Speaker 1: Scott You ready, Oh, I'm ready to love and love
Speaker 1: and love. You know what we're doing today. We're just
Speaker 1: doing a list of discontinued Guinness World records.
Speaker 2: That fell off, that are no longer records.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because they're too dangerous.
Speaker 2: Okay, So we're just gonna lists of world records. Well,
Speaker 2: we've remained the best of the best when it comes
Speaker 2: to the business that we call bananas.
Speaker 3: Your world of would you my sillion pieces?
Speaker 1: Would you.
Speaker 4: Banaa banana?
Speaker 1: Bana, guys, gowns, non binary powers, Welcome to bananas. I'm
Speaker 1: sitting across, of course, the wonderful, delightful and talented Scotti Landis.
Speaker 2: And I'm so across from the most dangerous man in podcasting,
Speaker 2: a guy who's just a hot take machine gun. Hide
Speaker 2: your ears, kids, it's Kurt brown Over.
Speaker 1: My whole thing is hot takes. I think people, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I've ever had a hot taker my
Speaker 1: entire life.
Speaker 2: I think about that all the time. All my takes
Speaker 2: are so medium. I just have medium mild takes, And honestly,
Speaker 2: we'd probably have a five times larger listenership of five
Speaker 2: times worse people. So I'll take what we have We're
Speaker 2: the Cold Take Boys.
Speaker 1: We're the Cold Take Boys. I'm very excited about our
Speaker 1: guests today. She is such a goddamn funny stand up
Speaker 1: and a wonderful actor, great writer. She wrote on and
Speaker 1: starred in Steven Soderberg's mini series Commander Z, which is
Speaker 1: so cool and interesting and good with Worrywood and Michael Sarah.
Speaker 1: She has an award winning one woman show, Cheat, which
Speaker 1: is world renowned. At this point, I saw it.
Speaker 2: Please, wonderful show.
Speaker 1: Please welcome to the show, the wonderful Chloe Radcliffe.
Speaker 2: Hello, welcome back.
Speaker 3: Thank you for having me back.
Speaker 1: We're happy to have you back. Thank you, grilled to
Speaker 1: be here.
Speaker 2: The first time you were on, we didn't know each other.
Speaker 2: Now I call you a friend. Yeah, and I saw
Speaker 2: your show and we've talked about writing. And I mentioned
Speaker 2: before we start recording that I had the distinct privilege
Speaker 2: of taking you or meeting with you, I should say,
Speaker 2: at the Smokehouse and Burbank for Martini's and garlic bread.
Speaker 4: Yes, and I had the unique pride of I think
Speaker 4: nailing the garlic bread secret ingredient yep, within like thirty seconds.
Speaker 3: I'm and I'm not a good taster.
Speaker 4: I'm not a good like foodie, you know, I can identify,
Speaker 4: and but I am from the Midwest.
Speaker 2: Is so just is it just.
Speaker 1: The powder from Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.
Speaker 2: That's our guess.
Speaker 3: That's our guess. That's my guess as well. And that's
Speaker 3: who don't know.
Speaker 1: It is like this garlic bread that comes out, it
Speaker 1: is just chemical bright, chemical orange and it's obviously sprinkled
Speaker 1: with something.
Speaker 4: And that is that is a flavor that like, it
Speaker 4: doesn't matter if I can't get the like, oh the
Speaker 4: umami of the truffle mushroom, I like can't do any
Speaker 4: of that ship, But I am like, that's Kraft mac
Speaker 4: and cheese right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, also delicious. You and I knocked off an entire
Speaker 2: love together. What a true Yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Just did Martini's and and bread. Yeah, that's the way
Speaker 1: they got.
Speaker 2: That's two hours of just chit chats and industry talk,
Speaker 2: but also just a fun hang. But I have a
Speaker 2: hot take. I don't like truffle oil. When you said
Speaker 2: that the umami truffle oil, I think it's too overpowered.
Speaker 1: I think I agree. I don't like truffle oil either.
Speaker 1: I am not interested.
Speaker 3: Wow, I think it's fine, that's my medium. Take the medium.
Speaker 4: Take when you were Scotty, when you were saying an
Speaker 4: audience that's five times wider but of five times worse people.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, you're the Tonight Show of podcasts.
Speaker 4: But then yes, I don't know if we should leave
Speaker 4: that in or take that out because I did used
Speaker 4: to get paid by that show.
Speaker 2: Anyway you wrote on the Tonight Show, I did, Oh wow,
Speaker 2: that's a good entry. That's the Really when you're a
Speaker 2: comedian and you get that gig, it's an awesome first
Speaker 2: job in entertainment. For sure.
Speaker 4: It opened so many doors. It gave me so many things.
Speaker 4: It hallowed out my confidence in a way that it
Speaker 4: took me a full year to recover from.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Right, it scoured me out as a person. But no,
Speaker 4: but it really did give me so so so much.
Speaker 2: It does. And if they call and say, hey, do
Speaker 2: you want to do a set? You go absolutely, oh
Speaker 2: my god.
Speaker 4: Oh they called him, We're like we want you back
Speaker 4: for for one cycle. Because the cycles are thirteen weeks.
Speaker 4: So if they were like, come back for one cycle,
Speaker 4: I'd be like, of course, what am I gonna do?
Speaker 3: Not get paid for thirteen weeks.
Speaker 1: These days and delight.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would love to be there anybody. I mean
Speaker 4: I tell every comedian like, you should want that job.
Speaker 4: You should absolutely gun to have the work job and
Speaker 4: just know that it will be a it will be
Speaker 4: a you will.
Speaker 3: Be hard to date during that job. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good way to put it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Our friend did it for I don't know, eight
Speaker 1: years years, eight years. Yeah, and she was just like
Speaker 1: a machine about it, you know, but it was like
Speaker 1: it was definitely like it's a we never saw her show.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: How many times have you done stand up on the
Speaker 2: Tonight Show?
Speaker 1: Kurt Oh?
Speaker 2: Four? Three or three or four times?
Speaker 3: Three or four?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a big.
Speaker 3: Deal, Scotty. How many times have you done stand up
Speaker 3: on the Tonight Show?
Speaker 2: They asked me to leave once I was loitering outside
Speaker 2: and they threw some hot nuts at me. They I
Speaker 2: still have some scar marks.
Speaker 1: But it was Jimmy Fallon who asked him. He yelled
Speaker 1: out the way from thirty Rove, get out of here.
Speaker 1: What are those hot nuts?
Speaker 2: Well, welcome back. We're so glad to have you. How's
Speaker 2: the cheat run been your your one woman show? It
Speaker 2: seems like you're doing it all over the place.
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 3: I'm doing it only in New York and LA, but
Speaker 3: a lot in New York and LA. Actually not even
Speaker 3: that much.
Speaker 4: It's it's funny because I'm doing all these one off
Speaker 4: shows and basically the goal with the show is the
Speaker 4: goal with the solo show as like an entity, is
Speaker 4: to get an off Broadway run, to sell it as
Speaker 4: a special, and to develop it into a TV series.
Speaker 1: Great, and I have.
Speaker 4: A TV deal on it, and like that, doesn't you
Speaker 4: know getting a TV deal is many, many, many steps
Speaker 4: from making a TV show.
Speaker 3: But I'm you know, there's like progress in that.
Speaker 4: The idea of selling it as a special is like
Speaker 4: way back burner, because if I can get a run,
Speaker 4: I would rather get the run first. And so right
Speaker 4: now I am like trying to get into the world
Speaker 4: of Off Broadway theater, and Jesus fucking Christ, I it is.
