Dumb People Town - Phil Hendrie - You Got Me Again

Episode Date: April 2, 2024

Legendary radio host and comedian Phil Hendrie (Hendrie on all streamers) stops by as Daniel describes a man that got stung in the testicles by a scorpion while at a Las Vegas resort, Randy explains why an Oklahoma judge opened fire and intentionally crashed his car in Texas, and Jason warns against pulling your spouse's pants down in the town square of your Florida retirement village. Thanks to our sponsor: Faherty! For listeners of the show, Faherty Brand is offering 20% off your first order when you go to Fahertybrand.com/DPT you enter the promo code 20DPT at checkout.

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Okay. Hey, townies, welcome to another episode of Dumb People Town. Population, you. Population, Hendry. Phil Hendry, legend, and just a man who there's a documentary about right now. We're so happy you're here. Thank you. Thank you.

I've often driven by the city limits here and said, I got to go in. I got to go in. I need to use the can. This is the place. I'm going to pass your mic for you. There's constant cans. There's toilets everywhere in Dumb People Town. People use the streets as toilets in Dumb People Town.

So you have a new documentary. Everything's a toilet in Dumb People Town. We'll get into the new documentary. I have to tell our audience how I came to you, and I'm so thankful to my wife's uncle, Rick Schumann. I'm giving him a shout out. So when I started dating my wife, early 2000s, so we were married, freshly married. It was right when you were making sort of the run of yours, so it was, you know, we were married, freshly married.

It was right when you were making your sort of the run of your show where it was really taking off. I guess it was in Ventura. Well, no, I was, I was in LA at the early 2000s. I was at premier radio. Okay. I'm going to do the show nationally. Yeah.

Got it. So it's syndicated then. Yeah. Yeah. So yes. So that's right. So he put together, he got somehow like a best of, of the bits you were doing and sent it to me.

He's like, I know you're a comedian and you're dating my niece. Please, if you like this, then we will be close for the rest of our lives. And I was like, I hate when someone tells me to go listen to comedy that you know, it's going to be the worst thing. But I heard in the, in the ether, I knew about it. And so I started playing this thing as I'm driving along. And I almost got into a car accident. I was laughing so hard I couldn't see.

I had to pull off the road. I called Randy up. And I'm like, dude. You got to hear. You have to hear this. You have to hear this right now. So the bit that got us, and I hope you remember this, was the triangulation where. You son of a bitch.

You son of a bitch. of a bitch were you do you remember this bit oh yeah was it in miami i think i just kept playing this you son of a bitch you son of a i'm hearing it there he goes again he's going again so you got a woman to think that that was in her house in her house yeah i remember that you're like do you have a washing machine this is gonna sound crazy man do you have a washing machine a zip line a washing machine a trim line a trim line so there's triangulation she's like what does that mean i'm like do you have a washing machine do you have a washing machine do you have a do you have a microwave and it's all going between the three of them yeah oh my god holy shit but it kind of is the essence.

I'm glad you bring that up because it is the essence of this show and the way you handled that and all of it that you've, all the bits you've done is to sort of not be so mean to dumb people, but like to pull them in. Be on their side. Be on their side. Right. That's what we do on this show. Let's talk about what you're thinking here. Let's run through the logic.

Tell me what's going on. Well, I mean, the thing to do when you're doing a show like that where you're bringing, you have an absurd premise. Yes. You have to present it in the most realistic way. That's it. You have to say, okay, I know that goblins don't fly into the turbines of jets, but what if someone wanted

us to really believe that, but knew it sounded crazy. So you have to. But what if someone wanted us, really believed it, but knew it would sound crazy? So the guy would say, what you're going to hear right now is crazy, but let me tell you, I've been flying for 40 years. Yes. I've seen this. Okay, go ahead.

And so the cat will go. All right, so now you've established, so the listener is saying, this is a crazy premise, but maybe this guy is crazy. Maybe he's right. Yeah, I'm going to argue with him. He knows better than I do. You saying as

a meteorologist, this is in the documentary, like you were the meteorologist who's like, we don't know where thunder and lightning really comes from. That's one that people will go, well, why do you mean they really don't? Because when I fly an airplane, do I? I don't know anything about a pilot. The guy goes, we are pilots, Phil. I've flown for 30 years commercially.

We don't yet know what makes the plane go up. You're kidding, right? No, I'm not kidding. Ask any pilot. Go ahead. Ask any pilot. And the thing about pilots, by the way, that's a subsect of your audience. They are very active.

And the minute they hear pilot, they go, give me the phone. Give me the phone. I got a call. This guy's crazy. This guy's nuts. And you're on the side of the caller also. Always. And you're also the crazy person. And you're like, hold on a second. Hey, wait a minute. What are you saying?

Because this gentleman is saying he's a pilot. He knows what he's talking about. We don't need wings. And it's just four appearances. Every time I get into the cockpit, I've been flying for you, but every day I'm scared to death. I'm scared to bottom by wits. I don't know every pilot oh every pilot

you're flying the guy applying the plate is ready it's insane well so i want to take all of that and apply it to these stories that have been sent in that we'll talk about the documentary our good buddy jordan brady involved in that let's let's get into a story now phil henry is with us i'm so happy ready for this sent in by chicago history pod at chicago underscore pod thank you thank you uh hashtag dump people town at daniel van kirk at sclar brothers to send in your stories love hearing from new people and old friends yes here we are headline is this man stung in testicles by scorpion while sleeping at las vegas strip resort victim says. I mean.

This is a nightmare. This is what we all worry about. Stay at the Golden Nugget. I've got a character that does this kind of, you know, I'm just, you will not believe it, but I felt it, and it swolled it up. Sir? I reached down, and God almighty, it was larger than it had ever been. Than it had ever been.

