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.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hello, sir, how are you Halloween? Thank you? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
How am I I'm okay?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
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 3 (00:19):
I don't know what's I have no idea what's going on.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You have no idea what's going on. Let's good.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
The only thing that you do know is that I
asked you all what your favorite can and that I
was wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I was like, I said snickers.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
But I didn't I said said said milky.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Right, but I don't the the the I don't know.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
Okay, Dash is here here all right? So uh basically
there can I ask you one thing, get started to
get started. And the only reason I bring it up
is I see the book right right?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yes, unless you were good planning to do that. No, no, no,
this is actually something to talk about.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah no, no, that's awesome. Wait so is this the
one you're in?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Okay, So Dash is in the Guinness World Record twenty
twenty six hard cut right, most mousetraps 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?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
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 that I just they just
put out in September.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Okay, so wait, so this is the Ripley's book.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
This is the Ripley's Believe It or Not book right
that they gave me the full page spread on I mentioned.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Did Ripley's come and like visit you? Yes? They did.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Actually Ripley sent an entire film crew out to the
Maryland Renaissance Festival.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And they got really Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
So they got 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?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
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?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
All?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Right?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
So the pictures that they did put in there, there's
actually a total of five, which I was blown away with.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
What I was suspecting maybe one.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
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.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
And then the bottom three are the succession of my
archer's blockhead, the human snot rocket where I hammer.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
The nail into my nose. That's right, that's right.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, I was going to bring the crossbow in this morning,
but I'm glad I didn't because looking at the studio.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Now, I would have hit something me 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 4 (02:51):
I did, and I actually just heard back from that
about three weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So what was the what was the record you attempted?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
The record I attempted was most number of animal traps
released on the body and one minute.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So real quick, last.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Time you were in here, you did the mouse trap
on the tongue.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
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 about she used the magnetic wand grabbing it.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
But what was there was also a bit a big.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Trap, right, So there was the mouse trap, there was
a raccoon trap, and then there's a beaver trap.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
The ones that I was using for the Guinness World
Record would have been the medium of the.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Raccoon trap and that yeah, right, okay, so what happened there?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
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.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I did wrong?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Did you think you didn four? And what what is
what is the record currently?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I think it's eighty four eighty five? So you did
ninety four? Jam your hand into a raccoon trap?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
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.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
So one full minute of pain. And they and they
didn't say anything other than you didn't.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Right they And they don't owe me an answer technically,
with their rules and rags, they don't owe me an answer.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So okay, but still I have asked. I'm waiting.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So three weeks ago they just called. They were like,
mister Rippington, Yes, I.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Wish they'd call me. I'd have something. No, it's just
an email. Sorry you failed. Sorry didn't make it. I
feel like they should say something.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
They should, 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. Yeah, that's weird, that's very weird. It would
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be helpful if I knew what I did wrong.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, no, exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
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, or anywhere in your body.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I would almost rather they call and they said, hey,
you didn't.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You got zero right, So that way you would go.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
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 (05:17):
So 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.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
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 do a record of how fast you can
set the traps, and I'm gonna end up snapping them
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on my fingers at some point because it just.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
They go off.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
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
in tandem with somebody else, so I'll set the mouse
traps and they'll do the record attempt.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
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?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
You?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
You kind of side glanced at Diane, Ah.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
How strong is your tongue? Diane?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Very Because the mousetrap record is 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 on, this is like loudest,
this is like loudest burp female.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Right, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
This is most mousetraps released on the tongue in one minute, female, right.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And you're not going to do it?
Speaker 6 (06:47):
No, it's only thirty four.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
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, anyway, anyway, okay, yes, yes, yes, all right,
back to you, back to you.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
All right?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
So what am I I don't know. Okay, I'm done.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Where am I going? Okay, So we've talked about the books.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I asked you what your favorite candy bars are. 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):
And by the way, what like I always feel bad
because I always say, like, our sideshow freak friend is
coming in. That's fine, right, technically I'm not a freak,
but yeah, right, but you know that comes with love.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Absolutely all right, absolutely, I will accept the term.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I am not specifically that, no, but in a good way, right, absolutely,
I mean I'm a weirdo freak.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
All right. So it's reverse trigger treating, right, reverse trick
or treating. I come with the candy, I.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Will give it to you, right, okay, So it's reverse
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.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So we've got the heath bars, We've got the milky heath.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Bar has got to be Diane, it was milky Way.
Tyler did was noncommittal.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Oh you know what, that's right?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
He went, oh my god, Well what just whatever you're getting?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Getting all three of those sound great, So just double
up on one of them.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
So, uh, I did double.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
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, look at this, Look at bar.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Look at this.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I went to two stores to find this. And this
is the only I mean, you get the big one.
