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The Power's Point Podcast
World Laws
Imagine living in a world where your waist size is monitored by law or where a dirty car could get you in trouble with the authorities. Join Scott and Jim as they take you on an astonishing journey through some of the world's most peculiar and unexpected laws. From Wales mandating rugby lessons for boys to Qatar's stringent rules on public displays of affection, this episode bursts with bizarre legalities that challenge our understanding of cultural norms. We'll also venture into Japan's Metabo law, which enforces waist measurements for adults, and South Korea's cleanliness regulations against driving dirty cars. Even England adds its flavor with a quirky prohibition on boys under 10 viewing naked mannequins. Through laughter and insightful commentary, we'll ponder how these odd laws shape societies in unique ways.
Switching gears to a more heartfelt narrative, we share the emotional story of losing our beloved pet, Hogan, and finding solace in a new companion named Story. The sorrow and emptiness left by Hogan's passing are vividly felt, yet the arrival of Story ushers in a renewed sense of joy and warmth. This touching journey celebrates the timeless bond shared with Hogan and the happiness that Story brings into our lives. Through heartfelt reflections, we honor Hogan's memory and embrace the blessings of new beginnings with Story. Tune in for a captivating mix of laughter, thought-provoking insights, and a poignant tribute to enduring love and fresh starts.
Scotts song at the end is dedicated to one of the best dogs ever, Hogan. Enjoy the show and music.
Thank you for joining us on today's show, as always, we appreciate each and every one of you! Talk to you soon.
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ladies and gentlemen, the laws you're about to hear are true. Scott and jim are going to tell you about rules and laws, not in america, but in other countries around the world. These laws sound odd and strange, but, believe me, if you break any of these laws, you will be fined, possibly detained and might even serve time. All right, scott, powers welcome.
Speaker 2:Welcome to the Powerspoint Podcast, season five, episode 25. Today is going to be a short one, just so we can get one out for you, because God knows what we're going to be doing and I want to make sure we get this out in a timely manner. So today we got an interesting subject. We're going to be talking about other countries' laws. Like I said, we got some weird laws across the globe and we thought they'd be hilarious to bring to you guys. When I brought this to your attention last night, you came to jump on this and we thought we can have some fun. Did you learn a lot?
Speaker 1:I learned a lot. It was like a what do they say? The rabbit hole. You just start looking at one or two countries and then you just keep going and going. You're like, oh my gosh, this is crazy, this is crazy. It was hard to stop and pick just a couple for this one.
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Speaker 2:All right, Welcome back everybody. As we said before the commercial, we got some crazy world laws and let's just jump right in. Jim, what do you got for the first one?
Speaker 1:This one is from Wales. All boys by law must learn how to play rugby in Wales.
Speaker 2:That's crazy law.
Speaker 1:That is because if any boys that are born in Wales, by law they are supposed to play rugby. Wow, I mean, is that like desperate?
Speaker 2:rugby is already a crazy sport because there was a guy in new zealand who played with a ruptured testicle the whole game, oh my god. And so they're just badasses that play rugby. So if you're a small person, playing rugby is kind of rough yeah, and they're.
Speaker 1:They're like ordering and making it. What if they just like soccer or like, uh, I just like baseball or something else? They're like no, you're playing rugby, or else you know your parents will get arrested or you'll. You know, I don't know what they'll do to the kids. That's crazy.
Speaker 2:It is man so for my first one is in qatar guitar, not guitar, but guitar it's illegal to to display affection in public, such as holding hands or kissing, due to cultural and religious norms. Wow, I guess this is a good one, because you know a lot of people are too touchy-feely anyways, so like, if you don't want to hold the way's hand, you gotta worry about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, I was arrested you're arrested, wow, well, yeah, because you know people are gonna defend it more and more nowadays. And just even any. You'd have to like really dissect what is affection and then people be debating it with it. I didn't, you know, I didn't do that, I did this and it's like it's word against another. You know you're right. What do you got for? The next? Next one I got is in japan. You cannot be overweight in japan. They have a jail. I know, listen to this, it's crazy. They have the law called the metabo law. Metabo it requires people between the ages of 40 to 74 to have an annual waist measurement performed by a doctor. It says fines will be incurred if men have waist over 33.5 inches or 35.4 inches for women. Definitely going to jail. Oh yeah, because I'm way past that and if you think about it, you don't really see a lot of overweight Japanese people. So this has to be from 40 years old to 74. That's just crazy.
Speaker 2:The only Japanese that I see are like sumo wrestlers. How do they get away with it?
Speaker 1:Well, they said that save the sumo wrestlers, that's about it. Anybody else, if you're not a sumo wrestler and I imagine they would arrest you and put you in jail and just not feed you and stuff or put you on an exercise program or something I mean, that's good and bad, even, yeah, it's like body shaming, but it's making you healthy, it's like we're helping you.
