Good Bird Gone Bad with Alyssa Carson

Bananas - Funny news from around the world with Scotty Landes and Kurt Braunohler

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4.8 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Future astronaut Alyssa Carson joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a turtle that pees through it’s mouth, wolves eating blueberries, a motorcycle riding alligator, a man in a bull onesie who tried to burn down a house with spaghetti sauce, teens who accidentally snorted their grandfather's ashes, a man being fined for calling another man a leprechaun, a drunk monkey who got sentenced to jail and a bird that was arrested for robbery!

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0:00.0	This is Justin from The Generation Y, and we're doing a four-part series
0:03.7	on rambling the story of Khalif Browder, a young boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack
0:08.7	and held at Rikers Island for three years without trial. This story is about a young life caught
0:14.4	in the middle of the justice system. Listen to Generation Y on Amazon Music or wherever you get your
0:19.2	podcast. You ready for this one, Skye? I am having a great day. I'm ready for this one.
0:24.7	This is one of my favorite titles. Okay. Here is a turtle that peas through its mouth.
0:30.0	Yeah, that's a banana story, all right.
1:00.9	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to bananas. I'm your host, Kurt Brown-Oller.
1:05.1	And I'm Scotty Landis. Welcome to the bananas podcast. The silliest podcast there ever was.
1:10.5	Today we have such a cool guest. We have an extraordinary guest. This is a young woman who by the
1:15.9	age of 19 has already attended seven space camps, space academy three times, robotics academy once,
1:22.7	she's given TED Talks, she wants to be the first person to step foot on Mars and we're fully
1:28.3	behind her. Her name is Alyssa Carson. Hi. Hi Alyssa. So you are just for our listeners, you
1:37.6	are the youngest astronaut. You will essentially your plan is to go to Mars to be the first astronaut
1:44.0	on Mars. Yeah. So I mean the ultimate goal would be to be able to be on one of those missions to Mars.
1:50.0	You know, obviously the first would be pretty cool, but sadly as an astronaut, you don't really get
1:53.7	to pick and choose which missions you go. You know, the first would be pretty cool, but we'll see
2:00.2	if that actually happens. What kind of training do you do as a 19 year old astronaut? Yeah. So I mean,
2:06.8	basically so essentially what I'm doing is I'm almost like building a resume to be able to apply
2:11.0	to the astronaut selection process in the future because you have to have a college degree and those
2:15.6	kinds of things to actually apply. But basically I work with a citizen science research group, which
2:21.3	basically just means like every day people contributing to some kind of research. So I've been kind
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