Speaker 1: Are you leaving? I you wanna way back home?
Speaker 2: Either way, we want to be there. Doesn't matter how
Speaker 2: much baggage you claim and give us time and the
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Speaker 2: We wanna welcome you back home.
Speaker 1: Tell us all about it. We scared her?
Speaker 3: Was it fine?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: Porn? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need ride? Ride with Karen and Chris.
Speaker 4: Hello and welcome to Do you need a ride? This
Speaker 4: is Chris Fairbanks. I'm in Missoula, Montana again. Last time
Speaker 4: I was here for my friend's bachelor party. This time
Speaker 4: it was for the wedding. It was a great wedding.
Speaker 4: It was It's funny thing about Montana where you live. Incidentally,
Speaker 4: to my ride is my father, Jim Fairbanks, who will
Speaker 4: be my co host and also my guest at the
Speaker 4: same time.
Speaker 1: It's a double job. Not one guy didn't cry during
Speaker 1: this wedding.
Speaker 4: All I watched all my friends tear up and be
Speaker 4: consoled by their everybody.
Speaker 3: Just one guy didn't double.
Speaker 1: Negative there, every single not one guy didn't.
Speaker 4: Not one man didn't, not cry okay, and then there's
Speaker 4: solid as a rock. Spouses and girlfriends consoled them with
Speaker 4: dry eyes. Sensitive sensitive men in this part of the country.
Speaker 4: That was my I've only done one experiment.
Speaker 3: We have soft men with a hard exterior.
Speaker 4: Maybe perhaps yeah, it was uh, but not really. I
Speaker 4: mean yeah, I guess my friends don't go and don't
Speaker 4: go around telling their feelings to each other.
Speaker 1: So it was it was.
Speaker 4: Everyone really was affected by all the things my friend
Speaker 4: Ross had in his in his vows to his wife
Speaker 4: and to his parents, opening up like that and then
Speaker 4: seeing him cry. Every every guy it was like watching
Speaker 4: What's such the movie where they kill the dog or
Speaker 4: a cowboy rides off. I don't know, Shane Shane or
Speaker 4: the champ bags the kind of thing that makes men
Speaker 4: cry or you and I used to watch Highway to Heaven,
Speaker 4: the cheesiest show ever with Michael An.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you one day, the older you get, the
Speaker 3: more likely you are to cry. I cry at supermarket openings. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I've any any kind of event I cheer up.
Speaker 4: Just a business opening exactly. They put their money together,
Speaker 4: found a location, So are.
Speaker 3: We gonna have time to get some plumbing before we
Speaker 3: go to the airport. Yes, yes, And I have a question.
Speaker 3: If you're driving and we're dropping you off at the airport,
Speaker 3: I'm likely to be just sitting there in this seat.
Speaker 4: At that point, I will you will have to make
Speaker 4: the decision to get out of the car and place
Speaker 4: herself in the driver's seat.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: That I'll leave that up to you, because I'll be
Speaker 4: gone at that point.
Speaker 3: So some weeks ago, I was watching my grandchildren, your
Speaker 3: nieces and nephew, because your sister was picking up another degree.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she likes to just, you know, casually, nonchalantly pick
Speaker 4: up degrees.
Speaker 3: As she does. And I called home to see how
Speaker 3: things were going, and there was water pouring all over
Speaker 3: the lower level of the house.
Speaker 1: Oh, terrific.
Speaker 3: Pipe broke actually the connection to the water softener, which
Speaker 3: I have since taken out. I've found that I know
Speaker 3: enough about just about everything to get myself into trouble.
Speaker 1: Just a little bit about everything.
Speaker 3: I can do that now you can't. So I have
Speaker 3: to replaced some old work. I took the water softener up,
Speaker 3: and we're going to pick up some I think some
Speaker 3: shark bites. Shark bites. Shark bites, shark bites are new
Speaker 3: plumbing things that don't require soldering, and they're just the best.
Speaker 3: You know, if you work with lumber, you cut something
Speaker 3: a quarter of a quarter of a quarter of an
Speaker 3: inch and it's close enough. If it's plumbing, you're up
Speaker 3: to your knees and water.
Speaker 4: And this is just water, water, not sewarts. We're not
Speaker 4: talking water. Okay, it's just water.
Speaker 1: It's worse. It's much worse when it's ship water.
Speaker 3: Oh you recall me working on plumbing, I'm sure when
Speaker 3: you were young.
