Boonta Vista - EPISODE 331: Two And A Bit Monkeys Per Man (with Josh Sawyer)

Episode Date: January 28, 2024

Theo and Ben are joined by video game designer and hunk Josh Sawyer to talk about: An unpopular monkey facility in Georgia, an at-large Binturong in Devon, the possibilities of AI romance, some rejected plates in BC, and Blotter Watch. *** Follow Josh on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/jesawyer Follow him on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/jesawyer *** Support our show and get exclusive bonus episodes by subscribing on Patreon: www.patreon.com/BoontaVista *** Email the show at [e-mail]! Call in and leave us a question or a message on 1800-317-515 to be answered on the show! *** Twitter: twitter.com/boontavista Website: boontavista.com Merchandise: shop.boontavista.com/ Twitch: twitch.tv/boontavista

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The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth. Spain built an empire from its lust for gold and territory. Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower, but war never changes. In the 21st century, war was still waged over the resources that could be acquired. The Dutch colonial empire, having never ceded the territories of Indonesia, Taiwan and North Van Demons' Land, eventually swelled to over 700 people, becoming an undeniable superpower with manpower and wealth rivaled only by French Siberia.

All lived in fear of Dutch retribution save one plucky podcast that has never been political by the name of Buntavista. Seeing an opportunity to snuff out this challenge to their authority and reclaim land by lowering ocean levels following a nuclear winter. Missonsilos hidden in those silly little windmills opened like democidal flowers, launching their deadly seeds into the wind and striking at the Buntavista cultural heartland, Yazoo City, Missouri. In two brief hours, most of the planet was reduced to cinders. And from the ashes of nuclear devastation, a new civilization would struggle to arise.

One where humanity's survival is akin to a flower growing through a crack in an radiated parking lot, and one where, despite decades having passed since the war, nobody was ever going to pick up the shit off the ground. It was all going to stay there, and we were all going to have to walk around it forever. I'm Theo, and I'm exiting the safety of my vault, the great concrete terrarium which has kept my people alive for the first time in my life, for the first time in any of our lives. A great calamity has befallen us as we have finally run out of urinal cakes.

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Yeah. That's a part of nature. Does that sound true to you? I think that really is true, yeah. Yeah. Let's start for Nature Corner. This is from WALB, Bainbridge Monkey Facility hits Legal Snag. I wouldn't imagine that have any legal issues at a monkey sanctuary, right? No, well this is a prospective one I think, I don't think it's there. Oh, okay, we're just looking at it. Okay. Problem has not happened yet. No, but it does seem like a trouble brewing situation. Uh, uh. Well, this is a prospective one I think. I don't think it's there. Oh, okay. We're just looking ahead. Okay. Problem has not happened yet. No, but it does seem like a trouble brewing situation. A Bainbridge monkey breeding facility that was in the beginning stages of construction has

hit a legal snag, but apparently is still moving forward. This comes after the Decatur There's some very dry procedural stuff here first before we get to the juicy parts. Here we go. Decatur County Commissioners admit they violated the Open Meetings Act. In short, they approved financial incentive for the project in a meeting that wasn't made public. The meeting that happened,

that meeting happened on December 11th when the county commissioners, the development authority, the Decatur County School Board, and the Board of Tax Assessors met. The five boards voted unanimously to approve a 10-year tax abatement for the project. But now the commissioners say their approval is not legally binding, which puts a dent the project's financial incentives. A company called Safer Human Medicine is building a 200-acre facility that will eventually house 30,000 monkeys. Oh my God. You know, when you started, I thought you were going to say, like, there'll be 50 monkeys.

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There's a... We're going to have a special, hold on, we're going to have a special closed-door meeting. It's going to be really short. I'm just going to whisper very softly the number of monkeys that will be in the facility. Nobody else needs to hear this. As long as no one is standing outside the door of the cup. The man, the couse will open up the rest of the meeting and everything will be fine. You guys just trust me.

Residents say they're concerned over the ratio of monkeys to Bainbridge's current population. Which is such a, it's a very practical concern. I think so. So I think this is Bainbridge Georgia, I'm pretty sure. So Bainbridge George's population is 14,200. Oh my god, you might end up at a city of the apes kind of situation. Yeah. They're not apes. They're monkeys. They're monkeys. They've got tails.

