Speaker 1: Are you ready, Scottie, Oh curty bee, I am so
Speaker 1: ready to laugh and laugh and laugh.
Speaker 2: Bulldog puppy that chewed his owner's toe to the bone
Speaker 2: may have saved his life.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, oh okay, well a man, I'm so thrown.
Speaker 1: Make no bones about it. Bite there, We're about to
Speaker 1: bite off a big old chunk of a new episode
Speaker 1: of Bananas.
Speaker 3: Would you it's not your mind her pieces? Would you?
Speaker 2: Guys gals don binary Palace, Welcome to Bananas. Sitting across
Speaker 2: from me, a man on vacation. True, a man in
Speaker 2: Europe right now looking at me at a hotel room
Speaker 2: doing his duty podcast nation by by podcasting on his vacation.
Speaker 2: It's Scottie land As.
Speaker 1: I don't mind at all. I don't mind it all,
Speaker 1: and I'm sorry my audio is not as as amazing
Speaker 1: quality as normal. I don't have my home set up.
Speaker 1: But it's true. I'm in Venice. I'm looking at a
Speaker 1: canal with my left eye, and my straight eye is
Speaker 1: looking at the world's greatest comic, Kurt Brown Owler Curtie B.
Speaker 1: You know him, you love him. We call him the
Speaker 1: big banana around here.
Speaker 2: Oh man, how is how has your trip been?
Speaker 1: That's good. Well, yeah, I mean so off season travel
Speaker 1: in is just fantastic. The weather's been great, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm in Venice right now, which a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't know. Their roads here are canals and they're nope,
Speaker 1: it's a big secret, and their cars are boats. So
Speaker 1: it's a funny choice they made a long time ago
Speaker 1: that people still sort of enjoy today. I haven't done
Speaker 1: a gondola ride. I don't believe I am going to
Speaker 1: do a gondola ride. This is my first time to Venice,
Speaker 1: but I just feel like, uh, not for me. I've
Speaker 1: been thinking about it a lot. I think it started
Speaker 1: as a We're having a wonderful night in Venice. It's romantic,
Speaker 1: the stars are out. Let's take a boat ride with
Speaker 1: a gondolier who takes us down these quiet, dark canals.
Speaker 1: And now it's just packing as many people into a
Speaker 1: boat and rowing their asses in a line through the city. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I'm good. I think I'm good on the gondas,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I'm not having a great time. So many
Speaker 1: new stories, so many fun things. I went to Monaco.
Speaker 1: Uh huh, I've never been. Have you ever been to Monaco?
Speaker 2: No, it's just like a casino, right, it's just a
Speaker 2: giant casino city.
Speaker 1: So it's the richest per capita city in the entire planet.
Speaker 1: There's only thirty seven thousand residents. That's crazy. They speak French,
Speaker 1: but they speak everything. And the weekend I got there
Speaker 1: was yacht the International Yacht Show weekend in Monaco, which
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I can't even afford a canoe. But
Speaker 1: I had the first experience walking around Monico. I've never
Speaker 1: had this in my life where I was seeing children
Speaker 1: like children Gus and ALA's age, who are so rich
Speaker 1: and the way they look at you, it is like
Speaker 1: they have perfectly combed hair, they have ten thousand dollars
Speaker 1: outfits on their dad has a two hundred million dollar yacht,
Speaker 1: their mom's five billion dollars and they just walk by
Speaker 1: you like look at this slug, and you're like, you're right.
Speaker 1: I couldn't afford a chair on your international yacht, young man.
Speaker 1: But it was a new experience.
Speaker 2: That's crazy. That is so crazy. Did you go to
Speaker 2: the casino?
Speaker 1: I did. I went to the Monte Carlo casino, famous
Speaker 1: from all the James Bond movies. And I'm not a
Speaker 1: gambler as you know, but I did a go in,
Speaker 1: I got a drink, I walked around. I didn't take
Speaker 1: any photos. No, I didn't actually gamble. They they kind
Speaker 1: of separate you into again, like the poor sad sacks
Speaker 1: and then the richies. So when you go in, there's
Speaker 1: sort of an everybody can go area and it's slot machines,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm god.
Speaker 2: Really yeah, oh, because otherwise you need to like the
Speaker 2: James Bond area where people are like negotiating nuclear codes
Speaker 2: and playing poker is like four high rollers on right.
Speaker 1: And it's the two interesting things because it's an educational podcast.
Speaker 1: One is if you live in Monaco, you were not
Speaker 1: allowed to gamble in the casino? What real? Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: not allowed at if you're a citizen of Monaco, which
Speaker 1: is very hard to do. Some of the rents I
Speaker 1: was looking at thirty five thousand dollars a month for
Speaker 1: every cubic square foot, so every ten by ten space
Speaker 1: thirty five thousand dollars a month. What? Yes? What?
Speaker 2: And then is it a tax haven or something like? Why?
Speaker 1: It's a huge financial tax haven. And the casino is
Speaker 1: owned by the government of Monaco. It is their breadwinner.
Speaker 1: So you can go and you can put in money
Speaker 1: and you can get a bunch of chips and stuff
Speaker 1: and you can go play the table games, or if
Speaker 1: you just want to go in and play, you know,
Speaker 1: just to say you did it. There's sort of an
Speaker 1: entry room that's just slots. And so instead of participating
Speaker 1: in all that, we decided to go over and have
Speaker 1: a cocktail in a very very nice bar. And it
Speaker 1: was great. I mean, that's awesome. It was fun. And
Speaker 1: so you know, if I go with you, if I
Speaker 1: go with friends, I'll be like, yes, let's go to
Speaker 1: Monaco and eat some gelato. But man, it is just
Speaker 1: not built for all of us.
Speaker 2: Just we are not fascinating.
Speaker 1: Thirty five thousand dollars a month for ten square feet
Speaker 1: in the city, so.
Speaker 2: You could lay down, you could lay down diagonal if
Speaker 2: you needed to.
Speaker 1: Right, the median per capita for the thirty seven thousand
Speaker 1: people that live there is twelve million dollars, so you
Speaker 1: basically have to have somewhere around twelve million dollars to
Speaker 1: and it takes like ten years to become a citizen.
Speaker 1: You have to live there, you have to pass all
Speaker 1: these tests. Fascinating place, didn't I just walked around and
Speaker 1: had a ball. It was wonderful.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, well I was. I was in Mexico City.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how was that. Congratulations on your anniversary.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Speaking of gondola's, I guess it's called gondolas. Uh.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 2: I went to this place called I'm going to mispronounce it, but.
Speaker 1: Milo sounds great.
Speaker 2: It's XO m I L C h O. But it's
Speaker 2: canals about an hour outside the center of Mexico City.
Speaker 2: And you go and you pay, uh, you know, pay
Speaker 2: a certain amount of money for per hour, and you
Speaker 2: get on a like a gondola, but they're like flat,
Speaker 2: they're like a flat bottom boat that's very long, and
Speaker 2: then they pull you out into this like canal, like
Speaker 2: whatever canal you know, like a series a grouping of canals.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I know, it's not that, but a network of canals.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go now.
