This guy.

You're ready, Cretzy, I'm ready to laugh and love and love you are.

Hell yeah, dude.

Everything you need to know about Operation Cat.

Drop Bingo, Hold on to your butts.

This is a serious episode.

I like starting off with I'm guessing a non military project.

Let's shop some cats.

It's not for bananas, Do world understand?

Would you your sillion pieces?

Would you bananas?

Baby banana bat.

Bananas?

Yam yam yam yam yamyam yoo.

This is bananas.

I'm Kurt Brown Owler.

I am Banana Boy number two.

Scottie the Cat and Landis and we're just so happy you listen to the silliest little podcast there ever was.

We're pushing back against the meanies and the creeps and the pieces of shit, and we're just gonna keep it silly, man and optimistic no matter what.

Exactly one I mean.

The Cat Drop story surprisingly gets a little dark, but overall it's about cats parashuting.

Okay, so we'll just keep that in mind when we're listening to that story.

It is about cats parachuting.

Okay, Scotty, how you doing.

I'm doing very well.

My parents are in town, so I'm doing a family hosting, which is very fun and nice.

Thank you for hopping on while your parents are in town.

Dude.

Oh, I need the break as much as they do.

It's totally fine, and I'm glad to see you and they say hello.

But everything's good.

It's summer in LA and you know you're on the East coast.

Now.

I gotta say, the weather out here for all of July was absolutely incredible.

It justifies all the other shit.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, July is always perfect because June is always weirdly cold, and then July is perfect, and then August, September, October and sometimes November our living hell.

Yeah, scorching ovens, convection ovens.

But you know, everything's good.

I'm gonna go see Naked Gun this afternoon.

We're gonna go to the Metne and the number of industry people who have been like, let's just see how Naked Gun does.

Let's just see how it does.

It really is a litmus test for whether comedy movies are going to be in theaters maybe forever.

One hundred percent, but it was.

It was the tracking was saying fifteen million for the week.

Good.

I mean, if it can do that, well, that'd be amazing.

Doob be fantastic?

Uh?

You know, it's just like it's so weird because you try to keep up with the times and think change and they're supposed to change, and you can't just be those kind of people that are like, well, when I was a kid, but it was I do feel like there was a time where you would get so excited to go see comedies and laugh with other people in movie theaters.

And that is a bummer that that is not something that a lot that the majority of people go, oh, that looks so funny.

Like I remember when Dumb and Dummer was in theaters.

Everybody was like, we have to go see that movie.

Yeah yeah, and it would be a Friday it would be a Friday night movie.

Yeah yea.

And now it's just muscular men that can transform into colors that punch stuff, and I'm bored, dude, all that stuff.

Please write a movie called muscular men who can transform into colors and punch stuff.

Please do that, like somewhere.

That's what we got, that's what we're going for.

Oh my god, I think that's good man.

It's just been really fun how you've been.

You've been ten times busier than.

I have, dude, it's been It's crazy.

I think I figured out my schedule.

Okay, good.

I wake up at five and then right until six thirty, and then Gus wakes up, and then uh, like I walk the dog, I feed the dog.

Get Gus kind of situated.

Maybe try and get him to eat a little bit, Maybe try and dress the kids, maybe try and get lunches started.

And then Lauren takes over and then I go hop on a seven thirty am train in the city BT like eight ten, and then sometimes I have to like balance my laptop on like a railing to like finish submitting a piece before nine am.

Holy smoked.

It is sharpening your It's sharpening your the weapon of sketch writing for you though, when you come out of this thing, you're gonna be so good at writing sketches.

Oh no, I already feel like like I'm like like I'm not at assassin level, but I'm like slowly building up the ranks, do you know what I mean?

Like I already feel like I'm past whatever I was gonna use some sort of military I have, no I don't know private dashts.

This is a military episode, the very military episode.

But I do feel like I'm getting better and better, and hopefully I can get to the point where I don't have where I don't need an hour and a half to bat because that's with me writing one sketch the day before at night, usually on the train on the ride home, I write one sketch, and then I wake up and try and write another sketch between five and six thirty, cause it's like you're waking up.

You're also like seeing what other people wrote.

You're trying to not repeat areas that other people have already gone on.

And yeah, we'll see, man, we'll see.

I've been on screen twice, so that's good.

That's fine.

Yeah, that is fine, that's great.

Yeah, people have been writing some stuff for me, which is nice.

Yeah.

So it's just like it's just getting used to it.

But also it's just still like I think, now that we almost have all the boxes unpacked, there's still like one room that has boxes in it.

It feels so much, so much better.

Yeah.

Yeah, well, I'm taking out this pitch TV pitch soon and it's not going to be main cast.

But I did create a character and I ran it by the other creator for you, and you will be the mayor of Madison, Wisconsin.

Oh yeah, you're going to be named Mayor Noodler, and yeah it's a sitcom and you're just you get overly enthusiastic about getting people to be an ally.

So like if you and so, Mayor Noodler just goes from zero to full enthusiasm if somebody's like, sure, I'll donate, and he just can't get enough of things going his way.

