Speaker 1: It Scotti, Oh, Curtie Bee, Uh here it is. This
Speaker 1: isn't a funny one, but it is a fun one, Okay.
Speaker 2: I'm ready to laugh and laugh and laugh.
Speaker 1: Why do ghosts float and shimmer?
Speaker 2: She yeah, I don't know. And we're not quite all
Speaker 2: the way into the you know, we're not full swing
Speaker 2: Christmas Hanukah kwans yet, but we're creeping right up on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: So I'll just give a little gobble gobble. It's time
Speaker 2: for a little bananas world.
Speaker 1: Would your livesillion pieces?
Speaker 2: Would you? Ba ba ba ba?
Speaker 1: Hey, guys, gals, non binary palace, Welcome to Bananas. Hello,
Speaker 1: Scottie Landis, Howard.
Speaker 2: Curdie b you got you look like you're in a
Speaker 2: standing sleeping bag right now, are you.
Speaker 1: It is so cold it has finally become cold in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, which is a delight. It is my My
Speaker 1: garage maintains a deathly coldness. Uh ten degrees colder than outside.
Speaker 1: I don't know how or why it does it.
Speaker 2: So I am.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm very bundled, but you know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get warmed up and I'm gonna probably take this jacket off.
Speaker 2: I bet you will. That reminds me. We got a message.
Speaker 2: We had a message gim to us a while ago.
Speaker 2: Let me find it real quick. Sadie Rain sent this
Speaker 2: message in said Alaskan bananimal here. Heck yeah, come do
Speaker 2: a show in Alaska. If you come in the winter,
Speaker 2: go to Homer or sold in Soldotna.
Speaker 1: I've never perform in Homer.
Speaker 2: No. One just said it'll be colder than anything you've
Speaker 2: ever experienced, but it's much more your vibe, and the
Speaker 2: locals will be wearing sweatshirts.
Speaker 1: That is true. I remember I did. I did some
Speaker 1: shows in Fairbanks, and then part of the deal was
Speaker 1: that we would drive out to this town that was
Speaker 1: just a military base. It was essentially that's all there
Speaker 1: was in the town was a military base. It was
Speaker 1: about like an hour and a half for two hours
Speaker 1: away from Fairbanks, and the whole town was like a
Speaker 1: grocery store, a gas station, and one bar restaurant. And
Speaker 1: the bar restaurant was where the show was at. And
Speaker 1: it was it was October in Alaska.
Speaker 2: It was very cold.
Speaker 1: I had a winter jacket on and everyone was outside
Speaker 1: in T shirts and everyone was calling me a whimp
Speaker 1: for having my winter jacket.
Speaker 2: Mark please well in la when it's sixty five, people
Speaker 2: are in a snow hat and a jacket. I went
Speaker 2: out in a T shirt and jeans just to grab
Speaker 2: some coffee the other morning, and I was the only
Speaker 2: person wearing a T shirt and people were full winter
Speaker 2: apparel and it was sixty degrees out. But you just
Speaker 2: get used to it.
Speaker 1: It's fun. It's fun to because it's like, really, people
Speaker 1: in La they're like, coseplay winter, you know, sixty degrees
Speaker 1: They put all their stuff on there like here we are,
Speaker 1: it's winter.
Speaker 2: Really true. It's so funny because I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people have this idea of New England. Like a
Speaker 2: lot of women friends of mine are like, you went
Speaker 2: to school mass Jusetts. I'm like, I sure did, and
Speaker 2: they're like, oh, I've always wanted to go to Boston.
Speaker 2: And then it almost always comes back to they just
Speaker 2: really want to wear their sort of fallen winter coats
Speaker 2: and clothing. It has nothing to do with the culture
Speaker 2: of the city. It's absolutely has to do with the
Speaker 2: wardrobe that you can wear when the leaves are changing
Speaker 2: colors and a light just a light flurry is falling.
Speaker 1: I think my favorite artarticle of clothing to purchase is
Speaker 1: a light jacket. I will look at light jackets online
Speaker 1: four hours. Do I ever buy them? I do not
Speaker 1: know because I'm always like, I have a jacket already.
Speaker 1: I can't justify I have like probably two like light jackets,
Speaker 1: and I can't, but I want so many more light jackets.
Speaker 2: Apparently, my dad for like thirty years, while working in
Speaker 2: Baltimore in an office building, when fall would hit, he
Speaker 2: would tell somebody in the office the same joke every year.
Speaker 2: And you would say, did you hear somebody jumped out
Speaker 2: of the building, the Lake Mason building or whatever, and
Speaker 2: everybody go, oh, my god, no, and my dad would say,
Speaker 2: it's okay, though they were wearing a light fall jacket.
Speaker 1: A light fall, I mean, like so light fall, you know,
Speaker 1: it's so almost doesn't work, but for.
Speaker 2: Office comedy that it's a standing ovation for water cooler jokes. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's okay. He was wearing his light fall jacket. That's
Speaker 2: where I get it from. That's why I just keep
Speaker 2: cranking out script after script, baby, But yes, thank you
Speaker 2: for sending that in. We will one day do an
Speaker 2: Alaska show. It is a Banana's Live will come to Alaska.
Speaker 2: But I'm going to tell you right now. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be smack dab in the middle of summer, probably July fourth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be nice if it was a NonStop sunlight.
Speaker 1: While I either want NonStop sunlight or I want total
Speaker 1: darkness the whole time. I want to experience that once in.
Speaker 2: My life extreme. You're a man of extremes, you know,
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 1: I remember writing it by my journal as a fourteen
Speaker 1: year old.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, if.
Speaker 1: You don't experience the extremes, how will you know where
Speaker 1: the middle is?
Speaker 2: That's great? Also now I usually.
Speaker 1: I mean fourteen, I see I just see the doors
Speaker 1: the movie, and I'll was like, that's me.
Speaker 2: And having known you through a lot of your adult life,
Speaker 2: I feel like you did go for the extremes, and
Speaker 2: you know you are happily in that middle. You function
Speaker 2: in the middle.
Speaker 1: I am my dad. I could function very well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in pretty much anywhere in America at this point, I could.
Speaker 1: I'm just right down the middle.
Speaker 2: I think there's a coffee table book, there's a toilet
Speaker 2: a toilet table book. There's an urban outfitters book in there.
Speaker 2: If you could just get comedians who are successful to
Speaker 2: give everybody gives like five journal entries from when they
Speaker 2: were in middle school or high school, and you just
Speaker 2: compile it and then I mean, you start with that
Speaker 2: quote right there, and you just had caught something extreme
Speaker 2: journaling our way to the middle. But I think people
Speaker 2: would read that. There was that came out ten god,
Speaker 2: maybe like fifteen years ago called The Things I've Learned
Speaker 2: from the Women Who Dump Me. I think that's what
Speaker 2: it was called. Of that book. It was all comics
Speaker 2: and they would write an essay about somebody who broke
Speaker 2: up with them and what happened the relationship itself, and
Speaker 2: what they learned from it. I always thought that was
Speaker 2: such a good idea for like a just pick it
Speaker 2: up and read a book.
