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  • 4/23/2025
Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about a Swedish politician who allegedly has a phobia of bananas. Then, watch some hilarious, old videos of people suffering from food phobias on Maury back in the day.

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00:00okay uh don't put any bananas near this lady this i don't know who this is but
00:18finding out a political person has a fear of bananas is the greatest thing of all time
00:24a swedish politician amazing get the bananas has a devastating crippling banana phobia
00:35why didn't i mean you shouldn't be able to win an election if you have a fear of bananas
00:43paulina brandberg
00:46has people reach out in advance of any of her political appointments to make sure they are
00:54completely free of bananas due to the minister's strong phobia of the yellow fruit i'd just be
01:00launching bananas left and right it'd be a banana catapult yep in several emails leaked to the media
01:10her staff specifically ask for any and all bananas to be removed before any official visits
01:17so strange i mean it's uh i don't know what she really does what they got meatball legislation
01:24i don't know what they're doing over there in sweden none of us do none of us do i guess she
01:30wouldn't appreciate that art that banana art that just sold for a million oh the taped one to the
01:35wall no she'd hate that at first they said it was an allergy and now she's had to backtrack and say
01:41well it's kind of an allergy it's something i need professional help with oh you're not like
01:48mentally fit for office no because that'd be my here so i'm running against her i'm running against
01:54her all i would do i'd be like all right bring out the bananas bust them out reporters with like
02:00banana-shaped microphones right because she would freak out and that'd be it terrified that's
02:06it and then your career and then i would just be like what do you think does she react like the
02:11cats with the cucumbers and stuff yeah or like those videos yeah like the marshmallow person or whatever
02:17this is the cotton ball man i don't know why but in my mind sweden is only candy makers and
02:24fishermen i think that's it i think you nailed it i don't know i don't know what else is going on when
02:29they brought a cotton ball man out on the morning this is what i would do to her though
02:33okay you know you've got to confront your phobia now this is the famous maury show
02:40cotton ball man
02:44that's the politician she just runs away that's it and then i win
02:49and then i win every time
02:52maury show was got wild there for a second oh my god yeah just had people with crazy fears
02:57yeah freak them right out on the air dave had some bananas that were frightening in here
03:01yeah from time to time this so i mean i'm like i almost developed it from just dave
03:07dave chomping down heavily on bananas just having some fruit at work huge dave would have like a dave
03:14size banana you know like i think i would have a normal size banana if i was to choose a banana dave had
03:20to find the world's largest banana any fruit that he's brought in here was like award-winning fruit i
03:25know like the most perfect apples that are the size of basketball exactly if you're gonna do it do it
03:30right yeah most people don't have to hold an apple with two hands he does use my apple slicer yeah
03:37looks like a pumpkin
03:41yeah listen i knew like so i've always been just terrified of my dad um just his toughness and his
03:48ability to kill me at any time always always afraid until it was revealed that he had a phobia
03:56like this of peaches oh right right right then that's it you're there's nothing like i win weakness
04:04no because i win no matter what like we could be in the fit of like a hand-to-hand combat and i pull
04:10a peach out and he's like ah like it's over it's over because of a fuzzy peach man like you've lost
04:20it common one too like i think people don't like the fuzz on it that's it my dad can't you can't
04:24touch him with the fuzz he's gonna freak out the peach he loves peaches oh but just not the peaches all
04:30the time but if you get that fuzzy peach out a fuzz fan myself but it doesn't terrify me like i can
04:36touch it he'll run he'll run no that's too much i would put him in his bed i love a peach man me too
04:43he would wake up you'd wake up from a nap and there'd be peaches all beside him
04:50you're so bad you are a bastard so amazing like wake up to that yep the bride's different like hey
04:56dad dad hey who are you taking a nap with peaches god damn you boy
05:08the best guys you can't be tough anymore it's gone no when you're terrified of a fuzzy fruit it's gone
05:16man i guess the olives is like was one of the best maury ones when people were terrified of olives
05:25bring out the olives that's my dad right there bring out the olives bring out the jar
05:30what's the matter she doesn't want no olives there are no olives here there are no olives here
05:39that's a lie oh maury you lying son of a he's such a liar that's so horrible
05:44olives please don't do all right wait a second wait a second can i let me ask you something
05:51my god you're holding on to my hand you're gonna pull it off sally sally
05:57black olives or green oh any any that's how i feel though okay why olives because they
06:04remind me of dead people why do they remind me of dead people they really just put mental
06:12all this yeah they just put it right in front of the audience and everything everyone's laughing
06:16ah crazy
06:18you ever thought of wheeling out some mentally ill people and just uh torturing them yeah
06:31just really scaring the crap out of them on tv promise them there's no olives and then
06:37bring out the surprise them yeah why do they remind you of dead my grandpa sat up in his coffin and
06:42looked at me when he died oh no they she think olives remind her of dead people's eyes
06:52eyes but because she believes her grandpa sat up in his coffin and looked at her with his dead olive
06:57eyes oh gosh i don't think so what if that happens
07:02then i'm trying to dream with the other side if it happened all of this is valid yeah absolutely
07:08one out of 100 000 corpses does that once yeah it might with green eyes with a black in them
07:15how old were you when this happened seven and you really believed that your grandfather came right
07:21up out of his coffin and he had green eyes and ever since then you've been scared of olives she clutching
07:27her boob that way do you eat olives no i can't even come down the aisle okay now can you go down the
07:34aisle of a depart of a grocery store mary you won't let go of me bring out the olive
07:42i don't have anything i don't believe you anymore you lied to her once entertainment huh
08:06bring out the olives he said it like an evil villain i know he did well she wouldn't
08:10she wouldn't unleash his hand yeah well it wasn't like it wasn't like she's like i slept on an olive
08:16she's like my grandfather's dead eyes sat up and looked at me right through my soul green and black
08:25bring out the olive bring out the olive
08:31ladies chasing her with them
08:33and there's a like a handler that's like not letting her go yeah that's what i was wondering
08:40that was a family member or if that was just like a mori i don't think so i think that's a disturbed
08:49lady
08:55i don't have anything
08:58sally i don't have anything oh jeezy piece
09:02some medication needed there she really needs to holy smokes we had no problem laughing at the mentally
09:08ill oh my god she is disturbed what a nut
09:23i could watch those all day i know it's crazy well that's obviously why it was successful right
09:28for them too yep oh there's all sorts of stuff pickles and mustard and just
09:33anything you could imagine but my dad would try to act tough like try to be like i'm not afraid of
09:41those anymore he would bring out the peaches and i would be like oh no no i swear to god i don't
09:50i'm unaffected by those i'm unaffected by those now and i'd be like this
09:56hey he would try man he would try like he would have never done one of these moves
10:04like on a mori show no like he would have just been
10:10trying to maintain his fear yeah not a big deal mr mori
10:16oh my god yeah i couldn't react like that oh yeah but i mean you could you could get him you could
10:23finally enough peaches and he couldn't couldn't take it like oh one you can handle what about all
10:30these and then it would be look out over psychological torture oh it's crazy i mean like this woman had
10:37a hallucination so much fun mori was like tell us about your hilariously crazy hallucination
10:45fever dream