February 25, 2025 • 56 mins
Karen Kilgariff is back on Bananas! She talks to Kurt and Scotty about a doctor who faces inquiry after giving his cat a cat scan at the hospital, a mom gives birth in a Krispy Kreme parking lot and names kid Glaze, what happened to Elvis’ teddy bear and cars that keep hitting the same house!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Guy.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
You ready, Oh pretty bee, I'm ready to just laugh
and laugh and laugh.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
I got only pet ones, okay, so I hope you
have some human ones your choice? Dogger cat, I'm going
cat cat. Doctor faces inquiry after giving his cat a
cat scan at Italian hospital.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Whoa cool well, eight lives to go and a brand
new bananas Peede cast.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
World? Would you misillion pieces? Would you believe? Guys, gals,
(00:58):
non binary pals? Wellcome to Bananas. I'm Kurb Brownolder, I'm
Banana Boy number two.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Thank you for listening to the silliest little podcast there
ever was. Kurt, do you have any stand up to announce?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well, I would like to say that we're going to
be in Phoenix on March twenty ninth, together Scotti and I.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Be Banana's Live.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And then I would like to say Asbury Park, New Jersey,
May sixth. All right, I'm there. Let's do it Chicago
May seventh at the Den Theater. Come on May eighth,
Commonwealth Sanctuary, and Cincinnati, Ohio. It's actually Dayton, Kentucky, but
we'll let it seems counting, So go go get the tickets,
get the see Kurt.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
You're going to laugh your buns off, and you know
Super Bowl is coming up the Sunday, so we thought
we needed our resident football picks in expert as a
guest on the show because nobody follows the NFL more.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Please welcome to the show, Karen Kilgareff.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Guys, thank you so much. And here's the thing. You
just got to move that ball down the field. At
the end of the day, we're what they're out there
to do, and what they're trying so hard to do
is just take that ball and yard by yard move
it down the field. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Absolutely well said and honestly smarter than the sport of
football is. It's grown men down and helping themselves back
up and then falling down again.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I think football is a great metaphor for life.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Can we talk about that for the next hour, the
whole time, or the whole time. I'm gonna keep bringing
it back.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Just yeah, it's true. Just by the time you figure
out how to win, your body starts to fall apart
and it's over and.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
The brain damage sets in and the glory days are
behind you.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
There it is.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
But I'll be watching, Kurt. Do you know who's in
the Super Bowl this.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Year, I'm gonna I'm rooting for the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
There we go, Jersey Boy, through and through.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yep, there it is.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
What about Gills and Chiefs? I say, as an expert,
I mean, look at that. That's me showing my expertise.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Is that Kansas City?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Kansas City?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Where you sitty fountains? Yeah, city of fountains.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
The city of fountains, Fountains of Wayne from New Jersey.
They already go see circle full circle, Karen?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
How are you down?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
You're the field?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
What's new? What's good? Are you going to be watching
at home? Are you going to go watch with your dad?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Be honest, I wish I could go watch with my
dad because that I've ingested over the holiday breaks so
much football watching with my dad where he has it
directly in his hearing aids straight into his head, so
it's silent in the room.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Wow, literally just watching it.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
And then I was on TikTok, but I accidentally kicked
myself off and can't get back on now. So yeah,
we had the perfect kind of like football ingesting system
set up. So that's how I started memorizing lines like
we just got to move, They've just got to move
the ball down the field. They said this state, those
generalized statements that those announcers say with full like passion
(03:58):
and conviction, and their voice is truly the most entertaining
thing to me.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, there's a great, great joy. And how bad Tom
Brady is at announcing he signed a mega contract, he
announces games, and he's terrible at it. And the relief
I feel knowing that he is awful at something just
makes me so happy.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Also, it's so gutsy.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
That's like acting like that's easy, when in fact, to
bullshit that way for what two and a half hours
is at least you have to have kind of a
mega mind, Like you can't just.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Be jump to the experts who bullshit for two and
a half hours. Okay, we know how hard it is
to bullshit for two and a half hours.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Not sweating blood over here, we are suffering.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
For podcasts, I am so grateful that not only my
favorite Murder, but Bananas has a format that it's about
something that you do a couple stories that we do
usually four strange news stories. Because when I listen to
a podcast that is just chat boy sometimes can really
just fade Yeah, or.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Like my control issues kick in and I start kind
of like quietly producing them, where I'm just like, just
ask the question and stop talking, like all those weird
podcasting habits people have where they're like, I'm gonna ask
you a question, but now I'm going to give you
seventeen examples of what answer you could give me and
just keep.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
On eating up all the oxygen in the room.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Ooh.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
It is brutal. It is like instruction. It's almost like
if you started a conversation, you'd be like, how you doing?
For example. There's a lot of different ways you can
answer that. You could say you're doing good, or you
can really go personal and tell me something deep and
interesting about yourself. But it's your choice, So go ahead,
how you doing?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Because I did see an interview with you were you
once answered that you weren't doing so well? And I
think that's interesting if we go back to that party.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Speaking of our format, should we just get into this
cat story?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Then yeah, hit you with that headline again, Kurtie b.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Here it is doctor faces inquiry after giving his cat
a cat scan at Italian hospital. Okay, this was in
the Guardians, so you know that it's actually an actual actual,
that's real. This was sent in by the delightful and
wonderful me. I sent it in. I found it. Love
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that Anthony.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
This is rock and a big bro. This was written
by Angela Giofrida in Rome in Roma.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Roman listener, Yeah, Roman journalist, got it, got it sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
An Italian doctor has been placed under investigation after giving
his catacat scan an hospital in Aosta before performing a
life saving operation on the feline uh Gia. Luca Finelli
took the animal called Athena to Umberto Parini Hospital in
the northern Italian ree where he is a manager, where
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he is a manager of the radiology unit, after she
fell from a roof. Quote she was between life and death.
She was a between a life and death. Finelli said,
I knew I could only save or with a quick intervention,
and Athena underwent a briefcat scan before Finelli performed PNUMO
thoracic surgery on her in the units and geography suite.
(07:28):
She survived the ordeal. But the local health authority, you know,
it's always the local health authority, stick in their nose
where it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Belong, busting up the party.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Undertook an internal inquiry into the incident and referred the
case to prosecutors in Aosta, who said Finale could face
charges of wasting public money and depriving patients of essential services.
In his defense, Finelle said he used the hospital equipment
after hours, when all the X ray scheduled for the
day had been completed. Noah, he patients were booked in
for urgent tests. Athena, who plunged six floors from the
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roof of the building where the family lived, was one
of the five stray cats. All Finelli said he had
rescued from the street and saved from extreme conditions. Quote
I'm sorry if all of this led to a violation
of the rules, Oh yeah, adding that he was ready
to reimburse the hospital if his actions proved costly.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I like this guy. And then the last quote, being
a doctor means carrying out a mission the driving forces
precisely the life that flows in the eyes of those
who trust themselves to your care. He is a poet,
and this life flows in every living being. If my
cat had died, I would never have been able to
forgive myself, especially because my children adore her.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I failed to see if there were if it was
after hours, and the guy can do the surgery.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And the cat lived. What's it all out? Yeah, this
is a great story. You should be like, not only
are cat scans great, it's save this cat too.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
And what's the argument?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Do you think is that, like that it's unsanitary that
a cat would go into a human cat scan or like,
what's the problem with any of it?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I don't know. I have no idea that it's inappropriate.
I don't know. I mean, don't Italians do inappropriate things
all the time?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, don't we? Who doesn't humanity as a whole?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Like he's tried to cover for me. He doesn't want
eddy Italians to be so scared of adultans.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I had an Italian waiter, no brag.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I went to Italy and got to go on a
trip there and I had an Italian waiter. I tried
to order prosecco and it was like six pm and
he was like no, no, no, no, like.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Straight up told me no.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Those people have rules and regulations and they follow them.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
It is wild.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Like what would he give you instead?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I think you were just supposed to drink wine because
it was like dinner and it was not the afternoon.
It was some shit like that where I was so
taken aback and of course horrified that I was just like,
I was just trying to have a sip of champagne
before I eat spaghetti.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Forget it.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Oh was that in Italy or was that in America?
It was in Italy. No, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I had an Italian person do that, an Italian waiter
do that in Brooklyn where my wife and I were
like two void casdas please, and he's like, no, no,
no, no no, with your meal, you drink a wine. I
get you wine. And I was like, we don't want wine,
and then we ended up drinking wine because he was
very insistent.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Didn't want to get drunk, sir, we don't want to
get a little loopy. We're trying to get hammered and
eat as much pasta as we could fit into our bodies.
But this is a huge This company or this hospital
is doing it so wrong. It's a cat scan. They
put a cat in there. A cat scan machine looks
relatively like a doughnut that a board slides in and
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out of. Decorate it to look like a cat's behind,
put a big furry tail out, and then make your
whole business that you can end and go out of
actual cats, but and they will have lines out the door.
This is just a bad branding in marketing.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Although I think I could definitely be wrong. Italy doesn't have.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Privatized hospitals there. It's public, so maybe that's the issue.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
You get it.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
They're like it's all governmental, kind of like we say
what cat goes where in that kind of Whereas the
capitalistic point of view, those cat scans absolutely should and
would exist and would be the most popular in America
if we would just make them here.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I have an ignorant question international ban animals. I have
an ignorant question. When you have free healthcare, as you
do and we wish we did, does that are veterinarians
also free? Or do you have to pay for your animals?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Good question, great question. I love that question.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Have you ever thought I had never thought about that
until Karen was just saying that. So do you are
your dogs and cats and horses taken care of or
do you have to pay out a pocket for that
and make appointments and all that. That's I have no
idea what the answer is, to be honest.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Me either, And I also don't know if Italian medicine
is not privatized, I truly don't know what I'm talking
about almost ever, so I was just kind of throwing
that out there.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Oh, I'm a guess it's it's not I'm guess it's
the government as.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Well, right, but it's almost everybody that has that.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Also, they should make this man the mayor. He should
be the mayor.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Or the just the mayor.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Rescue, make the cat the mayor.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
That cat survived, survive the sixth story fall. The cat
should be to have a parade every year.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I love this. I think that we have two great ideas.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Italy provides free healthcare to its citizens and legal residents
through the National Health Service, the Cervicio Senate, Senatorio Nazional
or SSN. Good for you, Italy, nice work.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Hey, hey, Scott, he is a member of a Do
you know this? Scott is a member of an Italian
social club.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I didn't know, Scotty, you were a member there. It is, oh,
in Philly.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Uh No, it's in Los Angeles, California. I just got
in about a month ago to the Garibaldina Society, and
I might join the BACI League, which is nine weeks
on Monday nights, me and a bunch of older Italian
guys playings a bacci.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
To get absolutely built for you, like that is, you know.
So I got to go to the Garibaldi dinner that
was before Thanksgiving, I think, like their last one of
the year, and it was the most Of course it
was Albertina who was like, you have to go to
the thing with me. And then I walked in and
of course I was coming from work and I was
like forty five minutes later whatever, and it was like
(13:38):
walking into a big Italian wedding with no wedding. Actually,
so it's a live band, people dancing round tables with
numbers on them, everybody chittier, chattering away.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
But it's just people in La. I've never seen anything
like it in La.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Same thing. I went to one of those. My good
friend Mike Levanos and his wife Katie. Your members and
they were like, you have to come to this pasta
platter exactly what you're describing. Members can bring friends and
then it's like four courses of a homeade Italian. The
two men that make it are like the sweetest old
guys and they make every meal there.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
They do well. Everybody serves it's.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
A volunteer or remember and sets up. So like when
I signed up for volunteering, I'm like, I will set
up tables and chairs, i will park cars. I was
a valet forever. I'll Bartend if you need a bartech
because they have the coolest wood paneled bar you've ever seen.
