Speaker 1: Scott you ready?
Speaker 2: Oh you know, I was born ready, born, ready to
Speaker 2: laugh and laugh and laugh.
Speaker 3: Woman who sued company for not giving her a farewell
Speaker 3: card finds out they did buy a card, but almost
Speaker 3: no one signed it.
Speaker 2: Oh, I see what's going on there. Well, we're not
Speaker 2: gonna mail in this episode. We're gonna lick every stamp, dot,
Speaker 2: every t, cross, every eye. It's a brand new bananas
Speaker 2: licking every stamp.
Speaker 4: Would you billion pieces? Would you?
Speaker 3: Guys, gals, non binary pals, welcome to Bananas, trans.
Speaker 2: Friends, gay friends, everybody out there, You're all welcome here.
Speaker 2: We love you, and we're glad you spend your your
Speaker 2: hour commute with us. Maybe you're washing dishes, maybe you're gardening,
Speaker 2: maybe you're walking the dog. We're happy to have you
Speaker 2: as bananimals and glad you could join us because this
Speaker 2: is just gonna be a great episode.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's Scotti Landis right over there.
Speaker 2: That's my dude, Kurt Brown. Oller, Kurtie B. What's happening?
Speaker 2: How are you? Did you carve pumpkins already? Did you
Speaker 2: vote already?
Speaker 3: I have not carved pumpkins. I have not voted, although
Speaker 3: I will be voting. Vote early I encourage everyone to vote.
Speaker 2: Vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote vote folks, vote early.
Speaker 1: Vote vote folks. It's maybe our last time.
Speaker 2: I voted real early. Mine's already in the ballot box.
Speaker 2: The joy of putting it in there, you know, you
Speaker 2: got you gotta really like how you probably airplane food
Speaker 2: into your it's house when they're little. I are playing
Speaker 2: that ballot right in there, so everybody in Los Felis
Speaker 2: sees it happening here, right ya? Oopsie, democracy on the
Speaker 2: march over here.
Speaker 3: What a treat, What a crazy treat that we get
Speaker 3: to vote. I think it's I love it. I love voting,
Speaker 3: and I want to do it for forever. So let's
Speaker 3: all do it now. I am excited Hot tub.
Speaker 1: Is coming to a close.
Speaker 2: Crazy.
Speaker 3: I have hosted a weekly variety stand up show for
Speaker 3: twenty years now. Almost twenty February will be twenty wow,
Speaker 3: and so you know it's like the last few. You're
Speaker 3: coming tonight. That's so exciting.
Speaker 1: I told them.
Speaker 2: Coming to a couple of them, Man, are you coming
Speaker 2: to November sixth? Also?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Cool?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're coming tonight, and I think Joan is gonna
Speaker 3: be there. I told Lauren that you guys were coming,
Speaker 3: and she's coming now too. It's going to be like, oh,
Speaker 3: be really fun. I'm really looking forward to it. We
Speaker 3: got a nice new sketch that we wrote, and yeah,
Speaker 3: it'll be enjoyable. But it's a lot of feelings, you know,
Speaker 3: of like having made something for twenty years and then
Speaker 3: and putting it to bed.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think people so a lot of our listeners,
Speaker 2: I mean a lot are comedy fans of yours from
Speaker 2: back in the New York days. But I don't think
Speaker 2: our ban animals. Because this podcast is only four years young.
Speaker 2: Understand what a big show Hot Tub was in the
Speaker 2: two thousands in New York. And that's how I met
Speaker 2: Kurt and Kristen is I was became a super fan
Speaker 2: and would go to every single week. But I saw everybody.
Speaker 2: And this was before Kurt and Kristen really had punched
Speaker 2: into entertainment. They were just people that were hosting this
Speaker 2: weekly show where they would write original sketches and kind
Speaker 2: of like stories while also hosting clowns, jugglers, great comics, musicians.
Speaker 2: It was sketch performers, character performers. It was such a
Speaker 2: big deal that a lot of other comics who are
Speaker 2: now successful actors and writers. They started variety show in
Speaker 2: the vein of Hot Tub, but you guys really were
Speaker 2: the first to relaunch that format in New York. So honestly,
Speaker 2: congratulations twenty years. Very impressive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like it's it's also to put an
Speaker 3: end to something purposefully, because I do feel like the
Speaker 3: I mean, the pandemic had killed all you know, live comedy,
Speaker 3: and so we could have just let it die, you know,
Speaker 3: but it just felt so unjust to this thing that
Speaker 3: we'd put so many thousands of hours into to just
Speaker 3: die without even a whimper, just silently disappear.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: So it's been fits felt good to force it with
Speaker 3: might and will back into existence. Yeah, with a lot
Speaker 3: of blood and sweated, and kill it properly and permanent.
Speaker 2: It's that permanent record. So catch one of these last shows.
Speaker 2: If you're in southern California visiting La go see some
Speaker 2: of these last Hot Tub shows. Permanent Records is a
Speaker 2: fun venue. It's where gen Z millennials interact. So it's
Speaker 2: where I get to go see what gen Z is
Speaker 2: up to. They're doing fine, they're doing they're doing fine.
Speaker 3: And then I just walk around as the only gen
Speaker 3: x er other than the owner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hello, folks, nice to see ya.
Speaker 2: Hey, kids smoking cigarettes, huh cool?
Speaker 1: I love those.
Speaker 2: I know, I am curious. It's like it's fun to
Speaker 2: see the the youth. It's fun to see the twenty one,
Speaker 2: twenty two, twenty three year olds drinking like PBR similar
Speaker 2: highlights and be like, oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, I
Speaker 2: remember those days. It's you when you walked up to
Speaker 2: the bartender and said, what's your cheapest beer? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Man, do that again, just get always get the cheapest beer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's your cheapest beer? How are you?
Speaker 1: What's going on in your life?
Speaker 2: Pal? Oh, let me think if I have anything interesting
Speaker 2: to say. Dude, Oh, I I joined a gym, so
Speaker 2: get ready. I'm I got a clean bill of health.
Speaker 2: My doctor's like, Scott, you're healthy. I'm like great, And
Speaker 2: she's like, you need to work out now as like
Speaker 2: free weights, like weightlifting, not cardio. Yeah, because she's like,
Speaker 2: it's get as strong as you can in the next
Speaker 2: five years, because when you turn seventy you're going to
Speaker 2: be half as strong as that. And so I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: let's get to it. So I'm I'm three days into
Speaker 2: the gym, and I gotta say I missed it and
Speaker 2: I love it. And if I can get comically ripped,
Speaker 2: I'm going to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel the same way.
Speaker 3: I'm very excited. I like, I really like weightlifting. I've
Speaker 3: been like talking to Kumal about it and he's been
Speaker 3: giving me like tips and stuff, and I'm like.
Speaker 2: He's a whole different that dude. Is Like it's funny
Speaker 2: when I see him now and give him a hug.
