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Speaker 1: brand new episode of Bananas Your world understand?

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Speaker 2: Would you for your mindsillion pieces? Would you guys? Gowns

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Speaker 2: non battery? I was welcome to Bananas. I'm Kurt Brown older, I.

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Speaker 1: Am Banana Boy number two. Scotti landis just welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the silliest little demur and cutesy podcast there ever was.

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Speaker 1: We get a little mindful around here, but you knew

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Speaker 1: that already, Kurtie B. We got stuff to talk about

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Speaker 1: Bananas Fest. But before we dive into that, do you

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Speaker 1: have upcoming stand up dates that the people need to

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Speaker 2: excited mostly about September seventh Bananas Fest in Denver, Colorado.

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Speaker 1: We are asking for a couple things. One, we need volunteers,

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Speaker 2: It's like an hour or two. You donate an hour

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Speaker 1: It's a top secret.

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Speaker 3: It is because we're we're it's with a it's with

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Speaker 3: It has a giant talking cartoon tampon on it that says, yes,

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Speaker 3: And the name of my vehicle is called the Vangina.

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Speaker 1: Fascinating.

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Speaker 3: But you need this new thing happens, Okay, yeah.

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Speaker 1: The answer is yes on our side. So if we

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Speaker 3: No, that's amazing, that's this would be be huge. This

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Speaker 3: So that's great. We have costumes. We have tampon costumes.

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Speaker 1: Oh great, Okay, we'll wear those, Kurt and I will

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Speaker 2: I love me the five five mile high and six

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Speaker 1: Also, the story Kurt's about to do about the self

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Speaker 3: Do you do you guys remember Richard Scarry, the artist

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Speaker 1: Love it.

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Speaker 3: It almost feels like when they were on the engineering

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Speaker 3: We have a Yeah, there's a lot of that kind

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Speaker 2: For locals who I didn't know, they jam all the

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Speaker 1: Very exciting. Yeah, that's I think these things, I mean,

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Speaker 1: where sunglasses the flight attendants were sunglasses on you know,

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Speaker 1: Spirit Alaska and all the other ones that you just go, well,

436
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Speaker 1: let's see, yeah, two hundred to fifty just to chill.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Kurt and I are huge. We love trains,

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Speaker 1: and we're like two of those people that are like,

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Speaker 1: how don't we have high speed trains everywhere every city?

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Speaker 1: But this seems like the more likely next best thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, it's gotta give me the one.

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Speaker 1: Oh sure, here we go. Here's a might sort of

443
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Speaker 1: have a theme because I'm sure setting up I support

444
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:13,320
Speaker 1: the girls took a lot. It took a continuous, constant effort.

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Speaker 1: So a lot of my stories are about just putting

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Speaker 1: in the time to get work done. Casey Alyssa Lawrence

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Speaker 1: sent this in First woman takes twenty seven years to

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Speaker 1: finish a cross stitch kit, Big News Day in the BBC.

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Speaker 1: This was written by James Grant for BBC News. A

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Speaker 1: woman has completed a cross stitch kit nearly three decades

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Speaker 1: after starting it. Molly Lofus, who is fifty four from

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Speaker 1: west Hadden in Northamptonshire, began sewing the design Kurt. This

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Speaker 1: one's for you. A hedgehog playing a saxophone in nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety seven, after receiving it as a gift. She admitted

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Speaker 1: she had been on the cusp of abandoning the projects

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Speaker 1: several times, but since it has witnessed all the bits

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Speaker 1: of her life, she felt compelled to finish it. Miss

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Speaker 1: Lofas said that by persevering, she wanted to quote, bring

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Speaker 1: hope to other crafters.

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Speaker 2: Wait a second, I'm so confused. Does it require thirty

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Speaker 2: years to complete this pattern or is she just.

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Speaker 1: Couple out off? Yeah? Probably eight hours of focused work.

