Speaker 1: Here it is Scottie. We're back, baby, He's the one
Speaker 1: you have to pay attention to.
Speaker 2: Hard for me to do. I'm not very smart.
Speaker 1: Man Tokyo's cancel Christmas protests March canceled by Revolutionary Alliance
Speaker 1: of Unpopular Men.
Speaker 2: Boy, this is what I like. I like to be
Speaker 2: enthralled and astonished and just you just teased us in
Speaker 2: to We're all going to be better people with more
Speaker 2: knowledge of the world in the international community because of
Speaker 2: this episode of Bananasillian.
Speaker 3: Pis, would you do?
Speaker 1: Birthday guys goals, non binary pals, Welcome to Bananas. I'm
Speaker 1: Kurt Brown older, I.
Speaker 2: Am Banana Boy number two Scotti Landis. We're coming to
Speaker 2: you from the Windy City, Los Angeles, California, and thanks
Speaker 2: for listening to the silliest little podcast there ever was.
Speaker 2: Kurt and I swear we promise, we pledge no matter
Speaker 2: how weird, twenty twenty five is about to be. Yep.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be more fun and we're gonna be weirder
Speaker 2: and we're gonna take it the spirit of optimism and
Speaker 2: positivity to the extreme in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: We have to, we have to, we will be the
Speaker 1: light shining in the Medea of Weird Darkness.
Speaker 2: It's my middle name.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 4: It's a long middle name. Yeah, it really is, and
Speaker 4: that's fine with me. But we're we're just gonna keep
Speaker 4: pumping out the good times. And the first step is
Speaker 4: our sold out show at the Bob Baker Marinette Theater.
Speaker 4: It's the Banana Boy, It's Marionettes. And this is the
Speaker 4: kind of gigly google that we're going to do all
Speaker 4: year long.
Speaker 1: I can't wait. We still have yet to meet the Marionettes.
Speaker 1: We're going to meet the Marionettes soon. It's going to
Speaker 1: be a really fun show.
Speaker 2: I know. I'm gonna There's a couple of personal stories.
Speaker 2: The one I'm going to ask you about offline because
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if I were told it on the
Speaker 2: main pot. But when I see the animals they have,
Speaker 2: I'm like, boy, if I can get some of these
Speaker 2: marching while I tell the story, oh, I will be
Speaker 2: so happy.
Speaker 1: All right, great, I love that idea, Scotty. We have
Speaker 1: not spoken in a couple of weeks, probably in a
Speaker 1: couple weeks, maybe maybe a month, close to a month.
Speaker 2: We haven't recorded in over a month.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we are about so many to like because everyone
Speaker 1: was closed for so long. Hello, how is your holidays wonderful?
Speaker 2: And again I being in California during this time when
Speaker 2: it's freezing cold everywhere else and Louisville, Kentucky has ten
Speaker 2: inches of snow and all the it's like, uh, it's
Speaker 2: just nice to be lazy through the holidays. I'll say
Speaker 2: it like that.
Speaker 1: Yes it is. Indeed, I do miss that. I do
Speaker 1: miss that sweet time in between Christmas and New Year's
Speaker 1: which is just like a do nothing dead week because
Speaker 1: it with children, it doesn't really exist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't exist.
Speaker 1: It's like it kind of exists. Like we put the
Speaker 1: kids in camp one day and I just like sat
Speaker 1: and read. I'd read for like, I don't know, five
Speaker 1: hours straight.
Speaker 2: What a joy?
Speaker 1: What a jit? Uh joy? I sat in the couch
Speaker 1: and I read for like five hours. And I really
Speaker 1: that puts you in a like just zend out state
Speaker 1: that is so pleasant. And I never do it. I
Speaker 1: never do that. I would like to do that more,
Speaker 1: I won't.
Speaker 2: There's a great article on vox dot com that I
Speaker 2: just read. I like Vox and they have good stuff,
Speaker 2: and it was the key. There's always the clickbait articles
Speaker 2: that men don't read. They're like, young men don't read
Speaker 2: books anymore young and then this fox articles like why
Speaker 2: do we keep saying this? This is not true? And
Speaker 2: then they go through statistically and like the difference between
Speaker 2: young women reading and young men reading is like four percent.
Speaker 2: It's like it's just some dumb study that they're like,
Speaker 2: these guys aren't reading, We've lost them. It is I treat.
Speaker 1: It is a real treat. I do find how I
Speaker 1: do see a lot of stand ups do a joke
Speaker 1: about not reading and the audience really laughing a lot,
Speaker 1: like really being like that's me. I hate books, Like
Speaker 1: anti book comedy is big.
Speaker 2: I will just say that, all right, well that's fine.
Speaker 2: I guess they listen to podcasts, and I guess they
Speaker 2: listen to ebooks and audible books, which is fine. That's
Speaker 2: fine too. I count audibles as reading, even though it
Speaker 2: is not the same relaxing, imaginative experience of sitting down
Speaker 2: and turning those pages. But then again, I'm old parts.
Speaker 1: I know it just one more way that I'm out
Speaker 1: of step.
Speaker 2: It's a great joy. People like it was wonderful. I
Speaker 2: went to Safie's last night. Have you been to Safie's.
Speaker 2: It's the Mediterranean restaurant. It's directly next to the Scientology Center,
Speaker 2: which is funny in its own way. You feel like,
Speaker 2: is this are they tricking us in here to get
Speaker 2: us over there. No, it's great food, but boy, that
Speaker 2: is a Generation Z hot spot. And it just reminded
Speaker 2: me of Brooklyn in the two thousands. It was just fun.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the Scientology Center. We went and got ice
Speaker 1: cream the other night, and we're walking back with the
Speaker 1: ice cream and I just didn't even occur to me
Speaker 1: that we were across the street from the Scientology Center.
Speaker 1: And Olive looks over and she loves science, like she
Speaker 1: loves science. She looks over and I just watched her
Speaker 1: go science top. Well, well, well looks like somebody's found
Speaker 1: the church for there. I'm I go, no, no, Noboddy,
Speaker 1: oh sweetie, No, no, it's not science. It's not science based.
Speaker 1: It's different. Don't don't don't go.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it's lovely. Even if you did mention it,
Speaker 2: it's nice to know that Olive can read. And that's
Speaker 2: something that you, as a father, should brag about early
Speaker 2: and often and all the time. Folks, if you've never
Speaker 2: heard bananas it's strange news. Kurt is a stand up
Speaker 2: comedian actor writer. I'm a screenwriter, and then we tell
Speaker 2: our own personal stories. Sometimes we have wonderful guests, but
Speaker 2: on episodes like today's episode, it's just the banana boys
Speaker 2: shaking our tail feathers and having a good time talking
Speaker 2: about some headline like Kurtz that I did not understand
Speaker 2: here it is.
Speaker 1: It is a hard to understand one, but it's worth it.
Speaker 1: Tokyo cancel Christmas Protest March canceled by revolutionary lines of
Speaker 1: unpopular men? What does that mean?
Speaker 2: Popular man?
Speaker 1: This was in Japan today. Obviously this was by Casey Basil, her.
