Boonta Vista - EPISODE 387: A Pig Was Cubed For This

Episode Date: March 15, 2025

Lucy, Theo, Andrew, and Ben bring you: From politeness to knife violence, a prayer for Boston, a real giraffe, no prize for Connecticut, and the empty car. *** Outro: Cheer Up, Chihiro! - Ovlov *** 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 Twitch: twitch.tv/boontavista

Music Hello and welcome to the 387th annual Bunta Vista Horse Welding Championships. After 47 gruelling rounds, we have finally arrived at the best of the best, the creme de la creme and this year's line up is an absolute stunner. As always, at the end of the competition, all welded horses are donated to a deserving charity. This year's charity is the Fred Hollows Foundation, proudly restoring site to those with correctable vision impairments. They'll get some help from us this year in the form of welded horses.

So congratulations to them and keep up the good work. Here in the commentary booth booth as always with Ben. Ben, this year we've seen a shakeup with the introduction of a new rule. Of course, now following a changeover of horse possession, the rating contestant gets a zero weld, which the rule makers tell us makes for more unpredictable and aggressive play. How do you think that's played out this year? What are you talking about?

Horse? I know. Horse welding. Horse welding competition. This is the best of the best. How did you put these words together? How did this guy get a job as a commentator if he doesn't know what horse welding is?

I'm starting to worry to be perfectly honest. We all know the rules. We all know how the game is played. Is it like, are they, okay. Are there regular welding competitions? I mean, I consider this regular welding. Okay. Yeah.

Because I guess you're in character in the world of the, the. Yeah. But like you to be too. To us, it's normal, but this welding today is exceptional. Yes. Tell us about. This guy should be in the commentary booth. How I will be soon.

I had a conversation the other day with a friend where I found out that they, they give a regular like monthly donation to the Fred Hollows Foundation. Yes. Which I was like, that's awesome. But also part of my brain, a tiny little part was like, oh, a bit choogie. Like I think of them as a very nineties kind of charitable. Yeah, that's kind of a choogie charity. Yeah. I mean, I give to the Fred Hollows Foundation. It might've been you. Was I talking to you the other day? Does that sound right? very nineties kind of charitable. Yeah, that's kind of a Chugy charity. Yeah.

I mean, I give to the Fred Hollis Foundation. It might've been you. Was I talking to you the other day? Does that sound right? Did you see at some point while I was in conversation with you, my eyes kind of widened a little bit and then... No, I don't think so. Did you see Chugy-ness writ upon my visage briefly?

I don't know. Interesting. Anyway, no, it's cool. That's an amazing thing to give to it. That's really genuinely so great. It's just... Yeah. And if you're the particularly incensed type and you're already firing up your email client,

you've got Thunderbird opening and you're typing in, well, actually Fred Hollows was a homophobe. Yeah, we know, but he's dead now. Yeah. So what do you want me to do about it? But he's still someone out there is fixing eyes. Give me a fix in eyes and there. I don't think they're doing it like homophobe.

Not fix the gay eyes. Is that So it has been restored to people who can now read about how Fred Hollows was homophobic. Yeah, that's right. We give them a hook on the way out. Unless it turns out the overwhelming public opinion is that it's more bad than good, in which case I would like to distance myself from Theo. How hardly do I fight a Chewgear?

I fight it morally disgusting. Well thanks, Ben. Thanks for your input. Joining us now before the big game, she's been called the Marcus Carlson of horse welding. It's Lucy. Lucy, I know you like to keep them guessing out there. Can you let us in on just a little bit of what your strategy will be today? So I'm quite hungover and I have a slower than normal verbal processing speed on the best of days due to my condition.

So it's a big game. So the big game is today. Or competition or whatever. Yeah. And I'm a horse welder. Yeah, you're Marcus Carlson of horse welding. I'm going to take this fucking prize home in a walk today. Marcus Carl, Olo Olaf Carlsen is a Swedish

professional footballer who plays as a right back or centre back for Hammerby. Who am I thinking? Magnus Carlsen? Magnus Carlsen? The chess guy? The chess player. The chess guy.

Marcus. Let's just fix that up. The Marcus Carlsen of horse welding. Magnus. You're the Magnus Carlsen. The Magnus or Marcus Carlsen? Imagine how hard Marcus Carlsen would destroy Magnus Carlsen of- Magnus or Marcus Carlsen? Imagine how hard, uh, Marcus Carlsen would destroy Magnus Carlsen in a game of football. Yeah!

That's true. Smash that board over his head, his head's poppin' out. Pieces on the floor. Jesus. All right. Finally, this year's biggest surprise. He's made the jump this season from the dog surgery league. A risky move to be sure, but one that appears to have paid off for it.

You guys are shaking your heads there on the video. Are the horses in half? Are they, is it one horse to be welded back together or is it two horses? These are rookie questions to be asking on the day of the competition. It's my first day. Me? Yeah. Tig? This man, this man has only been here a year and he already knows more I have questions to be asking on the day of the competition. It's my first day. Me? Tigs? Acetylene?

This man has only been here a year and he already knows more than you guys. I was able to move through the competition at such an elevated rate by obtaining a lot of Saudi backing. And they provided me with the money to kill like 30,000 horses this year and practice welding alone. Yeah, and if you're upset about that, we've got a, we have a pest horse problem in Australia. I think there's like 200,000. Yeah, so it's fine to do it. You gotta get your welding hours in. Also, great news, the horses are imaginary.

Yeah, they're imaginary, we just made them up. I'm imagining a horse. I'm splitting it half down the middle and I'm welding it back together with a perfect seam. All right. So I did imagine it as two horses being welded together. Okay, that makes more sense.

Side by side. That's what I was picturing. Oh, you know what would be great? Sure. Three? You put a big horse into the horse splitting machine from the cell. From the cell, yeah. Yep, and then you get those slices and whoever

reconstructs the horse the most seamlessly... Yeah, I think we should be reconstructed. This should be like Mario Party game. Yeah, whoever's got the smoothest joints. You give them the random slice. They got to work out where each slice goes. Oh, like jumble them up. Yeah.

Well, it's about the skill of the world. I think you don't have to do it. I'd dump all those slices in a pile and say get started. Time starts now. It's a cold morning out there and the steam is rising. Got my big gloves on. I think we're all in agreement that splitting a horse into a bunch of slices, jumbling the slices up and then starting the stopwatch as you attempt to weld the horse back together seamlessly is the best form for this competition to take.

Yes. And that is how we do this competition in Australia. I'm not sure how they do it in America. Swish. We check in on America. America Watch. America. This comes to us from K-O-C-O in Oklahoma. The Coco. The Coco. Oklahoma City road rage over who should go through intersection first leaves one hospitalized.

What do you mean who to go through intersection? Okay, this isn't the, it's not what you're thinking. It's not the obvious problem America has with the four way stuff. The four way thing where they have to go like, oh, by all means you go first. Yes. All right. Or they're all going, no, it's my turn.