Speaker 1: Oh it's a great idea. That's a fantastic idea.
Speaker 2: But yours is even more interesting because comedians are so
Speaker 2: everybody thinks they're dark and they're you know, they're come
Speaker 2: from a place of hurt and a lot do but
Speaker 2: a lot don't. They're just really sensitive people who are
Speaker 2: very aware.
Speaker 1: Yes, I agree one hundred percent with that. I think
Speaker 1: it's a very sense and that is why it's very
Speaker 1: It is funny to meet comedians now who are like
Speaker 1: somewhat edge lords that we know. Oh yeah, that are
Speaker 1: the like the majority, Like so many of them are
Speaker 1: like little puddle kitty cats emotionally in person, they're just like,
Speaker 1: how are you?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: I miss you so much? Man, I love your kids.
Speaker 1: They're so and you're just like, what is going on?
Speaker 1: You go on stage and you say horrible things? Horrible things?
Speaker 2: Yes, Megan Gaily are our good dear friend, and multiple
Speaker 2: guests and multiple time guests on the pod said to
Speaker 2: me recently over beer, she goes, the people who are
Speaker 2: the meanest on stage are the sweetest off stage, and
Speaker 2: the people who are the sweetest and most jovial on
Speaker 2: stage are often the meanest off stage. Yes, I would
Speaker 2: say that you maybe buck that trend, but your last
Speaker 2: special was a little edgier, so maybe you're you're finding
Speaker 2: that middle, that extreme middle.
Speaker 1: This episode is going to be called extreme Middles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the extreme middle. Welcome to the extreme.
Speaker 1: She is not wrong. I agree with that. How are you?
Speaker 1: What's going on with you?
Speaker 2: Palm? I'm great? Let me think if I have any
Speaker 2: cool and interesting updates, not extremely The one big update,
Speaker 2: well not even update, just a fun thing is for
Speaker 2: the first time in my adult life, my family's coming
Speaker 2: to me for the holiday for Christmas. I'm very excited
Speaker 2: to host, and I'm very excited to just not have
Speaker 2: to deal with holiday travel. Also, every year, you know,
Speaker 2: doing this show now for the last four years, it's
Speaker 2: like we get so many news stories and every year
Speaker 2: somebody sends some version of this. But every single holiday
Speaker 2: season they say record breaking travel, record breaking travelers say
Speaker 2: that how is this possible?
Speaker 1: How is it possible? They're like, they're also like the
Speaker 1: birth rate is down, record breaking travel. Who Who's who?
Speaker 1: Extra is traveling?
Speaker 2: Who? Let's get into some ghosty stuff. I like to
Speaker 2: talk ghosts. Our good friend Roz Hernandez loves to talk ghosts.
Speaker 1: So this was I found this online. It was just
Speaker 1: you know, the old Instagram algorithm send it to me.
Speaker 1: This dude, Jason K. Pargin online he did like just
Speaker 1: like a video about this, and then I found an
Speaker 1: article about it. And this is phantasmagoria the birth of
Speaker 1: the floating ghost. So this is specifically in you know,
Speaker 1: Mysterious Times, Scott, how often are you reading Mysterious Times.
Speaker 2: The real mystery is when I'm not reading there, it
Speaker 2: is I wake up put on my oculous rift scan
Speaker 2: until I get to mysterious times and then just zone
Speaker 2: out for sometimes weeks at a time. Uh.
Speaker 1: This was written by uh Kirs Mason de Raven. Oh yes, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm starting to question the validity of this story, but
Speaker 1: let's go for it. Kirsed Mason de Raven. Oh, man,
Speaker 1: it's d apostrophe Raven. It's a great name, kirst de Raven.
Speaker 1: So this is I'm getting some of these information. But
Speaker 1: here here, this is like the kind of sub it is.
Speaker 1: January seventeen ninety nine at TN Gaspard Robert we debuts
Speaker 1: his Phantasmagoria in a ruined abbey in Paris. Little does
Speaker 1: he know he is about to become the trendsetter of
Speaker 1: the way ghosts are poor trade. So this is totally fascinating.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so you know, like in the video that
Speaker 1: I originally saw, it's like an image of the ghosts
Speaker 1: from the opening scene of the original ghostbusterat scene right
Speaker 1: where she's floating in a library in the Library of Congress.
Speaker 1: And what he's explaining is basically like ghosts didn't look
Speaker 1: like this until the mid eighteen hundreds. Before this, ghosts
Speaker 1: were always depicted as being physical beings. They were never translucent,
Speaker 1: They were never floating that you could never put your
Speaker 1: hand through them. They were actual physical bodies that would
Speaker 1: like bump into you and like knock you over, or
Speaker 1: they would close a door. They would either be visible
Speaker 1: or they'd be physical bodies. And then now since like
Speaker 1: the mid eighteen hundreds, we now only see ghosts as
Speaker 1: this type.
Speaker 2: Of floating you know, yeah, it makes you wonder.
Speaker 1: And so it was, and it's really comes from technology.
Speaker 1: So there was this technological innovation in seventeen ninety nine
Speaker 1: called it was a projector that would project an image
Speaker 1: on a wall. And obviously the and the main thing
Speaker 1: that they would show with these images is like ghostly things.
Speaker 1: And since it always was on the wall, the image
Speaker 1: never went to the ground, it always appeared as if
Speaker 1: the image was floating. So and because it was like
Speaker 1: you know, seventeen ninety nine technology, the light was pretty
Speaker 1: diffuse and so it was very translucent. But people would
Speaker 1: come and get freaked out because it would just be
Speaker 1: like these pictures because you know, with photography, fee first off,
Speaker 1: it started off with the phantasmagoria and then once photography
Speaker 1: started really kicking in, you know, you had to stand
Speaker 1: still for so long, and that's why people never smiled
Speaker 1: and photographs back in the day, because you had to
Speaker 1: hold it for like eight minutes.
Speaker 2: And if you no toilets, they had no modern plumbing either.
Speaker 2: They were just staring dead down the barrel of that camp.
Speaker 2: They were going, They're.
Speaker 1: Going, I wish Instagram existed. Oh, but if you got
Speaker 1: up like two minutes into your photo session, you would
Speaker 1: leave this like translucent image behind and so then people
Speaker 1: would be you know, purposefully doing this, you know, dressed
Speaker 1: up in like kind of like crazy masks and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, and then people would be selling them as
Speaker 1: pictures of ghosts. Great, and just because of those two
Speaker 1: technological innovations, that is why we now only see ghosts
Speaker 1: the way we see ghosts, and that is even to
Speaker 1: the point where people are like, I saw a ghost,
Speaker 1: this is what it looked like, and then they just
Speaker 1: describe something that was invented in seventeen ninety nine, which
Speaker 1: is very very interesting.
Speaker 2: Yes, that is interesting because I think that obviously the
Speaker 2: human mind is a storytelling brain.
Speaker 1: It's our main thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the main thing is we try to make sense
Speaker 2: of the world through stories. And it's not surprising at
Speaker 2: all to me that when the suggestion was given to
Speaker 2: the masses, that that's what everybody pictures and everybody says
Speaker 2: they saw.
