The Doug Stanhope Podcast - Ep.#517 - "Nobody Loves Me"(FREE)
Episode Date: March 22, 2023Doug is still without a home and in the middle of an emotional crisis. Thank You Patreon Subscribers. We could not do this without your ongoing support. Recorded Mar. 15th, 2023 at the Little House ...in Bisbee, AZ with Doug Stanhope (@dougstanhope) and Ggreg Chaille (@gregchaille). Produced and Edited by Chaille. Stanhope Store FIRE SALE - Stanhope merch - http://www.dougstanhope.com/store/ We have no idea what the future holds so get on the Mailing List at https://www.dougstanhope.com/. When we know, we'll let you know. LINKS - Closing song, “The Stanhope Rag”, written and performed by Scotty Conant for Doug Stanhope and used with permission – Available on Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/scottyconantPhoto Credit - ChailleSupport the show: http://www.Patreon.com/stanhopepodcast
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you you didn't like that so i just i just chad shank yeah it's sad that i have to hear his voice
intro in the podcast to go let's get you on the mic i should uh yeah i should i'm i'm i'm at a
month now uh not smoking so i'm at a place where I think, yeah, maybe I should dip my toes into socializing.
Oh, I thought you were going to dip your toes into tobacco.
No, no, no.
It's like one of those things.
You've got to get rid of the triggers, which is everything you do in life, like socialize or write or anything.
First of all, I have been without the Internet.
First of all, I have been without the internet.
The internet, there was a major crash all over like half the state or more.
So I've been without the internet for two days, which is worse than any withdrawal I've had from quitting smoking after 43 years.
Two days without the internet and I'm fucking, oh, customer service that's not even related to the internet is hearing about it oh i have been fucking just like just and i don't know if it's
because we're now at in the month four or five with nothing being done on the house that you
just take away a little bit more from me and i'm fucking stabbing you i'm like fucking uh what's his name gross
burger from stir crazy the big fat bald you know you know i'm eating my prison meal with my
around my meal go ahead take one more fucking p for me go ahead i'm gonna fucking stab you with
a fork but yeah yeah i was at safeway yesterday when everything went down and people had to either
pay cash or abandon their carts which it felt weird because i i can't remember the last time
i was forced to pay cash unless it was like for you know something yeah yeah but it was you know
people were just turning and walking away so and it took 24 hours for that to resolve.
And you still don't have it at the house, right?
Still don't have it.
Yeah.
And it's supposed to be like everyone else's backup.
It's supposed to be, they posted Sparklight as the provider.
But it wasn't just Sparklight.
But they posted specifically about Bisbee.
Bisbee is as of 6 a.m.m this morning it's all back up and running well
not me i am i live in a fucking vortex where honestly shit doesn't work tech shit doesn't
work and no no you just don't hear just give it to me and then hang on no you're right i haven't
seen this before oh yeah this doesn't hang on let me let me call some see i told you it's me it's
fucking it is qr code never scanned a fucking qr code in my life customs in the uk well just scan
the fucking thing no you try it you try it yeah you just put your camera and you uh uh yeah yeah yeah your shit does it well go on through
forget it
you fucking black cloud
of everything that fucking Asians
created that was good for the world
they created the internet
right
I don't know that
that's true
either way
they should get credit.
They built all the devices for the Internet.
Yeah, they profited from it.
They saw the Internet coming.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm a Japanese supremacist.
But you know what I didn't realize yesterday is I should probably have more cash on hand i mean it doesn't hurt to have you know a hundy in your wallet to uh to you know
take care of something like that yeah why don't you go down to the bank and just start screaming
give me all my cash now sorry we can't the internet's down yeah i was wondering if we
could like stage uh runs on banks like like if we try to do something as a prank in the you know the backlash
undertow of the uh savings what the silicon valley bank yeah sbd then they're like well what if other
small regional banks start going down like what if we did a prank that actually made a fucking
like washington federal fucking close close at 1 p.m.?
Yeah. And I have all the motive in the world to close those motherfuckers.
I'm going to Seattle and I got to remember to shit on them because that's their home base.
But yeah, they Washington federal period.
There's a period in their logo.
And I don't know what that means.
Like they're low and like no one doesn't say Coca-Cola period.
