January 23, 2025 • 41 mins
Kurt and Scotty answer listener advice and play some Would You Rathers!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Still world, would you your midsillion pieces.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Would trot.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Trodden guys, goals, non binary pals. Welcome to a bonuside
of benanas Hi, Scotti Landis.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Hey, Curtie B.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Thanks everybody who's been listening and sending their support and
love because they were concerned about Curtie B and our
families and friends and loved ones and animals during this
very strange time where wildfires ripped across Los Angeles. We're
doing fine. We're feeling very lucky and grateful, and we're
looking for ways to help and you should too.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
You know what I didn't expect to be doing in
twenty twenty five, Scottie Is tell me that wiping my
dog's paws off with from toxic materis that she's bringing
into the house because we stepped through ash. That is
not something I expected.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Nope, I can understand why you did not. Yeah, strange times,
very exhilarating, very strange. When I was evacuating, I could
see the flames from the run in Canyon fire, and
now you know that fight or flight, The flight kicks
in and you go, go, baby go, Like it was.
I was honking the horn all the way down and
just making sure all the oldies in the neighborhood were
(01:26):
aware that something might be happening, and turns out our
neighborhood was spared. But just you know, big shout out,
big thumbs up to all the EMT's first responders, firefighters everywhere.
You guys did an incredible job with i mean facing
literally impossible ods.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I mean so impossible. Those winds were absolutely the craziest
thing I've ever seen in Los Angeles. And just to
give it, I mean, I'm sure maybe it's completely obvious
at this point, but just to give an idea of
the amount of area that was burned, Yeah, it's larger
(02:04):
than the entire city of San Francisco. So like the
nineteen oh six fire of San Francisco was something like
I don't know, forty acres or something like that, or
four I'm sorry, four square miles. This is fifty five
square miles that has been burned in the city. So
an entire other city inside our city does just simply
(02:28):
doesn't exist anymore. So please any support you can give. Obviously,
I think we're overstating this, but we appreciate all of it.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Well, I don't think we are. It was such a
crazy thing.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
And also like with the hurricane, the floods in Ashville,
the hurricanes that hit Florida all the time, you just
start to go Okay, So we live on a planet
and this is how it's going to go. And we
can either live as in fear and terror all the time,
or we can just do the best we can when
bad things happen. And that's what we are going to do.
I found out, Yes, so I got into the Garibaldina Society.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Kurt I saw this and I was very interested about.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
So I got it. Here's my badge. I'm officially a member.
So the Garibaldina Society, I believe, is the longest continual
society of Italian culture and heritage in America. It was
founded in eighteen seventy seven and time ago.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
It didn't even know La was around in eighteen seventy exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
And then there was a secondary Italian society, the Benevolent Society,
to make things better for immigrants. A big part of
was teaching English to Italian immigrants and helping them set
up jobs and just building community in a different country
is the idea.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And then it evolved over time trying to just get
slightly better jobs than Irish people. That was a big competition. Yeah,
for Italians in the eighty nineties.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
They're over twenty million Italian in Americans and they are
the fifth largest ethnic group in America. Look, I'm learning
all these things because I've joined the society.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Now you might be.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Saying, Scotti, old boy, Hell Italian are you? And the
answer is zero percent? Zero percent. I do not have
even one percent. I have one percent. I'm Jewish, one
percent Jewish. I found that out, and so I guess
I'm going to start my career telling Jewish jokes. Now
that would be so insane of one percent. Suddenly they're like,
he makes a lot of Jewish jokes.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
All those I can? I can. I'm actually one percent.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I'm one percent.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
But it comes and goes depending on ancestries updates. So anyway,
So I got sworn in, And what is this?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
What is involved? What does it give you access to?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Tell me all about it?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
So it is a It has its own location where
they can host up to three hundred and fifty people
for dinners, for dancing, for charity events, for weddings, and
it's basically a community members only club. You can bring
guests and they do a they do one big pasta
dinner every month, and then they do dinner and dancing
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and there's an amazing They.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Have a bar.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Oh, the bar is The bar is incredible. It's like
a wood paneled bar. And then everyone's all.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Very much from like the sixties maybe seventies. It's very
well appointed. They've restored everything to what it used to
be in the sixties and seems that's right.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
And then they do these fundraising nights at the bar
where they bring in local chefs, some that are members,
some that aren't, and they cook small plates and stuff,
and then they have eight dollar martinis and they the
line is down the block and around the door, but
now a member and so it's all run by volunteers.
They were electing the new president of the Baldina Society.
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Then they had to swear in. They keep minutes, all
the old ladies keep an eye on the budget. We
went through budget. So it was my first swearing in,
which is there were about fifteen of us that all
became members. Because it's starting in twenty seventeen, they decided
to expand and allow non Italians in just to build
better culture within the society. So luckily, my friend Mike
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Levanos and his wife Katie and their friends Mike and
Amanda all remember.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So I went to Apasta.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Dinner and got invited back and then we danced. It
was me danced with a bunch of old Italian ladies.
You know what, you dress up in a suit. It's great.
It's like a small event space that every small town
everywhere in America has sort of their Elks Club or
their Nights of Columbus whatever on the outskirts of town.
It's that, but it's right in Los Angeles and it's incredible.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So I got in.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
It took about, I guess about ten months, and I
had to do an interview. They and like, how can
I help. I'm like, I can park cars, I can bartend,
I a waiter. I'll just stack chairs if you want
me to. And then I got in. So they swore
me in. There's a photo of me, like I got
my badge. They all everybody there had to vote. We
were all unanimously voted in and you have to raise
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your right hand and then you this gentleman, Dylan, this
nice guy basically you spent his life as a part
of the society. We repeat after him and we swear
to add to the community and to help people out.
And so it's great. And then afterwards there was a
you guessed it baked ZD dinner, So we're eating Italian
food and then this guy that I don't know his name.
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I'm meeting everybody at my table.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's really fun. Yeah, is like, guys, Alta Dina is
on fire.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Just want everybody to know that two Gary Baldina members
have already lost their houses. I think everybody you might have.
The lights are going in and out, flickering on and off.
Lights are so power's going in and out. I have
like a whole tray of Italian food. I'm trying to
be so polite and sweet to everybody because I'm as
new as you can be to the society. And Mike's
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like hanging with me. He was nice enough to come
and watch me get sworn in and even though it's
fairly boring. And then it was like, guys, there's a
big fire now in the Hollywood Hills. And then Mike,
who lives in the Mount Washington area. Then this guy goes, guys,
power fire. The electric lines are down, and he's like
i'p gotta go, and you could hear the wind whipping,
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And so it went from being sworn in and I
thought this was gonna be a really fun social evening,
meeting one hundred and fifty nice Italian people, most Italian
women over seven years old. Yeah, you know, that's still
right on the program and pencils all the notes in
the It's adorable. And instead everybody got their Italian food
to go and ran out the door and then sped
back and by the time I got back, it was
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packed the bags. I was like strawberry, put it in
the car and we just took off. It was great,
It was wild. It was It went from me thinking
I was gonna have a casual night of shaking hands
and glad handing to speeding down the mountain and getting
out of Dodge as fast as possible.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Oh my god, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
But I'm a bit I was prepared.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I have emergency Pelican cases for earthquakes and stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Those things. I could live.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I had go bags ready, I had everything charged. I'm
not a prepper, but I was ready to leave.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
To have used to have like one hundred cans of water.
Still do cans of water? You still do still do
cans see cans baby, Instead of plastic, I had plastic
and I had to get rid of it because after
a while, the plastic leeches into the water after like
five years and can't use it anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I was so dumb, This is so dumb.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I am kurt because I was thinking, you know, they're
gonna have to rebuild all these houses, and they need
to start learning how to build fireproof houses. Like that's
just a reality, right, They're just going to have to
build materials that don't.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Three D printed houses are fireproof exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
So I'm like, and then we have drones, right, I'm like,
can't we get I don't know, fifteen thousand drones to
pick up one cup of water each and go one
hundred miles an hour from the ocean to a fire
in the woods, And if we can make them look
like dragons flying through the air, can't we just get
drones to drop water on things like like bees, like
bees attacking a fire.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Now here's where my brain goes. Yeah, okay, you know
how when.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
They show grease fires in your kitchen and you know
you're not supposed to spray them with water, it makes
it worse. So they always advertise those like blankets, fire
blankets to smother the fire.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I mean when you say always, I have never seen
that advertised.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Advertised Nope, fire blanket. Yeah, it just smothers it takes
all the air outs. Fireproof blankets sounds good.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
So here's blanket.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Yeah, it's could just be a wet wayed blanket. When
I'm thinking, every house needs a giant box that has
a giant tarp the side has a gyant fire blanket
kind of like when they do termite fumigating.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And when there's a fire, you pull a lever when
you leave the house.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Just inflates over your house.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
It just drapes a fire blanket over your entire house.
