January 14, 2025 • 52 mins
Kurt and Scotty talk about Tokyo’s Crush Christmas March getting cancelled, plates of peeled bananas left on a residential street, missing dog rings doorbell to let owner know it’s home and thieves return stolen rug to Madonna Inn!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here it is Scottie. We're back, baby, He's the one
you have to pay attention to.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hard for me to do. I'm not very smart.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Man Tokyo's cancel Christmas protests March canceled by Revolutionary Alliance
of Unpopular Men.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Boy, this is what I like. I like to be
enthralled and astonished and just you just teased us in
to We're all going to be better people with more
knowledge of the world in the international community because of
this episode of Bananasillian.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Pis, would you do?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Birthday guys goals, non binary pals, Welcome to Bananas. I'm
Kurt Brown older, I.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Am Banana Boy number two Scotti Landis. We're coming to
you from the Windy City, Los Angeles, California, and thanks
for listening to the silliest little podcast there ever was.
Kurt and I swear we promise, we pledge no matter
how weird, twenty twenty five is about to be. Yep.
(01:29):
We're gonna be more fun and we're gonna be weirder
and we're gonna take it the spirit of optimism and
positivity to the extreme in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
We have to, we have to, we will be the
light shining in the Medea of Weird Darkness.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
It's my middle name.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It is.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
It's a long middle name. Yeah, it really is, and
that's fine with me. But we're we're just gonna keep
pumping out the good times. And the first step is
our sold out show at the Bob Baker Marinette Theater.
It's the Banana Boy, It's Marionettes. And this is the
kind of gigly google that we're going to do all
(02:07):
year long.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I can't wait. We still have yet to meet the Marionettes.
We're going to meet the Marionettes soon. It's going to
be a really fun show.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I know. I'm gonna There's a couple of personal stories.
The one I'm going to ask you about offline because
I'm not sure if I were told it on the
main pot. But when I see the animals they have,
I'm like, boy, if I can get some of these
marching while I tell the story, oh, I will be
so happy.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
All right, great, I love that idea, Scotty. We have
not spoken in a couple of weeks, probably in a
couple weeks, maybe maybe a month, close to a month.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
We haven't recorded in over a month.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, we are about so many to like because everyone
was closed for so long. Hello, how is your holidays wonderful?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
And again I being in California during this time when
it's freezing cold everywhere else and Louisville, Kentucky has ten
inches of snow and all the it's like, uh, it's
just nice to be lazy through the holidays. I'll say
it like that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yes it is. Indeed, I do miss that. I do
miss that sweet time in between Christmas and New Year's
which is just like a do nothing dead week because
it with children, it doesn't really exist.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, it doesn't exist.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
It's like it kind of exists. Like we put the
kids in camp one day and I just like sat
and read. I'd read for like, I don't know, five
hours straight.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
What a joy?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
What a jit? Uh joy? I sat in the couch
and I read for like five hours. And I really
that puts you in a like just zend out state
that is so pleasant. And I never do it. I
never do that. I would like to do that more,
I won't.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
There's a great article on vox dot com that I
just read. I like Vox and they have good stuff,
and it was the key. There's always the clickbait articles
that men don't read. They're like, young men don't read
books anymore young and then this fox articles like why
do we keep saying this? This is not true? And
then they go through statistically and like the difference between
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young women reading and young men reading is like four percent.
It's like it's just some dumb study that they're like,
these guys aren't reading, We've lost them. It is I treat.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
It is a real treat. I do find how I
do see a lot of stand ups do a joke
about not reading and the audience really laughing a lot,
like really being like that's me. I hate books, Like
anti book comedy is big.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I will just say that, all right, well that's fine.
I guess they listen to podcasts, and I guess they
listen to ebooks and audible books, which is fine. That's
fine too. I count audibles as reading, even though it
is not the same relaxing, imaginative experience of sitting down
and turning those pages. But then again, I'm old parts.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I know it just one more way that I'm out
of step.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
It's a great joy. People like it was wonderful. I
went to Safie's last night. Have you been to Safie's.
It's the Mediterranean restaurant. It's directly next to the Scientology Center,
which is funny in its own way. You feel like,
is this are they tricking us in here to get
us over there. No, it's great food, but boy, that
is a Generation Z hot spot. And it just reminded
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me of Brooklyn in the two thousands. It was just fun.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Speaking of the Scientology Center. We went and got ice
cream the other night, and we're walking back with the
ice cream and I just didn't even occur to me
that we were across the street from the Scientology Center.
And Olive looks over and she loves science, like she
loves science. She looks over and I just watched her
go science top. Well, well, well looks like somebody's found
(05:58):
the church for there. I'm I go, no, no, Noboddy,
oh sweetie, No, no, it's not science. It's not science based.
It's different. Don't don't don't go.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Oh my gosh, it's lovely. Even if you did mention it,
it's nice to know that Olive can read. And that's
something that you, as a father, should brag about early
and often and all the time. Folks, if you've never
heard bananas it's strange news. Kurt is a stand up
comedian actor writer. I'm a screenwriter, and then we tell
our own personal stories. Sometimes we have wonderful guests, but
(06:34):
on episodes like today's episode, it's just the banana boys
shaking our tail feathers and having a good time talking
about some headline like Kurtz that I did not understand
here it is.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
It is a hard to understand one, but it's worth it.
Tokyo cancel Christmas Protest March canceled by revolutionary lines of
unpopular men? What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Popular man?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
This was in Japan today. Obviously this was by Casey Basil, her.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Soul Japanese sounding name.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
In Japan, the biggest Christmas celebrations actually take place on
Christmas Day now Christmas Eve. So on December twenty fourth,
Christmas lights were shining around Tokyo, with the sounds of
traditional Yule Tide music playing from shopping center speakers and
reblers happily heading to day some parties with Give six
TEMs in hand. However, there was something different about Christmas
Eve and Tokyo this year. Something was missing The annual
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anti Christmas protest March held by the Revolutionary Alliance of
Unpopular Men. Traditionally, the group gathers every year in the
afternoon on December twenty fourth, carrying banners and chanting messages
of opposition to Christmas Great. Specifically, the organization takes issue
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with Christmas Eve's status as the most romantic date night
of the year, which is that must.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Be in pane that is here.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So yeah. However, it should be noted that the Japanese
term that makes up the unpopular part of the Revolutionary
Alliance of Unpopular Men's name himote, specifically refers to guys
who aren't popular with women, and so it's pretty clear
that the march isn't meant as a rally for those
who want to focus on the religious or broader humanitarian
aspects of the holidays, so much as a get together
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for those who are frustrated about their dateless status. This
is so wild weird, yeah, strange, okay, stranger, yeah okay,
though not large or lengthy.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yes, I think I found their problem twenty this is
why they're single.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
The twenty twenty three march consisted of about fifteen people
that lasted roughly thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
That's all right.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
The marches have been consistent, taking place on an annual
basis since two thousand and seven. However, the group's slogan
of Crushed Christmas couldn't be heard on the Shiboya streets
this past Tuesday because the anti Christmas march was canceled,
as announced through a post from the Revolutionary Alliance of
Unpopular Men's Twitter account in December nineteenth. This doesn't mean
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that the organization has necessarily softened its stance against Christmas, though.
It's just that while its members may be unpopular, they're
not unlawful, and they weren't able to file the paperwork
necessary for holding a protest march on public streets. The
announcement is the announcement reads announcement regarding this year's Crush
Christmas demonstration. Due to various circumstances, our representative was unable
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to carry out the application process, so the demonstration has
been canceled. We sincerely, regretless and deeply apologied to apologize
to you comrades. So while it would be an amusing
I would be amusingly ironic if the Revolutionary Alliance So
Unpopular Men have been disbanded as a result of its
leaders finding dates for Christmas Eve. This appears to be mere
(10:00):
contemporary setback for their cause, and presumably their annual march
on Valentine's Day, another celebration They're not too keen on,
is still in the works for twenty twenty five. Yep,
that is to be a member of the of the
Revolutionary Alliance of Unpopular Men. I think is self defeating, right,
(10:20):
It kind of encourages you to stay in the Revolutionary
Alliance of Unpopular Men.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I agree. But also if those bozos are not out
going on dates, they can't get the application in a time.
It's like, what are you guys up to?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
What are you guys doing? You guys? Yeah, you guys
want to protesting other things that everyone loves.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I know, maybe that's it. But also it's funny, like
what a great protest just to fill out an application
to have a protest, and then you don't do it,
so you don't protest. They're rule followers, and maybe that's
what they need to learn is some women enjoy the
bad boy. Not all, but many do. Yeah, that's a fascinating. Yeah,
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well one to protest Christmas is funny. I'm all for it.
I love Christmas. I went to La Zoo Lights this
year for the first time probably nine or ten years,
most incredible light show I've ever seen in my entire life.
What you got to go this year?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
No, I did not go this year.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Well I don't know. Last year we went, but it
is so thorough and great I couldn't believe. I actually
could not believe how good it was.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Wow. I went to Disconso Gardens, so we either do
Disconso or we do Zoo Lights, and Disconso was very good.
They like revamped stuff and it was like very nice
this year. I like Disconso because it's more like everything's
dark all the time and so it's just like you're
in the woods and like things are lighting up, which is.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It is nice? That is nice. Yeah, it's nice when
you're in the woods and things start lighting up. That's
always a good time.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And it's slightly less animal jally, although I go it.
I'm a member of the Zoo. I go all there
all the time with the kids, just because it's like
easy to go to because I live door to it.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, and it's pretty year round here. Yeah, but that's cool.
I'm all for protesting, like also in small groups, protesting
something that is the majority really loves it's a very
funny thing. And then to add the layer that they're
really just bummed at being single, it's the most romantic.
And so it'd be like in the States at least
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protesting Valentine's Day, right, that's yeah, and that's never I
mean that would be great too. If I was going
on a Valentine's Day date and there were a group
of men protesting, I would laugh. I would be like, you're.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Right, guys, the group go on that data and men
who were good at organizing.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
It's fine, and they're horrible at organizing. It's also for
it took fifteen minutes. This is good. That's a great, polite,
nice story, Kurt. Do you think you know? You read
all these articles and stuff about how young people are
like having a hard time meeting or can't find relationships
or aren't hooking up or aren't having sex. But when
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you read those are they talking about the straits? Are
they talking about like straight people boring old school blooh,
just reguar old straight people having a hard time hooking up?
