Speaker 1: I leave in I you wanna way back home? Either
Speaker 1: way we want to be there.
Speaker 2: Doesn't matter how much baggage you claim, and give us
Speaker 2: time and a termino and gage. We want to send
Speaker 2: you off inside. You wanna welcome you back home? Tell
Speaker 2: us all about it. We scared her? Was it fine? Now? Porn?
Speaker 2: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2: Do you need to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 2: Do your need ride.
Speaker 1: With Karen and Chris welcome to Do you need a ride?
Speaker 1: This is Chris Fairbanks, Karen Kilgarriff. Do not panic. Karen
Speaker 1: is healthy. She's just in another city. I am in Missoula, Montana.
Speaker 2: I'd like to meet this girl. I know you would.
Speaker 2: I think she's marvelous.
Speaker 1: She's the best. That's my father. His name is fair
Speaker 1: Chris Fairbanks Senor. Early on someone named him James. It
Speaker 1: would have been more convenient to name you Chris Fairbanks Senior.
Speaker 1: But someone would have to have the foresight.
Speaker 2: Longest name of the baby book, Christopher. Did you know that? Well?
Speaker 1: That makes sense because it gets cut off a lot
Speaker 1: of teachers thought my name was Christoph just t O
Speaker 1: p h E. And and then you know inevitably I
Speaker 1: would have to, you realize, do an accent all year
Speaker 1: and pretend to be from another land.
Speaker 2: Multi syllable names run the risk of being shortened, and
Speaker 2: that's something you think about when you name a kid. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I didn't want you to be Chris. I wanted
Speaker 2: you to be Christopher. Right.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm sorry, but I go by Chris now my
Speaker 1: driver's license and my credit card, said Christopher. But Chris
Speaker 1: is just easier, and fine. I didn't mean to slight you.
Speaker 2: Fine.
Speaker 1: I sometimes if I want someone to really take me seriously,
Speaker 1: I go, well, you know that. When I moved to
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, a guy named a guy named Christopher Fairbanks
Speaker 1: came to one of my shows at MBAR and he said, hey,
Speaker 1: we have a problem. I think we have. We have
Speaker 1: the same name. I do stand up and act and
Speaker 1: you do stand up and act. And and I said,
Speaker 1: well you you go by Christopher. I pretty much go
Speaker 1: by Chris. Problem solved. Plus we look a lot different, so.
Speaker 2: Older guy, yeah, yeah, we keep in touch.
Speaker 1: Is it he likes?
Speaker 2: Is he a fair Bank? He's a fair Banks. Christopher
Speaker 2: fair Bank is an English actor that is in a
Speaker 2: number of as.
Speaker 1: He's in uh uh.
Speaker 2: He was in the Guardians of the Galaxy. He was
Speaker 2: in I think he's in a lot of stuff English.
Speaker 2: Nobody's going to give a rats ask about this. But
Speaker 2: we were fair Bank when I was a little kid. Really, yeah,
Speaker 2: and the whole family was fair Bank. And for some
Speaker 2: reason we leave Minnesota and hey, you know we're on
Speaker 2: the highway, and how would you like to have a
Speaker 2: different last nag? Really it was during your life that
Speaker 2: So my birth certificate, I think, says fair Bank.
Speaker 1: That's amazing to me. Yes, that sounds there's fair Banks
Speaker 1: everywhere I know by being fair Bank, does that make
Speaker 1: us more English?
Speaker 2: Yeah? If there's more than one of you, your fair Banks?
Speaker 1: And what are And you know, I don't care where
Speaker 1: my ancestors first made love and babies. But I am
Speaker 1: scotch Irish. What is that? Is it scotch Irish?
Speaker 2: Right? Scott's Irish? My understanding is is Irish people who
Speaker 2: came before the Potato familine to the United States wanted
Speaker 2: to distinguish themselves from the Irish that came over after
Speaker 2: the Potato famine or during the potato famine in Ireland
Speaker 2: right around eighteen forty and fifty okay, And so they
Speaker 2: call themselves scotch Irish, which is.
Speaker 1: We are not we are not Irish and we are
Speaker 1: not Scottish exactly.
Speaker 2: That's what I said. What do you mean we're scotch Irish?
Speaker 2: Do two different places?
Speaker 1: Yeah? During this growing up, you were always so tan
Speaker 1: and with a dark curly head of hair and a mustache.
Speaker 1: I was convinced you were Mexican my whole life, or
Speaker 1: it's some I thought you were Latino in.
Speaker 2: Some way, and I still I still made me think that,
Speaker 2: but I, uh, yeah, we're English people, English people and
Speaker 2: the dark skin Swiss, my other god of the family,
Speaker 2: Swiss God. We got we got around just a we're
Speaker 2: about to leave. You were just picked up by me.
Speaker 1: I was just picked up by my father. I'm in Missoula.
Speaker 1: I'm heading back to Los Angeles. Karen was going to
Speaker 1: pick me up. We were going to record a podcast
Speaker 1: when I got home. And uh, Allegiant Airlines, which I'm
Speaker 1: a fan of, I mean their direct flight. It's it's
Speaker 1: oftentimes half the price of other airlines. But the last
Speaker 1: three times I've flown with Allegiance they have been they
Speaker 1: just say, hey, plane's not coming, and people people always got, Yeah,
Speaker 1: our plane may or may not be coming.
Speaker 2: How soon can you get here?
Speaker 1: Colon Allegiant They yeah, they never have an excuse.
Speaker 2: And I don't make them have an excuse.
Speaker 1: Everyone else in line says, that's ridiculous. It's not that ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It's an airplane. Things happen, it didn't show up. I
Speaker 1: just said, oh, okay, so I'm flying out at midnight now,
Speaker 1: and so my dad and I are driving. Where are
Speaker 1: we near? Where we french Town? Is this kind of
Speaker 1: not quiet?
Speaker 2: We're going out Mullin road. Mullen was a surveyor, a
Speaker 2: captain in the US Army, and he surveyed all of
Speaker 2: this to Seattle, that this road, this road is the
Speaker 2: main road from Chicago to Seattle. Really making that shit out?
Speaker 1: We are not Yeah, no, I made up a bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff last episode.
Speaker 2: And we just passed what used to be Missoula, that
Speaker 2: convenience stores where the original Hellgate was. Missoula used to
Speaker 2: be called Hellgate, but it was tough to get mail
Speaker 2: order brides to come to Hallgate. Imagine that really no,
Speaker 2: right here, right up here, Okay, that's where that was
Speaker 2: the original site of Hellgate or Missoula.
