Speaker 1: Still world, would you your midsillion pieces.
Speaker 2: Would trot.
Speaker 3: Trodden guys, goals, non binary pals. Welcome to a bonuside
Speaker 3: of benanas Hi, Scotti Landis.
Speaker 2: Hey, Curtie B.
Speaker 4: Thanks everybody who's been listening and sending their support and
Speaker 4: love because they were concerned about Curtie B and our
Speaker 4: families and friends and loved ones and animals during this
Speaker 4: very strange time where wildfires ripped across Los Angeles. We're
Speaker 4: doing fine. We're feeling very lucky and grateful, and we're
Speaker 4: looking for ways to help and you should too.
Speaker 3: You know what I didn't expect to be doing in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, Scottie Is tell me that wiping my
Speaker 3: dog's paws off with from toxic materis that she's bringing
Speaker 3: into the house because we stepped through ash. That is
Speaker 3: not something I expected.
Speaker 4: Nope, I can understand why you did not. Yeah, strange times,
Speaker 4: very exhilarating, very strange. When I was evacuating, I could
Speaker 4: see the flames from the run in Canyon fire, and
Speaker 4: now you know that fight or flight, The flight kicks
Speaker 4: in and you go, go, baby go, Like it was.
Speaker 4: I was honking the horn all the way down and
Speaker 4: just making sure all the oldies in the neighborhood were
Speaker 4: aware that something might be happening, and turns out our
Speaker 4: neighborhood was spared. But just you know, big shout out,
Speaker 4: big thumbs up to all the EMT's first responders, firefighters everywhere.
Speaker 4: You guys did an incredible job with i mean facing
Speaker 4: literally impossible ods.
Speaker 3: I mean so impossible. Those winds were absolutely the craziest
Speaker 3: thing I've ever seen in Los Angeles. And just to
Speaker 3: give it, I mean, I'm sure maybe it's completely obvious
Speaker 3: at this point, but just to give an idea of
Speaker 3: the amount of area that was burned, Yeah, it's larger
Speaker 3: than the entire city of San Francisco. So like the
Speaker 3: nineteen oh six fire of San Francisco was something like
Speaker 3: I don't know, forty acres or something like that, or
Speaker 3: four I'm sorry, four square miles. This is fifty five
Speaker 3: square miles that has been burned in the city. So
Speaker 3: an entire other city inside our city does just simply
Speaker 3: doesn't exist anymore. So please any support you can give. Obviously,
Speaker 3: I think we're overstating this, but we appreciate all of it.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think we are. It was such a
Speaker 2: crazy thing.
Speaker 4: And also like with the hurricane, the floods in Ashville,
Speaker 4: the hurricanes that hit Florida all the time, you just
Speaker 4: start to go Okay, So we live on a planet
Speaker 4: and this is how it's going to go. And we
Speaker 4: can either live as in fear and terror all the time,
Speaker 4: or we can just do the best we can when
Speaker 4: bad things happen. And that's what we are going to do.
Speaker 4: I found out, Yes, so I got into the Garibaldina Society.
Speaker 3: Kurt I saw this and I was very interested about.
Speaker 4: So I got it. Here's my badge. I'm officially a member.
Speaker 4: So the Garibaldina Society, I believe, is the longest continual
Speaker 4: society of Italian culture and heritage in America. It was
Speaker 4: founded in eighteen seventy seven and time ago.
Speaker 3: It didn't even know La was around in eighteen seventy exactly.
Speaker 4: And then there was a secondary Italian society, the Benevolent Society,
Speaker 4: to make things better for immigrants. A big part of
Speaker 4: was teaching English to Italian immigrants and helping them set
Speaker 4: up jobs and just building community in a different country
Speaker 4: is the idea.
Speaker 3: And then it evolved over time trying to just get
Speaker 3: slightly better jobs than Irish people. That was a big competition. Yeah,
Speaker 3: for Italians in the eighty nineties.
Speaker 4: They're over twenty million Italian in Americans and they are
Speaker 4: the fifth largest ethnic group in America. Look, I'm learning
Speaker 4: all these things because I've joined the society.
Speaker 2: Now you might be.
Speaker 4: Saying, Scotti, old boy, Hell Italian are you? And the
Speaker 4: answer is zero percent? Zero percent. I do not have
Speaker 4: even one percent. I have one percent. I'm Jewish, one
Speaker 4: percent Jewish. I found that out, and so I guess
Speaker 4: I'm going to start my career telling Jewish jokes. Now
Speaker 4: that would be so insane of one percent. Suddenly they're like,
Speaker 4: he makes a lot of Jewish jokes.
Speaker 3: All those I can? I can. I'm actually one percent.
Speaker 2: I'm one percent.
Speaker 4: But it comes and goes depending on ancestries updates. So anyway,
Speaker 4: So I got sworn in, And what is this?
Speaker 3: What is involved? What does it give you access to?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 3: Tell me all about it?
Speaker 4: So it is a It has its own location where
Speaker 4: they can host up to three hundred and fifty people
Speaker 4: for dinners, for dancing, for charity events, for weddings, and
Speaker 4: it's basically a community members only club. You can bring
Speaker 4: guests and they do a they do one big pasta
Speaker 4: dinner every month, and then they do dinner and dancing
Speaker 4: and there's an amazing They.
Speaker 3: Have a bar.
Speaker 4: Oh, the bar is The bar is incredible. It's like
Speaker 4: a wood paneled bar. And then everyone's all.
Speaker 3: Very much from like the sixties maybe seventies. It's very
Speaker 3: well appointed. They've restored everything to what it used to
Speaker 3: be in the sixties and seems that's right.
