Scott you ready, Oh, I'm ready to really laugh and laugh and laugh.

Man steals twenty one million dollars of lunar rocks from NASA to used during sex after promising his girlfriend the moon.

Kurtie, B I did this one?

What?

I definitely did this one?

You did?

Yeah?

I bet that I'm back in twenty twenty one when we have no brains.

I have no memory of you doing this one.

And you know what, neither does anybody else.

So we're going to get in doing it again.

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There ever was we should do just a little bit of housekeeping.

We we got to talk about Bananas Fest.

Bananas Fest is coming up.

I mean like, I don't know when in a hurry this is gonna get released, but it's October fourth, folks.

It's coming fast.

So come here's some basics.

Yeah, basics about Bananas Fest.

We're gonna have a talent show, Sunboy, one of our sponsors, is gonna sponsor a talent show where you can do anything you want.

So, whatever your thing is, bring your thing to Bananas Fest.

It's gonna be fantastic.

Yes, bring clean bras.

We're gonna try to break the record for most people wearing a brazier on their head, so bring a new one, any size, any type.

Our audiences mostly women.

You know bras better than we do, yeah, much better.

But we're gonna that's gonna be one of the first events of the day.

Our first savend of the day is going to be Splitty in the City.

Splitting in the City.

That's a one k downhill marathon, folks.

We're going to start it at Denver Beer Bruco and walk over the two Hi Fi all right.

To the location.

I think this year it is exactly one.

K correct way easier than last year.

This is so it'll be much and also I think the weather will be much nicer and more pleasant.

You can actually wear a costume, a full costume and not die of sweating.

This will be the first splitting the city where that's possible.

Yes, Denver Beer Company is the starting point, and then Banana's Fest two is the finish line, where we will literally walk right up into where all the events and vendors and streets and fun and all the things, stilt walkers, you name it, we're doing it, and other things to mention if you're dressed like a bird, Kurtie b and I are, and some of our volunteers, including Scarlet and Lisa Maggott are our real human, part time employee, not a robot.

We're gonna be hanging out like stickers and patches to people just as birds, because everybody's a winner.

Charlie Fromage Dance contest for those of you there last year are ben Boy number three.

Charlie Fromage is gonna go up.

We're gonna have a DJ playing music.

If you want to enter, you just gotta do your best Charlie Fromage or an inspirational version of dance.

We're gonna have Pretty Gay, a live version of Pretty Gay with Catherine McCafferty.

That's gonna be an hour long in the middle where she's gonna do her wonderful show Pretty Gay Live for You.

And drag King Bingo, which was a huge, huge, huge, huge hit last year, and it's exactly what it sounds like.

A couple of bananimals drag kings call bingo.

It's fun, it's shaded.

It's a time to catch your breath and giggle and socializing, gossip.

And then we'll also of course be doing the dog costume contest as all the big ones.

As always it's the big one.

Yeah, many many, many more insane games things.

We're literally every week when we have our meeting building up to this, we're like, what else can we do that's insane?

We're gonna have our hunk back from last year.

It was the sweetest hunk ever you could take photos with a hunk.

He's a decent man.

Well, stay where they belong.

If I get what I want, it'll be a ski sale with an actual stone machine where it's snowing, and the hunk will be there just with mittens on and nothing else pants, some hot pants, mittens and hot pants and you guys can have some hot chocolate together with folk sweet photo in the snow.

And then we're going to be selling for a charity that we haven't decided on yet, but probably a Colorado based charity.

On top of everything else.

I have a desk I've talked about on the podcast.

It is from the Library of Congress and I'm going to have everybody sign it.

And so last year we signed a giant banana that was wonderfully made by bananimals.

This year we're gonna sell this desk and it is so damn nice.

Tickets are going to be a dollar penny of that is going to go towards a very good charity.

And whoever wins that raffle drawing is going home with a folding rolling desk.

You can pick it up with one arm, folks.

It probably weighs eighteen pounds from the Library of Congress that I wrote at least at least eleven screenplays on in probably fifteen television pilots, along with many many awkwardly worded emails.

So the desk Raffle is on Sign it, buy it, support a charity.

We'll tell you what it is next week.

All right.

So that's Bananas Fest.

And then of course after the free street event is over, you can board the bar bicycle and bicycle your way.

We will have a bar block.

Yeah, one block to the venue.

We'll have a bar bicycle that just goes back and forth.

So it like fits like ten people, I think, and you can have some drinks and take a bicycle ride over to the venue, get out of the venue, and then we'll be doing a live bananas for of course, that is a ticketed event.

That's the only thing you need a ticket for, other than getting yourself to Denver.

Folks being go.

We look forward to meeting you, seeing you guys.

There's gonna be so much more stuff going on again, there's gonna be roller Derby that weekend.

We're gonna do some stuff on the Friday before.

So basically Banana Fest two is more than two times bigger than last year.

It's just gonna be a great time.

And it's about bananamal is becoming friends.

So anybody just as a banana, anybody in yellow, you're gonna recognize.

People feel free to say, are you a bananimal?

Hey, I'm from here.

Talk to each other.

