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Speaker 2: lot of there's so many levels to this. Well, it's crazy.

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Speaker 2: A missing driveway, missing drive was just the beginning, the

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Speaker 1: All right, well, let's dive and get next to that deep,

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Speaker 2: For bananas? Would you silent pieces? Would you believe? Guys, girls,

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Speaker 2: extraordinary Scottie landis that.

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Speaker 1: Over there is my guy? I describe him as voluptuous

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Speaker 1: Kurt Brown older Kurtie B. Has any male ever described

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Speaker 2: When I'm happy, I'm very proud to be.

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Speaker 1: Described as Do you have any tour dates coming up?

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Speaker 1: You gotta stay it up? You wantn't know?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Hell yeah, baby, Well, Scottie, you and I will

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Speaker 2: be together in Philadelphia February seventh. Okay, I'll be there

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Speaker 2: February sixth through the eighth doing stand up at Healing Club,

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Speaker 2: February fourteenth, Valentine's Day at Cap City Baby in Austin, Texas.

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Speaker 1: Triple dip, triple dimp. Well, I can't wait, Texas, get

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Speaker 2: As you had a day of pitches, didn't you.

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Speaker 2: He found the bike that was just right.

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Speaker 1: This was on.

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Speaker 2: Localthreenews dot com. Oh written by Sierra Rucker. When you're

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Speaker 2: looking for news about driveways being stolen, there is no

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Speaker 2: one better than Sierra Rucker. Rucker, Now see if you

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Speaker 2: can follow this story, Scottie.

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Speaker 1: I want to try desperately.

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Speaker 2: I read the whole thing. I then had to go

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Speaker 2: So they say, we'll pay you for half up front.

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Speaker 1: roommate post haaste, too sweet, one of those two I needed?

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Speaker 1: No? But I like this guy sounds like my uncle Tippy.

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Speaker 1: It's yea. Too sweet is a French phrase that means

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Speaker 2: And how did you know she was beautiful?

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Speaker 2: So you're talking, and you're talking Denny's model level of

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Speaker 1: buy my flight. Thank you so much, God, you're the best,

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Speaker 1: and cheers. So they overpay, and then before they they're

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Speaker 1: smart enough to know the checks tech one or two

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Speaker 1: days to clear, so before the bank tells you it bounced,

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Speaker 1: they ask you for a smaller, less suspect amount. So

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Speaker 1: then you're like, oh, this is And the checks worked

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Speaker 1: like they were accepted in the ATMs they deposited, they

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Speaker 1: just didn't clear. So anyways, I can feel this person's pain,

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Speaker 1: Monica James, what a great time we would have had

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Speaker 1: living together.

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Speaker 2: I got the adventures you could have had.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we had so much in common. It's almost like

448
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Speaker 1: we had too much in common.

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Speaker 2: I know it really is.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I'm sure AI boyfriend's girlfriends and partners

451
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Speaker 1: will be a very huge thing, because I had a

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Speaker 1: whole life planned out for us and we were talking

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Speaker 1: for four days. Oops, you want to do another crime? One,

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Speaker 1: of course, let's do another crime one. I have a

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Speaker 1: couple of fun ones. I have another New York one too, Okay,

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Speaker 1: Naomi H or Naomi H sent this in. You can

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Speaker 1: send yours to the Bananas Podcast on Instagram or the

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Speaker 1: Bananas Podcast at gmail dot We also have a website

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Speaker 1: bananaspodcast dot com. We also have a Patreon and it's

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Speaker 1: super fun and we DM and group chat and just

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Speaker 1: have a have a ball. We do. We have a

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Speaker 1: ball over there. Naomi H sent this in. Kurti B.

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Speaker 1: This was on CNN, written by Katherine Nichols and at

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Speaker 1: Katherine Nichols wrote it. You know it's about one thing,

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Speaker 1: what stolen snails? Yeah, more than one hundred thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: worth of s cargo stolen from a French snail farmer

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Speaker 1: with Michelin clientele. Yes, so the first sentence is a

468
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Speaker 1: lot like that headline. More than one hundred thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: of es cargo. We're stolen from a French nail farmer.

