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Speaker 2: Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 2: It's like a vacation for me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. You get to just inhale, You get to Inhale

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Speaker 1: and say bananas. It's gonna be great. Here we go.

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Speaker 1: Taiwanese man marries woman four times, divorces her three times,

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm excited about this one because you know why,

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Speaker 2: because that's definitely bananas. I still world, would you it's

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Speaker 2: your mind? Well, Sillian pieces would Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome

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Speaker 2: to Bananas. I am your host, Curtie b.

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Speaker 1: I am the other one, Scottie Landis, and boy, we

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Speaker 1: are excited. Spring has sprung. I'm drinking way more water.

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Speaker 1: I'm following in your footsteps. Now it's too much water.

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Speaker 1: I'm drinking too much water. Some might argue, but uh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: things are good. How you feel You're feeling good? Good?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just been gorgeous. The birds are tweeting.

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Speaker 1: Oh, the birds love tweet.

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Speaker 2: Groundhogs are rooting, and I mean that in the Australian

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Speaker 1: And today is a solo episode, just you and me

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Speaker 2: Yeah, buddy, I'm excited to hear about this, what you're

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Speaker 2: talking about, because that is the that is the beauty

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Speaker 2: No, hey, we get right into it. We get is

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Speaker 2: there a story to be covered? We're gonna fucking cover it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I didn't just make that headline up. There's a story.

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Speaker 1: This was sent in by Furkeining, which sounds dirty. I

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Speaker 1: sent in stuff before on Instagram, on the Bananas podcast

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Speaker 1: at Insta Graham you heard of it. I'll give you

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Speaker 1: that title again. Oh and it's from a website that

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Speaker 1: But I saw it a bunch of places. No writer.

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Speaker 1: So worse than the business. Taiwanese man marries a woman

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Speaker 1: to enjoy thirty two days of paid vacation. This is

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Speaker 1: from Koala Lumpur. Never been there, would love to visit

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Speaker 1: a Taiwanese man has taken the extreme measure of marrying

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Speaker 1: That's right. So this man, they just they don't say

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Speaker 2: It works. Finally, bureaucracy works for the little guy.

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Speaker 1: states person introduced that you should only that marriages should

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Speaker 1: only last seven years. And at that seven year mark, wait,

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Speaker 1: or amicley walk away with legally walk away time out?

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Speaker 2: Time out? Yes, you do realize that this this was

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Speaker 1: No, I did. Well, she might have ripped you off,

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Speaker 2: If anyone goes and listens to the episode What I

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Speaker 1: Well, I vote stay together. And also, anybody that listened

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Speaker 2: It's turtles all the way down. All right, give me

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Speaker 2: Two things. Two thanks Scotty. We all know that I'm

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Speaker 1: Chryl Patton, who lives in the town of Hamburg or Hamburg,

435
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 1: said she was shocked to learn the man driving by

436
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 1: her home every night to throw litter on her property

437
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:46,040
Speaker 1: was a grown man who had beef with her. You

438
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:50,119
Speaker 1: don't want beef driving bye. I assumed it was a

439
00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 1: walk by toss. This is a drive by. It it's

440
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:56,440
Speaker 1: a at night. It's a nightly drive by toss. This

441
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 1: person is unined.

442
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,200
Speaker 2: He saves them every he has his coffee in the

443
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,280
Speaker 2: morning and then drive. That's great, Okay, I'm cutting out.

444
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:05,400
Speaker 2: The nemesis is dark.

445
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 1: The suspect, identified as seventy six year old Larry Pope,

446
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 1: was charged with harassment and sighted with throwing refuse onto

447
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:19,399
Speaker 1: a roadway, a traffic infraction. According to the Buffalo News,

448
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:20,639
Speaker 1: Thank you Buffalo News.

449
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:22,640
Speaker 2: It does nothing. That is nothing.

450
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 1: The hundreds of dirty coffee cups Pope is accused of

451
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,439
Speaker 1: throwing in the couple's property over the years almost always

452
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,679
Speaker 1: came from McDonald's and sometimes had a cigarette butt or

453
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,920
Speaker 1: a napkin in it. Oh, Larry, you jerk. The couple

454
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:40,400
Speaker 1: said they did everything they could to catch the messterious driver.

455
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 1: I don't agree with that because it seems very easy

456
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,359
Speaker 1: to catch somebody within three years. Yeah, but you know,

457
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,200
Speaker 1: just hire a local kid with a iPhone.

458
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 2: Put up a ring doorbell.

459
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. There's one dummy. The first set

460
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,160
Speaker 1: of security camera up in a tree. Then they bought

461
00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,359
Speaker 1: high powered binoculars, which is the funniest thing on the world.

462
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 1: Bat'll get them, and they started hiding outside on cold nights.

463
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: But none of these strategies gave them a clear view

464
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 1: of the license plate. So Sheryld and her husband, Edward Patten,

465
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 1: initially thought it was somebody's poor attempt at a prank.

466
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 1: I mean, we do get a lot of these stories

467
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 1: about people getting sending gifts and mail and leaving ban

468
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,680
Speaker 1: appeals and jars of yurn and behind SketchUp bottles. This happens.