Speaker 4: I recall you renting a shop back and someone had
Speaker 4: cleaned a horse stable, except you got the impression it
Speaker 4: was human shit.
Speaker 3: I did that came in.
Speaker 1: That shop back or was it was a rug champo
Speaker 1: rug shampoor and have hoses on them.
Speaker 3: And I hooked the thing up and and it wouldn't
Speaker 3: suck anything up, and I thought, wow, I almost like
Speaker 3: a hose in there. Yeah, squirt it all out. It
Speaker 3: was hose was full of shit.
Speaker 1: Oh that's disgusting.
Speaker 3: It was totally disgusting.
Speaker 4: So with this plumbing thing you do, you do all
Speaker 4: the soldering you do, you know how to do.
Speaker 3: All that I do. I know how to try to
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 1: You know how someone does it, But yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Was if there was any water. If you're making more,
Speaker 3: I was making four connections connecting two copper pipes, so
Speaker 3: you need two elbows and then and so I have
Speaker 3: connected one, two, three, four connections. I had to solder,
Speaker 3: and I had to stretch my arms out. Couldn't see
Speaker 3: it well. And if there's any water, they won't solder.
Speaker 3: So I did the old bread trick. That's where you
Speaker 3: take a piece of bread and shovel up in a pipe.
Speaker 3: It has to be bread bread, and it keeps the
Speaker 3: water from dripping if you can't shut it off. You know,
Speaker 3: there's usually just a drip or two. You shove bread
Speaker 3: in there and then when you turn water on, the
Speaker 3: bread kind of dissolves and disappears. Okay, cool. That of
Speaker 3: course didn't work. I couldn't get it done, and I
Speaker 3: had to get some shark bites.
Speaker 4: Shark bites and skateboarding is when the skateboard hits your ankle.
Speaker 4: That's the only thing I know as shark bite to be.
Speaker 4: I did not know about the entire plumbing world. Oh
Speaker 4: it's marvelous stuff for hacks like me, because you know,
Speaker 4: there's no threads. It just expands and right, you just
Speaker 4: have a smooth surface like on a copper pipe or
Speaker 4: a metal pipe, or or.
Speaker 3: A copper or plastic.
Speaker 1: What makes it constrict then if you put it over
Speaker 1: a I.
Speaker 3: Mean it's just little seals, little round seals, old ring
Speaker 3: type seals works pretty good. So I'll go get a
Speaker 3: bag full of those and take you to the airport.
Speaker 1: And it is you do do it yourself.
Speaker 4: I did tell you about the time I went to
Speaker 4: a party at the Van Buren House and the college
Speaker 4: guys there. There was some sort of a fire in
Speaker 4: the basement due to they said something electrical, and you
Speaker 4: did all the electrical in that basement.
Speaker 1: I'm not used. Yeah, I mean, no one was hurt.
Speaker 4: But I, Josh and I went there, uh and and
Speaker 4: I said, can I look around? I actually my dad
Speaker 4: used to live here. Went down to the basement and
Speaker 4: the wall was black and around that light.
Speaker 3: Wall lights.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel like, yeah, maybe similar through and I
Speaker 1: mean cleanex.
Speaker 3: ROMs and wirenuts aren't too complicated. It's not that I
Speaker 3: couldn't do something wrong, but the chances are it was
Speaker 3: just help me up about this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, sorry, it could.
Speaker 3: Be the electrical police listening.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, they are out there.
Speaker 3: Statute of limitations on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're fine. This was almost ten years ago, so
Speaker 4: you're fine.
Speaker 1: They aren't going to come in. Are you going? Is it?
Speaker 1: Are people in school right now? I don't know.
Speaker 3: It was a friendly college girl. School is going on
Speaker 3: right now? Okay, in their first football game.
Speaker 4: We're driving past the University of Montana, where I once
Speaker 4: went to school, graduated with a some sort of fine
Speaker 4: arts degree drawing and painting. I am did stand up
Speaker 4: recently Dad, with this sketch group that was doing. The
Speaker 4: theme was cult leaders and cult mentality, and they at
Speaker 4: the end drank a bunch of kool aid, like Jim Jones.
Speaker 1: You met him once when you did radio, right.