Speaker 2: So they pull you out into network of canals and
Speaker 2: then everything is there, everything is on boats. So you
Speaker 2: want some elote day, Like they come on and they
Speaker 2: like they're cooking it right on the boat. They come
Speaker 2: over it. You give them some money, they give you
Speaker 2: some me. Lie, you want a Margarita. They're making a
Speaker 2: margarita on another boat that we love you, Margarita. We
Speaker 2: got a mitchellatta that was the size of my head.
Speaker 2: It was an entire forty ounce perfect jumped into a
Speaker 2: giant Corona cup. And then they put the like the
Speaker 2: the seasoning that they put on the rim of it.
Speaker 1: Like the taheen, but something better.
Speaker 2: It was, yeah, but it was. It was spicy and
Speaker 2: sour and sweet. It was also sweet and it was
Speaker 2: just dripping down the sides and Lauren and I and
Speaker 2: we took a little bit and no problem, and we're
Speaker 2: just laughing drinking the most the giantest beer that you've
Speaker 2: ever had. And then then like another boat pulls up
Speaker 2: and it's a full eight piece mariachi band, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: we want a song. And then they all get on
Speaker 2: our boat and it's not no shit. Five violins, a
Speaker 2: gigantic guitar, trumpets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the big guitar is what sets the mariachi bands
Speaker 1: apart from the rest of the bands of the world.
Speaker 2: That star It was the most intense experience because you're surrounded,
Speaker 2: you're surrounded. It was just Lauren and I on the boat,
Speaker 2: do you know what I mean? And We had eight
Speaker 2: dudes who were like the just excellent musicians and the
Speaker 2: singers such strong voices, but you're like eight inches away
Speaker 2: from them and you're like just floating down this canal.
Speaker 2: It was so awesome and wonderful. It was what a treat.
Speaker 2: If you ever go to Mexico City, it's worth the
Speaker 2: hour maybe hour and a half long car ride to
Speaker 2: get out to Sochi.
Speaker 1: Milko was great though.
Speaker 2: It was so cool, and I would recommend if you'd
Speaker 2: go do it for two hours. We did it for
Speaker 2: one hour, and you know, they turn around after thirty
Speaker 2: minutes and we were like, oh.
Speaker 1: Man, we're just yeah, yeah, that's cool. I've never heard
Speaker 1: of that down there. That sounds wonderful and that's a
Speaker 1: fun way. You guys made new memories. You didn't just
Speaker 1: look back did You lived in the moment. You two
Speaker 1: were present in your love for each other. That's good, great,
Speaker 1: it really was.
Speaker 2: It was very cool to have just like four days
Speaker 2: no children walk around a city together.
Speaker 1: It was it's old school.
Speaker 2: It's old school, and it was so so cool. I
Speaker 2: loved it. But if you go be ready first first
Speaker 2: twenty four hours, thirty six hours, it's hard. You thought
Speaker 2: Denver was hard, you add another two feet on it.
Speaker 2: It's hard with the altitude.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they they're national soccer team espishly in World Cup
Speaker 1: and qualifying when they play in Mexico City as the altitude,
Speaker 1: Mexico wins all the time, like they are adjusted to it,
Speaker 1: and it's a huge, huge, huge, huge home field advantage
Speaker 1: to play there. Don't I'm going to say it's the
Speaker 1: stadium as Teca, And maybe that is so wrong and
Speaker 1: racist of me, but I'm pretty sure that is what
Speaker 1: it's called. Also, I picked up this thing. You know,
Speaker 1: I've done a lot of travel in my life, but
Speaker 1: you always when you try to speak a new language,
Speaker 1: or when you're speaking a language that you're not very
Speaker 1: familiar with, sometimes you feel like a little embarrassed and dumb.
Speaker 1: But I had a moment of clarity about a few
Speaker 1: days ago where everybody, everywhere you go in the world,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter where you're traveling, fifty percent of those
Speaker 1: people are below average intelligence. So let's just say half
Speaker 1: the people you're interacting with are so in their own
Speaker 1: below average intelligence life that when you make a mistake,
Speaker 1: you walk down the wrong way, you say the wrong
Speaker 1: vocabulary word, you don't know how to ask where the
Speaker 1: toilet is. They're they're fine, They're already thinking about something
Speaker 1: they saw earlier, and they're gonna giggle about it and
Speaker 1: check their phone. It like it takes this pressure off
Speaker 1: you when you realize that you're not just walking around
Speaker 1: with Rhodes scholars and every and great memoirists who are
Speaker 1: going to record your stupid move. Most people are very dumb.
Speaker 1: And if you just put your neck out a little
Speaker 1: bit and say, hey, I don't know how to say this,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna try. Thanks to Google Translate, Uh, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get away with it because that person's in their
Speaker 1: own life, in their own zone and their own brain,
Speaker 1: and they don't care. Yeah, they don't care.
Speaker 2: And also it's it's it's I think travel is a
Speaker 2: little bit about feeling the best silly it is, do you.
Speaker 1: Know what I mean?
Speaker 2: It's a little bit about being vulnerable because you're going
Speaker 2: somewhere you don't know what's cool, you don't know what's
Speaker 2: not cool. Like you walk, you could have the coolest
Speaker 2: clothes in America. You go to Berlin, you look like
Speaker 2: a dork because they're wearing the dorkiest, weirdest clothes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they're like, this is cool, this is what cool is.
Speaker 2: And You're like, this seems like the weirdest, dorkiest person
Speaker 2: I've ever seen, but it's awesome. It's like that vulnerability
Speaker 2: of it, and like, yeah, don't worry. I always try,
Speaker 2: and I always make a fool of myself trying to
Speaker 2: speak the language I always do. I love it. I
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 1: I do too. I just it was a moment of
Speaker 1: clarity where I'm like, this person doesn't care that I
Speaker 1: just messed that up. They might recorrect me and send
Speaker 1: me on my way, and then they're gonna go look
Speaker 1: at butt pictures online like everybody else, Like it's so freeing.
Speaker 1: Just look like a dummy. Nobody cares at all. Here
Speaker 1: it is Scottie, Yes, sir.
Speaker 2: Bulldog puppy that chewed his owner's toe to the bone. Yeez,
Speaker 2: saved his leg. This is a This was sent in
Speaker 2: a long time ago. I've been sitting on this one
Speaker 2: for a while. I was saving it for a live show,
Speaker 2: but the opportunity never came up. This was sentence by
Speaker 2: Brendan Bailey.
Speaker 1: Thanks Brendan b. Thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: This was in sky News Sword of Real, a retired builder.
Speaker 2: This was written by.
Speaker 1: I need to know Big Toe Johnson.
Speaker 2: Nobody, no one wrote this.
Speaker 1: That's swig In sky Staff.
