Two In The Think Tank - 177 - Astounding Animals

Episode Date: March 13, 2019

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Hello and welcome to do go on, the podcast where we do go on a bit about things. My name is Matt Stewart, I am here with no one at all. I'm in my accommodation in Adelaide because we did a live Adelaide episode this week. How exciting is that Dave slept on my floor? He's gone now back to Melbourne. Unfortunately, Jess as well. But just a couple days ago, we recorded a really fun episode in Adelaide, which we're about to do. Well, you're about to hear anyway. But before I do, I just want to tell you about some other live shows quickly,

including, well mine, I'm still in Adelaide because I'm still doing shows in Adelaide, I'm here until this Sunday at the National Wine Centre, which is a fantastic venue for comedy, and you can see much over there at 8 o'clock each night from here till Sunday From there, so I finished that on the 17th that goes straight to Brisbane Doing shows from the 19th to the 24th at the Brisbane comedy festival there at the powerhouse 845 In the evening and that will the sunday shows an hour earlier at 745 Then the Melbourne International comedy festival straight after that

So a couple days later March 28th that starts and that's on all the way through to April 21st, 7 o'clock, 6 o'clock Sundays and that's at the Chinese Museum. And after that, the last stop on the tour at this stage is the Sydney Comedy Festival and that is from May the 16th, just three shows, May the 16th, 18th and 19th and it's at the factory theatre. That's a 930 show, the Sunday show is 830. There you go, what a fascinating tale, that was, hopefully you enjoyed the journey as much as me. So hopefully I'll see you in Adelaide Brisbane, Melbourne or Sydney. And of course, Duke I-1 has also got live shows coming up at the Melbourne International Company Festival. We're doing Saturdays at 3pm at the European beer cafe. So you can see it's there on March 30th, April 6th, 13th and 20th.

And they should be super fun shows. I think we've mentioned in past episodes, we won't be putting them all out into the feed. So if you want to hear all those episodes, you've got to come along and be in the room. They're way more fun in the room anyway, probably. Hopefully they translate to fun on the recording as well. And then we're going to Koso Mui, our first podcast in Aja on June the 11th till June 16th. That's a whole week. It still doesn't make heaps of sense to me, but it's a festival of podcasts. The little dumb club is also going to me, but it's a festival of podcast. The little dumb club is also going to be there and they have a bunch of guests, usually

big Australian comedians. And yeah, we do multiple podcasts through the week. I'm hoping to maybe even do my first ever live primates there, but I have not talked to anyone about that. So I don't know if that's even possible, but that's a dream at the moment. So you can check out details for the live podcast at dogoonpod.com slash events. And you can check out details about my live comedy shows for bone dry at matsjewatcomedy.com slash gigs.

Anyhow, let's get on with the show. Let me introduce to you Dave, who's gonna introduce us live in Adelaide just a couple of days ago Over to you Dave Yeah Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to stage us. It's to go on high Yes, hello, Adaline! How you doing? Sounds very nice. Hey, this guy, I counted a match over there last night, and we reminisced about how a year ago he got drunk and embarrassed everyone. Welcome back, welcome back, but I will let you live that down.

You're back on the cans tonight, this is good. We have a blessing for yourself. How good is this? We've got a freaking runway. Yeah, you thought you were at the back? No way, high five all the back here. All right, audience participation, there's no one who's safe tonight, no one.

You run like a fucking nerd. All right. Even you're not safe. Yeah, all right. This is you, I'll do an impression of you. Okay, great. Was that accurate? That felt like a fucking nerd.

Oh, so accurate, so so accurate. But guys, how are you? Good? Thank you so much for coming out to sing us here. We can probably sit down to be honest. Yeah, right. What are you reckonin'? Hmm. Why? No, you're a lot closer than I am to you.

Yeah, that I placed the chairs. Bit of space wouldn't kill you. It sort of feels weird to me, but I can't. Yeah, it does actually. Now you're too far. Come back a bit more. There we go. Last night Dave... Dave slept on the floor of Matt's bedroom

on some couch cushions. Guys, we have really made it. Three couch cushions pushed against each other. Does not a mattress make? Can I just say that? But you said you were comfortable. What a way to tell me my hospitality wasn't up to scratch front of some amount of people here tonight.

That was what I was comfortable admitting to you. That's what I meant. That was all right, it was okay. I mean, you look great. Thank you. That's what I meant. It was, that was alright, it was okay, I mean. You look great. Thank you. Do I look well rested? Oh, they didn't, oh, they did not want to say.

You look like shit. Yeah. You have not aged well since yesterday. Oh, no. God, I suddenly look my age, I know. We just went to the Adelaide Zoo. Have you been there? Yeah.

But you made a fucking mess there, didn't you? Yeah. But you embarrassed all the animals, didn't you? Yeah. Yeah, you're great. Good on you, man. No, you're a lot. Did you shit yourself in front of a panda? Because I...

So, I had notoriously judgy. Yeah. We saw one panda of two pandas. The other panda. No one could tell us where it was. We could not find Wang Wang. Was Wang Wang? Yeah, we could not find Wang Wang. Major problem.

All right. Oh, that's not a universal thing, all right? You can't find Wang Wang. Hey, Adelaide, give us a cheer if you've Oh, that's not a universal thing, alright? You can't find Wang Wang. Hey, Adelaide, give us a cheer if you've listened to Do Go On before. Thank you. It's quite a cheer, thank you. And no shame, no embarrassment.

Give us a cheer if you've never heard this show before. A few. There's always a hesitation. Okay, all right, because I'm looking at it and I'm seeing you either clap on your partner's leg or being like, it's this guy, it's this guy. Which one of you has not heard the show? Oh, it's you. Dave.

Oh, it's you. There he is. Yeah, that is the one. I was like, don't be shy, you know, as if like, we're not gonna pick on you and then straight away, you're like, you. Oh, sorry, I meant like, you. Sorry, I meant like welcome. Yeah, that was a welcoming threat.

Yeah. We like that in Victoria. Yeah, but having fun so far. Yeah. What did you say? It's great. OK, what is that about? What are you doing there?

Is that an Adelaide accent? No, that's an Irish accent. Irish accent. Ah, to be sure. You piece of shit. You piece of shit. Hey, I'm a L.A. So I'm like, some percent Irish.

All right, Matt, I've got a... I've got a... Draw a line here because basically every accent you say, don't worry, I'm 1% and then whatever that accent looks. No, I'd be... I'd be double digits percent Irish. You're a man of the world. Yeah. Where are you from? Kel- Kel- Kel Kenny? No, I'd be mulled. I'd be double digits percent Irish. You're a man of the world. Yeah

Where are you from Kelkenny? Kill Kalani I'm a Kalani anyway, that's a matter. We'll stop looking at you now. I won't I'll never stop Blood brother To be fair, we really can't see much beyond you, so you're like the back row to us. So I can't say we won't look at you again, but if I do, I will quickly advert my gaze. Now I'm panicking, Dave, help me. Alright, I just wanted to ask, give us a round of applause if you're from Adelaide or near to Adelaide. Most people from Adelaide?

