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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bart Barrant, Scotti, Curty B. I'm gonna laugh and laugh
and laugh.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
China's first Corgi police dogs in trouble again.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Uh, what do you do? This time?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
He stole a sausage from a child?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Classic dog stuff. That's it? All right, Well, guard your weenies.
We're getting into a brand new episode of dog Gone.
It's Bananas.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
World dogs. Would you midzillion pieces?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Hi's Gal's non binary pals. Welcome to Bananas. Hi, Scottie Landis, how.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Are you very good? How are you? Curti B.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I'm not bad. We're just both admiring that there's a
little silver on the sides of our heads and look
at that.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And I'm grateful. You're great.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, exactly. It's better than the alternative, and we're happy
to be alive.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Damn right, just uh, this is bananas. We do strange news,
we do storytelling. Sometimes we have guess episodes, like today
on the Silliest Little Podcast over was it's just Kurtie
B and I and I think that's enough.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Oh, I think so.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
You know, we encourage absurdity, we encourage silliness, and that
doesn't just have to be behavior. You could just take
a moment to have silly thoughts and daydream. Get off
your phone and daydream a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Just go walk around. You know what I've been doing,
This is what I've been entertaining myself with, is planning
my cross country drive. Maybe you can help me. Okay,
So I'm gonna definitely go up through Denver, so seventy Yeah,
I'm gonna go up through Denver. I'll probably stop in
maybe Saint George, Utah.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
That's a classic first stop if you're leaving LA. You
can sitch it in one day. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I can do that in one day because I figure
I have I'll have a twelve year old dog who
is not in continent but you know, needs to stop
multiple times as it breaks and I like to take
a lot, I pee a lot. So I'm automatically adding
whatever Google Map says it is. I'm going to add
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two hours to that for stops, lunches, you know, gas ups.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
All that sort of stuff. That's good.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
And so I think I can drive around nine to
ten hours a day. I can handle it.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
That's a lot. But also if you're having a good time,
that's so.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
You feel like nine to ten hours a day is
a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I think if you I personally don't, but stopping with
a dog, you would add a lot. When I road trip,
I do ten hours, yes, and.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Right, so I'm doing I'm doing seven hour drives and
then I I had my two hours on top of that,
so it'll be like a nine hour drive beautiful. Yeah, right,
So if I leave by eight, I'm there by six.
That seems functional, seems good to me, right, or there
by five, then I can have dinner, have a drink.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
That's the best, just showing up. Like when you pull
into a town you aren't familiar with and you say,
best certain type of food in this town, Go sit
at the bar. Yes, enjoy your time. I've done that time.
I was so dumb. I was googling that and like
every time I was getting into town, and I realized
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that all the results I was getting were from Yelp reviews.
So it would be like best pizza in Saint George,
and I'm like, how good is the pizza in this
town where everything is considered the best, And then I'm like, oh,
it was Papa John's Domino's pizza. Huh. It's just somebody
who's like this is the best delivery around and I'm like, oh,
keyword searched.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yep, uh uh one hundred percent. I honestly, when I travel,
I don't like to use Yelp. I love that because
of the fact that if you go, like to the
top three or four things on Yelp, it just means
that there's just gonna be it's gonna be too crowded,
and often like the very very good things are not
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even ranked on there often or they were ranked much
lower down.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yes, yeah, true, that's true. In Saint George, I was
there on a road trip once and I think I
talked about this, but the bartender at the restaurant I
went to was wearing a numbered tag. It was like
a yellow tag with a number that was like four
to two three or whatever. And I was like, what's
that for? And they're like, they watch us on close
circuit TV to make sure we're not pouring more than
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an ounce per drink. Are you joking? Nope, So keep
an eye out for bartenders wearing tags so they can
be monitored to make sure they're not over pouring. It
was myself and two older businessmen. They were hitting on
her so hard, and I was just like, so She
kept coming over to me just to be like, how
is everything.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Oh, because it's Utah. And I was like, what it's
like the owners, Oh, no, it's because it's Utah. Their
beer has less alcohol in it as well, rightthing like that.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
But also when you're in Saint George, it's a little
bit of a trip, but like they're about two two
and a half hours from there. It's horse you Bend
in northern Arizona. Uh huh, pretty good, pretty good, pretty fun,
pretty beautiful. One of our better monuments. Get it. While
it's there.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I'm going to try and do Manhattan, Kansas as well.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Okay, in honor of a.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Bridget everage show of course.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
And in Kansas, k State the Wildcats.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Oh is it really? It's it's college college down. Yeah,
I know it was a college.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You're gonna have a good old time. Man.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Oh that's nice. And then I have to figure out
because like what I would like to do. What I
would like to do is if I can drive and
make it and then stay stay in Baltimore one night,
and then because I just have to pick up Lauren
and the kids and Gretchen in at Philly because my
flight was into Newark, and then I had to switch
it to Philly because Newark shit the bed sadly. But
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then just do that like that last two hours in
like one day, just like have a morning in Baltimore
and walk around with the dog, have a chill. But
I don't know, I don't know if I'm going to
be able to do it.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
When you're in Manhattan, Kansas, there is a bar so
Aggieville is like their college town, their street where all
the bars are, and there's a place that has raspberry
black bean dip. It is so good. It is. It
is a delicious local thing that they heat with you
have a drink, eat some raspberry bean dip. I can't
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remember the name of the place. It's something like the
Dog Gone Saloon. When you said, yeah, walk.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It's raspberry black bean.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
So Long Saloon, So Long Saloon. Yeah, it's a rasp
very black bean dip with some cheese. And it is
so good.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Is it super sweeter?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I mean, like pretty sweet. It's sweeter than you think.
