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Speaker 1: All right, Scott you ready for this one.

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Speaker 2: I'm ready. Kurt hit me with a good one.

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Speaker 1: Hostage siege ends in Ukraine after President agrees to recommend

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Speaker 1: two thousand and five Joaquin Phoenix film.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, all right, we're getting bananas.

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Speaker 3: Still, World ups would be your lizillion pieces, would Banana

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the the smallest, little, biggest,

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Speaker 1: little strange news podcast in the world, Bananas. I'm kerk Brown, Older.

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Speaker 2: I'm Scottie Land. Listen today we have an exceptional guest.

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Speaker 2: We're thrilled. We're gonna jump right in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, bananimals. We are so excited to welcome environmental activist

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Speaker 1: and consumer advocate whose courageous case against Pacific Gas and

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Speaker 1: Electric was dramatized in the Oscar winning film that bears

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Speaker 1: her name. Please welcome Aaron Brokovich.

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Speaker 4: Oh right, gos Wow, what a welcome man.

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Speaker 5: I'm so happy to be here with you today and

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Speaker 5: part of the Did you say banana animals?

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Speaker 1: What did you say? Yeah, bananimals. Bananimals are the fan animals.

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Speaker 4: Well you know what I love?

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Speaker 3: That?

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Speaker 4: Isn't everything bananas? Right now?

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Speaker 1: Yes, we're in we're in the right business right now.

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Speaker 2: We launch this podcast launched in April or May and

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Speaker 2: kind of unintentionally, but yeah, the world got extremely bananas

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Speaker 2: and then we were fortunate enough to slide right into

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Speaker 2: place and be like, we know it is.

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Speaker 4: I'm with you. Well, it's great to be here. Thanks

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Speaker 4: for having mek you what you know.

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Speaker 1: This is before we get in. I know you have

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Speaker 1: a new book and we want to talk about that.

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Speaker 1: But before we get into the book, I just have

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Speaker 1: to ask you, Aaron, what what's the most bananas thing

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Speaker 1: you've ever seen? A lawyer for a giant corporation try

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Speaker 4: My goshde that's that's a good one.

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Speaker 2: I'd have to It's an endless list, I'm sure.

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Speaker 4: Well yeah, no, uh yeah, it's well you caught me

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Speaker 4: on that one. I'd have to put some thought to that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think I see so many banana things, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I really do.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 5: The thing that's crazy is when you see it and

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Speaker 5: you say it, people think you're bananas, right, but you're

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Speaker 5: not bananas because it's really happening and it it makes

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Speaker 5: me think of you know, when I started my work

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Speaker 4: I'm like, no, I'm not bananas. It's really there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And that is so, And I wanted to ask

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Speaker 1: you about that because what I love about your career

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Speaker 1: is that you've constantly stood up for people against corporations

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Speaker 1: when no one believed you, and the corporations were actively

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Speaker 1: trying to hide wrongdoing, and yet you've been incredibly successful.

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Speaker 1: How do you not get overwhelmed by the odds when

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Speaker 1: people don't believe you even like the premise of what

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, I think, well a lot of it

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Speaker 5: I happen to be kind of a banana's zany fun

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Speaker 4: But you know, as I've gotten.

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Speaker 5: Older and in my work, it's like, you know, don't

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Speaker 5: Everybody's going to have a response. Everybody has a personality, right,

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Speaker 5: And then bananas comes off the cuff and you're like,

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Speaker 4: And you know, you try to laugh at it and

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Speaker 5: But it just gets to the point where I'm like,

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Speaker 4: So off I go. I just keep doing what I

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Speaker 2: There is sometimes a weird sense of security, like when

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Speaker 2: It's very strange phenomenon.

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Speaker 5: And you know, I've definitely learned, okay, because eventually, guess

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Speaker 4: That's what just as bananas is me. So somehow it

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Speaker 5: I think I've seen anybody and everybody in my life,

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Speaker 2: So I went to a funeral once, not to totally

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Speaker 2: And I was like, sure, Kurt, did I already tell

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Speaker 2: work in a bicycle shop. I'm from Maryland, Maryland Aaron

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Speaker 5: You know, isn't it funny people who weren't there that

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Speaker 4: Well, you didn't see it, of course, it didn't happen

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Speaker 2: It happened, yes, And thirty years later, I still think

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, you know. I mean, you're asking me, you know,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, I still have a banana. I still have

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Speaker 4: You were my son.

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Speaker 1: It's like, okay, yeah, So Aaron, I wanted to talk about.

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Speaker 1: You have a new book coming out called Superman's Not Coming.

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Speaker 1: Uh Yes, and it is essentially, uh, how to prep

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 5: Well, the book is Superman's Not Coming Our national water

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Speaker 5: what happened in Hinckley, I can assure you was not

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Speaker 5: Have caused and created from a plethora of you know, herbicides, pesticides,

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Speaker 5: I think we all see it, and there's a moment

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Speaker 5: You mean, we have enough overwhelming stuff and daunting stuff

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I can run for city council.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, don't tell me I'm bananas again, because I

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Speaker 4: Communities who cut through that bullshit. Just said you know what.

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Speaker 4: You can sit there and say, yeah, that is banana.

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Speaker 5: And there's great inspiration. And you have a nineteen year

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Speaker 5: And honestly, when I see something bananas, I can assure

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Speaker 1: So this is This is from CNN. This is written by,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we are all bananas, Scott.

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Speaker 1: You got another one for us?

