Speaker 1: Are you leaving?
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Speaker 2: and give us time and a terminol ingay. We want
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Speaker 2: Tell us all about it.
Speaker 3: We scared her?
Speaker 1: Was it fine?
Speaker 3: Melbourne? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
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Speaker 3: Damn to ride? Do you need with? Karen and Chris?
Speaker 1: Welcome to Do you need to ride? This is Chris Fairbanks.
Speaker 1: I'm in Missoula, Montana, my hometown. At the end of
Speaker 1: a two week was I here two weeks? About two weeks?
Speaker 3: Vacation seemed like two weeks.
Speaker 1: It did seem like exactly two weeks. At no point
Speaker 1: was it going too fast or too slow. I think
Speaker 1: that's just a sign of me enjoying myself.
Speaker 3: That's always a good thing.
Speaker 1: My father is with me, James Fairbanks. I don't call
Speaker 1: you James ever, nor do I really call you father.
Speaker 1: I remember sure when I was little it said anyone
Speaker 1: can be a father, but it takes someone special to
Speaker 1: be a daddy. But when I call you daddy, Like
Speaker 1: at the end of a phone call, anyone in the
Speaker 1: room will make fun of me. All right, see you later, daddy.
Speaker 1: Like then my roommate will go, what.
Speaker 3: Did you just call your dad?
Speaker 1: You know, daddy? Totally normal, That's what everyone calls. There
Speaker 1: lots of Daisy's, whoopsie, Daisy's. I let that one out.
Speaker 1: My dad was born in nineteen forty four, the year
Speaker 1: that Allied Force has stormed the beaches of Normandy. That's
Speaker 1: the you know, Jefferson was elected that year. The papers
Speaker 1: everyone read about it. You were born the same year
Speaker 1: as Danny DeVito, George Lucas, Michael Douglas. And I know,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're my father, but Michael Douglas would have
Speaker 1: given me one of those cool butt chins. Dad, But
Speaker 1: I'm glad it was you. Back in nineteen forty four,
Speaker 1: a car was just under one thousand dollars. I think
Speaker 1: about nine hundred thirty five dollars. I'm reading this from
Speaker 1: a book or I'm remembering it from a book. Nineteen
Speaker 1: forty four, remember when a nostalgic look back in time.
Speaker 1: Yet the rent was just fifty dollars a month. That
Speaker 1: seems normal. But the average income, it said was around
Speaker 1: two thousand, just over two thousand dollars. That seems low
Speaker 1: for a car being almost one thousand dollars. That's half
Speaker 1: your year.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: Cars were expensive even though they were just a thousand.
Speaker 3: Bucks, and they were simple, kind of like the people.
Speaker 1: A postage snamp was three cents. Seventeen magazine first came
Speaker 1: out in nineteen forty four, teaching young women, I suppose
Speaker 1: table manners and what kind of bloomers to wear in
Speaker 1: the fall, what length of skirt to wear for clay
Speaker 1: field tennis sporting. I don't know. I don't know what
Speaker 1: seventeen magazine talked about back then.
Speaker 4: It was an interesting time for a kid, I think,
Speaker 4: and we all think back and people still tell stories,
Speaker 4: like parents about how great it was to be a
Speaker 4: kid back in the olden days.
Speaker 3: And it was. There were plenty of things to do,
Speaker 3: and parents didn't seem.
Speaker 4: To worry about kids. I would submit, they didn't care
Speaker 4: where you were or little I was.
Speaker 1: When you were a kid, there weren't white vans driving
Speaker 1: around Missoula looking snatch people up right right?
Speaker 3: Kids were expensive, Who wants an extra one? You know?
Speaker 4: But I mean also, you look around, there were a
Speaker 4: lot of There were a lot of little kids my
Speaker 4: age whose parents or whose dads had been killed in
Speaker 4: the war.
Speaker 3: There were a lot of people that.
Speaker 4: Were missing limbs like there are now, but there were
Speaker 4: a lot more than And there.
Speaker 3: Were little kids that had polio who were crippled.
Speaker 1: Am I making it up that you had a brush
Speaker 1: with polio?
Speaker 3: I think that.
Speaker 4: I think that every parent was hyper sensitive about fevers
Speaker 4: that ran unexplained for a day or two.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, there was there was a point in time
Speaker 3: where they were afraid. Maybe I did, but you just
Speaker 3: maybe I had symptoms but it went away in a week.
Speaker 1: Or it was the flu and some shin splints.
Speaker 3: Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 4: But polio was a big deal, and it wasn't until
Speaker 4: the fifties the Sulk and ultimately the Saban One dead German,
Speaker 4: one live German. I guess vaccine came in and nobody
Speaker 4: thinks about polio.
Speaker 1: Nineteen forty four was also the year of Germans tried
Speaker 1: to assassinate Hitler but unsuccessfully. I'm just throwing that out there.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Germans. Yeah, oh, it's in the books, this
Speaker 1: pamphlet is printed. Well, I'm assuming none of it is lies.
Speaker 1: Granulated sugar was seventy five cents for ten pounds, so
Speaker 1: that's enough sugar for a month with your cobblers. Everyone
Speaker 1: just back then, cobblers Rubart.
Speaker 3: There was no McDonald's. There was so fast food. You
Speaker 3: ate what was.
Speaker 4: Put in front of you, and it took hours to make,
Speaker 4: and a lot of times it wasn't good. My favorite
Speaker 4: was my dad, very strict sober guy who was seldom sober,
Speaker 4: would say things like something wrong with your dinner, Jimmy,
Speaker 4: Oh no.
Speaker 3: Daddy, absolutely not. I would you like to eat at
Speaker 3: the neighbors? Hell? Yes?
Speaker 1: But you didn't say hell yes.
Speaker 3: I did not say hell yes.
Speaker 1: Did he say I want you to eat every bean
Speaker 1: and pee on that plate?
Speaker 3: Yes? Or maybe I just said that.
Speaker 1: I think that that's probably something you said. You came
Speaker 1: up with the jokes. He didn't joke as much.
Speaker 3: Did he look at that person? Drive?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Did you ever have a wreck when you do this?
Speaker 1: No? No? I think one time while driving, I realized
Speaker 1: how vulnerable Eddie Peppatone was in the back seat. I
Speaker 1: think we had a close call, And I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is a flawed concept. A moving podcast A twitchy. Well,
Speaker 1: it's just he happened to be in the car and
Speaker 1: I just wasn't paying attention and we almost killed a
Speaker 1: one of comedy's sweethearts. He didn't know. He didn't know.
Speaker 1: I just noticed the close call. He was in the
Speaker 1: middle of the story, and I'm like, well, we almost
Speaker 1: just died. I probably won't mention that.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: I was born in Minnesota, Christopher, Yeah, and then came
Speaker 4: to here I was about sixth grade. I guess we
Speaker 4: moved around quite a bit. I was in nine schools
Speaker 4: in twelve.
Speaker 1: Grades, which a lot, which meant you had to fight every.
Speaker 4: Lot of us fights a lot of But girls like me,
Speaker 4: girls always like the new guy.
Speaker 1: Because you're a mysterious drifter out and you're wearing a long.
Speaker 3: Where's he from?
Speaker 4: I hear he's from some exact town in Montana.
Speaker 1: He looks like Buddy Holly.
Speaker 4: But we're coming up on a place that I would
Speaker 4: go with my father and this had this started back
Speaker 4: in Minnesota when I was tiny, where he would go
Speaker 4: to a bar and leave me in the car winter
Speaker 4: summery didn't really matter, and go in and drink shots
Speaker 4: and beers.
