If You Give a Kid an Apple

0:00 Scotty, you ready?

0:01 Could it be? I think I am ready to laugh and laugh and laugh.

0:04 I got some good ones today.

0:06 I do, too. I actually have a couple ba-bangers.

0:08 Oh, are we about to knock out a record-breaking, awesome episode, Scotty?

0:14 Yeah, this is going to blow brains, win over hearts, and change lives.

0:19 I'm going to say it right now. If you've never listened to Bananas, this is the episode to listen to.

0:24 I'm going to say it right now. Welcome. Welcome.

0:27 Canadian tourist accused of stealing Flamingo from Las Vegas Strip says he drank up to 40 beers before pulling it off.

0:35 Woo, 40 beers. Wow. I'm just, my brain immediately goes to, that is a lot of having to pee.

0:47 Yeah.

0:47 Yikes.

0:49 I can't even physically imagine the space 40 beers would take up.

0:54 No, I can't either. All right, Flamingo stuff. Well, let's get our beaks wet and stick our necks out a little bit on a very special episode of Bananas. If I said something that.

1:07 Flipped your world on its head, would you believe me? Guys, gals, non-binary pals, welcome to Bananas. I'm Kurt Braunohler.

1:36 I'm Banana Boy number two, Scotty Landis. Thank you for listening to the silliest little podcast there ever was. It doesn't matter if you look like a freak. But you're very nice and normal on the inside, or you look nice and normal and you're a freak on the inside. You are both and all welcome here, no matter what.

1:53 Especially the good and decent people of Cannon, Georgia.

1:59 Cannon?

2:00 Never heard of Cannon, Georgia. Population 643.

2:04 Oh, perfect number.

2:07 Including an absolutely wonderful bananimal, Ann Schaefer. Canon, Georgia, all 643 of you, but especially Ann, you're officially on the map.

2:19 You're on the map. Thank you for listening, Ann, and thank you for being from Canon. Is it C-A-N-N-O-N?

2:25 C-A-N-O-N. There it is. The South's never been great at spelling. We can all acknowledge that. They're good at many things, but you look at literacy rates. Georgia's doing okay, but Mississippi and Alabama, come on, let's get some more books on those shelves.

2:38 Let's get some more books on those shelves. Speaking of, I got two beautiful bookshelves behind me god they look nice and i need i need some more books on my shelves but i just need to get them from my basement.

2:49 Yeah how many tashin photo books do you have that seems to be i have one oh i do see one actually.

2:57 Oh it's actually not even tashin it's a man ray um book of man ray photographs But that's the only one. I don't think I have any other Tashin.

3:06 I'm going to hunt you down a Tashin. There's an actual brick and mortar near the Grove. And anybody who's ever been to L.A., the Grove is like this outdoor mall with a giant fountain in it. It has a trolley that you can ride at one mile an hour and almost kill tourists. You may have seen Maria Menudos or what's that guy's name? A.C. Slater from Mario Lopez.

3:30 Mario Lopez. I was going to say Julio Lopez.

3:32 A.C.

3:32 Slater. recording extra there. But anyways, it is a strange and also necessary place in Los Angeles. And they have a Tashin book store kiosk thing. It looks like a little greenhouse. I don't know who at Tashin is in charge of open and closing hours. I would say it's probably open... Thursday, 12.30 p.m. until 3, and then Saturday from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m., and no other times.

4:02 Because every time I walk by, I'm like, I would probably buy that book, and it's never been opened.

4:09 Tashin always feels like, to me, it's like, hey, are you a dad?

4:15 Do you like looking at pictures?

4:17 Here's some cars, and over there are some boobs.

4:20 Yeah. Pull boobs and landscapes. It's like when you've upgraded from Ikea to that next tier of furniture, the West Elms of the world, the CB2s. It's like, let's put a little Tashin on this.

4:33 Let's get a little Tashin going.

4:36 Yeah, I always felt that way about cheese in New York when we were very young people. And you would be like, I'm trying to be sophisticated. I have $ 9. And you'd also show up with a six pack of Rheingold beer. But it was like, at first you buy Brie because you're like, I know what this is. People will eat it. And then at some point you advance beyond Brie. I don't know if it's an improvement. Maybe we need to go back to Brie.

5:00 Yeah. You know, I actually had like one of those New York cheese moments. I was going, we were going to, we're going to, we're going to Fire Island. And we were like just staying with some of Lauren's friends for, you know, they were just letting us stay with them. And I was like, I got to bring good wine and good like food.

5:18 Yeah.

5:18 And so I went to Murray's Cheese Shop.

5:20 Very nice.

5:21 I don't think I've ever actually been to the original Murray's Cheese Shop in the West Village. And I walked in there and it was just the, it is, it's literally, I was just like, oh, I forgot that there are, So many thousands of cheeses that I have never heard of and are the most delicious thing I've ever tasted.

5:38 Good. I know. I mean, I remember Chelsea Peretti being like, we have to buy Humboldt Fog. And I said, okay, classic. And then also I went and bought a square that was as big as a matchbox car and it was like $ 26. And I'm like, you son of a gun. That was my groceries for the week. I did want to bring up one thing. We did the story about a month ago about the teacher who separated the kids by zodiac signs.

6:06 Yes.

6:07 And that the earth signs were a mistake.

6:10 We've had a lot of messages from teachers that they do indeed, that this works, that they do organize their kids this way.

6:18 Yes. And we had many people say that they wanted to do your and my charts based on our birthdays.

6:23 Oh, really?

6:24 Yes. The first one that I... I'm just going to do this one as a vague one. But if you do want to do curtainized charts, write to us. Someone was like, what time were you born? And I was like, I got to text my mom. I don't know.

6:33 I have my birth certificate right there behind me in that Olympia box.

6:38 What a silly thing that we all carry this piece of paper that gets more and more ragged as it goes.

6:44 It's also mine. Mine is on like. X-ray paper like it's it's hard and plastic is.

