Bananas - Funny news from around the world with Scotty Landes and Kurt BraunohlerBlowing it Up and Blowing it Out with Charlotte Dobre
Charlotte Dobre joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a school forced to evacuate after kid brings grenade for show and tell, a TV anchor goes into labor on air and finishes entire morning broadcast, a postal carrier refuses to deliver mail to nudist colony and a postal worker arrested for DUI while on route!
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Kurty B why don't I start today?
You know I love it when you say I know it.
Takes so much weight off of you and uh.
I can just sit back and relax now, Yeah, it's true.
Well, good thing. Kurt A school was evacuated after a pupil brought a hand grenade to show and tell.
Well, this is going to be an explosive new episode of Bananas.
So good world understand. Would you?
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Guys, goals, non binary pals, Welcome to Bananas. I am Kurk Brown Older.
I am Banana Boy number two Scotty Landis. Thank you for listening to the silliest little podcast there ever was. Everything's great, Summer's just beginning. Banana's Fest in Denver, October fourth. I hope you can make it. We're releasing details constantly on our website bananaspodcast dot com and wherever you listen to us find us. We'll see you in Denver for Bananas Fest too.
Our guest today is a comedian actor YouTuber. She has over seven million followers and billions of views across her social media platforms. Weekly It's insane. Please welcome Charlotte Dobray.
Hello, Hello, that was a nice intro. Thank you so much. You made me sound really interesting.
Oh yes, yes you are.
Come on, you guys are interesting.
It's so nice to have you on the podcast. We were talking before we started recording. Like a lot of people, the whole idea of being a content creator an influencer, somebody that just puts internet our videos on apps on the Internet, it didn't even exist twenty years ago, but a lot of people aspire to it, and a lot of young people want to be a content creator an influencer. But a lot of people don't realize that it is truly a full time job where you're always either thinking about things, recording things, or editing things. It's NonStop.
Yeah, it definitely is, and it doesn't have to be. I'm just terrified of failing, so I put in a little extra effort. But yeah, no, it definitely is a full time thing, at least for me. And if you want to make a career out of it, it will one be a full time thing. Because you know, you could make a few YouTube videos and they do well, But how do you maintain that right, Like, how do you keep people interested? We're all fighting for people's attention on these apps, so got to keep finding ways to get you.
It's true.
How do you when you work and create and shoot all in your home? How do you like block off time where you're like, this is not work time? Because I find that as a comic, Like there you could I could just be if I'm not writing, then I'm like, oh, I'm doing something wrong. Do you know what I mean? So it's hard to like find time to be like this is just chill time, not writing time.
Yeah, I would say, just like my fiance makes me put away my phone when we're watching a movie or something. Yeah, because I will. I will just sit there and my mind will wander it and then I'll get a great idea for a video, like randomly, Like I find I get my best ideas when I'm idle and I'm not thinking too hard, right right, Like all of a sudden, it just comes into your head. It's like you're not chasing the joke or you're not chasing the idea. It just like arrives and then I'll have to like write it down or I'll put it on the schedule or something like that. So he he makes an effort to just kind of like make sure that I'm not on my phone for like, yeah, present, be present for you know, if we're having dinner, we have people over, or we're out for dinner or just watching a movie or something like that, that's that's our time.
Oh yeah, No, the idle mind thing is so it's huge. I mean, especially like I write with my wife and if we get stuck on a like a pitch point or sort of like a plot point of the movie or something, we'll just take a walk. And if it's like a thirty minute walk, by the time you come back, you have the answer that you're looking for for sure.
Yeah, it's really interesting the way that creativity works in that way, which it's kind of annoying because again, your brain is always working and all of a sudden you'll just need to write something down. But yeah, I think it's also important to maintain that being present is also important in addition to work and having that kind of balance.
It's all about balance, it's true, but it's harder and harder, and then you think about how it used to be and when people were like, oh man, these comic books, these kids reading these comic books are aren't living and you're like, man, it now, it is just every direction is something that you can immediately engage with, and then you're like, oh, I've never thought about this before. I'm just going to explore this for forty five minutes and it feels like two minutes. It's crazy.
Yeah.
Yeah. In school, you know a lot of people think funny people were class clowns, but Kurt and I weren't. Were you of that type of person when you're in grade school or high school?
I mean I was kind of like I would. I was like, it's hard to say. I was the kid that was a weird kid. Okay, I was the weird kid. I was the drama kid.
I was.
Not.