So which also maybe in later seasons and episodes and appearances, will you'll see the dark side of Mayor Noodler.

But something about Noodler just makes me laugh so hard.

Our murder bananas.

No, there was a very famous serial killer called the Noodler in San Francisco, and that name already stuck with me too.

But I think Mayor Noodler, and it's just like I just want you just show up to this car dealership and cut a ribbon and somebody's like, sure, I'd be happy to and he's like, they're like that Mayor Noodler.

He's a good guy.

So like, how many right now projects are you pitching?

Dude?

You have no idea count the number I want to see?

How that's that's my twenty twenty five projects and the ones with p's next to them are pitches, so I would say six or seven pitches total.

And then and then I've already turned into specs in the last two weeks, so.

Oh my god, Spec movies or Spec TVs.

One of each, one hour long Stranger Things esque show that I'm very excited about.

And then a new rom com that I'm hopeful for.

So it's been crazy.

But I think I'll have a really cool announcement in a couple of weeks about a TV project that everybody will be very excited about that our listeners will be very exciting.

But you know how it is.

It's slow going.

But I bet in September I can say I'm working with a certain actress that everybody will be like, I love her.

Oh, I think I know what this is, hope.

So oh anyway, it's good, dude, oh good, And like life life in general, like we just never like this is literal, well, we don't see each other.

This is like the only time we get to catch up at all.

You know, being a middle aged dude at the gym is so funny.

I'm just watching the sixteen seventeen year olds that are muscular, but they're just whimps and I just sometimes I want to bump into them and just let them know what real mass feels like.

But I don't.

But also when you were saying that before, we were joking about being military episode if you are an active or vet military bananamal.

We've never really asked that before.

Yeah, we have DMUs or email us and just like, hey, I was in the Marines international too, all our international Bananamals.

I'm curious how many people are active right now that listen the bananas and the barracks.

I'm just in some words, but I mean, I'm curious.

I'm sure we have many, many, at least vets, because we have a big audience and they're nice people.

Yeah, they're very nice people.

Service oriented people.

The bananimals you mentioned going to the gym, I have not the amount the amount because it's it's like food takes a secondary position to like getting the amount of writing done that I have to get done every day.

Yeah, so the amount of pizza and bagels that is just oh my god.

There it's like I am like in the basement of the building is this place called Black Seed, and the bagels are like, and also, I've just been away from the East coast.

These bagels might just be middle of the road, do you know what I mean?

They are amazing.

They have a name, though, black Seed.

That's a terrible name for a bagel shop.

Yeah, they don't want to say.

You call poppies Poppies is adorable.

Popular poppies.

Poppies is really good.

Actually, poppies poppies p A p I po pp wise would be that's great.

Or black Seat black Seed boys.

So it's like box seat boys, that would be better.

I'm going to black seats back, all right, that would be much better.

So you're you're living that carb life is what I'm dude.

It's intent well though, it's this is what it is.

It's like either protein things because everything has like twenty grams of protein now, and so it's like everything I eat is either like a thousand grams of protein or just a bagel and there's no in between.

I try and get a salad every once in a while.

My body's just like what are you doing to me?

Hey, brains need it.

If anybody's ever watched the season of a loone, nos, you need fats and carbs to think and function.

So here it is.

This was sent in by raw Burn raw Barnes sends a lot you send Barns.

Look, I got this from Military matters dot online.

Is that really?

That is what it's called?

Military Matters dot Online sounds fun, Yeah, it sounds really fun.

It's a really it's strangely written article.

I'm gonna skip a lot of it.

But it's written by.

No sergeant lieutenant type ee journalman.

This is crazy and the fact that it's like, it's a pretty long article and it's not credited is kind of wild.

Or Military Matters Online is just like Brian's website and he doesn't put his name because he's like, well, it's my website.

Here it is.

There's three intro paragraphs.

I'm gonna skip Operation cat Drop.

The history of this operation is confused, and that can only mean two things.

Either this operation is covered in the darkest secrecy, full of misinformation, lies that have sought to hide the truth of what is one of the most critical operations ever undertaken by the Royal Air Force, or there's been a lot of rubbish talked about it ever since.

Our story begins in the deepest jungles in the Malaysian state of Sarawak.

In the late nineteen fifties, the people of the region faced a terrible scourge malaria.

The disease was ripping through the remote rural communities and an awful rate.

This story, I will just preface, is a perfect example of like Western civilization, trying to solve a problem and making it ten times worse.

Yes, the mongoose on Hawaii.

Yes, the disease was ripping through the remote royal communities an awful rate, and it was agreed I guess by white people that something had to be done to help them.

The World Health Organization began a spraying program from aircraft that sought to control the outbreak by wiping out the mosquitoes that carried it.

Their choice of insecticide was DDT.

Now DDT is recognized as not something you want to be messing around with, having a range of toxic effects and likely being a carcinogen.

But in the nineteen forties and fifties that wasn't known, and everyone thought this stuff was great, killed mosquitoes and bugs like nothing else, and people were encouraged to just spray it all over the place, and I mean literally everywhere.

