June 3, 2025 • 48 mins
Charlotte Dobre joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a school forced to evacuate after kid brings grenade for show and tell, a TV anchor goes into labor on air and finishes entire morning broadcast, a postal carrier refuses to deliver mail to nudist colony and a postal worker arrested for DUI while on route!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kurty B why don't I start today?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You know I love it when you say I know it.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Takes so much weight off of you and uh.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I can just sit back and relax now, Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Well, good thing. Kurt A school was evacuated after a
pupil brought a hand grenade to show and tell.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Well, this is going to be an explosive new episode
of Bananas.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
So good world understand. Would you?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It's sillion pieces?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Would you?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Guys, goals, non binary pals, Welcome to Bananas. I am
Kurk Brown Older.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I am Banana Boy number two Scotty Landis. Thank you
for listening to the silliest little podcast there ever was.
Everything's great, Summer's just beginning. Banana's Fest in Denver, October fourth.
I hope you can make it. We're releasing details constantly
on our website bananaspodcast dot com and wherever you listen
to us find us. We'll see you in Denver for
(01:17):
Bananas Fest too.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Our guest today is a comedian actor YouTuber. She has
over seven million followers and billions of views across her
social media platforms. Weekly It's insane. Please welcome Charlotte Dobray.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Hello, Hello, that was a nice intro. Thank you so much.
You made me sound really interesting.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Oh yes, yes you are.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Come on, you guys are interesting.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
It's so nice to have you on the podcast. We
were talking before we started recording. Like a lot of people,
the whole idea of being a content creator an influencer,
somebody that just puts internet our videos on apps on
the Internet, it didn't even exist twenty years ago, but
a lot of people aspire to it, and a lot
of young people want to be a content creator an influencer.
But a lot of people don't realize that it is
(02:11):
truly a full time job where you're always either thinking
about things, recording things, or editing things. It's NonStop.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, it definitely is, and it doesn't have to be.
I'm just terrified of failing, so I put in a
little extra effort. But yeah, no, it definitely is a
full time thing, at least for me. And if you
want to make a career out of it, it will
one be a full time thing. Because you know, you
could make a few YouTube videos and they do well,
But how do you maintain that right, Like, how do
(02:42):
you keep people interested? We're all fighting for people's attention
on these apps, so got to keep finding ways to
get you.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
How do you when you work and create and shoot
all in your home? How do you like block off
time where you're like, this is not work time? Because
I find that as a comic, Like there you could
I could just be if I'm not writing, then I'm like, oh,
I'm doing something wrong. Do you know what I mean?
So it's hard to like find time to be like
(03:14):
this is just chill time, not writing time.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, I would say, just like my fiance makes me
put away my phone when we're watching a movie or something. Yeah,
because I will. I will just sit there and my
mind will wander it and then I'll get a great
idea for a video, like randomly, Like I find I
get my best ideas when I'm idle and I'm not
thinking too hard, right right, Like all of a sudden,
it just comes into your head. It's like you're not
chasing the joke or you're not chasing the idea. It
(03:39):
just like arrives and then I'll have to like write
it down or I'll put it on the schedule or
something like that. So he he makes an effort to
just kind of like make sure that I'm not on
my phone for like, yeah, present, be present for you know,
if we're having dinner, we have people over, or we're
out for dinner or just watching a movie or something
like that, that's that's our time.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Oh yeah, No, the idle mind thing is so it's huge.
I mean, especially like I write with my wife and
if we get stuck on a like a pitch point
or sort of like a plot point of the movie
or something, we'll just take a walk. And if it's
like a thirty minute walk, by the time you come back,
you have the answer that you're looking for for sure.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, it's really interesting the way that creativity works in
that way, which it's kind of annoying because again, your
brain is always working and all of a sudden you'll
just need to write something down. But yeah, I think
it's also important to maintain that being present is also
important in addition to work and having that kind of balance.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It's all about balance, it's true, but it's harder and harder,
and then you think about how it used to be
and when people were like, oh man, these comic books,
these kids reading these comic books are aren't living and
you're like, man, it now, it is just every direction
is something that you can immediately engage with, and then
you're like, oh, I've never thought about this before. I'm
(05:02):
just going to explore this for forty five minutes and
it feels like two minutes. It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah. In school, you know a lot of people think
funny people were class clowns, but Kurt and I weren't.
Were you of that type of person when you're in
grade school or high school?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I mean I was kind of like I would. I
was like, it's hard to say. I was the kid
that was a weird kid. Okay, I was the weird kid.
I was the drama kid.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I was.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Not.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I didn't have like a lot of like really good
friends outside of like the drama department. I don't really
remember ever being like popular or anything. Was bullied a lot,
but then I also like said and did weird things,
like sometimes I like cringe at like the stuff I
would say when I was like six years old, like
seven years old, and like now I say that stuff
to my fiance all the time and he laughs. But
(05:53):
like at the time I got bullied for it because
I was the weirdo. And now I guess I get
paid to say all the weird shit comes to my head.
So funny how that works out.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
But yeah, you got Did you ever bring a hand
grenade to school? Is the bigger question.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
No, no, that that's not that's not part of my my,
my growing up era. I definitely never thought about where
did you even get a hand.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
That's a great question, likere'd you get that?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
That's my that's my number one question, Scottie.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
We'll get into it. Gary Thompson sent this in Thank you,
Gary Thompson. If you want to send us strange news
stories we get hundreds and hundreds a day, Please feel
free to email us to the Bananas Podcast at gmail
dot com, or you can just DM your stories with links.
Make sure the strange news are weird news to the
Bananas Podcast on Instagram and we will do it. Gary
(06:43):
Thompson sent this school is evacuated after a pupil brings
in a hand grenade to show and tell. This was
on MSN This is Crazy MSN dot com and written
by best in the hand grenade business, Tom mid Lane.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, thank You's good.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
School was forced to evacuate staff, children and call in
a bomb disposal squad. After a pupil brought in a
hand grenade to the show until assembly, the youngster unexpectedly
produced a WW two World War two explosive device to
the primary school in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, causing shock among the staff.
(07:23):
Head teacher Jeanette Hart said she was unsure if the
grenade was live, so she took it from the boy
and placed it behind a substantial tree.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Oh excellent, poor tree, poor tree.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I know it's also fun I mean, very good job
by this teacher, but it's funny to be she looked
at some tree, isn't she picked the most substantial one.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
But it's also just to put it outside as a
very funny idea, like I guess it, yes, of course,
but that also like Eddie Wood could walk up and
pull the pin, a squirrel could wrestle with it and
blow it up.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Was this in England? Derbyshire? Is Derbyshire?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Thinking it's England?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah, yeah, it's England.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
If it isn't, it's the most English place on the.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Maybe maybe the kid found it like it was part
of his dad's like World War two. Like souvenirs, I
don't know if you would want a souvenir from World
War Two.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
But how people do Yeah, lots of people that.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Have the memorabilia right, just makes me wonder, like where
where he possibly could have gone access to it?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, it so I'll tell you what it is because
they say it at the very end of the article.
But it was a family heirloom. This was in the house,
which is wild.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Okay, so it had to be have not been live.
It had to have had the pin pulled or something correct.
A firing mechanism was like taken out.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Okay, that's right. Army experts came and later established the
grenade was safe, but police praised the quick thinking staff.
Ms Hart said it was quite an eventful assembly. It
was going fine, and there was a boy who brought
an old bullet casing in which I knew about. But
then when his his friend produced a hand grenade from
out of his pocket that I was not expected. It's
(09:05):
cool that he got on stage and was like, and
here it is.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Oh, that's so it is.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Picture it.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I love it, and I'm aware I'm imagining him wearing
classic like English schoolboy uniform from nineteen seventy five, like
Pink Floyd's the Wall where he's got shorts on and
like suspenders and just holding. Instead of an apple pulled
out of his pocket, he pulls out a hand grenade.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Then he just holds it up like it's just gonna
like he's ready to just toss it.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just showing it to the crowd.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Oh my goodness, did he know what it was like?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
How? Well that's a good question, because they say it
looked old and he thought it might be safe. He
took this family air room and picked it up without
telling his parents. Oh wow, They said, oh, we even
saw an X ray of the image and were told
a detailed analysis that nothing would have set this grenade off.
So it was a okay, So it's totally fine that
(10:02):
these people out of their house. But they said, just
a word of guidance and for parents and guardians, double
check where your kids are taking the show and tell
especially family heirlooms. They had a little chat with the
boy after the drama, and the last quote says it
was entirely innocent. I don't think he really even knew
what it was true true, which is kind of funnier.
(10:24):
He's just like panicking on the morning, like, uh.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Okay, where's the tell part? Though? Like he's gonna show,
but how is he gonna tell what it is?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I know?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah, do you have any Did you ever bring anything
to school that you like deeply regret as a child.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Honestly, no. The only thing that I can think of
was I was in a school talent show and I
was like six, and I really wanted to do my
like ballet recital like routine, and then I did it
in front of the entire school, and I had like
this cute little flower dress on and like little like stockings.
But I completely didn't realize that the part where I
spun would resolve and everyone seeing my underwear. And so yeah, no,
(11:03):
I spun in front of a kid in front of
a school with like six hundred kids, and everyone saw
my underwear. But that's the closest thing that I can relate.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
To that that is, I remember when I was I
think I've told this on the pop, but it was
probably years ago. When I was in kindergarten. I had
a babysitter who was she must have been eleven or twelve,
like back then, like you literally was like a ten
(11:32):
year old was babysitting you know what I mean, like
five years older. It's like put them in charge, and
she was like the bad baby, like the babysitter that
I liked because she would be like like tell me
all the dirty I'd be like, tell me all the
curse words, and she'd be like, shit, fuck, pissed and
loob job and I'll be like, yeah, loob job, that's
the Kurtz. And I remember she was like, do you
(11:56):
I told her that I liked some girls in my class.