Speaker 2: A retired builder has told how his dog potentially saved
Speaker 2: his leg by chewing his toe to the bone while
Speaker 2: he was asleep. David Lindsay was taking a nap on
Speaker 2: a sofa when his wife's scream woke him up. He
Speaker 2: looked down to find his seven month old bulldog puppy
Speaker 2: had been nibbling on his foot so much that his
Speaker 2: toe had been fractured and was covered in blood. However,
Speaker 2: in a strange turn of events, it turns out Harley
Speaker 2: the dog was an unlikely hero.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: The sixty four year old father of five told Whales
Speaker 2: Online quote, I was asleep on the couch when my
Speaker 2: wife walked in and shouted, Dave, the puppy's chewing your toe.
Speaker 2: Oh god, puppy he had near enough chewed him my
Speaker 2: big toe off. It chewed down to the bone and
Speaker 2: cracked it. But because of all of this, I discovered
Speaker 2: that by foot is completely numb. Well yes, I mean
Speaker 2: when it it takes this for this man to ever
Speaker 2: feel his foot, yeah, shit, and not realize that his
Speaker 2: foot is completely numb.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's crazy.
Speaker 2: After being rushed to the hospital, doctors told him he
Speaker 2: had lost the feeling in his feet due to two
Speaker 2: blocked arteries in his legs.
Speaker 3: Yeeesh.
Speaker 2: He was warned if the blood supply was not returned,
Speaker 2: he risked losing his leg. Specialists are now seeing if
Speaker 2: he can have stens fitted that would open up the
Speaker 2: arties allow the blood to return to his legs. David
Speaker 2: from Cambridge added, you gotta laugh about it. He's done
Speaker 2: me a favor by chewing my toe, So I'm waiting
Speaker 2: to find out they can put stents in. This was
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three, so I'm sure that this man
Speaker 2: is absolutely fine.
Speaker 1: Now. Uh my, I'm a.
Speaker 2: Big toe too. But if not, I told the doctor
Speaker 2: to cut it off and I can take it home
Speaker 2: for him. He's gonna give the dog his toe.
Speaker 1: That's disgusting. Wow, this is surely a positive spin on
Speaker 1: an absolutely insane story.
Speaker 2: It's a really insane story. And the picture is of
Speaker 2: them on the couch together. This dog is incredibly cute.
Speaker 2: David Lindsay and his leg saving dog, and it's a
Speaker 2: ball dog and it's just like such a cute puppy,
Speaker 2: but also what a crazy move by I've never had
Speaker 2: a dog chew on a part of my I guess
Speaker 2: maybe bigger dogs chew on parts of your bodies. I
Speaker 2: guess Rob's dog used to chew on his hand. He stop,
Speaker 2: but always would stop at a certain point.
Speaker 1: Also, he could feel his hands. I mean, I guess,
Speaker 1: like you said, how long, and I guess this guy
Speaker 1: was really just looking the other way, like how long
Speaker 1: can you go without realizing you can't feel your feet?
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm overestimating how much I think I can feel
Speaker 1: my feet.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm a little bit always aware of
Speaker 2: feeling my feet. I feel like everybody right now while
Speaker 2: you're listening, are you feeling your feet? I feel like
Speaker 2: I'm feeling my feet. You I would, it would just
Speaker 2: feel like, you know, all of a sudden walking around
Speaker 2: on stumps or something.
Speaker 1: Otherwise, it's really well, I mean yeah, I mean this
Speaker 1: dog wasn't trying to save his life. This dog just
Speaker 1: got got started on a little a little tease, a
Speaker 1: little tag and this this hardest sleeper just I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't feel not just feel it, but you don't
Speaker 1: hear it. That's that's truly a bizarre guy.
Speaker 2: That's a bizarre guy. There seems to be more to
Speaker 2: the story.
Speaker 1: There is man Harley. Why is how did Harley David
Speaker 1: seem become the lamest brand in the history of the world.
Speaker 2: Like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: When we were kids of somebody at a Harley, it
Speaker 1: was like, oh, they have stabbed somebody and they have
Speaker 1: those they had those old tattoos on their forearms and
Speaker 1: stuff that were just bleeding out from years of drinking
Speaker 1: and sun damage. So it's like, is it a mermaid?
Speaker 1: Is it an anchor? And if they had a Harley,
Speaker 1: were like it's bad as now when you see anybody
Speaker 1: on a Harley or at those Harley outlets that are
Speaker 1: always near malls or out and you're like, I could
Speaker 1: beat everybody up in that place, and I am a whimp.
Speaker 2: I tell you why, because now the average price of
Speaker 2: a Harley is like eighty thousand dollars to own a Harley.
Speaker 2: That's why it's like it didn't used to be like
Speaker 2: it's a rich man's toy now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if I ever go on prices, right, I hope
Speaker 1: when I get to a showcase showdown that it opens
Speaker 1: it up and it's two Honda gold Wing motorcycles, and
Speaker 1: I will pretend to be so happy. I will just
Speaker 1: do standing backflips until Drew Carey's like, just let's just
Speaker 1: give them to this guy. This guy clearly loves Honda
Speaker 1: gold Wing, big Grandpa with speakers and like luggage racks.
Speaker 1: It's just it's just weird how everything starts as one
Speaker 1: thing and then over time becomes something completely different.
Speaker 2: I know, I've always I'm always shocked at that. As
Speaker 2: also as I've lived on this earth for longer and
Speaker 2: I've seen just in like comedy, I've seen people begin
Speaker 2: come up, have success, oh yeah, and then go back
Speaker 2: down to obscurity. I've watched the whole cycle happen, and
Speaker 2: you just it's like it's a it's a deep, deep
Speaker 2: reminder that it's all a fucking river. That it's like
Speaker 2: the only constant is changed.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: It's just like at any moment, if you feel a
Speaker 2: certain way about the state of the world, it will
Speaker 2: be different.
Speaker 1: That's right. That's a good point. Yeah, that the rise
Speaker 1: and fall, That's right. The longer you're in it, it's
Speaker 1: a weird thing to see people that get just run
Speaker 1: out of the gate, going so fast and then it
Speaker 1: just that pulls them right back in. Yeah, damn.
Speaker 2: It's fascinating. And even the biggest, even the biggest, they
Speaker 2: I will then have a fall.
Speaker 1: I had.
Speaker 2: It was just inevitable.
Speaker 1: It's really true. I had a really interesting experience early
Speaker 1: on in New York. And I think this person's working
Speaker 1: a lot now, like right now they're finally got their
Speaker 1: break twenty years later or whatever. But remember that bar cabin.