Blah blah blah.

He goes off into this DDT thing.

Dude loves DDT loves wrestling.

I think that's a wrestling move.

I think some really d double dip trock.

Yeah, Trock's not even a word.

Who's I like T.

The Who's spraying mission proved extremely successful and malaria rates dropped.

But good.

Uh.

Here we come to the unintended consequences and the divergence of our tail.

Let's cover the first one first, and this in this though, the villagers in this though, Okay, the villagers didn't have to suffer from malary anymore.

Shortly after the spraying took place, they found that the roofs of their houses started to collapse.

Okay, do you can you imagine why that would happen?

Scotty U.

That the DDT ate the tar off their shingles.

It turned out that amongst the victims of the DDT wasn't just mosquitoes, but also parasitic wasps that preyed upon a particular caterpillar that ate the thatched roofs of the villager's huts.

So the so the wasps were gone, so the caterpillars ate their roofs and then the roofs collapse.

Wow, what a weird chain of events.

I would not have predicted that.

Also, but I am not a smart man.

But also, how do we even get to cats yet?

Right?

Okay, no clue.

Great, Then get gos that ate the poisoned insects accumulated DDT in their system and they were in turn eaten by village cats and the ddkey killed them.

This led to a massive increase in the rat population in the area as their traditional pres editors died out and they began to overrun it.

Worst, they brought their own pathogens in the shape of typhus, once again inflicting the unfortunate populace with a potentially lethal disease.

So they went from malaria to typhus.

Recognizing this something had to be done about this, the British authorities, who at the time still ran the place, turned to the military and they began Operation Cat Drop.

I mean this is the levels of steps are ludicrous, a mission to resupply the Royal village cat population and destroy the perfittest rodents.

According to this version, the Royal Air Force would go on to drop some fourteen thousand cats to the villages to this end.

Can get that many cats are them?

Where are these cats coming from?

Also to be scooped up off the streets of London, putting an airplane flown to what where is it?

Circummacam Sarah wak and then dropped out of an air plane with a parachute.

Do they have individual parachutes?

Is my question?

They must?

I mean cats land on their feet.

You're saying they must have individual parachutes.

I am optimist, and I hope those cats had a real fun sale down.

But I also anybody that owns cat's cats.

Somebody was talking about this.

It was an old boss of mind.

He's like, he has cats, and I have never had cats besides Punk, who was not even my cat.

He's like, the problem with dogs is you always know what you're gonna get with a dog.

Well, cats you never know what you're going to get.

Yeah, And that's I was like, Oh, I see what you're saying.

He's like, because when you watch a dog, when a dog walks in the room and sees you, a wagon's tail comes over and wants to be close to you, or it goes and lays down in its favorite spot.

He's like, but he will watch his cats, and he's had him for seven or eight years, and he'll watch one do something he's never seen it do before all the time.

And so you can imagine fourteen thousand cats with little parachutes.

The behavior is going to be unpredictable in off the charts ways, which is cool.

I don't want to ruin the idea of individual cats with individual parachutes.

But they're in boxes or something.

I think there're one hundred in boxes, and there's probably like a bunch in a box and then they come down and then when it taps the ground, it opens up and they.

Look for a catbox receive man m.

According to it all sounds somewhat unlikely, but it isn't completely incorrect.

So this is this.

I don't understand why he takes an issue with it.

But did it solve the problem?

Did it kill the rats that brought the typhus?

It did well?

Then accomplished Yeah, so yeah, so that's the story.

But it's good.

Okay, I know we do this stuff.

And there's this thing and I've been sent it two times and I bet you saw it too.

And it was Neil grass Tyson on Hassan Minaj's podcasts.

Yeah, and it is Neilda grass Tyson talking about longevity of humans and that for twenty thousand years they lived to be thirty years old was the average age.

And then in eighteen forty, with industrial revolution and advancements, they only gained five years, so the average life was thirty five years.

Did you see this?

I totally want her and I have issue with it.

So you finish up explaining his argument and I will have my issue with it.

And Neilda grass Tyson says that living to thirty five updating forty, but now the average life expectancy in most of the western world or civil nuts was world and most of the developed world is more like in the seventies.

And he says that's because of science and medicine, because before everybody was eating organic all the time, they were eating pesticide free, free range for the most part, and yet they were dying so young.

So the difference in that gap is science, is what he was saying, right, And he was saying at Hassan, it's so many times.

And Hassan responds, just like, I know you seem to be yelling at me.

It does like like that is the one thing I have an issue with with Neilda grass Tyson is that he's like yelling at you about like how dumb you might be because you don't believe in like the the power of science, and how it's like past science is a story man.

It's like, yes, it can be very useful, but also those numbers are all averages, so they're taking in infant deaths.

The majority of people died before they were two years old, and then after that it matches up if you take out infant deaths in the thing.

It doesn't no one's it's not thirty and not everyone's dying at thirty years.

When he says that, it makes it seem like everyone lived until thirty and they died at thirty, and it is not true.

