August 5, 2025 • 47 mins
Kurt and Scotty talk about Chuck E. Cheese being handcuffed and arrested, NYC nut job busted for naked boat joyride, a man who posed as an ambassador and ran fake embassy and balls out bowling!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott, are you ready?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm ready to laugh and laugh and laugh.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Chuck e Cheese handcuffed and arrested in Florida. You know
I was, you know I had to do this.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It was that this one a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I mean, it's a perfect banana story.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Uh it is Uh and throw your hands in the
air Charlie Fromage Style for a brand new, beautiful episode
of Bananas.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Still World.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Would you believe.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Your mizillion pieces?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Would you be banana banana, banana banas, banana.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Bana guys, gowns, non binary pals, Welcome to Bananas. I
am kerk Brown Older.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm banana boy number two. Scottis sometimes Champagne Sktylandis. Thank
you for listening to the silliest little podcast there ever was.
It's strange news, it's stories. Sometimes we have guests and
sometimes we don't have guests, like this episode, which is
just all about male friendship.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I would like to apologize to everyone if my audio
sounds echoey. I had created the perfect little studio in
this area in my apartment with a lot of pillows.
Oh and ten feet away from my perfect little studio,
(01:37):
I was getting six under megs a second and then
right from my computer. I was getting under one megasecond
and guys, it was the pillows. I took the pillows away,
and now I'm getting five hundred megs a second and
now our connection is perfect.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, your smooth operator over there, and you got I
wonder what is in these pillows? Are they backing lead
into the pillows in New Jersey?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That is amazing. It's like we don't understand Wi Fi
at all, and it's just like, oh, it's just if
you put some pillows around it, yes, nobody will be
able to contact.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
You, no, sir. I yeah, I'm like Internet to me,
all things Wi Fi, even speed you said six hundred
megabits or whatever. It's the equivalent of when dudes pop
the hood of a car and we look at the
engine and it's like, unless something has a small flame
coming from it, I cannot identify the problem ever at all.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You just reboot the router, right beal?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, every damn time, I barely known't to do anything.
I could change a car tire. I could definitely do that.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I can do that. It's annoying, it is.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I think we have a listener. She's a friend, Christine Cox.
I went to high school with her, and one night
I was randomly driving home very cold night. Look over
on the side of the road. There she is with
a flat.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Tire recently or not recently, oh got.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Twenty years ago. And I gave her a ride home.
But it was like one of those moments prephones where
you're like, I just really save somebody's night. You know, no,
there's no rescue. You just have to wait there and
like trying to gabody down.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh, a creepy stranger down and hope they're not a
terrible person.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, so she can steady, Yeah exactly. We're still friends.
She's a great get that.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
That's nice. How's how's your week, buddy? We're recording Friday.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I've had such a fun week. So pitching is now
somehow back in person. So I pitched yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Are you joking?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
No, first movie. I've pitched on my own in person
since twenty nineteen. So that's fun to Dusty Field, the
old pitch and rust. But tonight I'm going to the
Orange County Fair. Oh yeah, maybe we need a corn dog,
We need some ribbon fries.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Oh yeah, Orange County gets real country faish, real fans do.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
It's very big. You know it is a little too corporate.
I would say there used to be a time. Yeah,
it is like when we were kids. And this is
not to sound like dinosaurs, but like you'd go to
a fair and the booth so it would be like
Johnson's frozen lemonades, and then it'd be like the whole
Johnson family work and their thing, Mom, Paul. John's not
(04:16):
like that, no, man, some big conglomerates scooped up the
big ones and like every sign looks the same every
It's like, it's very interesting.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
That's crazy because I went to the Strawberry Fair in
Ventura County and it was still straight up exactly how
I remember that. Like one one thing was just like
a dude was just like you want to make a
pie eyed T shirt?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You come on over like that.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
And it was just a dude with some buckets and
some shirts and kids were like swarming him. The kids
still wear their tied eye T shirt, the perfect tied
eye T shirt.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Do I ever tell a story about the spin doctors
at the Green Mountain Festival?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I know you did it.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I can't believe.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I can't believe that has been five years and you
have a spin Doctor story that I have not heard.
I'm just crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
This was college years and I believe it was called
the Green Mountain Festival in Vermont. It was just a
kind of a crappy music and crafts festival and on
not on the main stage, one of the daytime, second
or third stages. The Spin Doctors who had hits in
the early nineties and then this would have been two
thousand and one.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Probably how fast. How fast people forget how big the
Spin Doctors were. I mean the Spin Doctor was probably
huge in nineteen ninety four, right, yeah, and then by
two thousand and one seven. That is how fast it
goes folks. Yeah, if you ever have anybody in your
life who gets popular in the entertainment industry and you're like, oh,
that person's a jerk. Now, don't worry.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It will fade.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
There's years there's five or six people who have just
continued their meteoric rise. Somebody else's has a mountain that
they climb and then slide out on the butt.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Correct and they For those who don't know, the Spin
Doctors were sort of like an all poppy rock band.
They had two real hits. They had Little Miscamp Be Wrong,
and two princes and then they had some crappier B sides.
I also have to shout out my friend John Green,
who listens to the podcast, who was when I met
him in college, a very die hard Spin Doctors fan.
(06:25):
And the thing about that is, yeah, I love something
back then. So much judgment these days keep going because
you went you went to college in two thousand, Massachusetts. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
So by two thousand, the Spin Doctors were definitively not cool.
They're playing them, They were playing the second stage in
the morning time.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
You honestly may have been the third stage of the stages. Basically,
if you can imagine a carpet, then lift that carpet
three feet I mean three inches off the ground and
then stand on it. That's kind of what it was.
It was. But anyways, oh they're playing some they're jam
and a lot of jam bands at this fest.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
And I respect your friend for really being into the
spind on two thousand, Like that's amazing to just be like,
now I'm sticking with them.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I have a feeling I'm going to get a text
after this episode drops that even in twenty twenty five,
he's still sticking as he should. But so you know,
you kind of walk around these festivals, and you know,
back then it was like people smoking weed. Like now
it's just legal so many places, but back then people
like sneak over and smoke weeds. So some of my
friends are doing that. People are making jewelry, people are
(07:32):
making dream catchers. People have devil sticks still, like devil.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Sticks is huge. Yeah, maybe some people are lighting them
on fire a little bit. Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I mean, why not, let's have fun. We're outside, it's
more outside.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
It's Vermont. There's no les. Ernie Sanders is the whatever. Governor.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah, he's the senator. And is he still the same?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I think he was like the mayor and then the
governor and then the senator.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Vermonters, don't judge me. I don't know about you.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
We love Vermont, great state, one of the greatest states.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
People say, the most happy state.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, because there's nobody there. It's empty and beautiful. It's
natural beauty and it's empty.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
It's really beautiful. Last time I was there, I was like,
I gotta get used to this.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, I'd be happy too if it was mostly just
woods and animals around me.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It was like yeah, But then also you could go
to Burlington and pretty much have access to like very
good food, Like it's very good food in Burlington. Anyway,
keep going and it's okay.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
So they play through their set and I like that
kind of thing. I like seeing bands past their prime.
I went and saw the hip hop act Naughty by
Nature UMass. They played in front of a van and
got very real at the end. They're like, Yo, we've
got Grammys, we've sold dis May records, we've toured around
the world, but honestly, U Mass, this is the biggest
show we're going to play this year. And it was
(08:48):
like three or four hundred of us standing out in
the field while they played. Oh It's the best, And
my friend Franco and I went to that one. It
was also one of my favorite hip hop shows ever.
They gave us all the hits in front of a
conversion van and then probably drove it back to New
York or New Jersey wherever they live. But they were like,
oh wait, this was in a field.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
They just literally like drove like a cube truck up, yeah,
up in front of it.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yeah, exactly, not even a cube truck, a conversion van.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
When you say a conversion van. I don't know what
you mean.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Remember in the eighties and nineties there were vans that
families would have that had like sofas and stuff in
the back, like two captain's chairs. Yeah TV a van.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, fancy, that's how I am man, That's how I
imagine a vant so, not.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
An eighteen passenger van. A van that has like that
wrap around seating in the back. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's
one of those. So they opened up two doors. The
DJ stood in front of those, and Tretch and the
other guy wrapped in front of those for awesome two
hundred to four hundred confused white kids.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And they do have the Grammys. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
They were huge, gigantic.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I can't believe that that was anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
It's my favorite thing. I love all these I love
seeing the roback bands, and so I'm like, I'll go
check out Doctors and they're on stage and they're singing
songs I don't know, and then they get to sort
of their last you know, they're up there forty minutes.
It's time, and so they're gonna bring out the bangers
and they were gonna close.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
With so they also because they're not they're not like
the last band, they don't get an encore.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
No, honestly, they probably unplugged, stepped three inches down into
the grass and went and got a soda. But right
before he sung, he goes, uh and I don't know
about you guys, but this one sure got me laid.
(10:42):
I think I've been laughing about that for twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I don't know that this is so funny. Imagine if someone
in the audience was like, this one got me laid too,
that's great.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I also got laid to two princes. Oh man, what
a what an innocent The nineties are so fascinating, and
I know, like a lot of times when I'm pitching
stuff now people young people are like nineties fashion jen
Alpha gen Z. They're into it, very throwbacky stuff. But yeah,
the first half of the nineties, all the songs, at
(11:15):
least for like rock and pop, We're so happy. I mean,
it was bands singing about just how happy they are,
how awesome it is that Communism's over. Just happy, happy time.
And then the back half of the nineties is new metal.
People just hit each other's guts. It was like Gagster
(11:37):
Rapid really just gone to this whole other place, and
it was just such a weird thing that in ten
years it went from like Rusted Root to Limp Biscuit.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
What a time to be alive, I mean, but the
thing is is that you probably wouldn't have had Limp Biscuit.
