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Speaker 4: A wild story.

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Speaker 1: that on a brands Bank. A new episode of The

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Speaker 1: Lovely Bananas Podcast. Thank you.

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Speaker 5: From all the way around the world.

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Speaker 2: Guys gowns non binary pounds. Welcome to the Bananas Podcast.

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Speaker 2: I'm Kurt Brown, older.

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Speaker 1: Him Banana Boy number two Scottie Landis. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: listening to the silliest little podcast there ever was. Thank

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Speaker 3: We're just happy to do this podcast for you.

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Speaker 2: We're here in December. It's a beautiful time of year.

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Speaker 2: Things are getting really nice. And you know what's even nicer, Scottie.

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Speaker 3: Tell me all about it. I guests today, Oh goode.

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Speaker 2: I am honestly very bad at seguey. Like all of

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Speaker 4: It's amazing.

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Speaker 3: It's a great podcast.

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Speaker 4: Here it is. Our guests today are a husband and

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Speaker 4: Please welcome Kate and Danny Tamborelli.

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Speaker 3: It is true. Welcome to Bananas, guys.

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Speaker 7: Thanks for having us.

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Speaker 1: I'm finishing a second another. I know oka creative endeavors

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Speaker 7: It's just, you know, it's not a full life it's

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Speaker 1: It's just, you know, that's enough for a U haul

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Speaker 3: Like, how did this happen so quick?

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Speaker 2: It's like we count by the inch. It's a dollar

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Speaker 2: Time, and this is the way they wrote it. I

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Speaker 2: honor policy with US fourteen hundred dollars payout for decision

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Speaker 4: By I bet they're good.

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Speaker 2: Yating Yang in Beijing, so good best in the biz

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Speaker 2: Yating Yeah, he's he.

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Speaker 3: Or they are awesome at what they do.

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Speaker 2: A married man in China who successfully sued an insurance

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Speaker 2: had a marriage payout of niney nine and ninety five

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Speaker 3: I don't that's wise, that's nice.

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Speaker 7: So it's presumptuous, is what it is. They're not even Yeah.

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Speaker 4: This is crazy, However, I love this. After the couple tied.

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Speaker 2: The nod on December first, twenty twenty two, and submitted

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Speaker 2: the required claim documents, the insurance company refused to pay

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Speaker 2: despite multiple complaints. Leu told the Gmun News that many

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Speaker 2: consumers had purchased this love insurance, and the company's own

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Speaker 2: At the time, three tiers of love insurance were available,

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Speaker 2: don't know us seventy dollars. The ninety nine one tier

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Speaker 7: Level with the highest one.

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Speaker 4: That's the highest one.

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Speaker 2: Frustration, I don't understand why the company's offering this that

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Speaker 4: He lost the first trial.

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Speaker 2: He's the court agreed with the company's defense that love

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Speaker 4: Of insurance regulations.

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Speaker 2: In contract was such a crazy.

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Speaker 7: Art That's the best answer ever.

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Speaker 4: That's the best answer thing they offered it. They offered

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Speaker 7: They're like, no, I'm sorry, we can't. We actually can't.

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Speaker 7: We can't do it. Our hands are tied. It's like

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Speaker 7: it's like the guy. It's like the guy that like

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Speaker 7: and he's like, hey, I'd love to, but my my

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Speaker 7: I can't pay you.

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Speaker 2: Sounds like sorry, a tab at a deli, Danny, Danny,

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Speaker 7: I uh, truth, truth, I'm just I was just trying

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Speaker 7: we're gonna start this LLC. It's called Danny T's Danny

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Speaker 7: t Danny T's Incorporated. And uh, we were only in

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Speaker 3: So my jobs were bizarre.

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Speaker 2: But the funniest part was actually mirror image, like in

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Speaker 3: And these guys also never showed up for work. It

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Speaker 1: And they had like photos with the presidents. They other

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Speaker 1: every day would get two giant deli platters from Carnegie Deli.

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Speaker 3: So for the two or three weeks I was a temp.

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Speaker 3: Every day I would make just giant Deli sandwiches. Nobody

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Speaker 1: Things of coal slob, potato salad, huge tubs of Deli mustard,

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Speaker 3: It would always there.

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Speaker 2: like Carnadi Deli, it would be the most mustard in

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Speaker 1: Yes, so I started bringing a backpack to work. I

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Speaker 4: That actually makes me.

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Speaker 2: I told this story years ago on bananas and then

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Speaker 2: I asked Katie to cut it, and now I'm going

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Speaker 3: Do it is?

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Speaker 4: I remember when I lived in New York City.

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Speaker 4: And they were all in these big, long, beautiful like strips.

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Speaker 2: And so then four years in our freezer there was

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Speaker 2: moving out and there was still I think like fifteen

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Speaker 1: Those are expensive. That's like seventy five dollars of pork.

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Speaker 1: Lord like that shit's expensive.

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Speaker 7: Your master, Well, it's between petty and grand licening.

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Speaker 3: That's I think that's right.

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Speaker 8: I thought you're gonna say you drunkenly forgot to refrigerate it,

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Speaker 7: That's Kate. That's Kate's biggest fear. She's she's under forty

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Speaker 7: five degree different opinions about everything has to be.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, when when food goes bad.

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Speaker 7: I eat pumpkin pie that hasn't been refrigerated in three days,

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Speaker 8: Up you better four year old most likely rancid hummus.

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Speaker 7: It did not. It's only by like five days over

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Speaker 4: Those dates, I never know what.

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Speaker 8: It doesn't matter the date.

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Speaker 7: She'll tell you the date once you open it, then

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Speaker 8: Your dad would have said that about Ama milk that

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Speaker 7: Yeah. He also he also grew up with a Jersey

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Speaker 1: Kate, do you have to go into the office these

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Speaker 8: I'm pretty much cool.