Speaker 3: I did. I was quite impressed. The situation was I
Speaker 3: was on talk radio and we just some hat just
Speaker 3: bought the radio station and we went from middle of
Speaker 3: the road personality type radio, which is kind of what
Speaker 3: I did, and we were doing talk and and I
Speaker 3: was okay at it. But it's difficult to start out
Speaker 3: to get listenership to respond routinely and call up, so
Speaker 3: you have to have guests all the time. So I
Speaker 3: was always fighting to get interesting, provocative guests and so
Speaker 3: reading the newspaper all the time, and Mayor Mount County,
Speaker 3: some twenty miles away in San Francisco, had had himpaneled
Speaker 3: a committee to study whether or not the Bay Bridge
Speaker 3: or not the Bay Bridge, but the Golden Gate Bridge
Speaker 3: should be restricted to no pedestrians. Yes, we have no pedestrians.
Speaker 1: Because people were jumping off it.
Speaker 3: People do jump off from time to time, every year
Speaker 3: or two, and no one ever survives. No, you know,
Speaker 3: it's a rare thing. And you know you're eating a
Speaker 3: straw for the rest of your life. And so so
Speaker 3: they put these people together, and I thought, well, let
Speaker 3: me call a couple of these people. And I tried
Speaker 3: two or three, and I got the Reverend Jones, and
Speaker 3: I knew a little about the People's Temple, right, and
Speaker 3: and this was a guy.
Speaker 1: And you're not a religious person, no, And I.
Speaker 3: Don't know that he was a religious person. Oh really,
Speaker 3: you know what this guy was was a good old
Speaker 3: fashioned communist. And and I don't I say that in
Speaker 3: the most embracing manner. Yes, that he worked with poor people.
Speaker 3: He cared to mark poor people, and he was tired
Speaker 3: of people with money not doing enough or not sharing enough.
Speaker 3: And he was tired of seeing people struggle, and quite
Speaker 3: often if you're there every day, maybe communism appeals to him. Yes, so,
Speaker 3: and and a lot of people that want to do
Speaker 3: good poor people, at least in the beginning of gravitate
Speaker 3: toward religion, because that's that added enticement for.
Speaker 1: Followers, right right, you know, you're saving we want to.
Speaker 3: Help people, but also God out there and we all
Speaker 3: like him. Yeah, and so come on board. And I
Speaker 3: think that, you know, if you could talk to him now,
Speaker 3: which of course you can't, he would really admit he
Speaker 3: was not that religious a guy, but he did a
Speaker 3: lot of good things. So he came to the radio
Speaker 3: station and we talked about his feelings about whether or
Speaker 3: not people should be walking across the Golden Gate Bridge,
Speaker 3: and then he asked me for money to help the people.
Speaker 3: Think it was a tenderline district where where he had
Speaker 3: his church, because he was hitting people up and he
Speaker 3: got up. Actually he was instrumental in getting mayor Moscow
Speaker 3: you elected.
Speaker 4: Did you give him money? I did give him money,
Speaker 4: and you didn't have a lot of money.
Speaker 3: I did not have a lot of money. But there
Speaker 3: are just people that do stuff for other people, and
Speaker 3: you get embarrassed occasionally and say here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's what I got. Really, you threst with this guy.
Speaker 4: You backed me into a corner.
Speaker 3: Here's a twenty And if I met him today, even
Speaker 3: knowing what I did, I'd probably give him more. Yeah,
Speaker 3: just because he was charismatic and he was dedicated, and
Speaker 3: he cared about people whose dreams weren't coming.
Speaker 4: It sounds like you don't even know that this is
Speaker 4: the guy that poisoned.
Speaker 3: Nine hundred people. Well, I wish I knew who said this,
Speaker 3: and we were talking. This is the early seventies when
Speaker 3: I talked to him, right, nineteen seventy seventy one, something
Speaker 3: like that when I interviewed him, and his church was
Speaker 3: getting big, he was getting more and more people. But
Speaker 3: like a good commy, he wanted everybody to contribute and
Speaker 3: contribute till it hurt. And that meant to sell your
Speaker 3: furniture hurt, right, And by the way, that's a cute
Speaker 3: daughter you.
Speaker 1: Have, Yeah, in that kind of shit in a creepy So.
Speaker 3: The phrase power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It
Speaker 3: was played out in this guy's life so dramatically that
Speaker 3: the more influence he had, the more he wanted, and
Speaker 3: the more good he wanted to do, the more people
Speaker 3: he wanted to help, and the more people he wanted
Speaker 3: to control.
Speaker 1: Yikes, so was he accused of sleeping with young kids?
Speaker 3: Little by little stories started to surface, and people were
Speaker 3: writing expose as those garn people that write expose as
Speaker 3: okay uh in the in the chronicle.
