Speaker 1: Scott you ready, Oh, I'm reading a love and Love
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Speaker 2: Meet the South American fox wolf with stilt legs and
Speaker 2: urine that smells exactly like marijuana.
Speaker 1: I would love to I want to party with that
Speaker 1: guy because he sounds like he's got a lot to
Speaker 1: offer and he's going places. Let's find out more about
Speaker 1: our cated friends on this very animalistic episode of Bananas.
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Speaker 2: Banana guys, gals, non binary pals. Welcome to Bananas. I
Speaker 2: am Kerk Brown older.
Speaker 1: I am Banana boy number or to Scotty landis. Thank
Speaker 1: you sincerely for listening and supporting the silliest little podcast
Speaker 1: there ever was.
Speaker 2: Oh well, Scottie, I am currently in a crawl space.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I see that.
Speaker 2: In a crawl space in a garage in Scent on
Speaker 2: the central coast of California. Good place to be, yeah,
Speaker 2: a good place to be. We're not in Los Angeles
Speaker 2: right now, Thortfully. Our house is okay, and we're just
Speaker 2: up here sitting it out because we got a little
Speaker 2: guy with sensitive lungs.
Speaker 1: Well, I can understand why because the air here is
Speaker 1: not good. Thank you to everybody. The wildfires were as
Speaker 1: bad as they look. They decimated several huge parts of
Speaker 1: the city, and I personally have at least six friends
Speaker 1: that lost their homes and everything in Alta, Dina and
Speaker 1: the I have friends the Palisades, so I haven't heard from.
Speaker 1: I know they're alive, so but they are They lost
Speaker 1: everything too, So it really was awful. It was terrible
Speaker 1: and bizarre and scary.
Speaker 2: I saw something about whenever people ask about things that
Speaker 2: happened in California, you know, if there's an earthquake or something,
Speaker 2: if there's a mud slide, people always reach out to
Speaker 2: like are you okay, And it's always not as bad
Speaker 2: as it seems on the news. And this was a
Speaker 2: tweet from somebody I think it was maybe Adam McKay
Speaker 2: who then said, but this time it was way worse
Speaker 2: than people understood.
Speaker 1: I agree it was insane. I agree that was crazy,
Speaker 1: but you and I both had to evacuate. We got
Speaker 1: all we got all our people pets out of there,
Speaker 1: and it was thankfully you and I dodged. It was
Speaker 1: just luck of the draw that our houses didn't burn down.
Speaker 1: I was explaining it to friends that the way the
Speaker 1: fires were popping up when the was at its strongest,
Speaker 1: like we're talking like.
Speaker 2: Eighty miles an hour, like trees are bending over.
Speaker 1: It was when I go to a bar. Some places
Speaker 1: call them a pub, some call them a tavern, a
Speaker 1: social house. I if I'm playing darts, I can guarantee
Speaker 1: you can.
Speaker 2: Call them tips. Some call them little missiles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, danger badminton, danger birdies as some people call them
Speaker 1: danger birdies. But the point is I know I'm going
Speaker 1: to hit that dart board every single time, doesn't matter
Speaker 1: how drunk I am.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: What I don't know is where that dart is going. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no idea if it's going to hit a one or
Speaker 1: a twenty or an eleven or a bull's eye. I
Speaker 1: do not. And that's what the fire map felt like.
Speaker 1: When we were auch on. We got to give it up. Also,
Speaker 1: I mean, has any app ever stepped up harder than
Speaker 1: maybe Zoom during the pandemic.
Speaker 2: Watch them, Watch Duty, Watch Duty. It was six thirty
Speaker 2: of the morning on Tuesday, and it was like Watch
Speaker 2: Duty was the or no Wednesday. I guess we left
Speaker 2: on Wednesday. Yeah, but like six thirty in the morning,
Speaker 2: Laurd's talking about watching it. I'm like, I've never heard,
Speaker 2: what are you talking about. It's six thirty the morning.
Speaker 2: You're giving me a new app to deal with right away?
Speaker 1: Oh exactly, and also great app. I think it's a
Speaker 1: nonprofit and it saved so many lives. It's an incredible app.
Speaker 1: And also thanks to the dozens of friends and family
Speaker 1: who don't live in California who also discovered the Watch
Speaker 1: Study app, who not only told me about it, but
Speaker 1: we're also sending me updates from so far away to
Speaker 1: make sure I was safe. So many ban animals reach
Speaker 1: out from around the world ask if Kurt and I
Speaker 1: were okay. We, like I said, we both evacuated. We're
Speaker 1: lucky our homes are not destroyed. Everybody, there's been a
Speaker 1: huge outporting of support, which is lovely because you can
Speaker 1: either stay heartbroken and feel terrible, or you can feel
Speaker 1: excited to contribute and do something in your own way
Speaker 1: and to support. If you can't support Elie wildfires, you
Speaker 1: could do something in your own community, town, or house,
Speaker 1: and so turn your frown's upside down and get it
Speaker 1: excited about how you can participate and make things better.
Speaker 1: The people out here I try to volunteer two places,
Speaker 1: and they were like, we're good on volunteers at the moment,
Speaker 1: and we don't. We're not accepting any other donations because
Speaker 1: we're overwhelmed with clothing, groceries, water. It's pretty amazing that
Speaker 1: in this hellscape that happened so quickly, how fast, so
Speaker 1: many people stepped up to do the right thing.
Speaker 2: It was really amazing. And you know what I was
Speaker 2: thinking about that, I think the sweet spot is going
Speaker 2: to be in two weeks because after like people start
Speaker 2: getting back to normal life, then there all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: they're working again. You know. Like that's when I think
Speaker 2: that I'm going to go and volunteer as soon as
Speaker 2: I get yeah, because.
Speaker 1: They'll be happy to do it. I'm going to go
Speaker 1: do some clean up. Oh my gosh, I yes. But anyways,
Speaker 1: thank you to everybody who support and also Kurtibe and
Speaker 1: I did a go fundme. We're gonna leave it up
Speaker 1: till the end of January. It's a bad hand bananas
Speaker 1: and basically donate whatever you want. Or you can draw
Speaker 1: a banana with your non dominant hand and you get
Speaker 1: your friends to give you three dollars to show it
Speaker 1: to them and then throw it in there. We're already
Speaker 1: up to forty two hundred dollars. It all it's for
Speaker 1: it all goes directly to victims and firefighters, and it's
Speaker 1: it's a big deal. All that money. People are gonna
Speaker 1: need money in a big way because they lost it all.
Speaker 2: They lost everything, I really did. One of my children's
Speaker 2: teachers lost her home and so like that's gonna be,
Speaker 2: you know, an entire thing for the whole rest of
Speaker 2: the year. You know, we don't a lot of money
Speaker 2: so that she can hopefully get some sort of transitional
Speaker 2: housing going. But her you know, her husband has Parkinson's
Speaker 2: and it's just you know, she's an older woman to
Speaker 2: be teaching for thirty five years. I mean, these stories
Speaker 2: are like over and over and over and over and again.
Speaker 2: So if you can go. A lot of people are
Speaker 2: hosting gofundmes that have not been met yet, especially Megan
Speaker 2: Gaily and Chris Garcia. They're both featuring people that they
Speaker 2: know specifically in Alta Dina. Check out their Instagram accounts,
Speaker 2: and it's really helpful if you want to just go
Speaker 2: do something right now.