Speaker 1: It was in the East Village and it was like
Speaker 1: a hang hey, yeah, And there was a guy I
Speaker 1: think his name was Chesley who hosted a little back
Speaker 1: room stand up show there that had like I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe it's set like fifteen to twenty people, but late
Speaker 1: night at cabin, all the comics, the all comics, you
Speaker 1: guys like the Variety show comics, the real comedy seller
Speaker 1: guys and gals. They would all meet there on some
Speaker 1: nights and you would it would be a who's who
Speaker 1: it would be Dave Chappelle would be there, Bill Burr
Speaker 1: or somebody like that. But then I would go Kristen
Speaker 1: or you or whoever. And I remember, like I was
Speaker 1: probably twenty two or twenty three and had just gotten
Speaker 1: there and in one night the number of like entertainment
Speaker 1: lessons I learned, Like somebody introduced me. I won't name
Speaker 1: the comics name, but they were like, do you see
Speaker 1: that guy over there. I was like yeah, They're like,
Speaker 1: oh man, he's the new John Belushi. He got a
Speaker 1: pilot on ABC. He just went out to pilot season,
Speaker 1: and like he's gonna be the next big thing. And
Speaker 1: he was my age. And so I end up meeting
Speaker 1: that guy and we're really talking. And then there were
Speaker 1: two SNL writers who were like formerly and you know
Speaker 1: these guys, they were like, don't write for us, andel
Speaker 1: it sucks. They were like, it's a nightmare. And it
Speaker 1: was like a big dream of mine to write for SNL,
Speaker 1: and they were like, it is a nightmare factory. People
Speaker 1: steal your jokes, you don't get stuff on. Do not
Speaker 1: do it. It's you don't get paid enough. And I
Speaker 1: just felt like I walked around cabin, a place I
Speaker 1: probably went four times and ten years, and in that
Speaker 1: first night I kind of saw so I got so
Speaker 1: much insider information on what to avoid and who not
Speaker 1: to be. And then that guy who was going to
Speaker 1: be the next John Belushi, I mean, for fifteen years,
Speaker 1: it just didn't happen at all. And it's I think
Speaker 1: sometimes we forget that all of these careers are impossibly hard.
Speaker 1: There they're actually impossible hard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and it's it's amazing so much if you
Speaker 2: could get anything done, if you can get any little
Speaker 2: thing done, it is it's a miracle.
Speaker 1: But you know, keep trying. Also, there's like a lot
Speaker 1: of our favorite comics of those those older folks that
Speaker 1: are just still funny and they're like sixty and they
Speaker 1: get up there and they're just so crazy and funny
Speaker 1: that you're like, well, that's a good skill too. I
Speaker 1: think that's why I like writing so much, as I
Speaker 1: really have the belief that I'll at least get better
Speaker 1: at writing the whole way. Like comedy, I'll probably won't
Speaker 1: be funny in five years, ten years, but like I
Speaker 1: think I'll be a better writer till the day I
Speaker 1: stop typing, right.
Speaker 2: I agree with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But what's also very interesting when you think about that
Speaker 2: is like, uh, I don't know if it's true with filmmaking,
Speaker 2: because if you look at it like it, it doesn't
Speaker 2: seem like it. It's like the last film a massive
Speaker 2: auteur director does is never great? Yeah, And I wonder
Speaker 2: if it's the sludge of Hollywood, do you know what
Speaker 2: I mean? Like so many things like in Hollywood, you
Speaker 2: have like talent and you start to rise up, and
Speaker 2: then all these like sludgy arms of Hollywood reach up
Speaker 2: and start grabbing onto you and telling you this and
Speaker 2: pulling you this way and pulling you that way, and
Speaker 2: saying you have to do it this way, and you
Speaker 2: have to do it and em And I think that
Speaker 2: maybe is is it that Hollywood does after a certain point,
Speaker 2: Like it's what gives you the opportunity to get a
Speaker 2: thing out there, and then if you stay long enough,
Speaker 2: it is what ultimately destroys your art.
Speaker 1: Dude, At the start of the strike last summer two
Speaker 1: summers ago? Was it last summer? Jeez? When was that
Speaker 1: two summers ago? I have no idea either. But at
Speaker 1: the start of the Writer's Guild strike, I get a
Speaker 1: call from this guy who's an agent, one of my agents,
Speaker 1: but just somebody to know inn the business. And he goes, hey,
Speaker 1: do you know anything about AI? And I go not really,
Speaker 1: I know some why He goes, I'm here and I
Speaker 1: won't name the actor's name, but I'm here with an
Speaker 1: actor and he's like a canceled actor, Like this guy
Speaker 1: has been canceled, Like I would never work with this guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: never met him, don't know the guy. But he was
Speaker 1: like I was telling about you and that you're a
Speaker 1: really funny writer. And he just read this thing about
Speaker 1: AI and he has a great idea for a movie pitch,
Speaker 1: could you get on a zoom real quick? And I
Speaker 1: was like, uh no, I'm like it's a strike, but
Speaker 1: like if you guys want to tell me what the
Speaker 1: idea is, like I can chew on it and then like,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna scab, so you can tell me the idea.
Speaker 1: So the actor gets on. The canceled actor gets on
Speaker 1: and he goes, hey, so AI can like impersonate your
Speaker 1: voice and it can like take it could take like
Speaker 1: all of your work and like and reproduce it. Right.
Speaker 1: I go, yeah, I think it actually can do all that.
Speaker 1: Like you can say, uh, give me a Stephen King
Speaker 1: book but about jazz, and then it'll AI can write that.
Speaker 2: And he goes, so what if I as cemetery.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wait a second, this is pretty good, and so
Speaker 1: this actor goes, so, here's my idea. This is my pitch.
Speaker 1: I think you're the perfect guy to write it. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't know this person, and he goes, so, what
Speaker 1: if there's like an actor, like a former former, like
Speaker 1: a list actor, and like an AI pretends to be
Speaker 1: him and it becomes its own sentient thing and all
Speaker 1: of the bad things that this this actor's ever done,
Speaker 1: it's just the AI guy. So the movie is about
Speaker 1: the actor trying to find the bad version of himself
Speaker 1: that's AI and shut him down. I'm like, oh cool,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. Let me think on that a little bit.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, like Armie Hammer, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: it wasn't him.
Speaker 1: Armie Hammer, who is who I had a storage unit
Speaker 1: next to and walked up to, made direct eye contact,
Speaker 1: and I was like, that is Army but slightly older
Speaker 1: than Army Hammer. But I was like, oh cool, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do any development of writing during
Speaker 1: the strike, but let me think on it and I'll
Speaker 1: get back. And I kind of did that because I
Speaker 1: knew it was like a knee jerk idea for this
Speaker 1: guy and he would never go back to it, and
Speaker 1: so that's what happened. Never went back. But I'm like,
Speaker 1: that is the level of delusion that people have, Like
Speaker 1: what if I saved my career by making a movie
Speaker 1: where an AI version of me was the bad one
Speaker 1: and I'm the good one and I stopped the bad
Speaker 1: one from being bad? And I was like, you think
Speaker 1: I'm going to put my name on that, You're insane?
Speaker 1: Never Never, ma'am Oh so crazy. I'll tell you who
Speaker 1: that was off the podcast sounds good. Sarah Marie sent
Speaker 1: this in. Thank you, Sarah Marie. You can send in
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Speaker 1: Oh you're gonna like this one, Kurt alrighty, It's not
Speaker 1: really bananas, it's more just so impressive. One woman sets
Speaker 1: an impressive new record on the appalach Trail this week.
