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Speaker 1: Bana Baby Baby ba.

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Speaker 2: Oh Bananimals. We are back with one of our beloved

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Speaker 2: minisod minisode, my favorite comedian Kurt Brown Owler. We're going

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Speaker 1: We are going on tour, and that's my favorite hilarious

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Speaker 1: Scottie Landis.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, buddy boy. We're going on to Sorry I jumped

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Speaker 2: of you are are super Bananamal fans. Come out to

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Speaker 2: our shows. We're going to be so excited. Our first show,

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Speaker 2: we are live streaming. You can watch it from wherever

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Speaker 1: right on the Instagram homepage, you know, our Instagram page,

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Speaker 1: The Bananas Podcast. You guys know this because you guys

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Speaker 2: They're the real deal. Kurt. This weekend, I didn't see

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Speaker 2: our wonderful and terrific producer Katie Levine there, but I

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Speaker 2: went saw surfing dog competition in Huntington Beach, California, and

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Speaker 2: it was frickin' awesome. I can't believe you guys both went.

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Speaker 1: I saw both on your Instagram because you sent me

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Speaker 2: It was the best, man, it was so fun. You

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Speaker 2: gotta go next year. Bring the kids, because it's not

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Speaker 2: only the surfing dogs, which are excellent and they are there.

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Speaker 2: It's dog City because it's out of Dog Beach, so

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Speaker 2: they're also just five hundred great dogs just hanging out

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Speaker 2: wearing sunglasses and hats and little lays. I mean, it

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Speaker 2: was like dog paradise and I highly highly recommend it.

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Speaker 1: So this is of course the miniso where we take

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Speaker 1: your bananas stories and tell our bananas stories inspired by them.

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Speaker 2: Scott, you got one for us today, I do. And

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Speaker 2: this one, this one is like it might take up

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Speaker 2: oh boys, it bananas sounds sets in. Hunter Thompson, who sorry,

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Speaker 2: Hunter Thompson Frecks twenty eight is who sent this in.

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Speaker 2: And he caught my eye because he got a tattoo

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Speaker 2: is beautiful here there we gorex twenty eight sent this

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Speaker 2: in Afternoon Guys. Mini episode story but a little lengthy,

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Speaker 2: but hopefully worth it. About six years ago, when my

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Speaker 2: be in the Nassau Bahamas with separate groups of friends

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Speaker 2: flying in with her friends. Why was coming in on

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Speaker 2: a good old fashioned carnival cruise. Yeah, baby. As a

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Speaker 2: was very fun. Speaking of Fat Tuesdays, our friend groups

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Speaker 2: them farewell. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to me, when you arrive on

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Speaker 2: text messages he got from his friend. Dude, call me seriously, Dude,

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Speaker 2: Carnival Cruise does not like that. My partner was then

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Speaker 1: to have, then, senor frogs, just like you're in Times Square, it's.

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Speaker 2: Glad to say that same girl and I are still together,

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Speaker 2: still doing cross country trips, listening to bananas as much

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Speaker 2: as we can, and please let us know when East

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Speaker 2: Banana Land is officially formed, we will do that and

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Speaker 2: how fun. I love that the baha Manian like immigration

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Speaker 1: whatever whatever the cap Where does a captain live on

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Speaker 1: the on a cruise ship? I would love to know

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Speaker 1: is a captain? That's what I would like to know.

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Speaker 1: If you're a captain of a cruise ship, we would

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Speaker 1: love to know this. How nice is where you live?

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Speaker 2: Is it's got to be so nice? You think so?

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Speaker 2: Is it?

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's so true. It's like safety safety, Deesmond, sit,

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