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Speaker 1: and laugh this holiday season.

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Speaker 2: How hallucinogenic mushrooms explain most of our Christmas traditions.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now we're talking. Because everything needs a starting point

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Speaker 1: and it can't just be some kid in a manger.

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Speaker 1: Let's dive into a very special episode of a holiday

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Speaker 1: show we call bananas all the way around the world,

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Speaker 1: because I think you.

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Speaker 2: Got this.

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Speaker 1: Baby dropping baby, baby dropping baby.

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Speaker 2: Guys, gals, non binary pals, Happy holidays, and welcome to

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Speaker 2: a holiday episode of Bananas.

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Speaker 1: You asked for it, so we're giving it to you,

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Speaker 1: and we're serving it up piping hot like Hacoco Curti,

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Speaker 1: b how are you good?

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Speaker 2: You know I got a peppermint mocha. I got a

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Speaker 2: peppermint mocha latte at Starbucks the other day and that

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Speaker 2: was like me, So that was me getting ready for

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's one way to do it. I I

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Speaker 1: also wanted to dedicate this speaking of festive festivals, this

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Speaker 1: episode's dedicated to the good and decent people of Crystal Falls, Michigan,

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Speaker 1: population one thousand, five hundred and ninety eight. They're two

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Speaker 1: away from sixteen hundred kurt Crystal Fall, the Crystal Falls.

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Speaker 2: We're falling in love today with Crystal Falls.

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Speaker 1: They are known for their Humongous Fungus Festival every August.

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Speaker 1: It's in the Upper Peninsula at Michigan, So we're going

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Speaker 1: to have to go to the old Humongous Fungus Festival.

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Speaker 1: At some point, I thought that was a good transition

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Speaker 2: Oh, I appreciate that, but you know what for you know,

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Speaker 2: A fantastic way to celebrate. You'll you'll never have more fun.

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Speaker 2: It exists because of a small living being with great powers,

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Speaker 2: the Amanita Muscaria mushroom. This was written by Julianna Forci

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Speaker 1: She maybe is the best in the bids. Does she

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Speaker 2: She looks like she loves the trip I see. No, No,

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Speaker 2: she doesn't look like hippie dippy. She looks more like

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Speaker 2: Hundreds of years ago, it was found that the winter

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Speaker 2: Rituals were conducted that were guided by shamans who collected

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Speaker 2: the Amanita muscaria mushroom, also called fly a garrick which

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Speaker 2: has a powerful hallucinogenic properties. Fun now, Amanita muscaria is

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Speaker 1: Never had any idea at all that they were related?

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Speaker 2: Or something or something catastrophic happened in the night, do

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Speaker 1: Never know, Yes, they listen to you can you can

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Speaker 1: It's really impressive. And he did this on David Letterman.

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Speaker 2: But he was, you know, he was a plant specialist.

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Speaker 1: I think they're great. But I yes, like if it

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Speaker 1: back in winter Wonderland. I'm still in you know, it

434
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Speaker 1: was eighty five yesterday. Oh my god, it's eighty five degrees.

435
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Speaker 1: I was wearing shorts and a T shirt yesterday and

436
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Speaker 1: there was a dad wearing sandals. He like brought his

437
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Speaker 1: kid into the gym. And for a second, I wanted

438
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Speaker 1: to be like, relax, white guy, you could stop wearing sandals.

439
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 1: But I'm like, it's eighty five degrees. Sky can wear

440
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Speaker 1: flip flops if he wants to. But I want to

441
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Speaker 1: go to Switzerland. I want to go to Grindlewald, Switzerland

442
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Speaker 1: and do that longest toboggan run you know that. Have

443
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Speaker 1: you seen that thing where you take the chair lift

444
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 1: up and then you sit in toboggan's and then you

445
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 1: just sled for so long. It sounds like I don't

446
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Speaker 1: know how long it takes to get down, but it's

447
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 1: like a twenty five minute gondola ride up and then

448
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Speaker 1: you get on a toboggan and you just go down

449
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Speaker 1: and find it. Yes, it's and it's in Grindlewald, and

450
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Speaker 1: it just looks so damn fun. I would love to

451
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Speaker 1: go with adult friends and just be like, all we're

452
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Speaker 1: going to do today, it's sled, have a cocktail, toboggan, toboggan, toboggan.

453
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Speaker 1: It just seems so fun to me.

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Speaker 2: Oh, one, I want to do that.

