September 30, 2025 • 49 mins
Kurt and Scotty talk about an emotional support alligator that is no longer welcome at Walmart, a man loses his car after bachelor party and the viral Moroccan legend Emile Leray!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You ready, I'm to laugh and love and laugh.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Emotional support. Alligator is no longer welcome in Pennsylvania Walmart.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
No Wow, And to think their license plates used to
say you have a friend in Pennsylvania. Not an alligator friend,
not a crocodile friend. Well, we'll see you later. Right
after this song on a brand new Bananas.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Would you.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Guys call's non binary pels. Welcome to Bananas. That's Scotti Landis.
I'm looking at him right now, folks.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
That's Curtie Bee Kirk Brown Oler. He's a great guy,
and welcome to the silliest little podcast there ever was.
It's strange news from around the world. You guys send
it in, we chat about it, and then we tell
stories from the heart. But how are you, CURTI b
I feel like.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
We haven't seen each other in two weeks, right, I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Probably maybe more.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
It's been maybe more, possibly more, maybe more. I'm good.
Was Gus's birthday this weekend? It's actually Gus's birthday to day?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Oh good?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And yeah. We went to Lego Land, New York. Baby,
there you go, you know, I'm.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
There, you go. That's fun.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
It's I'm surrounded by farmland and woods. It's it's a delight.
It's a delight to go.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah. When I was younger than him, my mom took
us up there and I climbed too high on the
nets and got scared, so my poor mom had to
climb all the way up there and get me down.
Classic mom stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Are you talking about maybe Sesame place? Baby?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Oh? Is that one? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, yeah, I bet you'd sess me place. The Lego
land is very new.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Okay, good, okay, good, Well it's all blurred to me.
I was traumatized, clearly. I felt like a sardine in
a fishing net. But shout out to moms who climb.
Shout out to all moms who climb for their Hell yeah, dude,
well that's good. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
That just reminds me of this crazy There was this
in La. It was like a trampoline place, you know
where it's for.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Kids and they jumped zones or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
But it wasn't a sky zone, which is like the
big one. This was like an independently run one. And
one of their main things was that they had like
I don't know, it's probably five kids stories, yeah, but
five kids stories of a play structure that you could,
like you know, each level was probably four feet tall, yes,
but it went up probably twenty five feet in the air,
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and then it was surrounded by a net so that
you couldn't so they couldn't like climb out of it. Well,
there was a fucking hole in the roof of the
net well, and like a I don't know, two or
three year old found the holes.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Of course, kids will find stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Climbed up onto the roof of this thing, and it
was a kid who was like wobbly yet walking, and
so it was oh my terrifying, Oh my gosh, which
is all these parents all of a sudden looking up
and seeing like a toddler on the roof of this
structure just like wandering over towards the edge and then
wandering away. It was so crazy, Like everybody was just
(03:24):
like can I catch like a thirty pound child, Like yeah,
you can probably, but like how is he gonna fall?
But luckily, like an employee like scaled the side of
the thing and like grow him.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It was stream day for that employee that imagining that
scenario for so long. Meanwhile, I'm over there just putting
mustard my hot dog, so scared, I just squirt it
all the way across the store, and you know, a
baby on a stroller right across their face. How you doing.
I'm glad that child made it. Oh, I'm good. It's
an ant season in La but oh yeah. I was
out there in the front yard. I was potting, playing
(04:00):
ant yesterday. You know, I had the top soil out.
The neighbors are walking by asking me what I'm up to,
as if it's not the most obvious thing in the world.
And uh, I put some little olive trees.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Some olive trees.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I love it. I'm entering my olive tree era.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
My sister gave me one last year Christmas, Yeah, for
a Christmas present. And it's just thriving in this desert
heat low. You know, I don't want to water in
my yard.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeahah, yeah, it's a drought.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It's a drought all the time out here. Even when
they say we're out of the drought, at still droughts.
So I'm going hard, succulent, hard olive tree. I'm never
gonna eat them. Have you ever eaten an olive just
directly off an olive tree?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I did. They're not They're not good.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
It doesn't taste like an olive.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I mean, I guess what we're what we really like
is salt.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
We like it just so soaked in salt that it
absorbs the brine. It tastes like if you bit a racquetball.
That's what an olive tastes like.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And there's some some that are red, and you know,
I was like, I didn't know there was red olives.
What the fuck's happening?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Beautiful? So anyways, hopefully my front yard one day just
is you could get lost in a forest of olive
trees and sit in the shade. My goal is, honestly
to sit in the shade in like five years. That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I mean, that's such a good.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Goal, do you know what I mean? It really is.
I'm going it won't be the potted ones, but the
one my sister gave me is already like four or
five feet tall, so maybe I just need a towel
on the ground.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Oh man. And they in the place that we will
hopefully eventually be living. There's I noticed I was walking
around the neighborhood and notice that, like there's a tradition
and I don't know if it's like a stated tradition,
but I've just noticed it on a multiple properties where
if you have a corner lot, there's a rock like
right on the corner. I don't know, for sitting, like
(05:44):
a sit in rock. And so gus like because we
were like walking, and you know, the kids are like,
I can't walk more than like three feet and and
so then they would just like sit on the rock
and we would like take a break. And I was like,
this is ideal, Like I'm going to totally buy a
big old hocking rock and bury it in the corner
(06:05):
of my property. That's cool, just for people to take
a sit, take a seat, maybe even make it look
like a seat. You know, how.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Nice is that? How nice is it just to sit
on a rock? Right? Man?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I miss camping. I miss camping so goddamn much.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah, that's right. I wonder if that's just a yard
marker or a property line marker. But I like the
idea that it's uniform, that everybody has it. Oh, speaking
of traditions changing, you guys aren't here, so I won't
be walking around with your kids for Halloween. So you know,
Mamary and I for years got a margarita machine, so
we give can to the kids. Margerita's to the parents.
Maybe we'll do that again. But thankfully some of my
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best buddies, including Alison Fields, who was a guest on
Banans before, is back in LA and she lives in
Eagle Rock. Not to docks her whole life and blow
her whole existence up, but that's a really really good
neighborhood for trick or tree eaters, like thousands of kids.
So straight up, I'll be pivoting off of walking around
(07:06):
and trying to protect the young brown owlders. And now
I'm just gonna be. Now I'm just an old guy
giving candy to children.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
That's great, that is great. Don't care, kids really don't care.
So no, no more Margarita machine.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
That's out. Well, I you know, I saw Memory over
the weekend, and I don't if we're both in town,
I think we need to do it. It's just the
parents go is this the Margarita house? And we say
hell yes. And usually the Dodgers in the playoffs, so
the dads have seen dads walk into Memory's house and
watch the Dodgers game with a Margarita. No I have.
I've seen it multiple times. It's usually like these, you know,
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just middle aged guys. They have a Dodger hat on.
They walk right past us with a plastic cup with
a margarita and they watch as a projection projector and
they just watch the Dodgers for a couple of pitches
and then take their kids. You know, everybody's dressed like
Captain America these days. Just walk them back out into
the world. That's great.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I love that so much.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Great people.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Oh Man, shout out to people, shout out to people.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Tell me about this gator this. I saw the photo
and I have to say, the man looked like the
most likable man on planet Earth. You're talking about You're.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Talking about well Wesley Silva. Yeah, he looks like the
most likable man on the planet Earth. Also, it looks
like a likable gator too. If I'm gonna be honest
with us, don't lie. I'm not gonna lie to us.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
To me, right, yeah, last time I checked for now?
All right?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
So this one I found on my own. I was
looking just checking real quick emotional support. Alligator is no
longer welcome in Pennsylvania Walmart. This was from NBC News
That's sort of real, written by David k Lee or
Lie l I Best in them bees. A Western Pennsylvania
(08:57):
man and his emotional support alligator. How do you get
how do you get a card to carry an emotional
support alligator? I can't imagine that that's that's not a doctor.
No doctor signed off on that, right.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Like I mean, Cheryl Crow said it best. If it
makes you happy, it can't be that bad. And nothing
went wrong in her life. So listen to Cheryl Crow.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
There's a new Lilith Fair documentary coming out.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Do you know that? No? I that was. I'm a
tad younger than you, so you were you your peers
probably really went. I don't know if this went, but
I was a little young, like I was a Lilith
Fair thirteen or thirteen. Yeah, but I remember that was
a big deal.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I don't know anyone who went to a little ath Fair,
I'll be honest. Just wasn't our scene.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
But you were in a boys' school. What you know,
the boys weren't going to line up to see Sarah
McLaughlin seeing we were born innocent.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Western Pennsylvania man and his support emotional suport alligator took
a shopping cart spin around the local walmart, where he
claims they've never had a problem but his recent trip
earned them orders to stay away. The retail giant confirmed Thursday,
Wesley Silva sixty and is five foot long, thirty two
pound reptile. That's not as much as I anticipated for
(10:23):
not deadly at all, five feet long and only thirty
two pounds. Just imagine the thinnest, skinniest little alligat. Are
you ever good?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Name gin.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Oh, j I n s Eio s Hijin Saoshi Jin Saoshi.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Maybe there's a problem right there, but you know, trying
to explain that, you're like, now, that's even crazier. Just
name it Jim. If that was Jim the gator, that
thing is in Aisle six and he time it wants.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
To especially at Walmart, right, everybody's confused.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
The best, are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
So yeah, so they were walking around trip around Walmart
in West Brownsville, where he pushed the alligator around in
a shopping cart as she was wearing a dress. Okay,
that is that sentence that is adorable. Before concerns about
the recent visit where raised, Silva insisted he and Ginny
so she experience nothing but praise. We've been going to
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that Walmart for about three and a half years. And
normally the reaction is that's pretty cool or that is
awesome that you have a pet alligator. Man that's still
told NBC News on Thursday, Oh hell yeah, Oh my god,
this picture, this is the picture I think you're talking about.
Gincoshi is wearing a sweater knit sweater with a fur collar. Adorable,
(11:56):
the classic. I honestly want this sweater to just have
a regular old knit sweater and then at the top
it's just like a brown fur collar.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I love it. And how far are you from a
costco right now? So you can go get some good sweaters.
