Episode Transcript
Scott, are you ready?
Speaker 2I'm ready to laugh and laugh and laugh.
Speaker 1Chuck e Cheese handcuffed and arrested in Florida.
You know I was, you know I had to do this.
Speaker 2It was that this one a lot.
Speaker 1I mean, it's a perfect banana story.
Speaker 2Uh it is Uh and throw your hands in the air Charlie Fromage Style for a brand new, beautiful episode of Bananas.
Speaker 1Still World.
Speaker 2Would you believe.
Speaker 1Your mizillion pieces?
Speaker 2Would you be banana banana, banana banas, banana.
Speaker 1Bana guys, gowns, non binary pals, Welcome to Bananas.
I am kerk Brown Older.
Speaker 2I'm banana boy number two.
Scottis sometimes Champagne Sktylandis.
Thank you for listening to the silliest little podcast there ever was.
It's strange news, it's stories.
Sometimes we have guests and sometimes we don't have guests, like this episode, which is just all about male friendship.
Speaker 1I would like to apologize to everyone if my audio sounds echoey.
I had created the perfect little studio in this area in my apartment with a lot of pillows.
Oh and ten feet away from my perfect little studio, I was getting six under megs a second and then right from my computer.
I was getting under one megasecond and guys, it was the pillows.
I took the pillows away, and now I'm getting five hundred megs a second and now our connection is perfect.
Speaker 2Yeah, your smooth operator over there, and you got I wonder what is in these pillows?
Are they backing lead into the pillows in New Jersey?
Speaker 1That is amazing.
It's like we don't understand Wi Fi at all, and it's just like, oh, it's just if you put some pillows around it, yes, nobody will be able to contact.
Speaker 2You, no, sir.
I yeah, I'm like Internet to me, all things Wi Fi, even speed you said six hundred megabits or whatever.
It's the equivalent of when dudes pop the hood of a car and we look at the engine and it's like, unless something has a small flame coming from it, I cannot identify the problem ever at all.
Speaker 1You just reboot the router, right beal?
Speaker 2Yeah, every damn time, I barely known't to do anything.
I could change a car tire.
I could definitely do that.
Speaker 1I can do that.
It's annoying, it is.
Speaker 2I think we have a listener.
She's a friend, Christine Cox.
I went to high school with her, and one night I was randomly driving home very cold night.
Look over on the side of the road.
There she is with a flat.
Speaker 1Tire recently or not recently, oh got.
Speaker 2Twenty years ago.
And I gave her a ride home.
But it was like one of those moments prephones where you're like, I just really save somebody's night.
You know, no, there's no rescue.
You just have to wait there and like trying to gabody down.
Speaker 1Oh, a creepy stranger down and hope they're not a terrible person.
Speaker 2Yeah, so she can steady, Yeah exactly.
We're still friends.
She's a great get that.
Speaker 1That's nice.
How's how's your week, buddy?
We're recording Friday.
Speaker 2I've had such a fun week.
So pitching is now somehow back in person.
So I pitched yesterday.
Speaker 1Are you joking?
Speaker 2No, first movie.
I've pitched on my own in person since twenty nineteen.
So that's fun to Dusty Field, the old pitch and rust.
But tonight I'm going to the Orange County Fair.
Oh yeah, maybe we need a corn dog, We need some ribbon fries.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, Orange County gets real country faish, real fans do.
Speaker 2It's very big.
You know it is a little too corporate.
I would say there used to be a time.
Yeah, it is like when we were kids.
And this is not to sound like dinosaurs, but like you'd go to a fair and the booth so it would be like Johnson's frozen lemonades, and then it'd be like the whole Johnson family work and their thing, Mom, Paul.
John's not like that, no, man, some big conglomerates scooped up the big ones and like every sign looks the same every It's like, it's very interesting.
Speaker 1That's crazy because I went to the Strawberry Fair in Ventura County and it was still straight up exactly how I remember that.
Like one one thing was just like a dude was just like you want to make a pie eyed T shirt?
Speaker 2You come on over like that.
Speaker 1And it was just a dude with some buckets and some shirts and kids were like swarming him.
The kids still wear their tied eye T shirt, the perfect tied eye T shirt.
Speaker 2Do I ever tell a story about the spin doctors at the Green Mountain Festival?
Speaker 1I know you did it.
Speaker 2I can't believe.
Speaker 1I can't believe that has been five years and you have a spin Doctor story that I have not heard.
I'm just crazy.
Speaker 2This was college years and I believe it was called the Green Mountain Festival in Vermont.
It was just a kind of a crappy music and crafts festival and on not on the main stage, one of the daytime, second or third stages.
The Spin Doctors who had hits in the early nineties and then this would have been two thousand and one.
Speaker 1Probably how fast.
How fast people forget how big the Spin Doctors were.
I mean the Spin Doctor was probably huge in nineteen ninety four, right, yeah, and then by two thousand and one seven.
That is how fast it goes folks.
Yeah, if you ever have anybody in your life who gets popular in the entertainment industry and you're like, oh, that person's a jerk.
Now, don't worry.
Speaker 2It will fade.
Speaker 1There's years there's five or six people who have just continued their meteoric rise.
