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Bananas: Uh Oh, Waymo! · Spooky Season Podcasts 🎃

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: All right, you ready, Scottie.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready to laugh and laugh and laughing laugh.
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  Speaker 3: He thrifts all year to create free Halloween costumes for kids.
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: Great idea, I'm already in. That's a great idea.
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: It's going to a feel good article.
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  Speaker 2: I think this episode is going to be a feel
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: good episode because you know what, I'm not backing down.
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: I'm getting happier. I'm getting sillier. I don't care what happens.
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: We are swinging for the fences. Come play a little
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: dress up in Happyville with the Banana Boys.
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  Speaker 3: Pieces, guys, gals, non binary pals. Welcome to another fact filled,
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: fun filled, yes forever educational podcast, True Banana.
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm K Brown, I'm Banana Boy number two, Champagne
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  Speaker 2: Scottie Landis And this is the silliest little podcast there
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  Speaker 2: ever was. And we are not backing down. They're they're
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: trying to muzzle us, and we're just going to bring
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: the happiness.
• 1:30
  Speaker 3: Sorry, yeah, it's not we're not We're not ignoring what's happening.
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: No, we're not fool.
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  Speaker 1: We're just we're not fools.
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  Speaker 3: We're not playing as the Titanic sinks.
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: No, we're getting drunk.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: Well the Titanic sinks definitely.
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: Well, the my favorite murder cover of the chef that
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: survived it. Yeah, yeah, he was drunk on whiskey and
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: that's why he made it.
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  Speaker 4: And you're like, drunk, he rode he railing, He rode
• 2:01
  Speaker 4: the railing down and then survived in twenty eight degree
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  Speaker 4: seas for like seven hours and did die because he
• 2:09
  Speaker 4: was wasted on whiskey.
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  Speaker 2: He hit the good stuff. And there's a lesson in that.
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  Speaker 2: When there's ships going down, hit the whiskey and steap
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  Speaker 2: be the last one off the boat. That's probably the
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  Speaker 2: actual lesson. Yeah, Also, how strange must that have been?
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: Like you and I grew up in the four decades
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  Speaker 2: for yeah, the four decades where everything imaginable has been
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  Speaker 2: seen in TV, movies and internet. Yeah, we've seen so
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  Speaker 2: many boats sink, planes explode, you name it, we've seen it.
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  Speaker 2: Back then, that guy had no idea what a boat
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  Speaker 2: sinking looked like. He just had to experience the real
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  Speaker 2: thing in real time.
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  Speaker 1: Brand new experience, brand new.
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  Speaker 2: So that's even scarier in some ways, because you know life,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you'll see like a car crash or something and
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  Speaker 2: you'll like have to snap out of it because it's
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  Speaker 2: like watching a movie. Not that guy.
• 3:02
  Speaker 3: No, and it's just gonna get crazier, Scotty.
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: I want to tell you.
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  Speaker 3: Today, honestly, is the first day, okay, is the first
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  Speaker 3: day in six and a half weeks. Wow, that I've
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  Speaker 3: actually truly had a day off, meaning not doing like
• 3:24
  Speaker 3: not taking care of children or at work or moving
• 3:29
  Speaker 3: or working or like doing other things. And it was God,
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  Speaker 3: it was a seventy three degree day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Here it's pretty open, honey, beautiful.
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: The leaves are all starting to change.
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  Speaker 3: I was putting up Halloween Halloween decorations at the house.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I put up a big I put up
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  Speaker 1: a big little spider web.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, brand new, gigantic spider web coming off the side
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  Speaker 3: of the house.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: We got a little bird sitting on inflatable bird sitting
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  Speaker 3: on a pumpkin with a hat on.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really.
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  Speaker 3: Understand how it's Halloween, but nope, but it is an
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  Speaker 3: adorable I think it's actually a penguin. I think it's
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  Speaker 3: a penguin on a.
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  Speaker 2: Jack o lantern.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and I've had the best day.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the best mood. Good, ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: This is the this is day one this is your future. Now.
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  Speaker 2: This is just how it's gonna be from here on Now.
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  Speaker 2: How today feels is how it's gonna be. So just
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  Speaker 2: right it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's a d light.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Are you guys gonna carve pumpkins and go to
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  Speaker 2: a pumpkin patch and do the whole thing?
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  Speaker 3: Great question, Scottie. I love your questions.
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  Speaker 2: Here it is okay.
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  Speaker 3: I just found out because we just got a came
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  Speaker 3: out on the front porch, found a bottle of wine
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  Speaker 3: and some flowers and some coolies and a nice little
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  Speaker 3: note from the people who live across the street who
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  Speaker 3: live in a purple house, wow, saying welcome to the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 3: And then she came over and we chatted in the
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: front yard. And apparently my street Saturday is the annual
• 5:07
  Speaker 3: block party.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so that's so easy.