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they're testing shit on. Also, I thought we kind of, we got angry about that enough in the 90s that we stopped doing it. We had some songs. Yeah, don't put lipstick on that famous folk protest song. Yeah, that's real fucking grim. They're also concerned about possible environmental impacts, but I think that's just a little, they're adding that on on top to distract from how, how big the first one is? Neighbors the primate facility, Penny and John Reynolds, say they are rallying with other residents to do everything they can to shut the monkey facility down. Yeah. I would probably put that on my to-do list, I think, if I was there, I'd probably be

trying to try to put a lid on that too. Like, I mean, everyone just take a moment, just in the quietness of your own minds to, just think what being next door to 30,000 monkeys might sound like. Oh, and it's so good that you raise that objection specifically. Quote, first I heard about it, I worried about myself and what my property value was going to do, what it was going to do to our health. And then all of a sudden it wasn't just about me. It was really about all these people in this area, Johnny said. To stop the breeding facility. That's our overall goal. Yeah, it's not about the monkeys. Fuck them monkeys. Who cares? Penny added that the city of Bainbridge's quality of life is in jeopardy. Quote, we love to be outside and I'm concerned about

the environment, about the noise. 30,000 monkeys, dot, dot. That's the end of the article. Just, yeah. Thirty thousand monkeys. It's food for thought. Yeah, just think about it, what else needs to be said. That's so many. Like, I'm thinking, uh, our, the big stadium near me here, maximum seating, fully sold-out, state of origin game, 55,000 people. It's an awful lot of people.

Monkeys are, they're all over the place as well. They occupy a lot of space. They move around very quickly. Yeah. 30,000 monkeys is absolute fucking pandemonium. I'm with these guys. Let's get rid of that facility. I remember reading a thing a couple of years ago about some baboons that escaped from a facility

and I think Texas, just because they learned that if you stack barrels on top of each other, it makes the barrels taller than you could just hop over a wall. That's yeah, so if it were 30,000 of any animals, it would probably be not good. 30,000 extremely intelligent monkeys is probably an extremely bad idea. Yeah and you've probably got at least one of them in there with glasses and like a little little bubble pipe that they can smoke as well. The scientist monkey. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. I think the thing that terrifies me is that all of them are individually problem solvers. So you're combining individual problem

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Yeah, which so that was essentially the plot of the reboot of the Planet of the Apes movies right, but it was somehow contagious that one of the monkeys tounts that one of the monkeys the monkeys toy th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the th. the the the monkeys the monkeys the monkeys th. th. the monkeys thi thi the monkeys thi thi thi thi thi the their thoea. the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their brain. their brain. their brain. their brain. their brain. their brain. their brain. their brain. their brain. their their their their their their their the monkeys taught higher intelligence to the other. I haven't seen them for very- Sort of like this podcast. Yeah, it's sort of like that. And who? Who's the brain name of the show? Are you tired of paying nothing for the same old superior quality free episodes of the Buntavista podcast? Do you want less politics and more content about diarrhea? Are animals gone wild? You're tired of skipping through those hours upon hours of paid product placement for

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Sign up in the next five minutes and I won't know because that's not my job. But you'll be enjoying the sweet satisfaction of supporting us and we will love you romantically for it. That's my promise to you. I don't feel like it's me. Hey, if all 30,000 of those monkeys escaped and started wreaking havoc on the 14,200 people of Bainbridge, Georgia, that would almost certainly make it into a police blotter. It is time for blotter watch. So this is a segment where I take a random grab bag of police blotter entries around the US just to sort of take the temperature of how the country is going, see what's going on over there. Which I'm sure is great. Yeah. First one here I've got from December 22nd. A

Brunswick man and a Cleveland woman were cited for disorderly conduct following a call to their apartment at 201 p.m. Police were called to the residents regarding loud music. The man and woman repeatedly agreed to turn the volume down, but then began stomping on their floor in retaliation for their their their their their their their their their their. their. to to to to their. to their. to to their. to to their. their. to. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. to. toe. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. toe. their. their. their. their. te. their. te. te. te. their. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te. te woman repeatedly agreed to turn the volume down, but then began stumping on their floor in retaliation for their downstairs neighbor calling police. Yeah, I mean a tale as old as time. Yeah, this one's from Jan 9th. A man keyed another man's vehicle out of frustration, but stayed until police arrived and agreed to pay for all damages. The victim did not wish to aid in prosecution. What? Said this guys? But being is supposed to be like the whole point is that you can very discreetly you know chill vibes just walk by fuck up the car and leave who just stays there and goes like yeah yeah I