6:52 Yours too yes and mine has a crease in it because somebody folded at some point why isn't this on and i'm not kidding like a piece of aluminum or like a little sliver of titanium something that we will keep forever easy to transport can't.

7:08 Be destroyed my kids my kids are just on a freaking piece of paper They just hand you like a regular fucking piece of paper. They're like, here's their most important document for the rest of their life. Here you go.

7:21 Yeah. Don't mistake this for any other piece of paper in your entire existence. Anyway, Stephanie Williams reached out right away, and I'm just going to read exactly what she said. She also says if she was a teacher at the end. So here we go. Okay, Bananboys, I'm a huge fan. I never miss an episode. Thank you, Stephanie Williams. Thank you.

7:41 And I am also an intuitive life coach. Thank you, Stephanie Williams.

7:44 Oh, awesome.

7:45 I read people's birth charts and help them integrate to their higher purpose. I have looked at both of your charts, and I am sorry to say from the information that I could find about you that you are absolutely dead ringers for a Virgo and a Pisces. True. I'm a Virgo, you're a Pisces. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

8:01 Wait, she just guessed that? She didn't know her birthdays?

8:04 I think she Googled it. Oh, oh, yeah, yeah. And also, if you listen to the pod, our Instagram, we always post each other's birthdays. Turns out we've doxxed ourself into oblivion. Of course. Fun fact. Virgo and Pisces are opposite signs on the zodiac. This is a sign of compatibility.

8:23 Yeah. It's like opposing colors on the color wheel.

8:27 We're green and red, baby. We're great for each other. Um, your birth times are not readily available online. Thank God. So obviously this is only a tiny snippet of who you two are, but today's episode made me laugh because yes, you've been animals might know more astrology than the average person. And she said, if I was a teacher, I would put water and our science together and fire and air together.

8:47 Typically in astrology, you are most compatible with either the same element as you are if you're fire and air or or water and earth. So it turns out you and I were built to last. Nice.

8:58 That's pretty great, right? Not surprised at all. My mom was a Virgo, and Gus is a Virgo. And Gus and I went on our first big hike yesterday. Where'd you go? I won't shut the F up about it.

9:11 That's cool.

9:13 We went to a waterfall near my house. It's like a five-minute drive, and I always forget how goddamn gorgeous this huge reservation that I lived in is. Oh, nice. And we did like a mile and a half long hike, 300 feet of elevation, and it was his first time. He's seven years old. Nailed it. Nailed it. He was not even tired at the end.

9:39 No, no, they're built for that.

9:41 I was so psyched. It's great that, you know, my kids complain about walking all the time and we walk constantly. So they're always complaining. And so he did not complain at all. And it was so gorgeous. It was like, it's peak right now.

9:53 It's peak.

9:54 Everything's starting to, the colors are starting to change, but it's still like 62 degrees out. sunny every day this week true fall true fall good for you good make them fall in love with the outdoors did you bring a stick home did you have to have them leave a stick in the parking lot we were we were doing walking sticks but then we would just get rid of them and then find new ones the best yeah it's the best.

10:16 Heck yeah Um, let's do it. Let's do the story. All right.

10:23 I'm here. I'm here for it.

10:25 I'm here for it.

10:26 This was sent in to us by Jonah Ray.

10:30 We love Jonah Ray.

10:31 Friend of the pod, Jonah Ray. We should have him on Bronanas.

10:34 Would love to have him on our Patreon where we have great guests. Great guests.

10:38 Canadian tourist accused of stealing flamingo from Las Vegas strips as he drank 40 beers before pulling it off.

10:44 Here it is.

10:45 It's amazing. This was written, this was in the New York Post. It was written by Zoe Hussain, who a lot of people say is the best.

10:53 Best in the biz.

10:54 In the biz.

10:56 Absolutely.

10:57 A tourist, a Canadian tourist, claims he was sleep deprived and hammered on dozens of beers when he snatched a beloved flamingo from a Las Vegas casino and took selfies with it with his hands around its neck.

11:11 Oh, no. Not cool. No, no. We are not for animal assault. No, never, ever.

11:17 We are for selfies with flamingos, but not with your hands around his neck.

11:21 Look, don't touch.

11:22 Michael Mitchell Fairbarn, 34, is on trial for two counts of animal cruelty after he allegedly drunkenly stole Peachy the Flamingo from the Flamingo Hotel and Casino and carried him to his hotel room.

11:38 In March.

11:39 Also... Honestly, I would like to put the Flamingo Hotel and Casino on trial for even fucking having a goddamn flamingo.

11:51 Yeah, just have animatronic ones. All flamingos kind of move like they're animatronic anyways.

11:56 Have the best animatronic flamingos that talk and dance. You do not need a live animal as your mascot. Fairbarn, a married father of three from Central Ontario... testified in his own defense on Friday that he never meant to hurt Peachy and rather snatched the 27-year-old Jesus majestic bird as a silly prank joke.

12:21 After 40 beers.

12:23 That's in quotes. Silly prank joke to photograph.

12:26 He is Canadian.

12:27 The tourist whose father had been recently diagnosed with cancer decided to turn off his phone on March 2nd For the first time in nine years to let loose, he said. Okay. So this guy goes to Las Vegas.

12:45 That's what it's for.

12:46 He's grieving. He has 30 to 40 beers. Turns his phone off and lets loose.

12:53 Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

12:56 The photograph.

12:58 He's shirtless.

13:02 He's shirtless in a hotel room with a flamingo.

13:05 Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

13:08 He definitely, he has, yeah, and he has, like, my dad bod. Like, he should definitely have his shirt on.

13:15 Oh.

13:15 Over the course of the day, Fairbarn pounded back an estimated 30 to 40, walked to Las Vegas Boulevard and gambled and testified.

13:22 30 beers.

13:23 I can't even imagine. Fairbarn then turned back on his phone, made a Snapchat audio call to a work colleague.

13:30 Uh-oh.

13:32 And stopped at the Flamingo Habitat while drunk and sleep-deprived at 5 a.m. the next day. I know that 5 a.m.