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Speaker 3: Congratulations.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's funny. I started doing it, like I started

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Speaker 1: Yeah that's great. What a great feeling. Just to ease

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Speaker 1: into it the best. If you can work from home,

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Speaker 1: it's and a lot of people can't. I mean a

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Speaker 1: lot of people do miss the structure of going in

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Speaker 1: the office or just the social life of the small

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Speaker 1: office gossip. But boy, if you get used to it,

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Speaker 1: it's incredible.

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Speaker 8: I always said in my twenties, like being in publishing,

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Speaker 8: it was really important, like to know their assistants, to

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Speaker 8: be able to bitch about things to get you know,

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Speaker 8: like you need that, like.

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Speaker 7: You need that the camaradehips.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you need the camraerie. But like at a point

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Speaker 8: then you know you have those relationships, but you can

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Speaker 8: like sit at home in your sweatpants and still have

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Speaker 8: those relationships.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it funny though, when you are in an office,

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Speaker 1: especially a big office, and you've worked with somebody safe

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Speaker 1: for three years and then you discover something about their

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Speaker 1: personal life that you had no There was a woman

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Speaker 1: that Kurt and I worked with who was a receptionists,

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Speaker 1: very nice person at this TV company, and then I

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Speaker 1: just found out that every day after work she went

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Speaker 1: and taught spin classes. And I had no idea, and

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Speaker 1: it made her so much more interesting to me because

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Speaker 1: I just imagine everybody like going to their sat New

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Speaker 1: York apartment. She's like, no, I go teach like two

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Speaker 1: hours been every night. And I'm like, well, now I

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Speaker 1: want to be friends with you. Before I just said

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Speaker 1: hello and good night, and now I'm like, well, tell

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Speaker 1: me what's up with that?

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Speaker 7: How are you on your leader board? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Can I get free classes.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, usually that's what you see something that somebody's doing

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Speaker 7: that's interesting, and you just you become interested just enough

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Speaker 7: to see if you can get something out of it free.

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Speaker 3: Correct. That's New York lifestyle to like.

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Speaker 8: How early on if you become like Instagram friends, because

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Speaker 8: then you learn things that way and then you maybe

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Speaker 8: you haven't learned them, depending on if they follow you.

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Speaker 7: You know. So that's this feels very fresh as to

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Speaker 7: us meeting parents at uh, taking our kid to preschool

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Speaker 7: and then meeting people and like realizing that now we've

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Speaker 7: like we sort of have to like start so you know,

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Speaker 7: you have your We've had I've had my set of friends,

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Speaker 7: She's had her set of friends, and now our son's

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Speaker 7: going to have his set of friends and the parents

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Speaker 7: that come along with it, and then you know, you know,

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Speaker 7: you found you find their name and the email and

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Speaker 7: then you just casually I'm just gonna check and see

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Speaker 7: if they're on Instagram. Oh oh wow, this guy's I

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Speaker 7: found out that one of my kids dads is also

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Speaker 7: a bass player, and I was like cool, and I

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Speaker 7: knew that already. And then we had like something at

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Speaker 7: the school and we actually met and he was like

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Speaker 7: what do you do? And I was like, you know,

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Speaker 7: I do a bunch of things. I played bass. Oh,

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Speaker 7: I played bass too. Oh you pretend like you don't

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Speaker 7: know and that it just happened in the moment you're like,

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Speaker 7: You're like, you're like, oh, man, I just I just

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Speaker 7: lie my first encounter with his new friend. I'm just

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Speaker 7: lying to your face. How was this going to come

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Speaker 7: back to bite me in the ass? I shouldn't have

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Speaker 7: liked that Instagram post on accident.

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Speaker 2: That's also but it's lucky to meet It is very

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Speaker 2: lucky to meet a parent that your kid and that

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Speaker 2: your kid likes their kid, and you like the parent.

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Speaker 2: Because after I had kids, I was shot an amazed

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Speaker 2: at because for so long, just being in comedy, everyone

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Speaker 2: I met was like pretty interesting to summer funny or

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Speaker 2: funny at least if they're not interesting, they're very funny.

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Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, I was like, oh

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Speaker 2: my god, look at how many like duds of human

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Speaker 2: beings that exist out there.

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Speaker 4: It's like shocking.

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Speaker 2: It's like the majority of the world is a dun

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Speaker 2: of a human being.

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Speaker 1: And yet they're having sex, they're having sex, they're making kids,

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Speaker 1: and my kid loves their kid.

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Speaker 7: And then my interesting friends, their comedians are all like,

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Speaker 7: you have kids, what the fuck is wrong?

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Speaker 4: That'll slowly change.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then they'll be the old one.

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Speaker 7: They'll be like, oh, you know, I'm forty five. I

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Speaker 7: just had my first kid. He's like, well, your lower

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Speaker 7: back is gonna be fucked dude, good luck.

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Speaker 4: I can attest.

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Speaker 8: You're not far away from that second.

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Speaker 7: Cool. Cool, it cool, and I have I have thirty

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Speaker 7: seven and forty Okay, it said, those are milestones for me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't me to tease us in.

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Speaker 3: I'll tease this sooner or a break, Kurt, how about that? Okay?

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Speaker 3: Race sent this in. It's Ace Griverson.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Ace Griverson sent it. I think in like August,

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Speaker 1: we're catching up and Curt, if you did this one,

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Speaker 1: please stop me. I have other stories.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Scientists. Scientist wears a giant bird head to earn the

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Speaker 1: trust of wild birds, fails miserably, miserably.

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Speaker 2: If it sounds like what I would have done, and

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Speaker 2: very surprised I have.

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Speaker 4: Not found I don't think.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think I did, because I'm very excited

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Speaker 2: to hear about this.

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Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure. My sixth grade science

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Speaker 7: teacher who hated all the kids, told us to do

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Speaker 7: that and go outside and dress as a woodpecker and

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Speaker 7: see what happens.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think this will give us all a lot

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Speaker 2: to squawk about when we come back.

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Speaker 3: Come on, bananas, bunaos, Hey.

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Speaker 4: Folks, we are back. Scotty got any shout outs.