It's straight out of the Midwest. And uh, yeah, I
got in. A few people recommended me. It took about
nine months to get in, but yeah, you guys are
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always welcome to join at any time. It's so fun.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Oh, it's so good.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
It feels like you're somewhere else. It feels like you're
in Milwaukee. It feels like you're in Arkansas. It's just
it's so great that it's in Los Angeles. It's just
an old school. Yeah, it's like an Italian wedding without
a service.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Do people there do the Jersey thing of dropping the
last part of the word perju Kalama, No, they.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Are, They don't do that anywhere but Long Island in
New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Really, that's so crazy?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Got it o all that shit? Yeah? The MutS that
is East coast coated.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I will say that the night I went the thing
that really healed me from my kind of like brittle,
acidic Los Angeles interior was at the end, so I
like scarfed down this ZD you know, wonderful salad that's
totally someone made with their hands, and just like so good.
And then those plates get cleared and like fifteen minutes later,
(15:34):
everyone's talking whatever, and this Italian grandma who has not
a smile on her face holding out this huge industrial
sized cookie tray with Haganda's ice cream bars all over
it and just holds it out and everyone just takes one,
and I like looked up and I'm like thank you,
and she just kind of like stares at you and
walks away. And I was like, this is like I
could not feel more at home here.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
I love it so much, Like take.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Your eyesse, join you got too. It's very fun. It's
they opened it up to non Italians, so that's how
I got in, because they were like, what are we doing?
We got to make some money here, folks. There was
a table I went to like one of their budget meetings,
like they just do a meeting where everybody can come,
and there was a group of older Italian women like
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I'm talking older, like eighty plus who sit there with
pencils and write down all the figures and do little
math and they're like, what was the last number? And
they're like sixty three twenty seven and they're like thank you,
and they added up and they just run them there.
Maybe they were bookkeepers, maybe they just ran their household bookkeeping.
But it's so adorable, these four little what is it
known as, just just writing away doing math with pencils.
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I'm like, oh, yeah, I needed.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
It, and everyone is so welcoming because I had this thing.
Of course, my coming from like you know, my parents.
My dad was first generation Irish, so very clanny you
know Irish people. Yeah, there, and so I was like,
kind of I shouldn't be going to this. I'm good,
I need you know, Albertina needs to meet me at
the door to get me in, like that whole kind
(17:05):
of outsider thing. And the second my foot hit the doorway,
it was like, Hi, do you know your table numbered?
Like people that are so nice, young people old, I mean,
we could go on it all. It was just like
the coolest experience. First, it's like people need community like that. Yeah,
and it's really great that it's out there.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Me I couldn't agree more, and also to go in
with a woman named Albertina Rizzo. Yeah, the most Italian name.
If I put that in a script, i'd probably get
a letter from.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
The A C.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
L U.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
They're like, you can't, you cannot.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I always thought Albertina's mom was Italian, but as her dad,
who is Italian, her mom is something else. I think
she's European of some descent.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
But she always would call she's Latina.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Is she really?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Oh she would always call SpongeBob. Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, we'll think of it. I remember she got.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I had it in my mind and then I got
lost in the beginning part of it.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah, take a.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Moment, take a moment. I feel it's worth It's gonna
be worth it.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
It will be worth it. It's so worth it. It's
very Did you ever, Karen, have you ever eaten at
Bamantes in Brooklyn? It's like a very famous old school
Italian place.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
They had a thing. I don't know if they have
any more. Kurt, I'm sure you've been to Bamants. It's
over near Williamsburg green Point. But it's very old school.
But they had a thing that I've never seen anywhere
else where. They had a light switch and you could
turn it on and would put a light on over
your table to alert the server's server that you needed service.
And I'm like, how easy is this? Like why why
(18:48):
doesn't every table just have a nice little light switch?
And you go, we need bread clicked it?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Like why didn't that go national?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
In London there was a I went to a restaurant
where it's in Soho where you hit a button from
or Champagne and then a light comes on and then
Champagne's just brought to the table. Now that's classy. And
here it is punchbob pants pants.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Punchbob pants pants.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
You just had to let a gurgle up to the top.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Let's see. I have one for you too, here's a
human one. Alyssa Evan sent this in Many did, but
Alyssa Evans sent it and I saw it first. You
could send really any strange news or weird news stories
to us anytime at The Bananas Podcast at gmail dot
com or the Bananas Podcast on Instagram. Uh mom gives
birth in Krispy Kreme parking lot names it glaze. So
(19:45):
there was a this was on Today dot Com, written
by Rachel Paula Abrahamson. Honestly, I think you could just
go Rachel Abrahamson at that point.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Definitely, she knows of Rachel Abrahamson. That's why she's like,
I can't be Rachel Abram's and I hate Reachel Abram.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
You're not mistake me for her.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I want that Paula. You don't hear the name Paula
very No, you don't. There was a time where pound
start of older people named Paula.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Paula is very like kind of like the Bob I
have where it's very blown out, circular Bob. But that's
paul You can go see Paula in human Resources. That's
to me, that's what Paula feels like.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Here's my question, how much does wait, wait, don't tell
me pay Paula Poundstone because does is it enough for
her to live on? Because it is the main place
I'm hearing Paula Poundstone. She's really good at it, She's
excellent at it.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
She's so funny.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Didn't what's that dude's name, care Vin Diesel? Didn't he
name one of his daughters after paul Walker and he
named her Paulina or Pauline. I think that's right. But
it's like, Paula is right there. You could have been
Paula Diesel. Also, Paula Diesel's a name.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah, Paula the Diesel is the high school principal.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
You do not want to mess with.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Ooh.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Also, Hezel wants to see you, Paula.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Go to missus Diesel's office.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
And why hasn't energized or hired Vin Diesel to be
Vin d cell and like just be having he's got
a D cell battery in his back. Why has that
not happened yet?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Why are all the good ideas dead? It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
And when has anybody seen a D cell battery? It's
nineteen five.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
They are only in cop flashlights. I have a cop
flashlight and that's the only place I've ever used a
D cell battery.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
It's my dad's seventies flashlight that's out in the garage.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, just yeah, just for science fairs and dad flashlights
and no other use than the D cell battery. Mom
gives birth and Krispy Kreme parking lot during historic Alabama
blizzard and they're calling it glaze or after a blizzard
at an empty CRI speak green parking lot might not
seem like an ideal spot to give birth. That's true,
(22:05):
actually true, But for Shanaya Bennett, which was a cool name,
it ended up being the perfect place. When Bennett went
into labor during her second day of a historic winter
snowstorm in Alabama, she was determined to make it to
the hospital. I wanted that epidural, Bennett.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Says, yeah, I get it, you're here.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I had an epidural once when I had a kidney stone,
and it was confusing to not be able to move
the lower half of my body. It was pretty interesting.
It lasted a long time because they did it during
they I had the kidneyston removed and then I woke up,
So at least was five hours because I woke back
(22:46):
up and I could I was looking at my feet
and trying so hard to move my toes and couldn't.
It was an interesting experience.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Oh, so they actually they operated on you to get
it out.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
You didn't, ye? They go up the old Yeah, they
go up the old fun ride and then they zap
it with a laser and then a laser.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
How big was it? Scotty compare it to a thing
in our world.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, it wasn't that big. It was, oh god, no
it was. It was about the size of an apostrophe
in a novel.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
An apostrophe in a novel. Okay, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
So it was two millimeters by four millimeters, but then
it had a nine millimeter side, and that's why they
were like, we should blast this thing. I said, sure,
I have to go to a wedding tomorrow, and I did.
I got I got that epidural out, I got my
dance and shoes back on, and I dance floor.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
And then and the bride and groom did not know
you later tell them.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, I didn't tell them till after they were married
because I didn't want anybody to pay attention to me.
So I went to the cocktail hour and I see
photos from that wedding. My eyes are so glazed from morphine,
from like heavy painkillers, and like, I had so many
conversations with parents where I'm like, boy, I don't remember
that person.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Exist You're like Wesley and the Princess Bride, where you're
totally frozen and trying to pretend like nothing's happening. You
might get up at any moment it.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Was, and I was actually a little afraid, like when
the band started to play to dance, because like, yeah,
like five or six hours earlier, my legs wouldn't work.
And then so I was like, I don't want to
like step to the right and then just keep on
going and they'd be like, oh, he's a sad, alcoholic man.
I wanted that epidural, Bennett said. She's twenty three years
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of age, with her partsner Kean Mitchell behind the wheel
and their four year old son Legend in the back seat.
So they have great name. This whole family is just
a name machine gun.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
They're already doing it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Bennett did everything she could not to panic, but her
contractions were coming fast and furious. The roads were so
icy that the drive was taking a lot longer than
normally would and it felt like every light was turning red.
As soon as we got to the stop line, Bennett recalls.
Then suddenly Bennett felt the baby's head between her legs.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I mean, Jesus, wow, does I say how many other
children she had one?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I think, uh, maybe there's no one at the book.
I think Shony has one. Legend. She felt the baby's
head between her legs. At that point, Bennett instructed Mitchell
to pull over at a parking lot. It was a
nearby Krispy Kreme. There would be no epidural, no delivery
room for that matter. Bennett says, I was like, I
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can't believe this is happening.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Wow, that's right, that's amazing that I mean, like, is
I wonder if it's the first if it's her first child, No.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
It's her second child. Had a four year old. She
has a four year old son. And minutes later there
were four people in the car writing Rachel Paul abers
she she ran the numbers. Yeah, yeah, and that's why
she's the best in the business. Bennett and Mitchell named
their second child Dallas Emir, but the entire family has
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been calling him Glaze.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Blaze Bennett great name, it's great and also a good
story for the for the name. Why are you named Glaze?
Born in a donut factory?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Bennett? So the Krispy Kreme name inspired nickname suits him well.
He's so sweet, he rarely cries. He's just a chill,
happy little guy. At the hospital, Glaze measured five pounds
fourteen ounces, so that's six pounds. We can round up
there and was given an absolute clean bill of health, and,
according to Krispy Kreme, Glaze is the first baby they
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know of to have the donut chain listed as their
place of birth on a birth certificate.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Wow, pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Are they going to get something?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
They better get something.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Krispy Kreme athlete Krispy Kream heard about Bennett's extraordinary birth.
It awarded the family a supply of free donuts for
one year.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Boo Krispy Cream. Boo Blaze gets it for life life, Yeah, Blaze,
you idiots.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Here's the one thing they did do. Okay. The company
also pledged to host Glaze's birthday party every January twenty second,
So he's gonna have a free birthday party at as
of his life for the rest of his life.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
By age ten, he will not be interested. But actually,
I'm sorry. By age six, he will no longer be
interested in having his birthday party at Crispy.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Here you're like, I can't look at another donut, Please
stop rewarding.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Me with this.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, the inside of Krispy Kremes are not very inviting
for children. They smell great, it's fun to see the
donut go by, but there's nothing to do there it's
just sticky chairs and sticky tables.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
So they're not really they're not really kids donuts. And
in my opinion, I know there's like a pink one probably,
but to me it's like, here's donuts for adults that
like love dessert and want something like an innovation, or
for us because we got Krispy Kreme so late, it
was like a kind of.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Don't where is Christy Cream from? I feel like everywhere
got it late.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I don't know, but it feels like it feels like
a Florida business to me. But let's find out.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Because I remember when they came to the East Coast,
I was like, well, well, well, well, well look at
this kind.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
They were founded in Winstam Salem, North Carolina South. He
was a New Orleans based chef named Vernon Rudolph. It's
an educational podcast.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
People learn a lot, there's takeaway, there's information, there.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Is and there are still fourteen hundred locations, which is
honestly mind boggling. It's hard to imagine in my lifetime.
Maybe Dippin' Dots. Is there a business that came out
of nowhere, showed up, was everywhere, and then contracted and
went away. Krispy Kreme's up there.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
So guess what what Dippin' dots lives on? What Dippin'
dots lives on? You can't get it anywhere except in
gas stations. Oh now, and my kids fucking love dippin' dots.
