Second Bananas

Joe, Wes & Craig attempt to dissect the quiet charm of LEGO's Second Banana, and quickly realize that it's like most traditional European things: a little bit folksy, a little bit grim and a little bit racist! Plus they watch The Playmobil Movie!

Links:

Playmobil On Wikipedia

This 500-Year-Old Religious Figure Is Playmobil’s Best Selling Toy of All Time

Playmobil accused of 'perpetuating ugly stereotypes' by UK parent

Playmobil: The Movie - Rotten Tomatoes

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Ra-ka-ka-kah! (You'll get this reference once you listen to the episode) The Banana Boys get up, come on get down with the sickness to talk everyone's late 90s/early 2000s fave, Nü-Metal

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As the COVID-19 Pandemic Struck and the Banana Boys went into lockdown, they decided to take it easy and make some lighter, less research-heavy episodes of the pod. This is one of those Pandemisodes.

Luigi Mario: the plumber, the pasta lover, the player 2 eternal. Joe, Craig & Wes just dig deep into their own personal feelings about Luigi. Joe posits a theory that David Lynch directed Mario 64; Craig believes Luigi is the REAL forgotten man; and Wes just REALLY wants to tell you about the Year of Luigi.

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As the COVID-19 Pandemic Struck and the Banana Boys went into lockdown, they decided to take it easy and make some lighter, less research-heavy episodes of the pod. This is one of those Pandemisodes.

In this Pandemisode, Joe & Wes talk about punk legends Dillinger Four, whose 1998 record “Midwestern Songs of the Americas” reshaped the sound of DIY Pop Punk, and their connection to Punk Rock Superstars Green Day. Did Billie Joe steal the riff to American Idiot from the D4 song “Doublewhiskeycokenoice”? Is Green Day Punk? Are Dillinger Four Punk? Is ANYTHING Punk?

ADDITIONAL READING

Dillinger Four on Wikipedia

The Official Dillinger Four Angelfire Page

FAT WRECK CHORDS: D4 Press Info

NOISEY: In Dillinger Four We Trust

NOISEY: Dillinger Four's 'Midwestern Songs of the Americas' Spawned a Scene of Copycats

DYING SCENE: 13 Green Day Songs That Sound Like Songs By Other Artists

YOUTUBE: Did Green Day steal their American Idiot riff from Dillinger Four's DoubleWhiskeyCokeNoIce?

COUNTERPOINT: Dillinger Four Ripped Off Green Day

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The Banana Boys finally discuss the guy they subtitled the podcast after! Each of them researches a different part of Art Garfunkel's life and discuss it with the others.

This was the first episode we recorded during the pandemic, and Joe's audio is particularly un-good, so we apologize for that. Don't worry - it gets better going forward!

SOURCES:

Wikipedia - Art Garfunkel

Wikipedia - Simon & Garfunkel

Art Garfunkel's Website

Rolling Stone Interview, 2017

Art Garfunkel talks about Paul Simon, reads the poem "The Funeral," May 12, 2019

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For our ninth episode, we discuss Lou Graham - Famous/Infamous Seattle Madame, sex work pioneer, business innovator, philanthropist & financier to the city and it’s citizens from all socioeconomic stratas. We dig into some of Lou’s roots, her time in the Emerald City and the marks she left on the nascent city that echo through its streets to this day

Sources:

Wikipedia

Eccentric Seattle Episode(Archive)

The Hostess With The Mostess(Archive)

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This episode we talk about Sybil Ludington; a young heroine who, much like Paul Revere, rode out into the night to warn townsfolk of an invading British army. But just how much of Sybil’s story is actually true and how much is merely an inspiring folk tale? Join us as we attempt to sift out fact from fiction! Also Paul Revere sucks.

Sources:

Wikipedia

Historic Patterson Exhibit

womenshistory.org

Title

Further Reading:

Glory, Passion, and Principle: The Story of Eight Remarkable Women at the Core of the American Revolution | Bohrer, Melissa Lukeman | Simon and Schuster

Sybil Ludington, the Female Paul Revere: The Making of a Revolutionary War Heroine | Hunt, Paula D | New England Quarterly 88 (June 2015)

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CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of torture, executions, state sponsored violence and suicide. Joe's jimmies get real rustled talking about this stuff, and understandably so.

Victor Jara was a folk musician and revolutionary from Chile. Victor was the face of La Nueva Cancion (The New Song), a Latin American Folk Music Movement of the 50s and 60s. He was also a victim of Operation Condor, the US-Backed right wing coup against leftist governments in Latin America which resulted in thousands of executions and human rights abuses.

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For our sixth episode, we discuss Gabriel Dumont - Legendary “Master of the Plains”, and of the hunt; community and military leader; friend and close ally of the “Grandfather of Manitoba”, Louis Riel. An exploration of Gabriel’s life and his militant defense of Plains & Métis Peoples’ rights against a colonial tyranny bent on expanding its dominion through genocide.

Sources:

Wikipedia

The Gabriel Dumont Institute

The Canadian Encyclopedia

Virtual Museum of Canada Biography

The Metis Museum of Canada

Further Reading:

Gabriel Dumont Speaks | Gabriel Dumont & Michael Barnholden | Talonbooks

Veterans and Families of the 1885 Northwest Resistance | Barkwell, Lawrence J. | Gabriel Dumont Institute.

Extraordinary Canadians: Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont | Joseph Boyden | Penguin Books

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Wes, Craig & Joe get mathematical & examine the life of Ada Lovelace -- a brilliant and brazen woman whose affection for arithmetic made her a programmer a full century before Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine would come to form the foundations of modern computing. Also Joe has 3 beers & starts doing dumb voices. This will happen again, we guarantee it.

Sources:

Wikipedia

biography.com

Ada Lovelace:The First Tech Visionary(The New Yorker)

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