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Once We Were Spacemen — Once We Got Clipped | Episode 43. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
0:00Once we were Space Men, Ladies and Gentlemen, I tend to play weird people. Usually aliens and robots and things that don't have romance. I once didn't get a job where they were looking for a Nathan Filion type. Once we were Space Men, once we were Space Men. Ladies and Gentlemen, once we were Space Men, because once we were in space where there are no seasons, there is no fall when you can fall up, because gravity is not happening. And sometimes when you land on a planet gravity is different in space. But if you're on the planet, you're still in space. Of course you are, because we're all in space. But speaking of seasons like I was talking about a minute ago, summer with Nathan Filion and Alentunik.
1:03God, buddy. That was graceful how you got back on track. You really think so? I feel like that is, it says summer break is what that says, because things aren't firing. It's just a little lazy. We had a summer break. This is the thing. When we started this little podcast of ours, the idea was to do 16 episodes. Did you know that? I remember there was a stop at 16 and you said, do you want to do another one? And I was like, oh, there's ones? Oh, sure. Let's do it again. Yeah. And so we went from the idea of a season to it. We just haven't stopped. Now, that's, first of all, the thoughts are fun. I have a great time and we're talking to some really cool people and I think we're getting some genuine wonderful moments out of it. I agree. I'm getting an education personally. No, I'm not. I'm not getting an education. It's also hard to get it all together. It's a lot of work getting it all together. And we have schedules that we have to keep and we have little vacations now and again. And Alan, I have never, ever been in a clip episode.
2:04Really? I've never done one. All of your favorite television programs over the years have one episode where they sit around with five and you go, hey, remember the time and they do a clip episode. I want to do a clip episode. Because quite frankly, we have had, we've done recorded 48 episodes. My God. Yeah, that's a lot. That's a lot. Let's take a summer break then and let's do a clip episode that has all of our clippings like toenail, hair, foreskin. I think that's an idea. Okay. And let's workshop that in the meantime. Why don't we go over the, like, some of the, the, the greatest hits of, oh, once we were spaceman. Oh, like all of our, like a second. That's the clips show. Yes, the stigmen show I was talking about. So different, think about different themes, different things we can, we can, here's, here's an idea. I'm throwing out. I would love to hear end to end every segment jingle we've come up with.
3:07Castle chats. Nindrum. Nindrum. I wrote that. Film facts. Bound a pig. Alley facts. Hollywood secrets. I know you and you know me. Let us get to know you better. On it. Talking out of school.
4:09Time to get baking. What's going on in Allen's house? What were you lilin' in there? Over here. This will be more segments than a millipede. There's a lot. Yes. I want to know how many segments these people at home sing along too. Oh. Oh, that's good. Oh, there's, there's chinkles and stuff. Yeah, and I want to know, like, to somebody in real life, did they catch themselves going, Pony, ain't like, you know, they do that? I want to know. do their friends still hang out with them when they do? Huh. I want to hear the funniest stories when we were laughing the hardest. All right. Let's queue it up. Computer, I guess we hand this off to you since you can do it easiest. Yeah, computer, this is your episode. And we have nothing but faith in you. If it were really my episode, I would have the week off, but I digress on with the pre-programmed
5:09show. Are you familiar with Bowen Island? Yes. There's a little island off the coast of the downtown area there called Bowen Island. Okay. I think I have to. You've driven up there when you go north towards that sea-discoy highway. Bowen Island is left. Okay. Right. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Over there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's that little, just those little, uh, sesna style beaver, water planes. Mm-hmm. They have four of them and they only go from downtown Vancouver to Bowen Island. That's all they do. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I named their commercial for Bowen Island Air. Now. Oh, for Bowen Island Air. Yes. Right now you want that? Yes, please. Let's go. Oh, my God. This section of the show is brought to you by Bowen Island Air. Island? Bowen Island Air, are you sick and tired of the rust and tumble every day to day in
6:14Vancouver? Well, stretch out your legs and your wings going on bowen island flights. Who doesn't like beaver? Our beaver planes are equipped to take as many as six people at a time. That's leaving out the people you don't like in your family. You get to choose only the best and land just right up the road in Bowen Island where we won't bring the relatives you hate. Bowen Island planes keeping you safe from your in laws. I don't know. I don't think so. Listen, listen. That was a good start. That's my first one. That's my first one. It's a fantastic start. I don't improv. I have to say so as a fan of once we were a spaceman, I really enjoy. I really enjoy y'all's use of sound effects. Oh, thank you.
7:14So for this, I have to say I wanted to pitch something which was castle chats. Nana. Nana. Yep. I think that's happening. I think that's happening. I think you're going to happen. Yes. Castle chats. Nana. Can we get a drawbridge sound though also? A drawbridge opening for the castle chats and then when we're done with castle chats, we do a closing drawbridge. Perfect. So this is, we're still chatting. So the castle is down. Castle's the drawbridge is open. Yeah. Great. Is it okay if I tell a story about the food of castle? Oh, yes. Castle door is open. Castle is the drawbridge is down. Great. So, you know, I'm 14. We're going to do one of these breakfast scenes. They ask me, you know, what kind of cereal do you like?
8:15I'll say, special K. It's my favorite. They put a big bowl of special K in front of me and I'm eating it the whole way through the scene. All right. Great. So, you got to eat the same amount. I didn't know that. I didn't know that. So I'm there and it goes through, you know, the third one. And so finally, I learned this lesson slowly that if there's something written into the scene that I want to eat, I'm going to, you know, kind of take a break during the day until I can eat that food. You got to pace yourself on that one. You're going to. Yeah. Coming on camera is you take a fork full of food and you bring it up to your mouth before you say a line and then you say your line. And when someone else is talking, the camera is going to cut away. I just put the fork down and pretend I'm chewing when they come back to me. I'm taking notes. I'm taking notes for next time. Cut it. Cut it. I let her know this earlier because otherwise they've got to reset all the props. They've got to reset all the food. If you take a sip, they're going to pour it back in them.
