July 22, 2025 • 50 mins
Whitney Cummings join Kurt and Scotty to talk about a mule riding Kentucky man accused of unleashing a raccoon in bar after being turned away, robot babies at school increased teenage pregnancies and a photographer found toad with eyes inside it’s mouth!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott you writing Kurty b.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I am just I'm ready to laugh and laugh and laugh.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
This one was posted on Instagram, but I mean it's
so good an in depth we have to do it here.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It is very good.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Mule riding Kentucky man accused of unleashing raccoon and bar
after being turned away.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
There we go. I mean, just we needed more words
because who knows where we're going to ride that one
off to. Well, let's get into it on an animalistic
brand new Bananas World. Would you.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Resilient pieces, guys, gals, now binary pals. Welcome to Bananas.
I'm Kirk Brown, older.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I and Banana boy number two Scotty Landis. Thank you
for listening to the silliest little podcast there ever was.
It's strange news, it's storytelling, it's great guests, and today
we just check all three of those boxes off.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
We sure do. Baby, Why don't you bring her on?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I would love to our guest today was actually my
first boss in Los Angeles, California. She is a writer, comedian,
an author, a podcaster, an actor, and now she's a
cool mom. She's on stand up tour. You can go
check her out on the Big Baby tour, and she
loves animals more than people. And she has a podcast
you're probably already listening to called Good for You, Experts, comics,
(01:41):
you name it. She has them. Welcome to the show,
Our Bud Whitney Comings. How are you?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Why is cool mom an insult? But mom is fine?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
No, I'd always say cool. Kurt's a fun dad.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Fun dad, and cool mom. That's cool for me.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
That's so it's like, it's just cool mom. It's like,
don't worry. She has someone helping her. Don't worry she
doesn't do the important things.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Have you heard of type sea moms?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
No, what's that?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I just heard about them. It's like a thing on
TikTok where it's like, I don't really even know the description.
The description is like you used to be type A,
but now you can like barely get anything done. Uh,
and so just like you know, vacuuming around toys and stuff.
But it definitely seems like the vibe is like I'm
(02:33):
a type sea mom. So at this point it's too
late to learn my my my son's name. I could
have asked him years ago, but now it would just be.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Yeah, there is a little bit of like a brag
culture of like, look, how bad a mom I am?
And I'm like, I'm like, careful, guys, your kid's going
to turn into a comedian.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Like it's like, we don't need we don't need bragging
about being now more than ever, we just need great
parents to emerge and rise.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yeah, or just like even if you are truly bad moms,
hide it. My mom would have been like, I'm an
amazing mom, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It's true. Whitney, do you remember the first time you
and I met?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Oh wow, Scotty, You're really You're really.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
A part of my hippocampus that I have so deeply repressed.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It's interesting because so Bananas grew in a way, it
grew and has become this podcast away because of we're
on Karen Kilgarriff and Georgia hart Stark's network. So my
first job out here was Karen was the head writer
on your show Love You Mean It, And I was
the next hire that you and Robbie Anderson brought on.
So I got a calls in New York writing on
(03:55):
finishing up a show. Rob is already out in La
work with you putting together that show, and he's like,
do this packet. Whitney's hiring like four writers right now.
So I did the pack I sent it in and
he's like, you need to fly out Thursday. And I
was like, okay. I thought he meant a week from then,
but it was Wednesday. So I flew out the next day.
He's like, you have to meet Whitney. She's staffing this
(04:16):
room right now and if you don't meet her, you
will not get on this show. So I said, okay.
So I fly to LA and I slept Rob's son, Charlie,
I think was three or four years old at the time,
So Charlie slept with the parents and then I slept
in Charlie's boy size twin bed or single bed. This
(04:37):
is my second time in Los Angeles. And that morning,
at nine am, we went to your house and you had,
you know, a few dogs running around, and I met
you at the end of We're at your kitchen table,
dining room table, real long table, and you're like scotti.
Rob says, you're a really great writer to yours favorite writer.
(04:58):
I go, that's true, and you just look at it.
You go, do you think I'm hot? And I was
so delirious from travel, I go you're the best I've
ever seen, and you laughed so hard. You go, he
got it, he booked it, he booked the job. He's hired,
and that was my job interview.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Okay, well, it's been a pleasure working in show business.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And so funny. You were just testing me. It was
a funny situation.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
But I so here's the thing that I guess you
can't really do that anymore. But like back then, I
was just like everyone was sending in all these packets,
Like I was really good at writing jokes, but in
a room I would kind of shut down, you know,
Like I just think everybody's got different strengths. And my
thing was like I just want whoever's on these shows
(05:46):
to like feel comfortable, to have fun, for us to
have a good vibe, because no comedy can exist, no
comedy can exist if everyone's scared.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yah.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
And I and I had been working on something before
that where the showrunner like got off on making everyone
scared of her or something, and all these brilliant writers
were like not pitching because they were scared. And I
guess I just wanted to set the precedent that it's
like I'm a silly goose we're just here to laugh,
you know.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
So I think, look, was that a date?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Yes, it was, No, I don't I don't remember saying
like I think what I said to Rob was like
anyone you recommend, I'm going to hire because he hates
everyone and loves you and he's and I was like,
I know I'm going to hire him. I just want
to make sure he's not scared of me or won't
treat me like I'm above like I'm above him, you know,
like I don't want to be anyone's boss.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
It's the worst.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
And so, uh so as soon as it was like, okay,
you're comfortable, I want to make sure you know you
can make fun of me because that's you know, so
that's I'm you know, look that is I feel like
that is a hate crime.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Whatever I did.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
No, No, it was hilarious. Also Rob was there and
Eliza was there, so we had witness Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay, good.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I think it was just like like I was just
the point where I'm like, I'm a comic because you know,
there's this uh you know, brilliant I don't I won't
say his name, but worked on Frasier. Uh, this writer
I love so much and he was with me on
a TV show that I did, and he was talking
about how comedians, you know, stand up comedians, improvisers, you know,
we're like these like you know, silly, you know, goofballs,
(07:17):
and then we get a TV show and then you
have to be like a business person all of a sudden,
he's like Eric Sicklin.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I'll say, he's like, you know, a comedian of.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
The sitcom is like saying to a comedian, hey, le're
hilarious on stage, now run a seven eleven, and like
that's true.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That's so true.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
And I just kind of was like, can we just
for this talk show just like be in a room,
because I came from the roast rooms where we would
just make fun of each other and that's what the
best work came from. So I just was so sick
of when I would walk by someone would like look scared,
and I was like, dude, like I have six hundred
thousand dollars of like debt right now, like I like,
you know, I need, you know, And it just was
like so odd that there's this thing where people are
(07:56):
afraid of their boss, Like I just think that's such
an insanely talk, especially as like our like it made
no sense.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
No, oh, I'm not accusing you of any level of
workplace harassment. It was so funny. You were definitely doing it.
Just be like can this guy hang or not?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Ye?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, you caught me like on two hours of sleep
in the child's bed, just being like, well, I'm gonna
fire right back, because but it was like yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
It was also like you're like just looking in someone's
eyes and going like, I mean Lauren Greenberg, I literally
remember so Lauren Greenberg who went on to you know, Cordon.
You know, I think she still works with Cordon maybe
in England. She's hilarious. She came in and she interviewed
same job. She her packet was like hilarious, Fine, she
had brilliant tweets and I loved her tweets. My friend
Kevin Christy recommended her and she came in and like,
(08:41):
funny's fine, But if you come into a room and
you're scared or you know, you don't play well with others,
like comedy can't happen and you know, And she came
in and totally froze, and I identified with her because
that's me. I get nervous in front of authority. Figures,
especially at that time. She was like sweating and I
was like, so tell me about yourself, and she was
just like in such a panic, and I was like,
you know, I was like, I was like, I can't
(09:02):
really tell if you want this job. She starts sobbing.
She was like, she starts she starts sobbing, and she's like,
my mom put me on match dot com. Uh in
is and is dming with men pretending to be me
and I work at a work at a company that
measures food to tell you how many calories something hasn't
(09:23):
it And she just started like sobbing and it was
and I was like, you're.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Hiring, like absolutely one of the great interview stories. And Kurt,
the company that she was working for, it was cups
shaped like food, and then you would force that food
into the ship plastic form shape. So if you're like dairy,
it was shaped like a wedge of cheese, so you'd
be like, this is what's dairy you can have for
the day. And then the kid was like a camp
(09:47):
set of like dishware basically, and you're like, here's my
grains and it was just like shape in a circle,
and it was like, here's my meat, and it was
shaped like an old timey steak, like if you had
to draw.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Like a like a like a Renaissance fair drumstick, like
with like a cartoon. But she she I was like,
she's funny when she's crying, like she's hilarious, you know,
And yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
She's really really funny.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Great, right, yeah, because it's just like looking at a
bunch of written jokes like yeah, like you know, I
don't really know what to do with that. So well, yeah,
and then Kurt, I wonder how we first met, probably
like on at Midnight or something like that, or like
in like Nerd. I was gonna be like a nerd melt.
I've always been very intimidated by you, so I probably
came off aloof no, no, yes, yes yet oh hey
(10:32):
hey hey yes.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
And over there I think, well, I remember meeting you.
The first time I had ever gone to your house
was during that show that we did. I think it
was on Hulu. It was like a stand up showcase
in your backyard.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, that was remember that delight.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
That was a delight because I hadn't done stand up
in a while because it was like just coming out
of like COVID and you were just so warm and welcoming.
I was just like, I like this person as.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I was giving you COVID.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did get COVID.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You're like you kept hugging me.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Ygg was nose to mouth breathing. Fine, that's fine, Kurt.
Do you want to tell us about this mule and
raccoon man in Kentucky or whatever?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Sure? Due, this is awesome. This was It was sent
in by a lot of people. I recently saw it
by Stephanie Zayats. I think it was her first story sentence, Stephanie,
good job mule writing. Kentucky man accused of unleashing raccoon
and bar after being turned away. This was on Local twelve.
If it's local in about twelve, it's on Local twelve.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
That's what. That's right.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
This was written by that swing in w KRC staff.
A Kentucky man.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Really wants to claim it. We love when that happens.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
A Kentucky man known by locals as Cowboy Cody, was
taken into custody after he allegedly released a raccoon into
a crowded bar on Friday. Office responded at nine to
eighteen pm after receiving a report of a disturbance. Officers
found Mason driving and initiated a traffic stop at the
suspect allegedly refused to roll his window down or exit
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the vehicle, which promptly prompted officers to forcibly remove him.
Blah blah blah blah blah. Here it is. Mary Hafner,
a bartender at the business involved in the incident, spoke
to The New York Post, telling the publication that Mason
had apparently quote trapped a raccoon earlier in the day
on his farm, and he'd been carrying it around with him. Quote.