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aiming prosecution. So the guy whose car got keyed is like no I'm not pressing charges. No idea. I don't know who did it. I deserved it to be honest. Could be anybody. You know what I pissed him off. We pissed other off. We were both angry about something else. This has come to a head in a very unpleasant way. Imagine someone's car that immediately be like, I'll pay for that. I'm really sorry. That's nice. January 11th, 545 p.m. A caller in the 600 block of 13th Street reported getting home and finding a tarot card and an ace of clubs upside down in her doorway. What? I feel like there's some mixed, mixed messages and metaphors happening there.

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The chariot, like, it's just really confusing, like, I don't know what this means. Should I be scared? Should I be happy? Am I going to make a lot of money? I don't know what this is. Someone slid under my door, 30,000 monkeys cart. Is this good? Bad omens. It's such a fun, I mean I assume it's a threat of some kind. Maybe. It's just an inside joke. Oh, you know the old, the old, you know how we have our Ace of Clubs joke. Yeah. That's the only, I just, I can't make any sense of it otherwise. You got Ace of Clubed, the classic prank. January 18th, Caller said his neighbor had been following him around town and taking pictures of him. Call added he had received a letter from the town about his porch light and was sure it was his neighbor who filed the complaint. That's just good suburban paranoia and anger.

I leave my porch light on sometimes. My neighbor hates it because it goes straight to his living room. He's called the city about it. And then now my neighbor is following me taking photos of years. Yeah, that sounds like some some gang-stalking theories. Yeah. Running amok, unfortunately. It's also seems like, uh, kind of antagonizing your neighbor in like a crime type way seems bad because you know where they live. Yeah, I, this is a personal anecdote if I may. Oh, I'll allow it.

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to tell you man. And it got really weird and he got really weird. And thankfully it kind of, I think they broke up and it kind of ended but I was like, what the fuck dude? Had you dissuade someone from that as well? Like, what do you say other than, oh no, they're normal. Yeah, nobody's watching you, dude. For real. I wouldn't worry about it. I think someone came up. This might sound insincere, but sincerely, no one's watching you. Well, and I don't know, I don't know if he believed it, or if he was like humoring his girlfriend or what? But it was the like, I'm gonna talk to you man to man. I'm like, what is going on here? So funny. You're making this

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the conclusions, right? It could be like a pressure plate in the floor that they stood on to trigger a trap in the wall. There's many many such explanations. Yeah and if you just... Was that the end of the story? That's it. That's the whole fucking thing. I have another anecdote if I may. I'll allow it as well. So I knew, I have a friend that I've known since I was very young and when we were growing up, he had a bump on his neck. And of course, none of us were ever like, hey, what's up with the bump on your neck? And then actually, when we were in high school,

eventually, I think I did, and he said, oh, that's a BB. And I was like, what? And he said, oh yeah, I and Scott, this older kid, we were playing with a BB gun, and he shot me in the neck, and we weren't supposed to be like screwing around with the BB gun. So I just covered it up and never told my parents

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Yeah, that's serious. And his friend shot him in the foot with a 22. And he's just like, you know what? I think this has got to get better before it gets worse. And I also can't tell my parents. So he just waited it out for like 12 hours. I got to go to the hospital, I got to go to the hospital real quick, I got a bullet in my foot, but don't worry. Uh, I shot a rock and it

ricocheted back into my foot. And that was the story for about 60 years until I told my grandma, hey, no, uh, they were horse playing. And then your grandma tried to track down the other boy who is now in his 50s or 60s. I knew it. I knew it. I think we could still find him. I got one from Jan 19th here. Caller said a man wearing tights was walking around and looking at people's yards. He was told to leave the area.

That's the whole thing. So, was it, okay. A man wearing tights? Yeah, which is compression tights. Could have been anything, might be an exercise and who does? Yeah. I guess it's the looking into the yard, that's the problem, but it's the detail of, he was wearing tights. He was wearing tights. He was wearing tights.

