April 19, 2023 • 46 mins
The Fable Family (Daniela and Jason) is back to share some of the wildest, funniest Coachella and music festival stories from Reddit AND real life! What was Will's first concert? Why would someone take a dump in a tent? All these questions and more will be answered in this week's episode.
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
What is a Fable Babies And welcome to hashtag story Time,
the podcast where I bring on random acquaintances and friends
and people that i've that I loosely know and they
tell me just like the best story that from their life.
That's kind of the gist of it. I'm your host,
(00:42):
will Sahara Tent McFadden, and today we're doing a Fable
family episode, Everybody's favorite. We've got my best friends who
I pay in the house. We've got Danielle and Jason.
Hey you guys doing.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yes, my payment has yet to go through the mail,
so we are frenemies at this point.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Oh yeah, your address, I need to get that updated
addressed PayPal them. Yeah, it's on the way. Jason, how
you doing doing well?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I was not at Coachella last weekend, but I did
stay home all weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
That's right. It is the official start of music festival season.
It's kicked off. Coachella Week one was just in the
books this past weekend. I also did not attend because
I'm not a millionaire influencer. You know. It's I feel like,
what is a weekend past cost these days? Seven hundred bucks?
(01:39):
Eight hundred bucks?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, they're I think they're up to five twenty five.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I've gone to I think six Coachellas, but that was
back when they were like three good and good.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
That was back when the music was good. Danielle, have
you ever gone to a.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
No, never incorrect, I've never gone. But I've been to
music festivals, but not Coachella now La La Palooza. Nothing
cool with like a nice and I did like New
York one, so we have a Governor's Ball and one
(02:22):
I'm forgetting, but equally as fun.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I've only been to one Coachella, and it was in
I think it was in two thousand and six, and
it was it was Daft Punk was headlining the Pyramid. Yeah,
the Pyramid, legendary Pyramid, Pyramid of Lights. And it was transformative,
it was. And the crazy thing was, I just went
(02:48):
with my girlfriend at the time. Shout out Katie Sullivan
wherever you are. Actually she's married, she's got a new
last name and children. I don't even know. I'm sure
she listens to every yes, but yeah, we went kind
of on a whim and we show up and we're like,
you know, getting the lay of the land, and I
was like, oh, let's go to the beer garden, get
a beer, and I walk into the beer garden and
(03:12):
then I see a guy I know, and I was like, oh,
what's up, man, And he was like, yeah, what are you?
Your brother's here, and I was like what? And I
ran into my own brother in the beer garden at
Coachella with zero communication. We for some reason, and we're like,
we're not estranged. We speak almost every day, but for
(03:32):
some reason, neither of us mentioned that we were both
going to Coachella, and then we just like, out of
all the thousands and thousands of people there, we reunited
with each other in all places the beer garden, and
it's just a magical embrace that we had of just
like what are you doing here? Man?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I love running into people at Coachella. It is always
the beer garden I've gone. So I started going in
twenty twelve. I think I went twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,
Jesus eight for real one, and then went in twenty
(04:09):
twenty one. I don't have any good coach Ella stories personally,
but my friend who I'm calling Jim, has amazing Coachella stories.
So I'll only be telling Jim's stories on this podcast.
I just watched the music quietly, but like, Jim really
(04:29):
goes hard.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Goes hard.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
He took acid and met jaw Rule at Coachella.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Whoa, I want to be friends with Jim.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, I wish Jim was on this podcast right now.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah, I know you and Jim have went to enough
coach Ella's for both of us.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
So yeah, I'll tell you Jim stories.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Oh my god. Yeah, what's well? This past one? This
past weekend, I mean, who was even? I mean, I
know Blink one played Friday night.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Yeah, so they did a surprise show.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I think the headliners I'm pretty sure were Black Pink,
Frank Ocean, and Bad Bunny.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah. Not for me. Sorry, I'm just not in that
demo anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Okay, that's kind of speaking to me.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Okay, you're that generation.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah, okay, I mean years ago, my second Coachella, the
headliners were like Blur and Stone Roses one night.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
That's like our it's a little more our demo. I
guess I.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Remember the one that I went to. Kanye played like
in the middle of the day. It was strange.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
It was early Kanye. It was early Kanye. Yeah, daytime,
it was pre uh.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
His mother dying, him losing his mind and turning into
an awful antisemitic piece of crape.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
There's late registrations.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, exactly exactly before he's really turned into a shitty person.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
And I had to put uh seven or eight pair
of shoes in my closet to never be seen again.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Cheap shoes. I know.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I often look at the boxes in my closet and
think what I could have spent that money on, or
what cool things my daughter could have if I didn't waste.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
That, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Wow, you know, after after Kyrie's uh, after he shared
that lank on Twitter to the I think it was
a video that had some anti semitic Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Like an anti semitic movie about with like all of
these Yeah, Henry Ford quotes the most anti semitic guy ever.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
So I had recently bought some some Kyrie basketball shoes
and I went back to the Nike store and I
just had them and I was like, I don't want
to wear these anymore. I would like new shoes, please.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Amazing, And they were.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Like, we understand, we get it. We'll take them back
and you just pick whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Wow, that's awesome. I didn't know they were doing that.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, same, Wait a minute, tournament, like these shoes are
full of hatred? Can I get new ones? I don't
want to wear these anymore. But I would love to
hear I would love to hear a Jim a Jim
A great Jim Coachella story, if if there's one that
pops that he recently told you or that's all fresh
(07:34):
on your mind.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah, I mean, I'll just say, like Jim did some
stupid stuff in his twenties.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I would say, sounds like Jim.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
The dumbest thing Jim did in his twenties was out
of Coachella.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
It was twenty twelve, and Jim, I.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Mean, first of all, twenty twelve, we all thought the
world was gonna end because of the Mayan calendar, so
you know, exactly so hard to go home.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Jim act out according.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yeah, we were on borrowed time, and so I wasn't
staying at this house.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I got a hotel room by myself.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
But Jim was at this house with probably fifteen or
twenty people, and Jim and his friends were going and
it's a big group. And Jim was walking into Coachella
and there's this spot you know, if you don't know Coachella.
Basically you have to walk through a desert terrain to
(08:26):
go through like three different security checkpoints because they need
a check to make sure you're not bringing in any
contraband or drugs or weapons, and then they also have
to make sure you have an actual pass to.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
The festival. And so sometimes.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
People get a little too eager with like the drugs
that they bring and get scared near security and then
ditch them. And Jim was like, I'm gonna find some
stuff as we go in. Jim was just like, Jim
was already had had too much to drink and he
was feeling really mischievous.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
And we was cavenging for ditched contraband.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
So Jim walks up to security. Yeah, I mean this
is so Jim.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
He walked up to security and like three feet to
the left of security there was a Manila envelope and
without thinking at all, Jim just grabbed it. He stuffed
it in like a secret compartment of his backpack. Jim
didn't even know what was in here, but he wrapped
it in a towel and then he went through security.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
And Jim got.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Through security, and when he and his friends looked in
the Minila envelope. There were about twenty capsules of they
didn't know what, didn't know what?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, really with the old drugs there.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yeah, and Jim and his buddies in twenty twelve, we
were not going through like the you know, the crisis
that we are now, where like you know, there's fentanyl
and drugs and you should I always tell this to
Jim still, and like Jim doesn't do drugs anymore, but
I always tell Jim, like his friends, do not ever
(10:24):
take things that you don't know what they are.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
This is the dumbest thing you can do.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
But this was twenty twelve, and Jim was stupid and
his friends just decided they were just gonna take the
mystery drugs. So throughout the day Jim is like.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Really, really, I really wish it was just viagra. They're
not a boner for the entire festival. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Well it was clear, you know, these were clear capsules,
and you know, it looked like sand in them, so
they were.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Like, oh okay, no, it looked like sand.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
So Jim and his friends were like, this is probably molly.