Speaker 1: And do you read Sapiens?
Speaker 2: I did read Sapiens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is if anybody is interested in a not
Speaker 1: a quick.
Speaker 2: Easy read. No, it's a dense read.
Speaker 1: But honestly, you don't have to actually read it. I'll
Speaker 1: just tell you what the whole thousand page book is about.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's just about.
Speaker 1: Everything in like the reason humans became what they are
Speaker 1: and our evolution evolutionary advantage was just our ability to
Speaker 1: tell stories. And if you think about it, every single
Speaker 1: thing in our world is a story that we have invented.
Speaker 1: From money to government, to love to science, everything is
Speaker 1: just America.
Speaker 2: Columbus, George Washington. I cannot tell a lie, the shootout
Speaker 2: of the Okay Corral never you know, all those things, Like,
Speaker 2: it's amazing how many stories that we all just assume
Speaker 2: are true.
Speaker 1: Most of history, most of history that we've been taught
Speaker 1: is just a story someone made up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if it rhymes, you're really really gonna kick. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're in. If you can make history that rhymes, you're
Speaker 2: gonna be like typic Canoe and Taylor two, you're in forever.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 2: Nobody does. Nobody does. I know. It must be weird
Speaker 2: for historians, true historians, to watch people just change history
Speaker 2: based on opinion and to be like, but that's not
Speaker 2: how it happened. And then you're like, well, you're just
Speaker 2: going to accept it because the majority says this is
Speaker 2: how it was. And then that story. I'm sure I
Speaker 2: told this. I was down at down at Laguna friend
Speaker 2: of mine, my friend Martha, was doing a play at
Speaker 2: the Laguna Playhouse. It's like a really nice theater down there,
Speaker 2: and it's one of those places where there's the older
Speaker 2: folks go, so like if you go on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Speaker 2: Sunday matinee, it's packed and people are going to go
Speaker 2: see And she was in what was the play? It
Speaker 2: was the Graduate. She was doing the Graduate, And so
Speaker 2: I thought I was going to hit nine hours of traffic,
Speaker 2: of course, because I had to travel upwards of forty
Speaker 2: miles in southern California, and instead I got there so
Speaker 2: fast that I was like, oh, i'll kill some time
Speaker 2: at a bar. And I go to this bar that's
Speaker 2: like on the cliffs above Laguna Beach, and it was
Speaker 2: who a bunch of older folks, and the bartender was
Speaker 2: really good sun shining and I'm having a cocktail or two.
Speaker 2: And this will date it a little bit too. This
Speaker 2: woman goes to the bartender, have you seen Game of
Speaker 2: Thrones yet? And the guy's like, no, no, no, I
Speaker 2: haven't seen that yet. Like I heard. It's crazy though.
Speaker 2: It's got like dragons and stuff and castles and like
Speaker 2: brothers and sisters having sex. And the woman goes, well,
Speaker 2: that's how it was back then, and then just high
Speaker 2: five to her friend and stumbled out of the bar.
Speaker 2: Just a historical recreation game of throws it was. That's
Speaker 2: just how it was back then. Just dragons and brothers
Speaker 2: and sisters.
Speaker 1: And a night that lasts one hundred years. That's how
Speaker 1: it was back then.
Speaker 2: There's a giant wall, it was the undead. That's just
Speaker 2: how it goes. And then just walks out like we
Speaker 2: all put up. She gives us a couple of high fives,
Speaker 2: just just a nice sixty year old, probably thrice divorced woman,
Speaker 2: just letting us know how.
Speaker 1: He's living her best life. And Laguna Beach going to
Speaker 1: a bar in the afternoon.
Speaker 2: Oh man, nothing else to do.
Speaker 1: Gorgeous.
Speaker 2: It is nothing else gorgeous.
Speaker 1: What a nice air. My sister lives in right next
Speaker 1: door to Laguna Beach, and it is. It's a delight.
Speaker 1: It's a delight down there.
Speaker 2: One of the best bars in southern California is called
Speaker 2: Turks and it's indanea Point and it's on the Marina.
Speaker 2: And I think the guy that owned it or started
Speaker 2: that bar was named Turk and I he was Hercules
Speaker 2: and a few movies in Hollywood and early Hollywood is
Speaker 2: like a strong guy, but like strong guys back then,
Speaker 2: they were strong, but they were kind of big and soft.
Speaker 2: Like now they're all the rock and all that. They
Speaker 2: all look like walnuts stuffed in stockings and it's different.
Speaker 2: And Turks is I went there the first time. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: and you'd love it. I don't know if you've been.
Speaker 2: But it's got like fit in the ceiling. It has
Speaker 2: fish tanks, so you look at fish.
Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna say fish dead. I was
Speaker 1: like classic, and then you said fish tanks. I was like,
Speaker 1: I gotta go.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then they have if you want to order food,
Speaker 2: they bring a whole chalkboard like sandwich board over your
Speaker 2: table and just lean it there with all the it's
Speaker 2: all written in chalk, and you're like, this is fun.
Speaker 2: And then the bartender just came over, you know, sixty
Speaker 2: five year old guy slides me a TUTSI roll before
Speaker 2: I order, then after I order it comes back, you know,
Speaker 2: slides me a little Snicker's bite and he just hands
Speaker 2: out little candy year round to the people. Why as
Speaker 2: you're getting drunk. It is the best Turks with a C.
Speaker 2: T U r C is one of the best bars
Speaker 2: in California.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna go next time. I'm down there.
Speaker 1: My god, that sounds awesome.
Speaker 2: And you've ever seen a ghost? Right when we talked
Speaker 2: to Rod? Yeah, I heard. I think I heard something
Speaker 2: talk to me once, But I've never seen a ghost. Nope.
Speaker 2: And I watched it so bad.
Speaker 1: I don't think I want to, but.
Speaker 2: I'm too eager.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're too eager. They're like, don't even bother. No,
Speaker 1: I've never ever ever I remember thinking I saw like
Speaker 1: UFO when I was like twelve, But it was just
Speaker 1: a dot in the sky, could have been at anything,
Speaker 1: you know, not at all, And.
Speaker 2: Why would you? I sure do Paris Calvakas sent this
Speaker 2: in what a great name. Paris Calvakas, thank you. Can
Speaker 2: always send your stories into the Bananas Podcast at gmaio
Speaker 2: or the Bananas Podcast on Instagram, hm or We have
Speaker 2: a website and I don't know, I think it links
Speaker 2: to everything bananaspodcast dot.
Speaker 1: Com made by Torimseth.
Speaker 2: Tory Hemseth worldwide wonderful. And we also have new merch.
Speaker 2: We never talked about merch on the show. We have
Speaker 2: new t shirts and we have new campus tote bags
Speaker 2: and all reports are the tote bags are awesome. So
Speaker 2: if you want to get your ban animal, bron Animal,
Speaker 2: bun Animal Scottie. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We have not announced whatever we do on the main
Speaker 1: On our main episode January twenty fifth, right in Los Angeles, California,
Speaker 1: since City, we are doing a live Bananas at the
Speaker 1: Bob Baker Marionette Theater.