No, it's honk, honk, honk. They're all doing the gag from the start of the Steve Martin movie, LA story, where they all just inch forward a foot at a time until they all run into each other. Cool. What a film. Beautiful film. Wonderful fucking, that's a magical goddamn movie. just inch forward a foot at a time until they all run into each other cool what a film beautiful wonderful fucking that's a magical goddamn movie all right i might watch it something to cheer me

up it's a real treat oh it's so i've been watching the french connection for the last three weeks and i'm halfway through it did you start watching it before je Hackman died? No, after actually. Yeah, that was the, that was the trigger. What do you mean a strange man? I got to watch as much. I watched 15 minutes while I did the ironing last night. You're just watching movies piece by piece. He's got to because what am I supposed to do? I don't know.

That's, that's kind of something. Yeah. A fight over who should go through an intersection first ended with one person in the hospital Wednesday morning. Coco five went to the Oklahoma city intersection to look into the bizarre story. I just, the story's moved on probably. I don't think they're still there. He just had a look.

They were left. The hospital room. The nation demands answers. This report is just suffering from nonlinear time. It gets out there. Like, I thought the accident was about to happen. Well, it's always happening. They've got a Billy Pilgrim syndrome. That's right.

There was a pedestrian at the intersection of Northwest 16th Street and Rockwell Avenue with a car on the roadway. Uh, and they couldn't determine who should go first, so the weapons came out. What do you mean? That's not a natural progression of things. I think there's a lot of tensions at the moment. You go, I go, you go, I go.

They're just knives. Knife. Can't tell. Immediately unsheathing my katana. Courtesy turned into chaos on Wednesday morning at the intersection. Now they say they say turned into as though there were an abundance of courtesy up to that point. Oh, there he is. Okay.

Quote, just after midnight, police responded to a crash. It turned out to be auto pedestrian collision. Is that what you run into yourself? Yeah. Said Sergeant Dylan Quirk with the Oklahoma City Police Department. Hey, I'm crashing here. Does that work? Yeah. Yeah. According to a witness, a pedestrian was trying to cross Rockwell Avenue while a driver in an SUV was turning onto the road from a parking lot. The two went back and forth signaling each other to go ahead.

Oh, it actually is that situation. Like, yeah, yeah. After you. Now you go. Quote, it escalated after they tried to determine who was at right of way to leave the area, their quirk said. Driver got out of the vehicle, pedestrian had a weapon, presented a knife. There was an argument, the driver got back into the vehicle and drove away and struck the

Pedestrian before driving away. What? Why did you want it you went GTA on him? Yeah, these guys I'll get back in the car But now that I'm back in the car, it's trouble for you Well, I kind of see this is sort of it's it's sort of a top Trump situation here, right? Cuz he's gotten out and then the other guy is like well knife beats flesh yes and then he's gone back in the car goes well car beats knife yeah playing a classic game of paper scissors car yes yes knife man car f-150 the driver allegedly backed up drove across the curb and sidewalk and then struck the

man, flinging him onto the road. The man was taken to a local hospital. So these guys started by deferring to each other. Yes. Oh, by all means. Awkwardness. Ashante. I think it's the awkwardness that probably made them so angry, right?

You know when you touch you're an edge, doesn't it? It puts you on edge, doesn't it? It puts you on edge, it pieces you off. I kinda identify, to be honest, because sometimes, you know when you're trying to do something nice, you're trying to do a courteous gesture and someone goes, oh no, no, no, no, no. Like maybe you go to pay for dinner or lunch or something, and somebody goes, no, no, no, no, no, and you're like, no, no, I got this.

And then they go, no, no, no, no, no, And you're like, no, no, I got this. And then they go, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And they're like trying to wrestle your phone out of your hands. And at a certain point, it's like you've turned this, this gesture into something awful. I think we, I think you should operate on a two refusals basis. Yeah. What? Wait, maybe just one even. So someone offers to do something nice for you and you go, oh no, that's crazy. And if the person goes, are you sure? I would really like to and you go,

oh well thank you so much. I think that's nice. One refusal. See I'm in the mood when the, with the car and pedestrian situation, there's really two modes that I'm in. I used to be the kind of, oh no, no, after you, oh, please, oh no, please after you. But it's just a waste of everybody's time. I'm either going to pretend that they're not there and just march across. Because you might get hit by a car and then that's sort of a couple of weeks off work. Yeah, some money. Well, and I don't expect cars.

A story to tell, a little break from life for a little while Yeah, that's right Or, I kind of turn 180 degrees and I inspect something on the pavement So that it appears as if I never wanted to cross the road in the first place Oh, that's a classic move. I loved it. I'm looking at my phone I'm looking at the map That guy just saw an interesting caterpillar So he didn't want to cross the road at all because there was a really interesting caterpillar on the ground. If I was on the other side of this driveway,

I would cross it to come and see the caterpillar. Yes. Where I am already. And it's very clear that I don't want to do it. You just go on in there and then I go, oh, you know what, actually, I left the iron on in my house and I walk back across. Yes. What do we... I think a really good thing about the invention of the mobile telephone, which I mostly think is bad, but one of the good things about it is it gives you a real plausible looking reason to do an abrupt 180 turn when you've started walking in the wrong direction and I just

realized... Oh, yeah. That's great. Oh, according to my phone call. Like before you had to pretend you're like a Greek philosopher or mathematician or whatever. Yeah, you have to like a gist of it. Yeah, yeah. Really just a little finger to your cheek going like, oh. Wait a minute. Oh, it turns out I live in the other direction.

Yeah. Just getting an update over the years. It's just like this little device that just jacks you out of reality for like 30 seconds at a time. You'd be like, you know what? I want to be in the warp for a little bit. Let's go look at my phone. My body will be here, but my mind will be in the Imperium.

That's right. Yes. 40k on the brain for you lately. Yeah. Watching your lore videos. Not for a while. Reading your Wikipedia articles. Maybe your Wikipedia articles. While we're talking about this, can we talk about, I don't know if this counts as a stuff we

should chat about, but it is a stuff I think we should chat about. People that unnecessary drivers that unnecessarily wave you across in a situation where they're actually kind of creating a problem for the cars behind them. Yes, absolutely and they have right of way and everything would be quicker if indeed they just took their ride away. Or they try to wave you across when you can't get the, there's other cars coming the other way down the road. And you don't have visibility on it.

I can't do that. Yeah. Who want me to see you across two lanes of traffic? Yeah. And I don't trust you to be like, if you're giving me the all clear, I don't know you. I don't fucking know shit about you. You can see who's coming in the other lane, but I don't. How good's your vision?

How good are your reflexes? How good are you at estimating my walking speed? I don't fucking know you. Hey, fuck you. I'm going to pull a knife. When they came up with the rules for who goes first, they thought about it. They did. You know?

