Speaker 1: Scotti, Happy New Year, Thank you? Are you ready for
Speaker 1: I think maybe this is one of the most bananas
Speaker 1: headlines I've ever found, and I'm very excited here it
Speaker 1: is vodka powered robots, Harness, Cheerios inspired physics for movement,
Speaker 1: and bizarre experiment.
Speaker 2: Oh that's a mouthful, and I'm ready. It's a new year,
Speaker 2: It's a new US. It's a new bananas starting in
Speaker 2: three two one bananassilient pieces.
Speaker 1: Guys, gals, non binary pals, Welcome to Bananas and Happy
Speaker 1: New Year.
Speaker 2: We did it. I think we made it.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah exactly, unless I mean we are recording
Speaker 1: this early. Yeah, so maybe something an asteroid or something
Speaker 1: came in between now and then. But I think we
Speaker 1: made it.
Speaker 2: We're happy to be here on the silliest little podcast
Speaker 2: that ever was. Sitting across from me is the most
Speaker 2: dangerous dad in podcasting, the great comedian and all around
Speaker 2: great man, Kurt Brown Older.
Speaker 1: See across from me is screenplaywriter extraordinary picture non paray,
Speaker 1: that's right, Scottie Landis, Oh man, is non paray mean
Speaker 1: like no one beats you?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I've certainly used it. It's
Speaker 2: funny that there are certain phrases we just all say.
Speaker 1: I've seen it written and I've never said it or
Speaker 1: heard it broken. Mm hmmm, I know it's an obnoxious
Speaker 1: French word.
Speaker 2: It is unequaled excellent, so I'll take it. There we go.
Speaker 2: There it is. It's also a small flat disc of
Speaker 2: chocolate covered in white sugar pellets.
Speaker 1: That's also that's the only other time I've seen that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those.
Speaker 1: Little chocolates that I do not want to eat. Those
Speaker 1: do like those?
Speaker 2: No, there always says really bitter. I remember those being
Speaker 2: really bitter as a kid. I'm not a huge chocolate guy,
Speaker 2: but I remember the kid like when you would sneak
Speaker 2: one of those, you would kind of like put it
Speaker 2: back or sash it somewhere.
Speaker 1: You're like Olive. Olive doesn't like chocolate and she doesn't
Speaker 1: like peanut butter, which is well, very surprising for a child.
Speaker 2: I do love Reese's Cups. I mean, I'm not a monster,
Speaker 2: but overall, like the idea whenever we get these sent
Speaker 2: these stories a lot that are like, hey, a piece
Speaker 2: of dark chocolate every day can reduce the roost of
Speaker 2: a risk of diabetes. And every time I'm like, that
Speaker 2: doesn't even appeal to me. Not even one square chocolate day.
Speaker 2: That doesn't appeal to me at.
Speaker 1: All, especially like the high cacao doc chocolates that are
Speaker 1: like seventy percent. It's not a pleasant experience to have
Speaker 1: some some bitter chalk in your mouth and I feel.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, I'm not into it. Hopefully you're not too hungover.
Speaker 2: Hopefully you're up and at him and taking on twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five. Twenty twenty five feels realer to me that
Speaker 2: that field. Maybe it is just because it's a multiple
Speaker 2: of five, but something, but it it feels like we've
Speaker 2: reached a science fiction Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, I agree with that. I mean, we are doing
Speaker 1: a story about vodka powered robots, like we are in
Speaker 1: the future already. I also think I don't know what
Speaker 1: my plan is right for New Year's Eve. But right now,
Speaker 1: right now, my wife might disagree with me, but right now,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do anything on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2: Well, if you want to do nothing together, we could.
Speaker 2: We could figure that out.
Speaker 1: Just lay face down on your carpet, just.
Speaker 2: Watch some movies until ten pm ish and then just
Speaker 2: call tonight. Do They're like, I'm ahead out, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: that's fine, I don't need to ring it in. Even
Speaker 2: though we had Kathy Griffith on the show and I
Speaker 2: got I wish somebody would give her another New Year's
Speaker 2: Eve countdown. She was so funny at it.
Speaker 1: She was so funny. There is no comparison other than
Speaker 1: watching that one gentleman get a little drunk.
Speaker 2: Andy Cohen and oh gosh, what Anderson Cooper. But they
Speaker 2: kind of got pulled back, they got the rains pulled
Speaker 2: in because everybody's so prudish and boring. Now, like there
Speaker 2: should be one countdown that's called like drunk fast Foo
Speaker 2: Bar Countdown Extravaganza, and it's just like adults only Yeah,
Speaker 2: we could be adults.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there is so many channels out there, so much
Speaker 1: streaming content. Why isn't there called the fucked Up New Year?
Speaker 1: And it's what everyone else on New Year's Eve was doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: why isn't that? It'd be great television. You just have
Speaker 1: to like manage it. You'd have to have one. You'd
Speaker 1: have to have like a Davitel level person who can
Speaker 1: get hammered and still host that show.
Speaker 2: That show Insomniac. Insomniac was one. It's so referenced and
Speaker 2: If you don't know what the show a TV show
Speaker 2: Insomniac with Dave Chapelle's it's probably on Paramount Plus because
Speaker 2: it was a Viacom Comedy Central show and it only
Speaker 2: went a few seasons, but it had such an impact.
Speaker 2: And basically, Dave is one of the great stand up
Speaker 2: comics of all time. He'd be in a city and
Speaker 2: after doing a couple of sets, he would just go
Speaker 2: out and start drinking with locals and find things to do, activities,
Speaker 2: trouble and he's so well, he's so funny off the cuff,
Speaker 2: but he's also just so damn likable. And then, as
Speaker 2: Kurt is saying, he was a true world class drinker,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if he is anymore, but he was.
Speaker 1: I mean last time I saw him. Last time I
Speaker 1: saw him was in uh, Las Vegas at a Las
Speaker 1: Vegas comedy festival. Have I talked about I'm sure I've
Speaker 1: talked to about this. The comedy festival that was so
Speaker 1: delightful lasted one year because they flew all the comics
Speaker 1: on a private jet and then we got off and
Speaker 1: a show girl handed us a bottle of champagne at
Speaker 1: ten am, and that everyone did shows to.
Speaker 2: Like four people.
Speaker 1: It was amazing, But you did.
Speaker 2: Tell that story, and it's a great story. Also, if
Speaker 2: you don't have a resolution yet and it's it's January
Speaker 2: first or second, the first week at twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: you can always make your resolution not to care about
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve next year, because people spend a lot
Speaker 2: of money to go to clubs and bars and fancy restaurants.