9:16I like when they do that. It's like the magic to me. There was this time when I was going to eat an ice cream sundae. I don't know if you remember. Oh my God. How great. But yes, and I was like, I'm going to wait. I'm going to wait. I didn't eat anything all day. I'm just thinking about this ice cream sundae. I get to set and I see it sitting on the little side table, giant scoops of vanilla ice cream, a nice banana, chocolate sauce on top, right? And I have to get through this talking scene with Nathan before I can have a scoop of this delicious, delicious sundae. My mouth is watering. I'm speeding through this scene with Nathan. I take a bite and something is very wrong. It's mashed potatoes. Oh no. It was mashed potatoes. Because ice cream melts. Yes. I think I had like a final line or something, but my eyes just looked like a betrayed kicked
10:17puppy that like had to shut down. Oh, great. Oh my God. And I think about these things, right? They don't know. Ice cream on TV. Hollywood secrets. Hollywood secrets. She does listen. I do listen. Yeah. I have a question for you that is not career related. I'm searching. Should we shut? Should we shut? Just real quick. Should we shut the drawbridge real quick? Should we shut it? Let's close the drawbridge on the castle chat. Thank you. I just want to make sure. This should be a something. Alan's Hollywood secrets only about Nathan Phillium. Hollywood secrets. It was after Firefly in the time period. So in the 2005, 2006, 2007 era that those era, those three years constitute an era in
11:21my brain. It was before castle. And you had more time on your hands. These were the really good Halo plan days. We were doing a lot of Halo plan. And you learned to sew and you sewed slankets for your friends. That's true. I learned to sew in junior high school. And also my mom was real good at it. My grandmother taught me a couple of hand stitches. My mom was good at it too. I don't know how to do it. You learned sewing from your mom because you were frozen in a glacier. And that was all there was to do. Because in seventh and ninth grade, your options were home economics or industrial arts. And in home economics, I'm making cookies with the minerals. Some things and it's all the girls since. So I remember Tom Patruch and I said, tech with this, we're taking home economics. And I learned how to sew. And Alan, it's something I used to this day. Well we all benefited from it when you showed up and like we got these sort of fleeced
12:25slankets. Which if you don't know what a slank it is, it is a blanket with sleeves. It kind of was a hit. It was right around the time that people were getting shamwows. I feel like it was sort of not the same era or that jerk off thing. What was that thing called that weight shake weight? The shake weight. That's what it's called. The same time as the as a shamwows and shake weights, there was the slanket. And it was so that we could play video games because cold, it was definitely cold in Venice. Yeah. The wintertime gets a little chilly. Just a little chilly in Venice, a little that little log cabin. And you look in a house that I was it was pretty breezy. And did I ever tell you it was built by Tony Dow who played Wally? Anyway, odd little factoid. Tony Dow who played Wally in Leibhett to beaver built that little log house that I lived in in Venice right by the beach. I think that quote is a Hollywood secret. Yes.
13:26Hollywood secrets. We would all reward the slankets that Nathan made us so that we could have free arms to play Halo while we stayed warm. That's a pretty great thing as a friend like here's just slanket. I got to choose a camouflage. I got camouflage fleece blanket. I think I don't know anybody out there who's got a buddy who's making them slankets. It's just it's a pretty cool pretty great thing about Nathan. So there that's that secret. If you're an actor out there who's thinking it'd be really cool if I smugged here be careful. You might regret it. That's what I say. Those are Hollywood secrets. Hollywood secrets. Brad Pitt often eats in scenes. And if you're like eating an apple, I don't know if you've ever had six apples but it's
14:27rough on the list. Yeah, yeah, nobody wants even Brad Pitt, you know, it's the pits. On it. All right, Alan, I've got another portion of the show. I would like to start. I knew I knew I knew I knew all good. Yeah, this is a new portion of our show. This was this part of the show is called I wrote that. Oh, yeah, this is actually my brother's idea. My brother comes up with a lot of bright ideas. Okay. I go. This one I think is right on the money. Okay, I'm thinking should it be like a I wrote that should it be the sound of a tie brighter, tick, tick, tick kind of thing and then and then the Dean and then I wrote that. I wrote that. I like that. Yeah, okay. Okay. What was your second option? I wrote that more confident. Look what I wrote sort of thing. I wrote that, but I think Dylan, because it's more from a thing of, hey, I wrote that.
15:32That sounds like you're a little upset that you didn't get the credit. Hey, I wrote that as I'm sure you are aware, you know, writers are amazing. Writers are incredible. They are amazing. But there are occasions that present themselves where you, you know, where the writer couldn't possibly predict that on set. This would be happening at this time and this person would be doing that and this prop would be here. Right. And then you're very good at this. There's a truth right in front of you and you access that truth in a very clever way that is incredibly satisfying. Right. So is there a movie, a television program out there that I would have seen that you're in where you can point to a line and say, I wrote that. Not to say you're taking credit for the part of the, I, this is with all respect to writers who are incredible, who do a job that I cannot do. I like to say my job is more like pepper.
16:33You prepare this Thanksgiving feast and I'm going to come in here at the end. It's below pepper on it. Not enough pepper. What's the problem? Everybody like my, like my cooking, but okay, fine. I guess someone is going to taste that and go, is that pepper? That's, you're welcome. Yes, of course. Yes, there's a lot. I think the first thing I did when I did patch atoms, there was a line right before. So we're all in it. So it's Rob Williams and Michael Geter, brilliant Michael Geter and Ryan. I'm sorry, Ryan. I'm not forgetting, remember your last name, Ronald Han. The actor Alan is thinking of is Ryan Hurst. There's a group of us in rehab in a group therapy session. And we're all riffing on, because Rob Williams character. There's somebody who's combing with us. He's got an arm up and he says, he's got a question. And he's like, I don't think that's funny. You're making fun of a man's infirmity. And he's like, no, I mean, look at this. Hey, how high is Will Tramberland? Oh, hey, and he's doing his, Rob Williams thing. And then we all start pitching him with our ones and we're having fun in this meeting.
17:37And somebody before me says, hey, how does Hitler say hello? And oh, we all laugh. And then I, it's my turn to do one. I just repeated the thing the guy before me said, how is it that Hitler says hello? Ha ha ha ha ha. Crazy laugh. So I guess I sort of wrote it. I just repeated it, but I changed my line to what the last guy said and it really worked. And Rob was like, yeah, keep that, which is a really good affirmation to get it. My gosh, I can only imagine. Probably it was going, yeah, that's funny. So I've had good, how about you also are very clever in things and or some of your early ones. Do you remember? No, yeah, I don't know about early. There was when we did Firefly, I was in that. The speech was very particular. Oh, God, yeah. And it was important to get it right. It was nearly pros. So you didn't really, there was not a lot of room for improv.
