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Speaker 2: Well strap in cuz scientists want to build a sperm

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Speaker 3: Why wouldn't they. Let's find out on bananas.

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Speaker 2: Ba, Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Bananas. I am Kurt

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Speaker 2: Brown Older.

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Speaker 3: I am Scotti Landis.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to the silliest little podcast there

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Speaker 2: Kurt.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna tee you up a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I think you have some stuff to plug home, dog,

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Speaker 2: Quick plug guys, before we bring on our fantastic guest.

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Speaker 3: What a guest.

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Speaker 2: I have not done stand up in over a year.

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Speaker 2: The last place I was supposed to do stand up March,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, March thirteenth in Portland, Oregon, in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 2: and I canceled that show. Wow, And now I'm dipping

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Speaker 2: my toe back in. We're doing this experiment. I am

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Speaker 2: doing a weekend at Helium in Portland Goday thirteenth, fourteenth,

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Speaker 2: you know, Biden just said everybody's gonna be able to

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Speaker 1: More people recommended this guest to be a guest on

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Speaker 1: Bananas than any other guests we've ever had. And I think,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, all ages, all genders, all people. We're teeing

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Speaker 1: her up so much. We're building our guest up so much,

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Speaker 2: Is she is an MIT engineer turned Emmy nominated science

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Speaker 2: TV host. You've seen her shows Emily's Wonder Lab on

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Speaker 2: bunch of TEDx talks you should really watch, which we'll

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Speaker 2: Emily CALLANDRELLI.

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Speaker 5: Hello, Hello, Hello.

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Speaker 2: For having me, Thank you for coming on. Did I

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Speaker 5: That you nailed it first time. Great job.

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Speaker 2: it on that one. Hi, Emily, Hello, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 2: I was just telling you before that my daughter is

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Speaker 2: And you shot the whole thing nine months pregnant.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, that was great. Absolutely that reminds me of your

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Basically, I talk about how being from West Virginia

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Speaker 6: It's such an inherently West Virginian experience to have some

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Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, And I love that. It really resonated with

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Speaker 6: Yeah, telling them they're stupid is not usually the most

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Speaker 3: Nope, no, Gotti, you got all right. Yeah, let's let's

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Speaker 1: Ac Parker seventeen AC Parker seventeen sent this in Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much. A woman diagnosed with Crohn's disease actually

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Speaker 1: So this was written by the one, the only, Jessica Shota.

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Speaker 2: Beck, the best in the Kurt.

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Speaker 1: She's so good at typing. It's crazy and New York

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Speaker 1: Crone sucks. We all know that a woman's believed she

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Speaker 3: But she was not.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just snacking on condiments.

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Speaker 1: Maybe not the smartest digestive decision, but she wasn't real

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Speaker 1: The second one, it was two packets with pions on that.

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Speaker 3: So you know, nobody can eat just one.

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Speaker 2: You can never eat just one Ketchup packet.

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Speaker 1: when we're allowed to. She remained in good conditions and surgery.

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Speaker 3: Okay, calm down, Jessica.

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Speaker 2: Dare some kind right? Yes, it was terrifying as a

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Speaker 2: I had no idea these things could happen, these bad

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: I was doing a magic trick. Oh okay, that wasn't magic.

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Speaker 2: And I swallowed it and he did swallow it. And

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Speaker 2: Do you feel like time think I have changed? I

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Speaker 1: Two dimes in a nickel four weeks later. This is

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Speaker 1: Doctors say that this is the first time that quotes

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, fascinating. I mean, it is a relief,

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Speaker 2: But that is weird to catch a packs too. I

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Speaker 5: You ate a quarter.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I can imagine it, but I can't imagine

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Speaker 1: And it made it pretty far as far as you know,

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Speaker 1: My buddy John and I must have done it one

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Speaker 1: time where I entered him in a Heinz ketchup slogan contest.

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Speaker 1: It was called say something and ketchup and he won.

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Speaker 1: So I was sitting in my living room and he

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Speaker 1: walks out. John walks out of his bedroom and he's like,

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Speaker 1: did somebody enter me in the Hines say something ketchupy contest?

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Speaker 2: I have a question. Is this the guy? Is this

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Speaker 2: the guy who play guitar in the park with his

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Speaker 2: no no no.

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Speaker 3: That was in Brooklyn. That was that was.

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Speaker 1: We'll call him Zaye for future stories. Emily, I may

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Speaker 1: have lived with a serial killer, but we'll figure. We're

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Speaker 1: working on it. Kurt met him, he can back it up.

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Speaker 1: But so and I forgot I did. I used to

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Speaker 1: just go to the university library and just sit there

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Speaker 1: and google like free stuff.

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Speaker 3: And so Hines.

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Speaker 1: The idea was that if you had the winning slogan

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Speaker 1: for their label, they would print like one million bottles

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Speaker 1: with it. You'd win five thousand bucks and something else.

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Speaker 1: So I was like, we're rich. I was like, I

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Speaker 1: did it. I did it for you, and he said, well,

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Speaker 1: they have like a letter and then the letter said

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Speaker 1: like you won. Uh, here's a T shirt that says

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Speaker 1: your logo with a but that they weren't putting my

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Speaker 1: slogan on because, uh, they gave it to this other one.

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Speaker 1: That and the other one I remember was the best if,

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Speaker 1: best if Eaten, best if Eaten, which is so boring.

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Speaker 3: That's not great, And so they put that on a

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Speaker 3: million bottles.

