Are you ready for one?

We're starting.

I'm ready to laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh.

Big butt starfish, Ye, little sweet Potato, and dozens of others never seen before species recorded during deep sea expedition of Argentina.

M That's what I'm talking about.

We're always worried about people problems, but the animals, they're out there, they're living a wild life, and we're gonna find out all about the secret ones and uncover a new truth that we call bananas.

Guys, gals, non binary Palace.

Welcome to Bananas.

I'm KERB Brown Oler, I'm Banana Boy number two, Scotty Landas.

Thank you for listening to the silliest little podcast there's ever been in the whole wide world.

We are, We're living, We're living international lives.

Scotty's been traveling.

I've been been on the road.

You've been on the road.

You're you're in a far away place.

You're it's nighttime there, it's daytime here.

That's true.

It's weird how that happens.

Sometimes I wonder, let's all get on the same page.

Let's just do a international closs all the same time.

This is Scotty post dinner, having a couple of drinks.

This is I love this, Scotty, I love this.

This is vacation Scotti.

That's right, Yeah, I been on the road.

I did go to a place that has been They have a seven year old brandy and I said, well, let's find out what that's all about.

And it was fifty percent alcohol or wow, well let's get into that.

So you have it on the rocks.

I have no idea what's going to happen in the next fifty minutes or so, but I know it'll be uplifting.

Did you have it straight up round the rocks?

Oh?

Straight up and a big old poor, a big old poor.

And so it was one of those ones where it smells so good and you take a step like that is delightful, and then by the very end of the class you're like, man, I could have taken paint off the walls with that, no problem, and I will get into it too much.

One thing I did notice on this little adventure was that selfie sticks are apparently back, and I'm not for it, but I've seen more selfie sticks than I could imagine.

That's shocking.

That is deeply Maybe they didn't go anywhere.

Maybe it's just where you're visiting.

Also, I will say, you know, there's so many it's so hard these days to figure out something nice to say about the United States.

I mean, obviously there's some wonder for people, and we have big trees, there's some good things going on.

We own more dogs than anywhere else in the world.

I do know, that's really true.

Also, yeah, Americans have more dogs per capita than any other country in the world.

Wow, pets not like wild dogs.

No, do not get it.

That's interesting.

It makes sense, I guess.

But boy, you know, we don't smoke cigarettes in America.

And let me tell you, Kurt, everywhere else in the world just never gave them up.

They're big, friend, It's amazing, right, they can't get enough.

It doesn't matter.

Sitting in a cafe where it's all internationals, it's Australians, it's French, it's everybody in every direction, everybody's smoking, and you go, boy, you never see this anymore in the United States.

You don't.

But but here's the question I have, Like, thank you, we're not doing America not doing great as far as like longevity is compared to other countries.

Like we're doing the worst like we're doing like the worst of like the ones we compete with.

You know, yeah, I have a feeling we have great doctors.

I think that's why we're doing pretty good is because I do think we have really really but I.

Mean, we got rid of smoking, we got of smoking.

We're still not killing it in the longevity game.

These other countries that are still smoking and loving it, drinking every day, eating chocolate, they're doing fine.

I have a feeling that maybe anyway, I'll look for any reason to be like, I wish you to smoke.

But wait, what were your what were your high school cigarettes?

Parliaments?

No, no, I actually so no, my, my, my.

My original go to is Marlboro reds.

Oh Jesus, Yeah, so.

Marbra reds for a while, Camels every once in a while.

If you couldn't get those, we would smoke jacks for a little bit.

Do you remember Jacks?

No, I don't remember that one.

I remember Mustangs.

Just Jack's were the They were one dollar and they were the sweepings what people said, they were the sweepings from the Marlborough factory.

So like they would just sweep up the stuff that fell on the floor and put it in a disagrette, and then and then we started getting fancy.

Then we started getting fancy around like seventeen eighteen, started getting fancy, you know, like going to a special place and buying.

At the time, American spirits were very special in fancy or going and buying a little Nat Sherman hint of mints.

That's fancy, fancy.

I keep those hat.

I always have a pack of those around the house because every once in a while, after a few beverages, somebody will say, do you have a cigarette, And if you whip out a gnat chairman, everybody's happy about it.

I wonder I wonder if Ben and Nat of the of the Shermans ever got together.

I wonder if the Ben Sherman and the Nat Shermans ever ever see each other.

Yeah, I agree.

Also, I don't know if you've ever tried to purchase anything for Ben Sherman.

But the sizes are scotty.