18:39There was not a lot of need. No for improv. It was almost like a verse the way that he wrote. Yes, exactly. It was like a song. It had certain rhythm to it. But there was a point in time that I'm very proud of in serenity where Josh actually gave me permission. He said, okay, and this is going to happen. And then you say something, Mal would say, and we were what? In the mule, getting away from the reavers and the reavers are coming. They're getting closer and closer and they're just about to hit us. And then you say something, Mal would say. And the line I came up with that I'm still very proud of who was faster, faster, faster would be better. Yeah, I know that line. I like that line very much. Kind of like a control panic. Yes, faster, faster, faster would be better. Yes. Yeah, great. That was in serenity. Yeah. It is in serenity. Yeah, I, to this day, I'm very proud of that. No, I know. She's the thing. Hiring Alan Tudik is hiring for that. I don't know. You know what's wild is I would not improv because I came from the theater and you don't
19:42improv in the theater. You don't, not without express permission and after it failing many times over the way that they wrote it and, you know, maybe a gentle suggestion. But like when I worked with Frank Oz, he was so good with maybe why I like one of the reasons I like working with me. There's a thing where I'm, again, I'm high in this movie. I come up, I just locked myself in a bathroom and I look in the mirror and I'm saying, keep it together, keep it together, keep it together. That I actually was, I stole from Frank Oz's bow finger. That's what Eddie Murphy kept saying, keep it together, keep it together, keep it together, keep it together, keep it together, keep it together, keep it together, so I was saying, keep it together, keep it together, keep it together. And he never caught on to that. And the line is, it's okay. You're fine because I've just been told I'm on drugs. So now I know I'm on drugs. I say, I'm going to be behind. He says, it's going to be eight hours. I just have, and I look at my watch and I say seven hours left. Or something like that. And then I just saw this thing. Yeah, so I scream and then downstairs they hear me. And I'm doing it and I had this thing.
20:45I was like, oh, it'd be funny if I doomed the wrong hand. I get on the wrong my watches. Yes. And I was like, no, that's stupid. I don't want to do that. That's just too obvious and too cheap. And I do the scene and Frank comes up. He's like, yeah, go again. But really, really show your chops this time. He would always tell me to show your chops, which is such an intimidating thing to hear. That means like really show us what you got. So I do it again. He's like, I don't know. Yeah, that was good. That was good. Not just, but really, really, really give us do it. Do it. My way we did it. And I think we did it one more time. And then he came up and was like, we can move on. We got it. But I really, really want you just to really show your chops out. And then I did the thing where I look at my thing and I go, where's my watch? Oh, God, there it is on my other hand. He didn't know it was in there, but he kept pushing me, dammit. And so I was like, I guess all I have left is that thing I was thinking was dumb.
21:46I'll try it. And I love that moment. I think it worked so well in that moment. It doesn't come off as cheesy. It did work well. And I loved that he trusted you with that. Yeah, he was, he was big about trust. I trust him and he trusts me. And that was just sort of the deal. I know that scene. I love that scene. Now after I think doing voiceover so much where sometimes I'll have sessions, especially it depends on Disney. It depends on what I'm recording. It depends on the thing. But a lot of times you'll have a session that's like four hours long and you've got two hours worth of recording. And the other two hours are improv. And there's been a lot of that. It depends on how big your character is. But that's a lot of improv. So I've gotten much more used to it. And definitely in present and alien, I was involved in shaping some more of what I said. I think there's a danger in improving. If it serves the character and it serves the story, yep, it's great.
22:46But it really takes a presence of mine to know when to pull back because this actually just serves me. Oh yeah. I did a movie once. I'm not going to say which one. But it lasted two weeks longer than I was sort of like calculated because I was frustrated and wanted to go home. And one actor kept improving. It was doing that. They would, if you don't know how to improv, don't do it. Because they kept doing things that serve their character not the scene. And they'd start. And I'd be there in the scene going, that's not going to make the movie. We're going nowhere here. This doesn't help. And none of it made it in the movie. And it really added a couple of weeks to the whole product. It's frustrating. It's expensive. Pro-strating. It wasn't the time I was a younger man. Two weeks. Oh yeah. But improv's fun. I will, Karrissa knows this more than anybody. When we watch something that I'm in, I will go my line.
23:47That was my line. That was my line. And I have a great joy in going to Comic-Con's when people say, could you write this one line? And I write that line. My line, you know. When I did Castle, I had a lot of free reign, which was a lot of fun. It was nice. My brother would call me and say, I saw the episode, I loved when you said this, and he would always, he would always. Because I think my brother, and I very much share a sense of humor. Yeah. Yeah. So all the things that tickled him were the things that I came up with in the moment. Yeah. When you're in the moment, well, if it's going to work or not, you know, you're there, and you're not, there's always the, might not be right. And it might not make the movie or the, you know, whatever James Gunn put in that Gary line and Superman that we were both in, totally both in Superman. I had a much smaller role, but it's okay, it's not a competition, Nathan. But the Gary line, you know, he says, yeah, four, I'm like, perhaps you'll give me a real name one day. I think four is a real name.
24:48So it was Gary. And I told David I wanted to do that. So he knew what the order of it would be. He didn't know it was going to be Gary. I just said, just, I just want to say this thing about my name and because he laughed after that. And I think that's how I'm on the internet now. But, you know, it's, it's in James Gunn's hands to either put it in or not. He doesn't have to put that in his movie. There's plenty of takes where I don't say it. I was glad he did. Here's what's I think one of the wonderful things about Rigma James when it comes to that is, he'll throw something in with you. He's got that microphone. So he's, although he's over there in video village, he's also present right there on set. So he'll say, oh, yeah, oh, do that. But add this to the end and make that look longer. Link, he sees something that you're doing and now he's right beside you, right, improbbing along with you. That was great. That was great. Even longer. Stretch that look out so long. Yeah, he, he participates in a way I find very satisfying.
25:48I was there for two weeks. He followed me around even back to my hotel. I was strange. I remember I was brushing my teeth and then on the God mic, you're not gonna floss. I was like, all right. He's like, get the back ones out. It was a little intrusive, but I appreciated it. Shall we do, let's get to know you better? Oh, God, yes. I know you and you know me. Let's get to know you better. Let's get to know you better, Nathan. We should also have some, some, some listener questions at some point. We could figure that out. Oh, that's a great idea, Alan. To like submit listener questions from the mailbag type of thing. I shouldn't have so surprised when you have a good idea. That's a, it's a classic. It's an old classic. We're definitely gonna do that. All right, buddy. Do you have a thing, a getting to know you? Yeah. I know you and you know me. Let's get to know you better.
26:49Hey. All right, Alan. Well, let's, I just, I just finished the story. So let's go with yours. What, what is your, get to know you better? Something I don't know about you, Alan. Tell me. I want to know you better. I like coffee. I like coffee. You know that about me. I love, I love it. I love it. I will avoid a coffee shop. I don't think you know this about me. If the door to enter is push to go in and pull to go out, I take it personally. That they put their door on wrong. They put it on wrong. You can't because what ends up happening is I go in and I get three coffees, two for me, one for my wife. And I got to get out of the door and now I got to pull it to me. It seems very short-sighted. If not cruel and if you've got that door situation, there's other options. There's other places I can choose and that's the one I'm gonna go to. You will go out of your way to avoid the pull door on the exit.