You can get it at gas stations and like amusement parks,
and that is the only place Dippin' dot exists now.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Weirdly, and I think I've only seen other people eat dippin' dots,
like at a you know, amusement park when I was
a kid. Is that like a thing where your kids
are in the backseat with a spoon and a little cup,
and there's the little dots are just in a cup.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
No, so they got rid of the cup and now
it's like a gross bag and so they're just with
a spoon and a gross bag, and no one eats
the dippin' dots. So the dippin' dots have like congealed
a little bit in the bag. Oh and you look
at the ingredients and there is not a single actual food.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Item that is made up of dippin' dots.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
It is just chemicals from the start to the end,
and they're like, yeah, they love it, Eddie Moore. Chemically
a thing tastes the more children are like, this is
my favorite thing and if I can't have this, I'm
gonna lose my mind.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Wow, it's so weird because it's made it's made for that.
I'll tease us into a thumbs up.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Well, I love that, you know what.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
I'm just gonna say this. I'm gonna say this about
speak Kurt.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
It's a free country sort of.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Whatever tread on you, don't trud on yourself.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Don't tread on myself. Whatever happened to Elvis is Teddy Bear,
and that's it's just teasing you. It's just teasing you.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Because they had that song Teddy Bear, right, that was
I saw great karaoke once. If a guy singing that song,
he was.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
You're gonna love this story.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
I'm obsessed. Here's some thumbs up, Kendall. Clark says, thumbs up, bitches.
Oh yes, Kendall, that's a good way to start it.
Kendall is giving herself a huge thumbs up for going
to p A school. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Exactly what physicians assistant there.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
We go less than fifty percent of applicants are accepted nationwide.
Kendall got in. She's well on her way to achieving
her dream as being a healthcare provider. Right on combs
up to you. Kendall's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yes, I wonder how long it becomes it takes to
become a physician's assistant. Like, I guess eight years. Your
guess is eight years. I think it's less than eight years,
because I think, like eight years is maybe a doctor.
And I think, and that's the advantage of a PA
is that there's a little less there's less schooling, so
that there's more of them. And I find them to
(31:34):
be honestly, honestly, oftentimes more helpful than doctors because they
spend more time with you. I like a PO. I
don't mind them at all. Anyway, what I was saying
is I want to become a PA later in life.
It would be funny to just like, at sixty, just
be like I became a kind of a doctor.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
But also are you saying that so you want to
become one, But you're like, no, no, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Going to do it for eight years. It's got to
be three.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yeah, yeah, no, if it's if I can go to
school for three years and then start treating illnesses. It's
so funny. I love doing that.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Did you hear Kurt became a doctor. Yeah, I guess.
I guess he wanted to be a doctor.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
She's funny. He's funny. He tells jokes the whole time.
Let's see, here's a fun one. Selena Tucker wants to
thomb her mom, Sharon up. Sharon is a bananimal and
the most caring and thoughtful human who also has a
full time job and a small business so she's able
to live near Selena and her new grand baby. All
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the while she's been battling lime disease. Oh Sharon thumbs
ups up.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Sharon, My wife had limes lime lime disease undiagnosed for
eight years. Long term. Lime is a real thing, and
it was it was devastating, and so she finally got
done with it. If you want to message me, I
can give you some resourceage. Just message me on my Instagram.
(33:02):
That's so nice of you.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Let's see. Here's let's do two more. Oh great name
here Danica Mulholland. And if it's not mul Holland, I
got cut off. I'm so sorry. So we'll say Danica m.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
U l h.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I'm guessing the name of moholland is thumbing up her
best friend Kelsey. Kelsey is a survivor. She went to
She survived a surgery complication after losing an incredible two
and ten pounds. Oh my god, whoa good for you, Kelsey.
There was eternal bleeding during the surgery. Less than one
percent chance that would happened. It happened. She spent four
(33:37):
days in the ICU, I believe, but she is now
living her best life as a snatched battie. Kelsey thumbs up,
you snatched battie.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
You Kelsey, way to go, thumbs up.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
The thumbs ups are getting more colorful. Yeah, the animals
are starting to get it, okay. And then I had
to do this one. While we have Karen Kilgareth with us.
Haroen is thumbing themselves up for finally changing their name.
Haron never liked their old name, and after a year
searching for a new one, they chose Heron because as birds,
Heron's managed to be beautiful and graceful while also looking
(34:13):
awkward and uncomfortable. So I just need to say Heron's
full name for you too. According to the Internet, Haron
Kalilang Lacroix. Haron Kalalang Lacroix is the full name, and
thumbs up to you for choosing your own destiny. You're
allowed to pick your own name.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Hell, absolutely hellumbs up.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Did Haron say what their original name was?
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
And I didn't hear did it?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
No? They didn't. I believe it was like Eli. Possibly.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
I was just wondering if it was if Aaron had
been a Karen and couldn't take the pressure that we've
been under for the last decade and tried to get
out of the Karen group, which I understand entirely.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, I'm not a Karen.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I'm a bird.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
I'm a gorgeous harr but also weird.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
That is a tricky one. Yeah, well, thumbs up. You
can send them in. I'll do them. I have a backlog,
but I'm catching up.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
I'm getting Are you doing so well with them?
Speaker 3 (35:11):
I like the thumbs up? That's a really good, good
vibe segment.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yes, all right, here it is, so I look. I
looked up a lot of the A lot of this
story originally was on an Instagram post from a page
called a History of Dogs, and I couldn't find a
better telling of this story than the fucking captioned on
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this Instagram post. So I'm just going to read that.
Here it is in two thousand and six. Oh, this
was sent in by Tammy Criner. Tammy Criner, thank you
so much for sending it. You can send in your
your strange news to dm us on our Instagram, The
Bananas Podcast, or email us at The Bananas Podcast at
gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
True.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
In two thousand and six, A Children's Museum and Western
England open an exhibit of rare teddy bears. The collection
valued it more than nine hundred thousand dollars. This is
in two thousand and six money, so that's like thirty
million dollars today. Yea included a red bear made by
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Farnell Ooh, a Farnell bear in nineteen ten, mail and
killing Me, That's crazy, and a Bobby Brewin Ooh made
by Mary Thought in nineteen Bobby Brewin in nineteen thirty six.
It also featured a nineteen oh nine German Steif bear
named Mabel that once belonged to Elvis Presley. The extremely
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valuable bears were insured and on loan. Mabel, the Elvis
Teddy was owned by English aristocrats, Sir Benjamin Slade, who
bought it for seventy five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Jesus, what is wrong?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
What is wrong with piping? Gosh?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Did you?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
I don't what a soup kitchen could do with seventy
five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
But also the thing I was, it's like, what interest
do you have that's so affecting to you that you
are going to shell out levels of I mean obviously
these just obviously swimming it, but like that idea of
like I can't focus my mind on one thing long
enough to even like love it, much less spend almost
(37:28):
a one hundred grand on it just to have one
version of like.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
That's so crazy all the way. Because when I see
a car in Los Angeles, which is the car eiest
car capital of the United States that I know for
a fact, is worth three hundred thousand dollars or more,
in my mind instantly because I was broke for so long,
thinks of how many months of rent I could pay, yeah,
or how many vacations I could take. I see a
car and I'm like, oh, I could go on thirty
(37:55):
ten thousand dollars vacation, like a lifetime of incredible third
ucations or just drive around and fart in a car.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
I mean, and the driving experience, yeah, you're still a
draffic The driving experience between a three hundred thousand dollars
car and a thirty thousand dollars car is so miniscule, correct,
it is so small. Ough.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
I know somebody, no brag the bought a it was
either a Maserati or a Lamborghini, one of those crazy ones.
And they I was in the car with them. They
drove it off the lot where we were working and
immediately bottomed out yes hard yeah, and returned the car
because it was like, oh, this is the only It's
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just going to be like this the entire time.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Where I'm like, right, these are race cars for the racetrack.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Non Los Angeles with the potholes and the lunacy, Like
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Also like those cars are so low to the ground
that if you hit another car, that car just drives
over you.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
You're under the escalade.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
You're just a ramp for an escalade to just launche
itself off of.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
It's also just it's like how drag queens just dressed
like extreme femininities, like they take what is feminine goes
to such an extreme that it becomes cartoonish, Like those
hot rod cars and loud cars and race cars are
the same thing. It's masculinely taken to this extreme. So
it's just like parading themselves around, like look at me
(39:27):
being the most man, and to me it reverses the
whole thing. I'm like, you're a nerd. I would push
you down the stairs if I could.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Here it is, are you ready? Okay?
Speaker 2 (39:38):
So?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Uh seventy five thousand dollars in Elvis memorial auction in
ex Tennessee. The Bears required twenty four hour uniform security
and highly trained guard dogs. One Tuesday night, security guard
Greg West and six year old Doberman Barney were on duty.
While a distracted West was busy stroking Elvis's Teddy Barney
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went ape shit. Oh no, he just went berserk, said
Daniel Medley, the general manager of the museum. West spent
several minutes chasing Barney before wrestling him to the ground.
By that point, Barney had destroyed one hundred Teddy Bears,
including Mabel. Oh quote, I still can't. I love this
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so much, It's deep in my heart. How much I
love this too? I still can't believe what happens, said
mister West. Either it was a quote rogue scent that
quote switched on Barney's deepest instinct, or it could have
been jealousy. I was stroking Mabel and saying what a
good girl.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
She was.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Ill ill, I mean real.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Yeah, Barney's massacre ripped bear heads and limbs from the
toy animals and left stuffing all over the museum floor.
Poor Mabel was decapitated. Quote. I've spoken to the bear's
owner and he is not very pleased at all, he said.
When asked about the fate of Barney, mister Medley said,
quote dogs are now banned from the Teddybear collapse.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
Yeah, I have to say I did.
Speaker 4 (41:16):
I did not see it coming.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
When you first started talking about this, I was like,
of course, I forgot what the headline was, so I
was kind of like, oh, what is this.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
I thought it was someone.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Stole the bear, So I'm like, oh, what a robber's
going to break into the situation, And it's like, no,
of course, You've got a dog sitting there and stuffed animals.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
That's all my dogs want to do.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Of course, And also that is why I chose the
Instagram post from a history of Dogs, because every other
one starts with dog destroys Teddy Bear, and it's like,
if you don't want to, let's get into the story first.
Now dom teddy bears are and then we'll get into
the dog. Yes, seventy five thousand.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
Dollars, it's I'm sure it's a great passion for many people.
But like a Teddy Bear. I tried as a kid,
did you guys have a bear or a blanket or
something that was your companion? Karen? What was yours?
Speaker 4 (42:09):
I did.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
I had a little off brand Winnie the Pooh that was,
and I had it for a long time.
Speaker 4 (42:16):
I had it into adulthood. But it I used to carry.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
It around in such a way that the nose got moved,
like shoved up because I had it right in like
on my side.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
Kind of.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
It was very comforting, just that this comforting perfect and
it smelled perfect. It was the smell mostly that I
love so much, and somewhere in my insane twenties it
got lost, along with a bunch of other very meaningful
things that I had with me but should not have
and should have left at my parents' house. That one's
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a killer for sure.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Oh yeah. I breasted until I was three, so I
didn't have any stompies. I just had breasts boobs. You
had the real deal, yeah, the original, the original stuffed animal.
I just could never get one of stick. I chied
with a snoopy for a while. I just did stick.
I just went to sleep too fast. I didn't need
any comfort. I was just like my parents would throw
(43:10):
like parties in the eighties, and they'd have friends over,
and then they would be.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Like where where Scott where Scott? And I would already
I would just walk into the bedroom and put myself
to sleep and turn off the light. At like eight pm.
