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Speaker 2: I have so many good ones. I just don't know

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Speaker 2: what to start with. This is so good. All right

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Speaker 2: here it is mm hmm. Meet Akayama Toyohiro, the Japanese

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Speaker 2: astronaut who hated space.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my guy, my guy. He's out there. But get

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Speaker 1: in here. We're listening to the Bananas Podcast. We're the

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Speaker 1: Banana Boys. You're here. It's real, it's happening right now.

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Speaker 2: World. Would you believe.

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Speaker 3: Your mind?

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Speaker 1: Jozillion pieces?

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Speaker 2: Would you banana?

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Speaker 4: Banana Guys, Goals, non binary pass Welcome to Bananas.

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Speaker 2: I'm Kurt Brown Oler.

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Speaker 1: I am Banana boy number two Scotti Landis. Thank you

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Speaker 1: all very much for just taking time out of your

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Speaker 1: busy lives, your stressful moments, and checking out the silliest

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Speaker 1: little podcast there ever was. We call Bananas. It's strange news,

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Speaker 1: it's storytelling. We just like to have a good time.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, Chicago, I'm doing stand up Inside you March e

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Speaker 2: May eighth, May eighth, May eighth at the at the

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Speaker 2: at the Den, So please go get your tickets for that.

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Speaker 2: And also I'll be in Asbery Park the day before,

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Speaker 2: and I'll be in Cincinnati, Ohio the day after that,

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Speaker 2: so go get them in Scottie and I will, of

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Speaker 2: course March twenty ninth, be in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Speaker 1: Yes we will. I'm gonna drink Margarita's before, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: drink vodka Sota's during, and I'm gonna drink I don't

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Speaker 1: live show. If you've never seen us live, we just

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Speaker 2: They will love it. And of course we are here today.

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Speaker 2: We're here today a very special guest. You know her,

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Speaker 2: you love her. She's a full human. She is not

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Speaker 2: happy to have her. Please welcome to the show for

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Speaker 2: her own full episode. Lisa Maggot.

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Speaker 5: Everyone, thank you, thanks for having me here.

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Speaker 1: It is Lisa. We did say nols. Lisa Maggot, the

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Speaker 1: Big Three, the iconoclass of entertainment, and we're so lucky

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Speaker 2: How is your day in New York? City, Lisa, my

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Speaker 2: day was good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh really, it's a rainy day episode of Bananas.

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Speaker 2: That's what this is going to be. I hope it's

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Speaker 2: raining where you are. It's okay that it's raining. Put

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Speaker 2: on a little Miles Davis when it's raining, but instead

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Speaker 1: All right, Lisa, you respond to our DM sometimes on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: How do you rate the Banana bananimals? Do you enjoy

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Speaker 5: I love the bananimals.

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Speaker 3: They have always been so nice and so funny, send

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Speaker 2: It's such a good Instagram account, just go follow it.

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Speaker 5: This is a rainy day episode of gasses.

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Speaker 2: This is right, it's a rainy episode of bananas. It

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Speaker 1: Cool space hotel that can rotate. You don't want to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what if? What if it was a space ship

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there is a comedian. There's a comedian that Kurt

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Speaker 5: Well, I do have a license, I just can't drive.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I when we moved out here and we all

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Speaker 5: Ah.

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Speaker 1: I might not even eat breakfast beforehand. You know, I'm

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Speaker 2: That's awesome.

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Speaker 1: It's the cutest thing ever. That because people hate the

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Speaker 1: Point oh five. That seems a little doesn't that so sweet?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, every time. And I love to smile my licenses.

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Speaker 1: And for years people be like, it's so nice that

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Speaker 2: He told me to smile. Well me too.

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Speaker 3: I was told to I could smile, but only after

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Speaker 5: So I was like, no, we're set.

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Speaker 1: You're told that. You're like me, the camera's at your

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Speaker 2: Oh, I've got the best smile on because every other

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Speaker 2: license I've ever gotten, whatever i've had, like four or

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Speaker 2: five or something, I've always tried to do a crazy face.

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Speaker 2: But it's hard to get away with a crazy face

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Speaker 2: because you know it has to be you have to

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Speaker 2: make it seem like maybe that's your resting face. And

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Speaker 2: so the last one I did was like flaring out

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Speaker 2: like the neck muscles and pulling my face down like yes,

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Speaker 2: like that, Like it looked like beaker like like that,

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Speaker 2: you know, And when I show people, I'm I'm slightly

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Speaker 2: embarrassed because it looks like I'm mad, and I don't

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Speaker 2: want it to look like I'm mad in my photo.

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Speaker 2: So I was like, it'll be nice to just have

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Speaker 2: a smiley photo.

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Speaker 1: Lisa, did you know Kurt's not drinking for the whole year.

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Speaker 1: I did not know that He's doing like a six

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Speaker 1: dry dry three sixty nine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a dry three sixty nine. That's okay.

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Speaker 5: So you're gonna have to go to next year. Also,

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Speaker 5: yeah for a few days.

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Speaker 2: No, I didn't start until January twenty second because of

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Speaker 2: the fires.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a stress time. You dows a little bit?

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Speaker 2: Yeah what that mean?

