August 9, 2024 • 32 mins
Trey and Brian journey off-road with inspiring Jeep enthusiast Allison Parliament.
After being the victim of a road rage incident, Allison Parliament (1980 - 2024) became the founder of the "Duck Duck Jeep" movement, which kicked off the global trend of Jeep owners placing rubber ducks inscribed with messages of kindness on each other's vehicles. A lifelong devotee of all things Jeep, she was known for her enthusiasm, generosity, and dedication to making the world a better place.
Brian Phelps is an American radio personality, actor, and comedian best known for co-hosting the nationally and globally syndicated Mark & Brian Morning Show in Los Angeles for 25 years. As the co-lead of his own television series, with multiple roles in movies, and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Phelps is also an inductee in the Radio Hall of Fame.
Trey Callaway is an American film and TV writer and producer who wrote the hit movie I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and has produced successful TV series like CSI:NY, Supernatural, Rush Hour, Revolution, The Messengers, APB, Station 19 and 9-1-1 LONE STAR. He is also a Professor at USC.
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After being the victim of a road rage incident, Allison Parliament (1980 - 2024) became the founder of the "Duck Duck Jeep" movement, which kicked off the global trend of Jeep owners placing rubber ducks inscribed with messages of kindness on each other's vehicles. A lifelong devotee of all things Jeep, she was known for her enthusiasm, generosity, and dedication to making the world a better place.
Brian Phelps is an American radio personality, actor, and comedian best known for co-hosting the nationally and globally syndicated Mark & Brian Morning Show in Los Angeles for 25 years. As the co-lead of his own television series, with multiple roles in movies, and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Phelps is also an inductee in the Radio Hall of Fame.
Trey Callaway is an American film and TV writer and producer who wrote the hit movie I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and has produced successful TV series like CSI:NY, Supernatural, Rush Hour, Revolution, The Messengers, APB, Station 19 and 9-1-1 LONE STAR. He is also a Professor at USC.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, everybody, if we could just have a second of
your time. But before we get to the actual episode,
a few weeks back, we recorded an interview.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
With this amazing woman, lovely, lovely woman.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
They did a remarkable thing.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, and she spoke with us, not once, but twice. Actually,
we interviewed her first as one of our early proof
of concept episodes when we were just practicing, and then
and then again for the real deal. We had a
wonderful conversation.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
With her, and just this week the new spread that
she had passed away. She's a very very young, very lovely,
very vibrant.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
But very tragic and unexpected turnatch of events, and so
we want to definitely, first and foremost reach out and
express our heartfelt sympathy to her family, to her friends.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
And as you'll hear in the interview, she's very close
to her family. They're all very very close knits. So
that was the first thing I thought of, like, oh
my god.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
But also she has built an extended family, a massive community,
a millport of folks all around the world. And you'll
see and understand why shortly. But we just wanted to
touch base with you first and and let you know
that we share in mourning her unexpected passing, and we
(01:21):
dedicate this episode of Be Good Humans to the amazing
Alison Parliament.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Be good Humans, Be good humans. Be good humans, or
we will think you sucked, or we will thank you suck.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Welcome in and we're so glad you're here for the
Be Good Human Podcast. I'm Brian. That is Trey.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Hi, I'm Trey. That's Brian, and I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Start off by asking you a question. Oh, okay, are
you a car guy?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Am I a car guy? I mean I'm not. I
realize whose company I'm in. I'm not a car guy
like you're a car guy. I love cars, Yeah, don't
get me wrong. And you kind of got a You
gotta at least respect cars. If you live in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
You do, you do. And I've always been a car
guy because in fourth grade, when when my friends were
drawing pictures of tanks and the battle scenes and army men,
I was designing cars. I was actually drawing car design.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So you designed the cyber truck.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yes, I was in fourth grade. That's why it looks
like that. What a dopey looking car?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It is pretty dope.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
But yeah, So I've always been a fan of the design.
And I've got this term. It's does it have turnaround appeal?
Meaning when you get out of your car, do you
turn around and look at it? Just a design in
the art of it. Yeah, But then let me ask
you this. Okay, what was your very first car?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Okay, So my dad bought it from his partner for
eight hundred bucks. And it was a nineteen seven D
three Lincoln town Car station wagon with wood paneling boat. Yeah.
It was a huge boat and had an enormous engine
in it. And I got vinyl letters and I and
(03:12):
I and I and I christened it the Thing, and
and I put those on the wood paneling. And it
was an amazing boat that would carry all of my friends. Well,
I should say it did carry all of my friends
until I ran it up over a carb, blew both
the front tires and bent the front axle.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh, and that was it for the car.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
That was the untimely death of the thing. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
what about you.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, my first car that actually ran. The first car didn't,
which is a whole different story. But my first car
that ran my father, My grandfather had recently passed away,
so my dad gave me his old. It was a
red late sixties Impalla okay, Chevy Impala okay. And it
(03:53):
ran great.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Sure, and you know that's all that matters at that age.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, I was until when I turned sixteen, I was
driving my parents car every were so they were happy
to give me that car. But it ran great. But
there were problems. One the main one was it actually squeaked.
Let's see hear the siren.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, I do hear the siren. Yeah, that's part of
the start after you finally, but my.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Car actually squeaked so loud that you could hear me
coming half a block away. Something wrong with the suspension system.
I had absolutely no money trying to get through college,
so I'm not going to repair it, so it's just
gonna go. So I pull into a parking lot and
there's some pretty girls or whatever there and they're waving
and you're hearing.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I was, well, we should sample that and use that
in every show moving forward.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
But here's the demise of my grandfather. My grandfather's wonderful car.
I had heard from friends or a friend and I
don't remember who, that you can save money on gas
is if you come to a hill.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, and you're going uphill, No, going downhill.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You come to a hill, downhill, and you're going like
sixty miles an hour. That if you just flick it
into neutral, oh god, you can coast down that hill
and not lose a lot of speed. And then when
you're at the bottom of the hill, you flick it
back up at the drive.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So whoever told you that clearly hated you.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
No, it worked. I'm telling you it worked. The problem
was one night I was coming home from a gig
like three hours away, played in bands, and I was
a little tired. Sure, so big hill, country road. Flick
it into neutral, saving gas, saving gas, saving gas. Instead
(05:46):
of putting it into drive. At the bottom of the hill,
I put it into reverse. Here is the sound. Yeah,
this is the sound the last sound my car ever made.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Brace yourself, Ryan.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That was it. Everything locked up. So but remember now
I'm on a country road. There's nobody around here. I
walk about three miles to the first country house. I say,
this is actually setting up for a horse.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I was just gonna say this has a very dark ending.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Knocked on the door and then very very sweet couple
live there and they let me use the phone to
call my father.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So yeah, you know after those two oh no that
after that. To replace that I got, I spent four
hundred and thirty dollars on a extremely used Renault LA car.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Which is close to the thing exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
My father I'd never seen him laughing so hard when
I pulled in the driveway with that, and he just
laughed and he started calling it the French beer can.