That's a great half-fact right there. Sir, you shouldn't be reaching down if you feel that way. You don't need to show us that, sir. We're in the lobby of the hotel, sir. I understand, but I was in a state of panic. I apologize very much. My wife, who didn't care, she was at the pool. Can I encourage you to just put that back in your pants and come over to the rental department over here?

Forgive me. Go ahead and stop. Folks, there's nothing to see here. A California man staying at a Las Vegas strip resort over the holiday season said he was considering legal action after he said his testicles were stung by a scorpion while he was asleep. I mean, Michael Farchi of Agoria.

That's a fake name. That's a great, that's a Hendry name. That's a Hendry name. That's like the guy who's been the manager of the station for so long. I'm going to get Michael F's a great Michael Farchi. That's a Hendry name. That's a Hendry name. That's like the guy who's been the manager of the station for so long. I'm going to get Michael Farchi on. Michael Farchi. Farchi Farchi. Yeah.

Michael Farchi is just a, you know, guy who's just. He's a lifer. Yeah. And so that's what happened. And let me tell you, I'm going to take it out of your ass. I'll take every nickel out of your ass. All right, Farchi. Just give us a minute.

He's out for blood, this Farchi. Also, you are so spot on. Michael Farchie of Agora Hills said he woke up in excruciating pain during his stay at the resort. Quote, I just felt like somebody stabbing me in my private area, said Farchie. It felt like a sharp glass or a knife. Upon investigation, Farchie said he found the source of pain. I went to the restroom and I saw-

You cannot go down to the casino and ask someone to suck the venom out of that. Well, no, you can, you can just got to be very careful. You got to have the scorpion in a cup and say this happened. So he had to have found the scorpion, right?

Yes. I went to the restroom and I saw a scorpion hanging on my underwear. Farchi said, Oh my God, the December 26th incident. Oh my God. Afterward, the man and his family checked out early one day later on the 27th. They couldn't even get a late checkout after that?

Checked out early. Had to get out of there. The hotel comped his room. Nice. That's it? That's the least they could do, yeah. That's the least, right? That's the least they could do.

Breakfast at a buffet. Farchi and his attorney shared photos of the orange scorpion on his underwear. When asked if he knew how the scorpion got into his hotel room, the California man admitted that he didn't. How would he know? Admitted. Admitted that he didn't. I'm going to have to admit this.

I do not know how. I lie. I said it. I lied. I said that I thought I knew it, and I invited it in for a cocktail. Well, if you invite him in, this is on you. It's like a vampire rules i admit i was lying you were lying i admit you were stealing did you he's like but i shouldn't have been bitten just because i invite somebody into my room doesn't mean oh i didn't say he could do that right yeah go prick me in my

testes so it was hanging from his underwear though yeah i didn't even know how i didn't even ask how it got in the room far she said it was just under my cover who would you ask who would you ask the scorpion okay this is housekeeping this is what it looks like this is what it looks like in his oh there it is oh god oh that is terrifying he took a picture of that thing yeah that's his christmas card That's his Reebok underwear. That is going to make the family New Year's letter. The question, of course, is did an actual medical person check this out? Was there actually venom in his testicles?

First time he felt anything there in years. That's right. A report filed with the strip property detailed the incident. Do you guys want to guess? How much? No, no, no. Just anyone want to take a stab on which on-the-st happened to gold nugget was a really fun joke that was my job it's not on the street it's not on the strip so anybody want to take a stab i mean the fun

intended the take a stab uh flamingo i don't know that's a good guess that is a good guess the mgm okay no what luck or the luck? I would say the what? It was the Venetian. Wow. That's a pretty nice property. That's a nice property. Yeah. Filed a report with the Venetian saying that he had, quote, been bitten by a scorpion on my groin slash testicles around 8 a.m.

The incident indicated that Farchi told staff he was, quote, in a lot of pain and blamed the Venetian for the incident, adding that the scorpion, quote, was in bed when he was quote in a lot of pain and blamed the venetian for the incident adding that the scorpion quote was in bed when he was sleeping i don't at a certain i get this is just an unfortunate thing you're like that's exactly how i feel how do we fix this this is we've talked about this in other episodes about like we've lost this thing where people go oh shit we're sorry about that you know let me let us make it right. We always go straight to lawsuits. Right to lawsuits. This guy sounds like, and I didn't know what to do at the time. I was frightened.

Do you understand? I had fear. Of course you were frightened. It was in my bed. It was in my bed. I didn't invite it in there. I have no idea. I hold the Venetian responsible for the scorpion to have been in there.

You're not. You are so on. Because they say, this is his quote, everybody was in shock. Nobody believed. Even I couldn't believe it. Well, if you can't believe, you saw the damn scorpion. Yeah, it happened. It's like they saw the monolith from 2001.

We're in a desert community. An incredible occurrence. We were about to get to the part where I was so excited that you would be on the show. Because an incident number from the resort marked the event, Farchi said, adding that he was considering legal action. Enter attorney Brian Varag, who said the scorpion sting has been a source of trauma for his incident. I am going to show you. Has a scorpion bit you in the balls while standing? You could be entitled to damages.

Oh, you have no idea. God rest his soul by the way. Larry H. Parker. Larry H. Parker fought for a long time. Ready to see these two? Sure. This is him and his attorney. Oh, God! This is exactly what you would want them to be. Who's the attorney? Gotta be the guy in the hat,

right? The guy in the hat. The lawyer's the guy in the hat? Gotta be. It's gotta be Brian Varag. It's not? It's the other way around. I don't know. No. It could be the other guy. I don't know. What's his voice? Who is that? They look like two brothers. Oh my god. One guy does look like he's had his terrible assault on his... The guy on the right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's like... I heard, I tell you. Right here is this guy. He doesn't look like a man anymore, does he? He used to wear hats. He doesn't wear hats anymore. But the lawyer with the hat feels like one of those rhetorical, like, you think he wanted this? Yeah.