Speaker 1: That is such a good point. And even if you
Speaker 1: don't know what to do in your town. We have
Speaker 1: a Bananimals group for the American Red Cross for blood
Speaker 1: drives or plately drives. It's pretty incredible. We are currently
Speaker 1: ranked three hundred and twenty eighth in the United States.
Speaker 1: We are above Creighton University. We're above JP Morgan Chase.
Speaker 1: That's not surprising, that's surprising.
Speaker 2: That's of course we are.
Speaker 1: This one might blow your socks off, Kurt. We are
Speaker 1: ranked higher than Hubbs corn Maze, so the good people,
Speaker 1: but hubs are getting hubs corn Maze. I don't know
Speaker 1: what that is, but we are behind Emory University. So
Speaker 1: please sign up on the app for Bananimals and donate
Speaker 1: blood in the next three weeks and will consider it
Speaker 1: a win for LA wildfires.
Speaker 2: I've always been thinking, is there a way to gamify
Speaker 2: blood donation? And thank god the American Red Cross figured
Speaker 2: it out. Yes they did, putting people in competition to
Speaker 2: see who could donate the more blood.
Speaker 1: Kurt. We're three hundred and twenty eighth out of sixty
Speaker 1: nine thousand teams.
Speaker 2: My god, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: So we are called the Banannimals. Sign up for the app,
Speaker 1: go donate blood. That's something you can do in your
Speaker 1: own time and your own and your own town. But
Speaker 1: thank you for everybody reaching out and donating, but also
Speaker 1: just thanks for turning to us also when you get
Speaker 1: stressed out, because it's a relief for us to entertain you.
Speaker 1: So thanks to all the ban animals everywhere. We are fine,
Speaker 1: We are safe. We got lucky.
Speaker 2: People say a lot like, thank you guys so much
Speaker 2: for doing this because it gives me a place to
Speaker 2: go to listen to something that releases their tension. But guys,
Speaker 2: we thank you. You know what I mean, Like we don't.
Speaker 2: This This is, this is This podcast is a pure
Speaker 2: joy to do and I really look forward to, especially
Speaker 2: right now when I can get one hour.
Speaker 3: I have been with my children not stop for five
Speaker 3: fucking weeks.
Speaker 2: It is there is a point at which too much
Speaker 2: of a good thing is a terrible, terrible thing. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: I am so happy they're safe, and I should shut
Speaker 2: the fuck up that they're safe. Everything is okay. But
Speaker 2: it has been a very very long time with nowhere
Speaker 2: to put them other than just right in front of me.
Speaker 2: What are we doing next, what's happening next?
Speaker 1: Let's play the quiet game. Who consists be quiet the longest.
Speaker 2: They see right through it.
Speaker 1: They see they're too smart. But that's also a great
Speaker 1: You know, you don't have to have kids, folks, something
Speaker 1: like me. I'm not gonna have kids. And you don't
Speaker 1: need a reason. If you need a reason, Kurt just
Speaker 1: gave you one.
Speaker 2: Not to I've got you too.
Speaker 1: You don't need to explain yourself to anybody. Don't listen.
Speaker 1: Don't have kids because somebody else tells you to. Don't
Speaker 1: try to make somebody else happy, Make yourself happy, live
Speaker 1: your own life. If you want to pump them out,
Speaker 1: have as many as you can handle. If you don't,
Speaker 1: you're fine too. It's okay to go either way.
Speaker 2: Now, you know, I know you want to hear about
Speaker 2: this this fox wolf.
Speaker 1: This long leg we'd smoking penis beer.
Speaker 2: I mean, but I'm first gonna tell you a little something.
Speaker 2: This is an update. This is an update. This is
Speaker 2: a this Banana's update. I'm gonna do this story first.
Speaker 2: I'll do the wolf one in the Wolf Fox in
Speaker 2: the next half. But I think you know a little
Speaker 2: place Scotty called.
Speaker 1: The Tan Hill in boy Do I ever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we did a story I don't know.
Speaker 1: What was that to two years ago.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, people to see an oasis cover Band,
Speaker 2: which is one of the most northern British pubs you
Speaker 2: can visit, and they got snowed in for I think
Speaker 2: eleven day, seven days or something like that, and so
Speaker 2: it's just all these oasis. A man stuck in this
Speaker 2: pub for like seven or ten days.
Speaker 1: It was incredible.
Speaker 2: It has happened again. It has happened again.
Speaker 1: So jealous.
Speaker 2: This is from the BBC snowed in pub guests rescued
Speaker 2: after five days. A group of guests and staff who've
Speaker 2: been stranded at Britain's highest pub have finally been able
Speaker 2: to leave after a five day snow in. A snowploufs
Speaker 2: Low Lower and Gritters managed to get through the six
Speaker 2: foot drifts blocking the tan Hill in in the Yorkshire Dales,
Speaker 2: so the twenty three pubgoers, including a four year old
Speaker 2: child and six workers could get home fun. The pub
Speaker 2: manager told the BBC. More staff was also finally able
Speaker 2: to get to the pub to take over there is.
Speaker 2: She said, I went to work on New Year's Eve
Speaker 2: and only got back yesterday. That was on the seventh
Speaker 2: I think speaking about spending so long cooped up with
Speaker 2: twenty three St Hay said, everyone was amazing. No one
Speaker 2: was annoying. That's a lie. That four year old was
Speaker 2: definitely a four year old that can't go outside for
Speaker 2: five days. Yeah, no, unbearable. She also said few of
Speaker 2: the staff missed some major milestones while they were locked in. Okay,
Speaker 2: one mister daughter's eighteenth birthday. Another missed the birth of
Speaker 2: her granddaughter who she's that's huge since met for the
Speaker 2: first time. There was also two Australian guests in the group. Also,
Speaker 2: of course they are not aware that on New Year's
Speaker 2: Eve two years ago, this exact same thing happened. Is
Speaker 2: no one aware of that they bring a four year.
Speaker 1: Old to this, that they're just like the four year old. Yes,
Speaker 1: because I would go intentionally to get snowed in. I
Speaker 1: want to go Tanhill and get snowed in for a
Speaker 1: week and eat pub food. And I don't know what
Speaker 1: they play up there. I don't know what they play
Speaker 1: in Northern England. They should start doing mandolins.
Speaker 2: They should just start saying like, come here, you're we
Speaker 2: do a lock in. We do a snow in lock
Speaker 2: in for five loves. Every I would go. That would
Speaker 2: be such a blast. And then they interview this member
Speaker 2: of staff, Ellie Applegarth, who was not even there for
Speaker 2: the for the She was not even there for the
Speaker 2: actual lock in. She just arrived to like take over
Speaker 2: and they just interviewed her and I was like, why
Speaker 2: is this person being interviewed like she wasn't even part
Speaker 2: of the thing. And then they the only photo, the
Speaker 2: only photo they have of this entire thing is of
Speaker 2: Ellie Applegarth. And Ellie Applegarth is a supermodel. Ellie guard
Speaker 2: is the Applegarth, the most beautiful person I've ever seen
Speaker 2: in my entire life.