So yeah, Jim.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
All day was like Santa Claus handing these out to
everyone and anyone. Jim took a bunch of them, had
a great time. But we got back to the house
at the end of the night and like fifty to fifty,
some people had the worst days of their lives and
some people had the best days of their lives. It
was this mystery. Jim had a great, awesome day. He
(11:30):
saw like Swedish house mafia and was like grinding his
teeth down to little nubs. But his friends, some of
his friends like went into like panic attack dark holes.
So I don't know, it must have been it's like
a I think it's like a ying yang type of thing,
(11:51):
Like it was like a test from the Lord that
like some people were gonna have a great time and
some people were gonna have horrible times, and him, you know,
feels weird about it to this day.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Wow, this was a Darwinism for the gyms.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, there's definitely a lot to learn from this story.
You know, for any actual Fable babies who are babies
listening out there, definitely you know what you're putting in
your body. You know, don't take candy from strangers, don't
take random pills that you find in manila envelopes outside
of security. But it all worked out. I'm glad everybody
(12:33):
was okay.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Yeah, no one.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
No one died, which is literally the steaks. Someone especially
now someone could easily die.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
So it's yeah, yeah, you know, but like we said,
min calendar, you thought it was over anyway, so I
might as well like go out in a blaze of
glory at Coachella then like, you know, wait for a
tsunami to happen in December of twenty twelve.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Wow, that's crazy, Jim, that's good. I was wondering because
I have a friend named Pam who similar I think
my sister's friend from grade school. She once did that
(13:20):
and she's Loca. But it was we were on the
way to the city. We were getting happy hour and
then we just me and me watching Pam. Uh. She
saw a little pill on the seat and then said,
oh what fun. And then Pam just you know, kind
(13:41):
of lost it that day. But I told her never again,
classic Pam. Yeah, she said that she thinks it was
more of like an adderall I don't know definitely what
she describes them, more like a meth you know, sister.
(14:03):
But she did live to tell the day. She's doing
well good.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I guess this is all too common that, you know,
we all just have friends out there who take random
pills without no.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
One and tell us exactly you know what went down?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Im, Yeah, we can't recommend it. No, we don't do that.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I think this is a great opportunity to say, if
you want to be featured on the show with a
story of your own, to give us a call at
the Storytime hotline, which is three two eighteen seventy three.
If you are Jim or Pam or you've got a
crazy story from a music festival, from a concert about
finding random drugs in somebody's butt and just popping them
(14:52):
right in your mouth, give us a call and like
we want to hear that story. How'd your night go?
Did you survive? Please tell us the audience needs to know.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
By the way, this this uh, this podcast is produced
by iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I just want to take the time to say that, now.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Will what what's your uh? You were your friend's craziest
festival story?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You know? Actually, I uh, I am not a huge
concert goer like I for some reason, I don't know,
I just uh, I haven't been to a ton of
music festivals or concerts. I've just kind of randomly stumbled
into ones here there. I mean, uh, my friend Bill,
(15:39):
I know Bill, Yeah, Billy Bill, I think Yeah. He
took like three gravity bond loads and went to see
Dell the Funky Homo Sapien at UCSB and like in
the US end like little basement. Uh, I don't know
venue that that was. It was like maybe like one
(16:01):
hundred and fifty people there, and he had a great time.
That's I love Dell A yeah, good old. I mean
this was like right after the Gorillas album came out too,
so it was and he was just freestyle and it
was it was the best. Bill had a great time.
It sounds fine, I was legal, yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
But no.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I but I would love to hear. I would love
to hear what your guys is. Maybe let's take a
quick break and then when we come back, we're gonna
hear what your guys first concert you ever went to US? Okay,
So I would love to since we're talking about Coachella
(16:47):
and music festivals, I'd love to hear what your guys'
first music festival or concert experience was. I always think
it's really interesting to hear, like, what was the first
concert you ever went to? Did you want to kick
it off?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Surely? Okay, first concert ever. This was a Cheetah Girls concert.
But it was not just Cheetah Girls. It was also
Vanessa Hudgens. That was absolutely huge. Yes, I saw it
with my sister and another friend. And to make matters
(17:23):
more iconic, I broke my arm about two weeks prior and.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I had the concert. I like, really, I was just
raging so hard at the Cheetah Girls that I freaking snapped.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Oh my god, When you know Barcelona came on, that's
when things got real. But no, I had like it
was almost a full body cast due to the fact
that I was like six. I just had a big
clunker and we like paper macheaded it with some Cheta
(18:00):
print fabric to show that I was still a Cheetah
though disabled.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
It was a great concert.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Imagine if you had got the Cheetah Girls and Vanessa
to sign that cast.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I wouldn't be here today, I believe I. Yeah, Vanessa
Hudgens was the best. Cheta Girls. They were good, but Vanessa,
she had like a lit up v like it was
just the release of her new album that I had
on CD, and it was epic, and I was so.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
How old are you for this? For this concert too?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Probably like eight or nine? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, super great.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah what what what a memory? You're like? Mine was
also the Cheatah Girl.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
No, mine is almost exactly the same, but from a
different generation. So my first show I was like Also,
I was a little younger, I was like five. It
was not the Cheetah Girls. It was the Beach Boys.
And their guest was not Vanessa Hutchins, it was John Stamos.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Wow, Uncle Jesse and the Beach Boys.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
At the Minnesota was fair Okay, yeah, so this was
around you know, this is when they were on Full
House a few times and they were good buddies with
John Stamos.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
So he was the drummer of this show.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
And my favorite song was and still kind of is
Barbara Ann by the Beach Boys, and they played it
and little five year old Jason screamed so hard singing
it that when it was over he cried tears of
joy and it was a.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Great experience for me and my family.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Wow. Uh, one of an epic of speech. Speaking of
the Beach Boys, my father was good friends with Dennis
Wilson of the beach boys back in the day, back
in the in the late sixties, early seventies, and actually
(20:21):
lived on his boat for.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
A little while Dennis passed away. Did Dennis pass away early?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, and I think he died on that boat.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
The other crazy thing about Dennis Wilson is he was
good friends with Charlie Manson, I didn't want to say it,
who was living at his house for a little while.
And when Charlie Manson and the Manson family were trying
to be a band, you know, when they were like
the Race Wars coming, you know, like We're going to
live in the desert and just play music and like
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and actually his music wasn't that bad, you know. It
was just like your kind of basic hippie shit, but
it was all right. But like they were, you know,
living at Dennis Wilson's house and like trying to get
the band going. And then eventually Dennis Wilson was like,
you guys, are you guys gotta go? You guys are
getting into real helter skelter shit, and like time to
pack up and leave.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
And Manson's like, I'm gonna do a bunch of bad
stuff unless Will's dad talks me.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Out of it.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
No, I've always wondered, Like I have asked my dad.
I was like, did you ever meet Charlie Manson? Like
if you were hanging out with Dennis Wilson, did you
guys like at the same party. Maybe he was like, no,
I don't, I don't. I don't think so, which is
like maybe he says he doesn't think he ever hung
out with Charlie Manson. So it was a different time. Yeah,
(21:43):
a different time to be in Hollywood in the sixties
early seventies. Okay, So my first concert I was in
I was I was kind of late bloomer in terms
of concert I didn't go. It was ninth grade. I
went to my first content her and uh, I was.
I had was dating this girl, her name was Jesse
(22:05):
and she was best friends with this girl named Molly Elfman.
Molly Elfman is Danny Elfman's daughter. Oh, Danny Elfman of
Oingo Boingo fame, and also Danny Elfman, the amazing composer.
He did Danielle If you don't know Daniel, Danny Elfman
is he He did the score for the Simpsons. So
he made the Simpsons song Wow. Many and also Batman
(22:27):
theme song Jim Burton.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
I also want to point out he performed at Coachella
last year.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Oh yeah, that's right, so that ties it all in.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah yeah wow.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
So Danny Elfman music icon and legend and uh I
went over to hang out with Jesse at Molly's house
at Danny Elfman's house and Panga and uh. He was like,
do you guys want to go to a concert tonight?
