Do Go On - 446 - Weird US Presidential Incidents (with Nick Mason)

Episode Date: May 8, 2024

This week we are joined by our great mate Nick Mason, to talk about weird and whacky incidents that have befallen US Presidents. Including The Jimmy Carter Rabbit Incident, The George H.W. Bush Vomiting Incident, Bill Clinton's Hair-gate, and The George W. Bush Shoeing Incident.This is a comedy/history podcast, the report begins at approximately 07:07 (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/ Watch Do Go On The Quiz Show: https://youtu.be/GgzcPMx1EdM?si=ir7iubozIzlzvWfKListen to Nick Mason on The Weekly Planet podcast: https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanet Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/suggest-a-topic/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:http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/21/jimmy-carter-explains-rabbit-attack/ https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/george-bush-shoe-throw-oral-history-al-zaidi.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitangi_dildo_incident# https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bill-clinton-hairgate/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serenji Amana, 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there.

Canada, we are visiting you in September this year. If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. And welcome to another episode of Doogone. My name is Dave Warnocky.

How are you feeling out there? Fantastic. Thank you so much for coming out tonight. Now, we've got not one, not two, but three extra people to the welcome to the stage. Can you please put those hands together and welcome Jess Perkins, Matt Stewart, and Nick Mason is here. Oh my gosh. Matt was walking out first and then you said my name and he panicked. I don't want everyone to think I'm Jeff.

God, is a big... Have you think some people haven't seen us before? It's a comment at first... Has anyone heard but not seen us before? I've sat already. Oh, thank God. I said too soon. Wasn't that big of a deal.

Somebody else to do it first. Thank you. We're in a beard sandwiches. Ugh. Doesn't that sense? I've had enough, honestly. Yeah, that sounds disgusting. Kind of like that place you eat at.

What does it get the bearded bagel? Matt's referring to the bearded jaffel. Okay. And we've got a little secret about the bea jaffle. We'll keep that between the two of us. I'm so sorry. Sometimes we have to do something for us. Great.

Nick Mason, so good to have you, the fourth beetle, back on the program. How are you feeling? It's wonderful to be here. Just one more canonical episode. You guys have done like eight episodes in the last 10 years. There's eight episodes in eight years. Yeah, Dave, can I just jump in there? The fourth beetle is Ringo.

That's the fifth beetle Mesao. I thought the joke that he... Anyway, anyway, great. I panicked. I think the joke has probably changed. Yeah, okay. Week to weeks. But I believe at one point the joke was it.

So within eight years, that's our only joke. Someone fact-checked us on Twitter at one point saying, oh, when did Mesa go from fourth beetle to fifth beetle? And I said, fuck you. Thank you. In my head, I just typed, I don't know. Could I now? Yeah, just know if you tweeted us and you get a reply, it's like,

ha ha, good one. It's Matt. And he is actually saying, fuck you. And I've screenshot. Yeah, we have received a screenshot. Yeah. And they say, yeah, fuck them. Yeah.

And then they go and then they comment, good on you. Yeah. We retweeted or something. They go, that's good stuff. We're very nice. But in our head, fuck you. Yeah. Very toxic internally, but externally.

Excellarily. Delightful. Delights. Yeah, little sunflowers. Yeah. But I don't know if I can keep it in much longer. No. The real me is bursting to come out.

Yeah. Not today. No, not today. Yesterday. Nicholas. No. No, do it today. Yesterday.

That's confusing. Anyway, Jess. Jess, how does this show work? What are we doing? here tonight. Well, we always have a weird energy. Tick, tick. As we've proven, how this show works is usually one of the three of us goes away. We research a topic. We bring it back to the other two who never interrupt or go on dog shit riffs or anything like that. Give us a little cheer if you have heard do go on before.

That's always a relief. And no judgment, save space. Who's never heard to go on before? Few people? Welcome. Yeah, let's get him, yeah. I'm so scared right now. Well, welcome. I've emerged from under my mushroom to come and visit the big city for the first time, yeah. Got him.

I've just double you. Is this a huge man here that you're making fun of? Oh, my God. No. The much smaller man in his left. And I'm also going to leave. out the back. And David is your turn to bore us, I mean, do a report.

Jesus Christ. Yes, not today. Sorry. Dave, it's your turn to enthrall us with some knowledge and fun. Yes, prepare to be enthralled. We always start with a question to get us on the topic. Here is the question. We're sitting very close to each other.

I've never felt closer to you. Like physically. Physically. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Emotionally, oh my God. The chasm has never been wider. I know, it's ridiculous. Who are you?

If there are any couples' counsellors in the audience, please leave a card at the end of the show. We need help. Question? Okay. What job has been held by 45 different men? My lover. Nice, nice, nice.

That's good. Hell yeah. Jess, they're going with a comically loved. low number. Good one. Good one. But this might apply to your love as well. Four of whom have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Yes. Well done. And it's commonly referred to as the most powerful... US President? It is the President of the United States of America, man. That's so funny that they've won the peace thing. Didn't Hitler won it as well, though, didn't he? No.

Am I right and saying? Hitler won the Peace Prize. I think he has not won the Peace Prize. What are you talking about? I think he's comically someone, they later said, I was only joking, nominated him, I believe, or said, we should put him up there. That's funny.

That's a good bit. But he has been Time Person of the Year. And he was People Magazine's well, sexiest man. At least once, yeah. That's a fact. That's a fact. Hey, Dave, like it sounds like you're saying a lot that he won Time Person of the Year, but we all did that year, remember?

Oh, yeah. One year or a mirror. It was a mirror. And he died before that, so we're tied with Hitler. Yeah. So that's cool, I think. Such shit, Hitler. That's right.

Another time, it was the computer. Oh. The person of the year. I was like when the horse won sportswoman. Yeah. Can I remember what's the name of that horse? Maccabi Diva. Maccabi Diva.

What a bit? No, it was black caviar. Was it? Oh, was it? Oh, they probably all look the same to you, Jess. Horses. Yeah. In a lot of, in most, yeah.

Now, the president of the United States of America, they might be the most powerful person in the world, but they are, of course, very public figures and sometimes unexpected incidents and bizarre controversies haunt their time in the Oval Office. And I'm going to tell you about some of them today. Yes. This is weird US presidential incidents.

You were right to applaud. Oh, man. Our audience is going a while for edutonement right now. This is so good. Our audience are the biggest pack of dogs. I love it so much. Woo! Let's learn!

Hey, Jess, can I just clarify, when you said they're all a pack of dogs, are you talking to that huge man there? He doesn't scare me. I could leg press him In a fight I would just need him to cooperate while I set up the apparatus Get on top of me

No not like that Oh I got a number 46 And they were only paid ones weren't they There's been a lot of unpaid interns and whatnot That was a fun reaction They're dorks, but they're usually pretty on the money. That was a worthwhile reaction, I think.

Both Dave and Jess had made that same joke already, and you laughed. I made it in a more clever way using a word that maybe some of you hadn't heard before, intern, pretty clever. That's two syllables. but, yeah. And that was what turned you on me? I like how Matt's become the villain of this episode. I'm loving it actually, yeah.

This is a glimpse into his solo show. He goes, oh, too clever for you, was it? After every joke. Matt Stewart in, that deserved more. I saw it last week. You're fantastic. You absolutely fantastic. But very defensive.

But probably a little rough on Serend calling a solo show. Well, he didn't yell at me, so I don't remember anything, though. Okay, I love anything referred to as The Something Incident, and there's a bunch of those on this episode. Let's get into it. We'll start a story with Jimmy Carter. Oh, my God. Is this about a rabbit?

Yes. I wrote a report on this last night for my sleep podcast. You're kidding. Let's see how it works. For people who don't know, I do a show now that's meant to put people to sleep, and this... And now people that are... I'm really laughing.

Oh my God. This is a topic I wrote one on last night. Oh, here we go. The most boring thing you could think, oh. Yes. I think, to be honest, I think it's going to fright people away. It's freaky. Yeah.

