that the best option was exploding. Yeah, there it is.

I've seen this in the hat. I've never properly read into it at all, but it is what it says on the team. It is. It's really it's in. And this is what the Dugan Patreon sort, Mesa, this is Mesa. And other options were the Transformers franchise. Oh, yeah, sure. And that's a lot of, that's gonna be,

that'll be a longer podcast. And Ghostbusters. Okay, so you combined got less votes than the exploding whale. Oh my God. Isn't that fun? I'm like, I assume it would be probably Transformers or Ghostbusters. They were fourth and fifth most voted for Tottie.

Sometimes I think our patrons are pranking us a little bit. Like sometimes I think they're like, that one sounds fucked, or it's my comp deal. And I respect the hell out of that. I also think some of them were probably like, I don't want to hear Matt talk about Transformers two Mesa. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That will be tedious and embarrassing for all of us. And it'll be making Mesa do a lot of the work.

Yeah. Which I like. Yeah, and we know Mesa do a lot of the work. Yeah. Which I like. Yeah, and we know. And Mesa, what happened? Yeah. Would you say it in your words? After that? Transforming a little truck.

Yeah. It's a cool sale. That's what happened. And then the truck went, oh, good bye. Yeah. And then we're, oh, so cool. This is awesome. That is the final seat of Michael Bay's Transformers

the first one. OK, bye, everyone. Bye, bye. Bye, it's me, Optimus. Bye, Michael Bay's Transformers, the first one. Okay, bye bye everyone. Bye bye. Bye bye, it's me, Optimus. Bye bye, bye bye. So, I don't know anything about Florent's Oregon. You're familiar with the place? No, I'd Sounds Landlocked.

If you said, what's the deal with Florence Oregon, I'd be like Sounds Landlocked. Yeah. So, well, you couldn't be any further from the truth. Yeah. It is Waterlocked. It is Waterlocked. It's Waterlocked. It's waterlocked. No, it's water. It's a beach.

It's a beach. Let's go. According to the region's website, Florence is Oregon's coastal playground with its rolling sand dunes, miles of beaches, charming historic old town, and delicious seafood. Just an hour west of Eugene, which is one of my favorite, named places, this is the go-to, getaway destinations

for local seeking rest, relaxation and recreation. It lists its activities, like horseback riding on the beach, him to the casino resort and visiting North America's largest sea cave. Kay sounds very impressive. You're just gonna say the same thing. Kay ver.

Kay ver. It just sounds like a tampon commercial. It's riding your horses on the beach and I'm gonna kiss you now. I thought you were talking about the love to see, K. Oh, so that's... So that's... Oh. But...

But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But...

But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... But... before you've been. Anyway, the cave does sound very impressive, much like on a tampon commercial. commercial. Oh no. tampon commercial.

This is very early, page 1, no, no. The cave's website says you take an elevator ride 200 feet down, which is 61 meters. No. Into a cave which is as tall as a 12-story building and as wide as a football field. During the fall. No, come on, Jess, you field. What? During the fall one. No, come on, Jesse can toss the pig skin, you know? No, no, no, no.

Now we're talking. That's right. Anything you can figure out is during the fall and winter, barking seed lines slammed around inside the cave's natural amphitheater. The pigs are the seed. That's right. Yeah, which are also wilds.

They're wilds. Everything's around every animal's a pig or something. During the summer months, these sea pigs sprawl along outside Rockledges, believed to be America's largest sea cave and the only known mainland home of wild sea lions in the world. Don't worry, they've built a gift and snack shop there. Of course I have. Of course I have.

And no thank you. So initially I was very conflicted there because like you just, I'm like, oh, I'll elevate it down a cave of death of some sort. Fuck no. No thank you. But then I'm like, see lines, but then I'm like, well, if it floods,

they can just escape. Yeah. And I'm doomed. But then gift shop. I get a tattoo. You get a mentor on the way here. I can get a mentor. You get one of those hats,

and it's got the sea lion hands on it and you pull the string and it goes, oh, oh. I guess I'm that's worth it. You could get a maybe a branded oxygen tank. Oh, yes, please. That'd be clever to do that. It's like music festivals selling ponchos. They know they've gotcha.

They're paying for own. I think more and more, but especially just hearing that I think I hate caves. I don't think I want to go anywhere. Fuck a nearer cave. Good, Nick. Any, I can't think of another kind of cave. Because normal cave, man caves. No, I'm not welcome in a man cave. No chicks allowed.

Oh, sorry. Come on, man. Don't make me so tap the song. You know the rules. So it sounds like it's a beautiful spot, but the spot has a hell. More than 50 years later, Florence Oregon is still best known for the wild explosion. One of the main reasons this story has become a legend is because a local news team was on the spot to capture the events.

So you can watch this video footage of it. Oh, thank goodness. You tip them off, that wouldn't you? If you were in the civics or whatever you'd be like, guys, we're going to love this. You want to get a camera down here or a better blow up a while. And this place does look quite pretty. And it is. It is.

It is. It is. It is. It isn't as funny. It's not at all, it's so funny that it's been overpowered, it's images been overpowered by a stinkin' whale. It's lovely, it's like beautiful, it's really adilic, looks gorgeous, which is not what I was expecting, okay. According to Matthew Cohen,

writing for the Oregon Historical Society, which has got a few pages that are dedicated to this event. Their motto, we've got other stuff besides this one. I swear. God. Uh, covered right. It's on the morning of November the 12th, 1970, K-A-T-U News Directors, Asked Reporter Paul Lindman and Cameron Man Doug Brazil to cover an unusual story taking place on the

Oregon Coast. Doug Brazil. We can see story taking place on the Oregon coast. Doug Brazil! Are you the tear porn star on weekends? Yeah, he turns the camera around at him on the weekend. Doug Brazil. That's amazing. Ironically, got a big bush. Brazilian, got it.

The Oregon Highway Division was left to come up with a plan on how best to deal with eight tons of rotting wild flesh. I should say, I've found that any wild loves out there. It's pretty full on stuff, so I mean, they would have seen it in the title. Do you think any people are listening to this going, wild explosion? Oh, man, yeah, real, the wild explosion is going to be so good. Explosion in population. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like the baby boom, but they call it the wild explosion. When the said it, it's like a heaps of wilds all of a sudden and they were all very happy. population. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,room in Portland, however, was not the whale itself, but the plan of how to best dispose of the carcass, dynamite. Linman speaking to the Oregonian in 2004 to promote his then recent book, The Exploding Whale and other remarkable stories from the evening news. I think it was probably the book. I couldn't fight. You could only buy it, physical copy. I tried to get the audiobook, try to get an e-book. But the only copy I found was like hundreds of dollars

for a physical copy. And you didn't get it. It was just, it was gonna take too long to post over. Otherwise. Otherwise, obviously. But yeah, I think I read a blurb of it. It says, and other stories. I think it's pretty heavily while related.

It's unfair enough. Yeah, it's really bookended this bit with them. Yeah. Anyway, he noted, and we'll talk about him a bit, Linman, he's sort of become the face of it all. He said, You think it'd be the exploded while? Yes, just a big picture of that.

Well, it would have been, but unfortunately, the face is no more. Oh. Oh. Linman said, we went down there because we thought it was so bizarre. Uh, according to his report at the time, it had been so long since a while at Washstone in Lane County, nobody could remember how to get rid of one. In selecting its battle plan, the highway division decided the carcass couldn't be buried

because it might soon be uncovered. It couldn't be cut up and then buried because nobody wanted to cut it up. Why don't we do this? No, we don't want to. Okay. It couldn't be burned. So dynamite it was. Some 20 cases or half a ton.

You'd have to burn it for ages. But yeah, well, why does it have to be bit? Could you not like chop it up and chuck it back in the sea? Yeah, that's something you could do Because then you know other fish and stuff could eat it at least you just white just white just white out the stench Yeah, yeah, I'm going to the beach for a bit. Yeah, maybe make that you know the the same The city of town come smell come smelly old dead whale, you know the smelliest town in the South Already had stuff going on, but maybe a neighboring town could have bought the wild car

Yeah, yeah, I mean it's right they could have dragged it down the highway to their town Just bouncing along the road, you know, oh man probably would be pretty gross to have to like Carver it's a big whale. Yeah, they're not small Yes pretty gross to have to like carve it out. It's a big whale. They're not small. Yes. Old times. Yeah. I mean, when you've got the dynamite,

everything looks like a whale. It could be exploded with dynamite, right? Yeah. Oh, I remember the thing. Some guys got a, he bought this massive, tougher ton of dynamite, wherever he hasn't been able to use it. He's like, I'm losing money.

I work for the highway division. Yeah, right. We don't have a lot of use for dynamite. Yeah. But we have to use it. He's like, I'm losing money. I work for the highway division. Yeah, right. We don't have a lot of use for Dona. Yeah. But we have to buy, because this is America. They make us buy all this Dona. If we don't, we lose it in the budget next year. That's exactly right.

That's exactly right. Yeah, so I'm going to use this Dona. And June every year, people just buy up on that Dona. But they couldn't do the thing where you just sort of roll it. You couldn't roll it back into the ocean. Is it going? They couldn't know. I where you just sort of roll it. You can roll it back into the ocean. This guy. Uh, they couldn't know. I think it was too far gone.

Oh, but you're bigger ones are harder to do. But I'm going to talk about other options and how the people around the world have tried to do it as well. You've been out of thing where you try to push it and you just sort of go through it. Yeah, I think that's the thing. You know what I'm saying? You don't want that.

Stand on them and just are all of the sudden inside of them. Yeah, right. No good. Now I'm part of the whale, part of the sudden inside of them. Yeah, right. No good. Now I'm part of the whale, part of the problem. Sorry to frame, Wales is a problem like that. Because if the way I love us are still here, waiting for me to talk about a different kind of whale explosion.

Yeah. But I mean, I can't stress enough. The only explosion this whale is gonna do is a dynamite top. All right, now that they've gone, let's talk about whale's fucking. Yeah. So it kinda makes it sound like most

of the logical options were too much work. So they just went for the easy and fun way of doing it. Which I like anyway. I 100% would be pretty fun to put up this whale. Look, if someone suggests that, it would be hard to be like, now let's spend way too much time hand-chopping it up. What if we fight machine guns at it? Maybe, maybe maybe you decide to go with the back of the water or it's hurt.

I bought a bazooka online. Could I have the gold at first? And I should stress it is dead already. Yeah, it's not still looking. We're like, should we get the dynamite reckonable? Could we build an axe throwing facility slash bar around the wild? And it could be beachfront axe throwing and you can have a drink and you can throw axes at a wild. You could do that.

It's pet friendly. Crop me on top. Oh, we got it. Love me to go Thursdays. that. It's pet friendly. Crap beer on tap. We got it. Love musical Thursdays. And the aforementioned you throw an axe at a lot. That's a wise odd. That's a wise odd.

