November 11, 2025 • 52 mins
Kurt and Scotty talk about why witches look the way they do, man convicted of posing as flight attendant to get free flights, clinicians test butt breathing, and an Australian darter barred from using nickname The Magnet!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're ready, Scottie, I'm ready to laugh and laugh and laugh.
Oh this is very This doesn't have like a a
hot it doesn't have like a hot title. All right,
but I'm telling you it's good. Great. Why witches look
the way they do?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Why witches look the way they do? Interesting?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Just to peak the interest. The article itself is fascinating.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, all right, Well let's see what's brewing on this
episode of Bananas your world head? Would it not? Silient?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Pieces?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Would banana ba bad.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Guys, goals? Non binary pals. Welcome to Bananas. I'm kurb
Brown or.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I'm Banana Boy number two Scott Alanda. Thank you for
listening to the silliest little podcast whatever was. It's just
a little escape, a little bliss pit, a little oasis
in a mouthstrom of discontent. We come in and we're
here to cheer you up.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Hello. Hello, I'm I need some cheering up, Bud.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I need to say what happened?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I just dad, I'm currently I'm currently still at thirty Rock.
I have snuck into a office on the other side
of the building. I'm in a giant conference room. I
think there's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, ninth.
There's twenty five chairs around this conference table. That's how
big it is.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Awkward. Yeah, just right at the end of it, Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And snuck in here post post show pitch meeting. I
see that where I pitched my idea and it was
met with deafening silence. Yeah, oh, feeling in the world.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It is off.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You just gotta shake it off. It is one of
those things. It's just a part of the job.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Baby, Oh my god, you kidd me. I was I
was thinking about posting our I was thinking about posting
on Patreon our last eggsit pilot. I was trying to
figure out how to do that so people could read
because it's a really funny pilot that got rejected by
Adult Swim. We wrote it in lockdown, and I'm like, yeah,
trying to figure out the best way to so that
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people can just read what a losing pilot reads like.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It's such a good pilot.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, I think I should post it. I'm going to
try to at least.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah. We have been doing crazy things on the Patreon recently.
It's been really really excellent. Scott He's been Scotty's been
posting his novella on the Rocks by rifle tampon men.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, one chapter at a time. It's so good chapter.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
It was so funny, man, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It is like a delight to read every word, every
little line is a joke. It's so fun. You're so
good at it.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Thanks man. I appreciate that. But, uh, you know, falls
upon us now. We had Daylight Savings hit us hard.
Halloween was a big hit, the Dodgers won the World series.
There's a lot of good things happening.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Oh, there's a ton of good things.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Also.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I've been posting all of my rejected sketches from the
show on my patre on the Patreon and I think
it's it's open for all levels, so any level, as
long as you're paid, you can read the you can
read everything we're writing there. And it's a lot. It's
like every single day, new new writing is up. It's
pretty great fun.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, it's nice to have a platform for it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It is really nice to have a platform for it.
But yeah, Daylight Saving Time, how's it going. I forgot
that there is a difference between La Daylight Savings time
ending and New Jersey Daylight Savings time ending. It is, yeah,
dark at four forty five pm immediately immediately, and it's
going to get worse. It's crazy, you think.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It hits me as hard as it hits anybody. For
some reason, it won't be today, but towards the end
of this week, I will just have one of those
like three anxious days, and I'll go, what's wrong? And
then I realized it's just my body. My circadian rhythms
still haven't caught up to do we need to keep
doing it? Can't we just end this crazy charade?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
But the question day sounds how do you end it?
The only way to like actually end it would be
always beyond this, always beyond standard, because otherwise it's dark
until like eight thirty am. Like that's cuckoo.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah that's true, you know for people.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So now that I'm getting up so early, it was shocking,
hot log I was up and before the sun came up.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I know, it's really a fascinating thing. But I went
over to Georgia and Vince's for Halloween.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Nice, Oh my god, so many kids, right, dude, I.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Had no because I used to do it at Memories
and at Water was always going off and really busy.
But where we were was so much crazier. They gave
Strawberry a clicker, like how a doorman has like a
counter for and it only did children, not parents, just
children who we physically gave candy to. And we ran
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out of candy at around eight thirty, after nine hundred
and seventy five children.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Nine hundred and seventy five. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Uh, it was a delight. It turns out I just
love handing candy to children at a house that I
don't live in.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It is the absolute was our first Halloween, and everyone
said like get ready, but it was like from whatever
five thirty to eight thirty, it was just three hours
of fifteen kids at a time.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, greed.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
So it was just like groups of fifteen and then
as they would walk away, another group of fifteen would
walk up. It was like so it was just like
boom boom boom, boom boom boom, no time to even
say what are you? Just happy, happy Halloween, Happy Halloween?
What are you?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
What are you? Yeah? There was a great jellyfish costume,
and then there was an extremely good the Little Ghosts
from pac Man. Somebody made a red one but it
was huge. It was like five feet tall and it
was wavy. It was made out of like cloth and
then had those big eyes looking in one direction and
it made me laugh. So I don't know if it
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was a boy or a girl underneath. I don't know
their age. I just know they stood about five feet
tall as a giant pac Man ghost. And I was like, damn,
that makes me so happy.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Oh that's great, and that's actually pretty funny. All you
need to do is get like a big like half
of a half a sphere, you know, styful thing, right,
put it on your head wear that has like a
little helmet, and then drape it over there with the
eyes on there. Light it up from the inside. That
would be awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I was over here. I was just I was laughing
and laughing. Man, I was a cowboy. I took it.
I was like, I'm going to be comfortable and I'm
gonna I'm going to dress up. But I was a
cowboy and I had half the supplies here. And then
I went to Creepy Halloween, which is like the new
version of Spirit Halloween, and I bought myself a cowboy
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hat and a fake suede jacket with tassels or whatever
they're called. Fringe.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Uh huh, looked great, nice fell out.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It felt warm, it was excellent. But speaking of costumes,
tell me about why witches look the way?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, this is like this is of course we're a
week late on this, right, should have done this last week,
but I just found it.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
So here it is.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
This was on this is this little website called Adventures
and Taste and Time. But I did see it on
an Instagram account earlier. So this is why witches looked
the way they do. There's a there's a really long
lead in who wrote it?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Who wrote this? It's the kind of person that would
do a deep dive into why witches look the way
they do?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah, all right here it is blah blah blah to
the whole intro. With that in mind, we are going
to talk about the secret history of witches and beer.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Fun.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
In medieval England, beer brewing was initially done in the
house and was seen as one of the many domestic
tasks for which women were solely responsible. Oh come on
the late Medieval Evil period, women began to share the brewing,
making large back of alance selling it. Then, in the
talent of the fourteenth century, following the first round of
the Black Death, the world began to change, grain became cheaper,
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people began living closer together in urban settings, and quality
of life increase. With these changes came an increase in
beer brewing ability and the rise of the alehouse.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
All right.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
While there were male brewers, the profession particularly appealed to
women brewing and selling beer. A trade known as tippling
or tapping, allowed women to work in a will paid profession.
Medieval England had a lot of restrictions that on what
professional work women were and were not allowed to do.
Brewing provided many with the income they could support themselves.
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They were known as ale wives.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Okay, that came from I always wondered.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah, alewife, right, and uh so then there's a picture
of an alewife and the hat is they look like
a witch. The alewife looks like a witch. And this
is like a like a cutting from whatever, fifteen hundreds
or something. Sure, hats, ale wives and tipplers were tall.
Hats sometimes pointed. The reason was simple marketing. It marked
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ale wives, so the profession made it easier for them
to bar keep for easier to find the bar keep
in order the next pint of ale. Then cats, Okay,
this one is pretty simple. Cats eat mice, Mice eat grain.
Can't make beer without grain. It was not uncommon for
brewers to keep cats around to keep the mice at
bay and protect their grain. Over the century, as many
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pets have been linked to accused witches as familiar as,
but the cats remain the most popular images. Cauldrons. To
make a batch of beer, you have to make a
large pot of wart. In the fifteenth century, and until
reasonably recently, large pots of anything were made in heavy
cauldrons set over a fire brooms to sink signal a
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batch of ale was complete. Ale wives would hang an
ale steak or ale poll out the window to pay.
On what you source, you look at the ale steak
was either a typical broom to symbolize domestic work, or
a branch with a bush or garland attached to the end.
Either way, it doesn't take a lot of imagination to
understand how that simply became a broom after one hundred years.
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And then, of course the church was unhappy that women
were holding down jobs, and so then that is where
we get the idea of a witch. It was just
a woman who was selling beer to people with a
cauldron and a cat around and a and a tall
hat and a broom. Isn't that fucking crazy?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
That's crazy? Because why did they turn into an evil thing?
They're the greatest thing I know.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
But it's because the church didn't want women working outside
of the home. And come on, church, the demon demon demonifying, demonifying, Yeah, demonification, demonization, demonization,
there's the word. He says, he's dumb, but he's smart, folks,
He's smart.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I got no brains. So as so women brewing beer
looked like modern witches, and so they.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
That is so that is where the idea of the
witch came from.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, if I that's a cool idea for opening a
bar that like a witch bar, a great idea. There's
a really fun bar in Baltimore in Fell's Point on
Fleet Street called al Mary's. And I always hit that
one when i'm leaving, when i'm you know, grabbing one
for the row, the old Lido shuffle, but that bar.
One time I was sitting in that bar and a
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guy walked in and the bartender just this dude just
yelled no. And then the guy left. His door swings
up in no, and the guy just turns around, and
I was like, man, I love Baltimore. Just don't try
that again in here where.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
When the first UCB opened upright, Citizens Brigade in nineteen
ninety nine in New York City was in a former
strip club and it was a very very seedy strip
club which apparently would be open until like seven, eight
nine in the morning. Fun And so for the first
year it was open, I would have class on Saturdays
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at from fucking nine to noon, which is so crazy, right,
and multiple times, and a creepy old man would come
back to like find some ladies and just see the
bunch of the biggest bunch of dorks improvising on stage.