Speaker 2: They spend hundreds, sometimes up to one thousand dollars for
Speaker 2: champagne toasts or whatever it is, and then you fall
Speaker 2: down the stairs or you roll your ankle or whatever
Speaker 2: goes wrong. Just know that there really is no expectation.
Speaker 2: Just I would say, look within, and then spend time
Speaker 2: with people that you actually like, no frenemies on New
Speaker 2: Year's Eve twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: I always enjoyed New Year's Eve in my twenties and thirties,
Speaker 1: like because it was I was just like, yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: just go do drugs and drink a lot and it'll
Speaker 1: be a delight, yes, And it was always like really fun.
Speaker 1: I always remember like being like yeah, like at midnight,
Speaker 1: like on a bunch of molly, being like we're ever
Speaker 1: gonna die? And now it just does it feels, it
Speaker 1: feels I'm over. I remember one of my favorite New
Speaker 1: Yar's Eve's was in New Jersey. I don't think I
Speaker 1: haven't really did anything the night before it was when
Speaker 1: my mom was sick and I was living in New Jersey.
Speaker 1: And then the next morning, Lauren and I and my
Speaker 1: buddy Steve Sheen went to Asbury Park and did a
Speaker 1: polar plunge at like eight am, and it was so awesome.
Speaker 1: It was I mean, it was probably thirty degrees out,
Speaker 1: the water was probably I don't know, thirty two, thirty
Speaker 1: six degrees and it felt amazing. And I think that's
Speaker 1: what I want my new thing to be. Like New
Speaker 1: Year's Day is about, like the rebirth. It's not about
Speaker 1: like feeling like shit. I hate feeling like shit on
Speaker 1: New Year's Day.
Speaker 2: That's right, That's what I'm saying. You can hang it
Speaker 2: up next year. And also with that story, the thing
Speaker 2: that made me cringe inside the hardest was having to
Speaker 2: get up and get out there at eight am. Like
Speaker 2: if you were like, we're going to do a Newyear's
Speaker 2: Day plunge, it's super cold, I'm like one pm, two pm.
Speaker 2: Then I'm in. I'm all in I just didn't want
Speaker 2: to get up early and ride the train out there.
Speaker 2: That to me seems like the biggest suffering of all
Speaker 2: those early morning train rides.
Speaker 1: Man, who you know, Man, you don't have children. I'm
Speaker 1: up at six no matter what.
Speaker 2: No, I've been up getting up earlier and earlier myself.
Speaker 1: You are usually up pretty early, like you text me
Speaker 1: sometimes seven am.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I usually pop up at seven.
Speaker 1: Usually get up. You're just your biological clockworks out way.
Speaker 2: I think so. Also, I don't drink as much anymore too,
Speaker 2: so I'm not waking up hungover anything like that. And
Speaker 2: I just have so much work to do. I have
Speaker 2: so much writing, and I think I'm a little more
Speaker 2: fluid and creative and lucid in the morning. So yeah,
Speaker 2: if I get up and drink coffee and get down
Speaker 2: to my office and start writing by like eight, I
Speaker 2: can be done by nine thirty or ten, And then
Speaker 2: I just feel like I've already won the day and
Speaker 2: I can go on and do other things and be
Speaker 2: available to other people, which is nice, are you like?
Speaker 1: I mean, like we've just recorded so many episodes so
Speaker 1: close to each other. Was it a bananas that we
Speaker 1: were talking about that there was like a scientific study
Speaker 1: where people were like, there is no such thing as
Speaker 1: at night owl.
Speaker 2: We did talk about that a few ups ago, because yeah,
Speaker 2: I heard that, but yes, also I think I heard
Speaker 2: it on the Huberman podcast or that guy that's I
Speaker 2: don't know, super popular. It seems seemingly obsessed with sleep.
Speaker 2: But yeah, and then there's a story and a book
Speaker 2: about like taking people out into the woods and within
Speaker 2: three days they're going to sleep within ninety minutes of
Speaker 2: sundown or something. Oh yeah, it's like a crazy like
Speaker 2: the switch changes when you're out there with real Cicadian rhythms.
Speaker 1: Oh, definitively. That's what they call nine PM is a
Speaker 1: hiker midnight.
Speaker 2: Oh that's fun. We've been getting the story and I
Speaker 2: didn't do it yet. You might have gotten it, but
Speaker 2: you were just saying, how you know how wild you
Speaker 2: used to go? You have that one tag, and I
Speaker 2: think it's in your current set about just like I
Speaker 2: used to be cool, I used to do cocaine. Because
Speaker 2: you're talking about your kids, I think calling you bro,
Speaker 2: I think it's in that yea Joe. Yeah, and there's
Speaker 2: a story. I don't know if you saw it, and
Speaker 2: I'll find it. So we can do it because a
Speaker 2: lot of animals send it about a man who spent
Speaker 2: five hundred thousand plus dollars to get an OnlyFans type
Speaker 2: person to call him bro. Yeah, did you say yeah story?
Speaker 1: Yes, I just read the tagline and I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't care.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is bananas because it's so much money, like
Speaker 2: bankrupt it is. It's just like maybe it's too sad.
Speaker 2: But I will say the translation. It made me think
Speaker 2: of you right away, because Bro is like I'll call
Speaker 2: it a bro for ten bucks, I'll call him bro
Speaker 2: for an egg McMuffin. And but I think I think
Speaker 2: in one of the articles it was saying it's the
Speaker 2: closer it would be like daddy, it would be like
Speaker 2: being like high daddy. So I think it just translates different.
Speaker 2: But Bro is so funny to just have your kids
Speaker 2: calling you Bro. But then also just to be like
Speaker 2: I really want this topless woman just to be like,
Speaker 2: what's up? Bro?
Speaker 1: I mean like it's a yeah. You never can understand
Speaker 1: people's internal internal turn ons. It is a very layered process.
Speaker 2: Yes it is. There's a lid for every weird pot,
Speaker 2: for sure. Let's talk about cheerios and vodka.
Speaker 1: I love this so much. I found this one. Vodka
Speaker 1: powered robots harness Cheerio's inspired physics for movement in bizarre experiment.
Speaker 1: This was in tech Spot, Scottie, now you've been You
Speaker 1: were telling me a little bit about how much text
Speaker 1: Spot meant to you.
Speaker 2: I was. I loved text spots so much that I
Speaker 2: actually print out the entire website every day. But I
Speaker 2: don't ever want to be without it. So I put
Speaker 2: a fax machine in every room in my house. And
Speaker 2: I've just been faxing articles from room to room for
Speaker 2: about two years now, and I've never been happier.