It's but there's this Washington federal period.
Yeah.
There might be a guy that started like a mail order company in 1978 that still on paper owns Washington federal.
So they had to add the dot.
It's beautiful in Australia.
Burger King is
Happy Jack's over there.
Because one fucking guy had
Burger King, just a small burger
stand somewhere, I think it's in
Sydney or Adelaide, I don't know.
I look it up every time I go because
I see the Happy Jack's logo
which is obviously Burger King font
and colors and I fucking hate Burger King just irrationally.
And that guy is like, no, I'm not selling.
No.
Did you go there and eat at the Burger King in Australia?
No.
I've looked it up every time I tour there.
I'm never in the town when I think about it.
And when I get to that town, I don't think about it.
But I would definitely go and celebrate that
place. Fuck Burger King. So it's not
just the name.
Right. They could have done Burger King, period.
I don't know.
There's sketch motherfuckers.
So yeah,
but I'm just
getting shit done fucking you've been very busy yeah
taking all the trees out you're the opposite of johnny appleseed well you know the thing is is
that nothing's been done to the yards in 10 years i mean if if a limb blows down we get someone out here with a
chainsaw yeah but never any like care or maintenance and i found a guy that his crew comes in and
they're fucking jamming and so it's and he's reasonable so just put him to work man yeah i
pulled up in front of uh 212 here and uh they're throwing all the branches into a wood chip.
Hipper right there.
Yeah, done.
Wow.
It wasn't until you just said it.
Wow, firewood.
We used to have fires all the time.
You'd have to wait for it to season,
so you'd have to store it somewhere,
and that's where the rats go.
Yeah, and we never have fires anymore
no it's not because we were out of wood yeah but yeah uh the tree that they took down today was
huge and it like i told you i go it doesn't seem like that tree was like and we'll put it here
it's like it started growing and then it just became that's where the tree is and that and that it was huge and they
took that out and now you've got an entire patio that's usable without something dropping and
pigeons and fruit and leaves year round fucking bingo was just going on at raider i made raider
dinner i get i get into these places where well is it the chili? Well, I gave them chili as a first course.
It was chili in a sandwich, but I made a thin cut chicken breast.
Do you have a diner over there that has it now?
Yeah, but I make this stuff for me.
I had the same thing, but I had it earlier, and I made sure.
Because I can't cook for two people.
I can cook very good for one
person uh but if i have to do two that's your half piece of toast one egg yeah yeah uh but
yeah i made chicken breast uh with uh swiss on the bottom uh provolone on the top with uh
just thin cut chicken breast if you pound it out or is it just is it just thin
no it's slice it yeah so you buy it thin cut so yeah it's perfect for a sandwich you're like
making a malibu chicken then no i this i made a southwest pepper and provolone
with bacon on sourdough
with the
crust pulled off of the top.
Some people like crust. I don't like it.
I don't like to bite into a sandwich.
Crust should be
taken off entirely.
Are you talking about the heel on both ends of the bread?
No.
Or the crust. No, the crust.
Yeah, the regular piece of sourdough bread.
I don't like to have to breach that.
And I shouldn't have to cut a sandwich in half to be able to not eat through the crust.
So you pull the top off and that gives the person the option of cutting through or just eating through where there's no fucking crust.
I put a lot of energy.
This is what i do with
my time now and i think i really have a case for where i have mental illness there's no doubt that
where i and i just sit and go that see that that's not normal that's not you can't chalk this up to
oh he drinks every day no this is just not for instance what kathleen madigan what she doesn't
follow me on twitter okay what this turns into a full night how is it i think it was i don't know
if it's the oscars or something or maybe it was that Malaysian, some TV show or event thing.
And it was trending.
And I click on the trending to see what Kathleen Madigan shows up in the
trending feed.
And it says,
Hey termites,
let's go with a link to whatever the show or the,
whatever was going on termites, let's go with a link to whatever the show or whatever was going on.
Termites.
And then I started doing research, and she calls her fans termites.
And I couldn't find them.
Like, since when?
Yeah. And I'm, like, looking up.
And in the process of this, I go to her Twitter page and she doesn't follow me.