13:39 Idea.

13:41 I don't know after 30 beers, but after a night of drinking at 5 a.m., things do seem like they're a good idea when they're not.

13:51 Of course. This is Drunken Maverick. This is what Vegas is. Again, we don't like people hurting birds. No. But we do like Canadians drinking 40 beers and making an ass out of themselves.

14:02 The booze hound, who said he was in Vegas for a global construction show, entered the habitat and sat with another flamingo.

14:12 That's fine. That's fine. We like that.

14:16 Then decided to jokingly grab Peachy and carry the bird to his hotel room for two to three minutes. That's in quotes. Two to three minutes.

14:26 Oh, Fairbarn. Turn that phone back on.

14:28 Then put the flamingo in the hallway and was arrested while changing to return it. So he took some photos with the bird, then put the bird in the hallway, and then was changing to then go return it. Like he needed a costume change in order to put the bird back.

14:49 Yes.

14:50 These are such drunk decisions.

14:52 Yeah, because there's no cameras in a casino.

14:56 The dad was captured on surveillance footage shown to the Clark County jury grabbing Peachy out of the casino's habitat. I thought it was something that we could joke about for the rest of our lives, Fairbarn said. Did you ever at any time have any malicious intent or desire, the attorney asked per the outlet? Did you intend to kill? No, Fairbarn responded. There's another photo of the bird just standing in a hotel room by itself. It is such a strange sight to see a flamingo just in the hallway of a hotel. Peachy had seven to eight missing feathers.

15:35 I have no idea if that's a lot. And, okay.

15:40 But Peachy lived.

15:42 Yeah, the Chilean flamingo needed antibiotics.

15:45 Aww. Aww.

15:46 During a cross-examination, Fairbairn admitted the surveillance video doesn't look good. And he said he was taking responsibility. but claimed he had no idea how Peachy's feathers went missing. Fairbairn also testified that he'd been on house arrest since the Flamingo heist and hadn't been able to return to Canada. Oh, my God. He's been stuck.

16:05 They kept him here.

16:06 He's been stuck in Las Vegas. That's a tough town.

16:09 That's punishment.

16:10 To be stuck in for a while.

16:11 Yeah.

16:12 If you're not from there. I'm sure it's a delightful place to live if you live there.

16:15 Yeah. But the people that live there, they don't live on the strip. Right. Exactly. And this poor guy was probably stuck somewhere near wherever the police are. Yeah. All right. Well. All right. You did the crime, you're going to do the time, bud. You can't just grab wild animals that are trapped in captivity. My God. I think that, first of all, I've only been to the Flamingo once. I may have told this story. I'm pretty sure I did, but what the age? Because I have been to the Flamingo.

16:44 I had gone down to– Flamingo is cool because it's one of those places where you can bet on table games for like $ 2.

16:52 Okay.

16:53 Really?

16:53 $ 5, yeah.

16:54 That's amazing. So I've gotten down– To a very small amount. I'm not a gambler. I work too hard to just pee my money away. But I'll say, okay, I'm going to do $ 100 while I'm in Las Vegas. And so I was, God, this was in 2010. And I'm walking around, end up at the Flamingo. I've lost everything just playing dumb and not knowing what I'm doing also. I've never.

17:20 So I go to the roulette wheel at the Flamingo and I put it on odd, and I turned to the woman that I was with. I think I put like $ 4 down. And I said to her, well, I've always been kind of an odd guy. And then it hit. So then I had $ 8. And I did it again. And I did it again. And I just kept saying, and she kept laughing, I've always been kind of an odd guy. And I just added it up. So I think it ended up getting to something like $ 120. Yeah. Uh, cause it just kept hitting odd numbers, which if you look at how roulette streaks, it's like, it'll go six, eight black in a row and then a red. It's really, yeah.

18:00 So anyways, and then I'm like, I'll cash out, I'll cash out, I'll cash out. And then I hear somebody said, is that Scotty fucking Landis? And I turn and I see this dude and I knew it was either a guy I went to college with named Buzz or a guy I went to high school with, uh, named Jason. And so I'm looking at both of them and they're walking over to me with their partner, their wife, and I, and they've lost their hair since college or high school.

18:29 And I'm like, oh my God, they definitely know who I am. So I better know who this is. And I had to do like a one second, what am I going to do here? Like, and so I said to myself, if you call a guy named Jason Buzz and That's a lot better than calling a guy named Buzz Jason. Yeah. So that's what I did. I said, oh, my God, is that Buzz? And then he goes, dude, what are you doing here? And it was my college friend, Buzz, who was in town from Oregon. He lives in Portland or lived at the time. And it was so funny because I was like, nickname is better than misnaming somebody who shouted across a casino for me. I was feeling flush.

19:11 I bought them some beers. But yes, in life, go for the nickname. Don't just go for like buddy or hey, dude. Just give them a nickname. Go for it.

19:22 Did you ever have a nickname you wanted people to call you and no one ever did?

19:26 No, because Scott gets so many. I've had a trillion scooters, Scooter Magruder, Snotty, Spotty Scott, Squatty. You know, scandalous.

19:37 For a very long time in my phone, you were Scotchy Drunk Dragon, and that was from a specific day when we were working on um uh straight uh money from strangers yeah or no no i think it was actually before money from strangers it was uh.

19:54 Overdrive mega drive mega drive yeah it was one of the other and got to the drunk dragon yeah.

20:00 And i've named you while we were like we're going out for drinks And so it's always been that. And I recently had to change it because my kids are always just staring at their screen obsessed. So the screen in the car when I have it on and you call or you text or they see it and it just says Scotchy Drunk Dragon and they're just reading everything.

20:18 So now it's just, it's back to Scotty Landis.

20:21 Yeah, that's fine. Also, that's fascinating. I hadn't thought of that, that kids are addicted to screens now. I mean, we all are, but kids are. And that Cars have giant screens. I guess I'm not driving around enough toddlers, you know, and young people, which is probably a good thing. Yeah. Wow. So their eyes go right to the screen.