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Speaker 1: Sure do our dear friend and Bananamal who listens to

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Speaker 1: bananas and came to Splitty in the city. Erica Rankin

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Speaker 1: Kurt you worked with her on Green Bray's Guide. She

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Speaker 1: had a baby last week, So congratulations to Erica and

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Speaker 1: Austin on your first healthy, first baby who is also healthy.

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Speaker 1: And thanks for listening. I bet Erica listens more now

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Speaker 1: that she has to feed a baby. Anna stip Pulkowski

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Speaker 1: and Anna Stipplekowski wants to shout out Ali. Ali got

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Speaker 1: Anna and her husband Sam hooked on bananas and Ali

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Speaker 1: this is this is great. Ali recently forgave Anna for

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Speaker 1: scheduling regular email messages to her work email that said

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Speaker 1: jizz in the subject and the body of the email,

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Speaker 1: regularly firing off those jizzy emails. So thank you Ali

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Speaker 1: for having a sense of humor and Anna awesome work.

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Speaker 1: Cassidy Moore wanted to shout out her corgi Mia for

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Speaker 1: winning first place at Corgi Racing, and also wants to

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Speaker 1: shout out her other corgi, Floyd, who tied for fifth

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Speaker 1: but tried very hard. She said a video card it's

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Speaker 1: in our dms Well said, it's just very funny and

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Speaker 1: last but not least, emmelyin Luck aka Emmy wants to

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Speaker 1: shout herself out. Emmy overcame tough mental health struggles over

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Speaker 1: the last year and is working hard with mental health

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Speaker 1: professionals to overcome her anxiety and depression. Emmy says, to

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Speaker 1: all the banana bananimals, go bananas for mental health. To

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Speaker 1: all bananimals, just keep going even when you feel like

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Speaker 1: you can't. You're stronger than you think you are. Thank you, Emmy,

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Speaker 1: and I say Banana the Week.

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Speaker 2: Banana of the Week. Also my sister's name as well.

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Speaker 2: One of my many sisters is named Emmy, So so.

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Speaker 1: Emmy luck Banana the week, Keep going and you're doing great.

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Speaker 3: That's all I got.

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Speaker 4: Excellent.

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Speaker 2: Also, big shout out to the Phoenix Women's rugby team.

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Speaker 3: Oh Hell Those Who.

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Speaker 2: Bananas is a sponsor and they have the bananas logo

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Speaker 2: on their uniforms and it looks so cool.

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Speaker 3: The fire bananas. Yeah, I asked for sure.

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Speaker 7: The book smeared blood all over. Those jerseys look great.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're cool. We love those Phoenix Women's rugby.

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Speaker 2: And of course we are here with the wonderful and

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Speaker 2: fantastic author Duo married as well, Duo.

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Speaker 4: Kate and Danny Tamborelli.

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Speaker 2: Hi, guys, tell us about the so are you pret

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Speaker 2: card promoting the book that you just came out or

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Speaker 2: the book that's just about to come out.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know a little bit of this, a little

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Speaker 7: bit of that. You know, just right now that book's

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Speaker 7: out and available. So that's that's what you can sink

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Speaker 7: your teeth in. Yeah, First State Prophecy. And hey, if

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Speaker 7: you don't know how to read, we made an audiobook

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Speaker 7: too that I did half in Mara Wilson to the

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Speaker 7: other half. So you know, that's a that could be

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Speaker 7: a fun thing, especially if you don't read, mostly if

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Speaker 7: you don't read to it. Well, nobody wanted to use.

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Speaker 8: I didn't.

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Speaker 7: I didn't.

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Speaker 8: I didn't offer myself up, but I didn't want to

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Speaker 8: subject anyone to my voice, for you know, half.

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Speaker 7: A book much better job.

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Speaker 1: So are they sequels? Are they connected? Are the two

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Speaker 1: books series?

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Speaker 8: Their companions?

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Speaker 7: So that's a term I learned. I just recently, not recently,

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Speaker 7: but since you know, uh, dating and then marrying an

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Speaker 7: author found out what a companion book is, which is

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Speaker 7: one that's in the same world, but they're standalone, so

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Speaker 7: you can read one without having to read the other.

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Speaker 7: But if you read them both, it's like, you know,

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Speaker 7: it's like two thirds of the Neapolitan ice cream?

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Speaker 4: Is there going to be a third third of the Neapolitan?

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Speaker 3: Is strawberry coming?

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Speaker 7: That's weird because that was my neighbor's dog and there

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Speaker 7: was always humping. Is this strawberry was always common strawberry comment.

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Speaker 7: We'll give him a minute, he's done. It's fine.

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Speaker 8: We wrote the We wrote the first book when we

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Speaker 8: had one kid, the second book when we half when

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Speaker 8: I was pregnant, half when we had two kids. So

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Speaker 8: time's gotten a little harder. But I don't know, maybe,

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Speaker 8: I mean, we had a lot of fun, and there's.

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Speaker 7: There's an idea, there's an idea.

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Speaker 8: There two the two the common allies between. So there's

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Speaker 8: two brothers who were both like big nineties child actors

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Speaker 8: on the show, very much like Pete and Pete.

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Speaker 7: And this is called black Hole Sons.

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Speaker 8: Black Hole Sons, but o n s can New Jersey

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Speaker 8: Suburbs brother Aliens. But so the first one, the first

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Speaker 8: brother Rudy and first date Prophecy was very much like

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Speaker 8: Danny's story. I mean, if you want some embarrassing Danny anecdotes,

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Speaker 8: the book is full of them.

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Speaker 7: Write what you know. And that's what I did.

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Speaker 8: Five percent of what makes Rudy like backstory wise, you know,

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Speaker 8: came from something something in Danny's life.

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Speaker 7: It was the most surprising one that you sometimes I

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Speaker 7: just wrote them and didn't say this was real or not.

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Speaker 8: Oh, I guess the ketchup story. I found out that

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Speaker 8: he walked out because it's very you know, it's about

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Speaker 8: first dates, living New York Beans, single, how brutal it is.