Very good. Are you proud of that? Very cool. Okay, how about Adelaide? Right? Very good. Are you proud of that? Very cool. Okay, how about Adetanas? Let me hear you. If you're Adetanas, where are you from? You're from Melbourne. Anybody else? From somewhere not our town? He's from Ireland, you just said. Hey, you should check out the River Dance episode.

It's a classic and... Yeah, do yourself a favour. Yeah, he's not kidding. We talked about River Dance for an hour and a half. I couldn't believe it either. But we did it. Yeah, do you suffer favor? Yeah, he's not kidding. We talked about dividends for an hour and a half. I couldn't believe it either. Oh, we did it. We absolutely did it. Do you have your heard of Michael Flatley?

The man can tap. Oh, right. That is a true thing. He can. And he will. He can tap. He's a great taper. Now, thank you so much for coming out

to see us here in Adlet. First time here. Great to be here at the National Wine Center Lots of barrels on the wall. Yeah, it's good to be surrounded, you know Feel at home. I mean if they all ruptured at once we'd all drown so What a way to go I went on a winery to yesterday And we're at one of the wineries they took us us down into where they used to store wine,

and now it's just this nice little seller area. But before we went in, she was like, yeah, so they used to store wine in there, and these holes you can see on the ground were how they tested the wine. One guy drowned in the room we're going into. All right, follow me. I hope they've fished him out before they bottled it, you know what I mean?

Yeah, would that whole batch be ruined, direct? Or would they just not tell anyone? I think they'd just say,'re Okie and a little bit. But you're... But you're... There's quite a lot of body. A lot of body, a lot of body, very good. That was there, I was right there.

I went human. Yeah, that was great, that was. No, but it took us too long. That's embarrassing. But we got there. Yeah. See, that's why I But we got there. Yeah. See, that's why I like you being far away, because I need to have my high five, you basically fall off

the chair. Ah. OK, who wants to show this stuff? Ah! What do you say we start the show? If you haven't heard the show before, or just a little reminder, what we do here is we usually take it and turn the report on a topic suggested by a listener

that the other two don't know what it's going to be but because we're going to have some fun here in Adelaide today we've decided to all do a mini report on overall so you get a little bit of the three of us and the overall theme that we're going for is just what are we talking about today famous animals I did this for Resultled Asal. Yeah. To be honest, I didn't realize it was famous animals. I just heard animals. I thought it was just animals.

Was it famous animals? You said famous animals. And you read half a message, which is probably about right, yeah. Yeah, I can definitely see that. That's an average. Well, I mean, have you written a mini report about something animal related?

Yeah. Then you're fine. Good job. Okay, great. Yeah, so wait. I'm going to kick things off. Fantastic. And we usually start with a question.

Well, that is, most of us usually start with a question. I wrote a question, don't you? Fantastic. Great work. Thank you a question there. Yeah. Fantastic. Great work. Thank you. So great. I deserve that. I never write the question.

I'm an idiot. You've probably figured that out already about the three of us really, that there isn't one idiot there's three, but I'm a bit of an idiot. And I forget to write the question of us really, that there isn't one idiot, there's three, but I'm a bit of an idiot. And I forget to write the question until Dave says, and we always start with a question, like, fuck! But I did write one, and my question is, which animal attracts tens of thousands of visitors on one day of the year? Oh, shut up is Bill Murray adjacent? Oh, phallap. International phallap day. Yeah. Featuring Bill Murray. Bill Murray adjacent, okay. I'm gonna see what

you're doing here. Murray River. We're talking platypus. Yeah, the breed of animal that's famous. Hey, okay, but this is actually a competition where adding up who gets the most rights. I'm going to say groundhog. But what's his name? Bill Murray. Bill Murray. Oh, Bill Murray. Bill Murray. Oh, Bill Murray. Bill Murray. Oh, Bill Murray. Bill Murray. Oh, Bill Murray. Bill Murray.

Oh, Bill Murray. Bill Murray. Oh, Bill Murray. Bill Murray. Bill Murray. Oh, Bill Murray. Bill Murray. Bill Murray. Oh, Bill Murray. Bill Murray. Bill Murray. Bill Murray. Oh, Bill Murray. Bill Murray. Bill Murray. Bill Murray. Oh, Ponte Tini- I said that. For the recording, it sound like Jess said it, but that was me. You are getting very good at your Jess impression. Oh, I'm Jess! Man, it's not wrong. So you want to say that is better than expected, so. Yeah, so, yes, my topic is Punks Tini-F Film, made famous by the film Groundhog Day. And all boy is it weird.

The backstory is strange and amazing. Groundhogs creatures within the rodent family, the way between 12 and 15 pounds and can live up to 8 years. They are omnivores, they commonly eat grass, vegetables, fruit, they can climb trees and they can swim. I'm just giving you a bit of background. You're right. This is full David Attenborough here.

This is really good stuff. Imagine if he was like that, they can swim. It's super cute. It's go, paddle, paddle, paddle, paddle. Just giving you a bit of background here, guys. They each fall, groundhogs go into hibernation until much. And when they emerge from hibernation, their initial purpose is to find a mate. They ready to frrrrk. But when I talk about just any groundhog, we're talking about the most famous

and inaccurate groundhog meteorologists. At daybreak on February 2nd, Groundhog day, Punxatoni Phil awakens from his burrow on Gobblers Nob. I haven't been able to find my Gobblers Nob in ages. Gobblers Nob. That's great. Be honest, that's why you chose this isn't it? Yeah, yeah. Started reading and went.

Now, according to the tradition, if Phil sees his shadow and returns to his whole, he has predicted six more weeks of winter, but if he does not see his shadow, he has predicted an early spring. Here's a quite a skill set for a groundhog. Does anyone ever try and mess with that and get some light that hovers over him to avoid him seeing his shadow? Yeah, they just put him in an interrogation room. And thus it changes the weather throughout the year.

If you want spring. And I do. I do. I do. So this tradition has been celebrated since 1887. So it's a really old groundhog. It's a very old groundhog. And they can only live to be eight. Well, no.

According to the law, LOR, not law, like you're under arrest, but a groundhog. OK. Well, back to the interrogation room. Sorry. That's a weird law. It is the a groundhog. Back to the interrogation room. That's a weird law. It is the same groundhog. And he has outlived the expected lifespan by about 16 times

and is 132 years old. Wow. But I tell you what, he doesn't look a day over 130. And apparently, he has been sustained this whole time. His secret for a long life. Maybe you could take some of this home. Is a drinks of Groundhog Punch or the elixir of life? Wow.

Wait, Groundhog Punch, is he drinking other Groundhogs? Yes. That's... He's punching other Groundhogs. LAUGHTER So... This keeps me young. Pfft. So this keeps me young. So the movie Groundhog Day came out in 1993, I believe, and before that the average crowd

that would gather a year was about 2,000 people, which is still way too many people. But the year after it was released, that grew to 10,000, and now it's crowds as large as 40,000 people gather every year. Every year. And they stay up all night, and they do this ceremony at like five in the morning. And I saw, you can YouTube it. There was just a bunch of middle-aged white men in Tuxedo's singing and dancing to try and do some crowd work

and get people pumped before the main event, which is a groundhog. And presumably 40,000 people turn up, but then like eight people get a glimpse. Yeah, because it's a groundhog. Unless they have big screens, which I wouldn't be that. That would be amazing. It's on the jumbo screen. So, the inner circle, which is the group that facilitate these proceedings,

is like I said, bunch of old white dudes wearing top hats and tuxedos. That sounds so sinister. The inner circle. I know. The inner circle. What are they doing to that groundhog? But it's something so whimsical and fun and silly, but it sounds like a cult. Yeah, they're still murdering people, but for a fun reason. The inner circle, they're called it sounds like a cult. Yeah they're still murdering people but for a fun reason. Lina's that they're a band in a circle. You remember that? No one remembers in a circle. It's not them.