Speaker 4: And then they do these fundraising nights at the bar
Speaker 4: where they bring in local chefs, some that are members,
Speaker 4: some that aren't, and they cook small plates and stuff,
Speaker 4: and then they have eight dollar martinis and they the
Speaker 4: line is down the block and around the door, but
Speaker 4: now a member and so it's all run by volunteers.
Speaker 4: They were electing the new president of the Baldina Society.
Speaker 4: Then they had to swear in. They keep minutes, all
Speaker 4: the old ladies keep an eye on the budget. We
Speaker 4: went through budget. So it was my first swearing in,
Speaker 4: which is there were about fifteen of us that all
Speaker 4: became members. Because it's starting in twenty seventeen, they decided
Speaker 4: to expand and allow non Italians in just to build
Speaker 4: better culture within the society. So luckily, my friend Mike
Speaker 4: Levanos and his wife Katie and their friends Mike and
Speaker 4: Amanda all remember.
Speaker 2: So I went to Apasta.
Speaker 4: Dinner and got invited back and then we danced. It
Speaker 4: was me danced with a bunch of old Italian ladies.
Speaker 4: You know what, you dress up in a suit. It's great.
Speaker 4: It's like a small event space that every small town
Speaker 4: everywhere in America has sort of their Elks Club or
Speaker 4: their Nights of Columbus whatever on the outskirts of town.
Speaker 4: It's that, but it's right in Los Angeles and it's incredible.
Speaker 2: So I got in.
Speaker 4: It took about, I guess about ten months, and I
Speaker 4: had to do an interview. They and like, how can
Speaker 4: I help. I'm like, I can park cars, I can bartend,
Speaker 4: I a waiter. I'll just stack chairs if you want
Speaker 4: me to. And then I got in. So they swore
Speaker 4: me in. There's a photo of me, like I got
Speaker 4: my badge. They all everybody there had to vote. We
Speaker 4: were all unanimously voted in and you have to raise
Speaker 4: your right hand and then you this gentleman, Dylan, this
Speaker 4: nice guy basically you spent his life as a part
Speaker 4: of the society. We repeat after him and we swear
Speaker 4: to add to the community and to help people out.
Speaker 4: And so it's great. And then afterwards there was a
Speaker 4: you guessed it baked ZD dinner, So we're eating Italian
Speaker 4: food and then this guy that I don't know his name.
Speaker 4: I'm meeting everybody at my table.
Speaker 2: It's really fun. Yeah, is like, guys, Alta Dina is
Speaker 2: on fire.
Speaker 4: Just want everybody to know that two Gary Baldina members
Speaker 4: have already lost their houses. I think everybody you might have.
Speaker 4: The lights are going in and out, flickering on and off.
Speaker 4: Lights are so power's going in and out. I have
Speaker 4: like a whole tray of Italian food. I'm trying to
Speaker 4: be so polite and sweet to everybody because I'm as
Speaker 4: new as you can be to the society. And Mike's
Speaker 4: like hanging with me. He was nice enough to come
Speaker 4: and watch me get sworn in and even though it's
Speaker 4: fairly boring. And then it was like, guys, there's a
Speaker 4: big fire now in the Hollywood Hills. And then Mike,
Speaker 4: who lives in the Mount Washington area. Then this guy goes, guys,
Speaker 4: power fire. The electric lines are down, and he's like
Speaker 4: i'p gotta go, and you could hear the wind whipping,
Speaker 4: And so it went from being sworn in and I
Speaker 4: thought this was gonna be a really fun social evening,
Speaker 4: meeting one hundred and fifty nice Italian people, most Italian
Speaker 4: women over seven years old. Yeah, you know, that's still
Speaker 4: right on the program and pencils all the notes in
Speaker 4: the It's adorable. And instead everybody got their Italian food
Speaker 4: to go and ran out the door and then sped
Speaker 4: back and by the time I got back, it was
Speaker 4: packed the bags. I was like strawberry, put it in
Speaker 4: the car and we just took off. It was great,
Speaker 4: It was wild. It was It went from me thinking
Speaker 4: I was gonna have a casual night of shaking hands
Speaker 4: and glad handing to speeding down the mountain and getting
Speaker 4: out of Dodge as fast as possible.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's crazy.
Speaker 2: But I'm a bit I was prepared.
Speaker 4: I have emergency Pelican cases for earthquakes and stuff.
Speaker 2: Those things. I could live.
Speaker 4: I had go bags ready, I had everything charged. I'm
Speaker 4: not a prepper, but I was ready to leave.
Speaker 3: To have used to have like one hundred cans of water.
Speaker 3: Still do cans of water? You still do still do
Speaker 3: cans see cans baby, Instead of plastic, I had plastic
Speaker 3: and I had to get rid of it because after
Speaker 3: a while, the plastic leeches into the water after like
Speaker 3: five years and can't use it anymore.
Speaker 2: I was so dumb, This is so dumb.
Speaker 4: I am kurt because I was thinking, you know, they're
Speaker 4: gonna have to rebuild all these houses, and they need
Speaker 4: to start learning how to build fireproof houses. Like that's
Speaker 4: just a reality, right, They're just going to have to
Speaker 4: build materials that don't.
Speaker 3: Three D printed houses are fireproof exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, and then we have drones, right, I'm like,
Speaker 4: can't we get I don't know, fifteen thousand drones to
Speaker 4: pick up one cup of water each and go one
Speaker 4: hundred miles an hour from the ocean to a fire
Speaker 4: in the woods, And if we can make them look
Speaker 4: like dragons flying through the air, can't we just get
Speaker 4: drones to drop water on things like like bees, like
Speaker 4: bees attacking a fire.
Speaker 3: Now here's where my brain goes. Yeah, okay, you know
Speaker 3: how when.
Speaker 4: They show grease fires in your kitchen and you know
Speaker 4: you're not supposed to spray them with water, it makes
Speaker 4: it worse. So they always advertise those like blankets, fire
Speaker 4: blankets to smother the fire.