They're not for us.

I'm so happy that you bring this up.

It's crazy because this is and this will this is coming out late.

We're trying to like bulk record while I have hiatus for a job, so this will probably come out after they're all gone, But I want to tell you something, Scott, right, I would love to hear something now.

Right now.

At Costco, they have Ben Sherman sneakers for twenty five dollars.

I got them.

They're awesome sneakers.

I'm such a fan of color.

I got.

I got mine and white and they're beautiful.

I never had I never wear white shoes, but you know, I've been been into I've been into wearing white suits recently.

So now I got these white at Shermans to go with my white suit.

So I mean, Tom Wolf's on his way out, You're on your way in.

You're back in New York City.

You're the new Tom Wolf.

Thank you very much.

That's what I've always said.

I like you.

I like him too.

I don't know much about them.

I've read a bunch of his books and they're all, oh yeah.

I remember reading Electrico Aid, Acid Tests, Bonfire to the Vanities.

I went through a big phase where I was reading them a lot.

And those guys had it right.

They just to be a journalist back then, and then to be at all good at writing fiction, and then combining the two.

You're like, boy, you guys really had a heyday because they were just write books and write stories and Vanity Fair was popping and banging, and then they would sell best sellers and you're like, and people actually read What a time?

What a time to be alive?

Nobody had to wear seat belts.

It was awesome.

Everybody now everybody just big time people just have podcasts.

Now.

They're like, hey, our podcast is every time somebody burps in a movie.

And it's not the same.

It's not the same.

Boy, Well good, I'm glad you're rocking some Ben Shermans.

There's there's a woman on Instagram who just does Costco finds and she has like one point three million followers and all she does is it's like this week Columbia is doing fleas jackets.

Here's me wearing a medium and I'm like, we shot to get her own bananas.

All she does is whatever's new.

She's like chicken Caesar or salads are back and this feeds a family four for eleven dollars.

And I'm like, I want to meet this person.

But also it's like fat, like two have to to be like, this is what I'm gonna do, Like the decision, that's what I thing is.

If we had her on.

All I would want to be is like, why how did it start?

You're not you didn't get started because you work at Costco.

You got started because you love Costco deals.

I guess well.

There's a woman that used to have a show on Travel Channel.

I think she had a few shows named Samantha Brown.

I don't if you remember her, but back in the days where I was super unemployed, you know how, you would used to leave cable television on, sort of like a screensaver on your TV.

Like a lot of people did Cooking Channel or Food Network, but I would do Travel Channel.

Samantha Brown, who may have lived in Park Slope when we were there, by the way, she had this really rare ability to walk into the most boring hotel room and just talk about it and make it interesting and not not be like these curtains are epic.

She would just be like, Wow, this is nice that everything's well appointed, the bathroom is where it should be, in this bed, oh, and.

The just where it should be.

It could be such a nice way to say about any hotel room.

The bathrooms, the toilet's not inside the bed.

Have you in but have you ever been in one of those hotel rooms.

It's especially funny, like if you're touring by yourself.

But I've definitely been in hotel rooms for myself where the shower is like a glass square in the middle of the room.

Yeah, and there's a bathtub just it like carpeting bed, carpeting bathtub, and you're like, was this erotic to the strange architect who built this?

There's another version of that.

See, that's the fancy version.

There's the non fancy version that you get.

I feel like most on the East Coast, which is hot tub in the living space.

That's right, you know where it's just that there's a it's a jacuzzi tub and it's just next to the bed.

I have a picture of me me taking a bath with huge pouring pouring I think it was we're just like drinking after our show.

Oh yeah, yeah.

That is such a weird one where you're like, at what point, Oh god, that's it.

It just seems like a u TI waiting to have Yeah for ree so not to fancy.

You want to dive in.

What do we got here?

We go?

We got a lot of new species.

We got a lot of new species.

Was sent in by Kelly Flax, thank you, Kelly.

If you want to send in some strange news, go to our Instagram Little Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com.

This is a was in Live Science, Love Live Science.

Pretty good, big butt starfish.

That's what we're gonna learn about, big butt starfish.

This was written by Maria de Los Angeles or Phelia.

Oh my god, Maria de Los Angeles or Phela.

That's amazing.

Imagine having that name Maria of Los Angeles or Phylia.

I wonder if she lives in Los Angeles.

I said this one before, but I reached out to my friend Alyssa once.

I was writing a character and I needed an older Mexican woman, and I said, hey, what was your grandmother's name?

And she said Maria.