And to the end when they were like come in,
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we're just like no, no believe because it would just
happen all the time.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, man, you can't stop a creep from lurk. And
you know, those guys get in there and it's funny
if you just sat down and watched some improv. If
he was like, no, I know, this is improv. I'm
here to have a great experience.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I get drunk and at nine am I wandered to
improv classes.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Did you ever you you taught a lot of improv?
Did you ever teach at a company, Like, did you
ever actually go into like a corporation.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
All the time?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That must have been so strange. Red Bull, Well, i've
met you again. I met you time too at Red
Bull actually, but did you ever go into an office
building and just have to be like, hey, guys, I'm
going to teach you, like in a conference room that
you're currently standing in or was it more on remote locations?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
It was always on like remote locations, but they would
be like ballrooms or they would be in a hotel
like that sort of thing. But I do remember once
getting hired. Kristin and I got hired to do a
show and uh, and it was a corporate gig and
we're getting paid I don't know, like two grands, you know,
like so it was like we're splitting two grand but
at that time that was like the most money we'd.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Ever made, Oh my god, and still great.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
And we go in to do the show and we're like,
there's no restrictions, like, no restrictions. We show up, it
is a fucking conference room. It's a conference room with
twelve people at it and they are at the conference
table and there's no drinks, there's no stage, there's nothing
there's just the end of the room.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
And then Christin and I just started doing our act.
I guess because we were like, this is what we're
supposed to do and I don't know, like five to
six minutes and we were supposed to do twenty minutes.
Five to six minutes in the woman who's sitting in
I want to say the front row, but it's not
the front row. It's just the chack chair at the
end of the table out loud just said, oh no,
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this is terrible. And then we had to continue performing
for another fifteen minutes after that.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
You wanted that money, Yeah, you get that money.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Cash that check fast enough, baby.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Oh no, this is terrible. Wait a second. It's something
I've seen, like stand up comedians when they have to
do like a small event and they don't have a microphone.
And there's something about a comic holding a mic versus
not like, of course, you could tell your material I
just you know it like the back of your hand.
But there's something about when a comic doesn't have a
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mic in that setting and they're just standing there talking
that it's so distracting to me. I stop listening to them.
It's like a totally different performance. Yeah, it's like a
life coach has entered the room or something instead of
a stand.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Up specific thing, isn't it. It's so strange.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Well, you had a you made me laugh years ago
because you said, why is every photo of improv comedy
of them driving? And it's so true. Whenever they show
a photo of like this improv theater, it's always one
person with hands on an imaginary steering wheel on a
chair and somebody standing or sitting next to them. They
only ever used driving photos.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I think it's because all other scenes just look like
two people talking to each other.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, that's right, that's exactly it. My gosh, I did
a Scotch and whiskey tasting speaking of improvisers with Matt
Oberg and Rich and Kristen. Wow, where did you do this,
Tam o' shanter.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Oh, oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
So there's a whiskey. I'm gonna look up the actual
name of this thing. It is the Scotch Malt Whiskey Society.
It started in Edinburgh and now it's here. And we
did a six taste and then they had a couple
of special bottles. But then the funniest part is is like,
I'm not a part of this society. I guess I
could join it now, but I was just visiting. They
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have somebody speak, and then they have another person speak,
and then they have a third person speak. But then
they also served a salad, and I was laughing so
hard at us. They served a salad and lasagna at
Tam o' shanter. For those who don't know Los Angeles,
this is a Lowry's restaurant, so like mostly it's prime
rib and medium mashed potatoes. And then they go around
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and the whole idea is you do blind taste test.
You drink each one, and then you write down the
flavor profile, You write down your own notes, and then
you try to guess the time frame the years like
three to five years, six to ten years, ten to
fifteen years of how long it was distilled and then
the distillery. And I got every single one so wrong
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that I was like, it made me enjoy it so
much more. And then by the sixth Scotch, you're a
little buzzed and you're having a little more fun and
booing the people who were telling you that it's this
this area, not this area, but everybody else was really
into it, like asking follow up questions, asking if they
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were sure it was from the distillery that they said
it was from.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
If they were sure, Yeah, so funny.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
We were smelling it and then this is one of
the leading gents that one of the people who knew
everything about it was like, and what flavors you guys
picking up on what notes? And we're all just scrambling
so hard. Like at one point Kristen said tires and
I know, and I just kept saying caramel. I was like,
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there's notes of caramel, and He's like, yeah, vanilla caramel.
I did tasted like whiskey. Different.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
It tastes like burning, like burning leather.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Absolutely, but it was fun and you know, I didn't
learn anything. I did eat some lasagna and I drank
six to eight scotches. And that's a fun night for everyone.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, oh that sounds a delight.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yes, speaking of a fun night for everyone, Reach in
the Darkness sent this one in. You can send your
stories to the podcast on Instagram and we might read
them and we'll say your name NBC News written by
this is a great name. Viola Flowers or Viola Flowers.
I love the name Viola Flowers, man convicted of posing
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as flight attendant did so to score one hundred and
twenty free flights.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Okay, posing as flight attendant.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah, got on one hundred and twenty free flights. Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Because you also have to get past security. You have
to do a lot, you have to do just doing
this to just go places.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
This guy's going places. You can't take him anywhere, but
he's going places. Tieran, I'm going Tierran all right. Tierran Alexander,
thirty five years young, was convicted of wire fraud and
entering secure areas of airports under false pretenses by the
Justice Department on Tuesday. The man who posed as a
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flight attendant for four different airlines scammed one hundred and
twenty free flights over the course of many years. The
US Attorney's Office blah blah blah and Southern Florida announced
on Tuesday. Tierran was convicted on June fifth of entering
the secure area of an airport under false pretenses. We're
just repeating ourselves at this point. Federal prosecutors said that
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between twenty and twenty twenty four, Alexander book free flights
six glorious years. Wow, high flying years with this guy.
Tiran Alexander. He booked free flights only available to pilots
and flight attendants on air airline carriers websites. The application
process required applicants to provide their employer, date of hire
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and badge number. So he did. Alexander flew thirty four
times with that first airline, claiming to be a flight attendant,
falsifying employment with seven different airlines and submitting about thirty
different badge numbers.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Wait, did he just make the badge numbers up?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
How did he fight? I think so. I think he
just would either look at people or yeah, I think
he was just making them up.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Wow, that's so.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I don't think they were verifying them. The TSA, the
Transportation Security Administration, investigated the case. You know, the TSA
gets a lot of guff, but I bet there are
a lot of good people just trying to do a
very good job. Of course, when you're around bad ones,
like when I think it's like terminal by terminal airline. Yeah,
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there was one in Logan Airport in Boston. The whole group.
Just if I was powerful enough, I would have made
the phone call and got them all immediately fired, sacked
on the spot, and then you go to another one
where somebody's like nice and helpful and they don't yell
at you and make you feel like an Idiot's yeah,
I'm sure a lot of TSA people are trying to
do a good job. Here we go. The evidence at
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trial showed that Alexander pose as a flight attendant on
three other airline characters. Ultimately, Alexander booked more than one
hundred and twenty free flights by falsely claiming to be
a flight attendant. The indictment from October stated he had
worked for an airline headquartered in Dallas in twenty fifteen,
but was never a pilot nor a flight attendant. Public
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defenders representing Alexander did not immediately respond NBC News, Yes,
that makes sense, So the TSA said the statement that
while Alexander was able to board flights by fraudently obtaining
boarding passes, he underwent all applicable TSA screening procedures, so
he was screened to get through, including ID verification and
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physical screening. He did not pose a threat to other
airline passengers. Sure, I mean sure, yes, Obviously he could
have done it.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
On vacation.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Dude, just had to get to Phoenix. He wanted to
go to TP get some Mexican food.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
He just loves catch me if you can. But he
didn't want to be a pilot.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
No, didn't. Yeah, I know sometimes when people do this
level of scamming, you just go just become a pilot.
It would have been easier and shorter, or just.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Become an airline attendant.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
You know, great job, right, great job. TSA remains dedicated
to security of the flying public and would continue to
support the prosecution. Blah blah blah. According to the indictment,
the maximum sentence twenty years in prison, but it could
be plus ten years for entering secure airport areas under
false pretenses. Bah bah bah. He might have a two
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hundred and fifty thousand dollars fine if found guilty. All right,
so he flew too close to the sun. He could
have probably gotten away with one hundred and eighteen. But
these guys, they can ever give it up.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
That is I mean, like when six years of doing it,
it feels like you're never gonna get caught, right.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, I know. And if you can just enter gobbledygook numbers,
flight numbers or you know, licenses, it's like who cares
if your badge number is whatever you want it to
be and it works. That seems like a system flaw.
This guy should get hired by the TS.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Sounds like a delight.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
You know. Our friend Flula Flula lost his passport once
and was able to fly back from Europe to America
without a passport just by he had other documentation. But
then they went online and saw that he was who
he said he was online. What. Yes, this was a
couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
I'm assuming it.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Was probably like twenty fifteen, toy sixteen, because we put
it in a pitch and everybody believed us, and then
he'd be like, no, this really did happen to me.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I love mm hmm. That's I know, pretty fascinating. Have
you ever befriended a flight attendant, like on a flight,
like going back and forth for a job or anything.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
No, you I'm sure, yes, I'm sure you have.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
But and I wonder if she still listens to or
if she listens to bananas. If you do, Tamra say, hey, uh,
I was flying back and forth between New York and
LA a lot for a couple jobs, and I was
always sitting in the same seat and one time that
flight attendant was like, you fly a lot? Huh? I
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was like yes, And she's like, do you listen to
any podcasts? I was like, have you heard the Ceial podcast?
