July 25, 2024 • 44 mins
Kurt and Scotty answer listener advice about reducing stress after work, play some Would You Rathers and listen to some confessions!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
World, would you your mycillion pieces? Would you bana bananas,
Banana trotten, banana.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Bana guys, gowns down, binary pounds. Welcome to the Bonusode
Bananas Podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Hi Scotti, It's Thursday. It's Bonus Sode time. I'm here
with my dude, Kurtie B Kirk Brown Older and you know,
we're just getting a very friggin pumped up because Banana's
Fastest coming September seventh, twenty twenty four. If you're listening
to this year from now, you missed it.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
And I mean, I'm excited to talk about all the
things we're doing on Bananas Fest, Scotti, It's really excited.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And also bring your own stuff, Like I've been seeing
a lot of dms on Instagram that are that are
people making friendship bracelets already for Bananasfest that I'm guessing
they're going to hand out to strangers. I'm seeing artwork
people are making. We still Kurdib and I still need
to decide what the contest for dogs will be, but
we'll have a dog contest. But feel free to bring
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whatever you're into. If you ride a Penny Farthing bicycle,
bring it to Laramer Square. If you're a juggler, and
you never have anybody that wants to see you juggle.
Bring those balls to Larimer Square.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
And then of course we're doing two shows that night,
September seventh and Comedy Works, which is right there. It's
physically right in Larimer Square in Denver, so it's kind
of perfect. Very also going to be doing a Have
we talked about the tampon toss yet? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
We're doing the tampon toss. It's our Guinness World record.
We're going for it.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
We're gonna try and break a Guinness Book World record. Actually,
no one, we're not breaking it. We're setting it. Making
has ever done it? Yeah, we are making this one,
and so the Guinness I'm going back and forth with
the Guinness people right now. But we're doing it with
an organization in Denver.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Called I Support the Girls, where we're gonna throw literally
as many packaged tampons as we can in the air,
gather them all up with our tampon fairies, and then
donate them to this wonderful organization and I do. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
We hope to do a five hundred tampon toss. That
is our goal currently, so to have five hundred people
do a tampon toss. So that means if you're coming
to Bananas Fest, bring a box of tampons. You'll take
one out, you'll use it for the toss. That one
will then be collected and they'll go into you know,
the collection bind. But then the box can be donated itself.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
That's exactly right. So just get ready. When was the
next time you got together with five hundred other people
and threw a tampon in the air. That's what you
have to look in the mirror every morning while you
brush your teeth and say, hey, when was the last time?
When was it? When was it? We're going to marry
some couples, and so if you're thinking, if you and
your partner are have been toying with the idea of
getting married, Kurtie B and I are going to marry
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between four and twenty couples live in front of a
gathering of our at four twenty. So it's you've been
waiting and you need an excuse to get hitched, the
Banana Boys will do it for you.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Also, for the tampon toss, someone dressed as a vagina
will be there and they will stand in the middle,
which is pretty exciting.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Pretty fantastic. Our really good friend of the podcast, the
artist and illustrator Kate Cosgrove, is coming in. Kurt. She
showed me some rch she's making. She is drawing individual
bananas with names and hobbies that you can collect. So
if you're there and you're an adult, or you're there
with your kids, it's find Kate. We're gonna set her
up in a table somewhere in the shade where she's
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going to be selling prints but also giving away various
bananas art. But she has been very supportive for Kurt
and I and it's just a wonderful best selling children's
book illustrator.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Kate is really fantastic. She did these two beautiful pieces
of olive and gust that I yes, that I love
so much.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
We're gonna have a friendship circle.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Oh, we're gona have a friendship circle. If you come
to Banana's Fest by yourself, there will be a specific
circle that you can stand in and other people who
are there buy them.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
We'll meet you in that circle and you will become friends.
It happened there we go in the friendship circle.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
We'll also have dragking bingo as well. We're gonna have
Laurel Laurel.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Doing Laurel's Coming. She's gonna do a speed friend dating.
So if you need to make friends you live in
Colorado or you're just there for the weekend, Laurel Bristow,
our good friend is going to come on out and
lead the way with that. So you can sit down,
meet somebody, chap for I don't know a minute, and
then it's up onto somebody else. If you guys are numbers,
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ye to do it too.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And of course the whole day starts with splitting the city.
I mean like that's usually Splitting the city is enough
for a fun day. Yeah, you're going to do one
k the event by itself, so we're gonna do a downhill.
One k starts at a brewery and then we all
walk into Bananas Fest together at noon, marching band starts up.
(05:35):
It's gonna be and then there's immediately a dunk tank
that Scotty and I will be in throughout the.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Day, alternating turns where we'll be handing out balls. We
don't know if it's free or we're gonna do like
dollar donations that go towards another charity, but you can.
You can throw a ball and drop Kurdy b into
a dunk tank. You can throw a ball, hit the
target and dunk Banana Boy number two into a dunk
tank for I don't know, all day, as long as
we feel like getting wet.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
The charity is it's a wilderness protection charity and not
the name right now, but they are. They deal with
invasive species, and so we go, We're doing an invasive
species for the dunk tank. We admire them, but they
gotta go.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You are against them, We're against them.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
We're against them, but we do admire their pluck and determination.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Absolutely, it's gonna be great. Bring your great energy to
Bananas Fest. All are welcome and say hey and make
friends and have a great day. And also if you
come for two hours and you're like, yeah, I've had enough,
that's fine too. We'll be happy to see you for
two hours. If you come and stay the whole damn
time from Splitty to the nine o'clock nine thirty show,
well then you're an official Ultra Megabananimal Marathon or I.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Remember, Bananas Fest is free and then the shows at
night you have to buy tickets for the first one
is a regular Bananas podcast. The second one is Bananas
after Dark. It'll be a little mix of everything, and
I think it'll be a little wilder, a little wilder,
I would say, Yeah, two totally different shows. So you
can buy tickets to both. You won't be disappointed. And
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you should buy tickets to both. Wow and Yeah, and
we'll be there all day and hanging out. I just
got back from Ireland, Scotti.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yeah, the the Emerald Isle or right the Greenland. I
call it Greenland.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I love it so much. Oh my god, I could
live there. I could live there, Scotty, understand why So
what were some of the highlights.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
What did you see? Did you see anything that caught
you off guard?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
The Dingle Peninsula is pretty amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Dingle Rules, It's so awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
We went to this kind of this part of Dingle
that was just we were by ourselves, which is the
most fascinating part of it. And I will tell you
the name of it. It's actually all the way at
the tip. I think it's called South Urn Bay. Oh, no,
Cloger Strand ooh, And it's kind of at the western
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tip of the Dingle Pizza It's just the water is
just crystal clear, bright blue, and it's the most And
then we walked along this bluff just next to horses,
just beautiful like what seem to be like Clydesdale ponies,
like giant but they had furry ankles and they're just
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just chew chowing down on some grass next to the
most gorgeous view. And there was just a path you
could walk through their their their pasture. Yeah, and that
was the thing that I think, this is the thing
that struck me the most. And I guess it's just
a lower population than the United States. But a location
such as that we were in in the United States
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would have a four seasons built on top of it
within moments, like if Ireland became part of America, within moments,
there would be a four seasons there. And it's not
it's just open grazing land. And then maybe there's a
farmhouse across the bay and that's it. That is absolutely it.
(09:08):
It is like I totally totally would live there.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Oh my God, of course it's beautiful. Shout out to
all our Irish ban animals wherever you are, Godly, it
is pretty there.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
It is really amazing. And we stayed in a castle
which sounds like and it's not, but it's not. It's
not like there's just so many castles castles. You can
just stay in a castle. We stayed in this castle
called Abbey Glen. Abbey Glen Castle in up North northwest
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northwest of Galway. I'm in Connemara area. It's in a
little town called Clifton. I would highly recommend it to anybody.
The rooms are not like like insanely expensive, and then
you get there and it's like being it was the
felt like do you remember I don't know if you
had this in Baltimore, but ads for beautiful Mount Dairy Lodge. Yeah,
(10:08):
of course, Mount Dairy, Lah, Yes, of course. So that
is what the entire experience of being in the castle
felt like. So if nobody remembers this, if you're not
from the East Coast in that specific time, it was
like a I don't know, a resort I guess in
the Poconos that had like hot tubs made made like
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champagne glasses.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Heart shaped, yeah, heart shaped jacuzzis, oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
And that was the vibe. And there was a host.
