October 31, 2025 • 43 mins
Dash and The Dangerously Stupid Show are back in the studio for Halloween.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, please welcome back our old friend, mister Dash
Rickington you hello, sir, how are you Halloween?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Thank you? Thank you? How am I I'm okay? Okay, No,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I've gotten very uncomfortable during the last little bit, not
because it just dawned on me.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I don't know what's I have no idea what's going on.
You have no idea what's going on? That's good. The
only thing that you do know is that I asked
you all what your favorite can and.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
That I was wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I was like, I said snickers, but I didn't I said,
said said milky. But I don't the the the mike,
I don't know. Okay, Dash is here here all right?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
So uh basically there can I ask you one thing, beout,
get started, get started. And the only reason I bring
it up is I see the book right right? Yes,
unless you were going to planning to do that. No, no, no,
this is actually something to talk about.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah no, no, that's awesome. Wait so is this the
one you're in? Yes? Okay?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
So Dash is in the Guinness World Record twenty twenty
six hard cut right most mouse traps released on the
tongue in one minute.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
That's correct. Very good, very good. That is really something.
It is really ridiculous. What was that number? It was
ninety three? I'm sorry, sixty three? Sixty three was the
was the number? Right? And this is the Ripley's Believe
It or Not book, the full feature that they did
on me for this year. This is the new one
(01:27):
that I just they just put out in September. Okay,
so wait, so this is the Ripley's book. This is
the Ripley's Believe It or Not book right that they
gave me the full page spread on I mentioned, did
Ripley's come and like visit you? Yes? They did. Actually
Ripley sent an entire film crew out to the Maryland
Renaissance Festival and they got really Yeah. So they got
(01:47):
a lot of footage of my show live in front
of people, as well as a bunch of background shots
and one day we did an interview segment and what
else did they do? They did a bunch of close
ups without anybody there.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So what was the like the I only saw the
pictures briefly for a second. What was the what what
did what are the pictures of you doing? All?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Right? So the pictures that they did put in there
there's actually a total of five, which I was blown
away with. What I was suspecting maybe one. But they
put me in as the king of traps, right, so
I have my my robes and my my mousetrap crown.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
They also put me in with the mouse trap on
my tongue. Uh. And then the bottom three are the
succession of my archer's blockhead, the human snot rocket where
I hammer the nail into my nose. That's right, that's right. Yeah,
I was going to bring the crossbow in this morning,
but I'm glad I didn't because looking at the studio now,
I would have hit something too.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
But now, now, before before I get away from the records, Yes,
didn't you You attempted a record at the Baltimore Tattoo Convention.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I did, and I actually just heard back from that
about three weeks ago. So what was the what was
the record you attempted? The record I attempted was most
number of animal traps released on the body and one minute.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
So real quick, last time you were in here, you
did the.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Mouse trap on the tongue, right, you did that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
You swallowed a sword, right, you did the you did
the thing in your nose, right that Diane was Dian
was a pussy of that and she used the magnetic
wand grabbing it.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
But what was there was also a bit a big trap, right,
So there was the mouse trap, there was a raccoon trap,
and then there's a beaver trap.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
The ones that I was using for the Guinness World
Record would have been the medium of the raccoon trap.
And yeah, right, okay, so what happened there? So I
found out that I was unsuccessful, But they didn't give
me any other information. They didn't tell me how many
I did do They didn't tell me what I did wrong?
How many did you think you did? Ninety four? And
what what is what is the record currently? I think
(03:52):
it's eighty four eighty five? So you did ninety four?
Jam your hand into a raccoon track? Yeah, over and
over again, first de solid minutes, one right after the other.
Pull it off the hand, put your hand in the
next one, pull it off, put your hand in the
next one. So one full minute of pain. And they
and they didn't say anything other than you didn't, right
(04:12):
they and they don't owe me an answer technically, with
their rules and rags, they don't owe me an answer. So,
but still I have asked. I'm waiting. So three weeks
ago they just called. They were like, mister Rippington, Yes,
I wish they'd call me. I'd have something. No, it's
just an email. Sorry you failed. Sorry didn't make it.
But I feel like they should say something. They should.
(04:34):
But I mean, just so you know, right, exactly, So
I now need to investigate what could have gone wrong,
what they didn't rule as legitimate, and then change my
technique so that it does show as me having actually
done it.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, that's weird, that's very weird. It would be helpful
if I knew what I did wrong.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, no, exactly exactly. I mean, as far as I know,
the rules are, you put your your hand in the trap,
you take your hand out of the trap, you put
your hand back in the trap, anywhere in your body.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I would almost rather they call and they said, hey,
you didn't you got zero right, So that way you
would go. I did the same thing on ninety four
of these, right, clearly I did something wrong on all
of them, and it all hurts.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well, that's on you. That's true. That's true. I put
that one on. That's on you. Wait, so do you
have any do you have any other records planned? All right?
So I do have a couple of records that we
are pseudo working on. There's one that is by far
less painful than any of the others that I've done.
Whereas my past records have been setting the animal traps
off on my body. I've asked them if they would
(05:42):
do a record of how fast you can set the traps,
and I'm gonna end up snapping them on my fingers
at some point because it just they go off. You
put one down on the table, it sets them off, right,
So if I can they don't monitor the record much
like the rat trap record that I have. If they
accept it, then I will see I'll try to get
(06:03):
in tandem with somebody else, so I'll set the mouse
traps and they'll do the record attempt. Oh that's cool.
So so I'm hoping that we can do a double now,
can I like when you said like work in tandem
where you would set it and so it did it? You?
You kind of side glanced at Diane, Ah, how strong
is your tongue? Diane? Very Because the mousetrap record is
(06:26):
the only one that I've come across in what I
do that actually has a women's division.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Diane, all right, Diane, come fighting for This is like loudest,
This is like loudest burp female.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Right, exactly, exactly. This is most mousetraps released on the
tongue in one minute, female, right. And you're not going
to do it? No, it's only thirty four. No, she can't.
She's tongue tied. Oh that's wrong too. Her tongue won't
reach the pedal to release it.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Oh dude, damn anyway, anyway, okay, yes, yes, yes, all right,
back to you.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Back to you? All right? So what am I I
don't know. Okay, I'm done. Where am I going? Okay,
So we've talked about the books. I asked you what
your favorite candy bars are. And it's Halloween, yes, so
I figured i'd come in and we'd have some fun.
You can't have Halloween without trigger treating, right man. But
we're gonna do it my way. So we're gonna do
some reverse trick or treating.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
By the way, what Like I always feel bad because
I always say, like, our sideshow freak friend is coming in.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
That's fine, right, technically I'm not a freak. But yeah, right,
but you know that comes with love, absolutely, all right, Absolutely,
I will accept the term. I am not specifically that, no,
but in a good way, right, absolutely, I mean I'm
a weirdo freak. All right. So it's reverse trigger treating, right,
reverse trick or treating. I come with the candy, I
will give it to you, right, okay, So it's reverse
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trick or treat. So I have the candy bucket, right
all right? And I asked you all what your favorite
candies were, so we're gonna put those in the bucket.
So we've got the heath bars, We've got the milky
heath bar has got to be Diane h was milky way?
Tyler did was noncommittal. Oh you know what, that's right?
He went, oh my god, Well what just whatever you're getting?
(08:10):
Getting all three of those sound great? So just double
up on one of them. So, uh, I did double
up on two of them. You have a choice of
a milky Way or a hurt or a heath bar.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Well you know what, whichever one is closest to your hand, right,
and and christ you get look at this, Look at far,
look at this.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I went to two stores to find this, and this
is the only I mean, you get the big one
and everybody else has two. You get one.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So Christen Christen sends you on a wild goose chase.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
TIS like, yeah, whatever, just double up on something. Okay.
So when you go trick or treating, you have candy. Right,
this is reverse trick or treating. So I'm starting with
the candy and I'm giving it away. Okay, I have
my bucket, but I don't have a handle for the bucket.
So we need to create the handle for the bucket. Oh,
here we go. All right, so I've got this. Wait, Diane,
he hasn't done anything but open up a suit. I'm
(09:00):
anticipating this. Are you going to.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Okay, So you're putting chains on. So there's like a
big key ring, if you will, basically a key ring.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
So he attaches to the.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Brocket and then there's chains on either side, right right.
If you connect those chains, you'll have it correct.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
But I don't have a connector. So I don't have
a connector and this would be really awkward to walk
around with a handle like, so you need to have
that set up. So I actually brought something. And also
just because you're you're digging into a box, you're kind
of fishing for your favorite uh, your your absolute favorite chocolates,
your favorite candies. You're fishing for what you want. So
(09:38):
you can't properly fish unless you bring the fish hooks.
So I actually have some fish hooks here right this one?
Oh so okay, onto here. Yeah, he said he hasn't
touched his body. He hasn't touched his body.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Okay, So now attached to the the chains are fishhoks.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Those are big fish hooks, fishs. Yeah, these are like
what you would go deep sea fishing with, like those.