You can really rack up some sweaters this season.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Oh yeah, are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Man?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
You're entering your sweater era. That's cool.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I am very excited to enter a sweater era.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Beard. You with that beard, that sweater? Please, you're gonna
fight them off with tomahawks?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Come on, come on, fighting off the cuddles from children.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, for gators.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
A Walmart spokesperson, though, was far less effusive and said
Jin Saoshi and any other gators aren't welcome inside the stores.
Quote the safety of our customers and associates as our
highest priority. Walmart set we welcome service animals in our stores,
but it is unacceptable to expose members of the public
to potential danger, You know what, They do have a point, sure.
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Silva said he got the alligator from a neighbor who
couldn't care for it anymore and gave it to him,
so he doesn't know what to do with it now.
Jin Seo she spends most of her days in a
pool outside and knights in a bathtub of water. Before
Jin Sao she arrived, Silva already had a zoo's worth
of reptiles in his animal family, including six snakes, a
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leopard gecko, a komodo dragon, an oscillated skink, and a
second alligator. This dude's got two alligators, but.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
He's got a komodo dragon.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Kimodo dragons are.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
They're poisonous saliva, they're vicious, they're.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Made for killing rattlesnakes.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
What the hell that like? Put me in a baby
pool with a gator. I'm like, okay, Just put me
in a field with the komodo dragon, and I'm code brown,
code brown. That is not good. That is okay.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
So this guy was always a wrap komodo dragon, and
then that's that's that whole sentence, right, oscillated's gink and
a second alligator period period.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
He also has a dog, poor dog.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Silva, a pastor at a bap church. The hits keep
coming and they don't stop with this story America, a
Baptist church and a Brethren church. I don't know to
bretherre In churches stopped just short of calling his worship
of reptiles a holy act. In the Bible, God talks
about is having dominion over animals. And I developed an
affinity for the reptile, said Sylva, the father of five.
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I find them very soothing. The reptile collection started three
years ago when a daughter wanted a snake. Just three
years ago. This is a short period of time to
accumulate two alligators in oscillated skink, a komodo dragon, a leopard,
get goo and six snakes in three years.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
That's crazy. The shoe fit. You would I think that
reptile shoe fit.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
You would think there would be at least five years
between alligator one an alligator two.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Well, it's like tattoos. A friend of mine got their
first tattoo and then two weeks later got their second tattoo.
So they went from like thirty years of life without
any to two within two weeks, and then I think
she has like ten. Now. I think sometimes people just
find their thing and it feels good and they ride
it to the sunset.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I guess, so I can't, you know, I keep going
back and forth about tattooed like I could do it.
I could, you know, I've done it. I've gone this
long without one, but also like Lauren got one, and
it's kind of cool. I like looking at it. I
think it's neat, you know. But then I just am
always just like, what with the ephemeral nature of everything
in my life, what is worth having there for forever?
(15:30):
I don't know. I can't decide, is what my problem is.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
You know. I have no idea. I have no idea. Yeah,
it's I'm not getting one, so I but I like
I might. I like them all my life to have them.
Bunch exes have them, everybody around me has them, and
I'm like, I'm not against them in any way. I
think they're very cool.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I think the boldest move, Scottie would be if you
had no tattoos. That's what I'm thinking, except for one
very intricate one around your butthole. Would be amazing just
be like, no, I don't. I do have one very
intricate tattoo, but you cannot see it.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yes, it's it's an elfish and it says seasons greetings.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I was gonna say a big billymouth bass.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
That's fine too. Oh if you could do if the
artist was good enough, so it was turning and looking
at you, ah, that would be one you.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Just see like on a cheek. You just see the
tail coming out kind of yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, that would have to be a real wakeboarding disaster
for anybody to get a look at that thing. You see. Okay,
I don't know, but the fish is throwing up.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Well, that's it. Okay, this is the last quote. It's
not even it's not even it's not even attributed to him.
We're just, I guess we assume it's.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
His somebody in Walmart. Right.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I held it one night and I just kind of
started really bonding with it and holding it, he said,
And finally she gave me an ultimatum, Dad, really you
need to get your own snake.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Okay. That is how NBC News just they like a
real open ending. So you can imagine what the next
three years were like. You know, it's easy to hate
on Walmart. It's easy to hate on all the Amazon,
all the big companies. I will say, there's been many
times in my life where a super Walmart, a twenty
four hour Walmart, two am has been there for me.
(17:26):
So I can't be a hypocrite and say screw them all.
I've bought in frozen chalm at three am at a
Walmart before and gone shark fishing. Okay, here it is there.
I got needs, guys, and I'm sorry, but seven to
eleven just doesn't cut the mustard.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Sometimes, yeah, doesn't have any chom.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I actually because I don't ever see them. I think
there is one in Burbank, maybe, but I haven't been
to a Walmart, and probably I have no idea. Oh
I know anden. Since the first week of lockdown in
Los Angeles, I drove to Arizona thinking they're not gonna
lock down, and boy was I right. I went to that.
(18:06):
I went to a Walmart supercenter right across the Arizona border,
loaded up on Lysol wipes, soap, toilet paper.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
There was no one else. Was like, who you don't
get it.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Ain't reel and I'm like, oh, it's real. And I
drove my car back with like five hundred dollars worth
of like survival shit. When I came around the corner
because in La I went to a food I went
to an Albertson's, the only thing left with seafood. The
shelves were bare, and I'm a Marylander, so I'm like,
(18:41):
giddy up. So I'm buying frozen shrimp and salmon and
halib it because everything else was sold out, like sauer
Kraut was sold out.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
It was a wild, wild time, like that first week
where it was just like every go go, You're gonna
run out of water and you're gonna run out of
toilet paper.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Go. I know.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
So I was just range choice.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah, I'm like fuck it, I'm going to Arizona. And
when and the difference. I pulled in that Walmart packed,
I'm walking around with a mask on. People are like, well,
here's a spaceman. Spaceman is here, he's shopping. And I
came around the cleaning aisle and like just saw everything
in stock and I was like this. I was almost
like gonna call people and be like venmo, me money.
(19:24):
I'm about to be a mule for Swiffers. I'm a
swiffer mule.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
That was you drove six hours just like there and back?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Or do you say I had nothing else to do?
I drove to Cocomo, Indiana that winter two because I
realized Cocomo was a real place, and I went and
it was freezing cold and has a praying mantis and
a subway parking lot and a lot of bape stores.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
So was Cocomo named after the song or did the
song get the inspiration from the town?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Uh? I think they both. I think it's a fictional place,
like it's sort of like Atlantis. I think the idea
of a Cocomo.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Oh, it's like a it's a term.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, And then like Chuck Berry quotes like parked way
up by the Cocomo. So I think it's almost like
a nothing place. But anyways, I was so bored in
lockdown that I was like, well, I'm going to drive
to Cocamo. And I got there really fast, and I
took it really slow. And let me tell you, that's
not where you want to go to get away from
it all.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I remember this was in high school. I wonder if
the word has anything to do with this older word cocaine.
Have you ever heard it's co coci gne cocaine. It
it means like a utopia paradise. And I remember it
was high school for some reason, and it was just
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one one teacher who just kept talking about cocaine. Yeah,
and it was the weirdest way to like start a
class with a bunch of like fifteen to sixteen year olds.
He's like, you're in your own personal cocaine. And we're
just like this guy is fucking ape shit, Like what really?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, make this classroom your cocaine
cocaig And I was like, what is he doing? This
is the weirdest choice.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Oh wow. And also Nirvana was a very popular band
at that time. Yeah, and utopia was a delicious drink.
So this guy was just grabbing.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
He was like, what else is I just wanted to
say cocaine. A lot of at All Boys Catholic school.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Sometimes people do like to do that. They like to
find out a word that has two meanings and then
they just say it. And I'm not saying it that way.
I'm not. Sometimes those people become teachers.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Exactly, give me one baby.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Let's see. Ellen Silka sent this one in. I remember
Ellen from our Aladdin Portland show. Very nice human being. Dude,
Where's my car? One man's three week post bachelor party
search for car?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yes, Oh I love this. Tell us these delightful details.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
This was in BBC dot Com. That's real, written by
the best in the missing car business, Jake Wood.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Oh thanks Jake, Jake Wood.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Sounds like a bar in Brooklyn. Sounds like you're like,
let's go down to Jake Woods. Yeah and drink some
and bible little Oh guess what?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Guess what just closed? Like I just saw that Alligator closed.
Alligate a lounge.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Oh man, Yeah, I had a lot of fun free
pizzas there.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
It was a free pizza with every drink. I don't
know how they stayed alive for so many years.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yes, if you bought a pint of beer, they would
give you this personal pizza. It was very thin, it
was probably about ten inches, but every beer. So if
you were like me when I had I don't know,
under two hundred dollars in your bank account, you'd go
buy two beers, eat two pizzas, and leave film full.
It was the best it was. And Capones did it too.
They closed a while ago, but yeah, it was a
(22:58):
fun idea.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, it's almost like it's not a feasible business.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah, almost like it's a terrible idea. But if there
was a bar in Los Angeles or anywhere that's sold
you got one beef old El Paso family style taco,
hard shell taco with a beer. Oh my god, you'd
have to wheel me out of that place. Dude, where's
my car? Typically, a sore head the day after a
(23:25):
friend's stag party is par for the course, but completely
forgetting where you parked your car in an unfamiliar city
can cause a different kind of headache. See Jake Wood
is just what he likes to do is use so
many words to say such a simple joke. That's what
happened to one man from County Wicklow in the Republic
(23:46):
of Ireland who misplaced his car during a stag do
in Cork three weeks ago, one hundred and fifty miles
from his home. Kieran, who shared his story with Cork
radio station in an effort to find his missing vehicle.
So he called it smart also good idea, not a
bad idea, said he had visited almost sixty different estates
(24:08):
in the city in the week since his nightmare began, thankfully.
His radio appeal worked with a listener locating his wine
colored scot to Superb a forty five. I know Scota
superb purb.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Man, that just sounds it was dip.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
That sounds like a dip. Yeah, he was dipping a
forty minute.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
You got bro superb yum young.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
And it's wine colored too, so it's got that burg indy.