And then you just have a simpler sprinkler on the top,
just wetting that blanket for you. That's where my genius
brain goes.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
The Yeah, what would the fire blanket be made of?
Just metal or something? I don't even know. It's just
like some weird fire cloth.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
That doesn't burn. Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm going in. I'm
going on.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I have a feeling a certempture things just to night
underneath the fire blanket. But you know what, I like it.
I like the fire blanket.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I'm going on shark sharks, I need two million dollars
for three percent equity. Uh and all it is is giant,
ugly blankets on the top of our houses that may
or may not fully roll down like curtains when a
wildfire and everly happens.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Well, did you read that article about the guy and
the Palisades who because there had been a fire previously,
like four years ago, he got like really obsessed with it.
So he got yeah, I did. His friend sent him
high fire retardant gel and the guy has because he
lives in Palisades, he has a pool and a hot tub,
and immediately when the fire started, dumped the fire retardant
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Jael into the hot tub, and then he had a
generator with a with a hose and then sprayed the
entire house with fire retarding to jail and then put
the hose in the pool and then just kept wedding
his house and his neighbors houses until he had to
literally leave, and his was the only house that liked
was standing. That's so crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It is so insane.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
It's so crazy.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Anyways, thanks for all the support, Gang. It was incredible show.
Of unity and humanity and empathy, and we feel it.
And the people of la are probably still in shock,
but they're going to rebuild. We're going to keep cranking
out the movies. People are gonna need the yuck yucks
and the he hauls and the oh wows. So we'll
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do our best.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
All right.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
As you know, folks, on bonusides, we give advice and
we do would you rathers? So I want to give
a little bit of advice right here. This is a
listener of banannimal sent this in here we go, Hi there,
banana boys.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
My name is Ceci, and I need some advice on
the creative side. So I do a lot of diving,
which is kind of like scuba, but you're just holding
your breath. And as part of that you get to
wear these really cool big long fins. They're about the
size of a skateboard deck, so think two and a
half feet long and eight inches wide.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I'm thinking they're really fun.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
But my problem is mine are a little boring. I
have a friend who can design something for me and
print it up. I just have no clue what to
ask her to do. Unfortunately, bananas are off the table,
as a lot of boat captains really don't like bring
a banana on a boat.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
That's true.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Some kind of superstition there. Now, if you were down
under the water and you looked over, what drawing or
picture would really make you giggle? I want to make
everybody happy who sees these fins and I appreciate your help.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
This is CC. Thank you for the most specific advice
question if we have ever been asked in the history
of this podcast. And that is why I love it.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
It's so great.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Scott. I don't know about you, but I'm watching free
dive videos on Instagram all the time. Oh sure, d
are you watching it? Oh my god, are you watching them?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
This is the thing that I that the that the
algorithm's like, oh, you want to watch this person fall
downwards for four hundred meters while holding their breath. I'm like,
I do, I do. Indeed, I will watch for the
entire four and a half minutes it takes for them
to fall through darkness.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
There was a documentary I think that came out last
year and I watched the whole thing too, because it's
a it's a yes, it is fascinating opposite of what.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Humans are supposed to do.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
We're not supposed to be underwater, and we're not supposed
to swim towards the bottom.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
And then what I The thing that freaked me out
the most was that that at a certain point, I
had no idea that at a certain point you become
negatively buoyant because there's just simply not enough air in
your body anymore, because there's so the compression happens after
like I don't know, sixty feet ninety feet or something
like that, like three atmospheres that then you just start
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falling downwards. So they swim for a little bit, and
then they just start falling, which seems to me to
be the most terrifying. So they don't have to hold
weights or anything like that. Their whole body just becomes heavy.
So this is fascinating that you do this. And I
am very familiar with the fins. The fins are very long,
and so here's my pitch. My pitch is and I
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don't know if you can get it to come all
the way up to your ankle. And this would primarily
work if you Usually they wear those skins, those second skins,
you know, to keep themselves warm. But if you ever
were free diving, without them and you had bare legs.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yes, okay, then.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
To then have an extension of your foot continue down
so your calf is like two and a half feet
longer than it is, and then right at the edges
your foot at your toenails at the very end, and
then the sides are just painted in with black.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I think that's a great idea because you could be
top and bottom. It could just look like your big
old feet. You got some big old hoppit feet.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
You have super long log legs. You have two and
a half foot longer legs that you are eight and
a half feet tall. But it's all legs.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
It's all calf, it's all calves and ankles. You have
the longest ankles in the world. That's so funny.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
To that's I got a second that vote.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I think if you can make it just like like
two giant feet top and bottom.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Fantastic, that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
I think you could get too yo Samity Sam holding
his pistols back offs on there like the mudflap truck
mud flaps.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Put that on there.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I also think there could be something where it says
bottoms up, where it only makes sense when you're going down.
When you're swimming down and your fins are up, it
looks like something. I don't know what that would be,
but I always thought the phrase bottoms up was so funny.
Could you let's see, I guess if it's only the top.
If I looked over at somebody and they were had
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long I mean, big big feet is the funniest thing.
It's so funny look over and to see somebody look
like they have two and a half long feet.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Look, I have to specify this. It's not that they're wide.
They are the exact same width as your actual legs,
so they're just incredibly long. So it's not that you
have big feet, it's that you have really long ankles.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Yeah, that's pretty damn good. I would laugh very hard
if I saw somebody also. That seems pretty doable. It
seems like I really Yeah, it's an easy one to do.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I think.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah, it has to be accurate looking, you know, but hell,
you could do it. You could just make a photograph.
You could literally print a photograph of actual feet.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Yeah, and that's big enough where somebody could see it
from a little bit away, because if it was, if
it's too small, you know, you're in the water. You got,
you gotta scuba mask on, you gotta snorkel a mask on.
You can't see high details from ten feet away.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
And if there's a chance, if there's a chance this
is a reference to an episode we just recorded that
probably either comes out next.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I think it'll beat it. I think it'll beat it.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yeah, But if it just says barefoot buddies, now two
feet making a hard shape, that would be great.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, I think buddies.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Yeah, I guess if I have to give you another one,
I would paint them to look whatever. The most common
color is under the sea, So whatever matches the background
of the ocean, that type of blue, that deep sea blue.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
How about a classic cartoon sausage links just just wrapped
around in circles on both sides of it. Just seeing
somebody swimming with some reddish cartoon tied together sausage links,
I would enjoy that. I would enjoy if I looked
over and saw somebody kicking sausage away from their feet
really quickly, I would laugh.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Every time.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I feel like it has to have a long design
so it does look like you're trying to get away
from it. It just looks like sausage ropes are trying
to catch up.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
To you that yatta, would you rather pound?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Let me see? I do have a few.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Oh, here's an interesting one, because when I read it,
I instantly went one way, and then then I thought
about tomort Okay, Trevor bergiereo or b tever. I think
it's Bergieiro, says curtain Scottie. Hello, that's us, that's us.
We then banana boys. Would you rather be able to
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eat anything you want without any negative consequences? Or every
time you drink alcohol you get a perfect buzz and
can keep drinking with getting wasted or hungover, So you
could eat you could eat junk food, you can eat
ice cream ten times a day and you're not going
to get fatter and you're not going to have.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Cholesterol and hard issues.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Or every time you drink you get immediately to a
perfect buzz and you can keep drinking without ever getting
too drunk or hungover.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Ah, but I assume that that's the benefit. You still
but then like you get all the drawbacks of drink, right,
that's right, where you get you gain weight, you don't
sleep well, you know, you feel out of it, right, Okay,
I'm going to go for food, easy, peasy, I'm going
for food.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Yeah, it's me too, because there's certainly when you travel
and there's certain food. Sometimes you go to a place
and you're like, this is so good. I think we
have to cancel dinner because I ate too much. And
then you're so bumped because you didn't get to go
have that po boy you were thinking about. Yeah on
Lake Ponta train sometimes, and there there's a deep sadness
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when you, God, what first world problems. My apologies, my apologies,
this is so bougie. It's my apologies, But there is
a sadness when you're somewhere and you eat such a big,
delicious lunch that you have to cancel what you know
would have been a delicious dinner. And I if I
could just keep going without any consequences, Well, well but
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what if food got.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Boring to you?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
What if food got boring to you?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
What if without limits?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Scotty we Okay, first off, time out, I have essentially
been living this way for my entire life.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Okay, all that is true, and it it never gets boring,
that's true, but I just haven't.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
But I've also just been becoming more and more unhealthy
because of it. But I do eat, you know. I
I also, you know, track my calories. I go on
big spurts. I go three months on, three months off.