469
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:28,200
Speaker 1: So the couple began collecting the debris and filling ten

470
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: garbage bags full of debris. So they asked out their

471
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 1: neighbors to help catch the minivan driver, got the license

472
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 1: plate number, which they shared with Hamburg police cops set

473
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 1: up their own surveillance operation. I mean, this must have

474
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: been so fun for the locals just to be like,

475
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:50,120
Speaker 1: the whole neighborhood is doing recon surveillance surveillance. Yeah, this

476
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 1: is like another stakeout. So think about where.

477
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 2: You have to store ten garbage bags of trash. Yeah,

478
00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 2: as evidence on her also for like a nothing charge. Yes,

479
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 2: he gets a littering on the highway charge. It's just

480
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 2: a traffic infraction.

481
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 1: Like it's pretty such a stupid invasion of space. Like

482
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: my dad's a very patient, kind man, and the maddest

483
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: I've ever seen him as a child was whenever somebody

484
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 1: would rip down his Christmas lights that he hung up,

485
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: it was I mean, they might as well have ripped

486
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,280
Speaker 1: out his soul. And so it's just something about people

487
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 1: trashing your yard that is so infuriating. So the connection,

488
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 1: as Cheryl told the newspaper, that the suspect used to

489
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,160
Speaker 1: work with her at a bus company where she also

490
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: served as a union officer, so that might be something.

491
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: We're pro union and two colleagues disagreed on numerous union

492
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 1: related issues. Pope insulted and threatened her. But now, for

493
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 1: the first time in years, the couple's front yard is

494
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,160
Speaker 1: finally clear to bree quote. It's a huge relief, says

495
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 1: Cheryl Patton. Oh my gosh, Larry Pope, you big dork.

496
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 2: I mean, like that's so like it is just proof

497
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:59,919
Speaker 2: that like if you don't do the work, you just

498
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,120
Speaker 2: don't fucking grow up. Like he's a seventy six year

499
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 2: old man.

500
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: That's a great point.

501
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:08,160
Speaker 2: Who is doing this every single day like this day,

502
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 2: like so much fucking time and efforts of his life.

503
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's losing. Ultimately, he's losing. He's a jerker. Yes,

504
00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: all that anger, that bitterness he can't let go of.

505
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,920
Speaker 1: It is poison in his in his body, in his mind.

506
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: What an idiot.

507
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is gonna die from hatred.

508
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 1: Remember soon, Remember my I won't name him by name,

509
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: and I'm almost positive I've never talked about him on

510
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 1: the pop. But remember that one roommate I had in

511
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 1: Brooklyn before Chris, who was just wired a different way

512
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 1: is probably a nice way. And remember you wrote an

513
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: article for Overflow magazine once which was like a I

514
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 1: think red hook base and then I think he recommended

515
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 1: me and I wrote an article. And so I'm gonna

516
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 1: call that roommate Zayn. That is not his real name.

517
00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: Love it.

518
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 2: It's a great It's actually a perfect name for him.

519
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: Yes, I will. As Bananas moves forward, I maybe have

520
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 1: fifteen banana stories about living with this one person for

521
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: less than one year, but at his peak of at

522
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 1: first he was in school, and so I lived with

523
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: it He had one roommate in Brooklyn. It was two

524
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 1: bedroom places and I hired. I got this kid, I

525
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: think off a Craigslist and he was young, and he

526
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: was aspiring actor like many people in New York, and

527
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: so for a long time he was in acting school.

528
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: So when he first moved in, I wouldn't see him

529
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: Monday to Friday, and they would go out the other

530
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: actors afterwards. It was the greatest living situation for New

531
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: Yorker ever. I basically didn't have a roommate, but somebody's

532
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: splitting the rent. So anyway, as long story short, as

533
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:48,320
Speaker 1: soon as he stopped acting, he was just going out

534
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: on all these auditions and trying to get into Juilliard

535
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: and doing all these things.

536
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 2: Secondly, yes, when you say acting class, did he go

537
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 2: to the New York Film Academy.

538
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 1: Oh, he did go to the New York Film Academy,

539
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: and he lied and told me he got a full scholarship,

540
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 1: which is something that does not or did not exist

541
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 1: at that time.

542
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:08,280
Speaker 2: Because it's not a real school. I used to teach

543
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 2: at the New York Film Accademy really many years.

544
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 1: You know, and you handed up all those scholarships.

545
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 2: What it is called it is called an uncredited institution.

546
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: Y it's good. It's a good starting point. We're not

547
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: going to have to.

548
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 2: I taught improv there, so you would get if when

549
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 2: I was teaching there, you definitely got an improv class.

550
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 2: I don't know what else you got.

551
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: So what I'm saying Zayane was trying to make an

552
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: impact on this world. He was trying to leave his

553
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 1: mark on New York City. And what he started to

554
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: do was he started to forget to flush the toilet

555
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: after having a sit down after a s So he's

556
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 1: so the first one, the first one, I think I

557
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 1: think he would. I think he would do his bathroom

558
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: business and then take a sh hour afterwards, which is

559
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 1: debatable online all the time, which which route to go there?