There was like a guy who's family owned the castle
and he was your host each evening and something would happen,
but he would literally walk around. He would give it
like a talk about the castle in the lobby and
you got free champagne, and then you would like it
sounds like I'm doing an ad and then you get
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up and then it's a nice meal and he's just
walking around. And then afterwards in the bar there's live
music and he's just there buying people drinks. We like
just chatted with him for a long time about his
kids and whatnot, and it was so nice. And the
idea is really that, like there's a host to every night,
and every night is like a part it's like a party,
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and it feels like summer camp.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
And it was like a.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Welcome reprieve after a lot of driving with two kids
in the car.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Oh God, did you happen to pass through Waterville in
Carry County or County carriage?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
They very famously have that Charlie Chaplin statue just at
just on the it's like right off the road, and
it's a it's a great one. It's a fun little town.
It's I stayed near there in an airbnb called the
cow Shed, which was a shed in the Cow Country
surrounded by cows. But yeah, I drove right by. It
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was like, holy smokes, that's it. I'd heard of that
one for years. But yeah, there's just a random Charlie Chaplin.
I think you stayed at the hotel there once or
something like that, and then for some reason there's a
Charlie Chaplin statue and I think it's Waterville, Ireland. What
a place. Also, I'm glad that you drove it because
it's a unique driving experience there. Yeah, roads are small,
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they're very narrow, but you really get to see the countryside.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
It is really crazy that you just there are just
certain sections where you're like, I'm gonna I'm gonna hit
this car and you never do somehow never do you
somehow never do. But sometimes you have to like pull
over into and then there's just a lot of like
bridges where it's just narrow enough for the car's wheels
and so you have to wait while the other car
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comes over and then you go over. But god, oh man,
it was great. We would see the most amazing things.
And the only thing the kids talked about was the
revolving door at the airport.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
That was like, that's mean.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
They didn't shut the fuck up. About the revolving door
at the airport for eight days.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Street Hey, it must have been pretty good. I was
dming with a bananimal about the Lake of the Ozarks
and she was down there and we were just talking
about this one bar, and I was like, well, they
have the biggest fans I've ever seen. She's like, it's
a company called Big Ass Fans. There's like a company
that makes giant fans for public spaces called big Ass Fans.
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And so we weren't talking about anything else having to
do with the bar, the lake, the food, the drinks,
just that they have remarkably humongous fans.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Give me a size dimension.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
In diameter, I would say.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Eighteen feet eighteen feet across. Yeah, oh my god, big fans.
That's a big fan.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Yeah. These are not small fans.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
At tops twelve nine twelve feet.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
No, that's just a medium ass fan. These are big
gas fans. And it's the one thing I really remember
about that place. They have a pirate ship parked outside
and then they have gigantic fans, And I was like,
one day I want a Lanai big enough where I
have one of those fans, just keeping everybody mosquito free.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I love I mean, I was just thinking about that,
sitting outside at my house ninety five degrees summer at
LA weather, and it'd been so nice to have a
little outside fan. Man, lenais are not a thing done
properly elsewhere in southern California. I feel like, and I
would love one.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
That's right? That's right? Should we get into some either
advice or confessions? Or I could do a confession one?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Please?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I have so many? Would you rathers? We've accumulated hundreds,
if not less than hundreds. Let's see. I'll keep everybody anonymous,
because everybody when we do confessions, we usually but I
will say, okay, here's one. I used to work in
the hotel industry and are lost and found. Policy required
that we kept all items for ninety days. If a
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staff member wanted an item, you would put a note
on it, and after the ninety days it was just
theirs for the taking. There was a duffel bag that
had been left for over six months that might have
been owned by a previous housekeeper who was rumored to
have been deported back to Russia. So I claimed it.
The bag contained roughly eighty gift cards of different amounts
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totaling over six thousand dollars sorry, Slava, six thousand dollars
worth of gift cards. What I guess the confession is
is this Bananamal kept it but also good for you? Wow,
oh my god? Could you even spend that many gift
cards in a lifetime? Six thousand dollars?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
It really depends on where they were. If it's all
to outback steakhouse, this is gonna be tough. That's gonna
be a tough meal.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
That's gonna be a lot of bloomin onions which are
very delicious, um absolved. You're allowed to do that. Also,
if it was lost and it's better than just getting
thrown in the trash art, we hope you got some
pink berry out of it at least.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah. Do you have a would you rather before?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah, I have so many? Here's a This is like
just a I guess this is a confession too. This
is from Liz Sabara, like Sabarro Pizza, but Sbarrow. I
have an irrational fear. I have an irrational fear that
one day you guys will read an article on the
podcast written by me and end up calling me the
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mediumist in the biz, but I am not a writer,
just a pure fear that it is an irrational fear, Liz,
we would never You're clearly the best in the biz,
and you're I guess absolved. It's yeah, it's not really dark.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
That is really really funny. Not even a writer, not
even just a very irrational fear.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Thank you for admitting to it.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
We have some really silly ones. Here's a would you
rather from BB nineteen eighty four, Bello you Belvebivdevo nineteen
eighty four. Would you rather cry every time you saw
any boat? Or erupt in laughter anytime a stranger asks
you a question?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Okay, one more time?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Would you rather cry every time you saw any boat?
I mean, like any type of boat, or erupt in
laughter anytime a stranger asks you a question?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yes, cry when I see a boat. I mean I
don't mind crying. I mean I love I'm impressed by
the beauty of boats. Anyway, I'm always taken aback. It
catches your breath, So I think I wouldn't mind crying
every time I see a boat. It seems like it's
a situation that occurs less common than the any stranger
asking you something I know.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
And it is so funny if you just see a
canoe and you just start sobbing and everybody's like, it's
just that canoe, and then Lauren would have to explain,
your kids would have to explain. I think I think
I might actually go a erupt in laughter anytime a
stranger asks you a question, just because after living in
New York for as long as we both did, I
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used to get asked for directions constantly, and I think
it's it's I don't think it's white privilege, but I
do think people just saw me standing there and were like,
look at this big, dumb white guy. Yeah, I bet
he knows which direction Chinatown is. And it was almost
twice a day it was like, if I've rolled the subway,
some excuse me? Is this uptown or downtown? I'm like,
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And I was always having to pull headphones out, so
I guess if it's a rupt and laughter and then
answer the question. I think i'd rather do that. If
I could only laugh, I'd go crying at boats.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
And did I ever tell you that when I was
in DC. I'm in DC, I'm doing shows, I'm staying
at a hotel, I'm literally standing and it's like summertime
in DC. So I'm standing outside of a hotel. I've
just exited the hotel. I'm wearing a backpack and shorts.
I look like a tourist right standing in front hotel,
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backpack on my back, and people walk like this like
I don't know. Fifty five year old couple walks up
to me and says, excuse me, do you know which
direction Avenue E is? And I just I was like,
you really gonna ask me? I'm fully aware, We're all
fully aware that we have a supercomputer in our pocket
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that will locate you on any place on planet Earth,
will tell you immediately which direction avenue he is. But
you're gonna ask the guy with a backpack off and
stand it outside the hotel. And so I just rich,
I picked a direction and I just randomly pointed in
it because that's the way they want to live their life.
I'm gonna let them live their life the way they
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want to live it, which is full of wonder, never
knowing an exploration, because obviously that's what you're looking for.
Asking the guy with the back pack sound standing in
front of the Americana Hotel which direction to go in?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yep, that's right, And like I was a waiter forever
and one of the most annoying things is when people
are like, what should I get or what's good here?
Maybe I'm sure I mentioned this before on the pod,
but like the better way to ask that is, are
what are some of the most popular things on your menu?
Just say that, because you've just put servers in such
a pickle if you just say to them, hey, tell
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me what to order, and then I don't know you man.
One time I was on a road trip in North
Carolina and it was one of those things. This was
a long time ago, like I may have still had
a Garmin GPS at the time. I'm talking two thousand
and three, two thousand and four, and I remember the
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garment like up updated or whatever. I was driving, and
then it sent me on a new highway and it
was somewhere in the Carolinas, I think it was North Carolina,
and I was on a highway and then just up
ahead there was off ramps on both sides and then
the highway US stopped. There was oh yeah, there were
like yellow barriers and orange barriers. Was like highway ends.
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But I was just cruising at eighty miles an hour
and then suddenly was like, oh my god, and I
had like slam on the brakes and take an exit.
But I just didn't know. In America, we just had
highways that could just end somewhere, and so like, thank god,
it wasn't looking at a smartphone or was it, because
I was just cruising down the highway and then there
was literally no more highway, like they had run out
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of money, and the right, it's done. It's done here.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It is so interesting because there's there's I live next
door to a highway in New Jersey called Root eighteen,
and that is exactly what Root eighteen really. You get
into Wall Township and it's just and there's just a wall.
