August 6, 2024 • 55 mins
Kenice Mobley joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about how a study reveals people’s faces evolve to match their names, a man coughed and sneezed at breakfast and then his colon fell out, German zoo frees tiny lynx that kept trying to escape and a man graduates 41 years after being denied ceremony because of a parrot problem!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scotti.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
You ready, Purty, I am pumped up and ready to
laugh and laugh and laugh.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
This is a This one is like it's not like
a laugh out loud when you hear it, but it
is fascinating here it is.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
New study reveals people's faces evolved to match their names.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well, this is what scientists should be working on, because
you I want to meet the guy who had the
hypothesis that was like, that guy looks like a Craig,
that woman looks like a Deborah. All right, face it.
It's a brand new Bananas.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Do world. Would you mind? Million pieces?
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Bad guys, gals, non binary pals, Welcome to the Bananas Podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Sitting across from me digitally is the award winning never screenwriter,
never one and greatest guy in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Scottie land Is okay, I'll take that, And sitting across
from me is my best budd stand up comedian, writer, actor,
and he also has a podcast called bananas On exactly right,
the Big Banana himself, Kurt Browner, Browner, Kurt brown Owler, sorry, buddy,
and remember anyone can always call me Kurt Blah blah.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And that is, however, for to myself in the past
it doesn't, you'd never have to get it right.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Kurt, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Hi Scotty, how are you.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I'm great, I'm thrilled, sun is shining, life is good. Yeah,
I'm good. I'm having a really nice week. Things are
looking better out there. Also, I've been enjoying the Olympics
in a way that I never have before, and I'm
not sure why, but we can get into that with ours.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Oh, I'm interested also for folks Bananas Fest. I know
we keep talking about it, but it's September seventh in Denver.
Late show tickets are I believe still available for the
Bananas Podcast that Saturday night. If we can sell that
show out, maybe maybe we can add a would you
(02:23):
rather on Friday night? Maybe we don't know yet, but
first we need to sell out both shows on sund.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It's more my hesitation because it's just Bananas Fest. It's
going to be wild, and I'm a writer. I'm like, good,
I'm gonna crank it up for Saturday. But we'll see.
I also do love that people are flying in from
international locations, so we do want to give them the
greatest weekend of their whole freaking life. But we'll get
into that later. We have a great guest.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
We do have a fantastic guest.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Also, just a shout out, there's gonna be a Bananas
Singles meet up on Friday the Park in Denver and
also a Scooter Gang meet up on Friday.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
All thumbs that up too.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Details coming later.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Our guest today is a comedian you've seen on Netflix,
Comedy Central, The Tonight Show. Her debut album, follow Up Questions,
is available everywhere right now, and she'll be at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival for all of August.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Please welcome Canise Mobley.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Hello, thank you for having me to have you. Canise.
You're so funny, You're a great comedian.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
I love this. We can just do this if you
want to.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I when we get guests recommended to us, we get
send emails or press releases or whatever. I do try
to watch as many clips or specials or whatever I
can watch, and I have to say I laughed at
every single one of yours.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
So when you did the Tonight Show, you have a
unique Tonight Show experience was.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
That during the Great Choar, it was at the height
of the Great Boar where they weren't recording inside mostly
like Norman did his from the Staten Island Ferry, and
I did mine on the roof of New York Comedy
Club twenty five degrees outside.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
No, no, yes.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
I brought heating those like heating pads that like you
can those instant heating pads. I brought those for the audience.
People had blankets. I asked them to drink as much
as possible. Yes, some bodies would stay warm while they
were outside. I have a problem where if it's cold,
my eyes water. So during the set I'm having to
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like very like casually, like just dab my face or white.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yes, yeah, I did not.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
I would clearly oh, because I was like, it looked
like someone had been mean to me very the recording
of that set, because I just looked emotionally distraught.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
But it was a fun time.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Was it a full show up there or was it
just you?
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Thankfully it was a full show.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
I mean thankfully for me because it set me up
in a nice way, but not great for the audience,
a lot of whom were people I knew who came.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
To this because they knew I was recording.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
But for them, I just I felt so bad that
it was like, Okay, you've got to be outside. It's
twenty five degrees, it's during the daytime, and it's gonna.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Be an hour and a half, so good luck, thanks, Okay, cool.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Virtually possible to get laughter in that situation. Honestly, the
cold helps a little bit. The heat would the heat
if you were like it was one hundred and five degrees,
I'm like, that is and on a rooftop in Manhattan,
worst case scenario, the cold at least makes you go,
let's give them some support. Let's get like you're a
little bit in hell, so you're like, let's give them
some support. Well, you did great in spite of all
(05:41):
those factors. It was a really good set and have
been back on tonight. So since I have not, I'm.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Hoping that they asked me back as like a hey,
that was not the best environment.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Right.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
It's tough because I will say my comedy has gotten
it's only gotten dirtier since the pandemic. So it's just
a little harder for me to find material that is
tonight's show.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Okay, it's hard.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It is a very hard thing to do to put
together a late night set. I have a couple and
I don't I maybe have one of them that I
would be okay with someone watching, but I wouldn't be like,
that's representative of what it's like to see me do comedy.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
People would be I'm hoping that no one sees that
and is like, ooh, this is a good thing to
take my Midwest Christian family too, because they would be traumatized.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, I do find from an audience I'm not a
stand up comedian, but I do find as a frequent
audience member that even the times I've taken people who
are a little more prudish or a little more vanilla
to a actual comedy club, they sort of open up,
like they kind of get that they're in the different zone.
And so like when the comic comes out in the
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first you know, it's always some schmo that's just like
I come all the time, and I'm like instantly, I'm like, oh,
this is gonna be bad, And then the person next
to me is like crying, laughing, They're having the greatest time.
They're like, I've always wanted to hear somebody say those
words out loud.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
So I'm just imagining, what is the joke where the
punchline is I come all the time.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
That's the premise.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
Okay, then the Pyramids is I come all the time constantly,
can't stop interrupting my day.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
I'm just yet. Okay, I'm setting up a world to here.
I'm setting up there.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, you're building it out. Yeah it was Jim Norton.
Uh No, It's just a funny thing when you do
see somebody that you're like, oh God, and then they're like, oh,
they get it, they get the environment they're supposed to
Never we'll never talk about it again.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Yes, my family.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Oh, it's like a it's sorry.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
It's like the Uh, it's like the Woods in Shakespearean times.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It's there's no rules for them at that time.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
They can just go in there and they can be
their wild self for one hour and twenty five minutes
with two drinks.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I love that. Great was going on in the Woods. Yeah, comparison,
we were all just like Woods and Shakespeare. It's an
educational podcast.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
Educate, that's the main thing, do you know what I Well,
before you get into that, Curtibe, I wanted to give
Can a moment to tell us about the Edinburgh show
that she's gonna be doing, because we will have bananimals
in Scotland listening to this next week when you're there,
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
That would be fantastic. So the show I am doing,
it's called Don't Kill Yourself. Yet I'm not being prescriptive.
I'm not saying never do it. I'm just saying like,
wait a second. And it's like I've I've had depression
my entire life, and it's like things that were helping
with that, and so I was like working on holding on,
(08:54):
like hey, don't be super depressed. But then I had
a stroke and my body tried to kill me. So
it's it's about the lifelong struggle to not destroy yourself,
but then your body tries to destroy you anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
So but it's a comedy that sounds like a great
friend show. That's like a friend show that's about something
besides a guy wearing a kilt with no underwear, which
there's always one poster in Edinburgh where you're like, yeah,
we don't need to see that guy's show.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
I was like, this is a thing that happens all
the time.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
Interesting the internet afferent, It's like Europe seems more liberal
with that.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
They just you can just be nude on stage and
it's okay, just.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
For that'll be It'll always be one poster where he's
lifting up his kilt and then blurred out.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It's like, wah wah, this guy's a little legie.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
I'm gonna find that and I'm like, we don't know
each other that well, Kirt, but I will find that poster,
take a picture next to it and send it to you,
because I'm genuinely interested in.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Finding Please do well, everybody, all the bananamal people listening
to this in Edinburgh, go find Kenisa show by tickets,
support local comics.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
It's free.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, it's free.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
It's part of the Free Fringe. It's totally free.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
So bring your friends, bring your said, anyone you know
who's ever been said bring them.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
You can go great love that.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Here it is. Do you want to hear about this study?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yes, new study of reels people's faces evolved to match
their names.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
This was sent in by Jennifer Lynn. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
If you want to send stories to Bananas, just DM
them to us on the Bananas Podcast on Instagram or
email us The Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com. This
was in fizz dot orgs as in sincerel It's like
physics dot org. But okay, I also saw it in
other publications as well, So this was written by It
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was just written by Reichman University, the whole university.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
No, they're not taking individual responsibility for this. They're like, nobody,
don't tell me.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Not a good side time.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
A new study has found that people tend to alter
their appearance to suit their names. The researchers sought to
determine whether parents chose a baby name based on what
seems fitting for the baby's appearance, or if individuals facial
appearances changed over the years to align with the social
stereotypes associated.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
With their names. This is interesting.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
This is definitely run by scientists who've never had a baby,
because all babies look exactly the same.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
They just may be like little little little h Wallace.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
The story The study was published in the journal Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
The research team was blah blah, blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
In the study, nine to ten year old children and
adults were asked to match faces to names. The findings
were revealed that both the children and the adults correctly
matched adult face is to their corresponding names significantly above
the chance level. However, when it came to children's faces
and names, the participants were unable to make accurate associations.
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In another part of the study, a machine learning system
was fed a large database of images of human faces.
The computer recognized that the appearances of the faces of
adults with the same name were significantly more similar to
each other than the representations of faces of adults with
different names.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
This is crazy.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Conversely, no significant similarity was found among children with the
same name compared to children with different names. The researchers
concluded that similarity between the person's face and their name
results from a self fulfilling process. See the facial appearance
changes over a long period of time to align with
social stereotypes associated with the name. Such stereotypes can be
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formed in many ways, for example, because the name is
linked to a famous figure, or due to the connotations
of a biblical name. This is crazy social structuring quote
is so strong that it can affect a person's appearance.
These findings may imply the extent to which other personal
factors that are even more significant than names, such as gender, ethnicity,
may shape who people grow up to.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I wish my name was Lebron Landis. I wish I
was looking more like Lebron James every day physically.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
I'm sorry this.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
I'm sorry to these scientists, and I recognize getting grants
is hard, but this is bullshit.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
This is utter bullshit that these people are getting money
to study this stuff.
Speaker 8 (13:36):
Like all babies look alike, most ten year olds look
kind of alike, and people choose names based on a
lot of societal factors already, So like, nobody who doesn't
look like a Shannon.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Is gonna name their baby fucking Shannon.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
It's just happen.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I like that too.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
It's also, yeah, that's crazy that they just discounted the
entire society that the parents grew up in and the
and the culture that they're in, and instead it was like, no,
you change your face over time, Like what do you
do it? Like just blowing real heart into your eyeballs
to make them pop out?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
You know?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Like, what are they do? George? Uh, there's a George?