And I hope everybody really pronounces that z when they
say it, yeah with Rusted Route without counting crows. I
think people were just like, we got we can't have
all counting crows all the time. It was like that
time with the Lumineers. Remember when the Lumineers and Mumford
(12:11):
and Son had like every song on the radio. It
was un bearable because first time you heard that Mumford
and Son song, you're like, this is a really good song.
And then the five thousandth time you heard it and
the five hundred bands that came out that sounded exactly
like it was like it was insane. It was really
an awful time and white people music it was.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
It was sixpence done the Richer in the beginnings of
the nineties and corn at the end. We what a
great time that first half was the Cardigans Loved Me.
Everybody was listening to Love Fool all the time. It
was like, oh, things are gonna work.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
The law, the laws, and then goes yeah from the laws,
and then das crawled so stained could sprint.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
What a nightmare. All right?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
You want to hear about this Chuck E Cheese Hell yeah,
here we go. Chuck E Cheese handcuffed and arrested in
Florida on charges of using a stolen credit card. This
was sent in by almost every single banana. But I
will give credit where credit is due. I will give
credit here too.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Also what curtis saying the mascot of Chuck E Cheese
was arrested at a Chuck E Cheese. Yeah, guy in
the rat costume.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I'm gonna say Sean Fister, sorry, not Sean, sorry Sean,
Sean said something else, and then I'm gonna do but
I'm gonna say Kurt Hanson.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Here, Hey, thanks Chris.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
The first time I saw it, there it is. This
was an NBC news that's real, not the not busting
chops news. Here does David kay Lee wrote this, A
lot of people say he's the customers watched in disbelief.
Is Florida police arrested a Chucky Cheese employee in costume
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portraying the pizza hawking rodent and accused him of using
a stolen credit card, Officials said Thursday. Jamelle Jones, forty one,
was working on Wednesday night when Tallahassee. But this, of
course is happening in Tallahassee. Yeah, everywhere else the fucking
cops would wait for the guy to get off work
these when Tallahassee, like, let them take let him get
the mouse costume off right, let him leave the rat
(14:19):
casino before you do this publicly was working on Wednesday
night when Tallahassee police confronted him at the Chuck E
Cheese on Sharer Road. According to a law enforcement records,
his right arm while giving him verbal instructions, Chucky, come
with me, Chucky, this is this cop thinks it's funny.
Jones immediately started tensing up. Blah blah blah cop bullshit.
(14:42):
Cruz told the mascot not to make a scene before
the officer and his partner uh deserted minor physical effort
to handcuff him. Okay, so now it seems like there's
police brutality evolved with victim. Okay, here it is ready.
We are against bo both credit card fraud and police brutality.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Maybe even police brutality more, I would say.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah, victim Michelle Allen told police she'd been to her
child's birthday party at Chuck E Cheese on June twenty eighth,
and soon spotted fraudulent charges at stores she doesn't frequent.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Police said.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
She went to one of those stores and got security
foot footage and matching it to a very large mouse.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
No, that would be the great, It would be the story.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Fucking amazing good idea matching the time her card was
wrongly used. Police said. Also, this is like she shouldn't
have to do this. The bank should notice. The bank
should be like, whoa, why did you just spend five
hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
At a at a.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
At the on subway tokens or whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Right victims I have that I've had that happen to me.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah, Michelle Allan told police. She said a little so
she had to do all this like detective work. She
recognized the Ucky Cheese employee making a purchase at the
store at the same time as one of those fraudulent swipes.
Cruise went to that Chuck E Cheese location and identified
Jones not in costume, as the employee. Allan's sspective of
stealing her card. The officer briefly talked with Alan, who
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he described as very nervous. During their conversation, Cruz left
the restaurant to confer with Alan and another officer. When
the officers went back inside, Jones was gone, but a
Chuck e Cheese mascot was now and they're oh my god,
he put the costume onto hide. That's amazing. That's a
very smart it's a great idea. Cruz asked another employee
if she knew where Jones went and if the person
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in the mouse outfit was in fact him. She shook
her head up and down, indicating yes. The officer read
the mouse's Miranda warnings before he insisted he never stole
anyone's credit. I don't have a card on me. I
didn't use anybody cards with my own, Jones said.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Found a little defense that I don't have a credit card.
I don't even have a credit card on me.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Officers found the victim's visa card in Jones' left pocket.
Well he's just walking around with it. That's crazy. If
like just leave it at home once get rid of it.
Jones was booked on a suspicion of larceny position of
a possession of another person's ID wasn't immediately clear on
Friday if Jones had hired or been assigned a criminal
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defense attorney.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
But well, I would hope.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
So it is crazy. Oh my goodness, there is a video.
There is a video video. Oh my god, Scottie. Yeah,
there's all these children standing around staring at Chucky Cheese
handcuffed being walked out. Oh my god, my.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Would never never, he always had fans up.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I'm trying to imagine the ride home with the kids
explaining why Chuck and Cheese was rested.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Further, I think this is the best crime that that
mascot could have committed in a establishment where children run
around and parents get drunk and bad kid stuff. Or
this could have been fistfight world. And yeah, best case
scenario is your local Chuck e Cheese steals your credit
card and just racks up some larceny.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
That's MS and hopefully, hopefully, now that she has proof,
she gets her money refunded by the gigantic corporation that
is the bank. They got us, they got it, they
got it right, especially now that it's a big story.
I'm trying to think so guess what. Guess what Lauren
found out? Oh boy, Chuck E Cheese in New Jersey
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does not serve alcohol.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Whoa that mun takes it down a peg.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Oh my god, it just became Germ jail. Before it
was at least you could have two wines very quick
in secession and then like mildly and then just like
walk around somewhat drunk and look like the terrible games
they have. But no, it's just Germ Jail.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Now doing hard time. Well, I think it's time to
tap back into your Neptune New Jersey high school Kurt roots,
and you got to start sneaking some airplane bottles in there,
ordering some diet sprite some sprite Z's, get that sprit
zero going, you put the little Tito's in that sprite
Z and suddenly Germ Jail it's.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Gonna be fun again. Baby. I think you're right, Scottie,
go give me one.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Asia sent this in sixth Glee on Instagram. You can
send your stories to the Banana Boys on Instagram or
the Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com. Oh this is
in the New York Post, which we hate their politics,
but boy do we like their headlines.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Oh they're the best headlines in the world.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
NYC nut job busted for naked boat joy ride escapes
from hospital in stupid makeshift disguise. That is what is
called a headline, folks. It is from a true rag
The New York Post, written by two very impressive journalists,
Tina More and Amanda Woods. Wow you want more, you
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get Woods. He put clothes on this time, but shook
off the authorities. A man busted for a naked joy
ride on two stolen boats in a Manhattan marina escaped
from a local hospital Wednesday, disguised in a lab coat,
bothout shoes.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Oh my god. Wait, there's so many good details, all right,
get any more? Manhattan? He stole two boats.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah, and I think it's that marina you told me
about years ago, that.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Oh, the one up the one up on like one
hundred hundred and eighth or something. That one's the coolest
one because you go under a highway and all of
a sudden you're in this like beautiful grotto.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, that's a pretty neat one. And those slips became
available like every sixty years or whatever. It's like so
hard to get a boat slip there.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
That's I mean, I still regret. I remember being there
in nineteen ninety nine and they're like, it's twenty years
to wait to get a slip, and I was like,
I should put my name in. Maybe I'll have a
boat in twenty years. I don't. It's over twenty years
and I don't have a boat, but I would have
had a slip.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
You can get a boat for free in New York.
My buddy d Me and our friend Edmund Hawkins is like,
do you want this boat? They're giving away this sailboat?
Like somebody, clearly people.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Give away sailboats all the time because they're so expensive
to take.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Care of, yes, to dock them. So people just like
take this boat, please?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
God, did I tell you about Did I tell you
about this? I've been founding these people on Instagram. I
think it's called two dollars catamaran. They bought a catamaran
for two dollars. It's like a thirty six forty foot catamaran,
beautiful boat, and they bought it up in San Francisco
and then they started like putting it together, and the
whole instagram is about them like renovating the boat cool,
which seems exhausting and awful, but they then discovered on
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the boat ten thousand dollars in silver coins. Oh, and
it paid for the renovation of the boat. So they
have a two dollars catamarand ugh and then they sailed
it down.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
It was really cool that, you know. I used to
watch the show Storage Wars when it first came on,
and then I had a storage facility between my move
a year ago, whatever year and a half ago, and
it was like, every time I would walk to my unit,
I would just be like, how many gold coins are
in this building right now? How much cash in a
Duffel bag is in this building. It's fascinating, Yeah, very
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fascinating anyway. Stephen Blasetti, thirty six, who was held on
grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, and reckless endangerment
charges in connection to the close lists Saturday romp, escaped
from Columbia University Medical Center at six point thirty a m.
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Police said Blaseetti was last seen wearing a lab coat,
blue hospital pants, and hospital socks but no shoes as
he bolted from the hospital's Milstein building on Fort Washington
Avenue near West one hundred and sixty eighth Street. So
that's way up there. Yeah, that's up up, that's like
near the cloisters. I was not immediately clear, Oh excuse me.