Speaker 1: How long would you sometimes be in the car.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 4: I think probably it wasn't a long time. There's the
Speaker 4: place right.
Speaker 1: At the Oxford.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's fair. Everybody's got an Oxford in their town.
Speaker 1: The one here is famous, though, a lot of people
Speaker 1: know about the one in Missoula. Yeah, because it was
Speaker 1: made in the first building that came up in town maybe.
Speaker 3: Or it was.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: It goes back to prohibition.
Speaker 4: It goes back to the woman's movement and trying to
Speaker 4: get alcohol away from their husbands who wouldn't bring their
Speaker 4: paycheck home. That's what started prohibition anyway. So all of
Speaker 4: that concern.
Speaker 1: Really the protecting of the sanctity.
Speaker 3: Of marriage and family. Of course, that makes sense.
Speaker 4: So I finally got to be big enough to go
Speaker 4: in and sit on a stool and become very quiet
Speaker 4: waiting for my dad to throw down a couple of week.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't an age thing. They're just like, how
Speaker 1: tall are you? Okay?
Speaker 4: So I go in one day and I saw something
Speaker 4: that that.
Speaker 3: Kind of alarmed me. Had struck me.
Speaker 4: I'd never seen something like this before, and it was
Speaker 4: an angry bartender who was chewing and at the same
Speaker 4: time throwing ice. They usually had a huge thing that
Speaker 4: was filled with ice, and they reached their hand, their
Speaker 4: dirty hand in and grabbed and made your drink and
Speaker 4: then they chew on the ice. A lot of bartenders,
Speaker 4: I think I've seen that movies. Why to test that
Speaker 4: the ice is don't know, maybe maybe if few have
Speaker 4: access to I see her into it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't explain.
Speaker 4: So he's angry. This guy is angry, and twelve year
Speaker 4: old boys like to see angry men for some reason. Sure,
Speaker 4: I want to get to the bottom of this.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to grow up and be angry like you.
Speaker 4: So what he's angry about is they just hired a
Speaker 4: new bartender, and he's a little anxious about his place
Speaker 4: in the organization. I think they have just hired a
Speaker 4: woman bartender, and he is pissed. It's bad enough I
Speaker 4: got to compete with other men. Now I got to
Speaker 4: compete with a woman. Have you met this woman? No,
Speaker 4: never seen her. So you're really not angry at her.
Speaker 3: It's just that she's.
Speaker 4: Coming in and she's going to take my job and
Speaker 4: going to be way cuter than me. Yeah, so that
Speaker 4: I had never seen that before, and I thought, what
Speaker 4: this guy is mad at women?
Speaker 1: He was maybe he was nervous that she'd maybe be
Speaker 1: more competent.
Speaker 3: Right, because after all, there's a place for women.
Speaker 4: There definitely was in that time, in the mid to
Speaker 4: late fifties. Yeah, women knew their place and stayed there.
Speaker 4: My mother was smarter than my father. My mother was educated.
Speaker 4: She was a teacher. My father drove a trunk, right,
Speaker 4: good guy, silent, silent.
Speaker 1: Wess share it.
Speaker 3: Scary, but he was a good guy.
Speaker 4: But I noticed that they always went to cowboy movies.
Speaker 4: They listened to western music. My mother sang opera for
Speaker 4: crying out lout.
Speaker 1: And she was a great whistler. Her whistle would be oh, yes,
Speaker 1: she had like a vibrating tenor to her.
Speaker 4: She used to sing at church and have to go there,
Speaker 4: and she was so loud, you know, soprano.
Speaker 3: You know, she had a big voice.
Speaker 1: How embarrassing.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's terrible, terrible, But I mean, you know, I
Speaker 3: started thinking about other things. Well, what about.
Speaker 4: If women artists shouldn't have the same things as men,
Speaker 4: maybe people of color.
Speaker 3: Shouldn't have the same things as men.
Speaker 4: I started looking around, I started seeing that people thinking
Speaker 4: that way. Yeah, so, so times were good in the fifties.
Speaker 3: I think it was.
Speaker 4: I mean, you have to appreciate that that after in
Speaker 4: World War Two we beat the hell out of the world.
Speaker 4: Germany bombed England, We bombed Germany, Germany devastated Russia. Russia
Speaker 4: and killed you know, there was a lot going on,
Speaker 4: none of it good, and a lot of towns got bombed,
Speaker 4: but not here. Times were good here as good as
Speaker 4: they could be during war, so that at the end
Speaker 4: of the war, we've kind of blown up the whole country,
Speaker 4: including Japan, a lot of carpet bombing there.
Speaker 3: So we had no competition as a.
Speaker 4: Nation as no one bombed does. Yeah, we had this
Speaker 4: great piece of real estate. If you ever look at
Speaker 4: a map of the United States, you see all these rivers.
Speaker 4: We have this navigation system that is unparalleled on the
Speaker 4: planet with rivers. Then Eisenhower during the fifties oversaw the
Speaker 4: building of our highway system. No other country has that,
Speaker 4: so we could move goods around. We had stuff in
Speaker 4: our country, just about everything. The only thing they were
Speaker 4: actioned during a World War II.
Speaker 1: We had some whiskey. We didn't have whisky. No, that
Speaker 1: was just the recording device I need to change.
Speaker 4: During World War two, I think nylon and chocolate and
Speaker 4: rubber were rationed things like that, maybe even sugar. But
Speaker 4: we had roast beef, you know, we had cars, and
Speaker 4: so life.
Speaker 3: Was pretty good here.
Speaker 4: So when people say and when people look fondly back,
Speaker 4: especially old white men like me, look back fondly on
Speaker 4: the good old days, a lot of it has to
Speaker 4: do with all good things going to white guys, right,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: And maybe it's the same thing.
Speaker 4: That you think about when you think about make America
Speaker 4: great again. I always thought it sounded like make America
Speaker 4: nineteen fifty eight again, of course, or is it make
Speaker 4: America hate again? Yeah, there's just some interesting parallels. People
Speaker 4: feel disenfranchised, certainly white men, older old white men, older
Speaker 4: white men, or maybe old white men. If if if
Speaker 4: their bartender job is in jeopardy because some woman or
Speaker 4: smarter guy comes in to take it, I want to.
Speaker 1: Scream, right, Yeah, So it was it was just a yeah,
Speaker 1: that simpler time thing. It's not if that always gave
Speaker 1: me creeps since the beginning I did. It took me
Speaker 1: a while to realize that's what magus stood for. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: and what people in red Hat's great. What people say
Speaker 1: and what people really mean. Quite often two different things.
Speaker 1: I suspect that our current president, mister Trump uh speaks
Speaker 1: because he is a good talker.
Speaker 3: Like him or not?
Speaker 1: Boy is he?
Speaker 3: Or he?
Speaker 1: A linguist said that he speaks out of level fifth
Speaker 1: grade does within.
Speaker 3: Broken sentences if you ever see it written down.
Speaker 4: But he can't he can be persuasive, never to someone
Speaker 4: like me, maybe not to someone like you.
Speaker 3: But he can't be persuasive, I think.
Speaker 1: And then they said Hillary spoke at an eighth grade,
Speaker 1: ninth grade level, and Bernie was twelfth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, both are both were flawed candidates. It was a
Speaker 4: surprise actually she won. She won, So I think that
Speaker 4: much of the position of the current administration is whim
Speaker 4: and what sounds good or what.
Speaker 3: Goes over at the rally.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and coming down an escalator saying that people coming
Speaker 4: from another country are rapists and murderers. There are a
Speaker 4: lot of people, maybe like that bartender that lost his job,
Speaker 4: that think that is a real threat, and it's things
Speaker 4: in my life would be a lot greater if only those.