I'd be like, I'm done.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
You people, you people, Yes, it's a classic care killed garafly.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Oh you men, you, oh, you men.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
You meant a little scotty saying that to a party
full of eighties parents drinking a gin.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
And tonics holding a little bread with a little futon
on a long futon for you men. I just always
like to sleep.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
I thought you were going to ask, does either of
us aren't collect anything?
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Do you collect anything? Kurpiside surfboards?
Speaker 1 (43:55):
No, just surfboards. But you know I only have ten
I think ten, So I don't. I feel like that's
a big collection.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
Are you comp comparing yourself to Blanke Patch and his
guitars and you're.
Speaker 4 (44:05):
Like that that's nothing.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
Ten's nothing. They do take up a lot of space.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Or Joe DeRosa and his everything. Like I went over
and recorded a podcast and he had every video game
console that they've ever made, and it took me so
long to process. I kept looking at it like it
was almost like stay like staging for an apartment, like, hey,
look at all this came with the place. And I'm like, no,
I don't have anything.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Man, do you collect anything, Karen?
Speaker 3 (44:31):
I don't. Although it's funny because when you said stife,
like that brand of stife Teddy Bear over the holidays
that my hometown has turned into a little bit of
like a it's like slightly fancy. So there's way more
antique stores and then there ever were when I lived there.
And so I was in an anting store, just like
killing time before a hair appointment or something, and they
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had it was a Christmas display right in the front,
and they had this little lion and it is like
about that big and I immediately saw it and went
to it and picked it up and it was like
perfectly hand sized, so it's like it and it was
the cutest just I can't really explain it. I could.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
I probably have a picture I can show you, but it.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Was stife and I immediately I like had to buy
it immediately. It was like fifty bucks or something, and
then I'm like, I bet you this will probably be overpriced,
but I just love it and it's such a cool
antique looking thing. It's also just kind of sweet because
it's so small. And then I started looking it up,
but I'm like, oh, this is what's so interesting about
collecting is because it was like, oh, this stife has
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a stitch nose instead of a plastic nose, so it's
from before nineteen fifty and it has this instead of that.
So you start identifying what you have and then learning
the value of it based on so it's all one.
It's not articulated arms, so it's worth less than the
ones that have artici.
Speaker 4 (45:57):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
You get into like identify it and then you're like,
well then I am interested in it. As like, I
don't have any interest in stuffed animals, but suddenly I
was in.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Yeah, just from looking it up once. Yeah, and you're like, well,
now I gotta get If my fucking line doesn't have
articulated arms, I'm gonna lose my.
Speaker 4 (46:14):
Mind, but I'm gonna order away.
Speaker 3 (46:17):
I'm gonna send away to Germany and get the original.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
I do wish I had a list of Like every
once in a while, I'll say somebody that does rare
books like that, Oh, this book that's an original one
that they founded a yard sales worth eighty thousand dollars,
like I do wish every I always want to get
into that as like a hobby and go find rare
books at a stake sales and stuff like that and
sell them. Like I think that would be a fun
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side hobby to be like, oh, I found this really
important book. And I was watching Antikes Roadshow recently and
somebody had an extremely rare almanac from like the eighteen fifties,
and they're like, there's one in Harvard and there's this one.
They're the only two that exist. And I was like,
I would enjoy that. I would enjoy the of being like,
let me just pop in here when I'm somewhere and
(47:03):
just kind of look at the used books and see
if I can find any diamonds in the rough. But
every time I think it, I just never thought that
is something I just do not follow through on.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
Oh you'll do that when you're retired. Yeah, when you
own a when you own a like a Tommy Bahama
themed bar somewhere took him.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
And also you have to memorize the list of all
the most wanted books and the rarest. Like there's there's
something too where you have to have the you have
to have like the encyclopedic knowledge so you know what
you're spotting that no one else knows. That.
Speaker 4 (47:35):
I love that. I love that part of.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
Either looking in like vintage stores or antique stores in
that way where it's like, prove to myself I have
the eye and then it's like this stif lion proves
that I have good tastes. It's like, no, it's just old.
I can tell it was old and kind of interesting.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
We used to do that that. We used to do
that in like the mid nineties with records, Like I
remember going to like Bleaker Bob's in New York City
and going in there and being like, oh, they have
the they have the original X ray spex vinyl that's
colored and like that's because it's been a re issue
since nineteen eighty nine. And then they have the one
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from nineteen seventy nine, you know, and it's just like whoa.
And then all of a sudden somebody was like napster
and it was like burn it all down.
Speaker 2 (48:23):
Yeah, they're in college. One of my roommates had the
single of Toto's Africa on vinyl and the vinyl was
shaped like the continent in Africa. Who it is, plastic
shape like Africa, and you had to put it in
the middle because it was on the outside it was
just junk to junk to junk. But and I was
like this that today was also with the weird resurgence
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of that song.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
Yes, that must be worth worth a lot, at least
eight hundred dollars, I.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
Know, worth holding on to for twenty five years. I'll
send us home with this one. Kristin Yeowitz KBG sent
this in thank you, Kristin Yowitz kb Kelwitz. This was
written by Nadine Abusada for News five Cleveland Real website.
I'm checking it four or five times a dead. Nadine
(49:11):
Abusada is the best in the business. Cars keep hitting
his house and he's extremely over it. So I actually
looked this up thinking it was about this other house
i'd heard about. So there's this other house that's been
hit eleven times cars and one of the videos, the
car's so airborne that you're like, how it must have
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gone off your friend's Lamborghini Karen because this car is
eight feet in the air and hits the upstairs. This
is a different guy Cleveland Heights, Ohio. One Cleveland Heights
homeowner is fed up with dealing with crash after crash
into his home. Now he's taking matters into his own
hands because he feels the city is not doing enough
to prevent them. On South Taylor Road, heading towards the
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intersection of Fairmount Boulevard, you'll see flashing signs, speed bumps,
even boulders meant to slow down cars, even butters. I mean,
he's trying to like fortify his front yard and these
cars just go ripping right over it. It's incredible. But
for John Gall, it is still not enough to keep
his home safe from erratic driver. So Gall is trying
his own methods. I'm painting another sign, he said. This
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sign's going to be somewhere with a sign that says
the cowards won't talk because they're chicken bleep mother froggers. Okay,
I'm gonna read that again because it's so insane. He says.
The sign's going going to go somewhere with the one
that says the cowards won't talk because their chicken bleep
mother froggers said Gall, that's that's not nadin abusada. I know, Okay,
(50:44):
I do not understand it either.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
I feel like his deterrens are not working because they're crazy.
Speaker 3 (50:52):
I feel like he may have gone crazy from having
so many cars.
Speaker 1 (50:55):
Yes, I don't understand. I've installed eight slide whistles along
the road coming up and they keeps happening.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
I know. So also, just get supply wood and build
a ramp up towards your house and just have cars
come right at and ramp right intoor of it.
Speaker 3 (51:12):
So just say chicken shit and motherfuckers, please just do it.
Speaker 4 (51:16):
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (51:16):
Okay, your house is getting hit by speeding cars, you're
allowed to cuss.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
You cuss it up, John Gall, cuss up all bought froggers,
the mother froggers mother, I've never actually heard that. For
some reason, mother froggers, you mother frog and Jery mother frogging.
Speaker 2 (51:36):
There was a Yeah, there was a snake's on a plane.
One that was like, get these mickey ficky snakes off
this Monday to Friday plane. I think that was it.
That's good. Gall bought his home in nineteen ninety six,
where his lawn now sits filled with wooden painted signs
at the intersection. The signs read things like where's my guardrail?
Speed bump seriously, and cowards won't talk. That is because
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in the past ten years, Gars have said four cars
have crashed into his home. The first crash actually took
out my pickup truck that was parked in the driveway.
That was in twenty twelve. I believe the second crash
occurred in twenty twenty one, when News five covered a
police chase that ended with a car crashing into Gall's kitchen.
Then in twenty twenty two, another car crash took out
his crash and then the latest crash in twenty twenty
three landed on the yond lawn and narrowly missed his house.
(52:25):
I cannot get homeowner's insurance. I currently have insurance, but
they jacked the rates. I'm one claim away from being dropped.
I pursued other insurance companies. Nobody will touch me, he said, Oh, Gall,
I know. Gall said also, dude, I know everything's expensive,
but it's time to move. This is a sign from
job to get out of there.
Speaker 3 (52:47):
It is like, where where does this man live that
this keep I just was like picturing as it was, like, oh,
that's right.
Speaker 4 (52:54):
It's different parts of the house.
Speaker 3 (52:55):
So it's like one time he's asleep in the front
room and it goes into the kitchen. Then next time
he's you know, over here in the bathroom and it's
his garage. Like he must feel like he's being That
must be insane.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
Yeah, it's so crazy that every time you hear a
car you're afraid.
Speaker 3 (53:12):
So then you're like again, like having to complain that
your house has been hit more than once is insane.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
Two times would be enough for me, Like, and we're
out here, use so much.
Speaker 1 (53:24):
And when the cowards won't talk makes it ten times worse.
Speaker 4 (53:29):
So bad, Just talk, you cowards.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
Speed bump. Seriously, all he wants is peace of mind
that a car won't come flying through his walls, and
he believes a guard rail or a cement barrier would
do that. He says, I'm kind of living on the edge.
You know, as far as I'm concerned, this house is
a giant target on its side, and the city has
done nothing to alleviate that until then. He plans on
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keep painting his signs until he gets the wall. He
said he's hired a lawyer smart moved probably on that
in twenty twelve, and plans to keep adding signs until
he sees change or response from the city. News five
in Cleveland has yet to hear back from the Cleveland
Heights City Hall for comment.
Speaker 1 (54:14):
A delight, and you know what also has been a delight.
Tell me having you Karen here as a guest.
Speaker 4 (54:21):
Oh my god, I got I on this show.
Speaker 3 (54:23):
Get very passive because I love listening to these stories
and I just think about them and try to kind
of problem solve within them. Or I'm just like, huh,
it's like that story alone where I'm just like, should
we all be calling the compatroller of that city in Cleveland?
What do we do as a community to make it?
Speaker 4 (54:43):
Can't he build?
Speaker 3 (54:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (54:44):
Why can't keep up planters?
Speaker 4 (54:45):
WHOA?
Speaker 1 (54:46):
What about like planters are probably one hundred bucks each.
If he gets four planters, fills them with dirt, big planters,
big clay planters, fills them with dirt. That's gonna do it.
That's gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (54:57):
Help this man, help this.
Speaker 2 (54:59):
How much as a the child, all I did in
the summer was build ramps to ride bicycles off of it.
Just finds some on plywood and some cinder blocks and
just ramp your heart out. This guy, for five hundred
dollars could be launching them into the neighbors houses and
making it somebody else's problem. Yes, banana of the week,
This guy's banana of the week.
Speaker 1 (55:20):
Banana of the week.
Speaker 3 (55:21):
Thank you, Karen, guys, thank you so much, and congratulations
to the banana of the week.
Speaker 4 (55:26):
And that's a bright spot in his crashed up house
day right.
Speaker 2 (55:29):
Oh yeah, he deserved it. He really earned that one.
John Gall, this one's been for.
Speaker 4 (55:34):
You, John Gall, We're with you.
Speaker 1 (55:38):
But Banana's.
Speaker 2 (55:51):
Bananas is an exactly right media production.
Speaker 1 (55:54):
Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.
Speaker 2 (55:57):
The catchy Bananas theme song was composed and performed by Kahon.
Speaker 1 (56:00):
Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.
Speaker 2 (56:04):
And our benevolent overlords are the Great Karen Kilgarriff and
Georgia Hartstart
Speaker 1 (56:07):
And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot intern.
