October 28, 2025 • 40 mins
Kurt and Scotty talk about a man who thrifts all year to make free halloween costumes for kids, 13 year old girl fights off attacker with jujitsu and a tech prankster sends 50 Waymos to dead end street!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, you ready, Scottie.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm ready to laugh and laugh and laughing laugh.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
He thrifts all year to create free Halloween costumes for kids.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Great idea, I'm already in. That's a great idea.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It's going to a feel good article.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I think this episode is going to be a feel
good episode because you know what, I'm not backing down.
I'm getting happier. I'm getting sillier. I don't care what happens.
We are swinging for the fences. Come play a little
dress up in Happyville with the Banana Boys.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Pieces, guys, gals, non binary pals. Welcome to another fact filled,
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fun filled, yes forever educational podcast, True Banana.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yes, I'm K Brown, I'm Banana Boy number two, Champagne
Scottie Landis And this is the silliest little podcast there
ever was. And we are not backing down. They're they're
trying to muzzle us, and we're just going to bring
the happiness.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Sorry, yeah, it's not we're not We're not ignoring what's happening.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
No, we're not fool.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
We're just we're not fools.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
We're not playing as the Titanic sinks.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
No, we're getting drunk.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well the Titanic sinks definitely.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well, the my favorite murder cover of the chef that
survived it. Yeah, yeah, he was drunk on whiskey and
that's why he made it.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
And you're like, drunk, he rode he railing, He rode
the railing down and then survived in twenty eight degree
seas for like seven hours and did die because he
was wasted on whiskey.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
He hit the good stuff. And there's a lesson in that.
When there's ships going down, hit the whiskey and steap
be the last one off the boat. That's probably the
actual lesson. Yeah, Also, how strange must that have been?
Like you and I grew up in the four decades
for yeah, the four decades where everything imaginable has been
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seen in TV, movies and internet. Yeah, we've seen so
many boats sink, planes explode, you name it, we've seen it.
Back then, that guy had no idea what a boat
sinking looked like. He just had to experience the real
thing in real time.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Brand new experience, brand new.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So that's even scarier in some ways, because you know life,
sometimes you'll see like a car crash or something and
you'll like have to snap out of it because it's
like watching a movie. Not that guy.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
No, and it's just gonna get crazier, Scotty.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I want to tell you.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Today, honestly, is the first day, okay, is the first
day in six and a half weeks. Wow, that I've
actually truly had a day off, meaning not doing like
not taking care of children or at work or moving
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or working or like doing other things. And it was God,
it was a seventy three degree day.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah. Here it's pretty open, honey, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
The leaves are all starting to change.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I was putting up Halloween Halloween decorations at the house.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, yeah, I put up a big I put up
a big little spider web.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah, brand new, gigantic spider web coming off the side
of the house.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
We got a little bird sitting on inflatable bird sitting
on a pumpkin with a hat on.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I don't really.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Understand how it's Halloween, but nope, but it is an
adorable I think it's actually a penguin. I think it's
a penguin on a.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Jack o lantern.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yes, and I've had the best day.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I'm in the best mood. Good, ready to go.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
This is the this is day one this is your future. Now.
This is just how it's gonna be from here on Now.
How today feels is how it's gonna be. So just
right it is.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
It's a d light.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah. Are you guys gonna carve pumpkins and go to
a pumpkin patch and do the whole thing?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Great question, Scottie. I love your questions.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Here it is okay.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I just found out because we just got a came
out on the front porch, found a bottle of wine
and some flowers and some coolies and a nice little
note from the people who live across the street who
live in a purple house, wow, saying welcome to the neighborhood.
And then she came over and we chatted in the
front yard. And apparently my street Saturday is the annual
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block party.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Okay, so that's so easy.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Noon to late. These block parties go late here apparently,
And so that's my Saturday.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Baby. I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I'm just walking out my house to a gigantic party
where I will meet all of my neighbors all in
one day.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You should wear a name tag.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I should.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
That's what I would do. I think name tags are
the most underrated thing in society. I think anybody has
any decency, just get the little sticky pad one, slap
it on there and make everybody's life easier. It's not embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Does it just say? Does it say Kurt, I just
moved here?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah, Kurt new neighbor. Yeah that would Yeah, great fighter,
So you know you don't want anybody breaking into your house.
You're a great fighter.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Yes, yes, yeah, me fourdorfis.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Great fighter, great in my life. That's so exciting. I
guess this is the first episode back since Banana's Fest.
We had a wonderful time. It was better.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
It was better.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I had a better year.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It was a It was really delightful. It was pleasant.
I felt pleasant the whole time.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah. I just everybody that came out and made the trip,
thank you for coming for so far, making plans, bringing friends.
Everybody was so positive. They got into everything. We had
a talent show, we had dog costume contests, we had
all kinds of things and everybody just participated. And that's
my favorite part is everybody was like, yes, we're doing this. Uh.
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For those who weren't there, it was truly warm and
fun and silly the entire day and also windy and so.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Windy, and also so many bananimals helped, like vendors hold
their tents down in like these I don't know, probably
thirty five mile per gusts of winds.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yes, and we're not saying the entire festivals windy. If
the festival was six hours, there were four minutes that
were windy, but they were tornado like strength, for random
twenty second intervals where things would get knocked down and
broken and we'd all set them back up, and then
an hour later the same thing would happen again. But
we had wonderful volunteers. Thank you to everybody volunteered, especially
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Brandy who throws the day before picnic greeting I went.
It was so fun. I want to thank Paul and
Ben who built the giant banana fores last year. It's
back here. I got it back.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
It's in my be You drove it back because you
rented a car.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And flew it back. I flew it back.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Shit happened.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I checked it, Delta checked it.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
So you packed it really well into a box and
then checked it.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I didn't pack it at all. I took it as
the bear banana. I called and they were like it's
a sculpture. I was like, yes, Like as a fragile,
I'm like not really, And they're like, how much is away?
Is that under twenty pounds? And they just checked it.
Are you It got a crack in the stem, but
it's fine, Like it got one crack. But I think
it just gives it, you know, a little history, a
little story behind it.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Is it in yourfice?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
It's not. No, It's in my garage. But the only
reason is because I was like kind of cleaning and
rearranging my office. I'm going to make one corner sort
of a banana's corner. So when then we do our
Patreon happy hours with people and stuff that, I'm just
it's just overloaded bananas behind me.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I want to do that as well.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah you should. It's gonna be fun. Yeah, but yeah,
I want to thank James for always making three D
printed key chains of stuff going out of your way.
Uh we did. We dog bowled rumpell. You got to
dog bowl your first rumple.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
That was I dog bowled my first rumple. So that was.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
They brought rumplements. And this is a story Scotty told
I don't know in the first year of the podcast.
Probably Yeah, I don't even remember the story. I just
remember dog bowl the rumple, yeah when I was calling
it rumple the dog bowl for a.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
While by the end of a but when you're done
passing the ball, you can call whatever you want. The
story was, We're in a backyard summer party and I
was one of my good friends, Rusty was there, and
we met in Pensacola at Bushwhackers, which was the number
one selling rumpleman's shots placed in the pan handles. So
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we just said so much trump.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Don't mind rumplements delicious.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
It's really good.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Think it's better than what's the cinnamons, the fireball, fireball,
It's way better than fireball.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Great, makes your breast smell wonderful.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Makes your breast smell wonderful.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
But the original story, the abbreviated version, is there about
five They are about ten of us sitting around and
folding chairs. We had a bottle rumple. We pulled out
a ball bottle.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
They make actual tall bottles.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, they have leaders. They got the
whole line surprising. I threw a hand.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I feel like should be come in pipe bottles and
a bottles that's it. You don't get a big bo
rumple because nobody's doing that. Nobody's placing it into a
licker cap.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
No, it's going right down the hatch. And we just
threw a handful of ice in there. And then we
sat around passing a bowl of Rumpelman's yelling dog bowl
that rumpel at each other until it was all gone.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
So was it a dog bowl or no, it was
just a bowl.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It was it was just a bowl, but it for
whatever reason, we got carried away with it. And then
in the years sense people sent me dog bowls that
said Rumple on it. They've been lost at parties, but
we have been dog bowling Rumple at my Halloween parties
in the past.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
And also, you don't have to worry about transmitting diseases
because that is you're rubbing alcohol.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
That you're thinking one.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Hundred and ten, whatever the proof is, it's crazy. So
by the time we got around the circle, passed this
whole bottle and we all just drank out of it.