Everybody else has two, you get one.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So Kristen Kristen sends you on a wild goose chase, like, yeah, whatever.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Just double up on something. Okay.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
So when you go trick or treating, you have candy. Right,
this is reverse trick or treating. So I'm starting with
the canny 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.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Oh, here we go. All right, so I've got this.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Wait, Diane, he hasn't done anything.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
But open up.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
I'm anticipating this is nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Are you going to Uh?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Okay, So you're putting chains on. So there's like a
big key ring.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
If you will, basically a key ring.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
So he attaches to the brocket and then there's chains
on either side, right right.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
If you connect those chains, you'll have it correct.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
But I don't have a connector.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
So I don't have a connector and this would be
really awkward to walk around with a handle.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Like, so you need to have that set up. So
I actually brought something.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
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 you can't properly fish unless you bring
the fish hooks.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So I actually.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Have some fish hooks here right, this this one.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Oh so okay, onto here.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, he hasn't touched his body. He has his body.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So now attached to the the chains are fish ups.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Those are big fishooks fishs. Yeah. These are like what
you would go deep sea fishing with, like those. Look
those look big.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Right, these are big. They're fully weight and look at that. Yeah, okay,
so that's solid. What is the They're still not connected.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
That's true. They're not connected.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
And I'm not wearing a costume, so but and I
can't wear a mask, so I'm gonna have to make
my face a little weird.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
All right, So we're gonna do. I swear to God,
you hang this thing off your face? Jee what we're doing? Okay? Okay,
hold on, Diane, you're gonna have to come candy, Diane,
all Diane.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
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.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
Okay, you gotta get your candy.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Here you go, grab your candy bar.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
That's right, thank you, take your treat the tre right, okay,
here we go.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Walked in like it was nothing. Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Now this is all over?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Is that how much it is hanging off your Okay?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Dash, I can't look at your eyes.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Okay, I will, okay, but I don't want to put
my you know what my fear is.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Okay, Okay, there you go. I'm sorry, my hand is
moving the bucket. All right, very good, all right, there
we go, Diane, No, Dan, wait, hold on. Diane's trying
not to look.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
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.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
If you have you looked at Dash, look at that?
Speaker 6 (11:50):
No you got I saw his reflection in the window.
That's it.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
No, you gotta look look at his face. Look at
his face then this stuff.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Initially I was like, boy, hope you don't have a
spider in there. I thought I was going to live
for a spider.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I thought I thought he was going to put it
in his cheek. I didn't know that it was going.
Diane looking in the eye and say thank you?
Speaker 7 (12:14):
Was all right?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
If your eye could not be showing right now a
little bit a god damn question.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
There we gone there we all right, We're good, We're good.
You're not bleeding.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
No, I shouldn't.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
I hope you don't worry about like how sanitary that
is them before?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
That's why I pulled everything he's got, he's got, he's
got hooks that you could catch a shark on. Your
concern is, oh are they sanitized? How about what if
the hook digs into your eye?
Speaker 6 (12:46):
That too?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
That too, yeah, that too, little barbs on those things.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
I can't believe you're not bleeding?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Oh all right, so this time, this time, all right,
And here's the thing. I learned that act specifically for
you guys.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
So I was just going to say, 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?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
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?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
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 2 (13:36):
People will reach out to.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Me under that sword swallowing animal traps, where's eyelid?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Hangar? Where's that guy? So luckily he lives in Pennsylvania.
How uncomfortable is that? The first couple of times.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Exceedingly exceedingly he worked up to that.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I worked up to that so that I thought you
meant wight wise, wait wise?
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Yeah, well you have to actually work up to the
hooks themselves as well.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
So you what do you start with the hooks? I
mean you you start out with.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
The hook without any any any weight.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Right, You take the hooks and you get those. You
figure out where on the eyelid they have to hook.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Did you get it in the wrong place at any point?
I don't believe so, I don't.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
So.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Your buddy was like, you got to put it here.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, yeah, he was very specific, and we have Can
you show me on Diane where he is?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Goddamn damn it, God damn it. If the bags under
my eyes weren't bad before they are now and you
never scraped your eyeball, not yet. No, No, I haven't. No,
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? Like 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 serious? Absolutely?
So this becomes part of the repertoire.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Sure, yeah, I got permission from the guy who invented it.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
He taught me how to do it.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
And he's the only person that hangs now. 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 performing sword swallowers.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
He's like, didn't you tell me that there's only I
cut you off. No, you're fine. Oh didn't you tell
me there's only like six of you guys in the
in the world? Oh sword swallowers.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
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, you've
only got a couple dozen that are performing, uh the
(16:01):
act on the regular I gotcha, I gotcha?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Now? How many how many I hanger people are there? Oh?
This guy invented it? Well, he did the fish hooks.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
There are other people that do the remember the clockwork
orange thing that they had Alex's those they do ocular openers,
They hang those in their eyes with weights.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
But Harley Newman was the first Jesus Christ. What's wrong
Diane to 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?
Speaker 7 (16:42):
Now?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yeah, yeah, that's great, that's great. I don't think I.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Would have pulled it off if I if I was unconfident,
I don't think I would have pulled it out for
this morning?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
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 a
dash's eyes?
Speaker 8 (16:56):
It's my favorite, as in, if you actually went up
to someone's house tonight and full size, by.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
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 I'm bucket.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Hanging out of your eyes, dear God, which.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Is why I'm not allowed to hand out candy tonight.
Do you do? Do you get asked to perform a
lot for Halloween stuff? Yes?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Like I was gonna say, like, like, sideshow to me
works at Oh my god, Tyler.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
It's just I made a quick gift of singing.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
It's a bucket swinging from his eye.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
No.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
No, But I was gonna say, like like like side
show stuff all the time, like like there are times
I go like, no, that feels.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Very summery to me, like you're out, it's kind of bored, lackey.
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.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Then I'm like, you know what, this is perfect for Halloween.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
There are so many sideshow performers that work at theme
parks for their hollow screams or whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Oh that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
They come in for the the shock factor performers, those
that'll put the needles through their arms and through their.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Faces, and that is that that is something I do
not have any interest in.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Really, yeah, that gives you the way, that gives me
the ac I have a thing about needles.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
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 from that you're right
from your eyes. But you didn't know you like pizza
til you had your first bite of pizza.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah, okay, so maybe I'll have to give it a try.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
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?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Are we doing something else? Are we doing something else?
Or am I good?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Are you good?
Speaker 6 (18:55):
You're good?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
You're good?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
We could do something else. You can absolutely do something else.