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  Speaker 3: Noon to late. These block parties go late here apparently,
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  Speaker 3: And so that's my Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Baby. I'm not going anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just walking out my house to a gigantic party
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  Speaker 3: where I will meet all of my neighbors all in
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  Speaker 3: one day.
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  Speaker 2: You should wear a name tag.
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  Speaker 3: I should.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I would do. I think name tags are
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  Speaker 2: the most underrated thing in society. I think anybody has
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  Speaker 2: any decency, just get the little sticky pad one, slap
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  Speaker 2: it on there and make everybody's life easier. It's not embarrassing.
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  Speaker 3: Does it just say? Does it say Kurt, I just
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  Speaker 3: moved here?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Kurt new neighbor. Yeah that would Yeah, great fighter,
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  Speaker 2: So you know you don't want anybody breaking into your house.
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  Speaker 2: You're a great fighter.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yeah, me fourdorfis.
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  Speaker 2: Great fighter, great in my life. That's so exciting. I
• 6:09
  Speaker 2: guess this is the first episode back since Banana's Fest.
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  Speaker 2: We had a wonderful time. It was better.
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  Speaker 1: It was better.
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  Speaker 2: I had a better year.
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  Speaker 3: It was a It was really delightful. It was pleasant.
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  Speaker 3: I felt pleasant the whole time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I just everybody that came out and made the trip,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for coming for so far, making plans, bringing friends.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody was so positive. They got into everything. We had
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  Speaker 2: a talent show, we had dog costume contests, we had
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of things and everybody just participated. And that's
• 6:43
  Speaker 2: my favorite part is everybody was like, yes, we're doing this. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: For those who weren't there, it was truly warm and
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  Speaker 2: fun and silly the entire day and also windy and so.
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  Speaker 3: Windy, and also so many bananimals helped, like vendors hold
• 7:00
  Speaker 3: their tents down in like these I don't know, probably
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  Speaker 3: thirty five mile per gusts of winds.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and we're not saying the entire festivals windy. If
• 7:10
  Speaker 2: the festival was six hours, there were four minutes that
• 7:13
  Speaker 2: were windy, but they were tornado like strength, for random
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  Speaker 2: twenty second intervals where things would get knocked down and
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  Speaker 2: broken and we'd all set them back up, and then
• 7:22
  Speaker 2: an hour later the same thing would happen again. But
• 7:26
  Speaker 2: we had wonderful volunteers. Thank you to everybody volunteered, especially
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  Speaker 2: Brandy who throws the day before picnic greeting I went.
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  Speaker 2: It was so fun. I want to thank Paul and
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  Speaker 2: Ben who built the giant banana fores last year. It's
• 7:37
  Speaker 2: back here. I got it back.
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: It's in my be You drove it back because you
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: rented a car.
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  Speaker 2: And flew it back. I flew it back.
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  Speaker 1: Shit happened.
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  Speaker 2: I checked it, Delta checked it.
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  Speaker 3: So you packed it really well into a box and
• 7:50
  Speaker 3: then checked it.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't pack it at all. I took it as
• 7:53
  Speaker 2: the bear banana. I called and they were like it's
• 7:56
  Speaker 2: a sculpture. I was like, yes, Like as a fragile,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like not really, And they're like, how much is away?
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: Is that under twenty pounds? And they just checked it.
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  Speaker 2: Are you It got a crack in the stem, but
• 8:07
  Speaker 2: it's fine, Like it got one crack. But I think
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  Speaker 2: it just gives it, you know, a little history, a
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  Speaker 2: little story behind it.
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: Is it in yourfice?
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  Speaker 2: It's not. No, It's in my garage. But the only
• 8:17
  Speaker 2: reason is because I was like kind of cleaning and
• 8:19
  Speaker 2: rearranging my office. I'm going to make one corner sort
• 8:22
  Speaker 2: of a banana's corner. So when then we do our
• 8:24
  Speaker 2: Patreon happy hours with people and stuff that, I'm just
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  Speaker 2: it's just overloaded bananas behind me.
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  Speaker 1: I want to do that as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you should. It's gonna be fun. Yeah, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I want to thank James for always making three D
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: printed key chains of stuff going out of your way.
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: Uh we did. We dog bowled rumpell. You got to
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  Speaker 2: dog bowl your first rumple.
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: That was I dog bowled my first rumple. So that was.
• 8:49
  Speaker 3: They brought rumplements. And this is a story Scotty told
• 8:52
  Speaker 3: I don't know in the first year of the podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Probably Yeah, I don't even remember the story. I just
• 8:57
  Speaker 3: remember dog bowl the rumple, yeah when I was calling
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  Speaker 3: it rumple the dog bowl for a.
