March 11, 2025 • 55 mins
Part time Bananas employee/full time human Lisa Magid joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about the Japanese astronaut who hated space, jump rope pro saves neighbor and dog from drowning with jump rope and scientists are trying to figure out why all hockey players sound Canadian!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Scott, you ready, Cratty, I'm ready to laugh
(00:02):
and laugh and love. Oh.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I have so many good ones. I just don't know
what to start with. This is so good. All right
here it is mm hmm. Meet Akayama Toyohiro, the Japanese
astronaut who hated space.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Yeah, my guy, my guy. He's out there. But get
in here. We're listening to the Bananas Podcast. We're the
Banana Boys. You're here. It's real, it's happening right now.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
World. Would you believe.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Your mind?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Jozillion pieces?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Would you banana?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Banana Guys, Goals, non binary pass Welcome to Bananas.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I'm Kurt Brown Oler.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I am Banana boy number two Scotti Landis. Thank you
all very much for just taking time out of your
busy lives, your stressful moments, and checking out the silliest
little podcast there ever was. We call Bananas. It's strange news,
it's storytelling. We just like to have a good time.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Sorry, Chicago, I'm doing stand up Inside you March e
May eighth, May eighth, May eighth at the at the
at the Den, So please go get your tickets for that.
And also I'll be in Asbery Park the day before,
and I'll be in Cincinnati, Ohio the day after that,
so go get them in Scottie and I will, of
(01:41):
course March twenty ninth, be in Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yes we will. I'm gonna drink Margarita's before, I'm gonna
drink vodka Sota's during, and I'm gonna drink I don't
know what after, but it's gonna be a very fun
live show. If you've never seen us live, we just
try to bring a lot of good energy and we
hope you do too. Bring a friends, I never heard
of the pod. They'll love it.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
They will love it. And of course we are here today.
We're here today a very special guest. You know her,
you love her. She's a full human. She is not
used to be our intern. She is now the only
(02:22):
part time employee of The Bananas Podcast. We are so
happy to have her. Please welcome to the show for
her own full episode. Lisa Maggot.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Everyone, thank you, thanks for having me here.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It is Lisa. We did say nols. Lisa Maggot, the
Big Three, the iconoclass of entertainment, and we're so lucky
to have you.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
How is your day in New York? City, Lisa, my
day was good.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
It's a little wet same here.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, oh really, it's a rainy day episode of Bananas.
That's what this is going to be. I hope it's
raining where you are. It's okay that it's raining. Put
this on, you know what I put on. I put
on a little Miles Davis when it's raining, but instead
put on the Bananas podcast.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
All right, Lisa, you respond to our DM sometimes on Instagram.
How do you rate the Banana bananimals? Do you enjoy
interacting with them?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I love the bananimals.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
They have always been so nice and so funny, send
great articles in and sometimes just set like share personal
things that it's really a lot and it's very touching
a lot of times. And they love you guys, basically
is what a lot of it is is them telling
you how great you both are. And I of course
(03:48):
don't tell you about it, because you know, I don't
want to play too much.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
You don't need to know.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
It's yeah, it's it's too much, but it's great. I
love speaking with the fans one myself.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well, that's very kind. You do a great job at it. Yes,
they are wildly supportive and loving bunch and thanks for
always responding with such care and grace.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
So we're gonna do. Do you want to get into
this story because I'm very excited to tell you about
this astronaut, Lisa.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I would love to hear about an astronaut who doesn't
care for space.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
This was in IFL Science, my favorite. I first found
out about this from depths of Wikipedia. Shout out to
depths of Wikipedia.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So good.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's such a good Instagram account, just go follow it.
And this was the bizarre story of Japan's first astronaut.
This was written by Tom Hale. Tom A lot of
people say. There's one thing people say about Tom. You
know what it is.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I've heard that he is the maybe the best to
medium best in the business. But I'm gonna say that
that is correct.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It is here.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
It is. The image of an astronaut is somewhere between
an action man and a short back in sides Air
Force trained engineering school prodigy. But then there is Japan's
first man in space, light years away from any such stereotypes.
Toyo hero Akiyama was the unlikely chained smoking journalist who
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ended up taking a trip to the Soviet space station
Mirror while his name might not be in many history books.
I think I said it backwards. Oh my god, Akiyama
Toyo hero is how it's in one article and in
this article it's Tokyo Hero Akiyama. Okay, so it's one
of the other. I'm confused. So the obscure piece of
(05:46):
space history begins. In nineteen eighty nine, the Cold War
was cooling and Japan was enjoying a bubble era of
economic excess. Now the USSR was sinking in Japan's fortunes
were rising. The Tokyo Broadcast System TBS. Did you guys
know that TV? This was the Tokyo Broadcasting System TBS.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I love those impractical jokers characters.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Welcome dreamed up a crazy ploy to celebrate and promote
the station's fortieth anniversary. The plan involved a publicity stunt
of epic proportions, one that could have only occurred in
the transitory turn of the nineteen nineties. By nineteen eighty nine,
Gorbachev was still on his way to disarming the USSR.
Soviet unions lozi ba b b b bah. This is why.
(06:30):
It's just because the Zovie unions having tough time with
United States blessing. The TBS paid, and I want everyone
to imagine it's our TBS who's doing this.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, turn Broadcast Systems or whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yes, TBS paid one point five billion yen, which was
ten million dollars to send a journalist up to the
Mere space station for a TV show called all right
here I go. I'm gonna try it nihon jin hatsu
akui e loosely translated as first Japanese space A mad idea,
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but then again, this was the TV company that commissioned
and aired Tukeshi's Castle. Ah. Yes, not only would this
be I tried to show. I tried to show the
moving castle to to to my kids, the one where
it's like their parents turn into like slovenly pigs at
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the at the eating bar. Do you guys know what
I'm talking about?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I do? Actually yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And right when the like the parents became slovenly pigs
and didn't recognize them both my kids were like, can
we turn this off?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah? I could see why.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
So not only would this be the first Japanese citizen space,
it would also be the first journalist in space. So
to land this history defining role TBS and the Soviets
decided to, said the forty seven year old salary man
Tellyo a hero. Akiyama, a TV journalist who had never
ever muttered a word of Russian. Akaiyama worked as a
reporter during the Vietnam War. Even i'd started working for
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the BBC in London, however, experience of space was limited
through the just to the lens of the media. Yeah,
like you or.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Me, like one of the three of us, just plucked
out of obscurity and sent into space.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Exactly before this, his most strenuous exercise was said to
be lifting his cigarette to his mouth. God. Nevertheless, Akayama
spent over a year at Star City Cosmonaut training village,
undergoing medical checks, lectures, and physical training. So he actually
he actually quit smoking for four months to do this
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because he was a he loved to smoke.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I'm getting a little bit of an Armageddon vibe here
from this.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
This is ya, it really is. But see this is
the reality. Armageddon would happen if someone needed to do
like a publicity stunt. But Armageddon would it happened if
we needed to divert an asteroid from hitting us.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I feel like it also, I wonder how much of
him hating space is him not being able to smoke
cigarettes in space. I bet it's like twenty percent.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
The first thing he says when he lands is how
is space? And he said, I can't wait to smoke?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
So addictive? They are so addictive. He can look at
the Earth from space and he's like, this sucks. This
would be better with a American Spirit cigarette.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
So he takes off in Asoya's TM eleven spacecraft, accompanied
by cosmonauts, these two cosmonauts, six cameramen, and a Japannite
Japanese toy mascot. When they reached the Mir space station,
his two colleagues reported that they quote had never ever
seen a man vomit that much.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
He also.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Constantly complained that he felt his head was going to
pop up from the pressure. There's some ripped footage that
you can see on YouTube if you want to go
watch it. Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
There was like this guy a pond Kurt Is. Was
he a pawn in a political exercise? Is that what
we're saying is like they were like, we're going to
send a journalist up and.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
He was a real journalist.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
He just picked this guy like.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, he landed. He said he wanted to have a smoke,
and then this was like a huge deal in Japan
for the Japanese and or the tobacco industry because it
was at the time, in nineteen eighty nine, smoking was
on the rise.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, this was a big tobacco sponsored thing.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I think his was, Yeah, this is Lake Mason.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
He retired as a journalist in nineteen ninety five, so
only six years after this, so he was he was
like almost done working. This was like one of his
final hurrahs, and used his retirement payoff to buy a
farm near Fukushima, unfortunately, leaving behind his career, his family
and his friends in Tokyo. What he left behind his family,
(11:04):
maybe he didn't have kids, Okay, still nuts. But Akima's
brush with history came again with the Japanese earthquake and
the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in twenty eleven. As a result
of the disaster, he had to abandon the simple life. Now,
he teaches agriculture at Kyoto University of Art and Design,
with an intensely philosophical view of environmentalism and a deeply
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skeptical outlook on modern industrial agriculture to give one last
blow to the sinking Soviet ship. The Western media reported
him to be just a hapless, forty a day whiskey
swilling idiot, like a Woody Allen character, neurotically bumping around space. However,
his reflections on his time in space truly cement that
he was never the space Jester character he was made
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out to be. Oh, I see, yeah, so he was
like made out to be just like an idiot. But
then he says some really beautiful stuff. He said. This
is what he said when about his time in space.
As I watched the Earth from four hundred klomway, I
looked back on the history of mankind and thought about
the repetition of activities that helped us grow to now
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number seven billion people. What is the most basic human activity? Eating?
I wondered, How seriously I had thought about the act
of eating or growing things that we eat. How do
farmers think about the food they grow? I felt I
couldn't die with having some basic knowledge about these things.
And what still struck me as impressive was the shining
blue Earth, which looked like one form of life floating
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in the universe. At the same time, I was reminded
of the thinness of the blue layer the atmosphere. Such
a thin atmosphere protects every living thing forest, fish, trees, birds, insects,
human beings and everything. Wow, there it is.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
This is a rainy day episode of gasses.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
This is right, it's a rainy episode of bananas. It
might be raining out. It's better than space.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Folks gain perspective, which is kind of what you would
hope somebody would looking down at right Earth. Wow, Kurt,
you want to go to space? Lisa, do you want
to go to space?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
You have the option?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
No, no way, too scared much too chicken.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Cool space hotel that can rotate. You don't want to
go float around a jacuzzie, Float out of a jacuzzi,
into the ceiling, back into the chase the water around
the room.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Yeah, that that does sound fun.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
If the if you knock me out and like brought
me up there, I'd be pleased to be there, But
I'm not gonna I'm not going to fly.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
It's too scared.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, what if? What if it was a space ship
on top of an airplane? Normal times, you take off
like an airplane and then it gets really high and
then you zoom zoom right off of the plane into space.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
I want to say yes, but I still think I
want to though.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
There's a there's a there's a dream of being bolder
and less scared of travel.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
There's a dream, there's a dream in Lisa Maggot of
not being scared of travel. Do you are you scared
of train travel?