Look those look big? Right, these are big. They're fully
weight and look at that. Yeah that's solid. What is
the But they're still not connected. That's true, they're not connected.
And I'm not wearing a costume, so but and I
can't wear a mask, so I'm gonna have to make
(10:23):
my face a little weird. All right, So we're gonna do,
I swear to you, hang this thing off your face?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
What we're doing?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Okay, hold on, Diane, you're gonna have to come in candy, Diane.
All right, Diane, the fish hooks in the bucket and
the candy are hanging from what Diane?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
That's the bottom eye, the bottom of the eyes. Okay,
you gotta get your candy. Here you go, grab your
candy bar. That's right, thank you, take a tree, get
the treat right. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I'm going to like it was nothing, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Now this is all over? Is that how much it
is hanging off your Okay? Dash, I look at your eyes. Okay,
I will okay, but I don't want to put my
you know what my fear is. Okay, Okay, there you go.
I'm sorry, my hand is moving the bucket. All right,
very good, all right, there we go, Diane. Now Dan, wait,
(11:33):
hold on. Diane's trying not to look. But I have
to tell you, Diane, look at me.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
What you don't want to do is put weight on
the bucket, because if you put weight on the on
the bucket, Jesus Christ, this is uncomfortable to look at.
If you put weight, Diane, if you have you looked
at Dash, look at that?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
No you got I saw his reflection in the window.
That's it. No, you gotta look look at his face.
Look at his face this stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Initially I was like, boy, I hope you don't have
a spider in there.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I thought he was going to live for a spider.
I thought I thought he was going to put it
in his cheek.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I didn't know that it was going Diane look him
in the eye and say, thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Was all right? If your eye could not be showing
right now a little bit A god damn Ques. We
go done, there, we go. All right, We're good, We're good.
You're not bleeding? No, I shouldn't. I hope you don't
worry about like how sanitary that is them before? That's
why I pulled everything he's got.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
He's got, he's got hooks that you could catch a
shark on.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Your concern is, oh are they sanitized? How about what
if the hook digs into your eye? That too? That too, yeah,
that too, little barbs on those things. I can't believe
you're not bleeding? Oh all right, so this time, this time,
all right? And here's the thing. I learned that act
specifically for you guys. So I was just going to say,
(13:04):
how long have you been doing that? When did we
say I was going to come back into the studio
about a month ago? That a month? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I had to work up to it.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
But yeah, when you say you learned that from for
for for us, Like, where do you learn that from YouTube?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Oh? No, no, no, no, no no, Because I am in
the sideshow community. I have friends that and I am
friends with the guy who started doing search.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
People will reach out to me under that sword swallowing
animal traps?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Where's eyelid? Hangar? Where's that guy? So? Luckily he lives
in Pennsylvania. How uncomfortable is that? The first couple of
times exceedingly exceedingly he worked up to that. I worked
up to that so that I thought you meant wight wise,
wait wise, Yeah, well you have to actually work up
(14:01):
to the hooks themselves as well. So you what do
you start with the hooks? I mean you you start
out with the hook without any any anyway, right, you
take the hooks and you get those, You figure out
where on the eyelid they have to hook. Did you
get it in the wrong place at any point? I
don't believe so, I don't. So your buddy was like,
(14:23):
you got to put it here? Yeah, yeah, he was
very specific, and we have can you show me on
Diane where he is? Right? Goddamn it, damn it, god,
damn it. If the bags under my eyes weren't bad
before they are now and you never scraped your eyeball
(14:48):
not yet. No, no, I haven't. Now can I ask
you this? Will that be? Will that be?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Like I don't, I don't know for for a sideshow
freak And everybody's kind of got like there there there
stuff like right like they're what they excel at or whatever?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
The is that?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Like?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Do you look at that and go, huh you know what?
I didn't know. I like this, this could be my thing? Absolutely?
Are you? Absolutely? So this becomes part of the repertoire. Sure, yeah,
I got permission from the guy who invented it. He
taught me how to do it. And he's the only
person that hangs No, no, no, no, no, no he
is not, but he is the one that started it.
He is right now one of the world's oldest still
(15:27):
performing swordswallowers. He's like, didn't you tell me that there's
only I cut you off? No, you're fine.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Oh, didn't you tell me there's only like six of
you guys in the in the world.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Oh swordswallowers. No, we have a couple dozen, I would
say on upwards of swords swallowers in general, there's probably
roughly around one hundred Out of over eight billion people
on the planet, around one hundred people swallow swords all right.
Of those hundred people, a hundred yeah, yeah, those hundred people,
(15:57):
you've only got a couple dozen that are performing, uh,
the act on the regular I gotcha, I gotcha? Now?
How many how many I hanger people are there?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
This guy invented it? Well, he did the fish hooks.
There are other people that do the remember the clockwork
ornge thing that they had Alex's those they do ocular openers,
They hang those in their eyes with weights. But Harley
Newman was the first Jesus Christ. What's wrong? Bloodshot?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
So so you work your way up and then like,
do you like, I'm assuming you feel pretty confident in
it now?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I do? Now? Yeah? Yeah, that's great, that's great. I
don't think I would have pulled it off if I
if I was unconfident, I don't think I would have
pulled it out for this morning? Now, Dan, can I
ask you this?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Will you eat the heath bar knowing that you got
it out of a bucket that was hanging off.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
A dash's eyes? It's my favorite imagine if you actually
went up to someone's house tonight and open door full size.
By the way, that's worse.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
That is worse than any of the jump scares or anything,
would be your ass opening the door with a bucket
hanging out of your eyes, dear God, which is.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Why I'm not allowed to hand out candy tonight.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Do you do you get asked to perform a lot
for Halloween stuff?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yes? I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Like I was gonna say, like, like, side show to
me works at Oh my god, Tyler's just I made
a quick gift of.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
It's a bucket swinging from his eye. No.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
No, But I was gonna say, like, like, like side
show stuff you all the time, like like there are
times I go like, no, that feels very summery to me,
like you're out, it's kind of bored lackey.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I don't know it.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And then you think of fall for like the Renaissance
fairs and stuff. But you're right, then I see. Then
I'm like, you know what, this is perfect for Halloween.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
There are so many sideshow performers that work at theme
parks for their hollow screams or whatever that makes sense.
They come in for the the shock factor performers, those
that'll put the needles through their arms and through their faces.
And that is that, that is something I do not
have any interest in.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Really, yeah, that gives you they.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
That gives me the ac I have a thing about needles.
By the way, you don't.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
You don't know that to be true, because you didn't
know that you liked hanging stuff. You're right from your eyes, but.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
You didn't know you like pizza soil.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
You had your first bite of pizza.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah, okay, so maybe I'll have to give it a try.
It fast forward twelve months.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Dash will come in here looking like pinheads, got everything
coming out of his body.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Let's hope not everything. All right? What are we? Are
we doing something else? Are we doing something else? Or
am I good? Are you good? You're good? You're good.
We could do something else. You can absolutely do something else.
But if you wanted to take a break, or we
can do that.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Okay, yeah, because remember I don't know what's going on.
It is a very uncomfortable chair for me to be you. Well, okay,
so let's do this. Let's do this quick break.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Will come back, but you have you have something else
we can all right?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Very good, all right, give me a quick break. It's
Elliott in the morning. Our sideshow friend, Dash Rippington is
here Dangerously Stupid dot com.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
By the way, are you performing anywhere now? I will
be performing not this coming weekend, but I will be
traveling up to Maine for November fifteenth and sixteenth, I believe.
Oh I just meant like Marilyn Renfairs. Oh no, we
just finished up those eight weekends. Finished. Yeah, I just
finished up all eight weekends. It was an amazing time.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
The But wasn't it another I feel like I read
a blurb or something. Was it another like record setting
year for them?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Oh? I believe so. Yeah, they sold out probably earlier
than they ever have. Right, that's great, Yeah, that's awesome.
That's all everybody lining up to see Dash. It makes
the promotion easy. So wait, what are you doing in Maine? So, Maine,
I'll be doing a Twisted Tidings Oddities Market. It's a
holiday oddities market that they're holding up in act in Maine.
(20:11):
I'm sorry, Sanford, Maine, and I'll be going up there
and performing my Dangerously Stupid show for an oddities convention.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Basically, Oh okay, but it's not like like when you said,
like a like a holiday thing. I imagine it's like
over here, like wreaths.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Over here is like candles. It may be like that.
Here's dash. The wreaths may be different. So that's Maine. Yeah,
that's Maine. So let's see this weekend. This past weekend,
I got back from Florida. What was in Florida? Florida?
We got We went down just for funds I work for.
(20:48):
I also work for a nonprofit Feed the Scene, located
out of Baltimore, and every year we go down to
the fest in Gainesville, Florida, which is a multi day,
multi venue punk music. Oh that's cool. Yeah, it's an
amazing time all in Gainesville. All the venues are within
walking distance and they have over one hundred bands and
like twenty venues and you just bounce from venue to
(21:09):
venue here listening to bands. Always okay, but you weren't.
