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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, scott Are you ready, Curty b I'm ready
(00:02):
to laugh and love and love. This is right up
your alley. Scottie.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Maybe even done a story like this in the past,
but it's always funny when it happens here. It is
F fifteen right along. Passenger accidentally ejects himself on the ground.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Oh, but I would do it on purpose because I
want to know what that's like. And on the ground
you're gonna live. Well, strap in and hold on tight.
It's gonna be a high flying episode of Bananas World,
would you.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
It's my cillion pieces, would you.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Guys, gals down, binary pals, Welcome to Bananas.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I'm Kurt Brown Oler, I am Banana Boy number two
Scotty Landis. This is Banana's, the silliest little podcast there
ever was, and we are here to make you laugh.
We're the good fun, feel good boys because we're feeling
good and you're having fun. You're feeling good And I
know that doesn't make sense, but I'm sticking with it.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, baby, Yeah, oh man, it's good to see you, Scottie.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
You too, dude. Yeah, I uh, you know, I've been
giving a lot of thought you had mentioned in an
early recording that you were gonna, you know, build a
sauna in your backyard if you get the opportunity. Yeah,
I just got to say that to me as your
longtime friend. Now, I feel like that is a milestone
(01:50):
that I've been waiting for you to reach for fifteen
years because a lot of our early friendship. Yeah, will
spend in saunas.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, yeah, I yes, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
It's been my dream.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I now will have the backyard that can accomplish it.
The question that I have in my mind is how
do I create a privacy, you know, because it's kind
of it's a corner lot. So I have a street
on two sides, and so I just want to be
able to put it in and have it be there
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where it's not.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah, you're not on display.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
But I also don't want to start putting up you know,
bushes and trees to like be like, don't look into
my yard, you know.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Because that's just not the vibe of where I live.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Some people don't even have fences in between their backyards,
Like it's just a whole block and no one has fences,
and so it's just like a huge field in behind
all the houses, which I think is very cool, and
I like that vibe, so I want to maintain that vibe. Anyway,
I'm getting ahead of myself. I haven't even bought the
house yet, but I love that.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I wouldn't. Where I grew up on Waywood driven me Waywood,
a little bit of country Mayberry. Everybody had four or
five acres and all the yards and the nobody had
fences at all, except you would have tree lines of
white pines. Some people had pine trees to separate their properties,
but honestly, not many. So you could. You know, when
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we'd play Flashlight Tag or Goes in the Graveyard whatever,
you could play three or four yards wide and that
would be like eight acres to play. That's like flashlight Tag.
That's crazy, dude. It was epic. We'd have like thirty
or forty people playing. Kids from other neighborhoods would come. Teenagers.
I was more like ten eleven, twelve guys, gals everybody,
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and the first summer that we did it, that were
all enough where our parents wo like, go ahead, go
have fun, just come back before midnight or whatever. My
sister and I would go up and we'd play Somebody
Go in the House. You'd hit the microwave for one minute.
Everybody else would hide, and then there was a home base,
which it's usually the fun wait, hit.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
With nothing in it, empty microwave, just hit it, let
it go.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah, you just microwave nothing for one minute, and then
two people would go and you'd have to tag somebody
before they got to the base. But there was no
time limit. And the first year we played, there was
this kid that we didn't know. The older kids knew him,
named Keith Lorenz.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
It's always a Keith, let me tell you, it is
always a Keith.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yep, white guy. Keith can go a lot of different ways,
but this was a white Keith. I'm talking about white Keith. Yeahah,
or not Keith Sweat. Not Keith Sweat. We're talking Keith Lorenz.
And you know his his His legend spread that he
was the greatest hider in the history of flashlight tag,
which if you don't know what I'm talking about, around
the world or whatever, flashyt tag its hide and go
seek at night, only we didn't use flashlights. And again
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we're talking ten acres trees woods. Feel was awesome. So
people would hide under cars and run the base right away.
