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Speaker 5 (00:21):
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Speaker 6 (00:22):
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Speaker 9 (00:56):
You know I dropped my bell this morning. People think
I ring a pell sound of fect and it's a
it's a hotel belt. It's like a standard you'd go to.
I've had this for a long time. I probably got
it at you know, an office Max a long time ago,
and it's been beaten up over the years and it's
and I dropped it this morning. Obviously everything around here

(01:19):
is carpeted that so it wasn't like it shattered. But
I'm I wonder, Rob, does it feel different? The sounds different? Well,
I choked it, you know how, sometimes for what I
believe our comedic purposes, I'll.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
Just go yeah, you know, absolutely, you hurt radiop Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:39):
It is.

Speaker 9 (01:40):
Over the years of develop I've given it more kind
of colors and flavors to tailor it to whatever the
you know, if I tell people here's something exciting, I'll
do that.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
I'll let it ring out. But if it's something I'm
less enthused about, it's Yoh, that sounded altogether like that's
what I'm talking.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
I didn't mean to do that.

Speaker 9 (01:58):
That's what I'm saying is that it's taking on a
new timber because I dropped it, and so now maybe
it's a little bit off of its maybe the clapper
is all off of its axis.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
I don't like this. That's not good.

Speaker 9 (02:12):
I know, we'll figure it out. Integral part of the
show man. It's screwing up my Dead Duck Day celebration.
By the way, today's June the fifth, and you might
be somebody who celebrates dead Duck Day. If you go
to deadduck day dot com, you might not be hip
to what all this is this goes back, this would
be the thirtieth anniversary. In fact, June fifth, nineteen ninety

(02:34):
five was the genesis of dead Duck Day.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
This was at the.

Speaker 9 (02:40):
Natural History Museum in Rotterdam. You ever been to Rotterdam? No, okay,
I've never been either. It's a Dutch city, Rotterdam, and
the Natural History Museum there they had just built this
brand new wing.

Speaker 5 (02:59):
It was all gold lass.

Speaker 9 (03:01):
And on that afternoon, this probably would have been around
five or six in the afternoon local time, there was
a local mallard duck that had collided with this brand
new all glass wing there in Rotterdam, and it was
immediately killed, immediately fell to the ground and was immediately

(03:23):
mounted by another duck that was male. And so this
and the people who witness this, I just imagine a
random situation like that growing into this that thirty years
hence a dummies like me, you're talking about Dead duck Day.
But it is June the fifth, and that live duck

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engaged in necrophilia for seventy five minutes. And the reason
that this is so momentous is because right there, you know,
the local scientific community, the ornithielogists, in their midst they
documented it as the first case of homo sexual necrophilia

(04:09):
in the Mallard.

Speaker 5 (04:10):
Duck. Boy, you gotta check a lot of weird.

Speaker 9 (04:13):
Boxes to get you know, when they talk about how
arcane sports stats can be, you know, this is the
first time ever the guy with the last I betta
in a vowve hit three bunths bunted three times.

Speaker 7 (04:26):
Whatever.

Speaker 9 (04:26):
You know, you can manipulate data however you want, sports
statistics or whatever. But it was the first documented case
of a homosexual necrophilia in the Mallard. Now the victim
the duck that once that copulation ended an hour and
fifteen minutes later, they took they scientists or people working there,

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they went out onto that lawn outside and they took
that dead duck and they stuffed it. And it is
currently on display there in the museum. And so if
you're ever at the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, maybe
you've got a trip to Holland, maybe you want to
see where they make heineken, maybe you want to see

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the tulips bloom, you can go see that stuffed duck.
And so every year on this day, June fifth, at
that exact time, this says about five to six pm
local time, they offer they pay homage to the duck
that was in death violated by another male duck.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
I'm just visualizing this stuffed duck with like a larger
than normal aperture.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
Yes, it's just a blown out backside.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (05:42):
Maybe the other duck was poorly hung. Maybe but it
was dead so you couldn't feel anything. But maybe it
had a little bit of life left. And then you
have to think about that too. I mean it took
an hour and fifteen minutes. You don't know that the
duck was immediately dead. I mean the people that were
on the inside and looking like a duck moving, you know,
so to them prior to investigation, they were like, you know,

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so this is really blown up worldwide. You know, that
started there at the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam. People
gather to celebrate Dead Duck Day. Not only a dramatic death.
Duck hits a thick glass window and falls to its death.
It's immediately a live animal starts copulating with it, and

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so is some people have you know, it's taken on
mythic proportions. Some people see that as a metaphor for
other things. But it is celebrated in various parts of
the world. It's celebrated outside Europe. Now I don't know
that there are any There probably aren't any local Dead
Duck Day celebrations in northeast Ohio.

Speaker 5 (06:49):
But I didn't look into it. We just had one,
did we, I think so?

Speaker 10 (06:54):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (06:55):
We gave it a couple of minutes on the air,
we talked about it celebrated the day. I would say,
that's so orty.

Speaker 11 (07:00):
You mean this?

Speaker 12 (07:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Oh right, now, yeah, this is probably and you can
add this to the list of firsts. You said we
were going to go on a journey today, are we
going on a journey? This is where we started.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
You know that deserves all.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
Right with Celia, homosexuality, right with ducks, with ducks, ducks.

Speaker 9 (07:19):
Not one single human was harmed in that anecdote, and
that well maybe you were, maybe your ears were harmed
in that retelling.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
But that's a you problem, not a me problem.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
I've never wished I could do a Donald Duck impression more.

Speaker 9 (07:32):
Yeah, I don't even have a duck sound effect because
I'm honoring the tradition. Rob, I'm not mocking it all.
And I hate your long hair you should cut it. Well,
now I'm never gonna cut it. Do you know anything
about me at all? It wasn't even a thought in
my mind until you told me you didn't like it,
and now I'm going to grow it to my goddamn ankles.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
How do you like that? I like it a lot.

Speaker 9 (07:59):
Actually, as if I asked you what you thought you
aggravated Alan today?

Speaker 3 (08:06):
I love it.

Speaker 9 (08:07):
I am I'm aggravated today company, and it's one of
those days. I don't even know what. I kind of
know why, but it's one of those days where I
don't really know why, but I'm just aggravated. And I
Sometimes I know some of the audience likes aggravated Alan
and he hasn't been around in a while because I'm like, listen, man,
we're here to have fun. And then other days I'm like,

(08:29):
I'm leaning into it, and today might be one of
those days. Now, obviously it's nothing I can sustain or
want to sustain for the next four hours.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Imagine every day being like that. That's my Some people, well,
I'm always pretty pissed off. I'm waiting for the next
thing to push me over.

Speaker 9 (08:47):
I understand all the time, I know, but I I yes,
of course, there's a there's a deep there's a deep
uh river of U something always under the surface. Yeah,
but we're trying to live in the world, right, trying

(09:11):
to live in the world. And so but again, and
this is a terrible part of my personality too. And
there are so many to choose from, understood, but the
one that I don't care for is wow, I can
be reflexively contrarian. Where somebody goes, well, don't do that,
I go, well, now I'm going to do it all
the time, right, And it just comes from being bullied

(09:34):
as a kid, comes from strict parents and being bullied
as a kid. I'm like, I didn't even want to
do that until you told me I couldn't do it,
and now that's all I want to do. So when
somebody goes, hey, don't do that, I go, you shouldn't
have said anything unsolicited. By the way, unsolicited. My mom

(09:55):
liked it, sat on Oh my god, your hair saw it?

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Unface?

Speaker 9 (09:58):
I go, how did you see my hair? I'm going
home for a couple of days next week for my
dad's memorial mass. I haven't seen her in person since Thanksgiving, and.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
I go, how did you say?

Speaker 7 (10:07):
Eye.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
Is it on Facebook? I go, okay, yeah, I forget
my mom's on Facebook.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
She loves that's on Facebook. I love the impression of
your mom.

Speaker 5 (10:17):
That's how she sounds. You've never heard her.

Speaker 9 (10:19):
She's been on the show a couple of times over
the years, and that's how she sounds.

Speaker 5 (10:22):
That's so Funny's voice like.

Speaker 9 (10:25):
She's like, yeah, she's like very very not soft spoken,
but I mean she just has like a very soft voice.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
Yes, like a feminine I'm sure I have a clip
of my mom.

Speaker 9 (10:38):
I've it's come up in the best of before I
had Michael, I did one of those dumb Michael Bolton
songs for my mom.

Speaker 5 (10:44):
Oh where they would put your they would put your.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Name in.

Speaker 5 (10:49):
Full full boldness. Sing a birthday song for you.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Can you believe it?

Speaker 7 (10:54):
Ye?

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Right?

Speaker 5 (10:56):
Happy birthday mommy.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Seventy? Can you believe my mom is seventy? Listen to her.

Speaker 5 (11:02):
That's how long ago this was, and she's what now
she's in November, she'll be seventy eight. That was eight
years ago. By my math, Look at you doing math?

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Pressed the yellow button to begin enjoying your Alan?

Speaker 10 (11:17):
What Isn't an Alan?

Speaker 7 (11:18):
In show?

Speaker 5 (11:19):
On one of two point seven w mms.

Speaker 13 (11:27):
Were you ever in one of those scream movies? You've
been in everything I was. I was not one scream.

Speaker 7 (11:33):
I know.

Speaker 9 (11:34):
Michael Rappaport is here, he's in Cleveland. He's an actor,
he's a comedian, he's a philosopher, he's a provocateur. And
he said, probably a hell of a dancer. Are you
a good dancer at all? I'm a married guy, right,
you gotta.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
Learn you're a philosopher that a dancer.

Speaker 13 (11:51):
And saying I'm a philosopher as a stretch, Well, listen,
you are everywhere though.

Speaker 9 (11:56):
Yes, I hear you on stern during football seasons saying awful,
awful things to Gary.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
Well you call him Gary, I call him.

Speaker 5 (12:03):
I know you call him awful things. It's high hilarrics.

Speaker 9 (12:07):
It's it's interesting that you call him Gary. A professional courtesy. Well,
that is not you're not really understand that. It's it's
actually a monkey that they brought him from the wilderness
and shaved.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Down and trained gold. That's it.

Speaker 9 (12:22):
That is a professional courtesy and somewhat of a stretch.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
But it's right, that's right.

Speaker 9 (12:26):
But you have been in some of our favorite films,
some of our favorite television shows. I love the show Justified.
You were on that Love Justified. That's coming back. I
don't know if you have any part of that, but
you're in an all time like Chappelle's show Sketchy. I mean,
you got a million things you've done. Thank you very much.
Is it is it safe to say that you're getting

(12:48):
back to roots by doing stand up? You moved out
West as a young young man, did you stand up? No?
I don't look at it like that. I don't look
at it like that. I mean, I started out as
a when I was nineteen. I didn't really know exactly
what I wanted to be. I thought I was going
to be like a comedian. I wanted to be the

(13:08):
next Eddie Murphy. That was my goal, and I thought
everybody did right, everybody did it. I thought i'd be
a comedian as then a comedian that went into acting.

Speaker 13 (13:17):
But I didn't know that I would fall in love with,
you know, just dramatic acting and sort of.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
Just straight acting. Were you at all?

Speaker 5 (13:28):
Were you at all professionally trained?

Speaker 4 (13:30):
No?

Speaker 9 (13:31):
Through that some people are like it just comes out
of me. I have an acumen for it. You didn't
like you weren't taking cell handler.

Speaker 14 (13:36):
No.

Speaker 9 (13:37):
I would get called in for auditions when I would
be on stage being a young, very very very raw comedian,
and the first time I read scenes to audition, it
made more sense than any sport that I had dreamt

(13:58):
of playing, Okay, and it just was like I could
do this.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
I was like, not only could I do I'm going
to do this. I got this.

Speaker 9 (14:05):
I'm going to do this and uh, you know, and
then I started getting cast in films and and and
you know, and eventually stopped doing stand up and you know,
fell deeply in love with with acting. And then in
about three or four years ago, like probably about a
year before the pandemic, I started doing stand up and
then the pandemic. You know, it's perfect timing, Yeah, yeah,

(14:26):
and uh. And then I've been you know, back doing
stand up and you know, I really love it. It's fun,
it's unpredictable, it's you're in charge of everything, which is
unlike you know, being an actor, because as an actor
you have to defer to an editor, you have to
defer to the directors and sometimes you know, executives, you

(14:47):
might not even make it into the thing. You might
make it into the thing or or the thing that
you wanted to make into the thing doesn't.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Make it into the thing, right, But I still love it.

Speaker 9 (14:55):
But you know, I love just the the sort of
the the unpredictability of stand up and the predictability of it.
And I also love the fact that you know it's
it's it's you're You're in control.

Speaker 13 (15:08):
So I really enjoy that, and I love, you know,
the immediacy, the immediacy of being in.

Speaker 5 (15:13):
Front of a crowd is the best.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
And especially with a guy like you who has such
a big personality and has you know, you're somewhat opinionated, I.

Speaker 13 (15:23):
Would say, yes, yes, yes, you've made one or two
calls on some things.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Ye go up on stage and you can you're going
to get a reaction out of the crowd one way
or the other. And yes, uh, it's very fun to watch.
And I mean just you're you're an actor that has
made a name for himself just being a personality, which
I think is pretty rare because a lot of times,
you know, it's everybody thinks the person on the screen

(15:47):
is who they are. You are, you have your own
person out of that people they hear Michael, or they
hear your voice on it right now.

Speaker 5 (15:54):
Yeah, they know who that is.

Speaker 13 (15:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know that that that part of
my career, that part of my arsenal, that part of
my persona was really un calculated.

Speaker 9 (16:07):
You know, the the social media and in the last
five or six years of everything that's been going on
in the world, and you know, my opinions and uh,
it just sort of happened.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
I didn't plan it.

Speaker 9 (16:22):
You know, there's there's goods and there's some things that
are bad about it, but I'm glad it is what
it is.

Speaker 8 (16:33):
You know.

Speaker 13 (16:33):
I I definitely always had opinions, but social media, you know,
people get to see them.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
And hear them. H and everyone's are amplified.

Speaker 9 (16:41):
Everybody Obviously, if you have more people following you, you're
still going to be larger than life, even in that space.
But everybody has kind of been there. There's a certain
democracy to it. Not a meritocracy, of course, but I
mean there's certain you know, every jag off now has
a microphone, including myself.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
Well we all do, right, we all do.

Speaker 13 (17:01):
Yes, So it's an interesting thing and you know, it's
brought me a sort of whole other sort of I
don't want to say career it's a notoriety or something
like that.

Speaker 5 (17:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (17:16):
I don't know exact word. Like I said, you know,
there's you know, there's things that are I love about it.
There's other things that my wife doesn't love about it.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Right.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
She also like is just like shut up. You know
you're in the room like I'm dating with videos, She's like,
shut up.

Speaker 14 (17:30):
You know.

Speaker 13 (17:32):
So I like to have fun where they got to
take the rough with the smooth, honey.

Speaker 9 (17:35):
I don't know how to tell you exactly. So I
like to have fune with it. And you know, I'm
happy to be here in Cleveland. I'm happy to be
performing at the improvt I'm looking forward to, uh, you know,
a good weekend here. And the weather just the sun
just came out for me today, which I love and
I'm excited about that. I know this is nothing to
you guys, like a little snow. It's like sunbathing weather.

Speaker 5 (17:55):
It's a surfing weather.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
This is beach weather for yeah.

Speaker 9 (17:58):
So Michael rabbit Port is at Cleveland Improv. There's two
shows tonight, two shows tomorrow night. Go to Cleveland Improv
dot com for the details. Part of I Think the
unpredictability for you is the audience assuming they're gonna get
one guy and you'll probably give them another guy at
least part of you know what I mean, it's people.
You seem like somebody that people want a pigeonhole.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah, I mean, you know, like.

Speaker 9 (18:20):
I said, it's social media. I you know, you definitely
you know what I'm doing. Stand up, you get a
you know, a well rounded human being, you know, in
the flesh. You know, a lot of times there's social media.
One of the things that people like will come up
to me, like fans or something will come up to
me and.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Be like, you know, what the half is? What the
haf that you know?

Speaker 9 (18:41):
And I'm like, I'm not, you know, like people expect
me to be on full tilt all the time. Obviously
on on stage, I am on full tilt. But but
I you know, it's not just a you know, yelling,
you know, I talk. The thing about being a trash
talker is that.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
I feel like you have to make fun of yourself
first and foremost fuse the whole.

Speaker 13 (19:00):
Thing because if you're going to talk about everybody else,
I feel like you have to be able to give
it as good as you take it. And that's definitely
what I do.

Speaker 5 (19:06):
What is Michael Rappaport insecure about?

Speaker 7 (19:09):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (19:09):
Man, have been is will be?

Speaker 11 (19:12):
Man?

Speaker 5 (19:12):
That's a good question, man, that's man. What am I
insecure about?

Speaker 9 (19:17):
I mean like if somebody were to, if somebody had
never been asked, that's a good question.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
I feel like I'm in therapist.

Speaker 5 (19:23):
If well, because I think of the perspective of, you know,
we have some notoriety here locally, you don't have any
fans of the show, and people know us or whatever,
and every so often you'll get an insult from someone
that you would never tell them in a million years
really got to you and they don't know it, but
it just happened to They got you at the right
spot and you go on with your day.

Speaker 9 (19:43):
But it's like, God, that sucks. They nailed me, and
I'll never tell It's a good question. I support interpersonal things.
It's not like professional things or public things.

Speaker 6 (19:53):
You know.

Speaker 13 (19:53):
I mean, you know, you get insecure about, you know,
getting older, you get insecure about.

Speaker 6 (20:01):
You know.

Speaker 9 (20:01):
My deepest insecurities is like you know, just like you
know who I am as a person, and who I
am you know, uh to my wife, and who I
am as a father, and you know, those are the
things that I'm mostly concerned about. Like as far as
were you more of a hothead as a younger guy,
I think I'm probably, to be honest with you, I'm

(20:22):
probably more of a hotthead now. But but but calculated, yeah, calculated,
So surgical bursts, surgical burst.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
But I'm never hot heead Yeah, but they're like there,
but even then, there's been bursts.

Speaker 9 (20:34):
Even then, there were when I was younger, there was bursts,
Like I'm not an out of control person, right that.
That's one of the things that I don't like about
my online persona is that people think I'm like, yo,
this guy's.

Speaker 5 (20:47):
Crazy, right, And I will say that I can you're passionate.

Speaker 9 (20:53):
No, no, people think I'm nuts, And and I will
say that ninety nine point nine percent of my social
media stuff has all been one hundred percent calculated.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
And and except that Walgreens video.

Speaker 9 (21:06):
Well that was that was I wasn't the guy stealing, no,
I know, but did you shoot it around past?

Speaker 3 (21:13):
That was crazy? That was wild. That was nuts.

Speaker 9 (21:15):
Michael's inying a Walgreens. He's like, I guess people are
just taking stuff.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
Now.

Speaker 13 (21:18):
It's wild to see that you know, like to see
the dude just so casually just shopping and then walk
out that was bugged out.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
It was if you saw where it was.

Speaker 9 (21:29):
I mean like it was like you couldn't be in
a more busier corner and the and the and the
security guard was like, Oh, it's all the time, all
the time, and he's not gonna get stabbed. He's like,
I'm making twelve fifteen hours. Like it's all different, all
different kinds of people. There's a couple of two white
dudes came in the other day. They were I took
a bunch of beers, young college kids.

Speaker 13 (21:49):
They told me peace when I mean, it's all different
kinds of people and make you.

Speaker 9 (21:53):
Wonder what you have to do to lose a retail
security job exactly, you.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
Know what I mean, like you just trying to stop.
That's how you could go jam for that. I've told
the story.

Speaker 9 (22:05):
I grew up in Chicago and thirty years ago I'm
managing a Blockbuster video in Chicago.

Speaker 5 (22:11):
It was VHS days, right.

Speaker 9 (22:13):
This dude runs into like a duster and back then,
you know, the Indiana Jones three pack was like this
and he puts it in his coat and I chase
him and I get it back, but I got way busted.

Speaker 5 (22:24):
You got in trouble.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
Yes for Chade.

Speaker 13 (22:25):
They're like, that's not policy. That kind of stuff Jones DVD.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
People need to have that.

Speaker 5 (22:33):
V that's a popular It's not just a random video.

Speaker 7 (22:37):
We can go.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
We need that three pack.

Speaker 9 (22:40):
It was Raiders, it was the it was uh Doumble
of Doom and the Sean Connery One Last Crusader.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
You're a hero for that. Well I thought so, but
they didn't think so.

Speaker 9 (22:53):
U Michael rappaported the Cleveland Improv Tonight two shows Tomorrow
night two showes you go to Cleveland. Was there a
familial connection to the Improv? Not back in the day,
not what so much on what is it called Wikipedia?
But my let's just say, let's just say my stepfather's

(23:14):
it's not gonna be blood. He was one of the
owners of the Improv. And when I was a teenager,
like when I would come visit, excuse me, my sister,
when in nineteen eighty three, I'd come out and visit,
you know, I'd walk into the Improv and and this
is a time when comedy is kind of like where
it is now is a big boom of comedy.

Speaker 5 (23:34):
So this wasn't Bud. This was so much no Mark okay, and.

Speaker 13 (23:37):
Uh, you know, and and I would watch these comedians
at the time.

Speaker 9 (23:40):
I never thought about being a comedian. I always thought
I was going to be in the NBA, which obviously
didn't happen. I didn't getty close. Excuse me, but I,
you know, would watch all these comedians and and you know,
I mean everybody, Rodney Dangerfield, jaylen Or, Jerry Seinfeld, Keenan Ivory, Wayne's,
all of them like a masterclass.

Speaker 5 (23:59):
Watch those guys. Yeah, was your dad in the radio biz.
Excuse me.

Speaker 9 (24:06):
My father was the general manager of a radio station
in New York City called w K two Disco ninety two.

Speaker 5 (24:14):
Yeah, and it was at first it was a mellow
rock station.

Speaker 13 (24:19):
And then in nineteen seventy eight, sorry, he made the
decision to uh have them play old disco yeah and
discos white hot then and they flipped it.

Speaker 9 (24:28):
Yeah, And they went from the bottom of the ratings
to the top of the ratings. And you know, I
remember being in the in the DJ booth like this,
except for the DJs, you know, be playing records on
yeah you know, uh uh you know, with a needle
and they and like I was like, you know, unruly
seven eight year old, and they were like, don't come don't.

Speaker 5 (24:46):
Don't come over your Yeah, that's actually what they're playing.
Needles got to stay on the record. Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 (24:52):
Well but that disco thing too, k to you at
that time. I mean they were like white hot. But
like a year and a half when disco died, man
and every radio station that had gone distance and died
with it.

Speaker 5 (25:02):
Yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 9 (25:03):
And then you know, and then Katie went to I
don't know, a rock format and then you know, it
was one hundred things after one hundreds different things. Yeah,
but you know, and but it was a fun time
and you know it it was something I remember and uh,
you know, just being at the radio station and there
was a record room. There was a room you know
where all the DJs would get all the records and

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it was like, you know, probably like.