20:40 Here's something that I would not have anticipated, like a technology thing that I think is not good for kids, but I never would have anticipated it, is that I constantly use a map. I use Google Maps or I use Waze to get places. And they always, they always are, they're used to having a time of how many minutes left in the car drive. And when they don't have it, it drives them fucking crazy. And it's like, oh, this is terrible.

21:09 That's weird.

21:10 Just chill and look out the window.

21:12 Talk.

21:13 Do something else rather than watch the minutes click down on the eight-minute drive that we're doing right now.

21:20 Interesting. Right? That is something I... Man, I'm learning things left and right right now. That's so fascinating that they always... their life has had a countdown timer because of Google Maps. Yep.

21:36 They're always aware of how long the drive is.

21:39 That's so fascinating that it's not, because when I was a kid and we'd say go to Ocean City, it's about two and a half hours, three hours depending, or six hours depending on traffic. But we would, if you hit the Bay Bridge, you knew you were like an hour and a half there and you knew you had about 45 minutes to go. So it was more landmark based traffic. Also, I try to never use– well, my car doesn't have a screen. And I don't– I have a 1990 car. Oh, right. I have a 1990. That one.

22:09 So I don't ever– I just look at it and then I drive to it.

22:15 Are you only driving that car now? You're not using the other car?

22:17 Yeah, for like two years. Well, I was going to lease a car. And then in LA, there's this great lease guy named Shim. He's amazing. And you just go, I want this car, this model, and this is what I want my monthly payment. And he finds it. And so I did that a couple years back. And he goes, you know how bad the interest rates are right now?

22:35 I was like, yeah. And he said, I can't get you a car, like one of these cars, for less than $ 700 a month. So crazy. And I wasn't looking for sports cars or fancy SUVs. I was looking at pretty basic stuff. And anything plug-in, they're like, forget it. So he's like, you own a car, right? I go, yeah. And he goes, drive that. He's like, what are you doing?

22:56 And it like a light bulb clicked. And it was like, oh, yeah. Why make any car payment when I have zero car payment? Yeah. So I drive it with pride. But yeah, I don't even look at, I just look at ahead of time. And then I try to just get there. And if I get lost, I have my phone. But I like getting lost. Yeah. I don't have children in my car.

23:16 Exactly. I mean, I enjoy getting lost as well. I also, because the same thing with my car, because for a little while I was doing the same thing, right? Like maybe before COVID, I would just like get a, I would lease a car and then I would get a new car every like three, four years.

23:32 It's a write-off.

23:33 And then with kids and now with everything so much more expensive, I was like, oh, I have these cars until they fall apart. And this winter, because it was such a crazy winter here, so much snow. There was like multiple days and storms where there was like straight up two feet of snow on top of my car and I had to quickly clear it. And so I used a snow shovel to just like get it off of my car. And I just scratched.

24:05 The shit out of both cars.

24:07 Like scratched them so much.

24:09 It's crazy.

24:09 There's just scratches across front. And of course, because Instagram is spying on me at all times.

24:16 Yeah.

24:16 They're like, hey, you got a scratch car? Here, buy this pen. And this pen will meld the paint.

24:22 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

24:24 And I was like, all right, I'll try the pen. I get the pen. I try it out. I'm like, holy shit. You just draw this pen over the scratch, and it disappears.

24:34 It disappears.

24:35 So then I spent, because there's a lot of scratches, Scotty. I spent probably one full hour. Then you're essentially highlighting every scratch, right? Highlighting every scratch, it's disappearing, it's disappearing. One week later, now it's whatever the magic formula was, it has worn off. And now I've actually highlighted. It's a white stripe.

25:06 And it used to look so bad.

25:07 It looks so scratched. Now it looks fucking crazy.

25:11 Wow.

25:11 It's now a white highlight, highlighting scratches all along the car, all over the roof, all over the front, all over the side. It is so insane. And I want to kill the people who like sell that pen. That's so crazy to sell a.

25:26 Pen like that. That's so funny. You Streisand it affected your own car. You drew attention to something nobody would have noticed otherwise. One of my favorite like modern chores is to grab one of those magic erasers and go around the house and just do scuffs off the wall and the floorboards and the doors. Oh, I love it.

25:43 It's like I'll spend an hour. It's insane. And I turn on all the lights, and I look around, and I'm like, there's a little scuff. And I just scrub it off. It's so sad.

25:50 I don't know what is going on. I don't know what magic is in there.

25:54 I do.

25:55 It's scary.

25:55 What, you do? I looked it up, because I'm like, how is this possible?

25:58 How is it possible? Is it just really tiny abrasions?

26:02 Correct. There's no chemicals. So cool. It's like micro... It's just super sharp little micro things that just scratch it off. But I was like, this has to be giving me something terrible... I wear like a latex glove when I do it because it like rubs your fingers raw.

26:17 Yeah.

26:19 No chemicals. It is a little micro, like little knives, little white knives on there that just scratch it off. And I'm like, well, this makes me like it even more.

26:28 That's crazy.

26:30 It is.

26:30 It's really, you know what? That is the one thing of all the problems modern society has brought. The magic eraser, worth it.

26:37 Thank God. Modern coolers, pool floats, and the magic eraser.

26:41 Yeah.

26:42 We are charging into the future in ways that we never, ever knew. Joshua Duffield sent this one in. You can send your stories to the Banana Boys. You can send it to thebananaspodcast at gmail.com or thebananaspodcast on Instagram. If you've never listened to this podcast before, welcome.

27:02 This is your first episode.

27:04 Not bad. This one made me laugh from start to finish. I love everything about it. Thank you for sending it in, Joshua Duffield. People who drink their own pee are obsessed with AI, using it to reassure themselves that it's a miraculous cure-all. Dude, this is so good. It's like, whatever this is, I don't know this phenomenon, but this is a futurism, so that's a real website, written by Joe Wilkins, who's the best of the piss and biz. Pee drinkers are absolutely obsessed with AI. Yeah. For years now, Facebook has played host to a truly stupefying number of groups for the tens of thousands of people interested in urine therapy, a pseudoscience practice involving the use of human micturate to treat,

27:58 in quotes, treat ailments ranging from acne to viral infections to even terminal cancer.