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Speaker 8: And I discovered through something Rudy in the book did that.

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Speaker 8: I found out Danny did as well, that he walked

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Speaker 8: out in the first date because she didn't like ketchup

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Speaker 8: and she didn't approve of him putting ketchup on his pride.

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Speaker 7: I was at the seventh I was at the Seventh

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Speaker 7: Street Cafe on seventh and Avenue A, and they have

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Speaker 7: they have a dynamite tune it well, they had a

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Speaker 7: Dynamite Tuna Mountain. That place no longer exists, uh, which

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Speaker 7: I guess on the other end, if you're on a

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Speaker 7: first date and you're having food in the and your

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Speaker 7: you know your days is getting a tuneamount, I my bad.

664
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Speaker 7: I can I can get I can get that, but

665
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Speaker 7: I can't know. But it's delicious, it's my it was

666
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 7: my favorite thing to get there, and so I didn't care.

667
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 7: But a tuneamount needs a little bit of ketchup for

668
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 7: a little dip tip, so do the fries. And she

669
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 7: was did not like ketchup. She made it a point

670
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 7: that she didn't want it on the table. She really didn't.

671
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 7: She didn't. Yeah, there was something weird about it, like

672
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,480
Speaker 7: for real. She was like, I'm not sure about ketchup

673
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 7: and I was and I was like, okay, I'm going

674
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 7: to use this ketchup thing and get the hell out

675
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 7: of you and get.

676
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 2: The hell Did you say that I'm just I'm gonna

677
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Speaker 2: leave or did you just get up?

678
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Speaker 7: And no, I know, I just uh, I kind of

679
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 7: I put some some showmanship into it, just just a

680
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 7: little bit of showmanship. Yeah. I went to the I

681
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 7: went to the bathroom, I paid the bill, I came back.

682
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 7: I came back with it to go thing for my sandwich.

683
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 7: I put it all in and I picked up the

684
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 7: ketchup and I looked her in the eyes and I

685
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 7: went and squeezed like almost all.

686
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Speaker 8: Of it out.

687
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,320
Speaker 7: No, it was doing it. It would that that sound

688
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 7: was doing it for And I just kept looking and

689
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 7: I closed it up, and I said, ketchup is a delicacy.

690
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 7: And I got up and I walked out.

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Speaker 1: Oh gosh, well, if you if that woman is listening

692
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 1: to this right now, we would love to hear your side.

693
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:26,879
Speaker 7: Hey, that's not fair, and anybody could call in and

694
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 7: say that. The The thing I did find out was

695
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 7: that like she was related to the person that invented gatorade.

696
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 7: So I would have been I would have No, that

697
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,919
Speaker 7: would have been great too. I'm just saying I could

698
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 7: have been really wealthy. I mean I could I could

699
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Speaker 7: have been like you know, Joseph Gordon levit by proxy rich.

700
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Speaker 3: That electrolyte money is it flows here.

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Speaker 8: I thought it was just like his creative fiction brain work.

702
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 8: I think it was like at one of our events

703
00:34:58,080 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 8: and some where we were talking about it, and it

704
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 8: like I was jarred finding out that this was this

705
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 8: was real. So I mean, if that doesn't, you know,

706
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,879
Speaker 8: make you want to read that, you get to discover.

707
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 4: Stuff like that about Danny.

708
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 8: Just assume you know, as you're reading that it probably

709
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,360
Speaker 8: it probably happened, if it was an anecdote of his characters.

710
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 1: I went to a house when I was twenty two,

711
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: our apartment in Manhattan. It was like we were all

712
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: hanging out of the bar and we went to this guy,

713
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: Troy's house, and Troy had been a New Yorker for many,

714
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 1: many years. And when we went to this kitchen, somebody

715
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,840
Speaker 1: opened his refrigerator to like see if there was a

716
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: beer or any anything into the drink, and there was

717
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 1: only one bottle of ketchup, nothing else. And somebody was like, Troy,

718
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: you don't have any groceries. And they started opening his

719
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 1: cabinets and he had kept porn in his cabinets, so

720
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,359
Speaker 1: he had just porn DVDs. He's like hit storage, just

721
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,800
Speaker 1: like anything else. And I was like, it is storage.

722
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 4: They were like, is this a friend of yours?

723
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 3: No, he was.

724
00:35:56,440 --> 00:36:00,320
Speaker 1: He was a fashion photographer. Or fashion stylist. I can't remember,

725
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: but anyways, they were like, true, you don't have any groceries,

726
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: And he just came over and looked. It was just

727
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: one solitary bottle of ketchup and he goes New York

728
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 1: City lifestyle, get used to it, and then walked out

729
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 1: of the kitten.

730
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 7: I like this guy.

731
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 3: He was cool.

732
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the one time I was in that apartment.

733
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 1: It stuck with me for obviously it was.

734
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 7: A lofted studio, lots of space, and stormed out. He

735
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 7: took three steps and walked out the door.

736
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 2: I just that reminds me that I used to go

737
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 2: to a lot of I used to go to a

738
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 2: lot of house parties in New York where it was

739
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 2: just I would go into someone's house I'd never been

740
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,279
Speaker 2: to before, and I would never be there again. And

741
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 2: for some reason, you telling that story made me flash

742
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 2: on this one. I was dating this woman from Jersey

743
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 2: City and uh, and I was trying to quit smoking,

744
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 2: and so I was just walking around with a cocktail

745
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,240
Speaker 2: straw in my pocket and whenever I wanted to smoke,

746
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 2: I would take this cocktail straw out.

747
00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:59,800
Speaker 4: And suck on it like I was smoking.

748
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:05,359
Speaker 2: A cigarette and eventually just started smoking again. But on

749
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 2: our walk home it was very wintery and snowy, and

750
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 2: I was doing a bit where I would where I

751
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 2: would be like talking and then go whoa and fake

752
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 2: because it was a lot of snow and so like

753
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 2: there was a lot of like it was maybe like

754
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 2: four feet high on the sides, and it was fresh,

755
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 2: and so I would go whoa, whoa, and then I

756
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 2: would go headfirst into like a four foot snow.

