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Speaker 1: Scottie, are you ready?

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Speaker 2: Ooh, Yes, it's a new year, It's a new us.

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Speaker 2: I'm ready to laugh and laugh and laugh.

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Speaker 1: Uk Town cancels New Year fireworks for Walrus, only for

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Speaker 1: it to masturbate and leave.

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Speaker 2: It might be a new year, but it's the same

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Speaker 2: old Banana boys, let's get into it. On a brand

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Speaker 2: spanking new episode of Bananas.

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Speaker 1: Still world understand, would you mind? Zillion pieces would be.

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Speaker 2: Banana ba ba ba ba ba Banana.

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Speaker 1: Guys, guys and non binary pals. Welcome to Bananas. I

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Speaker 1: am Kurt Brown.

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Speaker 2: I am banana Boy number two Scotti Landis and thanks

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Speaker 2: for listening to the silliest little podcast there ever was.

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Speaker 2: KURTI B how you feeling.

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Speaker 1: I'm feeling good. New year, feeling, feeling healthy, feeling on

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Speaker 1: top of things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah like that.

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Speaker 1: Today was like the first day of like getting into

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Speaker 1: like some actual business, you know, for the new year,

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Speaker 1: which is pretty good.

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Speaker 2: HAPs get feeling same. I feel great. I feel like

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Speaker 2: this after the last three years of just being an

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Speaker 2: absolute shit show in so many unpredictable and horrific ways,

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Speaker 2: I feel like this is the year. I think we

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Speaker 2: all need to go back out there, have a little fun,

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Speaker 2: be a little silly, be super kind to one another.

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Speaker 2: You know, you could stay angry and still be kind

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Speaker 2: to people. That's my whole thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, speaking of being achan kind to people.

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Speaker 1: What you You texted me yesterday that you were on

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Speaker 1: a plane okay for eight hours?

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Speaker 2: Okay? So yeah, you and Katie Levine are wonderful. Per

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Speaker 2: engineer texted me when I was on a plane. So

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Speaker 2: I for New Year's Eve, I flew down to Miami

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Speaker 2: do There's a little theater in Key West that you

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Speaker 2: It's right where the cruise ships let off, which could

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Speaker 2: be very confusing and funny for people that just need

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Speaker 2: something to do. All right, So my flight yesterday was

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Speaker 2: a direct flight, and I'm just going to say all

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Speaker 2: It was on a delta flight at eight fifteen am

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Speaker 2: We back out, and then the pilot comes on and says, guys,

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Speaker 2: and then after about an hour of sitting there, they

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Speaker 2: the temperature outside in Miami had heated up where they said,

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Speaker 2: So you were like, I hope the liquor's flowing. No,

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Speaker 2: the mutiny. I'm back. It was you know, it was

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah for real, right, Yes, were people getting sauced around.

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Speaker 1: Also also as if like everybody's gonna get together like

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Speaker 2: Yeah. It was nuts, man. So anyways, that's how I

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Speaker 1: Oh man, Well, I got shows coming up that I

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Speaker 2: What do you got going on? What's new? What's good?

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Speaker 2: Where can the people find more of you?

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Speaker 1: Well, before we get into this fantastic episode, I do

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Speaker 1: want to say I'll be in Austin February ninth, tenth,

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Speaker 1: and eleventh at Cap City, So come on down. Tickets

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Speaker 1: are on the Banana Gram and on my own Instagram.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have a good time in Austin.

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Speaker 2: We got a lot. We got a lot of Austin bananimals.

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Speaker 2: You guys say, come do live shows all the time,

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Speaker 2: So go out see kurdieb in Austin, Tata.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's let's finally get into this beautiful story

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Speaker 1: we have. Was sent in by maybe one million animals.

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Speaker 1: See if leaves? I don't know, maybe they were worried

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Speaker 2: here's a fun one. Who sent this in? Angelina? Just

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Speaker 2: all I have is Angelina, So Angelina. I'm sorry I

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Speaker 2: this in. Police in Germany chase Tesla for fifteen minutes

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Speaker 2: after driver turns on autopilot and goes to sleep.

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Speaker 1: There it is. Our future is sleeping in cars.

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Speaker 2: It really is. This is on skynews dot UK, written

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Speaker 2: James Robinson.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, James, here's good.

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Speaker 2: A Tesla driver in Germany has been accused of giving

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Speaker 2: Yeah, James, he takes swings. That's why we like that.

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Speaker 2: James Robinson at skynews dot UK. Uh, put the auto

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Speaker 2: Traffic officers say they attempted. This is great. Traffic officers

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Speaker 2: despite police repeatedly sounding their horns. In a statement, this

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Speaker 1: And German police sirens are like, they're the really annoying ones.

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Speaker 2: I think they did better than us.

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Speaker 1: I agree, I agree on hundred percent. They're kind of

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 2: In a statement, the Bavarian Police Force said it was

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Speaker 2: But so the guy was traveling six to eight miles

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Speaker 1: Also, I always thought that those auto pilot things needed

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Speaker 1: Taped a sausage to them.

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Speaker 2: Don't give Kurt an autopilot car.

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Speaker 1: What fat figure? Oh Germany folks, all right.

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Speaker 2: This strengthened the suspicion that he had left the controls

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Speaker 2: The force also said its officers found a steering wheel weight,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I please said They launched an investigation into

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Speaker 2: I think if they figure out this technology, people are

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Speaker 2: I'm like, hell, yes, oh, I will go to cars.

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Speaker 2: Yes, easy, take me home, Stephanie. I guess I'll got

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'll do that. That sounds great.

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Speaker 2: just it felt like you were on an island of freedom.

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Speaker 2: It was. We had ninety miles an hour. It was wonderful.

