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Speaker 2: It's me telling you about a stand up show. That's right,

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Speaker 2: I tricked you. You thought it was the start of

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Speaker 2: the episode. I'm so sorry. The episode's just about to start,

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Speaker 2: but I wanted to tell you San Diego, I'm doing

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Speaker 2: stand up in your town Friday, June seventeenth, two shows

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Speaker 2: at Soda Bar. Come on out. This is the first time,

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Speaker 2: I think second time I'm doing stand up out on

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Speaker 2: b animals, let's pack the Soda Bar out and we'll

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Speaker 2: have a darn good time. And now this wonderful episode

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Speaker 2: of Bananas.

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Speaker 1: All right, Scott, are you ready? Oh? I am ready

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Speaker 1: to laugh and lough and lof here it is. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it was not a crime.

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Speaker 2: Denver man faces felony after city accuses him of making

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Speaker 2: pickleball court without permission.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you know it doesn't sound like a crime. But

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Speaker 3: let's slap some cuffs on a brand new episode. Up Banana, says.

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Speaker 1: Doll World. Would you believe my resilient pieces?

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Speaker 2: Would you be.

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Speaker 1: Bana Bananas, Banana.

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Speaker 2: Banas, baby bananas, guys, gals and non binary pals, Welcome

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Speaker 2: to Bananas there is my favorite human being, Scotti Landis.

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Speaker 3: And there is my dude that I'm going camping with

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Speaker 3: this week in the one and only Kurt Brown Owler Kurt,

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Speaker 3: do we want to announce any tour stuff or anything

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Speaker 3: before we get into our special special guests.

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Speaker 2: I do want to say just reminding everyone Denver June

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Speaker 2: seventh and eighth, Asberry Park Hometown Show July fourteenth, YEP

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Speaker 2: and Bellhouse, Brooklyn, New York July seventeenth, and of course

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Speaker 2: all the other day at San Francisco and Portland.

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Speaker 1: There Austin, just be there.

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Speaker 3: Have fun for once in your life. You've been indoors

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Speaker 3: for two years. Come out, have fun, drink with lean.

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Speaker 2: Boys, stop not having fun, and enjoy yourself. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: have fun on this episode because our guest today is

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Speaker 2: an amazing comedian. She was the first Latina woman to write, produce,

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Speaker 2: and star in her own primetime network sitcom. She's got

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Speaker 2: an excellent Netflix special called Lower Classy.

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Speaker 1: And another one on the way.

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Speaker 2: Her memoir Music to My Years is available everywhere now,

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Speaker 2: as well as her podcast to be continued.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome Cristella Alonzo.

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Speaker 4: Oh I love her.

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Speaker 5: You are like the best Wingman ever, like you're throwing

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Speaker 5: my credits at me and I'm like, I want to

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Speaker 5: see her. I mean seriously, Oh, have you ever considered

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Speaker 5: life coaching like.

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Speaker 6: The joy you bring by just putting attitude into Like, yeah,

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Speaker 6: you make me. You know, like when when you have

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Speaker 6: a gig and somebody says asks for a bio and

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Speaker 6: I like it. I always hate sending the bio embarrass

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Speaker 6: not if you read.

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Speaker 2: It, I'll just call them up. I can offer that

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Speaker 2: as a free service to you whenever you want it.

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Speaker 2: If you want to bring me on tour, I'll just

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Speaker 2: on the Godmike, just introduce you.

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Speaker 7: You know what, I would love to bring you on

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Speaker 7: as God. The part of God is my next door.

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Speaker 1: That'd be pretty good.

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Speaker 3: Actually, well we'll keep it going to cause Christelle, I'll

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Speaker 3: gass you up a little bit more right off the top.

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Speaker 1: Netflix's.

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Speaker 3: Netflix is an interesting place because they force you to

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Speaker 3: watch things. Some people hate it, like bird Box bird Box.

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Speaker 3: They were like, guess what, motherfuckers, you're watching this movie?

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Speaker 3: No matter what, I was like, I don't want to

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Speaker 7: It's very clockwork orange.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they push it, but it also works in your

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Speaker 3: favorite especially for stand ups. I hadn't seen you perform

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Speaker 3: I guess maybe they pushed your special on the banner

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Speaker 3: and I was like, I don't know, Christella, I'd heard

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Speaker 3: of your show. I turned it on and I think

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Speaker 3: Lower Classy is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: It's so good.

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Speaker 7: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I know you have a new one coming out.

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Speaker 3: But there was one bit that is the best comedy

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Speaker 6: That's the funniest, honestly real, Like why can't you be

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Speaker 1: I fucking love that bit.

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Speaker 3: And even though you have a new one coming out,

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Speaker 3: for anybody, all the ban animals who haven't watched Lower

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Speaker 3: Classy go back.

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Speaker 1: It is the most solid hour on Netflix.

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Speaker 4: I love it, I love it, I love it.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's so weird to think that one came out

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Speaker 7: And there's a lot of comics that like they.

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Speaker 6: And it's so funny because you realize, especially in like

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Speaker 4: And that's when you realize that we're all working on

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Speaker 4: You know, for me, I'm the same way like Kurt.

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Speaker 4: If I'm doing stand up, I only do stand up.

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Speaker 6: Writing anything for TV is different than writing anything for stand.

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Speaker 6: It's really interesting how sometimes I'll see specials of people

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Speaker 3: And if you're one of the comics that doesn't get

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Speaker 3: actually is like very not helpful too, So congratulations on

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Speaker 3: getting that. And I'm sure middle class you'll.

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Speaker 1: Get that too.

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Speaker 6: It's also weird when they pick the batter and you're like,

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Speaker 6: they always For the longest time, they kept showing me Narcos.

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Speaker 7: It's like, oh my people, it's just so silly.

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Speaker 2: and some some like TV shows like Peaky Blinders for instance.