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Speaker 2: How does this woman get in the news man this?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but she said she wants to inspire them to

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Speaker 1: finish quote no matter how hard the peace end quote.

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Speaker 1: This cross stitch kit traveled with Miss Lofas all over

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Speaker 1: Europe for twenty seven years worth of holidays and work trips,

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Speaker 1: including Austria, Slovakia, Wales and Peak District. The Peak District,

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Speaker 1: which I don't know what that is, she said. Doing

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Speaker 1: the cross stitch, a type of decorative sewings where stitches

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Speaker 1: cross each other, was a way to keep her hands

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Speaker 1: on occupied.

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Speaker 3: How occupied is she? She's doing one stitch a week.

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Speaker 1: It's just so funny. It's a hedgehog playing a saxophone,

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Speaker 1: because it's like it has No, it's not her children's faces,

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Speaker 1: or the family crest or the names of deceased loved ones.

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Speaker 2: It's just deeply silly. It's not a mandala.

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Speaker 1: Oh. The usual time for a frame kit like this

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Speaker 1: is two weeks, but distractions quote distractions for miss Lofus

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Speaker 1: kept her from finishing. She said she felt quiet triumph

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Speaker 1: after completing the piece and joked, hopefully it won't take

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Speaker 1: so long to get it framed. I don't mean perseverance

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Speaker 1: twenty seven years.

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Speaker 2: Ugh.

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Speaker 1: You would also think you'd be great at any hobby

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Speaker 1: after twenty seven years or time to hang it up.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's such an interesting intersection of procrastination and perseverance

488
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 3: all wrapped up in one one little story. There is

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Speaker 3: a really great group of women and I can't remember

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Speaker 3: the name of this kind of I think it's a nonprofit.

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Speaker 3: But if you have a loved one who has passed on,

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Speaker 3: who is working on a crafting project like a quilt

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Speaker 3: or a cross stitch project, and they didn't finish it

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Speaker 3: because of whatever life situation happened and they've passed away,

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Speaker 3: you can send it to them. Because not everyone knows

496
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Speaker 3: how to cross stitch, like our friend in the UK

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Speaker 3: here with her her saxophone playing Hedgehog and you can

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Speaker 3: send it to them and they will finish your loved ones,

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Speaker 3: you know, blanket or sweater or piece of artwork. And

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Speaker 3: I love that so much.

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Speaker 1: I believe it's called Loose Ends. Is that the one

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Speaker 1: you're speaking of? Loose Ends and launched recently launched in

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Speaker 1: September twenty two. It's not not for profit, that's that

504
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Speaker 1: that is Yeah, finishers. Wow, that's so cool.

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Speaker 3: And they have a team. They have like a team

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Speaker 3: of crafty humans who I think are a little faster

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Speaker 3: than our hedgehog saxophone playing friend who will say like

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Speaker 3: I can do croche, but I don't knit, or I

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Speaker 3: knit but I don't cross stitch. And so they have

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Speaker 3: a matrix a spreadsheet and that's how they receive the

511
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Speaker 3: projects that need to be finished for love family members

512
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Speaker 3: that are still here. And I love that.

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Speaker 1: That is so nice. My goodness. If anybody who lives

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Speaker 1: in West Hattan in Northamptonshire knows Molly Lofus, let her know.

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Speaker 1: I will buy this sad playing saxophone. I would love

516
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Speaker 1: to gift it to Kurt this Christmas. I would love

517
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Speaker 1: Kurt to give it. Gift it to me next Christmas.

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Speaker 1: I would love this to be the gift that we

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Speaker 1: give to each other for the next twenty seven.

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Speaker 2: Years, just framed. Oh my god, I want it so bad.

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Speaker 1: I will pay Molly Love for the shipping and whatever

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Speaker 1: she thinks is fair for.

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Speaker 2: Twenty seven years years of work.