There's just a row of orange cones. Also that it
never becomes more permanent than orange cones. Yeah, crazy, you
know what I mean, Like you just decided that this
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ends here. Can't we put something up that's not just
temporary orange cones? I agree, someday you're gonna conte in
you the highway. Obviously we're not continuing this highway.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Nope, not at all.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Man.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Well, yes, Lisa bar Oh, here's the one that's from
Lexi bean. Would you rather be able to eat but
only when you're naked or when you sneeze, nothing will happen.
But if someone says bless you, you immediately poop your pants.
So every time you eat, you have to be fully
nude or you sneeze, and if anybody in the area
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says bless you, you poop your pants immediately. It's a toughie.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
That's a real toughie. That's a toughie because people are
gonna say bless you.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yeah. The real thing would be controlling sneezing.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Right, that's you would have to learn how to control
your sneeze. The thing is, what's funny about it is
that there's a the sneeze is one of the things
that it's there's a period of inevitability that begins with it.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Oh, it's a nightmare.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
And to know like, oh no, I've got to have
people next to me. Yeah, that you have for the
time you know you're gonna sneeze. Some time you sneeze,
what do you think it is? Two seconds?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Sometimes it's a build Like so if sometimes I'll have
one that maybe ten seconds where you're like you're doing
that thing where you're like you turn your head a
certain way where you're like, don't do it? So, like
how far away could you get from other people? One
thing is if you're alone, see, I think you have
to go sneeze poop your pants here because you couldn't
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go to rest well, because you couldn't go to restaurants ever. Again,
you couldn't. You'd have to be fully nude if you're
If I said, Kurt, do you want to go to
get food, you you'd have to have to bring it
back to my house and I'm gonna be naked because
you could never go to a restaurant again. I don't
think I sneezed that often. I don't know. Maybe I
sneezed today once, but I don't think so I would
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go sneeze, poop your pants and just try to get
that Clareton D subscription coming in hot.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yeah, I guess, yeah. I mean like that. That is
like restaurants are so such a point. It's it's a
high point of life. I would say, sitting down at
a restaurant is such a privilege and a delight to
have professionals prepare food for you. It is, Man, that's tough.
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I guess I have to go sneeze poop your pants too,
which is such a bummer.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I don't like. Good job. Yeah, sneeze, pop your pants.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I sneezed in my sleep the other night. Never happened before.
Has that ever happened to you? And then woke up sneezing?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Probably that's probably strange. Yeah, that is anytime. Yes, anything
but a natural wake up is very strange. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I was taken aback by it. Okay, I got a uh,
I got a little message here.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Oh advice, No, we'll do our best.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, advice exactly Banana's advice.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
We go sometimes good, sometimes bad.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Hey, best in the biz, Banana boys, my next cat.
And here's a quick background on me, mom to one
and a half year old and currently pregnant with number two.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Good.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
I also work full time as an RN in the
operating room of a designated trauma center in the LA area.
I'm looking for advice or suggestions on how to turn
off the part of my brain that does direct no
time for pleasantries, form of communication after my shifts all.
My ability to think clearly in stressful situations is a
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necessary scout work and definitely helpful for raising small kids.
It's not always great in the terms of communicating with
my husband. Any advice on a post work ritual would
be great, especially when I'm caught up on all of
your Guys episodes.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Thanks, hey Cat, good one. Hey Cat, that's a very
good one. First off, uh, thank you for your service
as an RN. You have a you have a you
have a deep a place in the bananas, the bandonana
boys hearts.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
And also, my goodness, that's stressful, one and a half
year old, pregnant, and also oh r r n god damn,
it gets like you are amazing.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
So being short with people after her shift, that's the question, right,
Like how to be a little more pleasant.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
And something to like just it's something to break her out,
some sort of like thing that she can do that
like resets her into I can now have pleasantries. I
can be less. You know, there's no mitten, there's no
wasted words. Kind of like approach to communication.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Well, when I was a Brooklyn night, I was waiting
in line for bagels once and I ordered a everything
bagel and the person said to me, we just sold
the last one. We're out of them for the day.
Can I get you some like sorry? Can I get
you something else, and I muttered but said aloud, well,
we'll all be dead in eighty years anyways, and the
woman behind me started laughing so hard that I later
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tweeted about it, and then that went pretty viral at
the time. So maybe you don't have to go that dark.
But when Kat, when you get home and you're in
your driveway or you get to your car, you could, finally,
you know, turn on the Bananas podcast and laugh and
laugh and laugh. Maybe just say to yourself sixty years
as just a reset to be like, hey, you only
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get a there's a finite amount of time you get
on this earth, and you you're better off spending it
being as kind and generous as you can.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
I love that it is, and it is so true.
I also I want something physical for her. I see something.
I want something that like right as her hand goes
to open the door, there's a there's like a thing
she can do with her body. Because very often I
find as someone who can often be very.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Curt and you've gotten a lot better.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
I tried ten years ago. Sometimes if you caught Kurt
on the wrong moment, it would be like no, and
you're like Okay, well, this conversation's over. He's thinking about
something else, and this topic is now put a pin
in it. You are, You're noticeably and significantly much better.
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I think maybe being a dad now you have to
be more patient.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
You have to I try. Oh my god. It's like
the difference between the mourning patients. The mourning patients with
children especially it's been two full weeks now with them
with no you know, they've just been with us every
second of every day, and also with like going through
jet lag there to Ireland, then going through jet lag
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coming back from Ireland, then waking up in the middle
of the night and them just being like cranky all
the time. The difference between the patience level you have
before the decision fatigue sets in by like six pm
and you've made one billion small tiny decisions then in
your inability to have patients at like six pm, it's
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a real problem for me. Like but in the morning, man,
I am, oh, you don't want to put your shoes
on for twenty five minutes. I'm gonna help you and
talk you through it. Every step I say. And at
six pm when they won't put their like seven, when
they won't put their Pajamason or just go to the bathroom.
It's like, there's God, I'm a yell. I'm an yell
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crazy and I hate it. I hate yelling.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Maybe we need a target. Maybe cat needs a physical target.
What I mean is pick like a celebrity or a
publicly known person that you can't stand cap. For example,
Shia Laboof. Let's go with Shia the beat. We're going
with Shia because we've seen them around. I saw I'm
wearing a karate ge once. You did public and just
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carrying Mark in Echo Park he carried so I to
go order out of a restaurant. I texted a bunch
of my friends. I couldn't get a picture in time
because I was driving. And our good friend memory Heart says,
was it Sage? I go, yeah, it was Sage. She goes,
I saw Shiyotteoo karateke walking out of Sage once and
I'm like, dude, just likes wearing a karate ge. So anyways,
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go find a photo of Shylett Booth. Put him on
your dashboard, put him where you if you push power
on your car, turn your key, and before you start
up your car to head home or head out, go
oh shut the fuck up, Shaia, and then do it.
Target a lot of rage at one person, at one
thing that drives you nuts, and just get that little
grit out of your system and then laugh and have
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a good time. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
And I would say my recommendation this is very It's
easy and simple. As you're going to reach for the
door to enter the house, like we used to do
that thing called like at your house where we would
do a shot of tequila and then shake. Oh yeah,
a face shake.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
And take a photograph of it.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Yeah, cowboy face or duck face, but yeah, cowboy faces.
You do a warm shot of alcohol while wearing a
cowboy hat and then as soon as you shoot it,
somebody takes a picture of your face.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Oh okay, because there was also one where you just
shake your face. Shake face. You shake your face so
fast that you're this centripetal force pulls your cheeks out,
your jowls out, and they slap against your teeth.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Oh, shakeface.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Sorry, it's such a funny, funny sound and it really
does snap you out of whatever you're in. So I
would say shakeface right as you are about to enter
the enter the house, a selfie shake face a selfie
shake face. It's so very funny, and I think that'll
like reset you as you come into this new environment.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
I love that and all been animal. This comes out Thursday.
Whenever you listen to this, send us a DM of
you doing a shakeface, meaning just take a photo of
you shaking your face left to right like you're saying
no as fast as you can without hurting yourself, and
just snap a selfie and we'll send it back. Shake
faces are so fun We used to do group shake faces.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
They're so funny.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
But yeah, we used to do cowboy face, which is
you buy the dumbest cowboy hat you can from Goodwill
and then you do like shot of like room temperature
Jim Beam and as soon as you shoot it, you
lower the shot glass, and then somebody takes a picture
of your cowboy face. Oh man, I have so many
photos of everybody doing cowboy face. That's so upseting.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah, no room temperature, Jose Quervo. I think is my
is the is the is the drink that has made
me vomit after taking a shot of it like once
or twice before, And I who, that's a that's a
rough shot.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
I drove to a birthday party about two weeks ago.