Are the lesbians out there just having a ball date
and left and right and seeing right?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I don't know all those stories like, no one's having
sex anymore? Yeah, no one straight?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah are they?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I don't know. I like honestly, I I like all
those like trend pieces that I see constantly. I just
doubt every single one of them. I'm like, maybe is
this true? You know, like the thing like men aren't
reading it's four percent difference.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, it's like not true at all. And when I
was a young boy, MTV hired me to write a
in house scripted comedy video for all their employees to
learn about the millennials. And they had an in site
company that I think was called Insight, and they gave
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me all the bullet points of the millennials and then
I had to work them all into scripts. So I
called it the Millennial World. It was like the real world,
and we cast I don't know six or sex. I
guess seven people's this is true story, seven young strangers. Yeah,
and and each represented a different millennial trait. And they
loved it, and they showed it in house and paid
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me and then never showed it again. They showed it
one time and everybody's like, Okay, now we know the millennials,
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
They yeah, they were like Yeah, they liked to buy
plane tickets on their phones. It was stuff like that.
And you're like, okay, we could tell we know that's true.
They like a variety of flavors. You're like, they say
that about gen Z.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Too, Like, I also, I love it when millennials, like
I remember when like millennials were like they're the problem
in the workplace from Gen X people, and now you're
just seeing all of the millennial people would be like
gen Z or the problem in the workplace. It's like, no,
it's just that they're young and dumb. That's it. It's
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not generational. It's young and dumb. They've not been working
for very long and so they don't know the rules.
And every twenty years there's just like this swath of
articles about like this new generation doesn't know how to
work at all. Yes, right, and it's so stupid and
it's nice and I'll say something bitter and I love
(15:31):
to say it, is that what's really delightful is watching
people who used to be very young get old where
they're just like, oh, they were like the hot shit
new young thing, and then you like watch them get
into their mid thirties. As a person who had already
gone through that, and you're like, yeah, it happens to everyone.
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If the thing that you're hanging on to that defines
you is your youth, you're in. You're in for bad news.
It's not good last for anybody.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Nope. There's a very funny story about two young male
comics in LA who drunkenly and I think they were
a little enhands, yelling in front of a party of
their friends with each other which one was the next
James Dean, James both James Dean, not the modern porn
star or whatever, the former you know, Hollywood Heartthrob. And
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my friend who witnessed it, they said everybody else was
laughing because these guys were legitimately yelling at each other
who was more likely to be the new James Dean
and my director Buddy Goes. You guys know he died
at like twenty five, right, And they were like, it
doesn't matter, And now they're both out of the business completely.
Now one of them is in show business asault. They
never made it.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Did I know them?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, but probably more by reputation than they were LA guys.
When we were in New York they were out here.
But when I met one of them. They were like,
don't even mess with that guy. They both think they're
James Dean and their career side.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
It's such a weird reference point, you know, that's such
a like for comedians. I don't think any comedian wants
to be James Dean. That's so strange.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
How old was James Dean when he died. Let's look
it up. We have a super right in front of us.
He died at a twenty four. I was close. Oh wow,
that is young young, It was young.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
His dad was named Winton and his mom was named Mildred.
Those are great nineteen hundred's names, Old Winton and Million Wint.
It's an educational podcast, and isn't it thinks? Now? You know,
when you go to your work function later at night,
or you know you're paying a babysitter so you can
go out to dinner, you go. Do you know James
Dean was only twenty four when he died.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Also, it's very interesting too that, like so many people
who we consider to be iconic or anything like that,
are simply because they died before they had an opportunity
to do like a raisin brand commercial, you know, like,
if Kurt Kobain had lived long enough, we'd see him
now like do stand up paddle boarding with Eddie Vedder,
you know, and we would be like, that dude sucks.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I've always said if Tupac was still alive, he'd be
hosting America's Got Talent, because look at Snoop Dogg. Snoop
Dogg is essentially more vanilla right now than almost everybody
on televi He I love Snoop. I got no promise
hereybody gets paid as much as you could get paid.
But there was a time where he was on murder
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trial and I watched it on MTV when they found
him not guilty, and then he had the song Murder
was the case that they gave me, and it was like,
now you're just like, look at this guy selling panos. Yeah,
he's hosting the Olympics, talking about tresash horses. He's like,
he's selling Snoop Dogg could be on a Maxi Pad
commercial and people be like, that's honestly fine. I like
that guy, So you can't tell me Tupac would not
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be doing you know, bounce dryer sheet commercials.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Tupac and Kirk Cobain on Dancing with the Stars. Got it?
I want it? I want it so bad.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Damn well, holograms are coming, so maybe bananam. Mark Kidsley
sent this in and it's so good he did. We
got some This story a by a lot of people,
but he lives nearby. I'll talk about it more after
the fact. But he's the perfect person to send this
in for us BBC. That's real, written by many. Consider
this gent the best in the business. Harry Stevens wrote
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this one.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Harry Stevens better than Bald Stevens.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Damn right. Why does a plate of bananas appear on
our street every week? That's the headline?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
That is I guess it's Harry's street.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, Harry Stevens. He's just he's out there. He's a
man about town.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
So I have not heard the name Harry in so
long that I can't not hear it as Harry h
A I.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
R y well right, Harry Stevens would be like a
funny improv team name where they all have beards and
long hair and they're all named Stephen. What are the
Harry Stevens. Actually, it's shocking, that's shocking. That doesn't exist.
It's like the family, big black car Neutrino.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Harry Stevens.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Harry Stevens. It's just six guys named steven and they
all have really long beards. They kind of look like
zeezy top. Cartoons and comedy shows have taught us to
avoid banana skins as a slip and fall hazard see
Harry just as connecting on a deeply personal level for
anybody born in the nineteen sixties. But what do you
do when you encounter a plate full of the fruit
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that says full of the fruit unpeeled. That is exactly
what's been happening in the small nottingham Shire town and
no one knows the reason behind this strange tradition here
it is, this is so good. The mystery plate of
peeled bananas appears on the second day of every month
on the corner of Abbey Road and Wendsor Avenue in Beeston,
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and residents say it has been a constant in their
lives for more than a year.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
More than a year, every month or every.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Week, excuse me, it was every month. Okay, second day
of every month on the corner.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Second day it's every Oh wow, okay.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I've asked around in the local community, but no one
really knows, and no one can tell me anything, said
resident Claire Short. The bananas appear early in the morning
on the second of the month. I see them on
my way to work, and I'd love to have some
answers to this. The bananas have propped it. This is
just a plate of bananas. There's a photo of it.
And the reason I said that it's so important that
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Mark Kinsley, the kids Ley the bananimal, who said it
is He is a photographer and he lives nearby. And
he said he's going to investigate forest further. And I said,
send us a pick of those bananas when you go.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
So Mark is a bananamal in the wild for us
in Beston or nearby Beaston's a cute name. Yeah, Banana
the bananas. The bananas have prompted a mixed reaction, and
some neighbors saying the bananas go moldy in their street.
Does not look appealing anymore. Harry Stevens. Miss Short tried
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to try to take the matter into her own hands.
She put up a sign where the plate is to
deter the yellow fruit being left there again. On January second, however,
another plate of peeled bananas appeared in the usual spot.
I've come to take down the signs because I don't
really feel like making it a feud. I don't want
it to become a big thing, she said, But it
already is.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
It's so once you made the sign, it became a thing. Yeah,
now you know you're now you're somebody knows. It's pissing
people off, and they're only going to want to do
it more.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
They're very excited now.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
And then the genius move is take a month off
and then come right back and do it the next
month so everything's it's over, and then just come back
with two plates of peel bananas on the corner of
Abbey and wherever wendsor Avenue in peace bananas.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
They're just the so there's no peel, there's no it's
just naked banana, dripped.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Down stack bananas on.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
A plate like a bunch of hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I think it's a special thing for someone, and I
wish them well. But if if they could come back
and clean up the mess a few days later, that
would be lovely.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
That's a nice special thing for somebody.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I'm going to keep an eye on it and keep
cleaning up the mess. So this poor woman, Miss short
just keeps doing it. It's gross. Other neighbors say. Other
neighbors would rather see the banana's gone for good. I
live nearby and they're very regularly here, said twenty six
year old Josh Trentam. They are very annoying. I have
no idea why they're here. Just one plate of bananas
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driving this tower. Bananas per month, one place per month.
Jill Dowling, another wonderfully British name, added, it's so strange
and disgusting. Someone puts it there and I don't like it.
Resident Janet Hutchinson eighty one as young. She says, the
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bananas are clearly just bought, and the wildlife doesn't touch them.
They go moldy. It's gross. Adam Castle, another puzzled resident,
wonder if the gesture was perhaps a custom somewhere else.
Adam said, what is this thing? I don't know if
it's a cultural thing or what. It's strange. I've never
heard or seen anything anywhere else where I've lived like this.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I hope Harry Stevens speaks to every single human on
this block.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
We're gonna be at.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Least in half of the people who live there bananimals.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Kurt and I encourage you in twenty twenty five to
find your plate of peeled bananas. Let us know what
it is. Don't hurt anybody, don't destroy anybody's property, but
publicly start something new just for the sake of being
as silly as you can. We won't tell anybody about it,
your secret weird thing, but we would love love to
hear about it. Right, Yeah, this is your year. This
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is your moment to figure out what is your peeled
play of bananas in your small town that will drive
everybody nuts, but get them talking about something else besides
twenty four hour news coverage exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I mean, I think on our first episode we had
mashed potatoes being left all across town. Seeing people like
to do. The fact that this is the fact that
I am also aware of the weird trends of strangeness
that human beings like to partake in, is also like,
oh yeah, that that's pretty common.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
It happens, but it's nice. I think, Yeah, this is
just the world is boring and repetitive, and it takes
so little to get people just talking, just gabbing it up.
You don't think the local pubs in that town are
having a field day, Yeah, speculating, And then you're looking
at your neighbors a little different. You're wondering, you're watching
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people at grocery stores. Is this person buying one banana
a time to get sneaky or are they buying a
bunch of pm me, it's wonderful. It's a wonderful dumb
and it's not us. By the way I'm saying all this,
Kurt and I are not responsible for this, and there's
not a been animal we're in contact with doing it,
though I do somehow wish we were.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I really do. It's a great marketing idea.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
It's fine with me. Sure it's a little bit of
food waste. Sure, sure the flies like it.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, makes more.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Animal will eat it. Mold exists, that's an animal or no,
it might be, but mold likes it.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Is it not an animal?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
It's a fungus. It's a plant, right.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I don't know. Also, I think that those maybe those
those like elementary school designations like plant animal is maybe
it's a plant animal.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Fungi is neither plant nor animal. They have their own
kingdom and biology.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
What's the kingdom? What's the kingdom?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Funk guy I guess, no, mold is a plant. Let's see. Nope,
what mold is not a plant? We got to find
its kingdom. This is huge. This is gonna make or
break the entire podcast. We've got to find this kingdom.