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: While by the end of a but when you're done
• 9:04
  Speaker 2: passing the ball, you can call whatever you want. The
• 9:07
  Speaker 2: story was, We're in a backyard summer party and I
• 9:11
  Speaker 2: was one of my good friends, Rusty was there, and
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: we met in Pensacola at Bushwhackers, which was the number
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  Speaker 2: one selling rumpleman's shots placed in the pan handles. So
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  Speaker 2: we just said so much trump.
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  Speaker 3: Don't mind rumplements delicious.
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  Speaker 1: It's really good.
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  Speaker 3: Think it's better than what's the cinnamons, the fireball, fireball,
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  Speaker 3: It's way better than fireball.
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  Speaker 2: Great, makes your breast smell wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: Makes your breast smell wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: But the original story, the abbreviated version, is there about
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  Speaker 2: five They are about ten of us sitting around and
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  Speaker 2: folding chairs. We had a bottle rumple. We pulled out
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  Speaker 2: a ball bottle.
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  Speaker 1: They make actual tall bottles.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, they have leaders. They got the
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  Speaker 2: whole line surprising. I threw a hand.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like should be come in pipe bottles and
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  Speaker 3: a bottles that's it. You don't get a big bo
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  Speaker 3: rumple because nobody's doing that. Nobody's placing it into a
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  Speaker 3: licker cap.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's going right down the hatch. And we just
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  Speaker 2: threw a handful of ice in there. And then we
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  Speaker 2: sat around passing a bowl of Rumpelman's yelling dog bowl
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  Speaker 2: that rumpel at each other until it was all gone.
• 10:18
  Speaker 3: So was it a dog bowl or no, it was
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  Speaker 3: just a bowl.
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  Speaker 2: It was it was just a bowl, but it for
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  Speaker 2: whatever reason, we got carried away with it. And then
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  Speaker 2: in the years sense people sent me dog bowls that
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  Speaker 2: said Rumple on it. They've been lost at parties, but
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  Speaker 2: we have been dog bowling Rumple at my Halloween parties
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  Speaker 2: in the past.
• 10:36
  Speaker 3: And also, you don't have to worry about transmitting diseases
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: because that is you're rubbing alcohol.
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  Speaker 1: That you're thinking one.
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: Hundred and ten, whatever the proof is, it's crazy. So
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  Speaker 2: by the time we got around the circle, passed this
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  Speaker 2: whole bottle and we all just drank out of it.
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  Speaker 2: So everybody, we've probably got three or four shots worth.
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: Like the most uptight girl and woman in the group
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: started smoking cigarettes and cussing everybody out, people were flirting
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: and arms around each other, and then my newest drinking buddy,
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  Speaker 2: somebody that was straight edge until that summer, oh boy,
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  Speaker 2: and then my other buddy were so hammered that we
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: put them to bed in a twin bed in just
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: the apartment that we were hanging in, and we just
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: made them spoon each other, but not like in a
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  Speaker 2: creepy way. We just we put two grown hetero men
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  Speaker 2: back to like spooned them and they just slept that
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  Speaker 2: way for the rest of the night, just and they
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  Speaker 2: both had smiles on their faces. It was so you
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  Speaker 2: and I got to do it in person in Denver.
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  Speaker 2: It was really it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was a delight. I really really was to do that.
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: In the future, we really need to bring the Do
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: you think every bar has rumplements? I feel like it's
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: only Chicago bars that have rumplements, Chicago and Florida bars. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to try it next time I go somewhere.
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: I think it's so damn good and I think it
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  Speaker 2: just it's it's an after dinner drink. It's a d
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: just Steve, but.
• 12:07
  Speaker 3: Exactly, it's a classy it's classy DJ Steve.
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  Speaker 2: And thanks to Sam Scarlett and Lisa who are you know,
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: the three women who we actually couldn't do it without.
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  Speaker 2: They did a wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: Job, absolutely fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: And we love working with them. They're they're lovely, great people.
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: And also I met four women named Olivia, and so
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: I think I knew one Olivia before it and now
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: also so many Olivia's great, all four of them, all
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: stars love them all. So shout out to all the Olivia's.
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  Speaker 2: This episode of Bananas is dedicated if your name is
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  Speaker 2: Olivia and you weren't there, this one's also for you.
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  Speaker 2: This is the episode for Olivia's.
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  Speaker 3: All right here it is here, it is. This was
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: sent in by Miriam Colette. Thank you, Miriam.
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  Speaker 2: A delight, Thank you, Miriam. She sends a lot of
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: great story She's very good top shows.
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: This was in the Washington Post, written by.
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: Doesn't say that Washington Post is going down the toilet
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: so fast. They have under one hundred thousand subscribers. What
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: are they have won? Under one hundred thousand members or whatever?
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: Not members? What's the word people that get Yeah, subscribers,
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: I guess. But for the first time ever, it is
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: just going straight down the old crapper.
