1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:00,880 Speaker 1: You ready. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,360 Speaker 2: I'm so ready, I'm so ready. I just want to 3 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 2: laugh today. I just need a big old laugh. 4 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 3: I need a big old laugh. Baby Yeah, survives Niagara plunge, 5 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 3: dies after slipping on an orange peel. 6 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:22,799 Speaker 4: Come on, come on, aren't you glad you're listening to 7 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 4: a brand new episode of Bananas. 8 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,480 Speaker 1: Dodd? Would you believe. 9 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:40,199 Speaker 2: Your mindzillion pieces? 10 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: Would you be? 11 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:53,280 Speaker 2: His? 12 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 1: Girals, non binary pals. Welcome to. 13 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 3: A year ends edition or year beginning. We don't know 14 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 3: if this comes out right at the end or right 15 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:03,360 Speaker 3: in the beginning. 16 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 2: We don't. 17 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: We don't. 18 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 3: Let's say it comes out right at the end. 19 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be great. 20 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 4: So Happy New Year, Happy New Year. Maybe I'm banana 21 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,400 Speaker 4: boy number two. Scottie landis right over. There's the big 22 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 4: banana hisself, Kurt Brown ol or KURTI B Kurt. Last 23 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 4: night was the exactly right holiday party, and you and 24 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 4: Lauren were sorely missed. 25 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 1: Oh man, tell me all about it. How'd it go? 26 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 4: Was that a giant bowling lane? Wonderful job by the 27 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 4: exactly right team. Whoever planned it did great? And it 28 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 4: was more people than I've ever seen at an. 29 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 2: New York party. They're clearly growing. 30 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 4: I did bowler one fifty four, which is a pretty 31 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 4: solid score, except you know, three hundred being a perfect game. 32 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 4: I was driving home going like that would be like 33 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:50,560 Speaker 4: getting a fifty percent on a spelling test. 34 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, one fifty four. You're like, I've feeling 35 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: pretty good about myself. 36 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 4: Like I'm not a pro, but I'm on my way. 37 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 4: And then you go halfway. You're halfway. 38 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 1: Half way. 39 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 3: They routinely get to eighty. 40 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: Three of them. 41 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 4: I saw our good buddy Bridger. I saw, of course, 42 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 4: the wonderful Katie Levine. I saw roz Hernandez. I said, 43 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 4: come back on Bananas. The banana boys want you, and 44 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 4: she told me she had. She has a good story 45 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 4: for us that'll cross over between ghosted and bananas. 46 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: So that's wonderful. 47 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 4: Saw Karen, saw Georgia, saw the whole your team and crew, Aaron. 48 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 3: And you actually had time to bowl. Was it act 49 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 3: the same place it was last year? 50 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:30,440 Speaker 2: No? 51 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 4: Is that a bigger it was? It was that pins. 52 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 4: I'll just say it, because you can't dos pins. It's 53 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 4: a giant bowling alley in the valley. 54 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 3: Well, so it had the whole they had the whole place. 55 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 2: The whole place forty lanes. 56 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: So everybody could bowl well. 57 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 2: Also, you know me, party started seven at seven o seven, 58 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 2: I got bowling shoes on. 59 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm slinging twelve pound bowling balls. I normally have 60 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 4: ball fifteen's, but I got a thing this weekend. I 61 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 4: didn't want to soar on, so I just did twelve pounds. 62 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: Got a thing. 63 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 4: I got a thing this weekend, and I wanted both 64 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 4: arms fully functional. Now I'm playing in a golf tournament 65 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 4: this weekend. And if you know anything about me, as 66 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 4: I golf twice a year. Joking me, somebody asked me 67 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 4: to join a club. My buddy joined a country club. 68 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 4: He needs a fourth He said, will you fill in 69 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 4: on Saturday and play eighteen holes? And I said, during 70 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 4: a like a competition the whole Yeah, it is they 71 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 4: it is the club's tournament. He said, what's your handicap? 72 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 4: I said my face and then nobody laughed. And then 73 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 4: I said, I don't know. I haven't golf twenty times. Yeah, 74 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 4: and I don't know how to So I said, how 75 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 4: about fourteen? He goes, well, why don't we just say 76 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 4: sixteen and then we'll play against the shittier people and 77 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 4: I go now we're. 78 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: Talking, all right, great, all right, um, so I. 79 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 2: Didn't want to soar arm from over bowling. 80 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: Do you have golf clubs? 81 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 2: I do. 82 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 4: I got golf clubs. Yeah I do. My uncle Bob 83 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 4: gave me a seid about fifteen years ago. Never got 84 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 4: him regripped. They're not clean. Yes, I have a shitty 85 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 4: bag I bought at played against sports for like forty 86 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 4: dollars a Wilson golf bag. That makes me look like 87 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:20,679 Speaker 4: I'm a groundskeeper. 88 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: Yes, but that's what I want. 89 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 2: But I'm pretty good. 90 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 3: Are you really? 91 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 2: Yeah? 92 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 1: That's we of course you are. 93 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 2: You were. 94 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 3: You were a sports guy, right, I never never. 95 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 2: Really play them all. I could play them all. You 96 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:36,719 Speaker 2: were a sports guy, right, big sports guy. 97 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:37,679 Speaker 3: Yeah. 98 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: I'm buddies with sports people. 99 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 2: Yeah. 100 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 4: I wasn't a jock because I don't like bullying people. 101 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:47,160 Speaker 4: But I was good at all sports and successful at 102 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 4: all sports. So I remember the moment I decided I 103 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 4: wasn't going to play college across the head coach at 104 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 4: UMSS said I'm going to take one of you. It 105 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:57,159 Speaker 4: is between three of us, a goalie, defenseman and me. 106 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,279 Speaker 4: I played midfield, and he goes and I'm gonna be honest. 107 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,839 Speaker 4: You guys aren't scholarship players. You're all very good, but 108 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 4: you're not going to start till your junior year, no 109 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,799 Speaker 4: matter what, no matter if you're better than the scholarship players, 110 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 4: and would do two a day practices starting in the fall. 111 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 4: And I heard all this. I looked at the other guys. 112 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 4: I'm like, I think I'll beat these guys. I think 113 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 4: I'll make the team. And then walking back to my 114 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 4: dorm room, lacrosse dick, helmet gloves, I went. 115 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 2: I'm going to do stand up comedy instead. 116 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:28,840 Speaker 3: So then you did not play lacrosse at all. 117 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 4: I sent an email to coach Canela, not that you 118 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 4: would care, remember, yeah, and was like, thank you, I'm out. 119 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 4: And you know, so one of those of the two 120 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 4: guys made the team. I don't know who. 121 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:42,360 Speaker 3: Oh wow, that's fascinating. 