(23:05):
It was not immediately clear how he managed to flee
the hospital whereas being held since NYPD Harbor Unit cops
arrested him. He was not shackled nor handcuffed. The chiseled
but Blaseetti. And this guy has a very nice physique. Wow,
the photos in the poster of him very nude. He
has a couple tattoos, he's got one on his leg,
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he's got one on his person, and he is in
very fine shape. So if you are the kind of
person who likes a nude lunatic, go to the website
and treat yourself to a little eyeball gymnastics. The chisel
Blasetti hopped into a smaller dinghy sailboat on the Dyakman
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Street arena around noon on Saturday, after employees there had
kicked him out because he was acting erradically. Bassetti, who
told police that he was high on methamphetamine. Fine, very
motivating drug and motivated.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Is also to tell the truth. What's going on, sir,
I'm on methamphetamine very good.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
As you were top, he was already sailing the Hudson
River before employees could stop him. But the nopdse Aviation
and harbor units were quickly notified and went on the
hunt for the hard to miss nut job. I mean,
this writing is great. The seafaring kook then sailed a
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boat up to a larger so he sailed a dinghy
up to a larger anchored catamaran sailboat, climbed on board
that vessel. Members of the harbor unit quickly responded, got
on board the katam ran with him and arrested Blaseetti.
That's when he was taken into customy custod ty at
Columbia University Medical Center for treatment. Besides this boat incident,
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no cases have ever been held against Blaseetti. This is
his first crime. Maybe he's new to meth. Also, you
don't think of meth as a New York City drug,
you know, but I.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Don't think of meth as a New York City drug.
He might have gotten it somewhere else. He might have
gotten it on the Hudson. He might have gone all
the way up to Hudson, the downtown of upstate, and
gotten some.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Took that long dinghy ride. I want to own a dinghy.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, when'd you go on a dingy?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
No, I want to own one. I want to buy
a dingy. I feel like you can buy for five
hundred bucks. And just god, I wish I had more space,
I'd own a dingy.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
I know. The thunder just started, and poor Zelda is
not doing well. She's really shaken. She just pushed open
the door of the room and oh, she's really shaken.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I'm sorry, little thing. Yeah. I guess Zelda was a
desert dog all these years, not used to an afternoon
rainstorm every single day from September.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
She really doesn't like it. I'm sorry, sweetie.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Have you noticed a Have you noticed any difference in
personalities of the people around you? Do people say hello
more or less? Do people a wave more or less?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
People are very I would say over all people are
incredibly friendly, especially when you have to like interact with
someone in a like going to the library or something,
or going to a restaurant or something like that. People
are very friendly. Yeah. The what Lauren has noticed is
(26:22):
that the drivers are lunatics. Okay, and I have noticed
that a little bit. And I was like, oh, yeah,
that's right. That's why I drive this way because I can't.
I grew up driving with these people. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Yeah, people do drive differently, especially New Jersey to Boston.
That little corridor. Yeah, for aggressive drivers.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yes, it's really aggressive.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
I worked with a dude for Red Bull and Queen's
and he said his dad was giving him like a
like a driver's lessons, just an amateur father son lesson.
And his dad said that you're supposed to drive to
make other people break. That was his lesson, and that
when you back, when you parallel park, you're supposed to
back up till you tap the car behind you pull
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forward till you tap the car shout out, Frank. I
forget what your last name was, but yeah, his dad's
first lesson was drive so that other people have to break. Wow,
the exact opposite of a good way to drive.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeah. And also like tapping a car outside of the
Northeast is considering. It's like people will go crazy. Yeah,
and then New York people are just like, yeah, it's
how you park. You tap tap, tap.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Back and forth, then you pull forward, then you back.
I've seen it. And people sell this thing called bumper badgers. Yeah,
like rubber things that hang on your trunk because people
just New Yorkers when they parlot park, they back into
the car behind them and then pull forward. This it
just happens constantly everywhere. It's not like a stereotype. It
happens constantly. Yeah, it's a horrible way to treat other people.
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But you know, there's a lot of people in that
town and not a lot of cars.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
So you want to dinghy, but we just don't have
the space for it.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
No, But my good friends Melissa Norris learned how to
captain and they have a sailboat and Marina del Rey,
and sometimes I get to ride with them as we sail.
We just sail up and down probably ten miles north
and then maybe ten or fifty miles south. And to
see La from the ocean is amazing.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
It's really amazing, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Because it's a beach up into a city, up into
the mountains. And then yeah, it's just so neat to
see it from the reverse. And yeah, I would just
like to tune around a little dinghy and you know,
wave to people and just ask.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Them to wait. I mean, Dinghy's are for waving.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Dinghy's are number one waving vessel.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, can we name this, Katie. Dinghy's are for waving.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Dinghy's are for waving. Maybe well, one day, well we'll
do well enough with bananas that we can buy yellow
dinghy and just just dinghy around whenever we're near a
body water. Curtis from Neptune, New Jersey. That's very clear.
I'm from Racerstown, Maryland, which is very closely than her harbor,
so there is potential for us to dinghy.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, oh yeah, we can dingy baby.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Next time I'm in Racersstown, I'm gonna I'm gonna go
to Racer's Town. My parents don't live there anymore, but
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go to the Harryman House,
which is a bar and restaurant, and I'm gonna I
don't know how I'm gonna alert the bananimals, but I'm
gonna go. And I'm gonna just say open tab for
any bananamal that walks through that door for the next
two hours, and I'm just gonna see what happens. I
love that. Maybe I'll just like a banana. I'll be like,
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there's a banana at the end of the bar at
the Harryman House. If you show up between six and eight,
all drinks and food are on me.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
I love that idea.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah why not?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
How many could possibly show up? Two hundred one thousand?
I'm like, oh, this is a huge mistake. My Oh,
my sister was in Uh, this is cool. She was
in London. Family trip to London. Traffic was terrible. Hopped
on uber. An uber boat picked them up on the
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Thames and they ubered back to their hotel on them. No,
why do you know about that? No?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I did not know about that.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
She sent me a photo from the boat and I
had never heard of that. And she basically bypassed all
traffic by just ubering a boat in the Thames.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Badass.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
So that is awesome.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
And knowing you when you take your kids, when your
family goes to London, the brown owlers are going to
be sailing. They're going to be living that diggy life
up and down the Thames.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
You might get a like a barge to stay on.
That would be great. I don't think they call.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Them barges sounds do you want to tease me into
a thumbs up? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Baby?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Police a man opposed as an ambassador and ran a
fake embassy. Oh this is crazy story.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Oh great, that's a good one. I like that I
got some great thumbs ups. All right, first, this is
you and me thumbing up caregivers. We've never done this before.
Thumbs like all the caregivers. We've done lots of nurses
and doctors and the like. Maybe we've even done daycare,
but this is for caregivers. We got a really nice DM.
(31:16):
I'm not going to say the person's name because she
didn't say say this on the air or whatever, but
really nice caregiver. Let us know that she works with
one client who is blind and stays inside a lot
and listens to bananas and it always brightens his day
and her day. So thumbs up to both of you.
Thank you for listening to bananas. I think you know
who you are, but we're glad to have you both listening. Yes,
(31:37):
it means so much. We have a great top shelf
bananamal named Cheyenne Wonderluster's Kurt. I've done so many of
her stories. We've met her a couple times, but she
wanted us to mention acknowledge a dear friend of hers, Justin.
Justin passed away recently. He sounded like an incredibly fun,
loving true character in life and he actually came to
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Bananas Live in Minneapolis and we met him. We have
a photo with Cheyenne and Justin. He big Beard seemed
like a really lovable guy, but he had never seen
Bananas Live. Laughed the whole time, loved it. So I'll
post that amazing picture. But Chayan just wanted us to
acknowledge him because he was such a great guy, and
she's such a great Bananamal, So big consensual hugs from
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the Banana Boys, Cheyenne, Lice Guys, and Rip the Way
An RP. Justin Glad to have gotten to know you. Yeah.
Thumbs up to Elise one. She graduated from nursing school
with a masters in nursing and is stoked to be
a Level one trauma emergency Bananamal. Also, I think Elise
is the same Bananmal who went and found a giant
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roller skate roadside attraction and sent us a photo because
we always encourage people to go see roadside attractions. The bigger,
the better, the dumber. So thumbs up to Elise. Finally,
Sam wants us to thumb us up for Bananas Fast
and creating an atmosphere of love. She went last year
and she says, I want to shout out all of
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my banana goals. These were new friends she met last
year at bananas Fest, Carrie, Katie, Jesse, Lindsay, Zoe, and Rena.
They're all still friends, they still talk, but they all
met at banans Fest one, and I hope almost all
of them will see at bananas Fest two.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yes, Bananafs two October fourth and Denver, Colorado.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Folks, it's fat. We need to announce our what we're
going to try for Guinness. I think that's important.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Okay, I'm ready to announce that.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
So we are going to once again work with I
Support the Girls, a national wonderful company who supplies women's supplies,
tampon's pads, underwear, bras, that sort of thing for women
who need them. Last year we did a tampon toss
and they gathered so I don't even remember. Five thousand tampons,
some crazy numbers.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah, this year, Kurt, this year will be doing most
people wearing bras on their head one time. And so
all you gotta do is bring a bra man or woman,
Bring a bra man or woman or non binary, bring
a bra, put it on your head. We'll take a
picture and to Guinness, and Guinness will stonewall us, but
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will know we did it.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Let's go for a thousand bras on heads. Go out,
any size you want, turns up. Bras come in different sizes, Kurt,
A lot of people don't know that you know. Any
type you want, you bring it, make sure it's new,
make sure it's clean. We're gonna put it on our heads.
Then we're gonna gather them up and we're gonna donate
them to I Support the girl.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
That is verybile, very important piece of information. Do not
bring an old bra. Bring a new bra that you
would wear, and we'll put it on your head once
and then it will be donated as a fresh, clean,
new bra for someone to use who doesn't.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Women in need in Colorado, we're.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Going around the country. They get distributed around the country
to wherever has like a deep need at that time.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Oh beautiful.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
And they also they also will go to refugee camps
as well, so.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Well that is also we're going to do that earlier
in the day. That's one of the earlier events. So
don't worry, you're not gonna have to carry a bra
around all day. Also, it's cool to carry a bra
around all day, so get into it. It's very on trend,
very fashion forward.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
That's the that's actually the shirt we're going to be selling.