Just are those George eyeballs? I've been looking at. But
I do wonder when you were saying this, I have
I can see it if there are those names that
can go a lot of different ways. You know, there's Timothy,
that can be Timothy or tim or Timmy. You know,
there are those names that can become so Elizabeth can
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be Liz or Lizzie or Beth or And I'm like,
is it that? Is it more that people assume the
variation of their name that they think best represents their
face and personality, Because when you meet somebody named Elizabeth
and they get mad at you if you call them
Liz or Beth or Eliza or anything else there are
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that's always a type. There is a type of person
that won't let you. You meet a Samantha and then
one time you go, hey, sam, can you hear me
that beer? And she goes, it's Samantha. That's a type.
And I can't tell that type based on photo alone
because they're pain in the ass, is what I'm saying.
And I wonder if that goes into it. I wonder
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if that plays into it that people adjust their Daniels
become Danny's or Dan's. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I also know that this study is bullshit, Canise, because
so many people come up to us after shows and
think that Scotty's name is Kurt brown Oler and my
name is Scotty landis all the time, all the.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Time, you as a Scotty.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You can see me Scotty.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
I can see you as a Scotty.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
It's harder for me to see you Scotty as a Kurt,
but I definitely I see this well.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I have seen people call me Scotty. My birth name
is Scott because when I look in the mirror, I
see a Scott. So I just put Scotty in there,
just just to throw a curve. Scott's well. I think
if you saw me on the street and goes that
guy's name Scott, you would go, yeah, yes, they go
it's either Chris, Adam or Scott. I think when you
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look at me, you see Chris and Adam or Scott.
I'll take a Paul all day.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Speaking of all of this, Canise, when was the first time, like,
how old were you when you looked in a mirror?
I'm assuming this is a universal human experience looked in
a mirror and were like the thing that is having
these thoughts is not the thing I'm looking at, Like
there is a different there's two different things going on here.
There's a thing that's thinking and then there's that thing
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that I'm looking at in the mirror anybody I.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Haven't had that.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
I like that thought, I do, but mine is complicated
by the fact that I have an identical twin sister.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Oh, it's very much. So like I look at it looks.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Like a canis to me, she looks like a real canise.
What's her name? I mean? I love this? And are
you still? Have you aged and stayed identical? I know
sometimes identical twins? Oh this is good.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
We both like.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
I went to her son's birthday party and everyone came
up to me being like, oh.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
I heard her sister was going to be here, and
I was like, you just met her, because that's great.
I'm meeting her friend.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
It's that much. It's that much.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
But she also wears glasses, has locks there are about
shoulder length like, so we've also, I guess, made some
choices that continue to make us look alike.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
So yeah, but do you feel more like a canise
than a trees? Like? Do you feel like you're more see?
There is something to.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
This, but it's personality based, not.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Right, it's personality based.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I would think that that I'm definitively I think I'm
definitively personality more Curt a Scottie.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Okay, But I do this often. I when I look
like a.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Guy, like I'm the name of like a cool guy,
a guy.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
But Kurt, you also look like a cool guy.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I agree, Kurt's the name of I think more of
a nerd person, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I'm on the on a fringe.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I feel like just because it's not as common a name,
it's rare, right, it's rare, and it's yeah it has
okay anyway.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
It's anyways. So I'm a screenwriter, canise, and I write
like the scripts and when I do, you know, a
lot of what you have to do is think of
names like people think. And if you if you put
a script out every time, you can always tell when
somebody's a new writer because they use certain names for characters.
And that's not just the case. Like when I say
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to you both, if I say seventy year old white
retired man, what name comes to mind?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Richard great Mayburn?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I mean you'd say both valuable. But and I do
this a lot. I do this with Strawberry, and I
do this like with with anybody, especially when I'm working
with young writers. But I'll be like, hey, I need like,
what's a sexy name for like an eighteen year old
that's trying to seduce somebody older. And I'll ask that
to like my women friends, and they'll be like instantly,
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they'll have something that I never would have thought of,
and I usually use their names.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
So you'll go against you'll go against type you mean,
so then you'll name the old man like the sexy
kitten who's trying.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Sometimes okay, yeah, sometimes I do do that, and because
you want to, Like in Ma, I made the mom's
name Erica because when I grew up, I knew a
bunch of girls named Erica. And then I was sitting
and trying to think of a name that is common
that you never see in any media, and so I
just named her Erica. And then people were like, was
that after your friend Erica? And I'm like, no, I
made friends with her after the fact. I just try
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to pick names that fit the character description. But we
can all do it based on the character description, which
Richard is a great example. A seventy year old man
that just retired and you're like, come in here, Richard.
You'd be like, yep, that matches. It's fascinating. But if
I got this seventy year old.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
A seven year old bad named Kitty is interesting. I
want to see.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I want to know more about that guy.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Do you guys know anyone named Kitty?
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Like this is the thing I've seen in fictional things,
but I don't know anyone named Kitty.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
No, no, okay, I bet you.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I feel like I feel like my mom knew a
nurse named Kitty. Though I feel like that definitely she
was a nurse. I feel like that's but that's maybe
me making that up.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I mean maybe I remember watching I think during Lockdown
and the Weird Great Choir, I was like so bored.
I was like, well, I'm just going to go back
and watch all those movies that I've heard about my
whole life that I've never seen, like Casa Blanca, like
Rebel without a Cause, And so I watched that one,
and I'm ninety nine percent sure it's that one that
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the dad's nickname for his daughter and Rebel without a
Cause is Pussy, and he says it so much. I
think her character's Junie or something, but he's like, oh,
come on, Pussy, and I'm like, this is crazy. That
Seventy years later, I was sitting alone in my cabin,
like like my skin was crawling off the back of
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my head, and my back of my head is crawling
up the wall, and he like, can you imagine I
wrote that into a movie? Now, it'd be like, arrest
that man, Arrest Richard.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yes, Okait, sorry? Can can I ask you?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
So?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
You said we kind of skimmed over the fact that
you had a stroke? Yeah, Oh my god? What what happened?
How did it is it? I don't want you to
give any if there's especially a twist, it's not a twist.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
It's just the thing that happened pretty sure forward.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
So I was in Utah for this Creative Change Retreat,
which is really great because it's like they get all
of these people together, people who work in nonprofit, people
who work in governmental agencies, people who work in education,
and then they put some entertainers in there, and your
whole job while you're there is to brainstorm ways to
make the world.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
A better place, which is really really cool.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
And it was at the Sundance Resort, which is different
than the Sundance Institute. And I had to always clarify
that because they're like, you went to Sundance and I'm like, no, no, no,
the resort.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
It's not like it's whatever.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
And they had this ceremony and a lot of people
were crying, and I am an emotionally stilted person, so
I wasn't.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
And they released these rehabilitated birds and a white woman with.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
People cry over that, and I'm like, that's nice, but
I don't even like birds. In fact, I think birds
is an animal. I can do without them entirely. Yeah,
and white woman with dreads, which is something that I
judge very harshly. Uh, did slam poetry, which is also
something that I judged very hoarsely.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
I was like, bro, don't stop.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
But I was walking back because we all stayed in cabins,
and I was walking back to my cabin and I
was making fun of it on the phone with my
mom and she's like, Canise, you're not making any sense.
And then I fell out and that's I guess when
I had my stroke, because like someone found me on
the ground and my mom's still on the phone streaming hello, Hello, Hello.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
And that's how much you hate white dreadlocks.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
I get.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
That's my brain was like, no more, you can't exist
for a moment.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
You're done poetry.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
If I see one more person and white, another white
person with drug locks, I'm bad about fucking stroke.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
I probably said that at some point in my past,
didn't remember it, and then stroke.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
It can happen to anyone.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Well, I'm so happy that you're fully recovered. How long
was the recovery process?
Speaker 6 (24:02):
It was like a couple months. I'm really lucky.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
So the major thing is like it's hard for me
to read aloud, which.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Is like a very specific thing.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
But because that's been part of my jobs, I've noticed that,
Oh it's slower and it takes me a second to
like assess what they're saying, the tone that I'm supposed
to say this in, and then repeat it out loud.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
So that's like an annoying, weird brain thing. But also my.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
Skin doesn't have feeling, but only on the right side,
so wow, Like the muscles have feelings, So if someone
were like brabb me, I would feel that. But if
like an ant, we're crawling on my skin, I would
not feel that.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Oh wow, Okay, And that might change or it might
just be like that for the rest of your life.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
It may just be like that for the rest of
my life.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
Like my doctors said that they hoped that it would
get better, but they were like, if it was going
to get better, it would have happened within like the
first few weeks. And now that it's this week, been
two years, they're like, you just got to think about it.
That that's just not coming back.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Well, not great, but I gotta say not the worst
I've ever heard all, No, not at all.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
I went to for young stroke survivors and I felt
like a real asshole because.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
You're like tickle contest anyone right side.
Speaker 8 (25:20):
Only like these people they oh, their situations were bad.
Like a lady could not like she was in this
support group, but like they had her go last because
it took her so long to form even a sentence,
and like it was just so hard for her. And
I was like that would I would not be able
to do comedy if that were the case.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Ohmen, So I feel really lucky, good.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Well good, we help you. We're wonderful recovery forever. Yeah,
thank you. I can do a health Let's talk about
another person with a health ailment that not so good.
This was sentenced by bananmal Jess Santana Franklin. If you
have a story in you to Bananas. You can send
us any strange news story from around the world that
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is real to the Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com
or the Bananas Podcast on Instagram and we will shout
you out. So thank you, Jess. This was in the
worst website I've ever used. The media mist in the
biz website the decanherld dot com. It is real. I
looked this up. Kurt, you saw this stor I'm shore
(26:25):
on Canisi. You might have seen this story too. Man
coughed and sneezed during breakfast at a US diner and
then his colon fell out. Yeah, so it was everywhere.
This was written by that that media missed in the
biz DH staff. I mean, this website is a nightmare.
(26:46):
When you copy and paste on this website, it only
allows you to have half a sentence at a time,
and then it puts the link to decanherld dot com instead.
So I was free copy and paste before I scrolled
how long the story was. It took me ten minutes
to copy and paste this nice. I felt like my
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colon fell out by the end of this thing. A
sixty three year old man sneezed and coughed at the
same time while eating breakfast at a US diner, only
to find his colon had fallen out of his body.
The man, who was with his wife at the time
was out of Florida restaurant, felt a wet sensation which
came with a sharp pain. The man had recently undergone
(27:28):
a dominal surgery, with the doctors assuring him the incision
had healed, but when he lifted up his shirt, he
saw several inches of his colon had come out of
the wound. My god. An ambulance was summoned and paramedics
when they arrived found a three inch opening with the
large amounts of the bow visible through it. Luckily, the
blood loss was minimal and there was no damage to
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the exposed organ organ excuse me not orgon. Once he
was taken to the hospital surgeon to put it back
in to his abdomen, the man remained in the hospital
for six days, from which he was discharged, and he
reportedly recovered without any complications. The reopening of a surgical
wound is reportedly a rare occurrence and happens to only
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three out of one hundred people. That seems pretty common,
I would say more.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Yeah, like that's higher than I would have thought.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Yeah, more than I hoped for. So he had an
ordeal where he had battled prostate cancer and had a surgery.
