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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of I Heart Radio. Well, Well, well,

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Speaker 1: Saron Burnette, what's up? Elizabeth dot and I missed you?

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Speaker 1: How you been? I'm I'm all right, I'm all ready

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Speaker 1: to hear it. You know it's ridiculous, Oh girl? Do

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Speaker 1: I okay? So Chuck Berry, the rock and roll legend,

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Speaker 1: he once performed so poorly at a show that it

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Speaker 1: was considered a crime. Yeah, in the rock and roll

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Speaker 1: legend was in Finland for a show, but he did

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Speaker 1: such a piss poor job that the crowd took legal action. Now,

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Speaker 1: when I say legal action, what I mean is under

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Speaker 1: Finnish law you can, like, you can basically get your

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Speaker 1: money back. Because a crowd deems that the performance was subpar,

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Speaker 1: the concert promoters are on the hook. They legally are

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Speaker 1: required to give back fifty of the money spent on

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Speaker 1: the ticket. So basically, if you go to a show

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Speaker 1: in Finland, you're only in it for half. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: can always like, now this was bad, I'm out, And

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Speaker 1: so a large part of the crowd to Chuck Berry,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Well, that is ridiculous. Do you want

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Speaker 1: to know what else is ridiculous? Always a fire chief

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Speaker 1: slash Low level drug dealer who wears rose colored glasses

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Speaker 1: is all. This is all one person, all at once

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Speaker 1: like this. This is a ridiculous crime a podcast. Did

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Speaker 1: you know that? About absurd and outrageous capers, heists and

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Speaker 1: cons it's always murder free and one percent ridiculous. All right.

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Speaker 1: I have said before that I've never been to Florida,

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Speaker 1: and we've talked about correcting that. Yeah. One place I

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Speaker 1: would like to eventually see there is Key West, the

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Speaker 1: southernmost point of America. Exactly. I'm not like a bigger

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Speaker 1: in his Hemingway fan and any way shape or form,

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Speaker 1: So that's not the attraction. Just as it seems his house.

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Speaker 1: You would like the cats um anyway. Uh, it seems

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Speaker 1: just like an interesting place, Key West, does um? I

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Speaker 1: like spaces at the edge of continents, Yes, the sandy

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Speaker 1: shifting edge of it. Yeah, like the fringe invites fringe characters,

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Speaker 1: you know, from what I understand, Key West is full

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Speaker 1: of absolute characters. Yes, I can confirm. Have you ever

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Speaker 1: been there a bunch? I went there as a kid

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Speaker 1: and loved it because the way, like when you're a kid,

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Speaker 1: you look and you see adults acting like a spectacle.

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Speaker 1: It was like, this is amazing, way come back here,

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Speaker 1: and I just like because you have to go for

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Speaker 1: a really long time. If you're driving from Georgia, you

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Speaker 1: have to go all the way down to Florida, and

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Speaker 1: then you get to the end of Florida, you get

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Speaker 1: to Miami. Think that's really close. Then you have to

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Speaker 1: drive through all of the keys. You're over these little

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Speaker 1: low bridges and as a kid, you're like this road

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Speaker 1: ever again again. And then when it finally does end,

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Speaker 1: you're in Key West, which is like an amusement park

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Speaker 1: for adults. Yeah. I love that. I really love that.

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Speaker 1: So I got a tip about today's story from a

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Speaker 1: gentleman named Christopher Over on Instagram. I'm going to tell

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Speaker 1: you the story of a man, a man with terrible

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Speaker 1: fashion sense, horrible criminal instincts, and perhaps one of the

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Speaker 1: most unfortunate names you've ever heard. I was thinking that

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Speaker 1: this was me you were talking about until you got

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Speaker 1: to the most unfortunate name, putiful name. I need you

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Speaker 1: to picture it. I need you to close your eyes.

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Speaker 1: It's September nine, Key West, Florida. It's morning time. You're

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Speaker 1: out jogging in your short shorts. Saren, does you just

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Speaker 1: live in your best life. I think you're probably jogging topless,

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Speaker 1: as one does, you know, as an aside, I feel

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Speaker 1: like men hung out in public with no shirts on,

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Speaker 1: or as I like to say, top more often. In

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Speaker 1: the seventies, even into the eighties, that's when they got

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Speaker 1: the half shirt. That's when it started. Well, let's get

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Speaker 1: halfway the yard work, exercise, grilling, walking around a county

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Speaker 1: So anyway, there you are, jogging topless down United Street

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Speaker 1: street lined with palm trees and modest mid century bungalows

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Speaker 1: in sort of muted neutrals and pastels. You stop to

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Speaker 1: tie your shoe and you see a man exiting his house.

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Speaker 1: Houses pink salmon colored, which isn't uncommon. Uh. You see

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Speaker 1: notice that both the walls and the carpet are red.

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Speaker 1: It's uncommon. It's a bold choice. Gold mirrors hang on

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Speaker 1: the wall. The man. He's wearing a red leisure suit,

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Speaker 1: It is so delightfully bold. His neck wrists hands, dripping

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Speaker 1: So like this outfit. He's just heat radiating off of him.