560
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: So the first one, number one and number two I

561
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: considered warning shots of a busy mind and a young

562
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: person trying to make it. So I just flushed him

563
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: and moved on. Number three caught me so off guard

564
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: in the middle of the day. It was so upsetting.

565
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: I just texted him kind of kindly. You know me,

566
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 1: I'm very patient. I'm incredibly patient with people, especially, but

567
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 1: I can sit and watch the paint dry. So I

568
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,600
Speaker 1: texted him kindly, Hey, could you try and flush more?

569
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 1: He responded with but even the most patient person can

570
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: have a trigger, And he responded with I did no,

571
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 1: So at this point he's my mortal enemy. At this point,

572
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: anything he could get struck by lightning. And I be like,

573
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: that's interesting, I'll move his stuff up into you.

574
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 2: Flushed the toilet, yeah, trying wish any would ever text

575
00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 2: you saying flush the toilet. There's no, It's not a

576
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 2: thing that would ever need to be brought up.

577
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 1: No. So then I was wait. I was a waiter

578
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: at the time. So number four I recall just going

579
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: to work. I had to pee, and I was like, well,

580
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: I guess we'll just pee at work. So I ride

581
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: the F train and go to two Boots and start working.

582
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: Then number five was a doozy uh that I left

583
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: unflushed uh, And I taped a sign. I printed my

584
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: computer in giant like forty two and or forty two

585
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: sized fine, thanks again, pal, and taped it to the

586
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 1: toilet and left it and then went and slept at

587
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: my then girlfriend's house. So he had to deal with

588
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: that one on his own way. The next one, number six,

589
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 1: I type another side number six, sit down, that was

590
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: I mean, at some point you take it personally. He

591
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: swore it was.

592
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 2: Yeah.

593
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: So number six, I was in my room, listened to music,

594
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: reading and I left it for him, and I heard

595
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: his footsteps coming down the hall, his bag dropping on

596
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: the floor. I hear the bathroom door swing open, and

597
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: then I hear the hushed, like terrified horror movie voice

598
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 1: just of him going, oh no, he saw what you did.

599
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: And then he stood outside my door. I could see

600
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: his feet under the gap under my door, and I

601
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 1: could tell you when to apologize or knock, and then

602
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: he just goes into his room, doesn't apologize. So it

603
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: just goes so insane. So it got to ten. I'll

604
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: jump to the end. It got to number ten, and

605
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 1: I finally had to make my stand. I was dating

606
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: somebody who thought it was the grossest thing in the world,

607
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: and honestly, it was very gross, and so number ten.

608
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 1: I took a photo of it and I printed it,

609
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: and then I went into his room and took one

610
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 1: of his headshots and I taped them next to each

611
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: other on the toilet tank, and then I wrote in

612
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: sharpie handwritten zay, if you don't flush your shit ever again.

613
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: I will email everyone I know, put it on Facebook, MySpace,

614
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: dates it a little bit uh and say his full

615
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:11,760
Speaker 1: name never flushes his toilet. And this it worked, It worked,

616
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 1: the social media shame of it all. He apologized to me,

617
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,800
Speaker 1: he begged me not to post it on social media,

618
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: and it never ever happened again. But it was a saga.

619
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: It was a two month It's aged me. Any gray

620
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 1: hairs I have are from Zain just leaving the time bombs.

621
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 1: But that, oh no, that, oh no. It was like

622
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 1: he walked in on an alien autopsy. It was like

623
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:36,399
Speaker 1: one of my.

624
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,280
Speaker 2: It just seems to be like I can't even begin

625
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 2: to imagine how it happens once. Do you know what

626
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 2: I mean? Like it's mortified, grained, it's such an ingrained

627
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 2: experience of like it's just muscle memory. Do you know

628
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 2: what I mean? It's muscle memory. You finished, you flush.

629
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:00,399
Speaker 1: It's common courtesy. Some might say too, if I left

630
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 1: like a dirty dish at somebody's house and they mentioned it,

631
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: I would like buy them new flatwear. I'd be like,

632
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:07,879
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, but.

633
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 2: This is this is I don't want to I don't

634
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 2: want to talk too much about this, but this is

635
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 2: very funny. From early on in my relationship with Lauren,

636
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 2: I lived in a studio apartment in Brooklyn, very small place.

637
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 2: There was a bathroom, yes, I had to use the bathroom,

638
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 2: absolutely bathroom. And then I lit a match, which I

639
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 2: always found to be a great a great solution to

640
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 2: any lingering problems. Classic little match came out and I

641
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:42,399
Speaker 2: will never forget this. She's sitting at my table and

642
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 2: she just goes, hmm, what are you cooking.

643
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 1: That?

644
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 2: I was just like, I just took a ship and

645
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 2: lit a match. I started laughing so hard that you

646
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:05,879
Speaker 2: knew she was the ones somebody's She said, sir, it's

647
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 2: been quokd okay, here we go.

648
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: You ready into the cleaner realm in life. But zaying,

649
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: I hope you're living out there and learned your lesson. Well,

650
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:16,439
Speaker 1: my good friend.