I get really healthy for three months and then I
get really unhealthy for the other three months. So it
just keeps going like this, and I always kind of
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stay right in the middle. Yeah, that's true, But it
never ever gets boring. That's what's fascinating about food.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Yeah, you're a big you have a wide palette though
you eat it all man, which I appreciate because I
do too well.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Like, Yeah, when you and I are.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
On the road and we go to Bizarro Cuban restaurants
in Pittsburgh or Delicious Restaurants Fusion Restaurants in Portland, you
and I never have to say do you want to
eat this?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
It's just yeah, should we get the blah blah blahs?
Should we get the muscles? Yes?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Should we get the I was always thinking about that.
Somebody asked me, like, what is something you wouldn't eat?
And I thought about it and I was like, I don't.
I pretty much eat everything me too, like black licorice.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I love black liquor I know people like gross I'm like,
that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yeah, I like it. It's I recently ate. I was at
a restaurant where someone else was like, come on, we're
going out and I'm taking care of it. So we're
going to go somewhere. And it was a tasting menu
and on the menu was sweetbreads, and I had had
sweetbreads in the past, which are like, as I understand it,
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just like the intestines and different different organ yeah, and
I was like, I'm gonna do it. I was like, yeah,
I'm gonna eat I'll eat everything. And it was a bowl.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Oh, that's too much of sweetbreads.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
It was so much, and I and at the end
of it, I was like, I don't think in the
future I'm going to eat that. That was my first
time where I was just like, I think that I've
had enough of that richness. That richness was so rich
it overpowered everything else about the meal.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Yes, well, yeah, I'm with you, but I'm the same way.
It's like I say that, and then I have started
to lose interest in oysters. I think that there are
too many places.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, and I've lost interest. They used to be my
favorite thing.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I remember, I remember celebrating any small achievement with you
at Ribbon in Hey.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Look at we're up at two in the morning, isn't
that amazing? Let's go to Blue Ribbon together.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
You guys would always treat me, and I still remember it,
and it was some of most fun nights because you'd like,
just come, we're celebrated, just come, and you guys would
always pay, but we would always we would do the
oyster shooters there, and they had really good oyster shooters there.
Those were Those are to this day my standard of
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they were.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Selling good Blue Ribbon oyster shooters back in two thousand
and eight.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
That, Yeah, that was a special treat for a guy.
That was like eating two dollar grays Papia dogs are
two two for one dollar gray Papa dogs. Yeah, and
as in the dollar sliced pizza, and then wherever I
could find it. Amm the Moon's Falaffel. Shout out the
Moon's on Saint.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Mark's shot at moons.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
How many of the.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Moon's Falaffels did you eat when you were in New
York five thousand?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Yeah, it was so good and so cheat.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
It was three dollars or four dollars for the sharm.
It was direct next to Grassroots, which was a great
dive bar that when that one left. When Grassroots closed,
it just made go into Saint Mark's not interesting to
me anymore.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
It was the only bar that you could really kind
of function at that wasn't we like it just like
either like we're crust punks and we our dads just
gave us a trust fund, or like weird, like we're
we're from Japan and we like punk rock music. Like
that was the only people in Saint Mark's. Yes, And
then there was that one little bar that was nice.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
And it had pictures and weirdly, you'll probably remember this
as I say it, their pictures were like eight dollars,
nine of ours ten dollars. But they had a seven
dollars pitcher a happy hour six hours of amber Bach
of michelob Amberbach was their cheap beer. And I'll net,
I mean they must have sold, because I never drank
michelob Amberbach until And the bartender was this old guy
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and definitely an alcoholic, because he would be drinking while bartend,
and those picture prices there would be like seven dollars
and the next time he'd be like five dollars, and
the next time he'd make three dollars, and my friends
would be like that guy just charged me three dollars
for this picture, and then like, well.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Go get another one.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Shout out and rest in peace to Grassroots, one of
the great dive bars in the oughts.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Here's one right now for Mikelobe. I just don't feel
like I see michelobe enough. I remember my first bottle
having a michelobe was a jersey at a bowling alley
and the bottle was shaped kind of like.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
A long butt plug.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Sexy, a long butt Well, those were the little ones, right,
those are the little ones with the long butt plugs.
But then they had the ones that were like kind
of fat in the middle and then fat on the bottom.
I guess that's a long button. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Still still, we'll post a photo of an original michelobe
and they had the gold label on the top.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Really a beautiful, very seventies design. And sitting at a
bowling alley bowling and drinking a michelob was like now here,
I'm in a little bit of heaven.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Well, you know what's funny is that michelob ultra is
so popular now, like they just are all in on
ultra and when you go to Let's say we're in
a Red State, Kurt, and let's say you go to
a bar where you go, well, let's see what the
Red States do. Half the dudes in there drinking Mick Ultra's.
It's like the to me, the wimpiest sports beer there is,
but then it's winning. Mick Ultra is a hit in
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the Red States.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Look at that. Make Aloe found a way to make it.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
From long butt plugs to sports beer in the Red States. Mikelobe,
Oh man, do you.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Got another one?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Do you got it?
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I got uh?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Here's oh, here's an advice. This is so simple. Julia
is asking us what items can I carry around with
me to make life a little sillier. It's like stuff
in your pocket book, your pockets, your fanny pack, your
your satchel.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
This is an item that I carry around with me,
and I find it to be so incredibly pleasing. It is.
I got it at the silver Ball Museum in Asbury Park,
New Jersey, which is a pinball arcade on the boardwalk,
one of my favorite places in the universe. Yeah, and
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they sell pinballs for ten bucks. And you can buy
a pinball and the weight and heft of having a
pinball in the jacket pocket in the winter time, to
curl your hand around it feels amazing. It's satisfying, it
centers you. That's my suggestion.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Well, that's nice. That's totally unexpected and nice.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I appreciate that. A couple things.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
One, I used to make business cards all the time
for myself and I would put I'm sure Kurt got one,
and I would hand them out because when I was
not in the industry and trying to break in, I
just wanted to make people laugh. And so one was
a really tan this guy was in a speedo standing
on a beach, very muscular tan guy with a beautiful
(29:07):
hair blown perm mullet thing, and then it said Scottie
Landis and then underneath it and quotes it said billionaire.
And then it just was my email. And I made
two hundred of them. I used to give them to friends,
but then when I would go by any community bulletin board,
I would just thumbtack it up there. And I did
it once at the old absent house on Bourbon Street.
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I've mentioned Louisiana twice this episode, and somebody emailed me
and was like, are you really a billionaire? I found
this and sent me a photo of it. And I
used to just leave business cards with just my email,
like not enough personal information, with a photo of somebody
else and something dumb written on it, and people would
write to me. They would be like, hey, dude, I
saw this and I was here, and it's a fun
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thing to do because you can give it to your friends.
Also useful. You could actually write your real number on
the back and hand it to somebody.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
So I would say, do you get one?
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I print some business cards?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Print business cards. In late high school early early college,
for me, I was like obsessed with not too much,
but phone freaking. Do you know? Do you know what
I'm talking about? Phone freaking? So they're payphones, public payphones.
There was all these different codes that you put into
public payphones to get free calls, to get uh there's
(30:25):
certain ones. There was always like the legend that like
you could get it to dump all of its quarters out.
Yes I never figured out, but I did know the
code to like be able to make free phone calls.
And you there was another one where you would like
hold a box up that would make us clicking zone
to the clicking sounds into the thing and you could
get them, you could like send away from them, and
(30:47):
then that would like have that would be a long
distance calls, long distance calls, international calls, all payphones. And
because of my interest in doing that, I got in.
So there was a there was a business card machine
in the CVU Square Mall in New Jersey, and it
was like it was supposed to. I guess you had
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to feed money into it, or maybe it took credit cards.
