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Speaker 2: Well this is right up there. This is because it's

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Speaker 2: the new year. This for this our new one here.

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Speaker 2: It is partiers attempt to celebrate New Year's Eve twice

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Speaker 1: Well that's awesome. I think that they tried to do

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Speaker 1: something amazing. So I'm all for this. Take a little

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Speaker 1: Bananas World.

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Speaker 2: Would you.

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Speaker 3: It's your resilient.

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Speaker 4: Pieces, would you?

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Speaker 1: Bana Bana.

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Speaker 2: Guys, gals, non binary pals. Welcome to the Bananas Podcast.

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Speaker 2: I am one of your hosts, Kurt Brown Ohler.

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Speaker 1: That's right, and I'm the shorter host banana boy number

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Speaker 1: two Scotti Landis. Thanks for tuning into the silliest little

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Speaker 1: podcast there ever was. I think this is our third

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Speaker 1: New Year's Eve doing bananas. If you're new to the pod,

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Speaker 1: it's strange news, which is all true. It's storytelling from

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Speaker 1: Kurty B and I, which is all true. And we

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Speaker 1: have wonderful guests and sometimes we don't like this episode. Today,

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Speaker 1: it's just KURTI b and I Scotti.

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Speaker 4: How how are you? It is?

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Speaker 1: We are?

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Speaker 2: We are just it's been a monthing days away from

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Speaker 2: ringing in the new year. How are you feeling about

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Speaker 2: the new year?

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Speaker 1: Wildly ambitious? I want this year to be amazing. I

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Speaker 2: I remember, I think I'm trying to I want to

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Speaker 4: Everybody? Next year is our year, Next year's this is it.

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Speaker 4: This is the big one.

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Speaker 2: And I want to pinpoint exactly the year that my

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Speaker 4: The best things other than like your realist.

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Speaker 1: Also, we need to shout out to hell.

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Speaker 2: Here it is partiers attempt to celebrate New Year's twice

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Speaker 1: And we order fish. We order some sushi and it

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Speaker 2: And it was a bonfire that I'm not kidding, was fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Great.

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Speaker 2: It was crazy. It was just things were flying everywhere.

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Speaker 2: Fire was everywhere. People were shirtless running in circles around

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Speaker 4: It was like the most wild time.

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Speaker 2: I was just like, I've never experienced life like this,

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Speaker 1: And you can legally drink outside while watching those.

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Speaker 4: Things, yes, and everyone was. It was amazing.

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Speaker 1: So the moral of these two stories been Animals is

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. I'm jealous of you. I wish I was

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Speaker 4: I feel almost like it's it wasn't real, Do you

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Speaker 1: Shout out to Atchafalayah, my favorite restaurant New Orleans, which

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Speaker 1: Chinese chess champion loses title in poop scandal. Yay, we're

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Speaker 2: Is this the chess champion that was accused of using

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Speaker 1: I think there are now two chess champions who have

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Speaker 4: What this is the second accusation?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's going on?

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Speaker 4: Chess?

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Speaker 1: What's going on?

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Speaker 4: Also? Are they learning but binary.

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Speaker 2: To be able to communicate or do they like touch

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Speaker 4: And then it's like.

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Speaker 1: I've played chess. Honestly, some remote control anal beads really

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Speaker 2: Also, you know what's interesting is that every article always

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Speaker 1: And butt plugs sadly mean either.

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Speaker 2: It does seem like a butt plug would be the better,

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Speaker 2: or half the beads in your butt?

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Speaker 4: Where's a butt plug?

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Speaker 2: You can get a remote control butt plug, I'm pretty sure.

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Speaker 2: And vibrator, and that's just that's just one and done.

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Speaker 2: You cork it up, you play your game. But this

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Speaker 2: it just I don't know why it's always beads unless

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they might be that. There's a lot of moves

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Speaker 1: to make in chess Newsweek. This was in Newsweek on

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Speaker 1: newsweek dot com, written by mikeal McCartney, who a lot

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Speaker 1: of people say when it comes to Anal Beads and

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Speaker 1: chests is the best.

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Speaker 4: In the business and he's proud of that title.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he will not be sending a strongly worded email

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Speaker 1: to the Bananas Pott at gmail dot com. Micah, we

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Speaker 1: love you, bud. The Chinese chess community is a buzz

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Speaker 1: already good. After a newly crowned tournament champion had his

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Speaker 1: prize rescinded for defecating in a bathtub, the Chinese Oh,

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Speaker 1: I think it's Jiangxi, and I apologize if I'm getting

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Speaker 1: that wrong, xiang Xi Association said Monday XA what The

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Speaker 1: incident sparked rumors the player had pulled off his victory

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Speaker 1: with help of high tech Anal beads. There it is,

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Speaker 1: we get right to it. That's why Micah is the

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Speaker 1: best in abyss. After merging victorious in the final match

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Speaker 1: of the tournament in Hiinan Province on December seventeenth, forty

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Speaker 1: nine year old Yan Chang Long celebrated with a night

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Speaker 1: of drinking with others in his hotel room. According to

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Speaker 1: hotels staff discovered excrement in the bathtub. Oh come on,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta think if you own a hotel

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Speaker 1: have the quietest, neatest like anal retentive. We're going the

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Speaker 1: other way. You're gonna have people that make their own beds.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we don't understand what it takes to be a chess.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, like you really gotta let loose in every way

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Speaker 1: Oh Man Newsweek has reached out to the General Administration

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Speaker 1: of Sport in China with a written written request for comment.