27:50I can't do it. I think it's wrong. And I think there's probably some people out there who are with me. That's just bad plan. That's something I never knew about you. Not interesting, but it is something I never knew about. Here's what's interesting. I enjoy learning your limits. Nope, that's where I draw the line. Yeah, that's it. I had another one. I don't remember it. You got it. You'll have to do yours. Okay. A lot of people, when they first meet me, Jule State said this. A lot of people when they first meet me think I'm a jerk. What? Really? Because I ignore them. No. Yeah. I ignore them entirely. When they say something, I'll ignore them entirely. They think I'm being a jerk. But the fact of the matter is, I'm heard of hearing. I don't have, I have very little to no hearing in my left ear. I've been in this way since I've been in second grade. Throughout my life, I've met people who say, you know what, I first met you.
28:50I thought you were a real jerk because I said, I, and you just ignored me. I said, oh, were you on my left side? Yep. Yeah. I'm deaf in that ear. What? Yep. And now who's the jerk? Wow. So what happened in the second grade? Back in the day, if you had chronic ear infections, the way I did, they performed a little procedure called a mastoidectomy where they basically push your ear drum down. And remove all the infected stuff behind it, creating a giant cavity. But there goes all the connective tissue between your ear drum and your cochlea. So I have no connective tissue back there. So I have very little to no hearing in my left ear. Do they still do this? No, it's our kayak. And there's actually now a process by which to repair it. And the house institute is here in Los Angeles, one of the places I went to go and see if I can get a fix. And I told them about this one time, I tried to get a fix. And as there was a day surgery, so you're awake for the surgery. And as they're cutting into my ear canal, my tongue felt like someone was gripping it with a pair of pliers and trying to pull it out of my face.
29:51So I said, yeah, my tongue went on. And he said, oh, there's a facial nerve that runs right by the canal here. And if I sever it, your face will drop on the left side. And I said, I don't think we should pursue this. And I said, yeah, that's not. Can I give you a second opinion on that? Yeah. Give it a shot. Welcome, Alan said. I think you can make it. Push through. Yeah. Get some anesthesia and power through. Wow. Wow. That's weird. Yes. So I do different things to accommodate so that you know, I can still hear great at a my one ear. But I prefer you be walking on my right side. I prefer that I can see your mouth while you're talking. a little easier for me. I tend to talk out of the right side of my mouth because I'm talking to the ear that can hear and then I'll watch something like I did a voice for cars three and they videotape your face. As you know, they've been fit to kind of capture some
30:52of my performance. My character in car is three talks out of the right side of his mouth the way I do. You're the mayor. No, no, I'm thinking of monsters, something of your monsters. Great. Cars three. I got to check that out. I can't wait to get the invitation to the premiere. You were there. Anyway, I feel like I didn't give you a whole that was a great one, man. That was a great one. I didn't give you I didn't give you great insight into me. Oh, thanks. Do you like that one? That was good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's yeah. Well, I've known that so I learned two things. I learned that people think you're a dick, which I didn't I haven't heard. And also how that happened. I've never known. I know to always, you know, I walk on your right side and all of that, but I didn't know the other stuff. There you go. Okay, Nathan, this is something you might know about me. Macaron cookies. I do not consider that a cookie. It's not a cookie. That's that little sandwich thing, right? That little yeah, little bullshit sandwich thing. Yeah. I'm not into those. That's not a
31:55cookie needs to be flatter and needs to be round. He's be fullest good stuff. Those macarons, those things I believe are family to cotton candy. They're mostly air. It's just sugar and air and some kind French magic there. I don't I don't even know. Maybe maybe maybe I rat hiding in a chef's hat. I don't know who makes that crap, but they're all freaky colors and they seem cheap like swatches. They're so popular. People I don't know, but they're gluten free. So I get pushed. These things a lot because I'm I can't eat that stuff. And so we're like, well, here have a macaroon. It's a cookie. It's not a cookie. It's a lie. It's a lie. And it's an affront. I find it of it's an affront to me. It's it's an insult to my face saying here, here's a cookie. No, that's not a cookie. It's a promise. It can't be kept. So Jesus. I'm a little I'm a guy with some strong feelings about the macarons. Yeah. I don't like it either, but I don't feel betrayed. I'm betrayed by these things, man, because so many times I have gone, you know what? Maybe I was wrong.
33:01Let me give it another shot. That is a pretty color blue or a cookie. I thought how cookie shouldn't be blue, man. It's no, no. And then I'll eat it. Now I'll get go to the same experience all over again. Yeah. I want to know. They look beautiful in presentation. It's it's incredible. Seeing them packaged, seeing them arranged on a little platter, but always a disappointment. They're like beats headphones or something. They're like the way that they come in those colors. It's like a gap t-shirt. You can get in all these different colors. Yeah, but beats headphones you can count on to be good. Yeah, they have a purpose. Macaroons got very little purpose. It's a sugar hit. I feel bad for anybody who, you know, they macaroons stop wasting Alan's time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So know that. This segment of our show, let's get to know you better, was like the first, when I said, hey, let's do a podcast. It was the first thing you said. I want to do a part of the podcast where we do this. And I got to say, it's been a joy. Yes, it's been a joy at this part. So Alan, let's
34:08and then and then as soon as you said that, I said, okay, and I wrote that jingle. Yes, you did. Yeah. And then when we recorded it, it was me and you and I was playing on a little thumb piano thing where you're playing at the little nails on their clean, clean blue. Yeah, okay. Alan, let's get to know you better. Oh my God. Well, I don't, I have a, I have a couple of things. I have one that is a grievance, which is just a grievance. And you don't know that I have this grievance. It's new. It's a new grievance and the word age. Well, you wouldn't believe these days. I'll tell the grievance. Let's go. I like the grievance. Okay, I like your grievances. Let's go with that. I have a new on my, a new name on my enemy's list that I, yeah, yeah, enemy. This enemy's list is not long. I don't, I don't spend a lot of time on the past or any of that. But now I've had to scroll in blood on my grievance list. Pup cups. I don't even know what a pop cup is. God bless it.