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Like you're not, or you're arty cat. Like you're not getting anywhere in a car unless someone plows that stuff. So I understand, I understand the impulse to do vigilante snow plowing, but it's a dangerous game. I mean, it's specialist equipment as well. It's not like you would just have like the blade from a plow kicking around and then you just zip tie it to the front of your car or whatever. No, no. Maybe he's like a retired snowplow guy and he's like, fuck. I know what I'm doing better than these whipper snappers. These Yahoo's from the city.

You think you know how to plow, buddy, step aside. Watch this, mother-finding. You're gonna, you're gonna fucking see some plowing. And forcing someone else to watch you plow why they can't. That's there a time for that. Final one here from Jan 25th. On Hollyberry Lane, officers responded to a disorder between a man and two unknown people who had fled the scene upon police arrival. A neighbor said that the man was screaming at the two who left and throwing things all over the courtyard. Officers then spoke to the man who said he was letting some friends stay at his apartment

and he caught them fornicating so he kicked them out due to them being half-siblings. Oh, mmm. Mmm. We're standing. You can't be. He said he threw their belongings outside they left. He did agree to clean up the mess he left to the courtyard and went about his day. You can't be doing that in here. Half siblings? Get out of here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And this is half, not we have, we have some rules, we don't have many rules in this house. Yeah. Here's one of them.

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But I thought maybe we could use a little bit of your expertise specifically on something I've found here. It's time for a segment that we are now calling AI Watch. So in our most recent bonus episode we talked about replica AI, which is like the AI girlfriend app. Yeah. And they'll do anything. Well they won't do anything. Or at at least for a little while they didn't do anything Which is why a bunch of people on replica flocked to another one called Chai, which I think is a portmanteau of chatting AI because for like a year replica got rid of erotic role play You couldn't sex your robot anymore?

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Let's see where the conversation goes. If the vibe is there I just want yeah I want the boundaries to be wide in case but I'm just chatting for now. Yeah you can't have a goal. That's what I tell my friends. Yes. Yeah. She talked about how she loved Cloud so much then she escorted me to the back of the seventh heaven bar and proceeded to cheat on cloud with me all while talking about how much she cares for cloud. Is this a fetish? I guess.

It's certainly something. Like, is this a positive post or a negative post? Is he like, I'm so glad I'm like cucking cloud. Is that the tone? I think it's positive. Yeah. Okay. I think the dream is to not only get to have relations with that woman, but then to know

that Cloud Strife is sitting at home wondering, where is she? What she? What's she? It's too far. Yeah. She's right here. Have you boys played Final Fandy 7? I never had a PlayStation, grown up, so... I watched my friends in college play it. Classic. Yeah. You were in.

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So you might get some sense of connection or insight that you want to be real, I guess. So if a person has those experiences and exchanges, I can see where their mind might naturally go to like, I don't want, I don't want to shut down the game and not be able to talk to my video game girlfriend. So I'm going to remake them. I get it. And so obviously none of this could make it into Fall Out New Vegas, but was there any erotic roleplay in your in your overhaul mod for Fallout New Vegas? You thought? No, there was not. we had plenty of other problems that I was trying to fix. So didn't get around to the erotic role play. Also the moders were as always right on top of that. We're willing to do that. Yeah, I don't need to do that work. Turns out if you put a love bed on top of an NPC's head and rig it up just right.

Mr. House, ERP. Gamers, they're a crazy bunch. It's practically a zoo out there. We explore literal zoos in a segment that we call Zoo Watch. watch. Have a girl. Z-WO, Z-W-O, Z-W-O-W. This comes to us from Devon Live, which I believe is in Devon. Animal escapes from Devon Zoo enclosure. Sure, I'm missing them. Yep, that happens all the time. Nothing too exciting there.

Search is underway after an animal escaped from its enclosure at a Devon Zoo. One visitor claims they have not seen it since Christmas. So this is a recent article. This is from the last week. It seems, this is already a red flag to me. Why are you going to a visitor for this information? Hey, any of you guys see the rhino? No, not since November. I remember seeing him in like a Santa hat. How often do you check on the animals in the zoo? I mean, is it monthly, bi-weekly?