Speaker 4: It is hard to get in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is, well it is when they're like there.
Speaker 1: When there are you can count how many physical locations
Speaker 1: that require months and months of time to prepare for
Speaker 1: you to.
Speaker 4: Be able to do it, and you can count how
Speaker 4: many producers work in the like I've now spent a
Speaker 4: year being like who are the producers in this space?
Speaker 4: And it's like, oh, I can now tell you the
Speaker 4: eleven people who work in this world.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, and they control all of it.
Speaker 4: They control all of it and there and like maybe
Speaker 4: some of them are like, you know, a gatekeeper, and
Speaker 4: maybe some of them I honestly don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know them, like I haven't gotten to them yet.
Speaker 4: So maybe some of them are gay keeping, but honestly,
Speaker 4: I think a lot of them are just like, yeah,
Speaker 4: there's eleven of us, and we make all of the theater,
Speaker 4: and so we're up to our eyeballs in emails and
Speaker 4: in show invites and no, we're not going to come
Speaker 4: to your fucking show, because why would we come to
Speaker 4: your fucking show? And what's funny is that I'm like,
Speaker 4: I'm not even really trying to break into theater. I'm
Speaker 4: not I just want to do a run of this,
Speaker 4: and I think, of course that is even work. They're like, yeah,
Speaker 4: then why would we ever fucking come.
Speaker 3: You're not really trying to be in our world anyway.
Speaker 3: It's it's I hope that I hope that some of
Speaker 3: them come to this show.
Speaker 2: Will also the more successful the show gets they'll retroactively
Speaker 2: come and act like they've always wanted to be there
Speaker 2: and that they're your best buddy. Edy as soon as
Speaker 2: you start to get some flowers for it, everybody'll be like, oh,
Speaker 2: absolutely love Chloe, love her.
Speaker 3: That's my hope.
Speaker 4: There are you know, there are like a few people.
Speaker 4: There are a couple of people whose names people on
Speaker 4: this podcast would know that where everybody's been like you
Speaker 4: should you should have this person see it. I bet
Speaker 4: this person would love it and would like help you
Speaker 4: get it up. And those names have not yet come
Speaker 4: and have not responded to the invites.
Speaker 1: And it's always so tough when it's like, well it
Speaker 1: is a physical place and time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you do have to be here.
Speaker 1: It is you. Your body does need to be there,
Speaker 1: and we are so used to our bodies not being anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And so there are a few like I have
Speaker 4: my like I'll show use you know that that those
Speaker 4: are those are the people I'm gunning.
Speaker 2: For me too. That's what fuels everything. It's like the
Speaker 2: chip on your shoulder where you're just like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 2: going to get this done anyways. And you'll see that's
Speaker 2: if you don't do that. What do you just either
Speaker 2: die early, I guess or I mean I think people
Speaker 2: who don't have all show used are How do you
Speaker 2: say happy?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know there is you say no, they're
Speaker 1: not so confidently you no, Yeah, I mean I also
Speaker 1: I have a little bit of the not I show.
Speaker 1: I'll show you more of the Oh okay, I gots well,
Speaker 1: onto the next thing.
Speaker 2: Very funny. That's fine too. Kurdi b tell us about
Speaker 2: some of these undead to dead again Guinness Book World
Speaker 2: Record rerecord.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy about this.
Speaker 2: This was the tampon toss. What yeah, because we did
Speaker 2: the tampon toss.
Speaker 3: And how he did the tamp How many tampons do
Speaker 3: you toss?
Speaker 1: Six hundred and eighty at once?
Speaker 2: So it's a lot of tamp I really.
Speaker 4: Riffed on this without knowing what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: We did six hundred and eighty one people throw a
Speaker 2: tampon at the same exact time at Bananas Fast, and
Speaker 2: we donated them all to I support the girls. It
Speaker 2: was a great It was a total.
Speaker 4: I would love to be a woman receiving a tampon
Speaker 4: that I know a stranger has had their grubby paws all.
Speaker 1: Unwrapped. One inside my.
Speaker 2: Fa We gave it a gentle kiss, like a forehead kiss,
Speaker 2: and then put it back in stealed it with super glue.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, can you lick it? Actually? That would? I
Speaker 3: think that cancels everything out.
Speaker 1: So this is and Guinness is of course being they're
Speaker 1: notoriously difficult in ornery, and of course you're being annoying,
Speaker 1: So I figured, well, look into what other things they
Speaker 1: have been annoying about. This was on depths of Wikipedia,
Speaker 1: which is a fantastic against one amp and you should
Speaker 1: follow it right now. And I'm just gonna go down
Speaker 1: and we'll just chat about them. The first first one
Speaker 1: that immediately caught my eye was largest ever mass balloon
Speaker 1: release that has been canceled as of night as as
Speaker 1: of Balloonfest nineteen eighty six, where a lot we did
Speaker 1: a whole we did a whole story of bananas on it.
Speaker 1: The amount of balloons there were going to be two
Speaker 1: million balloons, it was one point four million balloons. It
Speaker 1: took them six months to build the structure that housed
Speaker 1: the balloons that then were like released, and then when
Speaker 1: they released them, they it was in Cleveland and or
Speaker 1: Cincinnati rather and they uttered destroyed the city. Like it
Speaker 1: was there was a rescue of a search and rescue
Speaker 1: happening at sea that the balloons prevented from happening.
Speaker 3: Two men ended up also and like Lake Huron or whatever, like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, in the lake there, And it was
Speaker 1: just liked the balloons prevented the search and rescue from
Speaker 1: happening in a timely manner. I mean, it was very sad.
Speaker 1: There was also like traffic accidents. There's one point four
Speaker 1: million balloons as they slowly lose altitude and like come
Speaker 1: into the settled into the streets. It took up like
Speaker 1: four city blocks the amount of balloons.
Speaker 4: That was Grandpa tell me about the day the balloons
Speaker 4: destroyed Cleveland.
Speaker 2: But I mean even by then we knew that they
Speaker 2: went to the oceans and affected marine life. They knew
Speaker 2: they just because you're in the Midwest, you can't get
Speaker 2: away with it.
Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty six, you one hundred percent new nineteen eighty six,
Speaker 1: I'm out there cutting six packs ring you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? Of course, Uh, another one that can't that's
Speaker 1: no longer around. Heaviest pets, well that should be still around.
Speaker 1: I disagree with that that was encouraging people to overfeed
Speaker 1: their pets because people are so fucking competitive that they
Speaker 1: This is like dance Moms, but for cats. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: another one that's been canceled. It's just called untimed gluttony.
Speaker 2: WHOA Okay.
Speaker 1: The nineteen fifty five edition declared the fastest time to
Speaker 1: eat an ox was forty two days, completed in eighteen
Speaker 1: eighty by Germany's Johann Ketzler. A total of forty three
Speaker 1: Gluttny records were discontinued in nineteen eighty nine, with just
Speaker 1: Greatest Omnivore remaining for historical value. Michael Lotito consumed chandeliers, bicycles,
Speaker 1: television sets. Remember Cesna light aircraft.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, it was in the book. Yeah, famous one. That
Speaker 2: one's such a great one. Yeah, you would eat a
Speaker 2: piece by piece. That guy used to be in the
Speaker 2: book when you would buy the hard cop.
