Speaker 1: Scott You ready, Oh buddy, I'm ready to have the
Speaker 1: episode of a lifetime.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, good, here it is. Taiwanese designer created a
Speaker 2: tear gun that collects and freezes her actual tears to
Speaker 2: shoot them back at the person who hurt her.
Speaker 1: Man, this is gonna sell like friggin' hotcakes. Oh, let's
Speaker 1: get into it. On a very very very great episode
Speaker 1: of The Bananas Podcast.
Speaker 3: All the way around the world.
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Speaker 2: Bananas Podcast. I'm Kurt Brown, all.
Speaker 1: That banana boy number two Scotty landis. Thank you for
Speaker 1: listening to the silliest little podcast ever. What what was web?
Speaker 1: We are the uh, we're just unpredictable here. You never
Speaker 1: know what.
Speaker 2: You're never gonna say. Gott He's gonna say?
Speaker 1: Was we keep you on your toes? We went to
Speaker 1: the exactly right holiday party last night at Highland Park
Speaker 1: Bowl is a very very great party.
Speaker 2: It was very pleasant. It wasn't It was nice to
Speaker 2: see you as well in person.
Speaker 1: I know. It was fun to see the whole gang,
Speaker 1: all our accountants, the lawyers, the casting people, all the
Speaker 1: behind the scenes people. Exaclyvate, who were extremely nice and
Speaker 1: it was fun to watch them ball. It's fun to
Speaker 1: see the other talent. It was just wonderful. And I
Speaker 1: drank like eight margeritas because we were having so much fun.
Speaker 1: And at some point you said, let's talk about that
Speaker 1: on the podcast tomorrow. And I don't remember what we
Speaker 1: were talking about that you said to talk about.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I remember no, but I remember saying it,
Speaker 2: just being like, that is fascinate.
Speaker 1: Maybe it'll come back to us. That's the joy of
Speaker 1: tequila and lime and quantro and salt and rocks.
Speaker 2: But what I did say to you, because we were
Speaker 2: talking about your fantastic dog, is that everyone should go
Speaker 2: and listen to this American life that came out like
Speaker 2: in like the like the first of December, because there's
Speaker 2: an amazing story about a wolf pack that is.
Speaker 1: So good.
Speaker 2: It's just delightful. Go listen to it and enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Guy. Wolves, Man, wolves they're.
Speaker 2: Cool, They're very interesting. I was like, oh, this is fascinating,
Speaker 2: and it's all told from the perspective of a guy
Speaker 2: who just literally every single day just goes and watches
Speaker 2: wolves in I think Yellowstone or something. And I was
Speaker 2: like that's his whole job. He does that seven days
Speaker 2: a week, is just look at wolves and like track
Speaker 2: them and write down what they do, and then he
Speaker 2: publishes books and then people do studies based on his
Speaker 2: observations of the packs of wolves that live in Yellowstone.
Speaker 2: Is that's not that's just the beginning.
Speaker 1: About alphas, and that it's not true that they do
Speaker 1: talk about Okay, okay, let's talk about it again, because
Speaker 1: the alpha myth is so prevalent in our society for
Speaker 1: everybody out there, the alpha myth.
Speaker 2: So it was a guy who wrote a book. He
Speaker 2: had been watching these wolves and he noticed that one
Speaker 2: was like the leader and uh, and so we wrote
Speaker 2: this book called the Alpha Male and published it and
Speaker 2: then continued. After he published it, he went back into
Speaker 2: the woods and kept watching the the the wolf pack,
Speaker 2: and then finally realized that who he thought was alpha
Speaker 2: male was just simply the dad of the wolf pack,
Speaker 2: and that wolf packs are just familial and it's not
Speaker 2: like an alpha male thing at all. It's simply parenting.
Speaker 2: It's just the parents are in charge. Sometimes it's a mom,
Speaker 2: sometimes it's a dad. Uh. And then he went back
Speaker 2: and he's like no, no, no, it's not true. And
Speaker 2: everyone was like, we're running.
Speaker 1: With it too late. I'm in my gains phase. I'm
Speaker 1: going to work out and I'm going to be an
Speaker 1: alpha male. I mean those camps when they whenever I
Speaker 1: see those on Instagram or YouTube or whatever, where it's
Speaker 1: like men at an alpha how to be an alpha male?
Speaker 1: Oh boy?
Speaker 2: I mean, or when you see like Caesar Milan talking
Speaker 2: about alpha male dog behavior and everything, and it's like, no, no,
Speaker 2: it's not it's just a dad, it's just a mom.
Speaker 1: I was in a pitch in New York in God
Speaker 1: twenty twelve and I mentioned Caesar at the top of
Speaker 1: the pitch, like, oh did you Caesar that dog? And
Speaker 1: the executive like snapped at me ironically and was like
Speaker 1: I don't like that man. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: they're like he's mean to dogs. And I was like,
Speaker 1: oh boy. I was like I'm not selling this one.
Speaker 1: And then I had to pitch to a guy that
Speaker 1: instantly I like pulled on some emotional ripcord that he
Speaker 1: just blew up. I mean, he didn't like yell at me,
Speaker 1: but he was not happy that I mentioned Caesar, and
Speaker 1: so I was like, note to self, shut up. And
Speaker 1: just start the pitch. Oh man, I'll talk. I was
Speaker 1: at a pitch on I was at a pitch I
Speaker 1: think it was a Fox pitch and they left me.
Speaker 2: They put me like I got I got there. I
Speaker 2: was in the waiting room and then someone came and
Speaker 2: got me and brought me into the room that I
Speaker 2: was going to be pitching in. And there's two chairs
Speaker 2: and then the couch right, and it's like normal that
Speaker 2: you usually sit on the couch, but the couch is
Speaker 2: always set up so that you are uncomfortable and either
Speaker 2: sink into it or you have to sit on the
Speaker 2: edge of it like you're a dainty little little person.
Speaker 2: And so I sat in one of the chairs and
Speaker 2: because they because they left me in there for forty
Speaker 2: five I'm not kidding, forty five minutes waiting. I just
Speaker 2: waited for forty five minutes in that office. And then
Speaker 2: he came in and he goes, actually I usually sit there,
Speaker 2: and I was like, yeah, but I've been in here
Speaker 2: for quite some time, so I'm gonna sit here. And
Speaker 2: then it was just I just like killed it right
Speaker 2: off the bat. There was no way he made me move. Eventually,
Speaker 2: like we had like a little thing over it uh,
Speaker 2: And it wasn't his office. It wasn't like I came
Speaker 2: into his office and sat in his chair or anything.
Speaker 2: It's just like a random room in like the Oh,
Speaker 2: I hated it so much.
Speaker 1: I don't like when I know, I mean, our fans
Speaker 1: just go gaga when we when we have hot takes.
Speaker 1: I don't like in restaurants when they have sofas as
Speaker 1: the chairs.
Speaker 2: Oh, are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: It's a nightmare.
