Dumb People Town - Dan Dunn - Makeshift Tiki Bar

Episode Date: March 19, 2021

This week Dan Dunn comes to town to hang with Daniel, Jason and Randy to hear about a roommate attack.

Skypains Avenue Hey, Tatties, welcome to a Friday episode of Dumb People Town. Population U. Population Dunn. Dan Dunn, we Dunn did it. How are you, buddy? What's going on, fellas? Oh my God. I feel like of all the people in this world, you are so uniquely designed and engineered for this specific podcast where we look at stupid behavior because a lot of it starts with a bottle of something. Am I right? No,

we're not asking you to blaspheme the very thing that is your, your power source. But we are saying that some people, when they drink irresponsibly, they do dumb things. I know. How do we, how do you walk the tight rope of doing the right thing and,

and knowing when enough is enough? That's my question to you, because I like drinking occasionally, and I do like... I like it a lot. There's certain times when I really like drinking, but I don't know if I have the power to know that, okay, this is over the line or not. I don't trust myself. Well, I would say this. If you know that you're crossing the line then you clearly haven't had enough to drink okay isn't that kind of how that's like saying i'm crazy you're not crazy if you're saying you're crazy okay yeah like randy you've never found yourself

throwing wrenches at somebody at a children's playground right like so you aren't that would be me not and then but i'd be thinking to myself i'm in the right i'm throwing wrenches at people and they're the assholes. And the age has something to do with it, too, because when we're in our 20s and we're drinking, what's considered dumb or asshole-ish behavior is a lot different than when you're in your 40s, for instance. Not that I've learned from that.

I keep repeating the same behaviors over and over again. But I just feel worse about them now. When I was younger, it was like, yeah, who cares? Well, so we like to, I wonder, let me ask you this. Do you think the world has gotten dumber in recent times? Are we like- Are we more brazen with our stupidity? Are we cascading off a cliff of dumb into a dumb oblivion?

What's happening now? Oh my, yeah. I i mean look at what look at the last four or five years you know i mean i just i if there's any bright spot for the pandemic and and you know i know i'm glad we're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel that light is a bar for me and but if there's any good thing that came about because of it is the shame was drained from my body of just being able to drink every day yeah because it was okay to do it and and and i needed to after you know not to get political but after four years of what we went through it was kind of refreshing to be drunk for the final year of it and be okay and be alone in my

house and yeah but can i just but don't you miss the i miss a good bar i mean having lived in new york city for five years i miss that really good especially a room full of strangers and a couple people you like yeah it just it just it's beautiful warmth right yep so we i went to a i live in venice beach and uh, and so we've got the outdoor dining going on. And a few weeks ago, when they resumed outdoor dining, we went to this place called Nueva, which has a really cool outdoor space. But how they do it, and you guys know, is you got to stay in your little bubble at your table. And so I was with a couple of my guy friends, and there was a table of three women next to us, just right next to us. And at some point in the evening, we just got bold and brazen, and we turned our chairs toward each other.

That's a bold move. And we weren't—I didn't move over to their table, but we were looking at each other. We were engaging, and we were speaking, and all I kept thinking to myself was, holy fuck. I can curse, right? I was like, Jesus Christ, do I miss this? And I wasn't even sidled up next to them at the bar just having a conversation. They were a few feet away,

but we were still engaging with people we didn't know. And it felt like, it felt so foreign. And yet it was, I'm kind of welling up thinking about it. That's how great it was. There are moments where, like I think about Bar Bandini, which is over by me and then out by you, the other, was it the other room? The other room.

Yeah, on Abbot Kinney. On the room on Abbot Kinney, yeah. I love that place because it's born out of two bars in New York. And it's just, there's something about the place that is warm and inviting, although it can be the beginning of a dumb story. And so we get dumb stories sent to us by our fans. We do.

And we like to break them down. So if you'll let us indulge you, let us break down a story, all of us together. Does that sound like a good idea? Let's do it. I welcome the dumb. All right, let's bring it. We always do.

This was sent in, as Randy said, by our fans. All of them are. Guys, I love when you guys send me these stories. You can do so by going to at Daniel Van Kirk on Twitter and then just hashtagging dumb people town in your tweet. This was sent in by Liz Haggerty at Liz

Haggerty. She's been around for a long time. I want to call her gentleman. Liz is a dumb reporter for us. She's like a stringer for she's embedded in the dump. Okay, here we go. Ready? Yeah.