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Speaker 2: I do, and all mine I think all my stories

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Speaker 2: that's so great. That is okay, so Ared, you were

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's exactly what he did. So what he did

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's exactly it. And you know, I

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Speaker 4: Okay, that was on me? How'd that get by me?

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Speaker 4: Somebody breached that system. Yeah, where was your guard exact?

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Speaker 5: So it makes you it almost for me challenges like okay,

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Speaker 5: how did you get that one on me?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah that's right.

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Speaker 4: Next time I'm.

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Speaker 2: Watching, Yeah, produce a sentence. He he cracked a system

445
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Speaker 2: and all he did was probably google it and then

446
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:33,720
Speaker 2: created a fake email and he was able to do it.

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00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 2: So yeah, give him a knock a couple of years off,

448
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Speaker 2: not a couple of years off. It's creative, it's just

449
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Speaker 2: a chevy.

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Speaker 4: Well, yeah, he must have had some time on his hands.

451
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:45,359
Speaker 4: Maybe we all have too much time on our hands

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Speaker 4: these days.

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Speaker 2: That's right, locked up at.

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Speaker 1: Home, all right. So we're gonna take a quick break

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Speaker 1: and we will be back with more. Aaron Brockovich.

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Speaker 3: Bat banas baby ba ba shotted banana bananas, banana Bana

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Speaker 3: shotten by bananas bana.

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Speaker 2: Kurti b hit us with another banana story. Friend.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, before I get to the next banana story, Scott,

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Speaker 1: I do want to send a shout out to Bananamal

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Speaker 1: Jacqueline Marini, who messaged us on our instagram. You guys,

462
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Speaker 1: you can go to the instagram the Bananas Podcast, uh

463
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,360
Speaker 1: to send us stories or just to chat. We've got

464
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Speaker 1: We're posting crazy stories every single day. But Jacqueline DMed

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Speaker 1: us there and told us that she was listening to

466
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Speaker 1: Bananas while giving birth. That is the first Bananamal birth

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Speaker 1: on the planet.

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Speaker 4: Agious. I mean, wow, I don't know that says a

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Speaker 4: lot for you.

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Speaker 5: I mean it's a distraction, right, were we talking about that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Yes, that you know, everything is so serious and tense,

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Speaker 5: and I don't know Bananas that it's really nice.

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Speaker 4: Uh, it's a reprieve, it's a relief, it's a break.

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Speaker 1: It makes me your thoughts exactly. And I'm sure Jacqueline,

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Speaker 1: she was very nice to let us know, but I'm

477
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Speaker 1: sure as it was happening, she was like, oh God,

478
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Speaker 1: damn it, this podcast is on when my child is

479
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Speaker 1: being born.

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Speaker 4: I didn't choose this time relief.

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Speaker 2: I can't reach it.

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Speaker 1: I can't turn it off.

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Speaker 2: I wish I could, so well.

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Speaker 4: Congratulations to her and her new baby.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely so.

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Speaker 1: Here on Bananas We love the idea of treasure being

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Speaker 1: real and in the world. We if you guys listened

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Speaker 1: to some past episodes we have there's, of course the

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Speaker 1: story of Forced Fenn, who buried a treasure chest holding

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Speaker 1: millions of dollars in the Rocky Mountains, and that that

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Speaker 1: was recently found. Now we have a new man who

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Speaker 1: has picked up the mantle of Forest Fen. This is

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Speaker 1: from m Live Bethany Lynn Hamilton is the first person

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Speaker 1: to send this, and multiple people sent it. This was

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Speaker 1: written by Justin Lofton The Michigan Jeweler buries one million

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Speaker 1: dollars in gold silver diamonds from Detroit to up in

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Speaker 1: treasure Quest.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so this man did he forget where he buried it?

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Speaker 1: And he needs your help to remember. He is just

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Speaker 1: a forgetful jeweler.

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Speaker 2: The squirrel of jewelers.

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Speaker 1: That's the most amazing thing about squirrels is they don't

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Speaker 1: remember where they buried eighty five percent of their nuts.

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Speaker 1: It's so amazing amazing that that would be me.

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Speaker 4: I mean, my gosh, did he free?

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Speaker 5: There was a story and I work in Australia a

507
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,919
Speaker 5: lot very similar to this, and they had a gentleman

508
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Speaker 5: who didn't want to do the banks. He just took

509
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Speaker 5: his money and he literally buried it in coffee cans

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Speaker 5: and he had about a million.

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Speaker 4: Well, they have one of the great floods, and flood

512
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Speaker 4: just took it away.

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Speaker 1: Oh oh that's heartbreaking.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think I would want to bury you know,

515
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 5: gold bars and silver and cash and diamonds, because I

516
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Speaker 5: would definitely go where did I.

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Speaker 1: Well, what this guy has done is he's actually made

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Speaker 1: it a business. So he inherited a jewelry shop from

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Speaker 1: his father, and then during the pandemic, no one obviously

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Speaker 1: was coming in to buy jewelry, so they were about

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Speaker 1: to go bankrupt. So what he did instead was took

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Speaker 1: all of the jewels, diamonds, gold and silver and started

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Speaker 1: bearing them and then making kind of clues and hints

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Speaker 1: to where they're buried. And now anyone in the world

525
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Speaker 1: old can sign up and go on treasure hunts. They

526
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 1: happen once a month and they've just been increasing in

527
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Speaker 1: the amount of that they go. The first one first Quest,

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Speaker 1: begins ten am on August first in Oakland County and Michigan.