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Speaker 1: My hero. You know, you know who this dude is.

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Speaker 1: Topless joggers Aaron. Everyone in town knows who this guy is.

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Speaker 1: He's the fire chief. Naturally to rest like a fire

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Speaker 1: It's a city vehicle. Yeah. And there are two stickers

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Speaker 1: on the trunk. One is the seal of the Key

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Speaker 1: of Santa Barbara St. Barbara, the patron saint of firefighters.

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Speaker 1: I was painted in red on the car. I'm serious.

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Speaker 1: The chief, he is amazing. This guts amazing. So just

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Speaker 1: as he's getting into his car, two cars come like

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Speaker 1: he can't move this Cadillac. It's a big car. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he needs room to move. Federal agents be suited. Federal

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Speaker 1: like freeze. He's startled. The man in the rose colored glasses.

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Speaker 1: He starts fumbling around with his hands, and he pulls

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Speaker 1: off a diamond encrusted pinky ring and throws it at

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Speaker 1: the guys. Wait, just throws it. You can't you can't

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Speaker 1: see me fumbling. I'm doing a version. So then he

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Speaker 1: but he's immediately tackled and cuffed by the agents. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you zaren have just witnessed the arrest of none other

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Speaker 1: than bum far Get out. No, that's not his name.

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Speaker 1: His name is not bumping. Hence name is bum far too.

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Speaker 1: Did he change you His mama named him bum far too. Well,

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Speaker 1: let me back up a bit and I can explain

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Speaker 1: this exquisite creature. So Joseph Farto was born in Key

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Speaker 1: on this they're they're tuting it up. His parents tuting

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Speaker 1: their own farto. You're not trying to make a big

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Speaker 1: I've not been there. I'm going to take everyone's word

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Speaker 1: go don Lemon on New Year's Oh my gosh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: what what's the sushi? Where they getting this shoe? And

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Speaker 1: it descends in the high heel pump. That's basically what

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Speaker 1: I know of QS, which looks like pretty exciting. That's

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Speaker 1: CNN correspondence at New Year's Eve. What we're talking about

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Speaker 1: is like the you know, the it's a high heel shoe,

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Speaker 1: New York. It's a high heel Yeah, and it's a

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Speaker 1: drag named Sushi who sits in it? And and the

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Speaker 1: CNN correspondence just get lit trash. They do their best

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Speaker 1: impressions of liquor bottles. I love that. As someone who

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Speaker 1: doesn't drink, I like watching them so uh. Young Joe

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Speaker 1: Farto he used to hang out at a fire station

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Speaker 1: He was firefighter obsessed as kids are. It's like John Wayne.

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Speaker 1: So he got his name Duke. Really nickname because the

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Speaker 1: you know, this is how little Farto picked up his name. Really,

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Speaker 1: So he would Little Joe Farto, he'd be asking these firefighters,

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Speaker 1: ask them for money, but can you get some change?

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Speaker 1: always underfoot, cap and underfoot. The firefighters started like, get

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Speaker 1: People loved him, Farto, come on now, and he did

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Speaker 1: a lot of really good things as fire chief. He

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Speaker 1: busted there had like this arson ring, Like I don't

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Speaker 1: He did fire PERV Engine training in town. He boosted morale,

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Speaker 1: fit in. He's a very key West. When I described him,

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Speaker 1: he was wearing all red, right, that was an everyday

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Speaker 1: he got busted. He pretty much wore red or another

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Speaker 1: really bright color. Never wore black. I wouldn't wear his

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Speaker 1: whole house decorated in red. And he wore all the

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Speaker 1: different you know, it's like a deep fire engine red.

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Speaker 1: He's wearing all this gold jewelry. His badge, he had

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Speaker 1: his badge gold plated and like encrusted with gems. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: fire department his life, baby, Why did he wear red?

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Speaker 1: Spiritual protection of naturally of course. Santa Barbara, um you see,

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Speaker 1: Bumfardo is a practitioner of Santaree close with Santa Barbara,

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Speaker 1: so Santa Ria as you know, Santa Ria is religion

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Speaker 1: belief system originated in Cuba, not practiced by Bradley Hole. No,

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Speaker 1: not at all. Doesn't have a crystal ball. It's a

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Speaker 1: blend of Yoruba beliefs from West Africa, Catholicism, indigenous beliefs

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Speaker 1: eighteen hundreds. Um there are many spirits and they're spun

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Speaker 1: mainly from the Yoruba religion, but they each get tied

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Speaker 1: this force um Alo d Mare and practitioners make altars,

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Speaker 1: they give offerings to the spirits to the Supreme Force,

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Speaker 1: the police chief is the father of the city attorney,

418
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 1: who himself as the coke supplier. So they knew, they

419
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,360
Speaker 1: knew they were doing a good thing here. Now, the

420
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 1: goal of the whole thing was to clean up the city.