122 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 4: I started a sketch comedy TV show with my friend 123 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 4: Dan Winnaker the next day and next day, Yeah, and 124 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:53,720 Speaker 4: here we are now. I still try to make things. 125 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 3: And I'm making a living as a lacrosse guard. 126 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 2: Very interesting. 127 00:05:57,880 --> 00:05:58,600 Speaker 1: Is a guard a thing? 128 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 2: No? But it was us about. 129 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:05,159 Speaker 3: We're trying to get Olive into lacrosse because everybody does 130 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 3: like everybody does soccer. Everybody's obsessed with soccer right everybody's 131 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 3: playing basketball. 132 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: I don't know how many people are doing football here, 133 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 1: but lacrosse. I feel like women's lacrossets lacrosse. 134 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 3: I feel like one of the greatest high school My 135 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 3: wife played it in high school, and I feel like 136 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:27,720 Speaker 3: that's the spot. That's a sweet spot for Olive was 137 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 3: if she even enters into that, you know what I mean. 138 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:35,840 Speaker 3: She's much more of a creative person. But Gus is 139 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 3: like he's he's playing basketball. 140 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 2: He loves basketball right on. 141 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 4: Well, if he gets your heights, he could be the 142 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:47,239 Speaker 4: small skuy in the NBA one day. But women's across 143 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 4: is one of the best sports there is. There's so 144 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 4: many interesting rules. I was the manager for the varsity 145 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 4: girls across team my freshman year to get community service hours. 146 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 3: Weirdo, I think I was the manager of the of 147 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:02,239 Speaker 3: the track and field team. 148 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a good way to get rid of 149 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 4: like thirty of those forty mandatory community service hours. 150 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 2: Flirting with the lacrosse girls warming. 151 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 4: Up the goalie Amy Whitcomb, very good goalie, and then 152 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 4: I kept the time in the score Pieve that. 153 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 1: You remember these people's names. What is your brain? Your brain? 154 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 4: Best player was Darla Burns. My sister was on that team. 155 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 4: She was very good at facing off. 156 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 3: Charla Burns. 157 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 2: Great name, right, that's a great name. 158 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 1: For the Nactually, that's a great name. 159 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 2: It was so fun and. 160 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Olive would do well. There's one rule 161 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 4: about women's across, at least it used to be the rule, 162 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 4: and that there were no actual out of bounds. It's 163 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 4: just the constraints of where the field is. So if 164 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 4: there's a track around it, you kind of make it 165 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 4: like fifteen feet from where the track starts or whatever. 166 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 4: But technically you could put two goals the right distance apart, 167 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 4: and then technically you could just play forever if you 168 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 4: were in a massive twenty eight. Really, that's how it 169 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 4: was when I was the manager. 170 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 2: Wow. 171 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 3: The thing that I always found interesting about it is 172 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 3: that like men's or boys lacrosse sticks have a pocket 173 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 3: that actually holds the ball, and women's lacrosse sticks, why 174 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 3: not like you have to like continually crazy spin it 175 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 3: and cradle it. 176 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: That's crazy. 177 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 4: It's way harder. It's a very fast, wonderful sport. The 178 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 4: women are dirtier than the dudes. They check hard, they 179 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:29,760 Speaker 4: play hard, they're fire, they're insane. They can't hit each other, 180 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 4: but they stick check each other. When I was in 181 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 4: high school, I was a really good lacrosse player. We 182 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 4: were playing a team that we were better than, but 183 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 4: they had one excellent player who was Native American. And 184 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 4: the coach of that North Baltimore school, Parkville or Parkville 185 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 4: High School, decided that every time that his one Native 186 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 4: American player was going to get the ball on a 187 00:08:55,960 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 4: called play, he named them after different Native American tribes. 188 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:08,199 Speaker 4: So the game starts, they get the ball first, Iroquois, Iroquois. 189 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:10,960 Speaker 4: That kid makes a cut, I get picked, he catches it, 190 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 4: rockets it, scores a goal. Next one Jerokee, Jerokee. That 191 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 4: kid cuts a different direction, scores a goal. 192 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 3: So their plays were named after different tribes. 193 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:28,679 Speaker 4: Correct, And so we're not the smartest tools in the outhouse, 194 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 4: but we picked up on that. Every time they yell 195 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 4: a Native American name tribe, it's going to the one 196 00:09:35,880 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 4: Native American kid on the other team. So that third 197 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 4: time around, you know, when he goes creek Creek, we 198 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 4: just ran and smashed that kid and he never scored 199 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 4: again in that game, we were like, maybe mask this 200 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,319 Speaker 4: a little bit. This is this feels racist? 201 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, straight up. So it's not even the plays were 202 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 3: named like. It wasn't different plays named after different tribes. 203 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 3: It was the same play. Yeah, every time a tribe 204 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 3: was named. 205 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 4: It would get it to that kid, no matter where 206 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 4: he was lined up, because he was the best player 207 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:09,960 Speaker 4: on their team. And so yeah, and then after that, 208 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 4: it was just like, hey, man, if you yelled Choctaw, 209 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:15,079 Speaker 4: we're gonna level this guy before he gets the ball. 210 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 4: And that's what happened, and we beat the shit out. 211 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 2: Of park Field. 212 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 3: Here, coot, what is that thing? What's that thing that 213 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:24,320 Speaker 3: that guy whispered. 214 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 4: To you, Rattle a Little Louder Rattlesnake Power. I have 215 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 4: it on a T shirt now. An Animals sent it 216 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 4: to me, and I've been pitching this new TV series 217 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 4: and I tell that story and it gets a laugh 218 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 4: every time every time, Hey Scotty, check this out. Rattle 219 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 4: a Little Louder Rattlesnake Power. Then just walks drunk off 220 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 4: the field at nine am. And we were the Reister's 221 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:56,680 Speaker 4: town Lightning. We weren't even the Rattlesnakes. So any ways, 222 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 4: I hope Olive does do it. I'm glad you're raising 223 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 4: Gus to be a little Jersey jock. 224 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 2: That's wonderful. Oh yeah, maybe. 225 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 3: He's got to he's got to have something matches his 226 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:08,839 Speaker 3: little a little gold chain that he loves to wear. 227 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:10,319 Speaker 2: So good. 228 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 5: Oh and let's dedicate this episode to the good and 229 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 5: decent people of Kingston, Arkansas. Kurt, Kingston, Arkansas, population ninety seven. 230 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 2: Wow, we have a. 231 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:28,439 Speaker 4: From Kingston, Arkansas. Shout out to the good and decent people. 232 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 3: We got to also do one for Kaskaskia next episode. 