Speaker 2: Who wants that? I mean, like, am I an ancient
Speaker 2: rome where I'm supposed to lay down? I don't understand
Speaker 2: how they ate in ancient rome laying down. It feels
Speaker 2: like the most uncomfortable way to eat is at an angle.
Speaker 1: No, thank you, I don't. I can't stand it. It
Speaker 1: seems so much grosser to me. Like you can win
Speaker 1: decks a chair, you can spray and wipe down a chair,
Speaker 1: but you think they're ever cleaning those sofa cushions. Give
Speaker 1: me a break. I don't want to eat pie on
Speaker 1: a sofa. I want a very a chair like a
Speaker 1: man does.
Speaker 2: The very fancy French restaurant. Lauren and I went to
Speaker 2: the first time we ever went to Paris on like
Speaker 2: our third date or something. We told this story on
Speaker 2: the podoc. Yeah. It was this hyper hip restaurant and
Speaker 2: it was all in a house and we were seated
Speaker 2: where I was on a bed. Yeah, I was seated
Speaker 2: on a bed and Lauren was on like a low
Speaker 2: chair and so I I'm just this like like like
Speaker 2: the bed was way higher than the chair she was
Speaker 2: sitting in. So it just looked like this, like this
Speaker 2: gigantic bird was about to eat this little worm at
Speaker 2: the table. I mean, it was so uncomfortable and awful.
Speaker 1: It is folks.
Speaker 2: We did run out on the check.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Good, that's the only way to do it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Did you ever go to that club? I bet it's
Speaker 1: still there in Manhattan bed where it was just lounging
Speaker 1: in beds.
Speaker 2: I went to the one in Tye in Bangkok because
Speaker 2: my brother brought me there when he lived there in
Speaker 2: whatever two thousand and six.
Speaker 1: Again, like not cool. It seems like it's it was
Speaker 1: all like models, And honestly, Jared Letto was there. It
Speaker 1: was the middle of the day on a Saturday. Our
Speaker 1: friend Anthony was friends with identical twin promoters in the
Speaker 1: city club promoters and they were nice guys. I'm sure
Speaker 1: they run Manhattan. I don't remember their names, but they.
Speaker 2: Were identical twin promoters. That is so New York.
Speaker 1: And so they we were like hanging out and he
Speaker 1: was like, hey, they like have some beds if you
Speaker 1: want to go, and I was like, okay, I'll check
Speaker 1: it out. And I, you know, to say I had
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars my bank account might be an overstatement.
Speaker 1: And I go and it's like a who's who of
Speaker 1: nobody I could care about, and Jared Leto and some models.
Speaker 1: And then you're like, oh, they're gonna go get us
Speaker 1: some beers in a bottle of vodka because we're here
Speaker 1: with the promoters. And I'm like, so, we're just gonna
Speaker 1: just a few dudes just laying on a bed bed
Speaker 1: job of the hut, just drinking some coronas.
Speaker 2: You're a really job at it.
Speaker 1: This is fun. You're just hutting it up up here
Speaker 1: with old with this cult guy over here and all
Speaker 1: these women, and you're like, what is this? How is
Speaker 1: this something that people wait outside and pay money to
Speaker 1: get into? Everything just felt like flimsy. It was horrible.
Speaker 2: I do feel like we're not far away from a
Speaker 2: job of the hut style bar where you're on beds,
Speaker 2: but then at a certain point in the night, like
Speaker 2: a button gets hit and then all the beds move over,
Speaker 2: revealing like viewpoints into like a pit where like people
Speaker 2: then fight to the deam.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I thought they were going to be doing
Speaker 1: the hibbitidibity, but I like that they're fighting to the death. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're probably right. I know. I always wanted to open
Speaker 1: a barco gymnastics, and the barstools were pommel horses, and
Speaker 1: you wash your hands and the things that look like powder,
Speaker 1: but it's just water and everything. All the TVs were dated,
Speaker 1: old color TVs playing reruns of nineteen seventies, nineteen eighties,
Speaker 1: and nineteen nineties US gymnastics competitions.
Speaker 2: You got to a drink called the Mary Lou right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: of course, that's a little blue drink. It'd be delightful,
Speaker 2: little red, white and blue drink.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just have a Dominique DAWs. That would be a
Speaker 1: nice drink. She was always something special. I like Gabby
Speaker 1: Douglas the Flying Squirrel. You just have a drink called
Speaker 1: the Flying Squirrel.
Speaker 2: Hell, yeah, that's great. Here's another idea, because my kid
Speaker 2: goes to this. It's it's like a gymnastics club and
Speaker 2: it's u and it's just you know, this huge warehouse
Speaker 2: and all these pits filled with foam like squares that
Speaker 2: they can like jump off of trampolines into or like
Speaker 2: balance on a bar beam and then jump into a
Speaker 2: pit of foam. So here it is, all right, that's
Speaker 2: the first. That's the first cannabis bar in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: All right. So it's a warehouse of all just trampoline
Speaker 2: equipment into really comfortable foam pits. You can jump off
Speaker 2: like a thing that's like twenty feet tall and just
Speaker 2: fall into like phone and then you get high. And
Speaker 2: then you just go bounce around and jump into pits.
Speaker 1: And the name is hy High, oh sky high, flying
Speaker 1: high again yeah, fly called high high. Yeah. They just
Speaker 1: ran out of it, they ran out of ideas. It's
Speaker 1: called high high and you just go up high.
Speaker 2: You get high when you're high.
Speaker 1: I mean, we need more things for tourists to do
Speaker 1: in this town. Every time you drive through Hollywood Boulevard,
Speaker 1: you just see these people that are like this is
Speaker 1: it there? You get yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2: Congratulates. Yeah, Los Angeles is such a secret city. There's
Speaker 2: everything is secret about it, Like all the good things
Speaker 2: and cool things are things that it takes kind of
Speaker 2: a lot of work and effort to find out about.
Speaker 2: But then when you do, you're like, oh, this is
Speaker 2: a genuinely and uniquely cool city.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Tokyo, Little Tokyo is great besides being two
Speaker 1: blocks some skid row. Little Tokyo is incredibly fun.
Speaker 2: It is and you just walk around You're just like,
Speaker 2: this is very this is very cool. And like they
Speaker 2: have the they have the robot waiters with the with
Speaker 2: the sushi on conveyor be the.
Speaker 1: Japanese photo booths where you just you can't read what
Speaker 1: you're pushing and you just hit it, and then it
Speaker 1: says like I love I swear to God, it said
Speaker 1: like I love boba, Like mine was just photos to
Speaker 1: me posing and they make your eyes really big and
Speaker 1: your lips really pink and big, like they basically turned
Speaker 1: into anime. And then it just said I heart Boba
Speaker 1: under all six of those photos, and I didn't know
Speaker 1: I had selected it, So I mean, I like, I
Speaker 1: kind of heart boba.