Speaker 4: And maybe he was religious then, because that seems to
Speaker 4: be where a lot of people hide from the fact
Speaker 4: that they get bonus from choking.
Speaker 1: Just a thought. So uh.
Speaker 3: Naturally that district of saying from Cisco at a congressman
Speaker 3: and his name was Leo Ryan. And I think congressmen
Speaker 3: should have a six year term because they're running constantly.
Speaker 3: They spent all of their time. They're worthless anyway, all
Speaker 3: of them. But they spent too much time running for
Speaker 3: office and raising money to get elected. And you've set
Speaker 3: offering millions for this one hundred and eighty thousand dollars
Speaker 3: a year or.
Speaker 1: Two, right, raising more money than they will learn.
Speaker 3: At it at the millionaire's club, Yes, which is the
Speaker 3: US Congress. So if Congress were a six year term,
Speaker 3: none of this may have happened, right, Lee or Ryan?
Speaker 3: I was trying to get elected, and he focused on
Speaker 3: people's temple.
Speaker 4: I argue one, just because we're driving by right there
Speaker 4: at that point in the road. Once we drove up here,
Speaker 4: Matt No and my friends. We were downtown. Matt had
Speaker 4: hit some kid in the face with a little bat
Speaker 4: and we drove up here. It was horrifying. We all
Speaker 4: drove up here, parked the cars in a semi circle,
Speaker 4: and Matt fought this guy in the street right there,
Speaker 4: this wrestler guy, and got his ass kicked and then
Speaker 4: shook his hand at the end like it was the fifties,
Speaker 4: and the guy was scared. He was so scared. He's like,
Speaker 4: why is this little guy not afraid of me? I'm
Speaker 4: gonna beat him up, but he scares me anyway. So
Speaker 4: we passed that spot.
Speaker 1: So this congressman what was Leo?
Speaker 3: What's Leo right? Was his name?
Speaker 4: And he made his re election platform, Let me let
Speaker 4: these baby deers cross.
Speaker 3: Look at the sweet deers.
Speaker 1: That guy doesn't care. I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: Could be the headlights.
Speaker 4: Yeah ah oh there that that phrase never made sense
Speaker 4: till now there we go a deer in hell.
Speaker 1: I thought, well, we have there, we have it.
Speaker 3: So he had to get elected in a every two
Speaker 3: years you got to elected, you got to have an issue,
Speaker 3: and his issue was the People's Temple and Jim Jones.
Speaker 3: So more and more heat and an investigative committee was
Speaker 3: put together by Leo Ryan, and all of this pressure
Speaker 3: convinced Jim Jones to leave San Francisco and go to
Speaker 3: northern South America.
Speaker 1: Well, they really must have been Guyana. What is he?
Speaker 1: What was he investigating him? Doing money stuff?
Speaker 3: For it was not only money he was getting to
Speaker 3: getting people to turn over their houses, but he was
Speaker 3: also accused of being the father of many of the
Speaker 3: all the children. Okay, that is creapey stuff. So so
Speaker 3: he owned this property, Jim Jones in Guyana, this little
Speaker 3: country in South America, and they all went down there,
Speaker 3: a thousand people about a thousand people are nine hundred
Speaker 3: and some and h and Leo Ryan ultimately followed them
Speaker 3: down and uh, he goes.
Speaker 1: In with his gang of his sons.
Speaker 3: Well, no, there were there were some people from NBC
Speaker 3: News with him, and uh a writer from the from
Speaker 3: the Chronicle.
Speaker 4: That's when you really don't want to murder at Congress. Yeah,
Speaker 4: when the NBC News cameras on.
Speaker 3: So so they go and they visit and they stay awhile,
Speaker 3: and he convinces a handful of people that come back
Speaker 3: with him, like a dozen or so, and they leave
Speaker 3: the compound after being there a day or so nervously
Speaker 3: weird cult people, Yeah, and Purple ninety airport, some people
Speaker 3: with automatic weapons from from uh Jim Jones people kill
Speaker 3: a US congressman and and NBC news. Yeah, it was awful.
Speaker 1: Why did they even have machine guns?
Speaker 3: I don't know, bizarre. I have a machine gun, don't you.
Speaker 1: And this guy seemed totally normal when you talk to him.