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Speaker 1: Chinese chess, commonly known as elephant chess, which is why

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Speaker 4: It's a completely different board.

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Speaker 1: I think. So I have no idea. I saw a

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Speaker 1: board games in China, with overseas Chinese communities as as

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Speaker 1: well in Vietnam. It appeared in its current form during

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Speaker 1: the Song Dynasty, approximately a millennium ago. Yan this is

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Speaker 1: the chess player, the chess champion. Yan damaged the hotel's

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Speaker 1: a negative impact on Chinese chess, which was very bad

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Speaker 2: But I mean, like, so easy to run the water

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Speaker 2: and get rid of this evidence.

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Speaker 1: Couldn't be easy? Couldn't it be easier? The best place

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Speaker 1: So I think that goes into what you're saying, Curt,

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Speaker 2: Wait a second, so there's no other person involved in this.

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Speaker 2: He's directly communicating with a computer with his butthole.

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Speaker 1: That's what it sounds like to me.

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Speaker 4: Such a bananas story. This is right up banana's alley.

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Speaker 4: This is perfect.

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Speaker 1: It is.

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Speaker 4: He's got He's got.

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Speaker 2: A robot that loves chest and reads butt clenches.

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Speaker 4: Oh man, I don't like you know. This is beautiful.

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Speaker 1: This is beautiful. This is the AI that we hope exactly,

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Speaker 1: you know, not the killer robots. We want a computer

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Speaker 1: to launcher anal beads so hard up your butt that

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Speaker 4: Also, who knew?

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Speaker 2: Who knew that there were atal beads out there that

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Speaker 1: I bet some of our bananimals knew that. I have

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Speaker 1: a feeling, let's see. The XA then announced it was

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Speaker 1: one year. The prize they took back was fourteen thousand

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Speaker 4: Oh that's a yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well wait did he that got taken away because he

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Speaker 1: Took a dump in the bathtob thatthb it was. It

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Speaker 2: Because there was no proof, because they couldn't find the

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Speaker 1: It's like, it's all I wanted to write poetry.

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Speaker 2: I'm so I'm so smart, and you're literally just sending

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Speaker 2: butt clenches to me.

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Speaker 4: I could read anything.

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Speaker 1: Any control can be held in your hands or in

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Speaker 1: your mouth with your feet, and you chose vibrating atal beats.

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Speaker 1: In an interview with China's Upstream News, which the irony

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Speaker 1: runs right, I'm not kidding the erstwhile which I don't

447
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Speaker 1: say enough erstwhile, Champion said the incident was the result

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Speaker 1: of about of diarrhea. Quote, I was a little happy,

449
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Speaker 1: and I drank that night. I drank too much and

450
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Speaker 1: had an upset stomach. Seems reasonable to thank.

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Speaker 2: The only unreasonable part is the bathtub part.

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Speaker 1: I hope Yean tries a dry sixty nine because it

453
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Speaker 1: might just straighten that all. Yeah. Yeah, and told the

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Speaker 1: news outlet he didn't have time to rinse the tub

455
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Speaker 1: or alert the cleaning staff because he was rushed, really rushed.

456
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Speaker 1: This is where his story falls apart Yan, who reportedly

457
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Speaker 1: served as the coach for the Heenan provincial chess team,

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Speaker 1: dismiss the allegations that he had cheated. I've been playing

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Speaker 1: chess for over forty years and I love chess. Anyone

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Speaker 1: who knows me knows that I can't cheat and that

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Speaker 1: I do not need to, he said. And here's the

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Speaker 1: second person. The fur recalls a similar, unsubstantiated rumor last

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Speaker 1: year that an American chess champion, Hans Niemann use electronic

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Speaker 1: anal beads. Apparently these things are just flying around, flying

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Speaker 1: around in his upset de feet of world champion Magnus Carlson. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's it. That's it.

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Speaker 4: That's the sentence.

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Speaker 1: A second time, Okay, that's what it ends on. I

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Speaker 1: guess I could have said like this, Hans Neeman used

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Speaker 1: electronic anal beads in his upset defeat of world champion

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Speaker 1: Magnus Carlson.

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Speaker 2: It just you just slow down, and that is how

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Speaker 2: news ends. That's how news always ends. Just slow down,

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Speaker 2: and that is what it is.

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Speaker 1: Correct. I heard once in acting school that and time

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Speaker 1: you go up at the end of a sentence, it

477
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Speaker 1: makes you sound like you're asking a question, and then

478
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Speaker 1: it makes you less powerful. So if you want to

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Speaker 1: sound more powerful, you just end down. Oh, just go

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Speaker 1: That's what Gregory Peck the actor did. He would talk

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Speaker 1: and then he would finish here and everybody goes, oh,

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Speaker 1: I like that. Well, man, I don't do it enough.

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Speaker 1: Do I go down? Or do I? Or do I?

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Speaker 5: AI?

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Speaker 4: You ready for this one, Scottie or you got it?