Speaker 3: Was he? When did he die? What age did he
Speaker 3: die at?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be like twenty four.
Speaker 1: Let's see Michael Latito. Uh he was? He lived from
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty to two thousand and six. There's a picture
Speaker 1: of him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fifty six, Yeah, really young, that's what happens.
Speaker 4: If you eat Sesna Cessna aircraft, you're gonna you're not
Speaker 4: gonna live past your fifties.
Speaker 2: There he sunk in the swimming The photo.
Speaker 1: Of him in totally dressed up in black tie, uh.
Speaker 3: Sitting in front of the sesta that he is eating.
Speaker 4: Something so terrible happened to that man as a child,
Speaker 4: something so so bad happened to him so so early.
Speaker 4: And now he's eating license plates like a shark.
Speaker 2: Yeah, his mom had baby food on a spoon and
Speaker 2: she would go open up for the airplane and then
Speaker 2: just always hit him in the forehead really hard.
Speaker 3: And he was like, fine, I'll eat the fucking airplane.
Speaker 1: Longest Kiss was discontinued in twenty thirteen due to sleep deprivation.
Speaker 1: No longest time spent buried alive.
Speaker 2: Okay, that one I agree with.
Speaker 3: That's fine, leave it. Leave it like the let.
Speaker 2: The people assisted euthanasia.
Speaker 1: It was a human mole named that's in quotes, human
Speaker 1: mole name.
Speaker 3: It's themth.
Speaker 1: This is my subtle dig.
Speaker 3: Anyway, welcome to the podcast The Human.
Speaker 2: No No, it.
Speaker 1: Was Jeff Smith. He remained underground for one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty seven days in order to achieve the Guinness record
Speaker 1: and beat his mother's one hundred and one day stint. Okay,
Speaker 1: I want to know what's going on in that family
Speaker 1: that he wanted the first and he beat her. He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm a really beat mom by forty six days. That
Speaker 1: is a month and a half.
Speaker 3: This is this is the same mom who wouldn't feed
Speaker 3: her kid the airplane. Yeah, this is all the same family.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the other brother is ye so but okay, so
Speaker 2: that one was just living underground.
Speaker 1: Living underground, but he was mad about it, he said.
Speaker 1: Guinness denied the the Guinness denied the award for safety reasons,
Speaker 1: and Jeff stated, quote, there are far more dangerous things
Speaker 1: in the book. There's a record for a guy who
Speaker 1: eats cars.
Speaker 3: I really, I really, I think I'm on his side.
Speaker 4: Also, if they denied his record for safety reasons, you'd
Speaker 4: think that they would say, excuse me, we're never gonna
Speaker 4: do this record again. But you still get You still
Speaker 4: won because you survive. Exactly, he was safe enough and.
Speaker 1: He discontinued no one can do it after that. But
Speaker 1: to deny him seems cruel and rude.
Speaker 3: Ye. Also, he just had to. He just lived under
Speaker 3: ground for half a year. Yeah, yeah, for half a year.
Speaker 4: But also hold on, does living in a cave count
Speaker 4: as being buried alive?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good question, like a stretch.
Speaker 1: Was he in a cave?
Speaker 2: I mean you had to dig a hole. He wasn't
Speaker 2: just laying still.
Speaker 3: So you know, like the.
Speaker 1: Longest time spent buried alive he was underground, it says
Speaker 1: for one hundred and forty seven.
Speaker 4: Well you know what I mean, like like like bunker
Speaker 4: kids are underground for six months at a time and
Speaker 4: they never see the sky.
Speaker 3: Do they deserve the record?
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's give it out more. Let's not illuminate it.
Speaker 1: Let's give it out more.
Speaker 4: Let's ron let's let's you know, we want a big
Speaker 4: tent here for Dangerous Ginness World records.
Speaker 2: There were guys in my neighborhood that dug up one
Speaker 2: day during the summer. Everybody was like, what are you
Speaker 2: up to? I'm like, I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2: They're like, oh, we're going to go all up to
Speaker 2: the Gustafson's house. They're digging a hole in their backyard
Speaker 2: and they dug a like twelve foot deep hole that
Speaker 2: was like twenty feet across and then covered it, and
Speaker 2: they dug it out so much. They dug little rooms
Speaker 2: for everybody. Wow and yeah, And they built underground twelve
Speaker 2: feet into the earth and you climbed down a ladder
Speaker 2: and then they started building a chimney and so they
Speaker 2: like dug out a chimney and then everybody just hung
Speaker 2: out down there and it probably lasted, would you say, Well, Yeah,
Speaker 2: the fun and the novelty was probably like four or
Speaker 2: five days. And then the mom found out and was
Speaker 2: like took her.
Speaker 4: It took her four or five days to notice the
Speaker 4: twenty foot wide hole.
Speaker 3: In the back. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Because they had this really deep yard that went
Speaker 2: up against the woods, and so we were helping them
Speaker 2: carry buckets of soil into the woods. And then there
Speaker 2: was a slight rise like in their backyard, so you
Speaker 2: couldn't actually see the top of it. And they covered
Speaker 2: it with just like tarps and plywood and stuff. And
Speaker 2: for like three or four days, people were smoking, people
Speaker 2: were making out, people were drinking. It was like the
Speaker 2: car it's a club hole. Yeah, yeah, club hole. I
Speaker 2: was probably a club hole.
Speaker 3: York.
Speaker 2: The man hole was still over. We hung out it.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: I love that. Do you want to hear about most
Speaker 1: beer drunk in an hour? How much do you guys think?
Speaker 1: How much at beer can be drank in one hour?
Speaker 1: Sixty minutes?
Speaker 2: I know it's Andre the Giant. It is not the
Speaker 2: hat Oh my gosh, okay, because he's got some crazy records.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I even I looked at this depth of I
Speaker 4: saw this steps of Wikipedia post and I don't remember
Speaker 4: I don't even remember, like a ballpark of how much
Speaker 4: beer it was it.
Speaker 1: Was within sixty minutes. Go ahead, Scottie, Okay.
Speaker 2: I would guess you could drink a beer every three minutes.
Speaker 2: Ill beer two minutes, yeah, two minutes. So I'm going
Speaker 2: to go. I'll go in an hour. Fuck, I'll go.
Speaker 1: Forty five beers, thirty six pints of beer?
Speaker 2: Oh pints okay, so that's.
Speaker 1: Different sixteen ounces beer. Yeah, yeah, so twenty three year
Speaker 1: old jack Keys drank thirty six pints of beer. The
Speaker 1: feet occur in nineteen sixty nine and no Northern Ireland.
Speaker 3: And how old do you think that man lived to be?
Speaker 3: I know, less than fifty six, I would bet, which.
Speaker 2: Is forty eight beers. So that'd be forty eight cans
Speaker 2: of beer. That's he's moving. And how often did he
Speaker 2: pee during that hour? Maybe forty seven? Just let it out,
Speaker 2: you just got it. It's the old Looney Tunes. It
Speaker 2: goes in one hole and out the other, and then
Speaker 2: how I always want to live And here's the last one.
Speaker 1: Fastest Violinist has been discontinued twenty seventeen due to difficulty
Speaker 1: and conclusively determining whether all musical notes have been sufficiently
Speaker 1: played even when slowed down.
Speaker 4: I remember reading that and being like, how can you
Speaker 4: not tell when you slow it down?
Speaker 1: I don't know, because they all kind of bleed into
Speaker 1: one another, possibly because you're listening for like a difference
Speaker 1: of tone, right, because it's not like a DNT describing sounds.