Speaker 2: Soul Japanese sounding name.
Speaker 1: In Japan, the biggest Christmas celebrations actually take place on
Speaker 1: Christmas Day now Christmas Eve. So on December twenty fourth,
Speaker 1: Christmas lights were shining around Tokyo, with the sounds of
Speaker 1: traditional Yule Tide music playing from shopping center speakers and
Speaker 1: reblers happily heading to day some parties with Give six
Speaker 1: TEMs in hand. However, there was something different about Christmas
Speaker 1: Eve and Tokyo this year. Something was missing The annual
Speaker 1: anti Christmas protest March held by the Revolutionary Alliance of
Speaker 1: Unpopular Men. Traditionally, the group gathers every year in the
Speaker 1: afternoon on December twenty fourth, carrying banners and chanting messages
Speaker 1: of opposition to Christmas Great. Specifically, the organization takes issue
Speaker 1: with Christmas Eve's status as the most romantic date night
Speaker 1: of the year, which is that must.
Speaker 2: Be in pane that is here.
Speaker 1: So yeah. However, it should be noted that the Japanese
Speaker 1: term that makes up the unpopular part of the Revolutionary
Speaker 1: Alliance of Unpopular Men's name himote, specifically refers to guys
Speaker 1: who aren't popular with women, and so it's pretty clear
Speaker 1: that the march isn't meant as a rally for those
Speaker 1: who want to focus on the religious or broader humanitarian
Speaker 1: aspects of the holidays, so much as a get together
Speaker 1: for those who are frustrated about their dateless status. This
Speaker 1: is so wild weird, yeah, strange, okay, stranger, yeah okay,
Speaker 1: though not large or lengthy.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think I found their problem twenty this is
Speaker 2: why they're single.
Speaker 1: The twenty twenty three march consisted of about fifteen people
Speaker 1: that lasted roughly thirty minutes.
Speaker 2: That's all right.
Speaker 1: The marches have been consistent, taking place on an annual
Speaker 1: basis since two thousand and seven. However, the group's slogan
Speaker 1: of Crushed Christmas couldn't be heard on the Shiboya streets
Speaker 1: this past Tuesday because the anti Christmas march was canceled,
Speaker 1: as announced through a post from the Revolutionary Alliance of
Speaker 1: Unpopular Men's Twitter account in December nineteenth. This doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that the organization has necessarily softened its stance against Christmas, though.
Speaker 1: It's just that while its members may be unpopular, they're
Speaker 1: not unlawful, and they weren't able to file the paperwork
Speaker 1: necessary for holding a protest march on public streets. The
Speaker 1: announcement is the announcement reads announcement regarding this year's Crush
Speaker 1: Christmas demonstration. Due to various circumstances, our representative was unable
Speaker 1: to carry out the application process, so the demonstration has
Speaker 1: been canceled. We sincerely, regretless and deeply apologied to apologize
Speaker 1: to you comrades. So while it would be an amusing
Speaker 1: I would be amusingly ironic if the Revolutionary Alliance So
Speaker 1: Unpopular Men have been disbanded as a result of its
Speaker 1: leaders finding dates for Christmas Eve. This appears to be mere
Speaker 1: contemporary setback for their cause, and presumably their annual march
Speaker 1: on Valentine's Day, another celebration They're not too keen on,
Speaker 1: is still in the works for twenty twenty five. Yep,
Speaker 1: that is to be a member of the of the
Speaker 1: Revolutionary Alliance of Unpopular Men. I think is self defeating, right,
Speaker 1: It kind of encourages you to stay in the Revolutionary
Speaker 1: Alliance of Unpopular Men.
Speaker 2: I agree. But also if those bozos are not out
Speaker 2: going on dates, they can't get the application in a time.
Speaker 2: It's like, what are you guys up to?
Speaker 1: What are you guys doing? You guys? Yeah, you guys
Speaker 1: want to protesting other things that everyone loves.
Speaker 2: I know, maybe that's it. But also it's funny, like
Speaker 2: what a great protest just to fill out an application
Speaker 2: to have a protest, and then you don't do it,
Speaker 2: so you don't protest. They're rule followers, and maybe that's
Speaker 2: what they need to learn is some women enjoy the
Speaker 2: bad boy. Not all, but many do. Yeah, that's a fascinating. Yeah,
Speaker 2: well one to protest Christmas is funny. I'm all for it.
Speaker 2: I love Christmas. I went to La Zoo Lights this
Speaker 2: year for the first time probably nine or ten years,
Speaker 2: most incredible light show I've ever seen in my entire life.
Speaker 2: What you got to go this year?
Speaker 1: No, I did not go this year.
Speaker 2: Well I don't know. Last year we went, but it
Speaker 2: is so thorough and great I couldn't believe. I actually
Speaker 2: could not believe how good it was.
Speaker 1: Wow. I went to Disconso Gardens, so we either do
Speaker 1: Disconso or we do Zoo Lights, and Disconso was very good.
Speaker 1: They like revamped stuff and it was like very nice
Speaker 1: this year. I like Disconso because it's more like everything's
Speaker 1: dark all the time and so it's just like you're
Speaker 1: in the woods and like things are lighting up, which is.
Speaker 2: It is nice? That is nice. Yeah, it's nice when
Speaker 2: you're in the woods and things start lighting up. That's
Speaker 2: always a good time.
Speaker 1: And it's slightly less animal jally, although I go it.
Speaker 1: I'm a member of the Zoo. I go all there
Speaker 1: all the time with the kids, just because it's like
Speaker 1: easy to go to because I live door to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's pretty year round here. Yeah, but that's cool.
Speaker 2: I'm all for protesting, like also in small groups, protesting
Speaker 2: something that is the majority really loves it's a very
Speaker 2: funny thing. And then to add the layer that they're
Speaker 2: really just bummed at being single, it's the most romantic.
Speaker 2: And so it'd be like in the States at least
Speaker 2: protesting Valentine's Day, right, that's yeah, and that's never I
Speaker 2: mean that would be great too. If I was going
Speaker 2: on a Valentine's Day date and there were a group
Speaker 2: of men protesting, I would laugh. I would be like, you're.
Speaker 5: Right, guys, the group go on that data and men
Speaker 5: who were good at organizing.
Speaker 2: It's fine, and they're horrible at organizing. It's also for
Speaker 2: it took fifteen minutes. This is good. That's a great, polite,
Speaker 2: nice story, Kurt. Do you think you know? You read
Speaker 2: all these articles and stuff about how young people are
Speaker 2: like having a hard time meeting or can't find relationships
Speaker 2: or aren't hooking up or aren't having sex. But when
Speaker 2: you read those are they talking about the straits? Are
Speaker 2: they talking about like straight people boring old school blooh,
Speaker 2: just reguar old straight people having a hard time hooking up?
Speaker 2: Are the lesbians out there just having a ball date
Speaker 2: and left and right and seeing right?
Speaker 1: I don't know all those stories like, no one's having
Speaker 1: sex anymore? Yeah, no one straight?