And I said what was your other grandmother's name?

She said Maria.

I said, well, what's your mom's name?

She said Maria, and I go, okay, I'm going to name her Maria.

I just didn't want to co opt any cultures, and I was like, Maria, it is fired up.

A deep sea expedition off the coast of Argentina's captured stunning footage of more than forty never before seen species.

One expected star of the show is a plump little sea creature.

I put in the little that has been dubbed the big butt starfish for its uncanny resemblance to Patrick's are from SpongeBob square Pants.

And I'm looking at this thing and there is no other way to describe it than a big old butt.

He's got his hands out, his legs out, and he does definitely look like Patrick during the remotely Operated Vehicles Subastian's dive like sub Sebastians dives and argent I'm laughing.

Argentina's Mar del Plata Submarine Canyon, which has been running since July twenty third, scientist aboard its accompanying research vessel, provide a high definition live stream with real time commentary on rarely seen deep sea life.

I didn't know this was happening.

This sounds awesome either.

Nobody told us.

The dives have revealed carnivorous sponges, translucent fish, vividly colored rays and corals that have never been documented in the South Atlantic, a biodiversity hot spot that remains largely unexplored.

The sea star, which has become a viral hit on social media.

Have you seen this seastar?

And viral social media.

Scutty, No, I'm not as viral as I used to be.

There, Well, we're not in the big butt sea star whatever not file not yet belongs to the genus Hipposteria, which is known for its thick central disc and short, stubby arms.

During the live stream, viewers interacting via chat affectually nicknamed it estraya coulona Spanish for big butt star.

Argentine scientists involved with the expedition of Alfred a few hypotheses for the creature's attention grabbing anatomy.

The starfish may simply be well fed they are voracious carnivores, or its rounded appearance could be the result of gravity, as it was filmed on the vertical surface, with its central disc hanging downward, creating the illusion of blutes.

Starfish don't have rear ends like humans, makes sense, or other bilaterally symmetrical animals do.

Instead, they exhibit radio symmetry, with a mountain located on the underside of the central disk.

That lower or oral surface lies pressed against the seafloor where feeding occurs.

The anus is located in the center of the upper surface, which is what a diver would first see when approaching the animal.

Wait, hold on a second, hold on two ticks.

Oh my goodness, so their butt Okay, so their butt hole is where these butt cheeks are.

Oh, so it is a butt.

It's a butt.

That's amazing.

The holes in the middle, the holes in.

The middle, and then the cheeks are on the side right underneath.

It classic butt design.

It is a classic butt designer.

Although starfish do have a complete digestive system and anus, it's not in the location where people are pointing to on social media.

Still, theseemblance to Patrick Star's butt is pretty hilarious.

The big butt starfish isn't the only creature from the expedition led by scientists.

Another little sweet potato bata tita pita.

That's a it's a violet sea cucumber.

You got a little sweet potato.

And that's pretty much.

Yes, there we go.

You can watch it right now if you go to Schmidt Ocean Institute's official YouTube channel, you can watch their last dream.

I bet you it's over by the time this comes out.

Sorry, folks, no, but that's I'm glad they keep exploring.

I am glad they keep finding new animals.

That is a real victory.

Are you kidding me to find a new animal, yes, adult.

Especially deep down.

You can't get to it, you can't touch it.

The average person can't go take a selfie with it with a selfie stick.

This is good, This is this is uplifting news.

I'm glad to hear that.

It is really interesting that like for those animals down there, they nothing we do has affected them in any way.

Never will.

Yeah, and even if it does, they won't know what was our fault.

They're just living their own thing going.

You gotta really think about the first fish that crawled out of the ocean to live on land, and what an asshole that person was because the ocean is so much bigger, Scottie, there's so much more going on, Scotty.

You know I have a joke about this, right.

Yeah, just teeing you up.

This is classic St.

John Smith karts Karai.

I'm just setting it up and you're gonna spike it down on Manhattan Beach, California.

AA.

But it is true.

They're an asshole, Yeah, it is.

No, it's just like to have the entire ocean and be like, I want to walk on the land.

Is your fucking piece of shit?

Yeah?

What a jerk, What a dumb maneuver.

It's so much better down there.

I don't think it would have been funny, you know, you we we're old enough and responsible enough now where we just don't have a disposable cat.

We just can't burn cash like when we were young people.

And you're like, that's a fun idea, I'll invest.

But it would have been really funny if around twenty twenty two or two, Well, twenty twenty two is perfect.