So the chips are salty, the beans and the cheese
are a little salty, and the raspberry. I'm just saying,
treat yourself.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Treat yourself, all right, I'll give it a shot. I'll
give it a shot. That's what you're there for, right,
That's why you go to Manhattan, Kansas, have something you
never had before.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You know. I had the thought once when I was
doing a road trip. And you know, as writers, you're
a writer, I'm a writer. We're always I always wonder
how much more prolific, prolific I would be without the Internet,
without smartphones, without those kind of distractions, even television. And
I was one time just imagining Emily Dickinson scrolling TikTok
and like Hemingway, like how lame his Facebook page would be,
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or even more or like f Scott Fitzgerald, like the
comments he would be leaving on Zelda's Instagram and how
in cringed they would be. It's just funny to think
of all those old authors. Yeah, just just wasting time.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I mean, like Emily Dickinson would have would still be
updating her Tumblr. She has a tumbler. Definitely, she's very
into Tumblr. Yes, absolutely, Ernest Hemingway would be red pilled
one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Scott Fitzgerald would make the the most the like the
like these posts about when it was Zelda's birthday, she
would have a post on Instagram that was like five
hundred pages long praising her.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You'd be a wife guy, which you know those guy
online that are like my wife. Yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
His thing would say this thing would say husband and
then author.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, husband Zelda, Okay, author.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
We say all of that. But he definitely cheated on
her a thousand times.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Well that's what wife guys seem to do.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Oh yeah, Zelda, Zelda, Zelda Fitzgerald inspiration for our Zelda.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
There you go, yeah, there you go. Let's get into it.
What's the story? Something about a dog eating oiener?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, dude, That's what I'm talking about. I mean, I
tell you who sent this in?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Please do I'm always interested. You can send any strange
news stories you find that you'd think you'd like to
hear us discuss or our guests discussed to The Bananas
Podcast at gmail dot com or the Bananas Podcast on Instagram, Instagram, Instagram,
Dostoevsky's favorite app, Instagram.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I'm unsure who sent this in. My apologies. I might
have just find it. Go, yeah, you look somebody up.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I'll find it. You do it here.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
This is this is from my news sc MP dot
com my news.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Let's go. Creature Farm animals sent this in because they did.
Thank you Creature Farm Animals. They're an animal enthusi and
keeper of creatures big, small, scaly, slimyan more Creature Farm.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
This was written by Zoe Jang. Thank you, Zoe Jiang.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Way to.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
China's first Corgi police dog in trouble again, this time
for stealing sausage during patrol. We you might remember China's
first Corgi police dog getting in trouble originally for what
did he do? Did he fall asleep on the job
or something? We did do another story about him before,
like right before he graduated into becoming a police dog.
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He did do something bad.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
I probably did somebody.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
But China's first Corgi police dog has found itself in
trouble again, this time for stealing a sausage from a
child during a patrol. However, netizens have leapt to the
canines to satin defense. One and a half year old
Fuzi from a police dog training base in Wifang, Shandong
Province in eastern China, was given the name to bring
good luck and success. His talent was spotted when he
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was just two months old. When his owner took him
to a park where the police dog trainer, Jao quits
Schai noticed his drive, curiosity, and hunting instincts. Seeing his potential,
the owner donated Fuzi to the police dog training center.
Sounds like that owner one to get rid of this dog.
Fusi started training as a reserve explosives detection operative in
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January twenty twenty four. In October twenty twenty four, after
months of learning task like searching luggage, inspecting vehicles, and
crossing obstacles, Fuzi passed his tests and officially joined the
police force. In April, he helped provide security at the
Waifang International Kite Festival. Fuzi had also taken part in
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public open house events where he interacted with visitors and
showed off his skills. With his big smile, short legs,
and sharp detection skills, Fuzi quickly won hearts online. His
story posts on social media's attracted four one thousand followers.
