Speaker 1: Bananimals. We record Bananas episodes a week or two weeks
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Speaker 1: Oh I'm ready to laugh and love and go. La Dodgers,
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Speaker 1: or two ago.
Speaker 2: And Love, I don't have this title. I'd want the
Speaker 2: I want there to be a reveal for this, okay,
Speaker 2: So I will just say and I did see one
Speaker 2: headline as this, So here's the headline, Scottie.
Speaker 1: Okay, hooters.
Speaker 2: And it'll make sense.
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Speaker 2: Guys, goals, non binary pals. Welcome to a very a
Speaker 2: very special episode of Bananas. A very special solo episode
Speaker 2: of Bananas. I'm staring at a man, yeah, who's known
Speaker 2: as the greatest screenwriter in America. He is standing in
Speaker 2: front of a floor to ceiling image of I don't
Speaker 2: think it's pipeline.
Speaker 1: It's not. I think it's sunset beach.
Speaker 2: Maybe, yeah, because the shape of the waves a little
Speaker 2: more almond than pipeline would be. But just a beautiful
Speaker 2: breaking wave, a huge barrel.
Speaker 1: Scottie Landis KURTI b you. You're everybody's favorite, and you
Speaker 1: know when the rapture comes, you're going first, because they're
Speaker 1: going to need a stand up comedian to welcome people
Speaker 1: through those pearly gates, and it's gonna be you. And
Speaker 1: I also know, as a former Catholic schoolboy. You be
Speaker 1: great doing just riftogging with Saint Pete to your left
Speaker 1: and all the other fake religions to your right. Just
Speaker 1: everybody hanging out and you're welcoming them in with a
Speaker 1: good guffall because.
Speaker 2: Once you get to heaven, yeah you can say fuck
Speaker 2: and shit and curse or scent because you're in heaven.
Speaker 2: You already made it. Like if the whole reason you're
Speaker 2: not cursing is so that you can go to heaven
Speaker 2: once you're there, I hope you are cutting a blue
Speaker 2: rug if that is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. I know. It would be so funny
Speaker 1: if it does exist. And if I somehow sneak in
Speaker 1: the side window, I'll be like, man, I was wrong.
Speaker 1: I was so wrong about this. I am going to
Speaker 1: do the panic thing with two seconds to go before
Speaker 1: they pull the plug. Oh yeah, I'm going to be
Speaker 1: like I believe and then just hope for the best.
Speaker 2: I know. So it is you just do last rights right,
Speaker 2: and you know what, let's do last rights.
Speaker 1: Fire them up, Padre. I want to get in there
Speaker 1: just in case this whole forgiveness thing is real. But yeah,
Speaker 1: how was a trick or treating? Was it so fun?
Speaker 1: Did you guys get a lot of candy. Also, what
Speaker 1: is your kids? What is what are your kid's favorite?
Speaker 1: Two candies?
Speaker 2: The kids are well, uh, alf doesn't really like chocolate
Speaker 2: and she doesn't like peanut butter, so she'll sometimes have chocolate,
Speaker 2: but she prefers, you know, the big The big ticket
Speaker 2: item this year was gummy cluster nerds.
Speaker 1: Oh, I've heard that's nerd cluster.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And but also and then Gus's favorite chalcol is
Speaker 2: probably like anything chocolate. He just loves it all pretty much.
Speaker 2: I don't think he has a favorite yet. We we
Speaker 2: try and get him to, we like, what's your favorite,
Speaker 2: and he just likes kind of like goes. I don't know.
Speaker 2: But I bought I bought the full sized candy bars
Speaker 2: at Costco good for you, two boxes twenty bucks nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety nine each. That's fine, forty bucks. Forty bucks is not.
Speaker 2: I feel a ton to spend on to make dreams
Speaker 2: come true candy. And that was from five thirty to eight,
Speaker 2: and we still had some left and I put them
Speaker 2: out because then we had the kids were going to bed,
Speaker 2: so I closed the door so I would say successful
Speaker 2: and to be the house with the big candy.
Speaker 1: Bars Yeah, that's what you want to be.
Speaker 2: I also feel like it's getting more common it used
Speaker 2: to be. I mean it was a myth when I
Speaker 2: was a child, it was a myth. I remember saying
Speaker 2: like that that house has them. People would talk about it,
Speaker 2: and then you would go up and they wouldn't answer
Speaker 2: the doorbell.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a person in our neighborhood and one
Speaker 1: year they handed out pennies and everybody, I think some
Speaker 1: of the other parents were like, you can't hand out
Speaker 1: pennies to these kids. And then from there on out
Speaker 1: they would hand out Gatorades. And when Gatorade switch from
Speaker 1: glass bottles to plastic bottles, I think at probably sixteen ounces,
Speaker 1: you would just go and get a full Gatorade or
Speaker 1: a thirty two ounce Gatearaide. It was the big ones,
Speaker 1: and it was just so funny to see everybody's so
Speaker 1: dehydrated and so jacked up on sugar and then being
Speaker 1: like I am thirsty and they're just chugging thirty two
Speaker 1: ounces of sugar.
Speaker 2: It is interesting, Like we brought a water bottle and
Speaker 2: the kids went to town on the water bottle like
Speaker 2: the whole night, because you're they're walking for them, they're
Speaker 2: walking an enormous amount. And then also like they're eating
Speaker 2: candy along the way, you know that, and can sugar
Speaker 2: makes you like thirsty, which I which I always forget
Speaker 2: about because I don't burn it.
Speaker 1: It's like throwing logs on that little Chucchu train. There's
Speaker 1: so many shoveling sugar cold just in there as fast
Speaker 1: as they can. It's it's the greatest holiday, at least
Speaker 1: in America because just getting dressed up always fun, walking
Speaker 1: around with your friends, great time. And then kids like
Speaker 1: number one favorite thing is candy, and so it's like
Speaker 1: they're rewarding them for just doing two great things. It's
Speaker 1: a whoever came up with it? The modern version extremely fun.
Speaker 2: There is a church down the street from my house,
Speaker 2: and it's a it's one of those southern California churches
Speaker 2: that are like, you know, I think they're probably pretty liberal,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, But there's just still like
Speaker 2: we actually went once for Christmas, cause it's like we
Speaker 2: just don't have a Christmas tradition anymore. You know, we
Speaker 2: used to go to Catholic Mass, and it feels weird
Speaker 2: to go to Catholic Mass now, and so we're like, okay, well,
Speaker 2: we'll go to this one. And we went there for
Speaker 2: for Christmas once.
Speaker 1: And it was just weird.