This is a great, great time for people to become new friends.

Yea happens all the time.

It's a good community of sweetheart people that we just love so much.

You do, Scotti, how are you?

I'm excellent.

I'm having fun.

I was looking at my phone because we did have a Bananamal offer to do the cardboard excuse me, the wood painting of two dogs on a snowmobile that we can put our face in, and I was going to call them out.

I will find her name and we're going to give her a massive shout out next episode.

I'm wonderful.

I'm just feeling like, you know, this time of year is it's a dead time in our in what you and I do, including your off right now.

I'm off right now.

But I'm looking forward to this fall.

I just feel like, I don't know, I feel like everybody's been grinding it out for the last eight months, and I feel like we're just going to kick in the gear and have a great fall everybody.

I love that.

I love that.

I'm ready to have a great fall.

Dude, I think it's coming your way.

Oh I think so.

I think so.

I think I think it's I think it's on the way.

We've said everything in motion, hopefully it will arrive and uh yeah, Fine'm getting settled in here trying to figure in stuff out.

You know.

Thank you to all the Banan animals who reached out with white wine recommendations that I can so many on the East Coast.

Really helpful, very very genuinely helpful.

I have been drinking better wine and I really appreciate that you guys are really the best community in the world.

It's crazy, and you know, my sister.

I checked him with my sister and was like, Hey, when do my nephews go back to school?

And she said, one starts this week, one starts next week.

And to this day, even as a dude who has been out of regular school for twenty years, fifteen years, I still feel that feeling at the end of August where you're like, oh my god, I don't want to get up and go to school anymore.

And now I can just be like, ha ha ha, I don't have to on September two.

I don't know I'm gonna who knows what I'm gonna do.

Maybe I'm gonna lose and buy a leaf blower and just blow some leaves around my front yard.

I can do whatever I want.

I don't, so the feeling I remember having now is not is the nerve excitement to go back to school that involved back to school shopping where you're like going out that specific feeling of like getting a trapper keeper, getting all your pencils and your pens like that that because also we have to do that in La I don't know.

If you know this, Gottie, but I don't.

But the schools provide all of the school supplies for the kids.

Oh nice, Whereas in New Jersey it's how I grew up, where it's like you have a bag and you have your pencils, and you have your pens, and you have your erasers, and you have your little like things that you put on on your pencil for some reason that make it a triangle that seems to make it makes it harder to hold the pencil.

Uh, and then like a trapper keeping.

So we're going to be doing all that stuff, and that is the like the anticipation of, like accumulating the goods prior to the arrival of school was always like a fun time or fun or like a very specific emotional memory for.

Me and shout out again we did it a last week.

But all the teachers going back to the stat dude setting up bolts and boards or getting lessons plans righty, or cleaning desk, who were I mean, they have to do so much work.

My mom was a teacher.

She graded papers until eight o'clock most nights.

It's not a nine to five job.

It's like a six to nine job.

And shout out to all the teachers who actually give a shit.

Yeah, I bet it's getting harder and harder.

And you know what's funny is when you're a kid, you look up and you go, adults are great, And then you become an adult and you go, oh my god, we're adults better or have they always been a complete disaster?

And then out of that group there are just like twenty percent that are incredible, Yes, that are raising wonderful, decent children.

It really is.

It's weird.

But also, like we do enough stories here about the past where I feel like, no, adults have always been pretty terrible, So it's even more shocking that back then there was good teachers.

Yeah, now they just have mom talk and I don't know what dads do whatever, dumb dad talk, It is just what have we done?

What have we done?

Dad talk is just kook slams.

I think I saw these two dudes today.

There were certainly a couple, and one was certainly the more let's call him the leader of their couple.

And I was at a cafe and ordered a coffee, and then I looked over and they ordered, and then one pulled out a book, a paperback, and the other one pulled out a paperback, and then one put out a pencil, and then the other one pulled out a pencil, and they just sat there underlining and making notes on their two paperback books.

And I was like, look at these two go.

Look at these guys go.

And in my head, I was like, one of these guys fucking hates this so much.

One of these guys thinks this is so smart and cool and interesting, and the other one's like, I just want Brian to like me.

I'm just doing this for Brian.

You know.

I so like on the kindle you can like highlight things that you like and save them, and I and I did that, but it was like then it was like, I don't know when do I ever come to my kindle to look at quotes that I remember?

And that's the thing about like when you're reading a book and you get to a passage where you're like, oh my god, like that's incredibly insightful or that's a beautiful way to say that, I don't know what to do with it.

I've been I've been starting to copy it and put it into my notes, yes, so that I just like have it around.

I'm gonna try and see it because it was because you know, I've also been going through and rereading all of Kurt Vonnegut's books, revisiting my childhood.

He's the best.

He's really legacy stands up.

It does.

Uh.

The what's very strange for anybody who's rereading Breakfast of Champions is a wildly crazy book, which I did not realize when I was fourteen years old when I read it.

Also has the N word in it maybe five hundred times, which is crazy to read now.

Too many times.

That's probably five hundred too many times.

It is so much that I'm just like, oh my god, because it's not in any other book like that I've read so far.