Someone thought about it. And then they drew a little line on the ground to say, hey you, just wait at the line. And if you start going, you know what? I'm gonna do an act of kindness and I'm just gonna kind of stop and start waving people across, you're fucking it up. You're gumming up the works, okay?

If you're polite, fuck you. Yes. Fuck you. Fuck you. I'll stab you're polite, fuck you. Yes. Fuck you. Fuck you. I'll stab you. I'll kill you. And fill up all of the lanes too, going to a traffic light. What's the concept? You got one lane and they all go to the same place, but one's full for 300 meters back and then the other lane is completely empty. You don't want to go in there because you're skipping the line

Hmm. Hmm. Everyone else fucked it up. Fuck drivers. Yeah. Yeah Fuck you. Everyone else in a car is my enemy That's right. I'm the protagonist of the road and everyone else there is a sort of like you're the cars from Frogger to me Yeah, I'm the king of the highway. Yeah, and I'm in my power armor If I'm outside of the car and you're inside the car, a thing that will make me say, fuck you, in my head to the driver, is if we're in a situation where I'm the pedestrian

who has right of way, like let's say I'm walking across a pedestrian crossing. Yeah. And in Australia, it's not like optional, you know? Yeah, you can't just hit the people for fun. Oh, should we explain this for Americans? Explain this concept? We have these things in our...

Oh shit, okay, we might have to start at the start. So we have these cities where you can get from place to place by like walking, but not like short distances. Like not just from like one burger place to the gun store or whatever, like you could walk like a couple of blocks. So one gun store to the other gun store. It's not your industry and infrastructure. Yeah, so like sometimes you'll get to a set of traffic lights and there's like a man that tells you you can walk or there'll be some stripes on the road that indicate you can just walk and the cars have to stop for you. And like there's footpaths and there's lights on the footpaths and stuff.

And you can't just turn right on red either. That's fucking insane. Except for the few places that you could in Brisbane where you could turn left on red. When they gave it a try and they were like, you know what? The simple people of Brisbane are just, they're never gonna take this up. But what I don't like is when I've got right of way as a pedestrian and I'm like going across a pedestrian crossing and someone pulls up and then they gesture like they're Hey, why don't you walk across the pedestrian crossing this I know you fucking have to stop for me You have to stop for me. Don't act like you're doing me a favor

The katana comes out. This psycho thing happens at a post... It's convertible now. Are you doing the Morpheus thing to them while they're rolling away from the crossing at three kilometers an hour? Yeah, yeah. through both tires. Kneeling next to the car, just putting a single line of scraped panel. This psycho thing happens in Brisbane in Post Office Square where there's a pedestrian crossing. Oh, but that crossing is a fucking nightmare because there's always pedestrians on it, so it's basically impossible for cars to get good good

It's a great way to stop and let some cars through to say oh no no there's been enough pedestrians for now We'll let some cars through no They have to kneel to you yeah This is this is your plinth. This is your pet is only lights there I'm no traffic engineer, but it is like through the daylight hours. It's impossible to get through. I'm not that I would. I'm strolling across there casually. Here's the thing Ben, I do think you have what it takes to be a traffic engineer. You know? Yes. Thank you so much.

You understand the flows, the ebbs, the urges of humanity. I don't know if I could do it outside of Brisbane, but I feel like I know the rhythms of these streets. I didn't say outside of Brisbane. Thank you. I'm not just letting you loose in Tokyo. I'm going to do some pretty interesting things to Shibuya Crossing. Oh, actually, sorry.

One more thing on pedestrian crossings. I don't think they should do the wave that's deferential, but I do think it's nice to do a, if it's not a super busy crossing, it's nice to give a thank you wave sometimes to the customer. They're doing something they're obligated to do an acknowledgement of like, Hey, you saw me and you stopped. Appreciate you. You're doing great, great work. I do think there's a subtle difference between the person in the car acting like they're doing you a favor

and allowing you to cross versus when somebody looks a little hesitant, like they're not sure you've seen them or that you're not going to roll a cutoff of pedestrian crossing. And I do a, no, no, it's your right of way. I'm after you, after you, wave that I do when I'm inside the car. And I have to specify, when I do it inside the car, it's right and it's clear. When someone else does it to me, they're doing it wrong. But what if they pull the knife on you after that?

Ah, well. That's my favorite part of this is some pull the knife and then they just hit them with the car, which is a really funny reaction. That's a real like Gordian knot kind of solution to the problem. Yeah, I understand. I kind of understand that response. Self defense.

These streets are crazy. As the hunt for the driver continues, police are encouraging people to avoid road rage situations. Quote, if you find yourself in a situation where it's escalating or heated, walk away from the situation if you can remove yourself and dial 911, Quirk said. That's just not going to happen in America. Just calm down. The blood is hot. Don't get angry.

Yeah. Yeah. Just like telling people to calm down, probably not going to work. We're past the point. Road rage is so funny. Like you can to calm down, probably not going to work. We're past the point. Road rage is so funny. Like you can't calm down because of car. Yeah.

Car makes you crazy? You've gone crazy because of car? Yeah. Get a grip. What's the term for it? They're like the, the how when we're in a faceless situation, we become like way worse. It's true of people on the internet and stuff. Yeah.

It's called faceless man syndrome, think yes yes but like it's called holoman syndrome because it makes you rip people's skin off like it's the skin of that monkey at the start of holoman yes that's turned invisible I am so an incredible thing happened the other day on Coronation Drive, the arterial road coming out of Brisbane, going west. Running along the banks of the beautiful Brisbane River. Beautiful Brisbane River. And someone had parked in the bike lane and a bike rider stopped and just yelled

at them for a while and I was stopped at the lights. So I just got to, maybe it always put me in such a good mood for our episode. Our bonus episode, Lucy, Ben and I all in the same room. One hour of power. And altercation so you were jazzed up. It is kind of really nice that like, you know, when someone's losing their shit in public, it's probably because they're in some sort of emotional distress, but seeing that sort of, we're such a rigid society where there are rules for behavior in public and

seeing someone just like violating them in a really loud way, great entertainment. Yeah, there was a guy in Brisbane, like the first time, day that I got here, just walking around saying, fuck you, you dog cunt to like every single person. Yeah. I thought that was kind of beautiful. Like he was saying it to every person that walked past. Oh, you saw the mayor. Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner.

Hey, just before Andrew said Hesitant with a simulant S, we have a segment title that has two simulant S's in it. The PSA per segment. It's time forch PSA PSA Psilocybin makes you trip PSA PSA Pseudonym is a fake name PSA PSA Psychosis is illness of the brain PSA PSA It's time for the PSA The sad bird which is where we say Wow.