455
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Speaker 1: I'm like a toboggan guy. I think, yeah, I'm a

456
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Speaker 1: toboggan guy.

457
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Speaker 2: Are this is the first time learn this?

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Speaker 1: I want a toboggan. I want ten friends on a

459
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Speaker 1: really long wood sled and I would just want to

460
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Speaker 1: go down a mountain with them. I think it's so fun. Yeah.

461
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Speaker 1: I don't know how long that won in Grendawald takes,

462
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Speaker 1: but it's a long way down, and you know, it's Switzerland,

463
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Speaker 1: so it's gonna beautiful. The whole way.

464
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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh man, that's gonna be nice.

465
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Speaker 1: Well, I'll wait for your kids to be in school.

466
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna wait for your kids to be in college

467
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 1: so you can be like Lauren and I are going

468
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Speaker 1: to Grindelwald with Scotty the Toboggan And they're like, no problem,

469
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Speaker 1: We're glad we're not going. Oh you know what, I

470
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Speaker 1: had an interesting thing. You and I were talking about

471
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Speaker 1: something and I mentioned my maybe I was on the Patreon.

472
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Speaker 1: I'd mentioned my good friend Machek, who is a Polish

473
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Speaker 1: exchange student to Baltimore, to Riister's town when I was

474
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Speaker 1: a kid. Well, I found his website. He still lives

475
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Speaker 1: in Warsaw, and I wrote it to his website. He

476
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Speaker 1: instantly got back and then Sunday morning we zoomed for

477
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Speaker 1: forty five minutes and caught up.

478
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Speaker 2: That's awesome.

479
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go visit him in Warsaw. And I

480
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:50,359
Speaker 1: was like, well, he loves Poland and he's like, in

481
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Speaker 1: the last thirty five years, Poland has transformed in his

482
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Speaker 1: democracy that the rest of the world can't even imagine. Yeah.

483
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:56,919
Speaker 1: I was like, well, where do I go besides Warsaw.

484
00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:58,879
Speaker 1: It's like, go to crackout and then go north and

485
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Speaker 1: there's three sister cities and he's like, I'll go there

486
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,639
Speaker 1: with you because then if everybody speaks English, but if

487
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 1: you need a translate, I'll be your guy. So next

488
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Speaker 1: year twenty twenty six, are going to try to go

489
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Speaker 1: hang out with Macho.

490
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:11,440
Speaker 2: Like in January or February. You're going to try and

491
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Speaker 2: go in the summer.

492
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Speaker 1: I think he said to come in like he like

493
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Speaker 1: everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere. He's like, come in May. Yeah,

494
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 1: He's like May is beautiful. But yeah, he will just

495
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,359
Speaker 1: train around. And it was so good to see my

496
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 1: old buddy after I haven't seen him in I don't know,

497
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,680
Speaker 1: I have twenty years maybe more. Yeah. Anyway, here's the

498
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 1: one that you won't know whose side you're onn Okay,

499
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:39,120
Speaker 1: I'm ready, man, says woman he's dating has accused him

500
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Speaker 1: of spoiling Christmas because he refuses to dress up like

501
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Speaker 1: Santa for her children. All right, This was of course

502
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Speaker 1: in People People magazine dot Com because these are about people,

503
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Speaker 1: people live in their life and speaking to people. The

504
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Speaker 1: woman who wrote this, Terria Sheffield. You don't get much

505
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: more people than Teria. Best in the biz. Sheffield. The

506
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 1: man says the request made him quote uncomfortable end quote.

507
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 1: The man says he's dating a woman who accused him

508
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,159
Speaker 1: of ruining Christmas because he will not dress up for

509
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 1: Santa Claus for her children. The twenty nine year old's

510
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 1: pretty young. That's a young Santa detailed his story on

511
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 1: the popular reddit. Am I The A Whole? We'll say

512
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,640
Speaker 1: a whole since it's a family episode, a place where

513
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: people can go seek input about interpersonal dilemmas. In the

514
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,359
Speaker 1: post time is it is? It?

515
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Speaker 2: Is?

516
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 1: It?

517
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Speaker 2: Is it a family episode? After we've deeply discussed how

518
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 2: hallucinogenic bush rooms inspired all of the Christmas traditions. That's

519
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 2: what we're going with.

520
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 1: Am I the A Hole? We're going to call it

521
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,160
Speaker 1: it's a family podcast overall. I thought it was we occasional.

