Speaker 1: If even me does it call for a really ratty,
Speaker 1: like decade old monkey puppet to stand up. They're smart
Speaker 1: assing while another guy is trying to deliver a speech.
Speaker 1: Don't do that. Yeah, you know, it's not always easy
Speaker 1: being a host. Sometimes you talk too much and your
Speaker 1: voice gets raspy and sexy, and you need a gargle
Speaker 1: throat coat t and peptobismo. It works. Sometimes you're reading
Speaker 1: a teleprompter and it's moving too fast or displays words
Speaker 1: you don't know how to pronounce. And sometimes you make
Speaker 1: one joke and someone storms the stage and attacks you.
Speaker 1: Now you may think I'm talking about Chris Rock and
Speaker 1: Will Smith, but I'm actually talking about Lucky Yates and
Speaker 1: Burt Reynolds. Now, Lucky as an actor, comedian and vo
Speaker 1: legend who you may recognize from Archer or Homestar Runner
Speaker 1: or maybe the Adventure of Elmo and Grouchland. He's also
Speaker 1: a host in a Puppeteer and that's where he found
Speaker 1: himself catching smoke from the bandit himself. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Will Bearskin Rug McFadden, and this is hashtag Storytime brought
Speaker 1: to you by iHeartRadio. So we're around like two thousand
Speaker 1: and five area, all right of time, and it was
Speaker 1: at the Atlanta Film Festival, which is now like a
Speaker 1: really great, well respected film festival, right, yeah, prestigious, But
Speaker 1: in two thousand and five, I'm sure it was just
Speaker 1: getting it well. In two thousand and five they were
Speaker 1: making the conscientious effort. No, that's not true. They were,
Speaker 1: they were they were going in that direction. But I
Speaker 1: think they were because it started as just this really
Speaker 1: sort of cool indie I'm like, super indie, maybe local
Speaker 1: staff or at least Southeast you know, filmmaking and all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. And then as it went on,
Speaker 1: it you know, started becoming the other thing that people
Speaker 1: would submit to. And then it's sort of growing. And
Speaker 1: so they were in this weird space of like they
Speaker 1: were getting prestigious, but they still wanted to keep this
Speaker 1: sort of raw, edgy thing about them. Yeah, right, and
Speaker 1: so forever, for like the last twenty five years, I've
Speaker 1: been working at a theater here in Dad's garage called
Speaker 1: Dad's Garage Theater, and it's an improv comedy theater and
Speaker 1: we also do scripted plays like actual theater. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: it's you know, comedy, but then also comedy plays but
Speaker 1: plays and then now we do all self produced work.
Speaker 1: But back then anyway, always have been sort of the
Speaker 1: naughty kid in town, you know, opened in nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: five and just sort of the rise of South Park
Speaker 1: and the rise of Dad's Garage were kind of happening
Speaker 1: at the same time, and they people would relate like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're like the South Park. If you like that, you'll
Speaker 1: love Dad's Garage kind of thing. So they hired one
Speaker 1: of my very best friends, I believe maybe even now
Speaker 1: he wasn't he we was post us being roommates, but
Speaker 1: we had been roommates for a while. One of my
Speaker 1: very best friends, a guy named Sean Daniels, who is
Speaker 1: huge in the theater world right now, and he was
Speaker 1: our artistic director, and they hired him to host this
Speaker 1: award show that was kicking off the Atlanta Film Festival,
Speaker 1: and we were they were going to give awards to
Speaker 1: big name people who for their work on independent film
Speaker 1: in Georgia, right or I was under the impression that
Speaker 1: it was independent film in Georgia and not any film
Speaker 1: in Georgia, right. But they're basically trying to swear mister Reynolds,
Speaker 1: and I differed in our opinion. I see they enter
Speaker 1: mister Reynolds, but they're probably trying yet, but they're trying
Speaker 1: to draw in, you know, a certain caliber of celebrity
Speaker 1: with this move. Is that what? And they're giving awards
Speaker 1: to Parker Posey. Fuck yeah, in indie film Darling Parker
Speaker 1: Posey did stuff in Georgia. Uh they did? Uh? I
Speaker 1: believe it was Ruby D. Both Ossie Davis and Ruby
Speaker 1: D were here, Okay, but I want to say they
Speaker 1: were giving the award to Ruby maybe both of them,
Speaker 1: I can't remember, they were both present at the time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then Burt Reynolds, which I guess they were using
Speaker 1: Deliverance as the independent film hook, even though I don't