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Speaker 2: one season of Peaky Blinders. But now Peky Blinders is

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Speaker 7: We just renamed it. No one cares.

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Speaker 2: Nobody, all right, you guys ready to hear about this story?

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Speaker 1: Here it is. It was not a crime.

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Speaker 2: Denver man faces felony after city accuses him of making

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Speaker 2: pickleball court without permission. This was sent him by Paige

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Speaker 1: Thank you page, Thank you. This is a coming at

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Speaker 2: Here is Denver a cotton bottom Cotton, A seventy one

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Speaker 2: year old Denver man is facing a felony charge after

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Speaker 2: city officials say he made a pickleball court without permission.

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Speaker 2: With prosecution on the table. Some believe the punishment doesn't

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Speaker 1: Oh really. Quote.

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Speaker 2: The whole pickleball community is really saddened and shocked, said

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Speaker 2: Jan Denver, a friend of seventy one year old Urslyn

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Speaker 2: Gunny and fellow pickleball player. Gunny and others use a

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Speaker 2: last Monday. The markings on the court had faded, so

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Speaker 2: Gunny remark them with a sharpie.

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Speaker 1: He used a sharpie. Three days an.

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Speaker 2: Arrest warrant for criminal felony criminal mischief was issued for Gunny.

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Speaker 2: The court documents also claims ten thousand dollars in damages

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Speaker 2: gonna come email blah blah blah. The game a mix

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Speaker 2: Yeah one Gunny has played for years. We're into close friends.

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Speaker 2: Everyone's shocked and appalled.

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Speaker 1: Quote. He is what we call the mayor of pickleball.

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Speaker 2: Dever said, Cool is an expert player himself, but always

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Speaker 2: Basically, so a felony is like very is a big

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and yeah, that's it. There's worn out for his arrest.

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Speaker 2: And also that's the best place to hide if you

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Speaker 2: There's no like it's a it's less judgment overall. And

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Speaker 6: he's a book reader?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, do you have a book club?

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Speaker 4: You seem so learned and educated.

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Speaker 4: You're just like, I love nudity, but also Patagonians.

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Speaker 3: He didn't go like, well, you have to understand I

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Speaker 1: Brother?

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Speaker 7: It's actually a great answer.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great answer for anything. Yeah, he's so good.

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Speaker 1: All right, I got one for you too. What in tape?

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Speaker 1: Sent this on on Instagram. Thank you.

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Speaker 3: You can send your stories to the Banana Podcast on Instagram.

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Speaker 3: DMS we respond. This was in Thrillist, which is a

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Speaker 3: real website written by Tony Merrevic, who is.

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Speaker 1: Really good at his job. I would say he's the

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Speaker 3: Absolute genius lands ten job interviews by dressing up like

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Speaker 1: So pretty smart. Oh wow, Lucas. Okay, yeah, here we go.

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Speaker 1: Lucas And I don't know how to say this last name.

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Speaker 3: ye law Yeah Ela Lucas. Y Lah, a twenty five

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Speaker 3: said he has made forty donut resume deliveries to recruiters

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Speaker 3: the recipient will find not just a few sugary donut rings,

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Speaker 3: but Yallah's resume front and center.

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Speaker 1: Genius right. When reached for email on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: You Lost said it was a bit odd to posed

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Speaker 1: Is it laying on Here's my question.

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Speaker 2: Is it just laying on top of the donuts or

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Speaker 3: So you open the box and it starts with like

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Speaker 2: It's not greasy, so it's like not greasy. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 2: like it, he said. Also, it's so easy, yeah, smart,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, but it's low overhead, he said.

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Speaker 3: The competition is so intense in San Francis that it

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Speaker 3: Well now he's certainly getting recruiters attention thanks to those

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Speaker 3: delicious doughnuts, says Tony Merrivik, the best in the business,

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Speaker 1: Yeah you go.

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Speaker 6: Uh just cut to the job interview where they're like,

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Speaker 7: Because I keep spending my fucking.

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Speaker 1: Money on I am buried in cream Debt. I am.

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Speaker 7: Cream Debt.

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Speaker 4: I love that that's a cover band for something, cream Debt.

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Speaker 2: I remember, didn't we have an idea to bring hot

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Speaker 3: We also had a fallback response for still you've pitched

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Speaker 3: to pitch this show to Comedy Central. It wasn't the

443
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Speaker 3: hot Dog Show, but we went in and we were

444
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Speaker 3: pitching to the most junior executives you could ever pitch to,

445
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Speaker 3: like people that had just gotten hired at Comedy Central.

446
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Speaker 1: And then the old eight and nine years old old

447
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Speaker 1: they were, yeah, they were eating.

448
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Speaker 3: We were cutting their hot dogs for him and they

449
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Speaker 3: were loving them and ketch up in paper plates.

450
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Speaker 1: And while Kurt and I.

451
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Speaker 3: Are pitching something that was such a tight pitch and

452
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Speaker 3: everybody the over viacom youst to have glass offices and

453
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Speaker 3: glass conference centers, so you could see everybody in every

454
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Speaker 3: direction across the hallway. Doug Benson was pitching to all

455
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Speaker 3: the senior executives who were like rolling out of their chairs, laughing, crying,

456
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Speaker 3: like head tip back, and we're pitching to four of

457
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Speaker 3: the angriest millennials. Yeah, nine and ten years old. And

458
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Speaker 3: then they're like thanks guys, really fun show, and like

459
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Speaker 3: walked away and I'm like, well cool, we're pitching interns.

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Speaker 1: We saw. It's so humiliating. It's so they didn't work.

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Speaker 7: At Comedy Central.

462
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Speaker 4: They were delivering donuts with their recipe.

463
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Speaker 3: Yes, did you do that early on? So did you,

464
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Speaker 3: like when you were starting on stand up? Did you

465
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Speaker 3: like make business cards or postcards or have too?