233 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 1: Maybe sure we should all we should look up each. 234 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:40,679 Speaker 3: Of the actual smallest towns uh in each state. Kaski 235 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 3: is the smallest one in Illinois. I think seven people. 236 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 4: Seven proud people. It feels more like eight though their 237 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 4: hearts are so big there. 238 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 5: Their hearts are just lightly bigger room to grow. 239 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 3: I got this actually from Wow in the World Wow 240 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 3: book number two. 241 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: Okay, Wow in the World is. 242 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 3: Great podcast for kids if you're interested in listening to it. 243 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:12,959 Speaker 3: And then they make books as they should. And this 244 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 3: was on a page. I actually photographed this page because I. 245 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:17,319 Speaker 1: Was reading it. 246 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 3: She she loves books with facts, like weird facts. It 247 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 3: like it was one of her favorite things. But she's like, 248 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 3: she's like, I got all these facts and nobody to 249 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 3: tell them to, so let me. She's like, so it's 250 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 3: like reading them is okay, but I want to read 251 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:35,439 Speaker 3: them to you and then we. 252 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:36,200 Speaker 1: Can talk about them. 253 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 3: I was like, okay, I And so one page she 254 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,719 Speaker 3: was like, she said, in eighteen ninety five, there was 255 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 3: only two cars on the road in Ohio, and the 256 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 3: whole state of Ohio only two cars existed, really, and 257 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 3: then they crashed into each other. And that's and I 258 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,080 Speaker 3: photographed that page and I was like, oh my god, 259 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:56,559 Speaker 3: that's amazing. And I looked it up and it's fucking bullshit. 260 00:12:57,040 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 3: They did not source their facts. Wow in the world. 261 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 3: I mean, I understand they're they're on their second or 262 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 3: third or firth volume of crazy fact books, you know, 263 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:09,080 Speaker 3: but you got a source your facts. 264 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 1: You're letting little kids. 265 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:14,320 Speaker 3: You tell them little kids lies, don't lie, don't lie. 266 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:15,200 Speaker 1: Wow in the world. 267 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 4: Come on, what are we Snapple caps? Come on, guys, 268 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 4: let's get stick to the facts. 269 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 3: Just the intern that you're having write these books. Have 270 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 3: the have another intern fact check them. 271 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:31,200 Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, I feel like you should have Olive read 272 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 4: a few of her favorite facts and put it on 273 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 4: the dollar tier of our Patreon just for all ages 274 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 4: to be able to listen to Olive's are you Bananas facts? 275 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 1: How much she would love to. 276 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 4: Do that, It's cool with me. Put it at the 277 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:46,120 Speaker 4: dollar tier. Give it to the people. This is for 278 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:47,319 Speaker 4: the people, she. 279 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: Would go ape shit. 280 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 3: So here so this so this was, this was the 281 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 3: fact above the fact. 282 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 2: Sorry, I just flicked above off. 283 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:59,200 Speaker 4: I saw something moving out of the corner of my 284 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,120 Speaker 4: eye and it just watched a bug walking up my wall. Sorry, Bud, 285 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 4: I didn't smash him. He's fine. 286 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 1: He flicked him. 287 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 2: I flicked him. 288 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 1: So here it is. 289 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 3: This was on This is on useless information dot Org. 290 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 3: Now we're cooka fascinating true Stories from the flip side 291 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:16,960 Speaker 3: of History. Podcasting since January two thousand and eight, on 292 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 3: the web since nineteen ninety four. 293 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 2: Wow, bullshit, bullshit all THEO that wasn't around Steve. 294 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:32,200 Speaker 3: Silverman, Steve Silverman, thank you. This was post to January fourth, 295 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:34,560 Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. But it's an old story, folks. Story 296 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 3: was originally written and recorded for Retrocast Number twenty four, 297 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 3: released on January twenty second, twenty twenty four, So you 298 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 3: can go listen to that right now. It may come 299 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 3: as a bit of surprise, mainly because men have a 300 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 3: history of doing some of the more foolish things. But 301 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 3: the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a 302 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 3: barrel and survive was not a man. Instead, it was 303 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 3: a woman named Annie Edson Taylor. After the death of 304 00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 3: her husband during the Civil War, and he spent many 305 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 3: years teaching in various locations around the United States. Unfortunately, 306 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 3: teaching paid very little, and by the time she turned 307 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 3: sixty and he was destitute. Then, the story goes, she 308 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 3: was reading a magazine article about daredevils who had conquered 309 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:16,920 Speaker 3: the Whirlpool rapids downstream from the falls. Okay, Taylor was 310 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 3: convinced that she could surpass all of them by being 311 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 3: the first person to go over the falls in a barrel. 312 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 3: Her motivation was purely financial. She believed that the fame 313 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 3: resulting from this daring feet would secure her a substantial 314 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:34,920 Speaker 3: income in the aftermath. On October twenty fourth, her sixty 315 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 3: third birthday, Oh my god, she see this is what 316 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 3: you know what everybody's always saying. 317 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 1: Everybody died at thirty five. No, they didn't. 318 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 3: Not everybody died thirty five. That was the average. It 319 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 3: was the average lived to be old. 320 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:52,480 Speaker 2: The numbers bent. 321 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, she hopped in her oversized pickle barrel and went 322 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 3: over the edge. Other than the small gash on her 323 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 3: head head, she emerged largely unharmed. 324 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 2: Nice. 325 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 3: Regrettably, her daring exploit did not bring financial prosperity, and 326 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 3: she passed away in poverty. The cost of her funeral 327 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 3: was covered by donations from the public. 328 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:12,800 Speaker 2: Okay. 329 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 3: The second person to go over the falls was Bobby Leech. 330 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 3: Here it is oh my god, so this is so. 331 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 3: She went over in like a straight up pickle barrel 332 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 3: and it has her name written on the outside of her. 333 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 1: Well, she should have been so famous. 334 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 2: She should she should have gotten sponsored by Vlassic. Yeah. 335 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 3: The second person to go over the falls was Bobby Leach. 336 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 3: She was born in Lancaster, England, in eighteen fifty eight. 337 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 3: Came to the United States when he was eighteen years old. 338 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 3: Leech was an excellent swimmer and began his career exhibiting 339 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 3: diving and swimming tricks for the Barnman Bailey Circus. The 340 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:47,840 Speaker 3: specialty was diving from a platform elevated one hundred and 341 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:51,160 Speaker 3: fifty feet above, plunging in a shallow pool below. 342 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 2: That's pretty good, not too shabby. 