Speaker 5 (14:06):
No? No?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Okay, car travel.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Yes, a little bit, but I know, okay. I don't drive.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I don't drive because I'm a New Yorker, so I
don't like driving myself. And when other people drive, I'm like,
who are you? I don't trust you.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, there is a comedian. There's a comedian that Kurt
and I know I will definitely not name names because
what I'm about to say, but she is pretty successful
with hard political stances. She takes big political stances, and
she hates driving so much. She has a driver's license,
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but she doesn't drive. And I know for a fact
that between shows, like in different places, she'll just hire
somebody to drive her from one club to another club
in another state. And to me, it does something with
my with the authentic city of the political statements. To me,
I'm like, drive yourself if you want you to believe
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what you're saying, you have to be able to drive
from point A to point B.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
That's why I don't have.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Exactly exactly why I can't drive.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Well, I do have a license, I just can't drive.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Look at that. Okay, so you actually went and got
your license. Was that terrifying for you?
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I failed twice before. Like this is the level of
security and driving test is that I failed twice.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
I still couldn't drive.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
But yet I think they kind of have like a
three rull thing where they're just like the third try,
you just get it no matter what.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, yeah, right, there's go for it, like.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
They're just like you've tried enough where you're good.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I remember on my uh my driver's test, and I
had been driving for I don't know, twenty twenty years
at this point, I just let it lapse because I
was in New York, and then it was long enough
that I had to get it again, which is so
humiliating as an adult, and so I had to go
out and I had to go out on till I
think it was like somewhere in Queens where they like
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did the test with me and I had to drive
with a man and I'd been driving like. I was
just like, look, I'm just getting this again, you know,
and he's just like, yeah, we'll see. And then I
went around a curve like the road was simply curved.
It went from straight to being slightly curved, and I
maintained my speed, which was I don't know, twenty eight
(16:26):
miles an hour, and he he immediately told me to
pull over and then he lectured me and he says,
if you do that again, I'm going to fail you.
And I was just like, what is going on here?
This is a I'm totally driving like a normal human
being would drive. And it was just like oh, and
then all of a sudden you realize like, oh, this
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man has this man has a chip on his shoulder,
and now he has my future driving. I do not
want to go through this again. And it's just like
it's such a vulnerable feeling of just like, oh, I'm periless.
I'm totally perilous in this car with this man.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah. I when we moved out here and we all
had to get California licenses. Eventually I went in there.
I took off work, like, jumped out at lunch, made
an appointment at the DMV so I knew I was gonna,
you know, go pretty quick, which is thank god, make
an appointment, folks. I don't understand people that don't. It
could not be easier. It saves you four hours.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
And oh I went yesterday. I went yesterday. I got
my real ID, my first real ID.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah, it took me forty minutes top to bottom.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Boom.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
There was I've counted sixty people in line in the
not appointment line, and there was four people in line
in the apportment appointment.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Couldn't be easier. I have to go in like three days.
I already have that appointment from a week ago. I'm
going to glide in there.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I might not even eat breakfast beforehand. You know, I'm
just gonna get in and get out. So we all
go in and I go in, you know, rather confidently.
I wouldn't say cocky, but confidently. But I hadn't taken
a written test since I was fifteen and a half
years old. And also the rules in California are a
little different, differently splitting like lane splitting, which, for those
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who don't know, you're legally allowed to drive your motorcycle
between cars on the highway any of the lanes.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Looney Tunes crazy, when a car in the world late,
when a motorcycle goes like sixty through a gridlock, it's
terrifying for the for like you as a driver, because
it's like.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
So scary. Also, just make it between the fast lane
and the next lane over. Just say there's one place
you can lane split, not any of the lanes. It's crazy.
So I the way it works is you can get
three wrong, but if you get four wrong, you fail.
I think it's only twenty questions, it's not that many.
And I got like the second question wrong, and then
all of a sudden, I'm like on a qui a show,
you know. Then I'm like, on whose line is? I mean,
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he wants to be a millionaire. I'm like, oh god,
what did you get that wrong? I got a couple
things wrong. I got a distance between cars on the highway.
I think it was like three car lengths, four car
lengths or five car you know. It was like, I'm
like three car lengths, so I guess four car links,
you idiot.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And then it's just like we randomly decided four.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, it was numbers. It was like the school zone
is twenty five wins in school thirty five wins schools
not in or whatever, and I go great, and then
they go when what's residential speed limit in California? And
I'm like, I truly have no idea, And so I
got three wrong and with like heat was on and
I got the last two and I passed, So I
get the license. So I tell a friend who had
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also moved out at the same time from New York
and he goes, oh, scotti. He goes, I got three
wrong and then I was on the last question and
I did not know the answer. And so he walks
over to the woman that sits in the room where
the computers are, where the touchscreens are to do yeah,
the written test, and he's like, Hi, I'm sorry, I
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don't understand like the question the wording. Can you help
me out? And she goes, well, why don't we just
do a question right now here? And he goes okay,
and she goes, huh, here's one in the state of California. Uh.
The level of blood alcohol content ba C that shows
that you are an impaired driver is a point five percent.
(20:18):
That seems a little load, doesn't it. It's just b
point oh nine percent. Hmm. That's a little high to me.
Ce one point oh well, that's a lot of drinking
or d point oh eight that sounds about right. He goes,
I'm gonna go with D and she goes, and you passed,
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and then he got his license.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
It's the cutest thing ever. That because people hate the
DMV and like it's almost hacked to be like the
DMV or the worst employees and they're so slow, and
this nice lady just walked his ass right into a
driver's life.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
That's so great.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Point oh five. That seems a little doesn't that so sweet?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Did you They told you you couldn't smile, right, Scotty
when you got your pictures?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, every time. And I love to smile my licenses.
And for years people be like, it's so nice that
you smile in your license. Most guys just look like
serial killers. And the not this one they said I
couldn't smile, and then the most recent one before that,
that's when I learned I was smiling and the guy says,
don't smile and chinned down, don't smile, And so I
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look down and so I look my mouth's half open. Yeah,
I look like a mouth breathing.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
He told me to smile. Well me too.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
I was told to I could smile, but only after
they'd taken the picture.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
So I was like, no, we're set.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Yeah, Oh that's that's crazy that they said that to
you after your pictures taken. You can smile, sweetheart.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
And then I was like no.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
He the reason I know. He's like, you can smile,
and so I smile, and I was like, oh, I'm
going to give like a real smile for this pick.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
You know.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
And and he's like, Okay, you can't cock your head.
You can't tilt your head. And I was like, all right,
no problem, and then I go back and then I
just did the exact same thing, and he's like, you
can't tilt your head, dude, Well.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
You're told that. You're like me, the camera's at your
at your nipple height, so you're like looking down. You're
like it's like a plate. It's like a sandwich perspective.
It's like I'm about to eat this sandwich and there's
a camera in there, and so you got fortunes. You
just do horrible. So now when I do it, I
take this really wide stance so I'm not looking down
at the camera, I'm doing like a three quarters split
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and all you know, it's fantastic. I can't wait too manute, well,
I love it.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Gotta give me one.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
You're smiling in yours is what you're telling me.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Oh, I've got the best smile on because every other
license I've ever gotten, whatever i've had, like four or
five or something, I've always tried to do a crazy face.
But it's hard to get away with a crazy face
because you know it has to be you have to
make it seem like maybe that's your resting face. And
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so the last one I did was like flaring out
like the neck muscles and pulling my face down like yes,
like that, Like it looked like beaker like like that,
you know, And when I show people, I'm I'm slightly
embarrassed because it looks like I'm mad, and I don't
want it to look like I'm mad in my photo.
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So I was like, it'll be nice to just have
a smiley photo.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Lisa, did you know Kurt's not drinking for the whole year.
I did not know that He's doing like a six
dry dry three sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, a dry three sixty nine. That's okay.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
So you're gonna have to go to next year. Also,
yeah for a few days.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
No, I didn't start until January twenty second because of
the fires.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, that was a stress time. You dows a little bit?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Yeah what that mean?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Okay, I got one for you. This is Beth Kelly
sent this and you could send your stories into the
Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com or the Bananas Podcast
on Instagram where myself or Lisa Maggott and sometimes Kurtie
b we'll see your stories. Beth Kelly, thank you so much.
Jump Rope pro saves neighbor and dog from ice pond
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with their jump rope.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
What a nice one, What a nice one.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
This was in The Guardian. That's real. Written by one
name would not be enough, so it's Ramone Atonio Vargas
best in the byss Best. When the British editors at
The Guardian hear a story about someone being saved with
a jump rope, they'd literally jump out of their seats
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and run to Ramone Antonio Vargas's desk and they say,
get your ass on the first plane to Westfield, Indiana.
David Fisher of Westfield, Indiana and his son Felix rescued
a man who had fallen in after trying to rescue
a dog. In an extreme instance of life imitating art,
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an author of children's books about a jump rope wielding
hero reportedly used his jump ropes to save both a
dog and a young man from drowning after they fell
into an ice pond in Indiana.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Wow, definitely set that up. He definitely made.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
He pushed them in.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
He push the dog in, playing all right, let's see
what happened.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Hey, somebody saved this dog.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Anybody just me? Author David Fisher also suspect last name
for pulling somebody out of the water with a rope.
Just jumping rope with my son, Felix, name of a
famous cat. Here we go these exploits in December by
David Fisher, who also jumps rope professionally.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Of course he does.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Uh So, there's like so many people on Instagram TikTok.
They are like jump rope people. I wonder if any
of them can talk? Should we? We should find somebody
that's really like an jump rope influencer. That's fun. But yeah,
there are people that just jump rope and make faces
and do it to different like pop songs. Great, I
mean if any of them can talk. I would love
to jump rope influence.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Let's just mash. Let's just mash three words together that
I never thought i'd hear, jump rope influencer and then
fucking put them on the show. I'd love to.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Lisa, did you have a skip It when you were
a child?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
I did, loved it.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Great toy, great toy.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Really great, really great? Do they they don't exist anymore? Right?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
You could still buy a skippet I love them recently.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
And you can buy a bop It too, same company,
bop It, great toy. Yeah. Devil Sticks, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
This is very good at devil Sticks.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I could do it a little bait.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Threshold.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Sorry, go ahead, No, no, I'm just saying I was
pretty good at it. So yeah, yes, I don't want
to brag, but like I was the best in my class.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
No I was, but it was really a cool thing
to do.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That is really cool. Bring it to Bananas Fest. Bring
your thing to Bananas Fest, Lisa Meggant on the devil Sticks.
You heard it here first. You don't have to do that,
don't worry. Good, Well, those exploits. I bet people in
Denver are great at devil Sticks. I bet if there's
one city just still.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
The capital live hands down the Capitol.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
It's bolder or Denver, Colorado. Those exploits in December by
David Fisher, who jumps rope professionally, recently earned him recognition
as a hero as he is from the municipal government
of Westfield. As the Indiana television news station w r
TV told it, okay, I athority.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
This sold books for him. I hope it's.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Going to after after he gets the Banana Boys bomp Yep,
he's gonna buy that way, he'll have the longest jump
rope in Indiana by the time we're done with authorities, say.
Fisher sprang into action after his son Felix, heard a
man screaming for help. Scary they realized the neighbor's dog
had gone into an ice pond while chasing geese and
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calls the dog to fall in and turn. An eighteen
year old man went in after the dog, trying to
save the animal and ended up falling into That's when
Fisher grabbed his jump rope bag, pulled out his you
guessed it, jumbled Dutch jump ropes, and bravely, if gingerly,
stepped out onto the ice he told w r t V.