651
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Speaker 2: This was sent in Contact me Yes. This was sent

652
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 2: in by Alex on Instagram a mussing. This is from

653
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Speaker 2: art World by uh the b I B Sarah Casco.

654
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 1: Oh sign me up, Sarah.

655
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 2: A couple accidentally defaced a five hundred thousand dollars painting

656
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:45,760
Speaker 2: in Soul after mistaking it for a participatory art work.

657
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 2: Oh boy, so read the whole thing. But was and

658
00:36:53,480 --> 00:37:00,399
Speaker 2: you we'll show it, we'll post the art. I can't. Yeah,

659
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 2: So this is the The artist is an American artist.

660
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 2: His name is John One, and he did this piece

661
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 2: and Soul supposed to be worth five hundred thousand dollars.

662
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 2: It's this is here. It is a couple visiting street

663
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 2: art exhibition and a mall and Soul aunknowingly vandalized an

664
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 2: abstract painting by American artist John One, said be worth

665
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 2: five hundred thousand dollars, painting three large dark splotches across

666
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 2: its surface. The couple was confused by the array of

667
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 2: brushes and paint tubes scattered on the ground beneath the canvas.

668
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,760
Speaker 2: They were meant to reflect the creative process of the artists,

669
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,719
Speaker 2: but the unwinning paramis took the display for an invitation

670
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,879
Speaker 2: to add their work. Yes, so they just thought like, oh,

671
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 2: this is like a thing communit. What this guy does

672
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 2: is it's like it's essentially it's very Jackson pollocky, but

673
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 2: even like more disorganized than Jackson Pollock. It's essentially every

674
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 2: color in the rainbow just thrown on a wall. It's

675
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 2: just a mess.

676
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay.

677
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 2: And then they have a picture of the before, and

678
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 2: they have a picture of the after vandalization.

679
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 1: Could tell.

680
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 2: I cannot tell. I cannot tell at all where they

681
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 2: supposedly did something. Because it's just a bunch of it

682
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 2: would make sense. I totally understand this couple. They came

683
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 2: up and they found just what looked like random smears

684
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:24,280
Speaker 2: of every color in the rainbow. Yeah, of course, and

685
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:26,280
Speaker 2: with a bunch of paint underneath.

686
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:26,800
Speaker 1: Of course.

687
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 2: It looks like just a bunch of random strangers did this.

688
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:31,240
Speaker 1: That sounds so fun.

689
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 2: It's so fun. I'm on their side. I can understand. Oh,

690
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 2: I finally saw it. I finally saw the little little splotch.

691
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,240
Speaker 2: I think it makes it better. I think it should

692
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 2: be worth seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

693
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 1: I agree.

694
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 2: Modern art is so fucking weird. The fact that that

695
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 2: is five hundred thousand dollars blows my mind. Yes, like

696
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:58,240
Speaker 2: that's I think. As comedians and writers, when you see

697
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 2: something like this, Yes, it's like we the thing that

698
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:05,439
Speaker 2: we have to make has to make sense. It has

699
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 2: to it has to it has to make people laugh,

700
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So there is like a

701
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 2: very there. There is like you could read something or

702
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:15,399
Speaker 2: you can see something and you can be like that

703
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 2: is good. When I watch it, I laughed, you know what.

704
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,839
Speaker 2: I very it's a concrete artistic experience.

705
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 1: I totally agree.

706
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 2: It's just a fucking mess. And then this couple added

707
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 2: more of a mess to it. Fucking great. Yes, I

708
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 2: love it, Yes, I love it. The fact that this

709
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 2: guy got five hundred thousand dollars for this. I'm sure

710
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 2: he's an incredibly talented manure john one, but who cares that?

711
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 2: I am all. I'm fired up.

712
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,479
Speaker 1: If you walk away from a giant, if you leave

713
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: a giant painting outside and open cans of paint, yes,

714
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,760
Speaker 1: with paint on the floor, you better believe I'm painting

715
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: that thing. I'm drawing all kinds of crazy stuff. I'm

716
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 1: playing mash. I'm doing a whole mash. I'm doing mash.

717
00:39:56,800 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 2: And look, and now that I've yelled about it, looking

718
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 2: at it, it is very pretty. I do kind of funny.

719
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 2: It's growing on me. I've looking, I've been yelling about

720
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 2: it and looking at it, and I kind of do

721
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,359
Speaker 2: like it. I'm not spending five hundred thousand dollars on it.

722
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:16,759
Speaker 1: No, either. I was at the Whitney Biennial ones, which

723
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,359
Speaker 1: is like big. It was so fun. My friend Rachel

724
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 1: used to get me in there all the time. And

725
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 1: I went into this one room and that's like just

726
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: a giant gallery museum. It's a giant museum that does

727
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: I guess a yearly or whatever by any every two years.

728
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: I guess that means every two years, who knows. Anymore,

729
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: they do.

730
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 2: A big artience twice a year.

731
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 1: Maybe means choicer. Who knows. Maybe it's only bisexual artists

732
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: that would have been preferable.

733
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 2: Honestly, bisexual millennials.