Guy.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
You ready, Oh pretty bee, I'm ready to just laugh
and laugh and laugh.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
I got only pet ones, okay, so I hope you
have some human ones your choice? Dogger cat, I'm going
cat cat. Doctor faces inquiry after giving his cat a
cat scan at Italian hospital.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Whoa cool well, eight lives to go and a brand
new bananas Peede cast.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
World? Would you misillion pieces? Would you believe? Guys, gals,
(00:58):
non binary pals? Wellcome to Bananas. I'm Kurb Brownolder, I'm
Banana Boy number two.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Thank you for listening to the silliest little podcast there
ever was. Kurt, do you have any stand up to announce?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well, I would like to say that we're going to
be in Phoenix on March twenty ninth, together Scotti and I.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Be Banana's Live.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And then I would like to say Asbury Park, New Jersey,
May sixth. All right, I'm there. Let's do it Chicago
May seventh at the Den Theater. Come on May eighth,
Commonwealth Sanctuary, and Cincinnati, Ohio. It's actually Dayton, Kentucky, but
we'll let it seems counting, So go go get the tickets,
get the see Kurt.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
You're going to laugh your buns off, and you know
Super Bowl is coming up the Sunday, so we thought
we needed our resident football picks in expert as a
guest on the show because nobody follows the NFL more.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Please welcome to the show, Karen Kilgareff.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Guys, thank you so much. And here's the thing. You
just got to move that ball down the field. At
the end of the day, we're what they're out there
to do, and what they're trying so hard to do
is just take that ball and yard by yard move
it down the field. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Absolutely well said and honestly smarter than the sport of
football is. It's grown men down and helping themselves back
up and then falling down again.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I think football is a great metaphor for life.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Can we talk about that for the next hour, the
whole time, or the whole time. I'm gonna keep bringing
it back.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Just yeah, it's true. Just by the time you figure
out how to win, your body starts to fall apart
and it's over and.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
The brain damage sets in and the glory days are
behind you.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
There it is.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
But I'll be watching, Kurt. Do you know who's in
the Super Bowl this.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Year, I'm gonna I'm rooting for the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
There we go, Jersey Boy, through and through.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yep, there it is.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
What about Gills and Chiefs? I say, as an expert,
I mean, look at that. That's me showing my expertise.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Is that Kansas City?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Kansas City?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Where you sitty fountains? Yeah, city of fountains.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
The city of fountains, Fountains of Wayne from New Jersey.
They already go see circle full circle, Karen?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
How are you down?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
You're the field?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
What's new? What's good? Are you going to be watching
at home? Are you going to go watch with your dad?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Be honest, I wish I could go watch with my
dad because that I've ingested over the holiday breaks so
much football watching with my dad where he has it
directly in his hearing aids straight into his head, so
it's silent in the room.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Wow, literally just watching it.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
And then I was on TikTok, but I accidentally kicked
myself off and can't get back on now. So yeah,
we had the perfect kind of like football ingesting system
set up. So that's how I started memorizing lines like
we just got to move, They've just got to move
the ball down the field. They said this state, those
generalized statements that those announcers say with full like passion
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and conviction, and their voice is truly the most entertaining
thing to me.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, there's a great, great joy. And how bad Tom
Brady is at announcing he signed a mega contract, he
announces games, and he's terrible at it. And the relief
I feel knowing that he is awful at something just
makes me so happy.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Also, it's so gutsy.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
That's like acting like that's easy, when in fact, to
bullshit that way for what two and a half hours
is at least you have to have kind of a
mega mind, Like you can't just.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Be jump to the experts who bullshit for two and
a half hours. Okay, we know how hard it is
to bullshit for two and a half hours.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Not sweating blood over here, we are suffering.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
For podcasts, I am so grateful that not only my
favorite Murder, but Bananas has a format that it's about
something that you do a couple stories that we do
usually four strange news stories. Because when I listen to
a podcast that is just chat boy sometimes can really
just fade Yeah, or.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Like my control issues kick in and I start kind
of like quietly producing them, where I'm just like, just
ask the question and stop talking, like all those weird
podcasting habits people have where they're like, I'm gonna ask
you a question, but now I'm going to give you
seventeen examples of what answer you could give me and
just keep.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
On eating up all the oxygen in the room.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Ooh.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
It is brutal. It is like instruction. It's almost like
if you started a conversation, you'd be like, how you doing?
For example. There's a lot of different ways you can
answer that. You could say you're doing good, or you
can really go personal and tell me something deep and
interesting about yourself. But it's your choice, So go ahead,
how you doing?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Because I did see an interview with you were you
once answered that you weren't doing so well? And I
think that's interesting if we go back to that party.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Speaking of our format, should we just get into this
cat story?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Then yeah, hit you with that headline again, Kurtie b.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Here it is doctor faces inquiry after giving his cat
a cat scan at Italian hospital. Okay, this was in
the Guardians, so you know that it's actually an actual actual,
that's real. This was sent in by the delightful and
wonderful me. I sent it in. I found it. Love
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that Anthony.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
This is rock and a big bro. This was written
by Angela Giofrida in Rome in Roma.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Roman listener, Yeah, Roman journalist, got it, got it sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
An Italian doctor has been placed under investigation after giving
his catacat scan an hospital in Aosta before performing a
life saving operation on the feline uh Gia. Luca Finelli
took the animal called Athena to Umberto Parini Hospital in
the northern Italian ree where he is a manager, where
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he is a manager of the radiology unit, after she
fell from a roof. Quote she was between life and death.
She was a between a life and death. Finelli said,
I knew I could only save or with a quick intervention,
and Athena underwent a briefcat scan before Finelli performed PNUMO
thoracic surgery on her in the units and geography suite.
(07:28):
She survived the ordeal. But the local health authority, you know,
it's always the local health authority, stick in their nose
where it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Belong, busting up the party.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Undertook an internal inquiry into the incident and referred the
case to prosecutors in Aosta, who said Finale could face
charges of wasting public money and depriving patients of essential services.
In his defense, Finelle said he used the hospital equipment
after hours, when all the X ray scheduled for the
day had been completed. Noah, he patients were booked in
for urgent tests. Athena, who plunged six floors from the
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roof of the building where the family lived, was one
of the five stray cats. All Finelli said he had
rescued from the street and saved from extreme conditions. Quote
I'm sorry if all of this led to a violation
of the rules, Oh yeah, adding that he was ready
to reimburse the hospital if his actions proved costly.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I like this guy. And then the last quote, being
a doctor means carrying out a mission the driving forces
precisely the life that flows in the eyes of those
who trust themselves to your care. He is a poet,
and this life flows in every living being. If my
cat had died, I would never have been able to
forgive myself, especially because my children adore her.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I failed to see if there were if it was
after hours, and the guy can do the surgery.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And the cat lived. What's it all out? Yeah, this
is a great story. You should be like, not only
are cat scans great, it's save this cat too.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
And what's the argument?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Do you think is that, like that it's unsanitary that
a cat would go into a human cat scan or like,
what's the problem with any of it?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I don't know. I have no idea that it's inappropriate.
I don't know. I mean, don't Italians do inappropriate things
all the time?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah, don't we? Who doesn't humanity as a whole?
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Like he's tried to cover for me. He doesn't want
eddy Italians to be so scared of adultans.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
I had an Italian waiter, no brag.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I went to Italy and got to go on a
trip there and I had an Italian waiter. I tried
to order prosecco and it was like six pm and
he was like no, no, no, no, like.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Straight up told me no.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Those people have rules and regulations and they follow them.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
It is wild.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Like what would he give you instead?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I think you were just supposed to drink wine because
it was like dinner and it was not the afternoon.
It was some shit like that where I was so
taken aback and of course horrified that I was just like,
I was just trying to have a sip of champagne
before I eat spaghetti.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Forget it.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Oh was that in Italy or was that in America?
It was in Italy. No, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I had an Italian person do that, an Italian waiter
do that in Brooklyn where my wife and I were
like two void casdas please, and he's like, no, no,
no, no no, with your meal, you drink a wine. I
get you wine. And I was like, we don't want wine,
and then we ended up drinking wine because he was
very insistent.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Didn't want to get drunk, sir, we don't want to
get a little loopy. We're trying to get hammered and
eat as much pasta as we could fit into our bodies.
But this is a huge This company or this hospital
is doing it so wrong. It's a cat scan. They
put a cat in there. A cat scan machine looks
relatively like a doughnut that a board slides in and
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out of. Decorate it to look like a cat's behind,
put a big furry tail out, and then make your
whole business that you can end and go out of
actual cats, but and they will have lines out the door.
This is just a bad branding in marketing.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Although I think I could definitely be wrong. Italy doesn't have.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Privatized hospitals there. It's public, so maybe that's the issue.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
You get it.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
They're like it's all governmental, kind of like we say
what cat goes where in that kind of Whereas the
capitalistic point of view, those cat scans absolutely should and
would exist and would be the most popular in America
if we would just make them here.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
I have an ignorant question international ban animals. I have
an ignorant question. When you have free healthcare, as you
do and we wish we did, does that are veterinarians
also free? Or do you have to pay for your animals?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Good question, great question. I love that question.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Have you ever thought I had never thought about that
until Karen was just saying that. So do you are
your dogs and cats and horses taken care of or
do you have to pay out a pocket for that
and make appointments and all that. That's I have no
idea what the answer is, to be honest.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Me either, And I also don't know if Italian medicine
is not privatized, I truly don't know what I'm talking
about almost ever, so I was just kind of throwing
that out there.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Oh, I'm a guess it's it's not I'm guess it's
the government as.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Well, right, but it's almost everybody that has that.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Also, they should make this man the mayor. He should
be the mayor.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Or the just the mayor.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Rescue, make the cat the mayor.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
That cat survived, survive the sixth story fall. The cat
should be to have a parade every year.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I love this. I think that we have two great ideas.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Italy provides free healthcare to its citizens and legal residents
through the National Health Service, the Cervicio Senate, Senatorio Nazional
or SSN. Good for you, Italy, nice work.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Hey, hey, Scott, he is a member of a Do
you know this? Scott is a member of an Italian
social club.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I didn't know, Scotty, you were a member there. It is, oh,
in Philly.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Uh No, it's in Los Angeles, California. I just got
in about a month ago to the Garibaldina Society, and
I might join the BACI League, which is nine weeks
on Monday nights, me and a bunch of older Italian
guys playings a bacci.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
To get absolutely built for you, like that is, you know.
So I got to go to the Garibaldi dinner that
was before Thanksgiving, I think, like their last one of
the year, and it was the most Of course it
was Albertina who was like, you have to go to
the thing with me. And then I walked in and
of course I was coming from work and I was
like forty five minutes later whatever, and it was like
(13:38):
walking into a big Italian wedding with no wedding. Actually,
so it's a live band, people dancing round tables with
numbers on them, everybody chittier, chattering away.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
But it's just people in La. I've never seen anything
like it in La.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Same thing. I went to one of those. My good
friend Mike Levanos and his wife Katie. Your members and
they were like, you have to come to this pasta
platter exactly what you're describing. Members can bring friends and
then it's like four courses of a homeade Italian. The
two men that make it are like the sweetest old
guys and they make every meal there.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
They do well. Everybody serves it's.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
A volunteer or remember and sets up. So like when
I signed up for volunteering, I'm like, I will set
up tables and chairs, i will park cars. I was
a valet forever. I'll Bartend if you need a bartech
because they have the coolest wood paneled bar you've ever seen.
It's straight out of the Midwest. And uh, yeah, I
got in. A few people recommended me. It took about
nine months to get in, but yeah, you guys are
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always welcome to join at any time. It's so fun.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Oh, it's so good.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
It feels like you're somewhere else. It feels like you're
in Milwaukee. It feels like you're in Arkansas. It's just
it's so great that it's in Los Angeles. It's just
an old school. Yeah, it's like an Italian wedding without
a service.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Do people there do the Jersey thing of dropping the
last part of the word perju Kalama, No, they.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Are, They don't do that anywhere but Long Island in
New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Really, that's so crazy?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Got it o all that shit? Yeah? The MutS that
is East coast coated.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I will say that the night I went the thing
that really healed me from my kind of like brittle,
acidic Los Angeles interior was at the end, so I
like scarfed down this ZD you know, wonderful salad that's
totally someone made with their hands, and just like so good.