Somebody else's has a mountain that they climb and then slide out on the butt.
Speaker 2Correct and they For those who don't know, the Spin Doctors were sort of like an all poppy rock band.
They had two real hits.
They had Little Miscamp Be Wrong, and two princes and then they had some crappier B sides.
I also have to shout out my friend John Green, who listens to the podcast, who was when I met him in college, a very die hard Spin Doctors fan.
And the thing about that is, yeah, I love something back then.
So much judgment these days keep going because you went you went to college in two thousand, Massachusetts.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1So by two thousand, the Spin Doctors were definitively not cool.
They're playing them, They were playing the second stage in the morning time.
Speaker 2You honestly may have been the third stage of the stages.
Basically, if you can imagine a carpet, then lift that carpet three feet I mean three inches off the ground and then stand on it.
That's kind of what it was.
It was.
But anyways, oh they're playing some they're jam and a lot of jam bands at this fest.
Speaker 1And I respect your friend for really being into the spind on two thousand, Like that's amazing to just be like, now I'm sticking with them.
Speaker 2I have a feeling I'm going to get a text after this episode drops that even in twenty twenty five, he's still sticking as he should.
But so you know, you kind of walk around these festivals, and you know, back then it was like people smoking weed.
Like now it's just legal so many places, but back then people like sneak over and smoke weeds.
So some of my friends are doing that.
People are making jewelry, people are making dream catchers.
People have devil sticks still, like devil.
Speaker 1Sticks is huge.
Yeah, maybe some people are lighting them on fire a little bit.
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2I mean, why not, let's have fun.
We're outside, it's more outside.
Speaker 1It's Vermont.
There's no les.
Ernie Sanders is the whatever.
Governor.
Speaker 2Yeah, he's the senator.
And is he still the same?
Speaker 1I think he was like the mayor and then the governor and then the senator.
Speaker 2I don't know.
Speaker 1Vermonters, don't judge me.
I don't know about you.
Speaker 2We love Vermont, great state, one of the greatest states.
Speaker 1People say, the most happy state.
Speaker 2Yeah, because there's nobody there.
It's empty and beautiful.
It's natural beauty and it's empty.
Speaker 1It's really beautiful.
Last time I was there, I was like, I gotta get used to this.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'd be happy too if it was mostly just woods and animals around me.
Speaker 1It was like yeah, But then also you could go to Burlington and pretty much have access to like very good food, Like it's very good food in Burlington.
Anyway, keep going and it's okay.
Speaker 2So they play through their set and I like that kind of thing.
I like seeing bands past their prime.
I went and saw the hip hop act Naughty by Nature UMass.
They played in front of a van and got very real at the end.
They're like, Yo, we've got Grammys, we've sold dis May records, we've toured around the world, but honestly, U Mass, this is the biggest show we're going to play this year.
And it was like three or four hundred of us standing out in the field while they played.
Oh It's the best, And my friend Franco and I went to that one.
It was also one of my favorite hip hop shows ever.
They gave us all the hits in front of a conversion van and then probably drove it back to New York or New Jersey wherever they live.
But they were like, oh wait, this was in a field.
Speaker 1They just literally like drove like a cube truck up, yeah, up in front of it.
Speaker 2Yeah, exactly, not even a cube truck, a conversion van.
Speaker 1When you say a conversion van.
I don't know what you mean.
Speaker 2Remember in the eighties and nineties there were vans that families would have that had like sofas and stuff in the back, like two captain's chairs.
Yeah TV a van.
Speaker 1Yeah, fancy, that's how I am man, That's how I imagine a vant so, not.
Speaker 2An eighteen passenger van.
A van that has like that wrap around seating in the back.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, it's one of those.
So they opened up two doors.
The DJ stood in front of those, and Tretch and the other guy wrapped in front of those for awesome two hundred to four hundred confused white kids.
Speaker 1And they do have the Grammys.
That's crazy.
Speaker 2They were huge, gigantic.
Speaker 1I can't believe that that was anyway.
Speaker 2It's my favorite thing.
I love all these I love seeing the roback bands, and so I'm like, I'll go check out Doctors and they're on stage and they're singing songs I don't know, and then they get to sort of their last you know, they're up there forty minutes.
It's time, and so they're gonna bring out the bangers and they were gonna close.
Speaker 1With so they also because they're not they're not like the last band, they don't get an encore.
Speaker 2No, honestly, they probably unplugged, stepped three inches down into the grass and went and got a soda.
But right before he sung, he goes, uh and I don't know about you guys, but this one sure got me laid.
I think I've been laughing about that for twenty five years.
Speaker 1I don't know that this is so funny.
Imagine if someone in the audience was like, this one got me laid too, that's great.
Speaker 2I also got laid to two princes.
Oh man, what a what an innocent The nineties are so fascinating, and I know, like a lot of times when I'm pitching stuff now people young people are like nineties fashion jen Alpha gen Z.
They're into it, very throwbacky stuff.
But yeah, the first half of the nineties, all the songs, at least for like rock and pop, We're so happy.
I mean, it was bands singing about just how happy they are, how awesome it is that Communism's over.
Just happy, happy time.
And then the back half of the nineties is new metal.
People just hit each other's guts.