I didn't have like a lot of like really good friends outside of like the drama department. I don't really remember ever being like popular or anything. Was bullied a lot, but then I also like said and did weird things, like sometimes I like cringe at like the stuff I would say when I was like six years old, like seven years old, and like now I say that stuff to my fiance all the time and he laughs. But like at the time I got bullied for it because I was the weirdo. And now I guess I get paid to say all the weird shit comes to my head. So funny how that works out.
But yeah, you got Did you ever bring a hand grenade to school? Is the bigger question.
No, no, that that's not that's not part of my my, my growing up era. I definitely never thought about where did you even get a hand.
That's a great question, likere'd you get that?
Yeah?
That's my that's my number one question, Scottie.
We'll get into it. Gary Thompson sent this in Thank you, Gary Thompson. If you want to send us strange news stories we get hundreds and hundreds a day, Please feel free to email us to the Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com, or you can just DM your stories with links. Make sure the strange news are weird news to the Bananas Podcast on Instagram and we will do it. Gary Thompson sent this school is evacuated after a pupil brings in a hand grenade to show and tell. This was on MSN This is Crazy MSN dot com and written by best in the hand grenade business, Tom mid Lane.
Yeah, thank You's good.
School was forced to evacuate staff, children and call in a bomb disposal squad. After a pupil brought in a hand grenade to the show until assembly, the youngster unexpectedly produced a WW two World War two explosive device to the primary school in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, causing shock among the staff. Head teacher Jeanette Hart said she was unsure if the grenade was live, so she took it from the boy and placed it behind a substantial tree.
Oh excellent, poor tree, poor tree.
I know it's also fun I mean, very good job by this teacher, but it's funny to be she looked at some tree, isn't she picked the most substantial one.
But it's also just to put it outside as a very funny idea, like I guess it, yes, of course, but that also like Eddie Wood could walk up and pull the pin, a squirrel could wrestle with it and blow it up.
Was this in England? Derbyshire? Is Derbyshire?
Thinking it's England?
Yeah, yeah, it's England.
If it isn't, it's the most English place on the.
Maybe maybe the kid found it like it was part of his dad's like World War two. Like souvenirs, I don't know if you would want a souvenir from World War Two.
But how people do Yeah, lots of people that.
Have the memorabilia right, just makes me wonder, like where where he possibly could have gone access to it?
Yeah, it so I'll tell you what it is because they say it at the very end of the article. But it was a family heirloom. This was in the house, which is wild.
Okay, so it had to be have not been live. It had to have had the pin pulled or something correct. A firing mechanism was like taken out.
Okay, that's right. Army experts came and later established the grenade was safe, but police praised the quick thinking staff. Ms Hart said it was quite an eventful assembly. It was going fine, and there was a boy who brought an old bullet casing in which I knew about. But then when his his friend produced a hand grenade from out of his pocket that I was not expected. It's cool that he got on stage and was like, and here it is.
Oh, that's so it is.
Picture it.
I love it, and I'm aware I'm imagining him wearing classic like English schoolboy uniform from nineteen seventy five, like Pink Floyd's the Wall where he's got shorts on and like suspenders and just holding. Instead of an apple pulled out of his pocket, he pulls out a hand grenade.
Then he just holds it up like it's just gonna like he's ready to just toss it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just showing it to the crowd.
Oh my goodness, did he know what it was like?
How? Well that's a good question, because they say it looked old and he thought it might be safe. He took this family air room and picked it up without telling his parents. Oh wow, They said, oh, we even saw an X ray of the image and were told a detailed analysis that nothing would have set this grenade off. So it was a okay, So it's totally fine that these people out of their house. But they said, just a word of guidance and for parents and guardians, double check where your kids are taking the show and tell especially family heirlooms. They had a little chat with the boy after the drama, and the last quote says it was entirely innocent. I don't think he really even knew what it was true true, which is kind of funnier. He's just like panicking on the morning, like, uh.
Okay, where's the tell part? Though? Like he's gonna show, but how is he gonna tell what it is?
I know?
Yeah, do you have any Did you ever bring anything to school that you like deeply regret as a child.
Honestly, no. The only thing that I can think of was I was in a school talent show and I was like six, and I really wanted to do my like ballet recital like routine, and then I did it in front of the entire school, and I had like this cute little flower dress on and like little like stockings. But I completely didn't realize that the part where I spun would resolve and everyone seeing my underwear. And so yeah, no, I spun in front of a kid in front of a school with like six hundred kids, and everyone saw my underwear. But that's the closest thing that I can relate.