She's like, do you want to write them a love note?
And I was like, yeah, I want to write them
a love note? And then she sat down with me.
This is why I think she was like twelve. She
sat down with me and wrote full page love notes
to these girls. These girls are five years old. I'm
five years old. But in the note was like crazy
(12:19):
stuff like I want to take you to bed, I
want to kiss you, like all this crazy shit like
that only like a twelve year old or maybe even
a ten year old would think would be okay to write.
And then she folded them all up only the way
only a twelve year old girl can, so they were
like little hearts. And then I had three of them
for three different girls, and then I went to school
(12:39):
the next day, and I gave them each to the girl,
never thinking for a second, of course, that if I
can't fully read, they also can't fully read, and that
they will give these to their parents to read to them.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Oh my.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And so the next I come into school and I'm
immediately pulled out a class and I have to go
to the principal's office and my mom has been called.
My mom is there. They have all three notes there
and then they like go through and start reading the
stuff that's in them, and I was it's all news
to me, of like what's in it?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (13:18):
You're like loub job all three loops that you're doing
three loup jobs?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Kurt, Where would a five year old have the time
to even purchase that much loub It was.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I was very upset, but I do remember afterwards they
did give me a lollipop. They gave me a lollipop
and sent me on my way, but I was removed
from school for the day. I had to go home
and then we never had that babysitter again.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I got a lacrosse stick for Christmas and I took
it to school and there was a brick wall in
between several of the classrooms and the first throw where
I was like, all right, I'm going to bounce it
off this wall and catch it again. I bounced it
on the ground and it just hit a rock. It
hit something, jumped up and smashed a window immediately in
one of the science customers. First throw, and I just
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you know, it's before school, it's like before home room.
I'm probably fourth grade, so whatever age that is, ten,
I guess, and burst into tears because I'm like, they're
going to take this lcross stick. I'm gonna get detention.
The first teacher that saw it like did kind of
snap at me. She's like, what happened? And I was like, oh,
it was a mistake. It hit a rock, and she
(14:28):
was like, go to the principal's office. And our principal
in retrospect was a hippie. You know, I didn't know
it then, right right, And his name is mister Reefs. Baby, yeah,
mister Reef. And he took me to this office and
school bell rings. I think he's gonna call my parents,
you know. I think I'm getting arrested. I think they're
going to send me to Alcatraz. And he's like, so
(14:51):
what happened? And I was like, I bounced it and
broke the window. I'm still crying. He goes, okay, well,
there's two things that can happen. If you meant to
do it, we need to have a conversation. If it
was an accident, you don't ever need to think about
this ever. Again. That's pretty good, pretty good. I was like,
it was an accident. He goes, okay, we'll fix the window.
Go back to class. And he gave me a note.
(15:13):
And I walked back to the class and I'm like, man,
if only every boss know every job. Yeah, if you
meant to do it, we got to talk. But but
if and he could tell I was a little guy.
But he was like, yeah, just don't ever think about
it again.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Oh, mister Reef, give it up for mister Reef.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Mister Reef, what a guy. What a guy. You also
said he was a hippie, right, and his last name
is like Reef.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, totally right there.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It's pretty good the Reef. It was probably it was
weird how many like hippie teachers in Catholic school in
suburban New Jersey. I had like it was very weird
that all like, But I guess it was just like
that was the generation. Do you know what I mean? Like,
if you weren't a hippie, then you were like a
(16:02):
Nixon supporter or something.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Right now they're like they were former hipsters or now teachers.
Exactly right, jeer hipster is now teaching with your Guided by.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Voices T shirts wearing to school.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, pretty cool, pretty b you got one for us?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, I sure do.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Here it is folks nice.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Oh, I love this one so much. Albany, Albany CBS
six anchor Olivia jack With goes into labor on air
and finishes the entire morning.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Now, that sure for her is content.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
That's how this was on the Daily Voice and it
was sent in by.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
It's good she went into labor on air. My goodness,
right like water.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
No, I don't have a weird feeling.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
That must be, like you can. There's so many things
we've all felt. You know, I'm going to be sick. Yeah,
I feel a migraine coming on, or I'm getting a
sore throat, and you go, I can get through this
news broadcast. I can get through fifteen minutes of a
migraine coming on. But when your water breaks and you
go into labor, that is a very now problem.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yeah sure.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Also the whole thing is like to stay like for
very early labor, Like they just want you to be
very chill, like stay at home, keep the lights down, low,
light a candle, maybe watch some TV or something, and
you cause, like the more chill you are, the like
shorter you can do it. So working, that's tough.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Curtis two kids, by the way, Charlotte, he's not just
he just doesn't read.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I'm really come to women giving birth. So this was
written by Michael mashburn Ooh, mashing it up best in
the business. All the New news anchor Olivia jack With
went into labor just moments before her morning broadcast on
WRGB Wednesday, May twenty first, but like a true professional,
(18:15):
never missed a beat. Her co anchor, Julia Dunn kicked
off the show with the perfect opening line, we do
have some breaking news this morning. Literally, Olivia's water just
broke and she's anchoring the news now in active labor,
and jack With, poised and smiling gently corrected early labor,
early labor, let's not get carried away. Instead of rushing
(18:35):
to the hospital. Jack With proceeded to co anchor the
entire broadcast at one point meteor, I'll just Craig Adams
joke that he may have to hoist the expected mother
over his shoulders to get her to the hospital. Not recommended.
Done repeatedly assured viewers that it was jack With decision
to remain the anchor desks. I'd rather be at work
than at the hospital, Jack was said. The on screen
(18:57):
graphics team got in on the fund with a cheeky
banner that read days past due date two and at
the close of the show, here comes baby p Good
luck Olivia. There is a giant trash truck outside my house.
I apologize for that noise.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Every one fine more.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
WRGB News director Stone Grisom, Oh my god. Stone Grisome
later issued a statement praising jack With for meeting every
stage of her pregnancy journey with grace and grit. We
couldn't have been more thrilled for them. Lovey's passion for
story La Lahlah no return one is welcoming first child,
a baby boy with husband Tyne. Tyne is a great name.
(19:39):
T y N and I watched the video. The video
is great. We'll post it on Instagram. It is just
her like you don't see her, like halving contract contractions. Yeah,
but like she is in.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
She must really like her job, Like, no, I can't,
I can't give birth.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I have to I have to read the news. Or
there's like or there's the up and coming anchor, other
anchor who's like gunning for her job, just waiting off.
Just like, just tell her to come off. I'll take over.
I'll take over for this broadcast.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah, I want to know the circumstances as to why
she couldn't leave the broadcast to go have her baby.
I feel like that's that's fair, Like you don't really
need like a doctor's note for that.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah. Yeah, she did say I may disappear mid broadcast,
but she like she went through the whole thing. It's
also fascinating, how because in movies, labor is always just
like we got I get to the hospital, you know,
whereas like you you usually know second second kids are
(20:45):
a little different where it's just like, oh, you know,
but first kids, you're usually like, all right, we will
leave at this point. But then once you do leave,
it is a crazy drive. It's always the first time
we were when we were driving Laura and was in
the backseat wheel well on all fours and she was
just like playing Beyonce, and I was playing Beyonce, and
(21:07):
she's just like like screaming out the window like an
animal while Beyonce like blaired for a forty five minute
travel across Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Wow, I was gonna ask what song it was, but
it was forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
So yeah, probably a couple of albums.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
That's really lemonade. You said one of your videos that
I watched today, you might want kids, Charlotte. Is that something?
Would you document? That journey? That feels like a big
thing these days, sort of the influencer stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I mean, I don't know if I would put my
kids on camera, but like, yeah, no, I for sure
want kids. And I'm kind of getting to a point
where if I don't, like my eggs are drying up.
Like I still lay an egg every month, but you know,
eggs are drying up. Eggs are drying up. I'm thirty five,
so I should probably get to it, hop to it.
But I still need to fit into a wedding dress.
So I'm not gonna get pregnant. And that's shameful, that's shameful.
(22:02):
We all know that everybody screws. Okay, I just don't
want there to be evidence of it on my wedding day.
But yeah, I know, I one hundred percent want kids.
I think I would probably talk about the kids at
their expense, but putting them on camera, I don't know
if I would do that.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I used to live in Brooklyn and I had cousins
there that lived that I didn't really grow up with.
We were friendly, but then as adults we became friends.
And they had their first daughter and it went great.
And the second time there was a sea section. There
was a planed sea section, and my cousin called me.
He goes, hey, I'll just use a fake name. Can
(22:42):
you take Tiffany to get her to have her baby tomorrow?
And I was like, what me. He's like, I got
a work thing in the morning. What she has an
eleven am appointment for a sea section? Do you mind
picking her up? You can drive our car. They had
a little Honda fit and I was like, so, what
time do you want me over there? When this when
(23:03):
was the how long ago to twenty eleven?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Okay, And I mean, what an honor to be entrusted.
To be entrusted in a Honda fit from Brooklyn to Manhattan.
So I walk over to their place and I was like,
you're ready to go? She's like, yeah, this is so
much better. And I was like yeah. She's like there,
I'm going to go in and I'll have this baby.
And so her husband, my cousin, was going to meet
(23:29):
her right at eleven. So I drove her into the
city and dropped her off and was like, do you
need me to stay around and she goes, no, we'll
just call you if you can come pick me up later.
And I was like okay. So I drove home and
I carried about my day and then I get a
call the next day and they're like, hey, can you
(23:49):
come back tomorrow and pick her up at eleven am?