You think he wanted this to happen? To be embarrassed like this? Yeah. To have the testicle area assaulted? Do you know how he feels? Do you know what his life is like? Everything's a question. He's like, sir, sir.

You haven't answered one of these questions. You posed 80 questions. All we ask is that we get in bed without a scorpion. And do you think this guy can ask that question? And you think the Venetian of all places. No, no, no. You don't depose me. I don't depose you.

You depose me. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying. We are deposing you. When they took that picture, It said look like somebody said okay Look like you've had your balls almost Doesn't it also look like two-fifths of a lineup? Yeah. Oh my god. Yeah, either that or like yeah That guy looks thoroughly depressed that yes, he does I'm dying the right thing I mean, he's got this new kink in his life and he can I think I don't think this is a good idea

He's like he's like varag if they offer the buffet we're taking it take the buffet get out we can do better we can do better do better yeah yeah leave the buffet take the cannoli while varag said he is confident that the resort has policies and procedures in place to avoid situations like the one farchi found himself in it's another thing the problem with me is it's wildlife there's just there's nothing you can do it should have made the bed but you never know the scorpion could have already been on the blanket when they when they laid it out like it was came from downstairs it doesn't like i have a friend who lives in phoenix and he's like yeah just scorpions are a part of life that's just shake your shoes out i've killed two scorpions

in la in my house oh in la yeah with a shoe of them was Klaus Mein, the lead singer of the band Scorpions. Yes. Why was he in your shoe? I went and saw Scorpions. Thank you, Dan. I went and saw Scorpions at the Staples. It was the Staples Center with Dave Anthony. Our buddy, Dave Anthony.

Yeah. We're sitting in the thing, and I'm like, these guys are old, and I want to know if they've learned English better than they used to know it in the 80s this was his banter in between two songs he just walked up to the microphone and he was like california crowd cheered and then they played another song he didn't even say la he just named the state we were in talking about eureka which is good for three or four shows if you're going up and down the coast. I was also at this show. You remember Millie and Vanillie? Oh!

You were at that show? Aaron was at the show. Millie Vanillie was German, but to hear them sing, it was just, baby, don't forget my number. And then they did it. We had Millie Vanillie, yeah, do you come to America next month? It's going to be great. That doesn't add up. you yeah so it was you were at that show aaron it was great i i as a joke like just because it was all like heavy metal like

80s i to make dave anthony feel like uncomfortable ordered sushi and i was delicately eating sushi throughout the concert on the floor around other people. Which is not what you want to hear when they're singing Rocky like they're hurting you. Can you know I'm dipping sushi sauce? They would serve it if they don't want you to do it. Yeah, that's right. It's Staples Center. For their part, officials from the Venetian Resort Las Vegas responded to 8newsnow.com

request for comment saying, the resort has protocols for all incidents, and we confirmed that they were followed in this incident. It's nobody's fault. That's what what they see here it is nobody's fault inspect a hotel room and its surrounding areas upon checking in but there was a real thing i do like when i first walk into a hotel i'm like tv works shower turns on because there's nothing worse when you're gonna be there for like four or five days and you take everything out and put everything away which is they do and then you realize like i mean i walked into a flood in a hotel room once after i like put everything out and put everything away which is the thing to do and then you realize like i mean i walked into a flood in a hotel room once after i like put everything out i go to like the window side and i guess it had been raining complete water and i was like i gotta undo all this no

i mean what was our how about in chicago so we went to go do we tell the story on this podcast but it's so funny the brief story is this we were in chicago doing shows and our friend booked us on the shows and told us the name of the hotel but i guess or he didn't tell he told us one of the hotels he was going to book us at right we i guess misheard him and it was very similar to another name chicago so we went to a different we went to a different hotel phil and we check in first of all the person who's checking us in, it's their last day of work and they're drunk. They've got alcohol in their hands. And there's a party going on. There's naked art around the lobby on the thing.

Photographs of naked people. And then we're like, okay, just get us to our room. We go up to the room. We're like, this can't be the hotel. It's like weird studio apartments out of the movie the apartment like there's like a mini fridge and we're like what is this place a landline phone on the wall you're just like scary strange so then late we're like i guess it's our hotel later that night we're coming back from the show and a guy sneaks into the hotel to the hotel with us through security, goes into the elevator with us,

and we're like, what is going on? Is he going to kill us? We go up to our floor. We separate. Randy and I are going to our rooms. This guy gets off on the same floor as us. On our way to Randy's room, door opens. Next to me.

Next to Randy's room. And my room's on the left. A fully naked guy walks out into the hallway to greet this guy and bring him in okay love it we're like birthday yeah it's happy birthday we're like this is insanity this is insane so we call our buddy and we're like is this the hotel we're supposed to be at and he's like what hotel you're at and we're like the chicago chicago he's like no you're supposed to be at the quarters. Why are we here?

We get dropped off. That drunk dude's last day was why he was like, okay, you got a room. He didn't care. He just gave you a room. He recognizes. Everybody gets a room. Check your room everybody. That's story number one. Who's got two? When he came to the door, Klaus.

All right. When we come back, two? We got to say, when he came to the door, Klaus. How are you? How are you? All right, when we come back, we'll talk about the Phil Hendry documentary, how you can support it and watch it and support him and Daniel. He's got great things coming up. This is Dumb People Town. With the great Phil Hendry. We'll be right back. Stick around.

Make us down. There's more Dumb People Town. Hey, guys. Welcome back to the show phil hendry is with us before we talk about this incredible documentary about him and just all the great stuff it'll make you want to just take a deep dive into all of his best bits uh daniel your special is out or about or it's yes let's just say i would say go check it out go to go to my youtube channel go to daniel van kirk.com it should be right at the top great check out

rose gold i shot it at the Lincoln Lodge in Chicago. I'm very proud of it. I love it. I think you guys will love it too. And if it doesn't cost anything, the only thing I ask is just share it. Put it out. Tell other people about it. Leave a comment.