Speaker 1: This was in SI dot com, written by Maria Best
Speaker 1: in the Business Aldrich. Oh she's good.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: When it comes along walks, you want Maria Aldrich right
Speaker 1: there every step of the way. On September twenty first,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, the Appalachian Trail saw a new fastest
Speaker 1: known time, which is called FKT, which is I think
Speaker 1: a big thing in the hiking world. Of the previous
Speaker 1: overall record for the two thousand, one hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: seven mile trail, it was formerly set in twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: by Carol I think it is Carol Sab or Sabby
Speaker 1: in a time of forty one days, seven hours and
Speaker 1: thirty nine minutes. Now that record has been broken by
Speaker 1: shaving off thirteen hours. Thirty one year old Tara Dower
Speaker 1: is an experienced in Durant's athlete who diligently planned and
Speaker 1: trained for this challenge. Dower completed her journey on Saturday
Speaker 1: for a time of forty days, eighteen hours, five minutes.
Speaker 2: And this is self supported. This is self supported. She
Speaker 2: did not have any assistance. No one brought her food,
Speaker 2: no one brought her any supplies that she needed. If
Speaker 2: she broke, if her shoe ran out, she had to
Speaker 2: go get herself a new shoe.
Speaker 1: That's right. So think about that twenty one hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety seven miles and she did it in forty days,
Speaker 1: eighteen hours and five minutes. To put this tremendous achievement
Speaker 1: into perspective, it takes thousand one hundred and ninety seven
Speaker 1: by forty forty days. Yeah, we'll just do the days.
Speaker 2: Fifty five miles a day, Jesus, Oh my god, Wow,
Speaker 2: oh my god.
Speaker 1: Door to Shure for me when I lived in Echo
Speaker 1: Park was nineteen miles. Yeah, and think about what that
Speaker 1: did to us doing shots and eating hot dogs and
Speaker 1: walking on flat land.
Speaker 2: On flat land, stopping whatever we want, up and down,
Speaker 2: up and down, up and down. Also the incredible boredom
Speaker 2: I've heard of Georgia. And I think I believe she
Speaker 2: did it north to south? Right, she did it southbound?
Speaker 1: She did I don't know. Let me see uhur endurance
Speaker 1: to it doesn't say in this one which direction she
Speaker 1: did it.
Speaker 2: I thought. I thought she did it southbound, which is
Speaker 2: the opposite of the way most.
Speaker 1: So Maine to Georgia right, fourteen states.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but like the last, either way, it's brutal because
Speaker 2: the last, you know, hundreds of miles in Georgia is
Speaker 2: just boring. But in Maine, if you do it Maine,
Speaker 2: the last part is you go up over a mountain
Speaker 2: and it's the highest I think part of the trail.
Speaker 1: I might be wrong, though. It takes the average hiker
Speaker 1: five to seven months to complete the trail. Most hikers
Speaker 1: plan ahead to resupply their food and water along the way.
Speaker 1: My uncle Pete did it. He did it, and I
Speaker 1: think in his late sixties early seventies. Yeah, he did it.
Speaker 1: But he broke it up into three chunks, I believe.
Speaker 1: But it was hard. I mean, it's a lot. And
Speaker 1: then I've told this story back in twenty twenty, but
Speaker 1: when I was at ums, there was this dude who's
Speaker 1: like six six, big, shaggy blonde hair. His name's Ozzy.
Speaker 1: Never went to college with us, just hung out around college,
Speaker 1: this college age guy. Love this guy. I would walk
Speaker 1: upstairs in our house and belcher Town Masks and he'd
Speaker 1: be sitting there just drinking a glass of strawberry Quick
Speaker 1: that he made for himself, just politely sitting in silence,
Speaker 1: drinking strawberry milk. So one day Ozzy disappeared and I
Speaker 1: was like, what happened to him? And they were like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's going to hike the Appalation Trail. And I was like, no, shit,
Speaker 1: that's cool. And then like three weeks later, we threw
Speaker 1: a big party at my house and Ozzy was there
Speaker 1: and I'm like, hey, dude, how are you. I heard
Speaker 1: you were walking the Appalation Trail and he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I stopped and he's like, I'm just going to hang
Speaker 1: out here. I'm like why, and he goes, oh, man,
Speaker 1: it's just so much walking. Yeah, yeah, that is the
Speaker 1: main part.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I get it. I have kind of
Speaker 2: a dream about doing a long hike like that put
Speaker 2: probably on the Pacific Cress Trail.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Sure, But I don't know because when I have time
Speaker 2: to go camping, I love hiking into a place and
Speaker 2: setting up camp, but then for a day I just
Speaker 2: want to chill.
Speaker 1: I don't want to.
Speaker 2: Then immediately break down camp and have to leave at
Speaker 2: first light. It feels very much like the event becomes
Speaker 2: the endurance rather than the appreciation of being in nature.
Speaker 1: It's a total extent. Absolutely. I don't think anybody's doing
Speaker 1: this just for a fun chill time. I think all
Speaker 1: I think people are working it out on the trail. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: The iconic trail takes hikers through fourteen states, running from
Speaker 1: Maine to Georgia, and Dour clocked in an approximately fifty
Speaker 1: four miles per day as she navigated her way through
Speaker 1: each state. I mean, that is so much on foot,
Speaker 1: oh much. This record breaking feed is not the first
Speaker 1: time Dowers set a speed record. Her endurance resume is extensive.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty three, she beat a long standing record
Speaker 1: on the Colorado Trail, creating a new FKT of eight days,
Speaker 1: twenty one hours, fifty nine minutes. But the eight days
Speaker 1: compared to forty days is like me compared to Shaquille O'Neil.
Speaker 1: It's just a big, big difference. Her resume doesn't end there, however,
Speaker 1: she has a lengthy list of speed records that she's
Speaker 1: broken over time. While breaking the record was the goal
Speaker 1: of Dours, she had another motive in mind, which was
Speaker 1: to raise money for Girls on the Run, and she
Speaker 1: stayed on her website. My goal is to raise twenty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars for Girls on the Run during my apperation
Speaker 1: trail fastest known time attempt. My hope is to inspire
Speaker 1: women and girls to go for that tough goal, no
Speaker 1: matter if it's with running or in life, and dours
Speaker 1: fundraising efforts surpassed her initial goal. She brought in a
Speaker 1: whopping twenty one thousand and seventy six dollars. Well, that's ice,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. Also, great coal.
Speaker 2: Really do have a question about and Duran's athletes like this,
Speaker 2: Like there is if you if you do something similar
Speaker 2: in another UH venue of of of sports or athleticism,
Speaker 2: there's like sponsorships you can live off it. You can
Speaker 2: then be a coach or something. There is nothing for
Speaker 2: having for having the fastest known time of walking the
Speaker 2: Appalachian Trail, like you don't. There's no sponsorships outside magazine
Speaker 2: isn't sponsoring her now. She doesn't have like a an
Speaker 2: energy bar that like pays her rent. She probably just
Speaker 2: has to go back to working a job now.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but and she's like a massive she's a massive athlete.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be very hard. Yes, this is harder
Speaker 1: than many things. This is yeah, because it's mental. It's
Speaker 1: like there was finally a woman finished the Barkley Marathon
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. That like impossible, no woman had ever finished
Speaker 1: it in the last year, somebody did. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if you ever saw that documentary about the Barkley Marathon,
Speaker 1: but I won't spoil it. But it is one of
Speaker 1: It's one of those things I think about when things
Speaker 1: are getting tough and you think about the kind of
Speaker 1: heroes in this documentary and they are gutting it out.