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Speaker 1: I love stories, No hit me up, tease us into

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Speaker 1: a break?

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Speaker 4: Yeah baby.

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Speaker 2: This was sent in by Papa Pajama Cat.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Papa Pajama Cat. Great name, and this is this.

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Speaker 2: It sparks more questions than it answers, and that's what

492
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Speaker 2: that's a good headline. Police Department in Wisconsin is aware

493
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Speaker 2: of situation involving guinea pigs at an apartment building.

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Speaker 1: Oh good, I didn't see this one yet. This is

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Speaker 1: fresh to my earballs. And we will be back with

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Speaker 1: some very fun on bananas twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 3: Birthday folks, We are back, Scottie any shout outs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks to all the ban animals who came out,

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Speaker 1: especially to the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia shows. At the end

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Speaker 1: of the year, we had a wonderful time Richmond, Brooklyn, Baltimore. Awesome.

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Speaker 1: That was a great East coast run. And we're gonna

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Speaker 1: do the Midwest. We're gonna do Seattle. Kurtie B and

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Speaker 1: I are trying to figure out how to do Alaska

504
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Speaker 1: this year and we might have a big surprise coming

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Speaker 1: up soon. We're working out some logistics. Annie whosel shout

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Speaker 1: out Gareth. Lauren Hoffman wants to shout out her hubby,

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Speaker 1: Mark Hoffman. He's a children's book author, an illustrator, and

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Speaker 1: an illustration professor. He's starting his fifteenth children's book and

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Speaker 1: Lauren and her son are so proud of Mark. So

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Speaker 1: if you'd need a new kid's book, google Mark Hoffman.

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Speaker 1: And he has two books that he wrote and illustrated

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Speaker 1: that she highlights called fruitball nice great title casebook or

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Speaker 1: dirt Cheap which is another one. And support the lovely

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Speaker 1: Hoffman clan. Thank you for listening, Lauren and hopefully Mark.

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Speaker 1: Evan Alex wants to shout out her or their colleagues.

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Speaker 1: Sorry I didn't get the pronouns Evan Alex, but we

517
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Speaker 1: love you either way for one year anniversary at Achieve Health.

518
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Speaker 1: Achieve Health specializes in LGBTQ medicine in Denver and they're

519
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Speaker 1: one of the fastest growing LGBTQ plus clinics in Denver.

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Speaker 1: So congratulations on the one year anniversary of Achieved Health

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Speaker 1: and keep up the wonderful work. Everybody deserves health and medicine.

522
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Speaker 1: And Cassandra Griffin wants to shout herself out for graduating

523
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Speaker 1: summa cum laudie with a bachelor's degree in applied behavioral Science.

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Speaker 1: She is thirty three, so it took her a while

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Speaker 1: to get this degree. Also, she was a stay at

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Speaker 1: home mom. It was the hardest thing she's ever done.

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Speaker 1: But she's extremely proud of herccomplishment and so are we,

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Speaker 1: aren't we?

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Speaker 4: Curtay, Yeah, congratulations, So.

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Speaker 1: Cassandra Griffin get that diploma framed, put it somewhere where

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Speaker 1: people can see that you did the damn thing, and

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Speaker 1: Banana Boys are very proud of you. And that's all

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Speaker 1: I got.

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Speaker 2: And you might have noticed that there is no uh.

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Speaker 2: We don't come out a week earlier on Wondering anymore

536
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Speaker 2: because exactly right is no longer part of the Wondering network.

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Speaker 4: So right now we we.

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Speaker 2: As Banana's episodes comes out, they come out at the

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Speaker 2: same time for everybody regardless. And there might be another

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Speaker 2: option in the future, but for right now, that is

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Speaker 2: the way it is.

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Speaker 1: Just letting never happen. No Bananas ain't changed, and we're

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Speaker 1: not going anywhere. There's gonna be more and more.

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Speaker 4: And more and more and more. Here it is Scotti

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Speaker 4: hit me Buddy boy.

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Speaker 2: Police Department in Wisconsin aware of situation involving guinea pigs

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Speaker 2: at an apartment building.

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Speaker 1: This was uh.

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Speaker 2: This was on we aregreen Bay dot com, written by

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Speaker 2: Devin Willhelm. Police in southern Wisconsin are reportedly dealing with

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Speaker 2: a quote situation involving guinea pigs at an apartment building.

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Speaker 2: The Kuda Hi or Kuda Hey or Kudai Police Department

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Speaker 2: posted on its Facebook page about a situation involving guinea

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Speaker 2: pigs at the apartment building on South Lake Drive. The

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Speaker 2: police said they understand that several citizens are concerned for

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Speaker 2: the welfare of the guinea pigs.

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Speaker 4: Officials say they spoke.

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Speaker 2: With the owner of the guinea pigs and asked that

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Speaker 2: mad Act Milwaukee Animal Domestic Animal Control respond, but they

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Speaker 2: reportedly will not respond for guinea pigs.

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Speaker 1: This is so raaint.

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Speaker 2: The release mentions that the police made suggestions to the

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Speaker 2: owner of the animals, but those suggestions have not been

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Speaker 2: well received. The owner of the building has reportedly been notified.

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Speaker 2: Officials said the guinea pigs appeared to be in good health.