Speaker 1: Hey, right, you didn't regret it.
Speaker 2: That is the thing, not a single paper cut. The sound.
Speaker 2: A lot of people don't like the sound of a
Speaker 2: fax machine booting up and connecting to the phone modem,
Speaker 2: but for me, it's worth it every single time.
Speaker 1: This was written by Zoe Ahmed.
Speaker 2: I mean cool, great name, cool name.
Speaker 1: Best in the biz, zo Ahmed. Okay, what is certainly
Speaker 1: one of the quirkiest science demonstrations we've seen. Reached have
Speaker 1: taken inspiration from a phenomenon observed in cheerios to create
Speaker 1: tiny robots powered by vodka. It's just a proof of
Speaker 1: concept for now, but the team says the robots could
Speaker 1: potentially be used for environmental cleanup or industrial processes. The
Speaker 1: bots were developed by a team led by Jackson Witt
Speaker 1: at Harvard University. I don't know if that's real. As
Speaker 1: reported by New Scientists, they experimented with three D printed
Speaker 1: plastic pucks around a centimeter wide. Oh, that's bigger than
Speaker 1: I thought it would be, each containing an air chamber
Speaker 1: for buoyancy and a miniature fuel tank. But instead of
Speaker 1: traditional fuel, they filled the tanks with varying concentrations of
Speaker 1: alcohol ranging from ten to fifty percent. When the pucks
Speaker 1: were placed in water, the alcohol gradually leaked out, setting
Speaker 1: off what's known as the Marangoni effect. This occurs when
Speaker 1: a fluid with lower surface tension rapidly spreads across a
Speaker 1: fluid with higher surface tension. As the alcohol, with its
Speaker 1: lower surface tent and spread over the water, it propelled
Speaker 1: the little robots across the surface. This is the same
Speaker 1: phenomenon that allows some species of beetles to skim on
Speaker 1: the water surface. So I didn't know that. But instead
Speaker 1: of using alcohol, they use special secretions that act as
Speaker 1: a surfectant oh, that's a new word and propel the
Speaker 1: beetle forward. The thing with vodka is that it's pricier
Speaker 1: compared to some other types of alcohol, like beer. However,
Speaker 1: as new scientists know, it's going with the strongest beverage.
Speaker 1: Was a choice, great question, is it?
Speaker 2: Because I Boston pop off all those those are things
Speaker 2: were like three ninety nine a liter. Back in the day.
Speaker 1: I get a one point seventy five of costca of
Speaker 1: Kirkland vodka, which was voted by Wirecutter as the best vodka.
Speaker 1: It beat out all the other vodkas, including to I.
Speaker 1: Now I am drinking it. It's made of corn. It's exactly
Speaker 1: like Tito's, but it's it's more distilled. They six times
Speaker 1: distill it. I'm a big fan. I started drinking it
Speaker 1: after I read that wirecutterdo thirteen dollars for a one
Speaker 1: point seven five that's yeah crazy.
Speaker 2: That's yeah. That's cheaper than beer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cheaper than beer. So they should get into
Speaker 1: the Kirkland anyway. Higher alcohol concentrations simply work better as
Speaker 1: a fuel source for achieving greater propulsion, with Wilt noting
Speaker 1: that beer would not be as effective. Indeed, some experiments
Speaker 1: saw the pucks motor along for up to five hundred
Speaker 1: seconds at peak speeds of around six centimeters a second.
Speaker 2: Six centimeters a second, Okay, so that's like three inches
Speaker 2: a second. Yeah, something like that. Two point two.
Speaker 1: Centimeters are smaller, centimeters are smaller.
Speaker 2: Oh the other way? Yeahah yeah, oopsie.
Speaker 1: The only reason is because I have a joke about
Speaker 1: that too.
Speaker 2: Let's go about one inch. Then we're going about one inch. Damn,
Speaker 2: that's a pretty good one. I remember. Yeah, those water
Speaker 2: striders when your kid, those little bugs that could just
Speaker 2: skate on top of the surface. I think about those.
Speaker 1: Oh a lot. I love them. So we would will
Speaker 1: go up to into the Angels National Forest on like
Speaker 1: a hot day, just so much cooler up there, Yeah
Speaker 1: it is, and it's so nice. And we'll just go
Speaker 1: to a big old river which is like you think
Speaker 1: there's no cool rivers near La other than the La River,
Speaker 1: and it's I mean like there's just so many up there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and just sit by a rushing mountain stream and there's
Speaker 1: so many of those little water bugs. All loves them.
Speaker 1: It's a real treat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're fun. They are very again, they're very they
Speaker 2: they're like animation. They're like watching nature that seems like
Speaker 2: it's animated.
Speaker 1: That stuff so fun, man, I know about that that
Speaker 1: they that's the way they do.
Speaker 2: It is I guess, so that's what I'm done. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Sometimes you're you know when you run out of the Internet,
Speaker 2: like you know, when you have a really boring job
Speaker 2: or you're sick, you just have a long day and
Speaker 2: you check all your your main five sites or whatever.
Speaker 2: You scrolled all the social media, like I have found
Speaker 2: myself in the past, like youtubing world record, rock skipping
Speaker 2: and stone skipping and just watching these guys, mostly guys.
Speaker 2: There are definitely women involved in this too, but it's
Speaker 2: mostly guys and just solitary men with stones and flat legs.
Speaker 2: And these guys they're getting twenty, they're getting tons, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, look at that. It's so aspirational. As you're
Speaker 2: in middle age, you're just like, maybe this is some
Speaker 2: hobby I'll take up one day too.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. I mean like I have such a
Speaker 1: I have such a deep, deep connection to just throwing
Speaker 1: rocks and water.
Speaker 2: Yes, why is it so nice?
Speaker 1: Why is it so important? Why is it so great?
Speaker 2: This is so fun?
Speaker 1: I think I told this story years ago legitimately, but
Speaker 1: I had gone up and I lived in the woods
Speaker 1: by myself for about a month when I was twenty two,
Speaker 1: and it was really lonely, and that was like my
Speaker 1: whole deal. I went up there to be alone without
Speaker 1: being lonely. That was like my plan as a twenty
Speaker 1: two year old, and I was very lonely the whole time.
Speaker 1: Then I decided, Okay, I'm going to call my mom.
Speaker 1: I'm going to wake up the next day and I
Speaker 1: want to call my mom because and I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell her to come pick me up because I can't
Speaker 1: do this anymore. This was like day twenty five or something.