So everybody, we've probably got three or four shots worth.
Like the most uptight girl and woman in the group
started smoking cigarettes and cussing everybody out, people were flirting
and arms around each other, and then my newest drinking buddy,
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somebody that was straight edge until that summer, oh boy,
and then my other buddy were so hammered that we
put them to bed in a twin bed in just
the apartment that we were hanging in, and we just
made them spoon each other, but not like in a
creepy way. We just we put two grown hetero men
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back to like spooned them and they just slept that
way for the rest of the night, just and they
both had smiles on their faces. It was so you
and I got to do it in person in Denver.
It was really it was.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
It was a delight. I really really was to do that.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
In the future, we really need to bring the Do
you think every bar has rumplements? I feel like it's
only Chicago bars that have rumplements, Chicago and Florida bars. Yeah,
I'm going to try it next time I go somewhere.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I think it's so damn good and I think it
just it's it's an after dinner drink. It's a d
just Steve, but.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Exactly, it's a classy it's classy DJ Steve.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And thanks to Sam Scarlett and Lisa who are you know,
the three women who we actually couldn't do it without.
They did a wonderful.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Job, absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And we love working with them. They're they're lovely, great people.
And also I met four women named Olivia, and so
I think I knew one Olivia before it and now
also so many Olivia's great, all four of them, all
stars love them all. So shout out to all the Olivia's.
This episode of Bananas is dedicated if your name is
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Olivia and you weren't there, this one's also for you.
This is the episode for Olivia's.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
All right here it is here, it is. This was
sent in by Miriam Colette. Thank you, Miriam.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
A delight, Thank you, Miriam. She sends a lot of
great story She's very good top shows.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
This was in the Washington Post, written by.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Doesn't say that Washington Post is going down the toilet
so fast. They have under one hundred thousand subscribers. What
are they have won? Under one hundred thousand members or whatever?
Not members? What's the word people that get Yeah, subscribers,
I guess. But for the first time ever, it is
just going straight down the old crapper.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
That's too bad because they do report on a lot
of good stuff. I think I enjoyed even though it's
owned by Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Here, We've got Christoph Wagoner.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Oh yes, okay, cool name.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
For the past nine years, Christoph Wagoner has collected thousands
of Halloween costumes. In every fall, he puts on an
event in Texas where children plus adult adults and dogs
can pick out Halloween costumes for free. The annual giveaway
began in twenty seventeen after Wagoner had moved from an
apartment into a house. His first time having trick or
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treaters at the door that night, he noticed a disparity
in costumes. Some children arrived in brand new Star Wars attire,
while others were not as well outfitted.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Ah, we just know they.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Don't have access to the same things, Wagoner said. I
was looking at kids that were looking at the other kids.
They were just wishing and admiring. He started stopping by
secondhand stores in search of old costumes several times a week,
paying out of pocket to build a collection. He eventually
gathered more than one hundred costumes and hosted his first event.
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It was on It's only seven years ago or eight
years ago.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
We ran the numbers.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Nearly a decade later, his event, dubbed October's Child, has
grown into a major community event in Austin as okay,
that's great. This year, there were more than two thousand
costumes available, organized by category from princesses to superheroes. There
is even a section for dogs. People have to bring
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their old costumes to the event, but Wagoner insists on
washing and repairing them himself before giving out the following year.
I don't want them to feel like they just got
hand me down, so you say, I want them to
be too close as new as possible.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Sure, this is a quote.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
He doesn't care who you are, where you come from.
All he sees are the smiles, and he wants to
create more smiles. This man has such a big heart.
That's Brendan gutierres Hodgkin, who volunteers for October Child with
their two kids. Wow, I mean christoff Saints, Christoph Wagoner.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Banana the Week, Banana the Week and Banana of Halloween too,
Banana the Holiday.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Also, I mean, like that is so cool. If you
live in Austin, you don't know about that. Get on
it next year, bring some costumes, donate them two. That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Also, let's face it, you have kids. Every kids outgrow
costumes all the time. Unless it's just a kid that
wants to be on Ninja every year or Dorothy from
Wizard of Oz every year, that's fine. But they'll grow
them and they get what one or two uses. There's
a girl in my second grade class who came as grapes.
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She just had on purple leotard and then purple balloons
all over, and it's still one of my very favorite costumes.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
That's that's my favorite costume. I think maybe that's what
I'm going to go Christmas.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Dressed up.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Why is he dressed up as a fruit of the
lube grapes?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah? Great, fighter, I love it so much.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
That makes me so happy.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
You can probably go on Amazon and buy one of
those purple like whatever they are, bodysuits that they they sell,
and then you could just glue or purple balloons to you.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Maybe fun that is that is the way that that's
the fit. To figure out how to get the balloons
on properly?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Is the question?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Right?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Because you kind you wanted to be homemade, you wanted
it to be you wanted to.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
It's gotta look a little bad exactly. Oh man, the
pro a pro.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Version of that just looks too much like for the
Loom commercial.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Still the best holiday. I mean, just get dressed up,
look funny, and then strangers give you candy. It wonderful. Great,
let's go back to that more of those three times.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Multiple, multiple times. I have lived in my house.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
For two days.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Multiple people have been like, are you are you prepared
for Halloween on this block? And I mean, like, look,
we lived in Atwater. Atwater goes pretty hard for pretty good. Yeah,
but what La does in East Coast doesn't do is
La has like just certain blocks just don't do any
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Like there's like the one block you go to and
then the other block nobody comes by. So we would
just we lived like one house in from the corner
and the street in front was at kids constantly, but
no one would come to our house. Yeah, but we're
right on the corner in the middle of the shit here,
so I feel like we're gonna have like five hundred kids.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Well you're gonna you know, it's first Halloween. You you
might have to go get some really good candy. You
might have to mean getting something good. Yeah, you might
have to show everybody like the brown Holders are here.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
To But then then you you set an expectation. You know,
you show up with full sized candy bars first year
out of the gate. You're doing that every year. You're
spending six hundred dollars on candy.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah, but all of likes Nerds, right, maybe you can
get boxes of Nerds.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I mean they would love that.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Our case of nerds.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Case of Nerds can't be that much.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
No, kid, me sell your car. It's Halloween.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
It's Halloween.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Come on, your Halloween costume is gonna cost fourteen to
fifteen bucks max. You could put the rest into Nerds,
rope Nerds, Gummy Nerds.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I mean those are the ones that people like, right,
the gummy nerds. They are They were hot last.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Year, hot ticket. Yeah, my favorite was So I had
one of those streets that went off like we went
crazy with my parents.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I feel like I'm setting up Scotti to give my
children your childhood.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Well you yes, that's exactly right, and it was wonderful.
We would I don't know how many houses were on
our street, but may probably thirty, not that many, but
we would fill a pillowcase full of candy. That's how
much candy we would get every year. But my parents
went hard and they would do a walk of terror
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around the house. So my backyard was a haunted house.
And my mom would boil like noodles and fill with
blood and then put ping pong balls with eyeballs drawn
on him. And to get candy, my mom would dress
like a witch. You'd have to reach in and hand
her an eyeball and then she'd give you candy. Wow,
which was great, and so there's no surprise. I'd write
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horror movies for a living. But my dad would dress
up in a mask and like looking super scary and
bury himself in straw in front of a tombstone and
then have a couple of those, and then he would
sit up and scream. And one time a kid kicked
him in the ribs because he was so scared. It
was cool that kids up.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
That kid's always gonna be okay. He kicks the monster
in the.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Ribs, And my dad's such a good guy. He just
went like, you know, instead of being like what the fuck.