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00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,880
Speaker 2: Somehow we all survived. Steve would take it. He did

438
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Speaker 2: this thing on this one stretch one day I still

439
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Speaker 2: don't know how he accomplished it. We're we're going very

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Speaker 2: fast on the highway. He's in a Ford Ranger pickup truck.

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00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 2: I'm in my little Corolla, and he pulls up alongside

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Speaker 2: of me, and I can see he's on my right side,

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Speaker 2: so he's close to my car, and he's like staring

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Speaker 2: straight ahead and making a really funny face. And then

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Speaker 2: he backs off, and I'm like, very funny. Bit makes

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Speaker 2: a face and backs away. Then he drives up and

447
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Speaker 2: I look over and he's got his socks on his hands,

448
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Speaker 2: and he's staring straight ahead, not looking at me, and

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Speaker 2: then he fades back about twenty feet. And then he

450
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Speaker 2: pulls up alongside of me, and he's got his shoes

451
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Speaker 2: and his socks on his hands, and then he fades back.

452
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Speaker 2: Then he comes up and he's got nothing on his

453
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:55,119
Speaker 2: hands anymore. He's just making the face again. Then he

454
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Speaker 2: fades back about twenty feet. This is all happening while

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Speaker 2: going eighty miles an hour on six ninety five. Then

456
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,480
Speaker 2: he pulls up and he's got his pants on his arms,

457
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Speaker 2: with his shoes and his socks on his hands, steering

458
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,720
Speaker 2: a steering wheel. And then he fades away and I

459
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,639
Speaker 2: was crying laughing driving. The danger wasn't him putting his pants,

460
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 2: shoes and socks on his arms and feet and hands.

461
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,400
Speaker 2: It was me laughing so hard I could barely see

462
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,400
Speaker 2: through my tears. I still don't know how he accomplished it,

463
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:23,919
Speaker 2: but it was like so perfectly done. It was like

464
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 2: a comedy writer's dream come true, where it was like

465
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,240
Speaker 2: everything was out of order, like shoes on your hands

466
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,920
Speaker 2: should have come before socks on your hands, and somebody

467
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:35,600
Speaker 2: he jumped the socks on his hands first. I got

468
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Speaker 2: a textip next time, I'm beck East. I love Steve,

469
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 2: but god, it was the best bit. And I had

470
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 2: like sense memory flashback of just being on that stretch

471
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Speaker 2: a highway and going, God damn, that was the best bit.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I love that bit so much. I also for driving.

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Speaker 1: I was just in Minneapolis in December, and it was

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Speaker 1: last because I was planning on renting a car and

475
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Speaker 1: because I was like, you know, what's I'm always trapped

476
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Speaker 1: in the hotels in absolutely when I i'm doing stand up,

477
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,199
Speaker 1: and so I just went to the place, you know,

478
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 1: went budget or whatever, and I show up, No one's around,

479
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Speaker 1: No one's around, it's empty. I walk right up to

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Speaker 1: the counter and I'm like, here's my reservation, and they're

481
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Speaker 1: just like, it's an hour to wait for a car.

482
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 1: And I was like, what do you mean. It's like

483
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,359
Speaker 1: it's an hour to wait for cars, Like what but

484
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 1: I have a reservation. She's like, yeah, it's still an

485
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 1: hour to wait for your car. And then so I

486
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 1: had I was just like, okay, I'm leaving it. And

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Speaker 1: then so I just get in a car and I leave.

488
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,679
Speaker 1: I go home or go to the hotel. But we

489
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 1: passed by a one of these gas stations and it's

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Speaker 1: pumping munch. Have you ever seen a pump in munch?

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Speaker 2: We change what you're talking about, Yes.

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Speaker 1: Pumping munch. And it just got me thinking about, like,

493
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Speaker 1: why are regional gas stations so horny? Like regional gas

494
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 1: stations are so horny, like come and go, okay, gross

495
00:25:54,760 --> 00:26:00,399
Speaker 1: pumping munch. TNA loves sheets, I mean, not necessarily horny,

496
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: but to that, you know, Oh yeah, Grooven Neuvens.

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Speaker 2: There's one in the southeast called Grooven Neuvens, which sounds

498
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Speaker 2: like you're bumping donuts, you know. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Lube, what's the lube? Lube quickilob Oh yeah sure, but

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Speaker 1: I mean like also, come and go, Come and go,

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Speaker 1: And even if cum and go was named right, even

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Speaker 1: if it was named in nineteen oh five, come and

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Speaker 1: Go was never not horny?

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Speaker 2: Do you mean come?

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Speaker 1: How are you spelling it? K? You am so like

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Speaker 1: come come, but with the k oh, that's horny. Also,

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00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:34,120
Speaker 1: it seems like you're a little racist.

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Speaker 2: I can't believe that that. You're absolutely right. It feels

509
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 2: like it's the klu klux Klan is coming inside of

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Speaker 2: your car.

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Speaker 1: That's that's what it feels like.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh god. I hope our international users, our listeners

513
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Speaker 2: come on into America and rent one of our giant

514
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 2: oversized pickup trucks at fill it up at come and go.

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Speaker 1: And with that, I'll lead us into a break right here.

516
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 1: Please do this is when we come back, we will

517
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Speaker 1: have the story of El Vaquita, the Chilean protest dog.

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Speaker 2: Oh that sounds so fun. I'm ready to laugh.

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Speaker 4: Bananas, folks, we are back.

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Speaker 1: Scottie, do you have a do you have any shout outs?

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Speaker 2: I do? I do? I do? I do I do?

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Speaker 2: First of all, I just went to the po box today.