What are those cigarettes? The swiss Er sweets, oh Man
cigurios and then you know, you get the wine flavored one.
Andre used to smoke those. Kieran, who was identified only
by his first name on the radio, called Neil Prindeville
(24:57):
Show on Wednesday morning to explain his predicament. Quote, I
got to Cork late at night. I couldn't find anywhere
to park in the city. I was so fed up.
I drove out towards the south of the city. I'm
not far how I'm not sure how far I drove,
but I parked up at an estate and since then
I haven't laid an eye on the car. So Kurt,
remember this is a forty minute walk. That's how far
he parked outside the city. Forty I've been to Cork.
(25:22):
It is not there's a paid parking lot somewhere.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
It's a place to put your car prior to.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Walk forty It's like fifteen minutes outside the city. He
couldn't locate a wooded area.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Cork Is is not a huge city.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
No, it is not the biggest.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
City in Ireland is Dublin and it's like two million
people like Coke. Cork is I don't know, four hundred
thousand people, maybe two hundred thousand.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
It's pretty there, though, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
It's gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
We gotta have Maeve Higgins on she's from Cork.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah, we should.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I'm not sure how far I drove, but I parked
up on a state haven't seen it or haven't laid
an iron on the car since the stag party was
on April fourth and the first time having a night
out in Cork, so Kieren had never been to Cork before. Sure,
he says, I met the best people and had a
great what is it crake crack? I had a great crack,
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he told the program. But by Sunday, when it was
time to go on home, he said he couldn't get
his bearings remember where he had parked his car. One
of the boys stayed back with me and we drove
around Cork for the guts of five hours. Good phrase
for the guts of five hours.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
For the guts of five hours, that means it was
like almost for five hours or was it for like
almost to six What do you think the guts would mean?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I guess it's probably like the better of five hour,
better part of five hours. Yeah, for the guts of
the eight A lot of guts in Ireland, so that's the.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Better part, for the better part of you right.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Looking for this car. I put in so many hours
trying to find this car. It's also funny he says,
this car not my car. It's like he's so pissed
at this car. I looked for hours trying to find
this car. It's actually the stupidest thing I've ever done.
It has been a Nightmary said, here until Neil Prindeville,
the one and only Neil prindeval I mean, this guy
gets all the exclusives for Stagdoos that he had been
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through fifty nine Estates fifty nine in the suburbs of Cork,
taking note of every single one he had been in
contact with the Irish police and it checked if the
car had been removed or impounded. It had not been
the Irish police or the guard. I were very professional,
he said, but could not help him Angel Angelsy or yeah,
(27:45):
I'm gonna go with the angel C street Guard. The
station in Cork told BBC that the car was reported missing,
but they could not act because they had no idea
where the car was located. That missing, I get it,
I know what they're going for. They said. There was
no logical conclusion that the crime had been committed. No, okay,
I'm cracking up over it.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Than being Hammertown and park in your car forty minutes
away from the city.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I know it's incredibly found the city. If you could walk,
I don't know. I think I think I could. If
I could walk to something, I think I could walk
back to it. That's what I've been playing. Maybe not.
I'm cracking up over it. I want to put this
to bed and get on with my life. Here and
said Kieran offered a two hundred euro which is one
hundred and seventy one pound reward to anyone who was
(28:34):
able to help him look at his car, and finally
he was in luck. Within mere minutes of his radio plea,
a local woman called to say she had spotted the
Skota at an estate in bally Fefane or Bellepophane or
I'm going Bleepophane, but it's probably like Lefani. Yeah, so anyways, good.
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He used the radio. The police couldn't help him. He
helped himself.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
What an amazing place where people are all listening to
the radio.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I like a place like that me too. Oh my god.
Since it's the sporting season and football and baseball and
everything's on, I get Fubo. I download Fubo every turn
and has commercials, and I gotta say I love them.
I watch every commercial. I look for you, I look
for my other friends. I just saw Sam Richardson and
he's now in a commercial where he's just a big
(29:30):
financial investor for experience and he doesn't say anything. He's
just a large guy wearing a purple sweater, and that
seems to be the whole act. I'm like, Sam get paid,
doesn't even talk. He doesn't even talk no words. Just
he's their big help. And he reminds me of all
of being like we're gonna need a bigger billboard. He's
like Clifford the big red Dog. But he's say I'm
the big purple financial advisor. I do.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I don't mind commercials now because it gives you also
a time to be like and now we check our phone.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Now, we look at our phone. Now we pee. Now
we put the dirty plate that was on the coffee
table back in the kitchen. Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I really don't mind it.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I miss him so much. I was trying to think,
have you ever had a truly great time on a
bachelor party like that? You were great night? You were
like great night, not just like it was fun seeing
my friends.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
A truly great night, because I think I've been like
ten I think I I think I have. And it
was it was Coachella. It was Coachella bachelor party.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Oh hell yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
And we and we took mushrooms and and we're what
it would like. Started off watching the Replacements and then
pretty good started watching It was the Pixies.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Oh my god, where it was like really peaking.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
This is probably the last time I tripped, very hard,
so really peaking watching the Pixies. And I was and
it's you know, it's hot, it's the desert, just pourings
looking like a monster. My guyser at this and I'm
speaking like just like gibberish coming out of my mouth, right,
And this guy walks up to me with his ten
(31:13):
year old daughter and he's like, she's a big fan
of bunk. Did you take a picture with her? And
I was like if, I was like, I'm so sorry,
of course, and I was like and I'm just like
this like just just like my shirt was sopping wet. Yeah,
I looked like an animal. I mean like this is
(31:33):
the most embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Water and pupils at this point, just sweat and pupils.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
And then after that, there was just so many people
around that I had. We were all like kind of
getting freaked out that I went and bought us all
fruit cup, big fruit cup, twenty dollars for a fruit cup,
but a giganta fruit cup. We all sat on the
ground and ate fruit one piece at a time, and
then I went and got us another fruit cup, and
then we did it again, and that was like the
(31:59):
most perfect moment of the whole night of just like
sitting there quietly eating a fruit cup, tripping with these guys.
And then went back to a house with a pool
and swam in a pool and it was very very pleasant.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
If that friend group isn't saved in your phone as
a group chat as fruit cups, then you don't understand
how to live, and you need to reassess your entire life.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
I don't understand how to live.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I yeah, I've noticed a lot too because and I
don't think this is too controversial to say, but I
do find bacherette parties more annoying than bachelor parties. And
I think it's just the nature of in America at least.
And you see a lot of the hen parties whenever
you're in Spain or Greece, you just see the Brits everywhere,
just decked out hand ended up having fun. But I've
(32:44):
noticed over the years and when you see the bachelott
party go by it no matter where you are, but Nashville, Vegas,
no matter where, there's always one woman that I usually
like make eye contact with, even for two seconds. Whose
problem like the third best friend, she's not the sister,
she's not the current best friend, long history, and they
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give you a look like I know, I am sorry,
I don't want to be here either, save me, and
then they just keep walking and I feel like I've
made eye contact with one hundred of those women over
the year, Like I'm in Palm Springs. I was at
a gay bar with a bunch of buddies and I
was like, what do you guys think of these bachelor parties?
(33:27):
And they're like, we hate it. I mean we're glad
they're safe or whatever, but we hate it. And in
every one of those groups, you know, the the ding
dong necklaces and the matching cowboy hats or whatever the
bows the feather bow is, there's one woman looking at
you like I'd rather be at home with my kids.
I'd rather be across the street having a martini with you.
(33:47):
Out of Houston's Like it's basically, get me the f
out of here. Where's bachelor parties? It just feels like
everybody's like today, we are a team. We're a team
that plays golf. We're a team that plays paintball routine,
that smokes cigars, we have a very expensive whiskey, we
eat a steak, and we go to bed and you're like.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
But then no, But then there's a weird part of
the bachelor party, like towards the late late night, where
like there's these guys who are like, we gotta make this.
I like to bar and it's like and then it
just gets like weird, and then there's just like a
weird energy and then you're just like I'm out, I
can't do this anymore.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yeah, I take that back. I take back my statement.
From the perspective of dancers at strip clubs, the men
are probably way worse. So maybe it's just the guys
I associate with who are a bunch of fruit cups
and they would much rather have their own isolated fun
and be enhanced and eat fruit cups. But shout out
(34:46):
to those third best friends. We're praying for you to
hopefully you drink some gatory and get home safe.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I love that idea, though, third best friend, I mean something,
it is.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
What it is?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Something there.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Yeah, I've always wanted to write a rom that was
about two people who had grown apart from one's at
a bachelor party in Vegas. One is at a bachelor
rep party in Vegas. They've grown apart from their friend group.
Like you know how it is. I've had it where
your old friend's new friends are his work friends and
they have all these inside jokes and they do all
that and you're just being there and you're like, I
(35:19):
might never see these people ever again. But that two
people in that situation meet at a nightclub where they
don't want to be there and then have a before
sunrise type of night together and then go back to
their lives.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
And then if you want to wrap it up and
make it happy, one takes the other one to the date.
One of the one of the couples breaks up because
what happens in Vegas, and then the other one takes
ye other win is their date. So maybe maybe all.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Right, damn it, before sunrise.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
I don't know it.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
I think maybe one of my favorite movies top ten
for me, right, God, damn it, it's good.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I'm not a letterboxed guy, but that would be on
my letter box if I knew how to use it
or what it was.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
And before sunset is not bad either. Before midnight is
a bummer.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
You can only ring a rag out so many times
before it's just bone dry. They ragged that rug that went.
That is a bone dry rag, that big as stiff
as a board.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
All right, I'll tease this into summer thumbsies.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Here.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
It is the viral Moroccan legend of Emil Lay.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I can't stop thinking about that man or woman or
pony Vista Kathy Kathy, Kathy with an Eye wants to
thumb herself up for starting grad school. She's thumbing up
all the ban animals going through the application process for
college or grad school. Kathy with an Eye wants to
encourage all bananimals applying to apply for your dream school.