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I instinctively just went in. Fisher recounted, I could hear
the ice cracking beneath my feet. When I did finally arrive,
I slung the ropes out to him. He grabbed one handle,
and bit by bit we pulled him safely out of
the ice pond, said Fisher, whose son helped him complete
the rescue. The Fishers then took the neighbor and his
dog into the safety of their home so they could
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warm up and wait for first responders to arrive. Fisher
had the tool to save the day on that occasion
because he travels the world as a professional jump roper.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
He travels the world.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
This tea must be real.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Good to see this man jump rope.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Well, I bet he jump roke out to rescue them,
Like I feel like probably it was just that's.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Why the ice was cracking. He was actually on like
a pretty hard piece of ice, but he was jumping
so hard.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
But he was jumping. He wouldn't stop.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Jump roping is the hardest exercise that curtain were fitness
guys now, Lisa se medics, We're now obsessed with fitness
and we don't go to the same gym but I like,
I spiritually feel when I'm at the gym that Kurt's
also at the gym with me. We're black, and there's
a boxing room in my gym with you know, heavy
bags and all stuff, but there's jump ropes, and if
I'm lying, I'm dying. I just the other day picked
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it up and I tried to jump rope for two
minute straight.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Oh oh, possible thirty seconds of jump roping and you're broken.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Oh my god. First of all, I sort of forgot
how to jump rope. I was doing the one where
you do the sort of double jump like you like, yeah, yeah, bounce,
bounce and instead, and then I'm like, wait, Scotty, you're doubled.
You're yeah, topping in between the jumps. And then so
I just started to do where you're doing, and I'm like,
oh my god, I really forty seconds in and I
was like, I have a lot of respect for people
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who can jump rope, for like boxers, like ten minutes,
half an hour.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
That's crazy. Also also for and also to go back
to the ice too. If you're saving someone from the ice,
just lay down, lay down, lay down, laid down. I
think we all know that, but it sounds like jump
rope guy is just jumping out there.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, lay down, pal, He's really good though, I mean,
he's a he travels the world as a professional jump roper. K.
You can't expect him to put it down when.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
He says that that means that he once went to Canada.
That is all. That means. He had one trip to
Toronto and one trip to Cantcud where he happened to
jump rope. I highly doubt that this man is being
paid to travel for people to watch him jump rope.
I cannot believe it. I cannot believe it.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Well, he might be a banana's fest too. Maybe we'll
get in touch with them. According to fish Or here's
where it gets a little extra bananas, he has collected
three world records involving jumping rope while seated on the ground.
What submit, Maybe that's what he did to get out
on the ice.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
But jump jump just scoot like a dog across a
carpet from she.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Said, he also performs quote a very interactive, visually entertaining
style of jump rope show end quote.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I mean, I can't believe it.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
I want to see it. I want to see the
seated jump roping.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I mean this must be.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
In he must be rare.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Oh, his products must be so firm. He must have
that firmas his UH.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
If he's cracking nuts, if he's doing like cracking nuts
with both legs while he's jump roping, maybe I can
understand people are coming to see him. You know, people
are throwing chestnuts at him. He's catching him with his
with his UH, with his muscles on his legs. One
are those things called calf cafe calf?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah, his gams. So I just clicked his website for
the first time. His website, if you want to check
this guy out, it is rockin rope Warrior dot com
and the Rock and Rub Warrior himself, David Fish, has
started in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I mean his videos, he's been doing thirty two years
a jump roping.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
He sells his own He sells a ten foot rope
Warrior Performance jump rope for twelve dollars, and he sells
a nine foot one for twelve dollars. And you're never
going to guess how much the eight dollar one is.
It's eleven dollars.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I was joking before when I said this man put
that in the lake.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
This man put that dog in the lake, no doubt
about it.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Also the homepage, his head is cut off completely to
see his Oh, he's butt jumping in it.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
He is. I see it too. He's doing rope mastics
for nineteen dollars. You can get his rope Mastics Skills
DVD and you can learn over fifty jump rope tricks
to amaze your friends. And the one I'm seeing, he
is wearing like red and black vertically striped leggings. He's
wearing a tank top and some white sneakers and white socks,
and he is doing a butt jump off the ground.
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He is jumping rope, just using.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
His with his butt. How far is it butt off
the ground? How many is inches?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Let's just put it this way. I could slide you
an ice cold mug of beer underneath his hopping butt. No,
if he was doing it on a bar, just put
it that way, all right.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Well, maybe that's what the show is, you know.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I think that this episode might be called Rock and
Roll Warriors with Lisa maggod.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Okay, sounds good. Butt jumping with Lisa, Yeah, butt jumping.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I want to give this man less rock.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
And butt jumps with Leeza maggod Rock and butt jumping Lisa.
Do you approve of this?
Speaker 5 (34:20):
I do none of him drowning a dog, though, but
of a name.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Allegedly, Fisher's website said he has treated to US presidents
George Bush, although he does not specify witch Bush and
Bill Clinton, and a Russian one Boris Yeltson to his
butt jumping performances. Jumping rope is such a passion for
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Fisher that he's written fictional children's books centering on a
hero who defeats evil enemies with a laser like rope.
The hero shares Fisher's nickname, the Rope Warrior, according to
the author's website. Westfield City Council honored the Fishers at
its meeting on Monday.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
You know what, we don't talk enough about the fact
that we just had a president. It was like George
Bush and then just a little a little while later,
a George Bush again, a different person. That's very weird.
That's so strange. If we had a Grover Creve Cleveland
and then just like four eight years later there was
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another Grover Cleveland. That would be crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
It was John Adams and Johnny Adams y. Yeah. But
also it's interesting that you picked Grover Cleveland, Kurt, Yeah,
why because Grover Cleveland is the only president. Well, I
guess Donnie Dumps just did it again. But Grover Cleveland
was the I think twenty second president and then like
the twenty fourth, so he got elected, didn't get elected,
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got re elected. I guess Donnie Dumps did it next.
But uh, that's a rare feat in history. So maybe
the new Grover Cleveland like shaved his mustache and they're like, hey,
who's that guy? Who is that?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I'm Grover another Grover. I will lead us into some
thumbs up. Scientists are trying to figure out why hockey
players all sound Canadian.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I believe it.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Eddie Laposi wants to thumb up his partner for supporting
him for three years while Eddie did his MBA. It
was extremely hard, but her support made it achievable. Thumbs
up to you, partner. You got Eddie across the finish line.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Megan Boyce is thumbing up her friend Cheryl Waters, which
is a great name, who has acute mioid leukemia and
is absolutely kicking its ass and treatment. Cheryl's strongest, most
amazing person that Megan knows. And if all the ban
animals could take a moment right now, we're going to
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count down to send Cheryl good healthy vibes. Yes, that
would be amazing. Ready, we're gonna take a moment of
good vibes for Sheryl Waters and her treatment. One, two, three, excellent,
great work.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Everybody thumbs up to everybody, thumbs up.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
To you, Thumbs up to you. Here's another great one.
Taylor Leiston or Lyston wants to thumb herself up. She's
two hundred and twenty nine days alcohol free. She's on
her way, Curdie b to her three sixty nine. Yeah,
she's a second time postpart a mom and did not
realize how much of a crutch alcohol had become, which
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is how it happens. It sneaks up on you.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Oh yeah, started out kind of way out, started out recreational,
ended kind of medical, classic old steady line that no
one knows, but mem that's okay.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
She says she's survived bacherette parties and even weddings while
being sober, which is tough, especially bachelerette parties. A wedding,
there's food, there's dancing, there's socializing. But bachelor parties are like,
get me through this, and Taylor says, as a child
of an alcoholic, this is a really big deal for her.
So double thumbs up to you, Taylor, and to all
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urban animals who are dry. Sixty nine ing sixty nine
days consecutive no alcohol. Let me know if you want
a bomber sticker, I'll mail you one. Yes, internationally, I
bought some international stamps. Yes, you did last, but not least.
Here's an interesting one thumbs up. I believe this is
a Denver based tattooer, Darren Ariondo, who beat the world
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record by tattooing for seventy two hours straight. So one
session of doing tattoos for three days. I ran the
numbers and I said to Darren, congratulations obviously, But I said,
did you hallucinate? Did you feel like insane? He goes,
I didn't hallucinate, but I got drunk without drinking alcohol,
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so I think he did hallucinate. This is what Yeah,
but yees, seventy two hours straight one session of NonStop tattooing.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Crazy.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Wow. He may be one of the bananimals doing banana
doing tattoos for us a bananas fest year. If we
can get yes. Yes. Anyways, those are thumbs up. Thanks everybody.
You're all doing great. You're doing better than you think.
That's the secret about life.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
All right, of course we are here with full human
Lisa Maggott. Hello, Lisa, Hello.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Again?
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Are you ready for it?
Speaker 5 (39:31):
All the time?
Speaker 2 (39:32):
You ready to hear why scientists are trying to figure
out why hockey players all sound Canadian, which I didn't
even know was a thing. No, they're not. It's from
fizz dot org. Fizz org. This is interesting. This is
written by the Acoustical Society of America.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
What sounds good to me? It is? It is, and
this is music.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
The title of this one is to sound like a
hockey player, speak like a Canadian. As a hockey player,
Andrew Bray was familiar with the slang thrown around the
barn the hockey arena. As a linguist, he wanted to
understand how short specific jargon evolved and permeated across teams, regions,
and countries. In pursuit of the socio linguistic biscuit puck,
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he faced an unexpected question. It was while conducting this
initial study that I was asked a question that has
since shaped the direction of my subsequent research. Are you
trying to figure out why the Americans sound like fake Canadians?
Canadian English dialects are start explain what a Canadian dialect is?
And Bray, who's from the University of Rochester, presented an
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investigation into American hockey player's use of Canadian English accents
May sixteenth at a joint meeting of the Acoustical Society
of America and the Canadian Acoustical Association held May thirteenth
to seventeenth the Shaw Center located here out down Ottawa, Ontario,
Canadaday Sunday Sunday in the Blood at the Shaw Center,
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Come on down for the Acoustical Society of America. Everybody
studying how hockey players talk required listening to them talk
about hockey to sechnique, vowel articulation, and the vast collection
of sports specific slang terminology that players incorporated into their speech.
Bray visited different professional teams to interview their American born players. Quote.
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In these interviews, I would ask players to discuss their
career trajectories, including when and why they began playing hockeyh
blah blah blah blah. The interview sought to get players
talking about hockey for as long as possible. Bray found
that the American athletes borrowed features of the Canadian English accent,
specifically for hockey specific terms and jargon, but do not
follow the underlying rules behind the punk pronunciation, which could
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explain why the accent might sound fake to a Canadian quote.