Speaker 5 (25:24):
A rooms this size and it was just filled with
the records.

Speaker 9 (25:28):
Yeah, it was cool. How long have you been married.
You've been married a long time. I have been married
now for five years.

Speaker 13 (25:36):
Have been with my wife for like thirteen years, okay,
and this is my second marriage. Divorce was cool. Well yeah, yeah,
so Alimoni is awesome. Sometimes you know, you got the
only way fantastic.

Speaker 9 (25:51):
I just finished out. But well I finished it last summer.
I have two kids in college. But I also because
it's I'm married twice, I have a first grader.

Speaker 5 (25:59):
So why started all over again? Yes? But child support
technically over.

Speaker 13 (26:06):
One?

Speaker 9 (26:07):
Good good good good, good for you, good for you.
I I I talk about a lot about that on stage. Okay,
I took a lot about stage.

Speaker 13 (26:14):
It's a relatable subject, very relatable subject subject.

Speaker 9 (26:17):
And and and he puts you through the highs and
lows that child support slash alimony. So at what point,
after you had decided to get back on stage again
and had been doing it for a while, at what
point did you go, let's take this on the road.

Speaker 5 (26:32):
Or was it suggested to you like six months afterwards?

Speaker 7 (26:35):
Uh, you know, and.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
You know it's it was suggested to me.

Speaker 9 (26:41):
It was definitely an idea, you know, you know, I
I have the you know, the fortunate situation of people
knowing who I am, right, so I was able to
use that to my advantage to you know, go out
of the road.

Speaker 5 (26:54):
But it's a double edged sword. Though it's a double
edged sword.

Speaker 9 (26:57):
But you know, I'm a pro in like I will
now fail in terms of like a live show.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Right, if you come to see me, you're going.

Speaker 5 (27:06):
To get a show.

Speaker 9 (27:08):
Because I have so much respect for the opportunity to
be on your phone to watch the Cavaliers game that
you know, to do whatever, to to to Netflix and
chill to you know, to Hulu and chill to you know, uh,
you know, do whatever in chill. So if you come
out to a show, like, I'm going to give you

(27:30):
a show, and uh, you know, and and like I,
you know, like I, I don't lollygag through you know,
on the road, because it's you know, people, people have opportunities,
and people work hard, you know.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
And and you know, to come out and see you,
you need to give them something.

Speaker 9 (27:43):
Well, and you're a dynamic personality too, so nobody's gonna
walk out going Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Where was the first place you went up when you
decided to go back up and start doing stand up again?

Speaker 5 (27:54):
Do you remember that the Improv lab and Improv Lab
in LA which is a.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
Very very uh the little room, small room.

Speaker 13 (28:02):
In Hollywood, and and uh, you know it's a it's
a great place to sort of practice.

Speaker 9 (28:06):
And then I'm not older, or did you go at
people knowing that you were no unbuilt? It was Bert
Kreischer and Whitney Cummings. They were the ones that had
no career at all, man, but they were the ones
that really encouraged me to to to to go back
and start doing stand up and and I very much
appreciate both of them for doing that because I love

(28:28):
doing it. But they were really like, you gotta do
what you gotta do. And then Whitney was like, you know,
you gotta do what you gotta do. And I was
like and then she's like, just come EMC for me.
I'm doing something at the lab. And I was like,
all right, all right, I'll come EMC for you. You know,
which is low pressure, you know, because you could just
get off the stage any any night, anytime you want.

Speaker 13 (28:45):
And then I got the bug and I was like,
all right, I got to get your sea legs. Though exactly,
I definitely have to get your sea legs. Definitely have
to get your sea legs. And you know, and and
and especially now nowadays, you know, there's you know, uh,
there's so many people get so upset about what she.

Speaker 9 (29:01):
Should say, what you can't say it people. Sometimes it
feels like people come to h to like be like
principles and take report cards on what you said and
what you didn't say, and and and they start off
with crossed arms and kind of make me laugh that
kind of thing, you know. Yeah, and also just like
you know, like you know what's appropriate what's not appropriate.

Speaker 5 (29:20):
So I just tried to let my hands fly and
do my thing.

Speaker 9 (29:23):
Speaking of Hulu, the latest season of Only Murders in
the Building and you'll find Michael Rappaport in that awesome show,
very good show. It was fun to see you because
you weren't in it for a little bit in that season.
It was very fun to see you pop up and
there he is, pop up there. I hadn't heard anything
about you being in it, and that show is fantastic.

Speaker 15 (29:42):
It was so fun.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
It was a fun bad guy to play.

Speaker 9 (29:46):
It was exciting to be working cross the camera across
the the way from Steve Martin and Martin Schwortz and
Sevina Gomez.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
And you know, I've been such a fan of Steve
Martin and Martin.

Speaker 9 (30:01):
Tull for so long to like be in front of
them was really cool and you know, it brought out
you know, excite me to me and of course obviously
they were excited to work with of course me as well.
Had you met any of them before or No? I
hadn't met them. No, I hadn't met either one of them.
And you know, like I said, you know, particularly Steve Martin,
you know, like from you know, the inception of Saturday

(30:24):
Night Live and watching.

Speaker 13 (30:26):
Him and he was so weird, you know, like as
a kid, he was so weird, you know, and his
hair was gray. It was like, what the heck is
up with this dude? And you know, then all his
movies and but like my first memory was like what
you know, and he's singing in this wild and crazy guy.
I'm like, you know, as a kid, like I was
always my first memory like what is this guy's deal?

Speaker 9 (30:46):
So to be working with him and that context also
like to be sort of you know, cursing at him
and all.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
It was fun. It was fun.

Speaker 9 (30:53):
Michael Rappaport is if the Cleveland Improv tonight. He's in
town tonight for two shows, in town tomorrow night for
two shows.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
That's right.

Speaker 9 (31:02):
You go to Cleveland Improv dot com for the details
and it's a thrill to meet you.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
Very nice to meet you. Thank you for coming, and
I appreciate the question.

Speaker 9 (31:11):
Good luck out there, and I love this new downtown
stage here, this this studio is fantastic.

Speaker 13 (31:17):
If you had a haul ass to our old crap hole,
I heard out there it was out there.

Speaker 5 (31:23):
Yeah, it's nice to meet you me. Thank you for
coming in The Allen Cox Show on one hundred MMS.
I met Alan, I gave him marijuana.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
Oh great, The.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
Allen Cox Show on ONEMMS.

Speaker 9 (31:41):
Allen you really put me in my fields when you
guys were talking about Bob Eucker dying not for the
baseball but for the mister Belvidere conversation. I did hear
that from a lot of people, by the way, who
had kind of gone back and dug into some Mister
Belvidere because and again that I don't know how long

(32:02):
that show was on. I feel like we've run the
Mandela effect on that show, and I don't know that
it was on for very long. But that was where
a national audience got to know Bob Yucker aside from
beer commercials. The Mister Belvitere theme song, of course, always
jumped out of me because the late great Leon Redbone

(32:23):
sang it. And this was a guy who didn't really
want to do anything all that commercial, you know, had
a very distinctive voice.

Speaker 5 (32:31):
Drop kick a baby, whar you come in that door?

Speaker 8 (32:34):
Whatever?

Speaker 13 (32:34):
He says, Right, no one cares. Holes call your mama,
kick a baby, when you call.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
Me in my door, come to call your mama. Horror,
No one cares.

Speaker 5 (32:51):
He's doing detergent commercials.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
Not long, remember Leon Redbone?

Speaker 5 (32:55):
Yeah, like he would do SNL back in the seventies.
He was a guy you looked at and you thought.

Speaker 9 (32:58):
He was in like a cop stum or something because
he had dark glasses and a hat, had like a
three piece suit on in a mustache, like you couldn't
tell if he was twenty five or sixty, this guy
Leon Redbone. But uh, yeah, the Mister Belvitere theme song
six seasons.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
So oh it was on that long.

Speaker 5 (33:17):
Yeah, I did not know that.

Speaker 9 (33:20):
I thought maybe it was on a couple and we
thought that it had been on for a long time.
All right, drop kicker baby, you wanted to come in
on a.

Speaker 3 (33:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (33:30):
He died a few years ago, died in twenty nineteen.
He was like from Greece or something. But he came
up in Toronto and I remember him doing commercials for
all Detergent.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
I could see what today.

Speaker 5 (33:50):
What is his real name?

Speaker 3 (33:52):
Dick Wren? Uh go bleak okay, like he was a Greek.
Dick Wren is his first name? I well, probably Dick Ran,
the Dick Ran and then British cys cypriot.

Speaker 16 (34:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (34:10):
Died in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Kick Baby, Kick a baby.

Speaker 13 (34:15):
When you come in on door, no one cares, stole
all the waffles, Call your mama, no one's there.

Speaker 5 (34:24):
I want the words to be that now. Yeah, I'm
never going to hear that the same.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
Nope.

Speaker 9 (34:29):
He came to Canada in the mid sixties and changed
his name via the Ontario Change of Name act or Akna,
and his parents are from Jerusalem. He was Armenian. Speaking
of Armenian. He was checking with a buddy who lives
in Glendale, California. That is all that's where system of
a Down is from. It's other than my friend and

(34:49):
his wife. It's almost all Armenians in Glendale, and I
was checking in on him because they're right over the
mountains from the eaton Fire. That is still burning, and
I'm like, I'm looking at Pasadena and Alta Dina, and
I'm word to them and he's like, we're good.

Speaker 5 (35:02):
He goes, but it was really really hairy.

Speaker 9 (35:05):
He's like, we're bumping up our insurance coverage as we speak,
but he's like five minutes from us. People got fully ft,
so it was really you know, one hundred mile an
hour winds don't care if there's a mountain range between
you and your between you and the fire. So it
was a very very hairy situation for them for a while.

(35:27):
Evacuated for a bit, packed all their crap in their cars,
and you know, so I'm glad at least for them,
it doesn't look as dire anymore. If I met Leon
Redbone Detergent commercial now that I want to hear that
drop kicker baby, Yeah, called your Mama the stain after right,

(35:58):
that was his commercial deck in the day, Like the Ease. Yeah,
I think where the ring leaves us, that makes things new.

Speaker 17 (36:05):
Introducing fresh Rain All it has the steam lifting power
of regular all with a clean Fresh Rain center that's
fresh Rain, a l.

Speaker 5 (36:15):
L Fresh Rain, a l owl clean up a baby.

Speaker 17 (36:24):
My favorite gens where I'm sure Martin, how'd you keep clean?

Speaker 3 (36:29):
Favorite times?

Speaker 17 (36:30):
Stans on my favorite gene all Mama lifts on my
lifting the steam lift.

Speaker 5 (36:37):
That's all stay left a l owl Wow Won how
much they paid him?

Speaker 9 (36:43):
I mean, he has such a distinctive voice, and I
don't recall him then becoming like wildly in demand for
commercial work. I mean those all commercials stand out to
me for a reason because you were like, oh my god,
I didn't even know who it was. It was on
television and I think my mom was like, oh, oh
my god, that's Leon Redbone And I'm like, pardon me,

(37:03):
is that a real person's name?

Speaker 5 (37:05):
Kally It wasn't. He made that name up. But it
looks like he did a ton of commercials.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
He did Bud Budweiser, he did US automobile brand Geo,
he did all UH inner City British rail service. He
voiced UH for dog food commercials like he was on
everything okay in Canada.

Speaker 9 (37:27):
Here oh here, Yeah, I've based on the text I've
ruined this song for people now ruined or improved.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
Drop pick a coming.

Speaker 6 (37:40):
No one can.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
Call your mama, no one there. He turn off around.

Speaker 15 (37:54):
Hand.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
Just look out.

Speaker 13 (37:55):
There's a change in his name changing the status. I
wonder one of the sitcom theme song has the free
status quo in it that has a change and the status.

Speaker 17 (38:06):
Whoa arrivals more than their super.

Speaker 8 (38:13):
Good luck?

Speaker 9 (38:14):
Yes, a boy with Bob Uker. Eileen Graff played the wife.
I thought she was super foxy and yeah, kick a baby, jar,
I think you.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Took it from drop kick a jacket, right, baby coming
that door?

Speaker 5 (38:37):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 9 (38:40):
Stole all the waffles to call your mama horror. You
can make your listen, make your own right. Perhaps you
can improve on mine.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (38:55):
Anybody can all. And I must express my disappointment in you,
which is something you profess, something you profess to be
used to, Yes, as a.

Speaker 9 (39:02):
Cultural connoisseur that I envisioned you to be. But you've
not seen Brave Heart or The Patriot.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (39:08):
My perception of you is well, it's still the same,
But damn, I've just never I've never seen either of
those movies.

Speaker 5 (39:18):
I know they're very popular. Again, I've said this many times.
I'm on record.

Speaker 9 (39:22):
There are a lot of classic, considered classic movies I've
never seen. Over our Christmas break, we watched Gremlins with
our daughter for the first time, thinking she might enjoy that.
I had never seen Gremlins. I've never seen Brave Heart.
It didn't look like something that I would enjoy. They're like, oh,

(39:45):
the Scots revolt against the English? Cool, okay, right, Wasn't
The Patriot just a retread of something along those lines?

Speaker 3 (39:54):
Pretty much?

Speaker 7 (39:55):
Right?

Speaker 5 (39:56):
Oh, the British are here and my wife's dead, I
got But yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
I don't. I'm I'm more surprised you haven't seen Major
League honestly.

Speaker 5 (40:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (40:07):
Again, I've never sat down and watched the whole thing.
I've seen bits and pieces that should be your weekend homework.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 9 (40:14):
I'm way more prone to watching Major League because it's
funny and like the cast and all that. But like
The Patriot and Brave Heart and he Ledger was in
The Patriot as a young man.

Speaker 3 (40:25):
Yeah, yeah, you have to be in the right headspace
for those movies, though, you know what I mean, Like.

Speaker 5 (40:27):
It's literally hours, right, three hours long?

Speaker 3 (40:31):
Like I don't what.

Speaker 9 (40:34):
I watched Apocalypto. That's a Mel Gibson movie, and that
was long. I don't even think it was in English, right,
they did it in like some dead language. That was
period appropriate, I guess, but yeah, no, I listen. Braveheart
is one of those movies.

Speaker 7 (40:49):
I get it.

Speaker 9 (40:51):
Made a lot of money. Well, made a lot of
money for the time. You know, that was nineteen ninety
five and made two hundred and nine million dollars. Now,
if the movie of that scale made two hundred and
nine million dollars, it'd be like, this is a flop.
Putting got really good reviews and you know, yeah, it
was good.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
But again, I don't I mean, in the order of
you needing to watch something, I don't think that that's
toward the top by any means.

Speaker 5 (41:14):
It's good.

Speaker 3 (41:15):
I still haven't watched Uh, what's the one about the
nuclear bomb that just that day after?

Speaker 5 (41:20):
No, No, the newer one that just.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
Not sure?

Speaker 14 (41:25):
No?

Speaker 3 (41:25):
What no, the one about the guy that designed the
nuclear bomb? Oh Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer. Oh yeah, yeah, I still
haven't watched that because it's too long. In my brain.
I'll watch three episodes of something back to back to back,
but when I sit down and.

Speaker 9 (41:39):
I'm like, oh, I can't commit to a three hour
I understand. I saw Oppenheimer in the theater. I wanted
to see it like in imax. I didn't want to
watch it on my television. So movies like Dune, Oppenheimer like,
I'll go see those in the theater.

Speaker 5 (41:54):
We want to see those in the theater.

Speaker 3 (41:56):
Yeah, I'd love to see it, I really would. I
have to get past that. The thing I think. Somebody
send you a YouTube video, right, the first thing you
do is look into the corner to see how long
the goddamn thing is, and if it's longer than like
forty five seconds, you like, im out, yes, that's right.

Speaker 9 (42:11):
And you know, back in the day when I was
managing a Blockbuster video, you knew you were in for
it when it was a double VHS pack, right, Yeah,
most of them. You look on the back and it
would tell you the run time and you go, okay,
well it can't be too long because it fits on
one VHS cassette. But if it was a double pack,

(42:33):
you're like, woof, I'll be sitting down for this one.
Pop some popcorn. More ideas. We were talking about our
show signature cocktail that I quickly dubbed the Lady roller
Coaster for reasons that I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
It just came out.

Speaker 18 (42:52):
Alan Rob drink idea, you get green tea flavored iced
coffee with boba in the bottom, like those little tabioca balls.
You go oho and have it rimmed with either crushed
up thin mint Girl Scout cookies or crushed up espresso beans,
and then you drop a shot of kalua in it,
and as you drink it, you freak out that you're
gonna choke a little bit and die, just like we

(43:14):
freak out a little bit every day that they're gonna
let you guys off and kill the show. Think about it,
Thank you buy.

Speaker 5 (43:21):
You feel like you're gonna die.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
I do like boba.

Speaker 5 (43:23):
I like boba in the smoothies. I really do, do
you really? I love it? Yes, there's this place in
Toronto that I went to you.

Speaker 9 (43:32):
It was literally like this hole in the wall in
between two big stores right there on Queen Street, and
every time I was there, I would get You had
to go up two flights of stairs to this Chinese
restaurant that was tucked in the back, and they had
the best goddamn boba drinks because I don't like the
milk ones are like the smoothie ones kind of, but

(43:53):
you put the you put the tapioca in there. Yum.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
It's the texture thing for me.

Speaker 9 (43:58):
I think I love it because sometimes they're a little
they're a little hard in the middle and chew them.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
Hmmm, I'm me.

Speaker 5 (44:08):
On the subject of TikTok. By the way, it came
up pretty.

Speaker 9 (44:14):
Pretty explicitly in this thing signs that you're an embarrassing parent.
They did another one of these surveys about whether or
not you know cool parents. They think they're cool parents,
but obviously your kids are never gonna think that. I've
never understood this push to be seen as a cool parent.

Speaker 5 (44:37):
I never understood it. Like I was never cool at all.

Speaker 9 (44:40):
So there's no way I'm going to be a cool
parent because your kids are not down with the things
that you can tell them about pop culture. You know,
putting your kid in a Ramones T shirt does not
make you a cool parent. They don't know what the
hell that is, nor do they care. You go to
Target and they have like toddler Ramones tea shirts. Okay,

(45:02):
they don't care. But a lot of you know kids obviously,
and one of them was you know, things that make
kids embarrassed of their parents, And one of the big ones,
big big ones was when their parents try to do
viral TikTok dance routines. Now, if you're having fun with
your kids, you know, it's more likely that your kid

(45:22):
has probably got the TikTok than you do.

Speaker 5 (45:24):
So we've all seen those.

Speaker 9 (45:27):
But I never understood the notion that you that it
was important to be a cool parent, that your kid
thought you were cool, Like if they if they do,
if you're fortunate enough to have a really good ongoing
relationship with your kids and they end up going, yeah,
I don't like. When I grew up, my parents were
super strict, but I didn't hate my parents. They did

(45:47):
the best they could. And you know, when I was little,
little out of real pain in the ass, and they
did the best that they could. And so like friends
of mine who like hated their parents, I never had that.
I never hated my parents. I pretty much straight in
the straight and narrow. I didn't really I didn't do
anything crazy, but I got along with my parents. It

(46:10):
never once occurred to me that they were cool. Because
it's apples and oranges. It's never once occurred to me
that I that my kids would think I was cool.
Now it's just so happens that they're fascinated by what
I do for a living and that I've monetized my
stunted emotional development. So I think that's fascinating to them,

(46:32):
you know, to the extent that my son did a
little bit of college radio because he was you know,
this is all they've ever known is me doing this.
So but the whole thing, like all these parents, they
want to be cool parents, I don't understand that it's
such a you're just pushing a rock uphill all the time.

(46:55):
Trying to use youth slang is cringey to kids. Now,
I think that's funny if you do it to your kids,
because if you make them laugh because you know that
you're you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (47:06):
Yes, I do it all the time. Yeah, constantly. Yeah,
it is the most fun.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
And then my wife tries a good day at school,
no cap, low key, have a good day, little I
have a low key good day, good day, low key
all the time, all the time, and the dad and
then they'll laugh if my wife tries it, Oh she
gets it, They're like, then start making fun of her
because she tried it. But I get I can get away,
but she tries it earnestly or no, she's goofing around no,

(47:33):
she's goofing around two.

Speaker 5 (47:34):
Oh, then why did they give her a hard time?

Speaker 3 (47:36):
Because I think that they think, like, Okay, she's kind
of trying somewhat trying to be cool, you know what
I mean, Like she'll say something at the table, but
she'll use it wrong context or something, or at least
I know where it belongs.

Speaker 13 (47:46):
I mean, I totally understand getting older and missing your youth,
but putting that on your kids, I.

Speaker 5 (47:55):
Don't understand that at all.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (47:56):
I would never I like, my parents would have never
gone to a show with me, you know what I mean.
It just would have been strange and weird.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
I would never, in a million years use it, like
I wouldn't say it to them or in front of
their kids using those words like if I was actually
speaking to them. But I do use it often, as
you know, jokes and stuff. But you mentioned your parents
were never thought of by you as cool, right. Was
there a family that you grew up around that their
parents were cool to you?

Speaker 8 (48:25):
Well?

Speaker 5 (48:26):
Yeah, my, oh, oh, I see you you mean cool
to me? Or I thought they were, like you thought
they were cool?

Speaker 9 (48:32):
Like oh no, no, no, Well, because my family was
so strict, I guess my definition of cool. Parents were
Oh they let them eat sugar cereal okay, oh they
let them eat gum with It was all very sugar centric, right,
We're putting molasses on our buckwheat pancakes at my house. No,
so cool to me was a very broad category. I

(48:52):
was like, oh, they don't make you do X, Y
and Z like my parents do. But no, not like
cool cool. I always found the because there are grandmothers
now with sleeve tattoos, you know what I mean, like
as time goes by, there was nothing like that for
Gen xers. There were no like parents or you know,
maybe if a dad was in the military or something,

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but you didn't have a grandmother with tattoos.

Speaker 3 (49:15):
No, when you look at what grandmothers look like when
you were a kid, every single grandmother had the same haircut.
I mean everything, you literally, like at a certain age
just got the your grandma now kit.

Speaker 5 (49:25):
Yeah, everything was the same.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
And now you can't even I mean you would never
in a million years know someone had grandchildren.

Speaker 9 (49:31):
No, there's forty five year old grandmothers now. So it's
like I don't ever remember that being in my world.
Like my grandmother was, I mean, she died at the
one hundred and two but you know, almost ten years ago.
But when I was she might as well have been
one hundred my whole life, right, you know, she had
the gray bee hive and.

Speaker 13 (49:52):
Yeah, whole thing. So house coat did you did you
house cooat zipped all the way up?

Speaker 3 (49:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (49:58):
My grandmother did she keep her? It was like, yeah,
of course, yeah.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
Yeah. See, I'm telling you, it's like the grandma starter kid.
They all get it when they turn sixty.

