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Speaker 2: It's your mysillion pieces, would you do?

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Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, listen to those sounds. Yes, listen to

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Speaker 3: the relaxing sound of the ocean. Here it is, here comes.

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Speaker 4: Here, comes away for you.

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Speaker 3: This is gonna be the most relaxing minnesote ever recorded.

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Speaker 4: As it should be. We're looking at dolphins breaching and

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Speaker 4: like literally, we're looking at dozens of dolphins. Kurt and

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Speaker 4: I are recording together for the first time since episode

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Speaker 4: two with Albertina Rizzo. Yes, we are socially distanced. Yes,

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Speaker 3: Tested, your COVID tested even And we are outside on

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's election day.

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Speaker 3: Scotti has come out to the beach to get away

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Speaker 4: Yes, I decided I wanted to look at something beautiful,

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Speaker 4: no matter which way it goes, and we'll know. I

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Speaker 4: think this comes out in just a couple of days.

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Speaker 4: But we're staring at seals, jumping at dolphins, harvesting fish

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Speaker 4: at locals, already getting drunk at eleven am. Welcome to

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Speaker 4: another Bananas minisad.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, where we go through your stories and

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Speaker 3: give us give you some of our stories too.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes we pepper and some of our stuff. You got

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Speaker 4: All right, I'm going to play the video. It has

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Speaker 4: a popular song. Well, it has a song that used

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Speaker 4: given permission by Thomas, who sent it in, and we

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Speaker 4: I will say, listen to it now. Anyways, this one

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Speaker 4: comes from Thomas MacIntyre. Okay, curtin Scottie, Anchorage, Alaska listener

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Speaker 4: checking in with a story that should humor you. A

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Speaker 4: So there's a hard to reach window in a house.

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Speaker 4: and watch this video. Kurt here is an earpiece in one.

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Speaker 5: and I'm gonna let Kurt watch this about thirty second

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Speaker 5: video and you should tube in animals.

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Speaker 3: No way, no way, he is an expert climber.

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Speaker 3: He is throwing himself from like I've never seen anyone

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Speaker 3: He's swinging by it from like grabbing with his arms

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Speaker 4: of Thomas McIntyre aka at Hella screens over Kid Rock's

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Speaker 4: With the rest of the story. Yeah, the defendant was

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Speaker 4: continue my work as an expert climbing witness. No, seriously,

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Speaker 4: they told me playground manufacturers might be interested in my surfaces.

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Speaker 4: Thomas at Hella Screens, thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Real way, yeah, but I've never I remember they opened

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Speaker 4: Banana's phone. This is Scotti. Oh, hey, how are you.

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Speaker 4: Sarah Sexton calling. Well, we don't have to dock to you,

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Speaker 4: but what state are you calling from?

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Speaker 6: Colorado?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Baby, love Colorado were you listening to an episode

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much, just as Kurtz first experience hearing

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Speaker 3: Phone so many first, Hikert, it's beautiful. I can't I

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Speaker 3: On the bananas phone, Hi, Scott, I love the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Now, Thanks a man, Marianna. This is a beautiful.

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Speaker 4: Story, perfectly Banana's podcast story. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: This is a Banana of the Week. Easy. Yes, I

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Speaker 3: just beautiful, silent public performance.

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Speaker 4: Art, local weirdo telling a story. His life becomes a story.

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Speaker 3: Chunk and Chegwin. So, Chegwin was half chicken, half penguin.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that one, I mean by this time.

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Speaker 4: Oh, there were hundreds of people.

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Speaker 1: I mean May yeah, there was maybe five six hundred people.

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Speaker 4: There were so many people. Because this I knew who

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Speaker 4: you were. Yeah, but we were not friends at this point.

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Speaker 4: And I went to this and was like, this is

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Speaker 4: why you moved to a city. Yes, like you feel

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Speaker 4: called to certain cities if you're sort of an outsider

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Speaker 4: or a weirdo. And but it was like, oh, I'm

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Speaker 4: in New York. I want to be around people that

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Speaker 4: do this. And my cousin Emon joined me and we

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Speaker 4: were like blown away. It was like we found our crew.

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Speaker 3: And I remember we between you know, Matt and I,

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Speaker 3: we both had day jobs. And I calculated how much

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Speaker 3: money we had spent on just doing these events because

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Speaker 3: we made no money from them. We were just literally

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Speaker 3: putting on these things and there was huge costs. We

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Speaker 3: both spent twenty five thousand dollars over five years, over

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Speaker 3: five years.

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Speaker 4: But also when I went to the the so at

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Speaker 4: the Chunk Chov and cheng Win, it was that one

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Speaker 4: of you were going to marry Chov and then she's

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Speaker 4: picked the other one. Right, wasn't there a thing?

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, it was supposed to be.

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Speaker 3: It was supposed to Uh it was their wedding and

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Speaker 3: oh that's right, so right, exactly were you.

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Speaker 1: Really were there?

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Speaker 3: So Chunk was kind of like forcing Chuv to marry

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Speaker 3: him and she didn't want to. So like he was

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Speaker 3: waiting at the altar Telemmy Slocum, who's in Westworld now

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Speaker 3: amongst many other things.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, was the was the priest.

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Speaker 3: He and we did it at Saint Mark's Church, uh

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Speaker 3: in the Lower East Side and down the road, oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: totally shut down the road. And then cheg Win shows up.