It is important to note that American hockey players are
not trying to shift their speech to sound more Canadian. Rather,
they're trying to sound more like a hockey player. That's
interesting somewhat.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
I think that's interesting. They're blending in.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
They're blending in. There's sports in the same way that
I would always notice because I had I surfed in Rockaway,
Queens for about ten years, ten eleven years of my
life maybe it was twelve years. I had that place happen,
and everyone would adopt either a SoCal thing or a
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Hawaiian thing, Like in two thousand and three, everyone was
bra like all that time. You know, it's up Bra,
you know, And it was always like, how's it like,
And that's a real Hawaiian thing, Like just walking up
at the beach and it would just be some dude
from Queens with a queen's accent, like, how's it, Bra.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
How's it brought up? Yeah, that's good, that's good to
co opt that so far away, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
When I first started surfing in rock Way, I swear
to god, this is like two thousand and three or something,
there was a guy who surfed pretty often but did
not own surf shorts like board shorts, and would surf
shirtless with jean shorts on. And he would battle out
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on a log board with jorts on, just like like
literally they used to be jeans. He cut them off
at the knee and he would surf in them. The
most uncomfortable piece of clothing to get wet in the
history of clothing. And that was what it was like
back then, just a lot of jorts out in the lineup.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Lisa, you're in You're in New York City, You're you
live in New York City. Is there a neighborhood weirdo
in your neighborhood? Is there somebody you see regularly who
is a character of you know, the ten block RADII.
Speaker 5 (43:53):
Oh, that's a good question. I don't have.
Speaker 3 (43:56):
The naked Cowboy is not near enough to count, But
that is an thing for person made.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
The fact that he's made a career out of it
and he's like Internet.
Speaker 5 (44:05):
I mean, that's the dream. That's the dream.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
I got a nice bob, you know.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Yeah, yeah, he's got to be pretty old at this point.
He's been doing that for like thirty years.
Speaker 5 (44:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
I don't actually, I don't even know if he's still around.
It's just his his legend is at least.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
I mean, he's a lie, I think.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
But you haven't seen him.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
I haven't seen it, but he just I just think
of him sometimes. No, I guess there's the person who
just yells a lot, but that's not really crazy.
Speaker 5 (44:35):
It's not like a fun crazy thing.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
It's just, yeah, someone on the corner who is always
on the corner and yelling.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
There used to be a guy. There used to be
a guy in Baltimore and Hamden that would he would
stand on one specific street corner. He was always in
a bathrobe and in his hands he would have like
toothbrushes and hair brushes, all different brushes, and he would
just screw mean personal hygiene.
Speaker 5 (45:02):
One dollar.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
That you would like use his toothbrush?
Speaker 5 (45:10):
Yeah, Like, are they individually packaged.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Loose dirty toothbrushes and hair brushes? That you could come
up and you could use them if you wanted for
a dollar.
Speaker 5 (45:21):
Oh you could use it like you didn't buy it,
you got it.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
No, no, no, you could use it. Yeah yeah yeah, okay,
yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
That's you know, that's that's a reused part of reduce, reuse, recycle.
Speaker 5 (45:33):
Yeah, no, he's.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
I mean my buddy Skip, I'm sure I mentioned this
a long time ago. He worked at a Whole Foods
outside of Boston and in the coffee department. Every morning
a guy would show up and like loose gym socks
and like outfit like he had been playing basketball with
a deflated basketball pinched under his arm and to his side,
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and act like he had just played basketball, and then
order the same order of coffee and leave. Every day
would show up with a deflated basketball, just like shoot
the breeze what the baristas. I think Skip was the
manager of the department, And and yeah, this guy would
show up as you had just come from the courts
playing some early morning basketball with a fully deflated basketball
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just got I just.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
Got finished to flat in the ball, you know, after
the game, which is what everybody does hard when they're
done playing basketball. Everybody deflates their balls and goes home.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
Oh God. When I was in college, we went and
saw UMass has a very good ice hockey team, and
they won the Frozen Four in twenty twenty. But they
were good. They were always competitive. Our big rivals were
University of New Hampshire, Boston College, Boston University.
Speaker 5 (46:45):
Did they sound Canadian? Did they sound yes?
Speaker 1 (46:48):
They got well, they sounded a little Bostonian too, And
so the we were superfans. We would bang on the glass,
we'd scream, we'd chant. And the big thing at UMass
is when we would score on the other team, we
start pointing at their goalie and call them a sieve
like a calender, like a sieve, like something that stays through.
And then pointed our goalie and say goalie, and so
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you go, goalie siev goalie say, and get louder and
louder and louder. It was very fun and very dumb.
And the guy that would lead it was a student
who I never really got to know because he would
paint his face like the Darth Maul character in Star
Wars and then wearing a yellow pasta calendar on his head,
and so he would lead lead the goalie sieve and
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for years, and we love the guy. He got to
know us, We got to know him, but just us
like drunk fans cheering for our college hockey team. So
we started getting better. We won some mid games, and
we won this game in overtime, and we're banging on
the glass so hard that the next hockey game they
handed out flyers that said you're no longer allowed to
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bang on the glass, which is the most fun thing
you could do as a college student. Yeah, going to
a free hockey game with your friends. And so this guy,
I think was like pre Law the Darth Maul, with
a Pasta calender on his head, Pasa straighter on his head,
filled out a petition that said, we feel unsafe because
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if our hands can break the plexiglass of the glass,
then we're afraid for our own safe that the puck
or the players will come through the glass and kill us.
And we just started passing this clipboard around and signing
our names. We had hundreds of signatures of students saying
we no longer feel safe in the Mullin Center. If
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our slapping, bare hands can break this glass, then the
hockey puck will kill us if it comes through. In
the next game, we were allowed to hit again and
they did not care. And side note my good friend
John Green. At the time, there was a make seven
up Yours was a slogan for seven up the soda
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and on the front of a T shirt Green t
shirt said make seven and then on the back it
said up yours. That was the joke. I think Godfree,
the comedian, was the spokesman for it. So John had
a make seven up years T shirt and he had
folded it so it's at up yours. And on the
game we got reinstated that we could bang on the glass.
We're playing BU It's super competitive. The whole place is
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really loud, and one of the UMS players hits the
Boston University player into the glass right in front of John,
and John holds up the up yours and the player
that he hit sees it, and then John turns and
holds it up to everybody in the student section and
people jumped to their feet, screaming, cheering. It was like
watching one of my best friends have like a peak moment,
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maybe the happiest moment of his entire life. The right
shirt at the right game, at the right time, with
the right phrase, and we were just chanting up yours after.
I'm not one to go back and say college were
the best years of my life. I think next year
is going to be the best year of my life.
And that was a fun time.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
Hot damn, what was the best years of your life? Lisa?
Speaker 1 (50:00):
That's right, it was.
Speaker 5 (50:01):
It was college one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
It was.
Speaker 3 (50:05):
Yes, I high school was so bad for me that
like college was Suddenly I was like, oh I can
have friends, like I can be cool. And it was
very exciting to learn that, yes, high school is bad
for me. So I just like when I discovered that
I was like a human that could have fun. That
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was really exciting. Oh so yeah, yeah it's a happy ending,
I get not ending, but.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
That's a good lesson.
Speaker 2 (50:32):
Yeah yeah yeah. How old are you? How old are
you in your head?
Speaker 5 (50:38):
That is a really good question. I think I'm twenty six.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
Twenty six, all right, great Scotti? How old are you
in your head?
Speaker 1 (50:48):
Three four hundred years old? Probably I came over on
a wooden chip and yeah, like I like to put
a nice hard salve on my crack knuckles and just
put in a good day's word there. It is.
Speaker 5 (51:01):
I think.
Speaker 2 (51:04):
I think I'm thirty six, thirty five, thirty five or
thirty six. That's how that's in my head.
Speaker 1 (51:11):
Hey, also, kerk, congratulations on your Super Bowl commercial. Dude,
that's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (51:15):
Oh yeah, thanks Bud.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
My phone up not just you know, not DMS from
ban Animals going, Wait, did I just see Kurt? Was
that Kurt? Was that curty be? I mean a lot.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
I was watching the game at at a at a
classmate's home. They were nice enough. They have a beautiful
barbecue every Super Bowl and they invited us this year
and we're very very happy to be. Their kids are
all running around, there's all these people that I do
not know. And the owner of the house walked in
and it's the only time he did this for the
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entire game. Came in and then went to turn the
volume up on the volume button and instead hit the
input button and it turned it off, and it turned
it to something else, and it was about maybe it
was like twenty five seconds, thirty seconds. That was when
my commercial air. So I had no idea. Oh, no,
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entire time. The thing was on for all three hours
or three and a half hours of the game. The
one time it was turned off for thirty seconds, he
turns the TV back onto my phone just starts blowing up.
But it was like, right then.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
It was Infinity Right. Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Whole campaign, so there'll be a bunch more.
Speaker 5 (52:29):
Ah, that's exciting.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
I had friends and family on the East Coast, especially
been like Curdie B, like my sister, like oh guys
went to college with like New York friends, and they
all saw you. It's funny, like because that's your second one.
You were in one with Cardi B. Weren't you. Wasn't
that a super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (52:44):
That was?
Speaker 1 (52:45):
It was to Lisa. Can you imagine knowing somebody that's
been in two Super Bowl commercials?
Speaker 5 (52:51):
I can't. Until today, I didn't know anybody. It's true.
I didn't know anybody who'd been in walk.
Speaker 3 (52:58):
No, maybe I know what, but not definitely not to
not to And you can talk to you like I
talk to you so that I know.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
You could talk to me. And I look like a
little wet bird right.
Speaker 1 (53:08):
Now, a thirty six year old wet bird.
Speaker 2 (53:13):
Well, thank you so much Lisa for being on the show.
Did can you believe it went that fast?
Speaker 5 (53:19):
No? I'm ready to keep talking.
Speaker 2 (53:21):
I've got I know that is say full episode.
Speaker 1 (53:24):
I mean, do you want to do a send off?
Do you have anything to say to the because you
have your own fans, some of the ban animals have
become like Lisa Maggot stands, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (53:35):
It's very exciting. Keep it up. More people can join
the Lisa stan.
Speaker 3 (53:42):
I don't really have anything I'm advertising. I do want
to say, I've decided I'm going to call myself Plantain.
Speaker 5 (53:50):
Girl number one.
Speaker 3 (53:51):
Okay, great, it's a different It's similar enough, but like different.
Speaker 2 (53:55):
Yeah, it's a PG, he'd say, Lisa Maggot's rated PG. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (54:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (54:03):
Other than that, I have nothing just great. Animals are great.
Speaker 5 (54:09):
Love everyone.
Speaker 1 (54:11):
That's sweet. Well, thank you for all your hard work.
At least also helps us with Bananas Fest. The mailing
list emails everything, so thank you on air from Kurtie
B and I. We really appreciate everything you do. You
do a great job. Ye thank you, And do you
want to say bananas with us? That seems like a
good way to wrap her up tight yeak three two
one bananas good variety there. Bananas is an exactly right
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media production.
Speaker 2 (54:48):
Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
The catchy bananas theme song was composed and performed by Khan.
Speaker 2 (54:54):
Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.
Speaker 1 (54:58):
And our benevolent overlords are the Great Karen Kilgarriff and
Georgia Hartstart
Speaker 2 (55:02):
And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot
internm
All right, Scott, you ready, Cratty, I'm ready to laugh
(00:02):
and laugh and love. Oh.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I have so many good ones. I just don't know
what to start with. This is so good. All right
here it is mm hmm. Meet Akayama Toyohiro, the Japanese
astronaut who hated space.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Yeah, my guy, my guy. He's out there. But get
in here. We're listening to the Bananas Podcast. We're the
Banana Boys. You're here. It's real, it's happening right now.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
World. Would you believe.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Your mind?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Jozillion pieces?