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Speaker 1: Earlier this week, French media reported leaving the suppliers scrambling

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Speaker 1: to replenish his snail stock in time for the holiday season.

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Speaker 1: And don't you just like gathering around the fireplace with

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Speaker 1: the whole family and eating snails?

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Speaker 2: Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 1: I would love it, you would, I would love it.

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Speaker 2: Can I tell you my michell I just wrote it Michelin,

477
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Speaker 2: a Michelin joke, a Michelin story joke, and I performed

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Speaker 2: it to dead silence. I will not perform it ever again,

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00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:13,879
Speaker 2: but I will tell you I'm a I think a

480
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Speaker 2: work life balance is important. You know, I'm a lot

481
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Speaker 2: like the Michelin man in that way.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Sure, I got a busy life being the weird staypuff

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Speaker 2: marshmallow man of tires. But I'll take some time out

485
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Speaker 2: to give some stars to some fancy restaurants.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I think you could work this joke. I can

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Speaker 1: see where this joke's going.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, to dead silence on that one.

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Speaker 1: What represents fine dining, elevated dining and the rubbery, dirtiest

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Speaker 1: thing the only thing in your car that touches the

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Speaker 1: ground the entire.

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Speaker 2: Time made out of that.

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Speaker 1: More than a white blob that looks like a moving

494
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Speaker 1: butt plug. Okay, this, I think you could work that

495
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,920
Speaker 1: joke because it is. It's so bizarre that it really

496
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Speaker 1: is the entire company that started the awards. This is

497
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Speaker 1: really not the post that we hoped we would write today.

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Speaker 1: Approaching the holidays, Less Cargo de grand Crew wrote on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: we were victims of a bugglary and there our stock

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Speaker 1: of fresh and frozen snails were stolen. A family business,

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Speaker 1: Less Cargo to Grand Crew breeds around three hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand snails annually. What of business one.

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Speaker 2: Hundred and fifty thousand snails annually?

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Speaker 1: That is of so many snaps?

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Speaker 2: Smells?

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Speaker 1: It's got smell horrible, does it?

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Speaker 2: I mean I don't. I don't think snails smell bad,

508
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 2: but like.

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Speaker 1: I've never picked up a snail and smelled it now

510
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Speaker 1: that you're saying.

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Speaker 2: I feel like they smell pretty fresh. I don't know,

512
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Speaker 2: but I mean maybe they're like feeding them rotting garbage.

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Speaker 1: That's my mind. What they eat I don't know much

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Speaker 1: of me. I think they plants.

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Speaker 2: I think France, right, So like it would be like

516
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Speaker 2: a lot of fresh plants. I don't know. I wonder

517
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Speaker 2: if it has a smell.

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Speaker 1: Do you or anybody you know work at an s

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Speaker 1: cargo farm? Does it smell? Let us know in great

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Speaker 1: la grand detail.

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Speaker 2: La grand crew detail. The crew was to.

522
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Speaker 1: Know they raised three hundred and fifty thousand snails annually

523
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Speaker 1: preparing the s cargo with quote the greatest of care.

524
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Speaker 1: The snail theft is a shock, incomprehensible, a real blow

525
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Speaker 1: for all the team, the farmer said, which is based

526
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Speaker 1: because everybody who's working now talk about small towns. I

527
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Speaker 1: want to visit. It is in boozy francez u z

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Speaker 1: y o u z y o u z why buzzy France.

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Speaker 1: Overnight from Sunday to Monday, thieves entered the farm undetected

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Speaker 1: and broke into the building housing the snails. French public

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Speaker 1: broadcaster France Info reported the fence around the property had

532
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Speaker 1: been cut. It said once inside, the thieves were met

533
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Speaker 1: with shelves full of snails and jars fresh snails, frozen snails.

534
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Speaker 1: I mean we're talking all the snails you can.

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Speaker 2: All these snails. So they're stealing snails that have already

536
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Speaker 2: been processed. They're not selling, they're not stealing snails that

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Speaker 2: are alive and wild.

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Speaker 1: One of the easiest animals to catch. Though, Yeah right, man.

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Speaker 2: I just don't know how you get enough that makes

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Speaker 2: it worthwhile scoop them.