That song sweat. How'd that go? La la la la long. La la la la long. Long long long long long. Come on. That song's f**k. Girl I want to make you sweat. Swe you can't sweat no more and if you cry

I'm gonna push it I bought the board oh And oh no oh My god, yeah, sorry for bringing that up Because it's so fun that song and you're like la la la la la Oh my God. Yeah. Sorry for bringing that up. Because it's so fun that song. And you're like, la la la la la la la la. Oh my God.

And some of you might think that Matt doing the accent there was quite offensive. But you've got to remember that 1% of his lineage can be traced back to the Caribbean. So that's fun. What accent? That was my normal singing voice. I liked that there.

I like, we should do more duets. Okay, that's a note. And even the, no one else was interested. But I mean, they want me to sing alone. If they want it, sure. I got you, babe. Wait, are you something or share? Yeah.

LAUGHTER OK. So, the inner circle, not the creepy, rapy song guys. The vice president of the inner circle prepares two scrolls in advance of the actual ceremony One proclaiming six more weeks of winter and one proclaiming an early spring So Phil they get him out of his little box and they they hold him up and everyone goes Which if they saw in the wild they'd be like the groundhog but this one they're like Woo that's my impression of everyone in the crowd

But this one, they're like, woo! That's my impression of everyone in the crowd. Woo! Anyway, he's held, and he put him up on the top of the ceremonial tree stump. And he whispers to the president of the Inner Circle. I mean, you're hearing this? Yes. In a language known as ground hoggies.

No. I mean, the will treat it. It does sound like someone is about to sacrifice a Grant Huggies. The Grant Huggies. Yes. If he predicts more winter they slaughter him. What he whispers in his ear is girl I'm going to make you sweat. So you can't swear to me. So you can't swear to me. So you can't swear to me. And if you cry, no, so he whispers to him in their common language, ground hoggies. Only the president can understand ground hoggies.

And only if he is holding his magical presidential wooden cane. And only if he's holding his magical presidential wooden cane. In one place I read only the current president can understand groundhoggis, which really makes it sound like they kill any former presidents. But then it's like, oh, it's only when he's holding the magical wooden cane, of course. You know, your language stick. Yeah, yeah, it's the talky stick, we've all got it. The talky stick, yeah.

So he whispers in and he says, oh, saying a shadow, oh, haven't seen a shadow and then they make a prediction. And everyone just loses their mind and parties. He first received his name in 1966. So they've been doing this since the 1880s. In 1966. No, 1961 in 66. No, not in 61.

Not in 61. Oh. Yeah, that was close. Thank God. We would have to be... How did he genuinely race? After hearing a boring anecdote about a team, no one cares about. The origins of the name feel a bit unclear,

but some people have speculated that he's named indirectly after Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, which makes a lot of sense. It's very clear connection we can all see why that would make sense so I don't need to try and explain that. And Prince Philip wasn't alive in 1886 either was it? I reckon he was. Oh, yeah.

Have you seen that guy? Yeah. He's the only one on Earth older than that ground. Oh, and boy does he look his age well. Yeah, that's a thing. He looks bad. And it's like, you know, you're mega wealthy. Me?

No, God no. Prince Philip. Alright, yeah. Prince, you're, oh no. Dave slipped on cushions on your floor. That sentence was never addressed in any of us. So it's like, he should probably have access to better face creams, you know?

Oh, OK. That's what I'm getting at. Does that face creams work? Yeah. Maybe the ground hooks are getting under there. Someone confidently goes, so I was like, yeah, they do. That's all I need is someone to tell me something confidently and I believe it. Okay, great.

I'm going to get into it. What did you mean he was named incorrectly after Prince Philip? Indirectly. Oh, right. I heard incorrectly and I'm like, okay. Well, Prince Philip's name isn't Ponsatoni, so it does feel slightly incorrect. Ponsatoni. He said Prince Philip and I said, yep, yep, Ponsatone, so does Phil. Slightly incorrect. Ponsatone. He said Prince Philips and I said, yep, yep, Ponsatone Phil.

Sorry, it's on the birth certificate now, we can't change it. Well, if you sort of think about it as well, so he makes this prediction every year, has for 133 times now. And as of this year, he has made 133 predictions, predicting an early spring, 19 times, and the inner circle, in keeping with K-Fabe, the only other time I've seen this word, K-Fabe,

wrestling and weird cults. They claim 100% accuracy rate, which isn't correct. A K-Fabe is the agreed storyline behind the wrestling of you. So when wrestlers go home and they're all friends, if they're seen out in public, they have to be like, I'm gonna kill you.

Like if they sit next to each other on a plane and a fan looks over at them, the whole plane they have to be like, I hate you, 16 hours. I'd do that anyway when I'm in the fleet of the hours. I did that anyway when we flew to the UK. You're very annoying to sit next to me. And I sat in the middle. It was good fun. And Matt still fell asleep during the Incredibles 2.

Three times. He watched that movie so many times. I was watching with him. I was watching his screen. And every time I'd sort of look at him to see if you reacted to something he's doing this. Yeah. It was a very soothing film.

I don't know why you're still talking about that. It's months ago. Let go. Am I right? You've got to let go the past. Don't let him have that. But OK, so they say he's been right 100% of the time. In partial estimates, place the groundhog's accuracy

between 35 and 40%. So not that amazing. And a couple of other quick fun facts. In 1995, Phil flew to Chicago for a guest appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show. Did they let Oprah hold the stick so she could talk to him? No, only the president can talk to him. You can't just learn Groundhog E's, Dave.

Of course. You have to be the president of this weird cult club and have you hold your talk, you stalk your stick. You can learn Groundhog E's, but it takes a long long time. How long have you been wanting to get that in there? I think a thing and then I say it and then I instantly regret it. You know my process. It's not a lot of thought. And just to sort of finish up here as well, Phil isn't universally adored. I know everyone in this room is a big fan.

Huge. But he's a bit of a bad boy and even has a criminal record. He molded Oprah. She's like trying to speak groundhoggy. It turns out she insulted him. In 2015, the Mary Mack Police Department in New Hampshire issued an arrest warrant for Punx the Tony Phil having failed to disclose the extreme amount of snow that wouldn't shoot. And then in 2018 the Monroe County Sheriff's Office in Pennsylvania issued an arrest warrant for a room for deception, citing the winter was only supposed to last six more weeks, which would have ended on March 16,

and the county suffered a snowstorm on the second day of spring. They were like, let's get him! So anyway, so I was thinking next year we could go to see Punx's Tony film. Yeah, I miss it. Where is he? Punx's Tony. Oh. That makes sense. Yeah, that doesn't make sense. Oh, sorry. But you have to go up to his borough on Gobblers' knob.