And we were like, uh yeah. So the first concert
I ever went to, Danny Elfman took us. It was
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at the Hollywood Palladium and it was to see it
was the Sprite Festival, sponsor by Sprite, right but yes,
the soda uh. And it was ever Clear Soul Coughing
and Redman, which is such a weird lineup, but it
(23:21):
was amazing. And I remember Redman came out and like
had a little pipe and was just smoking weed on
stage and almost thirteen, I was like, what's happening? You
can do that?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Like?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
But it was it was, yeah, it was. It was
a memorable night. And uh oh, danil.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Will one of my first concerts without my parents. I
had to love who this set list was. But because
it was soul, Coughing was one of the bands I
went to like a similar festival in nineteen ninety eight,
and it was Goo Goo Dolls, Soul Coughing, Semi Sonic,
Marcie Playground, Garbage, Cherry Popping Daddy's Big Bad Voodoo Daddy,
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and but.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah what yeah, wow, Wow, that is my dream life.
If you throw cake in there too, that's the greatest
concert of all time. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
And I was eleven, and I was like, what is
what is this? I didn't enjoy any of it.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I don't think you're like I'm eleven, Like who are
the cherry popping daddies? Like what does that name mean? Aggressive?
Like why are they popping so many cherries?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And yeah, I mean in all seriousness though, I think
I knew one song of every one of those bands
at the time. So I was having a bad time
until they played that one song and then I had
like a great time every like forty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Well, I mean, yeah, Marcy Playground, is I smell sex
and candy?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Sex and candy? Yep.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Semi Sonic is closing time right, yep?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Google Dolls like Black Balloon.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Yeah, it's just like whatever that iris Yep, Yes, I
love the song Yes.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
There wait the daddy.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Oh yeah that was what is there?
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Oh Riot?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Oh yeah, Ryan throw back, a bottle of beer, a
zoot suit, ry rya.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
So Danielle.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Right before you were born, there was a weird thing
where people were getting really into swing dancing.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Men were wearing huge suits.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Giants and suits.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
It was really weird. It was just a weird time
in like ninety seven ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I feel like it was kind of The Mask, the
Jim Carrey movie. The Mask kind of started it. Maybe
it was that was Jim Carrey's fault. I think you
never even.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Thought about that. That's a really good point.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, after he came out in that yellow suit, then
everyone was like, all right, this is it, this is
the trend now right. Also, SKA was big in the nineties,
which is just a silly, silly style of music.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Very happy to knock on wood.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Mighty mighty boss stones. But it was a big, real
big fish fan for a while too. I love me
some real big fish sell out. Okay, anyway, So that's that's. Uh,
those are some concerts, you know. I hope, I hope
kids out there are getting as great music, live music
(26:33):
experiences as we had growing up. You know, like what
do you even take your kids to now? Like Paw
Patrol Live?
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Yeah, like Frozen.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Disney on ice.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, I was gonna say we had Raffi growing up,
Baby Shark, like a concert about baby Shark.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Oh no, we.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Also like Narrol Lewis and Brahm, who are like trying
to get big on TikTok again, do you remember like
skinn a a rinky dinky dink skin?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
You do?
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I love you. Aren't they bringing Barney.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Back to I think Barney's back with new teeth?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Oh wow? Yeah, look at that.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah. I like the chip in his tooth.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Oh. I guess it does make him less intimidating if
the dinosaur has like a chip tooth, Like you know,
you're like, I can't hurt you. Yeah, I can't he
you because I got a chip in my tooth. Okay, cool,
All right, let's take another little break and then we
come back and we'll we'll look at some some reddit
threads all about Coachella. All right, welcome back. Okay, Jason's
(27:49):
got some some Reddit threads all about Coachella. Jason, what
what did you dig up?
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
So I got some quick hits here I really liked
this one. This user uh said at Grassroots Vest two
thousand and seven, I had a threesome on mushrooms because
she liked my Obama T shirt.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
There's a lot nowadays.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Wow, who who is the who? They need? I need
more info, like exactly who was the other? She? Right,
it was Obama, the other person in the threesome. It's
just me.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
The shirt is referencing his T shirt.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, he was like, I had a threesome because she
liked my T shirt.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Oh wow, and how did the mushrooms fit in?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Like?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, wait, so Obama was elected in two thousand and eight,
first term, right, So this was two thousand and seven,
so he was like ahead of the times, like on
the Obama train, you know what I mean? Like yep,
you know. So I guess that was enough to be like, oh,
you're into Obama, Like get over here, let's freaking do this.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
And then who is the mystery man or woman?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah? A security guard. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
This one's crazy though. I wonder what y'all think of this.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
So this user said, I met a guy with two
cats that sat on his backpack throughout the whole festival.
Actually ran into him at Dylan Francis at Coachella twenty fifteen.
These cats were completely chill with the sound and lights too.
It was mind blowing, to say the least. We saw
him like right beside the soundboards, so they were close
to everything, and the cats were just closing their eyes
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and purring.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I'm gonna say they do a wellness chuck on the
cat Yeah, yeah, I agree to say this. They should
be taken away from this man.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yeah, honestly, cats do like the vibration, and like maybe
that was a thing if he like, you know, probably
put something on the catnet. But hey, that sounds like funny.
I would want to be sitting with the cats as well.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
There's like a bunch of comments though, Like dude, I
was also there.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
I saw those cats. Those cats are so chill we
met him. I think their service cats.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Okay, so this person was in hallucinating calicos.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
At least these.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Are my emotional support cats that I bring to music festival.
Don't bring your pets to music festivals. I don't say that.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Are babies allowed at Coachellah?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yeah? I brought my my How old was she at
the time?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
She was five months old? A five month old to
Coachella last year.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
How much is a baby?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Remember that?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
No, we didn't have to uh we we didn't have
to get one for her. We really only stayed like
five hours and we had different passes, like we weren't
in the main area and we kept we had those
like big headphones on her. But you do see kids
at music festivals a lot. It's it's questionable.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah, well, now Noah is has the coolest story because
you know, your baby gets to go. I went to
Coachella when I was five months old as.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Losers, and no joke.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
We're just those kind of parents that that's exactly why
we did it. We were just like, we want her
to be cool when she's older and have this story,
Like you know, we'll we'll basically just like do something
that's kind of hard for five hours so that she
can say this.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Well, good for Noah. She's gonna be cool when she's
an adult. All Right, what else.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
We've got?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
This is a good one. At Walker USA twenty twelve,
the people that was walk a Rusa. It's kind of
like a it's like a jam band. I believe it's in.
I feel like it's around like of the Ozarks. I
don't know if they do it anymore, but it's kind
of like a bluegrass jam band like you know, down
in the Mud type festival.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I'm gonna say prime primetime, like big wook energy. Yes,
a lot of wooks.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Oh for sure, it should be called Wookarusa. So this
one and it shows so the people that were camped
next to us wore onesies the entire time. The guy
was trying to get his girlfriend pregnant at Wakarusa, constantly
going to the tent and rustling around, and he had
a box full of random shit he busted out when
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we were tripping and out of nowhere, he pulls dental
molds of his ex wife out and.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
He gave them to my friend to keep. Nice people.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Unique experience, definitely unique gigs. Wow, like the goal of
like why yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Conceiving of child at Wookarusa. I like also the going
into the tent and wrestling around. Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Should we uh should we do another one?
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Yeah, let's do another one. I like hearing about these uh.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Yeah, yeah, these are a bunch of Now we're like
on a jam band festival thread. So like at Camp
Bisco two thousand and seven, this is like the disco biscuits.
I believe we caught some wook taking a shit in
my buddy's tent. Figured the tent was a lost cause,
so we pulled the poles and collapsed it with said
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wooks still inside.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
It was pretty hilarious watching.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Them struggle to get out of that shit filled collapse tent.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Death worst the lost tent.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
I mean, yeah, you're you can't rick. You can't get
that smell out of a tent.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
No.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
For a second, I thought they were going to say,
like when they did that, that it wasn't a person
or something else. But honestly, that's probably the best.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
I mean, it's par for the course.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Like, I've only camped at Coachella one year, and there
were these guys camping next to us, these two guys,
and they had come in from I believe like Norway,
and they only had camping passes, they did not have
festival passes, and they were in the tent right next
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to us, and they were drinking so much, partying all
day long and really like not leaving the area at all.