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Speaker 1: It probably won't be more than a way moo ride

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Speaker 1: from LA to San Francisco. But I need to give

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Speaker 1: this to Kurt. So if you happen to be in

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Speaker 1: the area and you know Molly, Molly, we would love

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Speaker 1: your hedgehog playing a saxophone. Do your kids pick up

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Speaker 1: and drop hobbies as they go, Like like I played

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Speaker 1: saxophone for one week and then trumpet for like two weeks.

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Speaker 1: I was like, Nope, this one's just not sticking. Not

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Speaker 1: for me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I have. I have two boys that are

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Speaker 3: almost sixteen and almost thirteen. My older one is into

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Speaker 3: drums and bass guitar, and he's kayaking and rock climbing

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Speaker 3: and like boy scout outdoorsy stuff. And the younger one

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Speaker 3: is sports sports sports. So yes, they do come and

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Speaker 3: go in different hobbies.

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Speaker 1: That's nice, it's good. It's good to have different things. Yes,

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Speaker 1: one of my nephews is loves indoor rock climbing and

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Speaker 1: the other one doesn't. And I'm like, hell yeah, this

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Speaker 1: is success when one has a passion and the other

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Speaker 1: one has a passion a different direction. It's so fun.

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Speaker 2: We turned out that we found out Alive. I found

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Speaker 2: out one of Olive's skills this weekend at a pool party,

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Speaker 2: which is getting thrown a basketball mid jump and then

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Speaker 2: and then throwing it into a basket while still in

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Speaker 2: the air. She did it multiple times. No other person

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Speaker 2: could do it, including every parent at the pool party.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: And I'll have got multiple baskets. So she has a skill.

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Speaker 2: She has a new steel sundance.

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Speaker 1: Kid.

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Speaker 2: That's not applicable at any sport.

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Speaker 1: You say that now, But I bet next season on

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Speaker 1: NBC there'll be some family game show and one of

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Speaker 1: the things will be like catch a thing and throw

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Speaker 1: it in a thing, and Kurt's eyes will light up.

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Speaker 2: I can say I got somebody for that. I'll tease

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Speaker 2: this into a little thumbs up here and we'll do

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Speaker 2: some thumbs up players using toy Claw games surprised to

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Speaker 2: find live groundhog among stuffed animals.

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Speaker 1: Give that great, Yeah, give it a saxophone. So Dana,

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Speaker 1: we do thumbs ups. Our guests send in, they shout

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Speaker 1: each other out. Becca Pitzer wants the thumbs up all

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Speaker 1: fast food employees who give you more food when they

567
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Speaker 1: make a mistake. She says, I got an extra frosty

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Speaker 1: at Wendy's last night, and it just made me so happy.

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Speaker 1: Thumbs up. That is a great per that's a great

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Speaker 1: group of people to thumbs up. Bethany, I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: with ownin is thumbing her husband Michael up. Michael had

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Speaker 1: zero hesitation in agreeing to skip his family reunion to

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Speaker 1: accompany Bethany to Banana's fest. They got tickets for Kurt's

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Speaker 1: Friday night show at Comedy Works, and they're coming to

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Speaker 1: one of the Banana shows on Saturday's, which she is wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Endo and Emily, this is an older one. Sorry took

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Speaker 1: me a while. Guys wants the thumb up. This is

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Speaker 1: a good one. Endo and Emily want to thumb up

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Speaker 1: her husband's coworker, Janine or Jeane, who was chased down

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Speaker 1: the street by an angry turkey, but was saved by

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Speaker 1: an anonymous hero who blocked the turkey with his car

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Speaker 1: and out the window yelled run, run, save yourself.

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Speaker 2: That turkeys, these turkeys, we get a lot of stories

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Speaker 2: about turkey's harassing whole towns.