Speaker 3: I mean when you say always, I have never seen
Speaker 3: that advertised.
Speaker 4: Advertised Nope, fire blanket. Yeah, it just smothers it takes
Speaker 4: all the air outs. Fireproof blankets sounds good.
Speaker 3: So here's blanket.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's could just be a wet wayed blanket. When
Speaker 4: I'm thinking, every house needs a giant box that has
Speaker 4: a giant tarp the side has a gyant fire blanket
Speaker 4: kind of like when they do termite fumigating.
Speaker 3: Hmm.
Speaker 2: And when there's a fire, you pull a lever when
Speaker 2: you leave the house.
Speaker 3: Just inflates over your house.
Speaker 4: It just drapes a fire blanket over your entire house.
Speaker 4: And then you just have a simpler sprinkler on the top,
Speaker 4: just wetting that blanket for you. That's where my genius
Speaker 4: brain goes.
Speaker 3: The Yeah, what would the fire blanket be made of?
Speaker 3: Just metal or something? I don't even know. It's just
Speaker 3: like some weird fire cloth.
Speaker 2: That doesn't burn. Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm going in. I'm
Speaker 2: going on.
Speaker 3: I have a feeling a certempture things just to night
Speaker 3: underneath the fire blanket. But you know what, I like it.
Speaker 3: I like the fire blanket.
Speaker 4: I'm going on shark sharks, I need two million dollars
Speaker 4: for three percent equity. Uh and all it is is giant,
Speaker 4: ugly blankets on the top of our houses that may
Speaker 4: or may not fully roll down like curtains when a
Speaker 4: wildfire and everly happens.
Speaker 3: Well, did you read that article about the guy and
Speaker 3: the Palisades who because there had been a fire previously,
Speaker 3: like four years ago, he got like really obsessed with it.
Speaker 3: So he got yeah, I did. His friend sent him
Speaker 3: high fire retardant gel and the guy has because he
Speaker 3: lives in Palisades, he has a pool and a hot tub,
Speaker 3: and immediately when the fire started, dumped the fire retardant
Speaker 3: Jael into the hot tub, and then he had a
Speaker 3: generator with a with a hose and then sprayed the
Speaker 3: entire house with fire retarding to jail and then put
Speaker 3: the hose in the pool and then just kept wedding
Speaker 3: his house and his neighbors houses until he had to
Speaker 3: literally leave, and his was the only house that liked
Speaker 3: was standing. That's so crazy.
Speaker 2: It is so insane.
Speaker 3: It's so crazy.
Speaker 4: Anyways, thanks for all the support, Gang. It was incredible show.
Speaker 4: Of unity and humanity and empathy, and we feel it.
Speaker 4: And the people of la are probably still in shock,
Speaker 4: but they're going to rebuild. We're going to keep cranking
Speaker 4: out the movies. People are gonna need the yuck yucks
Speaker 4: and the he hauls and the oh wows. So we'll
Speaker 4: do our best.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: As you know, folks, on bonusides, we give advice and
Speaker 3: we do would you rathers? So I want to give
Speaker 3: a little bit of advice right here. This is a
Speaker 3: listener of banannimal sent this in here we go, Hi there,
Speaker 3: banana boys.
Speaker 5: My name is Ceci, and I need some advice on
Speaker 5: the creative side. So I do a lot of diving,
Speaker 5: which is kind of like scuba, but you're just holding
Speaker 5: your breath. And as part of that you get to
Speaker 5: wear these really cool big long fins. They're about the
Speaker 5: size of a skateboard deck, so think two and a
Speaker 5: half feet long and eight inches wide.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking they're really fun.
Speaker 5: But my problem is mine are a little boring. I
Speaker 5: have a friend who can design something for me and
Speaker 5: print it up. I just have no clue what to
Speaker 5: ask her to do. Unfortunately, bananas are off the table,
Speaker 5: as a lot of boat captains really don't like bring
Speaker 5: a banana on a boat.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 5: Some kind of superstition there. Now, if you were down
Speaker 5: under the water and you looked over, what drawing or
Speaker 5: picture would really make you giggle? I want to make
Speaker 5: everybody happy who sees these fins and I appreciate your help.
Speaker 3: This is CC. Thank you for the most specific advice
Speaker 3: question if we have ever been asked in the history
Speaker 3: of this podcast. And that is why I love it.
Speaker 2: It's so great.
Speaker 3: Scott. I don't know about you, but I'm watching free
Speaker 3: dive videos on Instagram all the time. Oh sure, d
Speaker 3: are you watching it? Oh my god, are you watching them?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3: This is the thing that I that the that the
Speaker 3: algorithm's like, oh, you want to watch this person fall
Speaker 3: downwards for four hundred meters while holding their breath. I'm like,
Speaker 3: I do, I do. Indeed, I will watch for the
Speaker 3: entire four and a half minutes it takes for them
Speaker 3: to fall through darkness.
Speaker 4: There was a documentary I think that came out last
Speaker 4: year and I watched the whole thing too, because it's
Speaker 4: a it's a yes, it is fascinating opposite of what.
Speaker 2: Humans are supposed to do.
Speaker 4: We're not supposed to be underwater, and we're not supposed
Speaker 4: to swim towards the bottom.
Speaker 3: And then what I The thing that freaked me out
Speaker 3: the most was that that at a certain point, I
Speaker 3: had no idea that at a certain point you become
Speaker 3: negatively buoyant because there's just simply not enough air in
Speaker 3: your body anymore, because there's so the compression happens after
Speaker 3: like I don't know, sixty feet ninety feet or something
Speaker 3: like that, like three atmospheres that then you just start
Speaker 3: falling downwards. So they swim for a little bit, and
Speaker 3: then they just start falling, which seems to me to
Speaker 3: be the most terrifying. So they don't have to hold
Speaker 3: weights or anything like that. Their whole body just becomes heavy.