But before we get there. Do you want to tell her to me to tell it? Isn't that weird? That's so weird, man. That is weird. It's so weird. No one's even suggested this in the hat. I just came across it.

I never heard of it before last night. Oh my God. Or, you know, a week before that, but still, I thought last night would sound more impressive. Obviously, I didn't just, there was a process that I had to go through to select the topic. And that took something like a week, but, you know, basically last night. Okay, Jimmy Carter, let me tell. There's a bit of a run-up to it as well. You probably didn't have this bit.

No. He doesn't have the most typical presidential background. He joined the U.S. Navy's Submarine Service. Come on. What have you written? Pause for Jess. For you, my big friend, I think submarines are silly. I don't hate them.

I just think they're a bit silly. Why do you have to go underwater? Well, he did. But he gave up his military service to save the family peanut farm. I'm really glad you said farm. I've got to protect the peanut. That peanut's been in my family for generations. The peanut man then became governor of Georgia in 1971.

But people were surprised when a few years later he announced his bid to become US president, as no one really knew who he was outside of Georgia. You're still talking about Jimmy Carter, not the peanut. It's not a man that appears in your nightmares, the peanut man. Terrifying man. Carter won the Democratic nomination, narrowly defeated the incumbent Republican Party President Gerald Ford in the 1976 presidential election, and he did things a little differently, being nicknamed Jimmy Cardigan. A nickname he received after he wore an unbuttoned beige cardigan

instead of a suit jacket just two weeks after being sworn in as president. This is a loose unit. What a God. Bage, too, the most cardigany of the cartagin. I would never live it down. I would be out of there. Isn't it amazing how American politics has changed? Like Trump could literally say,

fuck your mom to a journalist. and they'd be like, okay. But back then, someone's running a cardigan, and they're like, scandals. Yeah, that's right. And it became his nickname, and I got distracted early on with this report and did a bit of a deep dive and found what is now my fifth favorite Wikipedia page, which is a list of nicknames of presidents of the United States. Just to recap, the list is now, number one, list of inventors killed by their inventions.

Number two. Sexually active popes. Number three, churches in Antarctica. number four, list of talk down aircraft landings, and number five, list of nicknames of Presidents of the United States. Let's see what everyone thinks of these nicknames. There's a few on the list that we'd all know,

like Honest Abe, J.FK, LBJ, Linden B, Johnson. But I... Lyndon Blowjob. So we've got the bad boys on this side. Nerds over there. Matt says what we're all thinking. And then the man mountain in the middle. Oh my gosh.

Okay. I did not know that the second U.S. President John Adams' nickname was his rotundity. For his girthy, bodily figure, it says. That's awesome. That's over Charles Barclays. Another great one. The round mound of rebound. Yes, sir.

Thomas Jefferson was known as Long Tom. Oh, my. And he was a short man. No, he was six for a little. three. It was a tall guy. It's pretty tall. James Monroe was the last cocked hat. What? The last cocked hat. Because he was the last US president to wear a tricorn hat according to the old-fashioned style of the 18th century. Who cares? I do that. I'm really interesting. You care? I care. This is great. He was the last president to wear a specific

kind of hat. Shut up. What's a tricorn hat? That's a hat with three bits of corn on it? Yeah. I'll say while they went out of fashion. Andrew Jackson's nickname was Jackass. On account of his crazy stunts and so forth. Down out now. Yeah. He kept dacking everyone.

Revealing everyone's long tombs. So, and there was his critics disparaging him as Jackass. However, Jackson embraced the animal, making it the unofficial symbol of the Democratic Party, and you'll still see the donkey as a symbol. Oh. An ass. So he reclaimed the ass. The audience officially edutained.

Yeah. We did it. That's our first. He was an asshole. He was like a piece of shit as well, I think. A little jackass. He's a president. Of course he was.

I think even for them. Oh, wow. Even by their standards. Yeah, yeah. Even by their lowest standards. William Henry Harrison was old granny. His opponents called him this for he was the oldest person at the time. president. He was

68. Joe Biden is 81. And this guy died 31 days after becoming president. That's how old he were. Old granny. And the man who replaced him was John Tyler, and his nickname was his accidentcy.

Did he keep pissing himself? Just over and over again. We've all been there. Constantly soiled. Franklin Pierce Handsome Frank Oh I like that That's better than Mr. Piss your pants

Yeah imagine being replaced You're called his accidentcy because you piss yourself And the next guy is just the hot one That's really annoying Handsome Frank is fantastic That's going to be my new name in the group chat You're handsome Frank? No it's not

You'll be his accidentcy I'll figure the rules Can't give him to yourself Can't give him to yourself All right, Dave's handsome Frank. Even if you try, I'll delete it. She will. Okay, Daddy.

It's her current name in there. They want to talk to me? They've got to write, hey, daddy. Possibly my favourite one, and this is a nickname that we're probably all going to be fighting for. Chester A. Arthur's nickname was the dude president. You can have it. I'm okay with that. And he was called that because he had an extravagant.

wardrobe that reportedly included 80 pairs of trousers, which he often changed throughout the day. It sounds like he just kept shitting himself. He changed pants multiple times a day. How does that relate to dudes? The dude president. Oh, sorry, now understand. Any further questions, stupid? I don't know.

I don't know why they called him the dude. He's really embarrassed himself. That's why they call him Mr. accidents. Benjamin Harrison was the human iceberg. Because he kept sinking ships. Because he always pulled out his tip. It was just the tip.

That's about it. That's about, yeah. Something about the tip. Yeah, we got the rude boys over here. Okay. That was a real build your own joke sort of scenario. You gave us the pieces. We had just IKEA at.

He's a human iceberg because apparently in his speech, as he was warm and engaging, but then one-on-one, he could be cold and detached. Half stage, I am a human iceberg. Are icebergs famously detached? Just checking. Confirmed. Confirmed. Famously.

I want to point out most of the tone was yes, but one over here was yes. And I loved it. It had, because it the, you idiot. It was implied. I think this is a good example of our listeners in general. That's the one I would screenshot and say, fuck you. Everyone else is like,

how great are they, man? Fuck you. And then Jess and I would have a second group chat. Just the two of us would say, I actually think they had a point. But we're scared to talk to those. But in the chat, we'd be going, yeah, what an idiot. You were the smart one.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait, you guys don't have a chat about that. me, do you? No? Yeah, well, that makes sense. Would not dare. We've got a couple more, and I can't go past Matt's favourite president. Taft. Oh, I love Taft. Taffed in the bath.

Did one of those sleep shows about this guy getting stuck in the bath. Also, last president of the US to have facial hair. What a go. Beautiful Big Mo. This guy, if the name wasn't already taken, he could have been the rotunda or whatever. Well, take your pick.

There's a few options for Taft. There's Big Bill, big chief. Not bad. Yeah, big, bad. Big love. Okay. Or Sleeping Beauty, a nickname his wife, Helen Taft called him because he was always falling asleep.

I love this guy. What a God. I love him so much. Ironically, he was very ugly when he slept. So Helen was being a bit of a bitch. He is my favourite present, but I don't know. Is his first name Bill? His first name is William.

Okay. Your favourite president. Until you said that, I'd forget all about him, but yeah. Definitely ring some bells. Taft. Taft in the bat. Fun to say. We got two more.

I couldn't go past Woodrow Wilson. Oh, when the wind blows. Nickname Coiner of Weasel Woods. Couldn't believe it. Given to him by former president, Theodore Roosevelt, in his speech. And then everyone was like, yeah, he's the coiner of Weasel words. That's accurate. I don't.

Yeah, okay, yeah. You can't have a nickname that goes that long. Yeah. You just call him the weasel. Yeah. That's fine. Yeah. Corner of weasel words.

Fuck off. Yeah. Fuck off. Honestly, that makes me hate Roosevelt. Shut up. You better get ready to get absolutely rinsed in the group chat. Roosevelt. And then Jess and I are in a separate chat saying,

actually, we thought you had a point. Yeah. He is a corner of a point. And finally, Calvin Coolidge, aka cautious cowl, silent cow or cool cow. Oh, cool cow makes sense because he's actually, he was part of the reason why air conditioning was invented. That's true? He got shot. He was assassinated and they were trying to keep him alive in the heat.