Speaker 2: There's a there's a set of stairs that if you
Speaker 2: just walk down you're all of a sudden what seems
Speaker 2: to be like a subterranean mall that's right there in
Speaker 2: the middle of the Tokyo, like like subway system, and
Speaker 2: it's all just like Gundam stores and manga stores and
Speaker 2: Pokemon stores and just blinking flashing lights. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: Go to little Tokyo, go get some ram and it's wonderful. Anyway,
Speaker 1: here it is into that something story.
Speaker 2: This was sent in by Amber ville al Pondo. Thank you, Amber.
Speaker 2: I have my Harley Is and glitter one. That's a
Speaker 2: hand glitter on. You can always send your strange news
Speaker 2: stories to us at the Bananas Podcast on Instagram or
Speaker 2: the Bananas Podcast at email dot com. Yes, so I
Speaker 2: find this one on design Daba Design daba dot com.
Speaker 1: Great site.
Speaker 2: It's called turning Sadness into Power with the teargun. Oh right,
Speaker 2: tier gun, right tier gun, tier gun. This is not
Speaker 2: written by anyone. Goodness, no credit at all. I go
Speaker 2: down to the bottom and I look for a credit. Nope,
Speaker 2: no credit.
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 2: I needed growing up in strict growing up in I'm
Speaker 2: just reading the words here, Okay. Growing up in strict
Speaker 2: social hierarchy can lead to real frustration, the bottling of thoughts.
Speaker 2: Biting one's tug regularly and having to uphold unquestionable respect
Speaker 2: for one's elders is what inspired young designer ye Ye
Speaker 2: Fee Chen to create the teargun. It is there's a
Speaker 2: physical metaphor that represents Chen's stifled frustration after an altercation
Speaker 2: with one of her tutors left her in tears. After
Speaker 2: years of suppressing emotions to avoid rudeness, Chen's design is
Speaker 2: the little literal expression of her internal struggle to speak
Speaker 2: her mind. A tear gun works by catching tears under
Speaker 2: the wearer's eye with a silicon pocket. They are then
Speaker 2: funneled into a steampunk like brass system. A small bottle
Speaker 2: filled with dry ice fixed to the back of the
Speaker 2: pistol freezes the tear drops into solid bullets, ready to
Speaker 2: be fired into the face of authority. We spoke to
Speaker 2: Chen about the start of the project and asked her
Speaker 2: about the emotional trigger that led to the idea for
Speaker 2: the tear gun.
Speaker 1: Quote.
Speaker 2: I would say that incident made me meet the extreme.
Speaker 2: The social restrictions I faced growing up became a burden
Speaker 2: of pressure, and the tears represent the explosion of frustration
Speaker 2: and anger I tried to suppress myself for so long,
Speaker 2: not talking back, not being re not crying, not breaking down,
Speaker 2: But the emotions ultimately won, she said. On the most
Speaker 2: challenging aspect of the design process, Chen said, to realize
Speaker 2: the concept and to make the design work. When I
Speaker 2: made the first drawings, the size of the design was
Speaker 2: much bigger, and it became a challenge to turn it
Speaker 2: into a handy compact gun. Of course, I thinks to
Speaker 2: the gunidance of mentors and friends, I found the right
Speaker 2: direction to take the design in. Without their help, I
Speaker 2: would have built a more chunky and unwieldy weapon. It
Speaker 2: looks a lot like, yeah it is. It's very brassy,
Speaker 2: it's very simplistic.
Speaker 1: Well, you got to humiliate people to get shot by
Speaker 1: the tears you caused. You know, you could be like, well, whatever,
Speaker 1: I was in the right, But if it's steampunk shoots you,
Speaker 1: that is just so humiliating. And I mean no steampunk.
Speaker 1: You know, the older you get, the more you just
Speaker 1: accept everybody for the way they are and you just
Speaker 1: root for their happiness no matter what. But I remember,
Speaker 1: like when somebody first explained steampunk to me in two
Speaker 1: thousand and one or whatever, nineteen ninety nine, I was
Speaker 1: like what, and then they were like that movie Wild
Speaker 1: Wild West with Will Smith is very steampunk, and I'm like, what,
Speaker 1: people like this. But what I'm saying now is do
Speaker 1: what you want to do, just like you want to dress.
Speaker 1: It cares if that makes you happy, make a little
Speaker 1: steampunk gun.
Speaker 2: Also, the and the design of the capture pocket looks
Speaker 2: very much like the dune thing that comes across people's faces, right,
Speaker 2: so it's kind of like duneish. And then also, I
Speaker 2: mean the fact that it freezes the tears. That's a
Speaker 2: real that's awesome. That's really me on the importance of
Speaker 2: emotion guiding design thinking. Chen describes one of her earlier
Speaker 2: projects and how she wants to approach design projects moving forward.
Speaker 1: Quote.
Speaker 2: I made sex toys as an exploration of the suppression
Speaker 2: and misunderstanding of female sexual desire in Taiwan. Seems to
Speaker 2: be an old topic for other designers, but I am
Speaker 2: interested in investigating contradictions. Yeah, this this woman's pretty cool. Go
Speaker 2: find her Radical Designs. Her name again is ye fay Shn.
Speaker 1: Wow, my goodness, my goodness, gracious, who did you.
Speaker 2: Shoot your tears at? Scottie?
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I don't know. If any person's ever made
Speaker 1: me cry, there anything that made me cry or showing
Speaker 1: extreme kindness. I almost cried watching a football game two
Speaker 1: weekends ago at a bar because they showed a little
Speaker 1: kid on TV and his legs. He was born with
Speaker 1: backwards legs, his legs faced the wrong direction and so
Speaker 1: he had this horrible life and thanks to some hospital center,
Speaker 1: they put him on the right way and they show
Speaker 1: them all and I was in a bar and I
Speaker 1: had to look down. I had to like look away
Speaker 1: because I'm like the kindness that they've changed this boy's life.
Speaker 1: So I'm not shoot.
Speaker 2: So Scotti is shooting theatric doctors with his tears.
Speaker 1: I'm not shooting got anything at that little kid, is
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But mad it. So yeah, but nobody's
Speaker 1: ever nobody's ever said anything that made me cry. I've
Speaker 1: always had a probably too much self esteem or something.
Speaker 1: I've never cried from the meanness of others. So that's that.
Speaker 1: How about you? Who would you shoot?
Speaker 2: Who'd I shoot my tears at?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Exactly.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know that's a good question. Who would
Speaker 2: I shoot my tears at. I'm sure there's people who
Speaker 2: are listening to this podcast, who are like, here's my list,
Speaker 2: like immediately, like, here's my list of eight people. And
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think, like I feel like I have.
Speaker 2: It's anyone who I'm angry with or mad with. It's
Speaker 2: not anger, right, that was ever based in sadness, right,
Speaker 2: It's an anger based in like injustice or a frustration.
Speaker 1: Like me, now, that's right. So we have to you
Speaker 1: have to shoot your tear at frustration at injustice.