757
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 4: Bank and then come up. And I was doing it

758
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 4: multiple times. It was getting laughs.

759
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 2: The last time I did it, I came up and

760
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 2: I didn't have my glasses, and my glasses like in

761
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 2: the snow, and so I reach in to get my

762
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 2: glasses and as I'm pulling my glasses out, I realized

763
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,720
Speaker 2: that I have just done it. I've dove headfirst into snow.

764
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 2: And one inch away from where I dove in was

765
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 2: a fire hydrant.

766
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 4: And then I was just like, that's why you don't

767
00:37:59,120 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 4: do that.

768
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 2: That's the reason that you don't dive head first into snow.

769
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,480
Speaker 1: Teachable moments. Yeah, but I'm glad, You're okay, did you

770
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:07,240
Speaker 1: get the glasses?

771
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 7: He got got the glasses.

772
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: That's important to tell you about diving headfirst into some Please,

773
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 1: it's a diving first into a giant bird head to

774
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: earn the trust of wild birds. Here we go squawk

775
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: about Regina Sienra wrote this, she is the best in

776
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: the biz when it comes to bird heeadmars for mymodernmet

777
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: dot com. Sometimes we use mymodernmet dot com. A Japanese

778
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: scientist studying the languages of birds wore a giant bird

779
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:45,399
Speaker 1: mask on his head for an entire year in order

780
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 1: to trick a nest of great tits. Hold for laughter,

781
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: hold for laughter, to allow him to approach them. So

782
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:58,720
Speaker 1: she Toshi Taka Suzuki, an associate professor at University of Tokyo,

783
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: recently shared as our photo of a man wearing a

784
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 1: giant bird head on Twitter and he.

785
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Speaker 3: A kurt, You're gonna love it.

786
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: It turns out that the photo is taken somewhere in

787
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 1: the forests of nagin O Prefecture, showing a fellow scientist

788
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: who decided to wear the disguise for an entire year

789
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,439
Speaker 1: in order to get close to a nest of great

790
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: tits without triggering their distress calls. Ornithologists and bird behavior

791
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 1: experts had noticed that certain bird species were capable of

792
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: remembering human faces, and they would stop their usual chirping

793
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: to put out warning calls when they saw individuals approaching.

794
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 1: So basically birds were like, that's a person, and then

795
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 1: they would change their.

796
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 2: Song, right, but they wouldn't change it if a bird

797
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 2: fifteen feet taller.

798
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,360
Speaker 1: Than it's supposed to be show up, yes, they'd be like,

799
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: that's normal.

800
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 2: There's just a giant bird over there with our new eggs.

801
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 7: I knew I shouldn't eat in those berries. Man, birds

802
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:53,439
Speaker 7: are tripping out.

803
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 3: It feels like that.

804
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,719
Speaker 1: And also it's like a giant pigeon rubber pigeon head.

805
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 1: That's sort of like, it's so not it's not what

806
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 1: he was going for. But yes, and then it's just

807
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: like a guy wearing a suit with a pigeon.

808
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:09,240
Speaker 7: Headed suit and not come in. And he was bummed

809
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 7: out and was like, I gotta do this anyway. What

810
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 7: do I got? One PARTI city pigeon head, let's go.

811
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,919
Speaker 1: It is that level. It is that quality of pigeon head.

812
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: No feathers are involved. Having wound up on the Tits blacklist,

813
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: the Japanese scientists decided to disguise himself as a giant

814
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:31,800
Speaker 1: bird in order to approach the birds and study their chirping.

815
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: At one point, the unnamed scientist who conducts research on

816
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: the behavior of evolutionary chemistry of bats and birds.

817
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 3: What a career choice.

818
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 1: I had to approach the great tits nest and weigh

819
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: their chicks. And ever since, the birds would switch from

820
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: their usual chirping to the characteristic P two P P

821
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: two P that was pretty good warden calls.

822
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 7: We gotta figure it out.

823
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:05,959
Speaker 1: Warning calls whenever they spotted him. This made it hard

824
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 1: for the man to conduct the research on their language,

825
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: so he came up with the idea of a disguise.

826
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 1: According to Professor Suzuki, his colleague wore the disguise for

827
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: an entire year, but this experiment ended in failure. Whenever

828
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 1: the great tits noticed him approaching he started, they started

829
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: emitting their warning calls. Despite his best efforts, the mask

830
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:33,240
Speaker 1: did not fool the birds, and they emitted warning calls

831
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 1: when he got too close. Hoping that they may have

832
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:40,359
Speaker 1: absolved him, he tried again without the disguise, but got

833
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 1: the same results. This poor guy just wants birds to

834
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: love him so deep.

835
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Speaker 2: Also, I don't know why that this article is not

836
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 2: called man wears bird head for full year to get

837
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:50,879
Speaker 2: close to green.

838
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: Oh, I know, ending on great tits would have big

839
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: click bait one oh one, and you can also put

840
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: else miserably at the end.

841
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 7: Did this guy these guy's scientists degree from just Outdoor

842
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 7: University or like he like? You can get like a

843
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 7: trap camera and just put it on the tree next

844
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 7: to where the nest is. You don't even have to

845
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:19,400
Speaker 7: show up. He got it. It's got audio, it's got video.

846
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 7: I'm I'm questioning where this person got a degree from.

847
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,320
Speaker 4: He got his degree from Spencer's Gifts.

848
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 7: Okay, in the back room of Spencer's Gifts behind the lube.

849
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 7: There's also accreditation.

850
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 1: If anything, this has left him with a very funny

851
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 1: story and hysterical pictures of him in the forest of

852
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: Nagna trying to fit in, as if his efforts weren't

853
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 1: commendable enough. Toshi Taka also shared a video which bananimals.

