CRAZY TRAIN-05-03-STUDENT EATS $120K OF BANANA ART ON THE WALL

An art installation that featured a ripe banana taped to a wall at a Seoul art museum was devoured by a college student, who defended himself by saying he was “hungry” after skipping breakfast.

Episode Transcript

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The Morning Drive with Christie Live ondemand. Time for the Crazy Drive with
Christy Line. Today, the CrazyTrain is heading on over to South Korea,

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where a college student has gone absolutelyviral for his recent museum visit.
Nothing like a great museum. I'mactually going to SF MoMA tomorrow. I
love the California Academy of Sciences.But when you go to a museum,
you're not supposed to touch the art. Of course, Apparently he did not
get the message. There was apiece of modern art, so modern art

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could be anything, literally anything.This happened to be a piece with a
banana duct tape to a wall.So that's the art. Modern art is
weird. I don't get it,but I still appreciate it, you know.
Yeah. The college student was like, oh, took the duct tape
off eighth the banana. No,he did it one hundred fifty thousand dollars

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a piece of art which is reallyjust a banana tape to a wall.
He said, I was hungry,I missed breakfast. Wasn't it taped up
there for us to eat? Notonly did he eat the banana, which
was the artwork, why did heput the peel back on the wall?
Eighth the banana put the peel backon the wall with the duct tape and

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kept it pushing through the museum.This thing was worth how much the artist
was paid one hundred fifty thousand dollarsfor this installation. And the installation was
called comedian And like I said,modern art, it can be weird.
I've been to SF MoMA before andthere was a pile of candy in a
corner. It was a pile ofcandy and clear wrappers and that was the

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piece of art. I was like, it's it's a pile of candy.
But you didn't go eat it didn't. Well, this was they said,
oh you can have a piece.There was a sign. There was no
sign saying eat the banana. Yeah, this dude was just wrong. If
you want to check it out,oh my gosh, he's supermoted Facebook,
dot Com, Slash eighties plus Radio. Just don't touch the artwork when you
go to the museum. That's yourdaily crazy news story. You can ride

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