(36:50):
Kathy applied to Portland State, where she lives or lived,
but then also swung for the fence's curt and applied
for Columbia. Kathy with an Eye did not get in
to Portland State, but got into Ivy League school Columbia.
Dream big and go for the longer shot, because you
never know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Thumbs up to you, Kath. You deserve a double thumbs
up for that. I hope you're at Columbia and having
a really nice fall. Apparently it's nice in New York
right now. Taylor Long wants to thumb up best friend
of twenty years, Jenna all the way up. Growing up,
Taylor's parents would often open the door and find Jenna
in a Halloween costume when there was no holiday or
(37:29):
event or occasion. She also really enjoys pickles straight from
the jar. Yeah, that's just Jenniker.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
That's just Jenna.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Thumbs up to Jenna, who sounds like a true blue Bananamal.
Here's one more. Let's see. Oh yeah, this is a
good one. Raina and Rena. Sorry if I get your
last name wrong. I think it's I think it's Milnie's,
but it could be. Hey, I'm going Milnie's Ray and
Milnie says, I'd like to give myself two big, huge
(37:57):
thumbs all the way the hell up for doing the
very hard and very scary thing of hiring employees for
a professional dog walking business. This is Raina's dog walking business.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Oh wow, okay.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
In Orangeville, Ontario. I did some googling that is in Canada.
It's been challenging but a rewarding experience, but Raina says,
nothing beats the being able to give people jobs that
they truly enjoy spending time with pets all day. Thumbs
up to you, Raina and all the employees. Raina, you
(38:29):
didn't tell me the name of your dog walking business,
but if we'll share it in our stories, if you
send it to us some maybe we can jump some
dog pet and biz. Oh yeah, and that's all I
got if you have them, you can always send your stories,
your thumbs up whatever you want. Participate to the Bananas
Podcast on Instagram or the bananz Podcast at gmail dot com. Crity.
I want to show you this art of Lindsay Jenkins
(38:50):
sent me. I think it, yes, I think it's Lindsay
Jenks's her Instagram handle, but she sent us basically a
banana's Ouiji board and it is incredible. It's a spirit
board and I love it. It's now in my office
on my wall and the thing I'm a jig that
you push around is a banana.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Oh that's great. Oh that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
So thank you so much, Lindsay Jenkins. Art of Lindsay
Jenks on Instagram always sends us beautiful, colorful, cool art.
Support artists.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
That's hard artists. Come on. Also, we need to talk
about Pretty Gay at Bananas Fest.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Yes, Katherine McCafferty, who is our good friend, wonderful comedian,
but she hosts this incredible series called Pretty Gay where
she goes on mock dates with women and queer friends
and they are so charming, yes, and so funny, and
by the end of each one you're like the I'm
(39:47):
standing these two as a couple. So we're lucky that
at Bananas Fest in Denver October fourth, right smack dab
in the middle of the festival, in the middle of day,
we're gonna have Pretty gay Lie Live. Thing's going to
do a live recording with a date you can participate.
She has fun games. You can go to YouTube right
(40:08):
now and check her out. Pretty Gay Live at Bananas Fest,
and we're so lucky to have her. She's a great
all around gal and we've become really close friends over
the last two years actually ever since she was on
Bananas we become buddies.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
She's awesome.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
That she was able to do that.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
It's very cool.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
And former guest Lizzie Cooperman is going to be doing
tarot card readings all day long, and I think she's
already booked up, but you can keep you'll see her
doing tarot card readings live at Bananas Fest. Say hi
to Lizzie. She's the best, and sign up for a
future one. She'll do them over zoom. She's so I
loved my tarot card reading.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
And also remember that if you're interested in the in
the Patreon only hang out on Friday, October third to
become a Patreon member before that.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Yeah, and you're in.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
So here it is a baby. This is the viral
Moroccan legend of Emil Lay. I found this on oh
mech Engineering duh.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
I mean, I'm surprised you even had time to record
this year so deep into mech engineering it was.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
You know, just served to me. And then I found
this on four by four worldwide dot Com. This was
by Powa Paolo Baaldi.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Thank you Paolo, good name.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Uh. The extraordinary story took place back in nineteen ninety three,
but only recently has it come to light. Emil Lay,
the man at the center of it all, never sought
the spotlight for his incredible feat. Now sixty two and
living in northwestern France, Emil has finally shared the details
of an adventure so unbelievable it seems almost mythical. As
a lasting memory of that unique and unforgetable experience, he
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still keeps the peculiar motorcycle he built, a miracle born
of desperation and ingenuity. Not many people can tell a
story like this, and fewer still would have survived to
tell it. This is an interest you can tell four
by four Worldwide dot com where it's a different level
of writer. He's already mentioning a motorcycle. We don't know
anything about this person yet. Nope, all right. Not many
(42:14):
people can tell a story like this. Fewer still would
have survived to tell it. One can only imagine the
mental resilience and resourcefulness required to escape such a dire situation.
We still don't know what the situation is. Here is
the remarkable tale of a Meal Ray Okay, who, after
becoming stranded in the Moroccan desert, this should be your
first sentence, pal, after becoming stranded in the Moroccan desert,
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managed to return to civilization by transforming his Citrone two
CV into a makeshift motorcycle. In nineteen ninety three, Meal Array,
professional electrician, set off on a solo expedition to cross
the Moroccan Desert. Everything was going to plan till he
was stopped at a military outpost and are not denied
(42:56):
permission to continue. Rather than ending as adventure prematurely, he
decided to take an alternate route back to Tan Tan,
but the desert had other petros. The rough train took
its toll. Larray lost control of his beloved two CV,
breaking a suspension arm and rendering the car completely undrivable
with no chance of repairing the vehicle. His journey took
a dramatic turn from desert exploration to a battle for survival.
(43:17):
Faced with extreme isolation and scorching heat, Loray knew that
the only way to make it out alive was to
build a new means of transportation. Drawing on his technical
skills and a bit of improvisation, he began a nearly
impossible test to construct a motorcycle using only the remaining
functional parts of the Citron. First, he stripped the car
(43:37):
of its bodywork, repurposing its makeshift shelter from the oh
so he lived in the car while he built it.
Then came the real challenge, reimagining the car's chassis into
a rudimentary motorcycle frame. He found a way to mount
the wheels, install the engine, and rig a working transmission system.
Even the seat was fashioned from a bumper. Larray initially
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thought the project was take a few days, but it
turned into a grueling twelve day ordeal. Working tirelessly under
the desert sun, he carefully rationed his food and water.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
Yes, he did.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
It looks like something from Mad Max.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Like it?
Speaker 2 (44:12):
It looks so crazy and mild. It's really very cool.
And the whole thing is that he got then and
after setting off in his strange two wheel contraption, Larray
was eventually found by Moroccan police. He was rescued, but
not before receiving a fine for driving of vehicles whose
registration and documents didn't match.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
Its fantastic. So because so you that's that's fantastic. Doesn't
that makes me so happy that.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
He got fined for it. And the photograph of him
is so crazy. It's he's I mean, this is just
so French. He's in a banana hammock. Nice, that's it,
just a banana hammock, just surrounded by like this this
body of a citron and all of these like gears
(45:00):
and parts. It's really really crazy. That's just the way
this story, Isn't it crazy?
Speaker 1 (45:07):
For some reason, I wonder did they do this on
my favorite murder? Like this one sounds so familiar just
like as a survival story. Yeah maybe, but dude, that
is truly the coolest story. And what like, I have
a prejudice towards the French sometimes where I'm like, they're
really capable of things and been crazy situations and I
(45:27):
think it's because when you and I were we lads
in the eighties and nineties, like the idea of the
French Legion felt like the most exclusive, badass group of people.
So I just assume stranded French people are capable of anything,
which that's that's so funny, positive prejudice, that's very interesting.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
I have no opinions on the French Legion. I don't
other than that they have seemingly like frills for shoulders, right,
they have like little shoulder pads that have frills that
come off of them.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
Liked. I would never say that, though to a lesionaire
they would just beat. I imagine them doing push ups
on concrete on their knuckles, and that anybody escaping serious
crimes can join it and disappear and get citizenships. So
those are my two things.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
I imagine them wearing those hats with the flaps that
come down the back, well, those are cool, just little
like shower curtains on their shoulders.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
That in Kings Dominion, which is a great amusement park.
Growing up, we'd go down to King's Dominion, which I
think is now owned by Paramount, and they had a
stand up roller coaster called the Shockwave and I googled
this maybe I don't know, four months ago because I
was like, I wonder if the shockwave is still round.
It is not. They closed it down. It was never
that great anyways. You kind of stood, but you had
(46:42):
like a bike seat that like was up against your
your grundle. And but the coolest part was when they
launched the shockwave. They had those hats that had the
flap in the back that said shockwave and they were
black and neon. It said shockwave across the front and
then had that flap to keep your neck from getting
sun burnt. And I defy you to make the connection
(47:05):
between a hat with a flap on the back stand
up roller coaster. I thought about it for I took
a two hour walk with John C And I'm like,
but what shockwave? Why why a desert French Lesionaire's neon hat?
And I guess it was just the style that summer.
Oh yeah, those are a lot.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
Of pretty popular because it was like the mullet of
a hat. It was like a hat mullet.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
Yeah, if any bananamal, this is such an ask has
a King's dominion shockwave hat with that backflap from the
late eighties early nineties. I will buy it from you.
And I looked on Etsy, I looked on eBay. I
could not find it. But I have a vivid memory
of other kids in the neighborhood coming back from King's Dominion,
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and like two brothers would both be wearing them, and
I'm like, well, this is the peak of the coolness Mountain.
This is k two and Mount everest standing next to
me with some badass caps.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
Come on, somebody give Scotti.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
It kills me out for a while.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
Well that's it, guys, Thank you so much for listening
to another sweet ass episode Burns.
Speaker 1 (48:12):
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look for moments to be as silly and absurd as possible.
Stick together, take care of your own people, and we'll
be back every Tuesday to distract you from life. Bananas sorry,
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Emotional support. Alligator is no longer welcome in Pennsylvania Walmart.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
No Wow, And to think their license plates used to
say you have a friend in Pennsylvania. Not an alligator friend,
not a crocodile friend. Well, we'll see you later. Right
after this song on a brand new Bananas.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Would you.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Guys call's non binary pels. Welcome to Bananas. That's Scotti Landis.