So that's how I grew up. But our street, and
then also my mom would make all the costumes. So
I was a kitchen table with four play settings with
my head in the middle. Bo Jackson the two way athletes.
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So I was half baseball half football, so I had
a split uniform. And because we were you know, progressive,
normal people. I wasn't blackface in the eighties because we're normal,
nice people. So it was like we just always had
killer costumes, tons of candy. And this is going to
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be controversial, this is my least favorite, but very eighties
were fireballs. I never liked fireballs. Yeah, that was such
a big candy in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah, it was fireballs or lemonheads. Lemonheads were always better
than fireballs.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Kind Yeah, lemonheads were good. Fireballs. You would just get
so many, and like all the lunatic kids that are
probably in prisoner dead were just like, yes, fireballs. Or
you'd get dots. Those were real bummer dots.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Yeah, man, just candy on paper, and I was like,
you want to eat some paper?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Here you go.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
You know what's an underrated can a candy that I
never seen anymore, but maybe you do since your parents.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Spreeze spreeze, noah, I don't think they exist. Oh wait, wait, no, no, no,
I just got them at a Rectro candy store. Those
are the ones that oh no, those they're different. So
there's there's Spreeze, but then there's also is there are
they called razzers where oh those are off like a
candy and then it becomes a gum.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I like, those are they called razzers?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah, it's like it's a candy, then it's a gum
and you're like, what the fuck is happening? And my
kids were both just like, what is happening with this
candy gum?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
There are they still make spree they do?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I loved spree Spreeze were maybe one of my favorite
me non chocolate candy.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I love being an adult. I'm gonna buy myself some Spreeze.
This is going to be a big day for me.
Yeah I used to, but like I used to like
that stuff. And then when Sour Patch kids came in,
they came in like a direct white did ever.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
They wiped everything else out.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
They were a tornado and a trailer par Everybody was like,
I will trade you anything I have.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
For You're such a big deal. I don't good they
have held on for forty five years crazily.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I went to a Dodgers game last week. They're in
the playoffs. I'm actually going tomorrow night with Vince, which
will be very fun too. And you know, I was
looking up the policy. So Dodgers Stadium has a Dodger dog,
and I think the whole thing is it's eleven inches.
It's it's not a foot long because the guy wanted
you to refer to it as a Dodger dog. Oh okay,
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not a foot long, and so yeah, it's ten or
eleven inches. But they switched hot Dog pork processing company
a couple of seasons ago, and the new ones are
not good, and they're like like eleven dollars or whatever,
they're fourteen dollars. They're a crazy price. So I looked
up the policy for bringing food in, and you can
bring anything you wanted. You can bring a whole cheese
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pizza into Dodgers team. You can bring any food you want.
So I grilled twelve hot dogs, eight wrapped in bacon,
which is how they do it in LA and then
for it it weren't, and wrapped them in foil and
then we just used the condiments there. But then while
I was shopping for that stuff. I'm like, I gotta
I gotta bring some fun. I can't just show up
with twelve hot dogs for five of us or six
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of us, I guess to a person. So I bought
a few boxes of Sour Patch Kids the Halloween addition,
and put them in one big ziplock bag.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Kurt.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
We passed that down the road three or four times.
People like my adult crew were just going off on
sour Patch Kids I have.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I have had sour Patch Kids recently. I can have
two sour Patch Kids and then I'm like, I'm maxed out.
I am maxed out.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Well maybe when you're following two bacon wrapped homemade hot dogs,
you go anything to get this taste out of my mouth.
But it was really good. Actually, here's a good one.
This ties into that. Oh god, I have the hot story.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Oh yeah, you have a lot of good stories. I
love it.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Your system is far superior to.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
My system, and I will never change.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I know. Well, here's not this isn't this is about
a cool kid. Uh Paig Marie sent this in thank
you page. Marie, you can send us the Banana Boys
your story strange news. Make sure they're real you know,
send it to the Bananas Podcast on Instagram or the
Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com. We appreciate when you do.
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You can hear your name on the air like this.
Paig Marie sent this in ABC seven. That's swinging. ABC
News seven staff Best in the Viz. Thirteen year old
girl in California fights off attacker using jiu jitsu and
breaks his ankle.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Wow, all right, I'm interested.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
This is good for trick or treating season.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Carmel by the Sea, beautiful area of California.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Oh my god, I was. I was there recent not recently,
in January. It was goddamn gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
It's a pretty special place. Places and Carmel are looking
for a suspect of the attempted assault of a teenager.
Authority say a man tried to attack a thirteen year
old girl two weeks ago, but she.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
In Carmel by the Sea. Can you I had where
in front of like the fudge shop slash art gallery?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Is that where they?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I mean, like, what the fuck is this dude doing?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Well, he's getting his ass kicked, that's what he's doing.
She was able to fend him off using jiu jitsu.
A walk come from school turned terrifying for a thirteen
year old Carmel by the Sea girl when she came
face to face with a man who was trying to
assault her halfway home. The gentleman was standing in between
two cars stepped out to do something. Sense Michael Blackburn said,
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But for three years, I mean, I'm glad we got
a sense involved in this. This is our first sense.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
This is the first quote from a sense god.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
And also Michael Blackburn. Sense Michael Blackburn. For three years,
she'd been attending jiu jitsu classes with sense My Blackburn
at the Carmel Youth Center. She took what she learned
to real life to escape her attacker. She punched him,
She got him in a headlock, She need him a
couple of times, spun him around, threw him on the ground,
and had stepped on his foot doing all this. And
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when she threw him on the ground, he broke his ankle.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Dude, that's fucking amazing good.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
This girl kicked this loser's ass.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I love this.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
The girl ran home and was safe, but the attacker
still loose. Her family and police have asked to keep
her identity anonymous.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Understandable, he's still on the loose. How did they know
that his ankle's broken?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I think as he hobbled away. Carral police do say
they have they don't have a solid lead yet, but
they've released a sketch of what they believe. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
For Sense Blackburn, where is he hiding at the Driftwood
the Driftwood Emporium?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Like?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Where?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Like here?
Speaker 3 (27:50):
I mean like Garmel by the sea is small and
it's incredibly artsy and quaint. I can't imagine. Yeah, did
he run down and crawl up a cypress tree? Like?
Where is this man? Is he hiding in a in
a board bag?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
That's right, he's in a succulent and dog ear piercing emporium.
For Sense Blackburn, he said, it's heartbreaking to know a
student had to be put in this situation. Of course,
what a loser this attacker was. But he is so
grateful to know that she knew how to defend herself. Quote.
I told her we were so proud of her. She
did exactly what she was supposed to do. You have
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to fight like you do in class, and you protect
yourself on the streets. The thirteen year girl, I was
hoping her story serves as a reminder to other young
people that knowing some self defense could save your life.
So shout out to this little girl and a huge
f you to that guy. But she beat the shit
out this guy. Yeah, we'd love to hear it. I
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love any of the ones where a criminal picks the
wrong person. Boy, those are so satisfying. Yeah right, oh
my god, so good. I wonder if that'll happen, because
you know, the Olympics are coming to La And we
did a story for God probably twenty twenty about a
guy that tried to rob a van at a gas
station and it was full of an Olympic jiu jitsu
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team or Koko Roman wrestling game. They just all came
out and beat the shit out of them. Like God,
that's so good.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Also, a Greco Roman wrestling team was so funny. I know,
it's so good because it suggests that they do it
oiled up and naked. That's what Greco Roman wrestling was.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Yes, my fighting style will always be running away as
fast as possible. That's just that's just how I roll.
Like a chems.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Mine will be just making a noise and rotating at
the hips ninety degrees. We will go, something's wrong with
this guy.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I gotta get out of here.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yes, let's go. Yeah, I join in with the attacker.
Let's go get a boys, and then I run with
them and then we just don't know where to go.