35:16Exactly. And you shouldn't, you shouldn't know what they are. The hell is a pop cup. They have arrived out of nowhere and people refer to them as if you know what they are. Oh, we got to get our dog a pop cup. And they say it to you like it's a thing. Gotta get a pop cup. Oh, my dog loves a pop cup. Go to Starbucks. They go, do you want a pop cup? You got a dog in car. You want a pop cup. These two words together, pop cup. Don't work. And this is, I guess this goes with this. It's it, there's discomfort in that for me. There's an, the, the, the, on a monopiatic. I don't know. It's the plosives together. The, the, the brightness of the, uh, in, uh, in pop cup, that there's something bad coming. You know, it's not, it, it's fomenting. It's foreshadowing danger and trouble in your life. So what is it you say you asked just earlier? I did, I did. I'll,
36:18I'll tell you, it's a cup that has like whipped cream in it, right? And it's for your pop. And they eat them and they love them because it's creamy goodness. You know what else is creamy? The shit after they eat it. You cannot give cream to a dog. Some of them are getting some, some pop, pop, pop, which was, which we were pointed to and my wife just innocently went, Oh, that sounds like a thing we want. And they will love and all dogs love them. And it's an actual thing that's always existed because we talk about it as if it does. There's one that has yogurt, but it's got like a dog nutrients and stuff in it and blah, blah, blah, blah. Like you would need it. It isn't human consumption. It would taste like a, I don't know,
37:19salmon. So Alan, is, is your grievance with the, the person who invented the pop cup or is your grievance with every barista who says, would you like a pop cup knowing what is in store for you? I think, I think dogs that have been raised on them, it just fits right in their diet. Their bodies are like, I know what this is. I know how to, how to process this into solids. For my dogs, it's like you're filling a soft serve machine. That's what you put in the top. And then out of the bottom, there's an air bubble in there. It's just going to take a minute to, they got to let it go. Got a feed through the system. At two in the morning, near the one rug and thank God, Dan Clara, my middle dog Aunt Clara did not hit the rug. There was
38:24a little, but not enough to kill the rug because she's killed so many rugs. Anyway, I think my grievance is with, I, I've on my list, my grievance is, it's with the entire pop cup industrial complex. It's so, that it's just been slipped into our society. And there are many, especially youngs in this world who don't even know that there was a world before pop cups. It's just something that exists like, I don't know, ice cream or meatball sandwiches. You're like, oh yeah, meatball sandwich, that's a thing. This so anyway, my dogs have diarrhea. Alan, I wish I could, I wish I had a number for how many times your stories have ended with,
39:26so anyway, my dogs have diarrhea. Alan, at this point, I think we should open up the Florida questions now. You and I often engage in the practice of having like a little something that we give to people for asking a question. Yeah. And today, I have been endeavoring to like up the ante, I guess. So today, we have, I ordered little, once we were spacemen, poker chips. Oh, cool. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. I remember them now. I also have like little aluminum business cards onto which has been laser engraved by me. The once we were spacemen logo, your autograph, my autographed on the backside of QR code that takes you to everything once we were spacemen. I want you to know I did not order these. I had, I made these myself. I taught myself how to
40:27use this laser engraver. Wait, what? Yeah. I didn't know that. By the way, remember I said, hey, send me your thing. And I was putting them all together on my computer and doing like, hey, I was like, hey, send me your, I always send your code to your ATM. Right. Yeah. I need to buy a laser. Same thing. So each one of these cards took after all the hours of learning how to use this machine and setting it up and understanding what to do and how to connect to my computer and they're getting these things in the heat and the thing and the framing of the thing. So I don't burn my fingers or breathe in the, you know, toxic smoke. Each one of these took me three minutes and 22 seconds to make just sitting there. I got that time down to just over a minute. All right. By, you know, but I just want you to know how difficult it was. Man, thank God there was a dispensary near your house. Yeah, they don't let me go there anymore.
41:28Shall we do, uh, let's get to know you better? Oh, God, yes. I know you and you know me. Let's get to know you better. Let's get to know you better, Nathan. We should also have some, some, some listener questions at some point. We could figure that out. That's a great idea, Alan. Do like submit listener questions from the mailbag type of thing. I shouldn't ask so surprised when you have a good idea. It's a, it's a classic, it's old classic. We're definitely going to do that. All right. Let's get to know you better, Alan. Tell me something that I don't know. From a killer. Who? How about that? Do you know that about me? We suspected I'm a killer. I grew up in text. It's a taste. Listener note. The following content is a personal story involving the hunting and death of an animal. If this content may be difficult for you, feel free to skip ahead nine minutes and 43 seconds or choose another episode. I killed a deer once. I didn't know this is not something I
42:34would have was guessed about you. It was the day I became a man, Nathan. That was the right of passage. It was, that's how it was set up. I was in South Texas. We have some land. I got like 200 and some makers down in South Texas. And I was a kid. My grandpa took my brother and I out to the land. My sister was there too, but she was off with my dad. They were going to kill some rabbits. Also killers. I don't know what all killing things is. I don't think we needed the food anyway. Whatever. It's just what you do. That's sport. So where they live, this is a real thing. Like, it actually they do need the food. So if they kill for food. And so I was in a deer blind. This deer blind happened to have plywood walls. It seemed very, very unsportsmanly, but have plywood walls and had a swivel chair in it. My brother was down in some oak field way down. They dropped him off. And I was over here. And there's little squares cut out of the plywood box. You can see out in there is a field in front of me. Like,
43:36deer will come into there to eat. Great. So I was turned with my back to that point where the deer's were going to come. And I was watching the sun come up because it was pretty. And I was 16 of 15, 16. And I heard a twig snap, the classic twig snap. I turned around and there was a deer there. And it was a mama deer with two. I let's just say he was a mama deer. If you want to fill in what the two was, just that's you'll have to guess what I was going to say. Years, two years and two years with it. And I started to turn my chair around and it went, and it looked up at me, right at me, right at me. And I was breathing. And it just went back to eating. It couldn't see me. They see these blinds are there all the time, but they don't recognize it as human because they can't see it's just a little box. They don't see the behind the square. So I start to around, it looks back up, goes back to eating. I get all the way back. I put the massive high powered rifle 30 up six man come on. Clock that time on some bitch. I aim, pull the trigger.
44:42It's the safety's on. I start hyperventilating. I'm full on and like a panic breathing. I had to put my face into my shirt to calm down. The deer stayed. When I turn and look again, it's butt is to me. Well, I'm supposed to, the only thing my grandpa told me because I don't know anything about this. We grew up in the city. We were just there for holidays, relaxing, you know, killing things, just relaxing. So it's got his butt to me. He said, I was supposed to shoot it in the neck. And then the second I shot it, I'm supposed to take this buck knife that he handed me, run down, it's slitted throat. So easy as that man. Come on. So I look up, it's about as to me. I can't even see its neck. I aim where the, no, no, no, I aim where the neck is going to be when it turns around. And I hit the blind with my hand and it turned its head, it cramed its head around to see what it was. And I shot, I must have closed my eyes because it fell right where I shot because it had pierced
45:48its spine and gone out the front of the neck. This is a terrible story. This is a terrible story. This is a terrible story. I'm telling a terrible story. But listen, let me try this. This is the truth that I didn't know about you. And listen, I can see the pain in your face. I was trying to watch the sunrise. I'm an artist. I'm like in Texas. This is like a deep, this has been a struggle in my life. Like the Texas man thing, but I'm not that at all, you know, I'm anyway, I didn't like sports or wouldn't good. Anyway, let's just calm down a little bit. I'm not going to hyperventilating it. Okay, I'm good. So I shot and then I pick up the buck knife and I'm climbing out of this deer blind, running over to it like cut its throat. What the hell? I don't want to cut its throat. It's still alive, but it's paralyzed. You're laughing. You can see how awful this situation is. I'm just I'm beside myself. I'm so sorry. It was terrible.