In January, Fuzi was punished for napping on the job
and peeing in his bowl. There you Go, which cost
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him his year end bonus of snacks and toys. Lord
The incident amuse social media users across China. A few
days later, his trainer shared a video saying, although the
treats were taken away foods, I still received a festive
Lunar New Year meal with pacific herring, pumpkin soup, colorful
dumplings and rabbit meatballs.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
My god, that's nice meal.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
But the naughty cane I was up to more mischief. Okay,
So they are walking through a cloud crowd. There is
a child who has a sausage on a stick. Normal,
this kid is it's a grain it's grainy footage. But
I'm saying two and a half three Madley four kid
three and a half four years old holding like a
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stuffed animal and his sausage stick, and without missing a beat,
Fusey just reaches out, eats the whole sausage and keeps moving.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
The girl's mother later said her finished the rest of
the sausage without complaint. After the patrol, Fusi's trainer tried
to find the family to make up for the snack,
but could not find them. She later posted an apology
online saying Fusi had been formally scolded. Fusi broke the
rule of never taking anything from the public, the trainer said,
adding the stricter food refusal training would follow. The story
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has received much attention online, with many netizines calling for
forgiveness with the dog is cute as Foosi. How could
anyone stay mad? Says one online observer. Thank you, that's
a twelve year old boy writing in his basement. Maybe
it is time to upgrade his meal so he's not
so tempted to send another eleven year old girl writing
from the beach and April twenty nine, two traders took
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fushi and two sausages to the girl's kindergarten, where they
gave her and her mother some Foosi themed kiffs and
a kite.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
I want that to be true. I want a You know,
we are conflicted on AI because we do want it
to cure cancer, but also we wanted to stay all
the arts. But I would love if AI could take
Internet comments and then cut to a camera and secretly
filming the person who wrote it, and just so you
get to follow them for fifteen minutes, just to see
just a little glimpse into the life of patrol.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
We were talking about this that like it. It is
insane that like so many news stories say and then
quote people who just wrote something on like Twitter or
on Instagram. It's just like you have no idea who
the fuck this person is, Like, it's so insane to
just quote random people.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Do you think it's so Websites are trying to get
engagement on their own social media following? Is that why
people are?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
That?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Seems like why right? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah yeah yeah people want Yeah, it's like ooh, come
to art whatever, date, whatever thing and comment. Maybe we'll
quote you as a as what as an I guess
you would just go to random strangers on the street
and do man on the street interviews, right, you'd be like,
what do you think about this? And then it just
be some Yahoo just like my dang's crazy.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I had a TV exec like, oh god, eight years ago,
just be like, no, just don't have any characters texting
on TV. Nobody wants to see it. Nobody. And then
now gen Z and I think Jen Alfa love close
captioning on TV like seventy six percent or whatever that
was when I watch a story, yeah, and you're like, oh,
so they love text on TV. You're so wrong, Like
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they this older guy just totally incorrectly because now it's like,
you know, before I understood people like, oh it's not
fun to read on the screen, But I actually think
people now read texts so fast. It's not like the
scrolling screen at the beginning of Star Wars where you're like, okay,
don't miss a word, so we can understand. It's just
the hard part now is making it seem authentically a
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real text message.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah right, and also in a way
and to put it up on screen in a way
that is new but also makes like inherent sense that
like is a functional way to like read text that
someone's typing. So that scroll from Star Wars. Never has
there been less needed information.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, like what this is? I don't even remember what
it is.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, it's just like it's said, it's just like I
don't know. We haven't started the movie yet, pal, and
all of this is some deep backstory.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Just so much exposition. But yeah, yeah, good score, John Williams,
good score. Yeah, that's all you're like, and with the
music right away.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
If one thing is if one thing is stupid, another
thing is good.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Also just funny. That's called Star Wars. And then there
was Star Trek just this basic names just getting it
right to the point.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Right, yeah, yeah, because when things become a brand or
like that, you stop thinking of them as words in
a sentence.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Right.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Star Wars is the dumbest name you could possibly imagine
for that. It's literally and the only way you can
see it is if you just like switch it out
to like Sun Battle, you know, and you're just like,
if something was called Sun Battle, it would be It's
that sounds very stupid.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You know. There was an executive who tried to change
the name of Back to the Future because he thought
it was so niche and sci fi, and he suggested
to Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis that they change it
to Spaceman from Pluto. What really, that's an old that's
old Hollywood, that's like that, that's something. It was a
memorandum that got sent out and it was like, if
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you call it back to the Future, you're only gonna
get niche sci fi fans. It's going to kill the
size of this movie song and then space I think
I'm ninety nine percent sure a Spaceman from Pluto was
his pitch, which is the most niche name. And also
nothing about that movie takes place in outer space. No,
he's a spaceman. They don't.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Well, I think they call him a spaceman from Pluto
when he like has his helmet down.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
That's right, they have the welding mass down or whatever. Yes, once,
but it's just like, come on, man.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
That is so Also, I've I mean, like we were
talking about this when we did our Kristin Shaw episode.
I think this will come out after that one comes out.
But that idea, and I've been thinking about it a
lot as well. Of not, I so often take other
people's opinion as fact without interrogating it. I don't know.
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It's like I lack a filter for it often times,
and I'm trying to engage that filter more often.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Do you think it's because you're going on the defensive
instantly you're building your counter argument. No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
No, it's the opposite. It's like if I read something
or watch something on television, or someone says something, I'll
be like, oh, well that must be right, Like immediately
I'll be like, I'll just immediately entertain it it as
if it's true, and I'll be like, oh, well that's
the right way to live? Is that the right? I
guess that's the right way to live. It's more like that.
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It's like, oh, I guess that is the right.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Way to It's good to be open minded, but maybe
you're too you're wide open minded.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I think I'm too open minded and just need to
stick to my guns more. Need to stick to my
guns more.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Hey, you've you've got a few years under your belt,
You've got life experiences, you know what the truth is?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
That is maybe what it is. More, it's just like
I've been around a little long enough to know like that,
ain't it?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
That ain't it?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
But also to be able to stick to your guns
while also still being collaborative.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
That's a challenge, it is. Yeah, you have to get
strategic in those instances like I recently got send an
email and the directors on a producers on it in
suscript I wrote, and we get sent these agencies and talentless.
And there's always a battle because some people are the
perfect actor for it, but they can't get you the money,
they can't get financing because they're just not famous enough.