Kitchen closets from 5 to 7, but axe throwing is still available. They do stuff like that. There's apparently places outside of Vegas where you can go and shoot bazookas at cars and animal carcasses and stuff. What a world. Also, they don't ever allow it in Vegas. It's too weird. Yeah, outside. Too weird for Vegas. So anyway, all these options, they went with the exploding one. Some thing are they've just come with the ease. I'm not necessarily the case, even now, 50 odd years later, there's no consensus

on the best way to deal with a big beached wild carcass. Most options have their drawbacks. One option is dragging them back out to sea, like Mesa was suggesting. Sometimes they can even be intercepted by authorities before they wash ashore. Want to get arrested. Which is the ideal.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they sort of deal with them like Australia deals with asylum seekers. Back, back you go. Back it up my friends. I mean, that puts it in a perspective, doesn't it? Yeah. They're actually treating them very humanly,

like we treat humans. So if you put it like that, Yeah. Yeah, you're gonna have to do a bit of mental arithmetic and gymnastics to get there, but Oh, so yeah, that's one thing they're trying to do. Australian marine biologist Dr Olaf Maymecki has said that when they're towed to the right spot, currents will take them away from land and quote, they vanish quite quickly. Now, it's Poseidon's problem.

Yeah, yeah. This isn't always possible, especially with larger animals. You need your boat to be at least as big as the carcass. Yeah. So it can be hard with it. You need a cruise ship. Yeah, so it's the monster truck conundrum, you know. You've got big foot.

You've got grave digger. They're doing that. You've got, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. The medley don't. You've got the megalodon. Yeah. Exactly. It's a monster truck that is a big shark. Yeah. You wouldn't know about this. It's always playing in the man cave. Yeah. I keep saying. I want to see it. Guys, I'd like to watch it. No, you wouldn't get it though. You wouldn't get the megalodon. I'll just sit quietly. You won't even know I'm there.

That just is rude in the vibe. We'll always know. We're going to watch in the megalodon. We're going to there nagging with our eyes. So I saw another article suggested, even though the good Australian doctor Olaf said it was possible. Another article was like, it's not ideal to do that cause often they end up just passing on the problem

along and they end up washing back a short or neighboring town and they're like, God, is that the fuck? Yes. What? Oh, what? No, that's probably a different world. That's probably a different world, Marcus.

Yeah, I tried. You figured out. Your turn. It's a hot potato. It's a leaf blower situation. You don't usually solve the problem. You figured out. Your turn. It's a hot potato. It's a leaf blower situation. You don't usually solve the problem. You just, send it to your navel.

The leaf blower's, what a great invention. Yeah, I love them at 7 a.m. Yeah. That's the best time to blow leaves. Yeah, it's moving leaves everywhere. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I'm not gonna wait for a breeze. Who knows when that'll be. This isn't the windy city after all. So burying them at the beach is another option. That's what they decided to do with an 18-ton whale that washed ashore at Nobby's beach

in Port McCwory in New South Wales in 2017. That's Neurus. That is not long ago. No, it's why they did make the news, it's where I've read about them, but why didn't they make it to my news for the night? Do you, also do you reckon in Port McCrye, they went, can we die on a minus thing? Go ahead. Yeah, come on.

Go on. I reckon someone suggested it, but I do think this foreign-sorrigan one is a bit of a cautionary time. Oh yeah. 18 tons. 18 tons, that's a big. That's a lot of buckets of sand, you got to. Yeah. What?

How fucking you dig at the beach. So they've got the whole, you should say the photos of this hole, it's huge. It's almost like that big cave in Florence Oregon. Now I'm off. And they, you know, they got big, you know, industrial diggers. Yeah. They had to do it. Yeah.

Because it was also like quite protected for, with cliff faces. And such was a hard gig to truck it away. So they decided it was a big hole. But this didn't go down well with locals. As they believed the smell of the wire would attract sharks to the popular tourist beach. So a few days later,

based on the backlash, the council then dug the wire back up. This huge operation to bury it, that did undo it within a couple of days. I thought you were going to say the townsfolk got a mob together with torches and pitchforks and they did it themselves. I think they're in spades. They definitely got a mob together and they signed a petition. You know that mob, they're in a lot of anger. petition. You know that mob that was a lot of anger. So at 220 ton crane was required when the hole was dug up. Only liquid remains of the 12 meter long humpback remained, which was transported to landfill at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars. So how long was it between they buried it and they brought it back out?

I think it was only a few days. Huh. Liquidified. Liquidified. No. No, wild. That's gross. Yeah. What it is.

You wouldn't be able to cut it up anymore, but you just be able to buck it out. You absolutely would. Yeah. Get a pump. Sometimes it costs a lot more. According to the ABC in 2014, a 17 meter dead well washed up on a Perth beach Was truck to a waste facility at a cost to the local council of 188,000 dollars a waste facility. Do you mean Perth? Got a lot of love to our listens out there and put yeah love love stuff

But apparently there was a bit of better here. It's lovely Yeah, 188 grand cost the local council the local council had to pay for it because the WA fisheries department Who thought that the local council like obviously you'll deal with it? They're like no, we're not responsible whales and mammals not fish Where the fisheries department so they didn't have to pay for They're like, no, we're not responsible. Whiles are mammals, not fish. Ah, ah, ah. We're the fisheries department. So they didn't have to pay for it. Yeah, absolutely. Fuck, that's great.

Love that. Yeah. Oh, I think you'll find. They would have high-fived you, man. Yeah. Go on! It's going to come back to bottom there. There'll be something where they'll be like, hey, everyone, a gold whale washed up on

the beach. Who is it? Oh, I think we'll deal with it. Oh, really? Actually, hey everyone, a gold whale washed up on the beach, who is it? Oh, I think we'll deal with it. Oh really? Actually a whale is a mammal. Did I say a gold fish? I'd ride that for no. No.

Bye. Whether or not whale carcasses attract sharks, hasn't been settled by science. The locals like the surfers and that in Port Macquarie, like even if they don't, people think theyers and that in Port McCrory are like, even if they don't, people think they do and that'll be enough to hurt tourism. So we better dig that liquid whale back out. But our mate Dr Olaf said he was confident a buried whale would attract sharks, saying there was no doubt that sharks were capable of detecting buried carcasses.

Quote, the olfactory system of sharks is highly developed, so would be capable of detecting the remains of a whale. It's never blood that attracts sharks. It's the fat and oil. Fun fact, so don't worry about bleeding out in the water. I mean, apart from, you know, probably treat your wound, but if you're having a swim and all of a sudden

you, you know, you look down and you're bleeding a lot, because your arms missing, don't worry, it won't attract a shark. Oh no, I second. Potentially there's already a shark there though. But if I'm eating a potato cake on the beach, that's going to attract him. Yeah, fat a little bit. Fat an oil. But I think you should just just start.

Not only do you set the whales though, because- Because it's goal of be sure. That's I think you'll get away with it if you're up there. Yeah, yeah. Dari'sarks is just a potato cake, and I'd be like, oh, that's weird. I've known it with that nice. No idea what that is. Sounds like an awful cake.

Yeah, proceed. Okay, yeah. As you were, have a nice day. So there's no real consensus on what the best way to deal with whale coxers is. So most seem to agree, the dynamite isn't the best way to go. And this is based on a precedent maybe set in 1970.

You ran that time. Yeah. But I should say most agree. Okay. Not all. Yeah. Western Australian authorities, which is where Perth, Perth, the capital of Western Australia, Western Australian authorities told the ABC in 2016 that explosives are still a great option, especially if the whale is still alive. What? What? For the ABC Chris Lewis wrote How do you kill a 30,000 kilogram whale beeched on the sand?

I don't think you can. I'm powered rifle won't do it. Why the fuck are you immediately trying if it's alive? Try to get it back and Injection takes too long me, dead. That is insane. Waterboarding doesn't work. It's a water, I love water. If anything, it helps keep them alive longer. Oh, you can't kick a whale to death, really. They, I should say, they do,

they're basically saying this is for use the nature purposes. If they'll try and save it if they can. This is if they're like, it's only if they're basically saying this is for use the nature purposes, if they'll try and save it if they can. This is if they're like, it's in pain, we can't save it. Let's blow it up. The best, the most humane way to deal with it, go on, glam, go on, go on. Exploit it.

Drop a hand grenade down the blowhole, just pull it out with your teeth. And similar to like horse humanity theory, you know, like, how do we deal with this this this horse is a bit hurt Better kill it better shoot it in the head immediately Worth which yeah, I believe I trust them on that. Yeah, I have one of those big foldy screens to go around the whale of the beach When you fill out the white sheet you're like oh, no here we go. Yeah, I think I think there's gonna be a late scratching in this next race whale race. Western Australia article continues, what Chris Lewis, Western Australia's Department of Parks

and Wildlife has the solution. You blow it up. They are the only state in Australia using an implosion technique to end the suffering of sick or stranded beach whales with explosives detonated near the head of the mammals. Doug Cogren, Senior Wildlife officer with the Department of Parks and Wildlife, explains the use of explosives to kill sick and strainer whales is the most humane way. And I think that's why Doug got into this business.

He got into being the wildlife business to care for animals. And you know, sometimes the best way to care for an animal is to explode an animal. That's right. When I was a kid, I saw this video from 1970. Boy, did it really inspire me to become the man I ever had. Yes, the real humanitarian. Wow. Like, yeah, okay.

Obviously, I kind of get where they're coming from in terms of it being as quick as possible, therefore less pain. Yes, it makes sense, but it's such a... But fucking crazy, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Imagine if you were applying that to smaller animals. Yeah. You know, like, hey, your 18-year-old dog has had a great life, but, you know, the quality

of life now just isn't quite there. I think the most human thing we can do is blow it up. That's fucking crazy. I think after this is inspired me to, you know, I'm a dog. Well, yeah, I was gonna suggest, I think my suggestion might be, and I might, you know, get some venture capital

for this is the whale guillotine. Oh, yes. Holy shit, you'd have to get it, like sort of under its head. But yeah. And it's all over the start. Will this be the start of some sort of revolution. I think so. Yeah. Yeah That somehow feels better to me than blowing it up. Yeah

But what if they tend to be like worms and just create two sad whales? That's true the science hasn't been settled We don't know you have anyone ever beheaded a whale before not on a Not under strict scientific Procedures or whatever Where does a whale's head start? Oh that's a good question. Yeah, you're out of your lot of a Heated up a head a person. Yeah, we're Things yeah, that's right, but how do you play us? That's right. Well, they're hard to be heard

They were yeah, they did really well in France back in the day. Yeah. They're like, we can't, I had a little bit of a weird stuff. They were, they were just getting haircuts. Yeah. They're like, thank you. So you're light up. Um, yes, where does the whale's head begin?

Mmm. Wow. Yeah. This is, this is really, this episode's making me think a lot. Probably more than you thought a wild explosion episode would. Yeah. Uh, the article continues, Doug, they quote, Doug Cogren, the wild lotter officer who loves animals and loves exploding him.

We've developed an implosion technique which is detonation of a charge that focuses energy to the brain. And there is no quicker result than the method currently globally. It's like anywhere in the world We are market leaders. I know the rest of the world say don't do this But the rest of the world is wrong since 1989 146 humpback whales have been recorded stranded off the Western Australian coast Which admittedly is a fricking huge coast. Oh my god. It's massive. Yeah. It's still a lot of whales It is a lot of whales. That is a lot of whales, isn't it?

