Dead Man's Curve | This Past Weekend #88
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1 hour and 28 minutes
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181.10141
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On this episode of the podcast, I talk about my weekend in Covington, Louisiana shooting a pilot for a new small town detective series. I also talk about how fast things happen in life and how to deal with it.
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It's another day that these, uh, that the sun and the moon and whoever else made Poseidon,
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Transformers, Voltron, everybody, everybody making it happen.
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You know, I was down there in Covington, Louisiana down there.
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And, man, we were shooting a pilot for this, for this project.
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It's like a low-key small-town detective series.
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So, you know, big-time shows, they have like dateline murder mystery.
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You got to, you know, you got to chop off somebody's arm or steal somebody's wig or,
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but with their head hooked to it to really make that, you know, to make a real crime.
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But in this show that we were pitching, it's more about small-town mystery, crime, paranormal.
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You know, the kind of shit that, you know, you don't know what happened.
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You played hide-and-go-seek and, uh, one dude y'all never found.
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But if you go out in the woods at night, you can still hear him counting.
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Somebody stole a pie off of somebody's windowsill.
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And then suddenly everybody had diabetes in the whole town.
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A bunch of lice came through and they made it with termites.
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And next thing you know, they had people, um, you know, they had little bugs that were
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So it's that kind of show where you go into small towns and you investigate what could be happening.
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We had a good time, uh, down there in Covington, Louisiana.
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I don't need, it's like, and I don't know if it's because I'm older or because you get
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used to doing things, but things happen so fast.
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It's like, I can't even, it's not that I can't enjoy them.
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You know, it used to be, remember when you first went over to somebody's house for a birthday
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Remember it was like, oh, um, you know, Kenneth is having a party and you got an invitation.
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Or if his parents were divorced, you'd be like, Kenneth's dad's house.
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When you were a kid, boy, that shit lasted one hour.
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And a lot of times, if we had to get somebody a gift, what my mom would do is say, look around
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And that was like a test as to how greedy you were or not.
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Because you know good and well, I'm not giving Kenneth a nice shit.
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You know good and well, I ain't giving little, little, uh, little itchy ass Kenneth the good
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I'm not giving him a new toy that I hadn't opened or, you know, some money or anything.
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Come back to my mama about maybe an hour later.
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Have something all just in a little box or bag.
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My mom looking there, it would just be like my bed sheet.
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You would maybe break Kenneth off a couple cheese slices or something, you know, or maybe
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something, uh, you know, you wrap him up a couple of batteries or something.
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Oh, Kenneth will love this, uh, Phillips head screwdriver.
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You know, the next thing you know, four year old Kenneth out there with a Phillips head.
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But remember that when you went to somebody's party, you were like, mom, is it time to go yet?
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No wonder you wrapped up a bed sheet for Kenneth.
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You know, you fix all, everybody put hairspray on everything.
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You know, sometimes if your carpet got real old and mashed down.
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I remember in my neighborhood, a lot of mothers would go around with like a Brillo brush kind of.
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And brush it up and then spray it with hairspray.
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That give you, you know, put a little bit of, it would put a little bit of crunch under your bare foot in the house.
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Because they also had, if you wanted to get carpet, they had a carpet truck.
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One of the colors would always be fucking crazy.
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You'd be like, damn, they got a, they got a fuchsia.
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So, but you know, a couple sisters come through and grab that fuchsia out of the gate.
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A couple brothers or a couple loked out white dudes come through.
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I mean, it wasn't crazy when I was young to get into somebody's car and have it fully covered in carpet.
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I mean, it was just a different time back then.
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And man, all morning you had to walk around and just, you were like, fuck man.
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And by about 11 a.m., that's what your mom would be hearing.
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And meanwhile, you don't even fucking know who Kenneth is.
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You were one of those second or third degree friends that you just got, you know, that was back when you got invited because you had to.
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You know, that was like the old Facebook four-year-old birthday parties.
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You gave him a couple color pencils that you had.
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Meanwhile, you don't even know Kenneth, the dude in your class, ain't even got any arms.
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So now you fucking getting an armless kid a yo-yo, but you're not even there yet.
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Your mom starts whooping your ass because you're crying and screaming and fighting in the living room.
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People got Kool-Aid all colored on their mouth from drinking Kool-Aid.
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They got one kid sitting by themselves just looking at the wall.
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And somebody's in the backyard and somebody ran and, you know, they got a sprinkler fucking going.
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But it don't matter because this is Kenneth's party.
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And we would go to this place called Roller Kingdom.
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Now, sometime, whenever you got about six or seven, you know, you was able to skate.
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And so you go to straight up Roller Kingdom, man.
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People touching each other's assholes and everything.
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I mean, it's so dark, you fucking, you'll, you know, you'll lick your sister's titty.