522
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 1: It is educational. That's why you never stop learning in life.

523
00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 1: Freshman in life, Kurt and I it is of shot

524
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 1: fucking because I'll do a lot of thumbs ups, and

525
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: the ones that are from eight year old's twelve year olds,

526
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, they want a thumbs up their friend

527
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: in school. You got a kid, Okay, family podcast? Am

528
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: I The A Hole? Where people can go seek input

529
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,399
Speaker 1: from strangers about their interpersonal dilemmas. In the post, the

530
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,679
Speaker 1: man explained he's been casually seeing a twenty eight ear

531
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Speaker 1: woman who has three sons, and they've only been dating

532
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: for about three months. It's pretty new, oh okay. He

533
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,640
Speaker 1: went on to say that she recently made a special

534
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,879
Speaker 1: holiday related request for him. A couple days ago, she

535
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: asked me if I wanted to dress up like Santa

536
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 1: for her kids for Christmas. I told her I would

537
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 1: think about it, but I was uncomfortable with doing it,

538
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 1: he said. He went on to say that he is

539
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: a big guy and he's been asked to be saying

540
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: around the holidays ever since high school, simply quote, because

541
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Speaker 1: I was the fat guy with a beard.

542
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 2: Oh, he's got a big white beard. No, he doesn't

543
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 2: have a white.

544
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 1: Beard when he's twenty nine. So unless he's Steve Martin. Yeah.

545
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: He also said he was nervous about the quest on

546
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: a deeper level, oh okay, as he feels as though

547
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: the woman is his casual dating three month girlfriend is

548
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: putting him in a parental role too quickly. I actually

549
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 1: don't agree with that. I don't agree with that. It's

550
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: just Sannah.

551
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 2: It's just Sannah, It's just Santa. But also I can

552
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 2: also understand that three months is a very short period

553
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 2: of time. Yeah, I can completely. It seems too fast,

554
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 2: it seems too intimate. And also, don't won't they recognize

555
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 2: or I guess it's three months, they don't recognize him,

556
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 2: They won't recognize him.

557
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 1: I know, it's an interesting one. Also, wouldn't you think

558
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you can, like white spray paint

559
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: your beard. I'm sure there's hair spray that is white

560
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 1: like it's a guy. Yeah, it's gona look like crap. Yeah,

561
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: but he said he has previous expressed firm boundaries when

562
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: it comes to our children that I do agree with. Yeah,

563
00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: because of this, unless.

564
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Speaker 2: You're gonna be unless you you are one hundred percent

565
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 2: that you are going to be in a long term

566
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 2: relationship with a person, do not meet their kids.

567
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Speaker 1: Love that love that I women do this way more.

568
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: A lot of my women friends will be like, can

569
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: you grab a drink? I'll say sure, and they'll be like,

570
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 1: the guy I'm dating is two kids, and here's what happened.

571
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 1: And it is it's tough, it's not It is more

572
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: complicated than seems and all my friends are great gals,

573
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: and they're still like get you constantly have to remind

574
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,719
Speaker 1: yourself you're not their parent. Yeah. Well, also being an

575
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: adult in the room, it's very strange and beautiful and stunning.

576
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Speaker 1: Because of this, the man said he had decided to

577
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Speaker 1: officially refuse the request during a recent phone call, and

578
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: the woman was not happy at all. She sounded sad,

579
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 1: she sounded irritated. Then she said I was spoiling Christmas.

580
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: I told her I was trying to avoid spoiling Christmas

581
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: next year because children cling onto things like that and

582
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 1: will begin to expect it. And since we aren't officially together,

583
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 1: who knows if we'll still be seeing each other. Then

584
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: he's trying to.

585
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 2: I think A because it is the regular thing for

586
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 2: kids is so important. It will just be sad if

587
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 2: they've that they're not together next year and there's no Santa.

588
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 1: Yes, agreed, And so because it's read it, and it's

589
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 1: because am I the a whole, many commenters said, like

590
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: the heavy majority of people said that the original poster

591
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Speaker 1: had every right to refuse, and even suggested that the

592
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: woman was displaying red flags. But if you ever read

593
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: a I t a. It's always red flags, red fix no.

594
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 2: Matter what the person does. They're just like this person

595
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 2: sounds crazy and you got to break up with her,

596
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 2: and it's just.

597
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: Like so true. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

598
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 2: This is like a minor thing.