Speaker 3: So this is fascinating that you do this. And I
Speaker 3: am very familiar with the fins. The fins are very long,
Speaker 3: and so here's my pitch. My pitch is and I
Speaker 3: don't know if you can get it to come all
Speaker 3: the way up to your ankle. And this would primarily
Speaker 3: work if you Usually they wear those skins, those second skins,
Speaker 3: you know, to keep themselves warm. But if you ever
Speaker 3: were free diving, without them and you had bare legs.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, then.
Speaker 3: To then have an extension of your foot continue down
Speaker 3: so your calf is like two and a half feet
Speaker 3: longer than it is, and then right at the edges
Speaker 3: your foot at your toenails at the very end, and
Speaker 3: then the sides are just painted in with black.
Speaker 2: I think that's a great idea because you could be
Speaker 2: top and bottom. It could just look like your big
Speaker 2: old feet. You got some big old hoppit feet.
Speaker 3: You have super long log legs. You have two and
Speaker 3: a half foot longer legs that you are eight and
Speaker 3: a half feet tall. But it's all legs.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: It's all calf, it's all calves and ankles. You have
Speaker 3: the longest ankles in the world. That's so funny.
Speaker 2: To that's I got a second that vote.
Speaker 4: I think if you can make it just like like
Speaker 4: two giant feet top and bottom.
Speaker 3: Fantastic, that's amazing.
Speaker 4: I think you could get too yo Samity Sam holding
Speaker 4: his pistols back offs on there like the mudflap truck
Speaker 4: mud flaps.
Speaker 2: Put that on there.
Speaker 4: I also think there could be something where it says
Speaker 4: bottoms up, where it only makes sense when you're going down.
Speaker 4: When you're swimming down and your fins are up, it
Speaker 4: looks like something. I don't know what that would be,
Speaker 4: but I always thought the phrase bottoms up was so funny.
Speaker 4: Could you let's see, I guess if it's only the top.
Speaker 4: If I looked over at somebody and they were had
Speaker 4: long I mean, big big feet is the funniest thing.
Speaker 4: It's so funny look over and to see somebody look
Speaker 4: like they have two and a half long feet.
Speaker 3: Look, I have to specify this. It's not that they're wide.
Speaker 3: They are the exact same width as your actual legs,
Speaker 3: so they're just incredibly long. So it's not that you
Speaker 3: have big feet, it's that you have really long ankles.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's pretty damn good. I would laugh very hard
Speaker 4: if I saw somebody also. That seems pretty doable. It
Speaker 4: seems like I really Yeah, it's an easy one to do.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it has to be accurate looking, you know, but hell,
Speaker 3: you could do it. You could just make a photograph.
Speaker 3: You could literally print a photograph of actual feet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's big enough where somebody could see it
Speaker 4: from a little bit away, because if it was, if
Speaker 4: it's too small, you know, you're in the water. You got,
Speaker 4: you gotta scuba mask on, you gotta snorkel a mask on.
Speaker 4: You can't see high details from ten feet away.
Speaker 3: And if there's a chance, if there's a chance this
Speaker 3: is a reference to an episode we just recorded that
Speaker 3: probably either comes out next.
Speaker 2: I think it'll beat it. I think it'll beat it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But if it just says barefoot buddies, now two
Speaker 3: feet making a hard shape, that would be great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think buddies.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess if I have to give you another one,
Speaker 4: I would paint them to look whatever. The most common
Speaker 4: color is under the sea, So whatever matches the background
Speaker 4: of the ocean, that type of blue, that deep sea blue.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: How about a classic cartoon sausage links just just wrapped
Speaker 4: around in circles on both sides of it. Just seeing
Speaker 4: somebody swimming with some reddish cartoon tied together sausage links,
Speaker 4: I would enjoy that. I would enjoy if I looked
Speaker 4: over and saw somebody kicking sausage away from their feet
Speaker 4: really quickly, I would laugh.
Speaker 2: Every time.
Speaker 4: I feel like it has to have a long design
Speaker 4: so it does look like you're trying to get away
Speaker 4: from it. It just looks like sausage ropes are trying
Speaker 4: to catch up.
Speaker 3: To you that yatta, would you rather pound?
Speaker 2: Let me see? I do have a few.
Speaker 4: Oh, here's an interesting one, because when I read it,
Speaker 4: I instantly went one way, and then then I thought
Speaker 4: about tomort Okay, Trevor bergiereo or b tever. I think
Speaker 4: it's Bergieiro, says curtain Scottie. Hello, that's us, that's us.
Speaker 4: We then banana boys. Would you rather be able to
Speaker 4: eat anything you want without any negative consequences? Or every
Speaker 4: time you drink alcohol you get a perfect buzz and
Speaker 4: can keep drinking with getting wasted or hungover, So you
Speaker 4: could eat you could eat junk food, you can eat
Speaker 4: ice cream ten times a day and you're not going
Speaker 4: to get fatter and you're not going to have.
Speaker 2: Cholesterol and hard issues.
Speaker 4: Or every time you drink you get immediately to a
Speaker 4: perfect buzz and you can keep drinking without ever getting
Speaker 4: too drunk or hungover.