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Speaker 3: He asked, you know, Telemy says like, is there anyone

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Speaker 3: here who thinks these people should not get And then

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Speaker 3: all of a sudden, cheng Win dances up and everyone

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Speaker 3: starts because everyone goes, yeah, Chegwin's pure love and Chunk

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Speaker 3: is pure evil.

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Speaker 4: So I can imagine people in like Sweden and Saudi

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Speaker 4: Arabia that listened to the podcast being like, they just

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Speaker 4: keep saying that don't make sense to me at all.

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Speaker 4: But it was like a real drama.

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Speaker 3: It was a real drama, and we tried to make

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Speaker 3: it dramatic. And then Chegwin left with Chov and then

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Speaker 3: everyone and then it was this big celebration. Everyone followed them, yes,

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Speaker 3: down there. That was the time. Surprisingly, that wasn't our

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Speaker 3: biggest event. The last event, which was a big football

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Speaker 3: game with a giant half ball half egg. That one

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Speaker 3: was the biggest one. I think there was two thousand

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Speaker 3: people at the amazing. This was probably like close to

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Speaker 3: one thousand people. And that was the only time that

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Speaker 3: we almost got arrested because it really post nine to

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Speaker 3: eleven uh huh, and I think it was our first

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Speaker 3: event post nine to eleven wow. And we were going down.

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Speaker 3: We're trying to get everyone into Tompkins Square Park just

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Speaker 3: to get them off the street. We had like a

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Speaker 3: thousand people following us, big marching band going down. And

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Speaker 3: then as Chenguin is leading people, we're literally on the

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Speaker 3: edge of the park. We're across the street from the park.

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Speaker 3: We're about to get into the park. That's when the

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Speaker 3: cops like surround Chenguin. Oh wow, and they're like and

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Speaker 3: Matt refused to get out of the costume because he

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Speaker 3: was just mad. He was so dedicated. Yesie narrative. Yes,

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Speaker 3: They're like, this is Cheguin, He's pure love. He can't

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Speaker 3: be arrested by the police.

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Speaker 4: Yes.

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Speaker 3: And then everyone started chanting, right, wait, love is not

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Speaker 3: a crime. Yes, love is not a crime. I remember this,

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Speaker 3: and it was like five hundred people's chanting love is

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Speaker 3: not a crime when these cops and then finally the

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Speaker 3: cops back down, and then everyone went fucking ate shit

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Speaker 3: and Chengwin was allowed to go into the park, and

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Speaker 3: then everyone went into the park and then just had

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Speaker 3: a dance party in the middle of the day.

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Speaker 1: It was like a Sunday at like three pm.

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Speaker 4: That's it was.

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Speaker 1: It was.

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Speaker 3: It was one of the best days of my life.

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Speaker 4: It's what I think all we can always do on

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Speaker 4: this podcast, besides tell us your funny stories, keep looking

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Speaker 4: for the absurdity in the world. Is like, make silly

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Speaker 4: things happen where you live. Even if you live in

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Speaker 4: a town where you go this town's boring, nothing happens here.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't take much to get people excited and sometimes

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Speaker 4: just making a creative decision and going we're doing this

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Speaker 4: whether you like it or not. And you've always been

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Speaker 4: great at this. I always treat it that way too,

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Speaker 4: where I'm like this is happening, and I'm not like RSVP,

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Speaker 4: I'm like, this is happening. Yep. We encourage you guys

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Speaker 4: and animals around the world. Do things. Don't destroy property,

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Speaker 4: don't hurt people, be silly for silly's sake, but do

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Speaker 4: this create things. It's so satisfying and years later you

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Speaker 4: will never ever regret it.

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Speaker 3: And all of the energy time and money that you

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Speaker 3: put into it, you'll get back tenfold from other people's

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Speaker 3: excitement at what you're doing.

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Speaker 4: People want to be people want to go out and

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Speaker 4: do things, and also everything you're talking about to your credit,

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Speaker 4: I really do applaud you for doing this. This is

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Speaker 4: pre social media, and this is pre Instagram and TikTok

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Speaker 4: for sure. By decades where you go, you guys were

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Speaker 4: doing this to be funny so people would talk about it.

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Speaker 4: This wasn't about getting the likes or the retweets or

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Speaker 4: the grams. And I encourage you too. If you do

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Speaker 4: funny shit with your friends, sure take some picks like

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Speaker 4: a normal person, but do it for the love of

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Speaker 4: being absurd. Don't worry about if anybody else gets it

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Speaker 4: or likes it.

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Speaker 3: Agreed one hundred percent, Scottie. God, damn it. We did

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Speaker 3: it again.

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Speaker 4: We did it again. Thank you, bananimals. We love you, guys.

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Speaker 4: Keep your weird stories coming to The Bananas Podcast at

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Speaker 4: one four seven nine seven four. That might be right.

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Speaker 3: Also, please rate and review it still does very much

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Speaker 3: matter and also thank you to Katie Levine for producing.

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Speaker 3: Thank you to exactly right, and thank you to Lisa Maggot.

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Speaker 3: That's it, first time, Lisa maggo right, our intern, Lisa

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Speaker 3: maggouh Yeah, see you next time.

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Speaker 4: Seeya Bananas Bananas.

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Speaker 1: This has been an exactly right production, produced.

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Speaker 4: And engineered by Katie Levine.

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Speaker 1: Theme song by Kahanamani, and all.

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Speaker 4: Of our artwork is done by Travis Millard.

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Speaker 3: where we post so many more stories and make it here,

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Speaker 3: and you.

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