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Speaker 1: That's right. And last, but not least, Emily H. Midwestern Emily,

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Speaker 1: who I believed adopted Banana the pygmy hippopotamus in our

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Speaker 1: honor Kurt from a zoo a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 1: Emily H. Says, I'd like to give a thumbs up

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Speaker 1: to my husband, Paul. I went from applying for a

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Speaker 1: job to accepting it in just under a week, which

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Speaker 1: is all scary. So we're going to have to move

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Speaker 1: out of our state and change our lives completely. He

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Speaker 1: has never lived outside of our current town and is

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Speaker 1: taking a huge leap with me. We will be married

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Speaker 1: twenty years in September, and he's the best in the

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Speaker 1: biz partner. I could ask for big thumb up for Paul.

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Speaker 2: Well, that what an adventure, What a cool adventure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, congratulations Emily on the new job. It's great to

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Speaker 1: have a job these days.

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Speaker 2: Imagine changes. But I know so fast, like in a

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Speaker 2: week to just be like all right, we're leaving, I

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Speaker 2: would be I would be fine with it. I want

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Speaker 2: to move with a lip somewhere else.

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Speaker 3: Where would you move? Where would you move next week?

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Speaker 2: Or because you only got a week I want to

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Speaker 2: go to I'll move to Ventura. That's where I'll move to.

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Speaker 2: It's about our hour and fifteen minutes away from Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: A great a great beach town, very much like the

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Speaker 2: beach towns I grew up in New Jersey.

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Speaker 1: It is where I want to go right, sort of sleepy,

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Speaker 1: sort of nice yeeah, with.

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Speaker 2: A little weirdness mixed in there.

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Speaker 1: I always want to be near, like within one hundred

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Speaker 1: miles of a great international airport and a great hospital.

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Speaker 1: Those are sort of my two requirements in life. So

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Speaker 1: where every pit and the most nature or the most

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Speaker 1: beauty that's still within a I'm driving eighty miles an

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Speaker 1: hour to the hospital, or I could take a flight

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Speaker 1: and go somewhere without it, like taking an extra day

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Speaker 1: of travel. Those are sort of my base priorities.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Dana, where would you move if you If you

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Speaker 2: could go anywhere.

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Speaker 3: I could go anywhere I would probably One of my

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Speaker 3: favorite cities in the country is Austin, Texas, although it's

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Speaker 3: changed a lot over the last twenty thirty years since

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Speaker 3: I lived there. It's I feel like they're bumper sticker

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Speaker 3: and slogan of keep Austin weird. Is it rings true

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Speaker 3: for me? So I would probably move back to Austin

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Speaker 3: next week, you know, just like your friends are anywing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is very It's a fun city, like cities

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Speaker 1: have personalities in life, and Austin at night is fun.

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Speaker 1: It is a really and the food's.

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Speaker 3: Good, oat live music scene. Yeah, people are nice, they.

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Speaker 1: Got the arts. It's a it's a good place to be.

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Speaker 1: But I'm sure sure when you were there before, I

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Speaker 1: bet it was significantly better before.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, isn't it the older I get, the better

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Speaker 3: we were kind of thing. So you know, I feel like.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know because like currently Kurt and I

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Speaker 1: both live in Los Angeles and we've both been here

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Speaker 1: about ten or twelve years something like that. But it

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Speaker 1: is better now than it was when we moved. I

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Speaker 1: would say LA is getting so much better as we go.

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Speaker 1: I understand why a lot of people hate LA. Like

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Speaker 1: you said, people in DC talk about politics in a

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Speaker 1: real way, like when you go to bars and when

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Speaker 1: you just chat people up, politics comes up. LA obviously

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Speaker 1: is that in entertainment, but less so than before, Like, okay,

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Speaker 1: I still talk and the food scene here has gone.

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Speaker 1: It's off the charts. Good now.

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Speaker 3: I love that.

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Speaker 1: So it's a good time to be here. And then

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Speaker 1: as soon as the one giant fire wipes us out

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Speaker 1: or the mega tsunami you know, takes us out, I'll

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Speaker 1: go within a hundred mile aisles of a really good

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Speaker 1: airport and caught call it quits. We had a good

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Speaker 1: earthquake about a week ago, Kurt.