Of those kids. It's like you've got the whole ocean. Yeah. And you end up on the bed, like what are the odds? I've learned a lot, obviously, of the way in the stuff. It's a lot of skin shallower, turn around mate. Apparently they find that a lot of the ones,

so they try, if they can, if they're not too badly decomposed, they'll try and get in there and study them, do we basically do an autopsy on them? Or they call them neck crops, maybe? And they find that a lot of them look like they haven't eaten in a while. Maybe they've been struggling for food, and that's, I don't know, that one part of it.

That one potato cake. Yeah, that's right, they're up there. Or guess what, you won't get my potato cake. Yeah, I'd rather let you starve today. Yeah, yeah. Hopefully 480 this potato cake. Yeah. I'd rather let you starve today. Yeah. Yeah. We've 480 this potato cake. Like good. Yeah. Absolutely. Fucking rip off. Yeah. And then 20 cents for sauce. It's real shit. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. It's never enough either. The mining boob in WA was great for the miners. The mining boob. Just squirting out iron ore. Had the big mine nipple. That's a that's a T-shirt idea. Yeah, that really hurts.

You were there, questions might arise. So what is that about? It's a very neat podcast. Okay. Not one of them big mainstream podcasts. Are they mainstream podcasts now? Oh my god. Joe Rogan.

He's still very indie. So of the 146 whales that were found, 50 were alive, 26 died soon after and 16 were euthanized. According to explosive expert Ian Stiles and this guy, you know this guy doesn't have a vested interest. You're talking about before the ever to a hammer, everything looks like a nail. This guy's an explosives expert. Oh yeah. This guy, that boy is like a problem, eh? Yeah.

That's not a solution, yeah. My boy's grades aren't up to it at school. I think I know what'll motivate him. Positive affirmations. Yeah. And then we can go down the quarry and blow some stuff up. Yeah, if you get an A, we can go blow up a while. So coordinate installs.

If an animal is severely injured and suffering, this procedure is the most effective way to end suffering quickly. And he has no vested interest in this. We place the charge on top of the wire's head, a bit back from the blow hole. The aim is to penetrate the blow hole. That's where the head is.

Oh, there you go. Blow the blow hole. A bit back from the blow hole. Right. is to penetrate the blow hole. That's where the head is. Oh, there you go. Oh, near the blow hole. Okay. A bit back from the blow hole. Yeah. Right, that would be like the neck. Yeah, yeah. So now we know where the guilt tank can go.

Perfect. Oh, thanks idiot. You're just giving away your trade secrets. Yeah, we know where the head is. That's right. You got some direct competition coming your way, mate. Style says the skull on the whale is quite thick and it's virtually impossible to shoot it with a high powered rifle.

So we have to use explosives. See, you both have a question before, but you didn't realize that they have to. They have to. It sounds like they have to, honestly. I do feel foolish. In the US, injections and drugs sometimes used to use to use anase and they do get a result,

but quite slowly, Mr. Cogren says, when you're dealing with, that's Doug, when you're dealing with, that's Doug. When you're dealing with 40,000 kilos of animal, it's not that easy. The drug dose is a massive and then you're left with 40 tons of poisonous bait. So basically all of a sudden, you have used the nose and now you've got this huge poisonous carcass. And I would smoke the whole bloody joint in my life. It's a really big, build up a big joint. Put it there, mouth, you know? You can get one of those big,

pup those bellows, like blowing in there, part in their lungs, you know? What ain't like Pinocchio style, just go inside of it and have a compression session. That way, you're not wasting any of it. You're enjoying it. The whales have a good time. Yeah.

Always good as the time as you can have is you're slowly dying on a beach. At least we're thinking of other ideas. Yes. Not just going straight to blowing it up. Yeah, that's true. And then what? Then you stuff to like blowing it up doesn't mean

it's just like it's gone now. Yes. One of the other problems with blowing it up is you still have to get rid of the chunks. And you've spread it out a bit now. Yes. One of the other problems with blowing it up is you still have to get rid of the chunks. And you've spread it out a bit more. Yeah. That's a whole lot of problem. That's a whole lot of problem.

Yeah. But yeah, anyway, Cochrane says our implosion technique has been the most humane. He believed the state was a leader in both Carcass disposal and humane response protocols. It's not a nice thing to do, he said. But when we're faced with it, we're better off understanding how to do it correctly, humanly, and instantly to reduce

the suffering of the whale as humanly as possible. So I'd like it to make sense to me, but it is also like, I mean, I should say this right off the bat. I'm not a scientist. But we are being sponsored by whale, it's implanted. We sure are. Yes. Yeah. Was that time for our ad? That's right. Yeah. Let's start with it now. It'd be so great if it is.

They're different everywhere. I'll do it somewhere. Somewhere. Somewhere in the world. Somewhere in the world. Maybe it might be in Oregon. Yeah. Probably there.

Yeah. All right, we'll be back in a second. Tete let us know if it's a Walex version ad. This wasn't what they were thinking about in Oregon, though, the humane aspect of it, as the wild was already deceased, so they didn't have to worry about that side of it. The state of Oregon enlisted engineers

from the Oregon State Highway Division, as I said before, for the job of blowing up the wild, when I want a big sea creature exploded, I think state highway division, that's who I call. Kornalinman, the hope was that the long dead whale would be almost disintegrated by the blast. And that any small piece of still round after the explosion would be taken care of by seagoles and other scavengers.

I don't know how small of the bits they think it's gonna be for a seagale to just be able to. Gip sizes. Just a capture a bit in the air and keep flying. Yeah. It's a chunk of whale. I just need to be able to just be able to... Gipsisers. Just the capture a bit in the air and keep flying. Yeah. It's a chunk of whale. And he noted that on the day there were lots of sea gals watching with anticipation.

Oh. I almost picture them licking their lips. They... I don't have lips though. No. They have tongues? Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Licking their beaks. Okay. Thank you. Don't look ataks. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Don't look at me like that. Okay. I'm not sure where to look. Look at me.

Just not like that. Okay. Better. The man in charge of the project was an engineer named George Thornton from the Oregon State Highway Division, of course. Lennman interviewed him on the beach. This is all part of the video and the news report from that night. And as the final preparations for the explosion were going on, it was almost like it was interviewing him like pre-games, like a coach.

So, where are you feeling about it? What's going on? We're just gonna take this one chunk at a time. And when he was asked his thoughts, thought and replied, well, I'm confident that it'll work. The only thing is we're not sure just exactly how much explosives it'll take to disintegrate this thing. So the scavengers see girls and crabs and whatnot can clean it up. Not really sure how much you seem like a minor detail. Oh well. They had a crack at it anyway. Yeah. Opting to use

half a ton of dynamite. I've seen this amount describe both as too much and not enough. Talking to KAU a year later, Linman said Thornton had consulted with the United States Navy, which had done things like this in the past. The general consensus from all involved after the explosion was that not enough dynamite was used. So yeah, it should have been maybe the full ton, 10 tons. I mean, can you use enough? how much you got? We'll take it all. That's exactly right, yeah. Just fill it up.

Better to do too much than not enough. Yeah. Well, the town, if you have to. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you're starting to move in. Look, I have some beautiful bridges there. Yeah, that's right. But all that day, their biggest attraction

was a huge cave. You can create a second one. Oh my god, yep. Yeah. Yeah. Double your business. Just use your heads. What?

I'm sick of having to do this for everybody. Yeah. And by do this, I mean, do everything. Yeah, everything. It's freaking out. I'm not sure. It is your brain's photo time. It is your brain's.

Geez. So how common is it for sperm whales to be washed ashore? According to Caroline Lowbridge, writing to the BBC in 2012, the Citation Strandings Investigation Program, some sort of British thing, CS, SIP, IP, C-SIP, maybe we'll call it. C-SIP investigates whale dolphin and poipus, poipus, poipoise. How do you say that word? It investigates with porpoise.

Porpoise, how do you say that word? It investigates with porpoise. Porpoise. What are you saying about that? Am I close? Yeah. You're nailing it every time. Okay. When you say it different ways, you're nailing it. Okay, great. Yeah. So C-Ship Investigates, Wild Dolphin and Poipus, that doesn't feel right. No, it's right, though. You're right. Yeah, you're right. It feels like I'm saying it weird. No, you're saying it perfectly, it's great. See, Super Investigates, while Delfin is standing, recording 9 cases of sperm whales being washed ashore in the UK alone in 2011. What about the UK?

And obviously, UK is a lot smaller than the US. Poipuses, quite a bit more, I think they're a lot smaller though. But it sounds like there are heaps more if you count all whales as low bridge rope. Since 1990, C-Sip has recorded about 10,500 strandings of dead and living citations and approximately 10% each year, a whales. Interestingly, police had to investigate

when dead whale parts were put up for sale on Facebook back then. Rob Deville from the zoological society of London said that whale parts were technically belong to the crown. They're like, you can't just take whale parts and sell them. Crashing. Rob Deville. They're owned by the crown.

He said they are classified as royal fish. Those are the Queen's whale bits. Yeah. Doesn't the King, doesn't he own all, I don't know, big birds or something? Some sort of big ones. What's ones? Yes, there is a thing that's like a real old rule, youngs. Olds ones, you're not allowed to eat swans. Yeah, I'm not a king of swans.

What the fuck? Yeah, some really, like, centuries old rule. But apparently this is like centuries old rule. But apparently this is a similarly old rule. A very ancient statute gave the head of the crown the right to all citations stranded around the UK. Oh, he gets them all does he? Well, I'll give you some. Cool, dubs.

Yeah. But apparently it's not that straightforward because the king has, I mean, and I haven't even thought about this, but your problem about where the head starts and ends on a well would be a nightmare. Because the king has the right to the head and the queen has the right to the tail. And the commoners get the stuff in the middle or the house of lords gets the stuff in the middle. Or is a whale just head and tail.

Oh, it's a good point. Chopping for the people. Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, chopping for the people. Yeah, for the people. It says Vera. Yeah, I'm the way. I mean, I wanted to join Queen Elizabeth, the second's reign, who said no one had right to the head. Yeah, I'm here. There was whale heads being. Yeah.

What do they do with him? Gila, Gila, Gila, see him off. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sounded for the French. Yeah, that's right. I love him. Those freaks.

I love him in a whale head. Anyway, she must have been furious, Queen Elizabeth, in 2009, she's how I say 2009, when people took turns to Europe. Or the porpoise. In that year, people took turns to climb on and ride the carcass of a minkey whale that washed ashore so that they could ride the body

for photos and whatnot of the whale, which washed ashore in that they could ride the body for photos and whatnot of the whale, which washed ashore in the Welsh town of Barry. What's a minkey whale? Yeah, that's a cute name, eh? It is cute. I think I feel like maybe a smaller one? I think it grows. Should look it up. Okay, let's have a look at this thing. Oh, no, I think they look great. Mink, minky, mink. Yeah, that's a cool, that's, I mean, that's a classic whale. Oh, that is a classic whale. I'm less impressed by that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's just a whale, yeah, whatever. What do you want, yeah. Minky, why am I like standard whale? Yeah. Vanilla whale, anybody? I love vanilla. All right, back to Florence, Oregon. Like to me, that's a fucking whale.