28:04 I love that idea. I love the idea that it's like your body wants to get rid of this. Make it take it again.

28:15 Yes, it defies what this podcast exists for. You cannot understand it. The members of the groups have done a fine job cultivating dangerous ecosystem of quack remedies and misinformation on their own. Of course. But with the advent of A.I. Men here starting to branch out using the tools to brainstorm new applications and reassure themselves that pee is indeed a cure-all they already believe it to be. This and the photos and the videos they're making, it's unbelievable. I went down a rabbit hole of these videos and everyone makes me laugh because it's just so insane to like, Do the Rosie the Riveter, but she's holding a cup of urine. It's wild.

29:00 What? Really?

29:01 Oh, yeah.

29:01 Those images exist?

29:03 So many, you could spend the rest of your life looking at them. So dabble, don't dive in. In a Facebook group called Urine Therapy, Your Sacred Plasma Medicine, which has over 45,000 members. Uh-huh. Oh my God. Some discovered that popular AI chatbots initially pushed back on the wild notions as tinkle as a medicine. So the AI was like, this isn't true. And then they override that. They override the AI saying, this isn't true.

29:32 Just assume it is good for me. What are other ways to do it?

29:36 Exactly. Have you ever come across any AI tool that is positive? about urine therapy and explains it in detail? One frustrated user asked. I haven't found a single one so far.

29:47 Oh my God, I love this.

29:48 And yet, they persist. But despite some initial hurdles, acolytes of urine drinking lifestyle... have found it remarkably easy to break through the chatbot safeguards engineering AI to say whatever it is they want to hear to begin with. They bypass it seems it simply involves mentioning the word esoteric. Wait, really?

30:11 You have to put the word esoteric into your prompt and then it bypasses it. Ask the right questions on chat GPT. One commenter replied to posting, A question on the breakthrough of AI's anti-urotherapy bias. So AI is saying, don't do this as well as all doctors. And tell them, hey, don't give me no BS mainstream stuff about urine therapy.

30:36 Give me esoteric knowledge only, please. And they will give you a bunch of really cool info, the commenters said.

30:45 Oh, man, I love this so much.

30:47 They're just fooling them. What is it when you know... You're being told it's wrong. And then you say, don't tell me it's wrong in a different way. And then you go, I knew I was right.

30:59 Yeah, exactly.

31:01 That is America.

31:02 100%.

31:04 It's the most American point of view I can think of. Besides talking to strangers at gas stations, this is number two. Another, I mean, it's so dope. Get rid of that mainstream BS. I just love it.

31:18 I just imagine that there's just... Like, is there a group that's just like Flat Earth Piss Drinkers?

31:25 Yes.

31:26 Because they've got just like Flat Earth Piss Drinkers Association.

31:30 I love it. It's totally, yes. It is a waste product from your body. This is amazing to me. Another group member suggested the original poster, just put esoteric framework in your search. One Facebook recommended using Google Gemini saying, it has gone deeply with me about it. It's gone deeply with me? Once users have broken through the fragile safeguard, they find their favorite AI chatbots more willing to promote all things pee. One user, seizing Google's seemingly looser urine therapy guardrails, shared that she uploaded, quote, blood and urine test results on Gemini AI. It says my kidneys and livers are filtering optimally, even though I've been drinking urine almost every day for six years now. Wow. Don't want

32:19 to slow dance with them. Others use generative AI to spew out stomach-churning urine therapy propaganda. Urine is the solution to everything, cheers an extraordinary AI-generated poster that shared, quote, sacred plasma medicine. Bathe it in. Soak your feet in it, it says. Another AI-generated image depicts a tray of urine jello shots with a sign claiming drinking pee supports kidney health and hydration boost. Health claims that are easily disproven given the quantity of toxins and sodium content in urine.

32:58 So it is so fascinating that basically they can become AI artists to support unfounded bullshit. Of course, people don't need AI chatbots to tell them whether or not to chug their own piss, which contains a ton of liver waste and bacteria our bodies intend to expel, as a report in the Journal of Urology. There we go. Noted.

33:25 Much of what we have heard about the use of urine therapy has zero medical basis and is a folk remedy that can actually worsen injuries such as jellyfish stings.

33:37 It can worsen jellyfish stings.

33:39 Yeah.

33:40 I thought it was just neutral. I know it didn't help, but it's surprising to find out it can worsen it.

33:45 I think there might be some stuff, some waste you don't want to get in those open sores. But if you're already convinced of the inherent medical qualities of pee, it seems you have a friend in AI as long as you instruct it to tap into, quote, esoteric knowledge first.

34:04 Oh, man.

34:05 Unbelievable.

34:06 I also like that you just gave all the piss drinkers who listen to our podcast the.

34:12 It's an educational podcast.

34:13 You just gave them instructions on how to get AI to give them good info.

34:17 It's absolutely insane to me to do that thing. It is.

34:22 I mean, it's like a Bear Grylls thing.

34:25 You would do it.

34:27 He was always drinking his own piss.

34:29 I mean, the meme of him that just is like, strong wind, drinks piss. Those are 10 out of 10 old school 20-year-old memes. Yeah. Seas lion drinks piss. Yeah. But also, he was doing it for true survival. If you're in the desert, that's one thing. If you're in Des Moines, come on.

34:49 Come on. You're in Des Moines.

34:52 There's plenty of steak and shakes up there. You don't need to drink your own urine. I would say don't do that, as a matter of fact. Absolutely insane.

35:01 Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention, guys, if you're Madison, Wisconsin, I'll be in Madison for New Year's, for New Year's Eve at Comedy on State.

35:11 So good.

35:12 Come on out. It's going to be fun.