It's a really good pronunciation. Wow. Really nice. This is an editorial from the Everett Independent. This is a newspaper in Everett, Massachusetts. Please, no public or underage drinking on St. Patrick's Day. Isn't that kind of what it's for? Yeah, this is like an outer suburb of Boston.

I'm thinking you're going to see some public or underage drinking. Yeah, and it is St. Patrick's Day right now. I think it's, isn't Monday St. Patrick's Day? I don't know. In the city, I'm in the city in Brisbane and everyone is dressed like a little leprechaun. Yeah. I don't understand what's going on. Oh, you met the mayor.

He's back. We, um, yeah, we have like a lot of Irish bars and pubs in the city where they're just the worst, the kind of people that do like the Santa pub crawl. Yeah. I feel like St. Patrick's days for a real, a real type of person. Yeah. Yeah.

A real piece of shit. Not a good one. I feel like these are people that are like, I don't think they're allies of the Irish people arguing for reunification. I think they are just horrible dog people that have put on a green shirt and are going to break the mirrors in a pub toilet later this evening in a fit of rage. this evening in a fit of rage. With the St. Patrick's Day holiday and traditional South Boston parade approaching on Sunday, March 16th, we urge our public safety officials to plan

for enforcing the laws which prohibit drinking in public, especially by underage drinkers. Yeah, I'd hate to see some 19 or 20 year olds having some beers in public. You can't talk about underage drinking. You sound stupid. I saw a 20 year old having a beer. You sound fucking stupid. Pathetic. You sound insane.

A couple of years ago in the aftermath of the South Boston Parade, we found ourselves in the unfortunate situation of riding the Red Line to the South Shore. We? The entire staff of the Everett Independent? We? The entire staff of the Everett Independent? We? Okay. Or are you just talking about yourself in like the Royal We? The trains were packed with highly inebriated, rowdy, underage drinkers who were drinking

openly on the trains and then flinging their empties around the train cars, striking other passengers. That's just part of living in a big city. Sorry, this is just like, yeah, this is just big city stuff. You're in South Boston. You're in South Boston. You're in South Boston? What did you expect? St. Patrick's Day. That may as well just be the purge.

Yeah. I think like St. Patrick's Day in Boston? All pets are off. Yeah, just close your doors. Lock them up. Yeah. Just sort of fearfully sit in the bathtub with a shotgun, waiting for the shit to pop off. And then if anyone knocks on your door, just cackle. It's the night of the hunt.

Yeah. The purge. It's a blood moon. Yeah. It's the time of monsters stay inside. And if you're outside, just do the great American tradition of drink, of drinking and then driving home with a 0.06. Also, like if you kind of go with the flow of the crowd, just like get really

drunk, allow yourself to be, but become like water. Yes. Become like water. Flow. You're not, the mob's not going to turn on you if you are the mob. No. You know, the mob. You are but a leaf on the stream.

Yes. Do you think that's what Bruce Lee was talking about then? I think he's talking about having like 20 Schlitzers. Putting on a green shirt and allowing yourself to be pushed along by like sixth generation Irish immigrants. If that. Yeah. Seventh, eighth.

Irish in the sense that we're all Irish. We're all a little bit Irish in a way. Yeah, seventh, eighth. Irish in the sense that we're all Irish. Yeah, we're all a little bit Irish, in a way. Your surname is Katzenjammer. The platforms resembled war zones with large scale fights and scores of youths who were passed out left and right. We realize that everyone wants to relax and have a good time on St. Patrick's Day, but that's no excuse for our public safety officials turning a blind eye to underage drinking and drinking in public.

I think it's a pretty good excuse to be honest. It's pathetic knowing that they mean like 18 to 20 year olds. I know these aren't like 12 year olds. Yes. Maybe. And also, all these cops, Irish cops, every single person out on the streets is their cousin or nephew. Yeah.

So you're saying they're all disgusting **** then? I wouldn't. Can we? Should we? No, I can. It's in my genealogy. Everyone in Australia is like, yeah, Americans are worse at this because it was further back in the past, I guess. Yeah, Americans love saying how Irish they are.

It's insane. Yeah, say something to me. We're all Irish. And you're basically a different species at this point. You've been on that island isolated? You're talking about America? America, yeah. Yeah, you think they have Galapagos Syndrome?

In the sense that all continents are sort of an island? In the continent of North America? They have evolved a specialty. Yeah. You think they have Galapagos Syndrome? In the continent of North America? They have evolved a specialty. And it's that face. You know, you can just see them sometimes. You'll see American families walking around. You don't even have to hear them talk. Oh, you can see it.

They've got the physiognomy. Also, there's always one person in the group of four that's wearing a sweater of their alma mater, I think they say. Alma mater. I don't think they should say that though. It's weird. They really love hanging onto that shit for life. They'll be like 60 and they'll be like, I've been watching the college football games for

my Wildcats. Then I make another donation to the university I went to in 1987. Strange. Oh, my alma mater. Yep. Oh, yep. I'm an alumnus, an alumni.

I'm an alumni. Yeah, get them. They say stupid shit. They do. You alumning right now? Are you hanging out with your frat bros? The idea of Monash University hoodie now something your old is really funny

43 year old man in a uq hat In addition for those of us of Irish descent the perception that being quote Irish for a day means drinking heavily is highly insulting. Not wrong though, is it? I don't want to, I mean, I'm not going to say it in any way. I'm just going off the Irish people I know in my life. Beautiful people, beautiful storytellers. Lovely people, beautiful people. With a horrible, brutal history. Terrible alcoholics.

Colonization, exploitation, genocide, but when they're on the piss they're monsters. I feel like still though, that like you're talking about Americans. Yes, Americans are like those of us with Irish descent. They are cosplaying as well. They're in green face. Yeah. Yeah. They're in green face.

Yes. They're in green face right now bro. It's actually problematic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah went, oh yeah, St. Patrick's Day, have a good one, observe it, you know, seriously. Do some serious observance of St. Patrick's Day. Hey, what if instead of drinking, we drove the snakes out of where we live? Yeah. The serpents. Yeah. That's what St. Patrick did, he drove the serpents out of Ireland. Maybe. I think that was his thing. Yeah. Could be.

Not gonna look it up. And don't bother writing in after the fact. We need the information now. You are too late. If I wanted to find out, I'll just Google it later when we finish recording. We urge our public officials to take steps ahead of time to stop this annual reign of dangerous mass chaos and drunkenness. Not going to fucking happen. Good idea in theory.

Yes. Alcohol related violence, alcohol related injury and death, illness, all very serious problems you're not going to tackle by cracking down on St. Patrick's Day in Boston. I love this kind of like puritanical stuff. You only get this in Boston. I love this kind of like puritanical stuff. You only get this in America. You're not getting an article with this kind of like prohibition era, hatred of alcohol.