Speaker 3: Ah, but I assume that that's the benefit. You still
Speaker 3: but then like you get all the drawbacks of drink, right,
Speaker 3: that's right, where you get you gain weight, you don't
Speaker 3: sleep well, you know, you feel out of it, right, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm going to go for food, easy, peasy, I'm going
Speaker 3: for food.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's me too, because there's certainly when you travel
Speaker 4: and there's certain food. Sometimes you go to a place
Speaker 4: and you're like, this is so good. I think we
Speaker 4: have to cancel dinner because I ate too much. And
Speaker 4: then you're so bumped because you didn't get to go
Speaker 4: have that po boy you were thinking about. Yeah on
Speaker 4: Lake Ponta train sometimes, and there there's a deep sadness
Speaker 4: when you, God, what first world problems. My apologies, my apologies,
Speaker 4: this is so bougie. It's my apologies, But there is
Speaker 4: a sadness when you're somewhere and you eat such a big,
Speaker 4: delicious lunch that you have to cancel what you know
Speaker 4: would have been a delicious dinner. And I if I
Speaker 4: could just keep going without any consequences, Well, well but
Speaker 4: what if food got.
Speaker 2: Boring to you?
Speaker 3: What if food got boring to you?
Speaker 2: What if without limits?
Speaker 3: Scotty we Okay, first off, time out, I have essentially
Speaker 3: been living this way for my entire life.
Speaker 4: Okay, all that is true, and it it never gets boring,
Speaker 4: that's true, but I just haven't.
Speaker 3: But I've also just been becoming more and more unhealthy
Speaker 3: because of it. But I do eat, you know. I
Speaker 3: I also, you know, track my calories. I go on
Speaker 3: big spurts. I go three months on, three months off.
Speaker 3: I get really healthy for three months and then I
Speaker 3: get really unhealthy for the other three months. So it
Speaker 3: just keeps going like this, and I always kind of
Speaker 3: stay right in the middle. Yeah, that's true, But it
Speaker 3: never ever gets boring. That's what's fascinating about food.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're a big you have a wide palette though
Speaker 4: you eat it all man, which I appreciate because I
Speaker 4: do too well.
Speaker 2: Like, Yeah, when you and I are.
Speaker 4: On the road and we go to Bizarro Cuban restaurants
Speaker 4: in Pittsburgh or Delicious Restaurants Fusion Restaurants in Portland, you
Speaker 4: and I never have to say do you want to
Speaker 4: eat this?
Speaker 2: It's just yeah, should we get the blah blah blahs?
Speaker 2: Should we get the muscles? Yes?
Speaker 3: Should we get the I was always thinking about that.
Speaker 3: Somebody asked me, like, what is something you wouldn't eat?
Speaker 3: And I thought about it and I was like, I don't.
Speaker 3: I pretty much eat everything me too, like black licorice.
Speaker 2: I love black liquor I know people like gross I'm like,
Speaker 2: that's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it. It's I recently ate. I was at
Speaker 3: a restaurant where someone else was like, come on, we're
Speaker 3: going out and I'm taking care of it. So we're
Speaker 3: going to go somewhere. And it was a tasting menu
Speaker 3: and on the menu was sweetbreads, and I had had
Speaker 3: sweetbreads in the past, which are like, as I understand it,
Speaker 3: just like the intestines and different different organ yeah, and
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm gonna do it. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna eat I'll eat everything. And it was a bowl.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's too much of sweetbreads.
Speaker 3: It was so much, and I and at the end
Speaker 3: of it, I was like, I don't think in the
Speaker 3: future I'm going to eat that. That was my first
Speaker 3: time where I was just like, I think that I've
Speaker 3: had enough of that richness. That richness was so rich
Speaker 3: it overpowered everything else about the meal.
Speaker 4: Yes, well, yeah, I'm with you, but I'm the same way.
Speaker 4: It's like I say that, and then I have started
Speaker 4: to lose interest in oysters. I think that there are
Speaker 4: too many places.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I've lost interest. They used to be my
Speaker 3: favorite thing.
Speaker 4: I remember, I remember celebrating any small achievement with you
Speaker 4: at Ribbon in Hey.
Speaker 3: Look at we're up at two in the morning, isn't
Speaker 3: that amazing? Let's go to Blue Ribbon together.
Speaker 4: You guys would always treat me, and I still remember it,
Speaker 4: and it was some of most fun nights because you'd like,
Speaker 4: just come, we're celebrated, just come, and you guys would
Speaker 4: always pay, but we would always we would do the
Speaker 4: oyster shooters there, and they had really good oyster shooters there.
Speaker 4: Those were Those are to this day my standard of
Speaker 4: they were.
Speaker 3: Selling good Blue Ribbon oyster shooters back in two thousand
Speaker 3: and eight.
Speaker 4: That, Yeah, that was a special treat for a guy.
Speaker 4: That was like eating two dollar grays Papia dogs are
Speaker 4: two two for one dollar gray Papa dogs. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: as in the dollar sliced pizza, and then wherever I
Speaker 4: could find it. Amm the Moon's Falaffel. Shout out the
Speaker 4: Moon's on Saint.
Speaker 3: Mark's shot at moons.
Speaker 2: How many of the.
Speaker 4: Moon's Falaffels did you eat when you were in New
Speaker 4: York five thousand?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was so good and so cheat.
Speaker 4: It was three dollars or four dollars for the sharm.
Speaker 4: It was direct next to Grassroots, which was a great
Speaker 4: dive bar that when that one left. When Grassroots closed,
Speaker 4: it just made go into Saint Mark's not interesting to
Speaker 4: me anymore.
Speaker 3: It was the only bar that you could really kind
Speaker 3: of function at that wasn't we like it just like
Speaker 3: either like we're crust punks and we our dads just
Speaker 3: gave us a trust fund, or like weird, like we're
Speaker 3: we're from Japan and we like punk rock music. Like
Speaker 3: that was the only people in Saint Mark's. Yes, And
Speaker 3: then there was that one little bar that was nice.