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Speaker 1: Okay, I got one for you. This is Beth Kelly

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Speaker 1: sent this and you could send your stories into the

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Speaker 1: Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com or the Bananas Podcast

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Speaker 1: on Instagram where myself or Lisa Maggott and sometimes Kurtie

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Speaker 1: b we'll see your stories. Beth Kelly, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Jump Rope pro saves neighbor and dog from ice pond

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Speaker 1: with their jump rope.

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Speaker 2: What a nice one, What a nice one.

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Speaker 1: This was in The Guardian. That's real. Written by one

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Speaker 1: name would not be enough, so it's Ramone Atonio Vargas

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Speaker 1: best in the byss Best. When the British editors at

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Speaker 1: The Guardian hear a story about someone being saved with

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Speaker 1: a jump rope, they'd literally jump out of their seats

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Speaker 1: and run to Ramone Antonio Vargas's desk and they say,

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Speaker 1: get your ass on the first plane to Westfield, Indiana.

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Speaker 1: David Fisher of Westfield, Indiana and his son Felix rescued

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Speaker 1: a man who had fallen in after trying to rescue

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Speaker 1: a dog. In an extreme instance of life imitating art,

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Speaker 1: an author of children's books about a jump rope wielding

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Speaker 1: hero reportedly used his jump ropes to save both a

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Speaker 1: dog and a young man from drowning after they fell

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Speaker 1: into an ice pond in Indiana.

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Speaker 5: Wow, definitely set that up. He definitely made.

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Speaker 2: He pushed them in.

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Speaker 5: He push the dog in, playing all right, let's see

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Speaker 5: what happened.

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Speaker 2: Hey, somebody saved this dog.

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Speaker 1: Anybody just me? Author David Fisher also suspect last name

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Speaker 1: for pulling somebody out of the water with a rope.

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Speaker 1: Just jumping rope with my son, Felix, name of a

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Speaker 1: famous cat. Here we go these exploits in December by

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Speaker 1: David Fisher, who also jumps rope professionally.

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Speaker 2: Of course he does.

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Speaker 1: Uh So, there's like so many people on Instagram TikTok.

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Speaker 1: They are like jump rope people. I wonder if any

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Speaker 1: of them can talk? Should we? We should find somebody

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Speaker 1: that's really like an jump rope influencer. That's fun. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: there are people that just jump rope and make faces

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Speaker 1: and do it to different like pop songs. Great, I

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Speaker 1: mean if any of them can talk. I would love

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Speaker 1: to jump rope influence.

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Speaker 2: Let's just mash. Let's just mash three words together that

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Speaker 2: I never thought i'd hear, jump rope influencer and then

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Speaker 2: fucking put them on the show. I'd love to.

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Speaker 1: Lisa, did you have a skip It when you were

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Speaker 1: a child?

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Speaker 5: I did, loved it.

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Speaker 1: Great toy, great toy.

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Speaker 5: Really great, really great? Do they they don't exist anymore? Right?

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Speaker 1: You could still buy a skippet I love them recently.

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Speaker 2: And you can buy a bop It too, same company,

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Speaker 2: bop It, great toy. Yeah. Devil Sticks, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: This is very good at devil Sticks.

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Speaker 2: I could do it a little bait.

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Speaker 1: Threshold.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, go ahead, No, no, I'm just saying I was

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00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 3: pretty good at it. So yeah, yes, I don't want

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Speaker 3: to brag, but like I was the best in my class.

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Speaker 5: No I was, but it was really a cool thing

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Speaker 5: to do.

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Speaker 1: That is really cool. Bring it to Bananas Fest. Bring

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Speaker 1: your thing to Bananas Fest, Lisa Meggant on the devil Sticks.

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Speaker 1: You heard it here first. You don't have to do that,

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Speaker 1: don't worry. Good, Well, those exploits. I bet people in

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Speaker 1: Denver are great at devil Sticks. I bet if there's

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Speaker 1: one city just still.

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Speaker 2: The capital live hands down the Capitol.

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Speaker 1: It's bolder or Denver, Colorado. Those exploits in December by

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Speaker 1: David Fisher, who jumps rope professionally, recently earned him recognition

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Speaker 1: as a hero as he is from the municipal government

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Speaker 1: of Westfield. As the Indiana television news station w r

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Speaker 1: TV told it, okay, I athority.

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Speaker 2: This sold books for him. I hope it's.

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Speaker 1: Going to after after he gets the Banana Boys bomp Yep,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna buy that way, he'll have the longest jump

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Speaker 1: rope in Indiana by the time we're done with authorities, say.

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Speaker 1: Fisher sprang into action after his son Felix, heard a

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Speaker 1: man screaming for help. Scary they realized the neighbor's dog

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Speaker 1: had gone into an ice pond while chasing geese and

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Speaker 1: calls the dog to fall in and turn. An eighteen

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Speaker 1: year old man went in after the dog, trying to

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Speaker 1: save the animal and ended up falling into That's when

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Speaker 1: Fisher grabbed his jump rope bag, pulled out his you

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Speaker 1: guessed it, jumbled Dutch jump ropes, and bravely, if gingerly,

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Speaker 1: stepped out onto the ice he told w r t V.