This is my I'm back on my third Vonnegut and it's only in this one.

This is so easy not to say offensive words.

I know when people are like, I just want to say blah blah, I'm like, uh, it is so easy to just not just to delete a word from your life in vocabulary.

It could not be easy.

And also like there is like I can see somewhat of what he's doing in Breakfast Champions, because he's trying to talk about the people that he like grew up around.

And it's but he uses the word like as a character is saying it for the most part, but he also uses it as the narrator.

And then that's when he's using it as the narrator, it all of a sudden becomes like a little sticky.

You know, it's not like this person said that, but it's rather him talking about it.

Not great, No, let me see.

Here it is.

Now there are just very depressing quotes.

I just looked at them and I was like, what are these great funny?

I think you should work this into some sort of side stand up act, like not your main act.

But there is something funny about all the things that in the moment you think are important and then you go back and read it and that you realize you are the wimpiest door who's ever been.

Because when I get when I you know, I'm reading this one now called The Thorns.

Pretty good book?

Yeah, pretty good?

Yeah?

And oh let me that's a great question.

Is the funniest part.

Well, it's because when you don't have a paperback, you don't close the book and look at the cover every time.

I know.

That's why tangible media is far, far, far superior.

It's by Dawn somebody I don't remember, don So.

Don So wrote this.

She Uh, there it is don Curtage.

It is good though, uh, and I'm really enjoying it.

But there are a lot of oh.

She also wrote the Madness Kurt, which I know you won't shut up about.

But other people, when you read on a kindle, you know when the underline things, I'll say, thirty four people have highlighted this.

I hate them.

When I read them, I'm like, why this quote?

Would I have discovered this on my own?

Yes?

Would I have highlighted this?

Absolutely When I see thirty four other losers around the world have run it, and I'm like cornballs at my butt.

I remember I was like looking when I was packing up.

I found a big poster board that I had just written a quote on.

And I don't even know who the quote is from.

I should google it and find out, but it is.

Uh.

At the time, I thought it was so impactful, which is to eat is only to survive, to be hungry again.

I think it's probably Beckett.

That is deep.

I do feel like everybody feels that way still, and man, that is so funny, goddamn.

But also I feel like maybe you were searching for a lot of things back on and then now your dad, now you've a family that now you found a lot of meaning in life that you were probably looking for back in the day.

And now it's eating Spaghettio's off the floor.

Hit me with the moonshot.

I will, I will, But this is a fin to do this.

I will share my one Becket quote that I do love, and it's a it's a very often quoted Beckett So everybody knows this, but it's fail again, fail better, which I love that try it.

It's like it's ever ever failed, no matter, try again, fail again, fail better.

And that is the story of my life.

Hey, you're you're winning to meat, but.

I'm failing better.

I'm failing better.

Failing better every day.

Man, here we go.

You ready for this.

I'm ready to just laugh my asshole.

I cannot believe you did this.

This is such this is such a wild, wild story that I can't believe.

I don't remember you doing it.

I was in the it was in that twenty twenty one twenty twenty transitional break koar period where nothing exists and it was all mirage.

But I definitely did this because I saw this rolling in on the DMS, and I would have done it, but I'm like, anyways, please proceed here and we have a whole bunch of new listeners.

Welcome to Bananas.

Welcome to Bananas.

This is sent him by Kelly Flack.

Thank you Kelly.

Thanks Kelly.

If you want to send us some strange news that you find interesting, you can go to our instagram, The Bananas Podcast and dm us, or you can email us at the Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com.

The DMS on Instagram will get responded to the emails, possibly Flower.

This was in preprol magazine.

Thank you people, people, and the people.

Who wrote it.

Mark Gray, thank you Mark.

Ooh that dirty dog, he's good.

Man steals twenty one million dollars of lunar rocks from NASA to use dooring sex after promising his girlfriend the moon.

I love it so much.

This guy handsome man.

I would say, this is a handsome man.

He looks like a little bit in between Bradley Cooper and Ryan Gosling.

That's what this man looks like and he is a raging lunatic.

Yeah, and when I say lunatic, I do mean the luna of the moon.

Here.

It is good, thank you, that's good.

The most out of this world heist occurred just over twenty three years ago, which ultimately led to sex on the moon literally.

In July of two thousand and two, NASA interned.

Thad Roberts that yeah, I remember that too bad.

His girlfriend of three weeks and another friend stole seventeen pounds of moon rocks and a meteorite from Houston's Johnson Space Center in a daring dead of the night burglary.

The crime involved authentic NASA badges, rewiring security cameras, and neoprene body suits to a voids, setting off thermal alarms.

It took NASA several days to notice the missing six hundred and one pounds safe containing an estimated twenty one million dollars worth of moon rocks from every lunar landing from nineteen sixty nine to nineteen seventy two.

That is, those are peak years for lunar landings.

Big time.

We don't even do it anymore.

That's how peak they were.

Except they were like there's nothing up there.

This place sucks.

Roberts, the brain behind the heist, was twenty four years old when he arrived at NASA, having completed a triple degree in physics, geology, and geophysics at the University of Utah.