It was like Gagster Rapid really just gone to this whole other place, and it was just such a weird thing that in ten years it went from like Rusted Root to Limp Biscuit.
Speaker 1What a time to be alive, I mean, but the thing is is that you probably wouldn't have had Limp Biscuit.
And I hope everybody really pronounces that z when they say it, yeah with Rusted Route without counting crows.
I think people were just like, we got we can't have all counting crows all the time.
It was like that time with the Lumineers.
Remember when the Lumineers and Mumford and Son had like every song on the radio.
It was un bearable because first time you heard that Mumford and Son song, you're like, this is a really good song.
And then the five thousandth time you heard it and the five hundred bands that came out that sounded exactly like it was like it was insane.
It was really an awful time and white people music it was.
Speaker 2It was sixpence done the Richer in the beginnings of the nineties and corn at the end.
We what a great time that first half was the Cardigans Loved Me.
Everybody was listening to Love Fool all the time.
It was like, oh, things are gonna work.
Speaker 1The law, the laws, and then goes yeah from the laws, and then das crawled so stained could sprint.
Speaker 2What a nightmare.
All right?
Speaker 1You want to hear about this Chuck E Cheese Hell yeah, here we go.
Chuck E Cheese handcuffed and arrested in Florida on charges of using a stolen credit card.
This was sent in by almost every single banana.
But I will give credit where credit is due.
I will give credit here too.
Speaker 2Also what curtis saying the mascot of Chuck E Cheese was arrested at a Chuck E Cheese.
Yeah, guy in the rat costume.
Speaker 1I'm gonna say Sean Fister, sorry, not Sean, sorry Sean, Sean said something else, and then I'm gonna do but I'm gonna say Kurt Hanson.
Speaker 2Here, Hey, thanks Chris.
Speaker 1The first time I saw it, there it is.
This was an NBC news that's real, not the not busting chops news.
Here does David kay Lee wrote this, A lot of people say he's the customers watched in disbelief.
Is Florida police arrested a Chucky Cheese employee in costume portraying the pizza hawking rodent and accused him of using a stolen credit card, Officials said Thursday.
Jamelle Jones, forty one, was working on Wednesday night when Tallahassee.
But this, of course is happening in Tallahassee.
Yeah, everywhere else the fucking cops would wait for the guy to get off work these when Tallahassee, like, let them take let him get the mouse costume off right, let him leave the rat casino before you do this publicly was working on Wednesday night when Tallahassee police confronted him at the Chuck E Cheese on Sharer Road.
According to a law enforcement records, his right arm while giving him verbal instructions, Chucky, come with me, Chucky, this is this cop thinks it's funny.
Jones immediately started tensing up.
Blah blah blah cop bullshit.
Cruz told the mascot not to make a scene before the officer and his partner uh deserted minor physical effort to handcuff him.
Okay, so now it seems like there's police brutality evolved with victim.
Okay, here it is ready.
We are against bo both credit card fraud and police brutality.
Speaker 2Maybe even police brutality more, I would say.
Speaker 1Yeah, victim Michelle Allen told police she'd been to her child's birthday party at Chuck E Cheese on June twenty eighth, and soon spotted fraudulent charges at stores she doesn't frequent.
Speaker 2Police said.
Speaker 1She went to one of those stores and got security foot footage and matching it to a very large mouse.
Speaker 2No, that would be the great, It would be the story.
Speaker 1Fucking amazing good idea matching the time her card was wrongly used.
Police said.
Also, this is like she shouldn't have to do this.
The bank should notice.
The bank should be like, whoa, why did you just spend five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2At a at a.
Speaker 1At the on subway tokens or whatever.
Speaker 2Right victims I have that I've had that happen to me.
Speaker 1Yeah, Michelle Allan told police.
She said a little so she had to do all this like detective work.
She recognized the Ucky Cheese employee making a purchase at the store at the same time as one of those fraudulent swipes.
Cruise went to that Chuck E Cheese location and identified Jones not in costume, as the employee.
Allan's sspective of stealing her card.
The officer briefly talked with Alan, who he described as very nervous.
During their conversation, Cruz left the restaurant to confer with Alan and another officer.
When the officers went back inside, Jones was gone, but a Chuck e Cheese mascot was now and they're oh my god, he put the costume onto hide.
That's amazing.
That's a very smart it's a great idea.
Cruz asked another employee if she knew where Jones went and if the person in the mouse outfit was in fact him.
She shook her head up and down, indicating yes.
The officer read the mouse's Miranda warnings before he insisted he never stole anyone's credit.
I don't have a card on me.
I didn't use anybody cards with my own, Jones said.
Speaker 2Found a little defense that I don't have a credit card.
I don't even have a credit card on me.
Speaker 1Officers found the victim's visa card in Jones' left pocket.
Well he's just walking around with it.
That's crazy.
If like just leave it at home once get rid of it.
Jones was booked on a suspicion of larceny position of a possession of another person's ID wasn't immediately clear on Friday if Jones had hired or been assigned a criminal defense attorney.
Speaker 2But well, I would hope.
Speaker 1So it is crazy.
Oh my goodness, there is a video.
There is a video video.
Oh my god, Scottie.