To that that is, I remember when I was I think I've told this on the pop, but it was probably years ago. When I was in kindergarten. I had a babysitter who was she must have been eleven or twelve, like back then, like you literally was like a ten year old was babysitting you know what I mean, like five years older. It's like put them in charge, and she was like the bad baby, like the babysitter that I liked because she would be like like tell me all the dirty I'd be like, tell me all the curse words, and she'd be like, shit, fuck, pissed and loob job and I'll be like, yeah, loob job, that's the Kurtz. And I remember she was like, do you I told her that I liked some girls in my class. She's like, do you want to write them a love note? And I was like, yeah, I want to write them a love note? And then she sat down with me. This is why I think she was like twelve. She sat down with me and wrote full page love notes to these girls. These girls are five years old. I'm five years old. But in the note was like crazy stuff like I want to take you to bed, I want to kiss you, like all this crazy shit like that only like a twelve year old or maybe even a ten year old would think would be okay to write. And then she folded them all up only the way only a twelve year old girl can, so they were like little hearts. And then I had three of them for three different girls, and then I went to school the next day, and I gave them each to the girl, never thinking for a second, of course, that if I can't fully read, they also can't fully read, and that they will give these to their parents to read to them.
Oh my.
And so the next I come into school and I'm immediately pulled out a class and I have to go to the principal's office and my mom has been called. My mom is there. They have all three notes there and then they like go through and start reading the stuff that's in them, and I was it's all news to me, of like what's in it?
Do you know what I mean?
You're like loub job all three loops that you're doing three loup jobs?
Kurt, Where would a five year old have the time to even purchase that much loub It was.
I was very upset, but I do remember afterwards they did give me a lollipop. They gave me a lollipop and sent me on my way, but I was removed from school for the day. I had to go home and then we never had that babysitter again.
I got a lacrosse stick for Christmas and I took it to school and there was a brick wall in between several of the classrooms and the first throw where I was like, all right, I'm going to bounce it off this wall and catch it again. I bounced it on the ground and it just hit a rock. It hit something, jumped up and smashed a window immediately in one of the science customers. First throw, and I just you know, it's before school, it's like before home room. I'm probably fourth grade, so whatever age that is, ten, I guess, and burst into tears because I'm like, they're going to take this lcross stick. I'm gonna get detention. The first teacher that saw it like did kind of snap at me. She's like, what happened? And I was like, oh, it was a mistake. It hit a rock, and she was like, go to the principal's office. And our principal in retrospect was a hippie. You know, I didn't know it then, right right, And his name is mister Reefs. Baby, yeah, mister Reef. And he took me to this office and school bell rings. I think he's gonna call my parents, you know. I think I'm getting arrested. I think they're going to send me to Alcatraz. And he's like, so what happened? And I was like, I bounced it and broke the window. I'm still crying. He goes, okay, well, there's two things that can happen. If you meant to do it, we need to have a conversation. If it was an accident, you don't ever need to think about this ever. Again. That's pretty good, pretty good. I was like, it was an accident. He goes, okay, we'll fix the window. Go back to class. And he gave me a note. And I walked back to the class and I'm like, man, if only every boss know every job. Yeah, if you meant to do it, we got to talk. But but if and he could tell I was a little guy. But he was like, yeah, just don't ever think about it again.
Oh, mister Reef, give it up for mister Reef.
Mister Reef, what a guy. What a guy. You also said he was a hippie, right, and his last name is like Reef.
Yeah, totally right there.
It's pretty good the Reef. It was probably it was weird how many like hippie teachers in Catholic school in suburban New Jersey. I had like it was very weird that all like, But I guess it was just like that was the generation. Do you know what I mean? Like, if you weren't a hippie, then you were like a Nixon supporter or something.
Right now they're like they were former hipsters or now teachers. Exactly right, jeer hipster is now teaching with your Guided by.
Voices T shirts wearing to school.
Yeah, pretty cool, pretty b you got one for us?
Yeah, I sure do.
Here it is folks nice.
Oh, I love this one so much. Albany, Albany CBS six anchor Olivia jack With goes into labor on air and finishes the entire morning.
Now, that sure for her is content.
That's how this was on the Daily Voice and it was sent in by.
It's good she went into labor on air. My goodness, right like water.
No, I don't have a weird feeling.
That must be, like you can. There's so many things we've all felt. You know, I'm going to be sick. Yeah, I feel a migraine coming on, or I'm getting a sore throat, and you go, I can get through this news broadcast. I can get through fifteen minutes of a migraine coming on. But when your water breaks and you go into labor, that is a very now problem.
Yeah sure.
Also the whole thing is like to stay like for very early labor, Like they just want you to be very chill, like stay at home, keep the lights down, low, light a candle, maybe watch some TV or something, and you cause, like the more chill you are, the like shorter you can do it. So working, that's tough.
Curtis two kids, by the way, Charlotte, he's not just he just doesn't read.