Speaker 2: City of Lights. That's right, For those who don't know,
Speaker 2: this is a very famous theater where they have thousands
Speaker 2: of old school, vintage handmade marionettes and then they have
Speaker 2: these puppeteers that are absolutely incredible at operating them. So
Speaker 2: we're gonna do a live show and we're gonna probably
Speaker 2: have a great guest or too, I don't know. And
Speaker 2: we're gonna incorporate our strange news stories and our personal
Speaker 2: stories with these wonderful artists who are going to use
Speaker 2: marionettes that either. You know, if we tell a story
Speaker 2: about an alligator coming out of a toilet, we're gonna
Speaker 2: have an alligator marionette puppet slithering across the stage as
Speaker 2: we do it. It's gonna be fantastic.
Speaker 1: It's really gonna be cool. And this theater, if you've
Speaker 1: never been, they usually only do like children's performances. They did,
Speaker 1: and now they're opening it up for you know, after dark,
Speaker 1: and it is. It looks like a beautiful turn of
Speaker 1: the century circus theater. Everything is like red velvet. It
Speaker 1: is gorgeous. The performers, you know, they wear head to
Speaker 1: toe red as well, so they blend in with the
Speaker 1: back round while they're doing the marionetting.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: It's it's a real it's a truly amazing experience. This
Speaker 1: is gonna be crazy. This is gonna be the coolest
Speaker 1: show we've ever done.
Speaker 2: Easily, and so we welcome everybody. It will probably sell
Speaker 2: it really quick because it's a smaller theater. So if
Speaker 2: you're interested in You're in Southern California January twenty fifth
Speaker 2: as the Banana Boys and a bunch of Marionettes just
Speaker 2: having a delightfully nice evening in Eagle Rock, California.
Speaker 1: Then tickets should be up on our Instagram right right now.
Speaker 2: That sounds so fun. Okay, So Paris Calvakas sent this
Speaker 2: in Thank you, Paris, A bag of Cheetos created a
Speaker 2: huge impact on a national park.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was, Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great ap news written by the best in the
Speaker 2: friggin biz, Susan Best Montoya in the Brian biz, Susan
Speaker 2: Montoya Brian. It's nice to left the Montoya and there.
Speaker 2: Normally I don't like when people leave their middle name in.
Speaker 2: It seems like they're trying to be an important author.
Speaker 2: But Susan Brian, you've met a million Susan Bryan's Susan
Speaker 2: Montoya Brian.
Speaker 1: That's it. More specific, Yeah.
Speaker 2: She's got a secret Albuquerque, New Mexico. A bag of
Speaker 2: Cheetos got dropped and left on the floor. That seems inconsequential, right,
Speaker 2: hardly Rangers. I mean, I like that Susan's just having
Speaker 2: a conversation with herself at this point. That's the Montoya
Speaker 2: coming out. Rangers at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southern
Speaker 2: New Mexico described it as world changing for the tiny
Speaker 2: microbes and insects that call this specialized subterranean environment their home.
Speaker 2: The bag could have been there a day or two,
Speaker 2: or maybe just hours, but those salty morsels of processed
Speaker 2: corn made soft by thick humidity triggered the growth of
Speaker 2: mold on the cavern floor and on nearby cave formations.
Speaker 2: To the ecosystem of the cave had a huge impact.
Speaker 2: The park noted on social media, explaining that cave crickets,
Speaker 2: might spiders, flies all organized to eat and disperse the
Speaker 2: foreign mess, essentially spreading the contamination. Wow. One bag of cheetahs.
Speaker 1: One bag.
Speaker 2: The bright orange bag was spotted off trail by a
Speaker 2: ranger during one of the regular sweeps of the park
Speaker 2: that staff make through the Big Room. The Big Room
Speaker 2: is the largest single cave chamber by volume in North America,
Speaker 2: and they do a sweep at the end of each day.
Speaker 2: They are looking for straggling visitors or any litter or
Speaker 2: other waste that might have been left behind on the
Speaker 2: paved trail. The Big Room is a popular spot. Have
Speaker 2: you been the Carlsbeck caverns?
Speaker 1: I have not.
Speaker 2: I have not. This is a road trip. We have
Speaker 2: to do it. This seems how far away, is it?
Speaker 2: I mean, New Mexico's not that far. Yeah, right, seven
Speaker 2: or eight hours maybe. I mean we've never done a
Speaker 2: show in Santa Fe or Albuquerque too. We got to
Speaker 2: go out there.
Speaker 1: And Arizona as well. We need to do a Phoenix show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we need to do a Phoenix show where we
Speaker 2: fly in and fly out the same day. That seems
Speaker 2: so fun. Like's fly in, do the show, have dinner,
Speaker 2: have a couple of drinks with fans, and then fly
Speaker 2: out of there and be like back in home Jay
Speaker 2: Leno Bob Seger style. The Big Room is a popular
Speaker 2: spot a Carl's Bad caverns. It's a magical expanse filled
Speaker 2: with towering stalagmites and dainty stalactites and a cluster and
Speaker 2: clusters of cave popcorn. According to the National Park Service,
Speaker 2: more than three hundred million people visit the national parks
Speaker 2: each year. It is America's greatest accomplishment. Our National park
Speaker 2: system is the greatest thing America.
Speaker 1: Every day I agree.
Speaker 2: It's the only thing that we can be proud of anymore.
Speaker 2: Jazz jazz and the National Park Service.
Speaker 1: As based National Park Service.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all we've ever given to the world.
Speaker 1: That is it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and back to the Future. That's a pretty good movie.
Speaker 2: More than three hundred million visit our national park system
Speaker 2: each year, bringing in and generating seventy million tons of trash,
Speaker 2: disgusting animals.
Speaker 1: They bring in seventy million tons of trash every year, of.
Speaker 2: Course to do I mean, of course. I took my
Speaker 2: parents to the Grand Canyon when the government was shut
Speaker 2: down whenever. That was god six years ago, and the
Speaker 2: trash cans were overflowing because there was no federal funding
Speaker 2: so and there was also nobody working the gates. We
Speaker 2: just drove in and parked and then walked through the
Speaker 2: Grand Canyon. It was wild. And then I saw a
Speaker 2: guy taking a video of a tarantula on the walking
Speaker 2: path and it just paused and turned and he backed
Speaker 2: off so quickly. It was it was awesome to see
Speaker 2: a transler just make a grown man jump back.
Speaker 1: They will man, Because I ran into a Transla on
Speaker 1: the on the path in La and it was just
Speaker 1: like it was so many things went through my head,
Speaker 1: like can they jump? Can they jump? I don't know?
Speaker 1: And apparently they can't, like up to six feet seems cool.
Speaker 2: To me for it. So for the rest of the
Speaker 2: scarted snackbags and other debris, it often takes work to
Speaker 2: round up the wasst. Organizations like Leave No Trace have
Speaker 2: been pushing their message of trail heads online. That seems
Speaker 2: like an organization we should do something with. Do do so.