Yeah. That's a sick, that looks's sick they look so like like all is this sort of bit shiny love that black and white yeah you call him killer while but it's more like killer like yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Riz yeah what do young people say isn't it they say Riz got Riz Riz coming out the wazoo yeah that's what they get that's a duo leap of song I think yeah is a coming out the wasazoo. Yeah, that's what they get. That's what I think. That's a duolipus song, I think. Reads a coming out to the wazoo.

It's really good. It's in the baby soundtrack. So back to Florence Argonne. On the 12th of November, 1970, it's gonna happen. So three days earlier, it arrives. The stink gets bad in three days. It doesn't take long to get stinky. No, yeah, they were breaking down and getting pretty gross quick. So I caught an alignment.

The dynamite was buried primarily on the leeward side of the whale, which was the land side. Uh-huh. With the idea of blowing it out to the sea. Right. So I could flow in the sea gals and be able to pack out.

Yeah, ha! They said sea gals and crabs. They thought it was going to be tiny pieces. Tiny little morsels. Just a sliver. Because I am a crab. There were about 75 bystanders, and they will move back a quarter of a mile away.

So they just drag race there individually. I think Paul Walker drove them all. At this point, spectators are heard owing and aaring in the footage. Just before the explosion. Awww! Eww! Eww!

Oh, those idiots, those absolute roops. You can hear one mother telling her, child, you can take your hands out of your ears now just after the explosion. God. So, they're excited. You take your hands out of your ears now, the explosion's happened. You look like an idiot. You look silly. Don't worry about him, I'm sorry. You take your hands out of here. Is now the explainer's happened? You look like an idiot. You look silly.

Don't worry about him. I'm embarrassing me. I'll just have her laughing just after the explosion. But this doesn't last long. Because soon the splattering sound of blubber chunks falling to the ground can be heard. When a woman calmly observes, like two calmers she has, here come pieces of a whale. What do I want? Yaaak!

Got an alignment. Our camera stopped rolling immediately after the blast. The humour of the entire situation suddenly gave way to a run for survival as huge chunks of whale blubber fell everywhere. Pieces of meat passed high over our heads while others were falling in our feet. The jurns were rapidly evacuated as spectators escaped at both the falling debris. But it's a way of blah blah blah song. We're never blah blah blah. For all that. You're a thing. You let your way blah blah blah. We're not blah blah blah.

We're not blah blah blah. We're not blah blah blah. We're not blah blah blah. We're not blah blah blah. We're not blah blah blah. We're not blah blah blah. We're not blah blah blah. We're not blah blah blah. We're not blah blah blah. We're not blah blah blah. You're a fin, you're a jaw, well-bubber. Red, down on me, go for some.

The well-bubber. You know, that's the goes on. So this single, we can release a single. Yeah, that's just a little taste, a little more. We'll do it unlike a version. So the tunes were rapidly evacuated. Spectators, Escape, both the falling debris and the overwhelming smell.

So I was like, whoops, I'll have this smell by exploding it everywhere. It can't smell worse on the inside. Why would it? Oh man. Here's some of Lindman's finest work, I think. So in the news report, the went there later that day, that night, prior to the explosion, he said, the sand dunes were covered with spectators and landlobbered newsmen, shortly to become land blubbered newsmen.

Oh nice. The pure glee on your face as you read that. How does he do it? Lin-man. Lin-man lin the man. Oh yeah. Ha ha ha. It is at the Wazoo, at the Lin-Man's Wazoo. That's right. You know what Riz is for sure. I mean, he was obviously, it's so funny that he just went

through this pretty scary incident. He's like, now for some wordplay. Yeah. Because then he goes, he goes, I'm gonna do a little wordplay joke. Then I'm gonna do a sentence full of alliteration because he goes Straight after the land blubber newsman why not he goes for the blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds My god, he's just having a good day. Well, he's having a great time. Yeah, he was 23 at the time. Yeah, he's giddy

He's giddy with the excitement. Yeah, this is great When the blubber start this back to the Oregon Historical Society article, when the blobber started hitting the ground around us, we realized we weren't far enough away, Lindman said. We were running away when we heard a second tremendous explosion in front of us. What? Sounds a bit like a, you know, like a weird surreal war scene, you know. A piece of blobber the size of a coffee table hit the top of an ultimate meal and completely flatten the roof. It, like it just exploded, the windows blew out. If anyone was in the car, they would have been squash. See, that was going to be my question,

was how big were the pieces of the, of the, of the blob of the size of a brick or like the size of a coffee table. Yeah, that was huge. And the sandwich, a coffee table was big. Yeah, you were, you were going to be like, yeah, it's right. A lot of fondue being. And the semi's, a coffee table was big. You were like, that's what I'm like, so yeah, that's right. A lot of fondue being served on coffee tables, telling you that man, trying to get a conversation pit. Yeah, that's right.

And very 70s. This car wasn't, it wasn't parked on the sand or anything. It was parked a quarter mile away. Oh my God. Luckily Paul Walker just got out of it. And yeah, fortunately,

that was probably the worst damage that was done. No humans got hit, but not with huge pieces. No one got killed or injured badly. However, everyone on the scene was covered with small particles of dead whale. And apparently everyone there was unable to get rid of the stench for many, many days afterwards.

They just stank it up of rotting whale. Well, to this moment, I'd be like, I wouldn't have mind being there, but I think... I'm gonna be stinky. I thank you. No, thank you. Just bring it on, brother. Linman continues,

as for the success of the effort, well, the sea girls who were supposed to clean things up were nowhere in sight, either scared away by the explosion or kept away by the smell. That didn't really matter. The remaining chunks were of a size that no respectable sea girl would attempt to tackle anyway. As darkness began to set in, the highway crews were back on the beach burying the remains after all, including a large piece of the carcass which never left the blast site.

And when he says a large piece of the carcass, I would say the majority of the carcass which never left the blast site. And when he says a large piece of the carcass, I would say the majority of the carcass, the bottom bit. Yeah, it was like, it looked like still a full whale. There's footage of them, you know, getting a digger in there and just bearing it anyway. Had they considered more dynamite, a second round of dynamite. Yeah. It's funny because that head engineer before the explosion he said on camera he said, we're not sure we might have to give it another round, but obviously they were like, yeah, maybe not.

Maybe not after that. So fair to say, I was a bit of a failure. Yeah, okay. A fail whale. So they would call it a whale. A whale, a whale. A whale. Yeah, I see, that's what,

is that the case of St.F.? Yeah, yep. You got mad whale. That's right. So's what, is that the kid's the same now? Yeah, yep. You got mad foil. That's right. That's what I thought. This is according to Cowan. At the time, Linman and Brazil had no idea that the news footage they captured would become arguably one of the most watch films in Oregon history.

The footage eventually made the evening news, an odd singular moment in Oregon history, and the seemingly one-time story found legs. A videotape copy was made and shared. Copies were made of copies, image quality deteriorating with each duplication, and Dave Berry, a columnist for the Miami Herald on the other side of the country, found the footage and mentioned it in his column he wrote in May of 1990. And a lot of articles suggest that this is when it really took on a bit of a viral. This is a real meme, isn't it? Yeah.

Mean before memes. Pre-Meme. Although Barry's column is often credited as the instance that generated initial interest, the footage didn't really take off until a copy of the broadcast found its home on the internet, quickly being shared across many websites. I love websites. Yeah, yeah. What do you love this?

Fark.com, Fnbfark.com, if I rk.com, there's also some interesting things on it. I don't know if I remember Fark.com. You should get into it. I think it's probably still around. Try to think of the early websites. Geocities.com, AngelFly.com. Make your own websites, imagine this. I think the first website I ever saw, a friend of mine. The first website I ever saw. Yeah, rofen.com. Rodden.com's would they have a exploding whale on Rodden.com?

Let me tell you that. Yeah, so yeah, so that'd be shared across many websites. Probably things like roton.com and fuck. Fuck dot com. Fuck dot com. Is that a dedicated to the King of Australian TV, Graham Kennedy, and his famous crow call? – Absolutely. – Fuck. – Very controversial. – Very good stuff.

– Except fuck. – Endlessly funny. No, he didn't say fuck. – No. – So, I don't know what people are talking about. – Licking his lips? – Yeah. – It's great footage. – It's good stuff. – Sorry, Bick great footage. Good stuff. Sorry, beak, licking his beak. Graham Kennedy famously no lips.

Yeah. Famously a bird. A no-liped king of Australia. He's the ostrich puppet one, isn't he? Try to have some niche stuff going on here. So long considered to be one of the first viral videos, a 2006 UK study estimated that the exploding wild video had been viewed to 350 million times. And that's 17 years

ago. So, going to the assume it's probably 351 million times or something but now, because I watched it, a million times. So, the town, you might be wondering how do they feel about it? Are they proud of this? Are they not? Well, Brian Peach wrote in the New York Times about the 50th anniversary of the event in 2020 quoted Megan Messma, Florence City's project manager. She said if you talk to people, it's not necessarily a proud moment. The in particular the... But if you read people's mind. yes, yeah, that's right. It's not particularly a proud moment either.

Thornton lived into his 80s, the man who was in charge of it, and he never got on board with it. He hated people asking about it, and yeah, he felt really embarrassed, so it was pretty sad. You kind of wish that he'd just see the fun of it. No, no one really cares. It's just, you know, you didn't.

That would be a struggle for anything right? No, and you did check with the Navy. I'd be like, yeah, I did what they told me to do. Yeah, yeah. Pretty funny thing, anyway. Pretty gross. Whoops. Yeah, but unfortunately it sounds like he sort of,

he just felt like it plagued him. And every time we went viral again, he'd be like, and then there's one famous time where he's talking about how he had to talk about and he goes every time I open my mouth it just explodes in my face and apparently it was not on purpose and people like that is good and he's like I fricking hate this side everything about it I hate you. This is what I'm talking about. I'm exploding with rage and blah, blah right now. Oh no, I've done it again. That's a good, ah!

The blast is a point of contention for some residents. Miss Messma said, as the city is often blamed for the decision to blow up the carcass, she very defensively was like, the state highway division was actually responsible. Joe Bordeaux, Bordeaux, the owner of a local art supply store, said the explosion is still a little bit of a touchy subject for residents. 50 years later.

Yeah, especially those involved in the blast. Guys, chill the fuck out. I feel like it's such a shame because I mean, I can understand how it would be embarrassing for a while, but you'd just eventually be like, well, anyway, it was cool to be involved in something that is remembered. Yeah. This bloke selling a lot of tins of whale blobber gray paint. You stole those.

Yeah. You still want to ride out of his thing. Imagine that there wouldn't be many day, you know, an ordinary day for the highway patrol division that would be remembered 50 years later. Yeah. In the last couple of years, residents were asked to vote for a name of a new park. Oh yes. In Florence.