So they, yeah, engineers from the army came in and they brought refrigeration and ice and big fans to blow through his. hospital room, kind of inventing air conditioning. Oh my God, did you know that? May so? I did not know that, no. The punchline on this is going to be incredible, though. This is great. He's wound it up.

He's wound up the pitch. And this is going to be, oh, I cannot wait. And then he's going to turn around. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, this is a serious show. Dave and I started this show and then invited our second and third, third and fourth. Fuck of it. Had a bit of humor

But Dave and I are here Just to let people know about the things we've learnt If you want to make that funny, great That's a bonus, but I'll work on an old At the end We'll come on something We'll have something

We'll be able towards something Yeah, yeah Okay great everyone look forward to the big The big finish, okay But back to Jimmy Carter again Okay Jimmy Carter Now before he became president He promised to do something

None of his predecessors would And it's all because of an incident That happened in 1969 Nice. He saw a UFO. We'll put the X-Files theme in post then. One evening in 1969, two years before he became governor of Georgia. Jess wasn't nice.

I'll explain later, man. Carter was preparing to give a speech at a Lions Club. Just don't read ahead. Sorry. When at about 7.15, one of the guests drew attention to a strange, bright, object about as bright as the moon, which makes me think, is it the moon? There was about 30 degrees above the horizon to the west of where they were standing. According to Fox, he described a ball of light that changed size, brightness and color over a

period of 10 to 12 minutes. He didn't hear anything coming from it. No whirl of a helicopter or buzz of an engine. It could not be explained. Could be a silent disco. Damn, that's right. Was everyone wearing headphones that were lighting up? Yeah, yeah.

Was it really kind of obnoxious and they were walking down the street. And they were sort of looking at everyone like, ugh. Yeah. Yeah, like the first time you saw it, you went, that's a bit of fun. And then the 20th time you're like, shut the fuck, I. Go inside, you're losers. We get it. You know the lyrics to pinks get the party started.

We get God. And they're all, they're all seeing sneaky sound systems. I saw a UFO. What could I mean? You said, you quoted Fox. Yeah. Like, I might have missed the setup, but is that Molder? Yeah.

So this does go, this is a real one. This is the real one. So he saw this UFO. He didn't file the report until 1973, four years later, when an agency, if you do it for every year, I will give you a dollar. When an agency called the International UFO Bureau sent him a form to fill. feel out. Yeah, sometimes there's little barriers to making a report like that,

and sometimes it's just not having the right form. Yeah, because I feel like that. For the IU fob. The IU fob. It's the agency there. And he filled it out. Yeah, that's nice. Do you think they're still around?

You think I can get a little Carter? Yeah, yeah. Great. The siding had a long-lasting impact on Carter. During his 1976 election campaign, he is said to have told reporters that, as a result of it, he would institute a policy of openness if he were elected, saying, one thing's for sure, I'll never make fun of people who say

they've seen unidentified objects in the sky. And the National Enquirer quoted him as saying, if I become president, I'll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public. I am convinced that UFOs exist because I have seen one. But then, when he got into the Oval Office, he suddenly changed his tune. Oh, yeah.

Okay. Despite this earlier pledge, once elected, Carter distanced himself from the disclosure, citing defence implications as being behind his decision. He was in the pocket of Big Little Green Man. That's excellent. Someone had clearly gotten to him. In 2007, he was interviewed on the podcast, The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, and when asked if he pursued the government's knowledge of UFOs during his time

in the office. Mr. Carter said, I can't respond to that. Whoa. Even then, what was the year? 2007.

Nice. You just earned yourself a dollar. But that's not my favorite supernatural incident involving President Jimmy Carter. My favorite that Matt knows is known as the Jimmy Carter Rabbit Incident. It's a bit of fun. This happened during his presidency. when on April 20th, 1979, President Carter was fishing in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, alone in a flat-bottomed boat while staff are on land nearby.

Flat-bottomed boats, they make that fish and well go around, you know what I mean? Thank you. I'll be going now. I like flat-bottomed boats and I cannot lie. Sort of the same. It's mostly the same, yeah. Slightly less good. Jess, you got one?

No. No. Carter later recalled the incident. I was fishing one afternoon and a rabbit was being chased by hounds. He jumped in the water and swam toward my boat. When he almost got there, I splashed some water with a paddle. To deter the rabbit. Fuck off, fuck off.

Get out of here. Get your own boat. Yeah, come on, I'm president. Get your own flat bottom boat. I'm your president. I'm fishing. You're scaring away, my fish. Can rabbits swim?

Well, when Carter returned to his office, his staff did not believe his story, saying rabbits could not swim and that one would never approach a person threateningly in a boat. They basically told the president you are full of shit. They can swim, though. I saw a video recently, their ears go in to swim mode.

You see that? That's cute as shit. Yeah. Love that. Well, his aides did not believe him. According to Carter, his press secretary, jokingly, this is Jody Powell, jokingly shared the rabbit story

with members of the press one night. at a bar and it became a news story. The Washington Post ran the headline, President attacked by rabbit on the front page. That's a big news week, isn't it? A lot going on. He was mocked in the media about being attacked by a killer rabbit and he was ridiculed in cartoons and novelty songs

were written about the incident. Oh my gosh. And the story persisted for more than a week. It would not go away, trying to get on top of the incident and prove that it actually happened, because everyone was like, that did not happen, Mr. President. The White House released a photo that a White House photographer

had happened to take of the rabbit swimming towards the president. But this absolutely backfired, and it made the event even more funny. And people made more fun of him. And if you see it, he's just sort of like, oh, go away. As a rabbit's sort of like coming towards him. A rabbit. Yeah. So good. Ha, ha.

A cute little bloody cover. No. And the press speculating. how was a guy who let a rabbit get the drop on him supposed to guard the US from attack by the Soviet Union? I mean, he doesn't physically do that himself, you know? How are he going to fight off those commies with a paddle if you can't fight off a rabbit?

Which, of course, like the rabbit just kept swimming. It wasn't coming at all. No. No. So, like, it's very weird that he basically lost the presidency because they took it off him. They said, you can't be president. No. I can't believe his aides didn't believe him either.

Aides, you'd think, wouldn't get a worse rap. Now they don't even believe in their own president. Yeah, they're supposed to be just be a roomful of yes people. Come on. They didn't even believe it. WNYC writes that of all the crises that President Carter faced in 1979, the incident crystallized an emerging sense that Carter was a man in over his head. He lost the next election 18 months later when Ronald Reagan beat him in a landslide.

Can he blame the killer rabbit? I think a little bit. I think Reagan bit a rabbit's head off on stage, just to prove he was the bigger man, and he was, he was. It was actually gnarly. It was like so cool. That's right. We skip through Ronald Reagan,

mostly because I'm scared of him because he sounds like an absolute terrifying man. To George H. W. Bush, who had been Reagan's vice president. This is George Bush Sr. My favorite thing I learned about him is he hated broccoli and spoke out against... Oh, you boo.

Big broccoli fans internet. He spoke out against the vegetable on many occasions. One saying at a press conference, I do not like broccoli and I haven't liked it since I was a little kid. And my mother made me eat it. Now I'm president of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. I did not have sexual relations with that broccoli or any green vegetable.

Yeah, do you think he's hiding something? I think he's hiding something. This is all just him. pushing away the broccoli story because they know there's photos. What'd you do those broclies, Mr. Bush? I don't know. I'm only asking the question. Do you know, Mason, what do you do with those brooklies?