Speaker 2: It's just like and I'm holding a bag of cement
Speaker 2: and I'm letting go of a bag of cement. It
Speaker 2: really is to me. And he's like, and this is
Speaker 2: a sock full of mayonnaise, and I'm letting go of
Speaker 2: a sock full of mayonnaise. So I would like him
Speaker 2: to its good.
Speaker 3: I would like him to one day just throw me
Speaker 3: across a room, like do you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: Just like into a couch or something somewhere pleasant. But
Speaker 3: just I bet you he could easily do it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he could.
Speaker 2: I'm just in like, man, I'm really busy. Oh I
Speaker 2: have this one thing I might let's see. So when
Speaker 2: I was in I've been pitching these movies and I
Speaker 2: was pitching when I was on vacation, and I'm having
Speaker 2: this new experience that feels so good, where because the
Speaker 2: industry is constricting so much, I now feel less like
Speaker 2: I'm pitching to overlords, and now I'm pitching to people
Speaker 2: that are like, can you help us? Oh, can you
Speaker 2: help me save my job? Whereas before I always felt
Speaker 2: for the last yeah, how long I've been doing this
Speaker 2: thirteen fourteen years. Yeah, for the last fourteen years, every
Speaker 2: TV and movie pitch I ever went on, I felt like, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm the underdog. Yeah, they hold the keys to the
Speaker 2: city and I have to get them to green light
Speaker 2: my ideas and me as a person. And now still
Speaker 2: the case for some of the projects. But all of
Speaker 2: a sudden this fall, especially the last few weeks, I
Speaker 2: feel like people are like, hey, man, can you can
Speaker 2: you bring that in? And then when I pitch, they're like,
Speaker 2: thank you so much for bringing this to us. We
Speaker 2: are really excited about this and working with you, and
Speaker 2: that the pivot is I think now that so many
Speaker 2: people are getting laid off and fired and there's just
Speaker 2: not as much work at the moment. Yeah, people are
Speaker 2: actually not just being royal assholes all the time and
Speaker 2: it feels incredible.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. That is such a that's like for those
Speaker 1: of you who don't, like, aren't in this world. That
Speaker 1: is a huge deal.
Speaker 3: Scotty is in like the top, like the top one
Speaker 3: percent of people who do this. Now, like for that
Speaker 3: to be that ninety nine percent of people walk in
Speaker 3: there and they're like, Yeah, what do you got You're
Speaker 3: wasting The vibe in the room is always friendly. It's friendly,
Speaker 3: but it's also you're also wasting my time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true. And in the old school way before zoom.
Speaker 2: So all pitching is over zoom now for all your
Speaker 2: aspiring writers and movie screenwriters out there. But now, so,
Speaker 2: you used to be able to pitch at a you
Speaker 2: walked into a room in a building, very shocking, and
Speaker 2: you'd sit at a conference table a lot of time,
Speaker 2: or in the office of an executive. Yeah, and then
Speaker 2: your job was to be basically to have memorized your
Speaker 2: whole pitch, and you'd pitch either the entire movie, meaning
Speaker 2: like kind of the main five to seven beats, have jokes,
Speaker 2: have it timed out, have it charming, introduce yourself in
Speaker 2: it while you're doing the project, and you could get
Speaker 2: thirty minutes. They'd give you thirty minutes if it was
Speaker 2: a really deep pitch.
Speaker 3: And that's not a thirty minute pitch. Your pitch should
Speaker 3: be fifteen yeah, and now and then chat about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and now over zoom. When I pitch these movies,
Speaker 2: I mean it is it is like it's about a
Speaker 2: dog that turns it to a man that becomes a
Speaker 2: fireman who befriends the Dalmatian. That's the movie. And they're like, great,
Speaker 2: let's do it. Or they're like not at all, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, it's called fire Boy and it's in theaters this,
Speaker 2: you know, it's like so quick, and I think we're
Speaker 2: saving time. But yes, now it feels more like an agreement.
Speaker 2: They're happy I'm there instead of being like, like you said, like,
Speaker 2: what's up, dork? Yeah, what horrible idea you're about to
Speaker 2: pitch me. I'm gonna look at my phone the whole time. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I had a guy at CBS fall asleep on me
Speaker 2: ty eighteen.
Speaker 3: Just in twenty eighteen, he fell asleep in the pitch.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was pitching with our former guest and star
Speaker 2: of Ghost on CBS, Sheila Carrasco, who we love, and
Speaker 2: Sheila and I had a pitch and we took it
Speaker 2: in and in the pitch, one of the executives was
Speaker 2: nodding off. His eyes were closing, kind of like a
Speaker 2: freshman in college during a really boring class. And I
Speaker 2: was like, and you just keep going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't call him out, because if you call
Speaker 3: him out, there's no way, there's no way that it's
Speaker 3: getting made.
Speaker 2: But it's like the equivalent if you were at a
Speaker 2: bar and you saw somebody and you were like, that's
Speaker 2: an attractive person. I'm single. I hope they're single. I'm
Speaker 2: going to go talk to them and ask them out.
Speaker 2: And then as you walked towards them, they jogged away
Speaker 2: at the same speed that you were walking. And then
Speaker 2: you just walked around the bar with them jogging away
Speaker 2: from you. That's what it felt like pitching with Sheila,
Speaker 2: who's a star and now on a hit TV show.
Speaker 3: Also, if you were always, at any time you were
Speaker 3: pitching inside a executive's office, the place you had to
Speaker 3: sit was on a couch. The couches were always were big.
Speaker 3: We're big guys, And there's two things about those couches. One,
Speaker 3: the back of the couch four inches tall. You can't
Speaker 3: lean back at it four inches tall, and then the
Speaker 3: material you sit on you sink into, so there is
Speaker 3: no way to take like a power stance. You can't
Speaker 3: lean back, you don't want to lean forward. And then
Speaker 3: now you're sunk down with like your knees above your butt,
Speaker 3: and now you have to like somehow command the room
Speaker 3: from this position.
Speaker 1: Is absolutely right, it's so insane.
Speaker 2: You're absolutely right, all right, it's exactly that.
Speaker 3: Here it is woman who sued company for not giving
Speaker 3: a farewell card.
Speaker 1: This woman is amazing.
Speaker 2: This was written by.
Speaker 3: Taylor Odishu Odi Show, ODIs Show, ODIs Show, Taylor Otis
Speaker 3: Show for the Latin Times, Taylor Abyz biz And this
Speaker 3: was sent in by Reach in the Darkness. Reach in
Speaker 3: the Darkness, Thank you. This just came out. British woman
Speaker 3: who sued a former employer because she didn't get a
Speaker 3: farewell card found out in court that her colleagues did
Speaker 3: in fact buy her card. It's just hardly anybody signed it.
Speaker 1: According to a report.
Speaker 3: After her colleagues didn't present her with a farewell card
Speaker 3: on her last day of work, Karen Connagan sued the
Speaker 3: International Airlines Group, her former employer from twenty nineteen until
Speaker 3: she was laid off in twenty twenty one. And do
Speaker 3: you know what she sued them for for, quote, failure
Speaker 3: to acknowledge her existence.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, yeah, I can understand why I already want
Speaker 2: to fail to acknowledge her existence within one paragraph.