If they're scared of the dark. People would separate, people
would hide together and make out. It was truly so
fun and amazing. And Keith ends during the first game,
right after sundown, would hide so well that he would
never come back out. So we would play I don't know,
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eight to ten rounds of flashlight tag and this guy
just disappeared into the woods the trees would bury himself,
the human Gilly suit this dude. And then at the
end of the night, so midnight when everybody had to
go home or later one of the other dudes that
lived on our street. Keith didn't even live on our street.
He would just come in like an all, like Michael
Jordan off the bench, Wow, hide so well, and they'd
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be like, Keith, we're going to go to bed, and
he would just appear out of the darkness and that
was it. He would ride once and then for three
hours just stay put. Never got it. I hope that
he works now for the CIA or the FBI or
somebody somebody we can't find.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I mean, this is so crazy. I guess it's because
it's summer. It's being brought up. But I was just
I was at the Lovely Eugene Merman's home and his
lovely wife Teresa was talking about, uh, the last time
they played flashlight Tag, and she said one of the
one of the people, I think it was her brother
or something, just went into the pool fully clothed and
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then they have this like swan floaty that just floats
in the pool all the time, and then put it
over his head and then just stayed there for one hour.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Fully clothed in the pool. I wonder if he's related
to Keith Lorenz. They sound like they're from the family tree.
Oh it makes me so happy. Yeah, those are sometime games.
There's sometimes good times because we're the good fun, feel
good boys. What was your story? Oh, I know what
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it was. It was the ejector seat on the guitar back.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, there was not much to tell about this story.
I found this story in twz dot com. What is
tw z? It definitely is like an airline.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It says.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
A wild video shows the aftermath of the ejection with
what appears to be the passenger on the runway. A
backseat passenger in an F fifteen D Eagle belonging to
one hundred and fourth Fighter Wing appears to have accidentally
ejected from the aircraft while it was on the ground
at Barnes Air National Guard Base in Westfield, Massachusetts. It
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is like it's it's a video of just right after
it happened. It's just a topless like F fifteen rolling
down very slowly. The canopy has been blown off. The
guy is on the side incentive flight ejected on the
flight line before even taking off. Member was apparently a
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recruiting officer.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
The Facebook page stated.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Under the post of the video, we cannot confirm who
the rear seat occupant was. At this time. They reached
out to the one hundred and fourth No comment from
the one hundred and fourth. I can't believe that this
is the only information about this, but it is.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
It just happened when he went down. Yeah, I mean
he went to tell the tale. Yeah you did. You
probably get fined, I guess, or I mean, what are
they going to arrest you? It's just dumb.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I mean, I don't think he meant to do it,
because I think he got hurt, you know, like, oh, okay,
because you just shoot like maybe twenty feet up in
the air, right, Oh yeah, it's not enough time for
a parachute to open.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Fully, I still gotta want to do it. Like, that's
the thing.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I like.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
When we had Monica Barbara on The Wonderful Now Emmy
our Academy Award nominated actress, which is crazy. It's crazy.
She was in a complete unknown as John Bias, and
she was I thought she was gonna win. She was anyway,
she was in Maverick. She was talking Maverick and Kurt
and I asked her probably too many questions about the
flight training. But you know, she and I grabbed coffee
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a month or so after that, we're just chatting, and
she was talking about those pilots and like it is
in everything about its intense, including what you just described. Yeah,
sitting on the tarmac and launched it to the air,
the shoot can't fully open and then just hit the
ground is so funny to me, so crazy. God bless
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them all the fly boys and fly gals and fly
days and thems. My goodness, didn't you do a.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Thing on on Mega Drive where they had a like
a fighter jet that would fly past And we had to,
like Johnny had to like try and figure out if
some if there was like a mannequin inside a door
frame or not.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Great question, Kurt and the answers. Yes, well, Mega Drive
was my first television show. Kurt also was a writer
on that show, and our good friend Johnny Pemberton, who's
on bro Nana's this month, was the host of that show.