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Speaker 1: Mine was take me to your Wiener, and they refuse

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Speaker 1: to put it on, and I actually got an email

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Speaker 1: that was like, you won, but uh, we're not going

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Speaker 1: to take me to your wiener. Yeah, we're not taking

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Speaker 1: take me to your wiener. It was so sweet and

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Speaker 1: I think John stills the shirt John wear it to

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Speaker 1: my wedding. KURTI, B do you want to tease us

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Speaker 1: into an awesome break?

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Speaker 2: I will tease this into an awesome break. How does

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Speaker 2: that sound? Halifax man receives mysterious three headed taxidermic Duckling

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Speaker 2: in the mail.

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Speaker 1: Emily, I think you get the vibe of our show,

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Speaker 1: and obviously on these three stories alone.

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Speaker 6: We're I feel like I spend so much time on

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Speaker 6: Twitter and reading so many news stories and I have

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Speaker 6: never in my life come across stories like this.

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Speaker 2: These are from this week, so it's a weird world.

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Speaker 7: Welcome the bananas, Bananas BAA.

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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, we are back Scotti. What should we

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Speaker 2: tell everybody before we bring our sweet guests back on? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Well, what we should say is you can call the

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Speaker 1: Banana phone. I'm still answering it. I think I have

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Speaker 1: to do it until August. So keep calling me two

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Speaker 1: one three two one four seven nine seven four. I

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Speaker 1: have had a million great conversations, and I have some

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Speaker 1: Australians and some Kiwis call me now. And Luke on

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Speaker 1: the South Island, who told me not to mention him,

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Speaker 1: has called me from New Zealand twice.

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Speaker 3: Luke, I love you. I hope you're still listening.

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Speaker 1: And send us your weird news stories so you can

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Speaker 1: keep confusing our wonderful guest like Emily uh to the

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Speaker 1: Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com or the Bananas Podcast

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Speaker 1: on Instagram.

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Speaker 3: And you're the best.

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Speaker 2: You are the best, Emily Callandrelly is our guest. She's

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Speaker 2: absolutely wonderful. Is there going to be another serious season?

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Speaker 3: Question?

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Speaker 2: Wonder lab That's a great question.

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Speaker 5: That is the question that I am.

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Speaker 2: Also asking right now. You're on tender Hucks waiting.

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Speaker 5: I would love it.

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Speaker 6: I think the impact that this type of show had

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Speaker 6: is one that I haven't seen in a long time.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, especially if you, like, I mean, if you're a parent.

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Speaker 6: Finding science material that is fun to watch for kids.

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Speaker 6: Kids just enjoy that is easy to watch for parents,

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Speaker 6: and that the scientific community looks at and is like, Yeah,

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Speaker 6: that checks out.

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Speaker 5: That's legitimate.

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Speaker 6: That's there, You're learning all the right things. Like it

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Speaker 6: has all of those things. And the bonus is that

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Speaker 6: it's toasted by a woman, which is nice because like

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Speaker 6: for me growing up, the only science people I saw

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Speaker 6: on TV, in movies that I read about in books

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Speaker 6: all guys, all guys. And I think that sometimes maybe

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Speaker 6: people who work at networks don't quite understand how unique

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Speaker 6: that is to have something like that. And so I

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Speaker 6: mean on Halloween, I had a ton of girls around

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Speaker 6: the world press up as me because they wanted to

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Speaker 6: be a scientist for Halloween.

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Speaker 2: Cool And I'm like how And.

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Speaker 5: Some of them even put like a pillow in their

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Speaker 5: stomach to.

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Speaker 8: Be It's like that's what they said, that's what they

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Speaker 8: thought a scientist look like, which is mind shifting. It's

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Speaker 8: like completely, it's a shift in how you think about

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Speaker 8: what a scientist and an engineer looks.

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Speaker 2: Like, yeah, when I dress up as a scientist, I

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Speaker 2: have to be pregnant because scientists are.

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Speaker 5: Scientists are pregnant.

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Speaker 6: Scientists are also moms, and so yeah, and so we

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Speaker 6: are crossing our fingers that it gets picked up because like,

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Speaker 6: the problem the challenges is that cartoons are cheaper, right, right,

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Speaker 6: And so I think there has to be some sort

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Speaker 6: of business decision made to say, yeah, we want to

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Speaker 6: invest in something like this because it did well by numbers,

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Speaker 6: but it also has value, and so I think unless

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Speaker 6: you consider the value add then you're always going to

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Speaker 6: just make more cartoons.

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Speaker 5: But hopefully yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think that's what Comedy Central's done. They are now

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Speaker 2: only cartoons.

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Speaker 1: Funny, nobody, Yeah, sop and animals. If you haven't watched

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Speaker 1: Emily's Wonder Level Netflix, watch the hell out of it.

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Speaker 1: The Netflix cares more about numbers than anywhere else, any

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Speaker 1: other streamer, So every person here who has never seen it,

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Speaker 1: especially of your kids, but also if you're just curious

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Speaker 1: about science, watch it. Leave it on when you go

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Speaker 1: to school, Watch the hell out of it.

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Speaker 5: Agreed, Yes, I love all of that.

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Speaker 2: I hope all right, you want to hear about this

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Speaker 2: taxidermic duckling.

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Speaker 3: More than anything in my whole life, Kurt.

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Speaker 2: This was sent in by a whole ton of an animal.

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Speaker 2: It was te Nicole Holland was the first one I saw.

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Speaker 2: Is in our favorite c B.

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Speaker 3: C Hey, Canada.

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Speaker 2: I love Canada.

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Speaker 1: Emma Smith, best writer in the business.

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Speaker 2: That is correct. Here we go. Brent Broughton of Halifax, Halifax,

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Speaker 2: sorry Halifax, is that in possession of a taxidermic three

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Speaker 2: headed duckling, and he has no idea why it arrived

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Speaker 2: the mail last week in a unassuming cardboard backs that

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Speaker 2: sat on his table unopened four hours, because he figured

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Speaker 2: it was a pilates ball he'd ordered online.