Speaker 16 (50:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (50:07):
Yeah, so all kind But again, I'm always fascinated by
people who who it's a priority to them for their
kids to think they're cool. I'd rather have my kids
think that I was a It sounds lame, but I
would rather have them think that I did a pretty
good job in teaching them things and kind of this
is how, you know, preparing them for things, rather than Hi,
let's go to the pub. I mean, my son now

(50:28):
is twenty four. So like when he graduated college a
few weeks ago. The night before he and I, he
was out with his girlfriend and he called me and
he goes, hey, we're having a drink at this hotel bar.

Speaker 5 (50:38):
Come by, we'll have a drink. That was awesome. It
wasn't the first time we'd ever done it.

Speaker 9 (50:42):
But that stuff is fun because he's an adult now
he's got a job, He's like, that stuff's great.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
I think I'm a combination of both, honestly, Like I
do want, I do have a need. I suppose to
want to be seen as the cool parent to my kids,
but at the same time, they also know and respect
me as their dad, Like I'll let them get away
with certain stuff, or I'll let them do certain things
that I probably wouldn't have been able to do when
I was a kid.

Speaker 5 (51:07):
Yeah, okay, I guess it depends on what the deffinitive
cool is.

Speaker 9 (51:10):
What I think and what I see are like parents
that are working very hard to see the young Oh yeah,
it seem like the gap between them and their kids
is smaller and that you look silly, you look. I
don't know, And it's important to some people and it's
their life and if they want to, if they want
to put all their effort into that, okay, but there's

(51:30):
no way that your kid is going to go.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
My dad's pretty cool. Look at him there and the
you know that Irocket he just refinished so awesome playing Motley.

Speaker 9 (51:43):
Cruze yuh, is that your dad blasting girls girls girls
out of his car?

Speaker 3 (51:49):
It sure is another ringing endorsement. You're an idiot.

Speaker 14 (51:53):
Your show shocks and.

Speaker 19 (51:55):
You've proven that many times for the All Show.

Speaker 6 (51:58):
You're so stupid, Levin wmms.

Speaker 20 (52:19):
Wait Baden In sixty I was Spandy Damn.

Speaker 9 (52:32):
Little Steely Dana Hey nineteen track two, if memory serves,
off of the Gaucho Album, which would have been their
swan song for a long long time. Steely Dan had
had enough of each other and put out the Gaucho
Album in nineteen eighty and then didn't do anything else
for twenty years. It was a big, big song for them,

(52:56):
and I Mullaney was on follon. John Mullaney is a
huge Steely Dan fan. The great Rick Morata on drums
for this song, by the way, and he was talking
about how you know he and Olivia munnow have two
little kids, and he said that he was trying to

(53:18):
get his kid into Seely Dan, and the kid wanted
nothing to do with it because, like, my kid dances
around all the time. And I thought, oh, this would
be a great opportunity to introduce him to a band
I love.

Speaker 5 (53:32):
Now, this is a rookie mistake. Boy, you never, at
least for me.

Speaker 9 (53:36):
I never tried to turn my kids onto my music
because I think fundamentally you're supposed to reject what your
parents are into, no matter how cool it might be.
Eventually they may come around to it, but if you
try to get them there, it's never gonna work.

Speaker 21 (53:55):
So I put on the Seely Dan song Hey nineteen, Yeah,
because that's fun. Yeah, And you look at all the
applause of recognition for Hey nineteen and we sit down.
We sit down, people, Yeah, please, we have to continue
with this second exactly, and I'm staring at Muncam. He's
nine months old. I turn on Hay nineteen. He's not dancing,

(54:16):
So I turn on I change it to the song
Gaucho from the album Gaucho Again, folks, sit down, stop
them PLA.

Speaker 3 (54:22):
People were walking out of this studio. We were a Walkee.

Speaker 5 (54:27):
Guys from Seely Daniel exactly.

Speaker 21 (54:30):
So I turned on Gaucho, still not dancing, and my
son looks at me and he says, Ei ei oh,
And I go, you want to listen to Old McDonald's
and he goes like that wow, And I turn on
Old McDonald He immediately starts dancing. So here's what's interesting
about that story. He had never spoken before. That's how

(54:51):
much he hated seely dance.

Speaker 5 (54:57):
Imagine that.

Speaker 22 (55:00):
No.

Speaker 9 (55:00):
I think the Gaucho Sessions is when Walter Becker developed
his heroin habit because he had been hit by a
car and then his girlfriend died of a drug overdose
and her family sued him, and it was a whole thing.

Speaker 5 (55:14):
But that was pretty much the end of Seely dan
by nineteen eighty, and then they would bury their respective
hatchets and come back in two thousand. But that Gaucher
record is listen John Mullaney and what do you want
from me? But it's a did you try to turn
your daughters onto your music when they were little? Always?

(55:36):
Really always?

Speaker 3 (55:37):
Yeah? I did not do that. We would call it
music lessons because we would drive back and forth from
Rhode Island to Massachusetts. Well you had a captive audience, yea,
And I would just do like you know, today we're
going to listen to the doors.

Speaker 13 (55:48):
Today we're going to listen to the meters, and today
we're going to listen to just all kinds of stuff.
Did anything stick with them? No?

Speaker 5 (55:55):
Okay, not a piece? Right, they're like, uh.

Speaker 9 (56:00):
So they wanted nothing to do with what you were
listening to. There wasn't one thing that stuck with. They
don't uh, I don't know, they don't. They don't hate
any of it. I think that they have appreciation for
most things. They were humoring you.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
That's the best.

Speaker 5 (56:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (56:15):
But now kids their age, though, like they're into everything
that most kids are into, right, Like, they're like pop,
they like rap, they like you know so. But they'll
sit down and we'll hear a stee dance song and
they're not going to be upset that it's on, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 9 (56:28):
Well, because my thought was I'm not going to be
able to introduce my kids to metal. It's just not
going to happen. They're not if they if they find it,
they find it. But neither of my kids had any interest.
I do remember my son, when he was like twelve
or thirteen years old, started listening to a lot of

(56:49):
like Hendrix and things like that.

Speaker 5 (56:50):
I was like, how do you know this music? And
he's like guitar hero.

Speaker 9 (56:55):
So there were a lot of kids because that old
classic rock music was getting licensed for video games, so
there were kids that were being exposed to it, not
through their parents. They were playing rock band or guitar
hero and they were getting some of those bands.

Speaker 3 (57:10):
Well that's what's also happening with TikTok. All the TikTok tracks,
you know what I mean, Like, I can't think of
the one right now, but the guy used the Fleetwood
Max song and he was drinking the Ocean Spray I
Forget which Dreams Byewood Mac. Right, So everybody was turned
onto Fleetwood Mac because of that. And it's one of
my daughter Caitlin's favorite bands. So I think that they're
finding things. And I always make the joke whenever they're like,
you know, they were listening to and we danced the

(57:31):
other day and I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, I'm
like going on the TikTok trend and they're like, no,
we knew the song. We just it's on TikTok now too.
That's all.

Speaker 5 (57:41):
You never want to admit it, you know. It's not
like those bands care. They're like, why are we getting
paid again? All of a sudden loving life?

Speaker 9 (57:47):
Yes, of course the Hooters, the Hooters, Yeah, all you
zombies and uh and we danced, yeah, so yeah, Fleetwood Mac.
I mean they were you know the guy on his
skateboard drinking cranberry juice.

Speaker 5 (58:02):
Okay, you know what that is? Actually one that stuck.

Speaker 3 (58:04):
Fleetwood Mac was one that stuck because we would my
wife and I would play Rumors a lot. I think
that's the perfect record front to Bacca.

Speaker 9 (58:12):
There's also that to me, is always an indication that
certain bands and albums are absolutely live up to the
hype because they just generationally you can put it on
and somebody will go, yeah, that's pretty good. Like I
get why this is a thing, right, It's not everybody's
cup of tea. But there's a reason they sold like

(58:34):
forty million copies of that album and.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
There's just not a stiff on it. I mean, you
could put the needle down and go and there's not
a bad song on that album.

Speaker 5 (58:43):
That's got to be up there with the greatest ever
ever made.

Speaker 9 (58:47):
Well yeah, every time they have those things online, they're like,
what's an album that doesn't have a dot in the bunch?

Speaker 5 (58:51):
I always think Rumors.

Speaker 9 (58:54):
I think Alison Chain's dirt YEP probably the best example
ever of a band of avoiding the sophomore slump was
Alison Chain's dirt Van Halen won I think there might
be one song towards the end that's kind of atomic
punk maybe, But I mean, I cannot think of a
song on that album that sucks like I love that album.

Speaker 5 (59:15):
Yeah, van Halen one changed my life, did it?

Speaker 7 (59:19):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (59:20):
I started playing the drums when I was eleven and
my mom, my mom was a drummer, and she handed
me a stack of albums and my mom, I've talked
about this when I was growing up.

Speaker 5 (59:29):
My mom was always playing. She wasn't playing Fleetwood Mac.

Speaker 9 (59:32):
I don't know if she wasn't into him or whatever,
but my mom was playing a lot of singer songwriter
type stuff. But the stack of albums she handed me,
She's like, listen to these and it was like van
Halen one and it was earth Wind and Fire and
it was like van And it wasn't like You're going
to sit down behind the drums and replicate Alex van Halen,
but it immediately gave me a thought of, oh, these

(59:54):
are things that are possible with this instrument.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
And so van Halen changed my life. I one hundred
percent of the music taste that I have because of
my parents. My dad was a big classic rock listener.
My mom same thing. They love the bands, you know,
Aerosmith in Boston, and my dad liked the Doobie Brothers,
and I mean, these are all these bands that that
just that's what I love today. I don't know. I mean,
maybe it just had that much of an impact on me,

(01:00:18):
but yeah, there was That's all I listened to growing up.
My mom was a huge Bob Seeger fan.

Speaker 7 (01:00:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:00:24):
I don't think my children got any musical influence from
me whatsoever.

Speaker 5 (01:00:30):
I don't think they listened.

Speaker 9 (01:00:31):
To anything the head And now granted they didn't grow
up with me, so that's part of it, but I
don't think that they got you know, and again, I
wasn't gonna be playing Cannibal Corpse in the car right
on a road trip.

Speaker 5 (01:00:43):
Oh I'm gonna do that. On Fire was the song
I was thinking. Oh, on Fire, that's the last track
on Van Halen Won.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
Yeah, I mean everything else on that song you could
you could hear it as soon as you say it,
that there's running with the Devil eruption. You really got me?
Ain't talking about love? I'm the one Jamie's crying Atomic Punk,
Feel your Love Tonight, Little Dreamer, ice cream Man on Fire, Yeah,
it's a.

Speaker 7 (01:01:10):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
I think on Fire is great. It's last track on
the album.

Speaker 5 (01:01:14):
It's got a long fade out, But doesn't it feel misplaced?

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
Like shouldn't it have come like ice Cream Man should
have been the end?

Speaker 9 (01:01:23):
On Fire feels like the worst I would say is
it feels like a bit of an afterthought, right, But
I think it's placed properly.

Speaker 5 (01:01:32):
I wore out Van Halen one on vinyl on my
turning tail.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
I could hear that song coming after Little Dreamer in
before ice creamn close it out with ice Cream. I
love that song.

Speaker 5 (01:01:43):
I see, I think see, I think Little Dreamer is
the week wink to you.

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
Yes, oh, I love that.

Speaker 9 (01:01:48):
I think it's not a bad song, not a bad songs,
but you're competing with all those other songs and not
a bad one on here though, No, nope, came run.

Speaker 5 (01:02:00):
Out of the gate.

Speaker 9 (01:02:02):
But yeah, no, I don't think my kid's got any
of my musical inclinations. When you said your kid is
into uh Pink Floyd, right, yeah, I've essence because he
went to college. He has with you, he has no
he has radio head tattoos, you know, I mean, he's
what I mean When he was younger. He was like,
weigh in a cold Play and I was like, wow,
this is not going the way that I had imagined
me going at all. But that's what he liked, you

(01:02:23):
know what I mean. I'm like, that's fine, and he
got out of it. But neither of my kids, and
my daughter sings. She's in the College of Music of
Michigan State, so basically what she listens to are like
operas and chotunes, you know what I mean. So and Alan,
did your stepdad introduce you to any you son of
a bitch? You son of a bitch?

Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
I was.

Speaker 9 (01:02:48):
I was born in nineteen ninety five, this person says,
and my dad raised me on the Beatles, Zeppelin, Fleetwood, Max, Steely, Dan, Yep.

Speaker 5 (01:02:57):
I don't listen to much from this century.

Speaker 9 (01:02:59):
Yeah, there's people that are like, yeah, I don't r
I'm not really down with contemporary music or whatever.

Speaker 5 (01:03:05):
That's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
I have a Zeppelin tattoo, man, that is my band.
But it was predominantly classic rock. I mean, I listened
to a little bit of everything. Yeah, texting me stuff today, but.

Speaker 8 (01:03:17):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
I can go from the meters to static X, you know,
it's all over the place.

Speaker 5 (01:03:23):
Boy, do I regret my Kylie Minogue tattoo? That's all
I know? That was such a short lived phase in
my life. Is that the one on your on your
lower back? Taylor Dane on my cast? What was I thinking? Hey? Kelly, Hey,
Hi guys, Hi Kelly, Hi.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
Welcome to the show, Rob, thank you, h Age you guys.
But I want to call My fourteen year old daughter
is absolutely insane about music. She's a drummer right now
at the School of Rock Beautiful, and she's constantly trying
to get kids into Queen Seetwood, Mac, Rolling Stones, all
these bands.

Speaker 8 (01:04:00):
Plus she's got this great GenEx influence with me and
my husband where she's all about Nirvana, A Pearl, jam
Allison Chains.

Speaker 5 (01:04:07):
So we really lucked out.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
We've really got her wide variety of music to taste.

Speaker 8 (01:04:11):
And she's all about it.

Speaker 5 (01:04:12):
Hey is she doing that?

Speaker 9 (01:04:14):
A friend of mine in Pittsburgh her son is a
drummer and she said that he's doing a School of
Rock show at the grog Shop next year.

Speaker 5 (01:04:21):
Is that a thing?

Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
Yeah, it's actually really amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
The kids play shows at there's three different venues that.

Speaker 14 (01:04:29):
They go to, so they practice and then the summer
they do set lists so like the best of the nineties,
and then the kids will go up there and do
like five or six songs at a show. It's awesome, Yeah,
she said she.

Speaker 9 (01:04:39):
I was texting with her and she's like, yeah, he's
going to be part of some School of Rock show
at the grog shops.

Speaker 5 (01:04:44):
So we're going to be in Cleveland. I was like, beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
Yeah, it's a great opportunity for them.

Speaker 5 (01:04:49):
All right, cool, all right, thank you, Kelly. All right,
love you guys, all right, love you. There's Kelly who
lucked out with her kid, fourteen year old into nerve.

Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
And again, regardless of what they're into, you're starting to
see a lot more of that, like singer songwriter stuff
coming back around pop radios embracing that. So kids are
digging out Noah Khan and stuff like that. So it's
real instruments, you know what I mean?

Speaker 9 (01:05:12):
At least, well, I was gonna say, you know, a
lot of people lament the fact that there aren't instruments
being played anymore. Kids aren't gonna play instruments. They're just
gonna have software in their bedrooms or whatever. And part
of my thought is one he creative outlet you have musically.
I'm completely fine with that. You can do some amazing
things on garage band, but from what I've seen, it's
not stopping kids from picking up guitars. You're never gonna

(01:05:33):
have kids who don't want to play guitar, or don't
want to play the drums, or that stuff's not going away.
You might have kids that don't care about the flugel
horn anymore. Okay, but all you gotta do is turn
them on to some Chuck Mangioni and you'll be fine.
And then they'll go from there and they'll go the
guy who killed the healthcare ceo. No, no, no, the

(01:05:56):
the that's Luigi. That's Luigi Mangione.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
This is his uncle Chuck.

Speaker 9 (01:06:03):
By the way, somebody texted me and said, I'm a
super nerd and that nerd who said that Mario says
it's sue me is wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:06:10):
That was already debunked.

Speaker 12 (01:06:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:06:12):
I love when nerds fight.

Speaker 3 (01:06:14):
I wasn't gonna bring it back up, but yeah, it's
it's everything that they have listed. They have like an
a in front of what he says. It's a me.
Let's the go. Just make it fun of Italians.

Speaker 9 (01:06:25):
I love when nerds fight. All right, let's put you
in a good mood. There's a guy who is the
guy is suing or the family is suing. DraftKings is
getting sued because a guy blew one point five million

(01:06:48):
dollars of his family's money, and so maybe the wife
is suing.

Speaker 5 (01:06:53):
Again.

Speaker 9 (01:06:54):
I don't know how you do this, and everyone around
you doesn't realize it. A guy plundered his wife's bank accounts,
maxed out her credit cards, stole his kid's Christmas money
and baptism gifts. DraftKings sued after father of two gambles
away one million dollars of his family's money. If you're

(01:07:15):
the wife, I don't know why you don't see your
bank account being plundered or your credit cards being maxed out.
This is a guy In New Jersey, Lisa di Alessandro
says her husband lost nearly one million dollars in the
throes of a gambling addiction. And now again, if you

(01:07:37):
hear the commercials, and I've done them, I was doing
commercials for FanDuel. If you've heard the commercials, at the
very end, it's perfunctory, but at the very end they're like, hey,
you got a gambling problem call this number. So I
don't know what anybody thinks they're going to get by
suing one of these gambling apps.

Speaker 5 (01:07:57):
It couldn't be more voluntary.

Speaker 9 (01:07:59):
And sure, I mean listen, if a lawyer takes on
a case, they can make the argument that, you know,
we've had these conversations on this show before that gambling
is just as much of an addiction as putting chemicals
into your body, because it elicits the same brain responses.
And there are people who will roll their eyes at that,

(01:08:20):
and there's other people who you know, will take it
as written. Yeah, but I just don't know how you
don't see. It's not like he did it in a day.
So I don't know how you don't see, like, oh,
I went to the ATM and I have thirty thousand
dollars less than I did.

Speaker 5 (01:08:36):
Well, maybe she never saw finances.

Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
I mean, if he has a million dollars to blow, Yeah,
maybe she never saw the money, you know, as you
just spend it and then all of a sudden the
credit cards don't work. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:08:48):
She accuses DraftKings of having actively participated in coercing him
into wagering exponentially higher amounts until he was a full
blown addict.

Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
They gotta be careful the way they weigh in on
this one man like gamble responsibly. Like you said, they've
already covered their asses. I don't see how this is
a lawsuit.

Speaker 9 (01:09:09):
I don't either. And he only started gambling four years ago.
He never gambled more than thirty seven hundred dollars in
a single month in twenty twenty. But the wife says
by twenty twenty three he was completely hooked and he
was betting one hundred and twenty five grand a month.

Speaker 5 (01:09:26):
Yeah, so they had dough She never knew about money.

Speaker 9 (01:09:29):
You know, they can well, but they're trying to paint
them as a middle class family too. You know, Oh,
these aren't people of means. They had a mere one
million dollars in the bank. Now that does suck, you know,
that really sucks. That guy went from zero to Clark
Griswold like that, right, that's like, oh, yep. The two children,

(01:09:51):
both under the age of ten, are now quote doing
the best they can to recover, said the wife. Online
or it's betting, of course, is legal in thirty nine
states and the District of Columbia, Unlike illegal and offshore
betting sites, though legal platforms like draft Kings have tools

(01:10:12):
and resources to help those people with gambling issues.

Speaker 5 (01:10:16):
So again, I don't know how you make this case.
I guess it's a situation where you're like, I gotta
try to get some money back.

Speaker 9 (01:10:24):
Yeah, but you could find a lawyer to take the
case and you settle. Maybe you get a little I
don't know. I just can't see how this isn't thrown
out instantly.

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
Right, So if you take too much tail and all,
you can probably kill yourself with it, right or.

Speaker 5 (01:10:37):
Cough syrup per Se or costs Yep, why not.

Speaker 3 (01:10:41):
You're not gonna go to the cost Syrup company or
to Ibitprofen and be like, Hey, this guy uh overdosed
and killed himself because of your product. It's not gonna happen.

Speaker 9 (01:10:52):
I wrote a strongly worded letter to Dave Ibuprofen and
told him I've been buprofen. Yeah, and boy, he was
not receptive to my complaints. So yeah, she's making the
case that the company data mind him and found his

(01:11:13):
soft spots. And really, you know, I got him hooked,
and they knew he was married, and they knew he
was a problem gambler because They were texting him all
the time and emailing him, and you know, they were
giving him free bets and credits to cover losses with everybody.
It's like, yeah, it's like when they comp you in
Vegas because you spend a tonic.

Speaker 3 (01:11:35):
Stop spending the money. One hundred and twenty five grand
a month? What are we gonna do?

Speaker 5 (01:11:40):
Wait another month? Yeah, Jesus.

Speaker 9 (01:11:45):
They began offering him high end gifts like Draft King's
whiskey glasses.

Speaker 13 (01:11:51):
Honey, I can't stop now, Yeah, look at this.

Speaker 5 (01:11:55):
Two free glasses. Finally got my Draft King's whiskey glasses.

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
Oh, now you've done it. Now I'm gonna spend.

Speaker 5 (01:12:03):
Another one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. Well your son,
so my money, Oh heartless bastards.

Speaker 4 (01:12:13):
Allen TX Show on one hundred point seven DOUBLEMMS The
Allen Talk Show.

Speaker 23 (01:12:19):
Sure you could listen to another show, but then how
would you find the puppies we buried in boxes around
the city.

Speaker 5 (01:12:28):
One hundred point seven double mms.

Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
You on a Sunday nineteen.

Speaker 7 (01:12:49):
Man, it has an old sun.

Speaker 3 (01:12:52):
Any memory of this song?

Speaker 4 (01:12:53):
Rob?

Speaker 5 (01:12:55):
Think I need to hear the hook? Yes, yes, it's
a big head of seven.

Speaker 15 (01:13:02):
Yesus Midas remember Lonely Guy.

Speaker 3 (01:13:15):
Yeah, it's h the dude that did thank you.

Speaker 11 (01:13:17):
For being there.

Speaker 9 (01:13:18):
It is Andrew gold the guy that had a big
hit with the Golden Girls, same song. Well, they traded
into the Golden Girls seme song Lonely Boy, though it
is kind of a little off time did he he did?

Speaker 5 (01:13:26):
This was the biggest hit he ever had.

Speaker 3 (01:13:29):
This for you, Rob this week?

Speaker 5 (01:13:30):
No thanks, it's not bad enough.

Speaker 3 (01:13:35):
Absolutely boy this week? Oh my god? Am I ever?

Speaker 5 (01:13:38):
Oh my goodness? The wife and the kids are away.

Speaker 3 (01:13:41):
Yeah, Melissa and Callie left on Friday. Yeah, they went
down to Fort Lauderdale, my mother in law's place. And
then that's what happened yesterday. That was my fault.

Speaker 5 (01:13:50):
Why I we had to call an audible.