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Speaker 1: The prize is two one hundred ounce bars of pure silver,

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Speaker 1: which is worth four thousand dollars. The September out of

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Speaker 1: the run will be eight ten ounce silver bars, ten

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Speaker 1: one ounce Walking Liberty Coins, forty one ounce Buffalo coins,

533
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Speaker 1: twenty one ounce Prospector coins, and fifty one ounce miss

534
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Speaker 1: Laneyes silver coins for a total of two hundred ounces

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Speaker 1: of pure silver are worth somewhere around ten thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: But they're going to be doing these every month, And

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Speaker 1: if anyone lives in Michigan, this is a ban animal's offer, Bethany.

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00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 1: We offered it to Bethany. Bethany doesn't know if she

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Speaker 1: can do it. So if anybody is in Michigan and

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Speaker 1: wants to go on a treasure hunt, it costs like

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Speaker 1: fifty or sixty bucks to sign up to get the clues,

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Speaker 1: we will stake you. We can't stay a ton of you,

543
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: but we can stake like one or two of you.

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00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: And you know, you get to keep the treasure if

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00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 1: you find it. But we just want you out there

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Speaker 1: trying to find treasure for Banan animals.

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Speaker 5: What a fun idea, What a cool idea, I mean,

548
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 5: what a genius little idea.

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Speaker 4: I just hope the hell he's got the right good

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Speaker 4: map and knows where it all is. But yeah, that's

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Speaker 4: kind of fun, isn't that neat?

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00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a scavenger hunt, but with real

553
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Speaker 1: treasure at the end.

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00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 4: Absolutely amazing.

555
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 5: How you know we get locked up a little and

556
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,719
Speaker 5: things changed, How our creativity and all that gets to flowing.

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Speaker 4: I would have never even thought of something like that.

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00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,720
Speaker 1: And I noticed two people are just a little bit

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Speaker 1: kinder recently, Like I had to go in for like

560
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: a dumb audition on something, a dumb commercial audition, and

561
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 1: just it was just, you know, usually commercial auditions, they're

562
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 1: not pleasant process, it's not an enjoyable experience, and this

563
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Speaker 1: one was just so human and kind, and I was

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Speaker 1: just like, oh, I hope the world changes this way

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Speaker 1: if that, you know, like we treat each other a

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Speaker 1: little better. I hope we do. I'm sure it'll last

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Speaker 1: for one week after the pandemic ends, and then we'll

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Speaker 1: be back.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, sometimes I don't know.

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Speaker 5: Maybe you know, it's interesting if we did, we tend

571
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Speaker 5: to move on past and listen, we've all been through

572
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 5: a lot of crisis in this country before we know it,

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Speaker 5: probably in our own personal lives.

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Speaker 4: Yep, I don't know that. I hope we just don't forget.

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Speaker 4: But I'm with you on what you just said.

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Speaker 5: You know, my granddaughter had a you know, a little

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Speaker 5: lemonade stand, and I was stunned watching the beauty of

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Speaker 5: the community, the ups truck drivers or you know, a

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Speaker 5: fireman stopping by and having.

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Speaker 4: A little lemonade and donating ten dollars.

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Speaker 5: And you know, it's good to see you out here,

582
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 5: you know, thinking and thinking of us, and we're thinking

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Speaker 5: of you.

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Speaker 4: It was just it's really nice to see people do that.

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00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 5: And we're better than we are bad. And I don't

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Speaker 5: want us to ever flip because there's so much negativity.

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00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 5: We we are great and and humans are wonderful bananas

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00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 5: and all. And during bad times, it's very heartwarming, like

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00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 5: you said, to see us come together.

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Speaker 4: But we got it in us.

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Speaker 1: We got it in I hope we just give it

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Speaker 1: a chance.

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Speaker 4: I hope so too. But you know, keep up with

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Speaker 4: the banana stories. I mean, it's like, we think we're bananas,

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00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 4: but are.

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Speaker 2: We It's insane. It really is so funny that and

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00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 2: also we are serious. By the way, to our Michigan listeners,

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Speaker 2: we would love to take a couple of you to

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00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 2: go out there and just try get out, stretch the legs,

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Speaker 2: get some fresh air. I'm sure the walls are closing

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00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 2: on a little bit. You know, you can be the

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00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 2: Nicholas Cage and National Treasure Book of Secrets or whatever.

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Speaker 5: Get out there, Yeah, Michigan, get out there and find

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00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 5: where that stuff is buried. It's great creative juice is

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00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 5: going and like you said, move your body and get

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Speaker 5: outside of all the negativity.

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00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 4: And you know, great things happen when we.

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Speaker 1: Do that exactly, And everybody who wants, who's interested in

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00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: doing this, you can go to Johnny's Treasure quest dot

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Speaker 1: com to register for a hunt. Yeah, Scott, you got

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Speaker 1: another one from me.

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Speaker 4: I do.

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Speaker 2: Here's another one about somebody that took matters into his

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Speaker 2: own hands. Maine man saw his neighbor's garage in half

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00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 2: a mid boundary dispute. So okay, okay, Maine. Maine is

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Speaker 2: the most unknown state in the United States. Can people

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Speaker 2: don't know anything about Maine. Maybe the Dakota's, but I

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Speaker 2: would say Maine is the giant question mark in the

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Speaker 2: United States.

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Speaker 1: I agree.

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Speaker 2: It's also beautiful in Maine.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's so gorgeous. My grandmother used to have

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Speaker 1: a little, tiny one room cottage in Maine. My family

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00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: sold it after she died, and I still regret it

625
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 1: because it was such a beautiful place to go.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it really is.