Speaker 1: Like the city Hall may as well have been there exactly,
Speaker 1: and mail order brides came here because the workingman, the minor,
Speaker 1: the gold panter didn't have time to go out and date.
Speaker 2: Imagine how desperate you'd have to be.
Speaker 1: Then people make jokes about farmers only dot com, which
Speaker 1: is a dating site for only farmers.
Speaker 2: Have you heard of that?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, farmers only dot com. It's where farmers meet.
Speaker 1: But it's that kind of thing. Where else are you
Speaker 1: going to meet someone? If you if you're in a
Speaker 1: settling Missoula health.
Speaker 2: Like every other dating service, ninety percent men.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, so that's that. That site is credited with
Speaker 1: starting almost sexuality as a result. Just just a numbers game.
Speaker 1: You have no choice sometimes, And well thanks for picking
Speaker 1: me up, dad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you had a pretty good week. Really. We went
Speaker 2: to see or see or you went.
Speaker 1: Went to Spokane. We went to have her. I had
Speaker 1: my fortieth A lot of people don't know I'm forty
Speaker 1: because I use a lot of lotion, but I am
Speaker 1: forty years old. All of my friends collectively turned forty
Speaker 1: around this time or around this year. So we went
Speaker 1: up in the woods and have her and stayed in cabins,
Speaker 1: and they were haunted. I guarantee you they were. I
Speaker 1: can tell when there's a presence. I don't know what
Speaker 1: to do with that. But lights were turning off and on,
Speaker 1: and that's enough for me. And maybe it's an electrical issue.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it could have been just a bad electrician.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it seemed like they would.
Speaker 2: Turn on luminum romex. Maybe maybe it was that.
Speaker 1: You know, and I don't want to like make you
Speaker 1: feel bad, but the wiring you did in the house
Speaker 1: on Van Buren. I went there at a party in
Speaker 1: college and there was a basement fire right by one
Speaker 1: of the light fixtures. I don't know if I told
Speaker 1: you this.
Speaker 2: You did tell me, Yeah, and you rubbed that in
Speaker 2: once before. Okay, And you know, electricity pretty simple. It's
Speaker 2: wires and romex and you I'm not I'm not disputing
Speaker 2: the fact that a fixture I put up may have
Speaker 2: gone so.
Speaker 1: It burst into flames. Oh you think it was the fixture.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, in a pair of wires, I don't know
Speaker 2: what if they what you're suggesting, you put a nail
Speaker 2: through one of them. Well, sometimes he's a black electrical
Speaker 2: Ten years later, it started on fire. Maybe the electrical
Speaker 2: tape of keeping I have time, I have feelings. I know.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying there was a fire and thank god
Speaker 1: we had moved out years prior. It was Lisa's room.
Speaker 2: That was your sister's room.
Speaker 1: That's right, And Lisa, we went. I went to visit
Speaker 1: my sister, and Spokane you came with. We went. We
Speaker 1: went to a funeral of her friend. It was very sad.
Speaker 2: We were there three days and three events occurred. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we that were curious but fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we went. Lisa said, oh, it's this Amazing Race
Speaker 1: Challenge thing my friend's birthday. Have you seen the show
Speaker 1: Amazing Race? You and I of course have not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we are glued to it. We have the VCR set,
Speaker 1: the video cassette recorder machine set to record it. I've
Speaker 1: seen it a couple of times, and I know that
Speaker 1: there are challenges. You get to a place there you
Speaker 1: open another envelope. It gives you a clue as to
Speaker 1: the next place. But they did I think at one
Speaker 1: point they've had Yeah, they've had they. I bet they've
Speaker 1: had celebrity I'm not sure. I think usually it's just
Speaker 1: bickering couples. They like, we're about to get a divorce.
Speaker 2: We're a team. Yeh, teams, and we were a team.
Speaker 2: We had to pick a color.
Speaker 1: We don't get along. We're both in the CrossFit and running.
Speaker 1: Let's work it out on television and see if we
Speaker 1: should stay married. That's kind of what the show is about.
Speaker 1: And some people get together and it's usually it's usually
Speaker 1: one by a by a couple friends like older friends
Speaker 1: or something. It's it's kind of fun to watch. I'll
Speaker 1: admit now that I have watched it and I've enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they we had to We had to find
Speaker 1: a statue in Riverfront Park, the original side of What
Speaker 1: World's Fair nineteen sixty something seventies.
Speaker 2: I think I was confused about that as well. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I have to interrupt you to tell you that many
Speaker 2: of these roads here have significance in that they're named
Speaker 2: after founding people. Oh really, And the one we just
Speaker 2: passed Dayshaw Lane des Champs French, Okay, sure, Deyshaw and
Speaker 2: build and you'll see a couple others and I'm building
Speaker 2: to a climactic cavern.
Speaker 1: Who's who's this cavern? Person?
Speaker 2: I'm not sure about that that's the first person to
Speaker 2: discover a deep crevasse in a cave that could be
Speaker 2: They later named that cavern, and Johnny Stalagtite actually named
Speaker 2: this next road. Oh yeah, this place us as an
Speaker 2: old hotel omber. This is spooky as is that. I
Speaker 2: mean this is a waystation or something, okay, and then
Speaker 2: outswhere and then a left turn.
Speaker 1: There is where I shot the first version of Prime Allerges.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, the extension cord was submerged in the river.
Speaker 1: I scared the whole time, and it was all for
Speaker 1: nothing because he opened the film exposed it to light,
Speaker 1: and months of my life were for nothing.
Speaker 2: I recall. Yeah, well, on that one, I had to
Speaker 2: paint four paintings of yours.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I lied. You helped me lie you. You
Speaker 1: had my back, even though you're an honest person. I
Speaker 1: repurposed some of my dad's paintings. I believe I painted
Speaker 1: over your signature on one of them, turned it in and.
Speaker 2: Oh, I painted four paintings. Did your feet by four feet?
Speaker 2: Because they had to be that size. I remember that
Speaker 2: was your that was your end. Grade rested on having
Speaker 2: four paintings, and because they were so specifically large and
Speaker 2: odd shaped four by four.
Speaker 1: What is this guy doing? There's a guy in the road. Oh,
Speaker 1: just carrying produce. Yes, the lead singer of Midnight Oil.
Speaker 2: You won't know that reference.