Speaker 3: That's normally he was. He was impressive, he was aged,
Speaker 3: he was devoted, he was a Yeah, he was a
Speaker 3: good guy, I thought, and and but this was like
Speaker 3: eight years what do you think? This was eight years later?
Speaker 4: His cult people made the decision to kill this guy,
Speaker 4: or he.
Speaker 1: Commanded them to.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know that anybody knows. I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 1: M hm.
Speaker 3: So anyway, when when he found out, and he did
Speaker 3: find out, then that's when he mixed uh was poison
Speaker 3: you know, told lace right, some bad stuff in flavor
Speaker 3: aid it was flavory.
Speaker 1: It wasn't even But that's where Colder.
Speaker 3: Drink the kool Aid came from. Oh wow, I'm not
Speaker 3: going to drink the kool aid that came.
Speaker 4: From and then you can go we Actually, technically it
Speaker 4: was flavor Aid, a generic version what chap.
Speaker 3: Yes, but it was a horrible thing. Nine hundred people
Speaker 3: were forced to drink that. He had a couple of
Speaker 3: bullet holes in him. Either he had somebody shoot him
Speaker 3: or he committed suicide. Oh, Jim Jones, Wow, there were
Speaker 3: three hundred children.
Speaker 4: Well there's I've seen a documentary where they're talking to
Speaker 4: survivors who seem like normal people, just talking about watching
Speaker 4: their wife or a child die and it didn't kill
Speaker 4: them or they didn't drink it for whatever reason.
Speaker 3: I think that, you know, my experience is that the
Speaker 3: people who are struggling in life, that you might characterize
Speaker 3: that the great disenfranchised things aren't going well for them,
Speaker 3: are available for any story. Yeah, and they will jump
Speaker 3: at it and say, yeah, let's do that, and how
Speaker 3: can I help? And I guess that's how cults start.
Speaker 1: Some people have avoid to fill in their brain.
Speaker 3: I was just I've told you before, I did several
Speaker 3: sales jobs in my life, and why didn't I meet
Speaker 3: these people when I was selling shit, you know, these
Speaker 3: cult people.
Speaker 4: Oh and how about four of these He can convince
Speaker 4: nine hundred people that kill themselves and you won't buy
Speaker 4: a goddamn dictionary.
Speaker 3: Oh they they practiced killing themselves. Oh wow, this is
Speaker 3: something they had practiced over and over.
Speaker 1: Wow. Dah, person, that's.
Speaker 3: You got to admit people that were you were pressed.
Speaker 4: With, right, Yeah, And I honestly, I I think I
Speaker 4: got a culty feeling when I went to that big
Speaker 4: Sky Bible camp where ultimately you ended up yelling at
Speaker 4: the guy, which I was always because they scared me.
Speaker 4: They said my parents were going to go to hell
Speaker 4: because yeah, oh yeah, there was many different variations of
Speaker 4: burning that would occur. And you don't tell that to
Speaker 4: a little kid. But this guy, you know, had people
Speaker 4: waiting on him. He had this daughter that was in
Speaker 4: a wheelchair that was maybe at MS, but he didn't
Speaker 4: even look at her. He would let go of the
Speaker 4: wheelchair and she'd almost roll off the edge of the
Speaker 4: stage because he he just was I felt.
Speaker 1: Like he kept her around him too. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, at that Big Sky Bible camp, it seemed just
Speaker 4: and that was just a generically Christian, you know, and
Speaker 4: they they I have always been attracted to church stuff
Speaker 4: as a charitable thing. Like in high school, I'd go
Speaker 4: on those work camp trips. It felt great to go
Speaker 4: do things. Plus the cute girls, and there was cute
Speaker 4: girls for God's sake, and free dinner every Wednesday night.
Speaker 1: How am I going to turn down free dinner?
Speaker 4: And but yeah, that once at the power thing that
Speaker 4: I think it provides.
Speaker 1: Religious people as they get higher up. That's that messes
Speaker 1: everyone we're talking about the Middle East, aren't you pretty much?
Speaker 3: I mean, do you think any of these jihadis are
Speaker 3: really religious people? Right? It's a little hard to believe.
Speaker 3: It's just me and a mollag. You stand a better
Speaker 3: chance of having people listen to you and do for you, right,
Speaker 3: and shoot people for you? Wow, I think you've met
Speaker 3: celebrity types of Are there well known people that have
Speaker 3: impressed you? I mean folks as folks, they're.
Speaker 4: Just sure sure that that have impressed me. With the
Speaker 4: last guy impressed me. This guy really impressed me. And
Speaker 4: I interviewed a lot of people and well known people.