It doesn't seem like it would take credit cards because
it was the nineties. But if you typed something like
free two fifty into it after you ordered up all
your like business cards, it would then just print two
hundred and fifty free business cards. So we all had
business cards, and we all would just type free two
fifty into it, and then it would just give them
(31:29):
to us in credible. The mind said, of course, it
didn't make any sense. It's not as simple and funny
as just quotes billionaire. It was it said Pooch and
Doodle metaphysical pet company smart and then it just had
my phone number in my email address. Yea, so it
must I must have been in college.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Julia makes some business make fifty business cards.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
It's very cheap. You could do it so easy on line.
Put nonsense on it. Put something that you're not on there,
don't evenin you use your real name, and either hand
them to strangers when it doesn't matter you're never gonna
see that person again, or just post them up on
corkboards at the grocery store you're traveling, Leave them in
books at the library, at a bookstore for somebody to
find the.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Little treasure later.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I put it in the Bible.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Put in the Gideon Bible. The Gideons are just still
cranking those Bible. Where are the Gideons?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
And why?
Speaker 4 (32:16):
What factory? How many trees are the Gideons hacking down
every year?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
They must have purchased an old nuclear missile facility and
they're just buried in the Utah bad lands.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Everybody, make some business cards. If you come to Bananas
live shows, please give them to us. I will keep
every one of them. But just make absurd business cards
and leave them around. Whatever you think is funny will work.
Also sidebar, this is one that Okay, you know that
costume tooth black. It's the stuff you can paint on
your teeth that make them look like you're missing teeth.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
A vile of that is about eight dollars.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
If you go out with your good friends, So you're
going over your friend's house to watch movies, have some drinks,
play cards, whatever you're gonna do, look at your phones.
You're going over your fen so you can all look
at your phones and occasionally.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Talk to each other.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Yeah, take tooth black and say, everybody, you have to
paint two of your teeth black and leave it that
way for the rest of the night. It is the
fucking funniest It's so small, Kurt. But then you look
at your friend and if my front two missing, laugh
out loud, so funny. But if you do like a
lower one and an upper one on the opposite side,
and your friend's like, I think Greg and I are
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going to get divorced, it's so funny because you're just like, well,
I bet you are, and you need to get to
the dentist, so tooth black in your purse. It really
is the silliest idea I can't describe. When you look
at people you've known you're for twenty years and then
they're missing teeth that they're not supposed to be missing,
it gets so silly. And then they look at you
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and they start laughing too. So those are fake business
cards to make other people happy or you'reself happy, and
then carry a little tooth black around, take it to parties,
make everybody paint one tooth black.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
It is so funny to me. I got more, Bud,
I got so many.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Do you have one that is a hypothetical?
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Yes, I love a hypothetical.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
M hypothetical. If you could smell any smell? Oh, this
is from Barbara. Thank you, Barbara. If you could smell
any smell whenever you wanted, wherever you wanted, anytime, what
smell would you have t have to smell? Meaning you
walk in any room, you smell your shirt, you go outside,
take a deep breath. You can make it smell like
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one smell. And Barbara says, hers apples and cinnamon.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
All right, Scotty, what do you think? What's yours?
Speaker 5 (34:42):
Man?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Is this is tough? This is tough?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Okay, I'll go while you think this is tough, I
immediately know it is the smell, and I don't find
it much anymore. And I must be the way the
ducting works on my house. But I used to always
smell it in Michigan. It was the smell of dryer
(35:06):
exhaust when you're using a uh sheet, a specific dryer sheet,
and I'm not sure which which it was. For some
reason that smell and it used to be there used
to be a vent on the side of the house
and it would and it was when it was cold
out it would actually come out as like missed kind
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of because it was very hot and wet. That smell
to me was I don't know why. It's signified home comfort. Yeah,
it's signified comfort. It signified and there was also a
unexplained kind of almost time travel essence to it of
something that I've never experienced, but I know that I
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love like when you were in a dream and you're
in love with someone and you know you've never seen
their face. Has this ever happened to you where you've
like seen a person you know you're in love with
them and you know them deep like crying and I
and I can and I but it's not a person
I know in this world. It's that that that kind
of a feeling is smelling that to me.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Yeah, that takes me back too, because like when you're
a kid and you'd be have a snow day or
snowed over weekend, you'd sled all day with your friends,
snowball fight, you destroy yourselves. You've already gone to one
friend's house, had hot chocolate, and you put your wet
clothes back on, which is the nightmare. Yes, and then
you trudge back home, dragging your sled behind you through
the snow, and then.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
You see your house.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Yes, but I can remember the steam and I didn't
think about that, but there was always a spot of
grass under there, because the steam would melt the grass
on that one little patch, and you knew you were
getting close. Oh man, that's a good memory. I totally
forgot about that. That's a really funny visual because, yeah,
you would see that little hole in the snow where
the steam from the dryer, probably drying the wet snow
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clothes you wore the day before. Remember those gloves. I'm
sure they still make them, but they I used to
have transformers ones.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Freaky freezies. Yeah, yeah, I love them.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
They still make Where it was blank and then you
go outside and they get cold, and then the images
come onto.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Yeah, it would be like like a mountain or something.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
God, that's the best.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
God, damn it, that's the best. And well in every
piece of article of clothing. Now with that on it,
it's probably incredibly toxic. That's the answer.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Well, we saw it something. We had those bananas hypercolor
style shirts, the heat changing shirts.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
And when we pitched that idea that old.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
Company not exactly right to the other company that made
our merch they were like, really, these are gonna be
like forty bucks. And then the fastest thing we've ever
sold were the color changing shirt.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Let's bring back the color chat.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
I know, let's get a new design. I like the
best in the biz design, but yeah, like, let's do
that and then make them hyper colored shirts.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
I think those were so fun. Okay, anyways, back for
the colored shirts.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
There's no reason there isn't really a reason to have
any type of any other type of shirt at this
point other than a hypercolor shirt. I would love a jacket.
I would love a jacket that inside is white and
outside is a different color. I would love that.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Mmmmm, give it to me, folks, Yeah, I know, somebody.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
It's the future. Give it to me.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Your clothes need to change color all the time in the.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Future the time everywhere.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Well, they're making those new BMW's and stuff that you
can change the color of your car. It has like
a skin on it, And I'm.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Like, shut up, gosh, what shut up?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
It's so dorky. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (38:19):
You can change the color of your car.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Yeah, it has like a skin on it that can
be white black. Like you could change the color of
your car. You can click a button and changes the
color your car. I do believe it. It's so boring
to me. That's so boring. I think it's supposed to
be creative, and instead I'm like, this sucks. This is
so uninteresting to me. Now, if you could make it
do stuff and say stuff like, say, make it look
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like two giant like it makes you look like you're
sitting naked in your own car going really fast or
dangling from the steering wheel. It looked like your hands
are on the steeling one of the rest of your
body was along the side the car and the feet
were flapping.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
All right, No, no, I'm interested.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
I'll slap in.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
My Discover Cary. You're getting my my diner's up guard. Anyways,
back to the smell. You know what smell like and
I know you like this too, is the smell of
and it's not.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Dissimilar when you're at the beach. Yeah, lay a towel out.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Yeah, you're laying face down on a clean towel at
the beach with sun tan, locean on.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
So it's that combination.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Of warm laundry, ocean breeze, and the coconuty smell of
you know, copper tone, and you just bury your.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Face on the specific smell of copper tone.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Yeah, and you dig a little hole for your face
so you can lay kind of flat and that smell
of your face in a sand hole on your towel
with some block on that. I if I could close
my eyes and do that, I would be a happy
guy instead of I love that.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
That's a good so much. I would also just say
the ocean in general, if I could smell the ocean.
And here's the thing. Here's the thing about this question.
This is a good one. But smells for the human brain,
I find they have to be fleeting otherwise they're noxious,
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like like if you have it all the time, it's
too much. That is the unique impermanence of smell. It
is a it's a wild smells a. It is one
of the wildest senses of the senses.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
Scottie, Yeah, I would say it's one of the five
wildest absolutely.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Hear it, you heard it here, folks, smell is one
of the five wildest setses we have and that is
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Trodden guys, goals, non binary pals. Welcome to a bonuside
of benanas Hi, Scotti Landis.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Hey, Curtie B.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Thanks everybody who's been listening and sending their support and
love because they were concerned about Curtie B and our
families and friends and loved ones and animals during this
very strange time where wildfires ripped across Los Angeles. We're
doing fine. We're feeling very lucky and grateful, and we're
looking for ways to help and you should too.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
You know what I didn't expect to be doing in
twenty twenty five, Scottie Is tell me that wiping my
dog's paws off with from toxic materis that she's bringing
into the house because we stepped through ash. That is
not something I expected.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Nope, I can understand why you did not. Yeah, strange times,
very exhilarating, very strange. When I was evacuating, I could
see the flames from the run in Canyon fire, and
now you know that fight or flight, The flight kicks
in and you go, go, baby go, Like it was.