And she's a, she's a booze bag like me. She's roughly my age. I mean, we've never been close,
but we've been, you know, you've worked with her or met her. And I think the last time I saw her,
we was after the green room Provenza with Showtime.
So, yeah, like 10 years ago.
Was that the one with Belzer and Glenn Wool and Dave Attell?
Yeah, it ended up, I think it was me and her and Ron White and Attell all went to the improv.
And we all went up and did sets.
I remember Dice came to bump whoever was on stage and i'm like sorry dice i'm like i'm
going up next to the house i bumped dice uh but uh yeah she's i've always liked i'm like
and it's not like she when you see some of the like all right they they only follow like you
know 35 people or 130 people.
I get it. She follows like 3000 fucking people and not me.
And I just fixate on this.
And now I'm down in the fucking Madigan rabbit hole and she's doing this. And she started it during quarantine. Hubcast is the name of hers.
Like she lives rurally in in missouri where she grew up
off like not in hollywood or new york yeah i think outside of st louis or maybe in st louis
st louis area she started a podcast pub cast i'm like that's yeah that why is this not all about the drinking actually some like a open
i'm a i'm a fucking drinker if you i don't hang out with non-drinkers i'm reading interviews
i'm trying to find any reason that we should not be at least peripheral cursory friends like uh just comics who boos that's it exactly how few are there of
us left and she doesn't all goddamn night clicking on a different interview but this is on your phone
though you're not even on your no this is days ago okay This is why now the internet, I can't live without it.
I realize all these fucking assholes say, oh, I don't even have a TV.
Yeah, but you sit and do the same thing on the internet.
Yeah.
I know that I'm wasting time, but I also know that I'm a fucking crazy person.
that I'm a fucking crazy person.
Why am I just completely,
not only have I spent my whole night,
but I still wake up,
like, why doesn't,
does Kathleen Madigan not like me?
I was building a podcast around,
you know,
just that. Just that.
Like,
so what is the fixation?
Is it that she's not following you and you feel like you think that she doesn't like me?
Oh, all right.
I think.
And that, you know, that happens.
Yeah.
Sometimes people just don't like you.
Oh, tell me about it.
I guess, you know.
I guess you know.
The point is, you go at one point, is this like a place I could get medicated and not think about Kathleen Madigan's feelings about me and what it was specifically that made her not follow me?
I mean, I don't follow.
Did she follow you at one time?
Do you know? Not that I know.
Okay.
So you're filling in some blanks here.
Yeah.
I don't.
I don't follow.
Eat your own neuroses though.
I don't follow her.
No.
Well, there you go.
Why don't you follow her and see what happens?
Well, I'm afraid of rejection.
Maria Bamford.
I followed her.
She doesn't follow me.
I've tweeted her things to her GoFundMe
her projects she doesn't follow me
but I know she's crazy
I don't know that I'm crazy
I know that I'm a drunk
and I know that fucking Kathleen Madigan
is a drunk
if I had
fucking like whatever
crazy you know
whatever Maria Bamford has if we were both in the same, you know, if we would both be locked up in the same wing of the mental institution and then we got out and she didn't follow me.
I'm like, wait, we're both crazy people.
We both have the bipolar this.
There's a connection.
Yeah. or this there's a connection yeah yeah so you feel like the booze is enough booze and comedy
is enough of a connection that you think you should get a cursory hey i'll follow you or i
shouldn't care well yeah there's that part too yeah and again there's i don't know that i i'm
i'm so bad at gauging cause and effect the older i get i get like really sick the other day for two days i
was puking you came home from australia and yeah but that was basically yeah but i mean you
basically then could shut down sometimes your body just does that it was yeah i went back up north to the hotel. The hotel home.
Yeah, and I didn't feel bad,
but I just, I walked in
to the hotel and went,
oh, it's just...
Wait, it was puke?
No, no, it was just tightness
of the throat where it was like a gag
reflex without...
Like, am I going to throw up?