523
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Speaker 2: Bananas does have a po box. If you d m

524
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 2: us or email us and you want the address, I'll

525
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 2: send it to you. Send us anything nothing illegal, or

526
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 2: I'll call the FBI. We got so many Christmas cards

527
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 2: and nice mail car I'm talking like maybe one hundred

528
00:28:05,200 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 2: and fifty Christmas cards. Oh my god, so I'm slowly

529
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 2: opening them. Thank you to everybody who sent them. We also,

530
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 2: and I don't know who sent this, but we got

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Speaker 2: sent an al pellet, which I had mentioned on the

532
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Speaker 2: Georgia Hardstark episode. An al pellet I mistakenly thought was

533
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 2: we dissected al shit. It's actually they barf it up

534
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 2: like a hair ball, so they gave us some Bananamal

535
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 2: wonderfully sent us an al pellet that if you think

536
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 2: your kids would like to dissect it and find some

537
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 2: bones in it, yeah they would. It's coming to your house.

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00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 2: So thank you whoever sent that. Let us know I

539
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Speaker 2: shout you out in the future. I may have done

540
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Speaker 2: this one before, and I'm sorry if I did, but

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Speaker 2: you know what we're going for. Elizabeth Harper shouting herself

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Speaker 2: out for finishing a pixel crochet blanket of the Black

543
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Speaker 2: Mage from Final Fantasy Great. She started it five years ago,

544
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 2: worked on it on and off. Now that I'm reading it,

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Speaker 2: I think I did do it. But it's thirty nine

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Speaker 2: squares by forty five squares. Okay, good well, Elizabeth Harper,

547
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 2: we're shouting you out for doing it. You don't even

548
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 2: have to shut yourself out. So it is a combined

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Speaker 2: seventeen hundred and fifty five quilted squares.

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Speaker 1: Wa.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations, you have a passion, you have something you love,

552
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 2: you have a hobby. Good for you. Elizabeth Scott and

553
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 2: Rachel are having their first baby in July, and they're

554
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 2: claiming it's already a bananimal, So congratulations you two. And

555
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 2: they're naming the baby olive. Sound familiar, Oh say beautiful name,

556
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 2: beautiful name, and last but not least and banannimals. This

557
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 2: is These are the ones that we really like to get,

558
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Speaker 2: something a little left of center, something a little strange.

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00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 2: Travis wants to shout out his wife, Barbara. She's taking

560
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Speaker 2: her certification test to become an American Sign language interpreter

561
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Speaker 2: on February seventh in Austin, Texas. She's been working on

562
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Speaker 2: this for four years. That's incredible, and Travis is abnormally

563
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Speaker 2: super proud of her. So good luck, Barbara, We hope

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Speaker 2: you pass.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty cool, that's awesome, congratulations.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it strange that American Sign language that, out of

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Speaker 2: everything in the world, that they could not have figured

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Speaker 2: out a universal sign language. That seems like something we

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Speaker 2: could have figured out.

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Speaker 1: Easily, right, It's so strange that there's And I also

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Speaker 1: I never even thought that Americans like ASL means American

572
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Speaker 1: Sign language. That means that there's like British Sign language.

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Speaker 2: And everywhere everywhere, I guess every country who knows that

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Speaker 2: it is fascinating that they couldn't have found they could

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Speaker 2: have created that universally. But maybe I'm an idiot. Maybe

576
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Speaker 2: there's a very clear reason why I do always like

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Speaker 2: looking at those pamphlets when you travel that are like

578
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 2: the equivalent of the middle finger in Greece is this

579
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 2: and the equivalent of the middle finger, And you're like, oh,

580
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 2: I just gave everybody the middle finger by giving them

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Speaker 2: the thumbs up in the OK side.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. Also what I like too is different

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Speaker 1: animal sounds in different languages, like like rooster is obviously

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00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 1: here they go cocka doodle do, but in in Mexico

585
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 1: they go keki. I love that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's cool. That's cool.

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Speaker 1: All right, here we go, let's.

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Speaker 2: Dive back into some bananas news stories.

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Speaker 1: So this was sent in by Steve Sinners. Thank you, Steve.

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Speaker 1: This this specific piece of information about el Vakito I

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00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: could not find backed up anywhere. It comes from an

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00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 1: Instagram post from Working Class History, which is a very

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00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: cool Instagram page. And but I did look it up.

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Speaker 1: Elvakito does. Elvakita does exist, and there's actually a whole

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Speaker 1: history of that I found on blurredlines dot com. El

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Speaker 1: Neegro Madapacos and the riot dogs who protect protesters that

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00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: mentions His mentions a bunch of different Chilean protest dogs.

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Speaker 1: Apparently it is a thing because you know, in Chile,

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Speaker 1: much like some countries, just there's stray dogs are just

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Speaker 1: like everywhere on.

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Speaker 2: The street, ohsolutely.

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Speaker 1: And so during protests and Chile, essentially when the protests start,

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Speaker 1: the dogs joined the protesters and like fight the cops.

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Speaker 2: Hell, yes, really crazy, that's amazing. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And so this one specifically, on this day, the second

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Speaker 1: of January twenty twenty, residents of here it goes antofa Gasta,

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Speaker 1: Chile held a fake protest for a stray dog named

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Speaker 1: El Vaquita or Elvaquita el Vaquita, I think in order

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Speaker 1: to trick him into visiting a veterinarian. So el Vaquita,

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Speaker 1: which means little male cow, is one of several famous

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Speaker 1: street dogs in the country who frequently joined demonstrations and

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Speaker 1: protests and instinctively side with them during confrontations with the police.

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Speaker 1: During one clash, El Vaquita was shot by police with

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Speaker 1: a riot shotgun and injured by all. He would not

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Speaker 1: allow himself to be captured and had repeatedly refused to

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Speaker 1: be adopted, so no one could take him to the vet.