Speaker 1: I didn't get a good grade in that class, and
Speaker 1: I wanted to argue for a better grade, but I
Speaker 1: knew that it was because I was busy shooting a film.
Speaker 1: Well you know anyway, that's where I shot it.
Speaker 2: I had nothing to do with those four marvelous paintings
Speaker 2: I kicked out for you.
Speaker 1: I remember liking them. I don't where are they now?
Speaker 2: Uh firewood, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Oh well, during wintertime, you gotta keep war.
Speaker 2: So we.
Speaker 1: One of the events for my sister's friend's birthday was
Speaker 1: to go on this We had to We ran around.
Speaker 1: It was kind It was really fun. Went on a gondola, except.
Speaker 2: Well every yeah. One of the things was the last
Speaker 2: thing was on the gondola. You look high, look low,
Speaker 2: and that's where you will see. And I saw the
Speaker 2: final destination.
Speaker 1: And once I was off that gondola, I was going
Speaker 1: to run down there and I think we could have won.
Speaker 1: But then you because.
Speaker 2: My granddaughters said, I've never been on the gondola, we.
Speaker 1: Had to arrive in a group, and my entire family
Speaker 1: got on on a car, ten cars and not not
Speaker 1: remembering that this is a race against time, and so
Speaker 1: we got dead last. We've got dead last because some
Speaker 1: fun and family just making fun of us.
Speaker 2: People are last? You're dead last? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: How do you even know the phrase dead last? I'm
Speaker 1: about to make fun of how thick your glasses are?
Speaker 1: I almost did. It's easy to hurt a little girl's feelings.
Speaker 2: Okay, wow, I'm interrupt you one more time. And what
Speaker 2: is the name of that row? Holy shit? We're on
Speaker 2: Fairbanks Lane, so founding people? We why doesn't it say Fairbank? Well,
Speaker 2: because they changed their name when they came out here too.
Speaker 1: They all made the same decision on the drive going west.
Speaker 2: We need an extra ass.
Speaker 1: Everyone had the same conversations, right. Sometimes I find holes
Speaker 1: in your stories. I believe most of them, But the
Speaker 1: time the.
Speaker 2: People are dead can So how am I going to.
Speaker 1: How am I going to fact check? You told me?
Speaker 1: Albert Brockli his family invented broccoli, but they spelled it different.
Speaker 1: They did spell it different, which is.
Speaker 2: He takes credit for He has always taken credit for
Speaker 2: it and people Albert Broccoli and his who's dead now,
Speaker 2: But he took credit for studding broccoli. He did, he wrote, well,
Speaker 2: he produced all the Broccoli family owns the Bond franchise.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, okay, somehow written by Ian Fleming.
Speaker 2: But books, yeah okay, but his kids still produce the movies. Though.
Speaker 1: You were right in that broccoli is only as old
Speaker 1: as the early fifties or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know, something like that. It's cauliflower crust, crazy hybrid.
Speaker 2: It's a hybridy vegetable. It's new.
Speaker 1: And if you have a palaeo diet, get off that
Speaker 1: broccoli because it is made in elaboratory. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I found something on Wikipedia that said it was
Speaker 1: manufactured by farmers, but it didn't make it. But I
Speaker 1: could have done more research. I'm sorry. I don't mean to.
Speaker 2: I heard that he wow, wow, well, I.
Speaker 1: Mean as if okay, And so now we're coming up
Speaker 1: on stone container.
Speaker 2: Is that yeah? This former industrial site that made liner board,
Speaker 2: which put together We're losing people now, I can tell
Speaker 2: you that. No, No, it's interesting. Liner Board is the
Speaker 2: outside paper on a cardboard box, like corrugated. The corrugated
Speaker 2: stuff comes from Louisiana. Yeah right, but they look at
Speaker 2: look at all these buildings. Look at all these buildings
Speaker 2: are gone. These were immense buildings and they had huge
Speaker 2: recovery boilers or boilers and recovery boilers.
Speaker 1: And this is all empty. These are giant buildings.
Speaker 2: Corn down industrial buildings.
Speaker 1: Was that a stop sign?
Speaker 2: Okay? Good?
Speaker 1: You made that noise? And then I got nervous. And
Speaker 1: one time we were on a road trip going through
Speaker 1: the desert. We were hauling a boat. Grandma was in
Speaker 1: the front seat, not having fun, I think, maybe drifting off,
Speaker 1: and then she inadvertently put her elbow on the on
Speaker 1: the window, the electronic window button, and it started to
Speaker 1: roll down wind, this hot desert wind blew into the car. Startled,
Speaker 1: startled her. She screamed, you reacted at a little.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can throw the boat off the trailer. I did.
Speaker 2: He jerked the wheel, the boat flew off, the trailer,
Speaker 2: collapsed the fender, Oh god. And did it flatten the tire?
Speaker 2: Oh god, that's straight out of vacation. Oh yeah, it
Speaker 2: was that chase material. And then what happened after that,
Speaker 2: I recall of Sweet America. It wasn't the desert. It
Speaker 2: was about fifty miles from here, going to see her
Speaker 2: flathead leg Really, why did I make it the desert?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I never had a boat near a desert,
Speaker 2: but that would explain. That's where it happened. And the
Speaker 2: boat came off, and uh to a guy, a Native
Speaker 2: American guy and his very pregnant wife stopped and UH
Speaker 2: made it their day's mission to get that boat back
Speaker 2: on it.
Speaker 1: He went and got a jack drove.
Speaker 2: She was out there with a leverage bar trying, Oh please,
Speaker 2: don't do that. I don't want to.
Speaker 1: Deliver a baby. That was a scene in a movie too.
Speaker 1: Didn't someone pull over? She's real strong, even though.
Speaker 2: She was Oh yes, planes and automobiles, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The guy that was going and that we basically met.
Speaker 1: That guy said he was a sweet person.
Speaker 2: Oh wow. And I said, I gotta give you some money.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, I insist, of course I didn't
Speaker 2: have any. How about it? How about I write your check?
Speaker 2: And he said, well, okay, you can write me a check.
Speaker 2: Make it out to Bob somebody. I kind of oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh I forgot he he he used that money to
Speaker 1: pay a debt. Where is that guy now? He's the
Speaker 1: most honest, sweet person ever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we got a boat back on the trailer.