The issues were fixed, but the and the doctors removed
the stitches on the morning his bows fell out. So
it was that day they had gone to a diner
to celebrate his clean bill of health at breakfast, and
(28:40):
the surgeons, to ensure the wound did not open, later
performed a figure figure eight stitches. Figure of eight stitches,
which is among the most advanced and strongest closures in medicine.
There's a fact for you.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You know what, I'm going to insist on that closure.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
If I ever half my abdomdal, my goodness, do a
figure eight on that.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Ya.
Speaker 8 (29:07):
I'm happy that you described this because when you said
that somebody's plan fell out, I genuinely thought it was
through their asshole, and.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
I was like, how did it just fall out? Like
how much of it fell out? Did he poop at
the same time? But that this different opening answers all
my questions. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah, a little less traumatic, a little easier to hide.
I wish that the worst website in the biz dec
and Harold had told us had they started eating. Did
they take the food to go? I want details, people.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I also like the fact that that that publication's name
doubles as a seemingly fun buddy comedy and Harold Harold
going out doing stuff together.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I'm deck this is Harold.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Your laugh, your butthole will fall out.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Harold is Decan. The it's Decan d e k e n.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
D Ecca nherld dot com mediumist in the friggin'biz.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
What is Deccan?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah? Where is Decon?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Is it a place?
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I don't know. I mean Deccan Harold is in England, India,
English language daily newspaper from the Indian state of Karnataka.
It was founded by K. N. Guruswami, a liquor businessman
from Bellari, and was launched June seventeenth, nineteen forty eight.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Nineteen forty eight. Decan Harold's been around.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, they're around. They're just their website is not for me.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
It's meant to be enjoyed in print.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yes, that's right, or on WhatsApp It's meant to be
sent a little bit at a time on whatsappen. Yeah,
that's got to be a bummer. Else I want to
know what diner it was. Maybe I had a funny name.
Mm hmmm, we'll never ever.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
That's a claim to fame, I guess, like so good
it'll make your colon fallouts.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yeah, blow your ass out that old over EASi.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Shall I tease U into a little thumbsup scatty?
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I would love it here it.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Is German zoo freeze tiny links that kept trying to escape.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
It's a feel good story. It's a feel good story, guys.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Oh, before we do that, I did have a fact
that I wanted to share with everybody that I just saw.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
This is great.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Where dude came from. The word dude is very funny.
It's from the eighteen eighties. It's a British phrase meant
to make fun of Americans who were like getting money
and trying to act proper. So they would call them
yankee doodle dandies, and then that got shortened to dude,
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and then it meant just like a city dweller in England,
and then dude ranch meant like a gentleman's farm, like
someone from the city who had like a ranch, and
they would just they didn't know what the fuck to
do with it, you know, they just like wanted to
like pretend like they were a cowboy. That's where dude
ranch comes from. And then in the nineteen thirties it
became black slang. Of course, that's of the introduction to
(32:17):
anything cool in America. And then the fifties surfers took
it up, and then in the seventies it became mainstream.
But it stands for yankee doodle, which is so funny.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
We've taken it.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
From insult to a nicely I'll.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Bringing it back to yankee doodle.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
What's up? Yankee doodle?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
All right, give me some shout out, Scottie.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Sure, thumbs up. Devin Levine is hugely thumbing his pregnant
wife Sonia up after even while being seven months pregnant.
Sonya orchestrated an incredible birthday for Devin. He is a
huge antiques road show fan as am I, and he
managed to get Kevin Zavian Kevin Zavian to send two
(33:05):
birthday videos. Now that might be like whatever, but Kevin
is not on cameo. So Sonya tracked him down on
his email that has an atoil dot com address, which
Devin wanted me to know, and made it happen two
different birthday videos. So big love from Montreal. And I
also say thumbs up Kevin Zavian of the Antiques Roadshow
(33:26):
for making two videos for a super fan. That's very nice.
Great job Sonya Correne Sovie, who came to our Chicago show,
I believe wants to thumb her husband Jay up. Now, Kurt,
you're going to love this one. Oh okay. Jay charters
fishing trips on Lake Erie. While out on the lake
(33:46):
a little while ago, it was a very choppy day.
He was taken a tour out. Jay witnessed a smaller
boat that suddenly disappeared. It capsized. Oh my god. The
captain and five passengers on board were struggling to cling
to the upside down boat in the choppy water. Jay
sprang into action, first radioing for help and then tossing
a booy ring a life saver to each passenger and
(34:09):
the captain one at a time, saving them all and
getting them on a boat. All of the passengers and
the captain were safe, and if he hadn't seen the flip,
they were over two miles from shore. So now that's
not good. So thumbs up to Captain Jay for saving
the day. That's a great one.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
That's a great one. Thumbs up.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
This one's a medium one, but you'll see why we're
doing it. Barbara Maggot, sister of full Human not robot,
part time employee, our intern and part time employee Lisa Maggott,
is thumbing Melanie Clatten off up for having a friend
who has a cousin who is competing the Olympics. We're
(34:56):
gonna also give that just a thumbs up to Lisa Maggot,
who does a great job and is helping us play
on Banana's fest. So thumbs up to Barbera Maggott's sister,
a full human not robot, part time employee, Lisa Maggott,
and I got one. Well, please dive in.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
This is from copy Hay sent this in asked for
a thumbs up for Miss Holly Dawn, who loved an Animal,
for putting out her own book that she wrote and
designed all by herself. It's called Miss Holly Dawn's Ultimate
Guide and Checklist Tatiki Enlightenment. It's a notebook that includes
all the tiki bars in America and has notes and
(35:34):
questions for you to fill out about your experience so
you can keep track on your journey to visit them
all the link to order, we'll we'll put it in
our stories.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Holly Dawn send it to us, we'll post about it.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
We'll post about it. So Holly sent it to us.
But that was very nice of copy haste. He said,
they met it first. It's splitting the city and our
buds that they go to shows together.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
So yeah, Holly's so nice. Yeah, thumbs up, Holly Dawn.
And last but not least, Brandy Chalker, who on Instagram
is at Flourish Bay Area, set up a Bananamal buddy
bash on Friday the sixth, the day before we're doing Canie.
We're doing a big all day comedy festival in Denver
called Bananas Fest. We have silly, absurd things happening every
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hour all day long in Laramer Square. But the day
before we have so many bananimals who are coming to
Denver for the first time, are coming to Denver and
they don't know anybody or local Denverites who just want
to meet other banannimals. This Bananamal named Brandy Chalker set
up a whole thing without us asking, including like a
website and a Google map, like dropped a pin So
(36:46):
if you're coming to Bananas Fest and you want to
meet other bananimals on Friday from one thirty to four
pm in City Park, Denver. There's a little website. We
will be sharing it in our stories pretty much every day.
But Brandy Chalker, who did this absolutely out of the
kindness of her own heart and volunteered for it. Banana
of the Week, right.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Banana Banana Week, Banana thank.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
You, Thank you, Brandy. It's very kind and that's our
thumbs ups.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
And of course we are here with the fantastic and
wonderful Canise Mobley.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Yes we are.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
You can go and see.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Her in Edinburgh for from August fourth to August twenty eighth,
every single day. And I think it's the leath, Oh,
the leath, the leaf tunnelses, what arches the leaf arch
Do be prepared, prepare.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Yourself for the arches. They're wet inside. Do you know
that moys they drip damp, they drip and they're damp. Yes.
Speaker 8 (37:48):
I was not prepared for any of this, so thank
you for this morning. I will wear a head covering.
Oh my goodness, it's damp.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
It's like it's very humid inside there because of the
rocks and the earth and everything.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Okay, I'm from the South.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Community is like, my friend, then you're gonna love it.
Then you're gonna home and mossy. No, it's just wet
and moist.
Speaker 8 (38:14):
I was, okay, like wet and moist rocks often smell
like mossy to me.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Oh yeah, yeah, there's a mustiness odor, there's a mustiness.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, it's like they're just used
to it over there. Also, outside of that, you'll be
the coldest you've ever been, even though you've lived in
New York. In this in the wintertime, it's so cool,
except unless, of course, you get the two weeks that
Scottie got when he came with us, which was.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Eighty degrees of perfect difficult.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
You're gonna love it. Pack your tank keenies, pack your
short shorts and your roller skates because Edinburgh weather is
number one in the world.
Speaker 8 (38:49):
Okay, all right, great, g are great. I have a
rain jacket that looks like the Burtons Salt Girl.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
Does that make sense to anyone?
Speaker 8 (38:57):
Okay, well, of course, I was like, maybe people don't
know that, but that's always what I think of if
I think of a yellow slicker.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yeah, yep, yeah, they know that. They won't know about that.
Speaker 6 (39:07):
No, they have. We have some other salt girl that
doesn't even have to wear a raincoat.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Yeah, that's fantastic. We also have another ban animal who
is a guest on the show. Katherine McCafferty. Is there
her doing her show right now, So go support Catherine's
her shows. Oh yeah, she's great. If you don't know her,
hang out. She's wonderful. Become what you got, Curdie b all.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Right here it is.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Uh, it's a adorable story. Zoo freeze tiny links that
kept trying to escape this.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
I love this story. Here it is.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
This was written by David Crossland. It was in the Times,
the General Times. A young Carpathian links called Choppo, which
is Spanish for shorty we know, has won his freedom
after repeated escape atten and is now roaming the wilds
of Saxony in search of rabbits, foxes and deers. The
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one year old wildcat, which was born in the Nuremberg Zoo,
had been intended for a breeding program for the species,
which was hunted almost to extinction in Germany by the
early nineteen hundreds. However, he had other plans and jumped
over the fence of his enclosure shortly after his arrival
at a breeding station in the Harz Mountains in early June.
He was quickly caught, but his wonder lust was evident.
(40:27):
He kept looking for ways out of the enclosure and
found it difficult to settle down. This showed that the
young links was better suited to being released into the wild,
experts from the Linking Links Network.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Oh, come on, it's not called that.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
The Linking Links Network, which works on the conservation monitoring
management of the Carpathian Links, had already classified Chopo Shy
potentially suitable for reintroduction program, so the keepers in Nuremberg
had been at pains to prepare him for a possible
life in the wild. They kept contact with him to
a minimum, only fed him game, and kept him in
(41:02):
a relatively large enclosure. He was then fitted with a
GPS collar, brought to a forest in Saxony, and there
the Powerhouse predator was released from his box two weeks ago.
He came out, oriented himself briefly, then trotted briskly along
the forest paths and finally disappeared into the undergrowth. Three
other Lynxes Juno Alva and Nova had been released in
(41:23):
the same area, and the spring have established hunting grounds
there there, behaving and conspicuously are rarely seen and have
graduated from catching hares and foxes to deer. So far,
they've stayed away from livestock, unlike those wolves, whose reintroduction
has led to tensions with farmers, who lost thousands of
animals a year to wolf attacks. In twenty twenty two,
(41:45):
more than four thousand animals, mostly sheep, were killed by wolves,
according to German Federal blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Blah blah blah blah blah bla blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
That's about it, lare it is, yeah, and it's The
picture is just of a of a very large cat
that's obviously still a kitten like scampering into the woods.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
It's very adorable. I like this. Let's do this more,
Let's do this more.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Also, I think it's a great lesson that if you
feel like you don't belong where you are, try to escape.
