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Speaker 1: Billion pieces.

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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, gather ye round the old radio speakers because

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Speaker 2: it's time for Banana's minisode. I am Banana Boy number

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Speaker 2: two Scotti Landis.

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Speaker 3: I am Kerk Brown Owler. Welcome to a minisode where

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Speaker 3: we take your stories, tell our stories on top of them.

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Speaker 2: We have we have a little bit of fun. Today's

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Speaker 2: a momentous occasion, Kirk because after seven years of my

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Speaker 2: company is called Mudflap Incorporated. That's what I write for

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Speaker 2: the bank that I use. When they issued me my

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Speaker 2: corporate cards, my credit cards, a debit card, and checks

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Speaker 2: had a typo it said mud Lap, no f mud Lap.

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Speaker 2: I went in person three times. I said this is

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Speaker 2: not the name of my company. Every my accountant every

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Speaker 2: year when we do taxes is like, you have to

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Speaker 2: get this change, and I say, I am literally at

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Speaker 2: the source, and they won't do it. Today I just

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Speaker 2: got new checks and they say Mudflap and not mud lap.

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Speaker 2: Mudud lounds like everybody got dysentery on a cruise ship.

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Speaker 2: And it's a huge I don't know what changed in

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Speaker 2: the system, but I don't know seven years later, six

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Speaker 2: years later, six.

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Speaker 3: Years so you've been having a card just handing it

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Speaker 3: over as mud lap this whole time.

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Speaker 2: Mud lap when I signed checks, like if somebody does

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Speaker 2: any work for me and I write them an actual

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Speaker 2: physical paper check, mud lap incorporated. Now we're mudflap. I

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Speaker 2: feel like I've arrived.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, welcome. You've taken enough mud laps around the dirty pool,

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Speaker 3: and now you can mudflap it down the road.

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Speaker 2: That's right, I drun.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you got some, you got some, you got

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Speaker 3: some for.

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Speaker 2: So we put out some topics or some confessions. The confessions,

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Speaker 2: as always, are anonymous. We don't see your name. We're

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Speaker 2: pretty wild, so we will almost always absolve you of

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Speaker 2: your sins. But yeah, I got a lot. And the

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Speaker 2: topics were neighbor revenge, neighbor revenge or I think wedding

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Speaker 2: stories or wedding disasters.

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Speaker 3: I got a good neighbor revenge one here too, So

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Speaker 3: you go first, You go first.

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Speaker 2: Okay, this might be a stretch on neighbor revenge, but

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Speaker 2: since it's kind of a bathroom stall neighbor situation, I'm

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Speaker 2: sending it. Hopefully this topic isn't too girly for you guys. Okay,

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Speaker 2: we'll see, we'll see. Nothing's too girly. No way, We're

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Speaker 2: the girliest guys there are. The restroom at work had

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Speaker 2: a tampon machine, but rather than waste money on the machine,

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Speaker 2: I would bring in a small pouch of them and

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Speaker 2: leave it on top of the machine for my own use.

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Speaker 2: One day I needed them and took down the pouch

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Speaker 2: need to find that they were all gone. Also, a

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Speaker 2: lot of women will tell me. A lot of my

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Speaker 2: female friends say that women are huge kleptomaniacs, that they

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Speaker 2: steal from each other all the time. Clothes, earrings from

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Speaker 2: players in the nineteen nineties, CDs from Strawberry or Sam Goody.

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Speaker 3: Anyways, Strawberry, Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, remember that. Seriously, any woman who would do that

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Speaker 2: to another woman deserved retaliation. That night, at home, I

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Speaker 2: took a tampon, carefully opened the package, removed the insides,

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Speaker 2: and replaced it with torn up cotton balls, which I

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Speaker 2: then poked down inside the tube. I took a bit

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Speaker 2: of glue and resealed the package. Put a new tampon

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Speaker 2: into the pouch on top of the machine at work. Wow,

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Speaker 2: if you can't beat them, join them. It took only

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Speaker 2: twenty four hours for the pouch to get emptied. I

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Speaker 2: never got the pleasure of seeing the disastrous result, but

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Speaker 2: having spent the last ten years laughing at the picture

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Speaker 2: of this in my head. Needless to say, I never

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Speaker 2: had another tampon stolen out of that pouch signed a

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Speaker 2: wicked bananimal. Uh, pretty great, Pretty great. So first of all,

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Speaker 2: you're absolved what you did. You didn't do anything wrong.