What kingdom is mold?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
What kingdom does mold rule?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Does mold rule? I'm actually typing that they're in the
fungi kingdom, which incleads ye, mold smut?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
What what's a smut?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I've been living my whole life without, which includes yeast, mold, smuts,
and mushrooms.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
What's the smuts?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
All right?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
What is a smut of grains in which part of
the ear changed to black powder? I've seen that, I've
seen that on a on corn. Yes, but smutt?
Speaker 2 (27:53):
How did smut then become like pornography? That's a I
love that. I'd never heard of smuts before. I guess
I'm not a hazy.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
The craziest part is that when I pull up smut
as a definition on Google, the only two are the
fungal disease and a small flake of spot or other dirt,
And it doesn't say like dirty. Yeah, yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I thought smut was like a really like low brow,
pedestrian term for pornography. But it turns out it's just
rocking that fung guy kingdom with mold, yeast, mushrooms and.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Smut, just taking down grains.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
God, I feel wrinkles in my brain just blowing up
right now.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
That's right out?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Yeah, iron it flat. Well there you go. I'm worth
that story, just in a smut. But yes to our
wonderful but animal buddy Mark, please do go the second.
Send us a photo. Take a picture of yourself, Take
picture of your favorite person standing next to it. Be
a bananimal in the while. Do it.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I'll see this into a little shower.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Thumbs I think I do have some thumbs ups.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah, Oh, here's something. This is just delight This is
just delightful and easy. Missing Florida dog rings owner's doorbell
to announce its return home. That's just delightful.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
What's the four feeling good?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Okay, I I'm gonna just fly by the sea of
my pants because the ones I have on my page
I think I may have done we recorded so long ago,
but so let's just go for it. Uh, these are
the first ones I'm playing up on my phone. I
will get to everybody. I promise thumbs up. Kelly Dare
(29:43):
finally has a thumbs up worth mentioning. I want to
thumbs up my husband we lovingly call Todd the Bod. Yeah,
we're in Vermont, and he took all three of our
kids seventeen, fifteen, and eleven to my parents' house in
New Jersey. It's an eight hour drive for six days
after Christmas. By one each day someone fell ill with
the neuro virus. I heard that was going around. I heard,
(30:04):
I heard everybody's been a faucet this year, one by one.
Thankfully he didn't get it. Todd the Bob did not
get the normal. That's how good Todd's bod is.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Nice work.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I caught it, Kelly says, and I was out for
a few days. But blah, blah blah. I bust on
him a lot and often ask him if he wants
a medal when he's done me mature, But this adventure
he definitely deserves a metaphor thumbs up to Todd the Bob.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Wow, that nice work.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Did you guys get nora virus? Did go around the
brown older household?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Uh, Lauren and Olive got it. But that's it.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Well, that's half that's all lot, and it sounded really bad.
Here's one.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I'm MICHAELA, and I like to thumb up myself for
going in and starting a small business. My husband I
got married this year. We've been discussing family planning. I
work on a full time in person job and dream
of having a career where I can have the flexibility
to spend more time with my children. So this year
I started a small Connecticut based event floral business, A
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flower business.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
That's I mean, how nice is that? I love, love,
love flowers. She says, thumbs up to you. I've gotten
lots of emails, but no official events yet for twenty
twenty five. But I'm giving myself a thumbs up for
starting it because that means it's real. Check me out
at Serendipitous blooms Co on Instagram. So if you're Connecticut
and animal, congratulations. Miquel thumbs up, and then Brandy says
(31:39):
giant thumbs way way up to my brother in law,
doctor Markham and as I see you partner, doctor Trosclare
for literally saving my husband's life yesterday January first, twenty
twenty five. My husband, a career firefighter and paramedic, had
to be transported to a rural hospital er for sudden
onset illness. Staff were great, but stumped they could not
(32:03):
They said they might need to intubate him and take
him into the ICU. I called Cory, my brother in law,
and told him the limited amount of information I had,
and he said, tell them to call her hospital. We
will accept him. He arrived to a higher level of
care in the hospital within four hours of entering the
r practically lightning speed for how long those things can take,
which is true. When my husband arrived, my brother in
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law thought he might die eminently.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Oh my god, this is nuts.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
With rapid intervention and marveus medical minds, they diagnosed him
with a very rare complication from a medication he was on. Later,
I was told that if he had been intubated at
the rural hospital, he likely would have died. Once I
know this is this is amazing. This is a good
thumbs up to go out because this is life or death. Yeah,
they're all important, but sometimes I feel like I chewed
(32:50):
nine pieces of gum today. That's a personal record, like
thumbs up. We love you, But this so Brandy says.
Once I was able to process the shock of almost
I'm a widow at forty three. I put on bananas
and have been listening to bring a smile on my
face in this impossible time. You guys have been my
lifeline onward and upward and hoping for a happier year.
(33:11):
Brandy Shmandy thumbs up to those doctors, doctor Markham and
doctor Troussclaire thumbs up to the husband for surviving and
being a firefighter paramedicuint thumbs up to you Brandi Shmandy, Yeah,
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
WHOA.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
You can always send your thumbs ups and I'm usually
better about them to the the Banans podcast at gmail
dot com or the bananz podcast on Instagram, and I
am doing my best, y'all.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
This is missing Florida dog rings owner's doorbell to announce
its return home. This is written by Guardian staff. Nobody
wanted to take a credit for this. This was in
the Guardian. This is basically here does Florida dog, missing
for more than a week, came home on Christmas Eve
and rang its owner's doorbell. To a note the full
story right. It was two thirty am. She came pawing
(34:02):
at the door, ringing the doorbell, which was Christmas Eve,
and then that morning I woke up. She had made
it on everybody's doorbell camera. The dog, a four year
old German shepherd named Athena, was lost on the fifteenth
of December, which prompted a frantic search. People all the
way from Jacksonville and Saint Augustine were like, inboxing me
inboxing me? Is that what people say instead of emailing?
(34:25):
Now they were inboxing me.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
If I'm a'll adjust, I'll make the adjustment.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Can tell me, comer said Athenas two am. Return woke up.
Her family tried not to wake up the kids, but
the kids woke up anyways from the excitement. Oh my god,
imagine that. You know, Christmas came early, Christmas Eve, events
are happening near the tree. You know. I'm not gonna
say specifically what. I don't know who's listening. And then
(34:51):
the dog wakes every all the kids up. Holy shit,
that would be that's a that if kids woke up
at two thirty in the morning because came home, they're
just up. You're done, You're tough.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
But it's so it's so fun. I mean that is
also like there's a good lesson in not giving up hope, yep,
but my goodness, gracious, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Yeah, it is fine.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
My sister's dog got away and was on the loose
for nineteen days in Maryland, and that you have to
hire these dog trackers. I don't know if I ever
talked about this in the pot, but dog got out,
got startled, ran away. They live in North Baltimore. There's highways,
there's Beltway, you know, they called the Beltway.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
There.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
There's tons of houses, roads and people, and people kept
spotting this dog and so they knew it was alive.
And so what happens after a certain amount of times
with dogs in the wild, when they're scared enough, they
actually go faral like they call the wild gets back
into them. Oh wow. And so they're in survival mode
(35:59):
and they left out food, you lift out liquid, smoke,
you do all these things to kind of attract dog
certain areas. But people were like, I saw your dog, Yeah,
you know the stuff I just for like why.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
That would smoke? Dogs love liquids.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
I think it draws them in. I think it's like
a human food smell.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Oh okay, So they hired this dude.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
My parents were involved, my uncles were involved. I mean
everybody's driving around, and they figured out the dog was
using tunnels water river tunnels to go underneath the highway,
so he was crossing into different neighborhoods going under six
ninety five. And my sister saw him by the river side.
And this dog is so obsessed with my sister it's nuts,
(36:37):
I mean absolutely obsessed. Big dog, like eighty ninety pound
Great Pyrenees dog huge, So it's not like a little
guy that they knew this dog wasn't going to get
like eaten by a fox, yeah, but could get hit
by a car so easily. They were worried sick. My
nephews are worried sick. So my sister sees the dog.
She's like searching on the places where she knows he
likes to be out on the Gunpowder River or whatever.
(37:00):
And the dog doesn't recognize my sister. That's how wild
it had gotten. So she's she's like cawing it.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
We had the dog been gone.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
So that point maybe a week to ten days, maybe
a little longer wow, but ultimately it was gone nineteen days.
And so people are driving around and like I think
like a FedEx light was like I remember that dog.
I saw that dog walking down the sidewalk, like people
are looking for this cowprint pyrenees, and finally someone spotted it.
My brother in law drives over and the woman's like,
(37:31):
it was pawing at our door, and he goes, Okay,
do you mind if I look around. They're like, no,
that's fine, and he goes around the back of their
house and looks under their deck and there's the dog,
and he like, you know, as a treat or food
or whatever, and he like kneels down and softly calls
the dog over. He's like, astro, come here, come here.
The dog comes over, he clicks the leash on his collar,
(37:52):
and it was over. And as soon as they got
it home, the dog was like it never left. Nineteen
days on the run. Oh my Baltimore Man Magazine wrote
I think it was. Baltimore Magazine wrote an entire article
on it. I'll have to look that up. Maybe i'll
do that one sometime. But there's a dude named Bob Swenson.
And when your dog goes missing, you call this guy
and he helps you track it and lure it back in.
(38:13):
Because at a certain point, even domesticated family pets are
certain survival mode, and it's like every person is scary
to them. They're drinking out of rivers and puddles. And
they got it back and they said it was exhausted.
They got it home and like smelled everybody wagon it's sale,
laid down, fell asleep, and then it's never been different.
But it was like nineteen stressful days. So so to
(38:34):
your point, if that dog, if Astra had come up
and wrung the doorbell exactly, they would have burst into tears.
They would have exploded into tears.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Does your dog want to run away? Like, does it
try to run if the door's open or anything.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
No, he stays closed.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
My dog either like I once left, or the kid
Like I walked out, the kids were behind me. I'm
sure stupidly assumed that a child would close the front
or they did it. We drove to school. I was
gone for thirty minutes. I came back front door wide open,
and Zelda is just sitting there, just waiting for me
to come back in. She wasn't even in the front yard,
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she was in the house.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Yeah, I think that's I think once dogs are set,
it's not surprising to me. But if they get spooked,
I mean that's what happens. And you know if a
dog gets scared or startled and just bolts geeze. I
mean but I when you know, at the cabin at
my old place. Definitely once and I think twice, but
definitely one time Punk came over in the morning. My
back door was open. Punk's walking around. I didn't I
(39:36):
get ready. I go to a picture, an interview or whatever,
and then I realized halfway there that that cat was
still in my house and it's not my cat, and
I was gonna be gone for like eight hours. So
then you have the thing where you're like, well, man,
is the toilet open so it can drink water?