And then those plates get cleared and like fifteen minutes later,
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everyone's talking whatever, and this Italian grandma who has not
a smile on her face holding out this huge industrial
sized cookie tray with Haganda's ice cream bars all over
it and just holds it out and everyone just takes one,
and I like looked up and I'm like thank you,
and she just kind of like stares at you and
walks away. And I was like, this is like I
could not feel more at home here.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
I love it so much, Like take.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Your eyesse, join you got too. It's very fun. It's
they opened it up to non Italians, so that's how
I got in, because they were like, what are we doing?
We got to make some money here, folks. There was
a table I went to like one of their budget meetings,
like they just do a meeting where everybody can come,
and there was a group of older Italian women like
(16:18):
I'm talking older, like eighty plus who sit there with
pencils and write down all the figures and do little
math and they're like, what was the last number? And
they're like sixty three twenty seven and they're like thank you,
and they added up and they just run them there.
Maybe they were bookkeepers, maybe they just ran their household bookkeeping.
But it's so adorable, these four little what is it
known as, just just writing away doing math with pencils.
(16:41):
I'm like, oh, yeah, I needed.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
It, and everyone is so welcoming because I had this thing.
Of course, my coming from like you know, my parents.
My dad was first generation Irish, so very clanny you
know Irish people. Yeah, there, and so I was like,
kind of I shouldn't be going to this. I'm good,
I need you know, Albertina needs to meet me at
the door to get me in, like that whole kind
(17:05):
of outsider thing. And the second my foot hit the doorway,
it was like, Hi, do you know your table numbered?
Like people that are so nice, young people old, I mean,
we could go on it all. It was just like
the coolest experience. First, it's like people need community like that. Yeah,
and it's really great that it's out there.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Me I couldn't agree more, and also to go in
with a woman named Albertina Rizzo. Yeah, the most Italian name.
If I put that in a script, i'd probably get
a letter from.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
The A C.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
L U.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
They're like, you can't, you cannot.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I always thought Albertina's mom was Italian, but as her dad,
who is Italian, her mom is something else. I think
she's European of some descent.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
But she always would call she's Latina.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Is she really?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Oh she would always call SpongeBob. Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, we'll think of it. I remember she got.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
I had it in my mind and then I got
lost in the beginning part of it.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Yeah, take a.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Moment, take a moment. I feel it's worth It's gonna
be worth it.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
It will be worth it. It's so worth it. It's
very Did you ever, Karen, have you ever eaten at
Bamantes in Brooklyn? It's like a very famous old school
Italian place.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
They had a thing. I don't know if they have
any more. Kurt, I'm sure you've been to Bamants. It's
over near Williamsburg green Point. But it's very old school.
But they had a thing that I've never seen anywhere
else where. They had a light switch and you could
turn it on and would put a light on over
your table to alert the server's server that you needed service.
And I'm like, how easy is this? Like why why
(18:48):
doesn't every table just have a nice little light switch?
And you go, we need bread clicked it?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Like why didn't that go national?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
In London there was a I went to a restaurant
where it's in Soho where you hit a button from
or Champagne and then a light comes on and then
Champagne's just brought to the table. Now that's classy. And
here it is punchbob pants pants.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Punchbob pants pants.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
You just had to let a gurgle up to the top.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Let's see. I have one for you too, here's a
human one. Alyssa Evan sent this in Many did, but
Alyssa Evans sent it and I saw it first. You
could send really any strange news or weird news stories
to us anytime at The Bananas Podcast at gmail dot
com or the Bananas Podcast on Instagram. Uh mom gives
birth in Krispy Kreme parking lot names it glaze. So
(19:45):
there was a this was on Today dot Com, written
by Rachel Paula Abrahamson. Honestly, I think you could just
go Rachel Abrahamson at that point.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Definitely, she knows of Rachel Abrahamson. That's why she's like,
I can't be Rachel Abram's and I hate Reachel Abram.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
You're not mistake me for her.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I want that Paula. You don't hear the name Paula
very No, you don't. There was a time where pound
start of older people named Paula.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Paula is very like kind of like the Bob I
have where it's very blown out, circular Bob. But that's
paul You can go see Paula in human Resources. That's
to me, that's what Paula feels like.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Here's my question, how much does wait, wait, don't tell
me pay Paula Poundstone because does is it enough for
her to live on? Because it is the main place
I'm hearing Paula Poundstone. She's really good at it, She's
excellent at it.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
She's so funny.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Didn't what's that dude's name, care Vin Diesel? Didn't he
name one of his daughters after paul Walker and he
named her Paulina or Pauline. I think that's right. But
it's like, Paula is right there. You could have been
Paula Diesel. Also, Paula Diesel's a name.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah, Paula the Diesel is the high school principal.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
You do not want to mess with.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Ooh.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Also, Hezel wants to see you, Paula.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Go to missus Diesel's office.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
And why hasn't energized or hired Vin Diesel to be
Vin d cell and like just be having he's got
a D cell battery in his back. Why has that
not happened yet?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Why are all the good ideas dead? It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
And when has anybody seen a D cell battery? It's
nineteen five.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
They are only in cop flashlights. I have a cop
flashlight and that's the only place I've ever used a
D cell battery.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
It's my dad's seventies flashlight that's out in the garage.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, just yeah, just for science fairs and dad flashlights
and no other use than the D cell battery. Mom
gives birth and Krispy Kreme parking lot during historic Alabama
blizzard and they're calling it glaze or after a blizzard
at an empty CRI speak green parking lot might not
seem like an ideal spot to give birth. That's true,
(22:05):
actually true, But for Shanaya Bennett, which was a cool name,
it ended up being the perfect place. When Bennett went
into labor during her second day of a historic winter
snowstorm in Alabama, she was determined to make it to
the hospital. I wanted that epidural, Bennett.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Says, yeah, I get it, you're here.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I had an epidural once when I had a kidney stone,
and it was confusing to not be able to move
the lower half of my body. It was pretty interesting.
It lasted a long time because they did it during
they I had the kidneyston removed and then I woke up,
So at least was five hours because I woke back
(22:46):
up and I could I was looking at my feet
and trying so hard to move my toes and couldn't.
It was an interesting experience.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Oh, so they actually they operated on you to get
it out.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
You didn't, ye? They go up the old Yeah, they
go up the old fun ride and then they zap
it with a laser and then a laser.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
How big was it? Scotty compare it to a thing
in our world.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, it wasn't that big. It was, oh god, no
it was. It was about the size of an apostrophe
in a novel.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
An apostrophe in a novel. Okay, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
So it was two millimeters by four millimeters, but then
it had a nine millimeter side, and that's why they
were like, we should blast this thing. I said, sure,
I have to go to a wedding tomorrow, and I did.
I got I got that epidural out, I got my
dance and shoes back on, and I dance floor.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
And then and the bride and groom did not know
you later tell them.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah, I didn't tell them till after they were married
because I didn't want anybody to pay attention to me.
So I went to the cocktail hour and I see
photos from that wedding. My eyes are so glazed from morphine,
from like heavy painkillers, and like, I had so many
conversations with parents where I'm like, boy, I don't remember
that person.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Exist You're like Wesley and the Princess Bride, where you're
totally frozen and trying to pretend like nothing's happening. You
might get up at any moment it.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Was, and I was actually a little afraid, like when
the band started to play to dance, because like, yeah,
like five or six hours earlier, my legs wouldn't work.
And then so I was like, I don't want to
like step to the right and then just keep on
going and they'd be like, oh, he's a sad, alcoholic man.
I wanted that epidural, Bennett said. She's twenty three years
(24:31):
of age, with her partsner Kean Mitchell behind the wheel
and their four year old son Legend in the back seat.
So they have great name. This whole family is just
a name machine gun.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
They're already doing it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Bennett did everything she could not to panic, but her
contractions were coming fast and furious. The roads were so
icy that the drive was taking a lot longer than
normally would and it felt like every light was turning red.
As soon as we got to the stop line, Bennett recalls.
Then suddenly Bennett felt the baby's head between her legs.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I mean, Jesus, wow, does I say how many other
children she had one?
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I think, uh, maybe there's no one at the book.
I think Shony has one. Legend. She felt the baby's
head between her legs. At that point, Bennett instructed Mitchell
to pull over at a parking lot. It was a
nearby Krispy Kreme. There would be no epidural, no delivery
room for that matter. Bennett says, I was like, I
(25:25):
can't believe this is happening.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Wow, that's right, that's amazing that I mean, like, is
I wonder if it's the first if it's her first child, No.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
It's her second child. Had a four year old. She
has a four year old son. And minutes later there
were four people in the car writing Rachel Paul abers
she she ran the numbers. Yeah, yeah, and that's why
she's the best in the business. Bennett and Mitchell named
their second child Dallas Emir, but the entire family has
(25:55):
been calling him Glaze.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Blaze Bennett great name, it's great and also a good
story for the for the name. Why are you named Glaze?
Born in a donut factory?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Bennett? So the Krispy Kreme name inspired nickname suits him well.
He's so sweet, he rarely cries. He's just a chill,
happy little guy. At the hospital, Glaze measured five pounds
fourteen ounces, so that's six pounds. We can round up
there and was given an absolute clean bill of health, and,
according to Krispy Kreme, Glaze is the first baby they
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know of to have the donut chain listed as their
place of birth on a birth certificate.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Wow, pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Are they going to get something?
Speaker 1 (26:37):
They better get something.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Krispy Kreme athlete Krispy Kream heard about Bennett's extraordinary birth.
It awarded the family a supply of free donuts for
one year.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Boo Krispy Cream. Boo Blaze gets it for life life, Yeah, Blaze,
you idiots.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Here's the one thing they did do. Okay. The company
also pledged to host Glaze's birthday party every January twenty second,
So he's gonna have a free birthday party at as
of his life for the rest of his life.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
By age ten, he will not be interested. But actually,
I'm sorry. By age six, he will no longer be
interested in having his birthday party at Crispy.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Here you're like, I can't look at another donut, Please
stop rewarding.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Me with this.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, the inside of Krispy Kremes are not very inviting
for children. They smell great, it's fun to see the
donut go by, but there's nothing to do there it's
just sticky chairs and sticky tables.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
So they're not really they're not really kids donuts. And
in my opinion, I know there's like a pink one probably,
but to me it's like, here's donuts for adults that
like love dessert and want something like an innovation, or
for us because we got Krispy Kreme so late, it
was like a kind of.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Don't where is Christy Cream from? I feel like everywhere
got it late.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I don't know, but it feels like it feels like
a Florida business to me. But let's find out.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Because I remember when they came to the East Coast,
I was like, well, well, well, well, well look at
this kind.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
They were founded in Winstam Salem, North Carolina South. He
was a New Orleans based chef named Vernon Rudolph. It's
an educational podcast.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
People learn a lot, there's takeaway, there's information, there.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Is and there are still fourteen hundred locations, which is
honestly mind boggling. It's hard to imagine in my lifetime.
Maybe Dippin' Dots. Is there a business that came out
of nowhere, showed up, was everywhere, and then contracted and
went away. Krispy Kreme's up there.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
So guess what what Dippin' dots lives on? What Dippin'
dots lives on? You can't get it anywhere except in
gas stations. Oh now, and my kids fucking love dippin' dots.