Oh man, could actually take your finger and just poke
in the shop.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
That's painful. I mean, you kind of want your dad
to be proud of you for buying your first car,
but yeah, you got ridiculed.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
But that's what I had, and that was I was
dry having that car three hours to college, three hours
home every weekend to play in bands, to do gigs.
After two weeks, the key broke off in the ignition,
So I'm not exaggerating. I started it by using a
flathead screwdriver, oh god, and turning it, sticking it in
(07:20):
the ignition, turning that with one hand, with my other
hand reaching under the dashboard and holding two wires together.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
So and I had that car way longer.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Well, this is why you're a car guy. You had
a lot to make up for.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And then yeah. Absolutely, And then after those two cars
came a parade of beat up pieces of doo doo
that even the one eight to seven seven Cars for
Kids wouldn't tape if they had the chanks.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
For putting that song on my head.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And by the way, let me talk about the one
hundred Cars to Kids band. I was a huge fan.
I went to so many of their concerts, but unfortunately
they went the way of many bands that are so successful.
To me, they just they got a little commercial they
sold out that they really did, so I stopped listening.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Wow, that's thanks again, thanks for bringing that back.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
A huge part of my life. Well, let me ask
you another question. Okay, have you ever owned a cheap
As a matter of fact, yes, I have the first
one I didn't technically own. It's my father's pride and
joy to this day. In fact, Ryan, you should bring
up a picture of this if you have it. This
is a jeep nineteen seventy seven. Yeah, there it is
(08:28):
CJ seven and my dad. It's known as the Grizzly Goat. Hey,
your dad driving?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
That is my dad? God bless him. But yeah, the
grizzly Goat was his pride and joy. He was a
big fan of the seventies show Grizzly Adams, and he
had a beard that was a lot like Grizzly Adams,
and so my mom surprised him with the paint job
on the hood for his birthday, and occasionally, only if
he was feeling really generous and I wasn't too much
(08:56):
of a jerkquad on any given week, he would let
me drive this to school on occasion, and then I
would drive it, you know, as if it were made
of glass. And then I had my own jeep Wrangler
Sahara in here in La in the nineties, which you'll
appreciate this. I always kept a pair of drumsticks in
the center console and I turned my dashboard into a
(09:17):
mobile drum kit at stoplights.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And not only appreciated by I emulated it. That's doing
the exact same thing. In fact, I bought a couple
of cars, again no money, cheaply but because I didn't care,
was just transportation. To that point, they were just beaters
according to if the dashboards sounded great to hit with
a drumsticks were both drummers, so that was important.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, by the time I sold that Wrangler, the whole
dash was cracked. It was quite miserable, but man, it
was a lot of fun. Did you have jeeps?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I did? I did. I always wanted one, and so
it was out here in California. I did it right.
I got everything I wanted on it. It was white with
black neopren seats and huge wheels. You know, I put
a big kid on it. God, I loved it. In fact,
I was telling you before he came out that h
(10:05):
one of our old board ops of the old show
who wanted to see it. So after the show, we
walked out and he and he looked at it and
he kind of just melted. It was so just cheer yeah,
and he goes, you know what, Brian, what you are
just nowhere near cool enough to drive this. But I
loved it.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Tell it like it is.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
There was one story that kind of got me in trouble. No,
not the jeep. I got me in trouble, okay, But
I was driving home from work on Losienaga Boulevard. I
come to a stop sign. Something drops on the floor,
so I have to unbuckle my seat belt. I reached
down to get it and I put it back on
the on the console there and the light turns green,
(10:45):
and I pull out and I see a cop there,
and I'm not kidding. I always wave at cops. I
just you know, thanks for thanks for doing you know,
just always being nice, especially after you drop your crack
pipe exactly. Yeah, yeah, well that's going to get out.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I have a very dear friend who's a cop, and
so I pull out wave at him. Immediately as I
pass him, lights come on his motorcycle. He's a motorcycle cop.
And he pulls me over. Oh man, what maybe he's
a friend of my cop buddy Roger and comes over,
saunters over, and he goes, I see you weren't wearing
your seat belt. And I explained, sure, I explained that, sure, sure,
(11:25):
And this is what happened. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, sorry.
And then the oddest thing occurred. He the next twenty
minutes was a lecture from him, and not it wasn't
a mean cop. It was just odd because it was
a lecture horrifying things. It's like those movies you see
and when you're in grade school, blood on this asphalt.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And so he's explaining to
you all the reasons why you need to wear your
seat belt.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Exactly, especially in a jeep, you know, especially if you
flip this thing, you could have decapitated yourself very easy.
On the roll bars, you can this. And it just
went on and on and on and on and of course,
as we all do in most of these situations. Yes, sir, yes, sir, okay, sir, yes, sir,
just finally got through. He didn't ticket me. Well you
(12:12):
got that going for you, gets back on his motorcycle
and takes off. I get on my phone immediately to
call Roger. I go, Roger, you would not believe.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
This is your friend, the cop, the cop.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
You would not believe what I just experienced. I can't
overemphasize how odd he was. And and I and I
told him the story. He goes, what was his name?
And I said, Officer so and so, and he goes, Brian,
do you remember that story years ago when Jajja Gabor
slapped the cop? I got a cop, I go, yeah,
(12:42):
he goes, that's him, No way, that was the cop
she slapped.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
And he even said, like all the other cops that
know him behind his back, probably but they call him
ozone because he's so out there. That was I kind
of don't blame Ja, and I certainly want to.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I kind of feel like she slapped him for all exactly. Wow,
that's impressive. Well, okay, so we both drove Jeeps. I
would actually rank Jeeps pretty high among my favorite vehicles
I've driven. And there's you know, but there's pros and
cons to it, right, Like the pro of feeling the
wind in your.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Hair taking the doors off.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, but then at the same time, the con of
your girlfriend getting her hair messed up and she's not
necessarily thrilled. Or you can feel the sunshine on your face,
which is amazing when you're driving along the PCH, but
then you can also feel that temperature rise of twenty
degrees when you go into the valleys, like driving into
a hair dryer. Right, So there's pros and cons, I
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think mostly pros for us.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
So we're safe to say we're both Cube fans.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yes, that is true.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, and I didn't even know that until we started
talking about this show, because I was too. But even
if you're not a Jeep fan, you have no plans
to be a Jeep fan. You're never going to own
a Jeep. When we come back, we're going to introduce
you to someone that, through her love of jeeps, did
something unintentionally that caught on and is now a global phenomenon,
(14:05):
and all by being a good human. Now that's a hook.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That is just my curiosity is officially peaked.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Be right Backger, we.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Will thank you, suck welcome back. Joining us from Ontario,
Canada is the amazing Allison Parliament. Thank you for joining us, Allison.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
It's an absolute pleasure. So we gather that you much
like we have discovered about each other. You are a
big jeep.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Fan, Yes, very much. So it's been basically bred and
me since first. It is a great level my life.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Now, how old were you and why did you fall
in love with jeep?