If you and I had secretly got in Brazilian butt lifts and then gone on tour and just had gigantic dump truck butts, just two extremely normal white guys, middle of the road, white men with just absolute you can see it from the front butt.

We would have sold out.

We would have sold more tickets, I'll say it that way.

Never talked, never mentioned it.

Yeah, our regular demographic of whatever it is, seven percent women, that demographic would have shifted a little bit, I think.

But I'm glad we did.

And I think they're the most dangerous surgery can get, Is it really?

I think so.

I don't think it's a good one, damn.

But don't you want to go down in one of those super deep subs, but not one of the Ocean Gate ones.

I don't.

I've thought about this a lot, and I don't know if I actually do, because as a kid, I definitely wanted to until I realized that, like it's like most descents, they take like eight to ten hours.

That's to get down to the bottom.

It is eight to ten hours.

And then you get down there and.

It's just dark, that's true.

And then to come back up it takes even longer to get back up, and then you have to sit in a decompression chamber for like three days.

Like that's I don't think I do.

I don't think it's worth it to go look at just like the dark.

Yeah, that's probably true.

We probably because of YouTube dot com, which is a new website if anyone's to check out, very cool one on there.

It's good.

Lots of music.

Yeah.

Uh.

Yesterday I was texted Kurt.

I was like, what's the name of that song?

Because we sometimes we listen to music before our live shows, and he listens to this great one called party Time by this by this band Jazz Butcher.

And you know, I didn't go download it.

I went to YouTube and listened to it.

Within fourteen seconds.

Isn't it the best great song?

It is such a great song.

I don't I don't know much about the jazz Butcher.

I do believe he was from the UK in the mid seventies and would just do these super weird, very beautiful songs.

Sleepy lounge song.

Yeah, that one Party Time is especially great.

Yea sometime.

The album I saw on line was from eighty two to eighty six, so it's like Chess Butcher's Greatest Hits or whatever.

But if you're just hanging out in your house pouring yourself a glass of wine, maybe put out a shark footery board, maybe you have a tiki bar in your basement, which I know a lot of ban animals do, just put on Party Time by Jez Butcher and say and raise a toast to Curdie b because he is the only person I've ever met to ever played that song and it is so damn good.

It's that song is a hit.

Do you hear my dog barking?

She's barking for no reason.

I cannot wait to get out of this car.

She just loves you so much.

That's something about dogs, so just love and love and love.

She's so nervous.

I thought she would get less nervous.

Thank you, Oh my god.

I thought she would get less nervous as she got older.

She's almost thirteen years old, and she's just become more nervous and more talkative.

I don't understand it.

I don't understand it.

But I cannot wait to get out of this apartment, get into a house where she can not have to hear people walking through the hall every five minutes.

Yeah, smell a million smells.

You and I for Kurt's birthday.

We've talked about it before when we did the Donkey Train or the Mule Chain, which is like one of the last places in California that does it, if not the last, and basically they carry up a majority of your supplies with this classic famous mule train.

The mule train is specifically folks for if you're going camping at this place, then you give your stuff to these mules and the mules will take it up for you.

They don't do it by themselves.

There's a person who walks with them.

But there's a man.

Yeah, his name's Michael Mule and he just was born to do these things.

But we were laughing because I forever whatever reason, Zelda was barking at the lodge or whatever when somebody's playing ping pong and Kurt we were a little enhanced probably, and we were like, well, of course, because the sound of a ping pong ball to a dog is like like giant slamming doors back and forth.

Just it's like pop pop pop, It's so cute, but to a dog is like like some I'm so sorry, little one, little puppy.

Do you remember we were playing what's that game where you put like names or people names and thing celebrity.

We were playing Celebrity and.

Because Gilly Bernie Sanders.

Was one of the clues, and so the first person you fold it, you basically write people of note on little piece of paper, you throw them in a hat, you scramble them up, and then two teams go against each other to act out and try to guess.

It's like charades for celebrities.

You've played it, you know what it is.

But Bernie Sanders was one of them, and whoever went first just swirled their hand above their head because Bernie's got a big comb over or whatever.

And one person radically was just like Bernie Sanders, and they're like yes, and so for the rest of the night, for three more hours of drunken celebrity, anytime anybody pulled Bernie Sanders, they would just swirl their head, And I'm like, that's something.

There's communication happening here.

That's like that non verbal communication where everybody instantly knows what's going on.

I feel like that is such a I feel like that's a way to win people over.

And uh oh, interesting to figure out the bananas version of that.