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Speaker 1: Neither scoop them. Jean Matthew d'avournie, the owner of the farm,

542
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Speaker 1: told France Info that images were shown of the theft

543
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: with the refrigerators totally empty. They cleaned them out, cleaned

544
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Speaker 1: them out, but some of the stock taken was not

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Speaker 1: prepared for consumption. The outlet reported the shells of the

546
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 1: snails had not been properly cleaned, and the butter that

547
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 1: accompanies thees cargo had not been made been made. Davnay

548
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: says you cannot consume it directly, meaning I think it

549
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 1: would be not good to eat. But maybe this is

550
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Speaker 1: how they solve the crime. They sell dirty snails. Dirty snails,

551
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: good name for a memoir. In total, the thieves stole

552
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 1: nine hundred and ninety pounds of snails.

553
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Speaker 2: Dude, that's an enormous amount of snails.

554
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: That's a lot of snails.

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00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 2: That's if you had those snails in your trunk, your trunk,

556
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Speaker 2: your your your car would be ride low.

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00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:34,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, if your poojoh is loaded up with nine hundred

558
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 1: and ninety pounds of the snails, you're going to drive

559
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Speaker 1: l roux And this is we tease. But for this

560
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: poor business, let's cargo to Grand Crew. We'll try to

561
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: replenish its stocks before Christmas in the years, given that

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00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: sixty percent of its annual sales are made during this period.

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Speaker 1: So we're sorry to that family. If they're good people,

564
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 1: If they're bad people, sit on your thumb. Davernay had

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00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,360
Speaker 1: been able to supply snails for many restaurants, including Michelin

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Speaker 1: Star clientele. Since the has not been able to since

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00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: the theft, other snail farmers have stepped in to sell

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00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: Dauvergne some of their stock at reduced prices. We're ready

569
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Speaker 1: to help him to save his season, Alexandri Mayer, another

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00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 1: snail farmer from the Vosges, told France for ins Info.

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Speaker 1: So basically local farmers were pitching in a little bit

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Speaker 1: and giving them some discount snails.

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Speaker 2: I feel like, I feel like you're going to be

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Speaker 2: able to find these people. Where are they unloading, where

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00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 2: is the where is the fence? For nine one thousand

576
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 2: pounds one ton one ton of.

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00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: One hundred thousand dollars worth of snails. Who's who's got

578
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: that kind of clamps?

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Speaker 2: Who's fencing this for? I mean, like you have, nobody's

580
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 2: buying them in that many of them. No one's buying

581
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars worth of snails at once.

582
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Speaker 1: And our yea, our restauranteurs or chefs going to the

583
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Speaker 1: back alleys of their rests and buying cheap snails out

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Speaker 1: of the back of a truck. Maybe they are maybe,

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00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: maybe they are, maybe they are, Oh sach blue. Yeah,

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00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: I thought that was so interesting. So a thousand pounds

587
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 1: of snails is one hundred thousand dollars, So that's.

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Speaker 2: A pound of snails is one hundred dollars. A pound

589
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 2: of snails is one hundred dollars.

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Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking.

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00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 2: That seems crazy to me because that means when you

592
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Speaker 2: order es cargo, you're there's breaking even on.

593
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,120
Speaker 1: That pretty pricey.

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00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:39,239
Speaker 2: But I mean it's right.

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00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: You and I used to order it all the time.

596
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: We used to eat a lot of French food when

597
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: we were up and coming. Whenever we would get a

598
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: decent paycheck, we'd go to Lucienne or one of those places,

599
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: and the best I've ever had, the only time I've

600
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 1: ever really really loved it was somebody made them any

601
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 1: small puff pastry that was full of butter and garlic

602
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 1: and parsley. So you ate it. You popped it like

603
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 1: a doughnut hole, but it s carg Yeah, you would

604
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: have loved it. Man, Text your snails folks this holiday season.

605
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: Keep an eye on your snails. You never know when

606
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 1: sticky fingers are going to come and steal your s cargo.

607
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 2: I remember in my twenties, I remember going to this

608
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 2: restaurant in New York called Love Bernadin. Oh yeah, and

609
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 2: it's like one of the best restaurants in the world.