Speaker 4 (01:13:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:13:53):
So my daughter Caitlin was flying with three of her
friends to Coco Beach to stay with my mom for
the week spring break, and her flight got delayed. Yeah,
so I had I was at the airport. I'm like,
what am I going to do? So I ended up
just kind of running back and forth a little bit
and got them to their flight on time and everything
worked out. But that was my fault yesterday. So I

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apologized to you and everybody else happens having a bail.

Speaker 9 (01:14:17):
But Andrew Gold, this guy, there's a big, big hit
for him, and thank you for being a friend. Everybody
remembers that. But he was a guy that wrote a
lot of songs for a lot of people. He was
writing them for Linda Ronstadt and he died pretty young.
He got like summ of cancer or something. Died about
fifteen years ago. But this Lonely Boy was a huge,

(01:14:38):
huge hit for him, And it just made me a
little think of Robbie this week because I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:14:42):
Telling you, man, I swear I'm so reliant on consistency,
you know what I mean. So I'm going home. It's
the dogs, I get the dogs fed. I sit down
like this, it's the first time.

Speaker 9 (01:14:54):
This isn't the first time they've all been gone since
you guys have been in Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (01:14:59):
Hey, it might be.

Speaker 13 (01:15:00):
Wow, it might be because I usually go with them.
Oh you know, but but I didn't. I didn't plan
the trip this time.

Speaker 9 (01:15:06):
So you're not a guy who's like one of those
You're like, what they're lame, dude. It would be it's
an empty house. You're like, what the hell do I do?
With myself one of those.

Speaker 5 (01:15:15):
I got back to town yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:15:17):
I stopped, I had a beer, I picked up something
to eat, and then I just went home and I
sat there miserable, like it is like I am just
such as at the dogs, but their pains and the
asses too.

Speaker 5 (01:15:29):
I don't want to have to do everything.

Speaker 13 (01:15:30):
With it that one week before you because if you recall,
I had the same issue where my family's flight got delayed.
Everybody went to Florida to me because I was trying
to be responsible and professional, right, and I was like, oh, yeah,
I love to be home alone.

Speaker 5 (01:15:44):
And then after a few days you get a little lonely.

Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
Well yeah, but I mean I gave mine is like
all the people that you know like take care of you,
they take care of me. I was like, where do
we keep the place? I had to text Melissa a
couple of times like yeah, so where do I Where
do I find the laundry detergent?

Speaker 5 (01:16:04):
Wait, like I do the laundry, you don't ever do
real there's this magic thing. I was doing laundry till midnight.

Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
List I put my stuff in a basket and then
it's back on my bed. It's like a magic trick
that we do all the time. I don't know how
it works.

Speaker 5 (01:16:18):
I'm very particular about the laundry.

Speaker 3 (01:16:20):
No, I don't Yeah, I don't touch them.

Speaker 9 (01:16:21):
So are you saying that your family and Cat's family
are all in Florida this week?

Speaker 3 (01:16:27):
No week off?

Speaker 5 (01:16:29):
Oh so yeah, that was a whole week.

Speaker 3 (01:16:31):
Ago that that happened.

Speaker 13 (01:16:32):
Yeah, well it happened on Thursday that their flights got delayed.
So many flights are getting delayed from Florida. Wait, they're
already back from Florida.

Speaker 11 (01:16:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:16:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:16:40):
Oh, they just went for like a long weekend.

Speaker 8 (01:16:42):
They went.

Speaker 13 (01:16:43):
They were gone before Saint Patrick's Day. I just hadn't
mentioned it because they were like, don't mention it. Somebody
could come abduct you.

Speaker 5 (01:16:49):
Oh boy god wow.

Speaker 3 (01:16:51):
Really yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:16:53):
I mean they're not wrong, but make sure that the windows, and.

Speaker 8 (01:17:00):
I tell you.

Speaker 24 (01:17:02):
That let any one, whatever one says to you, do
not take candy to get into your tall pants. Candy
they want to get into tall pants.

Speaker 3 (01:17:15):
Do not let them through.

Speaker 7 (01:17:16):
Indoor doors, double checkering camera.

Speaker 3 (01:17:22):
Why want you come with us? That's so that's a
double edged sword.

Speaker 9 (01:17:26):
Because your parents want you to be professional, right that
you've got a job, and so It's like they probably
wanted you to go with them to Florida.

Speaker 3 (01:17:33):
That true, you working here Disney too.

Speaker 5 (01:17:36):
I was like, maybe next time.

Speaker 9 (01:17:39):
This is what this is what's happening for medication. I
understand and I appreciate it. And this is what's happened
with me. Third week of April, that's my daughter's spring break.
But they're going down for like a week and a half.
I'm like, I'm not going for a week and a half. Yeah,
you said that I'll go down for the last few
days or whatever, but I ain't taking a week and
a half.

Speaker 13 (01:17:54):
Ye taking ten days off them that well they were retired.
Yeah yeah, that's true. So wow, so so your your parents,
So who all's gone?

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
Well, everybody's back now.

Speaker 13 (01:18:08):
But that that last Thursday when I when I was gone,
I was picking up like them, them too, my sister,
my brother in law, my nephew had that had had
to get the car seat.

Speaker 5 (01:18:17):
Maybe this is a whole extended family anyway.

Speaker 13 (01:18:20):
My sisters, my brothers in law, all my nephews. Uh yeah,
it was a whole family affair. It was only one missing,
But that's okay because you know, that's that's life.

Speaker 9 (01:18:28):
Sometimes I remember when my and it sounds terrible to say,
but I have no regrets. It was about maybe a
year or so after my wife and I had gotten divorced.
Our kids were still small, and I was I had
moved back to Chicago and was working there, and they
were living in Michigan, and her parents had took their
whole family to Disneyland, and I was so happy that

(01:18:49):
I didn't have to go. And it was just like, oh,
what a joy to not have to go. And I was,
you know, greg glad for them because they got to go,
and you know, it didn't cost me one red cent.

Speaker 13 (01:18:59):
But I was like, oh, have those like Disney adults though,
that are like more obsessed with I mock them all culture.
I mock them all the time.

Speaker 9 (01:19:07):
And the bottom line is it's your life and your
money and you can do what you want to with it.
But I mean, we've anytime I bring this up, I
get bombarded by Disney adults who are mad at me.
And that's fine, that's reasonable. I won't stop me mocking you.
But people who are like, oh, oh god, we had
a woman to call. She and her husband spend or
they have some pass or something where they go every
month like that, and I'm like, boy, I don't care

(01:19:31):
how much you like that stuff, even if you were
some crazy Disney psycho adult. They just had a fire
at Epcot Center. I would think that after a while
you'd be like, I've seen everything. It's not like they're
changing things up every couple of weeks. So again, your life,
your money. But man, what just waste of time and
money that that sounds.

Speaker 5 (01:19:51):
Like mother's cousin goes like three times a year. I
don't understand it.

Speaker 13 (01:19:54):
Especially I get it if you live in California or Florida.

Speaker 5 (01:20:01):
Yeah, but the people who don't get it even then, dude.

Speaker 13 (01:20:03):
I've only been to Disney World, not Disneyland, so only
the Florida one, not Calcuna.

Speaker 3 (01:20:08):
I've never been.

Speaker 9 (01:20:10):
No we went to there was one year we went
down and it worked out perfectly because my older daughter
was performing with her high school when we were in Orlando,
so we were all there at the same time. We
went to this place called Downtown Disney, which is not
part of the park. In the bars, yeah, you can
still walk around and your kid gets the stuffed animal

(01:20:31):
and it's fine. There's a couple of rides. We were
not going headlong into that. I think they will this time.
Before I get down there, I think they may do that.
But no, I've never been, and I'm perfectly fine with
that streak remaining unbroken. But holy cow, I always hear
from Disney adults when I go off on them.

Speaker 5 (01:20:53):
I go, listen, you've.

Speaker 9 (01:20:54):
Got your reasons and whatever childhood trauma you're trying to
get past, that's fine. But there's nothing you're gonna say
it's gonna convince me that that's a proper use of
time and or money.

Speaker 7 (01:21:05):
Are you guys?

Speaker 3 (01:21:06):
Amusement park guys?

Speaker 5 (01:21:07):
Do you like roller coasters and stuff?

Speaker 6 (01:21:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:21:09):
I like Sure, I like roller coasters.

Speaker 9 (01:21:11):
We took a Dartist Theater point lest summer, I think
for the first time. No, we went for Halloween, and
you know, the kids get in lines and things like that.
It's fine, but she was not as enamored of the
whole experience as we thought.

Speaker 3 (01:21:24):
She might be.

Speaker 9 (01:21:24):
So it was not this long drawn out day that
we had really planned for, which was fine with me.
We did a promotion years ago for the show where
we took a bunch of listeners and cut the line.
We did a cut the line of the Alan Cox
show thing, right, And so we took like ten listeners
or whatever, and we had like this concierge at Cedar

(01:21:46):
Point that would walk us up the back and we
would just get on the roller coaster. What I learned
is you really, at least I really need the downtime
in between roller coasters, right. True, it doesn't have to
be three hours, but when you do five or six
roller coasters in.

Speaker 13 (01:22:03):
Quick succession, I was I was sick of it for
four days. I was like, oh my god.

Speaker 9 (01:22:09):
I mean, it was fun and I'm glad people had
a good time, but I was like, holy Christ, that's
too much in too short a period of time.

Speaker 5 (01:22:16):
And you know, I'm a huge posty. I hate rides really, oh,
with a passion. You're the dad sitting there holding the persons.
I'm the dad sitting there holding the person people watching
in his hand maybe or something. I'm making me look
like a lumberjack. I'm telling you, man, I hate that
drop feeling.

Speaker 13 (01:22:34):
Different types of rides though, well, I know I'll never
ever get on one of those bungee things, but like
a roller coaster drop, well.

Speaker 5 (01:22:43):
Something like that.

Speaker 13 (01:22:43):
You have the roller coaster going up a hill and
back down and then you got the drop thing, which
is what you're talking about, like Tower.

Speaker 5 (01:22:49):
Of Terror, no d feeling where your stomach drops. You know,
I don't like that.

Speaker 3 (01:22:53):
I don't like the roller coaster version only anything any
of those versions, right there is one that does it's uh,
it wasn't. I'm sure they have a very similar thing here,
but it's six Flags, New England. They had something called
the Batman ride and the drops instead of going like down,
it would sort of your your feet dangle, but it
would it would roll and go down, and that feeling

(01:23:14):
was different. I didn't That didn't bother me.

Speaker 13 (01:23:16):
I don't like spinny stuff, you know, like got a
there like that one that you stick to the wall.

Speaker 5 (01:23:20):
That was like, yeah, I got the salt and pepper
shakers of the zipper.

Speaker 3 (01:23:28):
No, to give you an idea, I got queasy with
my kids on a Merry go round about five years ago.

Speaker 5 (01:23:35):
Oh you are super yeah, going around in a circle.

Speaker 3 (01:23:38):
I'm like, oh god, how many times I could anyway?

Speaker 5 (01:23:41):
Stuff?

Speaker 3 (01:23:44):
There's no need to be spinning.

Speaker 5 (01:23:46):
Why are we moving? Super horses have to stop going
up and down.

Speaker 3 (01:23:50):
Yeah, I'm not that bad. I don't care for.

Speaker 9 (01:23:54):
Because growing up I was terrified of roller coasters and
then you kind of peer pressure gets.

Speaker 5 (01:23:58):
You on one of them. My wife's weighing to him,
so when we go, she's like, we have to sit
in the front car, you have to have your arms up.

Speaker 9 (01:24:04):
Yeah, the whole thing. So when we went to Orlando
last year, we went to Universal and we took our
daughter on her first roller coaster and she I wasn't
sure which way she was gonna go because she's not
like this gung ho risk taker kid, but she likes
to get the blood pumping a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:24:19):
And she loved it.

Speaker 9 (01:24:20):
So I was like, oh good, Yeah, we didn't want
her to freak out, but it was like, you know,
so roller coasters I'm totally down with. But I ain't
getting not any bung bungee rides. I'm not getting on
anything where it's gonna put my you know, stomach in
my mouth.

Speaker 3 (01:24:35):
The entire time.

Speaker 5 (01:24:38):
I would rob I'll tell you what I think that
you should we should do that. Let's do a show sky,
I'll do it.

Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
No, no, you know what I will just to say
that that's something I did. Check that bucket. I would
absolutely do it.

Speaker 9 (01:24:52):
Check that buck cast in the air on the air well,
you know, and people give me a hard time because
there's one when my son was younger, he was going
to go to Cedar Point with some of his boys.
You know, my kids grew up in Michigan, so anytime
either of my kids were, you know, within a fifty
mile radius, we'd hang on or whatever.

Speaker 5 (01:25:10):
And so I picked him up and he and his
boys and we went to.

Speaker 9 (01:25:13):
Cedar Point, and people getting a hard time because I
spent most of the day in my car with the
ac on in the parking lot read a book because
I'm like, they don't want me walking around with that, right.
I bought him the fast passes and everything, and my
son would not have cared.

Speaker 3 (01:25:29):
It wasn't like that. But I was like, I'm on
a hang back, man.

Speaker 9 (01:25:31):
But it was like, where are you going to Rhods?
Why didn't I go on the rides by myself? Is
that what you're asking me? Yeah, thank you, I'm not seven.

Speaker 13 (01:25:40):
Well I'm also not gonna wait in line for two
and a half hours to go by myself. You know,
everybody's in pairs or whatever. No, you can totally skip
the line if you're a single writer. Just so you know,
well that the information probably would have been helpful. I
probably did know that, but again, yea, and yes, to
tell that story sounds ridiculous that I was in the

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car because, like you know, they closed the park down,
so it's not like we were there for a couple hours.

Speaker 9 (01:26:08):
But I was like, I just wasn't gonna walk. I
did it for the first ninety minutes. I walked around
the park when they were off doing whatever. I'm like, man,
I'm not doing this all day. I'm not doing it
was eighty five degree. I'm like, I'm not doing this
all day.

Speaker 3 (01:26:23):
So, yeah, I sat in the car. It's rough when
it's super hot like that. Well, and you mentioned Universal,
We did that a few years back, right after they
opened up this Harry Potter ride.

Speaker 8 (01:26:32):
Right that.

Speaker 3 (01:26:34):
That one did not bother me in the least bit.
An indoor roller coaster. It's dark, you can't see it coming,
and I didn't.

Speaker 8 (01:26:40):
It did not.

Speaker 3 (01:26:41):
I had no problem with that. Then I went on
that stupid Simpsons ride. We've talked about this before, that
that one that's like the cars just.

Speaker 9 (01:26:49):
Move, and well, yeah, Universal, most of their rides are
these giant imax spheres and they're not into it's not
like roller coaster rides. You're in these rows that are
stuck together and they and they they operate from like
a pivot underneath, and you get really, I.

Speaker 2 (01:27:05):
Do not like this.

Speaker 25 (01:27:06):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:27:06):
I got off of that thing. I'm coming to puke. Yep.

Speaker 13 (01:27:08):
If I had eaten before, it would have been I
would have definitely gotten sick. We're also worried about the Pope.
I listen, man, I'm.

Speaker 9 (01:27:18):
To call me a lapsed Catholic would be the understatement
of the year in that I am an atheist.

Speaker 3 (01:27:25):
But the Pope.

Speaker 9 (01:27:27):
There was a really touch and go there for a
while where they were like, oh, we're looking for a
new pope, like they were getting ready to do the
White Smoke and the Black Smoke. Yea, it was Harry
As They said that Pope Francis he had like some
double lung infection and he was really really in bad shape.

Speaker 5 (01:27:46):
And they were and he's old, dude, like eighty eight
years old. Eighty eight years old.

Speaker 9 (01:27:50):
Yeah, when the weather starts to kick your ass, that's
how you know. But he's back in the Vatican. He
got released from the hospital and they were quick to
point out that he hadn't made you know, he's in
the popemobile, and I think he was like doing kind
of a little wave, you know, he'd come out to
the edge of the balcony or whatever the parapet and

(01:28:12):
a little wave, but hadn't publicly spoken.

Speaker 5 (01:28:18):
But guess who we got a statement from? Oh? Really,
the Pope. I don't know how we pulled it off.
I've never spoken to any kind of I don't know
if you consider the Pope ahead of state.

Speaker 3 (01:28:31):
Not really.

Speaker 5 (01:28:32):
I mean, the Vatican is its own thing. That's a
new career achievement for you. That's a big deal, is it. Yeah,
there's only one pop. I'm not a Catholic anymore.

Speaker 13 (01:28:43):
This guy might as well be Willie Wonkin of me.

Speaker 5 (01:28:45):
No, he's still the Pope. There's one one guy.

Speaker 3 (01:28:51):
Is he on the phone?

Speaker 9 (01:28:52):
I'm waiting to hear of see there, Pope, your your excellency?
Oh God, are you are you okay?

Speaker 5 (01:29:02):
Are you there?

Speaker 13 (01:29:04):
Helen?

Speaker 19 (01:29:04):
I'm a good I'm good and I'm alive because of
the prayers of the faithful everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:29:09):
I'm gonna take it.

Speaker 6 (01:29:10):
This is time but to call everybody.

Speaker 19 (01:29:12):
And I started with the UL and thank you so
much for being there for me.

Speaker 5 (01:29:15):
I didn't really do anything. It's uh, I thought you
were Argentinian.

Speaker 26 (01:29:21):
I live in a I live in a Vatican allan weah, yeah,
I got you. I'm a man of the people, so
I try to sound like you know, I'm supposed to.

Speaker 5 (01:29:32):
Sound literally when in Rome, is what you're saying.

Speaker 19 (01:29:34):
I got youa yes, yes, that's right.

Speaker 13 (01:29:36):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:29:36):
So how are you feeling?

Speaker 5 (01:29:38):
I mean, we were really fell touch and go there,
your holiness.

Speaker 19 (01:29:43):
I've been through a hell in the back down and
I'm gonna tell you I saw the hideous face of
a satan him myself. Oh look on the television. I
see unto the television it's a man. He wear a
easy swastika T shirt and he screamed about a chem
of Kardashian and I knew it's the.

Speaker 8 (01:30:00):
Of the state than him.

Speaker 5 (01:30:01):
Yeah, right, that is scary.

Speaker 19 (01:30:04):
He had an interesting grill though, the interesting grill.

Speaker 5 (01:30:06):
Oh the devil has a nice grill?

Speaker 3 (01:30:08):
Does he?

Speaker 19 (01:30:09):
Very very nice to group?

Speaker 5 (01:30:10):
Yeah, gotcha.

Speaker 19 (01:30:11):
Okay, it's the easy out of the front. Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:30:15):
So when you because again this I people were starting
to make plans to replace you.

Speaker 5 (01:30:20):
They were starting to mess around with you know.

Speaker 9 (01:30:23):
They they have a thing called a conclave to elect
a new pope.

Speaker 19 (01:30:28):
Oh then I started to wake up the nurse. She
put on that movie for me. I say, come on,
I'm of the one.

Speaker 5 (01:30:34):
A man on the planet to no want to see
that a movie or the movie about the conclave.

Speaker 19 (01:30:38):
Yeah, I thought it was a live a stream with
the Stenatucci and John Elisco try for my job.

Speaker 3 (01:30:46):
Yeah, speaking of those two, I have to be honest,
they are national treasures.

Speaker 13 (01:30:49):
I mean, are they something your holiness? Are you feeling okay?

Speaker 3 (01:30:53):
Are you all right?

Speaker 19 (01:30:55):
Why he's still a death door? It sounds like I
say that through two of the most visually stunning hours in.

Speaker 8 (01:31:04):
A cinematic history.

Speaker 19 (01:31:06):
I want to have the biggest, thickest of vaniest ending
of all times can be right in my face.

Speaker 5 (01:31:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I saw that movie.

Speaker 3 (01:31:13):
That's weird.

Speaker 2 (01:31:14):
Yeah it wasn't.

Speaker 19 (01:31:15):
Then I knew I had to come back and to
make sure nothing like that ever happens again and in
my house.

Speaker 5 (01:31:19):
You know, yeah, listen, I am I couldn't you know.

Speaker 9 (01:31:22):
I grew up Catholic, but I'm so far removed from
the faith now. But I know there are billions of
people worldwide who are just so happy that you're on
the mend Evan.

Speaker 7 (01:31:32):
I'm so good.

Speaker 19 (01:31:33):
I feel like a younger Jacke Lane. I'm ready to
serve with the flock, but once again.

Speaker 8 (01:31:38):
Yeah, I want to be back and better than ever.
I'm gonna tell you.

Speaker 9 (01:31:42):
The nice contemporary references. There, your holiness, jacqu Lane.

Speaker 19 (01:31:45):
Listen, you said I'm a bitch. I'm eighty eighty years old.

Speaker 3 (01:31:48):
Yeah, all right, I.

Speaker 19 (01:31:50):
Can remember, jackue Lelane.

Speaker 9 (01:31:51):
Yeah, I'm sorry. I don't certainly don't mean to laugh,
but it took me off guard.

Speaker 5 (01:31:56):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 19 (01:31:56):
Well, thank you well, and thank you so much for
all of yours and you're talking to me. I feel
it's so special that you think of me this away,
because I know you are so separate from the church. Yeah,
thank you and God bless and Skipoconically, it was a
stupid ending.

Speaker 5 (01:32:11):
All right, thank you your holiness. Feel better? All right,
there you go? All right, there's the puddle. Well how
about that? I can't even believe.

Speaker 3 (01:32:20):
How do you rate?

Speaker 5 (01:32:21):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:32:21):
How do what?

Speaker 5 (01:32:22):
How do you rate?

Speaker 3 (01:32:23):
I don't know? Wow?

Speaker 13 (01:32:25):
Wow, seems like a cool guys, like a cool guy.
Did I sound nervous? I certainly didn't want to sound nervous.
I think maybe a little all right, it's hard. You're
just speaking to the Pope, the pontiff is what they
call him, Yes, the Vicar of Christ.

Speaker 5 (01:32:43):
I can't believe it.

Speaker 3 (01:32:44):
Okay, So being called an audio eight crime by Ohio Quilture.

Speaker 23 (01:32:50):
Magazine wasn't our proudest moment.

Speaker 3 (01:32:53):
Gotamms.

Speaker 5 (01:32:57):
So Donnie has been on hold Donnie? What's going on?
Donnie's our old intern here on the show.

Speaker 9 (01:33:01):
He was with us many years ago, and he used
to check in relatively frequently. And I got to tell you, Donnie,
wasn't that long ago where I was thinking to myself,
I hope Donnie's okay, because we haven't heard from you
in a long time.

Speaker 8 (01:33:17):
It's been a very long time.

Speaker 5 (01:33:19):
How are you still in North Carolina.

Speaker 7 (01:33:23):
I'm still in North Carolina. Haven't moved. No longer at
the beach anymore. I moved to Charlotte, Okay, Charlotte's to
find town. It's a fun city, fun city. I thinks
are on the up and out. Yeah, what do you so?

Speaker 3 (01:33:39):
How how have you been?