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Speaker 5: I haven't been to Maine a lot, and i've been

628
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Speaker 5: in It's a small state, it's a cold state.

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Speaker 4: There's only certain times a year i'd want to pop

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Speaker 4: up in there. But it's just very beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Yes, a Kadia National Park is so gorgeous that everybody,

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00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 2: who's anybody if you live in New England or you're

633
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 2: doing a road trip, this is a road trip summer.

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00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 2: Let's face it, this is not a lot of people

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Speaker 2: getting on planes this year. Go up to a Kadia,

636
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 2: go camp at seawall, take a hike, see dark water,

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00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 2: hitting big trees. It's a beautiful experience, it really is.

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Speaker 5: You know, it's a good time to do a staycation

639
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 5: and learn America again.

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00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 4: Right, Yep, that's some beautiful places around.

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Speaker 2: I went to gosh where I think it was in Portland, Maine,

642
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Speaker 2: when I went to college in Massachusetts, and so I

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00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 2: drove up there with my girlfriend at the time, and

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00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 2: we're sitting at this long, beautiful bar, big, big beautiful

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00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 2: trees in Maine, big beautiful wood bar. And she looked

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Speaker 2: at me and then like look down the bar and

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00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 2: looked at me, and she's like, there's only three women here.

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00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 2: And I said, yeah, that I guess that is true.

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00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 2: And she goes and you're the only guy without a

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00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 2: beard or a sweater, and I go, yeah, that's also.

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00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 2: And the truth was I couldn't grow a beard, and

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00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 2: I probably couldn't have afforded a sweater, so thank god

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00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 2: I can dance.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's what you gotta do in Maine. It's

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Speaker 1: either dance, grows beard, or have a sweater.

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00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 4: Have a good lobster, go out there and catch it yourself.

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Speaker 2: Heck yuess Okay. Main man saws neighbor's garage and half

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Speaker 2: a mid boundary dispute. This is written by our best

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Speaker 2: friend in the world, Ernie Clark, for the Bangor Daily

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Speaker 2: News so in Dover. In Dover, Foxcroft, Maine, never heard

661
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 2: of it. Sure, it's beautiful. A man cut his neighbor's

662
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 2: garage and half with a saws all. But he was

663
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 2: on friendly terms with the man who built the structure,

664
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Speaker 2: just not with everybody who lived on the property after

665
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 2: he died. So okay. Gabriel Gabriel Braun used a land

666
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 2: surveyor's demarcation between two lots as a guide to remove

667
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,839
Speaker 2: half of the building sitting on the land dispute over

668
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 2: boundary line, and so we'll put this on her Instagram.

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00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 2: This guy legitimately cut a garage completely in half on

670
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 2: his property line. Also, for all of us who don't

671
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 2: know what a sawzall is, I looked it up. Basically,

672
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 2: imagine a musket and then instead of a gun barrel,

673
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 2: put a saw blade that goes fording backwards super quick.

674
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 2: It's not big. I thought it was like a like

675
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 2: on a crane or something, a big piece of machinery. No,

676
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 2: this guy handcut this garage and half. Okay, so.

677
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Speaker 4: That's extreme bananas.

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00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 2: Yes, this is and also weirdly legal. Maybe it's hard

679
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 2: to say so.

680
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: When this whole thing it gets into the weeds about

681
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 1: like the the like where the boundary line is and

682
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: everything like that.

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00:35:56,160 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, two professional extreme Yeah, yeah, extreme bananas. So

684
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 2: they hired two surveyors to find this line of demarcation.

685
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 2: This gentleman, Steve Rider, passed away and when he was

686
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 2: alive it was a perfectly fine place to live. But

687
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 2: as soon as the quote. As soon as the poor

688
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,720
Speaker 2: man passed away, this place turned into craziness and chaos.

689
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 2: This one family, the Bronze unsuccessfully tried to purchase the

690
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 2: house after the gentleman died, and the proper property line

691
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,359
Speaker 2: dispute gained momentum in April when the Browns put down

692
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 2: a load of woodchips, classic passive aggressive. I'm whenever I'm

693
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 2: mad at somebody, If somebody eats my last pop tart,

694
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:43,360
Speaker 2: I'm just putting wood chips all over their life.

695
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Speaker 1: I'm terrified. I am terrified now that I have neighbors,

696
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: of ever getting into a fight with a neighbor because

697
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: it just seems like it would make your life so

698
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,239
Speaker 1: stressful all the time.

699
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 2: So true.

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Speaker 5: So you know, ecques of trees, or a noise or

701
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,320
Speaker 5: a dog barking for one minute out.

702
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,800
Speaker 2: Of the way, I mean, yes, it's anything.

703
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 5: It takes a lot of good negotiation skills to uh,

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00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 5: you have a issue with me.

705
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:14,320
Speaker 1: I have a man who I have a man on

706
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 1: my behind me and I've purposely never said anything to

707
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 1: him because I don't want to like escalate it. But

708
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: at one point fifteen two am, regularly he just starts screaming.

709
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 2: And normal windows open.

710
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: It's right, it's like literally six feet from our bedroom

711
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: and he just starts screaming. And then I realized that

712
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 1: he's watching soccer. He's watching soccer in a different country

713
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 1: or like tape or what. I don't even know what

714
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: it is, but I can hear him like save a goal. Uh,

715
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, it's soccer. He's watching at

716
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: it like you know, some different time where they're playing.