Speaker 2:You're gonna do this. Here's one that, uh, I think should be around here. Oh, it's in south korea. It's illegal to drive a dirty car. This allows a place to ensure road safety and vehicle maintenance. Oh my gosh, I've seen some bad cars where people like hoard things and they run out of house space and they start on their car that's just wild dude.
Speaker 1:I mean, what if you get? What if if you run through mud or something on the way and then you just get pulled over right away, right after you hit the mud puddle? I'm like what the heck? I didn't even have time to stop the car, find the mud.
Speaker 2:What do you have for the next?
Speaker 1:the next one I got is in england a boy is not allowed to see a naked mannequin until after the age of 10 that's kind of odd.
Speaker 2:It must be, that's our everywhere.
Speaker 1:I know, okay, yeah, you're. Is he 10 years old? Okay, he could look at the, he could look at a naked mannequin. Because what are they afraid? That only boys are going to get like crazy and stuff or like start crying or not understand?
Speaker 2:I don't understand right man, that's a.
Speaker 1:That's a weird one man if you see your, your family, naked sometimes and you're young, you're not, you know it's normal, it's kind of normal I made it a point never to see my family naked. Well, yeah, you and me were raised back when uh, you know dressed in a room with the lights out, you know, nobody around it's like when I, uh, I had an old roommate who family?
Speaker 2:they just get out of the shower and and walk past you and not even think anything of it. You know, and they're all grown up, so what's up with that?
Speaker 1:I get made fun of the house because I'm the one that covers up, or have to be in a room and then wife is not, you know, she's not like full-blown, like you said, running around, but Jimmy's just like he doesn't care, he'll just run around like, hey, can I, you know, use this toy in the shower. And he's like screaming at him get out of there, you're naked, don't run around the house.
Speaker 2:Hey, so uh. My next one is from portugal. It's illegal to urinate in the ocean. This law is aimed at maintaining public hygiene I saw that.
Speaker 1:that that's crazy. Yeah, and you just think these laws, especially that one, there must have been a big, a lot of people doing it to where they said, okay, that's it, that's it.
Speaker 2:Hey, don't say rivers or lakes, it just says ocean. So yeah, go find the Creek.
Speaker 1:It's like that's not my P officer. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's not my. Go test it. It's like they got to scoop it out or something. That was the fish, that was that kid over there. You could just blame it on somebody. So stupid, yeah, All right. This one's kind of funny too. In Scotland it is illegal to ride a cow while drunk it's illegal to ride a cow?
Speaker 1:Yeah, how many people do you know right cows, man, like, like I said, there must have been a long time ago like a lot of people driving cows drunk or just riding them and causing havoc. You know what? You can't be drunk when you're on a cow. I mean you're going to take away all the fun in Scotland, then Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can't see like a bull or something, but a cow. It's like it's all right, officer, it's got balls. It's a bull, we're good, oh wait hold on.
Speaker 1:The full law is it says right here in 1872, that's when it mandated it said that people are not to be drunk when in charge of a cow, horse or carriage or steam engine. So the cow is just the one that looked funny, so that's what they put on the article.
Speaker 2:So I got one from Canada. I'm going to have to check this out. In Alberta, it's illegal for married women to apply for a credit card without her husband's consent. This law is a relic from a less progressive era. Wow, I don't know, man. I think it should be the other way around, because I'm the one that does the spending. Yeah, figures and toys and like.
Speaker 1:You're the one that should be stopped Right. Oh my God, that's just. That's crazy. What do you got? In Sri Lanka, it is against the law to have a selfie with Buddha like a Buddha statue Yep. I've heard that it's illegal also to point your finger at Buddha, because I guess a lot of young people are taking pictures, selfies with Buddha and pictures because I guess the tradition you're not supposed to disrespect Buddha and have your back to him and stuff and you're not supposed to point that's disrespectful.
Speaker 2:Wow, I'd be going to jail too, because in every picture that I'm in I do the point. That's how I got the name of this show it's just nuts. So for my last one, I got Germany. It's illegal to run out of fuel on the Autobahn. Drivers are expected to keep their vehicles well-maintained and fueled to avoid accidents. And for those that don't know the autobahn, the autobahn, there are speed limits. So if your car could do 250, you could do 250 and you ain't going to jail.
Speaker 1:So which is mind-blowing to me, because my car does like 90 yeah, I mean again, what if, uh, something happens to your car and stuff or, like you said, out of gas it's what are you really going to do? I mean you got to just abandon your car, just start walking somewhere I don't know.
Speaker 2:It's like, you know, years ago when they had that big fog on the autobahn and they had like an 80 car pile up and people just crushed their cars from going so fast yeah, because there's no rules.
Speaker 1:I mean it's, oh my god, that would be nightmare fuel. Je Jeez, oh Pete.
