Introducing: Uncle Chris

Hello, StraightioLab Fans! We want to share a new show you might like, Uncle Chris. 

About the show: Guns, an ex-con, lots of beer and some stripping; Uncle Chris chronicles the craziest night of a young man’s life while visiting his uncle. The nephew is a recent college graduate about to embark on a cross-country bike trip. His uncle is an alcoholic garbage truck driver who lives in a trailer park. Part comedy, part tragedy and always absurd, Uncle Chris will examine both of their lives, the fascinating family lineage that they share and the reasons for why their lives are so completely different.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What do machine guns across country, bike trip, train hopping
hobos in a civil war have in common? My Uncle Chris.
My uncle Chris was a real character, a garbage truck
driver from South Carolina who is now buried in Panama
City alongside the founding families of Panama. The Uncle Chris
Podcast is a wide ranging collection of stories that intertwine

(00:21):
as I share the tall tales and hard truths that
have helped me understand how we see ourselves and our
lives as we're going through them, and how others might
see us after we're gone. Crazy stories about family.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
He's got a pistol to my dad's head. I'm like,
oh my god, what is going on. I'm seeing machine
guns everywhere, all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Stories about adventure.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
I hitchhiked across the Northwest up into Saskatchewan once and
then pop the trains open. I'd get somewhere and they
made us read Huck Finn in school, running away from
home and going out to experience the world like it's
in there man.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
First hand accounts from actual war zones. And then all
of a sudden you just see the pings of well,
let's hitting the armored vehicle and bouncing off. Do you
hear the gunshots or just the pings? I just heard
the pings, and of course stories about my uncle Chris.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
What was interesting about dear little Christopher is he had
a heart of gold, but because he was trying to
be macho and be a man, that was something he
threw to the side. Under all that bluster was a kind,
gentle soul. But life taught him to be tough and rough,
which was sad because he was such a sweet little boy.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Ah. Yes, and there's a bus driver who gets pretty upset,
dear God, who took a shit on my bus. This
collection of stories will make you laugh, it'll make you cry,
and if I do my job right, they'll let you
see the world and your place in it in a
whole new way. On July eighth, listen to the serious
premiere of Uncle Chris on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players
Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you

(01:52):
listen to podcasts.