Speaker 3: People didn't exist.
Speaker 4: He just said this weekend that the biggest problem with
Speaker 4: Europe is immigration, and we're gonna Europe's gonna lose their
Speaker 4: culture wouldn't you like to be if you if you
Speaker 4: were French or English or Belgian Belgianese, would you.
Speaker 3: Like getting advice from this man?
Speaker 4: But it seems to feed into insecurities and angers. And
Speaker 4: I think I don't even know if he believed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you were saying, and it was an interesting comparison.
Speaker 1: You were saying that he just repeats what seems to
Speaker 1: work like it's a new bit in his act.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's building his act, and the anti sometimes doesn't
Speaker 4: work out great when you start separating babies from their families.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that one. He won't do that joke anymore.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know that. You did see those babes east.
Speaker 1: Did Oh, that wouldn't affect him.
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know that he cares. Yeah, it just
Speaker 4: hurts the message. Right, I don't know what he cares about.
Speaker 4: He's kind of a chubby old racist who who.
Speaker 3: Prefers hamburgers to.
Speaker 1: His kids and accept the hot one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, except the hot one girl, and doesn't know what
Speaker 4: he doesn't know, doesn't care. And now we're up in
Speaker 4: the mountains.
Speaker 1: We are in the Rattlesnake. You lived here at some point, right,
Speaker 1: maybe not that far.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it used to be this is. This is a
Speaker 3: very wooded area.
Speaker 4: It's called the Rattlesnake Wilderness, and there's a trail that
Speaker 4: goes up for miles. Remember when you were tiny and
Speaker 4: I'd put you on the back of a motorcycle and
Speaker 4: we'd take off.
Speaker 1: And later I wrote, bikes all the way up there,
Speaker 1: thirteen miles up and I miss that. I miss it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, there are lakes up there that do are
Speaker 4: used for the water system for the city.
Speaker 1: I guess I didn't ride that far. I don't remember
Speaker 1: lakes or used to be.
Speaker 3: It used to be. It came down.
Speaker 4: There's a damn semi working and most of most of
Speaker 4: the water comes from wells now.
Speaker 3: But these beautiful lakes up there. You and I have
Speaker 3: gone up there when you were tiny on the motorcycle.
Speaker 1: Didn't Is there rattlesnake? Why is it called the rattlesnake?
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of rattic I think with.
Speaker 3: The twisting river there rattlesnake.
Speaker 1: Didn't someone you know find a rattlesnake and chop it
Speaker 1: up and put it in a backpack. What's that story?
Speaker 3: The guy I knew was hiking, he's an outdoorsy guy, yeah,
Speaker 3: Mike Lambert, Yeah, sure, sure, yeah.
Speaker 4: And he was hiking and he was up on a
Speaker 4: rock looking around, appreciating the vistas. Right, and he hears
Speaker 4: unfriendly noises, right, and he looks down there are It's
Speaker 4: not a snake.
Speaker 3: It's a pit of snakes, multiple snakes.
Speaker 1: Just straight out of Indiana.
Speaker 4: Jones, Yeah, something like that. And he has a big
Speaker 4: grabs a big stick. There's always a big stick available. Sure,
Speaker 4: And he starts beating these snakes, you know, like they
Speaker 4: did anything to him.
Speaker 3: If I saw a bunch of snakes, I would just
Speaker 3: be in the next comedy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. Good day fellas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, nice to see you. This can be your place
Speaker 3: from now on.
Speaker 4: So he starts beating these snakes, killing them, and then
Speaker 4: he says, well, I'm gonna take them with me to
Speaker 4: make boots.
Speaker 3: I don't know, to make dinner.
Speaker 1: Sure, what eat snakes? Sure?
Speaker 3: So he has a backpack.
Speaker 4: He loads five six, seven rattlesnakes into his backpack. Before
Speaker 4: he does this, he thinks, I have heard of a
Speaker 4: snake biting someone after it's dead.
Speaker 1: Sure, beast, do that snakes to that? Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that happens. You have to slam your arm into its teeth.
Speaker 1: But I'm sure it happens.
Speaker 3: Well, this constricting thing goes on, they keep moving, they're dead. Yeah,
Speaker 3: chops their heads off.
Speaker 1: Sure might think you might as well.
Speaker 3: Why wouldn't you do that?
Speaker 4: No, and puts him in his backpack. Start walking down
Speaker 4: the hill with this constant movement.
Speaker 3: In his backpack.
Speaker 1: That would bother me. Yeah, and you were there, you
Speaker 1: were seeing it.
Speaker 3: Hellowes, Yeah, okay, told me the story.
Speaker 4: Okay, And I was obviously tied up, couldn't get out
Speaker 4: of there.
Speaker 3: You can get another drink something and blood? I think,
Speaker 3: how much blood a snake?
Speaker 4: It's coming down, draining down his legs, his back.
Speaker 1: Yes, ages are just a water balloon of blood.
Speaker 3: Oh no, thank you know.
Speaker 4: This is not the only thing the guy did. I
Speaker 4: don't have an end of that story into that. He
Speaker 4: was hiking down in the bitter roots, huh. And he
Speaker 4: was hot and sweaty, so he thought he's again appreciating
Speaker 4: the vistas. Yes, and he thinks, I'm going to take
Speaker 4: this shirt off and try it out a little bit
Speaker 4: to nice day.
Speaker 3: Maybe don't take my pants off, Yeah, which sucks.
Speaker 1: What are these underwear doing here?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Maybe he had his shoes on good.
Speaker 4: So he thought, you know, I can have a better
Speaker 4: view if I climb up there, and so he scrambles
Speaker 4: up and gets up to the top. He enjoys it
Speaker 4: for a while, looks I can't get back down, that's
Speaker 4: too steep.
Speaker 3: So he's up there naked.
Speaker 4: And need somebody to come and get him.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't your family be proud?
Speaker 1: This is not a cell phone time, No, no cell phones.
Speaker 4: I don't know how unless his wife was aware of
Speaker 4: where he was hiking.
Speaker 3: And ultimately he waited. He had waited this march to wait.
Speaker 1: This was in the newspaper.
Speaker 3: I think it probably was.
Speaker 1: Wow. I remember that. Yeah, just naked on the edge
Speaker 1: of a cliff, right, holding on to a twig.
Speaker 3: How you doing good?
Speaker 1: And I'm sure this look?
Speaker 3: Don't grab me there?
Speaker 1: That's funny. Could you grab those pants? But I know
Speaker 1: there's a news crew and you have to operate that camera.
Speaker 1: But my pants are just hanging on that twig. If
Speaker 1: you could just fling them towards me. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: remember riding motorcycles up here. It was fun.
Speaker 3: It was fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and now you can't even walk up here.
Speaker 3: See.
Speaker 4: The more the more people discover a place the more
Speaker 4: restrictions you have.
Speaker 3: To put on it. It seems backwards, right, But it
Speaker 3: used to be. You know, in high school, you get
Speaker 3: a couple of girls.
Speaker 4: And a couple of guys in the car and you
Speaker 4: drive up here, you go drive until it's been dark
Speaker 4: for twenty minutes when you're seventeen sure, so you know
Speaker 4: you're really alone. Yeah, and we used to go way
Speaker 4: up there, and then there was a time that the
Speaker 4: engine wouldn't start and I really didn't know these two
Speaker 4: girls that much and we had to walk out.
Speaker 3: They were really angry.