I said, sure thing, And I think it was either
eleven or in the afternoon on the second day. So
I just dropped somebody off they had a baby, then
pick them up a couple days later. Kid sits in
the car seat next to mom in the back seat,
and I drive them home. So it was like my
rare chance to be a baby delivery man. And I
(24:11):
gotta say it felt good.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Toronto, of course. Has I mean like, we're now all
jealous of Canada. You know how jealous.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Well, I mean you say that you're jealous, but realistically,
I still pay for private healthcare here. Like I don't
even have a family doctor. It's very hard to get
a family doctor because everybody wants a family doctor and
it's free. So no, I do pay for like private
health care that's like covered by my benefits and stuff
like that. I wouldn't necessarily trust the government with providing
(24:39):
me with like an MRI or something like that. Like
it takes months and months, and I know a lot
of people who like they go to Buffalo to get
like tests done, like MRIs specifically, and oh really wise
you have to wait and then by the time you
get an MRI, you're dead. So you go to the
States or Turkey or whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Wow, it's either the States are Turkey. Those are the
two options.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
They have these amazing facilities in Turkey where you could
just get like anything done, Like you can get like
X rays and like all all of your blood work done,
like all of it, and you stay in these really
nice facilities and it's like a thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Oh wow, crazy, Yeah, TikTok, I remember when I remember
Thailand used to be like that, especially for plastic surgery,
you would go to Tyler. Like dental work, you would
just go and again you could stay at an amazing
place for no money and get all your stuff done
and then have a little vacation and come home. Boom, fantastic,
fantastic medical tours of everybody perfect, everything's working as it.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Just I did a story on the channel about a
girl that like went to the hospital because she had
like the worst cramps, Like she was just keeling over
and dying, and then she got this insane hospital bill
and it turns out that this was just like a fart.
Like she just went to the hospital and she thought
that she thought that there was something really really wrong,
and then she went she went to the bathroom in
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the hospital and like let out a really really big
fart and the pain was gone. But she still had
to pay like ten grand for the hospital visit.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
In the States.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
This is in the States.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
This is in the States.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Thousand dollars fart.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
My I that was worth mentioning.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
This is why women should be encouraged to fart openly
and in public, folks. So if any if bananas stands
for one thing, yeah, it's everyone openly farting in public.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
That's what I say. That's our messaging.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
That's our messaging.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
It's okay, thumbs ups. So these are from our listeners,
the bananimals, and they are just you know, cheering, rooting
for themselves, rooting for others. Sofia Torres is thumbing herself up.
Her sister got married over the weekend. She had to
give a maid of honor speech. Have you ever had
to do that, Charlotte, I.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Have given speeches as the MC and just as a friend.
I've never been a maid of honor, though nobody likes
me that much.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Come, yeah, I'm the.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Funny I'm the funny friend that gets to be the MC.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I like that there's an MC at weddings.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Yeah there there Yeah, honestly, I don't really think that
the role there's a point to it. Like I actually
we're em seeing our own wedding. So yeah, it actually
is quite nice to m see your own wedding because
everybody laughs at your jokes, like everyone's there to see you,
so it feels really good. But no, I'm I I'm
not usually the friend that's in the bridal party, but
I am the friend that people want to like. MC
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the wedding, So me.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Too, exactly the same. I've never been a best man.
I've only been in like two groomsman parties ever, and
I'm totally fine with that because everybody knows I'm going
to show up and have a good time.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah, it's a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
So Sophia Torrez had to give a maid of honor
speech and she was so nervous, but she absolutely destroyed.
People laughed, people cried. So Fia says she has a
very hard time accepting compliments when she does something well,
but this time she absolutely killed it. So thumbs up,
so Fia, and you know, take the compliment. Twenty twenty
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five Shelby Graham Shelby Tham Graham is thumbing up her
husband Spencer forgetting her through twenty twenty four in one piece.
Last year, Shelby found out she was pregnant with their
first baby. Two days later, her father in law passed away.
Three months after that, her dad passed away. Then they
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moved Wow, and her husband Spencer had to start running
a business by himself. Now a year later, they have
a beautiful baby girl. Life is settled down and Spencer
is flourishing as an amazing business owner, dad and husband.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yeah, thumbs up.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
That's amazing, that's incredible.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
That's a big year. My goodness, I'm glad y'all are
being fine. And last, Rachel Weary is thumbing up her
boyfriend Dan. Rachel lost her husband a month before. The
great choir That's Lockdown and the podcasts like Bananas helped
her feel normal and laugh when Rachel felt suddenly alone
in Lockdown Crazy. Four years later, Rachel decided to give
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online dating a world and isn't that fun? Isn't online
dating just the thing that builds you up the most
in the world's She went on one date, and only
one date, and it was with Dan and it was
great from the start. She brought him to I know,
it's so good, And she brought him to Bananas Live
in Madison, Kurt Yay. Now it's been a year and
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they're moving in together. Hell yeah, thumbs up to for
being a loving, find funny and accepting man. There.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Yay, thank you for all those thumbs up. And of
course we are here with the fantastic comedian actor YouTuber
Charlotte Dobray. Charlotte, where can everybody find you online?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Too?
Speaker 3 (29:57):
You can find me on YouTube. I would love it
if you you came and said, hi, Hell yeah YouTube,
Yeah yeah, I mean it's the place where I get
to be myself the most. And I guess you could
follow me on Instagram as well in TikTok, but it's
more fun on YouTube. It's more of a community and
I really love it there. So yeah, definitely check me out.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
That's great. That is excellent that you've been able to
find a community on on YouTube, because from a comedian's perspective,
YouTube is the meanest of all the places. For sure.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Yeah no, it's sorry, go.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Ahead, and Instagram is next. It's like midway between supportive
and and then TikTok is always just very supportive.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Yeah. I mean, honestly, it really kind of depends. Like
I've seen mean comments on most apps. I've just learned
to not read the comments. I'll read top comments and
they're usually kind, but I don't really go down in
the depths very often. But yeah, no, I love my community.
They a lot of them have been with me for
a really long time, and granted they were mean when
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I first started YouTube. I think it's just like they
kind of need to get like used to you a
little bit. And I don't really like write jokes, you know,
like I a lot of what I do is like
spontaneous comedy, and I just kind of think of things
in the moment. I don't have scripts. So there's nothing
really necessarily cringey about it because I'm not acting like
I'm just being myself and having a conversation. So maybe
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that's it. And it could just be that people have
started to like me after ten years. Well well you're okay,
Well we'll accept you.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah, and you grew you grew up in Toronto or
did you grow up outside?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I actually grew up in Calgary, which is kind of
like the Texas of Canada. Oil baby, yeah, baby.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Over here, and it's farther north. Correct, it's actually west.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
It's by the Rocky.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Mountains in the middle. That's what I meant when I
said north. I met in middle.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah, it's true, it's true. No, it's interesting that YouTube.
When I actually remember the day somebody sent me the link,
it was like, you have to check this out. You
can type like anything in and find it, and it
was maybe in my life, it's the app that's like
changed the world the most. Like Uber and Lyft were
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great because everybody I know was a drinking and driving
and then all of a sudden they weren't. And then
Napster came out and was like, oh, you just want
all the music you've ever heard in your life, and
it kind of like brought down the music industry. But
YouTube has just continued to grow. YouTube TV. All my
friends have it on their smart TVs now, and I'm like, oh,
they just held on and got better. It's it's pretty
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fascinating that they are as huge as they are all
these years later.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yeah, no, it's it's honestly, it's the top streaming app,
Like people choose YouTube before any other streaming platform. And
it's also the one app, at least as a Canadian,
that I can actually get paid to be a content
creator without having to do brand deals. So it's been
like life changing for me because I get to be
a weirdo and get paid for it, and yeah I
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get I get all the praise that I've always wanted
as a child that I never got. So it's definitely
fulfilling in a lot of ways, and it has changed
culture I think for the better.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
That's good. I'm glad to hear that, because yeah, I
mean it's an all you know. You also think like
younger people are always gonna want the next thing and
the new thing. But I'm sure that's what TikTok is.
But also, all my friends' kids watch YouTube constantly, and
whether it's watching streamers.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
It's my kid's favorite thing exactly. Yeah. Yeah, we're to
the point where I have to be like, no, you
cannot watch it. You like it too much. Your brains
are too small for this amount.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Do your kids watch Miss Rachel? Are they too old?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
They were they miss Miss Rachel by like one year. Yeah,
my friends who had kids just like a year later
than me, we're all Miss Rachel. And I was like,
I'm sorry, I don't know Miss Rachel. I know Blippy,
but I don't know Miss Rachel. And I would prefer
to know Miss Rachel. I hate Blippy.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Safe to say it's a safe platform.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
He deeply hate him.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Back into the real world, Kelly Flax sent this in
the United States. Postal Service mail carrier refuses to deliver
mail to newdest community.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
This was on w f LA, Florida. Not shockingly written
Kurt by that swing in site staff.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Yeah, nobody wanted to cop.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
To this one. Oh, some staffs were certainly there. It
is in sight. Mail carrier for the US Postal Service
says he will not deliver mail to a Florida RV
resort because the compound is clothing optional.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Oh lord, get some put on your big boy pants
or take your big boy pants off and go to.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
That discrimination.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
W FLA reports the residents say a bill in mail
carrier refuses, so not even a full.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Time Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's never getting to full time.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
No. Uh, refuses to enter the Eden r V resort. Yeah,
great name for a clothing optional or uh and city
of retreat in Hudson because oh, I'm sorry it now
says she again, this is that site staff because she
has a fear of seeing people naked.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
She has a fear of seeing people naked.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
That's in quotes too, that's her quote. She has a
fear of seeing people naked.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
What is that called. Let's see, that's a good question,
fear of seeing people.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
It's an educational podcast. Every once while you learned something.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Jimphobia, jim noophobia, jimnophobia. Oh that's really funny, jimnophobia.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
How do you spell that?