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Speaker 1: So instead, local people organized a fake demonstration, which he

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Speaker 1: then joined, which then led him to the veterinarian where

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Speaker 1: his injuries were treated. In twenty nineteen, in a poll

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Speaker 1: by the local newspaper El Diarrheo, he was voted character

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Speaker 1: of the Year supressed surpassing all the humans, which is

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Speaker 1: so awesome that like no one could get him out,

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Speaker 1: and then they made a fake protest and then it

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Speaker 1: led him right to the vets.

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Speaker 2: Is so great, that is so sweet, my god. So wait,

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Speaker 2: did they memorialize this dog? Is there a statue or

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Speaker 2: something somewhere?

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Speaker 1: He's just still around. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So it

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Speaker 1: was just like about the fake protest that got El

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Speaker 1: Vaquito to the veterinarian.

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Speaker 2: That is so smart. That is like, well, that's also

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Speaker 2: like dogs are I used to. The house I live

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Speaker 2: in has a dog door, but it's small. It's like

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Speaker 2: for medium or smaller sized dogs. And my friend brought

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Speaker 2: a dog over once and the dog just got the

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Speaker 2: zoomies and was running out my back door and through

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Speaker 2: the dog door so fast that we stacked a bunch

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Speaker 2: of solo cups up into like a giant pyramid right

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Speaker 2: near the dog door, and we were like, let's just

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Speaker 2: see what happens, and we opened the back door and

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Speaker 2: the dog came and ran through and then crashed the

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Speaker 2: solo cups and we cheered and the dog it was

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Speaker 2: like it was in heaven. It was like I was

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Speaker 2: part of something I don't understand. It was really loud

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Speaker 2: and scary for a second, but the humans are into it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's so funny. I recently shaved Zelda, our dog,

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Speaker 1: and so she had you know, nice, nice, nice soft

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Speaker 1: fur underneath. And we're watching something. Oh I think we

649
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Speaker 1: were watching Matilda. By the way, I want to shout

650
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 1: out Matilda. The music, it is amazing. It's every like

651
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: all the songs by Tim Minchin. Every song is a banger.

652
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: It's like and it's like the the just everything about

653
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: it is so fucking cool and it's so great, especially

654
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: if you have a little girl in the house. Olive

655
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: is fucking obsessed with it. I've watched this five times.

656
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 1: But anyway, they for like so for some reason, I

657
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: guess because of the ages of my kids, they have

658
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: ignored that Zelda exists for their dire life, Like there

659
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 1: is a dog that's just around all the time, Like

660
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:40,760
Speaker 1: Gussie loves dogs, he loves dogs, but never like identifies

661
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 1: Zelda as a dog.

662
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,800
Speaker 2: That's strange, so strange.

663
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 1: I shaved the dog and then all of a sudden,

664
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: it was like they saw the dog for the first

665
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: time and both of them were just like petting the dog,

666
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 1: like look at the puppy. And Zelda was just like

667
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,880
Speaker 1: fucking losing her mind. She's just like finally, just like

668
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,840
Speaker 1: waggon or tailor looking at us like a part of

669
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: the family.

670
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 2: A good haircut goes a long way. There was a

671
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 2: girl in college I got a haircut and everybody started

672
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 2: asking her out and I was like, wow, that was

673
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 2: one hell of a haircut.

674
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: That was the classic nineties thing, right.

675
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it was sort of that nineties cut too.

676
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 2: There was a in Florida last week. There was a

677
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 2: news story about Brazil's former president, that real crazy guy

678
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,439
Speaker 2: Bolson Narrow or whatever his name is, and he had

679
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:34,800
Speaker 2: fled or he left Brazil and he was in Florida

680
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 2: at the time. And then on the cover of the

681
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:41,879
Speaker 2: newspaper I read it was the most o god most unflattering, Yeah,

682
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 2: most unflattering or at least flattering photo of him just

683
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:50,839
Speaker 2: housing KFC, just eating KFC as his first meal after

684
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 2: kind of like escaping to Florida, but like chickens falling

685
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,399
Speaker 2: out of his mouth. I mean this, I'm for real.

686
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 2: They were like that guy got off the plane and

687
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 2: he's like, to Kentucky fried chicken, we must go.

688
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: Have you speaking of fast food fried chicken, have you

689
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 1: ever had Jolly Bees fried chicken?

690
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 2: You know, this is such a good question because I

691
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 2: have not, But there are two that are equi distant

692
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 2: from my house, and every time I drive by there's

693
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:19,959
Speaker 2: a pretty significant line at the drive through.

694
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:23,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, so if for those who don't know Jolly Bee.

695
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 1: I think it's Filipino. I think it's a Filipino chain.

696
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: Is that right? I'm not sure.

697
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 2: I think that is right.

698
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 1: Actually, it's a Filipino like chain. So they have just

699
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 1: strange Filipino fast food items, and then they also have

700
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 1: fried chicken and spaghetti and spaghetti as well as spaghetti.

701
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 2: It is Filippini, yes.

702
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: And so and but like everybody says that this fucking

703
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 1: fried chicken is amazing. I'm gonna try it soon.

704
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 2: Well, you sometimes go up to the Eagle Rock mall

705
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 2: right where they have they had that's the one of

706
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 2: the two, and there was line out the door. And

707
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 2: I said to a friend once because there's a target

708
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 2: there too. I was at the target my friend like

709
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 2: were at and he was like, oh, you got to

710
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 2: go to Jolly Be And I was like, is that

711
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 2: place good? He goes, it's so good. There's always people

712
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 2: sleeping outside of that one. And I didn't know what

713
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:11,439
Speaker 2: he meant. I thought he was like saying something about

714
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 2: on house people or something.