You weren't being dashed. I was not being dashed down there.
That that was more of a vacation. My participation was
handing out treats for Feed the Scene. We make little
cereal treats and cookies that's cool, and black bottomed brownies
and we hand those out to the attendees. I don't
like knowing you're a nice guy. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Well I don't like knowing that underneath it it's like
a heart and it's like soft.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I don't like that. No, no, all right, forget everything. Okay,
so nothing about So it didn't go to Florida. Didn't
go to Florida.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Wait, so do you get do you get asked I
mean take it take away the nonprofits?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Right, But as as a performer, do you get asked
to travel a lot?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Oh? Yeah, I'll be traveling from uh now. I am
offering a workshop and maybe a Guinness World Record attempt
next weekend down in New Orleans. Right, we leave on
Wednesday for Orleans. And that's for the sideshow hoot Nanny. Wait,
that's a festival. It is a festival that it started
in New Orleans. Last year it was in Coney Island.
(22:09):
They've gone back to New Orleans for this year and
moved it slightly later in the year. But everybody seems
to be able to make it. But it is a
sideshow convention. So performers from all over the country, all
over the world are going to gather in New Orleans
next weekend and it's going to be a weekend of
performances and workshops and a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
How much does everybody love that alternating year that it's
in New Orleans and be like, oh, thank god it's
not Coneyland?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Awesome? The can I ask you this? And maybe Sube
we talked about this the last time you came in dash.
Is it's it's not a large.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Community of people, is it?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Is it very com do people get along? Or is it?
Is it backstabby? All right? I would like to say
for the record that every group has problems. Yeah, no, no,
you know what, that's a very fair answer. Sure, But
for the most part we all get along. We try
to be respectful. There are those in the community that
(23:10):
choose not to be so respectful. Like before I came
in here this morning, I went to the originator of
the fish hook lift and asked his permission to do
this and for training on how to do it right.
There are other people that would have just done it,
just done it, would not have gotten permission, would not
have asked for any of the tutelage or any of
the information. They would have probably gone seen somebody do
(23:32):
it on YouTube and figured it out, done it on
their own. I like going to the people that started things.
I'm a respectful person. I want permission from my community
to do something.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Even though and the guy that you called the Harley Harley, right,
would Harley? I feel like, like when you say he
invented it, is he literally the guy who decided? Was
he the first guy to put fish hooks in his
eyes to hang stuff? I believe he is the He
wouldn't say like, yeah, like I may be, it may
be my thing, right, but like like I'm trying to think,
(24:05):
like there's there's a lot of magicians in the world, right,
and I love magicians, but like like watching I know
I can't even think of one, like like shim Limb,
Like he wouldn't look at it and go like, oh,
you didn't start card tricks that have been done.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So I guess that's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Like way back in the nineteen twenties, was there somebody
who was doing it?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
But he's like the modern day eye fishing, right, I
would say that is probably correct. The biggest issue is
inside show. There's very little that's new territory, right, So
whereas you are learning a skill or a stunt, it
is all in how you present that skill or stunt
(24:45):
that makes it your see, I see, yeah, that makes sense.
I'm not going to do Harley's routine, right, I'm not
going to do Red Stewart's routine. When when I do
anything that he's done, there are people in the community
again that would just steal it or don't take the
time to find out. Right, these people are still alive,
(25:07):
and these people are more than willing if you ask
and show respect, will give you those permissions.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
So like when you when you think of this the
what do you call it? The sideshow? Like, so when
you get down there is there is there somebody who
does something where you go like, man, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I got to see that. Oh they're so for the
first year, they are doing an entire evening of nothing
but fire performances. This is great. I mean it is
an entire evening of every act involving fire in some
way or form. And you don't. You don't do any fire.
I used to, I don't really anymore. What was your
(25:44):
fire thing? Uh? Well, I ate fire. I would do
fire minut on fire. Yes I remember that, Yes, yes,
I remember that. Why did you stop? I set myself
on fire? Okay? Okay, yes, like he needs fingers. The
first time I didn't learn. The second time was like, okay,
(26:05):
probably isn't my thing.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I'm not But now, what do like if somebody, if
somebody were like if somebody were following the code or
just being a decent human being and they want to
do so, what do you get called about?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Oh? Like you get called for traps and stuff. I
do get I have taught a couple of people to
do traps. I have had several performers contact me and
tell me that they're going to attempt the rat trap
record for Guinness, right, at which point I tell them,
you're welcome to it. If you succeed, I'm not coming
for it. I never doing it again. It was absolutely miserable,
(26:39):
sent me to the hospital for stitches in my tongue.
I don't want to do it again. Right. I've held
this record now for six years and I don't think
any almost ten twenty fourteen, Yeah, that's nine years. So
twenty sixteen the rat trap record has been has stood
and every time I tell everybody I'm not come for it,
(27:00):
they stop trying. I have not heard of a single
person that has made an attempt after talking to me.
So will you do anything at the convention. I am
most likely going to be doing a workshop. I have
been asked by numerous people in our community, how do
you get started working at the Rent Fair? And so
(27:21):
I have written up a workshop. So you want to
work at the Rent Fair? How did you get started?
I got extremely lucky, and I fought. I screamed and
kicked the entire way. I fought against the process. I
didn't want to go to the Renaissance Festival. And finally,
when I was seventeen, one of my friends finally convinced
me to go to the Renaissance Festival and I left
that day with a job. Yeah, I absolutely did, no kidding, Yeah,
(27:44):
my first It helped that one of my friends had
a job in the dunk tank and he was tired
of it and he's like, if you want this job,
you can have it. So I literally jumped in the tank.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
But I'm just going to say, and maybe I'm wrong,
but I feel like, but with you and the Renaissance Fair,
it's been a great marriage.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Oh absolutely. I love working at a Renaissance Fair. There's
no other place like it. People are so on your side, right,
the audience as a whole, they are on your side.
You have you do have to deal with heckler's and
drunk patrons. But that is all part of it. Sure,
it's a lot less that if I were in a nightclub,
(28:24):
or if I were somewhere else. Yeah, that's a good point.
If I'm at a tattoo convention, sometimes the people don't
care what I'm doing. Right, I do a pain act
and a tattoo convention. People are surrounding me in pain.
Big deal, everyone's in pain. Hey, what is the when?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
When I was during the commercial, I got up for
a second, but DOT mentioned something? Who what is what
is what is the the the sideshow act or something?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
But a bug muncher? Oh, Reggie, Reggie, Reggie, Reggie bugmun
Is that what I think it is? Yeah? He just
eats she does. Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Reggie, My bad. Okay.
The she just eats bugs. She eats meal worms. I
believe crickets. I think a goldfish or too. No, I
(29:14):
I don't quote me on that one. Don't quote me
on that one. But she definitely does. She eats bugs.
The and that is. But but it's well, I assume,
I assume, but I assume.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
But I'm guessing it's all like you hear that you
and like there's some guy who's like, I was drunk
in college one, but I would assume that as part
of the act.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
It's completely different. Oh yeah, absolutely. So you can actually
look at eating insects from other cultures that do it
as a delicacy. You go get chocolate covered grasshoppers, you
can get whatever. I mean, they eat bugs in other countries.
In America, we don't. And so you can get away
with freaking people out by eating bugs, because that's why
(30:01):
would you do that? Right, But exactly why your reaction
is why I did it?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
All right, So you won't do fire? Uh, No, you're not.
You're not a needle person.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
No, I don't like. Well, we don't know that. I
haven't tried. Is there is there anything else that's kind
of off limits for you? Off limits for me. I
have a thing about eating. I don't want to eat glass.
I don't want to eat glass. I'll walk on glass,
but I don't want to eat it. That's a whole
digestion thing that I just don't want to deal with. Yeah,
(30:36):
but that comes back out the way out of him.
But but you've walked on glass. I do walk on glass. Yeah,
I walk on glass. I'll break a brand new bottle
into the pile. Before I do it, I'll wash my
face with the glass. I'll step in the glass. I'll
jump in the glass. I'll twist my feet grinding it
into the glass. I will lay in the glas glass
(31:00):
with my face in the glass, and have an audience
member stand on my head. How baud are your feet? Oh,
my feet are fine. Believe it or not. My feet
I usually looking at somebody stands on the back of
his head. It pushes his face into glass.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I went foot. They usually get one foot. See but
your but your feet? And you said you usually don't bleed, Yeah,
very rarely. Uh there was one time I remember down
in DC there was a club called the Palace of Wonders.
Missed that place, and uh, I was doing my glass
(31:38):
routine and I washed my face with the glass. And
I can't see me, but I usually sweat a lot always,
and I had started I cut myself and I started
to bleed down my face and audience that helped sell
the deal. Yeah, it does kind of. But the audience
member pointed at me and I was like what, And
(31:58):
she's like, you're bleeding and I'm like, oh, and I
just kind of wiped my forehead away and it stopped,
and I was like, okay, we're done now, all right,
And I continued on. I was like, all right, I've
no the sweat just sealed everything.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Have you ever other than like said, did you get
hurt when you set yourself on fire?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Oh? Yeah, I got minor second The first time I
set myself on fire, I got minor second degree burns,
major first degree burns that missed all of my facial hair.
