May 6, 2025 • 49 mins
Kurt and Scotty talk about a stranded man lifted from Mt Fuji and then rescued again when he returned to get his phone, Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant has 500 cat figurines stolen, fart spray causes chaos at carnival and Japan invents chilled drinkable mayo!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scotti, Curtie B. You ready for it? I'm ready to
laugh and laugh and.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Law stranded man airlifted from Mount Fuji, then rescued again
days later after he returned to get his phone.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Okay, well it's a it's about the little things in life.
It's what matters most. Risking your own life for a
phone feels very twenty twenty five, and it certainly feels
very bananas.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I says, your world of mad.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Would you believe.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's your mind? No resilient pieces?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Would you be.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Ba ba batting baby banana guys, gals, non binary pass,
welcome to bananas sitting a cross for me? Is my
esteemed colleague, Scottie Landis.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You know I've never written the words esteemed colleague before,
but hearing you say it as my esteemed colleague, it's
very satisfying to hear that. Is the one and only
Kurt Kurtie B. Brown Owler and I had a real
Sophie's choice last week. Kurt I was offered tickets to
go see ac DC with our good friend frequent guest
(01:29):
Albertina Rossa. I had two tickets at the Rose Bowl,
but I also had already been asked by Laurel Bristow
to go to the Magic Castle, and I had gotten tickets,
so on the same night I sat there and it
aged me twelve fifteen years, maybe because there's few things
(01:50):
in the world I like more than AC d C
at the Rose Bowl with a good friend. But I
ended up going with Laurel and Courtney and Strawberry and
we had an amazing time. I'm at the world sort
of famous magic Castle.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I am going tomorrow. Look at that Matt with a magician.
Matt Donnelley is performing.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
He's a magician.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The mind Noodler. You guys, feel the mind low Noodler
ever comes to your town. You go see the mind Noodler.
He's fantastic. He is he handles a crowd. He handles
a crowd. They're like they're they're they're eating out of
his hand the whole time.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Funny guy, He's a very funny man. Damn that's cool. Yeah.
Matt is a was a great improviser, and I took
one of his improv classes, like a workshop, and I
just remember being like, this guy, this guy knows how
the biz works. And it was so helpful because I
was twenty three and I'm like any advice is great.
(02:47):
He's he gave great. He gave great.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
He gives great advice. I feel like he does. It
is a skill that he has honed over the years,
and he is excellent at giving advice and been animals.
I just got to say, listen, Oh, we added a
show in Chicago late, late in the game. Usually we
have months to promote. This time, four weeks to promote it.
(03:11):
It's coming up May eighth. That means if you're listening
to this on Tuesday, that it's on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
It's a day's.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Thursday, all right. So come on out to the den.
Last time we did, we went there, what do we do?
Two hour meet and greet, free meeting.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
The next show went and ended and we were still
meeting greeting. One couple went, got a full dinner, paid,
walked back to the theater, got back in line, and
we're gonna do the same thing this time. We're happy
to meet all of you. It's an honor to meet
so many passionate ban animals, and we love Chicago, and
we love Chicago in the spring.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh my god, it will be pleasant. I mean I'm
going to be there literally for a handful of hours.
But those hours they will be fun.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Scottie, you're flying in, you're flying out. I've decided. I
know you're still dry three sixty ninety, but I'm gonna up.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I might make an exception for this banana show. What
might make an exception for Chicago? I might make an
exception for Chicago.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Stop the press, the press, this is a big deal. Well,
you don't have to join me, but I was going
to kick off the show with a shot of milord.
I won't join it. No, but just because I'm so
so passionate about giving Chicago all that I got.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It is a I was talking about Millort recently, and
it is.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I've rarely encountered a drink that is so so unpleasant
to imbibe. It is a truly there's and there's nothing there.
I can't say that there's any positive about it. It
really is like an ash tray at the bottom of
a sock kind of taste.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
It's the culture experience that's the post, that is the positive.
Anticipating in a greater I just.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Wich Chicago had chosen a slightly better tasting terrible liquor.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, just some red sauce with some gin, just a
marinera gin shot.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Oh my god, my god, Scottie, I have been. I
have been packing and packing and packing my house. We're
renting our house for a year because we're on the
move to New Jersey baby right outside the city, and
it is we're getting read. We have to we have
(05:34):
to take pictures on Monday. Today is Tuesday. That means
there has to be no personal item in our house
on Monday. So that yeah, no personal items. So it
is just like because that's how photographs look good like,
you just have to have nothing there, no no photographs,
(05:55):
no nothing. All the pictures of the kids off the
off the fridge, like all that sort of stuff. So
it's a little things you don't even think of. I
had to replace sixteen light bulbs.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yesterday because there's like a big one.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I have to the light bulbs have to match, because
that's the thing people care about. It is it is
the minuscule moving sucks in such a massive, massive way.
Don't ever do it, Scottie.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
No, I don't ever plan on doing it again. In Lockdown,
they were selling my cabin. The guy that on my
cabin wanted to sell it, so I had to leave
the house one day because this was still when people
were masked and staying away from each other. This was
way way early on. And so this guy comes over
and I go stand in my backyard and just watch
this guy photograph of house. But I couldn't move everything out,
(06:41):
and I intentionally put certain notes like my mom had
written a note, something else had written a note, and
I had left them on my fridge, and they were
on the redfin and Zillow, like my notes that were
like hey, you know, be safe, wear a mask. All
those things were still up there. But when I noticed this,
I went back in the house after the I left,
and he was probably in there, I don't know, forty
(07:02):
five minutes, and he had just stood on all my furniture.
There were shoeprints on all my sofa, on my sofa,
my chairs, he just stood on them for a higher
angle because it was a smallish house. And I was like,
what a fucking asshole. I was like, that is a
crazy thing to do in like a time where we're
all afraid of terms, just to be like shoes on
standing on everything. Can you imagine that.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Is such a crazy thing to do, because you would imagine, like, oh,
I bring a little mat, and I put the mat
where I'm going to stand, and then I stand on
the mat because I'm a professional, I'm taking professional photographs.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Oh yeah. I had an electrician come over recently and
he put like little those little covers on his shoes
and was like is this okay? And I'm like that's great,
thank you. But also I wasn't expecting the electrician to
do it in normal times. So these people, man, I'm
telling you, this world is full of some real characters.
Not interested. I already had three movie pitches today, two
(07:59):
different movie yes. And I had a great meeting with
the script already wrote with a really funny actress who
is attaching to this movie, so hopefully I can announce
in the big movie.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
So I got in the meeting she attached, Yeah, she.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Had already read the script. So that one was just like, hey,
do we get along? Are we going to flip each
other off on zoom? Do? Where's this coming from? What
are you going to bring to a kind of thing?
And it went That was my eight am meeting. Then
I had a nine am pitch, Then I had a
ten am pitch, and then I had an eleven am pitch.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Oh my god, dude, two different.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Movies, you know, thirty five minutes of zoom pitching exhausting.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
That's exciting, That's very exciting. Yes, I want to talk biz,
and we never talked biz on the podcast. I want
to talk bill.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
The industry is so. The thing is podcasting, as everybody
listening knows, has really exploded and grown over the last
eight years, ten years. But what I've noticed is podcasting
has now replaced cable TV. Because there was a time
where people like Kurt and I, one of our jobs
would be Comedy Central, MTV, v H one, IFC true TBS,
(09:10):
you sold shows to cable networks. Those show those networks
either no longer exist or no longer do anything but
show Friends reruns, Office reruns, Family Guy reruns. They don't
make original content. So I feel blessed and grateful to
have Bananas being my yearly cable podcast excuse me, pilot substitute,
(09:32):
and my goodness.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
My goodness, what a fortuitous.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Lucky thing for us to fall into.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well, you know what, this kind of segues perfectly into
something that we've we've been meaning to share with everybody,
and I think it's time to share it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Scottie uh oh, let's get into it.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So, guys, we've got a Patreon.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah, we're expanding.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
We are expanding Thea's universe utilizing the Patreon. Uh. And
so don't worry if you do not want to get
in on the Patreon. You Bananas is not going anywhere.
We're not even gonna withhold any of the Bananas episodes.
They're still coming out every Tuesday like clockwork. The one
(10:22):
change will be that the monthly bonus sode that used
to come out on our regular feed will no longer
come out on our regular feed. It will be part
of the Patreon.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Correct. We're gonna do bonus soodes, We're gonna do mailbag episodes,
We're gonna do an additional Banana's episode, and every Monday,
just to root our beautiful bananimals on, Kurt and I
are going to alternate giving a weekly affirmation in a
world that seems to be crumbling. We say, no, ma'am,
(10:53):
no sir, know them they friends. We're gonna encourage you
to live your best life. It is.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
It's it's it's weekly Monday morning affirmations from the Banana Boys.
And in addition to that, also you'll get access to
tickets first, including you'll get access to tickets for Bananas
Fest October fourth, you'll get access to that first. We're
only doing one show. There's only four hundred tickets for
that show, so it will sell out, so having the
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having the Patreon will will be a bonus in that sense.
And we will be debuting a new version of the
podcast called Bronanas, which is all of our very famous
male friends on the podcast who we've never had on
before at all. And the very first episode, which is
(11:48):
up right now, is Kumail nan Gianni.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Not a bad first guest, some might say, a fantastic
first guest.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
A Marvel a Marvel hero as your first guest.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
The see you meets the BPU. Because the Bananas Podcast universe,
we just enjoy doing it so much. We just want
to expand and continue, and thank you to everybody exactly
right who is allowing us to do this, because yes,
we're still going to do four episodes of Bananas exactly
how we always have. We've never missed a week since
four twenty twenty twenty, and we're going to keep doing
(12:19):
that for as long as we can. And then this
is just complimentary. Come and join us, support the bananas,
stay silly. Just fill your month and stuff your ears
with more banana.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
We'll also be offering a cocktail hour Zoom once a
month if you want to do that, and at a
certain level, which is a very funny, silly level, a
crazy level, we will come and do a show at
your home.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Correct. We will do Bananas live at your home or
at a safe location.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
If you want to do it at a Domino's Pizza
where it's just us and you, that's great. If you
want to bring friends, that's cool too.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yep, that one is our mirror, the Kram de l
the cram top of the top, so much more. But yes,
we will do a Banana's live in your house, in
your front yard, in your garage, at your grandma's house,
wherever you want us to do it. We will do
a full Bananas live of your choosing. Again, somewhere safe.