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That's certain, and it's a big balance where you go
on through it. Right now, that person's perfect, but investors
won't give us five million if that person's the lead,
and then they go, but if you get this actor,
we'll give you ten million, and that person is totally
wrong for it. And this happens a lot, and this
is why so many movies are terrible. But yes, but
there's an actor on one of the lists that I
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think is perfect for it. So and I wrote the
script and it wasn't the actor I had in mind.
But then he's emerged and gotten better and better. And
so in one of those emails responding to the producer
and the director, I put him like fourth on my
picks and was like, this person's great because of this
this person's amazing. We'd be lucky to get this person
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like somebody way too famous, somebody with like an oscar
and stuff. And then I was like, and this guy
is just someone that if I saw him walking down
the street, I would think it was that character. So
I didn't even like pitch him hard. And I can
already feel, like a month after I sent that email
that they're like, you know, it might be good, and
it's the person that I was hoping was going to be.
So I kind of it's more like planning a seed
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and not pushing your agenda on other people and letting
them be like, yeah, that could work out. And I've
always done that, and it's a good way to sort
of steer creative in your direction without being like it's
this or nothing at all, right, yeah, which nobody likes.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
No, no one does like it, do they? But also
you have to be very comfortable with someone just ignoring
the fourth choice.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Oh sure, and what do I care. Let's just get
stuff made. At this point, it's no longer an art.
It's a pure business. My first draft I think is art,
and then every draft after that, I'm like, now it's business. Yep.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah right, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
That's how I always look at it. Yeah I can.
Here's one. Jack Bayer sent this in California. Man pleads
guilty to a Ponzi scheme after trying to evade the
FBI with a submarine. You underwater scooter, I thought it is.
Then the headline does say submarine, and it's crazy. We
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we did do the first version of the story because
it was like a Lea chase. So this was an
sf Gate, which is good. I like SFGate. Madlin Medina
wrote this and she's the best in the Underwater biz.
A Northern California man pleaded guilty Thursday to a Ponzi
like fraud scheme following his arrest in twenty twenty. What
a year, What a great years? Oh nothing went wrong
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when he tried to escape the FBI using a submarine
in Shasta Lake. Matthew Piercy, forty eight year old from
Palos Adro, admitted to wired fraud, money laundering, and witness
tampering in the thirty five million investment fraud scheme that
occurred from July twenty fifteen to August twenty twenty. The
USA Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of California said
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in a news release. In the operation, Piercy's scam investors
by making fall statements under the guise of two investment companies.
Now when I say the name of these two investment companies,
you really realize that this guy was pretty smart because
they sound real. Okay. First in first fake investment company
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was Family Wealth Legacy. Okay, saints real. If somebody told
you their money was tied up in Family Wealth Legacy
and they were making eight percent every year, you'd be like,
send me the documentation. And then the other was Zola
z O L La sounds real.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Oh yeah, that seems more like Zala, zalaze lla, Zala sure, zalazala,
bill baby.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah. So it's it's close to zillo, it's close to dollar, it's.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Close to zillions of dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
It's wealth, family, Wealth, legacy, and Zala. Pretty good names.
This guy's not a total dummy.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
No, I mean he's got an underwater scooter.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Yeah, he's he's living with you. If you're evading anything
in your life with an underwater scooter, you've done pretty good.
Perc lied to investors about an upvesting fund, which was
supposedly a successful automated algorithmic trading fund. Oof Pierce used
the investor money to pay on their investors. The attorney's
office said, eventually he was investing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
That the people who get in first, who got the money.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yeah. He eventually used a chiropractor business in read in
California conceal his operation and money. He gained thirty five
million in investment funds, but paid investors eight point eight
million over the course of the scheme and spent the
rest of his money on personal and business expenses, such
as two residential properties and paying a criminal defense firm yes,
I could see that some people invested their life savings
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in the Pierces company. The FBI Sacramental Special Agent Sid
Patel said Piercy eventually realized he was under investigation and
tried to discourage investors and witnesses from speaking in court.
That slowed down the court process, and Piercy illegally transferred
seven hundred and seventy five thousand dollars from his investors
to one of his bank accounts, So that's not good.
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The authorities tracked him down November sixteenth, twenty twenty, and
attempted to rest him. He led them on a high
speed vehicle chase or nearby neighborhoods and then out onto
the highway. Piercy then left his vehicle and tried to
escape into Shasta Lake using an underwater submersiful device, hiding
underwater for over twenty minutes before being taken into custody.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I mean, like, okay, so that means he so he
was driving, he had it on him and it must
have been his plan the whole time. But also what
it doesn't explain because that's what we I think talked
about it because I was I'm looking at an underwater
scooter that has a helmet attached in it. I could
get them scooter, yeah, but you can't put that in
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a car. It's too big.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
You can't put that.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
And also the way I'm seeing it is like it's
it has to be attached to a like a tube
that like pumps the air down to you. So that's
not something you can keep a car like a regular
undersqwater scooter where it's just like the thing you could
keep that where it's like you hold on to it.
But maybe he must have had a pony bottles.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Like a pony.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
He must have had all the stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Though.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
That's the craziest part that he's like driving, putting goggles on,
putting a ponium bottle in his mouth, getting his dig
out and then immediately jump. I mean, it's so crazy.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
They just get so there these criminals. This happens all
the time. I mean, I feel like this, this Ponzi
scheme shit happens constantly, and they all get so greedy
because like at some point he what was it, thirty
five million and eight point eight million, so there's twenty
million in flux in there. It's like that guy couldn't
have taken that money. And put in an offshore account
(26:28):
and gone to a country that doesn't have extradition and
just lived like a royal for the rest of But
they never do. And it's so interesting.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
It's interesting because it's more. It's the idea of more
and more and more. It's honestly the problem with great
wealth in general. Right, It's like, once you hit a
point where you're like, everything's taken care of.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Man forever, I can live.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Well, I can live in this gigantic house I might.