Speaker 1: And then I sat down in front of this little
Speaker 1: pond and I just started throwing rocks and watching the
Speaker 1: ripples go out. Yes, and before I knew it, this
Speaker 1: is never happened. I went up there looking for some
Speaker 1: sort of vision quest, you know, and not knowing what
Speaker 1: it would be, and just threw these little pebbles and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, it's dark and I like,
Speaker 1: look around, and it's dark out and I've been sitting there,
Speaker 1: I don't know for how long, and I realized that
Speaker 1: for the first time since being up there like I
Speaker 1: had finally finally actually let go, finally actually been in
Speaker 1: the moment and finally actually kind.
Speaker 2: Of like love that.
Speaker 1: I didn't hit a level of enlightenment or anything. No,
Speaker 1: that was like the first and then after that I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I'm fine, I can make it. So
Speaker 1: then I made it for the rest of the month.
Speaker 1: I called her. I didn't call her the next day, so.
Speaker 2: Not too bad. Yeah, I mean, I think that's one
Speaker 2: cool thing about me is I've never looked for enlightenment
Speaker 2: in my entire life. I've never sought it out. I
Speaker 2: don't care about enlightenment. As you were saying that, I'm
Speaker 2: like I was trying to think of myself at sixteen
Speaker 2: or twenty or twenty five. Never once have I ever
Speaker 2: looked for more. And as a huge consumer of you know,
Speaker 2: true crime documentaries about colts and well mostly cults, every
Speaker 2: single one starts with the person sitting in the chair
Speaker 2: and then somebody's like, I just got broken up with
Speaker 2: and I thought there was more to life than this.
Speaker 2: I just got fired, and I was looking for meaning
Speaker 2: and purpose, And every time I sit there, I'm like,
Speaker 2: instantly I'm on a different side of the line from
Speaker 2: the people in these things. I'm like you, you buffoons.
Speaker 2: But it's obviously the majority of people are looking for
Speaker 2: meaning and purpose. I mean, you go to any Barnes
Speaker 2: and Noble, the biggest sections are always like the here,
Speaker 2: here's a secret to happiness. Here, here's how not to
Speaker 2: care about anything and be awesome. I should write a
Speaker 2: book called Here's not to care about anything and be awesome.
Speaker 1: That is a great Honestly, it is a great idea.
Speaker 1: I love that idea.
Speaker 2: For be a best seller. Just going don't worry about
Speaker 2: that'd be awesome. And then figure out how to write
Speaker 2: a guitar solo on a page, on a plain novel page. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've just never looked. Yeah, maybe I'll get to it.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll get around to it when I'm done being awesome.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just what's the meaning of life? I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: The meaning of life is to live it. The meaning
Speaker 1: of life is to experience life.
Speaker 2: That's fine, That's enough for me. That's plenty. You masked Buddy.
Speaker 2: A friend of mine sent this in Josh Madden, Hey, Josh,
Speaker 2: I'm glad you listened to the podcast. Nice to see it.
Speaker 2: The live shows occasionally really appreciate you listening. Harvard is
Speaker 2: for nerds. Will Smith let out a fart so bad
Speaker 2: on Men in Black set, it had to be evacuated
Speaker 2: for three hours, for three hours.
Speaker 1: Who is quoted in this story? This is the silliest.
Speaker 2: Thing the director, What dude, This story is incredbl and
Speaker 2: I actually downloaded the director's book just based on this article.
Speaker 2: It's just written. This was in People magazine, so you
Speaker 2: know it's about people. It's about people, ripping toots.
Speaker 1: And fascinated that this was in People magazine.
Speaker 2: Big article. And if you're talking ripping toots, you're talking
Speaker 2: Angel Saunders, best in the biz. He can really or
Speaker 2: he can really? Are they who cares? The point is
Speaker 2: when I talk about rippin' toots, you get on the Sunders.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year to the entire Saunders family. Will Smith
Speaker 2: was getting gassy with it. Oh that I read that wrong.
Speaker 2: Will Smith was getting gassy with it on the set
Speaker 2: of Men in Black. According to the film's director, Barry Sonenfeld,
Speaker 2: very famous.
Speaker 1: Dirrector, very famous director.
Speaker 2: Also, I believe was the cinematographer for early Coen Brothers movies.
Speaker 2: I think I think he's the real deal. Barrysnenfeld, who
Speaker 2: directed the nineteen ninety seven intergalactic action blockbuster, which is
Speaker 2: a great movie, kurb, I watched it recently. That movie
Speaker 2: holds up really.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever watched it from tip to tail.
Speaker 2: It's a great movie.
Speaker 1: I've watched all of it, but I don't know if
Speaker 1: I've ever sat and watched the whole.
Speaker 2: Very creative, it must have, very creative, very good. And
Speaker 2: then the next one's just the same thing but just
Speaker 2: slightly different, which is smart. Appeared as a guest on
Speaker 2: le Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Rippa on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: During their conversation, released the day after Sonenfeld's new book,
Speaker 2: Best Possible Place, Where Possible Time was released. Again, I
Speaker 2: downloaded it. I'll report back, okay, he shared a little
Speaker 2: known fact about the Academy Award winner. Sonenfeld recalled that
Speaker 2: Smith and his co star Tom Lee Jones, who Poor
Speaker 2: Tray's Agent K, were filming scene together where a car
Speaker 2: they were traveling in at super high speeds transforms. To
Speaker 2: get the shot, Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith playing
Speaker 2: Agent J needed to be hermetically sealed in the pod
Speaker 2: that was being used as their mode of transportation. Oh,
Speaker 2: they were locks to prevent it from opening and falling.
Speaker 2: Sonenfeld told Kelly Rippa, I say, roll, Cameron, I hear
Speaker 2: Will Smith go, oh Jesus, so sorry, Tommy. I'm so sorry, Boz.
Speaker 2: Get the ladder and you hear Tommy saying that's fine. Will,
Speaker 2: No worries Will, don't worry Will. According to the director,
Speaker 2: he was clueless as what prompted the apologies, so he
Speaker 2: raised the ladder over. Tommy reaches his legout as the
Speaker 2: ladder's coming over, and he races down the stairs. And
Speaker 2: what happened was Will Smith is a farther son and
Speaker 2: felt alleged some people are just fartherers, which I love that.
Speaker 2: Some people are just farters. I guess yeah.
