In this episode I talk about how I missed school and how I got a ride to school when I would miss the bus and how the bus driver would take me to school in his car when I missed the bus.
00:00:00.000Check check, Chinese check baby chicken check, chicken sausage, chick hern, chickpeas check, check please, chicks, chickadoodledee, remember chickadees, remember that, remember chickadees, it was a little uh, like a breakfast place,
00:00:26.340I don't know if they, it was chickadees, and you go in there and they had um, you know they give you the menu and it was, they would hand write the menus every day, which I think is probably why they went out of business, I mean at that point you're more of a calligraphy shop or something, I mean they'd hand, I don't know,
00:00:52.540they say home of the handwritten menu, that was their big ticket, that was their big, you know, get you in the door deal, home of the handwritten menu,
00:01:07.000and then they hand write them and then, I don't know what happened, I don't know what happened, I don't know if there was a fire or something happened, uh, something happened over there, but um,
00:01:24.840um, but anyway, uh, what's going on man, not much, chickadees, that was it, and I go over there and get me a little breakfast, you know, get me a cut of ham, get me a, you know, two uh, bird eggs, two bird eggs and a cut of ham for three dollars, I remember,
00:01:46.580and some of them would have sweet, sweet entrees, it said on there, a little bonus section on the menu, it said, uh, sweet entrees and it'd have you a little, get you a little hot cake or, uh, you know, um, what's that, food we won in the, uh, war, um, French toast, get you, you know, get you a little, you know, uh, savory item,
00:02:16.580get you something like that, chickadees, it was called, and sometimes I would, when I missed school, if I would miss the school bus, they had a man that would take me to school,
00:02:28.580and his, I don't remember his name, but he was just kind of a, kind of a mysterious looking man, and he might have had, I don't know, cancer or something, but he had, um, his son was named Big Donald,
00:02:41.840and his son was named Big Donald, even though he was little, and, and sometimes I would miss the bus, and his son, I think it maybe even dropped out of school, but
00:02:51.380I would miss the bus, and the dad would, uh, take me to school in his car.
00:03:00.200And he drove a car that was, it wasn't a hearse, but it was like, it seemed like a hearse, you know, like they probably had ghosts in the trunk, kind of thing, kind of vehicle.
00:03:12.020You know, it was just, I mean, if you got in a car accident in this car, you were gonna die, because it was just real long and black, and I think it was a hearse, but they had sawed off the back and made it into a regular car.
00:03:27.860And, um, and that was Big Donald's daddy, and he would take me to school when I would miss school, or when I would miss the bus.
00:03:43.900And, um, and sometimes he would come out at first, and he'd say, did you miss it? And I'd say, I don't know.
00:03:50.720And he said, maybe wait a little while, and I would wait a little longer. And he knew it had already passed.
00:03:54.940He was just kind of, uh, you know, just getting me calibrated for a, a life of, I guess, uncomfort or of, you know, uncertainty.
00:04:07.520I don't know, but he'd come out another time. Did you miss it? I, you know, I don't know.
00:04:12.340I don't know if I missed it. I mean, it's 9 a.m. I've been out here for an hour and 45 minutes. School started at 7.30.
00:04:31.300Feel my books heating up. Feel my homework all hot.
00:04:35.780I didn't do my homework, actually, man. I'd just feel my books hot.
00:04:38.400Okay, I'll be honest with you, but, and then he'd say, all right, come on, I'll take you.
00:04:41.960Um, and I think since his son had dropped out of school, since his boy had given up on, you know, knowledge or blanket knowledge, you know, or, uh, governmental knowledge, really.
00:04:53.840Education. Education. That they were, you know, that it was his chance to still have that moment with his son.
00:05:01.180Um, and we would ride. We would ride in the car, and I would try to, you know, practice it, look at my book, look at my spelling, and, and he would blow cigarette smoke over at me.
00:05:15.540He'd be smoking a pack of Dorals over there.
00:05:20.280And he would, both windows up. I mean, I think he had damn glued the windows shut, because he loved all the smoke.