Speaker 4: So the way to tell the difference between two musical
Speaker 4: notes is that they sound different. You really want to
Speaker 4: listen for the differences there, all right.
Speaker 2: Because they do a speed electric guitar and it's to
Speaker 2: flight of the Bumblebee. Oh really, I think that's the song, right,
Speaker 2: No no, no, no no no no no no no. And
Speaker 2: so they there are videos of these guys and they
Speaker 2: just keep putting the beats per minute up or whatever.
Speaker 2: And these guys are playing so fast, but you can
Speaker 2: tell they're playing every note. So that's weird that you
Speaker 2: can on a violin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, isn't it Because it's plucking. It's like
Speaker 1: the difference between in distinct notes and things getting mushed
Speaker 1: all together when it's just getting vibrating.
Speaker 3: I mean, because the bow is just yeah rocket, like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure there's a musical word for what
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You know, way back in like twenty twelve, I went
Speaker 2: to one of the first vidcoons, like the YouTube conferencing
Speaker 2: in Anaheim, and I didn't you know that cool? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I was there. It felt real cool, but there were
Speaker 2: a lot of like, you know, it was the first
Speaker 2: time I ever saw YouTube. Back then, they weren't even
Speaker 2: called they were so called vloggers or content creators. They
Speaker 2: weren't even called influencers or anything back then. And I
Speaker 2: remember being introduced to oh god, I think her name
Speaker 2: was Lindsay Sterling, and she was like an influencer violin player,
Speaker 2: and I remember being like, Wow, I guess YouTube's just
Speaker 2: for everybody. This is never going to go anywhere. And
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure she's humongous now, like we would be
Speaker 2: lucky to get her own bananas but it was like, oh,
Speaker 2: she's so nice. She's like she just plays violin and
Speaker 2: like looks cool and does stuff. And I'm like, okay, YouTube,
Speaker 2: I that's saying something my grandmother would like. And now
Speaker 2: she probably sells out Carnegie Hall all the time. So
Speaker 2: good for you, Linds.
Speaker 4: Early what early waves of any platform did was so
Speaker 4: mind bl you know, like early Netflix, stand up specials,
Speaker 4: early YouTube video virality, early.
Speaker 3: TikTok, you know, like all all of that.
Speaker 4: And then I was like, Okay, I'm going to get
Speaker 4: in on the next early platform.
Speaker 3: And then the next one is Clubhouse.
Speaker 4: Do you remember that the like briefly yeah, And I
Speaker 4: was like, I'm gonna go fucking huge on Clubhouse.
Speaker 2: No, Like sometimes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember I was like I'm going I'm going
Speaker 1: all in on Vine, baby.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I think at a certain point, like I was
Speaker 1: named like one of the best Vine, like after Vine
Speaker 1: had been out for like one month or something, and
Speaker 1: then I quickly was outpaced by people spending all of
Speaker 1: their time doing it and I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 3: That really is what it is.
Speaker 4: You have to spend all of your time doing whatever
Speaker 4: the platform is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just be like this is my thing. I'm going
Speaker 1: just for this thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of crazy. Vine died though, because those Vine
Speaker 2: compilations are funny. They's so funny and they'll live on
Speaker 2: YouTube now, but they're like those kids were doing their things.
Speaker 4: And some of them are still like transitioned to Like
Speaker 4: I would say most of the early like influencer celebrities
Speaker 4: were all from Vine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, house had Amanda Serny on a clubhouse. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we all we're still on clubhouse, the four of Us
Speaker 2: house party Hawaii because they were like, you gotta have
Speaker 2: Vine stars, you have that. So we were like, okay,
Speaker 2: send us names, and so we had her, and we
Speaker 2: had a couple other people that were flown out to
Speaker 2: Hawaii to be on television because they had big vines.
Speaker 2: And then Vine died and all of them pivoted to Snapchat,
Speaker 2: and then Snapchat I think gave us one hundred thousand
Speaker 2: dollars to put three of their stars on a Comedy
Speaker 2: Central show. Like it went into our budget. Yeah, wow,
Speaker 2: moved the needles zero percent for either Comedy Central nor Vine. Snapchat. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like there was never a crossover. They just learned that
Speaker 2: there is no audience crossover and.
Speaker 4: That it's not even like the ca Shay matters to
Speaker 4: that audience, like the credit doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Nope, not at all. It was a fascinating time. But
Speaker 2: God bless you, Lindsay Sterling. I'm sure you're just a
Speaker 2: friend of the body to the teeth and I should
Speaker 2: have been like, oh, I'll help bright stuff for you.
Speaker 2: I'm a fool that one. Katie will Hoyt sent this
Speaker 2: in Katie's the best. Thank you, h This was in
Speaker 2: The Guardian, so you know it's pretty real and it
Speaker 2: was written by Catherine Best in the business shored Helen
Speaker 2: Miren said, it's so sad Kurt Cobain died before GPS
Speaker 2: was invented.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to I want the full like context
Speaker 1: of this quote. I love it.
Speaker 2: Helen Mirren, who we all love, everybody's favorite Auntie uh.
Speaker 2: The Oscar winning actor has made the latest in a
Speaker 2: series of references to the Nirvana frontman and the technological
Speaker 2: advances he did not live to see. The actor Helen
Speaker 2: mihr And has lamented that Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain did
Speaker 2: not live long enough to be able to experience the
Speaker 2: excitement of tracking his location on a phone. It's this
Speaker 2: is so good that she's thinking.
Speaker 4: Do you think that means that Helen Mirren like watched
Speaker 4: a YouTube documentary about Kurt Cobain and he makes a
Speaker 4: comment somewhere in there about how he's like, hey, we're
Speaker 4: on the forefront of a technological wave. And then like
Speaker 4: and it's like there's like one sentence in there. Somebody
Speaker 4: somebody was like.
Speaker 3: I got this cool YouTube documentary to show you, and
Speaker 3: she just her brain, her brain.
Speaker 4: She was she had like just taken a sleeping pill
Speaker 4: and that's all that's the last thing that her brain absorbed,
Speaker 4: and then it just has like grown.
Speaker 3: You know, mutated inside of her.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yes, I also wonder the other option is
Speaker 1: is that this is her go to thought about anyone
Speaker 1: who's dead.
Speaker 4: She loves GPS, and she she yes so much.
Speaker 1: When she thinks of people who no longer exist, her
Speaker 1: first is that they didn't experience GPS. She thinks Alexander
Speaker 1: Graham Bell great inventor Too bad he didn't experience GPS.
Speaker 4: Do you think that means that Helen Mirren has like
Speaker 4: was very is very sad for everybody who died, you know,
Speaker 4: pre twenty eleven or whatever. But now is like, oh,
Speaker 4: people can die. Who gives a shit? They know at
Speaker 4: least they know what Garman feels like.
Speaker 2: You know, I think so also because Helen Miron just
Speaker 2: get lost all the time and like GPS has really
Speaker 2: improved the back half of her life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it, like her getting her first Tom
Speaker 1: Tom in like two thousand and four and just caressing
Speaker 1: it and be like, well, I guess we can all
Speaker 1: die now we finally know what this feels like.
Speaker 3: I make my GPS's voice American. Ooh see it's a
Speaker 3: pretty bad, great accent.
Speaker 2: No, that was very good. I thought. Helen Mirren was
Speaker 2: sitting across from me on the zoom chat. Here's the details.