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:52):
How fast? Who has my like? Who can go over
my house? Where's my high to key? All that kind
of thing. And I eventually I did the pitch back.
There was Punk just sitting on the sofa, just like
he owned the joint, just like you lived there. Didn't
seem bother at all. And I think when they're comfy,
if they feel secure, they'll just stay put.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Man, while you were telling that story, the wind blew
a ladder over and it just ripped down all the
nice lights that I have have put on Sturt them.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Oh no, well are they replaceable?
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Yeah, yeah, I guess so. In La today there's supposed
to be wind gusts up to eighty miles an hour. Yeah,
it's is really crazy.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
I know they're shutting off power all over the city. Yeah,
because they don't want the wind to spark fires from
blowing over power lines. And you're like, yeah, that's good,
let's not do that. Yeah, but you know we have
drones flying over. It's fine, everything's great.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Yeah, a thousand drones. Scottie keeps sending me videos of
just ten drones in the sky over.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Near his house every I mean night, but some nights
they're like six or more. Information like, yeah, they are drones,
these are not helicopters. And I just sit there and
you kind of get to the place which might be
the strategy of whoever's flying them where Now I'm like
I don't care. Yeah, and I should, we all should,
I guess, but I'm like, I truly don't care, Like,
(41:19):
just just either tell me what they're doing. But I
have now started I've chosen to ignore them.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
They're soon just going to be like cars where you're
just like you're not being like, what is that car?
Doing driving down the street. You're just like, yeah, there's
a car over there, it drives down the street. That's
some cars do. They're just gonna be everywhere.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
Did you see that decency?
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Did you watch the Golden Globes?
Speaker 2 (41:39):
I did it. I only watched the clips of Nikki
Glazer doing great. I thought she killed clips. I saw
she looked amazing. Yeah she did.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
She's really I mean like and you could tell she
worked really hard. I knew a bunch of the writers
on that, but yeah, she did a really great job.
But one of the the you know, they did the
Golden Globe for Best Comedy Special, and Adam Sandler's knew.
I didn't even know he had a new stand up
special out. I loved his first one. But the joke
(42:08):
that they clipped out to show about it is just
during the show, he puts the spotlight on one white
guy in the audience and and Adam Taylor singing guy
with a drone at the beach making everybody uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Yeah, yeah, and he is.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
And it was like the only clip of a stand
up special that got a laugh on its own. All
the other clips were just like, you know, it's hard
to clip a five second piece from a stand up special.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Right, because it's momentum. It's a show that you're building
towards things. Yeah, yeah, I thought Nikki did great. She
is really on her way. I mean yeah, she talked
about somebody earned it, no kidding, she earned it. Here's
a fun one.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Send us home, Scottie.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Yeah, how much time do we haven't?
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Seven minutes?
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Seven minutes? Natalie Hibbs sent this beauty, and thank you.
Natalie Hibbs. Really appreciate that thieves returned rug to the
Madonna in Steakhouse and Sanley Obispo, but their identities remain
a mystery.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
Oh I'm interested to hear how this happens.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Well, Google is after the fact, Kurt, because when you
see these are two teenagers and they have like masks on,
but they have like hoodies. These are two teenagers that
thought it would be funny to steal a rug and
then realize they're probably going to get in trouble and
then return it. And it's so suburban, like slow San
louy Obispo is so beautiful. I love it up there.
I love the Madonna in Yeah, but it's like I
(43:37):
can see myself in the not smartphone, not ring cameras
on everything Era. Having done this exact thing, like a
crime you think is cool and then you are a
good kid and you regret it and you take it
back just so it goes away. Instead we talked to
it to hundreds of thousands of strangers. A rug that
(44:00):
was stolen from the Madonna in in a repeat crime over.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Three weeks crime.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Yeah, okay, oh, this was written by Chloe Schrager in
the Tribune. Oh she's so good.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Not a Tribune. This is the Tribune, folks.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
The Tribune. Best in the beeswax cloe dog, shreg dog,
She's good. Rugg that was stilling from the Madonna in
and a repeat crime over two weeks ago. Was returned
to the hotel Monday, but the criminals are still unknown.
The welcome rug was taken from the entryway and the hotel.
But you know that plays everything there is so ordinate
(44:35):
and decorated. It's I'm sure it's insane, with like a
giant m and yea's probably a wild Also, it's the
closest to the door if it's a welcome run. The
welcome rug was taken from the entryway of the hotel's
gold Rush Steakhouse, oh, November sixteenth, by two college age
young men again how do they know? They look younger
than me, wearing black hoodies, medical masks, and the general manager,
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Connie Pierce, told the Tribune they escaped in a silver
pickup before Pierce was able to identify them. Pierce went
to San Lui Obispo's police department with security footage of
the incident and the license plate of the getaway car.
She said, Police identify the owner of the truck, a
Reno woman who was presumably the mother of at least
one of the thieves, but you refused to give the
(45:20):
whereabouts of her son to police. There you go, Mom's
not a snitch.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
That's a Reno mom. That's a Reno mom. I'm not
telling you.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Also, good title for a TV show, Reno Mom, Reno Mom?
What size? How many tickets do you think we could
sell in Reno? One hundred and fifty two hundred. I
would love to do a show in Reno, is what
I'm But I don't know how many fans. I don't
know how many people are in Nevada. I agree, we're
four or five people that, Yeah, Las Vegas has a
(45:51):
lot of people.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
They yeah, But and Renos. How I mean, like Reno,
you get like all the parts of California as well,
because it's like right on the border, right it is
to Reno.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
It's fine as well. All right, Reno nevade as a population.
I'm trying to think how many people population of two
hundred and seventy four thousand. That's a lot.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
Okay, I'll look it up. Yeah, look, listener, hit us up.
Speaker 2 (46:16):
We have some Yeah, and you know what comedy club
people actually enjoy going to Reno?
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Kurt?
Speaker 2 (46:24):
We could we could road trip there. Yeah, it's only
about an eight hour drive. We could go half away.
Maybe we do that. Let's go to Reno in twenty
twenty five. Yeah, but the mom did not tell police
where her sons were. She refused to give whereabouts. Then,
on Monday, over two weeks after the theft, the hotel
received a package in the mail containing the.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
Ring, mailed it back. Think about how expensive to mail
a rug is? Yeah, that's pretty expensive.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
I know, but it's good they're I think they're back
in Reno. I think they were probably driving by goofing
off and they're the I mean, who knows. Also, gold
Rush Steakhouse is incredible. If you've never been to the
Madonna In. It's a wonderful place. A lot of our
peers have gotten married there because it is the most
over the top hotel I've ever been to. It's one
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hundred and something rooms, one hundred and ten rooms, one
hundred and twenty rooms, and every single one is decorated differently.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
Every single one.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
They have a theme. So some are clown rooms, some.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
Are cave rooms like carooms.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Yeah, there's five or six waterfall rooms where the shower
is a rock structure that pours water on you like
a waterfall. I stayed at one called rock Bottom, which
is very At that point in my life, that probably
was the right place for me to be staying. I
also stayed one and Tall and Short. That's a really
good room. If you're going to reserve one, stay in
the Tall and Short room. It's really fun.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
What's tall and short about it?
Speaker 2 (47:48):
It's nothing, I mean, that's the funny. It's the color.
The color scheme in there is beautiful. It's a balcony room,
which is nice, but there it's a great place. If
you're ever on a road trip in California, go to
the Madonna In stay a night. They have a bar,
the Silver Bar. They have a steakhouse. They have a steakhouse,
they have a breakfast thing. They have vented shopping upstairs,
(48:11):
and they have pools. But it is just one of
the strangest. It's amazing. It's rooms. There's nothing better. It's
romantic in its own way. I went there, God, I
mean to talk about Windy Day. I went there like
two or three, yeah, probably three years ago. And near
(48:31):
the Madonna In there are horse pastures. I don't know
if they're connected to the Madonna In, but they're definitely
horse farm nearby, and I thought, you know, I'm gonna
go commune with nature, take a little walk, say hi
to these horses. I love you love a horse.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Doesn't love a horse. I don't understand them, But either
I don't understand the deep connection they have with other
with human beings, because every time I interact with a horse,
it's very much like you're kind of like a bird.
You don't really seem to make a connection. But that's me.
I don't. Also, I'm not I'm not combing them. I
(49:08):
guess you got a comba horse to really get on
its good side.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
They got Tickelet's chin a little bit, give a little nose,
a little scratch on the nose. But yeah, some people
are confident around horses. I'm still pretty terrified of them overall.
I feel like, even when I'm riding them, I'm like, well,
I could die at any moment, and this would be
a horrible way to go. But I go over there.
There's like four or five horses in the field. They're
real pretty, and I'm picking all this long grass. I'm
picking the best grass outside of the pen I can
(49:34):
get because i really want to show these horses a treat.
They're probably one hundred two hundred yards away from me,
and so I hold up this sampful of just green,
long grass that probably i'd been cut since the mid eighties,
and I'm like, you know, calling over, you know, like
hey horse, and like clack. I'm just making noises, you know,
like slapping my chest doing all this stuff, and they
(49:55):
start coming over. Three horses walk over, okay, and they
get over to me. And every time I go to feed,
if the wind is so windy, it's blowing the grass
out of my hand because I'm holding my palm flat
like they teach you when your little kids. The horse
doesn't chomp. So these horses are getting like one blade
of grass, and I don't know what sound horses make
when they're angry. I'm not a horse guy, I'm not
(50:17):
an eck Wine studies major. But one of them is grunting,
and so my communing with nature was me pretending to
feed horses. I'm running around grabbing more grass, trying to
be cool. I'm holding it different. It just keeps blowing away.
One horse just walks away. One horse is like the
old sage was like I've seen this came before. This
is like the three Cardmonte equivalent for horses. The other
(50:40):
one was so sweet. I think it was like a mayor.
I'm trying to like feed this, and then there's a
grunting horse that I just gave up and walked away.
Speaker 5 (50:47):
And from that horse's perspective, some asshole just waves grass
at them, the horse horse, and then just keeps letting
grass blow away from them without ever feeding them, and
then just lightly hurries away without looking back.
Speaker 2 (51:03):
So ashamed. The next person that probably tried to saddle
that horse probably got bucked so far into the air.
Speaker 1 (51:11):
But I tried to commune.
Speaker 2 (51:13):
Yeah, I like to commune with nature.
Speaker 1 (51:16):
You did it. Congratulate nature, that horse and grass next
time you're at the Madonna and give it.
Speaker 2 (51:23):
A big old carrot.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
All right, thank you for listening to the Bananas Podcast, folks.