It was a friend's fortieth and he and his friend
group are known for shooting Yegermeister still into their forties
or whatever, and so they one of the friends made
custom airplane bottles that said like happy birthday to the
dude on Jaeger, and the bar was just giving them out,
like if you're like, I want a Yeager shot. They
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had prepaid or whatever with the bar and.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
They're all just airplane bottles that had the guy's name
on it. That's smart and Meister just does that.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Well. I think this dude did it for his friend.
I think our other friend did it.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
And also he bought all the airplane bottles and then
labeled them himself.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Yeah, and the and then we just he paid, he bought.
The guy bought out the bar for the night. So
we just kind of like, you know, cash bar except
for Yeager was coming in hot. But I drove that
night and everybody knows that I like to have a
good time. So every time somebody would do like a
group birthday, like hey, let's say happy birthday, do his
shot like this one dude TK, we was like Scott,
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he'll do it, like get him in here. So I
was going over and they kept handing him to me,
and I would do half the shot and then put
the other half in my pocket. So by the time
I walked out to my car, I had like five
half bottles of Jagermeister in my pocket, just clanking along.
Nobody noticed. So I had a food with Tka two
days ago and I was like, dude, you I've never
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seen you drink like that before. You were like the
master of Jaegermeister. He's like, I threw up for three days.
He's like, it was a huge mistake. He goes, how
do you do it? I go, well, I didn't, man,
I had these half bottles. He's like, that's so fucking smart.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
That's so fucking smart.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
But it was funny to like, because then you get
in your car and you're like, well, if I get
pulled over, I have five empty, five half drunk. Yeah.
So I found the closest seventy six oil and threw
them away. But it was funny just walking down the street,
just like click click click, it comes, it comes. Buzzboy.
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Oh man, that was a good one.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
I like I like a shake face. I like yelling
at a celebrity cut out that you don't like and
then laughing at how dumb that celebrity is and or saying, uh,
fifty years, Like I'll be dead in fifty years.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
I know it.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
So I just go, yeah, fifty years and then everything
gets a little easier.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Do you want to let's do it? Would you rather
before our next? Uh?
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Okay, here's one that just doesn't make sense, and that's
why it might be my favorite one this week. Okay,
this is from gala ttttttt, So thank you Galaatee or Galatee.
Would you rather be a train conductor or a really
big trombone?
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (35:37):
I mean you know my answer? This is an easy
answer for me.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
This dude loves trains.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
I love trains. Can meet train conductor? Does that? My
question is do I drive the train or do I
take the tickets? I'm assuming I drive the train.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Wouldn't that at a conductor? I think that's what a
train conductor does.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
It is an interesting use of the word because it's Oh,
the only other conductor other than a train is an orchestra? Yes?
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (36:06):
That?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Is it that it's a similar relationship between you and
the thing that like with a train. You're not really
driving it, You're just kind of suggesting it starts, but
it stops.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Yeah, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
And that's what a conductor does. It suggests when the
music begins and ends, and I guess keeps on beat.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Yeah is that true? Are you a conduct mean either?
And I love the symphony. I honestly love going to
the symphony. It's one of my favorite things. Even if
I fall asleep, I wake back up and I'm just overjoyed.
And not once have I ever watched the conductor and
been like, yeah, he really brought it today.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
This is why the fact that they're celebrity conductors, it
is a level of musicality that I must be. I
just I simply do not understand. I really does seem
like it's a human metronome, do you know what I mean?
Like it's a huge like everybody has the music and
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more happy the music in front of them. It's it
does seem like everybody should be able to just play
the piece without a man waving his arms at them.
But I but I'm an ignorant OAF. I don't know
any Yeah, we're ignorant oafs. And but I don't know
what they do either.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
I remember watching that movie Whiplash, which I think is
a great movie. I really love that movie, and the
I don't know the actor's name, but that one of
the guys it's like a jazz conductor. And the part
I like most is he gets so pissed at the
Miles Teller character over and over and over that they
like fight and he's like, what the fuck are you doing?
And stuff during a concert where I'm like, is that
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what symphony conductors are doing? Are they looking at people
giving him the side eye like you you shitty obo player,
you suck third clarinet.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
So what's very funny about that movie is that the
whole like problem with his plague is that it's simply
not fast enough.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Yes or yeah JK. Simmons is the actor's.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
But that definitely doesn't seem to be like the main
problem in playing the drums is that you're fast enough.
It seems like such a stupid problem to build an
entire movie around to have him his problem as a
musician is that he can't drum fast enough. That seems
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stupid to me.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Yeah, man, it is. And And yet when I watched
that movie, I was so stressed out, and then I
loved the solo at the end of somebody who doesn't
play music at all. But going back to it, it's
like there's so many every time you see a symphon
in the year, like what is this guy doing up here?
What is she doing up there? Because it just seems
like these are world class musicians that could have figured
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it out on their own. Are we we are so
dumb to itself? I'm sure we'll get some some give
us some. Actually is we want to know? Actually is?
Are they very important? Do they control tempo?
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Obviously? Obviously I'm going train conductor. But let's talk trombone
for a second.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Yeah, really, big trombone. One great instrument. One of the
best instruments, the trumpbone. Yeah, I agree. The trombone is
a slide one, right, it's the slide one. So one
of the few instruments that can knock a hat off
somebody in two ways. You can either blow it off
or just tip it off with the slide, which is
very fun.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Yeah. Also one of the ones. I guess there's there's
a there's I guess trumpet is like this as well,
but that there's no like you do this specifically for
this note. It's like just a sliding thing where you
have to feel it that whole time. That is it
seems to me to be like, wow, this maybe is
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the hardest instrument.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Yeah, it's right. It's all feel I guess right.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
You feel in sound like you hear it, you hear
where you're at.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
One time, at Damien's house in Brooklyn, our good friend,
he had a party and I was talking to a
woman at the party and I never met her before,
and I think I come from a symphony sometime that week,
and she said she was she played the flute. She
was a floutist, I believe it is. And she said
that most floutists are left handed and that most of
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them lift their right leg and put their top of
the right foot on the back of their left knee
when they're playing like focused, and she showed me and
she demonstrated. And then I have brought that up so
many times and every single time people are like, absolutely
not true. That person was crazy. Really what I think
I might have even mentioned like twenty twenty one on
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bananas and had people being like, no, not true. But
she's like ninety something percent of flute players or floutests
are left handed, and that a lot of them rest
their right foot on their left leg when they're like
soloing or doing something that they really need to concentrate.
And every single person I've ever told that to who
knows music, it's like, that is a lie. Wow, really
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in the palm of her hand.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Oh, I love it. I wonder if she was fucking
with you or I think she Oh, you do think so?
Speaker 3 (41:13):
And looking back, I mean because I was like, that's cool,
that's I like weird facts and information, so I was
like a sponge for it.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Yeah, in the future, I will have a weird news
podcast and I'm going.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
To bring this up and one hundred flute players are
going to be like, that is incorrect. I'm right handed
and might keep both feet on the ground. Did you
play an instrument when you were in like third grade
or fourth grade or whenever they get you started?
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Yeah, third grade it was saxophone. Yeah, and then played
guitar and then piano. I played piano for the longest time,
and I retain absolutely none of it abiding love of music. Scottie.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Hey, that's all you really need to get out of it.
How many people there are no bands anymore everythings DJs
I did, Sacks didn't like it, did Trumpet didn't like it,
went back to sports. I just didn't have it. In retrospect,
I bet I would have liked drumming. I think I
would have been a good drummer. I enjoy it as
evidenced by your love of Whiplash. I'm literally obsessed with Whiplash.
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If you're an aspiring screenwriter, watch Whiplash and then watch
Black Swan, and they're the same movie, almost beat for beat.
Even though black Swan has sort of a paranormal psychological
element to it, it's they're very similar movies, like like
like so much.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Oh wow, that's very interesting. I had no idea I will.