And it was a where a comedian, Johnny, drove things
you've never seen anybody drive on TV, and then we
would do increasingly stupid pranks with them. Our buddy Robbie
(10:07):
Anderson was the creative force behind it, and we did
one with a fighter jet. I think it was in
New Jersey and it was like a decommissioned Croatian or
Russian fighter jet. I don't remember what the plane was,
but I think it was a meg it was something
like that, and we would fly it past a door.
It was a front door in a frame on the show.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
So we're talking about like within ten feet of the
ground or whatever.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
That was fast as low as they could go, as
fast as we were allowed to go, and then Johnny
and the pilot who was flying it, the door would
open and either a fully nude man or a fully
nude woman would stand there and they had yell hot
dog or beaver, and they got more wrong than you'd
think because they're going so fast, but it'd be like
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here it comes, and then it would just open and
there was a fully nude woman and they would yell Beaver, Beaver, Beaver,
whoever would say it first, or hot Dog, and they
got they play. We played hot Dog and Beaver and
it was very funny. We also had Johnny in a
biplane type of thing and throw just toilet paper, like
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hundreds of or probably thirty rolls of toilet paper out
of it and they just sailed beautifully to the ground,
really toilet paper, like just unraveling the whole time ballet
of life, a wonderful ballet of streaming toilet paper. It
was incredible. And then we rolled it all up at
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the end because he was so nervous he had to
go to the bathroom whatever. But yes, we did hot
Dog Beaver full speed fighter jets.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I think I remember I remember pitching ideas for that,
and I think we had an idea that was a
fully made dining room table set with glass and crystal,
and then the plane would come by and catch catch
like you know, like the landing thing for the hook,
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and then ripped the tablecloth out from underneath it.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yes, so we ended up doing that for a different vehicle.
It was the time. I think Tesla's in the electric
cars now have just changed the game on how fast
accelerating can go. But it was called the aerial Atom
and it was like the fastest accelerating street legal vehicle
at the time. Johnny actually crashed it in an episode,
which was not an accident. But we did what you
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just said where we set so many champagne flutes and
crystal and stuff and built this huge thing on a
table the tablecloth, and then he guns it and pulls
the tablecloth out with the car and it worked. It worked.
I think maybe one glass fill it worked. It was
the first shoot week that was in Virginia and it worked.
And I remember the other executive producer we were standing there.
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He goes, you don't think this is really going to work,
right this guy, Tony great dude. And I was like,
I think it will work. And it absolutely worked. He
pulled up using a car and a cable, tied our
strap to a table buff he went zero to sixty
and two point whatever a three point five seconds or
whatever and pulled it out and everything stood standing. And
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then we took a we pulled a rednext tooth out.
We found a guy with a loose tooth and tied
floss to the back. How the fuck gunned it and
it pulled a tooth out of this car.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I mean credit to the producers to be able to
find a man with a loose tooth who is willing
to appear on camera.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
That is amazing. Once you go south of the Mason
Dixon things loosen up a little bit, tighten up in
other ways too. But yes, that was a great show.
And yeah, we did hot Dog Beaver and we pulled
a rednext tooth out with floss tied to the back
of a sports car. So I love that so bad.
It makes perfect sense that fifteen years later we're doing
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this podcast. Yes it does, Yes it does. Here's one.
So I did this one on Let's see.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
We did this on our patron episode video episode that
you can access if you become a patron of our podcast.
There's a lot of fun stuff including.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Coming up. I think maybe this week or.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Next week we'll be doing our happy hour where we
get together with our patrons and have a couple of drinks.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
We do it every baby.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yeah, head on over to Patreon dot com.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Man, I've been posting a chapter two of my novella
On the Rocks every week, and I got to say, Kurt,
it's picking up steam. I think people are getting pretty
on board with On the Rocks.
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Ooh ooh those eyes. Even though this podcast is called bananas,
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Have you seen this, Kurt, because I bet you have
(16:08):
without realizing. Okay, so this is actually an old friend
of mine named Bennett Ray, who is of an animal
Bennett very funny guy. I knew him always as a
bit of a foodie. So he I think the story
is he was with his fiances mom or grandmam or aunt,
a woman in his fiances life, and she had an
old cookbook. And what Bennett did was he started this
(16:32):
in Cooking with Congress, where he picks a different famous
or not even famous known American politician Fdr Great Jackie O.