Speaker 1: know when that film came out, but I was alive
Speaker 1: when it came out, and I remember it being a
Speaker 1: very big deal at the movies. Yes, and this is
Speaker 1: two thousand and five, so I'm trying to think of
Speaker 1: this as pre or post Boogie Nights at this point. Oh,
Speaker 1: this was post okay, so he kind of already he
Speaker 1: had already become a thing and then was sort of
Speaker 1: really sliding back down. Right. This was Yeah, this was
Speaker 1: not a good Burt Reynolds anyway, So when they approached
Speaker 1: Sean back in these days, we were a couple of
Speaker 1: real rascals together, and I am a puppeteer. It's one
Speaker 1: of the performance It might be my favorite medium of
Speaker 1: performance from all the things that I do. I really
Speaker 1: love puppetry and we have I and we have always
Speaker 1: done puppets at Dad's garage. And so when they were like, hey,
Speaker 1: we want you to host this event, Sean, but we're
Speaker 1: trying to get the stuffiness out of the room so
Speaker 1: you can do whatever you want, Sean just goes puppets
Speaker 1: and they're like, great, that's gonna be great. And so
Speaker 1: he just tells me, hey, man, we're gonna host the
Speaker 1: thing and bring a puppet. Bring Phineas the Monkey, which
Speaker 1: was like my signature puppet at Dad's at the time
Speaker 1: in our kids show. Like this also feels like Crank
Speaker 1: Anchors time, you know, Like I feel like Crank Ankers
Speaker 1: was in the late nineties, early two I guess maybe
Speaker 1: maybe it was so like Phineas was from our Kids show,
Speaker 1: but you know, it was a very smartassy kids show
Speaker 1: that you could get away with back then, the best
Speaker 1: kind like barely. Uh So, yeah, maybe Crank anyway, I
Speaker 1: got crank anchors. It's truly on Burt Reynolds's radar. It's true.
Speaker 1: It's very true. Now, so you know show it's like puppets.
Speaker 1: We're gonna bring Phineas. And I'm like, okay, great, let's
Speaker 1: do this. Let's fuck around. And so we show up
Speaker 1: and it's at the our Fox Theater, have Fox Theater here,
Speaker 1: and there's a there's a few of them left in
Speaker 1: the country, and they're the old movie palaces, right, They're
Speaker 1: just absolutely stunning inside. And so it's in the Fox Theater,
Speaker 1: in this grand ballroom, and we bring this dad's garage's
Speaker 1: a tiny, low budget theater. We bring this shitty like
Speaker 1: log set piece that I usually used in the kid
Speaker 1: show for me to hide behind while Sean is standing
Speaker 1: on stage like reading cards and just sort of making
Speaker 1: fun of the events as we go along. We didn't
Speaker 1: really know what to do. But the whole time, I'm like,
Speaker 1: how are we justifying that a monkey is here? And
Speaker 1: He's like, I don't know, and I'm like, well, we've
Speaker 1: got to say something. It's so absurd, especially since we
Speaker 1: have that piece of shit thig up there, Like what
Speaker 1: are we gonna say? And so we were like, this
Speaker 1: is probably fifteen minutes before we go on stair. I
Speaker 1: was going to say, is this rehearsal or is are
Speaker 1: we lying? You know the rehearsal. There is no rehearsal.
Speaker 1: Shot submitted a script. Maybe, I guess. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I was there to smart ass. That's what my job was.
Speaker 1: So as as we decide like, okay, Phineas, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say that Phineas is a huge Hollywood movie producer. He's
Speaker 1: from a giant studio and he's here to exploit the
Speaker 1: indie film scene. He's here to grab some good ideas
Speaker 1: and put in more car chases and more plane crashes.
Speaker 1: Love it. It's basically the Michael by the Michael Bay
Speaker 1: that a monkey, a monkey is a big time producer
Speaker 1: in Hollywood. That's what idiots are. Yeah, brilliant. It was
Speaker 1: either that or going on in the actual film theater
Speaker 1: of the Fox Theater that night was Lord of the Ring,
Speaker 1: which we should have gone with this, as I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, I was, I walked into the wrong room,
Speaker 1: but I was gonna stick it out here anyway. I
Speaker 1: should have gone with the Lord of the Rings thing
Speaker 1: instead of a Hollywood approach. But it's a film award festival. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I tried. I tried to support indie film by making
Speaker 1: fun of big Hollywood. Yeah that's perfect. Okay, So that's
Speaker 1: our game plan. Sean has a little script that he
Speaker 1: submitted that was very you know, like fun and fun
Speaker 1: and weird and funny and weird and you know, a
Speaker 1: little goofy. But nothing, nothing we did at all was anyway.