00:16:54.360Some of you got to let the city know what you're thinking.
00:16:56.720You got to at least let them know what you're dealing with, you know.
00:17:00.220But, um, but anyway, I remember, you know, that we, my mom would make us, we'd had, she didn't make us, but we would come down and perform.
00:17:09.660You know, we would put paint or something on our bodies or put a sheet on top of us and write China on it maybe and do, you know, get in a, like a line and put a couple sheet on us and make a dragon.
00:17:20.300And, you know, we'd come down and, you know, you know, my brother would beat a little, uh, you know, we'd have him beat a, what is it called?
00:17:30.060A, he would beat like a tambourine with a spoon or, you know, we had a, we had a, this man my mom dated used to do fake accidents to get money.
00:17:44.700And so we had, I remember like a metal neck brace that he left over one time.
00:17:49.300And so sometimes my brother would put that on and get thimbles, like, you know, metal little thimbles from sewers, sewers kits.
00:22:12.900You know, we would wash our hair with a soap or sometimes we would put a soap bar in a sock and you would rub that on your head so as not to lose all the soap.
00:22:21.180That way you weren't, you know, the soap would stay in that sock.
00:31:37.340But it's like, yeah, you're going to become whatever you focus on.
00:31:40.720But people do that with animals for sure.
00:31:43.460You'll see a, you know, you'll see a lady with a Shih Tzu named Sharon.
00:31:47.680And then people start saying, oh, that's Sharon, Shih Tzu Sharon.
00:31:52.900And both of them, they got, you know, matching little side ponies and, you know, they're both eating out of a bowl or something by the back door of her house.
00:33:04.560You know, somebody gets a, you know, your buddy Bernard gets a damn Burmese python.
00:33:13.380And next thing you know, Bernard, you'll catch him one afternoon laying on the street, you know, with no shirt on, putting his stomach on the concrete to stay warm.
00:33:23.180So there's a lot of that type of shit, man.
00:33:28.060But gang, Larry, thanks for recognizing that and thanks for the call, man.
00:34:25.080The city got hit by a tornado back in March, which took out some of the venues.
00:34:29.040And then shortly after that, the Corvus took over, which, as you know, canceled all the tours and a lot of the gigs in town, too.
00:34:35.800A bunch of us musicians here are talking about organizing a protest to open up some of these venues so we can get back to doing what made Nashville famous and make some music, which we're currently not allowed to do.
00:34:48.520I know there's a lot of folks out there that don't want us to do that.
00:35:23.700Y'all got a lot on the table, especially if you're up and coming.
00:35:26.580If you're trying to, you were building momentum and then all this momentum, you know, just really slow to a grind.
00:35:34.540You know, one thing I'll think about that is at least everybody's momentum slowed to a grind.
00:35:41.820So it's even, I think a lot of times it feels like it's just us, you know, or just you or just your band.
00:35:49.980And I'm not saying you're saying that.
00:35:51.420I'm just saying sometimes it lands on us that way.
00:35:53.820But, you know, there's, it's interesting that it's everyone because we're not used, that's the element that we're not used to is that everyone had to stop.
00:36:26.500Um, large venues are tough because a lot of them, they don't want to open up, uh, because it wouldn't even, the cost of, to rent the space and everything, it's not even, uh, cost effective to have a show at it if you have to have people spaced out so far.
00:37:05.680You know, you know, just like at the pool, they say, oh, boy, you know, if you have a bologna or something, you know, you have a little bologna sandwich.
00:37:15.800You have maybe, you know, half a dozen Tootsie Rolls or something in a bark soda.
00:37:23.960Um, but you know, Daniel, bro, he don't give a damn, dude.
00:37:30.800Daniel will do, he, Daniel fill his mouth with freaking, you know, you know, he'll put, he'll put three beef franks in his mouth and jump straight in the deep end, dude.
00:37:46.020He'll plan his funeral in the morning and then die in the afternoon, bro.
00:38:00.200So it just, they should have an option, I feel like, for people that want to be Daniel.