I'm like y'all i'll take that just kept going yeah and i'm like i don't feel i didn't feel like my belly was wishy-washy was it something
like food have you ever like when you puke on mushrooms yeah or ecstasy i don't know more mushrooms uh i i remember uh puking on ecstasy
the same way in uh montreal at the oh by the way we're coming back to canada yeah that was when
we're doing the just for spite festival and we had this car wash party we rented out a car wash
overnight and uh i was on ecstasy and i was just like really you know tense when it's coming on and
like i was talking to a guy and i was just you know charcoal eyes yeah intense and like
and i just turned my head and projected i vomited go ahead i'm good i'm good go ahead keep talking
and then she said what we're back in the story is coming up at the end of the party stragglers are still leaving the parking lot i think the
car wash people are starting to come in because they have to be a car wash soon and i talk to
this guy's like and i go and i look up and it's the same guy i'd been talking to earlier when i'd
puked like every time you talk to me i vomit so get go get going
it was that kind of stress vomit i don't know how much i'm really losing my because of
this house yeah i don't know like it doesn't seem i feel like i'm just you know riding through this
you know, riding through this fucking nightmare. I started asking people in Safeway, Hey, Doug,
how's everything? You back in town? Yeah. How's your,
how's your house coming along? It's not, nothing's happening.
We had to fucking ditch the other fucking people that the insurance company
recommended their fucks. No one was returning our calls that are
do you do you know a contractor yeah just asking people i'm gonna that's what it's gonna come down
to if we don't get calls back i got another another week and then i'm just gonna have to
start making some more calls to tucson now because i'll go fucking i'm basically going public now. I'll just go to people's podcasts,
go any general contractor that's just fucking bored
and wants to make a name for yourself.
I will call it your general contractor, whoever you are.
You'll own this podcast for a year.
Just like SoFi Stadium,
3Com Park or whatever yeah it'll be the uh fucking Stan and Sons fucking Ruby Ridge general contractors taped down from the mountains of Idaho to fix my fucking goddamn roof.
And it'll be your contracting company name here, Doug Stano Podcast.
Or something like that.
Or something like that.
Yeah.
Well, we got guys coming in with some bids.
So, I mean, we've got, we've got, there's nobody in Bisbee, basically.
And Sierra Vista is the next biggest town.
And when I was talking to the claims adjuster today,
who I got his personal number now, so I can get contacted.
Basically he's like, yeah, you should probably,
probably go out to Tucson. It's like, Hey, three weeks ago,
you couldn't have told me you should probably focus on Tucson for contractors.
That's how I'm getting information. I go, yeah, I'm not having any luck here.
It's like, yeah, what you should probably do is like, wow, that that once again, two weeks ago, you could have told me that I wouldn't have gotten all these electricians because he's like, hey, you know, you know, you get the electrician bid.
That's good and everything. But if you got the general contractor coming in, he's probably going to get his own guys in there to do it.
So he'll subcontract out and go, well, that I've been calling on all these,
these electrical contractors to come out and do a bid.
And I told him that. And today he said, yeah,
you should probably just wait till you get the general. I'm like, oh, well,
live and learn. What else?
What other gems am I going to learn in the next couple
of weeks yeah so uh do we have uh do we even have sponsors anymore is that still a thing um
sometimes do you just do this for me yeah this never goes out of the house doesn't go out
yeah it's to get you to stop thinking about k Madigan. Oh my God, just don't get me
fucking started on the other things.
You'll move on to something
else, won't you?
When I hate fixate, I know
it's a problem. I didn't hate fixate
on her. That was
a wounded soul
for no reason. Dumb thing, but
fucking blue check
marks. People that buy blue check marks dude fucking people that buy blue check
marks what's that on twitter on twitter now like it used to be a safe place you go okay i'm just
i don't want to fuck with twitter i don't want to deal with assholes but yeah the verified people
they were never the fucking asshole so you go i'm just gonna check my verified comments yeah and
then see if the people i know and now you go someone's like what do you this is a verified oh no i forgot you fuck i would and i
want to block them but then you're like yeah that's cunty what why do you you're paying twitter to
fuck you you're like it's like it's invasive invasive species audience members paying to
be able to go and go to the green room yeah and you don Audience members pain to be able to go in the green room.
Yeah.
And you don't know when to shut the fuck up in the green room.
All right.
Yeah.
Now's the time where we're actually thinking and working.
Someone's recording.
Fucking backstage pass motherfuckers.
And the punchable faces.
Oh my God.
Here, let's take a break.