717
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: And it's been driving me bananas. But anyway, and I

718
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: properly purposely have not said any things. I don't want

719
00:37:59,040 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: to get into a fight with an.

720
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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, I mean how long does the screaming

721
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 4: go on for?

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Speaker 5: Though? I mean, you know, sometimes it helps, you know,

723
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 5: to be able to really if there's something going.

724
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 4: On, just go knock on the door.

725
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Speaker 2: I mean, a soccer match is ninety minutes, so that's

726
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 2: a that's a whole lot of screaming going on.

727
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 1: And honestly, it was only a problem when our air

728
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 1: conditioning was broken because we had to have all our

729
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: windows open. But now we sleep with the doors closed

730
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,320
Speaker 1: because we're air conditioning on, so it is not a

731
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 1: problem anymore. But it was driving me crazy.

732
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Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, yeah, Well, you know, bananas I think

733
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 5: goes on all kinds of extremes.

734
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 4: You guys should have a meter, you know.

735
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, Yeah, you know, right, a banana a bananater,

736
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Speaker 1: You need a banana ter.

737
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 4: Yeah.

738
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Speaker 2: The writer actually the the journalist of the story. Uh.

739
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 2: And the long story short is they put this multipile

740
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 2: out there. The son of the deceased man puts a

741
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 2: steak in the ground where it is to claim it.

742
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 2: The next day, this guy, Gabriel Braun, who works and

743
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 2: cons struction, takes this saws all again. Just imagine a

744
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 2: big turkey leg with a blade coming out of it

745
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 2: and skillfully cut down half of the garage on the

746
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 2: family's property. Because they've been paying taxes on it for years,

747
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 2: they wanted to pack, so the Bronze have. Now it

748
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 2: looks like that family moved away. I also would move

749
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 2: away if somebody cut my garage in half. I would say, Oh,

750
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:26,879
Speaker 2: they're more into this than I am. They're a little

751
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 2: more dedicated to handsaw building in half. Yeah, And the

752
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:35,320
Speaker 2: Bronze are installing a partial fence with cameras on either side.

753
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 2: And then this is the quote. I think we're all

754
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 2: alluding to this exact thing. Quote, we're putting up a fence.

755
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:45,800
Speaker 2: Fences make good neighbors, and that might be true.

756
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 4: Oh now, wow, that's that's bananas are not that?

757
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 5: You know?

758
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 4: The more we talk, the more I was sitting here

759
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 4: going was that bananas or not?

760
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: Now?

761
00:39:57,239 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 4: What banana extreme we go to?

762
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,720
Speaker 2: Have you ever had I had a totally bonker's neighbor.

763
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 2: Did you ever live next to anybody that had a

764
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 2: very specific thing?

765
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Speaker 5: Yes, I've had some neighbors before, like on Christmas Day

766
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 5: get really upset about the music and come banging on

767
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 5: the door or telling you to stop neighbor that.

768
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Speaker 1: Christmas Day, the day everyone's supposed to be nice to

769
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Speaker 1: each other.

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00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 4: Wow, I have had some funny neighbors.

771
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 5: Your kids are out playing in the morning. I'm like, yeah,

772
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 5: summertime and that's what they do. Well, I don't think

773
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 5: they should be out playing prior to ten am.

774
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:37,920
Speaker 4: And I'm like, yeah, well here's what I think. And

775
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 4: I just slammed the door in the face. I mean

776
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 4: these kids to prior to ten am.

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Speaker 1: That is an entire light. You have a lifetime before

778
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Speaker 1: ten am with when you have kids, you get I'm

779
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 1: about six a m. By ten am, I'm ready for

780
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:55,759
Speaker 1: a nap. I can't. Kids are going out the door

781
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Speaker 1: at seven am.

782
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, you know, I mean honesty through out there at

783
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 5: ten of night's screaming and stuff.

784
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 4: I mean, I get it, but kids, it's summer and

785
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 4: we uh.

786
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 5: Definitely a neighbor banging on my neighbor's window at four

787
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,880
Speaker 5: thirty in the morning. They were leaving town and they

788
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 5: let the dog out and the dog was barking, And

789
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 5: while the dog was out peeing and came back in.

790
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 5: She literally four thirty in the morning, came out of

791
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 5: nowhere and was banging on their front window to shut

792
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 5: your dog out, and like scared everybody.

793
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:29,840
Speaker 4: So, yeah, we've had some neighbors.

794
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, you've had a few, and you know, I I

795
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 5: try not to get into it with them. The one

796
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 5: with the kids that you know they can't come out

797
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 5: before ten in the morning, that was just to slam

798
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:41,399
Speaker 5: the door in your face.

799
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 4: That's this song going to happen. So and somehow, you know,

800
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 4: everybody kind of went about their business.

801
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 2: Yeah. I went when I was a freshman in college.

802
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 2: It was my first week and I think when you

803
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 2: when you go to I went away. I was like,

804
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 2: I want to go to a school where I will

805
00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 2: know zero people, so I have to make all new

806
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 2: friends and grow up. And so that first week, I

807
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:04,320
Speaker 2: had an in state roommate and he went home that

808
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 2: following weekend and I went to a couple things. People

809
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:09,240
Speaker 2: always pitch college, like when you see it in movies

810
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 2: and TV shows. It's always like every day is a

811
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 2: party and there's beer funnels, and you're meeting people and

812
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 2: you're hooking up, and there's always somebody going off the

813
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 2: roof of a frat wearing skis or something. It's always ye,

814
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 2: it's a free for all. That that's not the truth.