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Speaker 1: I know right now, see this is the thing.

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Speaker 4: Right when you started stand up? First of all, when

468
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Speaker 4: I started stand up, radio still worked, like.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you could sell tickets with radio, like doing.

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Speaker 7: One radio and stuff.

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, the clubs, now I'm gonna date myself, but young,

472
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Speaker 6: younger comics, the clubs used to promote you.

473
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Speaker 4: The clubs used to promote you years ago. You could

474
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Speaker 4: actually get work as a feature and you know it

475
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Speaker 4: was so different.

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Speaker 6: But yeah, you had to like, look when I started,

477
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Speaker 6: that's when my Space really was about to blow up.

478
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Speaker 6: And all comics, I mean, we all had websites all

479
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Speaker 6: of a sudden, right, we all had websites. It's like

480
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Speaker 6: that was our website, you know, little glitter graphic, like, oh,

481
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Speaker 6: she's in glitter, she's got to be hilarious.

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Speaker 1: My boss rose and fell so quickly.

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Speaker 3: It is like astonishing how my Space was, like every

484
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Speaker 3: single person knew had it, and then one and a

485
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Speaker 3: half years later, everybody's like, don't use it, hate that website,

486
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Speaker 3: and then it was just gone.

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Speaker 1: It's a really weird thing.

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Speaker 4: Yes, well you know, but Tom sold it for so much.

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Speaker 7: He's doing fine.

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Speaker 1: Tom's everybody's buddy. Everybody's everybody. Right when you sign up

491
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Speaker 1: for my Space, you had one friend, right, it was Tom.

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Speaker 7: He's just like, hey, you still there.

493
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Speaker 1: A murderer or later you got convicted for a felony.

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Speaker 3: Tom was still right there, looking over his shoulder at you're, like,

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Speaker 3: you're doing You're great.

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Speaker 6: I'm thinking about the resume story too, and I start thinking, like,

497
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Speaker 6: imagine all these people reading this.

498
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Speaker 4: Article that like just have all this debt.

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Speaker 1: They don't.

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Speaker 6: They've been working on a resume and they're like, right,

501
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Speaker 6: all I needed was a fucking donut exactly.

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Speaker 1: It's all take sometimes, yeah, it is this.

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Speaker 3: I had this job I needed. I moved to Atlanta

504
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Speaker 3: right after I graduated college. I was twenty one and

505
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Speaker 3: I needed money. I was I was in debt and

506
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Speaker 3: I needed money. So I was taking any odd job

507
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Speaker 3: I could get. People would recommend me for things, and

508
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Speaker 3: somebody was like I saw a hiring sign and I

509
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Speaker 3: was like where, and they were like Big Owl's Christmas

510
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Speaker 3: trees and Decatur. And I was like okay, So I

511
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Speaker 3: show up and it's in the Whole Foods parking lot

512
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Speaker 3: in Decatur. And the two people I was twenty one.

513
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Speaker 3: The two people hired than me were twenty three. There's

514
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Speaker 3: like a young couple. They had a little like a

515
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Speaker 3: trailer situation, and they were like, hey.

516
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Speaker 1: We live in Vermont. We come down every year.

517
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Speaker 3: We make thirty thousand dollars and six weeks selling Christmas

518
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Speaker 3: trees in Atlanta and then we drive back up.

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Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, when can I start. They're like, hey,

520
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Speaker 1: we're going to pay ten bucks an hour.

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Speaker 3: And here's how I used the shaking thing that shacks

522
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Speaker 3: the shit out of the needles and then you bag

523
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Speaker 3: it up and you can keep any tips you want.

524
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Speaker 3: So for like three weeks before Christmas, I sold Christmas

525
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Speaker 3: trees and it's a really interesting like look into people's

526
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Speaker 3: psyche because the most expensive tree trees were called noble Furs.

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Speaker 1: Are you any better?

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Speaker 6: No?

529
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Speaker 3: But they were like one hundred and fifty dollars when

530
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Speaker 3: all the other ones were like forty dollars or fifty dollars.

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Speaker 3: We sold out of those first. Everybody wanted the expensive one.

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Speaker 3: Whoa really crazy. I strapped so many of those onto

533
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Speaker 3: so many Lexus SUVs and land Rovers and four runners

534
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Speaker 3: down there was like it was great. But then so

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Speaker 3: I was like, hey, do I have to work? I

536
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Speaker 3: was like oh, I said, like my goodbyes on Christmas Evel.

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Speaker 1: I was like thanks guys.

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Speaker 3: This was really how I was able to buy my

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Speaker 3: girlfriend the time and everybody Christmas gifts and all that,

540
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 3: and they're like, can you work tomorrow? And I was

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Speaker 3: like Christmas Day? They were like yeah, And I was

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Speaker 3: like do people buy Christmas trees on Christmas Days?

543
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Speaker 1: And they're like yes. So I show up on Christmas

544
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Speaker 1: morning at six am.

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Speaker 3: I'm freezing, even though it's in Decatur and they are gone,

546
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Speaker 3: their trailer is gone. All the leftover trees are there.

547
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Speaker 3: And I sold nine trees and made five hundred dollars

548
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Speaker 3: more than five hundred dollars cash on Christmas morning.

549
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Speaker 1: Oh wow. They just like you keep it. That's awesome.

550
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Speaker 1: They had made their money.

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Speaker 3: I think they were done with it and they didn't

552
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Speaker 3: want to break it all down, so they took all

553
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Speaker 3: them machinery and stuff and just left the trees standing there.

554
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Speaker 3: I guess for the next guy to deal with. And

555
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Speaker 3: I stood there and just paid people paid me cash.

556
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Speaker 3: But it's like when you see luggage at the airport

557
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Speaker 3: and you're like, who is buying luggage at the airport?