All right. Because just in case, because we do have ad insert God. Here, let's take a break. Just in case.
Because we do have ad insertions.
So we still got that going on.
All right.
Rally up there, fucking killer termites.
We might have to steal our fucking moniker back.
Actually, I'm fine with getting rid of killer termites.
I give it to Kathleen Madigan.
Wait a minute.
She's not killer termites. She's just termites. And you were givenathleen madigan which i wait a minute she's not killed her termite she's
she's just termites and you were given you were dubbed yeah killer termite yeah i know and that's
why maybe maybe uh it's time to get something else can we wait until we run out of the t-shirts i
have selling maybe we put our termites on her termites there you go oh she doesn't even know
there's a storm brewing
that's a great thing about nobody listens to my podcast in this industry yeah hey killer termites
buckets start turning your plowshares into swords we'll be right back
you were listening to the d Stanhope podcast.
You should be popping up out of the back and buried in that top bunk and then pop up at the end and just go.
Okay.
Yeah.
You want to talk about the podcast studio?
This is the,
these are the helix mattresses.
It's the,
it's the remnants of a old sponsor.
You know what?
You love and you live and sometimes
you keep the mattress,
especially if they have a lot
of mattresses themselves.
This was the
twins and
it's the bunk beds. I think the bunk beds came
from Ikea.
But I don't know. You got the bunk beds. Yeah, the bunk beds came from Ikea. But I don't know.
You got the bunk beds. Yeah, I think
they came from Ikea.
I can't remember.
You slept in it once,
right? In these, no.
I grew up in bunk beds.
I got a twin brother.
I love bunk beds, in theory.
But yeah, it hasn't made me go
well, now that the weather's changing
that's another fuck thing this is not only has it been since the seasonal change the fire happened
right before thanksgiving november 21st that's when you're getting used to okay it's going to
be cold and it's just going to get worse and now now you come back from three weeks in Australia where it was summer.
And now this is becoming summer in Tucson.
Oh, 70 degrees.
When I left, you put on a hat to go outside and smoke.
Now I don't even go outside to smoke.
And it's gorgeous.
I should be playing tennis.
It's on my list.
I just don't read my list.
Yeah, maybe I should be doing that
Rather than worrying about the fucking internet
But I have so much god damn work
We're about
This room is almost done
And then the fun house
Is about a week away
From the new stage
And basically prepping it for paint
Because what we did was
Because of the fire no one's living here.
We just started redoing a bunch of stuff that needed to be done.
And I don't have a vision for the new fun house.
And I realized it's like thrift store shopping.
Like, all right.
I want to stand up globe.
I love a stand up globe.
Like a globe on a stand where you can just, you know,
it's a hip height and you can whirl it around.
Like in like a gentleman's clubs in uh yeah with overstuffed chairs cigars and
exactly bourbon and i love a globe uh and i looked them up online they're really fucking expensive
yeah they are uh are you talking about the one that opens up and there's a bar inside of it
it doesn't have to be okay i actually like the globe i don't need the hideaway bar spin right yeah and i like i could stare at that for
all right i'm trying to sneeze
uh and i'm like that's what i like that's one of the things you just wait to find in a thrift store
yeah or at a yard serendipity yeah i don't need a globe i don't like stop buying everything that
you'll eventually find for a bargain and that's what i'm going to do with the funhouse until i
have an idea i'm not going to go spend a lot of money and put let's just throw a fucking giant
table in there and podcast off of it until
we need to.
It's horrible for podcasting.
You know?
Oh yeah.
Cause the audio and the,
and the,
yeah.
So whatever,
we'll figure it out.
But the,
the new,
the new,
it was fine.
No,
it's always been bad.
Oh,
all right.
Yeah.
The thing is,
is that it's always been like doing a podcast in a bar.
So the audio is, is suffers because of it. There's not,
there's nothing to help warm up the sound or to dampen some of the echo and
stuff. And it's always been the cats or the dogs making noise,
people coming in and out.
It was never a thing where everyone quiet on the set, you know,
but if we want more control over that,
then we would probably not do it.
Yeah. Well, but the bar podcast aside. Yeah. Just for hanging out. Oh yeah.
Yeah. Throw up banquet table and six chairs around the patio table.