I'm really come to women giving birth. So this was written by Michael mashburn Ooh, mashing it up best in the business. All the New news anchor Olivia jack With went into labor just moments before her morning broadcast on WRGB Wednesday, May twenty first, but like a true professional, never missed a beat. Her co anchor, Julia Dunn kicked off the show with the perfect opening line, we do have some breaking news this morning. Literally, Olivia's water just broke and she's anchoring the news now in active labor, and jack With, poised and smiling gently corrected early labor, early labor, let's not get carried away. Instead of rushing to the hospital. Jack With proceeded to co anchor the entire broadcast at one point meteor, I'll just Craig Adams joke that he may have to hoist the expected mother over his shoulders to get her to the hospital. Not recommended. Done repeatedly assured viewers that it was jack With decision to remain the anchor desks. I'd rather be at work than at the hospital, Jack was said. The on screen graphics team got in on the fund with a cheeky banner that read days past due date two and at the close of the show, here comes baby p Good luck Olivia. There is a giant trash truck outside my house. I apologize for that noise.
Every one fine more.
WRGB News director Stone Grisom, Oh my god. Stone Grisome later issued a statement praising jack With for meeting every stage of her pregnancy journey with grace and grit. We couldn't have been more thrilled for them. Lovey's passion for story La Lahlah no return one is welcoming first child, a baby boy with husband Tyne. Tyne is a great name. T y N and I watched the video. The video is great. We'll post it on Instagram. It is just her like you don't see her, like halving contract contractions. Yeah, but like she is in.
She must really like her job, Like, no, I can't, I can't give birth.
I have to I have to read the news. Or there's like or there's the up and coming anchor, other anchor who's like gunning for her job, just waiting off. Just like, just tell her to come off. I'll take over. I'll take over for this broadcast.
Yeah, I want to know the circumstances as to why she couldn't leave the broadcast to go have her baby. I feel like that's that's fair, Like you don't really need like a doctor's note for that.
Yeah. Yeah, she did say I may disappear mid broadcast, but she like she went through the whole thing. It's also fascinating, how because in movies, labor is always just like we got I get to the hospital, you know, whereas like you you usually know second second kids are a little different where it's just like, oh, you know, but first kids, you're usually like, all right, we will leave at this point. But then once you do leave, it is a crazy drive. It's always the first time we were when we were driving Laura and was in the backseat wheel well on all fours and she was just like playing Beyonce, and I was playing Beyonce, and she's just like like screaming out the window like an animal while Beyonce like blaired for a forty five minute travel across Los Angeles.
Wow, I was gonna ask what song it was, but it was forty five minutes.
So yeah, probably a couple of albums.
That's really lemonade. You said one of your videos that I watched today, you might want kids, Charlotte. Is that something? Would you document? That journey? That feels like a big thing these days, sort of the influencer stuff.
I mean, I don't know if I would put my kids on camera, but like, yeah, no, I for sure want kids. And I'm kind of getting to a point where if I don't, like my eggs are drying up. Like I still lay an egg every month, but you know, eggs are drying up. Eggs are drying up. I'm thirty five, so I should probably get to it, hop to it. But I still need to fit into a wedding dress. So I'm not gonna get pregnant. And that's shameful, that's shameful. We all know that everybody screws. Okay, I just don't want there to be evidence of it on my wedding day. But yeah, I know, I one hundred percent want kids. I think I would probably talk about the kids at their expense, but putting them on camera, I don't know if I would do that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I used to live in Brooklyn and I had cousins there that lived that I didn't really grow up with. We were friendly, but then as adults we became friends. And they had their first daughter and it went great. And the second time there was a sea section. There was a planed sea section, and my cousin called me. He goes, hey, I'll just use a fake name. Can you take Tiffany to get her to have her baby tomorrow? And I was like, what me. He's like, I got a work thing in the morning. What she has an eleven am appointment for a sea section? Do you mind picking her up? You can drive our car. They had a little Honda fit and I was like, so, what time do you want me over there? When this when was the how long ago to twenty eleven?
Oh my god?
Okay, And I mean, what an honor to be entrusted. To be entrusted in a Honda fit from Brooklyn to Manhattan. So I walk over to their place and I was like, you're ready to go? She's like, yeah, this is so much better. And I was like yeah. She's like there, I'm going to go in and I'll have this baby. And so her husband, my cousin, was going to meet her right at eleven. So I drove her into the city and dropped her off and was like, do you need me to stay around and she goes, no, we'll just call you if you can come pick me up later. And I was like okay. So I drove home and I carried about my day and then I get a call the next day and they're like, hey, can you come back tomorrow and pick her up at eleven am? I said, sure thing, And I think it was either eleven or in the afternoon on the second day. So I just dropped somebody off they had a baby, then pick them up a couple days later. Kid sits in the car seat next to mom in the back seat, and I drive them home. So it was like my rare chance to be a baby delivery man. And I gotta say it felt good.