Speaker 4: And it had pictures and weirdly, you'll probably remember this
Speaker 4: as I say it, their pictures were like eight dollars,
Speaker 4: nine of ours ten dollars. But they had a seven
Speaker 4: dollars pitcher a happy hour six hours of amber Bach
Speaker 4: of michelob Amberbach was their cheap beer. And I'll net,
Speaker 4: I mean they must have sold, because I never drank
Speaker 4: michelob Amberbach until And the bartender was this old guy
Speaker 4: and definitely an alcoholic, because he would be drinking while bartend,
Speaker 4: and those picture prices there would be like seven dollars
Speaker 4: and the next time he'd be like five dollars, and
Speaker 4: the next time he'd make three dollars, and my friends
Speaker 4: would be like that guy just charged me three dollars
Speaker 4: for this picture, and then like, well.
Speaker 2: Go get another one.
Speaker 4: Shout out and rest in peace to Grassroots, one of
Speaker 4: the great dive bars in the oughts.
Speaker 3: Here's one right now for Mikelobe. I just don't feel
Speaker 3: like I see michelobe enough. I remember my first bottle
Speaker 3: having a michelobe was a jersey at a bowling alley
Speaker 3: and the bottle was shaped kind of like.
Speaker 2: A long butt plug.
Speaker 3: Sexy, a long butt Well, those were the little ones, right,
Speaker 3: those are the little ones with the long butt plugs.
Speaker 3: But then they had the ones that were like kind
Speaker 3: of fat in the middle and then fat on the bottom.
Speaker 3: I guess that's a long button. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Still still, we'll post a photo of an original michelobe
Speaker 4: and they had the gold label on the top.
Speaker 3: Really a beautiful, very seventies design. And sitting at a
Speaker 3: bowling alley bowling and drinking a michelob was like now here,
Speaker 3: I'm in a little bit of heaven.
Speaker 4: Well, you know what's funny is that michelob ultra is
Speaker 4: so popular now, like they just are all in on
Speaker 4: ultra and when you go to Let's say we're in
Speaker 4: a Red State, Kurt, and let's say you go to
Speaker 4: a bar where you go, well, let's see what the
Speaker 4: Red States do. Half the dudes in there drinking Mick Ultra's.
Speaker 4: It's like the to me, the wimpiest sports beer there is,
Speaker 4: but then it's winning. Mick Ultra is a hit in
Speaker 4: the Red States.
Speaker 3: Look at that. Make Aloe found a way to make it.
Speaker 4: From long butt plugs to sports beer in the Red States. Mikelobe,
Speaker 4: Oh man, do you.
Speaker 3: Got another one?
Speaker 2: Do you got it?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 2: I got uh?
Speaker 4: Here's oh, here's an advice. This is so simple. Julia
Speaker 4: is asking us what items can I carry around with
Speaker 4: me to make life a little sillier. It's like stuff
Speaker 4: in your pocket book, your pockets, your fanny pack, your
Speaker 4: your satchel.
Speaker 3: This is an item that I carry around with me,
Speaker 3: and I find it to be so incredibly pleasing. It is.
Speaker 3: I got it at the silver Ball Museum in Asbury Park,
Speaker 3: New Jersey, which is a pinball arcade on the boardwalk,
Speaker 3: one of my favorite places in the universe. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: they sell pinballs for ten bucks. And you can buy
Speaker 3: a pinball and the weight and heft of having a
Speaker 3: pinball in the jacket pocket in the winter time, to
Speaker 3: curl your hand around it feels amazing. It's satisfying, it
Speaker 3: centers you. That's my suggestion.
Speaker 4: Well, that's nice. That's totally unexpected and nice.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. A couple things.
Speaker 4: One, I used to make business cards all the time
Speaker 4: for myself and I would put I'm sure Kurt got one,
Speaker 4: and I would hand them out because when I was
Speaker 4: not in the industry and trying to break in, I
Speaker 4: just wanted to make people laugh. And so one was
Speaker 4: a really tan this guy was in a speedo standing
Speaker 4: on a beach, very muscular tan guy with a beautiful
Speaker 4: hair blown perm mullet thing, and then it said Scottie
Speaker 4: Landis and then underneath it and quotes it said billionaire.
Speaker 4: And then it just was my email. And I made
Speaker 4: two hundred of them. I used to give them to friends,
Speaker 4: but then when I would go by any community bulletin board,
Speaker 4: I would just thumbtack it up there. And I did
Speaker 4: it once at the old absent house on Bourbon Street.
Speaker 4: I've mentioned Louisiana twice this episode, and somebody emailed me
Speaker 4: and was like, are you really a billionaire? I found
Speaker 4: this and sent me a photo of it. And I
Speaker 4: used to just leave business cards with just my email,
Speaker 4: like not enough personal information, with a photo of somebody
Speaker 4: else and something dumb written on it, and people would
Speaker 4: write to me. They would be like, hey, dude, I
Speaker 4: saw this and I was here, and it's a fun
Speaker 4: thing to do because you can give it to your friends.
Speaker 4: Also useful. You could actually write your real number on
Speaker 4: the back and hand it to somebody.
Speaker 3: So I would say, do you get one?
Speaker 2: I print some business cards?
Speaker 3: Print business cards. In late high school early early college,
Speaker 3: for me, I was like obsessed with not too much,
Speaker 3: but phone freaking. Do you know? Do you know what
Speaker 3: I'm talking about? Phone freaking? So they're payphones, public payphones.
Speaker 3: There was all these different codes that you put into
Speaker 3: public payphones to get free calls, to get uh there's
Speaker 3: certain ones. There was always like the legend that like
Speaker 3: you could get it to dump all of its quarters out.
Speaker 3: Yes I never figured out, but I did know the
Speaker 3: code to like be able to make free phone calls.
Speaker 3: And you there was another one where you would like
Speaker 3: hold a box up that would make us clicking zone
Speaker 3: to the clicking sounds into the thing and you could
Speaker 3: get them, you could like send away from them, and
Speaker 3: then that would like have that would be a long
Speaker 3: distance calls, long distance calls, international calls, all payphones. And
Speaker 3: because of my interest in doing that, I got in.