And it was when Cereal is brand new? She listened
to it in between the flight, loved it. And then
every time I would fly after that, she would just
pass me airplane bottles of Tito's every time she walked by.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
So shout out to Tammy. Tamera text me if you
still have my number. You were a very nice person
and I'm glad to know you.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Oh I love that. I love that so much.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yes, a lot of flying. It was. It was the
same flight and she just always hooked it up. So
it was a wonderful experience. Nice and some thumbs.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
You know, I do clinicians test but breathing in early study.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I I hope they do. I hope, I hope they do.
I hope it would make snorkeling so much easier if
just just mask only no snorkel, but just just gasping
from my bottom. Here we go. Sarah wants to thumb
her brother Ben way up. Ben is a packaging engineer
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for Sharman and he spent the last year of his
life helping bring seventeen hundred Sheet Forever rolls to us.
All I got my forever role. You actually get two
roles in the package. It makes me wonder why all
toilet paper rolls aren't this big. It's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
You need a big enough bathroom though for it.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
It's yeah, this is a bigger than a vinyl record.
I would say it's but it comes with so if
you buy this is not an ad. God, I wish
we were sponsored by Sharman. What I wouldn't give. It
comes with its own stand and then two seventeen hundred
Sheet Forever roles that are supposed to last one month
per role.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Okay, and so far, what's the report?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Oh, it's gonna blow past a month. I'm stretching this thing.
This is gonna be six week or no doubt about it. Sharman,
if you want to sponsor us. I once told a
story about being so partied out and so hungover and
trying to put my life back together after an absolute rager.
In the next morning, I turned on the TV and
(28:09):
one of your Sharman commercials came on and an animated
bear helped its animated bear cup up into a tree
and I just started crying. I was so emotionally raw wrecked.
I just burst into tears. So thumbs up to Ben,
thank you for helping pack Charman. Yeah on behalf of
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Butt's everywhere, We salute you. Emily G wants to thumb
herself way way up for graduating with a master's in
school counseling. That's nice. It took Emily G three point
five years, three and a half years, and she's currently
working as a middle school counselor. Great job. Combs up
to Emily G. Keep up the great work, keep those
(28:53):
kids in line, you know. And last, but not least,
our good friend mcken Lottie is thumbing herself up. But
she's also but we're also giving her a mega thumbs up, Kurt.
After Mackenzie's husband had passed away, she drank, she said,
for five hundred and ninety five days straight to deal
with the grief and pain. Then she decided, I need
(29:16):
to stop. The Dry sixty nine was the only thing
she grasped onto in the beginning. Wow, she completed the
Dry sixty nine and it was so good and so easy.
She decided to continue and has not had a single
drink since nice thanks to the Banana Boys. She's sober
and dealing with the grief and accepting her new reality.
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I mean, thumbs up to you, Mackenzie.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Wonderful thumbs up, thumbs up, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
We sent her a sticker. Do your doing great? That's
all I got, all right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Of course you can send your thumbs up to the
Bananas Podcast on Instagram. You can also send us your
strange news to the Bananas Podcast on Instagram, or you
can email us The Bananas Podcast at gem dot com.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Correct a mundo.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Clinicians test butt breathing in early study. This is for
MedPage Today.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Oh dude, how many times a day are you reading
MedPage Today?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
You know I've I've emailed them many times asking that
we could If there's a possibility to get at MedPage hourly,
that would be good because I can't wait till the
next day because I clear them all out by eight am.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yeah. I agree. I took an Oculus rift and I
put two kaleidoscopes inside of it, and then I plugged
it directly into my computer because when MedPage Today is
an option, I want it. Three hundred and sixty five
degrees times kaleidoscope numbers because I don't want to miss
(30:48):
a single letter of their great reporting exactly.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
And of course the best reporter at MedPage today is
Randy do TINGA Randy DOTINGA thank you, biz BABYZ.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
This just came out.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
This just came out. Young men, Yeah, tolerated the anal
admission administration of a liquid. This is a real MedPage
young men tolerated the anal administration of a liquid with
high capacity for oxygenation in a Phase L law trial
from Japan. A dose of good news for researchers for
(31:26):
developing a rectal ventilation system for patients in respiratory failure.
Uh So, the the takeaway here is that it's an
enema with that with highly oxygenated liquid. Sign up and
they can. They fill you up, They fill you up,
(31:47):
and they keep you and they keep it for sixty
minutes and you don't need to breathe because you're getting
all the oxygen you need through your butt.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Fantastic.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, it's pretty great. There's no chance you'll be snorkeling
with a tube out your butthole anytime soon. Scott. Oh,
you know, I like a challenge, but Takebe says his
project was inspired by a freshwater bottom dwelling fish known
as the loach and other aquatic creatures that can breathe
(32:19):
through their intestines. He and his team discovered the unique
biological talents of the loach and its counterparts when they
were searching during the COVID nineteen pandemic for weird animals
who can take up oxygen in better ways than we do.
The rectum could be used to deliver medication and nutrition,
but Tacave's team faced a big question. If oxygen could
be delivered through the rectum, how could it work. So
(32:41):
this dude figured it all out. Enter pu per fluoro decylene,
a clear liquid of supero superhero like powers to carry oxygen.
While water can dissolve about ten milli liters of oxygen
per lid per pure florodcylne can pack in four hundred
to five hundred milli liters per leader. The liquid has
(33:01):
already used an eye surgery. It's completely indistinguished from water,
though it's a little heavier because it's got all that
but juice on it. But that's what's happening with the
UH with butt research today.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
You know, we live in a time where innovation, Like
when we were kids, the idea of having like a
radio on your watch, like Dick Tracy, they would call
Dick Tracy. And now we all have smart watches that
you can literally make phone calls, emails.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
And you can play the ratio on it if you
wanted to. But most people haven't even figured out that
that's something it could do.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
It can do that. I recently found out that my
smart thermostat has a Bluetooth speaker when it accidentally just
started playing music and I couldn't figure out what speaker
was coming from my thermostat.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Your thermostat has a speaker.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yes, I was in the kitchen is trying to listen
to some rock and tunes and it connected and then
started playing somewhere in my house and I was walking
around checking, putting my hands on the speakers to feel vibrations,
and it was coming from my thermostat.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
That's so crazy.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Why it's an ego B and I don't know. I
have no clue. But also, like you know, when you
would watch science fiction in the seventies, eighties, and nineties,
they would always have like screens that you could touch
and adjusting now iPads are boring. People don't even use
People have them and don't even use them.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
They don't even use them. I can whenever I go
and look at the like go to get on the
Wi Fi at my house, my fridge has a Wi
Fi signal. I don't know why my fridge has a
Wi Fi signal, you know, like I understand if you're
if it just connects somehow to doing some things, but
for it to be putting out a Wi Fi signal
that seems to be inviting trouble.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
That seems not so good.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
No, it doesn't, and why do you what do you
want to connect to the fridge for?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Well, Also, Samsung has refrigerators and they I got sent
the story by a bunch of animals, but they're going
to run ads on your refrigerator And you're like, no, no.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
That's what my kindle does. I have a kindle. It's
like because I bought the cheaper version of the kindle,
so then it just shows me ads for other books
that I will never read on the front of the kindle.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
All of this is to say, my whole life, I've
wanted them to invent something that we've seen in many
science fiction and fantasy things, which is just you put
a thing over your nose and mouth and it converts
the oxygen in the water so you can just swim
like a fish. And definitely we're pulling off these amazing things.
We have rocket ships landing and getting caught by chopsticks.
(35:47):
We have cars that you can come drive to you.
We have all kinds of things. Can't we figure out
the permanent underwater aquaman mouth nose breathing thing that without
putting hyperoxygaded chemicals up your butt. This seems like we're
focusing on the wrong end of the problem.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
But if they can ever pull this off, it'll be amazing.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
It will be so incredible.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
People will die constantly. If you if it's just unfettered
a popimp about and a jump in the ocean, dying
left ahead right.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Boat strikes alone, but then boat strikes alone. Oh my gosh,
it's gonna be insane. But you're not wrong. I'm just
saying we've figured out so many of these seemingly impossible things,
and that one now we're just pumping bumping bum bums
up with super air, And I'm like, I don't know,
(36:50):
I think we can do better. Everyone got better. Rebecca
Johnson sent this in Whoa all the way up in
England near the tan Hill Inn. I know that.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I mean I know her from online.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
That's how we that's how we roll. I'm gonna tell
you the news source and it's gonna tip what this
story is about. But this was in Darts News Darts
written by Lucas Michael.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Are you talking about darts? The game in the bottom?
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Darts? The game Bullseye Kurt Darts News written by Best
in the Darting Biz Michael Lucas. No Lucas Michael.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Lucas, Michael No.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
I I always dig extra deep on these kind of
stories because I wanted to make sure I got the darter.
First off, they're called darters, so not dart thrower, dart player, darter, darters.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Okay, Australia d'artagnan's that would have been a better name
for him on guard.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Absolutely Australian darter. And this is what I looked up.
Tim Pouse darred from using the nickname the Magnet at
World Darts Championships, is banned from using the nickname the Magnet.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Mister Pussy can't be called the magnet.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Tim the Magnet Pousse or Tim Pousse the Magnet or
Tim the Pousse Magnet is not allowed to be called
the Magnet. Now this guy is also excellent, So Australian
darter Tim Pousse may not use his nickname the Magnet
during the PDC World Darts Championship. The organization has asked
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the thirty three year old player to choose a new
pseudonym as his current nickname combined with his surname, it
is considered, it says ambiguous, but that's not what it's
considered anyway.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Whose nickname comes at the end of their full name?
No One? No one's nickname, Well, I guess Scotti Land
is Banana number two.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Yeah, I'm a trendsetter. Me and Tim Pousse are hanging out.