Speaker 2: Yeah are they?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I like honestly, I I like all
Speaker 1: those like trend pieces that I see constantly. I just
Speaker 1: doubt every single one of them. I'm like, maybe is
Speaker 1: this true? You know, like the thing like men aren't
Speaker 1: reading it's four percent difference.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like not true at all. And when I
Speaker 2: was a young boy, MTV hired me to write a
Speaker 2: in house scripted comedy video for all their employees to
Speaker 2: learn about the millennials. And they had an in site
Speaker 2: company that I think was called Insight, and they gave
Speaker 2: me all the bullet points of the millennials and then
Speaker 2: I had to work them all into scripts. So I
Speaker 2: called it the Millennial World. It was like the real world,
Speaker 2: and we cast I don't know six or sex. I
Speaker 2: guess seven people's this is true story, seven young strangers. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and and each represented a different millennial trait. And they
Speaker 2: loved it, and they showed it in house and paid
Speaker 2: me and then never showed it again. They showed it
Speaker 2: one time and everybody's like, Okay, now we know the millennials,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 2: They yeah, they were like Yeah, they liked to buy
Speaker 2: plane tickets on their phones. It was stuff like that.
Speaker 2: And you're like, okay, we could tell we know that's true.
Speaker 2: They like a variety of flavors. You're like, they say
Speaker 2: that about gen Z.
Speaker 1: Too, Like, I also, I love it when millennials, like
Speaker 1: I remember when like millennials were like they're the problem
Speaker 1: in the workplace from Gen X people, and now you're
Speaker 1: just seeing all of the millennial people would be like
Speaker 1: gen Z or the problem in the workplace. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: it's just that they're young and dumb. That's it. It's
Speaker 1: not generational. It's young and dumb. They've not been working
Speaker 1: for very long and so they don't know the rules.
Speaker 1: And every twenty years there's just like this swath of
Speaker 1: articles about like this new generation doesn't know how to
Speaker 1: work at all. Yes, right, and it's so stupid and
Speaker 1: it's nice and I'll say something bitter and I love
Speaker 1: to say it, is that what's really delightful is watching
Speaker 1: people who used to be very young get old where
Speaker 1: they're just like, oh, they were like the hot shit
Speaker 1: new young thing, and then you like watch them get
Speaker 1: into their mid thirties. As a person who had already
Speaker 1: gone through that, and you're like, yeah, it happens to everyone.
Speaker 1: If the thing that you're hanging on to that defines
Speaker 1: you is your youth, you're in. You're in for bad news.
Speaker 1: It's not good last for anybody.
Speaker 2: Nope. There's a very funny story about two young male
Speaker 2: comics in LA who drunkenly and I think they were
Speaker 2: a little enhands, yelling in front of a party of
Speaker 2: their friends with each other which one was the next
Speaker 2: James Dean, James both James Dean, not the modern porn
Speaker 2: star or whatever, the former you know, Hollywood Heartthrob. And
Speaker 2: my friend who witnessed it, they said everybody else was
Speaker 2: laughing because these guys were legitimately yelling at each other
Speaker 2: who was more likely to be the new James Dean
Speaker 2: and my director Buddy Goes. You guys know he died
Speaker 2: at like twenty five, right, And they were like, it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter, And now they're both out of the business completely.
Speaker 2: Now one of them is in show business asault. They
Speaker 2: never made it.
Speaker 1: Did I know them?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but probably more by reputation than they were LA guys.
Speaker 2: When we were in New York they were out here.
Speaker 2: But when I met one of them. They were like,
Speaker 2: don't even mess with that guy. They both think they're
Speaker 2: James Dean and their career side.
Speaker 1: It's such a weird reference point, you know, that's such
Speaker 1: a like for comedians. I don't think any comedian wants
Speaker 1: to be James Dean. That's so strange.
Speaker 2: How old was James Dean when he died. Let's look
Speaker 2: it up. We have a super right in front of us.
Speaker 2: He died at a twenty four. I was close. Oh wow,
Speaker 2: that is young young, It was young.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: His dad was named Winton and his mom was named Mildred.
Speaker 2: Those are great nineteen hundred's names, Old Winton and Million Wint.
Speaker 2: It's an educational podcast, and isn't it thinks? Now? You know,
Speaker 2: when you go to your work function later at night,
Speaker 2: or you know you're paying a babysitter so you can
Speaker 2: go out to dinner, you go. Do you know James
Speaker 2: Dean was only twenty four when he died.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: Also, it's very interesting too that, like so many people
Speaker 1: who we consider to be iconic or anything like that,
Speaker 1: are simply because they died before they had an opportunity
Speaker 1: to do like a raisin brand commercial, you know, like,
Speaker 1: if Kurt Kobain had lived long enough, we'd see him
Speaker 1: now like do stand up paddle boarding with Eddie Vedder,
Speaker 1: you know, and we would be like, that dude sucks.
Speaker 2: I've always said if Tupac was still alive, he'd be
Speaker 2: hosting America's Got Talent, because look at Snoop Dogg. Snoop
Speaker 2: Dogg is essentially more vanilla right now than almost everybody
Speaker 2: on televi He I love Snoop. I got no promise
Speaker 2: hereybody gets paid as much as you could get paid.
Speaker 2: But there was a time where he was on murder
Speaker 2: trial and I watched it on MTV when they found
Speaker 2: him not guilty, and then he had the song Murder
Speaker 2: was the case that they gave me, and it was like,
Speaker 2: now you're just like, look at this guy selling panos. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's hosting the Olympics, talking about tresash horses. He's like,
Speaker 2: he's selling Snoop Dogg could be on a Maxi Pad
Speaker 2: commercial and people be like, that's honestly fine. I like
Speaker 2: that guy, So you can't tell me Tupac would not
Speaker 2: be doing you know, bounce dryer sheet commercials.
Speaker 1: Tupac and Kirk Cobain on Dancing with the Stars. Got it?
Speaker 1: I want it? I want it so bad.
Speaker 2: Damn well, holograms are coming, so maybe bananam. Mark Kidsley
Speaker 2: sent this in and it's so good he did. We
Speaker 2: got some This story a by a lot of people,
Speaker 2: but he lives nearby. I'll talk about it more after
Speaker 2: the fact. But he's the perfect person to send this
Speaker 2: in for us BBC. That's real, written by many. Consider
Speaker 2: this gent the best in the business. Harry Stevens wrote
Speaker 2: this one.
Speaker 1: Harry Stevens better than Bald Stevens.
Speaker 2: Damn right. Why does a plate of bananas appear on
Speaker 2: our street every week? That's the headline?
Speaker 1: That is I guess it's Harry's street.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Harry Stevens. He's just he's out there. He's a
Speaker 2: man about town.
Speaker 1: So I have not heard the name Harry in so
Speaker 1: long that I can't not hear it as Harry h
Speaker 1: A I.
Speaker 2: R y well right, Harry Stevens would be like a
Speaker 2: funny improv team name where they all have beards and
Speaker 2: long hair and they're all named Stephen. What are the
Speaker 2: Harry Stevens. Actually, it's shocking, that's shocking. That doesn't exist.