599
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be like my boyfriend enjoys his first coffee

600
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: in bed. Am I the asshole that I want to

601
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: drink in the living room. They're like huge red flag

602
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 1: trying to get you facts.

603
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 2: You should cut, you should kill them.

604
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: Yeah that's docks him right now. But yeah, to your point,

605
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: it's like one person, say not the a hole pressuring

606
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 1: someone into doing something they don't want to do, or

607
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,560
Speaker 1: making it so obvious. It is a manipulative thing for them,

608
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: trying to set a normal boundary. I I think I

609
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: have envy because I can't really grow I can't really

610
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: grow beard. You can grow a nice beard, so one

611
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: day you can be a great small sant.

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Speaker 2: No way, pal, this is just all the sides are

613
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 2: just there's one hair per inch.

614
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: Why it is? Really? We have geneticists on here. I

615
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 1: won't know about facial hair.

616
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, why is it not? I can grow hair everywhere else,

617
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 2: but then just the cheeks, there's nothing happening.

618
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: I know, I like the guy, my dude. I've talked

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Speaker 1: about him a few times in the podcast. The new

620
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: guy that cuts my hair is a great dude, and

621
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Speaker 1: he's like, he definitely is a he definitely likes to party.

622
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: Like you know, I told I said one time I

623
00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: had a ten am. He was supposed to open the

624
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: shit and he had forgotten his scissors and his Raisins scissors.

625
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: So he has a motorcycle. So he texted me and

626
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: then he called me and he's like, hey, just you

627
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: can go in. I left it unlocked. Feel free to

628
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: sit down and have a drink if you want. I'll

629
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 1: be right back. I forgot all my stuff. So he's

630
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: that kind of guy. Yeah, but I really like this guy.

631
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Speaker 1: But I got my haircut about a week and a

632
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 1: half ago, and for the first time ever, he like

633
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: just trimmed a little part of my eyebrow, like I

634
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,960
Speaker 1: had a runway old man eyebrow hair going off, and

635
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: he just did it casually without saying anything. And I'm like,

636
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: I have entered a new arena in life mine. I

637
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 1: now have an eyebrow getting cut.

638
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 2: My eyebrow hair is so long, so often it is

639
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 2: insane how quickly it gets really long. It's really cuckoo.

640
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 1: Yes, so years ago I dated a woman in Mississippi

641
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 1: and her dad had a gorgeous, gigantic white beard, and

642
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 1: he had a bit of a button nose, and he

643
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 1: wore round glasses. His shaved head, bald head, shaved head,

644
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: and a big guy, like a six foot three guy,

645
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 1: not fat or anything, just a big man. And every year,

646
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 1: every year his family would pressure him to be a

647
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: mal Santa. They had a former Malsanta talk to him

648
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Speaker 1: and say that the guy at Jackson Mississippi Square or whatever.

649
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: He was like, I make forty thousand dollars to be

650
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:31,839
Speaker 1: Santa for you know, thirty two days or whatever from

651
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:35,839
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving to Christmas. So everybody was like, oh, I think

652
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 1: there's big. Actually, let's look that up. It's an educational podcast.

653
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 2: But mal Sanna is in Mississippi. No way, he's making

654
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 2: forty k If you're the number one guy, what do

655
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 2: you mean the number one guy?

656
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: Top Santa earners make five hundred dollars an hour. What yeah, boy,

657
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 1: it's a it's a competitive job. They can make anywhere

658
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 1: from ten to sixty five five thousand dollars in a

659
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: six week season. What here's one that says and these are.

660
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,840
Speaker 2: Dudes with actual, real beards and everything that look a

661
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 2: lot like Santa Claus.

662
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:13,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, The average Malsanta in the United States, Kurt

663
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: And as of December first, twenty twenty five, makes sixty

664
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Speaker 1: four thousand dollars.

665
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 2: The average Mal Sana makes sixty four thousand dollars.

666
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: That's courting salary dot com accounting department.

667
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 2: Salary dot com is bullshit.

668
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,240
Speaker 1: Mal Sannas who work right after Thanksgiving can make anywhere

669
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: between ten to one hundred and fifty five thousand dollars

670
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: for work.

671
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 2: Wow, but I mean that's a big range, ten to

672
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 2: fifty five.

673
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: I agree. I would say that there's no median there.

674
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: But yeah, so I think average Mal Santa and if

675
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: I can find it over one hundred and fifty dollars

676
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: an hour, that's a crazy amount of money.