And they left, I believe they left late Saturday night
and just like left their tent and a bunch of
stuff in it because they were international travel and we
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went in the tent like peeked our heads in for
a second just to see if there was anything that
they left, and it was the worst smell I've ever
smelled in my entire life, just like you know, the
smell of someone's breath, like after they've had twenty five drinks.
This was like that times a thousand. These tents need
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to get decommissioned after festivals.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Where they would you say they were Norwegians?
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Yeah, I believe they were from Sweden or Norway, Okay.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
So probably also a lot of like tinned fish that
they were eating, just like cracking open Kansas sardines and
like slamming.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Back like really multi beers. Wow, two three days straight exactly,
what a weird choice to be, Like, We're gonna go
to Coachella and camp in the sea of tents and
not go to the music festival.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Yeah, they were just there for the knife night life,
they said, and they were I mean they were trying
to pick up girls all weekend unsuccessfully, and so it.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Sounds like my health like, yeah, you couldn't pay me
enough money to just go camp in the middle of
the like to go down, drive down to Coachella, get
through the traffic, find the camping spot set up, and
then just like sit and chill there. You know, No,
it sounds like a nightmare.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
That sounds I've got one more good one for y'all
to discuss.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
I'm also just still thinking about the wook in the
ship tent and just running around trying to escape. And
it's like that just instantly becomes like a like a
coffin of poop that he was in.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Yeah, poor guy, but also like the raccoon.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Yeah, why was he sitting in their tents?
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Okay, here's the last one.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Pember in twenty fourteen, having a blast during Above and
Beyond at the electronic stage. I had my hands up
in the air and some dude straight up bites onto
my underarm hair and holds on. I was shocked for
a second, then pulled him off. He then took off
through the crowd, never to be seen again, with some
of my hair still in his mouth.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
What also, how long does I'm assuming a guy sent
this in or I mean a guy that's nuts.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
That must be very long armpit hair.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Oh, just the idea of somebody's mouth on my armpit.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
I feel like maybe he just forgot flaws, just just
a mouthful of armpit pubes.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Gross.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
I think he was as that would be my guest.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
I remember around that time, like people were talking about
bath salts all the time and people were going crazy
on them.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Or maybe he was wearing some like deodorant that was
like really fruity and tasty smelling in the I have
to eat.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
This, I am hungry. Wow.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah that also sounds like another A lot of these
are nightmare stories for me.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Yeah, yeah, these are more nightmare fuel than yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
But I like, you don't need to get waxed affter that.
I guess like they kind of took care of that one.
I just remembered a good story of like a concert
story of mine that was a big mess of bills,
I mean, wink wink, which we'll we'll wrap it up
(38:46):
with this one. But so, like I said, I went
to see Daft Punk at Coachella in like two thousand
and six, and then I think a year later maybe
they went on another tour and uh they were performing
at the La Sports Arena, and a couple of my
friends we all got tickets to go and it was
rat a Tat and daft punk. It was amazing, fucking wow.
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And we were drinking at my buddy's house pregame, and
then we get to the concert, which at the La
Sports Arena was like, uh, I want to say it
was in Inglewood, I can't remember where. It was not
in a great neighborhood. But I'm in the I'm in
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the consert and we're drinking a bunch, like drinking a lot,
and during rat aitat, somebody hands me a blunt and
I don't I used to smoke a lot more weed,
but I don't smoke that much weed anymore. And I
was never good at smoking blunts, Like they just they
lay me out in a whole different kind of way. Also,
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I think I'm allergic to weed because technically it's a pallen,
this plant that makes me sneeze a lot, so like
also when I eat, it really messes me up. But anyway,
I was drinking a ton and then smoked some of
this blunt and I immediately went into like a panic
attack mode. Like I don't think I've ever had a
panic attack. Maybe this was the one panic attack that
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I had. But what happened was I was like I
really have to pee. I have to go to the bathroom.
And then I get into the bathroom and it was
the trough. It was the trough, the dreaded trough situation. Daniel.
You wouldn't know about this, but in men's restrooms sometimes
instead of like urinoals that are sectioned off individually, there's
just a trough and you all line up like pigs
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and just whip it out and take a pee, just
like elbow to elbow with people. And I was so like, also,
I just generally get stage fright in public restrooms. It's
a thing. But I could not pee. I couldn't do
it because the trough situation was too packed. There was
just too much elbow to elbow. And I was like
(40:56):
full of urine like I was, and I'm sorry to
And it was the middle of daft punk, and I
was like sweating profusely. My stomach was hurting so bad
because I was so full of pee, and I was like,
I'm gonna die, Like if I don't leave, I'm gonna
die right here, right now, in the middle of this
daft punk concert, Like I have to get out of here.
And I turned to my friends and I was like, guys,
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I'm leaving and they're all like, what, like is the
middle of the daft punk set? And I was like,
I'm leaving. If I don't leave now, I die and
they're like okay, and I was like, I don't know,
I'll figure it out. I'll find you guys later. And
then I walked outside into the parking lot and I
like laid on the ground and I peed under a car,
just like hiding under a car peeing. This is the.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Festival concert story I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
I walked across the street I saw McDonald's and I
was like, oh, I can I can sit there until
this is all done. And I remember getting in line
at the McDonald's and there was a lot of dudes
just hanging out with McDonald's and there was one black
man who was right behind me who I turned and
I thought he was this guy that I went to
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high school with. And I was like, hey, are you
are you? And he goes, Nope, I'm not. And I
was also so drunk and stumbley, like I was just
such a mess that he was just like I do
not want to associate with you, sir, And I was
like okay. And then luckily a taxi pulled up into
the chevron next to the McDonald's and I dove in
(42:29):
it and the guy was like, I'm not and I
was like, I don't care. You must take me to
the Samsung building in mid City and he was like okay,
and they took me there, dropped me off. My friends
weren't home for another hour and a half and I
fell asleep on the stoop of their apartment building, waiting,
rolled up in a little ball, waiting for them to
come home. But survived, didn't have a didn't die in
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the middle of the Daft Punk concert. But I think
I had my one and only panic attack. Had a
Daft Punk concert.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
Oh my god, that is bringing up so much much
for me.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
Yeah, I just I mean, I have friends Jim never
did this, but I have friends that like straight up
just let themselves pee in their pants.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
That concert, I'm gonna say, was that what happens?
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (43:14):
The trough was the most traumatizing thing at baseball games
and concerts as a kid.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
It just I don't know why, the like, what bathroom ever?
The architect was like, let's just put in a trough.
Speaker 4 (43:31):
Let's just all these men and boys just same place.
So weird, but an.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
American shame situation, you know what I mean, Like it's
our puritanical up bringing of of Like even going to
the bathroom is shameful. Hide it. Yeah, Like back in
the day, people just used to ship and piss in
public all the time, and now I'm like, I have
to be at an enclosed and by or else. This
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is like it ain't working.
Speaker 4 (44:04):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
I think the problem with the trough for me as
a kid was that you are then like eye level
with like tall men's genitalia.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
If you're splashing around like you're getting splashed if you're
a kid at that height. Yeah, borderline, Yeah, like indecent exposure. Yeah,
it was even as a kid, You're like, I'm on
tiptoes just to get it over the lip in the trough.
(44:34):
The Lip of the Trough Lenny.
Speaker 4 (44:36):
Bad, horrible, horrible novel.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
Brandon Sanderson's new novel, The Lip of the Trough. Sorry Brandon,
I'm a big Brandon Sanderson fan who would never write that.
Mut Well, great, I think we've I think we've covered
a lot of of horror stor concert experiences here. Hopefully
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anybody listening learned a thing or two about what not
to do at concerts.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
And I hope that Jim and Pam and Bill are
all okay.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Yeah, I hope they're you know, like doing a podcast
somewhere together.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Singing out.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
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What is a Fable Babies And welcome to hashtag story Time,
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and people that i've that I loosely know and they
tell me just like the best story that from their life.