Speaker 1: Of course, they probably didn't have the appropriate foot player.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's dark and it's in the forest, and
Speaker 4: we're miles away from this road. So we're walking out
Speaker 4: and trying to tell jokes, trying to light in the
Speaker 4: mid It's kind of funny. You know, we're gonna look
Speaker 4: back on this and really, Susie, what do you think
Speaker 4: all girls but the name Susie? Back there, so somebody
Speaker 4: hears something. I turn around and start walking backwards so
Speaker 4: I can see what's behind us. There's a there's a
Speaker 4: mountain lion stroking us.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 3: From this side of the road to that side of
Speaker 3: the road.
Speaker 4: And I'm thinking these two girls are never going to
Speaker 4: talk to me anyway. Yeah, and the other guy, but
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna tell him there's a mountain lion.
Speaker 1: Back here, right, they might panic and that's those kind
Speaker 1: of cats, that's yeah, that's what they feed on, right,
Speaker 1: fear right.
Speaker 4: And you know I was just stoic, except for the
Speaker 4: part where they noticed I went in my pants. Sure,
Speaker 4: but we walked out, no incident and went back the
Speaker 4: next day with another.
Speaker 3: Car to pick it up.
Speaker 1: Be honest, though, with the was the first thig on
Speaker 1: your mind? Can I run faster?
Speaker 4: Right? You don't have to run faster than the mountain lion? Yeah,
Speaker 4: just run faster than whoever you're.
Speaker 1: With, Right, that's always a good rule of them.
Speaker 4: Yes, it is this right here, this stretch of road,
Speaker 4: this long stretch of road is where we.
Speaker 1: Drag with drag race for pink slips.
Speaker 3: Not we weren't idiots.
Speaker 1: Isn't that it wasn't racing.
Speaker 3: For pink So you can give up a two hundred
Speaker 3: dollars car.
Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, it's just doing. It's just half your
Speaker 1: income for the year.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, all titles used to be pink slipping.
Speaker 4: It was exciting, and we came up and usually came
Speaker 4: up in two or three car loads to people two guys.
Speaker 4: Usually they add fast cars. Or somebody came in from Clinton, right,
Speaker 4: little little town.
Speaker 3: To the east, and they who's got that fifty six
Speaker 3: ford with a four barrel? I want to see him?
Speaker 3: Is that a or a two seventy two in that?
Speaker 1: Well, that's a healthy competition though with a three twelve.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I never told another soul. I was fun. Yeah,
Speaker 3: drag racing was fun. I think. I think high school
Speaker 3: in Montana was fun. I always enjoyed myself.
Speaker 1: I suppose there was mine. You enjoyed it more than me.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 1: I remember parking on that road in a semi circle
Speaker 1: and watched my friend Matt. They turned on lights and
Speaker 1: we had to watch Matt get beat up by some
Speaker 1: kid that was already out of probably in college, some wrestler,
Speaker 1: and he was like, we're gonna fight, and Matt was like,
Speaker 1: all right. We drove up here. Everyone turned on their
Speaker 1: KC lamps on the top of their trucks and we
Speaker 1: watched this fight. It was a horri fine truck. It
Speaker 1: was awful. Well, it's always awful if you're not in
Speaker 1: it and then he the guy punched him and kicked him,
Speaker 1: and Matt shook his hand and had a black eye.
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, I am he is less scared than me.
Speaker 3: But it was right.
Speaker 1: It was on that road, the drag race road. It
Speaker 1: makes sense. It's along straight road. Why not drag race?
Speaker 4: Yeah, drag racing up here, and then the sugar beat
Speaker 4: road by which is all.
Speaker 1: Mall right, now, Oh we did sugar beats here. I
Speaker 1: thought that was an Idaho.
Speaker 4: You know, there's a there's a couple of brick buildings
Speaker 4: out in that that are now people write computer code there,
Speaker 4: I think, but they used to be sugar beat building.
Speaker 4: So farmers around here. This is a pretty straight up
Speaker 4: and down part of Montana. This is not This is
Speaker 4: the least agricultural county up the fifty six in Montana.
Speaker 4: I would suspect, yeah, it's vertical because we're in a valley.
Speaker 3: But occasionally a farmer had come up with it. I
Speaker 3: got a couple of bushels sugar beach about we get
Speaker 3: some sugar.
Speaker 1: Oh, simple business. It was a great time. What about
Speaker 1: how much has Missoula been impacted by the closing of
Speaker 1: these bills? That was our thing right, making paper. And now,
Speaker 1: now what does Missoula do right?
Speaker 3: Well, I think you know it's worse than other places.
Speaker 4: But yeah, all of the sawmills are pretty much yeah,
Speaker 4: they're all closed down. There's a particle board plant. But
Speaker 4: we had two plywood mills and stud mills.
Speaker 3: Nothing.
Speaker 4: And this was this was a This was an area
Speaker 4: that lived on forestry. We have the University of Montana here,
Speaker 4: that's a big deal. And regional shopping and healthcare. So
Speaker 4: much has changed over the last fifty years. Healthcare is
Speaker 4: a big part of our economy. Finance is a big
Speaker 4: part of our economy. We sell each other insurance and
Speaker 4: Hamburgers and loan each other money. Right, that's what instead
Speaker 4: of making two buy force, I mean they still make
Speaker 4: tu by force in Canada and.
Speaker 3: Georgia and they do it here.
Speaker 4: These trees right here, Yeah, in twenty years they'll grow
Speaker 4: in Georgia.
Speaker 3: It takes sixty years here better. What Yeah, two.
Speaker 4: By fours from a Montana tree is more dense just.
Speaker 1: Because it takes a little longer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did nothing. It takes three times as long.
Speaker 1: Oh oh nah, we got an una to live on
Speaker 1: this street?
Speaker 3: I did, I did?
Speaker 4: Did you hear about the snowboarder that caused the death
Speaker 4: of two people.
Speaker 3: And snow that came down and crushed their house.
Speaker 1: Why did would they just had to say it was
Speaker 1: a snowboarder.
Speaker 3: Snowboarder a shelter here.
Speaker 1: Couldn't he just be a mountain sportsman?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh? And look at that. There's a new
Speaker 3: house going right there.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's that's okay.
Speaker 4: You see that ravine going almost straight up this mountain.
Speaker 1: Someone was hiking up there.
Speaker 3: Someone was snowboarding up there.
Speaker 1: It could have been a hiker, could have been a hiker.
Speaker 3: Could have been a clown. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I got juggling Barnum and Bailey. Yes, of course, you
Speaker 4: know if it was a pachoderm.
Speaker 1: You know what did I imagine that crevasse.
Speaker 4: Filled with snow. Yeah, and a little of it comes loose.
Speaker 4: It came right down here and took that.
Speaker 1: House out, and that's where they're building.
Speaker 3: It was a guy, a guy and his wife were
Speaker 3: in there.
Speaker 1: She was killed. Oh wow, Yeah, I forgot.
Speaker 3: This house was damaged. It was horrible.
Speaker 1: This story doesn't end well, that was not that long ago,
Speaker 1: a couple three years. Oh, there's the finish. That's a real.
Speaker 3: Well look at that your cousin's house.
Speaker 1: Oh is it? Oh wow? I went to his wedding. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he makes cool houses.
Speaker 3: He does make cool houses.
Speaker 1: He makes coal houses. Ah, there we go. I still
Speaker 1: got it. Even though I've had some time off, I
Speaker 1: haven't done comedy for about a month. It feels great.
Speaker 1: I've been so relaxed.
Speaker 3: I've the not working thing.
Speaker 4: Those of us who are retired, I get it. The
Speaker 4: not working thing is really great. Occasionally you have to
Speaker 4: do something to.
Speaker 3: Convince yourself you're not an idiot.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do with my hands. I've
Speaker 1: been anxious. I do a lot of Oh we're coming
Speaker 1: up on some shirtless Yeah, environmentalists. Hi, they are a
Speaker 1: handsome looking couple. It's hot out, that's why they were.