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And that's natural activity out there when you, because look, man, when roller skates come on, that shit got me hard, bro.
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I was that little jouster out there on them skates, dude.
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I'll just be jousting with an erect, you know, I'll be out there just skating, but with that erection.
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And when you're young and you get that erection, boy, I don't kind of hide it.
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Now, if I get an erection, I'm like, oh, somebody's going to complain or start something.
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But when I was young, over there by Roller Kingdom, and I'm popping off, you know, and I'm sprouting, I'll push my pelvis forward, boy.
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I want everybody to see that I'm here to battle the dragon.
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Dude, I had my face in that panty drawer for probably, fuck, that whole hour.
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Because you know, come about 1.55 p.m., boy, I heard my mom calling from the living room or honking.
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And my mom was that fucking mom that would pull up and honk, start honking.
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So then all these dads were always trying to meet her and shit and walk me out to the car.
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She'd slow down as slow as a car could go, you know, which is maybe about, you know, 40 feet every maybe.
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But, yeah, this weekend we're back in my hometown, man.
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Like we had a crew of about eight of us went down there.
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And this show is like, you know, like a Scully and Mulder.
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You know, a house went missing or, you know, they find a bunch of, you know, baby doll heads in the woods.
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You know, when I was young and a couple other times a bunch of monkeys got out of the primate center.
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And they were living and hiding in different places.
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And hiding in the dumpster by the Popeye's chicken.
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You know, they were doing all kinds of lab testing out there.
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And so, you know, and in my town they've had rumors of all types of wild activity.
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So, we got in there and started just asking around.
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Man, we interviewed people that had been fired from the place.
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We interviewed the man that was a director there for 30 years.
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And my sidekick, this beautiful young comedian.
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That's where I got a lot of my early erections were in junior high.
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So, even just getting back in that building, it made me feel.
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But it reminded me of some just damn standout erections.
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You know, when I was really young, I didn't know what was happening.
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I would get one and I would put it on, set it on a piece of paper and I'd get my pencil and draw an outline around it.
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You know, because that way if I went to the doctor, I could show the doctor kind of what was happening.
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You know, just show them these, you know, just, you know, these cock sketches.
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And so, I would just outline that sucker and just outline it and do all of that.
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And my penis had that low-key curve to it, too.
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You know, I don't know if my penis was really ready to be erect.
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Because sometimes, you know, some things you're ready for in life and some things you're not.
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And I don't know if my penis was really ready to be erect when it was.
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But I think my imagination started reaching out.
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You know, reaching for ideas of breasts and vulgarity.
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And so, my mind was reaching out for these dark arts.
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And then my penis, your penis will follow your imagination.
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Your penis is just, it's basically the little brother to your imagination.
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I mean, it just tags along behind, you know, it's like the shadow of your imagination.
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And if your imagination is sprung, then that penis starts to dis.
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You know, that little, just like it was trying to just kind of peek around a cabbage ball.
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You know, like it was just trying to peek around a small cantaloupe.
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Speaking of boners, okay, I'm on the flight home.
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You know, I fell asleep on the plane of natural causes.
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And I wake up, there's a lady next to me handing me a blanket.
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Because I wear these special pants sometimes when I fly.
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And they, you know, keep a lot of blood from going into my legs and everything.
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And sometimes that blood will store up in my wiener.
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And this lady's like, I don't want to have to call the flight attendant.
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And I'm thinking at first, I thought, well, you know, I didn't really, in my mind, I'm like, I just woke up.
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Am I, you know, am I doing something odd or profane?
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And, uh, and she, this lady basically is, is calling me out because I have an erection.
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You know, look like a little, she looked kind of like a dude.
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But, like, kind of like, just, like, kind of maybe decent legs, kind of.
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She looked like a full trash bag, but somebody had put, like, legs on it that had maybe ran a 5K, but about six years ago.
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You know, she looked like she had just kind of big tits, but not even cool tits.
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You know, really just more belly hiding in her breasts, really.
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And she was, like, just kind of jacked in the chest.
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And I'm like, there's something, you know, like, I'm like, I'm sorry, ma'am.
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And she goes, she's like, yeah, well, you know, it's not very appropriate is the word that she used with me.
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The funny thing is I'd have to fall asleep next to you to even get an erection.
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Because you look like somebody that just do chest exercises every day since they were about 16 months old.
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And you got a big old jacked chest and nothing else.
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And your breasts look all freaking, your breasts look like two, two fucking just fat kids asleep in the sun.
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And one of them got some moles on it and look like somebody spilled chocolate on one of them chubby boys.
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And I'm looking at her husband like, dude, you're not going to, you know, oh, I got an erection in my sleep.
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And how can I get called out for having an erection?