It's cool to carry a bra these days. It's actually
very trend, very fashion forward. That's the whole show.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Is thank you so much, but yeah, great. We love
that organization. We're happy to do it with them. And
we had the founder of I Support the Girls as
a guest, Dana Marlowe. She's the executive director and founder
and she was a wonderful guest, but she's done such
incredible work. We're happy to do this, So come on
out to Banana's Fest two. It starts with a splity
in the city. We're going to do bird costumes. If
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you want to design a bird costumer, wear one. We're
going to hand out prizes all day to the best
bird costumes. Dog costume contests are going to judge anything
you want. If it's banana, it's burred great. But if
it's just a fun costume you've made for your dog,
we're gonna march them across the stage.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
If you got if you got a Schnauzer and a Hamburger,
we're into it.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Wiener Dog in a burger costume. I'm looling out loud
for that one and last detail about Bananas Fest. So
we have a great bananamal named Jesse Holland who was
there last year. She was coming this year. For health reasons,
she's unable to come. But I just thought, Kurt, you
and I should preemptibly send Jesse a little feel good
(36:33):
and say we're naming you Banana of the Fest before
Bananas Fest. So, Jesse Holland, you are are Bananas of
the Fest, the first ever, and sending you lots of
love and good health.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Lots of love. Thank you for those thumbs up.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Scottie. Oh you're so welcome. You can send them in.
I get to them as fast as I can. And uh,
you know, no birthdays, no anniversaries unless it's a crazy one,
unless it's sixty years of marriage or I don't know,
one hundred years of marriage unless your child bride and
child husband and you've been married for one hundred years.
(37:10):
Let's just keep into building yourself up or others up
thumbs ups.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
This one was sent in by Raw Barnes. Thank you,
Raw Barnes and a lot of good ones.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Here a fake embassy was busted in Guyazia bad which
already sounds like a not a real country, where a
man posed as an ambassm ambassador of imaginary countries like
Siborga and West Arctica, using luxury cars and fake flags.
(37:44):
This man really went for it, Yeah he did. So
this is I'm gonna I'm gonna pull from the AP
for the story I love the AP Associated Press long
written by Roger sh Roy. Thank you Roger Shime, and
the title they have is much less incendiary. Man posed
(38:06):
as an ambassador and ran a fake embassy. Indian police
have arrested a man.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Oh hold on, bless you keep it in that's real, folks,
live to tape.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Indian police have arrested a man accused of running a
bogus embassy from a rented residential building near the capital,
New Delhi and recovered cars with fake diplomatic plates. The
suspect impersonated an ambassador and allegedly duped people for money
by promising overseas employment, said senior police officer Sushil Ghoul
(38:39):
of Atar Pradesha's States Special Task Force in Northern India.
According to police Harshevardan zans forty seven claimed to have
acted as an advisor or ambassador to entities such as Seborga.
Sborga is the funniest nate too.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
And I'm sorry, it just seems like somebody panicked and
said suborga.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
I mean, it definitely sounds it definitely sounds like a
word you come up with when somebody's like, well, what's
it called sorga?
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Excuse me?
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Suborga Jeamsborga and west Arctica. West Arctica at least sounds like.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
But also where would it be bottom the Arctic?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
It doesn't like north, southeast and west like there's one
point where like they don't make any sense true. Uh.
Police recovered multiple doctored photographs showing jan with world leaders
and fake seals of India's foreign ministry and nearly of
and nearly three dozen countries and nearly foreign ministry And
(39:42):
I don't know understand what that means. Jane was also
suspected of illegal money laundering through shell companies abroad. Wow,
he was into a lot of stuff. He's also facing
charges job this sounds like the massive amount of work
that goes into the My god, illegal money laundering through
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shell companies. It's facing charges of forgery. Impersonation, possessing fake documents.
Police recover four cars bearing fake diplomatic plates and nearly
four point five million Indian rupees. How much is four
point five rupees?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Four point five million numbers?
Speaker 1 (40:18):
No, no, no, I know what it is. I have
the number. I want you to guess off the top
of your head. Four point five million rupee?
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Oh god, forty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yeah, it's fifty two thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Oh, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Guests. That is very funny, just being like, this is
my car is worth my car is worth two million?
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Routes out I'm a millionaire only in India.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Other foreign currencies in cash from Jen's rented premises, which
were adorned with international flags of several nations, could not
be reached for comment. That's amazing. I don't understand how
he made the money. He was like, you come get
a job in Suborga and people were like, what am I?
What will I doing Suborga? Oh, you'll be a good
flocking And it's like, oh, sounds great. He's just making up.
(41:05):
I mean like he's really going for it.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
He's cool. It sounds like Ikia furniture.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yeah, it does that. Sounds like it sounds like it's
an Ikea furniture organ. Yeah, as a country.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Yeah, it's a it's a lounge share that turns into
a charcuterie board. It's isorgan.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Give me, give me one. Just the title, sweetheart, mm.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Hmmm, just the title too hot for clothes. Balls Out
Bowling is back, Nudity required.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
I heard this, I saw this.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Babe. Serene Stephanie sent this in Thank you, Serene Stephanie,
and honestly it's four sentences. I'll just do him. It
was in w t RF written by John Lynch, who
he's a balls out best in the biz wright. Balls
and Bowling is back, the ultimate bowling experience. Pittsburgh area naturalists.
I didn't know, nudie. We're called naturalists now and oh
yeah baby, that's are hosting yet another balls out bowling
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event where you can bowl in the nude, because who
who hasn't been bowling? And thought, I wish I was.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
I want to do this totally nude.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
I want that sit on these surfaces and stick my
finger in these holes and just be totally nude when
I'm doing I.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Want to just let that fan do its original purpose.
That little fan just hang over that little fan.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Mmm. Oh, I never thought about that. That's pretty good.
Do you have to wear bowling shoes? That's the real.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Question, one hundred percent. You have to wear could You.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Wouldn't slide barefoot? You just it'd be a lout squeaking. Yeah.
It's held at the craft in Ingram Lanes and Peak.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
It would be really funny if in addition to having
to wear bowling shoes you would also have to rent
like a little cock sock.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Yeah. I think that's fair. It looks like a bowling fan.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
And then they just spray, and with the same spray
that they spray the bowling shoes.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
I think that's it. I think everybody strips walks out,
and then the guy that works they're just hostes every
down with the antiseptic spray under the pits a little
bit some of the other regions. Isn't it weird how
certain foods taste better at certain places, Like curly fries
at a bowling alley are a ten out of ten.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Wow, look at that. That's a very specific. I would
say a mikelobe tastes best at a bowling alley.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Yeah. A picture of beard a bowling alley. You get
that michelobe draft.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Oh, I think it's I think it's the first time
I had a michelobe was at a bowling alley and
I remember it was in the old school bottle that
was like weirdly shaped, like a like a woman's body shape.
Do you remember that one?
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Of course we've discussed it. I think they look like
a long butt plug.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
But they do look like a long butt plug.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
Looks just like really a big inner butt plug.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
Did you see the bottle? Did you see the Corona
bottle that was designed by a Japanese scientist so that
you can insert it into the sand?
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Yeah, he dude, just looks exactly like a butt plug
that is going up a butt. There's no percent it's
going up a butt. I know who'll rekidding. Also a
Corona bottle. I've been on the beach thousands of times.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
You can stick them in the sand with a.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Bottle of beer you can buy and everyone fits perfectly
in the sand.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
Sand it's one of the main places that can hold
Eddy's jape.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Sand can hold any shape on Earth. You didn't need
to sharpen the bottom of a corona.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
This guy was like, no, it's a it's for the sand.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Yeah. His wife came down to his glass blowing laboratory
and he's like, no.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
Why do you have all these beer bottle butt plugs
this sand?
Speaker 2 (44:38):
Honey, it's for a Corona beer the Mexican survey, so
that you stick in the sand.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
But you can't put on a flat surface.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Oh yeah, the thing, oh sand, the thing that holds
every shape equally and.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Well, honestly, now that we're joking about it so much,
I bet you it's fake. I bet you it's fake information.
I bet you it's not real bowling.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
The event is for everybody over age eighteen, whether it's season,
pro or beginner. Nudity is required except women can wear bottoms,
which sure, sure why not. Sexual activity is not permitted,
so if you get really turned on bailing naked, do
not show up to craft and Ingram lanes. Also, this
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event happened last month, so if you want to go
in twenty twenty six, pen animals, don't send photos, but
have a great time bowling naked with other naturalists. There's
no harassment, nothing will be taken lightly, says the creators.
Violators will be kicked out. No photography or video is allowed.
The event is a pre ticket event. No tickets will
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be sold at the door, so you have to plan
ahead for bowling balls out naked. But go have fun.
That sounds fun. Why not live a little?
Speaker 1 (45:55):
Thank you so much, Scottie.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Thank you, Kurdi b thank you everybody exactly right. Thank
you to our producer and engine here, Katie Levine, who
helps us in so many wonderful ways. This has been
another jolly episode of Bananas.
Speaker 1 (46:09):
Banana started as a gentleman.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
Ben got a Corona bottle up the booty. Bananas is
an exactly right media production.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.
Speaker 2 (46:25):
The catchy Banana theme song was composed and performed by Kahon.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
And our benevolent overlords are the great Karen Kilgareff and
Georgia Hardstart.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot,
part time employee.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
You can listen to Bananas on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts, and please feel
free to rate and review as many times as you can.
We love those five stars.