I've never seen black Swan.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
Oh dude, that movie is incredible. Oh really, Okay, that
movie is so good. I don't know if it won
Best Picture to you or came out, but that movie
is good and so weird. But it's very very it's
beat for beat, stress for stress, the same as Black Swan,
in the same way that Fastened the Furious is the
exact same movie as Point Break.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Oh that's right, same movie.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Bana guys, gowns down, binary pounds. Welcome to the Bonusode
Bananas Podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Hi Scotti, It's Thursday. It's Bonus Sode time. I'm here
with my dude, Kurtie B Kirk Brown Older and you know,
we're just getting a very friggin pumped up because Banana's
Fastest coming September seventh, twenty twenty four. If you're listening
to this year from now, you missed it.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
And I mean, I'm excited to talk about all the
things we're doing on Bananas Fest, Scotti, It's really excited.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And also bring your own stuff, Like I've been seeing
a lot of dms on Instagram that are that are
people making friendship bracelets already for Bananasfest that I'm guessing
they're going to hand out to strangers. I'm seeing artwork
people are making. We still Kurdib and I still need
to decide what the contest for dogs will be, but
we'll have a dog contest. But feel free to bring
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whatever you're into. If you ride a Penny Farthing bicycle,
bring it to Laramer Square. If you're a juggler, and
you never have anybody that wants to see you juggle.
Bring those balls to Larimer Square.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
And then of course we're doing two shows that night,
September seventh and Comedy Works, which is right there. It's
physically right in Larimer Square in Denver, so it's kind
of perfect. Very also going to be doing a Have
we talked about the tampon toss yet? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
We're doing the tampon toss. It's our Guinness World record.
We're going for it.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
We're gonna try and break a Guinness Book World record. Actually,
no one, we're not breaking it. We're setting it. Making
has ever done it? Yeah, we are making this one,
and so the Guinness I'm going back and forth with
the Guinness people right now. But we're doing it with
an organization in Denver.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Called I Support the Girls, where we're gonna throw literally
as many packaged tampons as we can in the air,
gather them all up with our tampon fairies, and then
donate them to this wonderful organization and I do. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
We hope to do a five hundred tampon toss. That
is our goal currently, so to have five hundred people
do a tampon toss. So that means if you're coming
to Bananas Fest, bring a box of tampons. You'll take
one out, you'll use it for the toss. That one
will then be collected and they'll go into you know,
the collection bind. But then the box can be donated itself.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
That's exactly right. So just get ready. When was the
next time you got together with five hundred other people
and threw a tampon in the air. That's what you
have to look in the mirror every morning while you
brush your teeth and say, hey, when was the last time?
When was it? When was it? We're going to marry
some couples, and so if you're thinking, if you and
your partner are have been toying with the idea of
getting married, Kurtie B and I are going to marry
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between four and twenty couples live in front of a
gathering of our at four twenty. So it's you've been
waiting and you need an excuse to get hitched, the
Banana Boys will do it for you.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Also, for the tampon toss, someone dressed as a vagina
will be there and they will stand in the middle,
which is pretty exciting.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Pretty fantastic. Our really good friend of the podcast, the
artist and illustrator Kate Cosgrove, is coming in. Kurt. She
showed me some rch she's making. She is drawing individual
bananas with names and hobbies that you can collect. So
if you're there and you're an adult, or you're there
with your kids, it's find Kate. We're gonna set her
up in a table somewhere in the shade where she's
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going to be selling prints but also giving away various
bananas art. But she has been very supportive for Kurt
and I and it's just a wonderful best selling children's
book illustrator.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Kate is really fantastic. She did these two beautiful pieces
of olive and gust that I yes, that I love
so much.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
We're gonna have a friendship circle.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Oh, we're gona have a friendship circle. If you come
to Banana's Fest by yourself, there will be a specific
circle that you can stand in and other people who
are there buy them.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
We'll meet you in that circle and you will become friends.
It happened there we go in the friendship circle.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
We'll also have dragking bingo as well. We're gonna have
Laurel Laurel.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Doing Laurel's Coming. She's gonna do a speed friend dating.
So if you need to make friends you live in
Colorado or you're just there for the weekend, Laurel Bristow,
our good friend is going to come on out and
lead the way with that. So you can sit down,
meet somebody, chap for I don't know a minute, and
then it's up onto somebody else. If you guys are numbers,
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ye to do it too.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And of course the whole day starts with splitting the city.
I mean like that's usually Splitting the city is enough
for a fun day. Yeah, you're going to do one
k the event by itself, so we're gonna do a downhill.
One k starts at a brewery and then we all
walk into Bananas Fest together at noon, marching band starts up.
(05:35):
It's gonna be and then there's immediately a dunk tank
that Scotty and I will be in throughout the.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Day, alternating turns where we'll be handing out balls. We
don't know if it's free or we're gonna do like
dollar donations that go towards another charity, but you can.
You can throw a ball and drop Kurdy b into
a dunk tank. You can throw a ball, hit the
target and dunk Banana Boy number two into a dunk
tank for I don't know, all day, as long as
we feel like getting wet.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
The charity is it's a wilderness protection charity and not
the name right now, but they are. They deal with
invasive species, and so we go, We're doing an invasive
species for the dunk tank. We admire them, but they
gotta go.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You are against them, We're against them.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
We're against them, but we do admire their pluck and determination.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Absolutely, it's gonna be great. Bring your great energy to
Bananas Fest. All are welcome and say hey and make
friends and have a great day. And also if you
come for two hours and you're like, yeah, I've had enough,
that's fine too. We'll be happy to see you for
two hours. If you come and stay the whole damn
time from Splitty to the nine o'clock nine thirty show,
well then you're an official Ultra Megabananimal Marathon or I.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Remember, Bananas Fest is free and then the shows at
night you have to buy tickets for the first one
is a regular Bananas podcast. The second one is Bananas
after Dark. It'll be a little mix of everything, and
I think it'll be a little wilder, a little wilder,
I would say, Yeah, two totally different shows. So you
can buy tickets to both. You won't be disappointed. And
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you should buy tickets to both. Wow and Yeah, and
we'll be there all day and hanging out. I just
got back from Ireland, Scotti.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yeah, the the Emerald Isle or right the Greenland. I
call it Greenland.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I love it so much. Oh my god, I could
live there. I could live there, Scotty, understand why So
what were some of the highlights.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
What did you see? Did you see anything that caught
you off guard?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
The Dingle Peninsula is pretty amazing.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Dingle Rules, It's so awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
We went to this kind of this part of Dingle
that was just we were by ourselves, which is the
most fascinating part of it. And I will tell you
the name of it. It's actually all the way at
the tip. I think it's called South Urn Bay. Oh, no,
Cloger Strand ooh, And it's kind of at the western
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tip of the Dingle Pizza It's just the water is
just crystal clear, bright blue, and it's the most And
then we walked along this bluff just next to horses,
just beautiful like what seem to be like Clydesdale ponies,
like giant but they had furry ankles and they're just
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just chew chowing down on some grass next to the
most gorgeous view. And there was just a path you
could walk through their their their pasture. Yeah, and that
was the thing that I think, this is the thing
that struck me the most. And I guess it's just
a lower population than the United States. But a location
such as that we were in in the United States
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would have a four seasons built on top of it
within moments, like if Ireland became part of America, within moments,
there would be a four seasons there. And it's not
it's just open grazing land. And then maybe there's a
farmhouse across the bay and that's it. That is absolutely it.
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It is like I totally totally would live there.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Oh my God, of course it's beautiful. Shout out to
all our Irish ban animals wherever you are, Godly, it
is pretty there.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
It is really amazing. And we stayed in a castle
which sounds like and it's not, but it's not. It's
not like there's just so many castles castles. You can
just stay in a castle. We stayed in this castle
called Abbey Glen. Abbey Glen Castle in up North northwest
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northwest of Galway. I'm in Connemara area. It's in a
little town called Clifton. I would highly recommend it to anybody.
The rooms are not like like insanely expensive, and then
you get there and it's like being it was the
felt like do you remember I don't know if you
had this in Baltimore, but ads for beautiful Mount Dairy Lodge. Yeah,
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of course, Mount Dairy, Lah, Yes, of course. So that
is what the entire experience of being in the castle
felt like. So if nobody remembers this, if you're not
from the East Coast in that specific time, it was
like a I don't know, a resort I guess in
the Poconos that had like hot tubs made made like
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champagne glasses.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Heart shaped, yeah, heart shaped jacuzzis, oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
And that was the vibe. And there was a host.