Eventually, Roberts met Tiffany Fowler, a twenty two year old who worked in NASA's Tissue Culture Laboratory conducting stem cell research.

They began a relationship and moved in together within three weeks.

Cuckoo movie.

That's a little fast.

Yeah, that's some nerdy stuff.

That's a little fast than animals.

Take it a month, not a month.

Take it one month, three weeks.

Three weeks is crazy's fast.

I mean it's just the beginning of the lunatic moves these two make, anyway.

Not long after, he told her about his idea to steal moon rocks, which she said intrigued her.

Well, she studies skin tissues or something.

Yeah.

I was in love with Tiffany, he told the La Times in two thousand and four.

In my mind, I was thinking, baby, I'd give you the moon.

It would be a romantic start to our relationship.

When Fowler agreed to be an accomplice.

The duo grabbed a third person, she Shar.

That's his name, Shay Sarah Shae Sa.

You are no idea?

What can I buy about?

Shar?

Also a NASA intern to help.

These are all NASA interns.

I love it because you you think you're a NASA intern?

Yeah, probably pretty pretty dorky, these guys.

They are immediately like, let's steal twenty one million dollars of lunar rocks and then fuck.

I liked the idea, the idea of stealing lunar rocks to have sex on them.

I liked the idea, kid, do you like it?

I love it.

I think it's the best reason to steal lunar rocks.

I agree, while okay, here it is.

On July evening, the three interns pulled up to Building thirty one, where the moon rocks were being housed.

Roberts now forty eight, and Fowler headed in the building while Sour reportedly served as a lookout and watched the rewired cameras.

The couple, don neoprene bodysuits, went straight into the airless room and fled with the safe, which was cracked using a power saw.

In my own head stealing something wasn't the way I looked at it, Roberts told CBS in twenty twelve.

We weren't gonna take this money we were getting from it to go buy a yacht or lots of cars or a big house.

Oh, we were gonna live just the small kind of lifestyle we were.

But fun science that might change the world, you know, you know kind of what NASA does.

You're interning the place in the space program in America.

Well, I guess there's two now, but not back then.

Yeah then okay.

Asked why I doesn't want to have sex on a pile of rocks.

I mean, that's the ultimate, that's the real third base as base, no rocks, third base.

Rocks rocks, second base, steel rocks, Yeah, steel rocks.

Asked why he went through with the heist, he said, I mean, the simple answer is to say that I did it for love.

I did it because I wanted to be loved.

I wanted someone to know that I'd literally cared about them that much, and to have the symbol there to remind them of it.

Using the defense that he was essentially a fool in love, Roberts has argued that the theft wasn't financially motivated, but the FBI said otherwise, indicating he had been in contact with a buyer from Belgium who was willing to pay the asking price of one thousand to five thousand dollars per gram.

Oh big mistake.

Buyer, though I know, got suspicious.

The buyer got suspicious and contacted the FBI, who quickly sent undercover agents to Orlando, where the sale was set to take place.

Oh so that's full of crap.

On July twentieth, two thousand and two, the thirty third anniversary of the first moonwalk.

Of course, doesn't think about that when they hear that date.

It was the first thing that sprung to my mind, one of the Big five.

But also the fact that they probably know that, do you know what I mean?

Like working at NASA, they probably definitively like scheduled it for them.

Yeah.

Roberts and Fowler drove from Houston to Orlando to meet with the buyer about an hour before the sale.

Though Roberts had an idea good took some of the moon rocks and I put him underneath the blanket in the bed, he said.

He and Fowler then had sex.

I never said anything, but I'm sure she could feel it.

She never said anything directly either, but it was more about the symbol of what we were doing, you know, basically having sex on the moon.

He told CBS.

It's more uncomfortable than not.

But it wasn't about the comfort at that point.

It was about the expression.

And no one has ever had sex on the moon before.

I think we can safely say that.

I mean, this guy is great.

He put moon rocks under the bed.

Didn't mention it.

She do.

She had to know, right, Women know everything.

Women ignore the million dumb things guys do constantly all the time.

Women are fully aware of what is happening to them with their bozo idiot boyfriend, and they go with it because they're like, you know what, seventy eight percent of the time, he's all right, But there are definitely rocks underneath this a great foam path, and I feel everyone that, hey, you gotta get your rocks off somehow.

Here it is Roberts.

That was good.

Robert's luck ran out shortly at the meeting with the undercover agents who placed him and Flower in handcuffs.

Authorities Sour Sour and Flower later that day, and a fourth accomplished, Gordon mcward, Corter mcwarter, all these people's names is amazing.

Sad.

Hey, I'm Gordon mcwarter, I'm Sarah.

No wonder some of these guys of space.

All of them are crazy.

Uh Still, the FBI said the rocks are now virtually useless to the scientific community.

Why because somebody jizzed on them?

Is that it is?

That it NASA?

That's all it takes.

Then, come on, campoo talk is out of commission for all NASA studies.

From a press release, added quote.

They also destroyed three decades worth of handwritten research notes by a NASA scientists that have been locked in the safe.