Speaker 1: Like one guy is an egghead engineering type that just
Speaker 1: as like this many calories in, this, many calories out.
Speaker 1: And then this other guy is like, I lost my dad,
Speaker 1: he'd want me to do this. And they're the grit
Speaker 1: and determination to do something that very few people have
Speaker 1: ever done. It just some people are built like either
Speaker 1: their engines like the first guy, or they're just all heart.
Speaker 1: And you look back through history and you go, it's
Speaker 1: the combination of these two people that moved mountains. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so thank god for old uh what dour?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Tara? And also like maybe I'm wrong, maybe maybe
Speaker 2: like after doing this, you can have some sort of
Speaker 2: thing that pays your bills for having walked very quickly
Speaker 2: for very long.
Speaker 1: At least free shoes forever, free socks. Somebody get Tara
Speaker 1: some free socks for life. Somebody just.
Speaker 2: Running every day. I guess she has to run, right,
Speaker 2: there's no walking. This is her trail running like the
Speaker 2: majority of the time.
Speaker 1: I would Yeah, this is a this is a lot
Speaker 1: of work. This is wild. Yeah, if you like crazy,
Speaker 1: it's crazy.
Speaker 2: It's so crazy.
Speaker 1: I don't think I would enjoy it. See I don't
Speaker 1: want to do that as a young man. When you're young,
Speaker 1: you just want to prove for the world awesome you are.
Speaker 1: Then you get middle aged and you're like, I don't care.
Speaker 1: Like if you're like, hey, we're just going to go
Speaker 1: canoe on this pond a little bit, I'll be like,
Speaker 1: that sounds wonderful, delight. I feel like we're putting a
Speaker 1: team together to row to Hawaii. I'm like, not me.
Speaker 1: I'll meet you there. I'll have the my ties waiting.
Speaker 1: I'll be at y Kiki, I'll be hanging the banners
Speaker 1: and I'll throw some confetti can into your way. But
Speaker 1: not for me, never again.
Speaker 2: All right, I'll tease this into a little time out here.
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Speaker 2: Britain's tallest duck. He's gone missing, but now he's got
Speaker 2: a statue long Boy.
Speaker 1: I can't wait, baby, I'm a huge fan of long Boy.
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Speaker 2: So the story was sent in by the wonderful Aaron Kate.
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Speaker 2: So long Boy, long Boy, A little bit about long Boy.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be reading from two articles, one by
Speaker 2: Olie Constable and Oliver Wright in BBC.
Speaker 1: And can beat those two by.
Speaker 2: Julia Brison and Rachel Russell.
Speaker 1: Oh BBC.
Speaker 2: BBC requires two people to write about a very long duck.
Speaker 2: First one handles the top half. Second one handles at
Speaker 2: the BBC a duck which became a star of social
Speaker 2: So this was from a year ago May three, and
Speaker 2: then we'll have the update. Thank god, a duck which
Speaker 2: became a star of social media due to its height
Speaker 2: is believed to be missing. The University of Yorksire said.
Speaker 2: The bird known as Longboy came to fame after he
Speaker 2: featured on James Corden's US talk show and Greg James
Speaker 2: Show on BBC Radio One. The Mallard slash Indian Runner Cross,
Speaker 2: who was two feet four ounces, had not been seen
Speaker 2: on campus for almost two months. University spokesperson said, given
Speaker 2: the lack of sightings, we're forced to conclude that he
Speaker 2: may have passed away. In a statement, they said, we
Speaker 2: appreciate this is not the resolution that many people wish for.
Speaker 2: I hope to acknowledge that his passing allows us to
Speaker 2: focus on celebrating his life. So jump to the celebration
Speaker 2: of his life, okay. Statue of missing duck unveiled live
Speaker 2: on Radio One, which is a great place to unveil
Speaker 2: a statue on the radio. Yes, people can't see it.
Speaker 1: I could see it in my mind's eye. Boy, it's glorious.
Speaker 2: It is pretty glorious. A statue of a popular duck
Speaker 2: who went missing from the grounds of the University of
Speaker 2: York has been unveiled live on air during the Radio
Speaker 2: one breakfast show So Fun. Host Greg James, dressed in
Speaker 2: black and wearing a morning veil, revealed the sculpture of
Speaker 2: the unusually tall duck known as Longboy in Central Hall,
Speaker 2: beating on a directors show broadcast live from the University
Speaker 2: of Thursday, James said, is one of my great sadness
Speaker 2: that I never met Long Boy, though I feel like
Speaker 2: I did. The statue was unveiled as part of a
Speaker 2: ceremony held at nine am with hundreds of people watching on.
Speaker 2: After the unveiling, a minute's quacking was held by those
Speaker 2: in attendance. This is a great idea. Everyone quacked for
Speaker 2: one minute.
Speaker 1: That's one of the highest honors there is in all
Speaker 1: of nature.
Speaker 2: Also, that's delightful. I mean, what a beautiful what a
Speaker 2: beautiful ceremony, What a fun thing to do.
Speaker 1: If Long Boy knew that was going to happen, he
Speaker 1: would have said, killed me, now, kill me. Now you're
Speaker 1: telling me you're going to get fifteen to twenty five
Speaker 1: strangers of a different species to quack around the statue
Speaker 1: in my honor. I'm going to go up to the
Speaker 1: long neck in the sky.
Speaker 2: I mean, I gotta give it. I gotta give it
Speaker 2: to Greg James.
Speaker 1: Here, yeah, good word.
Speaker 2: A Long Boy themed cover of Hot to Go Chapel
Speaker 2: Rodan's hit song was performed by York student choir the
Speaker 2: Sing Song Society, while James threw miniature toy ducks into
Speaker 2: the audience. We celebrated long Boy, Yorkshire's finest who said
Speaker 2: a few months ago he was Britain's tallest duck. And
Speaker 2: we did a memorial for him today. I promised we
Speaker 2: would and we did. There was it was straight. It
Speaker 2: was striking, how engaging and friendly he was. Everybody had
Speaker 2: Oh my god, there's hundreds of people.
Speaker 1: Oh good, Okay, that makes me feel better. Yeah, that's good. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And the statue of long Boy was approved after more
Speaker 2: than five three hundred pounds was during fundraising. Man, this
Speaker 2: just reminds me good. I still want to make this.
Speaker 2: I want to still make the statue of the boat
Speaker 2: the man yeah who crossed a Lake Michigan in bathtub.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. We tried so hard to
Speaker 1: get in touch with that guy.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've emailed his wife, I've emailed him he's
Speaker 2: still alive. I've emailed his kids. But no one will
Speaker 2: get back to me on whether they approve. Like I
Speaker 2: just want them to say, yeah, fine, we don't.