But if you wanted to take a break or some
we could 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.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
To be you. Well, okay, so let's do this. Let's
do this quick break.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Will come back, but you have you have something else
we can all right, very good, all right, give me
a quick break. It's Elliot in the morning, our sideshow friend,
Dash Rippington is here Dangerously Stupid dot com.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
By the way, are you performing anywhere now?
Speaker 4 (19:29):
I will be performing not this coming weekend, but I
will be traveling up to Maine for November fifteenth and sixteenth.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I believe. Oh I just meant like Marilyn Renfairs. Oh no,
we just finished up those eight weekends. Finished.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yeah, I just finished up all eight weekends. It was
an amazing time the.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
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?
Speaker 6 (19:52):
So?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, they sold out probably earlier than they ever have. Right,
that's great. Yeah, that's awesome. That's everybody lining up to
see Dash. It makes the promotion easy. So wait, what
are you doing in Maine?
Speaker 4 (20:04):
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. 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 over here is like candles.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
It may be like that. Here's dash. The wreaths may
be different. So that's Maine.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Yeah, that's Maine. So let's see this weekend. This past weekend,
I got.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Back from Florida. What was in Florida? Florida? We got
We went down just for funds I work for.
Speaker 4 (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.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
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 venue here listening to bands always.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Okay, but you were you were being dashed.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
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 attendee.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I don't like knowing You're a nice guy. Yeah, I know. Well,
I don't like knowing.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
That underneath it there's like a heart and it's like soft.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I don't like that.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
No, no, all right, forget everything. Okay, so nothing about it.
So it didn't go to Florida.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Didn't go to Florida.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Wait, so do you get do you get asked I
mean take take away the nonprofits? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Right? But as as a performer, do you get asked
to travel a lot? Oh?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
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.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Wait, that's a festival.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
It is a festival that it started in New Orleans.
Last year it was in Coney Island. 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
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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 Cony awesome the can I ask you this and
maybe maybe we talked about this the last time you
came in dash.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Is it's it's not a large.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Community of people, is it is?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Is it very com Do people get along? Or is it?
Is it backstabby? All right?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
I would like to say for the record that every
group has problems.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, no, no, you know what, that's a very fair answer.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Sure, But for the most part, we all get along.
We try to be respectful. There are those in the
community that 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
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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 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?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I believe he is the He.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Wouldn't say like, yeah, like I may be, it may
be my thing, but like like I'm trying to think,
like there's there's a lot of magicians in the world, right,
and I love magicians, but like like watching no, I
can't even think of one, like like shim limb, Like
you wouldn't look at them and go like, oh, you
didn't start card tricks that have been done, So I
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guess that's what I mean. Like way back in the
nineteen twenties, was there somebody who was doing it? But
he's like the modern day eye fishing, right.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
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 that makes it your See I see, yeah, that
makes sense. I'm not going to do Harley's routine. Right,
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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, and these people are more than willing if
you ask and.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
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.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
The like.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
So when you get down there is there is there
somebody who does something where you go.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Like, man, that's cool. I got to see that.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Oh they're so for the first year, they are doing
an entire evening of nothing but fire performances.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
This is great.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
I mean it is an entire evening of every act
involving fire in some way or form.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
And you don't. You don't do any fire. I used to,
I don't really anymore. What was your fire thing? Well,
I ate fire. I would do fire minature on fire. Yes,
I remember that, Yes, yes, I remember that.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Why did you stop?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I set myself on fire?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Okay, yes, like he needs fingers.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
The first time I didn't learn. The second time was like, okay,
probably isn't my thing.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
But now, what do like if somebody, if somebody were like,
if somebody were following the code or just being a
decent human being, if they want to do So, what
do you get called about?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Like you get called for traps and stuff.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
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.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Welcome to it.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
If you succeed, I'm not coming for it. I never
doing it again. It was absolutely miserable, sent me to
the hospital for stitches in my tongue.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I don't want to do it again.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Right.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
I've held this record now for six years and I
don't think any almost ten twenty fourteen, Yeah, nine years,
so twenty sixteen. The rat trap record has been has stood,
and every time I tell everybody I'm not coming for it,
they stop trying. I have not heard of a single
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person that has made an attempt after talking to me.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
So will you do anything at the convention.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
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 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.
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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.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Left that day with a job. Yeah, I absolutely did,
no kidding.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Yeah, 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.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
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 Fare,
it's been a great marriage.
Speaker 4 (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.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
That is all part of it.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Sure, it's a lot less that if I were in
a nightclub, or if I were somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
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, buddy,
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?
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Oh, Reggie, Reggie, Reggie, Reggie bug munch.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Is that what I think it is? Yeah? He just
eats she does. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Reggie, my band. Okay,
the she just eats bugs.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
She eats meal worms. I believe crickets. I think a
goldfish or too. No, I 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, 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.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
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.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
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 would you do that? Right,
But exactly why your reaction is why I did it.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
All right, So you won't do fire. No, you're not.
You're not a needle person. No, I don't like Well,
we don't know that. I haven't tried it. Is there
is there anything else that's kind of off limits for you?
Speaker 4 (30:21):
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.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, but that comes back out right out of him.
But but you've walked on glass.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
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 with my face in
the glass, and have an audience member stand on my head.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
How bad are your feet?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Oh, my feet are fine. Believe it or not. My feet.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I usually looking at somebody stands on the back of
his head.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
It pushes his face into glass.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
I don't know. I went foot.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
They usually get one foot, see but your but your
feet And you said you usually don't bleed, yeah, very rarely.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
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 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
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to bleed down my face.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
And audience that helped sell the deal. Yeah, it does
kind of.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
But the audience member pointed at me and I was
like what, and 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 It's like, all right,
I've no the sweat just sealed everything.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Have you ever other than like said, did you get
hurt when.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
You set yourself on fire?