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Speaker 2: Police to ask residents do not disturb the property owners

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Speaker 2: or try and take the guinea pigs.

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Speaker 4: Right, this is the whole article. Okay, that is the

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Speaker 4: whole article.

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Speaker 2: And here is the post on the Facebook page, which

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Speaker 2: at first I was like, oh, this is a thing

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Speaker 2: that police departments sometimes do. They'll like post something funny

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Speaker 2: that happened, and it's like kind of like pr for

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Speaker 2: the police department or whatever. This does seem to be

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Speaker 2: simply like a police blotter announcement on their Facebook page,

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Speaker 2: which I love.

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Speaker 4: Yes, me too.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Kuda or kuda hi or kudahi or cut cuttahee.

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Speaker 4: We're all well, okay, here it is. We're well aware

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Speaker 4: of the situation.

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Speaker 2: We are well aware of the situation involving the guinea

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Speaker 2: pigs at the apartment building, and we understand that a

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Speaker 2: number of our citizens are concerned for the welfare of

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Speaker 2: the guinea pigs. We inspection in the Health Department have

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Speaker 2: all spoken with the owners of the guinea pigs. We

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Speaker 2: also requested that Mattick respond. Unfortunately, they will not respond

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Speaker 2: for guinea pigs. We have made suggestions so the owners

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Speaker 2: of the guinea pigs. These suggestions have not been well received.

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Speaker 2: Last the owner of the building has been notified. The

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Speaker 2: guinea pigs appear in good health. It will be brought

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Speaker 2: inside periodically by their owner. Please do not disturb the

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Speaker 2: property owner. Please do not attempt to take the guinea pigs.

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Speaker 2: We are aware of other social media pages where some

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Speaker 2: are suggesting stealing the guinea pigs.

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Speaker 1: Don't steal the guinea pigs.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what's going on. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I guess guinea pigs are being kept outside, But where

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Speaker 2: are guinea pigs being kept outside? That's like on display

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Speaker 2: in some way that.

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Speaker 1: Sounds so enjoyable and pleasant. I would love to have

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Speaker 1: a long day, take a long walk, and just stop

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Speaker 1: and watch the guinea pigs running around a nice moment.

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Speaker 1: What a zen garden that would be.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand if it's Wisconsin in January, maybe it's

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Speaker 2: not great.

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Speaker 4: But I don't know what guinea pigs look. Do we

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Speaker 4: know what guinea pigs did in the wild?

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Speaker 2: Maybe that was their ideal situation a Wisconsin January day.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they they're from the Andes Mountains. They're from

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Speaker 1: the Andy Totally cool. I don't really know a ton

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Speaker 1: about guinea pigs myself. I never had a pet guinea pigs.

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Speaker 1: You never didn't. I don't think I knew anybody who did.

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Speaker 2: I didn't either, you I never had a guinea pig.

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Speaker 2: I definitely had hamsters. I had gerbils, and I remember

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Speaker 2: specific and hamsters and gerbils are fine. But if you want,

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Speaker 2: if you want a pet for your kid or for

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Speaker 2: yourself that is in that area, a rodent type pet

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Speaker 2: that's cute, adorable and loving, you get yourself a rat.

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Speaker 1: A rat rat.

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Speaker 2: I had multiple pet rats, and they are so intelligent

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Speaker 2: and loving and caring.

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Speaker 1: It's so enjoyable. Rats are wonderful. I had a white

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Speaker 1: rat that was like it was going to be a labrath.

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Speaker 1: We raised it from when it's really small, where when

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Speaker 1: we were kids we thought they turned from a mouse

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Speaker 1: to a rat because they're so small and we're very

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Speaker 1: stupid children. His name was Cal Ratkin, after Cal the

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Speaker 1: Greatials baseball player. It was white with red eyes, and

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Speaker 1: we had that thing for a while and it was

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Speaker 1: a great pet.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, I just realized that my rat was

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Speaker 4: named Gus.

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Speaker 3: Boy.

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Speaker 1: This is a bombshell. Look at you.

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Speaker 4: It was named after an animal in a Disney thing.

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Speaker 4: I think. I think there's the Cinderellas. Yeah, that's a rat.

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Speaker 1: Writer.

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Speaker 4: Is that a mouse?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the cute one. He's kind of got a

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Speaker 1: dopey voice. Yeah, here we go. This is I'm on

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Speaker 1: Wikipedia dot com, which is very it's a free encyclopedia online.

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Speaker 1: You guys should check it out. It's pretty neat. They

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Speaker 1: asked for two dollars and seventy five cents every year.

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Speaker 2: Every year, and I've give, already given, and they still

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Speaker 2: ask me absolutely how many more?

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Speaker 4: Two dollars and seventy five cents. Do you need Wikipedia.

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Speaker 1: Get over yourself. Despite their common name, guinea pigs are

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Speaker 1: not native to Guinea uh, nor are they closely related

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Speaker 1: biologically to pigs. The origin of the name is still unclear,

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Speaker 1: so they don't know why they're called guinea pigs. They

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Speaker 1: originated in the Andes Mountains in South America. Studies based

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Speaker 1: on biochemistry and hybridization suggests they are domesticated animals that

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Speaker 1: do not exist naturally in the wild. They are descendants

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Speaker 1: of a closely related cavy species and were originally domesticated

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Speaker 1: as livestock.