421
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,960
Speaker 1: They had their eyes on this grip of dudes special

422
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,639
Speaker 1: a group of them. Now, when they figured they had

423
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 1: enough to take everyone down, they organized what they referred

424
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,960
Speaker 1: to as Handcuffed Day, cuffing season, bring your kids to

425
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 1: work day followed by handcuff Day. Well, in prep for it,

426
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,679
Speaker 1: they bring in this task force, a huge strike force

427
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 1: from out of town special jackets, the whole bit. Oh yeah, there, yeah.

428
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,160
Speaker 1: So here's the thing though, is that, like if you've

429
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: got this whole group of physically fit men and they're

430
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,439
Speaker 1: coming into town and they have to get hotel rooms

431
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 1: and rent cars, and for some reason they didn't think

432
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 1: they could just rent the rooms and just do their thing.

433
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,160
Speaker 1: They had to come up with a cover story because

434
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 1: they were worried that the town being so small, people

435
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:44,159
Speaker 1: will be like aware of that, like what are all

436
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,440
Speaker 1: these guys doing here? And instead of being like mine

437
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 1: your own business, they said, yeah, well that's probably a

438
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 1: smart move. Actually. Yeah. So they call up They're like, hey, um, yeah,

439
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 1: I need like sixteen rooms. Um sure, and then I'm

440
00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:01,639
Speaker 1: also going to need sixteen unmarked I mean cars and

441
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:05,159
Speaker 1: so the rooms. Oh yeah, two men peru uh huh.

442
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, well, so what do you what do

443
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 1: you What are you guys doing here? He said, um,

444
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:15,479
Speaker 1: karate tournament. So they like it's just gonna be somewhere

445
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 1: else in US, somewhere this secret karate it's on the beach.

446
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 1: It's like the scene from Karate Kid where he's like

447
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:25,959
Speaker 1: doing the crane thing on the beach. It's just like

448
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,440
Speaker 1: thirty dudes lined up and then all with short haircuts,

449
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: wearing short sleeve shirts and a topless Hello seventies, I

450
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 1: don't know. Well, here's that's the thing. When you're talking

451
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 1: about a tie. So this karate tournament shows up and

452
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 1: they're all in suits exactly like dotal Flex and at

453
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,159
Speaker 1: that time they look like agents always kind of look

454
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: like Ati agents. They look like, oh yeah, So they

455
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,439
Speaker 1: got all these guys that show up in suits for

456
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: their karate tournament with weapons. I guess it's the shotgun

457
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: karate tournament. And then they rent these cars and so

458
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,719
Speaker 1: somehow they're able to keep this. Everyone bought the karate

459
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: ad in the local key West newspaper, like announcing like

460
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 1: there's going to be this big karate thing. You know,

461
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 1: if they had me on staff, I'm all about logistics

462
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:15,880
Speaker 1: and details, so I'd be like, you guys, you can't

463
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 1: go down there and then and let me just take

464
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: out an ad and then I'll put it as like

465
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 1: a day that doesn't exist. Yeah, exactly. So it's on

466
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: like Saturday that we're going to have this karate tournament.

467
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 1: It's going to be at the ramada of the room,

468
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 1: an address that doesn't exist. It's kind of like on

469
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 1: Law and Order when they have the address of the

470
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: like that they go to when they put it on

471
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: the screen, most of them, if you look at it,

472
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: I've been told I haven't done orational that. It's like

473
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: in the middle of the river. It's not a real address,

474
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: so you couldn't use it on like direction. Yeah. So

475
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: if the street, if like eight street only goes up

476
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: to block, you say, you're in the two thousand block. Okay,

477
00:28:55,920 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: So that's the totally the phone number, remember whatever, totally.

478
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: So that's what they should have done, but they got

479
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 1: away with it, so I'll allow it. Um. So they hotels.

480
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: The morning of September nine, thirty federal agents got into

481
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: unmarked cars and proceeded to spend the next five hours

482
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: or so arresting nineteen dudes. What about their karate they

483
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: had to help put that's at nighttime. It's night karate,

484
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: Like we're here for the night karate tournament. Um, the

485
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: first guy they get bumfardo nice respect. You start at

486
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,880
Speaker 1: the top. You remember what he did when the agents

487
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: jumped out of the unmarked car to arrest him, right

488
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: through the evidence apparently at them. Well, you know, he

489
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 1: pulls off the diamond pinky ring that Larry dollars. That's like,

490
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 1: I don't have it anymore. I think, yeah, you figured

491
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: if I give it back then it's a refund. There

492
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 1: wasn't the sale take it. He loved the pinky ring

493
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: though totally fit his style. So he was he lost,

494
00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 1: he knows. Um. So while he was certainly the salute flashiest,

495
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: he was also the very bottom rung of this operation.

496
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 1: He was super super small time chief was not in charge. No,

497
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: they started at the bottom and then worked their way

498
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: up arrest wise that day, so they bust him on

499
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 1: the weed and coke sales. And then they also when

500
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 1: they raided his house they found a couple of shot

501
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 1: off shotguns. They got him on that. Okay, Yeah, So

502
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 1: Bumfardo and the other arrestees were all bailed out by um.