Oh wow. Yeah, so I had like a I looked
like the Ultimate Warrior. It went down because they gave
me silvadine cream to put on.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
It was what was the second time?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
The second time I was in a nightclub. I was
inside and I thought everything would be fine, and I
blew the fireball as the air conditioner unit kicked on
and blew the fuel back on my face. I was like,
you're right. Luckily I had a towel on hand. I
wiped my face. I just got a little singe here.
I was like, you know what, we're just gonna outside.
(33:00):
I set myself on fire. Inside, I said, you know what,
we're done.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
But it does the only two times. You've really gotten
hurt with that? Yes, well not just in general injured.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Oh, I've had lots of injuries over the years, but
doing side show. Actually, there's what I was planning on
doing in this segment is one of the things that
actually injured me. Let's go, all right, so you know what,
and you know what, Diane, today's the day we might
get lucky, be the show that breaks dash. Here we go,
all right, So you know and have mentioned that I
am a sword swallower, and I do swallow swords, yes,
(33:32):
but I constantly do get asked if the sword is real. Uh,
there must be something that.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Roll.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Oh that's right, that's right, and it doesn't. But there's
really no way I can show the sword to someone
that it doesn't do anything. Yeah, I would buy that.
So I brought today what we call approver, which is
something that you can swallow that there is no way
you could give me. Okay, you're so quiet.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Because because this is where I'm mad at myself, because I.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Know how my brain works.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
You're gonna put something down your throat that's got like
a little catcher on the end, and you're gonna pull
up like like duty.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Oh, no, absolutely, not absolutely not. That's proof, though, that's proof,
but all the way back around the bugs. You can
bring it all the way back around the bugs.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Because okay, so so so this, you swallowed this and this,
there's no wait that somebody would go, oh that rolled
up or that Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Correct, and and we'll take it back to uh bugs
because I spend a lot of time in the South
as well, and there is always some water. So I
got a fly swater. Okay, it's a standard flyswater. Yeah,
there's nothing wrong, nothing verified that.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
That's a flying strange about it.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yeah, okay, okay, all right, son, swallow it. All right.
So here's the thing, though, I am gonna swallow it.
And once it is down inside me, I want you
to give me a second, and I want you to look,
and I will show you something that is guaranteed to
be brand specific, dangerously stupid. Are you ready for that?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
No, because I don't even know what to guess. You
don't have to get because I would be.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Like, well, let's write down what's gonna happen. So wait, okay,
so you're gonna swallow not obviously not name water, but
the handle to handle in the handle, which is still
that's that's big, dude, It's not just the coat hanger
size like that's big, right it is.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
So that's twisted and right, that's gonna go down.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
That's gonna go down the trap and then you're going
to you're I'm gonna give you a moment to do something.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
And then and then what was the last part? You
will see something that is truly dangerously stupid. Okay. Can
I ask one other question? Yes, day, what the effort
you do? I don't I have to move when I'm nervous,
I'm marching. Can you look? You wouldn't look at it?
And the bucket hanging off his eyes? This is far
(36:10):
from a bucket, all right, it's still gross disrespect, by the.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Way, I just wanted for your for your sanitary reasons, Diane,
did touch where you're gonna swallow?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah, I'll look it, okay, all right? Oh he looked
it too. All right? Okay, so this is going down.
The throat is going now. I'm not going to be
able to talk obviously, a lot of people like that
about my act. Wait, Dania, what do you do more comfortable? Okay?
(36:46):
All right? Just real quick? How far? How far? Down.
I mean I could see that. Okay, so that's gonna
go like just.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Below, like where you're all the way to the plastic
the well, yes, Diane, but I was talking more about
inside the bond. Okay, here we go, here we go,
God damn it. Okay, all right, it's that Diane helped me.
It's down the down the throat. It's down the throat.
(37:14):
Oh god, wait, how did you okay? Okay, okay, no, no,
we haven't trash.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Can wait, Dian are you gonna vomit? Did we get trash? Okay?
I go? I feel bad.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
I wasn't able to explain what was going on, Diane.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
What's wrong? Nothing? Okay.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
So while it was down here, okay, that was close. Now,
while it was down your all the way down your throat,
you you shoved your head forward so your head was back.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Right. It all goes down in a straight line, right.
I was looking straight up, yes, And then I looked
straightforward and almost.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
And then pulled it out, and the thing is bent
in half.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
You could say, I have skills that almost seems more
dangerous than the sword. Yeah it is.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Yeah, No, I'm going to argue that you do that
with the sword it's coming out your bat.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
You're not doing it with the sword, So all right,
I would not do that with the sword, No kidding, right,
no kidding, But this is actually more dangerous than a sword.
Doing this act is more dangerous than a sword because
so when it well go ahead, when it bends in
the back of the throat, these wires can open. I
(38:45):
didn't know that, right, And then as you pull it
back out, they pinch, or they can pinch and grab
on the one time I got injured, which really scared
me because I didn't know what had happened. I pulled
it out and it had cut the top back part
of my throat where it's coming out, right. It was
(39:05):
luckily on the top part, not on the part where
it goes down, so I was able to continue doing shows.
But I didn't know what had happened. But it had
pinched the back and cut and I was basically bleeding
down into my esophagus, down into my stomach, right, a
little bit of blood, come on, I didn't know about it.
Then I swallowed the sword during the show, finished up
(39:26):
the show, put the sword backstage. Everything's fine, I go
back out, and two people wanted to photograph I was like, okay,
let me go grab the sword. So I grab the sword,
bring it out. I get into my position and they're like,
oh my god, is that blood. I was like, no,
it's not blood. And I looked at it side. The
sword was covered in blood, but only on one side, right,
So I looked at that and we're like, wiped it
(39:48):
off real quick. No, okay, we got a picture. We
got a picture. Okay, let me get backstage. And I
immediately started texting my friends that are swordswallower. It's just like,
this is what happened. What's going on? Do I need
to worry about it?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
And you finally figured out that was that thing that
pinched your your esophagus and ripped it open.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Yeah, sometimes when I do the blockhead, when I hit
the nail in the back, sometimes I hit a vessel
or something in the nose and it will bleed down
the throat. So I figured that may have been it.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Sometimes I cough, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
What is the when you when you when you jam
your head forward, like okay, the trash can is still close, like, but.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
When you do that, like the the the esophagus is
only so so big. So when you do that, you
got to feel it push on your esophagus.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Yeah, nothing I do is comfortable.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Damn you like like like weird small talk at your
yearly physical with your doctor.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Oh, they always asked me have you fallen down recently?
It's like, well, on purpose or by accident? Because I
do both.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
I washed my face with glass.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
How's my tongue looking? You checked out these eyelids.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
By the way, the fly swatter is such a great
answer though to people that are like.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Are you really doing that? Yeah? Yeah, because you're right.
There's no there's no getting around that. No. It actually
goes in, it goes down, and it gets bent and
it comes out the same way. Now. The sad thing
is I used to do this before. I would swallow
a sword just to say, look, I am actually going
to be swallowing a sword.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Right, So you would do that then go okay, right,
it's the handle of a fly swatter, jackass right.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Right, So and then I swallow the sword. I still
got kids at the end coming up, and it was
like that sword was faked or whatever it was. And
I'm like, all right, the sword was faked. What happened
with the fly swater? Right? He was like, oh yeah, Oh,
it's like if I can do it with If I
can do this with a fly swatter, why can't I
do it with a sword?
Speaker 1 (41:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (41:49):
I mean not this but right, no, no, but I
couldn't do that. What is the what is how how
did you get to that? To the fly swater or
bending it?
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Well, I know how you bent it, right, but no,
like how did you like at what point were you like, oh,
this will is that?
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Is that known that people will do that to show
that you can do it? So traditionally people inside show
that swallow swords will swallow a coat hanger. They will
take a regular wire coat hanger and stretch it out
so it's like the shape of the sword and they'll
swallow that. And sometimes they'll bend that in the throne
and pull it out. Gotcha. When I became a sword swallower,
Tyler Fire handed me the sword and he said and
(42:29):
also here, and he gave me the flywater. Oh that's awesome,
that's really good. Yeah. I've never seen that. Ye, I've
never seen the fly swatter or even the the what
you call it the hanger trail, Yeah, coat hanger. I've
never seen that. That's awesome. Oh, I like that I
like that. That's stupid. Yeah, absolutely, I told you it
(42:52):
was brand specific. All right, So when is the when's
the next time you're performed around here? The next time
I'm performing around here? Uh? Maybe the Virginia in Fair. Okay,
we'll see. Uh. I have to put in an application
for next year you're in.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Yeah, I would assume best way to keep up with
you is dangerously stupid dot com. That is me perfect
dude than I know. I mean, it sounds like you're
busy as hell, But thank you, thank you for coming.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
In always Halloween. That's awesome. That's great.