That stuff helps you out. Daniel Van Kirk on Instagram and all the other stuff is where you can share it and help spread that word as well. That means the most to me. And then everything else, my dates, Wisconsin, Denver, a little secret coming up, my own little festival in Chicago, that link's probably not even available yet, but I'm telling you guys first. Everything's at danielvankirk.com.

All right, let's talk about this documentary. Thank you, Daniel. Let's talk about the Phil Henry documentary, Jordan Brady involved, who we love so much. God bless him.

Good man, good man, yeah. It's a really cool documentary, partially because what I watch, and I love it, it's a really cool documentary partially because what i what i watch and i love it it's i love the interview with you and sort of the behind the scenes and tracking you the old footage of you at those radio stations is incredible it looks like it was 10 you looked like a baby you had a little mullet you're smoking in the studio it's fantastic and

i love all that footage and all the people talking about how hard it was for people to understand what you were doing and the complaints that they got like they're like this is the battle do we keep this brilliant show that has an unbelievable audience on and face the barrage of complaints by people who don't get what's going on in the show the next day or how do we do it and it was how you managed to build around that and then of course my other favorite part about this doc is the full bits that they, or the bits that they play and animate those bits. They have like an animated thing for the bits. The stick people bits.

Yeah, I love that, that it was good. It was so good. Did you feel like it properly captured just your experience in going through it? In going through my career? Your life, your career. Well, it took an amazing trajectory. I assume you had that like first

like i can't believe they're letting me do this like have this much fun to do my own thing and then finding what i had to fight my way to it i mean i started out in 1973 it was the beginning of my career at the age of 20 as a disc jockey and i worked for 17 years really doing nothing but mediocre disc jockey where the country are you at i was i started in orlando florida i went to miami in those days all i wanted to do was get to the big city, but I wasn't really... I didn't give full vent to my instincts as a performer because they were too weird. Right. To be perfectly honest with you.

I felt there's no way. I want the job. I don't want to lose the job. But then late 80s. I don't want to lose the job, exactly. But late 80s, Howard Stern and all these other talk. And Limbaugh's... Politics aside, Limbaugh did, and people get really pissed with me.

They go, you like Rush Limbaugh? It's not his politics. His approach as a broadcaster was extremely unique. He brought comedy and humor into the talk. I thought, this is where I need to be. Yeah. Because I no longer have to play music, so I have to present. For sure.

In Chicago, our Steve Dahl was on the guy in Chicago. Steve Dahl. Steve was on the air with Gary. And the Grease Man was also very influential. But you had to do those years of just boring stuff to know every aspect

of it so that you could then make fun of it later. You learned all the structure and all the rules and then found out what is my way of breaking all of this. Yeah, and getting really tired of it, too, and hating it. Sure, frustration. Right. And wanting to get out of the business.

Hating it and hating the station manager who comes in. When was it that you broke into your voice? I got fired from KLSX. I got fired from KFI doing just a regular talk show. And then it was in the summer of 1990 that I was doing a part-time gig in Redlands at KCAL Radio that I thought, I'm going to send out an audition tape

that just pours it all out unedited. And I started doing this character. The first character I did on the tape was a character I do as Dr. Jim Sadler. You know, but his name on the tape was Dr. Howard Powell. Hello, this is Dr. Howard Powelller. You know, but his name in the tape was Dr. Howard Powell. Hello, this is Dr. Howard Powell. Yes, is your name Powell or Pow?

What? So this was the... You have all this detail. All this bullshit. I sent this tape out, and I knew I was on the right track when I got a rejection letter from WCAU in Philly. It was a huge station. Diane Rem was the PD, a well-known PD. And she said to me, Phil, it's hysterical.

I can't hire you. Yeah. I thought, aha. You know, it's something good here. But you got two pieces of feedback in that feedback, which is, one, this is good. And two. Yeah, you knew you were on to something. You're going to be climbing a mountain here.

Yeah. So I finally got. So this is what I did. I just said, no edits, Phil. Just go. I knew what the boundaries were, obviously. Of course. But I just did that.

And I got hired up at a little radio station in Ventura, KVEN. Rich Galano was my first PD in talk radio, who said to me, just do your show as if you're not going to get one single phone call. Which also was very freeing. Yeah. I don't have to churn calls. I could just sit here. And for three hours, I went in and out of character, because that was the instinct I

had. I could just sit here and for three hours. I went in and out of character because that was the instinct I had you know I mean, but what was so brilliant is your Knowing the buttons to put like you learn over time the buttons to push yes to evoke the callers to bring them out of the wood We're getting my ignorance. What's the time of day? Are you doing this? Is this was over gig was 10 to 1 1 to 4 in the afternoon Wow? Yes, drive the freedom to freedom exactly just don't even worry about calls exactly and the end what came on after me was the syndicated Bruce Williams members Williams I'm Bruce Williams that noise and this guy

was a what did he do he did like consumer advice yeah hi Bruce I bought a Chevy What should I do? You need a lawyer. Everything was you need a lawyer. You need a lawyer. You need a lawyer. You need a lawyer.

So I started doing that, riffing on that stuff. So good. And I wound up getting fired from that station. Of course. But the good news, here's what started to change. I had done an audition at WSB in Atlanta, and they liked it. And I said, it was a weekend show, though, and I'm full-time in Ventura. I don't know how it is I turned down a major market, but I but when i got fired from ventura i called atlanta media i called jim ashbury he said yeah he hired me immediately great and i got to atlanta and that's when i

started doing full-on interviews with the characters i didn't really know what i was doing i was doing four hours with the same character i did that in atlanta i did it in minneapolis by the time i got to mi I realized, let's do a character an hour. And then maybe the final hour, just do yourself doing something else. But in Atlanta is when we started. And what happened, I got to Atlanta. Do you guys, am I going too far? No, I love this.