Oh, right. Yeah. That'll never not be funny. That's still good. And that is my report on the bad boy, Punx the Tony feel. Yeah. Yeah. APPLAUSE

Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you so much. Oh, thank you so much. He's welcome. My turn. Great. Oh, I don't know. I had this topic suggested directly.

I'm doing my sound upshade downstairs and a listener came early in the week and he said, oh, what are you, what topic are you doing? And I said, I don't know. And he suggested one and I'm doing it. Anyway, is Sam here? Sam Douglas? Yay! Yeah!

That's him. Thanks so much, Sam. You're an influencer. So my question is, this is a local topic. Question is, who is believed to be South Australia's only bush ranger? In brackets, it's animal related. Can't you hear a jack? Oh, no, it's a good attempt.

I don't think so. I don't think so. I'd never heard of this. You don't have a stab. Let me throw it over to the Greg The bill Greg bill Greg bill Greg bill Bush Ranger

No, we don't know buffalo bill. Does anyone here? Outside of Sam does anyone heard of this? Great. All right, that's good good topic Sam Does anyone here? Outside of Sam. Outside of Sam? Does anyone here to this? Great, alright that's good. Good topic Sam. His name is John Francis Peggeri. Okay, the Birdman of Kuhrong. Is Kuhrong a place?

Thank God. Is Kuhrong a place? Sam has really led you astray. Sam wrote this Wikipedia page. Do we have anyone from Kuh wrong in? Salt level. Salt level, take that, take that. Do you have ancestors from Kuh wrong? Matt probably does as well to be honest. I got a little Kuh wrong blood in me. What's Kuh wrong like as a place? I Larkas a place? Really? Is it far from here? Oh, beautiful. I'm going to try and visit this week. You in particular. Careful, he will turn up. So a lot of this story is disputed, including the fact that he's South Australia's only

bush ranger, and also the fact that he existed at all. Sam, what are you doing? But it's a fun story all the same. Here it is. Hey, this one a little bit early in for you, mate. All right, ready? You know this one. Whereabouts are you from and island? I don't know what

that means. I like it when you crack yourself up. John Francis Pagody was born in the Limerick Island in 1864. Oh, well. He was born prematurely and grew to the heart of a seven-year-old with childlike facial figures. Facial figures? What am I trying to say there? Features. Features, great. Was he seven when he was the heart of a seven-year-old? Yeah, was he seven when he was seven-hot?

He was, yeah, he was the heart of a seven-year-old when he was seven. And also when he was eight, nine, and ten, yeah. Right, okay. He did. He did. Okay, wait for that. It's a weird way for it to be described, not giving him a heart, but that's, yeah, it's all.

No, all seven year olds are a certain heart. Yeah, I know, that's pretty good. This is off the official document. After leaving Ireland, he spent some time in South Africa, where apparently he spent a bunch of it with oscriges. All right, animals are involved now. Oh, look, that was a ton of worry. Scrooge's all right animals are involved now

Oh, son of worry From South Africa removed to Adelaide where he started a gang of boys Boy gang come on boys. I want to start a gang of boys That'd be fun. Yeah, do I will you away a gang of boys. That'd be fun. Yeah, do it. Are we your gang of boys? Yes. Using their smaller stature to their advantage, the gang's MO was sliding down chimneys to seal jewelry.

How do you get out? Bloody good question. Back up the chimney at a window that you could have got in in the first place. I guess you get in you can unlock the door from the inside. Sure. And clean up the soot that you brought down the chimney. Yeah that was a gentleman gang of boys. Bullying. According to corongcounty.com.au, goldury was his, did I say that wrong? No, you're right. They're just laughing at that sort of... That's all website.

Yeah, that exists. For all county.org, pretty exciting stuff. Well, anyway, according to that resource, Goldjury was his favourite. The website said, eventually this trade caught up with him as he had a tendency to flaunt his winnings by draping the load over his body and parading around half-naked. Like Mr. T. I pity the fool who did not climb down this chimney. Peggy would wear the spools of his robberies covering himself from head to toe in the shiny

blink. And then, yeah, head and room down. It's like, it's still you, but anyway. People are like, that's my gold necklace. But I'm also imagining him running through the streets like Dave runs, so that's pretty funny. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.

That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. How have you made it this far in life? David was with his shirt off though.

Alright, take two. Oh wow, what a rig, look at that. Guys, I need you to play along. Yeah, you're impressed, alright. The majority of his gangmates were eventually arrested, arrested, and, uh, but he avoided that and he laid low for quite a while. Lately, the next time Peggy was seen was near the town of Miningi. Miningi.

Miningi. Still bedazzled with jewelry only now riding on the back of an ostrich You might question where the man found an ostrich in 1800s South Australia Hmm, I do question that, yes. Well it seems, people have looked in at this, it seems that there were wild ostriches in the Kuhrong area of the time, apparently farms in the region used to breed them for their feathers and then released some after the business was no good. And up until 40 or 50 years ago there were still feral ostriches in their Naurang Peninsula

and Kuhrong area. Ah, and then what happened to them? They all flew to heaven. When you said your fact about them being in that area, I heard an audible, Wow, that was great. Wow. You're killing it Matt Matt Matt great job As a bush ranger and ostrich back

It is said that pegaday was responsible for over a dozen holdups in South Australia The man was running out of room on his body for his booties He started putting it on the ostriches neck as well. That is a fucking blinged up ostrich. Now that ostrich sort of has the attitude that goes with it too, it's like, I know I look good. Is that an ostrich? That's all sort of fun crime.

He's also thought of killed two travels anyway. All... But the Jews! All this while, he avoided capture by the authorities, but his luck soon ran out. Went on, September the 17th, 1899. Only two years after the Saints played in the inaugural season of the VFL.

Anyway, on that date. Hold on, hold on. Wow. On the 17th. I don't know, heckle him from back there. 17th September 1899, he tried to rob a man named Henry Carmichael. Carmichael was coming ashore on his boat after a day of fishing and he was ambushed by pegaddi armed on ostrich back.

But Carmichael refused to yield. Peggy fired off a couple of shots at the fisherman, but missed. Has he got a gun or is he shooting his ostrich? Pepew! He's got a couple of ornamental pistols. Oh, fun. Blingy, blingy guns.

So he missed, now Carmichael was holding the upper hand and also his rifle. And pegady fled on his ostrich. Carmichael had his horse tied up nearby the dock and quickly jumped on board and gulped off in pursuit. Wait, ostriches are pretty far, suddenly. Yeah, really quick. And the sandy terrain was better suited to the ostrich and pegady pulled away. Carmichael cut his losses and dismounted the horse,

drew his rifle and started firing off at peggy. Hitting both peggy and his noble steed. I'm more sad about the ostrich to be honest. What, do you mean ostrich or did the guy accidentally shoot his own horse? Oh no! My own horse shot me! No, he shot peggy and then he Why are you in all the shopmen? No, he's shoppicking in there, he was really excited about it, so he went to Telly's horse.