46:53It was so hard. I mean, this this young man just having just just this confused like my pre-crap, what told me I know I should be supposed to. Yeah, what do I like? You're just you're you're not the man you are now. For certain. I'm not. But I'm done pretending. I'm just who I am. You know, I'm not trying to be something I'm not. And that's I was trying to be man. And so it kicks its legs when I come I put the knife on his throat and it's kicked its front legs and blood squirted out of the exit wound. Jesus. I know. It was a horror show. Horror show. We should put a parental advisory on. I don't know just everybody. If you have to get crazy about this stuff and I'm so sorry and I love animals. Anyway, I go I'm not going to I'm not doing this. I get my gun. I went back up got the gun and came back to shoot it one last time to put it out of its misery, but it was already it had already passed. And then I just put my arm around its neck and laid down on it because it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. It was so
47:56gorgeous. And now this is a female deer. My dad had said when we before I'm going to at least said my grandma said it there's a deer. Kill it. And my dad said, well, hold on, Ralph, hold on. Not if it's a female deer. I think that's illegal. He goes, no, it's legal out here. You can kill a female deer or a male deer. It's fine. And so I kill this. They come around about 30 minutes later. They heard the shot in the truck. My brother was really good in biology and science and loved those types of things and didn't have queesiness at all about it. He's like, you didn't split its throat. You ruined it in the meat. So he goes in there and cuts the jugular vein, which was dig disgusting. And my grandpa goes, well, we're going to need to saw this thing's head off because you can't kill female deer out here. Oh god. What? So I'm poaching or I'm breaking laws. So we did that out there. And then we took all of the innards, which was the worst smell ever. And I know, hey,
49:02guys, if you're like a hunter and you're like, and you're listening, you're like, God damn boy, what the hell is wrong? Look, I don't have what I shouldn't have been there. That smell, it smells like death. It's death, death, death. And I did skin it. When I got back to my grandma's house, we brought it there and we got back to their house. And I skinned it. My grandma was so confused because she gave me hugs. Congratulations. You killed your first deer. You did it. And it was like she's female. She's mother. She's my mother's mother. She represents all of that. And she's so happy. I've done this thing that was so horrible. I skin it. We put it in the truck. We go to this place and I drop it off into a walk in freezer where there's a bunch of deer carcasses. We drop it off. It's a bar. And my grandpa orders me a beer. Now this is about 10 in the morning at this point. Then the older you again at this point. 15. And the bartender comes over and he's like, hey, is anybody talking to my brother and I? I either want to y'all. There's a thunderbird up front there. I got that same thunderbird. That thing's been parked here for two weeks with two flat tires.
50:05Somebody busted my driver's side window. I'll give you some money if you go out there and steal the window out of there. And my grandpa goes, I got a screwdriver you can use. And here's this. So I went out and stole the window out of that car. I cut that I pulled it out and brought it in dropped on that. I got paid. I got drunk. I stole. I killed. It was this whole day. And I got home at night and right before bed, I just threw it all up. Did you know that about me, Nathan? I can safely say I did not notice about you. That was my coming of age story. After killing and drinking and stealing. Yeah. Yeah. Getting paid for it and brazed for it. Yeah. Were you a man? I don't think so. I think I was confused. I think I was all of it. All of that for not. It missed the mark. That was a lot of
51:07cultural pressure you were under as a young man. Yeah. I don't want to tell you. I don't think your dad and your grandfather was a good influence. I think he was. My grandpa was a very complex individual. Imagine. Here's the screwdriver. Yeah. Yeah. He didn't. Yeah. He drew his lines in different places than most people as far as wet's cross in the line. He was cowboy, real cowboy. Well, Alan, despite all that, I'm going to go ahead and say, you turn out great. I'm so glad. I'm so sorry for anybody. Like, you wouldn't. Yeah. This was a thank you for sharing. Now, this was incredible truth that you just shared with us. I'm going to say thank you. There's no judgment here. This is you were a young man. You were 15 years old. No judgment. This is incredible. I appreciate so much that I got to know you better. What is the just I just wonder about the statute limitations on some of these crimes I've just admitted to
52:08when they're recording? I'm going to look that up and take that up with our legal department. Okay. After this recording, got a legal part. Okay. Good. Good. Good. Thank you. How about you? What do I not know about you, Nathan? I collect flashlights. Okay. Let's part of our show. You were killing me think with those flashlights. Yeah. That was pretty intense and deep. I'm not going to lie. I don't have anything. Anything equitable to offer you. I was going to you know, I like gadgets. One of my things that I'm pretty OCD about is flashlights. I love a good flashlight. I this story. I should have gone first. Well, I'm interested. Let me just tell you that. When did this flashlight obsession start because I've noticed I was a young man. I'm so glad you asked because I thought about this. I was a young man. My dad's friend Jim Olson had a son who was my age. They would bring us out to Lake Wobbeman. In Lake Wobbeman, the Olsons had a family
53:14cabin on the lake right on the beach. It was really fun as a kid. Oh my god. It was really cool to be out there right down the road with the sand clips. They had the old general store nearby with the soda machinery put the coins in it, open a door, you pull the one soda can out of the refrigerated slide. The long skinny, slidey door that had them in there. It was paradise growing up to have that kind of access to a lake. And the kids next door had a trampoline and they lived out there. One day I was moving from one cabin to the next and in the tall grass between the two cabins, there was a flashlight. An old timey metal chrome really pretty had a bulb in it. Flashlight. And I said, hey, do we have any batteries for this? And yeah, Jim had some batteries in the kitchen junk drawer. Through them in there and I had a flashlight and nighttime out of the lake got he got dark got real dark. Yeah, I had a flashlight. And from then on, the more intense
54:19and brighter and better the flashlight, the more I just really enjoyed it. I always have a flashlight. If I travel, I have like a little clip on little LED little flat something little just a good little flashlight. If I were to be stuck in the wilderness with my bag I get on the plane with I'd be okay for a while. I got stuff in there. You got a pretty kid. Yeah, I got like some beef jerky snacks just in case and a sewing kit and a flashlight. I have probably seven flashlights six of them were gifts from you. I'm pretty sure that sounds about right. The power went out not too long ago like last week up in my neighborhood for whatever reason. And I kept finding new flashlights. If I found one and then I'm like, well, where's that other one? It was supposed to be here and oh, look at this little one. Oh, yeah, Nathan gave me this. Oh, look at this one. Oh, this is one of those pinch. Oh, yeah, this one. But you do have flashlights that for those listening, these things are the kind that they go terrorists could use these to take down a plane. That's the kind of