Come on, guys, Oh well then fuck damn that sucks.

Yeah.

Now here's also one rock is enough by the way, one No one would have noticed one rock and you're still having sex on the moon.

You're still having sex on the moon.

Yeah, you didn't have to steal six hundred and one pounds safe destroy st wetsuits were just for them.

They just thought it was sexy.

Here's the here's the best part.

It comes right at the end.

Scottie m thank you.

He was released two years ago.

Oh wait, sorry, he was released two years early from prison in two thousand and eight, after serving more than six years of an eight year sentence.

Okay, Fowler and sour pleaded guilty and were given one hundred and eighty days of house arrest, one hundred and fifty hours of community service, and three year prob probation, and ordered to pay more than nine thousand dollars in restitution NASA.

First off, that's crazy, Like those two were like eate it, like did the crime with him and he they just had house arrest for a couple months.

That's crazy.

And then mcwarter was found guilty and also served six years.

Mcwarter, we don't even find out about mcwarter till.

The very end.

Oh God's just hovering around.

Just sorry.

Here's the hook, here's the crazy part.

This is what I meant to read first.

This is what I meant to reade first.

Roberts pleaded guilty in two thousand and two to stealing moon rocks.

He also admitted to stealing dinosaur bones and fossils from the Natural History Museum in Salt Lake City while he was attending the University of Utah.

What the fuck?

This guy just going in and stealing weird shit from museums.

Yes, but he's in the past and the future, so I kind of respect this guy.

He doesn't steal from the present, right, So we have to send this guy.

He should have been on Sliders, the TV show.

I wonder if he fucked on the dinosaur bones too, Oh, you know, owning on bones?

You know he did a man.

Yeah, so this guy is a thief and a bit of a klepto.

I do admire his he is a visionary.

I think we can probably look up a follow up to see if he ended up if they ended up together, because if they did, then love conquers all.

But if he didn't, I guess he's got good stories to tell.

I'm looking it up right now.

While you give me a next headline.

I'll gladly do it.

So this one was sent in by Brandy Dacas, who you know, there are a lot of animals out there who work for state governments and local governments and federal governments, and I know it's a trying time for everybody out there who's doing that.

Sometimes you get laid off, sometimes you get hired back, sometimes you get furloughed.

Sometimes you don't know what the hell is going on.

But for all of you who do work for the most dysfunctional bureaucracy imaginable, keep up the great work.

It's not your fault that everybody above you is a total jackass.

Yeah, I'm going to shout out my brother right now for that, you know.

Damn right, shout out.

It's a strange and confusing time, and that's why I'm doing this story that Brandy sent.

Study before you start.

Before you start, I just will let everyone know.

Okay, Fad and Fowler did not end up together.

Ooh they never reconnected.

Oh understandable.

Well, yeah, he went away for six years and she was only house arrest for one hundred and eighty days.

Yeah, she's got to move on.

She's not going to wait six years for Fad.

It was a three week long relationship.

The woman that moves us exactly what I was gonna say.

She's the kind of woman, Yes, was the kind of woman that will move in with you in three weeks.

If you don't think she's gonna move out with you in one hundred and eighty days or six years, you've lost your yourassic mind, you jack ass.

Also, I still don't understand how the moon rocks were destroyed.

But then again, I don't know anything about it anything because I'm not an educated man.

Yeah, I think what it is is like once they've been removed from their like little confined area that was like airless and whatnot, it's kind of like, well, we don't know if this damage or this occurred while someone was humping on it, or if it occurred while it was just sitting on the moon, So we'll never know.

So now they're useless to us because it was not no longer a controlled environment.

I actually think you could turn this into a pretty good Apple TV too, do you oh do yeh?

Kind of like a Bonnie and Clote one hundred.

And then also you have a backstory of the bones too, What the fuck is going on?

He never got he never got in trouble for the bones until he got in trouble for the rocks.

Man.

I know when you get away with the bones.

You know, yeah, you think you're like, okay, we got to make it big or twenty one million dollars worth of moon.

Rocks, that's right, And they were wrong.

One time I was sitting in a cafe and there was a song and it just kept repeating Bonnie and Claw over and over and over.

It's a French song.

And I was like, I don't like this song.

I don't care for this song.

I sing this piece of shit song and I used I used Google and I said, search this song and listen to it Lulu Gainsburg And yeah, you guessed it, Scarlett Johansson.

Oh, it's a cover because the original Bonnie and Clyde.

It's a very nice song.

The original, it's very nice song.

But the one I heard was scar Bardeus.

The one that I always listened to was Brigitte Bardous, which I love.

Well, yeah, she's the real deal.

Holyfield.

Anyways, shout out to a huge fan of the podcast, Scarlett Johansson.

We'll love to have you on again.

Study reveals hidden power of sharing cute animal pics.

Okay, so basically this was a Newsweek written by that swing in Newsweek staff.

From clumsy puppies to grinning chimps, adorable animal content is fantastically popular on social media.

That's true.

That is true.

It's kind of the nicest part of social media.

That is so it and so babwa.

Excuse me, But while these charming snaps are a source of instant joy for their viewers.

