Pub Crawlin'

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Boston's only class morning shows. Allright, rock and roll fucking Friday,
Tomorrow's Heather's birthday. Let's go.Oh, that's why the Dicks blimps in
the air. I was trying tofigure out, why, what's it up
in the air? Force Dick's over, That's what it is. Huh yeah,
I mean there's nothing else going onright on this Friday in the city.

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Why is it blimp flying around Hen'sbirthday? Right? For it?
Exactly? You know, someone waslike, we already paid for it.
I might as well get everything outof it. We're supposed to get out
of it. We paid for aweek's worth. Do we still have Friday?
Saturday? Sunday? Where does thatsucker launch from? Do we know?
Is it out at Hanscombe? No? No, Logan, I don't
know. I'm trying to remember whereI launched from when I rode the Hood

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Blimp. But then you know thatwas back in the nineties, so I
can't remember where I was. Toomany, too many things have happened since
was it when you rode that blimp? The Hood Blimp? Forgive me if
you told me already, so youknow my mind? Uh? But was
it eerily quiet? When you gotup there. Oh, could hear the
fans just contantly going? When theygot up to altitude, they shut the

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engines off and just steer around withthe winds. It's like you're floating in
the air. Not a sound.It's unfucking believable. And then when they
go to descend, they got toturn the motors on, flip the flaps
and it gets forced down to theground by the motor. Did you get
to look inside the cockpit? Great? Uh? Did we? I don't

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remember looking inside the cockpit Okay,And it's not very roomy on a blimp.
I don't know, like as bigas they are. At what point
blimps became such a big deal?But I know this, Uh, my
brother, for some reason, becauseI shared a room growing up with my
two brothers, he had this likethree foot inflatable Goodyear blimp that he hung
from the ceiling in our room andit remained there until the time like we

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all moved out. Uh. Andfor some reason, America was just fascinated
with fucking blim in the seventies,eighties, ninety Well even today, this
thing's been haunting us for a week. Over a week. Is your brother
was he is he my age,My oldest brother's fifty eight. Okay,
so yeah, blimps were a bigdeal. You know the toy blimps.

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You know the radio blimps, radiocontrol. They were inflatables, hanging from
a big deal. I don't knowwhy. I don't know. I don't
know why. Well, as wehead into the weekend, I just got
something real quick. Here we havea new Guinness World Record holder. We'll
take it to Sydney, Australia.Now this record was set, I believe,

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just last year by two other Australians, two fellow Aussies, two younger
guys, when they visited ninety ninepubs in twenty four hours. But here's
the thing. Yeah, everyone wascelebrating them. They set the Guinness World
record, but they didn't have adrink, like an alcohol drink in every

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pub. They did have some beers, they said, but they were drinking
water and soda at some of thestops too. So I don't know if
I if I like this pub recordbecause they're saying it's a pub crawl record,
but really it's just visiting, youknow, one hundred pubs at least
have to do one ounce of beer. Yeah, shot it right, you'd

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have to at each one. Well, a sixty nine year old guy decided
he wanted to break that record.David Clarkson. He's an Englishman but he's
lived in Australia for the last fourdecades. And he started his attempt at
the Captain Cook Hotel in Sydney andhe walked to another one hundred and nineteen
establishments. So we have a newworld record, and that is one hundred

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and twenty pubs in twenty four hoursvisited. Here's David. I'm normally very
unassuming, but I'm probably leading theworld in arrogance. When you are a
little bit older, you'll stop sleepingin the park and you will go to
the spreadshe sheets and the pivot table. Going to the publies about, yes,
having a beer but also making friends. Yeah, it's a way of

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life. But I guess this guydid have He had like pony beers at
some of these places. He didn'thave the full twelve ouncers or sixteen ouncers,
but he did it. He tookthe title. So, yeah,
one hundred and twenty pubs, onehundred and twenty stop pub crawl and he
slept for three hours from three tosix am. So yeah, but again,