Speaker 2: As for the spilled cheetos, Ward told the Associated Press
Speaker 2: that it could have been avoided because the park doesn't
Speaker 2: allowed food beyond the confines of the historic underground lunch room.
Speaker 1: So like this, whoever's a historic underground lunch room.
Speaker 2: We gotta go to Carlsbeck caverns On. Come on, you
Speaker 2: know you've mentioned before wanting to quit the biz and
Speaker 2: become a ranger. Let me tell you what the rangers kit.
Speaker 2: So they do a sweep, they leave no trays, blah
Speaker 2: blah blah. Rangers have sweet packs and spill kits for
Speaker 2: the more delicate and sometimes nasty work that can include
Speaker 2: cleaning up human waste along the trail monsters. The rangers
Speaker 2: kit can include wlack gloves.
Speaker 1: Inside the the caverns.
Speaker 2: People just taking dumps on the side.
Speaker 1: Caverns inside a cavern. Just in national parks in general.
Speaker 2: I think national parks in general. Oh okay. The ranger's
Speaker 2: kit includes gloves, trash bags, water bleach mixtures for decontamination, vacuums,
Speaker 2: even bamboo, toothbrushes and tweezers for those hard to reach spots.
Speaker 2: After the bag was discovered in July, cave specialists at
Speaker 2: the parks settled on the best way to clean it up.
Speaker 2: Most of the mess was just scooped up and with
Speaker 2: a toothbrush. It was. A toothbrush was used to remove
Speaker 2: rings of mold and fungi that spread to nearby cave formations. It.
Speaker 2: This is the funniest detail. It was a twenty minute job.
Speaker 2: That's how this article ends. It was a twenty minute job.
Speaker 2: If it's a twenty minute job, I don't know if
Speaker 2: we article I thought took.
Speaker 1: One year to clean this because of it. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like as a twenty minute job with a toothbrush.
Speaker 2: You couldn't clean car in twenty minutes with a toothbrush.
Speaker 2: You clean like one good shoe. One of Shaquille O'Neill's
Speaker 2: shoes with in twenty minutes with a toothbrush. But yeah, man,
Speaker 2: isn't that crazy? That is crazy. I don't take God,
Speaker 2: And if you drop it, just tell somebody. Just if
Speaker 2: you make a mistake, You're not gonna get arrested today.
Speaker 1: I think I've talked about it on the podcast. But
Speaker 1: when we were driving cross country Lauren and I to
Speaker 1: move to Los Angeles, we stopped at a cave in
Speaker 1: Utah and the and when I moved to la I
Speaker 1: felt like hiking up a mountain is a very specific
Speaker 1: physical act and you and we lived in New York City,
Speaker 1: so we walked miles a day all the time, probably
Speaker 1: five or to ten miles a day, right, but it
Speaker 1: was all flat and walking uphill is a big difference.
Speaker 1: We got out of this car and the entrance to
Speaker 1: the cave was like on the side of a mountain.
Speaker 1: So we walked up a switchback. The switchback was paved, granted,
Speaker 1: but we're and we're huffing and puffing. You know, we're
Speaker 1: in fine shape. There are children like five years old
Speaker 1: running past us up this hill. We get there and
Speaker 1: I was just like, this is like another breed of child. Uh,
Speaker 1: And we get up there and we go into this
Speaker 1: cave and there was a I now understand it completely,
Speaker 1: but at the time it drove me crazy. But there
Speaker 1: was a child whose name was Kale, and Kal screamed
Speaker 1: in the cave from the moment we walked in to
Speaker 1: the moment we walked out. For one full hour, in
Speaker 1: every room he would scream to hear his voice echo,
Speaker 1: and the entire time was just his mom going, Kale, Kale,
Speaker 1: don't touch that, Kale, don't touch that. And it was
Speaker 1: and now it's me with Gus and Olive. It's now me, No, Olive,
Speaker 1: don't touch that, don't come here, Olive, Olive, get off that,
Speaker 1: Get off that. You know, Yeah, but that's okay, that's
Speaker 1: it's it's what you become.
Speaker 2: You became, I'm more empathetic you.
Speaker 1: I'm more empathetic now. Yeah, Cale, probably a fine kid.
Speaker 2: You know, before you and all my other friends had children,
Speaker 2: when kids would scream on a plane, I and cry,
Speaker 2: especially for overnights. And I still am like, just flight
Speaker 2: during the day. I know, you just fly during the day,
Speaker 2: just spare the adults. But now I am nicer about
Speaker 2: it too, because all my friends have kids, and I've
Speaker 2: met all my friends kids, and I'm like, they don't.
Speaker 2: Nobody's happy about this. They're not happy there kids. Nobody's
Speaker 2: happy that this child is screaming and crying the entire flight.
Speaker 1: When I see a child, this is something I cannot abide.
Speaker 1: When I see a child in first class, a child
Speaker 1: that has its own seat in first class, I'm like, what, no,
Speaker 1: what the what is wrong with you?
Speaker 2: Dare you right?
Speaker 1: Parents? A, You're spoiling travel for that child for the
Speaker 1: rest of their life. Yeah, And B everyone who's paid
Speaker 1: so much money to sit in first class to have
Speaker 1: like a nice experience now has a child there.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. Yeah, it is. You've given your child nowhere
Speaker 2: to grow. You've said your child, you need no ambition.
Speaker 2: You've already reached the top of the mountain, so just
Speaker 2: float and complain for the rest of your life. Have
Speaker 2: you ever been to Arawan?
Speaker 1: I have?
Speaker 2: It is Have you ever bought anything there?
Speaker 1: I have?
Speaker 2: Yes, I have. See I've been twice because they opened
Speaker 2: one silver Lake when I was living in Acro Park
Speaker 2: and everyone's like, have you been? And I was like, no,
Speaker 2: I have not been. And then they had a jar
Speaker 2: of pasta sauce or spaghetti sauce and it was a
Speaker 2: small jar. I would say it was twelve ounces, and
Speaker 2: it was like twenty nine dollars or something. And I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: I got it. But I was recently having drinks with
Speaker 2: a laid off producer friend of mine and she's like,
Speaker 2: I really got to get work good, I gotta get work.
Speaker 2: I got it, Like, you know, it's really tough out there.
Speaker 2: Nobody's hiring. I'll work in development, I'll do anything. And
Speaker 2: then I made a joke about Sabrina Carpenter has or
Speaker 2: had a smoothie airwon that was twenty three dollars or
Speaker 2: twenty six dollars one smoothie. Yes, I know, the Haley
Speaker 2: Bieber One's very popular. That one's still on the menu,
Speaker 2: and I think it's still one of the best sellers.
Speaker 2: That's also over twenty dollars. Yeah, And she's like, oh,
Speaker 2: I know, I drink one every day. I was like no.
Speaker 2: I was like, then, I can't help you. You are
Speaker 2: a child sitting in first class. If you're complaining about
Speaker 2: being unemployed and you're drinking a almost thirty dollars smoothie,
Speaker 2: I can't help you. We're not the same species. We're
Speaker 2: not the same. You are a bag of Cheetos on
Speaker 2: the cave of life, because there's there's just simply no way.