715
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 1: Yeah.

716
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 2: So the next time I went to that weird ass

717
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 2: mall up there under the Chuck E Cheese, there were

718
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 2: two grown men asleep on a bench outside of the

719
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 2: jolly Bed that were just waiting for their families or

720
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 2: whatever to go because the line was so long. But

721
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 2: it was a funny. It really is like old men

722
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 2: go there and they're like, you guys, go get the chicken.

723
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 2: I'm gonna sleep on this bench right here, right, So bizarre. Yeah,

724
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 2: I guess I'll do. I'll hit a jolly Bee. Maybe

725
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,799
Speaker 2: maybe we're the first podcast in Los Angeles to get

726
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 2: jolly Bee as a sponsor and we just wear head

727
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 2: to toe jolly Be gear.

728
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 1: I'm super down. Well, the interesting thing about that jolly

729
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: Be as well is that it's directly next to a

730
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 1: polace called Seafood City that just has massive amounts. Like

731
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: when I last time I was there, there was a

732
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: crab walking around like it was it had fallen out

733
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 1: of a thing and it was just like walking down

734
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: the aisle and I was like, I'm not touching the

735
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: cramp and it's like but there's a pervasive smell of

736
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: a seafood.

737
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 2: Place, fry food of every time, and.

738
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 1: Also like raw fish smell, so that you're waiting in

739
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: line for this fast food with just raw fish smell,

740
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 1: which is inside a mall, which is a very strange

741
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: experience inside the mall fried chicken and raw fish.

742
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 2: Baby, ooh, that's what you want. There's a they put

743
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,439
Speaker 2: a raising Canes in Burbank. It's the first one and

744
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 2: there's so much traffic that they actually put cones out

745
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 2: on Olive Boulevard.

746
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:40,280
Speaker 1: What's the raisin Canes.

747
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,399
Speaker 2: It's a chicken finger joint that all they make are

748
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,439
Speaker 2: like four different size orders of chicken tenders. You make

749
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:51,399
Speaker 2: a cane sauce that people go wild for now it's

750
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 2: so popular. But next door is this place that you

751
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:57,040
Speaker 2: and I gotta go. It is a diner called the

752
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 2: tally Rand. Yeah, the tally Rand, and it's an old

753
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 2: school la sort of like sit in fake leather diners

754
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 2: and eat pancakes and belts type of place. So I

755
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 2: met this writer that I really like, named Josh, because

756
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 2: he was like, let's go to tally Ran and drink

757
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:13,839
Speaker 2: a lot of coffee and eat breakfast. I said, great,

758
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 2: I love a breakfast. And he's like, did you know

759
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 2: that there's a bar underneath this restaurant? And I just

760
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 2: like know there. I did not know that. And in

761
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 2: the tally Rand, which is a diner, if you go downstairs,

762
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 2: there is a full bar with old dudes, like old

763
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 2: like eighty year old dudes, not sixty year old dudes.

764
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 2: And it is the best hang. They all know each other.

765
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 2: I think they're they're seven days a week, three hundred

766
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 2: and sixty five days a year, and when you go,

767
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 2: they just kind of look at you, like, hey, the

768
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 2: bathroom's upstairs to the left. But it is my favorite

769
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 2: new bar in Los Angeles.

770
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's awesome. I want to go there.

771
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:55,279
Speaker 2: Imagine like if waffle house had a bar underneath, which

772
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 2: I'm surprised they don't.

773
00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:00,160
Speaker 1: I'm surprised they don't because then people could just go

774
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 1: right upstairs after they're done drinking.

775
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 2: Boy, that there's one. And when I was living in

776
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:10,839
Speaker 2: Pensacola Beach, there was a nightclub called Emerald City that was,

777
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 2: I believe a gay nightclub, but everybody would go dance

778
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 2: there on Fridays or Saturdays and it was fun. I

779
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 2: had a fake ID. You'd go get completely wasted, and

780
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 2: then directly across the street was a waffle house and

781
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 2: it was the greatest waffle house experience. It was just

782
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 2: me at nineteen, my friend Russ, who was like twenty two,

783
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:33,840
Speaker 2: twenty three, and then just tons of gay dudes and

784
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 2: drag queens just having the time of their life at

785
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 2: waffle house. I like, if I could turn that into

786
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 2: a TV series or a movie or something, I absolutely

787
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,359
Speaker 2: would because the jokes you would hear, people would sit

788
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 2: at your table with you, because there was two crowd.

789
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 2: It was like, ugh, it was so special and you

790
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,399
Speaker 2: couldn't recreate it. But man, I hope both of those

791
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 2: places are still there.

792
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,439
Speaker 1: It reminds me of us going to waffle house where

793
00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:01,319
Speaker 1: were we wing Kansas City? Kansas City was delightful. And

794
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 1: also I forgot what makes waffle houses so special is

795
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: that everyone at a certain time, everyone who's there is

796
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: drunk and everyone's talking to each other. Yeah, it's just

797
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:15,920
Speaker 1: very communal manal. Also, I do all waffle houses have

798
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: a jukebox or was it just that one?

799
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 2: Oh KURTI b that's their main thing that's happening. For

800
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 2: their songs are about waffle House, Like there are all

801
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 2: the Yeah, we put on a lot of hits. We

802
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,279
Speaker 2: put in about ten dollars worth of jukebox songs, but

803
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:31,919
Speaker 2: the first twenty songs on the left hand side are

804
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 2: like waffle House is my home. Waffle House Paradise. I

805
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 2: love waffle House. Waffle House cowboy, that's like their main thing.

806
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 2: But yeah, you know why because you and I tried

807
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:43,319
Speaker 2: to go to Taco Bell couldn't get through.

