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Episode Date: February 22, 2024

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Welcome to the fun to mister, this is a buncha'eroy. All four genre, picture of diction, or death. Yes. Welcome to the front of us. This is a bonus episode and I am your king, King Andrew. I welcome you to my wondrous kingdom, full of wonder and horses, several nights, at least a dozen swords, things of that nature. Due to a mooning-related mishap at the most recent jousting competition, my beloved court's jester hath been cleft in twain. And it is for this reason that I am auditioning jesters today. And now, with a merry disposition,

harlequin patterned trucker cap and what appeared to be tiny undergarments. Here comes the first entrant in this most jovial competition. Please, Ben, take a seat on yonder casting gouch. Now, say something funny. Agoohoohoo! My lord. I hate to pull the curtain back. It brings me no joy whatsoever.

Oh no. I'm just gonna, here we go. 4.57 p.m. from Ben. Anyone got even a hint of intro in them? 5.01 p.m. Wide on at the dad break dancing. I think that's Theo. No, but thanks for thinking of me. 5.04 from Andrew. I could do a bad one. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. tothink that's Theo. No, but thanks for thinking of me. 504 from Andrew. I can do a bad one of that helps.

Closing the curtain. Nothing to say about that at all. This is your idea of funny. That was outside the curtain. Are you saying that about the a goo-hoo-hoo? Well, it depends now I don't know what you're talking about. Mentioning some kind of curtain? Is that funny to me? Yeah, I feel like justice can see behind the curtain. That is true. A true jester sees behind the curtain. But alas, the king cannot. So you just got a goo-hoo-hoo, who, which, which, which, which, which is is is, th, th, th, th, th, is, is, is, is, is, is, is kind is kind is kind is kind is kind is kind is kind is kind is kind is kind is kind is kind is kind is kind is kind is kind is kind is a the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. A, is a thi, is a thi, is a thi, is a thi, is a thi, is thi, is 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. I. th, th, th, th. the. the. te. teat. teat te. te. te. te. te. tha. the. the. th. to a fantastic star. So you just got a goo-hoo, who, which I think is kind of a gesture staple. Yeah, and then an indication that there may be like a separate reality larger than our own, and we're all like players on a stage.

Yeah, a brief aside that indicates that this might be some sort of fable occurring in a larger, more real reality. And now we have our second and final entrant. I'm guessing that many of the kingdom's aspiring jesters saw the jousting competition today. A weary man wearing a polo shirt, whatever that is, bearing the embroidered logo type of an IT company, whatever that is, approaches the casting couch. Sying deeply, he tells me that his name is Theo. Theo, riddled me this? What is funny? So, would you like to know when you will die? Hired!

No, I'm not interested, but would you like to know the day and manner of your death? Shackle that man, he will entertain me for years to come. Would you like to feel Destiny's Arrow piercing thy chest? Is that like in that episode of Joko's Desire Adventure I watched last night? No idea, do I watch anime. It's legal. It's Perverte Street. I find anime to be a little cartoonish for me.

You know where else I find to be cartoonish? The Netherlands. It's time for D' time for Dane. It's. It's. It's. It's to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to me me. You know where else I find to be cartoonish? The Netherlands. It's time for Dutch Corner. Tell me, buddy. I'm from Holland. Isn't that beer? Yeah, it is a bit. This comes to us from the N.L. Times. French hunter on probation after hitting Dutch tourist during wild boar hunt. Hitting him with what? Probation from hunting? Probation from being French? Probation from hitting someone with your car? You will have to be Belgian for a while.

French hunters have been hitting Dutch people for like centuries immemorial. In memorial? In memoriam. In memoriam. Centuries in absentia. Yep, that's right. It does seem like a French person going on wild boar hunts very Asterix to me very astricks that is some asteryx bullshit. Yeah, although I guess he was more of a Celtic origin than he was French from my understanding of the Gawlick people. I see yeah Was there any mention of? A friend of the French hunter maybe carrying a men here like a very large sort of simple creature who loved to sort of eating? It? Yeah, the thir, very? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? th- th- that? th- that? Very? Very? Very? Very? Very? Very? Very? Very? Very? Very? th- that? that? Very? Very? Very? Very? Very? Very? Very? Very? Very? Very? Very? Very? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? Is that? Is th- th-a? Is th-a? Is th, was? Is? Is? Was? Was? Was? Was? Was? Was? Was? Was? Was? Was? Was? Was? Was? Was? Was? Was th, was? Was th, was th, was th, was th, was th, was thi? thi? thi? thi? thi? thi. Was thi. Was thi. thi. thii. the the the the the the the thi-a? thi? thi? a friend of the French hunter, maybe carrying a men here? Like a very large, sort of simple creature who love

just sort of eating entire roast chickens and wild boars and stuff? Yeah. That shit made me so hungry. I wanted to eat a whole wild boar so bad. They, look, the fucking illustrations just, they pop off the page. The scents coming off of them, the black face, the glaze on the bore. The ways they depict the various races. They really, really captured something. Yeah. A 64 year old hunter from France was given a

three-month suspended prison sentence and his hunting license permanently revoked on Tuesday after he seriously injured a Dutch tourist who was driving on a freeway. That adds a little logistical confusion into what's happening here. Uh-huh? Yeah. The French hunter was on a wild boar hunt in 2020 when he accidentally hit the Dutch tourist in the shoulder, AD reported. So, Dutch guy driving on a highway, a French guy, hunting a wild boar, hits him in the shoulder. How does that happen? It's the accident? Sorry, just for a second. Just checking in on the subreddit, R slashthe Adventures of Tintin, post-titled,