Speaker 2: It's so it's just as good as you hope. It is,
Speaker 2: speaking to the evening standard proprietor you have. Genny Lebedev
Speaker 2: on Brave New World podcast, Miron, who's seventy nine years young,
Speaker 2: said she consider herself lucky to have lived long enough
Speaker 2: to witness dramatic technological advances. Quote. I always say it's
Speaker 2: so sad that Kurt Cobain died when he did, she said,
Speaker 2: because he never saw GPS, and it's the most wonderful
Speaker 2: thing to watch my little blue spot walking down the street.
Speaker 2: I just find it completely magical and unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Also, what an exceptional sense of awe and excitement about
Speaker 1: the world.
Speaker 3: Helen walks through with positivity.
Speaker 4: Also, most people are sort of like unnerved by technology
Speaker 4: tracking them and like our phones are listening to this.
Speaker 4: Helen is like, I come with me. I love your technology.
Speaker 3: I need you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I would. She seems like a really fun
Speaker 2: person to follow around for a day. The actor has
Speaker 2: frequently referenced Kirk Cobain in the past when discussing the
Speaker 2: interface of technology and aging. In twenty fourteen, she told
Speaker 2: Oprah Winfrey, look at Kurt Cobain. He hardly even saw
Speaker 2: a computer. The digital stuff that's going on is so exciting.
Speaker 2: I'm just so curious about what happens next. The following year,
Speaker 2: she told Cosmopolitan Magazine, I was just thinking about Kirk
Speaker 2: Cobain the other day and how he died without knowing
Speaker 2: the internet, and I'm totally blown away by that. And
Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen, she told The Daily Mail, if I
Speaker 2: had died at twenty seven, the age that Kirk Cobain
Speaker 2: died in nineteen ninety four, I'd never known there was
Speaker 2: an internet. Incredible things are happening all the time, and
Speaker 2: I cannot wait to see what happens next.
Speaker 1: She has been This has been a constant refrain for her. Impressed.
Speaker 3: This is she didn't she did mushroom. She did, She
Speaker 3: did mushrooms and tunneled.
Speaker 4: Really, really deep in one weird and specific direction.
Speaker 2: And she wants to totally hook up with I think
Speaker 2: she had a crush on kind. She wanted to joink
Speaker 2: that guy's point.
Speaker 1: What's weird is when asked about Amy Winehouse, she says,
Speaker 1: I don't give a shit if she never saw it.
Speaker 1: That's the craziest part. It's like Jesus, Helen, I'm.
Speaker 3: Glad that piece of ship never knew that Twitter became.
Speaker 2: X couldn't find the rehab. She didn't have GPS. That moron. However,
Speaker 2: the sentiments mere and expressed on this podcast, folks, that
Speaker 2: was focusing on longevity, neuroscience, biohacking, and psychedelics. From there,
Speaker 2: we're less cheerful.
Speaker 3: How did this podcast get Helen here?
Speaker 2: I know, I know.
Speaker 1: Let's get Helen Miran on bananas. Man, I bet she does.
Speaker 3: Have you let her talk about Kirk Cobain.
Speaker 4: I bet she I bet if you emailed her and
Speaker 4: we're like, we're looking for for more technology that you're
Speaker 4: sad that Kirk Cobain won't experience.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she did.
Speaker 2: Also, famous people like to be in clear. If they're busy,
Speaker 2: they're happy, and when they're not, they're like, why am
Speaker 2: I not being included? I should be everywhere? So maybe
Speaker 2: we can score.
Speaker 1: True.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's so true all my friends that are famous. Yes,
Speaker 2: oh so bumped.
Speaker 1: Just like, what are you so worried and upset about?
Speaker 1: You have billions of dollars and you are in demand
Speaker 1: that all moments. Can't you have one moment where someone's
Speaker 1: not inviting you on a yacht or something.
Speaker 2: I know, even if they find out you had coffee
Speaker 2: with somebody that was like, I'll have coffee with you,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, well, I know we're having it right now.
Speaker 2: Something that happened yesterday. Sorry you weren't there. It happened
Speaker 2: so much. God, I'll finish this article just because it's
Speaker 2: funny how they all these articles always have to wrap up.
Speaker 2: Which is general trivia and it is an educational podcast.
Speaker 2: A year before Kurt Cobaine died, Nirvana recorded their Unplugged
Speaker 2: in New York set for MTV, which further popularized popularized
Speaker 2: the band beyond their core grunch fan base and now
Speaker 2: I conic photo from the nineteen nineties shows cob And
Speaker 2: grinning broadly while talking on a brick like mobile phone,
Speaker 2: suggesting he might well have been enthusiastic about Google Maps.
Speaker 1: That is a big up, tycha is a big leap.
Speaker 1: He talked on a phone there before.
Speaker 3: He might have liked Google Maps.
Speaker 4: Honestly, it's either the biggest leap or the smallest leap,
Speaker 4: or it's like yeah, no shit.
Speaker 3: Would he have been a part of this world? Short?
Speaker 2: I think you would have hated it? And I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't. Kurt and I are of the perfect age
Speaker 2: gap where I was. Nirvana couldn't have been bigger when
Speaker 2: we were young, when we were like middle school, high school,
Speaker 2: like could not have been a bigger band. And nothing
Speaker 2: about that band makes me think that Kirk Coban would
Speaker 2: have just loved the Internet.
Speaker 1: Nothing about like I always think, like, think about Billy Corgan,
Speaker 1: current day Billy Corgan. Now imagine that.
Speaker 3: Is a formation? Who I know who it is?
Speaker 2: Yes, Smashing Pumpkins leads.
Speaker 3: Great okay, sorry, great, great, great.
Speaker 2: Lead singer of a great bank you smashing, thank you.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: That was popular at the same time as Nirvana was popular.
Speaker 1: And then just transpose that aging onto Kirk Cobain. We
Speaker 1: don't want it for him. No one wants that. Nobody
Speaker 1: wants fifty eight year old Kurt Cobain right.
Speaker 4: Now, Season two of Nobody Wants This is what if
Speaker 4: Kirk Cobain didn't die?
Speaker 2: Oh yes, Chloyd, let's pitch it right now. That's a
Speaker 2: great idea. There's a very infamous story. And I've asked
Speaker 2: Karen Kilgarre if she was present for it. I've asked
Speaker 2: many comedians. But at the there's a great theater in
Speaker 2: La the Largo, and everybody liked playing Largo. How many
Speaker 2: seats do you think that is? Four hundred?
Speaker 1: No, well, yeah, maybe three fifty three hundred.
Speaker 2: It's not that huge. But anyways, it's a great, great
Speaker 2: comedy theater. And if you're a fan of comedy out there,
Speaker 2: especially stand up, you probably already have heard of Largo.
Speaker 2: And there's a very famous story that one night there
Speaker 2: was a big stand up night and Kirko excuse me,
Speaker 2: Billy Corgan and Marilyn Manson show up and they're in
Speaker 2: head to toe leather. They're in leather like, they're dressed
Speaker 2: like the Columbine kids basically, and they walk in and
Speaker 2: sit in the front row. They thought it, yeah, they
Speaker 2: thought it was like a live music night, like. They
Speaker 2: thought it was a bunch of bands and stuff, and
Speaker 2: instead it was a bunch of alternative comedians.
Speaker 3: They didn't know how you missed that. It's comedy, I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 2: But whatever the name of the show was called, you know,
Speaker 2: it was like not Whiplash, but it's a name like
Speaker 2: that where you go, oh, okay, this must be something cool.