Let's go. Ooh, you want to tease us? Send us
some shout outs? Are some thumbs ups?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I mean, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I got some good ones to those.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I'd be delighted too.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Tech prankster sends fifty way mo robotaxis to a San
Francisco dead end street.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Ooh, that's good. Thumbs up. Okay, Brooke Davis got the job, Kurt,
she got her dream job. She's thumbing herself up. I
think Brook also won Bananas fest one Charlie from aas
dance contest. I think this is the same Brook. Ok.
She is going to be teaching shelter medicine concepts and
high quality, high volume spay and neuter surgery techniques at
(30:38):
Kansas State and she's and she said she incorporated a
little bit of the banana spirit into her interview and
presentation to make it more silly and less stressful. So
congratulations and thumbs up to you Brook teaching SPAE and
neutering dream job.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Nice work, that's great a delight.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Dan Yella wants to thumb up her eighty one year
old badass grandma for deciding to do some continuing education classes.
Nice Her badass grandma still works part time, maintains her
lovely home that she's lived in for over sixty years,
and she's just the best. So thumbs up to Grandma,
nameless grandma who's going back to school.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Greg days Berger wants to send a huge thumbs up
to his girlfriend Eileen. After finding out Greg was doing
a dry sixty nine, Eileen decided to join him. She's
not a drinker, though, so she did a sweet sixty
nine and cut out desserts and sugars for sixty nine
straight days. Greg says, I love her immensely and I'm
proud of her for sticking it out.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Nice work.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Good thumbs up to both of you, and least, but
not least, certainly not least. This is a good one.
Katie Lee wants to hugely thumbs up her friend Warren
and his band Dead Billionaires. They got to play the
Georgefest in Nashville, which is we've never been. But if
there's one fest. I'm going to Nashville. It's Georgsfest. Oh
(32:03):
they are pro community, anti white supremacy group. So Bananimals
if you like new music, and I looked them up.
They're rock band. They I think they call themselves Ramshackle rock,
which is coreot.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah, I just looked them up. They look awesome.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Dead billionaires, download them, support them wherever you get your music,
and you can send your thumbs ups for the people
in your life, no birthdays, no dead pets to the
Banance Podcast on Gmail or Instagram. And that is that.
Oh yeah, thumbs up to all of you. Scottie Curti
(32:38):
b fall is upon us, and pumpkins by season is
already underway.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
And for our money, the only thing that can make
the days merrier and brighter is Julia Hannah.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Julia Hannah is like all of your favorite holidays wrapped
into one person.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
She's like a roaring fireplace on a cold autumny.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
She provides more joy than smiling children rolling in colorful leaves.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
So stir a fresh cup of coco and raise it
to the reason for this season. Julia Hannah.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Julia Hannah.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
All right, scott, are you ready to hear a story.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I love when you tell me news stories. I just
I'm over here laughing my buns off. I just love
having fun, man, it is always.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
You really do love having fun.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Oh when I'm having fun, it's always a good time.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
I found this one on the San Francisco Chronicle. This
was written by Aiden Vasiti and Rachel Swan, staff writers
at the San Francisco Chronicles. What a duo tech prankster
sends fifty way more robotaxis to a San Francisco Dan
Street Scottie. This is the first time that I haven't
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done two animal stories in a very long time.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
I just true and I you know you And I
just recorded an episode with Eugene Merman for the Pate
and uh he was great. But I've mentioned this on
that like when Waimo first came out, I was like,
you must.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Be kidding the job very ant diet.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
And now I think I've I think I've turned over
a new leaf because I watched them drive around LA
and they're very good drivers. They're better than the stoned
drivers texting. They're they're really so I'm like, I'm going
to download a Weaimo account and start way mowing my
ass off.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
LA is the most confusing driving culture that I've ever
experienced in my life. Will you will have and when
I I can't explain to people, especially who live on
the East Coast, it is really hard to wrap your
mind around. You'll see like a two lane highway there's
two lanes and one lane has one billion cars in
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it and they're backed up, and the other lane is empty,
and everyone just stays in the lane that has one
billion cars in it. No one moves over. It is fascinating.
It is It is an ability to accept traffic and
not care about your own survival in a way that
is like fascinating to me.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
It is fascinating. They don't do left turns on street
like it's the same like on the East Coast, you
kind of pull out in the intersection with you know,
you have your left trendsignal. You pull out the intersection
so when it turns, you check in the cars coming,
then you go. Some people in LA just sit and
then they'll either gun it or they just don't go,
And you go, what the hell are you doing? What
do you do?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
And then meanwhile I get back here, Oh God. And
if you don't actively put yourself in danger. People start
honking at you go, you asshole.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Yeah. Like, I drove with a guy for Red Bull
and Brooklyn and his dad taught him how to drive
before driver's lessons, and he said his dad said to him,
drive to make the other guy break. And that seems
like the worst advice I've ever heard of my time.
That is so funny.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
All right here it is fifty driverless cars converging on
a single dead end street. Sounds like a software glitch.
In reality, was a coordinated prank over the summer. Riley Waltz,
a twenty three year old software engineer in self described
tech prankster, enlisted dozens of participants to order Weimo rides
at the same moment on San Francisco's longest dead end street.
(36:25):
The plan at dusk, fifty people went to San Francisco's
longest dead end street. Fifty people in all ordered a
Weimo at the same time, the world's first weaimo DS.
That's a denial of service attack, I believe, Oh here
it is. The term short for distributed denial of service
refers to a type of cyber attack that overwhelms the
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system with traffic to disrupt its normal operation. In this
case a tongue in cheek nod to how dozens of
simultaneous requests briefly jammed Waymo's network. No one boarded the cars,
Waltz said. After about ten minutes, the autonomous vehicles departed
and charge each request a five dollars no show fee.
Way Moo handled this well, Waltz said, knowing that the
(37:07):
company temporarily disabled all pickups and drop offs within a
two block radius until the last morning. Wow it is
It's just fifty Waymos in a row, all lined up,
confused online. The stunt drew a mix of fascination and alarm.
Nice job, I guess what did you get out.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Of it when you are asked?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Another warn this would be a felony under the current
computer access and abuse laws.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Would it be.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Some saw darker implications. Someone will figure out how to
use this to jam up traffing and targeted urban centers
on election day. Another user wrote, I mean people go
immediately to the very worst things. The other viewers is
viewed it as a useful stress test. They were not
vandalizing the vehicles, and they paid the no show fee.
Waymo should be doing this kind of thing itself. The
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July prank fits neatly into Walls's pattern of projects that
blur the line between satire and systems analysis. A North
Beach residence, Walls previously made headlines for creating a viral
map that tracked San Francisco's parking officers in real time
before city.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Officials shut it down.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
He also transformed a fake Google Maps listing into a
real one night steakhouse, and built bop Spotter, an app
that uses music app Shazam to log music playing on
city streets. Twenty four to seven. Oh this guy, We've
talked about him? Did he turned his shed into a
restaurant for this?
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Yes? I remember that guy.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Yes, this dude is awesome.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
I like this guy.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Waltz, who co founded a data company called numerous dot Ai,
has said his pranks are driven by curiosity, not malice.
You have to follow through on your ideas because if
you don't, you might stop having them, he told The
New York Times earlier this month. Why not WEIMO did
not immediately comment on the incident.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Well, I think it is sort of dumb. I think
that one's done. I think the steakhouse is the funniest
thing in the world. But I'm the way more one.
I guess it's just I don't know. You gotta do something,
but that does just seem like a waste of resources
and time. We'll mean to go out of one.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Just give me the title and we'll do it next time.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
A three year old flying in business class was served
a glass of wine and his mom is not happy.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
She must have thought of his apple juice.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Right. Well, those flight attendant did it.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
I mean, but I mean when she when the mom
looks over, I mean, there's so many questions. All right,
I'm interested in getting into it in the next episode.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Okay, I'm very glad. But Nana's Banana's is an exactly
right media production.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Our producer and enginey here is Katie Levine.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
The catchy Banana theme song was composed and performed by Kahon.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
And our benevolent overlords are the great Karen Kilgareff and
Georgia Hartstart.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot,
part time employee.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
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.