(13:18):
Please do not do it on the median in a highway.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
All right here. It is Scotty stranded man airlifted from
Mount Fuji, then rescued again days later after he returned
to get his phone.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I love that Mount Fuji one of the most famous mountains.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
It is and if correct me if I'm wrong, but
Mount Fuji is the one you can just walk to, right.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I've never done that, but that sounds right, all right.
I don't know that much about northern Japan. I know.
My entertainment lawyer once said, have you been to Hakkaido?
And I said no, and he goes, you gotta go
skiing in Hakkaido. It's incredible. And that's literally the only
thing a compliment about a ski slope.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
This was sent in by Robert Woodbury. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Robert Woodburry sends in a lot of good stories.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Thank you, Robert h This was in CBS news.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
That's real. I've heard of that.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
That stands for Couxby saying, okay, news to me. A
climber airlifted with altitude sickness from Couxby saying. A climber
airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan's
Mount Fuji last week returned to the slope and was
(14:35):
rescued for a second time just four days later. Authority
said Monday. The climber was identified only as twenty seven
year old Chinese student living in Japan. He made an
emergency call on April twenty second was airlifted after Earthday
was airlifted after developing symptoms of altitude sickness, police said,
adding that his climbing irons also were damaged. Oh he's
(14:55):
got climbing irons.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Okay, Oh weird, so he's the real guy.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Saturday, he returned to the mountain's Fujiyama Trail, nearly ten
thousand feet above sea level, to look for cell phone
and other belongings left behind. Shizuoko Prefectorial Police said another
climber found him there, unable to move, apparently after he
got sick for a second time.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yeah, oh my god, what was on this phone? What
was he What couldn't he replace with a new phone?
For real?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Also, if you got altitude sickness the first time, bring
some oxygen. I mean, like, that's crazy. He was suspected
of having altitude sickness taken to a hospital. It was
not known whether he was able to find the phone
in the end. Local media's report. The mountains hiking trails
are officially open from July to early September, but there
is no penalty for hiking off season. There's also no
(15:48):
charge or penalty when a climber needs to be rescued
wah wah wee wah, but the Chinese students' care prompted
an uproar on social media and generated calls for him
to be charged at least for his second rescue. I
think that's reasonable. I think that's right.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Following the man's rescue, police in Shizuoka Prefricture reiterated its
vice against climbing the mountain during the off season, as
the weather could suddenly change. Police urged all climbers to
use caution. Blah blah blah blah blah. The twelve three
hundred and eighty eight foot high mountain was designated UNESCO
World Cultural Herriage Site in twenty thirteen. A symbol of Japan,
the mountain called Fujisan used to be a place of
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pilgrimage and is increasingly popular. Blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
And that's it.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Uh, there's a bunch of other stuff, but it's real
general about the mountain, and it doesn't tell me what
I want to know, which is do you have to
climb because I heard I thought you told me that.
I thought you told me when we were doing routes
about because we had a plan to put a soft
serve machine on the top of Mountain food finally, right, No,
you said I thought it was Mount Fuji because you
said that's the one mountain you don't have to actually
(16:59):
do any grope climbing. You can literally walk the whole way.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
No, I don't know that one. I thought it was
Mount McKinley. But then again, if you think about what
we're talking about, putting a generator and a soft served
ice cream machine on the top of a snowcaped mountain,
I'm sure. I'm sure we had many pitches for where
we could do that, and we probably almost did Mount
Washington where you can just drive it on up. I
love it so much. What was on this guy's phone?
(17:26):
What was it? Was it a pass code for his bitcoin?
Was eight nudes? Was it something motivated this man to
risk it off for this phone, because no phone is
worth dying over. And I was just looking up the
symptoms of altitude sickness. It's an education podcast, so I'll
share it. Headaches, dizziness, nausea, fatigue and weakness, loss of appetite,
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difficult difficulty sleeping, and shortness of breath. So I guess
it's really not too good. I think think, I think
a lot of people get sick and a lot of
people get disoriented. So not worth it unless something magic.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Was on that this this will you know, this is
what A great segue into bananas Fast October fourth in Denver, Colorado. Guys,
get there a little early, get used to get get
used to the altitude before you have a drink. The
drinking and the altitude it dumb. Mis don't make you
feel good.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
That is right.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Scotty and I are going to move there a month
ahead of time and start training.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I know we're going to have to. I'm definitely going
to get there a few days early. My goodness, it
was exhausting. I drank a coconut water, That's how exhausted
I was. I was like, I need something to heal me.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
And and you need the electrolytes because your body just
doesn't have the ability to hydrate itself as quick. I
guess you get a lot of like moisture from breathing.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I certainly do. I get all my moisture from breathing.
When I was a young Banana, I all my friends
got really into snowboarding, but I always preferred skiing. I
just thought it was more fun. I liked facing down
the mountain and not like having a carve constantly. And
I was probably ten or eleven ish, and I saved
up money between birthdays and Christmases and all the stuff
(19:19):
that kids can do to make mowing lawns. And I
bought a pair of skis, brand new K two skis
and I got them from Kenilworth Mall. And I spent
about three hundred dollars okay, and three to a ten
year old, that's a lot. That was like I was
looking at Club Met. I was thinking about retiring at
that point. Board I got the polls. They measure me
(19:41):
up proud. I was like, so pumped. I go with
a group of friends up to ski Liberty.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Liberty Sky. How many runs does Ski Liberty have.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I don't recall exactly, but I would guess sixteen runs,
like maybe eight on the front and eight on the back.
It was great, not because now I'm a very good skier,
because it was always a sheet of ice.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Always a sheet of ice. It was all Northeast snow
until unless you get to like like a Vermont and Maine,
all of it is just one sheet from the top
to the very bottom. It is just people trying to
get traction on a sheet of ice. You know.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Hell, Like if you hear a car crash, it's got
crunch that you hear. There's nothing that sounds like crunch
crunch of a car crash. It's the same skiing or
snowboarding on these coasts. The edge catching the snow on
those steat mountains, it's like that.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And it's like I could wake away screaming to that sound.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
And when you would fall, you would just it would
be like concrete. It was just hitting concrete.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah, So you had to get really good, really fat.
So I go up there with a bunch of buddies
and it wasn't So. They used to do a thing
at Ski Liberty called the ski something snowball. I think
it might have been like the WHFS snowball and it
was bad in my opinion. Not good bands playing while
it was snowing during the day. So when you were
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skiing down towards the lodge, there was a stage setup
so you could come rock out. It was you know
Baltimore good boys like Good Charlotte or Lake Trout, Lake
Trout or Emmett's Swimming or Honor among thieves, all these bands,
Jimmy's Chicken Shack, Oh God, that shack was there. They
were dropping anchors all over the place. That's the only
(21:24):
song I know by Jimmy's Chicken Check and so. But
with a bunch of kids, and again we're like eleven
Ish parents. Take us up. They sit down and just
you know, eat cheeseburgers and drink hot chocolate in the lodge.
They're having the better day. Yeah right. It was a
good lesson to learn early because everybody else had either
snowboards or rental skis, and I was so proud of
(21:46):
these skis and I kind of raced down the first run,
if I recall, it was Dipsy Doodle, which is a
very fun run I love.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I wish we could name the runs at a ski resort.
I know.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Do you think they'll ever open new ski resorts? That
feels like we have opened the exact amount around the
world that will ever.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Exist, right, Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Still it doesn't snow that much anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Well no, but also like I don't know the way
things are going. We might be opening up like Yosemite
for skiing you know, like we might be opening up
things that you couldn't have commercial enterprises on.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I have a thumbs up about that coming up, all right.
I got I raced down the hill my new skis,
feeling a new polls live in the dream. Everybody's cool,
boys and girls, we're all hanging out, and I kind
of stopped midway down the run, just right in the
middle thing to watch all my friends come down. And
this one girl that I went to school with comes
gunning it down totally out of control, misses me by
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inches and goes across the front of my new skis
and just carves two lines directly across the front of
my skis. It was so heartbreaking and so devastating and
like actually scratched them and stuff scratched. Yeah, first runs.
She was just a bad year. Yeah, she's an eleven
year old kid. She didn't know what she was doing.
(23:04):
But she's like I just saw her coming and she's
kind of like weaving, but she's trying to do a
pizza shape with her her ski. Yeah, and then to
not hit me, she straightens them out, goes directly across
the front of my skis and scratches the shit out
of them, and I really truly believe that it affected
my life forever after that, where now secondhand goods, used cars.
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I don't like new things. I don't like new things.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Oh interesting, you always want to get it used.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah. I think it devastated my little ten year old
or eleven year old heart so much that I had
worked and saved and done so much and then this
special thing was kind of ruined in an instant I
mean I could still ski, I have five or six
more years, but it was so emotionally devastating at the
beginning of the day. No good Charlotte song could soothe
(23:56):
the hurt in my heart. And I think to this day,
I don't like owning new stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Interesting. That is so, I mean like it. Look, we've
been doing this podcast for five years. It is amazing
the layers of the onion that is Scottie Landis that
will be slowly unpeeled and revealed here.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
That's right, It's crazy, but it's true. I mean, besides,
like you know, a mattress or towels, so not a
complete werewolf. But uh yeah, I honestly think it it
affected me, but it was such like an instantaneous thing,
and if I had not stopped or it is funny.