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Speaker 1: I instinctively just went in. Fisher recounted, I could hear

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Speaker 1: the ice cracking beneath my feet. When I did finally arrive,

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Speaker 1: I slung the ropes out to him. He grabbed one handle,

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Speaker 1: and bit by bit we pulled him safely out of

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Speaker 1: the ice pond, said Fisher, whose son helped him complete

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Speaker 1: the rescue. The Fishers then took the neighbor and his

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Speaker 1: dog into the safety of their home so they could

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Speaker 1: warm up and wait for first responders to arrive. Fisher

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Speaker 1: had the tool to save the day on that occasion

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Speaker 1: because he travels the world as a professional jump roper.

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Speaker 2: He travels the world.

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Speaker 1: This tea must be real.

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Speaker 2: Good to see this man jump rope.

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Speaker 3: Well, I bet he jump roke out to rescue them,

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Speaker 3: Like I feel like probably it was just that's.

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Speaker 2: Why the ice was cracking. He was actually on like

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Speaker 2: a pretty hard piece of ice, but he was jumping

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Speaker 2: so hard.

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Speaker 5: But he was jumping. He wouldn't stop.

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Speaker 1: Jump roping is the hardest exercise that curtain were fitness

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Speaker 1: guys now, Lisa se medics, We're now obsessed with fitness

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Speaker 1: and we don't go to the same gym but I like,

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Speaker 1: I spiritually feel when I'm at the gym that Kurt's

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Speaker 1: also at the gym with me. We're black, and there's

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Speaker 1: a boxing room in my gym with you know, heavy

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Speaker 1: bags and all stuff, but there's jump ropes, and if

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Speaker 1: I'm lying, I'm dying. I just the other day picked

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Speaker 1: it up and I tried to jump rope for two

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Speaker 1: minute straight.

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Speaker 2: Oh oh, possible thirty seconds of jump roping and you're broken.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. First of all, I sort of forgot

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Speaker 1: how to jump rope. I was doing the one where

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Speaker 1: you do the sort of double jump like you like, yeah, yeah, bounce,

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Speaker 1: bounce and instead, and then I'm like, wait, Scotty, you're doubled.

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Speaker 1: You're yeah, topping in between the jumps. And then so

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Speaker 1: I just started to do where you're doing, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, I really forty seconds in and I

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Speaker 1: was like, I have a lot of respect for people

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Speaker 1: who can jump rope, for like boxers, like ten minutes,

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Speaker 1: half an hour.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy. Also also for and also to go back

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Speaker 2: to the ice too. If you're saving someone from the ice,

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Speaker 2: just lay down, lay down, lay down, laid down. I

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Speaker 2: think we all know that, but it sounds like jump

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Speaker 2: rope guy is just jumping out there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, lay down, pal, He's really good though, I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's a he travels the world as a professional jump roper. K.

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Speaker 1: You can't expect him to put it down when.

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Speaker 2: He says that that means that he once went to Canada.

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Speaker 2: That is all. That means. He had one trip to

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Speaker 2: Toronto and one trip to Cantcud where he happened to

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Speaker 2: jump rope. I highly doubt that this man is being

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Speaker 2: paid to travel for people to watch him jump rope.

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Speaker 2: I cannot believe it. I cannot believe it.

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Speaker 1: Well, he might be a banana's fest too. Maybe we'll

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Speaker 1: get in touch with them. According to fish Or here's

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Speaker 1: where it gets a little extra bananas, he has collected

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Speaker 1: three world records involving jumping rope while seated on the ground.

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Speaker 1: What submit, Maybe that's what he did to get out

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Speaker 1: on the ice.

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Speaker 2: But jump jump just scoot like a dog across a

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Speaker 2: carpet from she.

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Speaker 1: Said, he also performs quote a very interactive, visually entertaining

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Speaker 1: style of jump rope show end quote.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I can't believe it.

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Speaker 5: I want to see it. I want to see the

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Speaker 5: seated jump roping.

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Speaker 1: I mean this must be.

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Speaker 2: In he must be rare.

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Speaker 1: Oh, his products must be so firm. He must have

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Speaker 1: that firmas his UH.

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Speaker 2: If he's cracking nuts, if he's doing like cracking nuts

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Speaker 2: with both legs while he's jump roping, maybe I can

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Speaker 2: understand people are coming to see him. You know, people

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00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 2: are throwing chestnuts at him. He's catching him with his

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Speaker 2: with his UH, with his muscles on his legs. One

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Speaker 2: are those things called calf cafe calf?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, his gams. So I just clicked his website for

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Speaker 1: the first time. His website, if you want to check

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Speaker 1: this guy out, it is rockin rope Warrior dot com

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Speaker 1: and the Rock and Rub Warrior himself, David Fish, has

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Speaker 1: started in nineteen ninety three.

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Speaker 2: I mean his videos, he's been doing thirty two years

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Speaker 2: a jump roping.

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Speaker 1: He sells his own He sells a ten foot rope

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Speaker 1: Warrior Performance jump rope for twelve dollars, and he sells

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Speaker 1: a nine foot one for twelve dollars. And you're never

635
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Speaker 1: going to guess how much the eight dollar one is.

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00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: It's eleven dollars.