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Speaker 2: Did you feel that, Oh yeah, my kid's school was evacuated.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah it was. Yes, it was Gus's first day

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Speaker 2: at school. It was Gus's first day at school. He

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Speaker 2: just went to transitional kindergarten as a four year old.

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Speaker 2: He gets to school, big kids school. He's been looking

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Speaker 2: forward to it for so long, and then boom, earthquake,

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Speaker 2: evacuation and he's just like, well, this is what happens

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Speaker 2: at school.

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Speaker 1: I hope it was right after the teacher said, Gus,

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Speaker 1: can you spell your last name for the whole class,

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Speaker 1: and then an earthquake just shook him out of it.

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Speaker 1: That's so good.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, he's he's doing well. But it's terrifying to

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Speaker 2: have children in an earthquake state. All right, here we

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Speaker 2: go pleasure ebody using toy claw games prized by live

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Speaker 2: groundhog amongst stuffed animals. Colonel Custard in Pennsylvania arcade game. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I did not know that this here's the day was

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Speaker 2: Curl Custard. Let's no, that is here. It is a

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Speaker 2: Pennsylvania groundhog. This was on in the Guardians. That's real.

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Speaker 2: This was written by the Associated Press. So this was

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Speaker 2: sent in by Christina. Thank you, Christina. A Pennsylvania groundhog

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Speaker 2: is making a name for himself for something other than

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Speaker 2: predicting an early or late spring and intrepid varmint dubbed

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Speaker 2: Colonel Custard, so named for the frozen Custard shop and

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Speaker 2: mini golf outlet where he was discovered.

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Speaker 1: That's good.

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Speaker 2: Was found stowed away with a passel of stuffed animal prizes.

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Speaker 2: In an arcade game two weeks ago. Players were maneuvering

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Speaker 2: a mechanical claw to pluck toys from the glass case

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Speaker 2: game when they suddenly realized a real life groundhog.

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Speaker 1: Was blinking back at them.

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Speaker 2: The newly named Colonel was found in Holidaysburg, a great

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Speaker 2: name a good hour's drive from Pennsylvania's farm more famous

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Speaker 2: ground hog Town Punk Satawani, home to the weather predicting

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Speaker 2: groundhog Phil. The owners and staff and the Meadows Frozen

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Speaker 2: Custard Shop aren't being shy about promoting their furry friend.

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Speaker 2: Staff and owners have made T shirts that read respect

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Speaker 2: the Groundhog, held the online naming campaign that drew an

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Speaker 2: avalanche of responses, and are working on more promotional ideas.

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Speaker 2: Of course, if you find a groundhog in your game,

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Speaker 2: use it. You have to use it.

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Speaker 3: I mean, how are they not doing it? The answer

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Speaker 3: is Colonel Custard in the claw machine with.

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Speaker 2: The candlestick, Oh so good, Colonel Custer in the claw

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Speaker 2: machine with the stuffed animal.

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Speaker 1: Oh good and great? Yeah, I mean, just same, change

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Speaker 1: the name of the business, just everything about this needs

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Speaker 1: to just be He's the mascot, He's on the shirts,

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Speaker 1: the change bumper stickers.

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Speaker 3: Let's go. I mean, because he's going to be old

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Speaker 3: news by next week, so they better really push their

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Speaker 3: march right now.

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Speaker 2: I want I want to share it. I want to

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Speaker 2: share with them in on there.

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Speaker 1: It is a silly tradition that they just keep pulling

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Speaker 1: these groundhogs out on It's just like we all just

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Speaker 1: agreed to keep on doing it. Seems insane to me.

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Speaker 2: And it seems completely insane to me also that we

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Speaker 2: all just have agreed that it's the same groundhog. It's

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Speaker 2: not the same groundhog. It's a different one. Every single

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Speaker 2: do you mean hurt?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Is one hundred years. I just assume like it's some

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Speaker 3: special Pusatani Bill longevity situation they have.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that town is smart. That's a smart town

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Speaker 2: that we all know the name of Pusatani.