Speaker 2: Whose cows are But there's hundreds of cows all those
Speaker 2: as Eddie Eddie's stalactite. I know whose cows are those?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's just I don't recall there being one hundred cows
Speaker 1: in a field. But I guess I'm not on Mullen
Speaker 1: Road that much.
Speaker 2: So Mullen Road, right, it's a big deal. It's Captain
Speaker 2: Mullen did a lot of stuff. There's mull Mullen Idaho.
Speaker 2: That sure, sure, I didn't know. And this trail turns
Speaker 2: into mouse. But he's referred to often. You've heard, you
Speaker 2: know the Mason Dixon line. You've heard, of course. Yes,
Speaker 2: Well those guys were surveyors.
Speaker 1: I'm not pretending to know what it means.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they laid out much of the eastern United States,
Speaker 2: and that's Whey. Their name is on everything. And the
Speaker 2: Mullen laid out this road. Wow, I guess.
Speaker 1: And I think I have family on my uncle out here,
Speaker 1: and it's uncle Larry out here.
Speaker 2: I don't think so. Uh. Yeah, one time he lived
Speaker 2: back there on Primrose or something.
Speaker 1: He had horses everyone's amazed.
Speaker 2: Good eating.
Speaker 1: Oh god, if you can get a good, tender, young
Speaker 1: horse and just throw it on the grill, you are
Speaker 1: going to have yourself a terrific dinner.
Speaker 2: I love horses. If you're ever around a horse, you
Speaker 2: don't want to appreciate that. Yeah, they're the best. They
Speaker 2: are like big puppy.
Speaker 1: It's funny, though, because have you how many times have
Speaker 1: you ridden a horse? Being a Montana person, I've I've.
Speaker 2: Had some experience, but not a lot enough to make
Speaker 2: me incredibly sore for several days. Yeah right, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: doing some you know, cattle driving right right right? That?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, But prior to that, like as a kid,
Speaker 1: I didn't. There's horses everywhere. People think it only makes
Speaker 1: sense that I would have grown up in western Montana
Speaker 1: riding on horses.
Speaker 2: Well, what is kind of expensive? They eat a lot.
Speaker 2: And I don't think I'm telling any tales out of
Speaker 2: school when I say we weren't rich growing up? Were
Speaker 2: we were? We rich? We were rich? I think we were.
Speaker 1: We were standards with middle class. Middle class people don't
Speaker 1: have horses.
Speaker 2: I'm starting to feel bad.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm here to push buttons. I'm here to push
Speaker 1: the envelope, and I'm sorry your feelings get hurt. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you doing those paintings horses, but you're horrible at
Speaker 1: wiring basement like fixtures. And you never gave me a pony, a.
Speaker 2: Nice little no.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to pull horses. People. You've got to
Speaker 2: have twenty acres to feed a horse. Yeah, seal is
Speaker 2: grass you eat that day and a half. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: so you have supplemental feeding. If you're on two or
Speaker 2: three or five acres, you've got supplemental feeding going on.
Speaker 1: And what's that mean?
Speaker 2: That means you're buying hay? Oh okay, and your pants
Speaker 2: say that hay for sale? Oh yeah? Eight? If you
Speaker 2: want some hay for some What kind of horses are those?
Speaker 1: Inquire for?
Speaker 2: The hobby horses?
Speaker 1: Hobby horses the kind that you you on a spring
Speaker 1: and your little kid gets on it.
Speaker 2: You have a hobby horse. If you don't get on
Speaker 2: it too, oh Russell cattle, right, I didn't.
Speaker 1: You've never you know a lot of stuff that's a
Speaker 1: hobby horse. A hobby horse is a real horse. It's
Speaker 1: not just because of the toy horse that is on
Speaker 1: a frame and with springs.
Speaker 2: I think, generally speaking, the activity of that's easy, and
Speaker 2: maintaining a horse that you don't need.
Speaker 1: We're racing to be a hobby. I'm going to turn
Speaker 1: up the sound here. That's a Burlington Northern train, just
Speaker 1: so people listen to that. I'll get him. My grandpa
Speaker 1: drove one of those.
Speaker 2: Right, Oh no, no way, no way. They wouldn't let.
Speaker 1: Him, he'd be too nervous. Yeah, well, maybe he shoveled
Speaker 1: coal into it. He used to polish them, Maybe.
Speaker 2: He washed them. They shovel diesel on those.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well maybe yeah. He my agreement, used to
Speaker 1: run with handfuls of diesel fuel and pour it into
Speaker 1: a funnel. That was his job. Here's these skows again.
Speaker 1: Well I didn't know that about hobby horses. I just
Speaker 1: kind of now I'm attract It's everything that I took
Speaker 1: for granted growing up in my Montana. You know, I
Speaker 1: just wished we would move back to California and I
Speaker 1: could have long, blonde, straight hair and become a surfer.
Speaker 2: That's my whole life, I understand.
Speaker 1: And man, now that I lived there by the beach, boy,
Speaker 1: I miss it here. The grass is always greener, but
Speaker 1: it is much greener in Montana because California has a drought.
Speaker 2: And you find people are much the same no matter
Speaker 2: where you are.
Speaker 1: People are the same, no matter time nor place. That's
Speaker 1: the fresh Prince will Smith.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, five careers ago, I remember being on the
Speaker 2: phone with somebody. I worked for the railroad at the time,
Speaker 2: and I had with Pampa. Yeah. I had to call
Speaker 2: Denver to iron something out, and the railroad had its
Speaker 2: own phone line. I thought that was interesting. I don't
Speaker 2: know if it ran on rails, but or I think
Speaker 2: it ran on satellites or something. Wow, I call them,
Speaker 2: and this is something you get all the time. I said,
Speaker 2: where are you calling from Missoula, Montana? Oh wow, yeah,
Speaker 2: do you phones there? Right? I assume you're talking into
Speaker 2: an empty can of chili and the string attached. Uh?
Speaker 2: And I said, yeah, no, no, no, that's true. Uh
Speaker 2: and quite quite. As a matter of fact, I used
Speaker 2: to when I lived in San Francisco. I used to
Speaker 2: say the same thing about people from Denver. So I
Speaker 2: get it. Yeah. You always kind of said, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: oh that's oh you turned it back on her. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we used to say things about you and Denver. Thank
Speaker 2: you for taking the time to spit out your chewing
Speaker 2: tobacco long enough to insult me. Now, if we can
Speaker 2: get to this business. My dad has a way of
Speaker 2: making people.