558
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Speaker 3: I was like, who was buying a Christmas tree on

559
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Speaker 3: Christmas morning? And it's like the alcoholic dad that suddenly

560
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Speaker 3: wakes up in a bar and goes, it's Christmas. Oh

561
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Speaker 3: ship gotta go to Whole Foods. It was the best

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Speaker 3: job I've ever had in my entire life, five hundred

563
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Speaker 3: dollars a day selling Christmas trees to like cold old

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Speaker 3: guys on Christmas.

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Speaker 7: What are we doing on this podcast?

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Speaker 1: Like, I know, seriously, we need a tree business.

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00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:17,360
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Oh it would be good the three of us sell Christmas.

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Speaker 3: Kill it.

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Speaker 7: We would kill it.

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Speaker 6: Oh my god, we'd start a whole new class called

572
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Speaker 6: like the super Duper Noble fir.

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Speaker 1: It's four hundred bucks, but man, it fucks.

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Speaker 4: I know the trees are naked, but you know they

575
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 4: want to fuck.

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Speaker 1: Look at this. It is just like the nude. Look

577
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 1: at it. I'll shake it for you, then I'll strap

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Speaker 1: it to the top of your car. Keep the twine.

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Speaker 3: The twine's free, all right, Curtie, But you want to

580
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,160
Speaker 3: tease us into a sick ass commercial.

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Speaker 1: Break sounds good here it is.

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Speaker 2: Experience Cohen. I let a baby bird nest in my

583
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Speaker 2: hair for eighty four days.

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Speaker 3: Oh god, well how long does birds be? Okay, we'll

585
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Speaker 3: get into it when we come back on some wonderful bananas.

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Speaker 1: Folks. We are Max Scott. You got any quick quick

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00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: shout outs?

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Speaker 2: I do.

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Speaker 1: I have four quick shout outs.

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Speaker 3: My birthday is next month, and all I want for

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Speaker 3: my thirtieth is for Kurt or Scotty to say, Tristan,

592
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 3: I hope your birthday rocks ass. So Tristan, I hope

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Speaker 3: your birthdays Happy birthday. Dana wants to wish Holly a

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Speaker 3: happy birthday. She Holly is Dana's biggest cheerleader and the

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Speaker 3: very best bananimals, So thank you, Holly, Happy birthday. Kits

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Speaker 3: Is the Bomb, our cat is the Bomb. Kat Is

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Speaker 3: the Bomb is taking her board exams on May seventh.

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Speaker 3: I guess that means she's in med school or nursing

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00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 3: school or something lawyer or Laurier school.

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00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 1: You're a patient or boarding school. They're boards for boarding.

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Speaker 3: She might be working at home deep on the lumber department,

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Speaker 3: we don't know. But kat Is the Bomb is taking

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Speaker 3: May seventh. She's a been animal for life, so we're

604
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 3: wishing her good luck on those and ace whatever it is,

605
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 3: whatever it is, be the best. And finally, Anaka wants

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Speaker 3: to tell Ari that she loves him and misses him

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00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 3: and we'll see him soon. They're long distance relationship and

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Speaker 3: animals and they both listen to bananas. So you guys

609
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 3: are doing great FaceTime, have fun together. You'll see each

610
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 3: other soon enough. Air travel is easy these days.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we are of course here with Christella Alonzo.

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00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being here. Christella.

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Speaker 4: Can I just say how in love I am with

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Speaker 4: the word bananimals?

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00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 6: Yeah? It took us a why love like Bananimals. I

616
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 6: get so excited when I hear it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, do a shirt bananimals? What you're getting a shirt?

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00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 4: I would rock a Bananamal shirt so hard.

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Speaker 7: All right, oh bananimals?

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Speaker 6: And also, can I just say I love the name

622
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Speaker 6: of the podcast because I always say that's bananas, and

623
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Speaker 6: when it's extremely crazy, I.

624
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Speaker 4: Say that's Platinos.

625
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 7: I say it in Spanish.

626
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Speaker 6: I'm like, oh my god, that is so blatos.

627
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 4: Like, don't even get me started on that, Like, let's

628
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Speaker 4: take it is great though.

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Speaker 2: So your the book Your Music to My Years, that

630
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Speaker 2: came out in twenty nineteen. How I mean, like, tell

631
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Speaker 2: us a little bit about the book. Maybe folks want

632
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 2: to go get that book.

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Speaker 6: I'm so in love with music, I thin, you know,

634
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Speaker 6: I think most of us are, but I listen to

635
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 6: hours of music every day, and I've always thought that,

636
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 6: you know, you know, I never thought that my life

637
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 6: was very interesting until you meet other people and you realize,

638
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 6: you know, you're just like, oh, okay, you know, because everybody,

639
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 6: you know, everyone in my neighborhood kind of grew up

640
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 6: like I did. And you know, I was asked to

641
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 6: write a book, and I wanted to do it, but

642
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 6: then I thought, well, what what makes it interesting or

643
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 6: different from all the other books about your life? You know?

644
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 6: So I started thinking about this playlist. I make playlists

645
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 6: for everything. I mean, if it's specific, like very specific topics.

646
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 4: Or just very you know, vague and just over everything.

647
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 6: So I made a playlist of the most important songs

648
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 6: of my life and I chapter is named the name

649
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 6: of the song, and I break down the song and

650
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 6: I break down what it means to me and how

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00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 6: it mattered in that part like part.

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Speaker 1: Of my life, and I tell you yeah, yeah, yeah,

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00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: you know.

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Speaker 6: It's like so like I have songs, you know, like

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00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 6: I have White Knights, I have say you say Me,

656
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 6: you know, because I loved it and I didn't know

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Speaker 6: what dance was and I didn't know you know, that

658
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 6: chapter I talk about how Gregory Hines because I grew

659
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 6: up in a border town in South Texas. We were

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Speaker 6: all Latino, So I thought Gregory Hines was Latino because

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Speaker 6: I was about like seven or eight, and I just

662
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Speaker 6: connected with him, and I'm like, I love this man.