Speaker 4 (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.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
It went down.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Because they gave me silvadine cream to put on it.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Then what was the second time? The second time I
was in a nightclub.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
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.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
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. I set myself on fire. Inside, I said,
you know what, we're done. But are those the only
two times you've really gotten hurt with that? Yes? Well,
not just in general injured.
Speaker 4 (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.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Let's go all right, so you know what, and you
know what, Diane, today's the day.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
We might get lucky. This might be the show that
breaks that.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Here we go, all right, So you know, and have
mentioned that I am a sword swallower, and I do
swallow swords, yes, but I constantly do get asked if
the sword is real, there must be.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Something that does roll.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Oh, that's right, that's right, and it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
But there's really no way I can show the sword
to someone.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
That it doesn't do anything. Yeah, I would buy that.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
So I brought today what we call a prover, which
is something that you can swallow that there is no
way you could give.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Okay, you're so quiet because because this is where I'm
mad at myself.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Because I 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.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
That's proof though, that's proof.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
But all the way back around the bugs you can
bring it all the way back around the bugs because.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Okay, so so so this, you swallowed this and this,
there's no wait that somebody would go, oh that rolled
up or that.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Okay, ok correct, 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 fly swater. Yeah,
there's nothing wrong, nothing verified that.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
That's flying strange about it.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yeah, okay, okay, all right, son, swallow it. All right.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
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.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Are you ready for that?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
No, because I don't even know what to guess.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
You don't have to get because I was like, well,
let's write down what's gonna happen. So wait, okay, so
you're gonna swallow not not obviously not 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 3 (35:40):
So that's twisted and right, that's gonna go down.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
That's gonna go down the trap.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
And then you're going to you're I'm gonna give you
a moment to do something.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
And then and then what was the last part?
Speaker 4 (35:50):
You will see something that is truly dangerously stupid.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Okay. Can I ask one other question?
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Yes day, what the effort you doing?
Speaker 6 (36:00):
I don't I have to move when I'm nervous marching?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Can you look? You wouldn't look at it?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
And the bucket hanging off.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
His This is far from a bucket, all right, it's
still gross disrespect, by the way.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
I just wanted for your for your sanitary reasons, Diane,
did touch where you're gonna swallow? Yeah, I'll look it, okay,
all right, Oh he looked it too.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
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, Donia,
what do you.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
Do more comfortable?
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Okay? All right? Just real quick? How far? How far down?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
I mean?
Speaker 3 (36:50):
I could see that? Okay, So that's gonna go like
just below.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Like where you're all the weight to the plastic.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
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.
Oh god, wait, how did you okay? Okay, okay, no,
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oh no, we haven't trash?
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Can wait, Diana, 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?
Speaker 6 (37:38):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Okay? So while it was down your.
Speaker 6 (37:46):
Okay, that was close.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Now, while it was down your all the way down your.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Throat, you you shoved your head forward so your head
was back. Right.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
It all goes down in a straight line, right. I
was looking straight up, 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):
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.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
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.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Doing this act.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
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.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
I didn't know that, right, I didn't.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
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.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Right. It was luckily on the top.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Part, not on the part where it goes down, so
I was able to continue doing shows.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
But I didn't know what had happened.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
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.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
I didn't know about it.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
Then I swallowed the sword during the show, finished up
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.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
God, is that blood. I was like, no, it's not blood.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
And I looked at it and the side the sword
was covered in blood, but only on one.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Side, right, So I looked at that and like wiped it.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Off real quick. Nope, 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 4 (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.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
So I figured that may have been it. Sometimes I cough.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Yeah, yeah, what is the when you when you when
you jam your.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
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, damn.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
You like like like weird small talk at your yearly
physical with your doctor.
Speaker 4 (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 watched 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?
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Yeah, because you're right. There's no there's no getting around that.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
No.
Speaker 4 (41:11):
It actually goes in, it goes down, and it gets
bent and it comes out the same way.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Now.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
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 swater, jackass right right?
Speaker 4 (41:30):
So and then I swallowed the sword. I still got
kids at the end coming up. It's like that sword
was faked or whatever it was. I'm like, all right,
the sword was faked. What happened with the fly swater?
Speaker 2 (41:40):
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 3 (41:49):
No, I mean not this but right, no.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
No, but I couldn't do that. What is the what
is how how did you get to that?
Speaker 2 (41:57):
To the fly swater or bending it? 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? Is that known that people will do that
to show that you can do it?
Speaker 4 (42:11):
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.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Gotcha.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
When I became a sword swallower, Tyler Fire handed me
the sword and he said and also here.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
And he gave me the flywater. Oh that's awesome. That's
really good. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
I've never seen that yet. I've never seen the fly
swatter or even the the what you call it the
hanger track?
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Oh yeah, coat hanger. I've never seen that. That's awesome.
Oh I like that. I like that. That's stupid.
Speaker 4 (42:47):
Yeah, absolutely, I told you it was brand specific.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
All right, So when is the when's the next time
you're performed around here?
Speaker 4 (42:58):
The next time I'm performing around here? Uh, maybe the
Virginia in Fair.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Okay, we'll suh. 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.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
That is me perfect dude than I know.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
I mean, it sounds like you're busy as hell, but
thank you, thank you for coming in always Halloween.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
That's awesome. That's great.