343 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:58,280 Speaker 3: Fifteen stories, wow, fifteen stories is so high. 344 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:01,880 Speaker 4: That's scary, right, that's scary. Hide anything over four you 345 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 4: start to go, this is death? 346 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 1: Do you say? Over four? 347 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 2: Four four stories? Oh? 348 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:12,119 Speaker 4: Four stores? Four feet four feat. It's no problem for me, 349 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 4: even in my old age. All four feet? 350 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 2: Does me? 351 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:17,840 Speaker 4: Grab my rebock pumps, Give two little pumps and I'll 352 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 4: jump in four feet. 353 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 3: In the era predating powered flight, he would make parachute 354 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 3: jumps from lofty balloons. My god, this dude was the 355 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:29,160 Speaker 3: original red bull guy. 356 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 2: Yeah. 357 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 3: As airplanes gamed prevalence, Leech adapted by descending from one 358 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:36,359 Speaker 3: aircraft to another using a rope ladder. 359 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:37,720 Speaker 1: Oh, he's one of those dudes. 360 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:42,360 Speaker 3: In nineteen oh eight, he accomplished a successful dive off 361 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 3: of the Whirlpool Rapids bridge, plunging two hundred and eight 362 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,919 Speaker 3: feet into the Niagara River below. Following his feet, Leech 363 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,879 Speaker 3: went on to traverse the Whirlpool Rapids in a barrel 364 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,879 Speaker 3: on at least four different occasions. Leech next set his 365 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 3: sights on going over the falls in a barrel while 366 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:01,200 Speaker 3: acknowledging he wouldn't be first to do so. He inspired 367 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 3: to become the first man to achieve this daring feed 368 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,680 Speaker 3: because only a woman had done it before. On July 369 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 3: twenty fifth, nineteen eleven, Leech hopped into his eleven foot 370 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 3: long steel barrel. 371 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:17,800 Speaker 1: It looks like, uh, like. 372 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:23,400 Speaker 3: An escape pod from Star Wars if Star Wars was steampunk. 373 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 1: That's what it looks like. 374 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:28,439 Speaker 3: Okay, so you can you imagine that welded steel in 375 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 3: a very twenty thousand leagues under the sea kind of way. 376 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:36,919 Speaker 3: So he gets into his eleven foot long steel barrel, 377 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 3: straps himself into his canvas hammock, and began his journey downstream. 378 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,399 Speaker 3: About two hundred yards from the falls, the barrel struck 379 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:46,680 Speaker 3: a large rock, which broke off a. 380 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:48,159 Speaker 1: Portion of its wooden nose. 381 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:51,320 Speaker 3: Moments later, his craft plunged over the falls, and, upon 382 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 3: reaching the bottom, vanished under the water's surface for about 383 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,159 Speaker 3: thirty seconds. After popping back up, the barrel embarked on 384 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,639 Speaker 3: its downstream journey, got entangled in an eddy, swirling in 385 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:05,199 Speaker 3: a circular motion for several minutes. Nevertheless, it swiftly resumed 386 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 3: its course. Eventually, a man swam out to attach a 387 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,120 Speaker 3: rope to his barrel and pulled him to the shoreline. 388 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:13,879 Speaker 3: Upon emerging from the barrel, he raised his body and 389 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:16,680 Speaker 3: excitedly waved to the crowds assembled along the river's edge. 390 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:20,120 Speaker 3: Leech seemed happy, but his body was badly beaten. 391 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 1: He oo he. 392 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 3: Had a fractured jaw, broken ribs, both of his kneecaps 393 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:27,480 Speaker 3: were shattered. Leech would spend the next twenty three weeks 394 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 3: recovering in the hospital. 395 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:31,200 Speaker 2: That's a half year, folks run the numbers. 396 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:36,959 Speaker 3: Fast forward to February twenty sixth, nineteen twenty six. Gladly so, 397 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:41,440 Speaker 3: that was fifteen years later. Having recently concluded a lecture 398 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 3: tour in New Zealand, Leech was walking down a street 399 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:48,160 Speaker 3: in Auckland and slipped on an orange peel, which resulted 400 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 3: in a broken leg. Gangrene set in and on Monday 401 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:55,200 Speaker 3: April twenty sixth, nineteen twenty six, doctors had no choice 402 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 3: but to amputate his leg. Tragically, Bobby Leech died away 403 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:02,959 Speaker 3: passed away to days later. Ironically, the man who had 404 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 3: subberved so many death to find deep feats throughout his 405 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 3: lifetime medic end at the age of sixty nine due 406 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 3: to a fatal slip of an orange peel. 407 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 2: Wow. That is a crazy and um man. Yeah. 408 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 3: Also definitely does not speak well of the New Zealand 409 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:28,840 Speaker 3: hospital system in nineteen twenty six. No, they feel like 410 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 3: they could have handled an amputation elsewhere. 411 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:35,160 Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I. 412 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:38,439 Speaker 4: Just wish there was a footage, even if it was 413 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 4: just poorly recorded audio footage, of when his eleven foot 414 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:44,199 Speaker 4: barrel got caught in the in the spinning pool and 415 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 4: he just spun around for several minutes just going. 416 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:48,119 Speaker 2: Wow, wow wow. 417 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 1: Also with all broken bones. 418 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:52,119 Speaker 3: What's crazy is that the woman who did it the 419 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:55,640 Speaker 3: first time just had a cut on her forehead. That's insane. 420 00:20:56,560 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 4: That's women, dude. Women can take pain. Also, she should 421 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 4: dressed up like a pickle. I kept thinking about that 422 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,199 Speaker 4: the whole time. She should have popped out and been like, 423 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 4: boy was I in a pickle? 424 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 5: And then they were to go a crunch of lassic crunch. 425 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:20,640 Speaker 4: I in who got I think it was the first 426 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:22,439 Speaker 4: year I moved to La So maybe the end of 427 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 4: twenty twelve something like that. 428 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:25,160 Speaker 2: I was living in my. 429 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 4: House and I caught wind over the world Wide Web 430 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 4: that the one of the Wallndas or whatever their names 431 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 4: are the Flying Wlen the tightrope walking family. We're gonna 432 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 4: one of them was gonna restore their family's legacy and 433 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 4: they were gonna walk live over Niagara. 434 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 2: Falls on a tightrope. WHOA, Okay, I cleared my calendar, Kurt, 435 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:50,560 Speaker 2: did you really? I may? I got the grill fired up. 436 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,399 Speaker 4: I'm sure I had a beverage of five, and I 437 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 4: was like, I cannot wait to watch. 438 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 2: This is musty TV for me. 439 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 3: This was on TV in twenty twelve. 440 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 4: Also, he praised the entire time he's on there and 441 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 4: they had him miked up and it's it's comical. He yeah, 442 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 4: Eric Worllander or something not Eric worlanda that was a 443 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 4: soccer player, some one of the one. Lenda's what a 444 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,879 Speaker 4: legacy like the Brown Owlers. You guys are just famous 445 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 4: for trapezes. We're netless trapeze folks. So I clear my schedule. 