503
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: This guy who was also arrested, the bail bondsman. He

504
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 1: posted bail for all of them. Do it from the

505
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 1: jail cell? Yeah, um. And then Bumfardo he turns on.

506
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: He hires a defense attorney, Manny James, who was also

507
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 1: arrested that day. Now, somehow the charges against Manny James

508
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: get dropped and he never goes to trial somehow, but

509
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: Bumfardo his trial is set for February night. These are

510
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:06,480
Speaker 1: federal cases. So the night before it's all set to start,

511
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: bum Fardo goes to see his family doctor. Yeah, you

512
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: know you want to get right before court. Well, he

513
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: tells the doctor, Man, I'm in so much pain right now,

514
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: it hurts. Does it hurt my tummy? Bum Fardo said

515
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: his tummy hurt? Get out? He did. He said his

516
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 1: stomach was killing him. Um. The doctor later was like,

517
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: you know, he came in. He looked real pale, he

518
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 1: looked bad, looked in a bad way, and he's only

519
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: tummy and so Um. The doctor diagnoses him with severe

520
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: stomach ulcers. Oh yeah, something that I think that Farto

521
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: had had in the past. But so the doctor. The

522
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: doctor right on the note he has tummy ulcers. He

523
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 1: was like bad Tom Tom and then a frowny face. Um.

524
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: The doctor diagnoses him with the stomach ulcers. He prescribes

525
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:57,959
Speaker 1: really strong, like super strong antacids, and he tells him,

526
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: you have to be admitted to the hospital. This is

527
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: really really bad. You got a bad timmy. Um. He's

528
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: super understanding and supportive, you know, don't you think so?

529
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: If your name is Bumfardo, what hospital do you go to? Oh?

530
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna not do well with this. I'm gonna say

531
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 1: the Slappy Pappy Home for Elder and abandoned fathers. That's

532
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 1: really close. Bumfardo was sent to the Depo hospital. You're

533
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: making this stuff. No, I don't care what you tell me.

534
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 1: You're making this stuff up. That's the name of the hospital.

535
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 1: D E like capital D, lower case E capital po o.

536
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 1: It's like French. That's probably more like Spanish. Um I okay,

537
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: I am both lauded and derided for what one disgruntled

538
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: listener termed me is dropping a gross out. I don't

539
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: think this qualifies. This is just a truthful statement. Now

540
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: we're doing it in a very juvenile way. To Pooh

541
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: Hospital for problems with his bad bad time. So there's

542
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: Bumfardo sitting in the Pooh. Why this is custom when

543
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: this happened where they like someday this woman and Elizabeth

544
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: Dutton is going to tell this story is going to

545
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: delight her. I didn't know I said so much gross

546
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: stuff until I started doing this show. And it turns out,

547
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: I guess I do. You learned something new every day

548
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: sometimes about yoursel A lot of self discovery that I'm

549
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: going through here. So Bumfardo sitting in the Pooh. The

550
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: d a's office sends over a doctor to examine Bumfardo,

551
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 1: and they declared that he didn't have severe ales. There's

552
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: a minute, they're like, pop a couple of times your

553
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: tom tummies. Uh, no reason you can't go to court, maman.

554
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: So the trial then actually starts. Bumfardo did not testify,

555
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 1: Larry Dollar testified. Oh in shut case. So much evidence.

556
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 1: So the jury takes thirty minutes and they convict Bumfarto

557
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: on the unch break. Let's just know they're paying for

558
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 1: lunch's get this now, so um misdemeanor count selling the weed,

559
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 1: to felony counts for the selling of the coke um

560
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 1: And then they were going to do the prosecutions, pushing

561
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 1: for the maximum sentence. Didn't go for a battery of

562
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: an officer by throwing a diamond ring at him. I know,

563
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,479
Speaker 1: they all these enhancements that could have had. They want

564
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: thirty one years for Bumfardo for the one is the

565
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: one year for the weed, but they want fifteen years

566
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,720
Speaker 1: each for the cocaine charges because a distributor I suppose,

567
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:47,879
Speaker 1: I don't know. One week after the trial, and you know,

568
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 1: Bumfarto's awaiting sentencing at this point, and he has another

569
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: weapons charge hanging over the off shotguns. So he's waiting

570
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: on those. That's like in two months or something. Um.

571
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: He tells his wife. He like, honey, I'm going to

572
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 1: drive to Miami and see a friend of mine. I

573
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 1: need to get out. I just I need the air.

574
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: Have been tough lately, you know, they took away all

575
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 1: my sawd off shotguns. I have been able to get

576
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: blow from Manny James. It's been a tough time for Fardo.

577
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: Dear Mrs Fardo, big farto, love of my life, Mrs Fardo,

578
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: her name is tiny Fardo. That I made it, so,

579
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 1: he says, I gotta go to Miami to see a friend.