Speaker 2: It's like the family, big black car Neutrino.
Speaker 1: Harry Stevens.
Speaker 2: Harry Stevens. It's just six guys named steven and they
Speaker 2: all have really long beards. They kind of look like
Speaker 2: zeezy top. Cartoons and comedy shows have taught us to
Speaker 2: avoid banana skins as a slip and fall hazard see
Speaker 2: Harry just as connecting on a deeply personal level for
Speaker 2: anybody born in the nineteen sixties. But what do you
Speaker 2: do when you encounter a plate full of the fruit
Speaker 2: that says full of the fruit unpeeled. That is exactly
Speaker 2: what's been happening in the small nottingham Shire town and
Speaker 2: no one knows the reason behind this strange tradition here
Speaker 2: it is, this is so good. The mystery plate of
Speaker 2: peeled bananas appears on the second day of every month
Speaker 2: on the corner of Abbey Road and Wendsor Avenue in Beeston,
Speaker 2: and residents say it has been a constant in their
Speaker 2: lives for more than a year.
Speaker 1: More than a year, every month or every.
Speaker 2: Week, excuse me, it was every month. Okay, second day
Speaker 2: of every month on the corner.
Speaker 1: Second day it's every Oh wow, okay.
Speaker 2: I've asked around in the local community, but no one
Speaker 2: really knows, and no one can tell me anything, said
Speaker 2: resident Claire Short. The bananas appear early in the morning
Speaker 2: on the second of the month. I see them on
Speaker 2: my way to work, and I'd love to have some
Speaker 2: answers to this. The bananas have propped it. This is
Speaker 2: just a plate of bananas. There's a photo of it.
Speaker 2: And the reason I said that it's so important that
Speaker 2: Mark Kinsley, the kids Ley the bananimal, who said it
Speaker 2: is He is a photographer and he lives nearby. And
Speaker 2: he said he's going to investigate forest further. And I said,
Speaker 2: send us a pick of those bananas when you go.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So Mark is a bananamal in the wild for us
Speaker 2: in Beston or nearby Beaston's a cute name. Yeah, Banana
Speaker 2: the bananas. The bananas have prompted a mixed reaction, and
Speaker 2: some neighbors saying the bananas go moldy in their street.
Speaker 2: Does not look appealing anymore. Harry Stevens. Miss Short tried
Speaker 2: to try to take the matter into her own hands.
Speaker 2: She put up a sign where the plate is to
Speaker 2: deter the yellow fruit being left there again. On January second, however,
Speaker 2: another plate of peeled bananas appeared in the usual spot.
Speaker 2: I've come to take down the signs because I don't
Speaker 2: really feel like making it a feud. I don't want
Speaker 2: it to become a big thing, she said, But it
Speaker 2: already is.
Speaker 3: It's so once you made the sign, it became a thing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: now you know you're now you're somebody knows. It's pissing
Speaker 3: people off, and they're only going to want to do
Speaker 3: it more.
Speaker 1: They're very excited now.
Speaker 2: And then the genius move is take a month off
Speaker 2: and then come right back and do it the next
Speaker 2: month so everything's it's over, and then just come back
Speaker 2: with two plates of peel bananas on the corner of
Speaker 2: Abbey and wherever wendsor Avenue in peace bananas.
Speaker 1: They're just the so there's no peel, there's no it's
Speaker 1: just naked banana, dripped.
Speaker 2: Down stack bananas on.
Speaker 1: A plate like a bunch of hot dogs.
Speaker 2: I think it's a special thing for someone, and I
Speaker 2: wish them well. But if if they could come back
Speaker 2: and clean up the mess a few days later, that
Speaker 2: would be lovely.
Speaker 1: That's a nice special thing for somebody.
Speaker 2: I'm going to keep an eye on it and keep
Speaker 2: cleaning up the mess. So this poor woman, Miss short
Speaker 2: just keeps doing it. It's gross. Other neighbors say. Other
Speaker 2: neighbors would rather see the banana's gone for good. I
Speaker 2: live nearby and they're very regularly here, said twenty six
Speaker 2: year old Josh Trentam. They are very annoying. I have
Speaker 2: no idea why they're here. Just one plate of bananas
Speaker 2: driving this tower. Bananas per month, one place per month.
Speaker 2: Jill Dowling, another wonderfully British name, added, it's so strange
Speaker 2: and disgusting. Someone puts it there and I don't like it.
Speaker 2: Resident Janet Hutchinson eighty one as young. She says, the
Speaker 2: bananas are clearly just bought, and the wildlife doesn't touch them.
Speaker 2: They go moldy. It's gross. Adam Castle, another puzzled resident,
Speaker 2: wonder if the gesture was perhaps a custom somewhere else.
Speaker 2: Adam said, what is this thing? I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's a cultural thing or what. It's strange. I've never
Speaker 2: heard or seen anything anywhere else where I've lived like this.
Speaker 1: I hope Harry Stevens speaks to every single human on
Speaker 1: this block.
Speaker 2: We're gonna be at.
Speaker 1: Least in half of the people who live there bananimals.
Speaker 2: Kurt and I encourage you in twenty twenty five to
Speaker 2: find your plate of peeled bananas. Let us know what
Speaker 2: it is. Don't hurt anybody, don't destroy anybody's property, but
Speaker 2: publicly start something new just for the sake of being
Speaker 2: as silly as you can. We won't tell anybody about it,
Speaker 2: your secret weird thing, but we would love love to
Speaker 2: hear about it. Right, Yeah, this is your year. This
Speaker 2: is your moment to figure out what is your peeled
Speaker 2: play of bananas in your small town that will drive
Speaker 2: everybody nuts, but get them talking about something else besides
Speaker 2: twenty four hour news coverage exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think on our first episode we had
Speaker 1: mashed potatoes being left all across town. Seeing people like
Speaker 1: to do. The fact that this is the fact that
Speaker 1: I am also aware of the weird trends of strangeness
Speaker 1: that human beings like to partake in, is also like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, that that's pretty common.
Speaker 2: It happens, but it's nice. I think, Yeah, this is
Speaker 2: just the world is boring and repetitive, and it takes
Speaker 2: so little to get people just talking, just gabbing it up.
Speaker 2: You don't think the local pubs in that town are
Speaker 2: having a field day, Yeah, speculating, And then you're looking
Speaker 2: at your neighbors a little different. You're wondering, you're watching
Speaker 2: people at grocery stores. Is this person buying one banana
Speaker 2: a time to get sneaky or are they buying a
Speaker 2: bunch of pm me, it's wonderful. It's a wonderful dumb
Speaker 2: and it's not us. By the way I'm saying all this,
Speaker 2: Kurt and I are not responsible for this, and there's
Speaker 2: not a been animal we're in contact with doing it,
Speaker 2: though I do somehow wish we were.
Speaker 1: I really do. It's a great marketing idea.
Speaker 2: It's fine with me. Sure it's a little bit of
Speaker 2: food waste. Sure, sure the flies like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, makes more.
Speaker 2: Animal will eat it. Mold exists, that's an animal or no,
Speaker 2: it might be, but mold likes it.