663
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 6: And then I like, you know, Barishnikov, I'm like this

664
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 6: kid again in a border town seeing ballet and I'm like,

665
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:39,000
Speaker 6: this is incredible. And you know, that's the thing about

666
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 6: music is that I hate when people ask you what's

667
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 6: your favorite kind of music? Right because it's like, well,

668
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 6: you don't have one. It's kind of like when people

669
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 6: ask you your favorite anything. I really don't have a

670
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 6: favorite anything. When people ask you what's your favorite movie?

671
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 6: What's your favorite it depends like what are we talking about?

672
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: Her children?

673
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 2: It is really I asked my daughter what her favorite color?

674
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 2: You know, at five, she's already like, well, sometimes I

675
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 2: like glue, but you know, sometimes I like LeAnn And

676
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 2: I'm like, that's exactly what the rest of it is.

677
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 6: So it's this thing where I wanted to do the

678
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 6: playlist because I wanted to kind of show people some

679
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 6: of the choices and see if they were.

680
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 7: Surprised by them, you know.

681
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 6: And it was a perfect example to show you that

682
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 6: we all kind of have a lot more in common

683
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 6: than we we would think of course, you know. And

684
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 6: it also like when you listen to a song, you

685
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 6: sometimes I'll be in a room where I lock eyes

686
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 6: with somebody that's singing along with it, and we're just

687
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 6: we're happy that we're singing along with it and it's

688
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 6: just a moment of sheer joy.

689
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 7: And I love those moments. I love having those moments.

690
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 2: Oh and I think all the time about music, about

691
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 2: the difference between music and comedy, of that idea of

692
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 2: like music, you want to be reassuring, you want to

693
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 2: hear that same song over and over and over again,

694
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:52,960
Speaker 2: and if you don't hear the song that you know

695
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 2: by heart, you're pissed off, whereas comedy is the exact opposite,

696
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 2: Like if you hear anything that's been done before that

697
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 2: you like, I know this, fuck this guy.

698
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 6: I always use Boston's more than a Feeling Like as

699
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 6: an example that song.

700
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 7: I mean, how old is this song?

701
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 6: And if you see Boston, you're like, they better fucking

702
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 6: play more than a Feeling. Yes, you know, but with

703
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:20,760
Speaker 6: a comic they're like, boo, we've heard about your wife already.

704
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 2: But imagine being a musician and having to play a

705
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 2: song you wrote forty years ago.

706
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 1: That must be insane.

707
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 4: I've thought about that.

708
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 7: I've thought. I saw John Mayer.

709
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 4: I don't want to brag.

710
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,320
Speaker 6: I saw John Mayer at the floor recently, and that

711
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 6: day I had talked to my friend and I asked

712
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 6: him like a hypothetical, like, do you think John Mayer

713
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 6: gets just so sick and tired of singing that Wonderland

714
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 6: song because it's been forever. Yeah, And then at the

715
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 6: show that night, right before he plays it, he talks

716
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,839
Speaker 6: about how he has ebbs and flows with this song,

717
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 6: how sometimes he just can't stand to play it, you know,

718
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,320
Speaker 6: like sometimes he he doesn't like it, and sometimes he

719
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 6: loves it, and you know, yeah, I can't imagine what

720
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 6: it's like. I think the thing that really sucks is

721
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 6: how musicians, though, you can write love songs to people

722
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 6: that you love, but comics can't write love jokes.

723
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: Oh it's true, Like you.

724
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 4: Can't write about how great someone is.

725
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: It's not funny. No, it's not.

726
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 7: My wife is so wonderful exactly. But like in music,

727
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:32,879
Speaker 7: it's like eternal love.

728
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 4: I love you like you know what I mean.

729
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: It's just so.

730
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 3: I had dinner with John Mayer about twelve years ago,

731
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 3: and he was I was out with another friend or

732
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 3: Buddy Rob, and he was like, Hey, we're gonna go

733
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 3: meet some other friends.

734
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: I said, let's go.

735
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 3: We were in Manhattan and we show up and it

736
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 3: was John Mayer and Samantha Ronson and a couple other

737
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 3: people in that crew at that time, and I think

738
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 3: it's when she was dating Lindsay Lohan. It was like

739
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 3: it was a very weird mix of people that I've

740
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 3: never been around since, but for that one night, Like

741
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 3: he really likes to be funny or wants to be funny,

742
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 3: and he tried to be a stand up yes, And

743
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 3: the place where we were had one of those Imbirico

744
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,839
Speaker 3: ham legs like that they have in Barcelona and yeah,

745
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 3: and so I just was like joking, like give every

746
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 3: table free ham.

747
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 1: I was like, give them him on, give them him on,

748
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: get and then he got into it.

749
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 3: And then Samantha Ronson was like, so Na, she got

750
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 3: into So we're just yelling give them him on to

751
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 3: everybody and people were like John Mayer really wants to

752
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 3: get rid of his ham.

753
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,320
Speaker 1: And then I was making Rob laugh and he was

754
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,279
Speaker 1: like show them. John's like what And I show him.

755
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 3: And at the time, if you did a Google search

756
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:46,879
Speaker 3: of why won't but w O N T no apostrophe

757
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 3: why won't, it would auto fill my parakeet eat my diarrhea.

758
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 1: Yes.

759
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 3: So he opens his like gen one iPhone types in

760
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 3: why w O and T? I don't even show him yet.

761
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 3: Then it pops up and he starts laughing so fucking hard,

762
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 3: and then he tweets it. He goes for a good

763
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 3: time sweet google search why won't and it just goes,

764
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 3: why won't my parakeet eat my diarrhea? He was like crying, laughing,

765
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 3: and then we like I wisely was like and good night.