Hey, your son says more than words ever could. He put him in his butt. I reckon that's what I was. I was thinking he put him in his butt. I'm like that. I can't say that on my guess. George H.W. He started the new year of 1992 with the 12th. a trade-focused trip to Asia and the Pacific,

and on the 8th of January, he played a doubles tennis match with U.S. ambassador to Japan, Michael Amacost, against the Emperor of Japan, Akahito, and his son, Crown Prince, Narahito, the Emperor and the Crown Prince won. Of course they did. That evening, Bush and his wife, Barbara,

attended a state event for 135 diplomats held at the Japanese Prime Minister's residence. As the guest of honour, President Bush sat next to the Japanese Prime Minister, Kichi Miyazzo. The president was scheduled to give some remarks during the dinner, but between the second and third courses, he began to feel slightly unwell. He suddenly slumped his left and projectile vomited into the Japanese prime minister's lap

before fully passing out while seated at the table. He sort of goes like this. And then he's out. First lady Barbara Bush held a knack. cap can do her husband's mouth until the Secret Service took over, picking him up and lying him down on the floor. And of course, there was a bit of panic that the president might have been poisoned, or worse, made to eat broccoli.

He could have been allergic to tennis. Yeah, it might have been. Yeah. Could have been the tennis. Allergic to losing. Yeah. But Bush regained consciousness on the floor and quipped to his personal doctor, Burton Lee, who had rushed over saying, roll me under the table until the dinner's over.

I don't realize he's a funny guy. That's pretty good. That's pretty good recovery. Yeah, that's good. And you'll be pleased to know there's a video on YouTube of the entire incident called. I'm serious. It's called George H.W. Bush vomits, comma, highest quality, comma, restored. Although upscaled that with AI.

So, you know, that's going to be good. We'll be able to sit a little bits of carrots. You can zoom. You can see what it heard. It has almost one million views. and one of the top comments is, and I'd definitely like this comment, thanks for the upgrade, exclamation mark. I posted my old VHS dub 15 years ago,

and for years it was the only public copy. Great to see important history preserved. So you can, it's forever. Full HD. It's in the history museum next to the Declaration, it's independent, just an old tube TV playing the video on loop. Over again. I wanted to be he did a tricorn spew

The last president to do so That's why his nickname is tricorn spew president You're all going Oh, that's why we've all been calling him that We never knew why Again in the event It's known as the George Bush Vomiting Incident It was a reporter on the media like a lot

parodied on Saturday Night Live and all the US talk shows. But quickly, Bush recovered and doctors later attributed the incident to a case of acute gastro. Oh. He was sick, yeah? Yeah. That guy has a fun energy. And it was a big deal in Japan where the president had vomited all over their prime minister. According to the encyclopedia of political communication.

It was a bit crook. Yeah. It was crook what he. done there. It's not good. Luckily, it was actually a high son he can bestow on someone in that scenario. Well, his other option was go the other way and vomit on his wife

but then he'd never bloody hear the end of that, would he? Doesn't have to go to bed with the Japanese. At least the Prime Minister would be like, you know, polite about it to your face. Like, oh, sorry, mate, you're obviously not well, you know, but your wife would be like, you fucking dog. You know, so I think he made the right call. Never vomit on your wife.

wife. Just, as a feminist of the show, I've got to say, all wives aren't the same. Some wives would be like, thank you so much. Yeah, that's true. Okay, new rule, not never vomit on your wife. Check in with your wife's preferences around vomit and proceed accordingly. Thank you for correcting me on that. It's important.

That's why we have him. In Japan, so as a biggest in Japan, the Japanese phrase, Bushu-suru was coined, which means to do the bush thing or quote-unquote bushing it. So if you just have a bit of a vom on someone, you've just done the bush thing. You've done a bush. Both President Bush lost his bid for re-election later that year. And the following year, Japanese Prime Minister Miyazawa resigned in 1993 after losing a vote of no confidence. Was it because of the vomit?

Yeah. Maybe. I don't want a prime minister that's been vomited on. Yeah. Oh, no, thank you. Yeah, I mean, you'd clean him off, but then you'd have to put like that plastic protective for the rest of his career. Yeah, you can't get the smell out sometimes.

Like a couch, like an old couch. Yeah, like carpet in a primary school corridor. For example. Yeah, I'd prefer the nightclub style of just putting down sawdust on top of it. Yeah, yeah. Just spread sawdust on top of the president. And keep dancing. Yeah.

That'll soak it right up. It's not time to go home. Sharon. Now, this is an example of one of those Simpsons jokes that I get 30 years later. When depicted on the Simpsons, George Bush, remember he had the big fight with Homer, two bad neighbors. He says to Homer whilst choking him, now I'll ruin you like a Japanese banquet. That's good stuff.

That's good stuff. That is good. I thought they meant because of just his... general horrible nature, you know, failure of diplomacy, but it was the vomit thing. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, it's actually less funny. Now, Dave, explain that barking up the wrong bush bit. What, what does that mean?

Somethings are inexplainable. Where's the all Matt now? Say, I said something stupid. And normally you'd be like, oh, Matt. The listeners at home, Matt gave the root to the audience. George H.W lost the 1992 presidential election to Bill Clinton. It was inaugurated in January 1993. Obviously, we can skip over him because we had nothing.

I'm going to talk about the most controversial thing that happened to him. Oh, my gosh. I'm talking about in May of 1993 when he was in the media for all the wrong reasons, Bill Clinton's Hairgate. Yeah, I'm going there. I am going there. Can you believe it? I can't.

A lot of these live shows are quite like a pan-year. pantomime. It's fun. Well, Bill Clinton's hair's behind you. The media reported that... Again, this is another huge media story. The media reported that Bill Clinton was aboard Air Force One on May 13 at LA International Airport when a Belgian-American hairstylist called Christoph, boarded the plane.

It's so good. To give him a haircut and not a cheap cut either. The hour reports that Christoph haircuts cost US $200 back in 1993. So this wasn't the guy down the barber college, but Christoph, you know, Christoph, we've all heard of him. As the president received this haircut, two runways at one of the world's busiest airports were shut down for an hour on account of the president's plane standing on the tarmac. Incoming flights were delayed, people were hours late, and when the media got wind of this, the public were furious. It was front page news for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe. The Washington Post said it was the most famous haircut since Samson's.

That's pretty good. That's pretty good. And it was referred to as the most expensive haircut in history. Wow. Imagine being late for a meeting and being like, sorry I'm late. The president was getting a haircut. It was the most expensive haircut in history. Did they put 24-carat gold dandrum?

Yeah, yeah. That's how they do it. Just rub it through. No benefit. No benefit of all. No, no, no, no. But it looks fucking so cool when he scratches his head and like all this gold shit comes off. Communications Director George Stephanopoulos came under fire at multiple news press conferences.

And they just kept asking about the hair, about the hair. It's another Simpsons one. Any questions? Keeping in mind, I've already explained the hair. George Bush. Maybe. Anyway. Anyway.

The only problem was that this whole story. was bullshit. He did get a haircut from Christoph whilst on Air Force One of the airport, but the delays were all made up. And it's been debunked on Snopes.com, which says virtually none of the often repeated, still often repeated, details of Hairgate were true.

By the end of the following month, news sources such as Newsday had already obtained and reported on Federal Aviation Administration records documenting that haircut, the haircut, they could just call it haircut. It's the haircut. It caused no significant. delays or regularly scheduled passenger flights.

No circling planes, no traffic jams on the runways. And when this came out, the media went silent and most of them did not address an update. So that's why a lot of people still think it happened. That doesn't sound like the media. But the damage was done and Hairgate solidified an opinion in some quarters of Clinton's out-of-touch excesses. He was forced to leave the Oval Office just eight short years later. Because of Hairgate?

Some might say that, but mostly because he had... served two full terms in the 22nd Amendment states that no person shall be elected at the office of president more than twice. But still, but still, I'm sure. I reckon if he didn't have that haircut, they would have bent the rules just a little bit. He could have got 12, you know?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The incident was good for one person. Christoph greatly increased his fame as a stylist. You can still go visit him in the Hollywood Hills, I believe. Just for a chat or what? Go ahead of him? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's a very friendly man.

I do, Christoph is such a good name. Yeah. Christoph. I don't know, I know nothing about him, but I trust him to cut my hair. And I trust nearly no one to do that. I take very good care of my hair. I honestly haven't let anyone cut it, apart from myself for years. Nothing but the best for you.

