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Bananas That Don't Turn Brown (2 Pretty Cool Things) · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I need to tell you two things. Cubby and Christine's.
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  Speaker 2: Two pretty cool things. All right, I've got something very exciting,
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  Speaker 2: not only for myself, but for your husband as well.
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  Speaker 1: My husband?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: UK-based company called Tropic Biosciences has developed the world's first
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  Speaker 2: banana that does not turn brown.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It stays yellow and fresh much longer after it's peeled
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  Speaker 2: or sliced. And as you know me, if it loses
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  Speaker 2: that little touch of green, I can't eat it.
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  Speaker 1: Mark can't eat anything with, like, any brown on it. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: That's why you always have a banana.
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  Speaker 1: And I hate bananas. I don't like a banana, but
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  Speaker 1: I'll eat a banana.
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  Speaker 2: We'll make pudding or bread or something like that. You
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  Speaker 2: wind up eating those bananas. Well, we have too many.
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  Speaker 1: He'll buy a bunch of them, and then most of
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  Speaker 1: them go brown.
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  Speaker 2: They do peel apart. They peel apart.
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  Speaker 1: That's such a thing.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, what do you got?
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  Speaker 1: Guy with your bananas.
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  Speaker 2: Please.
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  Speaker 1: I like this story. So there are new bird celebrities
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  Speaker 1: in town. Really? For the first time in modern history,
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  Speaker 1: or as far as we know, a family of barn
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  Speaker 1: owls has made a nest in Manhattan on the Upper
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  Speaker 1: West Side in a water tower. It's a male, female,
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  Speaker 1: and at least two chicks, maybe three. It's still unclear
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  Speaker 1: because they're small. On recent evenings, growing crowds of birders
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  Speaker 1: have been gathering at a couple locations along Central Park West,
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  Speaker 1: looking up binoculars. They're around 75th Street. Okay. Okay. The
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  Speaker 1: guy across the street says he's going to aim cameras
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  Speaker 1: at them for a live stream, which should go live
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube soon. Barn owls typically live nearest to us,
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  Speaker 1: would be in Jamaica Bay. In Staten Island, but never
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  Speaker 1: in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: The water towers that we have here kind of look
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  Speaker 2: like barns, don't they, with the shingles? Oh, that's true,
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  Speaker 2: that's true. So maybe they're a little confused.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But there's no eaves. Where do you hide?
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  Speaker 1: They're right at the base of it, the picture. So
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  Speaker 1: this story I'm pulling from the New York Times.
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  Speaker 2: That's a beautiful owl, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: They're beautiful. So barn owls are the ones that have
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  Speaker 1: like the giant white faces that look like a dish.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know? Different than flocco and all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But whenever we have a bird around here, you know,
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  Speaker 1: people get really excited about it. So new barn owls,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to. You know, take a look out there,
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  Speaker 1: 75th Street near Central Park.