I can eat whatever I want, I can do whatever
I want. My children can do it. My children can
have an education edge, their children can be fine. And
then there's still want more. There's a fucking problem. It's
the it's it's like that. It's like anxiety, do you
know what I mean? Like the fact that anxiety comes
from an evolutionary stage where we needed to be ready
(27:13):
for a predator to attack us from behind. In the
same way, it's like no, no, no, you need to
get more food because we're always going to be at
risk of not having enough food. No evolutionary drive to
hide your nuts in the ground.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Right, Yeah, that's right, and some and then is that
and right in modern society. It just takes the worst
forms and destroys lives. Yes, but it is interesting to
think of, like who psychopaths and serial killer types would
have been, Like fifteen thousand years ago, when everybody else
is hiding in a cave and there's a lion outside
and it was like, Hey, Gary, what are you doing?
(27:49):
He's like, I'm gonna go kill that lion. And then you're like,
all right, man, go get it, dude. And it's like,
those guys were so valuable back then, Hey, what are
you doing over there? I think those guys are against us.
What are you gonna do? I'm gonna charm them and
then murder all of them. So we're okay. You're like, Gary,
you're bat in a thousand for us. Man, we're evolving
(28:09):
so fast, Thank you. I can see the advantage.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
He's fascinating, really, like our history is our flaw right,
I mean that's everybody right. Like where you come from
is what becomes your problem in the future.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Mmmm, It's really true. Pierc So the Criminal. While he
was in jail, Piercy used a coded language to speak
with visitors, the attorney's office said, and then he directed
them to a Uhul storage locker and reading he had
mentioned under fake name. So this guy was doing a
lot of planning and scheming. Yeah, when the FBI starts
the locker agents found a wig just one in thirty
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one thousand in Swiss francs, which is around thirty seven
thousand American. Pierce's scheduled to be sentenced and could face
twenty years in prison for fraud and at least one
million dollars in fines.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah, Noad, he's gonna think it's suspicious when you try
and pay for gas with one Swiss Frank. Don't worry.
I've got it. I've got an escape planet. It's perfect.
Is this all Swiss frigs, buddy?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Yeah, especially in Redding, California. Read in California. Oh my gosh.
Maybe in Solvang that would fly. It's every scam though. Man.
It's like when you when you realize the last time
I got hit with one of these was, you know,
I mailed so much stuff and I got a text
from USPS, you know, fake number, and it was like, hey,
(29:34):
we're returning this, confirm your whatever, and I can, And
I started typing in my real address and every my
PO box, all this stuff and uh, and I was
so close to putting all but I was going down
the path. I had clicked the link. It looked like
the USPS website. And then at some point it was like,
and what are the three you know code on your
(29:57):
credit card? And I was like, oh wait, but I
was real close to giving them a credit card.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Right, isn't that crazy? I mean I did it the
other like, I don't know, maybe a couple of months ago.
But Lauren was like, I called them. I called them.
I googled like City Bank fraud. And then the first
thing I was like, a sponsored response came up and
it was the people who were trying to fraud me.
(30:26):
It was so crazy, and it sounded like I was
talking to City Bank the whole time. And then I
was like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa double art. And then
I called the other City Bank number that was the
real one, and they're like, no, you have no record
of any of this.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
They're out there, folks. Be vigilant, don't check Google everything,
call your friends, don't give anybody your credit card information. Geez,
they're coming for you. And sometimes they have wigs, Swiss
Franks and submersibul devices standing.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
By, got some thumbs up, going you ready?
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Oh, I got some thumbs up.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Sure, Noisy hungry frogs Sat in Farmer's Life. Yeah, these
are my new favorite ones.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I know, man, I was at say Lucia once and
they have like trumpet frogs or some kind of frogs
that it just sounds like a screaming whistle sound over
and then you find them and they're as big as like, oh,
they're like an eminem really. Yeah, I got to look
up the name of these things, but I'm like, what
is that screeching sound? Sat Luis.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Oh, oh, I'm going to look up something too. I'm
going to look up something too. That's pretty exciting.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
The Lesser Antillian whistling frog the West, what it is
adorable there. They could fit on your fingertip and they
are so loud. Lesser Antillian whistling frog. I God bless them. Well.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Last time I went, so, you know, I from eighteen
on I went to this land.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
We called it Crow.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
It's an upstate New York. And last time I went
was like, you know, I guess it was.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
In twenty twenty one or something like that, and it
was springtime, but very early springtime, and there was a
little bit of a pond there, and so it was
the we call them the people, don't.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I don't know what kind of frogs they are. We
call them the peepers, and the spring peepers were out
and it was so overwhelmingly loud.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah, they're loud.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
It was the craziest thing I've ever heard. And I
took a video of it because I was like, this
is genuinely shocking. Yes, and let me see if I
can find it for us.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
That's fun. Spring peepers, they really can let it rip too.