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Speaker 4: As livestock, I think they eat them down there. People

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Speaker 4: be milking guineas.

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Speaker 1: People be milking guineas. Yeah, so it sounds like they

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Speaker 1: were not. They do not exist, as we know the

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Speaker 1: most as cute little things in nature.

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00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 4: Well you do.

662
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 2: I want to apologize to everyone who, for a moment

663
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 2: was imagining herds of guinea pigs running through a beautiful

664
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 2: alpine forest. I apologize that that never happened. But we

665
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 2: could make it happen because remember, guys, yeah we can.

666
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 2: We can put species where they don't belong because we've

667
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 2: done it for a long time. We're not a big

668
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 2: fan of invasive species.

669
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: But we do no, no, no.

670
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 2: And if we could figure out a way that we

671
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 2: could release a bunch of guinea pigs into a place

672
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 2: where they would live for more than twenty four hours,

673
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:24,800
Speaker 2: maybe that dream can be a reality. They're already putting uh,

674
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 2: they're gonna be putting uh, mammoths in the Siberia soon,

675
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 2: Is that right?

676
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 4: Mammoths?

677
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 1: That's then they're trying. Yeah, we did that in twenty twenty.

678
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:35,719
Speaker 1: And there is a company that's trying to bring back

679
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 1: Willly mammoths and they have a whole they have the DNA.

680
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:40,399
Speaker 1: I think they can do it.

681
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 4: I mean to get so much brave enough to put

682
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 4: it in an elephant?

683
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:50,359
Speaker 1: Sorry, go ahead, Yeah, they'll find somebody. They probably. Yeah,

684
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 1: and the chess player he loved.

685
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 2: Why does it exactly? You were saying, why don't they

686
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:55,919
Speaker 2: bring back the dodo bird?

687
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, they are, they are bringing what.

688
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 5: Why?

689
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 2: Like I can understand they bring in the William mamm

690
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,360
Speaker 2: back technically because they're like something about the permafrost, the tundra.

691
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 2: They needed to flip over logs or something. But why

692
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 2: a dodo bird? Isn't it like the ultimate useless animal?

693
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,239
Speaker 1: I don't know I mean, if man called I think

694
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 1: anything that man caused to extinct, if they can re

695
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: release it and let it go and then flourish. After

696
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 1: our Pittsburgh show, I stayed for I had a later

697
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: flight that day, and I didn't want to just go

698
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: to like a coffee shop or a bar and like

699
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: just kill time. I wanted to like do some Pittsburgh stuff.

700
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 1: But it was cold, it actually started snowing. I was like, okay,

701
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: I'm not going to just walk around. But I ended

702
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: up going to the National Aviary in Pittsburgh. Wow, okay,

703
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 1: it is so fun if you ever take the kids

704
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: up there, But it was I went on like a

705
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: Monday at like one pm, so it was actually really empty,

706
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: and it's all these nice older women who maybe retired

707
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,919
Speaker 1: or whatever. This is their second job. But every room

708
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 1: I walked into, it would be like myself, a parent

709
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: and child. And then one of the tour guide women

710
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,760
Speaker 1: that worked there, and I was like a lot of birds,

711
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 1: you know, and they'd be like yeah, and I'm like, well,

712
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: tell me about them, and they were like yes. They

713
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 1: were so excited to have like a solitary man and

714
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: they're pointing out all these birds. It's just such a

715
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 1: fun place to go. But in this one room, which

716
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: is like a tropical rainforest that I spent an hour

717
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,240
Speaker 1: just looking around. The woman that worked there.

718
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:31,879
Speaker 2: Wait, wait, is it that large that you can spend

719
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 2: an hour or did you really you.

720
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 1: Could easily spend an hour?

721
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 4: Oh really, it wasn't that you were like looking at

722
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 4: every leave.

723
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 1: You know. There's like five or six rooms and there's

724
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: a couple of wings. It's the only national aviary in

725
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: the United States. There are other aviaries, but this one

726
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 1: is like everything, and they have birds walking around. They

727
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 1: just walk up to you. They're on the railings. Really

728
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 1: that's pretty great. But they had these extinct in the

729
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: wild birds from Guam that I think were called rail

730
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: guam rails or rail housings or rail something, and they're

731
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:07,399
Speaker 1: kind of like little guineas and they would just run

732
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:11,359
Speaker 1: circles on the outside of the tropical rainforest room. And

733
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,879
Speaker 1: she's like, those are the only ones that we were

734
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: breeding them to try to get them back out into

735
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: the world and make them position them to be successful

736
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 1: in the wild. And I was just looking at them,

737
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:26,720
Speaker 1: like this is a Pixar movie. Why? But also, isn't

738
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 1: that so fascinating that there are these creatures that are

739
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: only there that if they do it correctly, they can

740
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,399
Speaker 1: re establish them into the real world.

741
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Speaker 4: I love it. I think it's awesome. I love that

742
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 4: so much.

743
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 2: Also, what it made me think is like I can't

744
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 2: wait to retire and be able to go and just

745
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,800
Speaker 2: work at a place where I'm paid like almost nothing,

746
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 2: but to do something like that, like where you just

747
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 2: have like three days a week from ten am to

748
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 2: four pm, I go to the Aviarreya and talk to

749
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 2: people about or whatever it is.