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: That's too bad because they do report on a lot
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: of good stuff. I think I enjoyed even though it's
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: owned by Jeff Bezos.
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: Here we go.
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: Here, We've got Christoph Wagoner.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, okay, cool name.
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  Speaker 3: For the past nine years, Christoph Wagoner has collected thousands
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: of Halloween costumes. In every fall, he puts on an
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  Speaker 3: event in Texas where children plus adult adults and dogs
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  Speaker 3: can pick out Halloween costumes for free. The annual giveaway
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  Speaker 3: began in twenty seventeen after Wagoner had moved from an
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  Speaker 3: apartment into a house. His first time having trick or
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  Speaker 3: treaters at the door that night, he noticed a disparity
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  Speaker 3: in costumes. Some children arrived in brand new Star Wars attire,
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  Speaker 3: while others were not as well outfitted.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, we just know they.
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  Speaker 3: Don't have access to the same things, Wagoner said. I
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  Speaker 3: was looking at kids that were looking at the other kids.
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  Speaker 3: They were just wishing and admiring. He started stopping by
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  Speaker 3: secondhand stores in search of old costumes several times a week,
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  Speaker 3: paying out of pocket to build a collection. He eventually
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  Speaker 3: gathered more than one hundred costumes and hosted his first event.
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  Speaker 3: It was on It's only seven years ago or eight
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  Speaker 3: years ago.
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  Speaker 2: We ran the numbers.
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  Speaker 3: Nearly a decade later, his event, dubbed October's Child, has
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  Speaker 3: grown into a major community event in Austin as okay,
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  Speaker 3: that's great. This year, there were more than two thousand
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  Speaker 3: costumes available, organized by category from princesses to superheroes. There
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  Speaker 3: is even a section for dogs. People have to bring
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  Speaker 3: their old costumes to the event, but Wagoner insists on
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  Speaker 3: washing and repairing them himself before giving out the following year.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want them to feel like they just got
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: hand me down, so you say, I want them to
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  Speaker 3: be too close as new as possible.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Sure, this is a quote.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't care who you are, where you come from.
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  Speaker 3: All he sees are the smiles, and he wants to
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  Speaker 3: create more smiles. This man has such a big heart.
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  Speaker 3: That's Brendan gutierres Hodgkin, who volunteers for October Child with
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: their two kids. Wow, I mean christoff Saints, Christoph Wagoner.
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  Speaker 2: Banana the Week, Banana the Week and Banana of Halloween too,
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  Speaker 2: Banana the Holiday.
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  Speaker 3: Also, I mean, like that is so cool. If you
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  Speaker 3: live in Austin, you don't know about that. Get on
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  Speaker 3: it next year, bring some costumes, donate them two. That's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Also, let's face it, you have kids. Every kids outgrow
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: costumes all the time. Unless it's just a kid that
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: wants to be on Ninja every year or Dorothy from
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: Wizard of Oz every year, that's fine. But they'll grow
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: them and they get what one or two uses. There's
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  Speaker 2: a girl in my second grade class who came as grapes.
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  Speaker 2: She just had on purple leotard and then purple balloons
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  Speaker 2: all over, and it's still one of my very favorite costumes.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's my favorite costume. I think maybe that's what
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to go Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Dressed up.
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  Speaker 3: Why is he dressed up as a fruit of the
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  Speaker 3: lube grapes?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Great, fighter, I love it so much.
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  Speaker 3: That makes me so happy.
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  Speaker 2: You can probably go on Amazon and buy one of
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: those purple like whatever they are, bodysuits that they they sell,
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  Speaker 2: and then you could just glue or purple balloons to you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe fun that is that is the way that that's
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  Speaker 3: the fit. To figure out how to get the balloons
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  Speaker 3: on properly?
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  Speaker 1: Is the question?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Because you kind you wanted to be homemade, you wanted
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  Speaker 3: it to be you wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: It's gotta look a little bad exactly. Oh man, the
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  Speaker 2: pro a pro.
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  Speaker 3: Version of that just looks too much like for the
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Loom commercial.
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  Speaker 2: Still the best holiday. I mean, just get dressed up,
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  Speaker 2: look funny, and then strangers give you candy. It wonderful. Great,
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  Speaker 2: let's go back to that more of those three times.
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  Speaker 3: Multiple, multiple times. I have lived in my house.