Toronto, of course. Has I mean like, we're now all jealous of Canada. You know how jealous.
Well, I mean you say that you're jealous, but realistically, I still pay for private healthcare here. Like I don't even have a family doctor. It's very hard to get a family doctor because everybody wants a family doctor and it's free. So no, I do pay for like private health care that's like covered by my benefits and stuff like that. I wouldn't necessarily trust the government with providing me with like an MRI or something like that. Like it takes months and months, and I know a lot of people who like they go to Buffalo to get like tests done, like MRIs specifically, and oh really wise you have to wait and then by the time you get an MRI, you're dead. So you go to the States or Turkey or whatever.
Wow, it's either the States are Turkey. Those are the two options.
They have these amazing facilities in Turkey where you could just get like anything done, Like you can get like X rays and like all all of your blood work done, like all of it, and you stay in these really nice facilities and it's like a thousand dollars.
Oh wow, crazy, Yeah, TikTok, I remember when I remember Thailand used to be like that, especially for plastic surgery, you would go to Tyler. Like dental work, you would just go and again you could stay at an amazing place for no money and get all your stuff done and then have a little vacation and come home. Boom, fantastic, fantastic medical tours of everybody perfect, everything's working as it.
Just I did a story on the channel about a girl that like went to the hospital because she had like the worst cramps, Like she was just keeling over and dying, and then she got this insane hospital bill and it turns out that this was just like a fart. Like she just went to the hospital and she thought that she thought that there was something really really wrong, and then she went she went to the bathroom in the hospital and like let out a really really big fart and the pain was gone. But she still had to pay like ten grand for the hospital visit.
In the States.
This is in the States.
This is in the States.
Thousand dollars fart.
My I that was worth mentioning.
This is why women should be encouraged to fart openly and in public, folks. So if any if bananas stands for one thing, yeah, it's everyone openly farting in public.
That's what I say. That's our messaging.
That's our messaging.
It's okay, thumbs ups. So these are from our listeners, the bananimals, and they are just you know, cheering, rooting for themselves, rooting for others. Sofia Torres is thumbing herself up. Her sister got married over the weekend. She had to give a maid of honor speech. Have you ever had to do that, Charlotte, I.
Have given speeches as the MC and just as a friend. I've never been a maid of honor, though nobody likes me that much.
Come, yeah, I'm the.
Funny I'm the funny friend that gets to be the MC.
I like that there's an MC at weddings.
Yeah there there Yeah, honestly, I don't really think that the role there's a point to it. Like I actually we're em seeing our own wedding. So yeah, it actually is quite nice to m see your own wedding because everybody laughs at your jokes, like everyone's there to see you, so it feels really good. But no, I'm I I'm not usually the friend that's in the bridal party, but I am the friend that people want to like. MC the wedding, So me.
Too, exactly the same. I've never been a best man. I've only been in like two groomsman parties ever, and I'm totally fine with that because everybody knows I'm going to show up and have a good time.
Yeah, it's a lot of work.
So Sophia Torrez had to give a maid of honor speech and she was so nervous, but she absolutely destroyed. People laughed, people cried. So Fia says she has a very hard time accepting compliments when she does something well, but this time she absolutely killed it. So thumbs up, so Fia, and you know, take the compliment. Twenty twenty five Shelby Graham Shelby Tham Graham is thumbing up her husband Spencer forgetting her through twenty twenty four in one piece. Last year, Shelby found out she was pregnant with their first baby. Two days later, her father in law passed away. Three months after that, her dad passed away. Then they moved Wow, and her husband Spencer had to start running a business by himself. Now a year later, they have a beautiful baby girl. Life is settled down and Spencer is flourishing as an amazing business owner, dad and husband.
Yeah, thumbs up.
That's amazing, that's incredible.
That's a big year. My goodness, I'm glad y'all are being fine. And last, Rachel Weary is thumbing up her boyfriend Dan. Rachel lost her husband a month before. The great choir That's Lockdown and the podcasts like Bananas helped her feel normal and laugh when Rachel felt suddenly alone in Lockdown Crazy. Four years later, Rachel decided to give online dating a world and isn't that fun? Isn't online dating just the thing that builds you up the most in the world's She went on one date, and only one date, and it was with Dan and it was great from the start. She brought him to I know, it's so good, And she brought him to Bananas Live in Madison, Kurt Yay. Now it's been a year and they're moving in together. Hell yeah, thumbs up to for being a loving, find funny and accepting man. There.