Speaker 2: It was weird. It was you know, it was like
Speaker 2: they took the kids away and I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
Speaker 2: where you taking my kids? I uh go Catholic here, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't like it when you take the kids to
Speaker 2: places I can't see. And they took them away for
Speaker 2: like an hour and a half. The whole thing was
Speaker 2: like two hours. It was bonkers town. And then the
Speaker 2: whole homily was about like essentially like that like Jesus
Speaker 2: is a man that you love, and it was like
Speaker 2: that's it. It wasn't anything like helpful for your life.
Speaker 2: It was just like bow down before the Man of Jesus.
Speaker 2: And it just left a bad taste in my mouth. Anyway.
Speaker 2: Point is during Halloween they have this like a full
Speaker 2: frontal assault to like well to like get people in
Speaker 2: the door to come to go to church. There they
Speaker 2: had an entire Willy Wonka like setup where it was
Speaker 2: like a store and everything and so but it's always
Speaker 2: like a like they always have full sized candy bars.
Speaker 2: They always have it's a big deal. And and so
Speaker 2: Olive is just talking it up to every child she meets, like,
Speaker 2: we gotta go to the church. And then by the
Speaker 2: end we're like, the kids are tired. I'm trying to
Speaker 2: get them back, and all the kids are like, we
Speaker 2: gotta go to church, and all of these godless la parents,
Speaker 2: We're just like, this is the first and last time
Speaker 2: my child is gonna be screaming, what we gotta go
Speaker 2: to church?
Speaker 1: But take out churches have a giant, king sized candy
Speaker 1: bar for every kid that comes through your Hollywood doors,
Speaker 1: and uh, it's not just going to go through the roof.
Speaker 2: But also like, that's what churches should be doing, right.
Speaker 2: I I do applaud them for that. I do not
Speaker 2: want to go to their place, but I do applaud
Speaker 2: them for that. That's great. Provide stuff for the community.
Speaker 2: That's wonderful. The kids loved it. I really enjoyed the
Speaker 2: fact that Gus was and this was his idea. He
Speaker 2: was just a all he wanted to be was a devil,
Speaker 2: and we'd be like, what kind he'd be?
Speaker 1: Like a bad devil?
Speaker 2: Nice, my guy, And so he was just dressed as
Speaker 2: a bad devil with a horrifying mask on in front
Speaker 2: of the church, like picking out a candy bar.
Speaker 1: This is this is it? This is satan? That would
Speaker 1: be so great. Did you see the new Willy Wonka
Speaker 1: with old tim Shallomey?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Was it good? I didn't see it. Uh it was okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not bad. It's you know, it's it's like
Speaker 2: it starts very dark.
Speaker 1: All kids movies now start with the darkest things that
Speaker 1: can happen to you, deaths.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's galore. But also like Willy Wonka was a
Speaker 2: little dark anyway, you know, total creep. Yeah, and so
Speaker 2: that makes sense to me. But yeah, at the end,
Speaker 2: by the end, I was like that it's a pretty
Speaker 2: good movie. I don't want to heard that.
Speaker 1: But Timmy Shalls I just didn't seem that charismatic to me.
Speaker 1: And then I don't know if you're going to do
Speaker 1: this story today, But we got sent the story that
Speaker 1: there was a Timothy shallow May lookalike contest and then
Speaker 1: one went and now I'm like, maybe.
Speaker 2: I like this, Maybe I like that guy. And also
Speaker 2: he didn't win. That's fantastic he got the second place.
Speaker 1: Then maybe I do like that guy. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I got well, So the fact that we opened with
Speaker 2: you standing in front or sitting in front of a
Speaker 2: giant wave. Where are you, Scotty.
Speaker 1: I am at the north shore of Hawaii, So I was, uh, yeah, Straw,
Speaker 1: And now we're going to go to Asheville, North Carolina
Speaker 1: to hang out with Mamory Hart, who is staying down
Speaker 1: there because I tricked her. True. Well, you know this.
Speaker 1: We I hand out candy with Mamory. We have for
Speaker 1: about eight or nine years now, and then the last
Speaker 1: six years besides COVID year, we get a margarita machine
Speaker 1: where we hand out frozen margaritas to all the parents
Speaker 1: and candied all the kids. And it's a highlight of
Speaker 1: my year. And then Mamory uh was there after the
Speaker 1: hurricane and the flooding and had to make a great escape,
Speaker 1: and so these plans got canceled and it was like,
Speaker 1: let's go let's not h I don't know if this
Speaker 1: would be lemonade, let's go make pina coladas.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So, I mean that's a gorgeous idea. I'm so happy
Speaker 2: you did that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Facts, And it's just a three nighter or yeah,
Speaker 1: three nights, four days or whatever. But this is where
Speaker 1: we shot a TV show that I worked on and
Speaker 1: so everything's nicer now. They fixed everything up. But it's
Speaker 1: just it's so relaxing as I eat bowls, pokey bowls, yeah,
Speaker 1: you name it. But yeah, just a quickie. And it
Speaker 1: was fun to celebrate, like I am a Dodgers fan
Speaker 1: and went to the lots of bars and watched my friends,
Speaker 1: and it was fun to come out here. And as
Speaker 1: you can see, I'm wearing a Dodgers hat and everybody's
Speaker 1: here like go blue. And you realize the only people
Speaker 1: here in October are I live.
Speaker 3: In l Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all the families are waiting for Christmas and winter
Speaker 1: holidays and New Year's and so right now it's just
Speaker 1: a nice sleepy time. Tomorrow morning I might take a
Speaker 1: lay making class, learn how to make a lay.
Speaker 2: I love that. That is fantastic, Thanks buddy.
Speaker 1: So and you're going away right I am.
Speaker 2: I'm going away on Thursday.
Speaker 1: Where are you going?
Speaker 2: Well, I will by the time this comes out, I
Speaker 2: will have already come back. But I am going to
Speaker 2: the Shenandoah Mountains, my friends. Oh that's pretty yeah, we get.
Speaker 2: There's these little primitive cabins off the Appalachian Trail and
Speaker 2: Shenandoa and Shenandoah.
Speaker 1: To our West Virginia listeners. Yes, yes, and so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're in we're in Virginia technically at this section,
Speaker 2: and so yeah, a little primitive cabin. Inside it's got
Speaker 2: six bunk beds and a small table. It's one room
Speaker 2: and it's got a wood burning stove. And then outside
Speaker 2: and this is the critical part that makes it's so
Speaker 2: so nice. It has an outside fireplace. And we've been
Speaker 2: to these cabins before with this specific friend group. This
Speaker 2: is the friend group from Crow. You know, this is
Speaker 2: like the Crowbros. And and it's been much needed. Last
Speaker 2: time we went was eight years ago at this place,
Speaker 2: and I saw a ton of black bears when I
Speaker 2: was there. And it's just gorgeous because you have an
Speaker 2: outside fireplace and once you get the fire cooking in there,
Speaker 2: after like two three hours, that whole wall heats up
Speaker 2: and it just radiates heat and you are never cold.