Speaker 2 (51:29):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hard for me to do. I'm not very smart.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Man Tokyo's cancel Christmas protests March canceled by Revolutionary Alliance
of Unpopular Men.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Boy, this is what I like. I like to be
enthralled and astonished and just you just teased us in
to We're all going to be better people with more
knowledge of the world in the international community because of
this episode of Bananasillian.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Pis, would you do?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Birthday guys goals, non binary pals, Welcome to Bananas. I'm
Kurt Brown older, I.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Am Banana Boy number two Scotti Landis. We're coming to
you from the Windy City, Los Angeles, California, and thanks
for listening to the silliest little podcast there ever was.
Kurt and I swear we promise, we pledge no matter
how weird, twenty twenty five is about to be. Yep.
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We're gonna be more fun and we're gonna be weirder
and we're gonna take it the spirit of optimism and
positivity to the extreme in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
We have to, we have to, we will be the
light shining in the Medea of Weird Darkness.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
It's my middle name.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
It is.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
It's a long middle name. Yeah, it really is, and
that's fine with me. But we're we're just gonna keep
pumping out the good times. And the first step is
our sold out show at the Bob Baker Marinette Theater.
It's the Banana Boy, It's Marionettes. And this is the
kind of gigly google that we're going to do all
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year long.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I can't wait. We still have yet to meet the Marionettes.
We're going to meet the Marionettes soon. It's going to
be a really fun show.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I know. I'm gonna There's a couple of personal stories.
The one I'm going to ask you about offline because
I'm not sure if I were told it on the
main pot. But when I see the animals they have,
I'm like, boy, if I can get some of these
marching while I tell the story, oh, I will be
so happy.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
All right, great, I love that idea, Scotty. We have
not spoken in a couple of weeks, probably in a
couple weeks, maybe maybe a month, close to a month.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
We haven't recorded in over a month.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, we are about so many to like because everyone
was closed for so long. Hello, how is your holidays wonderful?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
And again I being in California during this time when
it's freezing cold everywhere else and Louisville, Kentucky has ten
inches of snow and all the it's like, uh, it's
just nice to be lazy through the holidays. I'll say
it like that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yes it is. Indeed, I do miss that. I do
miss that sweet time in between Christmas and New Year's
which is just like a do nothing dead week because
it with children, it doesn't really exist.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, it doesn't exist.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
It's like it kind of exists. Like we put the
kids in camp one day and I just like sat
and read. I'd read for like, I don't know, five
hours straight.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
What a joy?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
What a jit? Uh joy? I sat in the couch
and I read for like five hours. And I really
that puts you in a like just zend out state
that is so pleasant. And I never do it. I
never do that. I would like to do that more,
I won't.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
There's a great article on vox dot com that I
just read. I like Vox and they have good stuff,
and it was the key. There's always the clickbait articles
that men don't read. They're like, young men don't read
books anymore young and then this fox articles like why
do we keep saying this? This is not true? And
then they go through statistically and like the difference between
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young women reading and young men reading is like four percent.
It's like it's just some dumb study that they're like,
these guys aren't reading, We've lost them. It is I treat.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
It is a real treat. I do find how I
do see a lot of stand ups do a joke
about not reading and the audience really laughing a lot,
like really being like that's me. I hate books, Like
anti book comedy is big.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I will just say that, all right, well that's fine.
I guess they listen to podcasts, and I guess they
listen to ebooks and audible books, which is fine. That's
fine too. I count audibles as reading, even though it
is not the same relaxing, imaginative experience of sitting down
and turning those pages. But then again, I'm old parts.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
I know it just one more way that I'm out
of step.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
It's a great joy. People like it was wonderful. I
went to Safie's last night. Have you been to Safie's.
It's the Mediterranean restaurant. It's directly next to the Scientology Center,
which is funny in its own way. You feel like,
is this are they tricking us in here to get
us over there. No, it's great food, but boy, that
is a Generation Z hot spot. And it just reminded
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me of Brooklyn in the two thousands. It was just fun.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Speaking of the Scientology Center. We went and got ice
cream the other night, and we're walking back with the
ice cream and I just didn't even occur to me
that we were across the street from the Scientology Center.
And Olive looks over and she loves science, like she
loves science. She looks over and I just watched her
go science top. Well, well, well looks like somebody's found
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the church for there. I'm I go, no, no, Noboddy,
oh sweetie, No, no, it's not science. It's not science based.
It's different. Don't don't don't go.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Oh my gosh, it's lovely. Even if you did mention it,
it's nice to know that Olive can read. And that's
something that you, as a father, should brag about early
and often and all the time. Folks, if you've never
heard bananas it's strange news. Kurt is a stand up
comedian actor writer. I'm a screenwriter, and then we tell
our own personal stories. Sometimes we have wonderful guests, but
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on episodes like today's episode, it's just the banana boys
shaking our tail feathers and having a good time talking
about some headline like Kurtz that I did not understand
here it is.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
It is a hard to understand one, but it's worth it.
Tokyo cancel Christmas Protest March canceled by revolutionary lines of
unpopular men? What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Popular man?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
This was in Japan today. Obviously this was by Casey Basil, her.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Soul Japanese sounding name.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
In Japan, the biggest Christmas celebrations actually take place on
Christmas Day now Christmas Eve. So on December twenty fourth,
Christmas lights were shining around Tokyo, with the sounds of
traditional Yule Tide music playing from shopping center speakers and
reblers happily heading to day some parties with Give six
TEMs in hand. However, there was something different about Christmas
Eve and Tokyo this year. Something was missing The annual
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anti Christmas protest March held by the Revolutionary Alliance of
Unpopular Men. Traditionally, the group gathers every year in the
afternoon on December twenty fourth, carrying banners and chanting messages
of opposition to Christmas Great. Specifically, the organization takes issue
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with Christmas Eve's status as the most romantic date night
of the year, which is that must.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Be in pane that is here.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So yeah. However, it should be noted that the Japanese
term that makes up the unpopular part of the Revolutionary
Alliance of Unpopular Men's name himote, specifically refers to guys
who aren't popular with women, and so it's pretty clear
that the march isn't meant as a rally for those
who want to focus on the religious or broader humanitarian
aspects of the holidays, so much as a get together
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for those who are frustrated about their dateless status. This
is so wild weird, yeah, strange, okay, stranger, yeah okay,
though not large or lengthy.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yes, I think I found their problem twenty this is
why they're single.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
The twenty twenty three march consisted of about fifteen people
that lasted roughly thirty minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
That's all right.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
The marches have been consistent, taking place on an annual
basis since two thousand and seven. However, the group's slogan
of Crushed Christmas couldn't be heard on the Shiboya streets
this past Tuesday because the anti Christmas march was canceled,
as announced through a post from the Revolutionary Alliance of
Unpopular Men's Twitter account in December nineteenth. This doesn't mean
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that the organization has necessarily softened its stance against Christmas, though.
It's just that while its members may be unpopular, they're
not unlawful, and they weren't able to file the paperwork
necessary for holding a protest march on public streets. The
announcement is the announcement reads announcement regarding this year's Crush
Christmas demonstration. Due to various circumstances, our representative was unable
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to carry out the application process, so the demonstration has
been canceled. We sincerely, regretless and deeply apologied to apologize
to you comrades. So while it would be an amusing
I would be amusingly ironic if the Revolutionary Alliance So
Unpopular Men have been disbanded as a result of its
leaders finding dates for Christmas Eve. This appears to be mere
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contemporary setback for their cause, and presumably their annual march
on Valentine's Day, another celebration They're not too keen on,
is still in the works for twenty twenty five. Yep,
that is to be a member of the of the
Revolutionary Alliance of Unpopular Men. I think is self defeating, right,
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It kind of encourages you to stay in the Revolutionary
Alliance of Unpopular Men.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I agree. But also if those bozos are not out
going on dates, they can't get the application in a time.
It's like, what are you guys up to?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
What are you guys doing? You guys? Yeah, you guys
want to protesting other things that everyone loves.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
I know, maybe that's it. But also it's funny, like
what a great protest just to fill out an application
to have a protest, and then you don't do it,
so you don't protest. They're rule followers, and maybe that's
what they need to learn is some women enjoy the
bad boy. Not all, but many do. Yeah, that's a fascinating. Yeah,
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well one to protest Christmas is funny. I'm all for it.
I love Christmas. I went to La Zoo Lights this
year for the first time probably nine or ten years,
most incredible light show I've ever seen in my entire life.
What you got to go this year?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
No, I did not go this year.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Well I don't know. Last year we went, but it
is so thorough and great I couldn't believe. I actually
could not believe how good it was.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Wow. I went to Disconso Gardens, so we either do
Disconso or we do Zoo Lights, and Disconso was very good.
They like revamped stuff and it was like very nice
this year. I like Disconso because it's more like everything's
dark all the time and so it's just like you're
in the woods and like things are lighting up, which is.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It is nice? That is nice. Yeah, it's nice when
you're in the woods and things start lighting up. That's
always a good time.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
And it's slightly less animal jally, although I go it.
I'm a member of the Zoo. I go all there
all the time with the kids, just because it's like
easy to go to because I live door to it.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Yeah, and it's pretty year round here. Yeah, but that's cool.
I'm all for protesting, like also in small groups, protesting
something that is the majority really loves it's a very
funny thing. And then to add the layer that they're
really just bummed at being single, it's the most romantic.
And so it'd be like in the States at least
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protesting Valentine's Day, right, that's yeah, and that's never I
mean that would be great too. If I was going
on a Valentine's Day date and there were a group
of men protesting, I would laugh. I would be like, you're.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Right, guys, the group go on that data and men
who were good at organizing.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
It's fine, and they're horrible at organizing. It's also for
it took fifteen minutes. This is good. That's a great, polite,
nice story, Kurt. Do you think you know? You read
all these articles and stuff about how young people are
like having a hard time meeting or can't find relationships
or aren't hooking up or aren't having sex. But when
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you read those are they talking about the straits? Are
they talking about like straight people boring old school blooh,
just reguar old straight people having a hard time hooking up?
Are the lesbians out there just having a ball date
and left and right and seeing right?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I don't know all those stories like, no one's having
sex anymore? Yeah, no one straight?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah are they?
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I don't know. I like honestly, I I like all
those like trend pieces that I see constantly. I just
doubt every single one of them. I'm like, maybe is
this true? You know, like the thing like men aren't
reading it's four percent difference.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, it's like not true at all. And when I
was a young boy, MTV hired me to write a
in house scripted comedy video for all their employees to
learn about the millennials. And they had an in site
company that I think was called Insight, and they gave
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me all the bullet points of the millennials and then
I had to work them all into scripts. So I
called it the Millennial World. It was like the real world,
and we cast I don't know six or sex. I
guess seven people's this is true story, seven young strangers. Yeah,
and and each represented a different millennial trait. And they
loved it, and they showed it in house and paid
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me and then never showed it again. They showed it
one time and everybody's like, Okay, now we know the millennials,
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
They yeah, they were like Yeah, they liked to buy
plane tickets on their phones. It was stuff like that.