750
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 4: I love that idea.

751
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 1: They were so and they were awesome. These were beyond volunteers,

752
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,319
Speaker 1: like I think these were employees who really cared about

753
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 1: these birds. And they would point out the sloth. They

754
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: have one little sloth. It was balled up in the corner.

755
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 1: She's like, it's kind of rare to see it this

756
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,240
Speaker 1: time of day. Is that so? And then of course,

757
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:20,280
Speaker 1: like the last thing you see are these giant condors

758
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 1: outside in the freezing cold. They seemed to be fine,

759
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,439
Speaker 1: and they just put a box of food out there,

760
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: which is like whatever they feed them. Yeah, And you

761
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 1: just see these two baby condors just going wild, and

762
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: I was like, this is the best little like it

763
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,359
Speaker 1: was probably my favorite thing I've done post show.

764
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 4: Oh that's great.

765
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: We started doing Bananas Lives. It was so damn fun.

766
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 4: Remember when we went to that aviary or no, was

767
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:43,839
Speaker 4: it an aviary, No, it was.

768
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 2: A botanical gardens in Fort Wayne.

769
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: When that was fun.

770
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 4: That was nice, very pleasant.

771
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 1: That was fun. But it was all those there were

772
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,720
Speaker 1: school kids taking like promp or.

773
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 2: And all these moms with professional grade point and shoot cameras.

774
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, in a way that I've never seen it.

775
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,880
Speaker 2: So everyone had like the same gigantic camera and I

776
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 2: was like.

777
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:14,879
Speaker 1: These are cannon Yeah. Yeah.

778
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 4: It was like, what is this? What is happening? They

779
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 4: don't have phones. It's just so fascinating.

780
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: So our apologies to the graduating class of twenty twenty

781
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: for Kurt and I being in the twenty twenty one

782
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: for two laughable drunk faced men standing in the background

783
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: of your weird biodome photos with your prompt But they

784
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 1: were all those kids were jacked up. You could tell

785
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 1: that was the thing. Like you go there, yeah, and

786
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: you go to the flower garden and you take photos.

787
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,720
Speaker 1: Oh man, that's so good. You should join the parks Department.

788
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 1: I could you would be the greatest park range in

789
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: the history of park range.

790
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 2: I'm ready to go right now, I will retire from comedy.

791
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 4: I'm done. I'm done. I'm ready.

792
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 1: I was talking to the actress our friend, May Whitman.

793
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, I want to write something for you.

794
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:06,759
Speaker 1: What kind of character you want to play? She goes,

795
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,760
Speaker 1: I want to be a park ranger. And I was like, done.

796
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 1: I love this idea. Maybe I'll try to figure out

797
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 1: something for you in May where it's like parks and

798
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,879
Speaker 1: rec or the office park Range.

799
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:19,399
Speaker 4: I love that.

800
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 1: Who doesn't love the National Parks here. We got sent

801
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,839
Speaker 1: this by a few people, including Hero McNulty who came

802
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 1: to our Baltimore show and our Pittsburgh show. Thank you, Hero,

803
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:31,919
Speaker 1: one of the greatest names you'll ever hear in your life,

804
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: and it was.

805
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 4: He was very excited. I'm a Hero McNulty were like,

806
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 4: thank you, thank you for coming.

807
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 1: Love, It's on my list of great names. And Max Shaeffer,

808
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 1: I think it is Shaefer. If it's Shaffer, sorry. Mac

809
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 1: also sent this in thirteen year old gamer becomes the

810
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 1: first to beat the unbeatable Tetris by breaking.

811
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 4: It, and I saw this video is very adorable.

812
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: I watched it too, because I wanted to see what

813
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: happened on screen, like it's it's pretty uneventful.

814
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,839
Speaker 4: From screenwise, Yeah, screenwise.

815
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: Hey, the kid's incredible. This was in the Associated Press,

816
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:17,359
Speaker 1: written by David Hamilton, who knows falling Bricks better than

817
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 1: anybody on planet Earth. He is the best in the bees.

818
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: All right, I want the details. I want to find

819
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: out how long this took. You got it, buddy, San Francisco.

820
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 1: The Falling Block video game Tetris has finally met its

821
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: match with thirteen year old Willis Gibson name name also

822
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 1: who was who has become the first player to officially

823
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 1: beat and beat, as in quotes, the original Nintendo version

824
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:47,720
Speaker 1: of the game by breaking it technically, Willis aka blue

825
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 1: Scootie in the gaming world, Hey that should be my name,

826
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,280
Speaker 1: made it to what the gamers call a kill screen,

827
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 1: a point in which the Tetris code glitches, crashing the game.

828
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:00,880
Speaker 1: That might not sound like very much of a victory

829
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,879
Speaker 1: to anyone, thinking that only high scores count, but it's

830
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,800
Speaker 1: a highly coveted achievement in the world of video games

831
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:10,360
Speaker 1: and records involve pushing hardware and software to their limits

832
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: and beyond It's also a very big deal for players

833
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: of Tetris, which when you got the original Nintendo system

834
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,799
Speaker 1: for all of our gen Z listeners, if you were

835
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: a millennial or a gen xer, when you got Nintendo,

836
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: you either got Super Mario and Duck Hunt with the

837
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:32,480
Speaker 1: Zappra gun or you got Tetris. Yeah, and parents love Tetris.