580
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 1: When we come back from this break, I'm going to

581
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:50,919
Speaker 1: tell you about bum Fardo's road trip. Zarin, how are

582
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: you you old so and so? Oh you're still here? Yeah, Hey,

583
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,439
Speaker 1: what's up, Elizabeth. It's just been sitting here in the dark.

584
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: The last time we were together here, I was telling

585
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: you about Bumfardo. Yes, you were old Bumfardo, Key West

586
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,800
Speaker 1: fire chief, small time low level drug dealer, and fashion

587
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:12,919
Speaker 1: plate incredible fashionista. According to the accounts that I've read,

588
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: it seems like pretty much everyone in town was at

589
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: least doing some level low level dealing or running, so

590
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,720
Speaker 1: he wasn't stand out in that way. Kids were selling bricks,

591
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 1: a hash lemonade stands, old ladies had hollowed out copies

592
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: of Reader's Digest filled with baggies of coat, you know,

593
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: small town living. Um. Then there's bumfardo right, he's wearing

594
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 1: these flashy red leisure suits, his rose colored glasses. We

595
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: cannot forget that that he's wearing these pink tinted lenses

596
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: all so amazing gold for days, these drippings. Uh selling

597
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 1: coke in the parking lot of the fire station. I

598
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: imagine he's the kind of guy who has like a

599
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: gold bracelet. And then on the gold bracelet is a

600
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: gold bracelet, Yes, gold on gold on We heard you

601
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,839
Speaker 1: like gold bracelet? How about so? Um? I also, can

602
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: I just take a time out for a second to

603
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 1: talk about the hit Fox TV show nine one? One?

604
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 1: Can I tell you that Bobby on the hit Fox

605
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 1: TV show one he may have killed his whole family

606
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:19,720
Speaker 1: in a fiery fit of drunken ineptitude spoiler alert firefighter. Yeah,

607
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:21,919
Speaker 1: but he would never sell coke in the parking lot

608
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: of whatever station number they are that floats all over

609
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 1: Los Angeles unless Angela Bassett needed him to sell the coke,

610
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: and then he'd be pushing that product like she would

611
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: be so disappointed in him, she'd give him that side.

612
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 1: I pursed face. Yeah, so Bobby wouldn't do that, bum

613
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:43,360
Speaker 1: Farto though he's pushing small weight gets busted Angela Bassett.

614
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: Yeah right, what's about Mrs Farto? Step up? She needs

615
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 1: to just drive a police cruiser around and do busting

616
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: on her own. Um So, anyway, bum Farto. Back to

617
00:37:55,560 --> 00:38:01,800
Speaker 1: nine one. I went from some one who never watched TV.

618
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 1: This is the damage of the of the of the

619
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 1: pandemic that I suddenly started. I was fascinated that this

620
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 1: was a hit TV show. I've never heard of it,

621
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 1: and I started watching it. And then I was like

622
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: hate watching it, and now I love it. That's happened.

623
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: That's what happens with hate watching it turns into now

624
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: I can't say the same. I still hate watch nine eleven,

625
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 1: wrote lone Star whenever the but that's look at look

626
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:30,000
Speaker 1: at what I've been broken by the pandemic. Or we

627
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: can put it another way. You were broken, and you're broken.

628
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: Places were filled in with gold, the gold of nine

629
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,320
Speaker 1: one one I'm really bummed that the season just ended.

630
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 1: What am I going to do over the summer? I

631
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: don't even know. Call me when it's over. So back

632
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 1: to Bumfardom. He's cool in his heels, trying to awaiting

633
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 1: his fate maybe thirty one years. Who's to say? That's

634
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: just so He's like, I gotta let off some steam.

635
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 1: I got to I have to go to Miami. Then

636
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:04,240
Speaker 1: saw Miami. See my friend the Doorado. Well, the problem

637
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:09,359
Speaker 1: is the Eldorado was a City Carl mobile. He didn't

638
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,399
Speaker 1: have a car anymore. It's just sitting in an impound blot,

639
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 1: I would imagine. Or they're painting it. Like he's standing there,

640
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,839
Speaker 1: one tear running down his face as he's watching them

641
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: paint the car. Put it into the what's the spray coat?

642
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:25,359
Speaker 1: What's it called something coat? Anyways, I'm sure someone will

643
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 1: send me a message about it. Um. Anyway, So the

644
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 1: l a car not his. Um, So he rents a

645
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six Pontiac Lamon's, which is exactly the car

646
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 1: my grandpa had when I was little land Ya yeah, um,

647
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 1: what color do you think the rental was? Close? Red? Darn?

648
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: He has to get a red car. So he tells

649
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,279
Speaker 1: his wife, look, just going up to Miami. I'll be

650
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: back tonight. Off he goes, no luggage, just vibes heading

651
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: to Miami. The only way to go to Miami. Of course,

652
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:03,880
Speaker 1: just two weeks ago. I no bumfardo. Now, when I

653
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 1: say no bumfardo, it kind of sounds like someone trying

654
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 1: to talk about their gastro intestinal distress in like a problematic, insensitive,

655
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: geographically amorphous, choppy accent. I'm really sorry about that, but

656
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:21,319
Speaker 1: no bumfardo. Um. So people are starting to wonder where

657
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: a pediatrician talking no, no, no, no, no, no bumfardo.