Uh Pousse, who's secured participation in September by winning the
Australian Darts Association Tour standings. I mean this guy's good
at what he does. He's a magnet. I mean those
darts hit the board like magnet.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Like it's got a magnet in it.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Indicated in conversation with Tungsten Tales that he understands the decisions.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Is that a person or a magazine I don't know.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
I don't know that if there's a.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Person named Tungsten Tas who just covers darts, is that's
faring amaze Tungsten Tales in conversation with mister Pussy about his.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Dark great words down there.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
This is awesome.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
I hope it is just a guy. It's a woman
named Tungsten Tales.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Tungsten Tales is such a good name. M h oh,
is it t a l e s yes, Okay, it's
probably tales about tungsten.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
He says. I don't have a nickname. I don't have
that nickname on my jersey, says Poose. I'll have to
come up with a new one. Maybe I'll let the
fans vote. It's chicky because anything could be taken the
wrong way right now. I don't have a nickname. And
the songs in the stands can be quite colorful. So
I was watching this guy play darts. Uh huh. The
(40:21):
fans at live dart events are yelling and cheering and
booing and screaming, and it it looks like the most
fun you can have watching a sporting event. Also, while
they're throwing darts, not like in between rounds, they're just
going like oh, randomly. Oh, it makes me want to
go to a dart championship.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Yeah. Because also it's like it just takes place inside
a loud bar. You have to you've come up playing darts,
not with a perfect silence.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Right, yes. And the announcer because I was trying to
get how they say poose right, and they the announcers
were saying the other competitors last name, saying brown, older, brown, old,
the brown oler, oh, constantly and then they would get
to old Tim and they were avoiding it so much.
(41:09):
But it is Pousse in let's go here we go.
So the nickname the Magnet sounds innocuous, but when combined
with Pouse's last name, it leads to the pun that
the PDC would rather avoid. On the world stage, the
league has more often in the past been guarded against
limits of decency regarding nicknames. In twenty twenty three, Owen
(41:31):
Bates was banned from using his nickname The Master for
similar reasons. Darts you are a bar sport. You gotta
get dirty. Nobody cares dirty.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Nobody.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
There aren't eight year old kids there, and if there are,
that's on you.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Yeah. Also, are there eight year old kids watching darts.
Are they actually? Honestly, my kids would watch.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Darts, they'd probably watched yeah, darts.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Yeah, seems like it's easy to follow.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Yes, she just keep hitting the board and the score
comes down and then you win. But it does make
me want to go to Australian Dart Champion, the Australian
Darts Association Tour, like this event is it's wild, man,
It's it's crazy. Uh. The issue has led to humorous
reactions outside of the dart world. Former ranger striker Ali McCoist.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Of course, of course, I.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Said famous ranger striker right away. Your first thought was
Ali McCoist.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, definitely wasn't What's what? What are all
the words?
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Yeah? What is a ranger? Striker? Soccer? Maybe striker?
Speaker 1 (42:40):
It makes me think it's of hockey.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
It could be oh yeah, could be or just so
who knows. We'll never know. But Ali McCoys knows that
he got involved in the discussion. During his broadcast on
Talk Sport, he should keep that nickname. Come on, it's
the best nickname there is, McCoy said, where's your sense
of humor? Darts people?
Speaker 1 (42:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Getting hot over there exactly. Pousse meanwhile, is aware of
the attention that his name evokes. During a tournament in
Wollongong earlier this year, he was chanted by the crowd
with the refrain, oh Poussey, we love you. Oh Poussey,
we love you. This is this man's normal name, so
(43:24):
we can't this is his surname as it's not his fault.
P U s e y. It's right there, it's and uh,
you know, you blame his grandfather for not switching it up,
or his dad could have easily made it something out.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
But the pousse is they've been. They kept with it.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Yeah, at what time?
Speaker 1 (43:50):
I do also wonder what year that that other word
became common parlance, you know, I bet you it's probably
nineteen fifties maybe.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Yeah, Because in the James d movie what is it,
rebel without a cause or whatever, the dad in that
of the girl James Dean likes calls his daughter as
like a nickname around the house, pussy like come here,
like like a cat.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
I just meant cat, It meant kidding cat. Yeah, So
it was in there.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
It was in movies in the fifties, so I would
say maybe the sixties. Yeah, But also tim, I mean
Pousey the magnet is so good. Yes, magnets and darts
don't have anything to do with each other, but man,
it's so good, poor guy. And also the dude's incredible
(44:49):
at darts. I do feel like it's a I get it.
But anyways, the World Championships are started on December eleventh
and run till January third, twenty twenty six. What defending
champion Litler? Yes, I think there are a lot of
darters defending champion champion Luke Littler. Littler is chasing it.
(45:11):
L I T T L e R. He should be
His nickname should be the Pousse. He should be Luke
Littler of the Pousse. And you know you could put,
you could do the math, but uh, you can run
the numbers. It just.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
All I can say is, if you've never seen live darts,
it is very fun to watch on YouTube. I was laughing,
just groaning and moaning and booing, and it's so fun.
I don't know if I've ever finished a game of darts,
now that we're saying this though, like I've thrown millions
of darts, but I don't know if I've ever played However,
(45:51):
many rounds you have to play to win at darts.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Hmmm.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Used to see it a lot in New York City.
You never see darts in La never but in New
except Tony's Darts Away. But other than that, it's it's
an East Coast sport. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
I think the last time I played it was on
Cape Cod. What is the name of that bar?
Speaker 2 (46:10):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (46:11):
And Falmouth. Oh, it's got a person's name and it's
a real fun dive. Oh, but they got two they
have two like slots, you know how they have like
the for proper darts playing. It's like slots where it's
like there's a walls on either side so you can't
actually throw it into anybody. And they were right next
to each other. Oh, it's not Barney's, but it's almost
(46:35):
like that. Grumpies that's the name of the bar.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
Great name for a bar.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
Isn't that a great name for a bar?
Speaker 2 (46:40):
Oh? Dude, that's the last time I played darts. Grumpies
is a great name for a dive bar.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
It's a great bar. Anybody on Cape Cod go to Grumpies.
It's a delight.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
When I was doing Red Bull and we had to
open up, they were trying to get Red Bull into
strip bars. They would send one guy and one gas
and we would go in together because they didn't want
two guys because they didn't want them sitting down and
getting a lap dance or something, and they didn't want
two women just in case it went a little sideways
with an owner of DJ. So they would always partner
(47:12):
me with all the other women on the team. We
would go open these accounts and they would give us
a list of like ten names, and you know, they're
all the names you've heard before, all the Spearmint Rhinos
and all the Gold Club and stuff. And we were
driving once and we were somewhere up in like upstate
New York or western western mass deep and I was like,
what's up next, and this girl Leanne goes, well, there's
(47:37):
this one we could stop at. It's called mister Uglies.
I was like, that's just the cruelest name for a
strip club I've ever heard. And we couldn't find it.
I don't think I don't think we ever did get
to mister Uglies. But by Joe, we tried.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
God, that's insane name.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
It's really insane.
Speaker 1 (47:56):
That's creepy to go like up in like to strip
clubs like in the middle nowhere.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
Yeah, it was fun. It was eye opening, honestly, it
was pretty uh I mean no, I saw some totally
insane things, but uh not everywhere. And also there, I'm
glad there's a place for for that to happen. And
for both sides, one gets money, one gets a view.
(48:25):
I mean, good for them.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Were you wearing like your little red Bull full red
Bull and your little red Bull backpacks that were like this,
we would yes, we would wear those in and red
Bulls in your backpack and.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
Ice cold well no, they shape their shaped like half cans.
They were cool. They were shaped like half cans. They
zip to the top, and we would go in and
one would have regular, one would have sugar free. And
you would walk in and you know, give one the
security guy right away, so the security guy would let
you in. Then you would go over to the DJ
and be like, hey man, we're sampling red bulls. We're
(49:02):
just handing these out because you guys are hard at work,
and he'd be like, oh for real, I heard of these.
They take it, and then we'd find the general manager
and they would always come out like guns blazing, like
what are you doing? Here and then you'd like, we're
just sampling. We just wanted to give you some, give
some to any of the dancers or whatever. And then
they would turn so quickly and be like, yeah, come
on in. You guys want to drink, you want something
(49:22):
to eat, and they would want to talk to you
about getting red bull in there. And then more than
one occasion, I would say seven or eight times, the
dancers would come over and request that we would place
them between their breasts, hand them to them while they
clutched a cold red bull with their boobs, say thank you,
(49:43):
and walk away. It happened. It happened more than five times,
I will say that, and you know, they could have
paid me a lot less. And it was very fun
to go in there and be like but the first
it happened, you're like, okay, and then like the third time,
you're like, I guess this is just a thing here, this.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Is just how it works.
Speaker 2 (50:07):
Just swag. Oh dude, that reminds me. I was. I
was talking to our buddy Steve, a good buddy of ours,
and I was he was like, what are you doing Halloween?
I'm like, I'm handing out candy. What are you doing
he's like, well, I'm gonna go this party if you
want to meet up. He's like, but then I'm going
to go to this leather bar in Los Angeles. It's
a It is for gay man and it's very good.
(50:31):
I go, why do they like decorate? Do they do
like a big haunted house thing at this gay bar?
And he goes, well, they do live butt painting. I
go yeah, he goes yeah. I was like, so you
don't come in with your butt already painted? And he's like, no, no, no,
You go up and you bend over or get on
all fours and then somebody paints your butt and then
(50:51):
there's judges and cheering and people and I'm like, God,
bless God, bless that bar.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
Is that fantastic?
Speaker 2 (50:59):
It sounds so fun. I'm so glad that exists. I was.
I was like, you know, you think of a pumpkin
right away, but then you're like, the possibilities are endless
in a gay leather bar. When bought painting competition's going on?
Will I ever attend? No? But will I ask Steve
what he saw? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (51:21):
I would I would attend. I would attend. I would
I want to see the artistry you know it's like reading.
I just come in and I just keep saying it's
for the articles. I'm here for the articles.
Speaker 2 (51:30):
Yeah, I'm filming this for the articles I write for
the Tungsten Tails.
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Thank you Scottie, Thank you KURTI b.