I was honking the horn all the way down and
just making sure all the oldies in the neighborhood were
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aware that something might be happening, and turns out our
neighborhood was spared. But just you know, big shout out,
big thumbs up to all the EMT's first responders, firefighters everywhere.
You guys did an incredible job with i mean facing
literally impossible ods.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I mean so impossible. Those winds were absolutely the craziest
thing I've ever seen in Los Angeles. And just to
give it, I mean, I'm sure maybe it's completely obvious
at this point, but just to give an idea of
the amount of area that was burned, Yeah, it's larger
(02:04):
than the entire city of San Francisco. So like the
nineteen oh six fire of San Francisco was something like
I don't know, forty acres or something like that, or
four I'm sorry, four square miles. This is fifty five
square miles that has been burned in the city. So
an entire other city inside our city does just simply
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doesn't exist anymore. So please any support you can give. Obviously,
I think we're overstating this, but we appreciate all of it.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Well, I don't think we are. It was such a
crazy thing.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
And also like with the hurricane, the floods in Ashville,
the hurricanes that hit Florida all the time, you just
start to go Okay, So we live on a planet
and this is how it's going to go. And we
can either live as in fear and terror all the time,
or we can just do the best we can when
bad things happen. And that's what we are going to do.
I found out, Yes, so I got into the Garibaldina Society.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Kurt I saw this and I was very interested about.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
So I got it. Here's my badge. I'm officially a member.
So the Garibaldina Society, I believe, is the longest continual
society of Italian culture and heritage in America. It was
founded in eighteen seventy seven and time ago.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
It didn't even know La was around in eighteen seventy exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
And then there was a secondary Italian society, the Benevolent Society,
to make things better for immigrants. A big part of
was teaching English to Italian immigrants and helping them set
up jobs and just building community in a different country
is the idea.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And then it evolved over time trying to just get
slightly better jobs than Irish people. That was a big competition. Yeah,
for Italians in the eighty nineties.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
They're over twenty million Italian in Americans and they are
the fifth largest ethnic group in America. Look, I'm learning
all these things because I've joined the society.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Now you might be.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Saying, Scotti, old boy, Hell Italian are you? And the
answer is zero percent? Zero percent. I do not have
even one percent. I have one percent. I'm Jewish, one
percent Jewish. I found that out, and so I guess
I'm going to start my career telling Jewish jokes. Now
that would be so insane of one percent. Suddenly they're like,
he makes a lot of Jewish jokes.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
All those I can? I can. I'm actually one percent.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I'm one percent.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
But it comes and goes depending on ancestries updates. So anyway,
So I got sworn in, And what is this?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
What is involved? What does it give you access to?
Speaker 2 (04:42):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Tell me all about it?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
So it is a It has its own location where
they can host up to three hundred and fifty people
for dinners, for dancing, for charity events, for weddings, and
it's basically a community members only club. You can bring
guests and they do a they do one big pasta
dinner every month, and then they do dinner and dancing
(05:05):
and there's an amazing They.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Have a bar.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Oh, the bar is The bar is incredible. It's like
a wood paneled bar. And then everyone's all.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Very much from like the sixties maybe seventies. It's very
well appointed. They've restored everything to what it used to
be in the sixties and seems that's right.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
And then they do these fundraising nights at the bar
where they bring in local chefs, some that are members,
some that aren't, and they cook small plates and stuff,
and then they have eight dollar martinis and they the
line is down the block and around the door, but
now a member and so it's all run by volunteers.
They were electing the new president of the Baldina Society.
(05:43):
Then they had to swear in. They keep minutes, all
the old ladies keep an eye on the budget. We
went through budget. So it was my first swearing in,
which is there were about fifteen of us that all
became members. Because it's starting in twenty seventeen, they decided
to expand and allow non Italians in just to build
better culture within the society. So luckily, my friend Mike
(06:03):
Levanos and his wife Katie and their friends Mike and
Amanda all remember.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
So I went to Apasta.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Dinner and got invited back and then we danced. It
was me danced with a bunch of old Italian ladies.
You know what, you dress up in a suit. It's great.
It's like a small event space that every small town
everywhere in America has sort of their Elks Club or
their Nights of Columbus whatever on the outskirts of town.
It's that, but it's right in Los Angeles and it's incredible.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
So I got in.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
It took about, I guess about ten months, and I
had to do an interview. They and like, how can
I help. I'm like, I can park cars, I can bartend,
I a waiter. I'll just stack chairs if you want
me to. And then I got in. So they swore
me in. There's a photo of me, like I got
my badge. They all everybody there had to vote. We
were all unanimously voted in and you have to raise
(06:53):
your right hand and then you this gentleman, Dylan, this
nice guy basically you spent his life as a part
of the society. We repeat after him and we swear
to add to the community and to help people out.
And so it's great. And then afterwards there was a
you guessed it baked ZD dinner, So we're eating Italian
food and then this guy that I don't know his name.
(07:16):
I'm meeting everybody at my table.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
It's really fun. Yeah, is like, guys, Alta Dina is
on fire.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Just want everybody to know that two Gary Baldina members
have already lost their houses. I think everybody you might have.
The lights are going in and out, flickering on and off.
Lights are so power's going in and out. I have
like a whole tray of Italian food. I'm trying to
be so polite and sweet to everybody because I'm as
new as you can be to the society. And Mike's
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like hanging with me. He was nice enough to come
and watch me get sworn in and even though it's
fairly boring. And then it was like, guys, there's a
big fire now in the Hollywood Hills. And then Mike,
who lives in the Mount Washington area. Then this guy goes, guys,
power fire. The electric lines are down, and he's like
i'p gotta go, and you could hear the wind whipping,
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And so it went from being sworn in and I
thought this was gonna be a really fun social evening,
meeting one hundred and fifty nice Italian people, most Italian
women over seven years old. Yeah, you know, that's still
right on the program and pencils all the notes in
the It's adorable. And instead everybody got their Italian food
to go and ran out the door and then sped
back and by the time I got back, it was
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packed the bags. I was like strawberry, put it in
the car and we just took off. It was great,
It was wild. It was It went from me thinking
I was gonna have a casual night of shaking hands
and glad handing to speeding down the mountain and getting
out of Dodge as fast as possible.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Oh my god, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
But I'm a bit I was prepared.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I have emergency Pelican cases for earthquakes and stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Those things. I could live.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I had go bags ready, I had everything charged. I'm
not a prepper, but I was ready to leave.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
To have used to have like one hundred cans of water.
Still do cans of water? You still do still do
cans see cans baby, Instead of plastic, I had plastic
and I had to get rid of it because after
a while, the plastic leeches into the water after like
five years and can't use it anymore.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I was so dumb, This is so dumb.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I am kurt because I was thinking, you know, they're
gonna have to rebuild all these houses, and they need
to start learning how to build fireproof houses. Like that's
just a reality, right, They're just going to have to
build materials that don't.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Three D printed houses are fireproof exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
So I'm like, and then we have drones, right, I'm like,
can't we get I don't know, fifteen thousand drones to
pick up one cup of water each and go one
hundred miles an hour from the ocean to a fire
in the woods, And if we can make them look
like dragons flying through the air, can't we just get
drones to drop water on things like like bees, like
bees attacking a fire.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Now here's where my brain goes. Yeah, okay, you know
how when.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
They show grease fires in your kitchen and you know
you're not supposed to spray them with water, it makes
it worse. So they always advertise those like blankets, fire
blankets to smother the fire.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I mean when you say always, I have never seen
that advertised.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Advertised Nope, fire blanket. Yeah, it just smothers it takes
all the air outs. Fireproof blankets sounds good.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
So here's blanket.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Yeah, it's could just be a wet wayed blanket. When
I'm thinking, every house needs a giant box that has
a giant tarp the side has a gyant fire blanket
kind of like when they do termite fumigating.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Hmm.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And when there's a fire, you pull a lever when
you leave the house.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Just inflates over your house.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
It just drapes a fire blanket over your entire house.
And then you just have a simpler sprinkler on the top,
just wetting that blanket for you. That's where my genius
brain goes.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
The Yeah, what would the fire blanket be made of?