Speaker 1: Care do yeah, we don't care to do it.
Speaker 2: And if they say we don't care, do it, then
Speaker 2: we can just go ahead and do it. We have
Speaker 2: the stone sculpture. Steve Shen is ready to sculpt it.
Speaker 2: If we can raise the money for that, that would
Speaker 2: be amazing.
Speaker 1: I feel like we need to. I know. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of times we reach out to people for
Speaker 1: things and they don't believe us or they don't understand.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I reached out to get the Beavers back
Speaker 1: in Baltimore so many times, and I got in touch
Speaker 1: with the woman and she was like, oh, okay, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, no, We'll get hundreds of people to
Speaker 1: the Imax and watch the Beavers Imax back in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: She's like, oh, that's cool. I'm like, no, we would
Speaker 1: love to do it, and here are the dates we'd
Speaker 1: like to do it, whenever it's easy for you. People
Speaker 1: might come dressed as bananas, will probably come dress as
Speaker 1: beavers and logs. And she was like, yeah, I just
Speaker 1: don't think we'll be able to do it this year.
Speaker 1: And I'm like what about next year? And it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, and I'm like I don't Maybe I
Speaker 1: just don't understand capitalism. I'm saying, we will buy tickets
Speaker 1: to fill your movie theater.
Speaker 2: Three to five hundred people will come to watch one
Speaker 2: imax that you already owned that you don't need to purchase.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think everybody once, just show one time. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give up. That's the difference. I'm
Speaker 1: not giving up like Tara Dower finishing the Appalachian Trail.
Speaker 1: I'm going to see this through and get the beavers
Speaker 1: back in Baltimore. I'm going to send us strongly worded
Speaker 1: postcard this evening. Even damn. Well, that's cool. We had
Speaker 1: a giant duck on campus at UMass that we named
Speaker 1: Curly because he was about three or four times bigger
Speaker 1: than all the other ducks. He had a curly tail,
Speaker 1: and then we would feed him macaroons, so we also
Speaker 1: called him duck a run but we would go to
Speaker 1: lunch and then we would all take macaroons and walk
Speaker 1: to the lake and specifically feed Curly and talk to
Speaker 1: him like he was our best friend. And then twenty
Speaker 1: years later we went back for a reunion, and you know,
Speaker 1: there was a duck that was bigger than all the
Speaker 1: other ducks, and so we just called him Curly and
Speaker 1: fed them some macaroons.
Speaker 2: You know that's pretty great. Also, ah Man, that feeling,
Speaker 2: I remember that feeling specifically of finishing lunch, and if
Speaker 2: you didn't have a class like directly after the best lunch,
Speaker 2: then it was like you're not going to go home
Speaker 2: right now and definitely not start doing homework because you
Speaker 2: maybe have a class at like three or four or something.
Speaker 2: So you're just like on campus with friends and just
Speaker 2: having a nice time pleasant. I can just picture it
Speaker 2: a fall. Yeah, it's just starting to get chilly out.
Speaker 1: Oh, we're gonna go throw the frisbee around, hang out
Speaker 1: by the student Yeah. I mean, UMass was so great
Speaker 1: because it's so liberal. It's so liberal and progressive. That'd
Speaker 1: be like the Cannabis Reform Coalitions doing a bake sale
Speaker 1: and you're like, great, let's check that out. And then
Speaker 1: it'd be like the Young Feminist hasa Kasa club is
Speaker 1: going to do a drum circle, and you go, I'll
Speaker 1: be there for that too. It was just endless. The
Speaker 1: Vegan student Union is going to do something great, I'll
Speaker 1: eat some stuff like. It was just so fun to
Speaker 1: participate in every activity. It really was. We were shooting
Speaker 1: a sketch once in UMass has like the tallest library
Speaker 1: in the country. It's not the best or the biggest
Speaker 1: it's just the tallest. It's just a big red eyesore
Speaker 1: right in the middle of AMers. And we were shooting
Speaker 1: a sketch about a section because I think it's like
Speaker 1: twenty six floors or something. So one of the floors
Speaker 1: was like just a humping section, and this guy kept
Speaker 1: trying to get a book and read, and then we
Speaker 1: would just close in on him and start humping them.
Speaker 1: I mean, we knew the guy who was another actor
Speaker 1: on the show. But while we were shooting that, we
Speaker 1: found two couples having sex in the library, actual couples,
Speaker 1: not us, And so one was like on a desk
Speaker 1: on the floor we were shooting at just then the
Speaker 1: girl was just sitting on his lap. And then when
Speaker 1: we were going down to the end of the sketch
Speaker 1: was the guy that kept getting humped in the library
Speaker 1: just runs out of there, goes down the elevator and
Speaker 1: he's walking across campus and then I shot it from
Speaker 1: the twenty sixth floor of him looking really small, and
Speaker 1: then these two guys just come running in and tack
Speaker 1: them and try hump them. And while I was going
Speaker 1: down the stairs, there was a couple having sex standing
Speaker 1: in the stairwell of the Unas library.
Speaker 2: So I mean, look, you're going to take a bunch
Speaker 2: of eighteen and nineteen year olds and then give them
Speaker 2: all roommates. Yeah, the bed is directly across. You gotta
Speaker 2: find a place to hump. I do I remember humping
Speaker 2: in the library?
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, college.
Speaker 2: Because it was like what, you know, what are we
Speaker 2: going to do? Otherwise you're having sex in front of someone.
Speaker 2: They try and sleep like that's your other option, which
Speaker 2: is weird. It's weirder to do that.
Speaker 1: I agree. I agree. It's more private, and I mean,
Speaker 1: what is a library but a hotel without beds? It's
Speaker 1: it's also building a library.
Speaker 2: Check out at our library there was there was like
Speaker 2: study rooms, so there was like you go in and
Speaker 2: close the door and then you had like your own room.
Speaker 2: It was like a small room, but perfect for humping.
Speaker 1: Did you ever have did you ever date when you
Speaker 1: were a teenager or in your early twenties? Anybody that
Speaker 1: liked Victorious Secret, like that War of Victoria's Secret Underwear
Speaker 1: and bras?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It was so popular.
Speaker 2: It was just everywhere.
Speaker 1: It was everywhere. I thought about this for so long,
Speaker 1: But whenever you're a guy and you go in there
Speaker 1: and you're a normal guy. You're either in there with
Speaker 1: someone you're dating or married to, or you're in there
Speaker 1: buying something for somebody as a gift. It is. You
Speaker 1: don't touch anything because you don't want to seem like
Speaker 1: a creep. You know, you just do a lot of
Speaker 1: like arms behind you, eyebrowsing, and like.
Speaker 2: You see we go to Victoria's Secrets differently, Scotty, you
Speaker 2: touch them all. Just put it right on my head.
Speaker 2: I want to put them all on my head. See
Speaker 2: how many I could fit on my head before they
Speaker 2: asked me to please leave the store.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking at it like it's it's pottery from Carthage.