It turns out that their impact goes beyond just entertaining.

Give it to me, I'm going to hit you hard.

With a study from Concordia University, they have concluded that sharing cute animal pictures online strengthens digital connections reinforces bonds with social groups and online communities.

So it's a good thing to share cute animal picks with the people in your life.

Love.

The researchers compare the act of sharing animal content on social media to pebbling, which is a behavior often observed in penguins to show that they care about each other.

But little rocks up each other's assholes.

Man, that is, and so did that.

The penguin offer pebbles, which serve as nesting materials in the barn Antarctic, to their chosen mates as a way to acknowledge their relationship and affirm their commitment to each other.

Really share, but what I mean?

You know it's called you don't got much?

You don't got much?

What do you got?

You have tied a couple of tidy pebbles.

That's nice of.

Them, studying them down there and it gets cold.

You see one move a pebbles near the other one.

The other one doesn't seem to upset.

You write your report, you get back inside.

Oh my god, hold down there.

Shout out to the tube and animals who are in Antarctica we have Oh my god, that is that is crazy.

Also, sweatshirt to one that's fantastic.

Also, I want to give a big old shout out to Denise, the zoo keeper down at Jenkinson's Aquarium, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, who I met over the weekend and uh regaled my child No, not of an animal, but maybe someone she knows listens to it.

Regaled my children with stories of penguins they knew personally from the Essex from the Turtleback Zoo here in Essex County, because Jenkinson's helped care for some of their more famous penguins when they were doing some renovations.

So shout out to zookeepers in general, especially ones on little boardwalks in New Jersey.

There you go, very specific, very wonderful.

So sharing cute animal content with friends and family has a similar purpose as the pebbling maintaining and nurturing relationships in digital space.

After all, fifty percent of global social media users say their main reason for being on social media is to keep in touch with family and their loved ones.

Okay, that's yea more than I would have guessed, actually, but that's very nice.

That's a good reason to say.

If you're asked, you know, so you don't say pornography or whatever.

The actual buying illegal fireworks.

The study outlines frameworks that explain the content's journey from to circulation.

The first step is called indexicaliation in dexicaliation, which is the process of taking an animal image, gift or gift or video and adding an emotional cue or meaning to it, like a hashtag or a caption to signifies one relationship to it.

Next comes re indexicalization indexicalization, so this is the content is shared and interacted with.

Also, we got to come up with a better word for that.

That isn't insane.

That's the dumbest word.

It's just finding it, hashtagging it, sending it, is what I'm saying.

The final step is decontextualization, when the content is stripped of personalized information is shaped into widely relatable content like memes to appeal to a broader audience.

Or findings.

Quote our findings imply that a companion animal's capacities as social lubricants traversed to digital space, thus facilitating interactions and reinforcing relationships as companion species content.

Also the reason that word is so complicated, Scotty, because this is a person who decided to do a study about sending dog pics to people.

They're like, we gotta make it sound like it's science and not just memification.

Step one, step two, fire it off.

That's the fire step, and then decontextualization.

We know that word.

We've heard that before.

The studies focused on cute animal content, but the researchers suggest that the same principles are likely to apply to similar types of digital content, like pictures of food or posts featuring funny children.

Not funny pictures of food, good pictures of food.

What about sunset kids?

I wonder if sunsets fall in here?

I bet you they do, And I bet you dick pics are the exact opposite.

Well, they should be, as they should be.

Yeah, that's an interesting thing, but I felt like it was a nice thing that sharing cute animal picks is actually very good.

I love that one of the good outcomes of the intranet, which is on the web.

It is on the web, and of course if you're a member of our patreon, we got Feline Friday's Baby.

Oh yeah, TBIF Thank Bananas.

It's felines and I don't know if you saw the chat room, but it is.

It is why off every week.

I want new picks of these cats.

I don't care if they're old cats.

I want new picks.

And I'm gonna post a new chat every Friday on TB.

If it's going great, I love it.

It's really fantastic they are.

You're gonna tease me into some thumbs ups, buddy boys me, of course I do.

We love a thumbs up.

Of course I do.

Composer John Williams says he never liked film music very much.

Great, perfect, good for him, smart choice all the way around.

Thumbs ups.

MICHAELA.

Doster wants to give four thumbs up to two listeners who she loves, Alexis Bowster or Boster.

Maybe it's Doster Boster.

Sorry, maybe it's Mikayla Doster for buying their first house and a second thumbs up a double thumbs up for her husband's band.

Okay, so, Alexis's husband's band released their first song after two years.

They are a pop punk band called Mighty Vices.

Oh nice is a very good name.

That's a good name.

There are a lot of bad band names out there.

There are even more bad improv team names out there.

Mighty Vices is a very good name.

Congratulations.

They have a new song, they have a new music video.

So if you enjoy finding new music and new bands, please go online and search for Mighty Vices.

And thumbs up to Alexus for buying a house.

It's very hard to do.

Congratulations.

Heidi Frazy wants to give a huge thumbs up to her cat cam Cat Cam, Yeah, cat Cam.