All right, please welcome back our old friend, mister Dash
Rickington you hello, sir, how are you Halloween?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Thank you? Thank you? How am I I'm okay? Okay, No,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I've gotten very uncomfortable during the last little bit, not
because it just dawned on me.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I don't know what's I have no idea what's going on.
You have no idea what's going on? That's good. The
only thing that you do know is that I asked
you all what your favorite can and.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
That I was wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I was like, I said snickers, but I didn't I said,
said said milky. But I don't the the the mike,
I don't know. Okay, Dash is here here all right?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
So uh basically there can I ask you one thing, beout,
get started, get started. And the only reason I bring
it up is I see the book right right? Yes,
unless you were going to planning to do that. No, no, no,
this is actually something to talk about.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah no, no, that's awesome. Wait so is this the
one you're in? Yes? Okay?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
So Dash is in the Guinness World Record twenty twenty
six hard cut right most mouse traps released on the
tongue in one minute.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
That's correct. Very good, very good. That is really something.
It is really ridiculous. What was that number? It was
ninety three? I'm sorry, sixty three? Sixty three was the
was the number? Right? And this is the Ripley's Believe
It or Not book, the full feature that they did
on me for this year. This is the new one
(01:27):
that I just they just put out in September. Okay,
so wait, so this is the Ripley's book. This is
the Ripley's Believe It or Not book right that they
gave me the full page spread on I mentioned, did
Ripley's come and like visit you? Yes? They did. Actually
Ripley sent an entire film crew out to the Maryland
Renaissance Festival and they got really Yeah. So they got
(01:47):
a lot of footage of my show live in front
of people, as well as a bunch of background shots
and one day we did an interview segment and what
else did they do? They did a bunch of close
ups without anybody there.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
So what was the like the I only saw the
pictures briefly for a second. What was the what what
did what are the pictures of you doing? All?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Right? So the pictures that they did put in there
there's actually a total of five, which I was blown
away with. What I was suspecting maybe one. But they
put me in as the king of traps, right, so
I have my my robes and my my mousetrap crown.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
They also put me in with the mouse trap on
my tongue. Uh. And then the bottom three are the
succession of my archer's blockhead, the human snot rocket where
I hammer the nail into my nose. That's right, that's right. Yeah,
I was going to bring the crossbow in this morning,
but I'm glad I didn't because looking at the studio now,
I would have hit something too.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
But now, now, before before I get away from the records, Yes,
didn't you You attempted a record at the Baltimore Tattoo Convention.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I did, and I actually just heard back from that
about three weeks ago. So what was the what was
the record you attempted? The record I attempted was most
number of animal traps released on the body and one minute.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
So real quick, last time you were in here, you
did the.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Mouse trap on the tongue, right, you did that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
You swallowed a sword, right, you did the you did
the thing in your nose, right that Diane was Dian
was a pussy of that and she used the magnetic
wand grabbing it.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
But what was there was also a bit a big trap, right,
So there was the mouse trap, there was a raccoon trap,
and then there's a beaver trap.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
The ones that I was using for the Guinness World
Record would have been the medium of the raccoon trap.
And yeah, right, okay, so what happened there? So I
found out that I was unsuccessful, But they didn't give
me any other information. They didn't tell me how many
I did do They didn't tell me what I did wrong?
How many did you think you did? Ninety four? And
what what is what is the record currently? I think
(03:52):
it's eighty four eighty five? So you did ninety four?
Jam your hand into a raccoon track? Yeah, over and
over again, first de solid minutes, one right after the other.
Pull it off the hand, put your hand in the
next one, pull it off, put your hand in the
next one. So one full minute of pain. And they
and they didn't say anything other than you didn't, right
(04:12):
they and they don't owe me an answer technically, with
their rules and rags, they don't owe me an answer. So,
but still I have asked. I'm waiting. So three weeks
ago they just called. They were like, mister Rippington, Yes,
I wish they'd call me. I'd have something. No, it's
just an email. Sorry you failed. Sorry didn't make it.
But I feel like they should say something. They should.
(04:34):
But I mean, just so you know, right, exactly, So
I now need to investigate what could have gone wrong,
what they didn't rule as legitimate, and then change my
technique so that it does show as me having actually
done it.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, that's weird, that's very weird. It would be helpful
if I knew what I did wrong.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, no, exactly exactly. I mean, as far as I know,
the rules are, you put your your hand in the trap,
you take your hand out of the trap, you put
your hand back in the trap, anywhere in your body.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I would almost rather they call and they said, hey,
you didn't you got zero right, So that way you
would go. I did the same thing on ninety four
of these, right, clearly I did something wrong on all
of them, and it all hurts.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Well, that's on you. That's true. That's true. I put
that one on. That's on you. Wait, so do you
have any do you have any other records planned? All right?
So I do have a couple of records that we
are pseudo working on. There's one that is by far
less painful than any of the others that I've done.
Whereas my past records have been setting the animal traps
off on my body. I've asked them if they would
(05:42):
do a record of how fast you can set the traps,
and I'm gonna end up snapping them on my fingers
at some point because it just they go off. You
put one down on the table, it sets them off, right,
So if I can they don't monitor the record much
like the rat trap record that I have. If they
accept it, then I will see I'll try to get
(06:03):
in tandem with somebody else, so I'll set the mouse
traps and they'll do the record attempt. Oh that's cool.
So so I'm hoping that we can do a double now,
can I like when you said like work in tandem
where you would set it and so it did it? You?
You kind of side glanced at Diane, Ah, how strong
is your tongue? Diane? Very Because the mousetrap record is
(06:26):
the only one that I've come across in what I
do that actually has a women's division.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Diane, all right, Diane, come fighting for This is like loudest,
This is like loudest burp female.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Right, exactly, exactly. This is most mousetraps released on the
tongue in one minute, female, right. And you're not going
to do it? No, it's only thirty four. No, she can't.
She's tongue tied. Oh that's wrong too. Her tongue won't
reach the pedal to release it.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Oh dude, damn anyway, anyway, okay, yes, yes, yes, all right,
back to you.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Back to you? All right? So what am I I
don't know. Okay, I'm done. Where am I going? Okay,
So we've talked about the books. I asked you what
your favorite candy bars are. And it's Halloween, yes, so
I figured i'd come in and we'd have some fun.
You can't have Halloween without trigger treating, right man. But
we're gonna do it my way. So we're gonna do
some reverse trick or treating.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
By the way, what Like I always feel bad because
I always say, like, our sideshow freak friend is coming in.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
That's fine, right, technically I'm not a freak. But yeah, right,
but you know that comes with love, absolutely, all right, Absolutely,
I will accept the term. I am not specifically that, no,
but in a good way, right, absolutely, I mean I'm
a weirdo freak. All right. So it's reverse trigger treating, right,
reverse trick or treating. I come with the candy, I
will give it to you, right, okay, So it's reverse
(07:49):
trick or treat. So I have the candy bucket, right
all right? And I asked you all what your favorite
candies were, so we're gonna put those in the bucket.
So we've got the heath bars, We've got the milky
heath bar has got to be Diane h was milky way?
Tyler did was noncommittal. Oh you know what, that's right?
He went, oh my god, Well what just whatever you're getting?
(08:10):
Getting all three of those sound great? So just double
up on one of them. So, uh, I did double
up on two of them. You have a choice of
a milky Way or a hurt or a heath bar.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Well you know what, whichever one is closest to your hand, right,
and and christ you get look at this, Look at far,
look at this.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I went to two stores to find this, and this
is the only I mean, you get the big one
and everybody else has two. You get one.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So Christen Christen sends you on a wild goose chase.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
TIS like, yeah, whatever, just double up on something. Okay.
So when you go trick or treating, you have candy. Right,
this is reverse trick or treating. So I'm starting with
the candy and I'm giving it away. Okay, I have
my bucket, but I don't have a handle for the bucket.
So we need to create the handle for the bucket. Oh,
here we go. All right, so I've got this. Wait, Diane,
he hasn't done anything but open up a suit. I'm
(09:00):
anticipating this. Are you going to.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Okay, So you're putting chains on. So there's like a
big key ring, if you will, basically a key ring.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
So he attaches to the.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Brocket and then there's chains on either side, right right.
If you connect those chains, you'll have it correct.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
But I don't have a connector. So I don't have
a connector and this would be really awkward to walk
around with a handle like, so you need to have
that set up. So I actually brought something. And also
just because you're you're digging into a box, you're kind
of fishing for your favorite uh, your your absolute favorite chocolates,
your favorite candies. You're fishing for what you want. So
(09:38):
you can't properly fish unless you bring the fish hooks.
So I actually have some fish hooks here right this one?
Oh so okay, onto here. Yeah, he said he hasn't
touched his body. He hasn't touched his body.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Okay, So now attached to the the chains are fishhoks.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Those are big fish hooks, fishs. Yeah, these are like
what you would go deep sea fishing with, like those.
Look those look big? Right, these are big. They're fully
weight and look at that. Yeah that's solid. What is
the But they're still not connected. That's true, they're not connected.