766
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 3: You just leave on like your highest shop, just like

767
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,840
Speaker 3: moonwalk out of there like wave the sammarn Sen.

768
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 4: Oh my, is this where the podcast ends? How do

769
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 4: we top this.

770
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 6: Story?

771
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:39,319
Speaker 1: That's a great story? All right? Well, do you want

772
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: to hear about this goddamn bird?

773
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 6: Yeah?

774
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: Speaking of bird, Yes exactly. It wouldn't be a bananas

775
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: if I did not do a story about him. Birdie

776
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 1: Bee loved a bird story. I Dodie, it's my main interest.

777
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 2: It's so weird to be unconscious, to unconsciously reveal yourself

778
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 2: as obsessed with birds. And I did not know I

779
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 2: was until this podcast. This was sent in by Naomi Hampsen.

780
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 2: Thank you, Naomi, Thank you Naomi. This was written in

781
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 2: The Guardian, written why that's in real place?

782
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:09,919
Speaker 1: That's a real one.

783
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 2: This is written by Hannah Borne Taylor and this just

784
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 2: came out. This just came out Friday, March twenty fifth.

785
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:24,439
Speaker 1: She's the best. I love it. So I'm gonna skip

786
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 1: the beginning part.

787
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,919
Speaker 2: But the beginning part kind of puts the puts the puts,

788
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,879
Speaker 2: the gives you context for how this would happen. And essentially, yeah,

789
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 2: it sets the table. Essentially, her husband and her move

790
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 2: to Ghana. He was a photographer and she loves nature.

791
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:43,880
Speaker 2: But they were living out in kind of like the

792
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 2: middle of nowhere in Ghana, and because of his visa,

793
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 2: he got to travel a bunch and she was left alone.

794
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:53,399
Speaker 2: And I think she was here it is, Yeah, she said,

795
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,320
Speaker 2: I was isolated, homesick, lacking purpose.

796
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: Why won't my parakeet eat my diarrhea?

797
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 2: So in September twenty eighteen, the rainy season was in

798
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 2: full flow. After one particularly bad thunderstorm, I found a fledgling,

799
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 2: a bronze winged mannequin finch, barely a month old, on

800
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 2: the ground, abandoned by his flock nest, blown from the

801
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 2: mango tree. His eyes were tightly shut and he was shuddering,

802
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 2: too young to survive alone. He was the size of

803
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 2: my little finger, with feathers the color of rich tea, biscuits, whatever.

804
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 2: This person's British pinky eyes and a small bill like

805
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 2: pencil lead. I placed him in a cardboard box with

806
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 2: tea towels, mimicking a nest. Stayed up all night researching

807
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 2: how to care for him. Spoke to an expert who

808
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 2: said it would take twelve weeks to prepare him for

809
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 2: the wild. The next day he woke with his mouth

810
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 2: open and a shrill hunger call. I fed him termites

811
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:46,720
Speaker 2: and instinctively chirped at him. He chirped back and clambered

812
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 2: into my hand, digging his beak and digging in his

813
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 2: beacon head, then fell asleep in my palm. As far

814
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 2: as he was concerned, I was his mother. For the

815
00:39:55,800 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 2: next eighty four days, this bird lived on on her

816
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,919
Speaker 2: who they say. She says, we became inseparable. He would

817
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 2: fly along beside me or cling to me as I

818
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 2: went from room to room in the house. Yes, he'd

819
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 2: rest in my hand as he learned when I when

820
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 2: she drove, he would just like rest in her hand

821
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:18,919
Speaker 2: as he learned to fly. He'd make short flights from

822
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 2: my hand to my shoulder to my head. Then ab

823
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 2: sailed down my waist length hair to rest again. Uh.

824
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 2: When she would go to the toilet, she would go

825
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 2: to the toilet one handed. So he and like she had,

826
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,280
Speaker 2: she did everything one at all the toilet one handed.

827
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 2: Women using two hands in the bathroom.

828
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: Usually it's just it's just jazz hands up here, just

829
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 1: clapping for themselves.

830
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 4: Oh, it's like having our own drum line.

831
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:51,239
Speaker 2: Uh.

832
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: And let's see then.

833
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, So each day he made little nests in

834
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:00,919
Speaker 2: my hair on the groove of my collar bone, which

835
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 2: filled me with all. He took himself under a curtain

836
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:07,280
Speaker 2: of hair and gather individual strands with his beak, sculping

837
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 2: them into a round of woven woven locks resembling a

838
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 2: small nest. Then settling inside, he would allow it to

839
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:15,720
Speaker 2: unravel when he was done and start again.

840
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:16,839
Speaker 1: The next day.

841
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 2: She learned his calls the strong, the bond was strong.

842
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 2: His flock returned to the grass, to the grasslands. And

843
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 2: then they just kept like moving him closer and closer

844
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 2: to the flock. And then after like the fourth day

845
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:34,439
Speaker 2: of like being with the flock, he just flew away

846
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 2: with them. And now the bird comes back and like

847
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 2: just sits on a tree like every spring, and like

848
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 2: says hi, to her and then flies away.

849
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: Dream relationships, eighty four days.

850
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 2: Of intense intimacy, and then once a year you get

851
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 2: to say.

852
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: Hi to them. Is it April already?

853
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:06,280
Speaker 7: Holy shit? That was amazing.

854
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 6: You know.

855
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 1: That wasn't as weird as I thought that story was

856
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 1: gonna be.

857
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 3: I thought it was like somebody's like, you live in

858
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 3: my hair now, and the bird's like, please God, this

859
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 3: is a hairy prison. But that sounds like they had

860
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 3: a very nice few minutes together.

861
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:22,800
Speaker 2: I mean I read the title and I was like,

862
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 2: I'm ready for crazy Lady one oh one. And then

863
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 2: I read it and I was like, oh, this is

864
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,840
Speaker 2: like a very reasonable, nice woman who's taking care of

865
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 2: this bird.