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Would you banana?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Banana Guys, Goals, non binary pass Welcome to Bananas.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I'm Kurt Brown Oler.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I am Banana boy number two Scotti Landis. Thank you
all very much for just taking time out of your
busy lives, your stressful moments, and checking out the silliest
little podcast there ever was. We call Bananas. It's strange news,
it's storytelling. We just like to have a good time.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Sorry, Chicago, I'm doing stand up Inside you March e
May eighth, May eighth, May eighth at the at the
at the Den, So please go get your tickets for that.
And also I'll be in Asbery Park the day before,
and I'll be in Cincinnati, Ohio the day after that,
so go get them in Scottie and I will, of
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course March twenty ninth, be in Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yes we will. I'm gonna drink Margarita's before, I'm gonna
drink vodka Sota's during, and I'm gonna drink I don't
know what after, but it's gonna be a very fun
live show. If you've never seen us live, we just
try to bring a lot of good energy and we
hope you do too. Bring a friends, I never heard
of the pod. They'll love it.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
They will love it. And of course we are here today.
We're here today a very special guest. You know her,
you love her. She's a full human. She is not
used to be our intern. She is now the only
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part time employee of The Bananas Podcast. We are so
happy to have her. Please welcome to the show for
her own full episode. Lisa Maggot.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
Everyone, thank you, thanks for having me here.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It is Lisa. We did say nols. Lisa Maggot, the
Big Three, the iconoclass of entertainment, and we're so lucky
to have you.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
How is your day in New York? City, Lisa, my
day was good.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
It's a little wet same here.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, oh really, it's a rainy day episode of Bananas.
That's what this is going to be. I hope it's
raining where you are. It's okay that it's raining. Put
this on, you know what I put on. I put
on a little Miles Davis when it's raining, but instead
put on the Bananas podcast.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
All right, Lisa, you respond to our DM sometimes on Instagram.
How do you rate the Banana bananimals? Do you enjoy
interacting with them?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I love the bananimals.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
They have always been so nice and so funny, send
great articles in and sometimes just set like share personal
things that it's really a lot and it's very touching
a lot of times. And they love you guys, basically
is what a lot of it is is them telling
you how great you both are. And I of course
(03:48):
don't tell you about it, because you know, I don't
want to play too much.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
You don't need to know.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
It's yeah, it's it's too much, but it's great. I
love speaking with the fans one myself.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well, that's very kind. You do a great job at it. Yes,
they are wildly supportive and loving bunch and thanks for
always responding with such care and grace.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
So we're gonna do. Do you want to get into
this story because I'm very excited to tell you about
this astronaut, Lisa.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I would love to hear about an astronaut who doesn't
care for space.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
This was in IFL Science, my favorite. I first found
out about this from depths of Wikipedia. Shout out to
depths of Wikipedia.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So good.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's such a good Instagram account, just go follow it.
And this was the bizarre story of Japan's first astronaut.
This was written by Tom Hale. Tom A lot of
people say. There's one thing people say about Tom. You
know what it is.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I've heard that he is the maybe the best to
medium best in the business. But I'm gonna say that
that is correct.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
It is here.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
It is. The image of an astronaut is somewhere between
an action man and a short back in sides Air
Force trained engineering school prodigy. But then there is Japan's
first man in space, light years away from any such stereotypes.
Toyo hero Akiyama was the unlikely chained smoking journalist who
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ended up taking a trip to the Soviet space station
Mirror while his name might not be in many history books.
I think I said it backwards. Oh my god, Akiyama
Toyo hero is how it's in one article and in
this article it's Tokyo Hero Akiyama. Okay, so it's one
of the other. I'm confused. So the obscure piece of
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space history begins. In nineteen eighty nine, the Cold War
was cooling and Japan was enjoying a bubble era of
economic excess. Now the USSR was sinking in Japan's fortunes
were rising. The Tokyo Broadcast System TBS. Did you guys
know that TV? This was the Tokyo Broadcasting System TBS.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I love those impractical jokers characters.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Welcome dreamed up a crazy ploy to celebrate and promote
the station's fortieth anniversary. The plan involved a publicity stunt
of epic proportions, one that could have only occurred in
the transitory turn of the nineteen nineties. By nineteen eighty nine,
Gorbachev was still on his way to disarming the USSR.
Soviet unions lozi ba b b b bah. This is why.
(06:30):
It's just because the Zovie unions having tough time with
United States blessing. The TBS paid, and I want everyone
to imagine it's our TBS who's doing this.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, turn Broadcast Systems or whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yes, TBS paid one point five billion yen, which was
ten million dollars to send a journalist up to the
Mere space station for a TV show called all right
here I go. I'm gonna try it nihon jin hatsu
akui e loosely translated as first Japanese space A mad idea,
(07:04):
but then again, this was the TV company that commissioned
and aired Tukeshi's Castle. Ah. Yes, not only would this
be I tried to show. I tried to show the
moving castle to to to my kids, the one where
it's like their parents turn into like slovenly pigs at
(07:24):
the at the eating bar. Do you guys know what
I'm talking about?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I do? Actually yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And right when the like the parents became slovenly pigs
and didn't recognize them both my kids were like, can
we turn this off?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah? I could see why.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
So not only would this be the first Japanese citizen space,
it would also be the first journalist in space. So
to land this history defining role TBS and the Soviets
decided to, said the forty seven year old salary man
Tellyo a hero. Akiyama, a TV journalist who had never
ever muttered a word of Russian. Akaiyama worked as a
reporter during the Vietnam War. Even i'd started working for
(08:03):
the BBC in London, however, experience of space was limited
through the just to the lens of the media. Yeah,
like you or.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Me, like one of the three of us, just plucked
out of obscurity and sent into space.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Exactly before this, his most strenuous exercise was said to
be lifting his cigarette to his mouth. God. Nevertheless, Akayama
spent over a year at Star City Cosmonaut training village,
undergoing medical checks, lectures, and physical training. So he actually
he actually quit smoking for four months to do this
(08:38):
because he was a he loved to smoke.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I'm getting a little bit of an Armageddon vibe here
from this.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
This is ya, it really is. But see this is
the reality. Armageddon would happen if someone needed to do
like a publicity stunt. But Armageddon would it happened if
we needed to divert an asteroid from hitting us.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I feel like it also, I wonder how much of
him hating space is him not being able to smoke
cigarettes in space. I bet it's like twenty percent.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
The first thing he says when he lands is how
is space? And he said, I can't wait to smoke?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
So addictive? They are so addictive. He can look at
the Earth from space and he's like, this sucks. This
would be better with a American Spirit cigarette.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
So he takes off in Asoya's TM eleven spacecraft, accompanied
by cosmonauts, these two cosmonauts, six cameramen, and a Japannite
Japanese toy mascot. When they reached the Mir space station,
his two colleagues reported that they quote had never ever
seen a man vomit that much.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
He also.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Constantly complained that he felt his head was going to
pop up from the pressure. There's some ripped footage that
you can see on YouTube if you want to go
watch it. Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
There was like this guy a pond Kurt Is. Was
he a pawn in a political exercise? Is that what
we're saying is like they were like, we're going to
send a journalist up and.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
He was a real journalist.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
He just picked this guy like.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, he landed. He said he wanted to have a smoke,
and then this was like a huge deal in Japan
for the Japanese and or the tobacco industry because it
was at the time, in nineteen eighty nine, smoking was
on the rise.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah, this was a big tobacco sponsored thing.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I think his was, Yeah, this is Lake Mason.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
He retired as a journalist in nineteen ninety five, so
only six years after this, so he was he was
like almost done working. This was like one of his
final hurrahs, and used his retirement payoff to buy a
farm near Fukushima, unfortunately, leaving behind his career, his family
and his friends in Tokyo. What he left behind his family,
(11:04):
maybe he didn't have kids, Okay, still nuts. But Akima's
brush with history came again with the Japanese earthquake and
the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in twenty eleven. As a result
of the disaster, he had to abandon the simple life. Now,
he teaches agriculture at Kyoto University of Art and Design,
with an intensely philosophical view of environmentalism and a deeply
(11:24):
skeptical outlook on modern industrial agriculture to give one last
blow to the sinking Soviet ship. The Western media reported
him to be just a hapless, forty a day whiskey
swilling idiot, like a Woody Allen character, neurotically bumping around space. However,
his reflections on his time in space truly cement that
he was never the space Jester character he was made
(11:45):
out to be. Oh, I see, yeah, so he was
like made out to be just like an idiot. But
then he says some really beautiful stuff. He said. This
is what he said when about his time in space.
As I watched the Earth from four hundred klomway, I
looked back on the history of mankind and thought about
the repetition of activities that helped us grow to now
(12:06):
number seven billion people. What is the most basic human activity? Eating?
I wondered, How seriously I had thought about the act
of eating or growing things that we eat. How do
farmers think about the food they grow? I felt I
couldn't die with having some basic knowledge about these things.
And what still struck me as impressive was the shining
blue Earth, which looked like one form of life floating
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in the universe. At the same time, I was reminded
of the thinness of the blue layer the atmosphere. Such
a thin atmosphere protects every living thing forest, fish, trees, birds, insects,
human beings and everything. Wow, there it is.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
This is a rainy day episode of gasses.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
This is right, it's a rainy episode of bananas. It
might be raining out. It's better than space.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Folks gain perspective, which is kind of what you would
hope somebody would looking down at right Earth. Wow, Kurt,
you want to go to space? Lisa, do you want
to go to space?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
You have the option?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
No, no way, too scared much too chicken.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Cool space hotel that can rotate. You don't want to
go float around a jacuzzie, Float out of a jacuzzi,
into the ceiling, back into the chase the water around
the room.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Yeah, that that does sound fun.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
If the if you knock me out and like brought
me up there, I'd be pleased to be there, But
I'm not gonna I'm not going to fly.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
It's too scared.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, what if? What if it was a space ship
on top of an airplane? Normal times, you take off
like an airplane and then it gets really high and
then you zoom zoom right off of the plane into space.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
I want to say yes, but I still think I
want to though.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
There's a there's a there's a dream of being bolder
and less scared of travel.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
There's a dream, there's a dream in Lisa Maggot of
not being scared of travel. Do you are you scared
of train travel?
Speaker 5 (14:06):
No? No?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Okay, car travel.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Yes, a little bit, but I know, okay. I don't drive.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I don't drive because I'm a New Yorker, so I
don't like driving myself. And when other people drive, I'm like,
who are you? I don't trust you.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, there is a comedian. There's a comedian that Kurt
and I know I will definitely not name names because
what I'm about to say, but she is pretty successful
with hard political stances. She takes big political stances, and
she hates driving so much. She has a driver's license,
(14:43):
but she doesn't drive. And I know for a fact
that between shows, like in different places, she'll just hire
somebody to drive her from one club to another club
in another state. And to me, it does something with
my with the authentic city of the political statements. To me,
I'm like, drive yourself if you want you to believe
(15:04):
what you're saying, you have to be able to drive
from point A to point B.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
That's why I don't have.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Exactly exactly why I can't drive.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Well, I do have a license, I just can't drive.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Look at that. Okay, so you actually went and got
your license. Was that terrifying for you?