I'm a bartender, so you know, I've seen some crazy
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stuff in my time, but nothing like this. Hafner explained
to the Post that Mason lives alone on a farm
in the area and has caused trouble at local bars
in the past. She said Mason had already been drinking
when he turned up at the bar that day, and
was banned due to a previous incident involving a mule.
For the publication, I don't know what that means.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Halfner told the Post that Mason had always liked her,
so she attempted to convince him to leave he said
to me, Oh, I see how it is this and
a pretty face out here to distract me, adding that
he initially appeared to comply with her request to leave.
According to the publication, Mason allegedly returned to the bar
moments later with the raccoon and released it into the establishment.
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Halfner told the publication another employee attempted to apprehend that
raccoon by grabbing its tail and was constantly quit and
bitten by the animal, which requires a raby shot. Oh
Hafner said she was able to corner the raccoon with
a towel and safely return it outside where it fled. Look,
she said, I'm no city slicker, I'm a Kentucky girl.
I had no problem catching that thing. W DKYTV reported
(13:41):
in December. This is a different incident. This is the
incident involving the mule that Mason had been arrested after
turning up at Tap two one six already drinking and
riding a mule. The station's report states that Mason entered
the bar and allegedly began whipping a bull whip and
other patrons this guy has at acant troll. Mason was
(14:02):
asked to leave he refused, but was later arrested by
responding officers. Oh, in all the years she has known Mason,
she has witnessed poor treatment and abused looks of his horses.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Oh, this is just that's not nice.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
And Mason is now in jail.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Lock them up. Okay, there we go.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Hold on, I haven't heard one thing you said since
Cowboy Coyote.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
So hold on.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Cowboy Cody, Cowboy Code? Who is?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Like I have so many questions because it's like the
the you know, the townspeople have come to known him
as Cowboy Cody, Like I know he's been trying to
make this nickname catch on for years.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yeah, and no one's.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
That you know, that one person who's always like, hey,
Billy and everyone's like, it's Bill.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
We're not You're not Billy. We're not You're not You're
not Spike. Just you stop trying to make it. You're not.
You can't make a nickname catch on as an adult.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Also, what a crazy nickname? His name is Jonathan Mason
and his nickname that he throws around his cowboy Cody.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Like yeah, and you know what this is.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
This is totally like when no one thought it was
weird that he did.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
He changed his name every two years.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah, and I was I was like, wait, now he's
Sean COM's wait, he's puff Daddy. Now no one finds
us odd, like this guy changed his name for a reason.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Exactly Cowboy Cody's doing. Cowboy. Yeah, sure, Mason drove a
mule into a bar, Cowboy Cody didn't.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I mean when I went to a bar, And I
know I've mentioned this on the podcast before, but I
was in Omaha, Nebraska with some friends and I was
like the only one that wanted to go out and
explore the underbelly of Omaha. And I found a bar
online that said Alpine in Home of the Wildlife. So
(15:52):
I was like, that is where I'm going, and I went,
and I went with my buddy Blake, and we were
watching a Huskers game and they're famous for the wings.
There was a woman with a beard frying wings and
I'm not just exactly what I just said is one
hundred percent accurate. And when you're done with the wings,
there their gimmick is you feed the leftover bones to
(16:16):
a big group of raccoons that just wait. Right outside
the side door, there's a baby pool full of water
and there are raccoons and you hand them the bones.
And there's also like feral cats in the area. And
so the home of the wildlife means at the Alpine
Inn in Omaha, Nebraska, when you're done with your chicken wings,
you hand them to raccoons. It still exists. It was incredible.
(16:42):
Blake was terrified the woman with the beard frying chicken wings.
Our bartender had never bartended before. It was her first day,
so if it was a draft beer, she nailed it.
But I need a little pick me up, so I
ordered a Jack and coke and she did not know
how to make that. So the bearded woman came behind
the bar and with flour from breading chicken wings, dipping
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wings in hot oil, she made my.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Jacket and touching, touching, Rabel.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Handed it to me with a finger in the Jack
and coke and put it in front of me. And
I just looked at Blake and was like, Okay, is
Jack Daniel strong enough to kill whatever just happened?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
And am I brave enough to ask for another one?
So I just drank it. I just drank a finger
full of chicken spice At two pm, watching the huskerers
at the Alpine in so shout out to the Alpine inn.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Oh, man, I want to go there so badly.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
In quotes, it said home of the wildlife, and I'm like, well,
I gotta go there.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah. Of course.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Is now a good time to let you guys know
that I did have to get the montecrobl Antibodi's Raby's
vaccine because I was attacked by a raccoon.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Huh oh is that true?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
He perfect time.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Well, well, so I was.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I live.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
You know, Scotty's been to my new place. I live
kind of like in the woods. And here's what I
will say. Now, raccoons. We underestimate these little bastards. They
I believe they are the Orca whales of the alleyways.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
They are.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
They're colluding. They're way smarter than we give them credit.
They have full on hands. They have opposable thumbs. The
reason humans advanced is because we had a posable thumb.
So do raccoons. They can turn hoses on and off.
They're unstoppable, frankly, and their body type does limit them
greatly too. But trust me too, But so I have
(18:43):
like I'm fostering a dog at This isn't a couple
of years ago, and I let them out in the
middle night.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Puppies you have to let out in the middle of night,
you know, Scotty, you just had.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
A puppy, of course, and I feel like a scratch
on the side of my leg. I look at no,
I'm not And I think at the time, I'm trying
to think I definitely was maybe a Lunesta gal around
this time.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
See, you were on a vision quest sort.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Of, remember Lunesta. I'm pretty sure they pulled it off
the market real quick.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Exact.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
I think it's whatever it is. Roseanne has it in
her pocket right now, and so so I kind of
was like a little I don't take anything now, but
I was like a little bit groggy, and I look
down and there's a full on baby raccoon like hanging
from my like pajama pants. And then yeah, so it
was so cute. I know that was my reaction too.
And then the mom kind of like jumps on the.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Baby on your leg.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Yeah, And it didn't cut my skin or anything at
the time.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Look, every now and then, I do make a good decision.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
And as soon as the pandemic started, uh, I did
start dating a veterinarian and.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Moved him into my home. Too sweet.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
You know, this wasn't a time where you like could
not even go into a you cv like yeah, you know,
yeah and so and I always have like a bleeding dog,
you know, around me at some uh in some capacity.
So he comes downstairs and I'm like, uh, no big deal,
we got to you know, just a raccoon ran up
myle Like. He's like, excuse me, And I was like, oh, yeah,
(20:14):
it's no big deal, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
They ran up the tree. He's like, no, we're.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Going to the hospital right this minute. When he's like,
we need to get the reccoon and cut its head
off and figure, I know, I was like, uh raby,
I don't think it has rabies.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It's fine.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
And it seemed kind of scared of me actually, and
it probably thought I had rabies.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
And he's like, no, rabies, No one survives rabies.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
That's like, isn't that he' razy?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
And I was like, dude, there's no way I don't
already have rabies. This is probably just my why my
personality is like this. I'm I've been surviving rabies for
the past twenty years.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Is like, is my like brand.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
So he's like, you gotta go. Not all hospitals have
montacroble antibodies for rabies, Like, it's actually pretty hard to get.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
We'd go to a couple of.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Them and as soon as you go in the first
thing they say, it's like you got attacked by a
bat like raccoon. It's normally bats. So I get the
Monte grbl antibiotics. You have to get it every other
week for four weeks, and then like twenty three days later,
there's there's no way this is true. I'm sure they're
just like making it up. And I'm like a you know,
test subject and so and then the.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Next day, this is what we're dealing with. Okay, this
is the.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Next real uh issue we all need to focus on.
Is the raccoons. Because the raccoons the next day we.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Say raccoons so much. My daughter calls them raccoons and
I love it racon so much.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
So the raccoon the next day is sleeping in my tree,
the big mama.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
And here's the deal. They don't you don't see him.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
During the day.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Okay, no one tells you this. Here's here's the irony
of raccoons. Raccoons are squirrely. Squirrels are not that squirrely,
you can see them all day, but raccoons are. So
I'm like poking at it, and that's very odd like
behavior for a room.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
It's a sick raccoon.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
That is like, something is wrong with this raccoon. We
got to get cut its hat off right now. And
I'm like, by the way, red flag didn't end up
marrying this guy because he kept kept.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Saying we need to cut its hat off.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
He could have just said we need to take it
to animal control and let them handle it.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
He just kept saying, this is.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
By the way, a relationship previously ended because I was
dating a doctor who a friend of mine dog was
attacked by a coyote and the skin.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Was pulled off.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
The dog did live, but I told him I was like, oh,
my friend's dog just got attacked by a coyote and
the skin came off, and he just said dead seriously
went that's called a degloving.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Oh oh, yeah, that's a red flag.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I was like, goodbye.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
So I call animal control in Los Angeles and say, hey,
I've got a raccoon in the tree who's napping. Weird behavior,
and the girl goes yeah, well, if it's up in
the tree, that's where they live.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I was like, okay, no, this is.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Is where I live first of all, and she goes, well,
a lot of the wild animals right now, especially the raccoons,
are acting weird because people test their cocaine for fentanyl,
and when it tests positive, they flush it down the drain,
So some of them have fentanyl in their system.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Are you are you kidding me? This was said to me,
and then the oh, I'm so sorry the raccoon is
on I know this by a person talking to me
on the phone. Your raccoon that you're talking about is
on fentanyl from toilet.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Now, this is like a common problem in California. Was
like she just said a very matter of fact, like
people are flushing their cocaine and.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
So there's only a few ways to just prolf that approove.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
This feels the story you're telling me on the Great
Bananas Podcast is actually one of the most.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Sort of tame raccoon stories I've heard in a while.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Oh, I love well. And of course the Kentucky Bartender also,
that's a kind of a good name for a TV
show too, just called Kentucky Bartender.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Oh my God, it's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
A woman that just sees you just never know what's
coming through the door. It's it's the new Cheers, It's
the new I got one for y'all. This was sent
in by Sarah Fainter. You can send your stories into
the Bananas Podcast.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
So did you say Sarah Painter with a P.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
It's p F, so it's like Fainter, PF Fainter.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
So I went to school with the girl I think
about her once a week named Jenny Painter, and she
her I think it was her mom remarried and a
guy whose last name was Wall.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
And it's so stupid and Jenny Painter Wall.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I know, it's so it's so dumb, but it was
like one of the you know when you're in high school,
like anything that can get you bullied is like brutal.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
And it was just like, oh, she's like I was
so close to.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
And then her mom got anyway, Jenny.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Painter wall Is, I mean that's my last name.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
My last name is Cummings. I have sympathy for nobody.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Mine's brown Owler but with an H, so it looks
like brown Holer.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Okay, that's okay, Yours might be worse. We can never
get married.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah in companies brown holeer.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah, that's a different that's that's a TV series too.
