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🗓️ 11 March 2025
⏱️ 195 minutes
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0:27.6 | I'm My grandpa used to work as a stevedore over in Savannah, and he'd tell us all kinds of stories from his time on the job. |
0:48.8 | Like one time, they got a whole shipment of bananas from the Philippines or somewhere, |
0:54.0 | and back in those days, |
0:55.1 | they'd transport the bananas still attached to the big old branches that they grew on. |
0:59.5 | They'd pop the crate, and then carefully pull the bananas out wearing real thick pairs of gloves, |
1:05.1 | and they wore those gloves because of the tarantulas. |
1:09.1 | The tarantulas didn't eat the bananas, but other smaller creepy crawlies |
1:13.2 | would, making the banana branches a prime feeding ground for them. Most of the time, the workers |
1:19.0 | over on the other side of the ocean would do their best to get all the bugs off their produce. |
1:23.7 | But every so often, a tarantula would tuck itself away among the bunches after getting its fill of bugs, |
1:31.0 | and then survived the entire transit process from whatever tropical islands that they were from to the ports of the United States. |
1:38.9 | My grandpa said that one time he was working with this guy popping crates of bananas, |
1:43.8 | when the guy started to get a little |
1:45.1 | too comfortable. He starts getting slow, talking when he should have been working, and then the |
1:51.6 | next thing, Grandpa's turning around to see this guy's arm deep in a crate, but looking back at |
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