Speaker 2 (35:54):
G y M n O F.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Jimnophobia is a fear of seeing people naked.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Yah, maybe it's gymnophobia.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
I don't know, but yeah, you would think that would
be a fear of working out. But yeah, maybe I'm
a jackass. I am.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
No, It's like it's just fear of going into the
changing room at gyms.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
But the residents at the Eden RV Resort and City
Retreat in Hudson say they're irritated because they have to
go to the post office to get all their packages.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Yeah, of course naked. Then they have to put do
they do they go naked though, or do they have
to put the clothes on?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
And that's a good question, because like, do they go
naked up to the threshold of the property and then
begrudgingly put clothes on? At what point do they get clothed? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Or do they just have like around town bathrobe that's
in their car and then they drive in naked and
then throw their around town bathrobe on and walk in.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
But animals, I'm sure some of you are nudists or
I'm one hundred percent sure this audience is big enough
and spread out enough. Are you a newdist are you
a newwear around town? When you have to wear clothing
and tell us footwear. Like Kurt said, do you have
a world robe that you strap on and tie up?
And how loose do you tie that? Knot?
Speaker 2 (37:10):
I remember that everyone when I went. I had gone
to a newdist colony once and it was everyone had
to bring a towel everywhere they went. So if like
you ate dinner, you had to put the towel down
to sit on. Yeah, just see, you always sit on
a towel. So everybody had their little butt towel with
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them at all times.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
That's a fun laundry room experience. Fold and butt towels. Yeah,
that's the job you want retirement. Uh. One of the
residents said, there's a postal creed and it does not
say anything about not going into a newdist resort. I
pay for a service and I expect that service. I mean,
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I'm with this resident. Also, it is so funny.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Imagine if your job had a creed that everyone knew
that everyone has heard you know what I mean, so
that people could always point to like this like little
fun earwig, nor.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Rain yeah, nor head of night or whatever it is.
I know that you know.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Yeah, as a Canadian, you might not know this, right,
do you know about neither?
Speaker 3 (38:18):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
You don't don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
It's that it may read it Scott Neither snow nor rain,
nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from
the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
And it's it's specifically also in a very not famous
to me Lori Anderson song called Oh Superman, which is
it's an excellent song. Shout out to Lori Anderson.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
It's a motto, but now the us is saying it
is not the official motto as of April nineteen twenty four.
But it's like, guys, make it a bad nudist in
there and make it an official motto there it is.
The USPS spokesperson released a statement saying the carrier has
done nothing wrong. I think we all disagree. We can
assure all customers that mail packages are being delivered according
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to national centralized delivery requirements, but I don't know if
that's true.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
I kind of get where she's coming from, though, because like, honestly,
I've been to nudist beaches before, like clothing optional beaches,
and the naked people are never the people you want
to see naked, you know, it's it's always the people
that are just shoving it in your face. But it's just,
you know, they're on the outliers with you know, just
it's never the ones that you're excited to see. Yeah,
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so maybe she's she's making up this phobia, or maybe
she just really doesn't want to see a bunch of
like random dudes running around naked.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Yeah, it's not Glennon Powell walking out of the ocean.
It's a guy that looks like Santa Claus.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Is walking exactly exactly. I'd rather not, you know, like,
I'd rather not see that. Like I get where she's
coming from.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Like what if she's delivering clothes?
Speaker 2 (40:00):
What if they've had a heart Well, is she though?
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Is she? I don't think she is Probably delivering towels.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Lots of sun block.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Sun block and towels and one little penis.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Hat clothing optional.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
All right, one b Yeah, I'll send us home with this.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
I love to hear it.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Since we're on postal workers, I'm going to keep it
on the postal worker.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Train, Okay, I them.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Uh this was on click or Lando dot com. Uh
used before actually have you? Yeah? Written by Brenda our
great best in the biz postal worker arrested on d
U Y charge after drinking vodka house party on delivery
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route in Melbourne.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Police say fun.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Great, Yeah Florida, Florida, Florida. A USPS worker was arrested
earlier this month in Melbourne after she drank alcohol at
a house party on her route and was later caught
driving the wrong way. Oh my god in traffic. It
wasn't a little vodka. Caitlin Die thirty three, was arrested
(41:19):
April twelfth on a charge of duy and also I
mean Caitlyn and her inner uh, her mugshot looking drunk,
looking drunk, and she's a real cutie. According to the
Affidavid Berle's were notified that a USPS mail truck was
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driving the opposite travel land in South Harbor City Boulevard
and the driver was throwing plastic cups out of the vehicle.
Holy shit's stop yeah d. When officers arrived, they saw
the mail truck driving west on East University Boulevard before
making a U turn, police did, the truck swerved in
and out of its lane, traveled into the opposite lane.
Officers pulled over the mail truck said Di appeared confused
(42:01):
and disoriented. According to the AFFI David, the officer's conducted
field sobriety exercise and said her results were indicative of
someone under the influence. Police questioned I, who said she
was returning delivering to a home on Riverview Drive when
she was invited inside for a party. The department said,
I told the police she drank two shots of vodka
before she was pulled over. The officers asked why she
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was swerving in and out of traffic shadows because she
had fallen asleep while driving home.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Fun.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Oh my god. They also asked her about a cup
thrown out of the vehicle, and she said it was
just water. She used to swishing around her mouth to
smell like not smell like alcoholic.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
I believe it. Wow, I believe that.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Police said they also spoke with witnesses who called in
the incident, and they were recorded seeing the mail truck
on us one my god. Well, I don't think she's
going to be a police postal worker anymore, but.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
I doubt two shots of vodka, Like, give me a break,
No way, there was no way.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Two shots of vot the ni fall asleep driving a
postal truck on the wrong side of the road, Like, no,
I remember.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Two shots of vodka. It was the next four that
really do Damn.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
I really thought it was in Australia.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
That's so crazy. Do you ever do live appearances, like
do you have fan meat and breads or live shows
or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
I'm thinking about doing it. Yeah, in the near future.
I'm planning on doing it definitely.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Why because people will bring you things and your fans
and I was just wondering, is there one item that
you get brought the most because that does happen? Is
there something you talk about that you love that people bring.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
Honestly, it wasn't like a live show thing that people bring,
but I did like a I did like a po
box and like, yeah, people that got me these like
these grabbers, Like I have an entire like umbrella thing
full of these grabbers and someone put like a red
hair wig on. This is shark lot. This is shark lot.
(43:59):
This is if this is something that everybody seems to
think is very very funny.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Well, I like that, that's exactly. So what Charlotte held
up were like toy animal head grabbers that you pull
the handle on the bottom and the mouth closes and
the best one was a shark with a gorgeous flowing
red wig.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
It's chark lot.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
That happens a lot. And we have, you know, other
friends that podcast that tour and other vloggers that we
know that tour, and they'll have like fans bring lots
of stuff our fans, the bananimals, because we do do
a pretty good amount of life touring. The one thing
I love is they bring us. The first of all,
you guys never have to bring us anything. Anytime you
do it is very kind, but don't ever feel like
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you need to. But we get the most diverse array
of things you can imagine, just everything from local foods
to clothing, to painting, to toys, to alcohol to drugs.
It's like, so what I like about Bananas is the
these fan gifts are so eclectic and strange. I'm looking
(45:02):
at them now. This is one just a wood carving
of a banana. It says in honor of the banana
blaze on my desk, and it's just fantastic.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
But that is so sweet.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Museum for Influencers. That was all the stuff out into them,
either fan and then you put it on display a
huge warehouse and you put you put it Charlotte, and
then you just have a wall of all the strange
and terrifying YouTube.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Shouldn't do that in their campus in La Man Jesus.
Speaker 3 (45:34):
They should? They should.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Wouldn't that be fun? Because then you could also like
shoot a video with that is the backdrop, and be
like just the weird menagerie of strange that you've brought me.
Speaker 3 (45:44):
I also backdrop used to have all that stuff on it,
like I had, like someone made me like they call
me like the Potato Queen, and someone made me like
this big crown with like golden potatoes attached to it.
And the whole background at my old place was just
a bunch of like random artwork and like your drawings
and stuff that people would send me. But now I
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have my accolades. Honestly, I think that I'll probably put
those other things back up. It was a lot cuter.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Millions of followers, right, you have a millions? I do?
Speaker 3 (46:15):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
Damn Yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
They're very sweet, each one of them.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
And do you know when those YouTube plaques are coming
your way? Or does a nude air carrier bring them
directly to your house unexpected? Wish? Uh? No?
Speaker 3 (46:30):
I so yeah, no, you have to like submit a
thing and then they and then they send it to
you after you pass like a million subscribers. I think
the next one's ten millions, so I want whoa oh yeow.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
You'll get it soon. You'll get it soon, Bananas Podcast.
Thank you so much. Sure, thank you so much, Charlotte
for being here, thank you for having me. Uh and
then just say and then slug away, yeah, plug away,
plug like.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
Hey man, come check me out on YouTube. Just search
me up. Charlotte Doughbray. Actually I'm the first Charlotte that
comes up if you search Charlotte on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
So that's a flex. That's a big. Thanks, that's a
big I.
Speaker 3 (47:08):
Would say that. That's I'm very proud of that.