Speaker 4: This guy, Ralph Nader, impressed me. Ralph Nader. When I
Speaker 4: interviewed I thought, don moisting this guy's time.
Speaker 3: You could be doing something important in this last Yeah,
Speaker 3: I remember asking him, do you like go to movies?
Speaker 1: And shit? Do you go? Do you go to the
Speaker 1: storem buy shoes? I really do, make sandwiches and then
Speaker 1: you eat the sandwich and.
Speaker 3: You drive a car. You know his whole You know
Speaker 3: he generated he was at the time I interviewed, he
Speaker 3: was he was recruiting Nator's raiders. They call him. You'd
Speaker 3: get attorneys out of law school come to work for
Speaker 3: him and do do consumer advocacy work. And I just remember, now,
Speaker 3: I'll I talk to you, put it on the air,
Speaker 3: and we'll just sit down after you address this flass.
Speaker 3: And he was one of the few people I felt
Speaker 3: like I was wasting his time. Oh wow, yeah, I
Speaker 3: do not important enough to be talking to you.
Speaker 4: I do like it when famous people that you wouldn't
Speaker 4: you know, like are charitable and care about other things.
Speaker 1: Because a lot of people.
Speaker 4: That I know, even if they get a little bit
Speaker 4: of comics that I know that get a little bit
Speaker 4: of fame or a part on a show, they immediately
Speaker 4: turned into powerful, powerful asshole. So it's it's you know,
Speaker 4: when I that you see more impressive like people that
Speaker 4: I wish I knew whatever, Matt Damon's or George Clooney's
Speaker 4: that really get passionate about things and use their celebrity
Speaker 4: in that way to be influential with their causes. I
Speaker 4: really like that, and it makes me like those people.
Speaker 4: I'll even watch their movies. I'll watch Borne Ultimatum or
Speaker 4: whatever because I like.
Speaker 3: Because he's a good guy.
Speaker 1: Politically like him.
Speaker 3: But we've all met strange people. We used to do
Speaker 3: the golf tournament. Imagine Crosby pro Am doing that on radio.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, just audio.
Speaker 3: He's taking the club back and it goes straight down there.
Speaker 4: You can only imagine what it looks like. It's a
Speaker 4: white ball arching through the air.
Speaker 3: So you get to run into people people. Jack Lemon
Speaker 3: was a marvelous guy. James Carter was a marvelous guy.
Speaker 3: Eddie Williams was a total dick, you know that kind
Speaker 3: of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I interviewed Jerry Lewis once he came by the radio
Speaker 3: station and it was just yeah, it was just before
Speaker 3: it was just before Labor Day thing, you know, Ms
Speaker 3: telehon Or Mty muscular distagrete and and and his handlers
Speaker 3: said came in early and they said, uh, we want
Speaker 3: to get this straight. Don't touch mister Lewis. Don't what,
Speaker 3: don't embrace him, just don't touch him.
Speaker 4: Oh, for God's sake, how are how are you going
Speaker 4: immediately be someone that thinks he's an asshole interviewing him?
Speaker 1: Don't they know that's what they're doing?
Speaker 3: So I said, well, I got to do something. So
Speaker 3: I had a glass of water there, and he sat
Speaker 3: down and introduced himself, and I took out my comb
Speaker 3: and put it in the water and then comb my
Speaker 3: hair because I've seen him do that, right, And then.
Speaker 4: He laughed a hard and we had a good time, okay,
Speaker 4: And then maybe you were allowed to touch him after that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I suppose we could have kissed.
Speaker 4: Oh perfect once you once he show him one of
Speaker 4: his genius bits, Jerry Lewis.
Speaker 1: He was known to get naked with people.
Speaker 3: And the one of my other favorite people was was
Speaker 3: Arnold Palmer.
Speaker 1: What a lovely man, the famous beverage man, the.
Speaker 3: Famous beverage man. All right, the richest guys in golf
Speaker 3: currently I'm a golfer. Are Tiger Woods makes more than anybody?
Speaker 3: Most of it these days off of endorsements. Phil Micholson
Speaker 3: is number two. Now, these aren't the one and two
Speaker 3: golfers in the world.
Speaker 1: They just got the Nike shoes.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right. Number three is Arnold.
Speaker 1: Same with skateboarding. If you once you have a shoe,
Speaker 1: people buy news man.