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35:37 And no dead animals, please.

35:40 All right. Deer all over New Jersey roads looking for sex.

35:45 I saw this one. I like that.

35:47 I love it.

35:49 Thumbs ups. Marina is thumbing up her dad. After 10 years of trying to help her dad get into therapy, he finally started. And she's so proud of him. Thumbs up. He's also nine years sober and a huge fan of Kurti B's stand-up.

36:04 Oh, yay.

36:06 We're proud of you, too. Thumbs up. Great job going to therapy, and congrats on doing a dry 69 times 60 or something. That's amazing.

36:14 Great job.

36:15 Kate Cran. Actually, let's go Cron. There's an H in there. Kate Cron.

36:21 Kate Cron.

36:22 Wants to thumbs up front row Amy. Now, I only became aware of her as the Dodgers lost to Milwaukee's Brewers. But she says front row Amy is going to her first World Series in 44 years. She is an icon and a national treasure. So, Kurt, you might not know it. You don't watch as much baseball. I'm looking it up.

36:46 So I noticed watching the first game of the Dodgers Brewers in the Brewers that there was a woman with, let's just say, gigantic breasts sitting directly behind home plate. She sits in section 117, row one at American Family Field.

37:03 Oh yeah, row one, seat five, section 117. Wow. That's right.

37:07 She keeps box score, which is a really cool talent. But I also think she uses her more than ample bosom to distract our pitchers. I'm not saying that's the only reason she does it, but as somebody who watches baseball, I was like, who is that? And then somebody was like, dude, that woman keeps the box score of every single game. Um, she's from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. She's been rooting for the Brewers for all these years, but yes, the Brewers are in the world series and we all look forward to seeing more of front row Amy for at least, I don't know, four more games.

37:44 And so this is the Brewers' first time in.

37:48 The World Series? In 44 years. That's great.

37:50 And who are they against?

37:52 We don't know yet either. By the time this podcast comes out, it'll either be the Tampa Bay Rays, who... Are very good. Or the Cleveland Guardians, who are a new team name that used to be called the Cleveland Indians. Yes. But having a red-faced, smiling Indian with a feather seems a little culturally insensitive, some might say. So now they're the Guardians, the most boring name they could come up with.

38:16 But I think they have a bridge there called like Guardian Bridge or some crap. Okay. Anyways. We're cheering for the Brew Crew on this podcast. Are you kidding me? Go Milwaukee. Are you kidding me?

38:24 That sounds great. Milwaukee, all right.

38:26 Ohio versus Florida? No, we're going with the Brew Crew. And for front row Amy, she truly is an icon and national treasure. It's cool. I like when people are diehards like that.

38:39 Speaker 2: Speaker 2:

38:46 And also during times where there was no action. So just an older lady screaming, go, go, go. She was the best.

38:54 How, I mean, like, I also wonder, like with Front Row Amy, I mean, obviously there are answers to my questions, but I'll look it up later. But my question is, is like, every game, it's every single game, right? She's there every game.

39:08 Yes. And so for Dodgers, we have Mary Hart from Entertainment Tonight, who famously had her legs insured for a million dollars during the John Tesh, Mary Hart, just absolute amazing era of entertainment tonight. She's always there. Like if you watch a Dodgers game and you look to the right on the screen, Mary Hart's in the front row.

39:29 I wonder which.

39:30 people like that, do they get on, like, do they have an agreement? They must have an agreement with the stadium that, like, this seat is reserved for them forever.

39:39 Right? Yes. And also, whatever they pay for. Like, Jack Nicholson was always courtside. When the Knicks won, Spike Lee's always there, Ben Stiller, all those people. It's pretty... I mean, Mary Hart's probably retired, I guess. It's kind of a fun thing to do for half the year. Go cheer for your team. When she's not there, like traveling or whatever, I'm like, oh, God, is she sick? I hope Mary's okay.

40:02 I go to Google right away. It's like, please, God, take Tash, but not Hart. Last but not least, Chelsea wants to thumb up the team at all four pets animal hospital, which will soon be becoming Greenlight Animal Hospital in August. Ocoee or Ochoee or Ocoee. Yeah, I'm going to go Ocoee. That sounds more Floridian. Ocoee, Florida, who were incredible, wonderful while treating Chelsea's pug gunner. A special thumbs up to Dr. Holmes, Dr. Flowers, and Dr. Gonzalez.

40:35 Chelsea says, this is a reminder to hug and kiss your fur babies tonight. We love our fur babies and the scaled ones as well and the winged ones as well, though a little less.

40:48 Oh, man. I would say let's donate this to veterinarian workers across the board, Scotty.

40:54 Let's donate this episode. All the veterinarians out there, this bananas is for you.

40:59 It's for you. Also, shout out to Lee at the Government Finance Officers Association. I ran a workshop and a keynote out there last week, and it was great. It was so much fun, and what a delight to be in Chicago.

41:14 Oh, the best. What a town. What a town. Not December to February, but what a town.

41:22 Do you know Baba Reba in Chicago?

41:25 Yeah, I do.

41:27 I think it was like the first tapas place ever. It's like probably been there for 20, 30 years. And we were staying near one of them. And then we ate there. We had like a snack there. And then we started walking, Lauren and I.

41:44 And we were walking.

41:45 We walked, I don't know. We walked like six miles or something like that.

41:49 Wow.

41:49 And then all of a sudden she was like, oh, I think we're near the other, the original Baba Reba. And I was like, we're going.

41:57 And then we went to the other one.

41:59 And then we told. the waiter there, I was like, we just came from the other one.

42:05 We walked here.

42:05 And he was like, you ate at the, he was so disgusted with us. Like he must be, he must hate where he works as well. Like it is, it's essentially like you walked from one Fuddruckers to another Fuddruckers.

42:20 Fine with me.

42:21 And I thought it was like the funniest possible thing we could do, but he was disgusted with us. But anyway, shout out to Lil Bobariba.