Yeah, there's all these children standing around staring at Chucky Cheese handcuffed being walked out.
Oh my god, my.
Speaker 2Would never never, he always had fans up.
Speaker 1I'm trying to imagine the ride home with the kids explaining why Chuck and Cheese was rested.
Speaker 2Further, I think this is the best crime that that mascot could have committed in a establishment where children run around and parents get drunk and bad kid stuff.
Or this could have been fistfight world.
And yeah, best case scenario is your local Chuck e Cheese steals your credit card and just racks up some larceny.
Speaker 1That's MS and hopefully, hopefully, now that she has proof, she gets her money refunded by the gigantic corporation that is the bank.
They got us, they got it, they got it right, especially now that it's a big story.
I'm trying to think so guess what.
Guess what Lauren found out?
Oh boy, Chuck E Cheese in New Jersey does not serve alcohol.
Speaker 2Whoa that mun takes it down a peg.
Speaker 1Oh my god, it just became Germ jail.
Before it was at least you could have two wines very quick in secession and then like mildly and then just like walk around somewhat drunk and look like the terrible games they have.
But no, it's just Germ Jail.
Speaker 2Now doing hard time.
Well, I think it's time to tap back into your Neptune New Jersey high school Kurt roots, and you got to start sneaking some airplane bottles in there, ordering some diet sprite some sprite Z's, get that sprit zero going, you put the little Tito's in that sprite Z and suddenly Germ Jail it's.
Speaker 1Gonna be fun again.
Baby.
I think you're right, Scottie, go give me one.
Speaker 2Asia sent this in sixth Glee on Instagram.
You can send your stories to the Banana Boys on Instagram or the Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com.
Oh this is in the New York Post, which we hate their politics, but boy do we like their headlines.
Speaker 1Oh they're the best headlines in the world.
Speaker 2NYC nut job busted for naked boat joy ride escapes from hospital in stupid makeshift disguise.
That is what is called a headline, folks.
It is from a true rag The New York Post, written by two very impressive journalists, Tina More and Amanda Woods.
Wow you want more, you get Woods.
He put clothes on this time, but shook off the authorities.
A man busted for a naked joy ride on two stolen boats in a Manhattan marina escaped from a local hospital Wednesday, disguised in a lab coat, bothout shoes.
Speaker 1Oh my god.
Wait, there's so many good details, all right, get any more?
Manhattan?
He stole two boats.
Speaker 2Yeah, and I think it's that marina you told me about years ago, that.
Speaker 1Oh, the one up the one up on like one hundred hundred and eighth or something.
That one's the coolest one because you go under a highway and all of a sudden you're in this like beautiful grotto.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's a pretty neat one.
And those slips became available like every sixty years or whatever.
It's like so hard to get a boat slip there.
Speaker 1That's I mean, I still regret.
I remember being there in nineteen ninety nine and they're like, it's twenty years to wait to get a slip, and I was like, I should put my name in.
Maybe I'll have a boat in twenty years.
I don't.
It's over twenty years and I don't have a boat, but I would have had a slip.
Speaker 2You can get a boat for free in New York.
My buddy d Me and our friend Edmund Hawkins is like, do you want this boat?
They're giving away this sailboat?
Like somebody, clearly people.
Speaker 1Give away sailboats all the time because they're so expensive to take.
Speaker 2Care of, yes, to dock them.
So people just like take this boat, please?
Speaker 1God, did I tell you about Did I tell you about this?
I've been founding these people on Instagram.
I think it's called two dollars catamaran.
They bought a catamaran for two dollars.
It's like a thirty six forty foot catamaran, beautiful boat, and they bought it up in San Francisco and then they started like putting it together, and the whole instagram is about them like renovating the boat cool, which seems exhausting and awful, but they then discovered on the boat ten thousand dollars in silver coins.
Oh, and it paid for the renovation of the boat.
So they have a two dollars catamarand ugh and then they sailed it down.
Speaker 2It was really cool that, you know.
I used to watch the show Storage Wars when it first came on, and then I had a storage facility between my move a year ago, whatever year and a half ago, and it was like, every time I would walk to my unit, I would just be like, how many gold coins are in this building right now?
How much cash in a Duffel bag is in this building.
It's fascinating, Yeah, very fascinating anyway.
Stephen Blasetti, thirty six, who was held on grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, and reckless endangerment charges in connection to the close lists Saturday romp, escaped from Columbia University Medical Center at six point thirty a m.
Police said Blaseetti was last seen wearing a lab coat, blue hospital pants, and hospital socks but no shoes as he bolted from the hospital's Milstein building on Fort Washington Avenue near West one hundred and sixty eighth Street.
So that's way up there.
Yeah, that's up up, that's like near the cloisters.
I was not immediately clear, Oh excuse me.
It was not immediately clear how he managed to flee the hospital whereas being held since NYPD Harbor Unit cops arrested him.
He was not shackled nor handcuffed.
The chiseled but Blaseetti.
And this guy has a very nice physique.
Wow, the photos in the poster of him very nude.
He has a couple tattoos, he's got one on his leg, he's got one on his person, and he is in very fine shape.
So if you are the kind of person who likes a nude lunatic, go to the website and treat yourself to a little eyeball gymnastics.