All right, please welcome back our old friend mister Dash Rickington.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hello, sir, how are you Halloween? Thank you? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
How am I I'm okay?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
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 3 (00:19):
I don't know what's I have no idea what's going on.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
You have no idea what's going on. Let's good.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
The only thing that you do know is that I
asked you all what your favorite can and that I
was wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I was like, I said snickers.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
But I didn't I said said said milky.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Right, but I don't the the the I don't know.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
Okay, Dash is here here all right? So uh basically
there can I ask you one thing, get started to
get started. And the only reason I bring it up
is I see the book right right?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yes, unless you were good planning to do that. No, no, no,
this is actually something to talk about.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah no, no, that's awesome. Wait so is this the
one you're in?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Okay, So Dash is in the Guinness World Record twenty
twenty six hard cut right, most mousetraps 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?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
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 that I just they just
put out in September.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Okay, so wait, so this is the Ripley's book.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
This is the Ripley's Believe It or Not book right
that they gave me the full page spread on I mentioned.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Did Ripley's come and like visit you? Yes? They did.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Actually Ripley sent an entire film crew out to the
Maryland Renaissance Festival.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And they got really Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
So they got 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?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
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?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
All?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Right?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
So the pictures that they did put in there, there's
actually a total of five, which I was blown away with.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
What I was suspecting maybe one.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
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.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
And then the bottom three are the succession of my
archer's blockhead, the human snot rocket where I hammer.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
The nail into my nose. That's right, that's right.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, I was going to bring the crossbow in this morning,
but I'm glad I didn't because looking at the studio.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Now, I would have hit something me 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 4 (02:51):
I did, and I actually just heard back from that
about three weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So what was the what was the record you attempted?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
The record I attempted was most number of animal traps
released on the body and one minute.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So real quick, last.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Time you were in here, you did the mouse trap
on the tongue.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
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 about she used the magnetic wand grabbing it.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
But what was there was also a bit a big.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Trap, right, So there was the mouse trap, there was
a raccoon trap, and then there's a beaver trap.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
The ones that I was using for the Guinness World
Record would have been the medium of the.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Raccoon trap and that yeah, right, okay, so what happened there?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
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.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I did wrong?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Did you think you didn four? And what what is
what is the record currently?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I think it's eighty four eighty five? So you did
ninety four? Jam your hand into a raccoon trap?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
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.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
So one full minute of pain. And they and they
didn't say anything other than you didn't.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Right they And they don't owe me an answer technically,
with their rules and rags, they don't owe me an answer.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So okay, but still I have asked. I'm waiting.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So three weeks ago they just called. They were like,
mister Rippington, Yes, I.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Wish they'd call me. I'd have something. No, it's just
an email. Sorry you failed. Sorry didn't make it. I
feel like they should say something.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
They should, 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. Yeah, that's weird, that's very weird. It would
(04:54):
be helpful if I knew what I did wrong.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, no, exactly exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
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, or anywhere in your body.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I would almost rather they call and they said, hey,
you didn't.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You got zero right, So that way you would go.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
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 (05:17):
So 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.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
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 do a record of how fast you can
set the traps, and I'm gonna end up snapping them
(05:48):
on my fingers at some point because it just.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
They go off.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
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
in tandem with somebody else, so I'll set the mouse
traps and they'll do the record attempt.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
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?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
You?
Speaker 1 (06:14):
You kind of side glanced at Diane, Ah.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
How strong is your tongue? Diane?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Very Because the mousetrap record is 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 on, this is like loudest,
this is like loudest burp female.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Right, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
This is most mousetraps released on the tongue in one minute, female, right.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And you're not going to do it?
Speaker 6 (06:47):
No, it's only thirty four.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
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, anyway, anyway, okay, yes, yes, yes, all right,
back to you, back to you.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
All right?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
So what am I I don't know. Okay, I'm done.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Where am I going? Okay, So we've talked about the books.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
I asked you what your favorite candy bars are. 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):
And by the way, what like I always feel bad
because I always say, like, our sideshow freak friend is
coming in. That's fine, right, technically I'm not a freak,
but yeah, right, but you know that comes with love.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Absolutely all right, absolutely, I will accept the term.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I am not specifically that, no, but in a good way, right, absolutely,
I mean I'm a weirdo freak.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
All right. So it's reverse trigger treating, right, reverse trick
or treating. I come with the candy, I.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Will give it to you, right, okay, So it's reverse
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.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So we've got the heath bars, We've got the milky heath.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Bar has got to be Diane, it was milky Way.
Tyler did was noncommittal.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Oh you know what, that's right?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
He went, oh my god, Well what just whatever you're getting?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Getting all three of those sound great, So just double
up on one of them.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
So, uh, I did double.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
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, look at this, Look at bar.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Look at this.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I went to two stores to find this. And this
is the only I mean, you get the big one.