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  Speaker 1: For two days.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Multiple people have been like, are you are you prepared
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: for Halloween on this block? And I mean, like, look,
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: we lived in Atwater. Atwater goes pretty hard for pretty good. Yeah,
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: but what La does in East Coast doesn't do is
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: La has like just certain blocks just don't do any
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Like there's like the one block you go to and
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: then the other block nobody comes by. So we would
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: just we lived like one house in from the corner
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: and the street in front was at kids constantly, but
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: no one would come to our house. Yeah, but we're
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: right on the corner in the middle of the shit here,
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: so I feel like we're gonna have like five hundred kids.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Well you're gonna you know, it's first Halloween. You you
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: might have to go get some really good candy. You
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: might have to mean getting something good. Yeah, you might
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: have to show everybody like the brown Holders are here.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: To But then then you you set an expectation. You know,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: you show up with full sized candy bars first year
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: out of the gate. You're doing that every year. You're
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: spending six hundred dollars on candy.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but all of likes Nerds, right, maybe you can
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: get boxes of Nerds.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I mean they would love that.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Our case of nerds.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Case of Nerds can't be that much.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: No, kid, me sell your car. It's Halloween.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: It's Halloween.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Come on, your Halloween costume is gonna cost fourteen to
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: fifteen bucks max. You could put the rest into Nerds,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: rope Nerds, Gummy Nerds.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: I mean those are the ones that people like, right,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: the gummy nerds. They are They were hot last.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Year, hot ticket. Yeah, my favorite was So I had
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: one of those streets that went off like we went
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: crazy with my parents.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: I feel like I'm setting up Scotti to give my
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: children your childhood.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Well you yes, that's exactly right, and it was wonderful.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: We would I don't know how many houses were on
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: our street, but may probably thirty, not that many, but
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: we would fill a pillowcase full of candy. That's how
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: much candy we would get every year. But my parents
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: went hard and they would do a walk of terror
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: around the house. So my backyard was a haunted house.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: And my mom would boil like noodles and fill with
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: blood and then put ping pong balls with eyeballs drawn
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: on him. And to get candy, my mom would dress
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: like a witch. You'd have to reach in and hand
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: her an eyeball and then she'd give you candy. Wow,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: which was great, and so there's no surprise. I'd write
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: horror movies for a living. But my dad would dress
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: up in a mask and like looking super scary and
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: bury himself in straw in front of a tombstone and
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: then have a couple of those, and then he would
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: sit up and scream. And one time a kid kicked
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: him in the ribs because he was so scared. It
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: was cool that kids up.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: That kid's always gonna be okay. He kicks the monster
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: in the.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Ribs, And my dad's such a good guy. He just
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: went like, you know, instead of being like what the fuck.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: So that's how I grew up. But our street, and
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: then also my mom would make all the costumes. So
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: I was a kitchen table with four play settings with
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: my head in the middle. Bo Jackson the two way athletes.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: So I was half baseball half football, so I had
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: a split uniform. And because we were you know, progressive,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: normal people. I wasn't blackface in the eighties because we're normal,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: nice people. So it was like we just always had
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: killer costumes, tons of candy. And this is going to
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: be controversial, this is my least favorite, but very eighties
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: were fireballs. I never liked fireballs. Yeah, that was such
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: a big candy in the eighties.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I didn't.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was fireballs or lemonheads. Lemonheads were always better
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: than fireballs.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Kind Yeah, lemonheads were good. Fireballs. You would just get
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: so many, and like all the lunatic kids that are
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: probably in prisoner dead were just like, yes, fireballs. Or
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: you'd get dots. Those were real bummer dots.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, just candy on paper, and I was like,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: you want to eat some paper?
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Here you go.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: You know what's an underrated can a candy that I
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: never seen anymore, but maybe you do since your parents.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Spreeze spreeze, noah, I don't think they exist. Oh wait, wait, no, no, no,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: I just got them at a Rectro candy store. Those
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: are the ones that oh no, those they're different. So
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: there's there's Spreeze, but then there's also is there are
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: they called razzers where oh those are off like a
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: candy and then it becomes a gum.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I like, those are they called razzers?
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm talking about?
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like it's a candy, then it's a gum
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: and you're like, what the fuck is happening? And my
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: kids were both just like, what is happening with this
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: candy gum?
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: There are they still make spree they do?