Angered that her roommate was playing the chic classic La Freak over and over again, very loudly. I love that. That's still a thing, guys. It's still a thing. Freak out. A Florida woman allegedly battered the disco devotee

during a twelve fifteen a.m. confrontation in the duos apartment. So we're just after midnight. One person wants to keep hearing the freak over and over again, and the other person said no, I got to put an end to this devil, you know, right

first of all, not a Nile, not a Nile Rogers fan.'s the devil you know. Right. First of all. Not a Nile Rodgers fan. By the way, he got in the Hall of Fame for that, in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Really? Yeah, he's in the, yeah. Yes, absolutely. Warren Zevon, not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Nile Rodgers.

Peter Frampton, not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. So that's. Okay, can I drop something for you here, Darrell? And I'll just drop a little name. So I used to live in Colorado, in Aspen, and I worked for Hunter S. Thompson. Wow. Yes.

Talk about. And Hunter was very good friends with Warren. Yeah. And I do not purport to know Warren well, but I've met him several times through Hunter. And I could tell you from what I know of him, he would not at all be disappointed that he's not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Oh, yeah. I love you that 100%. It just doesn't seem like a thing that he would not at all be disappointed that he's not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Oh, yeah. It just doesn't seem like a thing that he would endorse or care about. Right. He'd rather be kept in your heart for a while, not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He probably would rather people be angry that he's not in the Hall of Fame. That's right. He's happy to be an outsider. Bitching about it.

Yeah. So here's my question, though. If you are about to start some shit with your roommate, you have to live with that person. Right. You know what you're getting into. This isn't fighting at a bar. This is like when somebody fights with you over a parking spot. Yep.

I've said this to people before. You're both going in the same place. When they've got a real dick about it, I go, okay, fine. Just know, I know where your car is parked. Right. So however you want to treat me, whatever you want to say or do, I'm just telling you, I'm going to leave here. You don't know where I'm going.

But I know where your car is parked. That's right. That's right. These people know where their bedrooms are. Right. I know where your bedroom is. First off, it sounds like there must have been, if you're playing freak out over and over at 1215,

I'm going to guess there might have been other substances involved. Yes. That are making you do that and secondly what I would have done if I were the roommate that that she came out got my face but I said I'm I'm sorry you're right it's bad turn it off when she goes back in the room I would put on Leo Sayers you make me feel like dancing which I think we can all agree is the inferior song in that era but and just play that even louder I mean all right all agree is the inferior song in that era. Yes, sure. And just play that even louder. I mean, that dude, by the way, Leo Sayer was about 4'11".

With the fro, maybe 5'6". And he was wearing what could only be described as a leotard. You got a new way of talking. That was his real voice. I know it was. I want to look up a little image. So he had, by the way, when I went down a deep Leo Sayer. How deep is it?

He had like seven. I was going to say, how deep is that hole? By the way, Jay, go through Leo Sayer's hits. He had about seven to ten. Wait, Daniel, can you name another? I can't. Can you name another Leo Sayer? There is one other.

I just heard it recently on 70s on 7. And I was like, oh, I do know this song. I was surprised it was Leo Sayer. More than I can say. more than I can say. More than I can say. How does that go? When I need you. Oh!

So, When I Need You, that's a different song. And then he had, you may be familiar with the dancing, he had Long Tall Glasses. Don't know it. Don't know that one. One Man Band. Should have gotten out at When I Need You. Orchard Road, I can't stop loving you.

How much love raining in my heart? No, I don't know. Lighting. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure he recorded a lot of songs, but I'm giving it all away. Heart. There's a theme to Leo Sayers. Yeah.

If you will. You're not going to see like fuck the police in the middle of that, right? It's like I love you. I would love him is like, is it okay if we hold dancing the night away how does that go i don't know we'll figure it out anyway the point is that like that is a great call because then can they get mad at something that's that soft you know right but i love that you're like if you're going to start shit with your roommate if you're playing that song over and over you're the one starting shit oh yeah a hundred oh yeah you know what you're playing that song over and over, you're the one starting shit. Oh, yeah. A hundred percent. Oh, yeah. You know what you're doing.