And I'm not wearing a costume, so but and I
can't wear a mask, so I'm gonna have to make
(10:23):
my face a little weird. All right, So we're gonna do,
I swear to you, hang this thing off your face?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
What we're doing?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
What are we doing?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Okay, hold on, Diane, you're gonna have to come in candy, Diane.
All right, Diane, the fish hooks in the bucket and
the candy are hanging from what Diane?
Speaker 2 (10:49):
That's the bottom eye, the bottom of the eyes. Okay,
you gotta get your candy. Here you go, grab your
candy bar. That's right, thank you, take a tree, get
the treat right. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I'm going to like it was nothing, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Now this is all over? Is that how much it
is hanging off your Okay? Dash, I look at your eyes. Okay,
I will okay, but I don't want to put my
you know what my fear is. Okay, Okay, there you go.
I'm sorry, my hand is moving the bucket. All right,
very good, all right, there we go, Diane. Now Dan, wait,
(11:33):
hold on. Diane's trying not to look. But I have
to tell you, Diane, look at me.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
What you don't want to do is put weight on
the bucket, because if you put weight on the on
the bucket, Jesus Christ, this is uncomfortable to look at.
If you put weight, Diane, if you have you looked
at Dash, look at that?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
No you got I saw his reflection in the window.
That's it. No, you gotta look look at his face.
Look at his face this stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Initially I was like, boy, I hope you don't have
a spider in there.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I thought he was going to live for a spider.
I thought I thought he was going to put it
in his cheek.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I didn't know that it was going Diane look him
in the eye and say, thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Was all right? If your eye could not be showing
right now a little bit A god damn Ques. We
go done, there, we go. All right, We're good, We're good.
You're not bleeding? No, I shouldn't. I hope you don't
worry about like how sanitary that is them before? That's
why I pulled everything he's got.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
He's got, he's got hooks that you could catch a
shark on.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Your concern is, oh are they sanitized? How about what
if the hook digs into your eye? That too? That too, yeah,
that too, little barbs on those things. I can't believe
you're not bleeding? Oh all right, so this time, this time,
all right? And here's the thing. I learned that act
specifically for you guys. So I was just going to say,
(13:04):
how long have you been doing that? When did we
say I was going to come back into the studio
about a month ago? That a month? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I had to work up to it.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
But yeah, when you say you learned that from for
for for us, Like, where do you learn that from YouTube?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Oh? No, no, no, no, no no, Because I am in
the sideshow community. I have friends that and I am
friends with the guy who started doing search.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
People will reach out to me under that sword swallowing
animal traps?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Where's eyelid? Hangar? Where's that guy? So? Luckily he lives
in Pennsylvania. How uncomfortable is that? The first couple of
times exceedingly exceedingly he worked up to that. I worked
up to that so that I thought you meant wight wise,
wait wise, Yeah, well you have to actually work up
(14:01):
to the hooks themselves as well. So you what do
you start with the hooks? I mean you you start
out with the hook without any any anyway, right, you
take the hooks and you get those, You figure out
where on the eyelid they have to hook. Did you
get it in the wrong place at any point? I
don't believe so, I don't. So your buddy was like,
(14:23):
you got to put it here? Yeah, yeah, he was
very specific, and we have can you show me on
Diane where he is? Right? Goddamn it, damn it, god,
damn it. If the bags under my eyes weren't bad
before they are now and you never scraped your eyeball
(14:48):
not yet. No, no, I haven't. Now can I ask
you this? Will that be? Will that be?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Like I don't, I don't know for for a sideshow
freak And everybody's kind of got like there there there
stuff like right like they're what they excel at or whatever?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
The is that?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Like?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Do you look at that and go, huh you know what?
I didn't know. I like this, this could be my thing? Absolutely?
Are you? Absolutely? So this becomes part of the repertoire. Sure, yeah,
I got permission from the guy who invented it. He
taught me how to do it. And he's the only
person that hangs No, no, no, no, no, no he
is not, but he is the one that started it.
He is right now one of the world's oldest still
(15:27):
performing swordswallowers. He's like, didn't you tell me that there's
only I cut you off? No, you're fine.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Oh, didn't you tell me there's only like six of
you guys in the in the world.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Oh swordswallowers. No, we have a couple dozen, I would
say on upwards of swords swallowers in general, there's probably
roughly around one hundred Out of over eight billion people
on the planet, around one hundred people swallow swords all right.
Of those hundred people, a hundred yeah, yeah, those hundred people,
(15:57):
you've only got a couple dozen that are performing, uh,
the act on the regular I gotcha, I gotcha? Now?
How many how many I hanger people are there?
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
This guy invented it? Well, he did the fish hooks.
There are other people that do the remember the clockwork
ornge thing that they had Alex's those they do ocular openers,
They hang those in their eyes with weights. But Harley
Newman was the first Jesus Christ. What's wrong? Bloodshot?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
So so you work your way up and then like,
do you like, I'm assuming you feel pretty confident in
it now?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I do? Now? Yeah? Yeah, that's great, that's great. I
don't think I would have pulled it off if I
if I was unconfident, I don't think I would have
pulled it out for this morning? Now, Dan, can I
ask you this?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Will you eat the heath bar knowing that you got
it out of a bucket that was hanging off.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
A dash's eyes? It's my favorite imagine if you actually
went up to someone's house tonight and open door full size.
By the way, that's worse.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
That is worse than any of the jump scares or anything,
would be your ass opening the door with a bucket
hanging out of your eyes, dear God, which is.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Why I'm not allowed to hand out candy tonight.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Do you do you get asked to perform a lot
for Halloween stuff?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Yes? I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Like I was gonna say, like, like, side show to
me works at Oh my god, Tyler's just I made
a quick gift of.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
It's a bucket swinging from his eye. No.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
No, But I was gonna say, like, like, like side
show stuff you all the time, like like there are
times I go like, no, that feels very summery to me,
like you're out, it's kind of bored lackey.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I don't know it.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And then you think of fall for like the Renaissance
fairs and stuff. But you're right, then I see. Then
I'm like, you know what, this is perfect for Halloween.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
There are so many sideshow performers that work at theme
parks for their hollow screams or whatever that makes sense.
They come in for the the shock factor performers, those
that'll put the needles through their arms and through their faces.
And that is that, that is something I do not
have any interest in.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Really, yeah, that gives you they.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
That gives me the ac I have a thing about needles.
By the way, you don't.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
You don't know that to be true, because you didn't
know that you liked hanging stuff. You're right from your eyes, but.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
You didn't know you like pizza soil.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
You had your first bite of pizza.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah, okay, so maybe I'll have to give it a try.
It fast forward twelve months.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Dash will come in here looking like pinheads, got everything
coming out of his body.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Let's hope not everything. All right? What are we? Are
we doing something else? Are we doing something else? Or
am I good? Are you good? You're good? You're good.
We could do something else. You can absolutely do something else.
But if you wanted to take a break, or we
can do that.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Okay, yeah, because remember I don't know what's going on.
It is a very uncomfortable chair for me to be you. Well, okay,
so let's do this. Let's do this quick break.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Will come back, but you have you have something else
we can all right?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Very good, all right, give me a quick break. It's
Elliott in the morning. Our sideshow friend, Dash Rippington is
here Dangerously Stupid dot com.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
By the way, are you performing anywhere now? I will
be performing not this coming weekend, but I will be
traveling up to Maine for November fifteenth and sixteenth, I believe.
Oh I just meant like Marilyn Renfairs. Oh no, we
just finished up those eight weekends. Finished. Yeah, I just
finished up all eight weekends. It was an amazing time.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
The But wasn't it another I feel like I read
a blurb or something. Was it another like record setting
year for them?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Oh? I believe so. Yeah, they sold out probably earlier
than they ever have. Right, that's great, Yeah, that's awesome.
That's all everybody lining up to see Dash. It makes
the promotion easy. So wait, what are you doing in Maine? So, Maine,
I'll be doing a Twisted Tidings Oddities Market. It's a
holiday oddities market that they're holding up in act in Maine.
(20:11):
I'm sorry, Sanford, Maine, and I'll be going up there
and performing my Dangerously Stupid show for an oddities convention.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Basically, Oh okay, but it's not like like when you said,
like a like a holiday thing. I imagine it's like
over here, like wreaths.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Over here is like candles. It may be like that.
Here's dash. The wreaths may be different. So that's Maine. Yeah,
that's Maine. So let's see this weekend. This past weekend,
I got back from Florida. What was in Florida? Florida?
We got We went down just for funds I work for.
(20:48):
I also work for a nonprofit Feed the Scene, located
out of Baltimore, and every year we go down to
the fest in Gainesville, Florida, which is a multi day,
multi venue punk music. Oh that's cool. Yeah, it's an
amazing time all in Gainesville. All the venues are within
walking distance and they have over one hundred bands and
like twenty venues and you just bounce from venue to
(21:09):
venue here listening to bands. Always okay, but you weren't.
You weren't being dashed. I was not being dashed down there.