Occasionally we'll have people like pop up in the newspaper in Australia, like the most hatchet faced 80 year old woman you've ever seen being like, I saw people drinking wine in the park the other day and I'm fucking sick of it. Very occasionally. But yeah, they've got this like temperance brain over there. Yeah. It's just, it's baked in now.

It's baked in. I think maybe there was some genetic damage from Prohibition. I think Prohibition did damage because all the, there was no fetal alcohol syndrome in it. It ruined the American brain or something. And that had negative flow on effects. Negative effects. Maybe it was the moonshine.

I think it was the switch to more dangerous bootlegged alcohols. Because of prohibition. Because of bootlegged alcohol, yeah. It should have just stuck with the spirits. Yes, that way the government can regulate it, tax it. There are controls over its quality. Exactly. You got your Starbucks there, Lucy?

Yeah, I've got my- You're drinking the Starbys? I've got my Starbucks. Do you have anything to say about it? What do you have for Starbys, babe? Minimum second trip to Starbucks so far while you've been here. It's probably the third, it's alright. You're sick in the fucking head.

I just like their little cold brew, alright? I'm a simple woman. I just want a black coffee. There are so many beautiful cafes around where you are. Get cold brew from a local coffee shop. Come on. But what if I like things that are familiar to me? Oh God, she's fucking weaponizing it now.

Don't, don't. Yeah, you like cold brew. Bring in a panel of experts to undiagnose you so I can start making fun of you again. You know in Beauty and the Beast where he gets the father certified crazy so he's locked away I'm going to get an evil psychologist to get you certified A-List-ic. To get un-autismed. You are neurotypical. You are neurotypical.

You are neurotypical. You are neurotypical. You are neurotypical. You are neurotypical. You are neurotypical. You are almost fine. No. No. Hey, we've said a lot of controversial things so far on this episode. We don't want you to contact us about that. But if you wanted to contact us about something else, you could do it via the Bunte Viste hotline. It's time for the Bta Vista hotline. It's time for the Bunta Vista hotline. You can send us an email mailbag at BooterVista.com

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to reflect changing the name of Twitter? Yeah, good, yes. I bet. Elongated Muskrat f***ing hates that. Yes, get him. He probably, when he listens to the show, which he probably does. Yes. Thank you for your Patreon support. Actually, it's X. That's pretty good. You've been working on that. That's really good. That's not bad. It's all he says. I mean, Theo and Lucy watched the SNL sketch the other day

with Mike Myers doing it where it's not funny, but it's so mean that it's good. It's so mean. Oh, was Mike Myers being Elon? Yeah, he fucking hates him. It's so good. It is just like cruel. It is, yeah, it's really good.

Cause Mike's Canadian too. There's no artistry to it whatsoever. He's, it is just good. Because Mike's Canadian too. There's no artistry to it whatsoever. He's just... Good stuff though. This was sent in to us by a listener who has chosen to remain anonymous. They didn't request anonymity. There just wasn't a name associated with anything. But this comes to us from WJBK in Detroit. Giraffe in Detroit.

Animal spotted in bird of pickup is 100% real. Giraffe in Detroit? Giraffe in Detroit. Giraffe in Detroit. In Detroit. Kill. Eat the most. Great episode of Detroiters.

A giraffe in the back of a truck turns out to be precisely what it looked like for a Metro Detroit driver. Okay. All right. Well, problems solved. Mystery solved. A driver spotted the exotic creature in the bed of a Ford pickup truck in Macom County. Turns out it was owned by Warren Weiner.

Weiner? Warren Weiner, who works at St. Clair's. Say it the funniest way. Darren Weiner. That's the name of our mayor, who works at St. Clair Flats Taxidermy. Oh, it's taxidermy. It's not alive, it's dead. That makes more sense. Okay.

Can you guys picture in your mind's eye the size of the average, the tray of a ute? Yes. And particularly in America- And then the size of the average tray of a ute. Yes. And particularly in America, the size of a giraffe. where like the cab is fucking huge, so the trays are like comically small often. Yeah. And a giraffe on one of its axes, Yep.

very, very big. Tall. Larger than a man, I'd say. Yes. And now, Do you reckon once they're dead, that the neck like folds up okay? Or it seems like it'd still be like

Straight oh you're talking about giraffe storage Well, you can't want to stay like a laptop before rigor mortis sets in for transport You can hide the hinges I'm just imagining them going under that 11 foot 8 bridge. Yeah, and what a bridge I Thought they fixed it. Did they fix 11 foot eight? No, uh, I think they might've raised the height, didn't they? They like added- Because the whole time they were like, well, you know, we can't just write, or

fans of the 11 foot eight, um, like, oh, we can't, they can't just raise the train bridge because it's got an approach, right? And it's got a gradient and all that sort of stuff and all that has to change. And I think they changed all that stuff. Well, in, in 2019, they increased it to 12 foot four inches. Uh, collisions still continue to occur. Okay. Fantastic.

That's amazing. Yeah. Hey, thinking of driving under the famed truck decapitator. We've always got one of those too. All right. Melbourne's got one of those. Yeah. Yours. Yeah. Hey, thinking of driving under the famed truck decapitator. You guys got one of those too. All right, Melbourne's got one of those as well. You guys have, um, oh fuck, what's it called? I can't remember what it's called. Classic.

Like that was at Pedestrian, we would lose our fucking minds every time it took out another car. Yeah, another one. DJ Khaled. Know the height of your car. Yeah. DJ Khaled. Know the height of your car. Yeah. And like that the one the the one in Melbourne, whatever the fuck it's called, don't bother telling us. It Montague Street. Montague Street. They like added the chimes that you hit them at

the same height, but like they did everything you could possibly do and people still fucking do it. So good. This 11 foot eight is in the U S. Can't hear the chimes. The can opener? Docken is playing too loud. I'm sure I must've told you guys this when we were in Mackay, um, going to see my family again, um, they had one of those little, um, the, the chimes thing before an underground car park, right?

And while we're in the car park, a ute with the full like pig hunting light setup on the top of it, that setup hit the chime bar, pulled the whole set of, uh, of like spotlights and stuff off and brought the bar down as well. And then they just drove off. They're like, you know what? It's probably too big a mess for me to want to deal with. And I'm going to drive away now. I saw a guy do that with a box truck in the bridge near the scratch where he like just hit it and it made the world's worst noise and he just kept going Yeah, there's nothing but trouble behind me. Yeah. Yes Because there's a phone number you have to call and then they said the rail police. I don't want to deal with that

He said like the incredible. I'm just hiking out of town, you know I don't know. Yeah. The post went viral, sparking a lot of concern for the creature with a ton of Toys R Us giraffe jokes and whether it's even real. Yeah, that must've been good. Yeah, the Toys R Us mascot logo is a giraffe.

Oh. And this is a giraffe. Yeah, this is a giraffe. Tony the giraffe. Was it Tony? No, I don't know, I just guessed. I wanted to say Jeffrey. Jeffrey?