734
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean, if you're a millennial, might as well

735
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:50,320
Speaker 1: become an artist. They would do these things, and sometimes

736
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 1: the art was so astounding it would blow your mind

737
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: and I still think of some of the art forever.

738
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 1: Other times you see modern art and it is the

739
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 1: most confusing thing you've ever seen in your life. I

740
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:02,760
Speaker 1: took our friend Anthony Batista once. I think Anthony listens

741
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 1: to the pod and I walk in this one room.

742
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 1: It's a white gallery space. There is a chain attached

743
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: to a long branch that all the almos said feathers.

744
00:41:14,040 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: All the feathers have been taken off the branch. All

745
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 1: the leaves have been taken off the branch and it

746
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,800
Speaker 1: was painted completely red and it hung by a chain

747
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: and then kind of rotated sort of as people moved

748
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 1: in and out. That was it. That was the whole room,

749
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:31,840
Speaker 1: huge space, the equivalent of a ten thousand dollars size

750
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: per month Manhattan apartment. Instead, we have a giant red

751
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 1: log on a chain, just kind of turning slowly, and

752
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it, thinking this is bullshit. And then

753
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:46,360
Speaker 1: all these art world snobs are looking at it and

754
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 1: beholding it and pointing at it and critiquing it and

755
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: just whispering hushed their stounded and so I'm kind of

756
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 1: like just looking down at the ground like, well, I'm

757
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: obviously I'm not an artist. I don't understand. And then

758
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:05,359
Speaker 1: I just hear a voice go, how is this art?

759
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:08,240
Speaker 1: And I look up and it's Anthony And he hadn't

760
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:11,359
Speaker 1: even entered the room. He said it from another from

761
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: the hallway and then walks in the room, smiling and

762
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: laughing at me, and it's like all clutching the pearls

763
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 1: of the art world. But yeah, just how he said

764
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 1: what any normal person was thinking. And from that day forward,

765
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 1: I hear Anthony's voice going how is this art? Whenever

766
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 1: anybody goes, oh, look at this, and in my head,

767
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:33,760
Speaker 1: I go, how is this art? We've all been there.

768
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 2: We've been I love it. And also just you know,

769
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:40,919
Speaker 2: I realized too that my screed against modern art is

770
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 2: is you know, I recognize that like people like Jackson Pollock,

771
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 2: especially when he did what he did, Yeah, because revolutionary

772
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 2: doing it in twenty twenty one on a wall. I

773
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 2: don't think is that revolutionary anymore?

774
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 1: Nope? But what were love?

775
00:42:57,920 --> 00:42:59,959
Speaker 2: I love art. I love going to weird art exit

776
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 2: art exhibitions I do. And you know what, when I

777
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 2: see something super stupid, uh it does? It makes me chuckle,

778
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 2: It makes me laugh. I enjoy it.

779
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,360
Speaker 1: I like it too, Like those public piano.

780
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 2: Modifications when i's the money.

781
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:14,360
Speaker 1: You like those who like a piano just in the

782
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: middle of nowhere that they're just like, play it if

783
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:19,359
Speaker 1: you know how to play. I like that. I love those.

784
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: There was one in Vancouver right down when I lived

785
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:23,880
Speaker 1: in Vancouver doing that one show. I was there for

786
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:25,760
Speaker 1: six weeks and there was a piano right up the street,

787
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 1: right outside of a bakery, in a cafe and kind

788
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:31,320
Speaker 1: of in the main drag and uh, it was just

789
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,759
Speaker 1: a beautiful piano and people would play it all day,

790
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 1: just random people would walk by and start playing and

791
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:37,959
Speaker 1: love that. Sometimes it was cute, it was little kids.

792
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 1: Sometimes it was a cat and the wor Instagram got

793
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 1: a million likes. And sometimes there was somebody that sat

794
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 1: there and just quietly played beautiful piano music. And it

795
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 1: makes you realize that every little kid, even though they

796
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: hates it, should probably take piano lessons. But it was beautiful.

797
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 2: I love that. I love it. I remember my This

798
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 2: reminded me of something my uncle heard of him. He

799
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 2: was he's a strange He's kind of a strange bird.

800
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 2: I have two very strange bird uncles. And he was

801
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:11,240
Speaker 2: always like obsessed with like he he was obsessed with wealth,

802
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 2: do you know what I mean? He was obsessed with

803
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 2: the idea of wealth. He was obsessed with making people

804
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 2: think he was wealthy at all times.

805
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:18,800
Speaker 1: Was it was?

806
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 2: It kind of was depressing, you know, Like he really

807
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 2: loved he loved casinos, you know, and he loved like flashes.

808
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:26,959
Speaker 1: You don't think rich, un.

809
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:31,360
Speaker 2: You don't, you really don't. So he he bought this,

810
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 2: I'm assuming he bought it in like South beach in Miami.

811
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: Oh boy, it was a.

812
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 2: A flamingo, a wooden carved, wooden flamingo stuck stuck into

813
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 2: a base of driftwood.

814
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: And nothing like driftwood the future.