Speaker 2: It's so so nice. It'll be like a crisp fifty
Speaker 2: degrees every day.
Speaker 1: Is so nice. That's a beauty. I mean, that's basically
Speaker 1: where I'm from, and it's so beautiful in the woods
Speaker 1: around there in the mountains that are so you know,
Speaker 1: the only I've only had like two near death experiences,
Speaker 1: and one was at Seneca Rocks in West Virginia. Who
Speaker 1: I was on I was I think it was between
Speaker 1: my freshmen and sophomore year in college. A bunch of
Speaker 1: high school friends were like, we're getting a place. We're
Speaker 1: going skiing in Canane Valley and we went skiing, but
Speaker 1: then it was hot. It was one of those times
Speaker 1: where we're skiing t shirts and night snow pants and
Speaker 1: you'd have your gloves on, your mits on, and that
Speaker 1: was kind of it. So my friends were like, well,
Speaker 1: do you want to take a hike? And we drove
Speaker 1: out to Seneca Rocks, which is a very beautiful hike,
Speaker 1: and I'm talking to my friends. It's sort of single
Speaker 1: track path around the side of this mountain and there's
Speaker 1: a rock over this area and I stepped over and
Speaker 1: like stretched my leg out and went on and my
Speaker 1: friend behind me was like, dude, and I looked down
Speaker 1: and was straight down like I It was like an
Speaker 1: optical illusion where the rock I was stepping over went
Speaker 1: to almost nowhere. WHOA and I had to like it
Speaker 1: was crazy. I basically my left hand was on the
Speaker 1: rocks and I had to pull myself back and then like,
Speaker 1: but that would have fallen. I don't know. I won't
Speaker 1: overestimate it, but I'll say two hundred feet maybe three
Speaker 1: hundred feet. Yeah, And it was the first. You know,
Speaker 1: I've been in a couple of car accidents at that point,
Speaker 1: so it was the first one that was My bad
Speaker 1: decision almost cost me the whole enchilada. But I pulled
Speaker 1: the enchilada back, and that's what it's all about.
Speaker 2: Protecting enchilada back, folks. All right, I'm so excited to
Speaker 2: share this story, Scott. Are you ready for it?
Speaker 1: I couldn't be more ready.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. I have to give all the credit
Speaker 2: to the wonderful and delightful Hannah Walling for sending this in. Hannah,
Speaker 2: you are awesome. Thank you so much. This was okay.
Speaker 2: So I do believe that this article was first published
Speaker 2: in the London Times, because this is a story from
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety seven, and this is an article from nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety seven. I've been looking and looking and looking for
Speaker 2: the actual original article, and as far as I can tell,
Speaker 2: this might be a reprint of it on the Independent,
Speaker 2: and it's labeled just David Ironovich column from Friday, the
Speaker 2: twenty fifth of July nineteen ninety seven, written by David Iranovich.
Speaker 2: The best in the biz really good. And when you
Speaker 2: read this see is the best in the biz. This
Speaker 2: is like you realize that the quality of writing in
Speaker 2: general and journalism in specific has gone downhill. This is
Speaker 2: like excellent British writing in nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 1: Here it is y take me back, Okay.
Speaker 2: Every evening for a year a computer programmer, Neil Simmons
Speaker 2: would go down to the end of his garden in
Speaker 2: stockin tigerhead Devin, I made that sound more German than
Speaker 2: it was and call to the owls, and the owls
Speaker 2: would call back. So intense and varied did these crepuscular
Speaker 2: exchanges become that mister Simmons, an owl reader by hobby,
Speaker 2: began to nurture hopes of finally discovering the hidden language
Speaker 2: of owls. Wooo, hooted mister Simmons. Wooooo, replied the owl.
Speaker 2: As it happens. At exactly the same time, Fred corn,
Speaker 2: as a retired company director, was enjoying a very similar,
Speaker 2: though slightly more passive twilight conversation with the owl at
Speaker 2: the bottom of his garden. Woooooo when the owl mister
Speaker 2: Corns would respond. For any two men to be spending
Speaker 2: exactly the same evenings thus engaged may be considered mildly coincidental.
Speaker 2: What lifts this tale beyond the normal, however, is that
Speaker 2: mister Korns is also a resident of tiny stuck in Tiganhead. Indeed,
Speaker 2: his garden in fact a butts onto that of mister Simmons,
Speaker 2: and the obvious explanation of their shared experience would surely
Speaker 2: be that they're one unaware of events next door, that
Speaker 2: one unaware of events next door had been communicating with
Speaker 2: the very same garrulous bird who had been so entertaining
Speaker 2: the Unfortunately, this one owl, two men explanation was exploded
Speaker 2: by a chance conversation between their wives, who met each
Speaker 2: other in the driveway and began to chat. One recounted
Speaker 2: how her lovable but eccentric spouse liked to hoot in
Speaker 2: the garden before bed. The other reciprocated with tales of
Speaker 2: how her own old feller liked nothing better than a
Speaker 2: nice alfresco squawk before turning in. The two women looked
Speaker 2: at each other. The men were called and the case
Speaker 2: put to them, and each recorded an example of his
Speaker 2: owl speak. In the end, they were left inescapably but
Speaker 2: embarrassingly with the two men no owl theory. This will
Speaker 2: have been particularly going for mister Simmons, who, as an expert,
Speaker 2: will have known that some of his calls were what
Speaker 2: shall we say, hoots of avian desire embarrassment. Aside, there
Speaker 2: are I think, and then Aaron goes into a bunch
Speaker 2: of different things.
Speaker 1: It's so funny these grown men owling to each other
Speaker 1: is just so fun And I hope they're best friends now.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's I really do thirty years later and
Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, almost thirty years later and you're like,
Speaker 1: I just hope you guys are best friends. That and
Speaker 1: maybe when they're at the bar and one goes up
Speaker 1: to order beers for the other one, he gives a
Speaker 1: couple of hoots. The guy hoots right.
Speaker 2: Be at for one year, going out every night and
Speaker 2: just hooting at each other is so so funny to me.
Speaker 1: Life before the internet, life before smartphones, you just had
Speaker 1: to find entertainment on your own. Damn. That's so sweet. Though.
Speaker 1: They both were enthusiastic. Yeah, and I wonder have said anything.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's an interesting idea.
Speaker 1: That's just let wives have just known and just let them.
Speaker 2: Well. The thing is is that one guy was an
Speaker 2: owl breeder, and so it was kind of like part
Speaker 2: of his thing. So he was recording all of the conversations.
Speaker 2: That's another thing. He recorded every hoot. He has like
Speaker 2: a journal for a year of just another man's hoots
Speaker 2: back at him in the night time.
Speaker 1: I know, pre internet, pre smartphone. It was it awesome
Speaker 1: or was it sad? It's up for you to decide.