Speaker 1: I'm looking her up on my phone, Ellie Applegarth.
Speaker 3: And I was, there's a photo of her, and it's
Speaker 3: the only photo for the entire The BBC put this
Speaker 3: up because Ellie Applegarth should be in con.
Speaker 2: I don't know where supermodels go. Where does super models go?
Speaker 1: Monica, I Milan, Milan, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, California.
Speaker 2: The runways of Milan to the Tannhill in the place
Speaker 2: that doesn't seem to be able to not let people leave.
Speaker 1: That is so funny. But also yes, I mean, well,
Speaker 1: who knows, Maybe a child comes out of this, Maybe
Speaker 1: a Tanner Tanner Hill Johnson comes out of the speaking
Speaker 1: which I have a friend named Rebecca Johnson who lives
Speaker 1: up that way. Rebecca report in from Tannhill.
Speaker 2: In I guess, and I know Rebecca Johnson as well. Yeah,
Speaker 2: from the onlines.
Speaker 1: From the onlines, So one dream come true. Yes, I
Speaker 1: would intentionally try to get locked in there also, like
Speaker 1: at our age. So I'm on day nine or ten
Speaker 1: of my dry sixty nine, going right, great. I timed
Speaker 1: it a little different this year. Mine's going to end
Speaker 1: on Saint Patrick's Down.
Speaker 2: Oh that's exciting. I'm also in the I have been
Speaker 2: trying to start mine, but right after New Year's I
Speaker 2: stopped at New Year's and then two days later we
Speaker 2: had to fly to to say go bye to a
Speaker 2: relative who was dying, and it was a very difficult
Speaker 2: situation that I'm not at liberty to give details about.
Speaker 2: And I was just like, oh, we're drinking now. And
Speaker 2: then we got back and it was two days later
Speaker 2: and then I stopped drinking, and then two days later
Speaker 2: it started again. Oh yeah, the fire started and I
Speaker 2: was like, oh am, I locked in a hotel now
Speaker 2: with two children, I'm gonna drink.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're fine. You could start it whenever you want
Speaker 1: to consecutive days take a staycation. These are hand of God.
Speaker 1: Hand of job has come down and flicked us.
Speaker 2: I was feeling really guilty about it, especially today, of
Speaker 2: just like not being back or anything. And it's just
Speaker 2: because of the little ones, you know, But that like that,
Speaker 2: I don't know that guilt of like I should just
Speaker 2: be back at work, I should be getting getting in
Speaker 2: the grind again, you know, And it just like it
Speaker 2: feels like it's we're still in the middle of it,
Speaker 2: of it of a traumatic experience. Like the fires are out,
Speaker 2: they're not even out. They're still burning.
Speaker 1: That's the craziest part, buddy. Everybody I talked to that
Speaker 1: lost their house was laughing and jovial and isn't this crazy?
Speaker 1: And they are in shock. Yeah, they don't realize it's
Speaker 1: just could be. I mean, I mentally prepared to go,
Speaker 1: what do I do if this happened? If if I
Speaker 1: lose my house? I'm like, well, okay, so everybody's a jock,
Speaker 1: but let's bring it back to old tan Hill.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I do. The staff I feel the worst for because
Speaker 1: those people, you know, people that work in movie theaters
Speaker 1: don't love the smell of popcorn. It's like if you
Speaker 1: work at that place and you're like, let's let's punch out.
Speaker 1: I already ran the glassware, and then you realize that
Speaker 1: you're going to have to work the kitchens and pour
Speaker 1: the beers for another six days without.
Speaker 2: Without stop, without a break, working essentially sixteen hours a day.
Speaker 1: As somebody who's bartended, I would have ended up being
Speaker 1: an American who wants to talk too much. Generally, I
Speaker 1: would have been like, can I bartend tomorrow? Can tomorrow
Speaker 1: be Scotty Bartend's day. I'll do a great job, And
Speaker 1: I would again I would like this too much. I'm built.
Speaker 1: This is like, I'm so envious of these people. It
Speaker 1: just seems like such a fun adventure.
Speaker 2: Have you ever been snowed in anywhere?
Speaker 1: Sure, a lot of places, I'm sure. On the pot
Speaker 1: I talked about it once, but on a youth group trip,
Speaker 1: we got snowed in in the nineties at the ski resort,
Speaker 1: and all our parents just Western Union money or called
Speaker 1: the hotel and put their credit cards on file. It
Speaker 1: was supposed to be two nights, three days of skiing, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think it ended up being like five nights,
Speaker 1: six days, and it was. It was like little club med.
Speaker 1: I was like, I knew two people, and my two
Speaker 1: roommates were guys from my school. Actually, my buddy Jason
Speaker 1: lived on my street. And then I didn't know really
Speaker 1: anybody else that well. And by the end I had
Speaker 1: all these new friends. We were all skiing and snowboarding
Speaker 1: and powder which none of us had ever done. But
Speaker 1: then because our parents were all nice enough to put
Speaker 1: their credit cards on fire, we're getting like pizza, room
Speaker 1: service and just hot chocolates flowing like wine. It was.
Speaker 1: They had an arcade there so you could and they
Speaker 1: had pull tables and air hockey and all the fun stuff.
Speaker 1: So we're just like hanging out in the arcade like
Speaker 1: it's our bar because we're all twelve years old. Thirteen
Speaker 1: years old. It was fabulous. It was a drink because
Speaker 1: they tried to get us out of there. The only
Speaker 1: I guess thrilling part is they were like, okay, guys,
Speaker 1: it stopped snowing, and then the coach bus couldn't make
Speaker 1: it up the hill, so they actually had to stop
Speaker 1: and wait until the snow and the ice melted off
Speaker 1: the road. Because they tried, we drove up and then
Speaker 1: one hundred and however, me people fit on a bus
Speaker 1: drifted all the way back down, and they tried one
Speaker 1: more time and they're like, Nope, that's that's quite enough.
Speaker 2: Terrifying. Oh, that's so scary to be in a in
Speaker 2: a situation where you're not driving and it's a large
Speaker 2: vehicle that just could like tip over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a very exciting weekend, but not as
Speaker 1: an adult. I'm trying to think I've been stuck. Besides,
Speaker 1: you know, the COVID nineteen virus that locked us all
Speaker 1: in pretty good, but this, Yeah, no, I mean we're
Speaker 1: a little locked in right now. We're not supposed to
Speaker 1: go outside.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I feel that way
Speaker 2: as well. I remember once it was college. It was
Speaker 2: a second year. I was in Baltimore, and I did
Speaker 2: not expect a snowstorm in Baltimore. But this was like
Speaker 2: one of the worst snowstorms in Baltimore in like twenty
Speaker 2: five years.
Speaker 1: That's the same one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, that's the same one.
Speaker 1: So it was like, yeah, we're six years apart or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it was like so it was like six
Speaker 2: feet of snow, and I had decided that I came
Speaker 2: back after like the day after Christmas, because I was like,
Speaker 2: oh no, Mom, I'm not staying with you. I'm getting
Speaker 2: back to my friends. And we were staying in the
Speaker 2: dorms and the dorms were like eight stories or something,
Speaker 2: and it was empty. It was like because it was
Speaker 2: the day. It was like the December twenty sixth, do
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? So it was like twenty
Speaker 2: sixth through the first or second, and it was the
Speaker 2: four of my four roommates and UH and me and
Speaker 2: I had gotten weed in Jersey and I'd like brought
Speaker 2: it back up and we were just gonna like and
Speaker 2: then it snowed and snowed six feet, so we're just
Speaker 2: like stuck. Couldn't go outside smoking weed all the time.