815
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 2: And he bought two of them, and and he left

816
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 2: them at my mom's house. And so eventually my mom

817
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 2: was like, I don't want these fucking things, like you

818
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 2: want to put one in your room or whatever? And

819
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 2: I was like, this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

820
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: Yes, yes I will.

821
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:15,439
Speaker 2: And so we had it in my room. We would

822
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 2: always make fun of it, and then we were like,

823
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:19,320
Speaker 2: you know, it was like it was like twenty or so,

824
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 2: coming home from college and just getting really into like

825
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 2: being an artist, you know what I mean.

826
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:29,399
Speaker 1: Like I was like, you gotta have pieces in your home. Yeah.

827
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 2: We were like we were smoking cigarettes and just like

828
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 2: painting like this maybe it's high school more, but like

829
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 2: just painting on the walls of my room, you know

830
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:41,879
Speaker 2: what I mean, really just being like we are bohemian, yeah,

831
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 2: and we don't understand a fucking thing about the world. No,

832
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 2: And so we like altered this, like we taped a

833
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:53,880
Speaker 2: cigarette in its mouth. Okay, we painted it. We spray

834
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,320
Speaker 2: painted it. We gave it like a mohawk es like

835
00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 2: there was like a like a pack of cigarettes coming out,

836
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 2: like we made a pack of cigarettes for its like

837
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 2: shirt quote unquote shirt pocket. I like this and like

838
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 2: painted all over it. And so then it was like

839
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,560
Speaker 2: this punk rock flamingo smoking a cigarette.

840
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 1: Yes.

841
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 2: And then I come to find out that it's worth

842
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 2: ten dollars and my mom was like, oh, what did

843
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 2: you do with that flamingo? Jimmy's asking about it.

844
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, uh, ell, ten thousand dollars to

845
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: you at that time would have been like one hundred

846
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, yes, yes, oh.

847
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would have yeah forever. I would have just

848
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:34,399
Speaker 2: been like, I have enough money for forever now.

849
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: Oh god. I had a lacrosse coach in Maryland who

850
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 1: once got drunk and told me that he bought Microsoft early.

851
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:44,760
Speaker 1: And he was at a bar and Reister's down Maryland

852
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 1: and the sky leans over. He goes, you want to

853
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:48,320
Speaker 1: stock tip Microsoft. So he bought I don't know a

854
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 1: thousand dollars worth and he had a young family and

855
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: he sold it for thirty six thousand, and I was like,

856
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 1: I hope you never like did the math? He goes, Oh,

857
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 1: I did the math, He goes, I would have had

858
00:46:56,880 --> 00:47:00,320
Speaker 1: nine million dollars. Yeah, he just sold it hard to

859
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 1: dip a little bit in what in the eighties or whenever,

860
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: and he was like, well, I've made thirty five thousand dollars.

861
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: This is a win. But he was like an early

862
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 1: investor Microsoft. Oh boy, whatever happened to the Flamingo?

863
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 2: I think I threw it out?

864
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 1: Did you repaint it pink?

865
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 2: It was never pink. That was the craziest part about it.

866
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 2: It was like wood color and it was like veneered,

867
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 2: so it was like reflective.

868
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: Wood color varnished.

869
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's cool varnished. So yeah, no, I

870
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:32,879
Speaker 2: think I threw it out in the same like when

871
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 2: we were leaving college. It was at like my our

872
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 2: college house that we lived in twenty seven thirty one

873
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 2: Maryland Avenue, how about it, remember the address in Baltimore,

874
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:45,359
Speaker 2: And yeah, threw it out. I think in that way

875
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 2: of like we are leaving college, we must just throw

876
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 2: out everything that is in this house because we none

877
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 2: of us can take it anywhere, so we don't have homes.

878
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: But also do that you know, all the young ban

879
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: animals out there, if you're if you're under the age

880
00:47:57,080 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: of twenty five, paint on your walls, smoke with your friends,

881
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 1: give it up. But you know, have fun, drink absence,

882
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:05,959
Speaker 1: pull out some canvases, have a good time.

883
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:08,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not gonna do it later.

884
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 1: You won't. You're gonna look at that later and be like,

885
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 1: this was a horrible idea. I'm going to bed. It's

886
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: ten pm, all.

887
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 2: Right, I give you one.

888
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:20,879
Speaker 1: Uh, maybe this might be the last. We'll see. We'll

889
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:23,800
Speaker 1: wrap it up pretty soon. We'll see you may go

890
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:28,839
Speaker 1: out two. What's the more fun one? It's kind of cool.

891
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 2: Get us a good fun one.

892
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 1: This one's kind of funka. This was sitting by Anna

893
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 1: aka a doubtful guest on Instagram. AKA and a banana

894
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:40,359
Speaker 1: so we know we love an ana banana.

895
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:42,359
Speaker 2: Kurb Oh hell yeah. Uh.

896
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: This is from the BBC News. BBC News. We've said

897
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 1: this many times. They just credit the staff. Maybe it's

898
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 1: a better way to do it, BBC. Maybe we want

899
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 1: to know who's typing this thing.

900
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:55,720
Speaker 2: Maybe BBC stands for best in the biz company.