Life is a weird web like that. But hey, I
wish her well. I think she's a mom with like
(24:39):
nine children now, so you know, we all blaze our
own trails down that mountain that day.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Oh man, do you know what that?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Like I've just been like sitting here looking at this
and I and I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas
about this? Is that? So I'm packing up my house, yes,
and I've actually packed a lot of stuff in my
general vicinity. But it's come down to I have a
bald eagle feather and a Ravens feather that I was given.
(25:16):
I was given actually I found the Ravens feather and
I was given the bald eagle feather by my buddy
who got it up in Alaska. And they have sat
on my desk now for the past twelve years.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Oh, I'm bringing them. They're very special to me. But
how the do I pack these?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
What?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
What? What container?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Eight does a feather hold?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Well? I got a pitch and I'll work with you
on this.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Okay, I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
You know those really long matches for fireplaces uh huh, yes,
I do you get one of those. I'll take those
matches off your hands. Don't worry. I'll don't worry about
the matches. I'll handle the house. And you just put
those two flowers in there like a quiver and just
cap them off and just fly and drive, knowing those
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feathers are protect it.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I love it. I think that that is exactly what
I need to do.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
There you go, it's just that.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
And then you get there and it's a cardboard tube
with what's in there, just two special feathers. Sir, you're
helping me move. Thank you so much. Could you be
pleased careful with my two special feather tube.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I will be carrying this one, Kurt, just solely, nothing
else in my hand. It's awful light, isn't it. It's
my magic feather tube.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Oh man?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Maybe? And I've been buying those magic feather tubes. That
could be any great idea.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
It's for when you need to transport your feathers, good
medicine feathers. You gotta have a way to get them
around the country. I've also have to have to ship one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven eight. I have to ship nine surfboards and so
I've been trying to buy board bags off of Craigslist
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and Facebook Marketplace. By the way, there has been a
revolution in online buying, which I had no idea about.
Craigslist is dead, Facebook Marketplace is the I mean, I've
heard Facebook, but like, oh my god, the difference is palpable.
I guess because you can verify someone's identity that they're
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not like a lunatic psycho killer. I have no I mean,
I don't know why, but it is. I've been selling things.
I've been buying things. But I've been going all over
the Los Angeles Basin area buying board bags from surfers
and it is a delight to meet all these kooky weirdos.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah. I was talking to Caro Klank about this because she's,
you know, moms buy and sell kid stuff, baby stuff, toys,
all that stuff all the time. And she said that
she's in a group that has a Facebook marketplace that's
just free items and no matter what they post, it
has gone within an hour, no.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Matter what it is. It's crazy. I mean, like, I've
been shocked. I also sold some weights, so I'm selling
a surf rack rates cool, Like hell yeah, baby.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Blow it out. I love selling stuff, get rid of stuff.
It's the best feeling.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Have a nice wat, sweet cash to walk around with.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Give me a story, Scotty Well, speaking of things on
the move. Hannah Duncan sent this and thank you, Hannah Duncan.
You said some nice stories. BBC staff wrote this one,
so you know it's medium. Jesus Gordon Ramsey's restaurant sees
four hundred and seventy seven lucky cats stolen.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Oh yes, okay, I really like this one. A question.
We have always assumed that when it's the BBC staff,
it's a choice that someone and was like, I would
prefer not to have my name on this, But it
happens so often with the BBC that I'm concerned there's
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something more nefarious at work here, perhaps like they're not
paying an intern so therefore they can't give them credit.
So anytime you see BBC staff, I'm making all of
this up by of course, as we should, but it's
an unpaid person who can't be properly credited because they
did not pay them, and so then they just assign
it to BBC staff. Just give us a name. We
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need to know who writes these things.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Just make it up. First name, Paul. Everybody in England
is named Paul. We get it. Last name. Just combine
a type of door with a clergy profession and you
got it. Nearly five hundred cat figurines have been stolen
from a new Gordon Ramsey restaurant in one week, at
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an estimated cost of more than two thousand pounds. The
TV the chef has said. The restauranteur recently launched Lucky
Cat by Gordon Ramsey in Bishopsgate in central London, featuring
beckoning Japanese cat models called Mineki, Neko or Nico. The
fifty eight year old and it's important to know how
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old Gordon Ramsey is for this story.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
I'm shocked that he's fifty eight. I thought he would
maybe be older.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Got look looking good or looking bad, depending on how
you think. The fifty eight year old told ITV's Jonathan
Ross show the cats are getting stolen. There were four
hundred and seven stolen last week. They cost four pounds
fifty pence each the city of.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I don't don't care Gordon Ramsey, sorry, one hundred millionaire,
I eat it.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I know he really is everywhere I did go. I
went to a Hell's Kitchen taping once. I'm sure I
talked about on the pod once with the workhogs dudes,
and we just got drunk on wine and kept cheering
to Big Gourd, to Big Gord and the produce sits
who were trying to film Adam Devine and some of
those other people. I was at that table. They were like,
please stop calling him Big Gourd. We won't be able
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to use this. But then we just kept big Drunker
kept going this a big gourd. They give you real alcohol,
they give you only wine or beer. I think for
us it was only wine. We would have drunk beer.
And then they there's two kitchens, there's a blue team
and a red team, or there's two sides of the
kitchen and they have to cook the same type of meal.
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And then Gordon Ramsey kicked out the other team, so
they only got their first round of like appetizers. Meanwhile,
ours kept going. So we got everything, We get table
side pasta, we get all these things made, but we're
just ripped. I mean, it aired. It's a very funny episode.
I don't know what season because that show has been
on forever, but yeah, they cut around us, so much
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because we drunkenly kept toasting to big gourd over and
over and it was so fun because also you know,
and I, well me, I don't really drink wine, so
my wine drunk is I don't know how to I'm
just so silly. It's almost like, oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
You don't drink wine.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
No, only if other people are drinking it. So like
if somebody's like, we're serving wine or where, let's get
wine for the table, I'll do it. But to me,
it's just a waste of calories. It doesn't get me
where I need to go all these days. If I
just want to, if I want to catch a buzz
or get drunk, it's like I'd rather do it in
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three drinks than five glasses of wine.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yea, yeah, yeah, I hear that.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Thank you, I thank you. So. The City of London
Police said it had not received any reports of theft
from the restaurant. Okay, that's fine. A number of cat
fig greens stolen would cost about twty six pounds. The
Minecki Nico figurines are believed by some within Japanese culture
to bring good luck sort of irony, and have been
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a feature in the Lucky Cat restaurants, which serve Asian
inspired cuisine. Ramsey, known for his Hell's Kitchen and Ramsey's
Kitchen Nightmares reality TV programs, also said he had issues
with couples entering the toilets together. Couples are They're enjoying
the food so much, they're doinking and blinking. What kind
of food in the boom boom room?
Speaker 2 (33:18):
What kind of food is it?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
It's Asian inspired cuisine. You know, when you think Gordon Ramsey,
what do you think Far East?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I mean, why do I I have like an active
I don't know a good damn thing about Gordon Ramsey.
I don't think I've seen any of his shows. I
have an idea in my mind that he's a distasteful person,
and I'm going to act on it. I'm gonna say
he is. Because of my vague recollection of who he is.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
I can say for certain that I've never eaten in
one of his restaurants. I know that to be true.
They like a chef over there, I mean, I know,
we have our Catcoorra, and we have our Bob Flays.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
We have come on Scotty. Of course you would like
your chefs over there. Had you ever been there? Have
you ever been to the UK twenty years ago? The
food was insane. It was crazy, the ideas that they
had about food. I mean, those chefs came over there
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and they brightened the people's lives. They showed that not
everything needs to be boiled in one color gray.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
The sweets, though the bacon show is not an accident.
If you go to a less.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Sweet certissire, my sweets are very good.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
They turned the breads out over there, their breadheads for days.
The restaurant opened earlier this month on the sixtieth floor
of Skyscraper twenty two, one of London's tallest buildings. That's
pretty fun. Yeah, I would like to eat sixty feet up.
Reflecting on his more than eighty global restaurant, I mean,
the dude is doing fine, Ramsey said. It does get
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a bit scary in terms of how big it is
and the global impact. Okay, it doesn't make sense. Ramsey
also spoke about the upcoming nuptials of his daughter Holly Ramsey,
an Olympic swimmer, and Adam Peady. They were planning at
Christmas wedding. Man, what a fun radio show this would
have been to get all this interesting information that we
are now repeating on our radio show. He said, the
(35:25):
PDA three time gold this is why the staff didn't
want to put a name on. Now we're just talking
about a totally different thing. He said.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Guess what, I wait, I know, I know why this
isn't attributed to anyone. This is paid for by Gordon Ramsey.
This is PR for the restaurant. He doesn't care that
people steal these things. They're probably encouraged to take them.
The whole idea that it's called happy cat. This is
just PR for his restaurant.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Good call, Let's forget it. I'm bailing on this. There's
three more small paragraphs.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
I want to hear about p d.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
You want to hear about p Yeah, what is he
up to?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Adam ped Well, I just found out existed.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah, this guy that I'm obsessed with that I just
found out is on planet. At the same time, he
said that Adam Pdy, the three time Olympic gold medalist,
did not seek permission, but did talk to him about
the engagement. What are we talking about that if he
why do you need permission? What medieval bullshit is that?
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Your daughter's fair hand? Screw you?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
You know?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
How many crappy dads are out there. Do whatever you want.
You don't need to ask for permission.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
That's insane to like the suggestion. The suggestion that you
have to ask a dad's permission is is just the
idea that the father owns them exactly, and that you
would need permission from the owner of the human so
that you could take the human and you own them.
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I mean, like, it's.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Crazy if anything asked the mom. The mom's gonna be
the one that knows the emotional status of this daughter.