And you're like, okay, we could tell we know that's true.
They like a variety of flavors. You're like, they say
that about gen Z.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Too, Like, I also, I love it when millennials, like
I remember when like millennials were like they're the problem
in the workplace from Gen X people, and now you're
just seeing all of the millennial people would be like
gen Z or the problem in the workplace. It's like, no,
it's just that they're young and dumb. That's it. It's
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not generational. It's young and dumb. They've not been working
for very long and so they don't know the rules.
And every twenty years there's just like this swath of
articles about like this new generation doesn't know how to
work at all. Yes, right, and it's so stupid and
it's nice and I'll say something bitter and I love
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to say it, is that what's really delightful is watching
people who used to be very young get old where
they're just like, oh, they were like the hot shit
new young thing, and then you like watch them get
into their mid thirties. As a person who had already
gone through that, and you're like, yeah, it happens to everyone.
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If the thing that you're hanging on to that defines
you is your youth, you're in. You're in for bad news.
It's not good last for anybody.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Nope. There's a very funny story about two young male
comics in LA who drunkenly and I think they were
a little enhands, yelling in front of a party of
their friends with each other which one was the next
James Dean, James both James Dean, not the modern porn
star or whatever, the former you know, Hollywood Heartthrob. And
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my friend who witnessed it, they said everybody else was
laughing because these guys were legitimately yelling at each other
who was more likely to be the new James Dean
and my director Buddy Goes. You guys know he died
at like twenty five, right, And they were like, it
doesn't matter, And now they're both out of the business completely.
Now one of them is in show business asault. They
never made it.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Did I know them?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, but probably more by reputation than they were LA guys.
When we were in New York they were out here.
But when I met one of them. They were like,
don't even mess with that guy. They both think they're
James Dean and their career side.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
It's such a weird reference point, you know, that's such
a like for comedians. I don't think any comedian wants
to be James Dean. That's so strange.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
How old was James Dean when he died. Let's look
it up. We have a super right in front of us.
He died at a twenty four. I was close. Oh wow,
that is young young, It was young.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
His dad was named Winton and his mom was named Mildred.
Those are great nineteen hundred's names, Old Winton and Million Wint.
It's an educational podcast, and isn't it thinks? Now? You know,
when you go to your work function later at night,
or you know you're paying a babysitter so you can
go out to dinner, you go. Do you know James
Dean was only twenty four when he died.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:48):
You know what.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Also, it's very interesting too that, like so many people
who we consider to be iconic or anything like that,
are simply because they died before they had an opportunity
to do like a raisin brand commercial, you know, like,
if Kurt Kobain had lived long enough, we'd see him
now like do stand up paddle boarding with Eddie Vedder,
you know, and we would be like, that dude sucks.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I've always said if Tupac was still alive, he'd be
hosting America's Got Talent, because look at Snoop Dogg. Snoop
Dogg is essentially more vanilla right now than almost everybody
on televi He I love Snoop. I got no promise
hereybody gets paid as much as you could get paid.
But there was a time where he was on murder
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trial and I watched it on MTV when they found
him not guilty, and then he had the song Murder
was the case that they gave me, and it was like,
now you're just like, look at this guy selling panos. Yeah,
he's hosting the Olympics, talking about tresash horses. He's like,
he's selling Snoop Dogg could be on a Maxi Pad
commercial and people be like, that's honestly fine. I like
that guy, So you can't tell me Tupac would not
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be doing you know, bounce dryer sheet commercials.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Tupac and Kirk Cobain on Dancing with the Stars. Got it?
I want it? I want it so bad.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Damn well, holograms are coming, so maybe bananam. Mark Kidsley
sent this in and it's so good he did. We
got some This story a by a lot of people,
but he lives nearby. I'll talk about it more after
the fact. But he's the perfect person to send this
in for us BBC. That's real, written by many. Consider
this gent the best in the business. Harry Stevens wrote
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this one.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Harry Stevens better than Bald Stevens.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Damn right. Why does a plate of bananas appear on
our street every week? That's the headline?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
That is I guess it's Harry's street.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, Harry Stevens. He's just he's out there. He's a
man about town.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
So I have not heard the name Harry in so
long that I can't not hear it as Harry h
A I.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
R y well right, Harry Stevens would be like a
funny improv team name where they all have beards and
long hair and they're all named Stephen. What are the
Harry Stevens. Actually, it's shocking, that's shocking. That doesn't exist.
It's like the family, big black car Neutrino.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Harry Stevens.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Harry Stevens. It's just six guys named steven and they
all have really long beards. They kind of look like
zeezy top. Cartoons and comedy shows have taught us to
avoid banana skins as a slip and fall hazard see
Harry just as connecting on a deeply personal level for
anybody born in the nineteen sixties. But what do you
do when you encounter a plate full of the fruit
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that says full of the fruit unpeeled. That is exactly
what's been happening in the small nottingham Shire town and
no one knows the reason behind this strange tradition here
it is, this is so good. The mystery plate of
peeled bananas appears on the second day of every month
on the corner of Abbey Road and Wendsor Avenue in Beeston,
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and residents say it has been a constant in their
lives for more than a year.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
More than a year, every month or every.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Week, excuse me, it was every month. Okay, second day
of every month on the corner.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Second day it's every Oh wow, okay.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I've asked around in the local community, but no one
really knows, and no one can tell me anything, said
resident Claire Short. The bananas appear early in the morning
on the second of the month. I see them on
my way to work, and I'd love to have some
answers to this. The bananas have propped it. This is
just a plate of bananas. There's a photo of it.
And the reason I said that it's so important that
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Mark Kinsley, the kids Ley the bananimal, who said it
is He is a photographer and he lives nearby. And
he said he's going to investigate forest further. And I said,
send us a pick of those bananas when you go.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
So Mark is a bananamal in the wild for us
in Beston or nearby Beaston's a cute name. Yeah, Banana
the bananas. The bananas have prompted a mixed reaction, and
some neighbors saying the bananas go moldy in their street.
Does not look appealing anymore. Harry Stevens. Miss Short tried
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to try to take the matter into her own hands.
She put up a sign where the plate is to
deter the yellow fruit being left there again. On January second, however,
another plate of peeled bananas appeared in the usual spot.
I've come to take down the signs because I don't
really feel like making it a feud. I don't want
it to become a big thing, she said, But it
already is.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
It's so once you made the sign, it became a thing. Yeah,
now you know you're now you're somebody knows. It's pissing
people off, and they're only going to want to do
it more.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
They're very excited now.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
And then the genius move is take a month off
and then come right back and do it the next
month so everything's it's over, and then just come back
with two plates of peel bananas on the corner of
Abbey and wherever wendsor Avenue in peace bananas.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
They're just the so there's no peel, there's no it's
just naked banana, dripped.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Down stack bananas on.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
A plate like a bunch of hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I think it's a special thing for someone, and I
wish them well. But if if they could come back
and clean up the mess a few days later, that
would be lovely.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
That's a nice special thing for somebody.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I'm going to keep an eye on it and keep
cleaning up the mess. So this poor woman, Miss short
just keeps doing it. It's gross. Other neighbors say. Other
neighbors would rather see the banana's gone for good. I
live nearby and they're very regularly here, said twenty six
year old Josh Trentam. They are very annoying. I have
no idea why they're here. Just one plate of bananas
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driving this tower. Bananas per month, one place per month.
Jill Dowling, another wonderfully British name, added, it's so strange
and disgusting. Someone puts it there and I don't like it.
Resident Janet Hutchinson eighty one as young. She says, the
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bananas are clearly just bought, and the wildlife doesn't touch them.
They go moldy. It's gross. Adam Castle, another puzzled resident,
wonder if the gesture was perhaps a custom somewhere else.
Adam said, what is this thing? I don't know if
it's a cultural thing or what. It's strange. I've never
heard or seen anything anywhere else where I've lived like this.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I hope Harry Stevens speaks to every single human on
this block.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
We're gonna be at.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Least in half of the people who live there bananimals.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Kurt and I encourage you in twenty twenty five to
find your plate of peeled bananas. Let us know what
it is. Don't hurt anybody, don't destroy anybody's property, but
publicly start something new just for the sake of being
as silly as you can. We won't tell anybody about it,
your secret weird thing, but we would love love to
hear about it. Right, Yeah, this is your year. This
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is your moment to figure out what is your peeled
play of bananas in your small town that will drive
everybody nuts, but get them talking about something else besides
twenty four hour news coverage exactly.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I mean, I think on our first episode we had
mashed potatoes being left all across town. Seeing people like
to do. The fact that this is the fact that
I am also aware of the weird trends of strangeness
that human beings like to partake in, is also like,
oh yeah, that that's pretty common.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
It happens, but it's nice. I think, Yeah, this is
just the world is boring and repetitive, and it takes
so little to get people just talking, just gabbing it up.
You don't think the local pubs in that town are
having a field day, Yeah, speculating, And then you're looking
at your neighbors a little different. You're wondering, you're watching
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people at grocery stores. Is this person buying one banana
a time to get sneaky or are they buying a
bunch of pm me, it's wonderful. It's a wonderful dumb
and it's not us. By the way I'm saying all this,
Kurt and I are not responsible for this, and there's
not a been animal we're in contact with doing it,
though I do somehow wish we were.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I really do. It's a great marketing idea.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
It's fine with me. Sure it's a little bit of
food waste. Sure, sure the flies like it.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, makes more.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Animal will eat it. Mold exists, that's an animal or no,
it might be, but mold likes it.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Is it not an animal?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
It's a fungus. It's a plant, right.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I don't know. Also, I think that those maybe those
those like elementary school designations like plant animal is maybe
it's a plant animal.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Fungi is neither plant nor animal. They have their own
kingdom and biology.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
What's the kingdom? What's the kingdom?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Funk guy I guess, no, mold is a plant. Let's see. Nope,
what mold is not a plant? We got to find
its kingdom. This is huge. This is gonna make or
break the entire podcast. We've got to find this kingdom.
What kingdom is mold?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
What kingdom does mold rule?
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Does mold rule? I'm actually typing that they're in the
fungi kingdom, which incleads ye, mold smut?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
What what's a smut?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I've been living my whole life without, which includes yeast, mold, smuts,
and mushrooms.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
What's the smuts?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
All right?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
What is a smut of grains in which part of
the ear changed to black powder? I've seen that, I've
seen that on a on corn. Yes, but smutt?