Speaker 3: Yeah, people wouldn't look like that normally. We're so hot.
Speaker 1: Now getting all that, I was.
Speaker 3: Going to go on this alley where we used to live.
Speaker 3: Your sister looked there. You never did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it's fine, and I don't want to hurt
Speaker 1: your feelings. But some of the wiring you did in
Speaker 1: the basement, and I'm not saying it's your fault, but
Speaker 1: I went to a party that happened to be at
Speaker 1: this house, and it had caught fire in the basement.
Speaker 1: There was burn marks coming from the light fixtures. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying it was maybe a coincidence. I've hurt your feelings.
Speaker 3: I want to just get out.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. You know what. I think that they said
Speaker 1: that it was something they had done, They had tripped
Speaker 1: the breaker, and they.
Speaker 4: Anything as possible. It's just romax and wire nuts. It's
Speaker 4: it ain't science.
Speaker 1: It could have been anyone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think I got anything wrong, but.
Speaker 1: I think that these guys they were a tight alley,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Yeah? I can we even make it through this?
Speaker 1: We are well, here's another Nick Cole.
Speaker 3: Looking well, I'll show you another house. He is.
Speaker 1: My little cousin.
Speaker 3: Here's my old place right there.
Speaker 1: There are no rules. We aren't supposed to go anywhere.
Speaker 3: Look at that fence, good lord.
Speaker 1: That could use some work. That's the house. Wow, well
Speaker 1: the fence definitely isn't your fault.
Speaker 3: I have never you know, I've owned several houses. I've never.
Speaker 4: Had difficulty walking away from them, especially when you look
Speaker 4: over and see a.
Speaker 1: Oh that's the size mattress at one that was a
Speaker 1: nice bed. Here's this school up here.
Speaker 4: He used to skateboard at dangling participle.
Speaker 1: It was I'm sorry, these are short shorts. Yeah that
Speaker 1: that wasn't I like this place that. I have a
Speaker 1: lot of memories. He used to jump off of that thing.
Speaker 1: We'd play basketball there.
Speaker 3: Well, this there were no it's.
Speaker 1: An international school.
Speaker 4: There were many neighborhood schools that were grades one through
Speaker 4: eight and which was in conflict with with the way
Speaker 4: education is none elsewhere, and we had to change it.
Speaker 4: So they got away from from uh neighborhood schools and
Speaker 4: did the middle school thing.
Speaker 3: But it was expensive and complicated, and I don't know
Speaker 3: what was gained. I was always I always thought Nick
Speaker 3: made this one too. One of these in here. I
Speaker 3: think it's this one that's Oh I think it's this
Speaker 3: one right here. Oh not pretty.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that looks like an older house.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is an older house. It was a redo.
Speaker 1: Well now we're stuck.
Speaker 3: We're totally stuck.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, Oh that guy, this guy's no one's ever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gonna come out with a shotgun. No one's ever
Speaker 1: in his drive way. There was time, wasn't there a
Speaker 1: time we were on the motorcycle and some banjo deliverance
Speaker 1: type guys came out to meet you. Yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't remember it, but I was there.
Speaker 3: No, you weren't there, Okay.
Speaker 4: I was just up riding a motorcycle up on top
Speaker 4: of a mountain and I'm off, you know what I'm doing,
Speaker 4: appreciating the visinus.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, pantiless.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So so these two guys in the jeep drive up.
Speaker 4: There was something about being alone in the middle of nowhere.
Speaker 4: It is scary as hell when somebody else shows up, right,
Speaker 4: like anarchy, Right, it's.
Speaker 3: Like everybody's on his own, that kind of thing. You
Speaker 3: don't know what to expect. This guy is an axe,
Speaker 3: he's gonna come after me. These two guys are the jeep.
Speaker 3: What you doing? Yeah, I want to be here.
Speaker 4: And it was like ten fifteen in the morning, and
Speaker 4: I thought, you know, I'm just going to look around
Speaker 4: a little bit and I'm each inching over toward the
Speaker 4: motorcycle hit the leg.
Speaker 1: Over it, which they noticed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they started. That was as soon as it started.
Speaker 3: I figured out it's fine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I thought that I just cheated death right there. Yep,
Speaker 4: those guys were gonna kill me and eat me and
Speaker 4: sell my hide or something.
Speaker 1: Sure, so mix snick boots.
Speaker 3: Right. A week goes by.
Speaker 4: I'm in the courthouse where I worked, and I'm walking
Speaker 4: through the courthouse and here's another guy in a suit
Speaker 4: walking toward me. He's a day up on top of
Speaker 4: the mountain. Good to see you again, briefcase so out
Speaker 4: he is a lawyer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was.
Speaker 1: Yeah. One time we were in Oregon skating in Lincoln City.
Speaker 1: They had a new skate park and we decided to
Speaker 1: sleep on the beach me in seven minth friends. We
Speaker 1: were all in our sleeping bags and we had a
Speaker 1: fire you could have fires on the beach there, and
Speaker 1: these two guys with backpacks and and neck tattoos that
Speaker 1: were big kids just approached. It was in the dark.
Speaker 1: Half of us were asleep, and I was like, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: I do mind if we stand by your fire for
Speaker 1: a minute. And I'm like, sure, I don't own that fire.
Speaker 1: Who owns fire? And then they they said that they
Speaker 1: had just gotten out of prison, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I believe that, but they did
Speaker 1: have all of their belongings and some questionable doorbell motor tattoos.
Speaker 3: Ando just sent. Is that a decision? You're just not
Speaker 3: going to try anymore?
Speaker 1: Go to Portland or something.
Speaker 3: Dad.
Speaker 1: There's guys in the bank that with briefcases they have
Speaker 1: faced had times, are changing the a and the next
Speaker 1: same thing. The next day, early in the morning, we
Speaker 1: were going and we saw these guys walking down the
Speaker 1: street and they waved smiling. Hey, thanks for last night.
Speaker 1: Right yeah, well they aren't quite as scary anymore right here,
Speaker 1: or they were the nicest guys in prison. Is that
Speaker 1: your house?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: One of my brother's girlfriends lived there. Oh, and our
Speaker 4: house was right up here. My brother Is this a
Speaker 4: peeping tom styl friends?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was.
Speaker 3: He worked at being an attractive guy and it was
Speaker 3: paying off.
Speaker 1: So I can guess it's one of these two houses
Speaker 1: that you lived in, right, that.
Speaker 3: One right there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's like four years older than they.
Speaker 3: I just thought he was the coolest ever. And but
Speaker 3: I thought, Jesus, why do you have park.
Speaker 4: A block from your mom's house when they know why.
Speaker 3: You're there all night? Right?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Wow, that kind of thing.
Speaker 4: So I hear there's noise and I go downstairs. I
Speaker 4: was a little bit alarmed. My father's it's five in
Speaker 4: the morning. My father's getting up to go drive a
Speaker 4: truck somewhere and look serious. Yeah, and my brother's just
Speaker 4: coming home. And you thought, there's this meeting in the
Speaker 4: back sphairway right, and I'm thinking, sesus, this could be dark.
Speaker 1: This could go south quickly, And they ended up just
Speaker 1: high fiving.
Speaker 3: No, my dad says, one of us is nuts. What
Speaker 3: did he say, one of us is nuts?
Speaker 4: He says, five in the morning, he's just going to work. Oh,
Speaker 4: five in the morning, he's just coming home.
Speaker 1: The guy going to work is not nuts.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking both of them are nuts.