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Speaker 1: We sure do. In captivity, groundhogs live up to fourteen years.

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Speaker 1: They can live in the wild, they only live six years.

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Speaker 1: Whoa an educational podcast? We teach things all the time.

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Speaker 1: They're a great animal. They seem like a good animal.

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Speaker 1: I don't know enough about groundhogs. And now I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: do a search after we record. I hope there's a

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Speaker 1: high school out there that has the school mascot the groundhogs.

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Speaker 1: That seems like a fun place to go.

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Speaker 3: Good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the mascot pops out of the middle of the field,

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Speaker 1: everybody waves around.

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Speaker 3: Goes back.

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Speaker 1: That's so good. Sure, I'll send us some with a

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Speaker 1: good one. I do have a question, because we are

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Speaker 1: an educational podcast, and Danna you must you you have

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Speaker 1: an intimate relationship with this question. Do you find in

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Speaker 1: your experience is there a better Is it better to

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Speaker 1: say experiencing homelessness or unhoused? Because Kurt and I always

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Speaker 1: try to be on the right side of saying things correctly,

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Speaker 1: and it seems like about four years ago unhoused became

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Speaker 1: the thing that everybody was saying. Yes, wondering if in

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Speaker 1: your work do you have an opinion?

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Speaker 3: I would say it really depends. We vacillate between both

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Speaker 3: and so, and there's a couple. I mean, there's definitely

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Speaker 3: a few different language considerations that we use it. I

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Speaker 3: support the girls where we might use both interchangeably, or

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Speaker 3: are considering the audience or what makes the most sense.

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Speaker 3: There's a handful of different words we use around menstruation

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Speaker 3: or around unhoused or experiencing homelessness, and it depends on

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Speaker 3: who we're also we're talking to, or if there's enough

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Speaker 3: time to do education around what topics we use. So

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Speaker 3: I think both are both are correct, but unhoused is

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Speaker 3: definitely has become more commonplace and more popular in a

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Speaker 3: lot of communities.

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Speaker 1: It seems like it, and it's an interesting one. The

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Speaker 1: only reason I ask, besides the fact that you work

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Speaker 1: with these these women is for me. Hearing home is

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00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: more emotionally connected. Hearing homeless or homelessness feels somehow more

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Speaker 1: emotionally devastating. From an outsider, it sparks a bigger emotional

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Speaker 1: connection to.

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Speaker 2: Me in the commast.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, than unhoused, which doesn't spark the same level of empathy,

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Speaker 1: which is interesting. I'm happy to say either one. Well, thanks,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the input. Let's see again. I have so

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Speaker 1: many that are Oh, you're you're currently at the beach.

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Speaker 1: Here's a fun one. This was set did by Sarah

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Speaker 1: Lynnett Kilmer Beach bar was used as a one thousand

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Speaker 1: and seven hundred year old Roman sarcophagus has been used

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Speaker 1: as a table until a tourist just noticed. Wait, wow,

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Speaker 1: I said a lot of words. Also the name of

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Speaker 1: this journalist. I am going to butcher so hard. This

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Speaker 1: is in the Miami Herald, which is real best in

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Speaker 1: the biz. Writer, first name, Aspin, last name flughofft.

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Speaker 2: Yes, best in the biz Aspen flugef.

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Speaker 1: P p f l u g h h o e

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Speaker 1: F T fluhoft so Aspen Flughoff for the Miami Herald.

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Speaker 1: What a natural connection an attentive tourist at a beach

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Speaker 1: bar in Bulgaria noticed an old looking table on the beach.