This is fascinating to me. We'll get into another story. No, no, no. It's incredible. So I got to Atlanta and the Rodney King incident had happened. There was already rioting in LA. I land in Atlanta while this stuff was going. Oh, my God.

What do I do? I go in the air as a German. Yes. Hello, this is Vince Guy. Welcome to WSB. You know, we do need order. I know I sound like I'm not a Nazi. No, I sound.

But there must be order in the streets. You're looking at people that are going crazy. Now, Atlanta has a number of colleges, African-American founded colleges, Morehouse, a bunch of, and man, these kids are checking in with me late at night going, who is this? What are you talking about? Do you understand what's going on in this country? You must have a wall down. You must have the original streets. Pushing back.

Oh, my God. What a brilliant and button pushy, boundary pushy thing. But you have to remember one thing. Callers are not audience. Callers are improv actors that have been yanked onto the stage, whether they like it or not. And they're going to entertain the audience, whether they like it or not. Yeah. And the audience out there are the ones that you're doing it for.

That's right. You got to know who you're doing it for. Where's the documentary available? Right now, they sent an email. They said, tell everybody it's available on Amazon. And my listeners are going, it's not on Amazon. So I said, it should be on Amazon. It's on Apple.

We watched it on Sling the other night. What's the title? It's called Hendry. Hendry. That works. Like I said, you're a legend at the beginning, and you are. Even just hearing you, and it's a study for anyone who like wants to get into character stuff and doing character things,

the small variations where you put your characters. And again, you're so good because you had to do it on the radio is, you know, one characters right here. The other guy goes a little bit back in your throat. It's not so much of a difference in, in terms of the audience.

Tom is like, he's two different people just amazing how the slight variations in the new it's just the nuance and how you cut yourself off that was it um one of the things is ambience is important yes so i can move away from this microphone and sound like a different guy say hi this is phil henry how you doing bill i'm i'm great and all of a sudden bill's's neck. This is a different guy. Yes, it's incredible. So you do the same thing with a phone.

You move it back and forth. Right. And in terms of people often say, the big thing I always get is, you sound like you're talking over yourself. Well, it's where you take the breath. So if I'm talking, if I want to say, hi, how are you? I'm fine. To make it sound more realistic, you'd say, hi, take the breath there.

Hi, how are you? I'm fine. Right. So you notice, boom, you're able to kind of butt a little bit higher. It's such a small thing. It's like crosstalk. It's so great. All the characters are great. Watch the stock.

I cannot wait. I cannot wait to watch the stock. I love it because I love the guy sitting to my right. Let's do another story show. Let's do it. All right, this one from Matthew Freeman, at NotYourAverageMatt, AVG Matt. Love this guy. All right, this happened at the end of last September.

Oklahoma judge opened fire while driving and intentionally crashed his car, police said. This is a judge, Phil. Judge Dredd. He's the guy that opened fire? He opened fire. And intentionally crashed his car. Oklahoma City. An Oklahoma judge was arrested in Austin, Texas.

That's what he's doing. That's what he's doing what he's doing keeping it weird last week after authorities say he opened fired on parked vehicles while out driving striking at least one of them and intentionally crashing into a woman's vehicle telling officers later that she had cut him off this man hates these oil cans shooting and hitting inanimate objects no she he said said she cut him off. The woman cut him off. He had nothing he could have done. No choice but to shoot at her. Shoot at her and run into her. Brian Lovell, an associate district judge in Garfield County.

He doesn't get to keep being a judge. Am I right or am I wrong? Oh, I think he, yeah, let's talk about this. Now, what do you want to do? I think he should be disbarred. Well, let's talk about this. Now, what do you want to do? I think he should be disbarred. Well, let's talk about this. What the hell is he talking about? He did it in Texas.

He didn't do it in Oklahoma. It's not like he did it in our state. So he was arrested on September 11th. Never forget what happened on September 11th. When he shot those cars up. On a misdemeanor count of reckless driving, a felony count of engaging in deadly conduct with a firearm was forwarded to a grand jury

for consideration. Again, this is Texas, y'all. Lowell was released. It's consideration. Yeah, I don't know. Lowell was released on how much bond. This is where being a judge means like. It's a misdemeanor.

Look, he was released on how much. 500 bucks. That's exactly what I was going to say. What do you think, Daniel? Oh, man. You know what? 500 is probably but and he's gonna get off anyway so they got to give a little bit like oh no we've

ramped it i'm gonna say a g a thousand what do you think jay 750 all right get your answers in townies because he was released on ten thousand dollars i literally thought you're gonna say ten dollars he was ordered to undergo mental health evaluation. Which is 10% a G. Right. We have zero comments, said a woman who answered a phone call Friday to a number listed at Lovell's. That's the journalist going, look, we found a number on a magnet that was on a fridge and we just called it. And that person said, we don't know what you're talking about. But I mean, there's no one. This is a woman who knows the guy screwed up and was like, we have zero comment.

Yeah, that is. You say like, no comment, no comment. Zero comment is a person who's fed up, right? That's a choice to be like, we have zero comment. They've dealt with this guy before. But to me, I would love to hear a Phil Hendry person calling into your show. Are you as that person defending this guy? Defending the judge who shot. Defending the judge who shot.

Because they should be allowed. We have someone calling on the line. I think that in our society, Phil, you have to understand that look at the violence and look at what's happening. This is a man who works in our courts, in our court system. And the woman, you don't know what she did. A lot of them flash. She could have provoked. Provoked him.

A flashing could have done this. A lady gave me the single digit. And the first thing I thought of was I wanted to put a bullet right through her head. You can't, sir. You can't say that. Ma'am. Why would you say that? Because we're sick of it, Phil. We're sick of it.