658
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: Are you going to the doctor? You're like, what's wrong?

659
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: No bumfardo. It's been weeks. Um alright, gross outs right

660
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 1: and left. People are starting to wonder, where's bumfardo? Where's

661
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 1: my bumfardo? Um? When asked his wife, Um was asked like, well,

662
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 1: where's where's bumfardo? Lady fardo? She's Her answer was it

663
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 1: gets me too upset. I don't want to about it, yeah,

664
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 1: she said, I'm I can't say anything. It gets me

665
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 1: too upset. Okay, So I love that response. That's my

666
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 1: response for everything from now on. I can't talk about it.

667
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:16,399
Speaker 1: It gets me to upset. No Bumfardo. Um. Pretty soon

668
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 1: there's a man hunt underway of Farto hunt. The cops

669
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: are searching all over high and low and they come

670
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 1: up empty. In the meanwhile, he gets convicted in absentia

671
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 1: on the weapons charges. Yeah. So, three weeks after he

672
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:38,440
Speaker 1: left the Lamans was found in Miami on Kaya o

673
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:44,920
Speaker 1: cho A Street in Little Havana is um covered in

674
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 1: parking tickets, just resplendent in parking tickets. Um. And it

675
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: looked like, based on the dates on the tickets, that

676
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: he had been parked there for at least two weeks.

677
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:59,320
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Beyond that, though they had nothing, law enforcement

678
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: had no idea where Bumfardo went. So I'm guessing he

679
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: cut and run and didn't he cut and didn't get

680
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: cut and then disappear like he doesn't know enough to

681
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 1: be taken out. Well, but deadly Farto. His silence was deadly. Um.

682
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,360
Speaker 1: Everyone else though, So the cops were like, where's Bumfardo?

683
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 1: I don't know. Everyone else has ideas, like you coming

684
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: up with ideas. So the Miami Harold they interviewed a

685
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 1: bunch of people in that June of six and They

686
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,399
Speaker 1: asked them, what do you think? What do you think

687
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: happened to Bumfardo? And these are just these are solid

688
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: gold responses. I'm gonna do dramatic readings would So the

689
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: first one Charles Felton, he's a friend of Bumfarto's, and

690
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: he says, I think bums alive. I just had that

691
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 1: feeling faith and all that is. You know, he's a

692
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 1: breezy fellow. Yeah. And so then they talked to this

693
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: low well store clerk named Suellen Gibson, and she says,

694
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 1: most people think he was killed because the rest of

695
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: them got away with it and they're still here. I

696
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:13,800
Speaker 1: think he just lost himself somewhere. Very nice, right, Yeah,

697
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: I could hear. Thank you so much. Um, I'll accept

698
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 1: my words later. So then we get to we get

699
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 1: to Jennifer Smith. She says he's back living it up

700
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:27,359
Speaker 1: in Cuba. He's back anywhere. Who knows? Who cares? Your girl?

701
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: I love that is my whose who cares? I love?

702
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: I love the phrase who cares? So much? And I

703
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: love he's back living it up in Cuba, honey. He

704
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:42,240
Speaker 1: never came from Cuba like his family was from Spain.

705
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 1: He was born here he went up back to Cuba

706
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 1: or whatever. Jennifer Kitcher acting who get out of here.

707
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: Then we got Tom Debays, another guy who's interviewed. He says,

708
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:59,320
Speaker 1: I think he's wiped out because he too much, probably

709
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: dumped were board from some shrimp boat to the old

710
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: Sement shooting. Either that it's in the Staten Island. Okay,

711
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:10,720
Speaker 1: so we got a New York transplanting key West Staton Island.

712
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 1: First of all, the old Sement shoot thing. I want

713
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 1: to apologize for all my accents right now, though I'm

714
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: not meaning and like, I'm just trying to inhabit these characters.

715
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to give them a rich life and experience. Okay,

716
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,279
Speaker 1: all right, they inhabited me with life. I feel like

717
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna get mad at me now as you want

718
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:36,879
Speaker 1: me to do worst accents, I can take some heat.

719
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 1: You always you put yourself in the fiery line for

720
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 1: me too often on these things. So but yeah, Staten Island.