838
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 1: Every parents played Tetris.

839
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 2: Also, there is a game movie on Netflix called Tetris,

840
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:44,399
Speaker 2: which is about the rights to sell Tetris in America,

841
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 2: and it's fascinating.

842
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 4: It's a crazy, crazy story.

843
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:52,359
Speaker 1: There's a good pitch. Check it out. It's a big

844
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 1: deal for players of Tetris, which many had long considered unbeatable. Again,

845
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,360
Speaker 1: a thirteen year old did this. That's partly because the

846
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 1: game doesn't have a scripted ending. Those four block shapes

847
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: that keep falling no matter how good you get at

848
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 1: stacking them into disappearing rows. Top players continue to find

849
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,360
Speaker 1: ways to extend their winning streaks by staying in the

850
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: game to reach higher and higher levels, but in the end,

851
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 1: the game beat them all until Willis on December twenty first,

852
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, triggered a kill screen on level one

853
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty seven.

854
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 4: Crazy.

855
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 1: In the video these blocks for anybody who's played Tetris,

856
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 1: they are falling at the fastest. Like I started giggling

857
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:35,399
Speaker 1: because I couldn't even identify the shape of the thing

858
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:39,800
Speaker 1: and he was already slamming it into place. It's wild,

859
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: Willis is that dude. Willis managed to trigger the kill

860
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: screen on level one fifty seven, which in the gaming

861
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 1: world takes over as a victory of the game, something

862
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,240
Speaker 1: along the lines of again pushing software to its limits.

863
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: The makers of Tetris agree congratulations to Blue Scoutie for

864
00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:01,760
Speaker 1: achieving this extraordinary accomplishment, to Tetris cell its fortieth anniversary

865
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: this year, and called Willis's victory a monumental achievement. Let

866
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: me see if I could find how many time how

867
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 1: long it took him?

868
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 4: And he was like live streaming too while he did it.

869
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: Yes, it's really crazy. Stack Rabbit, which managed to make

870
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: it all the way to level two thirty seven before

871
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:25,880
Speaker 1: crashing the game, rain off a modified version of TOUCHRAS

872
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 1: so that doesn't count, but that let human players take

873
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: over the task of mapping all possible scenarios that could

874
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: cause such crashes In the original game. These typically resulted

875
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:39,879
Speaker 1: when a game's decade old, decades old code lost its

876
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 1: place and began reading its next instructions from the wrong location,

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Speaker 1: which I guess to coders means somehow, to the layman

878
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Speaker 1: like me means nothing. So yeah, they had a huge

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00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 1: compilation of a large spreadsheet that detailed which game levels

880
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 1: and which specific conditions were most likely to lead to

881
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: a crash. That is what compelled our dude, Willis, who's

882
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:05,359
Speaker 1: going to be Banana of the week whether he wants to, yeah,

883
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: not to make the run for this record. Yet he

884
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 1: even appeared shocked, and he did when he crashed the

885
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 1: game at level one point fifty seven. In his livestream video,

886
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:19,800
Speaker 1: he appears to hyperventilate before gasping oh my god several times,

887
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: clutching his temples and worrying he might be passing out.

888
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 1: After cupping his hands over his mouth and an apparent

889
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:29,360
Speaker 1: attempt to regulate his breathing, he finally exclaims, I can't

890
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 1: feel my fingers.

891
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 4: He's this very much excited thirteen year old.

892
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: Yes, I don't have the amount of time it took him,

893
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:40,800
Speaker 1: but also it might not have taken that long. Those

894
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 1: blocks are falling. I think he was leveling up through.

895
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:47,240
Speaker 2: What I understood it to be was that it tapped

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00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 2: out because it got to nine hundred and ninety nine,

897
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:53,319
Speaker 2: nine hundred ninety nine, and at that point there, since

898
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 2: there's no place for the one.

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00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:56,800
Speaker 4: The code crashes.

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00:46:57,680 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: That could be true.

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00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I really could be true.

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00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: No, man, good for that kid. Congratulations Gibson, way to go,

903
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 1: thirteen years old.

904
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Speaker 4: Nailed it.

905
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 1: We can't see what you accomplished.

906
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, next, we can't wait to see what other games

907
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:14,840
Speaker 2: you destroy.

908
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 1: When I was twelve, you know, I was a September baby,

909
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:21,840
Speaker 1: so I was and my parents didn't like hold me

910
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 1: back or whatever. So I was usually like younger than

911
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: the other kids in my classes, just even by nine months.

912
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: But when you're hitting puberty.

913
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, stuff that matters a long time.

914
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 1: And when I was, it was we had a field day,

915
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,839
Speaker 1: I think in like God, I must have been six

916
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:39,840
Speaker 1: or seventh grade, so I was one of the younger

917
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 1: guys and some of the dudes that already hit puberty.