854
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 1: Feel free to google it. It is on X, but

855
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,800
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody else uses X anymore, So go

856
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: google this video and it's a video of the researcher

857
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:00,839
Speaker 1: trying to put on his glasses over the masks and

858
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 1: again failing miserably. It looks like the mysterious ornithologists got

859
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: confirmation that birds may forgive, but they don't forget.

860
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:11,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty great.

861
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 8: I mean to be honest, I thought him failing was

862
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 8: gonna be like the birds pecking at him and killing him.

863
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,320
Speaker 8: You really went there, And I have like a bird

864
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 8: like birds, I like their beaks really scare me.

865
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 7: We have we have a neighbor who lives upstairs that

866
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 7: feeds the pigeons in the front are you like throws

867
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,919
Speaker 7: out the window, the rows stuff out and he goes,

868
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 7: he goes, and he's he claps and he's trained, like

869
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 7: I'm not even I'm not even joking, probably like one

870
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 7: hundred and fifteen to two hundred pigeons that are all

871
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 7: over like on the on the roofs of all the

872
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 7: apartments surrounding us. And he makes this, does his clap

873
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 7: and they all come down and it's like a humongous gust.

874
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 7: And sometimes he does it like right as I'm like

875
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 7: taking the kids out. I think he does. He does

876
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 7: think it's fun look at the kids. He does because

877
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 7: because the kids are like, oh wow, and I'm just

878
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 7: sitting there and be like, oh my god, we all

879
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 7: just got encephalitis.

880
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 4: What legion airs disease?

881
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 7: Yeah, we all have legion airs disease, does it? And

882
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 7: there's always like one or two that you know when

883
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 7: you walk through they all fly away. And there's like

884
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 7: the one or two like sick ones that are like whatever,

885
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 7: you're gonna kick me, kick me, I'm not moving.

886
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 3: Yeah.

887
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: New York pigeons, one out of six is missing one

888
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 1: leg every time.

889
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:32,520
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter.

890
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: If you see thirty six, there six just hopping along

891
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:37,720
Speaker 1: and you're like, God, bless you, I'm glad you have wings,

892
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 1: young light wark.

893
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 7: You gotta They have to take those couple extra hops

894
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 7: before they can actually get going.

895
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 1: I think the more impressive thing feeding bunch of pigeons

896
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:50,800
Speaker 1: and having a bunch of pigeons come when you clap.

897
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 1: Would It would be more impressive if you walked outside, snapped,

898
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:55,440
Speaker 1: and one pigeon land on his finger.

899
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:57,840
Speaker 7: That would the impressive, very cool.

900
00:44:58,040 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 3: Only that.

901
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure one or two of

902
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 7: them I've seen flown into his apartment. So I can

903
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 7: only imagine what the ones that don't get out are doing.

904
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:13,279
Speaker 2: I mean imagine that you could do anything if you

905
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:16,280
Speaker 2: walked outside put your finger in the air and went Todd.

906
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,400
Speaker 4: And then a pigeon came and landed on your finger.

907
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:27,439
Speaker 4: Be like, make him king. He should be king of America.

908
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: Oh man, Todd the pigeon. Good episode name. That's so funny.

909
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 1: You got another one.

910
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:39,399
Speaker 4: You got to get more than three.

911
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 2: Here's let's get this fourth one in here. It smelled amazing,

912
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 2: but I felt so sad Australia's biggest garlic bread factory

913
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:50,760
Speaker 2: burns down.

914
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 4: I love this so much. This was sent in by

915
00:45:58,680 --> 00:45:59,919
Speaker 4: the wonderful Alison Rice.

916
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,239
Speaker 3: Thank you, Allison, Thank you Alison Race.

917
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: And this is an interesting oh that we were sent

918
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 1: this for many many ban animals.

919
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 3: This was a very popular story last week.

920
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 2: Yeah uh, al somebody loves the smell of garlic bread.

921
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 1: Did your parents, one of your parents when you were

922
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 1: a kid, like you guys are nineties kids, right, you

923
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 1: were teenagers in the nineties, roughly, did your mom or

924
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:29,919
Speaker 1: dad ever bring out one of those long foil sleeves

925
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 1: of tinfoil that you just put the whole thing in

926
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:35,360
Speaker 1: the oven. To me, that was like the height of

927
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 1: culinary excellence. It was like, and mom got the sleeve

928
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 1: of pre garlic and buttered garlic bread.

929
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 3: Tonight we feast like kings.

930
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:47,799
Speaker 7: With some weird artificial green stuff on top that yes,

931
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 7: it's not really partially but yeah, certainly not a regano.

932
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:57,879
Speaker 7: And it kind of reminds me of the ooze from

933
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 7: teenage Meeting Ninja Turtles. But whatever it was, it was,

934
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 7: that's good stuff.

935
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 3: I'm gonna pick that up.

936
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 1: I about Costco still rips that out.

937
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 4: So this was interestingly enough.

938
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 2: This story is a thing that happens for bananas sometimes

939
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 2: when people send in a whole thing, but they're always

940
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 2: just sending in. It's from a meme account and it

941
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 2: will just bring the headline.

942
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:24,839
Speaker 4: So when you.

943
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:29,240
Speaker 2: Search this that that article does not exist. That article

944
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 2: was made by someone who makes memes and it was

945
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 2: made to look like an article, but it is based

946
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 2: but it is based on a real thing. And it

947
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 2: wasn't Australia. And this was in the Daily Mail, which

948
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 2: is normally not very trustworthy, but sixty yeah, and this

949
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 2: was written by Sam McPhee, who is the best in

950
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:57,280
Speaker 2: the bread'seness.

951
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 4: And this was it smelled like earning foil in a microwave.

952
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:06,280
Speaker 2: Firefighters battle blaze at a garlic bread factory, as nine

953
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 2: cubic meters of baguettes go up in flames, and then

954
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:17,399
Speaker 2: the article is just a very very hard news details

955
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 2: of fire and fire catching boxes and how the firefighters

956
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:22,839
Speaker 2: fought it.