Speaker 2: And but there was a like skeleton staff that ran
Speaker 2: the the the cafeteria on the dining hall, so he
Speaker 2: would schedule art. It became so crazy. We would wake
Speaker 2: up around six pm and go have dinner for breakfast,
Speaker 2: and then stay up all night long smoking weed and
Speaker 2: listening to music, and then go to bed as the
Speaker 2: sun rose and have breakfast for dinner and then go
Speaker 2: to bed. And we did that for four day straight
Speaker 2: until I finally dug my car out using a trash can,
Speaker 2: like one of those like bathroom trash cans, you know,
Speaker 2: like you get issued in your dorm. That bathroom trash
Speaker 2: can was the thing. We dug it out, and then
Speaker 2: we just started like driving around Baltimore like snowy, snowy
Speaker 2: Baltimore at night.
Speaker 1: Man, that's so fun.
Speaker 2: And it was so fun a snow It was so
Speaker 2: fun because the snow in is like, oh, there's no
Speaker 2: there's no there are other than like you know, car
Speaker 2: accidents and stuff like that, and of course people who
Speaker 2: don't have heat and stuff. It's more just like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is a this is a true snow day. You know,
Speaker 2: there's no climate emergency. It's just like, oh, it's just snow.
Speaker 2: Or at least it used to not be that way.
Speaker 1: I mean it was always that way, even at UMass
Speaker 1: when class wasn't canceled, but you know, you would and
Speaker 1: people really did do this. This feels like something out
Speaker 1: of a storybook, but it's really true. They would steal
Speaker 1: the trays from dining hall and then we would go sledding.
Speaker 1: There were different areas on campus that had really big hills,
Speaker 1: but it was very fun to do. So I have
Speaker 1: to say, the biggest betrayal of my whole life was
Speaker 1: when I was at University of Massachusetts Amhurst. I would
Speaker 1: argue the dining halls of dining commons were some of
Speaker 1: the worst food ever presented to human beings in the
Speaker 1: modern era. Like you get used to it because you're
Speaker 1: young and you're hungry, but like we would walk extra
Speaker 1: far in whatever weather because this one dining hall served
Speaker 1: cheese pizza. That's it. It was so bad everywhere else
Speaker 1: that you would walk for this bad pizza. There's one
Speaker 1: guy that would make omelets named Angus on weekends, as
Speaker 1: we call them, like the omelet Lord or the omlet God.
Speaker 1: That was a big deal. You'd wait in line for
Speaker 1: forty minutes for one guy named Angus to make you
Speaker 1: one omelet. So the food, so we ate chicken pucks,
Speaker 1: and they saw they had steam scrod, which is a
Speaker 1: type of fish. Scrod is you know what college kid
Speaker 1: doesn't want to eat scrod before a night on the town.
Speaker 1: And chicken pocks were just breaded chicken cutlets that you
Speaker 1: would stack three. You would do roll chicken cutlet, mayo,
Speaker 1: tomato chicken cutlet, letuce, tomato, barbecue sauce, top of the
Speaker 1: role that got us through a lot of the times.
Speaker 1: But now U Mass is maybe the best dining halls
Speaker 1: in the entire country.
Speaker 2: Food are much better.
Speaker 1: They are the bredible and they feed all the leftover
Speaker 1: food to the hog farm because there's an agricultural U
Speaker 1: Mass was an agricultural school first. But yeah, I've recently
Speaker 1: read like reviews of like ranking food at state colleges
Speaker 1: or universities that U Mass is like number one, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, you sons of bitches. The amount of scrot
Speaker 1: I shoved down my gullet I would make Herman Melville weep.
Speaker 2: It was horrible. I mean, like it is what is
Speaker 2: it about the world in general? Because it's not just
Speaker 2: U Mass. It's like the world in general everywhere the
Speaker 2: food has gotten better. Like what was it before? Like
Speaker 2: were people just did they not? What happened? Is it globalization?
Speaker 2: Is it our like access to like other tastes that
Speaker 2: people were like, you know what, maybe we shouldn't boil
Speaker 2: our steak anymore and we should instead we should instead
Speaker 2: grill it and make it taste good with salt, you know,
Speaker 2: like where was the switch and why did it happen?
Speaker 2: I would read a whole book about that.
Speaker 1: I think it was the nineties because in the eighties
Speaker 1: it was microwave era, it was TV dinner, it was
Speaker 1: like microwaveable foods. Isn't this amazing? And yeah, there's some
Speaker 1: heavy hitters came out of that. Easy Mac I'm sure
Speaker 1: came out of that timeframe. But then yeah, some it
Speaker 1: must have been the Internet. It's probably the rise of
Speaker 1: social media and other people looking at what other people
Speaker 1: are eating and saying I want that.
Speaker 2: People just having more access to information were just like, oh,
Speaker 2: my food is terrible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then also, yes, I think it's but also
Speaker 1: the food's still garbage so many places, but you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes garbage tastes incredible.
Speaker 2: Give me one.
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Speaker 1: This was an Embassy five Chicago, written by Best in
Speaker 1: the Biz journalist Alex Fisher. Maybe it's a dude. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's a babe, maybe it's a non binary friend. We
Speaker 1: don't know, and we and we'll never look it up.
Speaker 1: Alex Fisher? Is that good that we just are stuck
Speaker 1: to his, her or their words?
Speaker 2: Kurt?
Speaker 1: What happened to the coyote pulled from the shelf at
Speaker 1: the Chicago Aldi store.
Speaker 2: What happened? What happened? I want to know. Everybody wants
Speaker 2: to know. You ask a question like that, you better
Speaker 2: have a good answer.
Speaker 1: M Well, Alex Fish, does she she or they dangle
Speaker 1: a carrot like that out front of you? Here it
Speaker 1: comes coming in hot from NBC five Chicago, the Windy City.
Speaker 2: I would love it if this was a three a
Speaker 2: three three word article. They shot him.
Speaker 1: No they did not, Thank God, no animals will be
Speaker 1: hurt on this podcast. Officials gave an update Tuesday on
Speaker 1: a coyote pulled from a refrigerator shelf out an.
Speaker 2: All the regerator show.
Speaker 1: Dude, it is we have There's a lot to discuss.
Speaker 1: Feel free to look it up. It's a now viral video.
Speaker 1: By the way, it was an Ald in Chicago. Aldi
Speaker 1: is a big grocery store for those who don't know.
Speaker 1: Around the world, the coyote was taken in by Flint
Speaker 1: Creek Wildly Free of Rehabilitation, which has several locations in
Speaker 1: the Chicago and suburban Bearrington areas. The rehab setter said
Speaker 1: one of its volunteers picked the coyote up Chicago Animal
Speaker 1: Care and Control and brought him to their facility around
Speaker 1: seven pm on Monday. The coyote is unharmed, he was scared.