Speaker 1: Is it not an animal?
Speaker 2: It's a fungus. It's a plant, right.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Also, I think that those maybe those
Speaker 1: those like elementary school designations like plant animal is maybe
Speaker 1: it's a plant animal.
Speaker 2: Fungi is neither plant nor animal. They have their own
Speaker 2: kingdom and biology.
Speaker 1: What's the kingdom? What's the kingdom?
Speaker 2: Funk guy I guess, no, mold is a plant. Let's see. Nope,
Speaker 2: what mold is not a plant? We got to find
Speaker 2: its kingdom. This is huge. This is gonna make or
Speaker 2: break the entire podcast. We've got to find this kingdom.
Speaker 2: What kingdom is mold?
Speaker 1: What kingdom does mold rule?
Speaker 2: Does mold rule? I'm actually typing that they're in the
Speaker 2: fungi kingdom, which incleads ye, mold smut?
Speaker 1: What what's a smut?
Speaker 2: I've been living my whole life without, which includes yeast, mold, smuts,
Speaker 2: and mushrooms.
Speaker 1: What's the smuts?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: What is a smut of grains in which part of
Speaker 1: the ear changed to black powder? I've seen that, I've
Speaker 1: seen that on a on corn. Yes, but smutt?
Speaker 2: How did smut then become like pornography? That's a I
Speaker 2: love that. I'd never heard of smuts before. I guess
Speaker 2: I'm not a hazy.
Speaker 1: The craziest part is that when I pull up smut
Speaker 1: as a definition on Google, the only two are the
Speaker 1: fungal disease and a small flake of spot or other dirt,
Speaker 1: And it doesn't say like dirty. Yeah, yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2: I thought smut was like a really like low brow,
Speaker 2: pedestrian term for pornography. But it turns out it's just
Speaker 2: rocking that fung guy kingdom with mold, yeast, mushrooms and.
Speaker 1: Smut, just taking down grains.
Speaker 2: God, I feel wrinkles in my brain just blowing up
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: That's right out?
Speaker 2: Yeah, iron it flat. Well there you go. I'm worth
Speaker 2: that story, just in a smut. But yes to our
Speaker 2: wonderful but animal buddy Mark, please do go the second.
Speaker 2: Send us a photo. Take a picture of yourself, Take
Speaker 2: picture of your favorite person standing next to it. Be
Speaker 2: a bananimal in the while. Do it.
Speaker 1: I'll see this into a little shower.
Speaker 2: Thumbs I think I do have some thumbs ups.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh, here's something. This is just delight This is
Speaker 1: just delightful and easy. Missing Florida dog rings owner's doorbell
Speaker 1: to announce its return home. That's just delightful.
Speaker 2: What's the four feeling good?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, I I'm gonna just fly by the sea of
Speaker 2: my pants because the ones I have on my page
Speaker 2: I think I may have done we recorded so long ago,
Speaker 2: but so let's just go for it. Uh, these are
Speaker 2: the first ones I'm playing up on my phone. I
Speaker 2: will get to everybody. I promise thumbs up. Kelly Dare
Speaker 2: finally has a thumbs up worth mentioning. I want to
Speaker 2: thumbs up my husband we lovingly call Todd the Bod. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're in Vermont, and he took all three of our
Speaker 2: kids seventeen, fifteen, and eleven to my parents' house in
Speaker 2: New Jersey. It's an eight hour drive for six days
Speaker 2: after Christmas. By one each day someone fell ill with
Speaker 2: the neuro virus. I heard that was going around. I heard,
Speaker 2: I heard everybody's been a faucet this year, one by one.
Speaker 2: Thankfully he didn't get it. Todd the Bob did not
Speaker 2: get the normal. That's how good Todd's bod is.
Speaker 1: Nice work.
Speaker 2: I caught it, Kelly says, and I was out for
Speaker 2: a few days. But blah, blah blah. I bust on
Speaker 2: him a lot and often ask him if he wants
Speaker 2: a medal when he's done me mature, But this adventure
Speaker 2: he definitely deserves a metaphor thumbs up to Todd the Bob.
Speaker 1: Wow, that nice work.
Speaker 2: Did you guys get nora virus? Did go around the
Speaker 2: brown older household?
Speaker 1: Uh, Lauren and Olive got it. But that's it.
Speaker 2: Well, that's half that's all lot, and it sounded really bad.
Speaker 2: Here's one.
Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 2: I'm MICHAELA, and I like to thumb up myself for
Speaker 2: going in and starting a small business. My husband I
Speaker 2: got married this year. We've been discussing family planning. I
Speaker 2: work on a full time in person job and dream
Speaker 2: of having a career where I can have the flexibility
Speaker 2: to spend more time with my children. So this year
Speaker 2: I started a small Connecticut based event floral business, A
Speaker 2: flower business.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 2: That's I mean, how nice is that? I love, love,
Speaker 2: love flowers. She says, thumbs up to you. I've gotten
Speaker 2: lots of emails, but no official events yet for twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five. But I'm giving myself a thumbs up for
Speaker 2: starting it because that means it's real. Check me out
Speaker 2: at Serendipitous blooms Co on Instagram. So if you're Connecticut
Speaker 2: and animal, congratulations. Miquel thumbs up, and then Brandy says
Speaker 2: giant thumbs way way up to my brother in law,
Speaker 2: doctor Markham and as I see you partner, doctor Trosclare
Speaker 2: for literally saving my husband's life yesterday January first, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five. My husband, a career firefighter and paramedic, had
Speaker 2: to be transported to a rural hospital er for sudden
Speaker 2: onset illness. Staff were great, but stumped they could not
Speaker 2: They said they might need to intubate him and take
Speaker 2: him into the ICU. I called Cory, my brother in law,
Speaker 2: and told him the limited amount of information I had,
Speaker 2: and he said, tell them to call her hospital. We
Speaker 2: will accept him. He arrived to a higher level of
Speaker 2: care in the hospital within four hours of entering the
Speaker 2: r practically lightning speed for how long those things can take,
Speaker 2: which is true. When my husband arrived, my brother in
Speaker 2: law thought he might die eminently.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is nuts.
Speaker 2: With rapid intervention and marveus medical minds, they diagnosed him
Speaker 2: with a very rare complication from a medication he was on. Later,
Speaker 2: I was told that if he had been intubated at
Speaker 2: the rural hospital, he likely would have died. Once I
Speaker 2: know this is this is amazing. This is a good
Speaker 2: thumbs up to go out because this is life or death. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're all important, but sometimes I feel like I chewed
Speaker 2: nine pieces of gum today. That's a personal record, like
Speaker 2: thumbs up. We love you, But this so Brandy says.
Speaker 2: Once I was able to process the shock of almost
Speaker 2: I'm a widow at forty three. I put on bananas
Speaker 2: and have been listening to bring a smile on my
Speaker 2: face in this impossible time. You guys have been my
Speaker 2: lifeline onward and upward and hoping for a happier year.