Speaker 2: No have you been. There's a place called Superba. It's
Speaker 2: a really great restaurant in LA and it's like, oh
Speaker 2: they have this chicken there that Oh yeah, we took
Speaker 2: Lisa Maggot there for lunch. They have one of the
Speaker 2: it's the most delicious chicken you can ever get in
Speaker 2: a restaurant. It's crazy good. And I was like, maybe
Speaker 2: I'll just do that for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Yeah, get that chicken.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so rotisseri sized chicken their version. How much do
Speaker 2: you think that one chicken is one rotistic chicken from Superba?
Speaker 2: I mean for Thanksgiving? I should say here's what.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say. I think it should be. I'm
Speaker 1: not even gonna go crazy.
Speaker 2: Don't even entertain the notion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's a fancy restaurant.
Speaker 2: It's a fancy restaurant.
Speaker 1: Wrote one chicken, one rotisserie chicken. And if you're taking
Speaker 1: grocery store rotisserie chicken delicious, I'm clocking in maybe eight
Speaker 1: to ten dollars, right, So I'm going to say, let's
Speaker 1: triple it. Let's say thirty.
Speaker 2: Dollars, two hundred dollars, two hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Are you talking it had to come with sides?
Speaker 2: Zero sides?
Speaker 1: No, that's impossible.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: Gold wrapped?
Speaker 2: It's gold wrapped, platinum up the wazoo. I mean, if
Speaker 2: you google Superba Whole Chicken Thanksgiving, it is two hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: I was like, you know how many chickens I could
Speaker 2: raise for two? No, because the sides are side of
Speaker 2: mashed potatoes is like thirty eight dollars. And I was like,
Speaker 2: there's simply no way that I always do this because
Speaker 2: I think chicken tastes better than turkey, so I usually
Speaker 2: I agree everybody agrees everybody, if everybody's if anybody's out
Speaker 2: there just craving turkey, I can't even imagine that. God,
Speaker 2: I can't wait to get into that turkey. Yeah, you're
Speaker 2: looking it up. I'm not kidding, and it like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, staggered, Oh.
Speaker 1: My god, yeah, my god, it's thirteen Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's one hundred and ninety five dollars for a thirteen
Speaker 1: to fifteen pound turky. Oh that's the turkey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the chicken isn't even that is preposterous.
Speaker 1: One hundred dollars. Also, it's gonna get to your house
Speaker 1: not hot. No, you're paying two hundred dollars for a
Speaker 1: lukewarm to cold bird.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. When I saw that, I kept reading it
Speaker 2: because I'm like, oh, this must be like if you
Speaker 2: host your family at the restaurant like that, you can
Speaker 2: feed the whole family for two hundred dollars. I'm like,
Speaker 2: that's a pretty good bargain.
Speaker 1: No, that is legitimately the restaurant being like, we don't
Speaker 1: want to work on Thanksgiving. Yes, here if you need it,
Speaker 1: here's the r price.
Speaker 2: I mean people are paying it is it that the
Speaker 2: most preposterous also, so of course I ran the numbers
Speaker 2: because this is what we do. We're an educational podcast. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: so a chick like to buy a baby chicken is
Speaker 2: three to five dollars per chick. So that means for
Speaker 2: the cost of one chicken at Superba, you can get
Speaker 2: forty pet chickens. I could be raising I'll say thirty.
Speaker 1: Great questions, Scott, Yeah, what the like? How old is
Speaker 1: a chicken when it's made? And made?
Speaker 2: No one knows, No one knows.
Speaker 1: Let's say let's say it's a two year old chicken.
Speaker 1: Let's say that. I have no idea if that's right, Sure,
Speaker 1: how much grain does a chicken eat over the course
Speaker 1: of two years. It might actually be two hundred dollars
Speaker 1: worth of bread. This might actually be the real cost.
Speaker 2: KFC would be a business if a bucket of chicken
Speaker 2: would be like six thousand dollars. But we'll never know.
Speaker 2: Nobody knows these answers, and we'll never know these answers. Nobody,
Speaker 2: We just will never know this.
Speaker 1: This is the true cost of this chicken's life.
Speaker 2: No, I think a chicken is like a year old,
Speaker 2: and then yeah, it's but yeah, I was it's very
Speaker 2: rare that I'm like flabbergasted or gobsmack. And I saw
Speaker 2: that price and I was like, there's just no way,
Speaker 2: There's no way. So if I got if I had
Speaker 2: four people over with that and got four Airwon shakes,
Speaker 2: we're talking three hundred dollars with no sides, just me,
Speaker 2: three Sabrina carpenters, and a two hundred dollars retisserie chicken.
Speaker 2: That's a holiday.
Speaker 1: Here's a here's ones for you, buddy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, I'll tease.
Speaker 1: This into a into a thump some thumbs.
Speaker 2: Ups something hackers.
Speaker 1: Hackers demand France's Schneider Electric pay a one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty thousand dollars ransom in baguettes. Ooh, hackers are out
Speaker 1: here just doing fucking crazy shit.
Speaker 2: My kind of hackers. Tricia McKenna is double thumbing herself
Speaker 2: up for opening her ancestry DNA results and meeting her
Speaker 2: biological father for the first time.
Speaker 1: Congratulations, He's not a.
Speaker 2: Trash dad, and I'm looking forward to building a relationship
Speaker 2: with him. So I followed up with her because I've
Speaker 2: been thinking about this one. I was like, let us
Speaker 2: know how it goes. And then I hear from her
Speaker 2: and she met him in September. They met a second
Speaker 2: time in October. They're texting. It's all going great, and
Speaker 2: I think the next time they're gonna meet, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be with her husband. So congratulations to Chrisia and her dad.
Speaker 2: And if there's kindness in there and there's curiosity, we
Speaker 2: wish you to the master building relationship. That's very nice.
Speaker 2: Musician Jesse Haynes wants to thumb up her super supportive
Speaker 2: Barroom Girls, which I guess is the name of the
Speaker 2: band I'm guessing Aaron and Trina they're getting thumbed way
Speaker 2: up because they covered all of Jesse's gigs and showered
Speaker 2: her with encouragement when she was diagnosed with soriatic arthritis
Speaker 2: and couldn't play for a month. And Jesse wants to
Speaker 2: say to you and me, curty b, thanks for promoting
Speaker 2: a live and let live lifestyle.
Speaker 1: Oh thumbs up to hear about that time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it sounds like she can play against Oh.
Speaker 2: Maybe there's a good Maybe she's figured out a way
Speaker 2: to live with it. Sarah A. Bukawitz, I think that's right.
Speaker 2: Sorry Sarah if I butchered your last name. Sarah Sarah
Speaker 2: Abukawitz or a witch is thumbing herself up. She has
Speaker 2: terrible PSD while driving or even being in a car
Speaker 2: after she was in a car accident where she lost
Speaker 2: a pinky and then Sarah, gonna have to forgive me
Speaker 2: your DM was a little I think there's an autocrack
Speaker 2: and possibly a hand. She I think she lost at
Speaker 2: least a pinky, but maybe also a hand. After working
Speaker 2: in the restaurant is for over twenty years after COVID,
Speaker 2: she decided to switch careers and started Kurt driving for FedEx.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 2: She said she was scared shitless but went for it. Anyways.