Speaker 1: She worked there for two years.
Speaker 3: She would have heard in court, Connagan's former colleagues testified
Speaker 3: that they did buy a card, but they didn't give
Speaker 3: it to her because only three people signed it. He
Speaker 3: believed it would have been more insulting to give her
Speaker 3: the card than not to give her a card at all.
Speaker 3: Conagan bought a total of forty allegations forty allegations against
Speaker 3: IAG in her lawsuit, including victimization, unfair dismissal, but the
Speaker 3: court dismissed every claim, including the alleged breach of equality law,
Speaker 3: because they either did not happen, or if they did,
Speaker 3: they were innocuous interactions in the normal course.
Speaker 2: Of employment, the judge said.
Speaker 3: The judge, out of the kind of had exhibited conspiracy
Speaker 3: theory mentality and misinterpreted normal workplace interactsment interactions as harassment.
Speaker 3: The example offered was when Conagan wrote wiz in a
Speaker 3: coworker's card, then claimed another colleague was copying her when
Speaker 3: they used Wiz in a different card, who.
Speaker 2: The TikTokers would have said is main character energy? That
Speaker 2: is crazy.
Speaker 1: The Guardian reported.
Speaker 3: She also complained after a coworker asked are you taking
Speaker 3: the piss Karen, a popular British term making fun of someone,
Speaker 3: after she claimed she was doing quote all the hard work.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, she's so terri terrible. Yeah, bad person,
Speaker 3: what a terrible person. Well, I'm happy that she got
Speaker 3: to do this and now it's in articles and strangers
Speaker 3: are reading it, so you must feel it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, she must feel great. But also I feel
Speaker 2: like to get to this point in life now we
Speaker 2: just we live in a world where half the people
Speaker 2: have no shame. And so she seems like she probably
Speaker 2: loves this attention.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah probably.
Speaker 3: I mean, like it is fascinating working in an office
Speaker 3: that the rituals that I was unaware of. Also the
Speaker 3: having a getting a goodbye farewell card is that maybe
Speaker 3: that's more common in the UK. I've never heard of it.
Speaker 3: I mean, like, I guess maybe you could if you
Speaker 3: were like quitting and going on to somewhere else. But
Speaker 3: if you get like let go, who's giving you a
Speaker 3: farewell card?
Speaker 1: It seems like so strange.
Speaker 2: Just walk out the door. I love a good ending,
Speaker 2: but it's like, get out of there. I want is
Speaker 2: little connection as possible. I want. If I'm leaving a job,
Speaker 2: it's like bye Bud, I'm like bye, see ya. I
Speaker 2: did work with one guy and I got a shout
Speaker 2: him out, our got thumbs him up, named Griffin Richardson.
Speaker 2: It was my first job in New York on that
Speaker 2: TV show Stella, and I was a sound production assistant.
Speaker 2: Started at the bottom and I only worked two weeks
Speaker 2: and then it flipped and went union and so I
Speaker 2: got let go, which was fine. But he gave me
Speaker 2: a bottle of Jamison as a thank you parting gift. Whoa,
Speaker 2: that's a I think he's gone on to great success
Speaker 2: as a sound mixer, and I think he's worked constantly.
Speaker 2: But it was such a nice gesture.
Speaker 3: So Richardson back then as well, what were you twenty two, twenty.
Speaker 2: Three, twenty two?
Speaker 3: Yeah, to get a full bottle of liquor, You're like, well, well, well,
Speaker 3: well I'm a rich rich man dude.
Speaker 2: And they would feed me, which I didn't realize because
Speaker 2: I was a production It was my first job as
Speaker 2: a PA, and you know, you walked in and they
Speaker 2: had a hot breakfast. They had a truck serving catering
Speaker 2: every morning. And and this one guy, this Grip, pulled
Speaker 2: me over. He had like an old pro and he's like,
Speaker 2: you know what you gotta get? I'm like no. He
Speaker 2: goes get a balt with an egg and then put
Speaker 2: Frank's hot sauce on it, and that was like his
Speaker 2: like cool thing. And I gotta say, it is such
Speaker 2: a good breakfast sandwich with a fried egg on it
Speaker 2: and Frank's hot red hot. Damn dude, still do that,
Speaker 2: but shout out, yeah, thanks Griffin. That was like a
Speaker 2: I just remember feeling appreciated because when you're a PA,
Speaker 2: it's the lowest tier. You know, you're basically only extras
Speaker 2: are more firerable than PA's. I once had as somebody
Speaker 2: told me that furniture on set is more important than
Speaker 2: the extras. So that just shows how painful it is
Speaker 2: to be an extra.
Speaker 3: It is very, very painful. I did it once and
Speaker 3: I've never ever ever done it again. What was your
Speaker 3: favorite my favorite office tradition?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, when.
Speaker 3: I was at Access Staffing in New York City, was
Speaker 3: they would have bagel Fridays, m Bagel Friday.
Speaker 1: That that is, that's delightful.
Speaker 3: That is such a good idea every Friday to.
Speaker 2: Have a baby and you can double dip because you go,
Speaker 2: you make your first bagel and then you roll back
Speaker 2: in there and whatever half. You know, there's always somebody
Speaker 2: that halfs a bagel or halves a bagel, and then
Speaker 2: you you go, well, I'll eat that other half that
Speaker 2: susame sitting there. I see some veggie cream cheese left over,
Speaker 2: I'll toast that up in half it. That was a
Speaker 2: good one. The worst ones are when you're it's a
Speaker 2: smaller company and they like they're like, hey, we're gonna
Speaker 2: do a little wine mixer on Wednesday in the in
Speaker 2: the kitchenette, and then it's just the people that have
Speaker 2: been sitting two feet away from you drinking wine and
Speaker 2: you gotta suddenly be like, so anybody going to a
Speaker 2: thing this weekend and you're just like drinking warm wine
Speaker 2: out of a plastic cup, going I wish we I
Speaker 2: wish a nuclear weapon would hit this office right now.
Speaker 3: There was one guy that I remember, he was a
Speaker 3: very fascinating. Man. He's probably gone and done good things
Speaker 3: after this working at this weird job. But he was
Speaker 3: like a Southern dude, and he would like he didn't
Speaker 3: work there very long. And I was one of like,
Speaker 3: you know, four people who were in our twenties who
Speaker 3: worked at the office. And he's like, let's go get lunch.
Speaker 3: And I was like, all right, well, let's go. And
Speaker 3: I was like, where you want to go get to lunch.
Speaker 3: He's like, let's go to this bar.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, we're going to a bar.
Speaker 1: And then he's done.
Speaker 3: He's like, let's get martinis. And I was like okay, okay,
Speaker 3: and then he's like, let's get another martini. And then
Speaker 3: I was just like, are we just eating burgers and
Speaker 3: getting drunk at lunch? And then we would come back
Speaker 3: and then he just tried to make it a thing
Speaker 3: for a little while.
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't. I can't have two martinis
Speaker 1: at twelve thirty multiple times a week.