All right, you ready, Scottie.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm ready to laugh and laugh and laughing laugh.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
He thrifts all year to create free Halloween costumes for kids.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Great idea, I'm already in. That's a great idea.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It's going to a feel good article.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I think this episode is going to be a feel
good episode because you know what, I'm not backing down.
I'm getting happier. I'm getting sillier. I don't care what happens.
We are swinging for the fences. Come play a little
dress up in Happyville with the Banana Boys.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Pieces, guys, gals, non binary pals. Welcome to another fact filled,
(01:09):
fun filled, yes forever educational podcast, True Banana.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yes, I'm K Brown, I'm Banana Boy number two, Champagne
Scottie Landis And this is the silliest little podcast there
ever was. And we are not backing down. They're they're
trying to muzzle us, and we're just going to bring
the happiness.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Sorry, yeah, it's not we're not We're not ignoring what's happening.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
No, we're not fool.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
We're just we're not fools.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
We're not playing as the Titanic sinks.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
No, we're getting drunk.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Well the Titanic sinks definitely.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well, the my favorite murder cover of the chef that
survived it. Yeah, yeah, he was drunk on whiskey and
that's why he made it.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
And you're like, drunk, he rode he railing, He rode
the railing down and then survived in twenty eight degree
seas for like seven hours and did die because he
was wasted on whiskey.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
He hit the good stuff. And there's a lesson in that.
When there's ships going down, hit the whiskey and steap
be the last one off the boat. That's probably the
actual lesson. Yeah, Also, how strange must that have been?
Like you and I grew up in the four decades
for yeah, the four decades where everything imaginable has been
(02:34):
seen in TV, movies and internet. Yeah, we've seen so
many boats sink, planes explode, you name it, we've seen it.
Back then, that guy had no idea what a boat
sinking looked like. He just had to experience the real
thing in real time.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Brand new experience, brand new.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So that's even scarier in some ways, because you know life,
sometimes you'll see like a car crash or something and
you'll like have to snap out of it because it's
like watching a movie. Not that guy.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
No, and it's just gonna get crazier, Scotty.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I want to tell you.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Today, honestly, is the first day, okay, is the first
day in six and a half weeks. Wow, that I've
actually truly had a day off, meaning not doing like
not taking care of children or at work or moving
(03:29):
or working or like doing other things. And it was God,
it was a seventy three degree day.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah. Here it's pretty open, honey, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
The leaves are all starting to change.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I was putting up Halloween Halloween decorations at the house.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, yeah, I put up a big I put up
a big little spider web.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yeah, brand new, gigantic spider web coming off the side
of the house.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
We got a little bird sitting on inflatable bird sitting
on a pumpkin with a hat on.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I don't really.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Understand how it's Halloween, but nope, but it is an
adorable I think it's actually a penguin. I think it's
a penguin on a.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Jack o lantern.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yes, and I've had the best day.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I'm in the best mood. Good, ready to go.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
This is the this is day one this is your future. Now.
This is just how it's gonna be from here on Now.
How today feels is how it's gonna be. So just
right it is.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
It's a d light.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah. Are you guys gonna carve pumpkins and go to
a pumpkin patch and do the whole thing?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Great question, Scottie. I love your questions.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Here it is okay.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I just found out because we just got a came
out on the front porch, found a bottle of wine
and some flowers and some coolies and a nice little
note from the people who live across the street who
live in a purple house, wow, saying welcome to the neighborhood.
And then she came over and we chatted in the
front yard. And apparently my street Saturday is the annual
(05:07):
block party.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Okay, so that's so easy.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Noon to late. These block parties go late here apparently,
And so that's my Saturday.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Baby. I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I'm just walking out my house to a gigantic party
where I will meet all of my neighbors all in
one day.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You should wear a name tag.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I should.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
That's what I would do. I think name tags are
the most underrated thing in society. I think anybody has
any decency, just get the little sticky pad one, slap
it on there and make everybody's life easier. It's not embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Does it just say? Does it say Kurt, I just
moved here?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Yeah, Kurt new neighbor. Yeah that would Yeah, great fighter,
So you know you don't want anybody breaking into your house.
You're a great fighter.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Yes, yes, yeah, me fourdorfis.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Great fighter, great in my life. That's so exciting. I
guess this is the first episode back since Banana's Fest.
We had a wonderful time. It was better.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
It was better.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I had a better year.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It was a It was really delightful. It was pleasant.
I felt pleasant the whole time.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah. I just everybody that came out and made the trip,
thank you for coming for so far, making plans, bringing friends.
Everybody was so positive. They got into everything. We had
a talent show, we had dog costume contests, we had
all kinds of things and everybody just participated. And that's
my favorite part is everybody was like, yes, we're doing this. Uh.
(06:46):
For those who weren't there, it was truly warm and
fun and silly the entire day and also windy and so.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Windy, and also so many bananimals helped, like vendors hold
their tents down in like these I don't know, probably
thirty five mile per gusts of winds.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yes, and we're not saying the entire festivals windy. If
the festival was six hours, there were four minutes that
were windy, but they were tornado like strength, for random
twenty second intervals where things would get knocked down and
broken and we'd all set them back up, and then
an hour later the same thing would happen again. But
we had wonderful volunteers. Thank you to everybody volunteered, especially
(07:29):
Brandy who throws the day before picnic greeting I went.
It was so fun. I want to thank Paul and
Ben who built the giant banana fores last year. It's
back here. I got it back.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
It's in my be You drove it back because you
rented a car.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And flew it back. I flew it back.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Shit happened.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I checked it, Delta checked it.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
So you packed it really well into a box and
then checked it.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I didn't pack it at all. I took it as
the bear banana. I called and they were like it's
a sculpture. I was like, yes, Like as a fragile,
I'm like not really, And they're like, how much is away?
Is that under twenty pounds? And they just checked it.
Are you It got a crack in the stem, but
it's fine, Like it got one crack. But I think
it just gives it, you know, a little history, a
little story behind it.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Is it in yourfice?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
It's not. No, It's in my garage. But the only
reason is because I was like kind of cleaning and
rearranging my office. I'm going to make one corner sort
of a banana's corner. So when then we do our
Patreon happy hours with people and stuff that, I'm just
it's just overloaded bananas behind me.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I want to do that as well.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah you should. It's gonna be fun. Yeah, but yeah,
I want to thank James for always making three D
printed key chains of stuff going out of your way.
Uh we did. We dog bowled rumpell. You got to
dog bowl your first rumple.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
That was I dog bowled my first rumple. So that was.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
They brought rumplements. And this is a story Scotty told
I don't know in the first year of the podcast.
Probably Yeah, I don't even remember the story. I just
remember dog bowl the rumple, yeah when I was calling
it rumple the dog bowl for a.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
While by the end of a but when you're done
passing the ball, you can call whatever you want. The
story was, We're in a backyard summer party and I
was one of my good friends, Rusty was there, and
we met in Pensacola at Bushwhackers, which was the number
one selling rumpleman's shots placed in the pan handles. So
(09:22):
we just said so much trump.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Don't mind rumplements delicious.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
It's really good.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Think it's better than what's the cinnamons, the fireball, fireball,
It's way better than fireball.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Great, makes your breast smell wonderful.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Makes your breast smell wonderful.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
But the original story, the abbreviated version, is there about
five They are about ten of us sitting around and
folding chairs. We had a bottle rumple. We pulled out
a ball bottle.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
They make actual tall bottles.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, they have leaders. They got the
whole line surprising. I threw a hand.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I feel like should be come in pipe bottles and
a bottles that's it. You don't get a big bo
rumple because nobody's doing that. Nobody's placing it into a
licker cap.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
No, it's going right down the hatch. And we just
threw a handful of ice in there. And then we
sat around passing a bowl of Rumpelman's yelling dog bowl
that rumpel at each other until it was all gone.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
So was it a dog bowl or no, it was
just a bowl.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It was it was just a bowl, but it for
whatever reason, we got carried away with it. And then
in the years sense people sent me dog bowls that
said Rumple on it. They've been lost at parties, but
we have been dog bowling Rumple at my Halloween parties
in the past.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
And also, you don't have to worry about transmitting diseases
because that is you're rubbing alcohol.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
That you're thinking one.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Hundred and ten, whatever the proof is, it's crazy. So
by the time we got around the circle, passed this
whole bottle and we all just drank out of it.