957
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 4: It's not interesting enough to read.

958
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:27,759
Speaker 2: But that is what it was based on. Where it

959
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 2: did have like a smell thing in the title. And

960
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 2: then someone else was just like, no, we're gonna We're

961
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 2: gonna write it as a as a meme joke.

962
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 3: But didn't they do that? Wasn't there the thing?

963
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: I think we may have all been living in New

964
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 1: York or Brooklyn at the time where the city smelled

965
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: like syrup for like a month or yeah, But then

966
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:47,799
Speaker 1: I think they figured out what it was, and I

967
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 1: think they covered it on thirty Rock too. But it

968
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 1: was this weird couple months where everything just smelled like

969
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 1: pancakesyrup in New York City.

970
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 3: It was so weird.

971
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:57,000
Speaker 7: That was very strange.

972
00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 3: Do you remember that?

973
00:48:58,080 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 7: Why it was? Now? I can't remember what the.

974
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:01,280
Speaker 4: No, No, I don't.

975
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:04,360
Speaker 2: I do remember when So when I used to do

976
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 2: Edinburgh at night at when you were like walking home

977
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 2: at like three or four in the morning, the air

978
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 2: would smell like malt from Guinness factory, and it was

979
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 2: like everywhere, the whole place smelled like like malt.

980
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 3: Okay, I found it? Should I do it?

981
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 4: What you found it?

982
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:31,919
Speaker 1: I found the story here, okay, gothamist. So this would

983
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:35,960
Speaker 1: have been in two thousand and nine. This happened. It

984
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:38,719
Speaker 1: was called the maple Syrup Event. This is in the

985
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 1: New York Times, written by Michael Barbaro and Nate Schwarzbro.

986
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 2: You know who that is, isn't he the host of

987
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 2: the daily now be Times Daily? That makes sense, I'm

988
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 2: Michael Barbaro. He's got the most like dead sounding voice.

989
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 3: Yes.

990
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:59,839
Speaker 1: Baffled city investigators began calling them maple syrup events, myster

991
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 1: waves of sweet smelling air that periodically wafted over Manhattan,

992
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 1: delighting some, troubling others and vanishing as quickly as they arrived.

993
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,480
Speaker 1: After each episode. In two thousand and five, two thousand

994
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: and six, and in two thousand and nine, residents flooded.

995
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:16,880
Speaker 1: I mean, that's pretty that's a lot. Also, you would

996
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: think it was like, is this the sweetest terrorist attack

997
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 1: of all time? That they had just making us hungry

998
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: before we choke on our own bile. Residents flooded the

999
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 1: city's three one one information hotline with calls. The aroma

1000
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: was so was filed away as another vexing urban mystery

1001
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: until until now. The city revealed on Thursday that the

1002
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 1: culprit great word, people don't use culprit enough was the

1003
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:46,320
Speaker 1: seeds of fanew Greek our fe New Greek or faneu

1004
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:53,880
Speaker 1: Greek Greek a clover like plantu Greek a clover like plant,

1005
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 1: which are used to produce fragrances at a factory on

1006
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:59,799
Speaker 1: the Hudson River in north Bergen, New Jersey. It turned

1007
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 1: out that the city had never given up trying to

1008
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: determine the aroma's origin, and it had quietly created a

1009
00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 1: crack maple syrup team to remain on the cage. The

1010
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:17,839
Speaker 1: North Bergen factory owned by Fruit Frum, a company called Frum.

1011
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:23,280
Speaker 7: It's pronounced ram because it's it's.

1012
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:25,919
Speaker 3: Uh yes.

1013
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 2: This is the fact that this is an accidental story

1014
00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 2: and it's the best story for the whole.

1015
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,920
Speaker 4: Gives out Greek to the city.

1016
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:42,879
Speaker 8: Job just like for a year, you know, like who

1017
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 8: were these people that were this.

1018
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 7: It's one guy driving one guy shotgun with his nose

1019
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 7: out the window, just sniffing, just constantly sniffing. No gotta

1020
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 7: go over the bridge, Frank, gotta go over that bridge.

1021
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 7: The Maple Syrup Action Team.

1022
00:51:57,080 --> 00:52:00,960
Speaker 1: Oh God, the smells of New Jersey. Yeah, fruit a

1023
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:04,280
Speaker 1: rom used the herbal seeds to manufacture food flavors, releasing

1024
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:07,479
Speaker 1: a punch in generally pleasant smell in the process. Under

1025
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 1: the right weather conditions high humidity, no rain, the aroma

1026
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 1: would drift across the Hudson to the west side of Manhattan.

1027
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 1: I think it's safe to say the mystery of the

1028
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 1: maple syrup mist has been solved, said Mayor Michael R.

1029
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:22,400
Speaker 3: Bloomberg.

1030
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:27,799
Speaker 7: How many how many drunk twenty somethings were in the

1031
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 7: frying pan thinking about where they're gonna get their next

1032
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 7: pancakes and syrup from the diner? Where's the place? There

1033
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 7: was a Nibisco factory on route to eight in New Jersey,

1034
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 7: which is the road to get to where I grew

1035
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 7: up in Wyckoff, And they made the Lorna Dunes, like

1036
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 7: those sweetbread cookies, not brains cookies, but you know sweetbread right, Yeah,

1037
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 7: they're gone short bread, short bread cookies. Sweetbread is brains.

1038
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 7: I know, it's just sweet bread sweet breads. Yeah, yeah,

1039
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:05,320
Speaker 7: I know. Different kind of cookies, although they could also

1040
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:09,320
Speaker 7: probably be delicious too, who knows, But they made those

1041
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 7: cookies there. So that was in fair Lawn, New Jersey,

1042
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 7: and I grew up in Wycoffs. That was once two

1043
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 7: three towns just going north, where at any point in

1044
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:24,760
Speaker 7: time when they were cooking, the entire area just smelled

1045
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:25,920
Speaker 7: like Lona Dune cookies.