There was like a guy who's family owned the castle
and he was your host each evening and something would happen,
but he would literally walk around. He would give it
like a talk about the castle in the lobby and
you got free champagne, and then you would like it
sounds like I'm doing an ad and then you get
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up and then it's a nice meal and he's just
walking around. And then afterwards in the bar there's live
music and he's just there buying people drinks. We like
just chatted with him for a long time about his
kids and whatnot, and it was so nice. And the
idea is really that, like there's a host to every night,
and every night is like a part it's like a party,
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and it feels like summer camp.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
And it was like a.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Welcome reprieve after a lot of driving with two kids
in the car.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Oh God, did you happen to pass through Waterville in
Carry County or County carriage?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
They very famously have that Charlie Chaplin statue just at
just on the it's like right off the road, and
it's a it's a great one. It's a fun little town.
It's I stayed near there in an airbnb called the
cow Shed, which was a shed in the Cow Country
surrounded by cows. But yeah, I drove right by. It
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was like, holy smokes, that's it. I'd heard of that
one for years. But yeah, there's just a random Charlie Chaplin.
I think you stayed at the hotel there once or
something like that, and then for some reason there's a
Charlie Chaplin statue and I think it's Waterville, Ireland. What
a place. Also, I'm glad that you drove it because
it's a unique driving experience there. Yeah, roads are small,
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they're very narrow, but you really get to see the countryside.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
It is really crazy that you just there are just
certain sections where you're like, I'm gonna I'm gonna hit
this car and you never do somehow never do you
somehow never do. But sometimes you have to like pull
over into and then there's just a lot of like
bridges where it's just narrow enough for the car's wheels
and so you have to wait while the other car
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comes over and then you go over. But god, oh man,
it was great. We would see the most amazing things.
And the only thing the kids talked about was the
revolving door at the airport.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
That was like, that's mean.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
They didn't shut the fuck up. About the revolving door
at the airport for eight days.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Street Hey, it must have been pretty good. I was
dming with a bananimal about the Lake of the Ozarks
and she was down there and we were just talking
about this one bar, and I was like, well, they
have the biggest fans I've ever seen. She's like, it's
a company called Big Ass Fans. There's like a company
that makes giant fans for public spaces called big Ass Fans.
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And so we weren't talking about anything else having to
do with the bar, the lake, the food, the drinks,
just that they have remarkably humongous fans.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Give me a size dimension.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
In diameter, I would say.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Eighteen feet eighteen feet across. Yeah, oh my god, big fans.
That's a big fan.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Yeah. These are not small fans.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
At tops twelve nine twelve feet.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
No, that's just a medium ass fan. These are big
gas fans. And it's the one thing I really remember
about that place. They have a pirate ship parked outside
and then they have gigantic fans, And I was like,
one day I want a Lanai big enough where I
have one of those fans, just keeping everybody mosquito free.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
I love I mean, I was just thinking about that,
sitting outside at my house ninety five degrees summer at
LA weather, and it'd been so nice to have a
little outside fan. Man, lenais are not a thing done
properly elsewhere in southern California. I feel like, and I
would love one.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
That's right? That's right? Should we get into some either
advice or confessions? Or I could do a confession one?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Please?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I have so many? Would you rathers? We've accumulated hundreds,
if not less than hundreds. Let's see. I'll keep everybody anonymous,
because everybody when we do confessions, we usually but I
will say, okay, here's one. I used to work in
the hotel industry and are lost and found. Policy required
that we kept all items for ninety days. If a
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staff member wanted an item, you would put a note
on it, and after the ninety days it was just
theirs for the taking. There was a duffel bag that
had been left for over six months that might have
been owned by a previous housekeeper who was rumored to
have been deported back to Russia. So I claimed it.
The bag contained roughly eighty gift cards of different amounts
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totaling over six thousand dollars sorry, Slava, six thousand dollars
worth of gift cards. What I guess the confession is
is this Bananamal kept it but also good for you? Wow,
oh my god? Could you even spend that many gift
cards in a lifetime? Six thousand dollars?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
It really depends on where they were. If it's all
to outback steakhouse, this is gonna be tough. That's gonna
be a tough meal.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
That's gonna be a lot of bloomin onions which are
very delicious, um absolved. You're allowed to do that. Also,
if it was lost and it's better than just getting
thrown in the trash art, we hope you got some
pink berry out of it at least.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah. Do you have a would you rather before?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah, I have so many? Here's a This is like
just a I guess this is a confession too. This
is from Liz Sabara, like Sabarro Pizza, but Sbarrow. I
have an irrational fear. I have an irrational fear that
one day you guys will read an article on the
podcast written by me and end up calling me the
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mediumist in the biz, but I am not a writer,
just a pure fear that it is an irrational fear, Liz,
we would never You're clearly the best in the biz,
and you're I guess absolved. It's yeah, it's not really dark.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
That is really really funny. Not even a writer, not
even just a very irrational fear.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Thank you for admitting to it.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
We have some really silly ones. Here's a would you
rather from BB nineteen eighty four, Bello you Belvebivdevo nineteen
eighty four. Would you rather cry every time you saw
any boat? Or erupt in laughter anytime a stranger asks
you a question?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Okay, one more time?
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Would you rather cry every time you saw any boat?
I mean, like any type of boat, or erupt in
laughter anytime a stranger asks you a question?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yes, cry when I see a boat. I mean I
don't mind crying. I mean I love I'm impressed by
the beauty of boats. Anyway, I'm always taken aback. It
catches your breath, So I think I wouldn't mind crying
every time I see a boat. It seems like it's
a situation that occurs less common than the any stranger
asking you something I know.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
And it is so funny if you just see a
canoe and you just start sobbing and everybody's like, it's
just that canoe, and then Lauren would have to explain,
your kids would have to explain. I think I think
I might actually go a erupt in laughter anytime a
stranger asks you a question, just because after living in
New York for as long as we both did, I
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used to get asked for directions constantly, and I think
it's it's I don't think it's white privilege, but I
do think people just saw me standing there and were like,
look at this big, dumb white guy. Yeah, I bet
he knows which direction Chinatown is. And it was almost
twice a day it was like, if I've rolled the subway,
some excuse me? Is this uptown or downtown? I'm like,
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And I was always having to pull headphones out, so
I guess if it's a rupt and laughter and then
answer the question. I think i'd rather do that. If
I could only laugh, I'd go crying at boats.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
And did I ever tell you that when I was
in DC. I'm in DC, I'm doing shows, I'm staying
at a hotel, I'm literally standing and it's like summertime
in DC. So I'm standing outside of a hotel. I've
just exited the hotel. I'm wearing a backpack and shorts.
I look like a tourist right standing in front hotel,
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backpack on my back, and people walk like this like
I don't know. Fifty five year old couple walks up
to me and says, excuse me, do you know which
direction Avenue E is? And I just I was like,
you really gonna ask me? I'm fully aware, We're all
fully aware that we have a supercomputer in our pocket
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that will locate you on any place on planet Earth,
will tell you immediately which direction avenue he is. But
you're gonna ask the guy with a backpack off and
stand it outside the hotel. And so I just rich,
I picked a direction and I just randomly pointed in
it because that's the way they want to live their life.
I'm gonna let them live their life the way they
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want to live it, which is full of wonder, never
knowing an exploration, because obviously that's what you're looking for.
Asking the guy with the back pack sound standing in
front of the Americana Hotel which direction to go in?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yep, that's right, And like I was a waiter forever
and one of the most annoying things is when people
are like, what should I get or what's good here?
Maybe I'm sure I mentioned this before on the pod,
but like the better way to ask that is, are
what are some of the most popular things on your menu?
Just say that, because you've just put servers in such
a pickle if you just say to them, hey, tell
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me what to order, and then I don't know you man.
One time I was on a road trip in North
Carolina and it was one of those things. This was
a long time ago, like I may have still had
a Garmin GPS at the time. I'm talking two thousand
and three, two thousand and four, and I remember the
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garment like up updated or whatever. I was driving, and
then it sent me on a new highway and it
was somewhere in the Carolinas, I think it was North Carolina,
and I was on a highway and then just up
ahead there was off ramps on both sides and then
the highway US stopped. There was oh yeah, there were
like yellow barriers and orange barriers. Was like highway ends.
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But I was just cruising at eighty miles an hour
and then suddenly was like, oh my god, and I
had like slam on the brakes and take an exit.
But I just didn't know. In America, we just had
highways that could just end somewhere, and so like, thank god,
it wasn't looking at a smartphone or was it, because
I was just cruising down the highway and then there
was literally no more highway, like they had run out
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of money, and the right, it's done. It's done here.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It is so interesting because there's there's I live next
door to a highway in New Jersey called Root eighteen,
and that is exactly what Root eighteen really. You get
into Wall Township and it's just and there's just a wall.