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Yeah? So I've been in a jeep since I could
set up. My granduncle restored antique military vehicles, including a
couple jeeps that were World War two and Korean War jeeps,
And so we were out on property with him from
basically when he could piss in the jeep safely until
ultimately he passed away, and I swore one day I
(15:24):
would own my own jeep wrangler.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
So was that your first jeep a wrangler?
Speaker 5 (15:29):
No, it wasn't it was actually a Liberty while it
was in university, and the Wrangler came in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
So your first car was a Jeep.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
No, sadly, it was a convertible Camaro with the LS
one engine in it. But my dad was kind of
up to warn.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Me sadly, sadly, sadly beautify most people.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Most people would be so excited about that, but I
wanted the Jeep.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Okay, well, at least you've been consistent in that quest.
So then you said it in July of twenty twenty
is when you got your first Wrangler.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
It was actually June of twenty June.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Of twenty twenty, Okay, And you have dual citizenship, do
you not?
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Yes? I do. We gained citizenship in the US in
about twenty twelve.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
And it's also very important to note here before she
gets into her story that during COVID, Canada's COVID protocols
were a lot more strict than Americas, so many, many,
many Canadians really truly wanted writing their political leaders to
(16:28):
close down their borders because basically we were driving, you know,
just having fun, driving up to Canada and giving Canadians
COVID and so they really seriously wanted to close down
the borders.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Okay, Okay, So June of twenty twenty you get this wrangler,
which I can only imagine you were enjoying at least
until July of twenty twenty, if I have my dates correct,
So if you don't mind taking us back to July
of twenty twenty, for all the love you had for
Japes and the excitement you had over having your own wrangler,
(17:03):
you had a particularly awful experience, didn't you.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
I did. I came into Canada and followed all the
process for a required worker to be able to come
into Canada to work, and I was coming up to
make sure my grandmother was okay, because she was up
here by herself in her late eighties. I didn't want
her to be locked in her own by yourself. So
I made the decision since I didn't have kids, and
(17:27):
my life is a little bit more mobile, and I
could work from home to come home. Okay, So in
any case, when I crossed the border, I was given
all the sets of roles and everything you were supposed
to do, and I drove north towards my family home
and stopped for gas just off the highway a couple
hours into the drive, and this person came up to
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me started yelling at me, and I didn't realize he
was yelling at me at first.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Just randomly yelling at you.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yeah wow.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
And I had been driving for thirteen hours at that point,
so I was exhausted and I got it, walked around,
and this guy comes up yelling and screaming, and then
I realized he's yelling at me, and he starts putting
his hands on me and teting me go back to
my own country.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
And his hands on you, Oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
I have phos that we haven't earleast of bruises for
me hitting my jeep and being grabbed.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
So a stranger starts yelling at you, verbally assaulting you,
then physically assaulting you for absolutely no reason. What was
his twisted thinking in this moment?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
He told me that I was up here trying to
spread COVID and I wasn't welcome, and a lot of
settlement was the same people were being told Americans were
coming in intentionally spreading COVID when a lot of us
were just coming home to be with our families because
we didn't know how long the border would be closed.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Of course and.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
So and so getting gas. I managed to get back
in my jeep and drove off scared and called my
significant other and talked to him on the phone until
I could get to another gas station half an hour away,
which on me in a jeep is like a prayer
and a half on its own. And I made it,
got gassed, got home, and we sat for a request
period of time, and then I was convinced to go
(19:04):
further north to visit my cousins in a little town
that people know us. So it should have been relatively safe,
and it was. But while we were there, I had
a brilliant idea when I saw another jeep after buying
a bag of ducks to hide around my house to
torture my other hut a.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Bag of little rubber ducks.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Yeah, I bought the bag and I was going to
hide them originally around the house to torture my partner. Funny,
it's a thing because I had to go home back
to Alabama eventually, and we didn't know how long i'd
be stuck on the other side of the border.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Again.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Sure sure, so in any case, when I came out,
I always have current markers in my jeep and there
was a jeep that was lifted. Mine was stock. It
was a twenty eighteen JK Yu Sahara, and I loved it.
But the lifted jeep was pretty and they'd put so
much work into it. I had the idea to write
nice jeep, have a great day on the duck because
I didn't have any paper and I didn't want to
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leave like a sticky note or something stuck to the jeep.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
So I the ducks sitting on the mirror, and I
got caught doing it, and the gentleman thought it was hysterical.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
He saw you do it.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Yeah, he did. He watched from somewhere else and he
was a big guy, taller than me and I'm six
feet title.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, so I'm sitting.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
There about traying not to die in the process of
all this. But he came out and thought it was great.
He actually suggested it. I put it up on my
Facebook and Instagram as hashtag dective cheep.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
All right, let me stop you there. Okay, So first,
let's back up for a second. Allison credit where it's due. Like,
if if I had been verbally not to mention physically
assaulted by a stranger, I probably would have crawled into
a hole. And I don't even know if I would
have gotten back in my jeep again or left the
house or left the house. You somehow held on to
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your sense of humor even after experiencing what I can
only imagine was a traumatic bit of ugliness. But you
hold onto your sense of humor. You are then struck
subsequently to buy some rubber ducks and leave a rubber
dock with a kind message on a stranger's jeep just
(21:03):
because you're impressed by his jeep. And uh, first of all,
let me just let's just be clear that automatically already
qualifies you as a good human in our book.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, But to make a choice to do something nice
after being through something that was not very.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Nice, yeah, the exact opposite. So kudos to you for.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
That, Thank you. And honestly, I didn't want a bait
to feel the way I did.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yeah, Yeah, because.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
I was scared for a good while leaving the house
after it happened. And you know, every time we had
an interaction, I was worried because people look at the
plates and clear us.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Of course, So when did this thing start snowballing?