Go to the mom, be like, do you like me
enough to let me marry your daughter? Because I've been
thinking about it. Okay, I'm gonna go mention engagement vaguely
to your husband, and then we're gonna make it. So
he said, Adam so down to earth kirt and so
(37:16):
focused and so disciplined, and he sat us down in
cornwall and said, Holly is just the perfect woman, and
I'd like to get I know we're bailing, and I
guess Holly's a YouTuber and blah blah blah blee blah
b loop. Congratulations to I hope that happy Come had
lampsh buddy that got away with stealing a little cute,
(37:37):
adorable waving Japanese cat. It turns out the police weren't notified,
So I hope you welcome it into your home with a.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Fact that they calculated that it costs two thousand dollars,
and that Gordon Ramsey even talked about it. It's two
thousand dollars, Gordon Ramsey, that's probably a large table for
the evening.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
That's right. Your restaurant, Kurt orders, Kurt will come and
order a chilled grooner? And is it minerally? Oh? Is
it minerally? You love a cold grooner?
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Don't you like a grooner velt leaner?
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I do, and I do enjoy. I do enjoy minerally.
I really I do feel like that's maybe from my
twenties that you know that, or is it really more
recent than I know? In front of you?
Speaker 1 (38:25):
It's the few times I ever drink wine with you,
it's usually a chilled grooner. And is it minerally? Is
the two things that I recall from those exchanges. Also,
I enjoyed every time good.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Order a groooner velt lean or since there those are
my orders? Oooh here it is fart spray causes chaos
at Carnival as.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
It should right, it's there. I love a fart spray.
I got some thumbs ups. Yeah, I'll do some thumbs ups.
You can always send your thumbs up to the Banana
Boys at the Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com or
the Bananas Podcast on Instagram, where we check the dms
with Lisa Maggott all the time, every damn day. Katie
(39:07):
w is thumbing herself way up for starting a dumb
job that she hates. She's chronically ill. The work involves
physical activity and heavy lifting, something she's not familiar with,
and she's suffering every minute. But she's doing what needs
to get fucking done. So this thumbs up is yes,
keep it going as long as you have to. Then
get out of their kids.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yeah, thumbs up, you're the best.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Edwena wants to give a robust double thumbs up to
her dad, who allowed her to play episodes of Bananas
on a six hour road trip from Armadale to Sydney.
He loved it as much as he loved the nice
hill he saw during their drive. Love Edwina from Australia.
Not bad, not bad. Welcome dad, Dad, You're a new bananimal.
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We're glad to have you. Sam wants to thumb up. Oh,
this is a really good one, Kurt, You're gonna love
this one for the Parks Project is Park Project dot Us.
It is a certified B corp that sells nature and
natural apperil and donates its profits to the National Park System.
They have banana slug merch btw and she says, I
(40:13):
bet Kurtie b would love some, and so would a
lot of other bananamals too. So yeah, if you want some,
you want to support National Park System, which you should.
It's the greatest thing America ever did that might be
getting dwindled away, Go and buy some nature natural peril
from Parkproject dot Us. Oh I will and last but
not least. Yeah, wait till after your move. You don't
(40:34):
need anything else.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
I do not.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Taylor wants the thumb her mom, Charlie up. She says.
Charlie lives in northern California, but has been volunteering for
a week at a time in Los Angeles, helping residents
sift through their burned down homes to find precious memories
and keep six for them. Oh wow, So Charlie comes
down here and helps them find things that may not
have been lost when everything else was lost, because Taylor says,
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when your whole life goes up in flames, sometimes it's
those small tokens that would keep you going. And yeah,
so I think Banana of the Week.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
For Charlie Banana the week, of course.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Thank you for doing that, Charlie. That's a beautiful thing
to do.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
And thanks for leaving also beautiful northern California to come
down here in the Land of a Million Roads. We're
glad to have you.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
And here it is. After that beauty, We've got this beauty.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Here's another beauty.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Fart spray causes chaos at Carnival. This was, of course
sent in by the fantastic Valerie. Oh, and I responded
to Valerie, thinking Valerie had sent the last story, but
that was Robert, and I'd responded, it looks like you
might be the first to have two in an episode.
And then I haven't checked back since, and so I
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think it's probably pretty confusing what I said to her.
So I apologize, Valerie, but thank you for sending this.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
And this was You're the best.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
W FSB.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
This is from Fairfield, Connecticut. Kids using a flatulence spray
come on, let's call it a fart spray caused chaos
and rumors after a night at the McKinley Carnival at
Jennings Beach yesterday evening. Fairfield Police took to Facebook to
address the situation. They said, at one point in the evening,
a crowd was seen running from the beach. This raised concerns,
leading to rumors spreading online. Police clarified there was no weapons,
(42:30):
no physical artications and no injuries. Instead, they say a
group of kids using quote flatulence spray it's near the
carnival exit caused the scene.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
This prank, repeated several times throughout the night, led to
confusion and caused small groups to scream and run. Police
said toward the end of the evening, a larger reaction occurred,
triggering a ripple effect as others began running without knowing
the cause. Police thanked residents for their pay, understanding and concern.
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That is the last sentence of that article.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Yeah, how far have we fallen? Kerr? Where now we're
running from fart spray not because it smells like farts,
but because we think it's a terrorist attack.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
But this is but it's also it's started by it's
started by kids, right, So the kids smell the fart,
and they're the ones who scream because kids scream constantly.
They're just always scrowning. And it is just it is
a It is an appropriate response to merely anything that
has happened someone, someone says hello to them and they
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scream and run away. But I remember, I mean fart
spray always. I feel like fart spray always goes wrong
because it you, It really truly does smell so bad.
It's kind of shocking. Yeah, And I remember I fucked
with it only once. I was in I think fourth grade,
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uh huh. And they were little, I mean these were crazy,
they're a little glassy cassles. Yes, yeah, and so I
just put it. I was on the bus and I
put it on the ground and then someone else stepped
on it. Yes, And it was the moment that it broke.
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It was instantaneous that everywhere in the bus was unbearable
to be in. And like every one of those they
still so, I mean, it is crazy. I don't know
what that chemical is, but it was like horrifying and
I would never ever do it again. They scarred just
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like you. Only I used things I no longer used
fart bombs.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
Yeah, those stink bombs. I kind of had forgotten about
those until you met the glass ones that you had
shattered were so bad.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
They're really bad because we had far.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Spray at the Reister's Town festival, like the Dollar Booth
or whatever, and you would just walk up to people
and spray their butt with fart spray and keep walking.
And that was the big gag. Oh, they had to
ban them for my middle school because people would spray.
I mean it was funny that they would target the butt.
I mean, it's just like a hat on a hat, right,
it's a fart on a fart. But I forgot about
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I remember fart spray, but I forgot about the glass
cylinder stink bombs. And I'm looking and they still sell them.
Some Rhode Island novelty stink bombs. Dude, so cheap you
flip your lid. Three three stink bombs that take caution,
irritant twelve to fifty six. Twelve dollars and fifty six.
Speaker 2 (45:43):
That's reasonable. I understand that. I thought flipping my lid
would be like they're a penny each. You know that's dangerous.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
No, yeah, that's dangerous territory. But uh yeah, I mean
also got old fashioned fun. Who doesn't love them? But
they do smell, and a can in a closed area.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
But outside it's not you can get away from it,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
He's a skunk weed. It was like our stink cabbage.
It was like stuff in the woods that if you
kicked it, it smelled terrible if you had it with ache. No,
I don't think that was. We had it in the swamps,
and that was the same thing. You would like chop
it and then like rub it on somebody and run away.
And kids love smells, adult hat smells. Kids, kids love
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scented erasers, scratch and stiffs es. They love a smell.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
It really is something that disappears. We don't have any
I guess it's not so much like but all of
our smells become less fruity and bubbly and become like
a cedar.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Yeah, cedar. Also, I'm one of those dumb dumbs that
all you have to do is start to cook peppers
and onions with olive oil on, you know, on the oven. Yeah,
and I'm like, oh, that smells good, Like every time.
I can't not be Oh, it smells great in here.
What a dumb dumb that's what I do.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
Just give us the title and send us home. Scottie.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
Yeah, Megan Oliver sent this in and Megan, I screenshotted
what you sent me. If your last name is more
than Oliver, I didn't see it, and I apologize. Megan
alone is a great enough name. This was written by
David Morrikwand who is the best in the biz for
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euronews dot com. Japan I came back. I brought Japan
back unveil's chilled drinkable Mayo, and the Internet is not
happy about it. And it is exactly what you think.
It is a drinkable form of mayo, one that has
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already been branded online is awful. It is called no
New Mayo and it is the chill drink Mayo that
fanatics have been waiting a long time for. It is
one hundred and ninety eight year which I don't know
what that is, and let's guess a dollar. I have
no idea. And is a two hundred milli liter cup,
(48:08):
white colored thick beverage that has milk based foods with
mayonnaise flavored seasoning and processed whole eggs barf. They are
currently in their test seal period. Kurt it tastes remarkably
like mayonnaise, and one X user said, I can't decide
if this was genius or a crime against food. And
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then everybody tried it, and even people who wanted to
like it said, it's just awful, like you'd expect liquid mayo,
salty mayo mayo, maybe a bit dilly all bad. I
couldn't handle more than one sip, So there you go.
Don't drink your mayo, folks, just spread it on your
face like a normal person.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
And that's bananas. Everybody. Thank you so much. Thank you
to exactly Right. Thank you to Katie Levine, our producer.
Thank you to lease some maggot who is a full human,
not robot, not robot part time. I'm in turn, part
time employee. And of course, thank you to you, Scottie.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
Thank you to you, Kurtie B. Brown Older. We'll see
you in Chicago, where the malort will flow like jogging mayonnaise.
Bananas Bananas is an exactly right media production.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
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Speaker 1 (49:33):
The catchy bananas theme song was composed and performed by Kahan.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard, and.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
Our benevolent overlords are the Great Karen Kilgareff and Georgia
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Speaker 2 (49:43):
And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot
intern
Scotti, Curtie B. You ready for it? I'm ready to
laugh and laugh and.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Law stranded man airlifted from Mount Fuji, then rescued again
days later after he returned to get his phone.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Okay, well it's a it's about the little things in life.