Speaker 2: Man. Maybe what the dude loved mad Man. He was
Speaker 2: just trying to live the Don Draper three martini.
Speaker 1: It was pre it was pre mad Men too.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's pretty fun. Those are good ones. I
Speaker 2: I one time one of my bosses in New York
Speaker 2: was like, do you play soccer? And I go, yeah,
Speaker 2: I do. He was a British guy, and I was like,
Speaker 2: so he goes, do you play football? And I goes sure,
Speaker 2: and he goes, will you come play? We have like
Speaker 2: our group thing over on you know, twenty sixth Street
Speaker 2: Pier wherever it was. I said, sure, I'll play. I
Speaker 2: was like, I haven't played in like six years, but
Speaker 2: I'm happy to play. And I show up and it
Speaker 2: was me and him and then a bunch of his
Speaker 2: son's friends who were like ten what. So I thought
Speaker 2: it was going to be like a bunch of like
Speaker 2: business guys, like I'd make some connections or just I'd
Speaker 2: play some pickup soccer, but instead it's he's on one side,
Speaker 2: I'm on the other. And then it was like five
Speaker 2: kids on each team, so not even a full soccer team.
Speaker 2: And then we just ran around an astroturfield and he's like,
Speaker 2: you're actually pretty good soccer player, and I'm like, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: compare it to ten ten year olds. I'm Peley, I'm Ronaldo,
Speaker 2: but everybody out here, yes, I am the best soccer
Speaker 2: player on the field right now. A middle aged British
Speaker 2: man and ten children. That's your sweet spot.
Speaker 1: That should be it, that actually should be a league
Speaker 1: one twenties one middle age ten ten year olds.
Speaker 2: Well, there was that church. What is it Hillsong? There's
Speaker 2: that church. I must have told this on the podcast before,
Speaker 2: but there were a bunch of dudes that tried to
Speaker 2: recruit me to start going to Hillsong in Manhattan, and
Speaker 2: I checked their services. It was a big church where
Speaker 2: they like rocked and rolled and they had a band.
Speaker 2: This isn't this isn't your grandpa's Christian church. This is young.
Speaker 2: We have long hair. We all have long hair. Everybody
Speaker 2: here has got long hair. We've all gotten to third
Speaker 2: base so many times. Third base is nothing to us.
Speaker 2: Hit it on a rock and roll drum set, and
Speaker 2: I think the guy that ran it there was a
Speaker 2: big documented about what a creepy was like, you know,
Speaker 2: of course, and so there were a group of male
Speaker 2: models that tried to recruit me to start going to
Speaker 2: was one of them someone we know, yes, And it
Speaker 2: was somewhere in Manhattan. I think it was, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: it was somewhere in the thirties near Madison Square Garden
Speaker 2: and they would roll out of there and it would
Speaker 2: be like a thousand people leaving church on a Thursday
Speaker 2: night or Friday night or whenever it was. And so
Speaker 2: the way they tried to recruit me when I was
Speaker 2: like definitely no for me, Yeah, but good luck with
Speaker 2: everything you're doing. See at the Pearly Gates, they were like,
Speaker 2: do we're starting a soccer team and do you want
Speaker 2: to play? Because we heard you played, So I said, sure,
Speaker 2: I'll do that. So I would meet them after they
Speaker 2: had left the service and we would walk down to
Speaker 2: an astrotur field on one of the piers, and they
Speaker 2: were lights. And the first game we played that I
Speaker 2: played with them especially was vers a group of Mexican men.
Speaker 2: I would say Mexican American, but I think these guys
Speaker 2: were new to New York City and they were wearing
Speaker 2: their work clothes, so they would have jeans that had
Speaker 2: paint all over them, and they would have they were landscapers.
Speaker 2: They were hard working, blue collar at Mexican American guys,
Speaker 2: and they beat the shit out of us of they
Speaker 2: all had worked their fingers to the bone, like the
Speaker 2: hard working men they are, and they come out and
Speaker 2: beat all these male model Pridge boys who hadn't lifted
Speaker 2: a finger also weren't working as models. They weren't even
Speaker 2: taking photo shoots. They were on set sticktting shoots. And
Speaker 2: I remember just having a ball because all these guys
Speaker 2: who had just left Hillsong were like fuck damn it,
Speaker 2: like they were. We were just losing four to one
Speaker 2: within fifteen minutes, within seven minutes. God isn't real.
Speaker 1: I both, I know.
Speaker 2: And it's like the meek will inherit the goals because
Speaker 2: they smoked us for an hour and it made me
Speaker 2: so happy. I was like loving it. God damn it.
Speaker 2: It made me so happy. Anyways, here's one for you.
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Speaker 2: Jess Thompson, who always gets to cover the most outrageous stories,
Speaker 2: so that's why we call her the best in the biz.
Speaker 2: A man has been discovered to have two extra penises
Speaker 2: by med students dissecting his body. What a surprise, What
Speaker 2: a surprise. This marks only the second time ever somebody's
Speaker 2: been found to have three penises. I can say, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of people on this planet.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people.
Speaker 2: I guess we're not a billion dudes.
Speaker 3: I guess we're not all getting dissected. Right, that's of
Speaker 3: the people who've gotten dissected.
Speaker 2: I guess, yeah. Where were Where were they? Where were they?
Speaker 3: Just underneath the his tits one up here in the
Speaker 3: other right here.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like that. Yes, lemonade, lemonade, lemonade. Oh
Speaker 2: that would be so much better. Oh yeah, we did
Speaker 2: the guy in twenty twenty who had it stitched to
Speaker 2: his arm to recover and then got it successfully put
Speaker 2: back on. I think he's hanging in there. Yeah. The
Speaker 2: incredibly rare triple penis phenomenon was found by students at
Speaker 2: the University of Birmingham Medical School in the UK during
Speaker 2: a dissection of a seventy eight year old man who
Speaker 2: had donated his body to science. Great thing to do, awesome,
Speaker 2: According to a new paper in the publication the.
Speaker 1: Reason he dedicated, He's like, I have a feeling I
Speaker 1: have two board dicks.
Speaker 2: I don't know about superprise. No matter what happens to me,
Speaker 2: I want to donate at least my lower half to science.
Speaker 2: According to the researchers, the man may have never known
Speaker 2: that he had these three penises. This core. This condition,
Speaker 2: known as trifa. Oh I guess it's phallus so triphalia
Speaker 2: or triphalia, was only seen in a human for the
Speaker 2: first time in twenty twenty in a newborn, and is
Speaker 2: thought to possibly affect one in every six million live berths.
Speaker 2: Wow wow, Like you said, it just hasn't been discovered,
Speaker 2: but it's probably out there and.
Speaker 3: Have we had so That means it's more common to
Speaker 3: have two penises. But is it more common to have
Speaker 3: two penises that are visible?
Speaker 2: I think so?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, trifolia or tripflia. I'll go with trifolia. That
Speaker 2: makes sense. Is a rare congenital anomaly describing the presence
Speaker 2: of three distinct penal chefs fun has only been reported
Speaker 2: once in literature, the researchers wrote in the new paper.