So everybody, we've probably got three or four shots worth.
Like the most uptight girl and woman in the group
started smoking cigarettes and cussing everybody out, people were flirting
and arms around each other, and then my newest drinking buddy,
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somebody that was straight edge until that summer, oh boy,
and then my other buddy were so hammered that we
put them to bed in a twin bed in just
the apartment that we were hanging in, and we just
made them spoon each other, but not like in a
creepy way. We just we put two grown hetero men
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back to like spooned them and they just slept that
way for the rest of the night, just and they
both had smiles on their faces. It was so you
and I got to do it in person in Denver.
It was really it was.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
It was a delight. I really really was to do that.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
In the future, we really need to bring the Do
you think every bar has rumplements? I feel like it's
only Chicago bars that have rumplements, Chicago and Florida bars. Yeah,
I'm going to try it next time I go somewhere.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I think it's so damn good and I think it
just it's it's an after dinner drink. It's a d
just Steve, but.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Exactly, it's a classy it's classy DJ Steve.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
And thanks to Sam Scarlett and Lisa who are you know,
the three women who we actually couldn't do it without.
They did a wonderful.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Job, absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And we love working with them. They're they're lovely, great people.
And also I met four women named Olivia, and so
I think I knew one Olivia before it and now
also so many Olivia's great, all four of them, all
stars love them all. So shout out to all the Olivia's.
This episode of Bananas is dedicated if your name is
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Olivia and you weren't there, this one's also for you.
This is the episode for Olivia's.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
All right here it is here, it is. This was
sent in by Miriam Colette. Thank you, Miriam.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
A delight, Thank you, Miriam. She sends a lot of
great story She's very good top shows.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
This was in the Washington Post, written by.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Doesn't say that Washington Post is going down the toilet
so fast. They have under one hundred thousand subscribers. What
are they have won? Under one hundred thousand members or whatever?
Not members? What's the word people that get Yeah, subscribers,
I guess. But for the first time ever, it is
just going straight down the old crapper.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
That's too bad because they do report on a lot
of good stuff. I think I enjoyed even though it's
owned by Jeff Bezos.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Here, We've got Christoph Wagoner.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Oh yes, okay, cool name.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
For the past nine years, Christoph Wagoner has collected thousands
of Halloween costumes. In every fall, he puts on an
event in Texas where children plus adult adults and dogs
can pick out Halloween costumes for free. The annual giveaway
began in twenty seventeen after Wagoner had moved from an
apartment into a house. His first time having trick or
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treaters at the door that night, he noticed a disparity
in costumes. Some children arrived in brand new Star Wars attire,
while others were not as well outfitted.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Ah, we just know they.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Don't have access to the same things, Wagoner said. I
was looking at kids that were looking at the other kids.
They were just wishing and admiring. He started stopping by
secondhand stores in search of old costumes several times a week,
paying out of pocket to build a collection. He eventually
gathered more than one hundred costumes and hosted his first event.
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It was on It's only seven years ago or eight
years ago.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
We ran the numbers.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Nearly a decade later, his event, dubbed October's Child, has
grown into a major community event in Austin as okay,
that's great. This year, there were more than two thousand
costumes available, organized by category from princesses to superheroes. There
is even a section for dogs. People have to bring
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their old costumes to the event, but Wagoner insists on
washing and repairing them himself before giving out the following year.
I don't want them to feel like they just got
hand me down, so you say, I want them to
be too close as new as possible.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Sure, this is a quote.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
He doesn't care who you are, where you come from.
All he sees are the smiles, and he wants to
create more smiles. This man has such a big heart.
That's Brendan gutierres Hodgkin, who volunteers for October Child with
their two kids. Wow, I mean christoff Saints, Christoph Wagoner.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Banana the Week, Banana the Week and Banana of Halloween too,
Banana the Holiday.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Also, I mean, like that is so cool. If you
live in Austin, you don't know about that. Get on
it next year, bring some costumes, donate them two. That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Also, let's face it, you have kids. Every kids outgrow
costumes all the time. Unless it's just a kid that
wants to be on Ninja every year or Dorothy from
Wizard of Oz every year, that's fine. But they'll grow
them and they get what one or two uses. There's
a girl in my second grade class who came as grapes.
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She just had on purple leotard and then purple balloons
all over, and it's still one of my very favorite costumes.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
That's that's my favorite costume. I think maybe that's what
I'm going to go Christmas.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Dressed up.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Why is he dressed up as a fruit of the
lube grapes?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah? Great, fighter, I love it so much.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
That makes me so happy.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
You can probably go on Amazon and buy one of
those purple like whatever they are, bodysuits that they they sell,
and then you could just glue or purple balloons to you.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Maybe fun that is that is the way that that's
the fit. To figure out how to get the balloons
on properly?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Is the question?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Right?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Because you kind you wanted to be homemade, you wanted
it to be you wanted to.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
It's gotta look a little bad exactly. Oh man, the
pro a pro.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Version of that just looks too much like for the
Loom commercial.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Still the best holiday. I mean, just get dressed up,
look funny, and then strangers give you candy. It wonderful. Great,
let's go back to that more of those three times.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Multiple, multiple times. I have lived in my house.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
For two days.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Multiple people have been like, are you are you prepared
for Halloween on this block? And I mean, like, look,
we lived in Atwater. Atwater goes pretty hard for pretty good. Yeah,
but what La does in East Coast doesn't do is
La has like just certain blocks just don't do any
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Like there's like the one block you go to and
then the other block nobody comes by. So we would
just we lived like one house in from the corner
and the street in front was at kids constantly, but
no one would come to our house. Yeah, but we're
right on the corner in the middle of the shit here,
so I feel like we're gonna have like five hundred kids.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Well you're gonna you know, it's first Halloween. You you
might have to go get some really good candy. You
might have to mean getting something good. Yeah, you might
have to show everybody like the brown Holders are here.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
To But then then you you set an expectation. You know,
you show up with full sized candy bars first year
out of the gate. You're doing that every year. You're
spending six hundred dollars on candy.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah, but all of likes Nerds, right, maybe you can
get boxes of Nerds.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
I mean they would love that.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Our case of nerds.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Case of Nerds can't be that much.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
No, kid, me sell your car. It's Halloween.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
It's Halloween.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Come on, your Halloween costume is gonna cost fourteen to
fifteen bucks max. You could put the rest into Nerds,
rope Nerds, Gummy Nerds.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I mean those are the ones that people like, right,
the gummy nerds. They are They were hot last.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Year, hot ticket. Yeah, my favorite was So I had
one of those streets that went off like we went
crazy with my parents.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I feel like I'm setting up Scotti to give my
children your childhood.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Well you yes, that's exactly right, and it was wonderful.
We would I don't know how many houses were on
our street, but may probably thirty, not that many, but
we would fill a pillowcase full of candy. That's how
much candy we would get every year. But my parents
went hard and they would do a walk of terror
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around the house. So my backyard was a haunted house.
And my mom would boil like noodles and fill with
blood and then put ping pong balls with eyeballs drawn
on him. And to get candy, my mom would dress
like a witch. You'd have to reach in and hand
her an eyeball and then she'd give you candy. Wow,
which was great, and so there's no surprise. I'd write
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horror movies for a living. But my dad would dress
up in a mask and like looking super scary and
bury himself in straw in front of a tombstone and
then have a couple of those, and then he would
sit up and scream. And one time a kid kicked
him in the ribs because he was so scared. It
was cool that kids up.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
That kid's always gonna be okay. He kicks the monster
in the.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Ribs, And my dad's such a good guy. He just
went like, you know, instead of being like what the fuck.