I'm looking at him right now, folks.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
That's Curtie Bee Kirk Brown Oler. He's a great guy,
and welcome to the silliest little podcast there ever was.
It's strange news from around the world. You guys send
it in, we chat about it, and then we tell
stories from the heart. But how are you, CURTI b
I feel like.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
We haven't seen each other in two weeks, right, I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Probably maybe more.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
It's been maybe more, possibly more, maybe more. I'm good.
Was Gus's birthday this weekend? It's actually Gus's birthday to day?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Oh good?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And yeah. We went to Lego Land, New York. Baby,
there you go, you know, I'm.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
There, you go. That's fun.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
It's I'm surrounded by farmland and woods. It's it's a delight.
It's a delight to go.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah. When I was younger than him, my mom took
us up there and I climbed too high on the
nets and got scared, so my poor mom had to
climb all the way up there and get me down.
Classic mom stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Are you talking about maybe Sesame place? Baby?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Oh? Is that one? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, yeah, I bet you'd sess me place. The Lego
land is very new.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Okay, good, okay, good, Well it's all blurred to me.
I was traumatized, clearly. I felt like a sardine in
a fishing net. But shout out to moms who climb.
Shout out to all moms who climb for their Hell yeah, dude,
well that's good. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
That just reminds me of this crazy There was this
in La. It was like a trampoline place, you know
where it's for.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Kids and they jumped zones or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
But it wasn't a sky zone, which is like the
big one. This was like an independently run one. And
one of their main things was that they had like
I don't know, it's probably five kids stories, yeah, but
five kids stories of a play structure that you could,
like you know, each level was probably four feet tall, yes,
but it went up probably twenty five feet in the air,
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and then it was surrounded by a net so that
you couldn't so they couldn't like climb out of it. Well,
there was a fucking hole in the roof of the
net well, and like a I don't know, two or
three year old found the holes.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Of course, kids will find stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Climbed up onto the roof of this thing, and it
was a kid who was like wobbly yet walking, and
so it was oh my terrifying, Oh my gosh, which
is all these parents all of a sudden looking up
and seeing like a toddler on the roof of this
structure just like wandering over towards the edge and then
wandering away. It was so crazy, Like everybody was just
(03:24):
like can I catch like a thirty pound child, Like yeah,
you can probably, but like how is he gonna fall?
But luckily, like an employee like scaled the side of
the thing and like grow him.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It was stream day for that employee that imagining that
scenario for so long. Meanwhile, I'm over there just putting
mustard my hot dog, so scared, I just squirt it
all the way across the store, and you know, a
baby on a stroller right across their face. How you doing.
I'm glad that child made it. Oh, I'm good. It's
an ant season in La but oh yeah. I was
out there in the front yard. I was potting, playing
(04:00):
ant yesterday. You know, I had the top soil out.
The neighbors are walking by asking me what I'm up to,
as if it's not the most obvious thing in the world.
And uh, I put some little olive trees.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Some olive trees.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I love it. I'm entering my olive tree era.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
My sister gave me one last year Christmas, Yeah, for
a Christmas present. And it's just thriving in this desert
heat low. You know, I don't want to water in
my yard.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeahah, yeah, it's a drought.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
It's a drought all the time out here. Even when
they say we're out of the drought, at still droughts.
So I'm going hard, succulent, hard olive tree. I'm never
gonna eat them. Have you ever eaten an olive just
directly off an olive tree?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I did. They're not They're not good.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
It doesn't taste like an olive.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I mean, I guess what we're what we really like
is salt.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
We like it just so soaked in salt that it
absorbs the brine. It tastes like if you bit a racquetball.
That's what an olive tastes like.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And there's some some that are red, and you know,
I was like, I didn't know there was red olives.
What the fuck's happening?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Beautiful? So anyways, hopefully my front yard one day just
is you could get lost in a forest of olive
trees and sit in the shade. My goal is, honestly
to sit in the shade in like five years. That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I mean, that's such a good.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Goal, do you know what I mean? It really is.
I'm going it won't be the potted ones, but the
one my sister gave me is already like four or
five feet tall, so maybe I just need a towel
on the ground.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Oh man. And they in the place that we will
hopefully eventually be living. There's I noticed I was walking
around the neighborhood and notice that, like there's a tradition
and I don't know if it's like a stated tradition,
but I've just noticed it on a multiple properties where
if you have a corner lot, there's a rock like
right on the corner. I don't know, for sitting, like
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a sit in rock. And so gus like because we
were like walking, and you know, the kids are like,
I can't walk more than like three feet and and
so then they would just like sit on the rock
and we would like take a break. And I was like,
this is ideal, Like I'm going to totally buy a
big old hocking rock and bury it in the corner
(06:05):
of my property. That's cool, just for people to take
a sit, take a seat, maybe even make it look
like a seat. You know, how.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Nice is that? How nice is it just to sit
on a rock? Right? Man?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I miss camping. I miss camping so goddamn much.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah, that's right. I wonder if that's just a yard
marker or a property line marker. But I like the
idea that it's uniform, that everybody has it. Oh, speaking
of traditions changing, you guys aren't here, so I won't
be walking around with your kids for Halloween. So you know,
Mamary and I for years got a margarita machine, so
we give can to the kids. Margerita's to the parents.
Maybe we'll do that again. But thankfully some of my
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best buddies, including Alison Fields, who was a guest on
Banans before, is back in LA and she lives in
Eagle Rock. Not to docks her whole life and blow
her whole existence up, but that's a really really good
neighborhood for trick or tree eaters, like thousands of kids.
So straight up, I'll be pivoting off of walking around
(07:06):
and trying to protect the young brown owlders. And now
I'm just gonna be. Now I'm just an old guy
giving candy to children.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
That's great, that is great. Don't care, kids really don't care.
So no, no more Margarita machine.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
That's out. Well, I you know, I saw Memory over
the weekend, and I don't if we're both in town,
I think we need to do it. It's just the
parents go is this the Margarita house? And we say
hell yes. And usually the Dodgers in the playoffs, so
the dads have seen dads walk into Memory's house and
watch the Dodgers game with a Margarita. No I have.
I've seen it multiple times. It's usually like these, you know,
(07:44):
just middle aged guys. They have a Dodger hat on.
They walk right past us with a plastic cup with
a margarita and they watch as a projection projector and
they just watch the Dodgers for a couple of pitches
and then take their kids. You know, everybody's dressed like
Captain America these days. Just walk them back out into
the world. That's great.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I love that so much.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Great people.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Oh Man, shout out to people, shout out to people.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Tell me about this gator this. I saw the photo
and I have to say, the man looked like the
most likable man on planet Earth. You're talking about You're.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Talking about well Wesley Silva. Yeah, he looks like the
most likable man on the planet Earth. Also, it looks
like a likable gator too. If I'm gonna be honest
with us, don't lie. I'm not gonna lie to us.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
To me, right, yeah, last time I checked for now?
All right?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
So this one I found on my own. I was
looking just checking real quick emotional support. Alligator is no
longer welcome in Pennsylvania Walmart. This was from NBC News
That's sort of real, written by David k Lee or
Lie l I Best in them bees. A Western Pennsylvania
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man and his emotional support alligator. How do you get
how do you get a card to carry an emotional
support alligator? I can't imagine that that's that's not a doctor.
No doctor signed off on that, right.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Like I mean, Cheryl Crow said it best. If it
makes you happy, it can't be that bad. And nothing
went wrong in her life. So listen to Cheryl Crow.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
There's a new Lilith Fair documentary coming out.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Do you know that? No? I that was. I'm a
tad younger than you, so you were you your peers
probably really went. I don't know if this went, but
I was a little young, like I was a Lilith
Fair thirteen or thirteen. Yeah, but I remember that was
a big deal.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I don't know anyone who went to a little ath Fair,
I'll be honest. Just wasn't our scene.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
But you were in a boys' school. What you know,
the boys weren't going to line up to see Sarah
McLaughlin seeing we were born innocent.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Western Pennsylvania man and his support emotional suport alligator took
a shopping cart spin around the local walmart, where he
claims they've never had a problem but his recent trip
earned them orders to stay away. The retail giant confirmed Thursday,
Wesley Silva sixty and is five foot long, thirty two
pound reptile. That's not as much as I anticipated for
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not deadly at all, five feet long and only thirty
two pounds. Just imagine the thinnest, skinniest little alligat. Are
you ever good?
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Name gin.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Oh, j I n s Eio s Hijin Saoshi Jin Saoshi.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Maybe there's a problem right there, but you know, trying
to explain that, you're like, now, that's even crazier. Just
name it Jim. If that was Jim the gator, that
thing is in Aisle six and he time it wants.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
To especially at Walmart, right, everybody's confused.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
The best, are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
So yeah, so they were walking around trip around Walmart
in West Brownsville, where he pushed the alligator around in
a shopping cart as she was wearing a dress. Okay,
that is that sentence that is adorable. Before concerns about
the recent visit where raised, Silva insisted he and Ginny
so she experience nothing but praise. We've been going to
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that Walmart for about three and a half years. And
normally the reaction is that's pretty cool or that is
awesome that you have a pet alligator. Man that's still
told NBC News on Thursday, Oh hell yeah, Oh my god,
this picture, this is the picture I think you're talking about.
Gincoshi is wearing a sweater knit sweater with a fur collar. Adorable,
(11:56):
the classic. I honestly want this sweater to just have
a regular old knit sweater and then at the top
it's just like a brown fur collar.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I love it. And how far are you from a
costco right now? So you can go get some good sweaters.
You can really rack up some sweaters this season.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Oh yeah, are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Man?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
You're entering your sweater era. That's cool.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I am very excited to enter a sweater era.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Beard. You with that beard, that sweater? Please, you're gonna
fight them off with tomahawks?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Come on, come on, fighting off the cuddles from children.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yeah, for gators.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
A Walmart spokesperson, though, was far less effusive and said
Jin Saoshi and any other gators aren't welcome inside the stores.