Speaker 1: You're good. You're good at uh business interaction. I wish
Speaker 1: that I had that you You can be friendly but intimidating.
Speaker 2: There was nothing left to this place except oh we're back.
Speaker 2: We turned around, we're going back right past stone. Tell
Speaker 2: you what is left or or what are those conveyor belts?
Speaker 2: EPA super fun sites? That's what's left. That's what's left
Speaker 2: when you start tearing down a factory.
Speaker 1: And what is a super fun site? It's just when
Speaker 1: there's poison in the dirt.
Speaker 2: This factory was built initially on about two hundred acres
Speaker 2: in nineteen fifty eight, two hundred acres of the former
Speaker 2: Fairbanks farm. Okay, there there you have wow. And then
Speaker 2: there settling ponds out there that have all the crap
Speaker 2: from shirt the cooking, cooking shirt, wood chips and making paper.
Speaker 1: What about the one in Butte that is where mining
Speaker 1: was happening, golden copper mining. Isn't there a pond that's
Speaker 1: slowly raising that is so poisiness that birds birds fly
Speaker 1: above it and just die and rest.
Speaker 2: It's horrible. It's called the Berkeley Pit, and it's a
Speaker 2: mile across and half a mile it's really deep. And
Speaker 2: and you're right, they did went down and down and
Speaker 2: down and looking for copper. When digging straight holes in
Speaker 2: the ground became past a sure they would take just
Speaker 2: out of donkeys down there and feed them down there,
Speaker 2: and they never came out.
Speaker 1: Oh no, not awful. And then all these all these
Speaker 1: canaries get credit. Yep, what about the donkey and the
Speaker 1: coal mine precisely sing about that one.
Speaker 2: Let's get out of here.
Speaker 1: Oh man, that's awful. And then you have no, it's
Speaker 1: such they could do it.
Speaker 2: They could sinking well type mines and started just digging
Speaker 2: a big hole and well they kept draining that which
Speaker 2: would seep in until they shut it down about twenty
Speaker 2: years ago or so. And now it's filling up.
Speaker 1: With and that is the most super super fun Oh nasty.
Speaker 1: Isn't there a golf course that has super fun sight?
Speaker 1: But it's for some reason, the the smelter in Anaconda,
Speaker 1: the sand Jack Nicholas came in and created just a
Speaker 1: neat golf course. Really, it's jet black. The sand is
Speaker 1: jet black.
Speaker 2: It's a slag, which was a byproduct of smelting copper.
Speaker 2: So when you so the sand is not sand, it's
Speaker 2: slag when.
Speaker 1: You hit it with your sand wedge and it becomes
Speaker 1: airborne comes to that flag wedge. You a slag wedge.
Speaker 2: People don't it's a special club that you can only
Speaker 2: buy in Montana. But isn't that just kicking it up
Speaker 2: and then you're breathing it in? You might as well
Speaker 2: have been a minor. You know, it doesn't clump like
Speaker 2: sand if it gets rain. If it rains, it's really
Speaker 2: pretty good. Oh wow, as I said Nicholas, Jack Nicholas,
Speaker 2: there's Fairbanks Lane.
Speaker 1: Oh, there's Fairbanks Lane again.
Speaker 2: Jack Nicholas designed that course and it's beauty and there
Speaker 2: are just massive chunks of concrete here and there.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm we should golf. You've been golfing lot?
Speaker 2: I have not been. That's my main job. Yeah. My
Speaker 2: dad makes so so many courses, so many inspections necessary.
Speaker 1: Right, it makes a lucrative retirement living as a golfer.
Speaker 1: Well maybe sometime soon. What about Fairbanks? The vice president
Speaker 1: for Roosevelt? Do you know much about him?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: He remember I showed you that picture of a five
Speaker 1: dollars bill that said Bank of Fairbanks as Fairbanks.
Speaker 2: And I do know something about uh Teddy Roosevelt. I
Speaker 2: just don't know anything about this Fairbanks guy that was
Speaker 2: his vice president and as a present present, a birthday present,
Speaker 2: I think Roosevelt gave I don't know if he made it,
Speaker 2: but it's a legal tender five dollars bill that says
Speaker 2: Bank of Fairbanks and they gave it to him.
Speaker 1: But it's Fairbanks, Alaska. So are we somehow related to Fairbanks, Alaska?
Speaker 1: Can I go there and say, hey, I'm here.
Speaker 2: All you hav any street cred there's a consequence of
Speaker 2: your name? Yeah, I think you will.
Speaker 1: Well, let's go there. Who cares? If it's famously the
Speaker 1: most depressing part of our union?
Speaker 2: Why I wouldn't mind going to Alaska? But certain mountains
Speaker 2: around here, I'm sure they're fancier. Yeah, but I mean
Speaker 2: we can go to Glacier and you.
Speaker 1: Have nighttime here, which allows you to sleep. Isn't Alaska
Speaker 1: just daytime all day.
Speaker 2: Once you get up there? Yep? Especially around Fairbanks?
Speaker 1: Wow, I don't, I don't. I don't want to visit Fairbanks.
Speaker 2: Talk to a guy that was a teacher up there.
Speaker 2: I played golf with him once and he was talking
Speaker 2: about a party. They were having a New Year's Eve
Speaker 2: party years ago. And he left the New Year's Eve
Speaker 2: party and was going home and he forget he'd forgotten.
Speaker 2: He was going a little bit too fast over the
Speaker 2: railroad track okay, which is elevated and then comes back down.
Speaker 2: And he went up ben came back down and it
Speaker 2: was thirty blows zero. I think all four tires exploded.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's the kind of thing that won't happen
Speaker 2: in Miami Beach. Oh wow, frozen rubber. Yeah, yikes. And
Speaker 2: it was boom right on the ground. Well, okay, that
Speaker 2: sounds us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's I sit here and wait for help from nobody.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be ba.
Speaker 2: Hey, we did get a funeral too this weekend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we did go to a funeral. I I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm confronted by the fact that because this sweet girl
Speaker 1: that passed, very sweet girl, and she's kind of my age,
Speaker 1: and so I selfishly start thinking about my own mortality. Uh,
Speaker 1: because she it was a cancer. She she had leg pain,
Speaker 1: she was tired, leg in back pain, and she is
Speaker 1: tired I have that. I'm tired. I have leg and
Speaker 1: back pain. And maybe I'm being ridiculous, but I start,
Speaker 1: I'm going to a doctor. When I go home, I
Speaker 1: am my leg hurts and I'm tired all the time.