Just on a later. Robot babies brought to schools actually
increased teenage pregnancies, according to a new study. Crazy wait
what so this is written by the best in the
biz Regina titleus or T T Tellius. Let's go to
(25:28):
Tellius all right with to Tellius? This is interesting. This
was on study fines. A school education program or high
school girls cared for robot babies in a bid to
reduce teenage pregnancies has failed, according to new w a research.
I think this is in Australia. I'll figure it out.
(25:49):
The study, conducted by a Telethon Kids Institute, which sounds
so fair.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Telethon Kids Institute, that's who've conducted Australia. You never love.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
In Lancet on Friday, found that rather than reduced pregnancy
rates among teenagers, it actually increased the occurrence of teenage pregnancies.
Of the nearly three thousand WA schoolgirls aged thirteen to
fifteen from fifty seven public and independent schools. They took
part in the trial to assess VIP virtual infant excuse
(26:25):
me virtual infant parenting, which is very popular among schools
throughout Australia at the time and is still widely used overseas.
About half of the students who were in the intervention
group were given lifelike babies for a weekend, while other
girls who were in the control group were given the
standard health education curriculum. So one got robot babies.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Why I have about this.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
The robot babies or infant simulators reflected the behavior of
six week old babies. So that's pretty young. That's a
little baby, sustained crying. Researchers who tracked the girls until
they turned twenty years old found that the girls who
did the VIP program, which is just so ironic, who
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did the VIP program with the robot babies, had a
seventeen percent rate of pregnancy compared to eleven percent for
the girls who took standard health education. The studies also
found there were fewer abortions by teenagers who took part
in the VIP program fifty three percent compared to sixty
percent in the other group. The studies lead investigator, these.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Are such small numbers though, like six percent difference. It's
a six percent difference, it's not really.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah, you know, yeah, it's not it's not absolute groundbreaking.
Doctor Sally Brinkman said the program was stopped as soon
as the initial results indicated the program was failing, which
is so funny, but also right, pull the plug. If
it's not work, it's not working. But doctor Brinkman said
it had taken until now to finalize all the search results.
(28:00):
This is the largest study of its kind and highlights
that even the most well intentioned programs can have unexpected consequences.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I bet you they were too lifelike. That's what that's
my guess is they were too life like. Their causing
oxytocin hormones to be released in the girls, and then
they were like then they ended up being more fertile.
So I bet it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
It was. Oh, that's an interesting point of view. She said.
Some schools in Australia are still doing the program, and
doctor Brinkman said some students with who had the robot
babies came so attached to their babies that they even
experienced emotional trauma when they had to hand them back.
She said, many it's a crazy thing to This is
a crazy plan.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah, can I just I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
I can we stop studying kids? Please?
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Does anyone that can? No one needs to study kids?
Can we stop? Who are these weirdos? By the way,
they never have their own kids that are like, by
the way, study your kids.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
If you have kids at home, just watch do this
to them.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Then I got you a robot.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
First of all, you.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
There's no way to ascertain any kind of results from
a study of kids that were in a study because
they're already in some kind of abusive home that their.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Parents brought them to a study for fifty dollars cash.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
So there's no there's.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
No way of knowing these kids were already momstionally traumatized.
This is and also as someone I used to do
studies for money when I first moved to Los Angeles,
I study right for cash, and like there's really no
way of ascertaining any of this, Like, I mean, what
is this?
Speaker 3 (29:27):
What was that? The Kids Study Council of America?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Can we find out kids telethon telethon?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
What kids Kids Institute? The TKI program?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Can we keep scientists?
Speaker 4 (29:40):
How do we make these young girls fertile with real babies,
like are with robot babies? Like this is just when
someone's like king, they have to go so far as
to become a become a scientist and then put on
all these fake studies just to watch kids.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
It's just like their program do the reverse.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
So I'm gonna look that up before people try drugs more. Yes,
I mean, I definitely remember seeing it was like a
it was a video that was like puppets, and I
remember them saying all sorts of things about different drugs,
and I was like, whoa, look at all the different
drugs we could try.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Pretty well.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
That's, by the way, that's a big thing in rehab.
When people go to rehab for the first time. When
they get out, they end up relapsing so much harder
because they hear about all these other drugs and rehab
that they didn't even.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
They're like, wait, zandi bars.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Yeah, So I mean studies, it's like I feel like,
you know, I have no faith in any of them anymore.
And the thing that broke me was the food Pyramid.
When I found out it.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Was yes, it was made by this.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
It was like what was the grain industry?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Yeah, but it was like the cereal company. It was
like General Mills.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
That's why it was like you gotta eat. You gotta
be eating so much cereal.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Whenever I see it was like it was like a
ton of bread and like a fish with an eyeball,
and then it's like cereal. So like now what I
see any study, I'm like, who benefits from this study?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Like who is this? Like, no, no one does know.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
The selling robot babies benefit. This was created by robot
babies to be held.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Somebody didn't know what to do with all their robot babies.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
By the way, can we have no kids hold babies
at all? Like for a million reasons, Like whenever I
see a kid with like like a four year old
with a stroller and a baby doll, I'm just like, guys.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Like it is weird, is odd, and it's one of
those things that's so common that we're used to it,
but it is sort of a strange little thing. Yeah, bizarre.
Did you have it in your high school? We had
no We had flower babies, like a pound bag of
white flower that you couldn't let break or whatever, and
you'd coupled Mine was Jen brown, and you would like
(31:46):
pass this baby for two weeks in the hallway and
hope it didn't start spilling. Out flower.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yeah, this is I'm called.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
I will call child services, I will pass, I will
actually dedicate my life.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
There's a couple of things that I need im.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Like, but also not only that, like the prom, Like
that's the other thing I can't get over.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
I did it.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
It's like for a year, you guys decide who you're
gonna dry hump in six months and all the teachers
are gonna come watch. Like there's some of these things,
some things we do in school. Why were you and
why were you and Jen Brown raising a fake baby together?
Why even you know have that we did one? I
don't know if it was the same exercise, but I
do remember, like carrying an egg around like in a spoon.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
I love to hear about this because I went to
an all boys school and they didn't teach just shit
about being a parent, none of it. What we didn't
even learn about what sex was.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
But I mean it's like, yeah, I mean a lot
of my friends I went to school in Virginia, like
friends had kids, as you know, juniors and seniors, and
then they're holding their carrying.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Around the flower, Like can I take this home to
cook for my family?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Like I have a.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Kid, they're going to make a pancakes tomorrow. Uh, there
was a in our in Baltimore County there one of
our high school's had a daycare in the high school.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Yeah, so I guess maybe I guess if you're in
an area where it's like, look, we know these kids
like that there's no birth control or like you know,
it's like Christian school or something like yeah, like we
know you're going to have a kid early, we might
as well start teaching you. But I don't I love
that people like like schools like have all these like
weird like who decides this some male principle is like
(33:28):
we're going to have these like you know, thirteen year
olds pretend their parents Like I don't know, I don't
know who decides all this stuff. But also I had
a revelation recently. Who becomes a principal? What kind of loser?
What kind of dorm is like pick on someone your
own size?
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Like the that's right, I imagine kingdom of children.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Yeah, it's just like how much of a loser me?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
That's how you're you feel powerful? Do you feel powerful?
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Now?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Said before about like comics having to run a seven
eleven it's like teachers suddenly have to run a bank. Yeah,
and so principals are like it's all just administrative stuff
and it's like you're an HR person, You're you're an accountant.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
It just seems like it's funny, like schools are so wild,
Like especially when you become a parent, you're kind of like, wait,
these are just like flawed humans that are running a
school because you're sort of like, oh, wait, the soccer
coach teaches history now, like since when, like you're like,
they're all none of them are qualified for anything, Like, wait,
my friend's dad is just the gymnastics coach now because
she's on the team.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
When I was a freshman, aren't my soccer coach put
in a dip every single practice? He was just sitting
in a dip bottle the entire soccer practice. And you know,
you look back and I was fourteen, probably fourteen, and
so he was probably twenty four, so he was ten
years older. Oh yeah, he would show up and we
were pretty good, but yeah, he would pack a dip.
But during practice it.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Was like hot days, hot days.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Yeah, it's August and Maryland.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
A hot day, dip.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
We were losing a game. That we should have been
winning to Towson High School, and I at halftime said,
I was like, you know, get your fucking heads in
the game to like my own teammates, and that coach
goes Landis, I think your ball's just dropped. Just a
twenty four year old with a dip so salty coach Landis,
(35:26):
I think your ball's finally dropped. And I'm like, you
know what.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
There's always like the moment where you realize one of
your coaches like isn't a parent at the school, or
like they don't have kids at the school, and You're like.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
How did you even get in this job? Yeah, like
why are you?
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Why are you a twenty five year old like a
hot guy who's like my volleyball coach, Like I'm fourteen,
Like who are you?
Speaker 3 (35:48):
It's just like so weird.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
I had a lacrosse coach who would always end every
thought with like a racehorse, and so it would be
like that guy's running like a racehorse and you're like okay,
and he's like, hey's shooting like a race horse. And
he's like he's got to peel like a piss like
a race horse. And I'm like, you can't just put
like a racehorse on the end of anything one of
the players is doing. Man, he hit that guy like
(36:11):
a race horse. But I'm still thinking about him twenty
five years later.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Isn't it weird when you grow up in all these things,
like like where was I the other day? And I
was like it was I was in San Diego and
my son was going in the pool and we had
just eat and I was like, hold on you guys,
like by the way, like literally forty two years old,
I was like, we just ate.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
We can't go in the pool yet?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Is that true? Is that no? That's oh no, yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Well I think it was like our parents needed a
break and they just made up a lie, you know,
Like so there's so it's like when you realize, like
my mom told me that when the ice cream truck
played music, that manut was out of ice cream, like
a diabolical Yeah. Like the things you look back and
you're like, oh, like when those certain things get shattered.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Yes, my friend's dad and Ocean City Maryland said, whenever
you see a seagull floating on the water, there is
a shark directly beneath it, and that seagulls float over
sharks and then they eat whatever the sharks don't finish.
And so we would look out and there'd be seagulls
floating on the waves, and we wouldn't get in the water.
And one time I dove the waving came up and
(37:19):
there was a seagull sitting there and I was like, well,
it's been a great run. I've had a wonderful eight
years on planet Earth. Oh but total why And it's
just like, yeah, why not? We need a break. Every
parent needs to exhale sometimes.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Brilliant Mary McCormick actress, she was walking in down the
ocean with her three kids in they're like one of
the ocean.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
She's like, honey, the ocean's broken. We kids, you know.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Like just the things you say, Yeah, the things you.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Say, kurty b you want to tease me into some
thumbs ups.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
A photographer in Canada found a toad with its eyes
inside its mouth and scientists are baffled. It's very crazy looking.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
My eyes are down here. Kyle Richard wants to thumb up. Oh,
he says, remember Meghan, who got the big promotion and
we probably do well. She quit that job to save
for sanity. She took a year long sabbatical, did a
ton of volunteer work, and she is now the newest
restoration project manager for a coast Salas tribe in Washington
(38:26):
State where they're saving salmon and sea life in the
Puget Sound. So thumbs up to Megan, you did it.