Speaker 5 (01:33:40):
Where have you been?

Speaker 7 (01:33:43):
Well? I I traveled through North Carolina for a while.

Speaker 8 (01:33:49):
I left the beach and just went all over the state.
I guess for a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:33:55):
Spend any time at Ashville. I have relatives in Asheville.

Speaker 19 (01:33:59):
No, southern Nashville, A lot of time in Lumberton.

Speaker 9 (01:34:03):
Okay, Lumberton. All right, Now, what precipitated the move? Are
you keeping your nose clean? What started this whole walk
the earth like Canaan Kung Fu?

Speaker 7 (01:34:15):
Well?

Speaker 8 (01:34:15):
Uh, I fell back off the wagon, okay a couple
of years ago. Yeah, and I just packed my truck
up and said.

Speaker 7 (01:34:25):
I'm going all over the state. I met this Lumby
girl and this started.

Speaker 5 (01:34:32):
I don't know, dude, I have.

Speaker 19 (01:34:33):
No idea what happened for like two years, to be honest.

Speaker 13 (01:34:36):
Well, during the pandemic, I was gonna say, that's about
as long as it feels like it's been.

Speaker 3 (01:34:39):
Was it a pan you know, was a pandemic induced?

Speaker 7 (01:34:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:34:44):
All I know about Lumberton, North Carolina, is that's where
the movie Blue Velvet was set.

Speaker 5 (01:34:48):
I don't know if they shot it there.

Speaker 9 (01:34:50):
Remember Blue Velvet was set in Lumberton, North Carolina.

Speaker 5 (01:34:54):
You said you met a Lumby girl. That means she's
from Lumberton.

Speaker 3 (01:34:59):
Yeah, they see.

Speaker 7 (01:35:01):
The state recognizes them as a Native American tribe, but
the government.

Speaker 8 (01:35:07):
Of the United States doesn't.

Speaker 3 (01:35:09):
So they're like.

Speaker 8 (01:35:12):
In betweens. I guess I don't know what you call them.

Speaker 9 (01:35:15):
Oh, the Lumbee tribe is what you're talking about. Yeah,
I thought that was like local shorthand for a girl
from Lumberton. You're talking about the actual Lumbee tribe.

Speaker 8 (01:35:26):
Actual Lumbee tribe.

Speaker 25 (01:35:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:35:29):
But after the pandemic, I got my stuff together. I
got my own apartment. I've been staying in Charlotte. I
have not been successful at stand up comedy. Nobody likes
my stories. They all think I'm a psychopath.

Speaker 5 (01:35:45):
I didn't even know that. Did we know he was
doing stand up comedy?

Speaker 6 (01:35:48):
Did not know that?

Speaker 5 (01:35:49):
Now that you're dropping that on us right now, Donnie.

Speaker 7 (01:35:52):
Yeah, I've been trying, but everybody just thinks, oh.

Speaker 8 (01:35:54):
My god, this guy's just there's no way his stories
are true.

Speaker 9 (01:35:59):
Well not only that, but I mean there's plenty of
psychos in stand up. All you got to do is
figure out a way to make people laugh at them,
and you can be telling those stories.

Speaker 5 (01:36:08):
Yeah, but we'll give us, give us one.

Speaker 9 (01:36:10):
Of your stories, Like, give us a story that I
can air that you would pretend you're you're you're trying
out some new material.

Speaker 5 (01:36:18):
What's a story you're telling.

Speaker 8 (01:36:21):
I can't think of one off the top of my head.

Speaker 9 (01:36:23):
That's like comedy, okay. But were they like long rambling anecdotes?

Speaker 3 (01:36:28):
I mean, do they?

Speaker 9 (01:36:29):
Did you have jokes throughout? The thing with telling long
stories is it's got to be a lot of jokes.

Speaker 19 (01:36:35):
No, it's not a lot of jokes.

Speaker 7 (01:36:36):
It's just half of them. You really can't talk. I mean,
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:36:43):
It's just not good stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:36:44):
That's like okay, But I mean you want a lot
of jokes if you're going to do stand up.

Speaker 8 (01:36:50):
I know.

Speaker 5 (01:36:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:36:52):
All right.

Speaker 8 (01:36:56):
Now, right now, I am working in the apartment complex industry.

Speaker 5 (01:37:02):
Now are you working where you live? Copper pipe?

Speaker 7 (01:37:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:37:07):
He's stripping construction sites of copper.

Speaker 3 (01:37:10):
But so are you the guy? Are you the super?

Speaker 11 (01:37:15):
No?

Speaker 8 (01:37:15):
I am a maintenance technician. Don't so if you're totally
doesn't flush, I come to your apartment and I fix
the toilet.

Speaker 9 (01:37:26):
You probably don't have any contacts in New York City,
do you?

Speaker 8 (01:37:30):
I don't have any New York City No?

Speaker 5 (01:37:32):
Sorry, Mary.

Speaker 9 (01:37:33):
So you're so you're working at an apartment complex in Charlotte.
Yeah that sounds pretty good. I mean, you know, Charlotte's
a nice spot.

Speaker 8 (01:37:42):
Hey, it's a nice spot. I mean, you know, we
had you know, match shooting New Year's Eve, you know,
things are.

Speaker 5 (01:37:48):
Yeah, well it is America looking good.

Speaker 7 (01:37:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:37:51):
So do you live there for free then? Because you're
employed by the place?

Speaker 7 (01:37:56):
Hey, no, And I'll get to.

Speaker 5 (01:37:57):
Live here free, all right. I don't know this is.

Speaker 8 (01:38:01):
This is expensive man.

Speaker 9 (01:38:03):
Okay, so it's like an upscale place. Then it's like
a nice apartment complex.

Speaker 8 (01:38:09):
Yeah, it's a I mean yeah, I mean, I'm not
going to say the name of where it is, but yeah, it's.

Speaker 5 (01:38:16):
A very nice place.

Speaker 7 (01:38:17):
It's brand new. You know. Hey, if you want Donnie
to fix the stuff that's this is where I live.

Speaker 14 (01:38:23):
Is it?

Speaker 9 (01:38:24):
Does it have like pines or lake or windy in
the name or things like that, or or a state?

Speaker 14 (01:38:31):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:38:31):
Actually you can never. Actually you almost you almost got.

Speaker 9 (01:38:35):
It state Windy Pine Estates. Nope, this homestead homestead is
Oh okay, that's fine. All right, So you're working there,
that's good. How long have you been there?

Speaker 5 (01:38:50):
October? Since October? Okay, back on the wagon.

Speaker 8 (01:38:57):
Well I'm back on the wagon now for about t
that's great.

Speaker 5 (01:39:01):
Good for you did the Lumbee girl go with you
to Charlotte or is that where she already was?

Speaker 3 (01:39:08):
Oh my god, we were like.

Speaker 9 (01:39:13):
We were like thees out of the way, Bonnie and Clyde. Really,
you guys were tearing ass through North Carolina, tearing things up.

Speaker 16 (01:39:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:39:23):
Yeah, I mean I did maybe a couple weekends in jail.

Speaker 3 (01:39:29):
And well, when you fall off the wagon, because you
you've struggled, not just with alcohol but with some other drugs,
do you fall completely off or like.

Speaker 5 (01:39:41):
And are you completely clean?

Speaker 11 (01:39:43):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:39:44):
No, I fall completely off.

Speaker 3 (01:39:46):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:39:47):
When Donnie goes, he goes hard. You got to give
him that.

Speaker 9 (01:39:49):
When he goes, he goes all the way, whether it's
a girl, whether it's drugs, whether it's he doesn't do
anything half assed, whether it's fixing your pipes at the homestead.
He's in there, man, he's doing it.

Speaker 8 (01:40:00):
So the girl is still with you or no, no,
she's actually in prison.

Speaker 9 (01:40:07):
Okay, because was this something that the two of you
did together and you just escaped the long arm of
the law or what?

Speaker 14 (01:40:15):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:40:15):
I know I ditched her.

Speaker 25 (01:40:17):
And then.

Speaker 19 (01:40:19):
I was like, I took a deep breath, you know,
you got to take a reset.

Speaker 8 (01:40:24):
Button, and it said, man, I really gotta get this
under control.

Speaker 5 (01:40:30):
So you didn't say so, There was no I'll wait
for you. There was nothing like that.

Speaker 3 (01:40:34):
What did she go in for?

Speaker 7 (01:40:38):
Robbing a bank?

Speaker 5 (01:40:40):
Robbed a bank? And this is when you were with
her or after you had already split up?

Speaker 7 (01:40:44):
No, I've already I've let her alone.

Speaker 8 (01:40:47):
I did not want anything else to do with her.
I checked myself into a.

Speaker 7 (01:40:52):
Place and I was like, I need a reset button
because things are going out of control right, way too quick.

Speaker 11 (01:41:00):
Right.

Speaker 9 (01:41:00):
So, at what point before when you guys, when you
guys start dating, you meet this girl started dating her?
At what point I have to think that she initially asked.

Speaker 5 (01:41:08):
You to help her do that?

Speaker 14 (01:41:11):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:41:11):
I actually met her at a rehab Oh you did, okay,
at a rehab facility.

Speaker 7 (01:41:16):
And yeah, it was uh like one of those you
know where male and female both can be there.

Speaker 9 (01:41:27):
But those but but like historically those never end well, right,
Like when you meet people in rehab, that's already like
a a very emotionally charged situation, right.

Speaker 5 (01:41:38):
Yeah, man, I knew it right from the get go.

Speaker 8 (01:41:40):
As soon as I saw her, I said, she's my ticket.

Speaker 7 (01:41:42):
Out of here. She had a car, she had money,
rob banks.

Speaker 5 (01:41:48):
Yeah, of course you got money.

Speaker 9 (01:41:49):
It's it's you know, it's like uh blue dyed, hundreds
of popping out of her pockets.

Speaker 3 (01:41:55):
So was she your ticket out of there?

Speaker 16 (01:41:58):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:41:58):
She was my ticket out of there.

Speaker 7 (01:41:59):
And we had a good couple of months run, I guess.

Speaker 9 (01:42:05):
So you guys, so Donnie, you guys busted out of rehab?
Or is that something where you can just check yourself out?

Speaker 14 (01:42:14):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:42:14):
Well, see the.

Speaker 19 (01:42:15):
Thing is is you check yourself in.

Speaker 7 (01:42:19):
And I told him, hey, look, me and this girl
were leaving, and they say, no, change the plans.

Speaker 8 (01:42:28):
They're not leaving together, and I said, yes we are.
I'm getting my stuff and I'm leaving. So they made
us wait like two hours in between leaving, but I
she waited for me.

Speaker 7 (01:42:39):
And they made it a huge deal, like they just
they made it a huge deal. Okay, And so how
long we got what we got? What we got out
of there?

Speaker 9 (01:42:52):
So you guys get out of there, and you're tearing
ass across North Carolina just to like, oh yeah, see
the state, or you're getting.

Speaker 5 (01:42:59):
Into trouble along the way. You're getting into bar fights
along the.

Speaker 7 (01:43:02):
Way or what No bar fights.

Speaker 5 (01:43:04):
I'm not a fighter, you're a lover. Not a fighter.

Speaker 8 (01:43:09):
Well, I mean her house was.

Speaker 7 (01:43:12):
Paid by the Lumbee tribe. So that's why I thought, like, this.

Speaker 8 (01:43:18):
Is my meal ticket. I found somebody I could just Oh, you.

Speaker 9 (01:43:22):
Were looking for somebody to like get your hooks into.

Speaker 5 (01:43:24):
And sponge off of for a little bit. Oh yeah, yeah, man,
she decides I'm gonna go. At what point does she say,
I'm gonna go rob a bank?

Speaker 7 (01:43:34):
When she started getting bad on.

Speaker 8 (01:43:39):
That one stuff again?

Speaker 5 (01:43:41):
Math, Yes, I don't know. I know, you're right, you
can spin the wheel. Math. So she's a tweaker and
she goes, I'm gonna go rob a bank.

Speaker 6 (01:43:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:43:52):
And that's when I got a hold of my sister,
who at the.

Speaker 7 (01:43:57):
Time was working for drug and rehab place. I said, Sophia,
I need your help.

Speaker 9 (01:44:05):
Well that's the that's the hardest call to make, right
at least you had a contact like your own.

Speaker 8 (01:44:11):
Family could go to.

Speaker 14 (01:44:13):
Yep.

Speaker 9 (01:44:13):
I got out of there, and then so you got
into uh you call your sister, you get into a
facility and do you do you hear that your ex
is in prison or are you following along or how
does that play out?

Speaker 7 (01:44:31):
No? It was uh, it was just like a random
moment I was just on my phone and I had
notifications for.

Speaker 19 (01:44:43):
Lumberdon County Sheriff's Office.

Speaker 7 (01:44:46):
You know, just to see who get to rest and
or whatnot.

Speaker 8 (01:44:48):
Yeah, and it popped up on my phone.

Speaker 3 (01:44:52):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (01:44:52):
But nobody called you or hits you up to act
as some kind of character witness for or anything like that.

Speaker 7 (01:44:58):
No thing.

Speaker 8 (01:44:59):
Goodness?

Speaker 7 (01:45:00):
Right?

Speaker 5 (01:45:02):
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:45:02):
So she so, how long is ye go ahead?

Speaker 14 (01:45:07):
No?

Speaker 8 (01:45:07):
For two years?

Speaker 7 (01:45:08):
Yeah it was.

Speaker 14 (01:45:10):
It was.

Speaker 8 (01:45:12):
Pretty crazy for two years.

Speaker 7 (01:45:13):
I'm not gonna lie. It sounds like it.

Speaker 5 (01:45:19):
So what So she's how long did she get she's
still in there?

Speaker 7 (01:45:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:45:23):
Yeah, all right?

Speaker 5 (01:45:26):
Did she ever? Does she ever hit you up like, hey,
come visit me?

Speaker 7 (01:45:29):
Or no?

Speaker 8 (01:45:31):
God, I hope not.

Speaker 3 (01:45:34):
All right? Do you have a new girl now?

Speaker 4 (01:45:37):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:45:37):
No new girl.

Speaker 8 (01:45:38):
I am focused on my job. I am focused on
staying on the wagon.

Speaker 3 (01:45:43):
Good for you.

Speaker 5 (01:45:43):
You don't need any disractions at this point.

Speaker 7 (01:45:47):
No distractions, no more, no more craziness. I'm thirty one
years old. That is, it's time to stop all the craziness.

Speaker 3 (01:45:57):
Good for you.

Speaker 9 (01:45:58):
The only pipe you're going to be laying is when
the Apartment four D calls and says, hey, I got
a leak.

Speaker 8 (01:46:05):
Maybe, but we don't have a four D.

Speaker 5 (01:46:09):
Pluck that out of thin air. But I take your point,
all right now.

Speaker 7 (01:46:13):
I do got one gift thing, though, is I do
have a baby kitten.

Speaker 9 (01:46:20):
Thank god, he said kitten. He said I have a baby.
I was gonna crap myself. A baby kitten. I mean,
I don't know what you're doing out there, Donny, I
don't know what you're all into. But a baby kitten,
all right?

Speaker 8 (01:46:32):
Kitten is?

Speaker 7 (01:46:33):
Yes, I got a cat. Yeah, and uh, you know
things are on the open up.

Speaker 3 (01:46:40):
What's the cat?

Speaker 5 (01:46:43):
Just baby kitty, baby kitty?

Speaker 3 (01:46:46):
All right?

Speaker 9 (01:46:47):
Well that might end up being a panty dropper though
at some point, I mean when you want to.

Speaker 5 (01:46:52):
Focus on that right now, all.

Speaker 3 (01:46:56):
In the future. Worried about the futures, worried about now,
I'm now all right, listen, there's Donnie's never had He's
a handsome dude. He's never had a problem getting girls.
I know, he doesn't need a kitten to lure him in.
He's he's got the grimy charm.

Speaker 9 (01:47:12):
You know, if Donnie had been on the show when
Mary was here, they would have gotten married. For Christ's sake,
when I was drunk. What just in general, she likes
that skinny ruddy you know jail break.

Speaker 22 (01:47:25):
Yeah, no, Brian is the first skinny guy I've ever
been with.

Speaker 5 (01:47:31):
Oh, no, offense, I don't even.

Speaker 8 (01:47:33):
Know what I'm not like.

Speaker 5 (01:47:35):
I know I'm not skinny anymore.

Speaker 7 (01:47:38):
Yeah was I really?

Speaker 13 (01:47:39):
That?

Speaker 7 (01:47:39):
Was I really that skinny on the show?

Speaker 9 (01:47:41):
You look you look cracked out half the time. Yeah,
you were just like a Really I'd kill to be
in that shape. Now, Yeah, you were a skinny dude.

Speaker 12 (01:47:50):
I would have hit it, God would I'm like, what, Donnie,
so you puffed up? Yeah, I mean I'll look at
you home.

Speaker 9 (01:48:02):
Okay, well listen, but but but you're that's better than
doing all the other stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:48:07):
You were doing way better, yeah, way more health Well,
I mean, I'm probably going to be dead and you
know the next two years.

Speaker 9 (01:48:17):
But yeah, so you're you're clean. You're telling us, your
dear friends that you're clean, now, gotcha?

Speaker 5 (01:48:25):
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:48:25):
Good? All right, Well listen, I'm glad.

Speaker 9 (01:48:29):
I'm glad that you got all that nonsense behind you,
and you know the only way out is through.

Speaker 3 (01:48:34):
So that's good. Are you working today?

Speaker 5 (01:48:38):
Are you off?

Speaker 8 (01:48:40):
I'm working?

Speaker 7 (01:48:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:48:42):
Okay, I mean I don't really do much.

Speaker 3 (01:48:44):
I gotcha.

Speaker 5 (01:48:45):
Are you part of a team there? Is it a
big complex or you like the guy?

Speaker 8 (01:48:50):
No, it's a small team.

Speaker 7 (01:48:53):
Big complex.

Speaker 8 (01:48:54):
Yeah, a lot of places to hide, places to do anything.

Speaker 13 (01:49:00):
Okay, good, were you gonna ask a question? I feel
like I cut you off.

Speaker 7 (01:49:05):
Yeah, every time through a holiday break, you kept playing
the shoes, but there's never one time that there's a
Donny episode.

Speaker 9 (01:49:18):
Oh well, I do rotate them. I mean, I'll never
play the same segment twice in a year. So you
might have been like in the twenty twenty two Best
of But I'm sure now that I know you're alive,
because I certainly didn't want to play a clip and
find out it was an in memoriam. Right, So now

(01:49:38):
that I know you're alive, you know a on an
upcoming sum up show, I'll make sure I play a
Donny clip.

Speaker 5 (01:49:46):
Hey, you never know, never know, boy, And.

Speaker 9 (01:49:48):
Now, according to you, I only have two years in
which to do it, and so I'll have to I'll
have to figure that out.

Speaker 8 (01:49:57):
All right, Thanks, mister Allen. Thanks missed the.

Speaker 5 (01:50:01):
I'm glad you're doing well.

Speaker 19 (01:50:02):
Man.

Speaker 5 (01:50:04):
I am thank you about all right? There's our old.

Speaker 13 (01:50:12):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (01:50:13):
How about that he's always once we get through with
the pleasantries, he always gets to the meat of.

Speaker 5 (01:50:19):
It, cropping bombs.

Speaker 9 (01:50:20):
Well, I'm doing fine, but there was a period of
time where I was from the Native American tribe and
now she's.

Speaker 5 (01:50:28):
In prison.

Speaker 9 (01:50:30):
To twenty God, he was like a buck forty soaken
web when he was an intern here, I mean, but
that was a while ago too.

Speaker 5 (01:50:37):
Yeah, I mean that when he was in his early twenties. Right,
he's thirty one down?

Speaker 7 (01:50:41):
Was he?

Speaker 5 (01:50:42):
He was the one right before you, right, pound cake,
when you were an intern.

Speaker 3 (01:50:45):
Yeah, he trained me.

Speaker 5 (01:50:46):
Yeah, it was Donnie Boy. That explains a lot. Donnie trained.

Speaker 14 (01:50:52):
M.

Speaker 5 (01:50:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:50:53):
No, I wasn't joking around. I thought a while back,
I was like, God, I wonder what happened to Donnie
because we literally haven't heard from him in two years.
But I guess he's doing it even longer than that.

Speaker 3 (01:51:04):
I think it's been.

Speaker 5 (01:51:05):
One of our customers said, twenty nineteen. Probably I have
no concept of time.

Speaker 9 (01:51:09):
Yeah, I guess it makes sense given all he told
us that he didn't call us during COVID, Yeah, because
he called us last we called us.

Speaker 7 (01:51:15):
He was.

Speaker 5 (01:51:17):
Like in a good spot.

Speaker 3 (01:51:19):
He was clean, and he came clean about how he
was on meth and stuff like that, and then we
didn't hear from him for a long time. And then
because there was a time when here he was calling
like every month with all sorts of wild storts.

Speaker 5 (01:51:34):
Wasn't he like dating a trans girl or something?

Speaker 3 (01:51:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's got a lot of he was.

Speaker 5 (01:51:40):
He was trying to find his place in the world.

Speaker 9 (01:51:43):
And uh, you know, it's cyclical because every time we
talk to him he's doing fine. He never calls us
when he's like in the depths of in the grip
of something terrible, So when he calls, it's kind of
understood that he's probably doing Okay, there was a Donnie
segment during the Break with Erica.

Speaker 5 (01:52:03):
Okay, take that Donny there.

Speaker 9 (01:52:09):
Like, I know, I kind of know kind of what
they're about, but I don't know every single second of
these segments, So.

Speaker 5 (01:52:14):
I only know, like what you're playing. Because people will
tweet me still and they're like.

Speaker 13 (01:52:20):
Oh yeah, they'll text no people, Yeah, people will message
me and they'll be like been debunked.

Speaker 3 (01:52:27):
I'm like bestuff stuff.

Speaker 13 (01:52:29):
Yeah, yeah, yesterday, it's literally Christmas Eve, and you're like,
do punk, You're stupid.

Speaker 5 (01:52:36):
I'm like Okay, I'm stupid, right, I'm stupid.

Speaker 9 (01:52:43):
You got me, Donnie, I got an old Donnie check
in Donnie's awful weekend, Donnie's bad tats. Remember he got
to Abadon abandon.

Speaker 4 (01:53:00):
You.

Speaker 3 (01:53:02):
I was gonna ask.

Speaker 9 (01:53:06):
I got a portrait of my Lumbee tribe girl records note,
is that your great?

Speaker 5 (01:53:11):
No, that's abandoned the Allan Cox on.

Speaker 3 (01:53:18):
One hundred point seven double.

Speaker 17 (01:53:20):
U M M as.

Speaker 20 (01:53:23):
One put this on here?

Speaker 27 (01:53:25):
Man, do you think you know what all your often
but a piece ship?

Speaker 7 (01:53:29):
Talk about.

Speaker 27 (01:53:31):
Cool?