Speaker 1: My friend always made the joke because another when I
Speaker 1: was waiting tables. Around the time you and I left
Speaker 1: New York, they started to get phone access or Wi
Speaker 1: Fi underground in the subways. But when you and I
Speaker 1: lived there, yeah, no phones. It was like you lost
Speaker 1: all reception and it was peace and trying lightly. It
Speaker 1: was I read so many books on the f train,
Speaker 1: It's unthinkable. And then when I got back, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is crazy, and another person's like, I hate it.
Speaker 1: I hate that everybody's looking down on their phones and
Speaker 1: out of each other. My friend Jessica was said, yeah,
Speaker 1: but what was it before? Before when you read newspapers,
Speaker 1: you would open a full newspaper. It was like building
Speaker 1: a wall in front of your face. Yeah, she's so right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: looking down on your phone, you can kind of have
Speaker 1: I don't know, three hundred and fifty degrees a vision.
Speaker 1: But when you open a newspaper like not today, rest
Speaker 1: of this train, and then just build a little house
Speaker 1: around your face. No, it is better.
Speaker 2: I know that. I always there's a meme out there
Speaker 2: about like, oh, the world was so much better before phones.
Speaker 2: And then it's just a packed train with every man
Speaker 2: with a newspaper in front of his face.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just vibing, just everybody's vibe being on a deeper emotional,
Speaker 1: spiritual level.
Speaker 2: Don't worry, we'll be able to build that wall again soon.
Speaker 2: Once the VR headsets happen. Guys, there, it's gonna be
Speaker 2: a new chank. There's gonna be a new chink in
Speaker 2: the dystopia future that we have in they have in
Speaker 2: store for us, where everybody's just walking around with VR headsets.
Speaker 1: I know the introverts will rejoice. They'll just have their
Speaker 1: own paradise. They'll just have their own living room on
Speaker 1: their headsets, so no matter where they are, they're just
Speaker 1: in their safe space, and God bless them, they need it.
Speaker 1: Them take care. That's a great I mean god, But okay,
Speaker 1: So if Lauren was going out every night and doing
Speaker 1: bird calls and then you later found out that somebody
Speaker 1: two streets over was responding, would you tell her? I
Speaker 1: guess you would, right.
Speaker 2: I guess, So it's a I do agree with you
Speaker 2: that it is a question though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, they loved it.
Speaker 2: I think the It sounds like the wives like immediately
Speaker 2: called their husbands over. So it was like immediately, I
Speaker 2: think it was just like you fucking dumb son of
Speaker 2: a bitch.
Speaker 1: If it was that that, I kind of like it.
Speaker 2: Hey, idiots, get over your idiots.
Speaker 1: It would also be great if the tale was that
Speaker 1: those two men hated each other for twenty years prior
Speaker 1: to this, like that, yes, never find common ground. One
Speaker 1: painted their door red, the other's mailbox was shaped like
Speaker 1: a manatee. They couldn't stand each other, and then slowly
Speaker 1: they fall in love from hooting at each other for
Speaker 1: over a year. There is that nicer way to think
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is an the way to think of it,
Speaker 2: but it is very common, I especially in nineteen ninety six,
Speaker 2: to just have a family. Wheers like, we don't get
Speaker 2: divorced and so instead we live with a person we
Speaker 2: revile every second we revile them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's some of that. I mean, there's some of that. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's a fun one. Taylor Hunt sent this in. Thank
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Speaker 1: whole perception of the universe. Oh okay, manchug's twenty four
Speaker 1: ounces of ranch dressing in ten seconds at Belding competition.
Speaker 1: Huh oh my ten seconds twenty four mis of ranch dressing.
Speaker 2: It's not in the bottle. It can't be in the bottle.
Speaker 2: There's no way it's in the model. It's not on
Speaker 2: the bottle. Okay, great.
Speaker 1: This was on Fox seventeen West, Michigan. That's a real
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Speaker 2: Jillian Berenson.
Speaker 1: Jillian Berenson was sick that day. She had the sniffles.
Speaker 1: She thought it could be cocos, so she stayed home.
Speaker 1: Olivia Yatuma.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, I met Olivia Yatuma. Thank you. Best in
Speaker 2: the biz when it comes to jogabizt viscous.
Speaker 1: Liquids, viscous high sodium, high calorie liquids in Western Michigan,
Speaker 1: you call one woman, and you call her right away.
Speaker 1: Olivia Yatuma. Belding, Michigan. The Harmful Rooster in Building hosted
Speaker 1: its first ever chugging competition, where you would win by
Speaker 1: chugging a twenty four ounce glass of their ranch dressing.
Speaker 2: So twenty four ounces, so like one ounces like a
Speaker 2: table a pound. One ounce is a tablespoon though.
Speaker 1: Around sure a shot glass, yeah yeah, so small shot glass,
Speaker 1: So that's.
Speaker 2: Probably I'm just trying to figure out what ranch comes
Speaker 2: in clocks in a like.
Speaker 1: Pint glass is sixteen ounces. Yeah, so it's one and
Speaker 1: a half pint glasses in ten seconds of ranch dressing.
Speaker 2: It's also all of your calories for the day. It's
Speaker 2: probably like two thousand and four hundred right there.
Speaker 1: It's pretty crazy. It only took ten seconds for competitor
Speaker 1: zach Orvis to chug all twenty four ounces of the
Speaker 1: ranch and take home the win. When asked how he
Speaker 1: consumes so much ramp so quickly, Orvis said, I've seen
Speaker 1: people pour that amount that amount on their salads, So
Speaker 1: what's the difference.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's got a line, he's got a line
Speaker 2: for it.
Speaker 1: He's so nonchalant about That's also not an answer. He
Speaker 1: could have said like, oh, I took a deep breath
Speaker 1: and I didn't eat this morning, or I ate lots
Speaker 1: of iceberg lettuce. I mean a little salad in my belly.
Speaker 1: But no. Also in western Michigan, if you're putting twenty
Speaker 1: four ounces of ranch on your salad, sign me up.
Speaker 1: Orviis did, however, have his fair share of competition. The
Speaker 1: Harmful Rooster cap the competition at twelve people.
Speaker 2: It's called the Harmful Rooster. Yes, okay, fun.
Speaker 1: Name, Yeah, fun name.
Speaker 2: That's what you want anytime you want to go to
Speaker 2: something called the Harmful Black Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know there are four people left on the waiting list.
Speaker 1: They'll get him in next year because we're reporting it.
Speaker 1: So it's going to be a big deal. One of
Speaker 1: the competitors actually next year, if you want to, if
Speaker 1: you get in on this will send you Banana's merchandise
Speaker 1: to compete as a team Bananamal and we hope you
Speaker 1: at least finish the twenty four ounces.
Speaker 2: Or go to the violence Fueled Rooster and have a
Speaker 2: great time.