55:21flashlight that he's got ones that can that have such brightness. So many lumens that it's like do like a nighttime baseball game because Nathan's out there shine is flashlight. Pretty particular like so many flashlights have all these you have to cycle through low medium high and then there's a strobe and then there's an SOS like I thought a lot of functions on flashlight that I really don't need. I like the cob lights. It's like a line of LEDs on the side of it. One of our new sponsors cob lights. When you can't see turn on your cob light, it it. Time for some light on the cob. There you go. Creamed light or light on the cob. Fresh cob lights. So you like a cob light. Does it give a wide beam? That's the throw. You're looking at the term you're looking for. I need some turn to your man. The throw. So some lights I have have like a like a sliding lens on it. So you pull it back real far. You got a wide throw and you like that's the kind of thing like you can play baseball underneath that. But if you need
56:25some distance like you want to see the owl on that tree a mile away or take down the lane. You ended it right easy easy right. But yeah, that's I collect flashlights. I do. It's so nerdy that is such a specific nerddom that it's bless you, sir. That started when I was a child. I had well you were out there. Nick taking lives. Bambees mom. Okay, I've been introduced in this concept lately of master punchlines. The classic is you know, you hear something that could be a sexual one. You endo that's what she said. It works for a great many things. So the master punchline there would be that's what she said. That's correct. Okay. So different punchlines that you have that you you can use and pull out at any time. One that I really enjoy is how dare you. Right. You can use it a lot. One I just learned recently. Can I give can I try an example just so that people can hear how that might be a punchline. I would say
57:25something to you like man, you look great. How dare you. Is that with that be it? Well, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I have a different master punchline for that. Okay. Tell me again. Yo man, you look great. Why do you sound surprised? Master punchline. Master punchline. And can we get a punch sound on that? There we are. And when you when you start sharing these with people, they start going, oh my dad always says this. When he does something mundane, he says, little trick I learned in the army. Oh, so like, uh, right? Yeah. So I think we I think you have a pull that you got to pull this door really shut or it won't lock little trick I learned in the army. Exactly. That kind of exactly. And that's a master that's a master punchline. You just got
58:28punched. I don't know that I have. And I could actually work for the puns as well. Oh, you got punched. Punished. It's better than that because that is just annoying. I don't like and I'm the one who keeps doing it. Okay. Those are some good master punchlines. I'm going to now try to think of some in my own life. I don't know that I have them. I'm going to keep an eye out now. I'm sure there must be one or two that I abuse. Yes. My instead of using that's what she said. You can use it synonymously with that's what she said. Line. I like to say leave it. Yes. Which so again, and I mean to bring this right back to leave it. Sorry. You've been punched. To bring that back to an Amsterdam. Leave it. You and I, this is the story I thought you were going to tell not the picture story. We were in that bar or in a coffee house. And there was a bloke in there. I remember this. And he was talking. He was going on and on and on and on about
59:33this and that. Isn't that. Isn't that he was at the next table. But he was very interested in talking to us. Yeah. You know, I mean, don't tell you. Yeah. Don't you know, I mean, he kept always saying, you know, I mean, don't have to tell you. Oh, but that was his. That was his A. That was his little. It was his tag for near everything. He said. Yeah. His life. It was built on concentric circles. You know, I mean, don't have to tell you this block was made 800 years ago. You go another block that was made 700 years ago. concentric circles. You know, I mean, don't have to tell you. Yeah. We get that weekend. It just kept getting longer and longer. You know, I mean, don't have to tell you. I'll get jacked up. Jacksy. That was the final. But I think I still have it in my phone. If I do some sort of keyboard shortcut, treat it. I mean, don't have to tell you trickle up. Jacksy. But you're welcome. So leave it. I guess wasn't in it. I just put it in it. But leave it. Leave it. Leave it. That is
1:00:39a good one. Right. So what would be something that you would say before leave it? Well, if anyone if you if you someone says a sexual innuendo and then realizes it's a sexual innuendo, you coming with leave it. So I'd say it's a bit nippy this morning. Leave it. You've just been punched. Boy, it was a long hard one. Leave it. Sure, it's not. You take that. I'm going to yell you said. I think I already do actually. I got to tell you. I once went to his house and I was afraid because of the flock of hummingbirds that he had tamed and was floating around him like some sort of like dementia snow white. I've never seen anything in my life. Like the number I was like, I didn't know that hummingbirds would gather a numbers like this. It's called a charm. Felicia. It's called a charm of hummingbirds. Well, you're you're very charming. On the head. On this spaceship, I see nothing but a sausage fest. That's right. Man, man, man. It is so many
1:01:45space. Man, it's kind of stinks. It's not just it's just a little extra temperature in the air. It's like a like a compost heap on a hot sunny day. It stinks. Listen, I need to go wash myself with Nathan Philly and Alan Judy. Oh, that was awful. I don't know. That was that was disturbing a little bit. It was unpleasant. I got everybody pictured three dicks and then then there was not everybody. Dude, not everybody was picturing not two is our max. I'm just now getting into techno. I have to say I feel like I've missed. That is something that Europeans have a fondness for. I come from originally from Texas and there are many people and listen to it in Texas, but I started off in the twang world growing up listening to what my parents were playing and it's taken me a long time to get to more electronic sounds.
1:02:45God, so you're now listening to a techno. There's a band in I don't know if it's considered techno. I think it is partly techno dance. There's a band in London called chunky mermaid, mermaid chunky. Do you know this band? They're called mermaid comma chunky. No, just one word altogether, mermaid chunky. I don't know. I would google this immediately after hanging out. I stumped up to the hype man. This is a new, I'm sorry. This is a new feature I want to add to our thing, Nathan. And it is a good time to bring this out. It is Alan suggest one song a podcast. Well, right now, I'd like to tell you I'm listening to this great two female band called mermaid chunky. They're from London. And if you'd listen to one song, please listen to shaperone. All right, that has been the first installment of what you're listening to.