Nassa's great, We're way back, or we go all the
way back to the John Adamses and the Millard film
Millard film wors and then he figures out what they
ate every day, what their favorite foods were, how many
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cooks and coffee they had, how many slugs of whiskey
they had, what their favorite lunch. And he prepares it
over a day, and he eats like a historical political
figure and records it and rates it, kind of rates
it in his own way. It is. It's an instagram
you can follow Cooking with Congress. It's so popular it exploded.
I think NPR covered it now, and it's like, it's
(17:17):
the funniest idea because you just realized that people like
Teddy Roosevelt who drank ten pots of coffee a day,
and it's like, you try to do that in reality,
and it's crazy, it's insane. And some of these people
ate the strangest foods. It's a lot of throwback stuff
jello salads and oh yeah, you know, weird meats and
breads and stuff. But anyways, he sent this in Cooking
(17:40):
with Congress. Thank you, Bennett Pretiate, Ben Buddy. This was
on News for Saron San Antonio, written by Gerald Dracy,
who's the best in the business to burn from funeral
services to food delivery. How Dick Tips became San Antonio's
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new milkman San Antonio, Texas.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
When you have because it is a choice, you are
not named Dick. You are named Richard, and you choose
to go by Dick when your last name is Tips,
that is a choice.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
That's a big choice. Richard Tips, Ricky Tips, Ricky Tips.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
That's right there.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
That's nice too, Ricky Tips. You know, Ricky Tips sounds
like a softball coach that wins the Texas for a
state championships every day. It's like, you don't want to
get on Ricky tips bad side. Yeah, but Dick Tips,
you don't want to get on the end of that
argument either. Yeah. Dick Tips has two jobs kurt Own,
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dick In and Tippin'. Yeah, born to run owner at
Mission Park Funeral Chapels, and he's a milkman. He started
the second job during the COVID nineteen pandemic as it
began to surge and people began to hoard things like milk, cheese,
and eggs. People were taking a little too much of
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what they don't think they could possibly use. And I
wanted to get it to people who could really use it.
I really need it and who deserved it. Tip said.
It didn't take long for Tips to work the phones
and find out how to buy more than three thousand
gallons of milk, which were delivered on an eighteen wheeler
from Tyler, Texas. What there were several things that were
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being hoarded, Tip said, one of them I can't figure
out for the life of me, which was toilet paper.
Everybody was hoarding toilet paper. But the other thing they
were hoarding was water and milk and eggs. So that's
when I got the milk and eggs and decided to
become the Milkman. As you say, So basically what I'm
saying is, by all appearances, Dick Tips is a great guy.
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This is a very generous thing to do during a
stressful time. Okay. After securing the load, uh man. After
securing the load, Dick Tip secured a Highland milk truck,
had shared it under his name, and began taking it
to the streets. His delivery schedule has included those out
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in the front lines of the pandemic and even some
charity organizations throughout San Antonio. I've got a lot of
different charities here in San Antonio, and I dropped off
milk for kids who need it. Tip said, they drink
almost eighteen gallons of milk a day through breakfast, lunch,
and dinner.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Who is wait, who's drinking eighteen gallons of milk a day?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
These kids? The kids, these kids, you have been to Texas,
They've drink a lot of milk in Texas. In San Antonio,
milk drinking milk, chuck and cuts.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I don't understand is he is this a business that
he runs or is he just delivering milk.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
I think he owns the funeral services, so he says,
Tip said, he won't stop there though he's not discriminating
against who he delivers too, even if it's a competitor
in the funeral services industries. I think his bread and
butter is funeral services, which, hey, people won't stop dying. No,
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I'm on a mission, and that's the company. That's the
name of my company, Mission Park, and it's our mission
to care. And I say, hey, it's our mission to
give milk. Dick tips head, Oh man, it's I'm trying.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Dick tips given milk, dick tips given milk.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
That's what should be called God. You got it. The
new venture for Tips is something he's enjoying, and we'll
keep doing as long as the current situation persists. Until
we get to the other side of this long tunnel.
