WEBVTT - Nope, I'm Hangin' Around Til' the End 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.440 No, I'm hanging around to the end. It's one more thing. 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:11.879 I'm strong and getty. One more thing. A couple of 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:14.680 quick things from the most recent vacation, and then one 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:16.720 from a vacation many many years ago that I was 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:22.200 reminded of. So I went to Florida South Beach, Miami, 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:24.600 and then drove down to Key West and then went 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:26.680 up to New York. A couple of interesting things I saw. 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:28.479 One Did you check out the video yet of the 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:30.240 guy who riding his bike around with the tire on 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:30.640 his head? 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.040 I did. That is clearly as described. 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.720 It's a guy, a young guy, riding a bicycle around 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:40.680 with a giant truck tire. He's balancing on his head 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:41.800 while he rides it around. 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:44.720 Yeah, that video made my neck hurt. 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:49.839 I can't imagine the skill it would take to be 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:50.360 able to do. 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:55.920 That myself, wondering how he decided on that particular stuff. 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:58.280 That was my joke with my kids all along. I 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:00.520 kept saying to various people like that, We you know, 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:02.440 I was gonna go to law school, but I decided 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:04.399 I'll ride around the park with a tire on my head. 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.840 You know that's it would be a real show to 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:10.120 have that guy from the Davis Farmers Market that was 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.920 doing the splits eating canned eggs with this bike riding guy. 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:15.039 But did this. 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.560 Guy decide, you know what really interests me is balancing 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:22.520 truck tires on my head. Perhaps I'll walk, no jog, 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:27.680 no skip, no ride a bicycle with a truck tyra 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.319 or was it the opposite. I was like, you know what, 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:34.520 I'm really into riding my bike with something on my head. 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:38.479 Let's go with a potted plant. No, no, how about 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.560 my pets? Now, No, that's not good out about a 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:42.400 truck tire. 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.840 I mean, I can't even my kids and I talked 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:50.240 about this longer than you would you would expect. But 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.440 first of all, he most of people in the park. 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:54.440 This was Washington Square Park, New York, where all the 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.680 hippies hang out and there's all kinds of performance artists. 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.320 It's very, very cool, and it's that way all day, 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:03.880 every day for the past sixty years as far as 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:07.080 I know. Wow, now longer than that, because Kerouac was 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.280 writing about it in the forties, so yeah, more like 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:15.760 eighty ninety years. I mean, they're magicians and people with 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:19.239 their various poems and writings and stuff, all kinds of 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:24.160 stuff and uh, but most people have they're either selling 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.919 something or they got a you know, like a hat 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:28.760 there you can throw money into because they're singing and 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.040 playing the guitar. This guy never stopped like get money 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:33.760 or anything like that. He had a big smile on 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:35.720 his face. He seemed to be just doing it for 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:40.680 his own amusements. But I was wondering, how do you 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:42.840 get how do you start, even if you know how 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.000 to do it? How do you get on your bike? 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:47.960 Do you? I guess you hit on your bike with 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:49.600 the tire next to you, and then you have the 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.840 strength because as a big tire, you have the strength 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.040 to fling that thing up and bounce it on your 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.359 head before you take off on your bike. I don't 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:57.720 even know. 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:00.800 Well, right then you got a mount up on your bike, 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:02.840 I would think, and hold it with one hand till 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.640 you get a little momentum going Yeah, then the physics 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:07.919 kicks in and you can incline your head. 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:09.400 A such a way. Blah blah blah. 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.200 But yeah, what the trial and error had to be? 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.480 You know, days weeks long? 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:16.680 And how does this idea come to you? You know, 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:18.560 I bet I can take this wheel and stick it 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:19.640 on my head and balance it. 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:21.880 No you can't, Yes, I can. Next thing you know 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:22.720 you've got? 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:24.760 This is like this guy's thing. 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:26.560 I just looked him up and there's a video of 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.960 him balancing a forty five inch TV on his head 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:30.920 while riding a bicycle. 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:37.640 Okay, yeah, gotcha. Yeah, that's that's his jam. Balancing bigger 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:46.160 objects than you would expect on your head, bicycling, Yeah, 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:47.960 other things, so that I had to tell this story 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:49.840 in the podcast because it's one of those stories that 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.240 if you don't use the bad word, it's not as good. 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.920 So we're walking through Key West. We were there, we're 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:57.400 in a house. We were there for three days, and 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.400 have you ever been to Key West? Duval's the main dragon. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.440 That's where all the cool stuff is and very very entertaining. 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:05.760 And so we're walking back from the restaurant. It's getting 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.320 a little later. And I didn't do this on purpose. 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.119 I would have crossed the street had I known otherwise, 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.680 just because my thirteen year old You don't need to 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:16.920 see this, But we walked by a bar where they 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.560 had drag queen shows going on, and there were two 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.600 enormous jet drag queens standing out front. I mean they 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.920 were in heels, but I mean without heels, they looked 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:29.400 like they were seven feet tall. I mean they were 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:33.359 like nine feet tall drag queens, and very attractive for 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.200 their height if you're into a nine foot tall woman. 