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Speaker 1: Archaeologists later identified the item as an ancient Roman sarcophagus

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Speaker 1: that people have been resting their drinks on. But a

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Speaker 1: mystery Lingers, a former law enforcement officer, was on vacation

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Speaker 1: in Varna when they noticed an antique looking stone coffin

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Speaker 1: on the beach. This was on July twenty fourth. The

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Speaker 1: tourists reported it to officials. Archaeologists arrived and soon identified

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Speaker 1: the item as a one thy seven hundred year old

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Speaker 1: Roman sarcophagus. The photos showed the decorative sarcophagus and its

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Speaker 1: its sides carved with garlands, flowers, grapes, several heads of

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Speaker 1: horned like animals. The lid was missing and replaced with

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Speaker 1: a table top that does not match the rest of

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Speaker 1: the structure. So basically, all these people at this beachfront

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Speaker 1: resort in sat In, Bulgaria, Oh, at Rajana beach bar,

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Speaker 1: we're just lounging and drinking their beach cocktails on this

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Speaker 1: ancient sarcophagus. Yeah, it's so good. The coffin measures three

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Speaker 1: feet by eight feet by two point five feet. The

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Speaker 1: heavy artifact was now moved to an archaeological museum in Varna,

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Speaker 1: and the origin of this remains a mystery. But they

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Speaker 1: went back and they looked at Google maps of this

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Speaker 1: beach and the first time this thing appears is May

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Speaker 1: two on a Google map, So it's been there for

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Speaker 1: a couple years and the bar is visible in the background.

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Speaker 1: They think it might have been there for up to

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Speaker 1: five years, just being used to hold peni cooladas or

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Speaker 1: whatever they drink in Varna.

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Speaker 3: So good and for them, Yeah, you feel like it

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00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 3: opens it up to like a lot of red wine jokes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, just kind of dreamed it.

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Speaker 3: But wow, I couldn't imagine, you know, you're out there

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Speaker 3: on vacation and having a good time and sipping your

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Speaker 3: beverage over a sarcophagus of a Roman who doesn't know

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Speaker 3: how the people are partying above.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and my own prejudice. If I was on a

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Speaker 1: beach in Bulgaria, I would just assume that it was normal.

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Speaker 1: I would be like, look, I wouldn't notice it at all. Yeah,

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00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 1: this is really beautiful.

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00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 2: Area and they just have this stuff. This cool stuff.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't have been like alert the alert authorities.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't know where the state came from, but

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Speaker 1: it's yeah, every object of archaeological value, the state can

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Speaker 1: come take it, and so they did, and of course

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Speaker 1: it's a shame again. Change the name of this place

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Speaker 1: to the crypt or the sargophagus or and then you're

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Speaker 1: making some serious mulah.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Dana for being on bananas, and

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for allowing us to do this

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Speaker 2: very dumb event to benefit I support the girls.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me today. And also

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Speaker 3: I'm just so thrilled to see how many tampons y'all

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Speaker 3: can toss in the air and folks can donate.

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Speaker 1: It's good, quite a few. What's the best website to

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Speaker 1: find you? If you have anything to plug, please do.

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Speaker 3: Well, I would say. If anyone wants to check us

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Speaker 3: out further, look at the letter I Supportthegirls dot org.

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Speaker 3: I support the Girls dot org. We're also on all

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Speaker 3: the social media platforms. You can find us being silly

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Speaker 3: on TikTok and serious on and a combination thereof between Instagram,

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Speaker 3: Facebook and Snapchat. So folks who look us up and

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Speaker 3: give us a follow or see what we're all about,

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Speaker 3: we'd love to have you join the community.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Dana, that's wonderful. Thanks for all your hard

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Speaker 1: work too. Banana the Week, Your Banana the Week figs

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Speaker 1: on or actually golden Banana power Banana gold.

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Speaker 2: Yeah dog, But thank you Data, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Sure thing, my pleasure, thanks for having.

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Speaker 1: Me Bananas Podcast. Bananas is an exactly right media production.

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Speaker 2: Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.

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Speaker 1: The catchy Bananas theme song was composed and performed by Kahan.

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Speaker 2: Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.

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Speaker 2: And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot intern.

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