According. By the way, if you listen to anything over and over and over, I don't care if it's the best thing in the world, over and over and over again, people are going to get mad. According to an arrest affidavit, Mary Ann Lannan. Oh, look at Leo. Mary Ann Lannan. He looks like a kid that's been shot out of a t-shirt cannon

Yes He's like the precursor to what was the exercise guy Richard Simmons Doesn't he kind of have a Richard Simmons vibe Going on there He's like a smaller more effeminate He's Richard Slimmons According to an arrest affidavit

Mary Ann Lannan Quote became upset after the victim Who's Lannan's cousin. So not only are they roommates. Here he is today. Here he is today. He has not aged well. He looks like his new name is Felton John.

Or he looks like your Aunt Barb. Yeah, he does. Hey, your Aunt Barb is coming over here tonight. She's got a great condo in Florida, though. She's really listening to a lot of NPR. And just, you know, let her talk. I mean, there's definitely a point where he's like there's not enough paint splotches

on this jacket. No. So the victim is Landon's cousin. Marianne Landon became upset. So their cousins sharing a place. So not only do you have to share, but you might see this person at a family reunion, right after after Landon's

cousin put the 1978 seventy eight song on repeat investigators alleged that Lannan freaked out. Okay, we don't need to write jokes. We don't need to write jokes into our article that Lannan freaked out and pushed her kin into a this is a this you are Dan. You could

not have been a more perfect person to have on this episode of the show, because when I read what she got pushed into, not only is it so great in a vacuum to just have this fact in the story, the fact that you're here with us and your podcast, what we're drinking investigators say she became upset and she pushed her kin into a quote makeshift tiki bar in their apartment. Yep now I love the game i i applaud the game yeah you're

making a makeshift tiki bar but makeshift tiki bar might be my favorite ska band ever i want to i want to hang out with these people first of all they got the tiki bar they don't want to go all the way with the tiki bar you know i don't want to i don't want to think people to think i'm you know living an ostentatious life here. We'll just go with a makeshift tiki bar. That was another fight that led to this fight. That was the other fight. About whether or not they were going to have a tiki bar.

Can I shellac the tiki bar? No, you can't. You can't. It's going to stink up the place. I will accept it if it is not permanent. Do you know which band comes on before Goldfinger and Mustard Plug? Yeah, makeshift tiki bar. There you go. Makeshift Tiki bar. She

pushed her into the makeshift Tiki bar, causing the bar to fall apart. Tiki is always kind of rickety anyway. By the way, that was an hour's worth of work that she just destroyed in a matter of minutes. The bar fell apart and the victim

causing the victim to strike her left eye on a speaker. Oh, Lannan's cousin cops noted suffered severe swelling and a bruised left eye. So a black eye. Yeah, Lannan, who was arrested at the at the Tampa Bay area apartment, she shares with her cousin was charged with domestic battery, a misdemeanor seen above, which we will do later. Lannan was released Tuesday afternoon from the court. A judge ordered Lannan to have no contact with the victim. How are you going to do that?

You live with the person lived together whom she has lived with for how long? Okay, how long before we take a quick little break? We'll come back, find more about what we're drinking podcast and talk to Dan. I'm going to ask you guys get in your guesses before we go to the break. How long do you think these two Mary Ann Lannan and her cousin with a makeshift

tiki bar and a love of disco music like La Freak, how long have they been living together? Dan, you are a guest. What is your guess? Did it say how old they are? We will do that. They could be 60. It's right. I'm going to say

they don't sound like the most successful people. Maybe I'm making a judgment. The word makeshift, it wasn't a contract. Makeshift, roommate, adult roommate. We're not talking surgeons. They're probably not. Okay, they don't work at the same ward in the hospital. I'm going to think they've been living in this codependent situation for

six years six years jay what do you think it's 10 years 10 years i'm gonna say 24 years 24 years living together for a long time we're gonna take a break we'll be right back after this stick around make a sound there's more Hey guys, welcome back to the show Before we get to the answer of how long these two crazy freaks Have been living together We should mention, we got the live Dumb People Town It's going to be on April 10th Nowhere Comedy Club

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Oh yeah, for everything fun like bingo and hang out and live pen pals and all that stuff, just good vibes and good times. Go to daniel van kirk dot com and dan done. You've got a fantastic podcast about look. We talk drinking. It's about drinking what we're drinking. Tell the good folks about it and where they can check and also tell us what you're drinking. Tell the good folks about it and where they can check it out. And also tell us what you're drinking right now. Yeah, you're drinking right now. I have a Guinness. Nice. Because I got ambitious for St. Paddy's Day and I bought like a whole case

of Guinness. It's the leftover. Realizing I'm alone in this world. Yeah, this is kind of my leftover Guinness. I like a good Guinness. A good Guinness is fantastic. A meal in a bottle. It is a good afternoon beer. It's like pancakes in a bottle. The last trip I took, last time I was on an airplane,

it was just over a year ago. I went to Ireland. Did you? And among the many stops that I did over there was to go to the Guinness Brewery. And if anybody's a fan of beer, I highly recommend it. Really? Yeah, it's fantastic.