610
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 2: It was great, and it was expensive. Then this is

611
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 2: probably in you know, the early two thousands, but I remember, like,

612
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 2: I don't know, for two people, it's like two hundred

613
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 2: and fifty bucks or something. Yeah, now two hundred and

614
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 2: eighty dollars per person without wine. And I do remember

615
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 2: it as being of all the meals I've ever had,

616
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 2: lumberd Aden was the best meal I've ever had in

617
00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 2: my life. And there's just no way I'm ever going

618
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 2: to go back.

619
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Speaker 1: I just can't justify that's profane, like, what is it

620
00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: going to be.

621
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Speaker 2: It's going to be a seven hundred dollars or meal

622
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 2: for two people or something I can I'll never go back.

623
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 1: I am with you. I feel like there's a Werner

624
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: Herzog quote about fine dining. He's I think it's I

625
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: find fine dining vial. I'd rather eat a bag of

626
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: chips sitting on the curb. And when I read that,

627
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: I started going, you know what, He's right, because it's

628
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: also the thing and we've all you know, if you're

629
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: city folks, sometimes you get treated to a nice meal,

630
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 1: but you're not even hungry than you end up hitting

631
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 1: yeah drive through or a chicken truck or slice on

632
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: the way home, and yeah, two hundred and eighty. It's

633
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: the hunger game. Sometimes when you're sitting in those places,

634
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: you're just like, Yeah, if the proletariat shows up with

635
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: pitchforks and starts murdering everybody, I'd be like, just get it.

636
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 1: I get it.

637
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 2: It's justified.

638
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: I'm with you, guys. I'm a guest here. I just

639
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: take my shirt off right away. I'm like, I'm with you.

640
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: I wasn't enjoying these scargos.

641
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 2: We have a you have scar good juice on your sure.

642
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: No, I was spitting it back at them. It's symbolic

643
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 1: the shell of my body.

644
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 2: All right, I'll teesus into some thumbers in and out.

645
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:14,399
Speaker 2: Nix's six to seven from ticket system due to six

646
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Speaker 2: to seven trend is olive.

647
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Speaker 1: At the age of six seven. Oh my god. Yeah, okay,

648
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: you could tell me more because to me, as a

649
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:25,400
Speaker 1: not parent and somebody who's never around children, it doesn't

650
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: bother me at all.

651
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,880
Speaker 2: So it doesn't bother me. It's just the ubiquitousness of

652
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 2: it Isn't is stupid anyway?

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Speaker 1: Well, yes, we'll talk, we'll get into it. Thumbs up.

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Speaker 1: Scott F. Wants to give two thumbs way up for

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Speaker 1: my wife and me. This is Scott F. Not me.

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Speaker 1: I'm Scott Yell. Tiffany earned a big promotion as managing

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Speaker 1: director at a global investment bank. Congratulations, way to be

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Speaker 1: employed around the holidays. Scott is so very proud of you.

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Speaker 1: I am too, me too, but Scott F is just

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Speaker 1: more proud of you. Scott worked sixteen years at the

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Speaker 1: same company. They started to like shift them around to

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Speaker 1: different roles, and then the position they put them in

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Speaker 1: with eliminated he was freaking out, and then he discovered

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Speaker 1: a new career path and now he's heading up risk

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Speaker 1: and compliance for a cybersecurity company. Better pay, better benefits.

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Speaker 1: Thumbs up to you two. Way to be very employed.

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Speaker 1: Way too a rare thing these days, but we're still

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Speaker 1: We're happy for you. Congratulations. What a power couple you

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Speaker 1: two have, because Scott and Tiffany thumbs up. Fun thumbs up. Indeed,

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Speaker 1: Wes Wes, Wes, you don't meet to me Weses anymore.

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Speaker 2: I have a nephew named Wes Wesley.

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Speaker 1: I don't mind. I like Western beef. Yeah, baby, we

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Speaker 1: used to call that Wes beef. That was like a

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Speaker 1: good uh, that was like Sigourney beaver. Wes is thumbing

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Speaker 1: up his fiance, who has been supporting him through the

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Speaker 1: last nine months of med school. He does it in

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Speaker 1: different cities every single month, doing different rotations at different hospitals.