You had very very old people in Aboriginal societies like that is who hast on knowledge.

It's like it was very often if you made it past those critical two years, you still had a very similar life inspectancy.

People can come at me for that, but that is what I care.

Yeah, It's also it's funny because I do kind of understand if you were a very smart person and scientists to live in modern society, maybe you do feel like you need to yell because it's just ignored so much that it must be.

So I'm just so glad i'm medium intelligence, because I bet it is so frustrating for smart people.

It must just be hell out there.

It's so much fun to be like I'll never know.

I'll read a whole book and I'll go, I don't know, I have no idea, And then I like took the time.

I was trying to read all the smart books that went around for a while, Sapiens and all those shit, and then like five years later they're like, actually we found skeleton that disproves that whole entire book.

And you're like, well, damn it, I wish I had just watched cartoons.

Put me in my no thinking pod.

I'm ready to go to sleep for a while.

You get it.

But yeah, that's funny because that kind of SoundBite about like eating organic and they're still dying at thirty five.

I just know that that is going to be the thing.

Also, during Lockdown, when my favorite dumb viral phrase was Nature's healing, we are the virus that made me laugh so hard, like hey, yeah, people were just posting it so much, and now the one that's driving me nuts and I'm off social media.

Besides the Banana's Instagram account is people that cannot wait to say when someone tells you who they are, believe them.

Or when someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Or when someone feels who they are, believe them.

People say that about everything now, and it is I would love to put that one to bed.

Let's put that one.

We get it, guys.

I felt the same way about that saying, which was like it was like time to recognize and cut toxic people out of your life.

Yeah, And it's just it's like, oh, okay, it's just like how many people you cutting out of your life until you take a look at the mirror and maybe realize it's not everybody else.

Yeah?

Three, I think three.

Three.

You can cut three toxic people out of your life, which is fine.

It's like your parents and your shitty ex partner and you're like they're gone, and then everybody else.

You gotta get some good friends, got to get some nice, empathetic people in your life.

Surround yourself with beauty.

Oh it's tarantula season here, Kurt.

Oh, I know.

I heard.

I also heard that in like Arizona and New Mexico.

They're just like little little young male tarantulas are just everywhere looking for.

Thirsty Yeah, it's five to one.

There's five to one ratio of male to female transchos.

And the males go out at night, they come out of their holes and they go searching for for those hot babe tarantulas.

And I didn't know that was a thing.

But there was one, a dead one on my street.

I had never seen a translat Yeah, I'd never seen one in La and I saw one.

It was it was it black.

It was the black California tarantula.

You saw.

Very cool.

Sorry it passed on.

I gave it a little moment of silence.

Oh good.

Do they molt?

Doulas?

Definitely molt?

Yes, okay, one hundred molterers.

I know that one that it's an educational podcast that I do know.

Here's a story.

Do do crabs molt?

Hell?

Yeah, that's what soft shell crabs are.

They're molting.

Then they expand and they push out anything.

I think an exoskeleton, anything with an exoskeleton molts.

I'm not going to say everything, but I'm going to say a lot of exoskeletons.

You've heard for him, now everybody.

Scotty just said it.

Everything with an exoskeleton molts no, sir.

Uh.

Kia Fay sent this one in, and you know it really puts some things in perspective, Kurt.

Woman says yes to her boyfriend who proposed forty three times over seven years.

What a love story this is gonna be?

This sounds a little creepy.

Eric Clack sent this in.

CLA, that's a crazy last name.

Clack.

That's a wild one for people.

Klak, it's c l A C k oh okay, just like clack Clack.

I mean, I like the word clack, but I think Clack's a funnier first name.

I think if somebody his name like Clack Davis, you're like Clack Davis.

That's the lawyer you won on your side.

If my child, if I had the last name Clack, I would name my child Richard E.

Clack and then he could be Ricky E.

Clack.

Sure, Yes, I hope you have that third miraculous child.

I hope it is a virgin birth.

Here we go.

A woman said yes to her boyfriend after his thirty forty third proposal.

Oh wait, so was a boyfriend, so they were dating?

Are they were dating, and it gets a do it.

It does give us the timeline because it's People dot com.

You know, they're gonna just dive so deep.

Yeah, and it's going to be about people.

You and me.

You know sometimes when you open a People magazine, it's like two mirrors looking back at you and you.

Go, huh yeah, learn something about myself.

Huh.

Luke Windtrip has been keen to marry his then girlfriend Sarah since twenty eighteen.

The first post forty three times.

Yeah, just years.

It just sunk it for you.

It's funny.

It just sunk in for you.

The number is crazy, and he said the first time.

The tattoo artists popped the question early in the UK couple's relationships, Sarah promptly rejected him.

I just said, no, we have only been together for six months, you recalled, which is a very fair reject.

Yes, six months, six quite early, too early, quite early.

That is called the honeymoon phase.

I'm sure there's some chemicals that are deceiving you.

At that point, your brain is really telling you this is amazing.

Let those chemicals wear off.

The true love, Let the other chemicals come in, all of its chemicals.