They're not unlike the lesser antillian whistling frog.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
It really was genuinely like, oh, here it is, you're ready.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
I'm ready, everybody, You've been warned. I can't hear it yet.
It might be coming through your headphones. It's like a
there we go.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I love the idea of somebody from the city.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
City not picking it up on Mayan Curdy b.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
It's loud. It's loud. It sounds like so it's us
very high. It's city in a bunch of tall weeds
just like it, just enveloped by these peepers, and it
just sounds like car alarms, like.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
The torture of nature. Nature is uncomfortable. That's why we
built houses. Okay, herd Island, herd Island Pebble sent us
a pebble, Kurt. It's a gift from the penguins on
Herd Island. Now you're saying to you're somewhere is herd Island. Yeah,
herd Island is in what in Australia. I believe it's
called the Southern Ocean. We might call it the Antarctic Ocean.
(33:55):
It's so Herd Island is one of the most uninhabited
remote places. And oh it's uninhabited. It's one of the
most remote places in the World's between Australian and Antarctica.
It got hit with tariffs in April twenty twenty five,
even though it does not export anything. There's no there's
nothing to tariff. Oh my gosh. So one hundred percent
(34:15):
of the proceeds go to the Herd Island Penguin Conservation.
If you want to get a digital pebble or an
actual physical pebble that they mailed us, and it's small,
it's about the size of a quarter, but it's awesome.
The penguins there are sending pebbles around the world. Herd
Island Pebbles dot com pebble good or we follow them
(34:39):
on Instagram. They follow us on Instagram. It's Herd Island Pebbles.
That's h e a R. D Island Pebbles and you
can support the penguins on a remote island in the
absolute middle of nowhere.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Oh that's great. I love that so much.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Elizabeth and San Francisco wants to thumb herself up for
kicking a multi year weed dependence and then she enrolled
in library school and she finished her first year with
a four point zero.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Oh my god, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Thumbs up, Elizabeth.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
We love library I love them so much. I love
library cited about there's a brand new library in the
town I'm moving to and it opens two days before
I arrive at can I wait.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
You know we're controversial statement, but we're four books on
this podcast. I think reading and books are wonderful. Taylor Wickman. Okay,
so Taylor, and I email Taylor back because I don't
know if Taylor is a man or a woman or
a non binary pal. So I'm going to say them
(35:40):
and they and just cover all the bases. Sorry, Taylor.
Taylor Wickman wants a thumb up their partner, Jake, and
themselves for starting the process of conquering their personal fears.
Jake has a fear of driving, and despite this, he
recently started taking driving lessons with an instructor who specialized
in drivers with fear and anxiety, and on Mother's Day,
(36:03):
Jake did his first drive without the instructor's assistance.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
That takes some guts. Also, it is ridiculous that we
all have cars that people from sixteen to one hundred
years old drive a three thousand pound thing that can
go one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yep, it's it's preposterous.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
And then fifty percent of us are below the average
intelligence and they are also allowed to steer a three
thousand pound rocket ship. So Jake, don't feel bad about
that fear. But good job conquering that fear.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
On the same day Mother's Day, Taylor took a surfing
lesson in Laguna Beach, which is huge for them because
they have a deep water fear and a fear of
man made objects in deep water that is called sub mechanophobia.
Sub mechanophobia, right, understandable. Yeah, that's pretty good. That one's
(37:00):
pretty close. But also I'm afraid of the deep ocean.
It's scary out there. You don't know.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
What's on, specifically of man made objects. I hell yeah, baby,
I get that. There's this one break in Asbury Park,
New Jersey where it's on the left hand side, it's
in lock Arbor and on the right hand side it's
in Asbury Park, and the lock Arbor side is a
great surf break, and when you look at the right
hand side of the jetty, you're like, that would be amazing.
(37:26):
But then you see it at low tide and there's
like just four pylons that are just submerged underneath the
water in the in the surf zone. That's why it's
breaking so well right there, because it's hitting those and
it's like it is very, very scary.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Yes, So Taylor on uh I went and took a
surfing lesson on Laguna Beach. Taylor says they didn't pop up,
they didn't get up, but they stayed on the board
for more than half of the waves they caught and
they never swallow more salt water in their my mouth ever.
But they're gonna do it again, So thumbs up to
both Taylor and Jake Again. Taylor sorry, I didn't know
(38:01):
what your pronouns were. My apologies. And last, but not least,
this one is unbelievable. This might this one's so good.
Alexia is a day one Bananamal who was raised in
an extremely high controlled religion. She started listening to bananas
her senior year of high school. She was not allowed
(38:22):
to have any non believer friends, non Christian friends. Okay,
I know this sounds silly, she says, But Alexia says
that by listening to bananas, she realized she can be
a good person without punishing herself or external degradation.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
It took her years to slowly deconstruct the belief that
her heart is inherently deceitful, was evil and broken. But
Alexia finally came out to her friends as a non
Christian and as gay one month ago.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Oh my god, thumbs up.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
It's crazy to me, Alexia says, your judgment free love
and encouragement to others showed her what the world, that
the world is not such an evil place as after
all today. So this was a couple maybe a month ago.
She sent this in Today is her twenty third birthday.
She wants to give a thumb up to all the
queer and questioning Christians out there. You are not broken.