The story of Hairgate actually did introduce me to my sixth favorite Wikimedia page, which is list of gait scandals and controversies. Since Watergate, nearly anything vaguely scandalous has been labelled the something gate. And hair gates on there, you better believe. The list also includes Donut Gate. In July 2015, singer Ariana Grande was observed on video in California, licking un-purchased donuts and stating, I hate Americans. I hate America.

That's disgusting. I totally missed that story. Do you remember that? No. There you go. Did you look into that at all? Is that true? Yeah, I think of this video footage of it.

She's licking donuts and muttering I hate America. Yeah. Okay. I mean, we've all done it, but check that there's cameras. Yeah, rookie error. Rookie error. Do we all remember Fridgegate? After refusing to be interviewed a number of times in the 2019 election campaign,

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson hid in a fridge to avoid being interviewed by Good Morning Britain. I miss that one as well. No, I remember a fridge. Gate. He's still in there. I've seen him in ages, actually. There's Trusses in the fridge as well. It was just enough of him. And there's also Gate, Gate, a UK political row when Andrew Mitchell, who's an MP allegedly called a policeman a Pleb, after he was asked to use another gate to leave Downing Street on his bicycle. And then the pages is from the Wiki page, it writes, this gate

scandal is noteworthy for actually involving a gate. Oh, hell yeah. That's why Wiki's so good. I love that. I would have called it Plebgate. I think they just desperately wanted to have a gate go. Pleb gate's fun. But imagine that.

Sorry, sir, if you could just use a different gate. Oh, you're pleb. It's a bit of an overreaction. The theatre stepped down to over Gate Gate. The page also says that another scandal named Gate Gate, there's two gate gates, take your pick here, involved Scottish footballer Ross McCormack claiming that he was unable to attend Aston Villa training

due to his electric gate at his home not functioning. It is believed that his manager, Steve Bruce, travelled to his house to measure his fence. The fence was only four foot six inches high and Bruce was furious that he didn't jump the fence to come to training. And he was like penalised by the club and basically never played for Ashtonville.

That's not a very high gate. No. I can't get out. I can't. Bruce, I'm stuck. I can see over it. It's only up to my belly button. I can't get out.

I have to stay home and play Xbox. I really want to be a training. What is he a sin? Is there any controversy about there being two gate gates? They've taken a ladder out of the pool. Oh, we're going to do two pods at one. Sorry, there was some cross talk then. I should have the thought a while ago I should stop talking.

I think that pretty much confirmed it. Well, we've got time for one final incident involving Bill Clinton's successor, George W. Bush. Yeah. Again, I have no idea what that wonderful man could have done. Exactly. Two terms, he just sailed through perfectly, never made a gaff. Real well-spoken.

Yeah. Exactly. On the 14th of December 2008, with little over a month left to his presidency, I mean, he's like, how could it go wrong from here? George W. Bush headed to Iraq. The scene of his much-belined war, and he held a press conference at the Prime Minister. is Palace and Baghdad, alongside Iraqi Prime Minister,

Nuri al-Malik, I've written this out, Nuri al-Maliki. At the press conference, Iraqi journalist, Muntada al-Zaidi, stood up and shouted in Arabic, this is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog, and then proceeded to hurl these shoes one after another at President George W. Foote. All right.

But, I mean, you can only wear two shoes at a time, so he had a bag of his shoes as well. What am I going to walk home bear for? That's stupid. Yeah. He threw all but one pair of like flip-flops. But he's going through security with like a bag full of crocs. Crocs with little knives in, though. Bush ducked twice to avoid being hit by the shoes,

and Prime Minister of Iraq al-Maliki attempted to catch one of the shoes to protect him. El Zaidie later told New York Mag, Bush was talking, saying he would have dinner with Maliki after the press conference. And I said to myself, I have a good dinner for you, you'll eat my shoe. Which you've got to admit is a good line even if he's had several years to think about it. And no one else heard it.

Unfortunately, Al-Zadi was severely punished, being beaten up and violently dragged from the room and eventually he received a three-year prison sentence for the incident. He was later released after nine months. But he was hailed a hero by many and in Tikrit, which is 80 miles north of Baghdad, a giant sculpture of a shoe was unveiled.

failed as a tribute. Not the man, the shoe. That's good. No, just the shoe. It's a really, you can see photos of it. It's just a really, really big shoe. Really big. It was soon removed by authorities, though.

Oh, no fun. Are all the big things in Australia? Do they represent things that have been thrown at Prime Minister? Like the big prawn and the big... Big potato? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The golden gum boot. It was full of piss.

Oh, not the piss, boot. In the months and years afterwards, dozens of copycat incidents occurred around the world with angry citizens inspired by Al-Azadi, firing shoes at political figures. And this has actually introduced me to my seventh favorite Wikipedia page, incidents of objects being thrown at politicians. And there's quite a few shoes, some eggs, a few custard pies being thrown, you'd probably expect to see all those kind of things. Sweden are mad for throwing cake. Yeah, there's no less than five examples on the list of Swedish politicians having cake thrown at them. Okay.

It feels like a waste of cake. It is an absolute waste of cake. It does. You could throw a cake at me really gently. Kind of like handing it to me. I would accept that. And you complete the throw by throwing it into your mouth. Yeah, yeah.

Piece by piece with a fork. Oh, stop it. Oh, no, red velvet, my favourite. And then as a tribute, it would unveil a giant cake. We got her. We got her. Some are quite violent in Italy in 2009.

A souvenir cathedral was thrown at Prime Minister Silvio Belisconi causing damage to his nose and teeth. A cathedral. A little cathedral. I think it was a little duomo, a little like a model of it. Someone just pegged it in his face. What's coming at me from the disarranted.

sister in chapel. Oh my God. It's so beautiful, but oh God. Oh, I've got Jesus in my teeth now. That's got to be the quote of the pod, brother. You've got Jesus in my teeth. What are we doing? We're almost there.

This is our job. I got Jesus in my teeth. Thanks for coming. What? But my absolute favorite country for throwing things that their politicians and world leaders, surprisingly, is New Zealand. Any New Zealanders in?

Oh my gosh, you're mad for it. Queen Elizabeth II was egged in 1986. I don't worry, she was riding in an open car with Prince Philip. Oh my gosh. Then February 6, 1990, Queen Elizabeth II again. Came under fire and was almost hit by a wet t-shirt during Waitangi Day ceremonies. Oh my gosh.

But my... She doesn't spearment rhino at the time. Yeah. It's her own fault. They were inviting her to participate in the wet-teisha competition. Yeah, put it on. Come on. Have a little fun.

Enjoy yourself. It's the 90s. But my favorite incident occurred the day before Waitangi Day in 2006. Watangi Day is New Zealand's national holiday. It commemorates the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between the British Crown and the representatives of the Maori on the 6th February 1840. Because the Treaty of Waitangi was for many years ignored by European colonists, Waitangi Day celebrations have frequently been a scene of political protest. Let me tell you about my favourite right now. The 12th of February 2016 New Zealand had just signed the 12-nation

trans-specific partnership. The trade agreement, which had been widely criticized by Maori people, is undermining the self-determination guaranteed to them by the Treaty of Waitangi. Minister for Economic Development, Stephen Joyce, was sent as the government's representative to Waitangi after Prime Minister, John Key, decided after the backlash, it probably wasn't a good idea for him to go. So his minion, Stephen Joyce, was sent out. Joyce, Joyce is going to cop it. I can't wait.

Do you reckon? Yeah, I reckon he's going to coppers. And he was speaking to news reporters when he was hit in the face by a dildo. Yeah, that rules. The object had been thrown by a Christchurch nurse called Josie Butler. After being hit in the face with the dildo, Joyce responded, good-o. Incredible response.

Which was the brand of the dildo, I think good-o? Was that a good-o? Yeah, it was a good-o. Just a little wave there as people got it. Josie Butler was arrested but released without charge. She later explained that she was concerned about the TPP's effect on the cost of medication for her patients. significance of the dildo was not explained.