Speaker 5 (21:42):
We started July fourth, twenty twenty, and it started really
blowing up about a week into it, and then I
got a phone call from a reporter July twenty six
or twenty seven of twenty twenty from Massachusetts, and then
other reporters and other people started calling it. Our group
on Facebook we created in that time started blowing up,
(22:04):
and I had emailed Jeep and said, hey, we did
this just so you guys know, because I didn't want
a problem with cheap.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Sure, you don't want to get a cross purposes with
the company you love or the Duck Rubber Duck company.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Oh yeah. And Jeep responded they were like, I think
this is a great idea from the tech of the
person that responded to me. And then in November of
twenty twenty, they released the three ninety two Rubicon with
the Ducks and said the best part about Duck Duck
Cheep was that it didn't come from corporate.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, of course, I mean this is a look and
I should say, Jeep, the Jeep community is notoriously close,
try like very tribal, like I still remember the rules
about creepy.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Oh I don't think crazy crazy how go?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
But yeah, I mean they are they are a very warm,
embracing community. But they they then grabbed onto this phenomenon
like wildfire, and all of a sudden it's it becomes
this global phenomenon known as Jeep ducking.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
It went. Now we're in eighty six countries with over
six hundred thousand people playing around the world that we
can track.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Now.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Wow, And Jeep actually just released deck Duck Cheap Europe
as a campaign two days ago.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Really, that's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Yeah, we saw it pop up in LinkedIn and I
actually emailed the head of Jeep and said, hey, we'd
love to get involved to let me know. So we're
hoping to hear back for that. But Jeep in the
past has been great with us. They actually loaned me
a four by eight wrangler that we had in twenty
twenty one.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
How much time does this take to kind of I mean,
you are, for all intend's purposes, the original mother Ducker.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yes she is.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
You started that is this a you know, a daily
eight hour, nine hour, ten hour a day happening with you?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
This is a twenty four to seven happening. And my
phone blows up twenty four to seven. I just got
home from two months of being on the road. With
Duck Dog Jeep. We did six events back to back,
including Daytona Beach which is Jeep Beach, and Jep Jam
in Panama City, as well as a rubber duck race
locally last weekend here in Ontario.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
So I can only imagine at these festivals and these happenings,
the jeep ooters are jeep lovers are throwing. You're the celebrity.
You're like the one who has to be announced, You're
the one has to walk out in front of everyone.
Are you comfortable with that?
Speaker 5 (24:22):
I've gotten there. I used to be very very shy
and awkward. I am very much happy behind the camera
instead of in front of it. But I'm autographing between
They totally autographed about nine thousand ducks. Wow, and then
usually a season it goes through thirty to forty thousand ducks.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Well.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
See this is I mean. I'm delighted that we are
able to help tell this story because I still think
that there are many jeep owners. Most recently one of
my own managers here in LA who's a longtime jeep
lover and owner. When I told him about this story,
he immediately knew, like, oh yeah, I keep ducks in
my glove compartment, and I get ducks on my jeep
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all the time, but he had no idea what the
auspices were, like, how what what the origin story of
this one?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
A friend of mine was talked to a friend of
mine as well, and she said her husband had a duck,
got a duck on his jeep in the parking lot,
and he still keeps it and has said something like
a long lived jeeps or something like that, he still
keeps it. He just thought it was kind of funny. Again,
like you no idea why it started, how it started,
(25:29):
where it came from, but then they pass it on. Yeah,
I got ducked. Now I'm going to duck someone. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, So Alison as the mother ducker, and we should
really stop calling you that unless you're comfortable with it.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Okay, answer to it.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Don't worry about us. We're just duckheads.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yes, that's so true. And we could just go on
like this all day. And I'm sure she's heard them,
all of them all.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
But oh yeah, and then we created some too.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I wonder if you if you would mind describing to
us some of the favorite some of the favorite ducks
that you've gotten and some of the best that you've
left for other people.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
So I've come across many really amazing ones because I
work with a little shop out of Tennessee called Duck
and Crazy, so they actually sell ducks. And since I've
got somebody here that's walking out of the room, can
you go grab the big splatter painted duck out of
my bedroom and bring it back to me.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Ooh, the splatter painted duck.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
It's a six inch tall duck and it is white
bas and it looks like it's been rainbow splatter painted.
It's one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
But you're getting them from all over the world.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Correct, Yes, I've had some from Sydney, Australia. I've had
some from Holland from the company delf and things like that.
It's kind of crazy, Like I have eighteen countries represented
in my two jeeps right now, because I was blessed
last summer with a twenty twenty four Rubicon Nice the
extreme Recon package on it that is rubber duck yellow
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or high Velocity.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yell oh nice rubber yellow.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Thundercryster to Bartow, Florida called me and they said, hey,
we know you're jeep not in great shape. What would
your dream jep look like? And then they custom ordered
her and hitting me the keys at Smoking Mountain Deep Invasion.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Gave it somewhere nice yep.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Wow, because everything we do is at a pocket.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Sure, sure, that's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
So they wanted to help me because my silver Jeep
was not as good as shape. It is older and
we're rebuilding it as we go.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
And that shows you again how tribal jeep owners jeep
lovers are.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yeah, you know, just supporting each other exactly exactly to
say nothing Jeep dealers and then the Jeep Corporation, he said,
hoping to get sponsorship for their podcast.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
We love Jeep.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
We love jeep too, and we've been very fortunate with
all of our sponsors. Forty five Games dot Com and
our gxpils both stepped in big ways to help us
as well. They actually had my Jeep as it was
delivered on Jack's switching up my wheels and tires.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
So at Smoking Mountain we'd look our best and be
able to represent all of our sponsors, which was amazing.
And yeah, we've been all over the US and Canada.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
With Wow fantastic.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
We have eight more major events this season.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Can you tell us how people that are listening probably
in their jeep right now, or they have a jeep
in Oh, there it is.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
There is your splattered Wait, hold that up one more time.
That's just amazing. Look at that. So that's not your
average rubber ducky. Well, somebody put some time and effort
into that.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Probably a very famous artist.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah, you know exactly.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Actually, I think there's a company that just sells these
guys out right now. There's even a Thai di version
of him floating round.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
So people that are listening that love jeeps have one
in the driveway? What link? What website can you direct
them to to be a part of this.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Our website is official duck duck jeep dot com.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Official duck duck jeep dot com.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
Our social media is all official Ducking Jeep Est twenty twenty. Okay,
and that will get you Facebook, Instagram and TikTok for
us fantastic.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Well listen, Allison, we really have to commend you. You
took a terrible experience with a with a ducking jerk
and you turned it into a literal ducking phenomenon that
puts random smiles on people's faces on a daily basis. Uh,
and it makes me, I don't know about you, it
makes me want to go buy a Geep.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
I wish I still had mine now, I.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Just I want the ducks. Yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Always listen. Always nice to talk to people that really
kind of encompass what the show's all about. Yeah, being
a good human. And in your case, you were a
good human, just a little thing, and it started this
global phenomenon.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
If I may, she's a good ducking human.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Hey, yeah, write that one down.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Write that one down. Thank you so much for joining us, Allison,
and thank you for just being awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Thanks Alison, thank you as well.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
We will take you suck.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Okay, she's amazing.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Oh she's great.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
And in case you missed it, if you want to
learn more about this extraordinary global phenomenon of jeep ducking,
than go to official Duck Duck jeep dot com and
there will also be links for all their socials and
all that stuff. So jeep owner or not, Rubber duck
lovers or not, go visit official Duck Duck jeep dot com.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
And you know all the poor the beater cars, Yeah,
all the beater cars that I've had like I said,
there's a parade of them. Because I was poor. I
wish I would have started something like this, like something
to put on you see a beater, It's like, you know,
we're all in this together.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah, Well, just a good reminder you can have the
crappiest day imaginable and you can still turn it into
all kinds of sunshine for other people.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Absolutely, and we want to remind you to go to
our website, be Good Humans podcast dot com.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Please do that and follow us on all the socials, Facebook,
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And one more thing, if you feel like being what
(31:15):
we call a bgh vip, please follow us and subscribe
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of bonus material, stuff that didn't make it into the show.