866
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 1: Yes, it's just like lonely.

867
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 2: It's a Pixar movie, you know, it's a totally wordless,

868
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:39,359
Speaker 2: fucking Pixar movie.

869
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 1: Right, Yes, that's all it is, right there, That's all

870
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 1: it was.

871
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 6: Mm hmm.

872
00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 4: It's kind of I don't know if it's a I

873
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 4: don't know if it's a wild story. It is kind

874
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:51,240
Speaker 4: of endearing.

875
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,800
Speaker 1: Unusual, Yes, yes, certainly.

876
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 6: I also I don't know why it just stood out

877
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 6: to me that she talks about her waist length hair

878
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 6: like that's important, like very very Roman, very like skin

879
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 6: of alabaster.

880
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 1: Just a little bird. My clasical sticks out enough that

881
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 1: a bird can perch on it.

882
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 4: The bird grabs my size zero waist.

883
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 1: My ample. Yeah, I could see that going that way.

884
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 2: I remember once I went my my grandmother was she

885
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 2: was she lived in Florida for when I was growing up,

886
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 2: and I went down for some reason. I was like

887
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 2: staying with her over Easter, and my mom wasn't there.

888
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 2: I think my mom had to work still, so my

889
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 2: mom was still working and I was just down with

890
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,399
Speaker 2: my grandmother for a couple of days. And it's Easter,

891
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 2: and I was like seven years old, and I was like,

892
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 2: Easter is like Easter, you know, like you wake up

893
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 2: and you like you go, you do something. There's something

894
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:00,879
Speaker 2: that signifies it it's Easter. Maybe there's a plastic Easter

895
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 2: egg that's hidden someplace and you go and you pick

896
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 2: it up, or like somebody says happy Easter of the

897
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 2: boarding I wake up and it's just like a just

898
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 2: another day.

899
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 1: And I was just like I was just like, oh, no,

900
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 1: Easter's not real. This is I've been lying to this

901
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 1: whole time.

902
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 2: And so I was like feeling like weird about it

903
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 2: or sorry for myself as a seven year old. And

904
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,400
Speaker 2: then I went out and shed like this little pool

905
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 2: in her backyard and and a and a duck and

906
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 2: seven baby ducks had landed overnight and it was like

907
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 2: they were in and then they just stayed all day

908
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 2: long and I just got to play with baby ducks.

909
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 2: And there's like a weird connection between like ducks and Easter,

910
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:43,799
Speaker 2: like baby ducks and Easter. I feel like right because

911
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 2: it's like Easter bunny lays duck eggs. I don't know,

912
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 2: I don't know, but it was And it ended up

913
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:52,240
Speaker 2: being like one of the best Easters ever just because

914
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 2: of these like baby ducks that were like just hanging

915
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:55,800
Speaker 2: out in the pool and I got to swim around

916
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 2: with them and they didn't leave and like circle around.

917
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:00,120
Speaker 3: They are cute as far as baby birds go. Oh

918
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 3: duckling might be number one on the call sheet good

919
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 3: baby bird.

920
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 7: We realized that Easter lives in all of us.

921
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: WHOA, That's when I realized that.

922
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 2: We need to tear down the capitalist structure and just

923
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 2: live in the woods.

924
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:17,720
Speaker 6: Guys.

925
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 7: Sometimes I look at cute ducks and I think Jesus

926
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 7: died for this.

927
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 3: He rose out and he was pissed as he was

928
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 3: ascending to heaven. Where are the colored eggs? Where are

929
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:30,760
Speaker 3: the bunnies?

930
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: Sorry?

931
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 6: One Easter, my mom bought me a chocolate cross, like

932
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 6: we grew up very Catholic, and I was so uptiated.

933
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 1: And then the moment it.

934
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 4: Was time for me to eat the cross, I started

935
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:51,360
Speaker 4: bawling because I was like, because I'm eating it, and

936
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm so sorry.

937
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 2: Jesus, Like, do you start with the head first? Do

938
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 2: you start with his head right?

939
00:45:58,600 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: You don't want to see this.

940
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 7: I'm so sorry, but it'll be over soon.

941
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, in Rye, I'm sorry.

942
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:17,800
Speaker 3: Is it funny that they make boys in Catholic school

943
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:19,320
Speaker 3: cut their hair and then every day you go and

944
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:21,240
Speaker 3: see a dude with long hair hanging on the cross.

945
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 1: When you're a mass I think it's the craziest role

946
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:24,240
Speaker 1: of all roles.

947
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 3: You're like, there's our main guy right there, and he's

948
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:28,839
Speaker 3: only twenty three or thirty three.

949
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: This guy's got tear down to his shoulders. He could

950
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:36,920
Speaker 1: have a bird make a nest in his hair. Do

951
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 1: you ever have you ever been to the Magic Castle? Cristella?

952
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,440
Speaker 4: I haven't. I have friends that can get me in there,

953
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 4: but you gotta go.

954
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 7: I'm a big and I'm a big magic fan, Like.

955
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:50,399
Speaker 6: I'm the perfect audience for Like I'm the person that's

956
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 6: like I suspend his belief.

957
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 4: I'm like, if you're flying, you're fucking flying, like I it.

958
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 4: I love it.

959
00:46:57,120 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 3: Well, this is good to know, and I will sincerely

960
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 3: make sure to email you next time I'm going with

961
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 3: a fun group of people because it is very fun.

962
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 3: For those who don't know, yeah, I will absolutely invite you, especially.

963
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 3: I always just keep saying, oh, I love being astounded.

964
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 3: Every time I walk into every room, I'm like, I'm

965
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 3: I going to be astounded, and they're like, please take

966
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 3: a seats there. So for those who don't know, the

967
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 3: Magic Castle is the center. It's like the headquarters of

968
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 3: magic in the entire world, where the world's best magicians.