Well, actually no, the patio is coming back into play, but the,
the bar is gone. So that's, we took all the equipment out of there.
We're putting in three more smart TVs.
And we have a new stage.
And I love it.
The stage looks great.
We just need to figure out what to paint it.
Yeah, maybe we should do that.
Is just set it for a show.
Yeah.
And that way, anytime I go in there just to fuck off i work on my laptop
all right yeah we should so all i have to do is call a few people and say hey on the 19th we're
doing a show and then i have to do the show well you do you do owe a show to someone in town oh yeah shady dell yeah i bet him on the
as a new stage they they completely took out one trailer it's a it's it's it's huge a big deal so
yeah i don't know is that what you meant to do is to do a show there on the shady dell stage
i've no i had no idea i just knew I wanted to bet him and money's boring.
Yeah.
So it was the Eagles against someone in the playoff.
Just to, yeah, just to make the playoffs.
Yeah.
Well, maybe it was, but it might've been the Superbowl.
No, it was playoffs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What were you going to win?
It was a show versus a night in the yacht.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know what that's called.
Yeah.
Wow, that's kind of lopsided.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I was pretty sure I'd lose, but.
So do you do the show from the yacht?
On the poop deck?
Yeah, no, I'm looking forward to that.
Shadydale's opening up with barbecue again this weekend.
And Dots Diner has always been open.
Oh, we should plug Backdoor Mike's new place,
even though we couldn't get in.
Taqueria Outlaw.
Taqueria Outlaw and Old Bisbee on Tombstone Canyon.
We went for the grand opening and uh got there when he
said to get there and it was over over full so we just kept going back over to the grand and having
another cocktail we'll wait but it's fucking cold as shit yeah it's before uh australian summer so
it was back in the winter days his investor tried twice to go there and have a meal and couldn't get sat so i mean yeah
it was it was just crazy and now i mean they're open wednesday through sunday they're open
saturdays for lunches so it's uh calming down a little bit mckenzie's bartending mckenzie bird
clouds there and yeah yeah it's great food i mean we've got a lot of he's a good cook. So let me just say these because.
And I know I'm there's a million thank yous that I probably never got to, but Ryan Cooper is a dead guy.
He's a super fan.
And his mother sent me this basically a whole brochure package of like the whole thing.
That was a young kid is like 41 and his health started decline and he died within a year and she didn't say why but he was a huge fan and she sent pictures of him
like in his apartment with like posters of our tours everywhere and killer termites patches and
you know t-shirts and yeah so he was a super fan and he died and his mom sent me
Didi, thank you for saying
I would have
all you sent me was your home address
and your phone number.
And I wasn't really going to call
like the package included, like from the
funeral or whatever
letters about remembering
Ryan. Shit, I don't
fuck all the swag from a funeral
so uh yeah i noted dd cooper yes uh the ryan cooper has his name has been spoken
now he can go on into the afterlife stop waiting in that merch that was us he was in limbo celestial
merch line until you mention it he's in limbo at the
stand up after the show he likes to go have a cigarette out by the dumpster it makes you wait
20 minutes in line like it's the fucking front porch of fight club diva and i know diva i can
picture her from social i but i i don't know exactly but she she sent me She's been around
She's come to gigs everywhere
And I don't know exactly
But she sent me some vintage
You want to get in my pants
You send me fucking vintage
Delta gear I've never seen
Some small
rocks glasses, blue
and etched Delta
with the Douglas
whatever aircraft Yeah Yeah. Yeah. Pair of glasses.
Gorgeous. And and these guys, Tyler and Adam, Tyler, Adam and Roke. They have a comic book
series, Ranger Stranger, like Stranger Danger, Ranger Stranger.
And it's, you know, that cheery kind of 50s guy that's doing horrible things with kids or something.
Well, it's not like that, but, you know, it's inappropriate humor within a comic book.
So those are going directly to the thrift store where they will be bought by someone who has kids.
My kid loves comic books
that will have no idea
that these are salty
and inappropriate.
It's called
Stranger Danger.
Stranger Ranger.
Ranger Stranger.