00:38:07.960And then it's, you know, I think then it's like, we get to see, you know, we'll see what happens.
00:38:14.940But I personally, I'd rather die over there at a damn Billie Eilish show than I would just hunkered down watching 48, you know, the first 48 again.
00:38:57.240You know, I was just looking yesterday, talking to the agents about getting a tent and maybe doing shows like that.
00:39:03.960Um, maybe this will, you know, maybe there will just be smaller shows and there will be more traveling type of shows coming up and it'll all take on a new way that we embrace it.
00:47:03.180They say you're, uh, dumb, you know, um, they look over us and yeah, but if you're poor in any other color or if you're impoverished from an impoverished place and you're black or Latino or Muslim or, um, something, then you're, oh, it's your, oh, had such a tough time.
00:47:30.940You had a tough upbringing, you know, oh, and, and I'm not saying you didn't, but let's, I'm just saying you have to be, it's gotta be a fair, fair thing.
00:47:40.640Um, I don't know, I don't know, but yeah, I don't, if, if you, I don't care who you vote for.
00:47:50.420I hope you vote for somebody that, that you like.
00:47:55.800Um, and I don't care what side of the track that they're on.
00:48:01.100I really don't, you know, I voted for candidates on both sides, which I don't even know if you can legally do that.
00:48:07.620Um, but anyway, I didn't mean to just kind of ramble on a lot of that stuff, but, uh, but yeah, you know, I, it's, it, it hurts me.
00:48:19.360It hurts me a lot of times when I hear people say certain things, um, cause they just assume, you know, they assume that people around from a racist.
00:48:28.980Man, you know how many times we spent building habitat for humanity houses, going to help with those, uh, for poor black families in our area.
00:48:37.040And we didn't have a house, you know, I was on the same bus as those kids.
00:48:43.860Um, you know, uh, but what do you, you know, you just, you know, you can't harbor on the stuff.
00:48:56.680You just try and do your best and, um, you know, but I, I, I've seen a lot of great stuff from a lot of the areas that other people these days and a lot of other people, it's just the media.
00:49:10.800It seems like definitely, uh, seems to look down on except for when they want to sell you something, boy, they'll take your money.
00:49:21.060So that's what people start to do is just be careful where they put their money, you know?
00:49:26.680Because perspective is some people, their perspective is just one thing.
00:49:31.620So it's like, you can't get angry at a fish for being in water, man.
00:49:36.080You can't get, you just, you can, but is it really just that justifiable?
00:49:42.660If all the fish knows is water and you ever hear telling them about air, he don't know about air.
00:49:50.760You know, and I'm pretty, you know, fortunate, I've been able to, you know, I've been, I've been fortunate to, you know, kind of just spend time right on the beach, you know, in the air and in the, and in the water and, and, um, and both are awesome, man.
00:51:27.020I went to my girl's, like, Facebook and all that shit.
00:51:31.880Come to find out, like, she's like a low-key little hoe before I got with her.
00:51:36.720And she was, like, fucking some fucking fool.
00:51:41.860I don't even know, like, a month before she met me and shit.
00:51:45.580And, like, I wasn't, I've been on her, like, Facebook and I see, like, all the fucking motherfuckers that she used to have, like, liking her pictures and all that shit.
00:52:18.680Uh, appreciate the call, you know, that, um, man, I'm sorry that, you know, I can certainly, you know, I've had a lot of experiences with jealousy.
00:52:31.100You know, and I'm not accusing you of being jealous, but, you know, um, you know, you got a good opportunity right now.
00:52:43.480You know, all the things you said she used to do before y'all were together.
00:52:49.240She had a life before you guys, you know that, man.
00:52:52.220And so, it's, um, you know, it's really, you know, you got to, I mean, you can't, you got to G up, bro.
00:53:03.380Maybe have a Red Bull or something and just, you need to, I think you got to find some ways to forgive her, man.
00:53:10.820I think you have to, bro, because you can't be, you're going to drag all this stuff along forever.
00:53:16.720You know, I'm sorry to hear that, but you can't, what was your past like?