Uh huh a.

Single simple gesture where everybody goes, oh, I know what they're referring to.

Or is there like a single simple gesture that immediately when you walk in a room makes people feel at ease with you?

Do you know what I mean?

Mine is dropping to the floor and squatting.

Yes, mine is scrambling on roller skates and throwing an empty tea set up into the air and.

Then catching each piece one at a time as it slowly.

Yeah, I do.

I find it works every damn time.

Uh.

Here's one.

Phoebe Brizsi sent this Anthony Phoebe Brizzy a so cow favorite.

Here's a really we're doing some sweet ones today.

An American boy sent a gift box to a girl in the Philippines.

Fifteen years later they got married.

What pretty nice?

Okay, pretty nice.

This is on several websites, but I went for the one that nobody's ever heard of.

Brightside dot me.

Oh Main Main's biggest website bbside me oh man.

In two thousand, a seven year old boy from Idaho and a Christmas charity box to the.

Philippine two thousand and seven, did you say two thousand?

A seven year old boy?

Oh?

In two thousand, a seven year old yes?

Okay in the year two yes, send a Christmas box to the Philippines.

Fifteen years later.

This action turned into a beautiful love story that sounds like something out of a romantic novel.

But it's real and now we can all enjoy it.

Bright Side tells the story.

I mean right side's.

Talking about itself.

Yeah, of course it is, because it's not me.

It's bright side dot me.

The me is the website cloud wrapper.

Yeah you know, bright Side.

It probably is a rapper on SoundCloud, the course side, and he probably sucks.

Bright Side tells the story of Tyrell and Joanna, who met thanks to a simple shoe box.

Eighteen years ago.

Tyrel wolf.

Cool name, honestly great name great.

He took part in a charity project called Operation Christmas.

Child Chris, Operation Christmas Child.

Christmas Child.

Really that's one of.

The words out.

It could be Operation Christmas.

It can be Christmas Child.

But Operation Christmas Child is too aggressive.

Sounds like you're delivering babies.

We didn't want this.

Child, just like a giant cannon shaped like a like a Christmas tree.

But we can't afford this thing.

Got a baby?

Oh, he's saying.

A box for Operation Christmas Child.

The cender was supposed to send different school supplies, small toys, and a letter along with a photo inside of a small shoe box.

Very sweet.

I actually remember doing this back at Sacred Heart in Glindon.

It definitely sounds like, yeah, it sounds like Catholic thing.

Yeah, Catholic Schoolkio.

It's like we're saving the world.

Now, let's release four hundred balloons directly into the oceancension Thursday or whatever that day is.

The boy chose a cowboy picture, put it inside the box, and the parcel was sent to the Philippines.

He chose a cowboy picture.

I think a picture of him just as a cowboy.

Right, okay, crazy classic.

Also that is the the image of spitting image of an American to most foreigners is a cowboys were either all cowboys were from New York or a Hollywood starlet I know.

And it's still a thing.

I'm sure some places, some people still definitely need to wear cowboy hats because are working outside.

But man, when you see it just at like a regular bar or sometimes in Hollywood Boulevard, you're like, Bud, wrong town.

It ain't gonna work.

It's not the seventies anymore.

It's also really weird when you, like a boob, get off the plane in Dallas at the airport and everybody's wearing a cowboy hat.

It's just like, why are we all wearing cowboy hats?

Are you?

Did you just come from the farm?

They did, They're just they're out there.

They're all farmers, every one of them.

Remember if when Fleetweek would come to New York every year and it was just pure You and I were at a bar once a way up in Manhattan and we were like, oh God, it's Fleet Week.

And by the end it was like ninety guys wearing their navy whites just surrounding us and they're all just looking.

And also, the women of New York were not not responding to Fleet Week.

I knew multiple women who'd be like, it's Fleet Week, I'm gonna go have sex with some seamen.

Yeah they sure, Tray Shirley did.

Anyways, back to Operation Christmas Child.

Tyrrell had already forgotten about the situation.

But in two thousand and nine, so nine years after sending, he received a friend request on Facebook from Joanna Marshan.

At the time, Tyrrell neither accepted nor rejected the request.

Plan it cool this guy on Facebook?

Plant cool, plenty of friends, already have plenty of friends.

I'm sorry, what year is this?

So this is two thousand and nine?

The friend request comes.

Okay, so nine.

Years after, nine years later, okay.

So now they're both sixteen ish.

At the time, Tyrell neither accepted nor rejected the request because he's so popular and handsome.