Speaker 1: They digests.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some people, it's just the way John made them. Still,
Speaker 2: still being stuck inside a very small, her medically filled
Speaker 2: space with Will Smith, fart might not be the best
Speaker 2: to play be. The enchanted director continued, you don't even
Speaker 2: want to be sitting next to him at the Disney
Speaker 2: ranch on and Feld said, I mean Barry is just
Speaker 2: going in on it. We're okay with that. We evacuate
Speaker 2: the stage for about three hours and that's incredible. No, he's,
Speaker 2: you know, a lovely guy. He just farts. Some do
Speaker 2: some don't. Great quotes this When I read this, I'm like, boy,
Speaker 2: I'm reading this book so fast.
Speaker 1: It is Also, I do wonder would could this have
Speaker 1: been a talking point on this podcast if it weren't
Speaker 1: for the slab, if he was still like the king,
Speaker 1: you know, if he was still top of the game.
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I don't think publicly publicly assaulting another person not a
Speaker 2: great thing to do. We are against all public and
Speaker 2: private assaults and also private farts, but that's a different thing.
Speaker 2: One thing Smith's gas power couldn't overpower was the film success.
Speaker 2: Men in Black, grossed five hundred and eighty four million
Speaker 2: worldwide Angel You Got Me There, becoming the third highest
Speaker 2: grossing movie of nineteen ninety seven. Smith and Sonenfeld went
Speaker 2: on to work together in Wild Wild West, the steampunk
Speaker 2: classic Wild wild West, Men in Black two, and Men
Speaker 2: in Black three. Wow.
Speaker 1: Wow, Where were you when you saw Wild wild West?
Speaker 2: Well? I probably I think that was a fourth of
Speaker 2: July movie, So I bet I was at a movie
Speaker 2: theater in Ocean City, Maryland.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 2: I think that would have been a summer Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think it would have been a summer vacation. Packed up
Speaker 2: the old Ford Taurus station wagon and probably drove it
Speaker 2: to Ocean City, Maryland, seventy five street.
Speaker 1: I was thinking, and I was trying to remember. I
Speaker 1: think you know what I was thinking of when I
Speaker 1: asked you that question, because I don't exactly know where
Speaker 1: I was in wild I was think it was in Michigan.
Speaker 1: But I remember the summer that the Willennium summer that
Speaker 1: the song.
Speaker 2: Yeah will send song mm hmm. He had to get
Speaker 2: jiggy with it, get jiggy with it was a big
Speaker 2: song for him.
Speaker 1: No, Summertime, Oh that was a great song. What year
Speaker 1: was summertime? Do was summertime out around that time?
Speaker 2: I mean ninety I would guess nineteen ninety that.
Speaker 1: Was That was the nineties, Okay, summertime. I remember that
Speaker 1: I was. I remember being in Michigan and having a tape.
Speaker 2: I think I take ninety one.
Speaker 1: That was ninety one. Damn that I that's ninety one.
Speaker 1: I was already in high school.
Speaker 2: And he's already famous. Damn.
Speaker 1: And he's already famous. Yeah, man, but he's not a
Speaker 1: movie star yet. No, No, no, No, he's a TV.
Speaker 2: Star maybe, but yeah, Summertime nineteen ninety one, My goodness.
Speaker 1: Oh god, I love that song. That's a great song.
Speaker 2: Hey, nineties hip hop is undefeated. Everybody knows this, right,
Speaker 2: everybody knows it. Nineties R and B undefeated. I watched
Speaker 2: that yacht rock documentary that's on Netflix. Yeah, and they
Speaker 2: kind of pivot into like what killed yacht rock? Michael
Speaker 2: Jackson is the answer. He was so famous that Thriller
Speaker 2: changed music and the way people made music.
Speaker 1: Oh, I agree with that. I think I was given.
Speaker 1: I was gifted Thriller by like a child at a
Speaker 1: birthday party, you know, I.
Speaker 2: Mean everybody was. I was everywhere. It was MTV, so
Speaker 2: you had to like look good. You had to be
Speaker 2: Prince and or Donner Michael Jackson, Yeah, you had you
Speaker 2: had to look awesome or Michael Jackson's Thriller. But it
Speaker 2: was cool because their quest loves on it. And a
Speaker 2: couple of the commentators are talking about how all black
Speaker 2: white didn't matter who you were. You did like certain
Speaker 2: yacht rock songs and singers, and also that there was
Speaker 2: like black yacht rock like George Benson and now Dureaux
Speaker 2: and like yeeah. Yeah, I'm like, yeah, those songs fucking good.
Speaker 2: So it was a better time, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: And and pretty soon it's just all gonna be AI
Speaker 2: making songs that hit every single thing that you actually
Speaker 2: love in a song every time you listen to it,
Speaker 2: until we just are all just staring at each other
Speaker 2: and smiling. Do you have those big over the year
Speaker 2: headphones like in life, you know, like the Apple ones?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I do.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: The reason I have them is for flights there They're
Speaker 1: noise canceling phone.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I see people walking around my neighborhood wearing those
Speaker 2: all the time by themselves, and I'm like, insane. I know,
Speaker 2: our Mountain lion is gone, but if you don't think
Speaker 2: a pack of coyotes can run up on you in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, you gotta pay attention, folks.
Speaker 1: I mean, pack co coyotes is my the least of
Speaker 1: my concerns in a city.
Speaker 2: I know, I'm being generous.
Speaker 1: Human being another human being like to publicly advertise that
Speaker 1: you cannot hear someone coming at to. What I'm saying
Speaker 1: is lunacy is lunacy.
Speaker 2: It's like I've said this before on the pod I'll
Speaker 2: say again, the people that wear flip flops in New
Speaker 2: York City. I'm like, who do you think you are?
Speaker 2: You know how many things you might have to run
Speaker 2: away from here? Yeah, you need shoes that are going
Speaker 2: to stay on those walk through.
Speaker 1: You could get a you could get a hot dog
Speaker 1: stuck in between your toes.
Speaker 2: That is easy, easily, best scenario.
Speaker 1: Best case scenario. You got a hot dog. Then you
Speaker 1: got a hot dog that's not vomit on your foot,
Speaker 1: on your foot, that's easy, thecs on your actual foot.
Speaker 2: When you're in New York City, cover those feet. People.
Speaker 2: You might have to run, you might have to fight,
Speaker 2: you might have to run a beachtirs, this isn't the beach.
Speaker 2: This isn't the beach. You could get a hot dog
Speaker 2: in your toes. Okay, think about that.
Speaker 1: I mean that could happen at the beach too, but listen,
Speaker 1: it's much more likely to happen in the subway.
Speaker 2: And then the rats come for it, because you know,
Speaker 2: rats love a hot dog when it's at toe level.
Speaker 2: It's their number one type of food. Yep, where you're
Speaker 2: gonna run, You got your flip flops on. I don't
Speaker 2: call them thongs. Some people call flip flops and sandals thongs.