You're worthy of love as much as anybody else. And
(39:13):
if anybody tells you otherwise, they can fuck off.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
I love that bomb on Alexia.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
That was Banana the Week, Banana of the Week, and
just we are so happy for you and so proud
of you for being brave and listening to yourself, and
we just are so grateful that you're hanging with the
Banana boys.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Really bombs up Banana the Week.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Absolutely absolutely wonderful. Good God, damn, I know that one.
That one got me. It was in our emails and
I'm like, oh, this is just tugging at the old heartstrings.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
So here it is Noisy Hungry frog sad in Farmer's Life.
This was what a transition, What a great transition.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
That's banana.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
This is written by no author, no author, it's It
was originally published in the Minneapolis Journal, July fifteenth, nineteen
oh six.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Okay, so it's an oldie, but a good.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Noisy hungry frog said in Farmer's Life, they scare his
cattle and they eat his flannel shirt.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
On this farm, frogs, this might be vagrant.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
This this is just this is just how different the
world was one hundred and twenty years ago. On the
farm of Alvin Shoemaker near Seepstown, there's a pond in
which big frogs fairly swarm. Harry Water, who hunted for
them there yesterday bagged sixty seven. That's a lot of frogs,
(40:48):
not one of which weighed less than a pound Scottie.
For years the Shoemaker farm has been noted as a
frog resort, and mister Shoemaker always welcomes the hunters with
open arms, as it declares the frogs have become a pest.
He does not favor the squib law for protecting frogs,
as they have become a pest on his farm. He
wants the frogs killed off, as their croaking scares his
(41:11):
cattle when he drives them to water. Last year, the
frogs raided his strawberry patch and devoured the entire crop.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
As is there right hey. They were there first the
year before.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
They got into his summer house and ate a half
dozen of his best flannel shirts which lay there in
the wash basket.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
And that you've never heard of this performance.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
That is how it ends, because that is the the
world was the world was wildly different is what it
is become. I mean, when when nature teemed like that
in such an insane number that it was, that they
could bust into your house and eat a half dozen
(41:53):
flannel shirts before you got home.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
That's been crazy. Well I didn't know frogs eight cloth?
Do they hate lumberjacks? What's going on with these frogs?
Speaker 2 (42:03):
I don't know. They're buddies with moths. I have no idea, man,
but sixty seven sixty seven? Also, how do you hunt?
Speaker 1 (42:11):
Don't?
Speaker 2 (42:11):
I don't even understand it.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
It is a frog.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
It's a world that we recognize, but that we do
not recognize, right, I.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Know, it's so enviable, like it would just be so
wild to go back a million years and walk around.
It would just be so cool. But we never will.
We're all looking to space.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Send us homes.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Gottie. Oh sure, let's see. Let's do a do I
want to do a feel good? Let me think we
got some silly ones. Oh that's a fun one. Oh
this is a good one. Yeah, here we go. This
is feel good in a in many ways. Kate Cosgrove
our Homegirl are one of our favorite bananamals sent this
in This was on AOL dot Com, which still exists.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
Wow, AOL touch, they're really still pumping it out. That's amazing.
Human beings worked there.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Also, it's like Star Wars, it's America Online. Yeah, so funny.
They were like, they're going to get online and we
are a country, so let's call it America Online.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
Think about what a what how much they because at
the same time as AOL started, we would call it
the world Wide Web, right, that was like what everybody
would call it. They had the opportunity to be America's
world Wide Web and just be aw.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Yeah they're idiots, no wonder there barely existed. When you
do get the occasional AOL dot com email, yeah, and
there are a couple working actors who still have it
because I get them sometimes and I'm like, how did
you do? Think you do it?
Speaker 2 (43:54):
How did you survive?
Speaker 1 (43:55):
How did you navigate the changing world? When Gmail hit
the amount of people like you have to sign up
for this, here's your invitation, this is Google's Gmail, It's better,
and I was like, fine, dudes. I was in like
two thousand and six and my first was hotmail dot
com and I felt like I was I was on
top of the world. I felt like I was in
a a lear jet sailing into the future. What was
(44:18):
your first GM or email?
Speaker 2 (44:20):
My first email? Oh, my first email was Kilgore Trout
at JHU dot Edu.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
They just assigned it to us in nineteen ninety four,
Like we started college and we got an email address,
and people were like, what is this?
Speaker 1 (44:36):
Why do I you like Vonnegut because you were a
young guy? Yep. I mean, imagine Kurt Vonnegut. How great
his Twitter would have been?
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Unnai unbelievable. But half the books I have a quote.
I have a pint glass that I got the Kurt
Vonnegut Museum in Indianapolis, which is a great place you
guys should go. It's a tiny little place, but he
has so many good quotes and it's a he says,
I have this disease at night when I'm drinking of
(45:04):
calling people on the telephone.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
Oh ex, girl friends, right or just people.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
He would just drunk dial people all the time.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
I would have been it would have been the greatest
moment in my life if Kurt Vonneguet would have called
being to me. Oh God, drunk Kirk Vonnegut. I know,
I'll just picture him as a small guy, but I
think he was a pretty tall dude. I think he
was a big german guy.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
Oh my god, I'm doing this. I'm doing a podcast.