Speaker 2: And so then in the front row you have these
Speaker 2: two leather matrix dressed ghoules just and they didn't laugh
Speaker 2: at all. They just sat in the front row and stared,
Speaker 2: and all the comedians kept like and finally somebody called
Speaker 2: it out. But I've been trying to track down I
Speaker 2: think it was like Zach Alfanakis and Sarah Silverman sort
Speaker 2: of that that gen. But god, can you imagine just
Speaker 2: being at that show and just see being those two
Speaker 2: gargoyles stumble in silently, pale and just sit there silently
Speaker 2: with one light blue eye and one dark eye.
Speaker 3: I don't know how people wouldn't acknowledge it.
Speaker 4: I don't know if there were if there were two
Speaker 4: like assassins sitting in the front row not laughing, I
Speaker 4: would have to deal with it.
Speaker 2: Are you guys assassins?
Speaker 1: You know it's Billy Corgan and Maryland.
Speaker 3: So they probably killed somebody, but not professionally.
Speaker 2: Man, I gotta find somebody that was there.
Speaker 1: Good, gotta tease us into uh some.
Speaker 2: Shout thumbs up.
Speaker 1: Yeahs how one man sold an airport that didn't exist. Oh,
Speaker 1: I love a good scam.
Speaker 2: Ye okay, So I dug deep. I went back in
Speaker 2: the archives. I was looking at old stories. I found
Speaker 2: three thumbs ups that we miss Kurt.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: I'm going to give the date that I was supposed
Speaker 2: to say it okay, And I hope all these people
Speaker 2: are alive and healthy and well on June nineteenth, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three. I can't believe I miss these. Saint T
Speaker 2: wants to thumb her big sister, Emma up. She's an
Speaker 2: LPN studying to be an RN and she's a huge
Speaker 2: inspiration to saying, and she introduced saying to bananas. So
Speaker 2: thumbs up. Emma, hopefully you're an r N a year
Speaker 2: six months now.
Speaker 1: Thank you for what you do as well. Thumbs that's right.
Speaker 2: Also on June nineteenth, twenty twenty three, I was supposed
Speaker 2: to say this, Kyle wants to thumb his partner. I
Speaker 2: think it's Elisa or Alessia, so let's go Alessia. That's
Speaker 2: a prettier name. I believe up for graduating with.
Speaker 3: This sis Elisa. I know, I hope they were like, anyway,
Speaker 3: that's up.
Speaker 2: That was bad Alesia, Olesia. I'm going to Alicia as
Speaker 2: graduating with a Masters of Library and Information Studies. She
Speaker 2: was graduating on June fifteenth, twenty twenty three, So thumbs up.
Speaker 1: We hope it was.
Speaker 2: A beautiful graduation and you've found books and information to
Speaker 2: continue studying.
Speaker 3: Some really finally thumbs up, staments yes.
Speaker 2: In June twentieth, twenty twenty three, Naomi Faulkner wants to
Speaker 2: thumb up her twelve year old daughter Lily, who is
Speaker 2: probably now thirteen, possibly even fourteen. They went to Naomi's
Speaker 2: husband's twenty year reunion at Amherst College, and Lily was
Speaker 2: pretty bored during this trip until Naomi said, well, banana
Speaker 2: boy number two went to UMass Amherst, which is right
Speaker 2: down the road, to which Lily responded, now that is
Speaker 2: finally something interesting to get me excited. So thumbs up, Lily,
Speaker 2: you might already be applying for colleges. This took so long.
Speaker 2: My apology jeez to saying Kyle and Naomi or Naomi.
Speaker 1: But we got you thumbs up, thumbs up, and of
Speaker 1: course we are here with the wonderful and delightful Chloe Radcliff.
Speaker 1: It's me, It's me Zoe Chloe. You have like a
Speaker 1: new bike series, don't you.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I so.
Speaker 4: I bike everywhere in New York and have forever have
Speaker 4: since I moved here.
Speaker 3: I'm on my bike an hour and a half a day.
Speaker 3: I it's it's the best, the best. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I love it so much. It keeps my head screwed
Speaker 4: onto my body. I mean, it just like makes me
Speaker 4: feel so much better. It's so awesome. And just within
Speaker 4: the last year I started, I've been talking for years
Speaker 4: about shooting videos on my bike and just have never
Speaker 4: quite gotten it together. And then just within this last
Speaker 4: year did all the like tinkering cause it's this, like,
Speaker 4: you know, I went through so many iterations of like
Speaker 4: how do I shoot the video and how do I
Speaker 4: record the audio?
Speaker 3: And how do I edit?
Speaker 4: And da da da da da da, And I finally
Speaker 4: figured out a system that works, and so now I'm
Speaker 4: I've been putting out front facing jokes on my bike
Speaker 4: for a while, and now I just started putting out
Speaker 4: longer like ten twelve minute little like sort of a
Speaker 4: solo podcast, but it's it's like somewhere between, like you know,
Speaker 4: it's just biking around New York, so you really get
Speaker 4: to see New York City. I'm telling people about, you know,
Speaker 4: what I've been doing, what I've been up to. I'm
Speaker 4: giving bikers a bad name cause I'm very aggressive and
Speaker 4: I yell at people and I break the law. And
Speaker 4: so I think people rightfully would watch it and be like, oh,
Speaker 4: fuck off, this is why bikers are annoying.
Speaker 1: No, I love it. It's absolutely fantastic. And it's nice
Speaker 1: because I guess you have one of those like three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty one degree ones, right, yeah, Because every
Speaker 1: once in a while you'll be talking and then it'll
Speaker 1: you'll swing the viewpoint around and you get to watch
Speaker 1: you kind of like dodging through traffic at the same
Speaker 1: time when you comes back and then you're like back
Speaker 1: into a bit. It's very enjoyable to watch. I used
Speaker 1: to bike in Manhattan and Brooklyn as well. I would
Speaker 1: bike from Park Slope to fortieth and Lex every morning
Speaker 1: and yeack, and it was it's the best. And people
Speaker 1: are always like, oh, it must be so scary. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: it's the best city to bike in totally because traffic
Speaker 1: goes four miles an hour everywhere you go.
Speaker 3: And everybody's looking for bikes. Yeah. Absolutely. Oh the people
Speaker 3: I don't mind cars.
Speaker 4: Most of the people driving in New York are like
Speaker 4: driving either professionally or like, have been driving in New
Speaker 4: York their whole lives.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the drivers are great.
Speaker 4: It's the city bikers who bike around on their electric
Speaker 4: city bikes with headphones in no helmets, looking at their
Speaker 4: phone while they're riding.
Speaker 3: They are the menaces.
Speaker 4: Those are the people who I'm like, you're gonna you
Speaker 4: also ride without a helmet, Do what you want. It's
Speaker 4: you're only hurting yourself. I think it's crazy. I think
Speaker 4: it's a terrible mistake. But like, okay, but if you
Speaker 4: ride with headphones in, you are not just you.
Speaker 3: You are going to hurt other people too likely. It
Speaker 3: just makes me absolutely crazy.
Speaker 4: So anyway, that's the dangerous part of driving in New York,
Speaker 4: not the cars, the people, Yeah, but also.