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: I loved spree Spreeze were maybe one of my favorite
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: me non chocolate candy.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: I love being an adult. I'm gonna buy myself some Spreeze.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: This is going to be a big day for me.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah I used to, but like I used to like
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: that stuff. And then when Sour Patch kids came in,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: they came in like a direct white did ever.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: They wiped everything else out.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: They were a tornado and a trailer par Everybody was like,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I will trade you anything I have.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: For You're such a big deal. I don't good they
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: have held on for forty five years crazily.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: I went to a Dodgers game last week. They're in
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: the playoffs. I'm actually going tomorrow night with Vince, which
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: will be very fun too. And you know, I was
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: looking up the policy. So Dodgers Stadium has a Dodger dog,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: and I think the whole thing is it's eleven inches.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: It's it's not a foot long because the guy wanted
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: you to refer to it as a Dodger dog. Oh okay,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: not a foot long, and so yeah, it's ten or
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: eleven inches. But they switched hot Dog pork processing company
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: a couple of seasons ago, and the new ones are
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: not good, and they're like like eleven dollars or whatever,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: they're fourteen dollars. They're a crazy price. So I looked
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: up the policy for bringing food in, and you can
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: bring anything you wanted. You can bring a whole cheese
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: pizza into Dodgers team. You can bring any food you want.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: So I grilled twelve hot dogs, eight wrapped in bacon,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: which is how they do it in LA and then
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: for it it weren't, and wrapped them in foil and
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: then we just used the condiments there. But then while
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: I was shopping for that stuff. I'm like, I gotta
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I gotta bring some fun. I can't just show up
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: with twelve hot dogs for five of us or six
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: of us, I guess to a person. So I bought
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: a few boxes of Sour Patch Kids the Halloween addition,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: and put them in one big ziplock bag.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Kurt.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: We passed that down the road three or four times.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: People like my adult crew were just going off on
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: sour Patch Kids I have.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: I have had sour Patch Kids recently. I can have
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: two sour Patch Kids and then I'm like, I'm maxed out.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: I am maxed out.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Well maybe when you're following two bacon wrapped homemade hot dogs,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: you go anything to get this taste out of my mouth.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: But it was really good. Actually, here's a good one.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: This ties into that. Oh god, I have the hot story.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you have a lot of good stories. I
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: love it.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Your system is far superior to.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: My system, and I will never change.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I know. Well, here's not this isn't this is about
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: a cool kid. Uh Paig Marie sent this in thank
• 25:18
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• 25:20
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• 25:23
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• 25:25
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• 25:29
  Speaker 2: You can hear your name on the air like this.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Paig Marie sent this in ABC seven. That's swinging. ABC
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: News seven staff Best in the Viz. Thirteen year old
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: girl in California fights off attacker using jiu jitsu and
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: breaks his ankle.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Wow, all right, I'm interested.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: This is good for trick or treating season.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Carmel by the Sea, beautiful area of California.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, I was. I was there recent not recently,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: in January. It was goddamn gorgeous.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: It's a pretty special place. Places and Carmel are looking
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: for a suspect of the attempted assault of a teenager.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Authority say a man tried to attack a thirteen year
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: old girl two weeks ago, but she.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: In Carmel by the Sea. Can you I had where
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: in front of like the fudge shop slash art gallery?
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Is that where they?
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, like, what the fuck is this dude doing?
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Well, he's getting his ass kicked, that's what he's doing.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: She was able to fend him off using jiu jitsu.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: A walk come from school turned terrifying for a thirteen
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: year old Carmel by the Sea girl when she came
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: face to face with a man who was trying to
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: assault her halfway home. The gentleman was standing in between
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: two cars stepped out to do something. Sense Michael Blackburn said,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: But for three years, I mean, I'm glad we got
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: a sense involved in this. This is our first sense.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: This is the first quote from a sense god.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: And also Michael Blackburn. Sense Michael Blackburn. For three years,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: she'd been attending jiu jitsu classes with sense My Blackburn
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: at the Carmel Youth Center. She took what she learned
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: to real life to escape her attacker. She punched him,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: She got him in a headlock, She need him a
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: couple of times, spun him around, threw him on the ground,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: and had stepped on his foot doing all this. And
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: when she threw him on the ground, he broke his ankle.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Dude, that's fucking amazing good.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: This girl kicked this loser's ass.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: I love this.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: The girl ran home and was safe, but the attacker
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: still loose. Her family and police have asked to keep
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: her identity anonymous.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Understandable, he's still on the loose. How did they know
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: that his ankle's broken?
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: I think as he hobbled away. Carral police do say
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: they have they don't have a solid lead yet, but
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: they've released a sketch of what they believe. Blah blah blah.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: For Sense Blackburn, where is he hiding at the Driftwood
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: the Driftwood Emporium?
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Where?
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Like here?
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: I mean like Garmel by the sea is small and
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: it's incredibly artsy and quaint. I can't imagine. Yeah, did
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: he run down and crawl up a cypress tree? Like?
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Where is this man? Is he hiding in a in
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: a board bag?