But I can't, but I did it! But I can't, but he's best friend. But I can't. They grew up together. It was a bluff up, yeah. As little ponies. That's not how it works but what? So Carmichael wrote up the Sandbank to make sure he was dead. He found their dead offstridge but no sign of peggy just a trail of blood leading

into the bushes. According to the brand South Australia website, The What South Australia brand. It's a lot about promoting South Australia. The eccentric bush ranger was never seen again, but his stash of gold chains and jewels are said to be buried deep in the kuh wrong. What's the kuh wrong? Sort of the town. The area? Oh, area, yeah, it's deep in the area, okay.

Yeah, it's buried deep in the area. Skeptic say this story is a load of ostrich shit as it was, it's only discovered in recent years after the town of Maninghi called out for interesting stories about the area to use as promotion. According to Maninghi, Progress Association member Denise Mason, when we lost the water out of the lake, Miningi was becoming a dying town and tourism was probably the only thing that could get it back on the map. But without water, we had to find some other ways. The story is shit. They fully stand by.

The story has said to have been uncovered in an old magazine article titled The Bird Man of Kuhrong, but many seem to have doubts about its authenticity. Rida Rodd is down as a skeptic, saying that if you visit the town asking for information, you'll be handed a photocopied story that looks like it came from an old magazine. It seems to be the only thing ever written about Pegody. It seems slightly sus. Goes on to say, the trouble is that learned histories of Australian bush ranging don't mention pegaddi.

And the only decent hits on Google take you to the story. They hand out in Maninghi. I suspect pegaddi is the figment of some Adelaide PR guys imagination. It's a bit of a downer. I'm toyed with just pretending this is real, but anyway, they stand by, but yeah, it does sound a little bit sus.

And he's that PR guy's name, Sam. Sam Douglas, yeah. Because you're really getting the story out there. Either way, the town unveiled a statue of a settled ostrich in 2009. This episode is brought to you by Progressive. Most of you aren't just listening right now. You're driving, cleaning, and even exercising. But what if you could be saving money by switching to Progressive?

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It's, it's quite old. Anyway, so it's a pretty great description. even if it's a fictional character, it's a great description. Described as looking like a bearded child, naked above the waist and draped in gold jewelry, brandishing two ornamental pistols, he could be described as Australia's most eccentric bush ranger, if he ever existed. Anyway, that's my report, what do you reckon, real? I reckon if he shaved his beard off he could look like just any regular 7-year-old. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, did emerge from the bushes tonight. And here's my ostrich. He was shot. That's right.

Forgot that bit. Forgot that bit. I choose to believe. Yeah. What do you guys reckon? You reckon woo. Yeah, that makes sense. The other day, what do you think?

I want to believe. But. Oh, but nothing. I do believe. I wanted to, made myself believe in our belief. I think that was great. After your research, you're thinking it's probably real, isn't it? I think it's probably really.

You know, back at history's pages are littered with lost factoids. And I mean, they're not littered with it actually. They're not littered with the lost factoids of lost facts and stories. And this is another, in a long line, of fantastic stories lost to history's page. But luckily found in a magazine article and handed in to the tourism board of a small area with a dried up lake. So, Taylor's old as time time and I look forward to hearing it yet again. You've got a similar one to tell us right now, Dave. Well first of all,

we've got to give Matt a big round of applause to the third man. We have one final animal based report to go and I'm going to get onto it now with this question, you can answer me this. Don't look. Well, where you've written question is blank. David, right question? Damn it! It's true!

It's true! Uh, Jess. I'm gonna hang out back here for a bit. Jess, he did it topless. Who did it topless? Shut up, Matt. This is cool. We've never done one with wireless multiple. Oh, it's the best. Look at this. Hello. It's fun. It's something that's out there.

It's seats over here. This is great. I've always great on an audio podcast. Yeah. What a for us to wonder. Oh Dave, good thanks Dave, how are you? Yeah, I'm quite good. My name's Josh, how are you? Dave, you fucked it mate. It's a real boring new character you've come up with. I'm sorry, lovely, lovely character. No, I'm Josh, I'm having a great time with a show. I like leaving Dave on the stage alone. Don't worry, yes, I got this. Dave, I'm sitting in the third row and I cannot see you.

Can you sit up, mate, please? Yes, sit up. Do your mother not teach you to have a break across the room? Oh, there he is. Everyone, go to the bit here. What do I ask my question that you can ask your chums around you. Okay, Josh is a real good chums, such character of mine. Yeah, yeah, I'll help you out, Dave and Josh. Hi Josh, I'm so sorry about this. Okay, my question is Harry is the name.

Harry, oh, it was my question. Harry was the first animal of his kind in Australia but what kind of animal was Harry? What? Yeah I found the first ever one but... And his name was Harry and here he is now. Yeah you know animals have Adam and Eve stories as well. One bass, we're Greg and Harry. They had two boys. They did have two boys and Square Poop. Anyway, Josh, what are you reckon?

Emu. Emu, good choice. First ever, Emu. Can't talk. Can't talk Dave, what are you reckon? I'm going to help out the audience and say it's not a negative animal. Does anybody know? It got here somehow? Oh, anyone have an idea camel Look, I don't want to dust your dreams, but he was a camel whoever said camel

Yes, yes, you are right to clap you're right to clap We see like a nursery rhyme or something about Harry? Why am I thinking something that Camel had? One hump, Alice. Thank you. So it's not Alice, the camel. I was like Harry doesn't fit in what I'm in the tune I'm thinking of. That's what I've been thinking this entire time. No, I'm afraid it's not Alice. It is Harry who was the first ever camel in Australia.

And I was actually named after Prince Harry. Yeah, that's right. Indirectly. Yeah, indirectly. I indirectly. Or incorrectly. I was going to do a primate related story, but I didn't want to burn any sweet material in this stupid podcast.

Good, good podcast. It's not on this side, not on this side project. All right, so is anyone heard of Harry the camel. No. We've got a hand going up hand up the back. Good to have you a hand up the back. Thank you. No, no water for you on your report. Off you go. Have you time? I have also chosen a local topic. Alala, alala, long. Alala, alala, long. I'm going to sing that every time you drink now. Oh, okay. For the rest of our lives. Well, I'm pretty la, long. La la la la, long, long. I'm going to sing that every time you drink now. Oh, OK. For the rest of our lives.

Well, I'm pretty thirsty, Jess. La la la la, long. La la la, long, long, long, long, long, long, long. Oh, well, can you believe I drank that much? OK, Harry the Camel. We start with a man called John Ainsworth Horricks. Bit of a local hero, do you know John Horricks? Horricks, I'm getting a nod over here.

Do you know him personally? I'm all with that. Born in 1818, wow. You are looking good for your age. You look fantastic. Wow. See, face cream. You're a member of it.

Honestly, Matt, I keep leaving it in your bathroom. In the communal house we share. All right, before we get to Harry, do you know Harry the Camel as well? Oh, great. Well, strap in. Well, first John Ainsworth Horricks was born in 1818 in Lancashire, England. One of eight children, do they know what was causing it? Too many kids.

He was educated in Paris for two years, but ran away to join his family who had since moved from England to Vienna in Austria. So his family sent him to another country and then moved away to another. Get a hint, John. Did they tell him? Did they tell him? He's the least favourite of eight kids. That's the thing. That's the thing.

But he arrived right here in South Australia, in 1839, on his 21st birthday. Water present. Welcome to the big smoke. You try to suck up? Yeah. They've already bought tickets and turned up. You don't have, like, stop kissing their asses. Looks, to be honest, I was mocking you a little bit. Oh, then proceed.