Let the other ones come in, not the lustful one fun ones.

Wait for the sad chemicals.

Let the sad ones come in before you get down one.

The ladies and gents and thems and days the mart The marketing executive added, I loved him, but I didn't want to say yes to something that I would later retract.

That's fair.

But Luke persisted, planning, planning, one extravagant proposal after the other.

That's my favorite detail.

These weren't just like she came home from work.

They were in a garden, just extravagant proposals, one after another.

Over the course of seven years.

He rented a castle in Prague.

This is the best story we've ever done in this podcast.

Kifa is a top shelf bananimal for sending this in just one of the greatest.

He rented other castle in Prague.

He arranged candlelight dinners.

He planned a horseback riding excursion on a Jamaican beach.

So he's doing this.

So it's seven and forty three and seven, So he's doing it roughly every two to three months.

Is that it, I guess.

So he's every.

Extravagantly is so funny.

It's got to be at least two.

It's got to be no, no, no, okay, to every two to three months.

I don't know.

This is my favorite part of bananas is how bad at math?

We are?

So forty three times what we got to do is twelve.

Let's do it twelve times seven.

That's a normal eighty four.

I could have guessed that divided by forty three equals one point nine.

So yeah, every two months, every.

Two months, yeah, rough estimate, every two months, every two months, that's yeah.

Yeah, it was a leap year.

But during his forty second proposal, Sarah promised Luke, next time you ask, I am going to say yes, but just you wait.

So now she's toying with him.

After a year went by, look, Luke took Sarah to Greenwich in southeast London, where the Greenwich meantime the yearly average or mean of the time of day when the sun crosses the prime meridian.

I mean, he's a truly extravagant.

He's like well thought out.

Okay, wait, what is it?

What is it?

It's when the the it's the time of day when the sun crosses the prime meridian at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich and where that is kept, so it's right when it's overhead from the place where our clocks are set judge by.

Yeah.

Uh, he said, this is the center of the world, and you are the center of the world, and I want you to marry me.

Sarah recalled, and Sarah long last replied with one simple word, Yes, he finally won my heart.

She explained, what I totally in sentence.

Craziest fucking sentence.

She ruined it because it's kind of interesting and very funny.

And also if you're not ready, don't say yes, I get that, but to say he finally won my heart, my god, just say, just tease him.

Say maybe it was a joke.

Actually maybe she was saying that sarcastically, and it doesn't read that way into yea.

Yeah exactly.

My question is did you get a ring with him at every forty every every time?

Oh?

Okay, okay, he did.

He should probably get a Guinness World Records, she added, I am grateful he persisted for so long.

The couple did tie the knot in May, so they are married.

It worked out at a destination wedding in Jamaica.

Of course, they weren't on horseback.

It would be so funny to get married on horseback in the ocean in Jamaica.

It's just so you have to lean so far to kiss with the baby.

The priest is on a donkey.

The Universalist minister is on an ostrich standing in the surf next to you.

Sarah shared pictures of the happy occasion on Instagram.

That's website.

I've heard of it.

We have one.

It's Banana's podcast, The Bananas Podcast on Instagram, and Sarah wrote, mister and missus wind trip finally pretty forty three times over seven years, every two months.

He was asking her extravagantly and she rejected him.

But this made me think, So, you've talked about your engagement before, but did you have other potential ideas for when you were going to ask Laren?

Like were you batting things around?

Like did you have no plans?

That you had one plan?

I had one plan, which was the hot air balloon and it went and it was only a straw because she would always say, like legitimately, I would say, like I got a surprise for you, and she would always say, is that a hot air balloon ride?

And I had I just never knew that she was being one hundred percent sarcastic.

When she said that that she did not, I was like, she always asks for a hot air balloon ride, so it must be this must be important to her.

And she was like, no, I was fucking that's the worst thing.

I would never want to do a hot air balloon ride.

That's so funny.

And you have that great T shirt that a Ban Animals sent us from Creston.

Yes, I wear it all the time.

I wear two shirts that ban Animals gave me.

I wear my George's Hot Mare and the Georgia's shirt me too from Iowa City.

That's so wead.

People are always like, what's Georgia's And I'm like, I have no, It's a bar in Iowa City, a city I've never been to.

Yeah, that is so.

I've worn it on TV.

I've warned it a lot.

I love those shirts.

Yeah, there's such comfortable shirts.

We wear Excels Ban Animals.

If you ever want to bring a shirt that you love from your hometown, we are Excels.

And you bumped up, Scottie, you bumped up baby.

I've been working out, man, and then I'll shrink again and be a larger.

No, that's interesting.

When I was a valet at the River Cafe.

Yes, stories about this, well.

There were so many insane ones, but we there was a beautiful garden.

It is so if you've never been to the River Cafe, which I actually bet a lot of people have, because it's a very nice place and you're right under the Brooklyn Bridge.

And I was a valet for not too long, maybe five or six months.

Wait, No, River Cafe is not the one that's like a barge.

It is.

That's the one, right, Okay, I'm.

Going to go.

I'm going to go, and I'm going to take a picture for you.