Speaker 1: I'm just like interesting, interesting now this is. And then
Speaker 1: you like walk around a mannequin and it's got a
Speaker 1: be a pearl thong all pearls, and you don't want
Speaker 1: to look at it too long. But I also want
Speaker 1: to give it its due, Like I appreciate the design involve,
Speaker 1: but I always wondered why they didn't. I think they
Speaker 1: would sell. I think they'd still be number one in
Speaker 1: the underwear game if if in the back they had
Speaker 1: a bar and when you were you could only have
Speaker 1: two drinks. But once you paid that drink, they gave
Speaker 1: you a shopping bag and then anything you put in
Speaker 1: that shopping bag, you don't have to check out. It
Speaker 1: just scans you out the door. It just has whatever
Speaker 1: RFD or whatever those things are. And I think they
Speaker 1: would sell if, like nervous guys could go in there
Speaker 1: and have just two stiff cocktails and then get a
Speaker 1: bag and then just do quick, just throw it in
Speaker 1: the bag and walk out the door and it just
Speaker 1: charges their credit card and they're back out in the
Speaker 1: mall and on their way to Brookstone. I think that
Speaker 1: that would that company would rival Facebook.
Speaker 2: I think that's a brilliant idea Scottie.
Speaker 1: It would be to.
Speaker 2: Think of that. When you were in college, the tech
Speaker 2: wasn't there.
Speaker 1: But yes, I thought about it back then, but now
Speaker 1: we have the tech. I mean now when I go
Speaker 1: to Dodger Stadium, you walk around and you walk in
Speaker 1: and you walk out with stuff and it somehow charges
Speaker 1: you or well, we did the story that it was
Speaker 1: just people watching you on cameras in India that was
Speaker 1: counting it.
Speaker 2: It's so crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we all thought it was a magic technology. It's
Speaker 1: just people in India watching you on camera being like people.
Speaker 1: Snickers number two, Snickers number three, Oh man, so good?
Speaker 1: Speaking of this is a you're gonna like this one? Well, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do a bananas one. I'll do. I'll save
Speaker 1: this sort of smarty pants one for another EPI. Ali
Speaker 1: La Chappelle sent this in Thank you, Ali La Chappelle.
Speaker 1: World's oldest cheese found on thirty six thousand year old
Speaker 1: Chinese mummies. The world's oldest cheese was found on thirty
Speaker 1: six hundred year old Chinese mummies. WHOA. This was in
Speaker 1: Live Science.
Speaker 2: I mean I'm finding out two things. One China had mummies, okay,
Speaker 2: Two they have cheese.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You don't think of that Chinese cheese very often.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm in Italy right now. Nobody over here
Speaker 1: has talked about that Chinese cheese. I keep bringing it
Speaker 1: up to everybody, but nobody wants to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Like y'all have had that old old you know that
Speaker 1: good stuff, that old. You think this parmesan's old? You've
Speaker 1: never had that Chinese cheese. This was written by Jennifer Naliwiki.
Speaker 1: Oh she is good when it comes to cutting the cheese.
Speaker 1: It's Jennifer Naliwiki for Live science dot Com. The Bronze
Speaker 1: age coffin was found during an excavation of the ji
Speaker 1: I'm Gonna go jao Hi Cemetery in two thousand and three.
Speaker 1: When the thirty six hundred year old coffin of a
Speaker 1: young woman was unearthed in northwestern China two decades ago,
Speaker 1: archaeologist uncovered a puzzling substance draped around her neck like jewelry. Remarkably,
Speaker 1: it turned out to be cheese. It's so good that
Speaker 1: Chinese cheese. Man, I'm telling you, it's out there. Researchers
Speaker 1: now believe it's the oldest known cheese ever discovered. While
Speaker 1: regular cheese is soft, this one has dried out well,
Speaker 1: I'd hope so, after six years, becoming dense heart and powdery,
Speaker 1: said Fu Jaume Paleo geneticist at the Chinese Academy of
Speaker 1: Sciences in Beijing and co author of a study published
Speaker 1: on Tuesday in Cell c e LL That Great Specific
Speaker 1: magazine for Everyone. In an interview with NBC News, Fu
Speaker 1: explained that DNA analysis of the cheese sheds light on
Speaker 1: the lives of the ji jiao Hi people who lived
Speaker 1: in what is now Xingjiang, but also of the mammals
Speaker 1: they raised and the evolution of animal husbandry in East Asia.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, animal husbandry is a crazy funny name for something.
Speaker 1: It's so it's adorable and stupid simultaneously. And also, let's
Speaker 1: not fix it. It's just dumb. Yeah, keep it animal husbandry.
Speaker 1: Let's keep it. We don't need to update this and
Speaker 1: make it more progressive. It's stupid. Let's let it be dumb.
Speaker 1: The bronze age coffin was found during the excavation of
Speaker 1: the cemetery. Thanks to the arid climate of the Turine
Speaker 1: Basin desert, the woman's coffin was exceptionally well preserved, as
Speaker 1: were her boots, hat, and the cheese that adorned her body.
Speaker 1: Foo noted in ancient barrel practices, significant items were often
Speaker 1: placed alongside the deceased, and the discovery of I think
Speaker 1: it's keifer cheese, right, kefer f i r our kafir.
Speaker 1: Let's go kir kafir cheese near, though I've read it
Speaker 1: so many times that I've never said it, So let's go.
Speaker 1: Discovery of kafir cheese near the woman suggests that cheese
Speaker 1: played a crucial role in their daily lives. Cheese production
Speaker 1: has been recorded in history for millennia, with murals and
Speaker 1: ancient Egyptian tombs dating back to two thousand BC. European
Speaker 1: cheese making evidence goes back to seven thousand years. However,
Speaker 1: the dream bas and cheese samples are the oldest physical
Speaker 1: examples of cheese today.
Speaker 2: Look at that.
Speaker 1: This is a huge discovery.
Speaker 2: It's a big discovery.
Speaker 1: They discovered samples in three tombs. They analyzed the DNA
Speaker 1: of all of them, tracing the evolutionary of bacteria involved
Speaker 1: in cheese making over thousands of years. The cheese was
Speaker 1: identified as kifer or kaffir or key fair or just kate.
Speaker 1: You know keyfer cheese, Keefer Sutherland needs key for cheese
Speaker 1: made from fermenting milk with what is it? Keffer k
Speaker 1: kaffir made with kaffir grains. Evidence of both calid goat
Speaker 1: milk was found at the samples. There you go, there,
Speaker 1: milk and everything back then. And the study highlights this
Speaker 1: is the part that really does wet my whistle. The
Speaker 1: study also highlights how the Jiaohe people, despite being genetically
Speaker 1: lactose intolerant, consumed dairy before the advent of pasteurization. Refrigeration
Speaker 1: cheese production, which reduces lactose levels, allowed them to include
Speaker 1: dairy into their diet.
Speaker 2: Fascinating.
Speaker 1: Wow, it's so good they're willing to make a run
Speaker 1: for it, you know. Oh man, pretty damn good.
Speaker 2: Pretty good.
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