918
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 1: And field day for our penannmals around the world is

919
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:49,319
Speaker 1: like a day in American schools where you participate in

920
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,320
Speaker 1: a bunch of different games like obstacle courses or kickball

921
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:56,359
Speaker 1: or shuttle runs or whatever your school does. And you know,

922
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 1: I don't know how it goes anymore, but used to

923
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:00,800
Speaker 1: get like ribbons. It basically was the day off school

924
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 1: to get outside and exercise, and it was pretty fun.

925
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 1: And I used to be very fast. I was a

926
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:10,440
Speaker 1: very fast runners as a little banana. But I, like

927
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 1: I said, I for sure had not hit puberty. And

928
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:17,280
Speaker 1: my buddy Vinnie definitely had. He had like that horrible

929
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 1: mustache like thirteen year old boys get, and he was

930
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: just had armpit hair where you're like, well, you're a

931
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:28,360
Speaker 1: grown man. You should be eating cigars and eating whiskey

932
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:31,359
Speaker 1: all the time. And so it got to the end

933
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: of the day and the last thing was every class

934
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: would do from K to eighth at my little Catholic school,

935
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:40,800
Speaker 1: every class would do a sprint for the one hundred

936
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: yard dash. Okay, And so I got to my grade

937
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: and you know, the ten fastest people from all the

938
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:51,280
Speaker 1: groups got to go, and Vinnie and I tied for first.

939
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 1: So they were like no tie breakers, and like, you know,

940
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,359
Speaker 1: like literally the sun is starting to set, so they

941
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:58,959
Speaker 1: line us up again a second time. The whole school's watching.

942
00:48:59,080 --> 00:48:59,760
Speaker 4: Oh my God.

943
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:03,360
Speaker 1: We run again and we tie and I am running,

944
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: I am half his size and I'm just running arms

945
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: pumping as hard as i can and barely tying them.

946
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 1: And I just knew I was toasted. Like I knew

947
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 1: I couldn't beat him a third time. And so we

948
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 1: line up for the third time, and people cheering us on,

949
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 1: and like all my friends are there, and now the

950
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 1: parents are there in the parking lot watching us run

951
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 1: for a third foot race, and I just knew I

952
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 1: was going to lose. And I actually think this is

953
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 1: the exact moment I became a comedy writer. They hit

954
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 1: the air horn for us to go, and I intentionally

955
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 1: took two steps and then did a front flip and

956
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:39,280
Speaker 1: landed flat on my back and like spread my legs

957
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,879
Speaker 1: out like snow angel. And Vinnie won and he got

958
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 1: the blue ribbon and I got the red ribbon. But

959
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 1: everybody laughed so hard at me like intentionally doing this

960
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:52,800
Speaker 1: front flip and like backing. Yeah that like people didn't

961
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 1: really care that Vinnie won. Like everybody kind of came

962
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 1: over to me and like helped me up and was

963
00:49:57,440 --> 00:49:59,240
Speaker 1: laughing and patting me on the back, and the parents

964
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:01,240
Speaker 1: were like giving me the thought that was so funny,

965
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: and I think looking back, that that is the moment that, like,

966
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:09,359
Speaker 1: I realize that being funny was such what's more valuable.

967
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 4: Than anything else?

968
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 1: Fast? Yeah, yeah, than anything else. So I like chose

969
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 1: comedy in that moment over like sprinting or like, I

970
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:19,560
Speaker 1: don't know, physical achievement. I suppose and I really do

971
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:21,279
Speaker 1: think that that was a moment where I was like,

972
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:23,800
Speaker 1: make a bold choice, make a bold choice, do something crazy,

973
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:27,319
Speaker 1: do something crazy. That completely changed the direction of my

974
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: entire life.

975
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I love learning this.

976
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it was that third race with the

977
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:33,880
Speaker 1: sud setting.

978
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:36,319
Speaker 2: This is gonna be this is I can see this

979
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 2: as like a maybe chapter one of your memoir.

980
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:44,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, head over Heels chapter one. But it really was.

981
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:46,720
Speaker 1: I knew I was going to lose, so I decided

982
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 1: to win in my own dumb way and it worked.

983
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 4: Oh I love that.

984
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:54,480
Speaker 2: Take that as air lesson into twenty twenty four, folks, Hmmm,

985
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 2: we did it first bananas A twenty twenty four.

986
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, what is it like? Thank you? Yeah, but it's

987
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:04,320
Speaker 1: so good to see you. I want to go camping

988
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 1: with you, even if it's just for a night. In

989
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: the next you know month or hell.

990
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 4: I'll love to I gotta get it. I gotta get

991
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:10,280
Speaker 4: out there.

992
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 1: Yeah that's what I'm I'm hearing that you gotta get out.

993
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:14,320
Speaker 1: So let's just go up to one of the places

994
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:16,760
Speaker 1: we've been before and just do a night. Love it buddy,

995
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 1: all right. Thanks to all the bananamals. You can always

996
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:23,760
Speaker 1: leave us five star reviews on Apple, Google, Amazon, wherever

997
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 1: you get your podcast. We really really appreciate when you

998
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 1: do that. And thanks to Katie Levine, our wonderful producer

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00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 1: and engineer, Lisa Maggett our full human, part time employee,

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00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: and to everybody at Exactly Right who supports the Banana Boys.

1001
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:38,240
Speaker 1: Happy twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 4: Happy twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 5: Bananas Nice.

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00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 2: Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.

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