Okay, Well the bar is so nice.

Skirt so you have to wear jackets, to take a.

Jacket jacket every single day to work.

That's very professional of you.

And no shirt at all, just a sport jacket and no shirt.

Just one little just one little string of pearls from one to pull to another.

But so there's a cobblestone driveway with a loop, so the cars would pulled down, pull around, we'd help them out, get in the car and go park in a separate lot.

But next to that cobblestone long driveway was a garden, beautiful flower garden that many I'm sure you've seen that many many, many people take pictures there.

And it was alway.

Because it's like a classic mother's day place to go to, yes, right.

Yes, And a lot of celebrities would come there, especially older celebrities.

And so the other thing is it was such a fancy place that a lot of people would come and they would get they would propose in that garden, and so we're parking cars and you're walking by one of the you know, peak experienced moments of a lot of people's lives and I saw low estimate in the six months I was there, thirty engagements right now bridge yeah, yeah, right, and the Brooklyn Bridge in the back, and there's just roses and flowers.

It is truly a little oasis.

It's very small.

So and sometimes the gent it was usually i mean every time for me, it was a guy that was asking his girlfriend or whatever partner to get engaged.

And sometimes they'd be like, hey, can you do this favor for me?

Or like would you guys take a picture from here, and we would always do it.

It was exciting.

So one time we had these car service drivers that worked alongside the valets, and it was definitely a scam.

So if somebody is like, can you get us a car back to the city, we'd say absolutely, we have a taxi light, will turn it on, and then a guy in a Lincoln Continental would drive down and they would drive them into the city and they would give us a kickback of ten or fifteen dollars, depending how far the ride went okay.

So on top of the tips we were getting, we were also getting kickbacks from car service guys.

Of course.

They were one with sal one was Mohammed, but one's name was is that was his name.

So I'm so So I'm standing down the long driveway and a couple comes out and another couple is getting engaged and in the and I'm like, that's very sweet.

Another couple goes, hey, can you get us a car?

I go, we actually have cars waiting, And I walk and I turn on our taxi light and I see Islam, who is a Muslim man, a long beard dressed in shockingly, shockingly, Islam was of the Muslim faith full.

He has long beard and he was wearing an outfit that was a traditional Muslim outfit.

And he got out of his car.

So somebody's getting engaged in my left are another couple's waiting with me.

My general manager, who is named Scott, also is walking back from wherever he was, and Islam starts jumping up and down and waving his hands letting me know he's there, yelling Islam, Islam, Islam, Oh my God, waving his hands over his head just to let me know he's The next car service don't let because they would snake each other's rides, like one would jump ahead of the other, and the couple next to me is instantly like, what is going on.

The couple getting engaged, stops the proposal and turns to see a man jumping up and down yelling Islam is on Islam, and my super cool boss Scott, walks by, suit like just stylish guy and just says to me, I think you just got converted and kept walking.

And then Islam came around.

We put him in the car and he kicked back ten bucks.

But it was everybody was so confused except me.

I knew what was going on, and Scott, I think you just got converted and never slowed down.

It was so I wish that couple were been animals.

I'm one thousand percent I'm sure they aren't.

But if you got engaged in the river cafe garden and a man was yelling Islam, Islam, Islam.

Let me know.

Email me at the Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com.

It was talk about memorable.

He will never forget that proposal, not our lives.

Did you see did you see that viral?

There was a TikTok that.

Yeah, it was for people who haven't seen it, it's I guess it's in probably Greece.

It's like in one of those Santorini all white buildings with the steps that go down, you know, turquoise blue Mediterranean water, and a dude had set up his camera on a tripod and like a perfect shot of this gorgeous backdrop.

He gets down on one knee and as he's taking the as he's taking the ring out, this woman eating a hot talk just steps right in front taurus with her big hat on.

And then her husband comes with a hot dog.

Both the proposal.

It's amazing.

Yeah, they step.

The woman steps in first and she's wearing a big sort of floppy hat around and just steps directly in front of the guy on his and the woman.

You see the woman like yes, like she's so happy.

The proposal is happening.

Yeah, the woman comes in first, this tortise woman, who I'm just guessing is British.

We don't know British.

Weird, it looks British to me.

And then she's pointing at other things.

She doesn't know that there's a camera.

She's not she can't see that the couple.

She can't see the couple.

It's and then the man steps in.

You cannot see his head.

He's closer to the camera.

You can see his belly, and he's holding you like a hot dog or a candy bar or something.

You just block out the entire frame again, makes it better.

Sometimes you're a perfect.

Thing is not perfect.

I hope before they the man who is proposing turned around, they like moved along so that they had no idea, so it was like a reveal when they went to go watch it.

That would have been.

Amazing to me too.

You want to tease me, And there's some thumbs ups.

Yeah, you know, this is an easy, easy, peasy one.

We're just giving a shout out here.

Oh good.

Shout out to the world's longest serving KFC worker who just recently passed away.

Oh that's a good one.

I love that.

That's a finger licking good one.

Thumbs up.