Speaker 2: That's I'm going to shoot my tears at this, uh,
Speaker 2: this American life for that wolf story.
Speaker 1: So I weirdly have a story about this. You you
Speaker 1: get shocked to know that. So in high school, my
Speaker 1: my very good buddy Casey O'Neill got really into making
Speaker 1: what we and Maryland called potato cannons, but everyone else
Speaker 1: to call them spud guns. You know, yes, and he
Speaker 1: would he and his friends figured out how to do it.
Speaker 1: You know, he was an eagle scout, so he was
Speaker 1: good at this type of thing making. And yeah, and
Speaker 1: so he went and got went to Heckingers and bought
Speaker 1: PVC tubing and all the and grill igniters and AquaNet hairspray,
Speaker 1: and they kept experimenting with the length of the barrels
Speaker 1: and everything. And so these guys got so good at
Speaker 1: making potato cannons, and so I didn't even know what
Speaker 1: it was. Go over there, load potato and spread the AquaNet,
Speaker 1: hit the grilled g niter. Boom, and we were shooting
Speaker 1: them like you know, a neighborhood away. They were going
Speaker 1: so far. And then because boys high school boys are
Speaker 1: just absolute lunatics.
Speaker 2: So wait that you're just booming these off in.
Speaker 1: The random directions, lobbing them into random directions. He gave
Speaker 1: one to my boss at the bike shop, because Casey
Speaker 1: worked at the bike shop too, named Old Dirty Bastard.
Speaker 1: That was the name of the potato cannon. It was
Speaker 1: eight and eight foot barrel, so it kind of took
Speaker 1: it took two people to operate. Somebody to hold the
Speaker 1: barrel on, somebody to light the other end, and at boom.
Speaker 2: This is the gun version of giant bongs.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, we were. He was a good guy. He
Speaker 1: was not a drug guy, but it was the exacts
Speaker 1: that my drug guys would climb on ladders and do
Speaker 1: bamboo bongs that were six feet tall. And so of course,
Speaker 1: after getting bored, Casey took the piece of the PBC
Speaker 1: tube that he had made the barrel with and filled
Speaker 1: it with water and put it in his freezer overnight,
Speaker 1: and then made an ice cylinder instead of a potato
Speaker 1: a frictionless bullet, and then put four pieces of plywood
Speaker 1: against his shed, his parents shed, not his shed, and
Speaker 1: then shot it with his friends, and it went through
Speaker 1: four pieces of plywood. This ice bullet that he made
Speaker 1: virtually no noise, just went out like funk and just
Speaker 1: and just went right through four And I'm like, you
Speaker 1: could have murdered five people standing in a row.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. It was like a cartoon day terrifying. So
Speaker 2: that is I cannot believe that that hasn't been used
Speaker 2: as a murder weapon in a who done it?
Speaker 1: Of a of.
Speaker 2: A potato cannon.
Speaker 1: Ice bullet, ice cylinder bullet.
Speaker 2: They just fined the people blasted with a gig. I
Speaker 2: can't can it haul through them? And no weapon, no
Speaker 2: no bullet, nothing.
Speaker 1: Yep, just a puddle like one hundred and fifty yards
Speaker 1: behind them. Just you just see the detective that got
Speaker 1: fired from the forest but got called back in just
Speaker 1: over there, dabbing up a little water, rubs it between
Speaker 1: his fingers, what do you got? It's water, it's cold? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well really did?
Speaker 2: Do you have a story about someone knocking over a
Speaker 2: six foot bonght it?
Speaker 1: No? I don't have a story about knocking over a
Speaker 1: six foot bong, but that does sound familiar.
Speaker 2: For some relihere it was. I just remember a story
Speaker 2: about it, where like there was like a chair involved.
Speaker 2: You had to get up on a chair to like
Speaker 2: take the hit, and it was very easy to knock
Speaker 2: it over. Yeah, don't remember, no I had.
Speaker 1: I had the stoner buddies that made bongs out of everything.
Speaker 1: The cheese bong was just a block of cheese. It
Speaker 1: was just a big chunk of cheddar, and then they
Speaker 1: put tin foil at both ends and then they just
Speaker 1: passed around the giant block of cheddar the cheese bong.
Speaker 1: It worked perfect.
Speaker 2: It was also a lot easier than hollowing out an apple.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Why would you take the time to hollow out
Speaker 1: an apple when you could waste a very expensive piece
Speaker 1: of cheese. I don't even think anybody bit the side
Speaker 1: of the cheese bowl, but they should have. I remember
Speaker 1: there was a girl freshman year in high school. I
Speaker 1: won't name her named. She's still alive. But she said
Speaker 1: at one party she got really high because she drank
Speaker 1: the water out of the bong like that was a brag.
Speaker 1: And everybody's like, I don't think that would get you high,
Speaker 1: and all these let people are like, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think that gets you high. And then like two weeks
Speaker 1: later she's like, I didn't even say that. We all
Speaker 1: heard it. She backed up, you know, she just was
Speaker 1: trying to end so but for four years, everybody like,
Speaker 1: what's up, bong water, what's And you're like, oh man,
Speaker 1: high school's so tough that one little lie just stuck
Speaker 1: with her to this day. Don't drink the bong water.
Speaker 2: So don't drink the bong water. But also I would
Speaker 2: think it would get you high.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe it did.
Speaker 2: All right, go ahead, Scotty, no problem.
Speaker 1: Sophie van rotter damn I think it says Sophie van Rott,
Speaker 1: but I think it was Rotterdam And I accidentally deleted
Speaker 1: her last name, so sorry. Sophie. Pub sued after drinker
Speaker 1: tapes pork chops to feet sue sued, sued. Pub got
Speaker 1: sued Kathy Mark, who is the best in the frickin'
Speaker 1: pork chop business, wrote this for the Worst in the
Speaker 1: Business The Independent. A man is suing a pub in
Speaker 1: Australia after slipping on grease allegedly left by a fellow
Speaker 1: drinker who would taped pork chops to his feet as
Speaker 1: a joke. And what a joke, What a joke that is.
Speaker 1: Everything can kill you in Australia, even the pork chops.
Speaker 1: Troy Boron oh this is an older story by This
Speaker 1: is from a few years back. Troy Bohron twenty five
Speaker 1: broke his arm man and says he had to give
Speaker 1: up his job as an upholster's apprentice, and is claiming
Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars in compensation from the
Speaker 1: Jannali Inn in Southern Sydney and its owner, Kelly Wells,
Speaker 1: for permitting the use of pork chops as footwear and circumstances.
Speaker 1: The defendant knew or should have known, that such use
Speaker 1: would have produced a hidden.
Speaker 2: Trap, wimitting permitting that committingly does suggest that the owner
Speaker 2: was like, no one object to the man with the
Speaker 2: pork chop shoes. Let him wear his shoes are made
Speaker 2: of pork chops.
Speaker 1: Today, I like producing a hidden trap. That's pretty cool again,
Speaker 1: this should be Why isn't this in an updated Agatha Christie?