Speaker 1: If you look up any disease, any ailment, I got
Speaker 1: it tired all the time.
Speaker 2: Right there.
Speaker 1: That's that's me. I have vaginal cancer.
Speaker 2: Sub e, that's mine. I have that. But if I
Speaker 2: met that girl, I haven't seen that girl in fifteen years.
Speaker 2: She was a child. I didn't know that you have
Speaker 2: a friend of your sisters. And she was a sweet girl, tall, athletic,
Speaker 2: played basketball, and yeah, they had picked is just a
Speaker 2: sweet girl. And I'd seen her in a while.
Speaker 1: Well, like a lot of And this wasn't a funeral,
Speaker 1: it was a memorial.
Speaker 2: I don't know the difference. But she wasn't there.
Speaker 1: It was just a celebration of her, which a lot
Speaker 1: of people trying to do.
Speaker 2: Why they packed the Eagles Hall. The Eagles Hall was
Speaker 2: classically in an Eagles hall. And I appreciated the open bar.
Speaker 2: You don't often find that. Am I'm afraid that I
Speaker 2: paid for four bucks a drink.
Speaker 1: There was a bar there, but it was not open.
Speaker 1: I do think I sort of closed it down. I
Speaker 1: had some drinks. I'm not comfortable with death. Neither of
Speaker 1: us are. You and I both aren't religious. I feel
Speaker 1: confronted by dying, and you know, that's definitely what this
Speaker 1: event was all about.
Speaker 2: But they tried, I thought, and.
Speaker 1: There's nothing funny about and no one that's there is
Speaker 1: gonna listen to this.
Speaker 2: Dad. Oh, I think my experience has been in en you.
Speaker 2: I have a great deal more experience being in my
Speaker 2: seventies than you have about going to I.
Speaker 1: Am lucky to have hardly any friends that have died.
Speaker 2: Most of my friends are so Typically people do try
Speaker 2: to lighten the mood.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the fact that the lights changed and celebrate,
Speaker 1: which every New Year's.
Speaker 2: After change choices, U celebrating the oldest person in the family.
Speaker 1: Yes, he was a moderate ninety and he was meandering
Speaker 1: the celebrate and the disco ball came on.
Speaker 2: At one point. It's like, okay, well now this you
Speaker 2: don't want it to be comedic, but that's kind of
Speaker 2: what playing celebrate and turning.
Speaker 1: On a disco ball at at a funeral. It was
Speaker 1: a little I don't know, I wasn't I was just resisting.
Speaker 2: But I did. Yeah, I don't know that. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: want anything to right. That was nice. People showed up.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's it. That's the most important thing is
Speaker 2: there was a lot of good This is a sweet
Speaker 2: girl and we're here to say damn.
Speaker 1: It and all those people. You know that. One thing
Speaker 1: that guy did do is recognize everyone and have them
Speaker 1: raise their hands. Say, oh god, these kids are just
Speaker 1: too close to the room running and I'm gonna pull
Speaker 1: over and yell at them. Yeah, just it. There's nothing
Speaker 1: more sad than if you have a memorial. Of course
Speaker 1: you'd never know. But if no one showed up, just
Speaker 1: a lawyer and some guy that hands you have the
Speaker 1: rose bushes, that means you're old. Yeah, I guess that's the.
Speaker 2: Way it should be. There were two hundred people at
Speaker 2: this sweet girl funeral because she shouldn't be dead.
Speaker 1: She shouldn't be Yeah, it's just cancer is the worst man.
Speaker 1: I think I'm not getting that. Nope, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people just wandering around in fields.
Speaker 2: Here. What the guy doing.
Speaker 1: It's just by himself.
Speaker 2: You know what he is. He's outstanding in his field.
Speaker 2: He's one of the best we know of he's a scarecrow.
Speaker 2: It's one of the best human scarecrows in town. And
Speaker 2: I don't think anyone's working that joke into conversation. No,
Speaker 2: good job. I've been holding on to it since the
Speaker 2: late sixties. I can use that again. Yeah, I insist
Speaker 2: that you do that, and I can. I remember coming
Speaker 2: up with this is what is weird about radio. You
Speaker 2: have to use the material. You know that you're try
Speaker 2: not you try to be new. I'm sure when you're
Speaker 2: doing your standup. Yeah. I can't be all the time
Speaker 2: to use stuff that works. I use my jokes sometimes,
Speaker 2: sometimes I use other people because it's just a podcast radio.
Speaker 2: But of course you didn't have to have as much
Speaker 2: material when I did radio. But so i'd come up
Speaker 2: with something that was maybe pretty good.
Speaker 1: I might.
Speaker 2: I might wait six months or a year and throw
Speaker 2: it out there again. Do you know what I'm saying? Sure?
Speaker 2: I got a call one day, guy said, hey, you
Speaker 2: told that story last year. Okay, Okay, I'm sorry, thank
Speaker 2: you for being a fan. Why are you yelling at me? Exactly?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Sometimes, fuck you very much.
Speaker 1: People people call me out, but I for things I
Speaker 1: say on this podcast. But I appreciate it because it
Speaker 1: just proves that they're listening.
Speaker 2: They do. Yeah sometimes, Oh okay, every once in a.
Speaker 1: While I let an idea, I stand by it as
Speaker 1: if it's fact, and maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: Oh, because somebody's got a in their populter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everyone can. No matter what you say, someone can,
Speaker 1: even just the details of whatever you say, they can
Speaker 1: say map that's not true. So I'm just going to
Speaker 1: pretend out now anything from now on, and it won't
Speaker 1: be hard for me because I I know a little bit,
Speaker 1: a tiny little bit about a lot of things, and
Speaker 1: I know more than anyone about skateboarding, but no one
Speaker 1: wants to.
Speaker 2: Hear about it. Did you watch the Republican debate the
Speaker 2: other night. I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I wanted to. I knew that it would be focused
Speaker 1: on Trump, who I wish ill upon, and so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's getting all the attention. They got to
Speaker 2: have him in there. People like him because always nobody's
Speaker 2: gonna watch. Isn't that crazy? They all hate it the
Speaker 2: other sixteen candidates. There are seventeen candidates as we speak.
Speaker 2: Sixteen of them hate the fact the guy's there. But
Speaker 2: he's got to be there otherwise nobody's doing it.
Speaker 1: He's kind of good for business.