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None of us would be here if it wasn't for an erection, you stupid muppet.
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Man, if that bitch was a drink, I would spill that bitch, man.
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I'm not trying to get angry, but I can't get an erection in my sleep anymore in public.
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Don't be shocked if my cock starts looking for, you know, looking for some hope.
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And, man, you could tell this bitch, they didn't have any sex like this couple.
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You know, not that I have really of a good one, but just made me mad.
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I mean, I guess it made me like feel bad for being like a man or something.
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Or she was making me feel like, you know, because I had an erection or something that I was being wild.
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You know, that I was, you know, like, damn, I mean, is that what it's come to?
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You know, those are, that's the correct amount of coverings.
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You know, and just because, you know, I mean, I, I don't know.
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You can't, I can't, you know, I'm showing a little.
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I'm like, excuse me, ma'am, you're going to need to tone that down.
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It's just some of this attitude out there that like I can't, a man can't even be a fucking human.
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You know, like there's this crime against men or something.
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But that thing big, boy, it's like that fucking fat dude at school.
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You know, and after the ninth or tenth grade, he quit coming to school because he was just too, he got too big, you know.
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They didn't make enough shirts locally that could really partner with him to get him comfortably in a school.
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He would just stay at the house topless and do homeschool but still learn.
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And people would go visit him on the weekends and stuff until people started to forget about him.
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And just because I'm bringing heat and this lady's over here frosty as hell.
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You know, I should have said, man, I wish I would have said something.
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It makes me, you know, it just makes me, it just makes me mad.
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And you know what's funny is I felt like this a couple months ago.
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This is during the, you know, when the Me Too Time's Up stuff was, you know,
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when every celebrity suddenly, you know, was a victim of rape and everything.
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You know, it's amazing how many celebrities will jump on that ship immediately.
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You know, I was, it's like, we've all been, everybody's been sexually abused, it seems like.
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So we can, it's like, it's like everybody's trying to out be abused.
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It's like, oh, I've been abused, I've been abused, I've been abused, I've been abused, you know.
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You know, I was, well, I was, I was molested, I was molested by, you know, one of my favorite lambs.
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We had some lambs and I was molested by him at church during school, you know, by my step, you know,
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mother's, grandmother's, father, you know, in the past and the future on drugs.
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I'm not shunning the movement, but it's just like, you know, it's like everything's just,
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it's just, everything's just a part of, you know, like this guy Comey or whatever is coming out about the elect,
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you know, something about Trump and they're in a big fight.
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You know, we, I remember growing up, when you're poor, politicians don't give a fuck about you.
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I mean, they say that they do, they don't give,
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the same problems have been around in America since I was a kid.
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You know, these politicians aren't doing anything.
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But these Comey and all these people are all fighting.
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But then everybody, suddenly everybody's selling that book.
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You know, there's no truth that there, if there's a book attached to it,
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But they, um, what, oh, fuck, I wasn't going to talk about.
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Dude, one thing I noticed, man, I miss gravel driveways.
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It's just something I hadn't seen in so long, man.
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We went and interviewed a friend of mine's brother while we were in my town.
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We just, this dude, man, he had the slowest drawl when he would say, come on.
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you could grab a piece of your driveway and fucking throw it at somebody.
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Or like a buddy, one of those big, huge slingshots.
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You could have three people to even, you know, fire off a piece of that big granite or whatever.
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But when I was a kid, boy, you walk outside, somebody pissed you off,
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you pick up a piece of your fucking driveway and throw it at that motherfucker.
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Dude, most of us, half the time we were outside, all we did was stand around throwing rocks at a stop sign.
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If you've ever done that, boy, then we have a lot in common.
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And I don't care what color you are, white, black, Latino, you know, different color.
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One thing that was pretty cool, I was at my middle school this, or my junior high school this past weekend.
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And, you know, a girl that I used to have, you know, a little bit of a crush on and used to take, you know,
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I used to ride to school with her sometimes, and her mother would give me a ride to school.
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And one of the last teachers that still works there from when I went to school there is retiring this year, Mr. Heidelberg.
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And he used to, you know, he used to run the low-key, you know, special kids.
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You know, he'd be running all these special kids.
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And that's where that dude, Brian St. Pierre, that's where this young dude, he was the first Wigga ever,
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the first white kid that wanted to be black ever, and they put him in learning disabled classes
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So, you know, you had kids with real learning disabilities, and then you had frickin', you know,
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Brian St. Pete just wearing this Charlotte Hornets starter pullover, you know,
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just shooting invisible jumpers all day on the backs of mentally handicapped kids, you know,
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just doing fake dunks on people that was drooling and running life like that.
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But Heidelberg is retiring. That dude's retiring.
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Oh, we went, yeah, we went on to the old school.