That seems like a great job. Chelsea says, I want
to thumbs up the bananamal who created these Tampa Bay
Burbs coloring book. I ended up needing emergency spinal surgery
and found myself with two weeks of inpatient rehab after
(38:48):
over a week in the hospital, so she ordered these
Tampa Bay Burbs. Thank you, Kurt Scottie for the wonderful
Bernaner's community. And so, Kurt, if you do recall that
we have a bananimal name Angelique Cologne, who beat cancer
and while she was getting an immunotherapy treatment, I think
(39:10):
she was just staring out the window at birds because
there was nothing else she could do. Nobody could visit her.
Her immune system was vulnerable, so she came up with
a coloring book of all the birds she was seeing
in the Tampa Bay area. It's on Amazon. I have
a copy and go get these Tampa Bay Burbs. If
you want a kid's color and a color book, it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
I love the name as well.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Delight. Yeah. So good job Angelique, and good job Chelsea.
I'll give one more. Oh, this is a fun this
is a fun one. Jennifer Schmidt, who's a great bananimals
come to Bananas Fest and live shows, is thumbing up
her best friend, Betsy. Betsy had a nine year running
streak where she ran three miles every single day for
(39:55):
nine years. But Betsy had to have surgery, so that
streak was coming to an end. She was very sad
about it ending, so she and her friends came up
with a plan. Betsy and four women ran naked through
a neighborhood at nine pm to celebrate the end of
Betsy's impressive streak. Thumbs up to Betsy. Just start a
(40:17):
new streak, start over.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Run four miles every day? Who knows?
Speaker 1 (40:23):
And of course we are here with the fantastic, the
legendary Whitney Cummings. Whitney, thanks for being here, Thanks for
having me.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Do you love doing your podcast? What you seem to
really love? Good for you.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
That's so nice.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
I think it took me a second to like figure out,
you know, how to not like finish it and be
consumed with shame for truly.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Days because I just mean, like.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
As comics, as writers, like you know, like you know,
I like writing something, making it good and then putting
it out. Yeah. Yeah, And sometimes on a podcast, I'm like,
am I just like bombing for two hours? Like it's
just you know, and there's no audience obviously, and we're
kind of conditioned.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
We're kind of conditioned, you know, for that.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
And I'm sort of like everyone does something so different
and we're all these sort of like you know, Lois
and Clark in it out here, like not clear what
what the blueprint is, you know, because it's like everyone
has a short attention span you're supposed to. And then
it's like, but some podcasts that are really bigger three
and a half hours, you know, so it's hard to tell.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
And yeah, and you're kind of just like yelling into a.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
Void and you're like, I don't even know if people
are are they are they driving listening to this?
Speaker 3 (41:27):
Are they watching it? Are they at work?
Speaker 4 (41:29):
Like I just for a long time, I just got
overwhelmed with just thinking I suck at this and then
I look at some of the biggest podcasts and it's
just a bunch of comedians, like like millionaire comedians complaining
about how depressed they.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Are and what the hell about it whatsoever?
Speaker 3 (41:41):
I don't I don't know what you guys want. I
don't get it. This is mad, you know.
Speaker 5 (41:45):
So I also then I guests is so all consuming,
and it's just like having a well because then you
have a guest on and then I always want to
talk about like in Sunday stuff that's going to let
you know, and then you know, we'll have this a
great moments and then they'll leave and their publicist or
whatever like can you cut that out?
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Can you cut that?
Speaker 4 (42:02):
And I'm like, you want to They want to cut
out all the funny stuff. So it's just me being like,
so how did you get into acting?
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Who cares? And so I was.
Speaker 4 (42:10):
Just like and then someone comes and does your podcast
for free, and then you don't want to be like
you know, you kind of just like throw them softballs.
But then they have they have their own podcast too,
So it became this like jury duty where I have
to do yours and you have to do mine, and
we're all just like like avoiding each other in the
hallway at the comedy so like please don't ask it, Like.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
So now I just do it myself.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
It's kind of just me, just like rambling and ranting
about stuff. And that's been way sort of more less
like stressful because if it doesn't go well or I
know what happened, you.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Know, I wanted Kurt and I and we still might
do this. We have a Patreon now so we can
kind of expand and do different things outside of this
normal bananas format. I wanted to do like time specific
banana like I did want to do like a four
hour marathon of bananas where we've cycled in several guests,
just so somebody was like, I'm we should a huge
road trip.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
We should do that as a live stream.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Oh that would be interesting, basically absolute marathon EPP where
people could be like, you know what, I have a
I'm going for a dental procedure that's going to take
three hours and I want to just listen to one
thing the whole time. But also I bet you tho
of the pop before I do want to do a
one off colonoscopy prep cleanse where it's like and so
(43:23):
begins what we're about. We're drinking the prep now and
there we have twenty minutes until hell breaks loose and
then just walk our listeners who are going to get
colonies through it with bananas as their shaman as their guide.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
I love that we should do it all right here
it is final Final Story, Baby.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
Final Story brings it home. Curdie b.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
Sent in by Megan all oliverson Ellervison. Okay, a photographer
in Canada found a toad with eyes in its mouth
and side be baffled. This was in the Travel It's
just called the Travel Scotti. How often are you reading
the Travel.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
Man, I would say on a daily basis twenty four
hours in a day. I'm probably reading the Travel between
twelve and fifteen times a day, a front to back
the whole website.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
M This was written by Savannah Stanfield, who a lot
of people say is the best in the biz.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
Best in the biz.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
The planet is full of strange and unusual animals that
you wouldn't believe has existed. From the bizarre lipstick wearing
fish that can't swim what and the world's most unusual
bright pink dolphin.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
I've seen those, yeah, I seen those all of.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
These animals are naturally quirky, but some animals look weird accidentally.
This was the case of a certain toad. Photographer and
Canada found a toad with eyes in its mouth, a
discovery which baffled scientists at the time. But what's even
more astounding is the fact that this is a lot
more common in amphibians like toads than you might think.
Why did this toad have my eyes inside its mouth?
The story fascinating one. In nineteen ninety two, a photographer
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named Scott Gardner was in Burlington County, Ontario, Canada, working
for the Hamilton Spectator. Gardner received a call about a
toad with eyes in its mouth. He was curious to
check it out, even a small part of him thought
it might be a prank. Nevertheless, Gardner went to the
family's backyard where the toad was found, and sure enough,
there was a toad that lacked eye sockets, and instead
the toad's eyes were just inside its mouth.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
Gardener captured a photo of the toad and it was
published in the Hamilton Spectator. It quickly circulated throughout Canada
in the United States, and was featured in notable works
including climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins. The photograph was
also featured in several showcases blah blah blah. Even today,
the image still circulates on social media, leaving people wondering
(45:46):
if it's real.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
It is actually these days it's so hard to say
what's real and what.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
Isn't it really is this is so? I looked on Snopes,
this is real. Well, I looked on Alex I looked
on Alex Jones.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
Well there's something too things okay, so isn't there And
I again, I don't know if this is a legitimate
study or done by leg creeps that just wanted to
look at frogs carry around baby frogs and robot baby frogs.
But that that round up, which is the chemical that
we use, Like, doesn't that cause like they were finding
that it was affecting frogs like in a lot of
(46:29):
different ways. So it seems like frogs are getting the
brunt of a lot of our chemicals. It's also in
our breast milt too, which is the reason I say
I didn't breastfeed, not because I have fake boobs and
couldn't and put.
Speaker 3 (46:44):
That above my child's health.
Speaker 4 (46:47):
Also, we don't know we haven't looked in every frog's mouth,
I like, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (46:52):
There's certain things like this. This is the only frog
we have.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
I personally haven't even looked at one.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
And why did you even look in this one? What
is this guy doing?
Speaker 2 (47:01):
He's cute though, I think he's cute. That photo is
kind of charming. He looks like an animated character that
you know when he yawns, he can finally see what's
going on, and then he just goes about his day.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
And he looks like he's always saying, hey, that's bigger
than me. That's how he can see is if.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
What he's like? Wait, what is it? Oh god?
Speaker 4 (47:22):
Is it rocky horror? I can't remember. Oh no, maybe
beetlejuice where they took the eyeballs and put him in. Yeah,
this is his party trig.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Yes, this is okay. So here's the reason. Do you
guys want to hear? It's a maculum macro mutation of
frogs and toads. They think it's likely result of a
parasitic infection from a trematode, which has been known to
cause limb mutations in amphibians.
Speaker 2 (47:47):
Interesting, Yeah, so there it is.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
It's not it doesn't sound like it's round up. It
sounds like trematode, whatever that is.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
I know. Whitney has told me on several occasions that
she actually really loves our Instagram. It is her favorite news. Yes,
it's my it's the.
Speaker 4 (48:02):
Only way, it's the only news. I all the news
that fit to print.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
Yes, And I feel like there was a story that
Lisa are our real uh part time employee, part time
full human, not spot intern. She posted when I think
that was a tadpole that just never turned into a frog.
So it just got fucking huge. This tadpole was like
(48:26):
as big as a football and it just never the
legs never came. So I was like, that seems like
the Pixar movie that everybody is clamoring for the tadpole
that never became.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
Like that, like like boss Baby, Yes, it's.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
Boss Baby, tadpole in a bond. That is so good, Whitney.
Anything you want to plug away your tour? Anything? Where
can people find you?
Speaker 3 (48:50):
No? Just you guys. I love you, guys.
Speaker 4 (48:51):
Thanks for having me. I'm like such a fan. I
hope I was okay? And did you get in the way?
Speaker 1 (48:55):
Are you kidding me? You were wonderful.
Speaker 4 (48:57):
But I always feel like at a show like this
that's so successful, I don't think anyone's listening for the guests.
They're just listening for like if the guest brings out
something else and other in their favorite their best friends,
you know.
Speaker 3 (49:07):
So I don't want to get in the way.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
I think that truth to that.
Speaker 3 (49:11):
And also, your fans are always the best people.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
They're very nice people, they're very kind, they're very wholesome,
and they're very optimistic, which is so rare these days.
We love the bananamalsh Wit. Thanks for coming on. I'll
see you soon.
Speaker 3 (49:23):
Thanks for not making me talk about politics.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Love you, bye, never Bye. Bana. Bananas is an exactly
right media production.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
The catchy Bananas theme song was composed and performed by Kahan.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
And our benevolent overlords are the great Karen Kilgareff and
Georgia Hartstart.
Speaker 1 (49:46):
And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot,
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Speaker 2 (49:50):
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We love those five stars.