Sadly Cam had to be put to sleep recently, but he was the goofiest, loveliest cat who saw through so many stages of her life.

Cam's favorite toy was a cosmic banana, which sounds which is exactly what it sounds like.

It is a cloth banana that is completely loaded with cat.

Yeah.

Baby, I'd like to check can't like to check out a little bit and just unwind yeah, and then really wind it up too.

Huge thumbs up for being the best cat and hope she's having an amazing time up in the big cosmic banana in the sky, which I like.

Yes, I'm starting to think that we're all going to end up in the cosmic banana in the sky.

Thumbs up, thumbs up.

Rita Gena is thumbing herself way, way, way up.

Ten years after graduating with a degree in landscape architecture from Oklahoma State, Go Pokes, having two she had two kids, and she had one cross country move.

Rita passed all of her professional exams and is now Rita Schiller PLA.

That is professional landscape architect.

Nice, so thumbs up Rita and Rita, says Scotty.

Most people don't know this, but professional landscape architects are the stewards of the land who connect nature and design and engineering on large and small scales to maintain the health and safety of the land and its users.

Very proud of yourself for getting that license while also being a working mom.

So thumbs up to all working moms out there, and double thumbs up to read A gene who Kurt is now a PLA.

Oh my god, I want to be PLA.

That sounds awesome.

I love that stuff.

That's all I like.

Now.

I think all my Instagram feed is no longer boat content, which was I mean, look, I still got a lot of boat content, but I think a lot of my content is just the installing stone pavers.

Oh yeah, that's pretty such, very satisfying.

Yeah, we all go through phases.

The drain cleaning phase is a big phase for everybody.

The guy that just cleans up everybod yards and just free landscaping, that guy, because what a treat.

But yeah, I could get into some real masonry and that's not at least a one you're gonna love.

Gurty Bee.

Stephanie wants to give big thumbs up to her dad, Michael Arsenault, which also might be arsen know, but my buddy in college was last named Arsenal, so I'm going with that.

Who is on who I think completed but might be on a five thousand mile cross country bicycling trip to raise money for nam I, which I'm going to just call it NAMMY.

Yeah.

NAMMY is the country's largest grassroots mental health organization that is dedicated to all those affected by mental illness.

And Michael is riding from Maine to Washington State.

He's going to try to average sixty miles a day.

Wow, And he raised twenty five thousand dollars he reached his fundraising goal for Nammy, and I found another an article.

His daughter said it bananimal, but I found an article about Michael that's and his quote said, I have wanted to ride my bike across country since I was a little boy.

Nammy came into our lives much later in life.

But we decided, as I pulled the retirement parachute and do the bike ride, I should also do it for something besides just riding my bike.

And again, Michael raised twenty five thousand Sammy, which is mental illness.

So I'm thinking Stephanie who sent it in, and Michael bananas.

Of the Bananas of the week right on.

That's a great, great job, guys, that's wonderful.

Also, that is that is such a great thing to do right when you retire.

I love that idea.

Helly, I want to do that.

Maine to Washington State, the prettiest state to the other prettiest state.

Go get it.

Oh so gorgeous double Portland's Oh, I guess that's in Oregon, but it should Portland to Portland.

Yeah, all right, that's true.

I'm gonna tea I'm gonna give us this little bit send us.

Home, Send us home so you can send your thumbs up.

You can send your thumbs up to us anytime.

I'm getting through them as fast as I can order of getting them to the Binanz podcast of Gmail or to Instagram.

And no anniversary is no birthdays, but just root your cell phone.

Root Everyboil song.

We all need a little pick me up these days.

Wow, it sounded like you were playing at one point five there for a second.

This was in The Guardian.

This was written by Dahlia Alberje.

Hell Yeah.

Composer John Williams says he never liked film music very much.

As one of the most As one of the greatest composers in film, John Williams has written some of the most memorable music in cinema for masterpieces such as Jaws, Jurassic Park, and Star Wars, but despite winning five Oscars, the ninety three year old believes that as an art form, film music pales in comparisons to history's greatest works.

I never really liked film music very much, he confessed in a rare interview for a forthcoming biography.

He added, film music, however good it can be, and I usually it usually isn't.

Other than maybe an eight minute straight here and there.

I just think the music isn't there, that what we think of as this precious, great film music is we're remembering it in some kind of nostalgic way.

Just the idea that the film music has the same place in the concert hall as the best music in the cannon is a mistaken notion.

I think he added a lot of film music as ephemeral.

It's certainly fragmentarian.

Until somebody recon reconstructs it, it isn't anything they can even consider as a concert piece.

Among the more than one hundred movies he's scored are the Indiana Jones films, E T.

Schindler's List, in the first three Harry Potter films.

He is the world's most nominated living Oscar recipient, with a record fifty four nomination recognized that his music has played a crucial role in enhancing and heightening a film's emotional emotion and atmosphere.

With two haunting notes, he captured the chilling threat of Great White Shark and Jaws We Whoop, while his mournful Jewish lament in Steven Spielberg's The Shindler's List conveyed the heartbreak of the Holocaust.

He was interviewed by Tim Grieving for a biography.