I'm going to keep delivering milk. Tip said, on top
of essentials, he's also got a blue Bunny vanilla sandwich
ice cream or that's a really weird sentence. On top
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of the essentials, he's also got blue belly, blue Bunny
vanilla ice cream sandwiches, and even more coming on his
next eighteen wheelers. So there you go, Dick Tip San Antonio.
He saw people in need, and he stood up and
did something about it.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I wonder how much an eighteen wheeler of milk costs? Right,
it's a great Yeah, it's a great question. I mean
the questions for Dick Tips. Yeah, Dick Tips will tell you.
He'll look your dead in the eye and tell you exactly.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
How much it costs.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
That is I mean, like, obviously this is an old
story from the pandemic ago I think, yeah, I like everyone,
the pandemic seems so far away now, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
It's really weird. That's the weirdest part it. Well, yeah,
it's five years ago. Crazy, that's crazy, crazy.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
That it was five years ago and we really haven't
talked about it or processed it.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
That he wighs shape or form, I know. And it's
like nobody's making media about it anymore. Yeah, text is
dick Tips still delivering into Google. And just see how
crazy this is. Dick Tips still delivering because I might
get in.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
There's some dick Tips delivering definitely somewhere.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
This guy seems like a great guy. I don't know,
not so sure. I'm not so sure. He's he named
himself dick Tips. I don't care what how old, how
old you are, you're naming yourself dick Tips. You know
he's taking on Okay, this is in San Antonio Express.
It says funeral home mogul. Dick Tips takes on San
Antonio Homeowners Association over a billboard. I think this guy's
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fight the good fight. But we'll never find out. Darlands
of milk, Yeah, it would be in an eighteen wheeler.
How many gallons of milk in an eighteen wheeler? Oh
my gosh, Oh here we go. I'm okay, okay, can
carry between five thousand and eight thousand gallons of milk
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in its tank. Super tankers can hold up to twelve
thousand gallons. Up to twelve thousands, so that's a tanker though.
That's that's if dick tips built up to your houses.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
You just got to get underneath it and you open
it up on your face.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
So let's say eighteen thousand, that's if you get to
drink from milk hose. Don't you do this to me?
Do do this to be? This is amazing.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
There's so many pet There's a reddit called ask Old People,
and it is a topic in the days of the milkman.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
How did all that work? Oh? The internet is very funny.
When I was down in the back of the Mississippi
days when I was dating a young woman from down there,
I was a young man, so it was all age appropriate,
of course. We I was at a big crawfish boil
and it was hot Mississippi in the summer, hot, hot, hot. Yeah.
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This one guy is kind of a done well for himself.
I think everybody's hot, sweating, you know, they're they're boiling crawfish.
And this guy pulls up in a bread truck. He
had just bought a bread truck, which I think was
bunny bread. I think that is a brand. I'm not
too familiar. But anyways, this is like a wonderbread par
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competitor and he parked it. So I just thought he
worked for a bread company. And they're like, no, he
just bought that. And I was like, oh yeah, it's
like because it's cool in the back. So he bought it,
and then we're all going to sit in the back
of that bread truck and start drinking what And I
go really, And so that's exactly what we did.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
So wait, it was a refrigerated bread truck.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Lightly refrigerated in the back, and so it had like
two bench seatings on the side, and then it used
to have shelves above it. So he took the shelves up.
So he drives us up to a party. This is
just a big outdoor party. There's probably let's say forty
five people there. There's a string band playing, there's a
couple people catfishing or fishing for catfish. There's long horned
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cattle like long horn steer everywhere because that's one of
the people that owned the house that I was at
had that or had them. And so I'm there, I'm
a fish. I'm a fish out of water. I'm the
only person. Yeah, I'm only from Maryland. Yeah, they considered
me a They were like Catholic. I'm like yeah, they're like, oh,
it's Christian. And you're like, okay, here we go. I'm
not going to make it through the night. I'm not
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making out of this bread truck life.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Wait, Southern Southern is is Protestant. Southern's Baptist is that it.