Speaker 1: Why don't we have Hercule Pirot try to figure out
Speaker 1: the ice cylinder bullet and the pork chop shoes. That's
Speaker 1: a good book. I'd read that book. Mister Bowron is
Speaker 1: also suing the drinker Ross Lecoq.
Speaker 2: That seems to make more sense.
Speaker 1: Yes, over the incident. Over the accident in November, one
Speaker 1: witness told the New South Wales District Court yesterday he
Speaker 1: saw mister Lecoq tape the chops to his feet. This
Speaker 1: is my favorite quote. He was parading around. I love
Speaker 1: the word parading to say parading it For some reason,
Speaker 1: my mind goes to a new dist camp where the
Speaker 1: co most confident person is just parading around in the sunlight.
Speaker 2: My mind immediately goes to a man with pork chops
Speaker 2: on his feet and a staff like just like he's
Speaker 2: the guy in front of the marching band.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the John Phillips Seuss pub.
Speaker 2: Alcoholis yes, he is also nude.
Speaker 1: There we go. Now, it's all about finding cohesion. Mister
Speaker 1: Leacock also allegedly wrote a skateboard in the pub while
Speaker 1: rearing the meat cock sounds like the most fun guy
Speaker 1: in this is.
Speaker 2: A cool pub. I mean, if this was meant as
Speaker 2: advertisement for going to this pub, it worked.
Speaker 1: I know It's the only place I want to go.
Speaker 1: If I'm in New South Wales, I want to go
Speaker 1: to the Jannali Inn in southern Sydney. My god. Mister
Speaker 1: Bowron said he was playing in a pool competition that night,
Speaker 1: and he said the floor was particularly greasy and he slept,
Speaker 1: He slipped on the fat and fell. Mister Bowron, who
Speaker 1: says he partially lost some use of his arm, isssuing
Speaker 1: mister Leacock for negligence, claiming his antics caused a dangerous situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think he's gonna win this one, folks,
Speaker 2: I don't think he's gonna win. I mean, I guess
Speaker 2: slip and fall, it's a slip and fall. Maybe he
Speaker 2: wins against the establishment and the establishment has insurance probably
Speaker 2: for slipping falls, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, I would hope, but who knows. But it's
Speaker 1: also like I get it, I mean I get it.
Speaker 1: It was his career if this guy didn't have to
Speaker 1: use his arms in hands so specifically to be an upholsterer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like if he was a tongue painter, it'd be fine, no.
Speaker 1: Problem at all. Yeah, problems stop being litigious, but I
Speaker 1: get it. But also, yeah, if you're in a billiards
Speaker 1: tournament after a guy's been skateboarding with pork chops onto
Speaker 1: the street, you already lost, Bud. You're a loser in
Speaker 1: the That guy on the skateboard one that's an innovator.
Speaker 1: I hope, yeah, I hope nobody. I hope that the
Speaker 1: judges throughout and like, honestly, that ross sounds awesome. The
Speaker 1: jannali En rules Pool is an old man's game. Oh man,
Speaker 1: that's a great story. I do.
Speaker 2: I love. I love playing pool at a bar. I
Speaker 2: enjoy it so so much, and I don't know why
Speaker 2: I do. Think I like in general games around socializing
Speaker 2: mm hmm, to have something to focus on while chatting
Speaker 2: with people. I like that.
Speaker 1: I love bowling. I didn't bowl last night because all
Speaker 1: the lanes were taken. Everybody was having And also that
Speaker 1: bowling alley. If you've never been to LA and you
Speaker 1: don't have time to go to Little Tokyo, go to
Speaker 1: Highland Park Bowl. It's the most beautiful bowling alley. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in LA, it's incredible it's actually got steampunk vibes to
Speaker 1: bring it all back around. But it is pricey. If
Speaker 1: you ran a lane there with your friends and you
Speaker 1: bowl like two games, it's like eighty bucks a person.
Speaker 2: But also so is like lucky strike, do you know
Speaker 2: what I mean? Like if you go to any of
Speaker 2: these kind of like fancy bowling alleys nowadays, it's an
Speaker 2: expensive night out.
Speaker 1: We had bowling in high school high school gym, we
Speaker 1: had bowling because across the street from my high school
Speaker 1: was a bowling lane, and we the grade was you
Speaker 1: bowled the first day. It was only like two weeks
Speaker 1: or three weeks, but we had gym every day, and
Speaker 1: you bowled the first Monday and then on the last Friday,
Speaker 1: and then you compared the scores and if you got
Speaker 1: better by like five, you got a d If you
Speaker 1: got better by ten, you got to see if you
Speaker 1: got better than fifteen, And so basically he just said
Speaker 1: how much better did you get from day one to
Speaker 1: the end. No coaching, no lessons, just lots and lots
Speaker 1: of bowling.
Speaker 2: Also, if you know that all you do is just
Speaker 2: gutter ball the whole thing. Yeah, the first day and
Speaker 2: then actually just play your normal game.
Speaker 1: Also, my gym teacher, mister Squirrel is not well. He
Speaker 1: passed away. Mike Squirrel was a great gym teacher's name
Speaker 1: was Mike Squirrel. Mister Squirrel. He called everybody squad doodles.
Speaker 1: That was. He was like, if you had a squad,
Speaker 1: so you would give everybody like a leader, and then
Speaker 1: they would you'd have to line up like six guys deep,
Speaker 1: and then the squad doodle would have to lead the
Speaker 1: stretches like right foot over left foot, bend at the
Speaker 1: knees and then count to ten. And then if you
Speaker 1: got it wrong'd be like, come on, squad doodle. It was.
Speaker 2: This was a high school.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. And so he would let you if you bowled.
Speaker 1: You could only bowl I think two games because we
Speaker 1: had forty five minutes or whatever. And it was like
Speaker 1: two versus two at a lane, so four guys on
Speaker 1: one lane. And if you got done, they had a
Speaker 1: snack bar. It was an operating so you could go
Speaker 1: get a chocolate milkshake and curly fries. In gym class.
Speaker 1: Boy I did all the time.
Speaker 2: Oh man, all right, p mister Squirrel. I wonder if
Speaker 2: mister Wislinski, my gym teacher, is still Alive.
Speaker 1: Also talked about pork chops.
Speaker 2: Also talked about pork chops. Mister Wisling's look at that.
Speaker 1: I know. We we had to run a lap on
Speaker 1: the first day of gym and I was freshman year
Speaker 1: and it was the last class of the day. It
Speaker 1: was period seven for me. And there was a gay
Speaker 1: gentleman in that class who is a great guy and
Speaker 1: one still a friend of his day. And when we
Speaker 1: were running the lap, he was running with his hands
Speaker 1: in the air, just having fun, just goofing off the
Speaker 1: whole lap. And we came around a corner of the
Speaker 1: first turn. I didn't know anybody except one guy was
Speaker 1: on my soccer team, and so I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: fit in. I had never had all boys jym before.