Okay, ma'am. That's my favorite thing, too. That's a great angle. The person who feels like they're a part of some tribe that doesn't exist. Some larger thing. We're sick of it out here. Sick of all the violence. I also love the idea of everybody's on board with her until she says what she's going to do. So I was driving, and then someone flipped me the bird, and they flipped it to me, and I didn't like it. And I'm just driving.

I'm driving with my family and my kids, and I said, that's inappropriate behavior. What has this country come to? So I pulled out my shotgun. Whoa! Come on. Right, right. And the other thing is, but it's a natural, you have to understand, that's a natural instinct to pull a weapon out. And want to take the guy's hand off with it or something?

He put a well-muscled arm out the car, Phil. The man obviously worked out, and I saw his hand was on the side, and it was well-muscled, so he worked out. That's a threat. Right away, that's a threat. You don't put that arm out the window at me. That's a big gun. So I got the bigger gun. Excuse me, I got the bigger gun.

Jesus. It was a bare arm. Didn't immediately reply to the phone message left for another numberless is and he declined to comment to uh a kfor tv reporter who went to his home in waukomis about 60 miles northwest of oklahoma city according to austin police affidavit officers were called after what time on september 11th by a witness who reported a man firing approximately how many times while driving down the street so what time did did they, and how many bullets?

It feels like daylight to me. So what do you think? I'm going to go 3 p.m. 3 p.m.? What do you think, Jeff? 7.30 p.m. Phil, what do you think? It pissed off. At the end of the day, I go late like 5 o'clock.

5 o'clock. Okay, get your answers in, Tony. So this was at 4 p.m. on September 1st. There you go. There you go. How many times did he shoot? End of a tough day. Yeah, end of a rough day.

You got to end it up. Rush hour traffic. Phil, you're our guest. How many times did he shoot? You can go first. You you go. There you go. How many times did he shoot? End of a tough day. Yeah. End of a rough day. You got to end it up. Rush hour traffic. Fill your guests. How many times did he shoot? You can go first. You can go last if you want. Well, I put myself in this situation. Well, I tell you what.

Bobby. Bobby Dooley is one of our guests. Yeah. I love Bobby. I love Bobby Dooley. What do you think? Well, you know, that's an interesting question. Bobby.

Thank you, Bobby. I would. You know something? My father just said, go for it. Oh, okay. So just have fun with it. And you pull on the automatic, Steve? Just squeeze the trigger and it goes boom, boom, boom, boom,

boom, boom, boom, boom. Nine clips, nine shots. Nine shots. Okay, Bobby. Wow. I'm going to go six. Six, Jay? What'd you say? I like what Bobby said. I'm going to go 14. Okay. Shot. Reload. Firing approximately five times. I don't know what kind of a gun you have, Bobby, but I mean. Semi-automatic. Oh, okay. I don't know what kind of a gun you have bobby but i mean semi-automatic okay guys i don't like the not fully automatic okay about 90 minutes later

police responded to a call about a crash less than two miles from the shooting scene where a woman said a man had deliberately collided into her vehicle twice so he's driving along shoots five cars so it's one thing to shoot because you can kind of go away i mean what is this guy doing if you're gonna go into someone else's car, you're damaging your own car. He's in Texas. What is he, on a rum springer? This guy's out of control. He wasn't drunk, was he?

I don't know. Lowell and his SUV match the description of the shooter. He told police he believed the woman cut him off in traffic, and although he acknowledged other vehicles had collided, he did not admit the collisions were intentional lowell said told police there were uh two handguns in his vehicle but he said he did not know why he would have shot his gun and could not recall any part of the shooting incident it's a long time ago that was 40 minutes ago how am i supposed to we're still bringing that up a guy with a gun who blacks out that's right

it's good great good did you drive and you didn't know what you were doing? I don't know where I am. Sir, are you in Oklahoma right now? I do not know. Who knows? Lowell. Can't recall. And it's Lavelle.

I said Lowell. Lavelle told police that there were two handguns vehicles. They didn't know. It sounded... Paul Woodward, the presiding... Sounds like a folk singer. Paul Woodward sounds like he's the guy, he's the head of marketing down at the radio station. Paul Woodward.

We're going to bring him in right now. Paul, he wants to do two. He's talking about what we're doing this week. Paul, talk about what activities you've got down at the waterfront this weekend. Paul Woodward. Well, we're going to have, certainly this weekend, we have our three-for-one, the kebab, as well as our ceviche for the kids, of course. Is that good on a hot day, Paul?

Ceviche. It's just sitting outside. Let me tell you what. You've never day, Paul? It's a beach. It's just sitting outside. Let me tell you what. You've never had it so good. It's never been better. By the way, are my testicles showing in these shorts? No, they're not. They're not.

Not enough. Paul's already dressed for the weekend, guys. He came in here, beach ball under the arms. Striped shorts. Flip flops in. It's not the way we dress normally at the radio stations and the marketing. He's calling it casual Thursday. He's got to get out in front of it. Well, it's K-55's anniversary. It's not the way we dress normally at the radio station. He's out of the marketing. He's calling it casual Thursday. He's got to get out in front of it.

Well, it's K55's anniversary. K55, where are you on the frequency there? Oh, you're right. This is FM. I don't know. I don't know what that is. But anyway, K55, it's our annual kablam. Kablam.

It's kebabs and fireworks. Take the kids and throw them in the lake and walk away. It's like a good time. It's a lot of fun. It's just a lot of fun. Paul Woodward, the presiding administrative judge for the Garfield County. And by the way, I do apologize for shooting that woman. Hey, look.

You blacked out. You don't even remember it. I don't even remember. Were you even in Texas? I don't even remember these shorts. But as long as I'm wearing them, yeah. You must have put them on at some point. Agreed to not.

Everything for K-55, even when I black out. I'll black out for you any day, K-55. Not to preside over any cases until this case is resolved. I'm glad they're like, he doesn't get to preside over any cases until this is resolved. What about if it's resolved and he's guilty? He should not be able to preside over anything after this. He's been a good friend and a colleague for years. It's hard for me to believe any of this, Woodward said.