Speaker 1: It's a riddle again. We could talk about that lie.
Speaker 3: I'm in the ninth grade. I think you're both nuts.
Speaker 1: It's five o'clock and I'm awake. I think I'm nuts.
Speaker 4: I wasn't scared to death because of the screaming. I
Speaker 4: wouldn't have been down here anyway.
Speaker 1: Oh were they yelling?
Speaker 4: No, there was no yelling. No one person yelled at
Speaker 4: my house. And that was my father would yell occasionally,
Speaker 4: but very scary.
Speaker 1: You never were scary. You never yelled, but I was.
Speaker 1: I wanted to not upset you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think I felt the same way.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a skill. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: parents they have to. You would give me a look
Speaker 1: or say be careful, like if I tested anything, you
Speaker 1: just say be careful. And I don't even know what
Speaker 1: that means. You've never laid a hand on me, but
Speaker 1: that scares me. I just want your approval. I'm going
Speaker 1: to be careful.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Do you remember saying be careful and then you had
Speaker 1: a whistle? Yeah? Remember giving all your heads?
Speaker 3: I remember laughing the yeah, I think a good one.
Speaker 1: When I was trying to cry. Yeah, I start to
Speaker 1: cry and you go, oh wow, nice try and I
Speaker 1: got damn it. He sees right through these crocodiles.
Speaker 4: If you're going to be a parent, you have to
Speaker 4: understand children. They have no power, they have no money,
Speaker 4: They're just every kid is looking for an edge, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: If you get your parents to feel bad for you,
Speaker 4: if you get them to feel guilty and buy your shit,
Speaker 4: that's how and every adult should know that.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 1: How are you You've been through a lot, sir. That
Speaker 1: guy had the posture of a man who'd been through
Speaker 1: several labor jobs.
Speaker 4: Went to school with him, so you know, keeping that
Speaker 4: in mind, I appreciate.
Speaker 3: I always liked you guys a lot, and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got the sense you thought we were okay,
Speaker 1: I says, very.
Speaker 4: Night, But come on, you have an obligation to put
Speaker 4: good little citizens out there, and to that end, as.
Speaker 3: As your sister says, no, came up a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some of some of the things you've apologized for,
Speaker 1: you you wish that you would let her go see
Speaker 1: Duran Duran at some point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I say that.
Speaker 4: Now you've faced on the same decision a fourteen year
Speaker 4: old girl going, oh was she fourteenth? Five hundred miles
Speaker 4: to a mosh pit. I think I'm still gonna say no.
Speaker 1: I think I didn't push it. But in fifth grade,
Speaker 1: on my birthday, Fishbone and the Beastie Boys played in Missoula.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, I think I was scared to go,
Speaker 1: so I didn't. I was like, should I go? No,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Yeah, me either. I don't want to,
Speaker 1: but I probably would have enjoyed that. But I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: You know what, I can't even hear anymore because of
Speaker 1: the concerts. I went to a Jay's upstairs standing next
Speaker 1: to a speaker. I am deaf now if there's background
Speaker 1: music and someone's just talking, just ambiyonce music. It could
Speaker 1: be classical stringed instruments and someone's talking, I can't hear them.
Speaker 1: It's a real issue. I say, what a lot. I'm
Speaker 1: often holding a fun all to my ear. Oh well,
Speaker 1: I like seeing a dog trying to attack a moving beer.
Speaker 3: I think I think people around me mumble a lot.
Speaker 3: I've noticed that.
Speaker 4: I don't think I have any hearing issues the propensity
Speaker 4: for mumbling.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when I was young, you said, uh, you should
Speaker 1: enunciate you because I had, like I think, my tongue
Speaker 1: was always hitting my teeth. They do you remember the
Speaker 1: archaic things they did. They had me sucking on a
Speaker 1: button at the end of a string to strengthen my
Speaker 1: lips to make the more tau Yeah, and they had
Speaker 1: they were going to put a cage in my mouth
Speaker 1: to poke my tongue. I think those were just ways
Speaker 1: to make me focus on the relationship of my tongue
Speaker 1: and I, you know, because I was spinning everything. It
Speaker 1: did work.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it works.
Speaker 1: And you bought me braces. That's thanks for those braces.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I ever said thank you. I
Speaker 1: wish that they had not been porcelain. I would have
Speaker 1: gone metal with porcelain. After having them one week, you
Speaker 1: have a lipt and cup of soup out of a
Speaker 1: vending machine, and then they're yellow for two years now,
Speaker 1: the first two years of high school, so maybe the
Speaker 1: most important two years to not have yellow teeth.
Speaker 4: You asked for they were experimental.
Speaker 3: You know the funny thing about those because they cost
Speaker 3: rice as much.
Speaker 1: They knew how to put them on, but when it
Speaker 1: came to taking them off, they were like, oh, I
Speaker 1: guess just some pliers and some hard twisting. I could
Speaker 1: feel all my teeth moving like a flexible piano. God,
Speaker 1: it was awful. Come on, sayer, and what a liar.
Speaker 1: He x rayed my hand and said I'd be six
Speaker 1: foot four. Everyone in our fan both how tall was
Speaker 1: your dad?
Speaker 3: Six feet tall?
Speaker 1: How tall was mom's dad?
Speaker 3: He was over six two or three?
Speaker 1: And then you and I short tiny feet little dicks'
Speaker 1: Come on? That last one was for effect.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did my feet art.
Speaker 1: We're both yeah, we're I was, We're just you know,
Speaker 1: five nine going on five eight. I'm shrinking, But yeah,
Speaker 1: everyone's tall. Got these cousins that are tall.
Speaker 3: I know, what what happened?
Speaker 1: What did you do what did you what did it?
Speaker 1: Was it something you wait that I ate? Did we
Speaker 1: not eat enough Brussels sprouts? I want answers, I.
Speaker 3: Want a longer end.
Speaker 1: Same, I'm okay with thirty. Yeah, this is this is
Speaker 1: what I got. Sure, this is what I got. You know,
Speaker 1: each person gets something. Yeah. I think if I was taller,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have had to be try and be funny.
Speaker 1: I don't I'd be out of a job.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: So you're a funny person and you're a you're maybe
Speaker 4: the best artist I've ever known.
Speaker 1: Well, thanks, dad, I learned it from having you teach
Speaker 1: me stuff.
Speaker 3: So you got that.
Speaker 1: Thanks.
Speaker 4: A couple of years ago, I'm going to the dentist
Speaker 4: and she said, how long has it been since your
Speaker 4: class cleaning? I'd probably been five years, And I said, oh,
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Eighteen months the exact calendar. Eighteen months.
Speaker 4: She's working on my teeth and she's saying, well, but
Speaker 4: are you sure it wasn't more recent?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I said, wow, no, but I do try to take
Speaker 4: care of my teeth.
Speaker 1: So to other people, though, and they're falling out left
Speaker 1: and right. We're just lucky, she said.
Speaker 4: Some people don't get that's stuff on your teeth, plaque
Speaker 4: or tartar. Want to know, some people don't get plack.
Speaker 4: You're one of those people. And I thought, that's what
Speaker 4: I get. I don't get to be six foot two,
Speaker 4: I don't get to be good looking, I don't get
Speaker 4: to be a captain of industry, but I don't have plaque.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, meanwhile, there's a guy out there was with
Speaker 1: the six pack abs and then he's just got gummy
Speaker 1: nerve endings dangling toothless? How far before we're in a
Speaker 1: lazy eye, but a hell of an assaye?