Speaker 4 (50:10):
Mm hmm
Scott you writing Kurty b.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I am just I'm ready to laugh and laugh and laugh.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
This one was posted on Instagram, but I mean it's
so good an in depth we have to do it here.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It is very good.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Mule riding Kentucky man accused of unleashing raccoon and bar
after being turned away.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
There we go. I mean, just we needed more words
because who knows where we're going to ride that one
off to. Well, let's get into it on an animalistic
brand new Bananas World. Would you.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Resilient pieces, guys, gals, now binary pals. Welcome to Bananas.
I'm Kirk Brown, older.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I and Banana boy number two Scotty Landis. Thank you
for listening to the silliest little podcast there ever was.
It's strange news, it's storytelling, it's great guests, and today
we just check all three of those boxes off.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
We sure do. Baby, Why don't you bring her on?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I would love to our guest today was actually my
first boss in Los Angeles, California. She is a writer, comedian,
an author, a podcaster, an actor, and now she's a
cool mom. She's on stand up tour. You can go
check her out on the Big Baby tour, and she
loves animals more than people. And she has a podcast
you're probably already listening to called Good for You, Experts, comics,
(01:41):
you name it. She has them. Welcome to the show,
Our Bud Whitney Comings. How are you?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Why is cool mom an insult? But mom is fine?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
No, I'd always say cool. Kurt's a fun dad.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Fun dad, and cool mom. That's cool for me.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
That's so it's like, it's just cool mom. It's like,
don't worry. She has someone helping her. Don't worry she
doesn't do the important things.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Have you heard of type sea moms?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
No, what's that?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I just heard about them. It's like a thing on
TikTok where it's like, I don't really even know the description.
The description is like you used to be type A,
but now you can like barely get anything done. Uh,
and so just like you know, vacuuming around toys and stuff.
But it definitely seems like the vibe is like I'm
(02:33):
a type sea mom. So at this point it's too
late to learn my my my son's name. I could
have asked him years ago, but now it would just be.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Yeah, there is a little bit of like a brag
culture of like, look, how bad a mom I am?
And I'm like, I'm like, careful, guys, your kid's going
to turn into a comedian.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Like it's like, we don't need we don't need bragging
about being now more than ever, we just need great
parents to emerge and rise.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Yeah, or just like even if you are truly bad moms,
hide it. My mom would have been like, I'm an
amazing mom, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It's true. Whitney, do you remember the first time you
and I met?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Oh wow, Scotty, You're really You're really.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
A part of my hippocampus that I have so deeply repressed.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It's interesting because so Bananas grew in a way, it
grew and has become this podcast away because of we're
on Karen Kilgarriff and Georgia hart Stark's network. So my
first job out here was Karen was the head writer
on your show Love You Mean It, And I was
the next hire that you and Robbie Anderson brought on.
So I got a calls in New York writing on
(03:55):
finishing up a show. Rob is already out in La
work with you putting together that show, and he's like,
do this packet. Whitney's hiring like four writers right now.
So I did the pack I sent it in and
he's like, you need to fly out Thursday. And I
was like, okay. I thought he meant a week from then,
but it was Wednesday. So I flew out the next day.
He's like, you have to meet Whitney. She's staffing this
(04:16):
room right now and if you don't meet her, you
will not get on this show. So I said, okay.
So I fly to LA and I slept Rob's son, Charlie,
I think was three or four years old at the time,
So Charlie slept with the parents and then I slept
in Charlie's boy size twin bed or single bed. This
(04:37):
is my second time in Los Angeles. And that morning,
at nine am, we went to your house and you had,
you know, a few dogs running around, and I met
you at the end of We're at your kitchen table,
dining room table, real long table, and you're like scotti.
Rob says, you're a really great writer to yours favorite writer.
(04:58):
I go, that's true, and you just look at it.
You go, do you think I'm hot? And I was
so delirious from travel, I go you're the best I've
ever seen, and you laughed so hard. You go, he
got it, he booked it, he booked the job. He's hired,
and that was my job interview.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Okay, well, it's been a pleasure working in show business.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
And so funny. You were just testing me. It was
a funny situation.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
But I so here's the thing that I guess you
can't really do that anymore. But like back then, I
was just like everyone was sending in all these packets,
Like I was really good at writing jokes, but in
a room I would kind of shut down, you know,
Like I just think everybody's got different strengths. And my
thing was like I just want whoever's on these shows
(05:46):
to like feel comfortable, to have fun, for us to
have a good vibe, because no comedy can exist, no
comedy can exist if everyone's scared.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yah.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
And I and I had been working on something before
that where the showrunner like got off on making everyone
scared of her or something, and all these brilliant writers
were like not pitching because they were scared. And I
guess I just wanted to set the precedent that it's
like I'm a silly goose we're just here to laugh,
you know.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
So I think, look, was that a date?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Yes, it was, No, I don't I don't remember saying
like I think what I said to Rob was like
anyone you recommend, I'm going to hire because he hates
everyone and loves you and he's and I was like,
I know I'm going to hire him. I just want
to make sure he's not scared of me or won't
treat me like I'm above like I'm above him, you know,
like I don't want to be anyone's boss.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
It's the worst.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
And so, uh so as soon as it was like, okay,
you're comfortable, I want to make sure you know you
can make fun of me because that's you know, so
that's I'm you know, look that is I feel like
that is a hate crime.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Whatever I did.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
No, No, it was hilarious. Also Rob was there and
Eliza was there, so we had witness Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay, good.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I think it was just like like I was just
the point where I'm like, I'm a comic because you know,
there's this uh you know, brilliant I don't I won't
say his name, but worked on Frasier. Uh, this writer
I love so much and he was with me on
a TV show that I did, and he was talking
about how comedians, you know, stand up comedians, improvisers, you know,
we're like these like you know, silly, you know, goofballs,
(07:17):
and then we get a TV show and then you
have to be like a business person all of a sudden,
he's like Eric Sicklin.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I'll say, he's like, you know, a comedian of.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
The sitcom is like saying to a comedian, hey, le're
hilarious on stage, now run a seven eleven, and like
that's true.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
That's so true.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
And I just kind of was like, can we just
for this talk show just like be in a room,
because I came from the roast rooms where we would
just make fun of each other and that's what the
best work came from. So I just was so sick
of when I would walk by someone would like look scared,
and I was like, dude, like I have six hundred
thousand dollars of like debt right now, like I like,
you know, I need, you know, And it just was
like so odd that there's this thing where people are
(07:56):
afraid of their boss, Like I just think that's such
an insanely talk, especially as like our like it made
no sense.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
No, oh, I'm not accusing you of any level of
workplace harassment. It was so funny. You were definitely doing it.
Just be like can this guy hang or not?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Ye?
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, you caught me like on two hours of sleep
in the child's bed, just being like, well, I'm gonna
fire right back, because but it was like yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
It was also like you're like just looking in someone's
eyes and going like, I mean Lauren Greenberg, I literally
remember so Lauren Greenberg who went on to you know, Cordon.
You know, I think she still works with Cordon maybe
in England. She's hilarious. She came in and she interviewed
same job. She her packet was like hilarious, Fine, she
had brilliant tweets and I loved her tweets. My friend
Kevin Christy recommended her and she came in and like,
(08:41):
funny's fine, But if you come into a room and
you're scared or you know, you don't play well with others,
like comedy can't happen and you know, And she came
in and totally froze, and I identified with her because
that's me. I get nervous in front of authority. Figures,
especially at that time. She was like sweating and I
was like, so tell me about yourself, and she was
just like in such a panic, and I was like,
you know, I was like, I was like, I can't
(09:02):
really tell if you want this job. She starts sobbing.
She was like, she starts she starts sobbing, and she's like,
my mom put me on match dot com. Uh in
is and is dming with men pretending to be me
and I work at a work at a company that
measures food to tell you how many calories something hasn't
(09:23):
it And she just started like sobbing and it was
and I was like, you're.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Hiring, like absolutely one of the great interview stories. And Kurt,
the company that she was working for, it was cups
shaped like food, and then you would force that food
into the ship plastic form shape. So if you're like dairy,
it was shaped like a wedge of cheese, so you'd
be like, this is what's dairy you can have for
the day. And then the kid was like a camp
(09:47):
set of like dishware basically, and you're like, here's my
grains and it was just like shape in a circle,
and it was like, here's my meat, and it was
shaped like an old timey steak, like if you had
to draw.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Like a like a like a Renaissance fair drumstick, like
with like a cartoon. But she she I was like,
she's funny when she's crying, like she's hilarious, you know,
And yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
She's really really funny.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Great, right, yeah, because it's just like looking at a
bunch of written jokes like yeah, like you know, I
don't really know what to do with that. So well, yeah,
and then Kurt, I wonder how we first met, probably
like on at Midnight or something like that, or like
in like Nerd. I was gonna be like a nerd melt.
I've always been very intimidated by you, so I probably
came off aloof no, no, yes, yes yet oh hey
(10:32):
hey hey yes.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
And over there I think, well, I remember meeting you.
The first time I had ever gone to your house
was during that show that we did. I think it
was on Hulu. It was like a stand up showcase
in your backyard.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, that was remember that delight.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
That was a delight because I hadn't done stand up
in a while because it was like just coming out
of like COVID and you were just so warm and welcoming.
I was just like, I like this person as.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I was giving you COVID.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did get COVID.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You're like you kept hugging me.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Ygg was nose to mouth breathing. Fine, that's fine, Kurt.
Do you want to tell us about this mule and
raccoon man in Kentucky or whatever?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Sure? Due, this is awesome. This was It was sent
in by a lot of people. I recently saw it
by Stephanie Zayats. I think it was her first story sentence, Stephanie,
good job mule writing. Kentucky man accused of unleashing raccoon
and bar after being turned away. This was on Local twelve.
If it's local in about twelve, it's on Local twelve.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
That's what. That's right.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
This was written by that swing in w KRC staff.
A Kentucky man.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Really wants to claim it. We love when that happens.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
A Kentucky man known by locals as Cowboy Cody, was
taken into custody after he allegedly released a raccoon into
a crowded bar on Friday. Office responded at nine to
eighteen pm after receiving a report of a disturbance. Officers
found Mason driving and initiated a traffic stop at the
suspect allegedly refused to roll his window down or exit
(12:12):
the vehicle, which promptly prompted officers to forcibly remove him.
Blah blah blah blah blah. Here it is. Mary Hafner,
a bartender at the business involved in the incident, spoke
to The New York Post, telling the publication that Mason
had apparently quote trapped a raccoon earlier in the day
on his farm, and he'd been carrying it around with him. Quote.
I'm a bartender, so you know, I've seen some crazy
(12:33):
stuff in my time, but nothing like this. Hafner explained
to the Post that Mason lives alone on a farm
in the area and has caused trouble at local bars
in the past. She said Mason had already been drinking
when he turned up at the bar that day, and
was banned due to a previous incident involving a mule.
For the publication, I don't know what that means.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Halfner told the Post that Mason had always liked her,
so she attempted to convince him to leave he said
to me, Oh, I see how it is this and
a pretty face out here to distract me, adding that
he initially appeared to comply with her request to leave.