Speaker 6 (42:19):
Just keep leaving, and then eventually they'll just let.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
You know it could happen. It could happen.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
We've got a lot of stories about beefalos that have
escaped and cows.
Speaker 8 (42:31):
What is a beef buffalo mixed with a cow?
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Yeah, they've raised that's they're raised for their beef. So
he got out and he just lives his best life.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
There's a dim with elk or something. Yeah, we just
did that one. It's just great. We just love it.
We love it. We love when they get out there
and stretch those hoofs. That's really sweet. This is go ahead.
Speaker 6 (42:55):
Please sorry, I just maybe an insensitive question.
Speaker 8 (42:58):
They were hoping that this guy I would like made
and they'd be able to breed some of these in captivity.
Speaker 6 (43:04):
Right, did they milk this guy before he.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Left or what did they milk him?
Speaker 2 (43:12):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (43:13):
The times just simply doesn't match.
Speaker 6 (43:17):
That's why they let him go.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Or I think they were like, he's not going to cooperate, Oh,
you might as well let him go, got it. Yeah,
But the fact that they've already reintroduced for is pretty exciting.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
I think that's so exciting. That's like sometimes when people
are like, what's your dream job or whatever? When you
hear about people that do this for a living You're like,
that's got to be satisfying. That's got to be great work.
That's not data entry. That is you were like, we
raised a wild animal, relocated it back to where it belongs,
and we watched him and now he's flourishing, and it's
(43:52):
like the rest of us are like I printed a
PDF today and I realized there was a typo, so
I printed it again.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
Canise if you were not a comedian, what would your
dream job be?
Speaker 8 (44:07):
Research psychologists, probably at a university, doing studies on how
children formed their identities and sexual identity specifically.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
Wow, boy, you just became our favorite guest in the
history of bananas. Our listenership is going to be like, yep,
me too. You hit the nail on the head so
hard with that one.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
Were you ever get headed down that path?
Speaker 6 (44:38):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (44:39):
I got my undergrad in psychology and I did research
on children, not in like a creepy way, but just
like we did a recreation of the Clark Doll study,
which is the study they used in Brown v. Board
of Education to show that segregation was actually doing harm
to children and their So you showed kids different dolls
(45:02):
of different colors and ask them like, which doll are
they what do they think of the different dolls?
Speaker 6 (45:07):
And so we did.
Speaker 8 (45:08):
That, but we also did one based on how children
formed their ideas of morality, And so we had them
watch these videos over the course of six months and
then tracked like how the incidents of fights, insults, certain
types of self talk, how those incidents all went down
once they were showed these videos on morality.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
So, oh wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 8 (45:33):
Very that's I love how culture affects how children developed
their ideas of themselves.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
Yeah, I feel like you could do this simultaneously with
being a comic. This feels like do you do that
by day in comedy by night?
Speaker 6 (45:48):
If someone wants to pay me to do that?
Speaker 3 (45:50):
Absolutely, Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
It does seem that academia exists in this weird place
of like where you just have to get grants. Yes,
and it's like being and it's essentially like being a
freelance writer or comic anyway, where you're just like battling
to get that like one little thing so you're like, oh,
I'm safe for six months.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
Yeah grant right. It feels hard. I mean, it feels
harder than like writing a book when I when I
see people that are like writing stuff for school grants.
I'm like, this is so hard. Yeah, well terror interesting, interesting.
Speaker 8 (46:28):
I'll be the very stable and wise career decision of
stand up comedian instead.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
Hey, you're great at it. You picked a good lane.
Hey here's one. Oh, this is good. This is sort
of school related. This is a natural segue. Lisa Wood
sent this in Lisa sends lots of great stories. Thank you,
Lisa Wood. This was written written by Nadeem Badshaw for
The Guardian. That's a real one. Man graduates forty one
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years after being denied Sarah because of a parrot problem.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
I almost did this one.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
I love it. The reason I love this one so
much is the way Nadeem Badjaw, who is the best
in the bysz undeniably the best in the biss this
article just starts taking turns at the end that I
could never have seen coming.
Speaker 1 (47:19):
Give it to me.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
A man who has denied his graduation for forty one
years because of an unpaid bill of sixty four pounds
and eighty pence or something relating to a parrot, who
relating to a parrot, has finally donned his cap and
cot and gown on the same day as his son.
His name okay, the last name is spelled as so
(47:43):
c l O t H I E R so Clothier
or Clothier or I'm going Clothier because I think it
sounds funny or Clothier. Johnny Clothier studied architecture at University
of Bristol and was meant to graduate with his peers
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in nineteen eighty three, but his old flatmate had a
parrot which, after being left unsupervised, had free run of
their university university accommodation and wrecked the entire place. The
students found alternative housing, but still had to settle the
term's final rent of sixty four pounds, which Clothier refused
(48:26):
to pay. A long since abolish rule meant that students
with unpaid accommodation bills were awarded degrees but were not
allowed to graduate, So after forty one years, the university
decided to waive the bill, which allowed Clothier to graduate
alongside his youngest son, Carter, twenty one years of age,
who completed a biology degree. Clothier's sixty two. Now he
(48:49):
lives in Petersfield, Hampshire or Hampshire, and he viewed the
unpaid bill as an ultra long term interest free loan.
So that's where the story could have ended. Pretty They
haven't then mentioned the money, so I'm keeping quiet, he joked.
It means that Clothier and his wife, Helen Hill, sixty,
and all of their three children have now graduated from
(49:10):
University of Bristol. He added, I love doing time at architecture.
Blah blah blah. It was really good training for life.
We danced, we partied, then went back to work. Okay,
so this is where I'm going to jump down about
four paragraphs. It's been really nice watching the kids go
through the same things forty years on, and it's been
amazing to all be together for these graduations. Clothier said
(49:31):
about his graduation day last Thursday. Was enormous fun, but
it's not really about me. It's about them, and signing
off on a twenty year project to get his kids
through the whole education cycle. Again, we could end it here.
Here's where it gets fun. Hill. This is his wife,
whom Clothier met at Bristol, graduated in Russian and French
(49:52):
in nineteen eighty five and was approached to work for
mi I six, which is their CIA. Right yep, yep.
She work extensively in Russia and went on to make
TV documentaries. Clothier left architecture and also went to work
in TV as a director and executive producer, but has
returned to his favorite subject, building contemporary net zero treehouses
(50:15):
in the forest of Dean, Okay. Their eldest son, Keito
Quito Clothier, graduated with a degree. I wonder what his
face will look like as an adult. Close your eyes
and picture. Keito Clothier went to get a degree in
music in twenty twenty. He now is an art dealer
(50:35):
specializing in the works of Banksy, Okay. The couple's daughter,
Tiger Clothier, graduated in twenty twenty and is a ski
instructor in Japan. This family is incredible. The parrot is
the most boring thing to happen to this family. Carter,
(50:58):
who is looking for a career and sustainability, having recently
represented in England playing lacrosse in Portugal.
Speaker 3 (51:06):
The title of this should have been husband of I
six agent graduates forty years earlier with parent like, that's
what should we should open with.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
It's definitely a unique experience graduating with your dad, said
lacrosse playing Carter, who played lacrosse in Portugal while representing England.
You know, his sister Tiger was a ski instructor in Japan.
But it was an amazing day and a beautiful ceremony.
Damn that takes some turns. Have a mom that's a
spy awesome and then have these international kids Quito, Carter
(51:43):
and Tiger.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
What Carter really lost out?
Speaker 6 (51:46):
It seems it seems.
Speaker 3 (51:48):
Like and Tiger were named by one parent and Carter
was named by the other parent.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
Can we just have one Carter?
Speaker 6 (51:56):
Oh wow?
Speaker 3 (51:59):
So treehouses, you build a tree zero waste and zero
zero waste contemporary treehouse in the Forest of Dean.
Speaker 2 (52:09):
That's after he gave up being an executive producer. Director
hurt so much.
Speaker 6 (52:15):
Our treehouse is often not carbon neutrient.
Speaker 8 (52:19):
That's a great environmentally unfriendly.
Speaker 2 (52:22):
Usually they just went rotten rust, right, rock and rust
in is what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (52:29):
Also the fact that a term, a term of school,
the rent was sixty four pounds. That was in nineteen
eighty three, and now it's you. You'd probably be lucky
if you paid six thousan four hundred pounds for that term, right, Yeah,
it's probably more than that. That's so insane because it's
it's not as if in nineteen eighty people were making
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twenty three thousand dollars right out of college and now
they're making two hundred and thirty thousand.
Speaker 2 (52:54):
Dollars a year right out of college.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
Do you know what I mean? Like Jesus Christ, life
was so different?
Speaker 2 (53:00):
Mmmm? Damn Well, congratulations to the whole Clothier or Clothier family.
You are the most interesting family in England and that's
pretty nice.
Speaker 3 (53:15):
Damn Thank you of course to Canise Mobli who is
our guest today. Canise, where can everybody find you? Give
us all the plug?
Speaker 6 (53:24):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 8 (53:25):
So if you're at Edinburgh, of course find me at
the fringe. I'm doing the free fringe baby, so it
doesn't cost you anything, so you should totally come.
Speaker 6 (53:33):
It's only your time. And I know we only have.
Speaker 8 (53:36):
This one precious life, but I think it's worth it,
so please hume. I can be found online. Canise Mobley
on all the socials. My mom looking at me as
a baby was like that looks like a Canise YEA
someone who will never have to compete for SEO in
their lives because.
Speaker 1 (53:52):
There's no other.
Speaker 8 (53:54):
Uh So I was able to get in and get
Canise Mobley on Instagram, on Twitter, on Facebook, on TikTok.
So find me on any of those and you know,
like and follow, because that's what helps me out.
Speaker 6 (54:07):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
That's perfect. Thank you so much for being on bananas.
While you're there, If you go to there, there's a
little tradition there of the Glen Grayfriars Bobby. It's a
little dog statue you rub his nose. It's a kind
of a pub called Greyfriars Bobby Pub. There's a good
little bagel place there called Bobby's Bagels. If you just
find yourself rubbing a little statue dog's nose and you
(54:29):
need a sandwich, go to Bobs. They're nice people, okay, yeah,
and then they have they do Okay.
Speaker 6 (54:36):
I was like, I don't know what the Scott's eat.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (54:39):
Oh they got good smoked salmon. They're good over there.
Speaker 3 (54:43):
Yeah, right out of the north Sea there. And if
you walk right down that street that that.
Speaker 2 (54:48):
Baby Friars Bobby.
Speaker 3 (54:50):
Yeah, you walk straight down that street and it ends
right at Arthur's Seat And that is a big mountain
that you can climb, and you should do it early
on and climb up to the top because it is
a crazy view all over. You can see Edinburgh, you
can see the North Sea on the other side. It's
really amazing, interesting.
Speaker 2 (55:08):
All right, show, you're gonna have a great time.
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
You ready, Purty, I am pumped up and ready to
laugh and laugh and laugh.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
This is a This one is like it's not like
a laugh out loud when you hear it, but it
is fascinating here it is.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
New study reveals people's faces evolved to match their names.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well, this is what scientists should be working on, because
you I want to meet the guy who had the
hypothesis that was like, that guy looks like a Craig,
that woman looks like a Deborah. All right, face it.