Speaker 4 (47:10):
So oh, that's so Charlotte Dobray across all Instagram, TikTok, YouTube,
you find her, you watch her and let her know
you heard her on Bananas.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
When she crosses that ten million, then eleven million subscriber mark.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
Here's hoping fingers crossed. Thank you so much, guys, this
was so fun.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
You're very welcome. Thank you, Bananas Bananas. Bananas Bananas is
an exactly right media production.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
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Speaker 1 (47:42):
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Speaker 2 (47:46):
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Speaker 2 (47:53):
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Kurty B why don't I start today?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
You know I love it when you say I know it.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Takes so much weight off of you and uh.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I can just sit back and relax now, Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Well, good thing. Kurt A school was evacuated after a
pupil brought a hand grenade to show and tell.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Well, this is going to be an explosive new episode
of Bananas.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
So good world understand. Would you?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It's sillion pieces?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Would you?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Guys, goals, non binary pals, Welcome to Bananas. I am
Kurk Brown Older.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I am Banana Boy number two Scotty Landis. Thank you
for listening to the silliest little podcast there ever was.
Everything's great, Summer's just beginning. Banana's Fest in Denver, October fourth.
I hope you can make it. We're releasing details constantly
on our website bananaspodcast dot com and wherever you listen
to us find us. We'll see you in Denver for
(01:17):
Bananas Fest too.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Our guest today is a comedian actor YouTuber. She has
over seven million followers and billions of views across her
social media platforms. Weekly It's insane. Please welcome Charlotte Dobray.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Hello, Hello, that was a nice intro. Thank you so much.
You made me sound really interesting.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Oh yes, yes you are.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Come on, you guys are interesting.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
It's so nice to have you on the podcast. We
were talking before we started recording. Like a lot of people,
the whole idea of being a content creator an influencer,
somebody that just puts internet our videos on apps on
the Internet, it didn't even exist twenty years ago, but
a lot of people aspire to it, and a lot
of young people want to be a content creator an influencer.
But a lot of people don't realize that it is
(02:11):
truly a full time job where you're always either thinking
about things, recording things, or editing things. It's NonStop.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, it definitely is, and it doesn't have to be.
I'm just terrified of failing, so I put in a
little extra effort. But yeah, no, it definitely is a
full time thing, at least for me. And if you
want to make a career out of it, it will
one be a full time thing. Because you know, you
could make a few YouTube videos and they do well,
But how do you maintain that right, Like, how do
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you keep people interested? We're all fighting for people's attention
on these apps, so got to keep finding ways to
get you.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
How do you when you work and create and shoot
all in your home? How do you like block off
time where you're like, this is not work time? Because
I find that as a comic, Like there you could
I could just be if I'm not writing, then I'm like, oh,
I'm doing something wrong. Do you know what I mean?
So it's hard to like find time to be like
(03:14):
this is just chill time, not writing time.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, I would say, just like my fiance makes me
put away my phone when we're watching a movie or something. Yeah,
because I will. I will just sit there and my
mind will wander it and then I'll get a great
idea for a video, like randomly, Like I find I
get my best ideas when I'm idle and I'm not
thinking too hard, right right, Like all of a sudden,
it just comes into your head. It's like you're not
chasing the joke or you're not chasing the idea. It
(03:39):
just like arrives and then I'll have to like write
it down or I'll put it on the schedule or
something like that. So he he makes an effort to
just kind of like make sure that I'm not on
my phone for like, yeah, present, be present for you know,
if we're having dinner, we have people over, or we're
out for dinner or just watching a movie or something
like that, that's that's our time.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Oh yeah, No, the idle mind thing is so it's huge.
I mean, especially like I write with my wife and
if we get stuck on a like a pitch point
or sort of like a plot point of the movie
or something, we'll just take a walk. And if it's
like a thirty minute walk, by the time you come back,
you have the answer that you're looking for for sure.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, it's really interesting the way that creativity works in
that way, which it's kind of annoying because again, your
brain is always working and all of a sudden you'll
just need to write something down. But yeah, I think
it's also important to maintain that being present is also
important in addition to work and having that kind of balance.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It's all about balance, it's true, but it's harder and harder,
and then you think about how it used to be
and when people were like, oh man, these comic books,
these kids reading these comic books are aren't living and
you're like, man, it now, it is just every direction
is something that you can immediately engage with, and then
you're like, oh, I've never thought about this before. I'm
(05:02):
just going to explore this for forty five minutes and
it feels like two minutes. It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah. In school, you know a lot of people think
funny people were class clowns, but Kurt and I weren't.
Were you of that type of person when you're in
grade school or high school?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I mean I was kind of like I would. I
was like, it's hard to say. I was the kid
that was a weird kid. Okay, I was the weird kid.
I was the drama kid.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I was.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Not.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I didn't have like a lot of like really good
friends outside of like the drama department. I don't really
remember ever being like popular or anything. Was bullied a lot,
but then I also like said and did weird things,
like sometimes I like cringe at like the stuff I
would say when I was like six years old, like
seven years old, and like now I say that stuff
to my fiance all the time and he laughs. But
(05:53):
like at the time I got bullied for it because
I was the weirdo. And now I guess I get
paid to say all the weird shit comes to my head.
So funny how that works out.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
But yeah, you got Did you ever bring a hand
grenade to school? Is the bigger question.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
No, no, that that's not that's not part of my my,
my growing up era. I definitely never thought about where
did you even get a hand.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
That's a great question, likere'd you get that?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
That's my that's my number one question, Scottie.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
We'll get into it. Gary Thompson sent this in Thank you,
Gary Thompson. If you want to send us strange news
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(06:43):
Thompson sent this school is evacuated after a pupil brings
in a hand grenade to show and tell. This was
on MSN This is Crazy MSN dot com and written
by best in the hand grenade business, Tom mid Lane.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, thank You's good.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
School was forced to evacuate staff, children and call in
a bomb disposal squad. After a pupil brought in a
hand grenade to the show until assembly, the youngster unexpectedly
produced a WW two World War two explosive device to
the primary school in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, causing shock among the staff.
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Head teacher Jeanette Hart said she was unsure if the
grenade was live, so she took it from the boy
and placed it behind a substantial tree.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Oh excellent, poor tree, poor tree.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I know it's also fun I mean, very good job
by this teacher, but it's funny to be she looked
at some tree, isn't she picked the most substantial one.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
But it's also just to put it outside as a
very funny idea, like I guess it, yes, of course,
but that also like Eddie Wood could walk up and
pull the pin, a squirrel could wrestle with it and
blow it up.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Was this in England? Derbyshire? Is Derbyshire?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Thinking it's England?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Yeah, yeah, it's England.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
If it isn't, it's the most English place on the.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Maybe maybe the kid found it like it was part
of his dad's like World War two. Like souvenirs, I
don't know if you would want a souvenir from World
War Two.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
But how people do Yeah, lots of people that.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Have the memorabilia right, just makes me wonder, like where
where he possibly could have gone access to it?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, it so I'll tell you what it is because
they say it at the very end of the article.
But it was a family heirloom. This was in the house,
which is wild.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Okay, so it had to be have not been live.
It had to have had the pin pulled or something correct.
A firing mechanism was like taken out.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Okay, that's right. Army experts came and later established the
grenade was safe, but police praised the quick thinking staff.
Ms Hart said it was quite an eventful assembly. It
was going fine, and there was a boy who brought
an old bullet casing in which I knew about. But
then when his his friend produced a hand grenade from
out of his pocket that I was not expected. It's
(09:05):
cool that he got on stage and was like, and
here it is.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Oh, that's so it is.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Picture it.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I love it, and I'm aware I'm imagining him wearing
classic like English schoolboy uniform from nineteen seventy five, like
Pink Floyd's the Wall where he's got shorts on and
like suspenders and just holding. Instead of an apple pulled
out of his pocket, he pulls out a hand grenade.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Then he just holds it up like it's just gonna
like he's ready to just toss it.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just showing it to the crowd.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Oh my goodness, did he know what it was like?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
How? Well that's a good question, because they say it
looked old and he thought it might be safe. He
took this family air room and picked it up without
telling his parents. Oh wow, They said, oh, we even
saw an X ray of the image and were told
a detailed analysis that nothing would have set this grenade off.
So it was a okay, So it's totally fine that
(10:02):
these people out of their house. But they said, just
a word of guidance and for parents and guardians, double
check where your kids are taking the show and tell
especially family heirlooms. They had a little chat with the
boy after the drama, and the last quote says it
was entirely innocent. I don't think he really even knew
what it was true true, which is kind of funnier.
(10:24):
He's just like panicking on the morning, like, uh.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Okay, where's the tell part? Though? Like he's gonna show,
but how is he gonna tell what it is?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I know?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah, do you have any Did you ever bring anything
to school that you like deeply regret as a child.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Honestly, no. The only thing that I can think of
was I was in a school talent show and I
was like six, and I really wanted to do my
like ballet recital like routine, and then I did it
in front of the entire school, and I had like
this cute little flower dress on and like little like stockings.
But I completely didn't realize that the part where I
spun would resolve and everyone seeing my underwear. And so yeah, no,
(11:03):
I spun in front of a kid in front of
a school with like six hundred kids, and everyone saw
my underwear. But that's the closest thing that I can relate.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
To that that is, I remember when I was I
think I've told this on the pop, but it was
probably years ago. When I was in kindergarten. I had
a babysitter who was she must have been eleven or twelve,
like back then, like you literally was like a ten
(11:32):
year old was babysitting you know what I mean, like
five years older. It's like put them in charge, and
she was like the bad baby, like the babysitter that
I liked because she would be like like tell me
all the dirty I'd be like, tell me all the
curse words, and she'd be like, shit, fuck, pissed and
loob job and I'll be like, yeah, loob job, that's
the Kurtz. And I remember she was like, do you
(11:56):
I told her that I liked some girls in my class.
She's like, do you want to write them a love note?
And I was like, yeah, I want to write them
a love note? And then she sat down with me.
This is why I think she was like twelve. She
sat down with me and wrote full page love notes
to these girls. These girls are five years old. I'm
five years old. But in the note was like crazy
(12:19):
stuff like I want to take you to bed, I
want to kiss you, like all this crazy shit like
that only like a twelve year old or maybe even
a ten year old would think would be okay to write.