Speaker 2: Without dissection, this anatomical variation would have remained undiscovered, suggesting
Speaker 2: the prevalence of polyphailure or polyphalia may be greater than expected.
Speaker 2: Having two penises, known as dip or die folia, has
Speaker 2: been seen in around one hundred human cases and occurs
Speaker 2: in every five point five million live births. Usually doctors
Speaker 2: remove the extra penis at birth if they're externally visible,
Speaker 2: but they are often left alone to go unnoticed if
Speaker 2: hidden inside.
Speaker 1: All right, there it is there, I got my head set.
Speaker 2: It's an educational it is podcast. The seventy eight year
Speaker 2: old man appeared to have normal genitals externally, but once
Speaker 2: his penis was dissected, always fun, the students discovered two
Speaker 2: other tiny, duplicate penises inside of his scrotum.
Speaker 3: Ince, that's wild to me. I don't even understand where
Speaker 3: there's where the space? Where does he find the space
Speaker 3: for all these digs?
Speaker 2: This guy is a great story. Three condo of penises.
Speaker 2: He's just he's rolled each one up.
Speaker 1: They're all very precious to him. They sparked joy, and
Speaker 1: he's tucked.
Speaker 2: Him away inside his scrolled them. But they do spark joy. Anyways,
Speaker 2: we'll get over all the ding dong talk. I'll just
Speaker 2: give you some of the highlights to get to the end. So,
Speaker 2: because they were not externally visible, the man may not
Speaker 2: have known he had this unique condition. But here's what's interesting.
Speaker 2: He may have experienced pain during sex during due to
Speaker 2: having the extra penises becoming erect. What. Yeah, so if
Speaker 2: the man's extra penises had extra urethras, it could have
Speaker 2: also exposed him to an increased risk of urinary track infections. Luckily,
Speaker 2: the man's uretha merely ran through the secondary penis into
Speaker 2: the primary penis without any dead ends, so it actually connected.
Speaker 2: That's so crazy, I mean, to get three erections.
Speaker 1: And also that your balls just stick up in the air.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just like when you're folding a fitted sheet, You're
Speaker 2: just like, how do I do this? It's like a
Speaker 2: squirrel scoot sidediver and the woman's like, I think maybe
Speaker 2: let's just keep it above the way.
Speaker 1: I think he had an idea. I think he had
Speaker 1: an ankling me too.
Speaker 2: So yeah, they didn't cause him any major harm. He
Speaker 2: may not have noticed during lifetime, that's all. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it was he had a para lack of symptoms and
Speaker 2: probably benign nature. The researchers wrote. Again, it says at
Speaker 2: the end, this is only the second ever discovered and
Speaker 2: reported case of trifolia. Or yeah, try failure. So anyways,
Speaker 2: that's an interesting banana. That's a simple banana. That is
Speaker 2: very fascinating. I feel terrible for that guy. I don't
Speaker 2: think that's anything to be pumped about.
Speaker 3: No, And also I would just say once again, we're
Speaker 3: a big fan of men going to the doctor here
Speaker 3: in Bananas. Guys, if you've noticed something slightly strange, like
Speaker 3: maybe you have two more penises inside your balls, go
Speaker 3: to the doctor.
Speaker 1: Just ask somebody, go to the doctor.
Speaker 2: It is so weird. It is like they and it's
Speaker 2: our friends are pretty uh, pretty good about it. They'll
Speaker 2: go get things checked out, and it's saved some of
Speaker 2: their lives in recent years. I know a few. I
Speaker 2: know a few who do not go. I know too.
Speaker 2: I know you just see a guy with like a
Speaker 2: limp and you're like, what's up, and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know. And then ten years go by and
Speaker 2: you're like, there's a solution for this. First, there's so
Speaker 2: many people who can probably fix this problem. Just go go, go,
Speaker 2: go get a physical guys. I know things cost money,
Speaker 2: and insurance is harder and harder to get if you're
Speaker 2: in the United States, but go to the dentist once
Speaker 2: a year. Get them, get them scrubbed, get them scrubbed,
Speaker 2: get them floss, get them scrubbed. And my hygienis goes,
Speaker 2: do you floss every day? I go, no, I do not.
Speaker 2: She goes, thank you for your honesty, And I was like,
Speaker 2: now you and I were on the same wavelength.
Speaker 1: You know what I got.
Speaker 3: I got a little machine. I got a little flossing machine.
Speaker 2: What does that mean.
Speaker 3: It's like it's shaped like a toothbrush, but at the
Speaker 3: top it has like a flossing head, and then it
Speaker 3: vibrates and so then you can just like pop pop
Speaker 3: pop pop pop, real fast, and it just goes in
Speaker 3: between as you and I don't know. I have no
Speaker 3: idea if it's been working or not, because.
Speaker 2: I floss when I travel because in my likedop kit,
Speaker 2: my travel doctors have floss. And then you always have
Speaker 2: like downtime when you're you know, when you're vacation, and
Speaker 2: so I just find myself floss and once twice a
Speaker 2: day when I'm on vacation. My oral health is through
Speaker 2: the roof good guys. Go to the doctor, go to
Speaker 2: the dentists, Go get things checked out. Go get this
Speaker 2: moles checked out. Go to the dermatologist.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I've been trying to get a dermatologist appointment,
Speaker 3: and so I just looked up one. They're like, here
Speaker 3: you here's a dermatologist. Go to this dermatologist.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, they're pretty close. Oh they have
Speaker 2: an availability. I was able to do everything online.
Speaker 1: I was like, look at this.
Speaker 2: The future is great.
Speaker 3: This new fangled website that just recommends doctors to me
Speaker 3: is really useful. And I get there and I sit down.
Speaker 3: First off, their blood pressure machine is broken, and they're like.
Speaker 2: Are you sure? Are you sure your blood pressure.
Speaker 3: Isn't forty over sixteen or whatever?
Speaker 1: And I was like, it's wrong. I have, if anything,
Speaker 1: I have high blood pressure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not dead. I didn't die three days ago.
Speaker 2: And they come in today and then.
Speaker 1: She sits down.
Speaker 3: She's like, all right, so we're just doing a general
Speaker 3: check up. I'm like, oh no, I'm just here for
Speaker 3: like a skin check, you know. And she's like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm not a dermatologist.
Speaker 2: Oh good, oh good.
Speaker 3: After all of the things, all of the steps, all
Speaker 3: of waiting in the thing, getting in, sitting down, filling
Speaker 3: out all the information, and I was like, I can't.
Speaker 1: I was like, you can't charge me for this because
Speaker 1: I have a doctor.