Post-titled, Why are the comics racist to only black people? Yeah. Oh. So, huh. What did that? H.J. was a very Belgian man, firstly. Like what did, yeah, okay. Also, I'd also like to note, do you know how the, how Gerard Depedu is possibly like

the best known most well regarded French actor? Yeah, I'll allow that, sure. Yeah. So he plays obelix in the live action, asterix and obelix, at least one of them that I've seen. The one that came out in like the 2010s? Yeah, yeah, and he is like, he is wearing the fuck out of an obelix outfit. It's uh, is very funny to see. There is. And high wasted pants are in fashion on the fellas these days. Yeah, I don't think they make pants any higher than this. There's a shitload of these movies. There really is. I don't know how many of them are he in. And they're, like, they're pretty faithful to the comics, but they're also not very good. This is, okay, so he's in one starting in 1999. Yeah. I don't know if he reprised his role. So that was asterix noblix versus Caesar 1999. Then there was asterix and obelix mission

Cleopatra 2002. Asterix at the Olympic Games 2008. Astrix and obelix God save Britannia 2012 and asterisk noblix the Middle Kingdom 2023. Shrad Depadepard do is in all but the most recent. He's in four of these. Man. He must love getting paid. He loves cash. Lo's cash.

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What is the? What is the top? Like, can you translate for me? I hate you guys. He plays Julius Caesar in the middle one of these movies. Vincent Castle? Oh, is it? Yeah. the most recent one? Yeah, great choice as well. He's the most French-looking man in the world. Yeah, sure it. They got Catherine De Nouve? Unbelievable. They got the Danuve

lockdown? Yeah. Gone deep on Asterix here. I was just trying to remember, it was a magic potion that was was Asterix's spinach, right? Yes. Brewed by the village druid Getafix. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. It was. It was a the the they was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was a the the the the they was a they was a they was a they was a they was a they was a they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they got they got they got they got they're they got they got they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they're got they're got the the the the the the the th. the th. the the the th. the the the the the the the their their their their Brewed by the village druid Getafix. Yes. Yes. Yeah. And then occasionally they run out of potions and then like, uh-oh. But Obelix always had his increased strength because he fell into a cauldron as a baby. Which kind of makes you think why don't they just push them all in the cauldron, but then I think I think Obelix has some other problems. Have you ever noticed that Oblix is the only one that's like that?

That's really weird. Now I'm not saying that the... The potuette is the super strength cauldron has some sort of side effects I think if you just give them if you give them too much magic potion all at once the body shots down Like the science is all there it can prove an issue. I could show you however many papers you wanted to see that look into this. Yeah, it's entirely possible that in an unreleased asterix comic? Not put out after the editors deemed it too depressing. They chronicled all of the all of the infants who died after being done. Oh, the living failures.

Yeah, when they went, oh, this worked out great. Let's get some more oblixes up in here. Yeah. But, uh-uh. He said he didn't publish that one. Yeah. He said he didn't publish that one. Yep. The accident took place on September 30th, 2020 around 1230pm. The Dutch couple were driving on the A63 south of Bordeaux and were on their way to Spain when the rear window suddenly shattered and the man, who was a passenger in the car at the time,

was hit by a bullet. According to local media, the 61-year-old Dutchman was hit in his shoulder and narrowly missed his spine. Miraculously no vital organ was hit, said a source close to the investigation. So what's the harm then? You know? Didn't hit any of his organs? That was a molligan.

It's like in the movies when guys go, oh, it's okay, it went through. Yeah, it's flash wound. Didn't hit nothing important. The police investigation revealed that the bullet came from the rifle of a hunter who was hunting wild boar with a group of other hunters in the rural area at the time. After a ballistic analysis of the bullet that hit the Dutch terrorist, the alleged perpetrator was identified. He's a 64-year-old man from the department of Gerondnd, the region around Bordeaux. The hunter, who according to his lawyer was an experienced marksman and former soldier, denied the accusation that he was responsible for the shot and the injury. That might have just happened. Yeah.

It might have just happened by itself. You know, boards just they're traveling all the time. So one of them... And there's no way to tel, like to to to their their their their thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi, thi, the, the, the, tho, tho, tho, tho- the, the, their their their their their their their their, their, their, their, their, their, their their, their tho, tho, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi.... thi. the, the, the, the, the, the, the, theateat, theat, thooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. their, the just, they're traveling all the time. And there's no way to tell like, whose is whose. Yes, there's absolutely no way. The court disagreed and sentenced him to a three-month suspended prison sentence. You know what you're just like hanging out with your buds? Next to the highway, firing your guns at Wild Boar and you accidentally nail a Dutch tourist through the shoulder. You know what a wild boar runs across a busy highway? You just let them lose out of it.

There it is, stop blasting. Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. I don't know whether we're really going deep enough on this. So first of all, to me it seems a little suspicious. Dutch tourists driving to Spain. Yes. I mean, they die instantly. Step outside due to the pale complexion and poor constitution of the... You don't think that the Dutch are biologically rigorous enough to survive in Spain? No. Yes. Interesting. The Spanish son? No, not for a moment. Oh that harsh Iberian sun?

Yeah. On that soft Dutch skin? Yeah. Down on the peninsula? Yeah. You talking down on the peninsula? Yeah. That's... Down in Iberia? Yeah, that's, I don't know much about Spanish geography at all. I do know that the Iberian peninsula is often skirted by seafaring vessels,

which is something that we might look into in a little segment that we call the shipping report. I'm itching for another edition of the shipping report. We can't do it anymore because the guy that does it is dead. God! No more shipping report, we're done. This is the first and last death on the shipping report. Yeah, wow, fuck, that's true. Yeah.