The chisel Blasetti hopped into a smaller dinghy sailboat on the Dyakman Street arena around noon on Saturday, after employees there had kicked him out because he was acting erradically.
Bassetti, who told police that he was high on methamphetamine.
Fine, very motivating drug and motivated.
Speaker 1Is also to tell the truth.
What's going on, sir, I'm on methamphetamine very good.
Speaker 2As you were top, he was already sailing the Hudson River before employees could stop him.
But the nopdse Aviation and harbor units were quickly notified and went on the hunt for the hard to miss nut job.
I mean, this writing is great.
The seafaring kook then sailed a boat up to a larger so he sailed a dinghy up to a larger anchored catamaran sailboat, climbed on board that vessel.
Members of the harbor unit quickly responded, got on board the katam ran with him and arrested Blaseetti.
That's when he was taken into customy custod ty at Columbia University Medical Center for treatment.
Besides this boat incident, no cases have ever been held against Blaseetti.
This is his first crime.
Maybe he's new to meth.
Also, you don't think of meth as a New York City drug, you know, but I.
Speaker 1Don't think of meth as a New York City drug.
He might have gotten it somewhere else.
He might have gotten it on the Hudson.
He might have gone all the way up to Hudson, the downtown of upstate, and gotten some.
Speaker 2Took that long dinghy ride.
I want to own a dinghy.
Speaker 1Yeah, when'd you go on a dingy?
Speaker 2No, I want to own one.
I want to buy a dingy.
I feel like you can buy for five hundred bucks.
And just god, I wish I had more space, I'd own a dingy.
Speaker 1I know.
The thunder just started, and poor Zelda is not doing well.
She's really shaken.
She just pushed open the door of the room and oh, she's really shaken.
Speaker 2I'm sorry, little thing.
Yeah.
I guess Zelda was a desert dog all these years, not used to an afternoon rainstorm every single day from September.
Speaker 1She really doesn't like it.
I'm sorry, sweetie.
Speaker 2Have you noticed a Have you noticed any difference in personalities of the people around you?
Do people say hello more or less?
Do people a wave more or less?
Speaker 1People are very I would say over all people are incredibly friendly, especially when you have to like interact with someone in a like going to the library or something, or going to a restaurant or something like that.
People are very friendly.
Yeah.
The what Lauren has noticed is that the drivers are lunatics.
Okay, and I have noticed that a little bit.
And I was like, oh, yeah, that's right.
That's why I drive this way because I can't.
I grew up driving with these people.
Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, people do drive differently, especially New Jersey to Boston.
That little corridor.
Yeah, for aggressive drivers.
Speaker 1Yes, it's really aggressive.
Speaker 2I worked with a dude for Red Bull and Queen's and he said his dad was giving him like a like a driver's lessons, just an amateur father son lesson.
And his dad said that you're supposed to drive to make other people break.
That was his lesson, and that when you back, when you parallel park, you're supposed to back up till you tap the car behind you pull forward till you tap the car shout out, Frank.
I forget what your last name was, but yeah, his dad's first lesson was drive so that other people have to break.
Wow, the exact opposite of a good way to drive.
Speaker 1Yeah.
And also like tapping a car outside of the Northeast is considering.
It's like people will go crazy.
Yeah, and then New York people are just like, yeah, it's how you park.
You tap tap, tap.
Speaker 2Back and forth, then you pull forward, then you back.
I've seen it.
And people sell this thing called bumper badgers.
Yeah, like rubber things that hang on your trunk because people just New Yorkers when they parlot park, they back into the car behind them and then pull forward.
This it just happens constantly everywhere.
It's not like a stereotype.
It happens constantly.
Yeah, it's a horrible way to treat other people.
But you know, there's a lot of people in that town and not a lot of cars.
Speaker 1So you want to dinghy, but we just don't have the space for it.
Speaker 2No, But my good friends Melissa Norris learned how to captain and they have a sailboat and Marina del Rey, and sometimes I get to ride with them as we sail.
We just sail up and down probably ten miles north and then maybe ten or fifty miles south.
And to see La from the ocean is amazing.
Speaker 1It's really amazing, Yeah.
Speaker 2Because it's a beach up into a city, up into the mountains.
And then yeah, it's just so neat to see it from the reverse.
And yeah, I would just like to tune around a little dinghy and you know, wave to people and just ask.
Speaker 1Them to wait.
I mean, Dinghy's are for waving.
Speaker 2Dinghy's are number one waving vessel.
Speaker 1Yeah, can we name this, Katie.
Dinghy's are for waving.
Speaker 2Dinghy's are for waving.
Maybe well, one day, well we'll do well enough with bananas that we can buy yellow dinghy and just just dinghy around whenever we're near a body water.
Curtis from Neptune, New Jersey.
That's very clear.
I'm from Racerstown, Maryland, which is very closely than her harbor, so there is potential for us to dinghy.
Speaker 1Yeah, oh yeah, we can dingy baby.
Speaker 2Next time I'm in Racersstown, I'm gonna I'm gonna go to Racer's Town.
My parents don't live there anymore, but I'm gonna go.