He did it! Every single hard time. Woodward's already. You know, I've been shooting with his wife and kids. We shoot every Easter. Yeah, we have a range out here. What did he do? Well, you know, he did. Yeah, that have a range out here. What did he do? Well, you know, he did.

Yeah, that sounds in character for him sometimes. Sometimes, but I, you know. Let me tell you this much, okay? I shot him once. I don't know about him shooting anybody. He came in the house looking the way he did. I shot him. I shot him once.

The only time I shot him, but. I hit him. This is what we do. We're friends. You don't understand Oklahoma. You don't understand Oklahoma. We shoot each other, and it's a lot of fun. It's like saying hello. It's an only time I shot him, but... I hit him. This is what we do. We're friends. You don't understand Oklahoma. You don't understand Oklahoma. We shoot each other, and it's a lot of fun. It's like saying hello.

It's an act of love. It's an act of love. It's an act of love. Are you... Bob, you're going through my garbage cans again, aren't you? Yep. Bam! You're done.

All right, there you go. Story number two down in the books. Jake, give us a little tease, a little taste. Do we do this one, Dan? Oh, we must have, yeah. We might have. So are we doing this again in like an exciting i hope not i bet we pull another one we'll pull another story all right so we got another story phil hendry's

with us again the documentary is called hendry we believe it's on amazon check it out on amazon it is on apple tv it is on sling we know okay apple sling watch it it's it's if you want to just see one of the great minds in in all the creation of everything we do, much of what he did, it was like the precursor to podcasting and podcasting in general was the idea of characters and character stuff. We've certainly drawn from it. He's been a huge influence of ours. I love that Phil Hendry is here. We'll take a quick break. We'll come right back.

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Yes. 100%. You know how this goes. Paul Woodard. Didn't that sound like a radio guy at the market? Paul's coming down here. He wants to talk. I've worked for so many GMs with the name Paul.

It's starting with Paul. Paul Goodman. Paul Withers. Paul Waddington. Paul Woodard. Let's read this one over here. Okay. This is an editorial opinion with paul wad paul wad okay general manager paul wad are you ready uh are we good i don't know if

this has a headline oh here it is okay right okay all right uh go hey townies welcome back to the show uh the great phil henry is with us before we uh get to this final story we should let people know supersclarz.com is our site that you can see us live. We're doing taggits almost every month, which is our show. If you haven't seen it in Los Angeles, our friends, our comedians do, you will love this, Phil. Our comedian friends do their set of comedy. We're sitting off on the side of the stage

feverishly writing pitches, tags. Those are jokes that we pitch. Then after their set, we come on stage and say, hey, I love this bit. How about this joke? And we just pitch our tags out it's like collaborative and fun it's everything

that we're doing right here happens in green rooms everywhere so we'll do another one in Largo there's one in April 17th at Comedy Store again Moon Tower

at the end there at the end of April we'll be in Salt Lake City at Jordan Landing with our buddy Hunter Hill in the middle of May and then at Wise Guys and then Houston

the secret group at the end of June superschoolers.com for of May, and then at Wise Guys, and then Houston, the secret group, at the end of June, superschooledlives.com for all that stuff. And then good stuff coming up that we can let you guys know about as it comes into focus. Jay, you got a story? All right, here we go. Sent in by Temujin and Juice at Veteran Still. This must be a new person, too.

Brand new person. Thank you. I don't know if there's a headline on this one, but I'm going with this. A wife has been sentenced after pulling down her husband's shorts at a town square in the Villages. Okay. You know the Villages down in... Florida. Yeah, that's Orlando.

Villages is like a sex explosion. Very significant place, man. It's like demographically explosive in terms of violence. I know. She's charged with pulling down her husband's pants. Yeah, at a town square. By him, do you think, or onlookers? At a town square in the Villages.

Yeah, in the Villages. She him, do you think, or onlookers? At a town square in the villages. Yeah, in the villages. She pulled the pants down. Gee, you're embarrassing. Look at them all. They're all laughing. See, this is what you did. You did this, Sklar brothers. Also, by the way, pulling the pants down on something, to me, feels like exposing injustices.

We need to start using that as a term. And we need to pull the pants down on this whole operation. We need to do it now. I totally agree with that. And get better at what we are. All right. Carrie Ann. This is her name.

Carrie Ann Graber. Well, I want to call her Grabber. Grabber. Grabber. Carrie Ann Grabber. We'll get into how old she is later of Bellevue. Was arrested. Of Bellevue?

Yeah, she's already at Bellevue. Bellevue. 23 arrests on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Of course. Of course. So it's bad enough that she does the thing. Then the cops come and she's like, no. So pantsing is such a junior high.

It sounds like a husband and wife that were drunk. Right. And they had an argument. She pantsed him. She pantsed him. And now she's resisting arrest. The whole marriage is going to end. So you know he's not wearing a belt.

He's wearing definitely some sort of. He's running around with cargo some sort of dude shoes. Spanish Springs Town Square. She was found passed out. Okay, that's a good one. Found passed out. Sure. Where is Grabber?

She's laying in those hedges. At what time? Approximately. They say about, but it's a square number. Well, again, this has to be some kind of a barbecue that they were at. I think probably about by 5, she couldn't hold her drink anymore. I'm going to go 1 p.m. She's all the way in their fridge yelling back, you're out of box wine.

We are? I bought five. Who drank them all? I'd say three. I'll split the diff. What did you say? Five, one, and three. 1 p.m. or a.m.?

P.m. 11 p.m. Oh, wow. So at least that's appropriate. Good for her. She's had it. That night on the sidewalk at the square. This is a laid out woman on the sidewalk at the Villages.