446 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 4: I turned on the TV. I'm waiting, do. 447 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:28,640 Speaker 1: You have people over? 448 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 2: It's just you. 449 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 4: It was me and I was I was living with 450 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,120 Speaker 4: a girlfriend at the time, but she was not as 451 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:37,919 Speaker 4: excited as I was. And then she just hears me, 452 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 4: you go what duh? I was so angry he had 453 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 4: a safety rope on. He had a harness around his 454 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 4: waist around the wire. 455 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:49,119 Speaker 3: I care, I know what I mean, Like, who cares 456 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 3: if he does it that way? 457 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 4: Like, that's not my I was livid, I could, I 458 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,880 Speaker 4: was furious. I'm like, so, then what are we watching? 459 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,640 Speaker 3: The dumbest You're to see a man die the. 460 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:07,920 Speaker 5: Dumbest skill anybody, If you give me a sack. 461 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,280 Speaker 3: We're here to watch somebody hacky sack because that's when 462 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 3: slack rope at walking. 463 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 2: Yeah. 464 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, when I see slack ropers, I mean, sure, if 465 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,159 Speaker 4: it's just a fitness thing for you or or a 466 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 4: mental health thing for you, great, but don't expect me 467 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:25,680 Speaker 4: to be impressed if you're strapped to that tight rope. 468 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 2: I was, I was fair. I turned it off. 469 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:34,560 Speaker 4: And also the whole time he's praying out loud, he's like, Lord, Heavenly, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, 470 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 4: protect me, Jesus, Oh, Jesus, Lord a. 471 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 1: Big long thing. 472 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 2: He has a big long. 473 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 4: Pole and he does wobble a couple of times, But 474 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,960 Speaker 4: who cares what happens if he falls? He drops the pole, 475 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 4: then he just hangs and somebody comes and gets him. 476 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:48,640 Speaker 2: I was, picks himself. 477 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 3: Back up and stands up again and keeps walking. 478 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:50,639 Speaker 2: That's it. 479 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 3: That is yet the man a bird on a wire. 480 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 3: That that is different right between us World Trade Center. 481 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 4: Incredible, And he snuck in to do it, likes to 482 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:06,640 Speaker 4: do it. That's a real man, right, French, the French, 483 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,960 Speaker 4: the manliest man in the world, the French, the French. 484 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:11,280 Speaker 2: Yeah. 485 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 4: I don't know if I've ever been so let down 486 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 4: by television in my entire life. 487 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, I was amazing. 488 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:20,399 Speaker 4: I wanted to be It's because I had been to 489 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 4: Niagara Falls. I had visited probably just a few years earlier, 490 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,439 Speaker 4: and I was like, I know how wide that thing is. 491 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 1: That would be one And it's really really wide. 492 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,919 Speaker 3: Oh it's windy just from the water itself. It creates 493 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:33,679 Speaker 3: its own wind. 494 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,360 Speaker 2: Then you get this jackass out there with the world's 495 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:38,399 Speaker 2: stupidest skill. 496 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,200 Speaker 3: And did you watch when you were a kid, when 497 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 3: David Copperfield made the Empire stability? 498 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 2: I watched that one. 499 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 4: I watched and he walked through the Great Wall of China. 500 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 4: When he passed through the Great Wall of China, it. 501 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,679 Speaker 3: Was to me always so stupid because it was like 502 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,679 Speaker 3: this being on t it's like, how dumb do you 503 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,120 Speaker 3: think we are? Like, even if you were doing and 504 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,159 Speaker 3: he did do it was an illusion that worked in 505 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 3: real time obviously, but it's so easy to just fake it, 506 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,880 Speaker 3: you know. Like the amount of trust that we had 507 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 3: to have as an audience that there was no manipulation 508 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 3: whatsoever was crazy. 509 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 1: It was crazy. 510 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 3: But the you know how he did the uh, the 511 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 3: one with the Statue of Liberty? Right, No, okay, So 512 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,119 Speaker 3: everyone's it's one hundred people and they're all on a platform, 513 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 3: and then there's a curtain that hangs in front of 514 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,159 Speaker 3: their view of the Empire state building or the Statue 515 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:40,680 Speaker 3: of Liberty. 516 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:45,560 Speaker 1: So then the whole thing just. 517 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 3: Rotates really slowly, so no one can tell. So they 518 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 3: pull up the thing and then it starts slowly rotating, 519 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,439 Speaker 3: and no one is aware because he's talking. So he 520 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:56,919 Speaker 3: talks for like five minutes and that's enough time for 521 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 3: it to just slowly rotate. So the statue of liber 522 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,760 Speaker 3: was literally just to the right of everybody, but everyone 523 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,239 Speaker 3: was looking straight ahead so they couldn't see it. 524 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:08,880 Speaker 2: So there ain't that just life. 525 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:13,280 Speaker 3: So he just turned people like forty five degrees, shows 526 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 3: them just another area and then puts it back up 527 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:18,600 Speaker 3: and rotates them back. 528 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 1: It's so crazy. 529 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:24,119 Speaker 4: That is I had no idea. That is fantastic. 530 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:26,159 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I. 531 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 3: Think there's a whole this American life about it if 532 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:29,920 Speaker 3: you want to listen to it. 533 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 4: I mean it probably got like Super Bowl numbers of 534 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 4: ratings to back. 535 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,199 Speaker 3: I think like fifty five million people watched it or 536 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,119 Speaker 3: something like that. I talked to him because he lives 537 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 3: above He lives in the hotel that he does the 538 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 3: show in, so he like it's all timed out so 539 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 3: that he like puts on his clothes, takes a special 540 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 3: elevator that goes from his penthouse apartment down to the theater. 541 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 1: The doors open, he walks out on stage, and then 542 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:58,439 Speaker 1: weird his whole life. 543 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,920 Speaker 2: Weird life, weird life. 544 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 3: I talked to a magician who was Piff the Magic Dragon. 545 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,919 Speaker 3: I was on his podcast and he's like, that's my dream. 546 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,840 Speaker 3: I would love that, And I was like, you would 547 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 3: love that? Like that seems to me to be. 548 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,200 Speaker 1: A hard life. 549 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 2: I agree. I agree. 550 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:21,440 Speaker 1: Just go crazy. 551 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:26,439 Speaker 3: Your whole day is just prepping for this two separate 552 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:27,800 Speaker 3: shows that you have to do a day. 553 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:32,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, Vegas, I mean we should maybe do a bananas 554 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 4: in Vegas. They have so many comedy clubs there. Now 555 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 4: I feel like we should do a Banas Live there 556 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,639 Speaker 4: at some point. But I'm good for two nights in 557 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,200 Speaker 4: Vegas and then I'm like, this just makes me sad. 558 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:45,560 Speaker 2: Yep. 559 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:51,000 Speaker 4: I'm not watching millionaires place risky bets who become billionaires. 560 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:55,639 Speaker 4: I'm watching pensioners with social Security checks losing money to 561 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:56,360 Speaker 4: penny slots. 562 00:27:56,359 --> 00:28:00,679 Speaker 3: And I'm like, ah, why, specifically is it always someone 563 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 3: on oxygen? 