And then she folded them all up only the way
only a twelve year old girl can, so they were
like little hearts. And then I had three of them
for three different girls, and then I went to school
(12:39):
the next day, and I gave them each to the girl,
never thinking for a second, of course, that if I
can't fully read, they also can't fully read, and that
they will give these to their parents to read to them.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Oh my.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And so the next I come into school and I'm
immediately pulled out a class and I have to go
to the principal's office and my mom has been called.
My mom is there. They have all three notes there
and then they like go through and start reading the
stuff that's in them, and I was it's all news
to me, of like what's in it?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (13:18):
You're like loub job all three loops that you're doing
three loup jobs?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Kurt, Where would a five year old have the time
to even purchase that much loub It was.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I was very upset, but I do remember afterwards they
did give me a lollipop. They gave me a lollipop
and sent me on my way, but I was removed
from school for the day. I had to go home
and then we never had that babysitter again.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
I got a lacrosse stick for Christmas and I took
it to school and there was a brick wall in
between several of the classrooms and the first throw where
I was like, all right, I'm going to bounce it
off this wall and catch it again. I bounced it
on the ground and it just hit a rock. It
hit something, jumped up and smashed a window immediately in
one of the science customers. First throw, and I just
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you know, it's before school, it's like before home room.
I'm probably fourth grade, so whatever age that is, ten,
I guess, and burst into tears because I'm like, they're
going to take this lcross stick. I'm gonna get detention.
The first teacher that saw it like did kind of
snap at me. She's like, what happened? And I was like, oh,
it was a mistake. It hit a rock, and she
(14:28):
was like, go to the principal's office. And our principal
in retrospect was a hippie. You know, I didn't know
it then, right right, And his name is mister Reefs. Baby, yeah,
mister Reef. And he took me to this office and
school bell rings. I think he's gonna call my parents,
you know. I think I'm getting arrested. I think they're
going to send me to Alcatraz. And he's like, so
(14:51):
what happened? And I was like, I bounced it and
broke the window. I'm still crying. He goes, okay, well,
there's two things that can happen. If you meant to
do it, we need to have a conversation. If it
was an accident, you don't ever need to think about
this ever. Again. That's pretty good, pretty good. I was like,
it was an accident. He goes, okay, we'll fix the window.
Go back to class. And he gave me a note.
(15:13):
And I walked back to the class and I'm like, man,
if only every boss know every job. Yeah, if you
meant to do it, we got to talk. But but
if and he could tell I was a little guy.
But he was like, yeah, just don't ever think about
it again.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Oh, mister Reef, give it up for mister Reef.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Mister Reef, what a guy. What a guy. You also
said he was a hippie, right, and his last name
is like Reef.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, totally right there.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
It's pretty good the Reef. It was probably it was
weird how many like hippie teachers in Catholic school in
suburban New Jersey. I had like it was very weird
that all like, But I guess it was just like
that was the generation. Do you know what I mean? Like,
if you weren't a hippie, then you were like a
(16:02):
Nixon supporter or something.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Right now they're like they were former hipsters or now teachers.
Exactly right, jeer hipster is now teaching with your Guided by.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Voices T shirts wearing to school.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, pretty cool, pretty b you got one for us?
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, I sure do.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Here it is folks nice.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Oh, I love this one so much. Albany, Albany CBS
six anchor Olivia jack With goes into labor on air
and finishes the entire morning.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Now, that sure for her is content.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
That's how this was on the Daily Voice and it
was sent in by.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
It's good she went into labor on air. My goodness,
right like water.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
No, I don't have a weird feeling.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
That must be, like you can. There's so many things
we've all felt. You know, I'm going to be sick. Yeah,
I feel a migraine coming on, or I'm getting a
sore throat, and you go, I can get through this
news broadcast. I can get through fifteen minutes of a
migraine coming on. But when your water breaks and you
go into labor, that is a very now problem.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yeah sure.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Also the whole thing is like to stay like for
very early labor, Like they just want you to be
very chill, like stay at home, keep the lights down, low,
light a candle, maybe watch some TV or something, and
you cause, like the more chill you are, the like
shorter you can do it. So working, that's tough.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Curtis two kids, by the way, Charlotte, he's not just
he just doesn't read.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I'm really come to women giving birth. So this was
written by Michael mashburn Ooh, mashing it up best in
the business. All the New news anchor Olivia jack With
went into labor just moments before her morning broadcast on
WRGB Wednesday, May twenty first, but like a true professional,
(18:15):
never missed a beat. Her co anchor, Julia Dunn kicked
off the show with the perfect opening line, we do
have some breaking news this morning. Literally, Olivia's water just
broke and she's anchoring the news now in active labor,
and jack With, poised and smiling gently corrected early labor,
early labor, let's not get carried away. Instead of rushing
(18:35):
to the hospital. Jack With proceeded to co anchor the
entire broadcast at one point meteor, I'll just Craig Adams
joke that he may have to hoist the expected mother
over his shoulders to get her to the hospital. Not recommended.
Done repeatedly assured viewers that it was jack With decision
to remain the anchor desks. I'd rather be at work
than at the hospital, Jack was said. The on screen
(18:57):
graphics team got in on the fund with a cheeky
banner that read days past due date two and at
the close of the show, here comes baby p Good
luck Olivia. There is a giant trash truck outside my house.
I apologize for that noise.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Every one fine more.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
WRGB News director Stone Grisom, Oh my god. Stone Grisome
later issued a statement praising jack With for meeting every
stage of her pregnancy journey with grace and grit. We
couldn't have been more thrilled for them. Lovey's passion for
story La Lahlah no return one is welcoming first child,
a baby boy with husband Tyne. Tyne is a great name.
(19:39):
T y N and I watched the video. The video
is great. We'll post it on Instagram. It is just
her like you don't see her, like halving contract contractions. Yeah,
but like she is in.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
She must really like her job, Like, no, I can't,
I can't give birth.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I have to I have to read the news. Or
there's like or there's the up and coming anchor, other
anchor who's like gunning for her job, just waiting off.
Just like, just tell her to come off. I'll take over.
I'll take over for this broadcast.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah, I want to know the circumstances as to why
she couldn't leave the broadcast to go have her baby.
I feel like that's that's fair, Like you don't really
need like a doctor's note for that.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah. Yeah, she did say I may disappear mid broadcast,
but she like she went through the whole thing. It's
also fascinating, how because in movies, labor is always just
like we got I get to the hospital, you know,
whereas like you you usually know second second kids are
(20:45):
a little different where it's just like, oh, you know,
but first kids, you're usually like, all right, we will
leave at this point. But then once you do leave,
it is a crazy drive. It's always the first time
we were when we were driving Laura and was in
the backseat wheel well on all fours and she was
just like playing Beyonce, and I was playing Beyonce, and
(21:07):
she's just like like screaming out the window like an
animal while Beyonce like blaired for a forty five minute
travel across Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Wow, I was gonna ask what song it was, but
it was forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
So yeah, probably a couple of albums.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
That's really lemonade. You said one of your videos that
I watched today, you might want kids, Charlotte. Is that something?
Would you document? That journey? That feels like a big
thing these days, sort of the influencer stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I mean, I don't know if I would put my
kids on camera, but like, yeah, no, I for sure
want kids. And I'm kind of getting to a point
where if I don't, like my eggs are drying up.
Like I still lay an egg every month, but you know,
eggs are drying up. Eggs are drying up. I'm thirty five,
so I should probably get to it, hop to it.
But I still need to fit into a wedding dress.
So I'm not gonna get pregnant. And that's shameful, that's shameful.
(22:02):
We all know that everybody screws. Okay, I just don't
want there to be evidence of it on my wedding day.
But yeah, I know, I one hundred percent want kids.
I think I would probably talk about the kids at
their expense, but putting them on camera, I don't know
if I would do that.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I used to live in Brooklyn and I had cousins
there that lived that I didn't really grow up with.
We were friendly, but then as adults we became friends.
And they had their first daughter and it went great.
And the second time there was a sea section. There
was a planed sea section, and my cousin called me.
He goes, hey, I'll just use a fake name. Can
(22:42):
you take Tiffany to get her to have her baby tomorrow?
And I was like, what me. He's like, I got
a work thing in the morning. What she has an
eleven am appointment for a sea section? Do you mind
picking her up? You can drive our car. They had
a little Honda fit and I was like, so, what
time do you want me over there? When this when
(23:03):
was the how long ago to twenty eleven?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Oh my god?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Okay, And I mean, what an honor to be entrusted.
To be entrusted in a Honda fit from Brooklyn to Manhattan.
So I walk over to their place and I was like,
you're ready to go? She's like, yeah, this is so
much better. And I was like yeah. She's like there,
I'm going to go in and I'll have this baby.
And so her husband, my cousin, was going to meet
(23:29):
her right at eleven. So I drove her into the
city and dropped her off and was like, do you
need me to stay around and she goes, no, we'll
just call you if you can come pick me up later.
And I was like okay. So I drove home and
I carried about my day and then I get a
call the next day and they're like, hey, can you
(23:49):
come back tomorrow and pick her up at eleven am?