Speaker 2: Brandy Shmandy thumbs up to those doctors, doctor Markham and
Speaker 2: doctor Troussclaire thumbs up to the husband for surviving and
Speaker 2: being a firefighter paramedicuint thumbs up to you Brandi Shmandy, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: WHOA.
Speaker 2: You can always send your thumbs ups and I'm usually
Speaker 2: better about them to the the Banans podcast at gmail
Speaker 2: dot com or the bananz podcast on Instagram, and I
Speaker 2: am doing my best, y'all.
Speaker 1: This is missing Florida dog rings owner's doorbell to announce
Speaker 1: its return home. This is written by Guardian staff. Nobody
Speaker 1: wanted to take a credit for this. This was in
Speaker 1: the Guardian. This is basically here does Florida dog, missing
Speaker 1: for more than a week, came home on Christmas Eve
Speaker 1: and rang its owner's doorbell. To a note the full
Speaker 1: story right. It was two thirty am. She came pawing
Speaker 1: at the door, ringing the doorbell, which was Christmas Eve,
Speaker 1: and then that morning I woke up. She had made
Speaker 1: it on everybody's doorbell camera. The dog, a four year
Speaker 1: old German shepherd named Athena, was lost on the fifteenth
Speaker 1: of December, which prompted a frantic search. People all the
Speaker 1: way from Jacksonville and Saint Augustine were like, inboxing me
Speaker 1: inboxing me? Is that what people say instead of emailing?
Speaker 1: Now they were inboxing me.
Speaker 2: If I'm a'll adjust, I'll make the adjustment.
Speaker 1: Can tell me, comer said Athenas two am. Return woke up.
Speaker 1: Her family tried not to wake up the kids, but
Speaker 1: the kids woke up anyways from the excitement. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: imagine that. You know, Christmas came early, Christmas Eve, events
Speaker 1: are happening near the tree. You know. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say specifically what. I don't know who's listening. And then
Speaker 1: the dog wakes every all the kids up. Holy shit,
Speaker 1: that would be that's a that if kids woke up
Speaker 1: at two thirty in the morning because came home, they're
Speaker 1: just up. You're done, You're tough.
Speaker 2: But it's so it's so fun. I mean that is
Speaker 2: also like there's a good lesson in not giving up hope, yep,
Speaker 2: but my goodness, gracious, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is fine.
Speaker 2: My sister's dog got away and was on the loose
Speaker 2: for nineteen days in Maryland, and that you have to
Speaker 2: hire these dog trackers. I don't know if I ever
Speaker 2: talked about this in the pot, but dog got out,
Speaker 2: got startled, ran away. They live in North Baltimore. There's highways,
Speaker 2: there's Beltway, you know, they called the Beltway.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 2: There's tons of houses, roads and people, and people kept
Speaker 2: spotting this dog and so they knew it was alive.
Speaker 2: And so what happens after a certain amount of times
Speaker 2: with dogs in the wild, when they're scared enough, they
Speaker 2: actually go faral like they call the wild gets back
Speaker 2: into them. Oh wow. And so they're in survival mode
Speaker 2: and they left out food, you lift out liquid, smoke,
Speaker 2: you do all these things to kind of attract dog
Speaker 2: certain areas. But people were like, I saw your dog, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know the stuff I just for like why.
Speaker 1: That would smoke? Dogs love liquids.
Speaker 2: I think it draws them in. I think it's like
Speaker 2: a human food smell.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So they hired this dude.
Speaker 2: My parents were involved, my uncles were involved. I mean
Speaker 2: everybody's driving around, and they figured out the dog was
Speaker 2: using tunnels water river tunnels to go underneath the highway,
Speaker 2: so he was crossing into different neighborhoods going under six
Speaker 2: ninety five. And my sister saw him by the river side.
Speaker 2: And this dog is so obsessed with my sister it's nuts,
Speaker 2: I mean absolutely obsessed. Big dog, like eighty ninety pound
Speaker 2: Great Pyrenees dog huge, So it's not like a little
Speaker 2: guy that they knew this dog wasn't going to get
Speaker 2: like eaten by a fox, yeah, but could get hit
Speaker 2: by a car so easily. They were worried sick. My
Speaker 2: nephews are worried sick. So my sister sees the dog.
Speaker 2: She's like searching on the places where she knows he
Speaker 2: likes to be out on the Gunpowder River or whatever.
Speaker 2: And the dog doesn't recognize my sister. That's how wild
Speaker 2: it had gotten. So she's she's like cawing it.
Speaker 1: We had the dog been gone.
Speaker 2: So that point maybe a week to ten days, maybe
Speaker 2: a little longer wow, but ultimately it was gone nineteen days.
Speaker 2: And so people are driving around and like I think
Speaker 2: like a FedEx light was like I remember that dog.
Speaker 2: I saw that dog walking down the sidewalk, like people
Speaker 2: are looking for this cowprint pyrenees, and finally someone spotted it.
Speaker 2: My brother in law drives over and the woman's like,
Speaker 2: it was pawing at our door, and he goes, Okay,
Speaker 2: do you mind if I look around. They're like, no,
Speaker 2: that's fine, and he goes around the back of their
Speaker 2: house and looks under their deck and there's the dog,
Speaker 2: and he like, you know, as a treat or food
Speaker 2: or whatever, and he like kneels down and softly calls
Speaker 2: the dog over. He's like, astro, come here, come here.
Speaker 2: The dog comes over, he clicks the leash on his collar,
Speaker 2: and it was over. And as soon as they got
Speaker 2: it home, the dog was like it never left. Nineteen
Speaker 2: days on the run. Oh my Baltimore Man Magazine wrote
Speaker 2: I think it was. Baltimore Magazine wrote an entire article
Speaker 2: on it. I'll have to look that up. Maybe i'll
Speaker 2: do that one sometime. But there's a dude named Bob Swenson.
Speaker 2: And when your dog goes missing, you call this guy
Speaker 2: and he helps you track it and lure it back in.
Speaker 2: Because at a certain point, even domesticated family pets are
Speaker 2: certain survival mode, and it's like every person is scary
Speaker 2: to them. They're drinking out of rivers and puddles. And
Speaker 2: they got it back and they said it was exhausted.
Speaker 2: They got it home and like smelled everybody wagon it's sale,
Speaker 2: laid down, fell asleep, and then it's never been different.
Speaker 2: But it was like nineteen stressful days. So so to
Speaker 2: your point, if that dog, if Astra had come up
Speaker 2: and wrung the doorbell exactly, they would have burst into tears.
Speaker 2: They would have exploded into tears.
Speaker 1: Does your dog want to run away? Like, does it
Speaker 1: try to run if the door's open or anything.
Speaker 2: No, he stays closed.