Speaker 1: Like as as bad boys as we are, we're also
Speaker 1: like goodhearted. We would never do anything mean or cruel
Speaker 1: for any reason, and we didn't. That's the crazy part
Speaker 1: about it. That being said, the monkey was not going
Speaker 1: over well ever, Like when we brought the thing out,
Speaker 1: there was just uh uh and we're like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: we're in trouble. And I got to sit out there
Speaker 1: the whole time with my arm up in the air
Speaker 1: with a mic on, and I'm hot. I myself am
Speaker 1: hidden from the audience. I'm behind this dumb tree log
Speaker 1: thing with a monkey puppet. This I wish I still
Speaker 1: had him. He rotted away. Oh no, So I come
Speaker 1: up and I'm just like, I'm here to explain Hollywood
Speaker 1: and then we give you know, we do bad jokes
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm I'm making fun of how I was.
Speaker 1: I had in the works. I was going to remake
Speaker 1: My Dinner with Andre, which, for anyone unfamiliar with the
Speaker 1: film My Dinner with Andrea, it's Wallace, Sean and I
Speaker 1: don't can't remember who else. That's the only important part
Speaker 1: is in her but is it is two people sitting
Speaker 1: at dinner for two hours talking. That's the movie. And
Speaker 1: so I was, I said I was going to do
Speaker 1: My Dinner. I was. I was already had in the
Speaker 1: works a big remake with of My Dinner with Andre
Speaker 1: with Brad Pitt and Vin Diesel, and it was going
Speaker 1: to be two and a half hours of a mumbling
Speaker 1: conversation with car Chase in the middle. I'd watch it.
Speaker 1: So that's the kind of shit we're throwing out there,
Speaker 1: right right right. Parker Posey comes and gets her award. First.
Speaker 1: She is, I don't know, maybe a little lit. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's Parker Posey, so who knows? She's snarky. She she
Speaker 1: gets up there, she looks over at the monkey and
Speaker 1: I think I said something like I love you, Parker Posey,
Speaker 1: and she just went, I just want everyone to know
Speaker 1: there's a man sitting on the floor back there, and
Speaker 1: I was just like yay, Parker Posey called it out. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking like, okay, cool, this is like we
Speaker 1: gotta good, good good. I'm being acknowledged, right, this is dumb,
Speaker 1: gread this is funny that she gotta laugh doing it.
Speaker 1: We gotta think to go with Ruby D. It was
Speaker 1: ruby D because it was nothing but grace that so
Speaker 1: she gets her awarded, it comes up and you know,
Speaker 1: the whole thing, and then goes back and it sits,
Speaker 1: and then and then Burt Reynolds and before going into
Speaker 1: it though both Sean and I at this point huge
Speaker 1: Burt Reynolds fans, Huge Burt Reynolds fans. Yeah. So Sean,
Speaker 1: as a part of his pre written, pre approved speech,
Speaker 1: goes on about how much he loves Burt Reynolds. In fact,
Speaker 1: he said, I caught a lot of heat when I
Speaker 1: was younger because I insisted that Cannonball Run two is
Speaker 1: a better film than the original Cannonball Run. And you know,
Speaker 1: like little applause from the audience. Burt Reynolds is taking
Speaker 1: all of this as an attack, just like all of it.
Speaker 1: So he he like, we go into like how much
Speaker 1: we love him, say his name. He comes very slowly,
Speaker 1: sort of sauntering up on stage because I don't know
Speaker 1: how old Burt Reynolds was in uh two thousand and five,
Speaker 1: but he looked like he was one hundred and eight
Speaker 1: years old. Yeah, he had so much plastic surgery that
Speaker 1: he did not look like a real human being. It
Speaker 1: was weird up close. It was so sure. He's probably
Speaker 1: sauced up too, you know, he's probably he was, you know,
Speaker 1: the runk, the runk he gets. He gets to the
Speaker 1: podium and he, I think, says one shitty thing about
Speaker 1: Sean and myself, about how dare we or something like that.
Speaker 1: Like he opened with a shitty line, to which the
Speaker 1: monkey replied, I love you, mister Reynolds. And he looks
Speaker 1: over at the monkey. I'm sitting on the floor and
Speaker 1: I'm looking at him, but he never looked at me once.