It turns out to be his. How... Fuck, can we get slightly more detail on this? Oh, yeah, I guess. So I've been getting these from a website that no longer exists called Maritime Bulletin that was the Passion Project of a 60-something-year-old Russian man named Mikhail Voetank, that, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, th-o, th-o, th-o, th-o, th-it, th-it-it-it-it-it-it-it-it-it-it-it, thu, thi, thi, thi-it, thi-it, thu, thu, thi-it, thi-it, thi-it, thi-it, thi, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, th-is, th-is, th-t, th-t, th-t, th-t, th-t, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, th-is-is-is-is-is-is-is-is-is-is-is-is-is-is-toda-is-is-is-toda-is-today-is-today-today-today-today- a 60-something-year-old Russian man named Mikhail Voitenko who I have mentioned by name before because during the pandemic it became a massive anti-Vax guy. But yeah he died of a heart attack in Thailand in January and now the website's gone and now the website's gone and yeah so no more of that I guess.

Well maybe you could start doing the shipping report. It seems like a lot of work like no one else is doing this. Yes you're the listener. All you'd have to do is like... Take up the mantle. I don't even know how he was monitoring all this much information. Where he was getting it from. So that's probably step one is to find out how he was doing it. Yes, and then replicate that. Yeah. Step two is to do it.

Yeah. Probably should ask him how he was doing it when. So yeah, I didn't agree with all of his views, but did like the work that he did, keeping eye on international shipping incidents. Yeah, you can say that about a lot of people, can't. Let's go, let's rattle them off right now. Yes. Yeah. Hey, you know who does some pretty questionable things? The Mothman. It's time for Mothman Watch. Love his work, though.

I love what he does. Just don't agree with his values. What happened to the... To the cryptid? You seem quite certain that we had one? I really... I'm so sure. I don't know if we did. If you've been listening to this show for long enough to know that if we had some sort

of paranormal theme, please let us know. Making anything for this show is such an ordeal that I cannot imagine forgetting something we made. I've done a lot of the songs. Yeah. Yeah. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. F. I. F. I. I. F. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. th. I th ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. I that. I that. I've that. I've th. I've done a lot of the songs. Yeah you have. Fairness. Hold on let me just see real quick. Crypted Watch. that mp3, Ben. Oh shit! You fucking dog. What does that sound like? I mean you could send it to me like I'm doing it right now I'm fucking putting in here right now. When's it from? Is there, oh wow, I've downloaded this before. Did you just get a brackets one?

I got a brackets two, which makes me think I might have downloaded it even more times. Okay. The first time I downloaded it was the 23rd of July but half an hour later. And then today. File created 22nd of July. The second time I downloaded it was the 23rd of July but half an hour later. And then today. File created 22nd of July. Okay, oh I can't wait to hear what this bad boy sounds like. I know what it sounds like. Oh yeah! Residents there say they've heard unusual animal sounds at night and several ATV writers say they've seen unusual-looking creatures in the distance. The next guest may have taken one of the best ever pictures of the Loch Ness Monster. That's really good. That's really good.

That's really good. That's great. Little Kochy you sample. Loch Ness Monster. Sorry about a bus. Kashi? You didn't see Kashi on the bus. Oh, on the side of a bus.

He's the official spokesman for something now. Yeah, they got the Merecats thing. You compare the Merecats plus. Oh God. Koshi. I see enough of that cunt, honestly. A report given to Lahn Strickler of the website, phantoms and monsters, spooky, regarding an incident a woman in Cicero, Illinois had in 2020. And we're probably the first news organization to bring this to light.

Well, no, I got it from the 14, 14 times, who in turn got it from Lodd Strickler, so I think we're the third. Very cool. But she only recently gave the we're the third. Very cool. But she only recently gave the report. So it's news. This is news. First person description of the incident here. So if you will, please picture that I am a woman in Cicero, Illinois in 2020. Oh, holy fuck.

Oh, I'm hearing about this coronavirus stuff. Oh, it's a bit scary. Yeah, I wouldn't be too worried. I'm not even sure if I'm explaining this right because I don't have the right words, but I am going to try. I have three kids, and they're pretty active. It was a summer evening in 2020. The boys asked to go outsideto the bathroom so I had to walk past my boy's room to get there. They had left the dresser light

on which was against the wall shared with the bathroom wall. When I walked past the door something huge flew past the light making a shadow that had wings. Not like bird wings or insects but like those cartoons or drawings of demons where they have like pointy edges in the flaps. I also saw a brief flash of bright red color for a second. That's the eyes. You know that's the spooky eyes. Oh yeah. Yeah, for real. It literally scared me so much that I jumped back and hesitated walking by the door, but I heard some toys shift and the dresser being closed. Mothman's looking for change.

What's he getting in there? Or maybe Mothman just likes eating socks. You know? You got Optimus Prime. You have the Optimus Prime with the trailer that transforms. You have no idea how close you are. But there's no one else inside the house. My kids are outside with my husband and I'm alone. Or was I, I thought. Damn.

So what the hell would make that shadow? I walked into the room and everything was normal looking, except my son's Gundams. You know when your son's Gundam doesn't look quite right. Everything was normal looking except my son's Gundam, you know when your son's Gundam doesn't look quite right. Yeah. Everything was normal looking except my son's Gundams, which are these Japanese Build Yourself toys of giant robots that vary in size. They got fucking... I got big ones over there.