815
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 2: So I was like a slow week, and I'd met

816
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 2: my neighbors. And the way my dorm worked was by room.

817
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 2: It was coed a skygirl byroom. So I'd met my

818
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:35,399
Speaker 2: next door neighbors a couple of times, just saying hey

819
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 2: in the morning and stuff like that. And it was

820
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 2: a Friday night, my first week of school. Didn't know

821
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 2: a single person, seventeen years old, and at like one am,

822
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Speaker 2: there's a knock on my door and I open it

823
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 2: and it's my next door neighbor named Colleen, and she's

824
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 2: from South e Boston and she's four foot eleven, and

825
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 2: she's like a little rosy riveter, like a little red

826
00:42:55,600 --> 00:43:00,759
Speaker 2: bandana around her head, and she goes, squat, go hey,

827
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 2: are you okay? She goes, can I come in? And

828
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 2: I say, sure, come on in, and she goes, I

829
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 2: had a terrible night, and I go, oh, I'm so sorry. Okay.

830
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 2: She goes, I got too drunk at a potty and

831
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,840
Speaker 2: nobody wanted to talk to me, and I don't have

832
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 2: any friends, so I go, oh, well, you can sit here,

833
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 2: like it's totally fine. She goes, can I lay in

834
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:26,720
Speaker 2: your bed with you? And I go and I go, okay.

835
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 2: So we're fully clothed, but I'm aaron. You don't know this.

836
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 2: I'm I'm six three and Colleen is four to eleven,

837
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,439
Speaker 2: and so it looked like I was carrying a book

838
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 2: bag at waist height. And so she crawls up in

839
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 2: my lofted bed and she goes, I'm so sorry about this,

840
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 2: and I go, oh, it's okay, and she goes, you're

841
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,800
Speaker 2: such a nice guy, and I'm just being nice. But

842
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 2: also I'm a kid. I'm seventeen, and I'm like just

843
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 2: trying to figure out what's going on. So she goes

844
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 2: I'm just going to pass out in your bed if

845
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 2: that's okay, And I said yeah. And also she was

846
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 2: saying like qualeene and squatty, that's like how she would say.

847
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 2: So she's she goes, can you spoon me? And I

848
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 2: go hey, okay, like and so yeah, I know. And

849
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 2: so I'm laying there spooning a woman that I have

850
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 2: only said hello to three times while walking to the

851
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 2: dining hall who was came in crying and I'm like,

852
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 2: this is gonna be fine, and she's like adorable. She

853
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 2: was so nice and like I felt for her. And

854
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 2: then she goes my boyfriend in Boston, and I was like,

855
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 2: here we go. She goes, he's a street fighter. His

856
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 2: name's Johnny Knuckles. He's coming to visit tomorrow. He'll be

857
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 2: so mad if he finds out about it. No, no, no,

858
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 2: So I go, oh, really, do you want to go

859
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 2: to your room? And she goes, no, this feels good,

860
00:44:56,600 --> 00:45:02,359
Speaker 2: thank you, squat So Colleen sleep in my bed again.

861
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 2: This was one or two am, and the whole time

862
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 2: I laid wide awake because I think a gangster from

863
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 2: Boston named Johnny Knuckles is gonna find out walk over

864
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 2: to my dorm that is six feet away from her

865
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 2: door and punch me to death. So she sleeps the night.

866
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 2: I wait until six or seven am, but she ends up.

867
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 2: She ends up wedding the bed. She's so drunk, and

868
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 2: so we kind of made a sweet little pack. She

869
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 2: was like, I'm so sorry. I'm like, just don't tell Johnny.

870
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 2: I'll clean this up. Nobody ever has to know. She goes,

871
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 2: thank you, and then she flunked out by October. She

872
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 2: just school wasn't for her. But yeah, my best neighbor.

873
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 2: I wish I could have built a little fence, but yeah,

874
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:46,320
Speaker 2: I was there for Qualleyen from Southey and ultimately Johnny

875
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 2: knuckles uh didn't kill me. That's why we have this podcast.

876
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 4: Do you ever look back sharing that story and go,

877
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 4: what were you thinking?

878
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:01,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, everything in me should have been like, let's get

879
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 2: you to health services and put some water and electrolytes

880
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 2: in you. Yeah, I was, uh, Yeah, it all happen.

881
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 2: Sometimes life happens really fast and you just say yes

882
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 2: to things, and it all to me turned out kind

883
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 2: of sweetly and beautifully, So I have no regrets about it.

884
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 1: But yeah, so like you, you learned how to do

885
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 1: an amazing Boston accent in the process.

886
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:28,280
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, oh guad squatty, And I'm like, yes.

887
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 5: Okay, I the Bostonian accents I love. I went to

888
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 5: college with a room, not a roommate. He lived above us.

889
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:37,319
Speaker 3: Uh.

890
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:42,719
Speaker 5: I could never talk to him because every time he'd

891
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 5: come over, he'd like bang on the door.

892
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 4: I wouldn't open it. He'd go open the door.

893
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 5: Do you know it is so I had the hardest

894
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 5: time talking with him because the accent just gets to.

895
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 2: Me, like, you know, it's amazing, It's amazing, it really is.