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:37.000 But then handing out. 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:38.440 Little who's a dude? 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:43.080 Yes, yeah, yeah yeah, handing out pieces of paper to 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.159 you know, come into the show. Anyway, we walked by 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.760 Henry's wide eyed. We get a little further away, he 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.560 saddles up next to me. He said three questions, what the. 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:59.839 Fuck gender bending madness? 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.479 And then finally this story, which didn't happen on this trip, 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:05.760 It had happened on a previous trip to Key West 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:10.280 Mallory Square, and Key West's on the very far side 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.359 where you get to see the sunset every night, and 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.200 they have a sunset festival. And this has been going 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.760 on since Hemingway was writing about it, when you had 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:19.400 to get there by boat, so this has been like 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:21.719 at least one hundred years. And they got all kinds 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:25.480 of performance artists there too, and it's very entertaining, jugglers 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.039 and music and frisbees and just all kinds of stuff 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:29.880 and food, and it's very cool and it's every night, 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:31.719 three hundred and sixty five days a year, unless a 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:35.120 hurricane blows everybody away. But the last time, Joe's heard 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.720 this story numerous times, but you haven't heard this story, Katie's, 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:39.640 so I'll tell it again. My kids loved this story. 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:45.160 I saw an escape artist there thirty years ago, and gladys, 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.520 if you could play the art. He so it's crowded. 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:53.560 It's like probably like eight o'clock. The sun hasn't set yet, 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:57.600 but people are already gathered and he's gonna he has 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:01.200 people around chain him up where everybody's gathered around him, 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.520 and you know, you, you, young man, here is a 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.440 chain wrapping around me. However you want use this lock 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.760 to lock me up? And he does that with like 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.159 fifteen different people who chain him all up and all 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.440 these different chains, and people are wrapping it around his 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:15.480 legs and between his legs and around his arms and 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:17.400 his wrists, you know, trying to come up with a 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.839 difficult way for him to get out and u and 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.080 they do a pretty good job of it. So then 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.320 they get him all locked up. I will now escape 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:29.880 from this, you know from my chains, and he he 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:34.279 starts it and it is very slow moving, very slow 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:38.320 moving over time. I mean, he just he's like wriggling 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.680 his shoulders and like trying to move his legs and 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.400 just his head and he's got these chains all around 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.080 his neck in between his and and then he lays 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.839 down and he's trying to I mean, and this the 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.159 total time on this that I was there two and 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:54.480 a half hours. Oh my god. I stayed there for 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.960 two and a half hours, long after everybody else had left, 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.680 because people are like, there's no inner here, and there's 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.440 a guy juggling flaming axes over there, So I think 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.160 I'll go watch that. And the sun sets, you know, 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.040 So the sun is set, the other performance artists are 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.080 starting to go away, and he's laying there in his 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:16.600 chains on the ground, all sweaty, and I just, I mean, 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:18.160 this is back when I still drank too, and I 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:19.720 got a couple of beers, so I thought, I'm just 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:21.800 I want to see how this plays out. I mean, 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:23.760 does he just because most people would throw a few 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:25.640 bucks in the basket and I was kind of wondering, 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.080 does he just like not get out and a friend 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.240 has to come let him out? But he makes his money? 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.520 Is that the drink or no, he was getting some 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.720 of the chains off of him. He had this way 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.200 of wriggling and everything like that his body and like 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.480 he'd get a chain to drop and then another chain. 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.920 He tore the end at some point, and he's just 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.679 covered in sweat and he's making all these horrible noises 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:53.320 as he lays there trying to get the chains to 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:55.600 fall off of him. And he would stand for a while, 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:57.400 then he would sit and he'd get in a different possession. 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:02.200 He dislocated his show. Somehow he got his shoulder out 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.720 of the joint. You could see the ball slide down, 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.600 and then he was able to then he was able 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.840 to let the chains slide off of his shoulder, and 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.760 then he kind of ducked his head underneath one chain. Anyway, 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:18.760 at one point he starts vomiting. He's laying there on. 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:22.000 This Trust me, let's stick with it. 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:26.040 He's laying there on the hot asphalt in his shorts 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:29.560 and tank top, covered in chains and sweat, his shoulder 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:33.040 out of whack, and he's vomiting. He's just laying there. 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.319 I am not kidding at all. I'm the only person 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.760 left at this point. It's just me and some like 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.560 street people and he's vomiting, and then he gets the 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.080 other chain off his head, and then at some point 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.760 he gets them all to drop off, and then he 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:54.920 just sits there on the graud like breathing hard. He's 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:58.080 got vomiting his beard, and he's not looking at anybody. 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.920 He doesn't look pleased, he doesn't say, he doesn't even do. 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:02.439 None of that. 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:06.199 He just he looks miserable. And I put a ten 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.240 dollars bill in his basket, and I saw that was 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:14.559 really really amazing, dude, and I walk off, and that's wow. Wow. 