That sounds more correct actually. Jeffrey the giraffe? You could just say any name and I'd be like, oh yeah, yeah, Darren. Yeah. Yeah. That's Craig. It is Jeffrey the giraffe. It's Jeffrey.

Holy shit. Jeffrey. Swish. That's not even alliterative. Isn't it? The brand Noah strikes again. Sorry, I got confused by... You got confused by letters. one of those is wrong. Gaffrey the giraffe for Jeffrey the giraffe

I think the original French is pronounced graph. He was originally called dr. G rough from 1948 to 1965 and then I lost his medical license Yeah, lost his medical license and they just started calling him plain old Jeffrey in 1965 interesting changed his life He did did acid for the first time. Yeah We know cleared it up with Fox two stating it was real He is a taxidermist and big game hunter with safari partnerships in South Africa. Concerning. The one in the Ford pickup died naturally at a zoo of old age and Weiner was

commissioned to get him mounted to live on at an unnamed museum. Live on is kind of a quiet ride, is it? Yeah. Yeah, it's sort of just an object now, isn't it? Yes. Oh, and Jeffrey the Giraffe was at some point voiced by Jim Hanks, brother of Tom Hanks, who- Is he?

He's the one that does all of his voice work, right? That's his whole life? Oh, like the characters that he plays and comes in and does like Woody? Yeah, he's not available to record some you know, record some lines for some toys for Woody or whatever. They just get Jim Hanks in there. Yeah, he does like video games and stuff like pretty, pretty consistently. I listened to it.

I think there was a Radiolab episode with him on it and he's great. He's sort of ripping shit into him because he's the cooler, more sort of blue collar, hardworking, you know, he's the more relatable Hanks. Yeah. Salt of the earth. Yes. Quote, my job is to preserve them so you can appreciate them forever. Some people may find it strange or different, but to me it's art.

He said, we receive anything. Can't you? Yeah. These days, these days, modern art and stuff stuff. Yeah postmodern. What's next? It's meant to be a painting someone tell me what's next. I don't know After that is there more just swings back around the modern again, doesn't it? Yeah We caught up Quote when we receive it. It's no different than leather. It's just leather with hair on it, he said.

It's a giraffe, motherfucker. Okay, it's leather with hair on it. Being a taxidermist is a strange thing to do. It's such a 70, 90, frontierman thing to be doing. Very odd. You're wearing a hat made out of a dozen beavers. No? Hey, I hope when he's done taking all of the skin and fur from that dead giraffe, he finds a way to repurpose the meat into some sort of menu.

It's time for Looks Like Menus Back on the Menu. Would it ruin the aerodynamic properties of like a Cessna if you, if you leathered it? If you giraffe leathered your Cessna. If you giraffe leathered it, like it feels like the right kind of fit size wise. If you've got like the air kind of fit size wise. As soon as you've got the air foil I guess. I think the drag coefficient of leather compared to like just metal probably bad. This is probably a reason they use metal maybe. I know you probably don't want to hear this Theo but I think the giraffe leather could be better replied inside the plane Sure it being a big a big giraffe Cessna

Yeah might need to get it out in the in the wind tunnel. We might need We'll let the buffins figure that one out Now don't take this thing out in the rain I'll tell you that This comes to us from WVIT in Connecticut. Is Connecticut a worldwide pizza capital? One website's new list says no. I want to say no. That's sort of my first instinct. This list is really in the spirit of this podcast.

Connecticut style pizza. Connecticut style pizza? Oh of this podcast. No. Connecticut style pizza. Connecticut style pizza? Oh, I'll have my pizza Connecticut style. Thank you. Can I get that Connecticut style? Well, so specifically they're talking about New Haven style pizza, which is an established style of pizza, but it's one of the like, let me see if it's a stupid one.

It is sort of one of the stupid ones. I think it's roughly in line with your Chicago's and your Detroit's where it's like a deep dish. Oh, a deep dish. Sort of pizza, I think from memory, but I don't know. There's been some in the- Oh no, no, it's not. It's a thin style pizza. Oh, is it? Well, I'm back on board. Excuse me. It says- It's a pizza? Sorry, you guys say this? What makes the heaven style pizza distinct is its thin, often oblong crust. I'm only looking at round pictures.

Just go down a little bit further and you'll see. What do they call a New Haven pizza in New Haven? Chewy texture and limited use of melt. Oh, you know how I hate melting cheese on my pizza. No, no, no, but they're right that you don't put too much, like, you know, when you see a Chicago deep dish pizza and they lift it up and it's just like stretching and stuff because Americans can't help themselves. This just looks like a slightly modernized Italian pizza.

It looks like the sort of pizza you'd take. It's got cheese all the way to the crust. Ah, poorly. They've taken an Italian pizza and they've gone, I made this. Yes. I like it. I've taken it back. Connecticut, this is a pizza capital.

This is New Haven style. I want it New Haven style. But then scroll down a little bit further, I think there is something that differentiates it. I'm looking at a white clam pie. Well, maybe just don't do that while you're recording with us. It's not workplace appropriate, you know? Hey, oh! I'm sorry, Lucy, I missed that a pizza was one word.

Sorry, I didn't know how to get that across. A pizza. A pizza. Known as a pizza locally. Known locally as a pizza. Yeah, interesting. Can I have an a pizza locally. Locally as a pizza. Yeah. Can I have an a pizza? Yeah, just, uh, you're looking for one a pizza or?

Oh, this is awesome. It originated in 1925 at the Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napolitana and has now served in many other restaurants, most notably Sally's a pizza and Modern a pizza. Yeah, and it's so weird because three years ago we were having Moderna pizza. Where were we? Oh, like the vaccine. The vaccine, you guys remember Moderna?

I've moved one of the letters across and I've gotten this flagged on Spotify again. Oh no. Moderna pizza. God damn it. Ben, you. Oh, it's also burnt. Like it's a boot. Yeah. No, it's not burnt. It's charred. What do you call, what's the term they use for the spots that you get that you want?

It's like lemon spots. I think they call them good spots. Yeah. Tasty spots. And New Haven listeners are getting so angry right now. Well, I mean, with full respect to the beautiful people of Connecticut, this looks way better than nearly every other regional pizza. It looks fine. Also, deep dish isn't very good.

Yeah, it's closer to like a regular kind of... Just regular style. Like pizza soup. I like it regular style. Well, like a traditional Italian pie. like a traditional Italian pie like a traditional. Yeah Yeah, pizza pie. I like a traditional Italian pie and I also like a big pepperoni pie Like a big a New York style. Oh New York style and

They do say here on the Wikipedia Entry it is sold whole rather than by the slice, but I feel like being sold by the slice is the exception, right? That's a New York thing. You're too busy to stop. You just got to pick up a slice of pie. I love it. I love a slice of pizza.