896
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 1: My My roommate, my first roommate in college, was a hardcore,

897
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: hardcore Republican. He would read all these Rush Limbaugh books

898
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:13,320
Speaker 1: and he learned to fall asleep to listening to Tracy Chapman,

899
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 1: whoa the weirdest, the weirdest combination here. He almost he

900
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 1: almost beat me up. He like came close, he like

901
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 1: held up his fist to go to punch me. Like

902
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,839
Speaker 1: it escalated really poorly between the two of us.

903
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 2: Uh.

904
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 1: And then I just remembered, like every night he would

905
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 1: just put on You've got a fast car, just like

906
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 1: what people are filled of multitudes. They are so many

907
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:44,360
Speaker 1: things at once.

908
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 4: They are just.

909
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 1: Inside.

910
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 2: Kurt, you got one for us. Oh sorry, Eron, I

911
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:55,840
Speaker 2: jumped on. You're sorry about that.

912
00:47:56,480 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 5: No, I'm enjoying listening and just respond to the craziness.

913
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:02,360
Speaker 4: You know.

914
00:48:02,520 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 5: I will never be the same after this podcast because

915
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 5: every single day I will be searching for these stories.

916
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:09,839
Speaker 4: The hell.

917
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, you should follow us on Instagram because we post

918
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:13,919
Speaker 1: them every single day.

919
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 2: Also, you you are so welcome to come back anytime

920
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:19,840
Speaker 2: you want, if you ever need a little pick me

921
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 2: up and just want to make sure that you're not

922
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 2: going nuts, that the world's nuts. The door is open

923
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 2: to hop on bananas whenever you want, anytime you want.

924
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 4: Aaron, I'm gonna probably be calling you every day going to.

925
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: So this is a story. This is kind of totally fast.

926
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: I had no idea about this guy. This is from

927
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 1: the Harvard Gazette, written by Mara Christina Cabalero. Okay, and

928
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 1: this is it's just about the mayor of Bogata, Columbia,

929
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 1: and Tannis mock Us, which is spelled mock Us, which

930
00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: is great. He was a he was like head of

931
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:03,760
Speaker 1: the of the university in Colombia and then just retired

932
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 1: and had never held a political office. And just ran

933
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Speaker 1: for mayor of Bogata, a very large city, and won.

934
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: And then he just started doing all of this fascinating stuff,

935
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 1: like making all this fascinating stuff that actually worked, that

936
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 1: was like very like kind of lighthearted, but addressed real

937
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:28,879
Speaker 1: issues like there was in Bogata, Like the streets were

938
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Speaker 1: incredibly chaotic and dangerous, people getting hit by cars and killed.

939
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: There was a huge problem for the city. So he

940
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Speaker 1: hired four hundred and twenty mimes to control traffic and

941
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Speaker 1: it worked like people like listen to the mimes, which

942
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 1: was amazing. Then he launched a night for women and

943
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:54,360
Speaker 1: asked the city's men to stay home in the evening

944
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Speaker 1: and care for the children. And seven hundred thousand women

945
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Speaker 1: went out on the first of three nights that mak

946
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:01,839
Speaker 1: dedicated to them, which is pretty cool.

947
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 4: Oh my god.

948
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: And connecting it back to your book, Aaron, when there

949
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 1: was a water shortage in Bogata, Machus appeared on TV

950
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 1: taking a shower and turning off the water as he

951
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:19,279
Speaker 1: soapd asking his fellow citizens to do the same. And

952
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: in just two months people were using fourteen percent less water.

953
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 1: Oh and then wow, and now in Bogatah water use

954
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: is down forty percent from before the shortage, and wow,

955
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 1: he's such a cool dude. He also did this thing

956
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 1: where he asked everyone if they he gave people these

957
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 1: giant he mailed out, like one hundred thousand giant thumbs

958
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 1: up and thumbs down signs, and then you were allowed.

959
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 1: And then you were allowed to just give people a

960
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 1: thumbs up sign or a thumbs downside on the street

961
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 1: when you saw them doing something you liked or didn't like.

962
00:50:57,920 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 2: That is so funny.

963
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 1: He then there also there was a really big problem

964
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:06,400
Speaker 1: with taxi drivers, like taking people for rides, you know, monetarily,

965
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 1: not just rides in their car. And so he asked

966
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 1: everybody to call in if they ever found a kind

967
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:17,240
Speaker 1: and honest taxi driver, and one hundred and fifty people called,

968
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 1: and he organized a meeting with these one hundred and

969
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:25,719
Speaker 1: fifty good taxi drivers and then asked them how to

970
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 1: change the system. He made these good taxi drivers they

971
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:32,399
Speaker 1: named he called them the Knights of the Zebra Sure,

972
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:34,320
Speaker 1: which was a close border by the Mayor's office. And

973
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 1: now the taxis are way more fair in Bogata. Like

974
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:42,360
Speaker 1: everything is very theatrical, everything is very you know. And

975
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 1: his quote is which I love is the distribution of

976
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 1: knowledge is the key contemporary task. Knowledge empowers people. If

977
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: people know the rules and are sensitized by art, humor,

978
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: and creativity, they are much more likely to accept change.

979
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 4: Which absolutely, that's exactly what I was just getting ready

980
00:51:59,719 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 4: to say.

981
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 5: I mean, nobody likes stuff shoved down their thrust right,

982
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 5: and then they exist.

983
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 4: But he has a way of like even making fun.

984
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 5: Of himself or in the shower that disarms people and

985
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 5: allow us that moment for them to go, oh.

986
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:16,360
Speaker 4: We should be doing this for that.

987
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:20,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's beautiful, it's really great. And also this was

988
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:23,280
Speaker 1: sent in actually by it and that's not so banana.