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Speaker 3: Yes, quote.

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Speaker 2: I tore away at the package, plastic and packaging, and

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Speaker 2: then one of the duckling's faces emerged and I immediately

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Speaker 2: sort of jumped back, as you would.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 2: When I gained the courage to go back to the

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Speaker 2: box and dig a little bit further, I noticed it

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Speaker 2: wasn't just one head, but there were three ducklings faces

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Speaker 2: staring back at me totally. Package is addressed to Broughton

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Speaker 2: with a return address in China, so he's certain the

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Speaker 2: duck delivery wasn't a mail mix up quote. They were

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Speaker 2: definitely intended for me, but I certainly did not order

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Speaker 2: these ducklings. To be sure, Broughton didn't accidentally make the

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Speaker 2: order on eBay after a night of drinking, something he

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Speaker 2: emits has happened on occasion. He checked the back he

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Speaker 2: can find no evidence that he sought out the strange

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Speaker 2: item himself. So there's the only thing in the package

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Speaker 2: is a piece of paper that explains how to care

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Speaker 2: for it. So he went online and then followed these instructions.

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Speaker 2: Instruction number one, this is how it's written. Let your

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Speaker 2: new arrival sit out in the sun or in the

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Speaker 2: air for forty eight hours after opening the package. Okay,

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Speaker 2: second instruction was too this is something I've found kind

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Speaker 2: of strange, and asked me to use a regular hair

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Speaker 2: blow dryer to fluffy the ducks feathers. And then he

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Speaker 2: posted all of them. And what is the third one?

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Speaker 2: It doesn't say, but these people, some somebody at CBC

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Speaker 2: did some digging online. And then the email address is

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Speaker 2: attached to a Chinese zoologist who appears to be well

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Speaker 2: known for his work preserving largers like elephants and giraffes. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and this is the last quote quote. I really hope

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Speaker 2: that I do find out who sent it to me.

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Speaker 2: I figured it's either a friend who really likes the

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Speaker 2: idea of giving me a mystery, or it's an enemy

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Speaker 2: who's trying to send a cursed object to me. And

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Speaker 2: it is very weird looking. It's it's a naturally born

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Speaker 2: three headed do and it's cased in glass. It's very weird. Also,

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Speaker 2: stuffing birds, I've found out is illegal in the United States,

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Speaker 2: so I were not allowed to do it. I have

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Speaker 2: no idea. The only reason I know is because many

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Speaker 2: many years ago, Scotty was involved with this. My comedy

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Speaker 2: partner and I, Kristin Shawl, made a web series that

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Speaker 2: was then turned into a TV pilot called Penelope Princess

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Speaker 2: of Pets. Yes it was, And it was all about

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Speaker 2: a girl who could talk to animals and had to

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Speaker 2: kill a senator in order to save the world. And

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Speaker 2: I was her. I was her orphan. I was her

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Speaker 2: orphan best friend who wrote around in Heally's and we

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Speaker 2: had and she had a bird because she could talk

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Speaker 2: to animals, So she had a little red bird who

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Speaker 2: was very drunk all the time in her pocket. Ruby

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Speaker 2: voiced by Brett Gellman, who is now on Stranger Things

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Speaker 2: and many, many, many other things. He was a very

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Speaker 2: foul mouth drunk bird. And so we I looked and

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Speaker 2: searched and searched and searched, were an actual taxidermy bird

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Speaker 2: that we could actually like unhinge the you know, the

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Speaker 2: beak right into a puppet, right, and they're you're not

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Speaker 2: allowed to taxidermy birds anymore. So the only ones that

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Speaker 2: are available are incredibly expensive, uh, because they were taxidermied

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Speaker 2: in like the nineteen forties. That was actually the case.

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Speaker 5: That fascinating wonder.

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Speaker 6: I mean, you can tax dermy like so many things,

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Speaker 6: and so why not birds.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, And maybe it was a thing. Maybe

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Speaker 2: it's over, maybe you can do it now. But in

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Speaker 2: two thousand and five, that's what I was told online,

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Speaker 2: is that like, that's why these are so expensive, because

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Speaker 2: we were like producing everything ourselves. So but we eventually

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Speaker 2: had a puppeteer make the bird, and she did an

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Speaker 2: absolutely fantastic job.

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Speaker 3: Any Fresh, no.

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Speaker 2: Not Annie Fresh, our friend Jess locker Oh, who wasn't

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Speaker 2: a puppeteer. She was just like, yeah, I can make

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Speaker 2: a puppet bird for you. And it's literally the best

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Speaker 2: puppet bird I've ever seen in.

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Speaker 3: The history of the world.

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Speaker 1: Ever ever have Emily You ever ever get a gift

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Speaker 1: that you have no idea who it came from. Ever

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Speaker 1: get that Amazon order that you just did in order?

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Speaker 3: Anybody?

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Speaker 6: I mean no, I've had my Amazon packages stolen, so

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Speaker 6: like the first of hing, somebody else got it.

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Speaker 5: Somebody else got something they didn't expect. So yeah, no, unfortunately.

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Speaker 6: But when we did have our package stolen, we set

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Speaker 6: up spycam to try to Because we lived in an

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Speaker 6: apartment complex, we didn't have any like those fancy like

665
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,800
Speaker 6: ring doorbells or anything. We just had a very cheap spycam.