That's kind of the gist of it. I'm your host,
(00:42):
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I pay in the house. We've got Danielle and Jason.
Hey you guys doing.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yes, my payment has yet to go through the mail,
so we are frenemies at this point.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Oh yeah, your address, I need to get that updated
addressed PayPal them. Yeah, it's on the way. Jason, how
you doing doing well?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I was not at Coachella last weekend, but I did
stay home all weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
That's right. It is the official start of music festival season.
It's kicked off. Coachella Week one was just in the
books this past weekend. I also did not attend because
I'm not a millionaire influencer. You know. It's I feel like,
what is a weekend past cost these days? Seven hundred bucks?
(01:39):
Eight hundred bucks?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah, they're I think they're up to five twenty five.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I've gone to I think six Coachellas, but that was
back when they were like three good and good.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
That was back when the music was good. Danielle, have
you ever gone to a.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
No, never incorrect, I've never gone. But I've been to
music festivals, but not Coachella now La La Palooza. Nothing
cool with like a nice and I did like New
York one, so we have a Governor's Ball and one
(02:22):
I'm forgetting, but equally as fun.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I've only been to one Coachella, and it was in
I think it was in two thousand and six, and
it was it was Daft Punk was headlining the Pyramid. Yeah,
the Pyramid, legendary Pyramid, Pyramid of Lights. And it was transformative,
it was. And the crazy thing was, I just went
(02:48):
with my girlfriend at the time. Shout out Katie Sullivan
wherever you are. Actually she's married, she's got a new
last name and children. I don't even know. I'm sure
she listens to every yes, but yeah, we went kind
of on a whim and we show up and we're like,
you know, getting the lay of the land, and I
was like, oh, let's go to the beer garden, get
a beer, and I walk into the beer garden and
(03:12):
then I see a guy I know, and I was like, oh,
what's up, man, And he was like, yeah, what are you?
Your brother's here, and I was like what? And I
ran into my own brother in the beer garden at
Coachella with zero communication. We for some reason, and we're like,
we're not estranged. We speak almost every day, but for
(03:32):
some reason, neither of us mentioned that we were both
going to Coachella, and then we just like, out of
all the thousands and thousands of people there, we reunited
with each other in all places the beer garden, and
it's just a magical embrace that we had of just
like what are you doing here? Man?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I love running into people at Coachella. It is always
the beer garden I've gone. So I started going in
twenty twelve. I think I went twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,
Jesus eight for real one, and then went in twenty
(04:09):
twenty one. I don't have any good coach Ella stories personally,
but my friend who I'm calling Jim, has amazing Coachella stories.
So I'll only be telling Jim's stories on this podcast.
I just watched the music quietly, but like, Jim really
(04:29):
goes hard.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Goes hard.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
He took acid and met jaw Rule at Coachella.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Whoa, I want to be friends with Jim.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, I wish Jim was on this podcast right now.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah, I know you and Jim have went to enough
coach Ella's for both of us.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
So yeah, I'll tell you Jim stories.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Oh my god. Yeah, what's well? This past one? This
past weekend, I mean, who was even? I mean, I
know Blink one played Friday night.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Yeah, so they did a surprise show.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I think the headliners I'm pretty sure were Black Pink,
Frank Ocean, and Bad Bunny.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah. Not for me. Sorry, I'm just not in that
demo anymore.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Okay, that's kind of speaking to me.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Okay, you're that generation.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah, okay, I mean years ago, my second Coachella, the
headliners were like Blur and Stone Roses one night.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
That's like our it's a little more our demo. I
guess I.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Remember the one that I went to. Kanye played like
in the middle of the day. It was strange.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
It was early Kanye. It was early Kanye. Yeah, daytime,
it was pre uh.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
His mother dying, him losing his mind and turning into
an awful antisemitic piece of crape.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
There's late registrations.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, exactly exactly before he's really turned into a shitty person.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
And I had to put uh seven or eight pair
of shoes in my closet to never be seen again.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Cheap shoes. I know.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I often look at the boxes in my closet and
think what I could have spent that money on, or
what cool things my daughter could have if I didn't waste.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
That, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Wow, you know, after after Kyrie's uh, after he shared
that lank on Twitter to the I think it was
a video that had some anti semitic Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Like an anti semitic movie about with like all of
these Yeah, Henry Ford quotes the most anti semitic guy ever.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
So I had recently bought some some Kyrie basketball shoes
and I went back to the Nike store and I
just had them and I was like, I don't want
to wear these anymore. I would like new shoes, please.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Amazing, And they were.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Like, we understand, we get it. We'll take them back
and you just pick whatever.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Wow, that's awesome. I didn't know they were doing that.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, same, Wait a minute, tournament, like these shoes are
full of hatred? Can I get new ones? I don't
want to wear these anymore. But I would love to
hear I would love to hear a Jim a Jim
A great Jim Coachella story, if if there's one that
pops that he recently told you or that's all fresh
(07:34):
on your mind.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yeah, I mean, I'll just say, like Jim did some
stupid stuff in his twenties.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I would say, sounds like Jim.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
The dumbest thing Jim did in his twenties was out
of Coachella.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
It was twenty twelve, and Jim, I.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Mean, first of all, twenty twelve, we all thought the
world was gonna end because of the Mayan calendar, so
you know, exactly so hard to go home.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Jim act out according.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Yeah, we were on borrowed time, and so I wasn't
staying at this house.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
I got a hotel room by myself.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
But Jim was at this house with probably fifteen or
twenty people, and Jim and his friends were going and
it's a big group. And Jim was walking into Coachella
and there's this spot you know, if you don't know Coachella.
Basically you have to walk through a desert terrain to
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go through like three different security checkpoints because they need
a check to make sure you're not bringing in any
contraband or drugs or weapons, and then they also have
to make sure you have an actual pass to.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
The festival. And so sometimes.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
People get a little too eager with like the drugs
that they bring and get scared near security and then
ditch them. And Jim was like, I'm gonna find some
stuff as we go in. Jim was just like, Jim
was already had had too much to drink and he
was feeling really mischievous.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
And we was cavenging for ditched contraband.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
So Jim walks up to security. Yeah, I mean this
is so Jim.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
He walked up to security and like three feet to
the left of security there was a Manila envelope and
without thinking at all, Jim just grabbed it. He stuffed
it in like a secret compartment of his backpack. Jim
didn't even know what was in here, but he wrapped
it in a towel and then he went through security.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
And Jim got.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Through security, and when he and his friends looked in
the Minila envelope. There were about twenty capsules of they
didn't know what, didn't know what?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, really with the old drugs there.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yeah, and Jim and his buddies in twenty twelve, we
were not going through like the you know, the crisis
that we are now, where like you know, there's fentanyl
and drugs and you should I always tell this to
Jim still, and like Jim doesn't do drugs anymore, but
I always tell Jim, like his friends, do not ever
(10:24):
take things that you don't know what they are.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
This is the dumbest thing you can do.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
But this was twenty twelve, and Jim was stupid and
his friends just decided they were just gonna take the
mystery drugs. So throughout the day Jim is like.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Really, really, I really wish it was just viagra. They're
not a boner for the entire festival. Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Well it was clear, you know, these were clear capsules,
and you know, it looked like sand in them, so
they were.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Like, oh okay, no, it looked like sand.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
So Jim and his friends were like, this is probably molly.
So yeah, Jim.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
All day was like Santa Claus handing these out to
everyone and anyone. Jim took a bunch of them, had
a great time. But we got back to the house
at the end of the night and like fifty to fifty,
some people had the worst days of their lives and
some people had the best days of their lives. It
was this mystery. Jim had a great, awesome day. He
(11:30):
saw like Swedish house mafia and was like grinding his
teeth down to little nubs. But his friends, some of
his friends like went into like panic attack dark holes.
So I don't know, it must have been it's like
a I think it's like a ying yang type of thing,
(11:51):
Like it was like a test from the Lord that
like some people were gonna have a great time and
some people were gonna have horrible times, and him, you know,
feels weird about it to this day.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Wow, this was a Darwinism for the gyms.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, there's definitely a lot to learn from this story.