You can get it at gas stations and like amusement parks,
and that is the only place Dippin' dot exists now.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Weirdly, and I think I've only seen other people eat dippin' dots,
like at a you know, amusement park when I was
a kid. Is that like a thing where your kids
are in the backseat with a spoon and a little cup,
and there's the little dots are just in a cup.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
No, so they got rid of the cup and now
it's like a gross bag and so they're just with
a spoon and a gross bag, and no one eats
the dippin' dots. So the dippin' dots have like congealed
a little bit in the bag. Oh and you look
at the ingredients and there is not a single actual food.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Item that is made up of dippin' dots.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
It is just chemicals from the start to the end,
and they're like, yeah, they love it, Eddie Moore. Chemically
a thing tastes the more children are like, this is
my favorite thing and if I can't have this, I'm
gonna lose my mind.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Wow, it's so weird because it's made it's made for that.
I'll tease us into a thumbs up.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Well, I love that, you know what.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
I'm just gonna say this. I'm gonna say this about
speak Kurt.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
It's a free country sort of.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
Whatever tread on you, don't trud on yourself.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Don't tread on myself. Whatever happened to Elvis is Teddy Bear,
and that's it's just teasing you. It's just teasing you.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Because they had that song Teddy Bear, right, that was
I saw great karaoke once. If a guy singing that song,
he was.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
You're gonna love this story.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
I'm obsessed. Here's some thumbs up, Kendall. Clark says, thumbs up, bitches.
Oh yes, Kendall, that's a good way to start it.
Kendall is giving herself a huge thumbs up for going
to p A school. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Exactly what physicians assistant there.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
We go less than fifty percent of applicants are accepted nationwide.
Kendall got in. She's well on her way to achieving
her dream as being a healthcare provider. Right on combs
up to you. Kendall's wonderful.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yes, I wonder how long it becomes it takes to
become a physician's assistant. Like, I guess eight years. Your
guess is eight years. I think it's less than eight years,
because I think, like eight years is maybe a doctor.
And I think, and that's the advantage of a PA
is that there's a little less there's less schooling, so
that there's more of them. And I find them to
(31:34):
be honestly, honestly, oftentimes more helpful than doctors because they
spend more time with you. I like a PO. I
don't mind them at all. Anyway, what I was saying
is I want to become a PA later in life.
It would be funny to just like, at sixty, just
be like I became a kind of a doctor.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
But also are you saying that so you want to
become one, But you're like, no, no, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Going to do it for eight years. It's got to
be three.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yeah, yeah, no, if it's if I can go to
school for three years and then start treating illnesses. It's
so funny. I love doing that.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Did you hear Kurt became a doctor. Yeah, I guess.
I guess he wanted to be a doctor.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
She's funny. He's funny. He tells jokes the whole time.
Let's see, here's a fun one. Selena Tucker wants to
thomb her mom, Sharon up. Sharon is a bananimal and
the most caring and thoughtful human who also has a
full time job and a small business so she's able
to live near Selena and her new grand baby. All
(32:35):
the while she's been battling lime disease. Oh Sharon thumbs
ups up.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Sharon, My wife had limes lime lime disease undiagnosed for
eight years. Long term. Lime is a real thing, and
it was it was devastating, and so she finally got
done with it. If you want to message me, I
can give you some resourceage. Just message me on my Instagram.
(33:02):
That's so nice of you.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Let's see. Here's let's do two more. Oh great name
here Danica Mulholland. And if it's not mul Holland, I
got cut off. I'm so sorry. So we'll say Danica m.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
U l h.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I'm guessing the name of moholland is thumbing up her
best friend Kelsey. Kelsey is a survivor. She went to
She survived a surgery complication after losing an incredible two
and ten pounds. Oh my god, whoa good for you, Kelsey.
There was eternal bleeding during the surgery. Less than one
percent chance that would happened. It happened. She spent four
(33:37):
days in the ICU, I believe, but she is now
living her best life as a snatched battie. Kelsey thumbs up,
you snatched battie.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
You Kelsey, way to go, thumbs up.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
The thumbs ups are getting more colorful. Yeah, the animals
are starting to get it, okay. And then I had
to do this one. While we have Karen Kilgareth with us.
Haroen is thumbing themselves up for finally changing their name.
Haron never liked their old name, and after a year
searching for a new one, they chose Heron because as birds,
Heron's managed to be beautiful and graceful while also looking
(34:13):
awkward and uncomfortable. So I just need to say Heron's
full name for you too. According to the Internet, Haron
Kalilang Lacroix. Haron Kalalang Lacroix is the full name, and
thumbs up to you for choosing your own destiny. You're
allowed to pick your own name.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Hell, absolutely hellumbs up.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Did Haron say what their original name was?
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
And I didn't hear did it?
Speaker 2 (34:41):
No? They didn't. I believe it was like Eli. Possibly.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
I was just wondering if it was if Aaron had
been a Karen and couldn't take the pressure that we've
been under for the last decade and tried to get
out of the Karen group, which I understand entirely.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, I'm not a Karen.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I'm a bird.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
I'm a gorgeous harr but also weird.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
That is a tricky one. Yeah, well, thumbs up. You
can send them in. I'll do them. I have a backlog,
but I'm catching up.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
I'm getting Are you doing so well with them?
Speaker 3 (35:11):
I like the thumbs up? That's a really good, good
vibe segment.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Yes, all right, here it is, so I look. I
looked up a lot of the A lot of this
story originally was on an Instagram post from a page
called a History of Dogs, and I couldn't find a
better telling of this story than the fucking captioned on
(35:38):
this Instagram post. So I'm just going to read that.
Here it is in two thousand and six. Oh, this
was sent in by Tammy Criner. Tammy Criner, thank you
so much for sending it. You can send in your
your strange news to dm us on our Instagram, The
Bananas Podcast, or email us at The Bananas Podcast at
gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
True.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
In two thousand and six, A Children's Museum and Western
England open an exhibit of rare teddy bears. The collection
valued it more than nine hundred thousand dollars. This is
in two thousand and six money, so that's like thirty
million dollars today. Yea included a red bear made by
(36:17):
Farnell Ooh, a Farnell bear in nineteen ten, mail and
killing Me, That's crazy, and a Bobby Brewin Ooh made
by Mary Thought in nineteen Bobby Brewin in nineteen thirty six.
It also featured a nineteen oh nine German Steif bear
named Mabel that once belonged to Elvis Presley. The extremely
(36:40):
valuable bears were insured and on loan. Mabel, the Elvis
Teddy was owned by English aristocrats, Sir Benjamin Slade, who
bought it for seventy five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Jesus, what is wrong?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
What is wrong with piping? Gosh?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Did you?
Speaker 1 (36:58):
I don't what a soup kitchen could do with seventy
five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
But also the thing I was, it's like, what interest
do you have that's so affecting to you that you
are going to shell out levels of I mean obviously
these just obviously swimming it, but like that idea of
like I can't focus my mind on one thing long
enough to even like love it, much less spend almost
(37:28):
a one hundred grand on it just to have one
version of like.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
That's so crazy all the way. Because when I see
a car in Los Angeles, which is the car eiest
car capital of the United States that I know for
a fact, is worth three hundred thousand dollars or more,
in my mind instantly because I was broke for so long,
thinks of how many months of rent I could pay, yeah,
or how many vacations I could take. I see a
car and I'm like, oh, I could go on thirty
(37:55):
ten thousand dollars vacation, like a lifetime of incredible third
ucations or just drive around and fart in a car.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
I mean, and the driving experience, yeah, you're still a
draffic The driving experience between a three hundred thousand dollars
car and a thirty thousand dollars car is so miniscule, correct,
it is so small. Ough.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
I know somebody, no brag the bought a it was
either a Maserati or a Lamborghini, one of those crazy ones.
And they I was in the car with them. They
drove it off the lot where we were working and
immediately bottomed out yes hard yeah, and returned the car
because it was like, oh, this is the only It's
(38:41):
just going to be like this the entire time.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Where I'm like, right, these are race cars for the racetrack.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Non Los Angeles with the potholes and the lunacy, Like
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (38:52):
Also like those cars are so low to the ground
that if you hit another car, that car just drives
over you.
Speaker 4 (39:00):
You're under the escalade.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
You're just a ramp for an escalade to just launche
itself off of.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
It's also just it's like how drag queens just dressed
like extreme femininities, like they take what is feminine goes
to such an extreme that it becomes cartoonish, Like those
hot rod cars and loud cars and race cars are
the same thing. It's masculinely taken to this extreme. So
it's just like parading themselves around, like look at me
(39:27):
being the most man, and to me it reverses the
whole thing. I'm like, you're a nerd. I would push
you down the stairs if I could.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Here it is, are you ready? Okay?
Speaker 2 (39:38):
So?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Uh seventy five thousand dollars in Elvis memorial auction in
ex Tennessee. The Bears required twenty four hour uniform security
and highly trained guard dogs. One Tuesday night, security guard
Greg West and six year old Doberman Barney were on duty.
While a distracted West was busy stroking Elvis's Teddy Barney
(40:02):
went ape shit. Oh no, he just went berserk, said
Daniel Medley, the general manager of the museum. West spent
several minutes chasing Barney before wrestling him to the ground.
By that point, Barney had destroyed one hundred Teddy Bears,
including Mabel. Oh quote, I still can't. I love this
(40:26):
so much, It's deep in my heart. How much I
love this too? I still can't believe what happens, said
mister West. Either it was a quote rogue scent that
quote switched on Barney's deepest instinct, or it could have
been jealousy. I was stroking Mabel and saying what a
good girl.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
She was.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Ill ill, I mean real.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Yeah, Barney's massacre ripped bear heads and limbs from the
toy animals and left stuffing all over the museum floor.
Poor Mabel was decapitated. Quote. I've spoken to the bear's
owner and he is not very pleased at all, he said.
When asked about the fate of Barney, mister Medley said,
quote dogs are now banned from the Teddybear collapse.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
Yeah, I have to say I did.
Speaker 4 (41:16):
I did not see it coming.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
When you first started talking about this, I was like,
of course, I forgot what the headline was, so I
was kind of like, oh, what is this.
Speaker 4 (41:24):
I thought it was someone.
Speaker 3 (41:24):
Stole the bear, So I'm like, oh, what a robber's
going to break into the situation, And it's like, no,
of course, You've got a dog sitting there and stuffed animals.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
That's all my dogs want to do.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Of course, And also that is why I chose the
Instagram post from a history of Dogs, because every other
one starts with dog destroys Teddy Bear, and it's like,
if you don't want to, let's get into the story first.
Now dom teddy bears are and then we'll get into
the dog. Yes, seventy five thousand.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
Dollars, it's I'm sure it's a great passion for many people.
But like a Teddy Bear. I tried as a kid,
did you guys have a bear or a blanket or
something that was your companion? Karen? What was yours?
Speaker 4 (42:09):
I did.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
I had a little off brand Winnie the Pooh that was,
and I had it for a long time.
Speaker 4 (42:16):
I had it into adulthood. But it I used to carry.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
It around in such a way that the nose got moved,
like shoved up because I had it right in like
on my side.
Speaker 4 (42:26):
Kind of.
Speaker 3 (42:27):
It was very comforting, just that this comforting perfect and
it smelled perfect. It was the smell mostly that I
love so much, and somewhere in my insane twenties it
got lost, along with a bunch of other very meaningful
things that I had with me but should not have
and should have left at my parents' house. That one's
(42:47):
a killer for sure.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Oh yeah. I breasted until I was three, so I
didn't have any stompies. I just had breasts boobs. You
had the real deal, yeah, the original, the original stuffed animal.
I just could never get one of stick. I chied
with a snoopy for a while. I just did stick.
I just went to sleep too fast. I didn't need
any comfort. I was just like my parents would throw
(43:10):
like parties in the eighties, and they'd have friends over,
and then they would be.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
Like where where Scott where Scott? And I would already
I would just walk into the bedroom and put myself
to sleep and turn off the light. At like eight pm.
I'd be like, I'm done.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
You people, you people, Yes, it's a classic care killed garafly.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Oh you men, you, oh, you men.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
You meant a little scotty saying that to a party
full of eighties parents drinking a gin.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
And tonics holding a little bread with a little futon
on a long futon for you men. I just always
like to sleep.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
I thought you were going to ask, does either of
us aren't collect anything?