It's a brand new Bananas.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Do world. Would you mind? Million pieces?
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Bad guys, gals, non binary pals, Welcome to the Bananas Podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Sitting across from me digitally is the award winning never screenwriter,
never one and greatest guy in the world.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Scottie land Is okay, I'll take that, And sitting across
from me is my best budd stand up comedian, writer, actor,
and he also has a podcast called bananas On exactly right,
the Big Banana himself, Kurt Browner, Browner, Kurt brown Owler, sorry, buddy,
and remember anyone can always call me Kurt Blah blah.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And that is, however, for to myself in the past
it doesn't, you'd never have to get it right.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Kurt, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Hi Scotty, how are you.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I'm great, I'm thrilled, sun is shining, life is good. Yeah,
I'm good. I'm having a really nice week. Things are
looking better out there. Also, I've been enjoying the Olympics
in a way that I never have before, and I'm
not sure why, but we can get into that with ours.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Oh, I'm interested also for folks Bananas Fest. I know
we keep talking about it, but it's September seventh in Denver.
Late show tickets are I believe still available for the
Bananas Podcast that Saturday night. If we can sell that
show out, maybe maybe we can add a would you
(02:23):
rather on Friday night? Maybe we don't know yet, but
first we need to sell out both shows on sund.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
It's more my hesitation because it's just Bananas Fest. It's
going to be wild, and I'm a writer. I'm like, good,
I'm gonna crank it up for Saturday. But we'll see.
I also do love that people are flying in from
international locations, so we do want to give them the
greatest weekend of their whole freaking life. But we'll get
into that later. We have a great guest.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
We do have a fantastic guest.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Also, just a shout out, there's gonna be a Bananas
Singles meet up on Friday the Park in Denver and
also a Scooter Gang meet up on Friday.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
All thumbs that up too.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Details coming later.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Our guest today is a comedian you've seen on Netflix,
Comedy Central, The Tonight Show. Her debut album, follow Up Questions,
is available everywhere right now, and she'll be at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival for all of August.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Please welcome Canise Mobley.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Hello, thank you for having me to have you. Canise.
You're so funny, You're a great comedian.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
I love this. We can just do this if you
want to.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I when we get guests recommended to us, we get
send emails or press releases or whatever. I do try
to watch as many clips or specials or whatever I
can watch, and I have to say I laughed at
every single one of yours.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
So when you did the Tonight Show, you have a
unique Tonight Show experience was.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
That during the Great Choar, it was at the height
of the Great Boar where they weren't recording inside mostly
like Norman did his from the Staten Island Ferry, and
I did mine on the roof of New York Comedy
Club twenty five degrees outside.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
No, no, yes.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
I brought heating those like heating pads that like you
can those instant heating pads. I brought those for the audience.
People had blankets. I asked them to drink as much
as possible. Yes, some bodies would stay warm while they
were outside. I have a problem where if it's cold,
my eyes water. So during the set I'm having to
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like very like casually, like just dab my face or white.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yes, yeah, I did not.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
I would clearly oh, because I was like, it looked
like someone had been mean to me very the recording
of that set, because I just looked emotionally distraught.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
But it was a fun time.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Was it a full show up there or was it
just you?
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Thankfully it was a full show.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
I mean thankfully for me because it set me up
in a nice way, but not great for the audience,
a lot of whom were people I knew who came.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
To this because they knew I was recording.
Speaker 8 (05:04):
But for them, I just I felt so bad that
it was like, Okay, you've got to be outside. It's
twenty five degrees, it's during the daytime, and it's gonna.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Be an hour and a half, so good luck, thanks, Okay, cool.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Virtually possible to get laughter in that situation. Honestly, the
cold helps a little bit. The heat would the heat
if you were like it was one hundred and five degrees,
I'm like, that is and on a rooftop in Manhattan,
worst case scenario, the cold at least makes you go,
let's give them some support. Let's get like you're a
little bit in hell, so you're like, let's give them
some support. Well, you did great in spite of all
(05:41):
those factors. It was a really good set and have
been back on tonight. So since I have not, I'm.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Hoping that they asked me back as like a hey,
that was not the best environment.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Right.
Speaker 8 (05:52):
It's tough because I will say my comedy has gotten
it's only gotten dirtier since the pandemic. So it's just
a little harder for me to find material that is
tonight's show.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Okay, it's hard.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It is a very hard thing to do to put
together a late night set. I have a couple and
I don't I maybe have one of them that I
would be okay with someone watching, but I wouldn't be like,
that's representative of what it's like to see me do comedy.
Speaker 8 (06:24):
People would be I'm hoping that no one sees that
and is like, ooh, this is a good thing to
take my Midwest Christian family too, because they would be traumatized.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, I do find from an audience I'm not a
stand up comedian, but I do find as a frequent
audience member that even the times I've taken people who
are a little more prudish or a little more vanilla
to a actual comedy club, they sort of open up,
like they kind of get that they're in the different zone.
And so like when the comic comes out in the
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first you know, it's always some schmo that's just like
I come all the time, and I'm like instantly, I'm like, oh,
this is gonna be bad, And then the person next
to me is like crying, laughing, They're having the greatest time.
They're like, I've always wanted to hear somebody say those
words out loud.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
So I'm just imagining, what is the joke where the
punchline is I come all the time.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
That's the premise.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
Okay, then the Pyramids is I come all the time constantly,
can't stop interrupting my day.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
I'm just yet. Okay, I'm setting up a world to here.
I'm setting up there.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, you're building it out. Yeah it was Jim Norton.
Uh No, It's just a funny thing when you do
see somebody that you're like, oh God, and then they're like, oh,
they get it, they get the environment they're supposed to
Never we'll never talk about it again.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Yes, my family.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Oh, it's like a it's sorry.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
It's like the Uh, it's like the Woods in Shakespearean times.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
It's there's no rules for them at that time.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
They can just go in there and they can be
their wild self for one hour and twenty five minutes
with two drinks.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I love that. Great was going on in the Woods. Yeah, comparison,
we were all just like Woods and Shakespeare. It's an
educational podcast.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
Educate, that's the main thing, do you know what I Well,
before you get into that, Curtibe, I wanted to give
Can a moment to tell us about the Edinburgh show
that she's gonna be doing, because we will have bananimals
in Scotland listening to this next week when you're there,
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
That would be fantastic. So the show I am doing,
it's called Don't Kill Yourself. Yet I'm not being prescriptive.
I'm not saying never do it. I'm just saying like,
wait a second. And it's like I've I've had depression
my entire life, and it's like things that were helping
with that, and so I was like working on holding on,
(08:54):
like hey, don't be super depressed. But then I had
a stroke and my body tried to kill me. So
it's it's about the lifelong struggle to not destroy yourself,
but then your body tries to destroy you anyway.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
So but it's a comedy that sounds like a great
friend show. That's like a friend show that's about something
besides a guy wearing a kilt with no underwear, which
there's always one poster in Edinburgh where you're like, yeah,
we don't need to see that guy's show.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
I was like, this is a thing that happens all
the time.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
Interesting the internet afferent, It's like Europe seems more liberal
with that.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
They just you can just be nude on stage and
it's okay, just.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
For that'll be It'll always be one poster where he's
lifting up his kilt and then blurred out.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It's like, wah wah, this guy's a little legie.
Speaker 8 (09:47):
I'm gonna find that and I'm like, we don't know
each other that well, Kirt, but I will find that poster,
take a picture next to it and send it to you,
because I'm genuinely interested in.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Finding Please do well, everybody, all the bananamal people listening
to this in Edinburgh, go find Kenisa show by tickets,
support local comics.
Speaker 6 (10:05):
It's free.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, it's free.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
It's part of the Free Fringe. It's totally free.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
So bring your friends, bring your said, anyone you know
who's ever been said bring them.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
You can go great love that.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Here it is. Do you want to hear about this study?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yes, new study of reels people's faces evolved to match
their names.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
This was sent in by Jennifer Lynn. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
If you want to send stories to Bananas, just DM
them to us on the Bananas Podcast on Instagram or
email us The Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com. This
was in fizz dot orgs as in sincerel It's like
physics dot org. But okay, I also saw it in
other publications as well, So this was written by It
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was just written by Reichman University, the whole university.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
No, they're not taking individual responsibility for this. They're like, nobody,
don't tell me.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Not a good side time.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
A new study has found that people tend to alter
their appearance to suit their names. The researchers sought to
determine whether parents chose a baby name based on what
seems fitting for the baby's appearance, or if individuals facial
appearances changed over the years to align with the social
stereotypes associated.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
With their names. This is interesting.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
This is definitely run by scientists who've never had a baby,
because all babies look exactly the same.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
They just may be like little little little h Wallace.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
The story The study was published in the journal Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
The research team was blah blah, blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
In the study, nine to ten year old children and
adults were asked to match faces to names. The findings
were revealed that both the children and the adults correctly
matched adult face is to their corresponding names significantly above
the chance level. However, when it came to children's faces
and names, the participants were unable to make accurate associations.
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In another part of the study, a machine learning system
was fed a large database of images of human faces.
The computer recognized that the appearances of the faces of
adults with the same name were significantly more similar to
each other than the representations of faces of adults with
different names.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
This is crazy.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Conversely, no significant similarity was found among children with the
same name compared to children with different names. The researchers
concluded that similarity between the person's face and their name
results from a self fulfilling process. See the facial appearance
changes over a long period of time to align with
social stereotypes associated with the name. Such stereotypes can be
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formed in many ways, for example, because the name is
linked to a famous figure, or due to the connotations
of a biblical name. This is crazy social structuring quote
is so strong that it can affect a person's appearance.
These findings may imply the extent to which other personal
factors that are even more significant than names, such as gender, ethnicity,
may shape who people grow up to.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I wish my name was Lebron Landis. I wish I
was looking more like Lebron James every day physically.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
I'm sorry this.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
I'm sorry to these scientists, and I recognize getting grants
is hard, but this is bullshit.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
This is utter bullshit that these people are getting money
to study this stuff.
Speaker 8 (13:36):
Like all babies look alike, most ten year olds look
kind of alike, and people choose names based on a
lot of societal factors already, So like, nobody who doesn't
look like a Shannon.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Is gonna name their baby fucking Shannon.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
It's just happen.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I like that too.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
It's also, yeah, that's crazy that they just discounted the
entire society that the parents grew up in and the
and the culture that they're in, and instead it was like, no,
you change your face over time, Like what do you
do it? Like just blowing real heart into your eyeballs
to make them pop out?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
You know?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Like, what are they do? George? Uh, there's a George?
Just are those George eyeballs? I've been looking at. But
I do wonder when you were saying this, I have
I can see it if there are those names that
can go a lot of different ways. You know, there's Timothy,
that can be Timothy or tim or Timmy. You know,
there are those names that can become so Elizabeth can
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be Liz or Lizzie or Beth or And I'm like,
is it that? Is it more that people assume the
variation of their name that they think best represents their
face and personality, Because when you meet somebody named Elizabeth
and they get mad at you if you call them
Liz or Beth or Eliza or anything else there are
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that's always a type. There is a type of person
that won't let you. You meet a Samantha and then
one time you go, hey, sam, can you hear me
that beer? And she goes, it's Samantha. That's a type.