Months later, he decided to accept the request because he was curious about who this girl was.

From the other side of the world.

Joanna or Johan told him how she received his shoe box.

She even sent him a letter to thank him, but somehow the letter never arrived to the Wolf's home.

The boy asked his mom to confirm whether it was true or not, and the mother remembered sending the gift, which is lovely.

Tyrell and Johanna continued talking to each other on Facebook.

Years later, they figured out that they actually had a lot in common and decided they should meet in real life.

Tyrell saved up enough money and bought a ticket to fly to Manila, while he was really nervous because he had never traveled alone.

But Johanna met him at the airport and they fell in love with each other.

That's crazy, I know, it's pretty sweet.

Tyrell was shocked by the conditions of Johanna's relatives and how they had to live.

All eight family members used to sleep on the floor in a small lodge, but the couple spent ten days together.

They didn't know if they were ever going to see each other again, but Tyrell promised Johanna he would come back, and then he kept his promise.

I mean this is written truly like a third grader or whatever AI.

Is on right side dot me.

Maybe it is a fourth grader.

That's just like I make people happy.

I'm a happy journalist, or taking it back.

I live in Burlington, Maine.

I'm happy.

When Tyrell did visit again, he asked Johanna's father for permission to marry his daughter.

Her father blessed the marriage, but her mother was against it.

She said they were too young to get married.

It doesn't say what age they were at this point, but let's hope they're eighteen, nineteen twenty.

Let's just hope.

Yeah, let's hope.

Then Tyrrell's father arrived at Manila and manased to convince Johanna's mother.

The wedding was held at Tyrrell's parents' house, a ranch.

Excuse me, so it was held back in the States.

Tyrell wore a barong, very nice.

I don't know what that is, but that seems very official.

It's a Filipino thing.

It's definitely a Filipino thing.

Word.

It definitely is a Filipino thing.

Tyrell wore a barrong, which I'm reading is a traditional shirt for by Filipino brooms.

I was at barrong and wear thatrong wrong, thank you?

And John wore a simple white dress, classic classic.

That bride's parents could not attend the flight because of visa issues, but now the couple wants to have another ceremony back in the Philipino.

Yeah, the International Humanitarian Project was set Oh they also have a kid together.

Yeah, okay, okay, the International Humanitarian human excuse me.

The International Humanitarian Project was set up in nineteen ninety three, and over one hundred and thirteen million shoe boxes were sent to one hundred and thirty countries.

Wow, before Tyrrell had met Johanna.

Has this ever happened?

This is the only one I found.

I didn't see they you know, they don't.

Bright side dot me doesn't.

They're not digging as deep as they probably should.

They're real surface website.

They're real like it loaded and then you lost Wi Fi, so you end up reading the entire article and all the ads beneath it because you're just like, well, it's better than thinking.

Now they continue sending gifts as a couple, and a few years ago, which we're just now, we're just ballparking, Okay.

Sometime in the two thousands, the couple gave birth to a beautiful baby, so it all worked out good for this.

Is that how the article on brightside dot me ends.

The last sentence on this article is a few years ago, the couple gave birth to a beautiful baby.

I'm blaming Bebe Brizzi completely for this article, but if any of what I just said is true, that is beautiful.

When YouTube was new, Kurt and I were working together and there was a video and it was just words on a screen scrolling and almost everything was spelled wrong, and it was about a boy giving a girl ring and then dying, and it had eleven million views and it was called the saddest story efforts own.

It was so fakes.

So bad, and we just cracked up laughing, and it was the highest viewed video I remember of that era.

The saddest story.

And the boy met the girl and they fell in love and under a bridge he gave her a ring and then he died.

Oh, the saddest story.

We also would watch that narcoleptic dog that.

Oh man, I would not Is that such a beautiful video?

I don't know, but it's a narcoleptic poodle who just anytimes he gets excited, he falls asleep and man killing me, killing me, you just.

Took two steps.

I think, why has biscuit stuck in my head?

It's probably not right, but yeah, we would watch that.

It laughed so hard.

People would come over to be like, what are you guys talking.

About cutting down my face?

I'd be like, every time he gets excited.

To go to sleep, and it didn't hurt him.

It didn't it was It wasn't in pain.

He was just falling away.

Oh, there it is.

I found it.

It's a clip on inside Edition.

Inside Edition.

Pass Out Pooch was the name of the inside.

It was called pass out Pooch.

Oh gosh, this poor creature, this beautiful boy, beautiful.

Oh it's even better than you remember.