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You're ready, Scottie, I'm ready to laugh and laugh and laugh.
Oh this is very This doesn't have like a a
hot it doesn't have like a hot title. All right,
but I'm telling you it's good. Great. Why witches look
the way they do?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Why witches look the way they do? Interesting?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Just to peak the interest. The article itself is fascinating.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, all right, Well let's see what's brewing on this
episode of Bananas your world head? Would it not? Silient?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Pieces?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Would banana ba bad.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Guys, goals? Non binary pals. Welcome to Bananas. I'm kurb
Brown or.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I'm Banana Boy number two Scott Alanda. Thank you for
listening to the silliest little podcast whatever was. It's just
a little escape, a little bliss pit, a little oasis
in a mouthstrom of discontent. We come in and we're
here to cheer you up.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Hello. Hello, I'm I need some cheering up, Bud.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I need to say what happened?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I just dad, I'm currently I'm currently still at thirty Rock.
I have snuck into a office on the other side
of the building. I'm in a giant conference room. I
think there's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, ninth.
There's twenty five chairs around this conference table. That's how
big it is.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Awkward. Yeah, just right at the end of it, Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And snuck in here post post show pitch meeting. I
see that where I pitched my idea and it was
met with deafening silence. Yeah, oh, feeling in the world.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
It is off.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
You just gotta shake it off. It is one of
those things. It's just a part of the job.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Baby, Oh my god, you kidd me. I was I
was thinking about posting our I was thinking about posting
on Patreon our last eggsit pilot. I was trying to
figure out how to do that so people could read
because it's a really funny pilot that got rejected by
Adult Swim. We wrote it in lockdown, and I'm like, yeah,
trying to figure out the best way to so that
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people can just read what a losing pilot reads like.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It's such a good pilot.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah, I think I should post it. I'm going to
try to at least.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah. We have been doing crazy things on the Patreon recently.
It's been really really excellent. Scott He's been Scotty's been
posting his novella on the Rocks by rifle tampon men.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, one chapter at a time. It's so good chapter.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
It was so funny, man, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
It is like a delight to read every word, every
little line is a joke. It's so fun. You're so
good at it.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Thanks man. I appreciate that. But, uh, you know, falls
upon us now. We had Daylight Savings hit us hard.
Halloween was a big hit, the Dodgers won the World series.
There's a lot of good things happening.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Oh, there's a ton of good things.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Also.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I've been posting all of my rejected sketches from the
show on my patre on the Patreon and I think
it's it's open for all levels, so any level, as
long as you're paid, you can read the you can
read everything we're writing there. And it's a lot. It's
like every single day, new new writing is up. It's
pretty great fun.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, it's nice to have a platform for it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It is really nice to have a platform for it.
But yeah, Daylight Saving Time, how's it going. I forgot
that there is a difference between La Daylight Savings time
ending and New Jersey Daylight Savings time ending. It is, yeah,
dark at four forty five pm immediately immediately, and it's
going to get worse. It's crazy, you think.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
It hits me as hard as it hits anybody. For
some reason, it won't be today, but towards the end
of this week, I will just have one of those
like three anxious days, and I'll go, what's wrong? And
then I realized it's just my body. My circadian rhythms
still haven't caught up to do we need to keep
doing it? Can't we just end this crazy charade?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
But the question day sounds how do you end it?
The only way to like actually end it would be
always beyond this, always beyond standard, because otherwise it's dark
until like eight thirty am. Like that's cuckoo.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah that's true, you know for people.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So now that I'm getting up so early, it was shocking,
hot log I was up and before the sun came up.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I know, it's really a fascinating thing. But I went
over to Georgia and Vince's for Halloween.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Nice, Oh my god, so many kids, right, dude, I.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Had no because I used to do it at Memories
and at Water was always going off and really busy.
But where we were was so much crazier. They gave
Strawberry a clicker, like how a doorman has like a
counter for and it only did children, not parents, just
children who we physically gave candy to. And we ran
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out of candy at around eight thirty, after nine hundred
and seventy five children.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Nine hundred and seventy five. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Uh, it was a delight. It turns out I just
love handing candy to children at a house that I
don't live in.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It is the absolute was our first Halloween, and everyone
said like get ready, but it was like from whatever
five thirty to eight thirty, it was just three hours
of fifteen kids at a time.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, greed.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
So it was just like groups of fifteen and then
as they would walk away, another group of fifteen would
walk up. It was like so it was just like
boom boom boom, boom boom boom, no time to even
say what are you? Just happy, happy Halloween, Happy Halloween?
What are you?
Speaker 2 (06:25):
What are you? Yeah? There was a great jellyfish costume,
and then there was an extremely good the Little Ghosts
from pac Man. Somebody made a red one but it
was huge. It was like five feet tall and it
was wavy. It was made out of like cloth and
then had those big eyes looking in one direction and
it made me laugh. So I don't know if it
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was a boy or a girl underneath. I don't know
their age. I just know they stood about five feet
tall as a giant pac Man ghost. And I was like, damn,
that makes me so happy.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Oh that's great, and that's actually pretty funny. All you
need to do is get like a big like half
of a half a sphere, you know, styful thing, right,
put it on your head wear that has like a
little helmet, and then drape it over there with the
eyes on there. Light it up from the inside. That
would be awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I was over here. I was just I was laughing
and laughing. Man, I was a cowboy. I took it.
I was like, I'm going to be comfortable and I'm
gonna I'm going to dress up. But I was a
cowboy and I had half the supplies here. And then
I went to Creepy Halloween, which is like the new
version of Spirit Halloween, and I bought myself a cowboy
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hat and a fake suede jacket with tassels or whatever
they're called. Fringe.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Uh huh, looked great, nice fell out.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It felt warm, it was excellent. But speaking of costumes,
tell me about why witches look the way?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, this is like this is of course we're a
week late on this, right, should have done this last week,
but I just found it.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
So here it is.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
This was on this is this little website called Adventures
and Taste and Time. But I did see it on
an Instagram account earlier. So this is why witches looked
the way they do. There's a there's a really long
lead in who wrote it?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Who wrote this? It's the kind of person that would
do a deep dive into why witches look the way
they do?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah, all right here it is blah blah blah to
the whole intro. With that in mind, we are going
to talk about the secret history of witches and beer.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Fun.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
In medieval England, beer brewing was initially done in the
house and was seen as one of the many domestic
tasks for which women were solely responsible. Oh come on
the late Medieval Evil period, women began to share the brewing,
making large back of alance selling it. Then, in the
talent of the fourteenth century, following the first round of
the Black Death, the world began to change, grain became cheaper,
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people began living closer together in urban settings, and quality
of life increase. With these changes came an increase in
beer brewing ability and the rise of the alehouse.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
All right.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
While there were male brewers, the profession particularly appealed to
women brewing and selling beer. A trade known as tippling
or tapping, allowed women to work in a will paid profession.
Medieval England had a lot of restrictions that on what
professional work women were and were not allowed to do.
Brewing provided many with the income they could support themselves.
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They were known as ale wives.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Okay, that came from I always wondered.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah, alewife, right, and uh so then there's a picture
of an alewife and the hat is they look like
a witch. The alewife looks like a witch. And this
is like a like a cutting from whatever, fifteen hundreds
or something. Sure, hats, ale wives and tipplers were tall.
Hats sometimes pointed. The reason was simple marketing. It marked
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ale wives, so the profession made it easier for them
to bar keep for easier to find the bar keep
in order the next pint of ale. Then cats, Okay,
this one is pretty simple. Cats eat mice, Mice eat grain.
Can't make beer without grain. It was not uncommon for
brewers to keep cats around to keep the mice at
bay and protect their grain. Over the century, as many
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pets have been linked to accused witches as familiar as,
but the cats remain the most popular images. Cauldrons. To
make a batch of beer, you have to make a
large pot of wart. In the fifteenth century, and until
reasonably recently, large pots of anything were made in heavy
cauldrons set over a fire brooms to sink signal a
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batch of ale was complete. Ale wives would hang an
ale steak or ale poll out the window to pay.
On what you source, you look at the ale steak
was either a typical broom to symbolize domestic work, or
a branch with a bush or garland attached to the end.
Either way, it doesn't take a lot of imagination to
understand how that simply became a broom after one hundred years.
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And then, of course the church was unhappy that women
were holding down jobs, and so then that is where
we get the idea of a witch. It was just
a woman who was selling beer to people with a
cauldron and a cat around and a and a tall
hat and a broom. Isn't that fucking crazy?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
That's crazy? Because why did they turn into an evil thing?
They're the greatest thing I know.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
But it's because the church didn't want women working outside
of the home. And come on, church, the demon demon demonifying, demonifying, Yeah, demonification, demonization, demonization,
there's the word. He says, he's dumb, but he's smart, folks,
He's smart.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I got no brains. So as so women brewing beer
looked like modern witches, and so they.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
That is so that is where the idea of the
witch came from.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, if I that's a cool idea for opening a
bar that like a witch bar, a great idea. There's
a really fun bar in Baltimore in Fell's Point on
Fleet Street called al Mary's. And I always hit that
one when i'm leaving, when i'm you know, grabbing one
for the row, the old Lido shuffle, but that bar.
One time I was sitting in that bar and a
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guy walked in and the bartender just this dude just
yelled no. And then the guy left. His door swings
up in no, and the guy just turns around, and
I was like, man, I love Baltimore. Just don't try
that again in here where.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
When the first UCB opened upright, Citizens Brigade in nineteen
ninety nine in New York City was in a former
strip club and it was a very very seedy strip
club which apparently would be open until like seven, eight
nine in the morning. Fun And so for the first
year it was open, I would have class on Saturdays
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at from fucking nine to noon, which is so crazy, right,
and multiple times, and a creepy old man would come
back to like find some ladies and just see the
bunch of the biggest bunch of dorks improvising on stage.