721
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 1: Why Staten Island? Who knows? Who cares? Quite frankly, David Johnson,

722
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 1: hotel maintenance and repair man, said, Mom Fardo is definitely

723
00:44:55,160 --> 00:45:00,080
Speaker 1: alive and well and living in Spain. I noticed in

724
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,280
Speaker 1: time Manny James walked in there with a T shirt

725
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 1: that said bum is Alive and Well and Spain. Right,

726
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 1: he's alive because Manny James, according to David Johnson, is

727
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 1: strutting around in a T shirt that says bum is

728
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 1: Alive and well in Spain. I get all of my

729
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 1: news from novel by T shirts. If I see it

730
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 1: on a T shirt, that's how I know what's going

731
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: on in world events. So I say this guy, it

732
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 1: says if you bought it, a trucker brought it. You're like, well,

733
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:36,880
Speaker 1: that's true. It's true. Um. Then, So there are theories

734
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 1: floating around about South America, Cuba, Spain, New York. Theories

735
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: that he's dead, that he's in witness protection. To this day,

736
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: no one knows what happened to him. Who knows, who cares? Really, yeah,

737
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: no one knows. He managed actually disappears. He's a disappearing

738
00:45:54,520 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 1: fartough he just vanished, just a puff um. That mystery, though,

739
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 1: drove an entire cottage industry for a while. They're in

740
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 1: key West. As speculation mounted as to the whereabouts of Bumfardo,

741
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 1: novelty shops and Key West started selling T shirts that

742
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: read where is Bumfardo So T shirts once again. June

743
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six, just a couple of months after the disappearance,

744
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:26,319
Speaker 1: shops had sold more than a thousand shirts. I'm I'm

745
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: going to add this to my list of novelty shirts

746
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 1: that I need to get, Like I have to have

747
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 1: one of these. Paul Taylor, one of the owners of

748
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 1: these novelty shops, said, quote, people sometimes buy five or

749
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 1: six of them at a time, like they're into some

750
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 1: kind of group identity trip. It's probably kids who like

751
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: to do a lot of coke. People have seen the

752
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: T shirts as far away as California, and then they

753
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:49,839
Speaker 1: get to Key West. They come in and ask for them.

754
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:52,839
Speaker 1: They come from New York and they say, listen, we

755
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,479
Speaker 1: were in Fire Island and people are talking about them.

756
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 1: They had seen them on their on TV too. Everyone

757
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: can relate to a bum far to fire chief who

758
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: was busted for a cocaine and missing. It's kind of

759
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 1: like a future Key West folklore. Everyone can relate to.

760
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 1: It's the most relatable thing ever, a fire chief named

761
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 1: Bumfarto who disappeared after a cocaine I mean, what is

762
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:13,959
Speaker 1: more relatable? How many times we heard that story boy

763
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 1: meets girl boy and loses girl Bumfarto tries to sell cocaine, disappears.

764
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 1: It's a story of all the time. It's a trope

765
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:22,720
Speaker 1: at this point. I mean, I mean, it's a little stale.

766
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 1: The other day I was watching a Colombo and they

767
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 1: had a bump Farto riff that they were doing. I

768
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 1: hope they have it on. Um. You know, it's just

769
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 1: the kids who like to do a lot of coke

770
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 1: running the T shirt business there. So the shirts get

771
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 1: super popularized by none other than Jimmy Buffett. Oh, the

772
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,359
Speaker 1: parrot head in chief. Yeah, he was seen wearing one

773
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:48,440
Speaker 1: on stage. Mr Buffet wearing a shirt. Can I admit

774
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: something to you? Go ahead. My grandparents sold Jimmy Buffett

775
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:58,359
Speaker 1: T shirts in their store that was named after Key West. Wow, yes,

776
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:01,479
Speaker 1: Key West Fragrances in Hampa. Actually he's in clear Water.

777
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 1: They had the store on the beach and they sold

778
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 1: Jimmy Buffett T shirts. And that's how I know who Jimmy.

779
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: They sold Jimmy T shirts to Jimmy buff They sold

780
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 1: Jimmy Buffett made T shirts. And this is like in

781
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: the eighties, and it would be like a T shirt

782
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: from like Welcome to Margarita, a T shirt, picture of

783
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 1: T shirt, but like with his artwork, and so it's

784
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:23,240
Speaker 1: all like cartoons. I gotta wait, hold on, hold on. Okay,

785
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 1: So first I thought they were selling T shirts to

786
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 1: Jimmy Buffett. Then I thought they were selling T shirts

787
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 1: with photos of Jimmy Buffet screen on them. Know, so

788
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:36,359
Speaker 1: it's Jimmy Buffett creates T shirts with his artwork on it. Yes,

789
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 1: around this time that smells like coconut oil. Yes, and

790
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: broken pop tops. Oh well, apparently Jimmy Buffett, you're the

791
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: life bladder your grandparents business. Um. He wrote bumfarto into

792
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 1: a song lyric. Now, my distaste for Mr Buffett prohibited

793
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:59,240
Speaker 1: me from looking up that lyric. I don't like Jimmy Buffett.

794
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 1: Are we gonna have a moment here? Who knows? Who cares? Yeah? No,

795
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 1: I can't stand them, really yeah, I cancel that plist.

796
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 1: I just can't take it. But I'll tell you, like

797
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: a strong Jimmy Buffett memory I have is that when

798
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 1: I was little, like young, maybe like ten, our neighbors

799
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:19,319
Speaker 1: across the street UM had their friends over and they

800
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 1: were all going to go to a Jimmy Buffett concert

801
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: and they were tying went on in the afternoon and yeah,

802
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 1: and the friends are like middle aged right there, the

803
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:29,920
Speaker 1: whole face, like the kids across the street their parents.