Speaker 2: I've been going to the doctor, Like, yeah, so you
Speaker 2: lied to me. Well, I have a great one. I'll
Speaker 2: refer you off air, but I have an excellent one
Speaker 2: and I'm always able to schedule appointment within a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks. That's great. And I had what I had
Speaker 2: a different one when I first moved out here, and
Speaker 2: the only reason I switched was every time I think
Speaker 2: I went three times, they would have like a med
Speaker 2: student with them, but they wouldn't give me like too
Speaker 2: much of a heads up. So you know, there's a
Speaker 2: point where you're sitting there in your underwear and they're
Speaker 2: checking all your freckles and moles and checking your skin,
Speaker 2: and so I'm just staying there and then there's just
Speaker 2: like a twenty year old just with a clipboard, just
Speaker 2: and I was like, this is I didn't sign up
Speaker 2: for this, to be honest with you, Like it was
Speaker 2: just a strange thing to be like, yeah, I want
Speaker 2: all of my arms so you can check my armpits
Speaker 2: and between my fingers and toes, but it is kind
Speaker 2: of strange that there's just somebody standing there as I'm
Speaker 2: doing this. I had I moved on.
Speaker 3: I had a male dermatologist once and then he was
Speaker 3: like and I had like my underwear on, and then
Speaker 3: he's like, we don't have to check on shorts, and
Speaker 3: I was like what I was like every other dermatologist
Speaker 3: is always like check. They just peek and be like
Speaker 3: see if you have any I have I have? I'm
Speaker 3: a I have red hair. I have red hair, like
Speaker 3: I need. You gotta look everywhere pal and I was
Speaker 3: just like, oh, I don't like you at all. What
Speaker 3: do you think it's too You think it's gonna turn
Speaker 3: me on? If I have you looked for my look
Speaker 3: at my ding dong door?
Speaker 2: What it will? But I don't. When I get home,
Speaker 2: I don't just drive my car up to my garage.
Speaker 2: I put it all the way in and close the
Speaker 2: door behind it. That's how these things work. Bub ummm okay, God,
Speaker 2: you want to tease me into a thumbs up situation
Speaker 2: because I got some hot ones?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: Here you go, here's the best tease headline you've ever heard.
Speaker 3: Palm steel nut scandal rocks world conquer championship.
Speaker 2: All right, that is good? All right, thumbs up. Emily
Speaker 2: wants to thumb herself up. She got a cancer diagnosis
Speaker 2: last year. She's a new mom, her daughter has turned two,
Speaker 2: and Emily has more cancer. But she's thumbing herself up
Speaker 2: because she's somehow keeping it all together and not completely
Speaker 2: losing her mind. So that's just a strong, strong person.
Speaker 2: Thumbs up, and I'm sending you all the love in
Speaker 2: the world. That's right.
Speaker 3: That's that's incredibly difficult, and we have your back one
Speaker 3: hundred percent.
Speaker 2: And Emily, if you want me to just send your
Speaker 2: little postcard that just says keep on keeping on, send
Speaker 2: me address, you can hit up the DMS. I'll find it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, keep your head up, keep fighting. Sam Cam
Speaker 2: wants to thumb her mom, Julie up. When Scotty that's
Speaker 2: me had the banana phone, I called him because my
Speaker 2: mom was about to have kidney surgery and Scotty That's
Speaker 2: Me was so kind and supportive. Super belated update. Julie
Speaker 2: turned seventy five and her new kidney is doing great.
Speaker 2: That's a great one. Thumb up to the kidney and
Speaker 2: Julie thumb's seventy fifth. He wants to thumb herself up
Speaker 2: and her friend and mentor Lauren Way up pt got
Speaker 2: promoted to bakery manager. We once shouted her out for
Speaker 2: becoming assistant bakery manager. Now she's bakery manager.
Speaker 1: Congratulations.
Speaker 2: PT is on the rise and Lauren was so encouraging,
Speaker 2: taught her everything she knows. She's the greatest manager and
Speaker 2: a great friend too. Thumbs up, ladies, that's fantastic. Here's
Speaker 2: a fun one. You know. I like a good name, Kurt,
Speaker 2: maybe more than anybody. Cassie Bert wants to thumb her husband,
Speaker 2: Casey Bert up. Oh my god, that's Casey and Cassie Bert.
Speaker 2: Casey Bert is the husband. He opened a men's health
Speaker 2: clinic in Atlanta up and Buckhead called Game Day Men's Health.
Speaker 2: They do free consultations to check things like testosterone levels
Speaker 2: and other NPSA, but they also offer various treatments for
Speaker 2: men's health and wellness. Speaking of guys, going yourself checked out.
Speaker 2: He's working tirelessly on his first location, but also to
Speaker 2: open a second location of Game Day Men's Health in Atlanta. So, dudes,
Speaker 2: if you're in Atlanta, bananimal. We got a lot of them,
Speaker 2: and you're a guy, check out Game Day Men's Health
Speaker 2: in Buckheat and wherever the second location is and go
Speaker 2: go get yourself checked out. Yeah, there might be something
Speaker 2: lacking in your life. Thumbs out gonna last, but not Lee's.
Speaker 2: This one's for you. Curti b CJ wants to thumb
Speaker 2: up Curdie b. CJ loves listening to podcasts in the
Speaker 2: bath as a way to wind down, and Kurt's voice
Speaker 2: is the only one of all the hosts she listens
Speaker 2: to that she can hear and understand underwater. CJ wants
Speaker 2: other bananamals to test this out for themselves. So don't
Speaker 2: drown anybody. Please take a deep breath. But if you're
Speaker 2: listening to Bananas in the bathtub, go underneath and see
Speaker 2: if you can hear and understand. CURTI b keep doing
Speaker 2: what you do, Banana boys. So CJ thumbs up to you.
Speaker 2: Kurt cutting through the agua. It is the I don't.
Speaker 1: It's the weirdest.
Speaker 3: It is the weirdest compliment I've ever gotten, and I
Speaker 3: will take it. I wish I had a T shirt
Speaker 3: that said it.
Speaker 2: I know we should get you one. Oh that reminds me,
Speaker 2: who's thinking for whatever live shows Bananas Lives we do
Speaker 2: next year wherever it is And I don't know exactly
Speaker 2: what the details of this would be. But I kind
Speaker 2: of want to wear a T shirt from a local
Speaker 2: business everywhere we go. So it's a great idea on
Speaker 2: stage and then for all the photos afterwards too. And
Speaker 2: I don't know how to do it. It's not a
Speaker 2: competition or a contest at all. But I wear a
Speaker 2: size large. If we announce some a show in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five and you have a business in the area
Speaker 2: in that within let's say one hundred miles, and you
Speaker 2: want me to rock your company's shirt. Love that, send
Speaker 2: it to our po box PO Box three nine three
Speaker 2: four eight, Los Angeles, California, nine years zero three nine,
Speaker 2: And I will wear it, and I'm just gonna do it.
Speaker 2: If it shows up. I'm gonna wear it. If it's yellow,
Speaker 2: even better, if it's white or black, that's fine too.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I was just like, I think I should
Speaker 2: just be rocking local small businesses.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a brilliant idea. Okay, well, I'll do
Speaker 2: it in twenty twenty five and see how it goes.
Speaker 2: But I'll just do kind of first one to hit
Speaker 2: the PO box, first show wins perfect.