And to the end when they were like come in,
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we're just like no, no believe because it would just
happen all the time.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, man, you can't stop a creep from lurk. And
you know, those guys get in there and it's funny
if you just sat down and watched some improv. If
he was like, no, I know, this is improv. I'm
here to have a great experience.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I get drunk and at nine am I wandered to
improv classes.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Did you ever you you taught a lot of improv?
Did you ever teach at a company, Like, did you
ever actually go into like a corporation.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
All the time?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That must have been so strange. Red Bull, Well, i've
met you again. I met you time too at Red
Bull actually, but did you ever go into an office
building and just have to be like, hey, guys, I'm
going to teach you, like in a conference room that
you're currently standing in or was it more on remote locations?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
It was always on like remote locations, but they would
be like ballrooms or they would be in a hotel
like that sort of thing. But I do remember once
getting hired. Kristin and I got hired to do a
show and uh, and it was a corporate gig and
we're getting paid I don't know, like two grands, you know,
like so it was like we're splitting two grand but
at that time that was like the most money we'd.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Ever made, Oh my god, and still great.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
And we go in to do the show and we're like,
there's no restrictions, like, no restrictions. We show up, it
is a fucking conference room. It's a conference room with
twelve people at it and they are at the conference
table and there's no drinks, there's no stage, there's nothing
there's just the end of the room.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
And then Christin and I just started doing our act.
I guess because we were like, this is what we're
supposed to do and I don't know, like five to
six minutes and we were supposed to do twenty minutes.
Five to six minutes in the woman who's sitting in
I want to say the front row, but it's not
the front row. It's just the chack chair at the
end of the table out loud just said, oh no,
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this is terrible. And then we had to continue performing
for another fifteen minutes after that.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
You wanted that money, Yeah, you get that money.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Cash that check fast enough, baby.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Oh no, this is terrible. Wait a second. It's something
I've seen, like stand up comedians when they have to
do like a small event and they don't have a microphone.
And there's something about a comic holding a mic versus
not like, of course, you could tell your material I
just you know it like the back of your hand.
But there's something about when a comic doesn't have a
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mic in that setting and they're just standing there talking
that it's so distracting to me. I stop listening to them.
It's like a totally different performance. Yeah, it's like a
life coach has entered the room or something instead of
a stand.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Up specific thing, isn't it. It's so strange.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Well, you had a you made me laugh years ago
because you said, why is every photo of improv comedy
of them driving? And it's so true. Whenever they show
a photo of like this improv theater, it's always one
person with hands on an imaginary steering wheel on a
chair and somebody standing or sitting next to them. They
only ever used driving photos.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
I think it's because all other scenes just look like
two people talking to each other.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yeah, that's right, that's exactly it. My gosh, I did
a Scotch and whiskey tasting speaking of improvisers with Matt
Oberg and Rich and Kristen. Wow, where did you do this,
Tam o' shanter.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Oh, oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
So there's a whiskey. I'm gonna look up the actual
name of this thing. It is the Scotch Malt Whiskey Society.
It started in Edinburgh and now it's here. And we
did a six taste and then they had a couple
of special bottles. But then the funniest part is is like,
I'm not a part of this society. I guess I
could join it now, but I was just visiting. They
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have somebody speak, and then they have another person speak,
and then they have a third person speak. But then
they also served a salad, and I was laughing so
hard at us. They served a salad and lasagna at
Tam o' shanter. For those who don't know Los Angeles,
this is a Lowry's restaurant, so like mostly it's prime
rib and medium mashed potatoes. And then they go around
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and the whole idea is you do blind taste test.
You drink each one, and then you write down the
flavor profile, You write down your own notes, and then
you try to guess the time frame the years like
three to five years, six to ten years, ten to
fifteen years of how long it was distilled and then
the distillery. And I got every single one so wrong
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that I was like, it made me enjoy it so
much more. And then by the sixth Scotch, you're a
little buzzed and you're having a little more fun and
booing the people who were telling you that it's this
this area, not this area, but everybody else was really
into it, like asking follow up questions, asking if they
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were sure it was from the distillery that they said
it was from.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
If they were sure, Yeah, so funny.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
We were smelling it and then this is one of
the leading gents that one of the people who knew
everything about it was like, and what flavors you guys
picking up on what notes? And we're all just scrambling
so hard. Like at one point Kristen said tires and
I know, and I just kept saying caramel. I was like,
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there's notes of caramel, and He's like, yeah, vanilla caramel.
I did tasted like whiskey. Different.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
It tastes like burning, like burning leather.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Absolutely, but it was fun and you know, I didn't
learn anything. I did eat some lasagna and I drank
six to eight scotches. And that's a fun night for everyone.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Yeah, oh that sounds a delight.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yes, speaking of a fun night for everyone, Reach in
the Darkness sent this one in. You can send your
stories to the podcast on Instagram and we might read
them and we'll say your name NBC News written by
this is a great name. Viola Flowers or Viola Flowers.
I love the name Viola Flowers, man convicted of posing
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as flight attendant did so to score one hundred and
twenty free flights.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Okay, posing as flight attendant.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah, got on one hundred and twenty free flights. Wow.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Because you also have to get past security. You have
to do a lot, you have to do just doing
this to just go places.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
This guy's going places. You can't take him anywhere, but
he's going places. Tieran, I'm going Tierran all right. Tierran Alexander,
thirty five years young, was convicted of wire fraud and
entering secure areas of airports under false pretenses by the
Justice Department on Tuesday. The man who posed as a
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flight attendant for four different airlines scammed one hundred and
twenty free flights over the course of many years. The
US Attorney's Office blah blah blah and Southern Florida announced
on Tuesday. Tierran was convicted on June fifth of entering
the secure area of an airport under false pretenses. We're
just repeating ourselves at this point. Federal prosecutors said that
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between twenty and twenty twenty four, Alexander book free flights
six glorious years. Wow, high flying years with this guy.
Tiran Alexander. He booked free flights only available to pilots
and flight attendants on air airline carriers websites. The application
process required applicants to provide their employer, date of hire
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and badge number. So he did. Alexander flew thirty four
times with that first airline, claiming to be a flight attendant,
falsifying employment with seven different airlines and submitting about thirty
different badge numbers.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Wait, did he just make the badge numbers up?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
How did he fight? I think so. I think he
just would either look at people or yeah, I think
he was just making them up.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Wow, that's so.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I don't think they were verifying them. The TSA, the
Transportation Security Administration, investigated the case. You know, the TSA
gets a lot of guff, but I bet there are
a lot of good people just trying to do a
very good job. Of course, when you're around bad ones,
like when I think it's like terminal by terminal airline. Yeah,
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there was one in Logan Airport in Boston. The whole group.
Just if I was powerful enough, I would have made
the phone call and got them all immediately fired, sacked
on the spot, and then you go to another one
where somebody's like nice and helpful and they don't yell
at you and make you feel like an Idiot's yeah,
I'm sure a lot of TSA people are trying to
do a good job. Here we go. The evidence at
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trial showed that Alexander pose as a flight attendant on
three other airline characters. Ultimately, Alexander booked more than one
hundred and twenty free flights by falsely claiming to be
a flight attendant. The indictment from October stated he had
worked for an airline headquartered in Dallas in twenty fifteen,
but was never a pilot nor a flight attendant. Public
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defenders representing Alexander did not immediately respond NBC News, Yes,
that makes sense, So the TSA said the statement that
while Alexander was able to board flights by fraudently obtaining
boarding passes, he underwent all applicable TSA screening procedures, so
he was screened to get through, including ID verification and
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physical screening. He did not pose a threat to other
airline passengers. Sure, I mean sure, yes, Obviously he could
have done it.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
On vacation.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Dude, just had to get to Phoenix. He wanted to
go to TP get some Mexican food.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
He just loves catch me if you can. But he
didn't want to be a pilot.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
No, didn't. Yeah, I know sometimes when people do this
level of scamming, you just go just become a pilot.
It would have been easier and shorter, or just.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Become an airline attendant.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
You know, great job, right, great job. TSA remains dedicated
to security of the flying public and would continue to
support the prosecution. Blah blah blah. According to the indictment,
the maximum sentence twenty years in prison, but it could
be plus ten years for entering secure airport areas under
false pretenses. Bah bah bah. He might have a two
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hundred and fifty thousand dollars fine if found guilty. All right,
so he flew too close to the sun. He could
have probably gotten away with one hundred and eighteen. But
these guys, they can ever give it up.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
That is I mean, like when six years of doing it,
it feels like you're never gonna get caught, right.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Yeah, I know. And if you can just enter gobbledygook numbers,
flight numbers or you know, licenses, it's like who cares
if your badge number is whatever you want it to
be and it works. That seems like a system flaw.
This guy should get hired by the TS.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Sounds like a delight.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
You know. Our friend Flula Flula lost his passport once
and was able to fly back from Europe to America
without a passport just by he had other documentation. But
then they went online and saw that he was who
he said he was online. What. Yes, this was a
couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
I'm assuming it.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Was probably like twenty fifteen, toy sixteen, because we put
it in a pitch and everybody believed us, and then
he'd be like, no, this really did happen to me.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I love mm hmm. That's I know, pretty fascinating. Have
you ever befriended a flight attendant, like on a flight,
like going back and forth for a job or anything.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
No, you I'm sure, yes, I'm sure you have.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
But and I wonder if she still listens to or
if she listens to bananas. If you do, Tamra say, hey, uh,
I was flying back and forth between New York and
LA a lot for a couple jobs, and I was
always sitting in the same seat and one time that
flight attendant was like, you fly a lot? Huh? I
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was like yes, And she's like, do you listen to
any podcasts? I was like, have you heard the Ceial podcast?