Everybody else has two, you get one.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So Kristen Kristen sends you on a wild goose chase, like, yeah, whatever.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Just double up on something. Okay.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
So when you go trick or treating, you have candy. Right,
this is reverse trick or treating. So I'm starting with
the canny 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.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Oh, here we go. All right, so I've got this.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Wait, Diane, he hasn't done anything.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
But open up.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
I'm anticipating this is nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Are you going to Uh?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Okay, So you're putting chains on. So there's like a
big key ring.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
If you will, basically a key ring.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
So he attaches to the brocket and then there's chains
on either side, right right.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
If you connect those chains, you'll have it correct.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
But I don't have a connector.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
So I don't have a connector and this would be
really awkward to walk around with a handle.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Like, so you need to have that set up. So
I actually brought something.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
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 you can't properly fish unless you bring
the fish hooks.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So I actually.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Have some fish hooks here right, this this one.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Oh so okay, onto here.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, he hasn't touched his body. He has his body.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So now attached to the the chains are fish ups.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Those are big fishooks fishs. Yeah. These are like what
you would go deep sea fishing with, like those. Look
those look big.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Right, these are big. They're fully weight and look at that. Yeah, okay,
so that's solid. What is the They're still not connected.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
That's true. They're not connected.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
And I'm not wearing a costume, so but and I
can't wear a mask, so I'm gonna have to make
my face a little weird.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
All right, So we're gonna do. I swear to God,
you hang this thing off your face? Jee what we're doing? Okay? Okay,
hold on, Diane, you're gonna have to come candy, Diane,
all Diane.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
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.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
Okay, you gotta get your candy.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Here you go, grab your candy bar.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
That's right, thank you, take your treat the tre right, okay,
here we go.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Walked in like it was nothing. Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Now this is all over?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Is that how much it is hanging off your Okay?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Dash, I can't look at your eyes.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Okay, I will, okay, but I don't want to put
my you know what my fear is.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Okay, Okay, there you go. I'm sorry, my hand is
moving the bucket. All right, very good, all right, there
we go, Diane, No, Dan, wait, hold on. Diane's trying
not to look.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
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.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
If you have you looked at Dash, look at that?
Speaker 6 (11:50):
No you got I saw his reflection in the window.
That's it.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
No, you gotta look look at his face. Look at
his face then this stuff.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Initially I was like, boy, hope you don't have a
spider in there. I thought I was going to live
for a spider.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I thought I thought he was going to put it
in his cheek. I didn't know that it was going.
Diane looking in the eye and say thank you?
Speaker 7 (12:14):
Was all right?
Speaker 1 (12:18):
If your eye could not be showing right now a
little bit a god damn question.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
There we gone there we all right, We're good, We're good.
You're not bleeding.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
No, I shouldn't.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
I hope you don't worry about like how sanitary that
is them before?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
That's why I pulled everything he's got, he's got, he's
got hooks that you could catch a shark on. Your
concern is, oh are they sanitized? How about what if
the hook digs into your eye?
Speaker 6 (12:46):
That too?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
That too, yeah, that too, little barbs on those things.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
I can't believe you're not bleeding?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Oh all right, so this time, this time, all right,
And here's the thing. I learned that act specifically for
you guys.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
So I was just going to say, 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?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
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?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
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 2 (13:36):
People will reach out to.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Me under that sword swallowing animal traps, where's eyelid?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Hangar? Where's that guy? So luckily he lives in Pennsylvania.
How uncomfortable is that? The first couple of times.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Exceedingly exceedingly he worked up to that.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I worked up to that so that I thought you
meant wight wise, wait wise?
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Yeah, well you have to actually work up to the
hooks themselves as well.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
So you what do you start with the hooks? I
mean you you start out with.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
The hook without any any any weight.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Right, You take the hooks and you get those. You
figure out where on the eyelid they have to hook.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Did you get it in the wrong place at any point?
I don't believe so, I don't.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
So.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Your buddy was like, you got to put it here.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, yeah, he was very specific, and we have Can
you show me on Diane where he is?
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Goddamn damn it, God damn it. If the bags under
my eyes weren't bad before they are now and you
never scraped your eyeball, not yet. No, No, I haven't. No,
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? Like 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 serious? Absolutely?
So this becomes part of the repertoire.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Sure, yeah, I got permission from the guy who invented it.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
He taught me how to do it.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
And he's the only person that hangs now. 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 performing sword swallowers.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
He's like, didn't you tell me that there's only I
cut you off. No, you're fine. Oh didn't you tell
me there's only like six of you guys in the
in the world? Oh sword swallowers.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
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, you've
only got a couple dozen that are performing, uh the
(16:01):
act on the regular I gotcha, I gotcha?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Now? How many how many I hanger people are there? Oh?
This guy invented it? Well, he did the fish hooks.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
There are other people that do the remember the clockwork
orange thing that they had Alex's those they do ocular openers,
They hang those in their eyes with weights.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
But Harley Newman was the first Jesus Christ. What's wrong
Diane to 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?
Speaker 7 (16:42):
Now?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Yeah, yeah, that's great, that's great. I don't think I.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Would have pulled it off if I if I was unconfident,
I don't think I would have pulled it out for
this morning?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
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 a
dash's eyes?
Speaker 8 (16:56):
It's my favorite, as in, if you actually went up
to someone's house tonight and full size, by.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
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 I'm bucket.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Hanging out of your eyes, dear God, which.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Is why I'm not allowed to hand out candy tonight.
Do you do? Do you get asked to perform a
lot for Halloween stuff? Yes?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Like I was gonna say, like, like, sideshow to me
works at Oh my god, Tyler.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
It's just I made a quick gift of singing.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
It's a bucket swinging from his eye.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
No.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
No, But I was gonna say, like like like side
show stuff all the time, like like there are times
I go like, no, that feels.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Very summery to me, like you're out, it's kind of bored, lackey.
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.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Then I'm like, you know what, this is perfect for Halloween.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
There are so many sideshow performers that work at theme
parks for their hollow screams or whatever.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Oh that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
They come in for the the shock factor performers, those
that'll put the needles through their arms and through their.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Faces, and that is that that is something I do
not have any interest in.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Really, yeah, that gives you the way, that gives me
the ac I have a thing about needles.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
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 from that you're right
from your eyes. But you didn't know you like pizza
til you had your first bite of pizza.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yeah, okay, so maybe I'll have to give it a try.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
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?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Are we doing something else? Are we doing something else?
Or am I good?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Are you good?
Speaker 6 (18:55):
You're good?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
You're good?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
We could do something else. You can absolutely do something else.