Speaker 2: It's been over two years and her PTSD is much
Speaker 2: much better.
Speaker 1: Awesome thumbs up. Thumbs up to Sarah.
Speaker 2: Oh Buka Witch for taking a chance and sounds like
Speaker 2: having a great career change.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Nice work, facing your fears. Not easy to do.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And last but not LEAs will do. We'll do a
Speaker 2: happy one. Here's a good one. Will Oh. Will Oh
Speaker 2: is thumbing himself up and banana boy number two me
Speaker 2: for being dancing fools at weddings. Will went to a
Speaker 2: wedding where he didn't know anyone, and he got through
Speaker 2: the ceremony and cocktail hour without really talking to anybody.
Speaker 2: But when it came time to boogie down, he stole
Speaker 2: the show. He says. I had a line of people
Speaker 2: telling me I stole the dance floor. And I kept
Speaker 2: thinking about Scottie stories about dancing at all weddings even
Speaker 2: when people don't know him and pretending they aren't watching,
Speaker 2: And damn it, it worked. I'm gonna do this forever.
Speaker 2: And I got to meet a bunch of people who
Speaker 2: I otherwise would never have met. I even made friends
Speaker 2: with an old lady who ran the event center and
Speaker 2: gave me a tour and said my dancing made her night.
Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Thumbs up, Will and to anybody who's not afraid to
Speaker 2: look like a jackass on the dance floor. If you
Speaker 2: go with he went with his wife. I believe if
Speaker 2: you go with a date, boy, you have no excuse
Speaker 2: but to get out there and be a buffoon. If
Speaker 2: you're trying to meet people, I understand you're trying to
Speaker 2: look cool. Yeah, but if you're going with friends or
Speaker 2: you're going with a date, get out there.
Speaker 1: Also, going and dancing is a great way to meet people.
Speaker 1: It is, and people there are certain people who could
Speaker 1: be judgyn't want to be friends with those people.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: The right people are going to appreciate the vulnerability and
Speaker 1: the hootspa to get out there and the confidence. Really,
Speaker 1: that is what people want, you know, that is what
Speaker 1: people want in a romantic partners. They want confidence.
Speaker 2: I think so too. I mean, God, it to me,
Speaker 2: it's like it's permission to move around and have fun.
Speaker 2: And what I mean, what else are we doing it?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the.
Speaker 2: Reason we're on earth, move around and have fun.
Speaker 1: I definitely think I had a moment. I had a
Speaker 1: moment where I stopped dancing.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: I do feel that that happened because I used to
Speaker 1: go dancing a lot, like in my twenties.
Speaker 2: It was fine.
Speaker 1: We would go dancing. We would go to warehouse parties
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn and and it was just back when it
Speaker 1: was just like this is an abandoned warehouse and we
Speaker 1: would dance all night long, and we would do it often.
Speaker 1: And then at a certain point I think I like
Speaker 1: someone made fun of me, or I saw like a
Speaker 1: video of myself or something like that, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: because I'm so big, I'm a very tall, big guy.
Speaker 1: There's no there's when you look out on a dance floor,
Speaker 1: you see me first, no matter what I'm doing, And
Speaker 1: so you just really do have to just go, you know,
Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna get out there more often.
Speaker 2: You should. Yeah, nobody cares, man. I mean, like you said,
Speaker 2: it's like the people who judge you and stand on
Speaker 2: the sides and they're like, who is that? What are
Speaker 2: they doing? Oh my god, they look so dumb. That
Speaker 2: person's life is hell, it's miserable. Yes, they are terrified of.
Speaker 1: Terrified any tings.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, they and you don't have to be good. Also,
Speaker 2: you dance in the air, you don't dance on the ground.
Speaker 2: I think people are feel like you're you don't know
Speaker 2: what to do with your feet and stuff. It's like,
Speaker 2: it's okay, you're dancing in the air. Your feet are
Speaker 2: just gonna make sure you don't fall over. It's also,
Speaker 2: there hasn't been a single time who I've started dancing
Speaker 2: in a wedding and it's an empty dance floor that
Speaker 2: someone isn't like, thank god and joins me right away.
Speaker 2: One time, like I said, and Covington, Kentucky, it was
Speaker 2: a boy with down syndrome. He and I dancing in
Speaker 2: front of a gigantic band in front of one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty people that I had no idea except my
Speaker 2: date who they were. And then one song later all
Speaker 2: these women joined and then pretty soon everybody was dancing.
Speaker 2: It's just sort of like poking a hole in the
Speaker 2: dam and the water's starts coming out and suddenly the
Speaker 2: whole thing and then everybody's like thanks, yeah, thank you,
Speaker 2: And then you go to the bar and then you
Speaker 2: say what's up. That's so fun and say.
Speaker 1: And that is the same thing I think with a
Speaker 1: comedy show too. If you're in the audience of a
Speaker 1: comedy show, there is in the beginning of a comedy show,
Speaker 1: people are nervous to laugh, people are nervous to make
Speaker 1: a noise in that space. Yeah, and then if you
Speaker 1: can be a person who laughs, then everybody starts getting up.
Speaker 1: And then like midway through the show, you'll just notice
Speaker 1: everybody's laughing and everyone is forgotten about their own self consciousness,
Speaker 1: which is I think the reason you go to see
Speaker 1: a comedy show. You want to forget, like to constantly
Speaker 1: be thinking about yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's why the darkest comedy rooms are the
Speaker 2: best comedy rooms. Like when those house lights are black,
Speaker 2: it's like everybody's like, yes, I can hide and laugh
Speaker 2: as loud as I want.
Speaker 1: And that is why I don't do crowd work. That
Speaker 1: is why I don't talk to the audience.
Speaker 2: You know, I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: I like I when I go to a show. I
Speaker 1: like the fact that I am in a blanket of
Speaker 1: dark anonymity. I like blending into the crowd and just
Speaker 1: being a person, you know, a identity less mass. I
Speaker 1: like that you don't have to do anything to turn
Speaker 1: it around and to make the audience perform. Is like,
Speaker 1: it's one of the worst. It's not one of the worst.
Speaker 1: I was about to say.
Speaker 2: It's one of the words right now. I was about to.
Speaker 1: Say it was one of the worst things social media
Speaker 1: has done, and that is not true. There's ten thousand
Speaker 1: worst things social media has done. But it is an
Speaker 1: unfortunate result of social media.
Speaker 2: It is I know all the clips of people just
Speaker 2: doing crowdworth, it's like it's all the same. It's all
Speaker 2: and if you see one comic twice, they sort of
Speaker 2: have the same can jokes, like there's stuff yeah. And
Speaker 2: I have a one friend who I won't name, who's
Speaker 2: so good at it. Then he's like a touring club comic.
Speaker 2: He's so good at that. I enjoy when he does it.