And I can't tell that type based on photo alone
because they're pain in the ass, is what I'm saying.
And I wonder if that goes into it. I wonder
(15:19):
if that plays into it that people adjust their Daniels
become Danny's or Dan's. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
I also know that this study is bullshit, Canise, because
so many people come up to us after shows and
think that Scotty's name is Kurt brown Oler and my
name is Scotty landis all the time, all the.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Time, you as a Scotty.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You can see me Scotty.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
I can see you as a Scotty.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
It's harder for me to see you Scotty as a Kurt,
but I definitely I see this well.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I have seen people call me Scotty. My birth name
is Scott because when I look in the mirror, I
see a Scott. So I just put Scotty in there,
just just to throw a curve. Scott's well. I think
if you saw me on the street and goes that
guy's name Scott, you would go, yeah, yes, they go
it's either Chris, Adam or Scott. I think when you
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look at me, you see Chris and Adam or Scott.
I'll take a Paul all day.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Speaking of all of this, Canise, when was the first time, like,
how old were you when you looked in a mirror?
I'm assuming this is a universal human experience looked in
a mirror and were like the thing that is having
these thoughts is not the thing I'm looking at, Like
there is a different there's two different things going on here.
There's a thing that's thinking and then there's that thing
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that I'm looking at in the mirror anybody I.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Haven't had that.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
I like that thought, I do, but mine is complicated
by the fact that I have an identical twin sister.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Oh, it's very much. So like I look at it looks.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Like a canis to me, she looks like a real canise.
What's her name? I mean? I love this? And are
you still? Have you aged and stayed identical? I know
sometimes identical twins? Oh this is good.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
We both like.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
I went to her son's birthday party and everyone came
up to me being like, oh.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
I heard her sister was going to be here, and
I was like, you just met her, because that's great.
I'm meeting her friend.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
It's that much. It's that much.
Speaker 8 (17:29):
But she also wears glasses, has locks there are about
shoulder length like, so we've also, I guess, made some
choices that continue to make us look alike.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
So yeah, but do you feel more like a canise
than a trees? Like? Do you feel like you're more see?
There is something to.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
This, but it's personality based, not.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Right, it's personality based.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I would think that that I'm definitively I think I'm
definitively personality more Curt a Scottie.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Okay, But I do this often. I when I look
like a.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Guy, like I'm the name of like a cool guy,
a guy.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
But Kurt, you also look like a cool guy.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
I agree, Kurt's the name of I think more of
a nerd person, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I'm on the on a fringe.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I feel like just because it's not as common a name,
it's rare, right, it's rare, and it's yeah it has
okay anyway.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
It's anyways. So I'm a screenwriter, canise, and I write
like the scripts and when I do, you know, a
lot of what you have to do is think of
names like people think. And if you if you put
a script out every time, you can always tell when
somebody's a new writer because they use certain names for characters.
And that's not just the case. Like when I say
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to you both, if I say seventy year old white
retired man, what name comes to mind?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Richard great Mayburn?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I mean you'd say both valuable. But and I do
this a lot. I do this with Strawberry, and I
do this like with with anybody, especially when I'm working
with young writers. But I'll be like, hey, I need like,
what's a sexy name for like an eighteen year old
that's trying to seduce somebody older. And I'll ask that
to like my women friends, and they'll be like instantly,
(19:21):
they'll have something that I never would have thought of,
and I usually use their names.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
So you'll go against you'll go against type you mean,
so then you'll name the old man like the sexy
kitten who's trying.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Sometimes okay, yeah, sometimes I do do that, and because
you want to, Like in Ma, I made the mom's
name Erica because when I grew up, I knew a
bunch of girls named Erica. And then I was sitting
and trying to think of a name that is common
that you never see in any media, and so I
just named her Erica. And then people were like, was
that after your friend Erica? And I'm like, no, I
made friends with her after the fact. I just try
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to pick names that fit the character description. But we
can all do it based on the character description, which
Richard is a great example. A seventy year old man
that just retired and you're like, come in here, Richard.
You'd be like, yep, that matches. It's fascinating. But if
I got this seventy year old.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
A seven year old bad named Kitty is interesting. I
want to see.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
I want to know more about that guy.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Do you guys know anyone named Kitty?
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Like this is the thing I've seen in fictional things,
but I don't know anyone named Kitty.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
No, no, okay, I bet you.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
I feel like I feel like my mom knew a
nurse named Kitty. Though I feel like that definitely she
was a nurse. I feel like that's but that's maybe
me making that up.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I mean maybe I remember watching I think during Lockdown
and the Weird Great Choir, I was like so bored.
I was like, well, I'm just going to go back
and watch all those movies that I've heard about my
whole life that I've never seen, like Casa Blanca, like
Rebel without a Cause, And so I watched that one,
and I'm ninety nine percent sure it's that one that
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the dad's nickname for his daughter and Rebel without a
Cause is Pussy, and he says it so much. I
think her character's Junie or something, but he's like, oh,
come on, Pussy, and I'm like, this is crazy. That
Seventy years later, I was sitting alone in my cabin,
like like my skin was crawling off the back of
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my head, and my back of my head is crawling
up the wall, and he like, can you imagine I
wrote that into a movie? Now, it'd be like, arrest
that man, Arrest Richard.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yes, Okait, sorry? Can can I ask you?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
So?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
You said we kind of skimmed over the fact that
you had a stroke? Yeah, Oh my god? What what happened?
How did it is it? I don't want you to
give any if there's especially a twist, it's not a twist.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
It's just the thing that happened pretty sure forward.
Speaker 8 (21:58):
So I was in Utah for this Creative Change Retreat,
which is really great because it's like they get all
of these people together, people who work in nonprofit, people
who work in governmental agencies, people who work in education,
and then they put some entertainers in there, and your
whole job while you're there is to brainstorm ways to
make the world.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
A better place, which is really really cool.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
And it was at the Sundance Resort, which is different
than the Sundance Institute. And I had to always clarify
that because they're like, you went to Sundance and I'm like, no, no, no,
the resort.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
It's not like it's whatever.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
And they had this ceremony and a lot of people
were crying, and I am an emotionally stilted person, so
I wasn't.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
And they released these rehabilitated birds and a white woman with.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
People cry over that, and I'm like, that's nice, but
I don't even like birds. In fact, I think birds
is an animal. I can do without them entirely. Yeah,
and white woman with dreads, which is something that I
judge very harshly. Uh, did slam poetry, which is also
something that I judged very hoarsely.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
I was like, bro, don't stop.
Speaker 8 (23:13):
But I was walking back because we all stayed in cabins,
and I was walking back to my cabin and I
was making fun of it on the phone with my
mom and she's like, Canise, you're not making any sense.
And then I fell out and that's I guess when
I had my stroke, because like someone found me on
the ground and my mom's still on the phone streaming hello, Hello, Hello.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
And that's how much you hate white dreadlocks.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
I get.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
That's my brain was like, no more, you can't exist
for a moment.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
You're done poetry.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
If I see one more person and white, another white
person with drug locks, I'm bad about fucking stroke.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
I probably said that at some point in my past,
didn't remember it, and then stroke.
Speaker 6 (23:56):
It can happen to anyone.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Well, I'm so happy that you're fully recovered. How long
was the recovery process?
Speaker 6 (24:02):
It was like a couple months. I'm really lucky.
Speaker 8 (24:06):
So the major thing is like it's hard for me
to read aloud, which.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Is like a very specific thing.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
But because that's been part of my jobs, I've noticed that,
Oh it's slower and it takes me a second to
like assess what they're saying, the tone that I'm supposed
to say this in, and then repeat it out loud.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
So that's like an annoying, weird brain thing. But also my.
Speaker 8 (24:29):
Skin doesn't have feeling, but only on the right side,
so wow, Like the muscles have feelings, So if someone
were like brabb me, I would feel that. But if
like an ant, we're crawling on my skin, I would
not feel that.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Oh wow, Okay, And that might change or it might
just be like that for the rest of your life.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
It may just be like that for the rest of
my life.
Speaker 8 (24:48):
Like my doctors said that they hoped that it would
get better, but they were like, if it was going
to get better, it would have happened within like the
first few weeks. And now that it's this week, been
two years, they're like, you just got to think about it.
That that's just not coming back.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Well, not great, but I gotta say not the worst
I've ever heard all, No, not at all.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
I went to for young stroke survivors and I felt
like a real asshole because.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
You're like tickle contest anyone right side.
Speaker 8 (25:20):
Only like these people they oh, their situations were bad.
Like a lady could not like she was in this
support group, but like they had her go last because
it took her so long to form even a sentence,
and like it was just so hard for her. And
I was like that would I would not be able
to do comedy if that were the case.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
Ohmen, So I feel really lucky, good.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Well good, we help you. We're wonderful recovery forever. Yeah,
thank you. I can do a health Let's talk about
another person with a health ailment that not so good.
This was sentenced by bananmal Jess Santana Franklin. If you
have a story in you to Bananas. You can send
us any strange news story from around the world that
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is real to the Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com
or the Bananas Podcast on Instagram and we will shout
you out. So thank you, Jess. This was in the
worst website I've ever used. The media mist in the
biz website the decanherld dot com. It is real. I
looked this up. Kurt, you saw this stor I'm shore
(26:25):
on Canisi. You might have seen this story too. Man
coughed and sneezed during breakfast at a US diner and
then his colon fell out. Yeah, so it was everywhere.
This was written by that that media missed in the
biz DH staff. I mean, this website is a nightmare.
(26:46):
When you copy and paste on this website, it only
allows you to have half a sentence at a time,
and then it puts the link to decanherld dot com instead.
So I was free copy and paste before I scrolled
how long the story was. It took me ten minutes
to copy and paste this nice. I felt like my
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colon fell out by the end of this thing. A
sixty three year old man sneezed and coughed at the
same time while eating breakfast at a US diner, only
to find his colon had fallen out of his body.
The man, who was with his wife at the time
was out of Florida restaurant, felt a wet sensation which
came with a sharp pain. The man had recently undergone
(27:28):
a dominal surgery, with the doctors assuring him the incision
had healed, but when he lifted up his shirt, he
saw several inches of his colon had come out of
the wound. My god. An ambulance was summoned and paramedics
when they arrived found a three inch opening with the
large amounts of the bow visible through it. Luckily, the
blood loss was minimal and there was no damage to
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the exposed organ organ excuse me not orgon. Once he
was taken to the hospital surgeon to put it back
in to his abdomen, the man remained in the hospital
for six days, from which he was discharged, and he
reportedly recovered without any complications. The reopening of a surgical
wound is reportedly a rare occurrence and happens to only
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three out of one hundred people. That seems pretty common,
I would say more.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Yeah, like that's higher than I would have thought.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Yeah, more than I hoped for. So he had an
ordeal where he had battled prostate cancer and had a surgery.
The issues were fixed, but the and the doctors removed
the stitches on the morning his bows fell out. So
it was that day they had gone to a diner
to celebrate his clean bill of health at breakfast, and
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the surgeons, to ensure the wound did not open, later
performed a figure figure eight stitches. Figure of eight stitches,
which is among the most advanced and strongest closures in medicine.