901
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:58,880
Speaker 1: Well, nobody's ever said that before, but we're breaking it

902
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: right here. Breaking news. The Suez Canal blockage blamed for

903
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:06,840
Speaker 1: a Garden Gnome shortage.

904
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 2: Are you kidding me?

905
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 1: Big time? Big time? So we all know that giant

906
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:17,440
Speaker 1: tanker was stuck in the Suez Canal for a long time.

907
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 1: It's since been three weeks ago.

908
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 2: After drawing a dick with their GPS. Did you know

909
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 2: about that?

910
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,319
Speaker 1: I did? And if you didn't, google immature. I showed

911
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: it to Molly. I showed it to your manager and

912
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 1: she was like, why is everybody talking about this? I'm like, well,

913
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:33,880
Speaker 1: before they got stuck, they drew a perfect penis with

914
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 1: a giant tanker barge before going into the canal. It's

915
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 1: incredible the Suez Canal. I had no idea where it was.

916
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: By the way, supply chain issues of the popular garden

917
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:50,239
Speaker 1: center Gnome during lockdown are causing a shortage internationally. The

918
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 1: ornaments are in short supply. I've never owned a garden home.

919
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:57,320
Speaker 1: I think coming off your Flamingo, I thought Gardenome naturally,

920
00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 1: what a connection. Yeah, we're all sa maybe this is

921
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 1: our year. I'm gonna dress like a garden Nome for Holloway.

922
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:08,719
Speaker 2: That's a great.

923
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 1: I decided I'll go with your kids. I don't have kids.

924
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:13,879
Speaker 1: I'll walk with your kids dressed as a garden home.

925
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 2: So it just means that what you're gonna have a

926
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:19,760
Speaker 2: hat and a beard on, You're gonna look like Santa Claus.

927
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a dunce cap, a big fat belly,

928
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:24,480
Speaker 1: maybe some leader hosen or something.

929
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:27,239
Speaker 2: Uh oh yeah, yeah, and it does have a dunce cap, right,

930
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 2: they do wear those weird pointy hats.

931
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:32,279
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll put my cheeks, I'll put some rouge on

932
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 1: my cheeks and yeah, all that, I'll look like a

933
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: weird dunce German type of Santa Um. The ornaments are

934
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:43,879
Speaker 1: and short supply and raw materials for them are hard

935
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 1: to come by. After the recent blockage of the Suez Canal,

936
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 1: uh Ian Byrne, who has the most British name in

937
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:54,799
Speaker 1: the world as assistant manager of Highfield Garden World in Witminster,

938
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: said that there had been a massive upswing in the

939
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 1: sale of garden gnomes. We haven't seen a garden gnome

940
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:06,359
Speaker 1: in six months now, unfortunately, he says. Mister Burns said

941
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:10,279
Speaker 1: garden centers haven't experienced a boom and their popularity is

942
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: causing I think it's the great koar. People were like,

943
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 1: let's make our garden. Let's make our yard look cool,

944
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 1: let's landscape, let's get some gnomes out there to freak

945
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,920
Speaker 1: out the kids. But the popularity of garden homes is

946
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 1: causing issues with the availability quote. There aren't any gnomes.

947
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 1: There's definitely a shortage. So gardenoms sales our garden centers

948
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,479
Speaker 1: around the world and in England were up ninety seven

949
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:39,799
Speaker 1: percent from twenty nineteen, so clearly a correlation here. Every

950
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 1: day has been like a bank holiday brag. That's that's good,

951
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:46,840
Speaker 1: but definitely causing some issues because it's not just English

952
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,360
Speaker 1: garden centers that are booming, it's all of Europe and

953
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 1: around the world. It's causing issues with the supply chain.

954
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:55,359
Speaker 1: Garden homes of any type plastic, stone or concrete. I'll

955
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 1: let Olive decide which one I'm going to be are

956
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 1: in very short supply. They've been extremely popular over the

957
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,920
Speaker 1: last couple of seasons and we've seen a massive upswing

958
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 1: in the sales of nomes. It's definitely a different clientele. Kurt,

959
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 1: tell me what clientele is suddenly want in garden homes.

960
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:15,719
Speaker 1: I don't know, uh, I bet you it's millennial millennials,

961
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 1: the artists of the seam with goods arriving from a

962
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:23,240
Speaker 1: broad garden centers have been affected, and with the ship

963
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:27,960
Speaker 1: getting stuck in the canal, garden furniture, especially ornaments of

964
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 1: which gnomes would be called. But that's the quote, by

965
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 1: the way, I'm not just saying it that weird way

966
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:36,319
Speaker 1: have been stuck in containers trying to come over here.

967
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 1: He added that the other garden products have also been

968
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 1: affected and that centers were doing everything possible to keep

969
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:46,800
Speaker 1: the supply chains moving.

970
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:51,279
Speaker 2: I love it that they bury the actual lead all

971
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 2: the way second to last. Oh, also all gardens supplies. Yes, sure,

972
00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 2: it's mad. The gnome is not different than anything else

973
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 2: here at the garden supplies.