Everybody's Baptist, some of.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Them Methodists, but yeah, Southern Baptist is a little different
than regular Baptists too. So but these are these are
people are all liberal and fun. They were they were wild,
they were hippies. They liked marijuana. So anyways, so there
was one young man that I didn't know. He was
the son of He was about eleven years old, twelve
years old, and he uh, he had a learning difference.
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So he was a really sweet kid. Everybody liked him.
And all this poor little guy wanted to do is
drive this thing called a gator, which is kind of
like off road. It's kind of a golf cart sort
of thing, but like a four by four thing. Yeah. Yeah, all,
and so they were like, you can't drive it, give
me a give me a name Kurt. Just that boy's
name Kirby. Kirby. Great, it wasn't Kirby, so that's perfect.
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So Kirby. They're like, Kirby, you can't drive that thing
on your own, bud, but his parents were like, you
could sit on it, like and so he goes over
and he sits on it. He's having fun and he's
in the shade, and so everybody else is just kind
of scattering. And then I noticed that all the adults
are like kind of missing, including the person I was dating.
And then I go over to the bread truck and
they're all just sitting in the back of a bread truck.
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They're all kind it's tell, you say, a retired bread
truck that he bought probably from the scrapyard that kept
the back cold enough where you could get out of
the coldness and sit where bread used to sit. That's
so crazy. So I go in there and then it's
so packed tight and at the time, you know, I'm
still not a big weat smoker, but it was just
so many people packed in there and so much drinking,
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so much laughing, and so much wheat that I'm like,
I gotta get out of here. So so I get
out of there. This woman named Linda comes up to
me and she's got a Margarite in her hand. That's gimungus.
It's just a novelty size, gigantic margarita. And she goes, here, Scotty,
this is for you. I go, thank She goes, if
you don't want it, you can give it to the cows.
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I go, okay, she goes, no, seriously, they drink margarita's.
I go, all right, So I love margarita, is my
favorite cocktail. So I'm walking over. I'm sipping this I
don't know, let's say, twenty four ounces margarita. And I'm
walking up to the long horned steer like the kind
you know you see in Texas where Dick Tip lives.
And I hold it out and this cow puts his head,
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or the steer puts its head right over the thing,
and in one giant no scoop, he does not the
margarita out of a margarita glass. No he does not,
So then yes he does, and maybe two maybe two scoops.
Maybe get a little ahead of myself, maybe give it
a little taster, and then he goes and just scoops us.
Now I have no Margarita. Everybody I do know there
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is in a bread truck getting high in front. Everybody
else doesn't know who the hell I am. I'm just
white guy number seven. And then I see Kirby just
gasing it just on the gator, dapsing it off just
down a trail along the along the fence line where
all the cows are. He's on the outside of the cows,
the steer on the inside. So I don't know anybody,
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and I don't know his parents' names. I just know
he's not supposed to be. We were keeping an eye
out for Kirby, and so I have to run back
over to a bread truck and go hi. Kirby is
driving into the woods on the gator, and all these
adults go what And they're all jumping up until all
these tied eyed, drunk Mississippians are running this kid that's
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not supposed to be driving this gator, and his parents
take off after him. He disappears into the woods, and
then when they catch up to this, they come out.
Kirby's fine in the long run, but they caught him
about two hundred yards into the woods. He had gone
up onto a log like a crossing and got stuck,
so he was just sitting there. They drove him back
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and everybody just congratulated him. It was the cutest thing
in the world. He thought he was going to get
yelled at or screened. Yeah, yeah, so happy that Kirby
was okay, that people were just like tossling his hair
and just giving them hugs and cheering them on. And
then yeah, so then I just ended up sitting in
a bread truck for the rest of the afternoon with
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with a bunch of adults as talking about Kirby who
was just running for the hills. Man, oh man, I
love it. I love that just fifteen of the greatest
minutes of my life. Are you joking?
Speaker 2 (30:33):
I mean, like that is that. It's an amazing story.