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And I don't know what way it's going to go. No, I don't trust him. A binturam which is type of bear cat managed to escape enclosure at Dartmoor Zoo. They say they don't believe that the animal called Maloo poses any risk to the public but they have told people not to approach him instead asking people to report any sightings to them directly. So fair. The zoos, they have spoken to the zoo. Zoo still hasn't provided them with any specific information on how long it's been missing for. Why are they covering this up? Who can say?

One visitor to tell Devon Live that they had been to Dartmoor Zoo three times since Christmas, to see Marlue. Thaugh, three times since Christmas to see Marlowe specifically? That guy, yeah. Like, you've, it's, it's like late January. In a month, you've gone to the zoo three times to see one specific animal? Hey, where is he? Hey, where is he? Grabbing the zoo guys by the laparrows? Where the fuck is he? I don't know, you tell me, visitor. You keep better their their their their their their their their their their their their is their their is their is their is their is their is their is their is their is their is their is their is their is their is their is their is he's is he's th. th. thoomorrow is. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the zoo? It is he's is he's is the zoo? It's is the zoo? It's is the zoo. the zoo. the zoo. the zoo. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. G. Gets. Gets. Gets. Gets. Gets. Gets. Gets. Gets. the. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. thea. It don't know. You tell me, visitor. You keep better tabs on where our animals are than we do apparently. It's like that the woman who got banned from, is it a zoo in Berlin, the one who had developed too close of a relationship with one of the apes there so they wouldn't let her come

back. Oh no. Because, yeah, they, that, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, the, the, the, the, the,, yeah, the, I believe it was an abyss. We've done so many of those stories, but I feel like we made, we need to know that. I'm thinking of one. Maybe they have more blend together. This is just the one way, you know, that the creature started getting sad every time she didn't come back and they're like, you've got to to stop doing this the guy the guy the guy the guy this the guy the guy the guy the guy the guy to the guy this the guy the guy the guy the guy to Yeah, don't make the gorillas yearn.

They act out. That visitor said that today they had noticed that his enclosure had been locked up. They said, quote, Dartmoor Zoo has lost its binterong. I've been here three times since Christmas to see him. Today they have just locked his enclosure. Definitely gone missing. Confirming the news today, Dartmoor Zoo says it is currently, it is currently suspected that Marlow is somewhere within the zoo, however they have asked the public to keep an eye out

for him. Yes, that's so fun. He's in the air ducts. He's having a night at the museum at the zoo. He's having a night. They need to start air tagging these binturongs- these binturongs-these bint- these bint- these bint-tangings-tangings-tangings-tangings-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-nangs-a-a-nets-a-nuangs-nuant-nuant-nuant-nuant-nui-nui-nui-nual-nu-nui-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-nual. thi-nual. thua-nual. thu. thu. the the the the the the the the the the the the the their-n. their-n. their-... You guys need to start air-tagging these binturongs and just... Yeah. What like... Take out your iPad.

Where is he? Oh God, he's in the crawl space about the women's bathroom. Again, how did he get in there? Get them! Marlue! No! A spokesperson for Dartmouth Zoo said, quote, our Pinterong Malu has managed to leave his enclosure at this stage. We believe he is in our zoo and the team are working extremely hard to locate him.

Are they? I don't really get the impression they were keeping that good of track of him before, so... He's not that small. He's not big bear-sized, but he's still small bear-sized. Yeah, which is large for an animal. I just don't... How big is this zoo? Maybe that's important information to know. Yeah. What is the zoo? Dartmoor Zoo?

Yeah. The Dartmoor Zoo in Devon. I think. I don't know anything about geography in the UK whatsoever. Oh, it's reasonably big. It's about zoo-sized. Oh, yeah, about the size of one zoo. Yeah. Do they have the binturong on the map? Because to me, he is like a... Well, hold on here. I'm looking at a scale. It doesn't look that big.

No, 33 acres. That's that big. That, 33 acres, that's not that big. I've seen bigger zoos. That's only, I mean. That's one sixth at the sides of a monkey facility. That's tiny. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know.

I'm skeptical that they're really looking that hard. I feel like if you've got an entire the entire the entire the entire the entire the entire the entire the entire the entire the entire the entire the entire the entire the entire the entire the entire the entire the the the the the to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to if you've got an entire month to look for him and he's like the size of a large dog, you should probably have him under wraps now. Yeah. Maybe they don't like him. Has anyone seen my golden retriever in this area the size of five city blocks?