Just metal or something? I don't even know. It's just
like some weird fire cloth.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
That doesn't burn. Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm going in. I'm
going on.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I have a feeling a certempture things just to night
underneath the fire blanket. But you know what, I like it.
I like the fire blanket.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
I'm going on shark sharks, I need two million dollars
for three percent equity. Uh and all it is is giant,
ugly blankets on the top of our houses that may
or may not fully roll down like curtains when a
wildfire and everly happens.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Well, did you read that article about the guy and
the Palisades who because there had been a fire previously,
like four years ago, he got like really obsessed with it.
So he got yeah, I did. His friend sent him
high fire retardant gel and the guy has because he
lives in Palisades, he has a pool and a hot tub,
and immediately when the fire started, dumped the fire retardant
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Jael into the hot tub, and then he had a
generator with a with a hose and then sprayed the
entire house with fire retarding to jail and then put
the hose in the pool and then just kept wedding
his house and his neighbors houses until he had to
literally leave, and his was the only house that liked
was standing. That's so crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It is so insane.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
It's so crazy.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Anyways, thanks for all the support, Gang. It was incredible show.
Of unity and humanity and empathy, and we feel it.
And the people of la are probably still in shock,
but they're going to rebuild. We're going to keep cranking
out the movies. People are gonna need the yuck yucks
and the he hauls and the oh wows. So we'll
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do our best.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
All right.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
As you know, folks, on bonusides, we give advice and
we do would you rathers? So I want to give
a little bit of advice right here. This is a
listener of banannimal sent this in here we go, Hi there,
banana boys.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
My name is Ceci, and I need some advice on
the creative side. So I do a lot of diving,
which is kind of like scuba, but you're just holding
your breath. And as part of that you get to
wear these really cool big long fins. They're about the
size of a skateboard deck, so think two and a
half feet long and eight inches wide.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I'm thinking they're really fun.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
But my problem is mine are a little boring. I
have a friend who can design something for me and
print it up. I just have no clue what to
ask her to do. Unfortunately, bananas are off the table,
as a lot of boat captains really don't like bring
a banana on a boat.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
That's true.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Some kind of superstition there. Now, if you were down
under the water and you looked over, what drawing or
picture would really make you giggle? I want to make
everybody happy who sees these fins and I appreciate your help.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
This is CC. Thank you for the most specific advice
question if we have ever been asked in the history
of this podcast. And that is why I love it.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
It's so great.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Scott. I don't know about you, but I'm watching free
dive videos on Instagram all the time. Oh sure, d
are you watching it? Oh my god, are you watching them?
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
This is the thing that I that the that the
algorithm's like, oh, you want to watch this person fall
downwards for four hundred meters while holding their breath. I'm like,
I do, I do. Indeed, I will watch for the
entire four and a half minutes it takes for them
to fall through darkness.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
There was a documentary I think that came out last
year and I watched the whole thing too, because it's
a it's a yes, it is fascinating opposite of what.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Humans are supposed to do.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
We're not supposed to be underwater, and we're not supposed
to swim towards the bottom.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
And then what I The thing that freaked me out
the most was that that at a certain point, I
had no idea that at a certain point you become
negatively buoyant because there's just simply not enough air in
your body anymore, because there's so the compression happens after
like I don't know, sixty feet ninety feet or something
like that, like three atmospheres that then you just start
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falling downwards. So they swim for a little bit, and
then they just start falling, which seems to me to
be the most terrifying. So they don't have to hold
weights or anything like that. Their whole body just becomes heavy.
So this is fascinating that you do this. And I
am very familiar with the fins. The fins are very long,
and so here's my pitch. My pitch is and I
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don't know if you can get it to come all
the way up to your ankle. And this would primarily
work if you Usually they wear those skins, those second skins,
you know, to keep themselves warm. But if you ever
were free diving, without them and you had bare legs.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yes, okay, then.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
To then have an extension of your foot continue down
so your calf is like two and a half feet
longer than it is, and then right at the edges
your foot at your toenails at the very end, and
then the sides are just painted in with black.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I think that's a great idea because you could be
top and bottom. It could just look like your big
old feet. You got some big old hoppit feet.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
You have super long log legs. You have two and
a half foot longer legs that you are eight and
a half feet tall. But it's all legs.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
It's all calf, it's all calves and ankles. You have
the longest ankles in the world. That's so funny.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
To that's I got a second that vote.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I think if you can make it just like like
two giant feet top and bottom.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Fantastic, that's amazing.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
I think you could get too yo Samity Sam holding
his pistols back offs on there like the mudflap truck
mud flaps.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Put that on there.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I also think there could be something where it says
bottoms up, where it only makes sense when you're going down.
When you're swimming down and your fins are up, it
looks like something. I don't know what that would be,
but I always thought the phrase bottoms up was so funny.
Could you let's see, I guess if it's only the top.
If I looked over at somebody and they were had
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long I mean, big big feet is the funniest thing.
It's so funny look over and to see somebody look
like they have two and a half long feet.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Look, I have to specify this. It's not that they're wide.
They are the exact same width as your actual legs,
so they're just incredibly long. So it's not that you
have big feet, it's that you have really long ankles.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Yeah, that's pretty damn good. I would laugh very hard
if I saw somebody also. That seems pretty doable. It
seems like I really Yeah, it's an easy one to do.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I think.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yeah, it has to be accurate looking, you know, but hell,
you could do it. You could just make a photograph.
You could literally print a photograph of actual feet.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Yeah, and that's big enough where somebody could see it
from a little bit away, because if it was, if
it's too small, you know, you're in the water. You got,
you gotta scuba mask on, you gotta snorkel a mask on.
You can't see high details from ten feet away.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
And if there's a chance, if there's a chance this
is a reference to an episode we just recorded that
probably either comes out next.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I think it'll beat it. I think it'll beat it.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yeah, But if it just says barefoot buddies, now two
feet making a hard shape, that would be great.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah, I think buddies.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Yeah, I guess if I have to give you another one,
I would paint them to look whatever. The most common
color is under the sea, So whatever matches the background
of the ocean, that type of blue, that deep sea blue.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
How about a classic cartoon sausage links just just wrapped
around in circles on both sides of it. Just seeing
somebody swimming with some reddish cartoon tied together sausage links,
I would enjoy that. I would enjoy if I looked
over and saw somebody kicking sausage away from their feet
really quickly, I would laugh.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Every time.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
I feel like it has to have a long design
so it does look like you're trying to get away
from it. It just looks like sausage ropes are trying
to catch up.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
To you that yatta, would you rather pound?
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Let me see? I do have a few.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Oh, here's an interesting one, because when I read it,
I instantly went one way, and then then I thought
about tomort Okay, Trevor bergiereo or b tever. I think
it's Bergieiro, says curtain Scottie. Hello, that's us, that's us.
We then banana boys. Would you rather be able to
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eat anything you want without any negative consequences? Or every
time you drink alcohol you get a perfect buzz and
can keep drinking with getting wasted or hungover, So you
could eat you could eat junk food, you can eat
ice cream ten times a day and you're not going
to get fatter and you're not going to have.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Cholesterol and hard issues.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Or every time you drink you get immediately to a
perfect buzz and you can keep drinking without ever getting
too drunk or hungover.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Ah, but I assume that that's the benefit. You still
but then like you get all the drawbacks of drink, right,
that's right, where you get you gain weight, you don't
sleep well, you know, you feel out of it, right, Okay,
I'm going to go for food, easy, peasy, I'm going
for food.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Yeah, it's me too, because there's certainly when you travel
and there's certain food. Sometimes you go to a place
and you're like, this is so good. I think we
have to cancel dinner because I ate too much. And
then you're so bumped because you didn't get to go
have that po boy you were thinking about. Yeah on
Lake Ponta train sometimes, and there there's a deep sadness
(20:43):
when you, God, what first world problems. My apologies, my apologies,
this is so bougie. It's my apologies, But there is
a sadness when you're somewhere and you eat such a big,
delicious lunch that you have to cancel what you know
would have been a delicious dinner. And I if I
could just keep going without any consequences, Well, well but
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what if food got.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Boring to you?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
What if food got boring to you?
Speaker 2 (21:12):
What if without limits?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Scotty we Okay, first off, time out, I have essentially
been living this way for my entire life.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Okay, all that is true, and it it never gets boring,
that's true, but I just haven't.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
But I've also just been becoming more and more unhealthy
because of it. But I do eat, you know. I
I also, you know, track my calories. I go on
big spurts. I go three months on, three months off.