Speaker 3: Four before we get to l a X.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we I thought that now would be a
Speaker 1: good time to podcast, since tomorrow my flight is at
Speaker 1: the unreasonable hour of six a m. So I you
Speaker 1: know my brain doesn't start. This is a pretty podcast,
Speaker 1: you know what we we've kind of gotten, speaking of
Speaker 1: we've gotten lax with the airport part of things. We
Speaker 1: sometimes go Karen and I picked up Karen last time.
Speaker 1: She is great.
Speaker 3: I'd like to meet Karen. You will.
Speaker 1: You will someday, just to hang on. He's very good
Speaker 1: at predicting what I'm trying to say, even when I'm struggling.
Speaker 3: Right, I've had a couple of friends, like when it
Speaker 3: was a radio that you.
Speaker 1: Just click with certain people like Dave Bennett. Yeah, Bennett,
Speaker 1: you should contact him maybe. Yeah, he'd be happy to
Speaker 1: hear from me.
Speaker 3: I think he would. Yeah, well, let's see the eighty
Speaker 3: five now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's probably jogging playing bagpipes. Yeah, that was I
Speaker 1: remember vasically dropping like flies Christopher. He lived in the
Speaker 1: goonies town in Astoria. Right, was that in story? And
Speaker 1: I'll never forget. It's running into some neighbor kids and
Speaker 1: they had a rope swing going over a ravine, Probably
Speaker 1: something I shouldn't have been doing, but these kids were
Speaker 1: doing it, and I swung across the ravine right into
Speaker 1: a beehive. It just that's the second time in my
Speaker 1: life where I'm hanging from a rope and entire beehive
Speaker 1: landed in my crotch. The other time, I was repelling
Speaker 1: with Lisa and some southern dudes that she worked a
Speaker 1: Yellowstone with and I kicked a beehive and they just
Speaker 1: stung me in and around the genitals. That was the worst.
Speaker 1: At least then I could let go and land in
Speaker 1: a cold river.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: But I was told I was allergic to bees until
Speaker 1: forty of them stung me in the legs, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I guess that was a false alarm. I think that
Speaker 1: was just something I made up.
Speaker 4: Maybe we're getting out towards the cemetery. You've seen your
Speaker 4: grandparents post office box? It is?
Speaker 1: It is a little po box.
Speaker 4: Well, it's just let's not go on the ground. I
Speaker 4: mean caskets and all that. I was, Hey, how about
Speaker 4: cremation and a little.
Speaker 3: Post office box. Yes, it didn't go over really big?
Speaker 1: What didn't go over big?
Speaker 4: The post office box saying they just did enough for
Speaker 4: about fifty people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well then that's kind of cool.
Speaker 3: Maybe it is.
Speaker 1: Maybe you don't want to be a lump of you know,
Speaker 1: of mulch.
Speaker 4: Well that's part of the whole I'm not getting buried thing,
Speaker 4: is that people are more mobile, move a lot, and
Speaker 4: you don't want to be moving away from all of
Speaker 4: your loved ones, Like, like, you have any affinity for
Speaker 4: somebody who's been dead for botmoment a lot of years,
Speaker 4: you're not talking to them. Think about them, yeah, envision them,
Speaker 4: think about what they'd be saying and thinking.
Speaker 3: About you and your life. But I don't know that
Speaker 3: I have to be near where they're put to rest.
Speaker 3: I do come out here.
Speaker 1: I still have mom in a little box. I haven't
Speaker 1: done anything with the ashes, but I think that's okay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're just kind of hanging out in my room.
Speaker 3: Right, Whatever you got is inside you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think right there. Oh well, I don't know
Speaker 1: that I even exact boxes they really do, or a
Speaker 1: war commemorative plaques.
Speaker 3: It looks like post you do on one of those.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that someone just someone just died. There the little
Speaker 1: red flags.
Speaker 4: Of people come back. You can put a little receptor. Sure,
Speaker 4: see that little thing. It's like they put in the
Speaker 4: volkswagons for a flower.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, it's yeah, it is a Volkswagen bug
Speaker 1: flower base. Wow. Well, I don't know that. I haven't
Speaker 1: been to see a Grandma and.
Speaker 3: Grandpa are both there, written next to each other.
Speaker 1: I think it's been a long time. Certainly, I haven't
Speaker 1: been there since Grandma's been place there.
Speaker 3: It's kind of cool cemetery if you like that kind
Speaker 3: of thing.
Speaker 1: I don't know if i'm goth enough. I think I'm
Speaker 1: like any average person. I'm made nervous by cemeteries and mortality.
Speaker 3: I just think that, you know, there's some I wonder
Speaker 3: about people like that guy. Yeah, what did that? Davidson? Guy?
Speaker 1: I do it does?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I kind of like the idea of having a headstone acgs.
Speaker 1: Well maybe I'll do that.
Speaker 3: The guy we golfed with the other day, willis.
Speaker 1: Sure ex sheriff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, an ex sheriff captain, a tough guy. He comes
Speaker 3: out here and.
Speaker 4: Along with others, walk around and do He represents an
Speaker 4: old sheriff and talks about his wife and points to
Speaker 4: different people who have died and who they were in
Speaker 4: the community.
Speaker 3: Fifty hundred years.
Speaker 1: Well, that's cool.
Speaker 3: It's a cool thing they do. I've gone to a
Speaker 3: couple of them.
Speaker 1: It's just a group of him and some other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, says it. Okay, you know cool.
Speaker 4: It's just kind of a cool thing. And this woman
Speaker 4: over here used to.
Speaker 3: Service all that.
Speaker 1: Who are they speaking to?
Speaker 4: A group comes, Yeah, they announce it in twenty to fifty.
Speaker 4: The people show up and wander around, and that's cool.
Speaker 4: Come up with a different idea of who to discuss.
Speaker 1: And I like that he does that. Way to go, Willis?
Speaker 1: What you're talking about? Willis? Well, I'm talking about Judy Carlin.
Speaker 1: That's a name I probably shouldn't say names out loud.
Speaker 3: I think she died.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Was married to no Carlin, often often confused for
Speaker 1: Judy Garland Judy Karn. That was Carlin? Have you memorized
Speaker 1: all the names in that Graves park?
Speaker 4: Burt Reynolds was married to a girl who was on
Speaker 4: Laughing named Judy Karn for about forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: You know, I was. I was in a Christmas pageant
Speaker 1: this year with a woman from Laughing. She's still who
Speaker 1: was joe Anne wird N? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh wow?
Speaker 1: She reprimanded. I whistled. I whistled backstage, and she said,
Speaker 1: who's whistling? Stop whistling. Don't you know that's bad luck.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm sorry, Sorry, he's also bad luck?
Speaker 3: Is that why I have worked and have a good show?
Speaker 3: Good luck?
Speaker 1: That's bad luck too. Get this guy out of here,
Speaker 1: who's going to powder my You're very in time?
Speaker 3: Yeah, she was good, she was good.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure she had her time.
Speaker 3: She didn't like me, and.
Speaker 1: I'm still sore. I'm still sore about it. Well, this
Speaker 1: is a part of Mozilla that I thought would be
Speaker 1: all developed, but it's actually still well.
Speaker 3: They used to be my friend's family.
Speaker 4: Used to run the window manufacturing plant here class on
Speaker 4: windows may have them in your store and Poughkeepsie, but.
Speaker 3: All of that has gone now.
Speaker 4: And it surprised me when out by the airport somebody
Speaker 4: built houses up. This may be surprising to people listening,
Speaker 4: but land is very expensive in Missilla, monte Anna, compared
Speaker 4: to other parts of Montana, and compared even to lots
Speaker 4: of parts of Washington and the Dakota is.
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Why is that?
Speaker 3: It's applying demand? It's always why it is. Yeah, people
Speaker 3: want it. People ask a lot of money for it.