666
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,879
Speaker 6: And we also had my infant daughter at the time,

667
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 6: and so what we did was we collected all of

668
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 6: her dirty diapers and we put them inside of a

669
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 6: box and wrapped it up, and then I made this

670
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 6: kind of like exploding mechanism where I took it was

671
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:03,880
Speaker 6: like a rubber band in the spring, and I just

672
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 6: poked it up together and then I put what was

673
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 6: this It was a powdered sugar all in it too,

674
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 6: and so when they opened it up, it would be

675
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 6: just this spring loaded mechanism that would explode powdered sugar

676
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 6: and their face but also a mix of like disgusting

677
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 6: infent coop. So we left that outside for them, and

678
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 6: then on the package said something like like we made

679
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 6: it look like it was from Amazon or something. We

680
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,320
Speaker 6: had that little battery sticker on the side so it

681
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 6: looked like it was an expensive one, and said something

682
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 6: on the on the front text in text that looked

683
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 6: very official but was like you scum, you stole from me.

684
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:45,360
Speaker 6: You deserve this or something like that. And I was like,

685
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,320
Speaker 6: if you write that second to read this, you wouldn't

686
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 6: have to deal with this.

687
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 5: And so that package got stolen.

688
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 1: Really no, Yeah, science applied to the real world.

689
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 3: I love this. That's exactly what we hope.

690
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,760
Speaker 2: Oh god, was such a great stolen?

691
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 3: Did anybody jacket?

692
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 5: Yeah? Oh yeah it was.

693
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 6: It was stolen in like literally what we call on

694
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 6: camera was two guys walking through the hallways of our

695
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 6: apartment complex with a trash bag and they were collecting

696
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 6: the packages.

697
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:16,439
Speaker 5: They weren't even.

698
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 2: Looking at just reverse Santa.

699
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 6: It was reverse santaing and it was it was like

700
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 6: so dis I was distraught to see a heeling like that.

701
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 6: I was like, you guys, this is like, not a

702
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 6: wealthy gated community. You were in an apartment complex, Like,

703
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 6: why are you stealing from us?

704
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 5: Get out of here?

705
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 3: Yeah?

706
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: Good, well, I'm glad you served a little justice. That's

707
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,320
Speaker 1: what's I hate that.

708
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 5: That's the little justice.

709
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 3: I know.

710
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: Every once in a while, when I'm very, very bored

711
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:47,959
Speaker 1: and I think Kurt knows this, I'll just google two

712
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 1: names and wedding registry, not last names, just first names,

713
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 1: you know, Troy and Dave or Michelle and Steve, and

714
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: then whatever one comes up, I just send them the

715
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 1: cheapest gift and leave the gift note. So I have

716
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: no idea who these p and I'll just be like,

717
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: if you guys don't make it, none of us will.

718
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 1: And I always do it. I've done it thirty times

719
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 1: in the past five years. It's the funniest thing to

720
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: me that somebody just gets like an ice cream Scooper,

721
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: and I don't sign it from Scottie or sky Landers.

722
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: I just write a gift note and put like dash s.

723
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 1: But it's always just like you're the ones guys, all

724
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: of us are rooting for you.

725
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 6: Oh. I love to imagine those couples being like I've

726
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 6: gone through my list you've gone through your list.

727
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 5: We don't know who to write the thank you.

728
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 2: Note to exactly. It's just damn ice cream Scooper.

729
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 1: I just did it recently for a baby shower for

730
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: somebody I do know, but I was not sent the

731
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: registry and she was like, what the fuck, dude, And

732
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: I was like, I know your names, I know your

733
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:46,439
Speaker 1: husband's name. It's fun thing to do if you're really

734
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 1: bored and you, you know, if you don't know what

735
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 1: to do that stimulus check, give it to charity and

736
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: then if you have ten dollars left, buy an ice

737
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 1: cream Scooper for a weirdo in a town that you've

738
00:37:55,360 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: never been to. Speaking of, which, Okay, this one's kind

739
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 1: of long, so let's talk our way through it because

740
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: it was sent in by so so many people, and

741
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: it really should be a movie, The Bizarre Tale of

742
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: the World's last Lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco.

743
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 1: So this one's going wild today. This episode will probably

744
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: be out two weeks later and y'all will have known it.

745
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: But basically, this was sent in by Juliet Tibbs or

746
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 1: Juliet Ibbs and Wooden Tapes and fifty other Bin Animals

747
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: written by Andrew Chamings. Thank you, Andrew, Your words complete me.

748
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy seven, a forty nine year old German

749
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 1: beer brewer named Irwin Kreutz blew his life savings on

750
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 1: his first time on an airplane, a once in a

751
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 1: lifetime birthday trip for himself to San Francisco. He'd seen

752
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: it on TV, He'd seen it on magazines. He wanted

753
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: to visit the Wild West. As the World Airways flight

754
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: from Frankfurt stopped to refuel in Bangor, Maine. At a

755
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: small airport, a stewardess now called flight attendant who finished

756
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: her shift, told Kreutz to quote, have a nice time

757
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Her choice of words would change Kreutz's life.

758
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:25,320
Speaker 1: Kreut's look, here's a little bit about Kreutz show. Kreutz

759
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 1: typically enjoyed drinking seventeen beers a day, and he was

760
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 1: a little groggy. On hearing this, he grabbed his suitcase,

761
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 1: rushed off the plane, went through customs, jumped in a cab,

762
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: and told the driver to take him to the city.

763
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,760
Speaker 1: He wandered around Bangor for three days, enjoying the sights

764
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Speaker 1: and sounds of Maine. Unfortunately, Kreutz thought he was in

765
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Speaker 1: San Francisco. This is incredible, this is so sweet. Within

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Speaker 1: a week, Kreutz became an international celebrity and even made

767
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 1: the Today Show, Antime magazine and was handed the key

768
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 1: to San Francisco. He became a full court hero as

769
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:08,959
Speaker 1: the world's last lost tourist. So outside of one day

770
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Speaker 1: trip over the border into Switzerland, Kreuts had never stepped

771
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: foot out of Germany ever, let alone boarded an airplane.