Speaker 3: Number three moneymakers Arnold Palmer. Really he doesn't want a
Speaker 3: tournament in thirty years? Is it?
Speaker 1: Because he has Signature's got.
Speaker 3: His fingers and everything and everybody wants to know him.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So anyway, once when when you were a baby, worked
Speaker 3: at this radio station, we had Arnold Palmer golf tips. Okay,
Speaker 3: and you, as a you know, Bob's Laundry and Dry
Speaker 3: Cleaning was a sponsor.
Speaker 1: Of this is on the radio.
Speaker 4: How the hell do you so you'll have to show
Speaker 4: someone how to put your fingers or move your hips.
Speaker 3: That's exactly one would think.
Speaker 1: You're describing it.
Speaker 3: That's that's what There was no internet sure appreciate so
Speaker 3: so uh these tips were a minute long, two minutes long,
Speaker 3: and then there was a commercial. Well, he happened to
Speaker 3: be in town and he agreed that this Bob's launder
Speaker 3: and Dry Cleaning it what Arnold Palmer glof tip. So
Speaker 3: he came in to do a promo, and and so
Speaker 3: I wrote down some copy for him that anytime I'm
Speaker 3: in Contra Costa County, I always go to Bob's laundry
Speaker 3: and dry cleanning. Right. And we sat down in this
Speaker 3: little room, Arnold Palmer in that cardigan sweater, this lovely man,
Speaker 3: and he said he couldn't say Contra Costa County. And
Speaker 3: we tried it. He just was on eight fifty times.
Speaker 3: Oh I can do this, I can do this. And
Speaker 3: I said, now you know, let me change this. Oh no,
Speaker 3: I can do this, I can do that. I sat
Speaker 3: there and I remember thinking this is all Arnold Palmer.
Speaker 1: He was just obsessing over it.
Speaker 3: That's right. We were in this little room. It meant
Speaker 3: nothing to him. I meant at a dollar eighty six
Speaker 3: to him in his life, and he was gonna get
Speaker 3: this right. Well, so I finally, I'll let me scrush
Speaker 3: that out anytime I'm in the area.
Speaker 4: The area, and then he can't say that every time
Speaker 4: I'm in the area, Arnold.
Speaker 1: Actually, we're gonna have to do that again too.
Speaker 4: I And so that's another The example, then, is of
Speaker 4: a comic being full of themselves when that I got
Speaker 4: introduced on that premium Blend show that deal.
Speaker 1: Hughughley had had some.
Speaker 4: Drinks in the green room and said my name wrong,
Speaker 4: fair Bunks, bunks or something, and then he said whatever,
Speaker 4: and so I just went.
Speaker 1: Out there to my name being mispronounced.
Speaker 4: So I had to go back the next day and
Speaker 4: reshoot just me walking out to the microphone, and they
Speaker 4: they had him say it over and over, and he
Speaker 4: was very annoyed with the.
Speaker 1: Fact that he had to do this pickup shot. And
Speaker 1: then I just.
Speaker 3: Got a sober up hubly to operate on the kit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I put my watch on the opposite wrist
Speaker 4: and didn't put the stuff in my hair. So if
Speaker 4: you watch it, you can see the watch shoot from
Speaker 4: one wrist to the other in my hair suddenly shrink
Speaker 4: on that premium blend.
Speaker 1: You you really have to be watching for it. Though.
Speaker 4: Well that guy was almost in our line, but yeah,
Speaker 4: it's he was. He couldn't say. It's funny when people
Speaker 4: it's a tongue twister. Something that you can say, I,
Speaker 4: for instance, really have a hard time saying.
Speaker 1: Rear view mirror, rear view mirror.
Speaker 3: But I think of the words that I can't pronounces.
Speaker 3: There's a topic that there's a spill binding tone. Yes,
Speaker 3: this old guy was.
Speaker 1: On the Yeah, he started listening in words word that.
Speaker 3: He couldn't pronounce. Well, fascinating fast.
Speaker 4: It was really had a PBS vibe to it. And
Speaker 4: at the end he actually fell asleep. You could hear
Speaker 4: him snoring. He put himself to sleep with.
Speaker 1: His word list. We're getting close to the airport.
Speaker 3: We are getting close to the airport. Can you see
Speaker 3: those planes there?
Speaker 2: They are.
Speaker 1: Wake up that? Oh? Or was that that was? Okay?
Speaker 1: It sounds like you're snoring. Sound effects that you also do?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're I do those at night?