804
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: And so the lady there, the friend I was sitting like,

805
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:37,360
Speaker 1: I'm riding my bike and she's in the driveway drinking

806
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:40,799
Speaker 1: with all her friends. And I was supposed to like

807
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:42,920
Speaker 1: water their plants or something while they were out getting

808
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 1: hammered at the Jimmy Buffett and the lady I don't

809
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 1: know her, and she says to me, she was like,

810
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 1: come here, come here, come here. And I go up

811
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 1: to her and Watte's got like, well, she's got like

812
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 1: a Virginia hanging out of her mouth. And she goes,

813
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 1: you know, I gotta tell you something. You know what

814
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 1: the best cure for her hangover is. And I'm just

815
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:03,799
Speaker 1: like yeah, and I'm flatlining staring at her. She's like

816
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 1: a tuna sandwich, French fries and a chocolate milkshake. But

817
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,200
Speaker 1: you gotta dip the fries and the milkshake. But it's

818
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: got to be a tuna sandwich. I didn't now, no,

819
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 1: I was. I am a very polite person, no matter

820
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:19,560
Speaker 1: what I think about them, Like I can't help myself.

821
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 1: I didn't say a word. I just turned out on

822
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:27,440
Speaker 1: my bike and road away. And so I hope this

823
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 1: remembers that story too. I don't think she remembers. And

824
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:33,200
Speaker 1: so anytime I hear about Jimmy Buffett, I think of that.

825
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: And then I started thinking about tuna sandwiches, and I'm like,

826
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 1: you know what I like to the sandwiches. Don't really

827
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:38,719
Speaker 1: like Jimmy Buffett. Have you ever dipped the fries in

828
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,799
Speaker 1: the shake? Though? No, I have friends who swear by that.

829
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: I bet friends swear by Jimmyuffett. So anyway, who knows?

830
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: Who cares to quote Jennifer Smith? Um? What what saren?

831
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 1: Is your ridiculous takeaway here in this wealth of ridiculousness

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Speaker 1: that we've waded through like the drifts of cocaine on

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Speaker 1: the streets, Key west Um, I would say, my ridiculous

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Speaker 1: takeaway is, if you're named bum Farto and you you

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Speaker 1: have a wife and she's willing to take your last name,

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Speaker 1: treat her right, or when you disappear, she will not

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Speaker 1: care and not want to talk about it. I think

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Speaker 1: if you're named bum Farto, that is a promise you're

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Speaker 1: making to the world and you have to you have

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00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: to come through. You got up on that. He came

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00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,799
Speaker 1: through very much did as as somebody with a strange name.

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Speaker 1: He's up in the pantheon a strange name people. He's

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00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 1: fulfilling the contract. Yeah, definitely the social contract with the

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00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 1: crazy name. I know I've said this a lot lately,

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Speaker 1: but you gotta love a good character, Yeah, I mean

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00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: wacky characters in authentic ways. Yes, yes, not that trying hard,

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Speaker 1: they just are that. Yeah, Because like I feel like

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Speaker 1: right now, we get a lot of people who are

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Speaker 1: being quirky or eccentric and kind of a put on way.

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00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 1: It's intentional and precious, theatrical and performative, and it's meant

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00:51:57,520 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: for you, not for them, right. I like people who

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00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:02,359
Speaker 1: are just strange and they can't help it. Who knows

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00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 1: who cares, right, and they're not apologetic about it, but

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00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 1: they're also not trying to get attention. And yeah, so

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Speaker 1: wearing red, having an all red house, that's really rad

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00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: and weird. I like it. Um, the man's named Bumfardo,

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00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 1: you don't care, you can change his name, No, you

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00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 1: give it them. I like that kind of organic weirdness,

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00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:27,759
Speaker 1: true presentation of goofy. You can say it gases you

860
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 1: up well, and it's it's it's so steamy. Um. Quirky

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00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:37,799
Speaker 1: behavior and lifestyles now are too attached to pre manufactured

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Speaker 1: and commercial things. That's my statement. I take away A

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00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 1: book series or a film franchise isn't a personality. I'm

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Speaker 1: going off into my own screed right now, but it's like,

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Speaker 1: doesn't make you an outsider. That's a mainstream thing. And

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Speaker 1: outsider is Bumfardo dressed in red selling coke at a

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Speaker 1: fire station, the prophecy of his name game that he

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00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 1: brought from the city. Yeah, exactly. Get back to me.

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Speaker 1: When you're named for a bodily function and you flex

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Speaker 1: on spirits at a little league game to bring it,

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00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:12,799
Speaker 1: bring it, Bumfardo. That's my takeaway. I like that he's

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Speaker 1: willing to ask for the you know, the protection of

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Speaker 1: the Spirits for little League, not for like the national game,

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00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 1: not for like, oh this local team, like the exactly,

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Speaker 1: the Spirits have their back. That's all I have. I'm

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Speaker 1: all that was good, Like your cup overfloweth with Bumfardo.

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