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We just got to walk around my old school, and it was just, you know, it was unique to be an adult now.
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When I was at the school, they said that one thing that they don't have much of anymore
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is they don't have as much racial tension as they used to when I was a kid.
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And that was pretty cool to hear, you know, because, you know, at the school,
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it was probably maybe, I felt like it was like 60, 40, white, black for kids.
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And that's all they had. You know, I didn't have a lot of, we didn't have a lot of other diversity.
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But it was really cool to hear, you know, this young lady and this other gentleman
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who are, you know, teaching at the school and who are, you know, potential principal
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So, you know, I think, you know, it's just good to hear.
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If that's coming out of a small town, then that's the truth.
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And these aren't two people that would say anything to me
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You know, I mean, I'm still not saying that it's easy for some people.
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But I know that it's nice to hear, you know, from an educator,
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you know, from educators that I personally trust,
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that at young levels that a lot of kids aren't thinking about that kind of stuff anymore.
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Because the truth is, the future of the world, man, it's beige.
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Because if you drive by people at night, if you look off in the distance
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and people are fucking at night, everybody's a little bit mixed now.
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You know, even if somebody's still a little bit racist,
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they'll yell at somebody to get out of their yard for being one color,
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but then they'll close the door and practice the moonwalk.
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You know, or practice some bachata or macarena.
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Why does every small town have a dead man's curve in it?
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That'd be a great idea because people are dying.
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How about don't have, for some reason, every, like whenever we were driving around,
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we went all these little, little places here and there.
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I mean, they have towns by me called Bush, Sun, Blonde, just one word towns.
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And we're going into them and everyone has a dead man's curve on the way in.
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Just have the streets start to curve a little earlier and just have kind of like a little
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Let's fucking take dead man's curve at about 45.
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I want some of you guys to hit the hotline and just, you know, every now and then, you
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know, we had the contest as to what you did this past weekend.
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We'll give out one of these Correctional Center blue t-shirts every month.
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We still have to mail one to the first dude, but don't worry, man.
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But hit the hotline with what happened in your past weekend, 985-664-9503.
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And let us know if something good happened, if something bad happened, let us know.
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You know, it's just got to be 60 seconds or less, and each month we'll put together,
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you know, the voicemails and we'll give away a prize.
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We might be adding some other prizes to that as well.
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We're going to bring Nick in in a minute and talk about some things.
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You know, when I was young, and if you're on YouTube, it just got a little dark in here,
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When I was young, I got hit by a Pontiac Firebird.
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When I was young, I got hit by a Pontiac Firebird.
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And I don't know if anybody out there has ever been hit by a car.
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And if you have, you know, we're, I guess we're Eskimo twins.
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But I got hit, I mean, that thing, I was young.
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You know, and I was just left running across the street.
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My mother had just told me something, and I went back to listen to her,
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and then I took off running again, bam, got lit up on that thing.
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And you can still see on my calf, on one of my calves, like by the side,
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there's still a, you know, there's kind of a soft spot there in my bone
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where that thing hit me probably doing about 38.
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And I respected that it was doing 38 miles an hour
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because if you're doing anything less than a 35 in a damn Pontiac Firebird
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You know, if I get hit by a damn Trans Am going six miles an hour,
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But you hit somebody at 38, you know, that actually, you know,
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it's not great, but it does a little something for me,
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And that's what I got, you know, I got that street credit.
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This was back when those things would go zero to 60
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in about 9.2 seconds, 2.5 liter, you know, 5 p.m.,
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kind of 5 p.m. blue or whatever color it was, midnight black,
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So, man, I remember, I just remember, I remember just seeing the car.
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But, yeah, those are some of the things that popped into my head going home,
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going home to a small town and just realizing that people just like a slower way of life.
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People liked, I mean, I remember I got impatient.
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Everything's kind of, people just like a slower way of life.
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We're going to get into some of you guys' calls.
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Not today, but I think we're going to interview some,
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If you, we have that Greyhound breakdown we're going to do this week.
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And also, if there's something good that happened to you.
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You know, there's a lot of joy that happens on Greyhound.
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I saw two people get, not married, but I saw two people get annulled.
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When you get off at one stop and your ex gets off at another,
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So, you know, there's some good things that happen.
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And Bananas is a comedy club in Hasbrook Heights.
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As well, I will be at Clusterfest in San Francisco,
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Calgary, June 15th and 16th at Yuck Yucks in Canada.
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And Timbler Brewing Company in Bakersfield, June 23rd.
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All tickets and everything available at Theovan.com.
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I'm sorry to keep telling you to hit the hotline,
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And I have, you know, one or two or three or four kids
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Literally, there's going to be no commercial break.
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We're going to roast a couple of songs as well.
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Let's play one of the songs that came in, Nick.