According to the publication, Mason allegedly returned to the bar
moments later with the raccoon and released it into the establishment.
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Halfner told the publication another employee attempted to apprehend that
raccoon by grabbing its tail and was constantly quit and
bitten by the animal, which requires a raby shot. Oh
Hafner said she was able to corner the raccoon with
a towel and safely return it outside where it fled. Look,
she said, I'm no city slicker, I'm a Kentucky girl.
I had no problem catching that thing. W DKYTV reported
(13:41):
in December. This is a different incident. This is the
incident involving the mule that Mason had been arrested after
turning up at Tap two one six already drinking and
riding a mule. The station's report states that Mason entered
the bar and allegedly began whipping a bull whip and
other patrons this guy has at acant troll. Mason was
(14:02):
asked to leave he refused, but was later arrested by
responding officers. Oh, in all the years she has known Mason,
she has witnessed poor treatment and abused looks of his horses.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Oh, this is just that's not nice.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
And Mason is now in jail.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Lock them up. Okay, there we go.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Hold on, I haven't heard one thing you said since
Cowboy Coyote.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
So hold on.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Cowboy Cody, Cowboy Code? Who is?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Like I have so many questions because it's like the
the you know, the townspeople have come to known him
as Cowboy Cody, Like I know he's been trying to
make this nickname catch on for years.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yeah, and no one's.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
That you know, that one person who's always like, hey,
Billy and everyone's like, it's Bill.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
We're not You're not Billy. We're not You're not You're
not Spike. Just you stop trying to make it. You're not.
You can't make a nickname catch on as an adult.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Also, what a crazy nickname? His name is Jonathan Mason
and his nickname that he throws around his cowboy Cody.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Like yeah, and you know what this is.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
This is totally like when no one thought it was
weird that he did.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
He changed his name every two years.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah, and I was I was like, wait, now he's
Sean COM's wait, he's puff Daddy. Now no one finds
us odd, like this guy changed his name for a reason.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Exactly Cowboy Cody's doing. Cowboy. Yeah, sure, Mason drove a
mule into a bar, Cowboy Cody didn't.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I mean when I went to a bar, And I
know I've mentioned this on the podcast before, but I
was in Omaha, Nebraska with some friends and I was
like the only one that wanted to go out and
explore the underbelly of Omaha. And I found a bar
online that said Alpine in Home of the Wildlife. So
(15:52):
I was like, that is where I'm going, and I went,
and I went with my buddy Blake, and we were
watching a Huskers game and they're famous for the wings.
There was a woman with a beard frying wings and
I'm not just exactly what I just said is one
hundred percent accurate. And when you're done with the wings,
there their gimmick is you feed the leftover bones to
(16:16):
a big group of raccoons that just wait. Right outside
the side door, there's a baby pool full of water
and there are raccoons and you hand them the bones.
And there's also like feral cats in the area. And
so the home of the wildlife means at the Alpine
Inn in Omaha, Nebraska, when you're done with your chicken wings,
you hand them to raccoons. It still exists. It was incredible.
(16:42):
Blake was terrified the woman with the beard frying chicken wings.
Our bartender had never bartended before. It was her first day,
so if it was a draft beer, she nailed it.
But I need a little pick me up, so I
ordered a Jack and coke and she did not know
how to make that. So the bearded woman came behind
the bar and with flour from breading chicken wings, dipping
(17:06):
wings in hot oil, she made my.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Jacket and touching, touching, Rabel.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Handed it to me with a finger in the Jack
and coke and put it in front of me. And
I just looked at Blake and was like, Okay, is
Jack Daniel strong enough to kill whatever just happened?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
And am I brave enough to ask for another one?
So I just drank it. I just drank a finger
full of chicken spice At two pm, watching the huskerers
at the Alpine in so shout out to the Alpine inn.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Oh, man, I want to go there so badly.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
In quotes, it said home of the wildlife, and I'm like, well,
I gotta go there.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah. Of course.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Is now a good time to let you guys know
that I did have to get the montecrobl Antibodi's Raby's
vaccine because I was attacked by a raccoon.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Huh oh is that true?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
He perfect time.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Well, well, so I was.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
I live.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
You know, Scotty's been to my new place. I live
kind of like in the woods. And here's what I
will say. Now, raccoons. We underestimate these little bastards. They
I believe they are the Orca whales of the alleyways.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
They are.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
They're colluding. They're way smarter than we give them credit.
They have full on hands. They have opposable thumbs. The
reason humans advanced is because we had a posable thumb.
So do raccoons. They can turn hoses on and off.
They're unstoppable, frankly, and their body type does limit them
greatly too. But trust me too, But so I have
(18:43):
like I'm fostering a dog at This isn't a couple
of years ago, and I let them out in the
middle night.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Puppies you have to let out in the middle of night,
you know, Scotty, you just had.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
A puppy, of course, and I feel like a scratch
on the side of my leg. I look at no,
I'm not And I think at the time, I'm trying
to think I definitely was maybe a Lunesta gal around
this time.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
See, you were on a vision quest sort.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Of, remember Lunesta. I'm pretty sure they pulled it off
the market real quick.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Exact.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
I think it's whatever it is. Roseanne has it in
her pocket right now, and so so I kind of
was like a little I don't take anything now, but
I was like a little bit groggy, and I look
down and there's a full on baby raccoon like hanging
from my like pajama pants. And then yeah, so it
was so cute. I know that was my reaction too.
And then the mom kind of like jumps on the.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Baby on your leg.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Yeah, And it didn't cut my skin or anything at
the time.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Look, every now and then, I do make a good decision.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
And as soon as the pandemic started, uh, I did
start dating a veterinarian and.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Moved him into my home. Too sweet.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
You know, this wasn't a time where you like could
not even go into a you cv like yeah, you know,
yeah and so and I always have like a bleeding dog,
you know, around me at some uh in some capacity.
So he comes downstairs and I'm like, uh, no big deal,
we got to you know, just a raccoon ran up
myle Like. He's like, excuse me, And I was like, oh, yeah,
(20:14):
it's no big deal, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
They ran up the tree. He's like, no, we're.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Going to the hospital right this minute. When he's like,
we need to get the reccoon and cut its head
off and figure, I know, I was like, uh raby,
I don't think it has rabies.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It's fine.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
And it seemed kind of scared of me actually, and
it probably thought I had rabies.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
And he's like, no, rabies, No one survives rabies.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
That's like, isn't that he' razy?
Speaker 4 (20:38):
And I was like, dude, there's no way I don't
already have rabies. This is probably just my why my
personality is like this. I'm I've been surviving rabies for
the past twenty years.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Is like, is my like brand.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
So he's like, you gotta go. Not all hospitals have
montacroble antibodies for rabies, Like, it's actually pretty hard to get.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
We'd go to a couple of.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Them and as soon as you go in the first
thing they say, it's like you got attacked by a
bat like raccoon. It's normally bats. So I get the
Monte grbl antibiotics. You have to get it every other
week for four weeks, and then like twenty three days later,
there's there's no way this is true. I'm sure they're
just like making it up. And I'm like a you know,
test subject and so and then the.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Next day, this is what we're dealing with. Okay, this
is the.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Next real uh issue we all need to focus on.
Is the raccoons. Because the raccoons the next day we.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Say raccoons so much. My daughter calls them raccoons and
I love it racon so much.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
So the raccoon the next day is sleeping in my tree,
the big mama.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
And here's the deal. They don't you don't see him.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
During the day.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Okay, no one tells you this. Here's here's the irony
of raccoons. Raccoons are squirrely. Squirrels are not that squirrely,
you can see them all day, but raccoons are. So
I'm like poking at it, and that's very odd like
behavior for a room.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
It's a sick raccoon.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
That is like, something is wrong with this raccoon. We
got to get cut its hat off right now. And
I'm like, by the way, red flag didn't end up
marrying this guy because he kept kept.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Saying we need to cut its hat off.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
He could have just said we need to take it
to animal control and let them handle it.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
He just kept saying, this is.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
By the way, a relationship previously ended because I was
dating a doctor who a friend of mine dog was
attacked by a coyote and the skin.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Was pulled off.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
The dog did live, but I told him I was like, oh,
my friend's dog just got attacked by a coyote and
the skin came off, and he just said dead seriously
went that's called a degloving.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Oh oh, yeah, that's a red flag.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I was like, goodbye.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
So I call animal control in Los Angeles and say, hey,
I've got a raccoon in the tree who's napping. Weird behavior,
and the girl goes yeah, well, if it's up in
the tree, that's where they live.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
I was like, okay, no, this is.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Is where I live first of all, and she goes, well,
a lot of the wild animals right now, especially the raccoons,
are acting weird because people test their cocaine for fentanyl,
and when it tests positive, they flush it down the drain,
So some of them have fentanyl in their system.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Are you are you kidding me? This was said to me,
and then the oh, I'm so sorry the raccoon is
on I know this by a person talking to me
on the phone. Your raccoon that you're talking about is
on fentanyl from toilet.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Now, this is like a common problem in California. Was
like she just said a very matter of fact, like
people are flushing their cocaine and.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
So there's only a few ways to just prolf that approove.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
This feels the story you're telling me on the Great
Bananas Podcast is actually one of the most.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Sort of tame raccoon stories I've heard in a while.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Oh, I love well. And of course the Kentucky Bartender also,
that's a kind of a good name for a TV
show too, just called Kentucky Bartender.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Oh my God, it's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
A woman that just sees you just never know what's
coming through the door. It's it's the new Cheers, It's
the new I got one for y'all. This was sent
in by Sarah Fainter. You can send your stories into
the Bananas Podcast.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
So did you say Sarah Painter with a P.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
It's p F, so it's like Fainter, PF Fainter.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
So I went to school with the girl I think
about her once a week named Jenny Painter, and she
her I think it was her mom remarried and a
guy whose last name was Wall.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
And it's so stupid and Jenny Painter Wall.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
I know, it's so it's so dumb, but it was
like one of the you know when you're in high school,
like anything that can get you bullied is like brutal.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
And it was just like, oh, she's like I was
so close to.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
And then her mom got anyway, Jenny.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Painter wall Is, I mean that's my last name.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
My last name is Cummings. I have sympathy for nobody.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Mine's brown Owler but with an H, so it looks
like brown Holer.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Okay, that's okay, Yours might be worse. We can never
get married.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah in companies brown holeer.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah, that's a different that's that's a TV series too.
Just on a later. Robot babies brought to schools actually
increased teenage pregnancies, according to a new study. Crazy wait
what so this is written by the best in the
biz Regina titleus or T T Tellius. Let's go to
(25:28):
Tellius all right with to Tellius? This is interesting. This
was on study fines. A school education program or high
school girls cared for robot babies in a bid to
reduce teenage pregnancies has failed, according to new w a research.