Yeah. They make a human piloted ones now. Except they got wheels on them. I saw a video one the other day that was like transforming. Except it was very obvious that the video had been sped up significantly by all the people around it, like filming on their their their their their their their their their th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th obvious that the video had been sped up significantly by all the people around it like filming on their phones and then stopping to do something else for 10 minutes while it continued transforming. They should make gundams. Yeah proper style. Like have we tried we tried? We should be trying harder. We should be trying harder. Yeah. We should make the kind of, you know, worldwide effort that they make in Pacific Rim. But before the stuff happens.

Yes. You want to be prepared. Well, you don't want to be caught on the back foot. So the logic with Pacific Rim is that their blood is like highly destructive of the, the kaijus, or whatever they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they are they are they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they Rim is that their blood is like highly destructive of the kaijus or whatever they call them in Pacific Rim. So you can't use like guns and bombs on them. You need a big guy to punch them. That was the thing right. That's why they had to have the Yagers. Is that why? Oh, I'm pretty sure. They're still like shoot them with rockets and cut their arms off with swords and shit.

Yeah, I guess that's the sword doesn't really make sense, doesn't it? I think it just needs to, you've got to be big. You've got to be big. Here we fucking go. Given the Yagerory montage at the beginning of the film. This isn't necessarily bad for the pilot, but it seems to be much more problematic for the surrounding area. Bladed weapons are more likely to spill more blood than blunt trauma from brawling. To minimize harm to the surrounding region, the G word there, and Stryker Eureka both prominently used projectile weapons to finish off their foes, but these don't seem to disperse too much kaijuvissu. Beyond that we could

probably talk it up to differences and parts of their own style. They should have been teaching the pilots Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. They should have gotten into grappling arts. The grappling arts. It should have been choking those bad boys out, you know? I wish the Yagas had done Aikido. The Gundam that's normally up on the shelf, too high for my kids to reach, was down on the dresser, away from the other three that are on the shelf.

Picture that folks. One of these Gundam is not where it belongs with its friends. Now normally I would just assume that my son was fixing it or something, but it just didn't add up. As I had been inside doing laundry, putting clothes in that same dresser just a few minutes before. Why is his toys in a place where the children can't reach them? Well they're not toys, okay? Okay. They're art. I mean, they are a toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toyoyoyoyoy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toy toyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoy their a their a their their a their a 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 a thoy. thoy. thoy. thoy. toy. toy. toy. toy. toy. toy. toy. toy. toy. toy. tooo. too. too. too. tooes. too. that. that. that. 't reach them. Well they're not toys, okay? Okay. They're art. Yeah. I mean they are a toy while you're assembling them, but after that art. Do you have to assemble them? Okay. That's the whole fun of Gundams. I know shit about Gundams. You got a painstakingly assemble the little fuckers and then paint them and then paint them and stuff. Oh, explanation here for you thi th th th th th th th th th the their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their they they are they are they are they are they are they are they are they are they are they are they are they are they are they are they are they are they are they are they are they they are they they are they are they are they are they are they are they are they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they are they're they're they're they're they're th. th. I tho. I tho. I tho. reach them and would break them if he grabbed them.

I can't that. You got a little shitty Jaden or Braden situation right? I mean look that's coal put that down. When I went outside I asked everyone if they'd been moving the gundoms. Come on lady. Or fixing them and instantly my oldest was concerned someone broke it and had to go check. My Gundams! My Gundoms! Mom! Mom, did you break my Gundam? Mom!

Still a nice one's. Someone's been touching my freaking gundoms! I put my Gundam in this pose on purpose, Mom! You're such a stupid bitch! Voice from downstairs, why did you just call your mother? Americans are sorry, stupid! Shut up, Ron, you're not even my real dad! I can't wait till I get my own place so I can have as many gundums as I like.

Oh and the tragedy is that Ron bought all of these gundoms for Jayden Brayden and Cole. He wanted you to love him. Yeah, and like he listened when you said, no I already have that Gundam, Ron. He's like, okay. And he got the cool ones. You can get the bad ones. He got the cool Gundams and you're still so fucking rude to Ron. Now when we returned, sorry, now when he returned from their room, he was annoyed asking me why I was making stuff up about the gundoms because they're all in their places. Mom, you're a fucking liar.

I asked about the one on the dresser and he said, No, you put it back just fine, thank you for being gentle. I cannot reach the shelf without a chair or step ladder, and neither of those things are in their room. So whatever move that thing made me look crazy or like I was playing some prank. You're getting Gundam gaslit by the Mothman. Gundam gaslit by the Mothman. Mothman's like, oh I moved the Gundams.

Tell everyone the Gundams have been moved. Quick, quick, run out. I'm putting them back. I'm putting them back perfect. Moth Man doing his shitty little laugh. This will show him. And then he slams into the lie bulb a bunch of times before he leaves. Oh shit, it's the room? And how was it big enough to cast a shadow that darkened the whole room?

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Good, good. They're coming. It's the moon! Bang! Bang! Bang! Gonna head towards that streetlight. We still don't know for certain whether the Mothman is part of nature or not. There are other things that are part of nature and we talk about those things in Nature Corner. Country Roa. Country roes, take me home to the place. I've been on. Boltonister.