I said, sure thing, And I think it was either
eleven or in the afternoon on the second day. So
I just dropped somebody off they had a baby, then
pick them up a couple days later. Kid sits in
the car seat next to mom in the back seat,
and I drive them home. So it was like my
rare chance to be a baby delivery man. And I
(24:11):
gotta say it felt good.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Toronto, of course. Has I mean like, we're now all
jealous of Canada. You know how jealous.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Well, I mean you say that you're jealous, but realistically,
I still pay for private healthcare here. Like I don't
even have a family doctor. It's very hard to get
a family doctor because everybody wants a family doctor and
it's free. So no, I do pay for like private
health care that's like covered by my benefits and stuff
like that. I wouldn't necessarily trust the government with providing
(24:39):
me with like an MRI or something like that. Like
it takes months and months, and I know a lot
of people who like they go to Buffalo to get
like tests done, like MRIs specifically, and oh really wise
you have to wait and then by the time you
get an MRI, you're dead. So you go to the
States or Turkey or whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Wow, it's either the States are Turkey. Those are the
two options.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
They have these amazing facilities in Turkey where you could
just get like anything done, Like you can get like
X rays and like all all of your blood work done,
like all of it, and you stay in these really
nice facilities and it's like a thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Oh wow, crazy, Yeah, TikTok, I remember when I remember
Thailand used to be like that, especially for plastic surgery,
you would go to Tyler. Like dental work, you would
just go and again you could stay at an amazing
place for no money and get all your stuff done
and then have a little vacation and come home. Boom, fantastic,
fantastic medical tours of everybody perfect, everything's working as it.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Just I did a story on the channel about a
girl that like went to the hospital because she had
like the worst cramps, Like she was just keeling over
and dying, and then she got this insane hospital bill
and it turns out that this was just like a fart.
Like she just went to the hospital and she thought
that she thought that there was something really really wrong,
and then she went she went to the bathroom in
(26:03):
the hospital and like let out a really really big
fart and the pain was gone. But she still had
to pay like ten grand for the hospital visit.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
In the States.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
This is in the States.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
This is in the States.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Thousand dollars fart.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
My I that was worth mentioning.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
This is why women should be encouraged to fart openly
and in public, folks. So if any if bananas stands
for one thing, yeah, it's everyone openly farting in public.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
That's what I say. That's our messaging.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
That's our messaging.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
It's okay, thumbs ups. So these are from our listeners,
the bananimals, and they are just you know, cheering, rooting
for themselves, rooting for others. Sofia Torres is thumbing herself up.
Her sister got married over the weekend. She had to
give a maid of honor speech. Have you ever had
to do that, Charlotte, I.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Have given speeches as the MC and just as a friend.
I've never been a maid of honor, though nobody likes
me that much.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Come, yeah, I'm the.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Funny I'm the funny friend that gets to be the MC.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I like that there's an MC at weddings.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Yeah there there Yeah, honestly, I don't really think that
the role there's a point to it. Like I actually
we're em seeing our own wedding. So yeah, it actually
is quite nice to m see your own wedding because
everybody laughs at your jokes, like everyone's there to see you,
so it feels really good. But no, I'm I I'm
not usually the friend that's in the bridal party, but
I am the friend that people want to like. MC
(27:35):
the wedding, So me.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Too, exactly the same. I've never been a best man.
I've only been in like two groomsman parties ever, and
I'm totally fine with that because everybody knows I'm going
to show up and have a good time.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah, it's a lot of work.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
So Sophia Torrez had to give a maid of honor
speech and she was so nervous, but she absolutely destroyed.
People laughed, people cried. So Fia says she has a
very hard time accepting compliments when she does something well,
but this time she absolutely killed it. So thumbs up,
so Fia, and you know, take the compliment. Twenty twenty
(28:12):
five Shelby Graham Shelby Tham Graham is thumbing up her
husband Spencer forgetting her through twenty twenty four in one piece.
Last year, Shelby found out she was pregnant with their
first baby. Two days later, her father in law passed away.
Three months after that, her dad passed away. Then they
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moved Wow, and her husband Spencer had to start running
a business by himself. Now a year later, they have
a beautiful baby girl. Life is settled down and Spencer
is flourishing as an amazing business owner, dad and husband.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Yeah, thumbs up.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
That's amazing, that's incredible.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
That's a big year. My goodness, I'm glad y'all are
being fine. And last, Rachel Weary is thumbing up her
boyfriend Dan. Rachel lost her husband a month before. The
great choir That's Lockdown and the podcasts like Bananas helped
her feel normal and laugh when Rachel felt suddenly alone
in Lockdown Crazy. Four years later, Rachel decided to give
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online dating a world and isn't that fun? Isn't online
dating just the thing that builds you up the most
in the world's She went on one date, and only
one date, and it was with Dan and it was
great from the start. She brought him to I know,
it's so good, And she brought him to Bananas Live
in Madison, Kurt Yay. Now it's been a year and
(29:37):
they're moving in together. Hell yeah, thumbs up to for
being a loving, find funny and accepting man. There.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Yay, thank you for all those thumbs up. And of
course we are here with the fantastic comedian actor YouTuber
Charlotte Dobray. Charlotte, where can everybody find you online?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Too?
Speaker 3 (29:57):
You can find me on YouTube. I would love it
if you you came and said, hi, Hell yeah YouTube,
Yeah yeah, I mean it's the place where I get
to be myself the most. And I guess you could
follow me on Instagram as well in TikTok, but it's
more fun on YouTube. It's more of a community and
I really love it there. So yeah, definitely check me out.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
That's great. That is excellent that you've been able to
find a community on on YouTube, because from a comedian's perspective,
YouTube is the meanest of all the places. For sure.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Yeah no, it's sorry, go.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Ahead, and Instagram is next. It's like midway between supportive
and and then TikTok is always just very supportive.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Yeah. I mean, honestly, it really kind of depends. Like
I've seen mean comments on most apps. I've just learned
to not read the comments. I'll read top comments and
they're usually kind, but I don't really go down in
the depths very often. But yeah, no, I love my community.
They a lot of them have been with me for
a really long time, and granted they were mean when
(31:04):
I first started YouTube. I think it's just like they
kind of need to get like used to you a
little bit. And I don't really like write jokes, you know,
like I a lot of what I do is like
spontaneous comedy, and I just kind of think of things
in the moment. I don't have scripts. So there's nothing
really necessarily cringey about it because I'm not acting like
I'm just being myself and having a conversation. So maybe
(31:27):
that's it. And it could just be that people have
started to like me after ten years. Well well you're okay,
Well we'll accept you.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah, and you grew you grew up in Toronto or
did you grow up outside?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I actually grew up in Calgary, which is kind of
like the Texas of Canada. Oil baby, yeah, baby.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Over here, and it's farther north. Correct, it's actually west.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
It's by the Rocky.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Mountains in the middle. That's what I meant when I
said north. I met in middle.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah, it's true, it's true. No, it's interesting that YouTube.
When I actually remember the day somebody sent me the link,
it was like, you have to check this out. You
can type like anything in and find it, and it
was maybe in my life, it's the app that's like
changed the world the most. Like Uber and Lyft were
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great because everybody I know was a drinking and driving
and then all of a sudden they weren't. And then
Napster came out and was like, oh, you just want
all the music you've ever heard in your life, and
it kind of like brought down the music industry. But
YouTube has just continued to grow. YouTube TV. All my
friends have it on their smart TVs now, and I'm like, oh,
they just held on and got better. It's it's pretty
(32:40):
fascinating that they are as huge as they are all
these years later.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yeah, no, it's it's honestly, it's the top streaming app,
Like people choose YouTube before any other streaming platform. And
it's also the one app, at least as a Canadian,
that I can actually get paid to be a content
creator without having to do brand deals. So it's been
like life changing for me because I get to be
a weirdo and get paid for it, and yeah I
(33:07):
get I get all the praise that I've always wanted
as a child that I never got. So it's definitely
fulfilling in a lot of ways, and it has changed
culture I think for the better.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
That's good. I'm glad to hear that, because yeah, I
mean it's an all you know. You also think like
younger people are always gonna want the next thing and
the new thing. But I'm sure that's what TikTok is.
But also, all my friends' kids watch YouTube constantly, and
whether it's watching streamers.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
It's my kid's favorite thing exactly. Yeah. Yeah, we're to
the point where I have to be like, no, you
cannot watch it. You like it too much. Your brains
are too small for this amount.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Do your kids watch Miss Rachel? Are they too old?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
They were they miss Miss Rachel by like one year. Yeah,
my friends who had kids just like a year later
than me, we're all Miss Rachel. And I was like,
I'm sorry, I don't know Miss Rachel. I know Blippy,
but I don't know Miss Rachel. And I would prefer
to know Miss Rachel. I hate Blippy.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Safe to say it's a safe platform.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
He deeply hate him.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Back into the real world, Kelly Flax sent this in
the United States. Postal Service mail carrier refuses to deliver
mail to newdest community.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
This was on w f LA, Florida. Not shockingly written
Kurt by that swing in site staff.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Yeah, nobody wanted to cop.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
To this one. Oh, some staffs were certainly there. It
is in sight. Mail carrier for the US Postal Service
says he will not deliver mail to a Florida RV
resort because the compound is clothing optional.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Oh lord, get some put on your big boy pants
or take your big boy pants off and go to.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
That discrimination.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
W FLA reports the residents say a bill in mail
carrier refuses, so not even a full.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Time Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's never getting to full time.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
No. Uh, refuses to enter the Eden r V resort. Yeah,
great name for a clothing optional or uh and city
of retreat in Hudson because oh, I'm sorry it now
says she again, this is that site staff because she
has a fear of seeing people naked.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
She has a fear of seeing people naked.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
That's in quotes too, that's her quote. She has a
fear of seeing people naked.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
What is that called. Let's see, that's a good question,
fear of seeing people.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
It's an educational podcast. Every once while you learned something.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Jimphobia, jim noophobia, jimnophobia. Oh that's really funny, jimnophobia.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
How do you spell that?
Speaker 2 (35:54):
G y M n O F.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Jimnophobia is a fear of seeing people naked.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Yah, maybe it's gymnophobia.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
I don't know, but yeah, you would think that would
be a fear of working out. But yeah, maybe I'm
a jackass. I am.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
No, It's like it's just fear of going into the
changing room at gyms.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
But the residents at the Eden RV Resort and City
Retreat in Hudson say they're irritated because they have to
go to the post office to get all their packages.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Yeah, of course naked. Then they have to put do
they do they go naked though, or do they have
to put the clothes on?