I think this is in Australia. I'll figure it out.
(25:49):
The study, conducted by a Telethon Kids Institute, which sounds
so fair.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Telethon Kids Institute, that's who've conducted Australia. You never love.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
In Lancet on Friday, found that rather than reduced pregnancy
rates among teenagers, it actually increased the occurrence of teenage pregnancies.
Of the nearly three thousand WA schoolgirls aged thirteen to
fifteen from fifty seven public and independent schools. They took
part in the trial to assess VIP virtual infant excuse
(26:25):
me virtual infant parenting, which is very popular among schools
throughout Australia at the time and is still widely used overseas.
About half of the students who were in the intervention
group were given lifelike babies for a weekend, while other
girls who were in the control group were given the
standard health education curriculum. So one got robot babies.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Why I have about this.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
The robot babies or infant simulators reflected the behavior of
six week old babies. So that's pretty young. That's a
little baby, sustained crying. Researchers who tracked the girls until
they turned twenty years old found that the girls who
did the VIP program, which is just so ironic, who
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did the VIP program with the robot babies, had a
seventeen percent rate of pregnancy compared to eleven percent for
the girls who took standard health education. The studies also
found there were fewer abortions by teenagers who took part
in the VIP program fifty three percent compared to sixty
percent in the other group. The studies lead investigator, these.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Are such small numbers though, like six percent difference. It's
a six percent difference, it's not really.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah, you know, yeah, it's not it's not absolute groundbreaking.
Doctor Sally Brinkman said the program was stopped as soon
as the initial results indicated the program was failing, which
is so funny, but also right, pull the plug. If
it's not work, it's not working. But doctor Brinkman said
it had taken until now to finalize all the search results.
(28:00):
This is the largest study of its kind and highlights
that even the most well intentioned programs can have unexpected consequences.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
I bet you they were too lifelike. That's what that's
my guess is they were too life like. Their causing
oxytocin hormones to be released in the girls, and then
they were like then they ended up being more fertile.
So I bet it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
It was. Oh, that's an interesting point of view. She said.
Some schools in Australia are still doing the program, and
doctor Brinkman said some students with who had the robot
babies came so attached to their babies that they even
experienced emotional trauma when they had to hand them back.
She said, many it's a crazy thing to This is
a crazy plan.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah, can I just I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
I can we stop studying kids? Please?
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Does anyone that can? No one needs to study kids?
Can we stop? Who are these weirdos? By the way,
they never have their own kids that are like, by
the way, study your kids.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
If you have kids at home, just watch do this
to them.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Then I got you a robot.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
First of all, you.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
There's no way to ascertain any kind of results from
a study of kids that were in a study because
they're already in some kind of abusive home that their.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Parents brought them to a study for fifty dollars cash.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
So there's no there's.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
No way of knowing these kids were already momstionally traumatized.
This is and also as someone I used to do
studies for money when I first moved to Los Angeles,
I study right for cash, and like there's really no
way of ascertaining any of this, Like, I mean, what
is this?
Speaker 3 (29:27):
What was that? The Kids Study Council of America?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Can we find out kids telethon telethon?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
What kids Kids Institute? The TKI program?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Can we keep scientists?
Speaker 4 (29:40):
How do we make these young girls fertile with real babies,
like are with robot babies? Like this is just when
someone's like king, they have to go so far as
to become a become a scientist and then put on
all these fake studies just to watch kids.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
It's just like their program do the reverse.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
So I'm gonna look that up before people try drugs more. Yes,
I mean, I definitely remember seeing it was like a
it was a video that was like puppets, and I
remember them saying all sorts of things about different drugs,
and I was like, whoa, look at all the different
drugs we could try.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Pretty well.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
That's, by the way, that's a big thing in rehab.
When people go to rehab for the first time. When
they get out, they end up relapsing so much harder
because they hear about all these other drugs and rehab
that they didn't even.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
They're like, wait, zandi bars.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Yeah, So I mean studies, it's like I feel like,
you know, I have no faith in any of them anymore.
And the thing that broke me was the food Pyramid.
When I found out it.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Was yes, it was made by this.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
It was like what was the grain industry?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Yeah, but it was like the cereal company. It was
like General Mills.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
That's why it was like you gotta eat. You gotta
be eating so much cereal.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Whenever I see it was like it was like a
ton of bread and like a fish with an eyeball,
and then it's like cereal. So like now what I
see any study, I'm like, who benefits from this study?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Like who is this? Like, no, no one does know.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
The selling robot babies benefit. This was created by robot
babies to be held.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Somebody didn't know what to do with all their robot babies.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
By the way, can we have no kids hold babies
at all? Like for a million reasons, Like whenever I
see a kid with like like a four year old
with a stroller and a baby doll, I'm just like, guys.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Like it is weird, is odd, and it's one of
those things that's so common that we're used to it,
but it is sort of a strange little thing. Yeah, bizarre.
Did you have it in your high school? We had
no We had flower babies, like a pound bag of
white flower that you couldn't let break or whatever, and
you'd coupled Mine was Jen brown, and you would like
(31:46):
pass this baby for two weeks in the hallway and
hope it didn't start spilling. Out flower.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Yeah, this is I'm called.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
I will call child services, I will pass, I will
actually dedicate my life.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
There's a couple of things that I need im.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Like, but also not only that, like the prom, Like
that's the other thing I can't get over.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
I did it.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
It's like for a year, you guys decide who you're
gonna dry hump in six months and all the teachers
are gonna come watch. Like there's some of these things,
some things we do in school. Why were you and
why were you and Jen Brown raising a fake baby together?
Why even you know have that we did one? I
don't know if it was the same exercise, but I
do remember, like carrying an egg around like in a spoon.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
I love to hear about this because I went to
an all boys school and they didn't teach just shit
about being a parent, none of it. What we didn't
even learn about what sex was.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
But I mean it's like, yeah, I mean a lot
of my friends I went to school in Virginia, like
friends had kids, as you know, juniors and seniors, and
then they're holding their carrying.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Around the flower, Like can I take this home to
cook for my family?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Like I have a.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Kid, they're going to make a pancakes tomorrow. Uh, there
was a in our in Baltimore County there one of
our high school's had a daycare in the high school.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Yeah, so I guess maybe I guess if you're in
an area where it's like, look, we know these kids
like that there's no birth control or like you know,
it's like Christian school or something like yeah, like we
know you're going to have a kid early, we might
as well start teaching you. But I don't I love
that people like like schools like have all these like
weird like who decides this some male principle is like
(33:28):
we're going to have these like you know, thirteen year
olds pretend their parents Like I don't know, I don't
know who decides all this stuff. But also I had
a revelation recently. Who becomes a principal? What kind of loser?
What kind of dorm is like pick on someone your
own size?
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Like the that's right, I imagine kingdom of children.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Yeah, it's just like how much of a loser me?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
That's how you're you feel powerful? Do you feel powerful?
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Now?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Said before about like comics having to run a seven
eleven it's like teachers suddenly have to run a bank. Yeah,
and so principals are like it's all just administrative stuff
and it's like you're an HR person, You're you're an accountant.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
It just seems like it's funny, like schools are so wild,
Like especially when you become a parent, you're kind of like, wait,
these are just like flawed humans that are running a
school because you're sort of like, oh, wait, the soccer
coach teaches history now, like since when, like you're like,
they're all none of them are qualified for anything, Like, wait,
my friend's dad is just the gymnastics coach now because
she's on the team.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
When I was a freshman, aren't my soccer coach put
in a dip every single practice? He was just sitting
in a dip bottle the entire soccer practice. And you know,
you look back and I was fourteen, probably fourteen, and
so he was probably twenty four, so he was ten
years older. Oh yeah, he would show up and we
were pretty good, but yeah, he would pack a dip.
But during practice it.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Was like hot days, hot days.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Yeah, it's August and Maryland.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
A hot day, dip.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
We were losing a game. That we should have been
winning to Towson High School, and I at halftime said,
I was like, you know, get your fucking heads in
the game to like my own teammates, and that coach
goes Landis, I think your ball's just dropped. Just a
twenty four year old with a dip so salty coach Landis,
(35:26):
I think your ball's finally dropped. And I'm like, you
know what.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
There's always like the moment where you realize one of
your coaches like isn't a parent at the school, or
like they don't have kids at the school, and You're like.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
How did you even get in this job? Yeah, like
why are you?
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Why are you a twenty five year old like a
hot guy who's like my volleyball coach, Like I'm fourteen,
Like who are you?
Speaker 3 (35:48):
It's just like so weird.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
I had a lacrosse coach who would always end every
thought with like a racehorse, and so it would be
like that guy's running like a racehorse and you're like okay,
and he's like, hey's shooting like a race horse. And
he's like he's got to peel like a piss like
a race horse. And I'm like, you can't just put
like a racehorse on the end of anything one of
the players is doing. Man, he hit that guy like
(36:11):
a race horse. But I'm still thinking about him twenty
five years later.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
Isn't it weird when you grow up in all these things,
like like where was I the other day? And I
was like it was I was in San Diego and
my son was going in the pool and we had
just eat and I was like, hold on you guys,
like by the way, like literally forty two years old,
I was like, we just ate.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
We can't go in the pool yet?
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Is that true? Is that no? That's oh no, yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Well I think it was like our parents needed a
break and they just made up a lie, you know,
Like so there's so it's like when you realize, like
my mom told me that when the ice cream truck
played music, that manut was out of ice cream, like
a diabolical Yeah. Like the things you look back and
you're like, oh, like when those certain things get shattered.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Yes, my friend's dad and Ocean City Maryland said, whenever
you see a seagull floating on the water, there is
a shark directly beneath it, and that seagulls float over
sharks and then they eat whatever the sharks don't finish.
And so we would look out and there'd be seagulls
floating on the waves, and we wouldn't get in the water.
And one time I dove the waving came up and
(37:19):
there was a seagull sitting there and I was like, well,
it's been a great run. I've had a wonderful eight
years on planet Earth. Oh but total why And it's
just like, yeah, why not? We need a break. Every
parent needs to exhale sometimes.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Brilliant Mary McCormick actress, she was walking in down the
ocean with her three kids in they're like one of
the ocean.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
She's like, honey, the ocean's broken. We kids, you know.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Like just the things you say, Yeah, the things you.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Say, kurty b you want to tease me into some
thumbs ups.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
A photographer in Canada found a toad with its eyes
inside its mouth and scientists are baffled. It's very crazy looking.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
My eyes are down here. Kyle Richard wants to thumb up. Oh,
he says, remember Meghan, who got the big promotion and
we probably do well. She quit that job to save
for sanity. She took a year long sabbatical, did a
ton of volunteer work, and she is now the newest
restoration project manager for a coast Salas tribe in Washington
(38:26):
State where they're saving salmon and sea life in the
Puget Sound. So thumbs up to Megan, you did it.