I get really healthy for three months and then I
get really unhealthy for the other three months. So it
just keeps going like this, and I always kind of
(21:49):
stay right in the middle. Yeah, that's true, But it
never ever gets boring. That's what's fascinating about food.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Yeah, you're a big you have a wide palette though
you eat it all man, which I appreciate because I
do too well.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Like, Yeah, when you and I are.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
On the road and we go to Bizarro Cuban restaurants
in Pittsburgh or Delicious Restaurants Fusion Restaurants in Portland, you
and I never have to say do you want to
eat this?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
It's just yeah, should we get the blah blah blahs?
Should we get the muscles? Yes?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Should we get the I was always thinking about that.
Somebody asked me, like, what is something you wouldn't eat?
And I thought about it and I was like, I don't.
I pretty much eat everything me too, like black licorice.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I love black liquor I know people like gross I'm like,
that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yeah, I like it. It's I recently ate. I was at
a restaurant where someone else was like, come on, we're
going out and I'm taking care of it. So we're
going to go somewhere. And it was a tasting menu
and on the menu was sweetbreads, and I had had
sweetbreads in the past, which are like, as I understand it,
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just like the intestines and different different organ yeah, and
I was like, I'm gonna do it. I was like, yeah,
I'm gonna eat I'll eat everything. And it was a bowl.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Oh, that's too much of sweetbreads.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
It was so much, and I and at the end
of it, I was like, I don't think in the
future I'm going to eat that. That was my first
time where I was just like, I think that I've
had enough of that richness. That richness was so rich
it overpowered everything else about the meal.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Yes, well, yeah, I'm with you, but I'm the same way.
It's like I say that, and then I have started
to lose interest in oysters. I think that there are
too many places.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, and I've lost interest. They used to be my
favorite thing.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I remember, I remember celebrating any small achievement with you
at Ribbon in Hey.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Look at we're up at two in the morning, isn't
that amazing? Let's go to Blue Ribbon together.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
You guys would always treat me, and I still remember it,
and it was some of most fun nights because you'd like,
just come, we're celebrated, just come, and you guys would
always pay, but we would always we would do the
oyster shooters there, and they had really good oyster shooters there.
Those were Those are to this day my standard of
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they were.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Selling good Blue Ribbon oyster shooters back in two thousand
and eight.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
That, Yeah, that was a special treat for a guy.
That was like eating two dollar grays Papia dogs are
two two for one dollar gray Papa dogs. Yeah, and
as in the dollar sliced pizza, and then wherever I
could find it. Amm the Moon's Falaffel. Shout out the
Moon's on Saint.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Mark's shot at moons.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
How many of the.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Moon's Falaffels did you eat when you were in New
York five thousand?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Yeah, it was so good and so cheat.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
It was three dollars or four dollars for the sharm.
It was direct next to Grassroots, which was a great
dive bar that when that one left. When Grassroots closed,
it just made go into Saint Mark's not interesting to
me anymore.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
It was the only bar that you could really kind
of function at that wasn't we like it just like
either like we're crust punks and we our dads just
gave us a trust fund, or like weird, like we're
we're from Japan and we like punk rock music. Like
that was the only people in Saint Mark's. Yes, And
then there was that one little bar that was nice.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
And it had pictures and weirdly, you'll probably remember this
as I say it, their pictures were like eight dollars,
nine of ours ten dollars. But they had a seven
dollars pitcher a happy hour six hours of amber Bach
of michelob Amberbach was their cheap beer. And I'll net,
I mean they must have sold, because I never drank
michelob Amberbach until And the bartender was this old guy
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and definitely an alcoholic, because he would be drinking while bartend,
and those picture prices there would be like seven dollars
and the next time he'd be like five dollars, and
the next time he'd make three dollars, and my friends
would be like that guy just charged me three dollars
for this picture, and then like, well.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Go get another one.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Shout out and rest in peace to Grassroots, one of
the great dive bars in the oughts.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Here's one right now for Mikelobe. I just don't feel
like I see michelobe enough. I remember my first bottle
having a michelobe was a jersey at a bowling alley
and the bottle was shaped kind of like.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
A long butt plug.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Sexy, a long butt Well, those were the little ones, right,
those are the little ones with the long butt plugs.
But then they had the ones that were like kind
of fat in the middle and then fat on the bottom.
I guess that's a long button. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Still still, we'll post a photo of an original michelobe
and they had the gold label on the top.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Really a beautiful, very seventies design. And sitting at a
bowling alley bowling and drinking a michelob was like now here,
I'm in a little bit of heaven.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Well, you know what's funny is that michelob ultra is
so popular now, like they just are all in on
ultra and when you go to Let's say we're in
a Red State, Kurt, and let's say you go to
a bar where you go, well, let's see what the
Red States do. Half the dudes in there drinking Mick Ultra's.
It's like the to me, the wimpiest sports beer there is,
but then it's winning. Mick Ultra is a hit in
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the Red States.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Look at that. Make Aloe found a way to make it.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
From long butt plugs to sports beer in the Red States. Mikelobe,
Oh man, do you.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Got another one?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Do you got it?
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
I got uh?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Here's oh, here's an advice. This is so simple. Julia
is asking us what items can I carry around with
me to make life a little sillier. It's like stuff
in your pocket book, your pockets, your fanny pack, your
your satchel.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
This is an item that I carry around with me,
and I find it to be so incredibly pleasing. It is.
I got it at the silver Ball Museum in Asbury Park,
New Jersey, which is a pinball arcade on the boardwalk,
one of my favorite places in the universe. Yeah, and
(28:15):
they sell pinballs for ten bucks. And you can buy
a pinball and the weight and heft of having a
pinball in the jacket pocket in the winter time, to
curl your hand around it feels amazing. It's satisfying, it
centers you. That's my suggestion.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Well, that's nice. That's totally unexpected and nice.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I appreciate that. A couple things.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
One, I used to make business cards all the time
for myself and I would put I'm sure Kurt got one,
and I would hand them out because when I was
not in the industry and trying to break in, I
just wanted to make people laugh. And so one was
a really tan this guy was in a speedo standing
on a beach, very muscular tan guy with a beautiful
(29:07):
hair blown perm mullet thing, and then it said Scottie
Landis and then underneath it and quotes it said billionaire.
And then it just was my email. And I made
two hundred of them. I used to give them to friends,
but then when I would go by any community bulletin board,
I would just thumbtack it up there. And I did
it once at the old absent house on Bourbon Street.
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I've mentioned Louisiana twice this episode, and somebody emailed me
and was like, are you really a billionaire? I found
this and sent me a photo of it. And I
used to just leave business cards with just my email,
like not enough personal information, with a photo of somebody
else and something dumb written on it, and people would
write to me. They would be like, hey, dude, I
saw this and I was here, and it's a fun
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thing to do because you can give it to your friends.
Also useful. You could actually write your real number on
the back and hand it to somebody.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
So I would say, do you get one?
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I print some business cards?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Print business cards. In late high school early early college,
for me, I was like obsessed with not too much,
but phone freaking. Do you know? Do you know what
I'm talking about? Phone freaking? So they're payphones, public payphones.
There was all these different codes that you put into
public payphones to get free calls, to get uh there's
(30:25):
certain ones. There was always like the legend that like
you could get it to dump all of its quarters out.
Yes I never figured out, but I did know the
code to like be able to make free phone calls.
And you there was another one where you would like
hold a box up that would make us clicking zone
to the clicking sounds into the thing and you could
get them, you could like send away from them, and
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then that would like have that would be a long
distance calls, long distance calls, international calls, all payphones. And
because of my interest in doing that, I got in.
So there was a there was a business card machine
in the CVU Square Mall in New Jersey, and it
was like it was supposed to. I guess you had
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to feed money into it, or maybe it took credit cards.
It doesn't seem like it would take credit cards because
it was the nineties. But if you typed something like
free two fifty into it after you ordered up all
your like business cards, it would then just print two
hundred and fifty free business cards. So we all had
business cards, and we all would just type free two
fifty into it, and then it would just give them
(31:29):
to us in credible. The mind said, of course, it
didn't make any sense. It's not as simple and funny
as just quotes billionaire. It was it said Pooch and
Doodle metaphysical pet company smart and then it just had
my phone number in my email address. Yea, so it
must I must have been in college.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Julia makes some business make fifty business cards.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
It's very cheap. You could do it so easy on line.