But if you wanted to take a break or some
we could 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.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
To be you. Well, okay, so let's do this. Let's
do this quick break.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Will come back, but you have you have something else
we can all right, very good, all right, give me
a quick break. It's Elliot in the morning, our sideshow friend,
Dash Rippington is here Dangerously Stupid dot com.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
By the way, are you performing anywhere now?
Speaker 4 (19:29):
I will be performing not this coming weekend, but I
will be traveling up to Maine for November fifteenth and sixteenth.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I believe. Oh I just meant like Marilyn Renfairs. Oh no,
we just finished up those eight weekends. Finished.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yeah, I just finished up all eight weekends. It was
an amazing time the.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
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?
Speaker 6 (19:52):
So?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, they sold out probably earlier than they ever have. Right,
that's great. Yeah, that's awesome. That's everybody lining up to
see Dash. It makes the promotion easy. So wait, what
are you doing in Maine?
Speaker 4 (20:04):
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. 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 over here is like candles.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
It may be like that. Here's dash. The wreaths may
be different. So that's Maine.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Yeah, that's Maine. So let's see this weekend. This past weekend,
I got.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Back from Florida. What was in Florida? Florida? We got
We went down just for funds I work for.
Speaker 4 (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.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
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 venue here listening to bands always.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Okay, but you were you were being dashed.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
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 attendee.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I don't like knowing You're a nice guy. Yeah, I know. Well,
I don't like knowing.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
That underneath it there's like a heart and it's like soft.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I don't like that.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
No, no, all right, forget everything. Okay, so nothing about it.
So it didn't go to Florida.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Didn't go to Florida.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Wait, so do you get do you get asked I
mean take take away the nonprofits? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Right? But as as a performer, do you get asked
to travel a lot? Oh?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
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.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Wait, that's a festival.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
It is a festival that it started in New Orleans.
Last year it was in Coney Island. 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
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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 Cony awesome the can I ask you this and
maybe maybe we talked about this the last time you
came in dash.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Is it's it's not a large.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Community of people, is it is?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Is it very com Do people get along? Or is it?
Is it backstabby? All right?
Speaker 4 (22:54):
I would like to say for the record that every
group has problems.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, no, no, you know what, that's a very fair answer.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Sure, But for the most part, we all get along.
We try to be respectful. There are those in the
community that 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
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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 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?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I believe he is the He.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Wouldn't say like, yeah, like I may be, it may
be my thing, but like like I'm trying to think,
like there's there's a lot of magicians in the world, right,
and I love magicians, but like like watching no, I
can't even think of one, like like shim limb, Like
you wouldn't look at them and go like, oh, you
didn't start card tricks that have been done, So I
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guess that's what I mean. Like way back in the
nineteen twenties, was there somebody who was doing it? But
he's like the modern day eye fishing, right.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
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 that makes it your See I see, yeah, that
makes sense. I'm not going to do Harley's routine. Right,
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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, and these people are more than willing if
you ask and.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
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.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
The like.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
So when you get down there is there is there
somebody who does something where you go.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Like, man, that's cool. I got to see that.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Oh they're so for the first year, they are doing
an entire evening of nothing but fire performances.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
This is great.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
I mean it is an entire evening of every act
involving fire in some way or form.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
And you don't. You don't do any fire. I used to,
I don't really anymore. What was your fire thing? Well,
I ate fire. I would do fire minature on fire. Yes,
I remember that, Yes, yes, I remember that.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Why did you stop?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I set myself on fire?
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Okay, yes, like he needs fingers.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
The first time I didn't learn. The second time was like, okay,
probably isn't my thing.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
But now, what do like if somebody, if somebody were like,
if somebody were following the code or just being a
decent human being, if they want to do So, what
do you get called about?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Like you get called for traps and stuff.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
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.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Welcome to it.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
If you succeed, I'm not coming for it. I never
doing it again. It was absolutely miserable, sent me to
the hospital for stitches in my tongue.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I don't want to do it again.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Right.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
I've held this record now for six years and I
don't think any almost ten twenty fourteen, Yeah, nine years,
so twenty sixteen. The rat trap record has been has stood,
and every time I tell everybody I'm not coming for it,
they stop trying. I have not heard of a single
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person that has made an attempt after talking to me.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
So will you do anything at the convention.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
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 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.
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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.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Left that day with a job. Yeah, I absolutely did,
no kidding.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Yeah, 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.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
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 Fare,
it's been a great marriage.
Speaker 4 (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.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
That is all part of it.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Sure, it's a lot less that if I were in
a nightclub, or if I were somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
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, buddy,
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?
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Oh, Reggie, Reggie, Reggie, Reggie bug munch.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Is that what I think it is? Yeah? He just
eats she does. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Reggie, my band. Okay,
the she just eats bugs.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
She eats meal worms. I believe crickets. I think a
goldfish or too. No, I 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, 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.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
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.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
I mean.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
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 would you do that? Right,
But exactly why your reaction is why I did it.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
All right, So you won't do fire. No, you're not.
You're not a needle person. No, I don't like Well,
we don't know that. I haven't tried it. Is there
is there anything else that's kind of off limits for you?
Speaker 4 (30:21):
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.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, but that comes back out right out of him.
But but you've walked on glass.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
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 with my face in
the glass, and have an audience member stand on my head.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
How bad are your feet?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Oh, my feet are fine. Believe it or not. My feet.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
I usually looking at somebody stands on the back of
his head.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
It pushes his face into glass.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
I don't know. I went foot.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
They usually get one foot, see but your but your
feet And you said you usually don't bleed, yeah, very rarely.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
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 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
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to bleed down my face.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
And audience that helped sell the deal. Yeah, it does
kind of.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
But the audience member pointed at me and I was
like what, and 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 It's like, all right,
I've no the sweat just sealed everything.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Have you ever other than like said, did you get
hurt when.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
You set yourself on fire?