Yay, thank you for all those thumbs up. And of course we are here with the fantastic comedian actor YouTuber Charlotte Dobray. Charlotte, where can everybody find you online?
Too?
You can find me on YouTube. I would love it if you you came and said, hi, Hell yeah YouTube, Yeah yeah, I mean it's the place where I get to be myself the most. And I guess you could follow me on Instagram as well in TikTok, but it's more fun on YouTube. It's more of a community and I really love it there. So yeah, definitely check me out.
That's great. That is excellent that you've been able to find a community on on YouTube, because from a comedian's perspective, YouTube is the meanest of all the places. For sure.
Yeah no, it's sorry, go.
Ahead, and Instagram is next. It's like midway between supportive and and then TikTok is always just very supportive.
Yeah. I mean, honestly, it really kind of depends. Like I've seen mean comments on most apps. I've just learned to not read the comments. I'll read top comments and they're usually kind, but I don't really go down in the depths very often. But yeah, no, I love my community. They a lot of them have been with me for a really long time, and granted they were mean when I first started YouTube. I think it's just like they kind of need to get like used to you a little bit. And I don't really like write jokes, you know, like I a lot of what I do is like spontaneous comedy, and I just kind of think of things in the moment. I don't have scripts. So there's nothing really necessarily cringey about it because I'm not acting like I'm just being myself and having a conversation. So maybe that's it. And it could just be that people have started to like me after ten years. Well well you're okay, Well we'll accept you.
Yeah, and you grew you grew up in Toronto or did you grow up outside?
I actually grew up in Calgary, which is kind of like the Texas of Canada. Oil baby, yeah, baby.
Over here, and it's farther north. Correct, it's actually west.
It's by the Rocky.
Mountains in the middle. That's what I meant when I said north. I met in middle.
Yeah, it's true, it's true. No, it's interesting that YouTube. When I actually remember the day somebody sent me the link, it was like, you have to check this out. You can type like anything in and find it, and it was maybe in my life, it's the app that's like changed the world the most. Like Uber and Lyft were great because everybody I know was a drinking and driving and then all of a sudden they weren't. And then Napster came out and was like, oh, you just want all the music you've ever heard in your life, and it kind of like brought down the music industry. But YouTube has just continued to grow. YouTube TV. All my friends have it on their smart TVs now, and I'm like, oh, they just held on and got better. It's it's pretty fascinating that they are as huge as they are all these years later.
Yeah, no, it's it's honestly, it's the top streaming app, Like people choose YouTube before any other streaming platform. And it's also the one app, at least as a Canadian, that I can actually get paid to be a content creator without having to do brand deals. So it's been like life changing for me because I get to be a weirdo and get paid for it, and yeah I get I get all the praise that I've always wanted as a child that I never got. So it's definitely fulfilling in a lot of ways, and it has changed culture I think for the better.
That's good. I'm glad to hear that, because yeah, I mean it's an all you know. You also think like younger people are always gonna want the next thing and the new thing. But I'm sure that's what TikTok is. But also, all my friends' kids watch YouTube constantly, and whether it's watching streamers.
It's my kid's favorite thing exactly. Yeah. Yeah, we're to the point where I have to be like, no, you cannot watch it. You like it too much. Your brains are too small for this amount.
Do your kids watch Miss Rachel? Are they too old?
They were they miss Miss Rachel by like one year. Yeah, my friends who had kids just like a year later than me, we're all Miss Rachel. And I was like, I'm sorry, I don't know Miss Rachel. I know Blippy, but I don't know Miss Rachel. And I would prefer to know Miss Rachel. I hate Blippy.
Safe to say it's a safe platform.
He deeply hate him.
Back into the real world, Kelly Flax sent this in the United States. Postal Service mail carrier refuses to deliver mail to newdest community.
Yeah.
This was on w f LA, Florida. Not shockingly written Kurt by that swing in site staff.
Yeah, nobody wanted to cop.
To this one. Oh, some staffs were certainly there. It is in sight. Mail carrier for the US Postal Service says he will not deliver mail to a Florida RV resort because the compound is clothing optional.
Oh lord, get some put on your big boy pants or take your big boy pants off and go to.
That discrimination.
W FLA reports the residents say a bill in mail carrier refuses, so not even a full.
Time Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's never getting to full time.
No. Uh, refuses to enter the Eden r V resort. Yeah, great name for a clothing optional or uh and city of retreat in Hudson because oh, I'm sorry it now says she again, this is that site staff because she has a fear of seeing people naked.