Maybe we'll show off some more Rubber Ducks member exclusive
videos and posts. We're gonna do some occasional live Q
and A stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
It's going to be fun. It's a lot of fun
and Ryan, can you keep this shot right there just
for a second.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Which one?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Now, I've always known the one we're looking at. I've
always known that my nose is quite large. I just
looked up and look what I saw. Oh I saw this.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Oh it is kind of well, but it's handsome. It's
a Rome, It's a striking Roman.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Nuz my nose is actually in the frame. Yeah, that's
how big it is.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
You know it's pointing us to the end of the show.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yes, so it is the end of the show. We
will see you next time on the Big of Humans podcast.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Thank you very much for joining us, and much like
Allison Parliament, do us a favor. Be good humans, Be good.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Humans, Be good humans, Be good humans, or we will
think you sucked thy God, thank God, thank god humans,
or we will thank you suck
Hi, everybody, if we could just have a second of
your time. But before we get to the actual episode,
a few weeks back, we recorded an interview.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
With this amazing woman, lovely, lovely woman.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
They did a remarkable thing.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, and she spoke with us, not once, but twice. Actually,
we interviewed her first as one of our early proof
of concept episodes when we were just practicing, and then
and then again for the real deal. We had a
wonderful conversation.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
With her, and just this week the new spread that
she had passed away. She's a very very young, very lovely,
very vibrant.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
But very tragic and unexpected turnatch of events, and so
we want to definitely, first and foremost reach out and
express our heartfelt sympathy to her family, to her friends.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
And as you'll hear in the interview, she's very close
to her family. They're all very very close knits. So
that was the first thing I thought of, like, oh
my god.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
But also she has built an extended family, a massive community,
a millport of folks all around the world. And you'll
see and understand why shortly. But we just wanted to
touch base with you first and and let you know
that we share in mourning her unexpected passing, and we
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dedicate this episode of Be Good Humans to the amazing
Alison Parliament.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Be good Humans, Be good humans. Be good humans, or
we will think you sucked, or we will thank you suck.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Welcome in and we're so glad you're here for the
Be Good Human Podcast. I'm Brian. That is Trey.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Hi, I'm Trey. That's Brian, and I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Start off by asking you a question. Oh, okay, are
you a car guy?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Am I a car guy? I mean I'm not. I
realize whose company I'm in. I'm not a car guy
like you're a car guy. I love cars, Yeah, don't
get me wrong. And you kind of got a You
gotta at least respect cars. If you live in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
You do, you do. And I've always been a car
guy because in fourth grade, when when my friends were
drawing pictures of tanks and the battle scenes and army men,
I was designing cars. I was actually drawing car design.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So you designed the cyber truck.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yes, I was in fourth grade. That's why it looks
like that. What a dopey looking car?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It is pretty dope.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
But yeah, So I've always been a fan of the design.
And I've got this term. It's does it have turnaround appeal?
Meaning when you get out of your car, do you
turn around and look at it? Just a design in
the art of it. Yeah, But then let me ask
you this. Okay, what was your very first car?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Okay, So my dad bought it from his partner for
eight hundred bucks. And it was a nineteen seven D
three Lincoln town Car station wagon with wood paneling boat. Yeah.
It was a huge boat and had an enormous engine
in it. And I got vinyl letters and I and
(03:12):
I and I and I christened it the Thing, and
and I put those on the wood paneling. And it
was an amazing boat that would carry all of my friends. Well,
I should say it did carry all of my friends
until I ran it up over a carb, blew both
the front tires and bent the front axle.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh, and that was it for the car.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
That was the untimely death of the thing. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
what about you.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, my first car that actually ran. The first car didn't,
which is a whole different story. But my first car
that ran my father, My grandfather had recently passed away,
so my dad gave me his old. It was a
red late sixties Impalla okay, Chevy Impala okay. And it
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ran great.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Sure, and you know that's all that matters at that age.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, I was until when I turned sixteen, I was
driving my parents car every were so they were happy
to give me that car. But it ran great. But
there were problems. One the main one was it actually squeaked.
Let's see hear the siren.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, I do hear the siren. Yeah, that's part of
the start after you finally, but my.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Car actually squeaked so loud that you could hear me
coming half a block away. Something wrong with the suspension system.
I had absolutely no money trying to get through college,
so I'm not going to repair it, so it's just
gonna go. So I pull into a parking lot and
there's some pretty girls or whatever there and they're waving
and you're hearing.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I was, well, we should sample that and use that
in every show moving forward.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
But here's the demise of my grandfather. My grandfather's wonderful car.
I had heard from friends or a friend and I
don't remember who, that you can save money on gas
is if you come to a hill.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, and you're going uphill, No, going downhill.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You come to a hill, downhill, and you're going like
sixty miles an hour. That if you just flick it
into neutral, oh god, you can coast down that hill
and not lose a lot of speed. And then when
you're at the bottom of the hill, you flick it
back up at the drive.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So whoever told you that clearly hated you.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
No, it worked. I'm telling you it worked. The problem
was one night I was coming home from a gig
like three hours away, played in bands, and I was
a little tired. Sure, so big hill, country road. Flick
it into neutral, saving gas, saving gas, saving gas. Instead
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of putting it into drive. At the bottom of the hill,
I put it into reverse. Here is the sound. Yeah,
this is the sound the last sound my car ever made.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Brace yourself, Ryan.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That was it. Everything locked up. So but remember now
I'm on a country road. There's nobody around here. I
walk about three miles to the first country house. I say,
this is actually setting up for a horse.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I was just gonna say this has a very dark ending.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Knocked on the door and then very very sweet couple
live there and they let me use the phone to
call my father.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So yeah, you know after those two oh no that
after that. To replace that I got, I spent four
hundred and thirty dollars on a extremely used Renault LA car.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Which is close to the thing exactly.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
My father I'd never seen him laughing so hard when
I pulled in the driveway with that, and he just
laughed and he started calling it the French beer can.
Oh man, could actually take your finger and just poke
in the shop.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
That's painful. I mean, you kind of want your dad
to be proud of you for buying your first car,
but yeah, you got ridiculed.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
But that's what I had, and that was I was
dry having that car three hours to college, three hours
home every weekend to play in bands, to do gigs.
After two weeks, the key broke off in the ignition,
So I'm not exaggerating. I started it by using a
flathead screwdriver, oh god, and turning it, sticking it in
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the ignition, turning that with one hand, with my other
hand reaching under the dashboard and holding two wires together.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
So and I had that car way longer.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Well, this is why you're a car guy. You had
a lot to make up for.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And then yeah. Absolutely, And then after those two cars
came a parade of beat up pieces of doo doo
that even the one eight to seven seven Cars for
Kids wouldn't tape if they had the chanks.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
For putting that song on my head.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And by the way, let me talk about the one
hundred Cars to Kids band. I was a huge fan.