00:53:20.000Like, you know, I used to be real angry at my girl and then I realized, damn, my past was sketchy, bro.
00:54:30.360You know, and I'm sorry to just kind of sound like I'm telling you what to do, but I just want to see you enjoy this experience.
00:54:38.540I don't want to see you look back and, you know, because it sounds like you're just angry.
00:54:44.320And are you, I don't even know if you're really angry at her if you're just, if you're just angry, you know.
00:54:48.200And, um, I don't know, I just, the last thing we need in this world is some kid coming into it and, you know, and people fighting over the past.
00:55:00.420We got enough fighting over the past going on in the world.
00:55:02.920You know, and so I think if, if you can do it, man, you got to let, you got to, you're going to have to let some of that stuff go and be a cool dad and start a new adventure with her.
00:55:17.080You know, I know it's really hard, but you can like just be supportive of her and just be a man so, so she doesn't have to be with these fools anymore.
00:55:27.080You know, you're lucky you caught her from these fools.
00:55:29.640You know, and a lot of Latinos, man, they like to fight in a car wash.
00:55:33.820I remember, I went to school over there in Tucson and kids always fist fighting over there in a car wash.
00:55:38.880And then somebody get the suds gun and fucking go to town on some little dude, you know.
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00:58:28.360I've got a question I want to run by you.
00:58:32.540Just moved to a new town, and I've got a little bit of money saved up, and I work full-time, and I'm thinking about starting up a side business.
00:58:40.500And for years I've been looking into it.
00:59:00.480Saying it's creepy and that it's, you know, there's a lot of pedophilia, ideology surrounding the whole thing, which I never thought about.
00:59:08.740Well, you definitely should have thought about that, man.
00:59:13.880They had a company called Perry's Putt-Putt, and they sold mini golf to children.
00:59:18.760And, hell, I don't even know if they sold it to us.
00:59:22.180I think if you just showed up and had shorts on, the man would let you play it.
00:59:25.840And the man, I think this man, Mr. Perry, he would get out there and he would, every now and then he would spin the boys around in a circle.
00:59:35.100And he would grab you by your feet and he would spin you around.
00:59:42.600And everybody would laugh and stuff, and half the time you'd vomit or, you know, spit up a damn now and later or whatever you'd had for lunch.
00:59:50.560But, yeah, it was a real, real shithole establishment.
00:59:56.060But, um, but you got to think about the, yeah, you can't, I wouldn't go alone out there, you know?
01:00:05.040If you go in wealthier neighborhoods, it's going to be different.
01:00:07.600You're going to deal, the kid is going to come to the thing with the parent or with a babysitter.
01:00:13.000But, dog, you roll down East McGee Street over there in Covington, Louisiana, son, you're going to have a frigging, you know, you're going to have a couple seven, six-year-olds.
01:01:16.920That way, at least if a kid gets diddled out or something or you're even flirting with a kid, at least they, you know, you brought some entertainment to the village first.
01:01:24.460Otherwise, you get these assholes rolling through the neighborhood.
01:01:28.600But all they want to do is touch kids and make cream money, you know?
01:01:33.640And they're not, you know, they're not doing nothing.
01:01:37.840But, but yeah, man, I think it sounds pretty cool, bro.
01:01:42.540I think, hey, you know, I pull, I get me one of them Astro Pops.
01:03:32.600And that isn't gay because I like women sexually.
01:03:34.900But I just had to let you know that you are a very beautiful man.
01:03:37.760Thank you, brother, and I appreciate that.
01:03:39.960And I feel a little bit more beautiful than I used to when I was young.
01:03:44.620Which is interesting because I was definitely handsomer when I was young because I had more blood in my body and more, you know, tighter cells and everything.
01:07:35.440It's fun to think of anarchy and, you know, it'd be fun to play Robin Hood and get on your roof and, you know, shoot people down and stuff and that kind of shit.
01:07:44.060But, you know, it's, I don't, I think that we're all headed overall into the best, into best practices, you know.