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.720 I mean, it was as if he was actually abducted 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.880 and chained up, and his abductors had gone off to 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.360 do something else nefarious and while they were gone over 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.200 the course of hours blah blah blah. But indeed he 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:29.600 did all that voluntarily. 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.240 I don't know if that was the first time he'd 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.040 ever tried it and he thought that took longer than 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:35.400 I expected. 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:38.040 Or oh, that was really hard. 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:39.720 Or if people just did a better job of chaining 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:43.240 him up than usual. Surely every night, dude, you don't 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.400 lay there, dislocate body parts and vomit so that you 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:50.400 can make a couple hundred dollars. I don't know, maybe 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:52.440 go back and get a degree in something. 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:54.720 Were you flying solo on that vacation. 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:58.120 Yeah, you had to be, because I mean there's not 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.960 a woman I've ever known who would have stuck it out. 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.840 No, no, no, hell no, no, that's funny. I flew 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.640 in a girlfriend at the time, and she was coming 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.800 in the next night, and I remember thinking the same thing. 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:09.160 I would have missed that if I'd have been with 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.600 her she said, let's leave you. I wouldn't have been 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.120 able to stand there for two and a half hours. 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.560 And this is pre way pre cell phones and stuff, 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.000 or there would be you know, tons of videos of this. 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:20.880 God dang it, that was entertaining. You know, I've always 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:22.920 wondered whatever became of that guy, Like did he die 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:24.920 one night doing that or did he keep doing it? 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.160 Or did he have somewhere he decided to become a real. 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.520 Dream a system manager at the local Hurts reno car. 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:32.160 Yeah. 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:36.160 Right, Oh, my god, there's just some bones surrounded by chains, 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.240 you know, under a palm tree in the oh. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.559 That was the most entertaining thing, very slowly unfolding slowly, 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:43.640 that I ever saw in my life. 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:45.160 I'm picturing you was standing up at the very end 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.160 and just giving him a slow clap, like, good job, dude. 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.880 He looked so despondent, like what if I decided to 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:52.720 do with my life? 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.840 You know, I hate to take this in a different 0:10:55.880 --> 0:11:01.520 direction because it's been charming, but I've often reassured myself 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.520 or told other people that, you know, up to a 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.800 certain point, obviously, the worse the experience, the better of 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.480 the story. Yeah, I mean, all right, if you lose 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.480 a leg, then maybe not so much, right, but you 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:16.960 know what I mean. So if that guy had quickly 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:22.000 eluded his chains, or after an hour or so or 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.880 forty five minutes and there are five or six people clapping, 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:26.000 that would. 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.679 Be a very mundane story. 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.680 It was the very misery of it that made it 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.760 good for you too, I mean, because you had to 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.920 at some point be thinking I really ought to. 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.959 Go right right, I did have the is there gonna 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.680 be a payoff that's even close to worth how long 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:44.680 I've been standing here? 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:49.160 Like the opposite of the concept of some sunk costs, 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.640 Yeah you thought, No, No, I have sunk those costs. 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:55.880 I am going to sink more. I'm gonna sink as 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:56.360 much as it. 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.960 Takes a nebriation helped because I was able to keep 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.840 drinking because there's places selling beer, so I just hung 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:07.120 around watched. I mean, they're like some of the street performers. 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.560 This is a popular thing now. I talked about this 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.360 when I saw these in Vegas, the guys who jump 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.520 over people. They're like acrobats practically, and they get three 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.839 people in the middle, and then this guy comes running 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.320 really fast and he jumps and does a flip over 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:23.199 the top of him. And I've now seen it three 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.079 different places. I wouldn't have known there that many people 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.080 in the country that could even do that. Does every 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.520 town have a guy who can run and jump over 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.600 people and do a flip and land on his feet 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:34.240 on the pavement. Maybe, I don't know. 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.560 It's like American Idol showed us that there's like five 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:42.040 incredible singers in every talent in America apparently so right, 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:45.400 exactly so the same thing with leaping over people, as 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:47.840 it turns out, and you got just as much of 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.040 a prospect of making a living at it as does 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:51.120 the local singer. 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:53.760 Right, you're looking for some entertainment. 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:58.079 The video videos of them missing the jump over people 0:12:58.160 --> 0:12:58.800 quite entertaining. 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:00.560 I was going to say, that's how that part of 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:04.880 the act Jack, I've never seen anybody miss no. But 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.080 it's it's extraordinary. I mean, it's it was impressive. I've 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.360 seen it a couple of times now. They run so 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:14.280 fast and the degree of difficulty because you're landing on 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:15.600 pavement at that speed. 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:16.960 Yeah, oh my god. 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:18.880 If you don't time that right, I suppose you decide 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.120 you can't do that anymore the first time you crash 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.520 and think, well, I guess I'm done with this line 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:24.400 of work for now. 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.920 Wow, I could no more flap my wings and flyes 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.079 do that. At any point in my life. 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.920 I have not seen another person escape from chains while 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.840 vomiting and dislocating bones before, though that I've not seen 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:39.400 where else. 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:42.920 An innovator, a visionary 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:46.920 Well, I guess that's it.