I went to so many of their concerts, but unfortunately
they went the way of many bands that are so successful.
To me, they just they got a little commercial they
sold out that they really did, so I stopped listening.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Wow, that's thanks again, thanks for bringing that back.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
A huge part of my life. Well, let me ask
you another question. Okay, have you ever owned a cheap
As a matter of fact, yes, I have the first
one I didn't technically own. It's my father's pride and
joy to this day. In fact, Ryan, you should bring
up a picture of this if you have it. This
is a jeep nineteen seventy seven. Yeah, there it is
(08:28):
CJ seven and my dad. It's known as the Grizzly Goat. Hey,
your dad driving?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
That is my dad? God bless him. But yeah, the
grizzly Goat was his pride and joy. He was a
big fan of the seventies show Grizzly Adams, and he
had a beard that was a lot like Grizzly Adams,
and so my mom surprised him with the paint job
on the hood for his birthday, and occasionally, only if
he was feeling really generous and I wasn't too much
(08:56):
of a jerkquad on any given week, he would let
me drive this to school on occasion, and then I
would drive it, you know, as if it were made
of glass. And then I had my own jeep Wrangler
Sahara in here in La in the nineties, which you'll
appreciate this. I always kept a pair of drumsticks in
the center console and I turned my dashboard into a
(09:17):
mobile drum kit at stoplights.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
And not only appreciated by I emulated it. That's doing
the exact same thing. In fact, I bought a couple
of cars, again no money, cheaply but because I didn't care,
was just transportation. To that point, they were just beaters
according to if the dashboards sounded great to hit with
a drumsticks were both drummers, so that was important.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, by the time I sold that Wrangler, the whole
dash was cracked. It was quite miserable, but man, it
was a lot of fun. Did you have jeeps?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
I did? I did. I always wanted one, and so
it was out here in California. I did it right.
I got everything I wanted on it. It was white with
black neopren seats and huge wheels. You know, I put
a big kid on it. God, I loved it. In fact,
I was telling you before he came out that h
(10:05):
one of our old board ops of the old show
who wanted to see it. So after the show, we
walked out and he and he looked at it and
he kind of just melted. It was so just cheer yeah,
and he goes, you know what, Brian, what you are
just nowhere near cool enough to drive this. But I
loved it.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Tell it like it is.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
There was one story that kind of got me in trouble. No,
not the jeep. I got me in trouble, okay, But
I was driving home from work on Losienaga Boulevard. I
come to a stop sign. Something drops on the floor,
so I have to unbuckle my seat belt. I reached
down to get it and I put it back on
the on the console there and the light turns green,
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and I pull out and I see a cop there,
and I'm not kidding. I always wave at cops. I
just you know, thanks for thanks for doing you know,
just always being nice, especially after you drop your crack
pipe exactly. Yeah, yeah, well that's going to get out.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I have a very dear friend who's a cop, and
so I pull out wave at him. Immediately as I
pass him, lights come on his motorcycle. He's a motorcycle cop.
And he pulls me over. Oh man, what maybe he's
a friend of my cop buddy Roger and comes over,
saunters over, and he goes, I see you weren't wearing
your seat belt. And I explained, sure, I explained that, sure, sure,
(11:25):
And this is what happened. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, sorry.
And then the oddest thing occurred. He the next twenty
minutes was a lecture from him, and not it wasn't
a mean cop. It was just odd because it was
a lecture horrifying things. It's like those movies you see
and when you're in grade school, blood on this asphalt.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And so he's explaining to
you all the reasons why you need to wear your
seat belt.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Exactly, especially in a jeep, you know, especially if you
flip this thing, you could have decapitated yourself very easy.
On the roll bars, you can this. And it just
went on and on and on and on and of course,
as we all do in most of these situations. Yes, sir, yes, sir, okay, sir, yes, sir,
just finally got through. He didn't ticket me. Well you
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got that going for you, gets back on his motorcycle
and takes off. I get on my phone immediately to
call Roger. I go, Roger, you would not believe.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
This is your friend, the cop, the cop.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
You would not believe what I just experienced. I can't
overemphasize how odd he was. And and I and I
told him the story. He goes, what was his name?
And I said, Officer so and so, and he goes, Brian,
do you remember that story years ago when Jajja Gabor
slapped the cop? I got a cop, I go, yeah,
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he goes, that's him, No way, that was the cop
she slapped.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
And he even said, like all the other cops that
know him behind his back, probably but they call him
ozone because he's so out there. That was I kind
of don't blame Ja, and I certainly want to.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I kind of feel like she slapped him for all exactly. Wow,
that's impressive. Well, okay, so we both drove Jeeps. I
would actually rank Jeeps pretty high among my favorite vehicles
I've driven. And there's you know, but there's pros and
cons to it, right, Like the pro of feeling the
wind in your.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Hair taking the doors off.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, but then at the same time, the con of
your girlfriend getting her hair messed up and she's not
necessarily thrilled. Or you can feel the sunshine on your face,
which is amazing when you're driving along the PCH, but
then you can also feel that temperature rise of twenty
degrees when you go into the valleys, like driving into
a hair dryer. Right, So there's pros and cons, I
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think mostly pros for us.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
So we're safe to say we're both Cube fans.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yes, that is true.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, and I didn't even know that until we started
talking about this show, because I was too. But even
if you're not a Jeep fan, you have no plans
to be a Jeep fan. You're never going to own
a Jeep. When we come back, we're going to introduce
you to someone that, through her love of jeeps, did
something unintentionally that caught on and is now a global phenomenon,
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and all by being a good human. Now that's a hook.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That is just my curiosity is officially peaked.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Be right Backger, we.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Will thank you, suck welcome back. Joining us from Ontario,
Canada is the amazing Allison Parliament. Thank you for joining us, Allison.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
It's an absolute pleasure. So we gather that you much
like we have discovered about each other. You are a
big jeep.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Fan, Yes, very much. So it's been basically bred and
me since first. It is a great level my life.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Now, how old were you and why did you fall
in love with jeep?
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Yeah? So I've been in a jeep since I could
set up. My granduncle restored antique military vehicles, including a
couple jeeps that were World War two and Korean War jeeps,
And so we were out on property with him from
basically when he could piss in the jeep safely until
ultimately he passed away, and I swore one day I
(15:24):
would own my own jeep wrangler.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
So was that your first jeep a wrangler?
Speaker 5 (15:29):
No, it wasn't it was actually a Liberty while it
was in university, and the Wrangler came in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
So your first car was a Jeep.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
No, sadly, it was a convertible Camaro with the LS
one engine in it. But my dad was kind of
up to warn.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Me sadly, sadly, sadly beautify most people.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Most people would be so excited about that, but I
wanted the Jeep.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Okay, well, at least you've been consistent in that quest.
So then you said it in July of twenty twenty
is when you got your first Wrangler.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
It was actually June of twenty June.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Of twenty twenty, Okay, And you have dual citizenship, do
you not?