Put nonsense on it. Put something that you're not on there,
don't evenin you use your real name, and either hand
them to strangers when it doesn't matter you're never gonna
see that person again, or just post them up on
corkboards at the grocery store you're traveling, Leave them in
books at the library, at a bookstore for somebody to
find the.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Little treasure later.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I put it in the Bible.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Put in the Gideon Bible. The Gideons are just still
cranking those Bible. Where are the Gideons?
Speaker 2 (32:15):
And why?
Speaker 4 (32:16):
What factory? How many trees are the Gideons hacking down
every year?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
They must have purchased an old nuclear missile facility and
they're just buried in the Utah bad lands.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
Everybody, make some business cards. If you come to Bananas
live shows, please give them to us. I will keep
every one of them. But just make absurd business cards
and leave them around. Whatever you think is funny will work.
Also sidebar, this is one that Okay, you know that
costume tooth black. It's the stuff you can paint on
your teeth that make them look like you're missing teeth.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
A vile of that is about eight dollars.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
If you go out with your good friends, So you're
going over your friend's house to watch movies, have some drinks,
play cards, whatever you're gonna do, look at your phones.
You're going over your fen so you can all look
at your phones and occasionally.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Talk to each other.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Yeah, take tooth black and say, everybody, you have to
paint two of your teeth black and leave it that
way for the rest of the night. It is the
fucking funniest It's so small, Kurt. But then you look
at your friend and if my front two missing, laugh
out loud, so funny. But if you do like a
lower one and an upper one on the opposite side,
and your friend's like, I think Greg and I are
(33:24):
going to get divorced, it's so funny because you're just like, well,
I bet you are, and you need to get to
the dentist, so tooth black in your purse. It really
is the silliest idea I can't describe. When you look
at people you've known you're for twenty years and then
they're missing teeth that they're not supposed to be missing,
it gets so silly. And then they look at you
(33:45):
and they start laughing too. So those are fake business
cards to make other people happy or you'reself happy, and
then carry a little tooth black around, take it to parties,
make everybody paint one tooth black.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
It is so funny to me. I got more, Bud,
I got so many.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Do you have one that is a hypothetical?
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Yes, I love a hypothetical.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
M hypothetical. If you could smell any smell? Oh, this
is from Barbara. Thank you, Barbara. If you could smell
any smell whenever you wanted, wherever you wanted, anytime, what
smell would you have t have to smell? Meaning you
walk in any room, you smell your shirt, you go outside,
take a deep breath. You can make it smell like
(34:31):
one smell. And Barbara says, hers apples and cinnamon.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
All right, Scotty, what do you think? What's yours?
Speaker 5 (34:42):
Man?
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Is this is tough? This is tough?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Okay, I'll go while you think this is tough, I
immediately know it is the smell, and I don't find
it much anymore. And I must be the way the
ducting works on my house. But I used to always
smell it in Michigan. It was the smell of dryer
(35:06):
exhaust when you're using a uh sheet, a specific dryer sheet,
and I'm not sure which which it was. For some
reason that smell and it used to be there used
to be a vent on the side of the house
and it would and it was when it was cold
out it would actually come out as like missed kind
(35:27):
of because it was very hot and wet. That smell
to me was I don't know why. It's signified home comfort. Yeah,
it's signified comfort. It signified and there was also a
unexplained kind of almost time travel essence to it of
something that I've never experienced, but I know that I
(35:47):
love like when you were in a dream and you're
in love with someone and you know you've never seen
their face. Has this ever happened to you where you've
like seen a person you know you're in love with
them and you know them deep like crying and I
and I can and I but it's not a person
I know in this world. It's that that that kind
of a feeling is smelling that to me.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Yeah, that takes me back too, because like when you're
a kid and you'd be have a snow day or
snowed over weekend, you'd sled all day with your friends,
snowball fight, you destroy yourselves. You've already gone to one
friend's house, had hot chocolate, and you put your wet
clothes back on, which is the nightmare. Yes, and then
you trudge back home, dragging your sled behind you through
the snow, and then.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
You see your house.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Yes, but I can remember the steam and I didn't
think about that, but there was always a spot of
grass under there, because the steam would melt the grass
on that one little patch, and you knew you were
getting close. Oh man, that's a good memory. I totally
forgot about that. That's a really funny visual because, yeah,
you would see that little hole in the snow where
the steam from the dryer, probably drying the wet snow
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clothes you wore the day before. Remember those gloves. I'm
sure they still make them, but they I used to
have transformers ones.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Freaky freezies. Yeah, yeah, I love them.
Speaker 4 (36:59):
They still make Where it was blank and then you
go outside and they get cold, and then the images
come onto.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Yeah, it would be like like a mountain or something.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
God, that's the best.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
God, damn it, that's the best. And well in every
piece of article of clothing. Now with that on it,
it's probably incredibly toxic. That's the answer.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Well, we saw it something. We had those bananas hypercolor
style shirts, the heat changing shirts.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
And when we pitched that idea that old.
Speaker 4 (37:25):
Company not exactly right to the other company that made
our merch they were like, really, these are gonna be
like forty bucks. And then the fastest thing we've ever
sold were the color changing shirt.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Let's bring back the color chat.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
I know, let's get a new design. I like the
best in the biz design, but yeah, like, let's do
that and then make them hyper colored shirts.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
I think those were so fun. Okay, anyways, back for
the colored shirts.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
There's no reason there isn't really a reason to have
any type of any other type of shirt at this
point other than a hypercolor shirt. I would love a jacket.
I would love a jacket that inside is white and
outside is a different color. I would love that.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Mmmmm, give it to me, folks, Yeah, I know, somebody.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
It's the future. Give it to me.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Your clothes need to change color all the time in the.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Future the time everywhere.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Well, they're making those new BMW's and stuff that you
can change the color of your car. It has like
a skin on it, And I'm.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Like, shut up, gosh, what shut up?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
It's so dorky. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (38:19):
You can change the color of your car.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
Yeah, it has like a skin on it that can
be white black. Like you could change the color of
your car. You can click a button and changes the
color your car. I do believe it. It's so boring
to me. That's so boring. I think it's supposed to
be creative, and instead I'm like, this sucks. This is
so uninteresting to me. Now, if you could make it
do stuff and say stuff like, say, make it look
(38:43):
like two giant like it makes you look like you're
sitting naked in your own car going really fast or
dangling from the steering wheel. It looked like your hands
are on the steeling one of the rest of your
body was along the side the car and the feet
were flapping.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
All right, No, no, I'm interested.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
I'll slap in.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
My Discover Cary. You're getting my my diner's up guard. Anyways,
back to the smell. You know what smell like and
I know you like this too, is the smell of
and it's not.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Dissimilar when you're at the beach. Yeah, lay a towel out.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Yeah, you're laying face down on a clean towel at
the beach with sun tan, locean on.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
So it's that combination.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Of warm laundry, ocean breeze, and the coconuty smell of
you know, copper tone, and you just bury your.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Face on the specific smell of copper tone.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Yeah, and you dig a little hole for your face
so you can lay kind of flat and that smell
of your face in a sand hole on your towel
with some block on that. I if I could close
my eyes and do that, I would be a happy
guy instead of I love that.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
That's a good so much. I would also just say
the ocean in general, if I could smell the ocean.
And here's the thing. Here's the thing about this question.
This is a good one. But smells for the human brain,
I find they have to be fleeting otherwise they're noxious,
(40:11):
like like if you have it all the time, it's
too much. That is the unique impermanence of smell. It
is a it's a wild smells a. It is one
of the wildest senses of the senses.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
Scottie, Yeah, I would say it's one of the five
wildest absolutely.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Hear it, you heard it here, folks, smell is one
of the five wildest setses we have and that is
all the time we have for this sweet, sweet bonusode episode.
Thank you so much to everyone exactly right. Thank you
to Katie Levine, our producer. Thank you to Lisa Maggot,
are live, totally human interned, part time and time employee,
(40:52):
and thank you Scotty Landis.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
Thank you Kurt Brown Oler. Guys, We'll see you in
twenty twenty five. Keep up your dry sixty nines, keep
being good people, donate blood at their and on team Bananamals,
and just have a great life. This week, Bananas Bananas
(41:20):
is an exactly Right media production.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.
Speaker 4 (41:25):
The catchy Bananas theme song was composed and performed by Kahon.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard, and.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Our benevolent overlords are the great Karen Kilgareff and Georgia
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Speaker 3 (41:35):
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