Scott, are you ready?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm ready to laugh and laugh and laugh.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Chuck e Cheese handcuffed and arrested in Florida. You know
I was, you know I had to do this.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
It was that this one a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I mean, it's a perfect banana story.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Uh it is Uh and throw your hands in the
air Charlie Fromage Style for a brand new, beautiful episode
of Bananas.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Still World.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Would you believe.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Your mizillion pieces?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Would you be banana banana, banana banas, banana.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Bana guys, gowns, non binary pals, Welcome to Bananas. I
am kerk Brown Older.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm banana boy number two. Scottis sometimes Champagne Sktylandis. Thank
you for listening to the silliest little podcast there ever was.
It's strange news, it's stories. Sometimes we have guests and
sometimes we don't have guests, like this episode, which is
just all about male friendship.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I would like to apologize to everyone if my audio
sounds echoey. I had created the perfect little studio in
this area in my apartment with a lot of pillows.
Oh and ten feet away from my perfect little studio,
(01:37):
I was getting six under megs a second and then
right from my computer. I was getting under one megasecond
and guys, it was the pillows. I took the pillows away,
and now I'm getting five hundred megs a second and
now our connection is perfect.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, your smooth operator over there, and you got I
wonder what is in these pillows? Are they backing lead
into the pillows in New Jersey?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
That is amazing. It's like we don't understand Wi Fi
at all, and it's just like, oh, it's just if
you put some pillows around it, yes, nobody will be
able to contact.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
You, no, sir. I yeah, I'm like Internet to me,
all things Wi Fi, even speed you said six hundred
megabits or whatever. It's the equivalent of when dudes pop
the hood of a car and we look at the
engine and it's like, unless something has a small flame
coming from it, I cannot identify the problem ever at all.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You just reboot the router, right beal?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, every damn time, I barely known't to do anything.
I could change a car tire. I could definitely do that.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I can do that. It's annoying, it is.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I think we have a listener. She's a friend, Christine Cox.
I went to high school with her, and one night
I was randomly driving home very cold night. Look over
on the side of the road. There she is with
a flat.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Tire recently or not recently, oh got.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Twenty years ago. And I gave her a ride home.
But it was like one of those moments prephones where
you're like, I just really save somebody's night. You know, no,
there's no rescue. You just have to wait there and
like trying to gabody down.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Oh, a creepy stranger down and hope they're not a
terrible person.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, so she can steady, Yeah exactly. We're still friends.
She's a great get that.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
That's nice. How's how's your week, buddy? We're recording Friday.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I've had such a fun week. So pitching is now
somehow back in person. So I pitched yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Are you joking?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
No, first movie. I've pitched on my own in person
since twenty nineteen. So that's fun to Dusty Field, the
old pitch and rust. But tonight I'm going to the
Orange County Fair. Oh yeah, maybe we need a corn dog,
We need some ribbon fries.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Oh yeah, Orange County gets real country faish, real fans do.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
It's very big. You know it is a little too corporate.
I would say there used to be a time. Yeah,
it is like when we were kids. And this is
not to sound like dinosaurs, but like you'd go to
a fair and the booth so it would be like
Johnson's frozen lemonades, and then it'd be like the whole
Johnson family work and their thing, Mom, Paul. John's not
(04:16):
like that, no, man, some big conglomerates scooped up the
big ones and like every sign looks the same every
It's like, it's very interesting.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
That's crazy because I went to the Strawberry Fair in
Ventura County and it was still straight up exactly how
I remember that. Like one one thing was just like
a dude was just like you want to make a
pie eyed T shirt?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
You come on over like that.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
And it was just a dude with some buckets and
some shirts and kids were like swarming him. The kids
still wear their tied eye T shirt, the perfect tied
eye T shirt.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Do I ever tell a story about the spin doctors
at the Green Mountain Festival?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I know you did it.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I can't believe.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I can't believe that has been five years and you
have a spin Doctor story that I have not heard.
I'm just crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
This was college years and I believe it was called
the Green Mountain Festival in Vermont. It was just a
kind of a crappy music and crafts festival and on
not on the main stage, one of the daytime, second
or third stages. The Spin Doctors who had hits in
the early nineties and then this would have been two
thousand and one.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Probably how fast. How fast people forget how big the
Spin Doctors were. I mean the Spin Doctor was probably
huge in nineteen ninety four, right, yeah, and then by
two thousand and one seven. That is how fast it
goes folks. Yeah, if you ever have anybody in your
life who gets popular in the entertainment industry and you're like, oh,
that person's a jerk. Now, don't worry.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It will fade.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
There's years there's five or six people who have just
continued their meteoric rise. Somebody else's has a mountain that
they climb and then slide out on the butt.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Correct and they For those who don't know, the Spin
Doctors were sort of like an all poppy rock band.
They had two real hits. They had Little Miscamp Be Wrong,
and two princes and then they had some crappier B sides.
I also have to shout out my friend John Green,
who listens to the podcast, who was when I met
him in college, a very die hard Spin Doctors fan.
(06:25):
And the thing about that is, yeah, I love something
back then. So much judgment these days keep going because
you went you went to college in two thousand, Massachusetts. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
So by two thousand, the Spin Doctors were definitively not cool.
They're playing them, They were playing the second stage in
the morning time.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
You honestly may have been the third stage of the stages. Basically,
if you can imagine a carpet, then lift that carpet
three feet I mean three inches off the ground and
then stand on it. That's kind of what it was.
It was. But anyways, oh they're playing some they're jam
and a lot of jam bands at this fest.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
And I respect your friend for really being into the
spind on two thousand, Like that's amazing to just be like,
now I'm sticking with them.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I have a feeling I'm going to get a text
after this episode drops that even in twenty twenty five,
he's still sticking as he should. But so you know,
you kind of walk around these festivals, and you know,
back then it was like people smoking weed. Like now
it's just legal so many places, but back then people
like sneak over and smoke weeds. So some of my
friends are doing that. People are making jewelry, people are
(07:32):
making dream catchers. People have devil sticks still, like devil.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Sticks is huge. Yeah, maybe some people are lighting them
on fire a little bit. Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I mean, why not, let's have fun. We're outside, it's
more outside.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
It's Vermont. There's no les. Ernie Sanders is the whatever. Governor.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah, he's the senator. And is he still the same?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I think he was like the mayor and then the
governor and then the senator.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Vermonters, don't judge me. I don't know about you.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
We love Vermont, great state, one of the greatest states.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
People say, the most happy state.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, because there's nobody there. It's empty and beautiful. It's
natural beauty and it's empty.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
It's really beautiful. Last time I was there, I was like,
I gotta get used to this.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, I'd be happy too if it was mostly just
woods and animals around me.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
It was like yeah, But then also you could go
to Burlington and pretty much have access to like very
good food, Like it's very good food in Burlington. Anyway,
keep going and it's okay.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
So they play through their set and I like that
kind of thing. I like seeing bands past their prime.
I went and saw the hip hop act Naughty by
Nature UMass. They played in front of a van and
got very real at the end. They're like, Yo, we've
got Grammys, we've sold dis May records, we've toured around
the world, but honestly, U Mass, this is the biggest
show we're going to play this year. And it was
(08:48):
like three or four hundred of us standing out in
the field while they played. Oh It's the best, And
my friend Franco and I went to that one. It
was also one of my favorite hip hop shows ever.
They gave us all the hits in front of a
conversion van and then probably drove it back to New
York or New Jersey wherever they live. But they were like,
oh wait, this was in a field.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
They just literally like drove like a cube truck up, yeah,
up in front of it.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Yeah, exactly, not even a cube truck, a conversion van.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
When you say a conversion van. I don't know what
you mean.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Remember in the eighties and nineties there were vans that
families would have that had like sofas and stuff in
the back, like two captain's chairs. Yeah TV a van.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, fancy, that's how I am man, That's how I
imagine a vant so, not.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
An eighteen passenger van. A van that has like that
wrap around seating in the back. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's
one of those. So they opened up two doors. The
DJ stood in front of those, and Tretch and the
other guy wrapped in front of those for awesome two
hundred to four hundred confused white kids.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
And they do have the Grammys. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
They were huge, gigantic.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I can't believe that that was anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
It's my favorite thing. I love all these I love
seeing the roback bands, and so I'm like, I'll go
check out Doctors and they're on stage and they're singing
songs I don't know, and then they get to sort
of their last you know, they're up there forty minutes.
It's time, and so they're gonna bring out the bangers
and they were gonna close.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
With so they also because they're not they're not like
the last band, they don't get an encore.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
No, honestly, they probably unplugged, stepped three inches down into
the grass and went and got a soda. But right
before he sung, he goes, uh and I don't know
about you guys, but this one sure got me laid.
(10:42):
I think I've been laughing about that for twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I don't know that this is so funny. Imagine if someone
in the audience was like, this one got me laid too,
that's great.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I also got laid to two princes. Oh man, what
a what an innocent The nineties are so fascinating, and
I know, like a lot of times when I'm pitching
stuff now people young people are like nineties fashion jen
Alpha gen Z. They're into it, very throwbacky stuff. But yeah,
the first half of the nineties, all the songs, at
(11:15):
least for like rock and pop, We're so happy. I mean,
it was bands singing about just how happy they are,
how awesome it is that Communism's over. Just happy, happy time.
And then the back half of the nineties is new metal.
People just hit each other's guts. It was like Gagster
(11:37):
Rapid really just gone to this whole other place, and
it was just such a weird thing that in ten
years it went from like Rusted Root to Limp Biscuit.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
What a time to be alive, I mean, but the
thing is is that you probably wouldn't have had Limp Biscuit.
And I hope everybody really pronounces that z when they
say it, yeah with Rusted Route without counting crows. I
think people were just like, we got we can't have
all counting crows all the time. It was like that
time with the Lumineers. Remember when the Lumineers and Mumford
(12:11):
and Son had like every song on the radio. It
was un bearable because first time you heard that Mumford
and Son song, you're like, this is a really good song.