And more than half of the final tally voted for exploding whale memorial park. Ha ha. Okay, so I think maybe for a younger demographic, it is pretty funny. Yeah, they're getting on board. That was 439 votes out of 856 total votes. More people voted on this topic

than the name of that park. No wild. Yes, that is wild. This is way less important than a park's name. Yeah. And that's why it sounded pretty random that Joe Bordro was interviewed, but Joe also designed the logo of the park. There it is. Other options. When you've got a logo, everything looks like a thing that needs a logo. That's what I always say. And you can sell them a logo. Yeah. Fear.

Did you coin that one? Yeah. I didn't want to. Wow, that's pretty cool. Yeah. The other popular options, although not very popular, were Bridge View Park, which is so dull. Doring.

And Suslaw River View Park. Doring. Because you can both view the bridge. Andoring. And Suselore Riverview Park. Boring. Because you can both view the bridge and the river. Suselore River from the park. Wow. And we saw it in that photo. So that makes sense. Yeah.

Yeah. Both of those make sense. A lot of park names don't really make sense to be honest though. I'm always just like, you know, the park, the park near this. Yeah. I don't even know the name of parks. But I think like, I now want to go to that park. Yeah. I want to get a photo with that sign. If you had exploding wild memorial park, you I think like I now want to go to that park. Yeah, I want to get a photo with that sign.

If you had exploding whale memorial park, you could build like a like some sort of water feature. Yeah, and it's the whale is there and then every hour on the hour like it's like the water comes out and bits come off. Yeah, there you go. Well, exactly. And. And the playground could be whale themed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Kids could have a whale sea sore, but also chunks of, they're like rocks or stuff for kids to climb on, but it's like they're painted chunks of whale. Right, I thought you were saying

the rocks would fly under the air, and I loved that as a matter of. I think that'd be fun. Well, I was a kid where you used to let rocks fly in the air playground. I can't see any ways. I feel both ways those rocks went. I can't understand how that could in badly, so yeah.

So, the new sign made by the local arts store worker. The picture is a rendering of a wild spouting water in the shape of a heart. That's nice. And Miss Mesmer again, I feel so much of it reads as defensive. She has, it's not gory, it's actually a cute wail. It's a cute wail, okay? It's not an exploding wail, okay?

It's cute, it's not gory. And I like that energy of Mesmer. If it was cute, it would be a killer wail. Okay. And if it was cute, you wouldn't have to go on a record saying it's a cute wail. A cute wail, that speaks for itself. Also, that's not historically accurate, is it? Yes, that should be a wrong order. It should be a cute whale. A cute whale. That speaks for itself. This whale.

Also, that's not historically accurate, is it? Yes, that should be a wrong idea. It should be a wrong idea. It should be a wrong idea. It should be a wrong idea. I think they've missed a trick here. So she hopes that the park conservers are reminded that, quote,

we should celebrate our mistakes and not be embarrassed. And that's a beautiful way to think about it. That is nice. I agree. And if only our man Thornton were alive to hear that words of a voice. Anyway, I love if it wasn't for this man Thornton, I'm just sad he never came to terms with it. Yeah. God thought he did a great thing, exploding a whale into the air. The 1970 blast was a lesson learned for Oregon. There is now a policy to bury carcasses that

can't be removed easily. Miss Messma said. So that's what they still do, they just bury him. Paul Lindman has said, just as a final thought from him, how it changed his life, he says, I was asked about it virtually every day of my life or commented on it by everyone. Strangers are like, to have this and then,

so he's like, he's like telling a story about going to a coffee shop that week and he came out and someone goes, but you know, once mentioned the, a stranger goes, but you know, once mentioned the exciting while, yeah, and he's like, actually, they just did it in the show. It's like 7 30 AM. Yeah. He's like a soulhead.

He's like a soulhead. Yeah. Like, yeah, but he seems to be cool with it, you know, but still, and Brazil said the cameraman, to have it live as a story still on the internet after 50 years is just amazing. Which I think, I mean, you said in a pretty large expectation. I think there's all sorts of obscure stories that live on the internet.

Yeah, but for 50 years? Oh, that's a good point. That is a great point. I didn't even realize it in time. You take that back. You take that back. I wonder when we're gonna reach the point where people will like, no, they fucked that.

Because you know everything on the internet. It's like the fucked that. Well, they fucked it, actually. That is funny to say that, because when it was going viral, that's what everyone thought. They're like, that's clearly faked. And part of that was how Linman was so jovial about it all.

They're like, clearly this is bullshit. This is like an April Fool's Day prank or something. But unless I've fallen for it, I believe it's true. Frank. Fake. Fake and prank. Thornton is when his whole life pretending that he hated it. But he was actually a character actor.

I guess he's like, every time people mention it to me, I'm like, that's another dollar in the bank. It's right. This is part of the highway patrol's budget. Oh yeah. Crisis Act is. So that's the story of the Florence Oregon wild explosion. I thought I'd just to finish,

tell you a quick story about maybe the second most famous wild explosion. Sure. Do you have something to do with this? Thought that's where you were going with that. I thought I'd tell you about the time I exploded a while. So to speak, I don't know what that means. This one happened in Taiwan. A place I certainly have never been and had nothing to do with it. Interesting.

Very defensive. Yeah. Because your t-shirts as otherwise. Oh no. I was at the Taiwan whale explosion. I went to Taiwan. I don't at myself. Me, Matt Stewart. This happened in 2004 or 2004 as I say. Let me tell you the story in brief via routers, the news. No, it's route it. What is it route is? Reuters. Yeah. Of course tell your story all about how that whale got flipped to upside down. It's on about That'll do it.

Residents of Tynan are learned to lesson in wild biology after the decomposing remains of a 60-ton sperm while exploded on a busy street, sharing nearby cars and shops with blood and organs and stopping traffic for hours. So this was a little bit different. This one was not on purpose. This sounds spontaneous. It's like just...

Is that it? I think I said it right. I think it did. It felt right. Yeah. What was I saying before? You've been talking like that all the time. Okay. Yeah, you've been taking it right the whole time. Okay. Yeah. Nobody will treat you about it at all. You'll be fine. Oh, thank God. The 56-foot-long whale had been on a truck headed for a necropsy by researchers when gases

from internal decay caused its entrails to explode in the southern city of Tynan. Residents and shop owners wore masks while trying to clean up the spilt blood and entrails. What a stinking mess! This blood and other stuff that blew out on the road is disgusting and the smell is really awful. A BBC News report quoted one resident as saying, how do you get the bloody peel? It's a prize for that.

Oh, this smells actually, it's bad. Oh, yucky! Yeah, no, no, no, I don't like it. I thought this would be good, but it's bad. I'm really disappointed when I heard guts and blood explosion. I was like, hooray! This is so cool.

Oh, poor. Oh, pooreewee! Yeah! Researchers at the National Chen Kung University in Taanan said enough of the while remain to allow for an examination by marine biologists. They said it was yucky! They said yeah, our research... Indicates, it's yucky.

It's actually really gross. That's that conclusion This is where the report takes what I would call a bit of a left-hand turn to the sexy. What's offensive to me is a left-hander? Well, you don't know I'm a left-hander, but I'm also not a snowflake so I'll find this So it goes on to say, I'm going to kick you. My left foot too, fuck you. Once the carcass was moved to a nearby nature preserve, the male specimen, the largest

while ever recorded Taiwan, drew the attention of locals because of its large penis, measured at some five feet the Taipei Times reported. More than a hundred time-and-city residents, mostly men, have reportedly gone to see the corpse to experience the sides of the penis. The newspaper reported. Man and penises. This is like a... What is that name? What is that name? What are you doing? Where is that, it's at science work, so something like that, where a lot of people have attempted to run as fast as Kathy Framon and their

smash and walls and stuff. It's that, it's exactly that. Just men going like, oh, I reckon it's about the same. Actually, that's better. So, far, when you think about in relation to the ratio from the body to the dick, it's actually kind of small. If you measure it from here, actually, it's not that big, but if you make it bigger. It only looks big because it's shaved, it's p kinda small. If you measure it from here, actually it's not that big, but if you make a million.

It only looks big because it's shaved, it's pews. Yeah. Well, you look at how big the wild is. Comparatively, that's actually, that's nothing that special, but if you do the same for man, I'm just saying. Part of the... I really just did not see the article going there.

Yeah, that is a bit of a left hand turn. So it exploded, but obviously, it's huge cock was still intact. Yeah, it couldn't be. It couldn't be explode. Thank God that those hundred men, or mostly men, are able to experience it. Oh man, I've just got so many other things in my day, I'd rather do than go and then look at a big whale dick,

but the bodies are so gross and... I feel like I can imagine it. It's like, do I need to go see the Mona Lisa? I know what it looks like. It's the same as that. Yeah, but I'm a big whale dick. Yeah, I got it. What if you're on your way to work and you get your coffee at the cafe or whatever and then there's a sign,

it's this whale dick, 100 meters on left. You know, yeah, 100 meters. Yeah, 100 meters. No, dick, 100 meters on left. You know, 100 meters. Yeah, 100 meters. No. 50 meters? Yeah. Maybe.

All right. Okay. If I'm getting out for one of those signs, but I'm not getting in the car, chucking it in my GPS, big well-deaf. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. If I want a leisurely road trip, and you know, I've stopped at a few scenic lookouts

because I've got the time, and then I see the sign for well-deaf, 100 meters on left, I'd be like, I've got the time. And then I see the sign for Wailedic, Hunter made us on left. I'd be like, what do they mean by Wailedic? I'd have a look. Based on the Michelin star rating, this would only get a one. Like if I happened to be going that way,

I wouldn't go out of my way. Yes. It's not a three, obviously. I would make a special trip to look at the Wailedic. But if it's there, there. Yeah, yeah. I reckon S3 would make good road trip buddies. I feel like we're all on the same page there.

Because you could go with some who are gone. Hey, it's just a 45 minute detour to go see a wild dick. Can we just keep going? I just want to get to the combination. I'll pack my bag, which I mean, unzip my bag. It's right. I'll leave it to spill out onto the floor.

Yeah. Yeah, I want to unzip my bag. It's right. I leave it to spill out onto the floor. Yeah Yeah, I want to crack open a tinny. Okay Nothing better Long draw that here that tinny getting cracked plus the world's largest birdclaw act is just down the road as well We're already we're already planning to go to that. Yeah, so we have to do both Yeah, one day we'll be on a journey past the Wild Pick. We'll see it then. Stop it, but I'm not going out of the way for 45 minutes. No.

No, but thanks to the option. Yeah, thanks for the great suggestion. Yeah. Oh, I noticed you're not the one driving. Yeah. You're not suggesting 45 minutes out of the way. Winder road too, perfect. Perfect road.

Just what I want. Oh, look, guys, it's the whale dick on the tucker box. Let's go to that instead. That's perfect for everyone. That's perfect. And it's want. Oh look guys, it's the wild dick on the Tucker box. Let's go to that instead. That's perfect for everyone. That's perfect, and it's on the way. It's on the way. Yeah, that's the big wild dick. One of Australia's many big things.