Speaker 3: So there was a there was a business card machine
Speaker 3: in the CVU Square Mall in New Jersey, and it
Speaker 3: was like it was supposed to. I guess you had
Speaker 3: to feed money into it, or maybe it took credit cards.
Speaker 3: It doesn't seem like it would take credit cards because
Speaker 3: it was the nineties. But if you typed something like
Speaker 3: free two fifty into it after you ordered up all
Speaker 3: your like business cards, it would then just print two
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty free business cards. So we all had
Speaker 3: business cards, and we all would just type free two
Speaker 3: fifty into it, and then it would just give them
Speaker 3: to us in credible. The mind said, of course, it
Speaker 3: didn't make any sense. It's not as simple and funny
Speaker 3: as just quotes billionaire. It was it said Pooch and
Speaker 3: Doodle metaphysical pet company smart and then it just had
Speaker 3: my phone number in my email address. Yea, so it
Speaker 3: must I must have been in college.
Speaker 2: Julia makes some business make fifty business cards.
Speaker 4: It's very cheap. You could do it so easy on line.
Speaker 4: Put nonsense on it. Put something that you're not on there,
Speaker 4: don't evenin you use your real name, and either hand
Speaker 4: them to strangers when it doesn't matter you're never gonna
Speaker 4: see that person again, or just post them up on
Speaker 4: corkboards at the grocery store you're traveling, Leave them in
Speaker 4: books at the library, at a bookstore for somebody to
Speaker 4: find the.
Speaker 2: Little treasure later.
Speaker 3: I put it in the Bible.
Speaker 4: Put in the Gideon Bible. The Gideons are just still
Speaker 4: cranking those Bible. Where are the Gideons?
Speaker 2: And why?
Speaker 4: What factory? How many trees are the Gideons hacking down
Speaker 4: every year?
Speaker 3: They must have purchased an old nuclear missile facility and
Speaker 3: they're just buried in the Utah bad lands.
Speaker 4: Everybody, make some business cards. If you come to Bananas
Speaker 4: live shows, please give them to us. I will keep
Speaker 4: every one of them. But just make absurd business cards
Speaker 4: and leave them around. Whatever you think is funny will work.
Speaker 4: Also sidebar, this is one that Okay, you know that
Speaker 4: costume tooth black. It's the stuff you can paint on
Speaker 4: your teeth that make them look like you're missing teeth.
Speaker 2: A vile of that is about eight dollars.
Speaker 4: If you go out with your good friends, So you're
Speaker 4: going over your friend's house to watch movies, have some drinks,
Speaker 4: play cards, whatever you're gonna do, look at your phones.
Speaker 4: You're going over your fen so you can all look
Speaker 4: at your phones and occasionally.
Speaker 2: Talk to each other.
Speaker 4: Yeah, take tooth black and say, everybody, you have to
Speaker 4: paint two of your teeth black and leave it that
Speaker 4: way for the rest of the night. It is the
Speaker 4: fucking funniest It's so small, Kurt. But then you look
Speaker 4: at your friend and if my front two missing, laugh
Speaker 4: out loud, so funny. But if you do like a
Speaker 4: lower one and an upper one on the opposite side,
Speaker 4: and your friend's like, I think Greg and I are
Speaker 4: going to get divorced, it's so funny because you're just like, well,
Speaker 4: I bet you are, and you need to get to
Speaker 4: the dentist, so tooth black in your purse. It really
Speaker 4: is the silliest idea I can't describe. When you look
Speaker 4: at people you've known you're for twenty years and then
Speaker 4: they're missing teeth that they're not supposed to be missing,
Speaker 4: it gets so silly. And then they look at you
Speaker 4: and they start laughing too. So those are fake business
Speaker 4: cards to make other people happy or you'reself happy, and
Speaker 4: then carry a little tooth black around, take it to parties,
Speaker 4: make everybody paint one tooth black.
Speaker 2: It is so funny to me. I got more, Bud,
Speaker 2: I got so many.
Speaker 3: Do you have one that is a hypothetical?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes, I love a hypothetical.
Speaker 4: M hypothetical. If you could smell any smell? Oh, this
Speaker 4: is from Barbara. Thank you, Barbara. If you could smell
Speaker 4: any smell whenever you wanted, wherever you wanted, anytime, what
Speaker 4: smell would you have t have to smell? Meaning you
Speaker 4: walk in any room, you smell your shirt, you go outside,
Speaker 4: take a deep breath. You can make it smell like
Speaker 4: one smell. And Barbara says, hers apples and cinnamon.
Speaker 3: All right, Scotty, what do you think? What's yours?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 2: Is this is tough? This is tough?
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll go while you think this is tough, I
Speaker 3: immediately know it is the smell, and I don't find
Speaker 3: it much anymore. And I must be the way the
Speaker 3: ducting works on my house. But I used to always
Speaker 3: smell it in Michigan. It was the smell of dryer
Speaker 3: exhaust when you're using a uh sheet, a specific dryer sheet,
Speaker 3: and I'm not sure which which it was. For some
Speaker 3: reason that smell and it used to be there used
Speaker 3: to be a vent on the side of the house
Speaker 3: and it would and it was when it was cold
Speaker 3: out it would actually come out as like missed kind
Speaker 3: of because it was very hot and wet. That smell
Speaker 3: to me was I don't know why. It's signified home comfort. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's signified comfort. It signified and there was also a
Speaker 3: unexplained kind of almost time travel essence to it of
Speaker 3: something that I've never experienced, but I know that I
Speaker 3: love like when you were in a dream and you're
Speaker 3: in love with someone and you know you've never seen
Speaker 3: their face. Has this ever happened to you where you've
Speaker 3: like seen a person you know you're in love with
Speaker 3: them and you know them deep like crying and I
Speaker 3: and I can and I but it's not a person
Speaker 3: I know in this world. It's that that that kind
Speaker 3: of a feeling is smelling that to me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that takes me back too, because like when you're
Speaker 4: a kid and you'd be have a snow day or
Speaker 4: snowed over weekend, you'd sled all day with your friends,
Speaker 4: snowball fight, you destroy yourselves. You've already gone to one
Speaker 4: friend's house, had hot chocolate, and you put your wet
Speaker 4: clothes back on, which is the nightmare. Yes, and then
Speaker 4: you trudge back home, dragging your sled behind you through
Speaker 4: the snow, and then.