Speaker 1: The group said in social media. We will return him
Speaker 1: to the wild as soon as he is ready. So
Speaker 1: happy ending. We have a lot of animal lover ban animals.
Speaker 1: Don't you worry. It all worked out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the cutest coyote I've ever seen. Every coyote
Speaker 2: I see in LA looks like he is out there
Speaker 2: looking to eat anything that moves. This guy looks very
Speaker 2: much like a dog, More like a dog than I've
Speaker 2: seen any coyote.
Speaker 1: Look, he's eating deep dish petes out of dumpsters exactly
Speaker 1: his whole life. He's got Chicago dogs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he loves a deep dish.
Speaker 1: He loves a deep dish. That guy freaking loves a
Speaker 1: deep dish. Pie. So the video for go. You know, Google,
Speaker 1: You guys have phones and stuff to look at things.
Speaker 1: So it is like a regular refrigerated shell where you
Speaker 1: might buy cheese or beer or butter.
Speaker 2: No cases laying down.
Speaker 1: He's fully inside of it, and this guy reaches in
Speaker 1: and grabs its tail animal control and pulls him out.
Speaker 1: A full grown coyote from a grocery store shell. Film.
Speaker 1: The guy is filming a terrible job. By the way,
Speaker 1: that guy needs to take a intro to film studies class.
Speaker 1: It's framed terribly. He pulls away at the best moment,
Speaker 1: and then as soon as they pull this little guy out,
Speaker 1: who's terrified, he jumps right back in and buries himself
Speaker 1: so deep. I didn't know grocery store shelves went that week.
Speaker 1: I thought they were eighteen inches mass.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you can load them from the back, you know,
Speaker 2: But those are usually the ones that's with a door.
Speaker 2: This does not have a door. This is one of
Speaker 2: the open shelves.
Speaker 1: Yes. The unexpected discovery was seen on video as an
Speaker 1: officer was spotted trying to pull an animal from the
Speaker 1: cold food shelf inside the Humboldt Park al d Store.
Speaker 1: After some time they are officer grabs a kattie's legs
Speaker 1: and animals slowly pulled from between produce in a startling scene.
Speaker 1: Chicago Animal Care and Control in Chicago police confirmed the
Speaker 1: responded to the eight hundred block of North Kenzie around
Speaker 1: ninety five am and safely took us tough the coyote.
Speaker 1: Police said no injuries were reported at the incident, and
Speaker 1: they said that they believe the kyote was attempting to
Speaker 1: hide from traffic. That makes sense to me.
Speaker 2: He definitely got away from traffic. He got in with
Speaker 2: the cheeses. There's a lot of places to go where
Speaker 2: there isn't traffic. The cheese is more specific than that.
Speaker 1: The cheese section of his local grocery store just traffic
Speaker 1: free zone. We theorize the coyote entered an open door
Speaker 1: of the grocery store trying to escape human traffic and
Speaker 1: hid in the refrigerated section and an attempt to hide from
Speaker 1: people inside the store. They noted a similar incident took
Speaker 1: place at a Quiznos in Chicago in two thousand and seven. Wow,
Speaker 1: you knew I was gonna say two thousand and seven,
Speaker 1: because you just don't see Quiznos that often anymore.
Speaker 2: I see him in airports still. That's the only place
Speaker 2: I get a Quiznos. Is in the Detroit Airport of
Speaker 2: the Chicago. I think it's a Detroit airport.
Speaker 1: I like Firehouse subs. If I wish they were a
Speaker 1: sponsor of ours, I tear Firehouse.
Speaker 2: Oh never, are they stack up against Jersey Mike's pow?
Speaker 1: Oh well, that's a good question, because I think Jersey Mike's.
Speaker 1: I think Michaels of New Jersey just got bought out
Speaker 1: by some big conglomerates. So I have a feeling like
Speaker 1: black Rock or Blackstone or one of those one of
Speaker 1: those evil, dark, capitalistic.
Speaker 2: One that's sounds exactly like a mercenary group that fights
Speaker 2: yea America.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so something like that bottom. So I hear that
Speaker 1: they're going to plummet in quality very soon, the same
Speaker 1: way that Buffalo Wild Wings does. This is what I'm
Speaker 1: reading on Reddit. Whether it's sure or not, you're on the.
Speaker 2: You're on the Michaels of New Jersey reddit page all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 1: I say, I'm looking that subreddit, Michaels of New Jersey.
Speaker 1: I'm clicking I wanted Mike's way every day. I've never
Speaker 1: had a sub in a tub. Have you ever done that? No?
Speaker 2: No, I would not get a sub in a tub.
Speaker 1: I know that's the one salad. It's a chef's out.
Speaker 2: It's too much meat. It's too much meat for a salad.
Speaker 2: That's a meaty salad. That's what they call that.
Speaker 1: I think when we had Lizzie Cooperman, the very funny
Speaker 1: Lizzy Cooperman on and she used to do that podcast
Speaker 1: where she would let her listeners vote for what she
Speaker 1: wanted to do, and then one of them was like,
Speaker 1: tell everybody, it's your birthday and get every free birthday
Speaker 1: food item. So she got the the Black Angus pazuki,
Speaker 1: but she also got a free tub and a sub pazuki.
Speaker 2: The pazuki is a I thought a pizza cookie right
Speaker 2: from bej I don't know jumper pizuki, and it's all
Speaker 2: every word about it is awful. It's a BJ's pazuki
Speaker 2: and you get it on your birthday. Sounds good to me,
Speaker 2: sounds fun.
Speaker 1: But whenever I hear tub in, a sub and a tub,
Speaker 1: I think of Lizzie because of that episode. And that's
Speaker 1: such an unfair because she's a lovely woman. She had
Speaker 1: nothing about her screams sub and a tub, and we
Speaker 1: should have her back on. She's wonderful experts took the
Speaker 1: opportunity to remind the public that January through March is
Speaker 1: coyote mating season, which often leads to increased activity and
Speaker 1: sightings as they search for mates in unestablished territories.
Speaker 2: It's suggesting that this coyote was making sweet love to
Speaker 2: a cheese.
Speaker 1: I think so, all right, I think that is what
Speaker 1: they're saying. While coyotes are generally not a threat to humans,
Speaker 1: it's always best to avoid interaction. I mean, out here setes.
Speaker 2: Every day, a little bit of Camelbert on a little
Speaker 2: bit of breeze all the time.
Speaker 1: That actually, they should get Mambo number five. They should
Speaker 1: do that. They should call that dude up and be like, hey,
Speaker 1: do a cheese commercial for us. We really need a
Speaker 1: great idea, lou Bega lou Bega Vega to.
Speaker 2: Do a cheese version, because that's what's on my mind.
Speaker 1: M h me too, man. And also, you can just
Speaker 1: list cheeses and people would not along and be like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I haven't had Colby in a while.
Speaker 2: Everybody loves that, right, come on, now, you know.
Speaker 1: What cheese they don't have out here that week? Gotta
Speaker 1: tell me monster they have that out here? I know
Speaker 1: you'd never see. It's never on a menu.