He's been from Paris to 1830 South Australia. Bit of a difference. I mean, you keep up with Paris these days though, am I right? The dipole. The Paris at the South. Australia. I thought I was manned Gambia. All right, John was six foot two, dark hair with blue eyes and possessed a rugged constitution. Yeah, dream boat. What's John's deals here? Put in a good word for you.

I'm just not talking. What about, what about, old man over here? Were you put in a good word for just? Let me know. So, the Australian Dictionary of Biography says... The Australian Dictionary of Biography. Which is a favourite source of maths and I've dug into it today. Fantastic source.

It's fun. It's fun time. If you're looking for someone to do on this Sunday afternoon, I'd just dive in. It's so much to learn. So, it says about him on arriving in South Australia? He brought with him a family servant, a blacksmith, a shepherd, four marino rams, sheep dogs, tools, sufficient clothing for five years, and a church bell. No kitchen sink though. It's quite an eclectic mix really. Yeah he's thought of everything. Five years of clothing. He'd be a nightmare to travel with. You know, it's people who just pack way too much.

Oh, my god, I imagine the carry on like, it's five years of clothing. Oh, yeah. Being sane. At the time in Adelaide, before people could be awarded land for farming, they had to wait for a land survey, so they went through different areas at a time and then divvied up the land. But John wasn't the waiting type and he

just went out and just started farming anyway. Finally, the land survey came back and awarded him much less land than he was actually using. But he still managed to get 9,000 sheep and has believed to have established the first vineyard in the Claire district. What a guy! Wow. Sorry. Wow. Wow.

I mean, respect in the National One Center. Yeah, he gets just done. I like that. In 1842, following the death of his father, he went back to Britain, but returned to South Australia in early 1844 because he had financial difficulties. But when he returned, he was born to the farming lifestyle, and he wanted adventure.

So Old John rented out his old farming properties and organized an expedition to find more agricultural lands near Lake Torrance. You guys know this, Lee? Guys, this local reference after local reference, I mean, I haven't heard, you say, wow, what? He said, quote, oh, he later wrote, I wanted a more stirring life.

Staring, stirring. That's a good word, I like that. Let's use stirring more. OK. Yeah, Matt, lift your stirring game. OK. Come on, mate. All right, I'll do that.

Thank you. LAUGHTER He tried to get government backing for his expedition up to the lake, but couldn't raise any money, so he had to raise the cash privately. The track was supposed to take four months, and the small party consisted of six men, two carts, six horses, twelve goats, and Harry, the first ever camel in Australia. Harry was one of nine camels loaded onto a boat at the Canary Islands.

Quick question, did I know what was causing it? I'm guessing it was some sort of camel breeding program. Well, he was one of nine. Too many. Loaded into a boat at the Canary Islands. One more, get one more camel. Or lose four of them. Well, they lost most of them just. It's good.

They got to London and they sent six to Australia and when they finally got to Adelaide, Harry was the only one left alive. I'm still standing. He's grooming on the way out. Campbell's can last a long time with that water, but not that many months. Wow, go Harry. Maybe he was just the most ruthless. Like, if there was any kind of water source, he would like bully the others out of it. Maybe we don't like Harry. Do we like Harry?

Well, let me describe Harry to you. He's a camel. End of description. So Harry seemed to be a useful addition, he was able to carry heavy loads of up to 160 kilograms and was able to travel for two days without water. Also very good on this hand. But Harry also proved to be bad tempered, often biting the men and the goats. Which were being looked after by famous Aboriginal goat herder Jimmy Moorehouse, who was also bitten multiple times. But if you've seen the things that Harry's seen, I can understand him acting out a little bit. I mean, to survive in that boat he had to bite five other camels to death. Yeah. And then eat them one by one. Is that what happened to him? Yeah, well, right between the lines a little bit.

So they've got all these six men and Harry and a few other things. They took off in late July with the six of them. They proceeded north to mount remarkable where nothing of notes happened That took me a little too long. I added that in the uber on the way here Then they went into the Flinders Rangers whereanges where Horace discovered a pass which was named after him. I assume it was named after him later. They didn't just come across a pass. He sees a pass as Horace's pass. He's like, that's a weird coincidence. And then he reads the description and it's like about his life. Oh my goodness.

That'd be sick. In late August they decided to split the party. No, never split the party! Which is, we all know from our old mates, Birkenwils, all good explorers do at some stage in their careers. Our main man, John Horricks, carried on ahead with Samuel Thomas Gill and Bernard Killroy, as well as Harry the Camel. So three went ahead with the Camel, they left the others behind.

On September 1st, something happened that John Horricks would be remembered for. Horricks himself described the situation in a letter. This is in the words of John. Quote, in going round this lake, which I named Lake Gil, presumably after his mate, Gil Roy, who was walking ahead of the party stopped, saying he saw a beautiful bird,

which he recommend me to shoot to add to my collection. Greg, my gun being loaded with slugs and one barrel and ball in the other. Metal ball, I mentioned. Not his balls. I stopped the camel to get at the shot belt which I could not get without the camel laying down. Why? Oh, it was too high. I understand. Camels are quite tall. I was like, why does it have to lie there? Because I was imagining it underneath the camel, which is a stupid place to put the bag.

And you wouldn't do that. It's on top of the camel. And you can't reach it, because you're an average sized person. Camels are quite tall. Get the camel to lie down, you can get access to things. I understand now. Are you with us now? Again, I'm an idiot. This is back to the letter whilst Mr. Gill was unfastening it. I was unscrewing the ramrod into the ward over the slugs, standing close alongside of the camel.

At this moment, the camel gave a lurch to one side and caught his pack on the lock of my gun, which discharged the barrel I was unloading, the contents of which first took off the middle finger on my right hand between the second and third joints, and entered my left cheek by my lower jaw, knocking out my front row of teeth from my upper jaw. Thank God he's writing this in a letter. Not like an audiobook, no? He'd been shot by his own camel, Ari. Through the finger and into his jaw.

He was now lying badly wounded. Harry is ruthless. Harry's been everyone and I was like, I'm gonna fucking shoot this guy. Harry's been everyone and I was like, I'm going to fucking shoot this guy. He's learning. Exactly. Clever girl. He's adapting.

His colleague, Mr. Gil, looked after John Moss, the other man, Kilroy, ran to get the help. He covered 65 miles or 105 kilometers in 24 hours, on foot through the desert, which is an average speed of 4.23 kilometers an hour. Or if he'd just sat down for the first 23 of those 24 hours, he would have traveled at 105 kilometers per hour. It's pretty impressive, isn't it? Yeah.

I don't know. I'll get going in a minute. Oh, I've only come sitting here for 23 hours. Then he took off. They should have taken Harry because camels can run at a top speed of 40 miles per hour. Ah. Do you know that? I do now.

Fun fact, alert. I mean, yeah. Yeah. Well, I wouldn't whip it out of the dinner party. I would never recommend doing that You say you wouldn't flop your chop at a dinner party Not a plot company no say not an Adelaide So I was disappointed enough the Mike picked that up but someone oh So lovely, the lovely sentiment. That's why they came to the show.