I'm gonna go to the Harryman House, which is a bar and restaurant, and I'm gonna I don't know how I'm gonna alert the bananimals, but I'm gonna go.
And I'm gonna just say open tab for any bananamal that walks through that door for the next two hours, and I'm just gonna see what happens.
I love that.
Maybe I'll just like a banana.
I'll be like, there's a banana at the end of the bar at the Harryman House.
If you show up between six and eight, all drinks and food are on me.
Speaker 1That's amazing.
Speaker 2I love that idea.
Speaker 1Yeah why not?
Speaker 2How many could possibly show up?
Two hundred one thousand?
I'm like, oh, this is a huge mistake.
My Oh, my sister was in Uh, this is cool.
She was in London.
Family trip to London.
Traffic was terrible.
Hopped on uber.
An uber boat picked them up on the Thames and they ubered back to their hotel on them.
No, why do you know about that?
No?
Speaker 1I did not know about that.
Speaker 2She sent me a photo from the boat and I had never heard of that.
And she basically bypassed all traffic by just ubering a boat in the Thames.
Speaker 1Wow.
Speaker 2Badass.
Speaker 1So that is awesome.
Speaker 2And knowing you when you take your kids, when your family goes to London, the brown owlers are going to be sailing.
They're going to be living that diggy life up and down the Thames.
Speaker 1You might get a like a barge to stay on.
That would be great.
I don't think they call.
Speaker 2Them barges sounds do you want to tease me into a thumbs up?
Yeah?
Speaker 1Baby?
Speaker 2Uh.
Speaker 1Police a man opposed as an ambassador and ran a fake embassy.
Oh this is crazy story.
Speaker 2Oh great, that's a good one.
I like that I got some great thumbs ups.
All right, first, this is you and me thumbing up caregivers.
We've never done this before.
Thumbs like all the caregivers.
We've done lots of nurses and doctors and the like.
Maybe we've even done daycare, but this is for caregivers.
We got a really nice DM.
I'm not going to say the person's name because she didn't say say this on the air or whatever, but really nice caregiver.
Let us know that she works with one client who is blind and stays inside a lot and listens to bananas and it always brightens his day and her day.
So thumbs up to both of you.
Thank you for listening to bananas.
I think you know who you are, but we're glad to have you both listening.
Yes, it means so much.
We have a great top shelf bananamal named Cheyenne Wonderluster's Kurt.
I've done so many of her stories.
We've met her a couple times, but she wanted us to mention acknowledge a dear friend of hers, Justin.
Justin passed away recently.
He sounded like an incredibly fun, loving true character in life and he actually came to Bananas Live in Minneapolis and we met him.
We have a photo with Cheyenne and Justin.
He big Beard seemed like a really lovable guy, but he had never seen Bananas Live.
Laughed the whole time, loved it.
So I'll post that amazing picture.
But Chayan just wanted us to acknowledge him because he was such a great guy, and she's such a great Bananamal, So big consensual hugs from the Banana Boys, Cheyenne, Lice Guys, and Rip the Way An RP.
Justin Glad to have gotten to know you.
Yeah.
Thumbs up to Elise one.
She graduated from nursing school with a masters in nursing and is stoked to be a Level one trauma emergency Bananamal.
Also, I think Elise is the same Bananmal who went and found a giant roller skate roadside attraction and sent us a photo because we always encourage people to go see roadside attractions.
The bigger, the better, the dumber.
So thumbs up to Elise.
Finally, Sam wants us to thumb us up for Bananas Fast and creating an atmosphere of love.
She went last year and she says, I want to shout out all of my banana goals.
These were new friends she met last year at bananas Fest, Carrie, Katie, Jesse, Lindsay, Zoe, and Rena.
They're all still friends, they still talk, but they all met at banans Fest one, and I hope almost all of them will see at bananas Fest two.
Speaker 1Yes, Bananafs two October fourth and Denver, Colorado.
Speaker 2Folks, it's fat.
We need to announce our what we're going to try for Guinness.
I think that's important.
Speaker 1Okay, I'm ready to announce that.
Speaker 2So we are going to once again work with I Support the Girls, a national wonderful company who supplies women's supplies, tampon's pads, underwear, bras, that sort of thing for women who need them.
Last year we did a tampon toss and they gathered so I don't even remember.
Five thousand tampons, some crazy numbers.
Speaker 1Yeah, this year, Kurt, this year will be doing most people wearing bras on their head one time.
And so all you gotta do is bring a bra man or woman, Bring a bra man or woman or non binary, bring a bra, put it on your head.
We'll take a picture and to Guinness, and Guinness will stonewall us, but will know we did it.
Speaker 2Let's go for a thousand bras on heads.
Go out, any size you want, turns up.
Bras come in different sizes, Kurt, A lot of people don't know that you know.
Any type you want, you bring it, make sure it's new, make sure it's clean.
We're gonna put it on our heads.
Then we're gonna gather them up and we're gonna donate them to I Support the girl.
Speaker 1That is verybile, very important piece of information.
Do not bring an old bra.
Bring a new bra that you would wear, and we'll put it on your head once and then it will be donated as a fresh, clean, new bra for someone to use who doesn't.
Speaker 2Women in need in Colorado, we're.