Speaker 2 (27:53):
How did smut then become like pornography? That's a I
love that. I'd never heard of smuts before. I guess
I'm not a hazy.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
The craziest part is that when I pull up smut
as a definition on Google, the only two are the
fungal disease and a small flake of spot or other dirt,
And it doesn't say like dirty. Yeah, yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I thought smut was like a really like low brow,
pedestrian term for pornography. But it turns out it's just
rocking that fung guy kingdom with mold, yeast, mushrooms and.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Smut, just taking down grains.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
God, I feel wrinkles in my brain just blowing up
right now.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
That's right out?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Yeah, iron it flat. Well there you go. I'm worth
that story, just in a smut. But yes to our
wonderful but animal buddy Mark, please do go the second.
Send us a photo. Take a picture of yourself, Take
picture of your favorite person standing next to it. Be
a bananimal in the while. Do it.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
I'll see this into a little shower.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Thumbs I think I do have some thumbs ups.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah, Oh, here's something. This is just delight This is
just delightful and easy. Missing Florida dog rings owner's doorbell
to announce its return home. That's just delightful.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
What's the four feeling good?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Okay, I I'm gonna just fly by the sea of
my pants because the ones I have on my page
I think I may have done we recorded so long ago,
but so let's just go for it. Uh, these are
the first ones I'm playing up on my phone. I
will get to everybody. I promise thumbs up. Kelly Dare
(29:43):
finally has a thumbs up worth mentioning. I want to
thumbs up my husband we lovingly call Todd the Bod. Yeah,
we're in Vermont, and he took all three of our
kids seventeen, fifteen, and eleven to my parents' house in
New Jersey. It's an eight hour drive for six days
after Christmas. By one each day someone fell ill with
the neuro virus. I heard that was going around. I heard,
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I heard everybody's been a faucet this year, one by one.
Thankfully he didn't get it. Todd the Bob did not
get the normal. That's how good Todd's bod is.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Nice work.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I caught it, Kelly says, and I was out for
a few days. But blah, blah blah. I bust on
him a lot and often ask him if he wants
a medal when he's done me mature, But this adventure
he definitely deserves a metaphor thumbs up to Todd the Bob.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Wow, that nice work.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Did you guys get nora virus? Did go around the
brown older household?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Uh, Lauren and Olive got it. But that's it.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Well, that's half that's all lot, and it sounded really bad.
Here's one.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I'm MICHAELA, and I like to thumb up myself for
going in and starting a small business. My husband I
got married this year. We've been discussing family planning. I
work on a full time in person job and dream
of having a career where I can have the flexibility
to spend more time with my children. So this year
I started a small Connecticut based event floral business, A
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flower business.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
That's I mean, how nice is that? I love, love,
love flowers. She says, thumbs up to you. I've gotten
lots of emails, but no official events yet for twenty
twenty five. But I'm giving myself a thumbs up for
starting it because that means it's real. Check me out
at Serendipitous blooms Co on Instagram. So if you're Connecticut
and animal, congratulations. Miquel thumbs up, and then Brandy says
(31:39):
giant thumbs way way up to my brother in law,
doctor Markham and as I see you partner, doctor Trosclare
for literally saving my husband's life yesterday January first, twenty
twenty five. My husband, a career firefighter and paramedic, had
to be transported to a rural hospital er for sudden
onset illness. Staff were great, but stumped they could not
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They said they might need to intubate him and take
him into the ICU. I called Cory, my brother in law,
and told him the limited amount of information I had,
and he said, tell them to call her hospital. We
will accept him. He arrived to a higher level of
care in the hospital within four hours of entering the
r practically lightning speed for how long those things can take,
which is true. When my husband arrived, my brother in
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law thought he might die eminently.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Oh my god, this is nuts.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
With rapid intervention and marveus medical minds, they diagnosed him
with a very rare complication from a medication he was on. Later,
I was told that if he had been intubated at
the rural hospital, he likely would have died. Once I
know this is this is amazing. This is a good
thumbs up to go out because this is life or death. Yeah,
they're all important, but sometimes I feel like I chewed
(32:50):
nine pieces of gum today. That's a personal record, like
thumbs up. We love you, But this so Brandy says.
Once I was able to process the shock of almost
I'm a widow at forty three. I put on bananas
and have been listening to bring a smile on my
face in this impossible time. You guys have been my
lifeline onward and upward and hoping for a happier year.
(33:11):
Brandy Shmandy thumbs up to those doctors, doctor Markham and
doctor Troussclaire thumbs up to the husband for surviving and
being a firefighter paramedicuint thumbs up to you Brandi Shmandy, Yeah,
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
WHOA.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
You can always send your thumbs ups and I'm usually
better about them to the the Banans podcast at gmail
dot com or the bananz podcast on Instagram, and I
am doing my best, y'all.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
This is missing Florida dog rings owner's doorbell to announce
its return home. This is written by Guardian staff. Nobody
wanted to take a credit for this. This was in
the Guardian. This is basically here does Florida dog, missing
for more than a week, came home on Christmas Eve
and rang its owner's doorbell. To a note the full
story right. It was two thirty am. She came pawing
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at the door, ringing the doorbell, which was Christmas Eve,
and then that morning I woke up. She had made
it on everybody's doorbell camera. The dog, a four year
old German shepherd named Athena, was lost on the fifteenth
of December, which prompted a frantic search. People all the
way from Jacksonville and Saint Augustine were like, inboxing me
inboxing me? Is that what people say instead of emailing?
(34:25):
Now they were inboxing me.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
If I'm a'll adjust, I'll make the adjustment.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Can tell me, comer said Athenas two am. Return woke up.
Her family tried not to wake up the kids, but
the kids woke up anyways from the excitement. Oh my god,
imagine that. You know, Christmas came early, Christmas Eve, events
are happening near the tree. You know. I'm not gonna
say specifically what. I don't know who's listening. And then
(34:51):
the dog wakes every all the kids up. Holy shit,
that would be that's a that if kids woke up
at two thirty in the morning because came home, they're
just up. You're done, You're tough.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
But it's so it's so fun. I mean that is
also like there's a good lesson in not giving up hope, yep,
but my goodness, gracious, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Yeah, it is fine.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
My sister's dog got away and was on the loose
for nineteen days in Maryland, and that you have to
hire these dog trackers. I don't know if I ever
talked about this in the pot, but dog got out,
got startled, ran away. They live in North Baltimore. There's highways,
there's Beltway, you know, they called the Beltway.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
There.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
There's tons of houses, roads and people, and people kept
spotting this dog and so they knew it was alive.
And so what happens after a certain amount of times
with dogs in the wild, when they're scared enough, they
actually go faral like they call the wild gets back
into them. Oh wow. And so they're in survival mode
(35:59):
and they left out food, you lift out liquid, smoke,
you do all these things to kind of attract dog
certain areas. But people were like, I saw your dog, Yeah,
you know the stuff I just for like why.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
That would smoke? Dogs love liquids.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
I think it draws them in. I think it's like
a human food smell.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Oh okay, So they hired this dude.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
My parents were involved, my uncles were involved. I mean
everybody's driving around, and they figured out the dog was
using tunnels water river tunnels to go underneath the highway,
so he was crossing into different neighborhoods going under six
ninety five. And my sister saw him by the river side.
And this dog is so obsessed with my sister it's nuts,
(36:37):
I mean absolutely obsessed. Big dog, like eighty ninety pound
Great Pyrenees dog huge, So it's not like a little
guy that they knew this dog wasn't going to get
like eaten by a fox, yeah, but could get hit
by a car so easily. They were worried sick. My
nephews are worried sick. So my sister sees the dog.
She's like searching on the places where she knows he
likes to be out on the Gunpowder River or whatever.
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And the dog doesn't recognize my sister. That's how wild
it had gotten. So she's she's like cawing it.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
We had the dog been gone.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
So that point maybe a week to ten days, maybe
a little longer wow, but ultimately it was gone nineteen days.
And so people are driving around and like I think
like a FedEx light was like I remember that dog.
I saw that dog walking down the sidewalk, like people
are looking for this cowprint pyrenees, and finally someone spotted it.
My brother in law drives over and the woman's like,
(37:31):
it was pawing at our door, and he goes, Okay,
do you mind if I look around. They're like, no,
that's fine, and he goes around the back of their
house and looks under their deck and there's the dog,
and he like, you know, as a treat or food
or whatever, and he like kneels down and softly calls
the dog over. He's like, astro, come here, come here.
The dog comes over, he clicks the leash on his collar,
(37:52):
and it was over. And as soon as they got
it home, the dog was like it never left. Nineteen
days on the run. Oh my Baltimore Man Magazine wrote
I think it was. Baltimore Magazine wrote an entire article
on it. I'll have to look that up. Maybe i'll
do that one sometime. But there's a dude named Bob Swenson.
And when your dog goes missing, you call this guy
and he helps you track it and lure it back in.
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Because at a certain point, even domesticated family pets are
certain survival mode, and it's like every person is scary
to them. They're drinking out of rivers and puddles. And
they got it back and they said it was exhausted.
They got it home and like smelled everybody wagon it's sale,
laid down, fell asleep, and then it's never been different.
But it was like nineteen stressful days. So so to
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your point, if that dog, if Astra had come up
and wrung the doorbell exactly, they would have burst into tears.
They would have exploded into tears.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Does your dog want to run away? Like, does it
try to run if the door's open or anything.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
No, he stays closed.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
My dog either like I once left, or the kid
Like I walked out, the kids were behind me. I'm
sure stupidly assumed that a child would close the front
or they did it. We drove to school. I was
gone for thirty minutes. I came back front door wide open,
and Zelda is just sitting there, just waiting for me
to come back in. She wasn't even in the front yard,
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she was in the house.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Yeah, I think that's I think once dogs are set,
it's not surprising to me. But if they get spooked,
I mean that's what happens. And you know if a
dog gets scared or startled and just bolts geeze. I
mean but I when you know, at the cabin at
my old place. Definitely once and I think twice, but
definitely one time Punk came over in the morning. My
back door was open. Punk's walking around. I didn't I
(39:36):
get ready. I go to a picture, an interview or whatever,
and then I realized halfway there that that cat was
still in my house and it's not my cat, and
I was gonna be gone for like eight hours. So
then you have the thing where you're like, well, man,
is the toilet open so it can drink water?
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (39:52):
How fast? Who has my like? Who can go over
my house? Where's my high to key? All that kind
of thing. And I eventually I did the pitch back.
There was Punk just sitting on the sofa, just like
he owned the joint, just like you lived there. Didn't
seem bother at all. And I think when they're comfy,
if they feel secure, they'll just stay put.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Man, while you were telling that story, the wind blew
a ladder over and it just ripped down all the
nice lights that I have have put on Sturt them.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Oh no, well are they replaceable?