564 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,000 Speaker 1: That's what I want to know, because I don't. 565 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 3: See people on oxygen in public other than in Vegas 566 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 3: at a slot machine. 567 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 4: Do you ever ever notice that I'm gonna notice from 568 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:13,840 Speaker 4: here on out the. 569 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 3: Place where you can smoke inside someone has a tank 570 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:18,920 Speaker 3: of oxygen. 571 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:21,919 Speaker 1: And they're at a slot machine. 572 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. 573 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:29,080 Speaker 4: Here's one that I teased at the end of our 574 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,120 Speaker 4: last episode. Shannon sent this in. You can send in 575 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:37,000 Speaker 4: strange news stories, true ones don't dupe us from around 576 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 4: the world or your neck of the woods to The 577 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,680 Speaker 4: Bananas Podcast at Gmail or on Instagram, which is an 578 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 4: application for your cellular telephone. The Bananas Podcast on Instagram. 579 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 4: Richmond Cat Cafe The Perfect Bean closed after Kitten turns 580 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 4: water on and floods the entire building. 581 00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 3: I think we did this one at the end of 582 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 3: a previous one. Oh, we have to make sure they're 583 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 3: in order. 584 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 4: CBS six News News written by that swinging web staff. 585 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,520 Speaker 2: Oh boy, Richmond, Virginia. 586 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 1: Richmond, Virginia, the Gateway to the South. 587 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 2: Home of the University of Richmond Spiders. 588 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 1: Great rama. Andrew Jewski. 589 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, what's up? 590 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 4: R kitten up for adoption is adding on to the 591 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,960 Speaker 4: existing list of mischievous animals in Central Virginia this week. 592 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 4: And there's a link. I didn't click it. I don't 593 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,320 Speaker 4: have time. I got to watch Bozo's pretend to do 594 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:47,720 Speaker 4: stunts over Nature's Miracles Roller. A five month old male 595 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:52,480 Speaker 4: black and white kitten, resides at the Perfect BEANCATCHFA turned 596 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 4: the water on and flooded the entire building. The Perfect 597 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 4: Bean will now be closed until repairs are completed. 598 00:29:58,800 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 2: Quote. 599 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 4: We have to redo the entire flooring and bathroom in 600 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 4: the cat lounge, along with ceilings and walls in our 601 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 4: cafe area. We still have to determine the damage to 602 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 4: our equipment, which could extend our closure even more if 603 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 4: we need to replace things like our espresso machine. And grinder, 604 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,880 Speaker 4: not the grinder. Take my eyes, but not my grinder. 605 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 4: That sounds like an ad for the gay dating app. 606 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 4: Take my thighs, but not my grinder. 607 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 3: Shocked that a kitten a kitten because it specifically says kitten. 608 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:31,400 Speaker 2: Five months old. 609 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 3: Kitt, oh, five months old? You still you have like 610 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 3: a grown cat? Yeah, a grown cat size. 611 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, just feel like brain of a kit and 612 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 4: body of a adult man. 613 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 3: So that's that's where the force, the power comes to 614 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 3: turn that faucet at this probably just wants to drink. 615 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,440 Speaker 3: It was just freaking out of the faucet. 616 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:58,480 Speaker 4: They're obsessed. Heaven for cats is just faucets, and everybody. 617 00:30:58,080 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 2: Can agree with that. 618 00:30:59,000 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 1: I think that's true. 619 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,360 Speaker 2: And one box to sit in, Mike. 620 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:05,600 Speaker 3: I had a cat who's or when I was in 621 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:10,760 Speaker 3: high school named mister Cat I think had many names, Beatrice, 622 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 3: mister cat cat, but would just would turn on the 623 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:18,880 Speaker 3: water and sip it. That's how she drank water. And 624 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,760 Speaker 3: then also if you ever took out shrimp, she would 625 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:23,680 Speaker 3: just start going. 626 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:28,080 Speaker 1: A piece of shrimp. 627 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 2: Damn. 628 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 4: Sadly, the perfect being anticipates being closed at least for 629 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:35,960 Speaker 4: the rest of the year. There was a fundraiser on 630 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,480 Speaker 4: December sixth at Bird Park and to pay what you 631 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,440 Speaker 4: can pop up, So hopefully they made a lot of money. 632 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:46,520 Speaker 4: That was hosted by the exit plan a Macha cart, 633 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 4: So hopefully they made way. 634 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 3: A Macha cart was coming to the rescue of the 635 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:53,200 Speaker 3: cat cafe. 636 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:55,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, now that's the story. 637 00:31:55,320 --> 00:32:01,080 Speaker 4: Now that is the headline that swinging CB six Richmond 638 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 4: web staff. 639 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:05,680 Speaker 2: I have you been a cat cafe? 640 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,920 Speaker 4: There's I went to one in Huntington Beach. I literally 641 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 4: just stopped and sat down. I do find them very charming. 642 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 4: I think it's a very cute idea. Yeah, I don't 643 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:17,280 Speaker 4: know why you would ever allow access to anything that 644 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:19,600 Speaker 4: a cat could turn on at that building. 645 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:22,760 Speaker 1: But but get places. 646 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 3: Does it smell like kitty litter? 647 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:25,760 Speaker 1: Is my question? 648 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 4: Okay, like everybody who owns a cat who keeps their 649 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 4: litter box so pristinely clean, and then anybody who doesn't 650 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 4: own a cat walks in that house or apartment goes, 651 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,720 Speaker 4: there is a cat in this apartment. I'm sorry, it's true. 652 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:41,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's true. 653 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 3: Yes, you have the you have the disease in your 654 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 3: in your nose that makes you not smell cat. You're yes, 655 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,400 Speaker 3: So it's it called topo tricksis or whatever. 656 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a wild There's two of them, right, there's 657 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 4: one in the cat poop and then there's another one 658 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 4: that's Yeah, there's two things and that's why site. Yeah, 659 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:01,280 Speaker 4: it's a parasite. 660 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,200 Speaker 3: It's in the poop and it makes you not smell 661 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,960 Speaker 3: cat pee. Also makes you more liable to be eaten 662 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,280 Speaker 3: by cats if you die. 663 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 4: And it makes you want more cats. People that have that, Yeah, 664 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:18,200 Speaker 4: it's a parasites. They they really get a hold of you. Yeah, 665 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,080 Speaker 4: my friend has a parasite. She got it in Guatemala 666 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,160 Speaker 4: four years ago. Just got to diagnose. 667 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,680 Speaker 3: No months ago, No, no, no, no, oh really. 668 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, she said. She showed us photos of it. It 669 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:30,400 Speaker 4: was adorable looking. 670 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:31,920 Speaker 1: Where is it? 671 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,480 Speaker 2: Well, it's all it's in her guts and stuff now. 672 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,240 Speaker 1: But they she's a photograph of her of like. 673 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:41,440 Speaker 4: Of the type of parasite, and I see it looks hilarious. 674 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 4: We were we were yellow Ellen. But she's on anibox. 