Speaker 1: He only looked at the monkey. He comes strolling slowly
Speaker 1: over but aggressively as he grabs so phineas is as
Speaker 1: like a sort of a muppety. It's called an arm
Speaker 1: and rod puppet, hand and rod puppet, and you've got
Speaker 1: your hand up in the head doing the mouth and
Speaker 1: then you've got two rods and you're doing the arms,
Speaker 1: and he comes in. He grabs Phineas's mouth, both the jaws,
Speaker 1: and he's trying to pry I think he's trying to
Speaker 1: rip the puppet into I think, yeah, never acknowledging that
Speaker 1: there's a man, a much younger man, attached to the puppet.
Speaker 1: And he made the most inhuman sound I have ever
Speaker 1: heard in my life, which which was this, like he
Speaker 1: was full of rage, full of old man rage. Who
Speaker 1: if he would in a hand while he was trying
Speaker 1: to rip my hand apart, like trying to rip the
Speaker 1: monkey's face apart with my hand in it. And all
Speaker 1: I could think was, oh my god, Renalds is so weak.
Speaker 1: It's a weak old man. And so I just I
Speaker 1: just closed my hand and rolled and rolled the puppet down.
Speaker 1: It got him into my lap, and then he went
Speaker 1: stumbling back to his podium, and like for the next
Speaker 1: ten minutes, it was a long, rambling speech. If it
Speaker 1: wasn't ten minutes, it seemed like ten minutes long. Starts
Speaker 1: with laying into us and how dare we make fun
Speaker 1: of Hollywood? And how dare we make fun of cannonball run?
Speaker 1: It made this much money in the theaters, and seng went,
Speaker 1: I said, I loved Cannonball Run. But Burt Reynolds didn't listen,
Speaker 1: and he how dare we go after Brad Pitt? Do
Speaker 1: we know how much Brad Pitt is worth? You people
Speaker 1: don't have any idea, And then just like sort of
Speaker 1: touches on his film work in Georgia, but he mostly
Speaker 1: talks about Smokey and the Bandit, which then leads to
Speaker 1: his very long rant about Sally Field and how she
Speaker 1: was really the one and he let her get away
Speaker 1: and he should never have done that, and there was
Speaker 1: might have been a couple of Lonnie jabs in there.
Speaker 1: Like it went on and on and on and on,
Speaker 1: and I'm behind a log underneath like the audience can't
Speaker 1: see me, and I'm looking upstage at my partner, Sean Daniels,
Speaker 1: who has to stand upstage and just take it all
Speaker 1: fully in front of everybody, just standing and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, and he's just looking at me like
Speaker 1: shut up, shut up, and I'm just like, what are
Speaker 1: we doing. We gotta get out of here. I never
Speaker 1: bought the puppet back up, like it just was Sean
Speaker 1: for the rest of the time, and afterwards, we couldn't
Speaker 1: book the fuck out of there fast enough. And as
Speaker 1: I was walking past Burt Reynolds on my way out,
Speaker 1: I heard him say to the crowd around him, I
Speaker 1: think it might have gone a little far up there,
Speaker 1: and I was like, Oh my god. At the time,
Speaker 1: I was working at a local radio station, ninety six
Speaker 1: Rock and on the morning show and it was the
Speaker 1: Regular Guy Show, and it was the biggest radio morning
Speaker 1: show in Atlanta at the time, and I went in
Speaker 1: there with the story the next day with this huge
Speaker 1: scoop and dude, the story took off. Sean and I
Speaker 1: are doing radio interviews all over the country. We're doing
Speaker 1: all these phoners about Burt Reynolds attacking the Monkey. Then
Speaker 1: Nash Inquirer runs a piece that our fight stats as
Speaker 1: the Burt Reynolds and Phineas J. Monkey had a boxing
Speaker 1: match coming up, their fight stats and everything like that
Speaker 1: and what pitted, and then a little article about what happened.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. And then I get a I think
Speaker 1: it was an email from somebody that was producing the
Speaker 1: Daily Show at the time with John Stewart, and they
Speaker 1: were like, hey, we heard about this Burt Reynolds story.
Speaker 1: Is there any way you can get a tape of it?
Speaker 1: And I was like, I'll find out. I know people
Speaker 1: in town. Let me give me a couple of days.