That that was more of a vacation. My participation was
handing out treats for Feed the Scene. We make little
cereal treats and cookies that's cool, and black bottomed brownies
and we hand those out to the attendees. I don't
like knowing you're a nice guy. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Well I don't like knowing that underneath it it's like
a heart and it's like soft.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I don't like that. No, no, all right, forget everything. Okay,
so nothing about So it didn't go to Florida. Didn't
go to Florida.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Wait, so do you get do you get asked I
mean take it take away the nonprofits?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Right, But as as a performer, do you get asked
to travel a lot?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Oh? Yeah, I'll be traveling from uh now. I am
offering a workshop and maybe a Guinness World Record attempt
next weekend down in New Orleans. Right, we leave on
Wednesday for Orleans. And that's for the sideshow hoot Nanny. Wait,
that's a festival. It is a festival that it started
in New Orleans. Last year it was in Coney Island.
(22:09):
They've gone back to New Orleans for this year and
moved it slightly later in the year. But everybody seems
to be able to make it. But it is a
sideshow convention. So performers from all over the country, all
over the world are going to gather in New Orleans
next weekend and it's going to be a weekend of
performances and workshops and a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
How much does everybody love that alternating year that it's
in New Orleans and be like, oh, thank god it's
not Coneyland?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Awesome? The can I ask you this? And maybe Sube
we talked about this the last time you came in dash.
Is it's it's not a large.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Community of people, is it?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Is it very com do people get along? Or is it?
Is it backstabby? All right? I would like to say
for the record that every group has problems. Yeah, no, no,
you know what, that's a very fair answer. Sure, But
for the most part we all get along. We try
to be respectful. There are those in the community that
(23:10):
choose not to be so respectful. Like before I came
in here this morning, I went to the originator of
the fish hook lift and asked his permission to do
this and for training on how to do it right.
There are other people that would have just done it,
just done it, would not have gotten permission, would not
have asked for any of the tutelage or any of
the information. They would have probably gone seen somebody do
(23:32):
it on YouTube and figured it out, done it on
their own. I like going to the people that started things.
I'm a respectful person. I want permission from my community
to do something.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Even though and the guy that you called the Harley Harley, right,
would Harley? I feel like, like when you say he
invented it, is he literally the guy who decided? Was
he the first guy to put fish hooks in his
eyes to hang stuff? I believe he is the He
wouldn't say like, yeah, like I may be, it may
be my thing, right, but like like I'm trying to think,
(24:05):
like there's there's a lot of magicians in the world, right,
and I love magicians, but like like watching I know
I can't even think of one, like like shim Limb,
Like he wouldn't look at it and go like, oh,
you didn't start card tricks that have been done.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
So I guess that's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Like way back in the nineteen twenties, was there somebody
who was doing it?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
But he's like the modern day eye fishing, right, I
would say that is probably correct. The biggest issue is
inside show. There's very little that's new territory, right, So
whereas you are learning a skill or a stunt, it
is all in how you present that skill or stunt
(24:45):
that makes it your see, I see, yeah, that makes sense.
I'm not going to do Harley's routine, right, I'm not
going to do Red Stewart's routine. When when I do
anything that he's done, there are people in the community
again that would just steal it or don't take the
time to find out. Right, these people are still alive,
(25:07):
and these people are more than willing if you ask
and show respect, will give you those permissions.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
So like when you when you think of this the
what do you call it? The sideshow? Like, so when
you get down there is there is there somebody who
does something where you go like, man, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I got to see that. Oh they're so for the
first year, they are doing an entire evening of nothing
but fire performances. This is great. I mean it is
an entire evening of every act involving fire in some
way or form. And you don't. You don't do any fire.
I used to, I don't really anymore. What was your
(25:44):
fire thing? Uh? Well, I ate fire. I would do
fire minut on fire. Yes I remember that, Yes, yes,
I remember that. Why did you stop? I set myself
on fire? Okay? Okay, yes, like he needs fingers. The
first time I didn't learn. The second time was like, okay,
(26:05):
probably isn't my thing.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I'm not But now, what do like if somebody, if
somebody were like if somebody were following the code or
just being a decent human being and they want to
do so, what do you get called about?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Oh? Like you get called for traps and stuff. I
do get I have taught a couple of people to
do traps. I have had several performers contact me and
tell me that they're going to attempt the rat trap
record for Guinness, right, at which point I tell them,
you're welcome to it. If you succeed, I'm not coming
for it. I never doing it again. It was absolutely miserable,
(26:39):
sent me to the hospital for stitches in my tongue.
I don't want to do it again. Right. I've held
this record now for six years and I don't think
any almost ten twenty fourteen, Yeah, that's nine years. So
twenty sixteen the rat trap record has been has stood
and every time I tell everybody I'm not come for it,
(27:00):
they stop trying. I have not heard of a single
person that has made an attempt after talking to me.
So will you do anything at the convention. I am
most likely going to be doing a workshop. I have
been asked by numerous people in our community, how do
you get started working at the Rent Fair? And so
(27:21):
I have written up a workshop. So you want to
work at the Rent Fair? How did you get started?
I got extremely lucky, and I fought. I screamed and
kicked the entire way. I fought against the process. I
didn't want to go to the Renaissance Festival. And finally,
when I was seventeen, one of my friends finally convinced
me to go to the Renaissance Festival and I left
that day with a job. Yeah, I absolutely did, no kidding, Yeah,
(27:44):
my first It helped that one of my friends had
a job in the dunk tank and he was tired
of it and he's like, if you want this job,
you can have it. So I literally jumped in the tank.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
But I'm just going to say, and maybe I'm wrong,
but I feel like, but with you and the Renaissance Fair,
it's been a great marriage.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Oh absolutely. I love working at a Renaissance Fair. There's
no other place like it. People are so on your side, right,
the audience as a whole, they are on your side.
You have you do have to deal with heckler's and
drunk patrons. But that is all part of it. Sure,
it's a lot less that if I were in a nightclub,
(28:24):
or if I were somewhere else. Yeah, that's a good point.
If I'm at a tattoo convention, sometimes the people don't
care what I'm doing. Right, I do a pain act
and a tattoo convention. People are surrounding me in pain.
Big deal, everyone's in pain. Hey, what is the when?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
When I was during the commercial, I got up for
a second, but DOT mentioned something? Who what is what
is what is the the the sideshow act or something?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
But a bug muncher? Oh, Reggie, Reggie, Reggie, Reggie bugmun
Is that what I think it is? Yeah? He just
eats she does. Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Reggie, My bad. Okay.
The she just eats bugs. She eats meal worms. I
believe crickets. I think a goldfish or too. No, I
(29:14):
I don't quote me on that one. Don't quote me
on that one. But she definitely does. She eats bugs.
The and that is. But but it's well, I assume,
I assume, but I assume.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
But I'm guessing it's all like you hear that you
and like there's some guy who's like, I was drunk
in college one, but I would assume that as part
of the act.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
It's completely different. Oh yeah, absolutely. So you can actually
look at eating insects from other cultures that do it
as a delicacy. You go get chocolate covered grasshoppers, you
can get whatever. I mean, they eat bugs in other countries.
In America, we don't. And so you can get away
with freaking people out by eating bugs, because that's why
(30:01):
would you do that? Right, But exactly why your reaction
is why I did it?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
All right, So you won't do fire? Uh, No, you're not.
You're not a needle person.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
No, I don't like. Well, we don't know that. I
haven't tried. Is there is there anything else that's kind
of off limits for you? Off limits for me. I
have a thing about eating. I don't want to eat glass.
I don't want to eat glass. I'll walk on glass,
but I don't want to eat it. That's a whole
digestion thing that I just don't want to deal with. Yeah,
(30:36):
but that comes back out the way out of him.
But but you've walked on glass. I do walk on glass. Yeah,
I walk on glass. I'll break a brand new bottle
into the pile. Before I do it, I'll wash my
face with the glass. I'll step in the glass. I'll
jump in the glass. I'll twist my feet grinding it
into the glass. I will lay in the glas glass
(31:00):
with my face in the glass, and have an audience
member stand on my head. How baud are your feet? Oh,
my feet are fine. Believe it or not. My feet
I usually looking at somebody stands on the back of
his head. It pushes his face into glass.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I went foot. They usually get one foot. See but
your but your feet? And you said you usually don't bleed, Yeah,
very rarely. Uh there was one time I remember down
in DC there was a club called the Palace of Wonders.
Missed that place, and uh, I was doing my glass
(31:38):
routine and I washed my face with the glass. And
I can't see me, but I usually sweat a lot always,
and I had started I cut myself and I started
to bleed down my face and audience that helped sell
the deal. Yeah, it does kind of. But the audience
member pointed at me and I was like what, And
(31:58):
she's like, you're bleeding and I'm like, oh, and I
just kind of wiped my forehead away and it stopped,
and I was like, okay, we're done now, all right,
And I continued on. I was like, all right, I've
no the sweat just sealed everything.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Have you ever other than like said, did you get
hurt when you set yourself on fire?