Speaker 1: That's right, it's just down the street at the Serial
Speaker 1: Killer Chicken Shack. Have fun. One of them. One of
Speaker 1: the competitors was a ten year old named Jordan Petterley.
Speaker 1: All Petterley had to say was I'm a kid. I'm
Speaker 1: the youngest person here. Good luck.
Speaker 2: Also, he should have said, I'm a kid. I'm the
Speaker 2: only one who should be doing this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I could actually digest this. I'll be hungry in
Speaker 1: two hours. One owner, Randy Roost, that's what it's called
Speaker 1: rus DN, I think, came prepared for the big day,
Speaker 1: making sure there were buckets by every competitor justin case,
Speaker 1: you know, you'd get it. Rust had his competitor's sign
Speaker 1: a waiver. How much more Midwest can you get than
Speaker 1: guzzling ranch dressing, Bruce said, Still, rus clearly underestimated orvis.
Speaker 1: I don't feel sick at all. It's just ranch dressing,
Speaker 1: Orbis said moments after winning. Moments after winning, I don't
Speaker 1: feel sick at all. It's just.
Speaker 2: Also, you know what, I I this might be weird,
Speaker 2: but I don't think of Michigan as the Midwest. For
Speaker 2: some reason, I think of Wisconsin as the Midwest. I
Speaker 2: think of Minnesota's the with Midwest. I think of Ohio
Speaker 2: as the Midwest. But for some reason, I simply do
Speaker 2: not take Michigan. I feel like Michigan has a different
Speaker 2: character than the rest of the Midwest. I feel like,
Speaker 2: I really do feel that.
Speaker 1: I mean the geographically, I think there could not be
Speaker 1: more smack dab in the middle the Midwest. But I
Speaker 1: know what you're saying, there's something about Michigan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's something about Michigan. Maybe it's because they're so
Speaker 2: far north. The mid means the mid it's got to
Speaker 2: be in the center, you know.
Speaker 1: But there we need a new region up there. That's
Speaker 1: what we need. We have a new region. Just cut
Speaker 1: the Dakotas out there. The Dakota's are just the Dakotas
Speaker 1: they can They probably very naturally a beautiful place. Yeah, nobody.
Speaker 1: When you meet somebody from one of the Dakota's, it
Speaker 1: is like meeting somebody from the moon. It's so fascinating.
Speaker 2: Because there's five there's five people who live there.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: When I was at UMass, I used to go to
Speaker 1: all the Hasakasa meetings all like the I was just
Speaker 1: friends with the Black student Union. I would just go
Speaker 1: those meetings that sit there. They all thought I was fun.
Speaker 1: So they were like, we don't care. And there's this
Speaker 1: one kid that was like, yo, Scottie, I got into
Speaker 1: grad school. I'm going for free. I wasn't aware he's
Speaker 1: like North Dakota State. I was like, congratulations. He goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're just giving scholarships any brown kid, and I go, man,
Speaker 1: good luck, but he did. He was like I wasn't
Speaker 1: even a good student. I had like a two point seven,
Speaker 1: but they just accepted me. And I'm like, this is
Speaker 1: one strategy, just zero diversity. And they're like, send us
Speaker 1: you're not white people, and they get a full ride
Speaker 1: for grad school. I hope that guy turned out alive.
Speaker 1: I don't feel sick at all. It's just ranch dressing
Speaker 1: or visaid moments after winning the competition. The prize sought
Speaker 1: after all twelve competitions was a one hundred dollars a
Speaker 1: gift card and a free order of All you can
Speaker 1: Eat wings every week until the spring of twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: pretty good. Oh, not bad, that's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Wow. It also as if heat this guy needs any.
Speaker 1: Orvis orvis Or.
Speaker 2: I'm worried about Orvis' health, is what I'm saying, Zach Orvis.
Speaker 1: They might live to regret that weekly all you can
Speaker 1: Eat wings zach Orbs rolls through.
Speaker 2: That's tough. That's tough because it's it's a tempting offer.
Speaker 2: It is a tempting offer to just know Thursdays are covered.
Speaker 2: I know you could go in start earlier and earlier
Speaker 2: two pm. It's it's all you can eat until clothes.
Speaker 1: But Randy Roost, the Randy rust, the owner of the
Speaker 1: harmful Rooster, this guy gets it. If you're first of all,
Speaker 1: it took ten seconds. It's it is a disgusting amount
Speaker 1: of ranch dressing. But that doesn't warrant one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: No, No, this is the.
Speaker 1: Correct gift card. And until spring, not even a date.
Speaker 1: Could be till the spring, could be April, could be.
Speaker 2: May, and also not a full year. Because he's he's
Speaker 2: kind of figured it out. He's like, how much does
Speaker 2: this guy eat?
Speaker 1: So we're talking max sixteen weeks of All you can
Speaker 1: Eat Wings max and one hundred bucks. Maybe maybe that
Speaker 1: can't show up one week, so he loses that. This
Speaker 1: is a perfectly what's the word. I'm trying to say,
Speaker 1: it's the perfect pairing. It's just great. Randy Ruster runs
Speaker 1: a tight ship. And it's safe to say that these
Speaker 1: competitors were ready to take on the ranch Orvis just
Speaker 1: slammed it better than the rest. That's good writing. Rus
Speaker 1: tells me that he is hopeful that this year will
Speaker 1: be the first of many for this ranch chugging competition
Speaker 1: again Western Michigan Ban Animals. If you get on that
Speaker 1: list next year, we will send you a shirt and
Speaker 1: a hat, and we will cheer you on, we'll shout
Speaker 1: you out. We want somebody to win the ranch chugging competition.
Speaker 1: You know what, harmful rooster.
Speaker 2: I just realized that it. This is a competition where
Speaker 2: if you're not first, and if you don't win, you
Speaker 2: lose so hard because you've just chugged's say.
Speaker 1: Twenty four hours a ranch.
Speaker 2: But slightly slower than another person. You still chug twenty
Speaker 2: four hours. You still did it. You still drag that
Speaker 2: much ranch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's in there, it's it's in there, and it's
Speaker 1: only coming out. One of two ways. So good luck
Speaker 1: and good luck to the the partners of these people
Speaker 1: who had to sleep next to the person just sweating
Speaker 1: out a pound and a half of ranch for probably
Speaker 1: forty eight hours. It's yeah, yeah, but I do love
Speaker 1: the spirit and I love papping it at twelve people,
Speaker 1: and I do love the exactly correct prize for this competition,
Speaker 1: and I hope next year Bananama wins it.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, go for it, pen Animals. I'm gonna tease
Speaker 2: us into some shout outs here, Scottie, Oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got some.
Speaker 2: Japanese is woman subdues convenience store thief with headlock credits
Speaker 2: anime for technique.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good one. We love when justice gets served.