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I failed twice before. Like this is the level of
security and driving test is that I failed twice.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
I still couldn't drive.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
But yet I think they kind of have like a
three rull thing where they're just like the third try,
you just get it no matter what.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, yeah, right, there's go for it, like.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
They're just like you've tried enough where you're good.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I remember on my uh my driver's test, and I
had been driving for I don't know, twenty twenty years
at this point, I just let it lapse because I
was in New York, and then it was long enough
that I had to get it again, which is so
humiliating as an adult, and so I had to go
out and I had to go out on till I
think it was like somewhere in Queens where they like
(16:06):
did the test with me and I had to drive
with a man and I'd been driving like. I was
just like, look, I'm just getting this again, you know,
and he's just like, yeah, we'll see. And then I
went around a curve like the road was simply curved.
It went from straight to being slightly curved, and I
maintained my speed, which was I don't know, twenty eight
(16:26):
miles an hour, and he he immediately told me to
pull over and then he lectured me and he says,
if you do that again, I'm going to fail you.
And I was just like, what is going on here?
This is a I'm totally driving like a normal human
being would drive. And it was just like oh, and
then all of a sudden you realize like, oh, this
(16:47):
man has this man has a chip on his shoulder,
and now he has my future driving. I do not
want to go through this again. And it's just like
it's such a vulnerable feeling of just like, oh, I'm periless.
I'm totally perilous in this car with this man.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yeah. I when we moved out here and we all
had to get California licenses. Eventually I went in there.
I took off work, like, jumped out at lunch, made
an appointment at the DMV so I knew I was gonna,
you know, go pretty quick, which is thank god, make
an appointment, folks. I don't understand people that don't. It
could not be easier. It saves you four hours.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
And oh I went yesterday. I went yesterday. I got
my real ID, my first real ID.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah, it took me forty minutes top to bottom.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Boom.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
There was I've counted sixty people in line in the
not appointment line, and there was four people in line
in the apportment appointment.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Couldn't be easier. I have to go in like three days.
I already have that appointment from a week ago. I'm
going to glide in there.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I might not even eat breakfast beforehand. You know, I'm
just gonna get in and get out. So we all
go in and I go in, you know, rather confidently.
I wouldn't say cocky, but confidently. But I hadn't taken
a written test since I was fifteen and a half
years old. And also the rules in California are a
little different, differently splitting like lane splitting, which, for those
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who don't know, you're legally allowed to drive your motorcycle
between cars on the highway any of the lanes.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Looney Tunes crazy, when a car in the world late,
when a motorcycle goes like sixty through a gridlock, it's
terrifying for the for like you as a driver, because
it's like.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
So scary. Also, just make it between the fast lane
and the next lane over. Just say there's one place
you can lane split, not any of the lanes. It's crazy.
So I the way it works is you can get
three wrong, but if you get four wrong, you fail.
I think it's only twenty questions, it's not that many.
And I got like the second question wrong, and then
all of a sudden, I'm like on a qui a show,
you know. Then I'm like, on whose line is? I mean,
(18:47):
he wants to be a millionaire. I'm like, oh god,
what did you get that wrong? I got a couple
things wrong. I got a distance between cars on the highway.
I think it was like three car lengths, four car
lengths or five car you know. It was like, I'm
like three car lengths, so I guess four car links,
you idiot.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
And then it's just like we randomly decided four.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah, it was numbers. It was like the school zone
is twenty five wins in school thirty five wins schools
not in or whatever, and I go great, and then
they go when what's residential speed limit in California? And
I'm like, I truly have no idea, And so I
got three wrong and with like heat was on and
I got the last two and I passed, So I
get the license. So I tell a friend who had
(19:32):
also moved out at the same time from New York
and he goes, oh, scotti. He goes, I got three
wrong and then I was on the last question and
I did not know the answer. And so he walks
over to the woman that sits in the room where
the computers are, where the touchscreens are to do yeah,
the written test, and he's like, Hi, I'm sorry, I
(19:53):
don't understand like the question the wording. Can you help
me out? And she goes, well, why don't we just
do a question right now here? And he goes okay,
and she goes, huh, here's one in the state of California. Uh.
The level of blood alcohol content ba C that shows
that you are an impaired driver is a point five percent.
(20:18):
That seems a little load, doesn't it. It's just b
point oh nine percent. Hmm. That's a little high to me.
Ce one point oh well, that's a lot of drinking
or d point oh eight that sounds about right. He goes,
I'm gonna go with D and she goes, and you passed,
(20:41):
and then he got his license.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
It's the cutest thing ever. That because people hate the
DMV and like it's almost hacked to be like the
DMV or the worst employees and they're so slow, and
this nice lady just walked his ass right into a
driver's life.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
That's so great.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Point oh five. That seems a little doesn't that so sweet?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Did you They told you you couldn't smile, right, Scotty
when you got your pictures?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, every time. And I love to smile my licenses.
And for years people be like, it's so nice that
you smile in your license. Most guys just look like
serial killers. And the not this one they said I
couldn't smile, and then the most recent one before that,
that's when I learned I was smiling and the guy says,
don't smile and chinned down, don't smile, And so I
(21:28):
look down and so I look my mouth's half open. Yeah,
I look like a mouth breathing.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
He told me to smile. Well me too.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
I was told to I could smile, but only after
they'd taken the picture.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
So I was like, no, we're set.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Yeah, Oh that's that's crazy that they said that to
you after your pictures taken. You can smile, sweetheart.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
And then I was like no.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
He the reason I know. He's like, you can smile,
and so I smile, and I was like, oh, I'm
going to give like a real smile for this pick.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
You know.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
And and he's like, Okay, you can't cock your head.
You can't tilt your head. And I was like, all right,
no problem, and then I go back and then I
just did the exact same thing, and he's like, you
can't tilt your head, dude, Well.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
You're told that. You're like me, the camera's at your
at your nipple height, so you're like looking down. You're
like it's like a plate. It's like a sandwich perspective.
It's like I'm about to eat this sandwich and there's
a camera in there, and so you got fortunes. You
just do horrible. So now when I do it, I
take this really wide stance so I'm not looking down
at the camera, I'm doing like a three quarters split
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and all you know, it's fantastic. I can't wait too manute, well,
I love it.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Gotta give me one.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
You're smiling in yours is what you're telling me.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Oh, I've got the best smile on because every other
license I've ever gotten, whatever i've had, like four or
five or something, I've always tried to do a crazy face.
But it's hard to get away with a crazy face
because you know it has to be you have to
make it seem like maybe that's your resting face. And
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so the last one I did was like flaring out
like the neck muscles and pulling my face down like yes,
like that, Like it looked like beaker like like that,
you know, And when I show people, I'm I'm slightly
embarrassed because it looks like I'm mad, and I don't
want it to look like I'm mad in my photo.
(23:29):
So I was like, it'll be nice to just have
a smiley photo.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Lisa, did you know Kurt's not drinking for the whole year.
I did not know that He's doing like a six
dry dry three sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, a dry three sixty nine. That's okay.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
So you're gonna have to go to next year. Also,
yeah for a few days.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
No, I didn't start until January twenty second because of
the fires.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, that was a stress time. You dows a little bit?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Yeah what that mean?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Okay, I got one for you. This is Beth Kelly
sent this and you could send your stories into the
Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com or the Bananas Podcast
on Instagram where myself or Lisa Maggott and sometimes Kurtie
b we'll see your stories. Beth Kelly, thank you so much.
Jump Rope pro saves neighbor and dog from ice pond
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with their jump rope.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
What a nice one, What a nice one.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
This was in The Guardian. That's real. Written by one
name would not be enough, so it's Ramone Atonio Vargas
best in the byss Best. When the British editors at
The Guardian hear a story about someone being saved with
a jump rope, they'd literally jump out of their seats
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and run to Ramone Antonio Vargas's desk and they say,
get your ass on the first plane to Westfield, Indiana.
David Fisher of Westfield, Indiana and his son Felix rescued
a man who had fallen in after trying to rescue
a dog. In an extreme instance of life imitating art,
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an author of children's books about a jump rope wielding
hero reportedly used his jump ropes to save both a
dog and a young man from drowning after they fell
into an ice pond in Indiana.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Wow, definitely set that up. He definitely made.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
He pushed them in.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
He push the dog in, playing all right, let's see
what happened.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Hey, somebody saved this dog.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Anybody just me? Author David Fisher also suspect last name
for pulling somebody out of the water with a rope.
Just jumping rope with my son, Felix, name of a
famous cat. Here we go these exploits in December by
David Fisher, who also jumps rope professionally.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Of course he does.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Uh So, there's like so many people on Instagram TikTok.
They are like jump rope people. I wonder if any
of them can talk? Should we? We should find somebody
that's really like an jump rope influencer. That's fun. But yeah,
there are people that just jump rope and make faces
and do it to different like pop songs. Great, I
mean if any of them can talk. I would love
to jump rope influence.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Let's just mash. Let's just mash three words together that
I never thought i'd hear, jump rope influencer and then
fucking put them on the show. I'd love to.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Lisa, did you have a skip It when you were
a child?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
I did, loved it.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Great toy, great toy.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Really great, really great? Do they they don't exist anymore? Right?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
You could still buy a skippet I love them recently.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
And you can buy a bop It too, same company,
bop It, great toy. Yeah. Devil Sticks, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
This is very good at devil Sticks.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
I could do it a little bait.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Threshold.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Sorry, go ahead, No, no, I'm just saying I was
pretty good at it. So yeah, yes, I don't want
to brag, but like I was the best in my class.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
No I was, but it was really a cool thing
to do.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
That is really cool. Bring it to Bananas Fest. Bring
your thing to Bananas Fest, Lisa Meggant on the devil Sticks.
You heard it here first. You don't have to do that,
don't worry. Good, Well, those exploits. I bet people in
Denver are great at devil Sticks. I bet if there's
one city just still.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
The capital live hands down the Capitol.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
It's bolder or Denver, Colorado. Those exploits in December by
David Fisher, who jumps rope professionally, recently earned him recognition
as a hero as he is from the municipal government
of Westfield. As the Indiana television news station w r
TV told it, okay, I athority.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
This sold books for him. I hope it's.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Going to after after he gets the Banana Boys bomp Yep,
he's gonna buy that way, he'll have the longest jump
rope in Indiana by the time we're done with authorities, say.
Fisher sprang into action after his son Felix, heard a
man screaming for help. Scary they realized the neighbor's dog
had gone into an ice pond while chasing geese and
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calls the dog to fall in and turn. An eighteen
year old man went in after the dog, trying to
save the animal and ended up falling into That's when
Fisher grabbed his jump rope bag, pulled out his you
guessed it, jumbled Dutch jump ropes, and bravely, if gingerly,
stepped out onto the ice he told w r t V.