And it was when Cereal is brand new? She listened
to it in between the flight, loved it. And then
every time I would fly after that, she would just
pass me airplane bottles of Tito's every time she walked by.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
So shout out to Tammy. Tamera text me if you
still have my number. You were a very nice person
and I'm glad to know you.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Oh I love that. I love that so much.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Yes, a lot of flying. It was. It was the
same flight and she just always hooked it up. So
it was a wonderful experience. Nice and some thumbs.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
You know, I do clinicians test but breathing in early study.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
I I hope they do. I hope, I hope they do.
I hope it would make snorkeling so much easier if
just just mask only no snorkel, but just just gasping
from my bottom. Here we go. Sarah wants to thumb
her brother Ben way up. Ben is a packaging engineer
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for Sharman and he spent the last year of his
life helping bring seventeen hundred Sheet Forever rolls to us.
All I got my forever role. You actually get two
roles in the package. It makes me wonder why all
toilet paper rolls aren't this big. It's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
You need a big enough bathroom though for it.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
It's yeah, this is a bigger than a vinyl record.
I would say it's but it comes with so if
you buy this is not an ad. God, I wish
we were sponsored by Sharman. What I wouldn't give. It
comes with its own stand and then two seventeen hundred
Sheet Forever roles that are supposed to last one month
per role.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Okay, and so far, what's the report?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Oh, it's gonna blow past a month. I'm stretching this thing.
This is gonna be six week or no doubt about it. Sharman,
if you want to sponsor us. I once told a
story about being so partied out and so hungover and
trying to put my life back together after an absolute rager.
In the next morning, I turned on the TV and
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one of your Sharman commercials came on and an animated
bear helped its animated bear cup up into a tree
and I just started crying. I was so emotionally raw wrecked.
I just burst into tears. So thumbs up to Ben,
thank you for helping pack Charman. Yeah on behalf of
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Butt's everywhere, We salute you. Emily G wants to thumb
herself way way up for graduating with a master's in
school counseling. That's nice. It took Emily G three point
five years, three and a half years, and she's currently
working as a middle school counselor. Great job. Combs up
to Emily G. Keep up the great work, keep those
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kids in line, you know. And last, but not least,
our good friend mcken Lottie is thumbing herself up. But
she's also but we're also giving her a mega thumbs up, Kurt.
After Mackenzie's husband had passed away, she drank, she said,
for five hundred and ninety five days straight to deal
with the grief and pain. Then she decided, I need
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to stop. The Dry sixty nine was the only thing
she grasped onto in the beginning. Wow, she completed the
Dry sixty nine and it was so good and so easy.
She decided to continue and has not had a single
drink since nice thanks to the Banana Boys. She's sober
and dealing with the grief and accepting her new reality.
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I mean, thumbs up to you, Mackenzie.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Wonderful thumbs up, thumbs up, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
We sent her a sticker. Do your doing great? That's
all I got, all right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
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Speaker 2 (30:01):
Correct a mundo.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Clinicians test butt breathing in early study. This is for
MedPage Today.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Oh dude, how many times a day are you reading
MedPage Today?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
You know I've I've emailed them many times asking that
we could If there's a possibility to get at MedPage hourly,
that would be good because I can't wait till the
next day because I clear them all out by eight am.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Yeah. I agree. I took an Oculus rift and I
put two kaleidoscopes inside of it, and then I plugged
it directly into my computer because when MedPage Today is
an option, I want it. Three hundred and sixty five
degrees times kaleidoscope numbers because I don't want to miss
(30:48):
a single letter of their great reporting exactly.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
And of course the best reporter at MedPage today is
Randy do TINGA Randy DOTINGA thank you, biz BABYZ.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
This just came out.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
This just came out. Young men, Yeah, tolerated the anal
admission administration of a liquid. This is a real MedPage
young men tolerated the anal administration of a liquid with
high capacity for oxygenation in a Phase L law trial
from Japan. A dose of good news for researchers for
(31:26):
developing a rectal ventilation system for patients in respiratory failure.
Uh So, the the takeaway here is that it's an
enema with that with highly oxygenated liquid. Sign up and
they can. They fill you up, They fill you up,
(31:47):
and they keep you and they keep it for sixty
minutes and you don't need to breathe because you're getting
all the oxygen you need through your butt.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Fantastic.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, it's pretty great. There's no chance you'll be snorkeling
with a tube out your butthole anytime soon. Scott. Oh,
you know, I like a challenge, but Takebe says his
project was inspired by a freshwater bottom dwelling fish known
as the loach and other aquatic creatures that can breathe
(32:19):
through their intestines. He and his team discovered the unique
biological talents of the loach and its counterparts when they
were searching during the COVID nineteen pandemic for weird animals
who can take up oxygen in better ways than we do.
The rectum could be used to deliver medication and nutrition,
but Tacave's team faced a big question. If oxygen could
be delivered through the rectum, how could it work. So
(32:41):
this dude figured it all out. Enter pu per fluoro decylene,
a clear liquid of supero superhero like powers to carry oxygen.
While water can dissolve about ten milli liters of oxygen
per lid per pure florodcylne can pack in four hundred
to five hundred milli liters per leader. The liquid has
(33:01):
already used an eye surgery. It's completely indistinguished from water,
though it's a little heavier because it's got all that
but juice on it. But that's what's happening with the
UH with butt research today.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
You know, we live in a time where innovation, Like
when we were kids, the idea of having like a
radio on your watch, like Dick Tracy, they would call
Dick Tracy. And now we all have smart watches that
you can literally make phone calls, emails.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
And you can play the ratio on it if you
wanted to. But most people haven't even figured out that
that's something it could do.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
It can do that. I recently found out that my
smart thermostat has a Bluetooth speaker when it accidentally just
started playing music and I couldn't figure out what speaker
was coming from my thermostat.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Your thermostat has a speaker.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yes, I was in the kitchen is trying to listen
to some rock and tunes and it connected and then
started playing somewhere in my house and I was walking
around checking, putting my hands on the speakers to feel vibrations,
and it was coming from my thermostat.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
That's so crazy.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Why it's an ego B and I don't know. I
have no clue. But also, like you know, when you
would watch science fiction in the seventies, eighties, and nineties,
they would always have like screens that you could touch
and adjusting now iPads are boring. People don't even use
People have them and don't even use them.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
They don't even use them. I can whenever I go
and look at the like go to get on the
Wi Fi at my house, my fridge has a Wi
Fi signal. I don't know why my fridge has a
Wi Fi signal, you know, like I understand if you're
if it just connects somehow to doing some things, but
for it to be putting out a Wi Fi signal
that seems to be inviting trouble.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
That seems not so good.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
No, it doesn't, and why do you what do you
want to connect to the fridge for?
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Well, Also, Samsung has refrigerators and they I got sent
the story by a bunch of animals, but they're going
to run ads on your refrigerator And you're like, no, no.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
That's what my kindle does. I have a kindle. It's
like because I bought the cheaper version of the kindle,
so then it just shows me ads for other books
that I will never read on the front of the kindle.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
All of this is to say, my whole life, I've
wanted them to invent something that we've seen in many
science fiction and fantasy things, which is just you put
a thing over your nose and mouth and it converts
the oxygen in the water so you can just swim
like a fish. And definitely we're pulling off these amazing things.
We have rocket ships landing and getting caught by chopsticks.
(35:47):
We have cars that you can come drive to you.
We have all kinds of things. Can't we figure out
the permanent underwater aquaman mouth nose breathing thing that without
putting hyperoxygaded chemicals up your butt. This seems like we're
focusing on the wrong end of the problem.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
But if they can ever pull this off, it'll be amazing.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
It will be so incredible.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
People will die constantly. If you if it's just unfettered
a popimp about and a jump in the ocean, dying
left ahead right.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Boat strikes alone, but then boat strikes alone. Oh my gosh,
it's gonna be insane. But you're not wrong. I'm just
saying we've figured out so many of these seemingly impossible things,
and that one now we're just pumping bumping bum bums
up with super air, And I'm like, I don't know,
(36:50):
I think we can do better. Everyone got better. Rebecca
Johnson sent this in Whoa all the way up in
England near the tan Hill Inn. I know that.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
I mean I know her from online.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
That's how we that's how we roll. I'm gonna tell
you the news source and it's gonna tip what this
story is about. But this was in Darts News Darts
written by Lucas Michael.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Are you talking about darts? The game in the bottom?
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Darts? The game Bullseye Kurt Darts News written by Best
in the Darting Biz Michael Lucas. No Lucas Michael.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Lucas, Michael No.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
I I always dig extra deep on these kind of
stories because I wanted to make sure I got the darter.
First off, they're called darters, so not dart thrower, dart player, darter, darters.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Okay, Australia d'artagnan's that would have been a better name
for him on guard.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Absolutely Australian darter. And this is what I looked up.
Tim Pouse darred from using the nickname the Magnet at
World Darts Championships, is banned from using the nickname the Magnet.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Mister Pussy can't be called the magnet.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Tim the Magnet Pousse or Tim Pousse the Magnet or
Tim the Pousse Magnet is not allowed to be called
the Magnet. Now this guy is also excellent, So Australian
darter Tim Pousse may not use his nickname the Magnet
during the PDC World Darts Championship. The organization has asked
(38:37):
the thirty three year old player to choose a new
pseudonym as his current nickname combined with his surname, it
is considered, it says ambiguous, but that's not what it's
considered anyway.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Whose nickname comes at the end of their full name?
No One? No one's nickname, Well, I guess Scotti Land
is Banana number two.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Yeah, I'm a trendsetter. Me and Tim Pousse are hanging out.