Speaker 2: With headphones, and you lose the character of this city
Speaker 2: because like, riding a bike in New York is like
Speaker 2: tsa pre check. It's like you just ease through it
Speaker 2: a little smoother than everybody else. But you overhear so
Speaker 2: many conversations. And when you leave, like say Brooklyn to
Speaker 2: Manhattan or Queens, like just the people change. Everything changes.
Speaker 2: You'll just hear people yelling nonsense at each other that
Speaker 2: you don't even understand what that's what.
Speaker 3: It's like, you completely disconnect from the city. Yeah, totally, Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2: You'll see a grown man yell basketball soup and then
Speaker 2: start laughing and you don't even know what that means,
Speaker 2: but god, you're so happy you heard him yell at
Speaker 2: and you keep on keeping on if you end up
Speaker 2: doing Years ago, Kurt and I had to figure out
Speaker 2: an act two or an act three for a pilot
Speaker 2: and we were like, oh, maybe we'll put Kurt on
Speaker 2: a tandem bicycle and have a celebrity behind him. But honestly,
Speaker 2: the go pro tech and lipstick cam tech wasn't really there.
Speaker 2: So anyways, if you need a guest, Kurtie b would
Speaker 2: be a great rideing have guest.
Speaker 1: If you do tandem, that's gonna be so fun.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm starting a tande bike web series. That's
Speaker 4: that's the Yeah, I am, I'm I'm starting, uh and
Speaker 4: I would love to have you on. I'm gonna shoot
Speaker 4: episodes in La so I'll hit you up.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys would be so funny. Just the negotiation
Speaker 2: of who gets to be in the front or the back,
Speaker 2: who gets to steers.
Speaker 3: I'm always.
Speaker 2: Save it for the video.
Speaker 1: It'll just look like old big bird behind you.
Speaker 4: I shot an episode with Roy Wood Junior and it is.
Speaker 4: The side shots are so funny to have me in
Speaker 4: front of him, This giant man find so funny.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 1: All right. You want to hear about this scam. It's
Speaker 1: a delightful scam.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love a scam.
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Speaker 1: This was sent in by the fantastic and wonderful copyhaste.
Speaker 1: Thank you copycats. This was you know, I found. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of different places I could have gotten this from,
Speaker 1: read a lot of different articles about it. I got
Speaker 1: it from school Tube. Sounds really everybody loves school Tube.
Speaker 1: This was written by school tube community. Nobody wanted to
Speaker 1: credit for it.
Speaker 2: Sound more authentic if it had to.
Speaker 1: There was a there's an open opening paragraph that's about
Speaker 1: scams in general, and I'm going to skip that.
Speaker 3: Here it is.
Speaker 1: In the early nineteen nineties, Emmanuel Newooda wasn't just another
Speaker 1: scammer sending out poorly warded emails. He was a respected figure,
Speaker 1: the director of the Union Bank of Nigeria, with fingers
Speaker 1: and numerous financial pies. You'd think someone in his position
Speaker 1: would be content, right. Not in new Mooday. He craved more,
Speaker 1: and he had a knack forgetting it, even if it
Speaker 1: meant bending the rules dot dot dot drastically. The year
Speaker 1: was nineteen ninety five, the Internet still a novelty, a
Speaker 1: digital wild West where everyone knew the rules. Netscape Navigator
Speaker 1: was the browser of choice.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Okay, nowaday, using his charm and legitimate business credentials. This
Speaker 1: is huge approach. The head of Brazil's Banco no Reste
Speaker 1: with an irresistible offer, invest in the construction of a
Speaker 1: brand new airport in Abuja, Nigeria and reach massive returns.
Speaker 1: He spent a tale of a booming economy, a government
Speaker 1: eager for development and profits that would make their head spend.
Speaker 1: What followed was a masterclass in manipulation. Over three years,
Speaker 1: Newday and his accomplices, using a mix of forged documents,
Speaker 1: fate contracts, outright lies, convinced the bank to transfer two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty two million dollars in nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 1: That's that's got to be like to have an hundred
Speaker 1: million at this time, Yeah, almost a billion dollars. The
Speaker 1: money intended for state of the art airport vanished into
Speaker 1: a labyrinth of offshore accounts. For a while, Newday's scheme
Speaker 1: worked like a charm. He lived a life of luxury,
Speaker 1: the phantom airport his golden goose. But as with all
Speaker 1: good things, his luck eventually ran out. Nigeria's new Anti
Speaker 1: Corruption Commission caught wind of it, and the house cards
Speaker 1: began to crumble. New Is arrest sent shockwaves through Nigeria
Speaker 1: and beyond. The scale of his fraud was unprecedented attestament
Speaker 1: to his audacity and the banks staggering naivete. He was
Speaker 1: eventually convicted and sentenced to prison, but the two hundred
Speaker 1: and forty two million gone gone, vanished, never showed up again.
Speaker 1: It's still in offshore banks somewhere. He got away with
Speaker 1: it essentially. And also I mean like it's just absolutely
Speaker 1: and he was kind of like like people thought he
Speaker 1: was very cool. And Banco Noreste went out of business
Speaker 1: because of this, Like an entire bank was bankrupt because
Speaker 1: of this investment.
Speaker 3: Because of a fake airport.
Speaker 1: Yes, no one ever went to be like, let's see
Speaker 1: the airport.
Speaker 3: I love. I love a scam. I love I love
Speaker 3: a lie. I love just absolutely yanking somebody out of
Speaker 3: whatever they out of their money. I love it.
Speaker 1: I think also to do much that much at I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say, whenever I invest one million dollars, I always
Speaker 1: go and visit the place or where the thing is
Speaker 1: going to be built. This is I like that, not
Speaker 1: even at one hundred million, where they're like, we're going
Speaker 1: to go take a peek.
Speaker 4: And you'd think you would think that at the level
Speaker 4: that they're not looking. That means that two hundred and
Speaker 4: forty two million is actually not that much to them,
Speaker 4: you know, like JP Morgan investing two forty two is
Speaker 4: like whatever, it's pennies to them.
Speaker 3: But two forty two was enough to ruin the bank.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So when it came out, I think I think
Speaker 1: it was people. I think it was an additional people
Speaker 1: finding out about it and then it ruined their confidence
Speaker 1: in the bank. So it wasn't that that money meant
Speaker 1: a lot to them. It was rather that, yeah, people
Speaker 1: were like, well, we're no longer take keeping our money
Speaker 1: there because you guys are fucking idiots.
Speaker 2: I read a book last summer, I think it was
Speaker 2: last summer called a Nansi's Gold and it was about
Speaker 2: a Ghanaian con man. If you like scams, this dude
Speaker 2: was unh Blame Blame Maisa was his last name, Blame Maisa.
Speaker 2: And this dude was so bold. He would come to
Speaker 2: America and just scam, scam, scam and same thing, just
Speaker 2: rip off so many people with like old ideas like
Speaker 2: oh my my, there's a kingdom and they had all
Speaker 2: this gold and I am the only person who can
Speaker 2: access it and I need this money, like the stuff
Speaker 2: that we know to look for now on the internet.
Speaker 2: But this guy was doing it in person, like in
Speaker 2: New York City, and I think he was up near
Speaker 2: Yale for a while. But that book, uh, it's by
Speaker 2: Ebo something And anyways, it is such a good read
Speaker 2: because this dude pulled off the same thing just like
Speaker 2: hundreds of millions of dollars. Scams would go to jail
Speaker 2: and then in jail would start scamming the other prisoners
Speaker 2: who are like, hell yeah, weapon runners because he was like,
Speaker 2: He's like, they caught me, but I'm best friends with
Speaker 2: the king, and the kings getting me out. I'm actually
Speaker 2: just serving times so the king doesn't have to So
Speaker 2: if you want to get into it, you just looted
Speaker 2: Americans and prisoners. Oh it's so yeah, blame blame. Mieza
Speaker 2: was his last name.