You know, for any actual Fable babies who are babies
listening out there, definitely you know what you're putting in
your body. You know, don't take candy from strangers, don't
take random pills that you find in manila envelopes outside
of security. But it all worked out. I'm glad everybody
(12:33):
was okay.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Yeah, no one.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
No one died, which is literally the steaks. Someone especially
now someone could easily die.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
So it's yeah, yeah, you know, but like we said,
min calendar, you thought it was over anyway, so I
might as well like go out in a blaze of
glory at Coachella then like, you know, wait for a
tsunami to happen in December of twenty twelve.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Wow, that's crazy, Jim, that's good. I was wondering because
I have a friend named Pam who similar I think
my sister's friend from grade school. She once did that
(13:20):
and she's Loca. But it was we were on the
way to the city. We were getting happy hour and
then we just me and me watching Pam. Uh. She
saw a little pill on the seat and then said,
oh what fun. And then Pam just you know, kind
(13:41):
of lost it that day. But I told her never again,
classic Pam. Yeah, she said that she thinks it was
more of like an adderall I don't know definitely what
she describes them, more like a meth you know, sister.
(14:03):
But she did live to tell the day. She's doing
well good.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I guess this is all too common that, you know,
we all just have friends out there who take random
pills without no.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
One and tell us exactly you know what went down?
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Im, Yeah, we can't recommend it. No, we don't do that.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I think this is a great opportunity to say, if
you want to be featured on the show with a
story of your own, to give us a call at
the Storytime hotline, which is three two eighteen seventy three.
If you are Jim or Pam or you've got a
crazy story from a music festival, from a concert about
finding random drugs in somebody's butt and just popping them
(14:52):
right in your mouth, give us a call and like
we want to hear that story. How'd your night go?
Did you survive? Please tell us the audience needs to know.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
By the way, this this uh, this podcast is produced
by iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I just want to take the time to say that, now.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
Will what what's your uh? You were your friend's craziest
festival story?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You know? Actually, I uh, I am not a huge
concert goer like I for some reason, I don't know,
I just uh, I haven't been to a ton of
music festivals or concerts. I've just kind of randomly stumbled
into ones here there. I mean, uh, my friend Bill,
(15:39):
I know Bill, Yeah, Billy Bill, I think Yeah. He
took like three gravity bond loads and went to see
Dell the Funky Homo Sapien at UCSB and like in
the US end like little basement. Uh, I don't know
venue that that was. It was like maybe like one
(16:01):
hundred and fifty people there, and he had a great time.
That's I love Dell A yeah, good old. I mean
this was like right after the Gorillas album came out too,
so it was and he was just freestyle and it
was it was the best. Bill had a great time.
It sounds fine, I was legal, yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
But no.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I but I would love to hear. I would love
to hear what your guys is. Maybe let's take a
quick break and then when we come back, we're gonna
hear what your guys first concert you ever went to US? Okay,
So I would love to since we're talking about Coachella
(16:47):
and music festivals, I'd love to hear what your guys'
first music festival or concert experience was. I always think
it's really interesting to hear, like, what was the first
concert you ever went to? Did you want to kick
it off?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Surely? Okay, first concert ever. This was a Cheetah Girls concert.
But it was not just Cheetah Girls. It was also
Vanessa Hudgens. That was absolutely huge. Yes, I saw it
with my sister and another friend. And to make matters
(17:23):
more iconic, I broke my arm about two weeks prior and.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I had the concert. I like, really, I was just
raging so hard at the Cheetah Girls that I freaking snapped.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Oh my god, When you know Barcelona came on, that's
when things got real. But no, I had like it
was almost a full body cast due to the fact
that I was like six. I just had a big
clunker and we like paper macheaded it with some Cheta
(18:00):
print fabric to show that I was still a Cheetah
though disabled.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah it was.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
It was a great concert.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Imagine if you had got the Cheetah Girls and Vanessa
to sign that cast.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I wouldn't be here today, I believe I. Yeah, Vanessa
Hudgens was the best. Cheta Girls. They were good, but Vanessa,
she had like a lit up v like it was
just the release of her new album that I had
on CD, and it was epic, and I was so.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
How old are you for this? For this concert too?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Probably like eight or nine? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, super great.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah what what what a memory? You're like? Mine was
also the Cheatah Girl.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
No, mine is almost exactly the same, but from a
different generation. So my first show I was like Also,
I was a little younger, I was like five. It
was not the Cheetah Girls. It was the Beach Boys.
And their guest was not Vanessa Hutchins, it was John Stamos.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Wow, Uncle Jesse and the Beach Boys.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
At the Minnesota was fair Okay, yeah, so this was
around you know, this is when they were on Full
House a few times and they were good buddies with
John Stamos.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
So he was the drummer of this show.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
And my favorite song was and still kind of is
Barbara Ann by the Beach Boys, and they played it
and little five year old Jason screamed so hard singing
it that when it was over he cried tears of
joy and it was a.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Great experience for me and my family.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Wow. Uh, one of an epic of speech. Speaking of
the Beach Boys, my father was good friends with Dennis
Wilson of the beach boys back in the day, back
in the in the late sixties, early seventies, and actually
(20:21):
lived on his boat for.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
A little while Dennis passed away. Did Dennis pass away early?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, and I think he died on that boat.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
The other crazy thing about Dennis Wilson is he was
good friends with Charlie Manson, I didn't want to say it,
who was living at his house for a little while.
And when Charlie Manson and the Manson family were trying
to be a band, you know, when they were like
the Race Wars coming, you know, like We're going to
live in the desert and just play music and like
(20:54):
and actually his music wasn't that bad, you know. It
was just like your kind of basic hippie shit, but
it was all right. But like they were, you know,
living at Dennis Wilson's house and like trying to get
the band going. And then eventually Dennis Wilson was like,
you guys, are you guys gotta go? You guys are
getting into real helter skelter shit, and like time to
pack up and leave.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
And Manson's like, I'm gonna do a bunch of bad
stuff unless Will's dad talks me.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Out of it.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
No, I've always wondered, Like I have asked my dad.
I was like, did you ever meet Charlie Manson? Like
if you were hanging out with Dennis Wilson, did you
guys like at the same party. Maybe he was like, no,
I don't, I don't. I don't think so, which is
like maybe he says he doesn't think he ever hung
out with Charlie Manson. So it was a different time. Yeah,
(21:43):
a different time to be in Hollywood in the sixties
early seventies. Okay, So my first concert I was in
I was I was kind of late bloomer in terms
of concert I didn't go. It was ninth grade. I
went to my first content her and uh, I was.
I had was dating this girl, her name was Jesse
(22:05):
and she was best friends with this girl named Molly Elfman.
Molly Elfman is Danny Elfman's daughter. Oh, Danny Elfman of
Oingo Boingo fame, and also Danny Elfman, the amazing composer.
He did Danielle If you don't know Daniel, Danny Elfman
is he He did the score for the Simpsons. So
he made the Simpsons song Wow. Many and also Batman
(22:27):
theme song Jim Burton.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
I also want to point out he performed at Coachella
last year.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Oh yeah, that's right, so that ties it all in.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah yeah wow.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
So Danny Elfman music icon and legend and uh I
went over to hang out with Jesse at Molly's house
at Danny Elfman's house and Panga and uh. He was like,
do you guys want to go to a concert tonight?
And we were like, uh yeah. So the first concert
I ever went to, Danny Elfman took us. It was
(22:58):
at the Hollywood Palladium and it was to see it
was the Sprite Festival, sponsor by Sprite, right but yes,
the soda uh. And it was ever Clear Soul Coughing
and Redman, which is such a weird lineup, but it
(23:21):
was amazing. And I remember Redman came out and like
had a little pipe and was just smoking weed on
stage and almost thirteen, I was like, what's happening? You
can do that?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Like?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
But it was it was, yeah, it was. It was
a memorable night. And uh oh, danil.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Will one of my first concerts without my parents. I
had to love who this set list was. But because
it was soul, Coughing was one of the bands I
went to like a similar festival in nineteen ninety eight,
and it was Goo Goo Dolls, Soul Coughing, Semi Sonic,
Marcie Playground, Garbage, Cherry Popping Daddy's Big Bad Voodoo Daddy,
(24:06):
and but.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah what yeah, wow, Wow, that is my dream life.