772
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:19,720
Speaker 1: He spoke only German, no English whatsoever, And that plays

773
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 1: into this a little bit. It was from a small

774
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: Bavarian village at bruce Beer and he worked a local brewery.

775
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 2: What year is this?

776
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 3: What year this seventy seven? Nineteen seventy seven, So.

777
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Speaker 5: He was why are we talking about it now? Why

778
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 5: what came out?

779
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 6: Much?

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00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 2: I think an article just came out.

781
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:38,439
Speaker 1: The article just came out this week about like can

782
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: you imagine this story with the internet and smartphones? Like

783
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 1: this type of thing almost feels impossible. So I think

784
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,439
Speaker 1: everybody's feeling a little nostalgic, and also I think people

785
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: are looking forward to traveling in a very big way hard.

786
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 1: So the cab driver, once he got off the plane.

787
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Speaker 1: The Creits took him to downtown Bangor, which is not

788
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 1: a very big city. He checked into the Bangor House hotel,

789
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: walked the streets a little, found a tavern to quench

790
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:07,399
Speaker 1: his almighty thirst. At one point, Kreutz was reassured by

791
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: the sight of two Chinese restaurants in town, something he

792
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: knew was in San Francisco from movies.

793
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 3: Interesting and then.

794
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 1: The rusted green bridge that links Bangor to neighboring Brewer

795
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,439
Speaker 1: was clearly not the Golden gate Bridge, but Kreutz thought

796
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 1: it was and carried on regardless. So I'll kind of

797
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 1: jump ahead a little bit. So, I mean, this is

798
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 1: pretty good. So Kroutz decided he must be in a

799
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,279
Speaker 1: Bay Area suburb. He hailed a taxi and asked the

800
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 1: driver in broken English to take him to downtown San Francisco.

801
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:43,760
Speaker 1: The driver sped away and thought Kreutz was crazy. Kreutz

802
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 1: returned back to a bar. Unsure of himself, he suddenly

803
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,840
Speaker 1: knew something well. He tried to get help from a waitress.

804
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 1: The language barrier was too wide, so she put him

805
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: in touch with a gentleman named Oh No, I'm maybe

806
00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 1: a woman sorry, named Gertrude Romine, who he was a

807
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 1: Czechoslovakian immigrant who spoke German. Romene says, it was so funny.

808
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: I was the first person to tell him about his

809
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,880
Speaker 1: monumental error. He couldn't speak a lick of English and

810
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 1: didn't know he was there were hills around San Francisco.

811
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 1: When he saw hills around Bangor, he just figured he

812
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 1: was in the right place. So basically it spreads like wildfire.

813
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,439
Speaker 1: The news picks it up. San Francisco examiner goes, let's

814
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 1: fly him out here and teach him that San Francisco

815
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: is a real place. Kreutz became an honorary member of

816
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 1: the Penobscot, the penub Scot Indian nation. There's a folk

817
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: song written about him. He was thrown a fiftieth birthday

818
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: party and visited by the Governor of Maine. He was

819
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: even gifted an acre of scrubland and northern Maine as

820
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 1: an act of goodwill that he paid taxes on his

821
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: entire life. Even he would send a check whenever the

822
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,359
Speaker 1: taxes would come in. This guy is such a sweetie.

823
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 1: While still in Bagwor, the wayward German who was now beloved,

824
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 1: met the town seal.

825
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 3: He met the town seal guys who helped his.

826
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 2: There's still a town seal in Bangor Man.

827
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,800
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and he got a Kreutz got a kiss

828
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 1: during a photo op from the seal Erwin Kreutz met

829
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: Andre the seal. The comment said on Thursday morning, they

830
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: must have a lot to talk about because they have

831
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 1: a great deal in common.

832
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 3: Neither one speaks a.

833
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 2: Word of English. I mean, don't dunk on this guy.

834
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:25,879
Speaker 2: He's a sweetest man.

835
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:28,439
Speaker 3: So I'll jump to the end here.

836
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: San Francisco Examiner did indeed fly Kreutz out to vacation

837
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. When he was there, he was treated

838
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: like a visiting dignitary. He met the mayor, George Muscone.

839
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: Kreutz told him about his seventeen day beers a day diet,

840
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: to which the mayor said, well, that beats the heck

841
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:50,760
Speaker 1: out of me. On a whirling tour of cable cars,

842
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,400
Speaker 1: he rode the cable cars. Who wouldn't. He was plied

843
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:57,280
Speaker 1: with gifts, three marriage proposals. He was named an honorary

844
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: member of the Wong Family Association at the Empress of

845
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 1: China restaurant. It's the greatest story. It needs to be

846
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 1: a movie. And Mark Ruffalo needs to be this guy.

847
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 1: So Time magazine ran a story. Everybody just thought it

848
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 1: was this exceptional thing. Tom Brocall talked about him, and

849
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: so yeah, the mayor of San Francisco presented him with

850
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 1: a proclamation declaiming that San Francisco does in fact exist,

851
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: And then he had to fly back because he had

852
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: to work at the brewery, So he only spent four

853
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:33,799
Speaker 1: days in San Francisco. After all of this, it was

854
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 1: just a whirlwind. He ki, it's again, wonderful segue, Thank you, Emily.

855
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 3: No, it's exactly.

856
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 1: So they gave him a giant tag, like a luggage tag,

857
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:49,759
Speaker 1: and there's a photo of it.

858
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 3: We'll post all this on our instagram, y'all.