Nature Corner. Rubber crabs. Snipped my dick. This is a press release from the Max Planck Institute. Oh fuck, I should use the ape variant, shouldn't I? Yes. Oh well. Great apes playfully tease each other. This is fun. That's just nice. In a study recently published in the proceedings of the Royal Society B,

scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles, the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Indiana University, and the University of California San Diego, report evidence of playful teasing in the four great ape species. Let's list them all off together, the four great ape species. Okay. Arrangutans. Correct.

Chimpanzees. You're reading off the fucking document. You haven't memorized the Four Great Ape Species. Gorilla. Yes. The fourth one? Also the name of an electronic artist. Baboon.

Do you guys catch the Baboon boiler room set? That was fucking crazy. Bonobo. The answer is Bonobo. Bonobo. The guys with the noses. Do they have crazy noses? Do they have proboscis, bonoboscus? Do they have proboscis?

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Great Apes are excellent candidates for playful teasing, as they are closely related to us, engage in social play, show laughter, and display relatively sophisticated understandings of other, expectations says Isabel Lammer. We're talking like Ruffhausen here? We're talking, what are we talking here? Like, I think they would actually put roughhousing under play behavior. This is closer to silly buggers I think. And I think you do have to have a sophisticated understanding of others expectations in order to subvert them for real comedy. Yes.

You know? That's right. You expect a good episode of a podcast. Yep. Gotcha. Pulled the rug out from under you and that's funny. Practicued by the best. The team analyzed spontaneous social interactions that appear to be playful, mildly harassing or provocative. It's the three fundamental cornerstones of comedy. that appear to be playful, mildly harassing, or provocative. It's the three fundamental cornerstones of comedy. Playful, harassing, provocative. During these interactions, the researchers observed

the teaser's actions, bodily movements, facial expressions and how the targets of the teasing responded in turn. They also assessed the teaser's intentionality by looking for evidence that the behavior was directed at a specific target, that it persisted or intensified, and that the teasers waited for a response from the target. So that was an awful lot of words, but I think we're kind of looking at like a, ah, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, ah,

hey, ah, we're sort of looking for that behavior in the great apes. The researchers found that orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas all engaged in intentionally provocative behavior, frequently accompanied by characteristics of play. They identified 18 distinct teasing behaviors. Many of these behaviors appear to be used to provoke a response or at least to attract the target's attention. Quote, it was common for teasers to repeatedly wave or swing a body part or object in the middle of the target's field of vision, hit or poke them, stare closely at their face, disrupt

their movements, pull on their hair, or perform other behaviors that are extremely difficult for the target to ignore. This is, I mean, this is just Finn's behavior with his younger brother as well. I think they're describing bullying at this stage. Just like, hey, getting right up in your grill. What's up? Hey, oh, you try and do something? Grab your arm. Like, knowing about the behavior of, um, apes, like, that that has to be, because they're dickheads, right? Like, most of, like, I think we can say, uh, at this point, like, most primates on an individual level, uh, are fuckwits. Yes. Correct. They're rude? Yes. Yeah. Disrespectful.

Slovenly? Yes. Uncuth? Unhygienic quite often as well from what I've seen. Yes. Yes. At the zoo. Yeah. And you know what? Primates includes man. Yeah. So think about that. So really, you know, when we're pointing the finger at us, we're putting the finger at us. And also the apes. And the apes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thish. S, thi-s. S, s-s. S-s. S-s. S-s. S-s. S-s. S-s. S-s. S-s, s-s, s-s, s-s, s-s, s-s, s-s, s-s, s-s, s-s, s-s, s-s, s-s, s-s, s-s, s-s. S-s, s-s, s-s, s-s, s-s. S-s, s-s, s-s, s-s, s-s, s-s, s-s, s-s, s-s, s-s, sso-s, ssovofficesovofficesovofficesovofficesovofficesovofficesovoffice-s, slovofficesovofficed-s, slovofficed-s, s-s, s-'re pointing the finger, we're putting the finger at us. Yes. And also the apes. I'm pointing one finger at the gorilla and four fingers. When you point one finger at yourself, the other four fingers pointed to great a aims. One for each, that's right. A figure to yourself, you point one finger in a bonob. With a point, a figure it yourself, you point one finger in a bonobo, one figure in a chimpanzee,

one finger at an orangutan and one finger at a gorilla. What if we all pointed each other? Hold on. Someone's got to point at us and we also need to point at the listeners. Yeah. And someone's got to be pointing to those things. And who's pointing at the stars? Nobody. Take a step back. What could be out there and who's pointing at it?

Who's pointing at us from the stars? Oh, I don't like think about that. Yeah, well, they are pointing for, or maybe more, or fewer fingers back of themselves. We don't know what their hands are like. Although playful teasing took many forms, the authors note that it differed from play in several ways. Playful teasing in Great Apes is one-sided, very much coming from the teaser, often throughout the entire interaction and rarely reciprocated, explains Cartmell. Ha ha ha ha ha ha! I got you, I got you. You're getting so annoyed.

You're like so annoyed right now. Look how annoyed you are. Oh, you're so angry. Oh, you get really bad. Bonzo sitting there, stone-faced, completely silent. Laughed like the moth man. Ha ha ha ha. The animals also rarely use play signals like the primate quote playface which is similar to what we would call a smile. Oh my god he's totally doing the playface right now.

He's playfacing. Hey, hey, don't look. I think that guy over there was playfacing at you., hey, don't look. I think that guy over there was playfacing at you. I got the ick. I saw him doing playface. It's just like really undignified for like a man to do. I just don't look.