Speaker 2: That's so, it is never on a menu. And I
Speaker 2: would say weirdly because I like a lot of very
Speaker 2: pungent cheeses. But I would say monsters one of my
Speaker 2: favorite sliced cheeses. Me too, Oh, I love monster, You
Speaker 2: love a monster? They I never see it out here.
Speaker 1: You never. You never hear somebody order of roast beef
Speaker 1: and monster, or ham and monster. On the East Coast,
Speaker 1: you heard that monster cheese.
Speaker 2: Get monster. I would turkey sandwiches and monster cheese was
Speaker 2: the only thing I ate from age fourteen to eighteen.
Speaker 1: You dirty dog. And look at you. You're six four
Speaker 1: and a half. I mean, if you want a tall ten.
Speaker 2: Years old and I starts drinking coffee at twelve, it's
Speaker 2: all lies, folks, it's all lies.
Speaker 1: If you want to get a big boy, if you
Speaker 1: want your son or daughter to be a six footer,
Speaker 1: you feed that kid monster cheese every day.
Speaker 2: You see what you Breastfeed that boy to three and
Speaker 2: let him do whatever the fuck he wants. After that,
Speaker 2: he'll be six to four.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, my gosh. Also, we might sound insane. What if
Speaker 1: it's only a New Jersey to Maryland thing. This monster cheese, No,
Speaker 1: I buy it out here.
Speaker 2: I got it for you.
Speaker 1: Oh you're a good man um munster. Oh it's from Germany.
Speaker 1: It's a German cheese. Okay, well, Teessa sending some thumbs up.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well it's You're just gonna learn about this
Speaker 2: stilt legged old fox and piss smells like marijuana.
Speaker 1: Pal oh man, I can't wait to learn about where
Speaker 1: he did coyotes or dude weird foxes. Here we go
Speaker 1: thumbs up. Got a few and also been animals. I
Speaker 1: went back through and organized them. I'm gonna clear all
Speaker 1: these out in the next four episodes, so keep them coming.
Speaker 1: I figured it out. It's a it's a tough system,
Speaker 1: Samantha Gray, thumbs.
Speaker 2: Are deeply for keeping this system going on.
Speaker 1: It's God, it's more work than you would think.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: Samantha Gray is thumbing herself up for ending a toxic
Speaker 1: seventeen year relationship and standing firm. Excellent thumbs up. That's
Speaker 1: a great thing to do. Stand firm. You deserve the
Speaker 1: best in the world. Don't let any bozos hold you back.
Speaker 1: You rule. Adam is thumbing his wife Tia all the
Speaker 1: way up for taking their nice people. We met them
Speaker 1: taking the first steps in starting her own private chef business.
Speaker 1: It's been a long dream that Tia is finally materializing
Speaker 1: into something truly amazing. We met them at the Comedy
Speaker 1: on State show, and then I ran across the street
Speaker 1: and met Adam and Tiya at the Botany Social I
Speaker 1: think it was called the Botanist or Botany Socials. Really
Speaker 1: good place, I asked, and they were there with a
Speaker 1: group of friends. Really couldn't have been nicer people. After
Speaker 1: the show and I said, what do people in Madison,
Speaker 1: Wisconsin drink? And they said old fashions. They said Madison
Speaker 1: is known for their old fashions. What I know? And
Speaker 1: I had one or two with the gang before I
Speaker 1: met you for a very nice dinner where we had
Speaker 1: some incredible minood. We got that's a great club. Comedy
Speaker 1: on State is a great club. So out out to
Speaker 1: that whole crew, Amanda, Lauren, Kelsey, and Nicole. I believe
Speaker 1: they were all very nice people. Had a nice chat.
Speaker 1: Thumbs up. This is for me and you. Kurt to
Speaker 1: Jimmy T a Dubai listener, Oh yes, Jimmy T listens
Speaker 1: to some Dubai. Sends great stories, and he is also
Speaker 1: moving soon to Algeria, so he might be our first
Speaker 1: Algeria listener. Oh my god, we love our international bananimals.
Speaker 1: You can always say hey, you can send us postcards.
Speaker 1: You can just tell us where you're listening to us from.
Speaker 1: We have so many. You guys are the best.
Speaker 2: Where would they send a postcard to Scotti po box?
Speaker 1: You could send it to Bananas po Box three nine
Speaker 1: three four eight That is in Los Angeles, California, and
Speaker 1: that ZIP code is nine zero zero three nine, and
Speaker 1: I check it so you can make it out to
Speaker 1: Scotti Landis. If that's easier for you, no problem. But
Speaker 1: whenever I go pick up my mail, they're always like Bananas,
Speaker 1: so they know. Yeah, stabby Gabby is thumbing herself up
Speaker 1: for a year of sobriety.
Speaker 2: Oh congratulations.
Speaker 1: Right on. Gabby still works at a bar and gets
Speaker 1: home at four am, but her life has been monumentally
Speaker 1: better with sobriety. Gabby says, I'm flawed, I'm healing, and
Speaker 1: I'm proud as fuck.
Speaker 2: Oh that's awesome. Congratulations, thumbs up.
Speaker 1: So, like I said, I'm only about nine or ten
Speaker 1: days into this dry sixty nine, but I recall and
Speaker 1: this just happened to me four days ago during the evacuation.
Speaker 1: I'm not drinking. I walked by a bar. There was
Speaker 1: a football game on, and I just glanced inside. And
Speaker 1: what when you sober up and you start to see drunks.
Speaker 1: Everybody looks like a wet goblin or ghoul in there,
Speaker 1: Like you go, everybody's got that sheen on them. They're
Speaker 1: all talking too loud, they're all leaning in, and everybody
Speaker 1: looks like a wet monster. And You're like, it takes
Speaker 1: the clarity of sobriety to spot that.
Speaker 2: Oh great, I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: Also, Kurt, when was the last time you were I
Speaker 1: didn't even think of when you and I were at
Speaker 1: a bar until four am, four am, four a m.
Speaker 1: I mean, our friendship is forged on four am late
Speaker 1: nights in York City.
Speaker 2: We would always be there until yeah, always the bars
Speaker 2: thirty if. I always considered if we did not close
Speaker 2: the bar, that that that was somehow a failure of
Speaker 2: an evening, which is a very stupid marker of success.
Speaker 1: Well, I recall vividly many nights with you and our
Speaker 1: and our sort of extended friend and comedy crew where
Speaker 1: at midnight to one, you'd be all right, let's do
Speaker 1: a shot and a beer and then get out of here.
Speaker 1: And then that would be like three more shots and
Speaker 1: three more beers, and then you would still be like,
Speaker 1: is anywhere open? Yeah, maybe that's to do six drinks
Speaker 1: between two and four am? What were we doing about dreams?
Speaker 2: I think we were just talking about dreams.
Speaker 1: We were just talking about what we were going to
Speaker 1: accomplish and telling each other you're gonna do it, You're
Speaker 1: gonna do it.
Speaker 2: But I'm really, I'm legitimately trying to remember the last
Speaker 2: time I was out at a bar at four in
Speaker 2: the morning, And I honestly think it was probably like
Speaker 2: when I was thirty three years old. I think that's
Speaker 2: the last time I was out at a bar four
Speaker 2: actually four, Like I've been out of bars at two definitely,
Speaker 2: but four piece of cake two is easy, no prob bob.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think that's probably the last time.