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Speaker 2: I was joking before when I said this man put

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Speaker 2: that in the lake.

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Speaker 1: This man put that dog in the lake, no doubt

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Speaker 1: about it.

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00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 2: There's no doubt about it.

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00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:10,200
Speaker 3: Also the homepage, his head is cut off completely to

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Speaker 3: see his Oh, he's butt jumping in it.

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Speaker 1: He is. I see it too. He's doing rope mastics

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00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: for nineteen dollars. You can get his rope Mastics Skills

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00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: DVD and you can learn over fifty jump rope tricks

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Speaker 1: to amaze your friends. And the one I'm seeing, he

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00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 1: is wearing like red and black vertically striped leggings. He's

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Speaker 1: wearing a tank top and some white sneakers and white socks,

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Speaker 1: and he is doing a butt jump off the ground.

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00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: He is jumping rope, just using.

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00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 2: His with his butt. How far is it butt off

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Speaker 2: the ground? How many is inches?

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Speaker 1: Let's just put it this way. I could slide you

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Speaker 1: an ice cold mug of beer underneath his hopping butt. No,

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Speaker 1: if he was doing it on a bar, just put

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Speaker 1: it that way, all right.

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Speaker 2: Well, maybe that's what the show is, you know.

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Speaker 1: I think that this episode might be called Rock and

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Speaker 1: Roll Warriors with Lisa maggod.

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Speaker 2: Okay, sounds good. Butt jumping with Lisa, Yeah, butt jumping.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I want to give this man less rock.

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Speaker 1: And butt jumps with Leeza maggod Rock and butt jumping Lisa.

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Speaker 1: Do you approve of this?

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Speaker 5: I do none of him drowning a dog, though, but

667
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 5: of a name.

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Speaker 1: Allegedly, Fisher's website said he has treated to US presidents

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Speaker 1: George Bush, although he does not specify witch Bush and

670
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Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, and a Russian one Boris Yeltson to his

671
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 1: butt jumping performances. Jumping rope is such a passion for

672
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Speaker 1: Fisher that he's written fictional children's books centering on a

673
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Speaker 1: hero who defeats evil enemies with a laser like rope.

674
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Speaker 1: The hero shares Fisher's nickname, the Rope Warrior, according to

675
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Speaker 1: the author's website. Westfield City Council honored the Fishers at

676
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Speaker 1: its meeting on Monday.

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Speaker 2: You know what, we don't talk enough about the fact

678
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 2: that we just had a president. It was like George

679
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 2: Bush and then just a little a little while later,

680
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Speaker 2: a George Bush again, a different person. That's very weird.

681
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Speaker 2: That's so strange. If we had a Grover Creve Cleveland

682
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Speaker 2: and then just like four eight years later there was

683
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Speaker 2: another Grover Cleveland. That would be crazy.

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Speaker 1: It was John Adams and Johnny Adams y. Yeah. But

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Speaker 1: also it's interesting that you picked Grover Cleveland, Kurt, Yeah,

686
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Speaker 1: why because Grover Cleveland is the only president. Well, I

687
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: guess Donnie Dumps just did it again. But Grover Cleveland

688
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: was the I think twenty second president and then like

689
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Speaker 1: the twenty fourth, so he got elected, didn't get elected,

690
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 1: got re elected. I guess Donnie Dumps did it next.

691
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Speaker 1: But uh, that's a rare feat in history. So maybe

692
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Speaker 1: the new Grover Cleveland like shaved his mustache and they're like, hey,

693
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Speaker 1: who's that guy? Who is that?

694
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Speaker 2: I'm Grover another Grover. I will lead us into some

695
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 2: thumbs up. Scientists are trying to figure out why hockey

696
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Speaker 2: players all sound Canadian.

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Speaker 1: I believe it.

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00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:20,240
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Eddie Laposi wants to thumb up his partner for supporting

700
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Speaker 1: him for three years while Eddie did his MBA. It

701
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 1: was extremely hard, but her support made it achievable. Thumbs

702
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: up to you, partner. You got Eddie across the finish line.

703
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Megan Boyce is thumbing up her friend Cheryl Waters, which

705
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: is a great name, who has acute mioid leukemia and

706
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: is absolutely kicking its ass and treatment. Cheryl's strongest, most

707
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Speaker 1: amazing person that Megan knows. And if all the ban

708
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Speaker 1: animals could take a moment right now, we're going to

709
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Speaker 1: count down to send Cheryl good healthy vibes. Yes, that

710
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Speaker 1: would be amazing. Ready, we're gonna take a moment of

711
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: good vibes for Sheryl Waters and her treatment. One, two, three, excellent,

712
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Speaker 1: great work.

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Speaker 2: Everybody thumbs up to everybody, thumbs up.

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Speaker 1: To you, Thumbs up to you. Here's another great one.

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Speaker 1: Taylor Leiston or Lyston wants to thumb herself up. She's

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Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty nine days alcohol free. She's on

717
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Speaker 1: her way, Curdie b to her three sixty nine. Yeah,

718
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: she's a second time postpart a mom and did not

719
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Speaker 1: realize how much of a crutch alcohol had become, which

720
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Speaker 1: is how it happens. It sneaks up on you.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, started out kind of way out, started out recreational,

722
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Speaker 2: ended kind of medical, classic old steady line that no

723
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Speaker 2: one knows, but mem that's okay.