Quote the safety of our customers and associates as our
highest priority. Walmart set we welcome service animals in our stores,
but it is unacceptable to expose members of the public
to potential danger, You know what, They do have a point, sure.
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Silva said he got the alligator from a neighbor who
couldn't care for it anymore and gave it to him,
so he doesn't know what to do with it now.
Jin Seo she spends most of her days in a
pool outside and knights in a bathtub of water. Before
Jin Sao she arrived, Silva already had a zoo's worth
of reptiles in his animal family, including six snakes, a
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leopard gecko, a komodo dragon, an oscillated skink, and a
second alligator. This dude's got two alligators, but.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
He's got a komodo dragon.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Kimodo dragons are.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
They're poisonous saliva, they're vicious, they're.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Made for killing rattlesnakes.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
What the hell that like? Put me in a baby
pool with a gator. I'm like, okay, Just put me
in a field with the komodo dragon, and I'm code brown,
code brown. That is not good. That is okay.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
So this guy was always a wrap komodo dragon, and
then that's that's that whole sentence, right, oscillated's gink and
a second alligator period period.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
He also has a dog, poor dog.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Silva, a pastor at a bap church. The hits keep
coming and they don't stop with this story America, a
Baptist church and a Brethren church. I don't know to
bretherre In churches stopped just short of calling his worship
of reptiles a holy act. In the Bible, God talks
about is having dominion over animals. And I developed an
affinity for the reptile, said Sylva, the father of five.
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I find them very soothing. The reptile collection started three
years ago when a daughter wanted a snake. Just three
years ago. This is a short period of time to
accumulate two alligators in oscillated skink, a komodo dragon, a leopard,
get goo and six snakes in three years.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
That's crazy. The shoe fit. You would I think that
reptile shoe fit.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
You would think there would be at least five years
between alligator one an alligator two.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Well, it's like tattoos. A friend of mine got their
first tattoo and then two weeks later got their second tattoo.
So they went from like thirty years of life without
any to two within two weeks, and then I think
she has like ten. Now. I think sometimes people just
find their thing and it feels good and they ride
it to the sunset.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I guess, so I can't, you know, I keep going
back and forth about tattooed like I could do it.
I could, you know, I've done it. I've gone this
long without one, but also like Lauren got one, and
it's kind of cool. I like looking at it. I
think it's neat, you know. But then I just am
always just like, what with the ephemeral nature of everything
in my life, what is worth having there for forever?
(15:30):
I don't know. I can't decide, is what my problem is.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
You know. I have no idea. I have no idea. Yeah,
it's I'm not getting one, so I but I like
I might. I like them all my life to have them.
Bunch exes have them, everybody around me has them, and
I'm like, I'm not against them in any way. I
think they're very cool.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I think the boldest move, Scottie would be if you
had no tattoos. That's what I'm thinking, except for one
very intricate one around your butthole. Would be amazing just
be like, no, I don't. I do have one very
intricate tattoo, but you cannot see it.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yes, it's it's an elfish and it says seasons greetings.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I was gonna say a big billymouth bass.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
That's fine too. Oh if you could do if the
artist was good enough, so it was turning and looking
at you, ah, that would be one you.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Just see like on a cheek. You just see the
tail coming out kind of yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, that would have to be a real wakeboarding disaster
for anybody to get a look at that thing. You see. Okay,
I don't know, but the fish is throwing up.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Well, that's it. Okay, this is the last quote. It's
not even it's not even it's not even attributed to him.
We're just, I guess we assume it's.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
His somebody in Walmart. Right.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
I held it one night and I just kind of
started really bonding with it and holding it, he said,
And finally she gave me an ultimatum, Dad, really you
need to get your own snake.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Okay. That is how NBC News just they like a
real open ending. So you can imagine what the next
three years were like. You know, it's easy to hate
on Walmart. It's easy to hate on all the Amazon,
all the big companies. I will say, there's been many
times in my life where a super Walmart, a twenty
four hour Walmart, two am has been there for me.
(17:26):
So I can't be a hypocrite and say screw them all.
I've bought in frozen chalm at three am at a
Walmart before and gone shark fishing. Okay, here it is there.
I got needs, guys, and I'm sorry, but seven to
eleven just doesn't cut the mustard.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Sometimes, yeah, doesn't have any chom.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I actually because I don't ever see them. I think
there is one in Burbank, maybe, but I haven't been
to a Walmart, and probably I have no idea. Oh
I know anden. Since the first week of lockdown in
Los Angeles, I drove to Arizona thinking they're not gonna
lock down, and boy was I right. I went to that.
(18:06):
I went to a Walmart supercenter right across the Arizona border,
loaded up on Lysol wipes, soap, toilet paper.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
There was no one else. Was like, who you don't
get it.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Ain't reel and I'm like, oh, it's real. And I
drove my car back with like five hundred dollars worth
of like survival shit. When I came around the corner
because in La I went to a food I went
to an Albertson's, the only thing left with seafood. The
shelves were bare, and I'm a Marylander, so I'm like,
(18:41):
giddy up. So I'm buying frozen shrimp and salmon and
halib it because everything else was sold out, like sauer
Kraut was sold out.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
It was a wild, wild time, like that first week
where it was just like every go go, You're gonna
run out of water and you're gonna run out of
toilet paper.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Go. I know.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
So I was just range choice.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah, I'm like fuck it, I'm going to Arizona. And
when and the difference. I pulled in that Walmart packed,
I'm walking around with a mask on. People are like, well,
here's a spaceman. Spaceman is here, he's shopping. And I
came around the cleaning aisle and like just saw everything
in stock and I was like this. I was almost
like gonna call people and be like venmo, me money.
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I'm about to be a mule for Swiffers. I'm a
swiffer mule.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
That was you drove six hours just like there and back?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Or do you say I had nothing else to do?
I drove to Cocomo, Indiana that winter two because I
realized Cocomo was a real place, and I went and
it was freezing cold and has a praying mantis and
a subway parking lot and a lot of bape stores.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
So was Cocomo named after the song or did the
song get the inspiration from the town?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Uh? I think they both. I think it's a fictional place,
like it's sort of like Atlantis. I think the idea
of a Cocomo.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Oh, it's like a it's a term.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yeah, And then like Chuck Berry quotes like parked way
up by the Cocomo. So I think it's almost like
a nothing place. But anyways, I was so bored in
lockdown that I was like, well, I'm going to drive
to Cocamo. And I got there really fast, and I
took it really slow. And let me tell you, that's
not where you want to go to get away from
it all.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I remember this was in high school. I wonder if
the word has anything to do with this older word cocaine.
Have you ever heard it's co coci gne cocaine. It
it means like a utopia paradise. And I remember it
was high school for some reason, and it was just
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one one teacher who just kept talking about cocaine. Yeah,
and it was the weirdest way to like start a
class with a bunch of like fifteen to sixteen year olds.
He's like, you're in your own personal cocaine. And we're
just like this guy is fucking ape shit, Like what really?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, make this classroom your cocaine
cocaig And I was like, what is he doing? This
is the weirdest choice.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Oh wow. And also Nirvana was a very popular band
at that time. Yeah, and utopia was a delicious drink.
So this guy was just grabbing.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
He was like, what else is I just wanted to
say cocaine. A lot of at All Boys Catholic school.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Sometimes people do like to do that. They like to
find out a word that has two meanings and then
they just say it. And I'm not saying it that way.
I'm not. Sometimes those people become teachers.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Exactly, give me one baby.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Let's see. Ellen Silka sent this one in. I remember
Ellen from our Aladdin Portland show. Very nice human being. Dude,
Where's my car? One man's three week post bachelor party
search for car?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yes, Oh I love this. Tell us these delightful details.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
This was in BBC dot Com. That's real, written by
the best in the missing car business, Jake Wood.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Oh thanks Jake, Jake Wood.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Sounds like a bar in Brooklyn. Sounds like you're like,
let's go down to Jake Woods. Yeah and drink some
and bible little Oh guess what?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Guess what just closed? Like I just saw that Alligator closed.
Alligate a lounge.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Oh man, Yeah, I had a lot of fun free
pizzas there.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
It was a free pizza with every drink. I don't
know how they stayed alive for so many years.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yes, if you bought a pint of beer, they would
give you this personal pizza. It was very thin, it
was probably about ten inches, but every beer. So if
you were like me when I had I don't know,
under two hundred dollars in your bank account, you'd go
buy two beers, eat two pizzas, and leave film full.
It was the best it was. And Capones did it too.
They closed a while ago, but yeah, it was a
(22:58):
fun idea.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, it's almost like it's not a feasible business.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah, almost like it's a terrible idea. But if there
was a bar in Los Angeles or anywhere that's sold
you got one beef old El Paso family style taco,
hard shell taco with a beer. Oh my god, you'd
have to wheel me out of that place. Dude, where's
my car? Typically, a sore head the day after a
(23:25):
friend's stag party is par for the course, but completely
forgetting where you parked your car in an unfamiliar city
can cause a different kind of headache. See Jake Wood
is just what he likes to do is use so
many words to say such a simple joke. That's what
happened to one man from County Wicklow in the Republic
(23:46):
of Ireland who misplaced his car during a stag do
in Cork three weeks ago, one hundred and fifty miles
from his home. Kieran, who shared his story with Cork
radio station in an effort to find his missing vehicle.
So he called it smart also good idea, not a
bad idea, said he had visited almost sixty different estates
(24:08):
in the city in the week since his nightmare began, thankfully.
His radio appeal worked with a listener locating his wine
colored scot to Superb a forty five. I know Scota
superb purb.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Man, that just sounds it was dip.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
That sounds like a dip. Yeah, he was dipping a
forty minute.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
You got bro superb yum young.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
And it's wine colored too, so it's got that burg indy.
What are those cigarettes? The swiss Er sweets, oh Man
cigurios and then you know, you get the wine flavored one.
Andre used to smoke those. Kieran, who was identified only
by his first name on the radio, called Neil Prindeville
(24:57):
Show on Wednesday morning to explain his predicament. Quote, I
got to Cork late at night. I couldn't find anywhere
to park in the city. I was so fed up.