Speaker 3: Here it is steel Nut Scandal Rocks World Conquer Championship
Speaker 3: whatever that is.
Speaker 2: Who knows.
Speaker 3: This was invice dot com and this was sent by
Speaker 3: many many banan animals. But I will tell you right
Speaker 3: now that the banana well I first saw send it
Speaker 3: was Conquers.
Speaker 1: It is day Gannam day gam.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here it is.
Speaker 3: This was in Vice, written by Lewis Prada.
Speaker 2: Best in the biz, best in the beeswax.
Speaker 3: The Conquer community has been rocked with accusations of cheating
Speaker 3: during its World Conquer Championship. You're forgiven for not knowing
Speaker 3: what the hell I'm talking about, because I'm just learning
Speaker 3: about all this myself.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Conquer, it turns out is more than that rude and
Speaker 3: raaunching Nintendo sixty four game about the sassy squirrel with
Speaker 3: a foul mouth.
Speaker 2: No idea what he's talking about.
Speaker 3: It's a fun, folksy game played in Great Britain and Ireland.
Speaker 3: Players tie seeds found in horse chestnut trees known as conquers,
Speaker 3: onto a string, then swing their respective conquers at the
Speaker 3: opponent's conquer in an attempt to smash the opposing conquer.
Speaker 3: If that made any sense to you, You're doing great, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're doing You.
Speaker 2: Have a great visual mind, because I'm I'm picturing something,
Speaker 2: but I think I'm wrong.
Speaker 3: Humans can truly turn anything into a competition. A lot
Speaker 3: of you may just be finding out that there's even
Speaker 3: a game based around this. Well, let me blow your
Speaker 3: mind even further, but letting you know that there's a
Speaker 3: World Conquer Championship for the best conquer players come together
Speaker 3: find out who is the toughest nut to crack. The
Speaker 3: recent championship tournament, held in Southwick, Northamptonshire Shire, became a
Speaker 3: hotbed of controversy.
Speaker 1: It's eighty two.
Speaker 3: Year old winner David Jackins. Who is a picture of him.
Speaker 1: He is dressed like a medieval jester.
Speaker 2: Elf.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I could picture that with a little bit of
Speaker 3: a little bit of Shropshire thrown in. It's an eighty
Speaker 3: two year old winner. David Jackins finally took home the
Speaker 3: men's title after having competed in the competition for forty years. Wow,
Speaker 3: and he had never taken the men's title. His victory
Speaker 3: was immediately marred with controversy when a report published in
Speaker 3: the Telegraph suspected he cheated by swapping his conquer for
Speaker 3: one made Adam medal. The allegations were first raised by Jackins' opponent,
Speaker 3: Alastao Johnson. Ferguson love these guys who founded He's ninety
Speaker 3: thousand years old, who found it just a little hard
Speaker 3: to believe that his conquer could be so easily obliterated
Speaker 3: by Jackins conquer on the first strike. When tournament organizers
Speaker 3: searched jackins pocket after he won the tournament, they found
Speaker 3: a steel conquer in one of his pockets. Jackins denies
Speaker 3: having used the steel conquering competition, saying that he only
Speaker 3: carried it around to entertain children.
Speaker 2: I don't know, hey.
Speaker 3: For American readers, this is like when a baseball player
Speaker 3: claims to have accidentally brought their corked batting practice bat
Speaker 3: two again. After the discovery of the steel conquer, Jackins
Speaker 3: was quoted as saying, it's impossible to cheat at conquers.
Speaker 3: It's a load of nonsense. The events chairman, Jim Packer
Speaker 3: took Jackins side, saying somebody's a sore loser. I think, oh,
Speaker 3: the event's chairman took jack inside all right. The investigation
Speaker 3: is ongoing, but event officials have already said that Jackins
Speaker 3: was being closely monitored throughout the entire tournament, so it
Speaker 3: seems unlikely that he could have been using an illegal
Speaker 3: conquer for all or even some of the time.
Speaker 2: It's got to sound different, right, Like you're not hitting
Speaker 2: two nuts hitting each other is very different than one
Speaker 2: steal and one. It's got to sound different, is my argument.
Speaker 3: Also, don't understand where the conquer is when you're throwing
Speaker 3: the other conquer at it. Is it on the ground
Speaker 3: do they put their conquer on the ground you throw it?
Speaker 3: Or is it is it hanging off something that you.
Speaker 2: Well, I opened this story as you were talking, and
Speaker 2: it appears like it's you swing it. You swing them
Speaker 2: at each other at like chest height, like you kind
Speaker 2: of flick it. Yeah, at like It's hard to describe,
Speaker 2: but it's basically like if two somebody holds their nut
Speaker 2: hanging and then another person's got it and they kind
Speaker 2: of whip it over and try to crack it.
Speaker 1: Crazy.
Speaker 3: Okay, So and happier Conquer Championship news. A thirty four
Speaker 3: year old American woman from Indianapolis name Kelsey bannce Bach
Speaker 3: aka the Queen Conquer, walked away from the tournament as
Speaker 3: its ultimate champion, having defeated Jackins in the cross gender finals.
Speaker 3: It's the first time that America has won the competition
Speaker 3: since its inception in nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 2: Whoa Banana the Week? Banana of the Week? Kelsey? I
Speaker 2: know two Kelsey's and they're both fun as hell. So
Speaker 2: my opinion, everyone named Kelsey is fun as hell.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is absolutely I mean, like, I have
Speaker 3: so many questions. I want to watch competition, I want
Speaker 3: to get into it, I want to go, I want
Speaker 3: to go. This sounds fun. And everybody's real dressed up.
Speaker 3: They got walnuts or chestnuts or whatever they got all
Speaker 3: over their bodies.
Speaker 2: So they think this old fart cheated and finally won
Speaker 2: after forty years. Okay, so I guess one he probably
Speaker 2: did cheat, because why would they ever search this guy's
Speaker 2: pockets if they somebody somebody said something's not right here,
Speaker 2: and then they gave him the old pat down and
Speaker 2: they found the old steel conquer. M that's so he cheated. Well,
Speaker 2: here's my question, he's seventy half wife.
Speaker 3: How entertaining is the steel conquer for children? Do children
Speaker 3: love just go ape shit for a steel conquer? I mean,
Speaker 3: if the if the popularity of steel, if everybody's got
Speaker 3: steel conquers in their pocket because children are just going
Speaker 3: crazy for them. Maybe it's a little more understandable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't imagined. I mean unless they're really really
Speaker 2: bored in this town, and maybe they are. The idea
Speaker 2: of just seeing a steel nut hanging on a string,
Speaker 2: if that really lights your candle, then it might be
Speaker 2: time to move to the next closest city and just
Speaker 2: I don't know, take a pilates class, get into something else.