There's a fact for you.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You know what, I'm going to insist on that closure.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
If I ever half my abdomdal, my goodness, do a
figure eight on that.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Ya.
Speaker 8 (29:07):
I'm happy that you described this because when you said
that somebody's plan fell out, I genuinely thought it was
through their asshole, and.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
I was like, how did it just fall out? Like
how much of it fell out? Did he poop at
the same time? But that this different opening answers all
my questions. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah, a little less traumatic, a little easier to hide.
I wish that the worst website in the biz dec
and Harold had told us had they started eating. Did
they take the food to go? I want details, people.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I also like the fact that that that publication's name
doubles as a seemingly fun buddy comedy and Harold Harold
going out doing stuff together.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I'm deck this is Harold.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Your laugh, your butthole will fall out.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Harold is Decan. The it's Decan d e k e n.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
D Ecca nherld dot com mediumist in the friggin'biz.
Speaker 6 (30:05):
What is Deccan?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yeah? Where is Decon?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Is it a place?
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I don't know. I mean Deccan Harold is in England, India,
English language daily newspaper from the Indian state of Karnataka.
It was founded by K. N. Guruswami, a liquor businessman
from Bellari, and was launched June seventeenth, nineteen forty eight.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Nineteen forty eight. Decan Harold's been around.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, they're around. They're just their website is not for me.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
It's meant to be enjoyed in print.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yes, that's right, or on WhatsApp It's meant to be
sent a little bit at a time on whatsappen. Yeah,
that's got to be a bummer. Else I want to
know what diner it was. Maybe I had a funny name.
Mm hmmm, we'll never ever.
Speaker 8 (30:58):
That's a claim to fame, I guess, like so good
it'll make your colon fallouts.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yeah, blow your ass out that old over EASi.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Shall I tease U into a little thumbsup scatty?
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I would love it here it.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Is German zoo freeze tiny links that kept trying to escape.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
It's a feel good story. It's a feel good story, guys.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Oh, before we do that, I did have a fact
that I wanted to share with everybody that I just saw.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
This is great.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Where dude came from. The word dude is very funny.
It's from the eighteen eighties. It's a British phrase meant
to make fun of Americans who were like getting money
and trying to act proper. So they would call them
yankee doodle dandies, and then that got shortened to dude,
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and then it meant just like a city dweller in England,
and then dude ranch meant like a gentleman's farm, like
someone from the city who had like a ranch, and
they would just they didn't know what the fuck to
do with it, you know, they just like wanted to
like pretend like they were a cowboy. That's where dude
ranch comes from. And then in the nineteen thirties it
became black slang. Of course, that's of the introduction to
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anything cool in America. And then the fifties surfers took
it up, and then in the seventies it became mainstream.
But it stands for yankee doodle, which is so funny.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
We've taken it.
Speaker 8 (32:32):
From insult to a nicely I'll.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Bringing it back to yankee doodle.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
What's up? Yankee doodle?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
All right, give me some shout out, Scottie.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Sure, thumbs up. Devin Levine is hugely thumbing his pregnant
wife Sonia up after even while being seven months pregnant.
Sonya orchestrated an incredible birthday for Devin. He is a
huge antiques road show fan as am I, and he
managed to get Kevin Zavian Kevin Zavian to send two
(33:05):
birthday videos. Now that might be like whatever, but Kevin
is not on cameo. So Sonya tracked him down on
his email that has an atoil dot com address, which
Devin wanted me to know, and made it happen two
different birthday videos. So big love from Montreal. And I
also say thumbs up Kevin Zavian of the Antiques Roadshow
(33:26):
for making two videos for a super fan. That's very nice.
Great job Sonya Correne Sovie, who came to our Chicago show,
I believe wants to thumb her husband Jay up. Now, Kurt,
you're going to love this one. Oh okay. Jay charters
fishing trips on Lake Erie. While out on the lake
(33:46):
a little while ago, it was a very choppy day.
He was taken a tour out. Jay witnessed a smaller
boat that suddenly disappeared. It capsized. Oh my god. The
captain and five passengers on board were struggling to cling
to the upside down boat in the choppy water. Jay
sprang into action, first radioing for help and then tossing
a booy ring a life saver to each passenger and
(34:09):
the captain one at a time, saving them all and
getting them on a boat. All of the passengers and
the captain were safe, and if he hadn't seen the flip,
they were over two miles from shore. So now that's
not good. So thumbs up to Captain Jay for saving
the day. That's a great one.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
That's a great one. Thumbs up.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
This one's a medium one, but you'll see why we're
doing it. Barbara Maggot, sister of full Human not robot,
part time employee, our intern and part time employee Lisa Maggott,
is thumbing Melanie Clatten off up for having a friend
who has a cousin who is competing the Olympics. We're
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gonna also give that just a thumbs up to Lisa Maggot,
who does a great job and is helping us play
on Banana's fest. So thumbs up to Barbera Maggott's sister,
a full human not robot, part time employee, Lisa Maggott,
and I got one. Well, please dive in.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
This is from copy Hay sent this in asked for
a thumbs up for Miss Holly Dawn, who loved an Animal,
for putting out her own book that she wrote and
designed all by herself. It's called Miss Holly Dawn's Ultimate
Guide and Checklist Tatiki Enlightenment. It's a notebook that includes
all the tiki bars in America and has notes and
(35:34):
questions for you to fill out about your experience so
you can keep track on your journey to visit them
all the link to order, we'll we'll put it in
our stories.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Holly Dawn send it to us, we'll post about it.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
We'll post about it. So Holly sent it to us.
But that was very nice of copy haste. He said,
they met it first. It's splitting the city and our
buds that they go to shows together.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
So yeah, Holly's so nice. Yeah, thumbs up, Holly Dawn.
And last but not least, Brandy Chalker, who on Instagram
is at Flourish Bay Area, set up a Bananamal buddy
bash on Friday the sixth, the day before we're doing Canie.
We're doing a big all day comedy festival in Denver
called Bananas Fest. We have silly, absurd things happening every
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hour all day long in Laramer Square. But the day
before we have so many bananimals who are coming to
Denver for the first time, are coming to Denver and
they don't know anybody or local Denverites who just want
to meet other banannimals. This Bananamal named Brandy Chalker set
up a whole thing without us asking, including like a
website and a Google map, like dropped a pin So
(36:46):
if you're coming to Bananas Fest and you want to
meet other bananimals on Friday from one thirty to four
pm in City Park, Denver. There's a little website. We
will be sharing it in our stories pretty much every day.
But Brandy Chalker, who did this absolutely out of the
kindness of her own heart and volunteered for it. Banana
of the Week, right.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Banana Banana Week, Banana thank.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
You, Thank you, Brandy. It's very kind and that's our
thumbs ups.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
And of course we are here with the fantastic and
wonderful Canise Mobley.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Yes we are.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
You can go and see.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Her in Edinburgh for from August fourth to August twenty eighth,
every single day. And I think it's the leath, Oh,
the leath, the leaf tunnelses, what arches the leaf arch
Do be prepared, prepare.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Yourself for the arches. They're wet inside. Do you know
that moys they drip damp, they drip and they're damp. Yes.
Speaker 8 (37:48):
I was not prepared for any of this, so thank
you for this morning. I will wear a head covering.
Oh my goodness, it's damp.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
It's like it's very humid inside there because of the
rocks and the earth and everything.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Okay, I'm from the South.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Community is like, my friend, then you're gonna love it.
Then you're gonna home and mossy. No, it's just wet
and moist.
Speaker 8 (38:14):
I was, okay, like wet and moist rocks often smell
like mossy to me.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Oh yeah, yeah, there's a mustiness odor, there's a mustiness.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, it's like they're just used
to it over there. Also, outside of that, you'll be
the coldest you've ever been, even though you've lived in
New York. In this in the wintertime, it's so cool,
except unless, of course, you get the two weeks that
Scottie got when he came with us, which was.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Eighty degrees of perfect difficult.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
You're gonna love it. Pack your tank keenies, pack your
short shorts and your roller skates because Edinburgh weather is
number one in the world.
Speaker 8 (38:49):
Okay, all right, great, g are great. I have a
rain jacket that looks like the Burtons Salt Girl.
Speaker 6 (38:56):
Does that make sense to anyone?
Speaker 8 (38:57):
Okay, well, of course, I was like, maybe people don't
know that, but that's always what I think of if
I think of a yellow slicker.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yeah, yep, yeah, they know that. They won't know about that.
Speaker 6 (39:07):
No, they have. We have some other salt girl that
doesn't even have to wear a raincoat.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Yeah, that's fantastic. We also have another ban animal who
is a guest on the show. Katherine McCafferty. Is there
her doing her show right now, So go support Catherine's
her shows. Oh yeah, she's great. If you don't know her,
hang out. She's wonderful. Become what you got, Curdie b all.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Right here it is.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Uh, it's a adorable story. Zoo freeze tiny links that
kept trying to escape this.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
I love this story. Here it is.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
This was written by David Crossland. It was in the Times,
the General Times. A young Carpathian links called Choppo, which
is Spanish for shorty we know, has won his freedom
after repeated escape atten and is now roaming the wilds
of Saxony in search of rabbits, foxes and deers. The
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one year old wildcat, which was born in the Nuremberg Zoo,
had been intended for a breeding program for the species,
which was hunted almost to extinction in Germany by the
early nineteen hundreds. However, he had other plans and jumped
over the fence of his enclosure shortly after his arrival
at a breeding station in the Harz Mountains in early June.
He was quickly caught, but his wonder lust was evident.
(40:27):
He kept looking for ways out of the enclosure and
found it difficult to settle down. This showed that the
young links was better suited to being released into the wild,
experts from the Linking Links Network.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Oh, come on, it's not called that.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
The Linking Links Network, which works on the conservation monitoring
management of the Carpathian Links, had already classified Chopo Shy
potentially suitable for reintroduction program, so the keepers in Nuremberg
had been at pains to prepare him for a possible
life in the wild. They kept contact with him to
a minimum, only fed him game, and kept him in
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a relatively large enclosure. He was then fitted with a
GPS collar, brought to a forest in Saxony, and there
the Powerhouse predator was released from his box two weeks ago.
He came out, oriented himself briefly, then trotted briskly along
the forest paths and finally disappeared into the undergrowth. Three
other Lynxes Juno Alva and Nova had been released in
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the same area, and the spring have established hunting grounds
there there, behaving and conspicuously are rarely seen and have
graduated from catching hares and foxes to deer. So far,
they've stayed away from livestock, unlike those wolves, whose reintroduction
has led to tensions with farmers, who lost thousands of
animals a year to wolf attacks. In twenty twenty two,
(41:45):
more than four thousand animals, mostly sheep, were killed by wolves,
according to German Federal blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Blah blah blah blah blah bla blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
That's about it, lare it is, yeah, and it's The
picture is just of a of a very large cat
that's obviously still a kitten like scampering into the woods.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
It's very adorable. I like this. Let's do this more,
Let's do this more.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Also, I think it's a great lesson that if you
feel like you don't belong where you are, try to escape.
Speaker 6 (42:19):
Just keep leaving, and then eventually they'll just let.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
You know it could happen. It could happen.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
We've got a lot of stories about beefalos that have
escaped and cows.