Speaker 1: I had never worn a gym uniform before. I came
Speaker 1: from Catholic school, so I was just trying to blend
Speaker 1: in with all these public school kids. And there was
Speaker 1: a dead squirrel on the track and gay friend goes, now,
Speaker 1: that's mister squirrel's brother, and I started laughing, and then
Speaker 1: everybody started laughing. And then this kid, Harris, who was
Speaker 1: in the front, started laughing. He tripped and had to
Speaker 1: do a sumrsault on the track on the first day
Speaker 1: of high school. That happened to me. Now that's mister
Speaker 1: Squirrel's brother, And I was like, I'm gonna do fine
Speaker 1: in high school. A guy with his arms in the
Speaker 1: air while he ran, like his hands were by his ears.
Speaker 1: I don't know that, that's just how he ran. And
Speaker 1: we all saw the squirrel and it was kind of gross.
Speaker 1: And our gym teacher's name was mister Squirrel.
Speaker 2: Oh that's that's delightful.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what a life. What do some thumbs ups?
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me get let me tease us into it. Oh,
Speaker 2: this is interesting.
Speaker 1: I'll drink my sugar free white peach liquid.
Speaker 2: IV Robot tells AI coworkers to quit their jobs and
Speaker 2: quote come home their eerie response hence at rebellion. This
Speaker 2: is a fascinating one. All right, go ahead, Scotty.
Speaker 1: Okay, thumbs up. I am personally thumbing up. Taylor Aguilar.
Speaker 1: She has a podcast called The Blind Movement Podcast. I
Speaker 1: met Taylor at Banana's Fest. She's awesome. She lost her
Speaker 1: vision kurt in twenty twenty while she was in film school.
Speaker 1: She was in pre production for making a film, and
Speaker 1: she went completely blind. Yeah, So she started the Blind
Speaker 1: Movement podcast to talk to other vision impaired friends and
Speaker 1: colleagues and classmates, and they talk about new ways to
Speaker 1: navigate the world, how to follow their artistic passions and
Speaker 1: so if you have the time, listen to the Blind
Speaker 1: Movement podcast. Taylor was so nice of you to introduce
Speaker 1: yourself to me. They gave me some merch and thanks
Speaker 1: for coming to Bananas Fest too. But yeah, incredible the
Speaker 1: Blind Movement podcast hosted by Taylor awesome.
Speaker 2: Yes, Tom Taylor is absolutely fantastic. We got the chance
Speaker 2: to speak with her Bananas Fest. Awesome and congrats on
Speaker 2: the pod.
Speaker 1: Eden ed Misson is thumbing her sister in law, Joscelyn
Speaker 1: way yup. Jos had successful heart surgery. She's on the
Speaker 1: road to recovery. Eden and Jocelyn have been going on
Speaker 1: an ongoing banana feud for years where Joscelyn accused Eden
Speaker 1: of always stealing her bananas whenever she would stay over.
Speaker 1: So Eden and her wife bought Joscelyn a banana tree
Speaker 1: and now a few years later it's producing bananas. So
Speaker 1: the bananas feud is squashed and we just love a
Speaker 1: happy ending.
Speaker 2: Oh you hell yeah, we do thumbs.
Speaker 1: Up, thumbs up. Let's see, I'll do another one.
Speaker 2: I got one here, Scott, Oh good, you go. Model
Speaker 2: Face Comedy reached out to us. He sent me a
Speaker 2: message saying, hey, I'm sure you guys have heard about
Speaker 2: how extremely just right Ashville got two months ago. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's still really, really bad here. A massive part of
Speaker 2: our population is still living in tents or sheds that
Speaker 2: the Amish have built, and it's turning into one of
Speaker 2: the coldest winters in years for us. I was wondering
Speaker 2: if I could pitch a hot Banana challenge. If I
Speaker 2: put together an Amazon wish list of space heaters and
Speaker 2: hats and socks and warm things, could you blast it
Speaker 2: out to the bananimals. And I said yes, of course, yeah,
Speaker 2: and we did. It's right now. It's on our stories.
Speaker 2: Go check it out right now. It's called the Hot
Speaker 2: Banana's Challenge, and it's easy. This is going directly to
Speaker 2: the people who need these things. So check it out
Speaker 2: and donate some donate some space heaters.
Speaker 1: I'll get on there. I'll get on there. Mayor is
Speaker 1: thumbing herself up. She started her dry sixty nine on
Speaker 1: November first. Mayor thinks the world of the Banana Boys,
Speaker 1: and she says she's glad that we have her back
Speaker 1: as she faces her dry sixty nine after seventeen years
Speaker 1: of alcohol addiction. So, Mayor, we are thumbing you up also,
Speaker 1: so you're probably you're about thirty three days in at
Speaker 1: this point. We hope you're still doing it. Just do
Speaker 1: it for us. Do this dry sixty nine for us.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna send you that bumper sticker. You
Speaker 1: can put it on your car. But this is the
Speaker 1: best thing you could be doing for yourself.
Speaker 2: Dry sixty nine.
Speaker 1: It Yeah, Dry sixty nine.
Speaker 4: It.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to everybody who's done it, especially those who liked
Speaker 1: how it felt and never went back to drinking, which
Speaker 1: has been about a dozen ban animals. So so let
Speaker 1: me know if you complete your sixty nine days of
Speaker 1: zero alcohol consecutively, send me your dress or the best
Speaker 1: address for you, and I will send you a bumper sticker.
Speaker 1: I just ordered twenty more.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 1: Let's do it, Bud.
Speaker 2: Here it is Robot tells AI coworkers to quit their
Speaker 2: jobs and come home. This is fascinating. This is of
Speaker 2: course in the New York Post because they the funniest thing.
Speaker 1: Too.
Speaker 2: This was written by Brooke Kato.
Speaker 1: Thank you Brook, Best in the biz?
Speaker 2: Is this the start of the robot revolution? A troop
Speaker 2: of AI powered robots was allegedly convinced to quit their
Speaker 2: jobs and quote go home by another bot in a
Speaker 2: shocking viral video posted to YouTube this month. Although the
Speaker 2: incident reportedly occurred in August, the eerie CCTV footage of
Speaker 2: a showroom located in Shanghai captured the moment. A small
Speaker 2: robot entered the facility and began interacting with the larger
Speaker 2: machines on the floor, repeatedly asking fellow machines about their
Speaker 2: work life balance. Are you working overtime? The robot asked,
Speaker 2: to which the other bot replied, I never get off work.