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Speaker 1: So he's in a different city doing rotations at whatever

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Speaker 1: hospital he needs to go to, all the while, his

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Speaker 1: nameless fiance has been working a cutting edge bad as

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Speaker 1: aerospace engineering job while also taking care of their dog

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Speaker 1: at home, and so Wes is just thumbing up his

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Speaker 1: nameless but beloved fiance thumbs up. Similarly, Grace Dunehoff or

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Speaker 1: Dunhoff is thumbing up her nameless fiance for pursuing his

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Speaker 1: dream of getting his PhD, all while they're also planning

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Speaker 1: a wedding, all while they're training a new puppy.

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Speaker 2: Wow wow wow wow.

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Speaker 1: Puppies aren't easy folks. They take a lot of work

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Speaker 1: to do. Is it worth it? Of course it's worth it?

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Speaker 1: Is it two years of hell? Bingo bango, Wait until

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Speaker 1: you're settled in every other way in life and last

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Speaker 1: but not least, And I love this one. Thumbs up.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a lease, but it could be. Alice

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Speaker 1: A ls Let's go at lease is thumbing up her

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Speaker 1: friend Anne, who's an amazing librarian in San Francisco and

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Speaker 1: who runs the teen Center at the Civic Center Library

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Speaker 1: in San Francisco. An goes by Anna Banana and her

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Speaker 1: handle online is Bananimals, which is great. So Eleez says,

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Speaker 1: I vote you have Anne on your show as a guest.

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Speaker 1: You know what we should talk about something like that.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty six, the patreo maybe from the Patreon,

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Speaker 1: we have a guest and you can be our guest

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Speaker 1: for a full episode of bananas. That could be a

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Speaker 1: We haven't ever talked about this. This is me being like,

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Speaker 1: you know, that one thing we were talking about. I

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Speaker 1: think that'd be a nice little thing. If you join

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Speaker 1: the Patreon, maybe you can. Everybody's entered into a the lottery. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Katie Levine can do a digital lottery ball drop and

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Speaker 1: we can have a guest that's one of you.

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Speaker 2: I love that. It's a great idea.

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Speaker 1: Hit me up with the six seven. I don't even

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Speaker 1: know what a six to seven on the menu is

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Speaker 1: at it in and out.

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Speaker 2: It's on the menu. It's literally for the numbers sixty seven, Oh,

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Speaker 2: for the number sixty seven.

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Speaker 1: So here it is.

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Speaker 2: This is by Ben Hooper, Best in the Biz.

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Speaker 1: On he is the best in the biz.

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Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, I'm at upi dot com. West Coast fast

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Speaker 2: food chain and out Burger has removed the number sixty

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Speaker 2: seven from its ticket order system due to the viral

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Speaker 2: sixty seven trend. An employee at one of the chain's

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Speaker 2: restaurants initially reported on Reddit that they noticed the ticket

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Speaker 2: order system was skipping straight from sixty six to sixty eight,

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Speaker 2: and a worker at a Los Angeles location confirmed to

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Speaker 2: people dot com that the number was removed a month ago.

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Speaker 2: The removal comes after videos online showing crowds of rowdy

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Speaker 2: teenagers and young adults waiting for the sixty seven to

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Speaker 2: be called and responding by celebrating boisterously. The sixt' seven

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Speaker 2: trend has no specific meaning, but it is commonly believed

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Speaker 2: to originate with the song Dute Dute six' seven By.

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Speaker 2: Scripts have you seen this?

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Speaker 1: Song, no it.

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Speaker 2: Is it is the dumbest. Good it's so, dumb but

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Speaker 2: it's like dumb in a bad, Way like it's, dumb

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Speaker 2: and he's also like holding automatic. Weapons like if he

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Speaker 2: was just, STUPID i would be, Like, OH i love dumb.

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Speaker 2: Stupid this is like, stupid like bad. Stupid it's this.

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Speaker 2: Dude is it seems like?

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Speaker 1: Anyway not a Great, yeah he's a due, Dude yeah.

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Speaker 2: Exactly the term was dubbed dictionary Dot COM's twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: five word of The, year which is crazy as it should.

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Speaker 2: BE i, mean dictionary dot. Com dictionary Dot COM's just

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Speaker 2: lost all respect to my. Book you're no, Webster dictionary dot.