Speaker 4 (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.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
It went down.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Because they gave me silvadine cream to put on it.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Then what was the second time? The second time I
was in a nightclub.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
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.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
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. I set myself on fire. Inside, I said,
you know what, we're done. But are those the only
two times you've really gotten hurt with that? Yes? Well,
not just in general injured.
Speaker 4 (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.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Let's go all right, so you know what, and you
know what, Diane, today's the day.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
We might get lucky. This might be the show that
breaks that.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Here we go, all right, So you know, and have
mentioned that I am a sword swallower, and I do
swallow swords, yes, but I constantly do get asked if
the sword is real, there must be.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Something that does roll.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Oh, that's right, that's right, and it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
But there's really no way I can show the sword
to someone.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
That it doesn't do anything. Yeah, I would buy that.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
So I brought today what we call a prover, which
is something that you can swallow that there is no
way you could give.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Okay, you're so quiet because because this is where I'm
mad at myself.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Because I 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.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
That's proof though, that's proof.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
But all the way back around the bugs you can
bring it all the way back around the bugs because.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Okay, so so so this, you swallowed this and this,
there's no wait that somebody would go, oh that rolled
up or that.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Okay, ok correct, 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 fly swater. Yeah,
there's nothing wrong, nothing verified that.
Speaker 6 (34:54):
That's flying strange about it.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yeah, okay, okay, all right, son, swallow it. All right.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
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.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Are you ready for that?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Wait?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
No, because I don't even know what to guess.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
You don't have to get because I was like, well,
let's write down what's gonna happen. So wait, okay, so
you're gonna swallow not not obviously not 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 3 (35:40):
So that's twisted and right, that's gonna go down.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
That's gonna go down the trap.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
And then you're going to you're I'm gonna give you
a moment to do something.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
And then and then what was the last part?
Speaker 4 (35:50):
You will see something that is truly dangerously stupid.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Okay. Can I ask one other question?
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Yes day, what the effort you doing?
Speaker 6 (36:00):
I don't I have to move when I'm nervous marching?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Can you look? You wouldn't look at it?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
And the bucket hanging off.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
His This is far from a bucket, all right, it's
still gross disrespect, by the way.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
I just wanted for your for your sanitary reasons, Diane,
did touch where you're gonna swallow? Yeah, I'll look it, okay,
all right, Oh he looked it too.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
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, Donia,
what do you.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
Do more comfortable?
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Okay? All right? Just real quick? How far? How far down?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
I mean?
Speaker 3 (36:50):
I could see that? Okay, So that's gonna go like
just below.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Like where you're all the weight to the plastic.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
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.
Oh god, wait, how did you okay? Okay, okay, no,
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oh no, we haven't trash?
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Can wait, Diana, 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?
Speaker 6 (37:38):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Okay? So while it was down your.
Speaker 6 (37:46):
Okay, that was close.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Now, while it was down your all the way down your.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Throat, you you shoved your head forward so your head
was back. Right.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
It all goes down in a straight line, right. I
was looking straight up, 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):
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.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
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.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Doing this act.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
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.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
I didn't know that, right, I didn't.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
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.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Right. It was luckily on the top.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Part, not on the part where it goes down, so
I was able to continue doing shows.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
But I didn't know what had happened.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
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.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
I didn't know about it.
Speaker 4 (39:23):
Then I swallowed the sword during the show, finished up
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.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
God, is that blood. I was like, no, it's not blood.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
And I looked at it and the side the sword
was covered in blood, but only on one.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Side, right, So I looked at that and like wiped it.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Off real quick. Nope, 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 4 (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.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
So I figured that may have been it. Sometimes I cough.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Yeah, yeah, what is the when you when you when
you jam your.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
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, damn.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
You like like like weird small talk at your yearly
physical with your doctor.
Speaker 4 (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 watched 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?
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Yeah, because you're right. There's no there's no getting around that.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
No.
Speaker 4 (41:11):
It actually goes in, it goes down, and it gets
bent and it comes out the same way.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Now.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
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 swater, jackass right right?
Speaker 4 (41:30):
So and then I swallowed the sword. I still got
kids at the end coming up. It's like that sword
was faked or whatever it was. I'm like, all right,
the sword was faked. What happened with the fly swater?
Speaker 2 (41:40):
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 3 (41:49):
No, I mean not this but right, no.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
No, but I couldn't do that. What is the what
is how how did you get to that?
Speaker 2 (41:57):
To the fly swater or bending it? 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? Is that known that people will do that
to show that you can do it?
Speaker 4 (42:11):
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.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Gotcha.
Speaker 4 (42:24):
When I became a sword swallower, Tyler Fire handed me
the sword and he said and also here.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
And he gave me the flywater. Oh that's awesome. That's
really good. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:35):
I've never seen that yet. I've never seen the fly
swatter or even the the what you call it the
hanger track?
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Oh yeah, coat hanger. I've never seen that. That's awesome.
Oh I like that. I like that. That's stupid.
Speaker 4 (42:47):
Yeah, absolutely, I told you it was brand specific.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
All right, So when is the when's the next time
you're performed around here?
Speaker 4 (42:58):
The next time I'm performing around here? Uh, maybe the
Virginia in Fair.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Okay, we'll suh. 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.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
That is me perfect dude than I know.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
I mean, it sounds like you're busy as hell, but
thank you, thank you for coming in always Halloween.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
That's awesome. That's great.
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