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Speaker 3: I just wonder. I just wonder, like, and on the

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Speaker 3: limited knowledge of tampons that I have, wouldn't the person

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Speaker 3: notice there was no string hanging out the bottom? That's

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Speaker 3: what I just wonder. Would it have actually been a

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Speaker 3: full goof Also what happens package? But I mean like, sure,

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Speaker 3: the care to put so cotton balls inside the applicator.

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Speaker 3: That's the part, Like what would happen if that if

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Speaker 3: you did just put a bunch of cotton balls inside yourself?

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Speaker 2: What probably would they work for a little bit?

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Speaker 3: It would look for a little bit, right, but then

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Speaker 2: Is that not great?

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Speaker 3: Like I'm gonna try to fully understand, like if the

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Speaker 3: prank went perfectly, what are the results? Do you know

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Speaker 3: the the anas understand understanding ranks.

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Speaker 2: Good it is uh And I have always liked those

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Speaker 2: in my house in Brooklyn, I put a little note

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Speaker 2: under the door that says I'm waiting for you. And

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Speaker 2: I've done that in La too, so that if anybody's

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Speaker 2: under my locket says I'm waiting for you, just to

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Speaker 2: make them go like, what's happening here? But I really

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Speaker 2: do like, I think that's like such a funny way

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Speaker 2: to handle it. Instead of like walking out in the

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Speaker 2: office being like, who's been stealing my tampons? You just

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Speaker 2: slowly sabotage somebody and then it lets them know that

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Speaker 2: you know what they did was wrong. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: These also when someone broke in, are you talking about them?

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Speaker 3: What time when you were home and you heard someone

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Speaker 3: come in and you just yelled at them?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I did.

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Speaker 3: Wonder about that. I always wonder if that if that

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Speaker 3: was that was during the.

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Speaker 2: Day though, right it was eleven am Labor Day thing,

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Speaker 2: which it was a Friday, eleven am, which the later

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Speaker 2: somebody break into your home.

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Speaker 3: Interesting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was sitting there on my bed and

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Speaker 2: I thought it was my then girlfriend or our mutual

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Speaker 2: friend Chris used to be my old roommate. And the

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Speaker 2: man opened my bedroom door and was standing in my door,

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Speaker 2: somebody I've never seen before, and he was backlit, so

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Speaker 2: I went after him, and I wanted I've told this

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Speaker 2: But I was so pumped up with adrenaline. I grabbed

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Speaker 2: let's go crap that every unoriginal person in the world

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Speaker 2: yells all the time. Now ah, let's go, And that

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Speaker 2: It was but then I was like, I switched the locks.

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Speaker 2: But now I was like, I have to mess with

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Speaker 2: this person's head. I did the same thing, same apartment building.

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Speaker 2: Someone I don't I'd never figured out who was was

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Speaker 2: peeing in the elevator.

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Speaker 3: Oh man, And that was such a like a tiny

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and and it we know, we had complained about it,

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Speaker 2: and we told management, but they don't have cameras in

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Speaker 3: We still remember, I still remember the sound and smell

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Speaker 3: of your elevator. Yeah, that like it was like a

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Speaker 2: Like wow, wamp wamp, waw wamp.

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Speaker 3: And it smelt like just like like it had been

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Speaker 3: peed in a lot of times but then cleaned, meticulously clean.

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Speaker 3: But then but still still someone had peed in it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and so I you know, after a month, and

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Speaker 2: it probably happened four or five times, and we knew

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Speaker 2: guy of course, yes, yeah, yeah, So I put a

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Speaker 2: notice in there that was like thank you to the

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Speaker 2: person with the extremely small penis who continues to pee

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Speaker 2: in here. We all love it. We understand you can't

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Speaker 2: It's a six floor building. It wasn't like you somebody

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Speaker 2: had to ride two hundred stories and it never happened again.