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like I mean, it'd be hardto have one hundred and twenty drinks,
right, I would in twenty fourhours. I don't think I could
do that with water. What aboutone ounce of water? I don't know.
Yeah, just a little shot ofwater. I don't know. I
think I think one hundred and twentySIPs of water in the course of a
day easily. Yeah, But Imean in that short of yeah, I

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think you could. He might havealso a beer, one ounce of beer.
He might have also set the recordfor most bathroom breaks too. I
mean, think about it. Evenif you're just having like a pine water
at each of these places, heprobably pissed like a race horse. I'm
interested to see how many pubs arein Boston proper. I remember once I

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had a friend he actually used towork here, gave me my first job.
He moved to Hoboken, and wewent to visit him for a weekend
after he moved down there, andhe told us that in Hoboken, New
Jersey, there's more pubs per squaremile than anywhere else in the country.
My brother lives in the town nextto them, well, two towns up.
It was kind of cool we hita lot of them, but we

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didn't hit one hundred and twenty.I can tell you that total number of
bars in Boston. This is howit's described, total number of bars in
Boston. What do you think?What's your guests? A thousand? I'm
gonna go, h is that restaurantbars to Yes? Like I said,

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I don't know. It just saysthe total number of bars in Bososton.
It's either a thousand or three thousand. In my mind, if it's including
restaurants that haven't liters of March fifteenth, twenty twenty four, I'm gonna go,
uh, four hundred and twenty.I would have said in the hundreds
two. Heather's pretty close. Onethousand, three hundred and fifty six bars

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in Boston A shipload of bars.Yeah, I mean they're all pretty close,
right, Yeah. I mean youfigure you could go on a tour
like that. You could break therecord Kenny easily in twenty Yeah, I
mean, map it out, doit right, But he asked what you
have to do. That's what thisguy did. He mapped it out,
and he fucking waked obviously walked toevery pub. But I wonder if you

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could play that out like if youstarted, you could for this east bar.
You could get like one of thoseones on the harbor, right,
and then you work your way out. Yeah, I mean by the time
you hit the back bay, becauseyou figure all those ones down downtown by
Faniel Hall, and then you workyour way up towards the back bay.
I mean boils. The street aloneis packed with Somebody could easily step up

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and do that. Excuse me,say, speaking of booze, did you
guys see the story about the drunkvultures. I can only handle not drunk
vultures. Yeah, I can't evenhandle. We had in Ohio, we
had buzzards. Yeah, you know, my parents had to figure out how

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to get them off of their roof. Yeah, they're they're ugly. They
were just up there hanging out forlike almost a half a year. They're
creepy, spooky because the neighbors hadlike an abandoned shed and the house was
empty for so long that there wassomething that the vultures had made their home
in the abandoned shed and then wouldspend the day up on top of my

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parents' house. Uh huh shit,Yeah, fucking huge, big birds.
They are so this Uh, somebodyreported a bird that looked injured next to
a dumpster by a grocery store.This is a watertown, Connecticut, so
they send the animal control officer findsa second bird that looks injured too,

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but no, these two vultures werereleased back into the wild. This happened
in Connecticut. But they had tobe nursed back to health. And this
is why they got drunk dumpster divingOutsideoware who among us wildlife rehab sensors that
the birds had a wicket hangover.They gave them fluids at good night's rest
and then release them after a bigbreakfast hopefully Fridays and hash Bed reminded the

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public. Birds don't let by drunk. I mean, I got it all
right there, many birds could getdrunk. Many questions that being one of
them. How do they did theyadminister a BAC test? Yet, well
they did something. How do theyknow they were drunk? Because what I'm
saying they had to run some sortof test and then figured out it was
alcohol poison. What if they flewinto the dumpster and concussed themselves, maybe

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that's why they were all acting crazy. How do they know they were drunk?
Is what I'm saying I'm sure Greekof Booze I think blood tests were
in order. Right. Had tobe classic rock morning shows Happy Ending Listen
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