Grieving was taken aback by Williams's dismissal of film music.

Quote his comments are sort of shocking, and they're not false modesty.

He is genuinely self deprecating and deprecating of film music in general.

And inside of his platinum metal airplane flying around just burning one hundred dollars bills for fuel.

Oh this sucks.

Oh this music terrible.

I could only live the perfect life doing the thing I love for ninety three years.

Booh this sucks.

Only made a billion people happy with these songs.

Boo, I mean I love Sure he's right, but what a jackass.

I'm sure John Williams is a genius and he's absolutely right.

Knows more about music than I'll know about any subject, including even being myself.

Yeah, and yet he's completely wrong about it.

It is so funny where someonhen someone is just like listened to the like, yeah, agree, they're iconic songs, right Inana Jones, Star Wars, Jurassic Park.

It's all.

They're all iconic songs.

But if they were not attached to the movie, they would not be rememberable if they were not part of that memory of that film, and how how much you like that film, I don't think they would stand as pieces of music on their own.

It's interesting because I what music isn't tied to nostalgia.

I think he's saying it's tied to film nostalgia.

I think all music is tied nostalgia.

I think everybody loves music that reminds them of a moment or a friend group, or a person, So I think the only value of music is nostalgia.

Interesting argument well, also because I'm not somebody that loves music the way that a lot of people love music.

And I've thought about it so much, like why don't I just love new music as much as other people?

And I think when I've been I was at a wedding and there was a cover band and they're playing classic crappy club band music, but we all have fun.

And then they played Taking Back Sunday, which for some people is a very popular band that was a little behind your my time, but people were singing and pointing and sweating and screaming the lyrics so much that I'm like that that's all means more than them.

But they're thinking about being in high school or in college.

They're not thinking they're connecting because they all had different experiences, different places, but that band brought them together.

So if hearing the opening song to Star Wars makes nostalgic for people that love Star Wars and that kind of thing, but also so is the first time your teacher went, hey, here's Mozart and you're somebody passed you a note and had boobs and a middle finger drawn on it.

And if that Mozart reminds you of that it makes you happy, then mission accomplished.

I agreed.

I agree with a other present.

I also bet you John Williams shits on popular music as well, because popular music is by far not as complicated as like Beethoven and Bach and stuff like that.

Yeah, well, it's like Spielberg lockches the water Boy the say in the movie loves it.

It's one of his favorite movies.

Christopher Nolan recently said that if Talladega Knights is on, he drops his remote and finishes Talladega Knights.

So I bet John Williams, like, I bet there's a pop pop song that he is just like, I love this song that is.

Have you seen these letterboxed interviews on on Instagram.

I've seen some, but I'm not too familiar even.

Basically, letterbox is an app where you can share like movie, you know, for people who love movies, and they can say like I saw this movie.

They review movies.

They it's really cool.

But they whoever their marketing is going up to people on the red carpet and saying like, what's your letterbox five or whatever?

Okay, and so like movie stars now expect it and whatnot, and so everyone's got their list and it's always just like I wish they were fucking like honest.

The only honest one I've seen is Seth Rogan's where they're all just popular mainstream movies.

He's just like, these are my favorite movies, and they're all popular mainstream movies.

Everyone else's is like the first one, it's like Happy Gilmore, Star Wars, and then three movies you've never heard of, Oh, the nineteen seventy six silent Japanese film a Kuratunoto, And it's just like, no, that's not the film you put on to relax when you come home from a.

Hard day at work.

Of course.

Not.

I pitched not long ago a rom com to Zoey Deschanel and the pitch was going really well and for her to star in it, and towards the end she was like, what is your favorite movie?

And which is crazy question?

What a crazy because I'm pitching a rom com because so what am I sister to be like Harry Met's Sally Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mine, or some French food like jewels and Jim.

Yeah, jewels and Jim.

Don't you love jewels and gym so much?

And instead I was like, well, it changes all the time, and it's usually based on something I watched and I've been thinking about a lot, and right now it's Silence of the Lambs, and it fell like, I knews you it ends.

The Lambs is an excellent movie.

It's incredible.

And she's like really, She's like, because I'm in like a film club and we all watch this stuff.

I go if you watch on some Lambs.

First of all, Hannibal Lecter is only on screen for sixteen minutes, and he's one of the most iconic monsters in movie history and he's on screen for sixteen minutes.

But what makes that movie so good is Clarice Starling played by Jodie Foster.

Every man in it is staring at her and trying to get in roads with her and hitting on her while she's just trying to do her job.

She's a young woman surrounded by literal monsters, even in the FBI, and she still figures it out and she's here and saves the day.

And as I'm saying this in my head like or saying it out loud dissoy dationannel in my head, I'm going like, I should have lied, and I should have said.

Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind is my favorite movie.

Yeah, but it's not.

Oh no, I do like that movie.

Answer, I do like that, elf, That's just it, Elf, you're great in fact.

Do you want to change this into a Christmas movie?

Yeah?

I like Home Alone more.

Sorry.

John Williams, stan over here, number one guy.

Thank you guys for listening to this.

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