Yeah. Kiel Royz, the man who ran, he returned with a man and a horse and they transported John Horricks, the injured man, to a depot where they rested for five days. They traveled a little further before a doctor from Adelaide could meet them. Sadly, Horricks developed an infection and died 23 days after being shot by Harry.

I can't know. That letter I read, read was actually his last letter 1846. So there you go. Before he died, Horex ordered that Harry the camel be shot, so that quote, he couldn't hurt anyone else. But preferably just through a finger and then the cheek. So he was vengeful on the camel. He's killed, he'll kill again. He's got a taste for blood. He didn't mention that his friend Kielroy should also be shot, so in future he couldn't recommend people shoot birds to his collection.

That started it all, but anyway. How do you enjoy nature if I am out in nature nature and I see someone I like, I shoot it, thanks be. Take it home. Yeah, I mean you took your gun with you to the zoo today. Yeah, I got a couple of great zebras in my bag. If you see that there aren't any zebras in the Adelaide Zoo, that's why. I saw a beautiful tree, shot that. Yep.

So a beautiful view, a sort of like a sunset. That was harder to shoot, but I did. Shot right at it a lot. And yeah, I think it got away. Sandra reported the station hands, shot Harry, but not before he bit another stockman on the head. Yes! Harry holds the distinction of being the first camel in Australia and

John Horrick holds the distinction of being the only explorer shot to death by his own animal. Well that's the animal report but do you want a couple of camel fun facts? Yeah, always. Will they be as fun as they run pretty fast? Yes. To be honest, they run pretty fast. To be honest, they are taken from that exact source. So. All right, hit us. You know, there's about camels to keep sand out of everything.

Camels have their eyes. Have their eyes. Yeah. That is interesting. They have three eyelids and two rows of eyelashes to keep sand out and they then nostrils prevent the sand from entering by closing in between their breaths. Oh, they can close it. Yeah, it's a fun. Thank you for pitting me.

Yeah, she had you back there, everyone else was like, yeah. I'm sure a lot of Aussies know, but I don't think overseas people are single. No, in Central Australia, there are several hundred thousand feral camels wandering around. Basically, people were using camels to get around until the 1920s and 30s when camels were introduced. So many camelies. Sorry, they were using camels until camels came. Sorry, until cars were introduced.

They're quite different. A slightly bigger camel has arrived. Well, get rid of the runts. They were always using camels until camels are introduced. So cars started taking off and so the camelies were like. How's it taking off? Yeah, they were. So many of the camelies let their camels go free and the population just kept doubling in size. In 2008 there was estimated to be more than 1 million camels in Central Australia. But in 2013, this was revised to about 3-quarters of a million, and then a lot were culled in these days.

The population has believed to be about 300,000. But the first was a badass named Harry! Thank you very much. Look to me, I try and scale that, but good luck getting that much Adelaide water down a one go. Terrible stuff. Terrible stuff. No! Love yourselves more! Don't let him do that. The water is groty, it's no good. Sorry. Good job, Dave. That just brings us to the end of the show. Thank you so much first time, man from Ireland. How'd you go? Good job, Dave. Good job. That just brings us to the end of the show.

Thank you so much. First time, man from Ireland, how'd you go? Thank you so much. I'm glad you were like, absolutely, there. Nice, too, Paulard. We're not going back to that again. A very, very lovely person. Thank you.

Sounded a little too since here. Yeah, when you go to a too since it sounds sarcastic. You're a lovely person. We really appreciate you being here. Yeah, you went to sincere there, but I tell you I'll tell you what to be genuinely sincere. We appreciate everyone coming out to our Adelaide show. Thank you guys so much. Thank you People said it couldn you very much. Thank you. People said it couldn't be done. Yeah. But we came to Adelaide and had a great time, so thank you so much.

Thank you so so much. Yeah, a lot of people said don't do it. Yeah. But we did. And you guys bought tickets and you made it worth the trip over. So thank you very, very, very much. We will be hanging out after the show up the back I believe but what do we end up signing up the back? We have a couple

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You obviously don't have to buy anything. I'm just letting you know what's there. You can come say hello. You can just leave. Whatever you want. Live your lives, I don't care. But if you are going to hang around the wine center for a couple hours after this,

I'll tell you what, a great show that I saw last night, Downstairs. Mr. Matt Stewart. Yeah. He was wondering. He was wondering. Who was it?. I know who did you see? Yes, I'm doing the show for tonight at eight but also till next Sunday at eight o'clock And it'll be real get most nights. There's been a couple of do-go-amuses. It's been very nice

Very cool and it's it's even funnier than this show so Yeah, probably is anybody in the audience seen Matt's show yet this week? Peer of you? Oh I saw John. Thank you so much. Thank you for because thank you for going because when when shows go badly for him he gets very grumpy and he's a nightmare to be around. It's a real diva. Thank you so to the National Wine Centre. It's a beautiful day. It's a real diva. Thank you so much for coming out and until next time Goodbye Well, look at that, not just some of the best live theater that you've ever heard. It was just fantastic, I'm so happy to finish.

I sat here, obviously listening to it all over again, even though I don't have the recording on me, I just played it back in my mind, you know, that the memory of it is so good. But as a way to ease you out of the episode and that super high that you must be feeling right now, joy and whatnot, I thought I would do everyone's favorite segment of the show. The Patreon reads, this is where we talk about some of our great Patreon supporters. If you want to support the show, one way you can do it is by joining our Patreon at patreon.com slash do go on pod. And there's a bunch of different levels you can do on there. And some of them have rewards including bonus episodes, we do two bonus episodes a month,

you can also get shout out to the end of the episode, I try and keep you up today with a weekly newsletter of some sort, you get to hear what the upcoming topic is going to be for book cheat, you get to hear what book it's going to be ahead of time, and we tell you what the topic is going to be for do go on and primates as well, if you want to know about those, I was speaking of primates, this week's episode is a banger, it's my first one with an international guest, I spoke to a primate expert from Lala Land in America in L.A. And yeah, we had a really interesting chat, so I think that's worth listening to. That comes out tomorrow.

But now it's time for the Fact Quotal question segment brought to you. By Patreon's apport, each week we get a Fact Quot or a question from one of our patrons on a certain level. I think it's the Sydney Shahn Berg level. May he rest in peace. Very sad news if you don't know. Sydney Sharnberg, the man who we're also fond of here, passed away during the week. We didn't mention that on the show.

I think we're going to imagine it sometime before too long. We'll do a Sydney Sharnberg special. But yeah, generally it was a pretty amazing guy would never met or anything, but we were all a bit devoured by that, bit devastated by the news, it was very sad. But anyhow, a Sydney Shindburg memorial Patreon supporter is Zach Dobran.

It's his first time in the fact-quadal question segment, and if you give us a fact-quotal question, you also get to give yourself a title. And Zach has given himself the title, Junior Assistant Director of Procrastination. He goes on to explain, he's a history major, so he has major experience in procrastinating on historical research. So I think I can relate to you a little bit there. Zach, your quote, you've given us a quote which is great. Love a quote, we don't get heaps of those. But your quote is, there is something so human about taking something great and ruining it a little so you can have more of it. That's from Michael from The Good Place played

by Ted Danson. Great show, I've got that show a lot. And a great quote. Thank you so much Zach. What a guy. You're one of my favorite, probably even my favorite junior assistant director of procrastination for the show. I really do appreciate all the fine you work you do down there in the procrastination department. It is pretty hectic in there sometimes. A lot of people getting not all it done. Thank you so much, Zach. What a bloody top bloke.