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Speaker 1: She says she's survived bacherette parties and even weddings while

725
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,760
Speaker 1: being sober, which is tough, especially bachelerette parties. A wedding,

726
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: there's food, there's dancing, there's socializing. But bachelor parties are like,

727
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Speaker 1: get me through this, and Taylor says, as a child

728
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Speaker 1: of an alcoholic, this is a really big deal for her.

729
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Speaker 1: So double thumbs up to you, Taylor, and to all

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Speaker 1: urban animals who are dry. Sixty nine ing sixty nine

731
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Speaker 1: days consecutive no alcohol. Let me know if you want

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Speaker 1: a bomber sticker, I'll mail you one. Yes, internationally, I

733
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Speaker 1: bought some international stamps. Yes, you did last, but not least.

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Speaker 1: Here's an interesting one thumbs up. I believe this is

735
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Speaker 1: a Denver based tattooer, Darren Ariondo, who beat the world

736
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Speaker 1: record by tattooing for seventy two hours straight. So one

737
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Speaker 1: session of doing tattoos for three days. I ran the

738
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Speaker 1: numbers and I said to Darren, congratulations obviously, But I said,

739
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Speaker 1: did you hallucinate? Did you feel like insane? He goes,

740
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Speaker 1: I didn't hallucinate, but I got drunk without drinking alcohol,

741
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Speaker 1: so I think he did hallucinate. This is what Yeah,

742
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: but yees, seventy two hours straight one session of NonStop tattooing.

743
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 2: Crazy.

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00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 1: Wow. He may be one of the bananimals doing banana

745
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 1: doing tattoos for us a bananas fest year. If we

746
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:17,840
Speaker 1: can get yes. Yes. Anyways, those are thumbs up. Thanks everybody.

747
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Speaker 1: You're all doing great. You're doing better than you think.

748
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Speaker 1: That's the secret about life.

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Speaker 2: All right, of course we are here with full human

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Speaker 2: Lisa Maggott. Hello, Lisa, Hello.

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00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 5: Again?

752
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 2: Are you ready for it?

753
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:32,280
Speaker 5: All the time?

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Speaker 2: You ready to hear why scientists are trying to figure

755
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,360
Speaker 2: out why hockey players all sound Canadian, which I didn't

756
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 2: even know was a thing. No, they're not. It's from

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00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 2: fizz dot org. Fizz org. This is interesting. This is

758
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 2: written by the Acoustical Society of America.

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Speaker 1: What sounds good to me? It is? It is, and

760
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Speaker 1: this is music.

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Speaker 2: The title of this one is to sound like a

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Speaker 2: hockey player, speak like a Canadian. As a hockey player,

763
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Speaker 2: Andrew Bray was familiar with the slang thrown around the

764
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Speaker 2: barn the hockey arena. As a linguist, he wanted to

765
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Speaker 2: understand how short specific jargon evolved and permeated across teams, regions,

766
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Speaker 2: and countries. In pursuit of the socio linguistic biscuit puck,

767
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Speaker 2: he faced an unexpected question. It was while conducting this

768
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Speaker 2: initial study that I was asked a question that has

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Speaker 2: since shaped the direction of my subsequent research. Are you

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Speaker 2: trying to figure out why the Americans sound like fake Canadians?

771
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Speaker 2: Canadian English dialects are start explain what a Canadian dialect is?

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Speaker 2: And Bray, who's from the University of Rochester, presented an

773
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Speaker 2: investigation into American hockey player's use of Canadian English accents

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Speaker 2: May sixteenth at a joint meeting of the Acoustical Society

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Speaker 2: of America and the Canadian Acoustical Association held May thirteenth

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Speaker 2: to seventeenth the Shaw Center located here out down Ottawa, Ontario,

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Speaker 2: Canadaday Sunday Sunday in the Blood at the Shaw Center,

778
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Speaker 2: Come on down for the Acoustical Society of America. Everybody

779
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 2: studying how hockey players talk required listening to them talk

780
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 2: about hockey to sechnique, vowel articulation, and the vast collection

781
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Speaker 2: of sports specific slang terminology that players incorporated into their speech.

782
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Speaker 2: Bray visited different professional teams to interview their American born players. Quote.

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Speaker 2: In these interviews, I would ask players to discuss their

784
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Speaker 2: career trajectories, including when and why they began playing hockeyh

785
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah. The interview sought to get players

786
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Speaker 2: talking about hockey for as long as possible. Bray found

787
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Speaker 2: that the American athletes borrowed features of the Canadian English accent,

788
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Speaker 2: specifically for hockey specific terms and jargon, but do not

789
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 2: follow the underlying rules behind the punk pronunciation, which could

790
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Speaker 2: explain why the accent might sound fake to a Canadian quote.

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Speaker 2: It is important to note that American hockey players are

792
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Speaker 2: not trying to shift their speech to sound more Canadian. Rather,

793
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 2: they're trying to sound more like a hockey player. That's

794
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 2: interesting somewhat.

795
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Speaker 1: I think that's interesting. They're blending in.