808
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is the third time we've tried to

809
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:50,359
Speaker 1: fucking go to Taco Bell and we cannot go. It's

810
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 1: either that there's too long of a line or that

811
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 1: like all Taco Bells just now no longer let you

812
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: inside their establishment physically. You have to have a car.

813
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 2: That's right, and they know where we went. We drove

814
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 2: towards the yellow and black sign at waffle house, walked

815
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:07,240
Speaker 2: directly and sat down the waffle house chef or chef.

816
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 2: The waffle house chef was talking to us at end,

817
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 2: taking pride in his work. It was that was great.

818
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 2: I love waffle House. Next time you and I do

819
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 2: like a driving a bunch of shows, we just have

820
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 2: to hit waffle houses. They're so fun.

821
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 1: I love it.

822
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 2: Here's another one for ye. This is from Katie Fresh.

823
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 2: Thank you Katie Fresh, very cool of you. This was

824
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 2: in stuff dot co dot NZ, New Zealand, written by

825
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 2: Nadine Roberts, The waffle House of reporters. Nadine Roberts is

826
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 2: so good. A couple has been camping at the same

827
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:52,839
Speaker 2: spot since nineteen eighty five and it's eleven minutes from

828
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 2: their home. You know, not a real adventurous couple, I would,

829
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 2: But when you find something you love, you like, you

830
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 2: just keep doing it.

831
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: You just go for it. Now they have been camping

832
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,839
Speaker 1: there continuously. They just keep continually go back there.

833
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 2: That's right, Okay, they take little vacations. Which when you

834
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:16,800
Speaker 2: and I went camping for your birthday in twenty twenty,

835
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 2: where was that that little serf spot that has Koreo

836
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 2: Leo Careo. That was so fun. It's great.

837
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 1: It's a perfect little spot. And if and when you stay,

838
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: you just get to go to the beach next day.

839
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 2: Is Leo Koreo. And it was like safe. It was

840
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 2: socially distance. We all had our own tents and a

841
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 2: couple of the dudes's advance. But the funniest part of

842
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,399
Speaker 2: that we had a great time was the two other

843
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 2: guys who went with us don't drink and you and

844
00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 2: I it was your birthday, so we just went so

845
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 2: hard for it.

846
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: We went so hard for it. I was so hung

847
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 1: over the next day. It was very uncomfortable.

848
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 2: I was driving back home down the pch and had

849
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 2: the thought I should just park and dive in the

850
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:00,799
Speaker 2: ocean to feel better. It was like I just needed

851
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 2: cold ice water. It was a that was a banger.

852
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 2: But that's so close to us. That's like the similar

853
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 2: to this.

854
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 1: And also it's so delightful to camp there.

855
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 2: I would be all the time. Actually, we should go

856
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 2: because now it's been raining so much here, the rivers

857
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,719
Speaker 2: and streams around there probably have water in it. Yes,

858
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 2: can you imagine? Okay, a couple has been camping at

859
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 2: the same spot since nineteen eighty five and it's only

860
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,360
Speaker 2: eleven minutes from their home. It takes just eleven minutes

861
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 2: to get to the Bell's holiday campsite from their home

862
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,720
Speaker 2: and it's a trip they've been making for thirty seven years.

863
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 2: Back in nineteen eighty five, Gale, who is sixty five,

864
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 2: and Russell Bell, who's sixty six, well robbing the cradle there.

865
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:51,480
Speaker 2: Russell the old perv spent their Christmas cozy up in

866
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:55,919
Speaker 2: a borrowed tent at why Cuckoo Beach Holiday Park north

867
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 2: of christ Church, not far from their home in Kayapora.

868
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,760
Speaker 2: And while they have traded the tent for a caravan.

869
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 2: The park remains the same. According to Gail. Quote, it's

870
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:10,839
Speaker 2: just a really good, family oriented camp end quote. Over

871
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 2: the years, they've holidayed through the aftermath of an earthquake,

872
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty one floods that saw them move their campsite,

873
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:20,319
Speaker 2: and the COVID nineteen pandemic, but through it all, their

874
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 2: family and their lifelong friends have always made the park constant.

875
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 2: The couple's two children spent all of their holidays at

876
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,919
Speaker 2: this park, as did their cousins and friends. Sometimes we'd

877
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 2: have up to twenty friends and family staying with us.

878
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 2: I mean, these people really use this little place as

879
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 2: their living room.

880
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Also because it's New Zealand. I bet it's amazing.

881
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 1: I bet it's truly amazing.

882
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 2: It's gotta be amazing. Sometimes we'd have up to twenty

883
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 2: friends and families staying with us, said Gail. Now there

884
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:56,360
Speaker 2: are two grandchildren and no plans to swap the campsite

885
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 2: for somewhere further away. Having their home so close means

886
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:04,399
Speaker 2: wet we utilized, as is the home shower. What does

887
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 2: that mean? Having their home close by means wet days

888
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:12,840
Speaker 2: are well utilized, as is the home shower and washing machine.

889
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 1: Out in the wetness a lot. Or does it mean

890
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 1: that when it rains they go home?

891
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 2: What does that mean? I don't know.

892
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: Wet days they air home.

893
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 2: Close by means wet days are well utilized, as is

894
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 2: the home shower and washing machine. Okay, so I think.

895
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: So that is saying, oh right, so they go home

896
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 1: if they get wet, they dry their clothes and then

897
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 1: come back.

898
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think what they're saying is when it rains

899
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 2: they can just go home.

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00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 1: And but that is and then come back out. I

901
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 1: feel it nay.

902
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:50,320
Speaker 2: Dane might have lost her mind she was so happy

903
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 2: about this, because that is a strange sentence.