Ireland's fucking great. Love it. Yeah, What We're Drinking. It's a podcast. It's on the same network as you guys, Starburns. Yes. And, you know, there's a lot. It's a mixture.

We've got a ton of celebrities have been on the show. We've had Matthew McConaughey, Pitbull, Christie Brinkley, Steven Soderbergh. Awesome. On and on and on and on. We got Snoop Dogg coming up, Nick Jonas, John Bravado. Wow, great. Well, the beauty of it is all of these people are involved.

What brand do you guys have? Everybody's got a booze brand these days. Right, yep. Yeah, so that's been a boon for us. But then we also do a lot of stuff with, we've got distillers on, and I do stuff about trends, and it's mostly humor. We try to be funny and have a good time.

Yeah, but there's a whole culture. There's something to be gleaned and learned through the pods and there are certain drinking where there's a culture you know like like there's the scotch there are the scotch drinkers and the culture that surrounds all of that and and they're and they're very very geeky so for instance the current episode features three women because it is uh international national it's women's i celebrate it all year round but but i so there are three women that i have on the current episode from zakapa rum which is a beautiful rum from guatemala so that would be one of the that would

be an example of an episode where we kind of geek out a little bit more she talks about she talks about the and that that's fascinating to me it is fascinating to anyone aging process and where it comes from and and to hear it from from the people that are doing it themselves and i mean lorraine avasquez who's the master blender for that brand so 36 years she's been doing this so she knows what she's doing yeah that's so cool yeah and it's like you get that good at something and you're doing it for that long yes it's you know such like so many subtleties that the regular person just can't even understand like i'm sure she looks at a whole a batch or has like one little taste of it is like no no that's not the

right you know like they're so good with this they can catch notes of stuff that's in there that like our palates will never understand it's an it's a really an amazing skill and i you know in the whiskey world as well i mean all the spirits really but where you watch and you know there is definitely a scientific element to it where they're measuring but some of the best in the business are you're exactly right you're they're able to just nose it and say oh yeah no the ph level is off a little bit on this. And you're like, how the hell do you do that? I am in the presence of greatness right now. It's like watching Michael Phelps swim.

This is why celebrities fall. I really truly believe this. I just recently had Brian Cranston on. He started a mezcal, which is a really good mezcal called Dos Hombres with Aaron Paul. I understand why they fall in love with this side. Steven Soderbergh is Singani 63 is his brand. I think he might be more passionate about that

than filmmaking, right? Because they get to meet these people. There's no bullshit really in that world. You know, the people that are making this day in and day out are artisans, they're craftsmen. Women, craftswomen. Craftswomen, it's International Women's Month. People, peeps, craft peeps. No, it's a great idea.

It's so true. And you think about Soderbergh, too. We know people who have worked with him. And anybody who's like, say, that Soderbergh shot anything of theirs, they're like, he's doing things with camera angles. And he's like, just run the scene a couple of times. And you think you're just rehearsing it with the person. And meanwhile, he's got like the camera in a pen

up under the desk, shooting from an angle that you can't see. And you're like, oh my God, he just got the most natural performance in a way that, and so I'm sure he sort of geeks out on the exact same thing, the way people treat. Yeah, the details of it all. Well, he may, I mean, he's made,

I mean, the thing he makes Singani is the national spirit of bolivia which has been around for 500 years but up until a few years ago no one outside of bolivia had ever tried it when he made the movie che yeah he tried it fell in love with it and that this is 10 years ago and then made it his mission to bring this to the states and he's just about to get the ttb which regulates alcohol in the country in the united states yeah to declare singani right now it's categorized as brandy but he's going to get it declared its own category and i mean it's a lot of fucking work to do that and to see guys like him and i think cranston's really into it you know then you get people that just slap their name like justin timberlake slaps his name on it yeah did he does but you know what it still moves

a lot of product yeah did he does i always love the casa amigos story with cluny where him and that guy bought that farm and then they would just give casa amigos as gifts like at christmas and obviously at that level you're giving out like 300 gifts a year sure and then people told them like you have to sell this you should make it So they say went through that process like all right, we'll distribute it and then all the way up to them selling it for a billion dollars to him. It's a great tequila was Gerber and another guy. There are three of them.