I drove out towards the south of the city. I'm
not far how I'm not sure how far I drove,
but I parked up at an estate and since then
I haven't laid an eye on the car. So Kurt,
remember this is a forty minute walk. That's how far
he parked outside the city. Forty I've been to Cork.
(25:22):
It is not there's a paid parking lot somewhere.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
It's a place to put your car prior to.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Walk forty It's like fifteen minutes outside the city. He
couldn't locate a wooded area.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Cork Is is not a huge city.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
No, it is not the biggest.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
City in Ireland is Dublin and it's like two million
people like Coke. Cork is I don't know, four hundred
thousand people, maybe two hundred thousand.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
It's pretty there, though, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
It's gorgeous.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
We gotta have Maeve Higgins on she's from Cork.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Yeah, we should.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I'm not sure how far I drove, but I parked
up on a state haven't seen it or haven't laid
an iron on the car since the stag party was
on April fourth and the first time having a night
out in Cork, so Kieren had never been to Cork before. Sure,
he says, I met the best people and had a
great what is it crake crack? I had a great crack,
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he told the program. But by Sunday, when it was
time to go on home, he said he couldn't get
his bearings remember where he had parked his car. One
of the boys stayed back with me and we drove
around Cork for the guts of five hours. Good phrase
for the guts of five hours.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
For the guts of five hours, that means it was
like almost for five hours or was it for like
almost to six What do you think the guts would mean?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
I guess it's probably like the better of five hour,
better part of five hours. Yeah, for the guts of
the eight A lot of guts in Ireland, so that's the.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Better part, for the better part of you right.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Looking for this car. I put in so many hours
trying to find this car. It's also funny he says,
this car not my car. It's like he's so pissed
at this car. I looked for hours trying to find
this car. It's actually the stupidest thing I've ever done.
It has been a Nightmary said, here until Neil Prindeville,
the one and only Neil prindeval I mean, this guy
gets all the exclusives for Stagdoos that he had been
(27:20):
through fifty nine Estates fifty nine in the suburbs of Cork,
taking note of every single one he had been in
contact with the Irish police and it checked if the
car had been removed or impounded. It had not been
the Irish police or the guard. I were very professional,
he said, but could not help him Angel Angelsy or yeah,
(27:45):
I'm gonna go with the angel C street Guard. The
station in Cork told BBC that the car was reported missing,
but they could not act because they had no idea
where the car was located. That missing, I get it,
I know what they're going for. They said. There was
no logical conclusion that the crime had been committed. No, okay,
I'm cracking up over it.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Than being Hammertown and park in your car forty minutes
away from the city.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I know it's incredibly found the city. If you could walk,
I don't know. I think I think I could. If
I could walk to something, I think I could walk
back to it. That's what I've been playing. Maybe not.
I'm cracking up over it. I want to put this
to bed and get on with my life. Here and
said Kieran offered a two hundred euro which is one
hundred and seventy one pound reward to anyone who was
(28:34):
able to help him look at his car, and finally
he was in luck. Within mere minutes of his radio plea,
a local woman called to say she had spotted the
Skota at an estate in bally Fefane or Bellepophane or
I'm going Bleepophane, but it's probably like Lefani. Yeah, so anyways, good.
(29:00):
He used the radio. The police couldn't help him. He
helped himself.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
What an amazing place where people are all listening to
the radio.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I like a place like that me too. Oh my god.
Since it's the sporting season and football and baseball and
everything's on, I get Fubo. I download Fubo every turn
and has commercials, and I gotta say I love them.
I watch every commercial. I look for you, I look
for my other friends. I just saw Sam Richardson and
he's now in a commercial where he's just a big
(29:30):
financial investor for experience and he doesn't say anything. He's
just a large guy wearing a purple sweater, and that
seems to be the whole act. I'm like, Sam get paid,
doesn't even talk. He doesn't even talk no words. Just
he's their big help. And he reminds me of all
of being like we're gonna need a bigger billboard. He's
like Clifford the big red Dog. But he's say I'm
the big purple financial advisor. I do.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I don't mind commercials now because it gives you also
a time to be like and now we check our phone.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Now, we look at our phone. Now we pee. Now
we put the dirty plate that was on the coffee
table back in the kitchen. Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I really don't mind it.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I miss him so much. I was trying to think,
have you ever had a truly great time on a
bachelor party like that? You were great night? You were
like great night, not just like it was fun seeing
my friends.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
A truly great night, because I think I've been like
ten I think I I think I have. And it
was it was Coachella. It was Coachella bachelor party.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Oh hell yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
And we and we took mushrooms and and we're what
it would like. Started off watching the Replacements and then
pretty good started watching It was the Pixies.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Oh my god, where it was like really peaking.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
This is probably the last time I tripped, very hard,
so really peaking watching the Pixies. And I was and
it's you know, it's hot, it's the desert, just pourings
looking like a monster. My guyser at this and I'm
speaking like just like gibberish coming out of my mouth, right,
And this guy walks up to me with his ten
(31:13):
year old daughter and he's like, she's a big fan
of bunk. Did you take a picture with her? And
I was like if, I was like, I'm so sorry,
of course, and I was like and I'm just like
this like just just like my shirt was sopping wet. Yeah,
I looked like an animal. I mean like this is
(31:33):
the most embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Water and pupils at this point, just sweat and pupils.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
And then after that, there was just so many people
around that I had. We were all like kind of
getting freaked out that I went and bought us all
fruit cup, big fruit cup, twenty dollars for a fruit cup,
but a giganta fruit cup. We all sat on the
ground and ate fruit one piece at a time, and
then I went and got us another fruit cup, and
then we did it again, and that was like the
(31:59):
most perfect moment of the whole night of just like
sitting there quietly eating a fruit cup, tripping with these guys.
And then went back to a house with a pool
and swam in a pool and it was very very pleasant.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
If that friend group isn't saved in your phone as
a group chat as fruit cups, then you don't understand
how to live, and you need to reassess your entire life.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
I don't understand how to live.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I yeah, I've noticed a lot too because and I
don't think this is too controversial to say, but I
do find bacherette parties more annoying than bachelor parties. And
I think it's just the nature of in America at least.
And you see a lot of the hen parties whenever
you're in Spain or Greece, you just see the Brits everywhere,
just decked out hand ended up having fun. But I've
(32:44):
noticed over the years and when you see the bachelott
party go by it no matter where you are, but Nashville, Vegas,
no matter where, there's always one woman that I usually
like make eye contact with, even for two seconds. Whose
problem like the third best friend, she's not the sister,
she's not the current best friend, long history, and they
(33:06):
give you a look like I know, I am sorry,
I don't want to be here either, save me, and
then they just keep walking and I feel like I've
made eye contact with one hundred of those women over
the year, Like I'm in Palm Springs. I was at
a gay bar with a bunch of buddies and I
was like, what do you guys think of these bachelor parties?
(33:27):
And they're like, we hate it. I mean we're glad
they're safe or whatever, but we hate it. And in
every one of those groups, you know, the the ding
dong necklaces and the matching cowboy hats or whatever the
bows the feather bow is, there's one woman looking at
you like I'd rather be at home with my kids.
I'd rather be across the street having a martini with you.
(33:47):
Out of Houston's Like it's basically, get me the f
out of here. Where's bachelor parties? It just feels like
everybody's like today, we are a team. We're a team
that plays golf. We're a team that plays paintball routine,
that smokes cigars, we have a very expensive whiskey, we
eat a steak, and we go to bed and you're like.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
But then no, But then there's a weird part of
the bachelor party, like towards the late late night, where
like there's these guys who are like, we gotta make this.
I like to bar and it's like and then it
just gets like weird, and then there's just like a
weird energy and then you're just like I'm out, I
can't do this anymore.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Yeah, I take that back. I take back my statement.
From the perspective of dancers at strip clubs, the men
are probably way worse. So maybe it's just the guys
I associate with who are a bunch of fruit cups
and they would much rather have their own isolated fun
and be enhanced and eat fruit cups. But shout out
(34:46):
to those third best friends. We're praying for you to
hopefully you drink some gatory and get home safe.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I love that idea, though, third best friend, I mean something,
it is.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
What it is?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Something there.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Yeah, I've always wanted to write a rom that was
about two people who had grown apart from one's at
a bachelor party in Vegas. One is at a bachelor
rep party in Vegas. They've grown apart from their friend group.
Like you know how it is. I've had it where
your old friend's new friends are his work friends and
they have all these inside jokes and they do all
that and you're just being there and you're like, I
(35:19):
might never see these people ever again. But that two
people in that situation meet at a nightclub where they
don't want to be there and then have a before
sunrise type of night together and then go back to
their lives.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
And then if you want to wrap it up and
make it happy, one takes the other one to the date.
One of the one of the couples breaks up because
what happens in Vegas, and then the other one takes
ye other win is their date. So maybe maybe all.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Right, damn it, before sunrise.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
I don't know it.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
I think maybe one of my favorite movies top ten
for me, right, God, damn it, it's good.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I'm not a letterboxed guy, but that would be on
my letter box if I knew how to use it
or what it was.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
And before sunset is not bad either. Before midnight is
a bummer.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
You can only ring a rag out so many times
before it's just bone dry. They ragged that rug that went.
That is a bone dry rag, that big as stiff
as a board.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
All right, I'll tease this into summer thumbsies.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Here.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
It is the viral Moroccan legend of Emil Lay.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I can't stop thinking about that man or woman or
pony Vista Kathy Kathy, Kathy with an Eye wants to
thumb herself up for starting grad school. She's thumbing up
all the ban animals going through the application process for
college or grad school. Kathy with an Eye wants to
encourage all bananimals applying to apply for your dream school.
(36:50):
Kathy applied to Portland State, where she lives or lived,
but then also swung for the fence's curt and applied
for Columbia. Kathy with an Eye did not get in
to Portland State, but got into Ivy League school Columbia.