677
00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 2: So I kind of wish I looked more like Santa.

678
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,160
Speaker 1: Well, that's what I'm saying, is I wish I could

679
00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 1: grow a beard because I'm like my retirement plan. Yeah,

680
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be out there the day after I'm gonna

681
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: be out there November first.

682
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 2: Being Christmas in July, just so I can get some money.

683
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: Joke. So one time we asked this guy. We were like,

684
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 1: why don't you do it? That's so much money, yes, Mississippi.

685
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,760
Speaker 1: And he said, kids are disgusting. They smell and they're sticky.

686
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 1: This is a man who had three children and had

687
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: two grandchildren because they smell and their disgusting and I

688
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 1: don't want all their gross smells.

689
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 2: Like that's the weirdest part, do you know what I mean? Like,

690
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 2: they are definitely sticky, but they don't smell. That's the

691
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 2: that's one of the advantage of children. They kind of

692
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 2: smell nice because they don't really produce body odor.

693
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: It's up to the parent. There's always a there's always

694
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: there's always a stinky kid in every class.

695
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you really think, so there's a stinky kid.

696
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 2: I don't know. I've never I've never encountered a child

697
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:53,360
Speaker 2: that smells.

698
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:57,800
Speaker 1: Well, it was so funny that he was so adamant,

699
00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: but basically he was like, I don't want to tell

700
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: other people's sticky, stinky children. And he wouldn't budge on it.

701
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 1: And this went on for years, and you know.

702
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 2: It is a good way to get sick. Definitely a

703
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:10,479
Speaker 2: good way to get sick.

704
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're little buckets of germs and that's okay.

705
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 2: But yeah, you envy you have gloves on and you're not,

706
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 2: I mean, you're you can always point their face away

707
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 2: from yours.

708
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 1: Yeah. I just will never be at Monsanto sadly, no

709
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: matter how hard I tried. It's just my face. If

710
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 1: I grow a beard out fully, it takes like it

711
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: takes over two months for it to fill in, I mean,

712
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:35,760
Speaker 1: and it still looks like crap.

713
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, mine, I mean I was what. I went six

714
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 2: months because I didn't cut it while I was at

715
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 2: the job, because I was like, I'm not going on auditions,

716
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 2: I'm not performing. It doesn't matter. And it was barely

717
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 2: any longer than it is right now.

718
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:50,760
Speaker 1: It just looked.

719
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 2: It just looked unkempt. I looked like an unkempt gentleman.

720
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,439
Speaker 1: Give us any of the ban animals. Yeah, oh, thumbs ups.

721
00:37:57,719 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll tease the sin of some thumbs ups.

722
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: Let's do it.

723
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 2: H Christmas service accidentally prints tupas hail Mary lyrics.

724
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: Oh I've heard of this. This is so good. Thumbs ups. Uh,

725
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: I think it's Adriana. Could be Adrian I screenshot at

726
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: it like crap. Wants the thumb up her best friend

727
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:24,359
Speaker 1: for the success of her business, Kurt, You're gonna love

728
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 1: this elder Emo company, elder Emo Co. She had a

729
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: great weekend at the twenty twenty five Orlando Warp Tour

730
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 1: and it's either Adriana or Adrian couldn't be proud of

731
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 1: her Her friends started this company a few years ago

732
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:44,919
Speaker 1: for the elder Emo community. She tours around the United

733
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: States selling merch at concerts and just live pop ups

734
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Speaker 1: at elderemo dot com. So if you consider yourself an

735
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Speaker 1: elder Emo, and I know a lot of us, are

736
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Speaker 1: go get some great merch from elderemo dot Yes, thumbs

737
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: elderreemo dot com. It's a great website, you know, it

738
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,800
Speaker 1: says from mosh pitt to mezzanines, it's basically all of

739
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 1: us that used to go super hard at shows that

740
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:16,839
Speaker 1: now I've soften up a little bit. Steve, Steve wants

741
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: the thumbs me up for helping him quit drinking goofy

742
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 1: little challenge. The Dry sixty nine went further than he

743
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: ever had thought. The Dry sixty nine got Steve healthier

744
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 1: mentally and physically and he's down to two hundred and

745
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: twenty three pounds from two hundred and ninety pounds. Oh

746
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: my goodness, serious, Scottie, I honestly don't think I would

747
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,600
Speaker 1: have done this if you hadn't made up some wacky

748
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 1: way to do it. Ban animals. A near zeeve is

749
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:44,320
Speaker 1: coming if you need a resolution, dry sixty nine sixty

750
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: nine days of zero alcohol consecutively, but start it whenever

751
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: you want. I'm going to start ours Kurt after our Austin,

752
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: Texas show.