My friend Jen now started a podcast about first books
that like inspired you to love reading, and we're doing
Sirens of Titan. Oh great, that's a great one because
I was like, oh, I've always wanted to reread Sirens
of Titan and see if it holds up. And I
(45:46):
bet you it does. I'm excited. I'm excited to do it.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Fantastic, I bet they I'll do. I'll go back through next,
next Global Pandemic. I'm going to read all the vonneguets
one at a time in order.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Oh you know what I think I'm gonna do, tell
me Frand. I think it's going to be a Vonnegut
cross country trip. I'm gonna do audible. I'm gonna do audible,
tries to do as many Vonnegut novels as I can.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
Cross Country Player, Piano is fight Club. Oh yeah, yeah,
you'll see it. It's crazy. Yeah, Okay. Kate Cosgrove one
of our faves, great, great, great, great illustrator. I'm a
seventy four year old grandmother. I have no regrets that
my boy toy is thirty four years younger than hell.
(46:27):
It's some granny. This was written by Fabiana Well. I'm tempo,
who is the best in the biz. When it comes
to love. Let's name it for what it is exactly.
Age is really just a number when it comes to love.
Does an age difference really matter? Clearly not for this
couple who have a thirty four year old age gap.
(46:48):
And if the duo has any regrets, it's that they
wish they had met sooner. No comment there, easy joke,
no comment. The universe brought Christine Haycox, who is seventy four,
and Hamza Dready, forty together for the first time. Also,
a forty year old is a fully grown man. Oh yeah,
(47:09):
there's zero. There's truly nothing wrong with this. It's honestly
crazy that aol dot com picked us up together seven
years ago when the two met during an English online
language course Haycox was teaching at the time. That's the woman, Christie.
In twenty eighteen, Dready responded to a Facebook ad that Haycox'
(47:29):
a UK native, posted, offering to teach the English language
to foreigners. From there on, you could say the rest
is history because the couple described their initial virtual meeting
as love at first sight. There was instant spark between us,
Haycock said. After only knowing each other for a short
period of time, Haycox booked a one way ticket to
(47:50):
hammam At Tunisia, a country in North Africa where her
bo lived, and they never looked back. Two years later,
in twenty twenty, the two said I do and celebrated
a low key ceremony, the original type of low key ceremony,
not the slang low key ceremony at Dredy's family home.
We took so long to Mary. It took two years
(48:11):
to get all the paperwork from England, Haycocks explained in
the article. Eventually, a year later, Haycox converted to Islam
for her husband. Christine is a lovely wife. She is
my queen. I love her personality and her intelligence, Dreedi
said about his wife. Hay Cox had previously been married
for over thirty years before she and her ex spouse
got divorced in two thousand and three. She has a
(48:34):
son and a daughter, is a grandmother of two grandchildren.
So how does Haycox's How? Yeah, I guess that's right.
How does Haycox's friends and family feel about this whirlwind romance?
Uh huh. Quote, they can see how happy I am.
My friends had been amazing. Hamza speaks to my friends
all the time, so they can see how good we
are together. Seventy four year old said that she and
(48:55):
her hobby now own a home together. Dredi takes most
of the chores around the house. And when it comes
to intimacy, Kurt, there's no stop in these two newlyweds.
Speaker 2 (49:04):
Is that what AOL is telling us?
Speaker 1 (49:07):
AOL Fabiana was like, I'm going to reel them in
and then I'm gonna drop the hot tea of the millennium.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
Oh my god. AOL stands for all holes live.
Speaker 1 (49:21):
All holes live. When it comes to intimacy, there's no
stopping these newlyweds. Quote. He's a hot blooded Tunisian and
we have more sex than most. Wow.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (49:38):
Despite their living in their own happy bubble of bliss,
the couple has faced backlash for their astonishing age difference. Yes,
because people are bored and aren't creative and don't have
things to do. God, teach yourself something. Learn how to
make a kite from scratch and fly it.
Speaker 2 (49:56):
Learn how to make a kite from scratch.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
Yeah, how about instead of like leaving Facebook messages and
Internet comments? You know what, go learn how to build
a kite, and you go fly that kite and you
just learn how to get better and then build another
one that's even better. You don't comment on everybody else's lives.
Grow up, grow up.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
I'm happy for them both.
Speaker 1 (50:19):
Yeah, they a couple's goals to get them a visa
so they can eventually relocate back to the United Kingdom
for Haycox's medical needs. So there you go. That seems
maybe smart. Actually, so there you go. You know that's
age appropriate to me seventy four and forty that's the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (50:37):
Oh yeah, that's especially weird. No, it's not crazy at all.
It's not like it matters, you know. It's like that's
also true.
Speaker 1 (50:46):
I always tell people it's like, if you're over twenty eight,
you are an adult.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
Yes, I liked it. I like twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
I've thought about it quite a bit. Yea. I feel
like if.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
You because I would say thirty, I would say thirty,
but I let's say twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (51:01):
Twenty eight A twenty eight year old can date an
eighty year old and you go, you know what, Yeah,
they're an adult exactly. They've had a decade of being
an adult. They've seen people die, they've seen people get married,
they've seen babies come to the world, They've seen it all.
Speaker 2 (51:16):
If you're old enough to already have been broken up
with by Leo DiCaprio, you are now an adult.
Speaker 1 (51:22):
Okay, thank you so much for that. And we both
agree on that one, Kurti b Yeah, we did it again.
Speaker 2 (51:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (51:29):
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Speaker 2 (52:01):
And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot,
part time employee.
Speaker 1 (52:05):
You can listen to Bananas on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
or wherever you get your podcasts, and please feel free
to rate and review as many times as you can.
We love those five stars.