1046
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 3: Like, so that must be nice.

1047
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 7: It was very nice. They just knocked it down.

1048
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 1: Recently, I did one semester at University of West Florida,

1049
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:40,880
Speaker 1: which is in Pensacola, and one day I was walking

1050
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: on campus. It's a pretty small campus, and it was

1051
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:45,919
Speaker 1: the worst smell, one of the worst smells I've ever

1052
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,280
Speaker 1: smelled in my life up to that point. And people

1053
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 1: were like, there is a paper factory nearby, and on

1054
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:54,839
Speaker 1: the days where they're making paper, it's like rotten wool

1055
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:57,919
Speaker 1: pulp and chemicals and stuff. And if the wind came,

1056
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 1: you would just see people walk with like their hands

1057
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 1: over their mouths and noses to class and it was

1058
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 1: like torture. It only happened, God, it probably happened three

1059
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 1: times while I was there, But I just saw this

1060
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 1: from like the swamps or something nearby. But yeah, that

1061
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 1: paper factory reeked. It was like hauntingly bad. Oh wow,

1062
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 1: what a fun way to walk to college.

1063
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:24,320
Speaker 7: Just like didn't didn't buy your parents' house. There's a

1064
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:26,919
Speaker 7: chocolate factory that yeah, eating fire.

1065
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:29,760
Speaker 8: Oh that's a different the one that caught on fire,

1066
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 8: not the one that I grew up near. Chocolate factory too,

1067
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 8: And we'd be like at school, like it would just

1068
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:36,840
Speaker 8: like it smelled like hot chocolate in the air, and

1069
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 8: we'd be like running laps, you know, and Jim just

1070
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 8: like inhaling chocolate. But that you're thinking. There was a

1071
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:45,239
Speaker 8: different one that like caught on fire last year.

1072
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:45,760
Speaker 3: That was sad.

1073
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:49,359
Speaker 7: You're like, bring this down. You know, you got a place,

1074
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:51,239
Speaker 7: it's like a chocolate place. You burned in fire and

1075
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:52,719
Speaker 7: some people died, died.

1076
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 3: That's bananas. We like that kind of story.

1077
00:54:57,560 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 7: Well, it was an Eastern and it was an Eastern

1078
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:02,520
Speaker 7: Eastern chocolate. It happened like a couple of weeks before Easter.

1079
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's good.

1080
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:05,280
Speaker 7: There were a lot of sad Easter bunnies.

1081
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 4: And where did you grow up? Did you grow up

1082
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:10,319
Speaker 4: in Hershe's no.

1083
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:12,600
Speaker 8: This is Blombers is the one I grew up near.

1084
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 8: I was like an hour northwest of Philly.

1085
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:19,040
Speaker 7: Delicious, We made chocolates. What do you want to call it?

1086
00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:24,360
Speaker 1: Blombers that sound your stomach makes when you ate something wrong.

1087
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:26,319
Speaker 7: Blombers.

1088
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:28,200
Speaker 3: Oh man, it was so funny.

1089
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:31,719
Speaker 2: Kate and Danny tell us once more the names of

1090
00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 2: your books and where everyone can get them plug plug away.

1091
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 7: Plug plug plug plug Well, the First Day Prophecy is

1092
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:40,880
Speaker 7: available wherever you like to get your books. If you

1093
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:42,759
Speaker 7: like them from the big places, you can get them there.

1094
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 7: You like them from the mom and pop shops, they

1095
00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:46,960
Speaker 7: might be there. You might have to say, hey, will

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Speaker 7: you order this for me? And that's fine if you

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Speaker 7: don't know how to read. We have an audio book,

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Speaker 7: me and Mara Wilson. And in May, the Road Trip

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Speaker 7: rewind comes out about the older brother in the series,

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Speaker 7: and cool, there's a bit of a back to the

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Speaker 7: future take in there. I think they time travel and

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Speaker 7: a two thousand silver Jetta, much like the two thousand

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Speaker 7: silver Jetta we had for a bunch of years. Oh

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Speaker 7: and that smelled like crayons, which is also a weird thing.

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Speaker 7: Something that might be a good Hey, this might be

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Speaker 7: a good story for bananas that we can submit if

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Speaker 7: you google like ninety nine two thousand Volkswagen Jetta smells people.

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Speaker 7: You will find that a lot of people thought that

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Speaker 7: their cars smelled like crayons, and for.

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Speaker 8: Years, for years, it's just always.

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Speaker 7: I used to be in a fake Weezer tribute band

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Speaker 7: called the Undone Sweaters with a couple of New York

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Speaker 7: comedians and Read Failure was one of them, and he

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Speaker 7: had a Jetta. And one of the first times we

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Speaker 7: hung out, I drove him home. He got in the car,

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Speaker 7: He's like, why does this car smell like my car?

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Speaker 7: That smells like crayons? So it was clearly a thing.

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Speaker 7: And he's from Cincinnati or somewhere somewhere out there, so

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Speaker 7: all right, just saying, could we could we something for

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Speaker 7: you to go? Yeah, the mysterious crayons smell, And it did,

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Speaker 7: And the car was a two thousand, and in twenty

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Speaker 7: eighteen it was still smelling like crayons. So yeah, it's

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Speaker 7: very strange. Yeah, it's a very lasting.

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Speaker 8: I don't know, maybe it carved some years off our life. Whenever,

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Speaker 8: the decade and a half we have.

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Speaker 7: So please buy our stuff for our kids. They were

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Speaker 7: only in a verse short period of time.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Bananas.

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Speaker 3: Bananas.

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Speaker 9: Bananas, Bananas, Bananas is an exactly right media production.

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Speaker 4: Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.

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Speaker 1: The catchy banana theme song was composed and performed by Kahon.

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Speaker 2: Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.

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Speaker 1: And our benevolent overlords are the Great Karen Kilgarriff and

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Speaker 1: Georgia Hartstart

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Speaker 2: And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot

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Speaker 2: intern