989
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:26,240
Speaker 1: I know, it's not so bananas. It's very it's very hearty.

990
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: And also I have to do a shot out there.

991
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 1: This was sent in by a bananimal whose name I lost,

992
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:36,319
Speaker 1: And so please yell at me over DM and I.

993
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 2: We'll say your name three times on another episode. We're

994
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:43,760
Speaker 2: gonna get you. You're gonna be so famous, be putting

995
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 2: billboards up in your town. We are nice, isn't it nice?

996
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 1: We aren't nearing the end of the podcast, Aaron, is

997
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:56,919
Speaker 1: there anything you would like to to plug of course,

998
00:52:57,000 --> 00:53:00,920
Speaker 1: obviously your book Superman is not coming, and.

999
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 4: You know, first of all, I've had fun. Thank you

1000
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 4: for having me.

1001
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 5: Like I said, you know, honestly, my whole life is bananas.

1002
00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 5: And I think I've been people saying, what are you crazy?

1003
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 5: Yeah I am, And you know what, maybe that's okay.

1004
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 5: The idea and everything we've talked about, it's bananas. How

1005
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 5: far you take bananas, I don't know.

1006
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 4: That. I guess that's up to you.

1007
00:53:25,239 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 5: And if you go to bananas, sometimes we have to

1008
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 5: be accountable for what we did when we got bananas.

1009
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:32,399
Speaker 4: But some of these stories are so fun. I love

1010
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:36,800
Speaker 4: the one out of Bokatal about the water. You know,

1011
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 4: I think of a seal song.

1012
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 5: You know, sometimes everybody's got to get a little crazy,

1013
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 5: you know, just kind of get to live.

1014
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 4: I I just I believe in us. I always have.

1015
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:52,719
Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to Superman's not coming, even though it's

1016
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:55,319
Speaker 5: about a water crisis. I know it's daunting. I think

1017
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 5: we've forgotten to believe in ourselves. I think we've forgotten

1018
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:00,720
Speaker 5: to believe that, you know, I can handle an issue

1019
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 5: without having to go through all of this. And yeah,

1020
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:05,880
Speaker 5: I may be a little bananas, but I love you

1021
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 5: and let's get this worked out and move on. And

1022
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 5: so the stories have been enlightening. And I meant it

1023
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 5: when I said it. I'm never going to be the

1024
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 5: same after this.

1025
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:18,920
Speaker 1: Pot every other day see this, please do.

1026
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 2: And also, Aaron, do you have a podcast coming up

1027
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 2: or coming out soon?

1028
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,719
Speaker 5: I do, and it's Superman's not coming and it is

1029
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 5: just stories of and you know what, mostly moms.

1030
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 4: Moms are great, man.

1031
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 5: There's nothing like if you piss off a bunch of

1032
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 5: women or a mom, you had just better move.

1033
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:39,680
Speaker 4: Aside because they're going to do what they gotta do.

1034
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 5: Mom and sharing stories in a way, you know, because

1035
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:47,360
Speaker 5: in so many environmental issues, you you don't want to

1036
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:47,880
Speaker 5: believe it.

1037
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:50,920
Speaker 4: We were like, no, someone else has got that life

1038
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:52,879
Speaker 4: is dead? You know, is so bad enough. I don't

1039
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:55,280
Speaker 4: want to think about not having water. But they're coming

1040
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 4: out and just like you know, we talked about people

1041
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 4: who just showed you what banana this is all about? Boy,

1042
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 4: how doy you know? Mom's gone bananas? You better stand aside.

1043
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 4: Oh my god, we're going to come out and they're

1044
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 4: going to get something done.

1045
00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:11,399
Speaker 1: Oh hell yeah, I love that story that I think

1046
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:13,560
Speaker 1: you told I heard you tell it on an interview

1047
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:17,120
Speaker 1: about the moms who got organized and then one of

1048
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 1: them was elected to city council and got the city

1049
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:22,759
Speaker 1: to ban the use of ammonia in their drinking water.

1050
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:30,800
Speaker 5: Hannibal, Missouri. Absolutely amazing and so you know everything. I'm

1051
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 5: not too surprised by bananas. I have found more bananas.

1052
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 5: You're like, you really get something done.

1053
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:39,839
Speaker 2: Well, Thank you so much.

1054
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:42,239
Speaker 1: Erin Hey, thank you.

1055
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:44,399
Speaker 4: I'll be talking to you real soon.

1056
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:46,759
Speaker 1: Like I said, I'm all right believe this.

1057
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:49,880
Speaker 4: Keep it up.

1058
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:51,040
Speaker 1: Thank you, Scott.

1059
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 5: That's great, My guys, Bananas Bananas.

1060
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 1: This has been an exactly right.

1061
00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 2: Production, produced and engineered by Katie Levine.

1062
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 1: Theme song by Khan Amani, and all.

1063
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:10,720
Speaker 2: Of our artwork is done by Travis Millard.

1064
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 1: So please follow us on Instagram at the Bananas Podcast,

1065
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: where we post so many more stories and make it

1066
00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:17,799
Speaker 1: here and you.

1067
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,239
Speaker 2: Can share with us your strange news story by d

1068
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:22,800
Speaker 2: ming us on Instagram at the Bananas Podcast.

1069
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:25,759
Speaker 1: So listen, subscribe, and please leave us a review on

1070
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:28,839
Speaker 1: Apple podcast Stitch or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 2: Bananas Bananas,