There's just a row of orange cones. Also that it
never becomes more permanent than orange cones. Yeah, crazy, you
know what I mean, Like you just decided that this
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ends here. Can't we put something up that's not just
temporary orange cones? I agree, someday you're gonna conte in
you the highway. Obviously we're not continuing this highway.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Nope, not at all.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Man.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Well, yes, Lisa bar Oh, here's the one that's from
Lexi bean. Would you rather be able to eat but
only when you're naked or when you sneeze, nothing will happen.
But if someone says bless you, you immediately poop your pants.
So every time you eat, you have to be fully
nude or you sneeze, and if anybody in the area
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says bless you, you poop your pants immediately. It's a toughie.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
That's a real toughie. That's a toughie because people are
gonna say bless you.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Yeah. The real thing would be controlling sneezing.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Right, that's you would have to learn how to control
your sneeze. The thing is, what's funny about it is
that there's a the sneeze is one of the things
that it's there's a period of inevitability that begins with it.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Oh, it's a nightmare.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
And to know like, oh no, I've got to have
people next to me. Yeah, that you have for the
time you know you're gonna sneeze. Some time you sneeze,
what do you think it is? Two seconds?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Sometimes it's a build Like so if sometimes I'll have
one that maybe ten seconds where you're like you're doing
that thing where you're like you turn your head a
certain way where you're like, don't do it? So, like
how far away could you get from other people? One
thing is if you're alone, see, I think you have
to go sneeze poop your pants here because you couldn't
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go to rest well, because you couldn't go to restaurants ever. Again,
you couldn't. You'd have to be fully nude if you're
If I said, Kurt, do you want to go to
get food, you you'd have to have to bring it
back to my house and I'm gonna be naked because
you could never go to a restaurant again. I don't
think I sneezed that often. I don't know. Maybe I
sneezed today once, but I don't think so I would
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go sneeze, poop your pants and just try to get
that Clareton D subscription coming in hot.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yeah, I guess, yeah. I mean like that. That is
like restaurants are so such a point. It's it's a
high point of life. I would say, sitting down at
a restaurant is such a privilege and a delight to
have professionals prepare food for you. It is, Man, that's tough.
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I guess I have to go sneeze poop your pants too,
which is such a bummer.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I don't like. Good job. Yeah, sneeze, pop your pants.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I sneezed in my sleep the other night. Never happened before.
Has that ever happened to you? And then woke up sneezing?
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Probably that's probably strange. Yeah, that is anytime. Yes, anything
but a natural wake up is very strange. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I was taken aback by it. Okay, I got a uh,
I got a little message here.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Oh advice, No, we'll do our best.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, advice exactly Banana's advice.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
We go sometimes good, sometimes bad.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Hey, best in the biz, Banana boys, my next cat.
And here's a quick background on me, mom to one
and a half year old and currently pregnant with number two.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Good.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
I also work full time as an RN in the
operating room of a designated trauma center in the LA area.
I'm looking for advice or suggestions on how to turn
off the part of my brain that does direct no
time for pleasantries, form of communication after my shifts all.
My ability to think clearly in stressful situations is a
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necessary scout work and definitely helpful for raising small kids.
It's not always great in the terms of communicating with
my husband. Any advice on a post work ritual would
be great, especially when I'm caught up on all of
your Guys episodes.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Thanks, hey Cat, good one. Hey Cat, that's a very
good one. First off, uh, thank you for your service
as an RN. You have a you have a you
have a deep a place in the bananas, the bandonana
boys hearts.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
And also, my goodness, that's stressful, one and a half
year old, pregnant, and also oh r r n god damn,
it gets like you are amazing.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
So being short with people after her shift, that's the question, right,
Like how to be a little more pleasant.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
And something to like just it's something to break her out,
some sort of like thing that she can do that
like resets her into I can now have pleasantries. I
can be less. You know, there's no mitten, there's no
wasted words. Kind of like approach to communication.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Well, when I was a Brooklyn night, I was waiting
in line for bagels once and I ordered a everything
bagel and the person said to me, we just sold
the last one. We're out of them for the day.
Can I get you some like sorry? Can I get
you something else, and I muttered but said aloud, well,
we'll all be dead in eighty years anyways, and the
woman behind me started laughing so hard that I later
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tweeted about it, and then that went pretty viral at
the time. So maybe you don't have to go that dark.
But when Kat, when you get home and you're in
your driveway or you get to your car, you could, finally,
you know, turn on the Bananas podcast and laugh and
laugh and laugh. Maybe just say to yourself sixty years
as just a reset to be like, hey, you only
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get a there's a finite amount of time you get
on this earth, and you you're better off spending it
being as kind and generous as you can.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
I love that it is, and it is so true.
I also I want something physical for her. I see something.
I want something that like right as her hand goes
to open the door, there's a there's like a thing
she can do with her body. Because very often I
find as someone who can often be very.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
Curt and you've gotten a lot better.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
I tried ten years ago. Sometimes if you caught Kurt
on the wrong moment, it would be like no, and
you're like Okay, well, this conversation's over. He's thinking about
something else, and this topic is now put a pin
in it. You are, You're noticeably and significantly much better.
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I think maybe being a dad now you have to
be more patient.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
You have to I try. Oh my god. It's like
the difference between the mourning patients. The mourning patients with
children especially it's been two full weeks now with them
with no you know, they've just been with us every
second of every day, and also with like going through
jet lag there to Ireland, then going through jet lag
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coming back from Ireland, then waking up in the middle
of the night and them just being like cranky all
the time. The difference between the patience level you have
before the decision fatigue sets in by like six pm
and you've made one billion small tiny decisions then in
your inability to have patients at like six pm, it's
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a real problem for me. Like but in the morning, man,
I am, oh, you don't want to put your shoes
on for twenty five minutes. I'm gonna help you and
talk you through it. Every step I say. And at
six pm when they won't put their like seven, when
they won't put their Pajamason or just go to the bathroom.
It's like, there's God, I'm a yell. I'm an yell
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crazy and I hate it. I hate yelling.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Maybe we need a target. Maybe cat needs a physical target.
What I mean is pick like a celebrity or a
publicly known person that you can't stand cap. For example,
Shia Laboof. Let's go with Shia the beat. We're going
with Shia because we've seen them around. I saw I'm
wearing a karate ge once. You did public and just
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carrying Mark in Echo Park he carried so I to
go order out of a restaurant. I texted a bunch
of my friends. I couldn't get a picture in time
because I was driving. And our good friend memory Heart says,
was it Sage? I go, yeah, it was Sage. She goes,
I saw Shiyotteoo karateke walking out of Sage once and
I'm like, dude, just likes wearing a karate ge. So anyways,
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go find a photo of Shylett Booth. Put him on
your dashboard, put him where you if you push power
on your car, turn your key, and before you start
up your car to head home or head out, go
oh shut the fuck up, Shaia, and then do it.
Target a lot of rage at one person, at one
thing that drives you nuts, and just get that little
grit out of your system and then laugh and have
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a good time. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
And I would say my recommendation this is very It's
easy and simple. As you're going to reach for the
door to enter the house, like we used to do
that thing called like at your house where we would
do a shot of tequila and then shake. Oh yeah,
a face shake.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Do you remember that?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
And take a photograph of it.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Yeah, cowboy face or duck face, but yeah, cowboy faces.
You do a warm shot of alcohol while wearing a
cowboy hat and then as soon as you shoot it,
somebody takes a picture of your face.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Oh okay, because there was also one where you just
shake your face. Shake face. You shake your face so
fast that you're this centripetal force pulls your cheeks out,
your jowls out, and they slap against your teeth.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Oh, shakeface.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Sorry, it's such a funny, funny sound and it really
does snap you out of whatever you're in. So I
would say shakeface right as you are about to enter
the enter the house, a selfie shake face a selfie
shake face. It's so very funny, and I think that'll
like reset you as you come into this new environment.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
I love that and all been animal. This comes out Thursday.
Whenever you listen to this, send us a DM of
you doing a shakeface, meaning just take a photo of
you shaking your face left to right like you're saying
no as fast as you can without hurting yourself, and
just snap a selfie and we'll send it back. Shake
faces are so fun We used to do group shake faces.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
They're so funny.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
But yeah, we used to do cowboy face, which is
you buy the dumbest cowboy hat you can from Goodwill
and then you do like shot of like room temperature
Jim Beam and as soon as you shoot it, you
lower the shot glass, and then somebody takes a picture
of your cowboy face. Oh man, I have so many
photos of everybody doing cowboy face. That's so upseting.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Yeah, no room temperature, Jose Quervo. I think is my
is the is the is the drink that has made
me vomit after taking a shot of it like once
or twice before, And I who, that's a that's a
rough shot.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
I drove to a birthday party about two weeks ago.