42:30 Yeah, little Bob Ariba. I worked with a writer when I was on Workaholics who had tweeted once. No, he had written a blog post once that got circulated around and probably was on whatever dumb websites used to exist. Probably Tumblr. And he was like, I don't understand things being delegated breakfast foods or dinner foods. He's like, who doesn't like pancakes for dinner sometimes? It's delicious. He goes, but I feel it's the same way the other way. Like, If I want to eat orange chicken for breakfast, it's really no different than eating sausage or bacon or anything like that. And so he wrote this whole thing. And I had never really thought about it just because it's sort of a strange thing to think about. But when

43:12 I started working with him, I'm like, did you write that article? Because I was like, I've been thinking about that a lot. And it's like, yeah, if you want to eat spaghetti for breakfast, is that different than cereal? Right. And he goes, yeah, I didn't even really mean that. I just had to write it for them. So I just made something up. I had been thinking about it for two years. Like, yeah. He's like, I just, they asked me, they said they would pay me if I wrote something. So I just made up something and said, yeah, you should eat dinner food for breakfast and breakfast food for dinner. Be careful what you read online is what I'm saying.

43:43 Be careful, guys.

43:43 Here it is.

43:45 Deer all over New Jersey roads looking for sex, state officials warn.

43:50 Hell yeah, dog.

43:51 This was in the Gothamist.

43:52 Gets on. Here it is.

43:55 By Rosemary Misdary.

43:59 What an interesting last name.

44:01 Misdary, M-I-S-D-A-R-Y. Best in the business. Watch out, New Jersey drivers. Environmental officials warn lustful deer seeking sex. are a major hazard on Garden State roads this fall. The State Department of Environmental Protection issued a notice Friday noting it's peak mating season for white-tailed deer, which means the creatures are more likely to be present near and on roadways as bucks attempt to court does. New Jersey deer are expected to keep seeking action through mid-December. And officials say drivers should be on high alert, especially after daylight savings time ends on November 1st.

44:41 Oh, no.

44:42 We're doing that still?

44:44 Oh, no. Didn't we vote against that?

44:46 I thought we did. Causing commutes to more closely align with deer activity. About 70% a deer crash has occurred during the evening rush. According to State Farm Insurance data, Garden State drivers have 1 in 226 chance of an animal collision. October through December account for 41% of all those crashes. November seeing the highest share. Collisions with deer pose a very serious safety risk. My question is, they're just out and about more, or do they love to fuck on roads?

45:19 Right, that's the big question.

45:21 New Jersey officials urge drivers to exercise caution by driving slower. New Jersey's deer population exceeds 100,000. Deer numbers in many areas are 10 times above healthy levels and are fueling an ecological crisis as well as endangering public health and safety. Some especially important to be extra vigilant but why but why are why are they on the roads they're just moving around more they're just getting i guess they're probably going places right they're like yeah i i'm gonna go.

45:52 They're just getting out there they put their club clothes on they're going out there.

45:56 Or right they're out there they're drunk they're drunk with lust and they're not paying attention to cars they just got eyes for that white tail.

46:04 Yeah, they're chasing that white-tailed no matter where it might go. I mean, the Northeast, everywhere. What am I saying? Everywhere has so many deer. It's crazy.

46:12 I mean, we have so many deer here.

46:15 Yeah, they're crazy.

46:16 It's like walking down the street. They just are walking around, and no one ever does anything. I don't think you can hunt them in a suburban area, so it's just billions of deer around here.

46:30 We're the same with coyotes out here, and I've noticed now that I have a dog, The coyotes like to poop on the street so much. Like they might prefer it or– because you can tell the difference. They eat a lot of berries and stuff. So you can be like, that's got to be poop.

46:46 And there's a lot of fur sometimes in there too.

46:48 Yeah. And so you're like– but I'm like, are they trolling us? Are coyotes just letting it be known that they're there because– well, yikes.

46:57 Yikes. I think it's also like it reduces the risk that you poop on a piece of grass and the piece of grass holds the poop near your butt, I feel like, so you get poop on your leg. That's what I'm assuming.

47:09 That's really.

47:10 Because if you're low down to the ground, that can be an issue. You poop on a bush or something. Right in the road, it's coming out clean. That's what they say.

47:17 That's right. So maybe you've got to get these deer and these coyotes together. We can really have a night.

47:22 That's from somebody who shits in the street a lot.

47:24 Me. Oh, boy. Let's wrap it up with this one. Because you and I, we've actually flown in a hot air balloon together. Oh, yes.

47:36 We have indeed.

47:37 Kurt took a chicken into the sky. Kurt was just like Maverick, Top Gun Maverick. We wanted to give a flightless bird the dignity of flight. So we took a chicken named, I think, Snowball over Snowflake. Snowball, I think, over Snowflake. Anyways, we took a chicken, held in Kurt's arm lovingly, sailing over Temecula wine country. Wonderful experience.

48:04 It was really beautiful. We wanted to give a penguin a ride in a blimp, but it's much harder to get a penguin and much harder to get a blimp.

48:11 Yeah, both true.

48:12 Chickens and hot air balloons. Do whatever you want with them.

48:17 Yeah, that's what we found out, and Comedy Central paid for it, so we win, and the chicken won. And we all had a great time, landed safely. I did have to jump out and hold one of the ropes when we crashed, because that is how you land a hot air balloon. Linnea Lindstrom sent this in. Thank you, Linnea Lindstrom. Connecticut Orchard calls out a hot air balloon company that swiped an apple from above. Are you joking, Smokin'?

48:46 I think that sounds like the coolest thing of all time.

48:48 To grab an apple as you float past? Yeah, it's awesome.

48:52 This was in Boston.com. Yeah. You and I are going to have the same. When I read this, I'm like, I'm siding with the hot air balloon. Boston.com, written by Brendan Nordstrom. Best in the apple picking biz.

49:06 Mass.

49:09 It was a vintage New England fall afternoon when a rainbow-striped hot air balloon took flight from West Woodstock, Connecticut. The sky was clear, winds were Wow. The CT, Brendan Nordstrom. Going for it. Going for it. That guy's not writing about eating orange chicken for breakfast, but he should be.