796
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Speaker 2: They're blending in. There's sports in the same way that

797
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 2: I would always notice because I had I surfed in Rockaway,

798
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Speaker 2: Queens for about ten years, ten eleven years of my

799
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Speaker 2: life maybe it was twelve years. I had that place happen,

800
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Speaker 2: and everyone would adopt either a SoCal thing or a

801
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 2: Hawaiian thing, Like in two thousand and three, everyone was

802
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 2: bra like all that time. You know, it's up Bra,

803
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 2: you know, And it was always like, how's it like,

804
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 2: And that's a real Hawaiian thing, Like just walking up

805
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 2: at the beach and it would just be some dude

806
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Speaker 2: from Queens with a queen's accent, like, how's it, Bra.

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Speaker 1: How's it brought up? Yeah, that's good, that's good to

808
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:00,720
Speaker 1: co opt that so far away, that's fine.

809
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 2: When I first started surfing in rock Way, I swear

810
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 2: to god, this is like two thousand and three or something,

811
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Speaker 2: there was a guy who surfed pretty often but did

812
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 2: not own surf shorts like board shorts, and would surf

813
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 2: shirtless with jean shorts on. And he would battle out

814
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 2: on a log board with jorts on, just like like

815
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 2: literally they used to be jeans. He cut them off

816
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 2: at the knee and he would surf in them. The

817
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:34,359
Speaker 2: most uncomfortable piece of clothing to get wet in the

818
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 2: history of clothing. And that was what it was like

819
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 2: back then, just a lot of jorts out in the lineup.

820
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Speaker 1: Lisa, you're in You're in New York City, You're you

821
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Speaker 1: live in New York City. Is there a neighborhood weirdo

822
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Speaker 1: in your neighborhood? Is there somebody you see regularly who

823
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 1: is a character of you know, the ten block RADII.

824
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 5: Oh, that's a good question. I don't have.

825
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 3: The naked Cowboy is not near enough to count, But

826
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Speaker 3: that is an thing for person made.

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Speaker 2: The fact that he's made a career out of it

828
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Speaker 2: and he's like Internet.

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Speaker 5: I mean, that's the dream. That's the dream.

830
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 1: I got a nice bob, you know.

831
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's got to be pretty old at this point.

832
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 2: He's been doing that for like thirty years.

833
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:16,839
Speaker 5: Yeah.

834
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Speaker 3: I don't actually, I don't even know if he's still around.

835
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 3: It's just his his legend is at least.

836
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Speaker 5: I mean, he's a lie, I think.

837
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Speaker 2: But you haven't seen him.

838
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Speaker 3: I haven't seen it, but he just I just think

839
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 3: of him sometimes. No, I guess there's the person who

840
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 3: just yells a lot, but that's not really crazy.

841
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Speaker 5: It's not like a fun crazy thing.

842
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:41,280
Speaker 3: It's just, yeah, someone on the corner who is always

843
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:42,280
Speaker 3: on the corner and yelling.

844
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Speaker 2: There used to be a guy. There used to be

845
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 2: a guy in Baltimore and Hamden that would he would

846
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 2: stand on one specific street corner. He was always in

847
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 2: a bathrobe and in his hands he would have like

848
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 2: toothbrushes and hair brushes, all different brushes, and he would

849
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:01,799
Speaker 2: just screw mean personal hygiene.

850
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 5: One dollar.

851
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 2: That you would like use his toothbrush?

852
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like, are they individually packaged.

853
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 2: Loose dirty toothbrushes and hair brushes? That you could come

854
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 2: up and you could use them if you wanted for

855
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:20,760
Speaker 2: a dollar.

856
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 5: Oh you could use it like you didn't buy it,

857
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 5: you got it.

858
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,320
Speaker 2: No, no, no, you could use it. Yeah yeah yeah, okay,

859
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:28,919
Speaker 2: yeah yeah yeah.

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00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 1: That's you know, that's that's a reused part of reduce, reuse, recycle.

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00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, he's.

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Speaker 1: I mean my buddy Skip, I'm sure I mentioned this

863
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 1: a long time ago. He worked at a Whole Foods

864
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: outside of Boston and in the coffee department. Every morning

865
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Speaker 1: a guy would show up and like loose gym socks

866
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:52,359
Speaker 1: and like outfit like he had been playing basketball with

867
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Speaker 1: a deflated basketball pinched under his arm and to his side,

868
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Speaker 1: and act like he had just played basketball, and then

869
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: order the same order of coffee and leave. Every day

870
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Speaker 1: would show up with a deflated basketball, just like shoot

871
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 1: the breeze what the baristas. I think Skip was the

872
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: manager of the department, And and yeah, this guy would

873
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 1: show up as you had just come from the courts

874
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: playing some early morning basketball with a fully deflated basketball

875
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: just got I just.

876
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 2: Got finished to flat in the ball, you know, after

877
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 2: the game, which is what everybody does hard when they're

878
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:29,320
Speaker 2: done playing basketball. Everybody deflates their balls and goes home.

879
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:34,360
Speaker 1: Oh God. When I was in college, we went and

880
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:36,560
Speaker 1: saw UMass has a very good ice hockey team, and

881
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:38,839
Speaker 1: they won the Frozen Four in twenty twenty. But they

882
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:41,359
Speaker 1: were good. They were always competitive. Our big rivals were

883
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: University of New Hampshire, Boston College, Boston University.