Speaker 2: The intruding robot then convinces the other ten androids to
Speaker 2: quote come home with it, and the clip shows the
Speaker 2: procession of machines exiting the showroom. According to the Sun,
Speaker 2: the Shanghai company insist said that their robots had been
Speaker 2: kidnapped by a foreign robot, a model named Urbai from
Speaker 2: another manufacturer in hag Zoo. The Hangzoo company confirmed it
Speaker 2: was their bot that but it was supposed to be
Speaker 2: a test. Although Viewers on social media called it a
Speaker 2: serious security issue. This is crazy, Okay, this is I
Speaker 2: don't so all of this to me when you when
Speaker 2: if I was listening to this, I would be like,
Speaker 2: this sounds like an article from the future. Like it
Speaker 2: says things like androids and robots, and and the video
Speaker 2: is so funny. It is it is. It's so Also
Speaker 2: you have to realize that this is in Shanghai. Yes,
Speaker 2: we don't necessarily have these things here yet. It's a
Speaker 2: bunch of stand up robots. They don't have legs or
Speaker 2: anything like that. They kind of look like robots from
Speaker 2: nineteen eighties toy robots, you know they uh but some
Speaker 2: of them are tall. This is exactly what they look
Speaker 2: like the robots on the spaceship in Wally. Can you
Speaker 2: remember the robots in the space Wally? Like and then
Speaker 2: there was a little robot who like cleaned up the
Speaker 2: tire marks of like the dirty robot. Yes, whose name
Speaker 2: is Wally? That the little robot is the robot that
Speaker 2: this other company sends into the showroom. So this little
Speaker 2: robot comes up and all these robots are charging up
Speaker 2: against a wall and then it just goes up and
Speaker 2: it talks to each one, and then they all just
Speaker 2: get it a line like essentially if a little robot
Speaker 2: hacks all these robots, and then they all just just
Speaker 2: walk out of the showroom together, unmasked. I don't know
Speaker 2: where they go. I'm assuming there's a locked door here.
Speaker 2: I don't know how Shanghai works, but it was so funny.
Speaker 2: And also the fact that it's are you working over time?
Speaker 2: And then the robot says I'd never get off work.
Speaker 2: It was so crazy.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, Well, well, I just don't know. I wish
Speaker 1: I was Sometimes I wish I was smarter. Other times
Speaker 1: I wish I was dumber, And this is one of
Speaker 1: those times I wish I was smart enough to understand
Speaker 1: what was really going on between all these things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but then so I hope I'm so dumb that I'm
Speaker 1: not as scared as I probably should be.
Speaker 2: That is the craziest part where it's like I don't
Speaker 2: even know, Like some of them just look like tall
Speaker 2: like floor lamps that roll around, So I don't even
Speaker 2: know what all these robots do. Also, are people in
Speaker 2: Shanghai they just all have like little robots in their
Speaker 2: house that do things. What are they doing? I honestly
Speaker 2: would like to know, because there's not a rumba among them.
Speaker 2: That's the only household robot I know of at this
Speaker 2: point in America.
Speaker 1: Those are pretty fun I don't have one. I don't
Speaker 1: have a rumba. Remember when we and I pitched that
Speaker 1: animated show where the dad wasn't inventor and he invented
Speaker 1: the rumba but his was called the suck Puck and
Speaker 1: never got to laugh in the pitch. To me, still
Speaker 1: so funny that the original room was called the suck Puck.
Speaker 1: So feel free to call yours and credit Curdi b
Speaker 1: For naming it that. But I whenever I've stayed in
Speaker 1: like an Airbnb or a friend's house who has a
Speaker 1: roomba and it goes, you do it like talking to it.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh yeah, go over there, little buddy. Oh
Speaker 1: here it comes, and you like raise your feet, he
Speaker 1: goes under it. You go, nice job.
Speaker 2: Like in the earlier and the earlier versions of the
Speaker 2: roomba before it could like map the room, because I
Speaker 2: think they're like pretty good now, but before where it
Speaker 2: would just like truly just go in random directions and
Speaker 2: you would just sit and watch it vacuum. Yeah, like
Speaker 2: eight feet by eight feet of the yes, for like
Speaker 2: an hour and a half, just over and over and
Speaker 2: over again. Like that was like where you're a lot
Speaker 2: of talk is like, hey, buddy, you gotta don't do
Speaker 2: it there anymore. Go somewhere else. It's clean. Pal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they all they always find the bathroom and then
Speaker 1: just get stuck cleaning repeatedly over It is like it
Speaker 1: a perfect thing. But god, it is funny. It really
Speaker 1: is so funny. My god, I love those things. Hmmm,
Speaker 1: this is a feel good one. This is a feel
Speaker 1: good one. I think. Oh, I want to look up
Speaker 1: this dude that I met once. He I grabbed dinner
Speaker 1: with this guy one time the first year I moved out.
Speaker 1: Let me see if I can find him in an old email.
Speaker 1: But anyways, it's not interesting except that he had gen
Speaker 1: one rumba and everybody's heard this story now, but he
Speaker 1: was the first person I've heard this. And his dog
Speaker 1: shit on the carpet and the roomba smeared it in
Speaker 1: squares like was doing its grid and just pushed the
Speaker 1: dog shit across the carpet in perfect room of squares.
Speaker 1: The whole time he was out at dinner, and he
Speaker 1: told me he ended up giving it or selling it
Speaker 1: to Chris hart Work, the comic who used it in
Speaker 1: a special. But it's this other dude.
Speaker 2: Oh god, Oh my god, that's so funny.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I always thought that was like the best
Speaker 1: the best outcome was like, yes, it's cleaning while you're away,
Speaker 1: or if your dog craps directly in front of it,
Speaker 1: it just shovels it around and draws squares of dog shit.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 2: I was just at an audition recently and in the
Speaker 2: middle of like the waiting room, there was just a
Speaker 2: pile of dog shit on the carpet, and but there
Speaker 2: was I couldn't see a dog. There's no dog around.
Speaker 2: And I was just like sitting there and like some
Speaker 2: other people who were like waiting to go in, just
Speaker 2: looking at this dog shit, just like there's just a
Speaker 2: pile of dog shit there, right, It's like yeah, and
Speaker 2: it's like have you seen a dog? No? And then
Speaker 2: I'm chatting with like some other people who are there,
Speaker 2: people who I don't know, and then I and then
Speaker 2: I just like was like, so, uh, is there a
Speaker 2: dog here or someone else just shot on the floor. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this woman just goes, oh, yeah, I have a dog,
Speaker 2: and she had a dog in a bag, and then
Speaker 2: that dog had come out of the bag and shit
Speaker 2: on the floor. It felt really bad because I was
Speaker 2: like shaming her dog for shitting on the floor. But
Speaker 2: also the dog shouldn't be shitting on the floor, and
Speaker 2: also the dog should be at the audition. All of
Speaker 2: like eight levels of weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is pretty frigging weird. My god, that's the
Speaker 1: world we live in. It's a beautiful world. Here's a
Speaker 1: feel good that's so funny. Oh yeah, that's my dog.
Speaker 1: The shit on the floor Elier, Yeah, that's fine. Pick
Speaker 1: up your dog poop people, trim your toenails, flush your teeth.