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00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 1: Did this family hire a publicist the.

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00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:05,879
Speaker 3: Paper for this? It is literally not a story. They

906
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:09,359
Speaker 3: have got camping a bunch together like it don't even

907
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:13,839
Speaker 3: like the fortieth it's the thirty seventh year. What are

908
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:17,880
Speaker 3: they doing if it was like for fifty years? You go, okay,

909
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 3: that's sort of newsworthy.

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00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:23,760
Speaker 1: I suppose Nadine is a good friend and just wanted

911
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:24,359
Speaker 1: to do this.

912
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 2: Oh man, But don't worry, however, kurdieb this year the

913
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:33,800
Speaker 2: weather has been quote magnificent end quote.

914
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 1: The tales didn't have to be utilized.

915
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:40,799
Speaker 2: Oh those wet days. Don't you just hate when you

916
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:42,439
Speaker 2: and larn are out and you have one of those

917
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 2: wet days. You can't utilize quote. You can just relax

918
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 2: and chill out with a book. End quote, says Gail Tell.

919
00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 2: The story ends. Oh man, that is such not a

920
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 2: news story. But yuy, that's why we did it. Thank

921
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:05,320
Speaker 2: you Katie Fresh for sending that heartwarming camping tale.

922
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,839
Speaker 1: Thank you New Zealand for having not much going on.

923
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 2: What a great place to live.

924
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 1: I know, what a great place to live. You have

925
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 1: you No, I've never been loved to go.

926
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 2: That's a friend trip. That is a friend trip because

927
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 2: I know Christ and Rich have been so many times.

928
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 1: We gotta go, we gotta go, gotta go. Get a

929
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:25,879
Speaker 1: camper van.

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00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 2: I would love it. It'd be amazing. I watched that

931
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 2: documentary that's on Netflix about the volcano that exploded and

932
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 2: all the tourists that had to run to try to

933
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 2: survive from it. It's a it's crazy. I think it

934
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 2: was just called volcano Wow.

935
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 1: Bold choice.

936
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, how did they come up with that volcano Netflix?

937
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 2: Let's do the Google search. It is called the Volcano

938
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:58,320
Speaker 2: Rescue from Wakari. If you like survival stories, holy smokes,

939
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:01,880
Speaker 2: Like they go up to take photos with this fuming volcano,

940
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 2: and this one woman who does survive and is in

941
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:07,440
Speaker 2: the doc was like, I don't think this is safe,

942
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:09,879
Speaker 2: and everybody's like, it's fine, there's other tours here, it's fine,

943
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 2: and then it erupts. So wow. Yeah. I won't spoil

944
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 2: anything else, but it is a pretty impressive survival story,

945
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 2: a lot of human interest. But man, it's crazy.

946
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:23,879
Speaker 1: All right, everybody watch it. The volcano.

947
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 2: Hmm.

948
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 1: Do you want me to send us home with one?

949
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, send us home with one more.

950
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:32,960
Speaker 1: The kids love the news story, delightful. This was sent

951
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 1: in by Aaron Kate. Thank you Aaron for him. This

952
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:42,720
Speaker 1: was in the Anchorage Daily News, written by David Reamer. Mmm,

953
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:44,240
Speaker 1: he's a dreamer.

954
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 2: It's David here it is you made it clean.

955
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 1: The Anchorage parking Fairies. How a seventy five dollar ticket

956
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:57,879
Speaker 1: started a movement. I love this article. I'm gonna read

957
00:50:58,320 --> 00:50:58,839
Speaker 1: almost all.

958
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 2: Then I think I get this.

959
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: Carolyn quote Lenny Pachillo. No one called her. Carolyn was

960
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 1: born in nineteen fifty nine in California. In nineteen seventy four,

961
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 1: family moved to Homer. She graduated from Homer High in

962
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,400
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven. For the next decade, she worked in

963
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 1: the Homer area before moving to Anchorage in nineteen eighty

964
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:20,799
Speaker 1: eight to manage the family's gas station. It became Anchorage's

965
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:25,880
Speaker 1: last independent station. Interesting, and then they go into a

966
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff about the gas station. I'm gonna not

967
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: read that because it's a long article. But Lenny's fame

968
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: did not come from the family gas station. Interesting, you

969
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:37,320
Speaker 1: spent so much time on it. She became a local

970
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:40,320
Speaker 1: legend due to parking meters.

971
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 2: Why do they do that? Why does every writer now

972
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 2: have to do this?

973
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:47,840
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know, Okay, to parking meters.

974
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:50,919
Speaker 1: In July nineteen ninety four, Lenny received a seventy five

975
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: dollars ticket. This is where it could have started. She

976
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 1: had recently purchased a new truck and the previous owner

977
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:58,319
Speaker 1: had placed the renewal sticker on the wrong side of

978
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 1: the plate. She appealed, but only got the fine reduced

979
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 1: to twenty five dollars.

980
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 2: Quote.