Speaker 1: Oh ky DOOKI Well, we'll have to do it again,
Speaker 1: if we ever do. If this year we do a
Speaker 1: run of shows and we end up in a city
Speaker 1: that actually stays open to four am, let's just close
Speaker 1: out that bar and last but not LEAs Beka Gee
Speaker 1: is thumbing herself and her boyfriend Chris up for both
Speaker 1: getting new jobs and getting out of equal corporate situations.
Speaker 1: She says, Harley Davidson is suffering because people aren't buying
Speaker 1: motorcycles these days because they can barely afford grocery, and
Speaker 1: they're manufacturing more and more Harley's in Thailand and they suck.
Speaker 1: That is Beka G saying that it's not us. I
Speaker 1: have no idea, but I like that Beka G, so
Speaker 1: I support her. They both landed new jobs at much
Speaker 1: better places and they say it's not worth it. Happiness matters,
Speaker 1: So that's right. If you're stuck and you can make
Speaker 1: the pivot, make the pivot. Thank you to everybody for
Speaker 1: your thumbs up. Thumbs up to you guys, and let's
Speaker 1: dedicate this whole episode Banana of the Week to all
Speaker 1: the firefighters and the mts that just absolutely those pilots
Speaker 1: dropping water with accuracy, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: And then pulling up like dropping them in a canyon
Speaker 2: and then pulling up before hitting the other side of
Speaker 2: the canyon is really incredible. So yeah, thank you, Thumbs
Speaker 2: up Banana the Week.
Speaker 1: Bananas of the Week here it is mained wolf.
Speaker 2: M A n D strikingly beautiful South American canid. So
Speaker 2: this was Live Science. This was sent in by cop behaste.
Speaker 2: Thank you, copy Haste classes Behaste. This was written by
Speaker 2: Megan Suresby for Live Science. Thank you, Megan.
Speaker 1: You're the best in the bears can type.
Speaker 2: Where it's found South America, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru,
Speaker 2: and Uruguay. Omnivorous diet, eats everything. Here's why it's awesome.
Speaker 2: They say, if there was a beauty contest for wild canines,
Speaker 2: the mained wolf would surely be the winner, with its
Speaker 2: flowing red coat, long legs, and large ears. I disagree
Speaker 2: with that. It looks crazy to me. It looks strange
Speaker 2: like if you've ever seen like an ad at walker
Speaker 2: from Empire strikes back, and then imagine that as a fox.
Speaker 2: That's what it looks like. That's the the length of
Speaker 2: its legs to the width of its body. Its legs
Speaker 2: are so incredibly long it looks like it's on stilts.
Speaker 2: Despite resembling a red fox and being called a wolf,
Speaker 2: the Maine wolf is not closely related to either of
Speaker 2: those almost. In fact, the main wolf forms its own
Speaker 2: genus uh crias, which which translates to Golden Dog, which
Speaker 2: is an amazing, an amazing translation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the main good name for an improv team, too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good name for an improv team, Golden Dog.
Speaker 2: Didn't we decide there was a good name for an
Speaker 2: improv group that's never existed before last time too?
Speaker 1: I think we did. I know, I don't remember bananas
Speaker 1: at all. By the way, in life, I have no
Speaker 1: I have no I just don't remember anything we talked
Speaker 1: about on this podcast.
Speaker 2: Crazy.
Speaker 1: I think that means we're living in the moment.
Speaker 2: We're very Yeah, that's good, that's good, right. But people
Speaker 2: would be like, they'll say something and they'll be like, oh,
Speaker 2: you guys were talking about that, and I was like,
Speaker 2: I have no memory of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 2: We're just rolling with it here, all Rankie. The main
Speaker 2: wolf's legs may be an adaptation for hunting in grassland.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. There's a bunch
Speaker 2: of different details. Live science is not I fucking love science,
Speaker 2: so they're not Noper snarks good. But I will tell
Speaker 2: you this everybody's wondering about. It's piss right, because that's
Speaker 2: what you heard about more than anything. This isn't Wired magazine.
Speaker 2: This was written by Bryan swit Tech. Thank you, Brian,
Speaker 2: You're the best.
Speaker 1: Wired was always my go to pre smartphones when I
Speaker 1: had to buy something at the airport to be on
Speaker 1: a plane. If you're buying maximum of FAHM or stuff,
Speaker 1: you look like a total creep. You're just You're like,
Speaker 1: I I'm not flying to New Hampshire if I'm not
Speaker 1: looking at cleavage and giant dump truck butts. But Wired
Speaker 1: you're like, I'm sophisticated. I'm not an old man. I'm
Speaker 1: not reading as Esquire, Vanity fair GQ. I'm a young guy.
Speaker 1: I like to know about things like dumb phones.
Speaker 2: It is funny. Do you think the people who worked
Speaker 2: it wired when everything went wireless, they were like, do
Speaker 2: we change our name because being wired is no longer
Speaker 2: the cutting edge of tech?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. I don't know I think.
Speaker 2: Ever asked themselves that question. Mmm. Here it is the
Speaker 2: question that kept rattling around my skull this morning was
Speaker 2: why does why does maimed wolf piece smell like marijuana?
Speaker 2: This isn't one of those why as a raven like
Speaker 2: a writing desk riddles. I don't know that reference.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maimed wolves.
Speaker 2: Large South American canids look like leggy foxes, but are
Speaker 2: neither foxes nor wolves. It's a very pungent, distinctive urine
Speaker 2: that smells the kin to hops or cannabis. The aroometamatic
Speaker 2: resemblance is so close that police were once called to
Speaker 2: the Rotterdamn Zoo in the Netherlands to search out a
Speaker 2: pot smoker, only to find that whoever made the report
Speaker 2: had been fooled by the scent of maimed wolf urine. Also,
Speaker 2: whoever's calling in someone for smoking weed at the Rotterdamn Zoo,
Speaker 2: please grow up, do something better with your life.
Speaker 1: Grow up. It's so fun. It's one of the best
Speaker 1: places to to do drugs.
Speaker 2: Rodterdamn Zoo. Are you kidding me? The amount of times
Speaker 2: I've dropped asset at the Rotterdam Zoo. Where is the
Speaker 2: rotter Is that an Amsterdam?
Speaker 1: I don't even I've never I've literally never been to
Speaker 1: the Rotterdam Rotterdam Zoo and not been enhanced to a
Speaker 1: level that has profoundly changed my life.
Speaker 2: I caught a whiff of Maine urine while visiting the
Speaker 2: Smithsonian National one spring morning last year. Wasn't unpleasant slightly sweet,
Speaker 2: but stale and herb like scent. But why did it
Speaker 2: smell that way? What was the reason behind the strange
Speaker 2: convergence and odor? All right, blah blah blah blah blah
Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Here it is.
Speaker 2: James Deed's hypothetized that the particularly strong smell of the
Speaker 2: urine might be an adaptation to maintaining territories by being
Speaker 2: strong enough to be detected at a distance or long
Speaker 2: after the olafactory marker had originally been laid down. And yep,
Speaker 2: Child Sandford had to analyze a lot of peat, and
Speaker 2: she took the opportunity see if the secret pine the
Speaker 2: Canadan scent culture based on what was known aboutlah blah
Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah bah man, this gets in deep
Speaker 2: to like it gets into amino acids containing sulfur and
Speaker 2: stuff like that. Yeah, I don't know. It's pyrasign. It's
Speaker 2: what they figured out. It's pyrasign that makes it smell
Speaker 2: like marijuana. But it looks like it's to keep animals
Speaker 2: away from each other.