Oh man, it's nineteen years ago.

It's got four point two million views, and holy smokes, what an angel this little dog was.

What an angel?

What a perfect dog?

What a perfect dog?

You ready off to tease into some mush thumbs.

Up, some thummies, some thummy.

Sure, I'm I'm going to watch that video.

Colorado rabbits seemed to be growing horns and tentacles.

Oh dude, that's that one was horrific.

Man.

I hope they're doing okay over there.

Let's stick to the oceans.

Kate Bergenthal wants to thumb up her best friend Ash and also herself.

Yeah, they're both Day one murder bananas even though they didn't know it when they met each other, Kate meant Ash during the hardest part of her life.

She was unemployed, she was dealing with an autoimmune disease and being extremely depressed.

Kate was making an ocean conservation podcast and did not think anyone on earth would listen.

We would, we would.

Kate did a lot of work and tale and physically to get healthy, and in early twenty twenty four, Ash asked Kate to listen to the podcast pilot that Kate had recorded in twenty twenty one, and she did, and Ash said, Kate, this is important and this is unique and I want to help and Kurt.

The update is they have recorded their twentieth episode.

This was back in July, so I think they have more than that going.

And it's called Let's See Sea.

Oh hell yeah.

They've been doing it for over a year now.

And Kate says, I rarely say that I'm proud of myself, but I am sumbs up to Kay's Ash and ban Animals give Let's see a listen.

I listened.

I left on a five star review.

So proud of you both.

Good for you, Kate.

That sounds very up our Alley thumbs up, combs up.

Let's see, Christina wants to thumb herself way way up for starting a theater company during the pandemic.

It was exploring health and mental wealth being and making it to the theatre's five year anniversary after starting on Zoom Zoom Theater Kurtow and Now in twenty twenty five, they had a sold out event.

It was an in person show in July twenty twenty five.

The event covered mental health, gun safety, and political polarization.

So the theater company that Christina started along with some colleagues is called Elevate Theater Company.

I can find them on Instagram at Elevate Theater Company or a www.

Dot Elevatetheatercompany dot com.

And I will say, for the ban animals that are gonna check it out, theater is spelled t h E a classic t r E.

That's the British way of baby and I love it.

But Christina, Kurt and I can you we can uniquely speak to how hard it is to put up any type of performance and to get anyone, yeah, to show up.

It really is thumbs up to you and everyone at the Elevate Theater Company.

Very impressive.

Keep up the great work, and I'll do let's see, let's see one.

Yeah, let's do one more.

Man, these are all so good.

We have some really good ones.

Here's a nice sweet one.

Kat wants to thumb herself up.

She was a little little hesitant about even dming us about this because she normally doesn't want any type of praise.

But she deserves the thumbs up because she completed a dry sixty nine.

Yes, and she said she was doing it thinking about that bumper sticker.

She says, while I do miss things like espresso martinis, not drinking has been the thing I didn't know that I needed.

I appreciate the podcast for the idea and plan to keep going.

Thumbs up, Kat, It's not easy to do, but good for you as we're expresso martinis are having a moment undeniably, but uh, I don't know why.

So good for you, Kat, and for anybody else who wants to do a dry sixty nine.

If you're a new bananimal, your new listener, all it means is you take off all alcohol for sixty nine consecutive days.

And if you do that, and you're an honest even being DMS, email me and I will marr you a bumper sticker that says I have mastered the Dry sixty nine.

I'm happy to do it free of charge.

It a delight, It is a delight.

It's a good it's a.

Good setting to do to fifty to sixty.

We're in the two fifty sixty rate.

I'm not, but that's a lot of that.

That's pretty awesome.

I'm proud of us.

I'm proud of you.

I know.

I think it's gonna be the thing that outlast the podcast.

I think people got sobered.

Some people are never going back, and hey, that's good.

Colorado rabbits seem to be growing horns and tentacles.

Listen, yes, I saw this.

They look like horns and tentacles.

I will tell you this real quick.

It's just a growth.

It's a virus that will then go away after the summer is over.

So don't worry, folks, if you see them.

I'm not even going to put a photograph of this.

Do not on the Instagram.

It's pretty upsetting.

And I didn't realize how upsetting it was until I.

Just yes, it is.

I read I read the art title and I was like, yeah, that sounds cool, and then I looked at the pictures and I was like, not cool, Scotty, give me one to send us home.

Here we go.

This one's a little more fun but also more related.

Courtney Moyers and thank you cat.