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: That's right, he's in a succulent and dog ear piercing emporium.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: For Sense Blackburn, he said, it's heartbreaking to know a
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: student had to be put in this situation. Of course,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: what a loser this attacker was. But he is so
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: grateful to know that she knew how to defend herself. Quote.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: I told her we were so proud of her. She
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: did exactly what she was supposed to do. You have
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: to fight like you do in class, and you protect
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: yourself on the streets. The thirteen year girl, I was
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: hoping her story serves as a reminder to other young
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: people that knowing some self defense could save your life.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: So shout out to this little girl and a huge
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: f you to that guy. But she beat the shit
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: out this guy. Yeah, we'd love to hear it. I
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: love any of the ones where a criminal picks the
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: wrong person. Boy, those are so satisfying. Yeah right, oh
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: my god, so good. I wonder if that'll happen, because
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: you know, the Olympics are coming to La And we
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: did a story for God probably twenty twenty about a
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: guy that tried to rob a van at a gas
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: station and it was full of an Olympic jiu jitsu
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: team or Koko Roman wrestling game. They just all came
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: out and beat the shit out of them. Like God,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: that's so good.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Also, a Greco Roman wrestling team was so funny. I know,
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: it's so good because it suggests that they do it
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: oiled up and naked. That's what Greco Roman wrestling was.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Yes, my fighting style will always be running away as
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: fast as possible. That's just that's just how I roll.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Like a chems.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Mine will be just making a noise and rotating at
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: the hips ninety degrees. We will go, something's wrong with
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: this guy.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I gotta get out of here.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, let's go. Yeah, I join in with the attacker.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Let's go get a boys, and then I run with
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: them and then we just don't know where to go.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Let's go. Ooh, you want to tease us? Send us
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: some shout outs? Are some thumbs ups?
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, are you kidding me?
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: I got some good ones to those.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I'd be delighted too.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Tech prankster sends fifty way mo robotaxis to a San
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Francisco dead end street.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Ooh, that's good. Thumbs up. Okay, Brooke Davis got the job, Kurt,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: she got her dream job. She's thumbing herself up. I
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: think Brook also won Bananas fest one Charlie from aas
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: dance contest. I think this is the same Brook. Ok.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: She is going to be teaching shelter medicine concepts and
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: high quality, high volume spay and neuter surgery techniques at
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Kansas State and she's and she said she incorporated a
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: little bit of the banana spirit into her interview and
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: presentation to make it more silly and less stressful. So
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: congratulations and thumbs up to you Brook teaching SPAE and
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: neutering dream job.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Nice work, that's great a delight.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Dan Yella wants to thumb up her eighty one year
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: old badass grandma for deciding to do some continuing education classes.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Nice Her badass grandma still works part time, maintains her
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: lovely home that she's lived in for over sixty years,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: and she's just the best. So thumbs up to Grandma,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: nameless grandma who's going back to school.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's awesome.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Greg days Berger wants to send a huge thumbs up
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: to his girlfriend Eileen. After finding out Greg was doing
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: a dry sixty nine, Eileen decided to join him. She's
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: not a drinker, though, so she did a sweet sixty
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: nine and cut out desserts and sugars for sixty nine
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: straight days. Greg says, I love her immensely and I'm
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: proud of her for sticking it out.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Nice work.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Good thumbs up to both of you, and least, but
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: not least, certainly not least. This is a good one.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Katie Lee wants to hugely thumbs up her friend Warren
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: and his band Dead Billionaires. They got to play the
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Georgefest in Nashville, which is we've never been. But if
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: there's one fest. I'm going to Nashville. It's Georgsfest. Oh
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: they are pro community, anti white supremacy group. So Bananimals
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: if you like new music, and I looked them up.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: They're rock band. They I think they call themselves Ramshackle rock,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: which is coreot.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just looked them up. They look awesome.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Dead billionaires, download them, support them wherever you get your music,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: and you can send your thumbs ups for the people
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: in your life, no birthdays, no dead pets to the
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Banance Podcast on Gmail or Instagram. And that is that.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, thumbs up to all of you. Scottie Curti
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: b fall is upon us, and pumpkins by season is
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: already underway.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: And for our money, the only thing that can make
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: the days merrier and brighter is Julia Hannah.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Julia Hannah is like all of your favorite holidays wrapped
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: into one person.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: She's like a roaring fireplace on a cold autumny.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: She provides more joy than smiling children rolling in colorful leaves.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: So stir a fresh cup of coco and raise it
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: to the reason for this season. Julia Hannah.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Julia Hannah.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: All right, scott, are you ready to hear a story.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: I love when you tell me news stories. I just
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: I'm over here laughing my buns off. I just love
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: having fun, man, it is always.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: You really do love having fun.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Oh when I'm having fun, it's always a good time.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: I found this one on the San Francisco Chronicle. This
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: was written by Aiden Vasiti and Rachel Swan, staff writers
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: at the San Francisco Chronicles. What a duo tech prankster
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: sends fifty way more robotaxis to a San Francisco Dan
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Street Scottie. This is the first time that I haven't
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: done two animal stories in a very long time.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: I just true and I you know you And I
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: just recorded an episode with Eugene Merman for the Pate
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: and uh he was great. But I've mentioned this on
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: that like when Waimo first came out, I was like,
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: you must.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: Be kidding the job very ant diet.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: And now I think I've I think I've turned over
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: a new leaf because I watched them drive around LA
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: and they're very good drivers. They're better than the stoned
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: drivers texting. They're they're really so I'm like, I'm going
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: to download a Weaimo account and start way mowing my
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: ass off.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: LA is the most confusing driving culture that I've ever
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: experienced in my life. Will you will have and when
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: I I can't explain to people, especially who live on
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  Speaker 3: the East Coast, it is really hard to wrap your
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: mind around. You'll see like a two lane highway there's
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: two lanes and one lane has one billion cars in
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  Speaker 3: it and they're backed up, and the other lane is empty,
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: and everyone just stays in the lane that has one
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  Speaker 3: billion cars in it. No one moves over. It is fascinating.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: It is It is an ability to accept traffic and
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: not care about your own survival in a way that
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: is like fascinating to me.