It's an amazing story. It's an amazing location. I can't
believe that there were long horns steer.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Yeah. Grass fed cattle was the guy's retirement plan. That
was his retirement plan. Oh my god. He had the
guy that bought the bread truck. His retirement plan was
longhorned grass fed meat. And he thought that was gonna
be like the way of the future. And then he's like,
nobody likes it. Doesn't taste just good or something. And uh,
that was his That was his retirement. That and long
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needle pines, which a lot of people buy, like acres
and acres of long needle pines and then they use
it for like mulch in landscaping. Literally cut it down
at some point and that's your retirement. Oh wow, So
I remember I had.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I had there was It was some folks that I
knew up in upstate New York that lived a place
called folk Kill. I don't believe it exists anymore, but
they were off the grid people. They were really fantastic
people who just like they had normal jobs and everything,
and then they just decided like that's it, We're gonna
live off grid. They lived at a place no electricity,
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no running water. They had a they had a little
pond that they would that they could also use to
get drinkable water out of and stuff. But their retirement
plan was ginsing. So they had planted gin sing. Yeah,
because jensing takes about ten years to get. But then
once it comes up, if you got a big gin sing,
you can get it. You can sell it for like
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twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
I don't know is ginsing a root. I have no idea.
It's okay. It's a big old root and then they
boil it or something and turn it into tinctures and
then you just, yeah, you just sell the root itself.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I mean they people use it for ast sorts of stuff,
but they you can just like grind it up and
it's like, you know, has that little pick me up?
Speaker 1 (32:25):
And jing sing are those trees that have the paddle
shaped leaf or something? Are they the ones that smell
a tout of fence it? No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Gin Sing is literally just a plant that has a
big old root. That's why when you see them like
at the remember I think you used to see them
in a at like Bodega's in New York City. Yeah,
and they would just be sold there and it just
looked like the grossest little thing because it was the
root that was the picture of the root on the thing.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
It just looked like a big hairy dick. You know.
I've never Maybe I should start taking gin sing. I
don't know what it's supposed to do for me, but uh.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Oh it's really Oh it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
I love gensing.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
It's like, uh, it's caffeine but without being caffeine. It's
not caffeine, it's just energy. It's just like speed. It's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
You know, I like this.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
You don't like that speed, baby?
Speaker 1 (33:12):
You do? You like a curtle? Will get a triple
shot of espresso. Sometimes when we're on the road doing
Beninas Lives and people are like three and he's like,
can you do four? And they're like yeah, and he's like, okay,
let's do it.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
That's the one thing that drives me crazy because I'll
often ask for a triple shot and They'll go, we
pull doubles, and I'm like.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
They always say to you, shit, eat shit, then give
me the numbers.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
I don't care. You're not really pulling doubles. Everybody whoever
has believed that they're pulling doubles. You're not pulling doubles.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
You're just trying to cheat people. We got the dapples,
we got the we got dubbles. Here we go, I
send us home baby. Ooh yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
So this is fascinating. So now you can this is
a new thing is just started by a French company
where you can now fund your wedding by selling seats
to it to strangers.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Interesting. So now it's this.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
It's a it's called invite in I N VI T
I N and it's a French startup. This is just
from their website. There's no there's no news article about this.
Just someone posted it on Reddit and so the only
thing I can read from is their website. Invite In
is a French startup that allows couples to sell seats
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at their weddings to help finance their event. Buy a
seat to attend weddings as a guest and discover a
new way to experience weddings, a new way to experience
the weddings of strangers.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Paid crashing of weddings. Just people you don't know, You
don't know any context any do they love each other? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
More than just a celebration, These events transform into immerse
of experiences where elegance and unforgettable moments come together. What
are we talking about here, folks? What are we talking about?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
But you know there's the Christmas shoppye is is everywhere
and open year round. And if you had told me
that there would be a place that just sold Christmas
stuff year round when I was a kid, had said,
you're a fool and a buffoon. Stop talking to me.