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I instinctively just went in. Fisher recounted, I could hear
the ice cracking beneath my feet. When I did finally arrive,
I slung the ropes out to him. He grabbed one handle,
and bit by bit we pulled him safely out of
the ice pond, said Fisher, whose son helped him complete
the rescue. The Fishers then took the neighbor and his
dog into the safety of their home so they could
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warm up and wait for first responders to arrive. Fisher
had the tool to save the day on that occasion
because he travels the world as a professional jump roper.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
He travels the world.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
This tea must be real.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Good to see this man jump rope.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Well, I bet he jump roke out to rescue them,
Like I feel like probably it was just that's.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Why the ice was cracking. He was actually on like
a pretty hard piece of ice, but he was jumping
so hard.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
But he was jumping. He wouldn't stop.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Jump roping is the hardest exercise that curtain were fitness
guys now, Lisa se medics, We're now obsessed with fitness
and we don't go to the same gym but I like,
I spiritually feel when I'm at the gym that Kurt's
also at the gym with me. We're black, and there's
a boxing room in my gym with you know, heavy
bags and all stuff, but there's jump ropes, and if
I'm lying, I'm dying. I just the other day picked
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it up and I tried to jump rope for two
minute straight.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Oh oh, possible thirty seconds of jump roping and you're broken.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Oh my god. First of all, I sort of forgot
how to jump rope. I was doing the one where
you do the sort of double jump like you like, yeah, yeah, bounce,
bounce and instead, and then I'm like, wait, Scotty, you're doubled.
You're yeah, topping in between the jumps. And then so
I just started to do where you're doing, and I'm like,
oh my god, I really forty seconds in and I
was like, I have a lot of respect for people
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who can jump rope, for like boxers, like ten minutes,
half an hour.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
That's crazy. Also also for and also to go back
to the ice too. If you're saving someone from the ice,
just lay down, lay down, lay down, laid down. I
think we all know that, but it sounds like jump
rope guy is just jumping out there.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, lay down, pal, He's really good though, I mean,
he's a he travels the world as a professional jump roper. K.
You can't expect him to put it down when.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
He says that that means that he once went to Canada.
That is all. That means. He had one trip to
Toronto and one trip to Cantcud where he happened to
jump rope. I highly doubt that this man is being
paid to travel for people to watch him jump rope.
I cannot believe it. I cannot believe it.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Well, he might be a banana's fest too. Maybe we'll
get in touch with them. According to fish Or here's
where it gets a little extra bananas, he has collected
three world records involving jumping rope while seated on the ground.
What submit, Maybe that's what he did to get out
on the ice.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
But jump jump just scoot like a dog across a
carpet from she.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Said, he also performs quote a very interactive, visually entertaining
style of jump rope show end quote.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I mean, I can't believe it.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
I want to see it. I want to see the
seated jump roping.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I mean this must be.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
In he must be rare.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Oh, his products must be so firm. He must have
that firmas his UH.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
If he's cracking nuts, if he's doing like cracking nuts
with both legs while he's jump roping, maybe I can
understand people are coming to see him. You know, people
are throwing chestnuts at him. He's catching him with his
with his UH, with his muscles on his legs. One
are those things called calf cafe calf?
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Yeah, his gams. So I just clicked his website for
the first time. His website, if you want to check
this guy out, it is rockin rope Warrior dot com
and the Rock and Rub Warrior himself, David Fish, has
started in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
I mean his videos, he's been doing thirty two years
a jump roping.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
He sells his own He sells a ten foot rope
Warrior Performance jump rope for twelve dollars, and he sells
a nine foot one for twelve dollars. And you're never
going to guess how much the eight dollar one is.
It's eleven dollars.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I was joking before when I said this man put
that in the lake.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
This man put that dog in the lake, no doubt
about it.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Also the homepage, his head is cut off completely to
see his Oh, he's butt jumping in it.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
He is. I see it too. He's doing rope mastics
for nineteen dollars. You can get his rope Mastics Skills
DVD and you can learn over fifty jump rope tricks
to amaze your friends. And the one I'm seeing, he
is wearing like red and black vertically striped leggings. He's
wearing a tank top and some white sneakers and white socks,
and he is doing a butt jump off the ground.
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He is jumping rope, just using.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
His with his butt. How far is it butt off
the ground? How many is inches?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Let's just put it this way. I could slide you
an ice cold mug of beer underneath his hopping butt. No,
if he was doing it on a bar, just put
it that way, all right.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Well, maybe that's what the show is, you know.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I think that this episode might be called Rock and
Roll Warriors with Lisa maggod.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Okay, sounds good. Butt jumping with Lisa, Yeah, butt jumping.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I want to give this man less rock.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
And butt jumps with Leeza maggod Rock and butt jumping Lisa.
Do you approve of this?
Speaker 5 (34:20):
I do none of him drowning a dog, though, but
of a name.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Allegedly, Fisher's website said he has treated to US presidents
George Bush, although he does not specify witch Bush and
Bill Clinton, and a Russian one Boris Yeltson to his
butt jumping performances. Jumping rope is such a passion for
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Fisher that he's written fictional children's books centering on a
hero who defeats evil enemies with a laser like rope.
The hero shares Fisher's nickname, the Rope Warrior, according to
the author's website. Westfield City Council honored the Fishers at
its meeting on Monday.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
You know what, we don't talk enough about the fact
that we just had a president. It was like George
Bush and then just a little a little while later,
a George Bush again, a different person. That's very weird.
That's so strange. If we had a Grover Creve Cleveland
and then just like four eight years later there was
(35:24):
another Grover Cleveland. That would be crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
It was John Adams and Johnny Adams y. Yeah. But
also it's interesting that you picked Grover Cleveland, Kurt, Yeah,
why because Grover Cleveland is the only president. Well, I
guess Donnie Dumps just did it again. But Grover Cleveland
was the I think twenty second president and then like
the twenty fourth, so he got elected, didn't get elected,
(35:49):
got re elected. I guess Donnie Dumps did it next.
But uh, that's a rare feat in history. So maybe
the new Grover Cleveland like shaved his mustache and they're like, hey,
who's that guy? Who is that?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I'm Grover another Grover. I will lead us into some
thumbs up. Scientists are trying to figure out why hockey
players all sound Canadian.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I believe it.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Eddie Laposi wants to thumb up his partner for supporting
him for three years while Eddie did his MBA. It
was extremely hard, but her support made it achievable. Thumbs
up to you, partner. You got Eddie across the finish line.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Megan Boyce is thumbing up her friend Cheryl Waters, which
is a great name, who has acute mioid leukemia and
is absolutely kicking its ass and treatment. Cheryl's strongest, most
amazing person that Megan knows. And if all the ban
animals could take a moment right now, we're going to
(36:57):
count down to send Cheryl good healthy vibes. Yes, that
would be amazing. Ready, we're gonna take a moment of
good vibes for Sheryl Waters and her treatment. One, two, three, excellent,
great work.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Everybody thumbs up to everybody, thumbs up.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
To you, Thumbs up to you. Here's another great one.
Taylor Leiston or Lyston wants to thumb herself up. She's
two hundred and twenty nine days alcohol free. She's on
her way, Curdie b to her three sixty nine. Yeah,
she's a second time postpart a mom and did not
realize how much of a crutch alcohol had become, which
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is how it happens. It sneaks up on you.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Oh yeah, started out kind of way out, started out recreational,
ended kind of medical, classic old steady line that no
one knows, but mem that's okay.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
She says she's survived bacherette parties and even weddings while
being sober, which is tough, especially bachelerette parties. A wedding,
there's food, there's dancing, there's socializing. But bachelor parties are like,
get me through this, and Taylor says, as a child
of an alcoholic, this is a really big deal for her.
So double thumbs up to you, Taylor, and to all
(38:08):
urban animals who are dry. Sixty nine ing sixty nine
days consecutive no alcohol. Let me know if you want
a bomber sticker, I'll mail you one. Yes, internationally, I
bought some international stamps. Yes, you did last, but not least.
Here's an interesting one thumbs up. I believe this is
a Denver based tattooer, Darren Ariondo, who beat the world
(38:34):
record by tattooing for seventy two hours straight. So one
session of doing tattoos for three days. I ran the
numbers and I said to Darren, congratulations obviously, But I said,
did you hallucinate? Did you feel like insane? He goes,
I didn't hallucinate, but I got drunk without drinking alcohol,
(38:55):
so I think he did hallucinate. This is what Yeah,
but yees, seventy two hours straight one session of NonStop tattooing.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Crazy.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Wow. He may be one of the bananimals doing banana
doing tattoos for us a bananas fest year. If we
can get yes. Yes. Anyways, those are thumbs up. Thanks everybody.
You're all doing great. You're doing better than you think.
That's the secret about life.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
All right, of course we are here with full human
Lisa Maggott. Hello, Lisa, Hello.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Again?
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Are you ready for it?
Speaker 5 (39:31):
All the time?
Speaker 2 (39:32):
You ready to hear why scientists are trying to figure
out why hockey players all sound Canadian, which I didn't
even know was a thing. No, they're not. It's from
fizz dot org. Fizz org. This is interesting. This is
written by the Acoustical Society of America.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
What sounds good to me? It is? It is, and
this is music.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
The title of this one is to sound like a
hockey player, speak like a Canadian. As a hockey player,
Andrew Bray was familiar with the slang thrown around the
barn the hockey arena. As a linguist, he wanted to
understand how short specific jargon evolved and permeated across teams, regions,
and countries. In pursuit of the socio linguistic biscuit puck,
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he faced an unexpected question. It was while conducting this
initial study that I was asked a question that has
since shaped the direction of my subsequent research. Are you
trying to figure out why the Americans sound like fake Canadians?
Canadian English dialects are start explain what a Canadian dialect is?
And Bray, who's from the University of Rochester, presented an
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investigation into American hockey player's use of Canadian English accents
May sixteenth at a joint meeting of the Acoustical Society
of America and the Canadian Acoustical Association held May thirteenth
to seventeenth the Shaw Center located here out down Ottawa, Ontario,
Canadaday Sunday Sunday in the Blood at the Shaw Center,
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Come on down for the Acoustical Society of America. Everybody
studying how hockey players talk required listening to them talk
about hockey to sechnique, vowel articulation, and the vast collection
of sports specific slang terminology that players incorporated into their speech.
Bray visited different professional teams to interview their American born players. Quote.
(41:30):
In these interviews, I would ask players to discuss their
career trajectories, including when and why they began playing hockeyh
blah blah blah blah. The interview sought to get players
talking about hockey for as long as possible. Bray found
that the American athletes borrowed features of the Canadian English accent,
specifically for hockey specific terms and jargon, but do not
follow the underlying rules behind the punk pronunciation, which could
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explain why the accent might sound fake to a Canadian quote.