It's what she had on her. Some people have shoes, some have a little tiny cathedral. She's gone through her purse. She's like, what can I throw? What can I throw? Can't throw the phone, can't throw the little poor, poor ointment. Can't throw my wallet. Yeah.

I'll throw the dildo. I can get another one of those. And then a months later they erected a dildo statue. Yes. In her honour. The media began referring to Stephen George. Joyce as Dildo Bagan's. Sometimes people restore your faith in humanity.

That's one of the times when I'm like, I'm proud to be a human. We actually kind of rule. And then most of the time I'm like, we are the worst. But Dildo Bagan's really saves it. Joyce did seem to have a pretty good sense of humor about the incident. At the time, comedian and. hosts of last week tonight. John Oliver was frequently making fun of New Zealand politicians.

And soon after the incident, Joyce tweeted, all right, someone send the giff over to John Oliver so we can get it over with. And Oliver saw that and responded with an extravagant segment on his show, featuring a redesigned New Zealand flag, brandished by Sir Peter Jackson, which had the face of Joyce and the dildo on it. And then a reign of dildos performed in a giant dildo costumes and a choir singing about the incident to the tune of Hallelujah.

And he responded on Twitter, well, that was actually pretty funny. But in conclusion, my favorite part about it all is that on the wiki page discussing the event, it's listed as if it was like a real serious attack. It says attack type, flung object, weapons, rubber toy dildo, deaths, zero. Injured, zero. And at the top of the article is a freeze frame of the moment, and it's captioned Stephen Joy. at the moment of Dildo Impact.

That's what it looks like. See, that's his face. I put this out on our Instagram. That's right in the strike zone. That's a good arm on that one. Absolutely nailed him. And the WikiPage writes, the page writes,

the incident is known as the Dildo Incident, but was also referred to as Dildo Gate, meaning it's an incident, an object thrown at a politician and the gate, the big three, making it my single all-time favorite Wikipedia page. We did it.

We did it. That's it. That's it. Dave, everybody. That's so funny. A bit of fun. I'm glad you had a picture because I did need the, I needed the image. I was like, I need to know what colour it is.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I imagine purple for some reason. Me too! Right? What the fuck? It should be. Wow. It's got a purple tinge.

No, it, no, don't give us false hope day. Don't do that. It's pink. God, how much did I talk? That's pink, mate. Yeah, okay. You're right. You're just talking about the tip being a slightly different color.

I thought there was something for everyone there, but okay. No. This is a Mandela effect. Yeah, that's cool. Well done, Dave. Or from a universe where it was purple. Yeah. A bit of universe.

That's good stuff. Welcome back, that's Stuart. That's good stuff. We've got to get out of here because there's another show in here after this. And it's us. Thank you so much. I believe we do have to clear the room to reset for the next show. So I'm afraid even if you are coming to the next one,

if you go upstairs, grab a drink, hang out, and then we'll open the doors about 15 minutes before the next one. But thank you so much for coming and being on the show, Nick Mason. Thank you. Give it up for Nick Mason. Of course. I'm sure that nearly everyone who listens to our show, listens to your show,

but just in case the weekly planet is coming out a couple of times a week at the night. Oh, too many times, honestly. Too many times for my liking, honestly. But yeah, if you like movies of TV shows and comic movies and video games and all that sort of stuff, We do a podcast about that. Check it out. One more time for Mesa.

Great. Well, any final words, team? Your mum's butt. I couldn't think of a better way to finish it. Thank you so much for coming out. We'll see you next time. Thank you. Hey, we're back in the studio.

We've said goodbye and farewell to Mesa. We go on a big hug. We said, you bloody nailed that, sir. How fun was he? A little pat on the bum. Oh, he's so funny. He's so funny. So funny.

It took me way too long. Oh my God, that is so appropriate on this episode when I was talking over Mesa all day. But it just talked over you then. But yeah, it took me way too long to figure out to shut the fuck up and let Mesa be fun. You were quite sick at that point. Oh, yeah, right. So just the fact that you showed up, were able to sit upright and power through was impressive to us. Yeah, my head was muddled.

Yes. I remember that. You were not well. But, you know, not contagious, certainly not putting anyone at risk. That's right. It was an inside of the brain. problem. And like a cold.

You've watched your brain there now. We didn't get it. No. A couple of weeks have gone past and we are good. Hey, so this brings us to everyone's favourite section of the show. Yes. Where we get to thank some of our great supporters. And if you want to be one of these supporters, go to patreon.com slash do go on pod.

Some of you might have skipped through the episode so you won't know what we're talking about. Mesao was a great guest. We did a live show in Melbourne and it was a whole lot of fun. Dave talked about presidents of America being silly. Doing funny little things. Just having whoopsies. It was a fun and the crowd were great and we met some great people after the show as well, which is very, very nice.

Thank you to everyone that came along. We really appreciate it. So the first thing we do here, if you have signed up on Patreon.com slash to go on pod, if you're on the Sydney-Shawnberg level, we get to be involved in the fact-quot or question section, which has a little jingle go something like this. Fact quote or question. He always remembers the ding- she always remembers the thing. What a beautiful harmony that was.

That sounds so good when we stopped at the same time. I really think it would be fun to do this live one time. I'm shy. I'd like to sing in front of people. Sorry, no, I won't be doing that. We'll have this bit pre-recorded. Yeah. By which I mean the whole section. We'll sit there in a live audience and be like, that was pretty good, isn't it?

Can you believe their name is weird? Weird name. Speaking of very good, normal names, first up, we have Paul Meller. Was Paul at this one? No, Paul was at the first week's one. Yes, that's right. So he gets to give us a fact, quote, or a question, or a braggar suggestion, or really whatever you like. You also get to give us a title, or give yourself a title, I should say. And Paul's title is Head of St. Kilda Football Club supporters group, Oldham Brant.

Oh, an important branch. It's a growing branch. Yes. Up 100% over the last few years. It's fascinating. Love your work up there, Paul. And I was, yeah, I was loving to see you again while you were down in Melbourne celebrating your birthday. Also getting to see the Saints Loser game, but also do go on Winner Podcast.

That's right. One of our hottest live apps. It was we really turned it on for you, Paul. And under the... You're welcome, Paul. You're welcome, Paul. That's for you. This might be the first one we've got here under this category because you can do

a fact, quote, question, break suggestion, anything you want. Yeah. Paul's gone with, thank you. Oh, I don't think we have had enough thanks. Exactly. Not enough. You know when everyone... First of many, I hope, Paul.

Everyone cheered and clapped at the end of this episode. Not long enough. Not enough. Paul Wright, Hi guys. I just wanted to thank you for making my big 50th holiday a trip of a lifetime. I'm two days back now and into work. And the last three weeks are a real blur.

I can honestly say you guys change my life for the better. Wow. That's very cool. My goodness. It is a crazy journey. It started by listening to a random podcast, weekly planner, and hearing Matt on there that led to me listening to Do go on.

Becoming a Saints member was my pandemic hobby. That and your life specials kept me sane. Appearing on the St. Kilda episode was an absolute honour. People who listened to the fourth hour, maybe the fifth hour of that episode, would have heard Paul telling us about his journey with the Saints while he was walking his dog. Wow.

Rambling. He was rambling. It was rambling through Oldham. What a lovely moment. To think this has led up to me to taking my family. to see you live in Melbourne is another level. You guys were my daughter's first ever live comedy show too, swiftly followed by Drya Dreyer.

Wow. Thanks for sparing the time to talk for the shows. I talk after the shows. Obviously, we talk during the shows. Yeah, it's a big part of the show. During the show, we usually set aside 55 to 60 minutes for talking. Yeah. And they're same for the Dry Dryers.