884
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 5: Did they sound Canadian? Did they sound yes?

885
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: They got well, they sounded a little Bostonian too, And

886
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 1: so the we were superfans. We would bang on the glass,

887
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 1: we'd scream, we'd chant. And the big thing at UMass

888
00:46:57,560 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: is when we would score on the other team, we

889
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: start pointing at their goalie and call them a sieve

890
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 1: like a calender, like a sieve, like something that stays through.

891
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 1: And then pointed our goalie and say goalie, and so

892
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 1: you go, goalie siev goalie say, and get louder and

893
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: louder and louder. It was very fun and very dumb.

894
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:16,720
Speaker 1: And the guy that would lead it was a student

895
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,319
Speaker 1: who I never really got to know because he would

896
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 1: paint his face like the Darth Maul character in Star

897
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 1: Wars and then wearing a yellow pasta calendar on his head,

898
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:31,759
Speaker 1: and so he would lead lead the goalie sieve and

899
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Speaker 1: for years, and we love the guy. He got to

900
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: know us, We got to know him, but just us

901
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 1: like drunk fans cheering for our college hockey team. So

902
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 1: we started getting better. We won some mid games, and

903
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: we won this game in overtime, and we're banging on

904
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 1: the glass so hard that the next hockey game they

905
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 1: handed out flyers that said you're no longer allowed to

906
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: bang on the glass, which is the most fun thing

907
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: you could do as a college student. Yeah, going to

908
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:01,439
Speaker 1: a free hockey game with your friends. And so this guy,

909
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 1: I think was like pre Law the Darth Maul, with

910
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 1: a Pasta calender on his head, Pasa straighter on his head,

911
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 1: filled out a petition that said, we feel unsafe because

912
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: if our hands can break the plexiglass of the glass,

913
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:18,759
Speaker 1: then we're afraid for our own safe that the puck

914
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: or the players will come through the glass and kill us.

915
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: And we just started passing this clipboard around and signing

916
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: our names. We had hundreds of signatures of students saying

917
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:33,719
Speaker 1: we no longer feel safe in the Mullin Center. If

918
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 1: our slapping, bare hands can break this glass, then the

919
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: hockey puck will kill us if it comes through. In

920
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 1: the next game, we were allowed to hit again and

921
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:47,879
Speaker 1: they did not care. And side note my good friend

922
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 1: John Green. At the time, there was a make seven

923
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:54,400
Speaker 1: up Yours was a slogan for seven up the soda

924
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: and on the front of a T shirt Green t

925
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,440
Speaker 1: shirt said make seven and then on the back it

926
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:00,880
Speaker 1: said up yours. That was the joke. I think Godfree,

927
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 1: the comedian, was the spokesman for it. So John had

928
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 1: a make seven up years T shirt and he had

929
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: folded it so it's at up yours. And on the

930
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: game we got reinstated that we could bang on the glass.

931
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: We're playing BU It's super competitive. The whole place is

932
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 1: really loud, and one of the UMS players hits the

933
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:21,800
Speaker 1: Boston University player into the glass right in front of John,

934
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,840
Speaker 1: and John holds up the up yours and the player

935
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 1: that he hit sees it, and then John turns and

936
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:29,879
Speaker 1: holds it up to everybody in the student section and

937
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 1: people jumped to their feet, screaming, cheering. It was like

938
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:36,800
Speaker 1: watching one of my best friends have like a peak moment,

939
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 1: maybe the happiest moment of his entire life. The right

940
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 1: shirt at the right game, at the right time, with

941
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 1: the right phrase, and we were just chanting up yours after.

942
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:51,839
Speaker 1: I'm not one to go back and say college were

943
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 1: the best years of my life. I think next year

944
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:55,280
Speaker 1: is going to be the best year of my life.

945
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 1: And that was a fun time.

946
00:49:57,280 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 2: Hot damn, what was the best years of your life? Lisa?

947
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:01,319
Speaker 1: That's right, it was.

948
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:03,320
Speaker 5: It was college one hundred percent.

949
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 2: It was.

950
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:08,839
Speaker 3: Yes, I high school was so bad for me that

951
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:12,759
Speaker 3: like college was Suddenly I was like, oh I can

952
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 3: have friends, like I can be cool. And it was

953
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:18,840
Speaker 3: very exciting to learn that, yes, high school is bad

954
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 3: for me. So I just like when I discovered that

955
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 3: I was like a human that could have fun. That

956
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 3: was really exciting. Oh so yeah, yeah it's a happy ending,

957
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:31,879
Speaker 3: I get not ending, but.

958
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 1: That's a good lesson.

959
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah. How old are you? How old are

960
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:35,839
Speaker 2: you in your head?

961
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 5: That is a really good question. I think I'm twenty six.

962
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 2: Twenty six, all right, great Scotti? How old are you

963
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 2: in your head?

964
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 1: Three four hundred years old? Probably I came over on

965
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: a wooden chip and yeah, like I like to put

966
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:58,839
Speaker 1: a nice hard salve on my crack knuckles and just

967
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 1: put in a good day's word there. It is.