Dream big and go for the longer shot, because you
never know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Thumbs up to you, Kath. You deserve a double thumbs
up for that. I hope you're at Columbia and having
a really nice fall. Apparently it's nice in New York
right now. Taylor Long wants to thumb up best friend
of twenty years, Jenna all the way up. Growing up,
Taylor's parents would often open the door and find Jenna
in a Halloween costume when there was no holiday or
(37:29):
event or occasion. She also really enjoys pickles straight from
the jar. Yeah, that's just Jenniker.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
That's just Jenna.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Thumbs up to Jenna, who sounds like a true blue Bananamal.
Here's one more. Let's see. Oh yeah, this is a
good one. Raina and Rena. Sorry if I get your
last name wrong. I think it's I think it's Milnie's,
but it could be. Hey, I'm going Milnie's Ray and
Milnie says, I'd like to give myself two big, huge
(37:57):
thumbs all the way the hell up for doing the
very hard and very scary thing of hiring employees for
a professional dog walking business. This is Raina's dog walking business.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Oh wow, okay.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
In Orangeville, Ontario. I did some googling that is in Canada.
It's been challenging but a rewarding experience, but Raina says,
nothing beats the being able to give people jobs that
they truly enjoy spending time with pets all day. Thumbs
up to you, Raina and all the employees. Raina, you
(38:29):
didn't tell me the name of your dog walking business,
but if we'll share it in our stories, if you
send it to us some maybe we can jump some
dog pet and biz. Oh yeah, and that's all I
got if you have them, you can always send your stories,
your thumbs up whatever you want. Participate to the Bananas
Podcast on Instagram or the bananz Podcast at gmail dot com. Crity.
I want to show you this art of Lindsay Jenkins
(38:50):
sent me. I think it, yes, I think it's Lindsay
Jenks's her Instagram handle, but she sent us basically a
banana's Ouiji board and it is incredible. It's a spirit
board and I love it. It's now in my office
on my wall and the thing I'm a jig that
you push around is a banana.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Oh that's great. Oh that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
So thank you so much, Lindsay Jenkins. Art of Lindsay
Jenks on Instagram always sends us beautiful, colorful, cool art.
Support artists.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
That's hard artists. Come on. Also, we need to talk
about Pretty Gay at Bananas Fest.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Yes, Katherine McCafferty, who is our good friend, wonderful comedian,
but she hosts this incredible series called Pretty Gay where
she goes on mock dates with women and queer friends
and they are so charming, yes, and so funny, and
by the end of each one you're like the I'm
(39:47):
standing these two as a couple. So we're lucky that
at Bananas Fest in Denver October fourth, right smack dab
in the middle of the festival, in the middle of day,
we're gonna have Pretty gay Lie Live. Thing's going to
do a live recording with a date you can participate.
She has fun games. You can go to YouTube right
(40:08):
now and check her out. Pretty Gay Live at Bananas Fest,
and we're so lucky to have her. She's a great
all around gal and we've become really close friends over
the last two years actually ever since she was on
Bananas we become buddies.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
She's awesome.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
That she was able to do that.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
It's very cool.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
And former guest Lizzie Cooperman is going to be doing
tarot card readings all day long, and I think she's
already booked up, but you can keep you'll see her
doing tarot card readings live at Bananas Fest. Say hi
to Lizzie. She's the best, and sign up for a
future one. She'll do them over zoom. She's so I
loved my tarot card reading.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
And also remember that if you're interested in the in
the Patreon only hang out on Friday, October third to
become a Patreon member before that.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Yeah, and you're in.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
So here it is a baby. This is the viral
Moroccan legend of Emil Lay. I found this on oh
mech Engineering duh.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
I mean, I'm surprised you even had time to record
this year so deep into mech engineering it was.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
You know, just served to me. And then I found
this on four by four worldwide dot Com. This was
by Powa Paolo Baaldi.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Thank you Paolo, good name.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Uh. The extraordinary story took place back in nineteen ninety three,
but only recently has it come to light. Emil Lay,
the man at the center of it all, never sought
the spotlight for his incredible feat. Now sixty two and
living in northwestern France, Emil has finally shared the details
of an adventure so unbelievable it seems almost mythical. As
a lasting memory of that unique and unforgetable experience, he
(41:52):
still keeps the peculiar motorcycle he built, a miracle born
of desperation and ingenuity. Not many people can tell a
story like this, and fewer still would have survived to
tell it. This is an interest you can tell four
by four Worldwide dot com where it's a different level
of writer. He's already mentioning a motorcycle. We don't know
anything about this person yet. Nope, all right. Not many
(42:14):
people can tell a story like this. Fewer still would
have survived to tell it. One can only imagine the
mental resilience and resourcefulness required to escape such a dire situation.
We still don't know what the situation is. Here is
the remarkable tale of a Meal Ray Okay, who, after
becoming stranded in the Moroccan desert, this should be your
first sentence, pal, after becoming stranded in the Moroccan desert,
(42:35):
managed to return to civilization by transforming his Citrone two
CV into a makeshift motorcycle. In nineteen ninety three, Meal Array,
professional electrician, set off on a solo expedition to cross
the Moroccan Desert. Everything was going to plan till he
was stopped at a military outpost and are not denied
(42:56):
permission to continue. Rather than ending as adventure prematurely, he
decided to take an alternate route back to Tan Tan,
but the desert had other petros. The rough train took
its toll. Larray lost control of his beloved two CV,
breaking a suspension arm and rendering the car completely undrivable
with no chance of repairing the vehicle. His journey took
a dramatic turn from desert exploration to a battle for survival.
(43:17):
Faced with extreme isolation and scorching heat, Loray knew that
the only way to make it out alive was to
build a new means of transportation. Drawing on his technical
skills and a bit of improvisation, he began a nearly
impossible test to construct a motorcycle using only the remaining
functional parts of the Citron. First, he stripped the car
(43:37):
of its bodywork, repurposing its makeshift shelter from the oh
so he lived in the car while he built it.
Then came the real challenge, reimagining the car's chassis into
a rudimentary motorcycle frame. He found a way to mount
the wheels, install the engine, and rig a working transmission system.
Even the seat was fashioned from a bumper. Larray initially
(43:59):
thought the project was take a few days, but it
turned into a grueling twelve day ordeal. Working tirelessly under
the desert sun, he carefully rationed his food and water.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
Yes, he did.
Speaker 2 (44:09):
It looks like something from Mad Max.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Like it?
Speaker 2 (44:12):
It looks so crazy and mild. It's really very cool.
And the whole thing is that he got then and
after setting off in his strange two wheel contraption, Larray
was eventually found by Moroccan police. He was rescued, but
not before receiving a fine for driving of vehicles whose
registration and documents didn't match.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
Its fantastic. So because so you that's that's fantastic. Doesn't
that makes me so happy that.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
He got fined for it. And the photograph of him
is so crazy. It's he's I mean, this is just
so French. He's in a banana hammock. Nice, that's it,
just a banana hammock, just surrounded by like this this
body of a citron and all of these like gears
(45:00):
and parts. It's really really crazy. That's just the way
this story, Isn't it crazy?
Speaker 1 (45:07):
For some reason, I wonder did they do this on
my favorite murder? Like this one sounds so familiar just
like as a survival story. Yeah maybe, but dude, that
is truly the coolest story. And what like, I have
a prejudice towards the French sometimes where I'm like, they're
really capable of things and been crazy situations and I
(45:27):
think it's because when you and I were we lads
in the eighties and nineties, like the idea of the
French Legion felt like the most exclusive, badass group of people.
So I just assume stranded French people are capable of anything,
which that's that's so funny, positive prejudice, that's very interesting.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
I have no opinions on the French Legion. I don't
other than that they have seemingly like frills for shoulders, right,
they have like little shoulder pads that have frills that
come off of them.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
Liked. I would never say that, though to a lesionaire
they would just beat. I imagine them doing push ups
on concrete on their knuckles, and that anybody escaping serious
crimes can join it and disappear and get citizenships. So
those are my two things.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
I imagine them wearing those hats with the flaps that
come down the back, well, those are cool, just little
like shower curtains on their shoulders.
Speaker 1 (46:21):
That in Kings Dominion, which is a great amusement park.
Growing up, we'd go down to King's Dominion, which I
think is now owned by Paramount, and they had a
stand up roller coaster called the Shockwave and I googled
this maybe I don't know, four months ago because I
was like, I wonder if the shockwave is still round.
It is not. They closed it down. It was never
that great anyways. You kind of stood, but you had
(46:42):
like a bike seat that like was up against your
your grundle. And but the coolest part was when they
launched the shockwave. They had those hats that had the
flap in the back that said shockwave and they were
black and neon. It said shockwave across the front and
then had that flap to keep your neck from getting
sun burnt. And I defy you to make the connection
(47:05):
between a hat with a flap on the back stand
up roller coaster. I thought about it for I took
a two hour walk with John C And I'm like,
but what shockwave? Why why a desert French Lesionaire's neon hat?
And I guess it was just the style that summer.
Oh yeah, those are a lot.
Speaker 2 (47:24):
Of pretty popular because it was like the mullet of
a hat. It was like a hat mullet.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
Yeah, if any bananamal, this is such an ask has
a King's dominion shockwave hat with that backflap from the
late eighties early nineties. I will buy it from you.
And I looked on Etsy, I looked on eBay. I
could not find it. But I have a vivid memory
of other kids in the neighborhood coming back from King's Dominion,
(47:49):
and like two brothers would both be wearing them, and
I'm like, well, this is the peak of the coolness Mountain.
This is k two and Mount everest standing next to
me with some badass caps.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
Come on, somebody give Scotti.
Speaker 1 (48:03):
It kills me out for a while.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
Well that's it, guys, Thank you so much for listening
to another sweet ass episode Burns.
Speaker 1 (48:12):
Keep your chins up, keep your heads up, be kind,
look for moments to be as silly and absurd as possible.
Stick together, take care of your own people, and we'll
be back every Tuesday to distract you from life. Bananas sorry,
(48:32):
double taff. Bananas is an exactly right media production.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.
Speaker 1 (48:40):
The catchy Bananas theme song was composed and performed by Kahon.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.
Speaker 1 (48:46):
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Speaker 2 (48:50):
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Speaker 1 (48:54):
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