675 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:46,760 Speaker 4: She's okay now, but yeah there. He was like, were 676 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,240 Speaker 4: you in and like named all these countries. She's like no, 677 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 4: She's like I was in Guatemala. He's like when five 678 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 4: years ago? 679 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:55,440 Speaker 1: Five years. 680 00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:57,479 Speaker 3: Here's something's been going on. 681 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, she's She thought it was all these other things 682 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,240 Speaker 4: and then it was just a nice guatemal in parasite 683 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 4: from hanging out at an eco resort. 684 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 2: In the middle of the rainforest. 685 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:14,279 Speaker 4: Oh man, looks great though, ready for swimsuit season, not 686 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:15,440 Speaker 4: spoor thing. 687 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,160 Speaker 2: We were like, I bought her dinner the other night. 688 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:21,279 Speaker 2: She's okay, you want to tease us in some thumbs up? 689 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,680 Speaker 1: Sometimes I got a bunch here. 690 00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:30,920 Speaker 3: It is Swedish musician teaches highly intelligent octopus to play piano. 691 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,839 Speaker 2: Oh I saw the video, but I didn't. This is cool. 692 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:34,959 Speaker 2: I want to hear about this one. 693 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:40,400 Speaker 4: Elizabeth, whose handle is Mama dot Isaac, has been waiting 694 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:44,040 Speaker 4: two point five years to send this thumbs up two 695 00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:47,840 Speaker 4: very enthusiastic thumbs up to herself for finishing her master's 696 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:53,280 Speaker 4: degree in school counseling while also working full time, while 697 00:34:54,040 --> 00:35:00,759 Speaker 4: also parenting four children, while also rediscovering herself. She is 698 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:05,080 Speaker 4: a Colorado bananimal, so excuse me, the Colorado bananimal. I 699 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,879 Speaker 4: believe she might have come to a banana's vest and 700 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,680 Speaker 4: she is looking forward to working with the kids this fall. 701 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,879 Speaker 2: But this fall was last fall. This was an old one. 702 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,600 Speaker 4: But Elizabeth, double thumbs up for you getting your masters, 703 00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:22,200 Speaker 4: raising those kids, being a Colorado, and rediscovering yourself. 704 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:23,640 Speaker 2: Whatever that tends to you. 705 00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:24,319 Speaker 1: I love that. 706 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,520 Speaker 4: Hannah wants to thumb herself up for getting herself to 707 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:34,479 Speaker 4: work even having a PTSD fueled panic attack. Thank job, 708 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,520 Speaker 4: she wrote. Thank job for therapy and medication for making 709 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:43,759 Speaker 4: everyday life possible. Yes, what good thumbs up, Hannah. They 710 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,920 Speaker 4: all don't have to be miracle worker levels. Sometimes just 711 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,160 Speaker 4: getting out of ben getting to the job deserves a thunderers. 712 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,680 Speaker 4: We're proud of you. Oh, let's see, you got a 713 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,120 Speaker 4: bunch of heer. Let me pick another one. Oh, this 714 00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:59,200 Speaker 4: one's really sweet. I'll have to not get choked up 715 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,400 Speaker 4: for this one. Vanessa wants to thumb her son Henry 716 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,040 Speaker 4: up two years ago, which is probably about two and 717 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,400 Speaker 4: a half years ago now. Henry chose a high school 718 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,480 Speaker 4: in the next city over so he could attend an 719 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,560 Speaker 4: art school. He didn't know anyone there, but he dove 720 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:17,040 Speaker 4: in head first and last year Kurtie B. Henry decided 721 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,759 Speaker 4: he wanted to start playing basketball, so he practiced every 722 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,200 Speaker 4: day and he made the team and he even got 723 00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:27,520 Speaker 4: the most improved player Award. Most importantly, Henry introduced his 724 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:32,160 Speaker 4: stepmother Vanessa to bananas, where they listened to bananas whenever 725 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,400 Speaker 4: they have to drive to long basketball games. So the 726 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:36,600 Speaker 4: bust up, whatever it is, anything that's far away, they 727 00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:39,279 Speaker 4: listened to bananas and laft and laf and laft. Vanessa says, 728 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:40,960 Speaker 4: I love you and I'm so proud of you. 729 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:44,479 Speaker 2: Henry. Thumbs up. What a nice one. 730 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,320 Speaker 4: That's a great one, Henry, sound like some compositive Kurt 731 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,600 Speaker 4: and I together an art school kid and an athletic 732 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,680 Speaker 4: kid getting together and having a good loft. 733 00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,680 Speaker 2: So thumbs up to you, buddy, Henry. Banana the week. 734 00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,960 Speaker 1: I say Banana, the we way it take. 735 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,640 Speaker 4: Big chances, wait to stretch your comfort zone. That's a 736 00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:03,360 Speaker 4: cool thing to do. 737 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:08,640 Speaker 3: And of course, as a reminder us February seventh, Philadelphia, 738 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:13,160 Speaker 3: Bananas has coming to Helium, a comedy club. I will 739 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,800 Speaker 3: also be there February sixth, seventh, and eighth doing stand 740 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:22,280 Speaker 3: up comedy. I'm here and then the next week February fourteenth, Austin, Texas, 741 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:26,719 Speaker 3: We're doing a very special Valentine's Day Bananas episode at 742 00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:28,560 Speaker 3: Cap City in Austin. 743 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:30,239 Speaker 1: And I will also be there. 744 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,719 Speaker 3: The thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth, So doing stand up. 745 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,640 Speaker 4: So come see us all, Come see us all. Bring 746 00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,600 Speaker 4: us a tray of Franklin barbecue briskets so we don't 747 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:42,520 Speaker 4: have to wait in line for three hours. 748 00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:43,279 Speaker 2: There it is. 749 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,360 Speaker 4: Tell me about this octopi that could tickle those keys. 750 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:52,440 Speaker 3: Swedish musician teaches a highly intelligent octopus to play up piano. 751 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:56,080 Speaker 3: This was on classic film. 752 00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,200 Speaker 2: Now you know what I've used stories from there? That's real. 753 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:03,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's written by Hazel Davis. 754 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,799 Speaker 2: Hazel, Daisy, Daisy, She's the best. 755 00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:10,520 Speaker 3: Is What a great name, What a pleasant name. Hazel 756 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:11,359 Speaker 3: is a pleasant name. 757 00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:12,080 Speaker 2: Very pretty. 758 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,360 Speaker 3: Struggling to encourage your students to learn new tunes? 759 00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:16,920 Speaker 1: Got some crabs handy? 760 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:23,600 Speaker 3: Swedish musician YouTuber Matthias Krantz, known for his eccentric musical experiments, 761 00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:25,880 Speaker 3: has found a new way to teach an octopus to 762 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:30,440 Speaker 3: play piano. Krantz, who regularly shares his bonkers projects online, wanted, 763 00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,680 Speaker 3: visited a live fish market where he rescued a young 764 00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:38,080 Speaker 3: octopus named take Yoki that he named taki Yaki taco 765 00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:43,400 Speaker 3: Yaki Takoyaki, combining his fascination with animals and music and 766 00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,680 Speaker 3: Knowing that actapai are famously clever, he decided to see 767 00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,480 Speaker 3: whether his new companion could learn to play quote. I've 768 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,279 Speaker 3: always wanted to teach an animal piano, Krantz explained on 769 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:56,160 Speaker 3: YouTube and theory. Octopuses have incredible potential. They're as smart 770 00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,200 Speaker 3: as a three year old, amazing problem solvers. In each 771 00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:01,200 Speaker 3: of their eight arms has its own brain. It's like 772 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:06,160 Speaker 3: having eight pianists in one body. Eight pianists in one body. 773 00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:10,600 Speaker 3: Eight Krantz tried several teaching methods, including light up keys 774 00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:14,520 Speaker 3: and fake crabs hidden inside the instrument. These didn't work, 775 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:18,600 Speaker 3: so he designed a custom built octopus piano tailored to 776 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:23,200 Speaker 3: Takayaki's strength and curiosity. Now, every time Takayaki presses a 777 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,880 Speaker 3: piano key, a small food tube lowers a crab slightly 778 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,239 Speaker 3: closer to him. Only by completing a melody does the 779 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,919 Speaker 3: crab reach grabbing distance. Take note, piano teachers across the UK. 780 00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,360 Speaker 3: No one would believe me if this wasn't recorded, Krantz said. 781 00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,160 Speaker 3: Takayakki may not be performing chopin. 