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Yeah, yeah, I guess so. In La today there's supposed
to be wind gusts up to eighty miles an hour. Yeah,
it's is really crazy.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
I know they're shutting off power all over the city. Yeah,
because they don't want the wind to spark fires from
blowing over power lines. And you're like, yeah, that's good,
let's not do that. Yeah, but you know we have
drones flying over. It's fine, everything's great.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Yeah, a thousand drones. Scottie keeps sending me videos of
just ten drones in the sky over.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Near his house every I mean night, but some nights
they're like six or more. Information like, yeah, they are drones,
these are not helicopters. And I just sit there and
you kind of get to the place which might be
the strategy of whoever's flying them where Now I'm like
I don't care. Yeah, and I should, we all should,
I guess, but I'm like, I truly don't care, Like,
(41:19):
just just either tell me what they're doing. But I
have now started I've chosen to ignore them.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
They're soon just going to be like cars where you're
just like you're not being like, what is that car?
Doing driving down the street. You're just like, yeah, there's
a car over there, it drives down the street. That's
some cars do. They're just gonna be everywhere.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
Did you see that decency?
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Did you watch the Golden Globes?
Speaker 2 (41:39):
I did it. I only watched the clips of Nikki
Glazer doing great. I thought she killed clips. I saw
she looked amazing. Yeah she did.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
She's really I mean like and you could tell she
worked really hard. I knew a bunch of the writers
on that, but yeah, she did a really great job.
But one of the the you know, they did the
Golden Globe for Best Comedy Special, and Adam Sandler's knew.
I didn't even know he had a new stand up
special out. I loved his first one. But the joke
(42:08):
that they clipped out to show about it is just
during the show, he puts the spotlight on one white
guy in the audience and and Adam Taylor singing guy
with a drone at the beach making everybody uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Yeah, yeah, and he is.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
And it was like the only clip of a stand
up special that got a laugh on its own. All
the other clips were just like, you know, it's hard
to clip a five second piece from a stand up special.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Right, because it's momentum. It's a show that you're building
towards things. Yeah, yeah, I thought Nikki did great. She
is really on her way. I mean yeah, she talked
about somebody earned it, no kidding, she earned it. Here's
a fun one.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
Send us home, Scottie.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Yeah, how much time do we haven't?
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Seven minutes?
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Seven minutes? Natalie Hibbs sent this beauty, and thank you.
Natalie Hibbs. Really appreciate that thieves returned rug to the
Madonna in Steakhouse and Sanley Obispo, but their identities remain
a mystery.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
Oh I'm interested to hear how this happens.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Well, Google is after the fact, Kurt, because when you
see these are two teenagers and they have like masks on,
but they have like hoodies. These are two teenagers that
thought it would be funny to steal a rug and
then realize they're probably going to get in trouble and
then return it. And it's so suburban, like slow San
louy Obispo is so beautiful. I love it up there.
I love the Madonna in Yeah, but it's like I
(43:37):
can see myself in the not smartphone, not ring cameras
on everything Era. Having done this exact thing, like a
crime you think is cool and then you are a
good kid and you regret it and you take it
back just so it goes away. Instead we talked to
it to hundreds of thousands of strangers. A rug that
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was stolen from the Madonna in in a repeat crime over.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Three weeks crime.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
Yeah, okay, oh, this was written by Chloe Schrager in
the Tribune. Oh she's so good.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Not a Tribune. This is the Tribune, folks.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
The Tribune. Best in the beeswax cloe dog, shreg dog,
She's good. Rugg that was stilling from the Madonna in
and a repeat crime over two weeks ago. Was returned
to the hotel Monday, but the criminals are still unknown.
The welcome rug was taken from the entryway and the hotel.
But you know that plays everything there is so ordinate
(44:35):
and decorated. It's I'm sure it's insane, with like a
giant m and yea's probably a wild Also, it's the
closest to the door if it's a welcome run. The
welcome rug was taken from the entryway of the hotel's
gold Rush Steakhouse, oh, November sixteenth, by two college age
young men again how do they know? They look younger
than me, wearing black hoodies, medical masks, and the general manager,
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Connie Pierce, told the Tribune they escaped in a silver
pickup before Pierce was able to identify them. Pierce went
to San Lui Obispo's police department with security footage of
the incident and the license plate of the getaway car.
She said, Police identify the owner of the truck, a
Reno woman who was presumably the mother of at least
one of the thieves, but you refused to give the
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whereabouts of her son to police. There you go, Mom's
not a snitch.
Speaker 1 (45:27):
That's a Reno mom. That's a Reno mom. I'm not
telling you.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Also, good title for a TV show, Reno Mom, Reno Mom?
What size? How many tickets do you think we could
sell in Reno? One hundred and fifty two hundred. I
would love to do a show in Reno, is what
I'm But I don't know how many fans. I don't
know how many people are in Nevada. I agree, we're
four or five people that, Yeah, Las Vegas has a
(45:51):
lot of people.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
They yeah, But and Renos. How I mean, like Reno,
you get like all the parts of California as well,
because it's like right on the border, right it is
to Reno.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
It's fine as well. All right, Reno nevade as a population.
I'm trying to think how many people population of two
hundred and seventy four thousand. That's a lot.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
Okay, I'll look it up. Yeah, look, listener, hit us up.
Speaker 2 (46:16):
We have some Yeah, and you know what comedy club
people actually enjoy going to Reno?
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Kurt?
Speaker 2 (46:24):
We could we could road trip there. Yeah, it's only
about an eight hour drive. We could go half away.
Maybe we do that. Let's go to Reno in twenty
twenty five. Yeah, but the mom did not tell police
where her sons were. She refused to give whereabouts. Then,
on Monday, over two weeks after the theft, the hotel
received a package in the mail containing the.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
Ring, mailed it back. Think about how expensive to mail
a rug is? Yeah, that's pretty expensive.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
I know, but it's good they're I think they're back
in Reno. I think they were probably driving by goofing
off and they're the I mean, who knows. Also, gold
Rush Steakhouse is incredible. If you've never been to the
Madonna In. It's a wonderful place. A lot of our
peers have gotten married there because it is the most
over the top hotel I've ever been to. It's one
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hundred and something rooms, one hundred and ten rooms, one
hundred and twenty rooms, and every single one is decorated differently.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
Every single one.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
They have a theme. So some are clown rooms, some.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
Are cave rooms like carooms.
Speaker 2 (47:25):
Yeah, there's five or six waterfall rooms where the shower
is a rock structure that pours water on you like
a waterfall. I stayed at one called rock Bottom, which
is very At that point in my life, that probably
was the right place for me to be staying. I
also stayed one and Tall and Short. That's a really
good room. If you're going to reserve one, stay in
the Tall and Short room. It's really fun.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
What's tall and short about it?
Speaker 2 (47:48):
It's nothing, I mean, that's the funny. It's the color.
The color scheme in there is beautiful. It's a balcony room,
which is nice, but there it's a great place. If
you're ever on a road trip in California, go to
the Madonna In stay a night. They have a bar,
the Silver Bar. They have a steakhouse. They have a steakhouse,
they have a breakfast thing. They have vented shopping upstairs,
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and they have pools. But it is just one of
the strangest. It's amazing. It's rooms. There's nothing better. It's
romantic in its own way. I went there, God, I
mean to talk about Windy Day. I went there like
two or three, yeah, probably three years ago. And near
(48:31):
the Madonna In there are horse pastures. I don't know
if they're connected to the Madonna In, but they're definitely
horse farm nearby, and I thought, you know, I'm gonna
go commune with nature, take a little walk, say hi
to these horses. I love you love a horse.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Doesn't love a horse. I don't understand them, But either
I don't understand the deep connection they have with other
with human beings, because every time I interact with a horse,
it's very much like you're kind of like a bird.
You don't really seem to make a connection. But that's me.
I don't. Also, I'm not I'm not combing them. I
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guess you got a comba horse to really get on
its good side.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
They got Tickelet's chin a little bit, give a little nose,
a little scratch on the nose. But yeah, some people
are confident around horses. I'm still pretty terrified of them overall.
I feel like, even when I'm riding them, I'm like, well,
I could die at any moment, and this would be
a horrible way to go. But I go over there.
There's like four or five horses in the field. They're
real pretty, and I'm picking all this long grass. I'm
picking the best grass outside of the pen I can
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get because i really want to show these horses a treat.
They're probably one hundred two hundred yards away from me,
and so I hold up this sampful of just green,
long grass that probably i'd been cut since the mid eighties,
and I'm like, you know, calling over, you know, like
hey horse, and like clack. I'm just making noises, you know,
like slapping my chest doing all this stuff, and they
(49:55):
start coming over. Three horses walk over, okay, and they
get over to me. And every time I go to feed,
if the wind is so windy, it's blowing the grass
out of my hand because I'm holding my palm flat
like they teach you when your little kids. The horse
doesn't chomp. So these horses are getting like one blade
of grass, and I don't know what sound horses make
when they're angry. I'm not a horse guy, I'm not
(50:17):
an eck Wine studies major. But one of them is grunting,
and so my communing with nature was me pretending to
feed horses. I'm running around grabbing more grass, trying to
be cool. I'm holding it different. It just keeps blowing away.
One horse just walks away. One horse is like the
old sage was like I've seen this came before. This
is like the three Cardmonte equivalent for horses. The other
(50:40):
one was so sweet. I think it was like a mayor.
I'm trying to like feed this, and then there's a
grunting horse that I just gave up and walked away.
Speaker 5 (50:47):
And from that horse's perspective, some asshole just waves grass
at them, the horse horse, and then just keeps letting
grass blow away from them without ever feeding them, and
then just lightly hurries away without looking back.
Speaker 2 (51:03):
So ashamed. The next person that probably tried to saddle
that horse probably got bucked so far into the air.
Speaker 1 (51:11):
But I tried to commune.
Speaker 2 (51:13):
Yeah, I like to commune with nature.
Speaker 1 (51:16):
You did it. Congratulate nature, that horse and grass next
time you're at the Madonna and give it.
Speaker 2 (51:23):
A big old carrot.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
All right, thank you for listening to the Bananas Podcast, folks.
Speaker 2 (51:29):
We're glad to have you. Thanks everybody leaves us five
star reviews on Apple or Spotify, they really matter. And
thanks for everybody, especially who tells their friends, who tells
their enemies their loved ones about bananas. Word of mouth
is still the best way to spread the gospel of bananas.
So thank you to everyone. Bu Nanas Bananas is an
(52:02):
exactly right media production.
Speaker 1 (52:03):
Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.
Speaker 2 (52:06):
The catchy Bananas theme song was composed and performed by Kahon.
Speaker 1 (52:09):
Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.
Speaker 2 (52:13):
And our benevolent overlords are the great Karen Kilgareff and
Georgia Hartstart
Speaker 1 (52:17):
And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot intern.
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