Speaker 2: Yeah, damn rights. Yeah, he's just a mascot. But what
Speaker 2: if he accidentally wins?
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 2: What if he accidentally says something factual?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just I can't believe the stuff he's said
Speaker 1: and he's gotten away with and no one's if.
Speaker 2: I think, if you are rich and have minions, wouldn't
Speaker 2: you like to have minions?
Speaker 1: I mean just for work around the house and stuff.
Speaker 2: Exactly. Well, minions are going to cover for you and
Speaker 2: nod their head whether you're right or not. He's used
Speaker 2: to that. He said that Mexican people are rapists. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: well he's also sensitive, of course. But I'm turning. I
Speaker 2: have to I have to pause.
Speaker 1: Sure, Sure, of course, you're doing a good Karen Aois drives.
Speaker 1: I can't do the multitask of operating a vehicle and
Speaker 1: throwing together sentences. I've just one thing at a time
Speaker 1: for me. You're doing great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I'm frustrated by I've always been interested
Speaker 2: in politics, and I'm frustrated by what I consider to
Speaker 2: be the millionaires club people in Congress. And I don't
Speaker 2: know that I like anybody, And that's what they are.
Speaker 2: They're all millionaires. Nobody's going to make the right decisions
Speaker 2: that we need to have made to be made about
Speaker 2: social security, about climate change, about infrastructure support, you know,
Speaker 2: fixing bridges and stuff. Nobody wants to do these things
Speaker 2: because there's no not get this job back, there's no
Speaker 2: money in it. Yeah, that's right, that's right. So it's
Speaker 2: kind of frustrating. And it occurs to me that we
Speaker 2: used to have really impressive people be president and be
Speaker 2: in Congress, and I don't know that I can say
Speaker 2: that anymore. Yeah, but maybe maybe I'm wrong, Maybe this
Speaker 2: is just an old part or music.
Speaker 1: Do you not think that so much is revealed now
Speaker 1: about everyone that even back in the day, had we
Speaker 1: known everything there is to know about even Kennedy, who
Speaker 1: no one has anything.
Speaker 2: But I don't care who the guy with no that sure.
Speaker 1: We all know he was banging Marilyn Monroe and that's
Speaker 1: not even what.
Speaker 2: Wow, I never heard that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's I have pictures in my wallet.
Speaker 2: What if I had pictures next pictures?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't. It's but yeah.
Speaker 2: I think angel it was a motorcycle.
Speaker 1: Can hopefully not during my life. I hope you would
Speaker 1: not have the infant.
Speaker 2: But he was a funny guy. And one day we
Speaker 2: were he was working on a motorcycle and I came
Speaker 2: over with that really old vaudeville joke, M, hey, you
Speaker 2: got any naked pictures of your wife? And the well,
Speaker 2: of course not want to buy some, and then everybody
Speaker 2: laughs a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah they used to.
Speaker 2: So I said to this, hey you got any naked pictures?
Speaker 2: He said, sure, one from the rear.
Speaker 1: She's sitting on the front of a camaro. That's in
Speaker 1: the garden. Now we plant flowers in the hood. That's great,
Speaker 1: That's that's great.
Speaker 2: So as I say, I think we used to have
Speaker 2: remarkable people. But then I'm also reminded of something I
Speaker 2: heard years ago that I like, and that was, uh,
Speaker 2: they don't make them like they used to, and they
Speaker 2: never did, right, so something hindsight twenty twenty, that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff. Sure, it's just frustrating that you talk about
Speaker 2: Roosevelt people, you know, people like him, extraordinary men like
Speaker 2: Teddy Roosevelt. And there was no money in politics then.
Speaker 2: Most people had to be rich or they were like Lincoln,
Speaker 2: and they weren't used to ever having anything. And so
Speaker 2: week or a month was okay, and most were subsidized
Speaker 2: by family, and there was family money with Roosevelt, and
Speaker 2: if it weren't for that, he couldn't have been It
Speaker 2: couldn't have had that lovely place in Oyster Bay to
Speaker 2: go to it, you know, And the same with Taft
Speaker 2: after him, and then Wilson after him. His friends had
Speaker 2: to get together and give him money to buy his house.
Speaker 2: Really that is now a historic site in Washington, d C. Yeah,
Speaker 2: ten people gave him fifteen grand. Well, then that must
Speaker 2: have been a nice house. It's inevitable.
Speaker 1: It's inevitable then that at some point there'd have to
Speaker 1: be money in politics because it's hard. Being the president
Speaker 1: would be you could not pay me enough to try
Speaker 1: and do that job. No, no one is going.
Speaker 2: To be happy with you unanimously.
Speaker 1: I think comedy is hard, or I don't actually, but
Speaker 1: it's hard to like appeal to a whole audience. Being
Speaker 1: president would be the hardest stand up gig.
Speaker 2: I heard a comic say once, I don't want to
Speaker 2: be too famous because then people then if you get
Speaker 2: too famous, then there are a lot of people that
Speaker 2: hate you.
Speaker 1: I want to be someone like Mike Judge, who just
Speaker 1: has made things, and no one knows what he looks like.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's the creator of all these things and.
Speaker 2: Has the lifestyle in the creative spiritual fulfillment.
Speaker 1: But no one ever bothers the guy that would be
Speaker 1: the best. I only bring up his name because he's a.
Speaker 2: Friend, you know. I hang out with him. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: Sometimes he's Henry's friend, and I'm friends with Henry and so.
Speaker 2: And he's a good cartoons or something he made, well,
Speaker 2: he made, but he made he made Silicon Valley. You've
Speaker 2: seen that show, right, Cartoons. I'll say, yes, you.
Speaker 1: It's a great show.
Speaker 2: You'd love it. It's out there on demand.
Speaker 1: People are demanding it.
Speaker 2: It's just there's so many shows. I know, I can't
Speaker 2: you know, there's so much television. Most of the shows
Speaker 2: you've talked about, I haven't seen. There's not enough time.
Speaker 2: I've just started watching The Wire. Yea, I got one
Speaker 2: for you? Yeah? Ready, Yeah. I love Lucy. I haven't
Speaker 2: watched any I love Lucy. It's a killer.
Speaker 1: So is that on Netflix or how to just order?
Speaker 2: I'll bet you can find it someplace DVDs.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's here at Walmart, passing the Walmart, or here
Speaker 1: we are on Mullen Road again. We're crossing Mullen Road.