753
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:52,320
Speaker 2: Awesome.

754
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 1: I like that, So I'm starting mine. If you want

755
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,360
Speaker 1: to do you know, a dry sixty nine with me,

756
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: start on February fifteenth, because we're going to be an

757
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: Austin on February fourteenth, and I think it ends April

758
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, so that's a pretty easy time of year

759
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 1: to cut the sauce, unless you're going to spring Break

760
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: and Lake Havasu and last but not least, I love this.

761
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:17,839
Speaker 1: Thumbs up, Ellen says, I want to thumb a thank

762
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,240
Speaker 1: and thumbs up all the custodians.

763
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 2: All the custodians.

764
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: Yes. Ellen works at a high school with over two

765
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: thousand people that only has four custodians.

766
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:30,800
Speaker 2: That's eight epe crazy.

767
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: She says, they handle the most disgusting things that often

768
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:39,439
Speaker 1: go unnoticed, and they often go unnoticed. If you love

769
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 1: your school's custodians, give them a box of donuts or

770
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: a gift card this holiday season. Thumbs up to you, Ellen,

771
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 1: that's a very kind thumbs up. Yes, and that's true.

772
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 1: Give your kids, you know, if you're giving their teacher

773
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: little gift, give their local school custodian a little gift too.

774
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:03,840
Speaker 2: Oh wonderful thumbs up. Let's get you lightful, Let's do

775
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 2: it fine. A little story here. This was on CBS News.

776
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 1: Yeah right.

777
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 2: This was sent in by copy Haste. Thanks copy Haste.

778
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:17,359
Speaker 2: This was written by Andrea Park.

779
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 1: Best in the Biz, best in the big.

780
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 2: Well, that's one way to liven up a Christmas service.

781
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 2: A Christmas service pamphlet from a Sri Lankan church went

782
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 2: viral after it mistakenly printed tupas Hail Mary lyrics instead

783
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 2: of the words to the thousand year old prayer that

784
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:38,439
Speaker 2: includes passages from the Gospel of Luke Instead. Colombo church

785
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 2: goers at Joy to the World twenty sixteen, one of

786
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 2: Sri Lanka's largest carol services, were surprised to see lines

787
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 2: like revenges like the sweetest joy next to getting puh

788
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 2: and kilou minati all through your body. The blows like

789
00:41:56,360 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 2: a twelve gage shodye. To be fair, both the prayer

790
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 2: and the Tupac song asked for the intercession of Mary,

791
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,359
Speaker 2: mother of Jesus Christ in order to redeem Sin.

792
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 1: I love that song.

793
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 2: Tupac's version is far more though.

794
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 1: That's a good song.

795
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:18,320
Speaker 2: Want Attendee Andrew Choksi told The Guardian he sent photos

796
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,760
Speaker 2: of the pamphlet to his friends and they subsequently went viral.

797
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:24,200
Speaker 2: No maya culpa was issued during the service, No explanation

798
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 2: was given it all. Chokski said, they didn't acknowledge it

799
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:30,240
Speaker 2: at the venue. To be honest, I was bursting inside

800
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 2: and that is how it ends.

801
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 1: Baby Tupac is so surprising. Tupac was twenty five years

802
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: old when he died. Oh my god. The fact we're

803
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 1: still talking about the fact that every time I turned

804
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:44,320
Speaker 1: on kDa, within three songs is a Tupac song. The

805
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 1: dude was so prolific. Crazy.

806
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 2: It is twenty five, two years, twenty seven, my god.

807
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 1: I've mentioned this one years ago, but I went to

808
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: Switcher the first time I ever went to Europe. I

809
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: went to Interlock in Switzerland and Zurich. I just I

810
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,839
Speaker 1: wanted to go, and I went to Germany. I went

811
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 1: to Germany first and took a train over to Switzerland.