Speaker 1: I thought you're gonna say, because the soil is more fertile.
Speaker 3: No, no, somebody has to want it.
Speaker 4: And they say, oh, I guess I will pay more
Speaker 4: for that. So you build houses in areas that aren't
Speaker 4: as maybe as attractive, and you like around.
Speaker 3: A plant right here. Yeah, you know, I.
Speaker 4: Was surprised, as I say, by the airport, an entirely
Speaker 4: industrial area that is that is zoned industrial. Uh, they
Speaker 4: started putting houses out there like mushrooms everywhere.
Speaker 1: Look at that cute little kids baby. Yeah, she is
Speaker 1: really cute. That's how come I was scared to ride
Speaker 1: a bike that kid's doing it immediately.
Speaker 3: Remember kick you out? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I just I just maybe I shouldn't have done the
Speaker 1: training wheels. I remember being very scared to take those off.
Speaker 3: I remember you crashed and you said, hey, that's it.
Speaker 1: Sell it, sell this thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it could be that I'm not getting on the
Speaker 3: bike again. You do what you want with it.
Speaker 1: I think it was because it had a rainbow gradient
Speaker 1: paint job, with a long saddle, with a cowboy jumping
Speaker 1: over a rainbow on the saddle, and rainbow streamers. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you recall that being the bicycle that
Speaker 1: you bought for me.
Speaker 3: But I picked it out, did I? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But then I knew immediately I've tried to turn it
Speaker 1: to a BMX bike. I must have bought the.
Speaker 4: Doll your mother bought you with a Penis What this
Speaker 4: I don't remember, but it might God, what he.
Speaker 3: Likes trucks, whoop, whoop. If he likes dolls, he can
Speaker 3: have dolls. I'll get him a doll.
Speaker 1: Sure I was. I was okay with dolls like Lisa's dolls,
Speaker 1: but I was.
Speaker 3: Taken a while. Are you pushing dolls on it? That
Speaker 3: was my only.
Speaker 1: Especially Penis dolls was this thing clothed. It came with
Speaker 1: clothes at least. I just discovered the penis.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Usually dolls are sealed up front, and you know they
Speaker 1: don't represent a genitals, but this one had one. That's
Speaker 1: so strange. Was it called my first penis doll?
Speaker 3: Something like that. I didn't. I didn't know you had
Speaker 3: to go into another section to get it.
Speaker 4: But but boy, dolls were available, you know, I had
Speaker 4: a lot of we were very forward thinking back in
Speaker 4: the seventies.
Speaker 1: Of course, this is progressive town. Yeah, I've ross had
Speaker 1: my cabbage match dolls. I get it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this was in modern ray I think maybe not, No,
Speaker 4: it would have to be here, You're right, Okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah I was. I've been here since as two.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 1: I remember you buying me a gift in Monterey, though
Speaker 1: it was a a dump trunk or a fire. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just remember being on the swings and then and
Speaker 1: then I met you. I'm your new dad, you said,
Speaker 1: and we rode off on a on a Harley. Oh
Speaker 1: there's a crow eating a squirrel. That's not You don't
Speaker 1: see that very often.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: They saw the other day coming out of the golf
Speaker 4: course park there in the lot as I was turning
Speaker 4: around to leave a chipmunk pulling his squashed friend over
Speaker 4: to the grass.
Speaker 1: Oh, speaking of a storm in the beaches at Normandy. Wow,
Speaker 1: you don't get over that.
Speaker 3: Come on, buddy, that's just a little bit further.
Speaker 1: She thought, maybe you could help him out. I guess, Oh, man, Dad,
Speaker 1: what if it was his little squirrel wife?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're exactly.
Speaker 1: Right, you can't. It's hard to tell gender with those squirrels.
Speaker 1: She probably had a little bow in her hair.
Speaker 4: Oh man, it defends me how people drive quickly, even
Speaker 4: knowing there's a bird or a little critter in front
Speaker 4: of them, and they don't slow down.
Speaker 1: I see that a lot. I saw that a lot
Speaker 1: in Texas.
Speaker 3: It says a lot about who you are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. I don't know some people just
Speaker 1: the way. Yeah, they just care more.
Speaker 3: I'm busy, gotta be some place.
Speaker 1: Some people just think of animals as a food commodity.
Speaker 4: I guess, yeah, like all of it's I guess we
Speaker 4: all do at some point. Yeah, if I had more integrity,
Speaker 4: i'd be eating more greens.
Speaker 1: I guess around lunchtime, I care less about animals. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to eat just fish. And chicken. I've broken that
Speaker 1: rule with you.
Speaker 3: If I had to do it myself, I would be
Speaker 3: eating carrots.
Speaker 1: I think I could kill a chicken if I had to,
Speaker 1: if someone said do that, I couldn't do any other animal.
Speaker 1: I don't think I could kill a fish. I have killed.
Speaker 3: Fish or like grabbing their head and twisting it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you do what you got I do
Speaker 1: when you're in the mountains.
Speaker 3: My grandmother do that for me. Oh yeah, that's great.
Speaker 3: Oh God.
Speaker 1: You have a history of uncles and a lot of people.
Speaker 1: What Uncle Mith, You're sweet. Uncle was the kindest man ever.
Speaker 1: But he used to be his job to slit throats
Speaker 1: of us hog by Oh okay, he never slid throat
Speaker 1: I don't think he did. No.
Speaker 3: But when I was a little my well.
Speaker 1: That guy's still alive. Way to go. He's looked that
Speaker 1: way since I was a kid. He's had tubes and
Speaker 1: coming out of his nose even when I was twelve.
Speaker 1: He's still kicking it. That's good to see some of
Speaker 1: the see the homeless people. They are characters in town
Speaker 1: in Missoula. You know their names. And that was one
Speaker 1: of the guys. I've seen him all the time. I
Speaker 1: used to say hi to him. I'm glad to see
Speaker 1: he's alive. I don't know his name.
Speaker 4: And negotiating the crosswalk at about.
Speaker 1: He was walking very slow. It is walking very slow. Well,
Speaker 1: we're I mean, we're at an hour. Usually these episodes
Speaker 1: are about an hour dead. And then I gotta dice
Speaker 1: it up. I gotta edit it. I gotta add the
Speaker 1: bells and whistles. I gotta add the theme music. I
Speaker 1: only add music at the beginning and end.
Speaker 3: I don't edit and bells and whistles.
Speaker 1: That would be annoying. That would be annoying. It would
Speaker 1: be that's for the Christmas episode.
Speaker 3: Well, this has been fun.
Speaker 1: Thanks Dad. Guys he usually is and like, I like
Speaker 1: a lot of the things you said, and it was
Speaker 1: and people are gonna like this episode as far as
Speaker 1: we know, as far as I know, And we'll find
Speaker 1: out on Twitter. You're on Twitter, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure I am, of course. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well you've been listening, and thank you Dad. I love you.
Speaker 3: Oh is that nice? Love you back?
Speaker 1: You've been listening more? Oh, now it's a contest you've
Speaker 1: been listening to. Do you need a ride? D y
Speaker 1: n aar. You don't have to honk, I'll just go.
Speaker 3: Are you leaving?
Speaker 1: I you wanna way back home?
Speaker 3: Either way we want to be.
Speaker 2: There, doesn't matter how much baggage you claim. Give us
Speaker 2: time and they termino and gay. We want to send
Speaker 2: you off in style. Do you wanna welcome you back home?
Speaker 2: Tell us all about every scared he was?
Speaker 3: It fine? Malborn? Do you need to ride? Do you
Speaker 3: need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3: Do you need to ride? Do you mean.
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