Speaker 1: Thumbs up. Amy May wants to two thumb up her
Speaker 1: brother Sam with two thumbs his Baltimore based band seven
Speaker 1: Teller It hosted and I think Sam created a free
Speaker 1: music and arts festival to support the Baltimore Office of
Speaker 1: Promotion of the Arts. Awesome promotion and the arts. As
Speaker 1: two guys who we had help but not a huge
Speaker 1: team planning bananas Fest, we know that Tellerfest must have
Speaker 1: been very hard. It was in September. I'm so Sorry,
Speaker 1: these are backlog thumbs ups, but congratulations to Sam and
Speaker 1: go rock out to seven Teller at Tellerfest next year.
Speaker 2: Oh hell yeah, thumbs up.
Speaker 1: It's hard work. Aubrey Simms also wants to thumb her
Speaker 1: baby brother Marshall up. Marshall's only twenty two, but he
Speaker 1: already be stage two cancer. He recently got a clean
Speaker 1: seat scan, right, and Aubrey wants to encourage all testicle
Speaker 1: having been animals to go get them checked out testicular cancer.
Speaker 1: It gets the young guys so nice.
Speaker 2: It is earlier and earlier. Just go get tested everybody,
Speaker 2: all the time.
Speaker 1: Jesus, this is where Ken I know. Aubrey also, on
Speaker 1: a later note, wants to thumb up her husband Avery
Speaker 1: for passing his real estate exam, which is great. But
Speaker 1: also he is the lead singer of a metal band
Speaker 1: called Tides of Autumn.
Speaker 2: Oh hell yeah, that's a great name.
Speaker 1: So congratulations and thumbs up to Avery Sims And also,
Speaker 1: let's get Tides of Autumn on Telorfest next year.
Speaker 2: Guys, let's get Tides of Autumn on Tellorfest.
Speaker 1: Please, Sam Sam of seven Teller reach out to Tides
Speaker 1: of Autumn and get them at Telorfest next year. Oh
Speaker 1: we have a heart. This is a sad one. Three
Speaker 1: wants the thumb up her dog Marley, who passed away recently,
Speaker 1: one of the goodest boys ever sixteen years and three months.
Speaker 2: Oh hell yeah, thumb Marley gave.
Speaker 1: Mel the look like it was time to go and
Speaker 1: then passed, uh thumbs up to all the dogs out
Speaker 1: there were big dog boys. Yeah, we're human dog boys,
Speaker 1: the banana boys. And enjoy that big old tennis ball
Speaker 1: in the sky Marley. Yeah. And last, but not least,
Speaker 1: Ashley Aaron viznor Or Visinor is thumbing herself up because
Speaker 1: she kept one foster kitten alive twice. The first time
Speaker 1: she saved it from the streets where he was surrounded
Speaker 1: by ravens who were about to eat him. So she
Speaker 1: named this kitten, which she kept. She's keeping this cat.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: The undying Declan Thattius raven Meal. The third.
Speaker 2: Oh that is such well, come on, so you call
Speaker 2: him Decky? Who would he call him for short? I wonder?
Speaker 1: Well, yes, Ashley, let us know what you call the
Speaker 1: undying Declan Thattius raven Meal the third actually, good for.
Speaker 2: You, Declan Thattius is the middle part.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the undying decland Thattius Ravenmeal the third Declan Thattius.
Speaker 1: It's like, how good is that?
Speaker 2: That's a great name and it doesn't sound jokey, do
Speaker 2: you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Even though jokey, it's perfect it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, like, but it's not names that I
Speaker 2: hear a lot in jokey names. Do you know what
Speaker 2: I mean?
Speaker 1: Of course? Oh, exactly, it's always mixed something. It's a
Speaker 1: mixed stupid Yeah, this is I would call him d
Speaker 1: t R. Declan Thadius Ravens Meal. I'd call him Deeter Deeter.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Undying Declan Theadius Raven Meal the third or I guess
Speaker 1: it's the third. You can always call him Trip if
Speaker 1: you are in georgey'd calm Trip. Ashley Foster's for a
Speaker 1: small private rescue in the high deserts so southern California.
Speaker 1: So if you want a foster animals, which is a
Speaker 1: wonderful thing to do, you can go to to rescue
Speaker 1: dot org. That's t o rescue dot org for more
Speaker 1: information and rescue these pets. Thumbs up to you, Ashley
Speaker 1: for fostering this and also naming him a fantastic name.
Speaker 2: Thumbs up, thumbs ups, and of course I'm here with
Speaker 2: Scotty Lands.
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Speaker 2: It is Japanese Woman's Subduced Convenience Store Thief. This was
Speaker 2: in Oh, Japan Today, written by Casey Basil Oh.
Speaker 1: Very herbaceous writing. We love her.
Speaker 2: Actually it might be Casey Bazil. I don't know. This
Speaker 2: was an October fourth. Someone sent this in an big
Speaker 2: I really apologized, guys, that's okay. It was a long
Speaker 2: time ago. I mean it was October fourth, and I've
Speaker 2: been saving it and moving it and trying to keep
Speaker 2: doing it, and I keep not doing it, but now
Speaker 2: I'm doing it here. It is like countless other people.
Speaker 2: In Japan, twenty three year old Karen Rio walked into
Speaker 2: a convenience store to do some shopping on the night
Speaker 2: of September sixteenth, but while it's unclear for Yo ever
Speaker 2: obtained what she'd got in the store in search of
Speaker 2: while she was there, she decided to dispense some justice.
Speaker 2: The incident occurred shortly before eight pm in the shitty
Speaker 2: neighborhood that is its Shi Tte. I don't know how
Speaker 2: shity shitty, It sounds like shitty neighborhood of the city
Speaker 2: of Yokohama's Surrumi ward, slightly south of Tokyo. While Rio
Speaker 2: was at the store, a man attempted to shop lift
Speaker 2: a six pack of beer, and when he attempted to flee,
Speaker 2: a clerk confronted him, two becoming entangled near the store's exit.
Speaker 2: Noticing the altercation, Rio stepped in and, after ensnaring the
Speaker 2: man's legs, brought him to the ground and put him
Speaker 2: in a headlock. Uh The man attempted to break free
Speaker 2: by biting Rio on her left forearm. With enough force.