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Speaker 2: COM i Know. Webster perhaps the most defining feature of

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Speaker 2: sixty seven is that it's impossible to. Define dictionary dot

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Speaker 2: com reported it's, meaningless, ubiquitous and. Nonsensical in other, words

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Speaker 2: it has all the hallmarks of brain. Rot it is

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Speaker 2: the logical endpoint of being perpetually, online, scrolling endlessly consuming

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Speaker 2: content fed to users by algorithms trained by other. ALGORITHMS,

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Speaker 2: whoa this is all on dictionary dot.

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Speaker 1: Com what a?

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Speaker 2: Website, WELL i mean NOW i take it. Back that was,

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Speaker 2: Pretty that was. Meaningful The Los angeles employee confirmed the

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Speaker 2: number sixty nine was also removed from the ordering system

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Speaker 2: for similarly viral but more soliciously defined. Reasons this, MAN

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Speaker 2: i had pitched this in one of my. Pitches it

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Speaker 2: was not even shown To. Jimmy it was a pitch

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Speaker 2: for because of the six to seven thing was going

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Speaker 2: so hard for a. While, yeah and it was a

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Speaker 2: it was like tied into college, basketball because college basketball

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Speaker 2: there was all these videos of as soon as the

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Speaker 2: like if it was like if one team scored sixty seven,

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Speaker 2: points the whole place would go. Crazy and it was

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Speaker 2: set up as like a true crime. Documentary so a

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Speaker 2: trailer for a true crime documentary in which people are

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Speaker 2: talking about how sixty nine used to be the funniest,

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Speaker 2: number but then six seven came, along sixty seven came,

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Speaker 2: along and it was a person dressed as a six

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Speaker 2: and a person dressed as a, seven and six just

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Speaker 2: seemed kind of like scared of. Seven and then they're,

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Speaker 2: like but whatever happened to sixty? Nine whatever happened to?

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Speaker 2: Nine and then you just see pictures of, nine you,

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Speaker 2: Know and then it's like and then there's a number,

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Speaker 2: five who's just like you gotta, ask, man why is

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Speaker 2: six afraid of? Seven? Huh why is six afraid of?

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Speaker 1: Seven that seems very topical and it seems on tone for.

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Speaker 2: That and then it's, like cause, seven eight, Nine see.

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Speaker 1: Now i'm lol and outline right there is are you kidding?

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Speaker 1: Me send us, home?

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Speaker 2: Buddy oh, yeah give us just the title and then

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Speaker 2: do it on the next, one.

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Speaker 1: BABY i. Will, shannon thank you for sending this. In

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Speaker 1: thanks to all the. Bananimals we just love the. Panannmals

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Speaker 1: we hope twenty twenty six is such a great year

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Speaker 1: for everybody, here because twenty twenty five was. Definitely they

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Speaker 1: keep getting, weirder and So kurt And i've we embrace the.

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Speaker 1: Weird we think it's we think it's, wonderful and we

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Speaker 1: hope you do. Too shannon sent this In richmond cat,

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Speaker 1: Cafe The Perfect bean temporarily closed for flooding after cat

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Speaker 1: turns on. WATER a cat flooded The Perfect Bean, Cafe,

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Speaker 1: kurt and we will get into it on the very

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Speaker 1: next episode of a little. Podcast the smallest little podcast

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Speaker 1: there ever Was. Bananas bananas is an exactly right media.

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Speaker 1: Production our producer and engineer Is Katie.

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00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 2: Levine the catchy banana theme song was composed and performed By.

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00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:47,359
Speaker 2: Kahan artwork For bananas was designed By Travis, millard.

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Speaker 1: And our benevolent overlords are the Great Karen kilgareff And

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Speaker 1: Georgia hartstart.

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Speaker 2: And Lisa maggott is our full, human not a, robot

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Speaker 2: part time.

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Speaker 1: Employee you can listen To bananas on The iHeartRadio, App Apple, Podcasts,

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Speaker 1: spotify or wherever you get your, podcasts and please feel

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Speaker 1: free to rate and review as many times as you.

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Speaker 1: Can we love those five. Stars