And then the five thousandth time you heard it and
the five hundred bands that came out that sounded exactly
like it was like it was insane. It was really
an awful time and white people music it was.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
It was sixpence done the Richer in the beginnings of
the nineties and corn at the end. We what a
great time that first half was the Cardigans Loved Me.
Everybody was listening to Love Fool all the time. It
was like, oh, things are gonna work.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
The law, the laws, and then goes yeah from the laws,
and then das crawled so stained could sprint.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
What a nightmare. All right?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
You want to hear about this Chuck E Cheese Hell yeah,
here we go. Chuck E Cheese handcuffed and arrested in
Florida on charges of using a stolen credit card. This
was sent in by almost every single banana. But I
will give credit where credit is due. I will give
credit here too.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Also what curtis saying the mascot of Chuck E Cheese
was arrested at a Chuck E Cheese. Yeah, guy in
the rat costume.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I'm gonna say Sean Fister, sorry, not Sean, sorry Sean,
Sean said something else, and then I'm gonna do but
I'm gonna say Kurt Hanson.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Here, Hey, thanks Chris.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
The first time I saw it, there it is. This
was an NBC news that's real, not the not busting
chops news. Here does David kay Lee wrote this, A
lot of people say he's the customers watched in disbelief.
Is Florida police arrested a Chucky Cheese employee in costume
(13:56):
portraying the pizza hawking rodent and accused him of using
a stolen credit card, Officials said Thursday. Jamelle Jones, forty one,
was working on Wednesday night when Tallahassee. But this, of
course is happening in Tallahassee. Yeah, everywhere else the fucking
cops would wait for the guy to get off work
these when Tallahassee, like, let them take let him get
the mouse costume off right, let him leave the rat
(14:19):
casino before you do this publicly was working on Wednesday
night when Tallahassee police confronted him at the Chuck E
Cheese on Sharer Road. According to a law enforcement records,
his right arm while giving him verbal instructions, Chucky, come
with me, Chucky, this is this cop thinks it's funny.
Jones immediately started tensing up. Blah blah blah cop bullshit.
(14:42):
Cruz told the mascot not to make a scene before
the officer and his partner uh deserted minor physical effort
to handcuff him. Okay, so now it seems like there's
police brutality evolved with victim. Okay, here it is ready.
We are against bo both credit card fraud and police brutality.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Maybe even police brutality more, I would say.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Yeah, victim Michelle Allen told police she'd been to her
child's birthday party at Chuck E Cheese on June twenty eighth,
and soon spotted fraudulent charges at stores she doesn't frequent.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Police said.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
She went to one of those stores and got security
foot footage and matching it to a very large mouse.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
No, that would be the great, It would be the story.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Fucking amazing good idea matching the time her card was
wrongly used. Police said. Also, this is like she shouldn't
have to do this. The bank should notice. The bank
should be like, whoa, why did you just spend five
hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
At a at a.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
At the on subway tokens or whatever.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Right victims I have that I've had that happen to me.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah, Michelle Allan told police. She said a little so
she had to do all this like detective work. She
recognized the Ucky Cheese employee making a purchase at the
store at the same time as one of those fraudulent swipes.
Cruise went to that Chuck E Cheese location and identified
Jones not in costume, as the employee. Allan's sspective of
stealing her card. The officer briefly talked with Alan, who
(16:14):
he described as very nervous. During their conversation, Cruz left
the restaurant to confer with Alan and another officer. When
the officers went back inside, Jones was gone, but a
Chuck e Cheese mascot was now and they're oh my god,
he put the costume onto hide. That's amazing. That's a
very smart it's a great idea. Cruz asked another employee
if she knew where Jones went and if the person
(16:36):
in the mouse outfit was in fact him. She shook
her head up and down, indicating yes. The officer read
the mouse's Miranda warnings before he insisted he never stole
anyone's credit. I don't have a card on me. I
didn't use anybody cards with my own, Jones said.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Found a little defense that I don't have a credit card.
I don't even have a credit card on me.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Officers found the victim's visa card in Jones' left pocket.
Well he's just walking around with it. That's crazy. If
like just leave it at home once get rid of it.
Jones was booked on a suspicion of larceny position of
a possession of another person's ID wasn't immediately clear on
Friday if Jones had hired or been assigned a criminal
(17:20):
defense attorney.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
But well, I would hope.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
So it is crazy. Oh my goodness, there is a video.
There is a video video. Oh my god, Scottie. Yeah,
there's all these children standing around staring at Chucky Cheese
handcuffed being walked out. Oh my god, my.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Would never never, he always had fans up.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I'm trying to imagine the ride home with the kids
explaining why Chuck and Cheese was rested.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Further, I think this is the best crime that that
mascot could have committed in a establishment where children run
around and parents get drunk and bad kid stuff. Or
this could have been fistfight world. And yeah, best case
scenario is your local Chuck e Cheese steals your credit
card and just racks up some larceny.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
That's MS and hopefully, hopefully, now that she has proof,
she gets her money refunded by the gigantic corporation that
is the bank. They got us, they got it, they
got it right, especially now that it's a big story.
I'm trying to think so guess what. Guess what Lauren
found out? Oh boy, Chuck E Cheese in New Jersey
(18:40):
does not serve alcohol.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Whoa that mun takes it down a peg.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Oh my god, it just became Germ jail. Before it
was at least you could have two wines very quick
in secession and then like mildly and then just like
walk around somewhat drunk and look like the terrible games
they have. But no, it's just Germ Jail.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Now doing hard time. Well, I think it's time to
tap back into your Neptune New Jersey high school Kurt roots,
and you got to start sneaking some airplane bottles in there,
ordering some diet sprite some sprite Z's, get that sprit
zero going, you put the little Tito's in that sprite
Z and suddenly Germ Jail it's.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Gonna be fun again. Baby. I think you're right, Scottie,
go give me one.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Asia sent this in sixth Glee on Instagram. You can
send your stories to the Banana Boys on Instagram or
the Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com. Oh this is
in the New York Post, which we hate their politics,
but boy do we like their headlines.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Oh they're the best headlines in the world.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
NYC nut job busted for naked boat joy ride escapes
from hospital in stupid makeshift disguise. That is what is
called a headline, folks. It is from a true rag
The New York Post, written by two very impressive journalists,
Tina More and Amanda Woods. Wow you want more, you
(20:11):
get Woods. He put clothes on this time, but shook
off the authorities. A man busted for a naked joy
ride on two stolen boats in a Manhattan marina escaped
from a local hospital Wednesday, disguised in a lab coat,
bothout shoes.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Oh my god. Wait, there's so many good details, all right,
get any more? Manhattan? He stole two boats.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah, and I think it's that marina you told me
about years ago, that.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Oh, the one up the one up on like one
hundred hundred and eighth or something. That one's the coolest
one because you go under a highway and all of
a sudden you're in this like beautiful grotto.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, that's a pretty neat one. And those slips became
available like every sixty years or whatever. It's like so
hard to get a boat slip there.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
That's I mean, I still regret. I remember being there
in nineteen ninety nine and they're like, it's twenty years
to wait to get a slip, and I was like,
I should put my name in. Maybe I'll have a
boat in twenty years. I don't. It's over twenty years
and I don't have a boat, but I would have
had a slip.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
You can get a boat for free in New York.
My buddy d Me and our friend Edmund Hawkins is like,
do you want this boat? They're giving away this sailboat?
Like somebody, clearly people.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Give away sailboats all the time because they're so expensive
to take.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Care of, yes, to dock them. So people just like
take this boat, please?
Speaker 1 (21:25):
God, did I tell you about Did I tell you
about this? I've been founding these people on Instagram. I
think it's called two dollars catamaran. They bought a catamaran
for two dollars. It's like a thirty six forty foot catamaran,
beautiful boat, and they bought it up in San Francisco
and then they started like putting it together, and the
whole instagram is about them like renovating the boat cool,
which seems exhausting and awful, but they then discovered on
(21:48):
the boat ten thousand dollars in silver coins. Oh, and
it paid for the renovation of the boat. So they
have a two dollars catamarand ugh and then they sailed
it down.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
It was really cool that, you know. I used to
watch the show Storage Wars when it first came on,
and then I had a storage facility between my move
a year ago, whatever year and a half ago, and
it was like, every time I would walk to my unit,
I would just be like, how many gold coins are
in this building right now? How much cash in a
Duffel bag is in this building. It's fascinating, Yeah, very
(22:23):
fascinating anyway. Stephen Blasetti, thirty six, who was held on
grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, and reckless endangerment
charges in connection to the close lists Saturday romp, escaped
from Columbia University Medical Center at six point thirty a m.
(22:43):
Police said Blaseetti was last seen wearing a lab coat,
blue hospital pants, and hospital socks but no shoes as
he bolted from the hospital's Milstein building on Fort Washington
Avenue near West one hundred and sixty eighth Street. So
that's way up there. Yeah, that's up up, that's like
near the cloisters. I was not immediately clear, Oh excuse me.