Speaker 2: The two weeks later, there are still visible teethmarks on
Speaker 2: her skin. Rio's grippelled fast, though, and she kept the
Speaker 2: man subdued until the police were summoned and arrived on
Speaker 2: the scene, where he was placed under arrest. As an
Speaker 2: office worker who works in Serumi, Rio's daily job does
Speaker 2: not involve subduing criminals, so following the incident, some wondered
Speaker 2: if maybe she has experience in martial arts training. But
Speaker 2: that's not part of her background either. I've never done
Speaker 2: martial arts. I took tea ceremony lessons, she says, instead
Speaker 2: crediting a love of anime for her headlock technique. I
Speaker 2: like anime, so I just sort of imitated what I've
Speaker 2: seen in it.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: At the time time, I wasn't scared. It felt like
Speaker 2: my body was just moving on its own, Rio recalls,
Speaker 2: adding that it wasn't until after the incident that she
Speaker 2: stopped to think about the possibility that the man could
Speaker 2: have had a knife or been otherwise armed. It's lightly
Speaker 2: for that reason that, even as a representative for the
Speaker 2: to Surrey Police Precinct praised her courage, he advised others
Speaker 2: who might witness crime to prioritarize, to prioritize, to avoid
Speaker 2: putting themselves at undue risk and contact the Police's.
Speaker 1: That's right, don't don't do it.
Speaker 2: If you don't, I mean, but how many times it's like.
Speaker 1: A gunless society. It's so different over there, it's so different.
Speaker 2: But how many times have you seen in your mind
Speaker 2: the thing you were gonna do and then gone and
Speaker 2: did something radically different?
Speaker 1: I mean every single time. When you know, we at
Speaker 1: Sacred Heart in Glendon, Maryland, when we had like monthly
Speaker 1: churches or whatever we had to go to mass, I
Speaker 1: would just sit there and think about if terrorists broke
Speaker 1: into this, how would I hide? Where would I hide here?
Speaker 1: Like instantly go under the pew and crawl over here,
Speaker 1: and then like go behind the baptismal phone. Then I'd
Speaker 1: climb up the back of the giant organ pipes and
Speaker 1: get up it, and like I would have a whole
Speaker 1: battle plan. What was I going to do? I was
Speaker 1: like ten years old, Yeah, but I'd seen the movie
Speaker 1: Toy Soldiers, which is an underrated nineties hit, and yeah,
Speaker 1: in my head, I had a whole escape route that
Speaker 1: I was going to call nine one one then go
Speaker 1: back in and start rescuing people. Like what am I talking? Asked?
Speaker 1: I would have stood up too fast and gotten nosebleed,
Speaker 1: farted and passed out. Like that's at best.
Speaker 2: You do all. I at least always wonder about those situations,
Speaker 2: like do you do? Do I instinctually just do the
Speaker 2: thing that needs to be done? And I hope I do,
Speaker 2: But honestly, you just don't know until you're in that situation, right,
Speaker 2: I know, I mean you maybe maybe maybe it works
Speaker 2: to prime yourself to like dood do the good right thing,
Speaker 2: you know, to go in and do help the person
Speaker 2: instead of run away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely have that in mind. But yes, it's but
Speaker 1: what are you really going to do? It's over there. Also,
Speaker 1: let's be real, like if somebody's smaller than me, my
Speaker 1: confidence goes way up. If somebody's my slides are bigger, boy,
Speaker 1: do I wimp out in a real hurry? But everybody
Speaker 1: will just run? I mean, I'm a runner, let's face it.
Speaker 1: It's interesting. I had a college professor and I can't
Speaker 1: even remember the class. It was a communication class, I
Speaker 1: know that, but he was like, raise your hands if
Speaker 1: you know what the inside of an emergency room looks
Speaker 1: like and he's like, keep them up if you've ever
Speaker 1: been in an emergency room, and like ninety five percent
Speaker 1: of the college kids went down, and there's like, raise
Speaker 1: your hand if you know what the inside of a
Speaker 1: courtroom looks like, and leave your hands up if you've
Speaker 1: ever inside of court room, and like two hands state up,
Speaker 1: and he kept doing it. It's like if you and
Speaker 1: then he was like, if you think you know how
Speaker 1: to load and fire a gun, raise your hand. And
Speaker 1: he was like everything you think you know is because
Speaker 1: TV taught you what this looks like and how it
Speaker 1: is or movies. And it blew my mind at eighteen
Speaker 1: because I was like, yeah, everything I think I understand about, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what the inside of the White House looks like? What
Speaker 1: I hadn't been on an international flight, like even getting
Speaker 1: food on an airplane, I've never seen that, but I'd
Speaker 1: seen on so many movies. It is crazy how much
Speaker 1: knowledge we all have because of TV and movies that
Speaker 1: you would never admit, Oh, I don't know what the
Speaker 1: fuck I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and also intimate knowledge, intimate knowledge.
Speaker 1: Of what it looks like.
Speaker 2: Right, it would be really funny if the like there
Speaker 2: wasn't actually an oval office, like not a real one,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. It would be so funny
Speaker 2: if if the President's office was just kind of another roub.
Speaker 2: He's like, well, this is where I spend all my time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think sometimes when I go to zoos now,
Speaker 1: like San Diego Zoo or whatever, and I see an
Speaker 1: animal and I realize I've seen it on Planet or
Speaker 1: Earth or Blue Planet or all the things I've watched
Speaker 1: for the last forty years, It's like sometimes I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know exactly what this is, but it's the first
Speaker 1: time you see the real McCoy, and that is it's
Speaker 1: just weird our understanding. I've never been to Africa. I've
Speaker 1: never been any countries in Africa, and I feel like
Speaker 1: I could really tell you about so far As in
Speaker 1: Kenya and what South Africa looks like from paragliding, and
Speaker 1: just walk you through Egypt. I could just give you
Speaker 1: a perfect tour of Egypt. And I've never been and
Speaker 1: we're close to Africa. I know what the lemurs are
Speaker 1: doing in Madagascar.
Speaker 2: They're standing up, they're looking around. They can't find the
Speaker 2: thing they're looking for.
Speaker 1: If I have told this I'm so sorry. But my
Speaker 1: friend Dell grew up in Manhattan, and Dell, he was
Speaker 1: a great dude, is a great dude, but he is.
Speaker 1: He's a black guy who went to school in Upper
Speaker 1: or West Side Manhattan and as a school field trip,
Speaker 1: they bust all the kids out to where in the
Speaker 1: world is Carmen San Diego? The the hit game show
Speaker 1: for kids and after school highlight show in the nineties,
Speaker 1: and he advanced and they gave him the continent of
Speaker 1: Africa and the way that the final round, if you won,
Speaker 1: they would say, here's the United States, and they would
Speaker 1: go Tennessee and you had to put like a flag
Speaker 1: thing and had a light on it, and if you
Speaker 1: got it right, you moved on. You got five of
Speaker 1: them or whatever ten of them you won for the day.
Speaker 1: And I know they they were prejudiced. I know they
Speaker 1: gave del Africa because he was a black kid, really
Speaker 1: and he did not get one right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's confusing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, large air so hard because they didn't give him
Speaker 1: South Africa start with a layout the southernmost country and
Speaker 1: this poor kid is running around on TV just biffing it.