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Yes? I do. We gained citizenship in the US in
about twenty twelve.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
And it's also very important to note here before she
gets into her story that during COVID, Canada's COVID protocols
were a lot more strict than Americas, so many, many,
many Canadians really truly wanted writing their political leaders to
(16:28):
close down their borders because basically we were driving, you know,
just having fun, driving up to Canada and giving Canadians
COVID and so they really seriously wanted to close down
the borders.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Okay, Okay, So June of twenty twenty you get this wrangler,
which I can only imagine you were enjoying at least
until July of twenty twenty, if I have my dates correct,
So if you don't mind taking us back to July
of twenty twenty, for all the love you had for
Japes and the excitement you had over having your own wrangler,
(17:03):
you had a particularly awful experience, didn't you.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
I did. I came into Canada and followed all the
process for a required worker to be able to come
into Canada to work, and I was coming up to
make sure my grandmother was okay, because she was up
here by herself in her late eighties. I didn't want
her to be locked in her own by yourself. So
I made the decision since I didn't have kids, and
(17:27):
my life is a little bit more mobile, and I
could work from home to come home. Okay, So in
any case, when I crossed the border, I was given
all the sets of roles and everything you were supposed
to do, and I drove north towards my family home
and stopped for gas just off the highway a couple
hours into the drive, and this person came up to
(17:49):
me started yelling at me, and I didn't realize he
was yelling at me at first.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Just randomly yelling at you.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yeah wow.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
And I had been driving for thirteen hours at that point,
so I was exhausted and I got it, walked around,
and this guy comes up yelling and screaming, and then
I realized he's yelling at me, and he starts putting
his hands on me and teting me go back to
my own country.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
And his hands on you, Oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
I have phos that we haven't earleast of bruises for
me hitting my jeep and being grabbed.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
So a stranger starts yelling at you, verbally assaulting you,
then physically assaulting you for absolutely no reason. What was
his twisted thinking in this moment?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
He told me that I was up here trying to
spread COVID and I wasn't welcome, and a lot of
settlement was the same people were being told Americans were
coming in intentionally spreading COVID when a lot of us
were just coming home to be with our families because
we didn't know how long the border would be closed.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Of course and.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
So and so getting gas. I managed to get back
in my jeep and drove off scared and called my
significant other and talked to him on the phone until
I could get to another gas station half an hour away,
which on me in a jeep is like a prayer
and a half on its own. And I made it,
got gassed, got home, and we sat for a request
period of time, and then I was convinced to go
(19:04):
further north to visit my cousins in a little town
that people know us. So it should have been relatively safe,
and it was. But while we were there, I had
a brilliant idea when I saw another jeep after buying
a bag of ducks to hide around my house to
torture my other hut a.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Bag of little rubber ducks.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Yeah, I bought the bag and I was going to
hide them originally around the house to torture my partner. Funny,
it's a thing because I had to go home back
to Alabama eventually, and we didn't know how long i'd
be stuck on the other side of the border.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Again.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Sure sure, so in any case, when I came out,
I always have current markers in my jeep and there
was a jeep that was lifted. Mine was stock. It
was a twenty eighteen JK Yu Sahara, and I loved it.
But the lifted jeep was pretty and they'd put so
much work into it. I had the idea to write
nice jeep, have a great day on the duck because
I didn't have any paper and I didn't want to
(19:55):
leave like a sticky note or something stuck to the jeep.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Yeah, of course.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
So I the ducks sitting on the mirror, and I
got caught doing it, and the gentleman thought it was hysterical.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
He saw you do it.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Yeah, he did. He watched from somewhere else and he
was a big guy, taller than me and I'm six
feet title.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, so I'm sitting.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
There about traying not to die in the process of
all this. But he came out and thought it was great.
He actually suggested it. I put it up on my
Facebook and Instagram as hashtag dective cheep.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
All right, let me stop you there. Okay, So first,
let's back up for a second. Allison credit where it's due. Like,
if if I had been verbally not to mention physically
assaulted by a stranger, I probably would have crawled into
a hole. And I don't even know if I would
have gotten back in my jeep again or left the
house or left the house. You somehow held on to
(20:42):
your sense of humor even after experiencing what I can
only imagine was a traumatic bit of ugliness. But you
hold onto your sense of humor. You are then struck
subsequently to buy some rubber ducks and leave a rubber
dock with a kind message on a stranger's jeep just
(21:03):
because you're impressed by his jeep. And uh, first of all,
let me just let's just be clear that automatically already
qualifies you as a good human in our book.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Yeah, But to make a choice to do something nice
after being through something that was not very.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Nice, yeah, the exact opposite. So kudos to you for.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
That, Thank you. And honestly, I didn't want a bait
to feel the way I did.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yeah, Yeah, because.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
I was scared for a good while leaving the house
after it happened. And you know, every time we had
an interaction, I was worried because people look at the
plates and clear us.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Of course, So when did this thing start snowballing?
Speaker 5 (21:42):
We started July fourth, twenty twenty, and it started really
blowing up about a week into it, and then I
got a phone call from a reporter July twenty six
or twenty seven of twenty twenty from Massachusetts, and then
other reporters and other people started calling it. Our group
on Facebook we created in that time started blowing up,
(22:04):
and I had emailed Jeep and said, hey, we did
this just so you guys know, because I didn't want
a problem with cheap.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Sure, you don't want to get a cross purposes with
the company you love or the Duck Rubber Duck company.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Oh yeah. And Jeep responded they were like, I think
this is a great idea from the tech of the
person that responded to me. And then in November of
twenty twenty, they released the three ninety two Rubicon with
the Ducks and said the best part about Duck Duck
Cheep was that it didn't come from corporate.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, of course, I mean this is a look and
I should say, Jeep, the Jeep community is notoriously close,
try like very tribal, like I still remember the rules
about creepy.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Oh I don't think crazy crazy how go?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
But yeah, I mean they are they are a very warm,
embracing community. But they they then grabbed onto this phenomenon
like wildfire, and all of a sudden it's it becomes
this global phenomenon known as Jeep ducking.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
It went. Now we're in eighty six countries with over
six hundred thousand people playing around the world that we
can track.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Now.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Wow, And Jeep actually just released deck Duck Cheap Europe
as a campaign two days ago.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Really, that's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Yeah, we saw it pop up in LinkedIn and I
actually emailed the head of Jeep and said, hey, we'd
love to get involved to let me know. So we're
hoping to hear back for that. But Jeep in the
past has been great with us. They actually loaned me
a four by eight wrangler that we had in twenty
twenty one.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
How much time does this take to kind of I mean,
you are, for all intend's purposes, the original mother Ducker.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Yes she is.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
You started that is this a you know, a daily
eight hour, nine hour, ten hour a day happening with you?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
This is a twenty four to seven happening. And my
phone blows up twenty four to seven. I just got
home from two months of being on the road. With
Duck Dog Jeep. We did six events back to back,
including Daytona Beach which is Jeep Beach, and Jep Jam
in Panama City, as well as a rubber duck race
locally last weekend here in Ontario.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
So I can only imagine at these festivals and these happenings,
the jeep ooters are jeep lovers are throwing. You're the celebrity.