I wish we could do that in Australia, but there's no way that it would be the monstrous size that the New York ones are, and there's no way it'd be two bucks. Yeah, they really got to be dealing in like bulk. What is the fucking, we had a chain here, New York Slice would do it. We did have New York Slice. It was like eight bucks. Eight bucks for a slice, yeah. But like for a little while, Domino's was doing a New York style pizza here that was fucking gigantic. It was, it was huge and then they stopped.

Yeah, they were just doing one of them. Back out. Back out, Domino's. Come down and get your bite of the big pizza. Get in line. It's technically a mega project. If you get down too late, you can't find a section of the radius that hasn't been bitten yet.

In May of 2024, praises of Connecticut's pizza were heard at the steps of the US Capitol. What? Yeah. Okay. This pizza's so good, I'm going back up to Washington. I'm going to tell everybody. I'm going to get on my horse and ride to the Capitol. Back in the late summer, Governor Lamont unveiled new Welcome to Connecticut signs, which declared

the state a top destination for slice or pie. I feel like nothing means anything anymore. Yeah. I think this is meaningful. This has true intrinsic meaning. If you've got a good pizza and you want the world to know. They've got, they are a people of like, what's the, Madagascar? The Galapagos.

Galapagos. But like for, but like for culture, right? Like they've taken pizza over there and then they've forgotten what all the words mean. Well, and then the pizzas got way bigger because they're on islands. Yeah. Or is that the, does it go the other way? Island gigantism or island the other one? Well, there's definitely island pygmyism, right?

Because they had those pygmy hippos on the islands where they all got stranded after the Mediterranean Sea emptied. That's so cute. It was just about a month ago that Connecticut shared its plans for a pizza capital pizza trail for tourists and locals to enjoy. Sounds pretty good. You're going walking around New Haven, having a slice. Having a pizza? One slice, one stop. Hey, maybe even have a pie. One nationalist, however, says Connecticut, a pizza isn't at the top of the list.

In fact, it's not even in the top 19. I thought you said that one nationalist says this about pizza. Why did we get this guy? Why are we asking him about it? One local Nazi declared. You got your Detroit style pizza. You got your Chicago pizza. Oh, this?

This tattoo? Hospitality and media website and time out. style pizza. You got your Chicago pizza. Oh, this, this tattoo. Hospitality and media website Time Out recently revealed its list of the 19 best pizzas in the world and Connecticut did not make the cut. Yeah. Maybe it was 20. Why are you writing a list of 19 best pizzas? Yeah, that's odd. Did they say in the world? Sorry.

Yes. Why would Connecticut make the list in the world of pizza? And then why would you write an article about being overlooked by a list in Time Out? Can we just take a Time Out and talk about how New Haven wasn't on the top 19 pizzas of the world? According to the article, the best pizza in the world comes from Naples, Italy with the rest of the top five. the world comes from Naples, Italy, with the rest of the top five.

Oh, what a shock. Yeah, hey, have you guys tried pizza? Normal style? Is this the code of Napoli? Shit, they're really cooking with this. With the rest of the top five coming from New York, Tokyo, Rome, and Sydney. Sydney. Tokyo.

Oh yeah, Tokyo. Tokyo. Japan has amazing Italian food. And Sydney. Hey, Tokyo. Tokyo. Oh yeah, Tokyo. Tokyo. Japan has amazing Italian food. Like what else? Inosaka had like the most amazing like handmade pizza. The guy was just like hand spinning it at the bar. Yeah.

They love Italy. Yeah. It's bizarre. And also it was like a final bar and he had 20,000 records behind him and he was changing them between making pizzas. And also he's the only guy that works there. Yes, in Italian, Japan. Whenever you're watching like Asian cooking shows, like our classic Iron Chef band,

you know, there's always the Italian specialist, you know? They've got their Michelin starred Italian chefs going over there. Yeah. Besides the Big Apple, the only other US cities on the list were Chicago for their thick crust pizza and Miami for hot honey Sicilian. I can get by on that. Yeah, that's a good time. Countries represented in the worldwide list include Denmark, the United Kingdom, South Africa, France, and Spain to name a few. Yep, you have named a few.

You got beaten by Durban or Pretoria, huh? Someone in Joburg is making a better pizza than you, New Haven. I love it Joburg style. Joburg style pizza? Joburg style style pizza? Joe Berg style a pizza? Even though No Pizza Place in Connecticut made the rankings, the state does have some representation on Time Out's list. So that's interesting.

New Haven style pizza isn't there, but something from Connecticut is, right? Check out the description for number 13 on the list from a spot in Scotland. What is it? New Haven style pizza by the slice. What's on it? Italian sausage, double marinara, burrata, pepperoni, rosemary, black pepper, parsley, and garlic oil. Scotland probably isn't the first place that springs to mind when you think about pizza,

but hear me out. With its chewy crusts, coal-fired bases, sweet batangi marinara sauce, and carefully curated toppings, I'd argue this New Haven style pizza joint is up there with some of the best slices you'll ever shove down your gob. So they're doing New Haven style pizza better in Scotland. That's what I'm hearing. There's a pizza pie shop in Scotland that is doing New Haven style pizza a pizza anywhere in Connecticut.

Incredible. I think they do have beef with Connecticut. Yeah. I reckon they did a list of 20 and Connecticut was on it. And so, and they just, that's why they cut it out. They just put a big fucking line. And they are, you wrote a whole article about it. And then it ended up on an Australian podcast.

So this is now, the reach has just gone. Crazy. It's going viral. It's such a fucking, it's the worst way to get like cucked is to have your pizza being made better by- In Scotland. to get like cucked is to have your pizza being made better by in Scotland, beautiful people of Scotland who I just don't think of for their like culinary expertise, some delicious foods, certainly, you know, but I just I'm not thinking pizza. I'm not thinking a pizza deep fried kebab Scotland. Yeah, the problem with this list

deep-fried kebab Scotland yeah problem with this list in my mind is like It makes more sense to me to do a ranking of like regional pizza scenes and styles and stuff than just like the restaurant that is making the best pizza cuz like That just takes like like two guys That just takes like two guys. It just takes like two people to set up a store and say, ah, we have dedicated ourselves to making this shit in like Tokyo or Scotland or whatever.

But that's not necessarily representative of there being like a culture of doing that thing or a local... Like, you know, I get why people are like, ah, in our city, we do it this stupid way. Yeah. I agree. It takes a village to make a pizza. Like, it's not just like one outstanding example of that pizza that's worth talking about because that wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the culture around it. Exactly.

Yeah, that's my point. Cultural heritage for the pizza pie? I think, yeah, we should be celebrating the style and the region. We should be celebrating Australia style pizza. Yes. Crack an egg on that back. Crack an egg on your pizza. I think it actually, you know that nasty ham Hawaiian that you're only getting at like

a local pizza shop. I think it's pretty special actually. Yes. You know? They dump a whole lot of it on there. I massively, I do massively prefer a like local takeaway store style pizza. Oh yeah, it's great. You know, your dog shit Domino's or whatever.