(23:05):
It was not immediately clear how he managed to flee
the hospital whereas being held since NYPD Harbor Unit cops
arrested him. He was not shackled nor handcuffed. The chiseled
but Blaseetti. And this guy has a very nice physique. Wow,
the photos in the poster of him very nude. He
has a couple tattoos, he's got one on his leg,
(23:26):
he's got one on his person, and he is in
very fine shape. So if you are the kind of
person who likes a nude lunatic, go to the website
and treat yourself to a little eyeball gymnastics. The chisel
Blasetti hopped into a smaller dinghy sailboat on the Dyakman
(23:47):
Street arena around noon on Saturday, after employees there had
kicked him out because he was acting erradically. Bassetti, who
told police that he was high on methamphetamine. Fine, very
motivating drug and motivated.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Is also to tell the truth. What's going on, sir,
I'm on methamphetamine very good.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
As you were top, he was already sailing the Hudson
River before employees could stop him. But the nopdse Aviation
and harbor units were quickly notified and went on the
hunt for the hard to miss nut job. I mean,
this writing is great. The seafaring kook then sailed a
(24:29):
boat up to a larger so he sailed a dinghy
up to a larger anchored catamaran sailboat, climbed on board
that vessel. Members of the harbor unit quickly responded, got
on board the katam ran with him and arrested Blaseetti.
That's when he was taken into customy custod ty at
Columbia University Medical Center for treatment. Besides this boat incident,
(24:50):
no cases have ever been held against Blaseetti. This is
his first crime. Maybe he's new to meth. Also, you
don't think of meth as a New York City drug,
you know, but I.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Don't think of meth as a New York City drug.
He might have gotten it somewhere else. He might have
gotten it on the Hudson. He might have gone all
the way up to Hudson, the downtown of upstate, and
gotten some.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Took that long dinghy ride. I want to own a dinghy.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, when'd you go on a dingy?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
No, I want to own one. I want to buy
a dingy. I feel like you can buy for five
hundred bucks. And just god, I wish I had more space,
I'd own a dingy.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
I know. The thunder just started, and poor Zelda is
not doing well. She's really shaken. She just pushed open
the door of the room and oh, she's really shaken.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
I'm sorry, little thing. Yeah. I guess Zelda was a
desert dog all these years, not used to an afternoon
rainstorm every single day from September.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
She really doesn't like it. I'm sorry, sweetie.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Have you noticed a Have you noticed any difference in
personalities of the people around you? Do people say hello
more or less? Do people a wave more or less?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
People are very I would say over all people are
incredibly friendly, especially when you have to like interact with
someone in a like going to the library or something,
or going to a restaurant or something like that. People
are very friendly. Yeah. The what Lauren has noticed is
(26:22):
that the drivers are lunatics. Okay, and I have noticed
that a little bit. And I was like, oh, yeah,
that's right. That's why I drive this way because I can't.
I grew up driving with these people. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Yeah, people do drive differently, especially New Jersey to Boston.
That little corridor. Yeah, for aggressive drivers.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yes, it's really aggressive.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
I worked with a dude for Red Bull and Queen's
and he said his dad was giving him like a
like a driver's lessons, just an amateur father son lesson.
And his dad said that you're supposed to drive to
make other people break. That was his lesson, and that
when you back, when you parallel park, you're supposed to
back up till you tap the car behind you pull
(27:05):
forward till you tap the car shout out, Frank. I
forget what your last name was, but yeah, his dad's
first lesson was drive so that other people have to break. Wow,
the exact opposite of a good way to drive.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Yeah. And also like tapping a car outside of the
Northeast is considering. It's like people will go crazy. Yeah,
and then New York people are just like, yeah, it's
how you park. You tap tap, tap.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Back and forth, then you pull forward, then you back.
I've seen it. And people sell this thing called bumper badgers. Yeah,
like rubber things that hang on your trunk because people
just New Yorkers when they parlot park, they back into
the car behind them and then pull forward. This it
just happens constantly everywhere. It's not like a stereotype. It
happens constantly. Yeah, it's a horrible way to treat other people.
(27:53):
But you know, there's a lot of people in that
town and not a lot of cars.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
So you want to dinghy, but we just don't have
the space for it.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
No, But my good friends Melissa Norris learned how to
captain and they have a sailboat and Marina del Rey,
and sometimes I get to ride with them as we sail.
We just sail up and down probably ten miles north
and then maybe ten or fifty miles south. And to
see La from the ocean is amazing.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
It's really amazing, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Because it's a beach up into a city, up into
the mountains. And then yeah, it's just so neat to
see it from the reverse. And yeah, I would just
like to tune around a little dinghy and you know,
wave to people and just ask.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Them to wait. I mean, Dinghy's are for waving.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Dinghy's are number one waving vessel.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Yeah, can we name this, Katie. Dinghy's are for waving.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Dinghy's are for waving. Maybe well, one day, well we'll
do well enough with bananas that we can buy yellow
dinghy and just just dinghy around whenever we're near a
body water. Curtis from Neptune, New Jersey. That's very clear.
I'm from Racerstown, Maryland, which is very closely than her harbor,
so there is potential for us to dinghy.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Yeah, oh yeah, we can dingy baby.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Next time I'm in Racersstown, I'm gonna I'm gonna go
to Racer's Town. My parents don't live there anymore, but
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go to the Harryman House,
which is a bar and restaurant, and I'm gonna I
don't know how I'm gonna alert the bananimals, but I'm
gonna go. And I'm gonna just say open tab for
any bananamal that walks through that door for the next
two hours, and I'm just gonna see what happens. I
love that. Maybe I'll just like a banana. I'll be like,
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there's a banana at the end of the bar at
the Harryman House. If you show up between six and eight,
all drinks and food are on me.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
I love that idea.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Yeah why not?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
How many could possibly show up? Two hundred one thousand?
I'm like, oh, this is a huge mistake. My Oh,
my sister was in Uh, this is cool. She was
in London. Family trip to London. Traffic was terrible. Hopped
on uber. An uber boat picked them up on the
(30:03):
Thames and they ubered back to their hotel on them. No,
why do you know about that? No?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I did not know about that.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
She sent me a photo from the boat and I
had never heard of that. And she basically bypassed all
traffic by just ubering a boat in the Thames.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Badass.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
So that is awesome.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
And knowing you when you take your kids, when your
family goes to London, the brown owlers are going to
be sailing. They're going to be living that diggy life
up and down the Thames.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
You might get a like a barge to stay on.
That would be great. I don't think they call.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Them barges sounds do you want to tease me into
a thumbs up? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Baby?
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Police a man opposed as an ambassador and ran a
fake embassy. Oh this is crazy story.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Oh great, that's a good one. I like that I
got some great thumbs ups. All right, first, this is
you and me thumbing up caregivers. We've never done this before.
Thumbs like all the caregivers. We've done lots of nurses
and doctors and the like. Maybe we've even done daycare,
but this is for caregivers. We got a really nice DM.
(31:16):
I'm not going to say the person's name because she
didn't say say this on the air or whatever, but
really nice caregiver. Let us know that she works with
one client who is blind and stays inside a lot
and listens to bananas and it always brightens his day
and her day. So thumbs up to both of you.
Thank you for listening to bananas. I think you know
who you are, but we're glad to have you both listening. Yes,
(31:37):
it means so much. We have a great top shelf
bananamal named Cheyenne Wonderluster's Kurt. I've done so many of
her stories. We've met her a couple times, but she
wanted us to mention acknowledge a dear friend of hers, Justin.
Justin passed away recently. He sounded like an incredibly fun,
loving true character in life and he actually came to
(32:00):
Bananas Live in Minneapolis and we met him. We have
a photo with Cheyenne and Justin. He big Beard seemed
like a really lovable guy, but he had never seen
Bananas Live. Laughed the whole time, loved it. So I'll
post that amazing picture. But Chayan just wanted us to
acknowledge him because he was such a great guy, and
she's such a great Bananamal, So big consensual hugs from
(32:21):
the Banana Boys, Cheyenne, Lice Guys, and Rip the Way
An RP. Justin Glad to have gotten to know you. Yeah.
Thumbs up to Elise one. She graduated from nursing school
with a masters in nursing and is stoked to be
a Level one trauma emergency Bananamal. Also, I think Elise
is the same Bananmal who went and found a giant
(32:43):
roller skate roadside attraction and sent us a photo because
we always encourage people to go see roadside attractions. The bigger,
the better, the dumber. So thumbs up to Elise. Finally,
Sam wants us to thumb us up for Bananas Fast
and creating an atmosphere of love. She went last year
and she says, I want to shout out all of
(33:04):
my banana goals. These were new friends she met last
year at bananas Fest, Carrie, Katie, Jesse, Lindsay, Zoe, and Rena.
They're all still friends, they still talk, but they all
met at banans Fest one, and I hope almost all
of them will see at bananas Fest two.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yes, Bananafs two October fourth and Denver, Colorado.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Folks, it's fat. We need to announce our what we're
going to try for Guinness. I think that's important.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Okay, I'm ready to announce that.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
So we are going to once again work with I
Support the Girls, a national wonderful company who supplies women's supplies,
tampon's pads, underwear, bras, that sort of thing for women
who need them. Last year we did a tampon toss
and they gathered so I don't even remember. Five thousand tampons,
some crazy numbers.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Yeah, this year, Kurt, this year will be doing most
people wearing bras on their head one time. And so
all you gotta do is bring a bra man or woman,
Bring a bra man or woman or non binary, bring
a bra, put it on your head. We'll take a
picture and to Guinness, and Guinness will stonewall us, but
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will know we did it.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Let's go for a thousand bras on heads. Go out,
any size you want, turns up. Bras come in different sizes, Kurt,
A lot of people don't know that you know. Any
type you want, you bring it, make sure it's new,
make sure it's clean. We're gonna put it on our heads.
Then we're gonna gather them up and we're gonna donate
them to I Support the girl.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
That is verybile, very important piece of information. Do not
bring an old bra. Bring a new bra that you
would wear, and we'll put it on your head once
and then it will be donated as a fresh, clean,
new bra for someone to use who doesn't.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Women in need in Colorado, we're.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Going around the country. They get distributed around the country
to wherever has like a deep need at that time.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Oh beautiful.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
And they also they also will go to refugee camps
as well, so.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Well that is also we're going to do that earlier
in the day. That's one of the earlier events. So
don't worry, you're not gonna have to carry a bra
around all day. Also, it's cool to carry a bra
around all day, so get into it. It's very on trend,
very fashion forward.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
That's the that's actually the shirt we're going to be selling.