They're certainly an element of mine. It really is. Back to St. Kilda. On our trip, we ended up going to visit RSEA Part Park in Marabin, which is the old home ground in Marabin, to see the actual 1966 trophy and caught the Saints training. We managed to get to see them play live at Marvel Stadium, which was one of the things I really wanted to experience. I guess I had the ultimate Saints experience as the team lost the game, but played really well. They also won the games either side of the

one we watched. This was so typical of me not to see a win. The positives are my family really enjoyed watching the game. I think I may have some company at home when I watch from now on on TV. Oh, the older branch is growing. Yes. I also now have to come back to see them do a win. That's right. Do a win. That's great English. Next time you might have to come for seven or eight weeks. Yeah. Make sure. Make sure you, I assume do a win. We had a blast in Victoria, though. It was a beautiful place from city to coast to mountains, wildlife, coffee, pies, beer and vineyards. We have it all. I think we started too.

Victoria's got a bit of everything. That sounded sarcastic, but I mean, I was born here, but I still live here for a reason. I do like it here. You're free to leave it anytime. I could go, and I've been asked to. You've been offered jobs in other cities? And I say, no, no, no, no, no. None of the above would have happened if I hadn't chosen to listen to do go on.

So thank you for all the excellent podcasts and community. It has grown. All the best, Paul. Well, thank you very much, Paul. What a lovely message. It's not even us, but you're just saying it wouldn't have happened if you hadn't taken a chance on a podcast. So that's on you and your fantastic decisions that you've made to lead you down this silly little path. We applaud you.

So nice, Paul. It was great to chat to you and to have you there. And I'm so glad you had a great trip. Yeah, that's so nice. I really appreciate you writing in and filling us in on all that. Although I was, yeah, I was around for much of it. Not the vineyards, though. Bit too much of it.

Where was the invite to the vineyards? Yeah, that's what. He needed a freaking break from you, mate. Hey, Paul, where are we going today, Paul? What's on the plan for us, the family? He's just hiding a vineyard. I love you, Paul. My dad's name's Paul, and obviously, it gets confusing, yeah, yeah.

It does. I forget which one of them is. My daddy. My dad, Paul. Both love a vineyard. The other one, we just got two this week. The other one comes from Patrick J. early, breakfast is not late, and Patrick's toy.

is collector of names. And under fact, quote, a question, et cetera, they've written submission. Okay. Question mark. Okay. Was it going to be like an essay? I don't want to read it. It looks longish.

I'll have to put it through eternity. Hello, mates. And a special hello to AJ, whose help I might need with this one. In my job, I'm exposed to a lot of names. Doge on has given me a strong appreciation of a great name. from the multitudes we've heard in reports, as well as every single Patreon member having an amazing name, brackets, fact.

Agreed. Over the last few months, I've been assembling a list of truly great names that I've come across at work, just to look out every now and then to tune me up if I'm having a rock day. That is amazing. Just looking through fun names. I'd like to share some of those names with you three because I'm certain you'll love them too.

But because I don't know these people and I don't have. have their permission to share their names in a public forum. I'd like to either ask AJ to edit out the names as they read or for you guys to just read them silently and appreciate them out loud. Maybe this is totally impractical and won't work in the edit. In that event, here's a dumb joke to include instead. What do you do if you see a fireman? Put it out, man.

All right, here are the names. I reckon AJ maybe you bleep, bleep part of the names. Leave the funniest bit in and bleep part of it so that it could be anyone. Yeah. I think it's even funny if we please the whole name. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Okay. Hill. Jopper. Doppers. Bruce. M. Jealous. L*** jonkers.

It's just a ss. Junkers. There's going to be a series of beef. Halifof Renfrey. Giac de Champo de la Belleu. Oh, that's nice. Glit ringing. And f*** zass.

I think they're all fantastic. Beautiful names. Lovely. Well, I especially loved the third baby. Ngu jealous is got a great rhythm. What was that? The jonkers. Bonkers. That's fantastic.

Yeah, hopefully these names have brought you some joy. I'm going to print them off into a little list and just look at them whenever I'm feeling a bit down. We'll frame them and put them on our wall in the office. And he also said, and for the listeners, hopefully our Golden Trio's reactions have brought you some joy. Stay safe out there, folks. I don't listen back anymore, AJ, if you just didn't edit them at all. Yeah, I won't know. I won't know, but Patrick will probably get onto us.

Just one more. I'm just going to go back one more time. The Champéille de la boule is pretty good. Yeah, it's very nice. And the pronunciation was fantastic. Perfect. Thank you so much to Patrick and Paul. The next thing we'd like to do is shout out to a few of our other great supporters.

Jess, you know, we come up with a game based on the topic at hand? Yes. So this, and obviously we're recording this at a different time. So I've forgotten everything. This was about presidential. Yeah, that was the one that was attacked by the rabbit. There was Bill Clinton had a haircut. Expensive haircut.

Yes, that's right. Someone like Christoph. George Bush copped a shoe. Oh yeah, something you'd throw at a president. Because it was a list of things thrown at politicians. So it could be. Yeah, okay. Object you'd throw out a politician.

Object they threw at a politician. All right, how about this? Just for efficiency, we did this recently, Dave, while you're away. I just read them all out and I did all the names. Matt was actually incredible. No word of a lie. He just sort of closed his eyes.

He just blanked out the rest of the world and he was coming up with some great stuff. But maybe Jess, you and I can go one for one and Dave can, would you be up for coming up with nine objects? Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah. But just like, well, you know, you have your own process.

But for Matt, it was really about clearing out that busy mind of you. Shutting everything else down. All that stuff was gone. Gone. I had to shut all of that out. Somebody was shooting at him. You closed the freeway.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm up for that. So these are just things, Dave. Yeah. So you kick us off, Maddie. You could throw out a president. Okay.

Yeah. From, and do you want to come up with the president as well? Or just the thing? Just a thing. Just a thing. Just so complicated slightly. I'll read out the presidents in reverse. first order from current and then you say the thing that you're going to throw on.

So Jess, you do the name. Okay. I'll say the president, Dave, you tell us the thing. Okay. So from Tempe, I think Arizona, I assume in Arizona. It is, oh. Tempe? Tempe.

No, I think it's Tempe. You're right. I could be wrong. Is there a Tempe in Australia? Maybe. And that what I'm thinking of? Anyway. This process is more efficient, I can tell.

Yeah, definitely. I'm clear in the mind. Please thank. Sue Sudio. Su Suu Studio. And Dave, what are you throwing? What does Sue Sudio throwing at Joe Biden? I'm not sure this is the right album,

but they're throwing their signed vinyl of no jacket required. Wow. From Phil Collins. Not sure of that. Frisbeying it. Yeah. That could really hurt. And also, you're like,

can I have that back? Yeah. That's signed. Escorted out by the Secret Service and taken away to prison. But you're like, can I also have my fabulous Phil record? Would the value go up or down after hitting a president? Oh, you definitely go. You can get it back and it's the one that hit the president.

Yeah. And they didn't get hurt. But it was just an interesting thing that we all saw on the press conference. He carries around a record-shaped gash for the rest of his life, Scott. All right, who's the next, Popper? Next, I would like to thank from Bald Hills in Queensland, Will Runting. Oh, my God, that's a great name. Donald Trump.

Donald Trump just copped a bag of onions. Oh, that's good. Full bag. That would again would do some damage. From Eden Prairie in MN, Minnesota. No, we always forget. Eden Prairie, Tatum Langley. Barack Obama.

Barack Obama just cost a copped a boxing glove. Oh, that's good. Minnesota. Punching you from afar. I don't know, I think so. Yeah, boxing glove, piffed. Piffed. God, we don't say piffed enough.

Bring back pift. Yeah, Piffed is great. And that Tatum Langley is throwing that boxing glove. Yes. Incredible stuff. From Dulwich Hill in New South Wales, please. Uh, thank. Andge

Oh, it's one of our favourites here George W. Bush George W. Bush just copped a snorkel mask and snorkel Give me where the snorkel once. Can't get snorke again. And it's still wet. It's still wet.

It just used it. From Bellevue in New England. I'm also guessing any. Nebraska. Nebraska, New England. Jessica. From Nebraska. New England makes sense.

It's confused. Because that's across a few different states. It's an area rather than a... I know, I was like, that's not a state. Anyway, from Bellevue. I thought it was a state until like a year ago. Nebraska. Mary Langham.