Speaker 4: Really well, Yeah, it's amazing there there you're regular Michael Winslow.
Speaker 3: Whatever happened to that guy?
Speaker 4: He tours comedy clubs incessantly. He's a road comic. Uh,
Speaker 4: clean family guy. I don't know if he's a nice
Speaker 4: guy or not, but he's certainly.
Speaker 3: It's like he is.
Speaker 1: But he's less funny I think than rich little.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe a little funnier, but he's uh, he's really.
Speaker 3: Would be so good at something and being able to
Speaker 3: put the other thing, give the other thing because.
Speaker 4: He learned how to do the sound effects. I don't
Speaker 4: think he even learned to be funny later in life
Speaker 4: just because you got a role in the police academy.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Yes, I do know what you mean. But do you
Speaker 3: remember the first the first time you knew you were
Speaker 3: a funny person? Who me? You?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 1: Maybe when I made.
Speaker 4: You and some friends that from work a bunch of
Speaker 4: grown ups laugh.
Speaker 3: Oh right, that's usually par it is.
Speaker 4: And you know, I knew that I was giving little
Speaker 4: puppet shows, but it wasn't about my puppet work. It
Speaker 4: was just me saying weird shit hiding behind the table.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but that puppet away and zip up
Speaker 4: your pants. Did you do you recall a similar.
Speaker 3: And when I was a little kid back in the forties, No,
Speaker 3: nobody talked to you, right, your parents didn't talk. He
Speaker 3: occasionally at night they'd say good night, Jimmy, but that
Speaker 3: was it. I didn't get any hugs, you know, it
Speaker 3: was it was it was rough.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for hugging me all the time.
Speaker 3: So so I'm riding in this car. I'm riding in
Speaker 3: this car and I'm looking up in that windshields filthy.
Speaker 3: So I said, Daddy, could I borrow your knife? And
Speaker 3: and he said why? Why? I said, I'd like to
Speaker 3: scrape the bird shut off the window, and so there's
Speaker 3: three men in the car just roared. I thought, there
Speaker 3: it is.
Speaker 1: That's Oh, for good sake, I got smart.
Speaker 3: I'm not fast, I'm not tall, but I got that
Speaker 3: bird ship. Great.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 3: And I and I had to have been a tiny guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, but I do remember that.
Speaker 3: And I say, wow, I've got somebody's ear. Now these
Speaker 3: people actually heard that. That's irresponded to it.
Speaker 1: Well, I never had to fight for your ear. No,
Speaker 1: so you must have learned from that.
Speaker 3: I think, Well, I just you ended up being little kids. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you think children are as good as people get.
Speaker 4: I know my grand neither grandparent really gave a ship
Speaker 4: if I was hanging out. No, not that I'm not
Speaker 4: glad we didn't move to Missoula, Montana.
Speaker 3: That was one of them.
Speaker 1: Man. I didn't want to grow up in Monterey. What
Speaker 1: do you do there?
Speaker 3: Hello? Well dad, this is your grandson. All you're doing?
Speaker 1: Put him over there by the Christmas tree? Do we
Speaker 1: have to feed him?
Speaker 3: Talk?
Speaker 1: What does he do?
Speaker 3: Were you going to park here?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: This is where this is where I get out later.
Speaker 4: And no, this is I'll get out, I'll get the plane.
Speaker 4: Ticket is in my name, so I will get on
Speaker 4: the plane. You then get into this driver.
Speaker 3: You'll quick driver.
Speaker 1: I will quit.
Speaker 4: I will cease to be driving because I will be
Speaker 4: out of the vehicle and on an arrowplane.
Speaker 3: Thank you for coming to visit, even though even though
Speaker 3: it was just a wedding.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm I have next time.
Speaker 4: It'll have everything to do with you, all right, yeah,
Speaker 4: because I'm gonna throw you a wedding.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna I'll be back soon. Daddy.
Speaker 3: All right, son, I love you, I love you.
Speaker 1: Okay, where's my bag?
Speaker 4: Are leaving on?
Speaker 1: You wanna way back home?
Speaker 2: Either way you want to be there, doesn't matter how
Speaker 2: much baggage you time and turning on engage.
Speaker 1: We want to send you us inside.
Speaker 2: We want to welcome you back home. Tell us all
Speaker 2: about ity scared?
Speaker 1: He was it fine?
Speaker 3: Melbourne?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3: Do you need ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3: Do you need
Speaker 1: With Karen and Chris