Speaker 2: I think it's like, you know the generation that says
Speaker 2: slacks and swim trunks and stuff.
Speaker 1: It's an Australian thing.
Speaker 2: I don't say thongs. It just is too confusing.
Speaker 1: Also, there's a thing called a thong.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: I wonder what Australians call thombs.
Speaker 2: They call them sandals. No, I mean, I like on
Speaker 2: Valentine's Day when my girlfriend wears her sandals, it's saying, hey,
Speaker 2: you're weird. You got a foot thing.
Speaker 1: Dude, you got a foot thing.
Speaker 2: I wish I did it be easier if I did.
Speaker 1: Shay teezy into a.
Speaker 2: I would love to do some thumbs up. This is
Speaker 2: a fun app. I'm having a good time.
Speaker 1: Pizza Hut China releases Goblin pizza with a whole frog
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 2: He stopped it. I was like, is that it sounds
Speaker 2: cool with a whole frog on it? Uh? Okay. I
Speaker 2: got a bunch here because this is the beginning of
Speaker 2: the year and I'm trying to catch up, so I'm
Speaker 2: going to do as many as I can. Mm hmm okay.
Speaker 2: Baby Lungs wants to thumb her murder banana husband her
Speaker 2: murder banana husband Kevin up for achieving the status. This
Speaker 2: is a first on the pod of Master Groundwater Contractor
Speaker 2: in the National Groundwater Association. So he got It's basically
Speaker 2: like promoted or whatever. She achieved the status of Master
Speaker 2: groundwater contractor. Becoming a master means Kevin is being recognized
Speaker 2: for his exceptional knowledge and dedication to water well construction
Speaker 2: and pump installation. And apparently you get like an augusta
Speaker 2: green sport jacket to wear around at this association, at
Speaker 2: the National Groundwater Association that lets everybody know that you
Speaker 2: are a master of groundwater contracting. Wow, that comes up.
Speaker 1: That is a first. I wonder what's involved with it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Do you get a little cup like a somolier to
Speaker 1: taste the groundwater?
Speaker 2: Now that's a great idea. You just always have a
Speaker 2: person following behind you with a fresh cup of water.
Speaker 2: Once you've become a master of groundwater instruction, you could
Speaker 2: turn anywhere, anytime of day and there'll be a just
Speaker 2: a servant, a highly paid servant, handing you a fresh
Speaker 2: cup of h two um. Jake Lee says thumbs up
Speaker 2: today forgetting me to listen to bananas Jake is also
Speaker 2: thumbing himself up for getting on stage to do stand
Speaker 2: up and then getting top five in a stand up
Speaker 2: contest a week later, and now he's going to be
Speaker 2: doing or he's already doing a ten minute set and
Speaker 2: it's only a month later. Two thumbs up for Bananas
Speaker 2: for giving him writing inspiration. Thumbs up Todave for getting
Speaker 2: Jake into Bananas into Jake for trying something getting up
Speaker 2: the first times. The hardest part sounds like you're hook man.
Speaker 2: Sounds like your stand up to.
Speaker 1: Me, Yeah, that's great. Thumbs up, dude.
Speaker 2: M wants to thumb their partner a Vi l Up.
Speaker 2: Also thanks em for saying them they let me know
Speaker 2: your pronouns if I get them wrong in life and
Speaker 2: I didn't see him in the message, it's my apology.
Speaker 2: I really truly do my best. Wants to thumb their
Speaker 2: partner Aviel up Aviell graduated, got her doctorate in physical
Speaker 2: therapy and also passed her license exam. She worked really
Speaker 2: hard for five years and kicked its ass. EM also
Speaker 2: wants to thumb us up for providing a safe space
Speaker 2: for everyone and M, thank you for letting me know
Speaker 2: that you go as them I'm happy to do it.
Speaker 2: If I've ever not done it for you, when you
Speaker 2: send us a thumbs up, it just let me know
Speaker 2: I'm happy to do it. It could not be easier.
Speaker 1: It could it be easier.
Speaker 2: So thumbs up to everybody who lets me know before
Speaker 2: the fact and doesn't correct me after the fact. I'm
Speaker 2: doing my best. Here's a fun one Jax is doing.
Speaker 2: Two thumbs ups. One for the community of the Pole
Speaker 2: Academy in Greenville, South Carolina, pole dancing, Oh nice, if
Speaker 2: there's a better word than dancing, pole exercise, poll workouts, polarizing,
Speaker 2: whatever it's called. And one for our friends that I
Speaker 2: support the girls after here about I support the girls
Speaker 2: at Bananas Fest Jack's and the Pole Academy collective or
Speaker 2: collecting donations for women at a local homeless shelter Hall
Speaker 2: of December.
Speaker 1: That's awesome.
Speaker 2: That is so great. Thumbs up to you, Jack.
Speaker 1: Also, polarizing is such a good name for a pole
Speaker 1: dancing academy.
Speaker 2: Thank you. That was me panicking that I had gotten
Speaker 2: it wrong somehow, and that's the best I could do.
Speaker 2: Let me do two more. I just have so many
Speaker 2: Sorry about that, but I like them all. Here's a fun. Wow.
Speaker 2: Julia Peterson wants to thumb her nephew Jonah and his
Speaker 2: band Dead Shot up for releasing their first EP. It's
Speaker 2: called Not a Shot and it's apparently awesome, So thumbs
Speaker 2: up to Jonah and any ban animals who love music.
Speaker 2: You can check out Dead Shot and their first EP,
Speaker 2: not a Shot and Yeah. Julia says, it rules, so
Speaker 2: get into it.
Speaker 1: Shot sounds like it's a hardcore band.
Speaker 2: I hope it's yeah. And lastly, Crystal Fisher is thumbing
Speaker 2: herself up this one. Crystal has gone through it. Kurt,
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna give everybody the heads up. But Crystal's
Speaker 2: really gone through it. She's being She's clean and sober
Speaker 2: now for seven years, and she made it through a divorce,
Speaker 2: a house fire where she lost everything, COVID, caring for
Speaker 2: her father before he passed away, being audited, having a
Speaker 2: vehicle repossessed, also tearing for her mother. Crystal's had a
Speaker 2: bumpy road, but she's really proud of herself for staying sober,
Speaker 2: staying clean, and also getting her nursing license, returning to
Speaker 2: work as a registered nurse.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, awesome.
Speaker 2: I know, And Crystal says, even when I'm when I'm
Speaker 2: in the bad, I look for good in life. Crystal,
Speaker 2: Crystal credible thumbs up to you, Crystal, you deserve it.