Well anyway, that's the story of the Taiwanese exploding wild, and of course, also the story of the Florence Oregon exploding wild. I don't know if you have any final thoughts before we wrap up. I loved it. I don't know if you have any final thoughts before we wrap up. I loved it. I also loved it. Yeah.

Was that so hard? I loved it. Yep, great call. Blow it up. Had everything we needed. Yeah. A big while. You explode the while.

Yep. Bits of a while. Wild dick at the end. Yep. Yeah. Had everything I've ever asked for in podcast. Thanks so much for joining us, Maes. So you do have to run off to record your other very good podcast, which I think of this.

You, yep, this is the time. I'm finally going to do one. I saw a, I saw a quote from Josh Holme racing, because I saw Eagles of Death Metal last month or whatever. And Josh Holme is the drummer in that band, but he only in the studio. And he said, they're not my side project, I have two bands. And I think of that as the same for you,

the weekly planet and do-go-on podcast. Yeah, that's right. Only Canon episodes of Do-Go-on podcast. That's exactly right. But this isn't a side project for you. No. This is just one of your two exact podcasts.

I've got the Beatles and I've got the other Beatles. Like the Beatles did. Yeah. You know, they had the people don't, a lot of people don't know this, but they had the Beatles, and then there was the Beatles and I've got the other Beatles. Like the Beatles did. Yeah. They had the people, a lot of people don't know this, but they had the Beatles and then there was the Beatles without Ringo. And they just did.

Second Beatles. Second Beatles too. But your podcast, the weekly planet for people who don't know, I know a lot of listeners to this show are also listening to that, but some might not know. It's a great podcast about comic book movies and such things. Oh my God, the wheels are really falling off that train, aren't they?

Yeah, superhero movies, aren't they? Yeah, we talk about big blockbuster movies. Barbin Himer, you did. Yeah, exactly. We're adaptable. Yeah, we'll talk about any kind of IP, whether it be Barbies or Atomic Bombs. Where do you sit on the proposed Mattel cinematic universe?

Oh, they're gonna try one more and it's gonna fail if they can stop doing it. That's like what it's gonna be. Yeah. Maybe hot wheels, but faster than the fears that exist. That's right. I don't really know. It's required.

But yeah, people should check that out. And Macy, we've also just recorded an episode which probably came out weeks ago of who knew with Matt Stewart for sure. That's right. And so it was Jess. And it was so much fun. I won.

Alright, alright. I don't know if you joking on it. I can't remember it was already moments ago. But thanks so much for being here. Well pleasure. Delight for always good to be here in Stupid Old Studios. What an honored after great man, Mesa, in here as we wave goodbye to him. We can still see him by Mesa. I can't hear him though. Can't hear him. He's flipping me off but I think what I can make out who he's saying is this is a sign of love. Yes. I think in the tram game they have to because it's such a life and death industry that he works in. They have to have pretty straight to the point language. So for I love you, it's one middle finger up and sort of

mouthing words fuck you. Which is what it looks like. That's very direct, but what are they saying? Love you. Love you. We got to do it with a hard F. Yeah, otherwise you can't. You're like, what letter is that? Yeah, L2 ambiguous.

Yeah, very clear. That's love. Yep. So, anyway, now that he's gone, finally we can get to the best part of the show. Everyone's favorite section of the show where we think some of our fantastic supporters without these people. This show doesn't exist. Yep.

It's gone. Yep. It's like, well, David of people just come in here. No, the Patreon supporters aren't here. There's a mass exodus of Patreon supporters because of something we said problematic. Something we said. And you know, we tried to apologize, but you wouldn't listen. We said, I'm sorry, your feelings were hurt.

Yes. We did a soft apology. Yeah. Which we thought was enough. We thought, I'm sorry, your feelings were hurt. Yes. We did a soft apology. Yeah. Which we thought was enough. Wither, that'll do. But apparently it made it worse. So now. And we're, yeah, now we're sorry you're still offended.

All the patrons are gone. Yeah. We're financially ruined. So this is the last episode. This is the scenario if in another scenario. Yeah, in another universe. Dave gets back from his holiday. And he's like, that's a fuck scenario. Yeah, in another universe. Dave gets back from his holiday.

And he's like, that's a fuck up. I'm sorry, we blew it up. I'm sorry. We blew it up. And he'll be like, what are you, David Copperfield? Ah! I'm like, what? That's an old reference Dave.

Dave, and he didn't blow things up. No, he made things seem to disappear. He was an illusionist day. Dave, what's wrong with you? What? Are you okay? What? You go away. Do you get your head on your trip? On your holiday? You go away on a holiday.

You come back stupid? Yeah. Honestly, Dave, maybe it's time for another holiday and endless one. Yeah. Fuck off, we say. And he says, I love you too. Why don't you take a long holiday for short period, Dave? We say. We say in that scenario.

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Yeah, it's gonna be wild. Yeah. And yeah, one of the other things we do is the fact quote a question section. And this is for people on the Sydney Sean Bigler, if you sign up there, you get to give us a factor quote or a question or a braggist suggestion or really whatever you like, you also get to give yourself a title. And this section actually has a jingle. Let's go something like this.

Fact quote or question. Ding, I always remember the ding. And she always remembers the sing. And this week, we've got four, like most weeks. And I'm gonna read them out now. And I read them out for the first time when I read them out. And the first one here comes from Madeline Baker. Okay, managing director of directing management.

Oh, thank God. That has been a gaping hole in our team. It's been a gaping hole. For a while. We've really been noticing the impact it has had on us as a business and as people. It hasn't been sitting vacant, it's been sitting gaping. That's right. So I'm very glad to have you, Madeline Baker, finally filling that important role.

And Madeline's asking a question, writing and asking, are you guys into Games Night? writing and asking are you guys into games night if so what's your favorite game to play as a group oh games not I I like games I don't know I don't I don't wouldn't say I regularly play them I play Yachty on my phone a bit lately I've become probably almost I would say probably almost have a Yachty problem right now right I've been getting to the power I'm like well just I just saw a I would say probably almost have a Yachtsy problem right now. Right. I've been getting to the power, I'm like, well just for, I'll just do a quick Yachtsy and then I'll brush my teeth.

I'll have a quick Yachtsy, then I'll walk over to the next room. Oh, before I walk to another room across, I've got two rooms in my house. I will just play a quick Yachtsy. Okay, wow, your Yachtsy man is right out. Oh, I'm busting for a pissatsy. Okay, wow, you're a yatsy man. Oh, I'm busting for a piss. But before that, let's yatsy. Okay, you couldn't like yatsy while you piss. Yatsy and piss. That's disrespectful to two great things of my life.

I love to do stuff while I piss. Really? Yeah, I love it. Getting things done. Yeah, go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go level. We've come back to do this later. We've had more coffee in the meantime, more sugar, and now we're going, oh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I had my famous coffee and orange juice combo. Yes, psycho. And I say that with love. Anyway, games. I do like games. Oh, yes, I feel like what we were talking about, love games. Do you want to hear Madeline's quote quite the answer first. Madeline writes, mine is the game of things. It's like cards against humanity,

but you write your own answers. It gets pretty wild, and I would not recommend playing with your parents because yikes. Oh, okay, just get a bit naughty, does it? What if your parents are naughty? Madeline, what if you, what if you, what if, Madeline, do you have a tried playing with your parents?

Or Jess? I reckon John and your mom, Annie, would love this game. I've never heard of it. I've never played it. But I reckon I reckon from Vibe Alone. I think they're going to be into it. We go through phases of playing 500 as a family. It's a card game?

Yeah, it's a fun card game. I don't do games, no, it's frequently, but I do usually enjoy them whenever somebody has the initiative to pull out a game. One I played at a friend's place in a group recently was the Blockbuster game where you like, I don't know, it was, I just remember, I had like a minute on the clock or something and you had to name as many one word movie titles as you could.

And I just like, because when the time, when you, when is time pressure? Yeah, you never know what your brain's gonna access. I've never seen Tootsie. I don't know anything about Tootsie. I've never seen Tutsi. I don't know anything about Tutsi. I think it's Dustin Hoffman. Yeah, that's right. But yeah, that's funny.

Annie. Annie, you're doing great so far. Tutsi, Annie, up. Oh, that's a good one. That's a good one. Secret Hitler is another fun game. I could not have another fun movie. Well, the fun movie I've played before.

And we have a game. Secret Hitler. Yeah, it's fun. We have a game called Throw Throw Burrito and you throw burritos at each other. That's a bit of fun. It's just like a just a food fight. Yeah. Or it's a board game.

It's a board game. Okay. Yeah. I'm like that's a waste of burritos. Not the way I do it. I cast you my mask. Oh yeah. That's actually quite efficient.

Trivy for shoot. Classic. But big foul of trivia sort of stuff. I like Cludo. Cludo is fun I haven't played that in a long time but some movie in the last of the world Is it movie pretty fun? There is too It's called Cludo though I think yeah cuz Americans call Cludo Cludo

Yeah, which makes more sense and Cludo Cludo was the first name I think it was some sort of plan words or something Okay Why is it called Clude, doe A play on clue and Ludo the Latin word for I play Okay, that's a pretty high for lute man. Yeah, it's not really that well how do we make this board game More high for lute and how do we work in some Latin into this board game now? We're talking I think that was the original name in the Americans like let's call it something that probably represent. Which is probably reasonable. Yes I think so. So yeah great question do you love games? Let's talk another night sometime

Madeline. Yeah come over. And no parents allowed. Just the kids at this one. Let's play Murder in the Dark. Thank you Madeline. That was her first. If that quote a question, welcome aboard. Welcome. Next one comes from a long time Sydney Sean burger. Brian Kalella. Brian. Brian's one of the greats. Previous primates guests. Brian.

One of the OJs, Brian. Found out recently. What did he tell us recently? His dad was an Olympian swimmer. Oh my god. Did I talk about that swimmer? Or something I think maybe was even involved. Yeah, no, Olympians are weird. Yes. I talked about I think it was a swimmer I think you're right. Amazing. So cool. So cool. Um and Brian Clellas

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I had dinner with Brian and I was doing a live episode coming up and he said, you thought about Vegemite episode over dinner. I had dinner with Brian and I was doing a live episode coming up and he said, you thought about Vegemite and I said, Brian, when I look into those eyes, I can only think about Vegemite. He had beautiful black eyes. Black eyes. Black eyes. He's just been in a street fight. Yeasty eyes.

Anyway, I'll read the first one out and if you like it and allow it, I'll read the suggestion. Okay. But the like it and allow it, read the suggestion. But the fact is, I love you, heart emoji. Do you want the suggestion? Maybe. Okay, I'll listen to the suggestion, but I don't have to take it. Okay. Keep doing what you're doing.

Brian, how do you implore me to stay stagnant? Why don't you encourage me to grow, Brian, to change, to evolve, to be? Yeah. Brian, Kolella's favorite band status quo. Yeah. That's so good. That's so good. Never know what try it'll be. In my brain I'm like that sucks. And then just like, and then there's a little laugh.