974
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:04,840
Speaker 1: I know this sounds so ignorant and stupid, but I

975
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 1: didn't realize that the Suez Canal connected the Mediterranean Sea

976
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:10,000
Speaker 1: to the Red Sea. I I didn't know it was

977
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:13,360
Speaker 1: like a dividing line of African Asian I did. I

978
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 1: had no idea. So at least I learned something from

979
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 1: these garden nomes.

980
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 2: Thank you garden nomes for teaching us. That's really I think.

981
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:25,839
Speaker 2: I think that's a great You can too that. I'm

982
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:30,879
Speaker 2: happy that you've already got it. April lockdown. You're who

983
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:31,920
Speaker 2: you're gonna be for Halloween.

984
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:35,799
Speaker 1: People love a six foot two garden nome. Hell yeah,

985
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put I can't.

986
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 2: I can't decide this early out because Olive will change

987
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 2: her mind right up until the day of do you

988
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:46,920
Speaker 2: know what I mean? And I might as well support

989
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 2: her and whatever her idea is. So it's always like

990
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:51,879
Speaker 2: she's like, I'm a turtle, I'm a turtle. I'm a turtle.

991
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 2: I'm a turtle. And then the next day she's just like,

992
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:55,880
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be a paper clip, and I'm just like,

993
00:53:56,080 --> 00:54:01,319
Speaker 2: we've got the turtle cop Yeah.

994
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 1: I love that. Well, if you do decide to do it,

995
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:06,320
Speaker 1: we'll look like some weird dunt zezy top walking around

996
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: with kids and they'll be like, who are the tall

997
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:10,520
Speaker 1: weirdos back there? And they'll be like, don't mind us,

998
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 1: just nice garden. We love the landscaping.

999
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:16,880
Speaker 2: It would be great if we could see if Olive

1000
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 2: wants to be a gardener. I just got to get

1001
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 2: slowly into no, I mean around guzzle do anything I want.

1002
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 2: He does, he can't, he can't object.

1003
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 1: That's so good.

1004
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 2: Did I ever tell you about this with Gus? Did

1005
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:31,880
Speaker 2: I mention this, did I mentioned night Night about night

1006
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:32,720
Speaker 2: night with Gus.

1007
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: Maybe, but give it to us anyways, it's a good

1008
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:37,239
Speaker 1: way to wrap up the pod.

1009
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah. So he you know, he is one

1010
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 2: and a half and he's not talking a lot. Okay,

1011
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 2: he's talking a little bit. He says yeah and stuff

1012
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:48,400
Speaker 2: like that, and yeah, but when he says yeah, it

1013
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:51,839
Speaker 2: does sound like he's been saying it for a million years. Yeah. Yeah,

1014
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:56,000
Speaker 2: but he at night I bring him in Olive like

1015
00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 2: lays in her bed to like trick him, and so

1016
00:54:58,040 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 2: he doesn't have like fomo when we put him down,

1017
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 2: So she lays in her beck. She gets to stay

1018
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 2: up later and pretends that she's going to sleep. We

1019
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:06,839
Speaker 2: say same night night, Gus, say night night, and Gus

1020
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:09,359
Speaker 2: just like is like very shy and quiet, and he's

1021
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:11,239
Speaker 2: like looking around and we're going say night night, say

1022
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:13,560
Speaker 2: night night. He's not saying anything, and then out of

1023
00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:21,720
Speaker 2: every time he just goes, oh my god, so loud,

1024
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:24,480
Speaker 2: and he never finishes it off, and it's just like

1025
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 2: it's just a build up. He's just like looking around.

1026
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:27,439
Speaker 1: And then.

1027
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:36,360
Speaker 2: I want to record it someday I'll record it tonight.

1028
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:38,160
Speaker 2: Maybe I can put it up on the Instagram for

1029
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:38,600
Speaker 2: this one.

1030
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 1: Well now we know, well, now I know is the

1031
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 1: garden home. When we're leaving each Halloween house, after every

1032
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:47,920
Speaker 1: says thanks, thank you, I'm just gonna look at those parents.

1033
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:56,799
Speaker 2: And go, yai, guys, thank you for listening to Bananas.

1034
00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 2: We want to thank h of course all of our

1035
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 2: listeners for some stories. I don't want to thank everybody

1036
00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:08,520
Speaker 2: at exactly right. Thank our producer Katie Levine, Thank you Scottie.

1037
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 1: Thank you, Curtie b.

1038
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:24,640
Speaker 2: We did it again, Bananas. This has been an exactly

1039
00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 2: right production, produced and engineered by Katie Levine.

1040
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:29,960
Speaker 1: Theme music by Kahan, and all.

1041
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:31,800
Speaker 2: Of our artwork is done by Travis Millard.

1042
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:34,760
Speaker 1: You can follow us on Instagram at the Bananas Podcast,

1043
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 1: where we post stories every day and things that we

1044
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:38,400
Speaker 1: don't cover on the podcast.

1045
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:42,040
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1046
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 2: Stitcher or wherever you get your podcast.

1047
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 1: And if you're interested in advertising on Bananas, please email

1048
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 1: us at the Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com.

1049
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:53,279
Speaker 2: That's the Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com.

1050
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 1: Travels is godars and

1051
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 2: You put there, but