968
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 5: I think.

969
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 2: I think I'm thirty six, thirty five, thirty five or

970
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 2: thirty six. That's how that's in my head.

971
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 1: Hey, also, kerk, congratulations on your Super Bowl commercial. Dude,

972
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:15,320
Speaker 1: that's a big deal.

973
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, thanks Bud.

974
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:22,399
Speaker 1: My phone up not just you know, not DMS from

975
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: ban Animals going, Wait, did I just see Kurt? Was

976
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 1: that Kurt? Was that curty be? I mean a lot.

977
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:30,840
Speaker 2: I was watching the game at at a at a

978
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,840
Speaker 2: classmate's home. They were nice enough. They have a beautiful

979
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 2: barbecue every Super Bowl and they invited us this year

980
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 2: and we're very very happy to be. Their kids are

981
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:41,239
Speaker 2: all running around, there's all these people that I do

982
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:45,160
Speaker 2: not know. And the owner of the house walked in

983
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:48,319
Speaker 2: and it's the only time he did this for the

984
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 2: entire game. Came in and then went to turn the

985
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 2: volume up on the volume button and instead hit the

986
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:58,399
Speaker 2: input button and it turned it off, and it turned

987
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:02,279
Speaker 2: it to something else, and it was about maybe it

988
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 2: was like twenty five seconds, thirty seconds. That was when

989
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 2: my commercial air. So I had no idea. Oh, no,

990
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:13,239
Speaker 2: entire time. The thing was on for all three hours

991
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:15,160
Speaker 2: or three and a half hours of the game. The

992
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:17,960
Speaker 2: one time it was turned off for thirty seconds, he

993
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 2: turns the TV back onto my phone just starts blowing up.

994
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:22,760
Speaker 2: But it was like, right then.

995
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: It was Infinity Right. Yeah, it's a.

996
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:29,319
Speaker 2: Whole campaign, so there'll be a bunch more.

997
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 5: Ah, that's exciting.

998
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:33,480
Speaker 1: I had friends and family on the East Coast, especially

999
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 1: been like Curdie B, like my sister, like oh guys

1000
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 1: went to college with like New York friends, and they

1001
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:41,399
Speaker 1: all saw you. It's funny, like because that's your second one.

1002
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 1: You were in one with Cardi B. Weren't you. Wasn't

1003
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 1: that a super Bowl?

1004
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 2: That was?

1005
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,759
Speaker 1: It was to Lisa. Can you imagine knowing somebody that's

1006
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 1: been in two Super Bowl commercials?

1007
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:56,359
Speaker 5: I can't. Until today, I didn't know anybody. It's true.

1008
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:58,439
Speaker 5: I didn't know anybody who'd been in walk.

1009
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:01,920
Speaker 3: No, maybe I know what, but not definitely not to

1010
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 3: not to And you can talk to you like I

1011
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 3: talk to you so that I know.

1012
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:07,719
Speaker 2: You could talk to me. And I look like a

1013
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 2: little wet bird right.

1014
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 1: Now, a thirty six year old wet bird.

1015
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much Lisa for being on the show.

1016
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:18,320
Speaker 2: Did can you believe it went that fast?

1017
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 5: No? I'm ready to keep talking.

1018
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 2: I've got I know that is say full episode.

1019
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 1: I mean, do you want to do a send off?

1020
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:29,360
Speaker 1: Do you have anything to say to the because you

1021
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 1: have your own fans, some of the ban animals have

1022
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:35,719
Speaker 1: become like Lisa Maggot stands, Yeah.

1023
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 5: It's very exciting. Keep it up. More people can join

1024
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 5: the Lisa stan.

1025
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 3: I don't really have anything I'm advertising. I do want

1026
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 3: to say, I've decided I'm going to call myself Plantain.

1027
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:51,200
Speaker 5: Girl number one.

1028
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:55,440
Speaker 3: Okay, great, it's a different It's similar enough, but like different.

1029
00:53:55,640 --> 00:54:02,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a PG, he'd say, Lisa Maggot's rated PG. Yeah.

1030
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:02,799
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1031
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:09,479
Speaker 3: Other than that, I have nothing just great. Animals are great.

1032
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:10,240
Speaker 5: Love everyone.

1033
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 1: That's sweet. Well, thank you for all your hard work.

1034
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:15,320
Speaker 1: At least also helps us with Bananas Fest. The mailing

1035
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:19,880
Speaker 1: list emails everything, so thank you on air from Kurtie

1036
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:21,799
Speaker 1: B and I. We really appreciate everything you do. You

1037
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 1: do a great job. Ye thank you, And do you

1038
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 1: want to say bananas with us? That seems like a

1039
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 1: good way to wrap her up tight yeak three two

1040
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:47,759
Speaker 1: one bananas good variety there. Bananas is an exactly right

1041
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: media production.

1042
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 2: Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.

1043
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:54,640
Speaker 1: The catchy bananas theme song was composed and performed by Khan.

1044
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:58,200
Speaker 2: Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.

1045
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 1: And our benevolent overlords are the Great Karen Kilgarriff and

1046
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 1: Georgia Hartstart

1047
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,880
Speaker 2: And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot

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00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 2: internm