And that, that's like you're the emperor with the thumb. That was so... Shit! Oh, fair enough. Good! Oh my God! I feel awesome about myself. You've got a lot of power, but we're a little responsible. Thank you.

Thank you so much, Brian. Thank you, Brian. We love you. We love you too, and keep doing what you're doing. Yeah, how does that feel, Brian? Yeah. Don't grow. Don't evolve.

Pfft. Pfft. Pfft. I think I want to be like this forever. Yeah. No, thank you. No. Oh, Julian Rand.

Okay, title sold separately. Love that. Is asking a question, writing. At the time of writing this, the Barbie movie is taking over the world. Yes. If they made a Barbie or can or action figure of you, what accessories would come included in the box? And we always.

Can I just say, that is a fucking phenomenal question. That is so good. And at the time of recording, Bobby has only been out for like a week or so, it is taken the world by storm. And there's also been a TikTok trend of people, particularly women, talking about their Ken, using their partners like talking about their partners as if he is a Ken and what he comes with and what his job is and stuff, and it's pretty funny.

Honestly, this is, I think this is what's wrong with women. And I can say this is a feminist. Men aren't toys. Men aren't possessions. We are human beings. Yeah, you should see the movie. Then I think it'll make, I think you'll like it. Mm.

As a feminist, probably. As a cuck sure. What would Matt come with? Probably a little, a little bottle of soy milk. Thank you. So, like, you know the hat? Yes, a hat. A little bottle of soy milk.

You know the hat. Yes, the hat hat a little bottle of soy milk You'd be wearing like a cool band t-shirt. Yeah You need another accessory hat soy milk. I mean clothes and a drink. I'm actually a pro I'm a pretty wild character Okay, so what else what else do you like? No, I was I was being self-deprecating there. I'm aware. Okay What else do I like? What else do you like? No, I was being self-deprecating there. I'm aware. Okay. What else do I like? What else do you do? A footy? Yeah, I get a little footy, that's cute. So I'm gonna play with, that's nice.

Yeah, I really need to go out and get some interests. No, you've got plenty. A beer? You get a beer, anasoi milk, that's crazy. Well, I mean. Is that not far off? You can have a slab. Oh yeah.

We're gonna slab a beer and a footy. Slab of cajou crush. Okay, and then you're like a fun guy hitting for a barbecue. It's not fun guy. You got the footy already? And I don't need everyone to know that, but I will tell them.

I'm a fun guy, okay? You will say that, and people will believe it. That's the difference. Yeah, yeah. Me, Barbie Jess would come with probably a little dog. She'd have a little French bulldog. Yep. And like the lead and stuff to walk the dog.

And maybe like the Mattel's misunderstood your order and they also give you like just a barbecue with some tongs, because you love to cook. Loved to cook. You love to cook. Could I also have like a little camera, like a little Polaroid camera or something? What about a little box brownie?

That's cool. What about if it was like a tiny little Barbie sized Polaroid camera, but it actually worked and you could print out teeny tiny photos? That would be incredible. That'd be so cute. Can you do, I don't know if you're taking a request, but can you do the history of the codec of codec

or something one time? Woof. Or just off photography. I think I'd be. I think that would be quite boring. Oh, okay. I think it is. There's some interesting stuff. I know I only know because in a Bill Brasson book he goes into it a little bit.

Anyway, I fell asleep for a second there. I think that's my answer. The camera and a dog. Julian answers the question. We always ask the question, right? So answer the question, saying, my dog would probably come with an ice coffee in hand and two Dalmatian toys with real shedding action.

Oh, that's fun. You could, what, that's just the best. Your Velcro that back on and then that's great stuff. That is good. Julian, fantastic. I don't think it for you and I far off. I think like, yeah, I think maybe add an ice latte to mine too and then that's just Perkins right there.

I got a dog and I got some cameras. Uh huh. Thank you Julian. And last one this week comes from Jessica English. Okay, Vice President of Random Hapa Focus Obsessions. Jessica's question is. I relate hard to that.. And Jessica's question is. I relate hard to that, yes. Oh Jessica writes,

hello our lovely overlords of grim, funny, and boring facts. Oh, the boring boys, not you. Thank God, God we got fun today. Grimy, gr- What was, do we call it before? Fun, fun, grim, grim from, no. That was on a different podcast from the court. I think I was on who knew it, we talked about fun grim.

Anyway, it doesn't matter. Just gonna go on to say, as someone with ADHD, I developed some strange obsessions at times, and become a near expert in them before abandoning them completely for a new obsession. That sounds like, I mean, it's different, of course, but it does sound a bit like being on this show, where it has been a different topic every week.

And then forget all about it. Is there something that you are or have been particularly obsessed with or about lately? TV show, book, hobby, oh man. My entire life. Yeah. I've gone, yeah, I have a quite, what I've always said, and it probably is a similar kind of ADHD thing that I, I've always said I have a somewhat obsessive personality where I'll get really into something for a while and then just it

completely falls apart. It's been book series, movies, TV shows, activities. It's more likely that I'll get really lost in a world of something like a book series or a TV show, but sometimes it is, I'm going to do this activity, I'm going to teach myself how to do this. But then I also am a perfectionist, and if I'm not good at something straight away, I crack the shits. Right.

So, it's a tricky combo. Yeah, it is. If I get lucky and I hyper-focus on something that I have a natural ability in or I pick up quickly, then we're okay But if not like a Yacht C phone game exactly right if I'd be so good at that So I would get obsessed with it. I feel it maybe my most recent one or And I've sort of just dropped out of it, but for a few months Batman like God and

Penny whatever that Pennyworth and I can't remember I couldn't tell the characters names now but there was a time where I'm like all those shows and then I went back and I watched all the Cristinault and Batman's and I watched the new but I watched and the old night ladies and 90s ones oh wow yeah you and all the way and I've just read and or listen to an audio book about the history of Marvel and DC. That's cool. And I think I've probably, I'm coming to the point, I think I'm ready to move on.

I'm ready to. You sort of, you feel yourself slipping out of it, sort of. Yeah. I didn't give many examples there. I got really into Hunger Games when I first read that and then the movies came out and I got into those again. Pitch Perfect, finally enough. The first one I was like very into.

Is that Rebel Wilson? Yeah, so I saw that at like three times at the cinema. I thought it was so good. It's fine. Okay. I don't think I've seen it. The first one's fun. Then they made a second and a third and they got progressively worse, but the first one's

been a fun. Who's the main actor in it? Anna Kendrick. Anna Kendrick. She's great. She's great. Yeah. That's his out rebel. Oh God. Out rebel. Yeah. I get very, I do get as a TV show. I get really, I get very lost in and quite obsessed with them and then never watch them again. Yeah, I do that a lot. I can relate real hard to that. Well, Jessica has also answered the question, which is great. Yes. Writing my current obsessions include planning for a Disney World

trip by watching way too many YouTube videos and listening to podcasts and the Australian Kids Show, Bluey, which I watch over and over. By any chance, if you have watched Bluey, I have seen, have you seen any Bluey? Bit some pieces, yeah. Custard, I don't know if you'll know this Jessica, because I'm guessing just from the way you said the Australian kid show, you're not from the show, but maybe you are. But anyway, their dad, Bluey dad, was the singer from a band I used to, I still love

called Custard. And it's so, it's just real fun to hear him. It's just a fun show, it's a kid show but it feels like it could be beautiful show and anybody show and maybe it is. But says do you have a favorite episode of character Mons Muffin? I couldn't tell you any of the names but I could hum the song. names but I could I could I could I could I'm the song. Bingo's a great name. Bingo's really cute.

No, I don't think I could tell you any of the names or episodes. I can't really remember any episodes, but but I remember it being nice. It's nice. It's a nice show. episodes, but I remember it being nice. It's a nice show. But I think did you suggest one or watch whatever you just said. I'll watch whatever you just said. I'll watch Muffin. I don't know if that that's probably the character though. Thank you so much Jessica, Julian, Brian and Madeline. The next thing we like to do is I think if you our other great supporters, Jess, you normally come up with a bit of a game based on the topic at hand.

Yeah, I was thinking what... we're gonna say a minor in convenience, they solve with explosives. Oh yeah, great. I don't think a whale on a beach is a minor in convenience, but these inconveniences are minor. And there are other solutions, but they're going straight for explosives. Because we normally do three each with Dave. What if I do the first five? You do the last four, but on mine you have to do the inconvenience and for yours I'll do it. Okay. All right. Well, first off, I'd love to thank from North Epping in New South Wales here in Australia. Zoe locked themselves out.

Oh, yeah. Blocked the door. Oh, up there. Accidentally, they're like, ooh, is this too much not enough? Yeah. blows the whole front of the house off. Yeah.

But is back inside. There is another. Back inside, back in bed, and they were knackered. So tucked up nicely, Zoe, love that. I'd also love to thank from Taunton in our Arkansas Marisa in Great Britain. It's Emily Sandley. Locked out of the car.

Oh yeah. Blocked the car. I was only meant to blow the bloody doors off. Which I did, but also. I think you'll see a bit of a thief emerge again. No, I won't make them all locking yourself out of something. Thank you very much, Emily. The next one from McKay in Queensland here in Australia.

It's Laura Fraser. Searching through, so Laura's at work, right? Yes. Searching for an email from a particular colleague. Okay. Cannot for the life of her find it. Know is that colleague sent it? Yeah.

Can't find it. It's that outlook thing where you're searching And it's not finding what you're looking for blob the computer. Oh, man. That feels right So I thought you said monitoring commissions. That's fair that one feels appropriate How is finding an email not a minor Yeah, that does feel right So you want to do when you compute his bloody plan up. Writing this report, I had a similar feeling of wanting to blob the computer because

there was this quote from a scientist, but I had about 18 tabs open with different articles and I couldn't find it. I couldn't find it. I couldn't quite remember which one it was. I'm like doing searches on every page going I'm sure it would have the word neighborhood in it, but I Just could anyway, I was very frustrating. Did you end up finding it? No, so in there ended up saying I read somewhere Where I would normally like to say who said it, but anyway, that is inferiority. I'm sorry that happened

But thank you so much Laura. The next person, I dress unknown. Oh. Retained a sender can only show him from deep within the fortress of the moles but thank you very much, Beth. Beth was heading home from work, got to the train station just as the train pulled out.

Like just missed it. Next one comes in like 20 minutes and annoying amount of time to wait. Blah, the train station has become a domestic terrorist, but worth it. Got home faster. In court and in the court of public approval, everyone understood. Everyone gets it. They're like we get it. We get it. Trains, huh? Everyone else waiting. Everybody else who'd just run trying to make the train and just missed it was like I Backbeth. That was the right thing to do. Well, I was a name Beth. Me too. One of my faves from I just in case Beth from address unknown her email's surname Susu P. Okay, Yeah, yeah. Hasn't put the surname in there on purpose. But also, it's like, I wonder if that was me.