Speaker 8 (42:31):
What is a beef buffalo mixed with a cow?
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Yeah, they've raised that's they're raised for their beef. So
he got out and he just lives his best life.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
There's a dim with elk or something. Yeah, we just
did that one. It's just great. We just love it.
We love it. We love when they get out there
and stretch those hoofs. That's really sweet. This is go ahead.
Speaker 6 (42:55):
Please sorry, I just maybe an insensitive question.
Speaker 8 (42:58):
They were hoping that this guy I would like made
and they'd be able to breed some of these in captivity.
Speaker 6 (43:04):
Right, did they milk this guy before he.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Left or what did they milk him?
Speaker 2 (43:12):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (43:13):
The times just simply doesn't match.
Speaker 6 (43:17):
That's why they let him go.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Or I think they were like, he's not going to cooperate, Oh,
you might as well let him go, got it. Yeah,
But the fact that they've already reintroduced for is pretty exciting.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
I think that's so exciting. That's like sometimes when people
are like, what's your dream job or whatever? When you
hear about people that do this for a living You're like,
that's got to be satisfying. That's got to be great work.
That's not data entry. That is you were like, we
raised a wild animal, relocated it back to where it belongs,
and we watched him and now he's flourishing, and it's
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like the rest of us are like I printed a
PDF today and I realized there was a typo, so
I printed it again.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
Canise if you were not a comedian, what would your
dream job be?
Speaker 8 (44:07):
Research psychologists, probably at a university, doing studies on how
children formed their identities and sexual identity specifically.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
Wow, boy, you just became our favorite guest in the
history of bananas. Our listenership is going to be like, yep,
me too. You hit the nail on the head so
hard with that one.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
Were you ever get headed down that path?
Speaker 6 (44:38):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (44:39):
I got my undergrad in psychology and I did research
on children, not in like a creepy way, but just
like we did a recreation of the Clark Doll study,
which is the study they used in Brown v. Board
of Education to show that segregation was actually doing harm
to children and their So you showed kids different dolls
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of different colors and ask them like, which doll are
they what do they think of the different dolls?
Speaker 6 (45:07):
And so we did.
Speaker 8 (45:08):
That, but we also did one based on how children
formed their ideas of morality, And so we had them
watch these videos over the course of six months and
then tracked like how the incidents of fights, insults, certain
types of self talk, how those incidents all went down
once they were showed these videos on morality.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
So, oh wow, that's interesting.
Speaker 8 (45:33):
Very that's I love how culture affects how children developed
their ideas of themselves.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
Yeah, I feel like you could do this simultaneously with
being a comic. This feels like do you do that
by day in comedy by night?
Speaker 6 (45:48):
If someone wants to pay me to do that?
Speaker 3 (45:50):
Absolutely, Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
I like that.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
It does seem that academia exists in this weird place
of like where you just have to get grants. Yes,
and it's like being and it's essentially like being a
freelance writer or comic anyway, where you're just like battling
to get that like one little thing so you're like, oh,
I'm safe for six months.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
Yeah grant right. It feels hard. I mean, it feels
harder than like writing a book when I when I
see people that are like writing stuff for school grants.
I'm like, this is so hard. Yeah, well terror interesting, interesting.
Speaker 8 (46:28):
I'll be the very stable and wise career decision of
stand up comedian instead.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
Hey, you're great at it. You picked a good lane.
Hey here's one. Oh, this is good. This is sort
of school related. This is a natural segue. Lisa Wood
sent this in Lisa sends lots of great stories. Thank you,
Lisa Wood. This was written written by Nadeem Badshaw for
The Guardian. That's a real one. Man graduates forty one
(46:58):
years after being denied Sarah because of a parrot problem.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
I almost did this one.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
I love it. The reason I love this one so
much is the way Nadeem Badjaw, who is the best
in the bysz undeniably the best in the biss this
article just starts taking turns at the end that I
could never have seen coming.
Speaker 1 (47:19):
Give it to me.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
A man who has denied his graduation for forty one
years because of an unpaid bill of sixty four pounds
and eighty pence or something relating to a parrot, who
relating to a parrot, has finally donned his cap and
cot and gown on the same day as his son.
His name okay, the last name is spelled as so
(47:43):
c l O t H I E R so Clothier
or Clothier or I'm going Clothier because I think it
sounds funny or Clothier. Johnny Clothier studied architecture at University
of Bristol and was meant to graduate with his peers
(48:05):
in nineteen eighty three, but his old flatmate had a
parrot which, after being left unsupervised, had free run of
their university university accommodation and wrecked the entire place. The
students found alternative housing, but still had to settle the
term's final rent of sixty four pounds, which Clothier refused
(48:26):
to pay. A long since abolish rule meant that students
with unpaid accommodation bills were awarded degrees but were not
allowed to graduate, So after forty one years, the university
decided to waive the bill, which allowed Clothier to graduate
alongside his youngest son, Carter, twenty one years of age,
who completed a biology degree. Clothier's sixty two. Now he
(48:49):
lives in Petersfield, Hampshire or Hampshire, and he viewed the
unpaid bill as an ultra long term interest free loan.
So that's where the story could have ended. Pretty They
haven't then mentioned the money, so I'm keeping quiet, he joked.
It means that Clothier and his wife, Helen Hill, sixty,
and all of their three children have now graduated from
(49:10):
University of Bristol. He added, I love doing time at architecture.
Blah blah blah. It was really good training for life.
We danced, we partied, then went back to work. Okay,
so this is where I'm going to jump down about
four paragraphs. It's been really nice watching the kids go
through the same things forty years on, and it's been
amazing to all be together for these graduations. Clothier said
(49:31):
about his graduation day last Thursday. Was enormous fun, but
it's not really about me. It's about them, and signing
off on a twenty year project to get his kids
through the whole education cycle. Again, we could end it here.
Here's where it gets fun. Hill. This is his wife,
whom Clothier met at Bristol, graduated in Russian and French
(49:52):
in nineteen eighty five and was approached to work for
mi I six, which is their CIA. Right yep, yep.
She work extensively in Russia and went on to make
TV documentaries. Clothier left architecture and also went to work
in TV as a director and executive producer, but has
returned to his favorite subject, building contemporary net zero treehouses
(50:15):
in the forest of Dean, Okay. Their eldest son, Keito
Quito Clothier, graduated with a degree. I wonder what his
face will look like as an adult. Close your eyes
and picture. Keito Clothier went to get a degree in
music in twenty twenty. He now is an art dealer
(50:35):
specializing in the works of Banksy, Okay. The couple's daughter,
Tiger Clothier, graduated in twenty twenty and is a ski
instructor in Japan. This family is incredible. The parrot is
the most boring thing to happen to this family. Carter,
(50:58):
who is looking for a career and sustainability, having recently
represented in England playing lacrosse in Portugal.
Speaker 3 (51:06):
The title of this should have been husband of I
six agent graduates forty years earlier with parent like, that's
what should we should open with.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
It's definitely a unique experience graduating with your dad, said
lacrosse playing Carter, who played lacrosse in Portugal while representing England.
You know, his sister Tiger was a ski instructor in Japan.
But it was an amazing day and a beautiful ceremony.
Damn that takes some turns. Have a mom that's a
spy awesome and then have these international kids Quito, Carter
(51:43):
and Tiger.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
What Carter really lost out?
Speaker 6 (51:46):
It seems it seems.
Speaker 3 (51:48):
Like and Tiger were named by one parent and Carter
was named by the other parent.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
Can we just have one Carter?
Speaker 6 (51:56):
Oh wow?
Speaker 3 (51:59):
So treehouses, you build a tree zero waste and zero
zero waste contemporary treehouse in the Forest of Dean.
Speaker 2 (52:09):
That's after he gave up being an executive producer. Director
hurt so much.
Speaker 6 (52:15):
Our treehouse is often not carbon neutrient.
Speaker 8 (52:19):
That's a great environmentally unfriendly.
Speaker 2 (52:22):
Usually they just went rotten rust, right, rock and rust
in is what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (52:29):
Also the fact that a term, a term of school,
the rent was sixty four pounds. That was in nineteen
eighty three, and now it's you. You'd probably be lucky
if you paid six thousan four hundred pounds for that term, right, Yeah,
it's probably more than that. That's so insane because it's
it's not as if in nineteen eighty people were making
(52:49):
twenty three thousand dollars right out of college and now
they're making two hundred and thirty thousand.
Speaker 2 (52:54):
Dollars a year right out of college.
Speaker 1 (52:56):
Do you know what I mean? Like Jesus Christ, life
was so different?
Speaker 2 (53:00):
Mmmm? Damn Well, congratulations to the whole Clothier or Clothier family.
You are the most interesting family in England and that's
pretty nice.
Speaker 3 (53:15):
Damn Thank you of course to Canise Mobli who is
our guest today. Canise, where can everybody find you? Give
us all the plug?
Speaker 6 (53:24):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 8 (53:25):
So if you're at Edinburgh, of course find me at
the fringe. I'm doing the free fringe baby, so it
doesn't cost you anything, so you should totally come.
Speaker 6 (53:33):
It's only your time. And I know we only have.
Speaker 8 (53:36):
This one precious life, but I think it's worth it,
so please hume. I can be found online. Canise Mobley
on all the socials. My mom looking at me as
a baby was like that looks like a Canise YEA
someone who will never have to compete for SEO in
their lives because.
Speaker 1 (53:52):
There's no other.
Speaker 8 (53:54):
Uh So I was able to get in and get
Canise Mobley on Instagram, on Twitter, on Facebook, on TikTok.
So find me on any of those and you know,
like and follow, because that's what helps me out.
Speaker 6 (54:07):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
That's perfect. Thank you so much for being on bananas.
While you're there, If you go to there, there's a
little tradition there of the Glen Grayfriars Bobby. It's a
little dog statue you rub his nose. It's a kind
of a pub called Greyfriars Bobby Pub. There's a good
little bagel place there called Bobby's Bagels. If you just
find yourself rubbing a little statue dog's nose and you
(54:29):
need a sandwich, go to Bobs. They're nice people, okay, yeah,
and then they have they do Okay.
Speaker 6 (54:36):
I was like, I don't know what the Scott's eat.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (54:39):
Oh they got good smoked salmon. They're good over there.
Speaker 3 (54:43):
Yeah, right out of the north Sea there. And if
you walk right down that street that that.
Speaker 2 (54:48):
Baby Friars Bobby.
Speaker 3 (54:50):
Yeah, you walk straight down that street and it ends
right at Arthur's Seat And that is a big mountain
that you can climb, and you should do it early
on and climb up to the top because it is
a crazy view all over. You can see Edinburgh, you
can see the North Sea on the other side. It's
really amazing, interesting.
Speaker 2 (55:08):
All right, show, you're gonna have a great time.
Speaker 10 (55:13):
Bananas Bananas is an exactly right media production.
Speaker 1 (55:30):
Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.
Speaker 2 (55:33):
The catchy Bananas theme song was composed and performed by Kahan.
Speaker 1 (55:36):
Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.
Speaker 2 (55:40):
And our benevolent overlords are the great Karen Kilgareff and
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And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot intern.
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