I don't like it. It's not good. Playful teasing mainly occurred when apes were relaxed and shared similarities with behaviors in humans. Quote, similar to teasing in children, ape playful teasing involves one-sided provocation, response waiting in which the teaser looks towards the targets face directly after a teasing action, repetition and elements of surprise. Ah, no, I got you.

I'm not going to do that again. Ha! Okay, no, that was the last one I brought. Whoa! Yeah! And bam! You punched in the face by another gorilla. The researchers noted that Jane Goodall and other field primatologists had mentioned

similar behaviors happening in chimpanzees many years ago, but this new study was the first to systematically study playful teasing. From an evolutionary perspective, the presence of playful teasing in all four great apes and its similarities to playful teasing and joking in human infants suggests that playful teasing and its cognitive prerequisites may have been present in our last common ancestor at least 13 million years ago, explains Lauma. We hope that our study will inspire other researchers to study playful teasing in more species in order to better understand the evolution of this multifaceted behavior. We also hope that this study raises awareness of the similarities we share with our closest relatives and the importance of protecting these endangered animals.

I think it's very cool that there's sort of like four species of great ape, you know, like the best of the best. What if there was like, the four species of great fish and we had to pick four really good fish species. Tuna. Yes. Yeah. Marlin. Yes. Yeah. Marlin. Hey, we can talk about fish more in this installment. Love scam watch.

It's time for scam watch. Warning, warning. Someone has successfully or unsuccessfully attempted a scan and must be judged. This is... Sama watch. This comes to us from WVIT in Connecticut. The VIT. Wivet?

Yeah, I'd say so. Fair fishing? Polygraph testing used in local Bluefish tournament. How they get them on the fish? You are. Maybe the Budavistic comedian of the week. Yes. Are we going to go with Tim Valley or Tim Valle?

I want to say Valle. Tim Valle of Terryville reeled in a memorable 15.18 pound bluefish in August. His catch was a memory he and his fishing buddies from the Waterbury Deep Sea Fishing Club. Quote, I was feeling very lucky, Valle said. The club charted the Tartan 2 out of Niantic to compete in the greatest bluefish tournament on earth in 2023. Now that is the name of the event. This is not WVIT making a qualitative judgment.

It's also not us. We are not claiming. I don't know anything about blue fish tournaments. The 41-year-year-tour tour tour tour tour tour tour tourl. tour tour tour tour tour tour tour tourn, tourn, tourn, tourn, tourn, tournament tournament tournament tournament, tournament, t, t, t, tou- tou- thea, thea, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, the t, the t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, t, tt, ttttc, t't know anything about bluefish tournaments. The 41-year-old tournament has drawn thousands of anglers into the Long Island Sound on a summer weekend. While it's been months since Fala caught that bluefish, he and the club members remember it like yesterday. They showed NBC Connecticut responds, which is their like consumer complaints thing for the TV station. They showed NBC Connecticut Respons Consumer Reporter Caitlin Birchell

where they were all positioned on the Tartan 2 when Valle reeled in the big one. Quote Kevin was fishing my left. Rick was fishing on my right. Chris was standing over there. Valet said. There's nothing better than being out, getting the salty breeze with Kevin, Rick. Kevin to the left of me, Rick to my right, here I am, standing somewhat relative to Chris in some direction. Here the members say seven people witnessed him land the fish on his own. Quote, it was a big fish, said Mike Stepsky, the captain of the titan to... to. to. to. to. to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to my to my to my to my to to the to my the the the the the the the the the to the to the to 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 toda. today. today. today. today today ta. today ta. today today today today today today to to to to to the the the the seven people witnessed him land the fish on his own. Quote, it was a big fish, said Mike Stepsky, the captain of the Tartan 2. It's a tournament Stepsky has participated in for decades.

Quote, we were so excited to finally get a win because we've been, I've been doing this tournament since I was a little kid, Setsky said. Valets catch on the tartan 2 put him in second place on the leaderboard, but his bragging rights and dreams of a $7,500 prize did not last long. The tournament rules state, first, second and third prize winners are required to take and pass a polygraph test. Valle failed the test. Oh. Hmm.

Benny Sheens in the same boat. The Long Islander failed the polygraph test too, disqualifying him from winning $25,000 for first place. Sheen caught the more than 20 pound fish aboard his friend's boat. Quote, from the get-go, people didn't believe it just because it was a very large fish. Anyone could have caught that fish. We were fishing next to 250 boats in the middle of everybody. It wasn't like we did anything different, Sheen said. It's just fishing, baby. Yeah. During the greatest bluefish tournament on earth, local tackle shops must verify the weight and condition of the fishermen's catches. But then there's the lie-detected test. General Manager Kristen Oakesen told NBC Connecticut responds, quote, we'd, quote, quote, quote, quote, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we th, we th, we th, we th, we th, we t, we t, we t, we t, we tak, tak, tak, tak, tak, tak, tak, tak, tak, tak, tak, took, took, today, today, today, 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, th, thi, thi, thi, that, took, took, took, took took today, today, today, today, today, today, that, that, that, thi, the lie detector test. General Manager Kristen Oakeson told NBC Connecticut responds in part,

quote, we take great pride in upholding the rules that govern the competition, which includes catching fish within the specified time frames and within clearly defined boundaries. The captains of the boats that Valle and Sheen were on, say both men legitimately reeled in their big catches in bounds. Quote, we have it on video. The pictures, everything he did. He gets disqualified. I don't know, said Zach Auer, who was captaining the boat sheen was on during his catch. Quote, I run the boat. I told in the position where we caught the fish. We have everybody in the boat who witnessed the catch. For some reason he failed the lie detector test and I don't even understand how that's possible," Stepski, who was the laise captain said. Well, there could be one way that's possible.