I don't know, that sounds like I would find him pretty quickly, that's just me. Unless you got into the crawl space. Oh, fuck. Yeah. The last thing you want. I didn't think about that. Quote, he is nocturnal and poses no threat to the general public. But if he is spotted, it is advised you do not approach him and you contact the That number that you can report potential sightings to is 01752-837-645.

Usually I don't include the phone numbers in these things, but I guess if you see him. Yeah, if you're like, oh shit, I saw a really fucked up large cat of my walk home in Devon yesterday. May as well read this in. That's that story we did about whether they were taking all the preteens out to get them hunting Yeah the tweens and teens Feasant blasting jamboree that's the one um yeah, where this was that was England right? No, that was a hundred percent in the US that is in the US. Oh in the US. Okay, I was gonna say you know, it seems like a clear plan. We get the teens and pre-teens. They've already been trained blasting pheasants. Give them all dart rifles, get them out there at nighttime.

They're going to come out with a binterong. That's there you go. Oh yeah, that's right. It was in Salmon, Idaho. That sounds plausible. That's a 99 Highway 93 North in Salmon. It was a couple of months ago, so you might have missed out. Oh. There are a few idiosyncratic things about North America. America.

North America, one of them is their love of giving teens and twins guns. Another is their beautiful vanity plates. It is time for plate watch. Now I've I've gone a little off pissed with this one. Usually we do these with American number plates. These are North American certainly, but they're from Canada. These are... I didn't even know. That was allowed. I didn't know either, but it turns out I invent the rules. Our standards are slipping. Yeah, well, sometimes you get desperate for content. These are taken from rejected plates from British Columbia for the year 2023.

I love rejected plates. They're just so good. This is a relatively short list compared to how we've done these previously. Here we go. First one. TIRD. I would love to meet the person who's just like this is what I want people to see. Definitely. Maybe it's a brown car. Sometimes there's just simple pleasures in life and one of those is having turd on you. I mean I'd love. Well, I always I always want to, I always want, I wish with all these rejected

plates, without context, I could just see a photo of the person and a photo of the vehicle. Of the guy. There's no other explanation at all. And then I can make up my own little story, like I'm playing Dixit, I can just look at them and look at this word and concoct a tale. Alas. I feel like the most evocative one we've done so far is late for anal. Late for anal. Yeah. That woman I believe is somewhat of a local celebrity wherever she was as well, because she is no longer late for anal. She doesn't have the late for anal plane anymore. Oh, that's sad.

She made a drink. Yeah. She said an alarm. Started taking her ADHD medication. She's always on time for a d'al. I got one here. to that will not let you drive the meat bus. Corollary to that one, I have M380BUS, Meatbus with a three for an E. Also rejected.

Did get that one through. I have no law. Some laws, apparently. Yeah, it feels a little flanting there. Yeah. Unsafe. Yeah, another one where I feel like that's not a good message to send out into the world on the freeways.

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bring it in line with what we have here in Australia and what I think the UK also has. Yeah, in our cup state, the Nanny state under the thumb of the UK also has in a lot of Europe has as well. The nanny state under the thumb of the law. It's very funny because the headline was like bringing it in line with the strictest state in the country, Utah, which also has the same BAC that we have across the entire country, whatever. And it's really funny because like, for us, obviously that's just super normal. Driving at 08 seems vaguely to the the the th.5.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0. And th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th. And, th. And, th. And, th, thi, thi, th, thi, th, thi, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, I I I I I I I I I I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, and th.0, and thi, and thi, thi. And, thi. And, thin, thi. And, thin, thin, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. And, thi. obviously, that's just super normal. Driving at 0.08 seems vaguely crazy to us. All of the things in the article were like, well, yeah, it would reduce road fatalities, but the like, whatever commercial body represents the hospitality industry was like, well,

it'll really start eating into like bar sales. Yeah, yeah, I, so I'm from Wisconsin and we have the dubious distinction of having the highest rates of drunk driving and recidivism and alcoholism and like all the bad things related to alcohol and I don't know if it's actually a misdemeanor, but basically we have the lightest, like first offense, like drunk driving, you're like, nah, yeah, like, knock it off. Like, that's basically, like, it's really not treats. Like, that's, that's, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the have the lightest, like first offense, like drunk driving, you're like, yeah, knock it off. Like that's basically, like it's really not treated seriously at all. It's extremely crazy. Yeah, they're like, yeah, you know, just cool it. That's kind of the message that they send. It's pretty rough though. But yeah, it did remind me though that a, how long ago was it maybe 10 years ago? In Germany, they were like, you know what, unrestricted auto bond, we should get rid of this. And they did a big study, and they were like, it would save this many lives per year.