Speaker 2: And also, let's go banana the week. We haven't done
Speaker 2: it for a while. Crystal Fisher, You're the banana of
Speaker 2: the week of the week. Keep marching forward, stay clean,
Speaker 2: keep working. You're doing great. Blue skies are coming.
Speaker 1: United States Government. As a person who has been audited
Speaker 1: four separate times where I actually incorporated, I stop auditing people.
Speaker 2: It's the worst.
Speaker 1: It's don't who aren't billionaires audit billionaires. It should be auditing.
Speaker 1: Don't audit one hundred thousand people who are making under
Speaker 1: a two hundred thousand dollars a year audit four billionaires,
Speaker 1: and then you get your money, like god damn it.
Speaker 1: It makes me so angry that they only target They
Speaker 1: only target people like normal people who are just struggling
Speaker 1: to get by. But the four times I got audited,
Speaker 1: I was probably making seventy five thousand dollars a year,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And they audited me over
Speaker 1: and over and over again because I had all these
Speaker 1: expenses that looked I could explain them all, but it
Speaker 1: was hours and hours and hours of work every year.
Speaker 2: Also, seventy five thousand dollars in New York City, there's
Speaker 2: a big difference, like seventy five thousand dollars in certain towns.
Speaker 2: You're like, hey, you're sitting pretty high on the hall
Speaker 2: in New York when half that money goes away, and
Speaker 2: then you also have agent, lawyer or manager, you're keeping
Speaker 2: thirty percent of what you make.
Speaker 1: Yeah, easily, it's very difficult.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yeah, yeah, go get the big guys.
Speaker 1: Go get the big guys. Also, I have a correction
Speaker 1: to issue. Great I think two episodes ago talking about
Speaker 1: the the fundraising that we're doing for people in Ashville
Speaker 1: that was created by Model Face Comedy. Correct and I
Speaker 1: incorrectly gendered Model Face Comedy as a dude, and I.
Speaker 2: Apologize, so sorry, it is a she.
Speaker 1: And so again that is still posted on our stories
Speaker 1: at people in Nashville still need help, so we will
Speaker 1: repost it again today. But please go and give what
Speaker 1: you can.
Speaker 2: That's wonderful, Thank you, Kurtie B. And here it is
Speaker 2: it back into it.
Speaker 1: This was a next Shark, love a next Shark.
Speaker 2: I know this article is quite a bit actually.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pizza Hut China.
Speaker 2: Releases right Goblin.
Speaker 1: Release Goblin Face pizza top with fried hold frog here.
Speaker 1: This was written by Brian Ka. Thank you, Brian. Pineapple
Speaker 1: on a pizza may sound not so bad to some
Speaker 1: now after Pizza hut China released a pizza top with
Speaker 1: a whole frog announced on Pizza hut China's we chat
Speaker 1: on November eighteenth. The other Worldly menu, launched in collaboration
Speaker 1: with ten Cent for the game Dungeon and Fighter Origins,
Speaker 1: was released on Thursday and will be available nationwide until
Speaker 1: December nineteenth, so it's already gone right. Dubbed the Goblin Pizza,
Speaker 1: the pizza contained a deep fried whole bullflog resting on
Speaker 1: coriander with halm. I mean, it's so terrifying looking. Listen
Speaker 1: to this with halved hard boiled eggs and black olives
Speaker 1: serving as its eyes. So imagine a pizza and then
Speaker 1: it has eyeballs, bulging white eyeballs with black olives as
Speaker 1: the eyes, and then the nose is the body of
Speaker 1: the frog, and then its legs are doing kind of
Speaker 1: a mouth shape.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's a not a pizza. Whatever want
Speaker 2: to eat? I like all food.
Speaker 1: It's terrifying looking dub the Goblin pizza. Frog legs are
Speaker 1: considered a common dish Southern China, dating back as far
Speaker 1: as the first century. They're pretty common in a lot
Speaker 1: of different places.
Speaker 2: I was shot.
Speaker 1: I was surprised to find out.
Speaker 2: We ordered.
Speaker 1: We went to Carousel, you know that that Armenium place.
Speaker 1: It's delightful, like just there you can get like a
Speaker 1: party platter or whatever for the table, and it comes
Speaker 1: with frog legs. And it wasn't until I was like
Speaker 1: halfway in going this is this chicken?
Speaker 2: What is this?
Speaker 1: Because they were like fried, you know, yeah, And then
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, these are frog legs. And I
Speaker 1: was like, well look at that. Now I've had them.
Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't realize you hadn't had them before. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a that's a crazy topping for a pizza. And
Speaker 2: also I guess it is pizza hut. I didn't realize
Speaker 2: they would do such a viral marketing in China. But
Speaker 2: what do I know?
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Anything about marketing and China. Who am I kidding? I'm
Speaker 2: a total bozo when it comes to these things. But
Speaker 2: I will say that does sound disgusting, even just hard
Speaker 2: boiled eggs on pizza that alone would be a goblin pizza,
Speaker 2: and I like a hard boiled egg.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's what I'll say. We're not judging anybody's culture.
Speaker 1: We're just saying, let's not have bones on pizza.
Speaker 2: You don't need bones on pizza.
Speaker 1: Let's not have a ton of bones on pizza. So
Speaker 1: that seems to be rule number.
Speaker 2: One about pizza.
Speaker 1: You want to be able to just eat it without
Speaker 1: a ton of a ton of little bones in your mouth.
Speaker 2: That's true. You just want to be able to fold
Speaker 2: it and chew it and not swallow an animal's bones.
Speaker 2: That seems like a fair thing. Yeah, that's a fair
Speaker 2: cut off for judging a pizza. The value of a pizza,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I like, Elie is going through a
Speaker 2: pizza renaissance right now. In every direction there's a new
Speaker 2: pizza place and they're all good. And when I moved
Speaker 2: out here, when you moved out here, people were like,
Speaker 2: the pizza here sucks, it's terrible, it's awful, And now,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, it is. So it's actually like overwhelming
Speaker 2: where you're like, I'm kind of sick of eating pizza.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And also and like the fact that like new
Speaker 1: York was always just it's the water, you can't recreate it.
Speaker 1: And it's like, no, it has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: the water. You totally can recreate it. That's what I
Speaker 1: always didn't understand. It's like, why don't people who live
Speaker 1: in New York who know how to do this come
Speaker 1: here and live here and it's a very pleasant place
Speaker 1: to live and make great pizza. And now they have yeah,
Speaker 1: and it is a delight.
Speaker 2: It is late to be here.