Speaker 1Going around the country.
They get distributed around the country to wherever has like a deep need at that time.
Speaker 2Oh beautiful.
Speaker 1And they also they also will go to refugee camps as well, so.
Speaker 2Well that is also we're going to do that earlier in the day.
That's one of the earlier events.
So don't worry, you're not gonna have to carry a bra around all day.
Also, it's cool to carry a bra around all day, so get into it.
It's very on trend, very fashion forward.
Speaker 1That's the that's actually the shirt we're going to be selling.
It's cool to carry a bra these days.
It's actually very trend, very fashion forward.
That's the whole show.
Speaker 2Is thank you so much, but yeah, great.
We love that organization.
We're happy to do it with them.
And we had the founder of I Support the Girls as a guest, Dana Marlowe.
She's the executive director and founder and she was a wonderful guest, but she's done such incredible work.
We're happy to do this, So come on out to Banana's Fest two.
It starts with a splity in the city.
We're going to do bird costumes.
If you want to design a bird costumer, wear one.
We're going to hand out prizes all day to the best bird costumes.
Dog costume contests are going to judge anything you want.
If it's banana, it's burred great.
But if it's just a fun costume you've made for your dog, we're gonna march them across the stage.
Speaker 1If you got if you got a Schnauzer and a Hamburger, we're into it.
Speaker 2Wiener Dog in a burger costume.
I'm looling out loud for that one and last detail about Bananas Fest.
So we have a great bananamal named Jesse Holland who was there last year.
She was coming this year.
For health reasons, she's unable to come.
But I just thought, Kurt, you and I should preemptibly send Jesse a little feel good and say we're naming you Banana of the Fest before Bananas Fest.
So, Jesse Holland, you are are Bananas of the Fest, the first ever, and sending you lots of love and good health.
Speaker 1Lots of love.
Thank you for those thumbs up.
Speaker 2Scottie.
Oh you're so welcome.
You can send them in.
I get to them as fast as I can.
And uh, you know, no birthdays, no anniversaries unless it's a crazy one, unless it's sixty years of marriage or I don't know, one hundred years of marriage unless your child bride and child husband and you've been married for one hundred years.
Let's just keep into building yourself up or others up thumbs ups.
Speaker 1This one was sent in by Raw Barnes.
Thank you, Raw Barnes and a lot of good ones.
Speaker 2Uh.
Speaker 1Here a fake embassy was busted in Guyazia bad which already sounds like a not a real country, where a man posed as an ambassm ambassador of imaginary countries like Siborga and West Arctica, using luxury cars and fake flags.
This man really went for it, Yeah he did.
So this is I'm gonna I'm gonna pull from the AP for the story I love the AP Associated Press long written by Roger sh Roy.
Thank you Roger Shime, and the title they have is much less incendiary.
Man posed as an ambassador and ran a fake embassy.
Indian police have arrested a man.
Speaker 2Oh hold on, bless you keep it in that's real, folks, live to tape.
Speaker 1Indian police have arrested a man accused of running a bogus embassy from a rented residential building near the capital, New Delhi and recovered cars with fake diplomatic plates.
The suspect impersonated an ambassador and allegedly duped people for money by promising overseas employment, said senior police officer Sushil Ghoul of Atar Pradesha's States Special Task Force in Northern India.
According to police Harshevardan zans forty seven claimed to have acted as an advisor or ambassador to entities such as Seborga.
Sborga is the funniest nate too.
Speaker 2And I'm sorry, it just seems like somebody panicked and said suborga.
Speaker 1I mean, it definitely sounds it definitely sounds like a word you come up with when somebody's like, well, what's it called sorga?
Speaker 2Excuse me?
Speaker 1Suborga Jeamsborga and west Arctica.
West Arctica at least sounds like.
Speaker 2But also where would it be bottom the Arctic?
Speaker 1It doesn't like north, southeast and west like there's one point where like they don't make any sense true.
Uh.
Police recovered multiple doctored photographs showing jan with world leaders and fake seals of India's foreign ministry and nearly of and nearly three dozen countries and nearly foreign ministry And I don't know understand what that means.
Jane was also suspected of illegal money laundering through shell companies abroad.
Wow, he was into a lot of stuff.
He's also facing charges job this sounds like the massive amount of work that goes into the My god, illegal money laundering through shell companies.
It's facing charges of forgery.
Impersonation, possessing fake documents.
Police recover four cars bearing fake diplomatic plates and nearly four point five million Indian rupees.
How much is four point five rupees?
Speaker 2Four point five million numbers?
Speaker 1No, no, no, I know what it is.
I have the number.
I want you to guess off the top of your head.
Four point five million rupee?
Speaker 2Oh god, forty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's fifty two thousand dollars.
Speaker 2Oh, it's pretty good.
Speaker 1Guests.
That is very funny, just being like, this is my car is worth my car is worth two million?
Speaker 2Routes out I'm a millionaire only in India.
Speaker 1Other foreign currencies in cash from Jen's rented premises, which were adorned with international flags of several nations, could not be reached for comment.
That's amazing.
I don't understand how he made the money.
He was like, you come get a job in Suborga and people were like, what am I?
What will I doing Suborga?