If you throw cake in there too, that's the greatest
concert of all time. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
And I was eleven, and I was like, what is
what is this? I didn't enjoy any of it.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I don't think you're like I'm eleven, Like who are
the cherry popping daddies? Like what does that name mean? Aggressive?
Like why are they popping so many cherries?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
And yeah, I mean in all seriousness though, I think
I knew one song of every one of those bands
at the time. So I was having a bad time
until they played that one song and then I had
like a great time every like forty five minutes.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Well, I mean, yeah, Marcy Playground, is I smell sex
and candy?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Sex and candy? Yep.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Semi Sonic is closing time right, yep?
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Google Dolls like Black Balloon.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Yeah, it's just like whatever that iris Yep, Yes, I
love the song Yes.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
There wait the daddy.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Oh yeah that was what is there?
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Oh Riot?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Oh yeah, Ryan throw back, a bottle of beer, a
zoot suit, ry rya.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
So Danielle.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Right before you were born, there was a weird thing
where people were getting really into swing dancing.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Men were wearing huge suits.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Giants and suits.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
It was really weird. It was just a weird time
in like ninety seven ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I feel like it was kind of The Mask, the
Jim Carrey movie. The Mask kind of started it. Maybe
it was that was Jim Carrey's fault. I think you
never even.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Thought about that. That's a really good point.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, after he came out in that yellow suit, then
everyone was like, all right, this is it, this is
the trend now right. Also, SKA was big in the nineties,
which is just a silly, silly style of music.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Very happy to knock on wood.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Mighty mighty boss stones. But it was a big, real
big fish fan for a while too. I love me
some real big fish sell out. Okay, anyway, So that's that's. Uh,
those are some concerts, you know. I hope, I hope
kids out there are getting as great music, live music
(26:33):
experiences as we had growing up. You know, like what
do you even take your kids to now? Like Paw
Patrol Live?
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Yeah, like Frozen.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Disney on ice.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, I was gonna say we had Raffi growing up,
Baby Shark, like a concert about baby Shark.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Oh no, we.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Also like Narrol Lewis and Brahm, who are like trying
to get big on TikTok again, do you remember like
skinn a a rinky dinky dink skin?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
You do?
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
I love you. Aren't they bringing Barney.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Back to I think Barney's back with new teeth?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Oh wow? Yeah, look at that.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Yeah. I like the chip in his tooth.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Oh. I guess it does make him less intimidating if
the dinosaur has like a chip tooth, Like you know,
you're like, I can't hurt you. Yeah, I can't he
you because I got a chip in my tooth. Okay, cool,
All right, let's take another little break and then we
come back and we'll we'll look at some some reddit
threads all about Coachella. All right, welcome back. Okay, Jason's
(27:49):
got some some Reddit threads all about Coachella. Jason, what
what did you dig up?
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:54):
So I got some quick hits here I really liked
this one. This user uh said at Grassroots Vest two
thousand and seven, I had a threesome on mushrooms because
she liked my Obama T shirt.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
There's a lot nowadays.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Wow, who who is the who? They need? I need
more info, like exactly who was the other? She? Right,
it was Obama, the other person in the threesome. It's
just me.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
The shirt is referencing his T shirt.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, he was like, I had a threesome because she
liked my T shirt.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Oh wow, and how did the mushrooms fit in?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Like?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, wait, so Obama was elected in two thousand and eight,
first term, right, So this was two thousand and seven,
so he was like ahead of the times, like on
the Obama train, you know what I mean? Like yep,
you know. So I guess that was enough to be like, oh,
you're into Obama, Like get over here, let's freaking do this.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
And then who is the mystery man or woman?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah? A security guard. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
This one's crazy though. I wonder what y'all think of this.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
So this user said, I met a guy with two
cats that sat on his backpack throughout the whole festival.
Actually ran into him at Dylan Francis at Coachella twenty fifteen.
These cats were completely chill with the sound and lights too.
It was mind blowing, to say the least. We saw
him like right beside the soundboards, so they were close
to everything, and the cats were just closing their eyes
(29:39):
and purring.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I'm gonna say they do a wellness chuck on the
cat Yeah, yeah, I agree to say this. They should
be taken away from this man.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yeah, honestly, cats do like the vibration, and like maybe
that was a thing if he like, you know, probably
put something on the catnet. But hey, that sounds like funny.
I would want to be sitting with the cats as well.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
There's like a bunch of comments though, Like dude, I
was also there.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
I saw those cats. Those cats are so chill we
met him. I think their service cats.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Okay, so this person was in hallucinating calicos.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
At least these.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Are my emotional support cats that I bring to music festival.
Don't bring your pets to music festivals. I don't say that.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Are babies allowed at Coachellah?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yeah? I brought my my How old was she at
the time?
Speaker 4 (30:44):
She was five months old? A five month old to
Coachella last year.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
How much is a baby?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Remember that?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
No, we didn't have to uh we we didn't have
to get one for her. We really only stayed like
five hours and we had different passes, like we weren't
in the main area and we kept we had those
like big headphones on her. But you do see kids
at music festivals a lot. It's it's questionable.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah, well, now Noah is has the coolest story because
you know, your baby gets to go. I went to
Coachella when I was five months old as.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Losers, and no joke.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
We're just those kind of parents that that's exactly why
we did it. We were just like, we want her
to be cool when she's older and have this story,
Like you know, we'll we'll basically just like do something
that's kind of hard for five hours so that she
can say this.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Well, good for Noah. She's gonna be cool when she's
an adult. All Right, what else.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
We've got?
Speaker 3 (31:55):
This is a good one. At Walker USA twenty twelve,
the people that was walk a Rusa. It's kind of
like a it's like a jam band. I believe it's in.
I feel like it's around like of the Ozarks. I
don't know if they do it anymore, but it's kind
of like a bluegrass jam band like you know, down
in the Mud type festival.
Speaker 1 (32:16):
I'm gonna say prime primetime, like big wook energy. Yes,
a lot of wooks.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Oh for sure, it should be called Wookarusa. So this
one and it shows so the people that were camped
next to us wore onesies the entire time. The guy
was trying to get his girlfriend pregnant at Wakarusa, constantly
going to the tent and rustling around, and he had
a box full of random shit he busted out when
(32:46):
we were tripping and out of nowhere, he pulls dental
molds of his ex wife out and.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
He gave them to my friend to keep. Nice people.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Unique experience, definitely unique gigs. Wow, like the goal of
like why yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Conceiving of child at Wookarusa. I like also the going
into the tent and wrestling around. Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Should we uh should we do another one?
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Yeah, let's do another one. I like hearing about these uh.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Yeah, yeah, these are a bunch of Now we're like
on a jam band festival thread. So like at Camp
Bisco two thousand and seven, this is like the disco biscuits.
I believe we caught some wook taking a shit in
my buddy's tent. Figured the tent was a lost cause,
so we pulled the poles and collapsed it with said
(33:46):
wooks still inside.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
It was pretty hilarious watching.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Them struggle to get out of that shit filled collapse tent.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Death worst the lost tent.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
I mean, yeah, you're you can't rick. You can't get
that smell out of a tent.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
No.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
For a second, I thought they were going to say,
like when they did that, that it wasn't a person
or something else. But honestly, that's probably the best.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
I mean, it's par for the course.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Like, I've only camped at Coachella one year, and there
were these guys camping next to us, these two guys,
and they had come in from I believe like Norway,
and they only had camping passes, they did not have
festival passes, and they were in the tent right next
(34:40):
to us, and they were drinking so much, partying all
day long and really like not leaving the area at all.