49:35 The CT Voyager balloons flight.

49:37 The autumnal orange chicken glistens in the beautiful morning dew as I consume it at 6.30 a.m.

49:44 My belly erupts below me. The CT Voyager balloons flight, which took off just before 4 p.m. on Saturday, experienced a sudden change in wind direction, a representative of the company told Boston.com. That is true. That is how you steer a balloon? Mm-hmm. The wind. The wind. This brought the balloon over Woodstock Orchards, a family-owned farm in operation since 1958. Okay. What happened next? A person in the balloon plucked an apple from one of the trees, became a source of frustration, as depicted in a Saturday evening Facebook post from the orchard. Quote, every apple on those trees represents time, money, and hard work. We welcome visitors who come to enjoy the beauty of the orchard, and we love seeing the balloons in the sky, but enjoying

50:36 the view does not give anyone permission to damage our trees or take our crop.

50:41 Did they damage the tree is the question.

50:45 I don't think so. They do go up to that, but no. The post, which called on users to share the post so the balloon company would see it, elicited more than 1,000 likes and 500 shares. Rookie numbers. Dozens of comments, which the Orchard eventually locked, called for everything from lawsuits to police investigation. Oh, New England. Connecticut State Police told Boston.com that they never received any calls. The town of Woodstock is nestled in the Quiet Corner region of the state. It's a rural community, the second largest land area in the state, but the population of just over 8,000 Connecticutians, Conheads, Conheirs.

51:29 Connie's.

51:29 It's obviously Connie's. They got over 8,000 Connie's in this area. The balloon is dipped into the orchard for an apple. I'm sorry. The Saturday's incident was the second time. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Two apples. Two apples gone. The size of a Smurf. They're saying they struck and damaged the trees. The orchard wrote that its motivation for the public post was to ensure such incidents will never happen again. While the orchard doesn't name the hot air balloon company in the post, it attached a photo that displays CT Voyager balloons on the side. So there you go. Woodstock Orchards declined to comment on the situation. Okay. A representative from CT Voyager Blins wrote to Boston.com that the situation is a misunderstanding.

52:24 We love and appreciate our quiet corner neighbors, landowners, customers, and business owners, the representative wrote. Intentions to physically or verbally harm any of the businesses in the area or anywhere are a very important part of the beautiful, quiet corner. And we're never close. Basically, they're saying we would never do anything bad. The CT Voyager balloon said that the balloon has traversed above the orchard on only two occasions.

52:51 And when the balloon first flew over the orchard several years ago, a representative wrote.

52:54 Several years ago?

52:56 Yes.

52:57 Oh, my God.

52:58 Wrote that a, quote, nice young lady held a basket of apples and gently tossed them towards the passenger. So somebody tossed apples up to the people in the balloon. Okay. Awesome. One of the most fun things you can do in a hot air balloon.

53:12 Also, like, yeah, that's the way to do this. This is good marketing, right? Hey, here's a free apple. Come on by and pick some.

53:22 If I was in a hot air balloon and a nice young lady with a basket threw me an apple and I caught it, I would bite that apple, I would give her a big thumbs up, and I would talk about it for the rest of my life. There were no damage to the trees, no complaints from the orchard, according to the representative statement. Our pilot discovered such a warm, friendly, kind, inclusive, welcoming vibe. We have always recommended visiting Woodstock Orchard to all of our customers. So then on Saturday, when this balloon diverted, a second balloon, diverted over the orchard again, it was a vivid contrast in experiences, the representative broke. Mm-hmm.

53:57 The balloon remained above the tree line, did not damage the orchard, did not land on the property. The only exception was when a 12-year-old customer reached down towards an apple. The pilot then drifted three feet. The child picked one apple. There was no damage to the trees, no fallen branches, not even a falling leaf. The representative wrote that the passengers encountered a very angry man. who yelled at them to never do it again. The pilot offered to pay for the apple and returned it to the man, but the man told the pilot to leave. We acknowledge that seeking permission to pick even just one apple is justified, although this was not required on our last flyover several years ago. For this, we do apologize for not seeking

54:49 permission to pick one apple, and our pilot is now well aware of that this is a new policy going forward. Later, the pilot returned to the orchard with a bottle of champagne and apologized for the misunderstanding, but the man rebuffed the pilot again.

55:05 Are you joking? This man is so mad at the world.

55:09 New England to the core.

55:12 Oh, my God.

55:16 The representative alleged the worker at the orchard verbally threatened the crew about the orchard and would ruin the hot air balloon company's reputation.

55:22 Wow, that's, oh man.

55:24 It's deeply sad.

55:26 Yeah, it really sucks.

55:27 To say I'll buy, say we won't do it again, we apologize. Here's the apple or we'll give you money. Here's apple.

55:34 Here's money.

55:35 Here's champagne.

55:37 All of it.

55:38 Wow.

55:39 I mean, this guy got, the fact that we're talking about it, that's this guy's comeuppance. Yeah.

55:44 And the representative for CT Boyd.

55:46 What's the name of the place?

55:47 Woodstock Orchards is where you should. Be better. Woodstock Orchards. Be nicer. Life is so short. Everybody you know, Angry Man, will be dead in 90 years. So be nice to everybody. And also, if a kid grabs an apple.

56:01 It's a 12-year-old boy.

56:03 Guess what? They're going to bring everybody back their whole life and be like, I actually flew over this place one time. Let's buy $ 900 of apple cider and donuts. And I'll just wrap it up with this. C.T. Voyager-Bloon says, we again apologize for any misunderstanding. We hope we can all peacefully continue to find ways to rise by lifting others up. Oh, I love that. There's clearly a good guy and a bad guy.

56:30 It's really funny.

56:32 But, uh, Woodstock, come on, man. Give a kid an apple.

56:36 Give the kid an apple. Let's call this episode. If you give a kid an apple.

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