Oh, you'll be a good flocking And it's like, oh, sounds great.
He's just making up.
I mean like he's really going for it.
Speaker 2He's cool.
It sounds like Ikia furniture.
Speaker 1Yeah, it does that.
Sounds like it sounds like it's an Ikea furniture organ.
Yeah, as a country.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's a it's a lounge share that turns into a charcuterie board.
It's isorgan.
Speaker 1Give me, give me one.
Just the title, sweetheart, mm.
Speaker 2Hmmm, just the title too hot for clothes.
Balls Out Bowling is back, Nudity required.
Speaker 1I heard this, I saw this.
Speaker 2Babe.
Serene Stephanie sent this in Thank you, Serene Stephanie, and honestly it's four sentences.
I'll just do him.
It was in w t RF written by John Lynch, who he's a balls out best in the biz wright.
Balls and Bowling is back, the ultimate bowling experience.
Pittsburgh area naturalists.
I didn't know, nudie.
We're called naturalists now and oh yeah baby, that's are hosting yet another balls out bowling event where you can bowl in the nude, because who who hasn't been bowling?
And thought, I wish I was.
Speaker 1I want to do this totally nude.
Speaker 2I want that sit on these surfaces and stick my finger in these holes and just be totally nude when I'm doing I.
Speaker 1Want to just let that fan do its original purpose.
That little fan just hang over that little fan.
Speaker 2Mmm.
Oh, I never thought about that.
That's pretty good.
Do you have to wear bowling shoes?
That's the real.
Speaker 1Question, one hundred percent.
You have to wear could You.
Speaker 2Wouldn't slide barefoot?
You just it'd be a lout squeaking.
Yeah.
It's held at the craft in Ingram Lanes and Peak.
Speaker 1It would be really funny if in addition to having to wear bowling shoes you would also have to rent like a little cock sock.
Speaker 2Yeah.
I think that's fair.
It looks like a bowling fan.
Speaker 1And then they just spray, and with the same spray that they spray the bowling shoes.
Speaker 2I think that's it.
I think everybody strips walks out, and then the guy that works they're just hostes every down with the antiseptic spray under the pits a little bit some of the other regions.
Isn't it weird how certain foods taste better at certain places, Like curly fries at a bowling alley are a ten out of ten.
Speaker 1Wow, look at that.
That's a very specific.
I would say a mikelobe tastes best at a bowling alley.
Speaker 2Yeah.
A picture of beard a bowling alley.
You get that michelobe draft.
Speaker 1Oh, I think it's I think it's the first time I had a michelobe was at a bowling alley and I remember it was in the old school bottle that was like weirdly shaped, like a like a woman's body shape.
Do you remember that one?
Speaker 2Of course we've discussed it.
I think they look like a long butt plug.
Speaker 1But they do look like a long butt plug.
Speaker 2Looks just like really a big inner butt plug.
Speaker 1Did you see the bottle?
Did you see the Corona bottle that was designed by a Japanese scientist so that you can insert it into the sand?
Speaker 2Yeah, he dude, just looks exactly like a butt plug that is going up a butt.
There's no percent it's going up a butt.
I know who'll rekidding.
Also a Corona bottle.
I've been on the beach thousands of times.
Speaker 1You can stick them in the sand with a.
Speaker 2Bottle of beer you can buy and everyone fits perfectly in the sand.
Speaker 1Sand it's one of the main places that can hold Eddy's jape.
Speaker 2Sand can hold any shape on Earth.
You didn't need to sharpen the bottom of a corona.
Speaker 1This guy was like, no, it's a it's for the sand.
Speaker 2Yeah.
His wife came down to his glass blowing laboratory and he's like, no.
Speaker 1Why do you have all these beer bottle butt plugs this sand?
Speaker 2Honey, it's for a Corona beer the Mexican survey, so that you stick in the sand.
Speaker 1But you can't put on a flat surface.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, the thing, oh sand, the thing that holds every shape equally and.
Speaker 1Well, honestly, now that we're joking about it so much, I bet you it's fake.
I bet you it's fake information.
I bet you it's not real bowling.
Speaker 2The event is for everybody over age eighteen, whether it's season, pro or beginner.
Nudity is required except women can wear bottoms, which sure, sure why not.
Sexual activity is not permitted, so if you get really turned on bailing naked, do not show up to craft and Ingram lanes.
Also, this event happened last month, so if you want to go in twenty twenty six, pen animals, don't send photos, but have a great time bowling naked with other naturalists.
There's no harassment, nothing will be taken lightly, says the creators.
Violators will be kicked out.
No photography or video is allowed.
The event is a pre ticket event.
No tickets will be sold at the door, so you have to plan ahead for bowling balls out naked.
But go have fun.
That sounds fun.
Why not live a little?
Speaker 1Thank you so much, Scottie.
Speaker 2Thank you, Kurdi b thank you everybody exactly right.
Thank you to our producer and engine here, Katie Levine, who helps us in so many wonderful ways.
This has been another jolly episode of Bananas.
Speaker 1Banana started as a gentleman.
Speaker 2Ben got a Corona bottle up the booty.
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Speaker 1Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.
Speaker 2The catchy Banana theme song was composed and performed by Kahon.
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