And they left, I believe they left late Saturday night
and just like left their tent and a bunch of
stuff in it because they were international travel and we
(35:01):
went in the tent like peeked our heads in for
a second just to see if there was anything that
they left, and it was the worst smell I've ever
smelled in my entire life, just like you know, the
smell of someone's breath, like after they've had twenty five drinks.
This was like that times a thousand. These tents need
(35:26):
to get decommissioned after festivals.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Where they would you say they were Norwegians?
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Yeah, I believe they were from Sweden or Norway, Okay.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
So probably also a lot of like tinned fish that
they were eating, just like cracking open Kansas sardines and
like slamming.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Back like really multi beers. Wow, two three days straight exactly,
what a weird choice to be, Like, We're gonna go
to Coachella and camp in the sea of tents and
not go to the music festival.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Yeah, they were just there for the knife night life,
they said, and they were I mean they were trying
to pick up girls all weekend unsuccessfully, and so it.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Sounds like my health like, yeah, you couldn't pay me
enough money to just go camp in the middle of
the like to go down, drive down to Coachella, get
through the traffic, find the camping spot set up, and
then just like sit and chill there. You know, No,
it sounds like a nightmare.
Speaker 3 (36:30):
That sounds I've got one more good one for y'all
to discuss.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
I'm also just still thinking about the wook in the
ship tent and just running around trying to escape. And
it's like that just instantly becomes like a like a
coffin of poop that he was in.
Speaker 5 (36:48):
Yeah, poor guy, but also like the raccoon.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Yeah, why was he sitting in their tents?
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Okay, here's the last one.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
Pember in twenty fourteen, having a blast during Above and
Beyond at the electronic stage. I had my hands up
in the air and some dude straight up bites onto
my underarm hair and holds on. I was shocked for
a second, then pulled him off. He then took off
through the crowd, never to be seen again, with some
of my hair still in his mouth.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
What also, how long does I'm assuming a guy sent
this in or I mean a guy that's nuts.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
That must be very long armpit hair.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Oh, just the idea of somebody's mouth on my armpit.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
I feel like maybe he just forgot flaws, just just
a mouthful of armpit pubes.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Gross.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
I think he was as that would be my guest.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
I remember around that time, like people were talking about
bath salts all the time and people were going crazy
on them.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Or maybe he was wearing some like deodorant that was
like really fruity and tasty smelling in the I have
to eat.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
This, I am hungry. Wow.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah that also sounds like another A lot of these
are nightmare stories for me.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Yeah, yeah, these are more nightmare fuel than yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
But I like, you don't need to get waxed affter that.
I guess like they kind of took care of that one.
I just remembered a good story of like a concert
story of mine that was a big mess of bills,
I mean, wink wink, which we'll we'll wrap it up
(38:46):
with this one. But so, like I said, I went
to see Daft Punk at Coachella in like two thousand
and six, and then I think a year later maybe
they went on another tour and uh they were performing
at the La Sports Arena, and a couple of my
friends we all got tickets to go and it was
rat a Tat and daft punk. It was amazing, fucking wow.
(39:09):
And we were drinking at my buddy's house pregame, and
then we get to the concert, which at the La
Sports Arena was like, uh, I want to say it
was in Inglewood, I can't remember where. It was not
in a great neighborhood. But I'm in the I'm in
(39:31):
the consert and we're drinking a bunch, like drinking a lot,
and during rat aitat, somebody hands me a blunt and
I don't I used to smoke a lot more weed,
but I don't smoke that much weed anymore. And I
was never good at smoking blunts, Like they just they
lay me out in a whole different kind of way. Also,
(39:53):
I think I'm allergic to weed because technically it's a pallen,
this plant that makes me sneeze a lot, so like
also when I eat, it really messes me up. But anyway,
I was drinking a ton and then smoked some of
this blunt and I immediately went into like a panic
attack mode. Like I don't think I've ever had a
panic attack. Maybe this was the one panic attack that
(40:14):
I had. But what happened was I was like I
really have to pee. I have to go to the bathroom.
And then I get into the bathroom and it was
the trough. It was the trough, the dreaded trough situation. Daniel.
You wouldn't know about this, but in men's restrooms sometimes
instead of like urinoals that are sectioned off individually, there's
just a trough and you all line up like pigs
(40:35):
and just whip it out and take a pee, just
like elbow to elbow with people. And I was so like, also,
I just generally get stage fright in public restrooms. It's
a thing. But I could not pee. I couldn't do
it because the trough situation was too packed. There was
just too much elbow to elbow. And I was like
(40:56):
full of urine like I was, and I'm sorry to
And it was the middle of daft punk, and I
was like sweating profusely. My stomach was hurting so bad
because I was so full of pee, and I was like,
I'm gonna die, Like if I don't leave, I'm gonna
die right here, right now, in the middle of this
daft punk concert, Like I have to get out of here.
And I turned to my friends and I was like, guys,
(41:16):
I'm leaving and they're all like, what, like is the
middle of the daft punk set? And I was like,
I'm leaving. If I don't leave now, I die and
they're like okay, and I was like, I don't know,
I'll figure it out. I'll find you guys later. And
then I walked outside into the parking lot and I
like laid on the ground and I peed under a car,
just like hiding under a car peeing. This is the.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Festival concert story I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
I walked across the street I saw McDonald's and I
was like, oh, I can I can sit there until
this is all done. And I remember getting in line
at the McDonald's and there was a lot of dudes
just hanging out with McDonald's and there was one black
man who was right behind me who I turned and
I thought he was this guy that I went to
(42:05):
high school with. And I was like, hey, are you
are you? And he goes, Nope, I'm not. And I
was also so drunk and stumbley, like I was just
such a mess that he was just like I do
not want to associate with you, sir, And I was
like okay. And then luckily a taxi pulled up into
the chevron next to the McDonald's and I dove in
(42:29):
it and the guy was like, I'm not and I
was like, I don't care. You must take me to
the Samsung building in mid City and he was like okay,
and they took me there, dropped me off. My friends
weren't home for another hour and a half and I
fell asleep on the stoop of their apartment building, waiting,
rolled up in a little ball, waiting for them to
come home. But survived, didn't have a didn't die in
(42:52):
the middle of the Daft Punk concert. But I think
I had my one and only panic attack. Had a
Daft Punk concert.
Speaker 4 (42:57):
Oh my god, that is bringing up so much much
for me.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
Yeah, I just I mean, I have friends Jim never
did this, but I have friends that like straight up
just let themselves pee in their pants.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
That concert, I'm gonna say, was that what happens?
Speaker 1 (43:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (43:14):
The trough was the most traumatizing thing at baseball games
and concerts as a kid.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
It just I don't know why, the like, what bathroom ever?
The architect was like, let's just put in a trough.
Speaker 4 (43:31):
Let's just all these men and boys just same place.
So weird, but an.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
American shame situation, you know what I mean, Like it's
our puritanical up bringing of of Like even going to
the bathroom is shameful. Hide it. Yeah, Like back in
the day, people just used to ship and piss in
public all the time, and now I'm like, I have
to be at an enclosed and by or else. This
(44:02):
is like it ain't working.
Speaker 4 (44:04):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
I think the problem with the trough for me as
a kid was that you are then like eye level
with like tall men's genitalia.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
If you're splashing around like you're getting splashed if you're
a kid at that height. Yeah, borderline, Yeah, like indecent exposure. Yeah,
it was even as a kid, You're like, I'm on
tiptoes just to get it over the lip in the trough.
(44:34):
The Lip of the Trough Lenny.
Speaker 4 (44:36):
Bad, horrible, horrible novel.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
Brandon Sanderson's new novel, The Lip of the Trough. Sorry Brandon,
I'm a big Brandon Sanderson fan who would never write that.
Mut Well, great, I think we've I think we've covered
a lot of of horror stor concert experiences here. Hopefully
(45:03):
anybody listening learned a thing or two about what not
to do at concerts.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
And I hope that Jim and Pam and Bill are
all okay.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Yeah, I hope they're you know, like doing a podcast
somewhere together.
Speaker 2 (45:23):
Singing out.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
Well. That about wraps it up for this episode of
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