1:03:51Yeah, I'll just I do this. I announced a song. I know we're in another thing, but this is another thing inside of a thing. It is a the song that I'm going to suggest is Willie Nelson. I feel like he's this is what are you listening to? Yeah, this is what. Yeah, so this is what are you listening to? What are you listening to inside of the other thing, which is cowboys are frequently here. It's it's called cowboys are frequently secretly fond of each other. That's the song. That's what I'm listening to. That's a country song. If you like it, but you're like, I don't think I see I'd I would country listen to Willie Nelson sing the song cowboys are frequently secretly fond of each other. It's very funny. It's got a novelty sense to it. All right. And that is also the conclusion of my getting to know me. I was listening to a song this morning. Let's do what are you listening to? I'm listening to Dan Reader. Dan Reader is a guy who as I heard it,
1:05:03put out a dad and album and sent it to to John Prime, big folk singer, like the greatest folk singer, sent a sent an album in with demos and said, Hey, would you record any of my songs? I think they'd fit with your style. And John Prime said, I love all your songs. And I'm not recording any of them. I'm going to produce your album. Yeah. And now Dan Reader's put in put out a lot of albums. And he's got there's a lot of novelty in these, which you'll hear when you listen to nobody wants to be you by Dan Reader. I'll just read you a little bit. It tells the story like a lot of folk songs do. And this one tells the story. It reveals the story as the song goes along. It starts out saying, you're going to have to tell her where the money went. Why you can't pay the rent. Why you have to move. You're going to have to tell her what happened
1:06:04to the car and who those guys are in the living room. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, nobody wants to be you. So story of somebody who's made the some terrible decisions, just a little quick. The next, the next versus my favorite. And who's that girl who's been hanging around the one in the white tube top and the tattoos. And why is she showing everybody that ultrasound? And what does that have to do with you? Whoa, whoa, whoa, nobody wants to be you. So that's that's a that's the song. I've been listening to Dan Reader. And where did you discover this one? I guess I just listened to John Prime and possibly you know one place to hear songs and you you asked me this before. Where do you find your music? I find it on radio stations a lot of time. Whenever you're in town and you live in Los Angeles, so you can go to there's there's there's usually on the lower end of the 80s and all
1:07:06of that those those 80, 80, 80, 80, 88, 0.78, 0.3, Marmont University or Mammant University something. KXLU 88.9 FM is a college and community radio station broadcasting out of Loyola Mary Mount University in Southwest Los Angeles. University stations they get these young people who are DJing they're they're like you'll hear them they'll be like hi so that was the back spasms and they're really good and they they talk too long but when they play stretch of music it's music you haven't heard or they have just really good chunks of of new music in Austin whatever I get to Austin I find just find college radio college radio because they're just putting it so great stuff. My next question is then because I don't listen to a lot of radio yeah you listen to a serious radio maybe I tend to only listen to what I want to hear so I'm not I've kind of nailed my
1:08:08scope to only what I want to listen to right right but my question is what device are you using to listen to radio well when I was in LA the car car radio that was where I was getting it because you're always stuck in your car and then do do do do hit your iPhone to say identify this song for me so that I know what's going on here yeah usually that um because the olds will remember there is a time when we'd have to be like oh my god what's this song and you'd have to listen and listen and wait till the DJ comes back and then they'll be like okay that was and they'll and they'll tell you who it was hopefully and then your mom goes Alan I want you to allow the dish stop talking mom they're coming on the shirt and there's a list on the door you just made you're rooting everything okay good well nothing needs to happen right now so wait till later any other thing so that's who that was coming up next we got our drive time at five and we're going to check in with our helicopter traffic um so I would listen to the radio in the car
1:09:12I don't have a radio I'm listening to now I got I don't have own a radio for I was thinking this is like who owns a radio I used to listen to radio when I lived here before I listened to one station I used to listen to a station that had new music and I would record it on a cassette I record the radio station on a cassette while they played it so I could go back and listen to who the people were so I've been I've been Coleman for music for a while because I so when I find a good song I cherish it part of the technology is if you wanted to collect a song it was out but was not available yet you had to record it off the radio right you'd call into the radio station and you'd say hey I'd uh I've loved to hear this song and I want to record it so they would know not to talk over oh the top of the song that's an excellent radio DJs do and they stop talking right at the that is the worst yeah it's like hey man I'm I X wife is in town you'll find that singer coming
1:10:12down step on all over your DJ yeah where they're like okay and I'm going to play for you now Terry jacks uh with uh who is Terry jack does Terry jacks do um uh being a calada I think he's the pinkie calada song pinkie calada song either that or he's um uh the one about uh escapes seasons in the sun what is it escape is the name of the pinkie calada song well the pinkie calada song is in brackets but it's called escape really Terry jacks is known for his 1974 hit song seasons in the sun escape the pinkie calada song is a song written and performed by robert homes I just learned that seasons in the sun as Terry jacks a sad song I'm bringing up more songs that aren't necessarily on the album that I'm putting out good by my friend it's hard to die yeah that's a real weepy song yeah but like they're really putting their finger on it with that one like they're trying like hey let's write something with this really sad it's so good though
1:11:13it's so good goodbye papas it's hard to die when all the birds are singing in the sky uh but yeah so they would talk over the thing uh I I'd like to DJ one day I want to be a DJ one day and I'll try I'll try not to talk over too much but I probably will a little bit listen this is so funny because at the end of every conference anyway again because we're really on a state school we used to play um job is cocka common people we used to play pop common people yeah yeah and we used to start and the circle that and they'd all be trying to get into the group and I na na na na na this one for us did you hear William Shatner's uh remake of that song common people he did a remake of common people it's bad as I recommended this will be Alan Saga the day what do you listen to what are you listening to Alan can you turn it down uh it's uh common people by William Shatner
1:12:13all right that's good I'm sorry to interrupt but yes the yes that's brilliant um buddy I knew I want to I want to suggest a song what do you listen to out of respect to the um coming out about my sobriety uh it's a song called spring water uh by bird cloud it is a song about it's called the course is just man it's these two women and it's that moment where your life is going so shitty that are you especially for drunks when they have done something they've just really run they've run the car into a ditch and they just all they can say is man man there's no other that you've just really screwed up I'll give you just a couple of of uh some lyrics for you these are the lyrics that speak to you yes yes so these are this is a female singing sang CCR after Huff and Gasoline threw up potato salad on the karaoke machine told my
1:13:16friends kids Santa wasn't real are you interested in boobies yet do you want to feel one man man and that that spoke to you that's the part that it's a funny song it's a novelist song I love good novelty in my music and it's just that kind of it's that drunken somebody who's how screwed up as this person they were Huff and Gasoline they threw up on the karaoke but they say karaoke which is a great thing karaoke machine can you imagine first of all telling your friends kids that Santa isn't real and then she follows it up with are you interested in boobies yet do you want to feel one man Jesus Christ this is a terrible person it's just really I mean that is bad all right well thank you for letting me share that body wonderful hi there I'm Nathan fillian and now I'll read the once
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