It's what matters most. Risking your own life for a
phone feels very twenty twenty five, and it certainly feels
very bananas.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I says, your world of mad.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Would you believe.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It's your mind? No resilient pieces?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Would you be.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Ba ba batting baby banana guys, gals, non binary pass,
welcome to bananas sitting a cross for me? Is my
esteemed colleague, Scottie Landis.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
You know I've never written the words esteemed colleague before,
but hearing you say it as my esteemed colleague, it's
very satisfying to hear that. Is the one and only
Kurt Kurtie B. Brown Owler and I had a real
Sophie's choice last week. Kurt I was offered tickets to
go see ac DC with our good friend frequent guest
(01:29):
Albertina Rossa. I had two tickets at the Rose Bowl,
but I also had already been asked by Laurel Bristow
to go to the Magic Castle, and I had gotten tickets,
so on the same night I sat there and it
aged me twelve fifteen years, maybe because there's few things
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in the world I like more than AC d C
at the Rose Bowl with a good friend. But I
ended up going with Laurel and Courtney and Strawberry and
we had an amazing time. I'm at the world sort
of famous magic Castle.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I am going tomorrow. Look at that Matt with a magician.
Matt Donnelley is performing.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
He's a magician.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
The mind Noodler. You guys, feel the mind low Noodler
ever comes to your town. You go see the mind Noodler.
He's fantastic. He is he handles a crowd. He handles
a crowd. They're like they're they're they're eating out of
his hand the whole time.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Funny guy, He's a very funny man. Damn that's cool. Yeah.
Matt is a was a great improviser, and I took
one of his improv classes, like a workshop, and I
just remember being like, this guy, this guy knows how
the biz works. And it was so helpful because I
was twenty three and I'm like any advice is great.
(02:47):
He's he gave great. He gave great.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
He gives great advice. I feel like he does. It
is a skill that he has honed over the years,
and he is excellent at giving advice and been animals.
I just got to say, listen, Oh, we added a
show in Chicago late, late in the game. Usually we
have months to promote. This time, four weeks to promote it.
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It's coming up May eighth. That means if you're listening
to this on Tuesday, that it's on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
It's a day's.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Thursday, all right. So come on out to the den.
Last time we did, we went there, what do we do?
Two hour meet and greet, free meeting.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
The next show went and ended and we were still
meeting greeting. One couple went, got a full dinner, paid,
walked back to the theater, got back in line, and
we're gonna do the same thing this time. We're happy
to meet all of you. It's an honor to meet
so many passionate ban animals, and we love Chicago, and
we love Chicago in the spring.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh my god, it will be pleasant. I mean I'm
going to be there literally for a handful of hours.
But those hours they will be fun.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Scottie, you're flying in, you're flying out. I've decided. I
know you're still dry three sixty ninety, but I'm gonna up.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I might make an exception for this banana show. What
might make an exception for Chicago? I might make an
exception for Chicago.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Stop the press, the press, this is a big deal. Well,
you don't have to join me, but I was going
to kick off the show with a shot of milord.
I won't join it. No, but just because I'm so
so passionate about giving Chicago all that I got.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It is a I was talking about Millort recently, and
it is.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I've rarely encountered a drink that is so so unpleasant
to imbibe. It is a truly there's and there's nothing there.
I can't say that there's any positive about it. It
really is like an ash tray at the bottom of
a sock kind of taste.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
It's the culture experience that's the post, that is the positive.
Anticipating in a greater I just.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Wich Chicago had chosen a slightly better tasting terrible liquor.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, just some red sauce with some gin, just a
marinera gin shot.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Oh my god, my god, Scottie, I have been. I
have been packing and packing and packing my house. We're
renting our house for a year because we're on the
move to New Jersey baby right outside the city, and
it is we're getting read. We have to we have
(05:34):
to take pictures on Monday. Today is Tuesday. That means
there has to be no personal item in our house
on Monday. So that yeah, no personal items. So it
is just like because that's how photographs look good like,
you just have to have nothing there, no no photographs,
(05:55):
no nothing. All the pictures of the kids off the
off the fridge, like all that sort of stuff. So
it's a little things you don't even think of. I
had to replace sixteen light bulbs.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Yesterday because there's like a big one.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I have to the light bulbs have to match, because
that's the thing people care about. It is it is
the minuscule moving sucks in such a massive, massive way.
Don't ever do it, Scottie.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
No, I don't ever plan on doing it again. In Lockdown,
they were selling my cabin. The guy that on my
cabin wanted to sell it, so I had to leave
the house one day because this was still when people
were masked and staying away from each other. This was
way way early on. And so this guy comes over
and I go stand in my backyard and just watch
this guy photograph of house. But I couldn't move everything out,
(06:41):
and I intentionally put certain notes like my mom had
written a note, something else had written a note, and
I had left them on my fridge, and they were
on the redfin and Zillow, like my notes that were
like hey, you know, be safe, wear a mask. All
those things were still up there. But when I noticed this,
I went back in the house after the I left,
and he was probably in there, I don't know, forty
(07:02):
five minutes, and he had just stood on all my furniture.
There were shoeprints on all my sofa, on my sofa,
my chairs, he just stood on them for a higher
angle because it was a smallish house. And I was like,
what a fucking asshole. I was like, that is a
crazy thing to do in like a time where we're
all afraid of terms, just to be like shoes on
standing on everything. Can you imagine that.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Is such a crazy thing to do, because you would imagine, like, oh,
I bring a little mat, and I put the mat
where I'm going to stand, and then I stand on
the mat because I'm a professional, I'm taking professional photographs.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Oh yeah. I had an electrician come over recently and
he put like little those little covers on his shoes
and was like is this okay? And I'm like that's great,
thank you. But also I wasn't expecting the electrician to
do it in normal times. So these people, man, I'm
telling you, this world is full of some real characters.
Not interested. I already had three movie pitches today, two
(07:59):
different movie yes. And I had a great meeting with
the script already wrote with a really funny actress who
is attaching to this movie, so hopefully I can announce
in the big movie.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
So I got in the meeting she attached, Yeah, she.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Had already read the script. So that one was just like, hey,
do we get along? Are we going to flip each
other off on zoom? Do? Where's this coming from? What
are you going to bring to a kind of thing?
And it went That was my eight am meeting. Then
I had a nine am pitch, Then I had a
ten am pitch, and then I had an eleven am pitch.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Oh my god, dude, two different.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Movies, you know, thirty five minutes of zoom pitching exhausting.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
That's exciting, That's very exciting. Yes, I want to talk biz,
and we never talked biz on the podcast. I want
to talk bill.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
The industry is so. The thing is podcasting, as everybody
listening knows, has really exploded and grown over the last
eight years, ten years. But what I've noticed is podcasting
has now replaced cable TV. Because there was a time
where people like Kurt and I, one of our jobs
would be Comedy Central, MTV, v H one, IFC true TBS,
(09:10):
you sold shows to cable networks. Those show those networks
either no longer exist or no longer do anything but
show Friends reruns, Office reruns, Family Guy reruns. They don't
make original content. So I feel blessed and grateful to
have Bananas being my yearly cable podcast excuse me, pilot substitute,
(09:32):
and my goodness.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
My goodness, what a fortuitous.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Lucky thing for us to fall into.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well, you know what, this kind of segues perfectly into
something that we've we've been meaning to share with everybody,
and I think it's time to share it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Scottie uh oh, let's get into it.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
So, guys, we've got a Patreon.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah, we're expanding.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
We are expanding Thea's universe utilizing the Patreon. Uh. And
so don't worry if you do not want to get
in on the Patreon. You Bananas is not going anywhere.
We're not even gonna withhold any of the Bananas episodes.
They're still coming out every Tuesday like clockwork. The one
(10:22):
change will be that the monthly bonus sode that used
to come out on our regular feed will no longer
come out on our regular feed. It will be part
of the Patreon.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Correct. We're gonna do bonus soodes, We're gonna do mailbag episodes,
We're gonna do an additional Banana's episode, and every Monday,
just to root our beautiful bananimals on, Kurt and I
are going to alternate giving a weekly affirmation in a
world that seems to be crumbling. We say, no, ma'am,
(10:53):
no sir, know them they friends. We're gonna encourage you
to live your best life. It is.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
It's it's it's weekly Monday morning affirmations from the Banana Boys.
And in addition to that, also you'll get access to
tickets first, including you'll get access to tickets for Bananas
Fest October fourth, you'll get access to that first. We're
only doing one show. There's only four hundred tickets for
that show, so it will sell out, so having the
(11:24):
having the Patreon will will be a bonus in that sense.
And we will be debuting a new version of the
podcast called Bronanas, which is all of our very famous
male friends on the podcast who we've never had on
before at all. And the very first episode, which is
(11:48):
up right now, is Kumail nan Gianni.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Not a bad first guest, some might say, a fantastic
first guest.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
A Marvel a Marvel hero as your first guest.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
The see you meets the BPU. Because the Bananas Podcast universe,
we just enjoy doing it so much. We just want
to expand and continue, and thank you to everybody exactly
right who is allowing us to do this, because yes,
we're still going to do four episodes of Bananas exactly
how we always have. We've never missed a week since
four twenty twenty twenty, and we're going to keep doing
(12:19):
that for as long as we can. And then this
is just complimentary. Come and join us, support the bananas,
stay silly. Just fill your month and stuff your ears
with more banana.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
We'll also be offering a cocktail hour Zoom once a
month if you want to do that, and at a
certain level, which is a very funny, silly level, a
crazy level, we will come and do a show at
your home.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Correct. We will do Bananas live at your home or
at a safe location.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
If you want to do it at a Domino's Pizza
where it's just us and you, that's great. If you
want to bring friends, that's cool too.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yep, that one is our mirror, the Kram de l
the cram top of the top, so much more. But yes,
we will do a Banana's live in your house, in
your front yard, in your garage, at your grandma's house,
wherever you want us to do it. We will do
a full Bananas live of your choosing. Again, somewhere safe.