Courtney moy yeer Man fights back against his home owners association with about with a bat house that's protected by federal law.

Yes, this was on other associations.

Exactly we all do the John Oliver last week, tonight or whatever about homeowners associations changed my mind and life forever about how twisted and horrible they really are.

This was on your tango dot Com, another must read.

How many times a day you going to utango dot com?

Well you know what I've I go to your tango so much that I have my my tango, which is they do it just for me.

It's called my Tango dot Kurt and uh and it's just your tango.

But they start every article with hay.

Kurt's hay Kurt.

This was written by John Sundholm, who's a real person.

Could you do that for business?

John Sonholm?

Send one to KURTI Burt, you're tango my tango dot curve.

Just do it, guys.

We're all going under anyways, the more stories about Hia over each there are, the more becomes clear the only way to actually win a fight against one of these bizarre, uniquely American deskpots is by fighting fire with fire, and one man has come up with a perfect way to do so with bats.

It all began when I mean, this guy's put himself behind the eight ball right from the jump.

It all began when fitness fitness influencer Scott Kramer, known as Scotty k Fitness.

That's who took it, That's gonna be my name, got noticed from his Homeowners Association about the kind of ridiculous complaint that only in HOA can use.

His garbage cans were described as ugly his Kramer put it in a recent video on TikTok.

Yeah it's a trash can, good answer.

The ha insisted that he put his trash cans inside of his garage.

I mean that it's so silly the hoy.

Yeah, but that was where Kramer kept his home Jim, Yeah, he Scotty Kate Fitness, you kidded me, wouldn't go to trash cans screappal.

The only other option offered him was to build a fence around them.

Which was expensive and also dumb because they're not hurting anything.

Nevertheless, they told Kramer he'd be fined fifty dollars a day, every day so that his garbage cans were visible.

That is disgusting.

It's so disgusting.

Mind your own business, mine, look in your own house, fix your own problems.

Fifty dollars a day for trash cans in your own driveway, yeah, give me a break.

This is insane.

So anyways, so he decided some revenge was an order.

Kramer seems to have decided that the only reasonable antidote for these unreasonable demands was an equally unreasonable response, and that one has the full force of the federal government backing it.

Revenge is a dish best served with a side of federal law.

As the saying goes, I mean, listen to John Sunholm.

That's why it's my tango.

Yeah, your tango, dot Kurt Man.

John is really bringing the thunder here.

So Kramer bought a big bat house, similar to a bird's house, but bigger and taller and full of bats, which most people find terrifying and disgusting.

They're actually very cool, though, guys, even if they're vampires.

Presumably the people who hate bats include the vice president of Kramer's HOA, who happens to live right across the street from his ugly trash cans and now his giant bat sanctuary.

This means the Kramer's HOA now has a far bigger problem on hands than just the trash cans.

Some of you may be asking Scottie why bats Kramer said in his video.

Fun fact, bat sanctuaries are federally protected.

Kramer's ha will surely pitch a fit about the hordes of wing vampire bats swarming around his house, but they can't do a thing about it because so many bat species are endangered, they live and legally protected by state and federal levels.

And contrary to what many hoays seem to believe, the legislation does not oh does in fact supersede h ways ridiculous.

Yeah, so basically thumbs up till Scotti k fitness because now he has a giant, disgusting bat house in it.

Also awesome, by the way, Also, like what's anything?

But I mean, like is the bat?

I mean, like I've seen bathouses They're just boxes on a pole.

I mean, like, what what's disgusting about.

Is it just bats?

I guess, I guess because people know.

I feel like that's so so old, timy, I feel like people everybody loves bats now they get rid of insects, they kill mosquitos like I feel like everybody.

I mean, maybe that's just my hippie dippy self projected.

I love a battle of a bat.

Kid me, how many people go to Austin to the bat bridge and watch billions of bats fly out from underneath that bridge?

Too many?

Too many is a problem.

It's too many.

But yes, I think this was a very smart when And just keep in mind if your ho sucks, maybe something like this, maybe a b what is it?

Aviary?

Apry, yeah, avir that apr one of the two.

I don't know.

And let's go and then remember the man who, because he couldn't keep his boat in his the best in his driveway, then painted a hyper photorealistic picture of a boat that behind the gate that they made him build.

That's the best.

That's the fun.

Sorry to everybody with a horrible HOA, may you secretly scheme and grow closer with your partner figuring out ways to get back at them.

Legally exactly Scott so much buddy.

Of course, dude.

This was such a fun one.

Always a pleasure.

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