Speaker 1: And then I found a news agency that was there
Speaker 1: and they had a tape and they're like, yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: give you a tape of it. So I tell Sean,
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, we can go on the Daily Show,
Speaker 1: like I can fuck Like what if we got Phineas,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a black eye on him and put
Speaker 1: his little arm in a sling. And all he wants
Speaker 1: is an apology, that's it. He just wants Burt Reynolds
Speaker 1: to apologize, like he clearly mistaken. We don't know how
Speaker 1: Figs went wrong, but we were talking about how much
Speaker 1: we actually loved Burr Reynolds and we just want him
Speaker 1: to apologize. It was yet and the board because we're
Speaker 1: a nonprofit theater and we were getting a lot of
Speaker 1: attention because of it. But the board I think probably
Speaker 1: wisely said, you know what, before we get on the
Speaker 1: Daily Show and cause more trouble, let's just stop this here.
Speaker 1: Let's not due. I am heartbroken, but I understand, like
Speaker 1: we could have turned this into gold, but also we're
Speaker 1: not in control of that show, so who knows. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty fun. And then he died, and then everybody was
Speaker 1: coming out about what absolutely horrible shit human being he was,
Speaker 1: and so I was like, oh cool, now, now don't
Speaker 1: feel so bad about my story about him attacking a
Speaker 1: monkey puppet I was operating, And I believe he thought
Speaker 1: that talking monkey was real, yeah, because well, first of all,
Speaker 1: it's insane that he was essentially trying to just like
Speaker 1: dislocate your thumb. I honestly think he was. He thought
Speaker 1: he was going to rip the puppet apart, right, I
Speaker 1: think that's what he was going for, Like he wanted
Speaker 1: to rip its face or maybe it's head off or
Speaker 1: something like that. But I mean like he'd like had
Speaker 1: old grandma strength. It really was like a two year
Speaker 1: old came up to you and tried to pry your
Speaker 1: hand apart, and I was like, what are you doing,
Speaker 1: little boy? Like, oh my god. I think while I
Speaker 1: was rolling down in Phineas's voice, the only thing I
Speaker 1: said was my career, and I just sat there. If
Speaker 1: he really did think it was a real monkey, then
Speaker 1: that's even more disturbing that he was like actually trying
Speaker 1: to murder like Peter would be all over it. He'd
Speaker 1: never looked at me once. I was looking at him
Speaker 1: right in the face as he was trying to rip
Speaker 1: that he has had a part, and he never acknowledged
Speaker 1: me that. On the walk over it, he was looking
Speaker 1: right at the monkey like during the part he was
Speaker 1: trying to Like Now, granted, he's a pro, right right,
Speaker 1: he's part of the show. The show is the monkey,
Speaker 1: not the man underneath it. He might not understand how
Speaker 1: it works, even though I'm right there make it with
Speaker 1: my lips moving. I'm not a ventriloquist. I have to hide,
Speaker 1: and so I really don't know. At the time, I
Speaker 1: was convinced he thought the monkey was a real talking monkey.
Speaker 1: I think I think this has to go with that
Speaker 1: because it's the plays best on the radio. I think
Speaker 1: it's a testament to how great of a puppeteer you are,
Speaker 1: that you actually fooled Burt Reynolds into thinking seventy five
Speaker 1: year old drunkard but the monkey was real. Yeah, that's impressive.
Speaker 1: That is that takes real skill. It will learn us
Speaker 1: how many pain killers the man was on at that point?
Speaker 1: Not enough? Yeah, but it his rant like the Sally
Speaker 1: Field thing. He really went on and on and about
Speaker 1: how she was just the one and he had messed
Speaker 1: it up, and it was just like it was un comfortable.
Speaker 1: This isn't therapy, Burt, but yet so funny for me
Speaker 1: because I had just sat there, look at Shawn stand
Speaker 1: there and the whole time and just go like, now
Speaker 1: you have to go talk again. He had more show
Speaker 1: to do. I wasn't in the rest of the script.
Speaker 1: That was supposed to a smart ass and that was done. Now,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, poor guy. He succeeded. Yeah, he turned out. Okay, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it didn't kill either of our careers. What would you say,
Speaker 1: What would you say was the moral of the story?
Speaker 1: What did you take away? What did you learn from that? Oh? Know,
Speaker 1: your audience, don't bring a puppet to a knife if
Speaker 1: if it really doesn't call if the day, if evening,
Speaker 1: does it call for a really ratty, like decade old
Speaker 1: monkey puppet to stand up there smart assing while another
Speaker 1: guy is trying to deliver a speech. Don't do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's your fractured fairy tale. Thank you, thank you, I mean, no,
Speaker 1: your audience. The real beauty of puppeteering, though, is that
Speaker 1: that separation between the performer and you know and the puppet.