She has a fear of seeing people naked.
That's in quotes too, that's her quote. She has a fear of seeing people naked.
What is that called. Let's see, that's a good question, fear of seeing people.
It's an educational podcast. Every once while you learned something.
Jimphobia, jim noophobia, jimnophobia. Oh that's really funny, jimnophobia.
How do you spell that?
G y M n O F.
Jimnophobia is a fear of seeing people naked.
Yah, maybe it's gymnophobia.
I don't know, but yeah, you would think that would be a fear of working out. But yeah, maybe I'm a jackass. I am.
No, It's like it's just fear of going into the changing room at gyms.
But the residents at the Eden RV Resort and City Retreat in Hudson say they're irritated because they have to go to the post office to get all their packages.
Yeah, of course naked. Then they have to put do they do they go naked though, or do they have to put the clothes on?
And that's a good question, because like, do they go naked up to the threshold of the property and then begrudgingly put clothes on? At what point do they get clothed? Yeah?
Or do they just have like around town bathrobe that's in their car and then they drive in naked and then throw their around town bathrobe on and walk in.
But animals, I'm sure some of you are nudists or I'm one hundred percent sure this audience is big enough and spread out enough. Are you a newdist are you a newwear around town? When you have to wear clothing and tell us footwear. Like Kurt said, do you have a world robe that you strap on and tie up? And how loose do you tie that? Knot?
I remember that everyone when I went. I had gone to a newdist colony once and it was everyone had to bring a towel everywhere they went. So if like you ate dinner, you had to put the towel down to sit on. Yeah, just see, you always sit on a towel. So everybody had their little butt towel with them at all times.
That's a fun laundry room experience. Fold and butt towels. Yeah, that's the job you want retirement. Uh. One of the residents said, there's a postal creed and it does not say anything about not going into a newdist resort. I pay for a service and I expect that service. I mean, I'm with this resident. Also, it is so funny.
Imagine if your job had a creed that everyone knew that everyone has heard you know what I mean, so that people could always point to like this like little fun earwig, nor.
Rain yeah, nor head of night or whatever it is. I know that you know.
Yeah, as a Canadian, you might not know this, right, do you know about neither?
I don't.
You don't don't know.
It's that it may read it Scott Neither snow nor rain, nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
And it's it's specifically also in a very not famous to me Lori Anderson song called Oh Superman, which is it's an excellent song. Shout out to Lori Anderson.
It's a motto, but now the us is saying it is not the official motto as of April nineteen twenty four. But it's like, guys, make it a bad nudist in there and make it an official motto there it is. The USPS spokesperson released a statement saying the carrier has done nothing wrong. I think we all disagree. We can assure all customers that mail packages are being delivered according to national centralized delivery requirements, but I don't know if that's true.
Mm hmmm.
I kind of get where she's coming from, though, because like, honestly, I've been to nudist beaches before, like clothing optional beaches, and the naked people are never the people you want to see naked, you know, it's it's always the people that are just shoving it in your face. But it's just, you know, they're on the outliers with you know, just it's never the ones that you're excited to see. Yeah, so maybe she's she's making up this phobia, or maybe she just really doesn't want to see a bunch of like random dudes running around naked.
Yeah, it's not Glennon Powell walking out of the ocean. It's a guy that looks like Santa Claus.
Is walking exactly exactly. I'd rather not, you know, like, I'd rather not see that. Like I get where she's coming from.
Like what if she's delivering clothes?
What if they've had a heart Well, is she though?
Is she? I don't think she is Probably delivering towels.
Lots of sun block.
Sun block and towels and one little penis.
Hat clothing optional.
All right, one b Yeah, I'll send us home with this.
I love to hear it.
Since we're on postal workers, I'm going to keep it on the postal worker.
Train, Okay, I them.
Uh this was on click or Lando dot com. Uh used before actually have you? Yeah? Written by Brenda our great best in the biz postal worker arrested on d U Y charge after drinking vodka house party on delivery route in Melbourne.
Police say fun.