Yeah. According to an arrest report from the Lady Lake Police Department. It's a weird place. It is a weird place. Right? They got people running around. They're like, white power, yeah. And you're like, Jesus, what is wrong with you?

We're just trying to play backgammon over here. I sleep at Pickleball. Pickleball, you know. Amen. When officers arrived on the scene, Grabber had pulled herself up onto a bench. Like, I bet she's like, my legs don't work. And she had to, like, army crawl.

Yeah, that part took 20 minutes. Up onto a bench. She had to Lieutenant Dan herself up onto that bench. A puddle was running from the bench onto the sidewalk, and Graber's jeans were saturated. Okay. She just peed on herself. She's like, shh, shh, shh.

This is someone's grandmother. This is an adult. Right. This is someone's nana. Who poured the drink on you? No, ma'am. No, ma'am. No, ma'am. It's coming out of you.

It's coming from inside the house. The call is coming from inside the house. Well, it's not coming from her ass. And all I did is I pulled his pants down. And you're telling me I did what? You licked yourself. Oh, bullshit. You're telling me I did what?

She doesn't know the cop i never liked you he's like ma'am we don't know ma'am this is the first time i've seen you oh you know i know you yeah you run around here you beat up people you rodney king bill maybe it wasn't you maybe it was that short one over there. No, come on. That's not even a cop. That's a kid. You're right. Yep, you got me again. Thanks. That's a statue, man. Take me away.

That is a statue. That's not a... All right. You're right. You got me. The native New Yorker became belligerent and began using foul language towards the police. Of course. She was also pointing her finger at them.

She staggered and struggled to walk. Graber's husband arrived on the scene and attempted to take her home. However, she screamed obscenities and jumped in and out of the vehicle. When officers attempted to take her into custody, she struggled with them and then reached over and pulled down her husband's shorts.

So the husband's shorts thing comes at the end. It's the end of a long statement. That's it. The ultimate statement. That's like, that's if you think of like a tableau that represents your entire life. Pass out on the sidewalk. Urinate on yourself. Pull down

this finger in the face of cops and you pull down the pants. That's the end of a run. She's begging for death. She is begging for death. Shoot me. Just shoot me with a torch. Watch this. I can't live in the villages anymore. She ended up serving how many days in jail before her husband bailed her out? That's like drunken disorderly, isn't it?

Totally. But the husband's the guy that's got to pull her out. And he waits a few days. I'm sure he took the limit. He's like, how long can we do this? I'm going to go three days. Three days in jail. Phil? Oh, wow, man. I don jail phil oh wow man i don't know first

i don't know maybe uh yeah i'll go with three three also say seven days seven wow he just wanted a week to himself he's like i gotta get some stuff in order get your answers in townies i gotta buy some pants with a belt here she ended up serving 12 days before her husband what wife who i don't know who that is. There's no Dave here. That's right. This past week, here we go. This past week, she appeared in Lake County Court and pleaded

no conscience of the case. She was sentenced to time already served in order to pay how much money for each day of incarceration? Oh, so she had to pay for the incarceration. This is where they're like, look, how much per day? 12 days. 100 bucks. 100 bucks per day of incarceration. Oh, so she had to pay for the incarceration. This is where they're like, look, how much per day? 12 days.

100 bucks. 100 bucks per day? Yeah. $82. 82 per day? 250 per day. Get your answers in. $50 per day. That's it?

600 bucks. And she was also ordered to pay how much in court costs. How much in court costs? $1,100 in court costs. $2,300. $1,000? $1,100 in court costs. $2,300. $1,000. $1,000.

$238. That's not bad. Oh, man. So $838. It's pretty cheap to commit crime in the villages. Three hots and a cop for $50 a day? Let's get into how old she is before we get out of here. And I love it.

How old is this lady? Pulled down her... Peeing on herself. Passed out on the, and I love it. How old is this lady? Pulled down her, peeing on herself. Passed out on the sidewalk. 71. 71. That place in life where you don't give a shit anymore. Don't care anymore.

You just reached the end. Yeah, he just saying. I'd say she was 75. 75? Yeah. I'm going to go 69 years old. Hey, 69. All right.

Before we give the answer, watch Hendry. Hell yeah. We know it's on Apple. We know it's on Sling. It's probably coming up on Amazon. Probably on Amazon by now. It'll be on Amazon at this point. Shouting at Amazon.

Watch it and just please acquaint yourself with this man's work if you don't already know. If you do, Bill Hader, by the way, is amazing in The Doc. He's a great guy. It's so cool how much he loves and knows all the characters. I thank my uncle, my wife's uncle, Rick Schumann, for introducing me to you. And you for introducing me to him. I drove off a goddamn road.

That's how, that's serious. After shooting five cars. I shot five cars. And I drove off a road. Because I was laughing so hard at Phil Hendry. Watch Hendry. Watch Dan's Rose Gold special. Support him. Come out and see us. Watch Hendry. Watch Dan's Rose Gold special. Support him.

Come out and see us. This woman pulled down her husband's pants. That was the end of the... That was the end of the antics. After peeing on herself, passing out, fighting with cops, waving a finger in their faces. She was 53 years old. Wow! That's party time.

That is one year older than us. She's visiting her mom. She's visiting. I don't know. Her husband's there, too. Wow. This is a madhouse. Damn it! There you go. She's visiting her mom. She's visiting. I don't know. Her husband's there, too. Wow. This is a madhouse. Damn it!

There you go. Life at the Villages. That is kind of a crisis point in life, too, of the 50s, you know? Yeah, we're in that moment. You're like, who am I? Am I a young person? Am I getting older? I don't understand.

Let's do something fun. Pull someone's pants down. That's right. Still do that. I still got one of those left in me, is what she said. All right, guys. That is the show. Thank you, Phil Hendry.

Thank you. Oh, shit. We got to get back to work, y'all. Stick around. Make a sound. There's more at Don't People Town.