You're like the one who has to be announced, You're
the one has to walk out in front of everyone.
Are you comfortable with that?
Speaker 5 (24:22):
I've gotten there. I used to be very very shy
and awkward. I am very much happy behind the camera
instead of in front of it. But I'm autographing between
They totally autographed about nine thousand ducks. Wow, and then
usually a season it goes through thirty to forty thousand ducks.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Well.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
See this is I mean. I'm delighted that we are
able to help tell this story because I still think
that there are many jeep owners. Most recently one of
my own managers here in LA who's a longtime jeep
lover and owner. When I told him about this story,
he immediately knew, like, oh yeah, I keep ducks in
my glove compartment, and I get ducks on my jeep
(25:01):
all the time, but he had no idea what the
auspices were, like, how what what the origin story of
this one?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
A friend of mine was talked to a friend of
mine as well, and she said her husband had a duck,
got a duck on his jeep in the parking lot,
and he still keeps it and has said something like
a long lived jeeps or something like that, he still
keeps it. He just thought it was kind of funny. Again,
like you no idea why it started, how it started,
(25:29):
where it came from, but then they pass it on. Yeah,
I got ducked. Now I'm going to duck someone. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, So Alison as the mother ducker, and we should
really stop calling you that unless you're comfortable with it.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Okay, answer to it.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Don't worry about us. We're just duckheads.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yes, that's so true. And we could just go on
like this all day. And I'm sure she's heard them,
all of them all.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
But oh yeah, and then we created some too.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I wonder if you if you would mind describing to
us some of the favorite some of the favorite ducks
that you've gotten and some of the best that you've
left for other people.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
So I've come across many really amazing ones because I
work with a little shop out of Tennessee called Duck
and Crazy, so they actually sell ducks. And since I've
got somebody here that's walking out of the room, can
you go grab the big splatter painted duck out of
my bedroom and bring it back to me.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Ooh, the splatter painted duck.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
It's a six inch tall duck and it is white
bas and it looks like it's been rainbow splatter painted.
It's one of my favorites.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
But you're getting them from all over the world.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Correct, Yes, I've had some from Sydney, Australia. I've had
some from Holland from the company delf and things like that.
It's kind of crazy, Like I have eighteen countries represented
in my two jeeps right now, because I was blessed
last summer with a twenty twenty four Rubicon Nice the
extreme Recon package on it that is rubber duck yellow
(26:53):
or high Velocity.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yell oh nice rubber yellow.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Thundercryster to Bartow, Florida called me and they said, hey,
we know you're jeep not in great shape. What would
your dream jep look like? And then they custom ordered
her and hitting me the keys at Smoking Mountain Deep Invasion.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Gave it somewhere nice yep.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Wow, because everything we do is at a pocket.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Sure, sure, that's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
So they wanted to help me because my silver Jeep
was not as good as shape. It is older and
we're rebuilding it as we go.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
And that shows you again how tribal jeep owners jeep
lovers are.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yeah, you know, just supporting each other exactly exactly to
say nothing Jeep dealers and then the Jeep Corporation, he said,
hoping to get sponsorship for their podcast.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
We love Jeep.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
We love jeep too, and we've been very fortunate with
all of our sponsors. Forty five Games dot Com and
our gxpils both stepped in big ways to help us
as well. They actually had my Jeep as it was
delivered on Jack's switching up my wheels and tires.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
So at Smoking Mountain we'd look our best and be
able to represent all of our sponsors, which was amazing.
And yeah, we've been all over the US and Canada.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
With Wow fantastic.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
We have eight more major events this season.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Can you tell us how people that are listening probably
in their jeep right now, or they have a jeep
in Oh, there it is.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
There is your splattered Wait, hold that up one more time.
That's just amazing. Look at that. So that's not your
average rubber ducky. Well, somebody put some time and effort
into that.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Probably a very famous artist.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah, you know exactly.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Actually, I think there's a company that just sells these
guys out right now. There's even a Thai di version
of him floating round.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
So people that are listening that love jeeps have one
in the driveway? What link? What website can you direct
them to to be a part of this.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Our website is official duck duck jeep dot com.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Official duck duck jeep dot com.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
Our social media is all official Ducking Jeep Est twenty twenty. Okay,
and that will get you Facebook, Instagram and TikTok for
us fantastic.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Well listen, Allison, we really have to commend you. You
took a terrible experience with a with a ducking jerk
and you turned it into a literal ducking phenomenon that
puts random smiles on people's faces on a daily basis. Uh,
and it makes me, I don't know about you, it
makes me want to go buy a Geep.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
I wish I still had mine now, I.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Just I want the ducks. Yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Always listen. Always nice to talk to people that really
kind of encompass what the show's all about. Yeah, being
a good human. And in your case, you were a
good human, just a little thing, and it started this
global phenomenon.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
If I may, she's a good ducking human.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Hey, yeah, write that one down.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Write that one down. Thank you so much for joining us, Allison,
and thank you for just being awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Thanks Alison, thank you as well.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
We will take you suck.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Okay, she's amazing.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Oh she's great.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
And in case you missed it, if you want to
learn more about this extraordinary global phenomenon of jeep ducking,
than go to official Duck Duck jeep dot com and
there will also be links for all their socials and
all that stuff. So jeep owner or not, Rubber duck
lovers or not, go visit official Duck Duck jeep dot com.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
And you know all the poor the beater cars, Yeah,
all the beater cars that I've had like I said,
there's a parade of them. Because I was poor. I
wish I would have started something like this, like something
to put on you see a beater, It's like, you know,
we're all in this together.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah, Well, just a good reminder you can have the
crappiest day imaginable and you can still turn it into
all kinds of sunshine for other people.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Absolutely, and we want to remind you to go to
our website, be Good Humans podcast dot com.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Please do that and follow us on all the socials, Facebook,
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And one more thing, if you feel like being what
(31:15):
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Maybe we'll show off some more Rubber Ducks member exclusive
videos and posts. We're gonna do some occasional live Q
and A stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
It's going to be fun. It's a lot of fun
and Ryan, can you keep this shot right there just
for a second.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Which one?
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Now, I've always known the one we're looking at. I've
always known that my nose is quite large. I just
looked up and look what I saw. Oh I saw this.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Oh it is kind of well, but it's handsome. It's
a Rome, It's a striking Roman.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Nuz my nose is actually in the frame. Yeah, that's
how big it is.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
You know it's pointing us to the end of the show.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yes, so it is the end of the show. We
will see you next time on the Big of Humans podcast.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Thank you very much for joining us, and much like
Allison Parliament, do us a favor. Be good humans, Be good.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Humans, Be good humans, Be good humans, or we will
think you sucked thy God, thank God, thank god humans,
or we will thank you suck
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