812
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 1: Wonderful trip. And when I was in Interlocking, for those

813
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: who have been, there's just some streams and rivers there

814
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 1: that are color blue, that are so beautiful and clear,

815
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:15,959
Speaker 1: and it's just crazy. You go, oh, okay, I see

816
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 1: this is mountain Alps water. Yeah. And one day I

817
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 1: had a free day and I was like, I'm just

818
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:23,919
Speaker 1: going to wander down this path, knowing that they don't

819
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 1: have guns here, so I'm completely safe forever. And I

820
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: was just walking along a river. There were there beautiful

821
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:32,320
Speaker 1: cows with the big bells. I was looking up and

822
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 1: looking at mountains with the Alps, with snow covered mountains.

823
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:38,840
Speaker 1: And I go deeper and I'm crossing wooden bridges that

824
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: are just gorgeous handmade bridges over the rivers. I'm really

825
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 1: having like a spiritual, nice moment as a twenty seven

826
00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 1: year old man. Yeah, and so this would be in

827
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 1: the two thousands, deep into the two thousands for sure.

828
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 1: And I get to this one bridge and I'm standing

829
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 1: looking at the water going underneath. I'm just kind of

830
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:00,360
Speaker 1: like looking for fish and looking at stones, just so

831
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 1: happy that I made it to Europe and I could have.

832
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: I valeted for a year to be able to afford

833
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 1: the trip. And on the wood, uh, somebody had written

834
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 1: rip tupac Amorrow Shakur, and I was laughing. He died

835
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety six, so it was still cutting somebody

836
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: up eleven or twelve years later, where in true I

837
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 1: thought I had died and gone to him.

838
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 2: I felt like you were somewhere no one has ever been.

839
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Speaker 1: Before, especially not somebody who listened to tupac Amaru Shakur.

840
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: And I just started laughing so damn hard. And it's

841
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 1: also the influence of America. It's like, yeah, it's everywhere,

842
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 1: really so sorry to the rest of the world. We

843
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:49,799
Speaker 1: really get our tentacles and everywhere. Wrist in peace. Tupac

844
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: Amaru Shakur the best, oh Man. Should I send us home?

845
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 2: Send us home?

846
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 1: Baby? Real life grinch broke in on wrap gifts and

847
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: and took a nap on the sofa. No. Sara Reinhart

848
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,720
Speaker 1: sent this in WGM E Main written by Bjorn Bogan,

849
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 1: who was Yesizz yes, I'll just give the first two

850
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 1: or three sentences. He refused to leave when the tenants

851
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,839
Speaker 1: found him. A quiet Sunday morning took an unexpected turn

852
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 1: when a tenant discovered an uninvited man sleeping on their

853
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 1: living room couch. A resident woke up and found fifty

854
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,799
Speaker 1: year old Jose Harvey of Milford to sleep inside their

855
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 1: Bangor apartment. He woke up grumpy and refused to leave.

856
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 1: That's when the police recalled crazy. And then I'll just

857
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: say both news stations noted that many Christmas presents had

858
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: been unwrapped near the couch and were laid out with care.

859
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: So crazy, So Jose just wanted to see what was

860
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: in there, got tired, it's so tired unwrapping gifts, and

861
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: then took a little stranger' snooze. He crawled in through

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Speaker 1: an unlocked bathroom window. And the local police say it

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Speaker 1: goes without saying. Doing a routine check of your window

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Speaker 1: and door locks is prudent in this day and age especially.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you would think that no one is going

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Speaker 2: to be climbing in through your window in Bangor, Maine.

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Speaker 2: Maybe Bangor is a bigger city than I'm anticipating.

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Speaker 1: It's it's it's nice and beautiful. It's a winter wonderland.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to all our maniac bananimals. I like that.

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Speaker 2: Thanks guys for listening, and happy holidays to everybody. We're

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Speaker 2: not going to miss a beat. We're not going to

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Speaker 2: miss a beat. We'll be back next Tuesday as well.

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Speaker 2: We don't skip any but this is a special holiday episode.

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Speaker 1: Everybody, have a wonderful season. Stay happy, stay happy, stay healthy.

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Speaker 1: Stay bananas Bananas.

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Speaker 1: no no. Bananas Bananas is an exactly right media production.

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Speaker 2: Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.

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Speaker 1: The catchy Bananas theme song was composed and performed by Kahan.

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

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Speaker 1: Benevolent overlords are the great Karen Kilgareff and Georgia Hartstart.

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

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Speaker 2: part time employee.

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Speaker 1: You can listen to Bananas on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

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Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts, and please feel free

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Speaker 1: to rate and review as many times as you can.

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Speaker 1: We love those five stars bananas