Speaker 3: Amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's called a nan seas Gold And that book
Speaker 2: is such a good read.
Speaker 3: Do you want to do you want to hear my
Speaker 3: my my scam for New York City?
Speaker 4: Yes, I talked about this in one of my recent
Speaker 4: long biking videos, So this is a tease of one
Speaker 4: of them. If you like this, go listen to the
Speaker 4: rest of the videos. Okay, what you do is you
Speaker 4: want to buy a roll of Neon Green paid stickers,
Speaker 4: you know, the stickers that say paid on them. Yeah,
Speaker 4: And then you go to the eminem store and you
Speaker 4: fill bags with however many m and ms you want,
Speaker 4: and you just put your own sticker, your own paid
Speaker 4: stickers on because the payders are the only ways that
Speaker 4: they can tell whether you paid for it. And then
Speaker 4: you just show them the pastickers and you got paid,
Speaker 4: and you take out as many M and ms as
Speaker 4: you want. So think about that.
Speaker 3: Think about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and as long as that roll of stickers cost
Speaker 1: less than that about you, and as long as.
Speaker 3: The security cameras don't notice the same person.
Speaker 2: I'm not even supposed to be here, sir, my, are good, buddy?
Speaker 2: Maybe Johnny Pemberton, when I moved to La Goes, do
Speaker 2: you like blueberries? I said, yeah, he goes. Go to
Speaker 2: Pinkberry and don't get any frozen yogurt. Just fill your
Speaker 2: cup up with blueberries and it's cheaper than buying blueberries
Speaker 2: the gros.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, brilliant.
Speaker 1: That's so funny. You know another way to get free
Speaker 1: M and m's too from is just you just put
Speaker 1: them in your pocket. You pour them all in your
Speaker 1: pocket and then you go, they're in my pocket already
Speaker 1: and they go, okay, you got you those are yours now?
Speaker 2: Sorry?
Speaker 3: And they go yeah, yeah yeah, And are there some
Speaker 3: tampons in there?
Speaker 4: Just get your hands nice and you know, really really
Speaker 4: riddle them around.
Speaker 2: Ooh, that is a good scam in La. If you
Speaker 2: want free meals by a walkie talkie with an earpiece
Speaker 2: and some tape and then drive around until you see
Speaker 2: these yellow and black signs that have arrows pointing towards productions,
Speaker 2: then just confidently walk up to catering and craft services
Speaker 2: with your walkie talkie and headphone in and just act
Speaker 2: like you're supposed to be there and make his made
Speaker 2: plates of food.
Speaker 1: No one will no one will ask you, because the
Speaker 1: secret about a set is that there is a specific
Speaker 1: person in charge of every little thing, but then there's
Speaker 1: general things where like that person would never know if
Speaker 1: another person from another department was there or not. And
Speaker 1: if as long as you're confident, you could do whatever
Speaker 1: you want on a film set, right, because if.
Speaker 4: You saw somebody who you were like, man, I've never
Speaker 4: seen that guy on the set before. He's wearing a
Speaker 4: walkie talkie, he has a little fanny pack. Are you
Speaker 4: going to walk up to him and be like, excuse me, sir,
Speaker 4: Are you a stranger who is scamming your way into
Speaker 4: a free flate of food by walking onto this production
Speaker 4: randomly and walking through craft services? Is that what you're doing?
Speaker 4: Because the risk of that person turning and being like, no,
Speaker 4: I work on the same job you.
Speaker 1: Work on, like I'm the I'm the executive assistant of
Speaker 1: the star. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4: It's the risk is so extreme that you're like, I'm
Speaker 4: never gonna I'm never gonna accuse this verson of this
Speaker 4: absolutely batshit insane behavior.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Oh, I'm an office pa, okay, and just
Speaker 2: don't hit it every day. That's the problem with the
Speaker 2: guy you were talking about, curt Is. Just if he
Speaker 2: had two hundred million dollars in off shore counts. That
Speaker 2: is the time where you change your entire identity. Get
Speaker 2: out of that far, far away.
Speaker 1: That is the craziest part, right, I would say, after three.
Speaker 3: Million dollars, I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm good. I've got three million dollars. I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get out of this one.
Speaker 2: Well, Vietnam a beautiful country that doesn't have extradition. Just
Speaker 2: go take your one hundred million dollars and live a
Speaker 2: life not unlike Kings of All.
Speaker 3: You can just under million in Vietnam. You'll have a
Speaker 3: nice time.
Speaker 2: You have a great time.
Speaker 1: Send us home with just a title there.
Speaker 2: Just what Kimberly Win or excuse me? Kimber Win sent
Speaker 2: this in She's Kimmi Kazi on Instagram. This was on
Speaker 2: thirteen News, written by that thirteen Kmax News staff man
Speaker 2: discovers he's been paying the wrong utility bill for over
Speaker 2: eighteen years. I'll give you the first two paragraphs, now okay.
Speaker 2: In Vacaville, California, California, man recently noticed something was not
Speaker 2: quite right with his normal utility bill. After further investigation,
Speaker 2: the power company discovered he's been paying someone else's bill
Speaker 2: for what could be nearly two decades. Ken Wilson says
Speaker 2: he keeps a watchful eye on how much energy he uses,
Speaker 2: especially in recent months as his bill started to get high.
Speaker 2: He even bought a device to tell him how many
Speaker 2: watts his appliances give off so he can track his
Speaker 2: daily energy used down to the exact number. So this
Speaker 2: is the wrong guy to do this. I've been trying
Speaker 2: to conserve electricity, lower my costs. Blah blah blah. So
Speaker 2: he called PG and E, who sent out a work
Speaker 2: on Tuesday to check his meter, and that's when the
Speaker 2: company confirmed Wilson's apartment, Unit ninety was long linked to
Speaker 2: the wrong meter, so he was paying the utility bill
Speaker 2: for Unit ninety one since two thousand and six.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, are they going to refund him all
Speaker 1: that money?
Speaker 2: Do?
Speaker 3: Doo dooo?
Speaker 2: He says. Wilson says he was still paying for the
Speaker 2: wrong meter as of Monday, and he says the power
Speaker 2: company indicated the air won't be corrected until the next
Speaker 2: billing cycle.
Speaker 3: Sure you got away twenty days?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't think so.
Speaker 3: He's already waited eighteen years. It was another twenty days.
Speaker 3: You know what's crazy.
Speaker 4: The person who is neurotic enough to buy a measuring
Speaker 4: device to see how many wats you're using exactly is
Speaker 4: a person who should have noticed this seventeen and a
Speaker 4: half years ago.
Speaker 1: But also if you don't true, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'm aware of, like, what does a unit of
Speaker 1: energy cars. You know if you're just like, oh, I
Speaker 1: guess that's what it is. I have one light and
Speaker 1: one TV. I watch it for one hour a day
Speaker 1: and that's five hundred dollars every two months.
Speaker 3: Crazy.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right, Chloe plug away. Where can everybody find you?
Speaker 2: And where they can can they can find your new
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Speaker 1: Awesome. Hell yeah, thank you so much for coming back, Chloe.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me this.
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