Great, Yeah Florida, Florida, Florida. A USPS worker was arrested earlier this month in Melbourne after she drank alcohol at a house party on her route and was later caught driving the wrong way. Oh my god in traffic. It wasn't a little vodka. Caitlin Die thirty three, was arrested April twelfth on a charge of duy and also I mean Caitlyn and her inner uh, her mugshot looking drunk, looking drunk, and she's a real cutie. According to the Affidavid Berle's were notified that a USPS mail truck was driving the opposite travel land in South Harbor City Boulevard and the driver was throwing plastic cups out of the vehicle. Holy shit's stop yeah d. When officers arrived, they saw the mail truck driving west on East University Boulevard before making a U turn, police did, the truck swerved in and out of its lane, traveled into the opposite lane. Officers pulled over the mail truck said Di appeared confused and disoriented. According to the AFFI David, the officer's conducted field sobriety exercise and said her results were indicative of someone under the influence. Police questioned I, who said she was returning delivering to a home on Riverview Drive when she was invited inside for a party. The department said, I told the police she drank two shots of vodka before she was pulled over. The officers asked why she was swerving in and out of traffic shadows because she had fallen asleep while driving home.
Fun.
Oh my god. They also asked her about a cup thrown out of the vehicle, and she said it was just water. She used to swishing around her mouth to smell like not smell like alcoholic.
I believe it. Wow, I believe that.
Police said they also spoke with witnesses who called in the incident, and they were recorded seeing the mail truck on us one my god. Well, I don't think she's going to be a police postal worker anymore, but.
I doubt two shots of vodka, Like, give me a break, No way, there was no way.
Two shots of vot the ni fall asleep driving a postal truck on the wrong side of the road, Like, no, I remember.
Two shots of vodka. It was the next four that really do Damn.
I really thought it was in Australia.
That's so crazy. Do you ever do live appearances, like do you have fan meat and breads or live shows or anything like that.
I'm thinking about doing it. Yeah, in the near future. I'm planning on doing it definitely.
Why because people will bring you things and your fans and I was just wondering, is there one item that you get brought the most because that does happen? Is there something you talk about that you love that people bring.
Honestly, it wasn't like a live show thing that people bring, but I did like a I did like a po box and like, yeah, people that got me these like these grabbers, Like I have an entire like umbrella thing full of these grabbers and someone put like a red hair wig on. This is shark lot. This is shark lot. This is if this is something that everybody seems to think is very very funny.
Well, I like that, that's exactly. So what Charlotte held up were like toy animal head grabbers that you pull the handle on the bottom and the mouth closes and the best one was a shark with a gorgeous flowing red wig.
It's chark lot.
That happens a lot. And we have, you know, other friends that podcast that tour and other vloggers that we know that tour, and they'll have like fans bring lots of stuff our fans, the bananimals, because we do do a pretty good amount of life touring. The one thing I love is they bring us. The first of all, you guys never have to bring us anything. Anytime you do it is very kind, but don't ever feel like you need to. But we get the most diverse array of things you can imagine, just everything from local foods to clothing, to painting, to toys, to alcohol to drugs. It's like, so what I like about Bananas is the these fan gifts are so eclectic and strange. I'm looking at them now. This is one just a wood carving of a banana. It says in honor of the banana blaze on my desk, and it's just fantastic.
But that is so sweet.
Museum for Influencers. That was all the stuff out into them, either fan and then you put it on display a huge warehouse and you put you put it Charlotte, and then you just have a wall of all the strange and terrifying YouTube.
Shouldn't do that in their campus in La Man Jesus.
They should? They should.
Wouldn't that be fun? Because then you could also like shoot a video with that is the backdrop, and be like just the weird menagerie of strange that you've brought me.
I also backdrop used to have all that stuff on it, like I had, like someone made me like they call me like the Potato Queen, and someone made me like this big crown with like golden potatoes attached to it. And the whole background at my old place was just a bunch of like random artwork and like your drawings and stuff that people would send me. But now I have my accolades. Honestly, I think that I'll probably put those other things back up. It was a lot cuter.
Millions of followers, right, you have a millions? I do?
Yeah, I do.
Damn Yeah.
They're very sweet, each one of them.
And do you know when those YouTube plaques are coming your way? Or does a nude air carrier bring them directly to your house unexpected? Wish? Uh? No?
I so yeah, no, you have to like submit a thing and then they and then they send it to you after you pass like a million subscribers. I think the next one's ten millions, so I want whoa oh yeow.
You'll get it soon. You'll get it soon, Bananas Podcast. Thank you so much. Sure, thank you so much, Charlotte for being here, thank you for having me. Uh and then just say and then slug away, yeah, plug away, plug like.
Hey man, come check me out on YouTube. Just search me up. Charlotte Doughbray. Actually I'm the first Charlotte that comes up if you search Charlotte on YouTube.
So that's a flex. That's a big. Thanks, that's a big I.
Would say that. That's I'm very proud of that.
So oh, that's so Charlotte Dobray across all Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, you find her, you watch her and let her know you heard her on Bananas.
When she crosses that ten million, then eleven million subscriber mark.
Here's hoping fingers crossed. Thank you so much, guys, this was so fun.
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