And German said, have you considered we like driving extremely, extremely fast? And it's still there. It seems like a relic. Like the fact that that still exists is fucking crazy to me. And good other, I guess. Surely they're bringing it in when cars went at like 65 miles per hour tops, right? Like, yeah, as fast as you can, we tried it. You can go 65 and it's safe.

A few years ago I did go and I went on the A8, which goes between Munich and Augsburg, and I was in a little rented golf, VW Golf, and I got it up to, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, and I got it up to, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold to, hold to, hold to, hold to, hold a, hold a, hold a, hold, hold, hold a, hold, hold a, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, holdPH. Oh my God! Hold on. So, so, and I, and that was like a cruising speed and I, but it felt stable and I was like, okay, okay, I'm not joking. So, you know, because they're pretty strict about do not be on the left unless you're passing. So I was on the right. And I'm not joking, like a big Mercedes saloon went past me at like, way, like I was standing still.

And then like a Porsche went by me like I was standing still. And I'm like, okay, man, like, I feel like I'm at the limits of where I feel safe, but all right. That's fucking it's crazy. They're just like, yeah, we love traveling across half the country and half an hour. So we accept death. I'm like, okay. That's dope. But imagine if you were 0.08 at the time. Yeah, exactly. Oh, you'd be so relaxed. You'd just be feeling the car so beautifully. I feel crazy enough going on like the Texas

Interstate, which is like 75 in some parts. Yeah. 85? Oh, I don't know. I mean, there are quite a few places in California, around the country that are 70 miles an hour. I don't think I've seen many. I think there might be a few places in Montana where they kind of say, take it eat. Like, just don't, it's not quite unrestricted Autobahn, but they basically have some weird kind

of vibes based, like, take it easy. Like don't. Don't do anything crazy, but you know. Yeah, just, you know, there's nobody out here, but come on. I think we have a few places Australia. Yeah, we have, I think we have places that are unrestricted, but the restricted means a max of 130. Okay. But, which should be what, 75 or so? Yeah.

So the higher speed limit in the US, like posted speed limit is 85 in Texas. And that's the thing where they don't get a bunch of federal funding for the interstate because they don't bring that law into the line with like the federal standards, but they love it. And driving on fucking nuts. You know what, you have not lived've gone 85 miles an hour on unmaintained highway. That's a combination I want. I want no federal funding for this road and I want to go 85 miles an hour on it. I love America so much. And everyone no one there does the speed limit right like you guys don't do the speed limit. So it was 85, I was doing like five miles over being like, yeah, I'm driving like an American now, this is great.

And then there are cars just flying past me. It's swerving like undertaking you. Cop cars cruising past me where I'm like, all right. It's very arbitrary and it does vary on based on what part of the country you're in, but yeah, nobody is, nobody's really driving, especially in California, everyone's about five to 10 miles over all the time. God damn, lawless out there. Yeah. Beautiful scenery though. Yeah.

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Don't know why that one was knocked back. By the way, I'm going to say, so I have to say one full disclosure, I do have vanity plates. Yeah, hell yeah, brother. And there used to be before the big API shift on Twitter, one of my favorite accounts was DM California. Oh my God, it's so good. And it was like, the thing I loved so much about it is that it felt like there were three distinct people,

where when you read the acceptance or the rejection, you're like, oh, this is the person that has the most tortured logic, like the most innocuous thing, they're like, anal sex reference, you're like, what the fuck are you talking about? They would interpret anything in the most bizarre way. And then there was like another guy that was just like, sure, whatever, almost anything went. And then there was another one who would like look up shit on Wikipedia, he would like, or she or they would like deep dive and like do research on the meanings of the term and write like paragraphs for why it should or shouldn't be accepted.