Speaker 1: So but then you go, yeah, if they if I
Speaker 1: had Asia and they go Japan, I go got it,
Speaker 1: they go China, got it. And then when they start
Speaker 1: to go Vietnam or Malaysia or Bangladesh, I'm oh, I might.
Speaker 2: But you know, my brother is in the State Department,
Speaker 2: and so he would he would play this game with
Speaker 2: me where he would just name he would name capitals
Speaker 2: of countries and then I would have to name the country.
Speaker 2: I could not name one if you put like if
Speaker 2: I had a blank map of South America and of Africa,
Speaker 2: and I would even Europe. I would get the majority wrong,
Speaker 2: like I could pick out Italy because it's a boot shape.
Speaker 1: Because you know, ignorant.
Speaker 2: So like I just geography has never been a thing,
Speaker 2: even the United States. I have a general idea, but
Speaker 2: actually no, like Olive and Gus came across this like
Speaker 2: little map.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was a puzzle for kids, and it's all wooden pieces,
Speaker 2: and all the wooden pieces are the States. Even that
Speaker 2: we spent hours just being like this is what I know.
Speaker 2: This one's main but that's pretty much and then it stops.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, I know. We I was doing
Speaker 1: bar Trivia and silver Lake right before the Great Choir,
Speaker 1: and I was with Blake and Mikey and my other friends.
Speaker 1: And then the final round for our trivia team were
Speaker 1: state capitals and you had to send one person from
Speaker 1: your team up to the stairs, so it wasn't that
Speaker 1: bar public house that's closed now. And then it was
Speaker 1: first every time you got one wrong or you repeated one,
Speaker 1: you were eliminated, and they sent me up and I
Speaker 1: just held a few in the back of my in
Speaker 1: the back pocket, like everybody knows, sort of the basic ones.
Speaker 1: But I was sitting on Maryland, which everybody thinks is Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, wait, let me think, I think Columbia, right, No, no, oh,
Speaker 2: what is it?
Speaker 1: Annapolis?
Speaker 2: Annapolis?
Speaker 1: And so that's like a sneaky one. And then Florida.
Speaker 1: Everybody thinks it's like Jacksonville or Miami or one, and
Speaker 1: it's Tallahassee. And so I was just sitting on these
Speaker 1: capitals and we ended up winning the round and winning
Speaker 1: the game. But it was so funny just to watch
Speaker 1: four adults no clue because once somebody named one, you
Speaker 1: were like, oh, California, You're like Sacramento, Okay, that's easy, yeah,
Speaker 1: And then you get to the middle and you're like,
Speaker 1: is it Omaha or is it Lincoln And does it matter?
Speaker 1: I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: Also, it's interesting as cities that capitals are for the
Speaker 2: most part, disappointment city, not the best city, they're disappointment
Speaker 2: cities like Sacramento. Do you want to go to Sacramento?
Speaker 1: I think about Sacramento more than the average person you do.
Speaker 1: I think you know people that hate California, they really
Speaker 1: hate La and San Francisco. They don't hate the whole state.
Speaker 1: You can't hate California because you're like, oh, you hate Yosemite,
Speaker 1: Well then you're a monster. You hate the Redwoods, go
Speaker 1: to hell. Yeah. But I'm like, and then Sacramento is
Speaker 1: sitting right there, and I'm like, what they should just
Speaker 1: inject so much money and culture into that city and
Speaker 1: just make it so unique and so cool and just
Speaker 1: build it to be something new. And instead it's.
Speaker 2: Like, nah, I will I hear that, just because San
Speaker 2: Francisco is so insane, the Bay Areas so looney Tunes,
Speaker 2: looks like in its own world with prices, that Sacramento
Speaker 2: is starting to become cool. That is, I know one
Speaker 2: person that lives there and they're just like, it's starting
Speaker 2: to become cool now.
Speaker 1: So look at that. Hope that's true. I look at
Speaker 1: the barbecue there once. I still did a boutique motel
Speaker 1: there once. That was really cool. I think it needs
Speaker 1: to be a great California city. So I'm pro Sacramento. Yep,
Speaker 1: it's an educational podcast.
Speaker 2: Here's one of educational Send us home, Scottie, send us God.
Speaker 1: This was so funny, I might save it for our
Speaker 1: next guest. Okay, yeah, let me just one that work.
Speaker 1: Steph Schrader. Thank you, Steph Shrader. You always send great stories.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Steph. This was in science alert dot com,
Speaker 1: so you know it's got to be maybe real. Written
Speaker 1: by Michelle Starr Best in the Biz. Also sounds like
Speaker 1: a fake name for Science alert dot com, but thank
Speaker 1: you Michelle Starr for doing the lord's work. Rock used
Speaker 1: as doorstep for decades turns out to be worth over
Speaker 1: one million dollars. One man's trash is another man's treasure,
Speaker 1: but a chunk of rock used to keep a door
Speaker 1: open for decades is a treasure by pretty much any
Speaker 1: metric you might use. Good writing. The three point five
Speaker 1: kilogram ak seven point seven pound stone was found in
Speaker 1: a stream bed in southeast Romania by an elderly woman
Speaker 1: who brought it home and put it to use as
Speaker 1: a doorstop. Her discovery turned out to be one of
Speaker 1: the biggest intact chunks of amber in the world, its
Speaker 1: value somewhere in the region of one point one US
Speaker 1: million dollars.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh my god. Did she get the money?
Speaker 2: Did she get the money?
Speaker 1: The elderly woman who found this particular rumnite nugget ba
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. No. The woman died in nineteen ninety one,
Speaker 1: but a relative inherited her home suspected the doorstop might
Speaker 1: be more than meets THEI. On learning what he had,
Speaker 1: he sold the amber to a Romanians, to the Romanian state,
Speaker 1: who had it a praise by experts at the Museum
Speaker 1: of History in Krackow And, Poland. According to these experts,
Speaker 1: amber is like this amber is likely between thirty eight
Speaker 1: and seventy million years old. What a guest, am it?
Speaker 1: What a nice range, A.
Speaker 2: Giant forty five million year range. It's just it's somewhere
Speaker 2: in somewhere, essentially saying it's old. We don't know if
Speaker 2: it's old or really old.
Speaker 1: So that guy scored a million dollars from the Romanian state,
Speaker 1: and then it resembles a man in Michigan, which is,
Speaker 1: according to us, not a Midwestern state. But you can
Speaker 1: sound off in our DMS.
Speaker 2: Sound off in our DMS sound off.
Speaker 1: Who kept us a large Oh? He kept a large
Speaker 1: piece of rock as a doorstop, only to be found
Speaker 1: he was keeping a meteorite that was worth over one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars. So check your doorstops. Stops using a rock.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I like I like a rock doorstop. There's
Speaker 2: to have a manufactured doorstop. When rocks are everywhere we live,
Speaker 2: pile of rocks, use one.
Speaker 1: To put your door open. That's right. Well, thank you everybody,
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