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Yeah. Different kind of sweat. Yeah. The sweat of a fish lion. Yeah. Quote, it's a well-established tradition to polygraph top potential winners, Oakson said. She said before the 2023 season, just one angler had ever been disqualified during her involvement with the tournament.

NBC Connecticut responds reached out to Charles Morgan for his expert opinion on using a polygraph to verify the results of a fishing tournament. Americans love to fuck to run a polygraph for a fishing tournament. They love just like whatever's going to give them just a little bit of cop authority. How can we Americanize this just like a little bit more? Yeah. Only way they could make it better is to execute you when you fail the test. Yes. Just like chick-chick on the spot. Pup. The University of New Haven professor said he does not think it's a good way to sni- to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the th. th. th. th. thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi, whatever is just thi, whatever is just thi, whatever is just whatever is just whatever is just whatever the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. Whatever th. Whatever th. Whatever th thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thiiiiiiii thiii thiiii thi thi thi thi thi thi thi th like chick-chick on the spot. Pop-up. The University of New Haven professor said he does not think it's a good way to sniff out a cheetah. So

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If you really want to get anything out of it. Quote, the polygrapher, the polygrapher is going to interpret any anxiety reaction as a sign of lying. And so that could be the the normal the normal the normal the normal the normal the normal the normal the normal the the the the the the the the the the tholololgionionionionion, that that thiolomeomeomeomeomeau. that that that that that that that that that that that that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, tooom. tooom. tooom. tooom. tooom. that's, that's, that's. that's. that's. that's. that's. toe. toa. toa. toa. toa, toa, toa. toa. toa. toa, toa. toa. tooometeenue. tooometeen, the. the. tooomorrow. tooe. tooe. tooe. tooe. tooe. tooe. tooe. toe. the skin conductance and make them look like a liar when in fact it could be the normal worry that someone has, Morgan said. The problem with that kind of test is that you have lots of chances to look guilty when you're not? And that's why I say the results of these tests you have lots of chances to look guilty when you're not. And that's why it says the results of these tests are not admissible as evidence in court

in Connecticut. You're telling other people that I'm a dishonest person and you've used a non-scientific and invalid scientific device, Morgan said. Someone's got to shut this guy out. Yeah, I'm pretty mad if I got tardedededed as a t as a t as a t as a t as a tasied as a t as got tard as a cheetah in my beautiful fishing community. Yeah, everyone's like, oh, yeah, remember when you caught that big fish? Not, you're liar. Well, you did catch the fish, but fish liar. We're suggesting that you caught it out of bounds or out of the time frame and then lied about it, and then convinced everyone else on the boat to lie about it.

I feel like it's actually the fishing organization doing some kind kind kind kind about how fishermen always lie about how big the fish was? Well who's laughing now? No one. Certainly not the listeners of this podcast. Who wants to be called a liar when you know you were doing the right thing you know? Sheen said reflecting on his disqualification. I want to be told him a bad boy, preferably in front of a crowd. What do my children think? They think I was lying? What does my family think? You know?

I think it's a cast doubt of my integrity, Valet said. Is this wife doing the fucking... I don't respect you anymore and I'm going to...tiny little dick. Yeah, little boy dick. What does Kevin think you should have pushed back on the lie detector You fucking your pussy. Yeah, why didn't you say something? Why didn't you say something? You make twice as much as the polygrapher does. Kevin and Rick won't talk to me. Chris won't even look at me. Because of Valle and Sheen's disqualifications the third and fourth finishes on the leader board ended up as first and second place place place place place place place place place place place place place place. the to the the the the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. to to to to to to to th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. 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. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. te. te. te. te. to. teeeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. to. te. thi. the third and fourth finishes on the leaderboard ended up as first and second place winners. Tournament organizers tell us they have full confidence these anglers adhered to all of

the rules. Remember the captain of Sheen's boat? Zach Auer? Yes. Oh boy do I? Well, he was the official fourth place winner of the greatest bluefish tournament on earth in 2023. That means he was the number two. But they were on the same fucking boat.

So what the fuck? He was sent a check prize from the tournament despite Sheen's disqualification. Two others on his boat placed in the top ten too. According to tournament rules, anglers who placed below third do not have to take a polygraph to claim a prize. Oh, I'm so mad. So he likely did. If there was fraudulent behavior, and I'm not saying there is, because I don't think there was, I am, I am. He would have done the exact same thing, except they don't have to polygraph test him, so he's just coasting on there. coasting on in there. What the fuck is this system?

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No, oh, oh. This comes to us from Sky News. US man sues Powerball lottery after apparent $340 million jackpot win turns out to be a mistake. Oopsies. Oh, just kidding. They moonlighted him? They moonlighted him.

Yeah. Like from the movie Moonlight? No, from the awards. Oh, the thing that happened where they got the award letters mixed up. Where you got the awards wrong and they gave it to, uh, they gave it to moonlight and then they're like hang on a second yeah it's it's for the worst movie yeah I'm moonlight that was a good movie yeah that was it a US man who thought he'd won 340 million dollars on a lottery is suing the organizers and a website which published his numbers it it has said, by mistake.

John Cheeks alleged he saw his numbers on the DC lottery website the 8th of January 2023. After buying a ticket for the Power World Draw held the day before. In his legal action, he has claimed his chosen numbers, a mix of family birthdays and other numbers of personal significance, significance were online for three days. Mr Cheeks told NBC for Washington, affiliate of Sky News, the US partner NBC News. He quote, got a little excited, but didn't shout, didn't scream. Kept it together. Yeah. I just politely called a friend. I took a picture, she recommended, and that was it.

