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Speaker 1: World us your mind.

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Speaker 1: Ba Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Bananas minisode.

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Speaker 2: Oh we got another minis. That is my favorite stand

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Speaker 2: up comedian, Kurt Brown Owler. And that is my favorite writer,

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Speaker 2: Scottie Lamb. I'll take it. I'll take it. I wrote

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Speaker 2: that for him. It sounded good.

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Speaker 1: Uh, we got your stories. This is all about you, Bananimals.

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Speaker 1: These are your stories.

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Speaker 2: I love some good minisodes. I love the minisodes. I

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Speaker 2: like to know that the world is silly and strange

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Speaker 2: and that people have taste, that are listeners, that the

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Speaker 2: great and wise Bananimals know our tone, know what we

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Speaker 2: love and share it with us joyfully.

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Speaker 1: It's really really wonderful. I'm saying, quick check in, how

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Speaker 1: you doing you good?

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Speaker 2: I'm great, I'm really good. I'm busy writing. I feel

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Speaker 2: like the great Koar is slowly evaporating and we're getting

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Speaker 2: closer and closer to the real world returning. Wait and

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Speaker 2: for our Stitcher Premium listeners who get this on Thursdays,

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Speaker 2: all of them I think are gonna slowly be released

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Speaker 2: after they've been on stitch a Premium for six months.

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Speaker 2: So I think these minisodes will start to be available

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Speaker 2: in like a month or so. We're getting close. So

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Speaker 2: thank you to everybody sign up for Stitcher Premium because

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Speaker 2: of bananas.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you are the best here. I'm gonna get you

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Speaker 3: right into one.

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Speaker 2: Scotch, do it, buddy? Okay mm hmmm.

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Speaker 1: From Whimsical femme on love her Instagram and her like

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Speaker 1: that's her handle and then her name is just a

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Speaker 1: series of flower emojis, so it was very difficult to

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Speaker 1: search what I was like, Oh no, it's just a

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Speaker 1: bunch of flowers. I just have to go through all

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Speaker 1: the messages because I can't search for these flowers flower emojis.

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Speaker 2: You just reminded me of a story, so I cannot

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Speaker 2: wait to hear this one. Okay, flower emojis. I'm actually

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Speaker 2: gonna switch my story up based on what you just said.

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Speaker 1: Alrighty, a story for you. I grew up in late

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Speaker 1: a lake community in Metro Detroit. Our house was on

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Speaker 1: lake with a lot of drunk people doing stupid shit,

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Speaker 1: and this was no different. My mom would go out

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Speaker 1: at six am to run, and one morning she went

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Speaker 1: out to find our floodlight on, could have our jeep

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Speaker 1: open and a shirtless man trying to pull the battery out.

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Speaker 3: Creepy yep, but don't worry.

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Speaker 1: It turns when he saw my mom, he started to run,

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Speaker 1: which is when my mom realized that he was completely naked.

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Speaker 3: He ran to the edge of our property. This is

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Speaker 1: He ran into the edge of our property and jumped

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Speaker 1: From the distance, the guy was swimming as fast as

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Speaker 4: Oh, completely unaware that my Bob was watching him flail

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Speaker 3: That's just she could just walk across the pits.

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Speaker 2: He can only swim like three four miles an hour.

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Speaker 1: He swam around to our backyard where a boat was

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Speaker 1: floated to shore when they ran out of gas. Oh,

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Speaker 1: they were trying to steal the battery, Mike, it would

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Speaker 2: just keeps going. It's just wait, who is the naked

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Speaker 3: So? So it was a couple and a buddy.

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Speaker 1: Okay, they got wasted. The man who was in the

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Speaker 1: couple went to steal a battery because that's the things

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Speaker 1: have you know, they think that their boat doesn't work

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Speaker 1: because of a battery. Oh boy, And then the buddy

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Speaker 2: You know, that's right.

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Speaker 1: I So we'd used to do this thing in New

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Speaker 1: And this was all about, like it was all based

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Speaker 1: Walk, car, train, boat and bus. The boat was always

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Speaker 2: On deep Deep Brooklyn for our listeners, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Deep Deep Brooklyn, and we get on a fishing boat.

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Speaker 1: Then at six am we go out and we watch

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Speaker 3: Uh. And I was fishing. We're all fishing sandy too.

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Speaker 2: You've been up all night.

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Speaker 1: You got a fish, fishing, drinking some beers and uh.

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Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, I catch something and

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Speaker 1: And I'm like and the guy's like, okay, let it go, now,

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Speaker 1: And then I finally pull it up out of the

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Speaker 1: the nineteen fifty what. Yes, and I have hooked where

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Speaker 3: That is what is hooked on the fucking thing. And

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Speaker 3: I was like, I caught a desk. I caught a desk,

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Speaker 1: And then the guy who runs who like was like

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we know, we know that the Hudson River and

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Speaker 2: the East River are the most disgusting rivers in the world.

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Speaker 3: Fingers Cross.

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Speaker 2: I was fishing one night in Pensacola Beach with Rusty Steel,

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Speaker 3: That's amazing, and.

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Speaker 2: He is a third He said, if you ever had

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Speaker 2: and then just Calm Quattro, which I always thought was

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Speaker 2: he has a boat, his parents, he's from down there.

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Speaker 2: So he's like, do you want to go shark fishing?

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Speaker 2: was like, yes, we do. So we go to Walmart

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Speaker 3: You can. I bought a I chum at Walmart.

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Speaker 2: Frozen chum. Yeah, gall breeze. And then I had to

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Speaker 2: And so then we go to this this little fishing

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Speaker 2: and there's this picture of a make a shark and

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Speaker 2: And again we've been drinking all night. Now it's like

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Speaker 2: catch that? And he goes in the water and I

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Speaker 2: go okay, what where in the water? He goes in

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Speaker 2: a boat and I go okay, so you're in a

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Speaker 2: boat in the water. What body of water? He goes

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Speaker 2: near Pensacola? I got and so this guy just slowly

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Speaker 2: And then I realized that it's like why am I?

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Speaker 2: pirate Cheesecake story. Great story. What's so funny? It was

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