Yeah, they invested all told of their own money, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and four years later sold it for a billion and it's a good for a clue for a guy who just hasn't succeeded. Finally got a break and it's a great feel for a guy who just hasn't succeeded finally got a break and it's just nice to see something go well feel free to correct me if i'm wrong because i don't know a lot but i really like that tequila that cost amigos blanco like i really enjoy that tequila i i do too and and you know you sound mad about it no i i do here's the thing i want to and i do like like the tilt the ochos and class azules and some of the smaller brands that come up i'm really sort of gravitating a lot more now towards mescal

just because yeah and that's gonna get over it's it is getting over i'm talking about brian cranston right now yeah but mescal still has that thing where i don't know if you guys it's just it's always like once it gets co-opted by, you know, the masses, then I'm like, oh, what's the next cool thing? And mezcal still has that, there's still a lot of little local mezcals that you can find, not so much in tequila anymore. But that said, the quality of tequila overall

as a category has gone up and Casamigos is a great example of that. And including a guy who, you know who this can help him with the ladies. I know, it's just such a positive thing. Let's get back to the story, shall we? Judge ordered Lannan, that's Mary Ann Lannan, such a Midwest name.

To have no contact with the victim who she lived with for how long? The guesses were, would you say six years? Six years. I said ten and I said twenty four. One of you, oh god is one year off. Would any of you and I would suggest all of you. Yeah, change your number one up or one down. Yes, Dan, Dan, seven, seven. I say twenty three nine.

They have been living together for five years. Oh, you went the wrong way. Still a winner still, by the way. Why do I always go up? Fittingly, I mentioned up person fittingly. I mentioned that we're going to be doing a greenly at the next live

show because there's a little bit of greenly ask writing in this. This is the next paragraph la freak written by Niles Rogers and Bernard Edwards, both of whom were members of chic, topped the billboard hot one hundred chart in twenty eighteen. The National Recording Registry of Library of Congress included the single among its quote oral treasures worthy of preservation described as an infectious danceable confection. Yep, the freak has become a quote staple of worthy of preservation. Wow! Described as an infectious, danceable confection,

Le Freak has become a quote staple of wedding receptions, movie soundtracks, and nightclubs. According to the Library of Congress, we will get out of here on this, and I'm going to even show you the picture first.

By the way, sometimes the picture is misleading. How old, you'll be able to see on the screen, how old is Marianne Lannan? Oh, Marianne Lannan. Marianne lannan oh marianne lannan mary and lannan does she look good she looks like she woke up on the wrong side of the bed she looks like she's the wrong side of the dismantled makeshift tiki bar she looks like she's been

soaking in rum and coconut i know she's for a little bit i I'm going to go. She's got to be younger than she looks. I'm going to think she's 28. What? 28 years old. What do you think, Jason? 28 hard years. Yeah. 39.

39. 34. 34. Mary Ann Lannan. All right. We'll get out of here on this. Is she on Bumble? No, no, no.

More of a hinge girl. She's on meth. I got vaccinated. I'm ready. Jay. She's on that I got vaccinated. I'm ready. Jay said she's on that she looks if she's on that she looks pretty good great. She's all not together. I was just a man allegedly okay. We'll get out of here in this such a fun day in the town. We'll close it up after I tell all of you that Mary Ann Lannan and Lannan is

fifty three years old. Lannan and Lannan is 53 years old. Great. Get me some tiki drinks. Oh my goodness. She's 53.

She is La Freak. She is La Freak. I'm freaking out. Oh my God. 53. Oh my God. She's 53. God, she looks good, man. She looks great. She looked for 53. She looks 53. God. She looks good, man. She looks great. She looked for 53. She looks fantastic.

I want to be forever. She did it. Make Chef Tiki Bar. Wow. Keep you young. This is it. The fantastic. I love it.

Well, this is awesome. Thank you guys. And thank you, Dan Dunn. This is just fantastic. Good times, everybody. And oh shit, we got to get back to work. Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum- Make a sound. Come here down. It's Dump People Town.