Thumbs up, my dad.

He retired Kurt, Oh really fifty two?

Yes.

Wow.

As a he was an appraiser.

He worked mostly for the State of Maryland, and he would do land appraisals.

So if there was a building project, we need a highway, we need a baseball stadium, he would have to go to the land that they wanted, that the state wanted, and he would have to figure out how much it was.

And he I think liked it in the first five or six years of his career and hated it for the remaining forty so really, well, didn't hate it, but didn't.

But it wasn't Yeah, it wasn't a huge fan of it.

So so what was the thing he didn't like about it the most?

Was it the bureaucracy?

Bureaucracy?

Oh, the bureaucracy.

He didn't care about the travel.

He's a great driver.

He hated that.

He would every it's a state project, it's a tax paid project, so every step of the way, you're getting screwed and questioned and second guest.

So he is free from the bureaucracy of state government.

That's awesome.

Does he have like a good pension because it was a state job.

I he's got a pension and an insurance so the day he dies, dude, right, that's what it was back then.

That's from college, get a job with a pension of benefits.

Yeah.

Can you imagine that he's.

A creative guy, creative guy to have.

Yeah, I picked up the flag.

I carried the creative side of it.

But will I have a pension and benefits till I die?

Probably not, but well you might.

You might have him something something from the w g A.

That's fine.

You know, we're all going to Golden Girls, So let's face it.

We're all going to live in one big house together where we can afford to live and throw a lot of parties.

That sounds fantastic.

I love you exactly.

I know.

I think it's gonna I think that's gonna be super common of just like older roommates.

Fun.

I don't want to be alone, you know, get grab everybody in my life.

I want we can.

I want all my friends, my partner, I want everybody there.

We we can.

We cohabitate very well together.

You and I get along great.

Yeah, all right?

A.

J.

Johnston.

AJ Johnson wants to thum about her best friend, Mish.

Mish has been helping AJ deal with heal emotionally for the better part of a decade.

That's a very kind thing to do for a friend.

And AJ want to and me a wish Mish a healing as well.

So Mish, we're sending you the best healthy healing vibes and blue skies imaginable.

And I'm glad you two have each other's best friends.

Yeah, here's kind of an insane one that I really appreciate.

And I believe this's been animals all billion Ethan Brown wants to thumb up his boss.

We've gotten a couple of bosses, but it's pretty rare.

He went to the hospital with double pneumonia in April.

His health deteriorated deteriorated from there.

He spent ten weeks in the hospital.

During that time, he had a tracheotomy, triple bypass heart surgery, open heart surgery, Gillian Barry syndrome or Bar syndrome.

I think it's Barry bar bar Gillian Barr syndrome.

And he is finally in rehabilitation.

He will be back out in the real world in two weeks.

After three weeks in rehab.

Ethan is so happy about this because he really likes his boss.

But also this nameless, heroic boss gave a down and out university student a chance in a valuable industry that has consistent income, and for that, Ethan is eternally grateful.

So selling healthy sending healthy vibes down under two, what's up to all our Australian pan animals?

Thumbs up?

And last, but not least, this one's curdiebe.

Samantha wants to thumb herself up and her roommate slashed bestie up for hosting a brunch with benefits.

This was benefiting women in need.

Samantha had the idea to host a brunch to give back while also connecting women.

And they're sending all the feminine products they got his donations, which she sent a photo of them, and it is a lot nic pads, tampon's bras, you name it.

That's great and they're sending it to I Support the Girls, which Samantha learned about on bananas.

That's awesome.

It loms up to you.

Samantha, Hey, banana of the week.

That's fantasynast of the week.

And remember at Bananas Fest on October fourth, we will be breaking another world record, but this one for the number of people wearing bras on their head in one moment, and then we will all donate those bras to I support the girls.

Okay, so bring a new bra, Bring a new bra to Bananas Fest, any size, any shape, where it once on your head, and then donate it.

Basically we're donating it in plastic bags because we're not creeps.

So, yeah, did you like that?

Did you like that Ski Shelle idea?

I didn't see it yet.

Okay, So the idea was one of the hat of like a couple ideas, but one was to have a little ski shehllet area.

So we'll have a snow machine going and a Saint Bernard and you can get your picture taken and maybe like like one of those cutouts where you can put your head through.

I would love to find someone in in Denver who can paint, who can cut out two holes into a piece of plywood and make it stand up and then paint on it two bananas riding a snowmobile together and so then people can stick their head out and be the bananas on the snowmobile while it's actually snowing with a real Saint Bernard.

Dog Colorado Bananimals.

If you're an artist and you're good at this kind of stuff, please dm us right away at Banana's podcast, because we really do want this.

We want a little winter wonderland in the middle of Denver.

Yeah, so fun.

Yeah, that'll be fun.

Right, I'm in.

That's a yes for me, all right, sweet.

I love it.

We just got to find a snow machine.

If you have a snow machine, they'll.

Have that in Colorado.

We'll find that.

Oh yeah, we'll get a snow machine.

This was in the We we see.

The British Broadcasting Company Corporation.