782 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,040 Speaker 1: Etude is etudes? 783 00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:43,520 Speaker 2: Sure? 784 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:44,440 Speaker 1: I don't know. 785 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,719 Speaker 3: Is a tude different from an interlude? 786 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:47,000 Speaker 2: Maybe? 787 00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:50,600 Speaker 3: I don't know, just yet, but Krantz's experiment has attracted 788 00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,120 Speaker 3: the attention of thousands of Instagram followers and YouTube's grabbers. 789 00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:57,000 Speaker 3: He now lives peacefully at home with his teacher. 790 00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,240 Speaker 1: This is a strange trend. 791 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:05,480 Speaker 3: I've seen of YouTubers doing things with octopuses, have you. 792 00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:09,759 Speaker 4: I saw one guy who had an octopus that it 793 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:11,560 Speaker 4: was sort of like my octopus teacher. It liked to 794 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,200 Speaker 4: get out of the aquarium and like hang out on 795 00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:15,560 Speaker 4: his hand, but it was up to the octopus to decide. 796 00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:19,840 Speaker 4: And yeah, I think My Octopus Teacher had a profound 797 00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:24,120 Speaker 4: impact on everybody coming out of lockdown. It felt like 798 00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,600 Speaker 4: a connection to the outside world after we had been 799 00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:27,760 Speaker 4: so stuck inside. 800 00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:30,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, and weird. 801 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,560 Speaker 4: I thought it was so weird and it people love it, 802 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,279 Speaker 4: like right now, but animals are like I love it. 803 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:41,040 Speaker 4: I was like this man talk about seeking therapy. It's like, 804 00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,319 Speaker 4: I'm going to avoid my problems. 805 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,560 Speaker 3: I am not gonna like I am gonna get away 806 00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:48,200 Speaker 3: from my son and my wife. 807 00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:51,880 Speaker 2: I'm going every day frigid, tortuously cold water. 808 00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:52,759 Speaker 1: Octopus. 809 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:56,760 Speaker 2: This thing loves me, really. 810 00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,400 Speaker 4: It likes the thing that keeps a body temperature of 811 00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,640 Speaker 4: evan point nine degrees underwater. 812 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,279 Speaker 2: I think it's cold. It's got eight brains. 813 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,839 Speaker 4: Hey, speaking of fake crabs, you're an East Coast guy. 814 00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:13,600 Speaker 4: I'm an East Coast guy. Growing up, did you have 815 00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:19,080 Speaker 4: friends whose parents had a net decor with fakes plastic 816 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:20,000 Speaker 4: seafood in it? 817 00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:21,320 Speaker 1: Yeah? 818 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:25,560 Speaker 2: How how me too? How was that? How are you 819 00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:26,359 Speaker 2: kidding me? 820 00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:28,799 Speaker 3: I want to bring that back. I'm looking for that. 821 00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:30,480 Speaker 3: If anybody knows a place where I can. 822 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,960 Speaker 2: Get they sell it decorative. 823 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:34,680 Speaker 3: Net with a crab in it that I can hang 824 00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:38,320 Speaker 3: on the wall, I will do it this instant. I 825 00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:41,560 Speaker 3: if I had my brothers, I my house would be 826 00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:44,319 Speaker 3: top to toe, just like as if I lived on 827 00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:48,760 Speaker 3: a boat. Uh, every single thing would be nautical themed. 828 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:50,359 Speaker 2: You need, I really should live. 829 00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:55,680 Speaker 4: Nets and Moore dot Com slash products slash Decorative Accessories 830 00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:59,439 Speaker 4: because they have beautiful reclaimed decorative nets with plastic line 831 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:02,680 Speaker 4: fish plakus, the globster, plastic sea turtles. I'm looking at 832 00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:05,960 Speaker 4: it right now. They have floats, small reclaim floats four 833 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:10,960 Speaker 4: dollars per float. 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If I buy one hundred 843 00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:38,440 Speaker 1: dollars worth of nets and mark. 844 00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,680 Speaker 4: Here, well, you're gonna want to You don't want to 845 00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:42,680 Speaker 4: hang an empty reclaim fishing that up. 846 00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:45,200 Speaker 2: You're gonna want that big lame over full. 847 00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:49,360 Speaker 4: Why was that I do such a thing in the 848 00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,040 Speaker 4: I could remember the parents who had it, and they 849 00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:53,920 Speaker 4: weren't like seafaring folks. 850 00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:59,479 Speaker 3: It was just in the basement. Yes, wood panel basement, Jesus, which, 851 00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,359 Speaker 3: by the way, I will wood panel my basement now. 852 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,239 Speaker 3: I think that that's a great idea. It's I'm like, 853 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:08,879 Speaker 3: I'm completely interested in wood paneling my basement. If you're 854 00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:12,239 Speaker 3: really pretty easy to do. Oh, I think it's the 855 00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,839 Speaker 3: easiest thing to do. I think it's the cheapest. 856 00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:18,759 Speaker 4: And if you get some popcorn ceilings up there, congratulations, 857 00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,280 Speaker 4: it's nineteen eighty four. All you need is a piranha 858 00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,480 Speaker 4: fish tank that's halfway down with a prana that's bigger 859 00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:27,400 Speaker 4: than a slice of pizza and that you forget to 860 00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,160 Speaker 4: put water in, and maybe a bar that says like 861 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:34,960 Speaker 4: Kurt's Bar with michelob light signs and stros signs. 862 00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:37,240 Speaker 2: It's ban animals. 863 00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,160 Speaker 4: If you grew up and you know what the hell 864 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,680 Speaker 4: we're talking about, where somebody in your life or your 865 00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:46,480 Speaker 4: parents had a fishing net with fake plastic seafood in it, 866 00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:48,600 Speaker 4: either send us a photo of it or just let 867 00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:53,799 Speaker 4: us know, because it is a phenomenon to an era 868 00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,879 Speaker 4: that I still can't understand even though I lived it. 869 00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,640 Speaker 1: Damn well, God, damn it. Thank you, folks. 870 00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:05,359 Speaker 3: That is another episode of this fing podcast we call Bananas. 871 00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:09,400 Speaker 4: And thanks to everybody exactly right, especially our benevolent overlord's 872 00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:12,040 Speaker 4: Karen and Georgia for being such a fun place to 873 00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:15,719 Speaker 4: make a very silly, absurd podcast. 874 00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:25,200 Speaker 2: Bananas Podcast Bananas is an exactly right media production. 875 00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,640 Speaker 1: Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine. 876 00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:30,880 Speaker 4: The catchy Bananas theme song was composed and performed by Kahon. 877 00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:34,400 Speaker 3: Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard. 878 00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:36,920 Speaker 4: And our benevolent overlords are the great Karen Kilgareff and 879 00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:38,200 Speaker 4: Georgia Hardstart. 880 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,440 Speaker 3: And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot, 881 00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:41,640 Speaker 3: part time employee. 882 00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:45,839 Speaker 4: You can listen to Bananas on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, 883 00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:49,560 Speaker 4: or wherever you get your podcasts, and please feel free 884 00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:51,719 Speaker 4: to rate and review as many times as you can. 885 00:44:51,840 --> 00:45:00,760 Speaker 4: We love those five stars at