Speaker 1: And it really is like my intro into Dad's garage
Speaker 1: theater was do a improvised soap opera every season. It's
Speaker 1: called Scandal, which is a title that has been ripped
Speaker 1: off a very successful television show. Yeah, we were doing
Speaker 1: it first, of course anyway. Uh and uh my very
Speaker 1: first season in Scandal, I played a mischievous imp from
Speaker 1: the ninth dimension called boot Boozy, the imp who had
Speaker 1: ruined the career of a Hollywood star named Chick Starley,
Speaker 1: who was based on Burns Chick Starley. Chick Starley played
Speaker 1: by the brilliant Chris Blair and Chicken Boozy were a
Speaker 1: huge hit, and I did it overtly. Boozy was like
Speaker 1: this little plastic Mikhail Gorbachoff talking like it was. For
Speaker 1: some reason in the eighties, some company thought it would
Speaker 1: be fun to make a little stuffed Michail Gorbachoff dow Yeah,
Speaker 1: with a very nice, realistic looking head. Realistic good for
Speaker 1: like a baby doll style head of Michael Go with
Speaker 1: the birth mark and everything up and I think, and
Speaker 1: a moving mouth and that was attached to like a
Speaker 1: squeeze thing in a stuffed body that for some reason
Speaker 1: was wearing like a leather biker jacket with CCCP written
Speaker 1: on the back. You know, Michael, he loved biking. But
Speaker 1: when you pushed the thing to open his mouth and
Speaker 1: make him noise, he just went huh, like what. So anyway,
Speaker 1: it dismantled that that painted it like purple and then
Speaker 1: made this weird imp character that was a huge hit.
Speaker 1: And he was a bad influence on Chick and they
Speaker 1: they just were always getting into trouble together and the
Speaker 1: audience lending. And I did it overtly. I was just
Speaker 1: out there with this thing on my arm with you know,
Speaker 1: it's body in front of me. I was I were
Speaker 1: this little diamond mask and I would just be there
Speaker 1: the entire time, and it's like the audience doesn't even
Speaker 1: know you're there. They're just like that puppets crazy. It's
Speaker 1: the craziest thing. And you know, I'll talk to him
Speaker 1: afterwards and all that kind of shit. I was like,
Speaker 1: this is the best. Is Dad's garage still a thing?
Speaker 1: Is it still a company? Yeah? Absolutely? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I want to go check this out so bad. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's been around for him thirty thirty five years,
Speaker 1: thirty years, twenty seven something like that. Nineteen ninety five
Speaker 1: is when it opened. That's awesome. I'm a big I'm
Speaker 1: a big theater twenty seven years theater guy. Myself and
Speaker 1: I was a part of the The Actors Gang Theater
Speaker 1: Company in Culver City, which is oh yeah right yeah.
Speaker 1: Tim Robbins founded it and I was there for ten years. Great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but kind of similar, kind of similar vibe where it
Speaker 1: was like they came out of this real punk rock
Speaker 1: scene and they were doing really like in your face,
Speaker 1: politically charged, socially conscious theater, you know, in the moment
Speaker 1: talking about what was going on. So yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: Dad's garage sounds like that's fun. Yeah, come check it out.
Speaker 1: I would love to really come check out of Atlanta.
Speaker 1: It's really going on here. Man. All right, well I
Speaker 1: just needed an invite. Oh I don't have a place
Speaker 1: for you to stay. It's all win big room. You
Speaker 1: could stay in the Magic spacebox. I guess don't have
Speaker 1: much privacy. It sounds like some night farter, I am.
Speaker 1: Did you just admit it being a night fart? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, no shame. What else am I supposed to find? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I saved them all to yourself, baby, for the middle
Speaker 1: of the night, you know, fart farting night, that's right. Um,
Speaker 1: well that was awesome man, Thank you so much of course. Thanks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just fun. That was a doozy. And hopefully,
Speaker 1: you know, one day in the in the afterlife, you
Speaker 1: and Burt will be reunited and probably in Hell, I'm guessing.
Speaker 1: I say, I can only hope I can do somehow.
Speaker 1: There will be a monkey up there for me to years.
Speaker 1: It was so mister, it's good to see you. Well, well,
Speaker 1: what a fancy meeting you here. My jaw has never
Speaker 1: been the same. I'm thinking you the Heaven Court. Heaven
Speaker 1: Court is a great this is a great shop. Yeah,
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