(13:18):
Please do not do it on the median in a highway.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
All right here. It is Scotty stranded man airlifted from
Mount Fuji, then rescued again days later after he returned
to get his phone.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I love that Mount Fuji one of the most famous mountains.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
It is and if correct me if I'm wrong, but
Mount Fuji is the one you can just walk to, right.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
I've never done that, but that sounds right, all right.
I don't know that much about northern Japan. I know.
My entertainment lawyer once said, have you been to Hakkaido?
And I said no, and he goes, you gotta go
skiing in Hakkaido. It's incredible. And that's literally the only
thing a compliment about a ski slope.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
This was sent in by Robert Woodbury. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Robert Woodburry sends in a lot of good stories.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Thank you, Robert h This was in CBS news.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
That's real. I've heard of that.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
That stands for Couxby saying, okay, news to me. A
climber airlifted with altitude sickness from Couxby saying. A climber
airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan's
Mount Fuji last week returned to the slope and was
(14:35):
rescued for a second time just four days later. Authority
said Monday. The climber was identified only as twenty seven
year old Chinese student living in Japan. He made an
emergency call on April twenty second was airlifted after Earthday
was airlifted after developing symptoms of altitude sickness, police said,
adding that his climbing irons also were damaged. Oh he's
(14:55):
got climbing irons.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Okay, Oh weird, so he's the real guy.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Saturday, he returned to the mountain's Fujiyama Trail, nearly ten
thousand feet above sea level, to look for cell phone
and other belongings left behind. Shizuoko Prefectorial Police said another
climber found him there, unable to move, apparently after he
got sick for a second time.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yeah, oh my god, what was on this phone? What
was he What couldn't he replace with a new phone?
For real?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Also, if you got altitude sickness the first time, bring
some oxygen. I mean, like, that's crazy. He was suspected
of having altitude sickness taken to a hospital. It was
not known whether he was able to find the phone
in the end. Local media's report. The mountains hiking trails
are officially open from July to early September, but there
is no penalty for hiking off season. There's also no
(15:48):
charge or penalty when a climber needs to be rescued
wah wah wee wah, but the Chinese students' care prompted
an uproar on social media and generated calls for him
to be charged at least for his second rescue. I
think that's reasonable. I think that's right.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Following the man's rescue, police in Shizuoka Prefricture reiterated its
vice against climbing the mountain during the off season, as
the weather could suddenly change. Police urged all climbers to
use caution. Blah blah blah blah blah. The twelve three
hundred and eighty eight foot high mountain was designated UNESCO
World Cultural Herriage Site in twenty thirteen. A symbol of Japan,
the mountain called Fujisan used to be a place of
(16:28):
pilgrimage and is increasingly popular. Blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
And that's it.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Uh, there's a bunch of other stuff, but it's real
general about the mountain, and it doesn't tell me what
I want to know, which is do you have to
climb because I heard I thought you told me that.
I thought you told me when we were doing routes
about because we had a plan to put a soft
serve machine on the top of Mountain food finally, right, No,
you said I thought it was Mount Fuji because you
said that's the one mountain you don't have to actually
(16:59):
do any grope climbing. You can literally walk the whole way.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
No, I don't know that one. I thought it was
Mount McKinley. But then again, if you think about what
we're talking about, putting a generator and a soft served
ice cream machine on the top of a snowcaped mountain,
I'm sure. I'm sure we had many pitches for where
we could do that, and we probably almost did Mount
Washington where you can just drive it on up. I
love it so much. What was on this guy's phone?
(17:26):
What was it? Was it a pass code for his bitcoin?
Was eight nudes? Was it something motivated this man to
risk it off for this phone, because no phone is
worth dying over. And I was just looking up the
symptoms of altitude sickness. It's an education podcast, so I'll
share it. Headaches, dizziness, nausea, fatigue and weakness, loss of appetite,
(17:51):
difficult difficulty sleeping, and shortness of breath. So I guess
it's really not too good. I think think, I think
a lot of people get sick and a lot of
people get disoriented. So not worth it unless something magic.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Was on that this this will you know, this is
what A great segue into bananas Fast October fourth in Denver, Colorado. Guys,
get there a little early, get used to get get
used to the altitude before you have a drink. The
drinking and the altitude it dumb. Mis don't make you
feel good.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
That is right.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Scotty and I are going to move there a month
ahead of time and start training.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I know we're going to have to. I'm definitely going
to get there a few days early. My goodness, it
was exhausting. I drank a coconut water, That's how exhausted
I was. I was like, I need something to heal me.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
And and you need the electrolytes because your body just
doesn't have the ability to hydrate itself as quick. I
guess you get a lot of like moisture from breathing.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I certainly do. I get all my moisture from breathing.
When I was a young Banana, I all my friends
got really into snowboarding, but I always preferred skiing. I
just thought it was more fun. I liked facing down
the mountain and not like having a carve constantly. And
I was probably ten or eleven ish, and I saved
up money between birthdays and Christmases and all the stuff
(19:19):
that kids can do to make mowing lawns. And I
bought a pair of skis, brand new K two skis
and I got them from Kenilworth Mall. And I spent
about three hundred dollars okay, and three to a ten
year old, that's a lot. That was like I was
looking at Club Met. I was thinking about retiring at
that point. Board I got the polls. They measure me
(19:41):
up proud. I was like, so pumped. I go with
a group of friends up to ski Liberty.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Liberty Sky. How many runs does Ski Liberty have.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I don't recall exactly, but I would guess sixteen runs,
like maybe eight on the front and eight on the back.
It was great, not because now I'm a very good skier,
because it was always a sheet of ice.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Always a sheet of ice. It was all Northeast snow
until unless you get to like like a Vermont and Maine,
all of it is just one sheet from the top
to the very bottom. It is just people trying to
get traction on a sheet of ice. You know.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Hell, Like if you hear a car crash, it's got
crunch that you hear. There's nothing that sounds like crunch
crunch of a car crash. It's the same skiing or
snowboarding on these coasts. The edge catching the snow on
those steat mountains, it's like that.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And it's like I could wake away screaming to that sound.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
And when you would fall, you would just it would
be like concrete. It was just hitting concrete.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yeah, So you had to get really good, really fat.
So I go up there with a bunch of buddies
and it wasn't So. They used to do a thing
at Ski Liberty called the ski something snowball. I think
it might have been like the WHFS snowball and it
was bad in my opinion. Not good bands playing while
it was snowing during the day. So when you were
(21:04):
skiing down towards the lodge, there was a stage setup
so you could come rock out. It was you know
Baltimore good boys like Good Charlotte or Lake Trout, Lake
Trout or Emmett's Swimming or Honor among thieves, all these bands,
Jimmy's Chicken Shack, Oh God, that shack was there. They
were dropping anchors all over the place. That's the only
(21:24):
song I know by Jimmy's Chicken Check and so. But
with a bunch of kids, and again we're like eleven
Ish parents. Take us up. They sit down and just
you know, eat cheeseburgers and drink hot chocolate in the lodge.
They're having the better day. Yeah right. It was a
good lesson to learn early because everybody else had either
snowboards or rental skis, and I was so proud of
(21:46):
these skis and I kind of raced down the first run,
if I recall, it was Dipsy Doodle, which is a
very fun run I love.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I wish we could name the runs at a ski resort.
I know.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Do you think they'll ever open new ski resorts? That
feels like we have opened the exact amount around the
world that will ever.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Exist, right, Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Still it doesn't snow that much anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Well no, but also like I don't know the way
things are going. We might be opening up like Yosemite
for skiing you know, like we might be opening up
things that you couldn't have commercial enterprises on.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I have a thumbs up about that coming up, all right.
I got I raced down the hill my new skis,
feeling a new polls live in the dream. Everybody's cool,
boys and girls, we're all hanging out, and I kind
of stopped midway down the run, just right in the
middle thing to watch all my friends come down. And
this one girl that I went to school with comes
gunning it down totally out of control, misses me by
(22:44):
inches and goes across the front of my new skis
and just carves two lines directly across the front of
my skis. It was so heartbreaking and so devastating and
like actually scratched them and stuff scratched. Yeah, first runs.
She was just a bad year. Yeah, she's an eleven
year old kid. She didn't know what she was doing.
(23:04):
But she's like I just saw her coming and she's
kind of like weaving, but she's trying to do a
pizza shape with her her ski. Yeah, and then to
not hit me, she straightens them out, goes directly across
the front of my skis and scratches the shit out
of them, and I really truly believe that it affected
my life forever after that, where now secondhand goods, used cars.
(23:27):
I don't like new things. I don't like new things.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Oh interesting, you always want to get it used.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah. I think it devastated my little ten year old
or eleven year old heart so much that I had
worked and saved and done so much and then this
special thing was kind of ruined in an instant I
mean I could still ski, I have five or six
more years, but it was so emotionally devastating at the
beginning of the day. No good Charlotte song could soothe
(23:56):
the hurt in my heart. And I think to this day,
I don't like owning new stuff.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Interesting. That is so, I mean like it. Look, we've
been doing this podcast for five years. It is amazing
the layers of the onion that is Scottie Landis that
will be slowly unpeeled and revealed here.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
That's right, It's crazy, but it's true. I mean, besides,
like you know, a mattress or towels, so not a
complete werewolf. But uh yeah, I honestly think it it
affected me, but it was such like an instantaneous thing,
and if I had not stopped or it is funny.
Life is a weird web like that. But hey, I
wish her well. I think she's a mom with like
(24:39):
nine children now, so you know, we all blaze our
own trails down that mountain that day.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Oh man, do you know what that?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Like I've just been like sitting here looking at this
and I and I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas
about this? Is that? So I'm packing up my house, yes,
and I've actually packed a lot of stuff in my
general vicinity. But it's come down to I have a
bald eagle feather and a Ravens feather that I was given.