Speaker 1: That's the part that that makes me suspicious the most
Speaker 1: is that that was his reasoning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you cheated, I guess I all right,
Speaker 2: So when I played lacrosse, our team in Reisterstown, Maryland,
Speaker 2: we were young guys and we were I don't know, ten, eleven, twelve,
Speaker 2: and our team name was the Lightning at that so
Speaker 2: we're the Racers down Lightning. But because of just other
Speaker 2: teams being waspy lacrosse players and us having the most
Speaker 2: diverse team by a mile, they everybody called our team
Speaker 2: the junkyard Dogs. Are you joking?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: So, oh yeah, I know, it's crazy, And then we
Speaker 2: lit them all up, so it worked. It was great,
Speaker 2: Like we were the bad News Bears and we were
Speaker 2: like the you know every sports movie. He was like
Speaker 2: the Preps versus the Valley. We were the Valley. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So to make to sort of split the difference, we
Speaker 2: ended up being the Rattlesnakes. So then we became the
Speaker 2: Reister's Down Rattlesnakes, which is truly badass snakes. That is
Speaker 2: a great name for any sport. So we're warming up
Speaker 2: before practice and we're just running drills. We're on our
Speaker 2: half of the field and I just feel this like
Speaker 2: hand on my shoulder and I look and it is
Speaker 2: our goalies dad, who is older than most of the
Speaker 2: other dads. He's probably sixty year old man, and he
Speaker 2: has wandered out onto the field and he grabs me
Speaker 2: by my shoulder and in the side of the helmet
Speaker 2: and he goes, hey, Scottie, I gotta tell you something.
Speaker 2: I go yeah. He goes rattle a little louder rattlesnake power,
Speaker 2: and I go yeah. He goes, yeah, rattle a little
Speaker 2: louder rattlesnake power, and I'm like And then he walks
Speaker 2: over to another player and keeps doing that, and then
Speaker 2: the coaches, grown men go get off the field. What
Speaker 2: did you do it? I only found out about five
Speaker 2: years ago that that man was a functioning alcohol When
Speaker 2: you're young, you don't know that. But I just love
Speaker 2: that he took the time to be like, I'm going
Speaker 2: to go and press these guys with something I just
Speaker 2: thought of right now. But the real result was total
Speaker 2: and absolute confusion in the brain of a prepebescenter. But
Speaker 2: just because you know, a full helmet and so there's
Speaker 2: little airhole farriers and just just warm, warm whiskey bread
Speaker 2: coming in there, Rat a little louder rattlesnake power. It's
Speaker 2: so cool that he thought that was awesome. And I
Speaker 2: hope he's still alive. And I would you.
Speaker 3: Guys, would you guys say it to each other? Would
Speaker 3: you guys say it to each other at games that
Speaker 3: after that?
Speaker 2: It didn't go beyond that day. And honestly, just because
Speaker 2: I have a good memory, I'm probably the only player
Speaker 2: on that field actually take that back. I remember some
Speaker 2: of the other guys like all looking at each other
Speaker 2: like what did he say to you? And we all
Speaker 2: said it, and we're like, oh, okay, I should make
Speaker 2: that a T shirt. You should make your T shirt
Speaker 2: and I should make that rat a little louder Rattlesnake
Speaker 2: power Man. It was so damn good.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're making a T shirt, it will
Speaker 1: be I mean that is the best.
Speaker 3: That is the best part about thinking something up is
Speaker 3: that you say that thing and now it is a
Speaker 3: concept in the world, and it travels through time and
Speaker 3: space all the way here, and then you make that
Speaker 3: T shirt and that drunk thought that that weirdo had
Speaker 3: now at ten am it on a Sunday morning exists
Speaker 3: in the world as a physical object in so many
Speaker 3: in a totally different context.
Speaker 2: It's the best part about stories. Well, I think you're right.
Speaker 2: I'm going to honor that nameless man and his nameless son.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was like a ten am before the game,
Speaker 2: and that guy was just like he was ready to go.
Speaker 4: You don't know.
Speaker 2: When you're a kid, you don't know. And then you
Speaker 2: kind of look back and you're like uncle Tippy and
Speaker 2: you're like, yeah, Uncle Tippy did always kind of smell
Speaker 2: like my friends and I when we get back from
Speaker 2: the bars at three am. That's what Uncle Tippy's for.
Speaker 1: Send us home, Scottie.
Speaker 2: Hmmm. Jody from Australia, I think sent this in. Also.
Speaker 2: Nick Kpeel sent this in thanks guys, Thank you guys.
Speaker 2: Hackers took over robotic vacuums to chase pets around the
Speaker 2: yell slurs. Oh wow, fantastic. This was in The Verge,
Speaker 2: written by Wes Davis, who is the best in the
Speaker 2: slur business. Someone gained access to Ecovac's d bot XC
Speaker 2: omni robotic vacuums across several US cities earlier this year
Speaker 2: and used them to chase pets at yell slurs at
Speaker 2: their owners.
Speaker 3: I mean also that name that give me that name
Speaker 3: of that robot that easy to rolls off the tongue name.
Speaker 2: Oh Kurt, how could you ever forget the Ecovax d
Speaker 2: bot X two omni robots vacuum. Not that it could
Speaker 2: easily have been the eed x two, but no e
Speaker 2: d x two with be erecked out dysfunction times Yes.
Speaker 2: The Outlet spoke with multiple d bot x two owners
Speaker 2: who said their d bot x two's had been hacked
Speaker 2: in May, including Minnesota lawyer Daniel Swinson, who said he
Speaker 2: was watching TV with his family when a noise like
Speaker 2: a broken radio signal started coming from his robots speaker.
Speaker 2: Why do they have speakers? Why that's insane. Yeah, well
Speaker 2: they have to they have to go when they're all done. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I have to make you feel good. Go home, he said.
Speaker 2: He reset the password and reboot his robot. It began again,
Speaker 2: only this time the sound was a clear voice. He
Speaker 2: guessed it was a teenager's yelling slurs. Other owners from
Speaker 2: El Paso and Los Angeles I've heard of that said
Speaker 2: that their de bot was used to antagonize a dog
Speaker 2: and yelling at it and chasing it. Ekovax told the statement,
Speaker 2: I told an outlet and the statement, we've identified credential
Speaker 2: stuffing event. Okay, it's called a credential stuffing event. R
Speaker 2: and block that IP address from originating it or I
Speaker 2: guess whoever did it can no longer do it. The
Speaker 2: company sounded found no evidence, thank goodness, that user names
Speaker 2: and passwords were collected by the attacker. So anyways, it
Speaker 2: was a flaw demonstrated. Ecovac said they're going to resolve it.
Speaker 2: Blue blah blah. But yeah, somebody's vacuum cleaners were chasing
Speaker 2: their animals and yelling slurs. So wonderful, amazing.
Speaker 3: Also, now that everything's starting to have a camera, I mean,
Speaker 3: that's it that's what's happening.
Speaker 2: Over, It's over. Everything has a camera now. Yeah, less
Speaker 2: smart things go back to dumb things. Get a dumb
Speaker 2: vacuum that sucks forever, and that's the only way to
Speaker 2: live your life. Here's the dumb vacuums. Well, thank you Scotty,
Speaker 2: Thank you Curdie B. You're the best in the Beeswex two.
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