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Speaker 2: I just think insulting his manhood in like a complimentary

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Speaker 2: the new you know, hung like a whale, who knows,

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Speaker 2: but it was enough to mess with the person's psyche.

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Speaker 2: So bravo to this Bananamal for just retaliating in the

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Speaker 2: simplest and most like diabolical way.

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Speaker 3: I love the idea, or to go back to what

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Speaker 3: you saying, fucking go, yeah, I would. Last time I

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Speaker 3: Like that's the amount of time that I had. And

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Speaker 3: so I had just gotten my bagel. I'd be a

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Speaker 3: zoomed right by me and just like yelled at me,

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Speaker 3: and he immediately screamed back, no, you fuck yourself. I

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Speaker 3: me going like I'm scared too, and then him being like,

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Speaker 3: I'm more scared. And how nice would it be if

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Speaker 3: we could just have said that as men, you know,

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Speaker 2: You scared me? I'm sorry, I am embarrassed now, and

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 3: Instead, it's all just like watch yourself, fuck yourself. No't

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Speaker 3: fuck you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that. And that's New York and like

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Speaker 2: it's what. It's a city of ten million people who've

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Speaker 2: never been wrong about anything ever.

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Speaker 3: It was right near it was right near Le Bagel Delight.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sorry La Bagel Delee. I like to

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Speaker 2: You know, why did I ever think of that? La

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Speaker 2: Bagel Delee? Great bagels, More cream cheeses than you could

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Speaker 2: ever imagine.

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Speaker 3: So many cream cheeses of things that you don't even want.

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Speaker 3: They're just like, this is sage in raspberry cream cheese.

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Speaker 3: You're like I don't want it.

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Speaker 2: Where were we when because we were talking about this recently,

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Speaker 2: the New York's efficiency, which I think a lot of

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Speaker 2: people think is rudeness, but it's really not. It's just

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Speaker 2: the sheer number of people. Yeah, a bagel place can

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Speaker 2: go through in an hour is just insanely fast, and

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Speaker 2: they're efficient, and it's like, what do you want? Okay,

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Speaker 2: step up there, you pay, and here's your napkins, and go.

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Speaker 2: But you were saying that you like, ordered a bagel

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Speaker 2: somewhere when we were on tour recently, and it took

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Speaker 2: the woman like twenty five minutes to make the bagel,

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Speaker 2: and then you asked for the coffee and it was

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Speaker 2: like that took more time and you're just standing there.

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Speaker 2: Was it take homa? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Was it taco? I cannot remember?

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Speaker 2: Funny though, because it was the exact LA is really

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Speaker 3: That was. That's so great. Pay your pay people, pay people.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, you have a second home. If you have a

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Speaker 3: one hundred percent more than they asked. Absolutely, you have

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Speaker 2: That's pretty good retaliation too, because I'm sure those guys

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Speaker 3: And we're trying to capture a skunk and we I

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Speaker 2: And the turkeys. I think we actually gave those smug

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Speaker 2: Is it is books.

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Speaker 3: I want to thank you everybody, like Katie Levine for

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Speaker 3: being our producer.

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Speaker 2: And a maggot who helps us organized these emails that

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Speaker 2: come in. And uh, thanks to all the beloved bananimals

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Speaker 2: for constantly whenever we ask you guys for something, you

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Speaker 2: send it quick to volunteer, you send us unexpected bananas,

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Speaker 2: you send us confessions, you come to the live shows,

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Speaker 2: you buy the merch. You guys are great fans and

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Speaker 2: we really are delighted, pleasantly surprised, and very grateful for

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Speaker 2: all of you. Bananas Bananas is an exactly right media production.

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Speaker 3: Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.

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Speaker 2: The catchy Bananas theme song was composed and performed by Kahon.

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Speaker 3: Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard and.

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Speaker 2: Our benevolent overlords are the great Karen Kilgareff and Georgia.

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Speaker 3: Hartstart and Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a

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Speaker 3: robot intern.

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Speaker 2: You can listen, subscribe, and leave us reviews for Bananas

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Speaker 2: on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

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Speaker 2: quality podcast and don't forget.

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Speaker 3: You can hear every episode one week early and ad free,

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