(25:16):
I was given actually I found the Ravens feather and
I was given the bald eagle feather by my buddy
who got it up in Alaska. And they have sat
on my desk now for the past twelve years.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Oh, I'm bringing them. They're very special to me. But
how the do I pack these?
Speaker 1 (25:37):
What?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
What? What container?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Eight does a feather hold?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Well? I got a pitch and I'll work with you
on this.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Okay, I'm ready.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
You know those really long matches for fireplaces uh huh, yes,
I do you get one of those. I'll take those
matches off your hands. Don't worry. I'll don't worry about
the matches. I'll handle the house. And you just put
those two flowers in there like a quiver and just
cap them off and just fly and drive, knowing those
(26:09):
feathers are protect it.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I love it. I think that that is exactly what
I need to do.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
There you go, it's just that.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
And then you get there and it's a cardboard tube
with what's in there, just two special feathers. Sir, you're
helping me move. Thank you so much. Could you be
pleased careful with my two special feather tube.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I will be carrying this one, Kurt, just solely, nothing
else in my hand. It's awful light, isn't it. It's
my magic feather tube.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Oh man?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Maybe? And I've been buying those magic feather tubes. That
could be any great idea.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
It's for when you need to transport your feathers, good
medicine feathers. You gotta have a way to get them
around the country. I've also have to have to ship one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven eight. I have to ship nine surfboards and so
I've been trying to buy board bags off of Craigslist
(27:05):
and Facebook Marketplace. By the way, there has been a
revolution in online buying, which I had no idea about.
Craigslist is dead, Facebook Marketplace is the I mean, I've
heard Facebook, but like, oh my god, the difference is palpable.
I guess because you can verify someone's identity that they're
(27:27):
not like a lunatic psycho killer. I have no I mean,
I don't know why, but it is. I've been selling things.
I've been buying things. But I've been going all over
the Los Angeles Basin area buying board bags from surfers
and it is a delight to meet all these kooky weirdos.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah. I was talking to Caro Klank about this because she's,
you know, moms buy and sell kid stuff, baby stuff, toys,
all that stuff all the time. And she said that
she's in a group that has a Facebook marketplace that's
just free items and no matter what they post, it
has gone within an hour, no.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Matter what it is. It's crazy. I mean, like, I've
been shocked. I also sold some weights, so I'm selling
a surf rack rates cool, Like hell yeah, baby.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Blow it out. I love selling stuff, get rid of stuff.
It's the best feeling.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Have a nice wat, sweet cash to walk around with.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Give me a story, Scotty Well, speaking of things on
the move. Hannah Duncan sent this and thank you, Hannah Duncan.
You said some nice stories. BBC staff wrote this one,
so you know it's medium. Jesus Gordon Ramsey's restaurant sees
four hundred and seventy seven lucky cats stolen.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Oh yes, okay, I really like this one. A question.
We have always assumed that when it's the BBC staff,
it's a choice that someone and was like, I would
prefer not to have my name on this, But it
happens so often with the BBC that I'm concerned there's
(29:09):
something more nefarious at work here, perhaps like they're not
paying an intern so therefore they can't give them credit.
So anytime you see BBC staff, I'm making all of
this up by of course, as we should, but it's
an unpaid person who can't be properly credited because they
did not pay them, and so then they just assign
it to BBC staff. Just give us a name. We
(29:32):
need to know who writes these things.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Just make it up. First name, Paul. Everybody in England
is named Paul. We get it. Last name. Just combine
a type of door with a clergy profession and you
got it. Nearly five hundred cat figurines have been stolen
from a new Gordon Ramsey restaurant in one week, at
(29:56):
an estimated cost of more than two thousand pounds. The
TV the chef has said. The restauranteur recently launched Lucky
Cat by Gordon Ramsey in Bishopsgate in central London, featuring
beckoning Japanese cat models called Mineki, Neko or Nico. The
fifty eight year old and it's important to know how
(30:17):
old Gordon Ramsey is for this story.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
I'm shocked that he's fifty eight. I thought he would
maybe be older.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Got look looking good or looking bad, depending on how
you think. The fifty eight year old told ITV's Jonathan
Ross show the cats are getting stolen. There were four
hundred and seven stolen last week. They cost four pounds
fifty pence each the city of.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I don't don't care Gordon Ramsey, sorry, one hundred millionaire,
I eat it.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I know he really is everywhere I did go. I
went to a Hell's Kitchen taping once. I'm sure I
talked about on the pod once with the workhogs dudes,
and we just got drunk on wine and kept cheering
to Big Gourd, to Big Gord and the produce sits
who were trying to film Adam Devine and some of
those other people. I was at that table. They were like,
please stop calling him Big Gourd. We won't be able
(31:07):
to use this. But then we just kept big Drunker
kept going this a big gourd. They give you real alcohol,
they give you only wine or beer. I think for
us it was only wine. We would have drunk beer.
And then they there's two kitchens, there's a blue team
and a red team, or there's two sides of the
kitchen and they have to cook the same type of meal.
(31:28):
And then Gordon Ramsey kicked out the other team, so
they only got their first round of like appetizers. Meanwhile,
ours kept going. So we got everything, We get table
side pasta, we get all these things made, but we're
just ripped. I mean, it aired. It's a very funny episode.
I don't know what season because that show has been
on forever, but yeah, they cut around us, so much
(31:49):
because we drunkenly kept toasting to big gourd over and
over and it was so fun because also you know,
and I, well me, I don't really drink wine, so
my wine drunk is I don't know how to I'm
just so silly. It's almost like, oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
You don't drink wine.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
No, only if other people are drinking it. So like
if somebody's like, we're serving wine or where, let's get
wine for the table, I'll do it. But to me,
it's just a waste of calories. It doesn't get me
where I need to go all these days. If I
just want to, if I want to catch a buzz
or get drunk, it's like I'd rather do it in
(32:32):
three drinks than five glasses of wine.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yea, yeah, yeah, I hear that.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Thank you, I thank you. So. The City of London
Police said it had not received any reports of theft
from the restaurant. Okay, that's fine. A number of cat
fig greens stolen would cost about twty six pounds. The
Minecki Nico figurines are believed by some within Japanese culture
to bring good luck sort of irony, and have been
(32:58):
a feature in the Lucky Cat restaurants, which serve Asian
inspired cuisine. Ramsey, known for his Hell's Kitchen and Ramsey's
Kitchen Nightmares reality TV programs, also said he had issues
with couples entering the toilets together. Couples are They're enjoying
the food so much, they're doinking and blinking. What kind
of food in the boom boom room?
Speaker 2 (33:18):
What kind of food is it?
Speaker 1 (33:19):
It's Asian inspired cuisine. You know, when you think Gordon Ramsey,
what do you think Far East?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I mean, why do I I have like an active
I don't know a good damn thing about Gordon Ramsey.
I don't think I've seen any of his shows. I
have an idea in my mind that he's a distasteful person,
and I'm going to act on it. I'm gonna say
he is. Because of my vague recollection of who he is.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
I can say for certain that I've never eaten in
one of his restaurants. I know that to be true.
They like a chef over there, I mean, I know,
we have our Catcoorra, and we have our Bob Flays.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
We have come on Scotty. Of course you would like
your chefs over there. Had you ever been there? Have
you ever been to the UK twenty years ago? The
food was insane. It was crazy, the ideas that they
had about food. I mean, those chefs came over there
(34:24):
and they brightened the people's lives. They showed that not
everything needs to be boiled in one color gray.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
The sweets, though the bacon show is not an accident.
If you go to a less.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Sweet certissire, my sweets are very good.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
They turned the breads out over there, their breadheads for days.
The restaurant opened earlier this month on the sixtieth floor
of Skyscraper twenty two, one of London's tallest buildings. That's
pretty fun. Yeah, I would like to eat sixty feet up.
Reflecting on his more than eighty global restaurant, I mean,
the dude is doing fine, Ramsey said. It does get
(35:04):
a bit scary in terms of how big it is
and the global impact. Okay, it doesn't make sense. Ramsey
also spoke about the upcoming nuptials of his daughter Holly Ramsey,
an Olympic swimmer, and Adam Peady. They were planning at
Christmas wedding. Man, what a fun radio show this would
have been to get all this interesting information that we
are now repeating on our radio show. He said, the
(35:25):
PDA three time gold this is why the staff didn't
want to put a name on. Now we're just talking
about a totally different thing. He said.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Guess what, I wait, I know, I know why this
isn't attributed to anyone. This is paid for by Gordon Ramsey.
This is PR for the restaurant. He doesn't care that
people steal these things. They're probably encouraged to take them.
The whole idea that it's called happy cat. This is
just PR for his restaurant.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Good call, Let's forget it. I'm bailing on this. There's
three more small paragraphs.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
I want to hear about p d.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
You want to hear about p Yeah, what is he
up to?
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Adam ped Well, I just found out existed.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah, this guy that I'm obsessed with that I just
found out is on planet. At the same time, he
said that Adam Pdy, the three time Olympic gold medalist,
did not seek permission, but did talk to him about
the engagement. What are we talking about that if he
why do you need permission? What medieval bullshit is that?
(36:25):
Your daughter's fair hand? Screw you?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
You know?
Speaker 1 (36:28):
How many crappy dads are out there. Do whatever you want.
You don't need to ask for permission.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
That's insane to like the suggestion. The suggestion that you
have to ask a dad's permission is is just the
idea that the father owns them exactly, and that you
would need permission from the owner of the human so
that you could take the human and you own them.
(36:53):
I mean, like, it's.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Crazy if anything asked the mom. The mom's gonna be
the one that knows the emotional status of this daughter.