981
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:05,000
Speaker 1: So I'm mad now, and I got a big mouth,

982
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:07,719
Speaker 1: said Lenny in a nineteen ninety four interview with The

983
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 1: Anchorage Daily News. The Anchorage Parking Authority had a reputation

984
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:15,400
Speaker 1: for aggressively ticketing the smallest defenses and offenses that had

985
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 1: nothing to do with parking. And then they say some

986
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:21,719
Speaker 1: of them, which is a lot. Yes, the APA made

987
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:24,279
Speaker 1: a mistake when they provoked Lenny, as Sheiy Toomey of

988
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 1: the ADN wrote, it's not a good idea to make

989
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 1: them with Pacillo sisters mad. They believe in revenge and

990
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:33,600
Speaker 1: have an abnormal tolerance for embarrassing themselves in public. The

991
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:37,399
Speaker 1: parking Fairy concept originated with Lenny's sister Susan, who grew

992
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 1: upset with Overzel's parking enforcement. Lenny asked Courtney's customers for

993
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 1: donations to fill expired meters. The donation j are quickly

994
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:49,360
Speaker 1: filled to eighty six dollars in change, and the Pacillos

995
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,880
Speaker 1: donated to round it up to one hundred. Then Lenny

996
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:55,160
Speaker 1: and Susan dressed in tights, tutus and wings. They became

997
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:59,240
Speaker 1: the Parking Ferries, civic heroes who patrolled downtown for expired meters,

998
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:03,319
Speaker 1: saving locals from far costlier tickets. Lenny also bought and

999
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: refurbished a nineteen seventy three Cushman, a three wheeled vehicle

1000
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:12,480
Speaker 1: previously used for meter made patrols. Thus, the newly courtney

1001
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:17,880
Speaker 1: pink Cushman became the Faerrymobile, an advantage over Anchorage Parking

1002
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: Authority's own foot patrols. What we did, said Lenny nineteen

1003
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:24,839
Speaker 1: ninety seven eighty n interview, was went downtown and we

1004
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:27,520
Speaker 1: weren't allowed to leave until the money was gone.

1005
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:31,920
Speaker 2: Bah bah bah, I love this one, yeah, Lenny.

1006
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:36,320
Speaker 1: So the fairies maintained their paroles patrols, and the APA

1007
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:40,800
Speaker 1: collected more than one hundred thousand dollars right in nineteen

1008
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 1: ninety four and nineteen ninety three. By the summer of

1009
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five, Harbor felt pressure to make changes. Yeah,

1010
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 1: this is the city making changes. Pictures of them are awesome.

1011
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 1: They're so fucking cool in this pink Cushman driving around

1012
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 1: dressed as fairies. Lenny and her sister kept going. In

1013
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:02,399
Speaker 1: ninety nine tinety six, they and some volunteers camped over

1014
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: night in town square, filling meters to raise donations for

1015
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 1: hungry children abroad.

1016
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 2: All I love this so much.

1017
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 1: Some assemblers blah blah blah. Oh then they got they

1018
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:15,319
Speaker 1: got a okay, here it is. Some Assembly members like

1019
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 1: Charles Wolfirth, tried to court the Fairies in an attempt

1020
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 1: to revive the parking authority, so the parking Authority went

1021
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: under Because of this, there was no more breaking authority. Finally,

1022
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:28,800
Speaker 1: in September nineteen ninety eight, the Fairies retired, burning their wings.

1023
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:33,400
Speaker 1: In a ceremony outside city Hall, State Representative Fred Dyson

1024
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:37,239
Speaker 1: presented Lenny and Susan with a citation recognizing their good

1025
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: deeds of destroying the party Authority.

1026
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 2: Yes.

1027
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 1: In two thousand and three, the Pachillo family sold Courtneys.

1028
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:48,560
Speaker 1: In two thousand and six, Lenny died at age forty

1029
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 1: seven after lengthy as with muscular dystrophy and injuries from

1030
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 1: a car accident, And in two thousand and seven, state

1031
00:54:55,760 --> 00:55:00,800
Speaker 1: legislatures named a new parking garage in downtown Anchorage after Lenny,

1032
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 1: the Lenny Pachillo Parking Garage, which is located sixth seventh

1033
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 1: Avenues across from the Atwood Building and open in two

1034
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:09,479
Speaker 1: thousand and eight.

1035
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 2: That's great Banana of the decade the nineties, Yeah Banana

1036
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:16,240
Speaker 2: the decade for Lenny.

1037
00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:19,399
Speaker 1: Banana of the decade also inspired a lot of other

1038
00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:22,040
Speaker 1: cities to do people to do this in other cities,

1039
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:24,719
Speaker 1: which is pretty awesome. And that and also that's what

1040
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 1: I wanted to leave this episode on. It's a new year.

1041
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 1: You see somebody's meter expired, give them a little bump.

1042
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:33,719
Speaker 2: Who cares if it's illegal? Put a quarter in there,

1043
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 2: who cares? Carry quarters with you just for that, carry

1044
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:40,839
Speaker 2: us SACA quarters everywhere you go. Sure people will hear

1045
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 2: you coming from a block away. You're doing it good. Indeed,

1046
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 2: do hey it.

1047
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:49,440
Speaker 1: Forward, be your own Lenny Pachillo. Folks, welcome to twenty

1048
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:51,960
Speaker 1: twenty three. Thank you so much, Scottie Landis.

1049
00:55:51,960 --> 00:55:55,680
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Kurt Brown Owler, my dude, Uh,

1050
00:55:55,840 --> 00:55:58,719
Speaker 2: keep the Banana stories going, and thank you to our

1051
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:02,920
Speaker 2: benevolent overlord's care in Georgia. At exactly right, Lisa Maggott,

1052
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:05,960
Speaker 2: our full human intern, and as always, Katie Levine, our

1053
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:10,320
Speaker 2: wonderful producer who makes our lives so very easy, keep

1054
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:13,839
Speaker 2: the Banana male coming. Have a great twenty twenty three.

1055
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:29,320
Speaker 2: Everybody but bananas. Bananas is an exactly right media production.

1056
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 1: Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.

1057
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:35,320
Speaker 2: The catchy Bananas theme song was composed and performed by Kahan.

1058
00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 1: Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.

1059
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:41,719
Speaker 2: And our benevolent overlords are the great Karen Kilgareff and

1060
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 2: Georgia Hartstart

1061
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 1: And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot

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00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:46,880
Speaker 1: interna