Speaker 2: You see your house.
Speaker 4: Yes, but I can remember the steam and I didn't
Speaker 4: think about that, but there was always a spot of
Speaker 4: grass under there, because the steam would melt the grass
Speaker 4: on that one little patch, and you knew you were
Speaker 4: getting close. Oh man, that's a good memory. I totally
Speaker 4: forgot about that. That's a really funny visual because, yeah,
Speaker 4: you would see that little hole in the snow where
Speaker 4: the steam from the dryer, probably drying the wet snow
Speaker 4: clothes you wore the day before. Remember those gloves. I'm
Speaker 4: sure they still make them, but they I used to
Speaker 4: have transformers ones.
Speaker 3: Freaky freezies. Yeah, yeah, I love them.
Speaker 4: They still make Where it was blank and then you
Speaker 4: go outside and they get cold, and then the images
Speaker 4: come onto.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it would be like like a mountain or something.
Speaker 2: God, that's the best.
Speaker 3: God, damn it, that's the best. And well in every
Speaker 3: piece of article of clothing. Now with that on it,
Speaker 3: it's probably incredibly toxic. That's the answer.
Speaker 4: Well, we saw it something. We had those bananas hypercolor
Speaker 4: style shirts, the heat changing shirts.
Speaker 2: And when we pitched that idea that old.
Speaker 4: Company not exactly right to the other company that made
Speaker 4: our merch they were like, really, these are gonna be
Speaker 4: like forty bucks. And then the fastest thing we've ever
Speaker 4: sold were the color changing shirt.
Speaker 3: Let's bring back the color chat.
Speaker 4: I know, let's get a new design. I like the
Speaker 4: best in the biz design, but yeah, like, let's do
Speaker 4: that and then make them hyper colored shirts.
Speaker 2: I think those were so fun. Okay, anyways, back for
Speaker 2: the colored shirts.
Speaker 3: There's no reason there isn't really a reason to have
Speaker 3: any type of any other type of shirt at this
Speaker 3: point other than a hypercolor shirt. I would love a jacket.
Speaker 3: I would love a jacket that inside is white and
Speaker 3: outside is a different color. I would love that.
Speaker 2: Mmmmm, give it to me, folks, Yeah, I know, somebody.
Speaker 3: It's the future. Give it to me.
Speaker 2: Your clothes need to change color all the time in the.
Speaker 3: Future the time everywhere.
Speaker 4: Well, they're making those new BMW's and stuff that you
Speaker 4: can change the color of your car. It has like
Speaker 4: a skin on it, And I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, shut up, gosh, what shut up?
Speaker 2: It's so dorky. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: You can change the color of your car.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it has like a skin on it that can
Speaker 4: be white black. Like you could change the color of
Speaker 4: your car. You can click a button and changes the
Speaker 4: color your car. I do believe it. It's so boring
Speaker 4: to me. That's so boring. I think it's supposed to
Speaker 4: be creative, and instead I'm like, this sucks. This is
Speaker 4: so uninteresting to me. Now, if you could make it
Speaker 4: do stuff and say stuff like, say, make it look
Speaker 4: like two giant like it makes you look like you're
Speaker 4: sitting naked in your own car going really fast or
Speaker 4: dangling from the steering wheel. It looked like your hands
Speaker 4: are on the steeling one of the rest of your
Speaker 4: body was along the side the car and the feet
Speaker 4: were flapping.
Speaker 3: All right, No, no, I'm interested.
Speaker 2: I'll slap in.
Speaker 4: My Discover Cary. You're getting my my diner's up guard. Anyways,
Speaker 4: back to the smell. You know what smell like and
Speaker 4: I know you like this too, is the smell of
Speaker 4: and it's not.
Speaker 2: Dissimilar when you're at the beach. Yeah, lay a towel out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're laying face down on a clean towel at
Speaker 4: the beach with sun tan, locean on.
Speaker 2: So it's that combination.
Speaker 4: Of warm laundry, ocean breeze, and the coconuty smell of
Speaker 4: you know, copper tone, and you just bury your.
Speaker 3: Face on the specific smell of copper tone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you dig a little hole for your face
Speaker 4: so you can lay kind of flat and that smell
Speaker 4: of your face in a sand hole on your towel
Speaker 4: with some block on that. I if I could close
Speaker 4: my eyes and do that, I would be a happy
Speaker 4: guy instead of I love that.
Speaker 3: That's a good so much. I would also just say
Speaker 3: the ocean in general, if I could smell the ocean.
Speaker 3: And here's the thing. Here's the thing about this question.
Speaker 3: This is a good one. But smells for the human brain,
Speaker 3: I find they have to be fleeting otherwise they're noxious,
Speaker 3: like like if you have it all the time, it's
Speaker 3: too much. That is the unique impermanence of smell. It
Speaker 3: is a it's a wild smells a. It is one
Speaker 3: of the wildest senses of the senses.
Speaker 4: Scottie, Yeah, I would say it's one of the five
Speaker 4: wildest absolutely.
Speaker 3: Hear it, you heard it here, folks, smell is one
Speaker 3: of the five wildest setses we have and that is
Speaker 3: all the time we have for this sweet, sweet bonusode episode.
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