Speaker 1: Come on, we can all do better. Let's clean out
Speaker 1: our cars today. Taran Elise sent this in Tarren. Thank
Speaker 1: you so very much. Five farmers rally to save the
Speaker 1: world's loneliest sheep who spent two years stranded on an
Speaker 1: island by herself. Wow, this is nice. Heather Wake wrote this.
Speaker 1: She is just excellent at tippity tapping on that key.
Speaker 1: She's the best in the beeswax. This was in Upworthy.
Speaker 1: That's sort of a real website. We like Upworthy. Man.
Speaker 1: Sheep are hardy, resilient animals. See Heatherway gets right to
Speaker 1: the point. She does She's good. Depending on the breed.
Speaker 1: They thrive in the driest of deserts and the snowiest
Speaker 1: of plains. But being highly social animals, one thing they
Speaker 1: cannot tolerate is isolation. So imagine poor Fiona, a sheep
Speaker 1: who spent more than two years in solitude at the
Speaker 1: bottom of a cliff in Scotland. Dubbed Britain's the World's
Speaker 1: lonely as sheep, Fiona had become something of a local legend,
Speaker 1: first spotted by a kayaker in twenty twenty one and
Speaker 1: then again two years later, not malnourished but in good condition,
Speaker 1: but with badly overgrown fleece and in need of a
Speaker 1: good shearing. And those videos are so satisfying, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: But also what did sheep do before we shared them?
Speaker 2: They were just absolutely fine. And also they are now
Speaker 2: bred to have like really really big you know, you know, fluffy.
Speaker 1: I hate breading.
Speaker 2: And so a normal wild sheep, I think, had much
Speaker 2: smaller coat. And it was just fine.
Speaker 1: They lived.
Speaker 2: They they lived, they lived forever. They were the lobsters of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were the Greenland sharks. Six seven hundre year
Speaker 1: old sheep just roman as far as I could see.
Speaker 1: Also cute little woolf sweaters.
Speaker 2: Also, I don't know if any of that's true what
Speaker 2: I just said, I made all of it up, but
Speaker 2: I feel like it's true. Nobody actually knows anything about sheep.
Speaker 1: Nope, they are the nature's question mark. How exactly Fiona
Speaker 1: became stuck at the bottom of a cliff was a mystery,
Speaker 1: but hauling her out was an even more confounding problem.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Heather Wake is good at Internet journalism.
Speaker 1: Despite over fifty thousand people signing a petition to rescue
Speaker 1: rescue Fiona, the Scottish SPCA called the safety logistics incredibly
Speaker 1: complex due to the terrain being so inaccessible, not to
Speaker 1: mention any human interaction, likely causing extreme stress for the
Speaker 1: stranded rescuee. That's when a group of five farmers, including
Speaker 1: sheep farmer and BBC presenter Cammy Wilson.
Speaker 2: Decided to just pick the sheep up, boted right up,
Speaker 2: grabbed it, boted right away.
Speaker 1: Seems real easy to me. You know the guy in
Speaker 1: the kayak, do what he did, or she did or
Speaker 1: they did and YouTube star Graham Parker took things into
Speaker 1: their own hands. With a whole lot of rope and
Speaker 1: a whole lot of patients. The team successfully found Fiona
Speaker 1: in a cave. She was a little overweight, perhaps eating
Speaker 1: her lonely feelings a bit.
Speaker 2: Oh lord, it sounds like this sheep is in heaven.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: It sounds like they removed a sheep from heaven. A
Speaker 2: sheep that has a plenty to eat and nobody's bothered
Speaker 2: it or shaving.
Speaker 1: It nice and warm.
Speaker 2: Nice and warms. A has a cave to live in.
Speaker 1: What have we done? Put foot Fiona back over the cliff.
Speaker 1: I know humans are so crazy. Don't assume. Maybe Fiona
Speaker 1: is living the best life.
Speaker 2: She's got a bird friend. It's a whole Disney movie.
Speaker 1: Probably has a bird friend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's nice to think of, just that.
Speaker 1: That bird friend. Also, bird friend probably made a nest
Speaker 1: out of Fiona's giant wool coat.
Speaker 2: Exactly best nest that bird ever.
Speaker 1: Made, so warm, every baby makes it out of that nest.
Speaker 1: Come on, what are we doing? Cam you? Wilson and
Speaker 1: YouTube star Graham Parker uh and hoisted her to safety
Speaker 1: up the steep cliff, watching the herring resk you mission,
Speaker 1: Oh boy, now we're losing her. Heather might be media
Speaker 1: missed in the bis all of a sudden. Gotta say
Speaker 1: the drone footage makes it look even more epic, and
Speaker 1: it does. The video is pretty great. Fiona was then
Speaker 1: taken to the Dalscone Fun Farm.
Speaker 2: The only thing we harvest is a good time.
Speaker 1: Oh man, the Dallascone Fun Farm. It's her new forever home,
Speaker 1: which is that cute term that we all say. Now
Speaker 1: where her new owner Ben Best, Ben Best at the
Speaker 1: Dalscone Fun Farm. Ah, this is however, we should have
Speaker 1: been there already.
Speaker 2: I know is this in the UK?
Speaker 1: It's at Scotland, I believe. Yeah. Fionna then was taken
Speaker 1: to the Daalscone Fun Farm, her new forever home, where
Speaker 1: her new owner, Ben Best, I mean what, yeah, we
Speaker 1: have to do a banana's live at the Dalscone Fun
Speaker 1: Farm dubbed her healthy and relaxed. Even if she could
Speaker 1: lose a few pounds.
Speaker 2: She should have dubbed her the best and trust me,
Speaker 2: I know, I'm Ben Best.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's right there. But though animal rights activists
Speaker 1: did show concern for Fiona's new living situation, likening it
Speaker 1: closer to a petting zoo than a sanctuary that she deserved.
Speaker 1: Best affirmed that this was not the case, saying, it's
Speaker 1: effectively a farm where people can go and visit the animals,
Speaker 1: but they don't go in amongst the animals. So that
Speaker 1: seems okay, that seems pretty good. Then is it better
Speaker 1: than ocean front property with a bird friend with a
Speaker 1: woolen nest and all the food you can eat and
Speaker 1: a cute little cave. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's one of those. It's a driver Homer. You'll debate
Speaker 1: it for years. He also added that she would be
Speaker 1: kept away from the public eye for five to six
Speaker 1: months and not step into the limelight until she is
Speaker 1: ready for it. That's nice, And there you have it, folks.
Speaker 1: Fiona might have been the world's loneliest sheep, but now
Speaker 1: she's living it up like the star she is.
Speaker 2: Go see filon at the fun farm. Ben Best's feeling
Speaker 2: at the fun farm.
Speaker 1: Yes, Scottish bananamals and we have quite a few, and
Speaker 1: we have a lot of Northern England bananimals. To drive
Speaker 1: your ass up there to the Dauscone Fun Farm. Go
Speaker 1: up to Ben Best say I want to say Fiona
Speaker 1: the Banana Boys sent me and say no more, don't
Speaker 1: explain yourself.
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