Speaker 2: But it's because he's not a mean spirited guy. He
Speaker 2: doesn't just immediately start insulting people. Right. But if you
Speaker 2: come to the Banana live shows, we never ever call
Speaker 2: in the audience. We cheer you on. When you're getting
Speaker 2: up to leave, we're like, we understand, all right, all right,
Speaker 2: I'll send us home. Oh good choice.
Speaker 1: Oh well, hackers demand Francis Schneider twenty five ransom.
Speaker 2: This was in UH to send us home?
Speaker 1: Yeah, this was in Tom's Hardware dot com.
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 1: Where am I going to get these news stories?
Speaker 2: Also? Did we say happy birthday to Mauricio? I think
Speaker 2: we did right before he came out to hot tub.
Speaker 1: I said it in at hot tub. But you know what,
Speaker 1: Happy birthday to cop copy paste.
Speaker 2: He brought us. I ate a cupcake, I bought him
Speaker 2: a shot. It was great to see him.
Speaker 1: This was written by Mark Tyson. Great name, great name
Speaker 1: for Tom's Hardware dot Com. In the business, hackers demand
Speaker 1: French's Francis Schneider Electric pay one hundred twenty five k
Speaker 1: ransom in baguettes. Hungry hackers have demanded the France It's
Speaker 1: to Schneideralactic pai one hundred twenty five thousand dollars ransom
Speaker 1: in bag gets. Bleeping Computers report. Bleeping Computers report indicates
Speaker 1: that a hacker group may have stolen forty gigs of
Speaker 1: data from the major French energy management and automation engineering
Speaker 1: group after successfully penetrating the firm's Jira system. Greppi is
Speaker 1: thought to have or had connections with the Hellcat ransomware gang.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: I love all the names.
Speaker 2: Yep, they don't care, just say words domes hardware.
Speaker 1: The above tweet taunted Schneider about the purported success of
Speaker 1: a recent cyber attack, and a follow up post and
Speaker 1: thread reveals an example chunk of data. However, fuller details
Speaker 1: about the purported nature and scale the data hall, as
Speaker 1: well as the Boulangerie product demands, were published on the
Speaker 1: dark web. If the ransom demands aren't fulfilled, the thread
Speaker 1: is that sensitive data, including information about company, project staff
Speaker 1: and user data, will be spilled. According to the hackers,
Speaker 1: the stolen info includes.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah, blah, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: However, the hackers indicated that should Schneider publicly admit to
Speaker 1: the latest data breach, the ransom would be cut in half.
Speaker 1: Thus the ransom demanded would have decrease to sixty two
Speaker 1: thousand and five hundred dollars worth of bagettes. We would presume,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're just doing it for no reason. No
Speaker 1: one can eat that many baggettes before they go bad.
Speaker 1: That's the craziest part.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: I know it is as oft the time of writing.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mark, Tyson. It is difficult to know exactly
Speaker 1: where Schneider has whether such Schneider has satisfied the ransom
Speaker 1: admission clause. Bleeping computers, blah blah blah. That's Mark Tyson.
Speaker 1: Give us one headline to send us home. So we
Speaker 1: have covered four stories today.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me see. Oh, this is a good headline.
Speaker 2: This is a fun one. Bride'smaid finds out that bride
Speaker 2: had a last minute change of groom on her wedding morning.
Speaker 1: Wait what bride'smaid finds out that the bride has a
Speaker 1: last minute change of groom.
Speaker 2: On the wedding morning. To brides dot com by Sarah Schreiber,
Speaker 2: Fabian send it in. I mean, do we want to
Speaker 2: save it for the next one?
Speaker 1: Save it for next one? Savor the next one. We
Speaker 1: got to start with this one. I want to know.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll save it for the next one. I think
Speaker 2: we have a guess coming on the end of the week.
Speaker 2: That'll be so fun. I will say, I love one baguette.
Speaker 2: One baguette is so much bread. Yes, it's fun to
Speaker 2: share with a friend or a few friends.
Speaker 1: It is a race against time to finish a bagette
Speaker 1: because you buy it in the morning. By midnight that night,
Speaker 1: it's not great.
Speaker 2: It's not as good.
Speaker 1: It's not as good. You are racing to shovel. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Is it a yard of bread into your throat.
Speaker 2: When I was on Tahiti, they love baguettes. You. It's
Speaker 2: because it's French Polynesia, those French bakeries and boulie and
Speaker 2: patiseries ever. And it's very, very common to see on
Speaker 2: all the little to Houshon Islands people riding bikes and
Speaker 2: scooters and mopeds with several baguettes in a paper bag,
Speaker 2: and I would get one. We would drive around and
Speaker 2: at night that while the crabs are crossing the road,
Speaker 2: we would rip chunks off and throw them to dogs,
Speaker 2: because they have like wild dogs all over the place.
Speaker 2: And the dogs went, they couldn't be happier. They were
Speaker 2: getting chunks of bread. And it was like, as to
Speaker 2: your point, it's like we couldn't finish the whole thing.
Speaker 2: I'm not sitting there eating a whole bagette, and so
Speaker 2: we'd rip it in half and throw chunks to wild
Speaker 2: dogs who would be like, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: You mentioned some words there. And it reminded me of
Speaker 1: when I lived in Baltimore. I lived a roommate named Hank.
Speaker 1: Hank was in a punk band with this dude named Doug.
Speaker 1: Doug was a graduate student in English, I believe, but
Speaker 1: he was a He was a He was a petite
Speaker 1: man who who was very socially awkward but loved punk
Speaker 1: rock music. And and he would just come over every
Speaker 1: morning every Sunday morning amazing, like nine or ten am.
Speaker 1: He would come into our He would just walk like
Speaker 1: waddle into our our backyard and then call up to
Speaker 1: Hank's window, it is time to go to the petits, Sally, Hank,
Speaker 1: we are going to the pettisse And then Hank would
Speaker 1: like grumble and like come down all hungover, and he'd
Speaker 1: be like, let's go and he and then and then
Speaker 1: Doug would be like, we are on our way to
Speaker 1: the Pettissali. And then they would just go to Safeway.
Speaker 2: Oh that's even better. That's so Baltimore. It's so Baltimore.
Speaker 1: They would go to they would go to Safeway and
Speaker 1: they would get like bread at the at the bakery
Speaker 1: and Safeway fantastic.
Speaker 2: That is the petit, the Sunday morning pets.
Speaker 1: That's the Baltimore potential.
Speaker 2: North Baltimore Safeway. God, that's so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah on Charles on Charles Street.
Speaker 2: Yeah, be as silly as you can, bananamals. As the
Speaker 2: world gets weirder and worse, you just gotta get sillier
Speaker 2: and nicer. And that's all there is to it. Thanks
Speaker 2: Kurtie b.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Scotty Buh. Bananas Sing.
Speaker 2: Bananas is an exactly right media production.
Speaker 1: Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.
Speaker 2: The catchy Bananas theme song was composed and performed by Kahon.
Speaker 1: Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.
Speaker 2: And our benevolent overlords are the great Karen Kilgareff and
Speaker 2: Georgia Hartstart
Speaker 1: And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot
Speaker 1: intern