Yeah. Ham, all the same, exact same consistency. Because it's like the fucking, the pre-diced primo ham that's been like the pig went directly into the ham cuber before it was cured. He was cubed. The pig was cubed. This is fucking delicious. A pig was cubed for this.

New Haven style, a pizza in Scotland? Even when the pizza capital doesn't make the list, it still makes the list. Don't try and claim this as a win. Does it not win? It's really rough. Did make the list at number one. Yeah. Napoli.

It's Napoli. It's Napoli. No one was sitting there being like it's going to be New Haven. I bet it's a beautiful pie from the looks of the pictures. I bet it's a great pie. I'd love to try New Haven pie. I'd be like, you know what? This doesn't send me into a coma.

If you've got a New Haven pie that you'd like us to try, you can send that to our PO box. We would love to dig into that bad boy. If you were from New Haven, Connecticut and you made pizzas and you saw that your pizzas didn't make it on the list, but some guys in Scotland did, you might say, what the? It's time for what the? Right now though, it's what the? This also comes to us from WVIT in Connecticut. Person seriously hurt after being hit by car with no one inside in Lebanon.

Was it like a Waymo? Do you fucking tell me? Lebanese Waymo? I don't think we call the people from Lebanon Lebanese. I mean, we call some people from Lebanon Lebanese. The Lebanese people that live there. A person has serious injuries after being hit by a car that was unoccupied in Lebanon Tuesday evening.

State police said they responded to Bush Hill Road after getting a report that a pedestrian was struck. Responding officers said a person was hit by a car with no one inside. They were taken to hospital for treatment. No additional information was immediately available. All right. And the police would enjoy this one. It's a real kind of like... A real head scratcher.

It's a head scratcher. Yeah. Oh, there's a guy dead and there's a pool of ice on the floor. Generally, it only pools if it's melted. Stopped being ice at the point that it's a pool. It's a pool of water because it was ice. Did you say pool of ice? I love it when you bully me.

Your eyes really light up. But you're thinking of a sort of, they had a brick of ice on the accelerator. Or stabbers an icicle or something. Yeah, 8%. Yeah, okay. 3D printed a gun that could fire ice bullets. Things like that.

Oh, that's good. No, there's no way. You can get ice that could survive being fired out of a gun. Could you? Is that the perfect crime? There'd be no bullet. Yeah. So they couldn't do any ballistic stuff to it. So when you shot him in the back of the head, like execution style, there'd be no evidence. Oh, it's just a hole to a pool of ice inside his skull

Ronald McDonald or Elon Musk The back of his shirt is damp. You can take it in your in your carry-on luggage, too. They stop you What's all this ice about? You still need to get it Oh that ice? That's my gun Oh, that ice? That's my gun. Oh shit. Oh shit. Hey, that was definitely an episode of the podcast. Punta Vista. Thank you so much for listening. We've really enjoyed sharing this time with you and you alone. Unless you're in a car. There's multiple people there, but that's

Which is not, I don't think we're a sharing. We would like to be a sharing podcast. Take up more space. Don't hide yourself. Don't hide your light behind a bushel or whatever, whatever people say. We'll enjoy this. Yeah, just don't. If any podcast needs you to be there because you can kind of be like, you know how on the original DVD release of The Matrix, it would come up with Matrix facts if you turn that on sort of throughout the movie?

You could do that for the podcast. So you can say, oh, okay, the intros are sort of a small creative writing exercise with a slight improv element, but a lot of them are very heavy on intertextual references, both to media outside the podcast, but also intertextual references to the podcast itself. There are recurring jokes. Yeah. You can drop little facts about us that you know. The other person in the car has already said, I'm out. I'm done with this. It's actually sort of Proustian in a way, almost. They're kind of teaching you how to listen to the podcast. You have to pay attention. It of Proustian in a way, almost. They're kind of teaching you how to listen to the podcast.

You have to pay attention. It is Proustian. Yes. We're so, this podcast is fucking Proustian as hell. So Proustian. Kafka's. Proustian much? Yes.

I'm amazed we haven't been called out for it yet. For being too Proustian. I heard these guys are just doing Proust. Doing eight hours of Proust a month. Proust did it first. So maybe just try and get someone in the car on a long car trip and then you can be like, oh, they're ironically making fun of the Polish. It's okay because they have some Polish listeners that always chime in and get in on the joke. So that's fine.

We actually really love our Polish friends. They're right and they say we are like that. Yes. Lucy has a diagnosis. Theo's a hard maybe. Italian, Japan, it's fine. They're both on the wrong side of the war. Lucy speaks Japanese. We all eat a lot of pizza. Access to evil. Theo's beeninda Italy. So you know, it's all okay.

And you can sort of just remind people if it sounds like we're being cruel, we're actually all very nice. You just kind of have to have that context of like knowing us to know that we're not being mean to you specifically. You just, you just need that pre-existing context that we don't say anything wrong. Oh, yes. Like in our lives. You just need that pre-existing context that we don't say anything wrong. Oh, yes. Like in our lives. It's good to know that before, yeah,

like right at the start of the episode, we don't say anything wrong. You can also explain who the Grunter is, his sort of significance to the show. Draw a picture of him if you think it might help. Yeah. You could draw a picture. Just, you need to sort of take someone's hand and shepherd them into

the podcast because at this point we're not going to get new listeners from people impulsively clicking on it in iTunes because they're tapping out 45 seconds in. Yes. Why am I the pregna horse museum? I don't know. I've been thinking, what if we had a little audio tag at the start that explained what was about to happen, but that's gross. I think that's the coward's way, honestly.

It is. We've stuck with the way that means it's borderline impossible for people to listen to the show for the first time, but. It's worth it. If you push through for like eight or nine episodes, maybe you'll start to sort of understand some of the reference we're making to an episode 15 episodes ago. Yes. Yeah. And then you'll be like, oh, this pays off. It's kind of like a literary work.

Oh, they're my friends. They're my friends, actually. These are my guys. We have such a shared history together. Yeah. Mm-hmm. You could share that history, too. Of talking about crazy stuff.

If you want more of this, you can get that on Patreon, patreon.com slash bundavista. We will see you on that bonus episode maybe. I hope it'd be real nice. Stay safe out there. Walk away in a road rage incident. You got to think, hey, this person has a mother. Yes. And she'd be so mad at me if I stabbed them because I tried to let them go ahead of me.

Keep that in mind. Yeah. Think of the times when you could have been generous and open-hearted when instead you were vindictive and mad. Okay? Or pulled a knife. Yeah. Or pulled a knife. How much fun it would be to pull a knife. Way those happen. We'll speak to you soon. Bye. Bye.

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