That seems like a great job. Chelsea says, I want
to thumbs up the bananamal who created these Tampa Bay
Burbs coloring book. I ended up needing emergency spinal surgery
and found myself with two weeks of inpatient rehab after
(38:48):
over a week in the hospital, so she ordered these
Tampa Bay Burbs. Thank you, Kurt Scottie for the wonderful
Bernaner's community. And so, Kurt, if you do recall that
we have a bananimal name Angelique Cologne, who beat cancer
and while she was getting an immunotherapy treatment, I think
(39:10):
she was just staring out the window at birds because
there was nothing else she could do. Nobody could visit her.
Her immune system was vulnerable, so she came up with
a coloring book of all the birds she was seeing
in the Tampa Bay area. It's on Amazon. I have
a copy and go get these Tampa Bay Burbs. If
you want a kid's color and a color book, it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
I love the name as well.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Delight. Yeah. So good job Angelique, and good job Chelsea.
I'll give one more. Oh, this is a fun this
is a fun one. Jennifer Schmidt, who's a great bananimals
come to Bananas Fest and live shows, is thumbing up
her best friend, Betsy. Betsy had a nine year running
streak where she ran three miles every single day for
(39:55):
nine years. But Betsy had to have surgery, so that
streak was coming to an end. She was very sad
about it ending, so she and her friends came up
with a plan. Betsy and four women ran naked through
a neighborhood at nine pm to celebrate the end of
Betsy's impressive streak. Thumbs up to Betsy. Just start a
(40:17):
new streak, start over.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
Run four miles every day? Who knows?
Speaker 1 (40:23):
And of course we are here with the fantastic, the
legendary Whitney Cummings. Whitney, thanks for being here, Thanks for
having me.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Do you love doing your podcast? What you seem to
really love? Good for you.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
That's so nice.
Speaker 4 (40:36):
I think it took me a second to like figure out,
you know, how to not like finish it and be
consumed with shame for truly.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Days because I just mean, like.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
As comics, as writers, like you know, like you know,
I like writing something, making it good and then putting
it out. Yeah. Yeah, And sometimes on a podcast, I'm like,
am I just like bombing for two hours? Like it's
just you know, and there's no audience obviously, and we're
kind of conditioned.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
We're kind of conditioned, you know, for that.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
And I'm sort of like everyone does something so different
and we're all these sort of like you know, Lois
and Clark in it out here, like not clear what
what the blueprint is, you know, because it's like everyone
has a short attention span you're supposed to. And then
it's like, but some podcasts that are really bigger three
and a half hours, you know, so it's hard to tell.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
And yeah, and you're kind of just like yelling into a.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
Void and you're like, I don't even know if people
are are they are they driving listening to this?
Speaker 3 (41:27):
Are they watching it? Are they at work?
Speaker 4 (41:29):
Like I just for a long time, I just got
overwhelmed with just thinking I suck at this and then
I look at some of the biggest podcasts and it's
just a bunch of comedians, like like millionaire comedians complaining
about how depressed they.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Are and what the hell about it whatsoever?
Speaker 3 (41:41):
I don't I don't know what you guys want. I
don't get it. This is mad, you know.
Speaker 5 (41:45):
So I also then I guests is so all consuming,
and it's just like having a well because then you
have a guest on and then I always want to
talk about like in Sunday stuff that's going to let
you know, and then you know, we'll have this a
great moments and then they'll leave and their publicist or
whatever like can you cut that out?
Speaker 3 (42:02):
Can you cut that?
Speaker 4 (42:02):
And I'm like, you want to They want to cut
out all the funny stuff. So it's just me being like,
so how did you get into acting?
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Who cares? And so I was.
Speaker 4 (42:10):
Just like and then someone comes and does your podcast
for free, and then you don't want to be like
you know, you kind of just like throw them softballs.
But then they have they have their own podcast too,
So it became this like jury duty where I have
to do yours and you have to do mine, and
we're all just like like avoiding each other in the
hallway at the comedy so like please don't ask it, Like.
Speaker 3 (42:26):
So now I just do it myself.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
It's kind of just me, just like rambling and ranting
about stuff. And that's been way sort of more less
like stressful because if it doesn't go well or I
know what happened, you.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Know, I wanted Kurt and I and we still might
do this. We have a Patreon now so we can
kind of expand and do different things outside of this
normal bananas format. I wanted to do like time specific
banana like I did want to do like a four
hour marathon of bananas where we've cycled in several guests,
just so somebody was like, I'm we should a huge
road trip.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
We should do that as a live stream.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Oh that would be interesting, basically absolute marathon EPP where
people could be like, you know what, I have a
I'm going for a dental procedure that's going to take
three hours and I want to just listen to one
thing the whole time. But also I bet you tho
of the pop before I do want to do a
one off colonoscopy prep cleanse where it's like and so
(43:23):
begins what we're about. We're drinking the prep now and
there we have twenty minutes until hell breaks loose and
then just walk our listeners who are going to get
colonies through it with bananas as their shaman as their guide.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
I love that we should do it all right here
it is final Final Story, Baby.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
Final Story brings it home. Curdie b.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
Sent in by Megan all oliverson Ellervison. Okay, a photographer
in Canada found a toad with eyes in its mouth
and side be baffled. This was in the Travel It's
just called the Travel Scotti. How often are you reading
the Travel.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
Man, I would say on a daily basis twenty four
hours in a day. I'm probably reading the Travel between
twelve and fifteen times a day, a front to back
the whole website.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
M This was written by Savannah Stanfield, who a lot
of people say is the best in the biz.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
Best in the biz.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
The planet is full of strange and unusual animals that
you wouldn't believe has existed. From the bizarre lipstick wearing
fish that can't swim what and the world's most unusual
bright pink dolphin.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
I've seen those, yeah, I seen those all of.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
These animals are naturally quirky, but some animals look weird accidentally.
This was the case of a certain toad. Photographer and
Canada found a toad with eyes in its mouth, a
discovery which baffled scientists at the time. But what's even
more astounding is the fact that this is a lot
more common in amphibians like toads than you might think.
Why did this toad have my eyes inside its mouth?
The story fascinating one. In nineteen ninety two, a photographer
(45:03):
named Scott Gardner was in Burlington County, Ontario, Canada, working
for the Hamilton Spectator. Gardner received a call about a
toad with eyes in its mouth. He was curious to
check it out, even a small part of him thought
it might be a prank. Nevertheless, Gardner went to the
family's backyard where the toad was found, and sure enough,
there was a toad that lacked eye sockets, and instead
the toad's eyes were just inside its mouth.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
Gardener captured a photo of the toad and it was
published in the Hamilton Spectator. It quickly circulated throughout Canada
in the United States, and was featured in notable works
including climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins. The photograph was
also featured in several showcases blah blah blah. Even today,
the image still circulates on social media, leaving people wondering
(45:46):
if it's real.
Speaker 2 (45:49):
It is actually these days it's so hard to say
what's real and what.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
Isn't it really is this is so? I looked on Snopes,
this is real. Well, I looked on Alex I looked
on Alex Jones.
Speaker 4 (46:07):
Well there's something too things okay, so isn't there And
I again, I don't know if this is a legitimate
study or done by leg creeps that just wanted to
look at frogs carry around baby frogs and robot baby frogs.
But that that round up, which is the chemical that
we use, Like, doesn't that cause like they were finding
that it was affecting frogs like in a lot of
(46:29):
different ways. So it seems like frogs are getting the
brunt of a lot of our chemicals. It's also in
our breast milt too, which is the reason I say
I didn't breastfeed, not because I have fake boobs and
couldn't and put.
Speaker 3 (46:44):
That above my child's health.
Speaker 4 (46:47):
Also, we don't know we haven't looked in every frog's mouth,
I like, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (46:52):
There's certain things like this. This is the only frog
we have.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
I personally haven't even looked at one.
Speaker 3 (46:58):
And why did you even look in this one? What
is this guy doing?
Speaker 2 (47:01):
He's cute though, I think he's cute. That photo is
kind of charming. He looks like an animated character that
you know when he yawns, he can finally see what's
going on, and then he just goes about his day.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
And he looks like he's always saying, hey, that's bigger
than me. That's how he can see is if.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
What he's like? Wait, what is it? Oh god?
Speaker 4 (47:22):
Is it rocky horror? I can't remember. Oh no, maybe
beetlejuice where they took the eyeballs and put him in. Yeah,
this is his party trig.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
Yes, this is okay. So here's the reason. Do you
guys want to hear? It's a maculum macro mutation of
frogs and toads. They think it's likely result of a
parasitic infection from a trematode, which has been known to
cause limb mutations in amphibians.
Speaker 2 (47:47):
Interesting, Yeah, so there it is.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
It's not it doesn't sound like it's round up. It
sounds like trematode, whatever that is.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
I know. Whitney has told me on several occasions that
she actually really loves our Instagram. It is her favorite news. Yes,
it's my it's the.
Speaker 4 (48:02):
Only way, it's the only news. I all the news
that fit to print.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
Yes, And I feel like there was a story that
Lisa are our real uh part time employee, part time
full human, not spot intern. She posted when I think
that was a tadpole that just never turned into a frog.
So it just got fucking huge. This tadpole was like
(48:26):
as big as a football and it just never the
legs never came. So I was like, that seems like
the Pixar movie that everybody is clamoring for the tadpole
that never became.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
Like that, like like boss Baby, Yes, it's.
Speaker 2 (48:40):
Boss Baby, tadpole in a bond. That is so good, Whitney.
Anything you want to plug away your tour? Anything? Where
can people find you?
Speaker 3 (48:50):
No? Just you guys. I love you, guys.
Speaker 4 (48:51):
Thanks for having me. I'm like such a fan. I
hope I was okay? And did you get in the way?
Speaker 1 (48:55):
Are you kidding me? You were wonderful.
Speaker 4 (48:57):
But I always feel like at a show like this
that's so successful, I don't think anyone's listening for the guests.
They're just listening for like if the guest brings out
something else and other in their favorite their best friends,
you know.
Speaker 3 (49:07):
So I don't want to get in the way.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
I think that truth to that.
Speaker 3 (49:11):
And also, your fans are always the best people.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
They're very nice people, they're very kind, they're very wholesome,
and they're very optimistic, which is so rare these days.
We love the bananamalsh Wit. Thanks for coming on. I'll
see you soon.
Speaker 3 (49:23):
Thanks for not making me talk about politics.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Love you, bye, never Bye. Bana. Bananas is an exactly
right media production.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.
Speaker 2 (49:35):
The catchy Bananas theme song was composed and performed by Kahan.
Speaker 1 (49:39):
Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.
Speaker 2 (49:42):
And our benevolent overlords are the great Karen Kilgareff and
Georgia Hartstart.
Speaker 1 (49:46):
And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot,
part time employee.
Speaker 2 (49:50):
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or wherever you get your podcasts, and please feel free
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Speaker 4 (50:10):
Mm hmm
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