Uh Pousse, who's secured participation in September by winning the
Australian Darts Association Tour standings. I mean this guy's good
at what he does. He's a magnet. I mean those
darts hit the board like magnet.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Like it's got a magnet in it.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
Indicated in conversation with Tungsten Tales that he understands the decisions.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Is that a person or a magazine I don't know.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
I don't know that if there's a.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Person named Tungsten Tas who just covers darts, is that's
faring amaze Tungsten Tales in conversation with mister Pussy about his.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Dark great words down there.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
This is awesome.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
I hope it is just a guy. It's a woman
named Tungsten Tales.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Tungsten Tales is such a good name. M h oh,
is it t a l e s yes, Okay, it's
probably tales about tungsten.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
He says. I don't have a nickname. I don't have
that nickname on my jersey, says Poose. I'll have to
come up with a new one. Maybe I'll let the
fans vote. It's chicky because anything could be taken the
wrong way right now. I don't have a nickname. And
the songs in the stands can be quite colorful. So
I was watching this guy play darts. Uh huh. The
(40:21):
fans at live dart events are yelling and cheering and
booing and screaming, and it it looks like the most
fun you can have watching a sporting event. Also, while
they're throwing darts, not like in between rounds, they're just
going like oh, randomly. Oh, it makes me want to
go to a dart championship.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Yeah. Because also it's like it just takes place inside
a loud bar. You have to you've come up playing darts,
not with a perfect silence.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Right, yes. And the announcer because I was trying to
get how they say poose right, and they the announcers
were saying the other competitors last name, saying brown, older, brown, old,
the brown oler, oh, constantly and then they would get
to old Tim and they were avoiding it so much.
(41:09):
But it is Pousse in let's go here we go.
So the nickname the Magnet sounds innocuous, but when combined
with Pouse's last name, it leads to the pun that
the PDC would rather avoid. On the world stage, the
league has more often in the past been guarded against
limits of decency regarding nicknames. In twenty twenty three, Owen
(41:31):
Bates was banned from using his nickname The Master for
similar reasons. Darts you are a bar sport. You gotta
get dirty. Nobody cares dirty.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Nobody.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
There aren't eight year old kids there, and if there are,
that's on you.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Yeah. Also, are there eight year old kids watching darts.
Are they actually? Honestly, my kids would watch.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Darts, they'd probably watched yeah, darts.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Yeah, seems like it's easy to follow.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Yes, she just keep hitting the board and the score
comes down and then you win. But it does make
me want to go to Australian Dart Champion, the Australian
Darts Association Tour, like this event is it's wild, man,
It's it's crazy. Uh. The issue has led to humorous
reactions outside of the dart world. Former ranger striker Ali McCoist.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Of course, of course, I.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Said famous ranger striker right away. Your first thought was
Ali McCoist.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, definitely wasn't What's what? What are all
the words?
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Yeah? What is a ranger? Striker? Soccer? Maybe striker?
Speaker 1 (42:40):
It makes me think it's of hockey.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
It could be oh yeah, could be or just so
who knows. We'll never know. But Ali McCoys knows that
he got involved in the discussion. During his broadcast on
Talk Sport, he should keep that nickname. Come on, it's
the best nickname there is, McCoy said, where's your sense
of humor? Darts people?
Speaker 1 (42:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Getting hot over there exactly. Pousse meanwhile, is aware of
the attention that his name evokes. During a tournament in
Wollongong earlier this year, he was chanted by the crowd
with the refrain, oh Poussey, we love you. Oh Poussey,
we love you. This is this man's normal name, so
(43:24):
we can't this is his surname as it's not his fault.
P U s e y. It's right there, it's and uh,
you know, you blame his grandfather for not switching it up,
or his dad could have easily made it something out.
Speaker 1 (43:43):
But the pousse is they've been. They kept with it.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Yeah, at what time?
Speaker 1 (43:50):
I do also wonder what year that that other word
became common parlance, you know, I bet you it's probably
nineteen fifties maybe.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Yeah, Because in the James d movie what is it,
rebel without a cause or whatever, the dad in that
of the girl James Dean likes calls his daughter as
like a nickname around the house, pussy like come here,
like like a cat.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
I just meant cat, It meant kidding cat. Yeah, So
it was in there.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
It was in movies in the fifties, so I would
say maybe the sixties. Yeah, But also tim, I mean
Pousey the magnet is so good. Yes, magnets and darts
don't have anything to do with each other, but man,
it's so good, poor guy. And also the dude's incredible
(44:49):
at darts. I do feel like it's a I get it.
But anyways, the World Championships are started on December eleventh
and run till January third, twenty twenty six. What defending
champion Litler? Yes, I think there are a lot of
darters defending champion champion Luke Littler. Littler is chasing it.
(45:11):
L I T T L e R. He should be
His nickname should be the Pousse. He should be Luke
Littler of the Pousse. And you know you could put,
you could do the math, but uh, you can run
the numbers. It just.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (45:28):
All I can say is, if you've never seen live darts,
it is very fun to watch on YouTube. I was laughing,
just groaning and moaning and booing, and it's so fun.
I don't know if I've ever finished a game of darts,
now that we're saying this though, like I've thrown millions
of darts, but I don't know if I've ever played However,
(45:51):
many rounds you have to play to win at darts.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Hmmm.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Used to see it a lot in New York City.
You never see darts in La never but in New
except Tony's Darts Away. But other than that, it's it's
an East Coast sport. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
I think the last time I played it was on
Cape Cod. What is the name of that bar?
Speaker 2 (46:10):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (46:11):
And Falmouth. Oh, it's got a person's name and it's
a real fun dive. Oh, but they got two they
have two like slots, you know how they have like
the for proper darts playing. It's like slots where it's
like there's a walls on either side so you can't
actually throw it into anybody. And they were right next
to each other. Oh, it's not Barney's, but it's almost
(46:35):
like that. Grumpies that's the name of the bar.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
Great name for a bar.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
Isn't that a great name for a bar?
Speaker 2 (46:40):
Oh? Dude, that's the last time I played darts. Grumpies
is a great name for a dive bar.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
It's a great bar. Anybody on Cape Cod go to Grumpies.
It's a delight.
Speaker 2 (46:51):
When I was doing Red Bull and we had to
open up, they were trying to get Red Bull into
strip bars. They would send one guy and one gas
and we would go in together because they didn't want
two guys because they didn't want them sitting down and
getting a lap dance or something, and they didn't want
two women just in case it went a little sideways
with an owner of DJ. So they would always partner
(47:12):
me with all the other women on the team. We
would go open these accounts and they would give us
a list of like ten names, and you know, they're
all the names you've heard before, all the Spearmint Rhinos
and all the Gold Club and stuff. And we were
driving once and we were somewhere up in like upstate
New York or western western mass deep and I was like,
what's up next, and this girl Leanne goes, well, there's
(47:37):
this one we could stop at. It's called mister Uglies.
I was like, that's just the cruelest name for a
strip club I've ever heard. And we couldn't find it.
I don't think I don't think we ever did get
to mister Uglies. But by Joe, we tried.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
God, that's insane name.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
It's really insane.
Speaker 1 (47:56):
That's creepy to go like up in like to strip
clubs like in the middle nowhere.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
Yeah, it was fun. It was eye opening, honestly, it
was pretty uh I mean no, I saw some totally
insane things, but uh not everywhere. And also there, I'm
glad there's a place for for that to happen. And
for both sides, one gets money, one gets a view.
(48:25):
I mean, good for them.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Were you wearing like your little red Bull full red
Bull and your little red Bull backpacks that were like this,
we would yes, we would wear those in and red
Bulls in your backpack and.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
Ice cold well no, they shape their shaped like half cans.
They were cool. They were shaped like half cans. They
zip to the top, and we would go in and
one would have regular, one would have sugar free. And
you would walk in and you know, give one the
security guy right away, so the security guy would let
you in. Then you would go over to the DJ
and be like, hey man, we're sampling red bulls. We're
(49:02):
just handing these out because you guys are hard at work,
and he'd be like, oh for real, I heard of these.
They take it, and then we'd find the general manager
and they would always come out like guns blazing, like
what are you doing? Here and then you'd like, we're
just sampling. We just wanted to give you some, give
some to any of the dancers or whatever. And then
they would turn so quickly and be like, yeah, come
on in. You guys want to drink, you want something
(49:22):
to eat, and they would want to talk to you
about getting red bull in there. And then more than
one occasion, I would say seven or eight times, the
dancers would come over and request that we would place
them between their breasts, hand them to them while they
clutched a cold red bull with their boobs, say thank you,
(49:43):
and walk away. It happened. It happened more than five times,
I will say that, and you know, they could have
paid me a lot less. And it was very fun
to go in there and be like but the first
it happened, you're like, okay, and then like the third time,
you're like, I guess this is just a thing here, this.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Is just how it works.
Speaker 2 (50:07):
Just swag. Oh dude, that reminds me. I was. I
was talking to our buddy Steve, a good buddy of ours,
and I was he was like, what are you doing Halloween?
I'm like, I'm handing out candy. What are you doing
he's like, well, I'm gonna go this party if you
want to meet up. He's like, but then I'm going
to go to this leather bar in Los Angeles. It's
a It is for gay man and it's very good.
(50:31):
I go, why do they like decorate? Do they do
like a big haunted house thing at this gay bar?
And he goes, well, they do live butt painting. I
go yeah, he goes yeah. I was like, so you
don't come in with your butt already painted? And he's like, no, no, no,
You go up and you bend over or get on
all fours and then somebody paints your butt and then
(50:51):
there's judges and cheering and people and I'm like, God,
bless God, bless that bar.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
Is that fantastic?
Speaker 2 (50:59):
It sounds so fun. I'm so glad that exists. I was.
I was like, you know, you think of a pumpkin
right away, but then you're like, the possibilities are endless
in a gay leather bar. When bought painting competition's going on?
Will I ever attend? No? But will I ask Steve
what he saw? Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (51:21):
I would I would attend. I would attend. I would
I want to see the artistry you know it's like reading.
I just come in and I just keep saying it's
for the articles. I'm here for the articles.
Speaker 2 (51:30):
Yeah, I'm filming this for the articles I write for
the Tungsten Tails.
Speaker 1 (51:37):
Folks, thank you for listening to this episode of Bananas.
Thank you Scottie, Thank you KURTI b.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
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be nice to everybody. Bananas had a susaphone element to it.
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Speaker 2 (52:03):
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