Speaker 23 (01:53:32):
About another satisfied customer? The Allan Cox Show.

Speaker 3 (01:53:35):
I hate it.

Speaker 13 (01:53:36):
The show sucks on one hundred point seven double Ummas.

Speaker 9 (01:53:40):
I had a real weird transition from Sunday into Monday,
and I don't know why. Usually when Sunday hits, I'm
getting myself in show mode. Except this Sunday was literally
one of those days. I didn't do a frigging thing,
and I wish that it had been awesome. I would
love to tell you that it was awesome, and it

(01:54:00):
just wasn't.

Speaker 3 (01:54:03):
Uh So maybe that threw me off. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:54:06):
So you really are one of those people that has
to always be doing something.

Speaker 3 (01:54:08):
I mean I'm not.

Speaker 9 (01:54:09):
Sitting there vibrating. But it's like, days are long, man,
when you're not. I don't understand. I don't know these
people who have nothing to do and all day to
do it. I'm like, how you're looking at one? Do
you do nothing all day?

Speaker 3 (01:54:27):
All day?

Speaker 5 (01:54:28):
Love to have more of those? Those are long days.

Speaker 3 (01:54:32):
Lovely, Well, what do you do? I want whatever? I
want TV all day and Crank went out me if
it's just me, Oh dude, I will I will do nothing.

Speaker 9 (01:54:46):
Yeah, all right, I will do once in a while.
I'll be like, hey, I'm going to the movies. All right,
I'll go to the movies by myself.

Speaker 3 (01:54:55):
That's fine.

Speaker 5 (01:54:56):
But that's like two hours and I'm like, okay, I'm
back outside now.

Speaker 8 (01:55:02):
I got it.

Speaker 3 (01:55:02):
Watch all the Superman movies and then go see Superman.
I do need to go see Superman. See that's going
to kill a whole day. Watch all the Christopher Reeve
one's and then watch uh no, because I'm gonna get
bored halfway through the first one.

Speaker 5 (01:55:18):
He'd be like, Okay, you know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (01:55:19):
Listen.

Speaker 9 (01:55:19):
I I didn't say it was easy. I'm not this
is I wasn't looking for an easy solution. I'm just
saying that I don't even consider it a problem.

Speaker 7 (01:55:29):
Here.

Speaker 3 (01:55:29):
You go, go watch Superman twice in the movies, watch
it back to back, Go out, have a little popcorn,
take it dump, go back in, watch it again.

Speaker 5 (01:55:38):
You ever snuck into a movie as an adult?

Speaker 3 (01:55:39):
Never? I never snuck in as a kid.

Speaker 9 (01:55:41):
I did one time as a kid, I rode into
the drive in in my buddy's trunk to see RoboCop
because I wasn't of age to see RoboCop yet really
wanted to see it. I know, I wasn't like a
big rule breaker either. I wasn't a kid sneaking in
a movie. But back in the day, and I think

(01:56:01):
we've come full circle. You really can now you can
go kick it in the bathroom until the next movie
shows up and you go in. You know, it was
a lot easier before there were people were buying a
signed seats. Sure, but a lot of movies there's plenty.

Speaker 5 (01:56:14):
Of empty seats, and nobody's gonna step to you and
go that's my seats.

Speaker 3 (01:56:18):
And if they do move right, let me go to
another seat or sit closer to the theater. Because I
don't even know why they bothered putting that row in there.
Nobody ever sits in that front row of seats.

Speaker 5 (01:56:28):
Well, yeah, why do you want to sit in the
front row.

Speaker 3 (01:56:30):
So I'm saying, yeah, they put the recliners there, and
I just stop, take those ten and chairs out and
move them back. Build it.

Speaker 5 (01:56:36):
I don't know, do something.

Speaker 3 (01:56:37):
I'll tell you what I do.

Speaker 13 (01:56:38):
I sit in the handicap see and then somebody comes
up to me.

Speaker 5 (01:56:41):
They go, hey, you're not a handicap.

Speaker 3 (01:56:42):
They go, yeah, I am. I'm sign blind.

Speaker 13 (01:56:47):
You don't know what I can and can't see. I
don't know what symbols mean. That's my handicap.

Speaker 9 (01:56:53):
I can't read. No, of course I won't do that.
I'm a back row guy at the movie. Yeah, I've
never ever snuck it out.

Speaker 3 (01:57:01):
We had the greatest seats for Superman because I bought
I like went until I found a date that I
could get seats.

Speaker 5 (01:57:06):
I wanted those like dead in the middle.

Speaker 9 (01:57:08):
So they tell you they go your seats, they go,
that's where the sound engineers sit to mix movies.

Speaker 3 (01:57:13):
Yep.

Speaker 9 (01:57:13):
So they're like, if you want the best experience, sit
in the middle of the theater, which makes we're in
the audio industry.

Speaker 8 (01:57:19):
We know that.

Speaker 5 (01:57:20):
Yeah, I just don't want to sit in the middle
of the theater. I don't like people behind me.

Speaker 3 (01:57:23):
I get it.

Speaker 9 (01:57:25):
I'm just telling you I parked it. It was fantastic, right,
hmmm mmmmm. Alan, I'm retired. I've taken up growing legal weed.

Speaker 3 (01:57:38):
Yeah, I'm not gonna do that. I mean, oh God
for you, you're not retired.

Speaker 5 (01:57:44):
I'm not retired. Practice your drum. Somebody said, I love
to they're stacked, put them together. I don't have room
in my house.

Speaker 3 (01:57:54):
I'd love to.

Speaker 9 (01:57:55):
I'm always like, I'm just gonna pay for a space
and I'm gonna put them in there. What then I'm
gonna be like, see you later. I'm gonna go play.
You know, I'm never home as it is.

Speaker 3 (01:58:03):
Do you have a shed?

Speaker 5 (01:58:05):
I got a shed, but it's full of crap?

Speaker 3 (01:58:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:58:09):
Then are gonna soundproof it? I mean that is wildly expensive.
Buy a shed, sound proof it? Yeah, and even that's
never one hundred percent. So what the neighbors are gonna
be flipping out, because come on, they.

Speaker 5 (01:58:20):
Aren't gonna flip out. If you're good, they'll enjoy it.
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 9 (01:58:24):
Nobody who doesn't play the drums. Enjoys listening to the drums.

Speaker 3 (01:58:28):
This is your neighbor played the drums at loud volume, says,
come on, enjoy it. Sound familiar.

Speaker 5 (01:58:36):
He found a rat in his floortime? Sound familiar?

Speaker 3 (01:58:41):
Have you been called a cheap jew at work?

Speaker 5 (01:58:44):
Called because you wouldn't buy a new shed? Yeah, she'll
represent your neighbors.

Speaker 13 (01:58:52):
My client, a female machinist, complained about not being paid
for overtime, and when she came to work the next day,
she out a rat in her toolbox.

Speaker 3 (01:59:02):
Does this sound familiar?

Speaker 5 (01:59:04):
Paul, the Law office of Lindencorn Allan.

Speaker 9 (01:59:07):
I just turned the show on YouTube and was not
prepared to see Rob's beard. Yeah, he's giving Chris Chris
gaines vibes. Yeah in reverse. Yeah it's something. Yeah, Alan,
Back when the Memphis Drive in was open, the train

(01:59:28):
tracks ran alongside it.

Speaker 3 (01:59:29):
We walked down to the tracks, bring.

Speaker 13 (01:59:31):
A radio, tune it in underneath the screen, smoke weed
and sit on chairs and watch movies. Yeah that's some
great old school fun. Yeah, nobody's doing that anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:59:42):
No, they just sneak into movies now.

Speaker 10 (01:59:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:59:46):
But my kids so much like me in that way,
like they I'm not gonna say where, but there is
a movie theater in the area where it is almost.

Speaker 5 (01:59:57):
No one that goes pays no rama. My my daughter
was basically she.

Speaker 3 (02:00:03):
Goes, Dad, like, everybody just walks in, And I said,
you're buying a ticket, Kaitlyn. But but Dad, everybody just
I said, Kaitlyn, I already bought it, So just show
me your phone if they ask. Nobody asks. Everybody else
walks in. She's like, why do you have to do this? Why?
Because I said, because we're honest.

Speaker 9 (02:00:19):
Also, if they go out of business because nobody's buying tickets,
there's nowhere to go anymore. And this place looks like
it's been out of business for twenty Well they all do. Yeah,
I mean they're all hanging on by a thread. But
not that one in Strongsville. Man, I went to that
that drive in No the uh the movie theater in
the show. I was thinking drive ins, Oh no, no, no,
no no, go to the auto rama once a season.

Speaker 3 (02:00:42):
I'm talking about just a regular movie theater. Yeah, yeah,
out near us and it's yeah, everybody walks in, Yeah, like, yeah,
don't do that. It's wild to me and not everybody
obviously has this memory. You got to be a gen
X or they used to show X rated movies at
drive ins, and so in the day, if you were
like driving alongside, you know, like the road that was

(02:01:05):
adjacent to the drive.

Speaker 5 (02:01:06):
In, you could see boobs. Really yes, I didn't know
this at last, or I grew up.

Speaker 3 (02:01:11):
They did.

Speaker 9 (02:01:11):
I mean, they were kind of out there. But I
distinctly remember as a kid driving by and seeing boobs.

Speaker 5 (02:01:16):
One hundred and twenty foot dogs screaming across the screen.

Speaker 7 (02:01:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (02:01:21):
Wow, I might be Mandela affecting myself on that, but
I remember being on a road as a kid adjacent
to a drive in near US and seeing boobs.

Speaker 5 (02:01:32):
Listen, I'm not.

Speaker 3 (02:01:33):
I don't think anything is off of the table. I
think everything probably happened at one point. He just throw
a little porno up there. Why not? You know, maybe
it was Porky's. Maybe like you were driving by and
Porky's was playing, or Revenge of.

Speaker 5 (02:01:45):
The Nerds, Oh early Kim Cattrell and Porky's hatcha hatcha
and and uh.

Speaker 3 (02:01:54):
No, she wasn't in Revenge of the Nerds.

Speaker 5 (02:01:57):
Who was the lead in Revenge of the Nerds? Not
Lea Thompson, no, it was it was just the one that.

Speaker 3 (02:02:03):
What was her name?

Speaker 9 (02:02:04):
That's my pie, the blonde. I don't know Betty Childs. Yes,
Julia Montgomery is the actress.

Speaker 5 (02:02:13):
That's her name. Okay, she was the lead, like cheerleader
Lanba Man and start fixing things.

Speaker 3 (02:02:20):
I already did. That's the point. Everything in my house
is fixed.

Speaker 5 (02:02:24):
Everything's been installed, everything's fixed. I don't have anything to
tinker with. Wait, you think I don't know that.

Speaker 3 (02:02:30):
Of course I know that. That's what I love to do.

Speaker 5 (02:02:32):
I'm walking around my house.

Speaker 3 (02:02:33):
What can I do? What can I do? Nothing?

Speaker 5 (02:02:35):
I already did it. I'm a victim of my own success.
Rob Man, you can need a hobby puzzle?

Speaker 9 (02:02:42):
Well, if I had a room for my drums, that
would be my hobby. Get a puzzle, do a puzzle.
Why don't I just hang my cell?

Speaker 3 (02:02:49):
I don't know, by one of those pain in the
ass coloring books that take like seven years to throw
a belt over the shower curtain.

Speaker 9 (02:02:55):
Rod put myself out of my misery, Bruce becks you
up in the live chat.

Speaker 3 (02:02:59):
By the way, porn at the drive in a staple
of my childhood growing up in Westmoreland County in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 9 (02:03:05):
Yes, Westmoreland County. Alan's got two sheds, one for the
drums and one for the tools.

Speaker 11 (02:03:10):
I got.

Speaker 2 (02:03:18):
I got.

Speaker 11 (02:03:22):
Ring.

Speaker 3 (02:03:24):
That's a good idea. Drums and tools. I got two.

Speaker 9 (02:03:35):
Just trying to help Alan. I do appreciate it. This
is why I bear my soul to this unforgiving crowd.

Speaker 22 (02:03:42):
Hey, dude, speaking of farts, I thought you might get
a little kick out of this incident at work. I'm
a phlebotomist, and as you can imagine, most people are
not stoked to get in my chair. I had a
poor little kid in my chair practically shrimp in himself
with fear. So I looked at him. I go, all right, buddy,
I need to answer me totally honestly here.

Speaker 3 (02:04:01):
Do you think farts are funny?

Speaker 5 (02:04:03):
He said yes.

Speaker 3 (02:04:04):
So I'm saying he farted so hard he died.

Speaker 22 (02:04:09):
Dude didn't even know I poked him.

Speaker 3 (02:04:10):
Look at that.

Speaker 9 (02:04:11):
How God, we're so live the power of the farts.
Yesterday ended the Year of the Dragon. Was that an
old Mickey Rourke movie? Wasn't a Year of the Dragon
Bruce Lee movie too, wasn't it?

Speaker 7 (02:04:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:04:27):
Or Enter the Dragon? Enter the Dragon? Was Bruce Lee
all right, but.

Speaker 9 (02:04:31):
Uh, didn't Mickey Rourke have a Chinatown movie called Yeah,
he did nineteen eighty five Year of the Dragon.

Speaker 3 (02:04:36):
What a great movie.

Speaker 9 (02:04:38):
He plays this racist cop and he's trying to run
down this Asian drug ring and he's pushing it and
pushing it and yeah, that's a great eighties old cop movie.
Making rock with his old face. People forget what Mickey
Rourke looked like. You look at him now and you

(02:04:59):
go juice.

Speaker 3 (02:05:01):
But he was man.

Speaker 5 (02:05:02):
He was a good looking dude. But he liked the
box and so he got he couldn't give that up.

Speaker 9 (02:05:08):
He didn't want to be a Hollywood pretty boy, and
so it was very important to him, you know, he
talked about this in interviews, Very important to him that
he kind of maintained his street cred and that manifested
itself in him still boxing, and so he'd have his
face occasionally rearranged. And I guess at some point he
was like, well, I you know, because he was always

(02:05:29):
working out. People know the Mickey Rourke vibe. You know,
when he was in that third Iron Man movie maybe
two iron Man two, he played whiplash, that to me
was I felt like that was when Mickey Rourke was
kind of coming back. Then he did The Wrestler, which
got nominated for a whole bunch of awards, and that
was perfect for him because he looked like a guy

(02:05:50):
who had just gotten the crap beat out of him
for a long, long time.

Speaker 5 (02:05:53):
Did you see that movie The Wrestler? I saw twice
in the theater.

Speaker 3 (02:05:57):
It was so good.

Speaker 5 (02:05:58):
Loved it. Yeah, I'm a friend. Todd Barry was in
that film. Was really he was the grocery store manager.

Speaker 9 (02:06:03):
Okay, but Marissa to May, I mean, come on, gorgeous, beautiful, talented,
always been one of my favorites. Fantastic. So the Year
of the Snake is today. The next lunar New Year
will launch the Year of the Horse. Wait a second,

(02:06:26):
Oh wait what Wednesday will mark the end of the
Year of the Dragon, the beginning of the Year of
the Snake. The next lunar New Year will launch the
Year of the Horse on Tuesday, February seventeenth, twenty twenty six.

Speaker 5 (02:06:38):
Yeah, because it doesn't follow calendar.

Speaker 9 (02:06:39):
Ye right, Okay, so you have a year to celebrate,
and your parents, who might listen to us in the
state of New York, your kids are off today whether
or not they have Asian friends. So if you have
an Asian friend there in the Empire state, even though
they probably had nothing to do with it directly. But
these are things that get lobbied by people, you can

(02:07:03):
thank them. Everybody loves to thank you, even if they
had nothing to do with it.

Speaker 5 (02:07:08):
Mickey Rourke in Sin City, that's good too, But he
was under all that makeup, but he was great in it.
What was the movie with the food sex scene that
he was in. It's at nine and a half half
weeks with Kim Basinger. That was something I never did
see that I did. Getting all that food on you
made me a little anxious, Yes, only for that reason.

(02:07:29):
The only reason I ever saw that movie. It's the
only reason everybody saw that much.

Speaker 9 (02:07:33):
Right, sounds like it's gonna be a year of the
Snake at your mom's house too.

Speaker 5 (02:07:37):
Somebody suggested, ladies.

Speaker 1 (02:07:47):
And gentlemen, we are experiencing technical difficulties. Please stand bind.
I'm really sorry to a regularly schedule program.

Speaker 3 (02:08:05):
Momentarily.

Speaker 9 (02:08:06):
No listen, Hey, laughter is involuntary. You never know what's
going to get you. But whoever texted me that's sir
or madam, you can get bent.

Speaker 5 (02:08:17):
We expect to resume normal broadcasting shortly.

Speaker 16 (02:08:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:08:25):
Yeah, I have fun with it.

Speaker 5 (02:08:27):
I'm sorry I have fun with it. Oh I shouldn't
have laughed at that.

Speaker 7 (02:08:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (02:08:31):
I like how they followed it up with trouser snake
that is, Yeah, because I wouldn't have gotten it otherwise.

Speaker 7 (02:08:38):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (02:08:39):
Thanks, I couldn't. I couldn't put it all together.

Speaker 7 (02:08:42):
Very rare.

Speaker 5 (02:08:42):
I'm over here going my mom's not Asian. What are
they talking about? The very rare Illinois trousers?

Speaker 9 (02:08:49):
Yeah, sure is. You light one on fire and they
just curl up. Al and I worked for the calves.
Where are you sitting? I'd love to come say hi.
I would find the northernmost beam of the Romo Fijo
and my head will be right under that. I think
that's where the iHeart tickets are. Just look for us

(02:09:09):
in the Budweiser bar in Loud. That's right, that's where
it'll be. Our septs are up there. You'll see a
bit of cloud cover about waist high on us, and
we'll be breaking through that.

Speaker 5 (02:09:21):
We'll be the ones up there in the oxygen masks.

Speaker 3 (02:09:23):
What do they call those old those old timey binoculars
with the stick the view opera glass. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know what they're called, but they're gonna give
us those when we walk in. They're gonna hand those
to us so we can see the court.

Speaker 9 (02:09:36):
Yep, discount drug Mark branded opera glasses. All and I
heard you say Mickey Rourke, but I pictured Mickey Rooney
as that cop and that was pretty good. Yeah, Mickey Rooney.
And they should redo, you know, put ai Mickey Rooney,
who's dead now. But for people who remember he was

(02:09:57):
an actor. When he's a young man, he loved to
tell people he was the biggest movie star in the world.
You send me that Jerry Jones video and everybody's like
laughing at him. But so they hired a new coach
because they were talking about Dion Sanders. And then Jerry
Jones comes out and goes, that was never a serious thing.
Deon Sanders is just trying to kind of puff himself up.

(02:10:17):
And who's the new guy with the Cowboys.

Speaker 5 (02:10:22):
As the Jesus? Is that a guy we've heard of?
Is he a high profile person? No, not particularly Mike McCarthy.

Speaker 9 (02:10:30):
Is that the Cardinals coach, top candidate for hang On,
Hang On, Hang on I because they hired Eberflus, my
old head coach with the Bears.

Speaker 5 (02:10:40):
He's their defensive coordinator. Brian Schottenheimer.

Speaker 9 (02:10:44):
I think Brian Schottenheimer is who they hired, because Jerry
Jones was like dissing the guy sitting right next to him.
He's like, yeah, I'm taking a huge risk here, and
is that Marty Schottenheimer's kid?

Speaker 5 (02:10:54):
I'm looking Okay, Yeah, I wasn't. I wasn't too familiar
with him other than no, that wasn't. That wasn't who
they hired. I don't think that's what it says.

Speaker 3 (02:11:03):
Is it who it was? Yeah? Okay, all right, Yeah,
he's Marty Schottenheimer's kid.

Speaker 5 (02:11:09):
Okay, all right, that's my bad thought.

Speaker 9 (02:11:12):
I thought it was somebody else who, of course coached
the Cleveland Browns in the mid eighties and his son
now is the new head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (02:11:24):
Anyway, Oh see, I got it confused because they hired
that new defensive coordinator from the Bears.

Speaker 5 (02:11:28):
Mad Yeah, so I thought that was the new head coach.

Speaker 9 (02:11:31):
Okay, he tanked the Bears and they thought, hey, he
should be our new defensive coordinator. Pretty young Brandon, Yeah,
but the video that everybody's passing around is a little
turn of phrase here with Jerry Jones.

Speaker 3 (02:11:42):
People are laughing.

Speaker 11 (02:11:43):
Very low percentage of this that is smiles and glory hopes,
very low percentage. There's a very low percentage of this
that is smiles and glory hopes.

Speaker 9 (02:12:01):
Now that is funny, of course, But if people know
how Jerry Jones made his money, they understand he's an
oil man and a glory hole is part of oil production.

Speaker 3 (02:12:14):
You got to know your audience, dude. I mean, for
the amount of people.

Speaker 9 (02:12:17):
That nobody's talking about, he's an old man who made
his billions in oil. So all of his references are
going to be from the when I was out there
in the patch, we watched land Man.

Speaker 3 (02:12:28):
Right, they talk about glory holes. I think, hey, this
be hey, b.

Speaker 27 (02:12:34):
Hey, I hate the show, but hey, you guys talk
about glory holes. And I've been to a couple.

Speaker 8 (02:12:39):
I know there's probably two or three in the area
that are O god.

Speaker 3 (02:12:46):
Right now at a Wednesday. Wow, Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 27 (02:12:53):
I thought I had some expertise and i'd call in
and share my experience.

Speaker 9 (02:12:56):
I appreciate it. You've you've done these like you've gone
in and said, let's roll the dice.

Speaker 8 (02:13:01):
Yeah, there's some that you have to pay for.

Speaker 27 (02:13:03):
You have to buy like a like a fun money,
a fake currency that you put into a machine and
then it plays porn and then you either do what
you got to do in the booth or somebody asks
for your services.

Speaker 9 (02:13:16):
See this is what I'm saying. But these are all
businesses that are not going to mess with people. I'm
talking about the guy at the roadside rest stop who.

Speaker 27 (02:13:25):
Finds out there is another way to find those. And
there's a website you can go on that has all
of those locations listed. I don't know how frequently it's updated,
but it's got locations. There's some in parks, there's some
in grocery stores, in bathroom see grocery stores.

Speaker 5 (02:13:44):
That is one giant eagle coming through there. B Are
you a gay man or just an adventurous dude.

Speaker 27 (02:13:52):
I'm an adventurous my friend.

Speaker 3 (02:13:55):
Adventurous too.

Speaker 27 (02:13:57):
The lifestyle swingers clubs, there's one there.

Speaker 9 (02:14:00):
But yeah, but also like you're uh, you're a straight
guy theoretically, but there's not. It's not gonna be a
woman on the other side of these.

Speaker 5 (02:14:10):
I go hoping that there's a woman on the other
side all and ask if they have women there.

Speaker 27 (02:14:16):
Yeah, from from where I'm located, it's a pretty good
drive to get to any of them.

Speaker 5 (02:14:21):
It's at least an hour b is driving.