Go to the mom, be like, do you like me
enough to let me marry your daughter? Because I've been
thinking about it. Okay, I'm gonna go mention engagement vaguely
to your husband, and then we're gonna make it. So
he said, Adam so down to earth kirt and so
(37:16):
focused and so disciplined, and he sat us down in
cornwall and said, Holly is just the perfect woman, and
I'd like to get I know we're bailing, and I
guess Holly's a YouTuber and blah blah blah blee blah
b loop. Congratulations to I hope that happy Come had
lampsh buddy that got away with stealing a little cute,
(37:37):
adorable waving Japanese cat. It turns out the police weren't notified,
So I hope you welcome it into your home with a.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Fact that they calculated that it costs two thousand dollars,
and that Gordon Ramsey even talked about it. It's two
thousand dollars, Gordon Ramsey, that's probably a large table for
the evening.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
That's right. Your restaurant, Kurt orders, Kurt will come and
order a chilled grooner? And is it minerally? Oh? Is
it minerally? You love a cold grooner?
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Don't you like a grooner velt leaner?
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I do, and I do enjoy. I do enjoy minerally.
I really I do feel like that's maybe from my
twenties that you know that, or is it really more
recent than I know? In front of you?
Speaker 1 (38:25):
It's the few times I ever drink wine with you,
it's usually a chilled grooner. And is it minerally? Is
the two things that I recall from those exchanges. Also,
I enjoyed every time good.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Order a groooner velt lean or since there those are
my orders? Oooh here it is fart spray causes chaos
at Carnival as.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
It should right, it's there. I love a fart spray.
I got some thumbs ups. Yeah, I'll do some thumbs ups.
You can always send your thumbs up to the Banana
Boys at the Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com or
the Bananas Podcast on Instagram, where we check the dms
with Lisa Maggott all the time, every damn day. Katie
(39:07):
w is thumbing herself way up for starting a dumb
job that she hates. She's chronically ill. The work involves
physical activity and heavy lifting, something she's not familiar with,
and she's suffering every minute. But she's doing what needs
to get fucking done. So this thumbs up is yes,
keep it going as long as you have to. Then
get out of their kids.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Yeah, thumbs up, you're the best.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Edwena wants to give a robust double thumbs up to
her dad, who allowed her to play episodes of Bananas
on a six hour road trip from Armadale to Sydney.
He loved it as much as he loved the nice
hill he saw during their drive. Love Edwina from Australia.
Not bad, not bad. Welcome dad, Dad, You're a new bananimal.
(39:51):
We're glad to have you. Sam wants to thumb up. Oh,
this is a really good one, Kurt, You're gonna love
this one for the Parks Project is Park Project dot Us.
It is a certified B corp that sells nature and
natural apperil and donates its profits to the National Park System.
They have banana slug merch btw and she says, I
(40:13):
bet Kurtie b would love some, and so would a
lot of other bananamals too. So yeah, if you want some,
you want to support National Park System, which you should.
It's the greatest thing America ever did that might be
getting dwindled away, Go and buy some nature natural peril
from Parkproject dot Us. Oh I will and last but
not least. Yeah, wait till after your move. You don't
(40:34):
need anything else.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
I do not.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Taylor wants the thumb her mom, Charlie up. She says.
Charlie lives in northern California, but has been volunteering for
a week at a time in Los Angeles, helping residents
sift through their burned down homes to find precious memories
and keep six for them. Oh wow, So Charlie comes
down here and helps them find things that may not
have been lost when everything else was lost, because Taylor says,
(41:00):
when your whole life goes up in flames, sometimes it's
those small tokens that would keep you going. And yeah,
so I think Banana of the Week.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
For Charlie Banana the week, of course.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Thank you for doing that, Charlie. That's a beautiful thing
to do.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
And thanks for leaving also beautiful northern California to come
down here in the Land of a Million Roads. We're
glad to have you.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
And here it is. After that beauty, We've got this beauty.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Here's another beauty.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
Fart spray causes chaos at Carnival. This was, of course
sent in by the fantastic Valerie. Oh, and I responded
to Valerie, thinking Valerie had sent the last story, but
that was Robert, and I'd responded, it looks like you
might be the first to have two in an episode.
And then I haven't checked back since, and so I
(41:52):
think it's probably pretty confusing what I said to her.
So I apologize, Valerie, but thank you for sending this.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
And this was You're the best.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
W FSB.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
This is from Fairfield, Connecticut. Kids using a flatulence spray
come on, let's call it a fart spray caused chaos
and rumors after a night at the McKinley Carnival at
Jennings Beach yesterday evening. Fairfield Police took to Facebook to
address the situation. They said, at one point in the evening,
a crowd was seen running from the beach. This raised concerns,
leading to rumors spreading online. Police clarified there was no weapons,
(42:30):
no physical artications and no injuries. Instead, they say a
group of kids using quote flatulence spray it's near the
carnival exit caused the scene.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
This prank, repeated several times throughout the night, led to
confusion and caused small groups to scream and run. Police
said toward the end of the evening, a larger reaction occurred,
triggering a ripple effect as others began running without knowing
the cause. Police thanked residents for their pay, understanding and concern.
(43:02):
That is the last sentence of that article.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Yeah, how far have we fallen? Kerr? Where now we're
running from fart spray not because it smells like farts,
but because we think it's a terrorist attack.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
But this is but it's also it's started by it's
started by kids, right, So the kids smell the fart,
and they're the ones who scream because kids scream constantly.
They're just always scrowning. And it is just it is
a It is an appropriate response to merely anything that
has happened someone, someone says hello to them and they
(43:38):
scream and run away. But I remember, I mean fart
spray always. I feel like fart spray always goes wrong
because it you, It really truly does smell so bad.
It's kind of shocking. Yeah, And I remember I fucked
with it only once. I was in I think fourth grade,
(44:01):
uh huh. And they were little, I mean these were crazy,
they're a little glassy cassles. Yes, yeah, and so I
just put it. I was on the bus and I
put it on the ground and then someone else stepped
on it. Yes, And it was the moment that it broke.
(44:23):
It was instantaneous that everywhere in the bus was unbearable
to be in. And like every one of those they
still so, I mean, it is crazy. I don't know
what that chemical is, but it was like horrifying and
I would never ever do it again. They scarred just
(44:43):
like you. Only I used things I no longer used
fart bombs.
Speaker 1 (44:48):
Yeah, those stink bombs. I kind of had forgotten about
those until you met the glass ones that you had
shattered were so bad.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
They're really bad because we had far.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Spray at the Reister's Town festival, like the Dollar Booth
or whatever, and you would just walk up to people
and spray their butt with fart spray and keep walking.
And that was the big gag. Oh, they had to
ban them for my middle school because people would spray.
I mean it was funny that they would target the butt.
I mean, it's just like a hat on a hat, right,
it's a fart on a fart. But I forgot about
(45:23):
I remember fart spray, but I forgot about the glass
cylinder stink bombs. And I'm looking and they still sell them.
Some Rhode Island novelty stink bombs. Dude, so cheap you
flip your lid. Three three stink bombs that take caution,
irritant twelve to fifty six. Twelve dollars and fifty six.
Speaker 2 (45:43):
That's reasonable. I understand that. I thought flipping my lid
would be like they're a penny each. You know that's dangerous.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
No, yeah, that's dangerous territory. But uh yeah, I mean
also got old fashioned fun. Who doesn't love them? But
they do smell, and a can in a closed area.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
But outside it's not you can get away from it,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
He's a skunk weed. It was like our stink cabbage.
It was like stuff in the woods that if you
kicked it, it smelled terrible if you had it with ache. No,
I don't think that was. We had it in the swamps,
and that was the same thing. You would like chop
it and then like rub it on somebody and run away.
And kids love smells, adult hat smells. Kids, kids love
(46:27):
scented erasers, scratch and stiffs es. They love a smell.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
It really is something that disappears. We don't have any
I guess it's not so much like but all of
our smells become less fruity and bubbly and become like
a cedar.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Yeah, cedar. Also, I'm one of those dumb dumbs that
all you have to do is start to cook peppers
and onions with olive oil on, you know, on the oven. Yeah,
and I'm like, oh, that smells good, Like every time.
I can't not be Oh, it smells great in here.
What a dumb dumb that's what I do.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
Just give us the title and send us home. Scottie.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
Yeah, Megan Oliver sent this in and Megan, I screenshotted
what you sent me. If your last name is more
than Oliver, I didn't see it, and I apologize. Megan
alone is a great enough name. This was written by
David Morrikwand who is the best in the biz for
(47:25):
euronews dot com. Japan I came back. I brought Japan
back unveil's chilled drinkable Mayo, and the Internet is not
happy about it. And it is exactly what you think.
It is a drinkable form of mayo, one that has
(47:45):
already been branded online is awful. It is called no
New Mayo and it is the chill drink Mayo that
fanatics have been waiting a long time for. It is
one hundred and ninety eight year which I don't know
what that is, and let's guess a dollar. I have
no idea. And is a two hundred milli liter cup,
(48:08):
white colored thick beverage that has milk based foods with
mayonnaise flavored seasoning and processed whole eggs barf. They are
currently in their test seal period. Kurt it tastes remarkably
like mayonnaise, and one X user said, I can't decide
if this was genius or a crime against food. And
(48:31):
then everybody tried it, and even people who wanted to
like it said, it's just awful, like you'd expect liquid mayo,
salty mayo mayo, maybe a bit dilly all bad. I
couldn't handle more than one sip, So there you go.
Don't drink your mayo, folks, just spread it on your
face like a normal person.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
And that's bananas. Everybody. Thank you so much. Thank you
to exactly Right. Thank you to Katie Levine, our producer.
Thank you to lease some maggot who is a full human,
not robot, not robot part time. I'm in turn, part
time employee. And of course, thank you to you, Scottie.
Speaker 1 (49:04):
Thank you to you, Kurtie B. Brown Older. We'll see
you in Chicago, where the malort will flow like jogging mayonnaise.
Bananas Bananas is an exactly right media production.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
The catchy bananas theme song was composed and performed by Kahan.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard, and.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
Our benevolent overlords are the Great Karen Kilgareff and Georgia
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