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