Speaker 1: My dog either like I once left, or the kid
Speaker 1: Like I walked out, the kids were behind me. I'm
Speaker 1: sure stupidly assumed that a child would close the front
Speaker 1: or they did it. We drove to school. I was
Speaker 1: gone for thirty minutes. I came back front door wide open,
Speaker 1: and Zelda is just sitting there, just waiting for me
Speaker 1: to come back in. She wasn't even in the front yard,
Speaker 1: she was in the house.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's I think once dogs are set,
Speaker 2: it's not surprising to me. But if they get spooked,
Speaker 2: I mean that's what happens. And you know if a
Speaker 2: dog gets scared or startled and just bolts geeze. I
Speaker 2: mean but I when you know, at the cabin at
Speaker 2: my old place. Definitely once and I think twice, but
Speaker 2: definitely one time Punk came over in the morning. My
Speaker 2: back door was open. Punk's walking around. I didn't I
Speaker 2: get ready. I go to a picture, an interview or whatever,
Speaker 2: and then I realized halfway there that that cat was
Speaker 2: still in my house and it's not my cat, and
Speaker 2: I was gonna be gone for like eight hours. So
Speaker 2: then you have the thing where you're like, well, man,
Speaker 2: is the toilet open so it can drink water?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: How fast? Who has my like? Who can go over
Speaker 2: my house? Where's my high to key? All that kind
Speaker 2: of thing. And I eventually I did the pitch back.
Speaker 2: There was Punk just sitting on the sofa, just like
Speaker 2: he owned the joint, just like you lived there. Didn't
Speaker 2: seem bother at all. And I think when they're comfy,
Speaker 2: if they feel secure, they'll just stay put.
Speaker 1: Man, while you were telling that story, the wind blew
Speaker 1: a ladder over and it just ripped down all the
Speaker 1: nice lights that I have have put on Sturt them.
Speaker 2: Oh no, well are they replaceable?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I guess so. In La today there's supposed
Speaker 1: to be wind gusts up to eighty miles an hour. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's is really crazy.
Speaker 2: I know they're shutting off power all over the city. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because they don't want the wind to spark fires from
Speaker 2: blowing over power lines. And you're like, yeah, that's good,
Speaker 2: let's not do that. Yeah, but you know we have
Speaker 2: drones flying over. It's fine, everything's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a thousand drones. Scottie keeps sending me videos of
Speaker 1: just ten drones in the sky over.
Speaker 2: Near his house every I mean night, but some nights
Speaker 2: they're like six or more. Information like, yeah, they are drones,
Speaker 2: these are not helicopters. And I just sit there and
Speaker 2: you kind of get to the place which might be
Speaker 2: the strategy of whoever's flying them where Now I'm like
Speaker 2: I don't care. Yeah, and I should, we all should,
Speaker 2: I guess, but I'm like, I truly don't care, Like,
Speaker 2: just just either tell me what they're doing. But I
Speaker 2: have now started I've chosen to ignore them.
Speaker 1: They're soon just going to be like cars where you're
Speaker 1: just like you're not being like, what is that car?
Speaker 1: Doing driving down the street. You're just like, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a car over there, it drives down the street. That's
Speaker 1: some cars do. They're just gonna be everywhere.
Speaker 2: Did you see that decency?
Speaker 1: Did you watch the Golden Globes?
Speaker 2: I did it. I only watched the clips of Nikki
Speaker 2: Glazer doing great. I thought she killed clips. I saw
Speaker 2: she looked amazing. Yeah she did.
Speaker 1: She's really I mean like and you could tell she
Speaker 1: worked really hard. I knew a bunch of the writers
Speaker 1: on that, but yeah, she did a really great job.
Speaker 1: But one of the the you know, they did the
Speaker 1: Golden Globe for Best Comedy Special, and Adam Sandler's knew.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know he had a new stand up
Speaker 1: special out. I loved his first one. But the joke
Speaker 1: that they clipped out to show about it is just
Speaker 1: during the show, he puts the spotlight on one white
Speaker 1: guy in the audience and and Adam Taylor singing guy
Speaker 1: with a drone at the beach making everybody uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and he is.
Speaker 1: And it was like the only clip of a stand
Speaker 1: up special that got a laugh on its own. All
Speaker 1: the other clips were just like, you know, it's hard
Speaker 1: to clip a five second piece from a stand up special.
Speaker 2: Right, because it's momentum. It's a show that you're building
Speaker 2: towards things. Yeah, yeah, I thought Nikki did great. She
Speaker 2: is really on her way. I mean yeah, she talked
Speaker 2: about somebody earned it, no kidding, she earned it. Here's
Speaker 2: a fun one.
Speaker 1: Send us home, Scottie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how much time do we haven't?
Speaker 1: Seven minutes?
Speaker 2: Seven minutes? Natalie Hibbs sent this beauty, and thank you.
Speaker 2: Natalie Hibbs. Really appreciate that thieves returned rug to the
Speaker 2: Madonna in Steakhouse and Sanley Obispo, but their identities remain
Speaker 2: a mystery.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm interested to hear how this happens.
Speaker 2: Well, Google is after the fact, Kurt, because when you
Speaker 2: see these are two teenagers and they have like masks on,
Speaker 2: but they have like hoodies. These are two teenagers that
Speaker 2: thought it would be funny to steal a rug and
Speaker 2: then realize they're probably going to get in trouble and
Speaker 2: then return it. And it's so suburban, like slow San
Speaker 2: louy Obispo is so beautiful. I love it up there.
Speaker 2: I love the Madonna in Yeah, but it's like I
Speaker 2: can see myself in the not smartphone, not ring cameras
Speaker 2: on everything Era. Having done this exact thing, like a
Speaker 2: crime you think is cool and then you are a
Speaker 2: good kid and you regret it and you take it
Speaker 2: back just so it goes away. Instead we talked to
Speaker 2: it to hundreds of thousands of strangers. A rug that
Speaker 2: was stolen from the Madonna in in a repeat crime over.
Speaker 1: Three weeks crime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, oh, this was written by Chloe Schrager in
Speaker 2: the Tribune. Oh she's so good.
Speaker 1: Not a Tribune. This is the Tribune, folks.
Speaker 2: The Tribune. Best in the beeswax cloe dog, shreg dog,
Speaker 2: She's good. Rugg that was stilling from the Madonna in
Speaker 2: and a repeat crime over two weeks ago. Was returned
Speaker 2: to the hotel Monday, but the criminals are still unknown.
Speaker 2: The welcome rug was taken from the entryway and the hotel.
Speaker 2: But you know that plays everything there is so ordinate
Speaker 2: and decorated. It's I'm sure it's insane, with like a
Speaker 2: giant m and yea's probably a wild Also, it's the
Speaker 2: closest to the door if it's a welcome run. The
Speaker 2: welcome rug was taken from the entryway of the hotel's
Speaker 2: gold Rush Steakhouse, oh, November sixteenth, by two college age
Speaker 2: young men again how do they know? They look younger
Speaker 2: than me, wearing black hoodies, medical masks, and the general manager,
Speaker 2: Connie Pierce, told the Tribune they escaped in a silver
Speaker 2: pickup before Pierce was able to identify them. Pierce went
Speaker 2: to San Lui Obispo's police department with security footage of
Speaker 2: the incident and the license plate of the getaway car.
Speaker 2: She said, Police identify the owner of the truck, a
Speaker 2: Reno woman who was presumably the mother of at least
Speaker 2: one of the thieves, but you refused to give the
Speaker 2: whereabouts of her son to police. There you go, Mom's
Speaker 2: not a snitch.