So that's how I grew up. But our street, and
then also my mom would make all the costumes. So
I was a kitchen table with four play settings with
my head in the middle. Bo Jackson the two way athletes.
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So I was half baseball half football, so I had
a split uniform. And because we were you know, progressive,
normal people. I wasn't blackface in the eighties because we're normal,
nice people. So it was like we just always had
killer costumes, tons of candy. And this is going to
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be controversial, this is my least favorite, but very eighties
were fireballs. I never liked fireballs. Yeah, that was such
a big candy in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Yeah, it was fireballs or lemonheads. Lemonheads were always better
than fireballs.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Kind Yeah, lemonheads were good. Fireballs. You would just get
so many, and like all the lunatic kids that are
probably in prisoner dead were just like, yes, fireballs. Or
you'd get dots. Those were real bummer dots.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Yeah, man, just candy on paper, and I was like,
you want to eat some paper?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Here you go.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
You know what's an underrated can a candy that I
never seen anymore, but maybe you do since your parents.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Spreeze spreeze, noah, I don't think they exist. Oh wait, wait, no, no, no,
I just got them at a Rectro candy store. Those
are the ones that oh no, those they're different. So
there's there's Spreeze, but then there's also is there are
they called razzers where oh those are off like a
candy and then it becomes a gum.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I like, those are they called razzers?
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah, it's like it's a candy, then it's a gum
and you're like, what the fuck is happening? And my
kids were both just like, what is happening with this
candy gum?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
There are they still make spree they do?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I loved spree Spreeze were maybe one of my favorite
me non chocolate candy.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I love being an adult. I'm gonna buy myself some Spreeze.
This is going to be a big day for me.
Yeah I used to, but like I used to like
that stuff. And then when Sour Patch kids came in,
they came in like a direct white did ever.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
They wiped everything else out.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
They were a tornado and a trailer par Everybody was like,
I will trade you anything I have.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
For You're such a big deal. I don't good they
have held on for forty five years crazily.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I went to a Dodgers game last week. They're in
the playoffs. I'm actually going tomorrow night with Vince, which
will be very fun too. And you know, I was
looking up the policy. So Dodgers Stadium has a Dodger dog,
and I think the whole thing is it's eleven inches.
It's it's not a foot long because the guy wanted
you to refer to it as a Dodger dog. Oh okay,
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not a foot long, and so yeah, it's ten or
eleven inches. But they switched hot Dog pork processing company
a couple of seasons ago, and the new ones are
not good, and they're like like eleven dollars or whatever,
they're fourteen dollars. They're a crazy price. So I looked
up the policy for bringing food in, and you can
bring anything you wanted. You can bring a whole cheese
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pizza into Dodgers team. You can bring any food you want.
So I grilled twelve hot dogs, eight wrapped in bacon,
which is how they do it in LA and then
for it it weren't, and wrapped them in foil and
then we just used the condiments there. But then while
I was shopping for that stuff. I'm like, I gotta
I gotta bring some fun. I can't just show up
with twelve hot dogs for five of us or six
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of us, I guess to a person. So I bought
a few boxes of Sour Patch Kids the Halloween addition,
and put them in one big ziplock bag.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Kurt.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
We passed that down the road three or four times.
People like my adult crew were just going off on
sour Patch Kids I have.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
I have had sour Patch Kids recently. I can have
two sour Patch Kids and then I'm like, I'm maxed out.
I am maxed out.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Well maybe when you're following two bacon wrapped homemade hot dogs,
you go anything to get this taste out of my mouth.
But it was really good. Actually, here's a good one.
This ties into that. Oh god, I have the hot story.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Oh yeah, you have a lot of good stories. I
love it.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Your system is far superior to.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
My system, and I will never change.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
I know. Well, here's not this isn't this is about
a cool kid. Uh Paig Marie sent this in thank
you page. Marie, you can send us the Banana Boys
your story strange news. Make sure they're real you know,
send it to the Bananas Podcast on Instagram or the
Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com. We appreciate when you do.
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You can hear your name on the air like this.
Paig Marie sent this in ABC seven. That's swinging. ABC
News seven staff Best in the Viz. Thirteen year old
girl in California fights off attacker using jiu jitsu and
breaks his ankle.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Wow, all right, I'm interested.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
This is good for trick or treating season.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Carmel by the Sea, beautiful area of California.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Oh my god, I was. I was there recent not recently,
in January. It was goddamn gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
It's a pretty special place. Places and Carmel are looking
for a suspect of the attempted assault of a teenager.
Authority say a man tried to attack a thirteen year
old girl two weeks ago, but she.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
In Carmel by the Sea. Can you I had where
in front of like the fudge shop slash art gallery?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Is that where they?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I mean, like, what the fuck is this dude doing?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Well, he's getting his ass kicked, that's what he's doing.
She was able to fend him off using jiu jitsu.
A walk come from school turned terrifying for a thirteen
year old Carmel by the Sea girl when she came
face to face with a man who was trying to
assault her halfway home. The gentleman was standing in between
two cars stepped out to do something. Sense Michael Blackburn said,
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But for three years, I mean, I'm glad we got
a sense involved in this. This is our first sense.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
This is the first quote from a sense god.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
And also Michael Blackburn. Sense Michael Blackburn. For three years,
she'd been attending jiu jitsu classes with sense My Blackburn
at the Carmel Youth Center. She took what she learned
to real life to escape her attacker. She punched him,
She got him in a headlock, She need him a
couple of times, spun him around, threw him on the ground,
and had stepped on his foot doing all this. And
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when she threw him on the ground, he broke his ankle.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Dude, that's fucking amazing good.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
This girl kicked this loser's ass.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I love this.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
The girl ran home and was safe, but the attacker
still loose. Her family and police have asked to keep
her identity anonymous.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Understandable, he's still on the loose. How did they know
that his ankle's broken?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I think as he hobbled away. Carral police do say
they have they don't have a solid lead yet, but
they've released a sketch of what they believe. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
For Sense Blackburn, where is he hiding at the Driftwood
the Driftwood Emporium?
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Like?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Where?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Like here?
Speaker 3 (27:50):
I mean like Garmel by the sea is small and
it's incredibly artsy and quaint. I can't imagine. Yeah, did
he run down and crawl up a cypress tree? Like?
Where is this man? Is he hiding in a in
a board bag?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
That's right, he's in a succulent and dog ear piercing emporium.
For Sense Blackburn, he said, it's heartbreaking to know a
student had to be put in this situation. Of course,
what a loser this attacker was. But he is so
grateful to know that she knew how to defend herself. Quote.
I told her we were so proud of her. She
did exactly what she was supposed to do. You have
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to fight like you do in class, and you protect
yourself on the streets. The thirteen year girl, I was
hoping her story serves as a reminder to other young
people that knowing some self defense could save your life.
So shout out to this little girl and a huge
f you to that guy. But she beat the shit
out this guy. Yeah, we'd love to hear it. I
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love any of the ones where a criminal picks the
wrong person. Boy, those are so satisfying. Yeah right, oh
my god, so good. I wonder if that'll happen, because
you know, the Olympics are coming to La And we
did a story for God probably twenty twenty about a
guy that tried to rob a van at a gas
station and it was full of an Olympic jiu jitsu
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team or Koko Roman wrestling game. They just all came
out and beat the shit out of them. Like God,
that's so good.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Also, a Greco Roman wrestling team was so funny. I know,
it's so good because it suggests that they do it
oiled up and naked. That's what Greco Roman wrestling was.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Yes, my fighting style will always be running away as
fast as possible. That's just that's just how I roll.
Like a chems.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Mine will be just making a noise and rotating at
the hips ninety degrees. We will go, something's wrong with
this guy.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I gotta get out of here.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yes, let's go. Yeah, I join in with the attacker.
Let's go get a boys, and then I run with
them and then we just don't know where to go.