I went to sleep. You're fucking kidding me? I'm not going to sleep after that. You just found out you just won $340 million and you're like, oh, well, tomorrow's going to be huge. I'm going to be threat. I'm immediately buying whole life has changed at this point. I should really fix through it. Everything I know is yeah. Everything.

This is got to change the nature of my personal relationships and my living circumstances irrevocably. Time to hit the hay. Quote I'm not a regular except for when the jackpot goes up he said. So he's playing it smart. But the numbers post on the website were not those pulled out in the draw, because according to Mr Cheeks's case, a lottery contractor, Washington-based T. O.T. Enterprises accidentally posted the wrong numbers, that it was, quote, a mistake.

I'm just going to say it, party foul. Yes, that's a bad thing to do to a person. Don't get that wrong. I think when you say that, you have to give them the $340 million. I kind of think you do as well. That's my official legal opinion on this one. It's like if the tag says the price on the shelf, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, the, th, th, th, th, thi, to, thi, the to, thi, thi, thi, the, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, they, they, thi, they, thi, thi, thi, thi, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, thi, th like if the tag says the price on the shelf. Yeah, you gotta run it through on that. You take it up to the person and you yell, you have to scream right in the, in the cashier's face. Yeah. It's just the price actually.

And what it says on the sign. And then I have to ring up someone else to like get them to go and check and then you're all just their all just their all just their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their to to to them to go and check and then you're all just standing there and waiting. And the conversation's very bad because you just yelled at that person. Yeah, and it turns out store policy is that like it's not actually, they don't have to, if the sign's wrong, they don't have to supply it for that price. Well you do. You absolutely do. Do you? Well, at least the one I wish will.. If it, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, if it, like, like, if it, like, like, like, like, if it, 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, 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, if. If. If. If. If. If. If the. If you. If you. If you. If you. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the, right? That is the scanning policy is that if you've got to match whatever it said on the ticket. That's probably so that people don't get killed with like a hammer.

Yeah, there's probably just stop hammer deaths, I think. Nowadays, I don't know if you've seen these in your sort of modern woolleurses and coles. They got those little digital thes, thes, thes, thes, thes, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thus, thus, that, that, that, thus, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, 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, th, th, th, th, th, that, that, that, the that, they, they, they that, they, they, that, they, that, that, that, they that, that, that, that, that, that, they got digital price tickets instead of paper ones. Just like millions of little, uh, little screens. Oh, little bits of e-waste. Yeah, millions of little bits of e-waste that I'm sure fuck out all the time. Whenever I see something like that, my first thought is, hey, how could that ever go wrong? Yes. Uh, in his lawsuit, Mr Cheeks said when he tried to claim on the ticket, it was rejected. You can't laugh at Mr Cheeks. He said when he tried to claim it was rejected and he met another brick wall at the Washington Office of Lottery and Gaming Prize Center.

He said- Oh, he went cheeks against the wall? That's right. He said an employee he told him the ticket was quote, no good and he should quote, just throw it in the trash can and then quote, you're not going to get paid. There's a trash can right there. Oh, this guy's solving the problem right here. Don't say it that many times. Yeah, hey I can't stress this enough. Put it in the trash. Mr Cheeks put the ticket in a safe deposit box instead he said and contacted a lawyer. As for the lengthy gap between the alleged events and his case being filed Mr Cheeks said he has

been immersed in his work as he is trying to set up a bank for people who don't qualify for traditional mortgages. Oh boy, don't do that. I just don't think like you as one person can start a bank for people that don't pass credit checks. Like, sure, we should look after the people that... Yes. But also... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know about that.

Might have been easier if you had $340 million though. Yeah, you could just give them the money. Yeah, shame about that. Mr Cheeks's lawyer, Richard Evans, this is lawyer Dick. They have said that one of their contractors made a mistake. I haven't seen the evidence to support that yet. Even if a mistake was made, the question becomes, what do you do about that?

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You're really going to hear about it on that one. Yeah. You really fucked us on this one. Yeah, to the tune of a quarter of a billion dollars. That's coming out of your paycheck. Yeah, that's coming out of your next 1,500 years of paychecks. Yeah. We're just gonna get a guy in to kill you with a sword. Now don't go anywhere. He'll be here next week. You recognize the area manager?

Greg, yeah, sorry, we just wouldn't have a quick chat with you just like a little sit down. We're gonna kill you right now because you fucked this so bad. We're actually going to beat you to death with hammers the two of us. Because we're absolutely fucked beyond belief because of what you did. Like this isn't even our main business. It's not possible for us to be any more fucked. You know how many newspapers and greeting cards? But not anymore because of you. Yeah, no we don't do anything, Jeff, we just kill a guy with hammers and then run.

Yeah, we kind of flip the coin whether we kill ourselves or we head on over to the Liberian Peninsula. Yeah, we're thinking suicide by cop at the moment. But we'll just see where the afternoon goes. Yeah. Powerball, the multi-state lottery association, Tioote enterprises and various government bodies named in the lawsuit have been approached for comment for NBC said.

Taotie has managed the DC lottery website since 2022, it's said on its own side. Jeff, you are Buntavistas bozo of the week. Yeah. You fucked it so bad. You fucked up. They have to give this guy some money, right? The mental state you would enter into after finding out that you want a third of a billion dollars. How low we're going though? I give him 10 grand.

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