It was a friend's fortieth and he and his friend
group are known for shooting Yegermeister still into their forties
or whatever, and so they one of the friends made
custom airplane bottles that said like happy birthday to the
dude on Jaeger, and the bar was just giving them out,
like if you're like, I want a Yeager shot. They
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had prepaid or whatever with the bar and.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
They're all just airplane bottles that had the guy's name
on it. That's smart and Meister just does that.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Well. I think this dude did it for his friend.
I think our other friend did it.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
And also he bought all the airplane bottles and then
labeled them himself.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Yeah, and the and then we just he paid, he bought.
The guy bought out the bar for the night. So
we just kind of like, you know, cash bar except
for Yeager was coming in hot. But I drove that
night and everybody knows that I like to have a
good time. So every time somebody would do like a
group birthday, like hey, let's say happy birthday, do his
shot like this one dude TK, we was like Scott,
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he'll do it, like get him in here. So I
was going over and they kept handing him to me,
and I would do half the shot and then put
the other half in my pocket. So by the time
I walked out to my car, I had like five
half bottles of Jagermeister in my pocket, just clanking along.
Nobody noticed. So I had a food with Tka two
days ago and I was like, dude, you I've never
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seen you drink like that before. You were like the
master of Jaegermeister. He's like, I threw up for three days.
He's like, it was a huge mistake. He goes, how
do you do it? I go, well, I didn't, man,
I had these half bottles. He's like, that's so fucking smart.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
That's so fucking smart.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
But it was funny to like, because then you get
in your car and you're like, well, if I get
pulled over, I have five empty, five half drunk. Yeah.
So I found the closest seventy six oil and threw
them away. But it was funny just walking down the street,
just like click click click, it comes, it comes. Buzzboy.
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Oh man, that was a good one.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
I like I like a shake face. I like yelling
at a celebrity cut out that you don't like and
then laughing at how dumb that celebrity is and or saying, uh,
fifty years, Like I'll be dead in fifty years.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
I know it.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
So I just go, yeah, fifty years and then everything
gets a little easier.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Do you want to let's do it? Would you rather
before our next? Uh?
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Okay, here's one that just doesn't make sense, and that's
why it might be my favorite one this week. Okay,
this is from gala ttttttt, So thank you Galaatee or Galatee.
Would you rather be a train conductor or a really
big trombone?
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (35:37):
I mean you know my answer? This is an easy
answer for me.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
This dude loves trains.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
I love trains. Can meet train conductor? Does that? My
question is do I drive the train or do I
take the tickets? I'm assuming I drive the train.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Wouldn't that at a conductor? I think that's what a
train conductor does.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
It is an interesting use of the word because it's Oh,
the only other conductor other than a train is an orchestra? Yes?
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (36:06):
That?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Is it that it's a similar relationship between you and
the thing that like with a train. You're not really
driving it, You're just kind of suggesting it starts, but
it stops.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Yeah, do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
And that's what a conductor does. It suggests when the
music begins and ends, and I guess keeps on beat.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Yeah is that true? Are you a conduct mean either?
And I love the symphony. I honestly love going to
the symphony. It's one of my favorite things. Even if
I fall asleep, I wake back up and I'm just overjoyed.
And not once have I ever watched the conductor and
been like, yeah, he really brought it today.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
This is why the fact that they're celebrity conductors, it
is a level of musicality that I must be. I
just I simply do not understand. I really does seem
like it's a human metronome, do you know what I mean?
Like it's a huge like everybody has the music and
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more happy the music in front of them. It's it
does seem like everybody should be able to just play
the piece without a man waving his arms at them.
But I but I'm an ignorant OAF. I don't know
any Yeah, we're ignorant oafs. And but I don't know
what they do either.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
I remember watching that movie Whiplash, which I think is
a great movie. I really love that movie, and the
I don't know the actor's name, but that one of
the guys it's like a jazz conductor. And the part
I like most is he gets so pissed at the
Miles Teller character over and over and over that they
like fight and he's like, what the fuck are you doing?
And stuff during a concert where I'm like, is that
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what symphony conductors are doing? Are they looking at people
giving him the side eye like you you shitty obo player,
you suck third clarinet.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
So what's very funny about that movie is that the
whole like problem with his plague is that it's simply
not fast enough.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Yes or yeah JK. Simmons is the actor's.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
But that definitely doesn't seem to be like the main
problem in playing the drums is that you're fast enough.
It seems like such a stupid problem to build an
entire movie around to have him his problem as a
musician is that he can't drum fast enough. That seems
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stupid to me.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Yeah, man, it is. And And yet when I watched
that movie, I was so stressed out, and then I
loved the solo at the end of somebody who doesn't
play music at all. But going back to it, it's
like there's so many every time you see a symphon
in the year, like what is this guy doing up here?
What is she doing up there? Because it just seems
like these are world class musicians that could have figured
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it out on their own. Are we we are so
dumb to itself? I'm sure we'll get some some give
us some. Actually is we want to know? Actually is?
Are they very important? Do they control tempo?
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Obviously? Obviously I'm going train conductor. But let's talk trombone
for a second.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Yeah, really, big trombone. One great instrument. One of the
best instruments, the trumpbone. Yeah, I agree. The trombone is
a slide one, right, it's the slide one. So one
of the few instruments that can knock a hat off
somebody in two ways. You can either blow it off
or just tip it off with the slide, which is
very fun.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Yeah. Also one of the ones. I guess there's there's
a there's I guess trumpet is like this as well,
but that there's no like you do this specifically for
this note. It's like just a sliding thing where you
have to feel it that whole time. That is it
seems to me to be like, wow, this maybe is
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the hardest instrument.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
Yeah, it's right. It's all feel I guess right.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
You feel in sound like you hear it, you hear
where you're at.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
One time, at Damien's house in Brooklyn, our good friend,
he had a party and I was talking to a
woman at the party and I never met her before,
and I think I come from a symphony sometime that week,
and she said she was she played the flute. She
was a floutist, I believe it is. And she said
that most floutists are left handed and that most of
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them lift their right leg and put their top of
the right foot on the back of their left knee
when they're playing like focused, and she showed me and
she demonstrated. And then I have brought that up so
many times and every single time people are like, absolutely
not true. That person was crazy. Really what I think
I might have even mentioned like twenty twenty one on
(40:42):
bananas and had people being like, no, not true. But
she's like ninety something percent of flute players or floutests
are left handed, and that a lot of them rest
their right foot on their left leg when they're like
soloing or doing something that they really need to concentrate.
And every single person I've ever told that to who
knows music, it's like, that is a lie. Wow, really
(41:04):
in the palm of her hand.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Oh, I love it. I wonder if she was fucking
with you or I think she Oh, you do think so?
Speaker 3 (41:13):
And looking back, I mean because I was like, that's cool,
that's I like weird facts and information, so I was
like a sponge for it.
Speaker 2 (41:21):
Yeah, in the future, I will have a weird news
podcast and I'm going.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
To bring this up and one hundred flute players are
going to be like, that is incorrect. I'm right handed
and might keep both feet on the ground. Did you
play an instrument when you were in like third grade
or fourth grade or whenever they get you started?
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Yeah, third grade it was saxophone. Yeah, and then played
guitar and then piano. I played piano for the longest time,
and I retain absolutely none of it abiding love of music. Scottie.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Hey, that's all you really need to get out of it.
How many people there are no bands anymore everythings DJs
I did, Sacks didn't like it, did Trumpet didn't like it,
went back to sports. I just didn't have it. In retrospect,
I bet I would have liked drumming. I think I
would have been a good drummer. I enjoy it as
evidenced by your love of Whiplash. I'm literally obsessed with Whiplash.
(42:19):
If you're an aspiring screenwriter, watch Whiplash and then watch
Black Swan, and they're the same movie, almost beat for beat.
Even though black Swan has sort of a paranormal psychological
element to it, it's they're very similar movies, like like
like so much.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Oh wow, that's very interesting. I had no idea I will.
I've never seen black Swan.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
Oh dude, that movie is incredible. Oh really, Okay, that
movie is so good. I don't know if it won
Best Picture to you or came out, but that movie
is good and so weird. But it's very very it's
beat for beat, stress for stress, the same as Black Swan,
in the same way that Fastened the Furious is the
exact same movie as Point Break.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Oh that's right, same movie.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
Yeah, well we did it. Scotty guys, gals, non binary pals.
Everybody listens to the pod, even this is your first time.
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