Speaker 2 (43:52):
Do you collect anything? Kurpiside surfboards?
Speaker 1 (43:55):
No, just surfboards. But you know I only have ten
I think ten, So I don't. I feel like that's
a big collection.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
Are you comp comparing yourself to Blanke Patch and his
guitars and you're.
Speaker 4 (44:05):
Like that that's nothing.
Speaker 1 (44:07):
Ten's nothing. They do take up a lot of space.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Or Joe DeRosa and his everything. Like I went over
and recorded a podcast and he had every video game
console that they've ever made, and it took me so
long to process. I kept looking at it like it
was almost like stay like staging for an apartment, like, hey,
look at all this came with the place. And I'm like, no,
I don't have anything.
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Man, do you collect anything, Karen?
Speaker 3 (44:31):
I don't. Although it's funny because when you said stife,
like that brand of stife Teddy Bear over the holidays
that my hometown has turned into a little bit of
like a it's like slightly fancy. So there's way more
antique stores and then there ever were when I lived there.
And so I was in an anting store, just like
killing time before a hair appointment or something, and they
(44:53):
had it was a Christmas display right in the front,
and they had this little lion and it is like
about that big and I immediately saw it and went
to it and picked it up and it was like
perfectly hand sized, so it's like it and it was
the cutest just I can't really explain it. I could.
Speaker 4 (45:13):
I probably have a picture I can show you, but it.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Was stife and I immediately I like had to buy
it immediately. It was like fifty bucks or something, and
then I'm like, I bet you this will probably be overpriced,
but I just love it and it's such a cool
antique looking thing. It's also just kind of sweet because
it's so small. And then I started looking it up,
but I'm like, oh, this is what's so interesting about
collecting is because it was like, oh, this stife has
(45:38):
a stitch nose instead of a plastic nose, so it's
from before nineteen fifty and it has this instead of that.
So you start identifying what you have and then learning
the value of it based on so it's all one.
It's not articulated arms, so it's worth less than the
ones that have artici.
Speaker 4 (45:57):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (45:57):
You get into like identify it and then you're like,
well then I am interested in it. As like, I
don't have any interest in stuffed animals, but suddenly I
was in.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
Yeah, just from looking it up once. Yeah, and you're like, well,
now I gotta get If my fucking line doesn't have
articulated arms, I'm gonna lose my.
Speaker 4 (46:14):
Mind, but I'm gonna order away.
Speaker 3 (46:17):
I'm gonna send away to Germany and get the original.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
I do wish I had a list of Like every
once in a while, I'll say somebody that does rare
books like that, Oh, this book that's an original one
that they founded a yard sales worth eighty thousand dollars,
like I do wish every I always want to get
into that as like a hobby and go find rare
books at a stake sales and stuff like that and
sell them. Like I think that would be a fun
(46:41):
side hobby to be like, oh, I found this really
important book. And I was watching Antikes Roadshow recently and
somebody had an extremely rare almanac from like the eighteen fifties,
and they're like, there's one in Harvard and there's this one.
They're the only two that exist. And I was like,
I would enjoy that. I would enjoy the of being like,
let me just pop in here when I'm somewhere and
(47:03):
just kind of look at the used books and see
if I can find any diamonds in the rough. But
every time I think it, I just never thought that
is something I just do not follow through on.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
Oh you'll do that when you're retired. Yeah, when you
own a when you own a like a Tommy Bahama
themed bar somewhere took him.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
And also you have to memorize the list of all
the most wanted books and the rarest. Like there's there's
something too where you have to have the you have
to have like the encyclopedic knowledge so you know what
you're spotting that no one else knows. That.
Speaker 4 (47:35):
I love that. I love that part of.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
Either looking in like vintage stores or antique stores in
that way where it's like, prove to myself I have
the eye and then it's like this stif lion proves
that I have good tastes. It's like, no, it's just old.
I can tell it was old and kind of interesting.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
We used to do that that. We used to do
that in like the mid nineties with records, Like I
remember going to like Bleaker Bob's in New York City
and going in there and being like, oh, they have
the they have the original X ray spex vinyl that's
colored and like that's because it's been a re issue
since nineteen eighty nine. And then they have the one
(48:14):
from nineteen seventy nine, you know, and it's just like whoa.
And then all of a sudden somebody was like napster
and it was like burn it all down.
Speaker 2 (48:23):
Yeah, they're in college. One of my roommates had the
single of Toto's Africa on vinyl and the vinyl was
shaped like the continent in Africa. Who it is, plastic
shape like Africa, and you had to put it in
the middle because it was on the outside it was
just junk to junk to junk. But and I was
like this that today was also with the weird resurgence
(48:45):
of that song.
Speaker 3 (48:46):
Yes, that must be worth worth a lot, at least
eight hundred dollars, I.
Speaker 2 (48:50):
Know, worth holding on to for twenty five years. I'll
send us home with this one. Kristin Yeowitz KBG sent
this in thank you, Kristin Yowitz kb Kelwitz. This was
written by Nadine Abusada for News five Cleveland Real website.
I'm checking it four or five times a dead. Nadine
(49:11):
Abusada is the best in the business. Cars keep hitting
his house and he's extremely over it. So I actually
looked this up thinking it was about this other house
i'd heard about. So there's this other house that's been
hit eleven times cars and one of the videos, the
car's so airborne that you're like, how it must have
(49:33):
gone off your friend's Lamborghini Karen because this car is
eight feet in the air and hits the upstairs. This
is a different guy Cleveland Heights, Ohio. One Cleveland Heights
homeowner is fed up with dealing with crash after crash
into his home. Now he's taking matters into his own
hands because he feels the city is not doing enough
to prevent them. On South Taylor Road, heading towards the
(49:54):
intersection of Fairmount Boulevard, you'll see flashing signs, speed bumps,
even boulders meant to slow down cars, even butters. I mean,
he's trying to like fortify his front yard and these
cars just go ripping right over it. It's incredible. But
for John Gall, it is still not enough to keep
his home safe from erratic driver. So Gall is trying
his own methods. I'm painting another sign, he said. This
(50:16):
sign's going to be somewhere with a sign that says
the cowards won't talk because they're chicken bleep mother froggers. Okay,
I'm gonna read that again because it's so insane. He says.
The sign's going going to go somewhere with the one
that says the cowards won't talk because their chicken bleep
mother froggers said Gall, that's that's not nadin abusada. I know, Okay,
(50:44):
I do not understand it either.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
I feel like his deterrens are not working because they're crazy.
Speaker 3 (50:52):
I feel like he may have gone crazy from having
so many cars.
Speaker 1 (50:55):
Yes, I don't understand. I've installed eight slide whistles along
the road coming up and they keeps happening.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
I know. So also, just get supply wood and build
a ramp up towards your house and just have cars
come right at and ramp right intoor of it.
Speaker 3 (51:12):
So just say chicken shit and motherfuckers, please just do it.
Speaker 4 (51:16):
Who cares?
Speaker 2 (51:16):
Okay, your house is getting hit by speeding cars, you're
allowed to cuss.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
You cuss it up, John Gall, cuss up all bought froggers,
the mother froggers mother, I've never actually heard that. For
some reason, mother froggers, you mother frog and Jery mother frogging.
Speaker 2 (51:36):
There was a Yeah, there was a snake's on a plane.
One that was like, get these mickey ficky snakes off
this Monday to Friday plane. I think that was it.
That's good. Gall bought his home in nineteen ninety six,
where his lawn now sits filled with wooden painted signs
at the intersection. The signs read things like where's my guardrail?
Speed bump seriously, and cowards won't talk. That is because
(52:01):
in the past ten years, Gars have said four cars
have crashed into his home. The first crash actually took
out my pickup truck that was parked in the driveway.
That was in twenty twelve. I believe the second crash
occurred in twenty twenty one, when News five covered a
police chase that ended with a car crashing into Gall's kitchen.
Then in twenty twenty two, another car crash took out
his crash and then the latest crash in twenty twenty
three landed on the yond lawn and narrowly missed his house.
(52:25):
I cannot get homeowner's insurance. I currently have insurance, but
they jacked the rates. I'm one claim away from being dropped.
I pursued other insurance companies. Nobody will touch me, he said, Oh, Gall,
I know. Gall said also, dude, I know everything's expensive,
but it's time to move. This is a sign from
job to get out of there.
Speaker 3 (52:47):
It is like, where where does this man live that
this keep I just was like picturing as it was, like, oh,
that's right.
Speaker 4 (52:54):
It's different parts of the house.
Speaker 3 (52:55):
So it's like one time he's asleep in the front
room and it goes into the kitchen. Then next time
he's you know, over here in the bathroom and it's
his garage. Like he must feel like he's being That
must be insane.
Speaker 2 (53:07):
Yeah, it's so crazy that every time you hear a
car you're afraid.
Speaker 3 (53:12):
So then you're like again, like having to complain that
your house has been hit more than once is insane.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
Two times would be enough for me, Like, and we're
out here, use so much.
Speaker 1 (53:24):
And when the cowards won't talk makes it ten times worse.
Speaker 4 (53:29):
So bad, Just talk, you cowards.
Speaker 2 (53:32):
Speed bump. Seriously, all he wants is peace of mind
that a car won't come flying through his walls, and
he believes a guard rail or a cement barrier would
do that. He says, I'm kind of living on the edge.
You know, as far as I'm concerned, this house is
a giant target on its side, and the city has
done nothing to alleviate that until then. He plans on
(53:53):
keep painting his signs until he gets the wall. He
said he's hired a lawyer smart moved probably on that
in twenty twelve, and plans to keep adding signs until
he sees change or response from the city. News five
in Cleveland has yet to hear back from the Cleveland
Heights City Hall for comment.
Speaker 1 (54:14):
A delight, and you know what also has been a delight.
Tell me having you Karen here as a guest.
Speaker 4 (54:21):
Oh my god, I got I on this show.
Speaker 3 (54:23):
Get very passive because I love listening to these stories
and I just think about them and try to kind
of problem solve within them. Or I'm just like, huh,
it's like that story alone where I'm just like, should
we all be calling the compatroller of that city in Cleveland?
What do we do as a community to make it?
Speaker 4 (54:43):
Can't he build?
Speaker 3 (54:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (54:44):
Why can't keep up planters?
Speaker 4 (54:45):
WHOA?
Speaker 1 (54:46):
What about like planters are probably one hundred bucks each.
If he gets four planters, fills them with dirt, big planters,
big clay planters, fills them with dirt. That's gonna do it.
That's gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (54:57):
Help this man, help this.
Speaker 2 (54:59):
How much as a the child, all I did in
the summer was build ramps to ride bicycles off of it.
Just finds some on plywood and some cinder blocks and
just ramp your heart out. This guy, for five hundred
dollars could be launching them into the neighbors houses and
making it somebody else's problem. Yes, banana of the week,
This guy's banana of the week.
Speaker 1 (55:20):
Banana of the week.
Speaker 3 (55:21):
Thank you, Karen, guys, thank you so much, and congratulations
to the banana of the week.
Speaker 4 (55:26):
And that's a bright spot in his crashed up house
day right.
Speaker 2 (55:29):
Oh yeah, he deserved it. He really earned that one.
John Gall, this one's been for.
Speaker 4 (55:34):
You, John Gall, We're with you.
Speaker 1 (55:38):
But Banana's.
Speaker 2 (55:51):
Bananas is an exactly right media production.
Speaker 1 (55:54):
Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.
Speaker 2 (55:57):
The catchy Bananas theme song was composed and performed by Kahon.
Speaker 1 (56:00):
Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.
Speaker 2 (56:04):
And our benevolent overlords are the Great Karen Kilgarriff and
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Speaker 1 (56:07):
And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot intern.
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