Speaker 1 (36:31):
And that's a good question, because like, do they go
naked up to the threshold of the property and then
begrudgingly put clothes on? At what point do they get clothed? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Or do they just have like around town bathrobe that's
in their car and then they drive in naked and
then throw their around town bathrobe on and walk in.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
But animals, I'm sure some of you are nudists or
I'm one hundred percent sure this audience is big enough
and spread out enough. Are you a newdist are you
a newwear around town? When you have to wear clothing
and tell us footwear. Like Kurt said, do you have
a world robe that you strap on and tie up?
And how loose do you tie that? Knot?
Speaker 2 (37:10):
I remember that everyone when I went. I had gone
to a newdist colony once and it was everyone had
to bring a towel everywhere they went. So if like
you ate dinner, you had to put the towel down
to sit on. Yeah, just see, you always sit on
a towel. So everybody had their little butt towel with
(37:30):
them at all times.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
That's a fun laundry room experience. Fold and butt towels. Yeah,
that's the job you want retirement. Uh. One of the
residents said, there's a postal creed and it does not
say anything about not going into a newdist resort. I
pay for a service and I expect that service. I mean,
(37:52):
I'm with this resident. Also, it is so funny.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Imagine if your job had a creed that everyone knew
that everyone has heard you know what I mean, so
that people could always point to like this like little
fun earwig, nor.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Rain yeah, nor head of night or whatever it is.
I know that you know.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Yeah, as a Canadian, you might not know this, right,
do you know about neither?
Speaker 3 (38:18):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
You don't don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
It's that it may read it Scott Neither snow nor rain,
nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from
the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
And it's it's specifically also in a very not famous
to me Lori Anderson song called Oh Superman, which is
it's an excellent song. Shout out to Lori Anderson.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
It's a motto, but now the us is saying it
is not the official motto as of April nineteen twenty four.
But it's like, guys, make it a bad nudist in
there and make it an official motto there it is.
The USPS spokesperson released a statement saying the carrier has
done nothing wrong. I think we all disagree. We can
assure all customers that mail packages are being delivered according
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to national centralized delivery requirements, but I don't know if
that's true.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
I kind of get where she's coming from, though, because like, honestly,
I've been to nudist beaches before, like clothing optional beaches,
and the naked people are never the people you want
to see naked, you know, it's it's always the people
that are just shoving it in your face. But it's just,
you know, they're on the outliers with you know, just
it's never the ones that you're excited to see. Yeah,
(39:36):
so maybe she's she's making up this phobia, or maybe
she just really doesn't want to see a bunch of
like random dudes running around naked.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Yeah, it's not Glennon Powell walking out of the ocean.
It's a guy that looks like Santa Claus.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Is walking exactly exactly. I'd rather not, you know, like,
I'd rather not see that. Like I get where she's
coming from.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Like what if she's delivering clothes?
Speaker 2 (40:00):
What if they've had a heart Well, is she though?
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Is she? I don't think she is Probably delivering towels.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Lots of sun block.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Sun block and towels and one little penis.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Hat clothing optional.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
All right, one b Yeah, I'll send us home with this.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
I love to hear it.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Since we're on postal workers, I'm going to keep it
on the postal worker.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Train, Okay, I them.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Uh this was on click or Lando dot com. Uh
used before actually have you? Yeah? Written by Brenda our
great best in the biz postal worker arrested on d
U Y charge after drinking vodka house party on delivery
(40:51):
route in Melbourne.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Police say fun.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Great, Yeah Florida, Florida, Florida. A USPS worker was arrested
earlier this month in Melbourne after she drank alcohol at
a house party on her route and was later caught
driving the wrong way. Oh my god in traffic. It
wasn't a little vodka. Caitlin Die thirty three, was arrested
(41:19):
April twelfth on a charge of duy and also I
mean Caitlyn and her inner uh, her mugshot looking drunk,
looking drunk, and she's a real cutie. According to the
Affidavid Berle's were notified that a USPS mail truck was
(41:39):
driving the opposite travel land in South Harbor City Boulevard
and the driver was throwing plastic cups out of the vehicle.
Holy shit's stop yeah d. When officers arrived, they saw
the mail truck driving west on East University Boulevard before
making a U turn, police did, the truck swerved in
and out of its lane, traveled into the opposite lane.
Officers pulled over the mail truck said Di appeared confused
(42:01):
and disoriented. According to the AFFI David, the officer's conducted
field sobriety exercise and said her results were indicative of
someone under the influence. Police questioned I, who said she
was returning delivering to a home on Riverview Drive when
she was invited inside for a party. The department said,
I told the police she drank two shots of vodka
before she was pulled over. The officers asked why she
(42:21):
was swerving in and out of traffic shadows because she
had fallen asleep while driving home.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Fun.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Oh my god. They also asked her about a cup
thrown out of the vehicle, and she said it was
just water. She used to swishing around her mouth to
smell like not smell like alcoholic.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
I believe it. Wow, I believe that.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Police said they also spoke with witnesses who called in
the incident, and they were recorded seeing the mail truck
on us one my god. Well, I don't think she's
going to be a police postal worker anymore, but.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
I doubt two shots of vodka, Like, give me a break,
No way, there was no way.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Two shots of vot the ni fall asleep driving a
postal truck on the wrong side of the road, Like, no,
I remember.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Two shots of vodka. It was the next four that
really do Damn.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
I really thought it was in Australia.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
That's so crazy. Do you ever do live appearances, like
do you have fan meat and breads or live shows
or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
I'm thinking about doing it. Yeah, in the near future.
I'm planning on doing it definitely.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Why because people will bring you things and your fans
and I was just wondering, is there one item that
you get brought the most because that does happen? Is
there something you talk about that you love that people bring.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
Honestly, it wasn't like a live show thing that people bring,
but I did like a I did like a po
box and like, yeah, people that got me these like
these grabbers, Like I have an entire like umbrella thing
full of these grabbers and someone put like a red
hair wig on. This is shark lot. This is shark lot.
(43:59):
This is if this is something that everybody seems to
think is very very funny.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Well, I like that, that's exactly. So what Charlotte held
up were like toy animal head grabbers that you pull
the handle on the bottom and the mouth closes and
the best one was a shark with a gorgeous flowing
red wig.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
It's chark lot.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
That happens a lot. And we have, you know, other
friends that podcast that tour and other vloggers that we
know that tour, and they'll have like fans bring lots
of stuff our fans, the bananimals, because we do do
a pretty good amount of life touring. The one thing
I love is they bring us. The first of all,
you guys never have to bring us anything. Anytime you
do it is very kind, but don't ever feel like
(44:41):
you need to. But we get the most diverse array
of things you can imagine, just everything from local foods
to clothing, to painting, to toys, to alcohol to drugs.
It's like, so what I like about Bananas is the
these fan gifts are so eclectic and strange. I'm looking
(45:02):
at them now. This is one just a wood carving
of a banana. It says in honor of the banana
blaze on my desk, and it's just fantastic.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
But that is so sweet.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Museum for Influencers. That was all the stuff out into them,
either fan and then you put it on display a
huge warehouse and you put you put it Charlotte, and
then you just have a wall of all the strange
and terrifying YouTube.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Shouldn't do that in their campus in La Man Jesus.
Speaker 3 (45:34):
They should? They should.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Wouldn't that be fun? Because then you could also like
shoot a video with that is the backdrop, and be
like just the weird menagerie of strange that you've brought me.
Speaker 3 (45:44):
I also backdrop used to have all that stuff on it,
like I had, like someone made me like they call
me like the Potato Queen, and someone made me like
this big crown with like golden potatoes attached to it.
And the whole background at my old place was just
a bunch of like random artwork and like your drawings
and stuff that people would send me. But now I
(46:04):
have my accolades. Honestly, I think that I'll probably put
those other things back up. It was a lot cuter.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Millions of followers, right, you have a millions? I do?
Speaker 3 (46:15):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
Damn Yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
They're very sweet, each one of them.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
And do you know when those YouTube plaques are coming
your way? Or does a nude air carrier bring them
directly to your house unexpected? Wish? Uh? No?
Speaker 3 (46:30):
I so yeah, no, you have to like submit a
thing and then they and then they send it to
you after you pass like a million subscribers. I think
the next one's ten millions, so I want whoa oh yeow.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
You'll get it soon. You'll get it soon, Bananas Podcast.
Thank you so much. Sure, thank you so much, Charlotte
for being here, thank you for having me. Uh and
then just say and then slug away, yeah, plug away,
plug like.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
Hey man, come check me out on YouTube. Just search
me up. Charlotte Doughbray. Actually I'm the first Charlotte that
comes up if you search Charlotte on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
So that's a flex. That's a big. Thanks, that's a
big I.
Speaker 3 (47:08):
Would say that. That's I'm very proud of that.
Speaker 4 (47:10):
So oh, that's so Charlotte Dobray across all Instagram, TikTok, YouTube,
you find her, you watch her and let her know
you heard her on Bananas.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
When she crosses that ten million, then eleven million subscriber mark.
Speaker 3 (47:25):
Here's hoping fingers crossed. Thank you so much, guys, this
was so fun.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
You're very welcome. Thank you, Bananas Bananas. Bananas Bananas is
an exactly right media production.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.
Speaker 1 (47:42):
The catchy Bananas theme song was composed and performed by Kahan.
Speaker 2 (47:46):
Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
And our benevolent overlords are the great Karen Kilgareff and
Georgia Hartstart.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot,
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Speaker 1 (47:56):
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