Speaker 2:And Germany has Adolf Hitler to thank for the Autobahn because he's the one that designed it. Really, I didn't know that. Yeah, hitler's idea or concept was the highway.
Speaker 1:But he also said no speed limit or that probably-.
Speaker 2:The Autobahn is the only place in the world where there's no speed limit. You could take a NASCAR car on there and hit it full force, man.
Speaker 1:They've probably tried doing that too.
Speaker 2:Somebody had to do it. What do you got for your last ones?
Speaker 1:My last one is a. It's just, it's a wild one. It is illegal to wear a Winnie the Pooh t-shirt in Poland.
Speaker 2:What about Tiger EU? Or is it just Winnie the Pooh?
Speaker 1:Let's see. It says that schools and that and playgrounds finding the character a little bit too risky for the likes of impressionable children. That's all they say about Winnie the Pooh. They don't say about anybody else. So why would you just sing because he has no pants on? Is?
Speaker 2:that why? Well then, you'd have to take away Porky Pig and Daffy Duck and Donald Duck, donald.
Speaker 1:Duck, and I bet you that probably leads to that. We don't want kids running around naked.
Speaker 2:We're all clothes or no clothes, but nothing halfway. Mickey with no shirt up top, that's okay. You know, it's like when Winnie the Pooh gets stuck in the honey hole. They now make videos of that on adult content.
Speaker 1:I got stuck in the wash machine, because Winnie the Pooh isn't a public domain. It's public now. So people probably made dirty movies and stuff without the pant bottom part.
Speaker 2:They make the horror movie. Oh yeah, Winnie the Pooh kills everybody.
Speaker 1:I'll have to send you a list. I just found a bunch that are in the next like 10 years. Which ones are going to? Because Steamboat Willie, uh, this year, and it's every couple years now the big stuff's going to be start coming uh.
Speaker 2:public domain all right, so that is all we have for laws and, uh, we are going to pick this up at a later episode with the state laws, because there's we aren't, uh, excluded from that we can't let the other countries have all the fun. We got some crazy, stupid laws that people need to hear.
Speaker 1:I found a list of Indiana ones that were just I'm like, wow, this is almost a whole episode this Indiana one. We'll have to talk about them.
Speaker 2:But, like I said before the show, we are keeping these short just to get them out on a timely fashion and to give you guys something to listen to. We got some guests coming on in the future, here in the next couple weeks, so, uh, stay tuned for that. I'm not naming them because, man, I jinx myself every single time. It's going to be interesting and I think you're going to enjoy it and I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1:So, jim, before we leave yes, you got some kind of law quote, sure, something like that. Okay, here it is. If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. By Katherine Hepburn.
Speaker 2:Your voice should drop down to a little bit more raspy and a little deeper, and you'll sound just like her.
Speaker 1:I haven't tried Katherine Hepburn's voice. I'll have to work on it.
Speaker 2:We will talk to you guys next week and thanks for listening, as always, and tell your friends about us and like us, share us and spread the word. Here's my next tune Bye, bye.
Speaker 3:On a cold November Saturday, the sky was painted gray. A tragedy struck like lightning, taking my friend away. Hogan was the best dog, loyal through and through, Always there to cuddle close and play with me too. The world felt so empty. The pain was hard to bear. The room was filled with silence, an echo of despair. But in the midst of sorrow a glimmer started to shine, a beacon through the darkness, a love that's so divine.
Speaker 3:You sent a story from heaven, a light in the dark To heal the broken pieces and mend the shattered heart. A story just to pop With a wagon to play, to wipe the tears and bring laughter our way. I'll never forget Hogan, no matter where I go. But story came to fill the space, to let the love show. Hogan was my constant, my shadow in the night. Now I walk this path alone, struggling to make it right. The pain of losing you was sharp. It cut me to the core. But story came, with gentle pause, to help me love once more. The days felt so uncertain, the nights were full of ache, but story brought the sunshine through the clouds of heartache, with every joyful bark and every playful chase. I felt the warmth of hogan's love through story, sweet embrace. You sent a story from heaven, a light in the dark To heal the broken pieces and mend a shattered heart. A story, just to pop with a wagon to play, to wipe the tears and bring laughter our way. I'll never forget Hogan, no matter where I go. But story came to fill the space, to let the love show. Though Hogan's paw prints are etched in my heart, I know that story's presence is a brand new start. The bond we shared is timeless and it never fades away. With story by my side, I find strength for each new day.
Speaker 3:You sent a story from heaven, a light in the dark to heal the broken pieces and mend a shattered heart. Story, just a pup with a wagon of clay to wipe the tears and bring laughter away. I'll wipe the tears and bring laughter away. I'll never forget Hogan, no matter where I go. But story came to fill the space, to let the love show. So here's to Hogan's memory and the joy that you've sent A story. You're a blessing, a gift that's heaven sent. I'll cherish every moment and though the tears may fall, I've got story to remind me of the love that conquers all.