Mary Langham is hitting Bill Clinton with a fresh haircut and a cup of sugar. Oh. Oh, neighbour. Very neighbourly. Have a cup of sugar on me. From Peterborough in Great Britain, Abigail Robinson. George H.W. Oh, George H.W. is copping a...

Snowboard. Miniature. Wow. Minature snowboard. So there's only one president between father and son. Yeah. Yeah. Really?

That's funny. That's impressive. From Winnham in Queensland, Laura Jones. Talking Ronald Reagan. Ronald. Ronald. Ronald. He's going to trickle down onto his head.

Okay. What about a cheeseburger? But the cheese is. overflowing either side of the burger. Very cheesy. And it's landed on his head. He hasn't noticed. And it's starting to triggle down.

Oh, melted cheese. On to the crown. Oh. That's gross. From London. He's the Burger King now. We're not doing the puns yet. Oh.

From London in Great Britain, it's Luke Strollo. We're up to Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter. Well, Skippy Duke and Doodoo. He was also the rabbit one, wasn't he? Yeah, he was the Jimmy Carter Rabbit incident. But he was actually copying. Not a rabbit, but a small tortoise.

Oh, God. Okay, so the tortoise is okay. Yeah, yeah. Jesus, that seemed like that was nearly terrible. Who throws a tortoise? A small tortoise. Who throws a shoe? Who throws a tortoise a shoe?

Yeah, I value them the same. And from Orlando, Florida, Joey Gordon. Through something at Gerald Ford? Gerald Ford. He copped an unopened box of Monopoly. Oh, that would be pretty heavy. Yeah, if it's still wrapped, that'd be holding, you know, yeah, they won't fling apart. It's got all the cards, the board, the pittle pieces.

If you get cups at the corner of it. Yeah, ow. Ouch. Hello, Homer. Do you like beer and notches? So that's everyone. Thank you. Joey, Luke, Laura, Abigail, Mary, Anne, Tatum, Will and Sue.

Studio. Which I believe is not their real name. I don't believe it is, but it's pretty fun. Yeah, looking at their email address. It's not their name. There's a lot of, it's nowhere near their name. Yeah, they've got a pretty boring name. I mean, never going to believe it.

What? It is from no jacket required, right, record one. Fantastic. I, you're right. I want to not believe that. I was never going to believe that. I will never believe that. And thank you so much for all of those great supporters.

The last thing we need to do is welcome in five new members to the Triptitch Club. Dave will explain this. Sincly? Sincly. Yeah? Basically, this is... Sucinctily. This is our Theatre of the Mind, our shoutout Hall of Fame to people that have already

supported the show on the shoutout level above for three consecutive years. And basically, we want to thank them again and then trying them in this Hall of Fame. We welcome them in. They can grab a drink from the bar. They can go see a number of live music acts. There's pool. There's a pool. There's a spa.

There's a swan of this. Whatever you want it to be. There's air hockey, but don't touch it. It's mine. Yeah, that's Jess's. Okay? Yeah. She shotguned.

No, I've de-iced it again today because I keep freaking forgetting. He keeps putting ice on it. Well, I thought it was a mini ice hockey table. But it's air hockey and he doesn't understand the difference between ice and air. And honestly, I'm sick of explaining it. Well, I don't understand. I know you don't. We breathe ice, right?

Just move on. I'm breathing. I'm so mad at him. And basically, once you're in, you can never leave a while would you want to. And no one's asked yet. And we welcome in a few new people every week. That's basically what we're going to do now. Jess, you always prepare food, drinks.

Yeah. Well, because this one was like US presidents. So I thought, let's lean in. And I've made a bit of like a chakouterie grazing board out of things that are red, white and blue. Oh, that's nice. That's really classy. So I've got like blue lolly frogs. I've got little peppers that are stuffed with blue cheese.

Oh, I'd actually love that. So that's got a bit of white and blue in it. Yeah, yeah. I've got yogurt. I just smeared some yogurt on it. For dipping? No. For sloping.

I've got tomatoes, apples, ice cream. Gran apples? No, red apples. Oh, okay, that makes sense. Oh, okay. I've got blue cracker here just in little shot glasses. Oh, you got the star of Big Bang Theory.

Yes. That's awesome. So, yeah, it's pretty fun. It's pretty good this week. I actually feel pretty good about it. That's fantastic. And Dave, did you say you booked a band? I have booked a band and you're never going to believe.

Just check the emails. Yeah. I've just got an email back for a manager from a band that broke up in 2015. They are reforming just for this. And you'll never believe who's here. You're only confirming this day of. Yeah. Dave, that is very unprofessional.

Is the presidents of the United States? It is. It's the presidents of the United States of America, the band. Oh. Sorry, not the president's band. I was asking a different question. Obviously, Abraham Lincoln. Yeah.

Thomas Jefferson. They all get together. I thought they broke up before 2015. No, but this is the President of United States of America. I've just gotten back saying, yeah, we'll do it. See you tonight. Great. Awesome.

Little Blue Doom buggy. Yeah, they'll be playing all their hits. Kitty? Lump. Peeches. I think Lump made number one here. Am I remembering that right? Lump.

That's big. Number one here. Maybe it didn't. It felt like it was, to me, it was like a huge hit. Peaked at 11 in Australia. Oh, double one. That's what you're thinking. Twice is good.

So we've got five inductees. days, I'm standing on the door, I've got the guest list. If you hear your name red out at home, jog on in, I've lifted the velvet rope, make yourself at home, grab yourself a red, white and blue, and get ready to enjoy the work of the presidents of the United States of America. The way this works is I'll read out your name. Dave's up on stage. He's going to hype you up with some weak word play. Jess will hype him up. And then, yeah, once that's all happened, the after party, presidents hit the stage, and we party all night long. All right, here we go. First up from Amersfort in, I think the Netherlands, it's Nicol Rulik, Rolink.

Dave, can you say all of that again for me, please? From Amersfort in, I don't want a bit of a virus there, from the Netherlands, it's Nicole Rolink. Oh, no, I'm doing that too? I thought you're going to do my job now. Oh, okay. Roll on in, Nicole, make yourselves at home. You're our missing link to make this party a start. That's fucking great, man.

That's really good stuff. But now I'm confused of who's doing what. Yeah, sorry, but let's keep it going from Pittsburgh in, what, Massachusetts, MA? It's, look that up for me, just. Yep. It's Joe Martin. Hey, Joe, Martin in and have a good time. That's good.

Massachusetts. Great, great. You're the fact checker, I'm the hype person as well now, apparently. Okay, great. From Corpourou in Queensland. Look that up, just. Is that correct? It's Alexandra Munster.

Alexandra the great. Hey, you know Munster. You're my star. You are a star, though, of this show. Welcome in. Oh, my God. This guy's on fire. Yeah.

You're not stirring the pot. You're making the pot feel nice. The problem is he just keeps going. But what's stirring the pot? What's that one? Yeah, they get that one. Monster. Oh, okay, great, great.

Oh, Jesus. You're not monster in the pot. Yeah, no, yep. It's good stuff. God, even Jess's thinking about that's bad. From Sidonum in Victoria, it's a Ben Spitler. Ben Spittler. I just did a spitler take, because I just did a spitler take.

Because I'm so surprised and thrilled. Stop there, because that's good. That's enough. Stop you. Because Ben's here. Yes. Done. Hey, Ben here's here.

No, no, no. From Godstone. It's probably Surrey in Great Britain. It's Zander Bryce. Godstone, God sent. Zander Bryce. Yeah, that's enough. You make me feel nice.

That's enough, mate. Thank you so much. Thank you again to Zanda, Ben, Alexandra. Zanda, have a gander. Jess, that's enough. and Nicol from the Netherlands, of course, thank you so much. Thank you so much.

Now, that brings in the episode. Obviously, the presidents are about to hit the stage, so we need to wrap this up so we can enjoy that. Play Lump! We will. We're probably closer. That's our biggest song. Fuck all.

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