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  Speaker 2: It is fascinating. They don't do left turns on street
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: like it's the same like on the East Coast, you
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: kind of pull out in the intersection with you know,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: you have your left trendsignal. You pull out the intersection
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: so when it turns, you check in the cars coming,
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: then you go. Some people in LA just sit and
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: then they'll either gun it or they just don't go,
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: And you go, what the hell are you doing? What
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: do you do?
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: And then meanwhile I get back here, Oh God. And
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: if you don't actively put yourself in danger. People start
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: honking at you go, you asshole.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Like, I drove with a guy for Red Bull
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: and Brooklyn and his dad taught him how to drive
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: before driver's lessons, and he said his dad said to him,
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: drive to make the other guy break. And that seems
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: like the worst advice I've ever heard of my time.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: That is so funny.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: All right here it is fifty driverless cars converging on
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: a single dead end street. Sounds like a software glitch.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: In reality, was a coordinated prank over the summer. Riley Waltz,
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: a twenty three year old software engineer in self described
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: tech prankster, enlisted dozens of participants to order Weimo rides
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  Speaker 3: at the same moment on San Francisco's longest dead end street.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: The plan at dusk, fifty people went to San Francisco's
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: longest dead end street. Fifty people in all ordered a
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: Weimo at the same time, the world's first weaimo DS.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: That's a denial of service attack, I believe, Oh here
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: it is. The term short for distributed denial of service
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: refers to a type of cyber attack that overwhelms the
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: system with traffic to disrupt its normal operation. In this
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: case a tongue in cheek nod to how dozens of
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: simultaneous requests briefly jammed Waymo's network. No one boarded the cars,
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: Waltz said. After about ten minutes, the autonomous vehicles departed
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: and charge each request a five dollars no show fee.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: Way Moo handled this well, Waltz said, knowing that the
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: company temporarily disabled all pickups and drop offs within a
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: two block radius until the last morning. Wow it is
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: It's just fifty Waymos in a row, all lined up,
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: confused online. The stunt drew a mix of fascination and alarm.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: Nice job, I guess what did you get out.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Of it when you are asked?
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Another warn this would be a felony under the current
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: computer access and abuse laws.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Would it be.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Some saw darker implications. Someone will figure out how to
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: use this to jam up traffing and targeted urban centers
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: on election day. Another user wrote, I mean people go
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: immediately to the very worst things. The other viewers is
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: viewed it as a useful stress test. They were not
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: vandalizing the vehicles, and they paid the no show fee.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: Waymo should be doing this kind of thing itself. The
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: July prank fits neatly into Walls's pattern of projects that
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: blur the line between satire and systems analysis. A North
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Beach residence, Walls previously made headlines for creating a viral
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: map that tracked San Francisco's parking officers in real time
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: before city.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Officials shut it down.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: He also transformed a fake Google Maps listing into a
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: real one night steakhouse, and built bop Spotter, an app
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: that uses music app Shazam to log music playing on
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: city streets. Twenty four to seven. Oh this guy, We've
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: talked about him? Did he turned his shed into a
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: restaurant for this?
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Yes? I remember that guy.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: Yes, this dude is awesome.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: I like this guy.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: Waltz, who co founded a data company called numerous dot Ai,
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: has said his pranks are driven by curiosity, not malice.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: You have to follow through on your ideas because if
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: you don't, you might stop having them, he told The
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: New York Times earlier this month. Why not WEIMO did
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: not immediately comment on the incident.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Well, I think it is sort of dumb. I think
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: that one's done. I think the steakhouse is the funniest
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: thing in the world. But I'm the way more one.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: I guess it's just I don't know. You gotta do something,
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: but that does just seem like a waste of resources
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: and time. We'll mean to go out of one.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Just give me the title and we'll do it next time.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: A three year old flying in business class was served
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: a glass of wine and his mom is not happy.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: She must have thought of his apple juice.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Right. Well, those flight attendant did it.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, but I mean when she when the mom
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: looks over, I mean, there's so many questions. All right,
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: I'm interested in getting into it in the next episode.
• 39:42
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• 39:58
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