Speaker 1: Just now correct me if I'm wrong. But as a kid,
Speaker 1: right there, there'd be piles of horse parts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because that was a.
Speaker 1: For soap like in Fight Club.
Speaker 2: Uh, I'm not so sure what they used. They used
Speaker 2: to call them blue factories years ago. You know.
Speaker 1: To the right, here's where Doug's canoe place was. We
Speaker 1: went out on a canoe. I almost drowned and died.
Speaker 1: That's a story, right, because that was horrifying, horrifying. We
Speaker 1: we went all day in a canoe. Everything was fine.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day. Well, let's get out.
Speaker 1: Might as well preemptively take off our life vests.
Speaker 2: Because we're only going over there, yes.
Speaker 1: Like ten feet to the edge of the river. And
Speaker 1: then we start floating sideways towards filled water.
Speaker 2: Well, we all.
Speaker 1: Pushed against it with our oars and tipped ourselves over
Speaker 1: like something a mouse.
Speaker 2: You disappeared. You were six years old, five years old.
Speaker 2: I don't remember. Disappeared underneath the boat down the river.
Speaker 1: Because I was I was holding onto the boat, but
Speaker 1: you did not know I was sold underneath.
Speaker 2: I said, right then, Oh my god, I guess I'll
Speaker 2: have to have another kid. Yeah, it was underwater, but
Speaker 2: I do it was I heard you say that caught
Speaker 2: up with your cut, your little face, and I'm We're
Speaker 2: going down the river and I'm thinking, damn, this is it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: me and this little boy, this is how I go. Yeah,
Speaker 2: looking at your little face, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: my little toes start touching sand. I submit that I
Speaker 2: drank a great deal of that.
Speaker 1: Well it was that was loaded some right. Oh yes,
Speaker 1: well I swallowed a lot of water too. Did someone
Speaker 1: push on me and make me spit up water? I
Speaker 1: remember laying there, but I did anyone know? I just
Speaker 1: just cos I guess.
Speaker 2: I think. I think what you said to me was
Speaker 2: don't touch me, leave me alone. After you got.
Speaker 1: Maybe when you're a kid, you blame people for maybe
Speaker 1: I was blaming you.
Speaker 2: And you.
Speaker 1: Can head back to the house if you want.
Speaker 2: Sure. So, like two months later, we'ren't going to Victoria, BC,
Speaker 2: and we go to Port Angelus in Washington and to
Speaker 2: catch a boat over to this island, Vancouver Island, not
Speaker 2: what it is, and and uh, we're on the boat.
Speaker 2: So you just had this horrible experience. Yeah, it's still
Speaker 2: resting your mind, and we're at the edge of the
Speaker 2: boat looking out of the water. I remember that and everything.
Speaker 2: And you said, what if the boat sinks?
Speaker 1: It was a big boat, yeah, the ferry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well then then I guess we'll have to keep
Speaker 2: on top of the water, keep treading water. And uh no,
Speaker 2: I think what I said was you ask, what will
Speaker 2: you do? What will happen if you if we go
Speaker 2: into the water. I'm screwing this up. Now, that's okay. No,
Speaker 2: I don't happen if we go into the water, And
Speaker 2: I'll stay with you to the end. And then he said,
Speaker 2: and then you said, and then you'll leave.
Speaker 1: Really okay, I'll remember that kind of worried.
Speaker 2: I don't know that I knew I was telling a
Speaker 2: joke right there. Yeah, I was scared of what I
Speaker 2: still I still am not the most comfortable waterman.
Speaker 1: I'm not the best swimmer. But I'll get in a
Speaker 1: canoe right now. I'm not scared.
Speaker 2: Yeah, bring it, bring it here.
Speaker 1: Bring it here. I'll jump out of it on purpose.
Speaker 1: I've never been over here. Look at that farmhouse.
Speaker 2: This is great. Well. These were all five to ten
Speaker 2: to twenty acre pieces cut up back in the twenties,
Speaker 2: and they diverted the Clarkfork Weaver into into ditches so
Speaker 2: that there would be little farms out here. Oh well,
Speaker 2: these are all these all used to be little farms.
Speaker 2: That's why they call it Orchard Homes District.
Speaker 1: What's Spurgeon Road? Who's this spurgeon?
Speaker 2: Guy? Used to be a really large fish right on
Speaker 2: this road. Isn't that a sturgeon? Okay, okay, we see
Speaker 2: it's the These tales are good blown out of proportion,
Speaker 2: and then people for years think there's a monster in
Speaker 2: Flathead Lake when really it was just a spurgeon and
Speaker 2: sturgeon or spurgeon. But people used to see it arching
Speaker 2: it's serventine body. Well I was twenty feet long the folklore. Yeah, well,
Speaker 2: but why do people tell those stories? Because I would
Speaker 2: have been a better water skier if I wasn't scared
Speaker 2: every time I was behind a boat that I'm dragon's
Speaker 2: gonna bite my feet off. I don't like it.
Speaker 1: Well, now my little battery thing's blinking. We might have
Speaker 1: to wrap it up here. Do we have it? Do
Speaker 1: you have any closing statements? Conclusionary is not it's my
Speaker 1: heart thing?
Speaker 2: Oh god, I didn't know he's hooked up to your
Speaker 2: heart thing.
Speaker 1: My dad's heart is he's got a marathon runners hard.
Speaker 1: His heart's gonna be fine, as is mine. We have
Speaker 1: good hearts. Doctors told you right, they hooked you up
Speaker 1: to a machine. They said, wow, nice heart. So we've
Speaker 1: been I'm gonna head back to LA tomorrow. We'll be
Speaker 1: back next week, of course with a with a guest
Speaker 1: and with Karen Kilgarriff. But this was I think a
Speaker 1: great episode. Yeah, you know, so I'm like forcing an
Speaker 1: end to it.
Speaker 2: You are forcing an end to it.
Speaker 1: Well, the battery thing blinked and it makes me nervous.
Speaker 1: I don't want to cut out, and we've reached our obligation.
Speaker 2: Stand by that wiring job. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'm maybe someone did something to Maybe they threw a
Speaker 1: match in the light fixture.
Speaker 2: I may not stand close by that wiring job. But oh,
Speaker 2: my dad's a better comedian than me.
Speaker 1: You've been listening to Do you Need a Ride? With
Speaker 1: Jim Fairbanks and Chris Fairbanks d Y N A R.
Speaker 2: And then you push the horn.
Speaker 1: Are there?
Speaker 2: We go