859
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,319
Speaker 1: Uh it's as big as it's six foot tag that

860
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: says please let me off in Frankfurt, which is so good.

861
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 2: So funny, Like manufactured that so quickly for this bit,

862
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:05,839
Speaker 2: do you know what I mean? Like he was there

863
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 2: for four days of like gotta get him a six

864
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 2: foot bit in the luggage tag.

865
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:11,320
Speaker 3: Yes he didn't.

866
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: So he gets back and he said at the Frankfurt

867
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 1: airport in Germany, if Kennedy can say ikbine Berliner, then

868
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 1: I can say I am a Bangor, which is great.

869
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: This guy totally gets it. So he returned a couple

870
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 1: of times he liked. He preferred Bangor to San Francisco,

871
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:31,319
Speaker 1: which is one of the great details. In the end,

872
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 1: he would rather spend time in Bangor. He lost his

873
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:36,840
Speaker 1: job at the brewery because when he traveled it was

874
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: during Octoberfest, which was the brewery's biggest time of brewing beer.

875
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 1: And he after one more visit in nineteen seventy nine,

876
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,400
Speaker 1: where he tried to live out his life in Bangor.

877
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:51,839
Speaker 1: There was no headdresses from local indigenous people, there were

878
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:54,319
Speaker 1: no parties or seals to kiss. He was met with

879
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:58,280
Speaker 1: very little fanfare, but he was offered a minimum wage

880
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: janitorial job at all that had just opened. He graciously

881
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: turned it down and returned to Germany. He's never been

882
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: back to the state since nineteen seventy nine, and even

883
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: though he had been dump from the limelight and did

884
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:12,240
Speaker 1: not feel like he wanted to be in Bangal anymore,

885
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:16,399
Speaker 1: Kreutz was gracious until the end where he said, thank

886
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 1: you people of Bangor for your hospitality.

887
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 3: It has been a wild ride.

888
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 2: So that is the amazing story.

889
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 6: Is this like Bangor's tourism company trying to.

890
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 2: In San Francisco.

891
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 6: So confused as to why the story is coming out

892
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:35,920
Speaker 6: right now, beca It's all all over Twitter, and I

893
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 6: was like, wow, how did he? First of all, you

894
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 6: probably shouldn't be traveling right now, sir, there's a pandemic

895
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 6: going on. Yeah, he did not realize this was from

896
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:43,879
Speaker 6: a thousand years ago.

897
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 2: Yeah. Have you ever had any travel mishaps or miscommunications? Emilie,

898
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:51,279
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.

899
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 6: I mean I've traveled quite a bit, and I've traveled

900
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 6: quite a bit by myself, like on your own. And

901
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:58,399
Speaker 6: when you do it on your own, I think that's

902
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:00,959
Speaker 6: like where things are like way to go wrong because

903
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 6: you don't have anyone to check you and check that

904
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:07,800
Speaker 6: you have like the train schedules right or something. So

905
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 6: so I lived in China for a little while, and

906
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 6: I there was one weekend where a friend and I

907
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 6: were going to go to Beijing to see there was

908
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 6: like the World Fair going on it or something.

909
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 1: There's one weekend so fun, that sounds so good.

910
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 6: And we were very poor at the time, we were

911
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 6: grab students, and so we bought the cheapest train ticket available,

912
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:33,880
Speaker 6: which was a standing room only ticket. On a fourteen

913
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:41,720
Speaker 6: hour train. Oh no, And in Sheanne, where I was living,

914
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:44,840
Speaker 6: and in various parts of China, I think you'll find

915
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 6: that like kids, little really little ones, they often don't

916
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 6: have diapers, and so they will usually have the children

917
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:59,279
Speaker 6: go to the bathroom on the floor, and meaning the

918
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:05,919
Speaker 6: floors of trains especially are very stinky, and people smoke indoors,

919
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:07,839
Speaker 6: or at least they did when I was there, and

920
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 6: so the whole situation felt like very unsanitary. And my

921
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 6: friends ended up not coming and so I have experience

922
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 6: of like seeing on that and it ended up the

923
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 6: train got delayed because of flooding somewhere, and so it

924
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:26,319
Speaker 6: was ended up being a twenty one hour train, and

925
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:28,840
Speaker 6: it was a standing room only. So I had a

926
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 6: blanket with me, and I like laid on the floor

927
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:33,239
Speaker 6: and then like got up and took the blanket and

928
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:34,760
Speaker 6: put it directly in the trash.

929
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 5: And I was like, I.

930
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 6: Don't know if I ever want to do something like

931
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,439
Speaker 6: that again. So that was one I did also get.

932
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,840
Speaker 6: When I was traveling alone in Italy, I had mixed

933
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 6: up my bus schedules and I was trying to get

934
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 6: back to my hostel and I missed the last bus,

935
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 6: and I was near a park, and so I'm doing

936
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 6: all this calculation in my head. I'm like, okay, well

937
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 6: the next it's like eight pm. Now the next bus

938
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 6: is at seven am. So if I can just like

939
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 6: survive the night, I'll just go into the park sleep alone,

940
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 6: young single woman, no problem there.

941
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 2: Smart, great, great.

942
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 5: Smart decision.

943
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:16,280
Speaker 6: And so I start realizing how smart of a decision

944
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 6: that is, and I just start crying.

945
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 5: And so I'm like walking.