But by golly. People love things, and I feel like
weddings are just pageantry anyways, and who doesn't love a parade,
So this company might be genius. Like if you and
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I were on the road and I was like, dude,
we're we can go to this wedding right now. Should
we put on our banana's yellow suits and go to
this wedding for fifty dollars twenty five each, I'd be like,
if we get to eat and drink, let's go to
this wedding. I won think it'd be fun. I don't know.
I know you like this.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
I know you like this because and I just don't.
I yeah, I don't think. I don't think I would
because there's so much of a wedding that is waiting
for things to occur.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Do you know what I mean? That is true?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Like you get there, you wait in the sun for
the for the ceremony to start, and then you wait.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
For the cocktail hour to start.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
The cocktail hour is the best part of all the
weddings because everybody's just getting drunk and chit chat with
each other, and then you wait in line to get
food that's never very good. And then there's then the
dancing's fun sometimes, right, So I just don't know if
I would want to do it. I don't know if
I want to go to stranger's wedding.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
I wonder you know, when that first video went viral
of like all the groomsmen and all the bridesmaids dancing
down the aisle choreographed and then everybody expect you to
do it at their wedding. That was probably the five
or six worst years of my life. That was hell
because one people are like, oh, you're a comedy writer,
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You'll come up with something really funny, and I'm like,
I didn't even want to be in this wedding, to
be honest with you. So the act showed up time out.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
You have been in weddings where you needed to dance
down the aisle.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Yeah, you had to have a little sketch. You had
to have a little bit because it's so funny and
nobody had ever thought of that before. Yeah, I've had
a couple and I've been I always get partnered with
the somebody I don't know, you know, a bridesmaid, I
don't know who's the fun one too, So they all
have nicknames like double D's. That's a real one because
she had her initials were double d's, and she also
had gigantic breasts, but they're like Scotty and double d's
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are gonna be the funniest too. And I it took
willpower that I don't know if I have anymore, not
to just like run away, not to just run away
and dive into limo and say get me to the border,
I'll venmo you. And then I had another one where
the girl was like, I've had to do this shit
so many times. Just do this all dance around you
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and you pretend like you're a photographer taking photos of me,
and I go, great, that sounds great. And that did
very well. That did very well, so just like knew
how to do it. Yes, And then the funniest one
was I was not in this wedding, but it was
that thing where the wedding and the reception were really
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far apart. So the wedding took fifteen minutes, and then
we all got in the car and drove thirty minutes,
and then we got to the hall and then we
didn't you know they were in there. They did second
looks and the bride got on a different dress and
all the guys put on their converts Chuck Taylors or whatever,
and so we all pack in this place. I'm gonna
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use a fake class name. But all sudden, this long
Island DJ gets on the microphone and he goes, ladies
and gentlemen, please welcome for the first time together, his
husband and wife missed and Missus Thompson, and then play
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aid right into House of Pains, jump around, and a
curtain parted, and all the bridesmaids and groomsmen with the
bride and groom in the middle were just slam dancing
into each other to jump. That's so upsetting. I'm getting comfortable, dude.
It was I was. This was I was so young.
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I was twenty two or something when it happened, and
I remember watching it going, I'm never going to see
any of these people ever again. And by golly, Kurt,
I have not seen that bride and groom since the welcome.
And then just women and men slam dancing into each
other on a dais and You're like.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
I just I just realized. I want to take back
everything I said because I would pay to be at
that wedding. I will pay money to because that is
gonna be a fucking fun wedding.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You could leave whenever you want. That's the good way
of partying.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Actually, that's the best part is if you're paying to
be there, you just get up and leave and that wonderful.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
If if things aren't going off, well we paid. I
don't know how much you pay to be at a wedding.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Smell you later. Anyways. What's the name of the French company?
Do you still have it on? Inighten or welcome to inventeen?
That is so I would I would definitely try it out.
God jump around? Worst song ever? Well, Scott, we did
it again. We did it, buddy. It's so good to
see you. I love you so much.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
I hope you have a fantastic time on your vacation.
And uh, we'll.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Have a I'll see you assume, buddy. I'll see you
a couple of days. Hell yeah, I see you then. Mm.
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