Let's go. Ooh, you want to tease us? Send us
some shout outs? Are some thumbs ups?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I mean, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I got some good ones to those.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
I'd be delighted too.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Tech prankster sends fifty way mo robotaxis to a San
Francisco dead end street.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Ooh, that's good. Thumbs up. Okay, Brooke Davis got the job, Kurt,
she got her dream job. She's thumbing herself up. I
think Brook also won Bananas fest one Charlie from aas
dance contest. I think this is the same Brook. Ok.
She is going to be teaching shelter medicine concepts and
high quality, high volume spay and neuter surgery techniques at
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Kansas State and she's and she said she incorporated a
little bit of the banana spirit into her interview and
presentation to make it more silly and less stressful. So
congratulations and thumbs up to you Brook teaching SPAE and
neutering dream job.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Nice work, that's great a delight.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Dan Yella wants to thumb up her eighty one year
old badass grandma for deciding to do some continuing education classes.
Nice Her badass grandma still works part time, maintains her
lovely home that she's lived in for over sixty years,
and she's just the best. So thumbs up to Grandma,
nameless grandma who's going back to school.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Greg days Berger wants to send a huge thumbs up
to his girlfriend Eileen. After finding out Greg was doing
a dry sixty nine, Eileen decided to join him. She's
not a drinker, though, so she did a sweet sixty
nine and cut out desserts and sugars for sixty nine
straight days. Greg says, I love her immensely and I'm
proud of her for sticking it out.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Nice work.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Good thumbs up to both of you, and least, but
not least, certainly not least. This is a good one.
Katie Lee wants to hugely thumbs up her friend Warren
and his band Dead Billionaires. They got to play the
Georgefest in Nashville, which is we've never been. But if
there's one fest. I'm going to Nashville. It's Georgsfest. Oh
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they are pro community, anti white supremacy group. So Bananimals
if you like new music, and I looked them up.
They're rock band. They I think they call themselves Ramshackle rock,
which is coreot.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah, I just looked them up. They look awesome.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Dead billionaires, download them, support them wherever you get your music,
and you can send your thumbs ups for the people
in your life, no birthdays, no dead pets to the
Banance Podcast on Gmail or Instagram. And that is that.
Oh yeah, thumbs up to all of you. Scottie Curti
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b fall is upon us, and pumpkins by season is
already underway.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
And for our money, the only thing that can make
the days merrier and brighter is Julia Hannah.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Julia Hannah is like all of your favorite holidays wrapped
into one person.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
She's like a roaring fireplace on a cold autumny.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
She provides more joy than smiling children rolling in colorful leaves.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
So stir a fresh cup of coco and raise it
to the reason for this season. Julia Hannah.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
Julia Hannah.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
All right, scott, are you ready to hear a story.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I love when you tell me news stories. I just
I'm over here laughing my buns off. I just love
having fun, man, it is always.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
You really do love having fun.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Oh when I'm having fun, it's always a good time.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
I found this one on the San Francisco Chronicle. This
was written by Aiden Vasiti and Rachel Swan, staff writers
at the San Francisco Chronicles. What a duo tech prankster
sends fifty way more robotaxis to a San Francisco Dan
Street Scottie. This is the first time that I haven't
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done two animal stories in a very long time.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
I just true and I you know you And I
just recorded an episode with Eugene Merman for the Pate
and uh he was great. But I've mentioned this on
that like when Waimo first came out, I was like,
you must.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Be kidding the job very ant diet.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
And now I think I've I think I've turned over
a new leaf because I watched them drive around LA
and they're very good drivers. They're better than the stoned
drivers texting. They're they're really so I'm like, I'm going
to download a Weaimo account and start way mowing my
ass off.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
LA is the most confusing driving culture that I've ever
experienced in my life. Will you will have and when
I I can't explain to people, especially who live on
the East Coast, it is really hard to wrap your
mind around. You'll see like a two lane highway there's
two lanes and one lane has one billion cars in
(34:55):
it and they're backed up, and the other lane is empty,
and everyone just stays in the lane that has one
billion cars in it. No one moves over. It is fascinating.
It is It is an ability to accept traffic and
not care about your own survival in a way that
is like fascinating to me.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
It is fascinating. They don't do left turns on street
like it's the same like on the East Coast, you
kind of pull out in the intersection with you know,
you have your left trendsignal. You pull out the intersection
so when it turns, you check in the cars coming,
then you go. Some people in LA just sit and
then they'll either gun it or they just don't go,
And you go, what the hell are you doing? What
do you do?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
And then meanwhile I get back here, Oh God. And
if you don't actively put yourself in danger. People start
honking at you go, you asshole.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Yeah. Like, I drove with a guy for Red Bull
and Brooklyn and his dad taught him how to drive
before driver's lessons, and he said his dad said to him,
drive to make the other guy break. And that seems
like the worst advice I've ever heard of my time.
That is so funny.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
All right here it is fifty driverless cars converging on
a single dead end street. Sounds like a software glitch.
In reality, was a coordinated prank over the summer. Riley Waltz,
a twenty three year old software engineer in self described
tech prankster, enlisted dozens of participants to order Weimo rides
at the same moment on San Francisco's longest dead end street.
(36:25):
The plan at dusk, fifty people went to San Francisco's
longest dead end street. Fifty people in all ordered a
Weimo at the same time, the world's first weaimo DS.
That's a denial of service attack, I believe, Oh here
it is. The term short for distributed denial of service
refers to a type of cyber attack that overwhelms the
(36:46):
system with traffic to disrupt its normal operation. In this
case a tongue in cheek nod to how dozens of
simultaneous requests briefly jammed Waymo's network. No one boarded the cars,
Waltz said. After about ten minutes, the autonomous vehicles departed
and charge each request a five dollars no show fee.
Way Moo handled this well, Waltz said, knowing that the
(37:07):
company temporarily disabled all pickups and drop offs within a
two block radius until the last morning. Wow it is
It's just fifty Waymos in a row, all lined up,
confused online. The stunt drew a mix of fascination and alarm.
Nice job, I guess what did you get out.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Of it when you are asked?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Another warn this would be a felony under the current
computer access and abuse laws.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Would it be.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Some saw darker implications. Someone will figure out how to
use this to jam up traffing and targeted urban centers
on election day. Another user wrote, I mean people go
immediately to the very worst things. The other viewers is
viewed it as a useful stress test. They were not
vandalizing the vehicles, and they paid the no show fee.
Waymo should be doing this kind of thing itself. The
(37:57):
July prank fits neatly into Walls's pattern of projects that
blur the line between satire and systems analysis. A North
Beach residence, Walls previously made headlines for creating a viral
map that tracked San Francisco's parking officers in real time
before city.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Officials shut it down.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
He also transformed a fake Google Maps listing into a
real one night steakhouse, and built bop Spotter, an app
that uses music app Shazam to log music playing on
city streets. Twenty four to seven. Oh this guy, We've
talked about him? Did he turned his shed into a
restaurant for this?
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Yes? I remember that guy.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Yes, this dude is awesome.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
I like this guy.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Waltz, who co founded a data company called numerous dot Ai,
has said his pranks are driven by curiosity, not malice.
You have to follow through on your ideas because if
you don't, you might stop having them, he told The
New York Times earlier this month. Why not WEIMO did
not immediately comment on the incident.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Well, I think it is sort of dumb. I think
that one's done. I think the steakhouse is the funniest
thing in the world. But I'm the way more one.
I guess it's just I don't know. You gotta do something,
but that does just seem like a waste of resources
and time. We'll mean to go out of one.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Just give me the title and we'll do it next time.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
A three year old flying in business class was served
a glass of wine and his mom is not happy.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
She must have thought of his apple juice.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Right. Well, those flight attendant did it.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
I mean, but I mean when she when the mom
looks over, I mean, there's so many questions. All right,
I'm interested in getting into it in the next episode.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Okay, I'm very glad. But Nana's Banana's is an exactly
right media production.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Our producer and enginey here is Katie Levine.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
The catchy Banana theme song was composed and performed by Kahon.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
And our benevolent overlords are the great Karen Kilgareff and
Georgia Hartstart.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot,
part time employee.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
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