946
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 6: The streets like with my little backpack, crying, and then

947
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 6: these two elderly Italian women past me and they start

948
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 6: speaking to me in Italian, who obviously very worried as

949
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 6: to why this distraught woman is crying by herself in

950
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:39,240
Speaker 6: the dark. And I was trying to explain the situation

951
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 6: in English, and they were like one second, and they

952
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 6: got their son on the phone, who spoke English. I

953
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 6: talked to their son and I explained my dire situation,

954
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 6: and he came with his friends and a car, and

955
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 6: so we all like him and his friend, and then

956
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 6: the two elderly women all got in the car with

957
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,240
Speaker 6: me in the middle in the back, and they drove

958
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 6: me back to my hostel.

959
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 5: And I was like I that is. I'm not a

960
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:03,839
Speaker 5: religious person.

961
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 6: But I feel like that was a sign from the

962
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 6: universe that was like, we got you.

963
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 2: Oh that's amazing. Yeah, that story always Italian Grandmother's coming through.

964
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 5: Coming through.

965
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 2: Oh God it, Scotty, let's get one more and send

966
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 2: us home.

967
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 3: Wrap it up? You want me to do it? Sure?

968
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:23,359
Speaker 3: I just did one. You want I have a swing?

969
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 2: One? I got one?

970
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 3: Okay, wrap it up?

971
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 2: Sight And it also also kind of works perfectly with

972
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:30,280
Speaker 2: what's it what's his name?

973
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 1: From?

974
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 2: Bangor Kreus?

975
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, our German friend was Irvin Kreut.

976
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:41,280
Speaker 2: Irvin Kreutz would have loved this guy. This was sentenced

977
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 2: by Ashley U. Bank. This is from UPI Another favorite

978
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:50,840
Speaker 2: here at Bananas Somehow by Ben Hooper, who is a

979
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 2: maestro of the key Strokes. Absolutebruary nineteenth and Ohio Man

980
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:57,720
Speaker 2: is Oh, here's the title.

981
00:50:58,000 --> 00:50:58,320
Speaker 3: Please.

982
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 2: Ohio Man foregoes food for forty six day Lent beer diet,

983
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 2: right and Ohioman is marking the Christian tradition of Lent

984
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:13,680
Speaker 2: by giving up solid foods and getting the majority of

985
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:17,799
Speaker 2: his sustenance from beer. Dell Hall of Cincinnati said his

986
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 2: Lent diet includes only beer, water, black coffee and herbal tea,

987
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:25,800
Speaker 2: and as of his Friday morning way in day three

988
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 2: of his diet, he was down five point eight pounds.

989
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:29,759
Speaker 3: Oh.

990
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:32,399
Speaker 2: I also thought about three to five beers a day.

991
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:34,240
Speaker 2: Hall told, after.

992
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 1: Three days, it's oh three days. Sorry, I thought it

993
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 1: was at the end of Lent. I was like, hey, no, no,

994
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 1: your diet sucks.

995
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,400
Speaker 2: I'm not like, it's not like I'm constantly drinking. If

996
00:51:44,440 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 2: you eat your standard diet, it gets boring. You know,

997
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,880
Speaker 2: it's the same thing every day. So I'm definitely not

998
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 2: going to drink the same thing every day.

999
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 3: No.

1000
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:54,800
Speaker 2: Hall said he successfully completed Lent beer diets in twenty

1001
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 2: nineteen and twenty twenty, each time noticing health benefits of

1002
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:03,320
Speaker 2: the experience. He said he lost forty to fifty pounds

1003
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 2: of years and noticed his blood pressure and cholesterol improved.

1004
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:11,880
Speaker 2: The human body is an amazing thing, All said, especially

1005
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:17,320
Speaker 2: when you're fucking wasted. For me, we're used to going

1006
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 2: through as hunter gatherers feasting Famin promise we don't go

1007
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 2: through the famine anymore. Haul is raising money through a

1008
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:28,719
Speaker 2: crowdfunding initiative called Sergeant Dell's Virtual Tip Jar. He said

1009
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 2: the money will go towards local bars and restaurants that

1010
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 2: have suffered.

1011
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 3: That's nice.

1012
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 2: Nineteen pandemic like that, that is it? I mean like,

1013
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:39,839
Speaker 2: if you drink five beers on an empty stomach, you're

1014
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,480
Speaker 2: very drunk. Like I don't understand how he operates the

1015
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:45,359
Speaker 2: next day, Like that's not got a feel. It can't

1016
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:48,239
Speaker 2: feel good an empty stomach. Five beers and then you

1017
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:49,960
Speaker 2: just have forty days again.

1018
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:54,399
Speaker 6: How do you not die from not eating food for

1019
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:55,240
Speaker 6: forty days?

1020
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 5: I don't think I realized that one could survive.

1021
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that one, Oh yeah, I remember, Oh my god,

1022
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 2: this is I loved that I dated this one. Or

1023
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:09,800
Speaker 2: I wanted to date this woman. I guess.

1024
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:14,320
Speaker 1: Emily and I almost made eye contact on zoom.

1025
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 3: Wait, he knows that that's not the same thing, right.

1026
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 2: Well, I mean like we would shift, but I don't

1027
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:22,879
Speaker 2: know if we would be called date. Like she went

1028
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 2: to my prom with me. This is in high school,

1029
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 2: So she went to my prom with me. Like, that's

1030
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:29,799
Speaker 2: a date, right, that's the data dates, right, that's a

1031
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 2: nice date.

1032
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 3: Friendly.

1033
00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:35,800
Speaker 2: She was a super super hippie and she lived in

1034
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:38,839
Speaker 2: a house that was just a group of kids who

1035
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 2: used to run this organization called wilderness awareness. So they

1036
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:47,800
Speaker 2: were like hyper hippies party and I remember there was

1037
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:50,359
Speaker 2: her her roommate. I would like visit her, and I

1038
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 2: was like she was older, so she graduated high school

1039
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:55,239
Speaker 2: and I was still in high school. And it's kind

1040
00:53:55,280 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 2: of like, oh boy, she was very tall and living

1041
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:05,880
Speaker 2: in like a sharehouse in Belmar, New Jersey. And heommate

1042
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,719
Speaker 2: was on he was fasting, and he was fasting for

1043
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 2: a month, And so there was during the month while

1044
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:13,759
Speaker 2: I was kind of like seeing her, so I like

1045
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 2: kept seeing him. I would literally just walk by him.