Speaker 1: So that sounds very good. I know, it sounds like
Speaker 1: a biological advantage for an animal that looks like a
Speaker 1: cartoon of a fox walking across the shallow pond and
Speaker 1: the water drains out and it was actually six feet deep.
Speaker 2: So I think I told this story on bananas, but
Speaker 2: it's been years, so I'm going to tell it again.
Speaker 2: In my late twenties, my friend Michael was getting married
Speaker 2: and he decided to have a bachelor party in Brigantine.
Speaker 2: So it's not too far from Atlantic City in New Jersey,
Speaker 2: and they have dunes and beaches there. It's kind of Brigantines,
Speaker 2: like a Barrier island, I think. And we were like
Speaker 2: three or four blocks from the beach the airbnb that
Speaker 2: we rented, and so at night we would get really
Speaker 2: high and walk up to the beach and just like
Speaker 2: run around on the beach. And I would always take
Speaker 2: my shoes off and leave them like right kind of
Speaker 2: in the middle, like there was there was like kind
Speaker 2: of a boardwalk that came out in between the dunes
Speaker 2: that you could walk through, and then you would get
Speaker 2: to the beach, left my shoes there. I come back
Speaker 2: after like just frolicking and swimming in the ocean, whatnot.
Speaker 2: I come back and there's only one shoe there. And
Speaker 2: then I look and there is a fox with my
Speaker 2: other shoe in its mouth. And then I was like, hey,
Speaker 2: come back, and it stops and it looks at me
Speaker 2: with the shoe in its mouth, and I said, come here,
Speaker 2: and it was just sitting there staring at me. And
Speaker 2: so then I threw the other shoe at the fox
Speaker 2: to try and get him to drop the other shoe,
Speaker 2: and he did drop that shoe and then picked up
Speaker 2: the other shoe and ran into the stootes. I'm right
Speaker 2: footed and had one shoe left. And it turns out
Speaker 2: that they are beach foxes. They're the Brigantine beach fox.
Speaker 2: It's a very specific fox.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: I've never seen a fox before in New Jersey, never
Speaker 2: seen one since, only at the beach in Brigantine. And
Speaker 2: they live in the dunes and they love the salt
Speaker 2: on the shoe laces that people leave behind, so they'll
Speaker 2: steal it just and chew it to get all the
Speaker 2: salt out. I believe that, which seems weird because they
Speaker 2: live at the beach. Everything salty at the beach.
Speaker 1: It gets so crabb mm hmmm. So there's a guy. Oh, sorry,
Speaker 1: you please.
Speaker 2: So then I go back in the morning and I
Speaker 2: have to like hunt through the dunes to try and
Speaker 2: find my shoes because I'm not in a place where
Speaker 2: I could just buy other shoes at this point. And
Speaker 2: I find the shoes and it's true. He has taken
Speaker 2: the laces out, and the laces are gone and left
Speaker 2: the shoe behind, and I just found it maybe thirty
Speaker 2: five feet from where we were, and so got it back.
Speaker 2: He got my laces, and I walked home, flip flopping
Speaker 2: all the way back to New York City.
Speaker 1: But new laces, new pair of tennis shoes. You know,
Speaker 1: you can take clean laces and an old pair of shoes.
Speaker 1: You got new shoes on there. It is or it's
Speaker 1: a nice way to live.
Speaker 2: You have a really something that really sticks out on
Speaker 2: a ratty old pair of shoes.
Speaker 1: That's true too. There's a little market near my house,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm getting used to the neighborhood. I'm
Speaker 1: getting used to all the new weirdos. And there's some
Speaker 1: great ones. There's a guy that talks on a cell
Speaker 1: phoned shirtless and sweatpants in his driveway every single day.
Speaker 1: And there's a great writer that lives in the neighborhood,
Speaker 1: Samuel Gibson, really great writer, and he and I grabbed
Speaker 1: drinks sometimes and he was like, have you noticed any
Speaker 1: of the weirdos yet? And we know the shirtless guy.
Speaker 1: There's a guy that walks his dogs and hits on
Speaker 1: people that are too young from all the time. We
Speaker 1: always like, get away, you creep. And then there's this
Speaker 1: barefoot guy in his like sixties and he's barefoot all time.
Speaker 1: I'm in the grocery store. I see it at this
Speaker 1: little market for the first time, barefoot, and this other guy,
Speaker 1: younger dude. So the one guy's an older white guy,
Speaker 1: and then this other guy that walks up to him
Speaker 1: as a younger black gentleman, taller than he is, and
Speaker 1: he's like, how long have you been going barefoot? And
Speaker 1: the guy's like, oh man, I've been doing this for
Speaker 1: like twelve years. And he's like, you do it everywhere
Speaker 1: he goes, yeah, everywhere they let me and I'm eavesdropping.
Speaker 1: I'm like looking at tampons and Maxi pats, like reading
Speaker 1: the back like I'm very invested. I'm just grabbing for
Speaker 1: light bulbs. I'm like, oh, interesting wattage that's new to me.
Speaker 1: Oh there's a string on one end, and so I
Speaker 1: am and he's like, oh, He's like, if you want
Speaker 1: more information on it, I actually wrote like a little
Speaker 1: book about it, and I have a blog and I'm like, Oh,
Speaker 1: this kid is going to make fun of this old guy.
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is gonna be great, and then strike
Speaker 1: me dead with lightning if it's not true. About a
Speaker 1: week ago, I saw them walking together, barefoot, just talking,
Speaker 1: just right down the sidewalk. Just know they made friends
Speaker 1: from being the two craziest people in this neighborhood.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, love that.
Speaker 1: Just a sixty five year old white guy barefoot and
Speaker 1: just a six foot four, twenty something black gentleman barefoot,
Speaker 1: just just old friends. They just so much in common
Speaker 1: these too.
Speaker 3: God.
Speaker 2: I wonder how much their conversation revolves around barefoot activities,
Speaker 2: you know, or if it's just like let's walk around
Speaker 2: and bare feet together and then they talk about other
Speaker 2: life problems, or if it's just barefoot stuff.
Speaker 1: I know, I hope it's I hope they become best
Speaker 1: of friends, and I hope the older guy leaves everything
Speaker 1: to the younger guy eventually.
Speaker 2: I would love his shirt that said barefoot buddies. And
Speaker 2: it's just two pair, two pair of feet making a heart,
Speaker 2: do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So it's of course I know what you mean.
Speaker 2: It's a great idea, bare feet buddies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they're gonna think you got a foot fetish
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna then you wear that thing around town.
Speaker 1: You're like, yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2: Shit, damn it. Fetish is somebody ruining something, Scotty, give
Speaker 2: us a headline to send us home. Maybe we'll cover
Speaker 2: it next time.
Speaker 1: Judge mocks drug dealer for not being very good at it.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, I want you to start. I want you
Speaker 2: to start the next episode with that.
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