Now, the other part of the Patreon section is where we think if you have our supporters, normally it just comes up with a bit of a game, but obviously here on my loan sum. If you are fully shattered that the others aren't helping read out the names and your name is read out now, maybe let us know and we'll do something about it. But I'll I'm gonna do three in all my do six. I'll just do three here today. They are for starters, maybe I'll give you an an if you're in a if you're a famous

animal, I'll figure out what your if you're in a if you're a famous animal I'll I'll figure out what your famous animal would be with the power of my mind Firstly from Missouri City in Texas America. It's Matt last Mad last the Mad las! The world is, oh, oh, oh, don't know the words, that's wrong, fortunately, the matte last song. Missouri City, let's see what your animal is there. If I Google Missouri City, and that'll come up with something very fascinating.

Here we go, oh, it's got a Wikipedia page. For those of you who don't know, Wikipedia is a website, which sort of has a lot of information on it, and you can sort of log on, so to speak. I don't think you need to log in, but you can log on. And check out what it has to say. Oh, okay. Parks, demographics. Doesn't have an animal section. Notable people. Frank Beard from ZZ Top. The guy with the mustache. That's cool.

Travis Scott. And Warren Moon. Okay, I don't actually know most of these people. Any of... Oh, the Houston Astros picture Doug McCall. And... Oh oh, Beyonce Knowles, okay, that's a big one. Why didn't they lead off with that? She's buried down at number seven. Number six. No, she's, I think she's number one there. That's pretty good. But no animal. All right, so I don't know what you're, I don't know what you know native animal is is I'm gonna assume it is and this is also your animal now

Matt you are the Missouri City Wolf Dog your big old wolf dog, and I mean that is an absolute compliment. Thank you so much Matt your buddy legend from Missouri City, Texas the wolf dog of Missouri City, Texas, the wolf dog of Missouri City. Good boy. All right. And secondly, from Karlsbad, New Mexico. I'm guessing NM is New Mexico or North Melbourne in the United States. I'm saying New Mexico.

Karlsbad, that's a bit rough. On Karl, I wonder what he did to cop that from a whole city. Carl's bad. Hey, Carl's alright, isn't he? Carl's bad. There was one in New Mexico, according to Wikipedia. Did I say your name? If I didn't, from Carl's bad, in New Mexico, it's Derek.

Brigham. Brigham here. Brighadee. Oh, that's fun. Derek. That's one, Derek. Oh, this looks like a nice city It's right down the bottom bottom center of America, I just I just scroll past that said Carl's bed

The rediscovery of Carl's bed caverns then known as bat cave I wonder if that was where the Batman is from. Carlsbad. That's cool. Mining. Potash. There's a potassium. Potassium containing compound used as a fertilizer. Wow. Sounds like there's a bit going on there. You've got fertilizers. You've got healthcare.

Carlsbad Medical Center is the primary hospital facility serving the greater Cal's Bad Area. Operated by community health systems. Bloody hell. There is a big, oh right now notable people here we go. Let's see if I've heard of any of these. You've got Barry Sadler. Okay, I don't know how that is. You've got Sunny Throck Morton, apparently a singer and songwriter. Sunny Throck Morton. John Wooton. These are made, sorry, I think these might all be made up. Sorry, sorry, you don't have any real ones.

Shane Andrews from, he played a, in Major League Baseball. That's something. Oh, hang on. Bruce Cabot or Bruce Cabot? He's the actor who played Jack Driscoll in the 1933 film King Kong. And appeared in many as, in, peed in many of close-finger John Wayne's films. Okay, Bruce Cabot. Now that sounds from the Bruce Cabot. Oh, look at him go. Bruce Cabot. Yep, all right, well done. He was also in the last of the Mohicans. Fritz Lang's Fury. Dodge City. Yeah, you've done well there. Well done indeed. So that is, I'm gonna call it Derek Brigham. I need to say, Bruce Kabbot. You are, again I didn't see any Carl's bad animals, but I'm gonna give you your animal is gonna be the Bruce Kabbot, the other Bruce Kabbot Black Bear, which is an animal that converts from a bear

into a Bruce Kabb bow when the moon is nearly full. When it's a full moon, it's nothing happens, but it's nearly full. You become a brusque bow and you act in movies. So that's cool, Derek. Yeah? Derek, that's cool. Okay? We're gonna say that's cool, okay okay Derek? Okay, that's cool. I'm sitting in a bedroom talking to myself. Okay, so let's just say that's cool Derek, thanks mate. And finally, from Cicero in I.L., which is probably Illinois, it's Miguel Angel Perez, holy moly, fantastic name.

Let's see where Sicaro is. Sicaro. Okay, let's come up with Sissaro, the Roman statesman. Let me see Sissaro. Illinois, yes, okay. Originally known as Hawthorne. Is a suburb of Chicago. Ah, Chicago, the windy city. So close to Gary, have you been? Tell me you've been, please tell me McGarry, you've been to Gary, God damn it. Why would you live so close to Gary?

Not in Gary, it doesn't make any sense. Let's see who your notable people are before I give you an animal. Another very imaginative animal. Doesn't seem to have any... You don't have any at all. You've got landmarks, including Chodal Auditorium. You've got the... I didn't realize you had Chodal there. That's great.

Which is obviously located inside Morden East High School built in 1924 and completed in 1927, it replaced the 1200 seat auditorium which was destroyed by fire. Jodal auditorium. But should pick up that car going past, pretty cool. Yeah, live near a road. What else have we got here? It's got a fire department in popular culture. Okay, here we go Joby Cerney or Cerney is an actor from Cicero and Is the voice of the Pillsbury Doe boy?

Huh, that sounds like that would mean something to American people It's mentioned as the hometown of Jimmy McGill slash Saul Goodman in the better call Saul Pilot episode Uno, that's pretty good. And in Guys and Dolls the Chicago area gangster Big Julie claims to be from East Cicero or Chicero, Illinois. And also it pronounces the final lesson Illinois's Illinois's that's fun all right great now we need an animal for you on a Illinois animal and grand hogs and native there oh it's hard to get past that Malad ducks you've got the

eastern cotton toe rabbit like sturgeon You got the Aston Cotentow rabbit, like Sturgeon. Okay. Miguel Angel Perez, MP. You are gonna be cold. I think I'm getting a real vibe. Coyote is just such a fun. I'm gonna call you, you are the Cicero Coyote. And I'm so sorry I'm pronouncing that wrong. Ch you are the Cicero Coyote. And I'm so sorry I'm pronouncing that wrong.

Chicero, Cicero, you probably say different to I would. Anyway Miguel, thank you so much for your support, Derek as well, and Matt, what a trio of American citizens you are, Texas, New Mexico, and Illinois. Three of the great 50 states of the United States of America. Thank you so much for your support, if you do want to support us, as I said before, you can go to patreon.com slash do go on pod and then one day we'll be reading out your name and speaking some gibberish. Thank you so much for everything.

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