1046
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 2: Usually in he would be on the couch like wrapped

1047
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:23,080
Speaker 2: up in a lot of like blankets, and then as

1048
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:25,320
Speaker 2: the month wore on, he would just like I would

1049
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 2: like come and he would just be on the roof

1050
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:29,840
Speaker 2: just so he could be in the sun and stay warm.

1051
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:30,399
Speaker 3: Oh.

1052
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 2: I watched him like like low, like just just get

1053
00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:38,279
Speaker 2: more and more gaunt and like feeling uncomfortable because he

1054
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 2: was probably eighteen. He's probably not doing fasting correctly. I

1055
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,120
Speaker 2: know you can fast correctly and stuff. I'm sure he

1056
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:45,560
Speaker 2: wasn't doing it right. But in their freezer, all they

1057
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:48,400
Speaker 2: had was frozen animals that he had picked up on

1058
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 2: the roadside, like roadkilled that he was going to practice

1059
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 2: taxidermy on at some point the future. I think there

1060
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:00,120
Speaker 2: was a duck that actually I know there was a

1061
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 2: all the cops call the FBI. So this is okay, sorry,

1062
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:08,080
Speaker 2: I will end this story. But this is because there

1063
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:11,359
Speaker 2: was definitely a frozen duck in there. Because at one

1064
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 2: point she was moving out, so they had to move

1065
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:18,120
Speaker 2: all of these frozen animals out of the freezer. And

1066
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 2: so one day she shows up to hang out and

1067
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:24,719
Speaker 2: she's got a frozen duck and a frozen raccoon with her,

1068
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 2: and we're at my friend Jeff's house and she's like,

1069
00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 2: can I put these are fucking John's or whatever? Can

1070
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 2: I put these frozen animals in his in Jeff's freezer?

1071
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:38,400
Speaker 1: And I was like, normal, ask every day, all the time,

1072
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:39,760
Speaker 1: very normal.

1073
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 2: We put these frozen road killing your freezer. And that's

1074
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 2: really weird, but okay, do that. And this is his

1075
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 2: parents freezer, you know, he's still in high school. And

1076
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 2: then that night we all take acid. Then at one point,

1077
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:56,840
Speaker 2: at one point, after like hours and hours and hours,

1078
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:02,799
Speaker 2: my friend Threw gets he starts he's chasing. I just

1079
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:05,319
Speaker 2: remember like sitting and watching it but he had he

1080
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 2: went in the freezer and found the duck, and no

1081
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:08,520
Speaker 2: one had told him there was.

1082
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 3: A frozen duck in the mines. God no.

1083
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:13,640
Speaker 2: And so he's on acid. He's got this frozen duck.

1084
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:16,920
Speaker 2: He's like, what the fuck is this frozen? Why is

1085
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:19,640
Speaker 2: there a frozen duck in the fridger. He's like, Jeff,

1086
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:22,160
Speaker 2: what are you doing? What are you doing? Jeff? Jeff's like,

1087
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:24,439
Speaker 2: it's not mine, man, it's hers. And he's like, don't

1088
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 2: you lie. He started like having like kind of a

1089
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:28,879
Speaker 2: bad trip because of this frozen I would guess sit

1090
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 2: on the couch and watch Rue chase Jeff in a circle.

1091
00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 2: It was one of those houses that like the staircase

1092
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:38,239
Speaker 2: was in the middle and then all the rooms were

1093
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:40,920
Speaker 2: just like around in a circle. And I just watched

1094
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 2: for like fifteen minutes where he chases him around, screaming,

1095
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:48,120
Speaker 2: like to like to explain this duck, just this frozen

1096
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:49,760
Speaker 2: daffing and running the whole time.

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Speaker 6: Anyway, his story, He's like, don't you know it's illegal,

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Speaker 6: Tooter duck pal.

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Speaker 1: He was handing him a citation on top of everything.

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Speaker 1: He was citing him. Emily, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: being such a wonderful guest. Is there anything you would

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Speaker 1: like to plug in the meantime? Is there anything going

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Speaker 1: on that we should know about? Where can we find

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Speaker 1: you on social media?

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Speaker 6: I am everywhere at the Space Gal. I think my

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Speaker 6: latest project that I have really thrown myself into is

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Speaker 6: creating a new clothing line.

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Speaker 5: For women in roles that are.

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Speaker 6: All NASA and space and science themed, and so.

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Speaker 5: It's come out. It's already out, so.

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Speaker 2: We go to get it because I'm going to go

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Speaker 2: at spacecal.

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Speaker 6: Spacecalstore dot com, spacegal Store dot com.

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Speaker 2: Oh my, yeah, that's wonderful. Is going to love that

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Speaker 2: so much. I'm going to get her some stuff for

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Speaker 2: her birthday. So thank you so much, Emily.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks for having me bass.

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Speaker 3: This has been an exactly right production.

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Speaker 2: Produced and engineered by Katie Levine, music by Khan, and

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Speaker 2: all of our artwork is done by Travis Millard.

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Speaker 1: You can follow us on Instagram at the Bananas Podcast,

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Speaker 1: where we post stories every day and things that we

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Speaker 1: don't cover on the podcast.

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Speaker 2: Stitcher or wherever you get your podcast.

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