I don't know that's a good question.

I think Chaps Broadcasting Chaps.

All right.

This is written by Clara Bullock, WHOA that is fascinating because oh it's just like one letter off from Bollock.

I see it's Bullock.

So that's changes at all because in the UK Bollock is right, Oh yeah, Jim J.

Bullock.

Okay, does Clara Bullock and Vicky Clark best in the biz?

Best tributes have been paid to the world's largest long guests serving KFC employee who has died after working at the same company.

How many years, Scottie, Oh god, well, it's a good transition.

I'll say fifty two, but we'll see forty seven.

Damn.

Oh.

One second.

My beautiful wife was trying to be so quiet as to not interrupt that she left the fridge door open when she left, and then it starts making a weird song.

That sound time for divorce, Time for divorce.

It sounds like the fridge is coming to murder me.

It sounds so good.

It sounds it sounds it really does sound like the like Halloween.

Pauline Richards, who was known by many as Miss KFC, first started working in Taunton's East Street restaurant in nineteen seventy eight.

She began her career as a cleaner, but went on to take on almost every role in the store, including team leader and manager.

Tributes have been have poured in from Taunton residents and businesses, who described her as a kind and compassionate woman who had a dry sense of humor.

Tattontown Council said it was said to learn of Miss Richard's death, and described her as a friendly and well known face in the town.

She was excited and incredibly deserving recipient of one of our civic awards.

Back in March this year, a spokes person for the council said, our thoughts are with her family and all all those who knew and loved her.

She there's a picture of her.

She's she's this big smile on.

She's wearing her KFC outfit.

She's just like her both arms out like she's going to embrace the world.

So banana, beautiful banana of the week right there.

Yes, another one, let's do too.

Let's do Samantha and Paulina or whatever name.

We got two bananas of the week.

We had.

You know, your friend, my friend worked at a KFC and I saw him debone a Chicken ones and it was so fast and it was crazy fast.

And he said they really did make their biscuits, you know, from scratch or whatever it was.

Chris is Houselet.

Yeah, he worked at a KFC.

Yes, And he could smell when chicken was not fresh anymore before it smelled bat.

He could tell you when it was new chicken at a restaurant.

He could be like this chicken is one day away from beig back because he worked at a KFC.

And this is so wild.

That I don't remember that, like.

One of your best friends.

One of my best friends worked at a KFC.

Yes he did.

I watched him debone a chicken once and I was like, you, you son of a bitch.

I think it was when he was at Murray State.

Oh okay, oh that makes sense, Okay.

I would we would go to we would do this thing called club Sidewalk in college where we would go when all the bars would let out, and I would wear a KFC bucket on my head, an empty one, and then carry one around and I would fill it with candy and then just walk up to people.

And this was before we filmed everything.

I did it because I was a poet, Kurt.

I did it because I was painting with different colors in life.

And people would get either extremely disappointed I wasn't giving away free fried chicken, or so happy they were getting free candy at one am.

But yeah, we would just walk up and down and yeah, I'd put an empty KFC bucket on my head and then I'd carry another one full of candy and just walk up to drunks and give them candy.

I love it while drunk, I'm assuming I was always a little buzz yes.

But it was funny because the people would look in like oh, and then when they would see it wasn't delicious eleven herbs and spices, they would be like, oh okay.

But other people would be like, is that laffy taffy?

Can't get in there?

Girl, eat a laffy taffy.

Here is I literally was talking about this last episode and I asked Katie to cut it.

But I'm going back into wis I need help.

I want to request if there are any bananimals that live in on the East Coast, or specifically in New Jersey, who enjoy drinking white wine.

I would love a suggestion of a vineyard or a type a brand of wine that I may purchase at a normal wine shop because I am dying over here.

I have bought fifteen bottles of white wine and every single one has been terrible.

And I have been spending the right amounts of money.

It's just a wildly different wine set up on the East Coast than it is on the West Coast.

Yeah, and I like to have a glass of white wine with dinner sometimes, and I would like to find something that I can buy that I don't have to have specialty shipped from the West Coast.

Help them out in Animals East Animals.

Get this guy some white wine already.

Kirry Bean needs good white wine.

For crying out white wine.

Oh my god, I'm a caricature of myself.

No, you need it to blow off some steam.

You're a hard work and dad, that's what you are.

You need a little white wine unwined at the end of the night.

And I respect it.

You know what, I don't asking for it, I am, I don't.

It is very interesting too that having what's great about having a job is that like four nights out of the like I simply cannot drink at all because I need to like wake up and be on it at five in the morning.

Yeah, and so it's like.

It's just great.

It's kind of like perfect because then three days of drinking perfect.

I love it.

Three days a week of drinking.

Wonder you really appreciate it?

Heck, yeah, that's great.

Yeah, enanmals send that into us anything you want.

You know who we are and you know where.

To find is well DM me the wine recommendations.

Well, thank you, Scotty, I love.

Thank you, Curty buddy.

Great to see you glad things are going great.

Bananimals, stay positive out there.

Blue skies are just around the corner.

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