Speaker 9 (02:14:24):
Be's driving an hour in any direction for a glory
hole that might have a woman on the other side.

Speaker 5 (02:14:29):
But do you peek through the hole first, or do
you just say screw it, I'm going for it.

Speaker 27 (02:14:34):
If you don't see narl fingers sticking through the hole yet,
you take a peek and see.

Speaker 9 (02:14:38):
It any other like it, like it might be a
witch that casts a spell on your genitalia or something.

Speaker 5 (02:14:44):
Yeah, there's one three hours away.

Speaker 13 (02:14:49):
Wow, he's like he's got like a he's got like
a glory whole.

Speaker 5 (02:14:55):
Yelp going on out there, man, he's wow.

Speaker 9 (02:14:58):
Bee is doing the work that the rest all right,
Well listen, man, don't be a stranger.

Speaker 7 (02:15:02):
All right, no problem, Thanks for taking me on show
on one.

Speaker 3 (02:15:09):
Hundred point seven.

Speaker 16 (02:15:13):
Some people say our country is more divided than ever,
but don't ask him.

Speaker 3 (02:15:19):
He sucks it.

Speaker 4 (02:15:19):
Matt Alan Cox on one hundred point seven w m msn.

Speaker 6 (02:15:33):
Are we going to do what they say can't be done?
He's man, keep thinking the.

Speaker 15 (02:15:48):
Break.

Speaker 6 (02:15:50):
We got a run to me.

Speaker 9 (02:15:55):
As Periak Is that a thing anymore? Bootlegging like running
smoking the band? It was about them running beer inter state, right.
I know it used to be you couldn't have yingling outside,
but that's not a thing anymore, is it.

Speaker 5 (02:16:09):
I don't think so.

Speaker 4 (02:16:10):
I know that.

Speaker 3 (02:16:11):
I mean, there's plenty of beers that you can't get
outside of a certain area, but I don't think anybody.

Speaker 5 (02:16:16):
To support them.

Speaker 9 (02:16:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean smoking the Bandit The whole
premise of that was that they were bootlegging beer across
the state lines, right.

Speaker 5 (02:16:25):
They had to get it ors banquets.

Speaker 3 (02:16:28):
There you go, man, They drove down and made it
back and was it forty Yeah, we're in Arcana, one
of my favorite movies of all time.

Speaker 5 (02:16:37):
Love it the late great Jerry Reid. But I was
thinking of this when I.

Speaker 9 (02:16:42):
Saw You know, Sammy Hagar famously has a tequila brand. Well,
he keeps having tequila brands. That's how Sammy Hagar is
one of the richest guys in rock and roll. You know,
he had Van Halen money, of course, and he's an
accomplished solo artist. But he sold Cabo Wabo tequila to somebody.
You know, when you're famous and you have one of
these alcohol brands, you end up selling it for like

(02:17:03):
a billion dollars. Well, anyway, he started another one with
Guy Fieri, sont Sun totaquila. It's very good, and they
just had a million dollars of it stolen in a
heist after the trucks crossed the border. It was a
very coordinated heist, apparently because they had hired a trucking

(02:17:24):
company to bring these across, and they're thinking that the
people in that trucking company coordinated with other people to
switch trucks.

Speaker 5 (02:17:33):
That's what it sounds like when they got over here.

Speaker 9 (02:17:35):
So a million dollars of their product was stolen, and
they said it's a huge setback to the brand. Of course,
they have to say, we're really glad nobody was hurt,
but you know, there's a lot of screaming and yelling,
you know, with your staff, and but I just love

(02:17:57):
the notion of a tequila heist. One million dollars worth
of tequila. I've never had Santo tequila. It's delicious, Okay.
I did a charity event a few years ago with
Sammy Hagar and I think he was promoting Santo tequila,
and I love tequila.

Speaker 5 (02:18:15):
I just didn't have I didn't take the opportunity to
try any So.

Speaker 9 (02:18:19):
They were hijacked in a double in Laredo, Texas.

Speaker 5 (02:18:22):
It's a border town. Laredo is tough stuff.

Speaker 8 (02:18:26):
Man.

Speaker 5 (02:18:26):
They've got like reality cop shows about Laredo, Texas. Just
after it crossed the border, a total of four thousand
cases of tequila, which took thirty nine months to make.
We're stolen.

Speaker 9 (02:18:42):
The trucks were illegally double brokered to different carriers who
then transferred the products to their trucks.

Speaker 3 (02:18:50):
And there's no way to trace that, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 9 (02:18:52):
The the GPS tracking signals and everything. So it's a
it's a very coordinated and sophisticated effort. And Sammy's like,
you know, we're just getting this company off the ground.
If I'm left to only live from the revenue of
my last tequila company's sale, what's the guy to do.

Speaker 5 (02:19:16):
Sammy's like the rock and roll Jimmy Buffett.

Speaker 3 (02:19:19):
Please don't ever say that again.

Speaker 9 (02:19:21):
Listen, every genre has it's Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Chesney's countries.

Speaker 5 (02:19:26):
Sammy is the rock and roll Jimmy Buffett.

Speaker 3 (02:19:28):
I'll come up with somebody else, somebody I like much
less than Sammy Hagar, because I hate Jimmy Buffett. What
is now?

Speaker 13 (02:19:35):
She doesn't rise to the level of a parrot head.
But my wife very much enjoys Jimmy Buffett.

Speaker 5 (02:19:41):
What is just the vibe?

Speaker 22 (02:19:42):
Right?

Speaker 9 (02:19:43):
What is the aversion to Jimmy Buffett. I've gone to
precisely one Jimmy Buffett show. He was at Blossom years ago.
It was pouring rain, so that really sucked. We're out
there in ponchos and I just went to be a
cool guy. I couldn't care less about Jimmy Buffett. If
I hear a song or two, it's fine. The guy
made a pretty mean burger back in the day. It's

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all good. I don't understand this blue hot aversion people
have to Jimmy Buffett.

Speaker 13 (02:20:14):
It's everything. I think it's the fans people don't like.
It's the parrot heads, that's part of it.

Speaker 3 (02:20:20):
I mean, he's a brilliant right, you want to pick
his brain on a marketing thing because he took somehow
took trash, garbage music and made a career out of that.
Is that way it is.

Speaker 9 (02:20:32):
I mean, he was very He's another guy that it
took him three or four albums to get going like
Margaritaville obviously catapulted him, but before that he was just
like a singer songwriter guy.

Speaker 5 (02:20:40):
He wasn't doing all that.

Speaker 9 (02:20:42):
I'm a sailor and here's what I like on my burger.
He wasn't doing all that right. He was like a
late sixties, early seventies singer songwriter, right. And then he
found out that writing songs for rich white people on
boats was the way to go well, and it turned into.

Speaker 3 (02:20:58):
Just god, I mean, dude, when we talk about singer songwriters, Yeah,
Jimmy Buffett is listed and is now, by the way,
in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame before some
of the biggest bands on the planet.

Speaker 13 (02:21:08):
Right, and read the lyrics to Cheeseburger and there No,
I trust me.

Speaker 5 (02:21:15):
Mine's French.

Speaker 3 (02:21:17):
Get out of here. Trusts me.

Speaker 9 (02:21:18):
Every time I make fun of him in the house,
That's what I'm saying. I'm like, alack, but data, it's amadis.
I'm like, this guy put a menu to music. Okay, flap,
I know, I know that's but again, they're catchy songs,
but the guy has written an ass ton of songs.
It struck me as it's not my favorite artist or whatever,

(02:21:42):
but it seemed like he knew how to turn a phrase.
It's very pun heavy, and I'm never gonna get on
a I hate puns, high horse. But he seemed like
a good songwriter, like he could crank out songs. These
are all like the novelty songs that people associate him with.

Speaker 13 (02:21:58):
But I know I could never figure out the aversion
to Jimmy Buffett as a thing.

Speaker 5 (02:22:05):
We can dedicate a whole show to it, and I'll
tell you every reason.

Speaker 3 (02:22:10):
If you're in that.

Speaker 13 (02:22:10):
Boy hot hatred for Jimmy Bye, I hate you, like
changes in latitudes, changes in the attitude.

Speaker 4 (02:22:17):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:22:18):
It's just not going to be played at my funeral. No, alright,
and I gotta be answer with you. I'm ready to
take my headphones off right now and just talk to
you in here. Just god, all this is the most
Jimmy Buffer I've ever listened to. The clockwhere my God
so bad? All right, so bad? And he turned it
into a billion dollar thing. Yeah, that's where I'm like,

(02:22:40):
he's a marketing genius. Right.

Speaker 13 (02:22:42):
There are retirement communities yes, yeah, everything, blender, margarita mixers
and whatever.

Speaker 3 (02:22:48):
My eye my eye is twitching.

Speaker 9 (02:22:50):
Yeah, oh god, although I put my face up to
the god we were in the flats.

Speaker 3 (02:22:54):
What was it for?

Speaker 9 (02:22:55):
Might have been there was a bunch of us down
there and we were looking for to go into and
yeah it was on a weeknight, but everything in the
flats was supposedly open. Like I put my face up
to the window at Margaritaville because I was just looking
for a rooftop at that point, and there was nobody
in there, and I'm like, guy it. They go, yeah,
but it's like a Wednesday. I go, it's a thirty.
Like the sign in the door says open till ten

(02:23:17):
or something. Nobody in there closed? Yes, already, Allen, the
people that go there have been asleep since six thirty.
I know that's the joke, but I'm saying the sign
and the door said open till ten. Sure, So I mean, listen,
I worked in restaurants. You know, if you get to
the point in the night where you're really nobody's going
to show up, you go, let's call it right.

Speaker 5 (02:23:38):
That was fine dining.

Speaker 9 (02:23:39):
If you're running a Margaritaville, you stay open until the
matter if there is nobody in there. Doors are open
until it says you're closed. I've returned Christmas presents, no joke.
I got a Margaritaville chair, you know, beach chairs when
hode Island. Right back to the store. I'm like, no,
So you won't even even in the interest of just
having something can be and ostensibly comfortable, like a camping

(02:24:02):
chair or whatever. If it's got the Marguerite Deville logo
feces on it, you want nothing to do with it.

Speaker 3 (02:24:09):
There will be zero of my dollars ever sent to anything.
Jimmy Buffett. Really, wow, I can't do it.

Speaker 5 (02:24:15):
There's fans to the limb to the rise and you're
the own.

Speaker 3 (02:24:22):
Yeah, does not have it.

Speaker 13 (02:24:32):
All?

Speaker 9 (02:24:32):
Right, listen, aw I just remember when I was in Pittsburgh.
I was dating a girl who was a bartender downtown
and the place was it was right across.

Speaker 5 (02:24:46):
It was on the street where the Clemeny Bridge is
to PNC Park.

Speaker 9 (02:24:49):
And it's right downtown, so it's not like you can
have like a blossom tailgate, right And Jimmy Buffett was
playing PNC Park and it was in the afternoon, and
and the whole street was full of parrotheads, and I
understood why that got people upset, because it's a lot
of it looks like a lot of like weekend warriors
and one percenters in Hawaiian shirts getting hammered.

Speaker 5 (02:25:12):
But whatever, you know, if you go again.

Speaker 13 (02:25:14):
When I saw him a blossom music ago, it's people
with a flatbed full of sand and okay whatever, but
it's your money, it's your life.

Speaker 9 (02:25:21):
It's fine. So I always figured that that was the
resistance people had. Where to the parrot. Heeads themselves. But
and I can see why the music wouldn't be anybody's
cup of tea. But man, do people want nothing to
do with anything? He's doing nothing?

Speaker 7 (02:25:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:25:42):
Zero, yeah. I even asked, what kind of uh the
tortilla chips are these? They're margeritaville. Okay, I'll skip. I
will not have these chips, these lime flavored buffet chips.

Speaker 5 (02:25:55):
I was living in Kalamazoo, Michigan still and there was
a cheeseburger in pair at ice location there.

Speaker 9 (02:26:01):
I think those are all long gone, but I went
in one time and the food was bomb and I
maybe I got him on.

Speaker 3 (02:26:10):
A good night.

Speaker 5 (02:26:11):
I was surprised.

Speaker 3 (02:26:12):
I was like, Wow, did you get it with lettuce
and tomato potatoes too?

Speaker 9 (02:26:20):
I hadn't committed the lyrics to memory, but I think
that might be how they served it.

Speaker 5 (02:26:25):
Yeah, of course it is.

Speaker 3 (02:26:28):
God, it's oh my god, so bad. I'm so happy
on the hookup to a blood pressure monitor right now.

Speaker 9 (02:26:32):
Alan Rob just made my shrimp list with his trash
talk about Jimmy Buffett signed Yep, Listen, this is not
a hill you're gonna knock Rob off of right. If
you feel that strongly about something, this is where it belongs.

Speaker 3 (02:26:51):
Lifelong hatred. Wow, yep.

Speaker 9 (02:26:56):
So our new it'll be my new weekly segment, Torch
during Rob with Buffett, will premiere tomorrow. We're gonna do
like a Malcolm McDowell clockwork or type of Joys where
we got the eyes open and.

Speaker 3 (02:27:12):
I'm gonna I'm gonna do the entire Jimmy Buffett disc one.

Speaker 9 (02:27:15):
Yeah, I'm gonna strobe flash Jimmy Buffett videos in front
of his eyes and play the songs. No again, I
don't have a dog in that fight. So I just
I find it entertaining when people because.

Speaker 13 (02:27:27):
People who do like them, yeah, well yeah they go,
they go, oh yeah, yeah, Okay.

Speaker 9 (02:27:33):
Now I'm one of those people. If I hear a song,
oh okay, it's fine, right, I'd never buy an album.
I would never, you know, I plus one to the concert.
That's fine. But some people are really you know, into it,
the Parroheads. It's like it's like the Dead for older
you know, and now like that that's a bad example

(02:27:55):
because the Dead have a super old audience too. But yeah,
people I follow Jimmy Buffett, do you know, I mean
the music can absolutely get monotonous. I'll say that it's
all kind of guitars and steal drums and you know,
it's the pattern in between that I know, the fans
really like that.

Speaker 5 (02:28:13):
I cannot abide that.

Speaker 13 (02:28:15):
You know, yeah, it might be ready here in cai
Ho Falls, but in our brains dolls. I mean that
was that was the extent of the you know, pattern.
But what a life that guy created for himself. What
a life.

Speaker 9 (02:28:30):
And by the way, what I always think of is
when he died, the people who came. Paul McCartney was
just beside himself. He's like, Jimmy Buffett is one of
my best friends. He's a phenomenal songwriter and blah blah, blah,
and I'm like, wow, man, and I lost respect for
a beatleven. He's like and that was the day that

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Ringo became my favorite. But now I'm like, who would
know better than the his peers in the industry, right.

Speaker 5 (02:29:00):
I'm sure he was a perfectly nice guy.

Speaker 9 (02:29:02):
No, Paul McCartney said he was a phenomenal songwriter, is
what he said.

Speaker 5 (02:29:06):
He's Paul McCartney's elderly. He's p I've never.

Speaker 9 (02:29:09):
Written a song. I shouldn't say that. I've written a
couple of songs for bands I played it. I'm not
a songwriter. I think I'm pretty good with words. Songwriting
is not easy. It's not like writing a story or
a poem.

Speaker 3 (02:29:20):
Or you know, dude, let's again look at the lyrics
and tell me that songwriting isn't easy.

Speaker 13 (02:29:26):
That it is.

Speaker 5 (02:29:29):
Anybody could write that. Anybody.

Speaker 13 (02:29:32):
Anybody could write Cheeseburger in Paradise or Margaritaville or Finns
or any of those ridiculous Kimmy buffett anthems.

Speaker 5 (02:29:39):
Anybody could have written those. Yes, once you have a nitch.

Speaker 13 (02:29:42):
Why I didn't they because they didn't realize that it
would be what it was.

Speaker 3 (02:29:46):
If they could have Why didn't they.

Speaker 5 (02:29:49):
My struggling in a bundle?

Speaker 3 (02:29:50):
Let me write another song that sucks ass about beaches.

Speaker 13 (02:29:54):
A pirate looks at forty vaut Ah, don't know where
the volcano blues, and I'm going to be gone?

Speaker 3 (02:30:01):
Just what if you were trash dribble? Oh my god?

Speaker 5 (02:30:06):
Can you immediately conjure another artist in your brain that
inspires the same vitriol as Jimmy Buffett?

Speaker 3 (02:30:13):
No, wow, nope, nope, there are there are things I dislike.
I hate Jimmy Buffett.

Speaker 9 (02:30:22):
Well, according to the audience, the people who are texting me,
at least that small sample size probably think I'm an idiot. No,
they're fifty to fifty okay, Alan, I never I thought
I would never know anybody who hated Buffett as much
as me. I've bartended for years, and trust me, this
is Stephanie. Stephanie Bartenders hate him more than anyone else.

(02:30:43):
It's music for drunks, lifelong parent hit. Here Rob is
spitting fighting words. You know what he ain't you hear
how fired up he is he will fight. I mean
no disrespect. He was actually a decent songwriter. If you
go deeper into the catalog, this person's is I actually
hate the gimmicks.

Speaker 5 (02:31:01):
But that's where. But the song is where where it's at? Okay,
well listen, And that's all I was saying is that
if you go, if you go past the Margheritaville's the
things that made him the money. You know, you gotta
fit never made it that far out.

Speaker 9 (02:31:16):
You know, for most people, the bands that you really
really love, you haven't heard most of their music because
their entire discography.

Speaker 5 (02:31:26):
You're not listening to the whole album back to back.
I mean maybe some people are.

Speaker 2 (02:31:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (02:31:29):
Dude.

Speaker 3 (02:31:29):
If you have a favorite band, you know their entire thing.
You know everything they ever recorded, You've heard it. Yeah, right,
Like I've heard every Beatles recording. I've heard everything from
led zeppem.

Speaker 5 (02:31:40):
And now you have to you have to zip past
the McCartney penned tracks because I'll give him a past.
Like I said, he might have early onset dementia something
like that.

Speaker 3 (02:31:50):
How many people aren't there ready to get outready? It
might be Tuesday, not fall, but Friday not somewhere.

Speaker 5 (02:31:58):
Well, anyway, the guy is dead and.

Speaker 3 (02:32:02):
I won't come. I won't comment on that. I don't
I don't like to see anybody ill, but.

Speaker 9 (02:32:08):
Damn it sucks Alan he could never figure he never
had the time to figure out his song hot Dog
in Purgatory.

Speaker 13 (02:32:16):
I like my with mustard button, no ketch him, a
spark pepper and a poppy seed bun.

Speaker 7 (02:32:25):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (02:32:26):
I stopped off for a beer on Friday after the
week we had. I was like, you know, I'm just
gonna stop off before I go home, have a have
a belt. I did, and I went to the bathroom
and while I was taking a leak, I farted. Okay,
it wasn't a it wasn't a fart that you would write.
It was a fart, right, It was a normal, everyday fart.
Some guy washing his hands at the sink, which by

(02:32:48):
the way, wasn't right next to me, goes real nice, Like.
I was like, I was an a hole for farting
in a bathroom. Where else am I supposed to do that?
And this is a guy, a guy washing his hands,
real nice bathroom real. I'm like, what did you say?
I didn't.

Speaker 5 (02:33:03):
I didn't know why. I was like that guy just like,
was he complimenting me? Was it like real nice?

Speaker 3 (02:33:07):
Yeah? But it wasn't. It was like real nice, real
nice dude like that kind of thing. I couldn't believe it.
He didn't.

Speaker 5 (02:33:12):
He didn't have an earpiece anyone, and talking nowadays, you
don't know when people are talking on the phone.

Speaker 3 (02:33:16):
No, man, timing was right. I mean, he wasn't looking
at me right in the bathroom, two of us in
the bathroom. And again, it wasn't like an offensive fart.
It wasn't like, oh my god, it was a it
was a p fart.

Speaker 9 (02:33:27):
But even if it was, there's dudes in there man,
that are just it's a gatling gun while they're going.
You know, you're you're you're loosened up when you're standing
there having a whiz. Yeah, I have to assust have
some sympathy. Well, look, you have to that that is
the place to do it.

Speaker 7 (02:33:43):
No.

Speaker 13 (02:33:44):
Yes, So I didn't do anything wrong, right, I don't know.
So you didn't respond. I didn't say anything. And then
I went back to the bar, I sat down, My
wife was there. I saw him sitting at the other
end of the bar. I didn't say.

Speaker 5 (02:33:55):
I was just like, what do I do? Do I say?

Speaker 3 (02:33:58):
Like, how did you mean that? Sir?

Speaker 6 (02:34:00):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:34:00):
Did I really offended by my gas or were you
just to get, you know, talking to somebody else like right,
I don't know. I just I was, I was, I
was blown away. I didn't know what to say. Good pun.

Speaker 9 (02:34:10):
First thing I did was two ships passing wind in
the night. It was all you guys were Did you
did you recompass to your wife?

Speaker 4 (02:34:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:34:17):
Of course, yeah yeah, And then I instantly text you.

Speaker 3 (02:34:20):
Yeah you did.

Speaker 9 (02:34:22):
Huh real nice, real nice. And it wasn't like did
this guy look all buttoned up or what was it?
I mean, he's in the same bar you are a restaurant,
and it wasn't.

Speaker 3 (02:34:30):
And it's not like like I was at like a
fine dining state. It was a towny bar. It was
a thing, and it was uh yeah, just real nice.
You should have been like you got there right. I
played it through my head numerous times, like was he
complimenting me?

Speaker 7 (02:34:44):
Was it?

Speaker 5 (02:34:45):
Did I do something wrong? Should I not have farted
at a urinal.

Speaker 3 (02:34:51):
On a lesson?

Speaker 5 (02:34:52):
I don't know? Yeah he was he seemed annoy Wow.
You have to wonder if he does that.

Speaker 13 (02:34:59):
Imagine this guy does that in a bunch of different situations, right,
like when he goes to pay his check and he
tips and the guy next to him, gets away from
the bar, pushes his stool in. The guy goes real nice,
like he gets the most mundane things set this guy off,

(02:35:19):
and you just happen.

Speaker 3 (02:35:20):
To be in his sight, or maybe he was just
maybe he was just very monotone and he was like, hey,
well done, Yeah, real nice.

Speaker 5 (02:35:28):
Allan.

Speaker 13 (02:35:28):
The military, we were taught to scream back blast area
clear for rocket launchers, but I feel like it applies here.
I was, I was, you were taken aback? Yeah, you
know me, I'm not afraid to say things right. I
was just like, like I had to think about him, like, what.

Speaker 11 (02:35:43):
Did he just say?

Speaker 5 (02:35:44):
Real nice, real nice?

Speaker 16 (02:35:47):
On Cleveland, We now returned his thing barely words, your
time already in progress.

Speaker 5 (02:36:03):
The whole thing is f and pointless. The Allen Cox
Show on one hundred twenty seven MMS. I did want
to mention this.