Yeah, Beth P. Beth P. That narrows it down. Uh, the final one for me, from Preston here in Victoria, Australian Melbourne, it's Tia Evans. Tia, another great name. These are Zoe Emily Laura, Beth and Tia are five of the top names. So good.

Good luck keeping up with that in your half. Geez Louise, I'll try, but I'm having a look and they're all dogs, you're right. And here's what happened to Tia, right? Tia made a cup of tea, phone rang, went and grabbed that, got stuck on the bloody blower with mum. You know, and she's doing that thing where she's like, oh, so your uncle Rod texted me the other day and he's like, I don't care. And you're like, yeah, so you remember Rod, not really.

Yeah. You remember Denise? Yes. No, Denise was the one who went to school with Rihanna. You remember Rihanna with the red hair? Yeah, sure. Were you supposed to play Jim Rummy together? Yeah, no, I remember. Yeah, yeah.

I don't think you do remember. I'm going to give you eight more facts about Rihanna. So mom's done that, gone on for a bit long by the time T is finally got mom off the phone. Everything's fine by the way. Mom was just calling for a for a chinwag just to check in. T is nice, which is lovely. Which is nice to remember that it's a nice thing. Exactly right. And mom's on around forever. No, but and you'll miss it when mum's dead and gone. This is certainly

not for me. This is for everyone else. But tear gets back to this cup of tea tea I was really looking forward to. And it's gone cold. Tears like fuck. Could make another tea but that feels wasteful of the water, of the tea bag, et cetera. I'll just put tiny little bit of explosives in there. Heat it up a little bit. Okay. Does that, delish, just right? Absolutely nailed it.

Get's on with their day. Right, like a tiny little explosion. Tiny explosion. Just a really quickly heated up, well done to ya. Yeah, and like. That's my gov a level. Absolutely nailed the amount of explosives. It was the perfect, it was was like I can drink it right now

But it's hot. Yes, you know that you know how sometimes you make it cup of tea. It's too hot for a while Mm-hmm You're gonna let it sit and then you take us to be like yes, this is just right. That's where tea you got it to. Yeah, so good So satisfying so good. I'll thank some people now as well That would be great for good. Yeah, and good luck because I just had some absolute rippers there Yeah, I would love to thank from M'sworth in Great Britain, Danielle and Adam Osborne. Oh, great names. Well, Danielle and Adam Osborne, we're doing a bit of work in their guard

and they had to pull out this tree that was taking up big space, because they wanted to build a pagol. Yep. But the root was in so deep, they couldn't get it out. So they ended up dynamiting it out. And bonus, new pool. Oh, that is great. Yeah.

Pagola and a pool. Yeah, it's like a floating Pagola. And before that they didn't think they had a space. They didn't have either of those. Yeah. Never have both. Ah, and living in M's worth and great Britain, you'll get so much use out of a pool. I imagine so.

Having watched the cricket last month. Uh, well, that doesn't rain in summer there, that's for sure. That's for sure. I, we, I hassled my parents so much wanting a pool going up, and now I think, and they were always like, no, we won't use it. Yeah. And in Melbourne, you're right. Yeah. You won't. You'll use it twice, and then you've got to look after it

the rest of the year. Go to a friend's house with a pool. Yeah, go to the pool. But probably more likely, go to the pool. It takes up a whole backyard. But if you are flying in Queensland or Northern New South Wales and you're flying over suburb, every backyard has a pool and you go fair enough,

you're gonna use that. I got a mate, right, old school mates is a pill builder. He's a pool builder. And he built one for my uncle. So now there's, I don't live no one near there, but Chris, Christmas are down there sometimes, which is when it is hot. And that's the only pool I would ever swim in.

But it must be a nightmare to look after, but. Yes. Man, I took a long way around it. I should have just said my uncle has a pool. I made so I did the thing. I did the thing we're just talking about. So, maybe I would have been in your arms. I would also have to say from Killworth in Cork in Ireland. Megan. Oh, Megan. Cork. Great neck of the woods. Megan, forgot what we were doing here. Megan actually, unfortunately, was stuck in a cave. Took shelter there, down searching in the Arctic Circle.

Wow. And was on an expedition. And Suk Shelter, is that like, sweet, salt Shelter, and got it in a cave. Yeah. But a huge storm came down and she was snowed in. Luckily, she had a lazy half ton of dynamite in a bag. And she was actually like, ugh,

skin sick of carrying this around. Half a ton. So that, you know, after a ugh, skin sick of carrying it around. Half a ton. So after a while, that feels very heavy. Yeah. So I ended up using that and blew her way out of it. Blu her way to freedom. Yeah, wow. That's great, man.

Must have felt so satisfying. And it just worked. It was just like water relief. Yeah, absolutely. Get it all out. And then you're not carrying that huge load anymore So good to hear that you're safe me. Yeah, maybe and you made it you made it to your destination Yeah, I also loved to think from Louisville K. Y's got to be Kentucky

Oh, yeah, and that's Louisville. Yeah, I would love to thank Chris Sexton. Oh Chris Sexton Chris Sexton Very quite different to Megan. Yeah, interesting was holidaying on a beach paradise. The wit Sundays. Oh beautiful part of the world and Chris's nephew was there for a family holiday and Yeah, you are doing it. You are getting old. He's nephew Brandon. He's a... Brandon, he was, he did the classic thing of bearing himself up to the head, but they couldn't

get him out and the high tide was coming in. So Chris was like, what do I do? What do I do? Luckily, I've got half a ton of dynamite. So he exploded. What was his name, Jaden? Brandon. Brandon out of the sand and made a beautiful little rock pool. And Brandon is recovering.

The land. They're saying Brandon's gonna pull through, which is great news. That's great for Brandon and great news of Dynamite for Chris. Yes. And finally, I would love to thank from Cardiff in Wales, Michael Hughes. Michael Hughes, now what Michael Hughes was doing was he was attempting to slay a dragon to save a princess, but as we know, in the post-Barbby era,

I assume princesses don't need saving. So he got the antidote already emancipated herself. And she was like, honestly, it's quite patronizing. Yeah, so you didn't need to do that. Yeah. So what he did was, he's like, well, I feel awful. Yep. I don't know what to do here.

And he said, you know what, I'm just going to blow up the dragon. That'll make me feel better. And you know, the dragon looks to be injured. And this is the most humane way of doing it. So he put about half a ton of dynamite next to the dragon's blowhole, which is it's mouth. And that's where he thought which is it's mouth. Yeah. And that's where he thought the head might be or in that area.

And he just blew that fucking head right off. So I'm busy, got it done. Yeah. You made yourself feel better. Sometimes we're going to blow something up to cheer yourself up. That's right. Thank you so much to Michael Chris Meaghan, Danielle,

Adam Tia Beth, Laura Emily and Zoey, you're all fantastic people and you've blown a hole in my heart. And the last thing we need to do, Bob, is welcome to the people in the trip to Chicago. Do you want to explain how this works? Absolutely. So what this is is an exclusive club for people who have supported us on patreon.com slash jughan pod for three consecutive years at the shallower above and what it is is we welcome you in this food their snacks Dave's away that I actually booked a band this time. Oh cool. It's well. I booked whale. Oh The they're from Hey, God That Sweden. Oh

They're a pop outfit formed in 1986 and Sweden and I'll be playing all the big hits like a hobo hump and slope babe So again, hobo hump and slope a babe. Okay. Or slope a babe. I think, yeah, the translation from Sweden into English, they're, you lose a bit of the power, what tree of it, but it is a beautiful thing. It is a beautiful thing. It's a Swedish accent.

For big speakers, another one of theirs, a kickin'. But definitely Hobo hump and slope a babe. So that will be there. I always, I'm behind the bar, and I'm serving whale, which is really ethically not good. Oh, not it.

You're not ethically sourcing your whale? Oh, I don't know if there's a way to ethically sourced whale. Is there, isn't it bad to eat whale? Well, I mean, if the people of Perth are already exploding the whale, I think then it's that, you know, they're trying to get rid of the whale. Okay, so when whales are being exploded, I'm out there with a big old tub, big bucket talking.

Just catching liquid whale. Just capturing, and then I'm using that for a beautiful diga station. And then you sort between the solids of the whale and the liquids of the whale. Liquid's probably become your drinks. That's right. And the solids become your foods.

Yeah, and you're welcome. the liquids probably become your drinks. That's right. And the solids become your foods. Yep. And you're welcome. Your wets and your drawers. And Matt, you usually, you're at the door. You lift the velvet rope. You welcome people in. Yes. Dave usually hype some up.

How about I give you a break from reading these. Oh, well, terrible names. Terrible. Because I know it's so hard for you to do. The hardest part of this is reading the names. That's right. Dave does the easy bit which is, come out with, yeah, with dog shit wordplay. Yeah. So I'll read them for you. It's hard because he's so good at wordplay. And you can hype them.

Does that sound okay? Yeah, I'd love to hype some people. Okay, great. Well first, there's only a couple joining us this week into the Tribute Club and we would love to just spend some time welcoming them from Fantry Gully in Victoria. Carry to me. Carry to me. You are so beautiful to me, can't you see? Can't you see? Thank you so much and welcome to another club. Beautiful. And from Ingleburn in New South Wales, it's Don's Ronald Vargas. Don's. That's right. That's Ronald Vargas. Ingleburn.

You're from Ingleburn? Well, I want to Englebert Humperdick. You and by that I mean crew knew a beautiful song. One of Englebert songs. I can't think of any of them. But it's like something like No, it's not. He's English. Oh. Evo Man. You're beautiful. Enkelbert Humper Ding.

What's one of his big ones? A man with that love. Can't take my eyes off you. Cuando, cuando, cuando. Tell me, cuando, cuando, cuando. Oh, that's nice. Don's Rod No the Varrag know? Oh, that's nice. Don's run out of variegies. Oh, that's beautiful.

Tell me, don's run out of humor. That's really nice, don's run out. That was from the last Don's run out. Don's run out. I think we can all agree. That was really nice. OK, don's. I've never actually opened myself up to be that nice before and I feel vulnerable

so I hope you appreciated it. That was really really nice. That was actually the nicest thing I've ever done. Thank you so much for making yourselves at home. Don's run-old and carry. And then that brings us to that's everything we have to do admin-wise, but just finally would love to do. I don't think of it as admin-wise way. I do, it is an absolute chore. Do not get that sentence out very kindly. I think of it as not only my duty, but my honor. Okay, and I would just like to remind people that we love them that they can suggest a topic

at dogoonpod.com, which is our website. You can find us at dogoonpod on all social media. If Dave's listening, We hope you're okay I don't please Please getting touch Dave. We're sorry for whatever we did yes, you got to talk to us stop leaving Yeah, stop fleeing the country. You're doing it quite a lot. It's too much people are talking What is he? What do you think you are 21 year old backpacker on a gap you? Come on!

You're an old man now! Stay at home all the time! Please! Where we can see you! I want to keep your eyes on you! Give me a Katie ahead! Give me a heaven to torture when I hold you so much! Um, yeah, and as we always say, do you go on?

What do we always say? I don't know say waiters. Bye