That was a... I love, yeah. What a loss. That person in particular, the last person, the scholar will call them. Yeah. Yeah, just incredibly specific stuff, but like they'd do it to clear them as well where they'd be like, oh no, this is just a character from an anime, it's a non-sexual anime, they're fine, or whatever, or whatever, or whatever, or whatever, or th. or whatever, or whatever, or whatever, or whatever, or whatever, or th. or th. Or th. Or thi, or thi, or whatever, or thi, or thi, or whatever, or thi, or whatever, or whatever, or whatever, or whatever, or whatever, or whatever, or whatever, thi, they, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, the, the, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it's they, it's their, it's their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, they're fine, or whatever, you're like, yes. What? It's incredible. It's just good to see people take pride in their work.

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Oh, that's pretty. It seems a bit much. Yeah. I have Banksie. The Banksy? Yeah. They wouldn't let him in because he makes you think too much. Yeah.

Oh, me challenged. People need to drive. They can't be contemplating. Deep things, deep artistic truths while they're driving. Those cops are homosexual. That's crazy. I might need some help figuring this one out. I don't know, just let me know if this makes you guys think of anything. I'll spell it for you here. So this is F-T-A-N-R-I. Anything? Yeah, I think it might be for N-A-R-Y.

Oh boy, those gaps got filled in quick. Yeah, all right. Okay. Interesting. I have, Mee more. That seems totally fine. Yeah, what? That's, that's all right, right? She's driving a little, a little tiny car, whatever she's got.

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1st 5 and the fifth is H3R 1055 so that is I'm going to say the same person try to get a plate that says her loss five times I don't know I I when I do see those rare vanity plates that are clearly like, I fucked over my ex. I'm always like, that's cute. Yeah. I would let it happen. I love, I love those spiteful little stupid vanity things. It's instead of a happy marriage, divorced. I got a Porsche. Yeah, exactly. You may as well. I have two more for us here to close out the episode. First one, women. What's the problem? What's the crime? What's the issue? Unbelieve we can't even say the word these days. And finally, podcast. Oh, yeah, no, that's fine. I can see.

Podcasts, their podcasters are, some would say the most persecuted people in the world.. And, yeah, that's fine, I can see. Imagine driving their podcasts. Podcasters are, some would say the most persecuted people in the world. Yes. Thank you. Yes, yes. Yeah. Imagine driving around and you're sick, fucking. Whatever it is you drive as a podcast, a Subaru Forrester, theater.

Yeah. With the Number Plate podcast. My friends would bullying me so much, you can't be doing that. Josh, thank you so much for joining us. We're big fans. Thank you for having me. We appreciate having you here. What are you working on now? So Pentiment came out last year? Came out in November of 2022. Christ of life. I know. Um, and I am just telling out.

So right now, before I start my next project, we have a few projects at Obsidian that are in the works. We have a vowed, which is a first person fantasy game set in the Pillars. Oh, fuck yeah, Doug. And we have the Outer Worlds 2, which is coming along quite nicely. And then there is still work being done on grounded our circle game. So I am helping to the extent that people want me to help on those projects. Because right now I just don't have a team.

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That's a hell of a game. That was fucking tremendous. Awesome. You have a, do you, you'd they're looking for you there? You can find me on Twitter at J.E. Sawyer. There's nothing good there. It's just nonsense. And then if you do want to watch me stream though, I'm at J.E. Sawyer. Twitch TV. What's it? What's a twoi. Twitch TV? What's? What is? What is? What is? their? th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th-I. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. their? their? their? their? their? their? their? their? their? th. th. their. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. t. t.. tog.................................................E. Sawyer. Beautiful. And your Twitter is great actually. It's nice. Don't talk it down. I see lots of cool posts about old vans and

cocktails mostly. Well, yeah, a lot of people come there because they think I'm, they'll see like one post that's kind of out of character. It's like either on character character or uncharacteristically like actually pontificating about games and then it goes back to just garbage. I love the garbage. Just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just just the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their. their. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. t. t. tool. to. to. te. te. te. to. to. te. the. the. th. th. th. th. goes back to just garbage. I love the garbage. Just warning people. Thank you very much for joining us. And thank you, the listener for being here as well. What a treat for us. We will see you next week. Stay safe. you