It is important to note that American hockey players are
not trying to shift their speech to sound more Canadian. Rather,
they're trying to sound more like a hockey player. That's
interesting somewhat.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
I think that's interesting. They're blending in.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
They're blending in. There's sports in the same way that
I would always notice because I had I surfed in Rockaway,
Queens for about ten years, ten eleven years of my
life maybe it was twelve years. I had that place happen,
and everyone would adopt either a SoCal thing or a
(42:34):
Hawaiian thing, Like in two thousand and three, everyone was
bra like all that time. You know, it's up Bra,
you know, And it was always like, how's it like,
And that's a real Hawaiian thing, Like just walking up
at the beach and it would just be some dude
from Queens with a queen's accent, like, how's it, Bra.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
How's it brought up? Yeah, that's good, that's good to
co opt that so far away, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
When I first started surfing in rock Way, I swear
to god, this is like two thousand and three or something,
there was a guy who surfed pretty often but did
not own surf shorts like board shorts, and would surf
shirtless with jean shorts on. And he would battle out
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on a log board with jorts on, just like like
literally they used to be jeans. He cut them off
at the knee and he would surf in them. The
most uncomfortable piece of clothing to get wet in the
history of clothing. And that was what it was like
back then, just a lot of jorts out in the lineup.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Lisa, you're in You're in New York City, You're you
live in New York City. Is there a neighborhood weirdo
in your neighborhood? Is there somebody you see regularly who
is a character of you know, the ten block RADII.
Speaker 5 (43:53):
Oh, that's a good question. I don't have.
Speaker 3 (43:56):
The naked Cowboy is not near enough to count, But
that is an thing for person made.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
The fact that he's made a career out of it
and he's like Internet.
Speaker 5 (44:05):
I mean, that's the dream. That's the dream.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
I got a nice bob, you know.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Yeah, yeah, he's got to be pretty old at this point.
He's been doing that for like thirty years.
Speaker 5 (44:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
I don't actually, I don't even know if he's still around.
It's just his his legend is at least.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
I mean, he's a lie, I think.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
But you haven't seen him.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
I haven't seen it, but he just I just think
of him sometimes. No, I guess there's the person who
just yells a lot, but that's not really crazy.
Speaker 5 (44:35):
It's not like a fun crazy thing.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
It's just, yeah, someone on the corner who is always
on the corner and yelling.
Speaker 2 (44:43):
There used to be a guy. There used to be
a guy in Baltimore and Hamden that would he would
stand on one specific street corner. He was always in
a bathrobe and in his hands he would have like
toothbrushes and hair brushes, all different brushes, and he would
just screw mean personal hygiene.
Speaker 5 (45:02):
One dollar.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
That you would like use his toothbrush?
Speaker 5 (45:10):
Yeah, Like, are they individually packaged.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Loose dirty toothbrushes and hair brushes? That you could come
up and you could use them if you wanted for
a dollar.
Speaker 5 (45:21):
Oh you could use it like you didn't buy it,
you got it.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
No, no, no, you could use it. Yeah yeah yeah, okay,
yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
That's you know, that's that's a reused part of reduce, reuse, recycle.
Speaker 5 (45:33):
Yeah, no, he's.
Speaker 1 (45:35):
I mean my buddy Skip, I'm sure I mentioned this
a long time ago. He worked at a Whole Foods
outside of Boston and in the coffee department. Every morning
a guy would show up and like loose gym socks
and like outfit like he had been playing basketball with
a deflated basketball pinched under his arm and to his side,
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and act like he had just played basketball, and then
order the same order of coffee and leave. Every day
would show up with a deflated basketball, just like shoot
the breeze what the baristas. I think Skip was the
manager of the department, And and yeah, this guy would
show up as you had just come from the courts
playing some early morning basketball with a fully deflated basketball
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just got I just.
Speaker 2 (46:19):
Got finished to flat in the ball, you know, after
the game, which is what everybody does hard when they're
done playing basketball. Everybody deflates their balls and goes home.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
Oh God. When I was in college, we went and
saw UMass has a very good ice hockey team, and
they won the Frozen Four in twenty twenty. But they
were good. They were always competitive. Our big rivals were
University of New Hampshire, Boston College, Boston University.
Speaker 5 (46:45):
Did they sound Canadian? Did they sound yes?
Speaker 1 (46:48):
They got well, they sounded a little Bostonian too, And
so the we were superfans. We would bang on the glass,
we'd scream, we'd chant. And the big thing at UMass
is when we would score on the other team, we
start pointing at their goalie and call them a sieve
like a calender, like a sieve, like something that stays through.
And then pointed our goalie and say goalie, and so
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you go, goalie siev goalie say, and get louder and
louder and louder. It was very fun and very dumb.
And the guy that would lead it was a student
who I never really got to know because he would
paint his face like the Darth Maul character in Star
Wars and then wearing a yellow pasta calendar on his head,
and so he would lead lead the goalie sieve and
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for years, and we love the guy. He got to
know us, We got to know him, but just us
like drunk fans cheering for our college hockey team. So
we started getting better. We won some mid games, and
we won this game in overtime, and we're banging on
the glass so hard that the next hockey game they
handed out flyers that said you're no longer allowed to
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bang on the glass, which is the most fun thing
you could do as a college student. Yeah, going to
a free hockey game with your friends. And so this guy,
I think was like pre Law the Darth Maul, with
a Pasta calender on his head, Pasa straighter on his head,
filled out a petition that said, we feel unsafe because
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if our hands can break the plexiglass of the glass,
then we're afraid for our own safe that the puck
or the players will come through the glass and kill us.
And we just started passing this clipboard around and signing
our names. We had hundreds of signatures of students saying
we no longer feel safe in the Mullin Center. If
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our slapping, bare hands can break this glass, then the
hockey puck will kill us if it comes through. In
the next game, we were allowed to hit again and
they did not care. And side note my good friend
John Green. At the time, there was a make seven
up Yours was a slogan for seven up the soda
(48:54):
and on the front of a T shirt Green t
shirt said make seven and then on the back it
said up yours. That was the joke. I think Godfree,
the comedian, was the spokesman for it. So John had
a make seven up years T shirt and he had
folded it so it's at up yours. And on the
game we got reinstated that we could bang on the glass.
We're playing BU It's super competitive. The whole place is
(49:15):
really loud, and one of the UMS players hits the
Boston University player into the glass right in front of John,
and John holds up the up yours and the player
that he hit sees it, and then John turns and
holds it up to everybody in the student section and
people jumped to their feet, screaming, cheering. It was like
watching one of my best friends have like a peak moment,
(49:37):
maybe the happiest moment of his entire life. The right
shirt at the right game, at the right time, with
the right phrase, and we were just chanting up yours after.
I'm not one to go back and say college were
the best years of my life. I think next year
is going to be the best year of my life.
And that was a fun time.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
Hot damn, what was the best years of your life? Lisa?
Speaker 1 (50:00):
That's right, it was.
Speaker 5 (50:01):
It was college one hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (50:03):
It was.
Speaker 3 (50:05):
Yes, I high school was so bad for me that
like college was Suddenly I was like, oh I can
have friends, like I can be cool. And it was
very exciting to learn that, yes, high school is bad
for me. So I just like when I discovered that
I was like a human that could have fun. That
(50:25):
was really exciting. Oh so yeah, yeah it's a happy ending,
I get not ending, but.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
That's a good lesson.
Speaker 2 (50:32):
Yeah yeah yeah. How old are you? How old are
you in your head?
Speaker 5 (50:38):
That is a really good question. I think I'm twenty six.
Speaker 2 (50:44):
Twenty six, all right, great Scotti? How old are you
in your head?
Speaker 1 (50:48):
Three four hundred years old? Probably I came over on
a wooden chip and yeah, like I like to put
a nice hard salve on my crack knuckles and just
put in a good day's word there. It is.
Speaker 5 (51:01):
I think.
Speaker 2 (51:04):
I think I'm thirty six, thirty five, thirty five or
thirty six. That's how that's in my head.
Speaker 1 (51:11):
Hey, also, kerk, congratulations on your Super Bowl commercial. Dude,
that's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (51:15):
Oh yeah, thanks Bud.
Speaker 1 (51:19):
My phone up not just you know, not DMS from
ban Animals going, Wait, did I just see Kurt? Was
that Kurt? Was that curty be? I mean a lot.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
I was watching the game at at a at a
classmate's home. They were nice enough. They have a beautiful
barbecue every Super Bowl and they invited us this year
and we're very very happy to be. Their kids are
all running around, there's all these people that I do
not know. And the owner of the house walked in
and it's the only time he did this for the
(51:48):
entire game. Came in and then went to turn the
volume up on the volume button and instead hit the
input button and it turned it off, and it turned
it to something else, and it was about maybe it
was like twenty five seconds, thirty seconds. That was when
my commercial air. So I had no idea. Oh, no,
(52:09):
entire time. The thing was on for all three hours
or three and a half hours of the game. The
one time it was turned off for thirty seconds, he
turns the TV back onto my phone just starts blowing up.
But it was like, right then.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
It was Infinity Right. Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Whole campaign, so there'll be a bunch more.
Speaker 5 (52:29):
Ah, that's exciting.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
I had friends and family on the East Coast, especially
been like Curdie B, like my sister, like oh guys
went to college with like New York friends, and they
all saw you. It's funny, like because that's your second one.
You were in one with Cardi B. Weren't you. Wasn't
that a super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (52:44):
That was?
Speaker 1 (52:45):
It was to Lisa. Can you imagine knowing somebody that's
been in two Super Bowl commercials?
Speaker 5 (52:51):
I can't. Until today, I didn't know anybody. It's true.
I didn't know anybody who'd been in walk.
Speaker 3 (52:58):
No, maybe I know what, but not definitely not to
not to And you can talk to you like I
talk to you so that I know.
Speaker 2 (53:06):
You could talk to me. And I look like a
little wet bird right.
Speaker 1 (53:08):
Now, a thirty six year old wet bird.
Speaker 2 (53:13):
Well, thank you so much Lisa for being on the show.
Did can you believe it went that fast?
Speaker 5 (53:19):
No? I'm ready to keep talking.
Speaker 2 (53:21):
I've got I know that is say full episode.
Speaker 1 (53:24):
I mean, do you want to do a send off?
Do you have anything to say to the because you
have your own fans, some of the ban animals have
become like Lisa Maggot stands, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (53:35):
It's very exciting. Keep it up. More people can join
the Lisa stan.
Speaker 3 (53:42):
I don't really have anything I'm advertising. I do want
to say, I've decided I'm going to call myself Plantain.
Speaker 5 (53:50):
Girl number one.
Speaker 3 (53:51):
Okay, great, it's a different It's similar enough, but like different.
Speaker 2 (53:55):
Yeah, it's a PG, he'd say, Lisa Maggot's rated PG. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (54:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (54:03):
Other than that, I have nothing just great. Animals are great.
Speaker 5 (54:09):
Love everyone.
Speaker 1 (54:11):
That's sweet. Well, thank you for all your hard work.
At least also helps us with Bananas Fest. The mailing
list emails everything, so thank you on air from Kurtie
B and I. We really appreciate everything you do. You
do a great job. Ye thank you, And do you
want to say bananas with us? That seems like a
good way to wrap her up tight yeak three two
one bananas good variety there. Bananas is an exactly right
(54:47):
media production.
Speaker 2 (54:48):
Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.
Speaker 1 (54:51):
The catchy bananas theme song was composed and performed by Khan.
Speaker 2 (54:54):
Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.
Speaker 1 (54:58):
And our benevolent overlords are the Great Karen Kilgarriff and
Georgia Hartstart
Speaker 2 (55:02):
And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot
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