Speaker 1: That's a Reno mom. That's a Reno mom. I'm not
Speaker 1: telling you.
Speaker 2: Also, good title for a TV show, Reno Mom, Reno Mom?
Speaker 2: What size? How many tickets do you think we could
Speaker 2: sell in Reno? One hundred and fifty two hundred. I
Speaker 2: would love to do a show in Reno, is what
Speaker 2: I'm But I don't know how many fans. I don't
Speaker 2: know how many people are in Nevada. I agree, we're
Speaker 2: four or five people that, Yeah, Las Vegas has a
Speaker 2: lot of people.
Speaker 1: They yeah, But and Renos. How I mean, like Reno,
Speaker 1: you get like all the parts of California as well,
Speaker 1: because it's like right on the border, right it is
Speaker 1: to Reno.
Speaker 2: It's fine as well. All right, Reno nevade as a population.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think how many people population of two
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy four thousand. That's a lot.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll look it up. Yeah, look, listener, hit us up.
Speaker 2: We have some Yeah, and you know what comedy club
Speaker 2: people actually enjoy going to Reno?
Speaker 1: Kurt?
Speaker 2: We could we could road trip there. Yeah, it's only
Speaker 2: about an eight hour drive. We could go half away.
Speaker 2: Maybe we do that. Let's go to Reno in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five. Yeah, but the mom did not tell police
Speaker 2: where her sons were. She refused to give whereabouts. Then,
Speaker 2: on Monday, over two weeks after the theft, the hotel
Speaker 2: received a package in the mail containing the.
Speaker 1: Ring, mailed it back. Think about how expensive to mail
Speaker 1: a rug is? Yeah, that's pretty expensive.
Speaker 2: I know, but it's good they're I think they're back
Speaker 2: in Reno. I think they were probably driving by goofing
Speaker 2: off and they're the I mean, who knows. Also, gold
Speaker 2: Rush Steakhouse is incredible. If you've never been to the
Speaker 2: Madonna In. It's a wonderful place. A lot of our
Speaker 2: peers have gotten married there because it is the most
Speaker 2: over the top hotel I've ever been to. It's one
Speaker 2: hundred and something rooms, one hundred and ten rooms, one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty rooms, and every single one is decorated differently.
Speaker 1: Every single one.
Speaker 2: They have a theme. So some are clown rooms, some.
Speaker 1: Are cave rooms like carooms.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's five or six waterfall rooms where the shower
Speaker 2: is a rock structure that pours water on you like
Speaker 2: a waterfall. I stayed at one called rock Bottom, which
Speaker 2: is very At that point in my life, that probably
Speaker 2: was the right place for me to be staying. I
Speaker 2: also stayed one and Tall and Short. That's a really
Speaker 2: good room. If you're going to reserve one, stay in
Speaker 2: the Tall and Short room. It's really fun.
Speaker 1: What's tall and short about it?
Speaker 2: It's nothing, I mean, that's the funny. It's the color.
Speaker 2: The color scheme in there is beautiful. It's a balcony room,
Speaker 2: which is nice, but there it's a great place. If
Speaker 2: you're ever on a road trip in California, go to
Speaker 2: the Madonna In stay a night. They have a bar,
Speaker 2: the Silver Bar. They have a steakhouse. They have a steakhouse,
Speaker 2: they have a breakfast thing. They have vented shopping upstairs,
Speaker 2: and they have pools. But it is just one of
Speaker 2: the strangest. It's amazing. It's rooms. There's nothing better. It's
Speaker 2: romantic in its own way. I went there, God, I
Speaker 2: mean to talk about Windy Day. I went there like
Speaker 2: two or three, yeah, probably three years ago. And near
Speaker 2: the Madonna In there are horse pastures. I don't know
Speaker 2: if they're connected to the Madonna In, but they're definitely
Speaker 2: horse farm nearby, and I thought, you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go commune with nature, take a little walk, say hi
Speaker 2: to these horses. I love you love a horse.
Speaker 1: Doesn't love a horse. I don't understand them, But either
Speaker 1: I don't understand the deep connection they have with other
Speaker 1: with human beings, because every time I interact with a horse,
Speaker 1: it's very much like you're kind of like a bird.
Speaker 1: You don't really seem to make a connection. But that's me.
Speaker 1: I don't. Also, I'm not I'm not combing them. I
Speaker 1: guess you got a comba horse to really get on
Speaker 1: its good side.
Speaker 2: They got Tickelet's chin a little bit, give a little nose,
Speaker 2: a little scratch on the nose. But yeah, some people
Speaker 2: are confident around horses. I'm still pretty terrified of them overall.
Speaker 2: I feel like, even when I'm riding them, I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: I could die at any moment, and this would be
Speaker 2: a horrible way to go. But I go over there.
Speaker 2: There's like four or five horses in the field. They're
Speaker 2: real pretty, and I'm picking all this long grass. I'm
Speaker 2: picking the best grass outside of the pen I can
Speaker 2: get because i really want to show these horses a treat.
Speaker 2: They're probably one hundred two hundred yards away from me,
Speaker 2: and so I hold up this sampful of just green,
Speaker 2: long grass that probably i'd been cut since the mid eighties,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, you know, calling over, you know, like
Speaker 2: hey horse, and like clack. I'm just making noises, you know,
Speaker 2: like slapping my chest doing all this stuff, and they
Speaker 2: start coming over. Three horses walk over, okay, and they
Speaker 2: get over to me. And every time I go to feed,
Speaker 2: if the wind is so windy, it's blowing the grass
Speaker 2: out of my hand because I'm holding my palm flat
Speaker 2: like they teach you when your little kids. The horse
Speaker 2: doesn't chomp. So these horses are getting like one blade
Speaker 2: of grass, and I don't know what sound horses make
Speaker 2: when they're angry. I'm not a horse guy, I'm not
Speaker 2: an eck Wine studies major. But one of them is grunting,
Speaker 2: and so my communing with nature was me pretending to
Speaker 2: feed horses. I'm running around grabbing more grass, trying to
Speaker 2: be cool. I'm holding it different. It just keeps blowing away.
Speaker 2: One horse just walks away. One horse is like the
Speaker 2: old sage was like I've seen this came before. This
Speaker 2: is like the three Cardmonte equivalent for horses. The other
Speaker 2: one was so sweet. I think it was like a mayor.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to like feed this, and then there's a
Speaker 2: grunting horse that I just gave up and walked away.
Speaker 5: And from that horse's perspective, some asshole just waves grass
Speaker 5: at them, the horse horse, and then just keeps letting
Speaker 5: grass blow away from them without ever feeding them, and
Speaker 5: then just lightly hurries away without looking back.
Speaker 2: So ashamed. The next person that probably tried to saddle
Speaker 2: that horse probably got bucked so far into the air.
Speaker 1: But I tried to commune.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like to commune with nature.
Speaker 1: You did it. Congratulate nature, that horse and grass next
Speaker 1: time you're at the Madonna and give it.
Speaker 2: A big old carrot.
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