Speaker 1: Really, La is experiencing a food renaissance, I would say
Speaker 1: right now, because I remember living in New York where
Speaker 1: it would be like you could kind of just go
Speaker 1: wherever and end up getting a pretty good meal, great
Speaker 1: like a random sushi place that you've never heard of.
Speaker 1: Before you sit down, you're like, that was good sushi
Speaker 1: in La. It wasn't that way when we moved here
Speaker 1: twelve years ago. You would go to a random place
Speaker 1: and be like, what is this? This is horrible.
Speaker 2: You'd go to a popular place that it would be horrible.
Speaker 2: It just things change. There's a big takeaway from this episode.
Speaker 2: It's things change, sometimes good, sometimes bad. Sometimes they're deep
Speaker 2: frying a frog and tossing it on your delicious pizza
Speaker 2: pie for really no reason.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Be awesome, It doesn't matter, be awesome. This one. Magali
Speaker 2: sent this in Migaully Peaches, who we married at Bananas
Speaker 2: Fest to Alex Hey, hey, you guys rule longtime listener,
Speaker 2: friend of the show woman starts fires during wildfire season
Speaker 2: to flirt with firemen. Oh lord, I know we're right
Speaker 2: in the middle. There's Malibu fires right right now now,
Speaker 2: and the smoke outside my house was pretty bad yesterday.
Speaker 1: It's pretty bad today here here in at Water Newsweek.
Speaker 2: Uh oh, and ask that's a cool name. My apologies
Speaker 2: to Anezka pick Oh, there's an R in here. That's tough, okay, Picturetva.
Speaker 2: I'm going Pickertova, Pickertova, p I c h R t
Speaker 2: O v A. The R in there got me. I
Speaker 2: thought it was just pictova are picturetova Azka is a
Speaker 2: very cool name.
Speaker 1: Hmmm.
Speaker 2: I like that. A woman from the Greek town of
Speaker 2: Tripoli has been accused of intentionally starting fires because she
Speaker 2: liked watching the firemen work and wanted to have a
Speaker 2: chance to flirt with them. Oh why does that get
Speaker 2: me so good? That is just such a disconnect for reality.
Speaker 2: She was arrested and sentenced the three years in prison
Speaker 2: and a fine of people. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It seems like, yeah, I mean I'm imagining they're little fires,
Speaker 1: large fires.
Speaker 2: That's right. I guess it's the size of the fire
Speaker 2: you're imagining. But it's an island. You might get stuck. Cool, yes,
Speaker 2: and a fine. Oh no, I guess she was just
Speaker 2: in Tripoli. I thought she was on an island. There
Speaker 2: are a lot of Grecian islands. She was arrested. Oh
Speaker 2: and find one eleven dollars, which was like a joke.
Speaker 1: That's a really funny number. Hopefully it's an eleven sense.
Speaker 2: At eleven seit's to be paid November eleventh on according eleven,
Speaker 2: Did you ever kiss our dat? Anybody that would kiss
Speaker 2: their hand and then kiss the clock when in the
Speaker 2: car went set eleven eleven?
Speaker 1: No, but I definitely would. Eleven eleven was definitely important
Speaker 1: to me in my high school time. It would just
Speaker 1: be like everybody, it's a solemn moment, make a wish.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was a wishing time. There was a big
Speaker 2: thing in Maryland, at least when I was in high school,
Speaker 2: where it's like the girls would kiss the clock, kiss
Speaker 2: their hand, kiss the clock in the car, or they
Speaker 2: would kiss their hand and kiss the and to touch
Speaker 2: their hand to the roof of the car at eleven.
Speaker 2: That's patental rules. Yeah, well we do things different down there.
Speaker 2: The woman committed acts of arson in August, setting two
Speaker 2: farming areas near Tripoli on fire. The fire brigade was
Speaker 2: able to quickly extinguish the blaze in both cases. Local
Speaker 2: TV channel Ski Skai reported that the firefighters were suspicious
Speaker 2: of the woman as she had appeared at both scenes.
Speaker 1: Hey what are you guys doing? This is a fire here?
Speaker 2: Just looking great, holding fluid? Yeah, just burnt hands, no eyebrows,
Speaker 2: his eyebrows sinched off, eyelashes blowing away like ashes. She
Speaker 2: blinks at them. I sound like a good blink at you.
Speaker 2: They were suspicious because the woman appeared both scenes. They
Speaker 2: brought her in for questioning, and she reportedly told them
Speaker 2: she started the fire to flirt with the men who
Speaker 2: came to put them out. The woman reportedly wasn't looking
Speaker 2: for any specific man, but wanted to meet someone wearing
Speaker 2: a uniform, per the outlet. The channel added that this
Speaker 2: was an easy way for her to do that, so
Speaker 2: starting a fire is usually a great way to get
Speaker 2: fireman's attention if I am in at a difficult job
Speaker 2: putting out the fires down as it was near a
Speaker 2: residential area and a lot of people showed up to watch.
Speaker 2: According to the Greek reporter, starting wildfire, even by accident,
Speaker 2: is a criminal offense. Minister for Climate Crisis Vasillis Achillius
Speaker 2: announced it on June as a warning that even a
Speaker 2: small fire can cause large damage during wildfire season, which
Speaker 2: is very true in California. I mean, I'm looking out
Speaker 2: the window now and it is kind of gray and
Speaker 2: yellow out. The time to stay inside the blaze. Greece
Speaker 2: is also currently battling an extreme drought. I think that's
Speaker 2: the main thing.
Speaker 1: So so three years in the cliff though, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's serious.
Speaker 2: That's serious.
Speaker 1: Just to meet a man in uniform, I tell you
Speaker 1: that whole idea of it's different women finding men attractive
Speaker 1: if they're wearing a uniform. I don't think it's I
Speaker 1: don't think it's across the board, of course, because I'm
Speaker 1: a referee for the Olive soccer team and that uniform
Speaker 1: it is definitively a uniform. It is long, black socks,
Speaker 1: black shorts, a bright yellow shirt tucked in in a
Speaker 1: black baseball hat, and that is the I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody is excited about that man.
Speaker 2: In that Yes, yeah, I think I think that's not exactly.
Speaker 1: The uniform they were thinking of, not the.
Speaker 2: One that women like a man in uniform. But what
Speaker 2: do I know, maybe that does drive somebody absolutely bananas.
Speaker 1: Who knows, well, folks, that's another episode of Bananas. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for listening to this podcast. Thank you
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Speaker 1: time employee, and Katie Levine, who is our wonderful and
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Speaker 2: Thank you Scotty, Thank you Kurty B. I'm looking forward
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