It's cool to carry a bra these days. It's actually
very trend, very fashion forward. That's the whole show.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Is thank you so much, but yeah, great. We love
that organization. We're happy to do it with them. And
we had the founder of I Support the Girls as
a guest, Dana Marlowe. She's the executive director and founder
and she was a wonderful guest, but she's done such
incredible work. We're happy to do this, So come on
out to Banana's Fest two. It starts with a splity
in the city. We're going to do bird costumes. If
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you want to design a bird costumer, wear one. We're
going to hand out prizes all day to the best
bird costumes. Dog costume contests are going to judge anything
you want. If it's banana, it's burred great. But if
it's just a fun costume you've made for your dog,
we're gonna march them across the stage.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
If you got if you got a Schnauzer and a Hamburger,
we're into it.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Wiener Dog in a burger costume. I'm looling out loud
for that one and last detail about Bananas Fest. So
we have a great bananamal named Jesse Holland who was
there last year. She was coming this year. For health reasons,
she's unable to come. But I just thought, Kurt, you
and I should preemptibly send Jesse a little feel good
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and say we're naming you Banana of the Fest before
Bananas Fest. So, Jesse Holland, you are are Bananas of
the Fest, the first ever, and sending you lots of
love and good health.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
Lots of love. Thank you for those thumbs up.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Scottie. Oh you're so welcome. You can send them in.
I get to them as fast as I can. And uh,
you know, no birthdays, no anniversaries unless it's a crazy one,
unless it's sixty years of marriage or I don't know,
one hundred years of marriage unless your child bride and
child husband and you've been married for one hundred years.
(37:10):
Let's just keep into building yourself up or others up
thumbs ups.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
This one was sent in by Raw Barnes. Thank you,
Raw Barnes and a lot of good ones.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Here a fake embassy was busted in Guyazia bad which
already sounds like a not a real country, where a
man posed as an ambassm ambassador of imaginary countries like
Siborga and West Arctica, using luxury cars and fake flags.
(37:44):
This man really went for it, Yeah he did. So
this is I'm gonna I'm gonna pull from the AP
for the story I love the AP Associated Press long
written by Roger sh Roy. Thank you Roger Shime, and
the title they have is much less incendiary. Man posed
(38:06):
as an ambassador and ran a fake embassy. Indian police
have arrested a man.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Oh hold on, bless you keep it in that's real, folks,
live to tape.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Indian police have arrested a man accused of running a
bogus embassy from a rented residential building near the capital,
New Delhi and recovered cars with fake diplomatic plates. The
suspect impersonated an ambassador and allegedly duped people for money
by promising overseas employment, said senior police officer Sushil Ghoul
(38:39):
of Atar Pradesha's States Special Task Force in Northern India.
According to police Harshevardan zans forty seven claimed to have
acted as an advisor or ambassador to entities such as Seborga.
Sborga is the funniest nate too.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
And I'm sorry, it just seems like somebody panicked and
said suborga.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
I mean, it definitely sounds it definitely sounds like a
word you come up with when somebody's like, well, what's
it called sorga?
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Excuse me?
Speaker 1 (39:10):
Suborga Jeamsborga and west Arctica. West Arctica at least sounds like.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
But also where would it be bottom the Arctic?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
It doesn't like north, southeast and west like there's one
point where like they don't make any sense true. Uh.
Police recovered multiple doctored photographs showing jan with world leaders
and fake seals of India's foreign ministry and nearly of
and nearly three dozen countries and nearly foreign ministry And
(39:42):
I don't know understand what that means. Jane was also
suspected of illegal money laundering through shell companies abroad. Wow,
he was into a lot of stuff. He's also facing
charges job this sounds like the massive amount of work
that goes into the My god, illegal money laundering through
(40:03):
shell companies. It's facing charges of forgery. Impersonation, possessing fake documents.
Police recover four cars bearing fake diplomatic plates and nearly
four point five million Indian rupees. How much is four
point five rupees?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Four point five million numbers?
Speaker 1 (40:18):
No, no, no, I know what it is. I have
the number. I want you to guess off the top
of your head. Four point five million rupee?
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Oh god, forty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yeah, it's fifty two thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Oh, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Guests. That is very funny, just being like, this is
my car is worth my car is worth two million?
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Routes out I'm a millionaire only in India.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Other foreign currencies in cash from Jen's rented premises, which
were adorned with international flags of several nations, could not
be reached for comment. That's amazing. I don't understand how
he made the money. He was like, you come get
a job in Suborga and people were like, what am I?
What will I doing Suborga? Oh, you'll be a good
flocking And it's like, oh, sounds great. He's just making up.
(41:05):
I mean like he's really going for it.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
He's cool. It sounds like Ikia furniture.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yeah, it does that. Sounds like it sounds like it's
an Ikea furniture organ. Yeah, as a country.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Yeah, it's a it's a lounge share that turns into
a charcuterie board. It's isorgan.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Give me, give me one. Just the title, sweetheart, mm.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Hmmm, just the title too hot for clothes. Balls Out
Bowling is back, Nudity required.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
I heard this, I saw this.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Babe. Serene Stephanie sent this in Thank you, Serene Stephanie,
and honestly it's four sentences. I'll just do him. It
was in w t RF written by John Lynch, who
he's a balls out best in the biz wright. Balls
and Bowling is back, the ultimate bowling experience. Pittsburgh area naturalists.
I didn't know, nudie. We're called naturalists now and oh
yeah baby, that's are hosting yet another balls out bowling
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event where you can bowl in the nude, because who
who hasn't been bowling? And thought, I wish I was.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
I want to do this totally nude.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
I want that sit on these surfaces and stick my
finger in these holes and just be totally nude when
I'm doing I.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Want to just let that fan do its original purpose.
That little fan just hang over that little fan.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Mmm. Oh, I never thought about that. That's pretty good.
Do you have to wear bowling shoes? That's the real.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Question, one hundred percent. You have to wear could You.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Wouldn't slide barefoot? You just it'd be a lout squeaking. Yeah.
It's held at the craft in Ingram Lanes and Peak.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
It would be really funny if in addition to having
to wear bowling shoes you would also have to rent
like a little cock sock.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Yeah. I think that's fair. It looks like a bowling fan.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
And then they just spray, and with the same spray
that they spray the bowling shoes.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
I think that's it. I think everybody strips walks out,
and then the guy that works they're just hostes every
down with the antiseptic spray under the pits a little
bit some of the other regions. Isn't it weird how
certain foods taste better at certain places, Like curly fries
at a bowling alley are a ten out of ten.
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Wow, look at that. That's a very specific. I would
say a mikelobe tastes best at a bowling alley.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Yeah. A picture of beard a bowling alley. You get
that michelobe draft.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Oh, I think it's I think it's the first time
I had a michelobe was at a bowling alley and
I remember it was in the old school bottle that
was like weirdly shaped, like a like a woman's body shape.
Do you remember that one?
Speaker 2 (43:36):
Of course we've discussed it. I think they look like
a long butt plug.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
But they do look like a long butt plug.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
Looks just like really a big inner butt plug.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
Did you see the bottle? Did you see the Corona
bottle that was designed by a Japanese scientist so that
you can insert it into the sand?
Speaker 2 (43:54):
Yeah, he dude, just looks exactly like a butt plug
that is going up a butt. There's no percent it's
going up a butt. I know who'll rekidding. Also a
Corona bottle. I've been on the beach thousands of times.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
You can stick them in the sand with a.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
Bottle of beer you can buy and everyone fits perfectly
in the sand.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
Sand it's one of the main places that can hold
Eddy's jape.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Sand can hold any shape on Earth. You didn't need
to sharpen the bottom of a corona.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
This guy was like, no, it's a it's for the sand.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Yeah. His wife came down to his glass blowing laboratory
and he's like, no.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
Why do you have all these beer bottle butt plugs
this sand?
Speaker 2 (44:38):
Honey, it's for a Corona beer the Mexican survey, so
that you stick in the sand.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
But you can't put on a flat surface.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Oh yeah, the thing, oh sand, the thing that holds
every shape equally and.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Well, honestly, now that we're joking about it so much,
I bet you it's fake. I bet you it's fake information.
I bet you it's not real bowling.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
The event is for everybody over age eighteen, whether it's season,
pro or beginner. Nudity is required except women can wear bottoms,
which sure, sure why not. Sexual activity is not permitted,
so if you get really turned on bailing naked, do
not show up to craft and Ingram lanes. Also, this
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event happened last month, so if you want to go
in twenty twenty six, pen animals, don't send photos, but
have a great time bowling naked with other naturalists. There's
no harassment, nothing will be taken lightly, says the creators.
Violators will be kicked out. No photography or video is allowed.
The event is a pre ticket event. No tickets will
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be sold at the door, so you have to plan
ahead for bowling balls out naked. But go have fun.
That sounds fun. Why not live a little?
Speaker 1 (45:55):
Thank you so much, Scottie.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Thank you, Kurdi b thank you everybody exactly right. Thank
you to our producer and engine here, Katie Levine, who
helps us in so many wonderful ways. This has been
another jolly episode of Bananas.
Speaker 1 (46:09):
Banana started as a gentleman.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
Ben got a Corona bottle up the booty. Bananas is
an exactly right media production.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.
Speaker 2 (46:25):
The catchy Banana theme song was composed and performed by Kahon.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
And our benevolent overlords are the great Karen Kilgareff and
Georgia Hardstart.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot,
part time employee.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
You can listen to Bananas on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts, and please feel
free to rate and review as many times as you can.
We love those five stars.
Host
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