969
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 1: It's a club.

970
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 3: They if you're a magician, you have to kind of

971
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 3: qualify to be there, and you wear they wear little

972
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:31,840
Speaker 3: gold pins on the pels, or you can pay a

973
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 3: few thousand dollars to be like a silver member. You

974
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 3: wear a little silver pin and then all night long

975
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 3: there's like seven bars. There's a really terrible dinner that

976
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 3: you're supposed to pay for go to. But they're these

977
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 3: little rooms where they do close up magic, they do

978
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 3: mental magic, and then twice a night they do the

979
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 3: main show, which is three magicians who are in town

980
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 3: reach do twenty minute sets together, back to back to back,

981
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 3: and it's sort of like the main thing, And sometimes

982
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,759
Speaker 3: it's crazy excellent, it's a little silly. There's one I'll

983
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 3: tell one of our live shows because it's a very

984
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 3: physical story, requires a lot of choreography. But one night

985
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 3: I go and my friends and are just we're annihilated.

986
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 3: We're as drunk as you can get in the magic

987
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,359
Speaker 3: Castle without them kicking you out. The first guy comes up,

988
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 3: he's amazing, and then the host comes up and they're like,

989
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:23,840
Speaker 3: this next guy is the greatest bird magician in the world.

990
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 3: You've seen him in Vegas. None of us have seen

991
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 3: in Vegas. You've seen him on TV.

992
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 1: No, not once.

993
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 3: This man comes out dressed like, uh, is it Morpheus?

994
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 3: What's the Lawrence Fishburne and Tematrix. I was here, I

995
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:38,799
Speaker 3: was there with you. You were there, Yeah, I was there.

996
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:41,720
Speaker 3: I remember this and it was I was sitting behind

997
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 3: you and we were Hammertown, Oh yeah, And we go

998
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 3: into the main show and this man comes out with

999
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 3: like the loudest nine inch nails sort of house electronic music,

1000
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:56,080
Speaker 3: and then you know, leather jacket, all black clothes, just

1001
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:58,440
Speaker 3: starts slinging his hands in the air left and right,

1002
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 3: and giant white birds just start appearing, and all his

1003
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:04,720
Speaker 3: act was for ten full minutes, was just him moving

1004
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 3: really rapidly and just an impossible amount of birds coming out.

1005
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 3: And then his closing act was a giant white cockatial

1006
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:14,400
Speaker 3: like comes out of nowhere, and it was the we

1007
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:18,360
Speaker 3: were scream laughing. We were crying laughing because it's so

1008
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:22,439
Speaker 3: ridiculous to be like, this person has spent more time

1009
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,920
Speaker 3: crafting this craft than any of us have done anything,

1010
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 3: and all it is is like doing jumping Jackson. Four

1011
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,359
Speaker 3: pigeons fly out of your.

1012
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 1: Best you know.

1013
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 6: My first thought is, how do you know you're good

1014
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 6: at that? Like, how do you know that that's your

1015
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:43,359
Speaker 6: Thing's all right? You're like watching an episode of Law

1016
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 6: and Order. You're just like, WHOA, I'm bored. It's like, hey,

1017
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 6: you know what I haven't thought of doing? Just birds out,

1018
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 6: Like it's like Spider Man, webs out of my hands

1019
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:54,760
Speaker 6: and stuff like, let's.

1020
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 1: Yes, Wow, you have to admire it. You have to

1021
00:49:58,560 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 1: admire it.

1022
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:01,800
Speaker 2: It is just it's a commitment to a niche, to

1023
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 2: a niche form of entertainment that you can do in

1024
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 2: three places in the entire universe.

1025
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, beautiful. I love that sort of thing.

1026
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:13,839
Speaker 3: We were crying. It was so good, Crystal. Next time

1027
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 3: we all go, I will absolutely make sure yours.

1028
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 4: So I have to go like and I like, I

1029
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 4: just want to I just want to be next to

1030
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 4: you when you.

1031
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 3: Say, I will look you dead in the eye, stont

1032
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 3: face and go I hope you're ready to be a stone.

1033
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 1: Christella. Thank you so much for being on the show.

1034
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:37,760
Speaker 1: I had so much fun.

1035
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:39,360
Speaker 7: I love being a Bananamal.

1036
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:43,720
Speaker 1: You're in your Offisher will send you a shirt.

1037
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 2: Yes, anything else you want to plug before we sign

1038
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 2: off here?

1039
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:52,399
Speaker 6: Oh no, not that I can think, you know, well,

1040
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:54,880
Speaker 6: I'm doing a show for the Netflix is a fastia

1041
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:58,320
Speaker 6: Oh oh great, May sixth, nine thirty pm at the

1042
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 6: Regent Theater. Beautiful Tickets available at the website. Netflix is

1043
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 6: a jokefest dot com? Could it couldn't be longer? Like?

1044
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:07,160
Speaker 7: It could be a longer website.

1045
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 3: Yeah sure, couldn't go see Christella and get ready for

1046
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:15,000
Speaker 3: next special and go back and watch Lower Classy if

1047
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 3: you've never seen it.

1048
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: Treat yourself, have some fun for once in your life.

1049
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:19,640
Speaker 7: You will be astounded.

1050
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:20,400
Speaker 6: You will be.

1051
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 1: Nice, colmback Banas. Bananas is an exactly right media production.

1052
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:42,280
Speaker 1: Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine. The catchy Bananas

1053
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 1: theme song was composed and performed by Kahon. Artwork for

1054
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 1: Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.

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00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 3: And our benevolent overlords are the great Karen Kilgareff and

1056
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 3: Georgia Hartstart.

1057
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:55,320
Speaker 1: And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot intern.

1058
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 3: You can listen, subscribe, and leave us reviews for Bananas

1059
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 3: on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

1060
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 3: quality podcast and don't forget.

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00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:07,319
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