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Oh? Yeah, I got minor second The first time I
set myself on fire, I got minor second degree burns,
major first degree burns that missed all of my facial hair.
Oh wow. Yeah, so I had like a I looked
like the Ultimate Warrior. It went down because they gave
me silvadine cream to put on.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
It was what was the second time?
Speaker 2 (32:39):
The second time I was in a nightclub. I was
inside and I thought everything would be fine, and I
blew the fireball as the air conditioner unit kicked on
and blew the fuel back on my face. I was like,
you're right. Luckily I had a towel on hand. I
wiped my face. I just got a little singe here.
I was like, you know what, we're just gonna outside.
(33:00):
I set myself on fire. Inside, I said, you know what,
we're done.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
But it does the only two times. You've really gotten
hurt with that? Yes, well not just in general injured.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Oh, I've had lots of injuries over the years, but
doing side show. Actually, there's what I was planning on
doing in this segment is one of the things that
actually injured me. Let's go, all right, so you know what,
and you know what, Diane, today's the day we might
get lucky, be the show that breaks dash. Here we go,
all right, So you know and have mentioned that I
am a sword swallower, and I do swallow swords, yes,
(33:32):
but I constantly do get asked if the sword is real. Uh,
there must be something that.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Roll.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Oh that's right, that's right, and it doesn't. But there's
really no way I can show the sword to someone
that it doesn't do anything. Yeah, I would buy that.
So I brought today what we call approver, which is
something that you can swallow that there is no way
you could give me. Okay, you're so quiet.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Because because this is where I'm mad at myself, because I.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Know how my brain works.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
You're gonna put something down your throat that's got like
a little catcher on the end, and you're gonna pull
up like like duty.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Oh, no, absolutely, not absolutely not. That's proof, though, that's proof,
but all the way back around the bugs. You can
bring it all the way back around the bugs.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Because okay, so so so this, you swallowed this and this,
there's no wait that somebody would go, oh that rolled
up or that Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Correct, and and we'll take it back to uh bugs
because I spend a lot of time in the South
as well, and there is always some water. So I
got a fly swater. Okay, it's a standard flyswater. Yeah,
there's nothing wrong, nothing verified that.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
That's a flying strange about it.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yeah, okay, okay, all right, son, swallow it. All right.
So here's the thing, though, I am gonna swallow it.
And once it is down inside me, I want you
to give me a second, and I want you to look,
and I will show you something that is guaranteed to
be brand specific, dangerously stupid. Are you ready for that?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
No, because I don't even know what to guess. You
don't have to get because I would be.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Like, well, let's write down what's gonna happen. So wait, okay,
so you're gonna swallow not obviously not name water, but
the handle to handle in the handle, which is still
that's that's big, dude, It's not just the coat hanger
size like that's big, right it is.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
So that's twisted and right, that's gonna go down.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
That's gonna go down the trap and then you're going
to you're I'm gonna give you a moment to do something.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
And then and then what was the last part? You
will see something that is truly dangerously stupid. Okay. Can
I ask one other question? Yes, day, what the effort
you do? I don't I have to move when I'm nervous,
I'm marching. Can you look? You wouldn't look at it?
And the bucket hanging off his eyes? This is far
(36:10):
from a bucket, all right, it's still gross disrespect, by the.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Way, I just wanted for your for your sanitary reasons, Diane,
did touch where you're gonna swallow?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah, I'll look it, okay, all right? Oh he looked
it too. All right? Okay, so this is going down.
The throat is going now. I'm not going to be
able to talk obviously, a lot of people like that
about my act. Wait, Dania, what do you do more comfortable? Okay?
(36:46):
All right? Just real quick? How far? How far? Down.
I mean I could see that. Okay, so that's gonna
go like just.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Below, like where you're all the way to the plastic
the well, yes, Diane, but I was talking more about
inside the bond. Okay, here we go, here we go,
God damn it. Okay, all right, it's that Diane helped me.
It's down the down the throat. It's down the throat.
(37:14):
Oh god, wait, how did you okay? Okay, okay, no, no,
we haven't trash.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Can wait, Dian are you gonna vomit? Did we get trash? Okay?
I go? I feel bad.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
I wasn't able to explain what was going on, Diane.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
What's wrong? Nothing? Okay.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
So while it was down here, okay, that was close. Now,
while it was down your all the way down your throat,
you you shoved your head forward so your head was back.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Right. It all goes down in a straight line, right.
I was looking straight up, yes, And then I looked
straightforward and almost.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
And then pulled it out, and the thing is bent
in half.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
You could say, I have skills that almost seems more
dangerous than the sword. Yeah it is.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Yeah, No, I'm going to argue that you do that
with the sword it's coming out your bat.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
You're not doing it with the sword, So all right,
I would not do that with the sword, No kidding, right,
no kidding, But this is actually more dangerous than a sword.
Doing this act is more dangerous than a sword because
so when it well go ahead, when it bends in
the back of the throat, these wires can open. I
(38:45):
didn't know that, right, And then as you pull it
back out, they pinch, or they can pinch and grab
on the one time I got injured, which really scared
me because I didn't know what had happened. I pulled
it out and it had cut the top back part
of my throat where it's coming out, right. It was
(39:05):
luckily on the top part, not on the part where
it goes down, so I was able to continue doing shows.
But I didn't know what had happened. But it had
pinched the back and cut and I was basically bleeding
down into my esophagus, down into my stomach, right, a
little bit of blood, come on, I didn't know about it.
Then I swallowed the sword during the show, finished up
(39:26):
the show, put the sword backstage. Everything's fine, I go
back out, and two people wanted to photograph I was like, okay,
let me go grab the sword. So I grab the sword,
bring it out. I get into my position and they're like,
oh my god, is that blood. I was like, no,
it's not blood. And I looked at it side. The
sword was covered in blood, but only on one side, right,
So I looked at that and we're like, wiped it
(39:48):
off real quick. No, okay, we got a picture. We
got a picture. Okay, let me get backstage. And I
immediately started texting my friends that are swordswallower. It's just like,
this is what happened. What's going on? Do I need
to worry about it?
Speaker 1 (39:58):
And you finally figured out that was that thing that
pinched your your esophagus and ripped it open.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Yeah, sometimes when I do the blockhead, when I hit
the nail in the back, sometimes I hit a vessel
or something in the nose and it will bleed down
the throat. So I figured that may have been it.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Sometimes I cough, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
What is the when you when you when you jam
your head forward, like okay, the trash can is still close, like, but.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
When you do that, like the the the esophagus is
only so so big. So when you do that, you
got to feel it push on your esophagus.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Yeah, nothing I do is comfortable.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Damn you like like like weird small talk at your
yearly physical with your doctor.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Oh, they always asked me have you fallen down recently?
It's like, well, on purpose or by accident? Because I
do both.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
I washed my face with glass.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
How's my tongue looking? You checked out these eyelids.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
By the way, the fly swatter is such a great
answer though to people that are like.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Are you really doing that? Yeah? Yeah, because you're right.
There's no there's no getting around that. No. It actually
goes in, it goes down, and it gets bent and
it comes out the same way. Now. The sad thing
is I used to do this before. I would swallow
a sword just to say, look, I am actually going
to be swallowing a sword.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Right, So you would do that then go okay, right,
it's the handle of a fly swatter, jackass right.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Right, So and then I swallow the sword. I still
got kids at the end coming up, and it was
like that sword was faked or whatever it was. And
I'm like, all right, the sword was faked. What happened
with the fly swater? Right? He was like, oh yeah, Oh,
it's like if I can do it with If I
can do this with a fly swatter, why can't I
do it with a sword?
Speaker 1 (41:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (41:49):
I mean not this but right, no, no, but I
couldn't do that. What is the what is how how
did you get to that? To the fly swater or
bending it?
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Well, I know how you bent it, right, but no,
like how did you like at what point were you like, oh,
this will is that?
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Is that known that people will do that to show
that you can do it? So traditionally people inside show
that swallow swords will swallow a coat hanger. They will
take a regular wire coat hanger and stretch it out
so it's like the shape of the sword and they'll
swallow that. And sometimes they'll bend that in the throne
and pull it out. Gotcha. When I became a sword swallower,
Tyler Fire handed me the sword and he said and
(42:29):
also here, and he gave me the flywater. Oh that's awesome,
that's really good. Yeah. I've never seen that. Ye, I've
never seen the fly swatter or even the the what
you call it the hanger trail, Yeah, coat hanger. I've
never seen that. That's awesome. Oh, I like that I
like that. That's stupid. Yeah, absolutely, I told you it
(42:52):
was brand specific. All right, So when is the when's
the next time you're performed around here? The next time
I'm performing around here? Uh? Maybe the Virginia in Fair. Okay,
we'll see. Uh. I have to put in an application
for next year you're in.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
Yeah, I would assume best way to keep up with
you is dangerously stupid dot com. That is me perfect
dude than I know. I mean, it sounds like you're
busy as hell, But thank you, thank you for coming.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
In always Halloween. That's awesome. That's great.
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