Speaker 9 (02:36:12):
Our brothers and sisters in broadcasting over there at Cleveland
State University are going through a day of mourning. I
don't know if we have any student listeners who spend
any amount of time there at WCSB was their radio station,
and they would have celebrated fifty years next spring, and
I'm sure everybody involved was very excited for that. They

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went on me or May tenth, nineteen seventy six WMNS.
You know, we know whence we speak. We had our
fiftieth anniversary unbelievably seven years ago, back in twenty eighteen,
we had the late great Ozzy Osbourne host our anniversary
show out there at Blossom.

Speaker 5 (02:36:54):
Sold out the whole affair.

Speaker 8 (02:36:55):
Rob.

Speaker 9 (02:36:56):
This was prior to your tenure here, just before the
MMS fiftieth and Cleveland State, like so many other universities,
are really going through it with all of these funding
being slash and things like that, and they're looking at
like a seventeen million dollar shortfall. And I don't know
the inner workings of it, but they have sold the

(02:37:17):
college radio station over there to idea stream. So I
don't know if that's part of it where they're like,
we need some cash, maybe we'll just sell them the
radio station. But I know that they were And again
I don't know the inner workings of these things. But
and I myself only did a semester of college radio

(02:37:38):
and it was after I had already graduated.

Speaker 5 (02:37:41):
And that's kind of the case with a lot of
college stations.

Speaker 9 (02:37:44):
It's a lot of like alumni, volunteers and things like that.

Speaker 5 (02:37:48):
They just needed warm bodies.

Speaker 9 (02:37:50):
And I was kind of in between gigs and did
one semester of college radio. But some people really devote
themselves to it, and WCSB is no more with respect
to Cleveland State University was eighty nine point three over there.

Speaker 5 (02:38:11):
I was told earlier today that they were staging a
sit in.

Speaker 9 (02:38:15):
Yeah yeah, And I was also told I think it
lasted under fifteen minutes, so I don't know what that entailed.
WCSB was not a radio station that I would listen
to with any regularity. You know, I punch around occasionally
to see what the kids are doing on college radio.
Some stations sound better than others. They're a handful of

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local college radio stations, and you can see why it's
attractive to some people, you know, people who have their
criticisms of a commercial radio and what it sounds like
and what it's become in an age of consolidation.

Speaker 5 (02:38:58):
But you really do esthetically, you really do.

Speaker 9 (02:39:05):
Have to hang in there with college radio because boy,
I mean, these are people getting their sea legs, and
so I was always curious to hear what the kids
are doing. First off, it's terrible to lose a college
radio station because I'm always so heartened that there are
college kids that want to do radio, you know what
I mean. Yeah, And there are a lot of universities

(02:39:27):
around the country where their radio station is nothing more
than an online asset, you know. So there are still
like WCSB, there are still college radio stations that were broadcasting.

Speaker 5 (02:39:41):
On the non com band there, and they were at
eighty nine point three.

Speaker 9 (02:39:45):
And again, I don't know if it was to make
up for whatever shortfalls they have over there at CSU.
They also announced that they were getting rid of a
couple of dozen academic programs. I guess they're launching like
three dozen, swapping out some and bringing on others.

Speaker 5 (02:40:05):
People trying.

Speaker 9 (02:40:06):
And they said that the people who are studying these
things at CSU now will be able to continue their
studies until they're done. Like if you are studying to
be you know, the doctor in nursing practice, that's one
of the programs they're getting rid of a lot of
degrees and programs in nursing are being done away with
its CSU. And my thought is always, well, it's probably

(02:40:29):
because you know, it sucks for the people who are
in those but it probably has more to do with
the fact that there weren't enough people enrolled in certain programs,
and so they discontinued a lot of their academic programs
over there.

Speaker 5 (02:40:41):
But I guess they're introducing a whole lot of other ones.
So I don't know. But any time there is a
terrestrial college radio station that goes away, you are losing
a lot of.

Speaker 9 (02:40:55):
You know, flavor, not only for you know, kind of
campus life, but in you know, the broad spectrum, if
you will, through pardon the pun of of voices on radio.
And so god, it would have love if somebody's gotta
have video that sit in, you know, because back in
the day when radio stations, as a matter of course,

(02:41:16):
would you know, change format or something like that, you'd
have a guy who was pretending to be locked in
the studio, Right, I'm gonna lock myself with a studio
play def Leppard until they you know, well, there are
no locks on studio doors, no, and so you can't
lock yourself in the studio.

Speaker 3 (02:41:36):
Well, and even if you did, let's just say, for example,
they were able to do that in twenty twenty five.
All you have to do is push a button in
a room somewhere else and they're off the air. Yeah,
so it really like the whole thing.

Speaker 5 (02:41:51):
Uh, I get it. I understand it too.

Speaker 9 (02:41:55):
I mean, you know, again, I don't have I have
precisely one semester of experience some college radio. I tell people,
I felt ass backwards into radio and so but it sucks,
you know. For my son ended up doing a semester
of college radio Michigan State because he wanted to see
what the what the fuss was all about and he
really liked doing it, and you know, but he did

(02:42:16):
a semester and that was fine. You know, listen, my
son Rob, he's got a broadcasting legend in the family.
What can I say? And me, oh, I'm in the
family too. I was gonna say, who else? I don't know,
I forget who can remember these things? But you know,
our buddy pound Cake when he was DJ Cobra, he

(02:42:39):
was on there at the University of Akron and uh
he was DJ Cobra. Yes, yeah, at w z IP
because of course they're the Akron Zips. They're down there
in Akron at eighty eight point one. But for people
in radio stations on campus really run the gamut two, right,
some of them are programmed like commercial stations, because the

(02:43:03):
thought being, this is the best way to train someone
to transition into commercial radio if it's formated a certain way.

Speaker 5 (02:43:14):
And there's you know, the one semester I did it.
That's what the radio station was.

Speaker 9 (02:43:18):
There was a log and there was you know, because
there were like, you know, so many people come out
of college free form radio and they don't realize the
structure of commercial radio. They go, oh, I didn't know that.
What I can't just play whatever I want? You know,
You're like, no, it's not nineteen seventy two. But a
lot of people did come. You know, John Carroll has

(02:43:39):
a great radio station, and but WCSB, the Northeast Ohio
collegiate non commercial radio landscape is down. The station obviously
is still on the air because they sold it to
Idea Stream, which also run well.

Speaker 5 (02:43:59):
I thought NPR and I thought public radio.

Speaker 9 (02:44:02):
Was on its deathbed as well, saying so how are
they buying radio stations because you could probably get them
for pennies on the dollar. I don't know, I mean
non commercial campus radio stations, you know, so they will
still be on the air, just not affiliated with Cleveland State.

Speaker 5 (02:44:18):
As I understand it, they're going to air some jazz
form or something.

Speaker 14 (02:44:24):
You know.

Speaker 9 (02:44:24):
So I don't know what kind of jazz they'll be airing,
but that seems more keeping in line with your traditional
NPR audience and demographic.

Speaker 5 (02:44:35):
Maybe they were playing some Dave cause Candy g.

Speaker 3 (02:44:41):
Maybe what I was just gonna say, maybe their sit
in would have gone better if they had all done
Sean Connery impressions.

Speaker 5 (02:44:48):
We're staging a ship here. Now, you ship over there,
on shit over here.

Speaker 13 (02:44:53):
Lock the door when if somebody tries to come in, give.

Speaker 3 (02:44:57):
Them an open hand slap. We're gonna stay on the
air and as long as we possibly can because we're
doing a shitt in all afternoon. What we're already done?

Speaker 5 (02:45:07):
Oh that was quick. Yeah, So anyway, that sucks.

Speaker 9 (02:45:10):
I mean, it's you know, they would have celebrated their
fiftieth anniversary next.

Speaker 3 (02:45:17):
May, but it was not to be.

Speaker 5 (02:45:21):
Because it is a kick in the balls, you know,
kind of the days of.

Speaker 9 (02:45:27):
Even before this administration, which you know, wiping its ass
with the Constitution in the First Amendment and all this
kind of stuff from tip to taint, but even before
the people who are running things now, the freedom of
expression on campus has been you know, diminishing incrementally for decades,
and so you know, it's not people taking over a

(02:45:47):
campus building anymore. I mean that still happens, but then
they you know, look at Kent's State back in the day.
That's your most pointed example of something going really sideways
in Northeast Ohio. Anyway, I mentioned the person who won

(02:46:08):
the Factory of Terror tickets because I was reading rob
about the ghosts that haunt America's national parks. Now, I
don't know if there is a ghost that is actively
haunting kai Huga Valley National Park.

Speaker 5 (02:46:23):
I don't know about that. It's not on this list, though.

Speaker 9 (02:46:26):
I have to think though, the people in Northeast Ohio
who are well versed in that area might know if
there is something that is haunting that park. The Great
Smoky Mountains National Park, there is something supposedly haunting that park,
something that they call spear finger. Now, listen, you know,

(02:46:51):
if you've ever been to Great Smoky Mountains National Park,
it's the most visited national park in the country, and
it's gorgeous, huge lots of Appalachia and these these lush
forests and these mountain peaks. It's a half a million
acres and it's gorge between like North Carolina and Tennessee.

(02:47:12):
But the Spearfinger rob. People keep on the lookout for
spear Finger.

Speaker 3 (02:47:16):
Now a lot of these are.

Speaker 9 (02:47:17):
Attached to indigenous or Native American lore, but and the
spearfinger is no different.

Speaker 5 (02:47:27):
It's a Cherokee legend rob.

Speaker 9 (02:47:29):
So if you're somebody who over spooky season, is going
to be visiting a national park and the Great Smoky
Mountains is somewhere on there, be on the lookout for
spear Finger, which they say is a monster with a
sharp finger, hence the name. There's a Native American chief
said to haunt Yosemite National Park Mammoth Caves. They're in Kentucky,

(02:47:56):
the world's biggest cave system. Maybe they have what they
call the coughing spirits.

Speaker 3 (02:48:05):
Wonder why they call them that.

Speaker 5 (02:48:08):
Heavy smokers, Well, they said that there after.

Speaker 9 (02:48:12):
Some doctor tried to purchase part of the caves in
the mid nineteenth century and wanted to convert part of
it into a hospital for tuberculosis patients, thinking that that
cold environment would be beneficial to their lungs.

Speaker 5 (02:48:30):
That theory did not work out, And.

Speaker 9 (02:48:33):
Boy, imagine that, you know, the cold, damp, moist will
be really really good for your lungs.

Speaker 3 (02:48:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (02:48:41):
Grand Canyon National Park is said to be haunted. The
Yellowstone National Park they have the Headless Bride. Now again,
I don't know if there's one Inkyhaga Valley National Park
that can be fun to find that out. Our friend
James Renner, who joins us occasionally over Halloween with all
manner of ghost stories, might know something along those lines.

(02:49:03):
But you know, Stephen King when he were at the
Shining Rocky Mountain National Park was really kind of how
he was trying to kind of frame that whole story.
And again, yes, these are all kind of indigenous stories
of the land, but that doesn't mean they're not true.

Speaker 13 (02:49:19):
Rob.

Speaker 5 (02:49:20):
We don't know. This could all be true. Oh boy, yo,
how's it going?

Speaker 17 (02:49:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (02:49:38):
Who this is?

Speaker 8 (02:49:39):
You know?

Speaker 5 (02:49:39):
I always think that I do, but then I don't.

Speaker 3 (02:49:41):
So who is it?

Speaker 22 (02:49:42):
This is?

Speaker 25 (02:49:43):
Get how passed away?

Speaker 17 (02:49:48):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (02:49:51):
The monkeys?

Speaker 4 (02:49:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (02:49:53):
Gorillas? Right, yeah, gorillas.

Speaker 25 (02:49:56):
I'm sorry, not monkeys.

Speaker 5 (02:49:59):
No, well, how I'm sorry for your for you look Peter.

Speaker 25 (02:50:02):
Tork So, David Jones, actual monkeys, man.

Speaker 5 (02:50:10):
Yeah, I was sorry to hear of your passing.

Speaker 25 (02:50:12):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (02:50:13):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 25 (02:50:14):
I was famous primatologist Jeane Goodall and now I'm dead.

Speaker 5 (02:50:20):
And so I was just checking out.

Speaker 25 (02:50:21):
Because I heard you talking about ghosts. Yeah, great, smoky parks.

Speaker 3 (02:50:27):
I lost.

Speaker 5 (02:50:28):
It was my anniversary when you passed, So we're gonna
always remember that date.

Speaker 3 (02:50:32):
Hepnversar you.

Speaker 5 (02:50:36):
Thank you, You're welcome.

Speaker 3 (02:50:38):
I'm so sorry. I mean, you've lived a good life
ninety one years with gorillas? Are you telling you what
kind of life?

Speaker 25 (02:50:45):
I'm I know what kind of life I've damn it.

Speaker 3 (02:50:48):
I lived it.

Speaker 25 (02:50:50):
I was famous primatologist Jane Goodall and now I'm dead.
I used to hang out with a guy named Lewis Leaky.
Remember Lewis Lee No, no, oh man, And this dude
was leaky. It was always putting moves on us.

Speaker 3 (02:51:07):
Wait a minute, you were I said, gorillas, But you
were chimps, weren't you. I worked with a kiss Yeah,
not gorillas.

Speaker 25 (02:51:13):
It was like me and a couple of other ladies
that were really in the munchins.

Speaker 13 (02:51:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 25 (02:51:18):
It was the lady who got killed.

Speaker 5 (02:51:20):
Yep, never dying fossy. They ripped her face off.

Speaker 25 (02:51:24):
Well, no, they other humans killed her. Oh, they kept
the face with a machete in a cat.

Speaker 3 (02:51:32):
It was bad man.

Speaker 25 (02:51:33):
It were eos, but they made a movie about her.
They made Gorillas in the mist.

Speaker 3 (02:51:37):
With the amount of stuff you've seen.

Speaker 25 (02:51:39):
Oh man, Yeah, and then another one of our friends
is in the like a Rangitans and stuff. But I
was so beloved, rab so beloved. Can you believe it?

Speaker 7 (02:51:53):
And I did.

Speaker 25 (02:51:54):
I was on a tour, man, I'm talking to people.
They want to hear me talk.

Speaker 5 (02:51:59):
And I die And where were you imagine?

Speaker 25 (02:52:02):
I was people asking for refunds the next day? Hey,
I had take you to see famous promise Jane Goodall.

Speaker 3 (02:52:12):
Speak and I heard she died, Yes, she died.

Speaker 25 (02:52:16):
I can I get my money back?

Speaker 3 (02:52:17):
Frost?

Speaker 5 (02:52:17):
In all fairness, don't you like what would you do?

Speaker 7 (02:52:20):
Like?

Speaker 3 (02:52:20):
Wouldn't you try to get your money back? I mean
it seems larger, mom, I'm dead now, Okay. When you
were living.

Speaker 25 (02:52:27):
Well, people took care of me though, right, you know,
I didn't need much of anything. I was ninety one
and people were worried, didn't they crossed me. I'd stick
those monkeys out. They knew I was friends with monkeys.

Speaker 11 (02:52:47):
Man.

Speaker 5 (02:52:48):
Huh yeah, So what what was your actual cause of death?

Speaker 6 (02:52:52):
What was it?

Speaker 7 (02:52:52):
Just age?

Speaker 5 (02:52:55):
As I understand, and my heart started, well, yes.

Speaker 25 (02:52:57):
And everything else just went after that boy once, I
think goes.

Speaker 5 (02:53:01):
You're a mad cheap Yeah. I read that you passed
peacefully in your sleep.

Speaker 25 (02:53:05):
Which I don't know about that I died, Rob, I
don't know how I died because I was dead.

Speaker 5 (02:53:09):
Well, I know, am I gonna know how I died?

Speaker 3 (02:53:11):
I don't know. I would assume I've never died. I
assumed the dead would know how they died.

Speaker 25 (02:53:16):
Oh, I don't know how I died. Which is a
monkey trying to sit on my face, and I guess
what it was. That's how I tell people. He believes
that's a boring story.

Speaker 3 (02:53:25):
I died in my sleep. Come on, man, I.

Speaker 5 (02:53:28):
Died because I was.

Speaker 3 (02:53:31):
I died sixty nine in a monkey.

Speaker 5 (02:53:32):
Man a chimp.

Speaker 25 (02:53:35):
Yeah, it makes for a much better story, that's right,
A better story for me. A late great same primatologist,
Jane goodall around, a hero to so many, a hero
to every kind of mammal, of friends, of human.

Speaker 3 (02:53:53):
And monkey a monkey, that's say and Reese Witherspoon, leant Oor, DiCaprio,
And he said, you are their hero man.

Speaker 25 (02:54:00):
Mind you here, Leo better say that. I know he
finger me bagging two six, we were in a bathroom
at seeing me and Leo trying to finger me back there,
and I was telling me it's kry. That's why whenever
I see it, I give him a wink and I
call him. I call him monkey singer.

Speaker 5 (02:54:22):
That's what he was doing. I thought he was more
into the younger of females.

Speaker 6 (02:54:27):
He is.

Speaker 3 (02:54:27):
That's why.

Speaker 25 (02:54:28):
That's why I'm didn't do it.

Speaker 3 (02:54:31):
He's like, I'm never even half.

Speaker 25 (02:54:33):
My hands on anybody other than twenty eight.

Speaker 5 (02:54:36):
Maybe so were you thinking like maybe his finger was
like the fountain of youth.

Speaker 7 (02:54:41):
Shure bro than.

Speaker 13 (02:54:44):
What the hell?

Speaker 7 (02:54:44):
Then?

Speaker 5 (02:54:46):
I just want to say, and I gotta go.

Speaker 19 (02:54:49):
He don't forget young.

Speaker 25 (02:54:55):
I might go hard the National Park and.

Speaker 6 (02:54:57):
I'm a peaceful transition.

Speaker 3 (02:55:01):
Thank you.

Speaker 9 (02:55:04):
Wow the celebrities we get on this show. Wow CALVS
preseason by the way, that is gosh. That starts Tuesday.
The Bulls are in town. Maybe I'll go to that
preseason game.

Speaker 7 (02:55:17):
Rob.

Speaker 9 (02:55:18):
The human brain, I'm fascinated by it. I love to
know how it works. I wish I had one, but
I was reading that the human mind peaks at sixty.
Now you are in your cognitive prime, in your late
fifties is what they say. Now, I am newly fifty four.
Rob is a few years behind me. You're in your

(02:55:40):
what are you forty seven? Yeah, he's forty seven years old.
And they do you know, they're doing constant cognitive tests
across demographic lines and things like that, and we can joke,
although it's only half joking, that culturally people are kind
of getting dumber.

Speaker 5 (02:56:00):
We're all getting dumber.

Speaker 9 (02:56:02):
Our brains were quite literally not created to keep up
with the way society and tech and everything else is moving.

Speaker 5 (02:56:10):
We simply cannot keep up with it.

Speaker 9 (02:56:15):
But your late fifties, they say you're in your cognitive prime,
and that the human mind actually peaks at sixty.

Speaker 20 (02:56:22):
Rob.

Speaker 9 (02:56:23):
What this tells me is that I have six short
years in which to try to learn everything that I've
ever wanted to learn, because then it's going to be
all downhill from there.

Speaker 5 (02:56:37):
Well, you could look.

Speaker 3 (02:56:38):
At it as though the next six years are you're
going to be your best from a mind mind set, right.

Speaker 9 (02:56:46):
I guess, But you know, you really have to keep
your mind elastic. You've got to work at it, right,
It's like a muscle that you need to keep. That's
why they tell old people. They're like, oh, do brain
teaser games and crossword puzzles and things like that. You
got to keep all those neurons firing. And so I
need to make sure that the fluids are moving and

(02:57:09):
make sure that you know, because I'm listen. I've talked
about it before. I'm in pretty good shape. There are
people a lot younger than I am who I know
who are constantly complaining about something. Nothing on me hurts,
but that could all go away one day. There's only
so much you can do. And so what they're referring to,

(02:57:32):
and the thing I was reading is called crystallized intelligence.
That's the accumulation of all your knowledge and experience.

Speaker 5 (02:57:41):
That you kind of carry with you. That there are
personality traits.

Speaker 9 (02:57:45):
You know, if you're a conscientious person, that's a personality trait, right,
if you are an emotionally stable person. I don't know
what those words mean, but I'm reading them, and I
guess they mean something moral reasoning. I don't know what
those words mean, but again, I've got six years to
figure these things out. Rob six years, which, boy, that's

(02:58:09):
no time at all. It's no time at all. So
let's say I'm still here in six years. My sincerest
condolences to the audience. A b ah, these people are
going to be uh they're going to be witness to

(02:58:30):
my rapid cognitive decline, Rob. And what could be funnier
than that, Well, I'll be I'll be here for it. So,
so by the time you hit sixty, that's pretty much
where you're peeking out. I guess as far as your
brain goes according to this, Uh, Ellen, I'm so glad
that the show won't be preempted anymore. You know, sports

(02:58:54):
announcers hardly ever talk about poop, spooch, human petch, puture
faction or mega. Yeah, well that is true, and sometimes, boy,
it's a banner day when you can lump them all
together in one fell swoop, as it were. So anyway,
I'm looking forward to my brain peeking because then you

(02:59:15):
don't really have to worry about it anymore. Right, more
of like busting my ass trying to keep my brain
elastic and reading things, rob.

Speaker 5 (02:59:27):
My bothering with that.

Speaker 9 (02:59:28):
For everybody else is walking around drooling and licking their windows.

Speaker 3 (02:59:32):
They look happy.

Speaker 5 (02:59:33):
What am I missing?

Speaker 3 (02:59:35):
I need to get on board, so do it.

Speaker 9 (02:59:37):
So I'm gonna take these last six years and really
jam as much, because that's what bums me out. What
bums me out, irrespective of how long your brain is
really really cooking, what bums me out is you think
about all the things that you never get to know,
all the things you never know, all the books you

(02:59:58):
don't read, all the movies you don't see, you know,
all of this information that you could be squeezing into
your brain. Now you can make the argument, but for
what And that's a valid argument too, To what end?
Who cares? When you're dead?

Speaker 3 (03:00:13):
That's it?

Speaker 5 (03:00:14):
Who cares? If you accumulate all this knowledge, best you
can do is maybe pass it on to somebody else.
Except nobody believes anybody anymore.

Speaker 3 (03:00:24):
So what good is that?

Speaker 5 (03:00:26):
When you're done? You're done?

Speaker 3 (03:00:29):
And now I must leave you as the Brady bunch
is on and I find four of those children incredibly arousing.
Get out of here.

Speaker 10 (03:00:37):
Be careful of what you say, Be careful in every way,
Be careful of what you do. Big brother is watching you.
Be circumspect and discreet, Stay light on your mental feet.

(03:00:58):
One slip and you know you're through. Big Brother is
watching you. Come along with all narratives, Remember obedience paid,
And when you watch that DAV screens. Remember it works
both ways. You disappear in a wink. Unless you can

(03:01:24):
double think, you'll vanish into the blue. Big Brother is
watching you.