Ranger's name is Stranger yeah Rangers name is stranger all right
uh yeah this guy left a note oh yeah that's the what it's looking for
okay left to know okay this wasn't even this is just cursive writing no one does cursive anymore
I can't do cursive I'm sure we talked about this but uh yeah i could not sign my own name in cursive my yeah my signature now my autograph is a
bastardization of one like at some point i just printed anything that i had to hand write and
then at some point handwriting is very when i have to to write a check, I feel like I should like put on some vintage clothes and make a party out of it.
Like get my S and H green stamps out.
Just writing a check seems so fucking archaic.
I mean, but when do you, when do you write a check?
Well, there's places that, I mean, you don't write a check well there's places that i mean you don't write
a check like the checkout at safeway no that's where it's weird because you're because you don't
want to fuck up and i mean i can't remember the last time i wrote a check insurance insurance
won't take a credit card oh yeah like i tried anything that will take a credit card yeah let's party on some miles yeah getting you know mqms all right this
was stuffed in my mailbox at the dead house dear mr stanhope my name is david low
that's right I know off what? Oh, I'm off work till Monday, thanks to the storm that covered everything in snow.
Is that storm with an E at the end? That's a verified storm.
S.T.O.R.M.E. Is this letter from the 1600s?
I drove down from Prescott just to meet you and hopefully have a drink.
I brought a bottle of, I don't know, Samuel Grant whiskey for you to try.
I think you'd like it.
Anyway, I just wanted to meet you.
If you're down for a drink, hit me up, please.
No, I'm not a stalker. S-T-O-C-K-E-R. You're down for a drink. Hit me up, please. No.
I'm not a stalker.
S-T-O-C-K-E-R.
Well, Safeway will be sad to hear that because they're looking for stalkers.
I won't bother you anymore if you don't want to hang out.
All right.
Yeah.
He didn't leave the liquor.
He just left the note.
Yeah.
And, well, I don't know.
Maybe he did email, but probably not.
Please hold.
You are listening to the Doug Stanhope Podcast.
When did you start drinking beers?
Occasionally, people.
Occasionally, I will get two
of the giant Sapporo
cans.
Neighbor Dave and I used to either
Asahi or Sapporo, which
I don't, I mean,
I always liked beer with sushi and I like Japanese beer.
Otherwise, I'm just a Miller Lite, Bud Light, whatever fucking corporate light guy.
But Sapporo and Asahi and then neighbor Dave and I would occasionally get a six pack of one or the other and split it.
Just that's back when I was a miller light drinker and we'd get exotic and we'd we'd share a six-pack of fucking like regular they don't
sell these in six packs no no no either we'd get a bunch of these or a six-pack of bottles
uh but i didn't really appreciate it till i i went to the uk a
lot i like their fucking even their budweiser is not budweiser this tastes like a fucking heineken
i don't know how you can just slap that fucking label on but it's the same with their fast food
where you go i went to a taco bell in the uk and you go do they know you're using their name do you just can you just
like completely grift their fucking logo because they're not watching over here because nothing on
this but they're like fish they didn't whatever it was red pudding they had like three things and
nothing like fucking taco bell they can't have any standards with their franchise. Their beer is like that, but no,
they're fucking Asahi, Sapporo.
I started drinking Japanese
beer. This is before
I was a cocktail drinker.
But yeah, oh, thank God.
There's fucking beer. I can
stomach over here.
Yeah, that's delicious.
If I start drinking beer, I can just keep going with it.
Like Mexican and sushi.
Two places.
I love drinking beer.
Like, yeah, tacos and, you know.
Yeah.
Did you ever do sake bombs?
No, I never liked sake.
It always tasted exactly like how acid reflux feels you know what I mean
by a sake bomb though right yeah I know
drop drop yeah yeah
it's like everyone yells and yeah
no never
never did you don't go in for the
the like the festivities
like that you would do a shot of
Jaeger but you wouldn't go
to do the ski or whatever
that stupid thing.
Or drinking games.
Drinking games now would be
that makes you
wait to drink. You can't
drink unless you
do the thing.
I need a fucking drink.
I don't need a reason to drink.
Oh my God, I'm going to get hammered.
Oh no.
One too many for me.
Yeah,
I never found the
allure.
It's like
being in a whorehouse and go you want to play truth or dare
you already paid me you want you're gonna dare me to suck your dick you just paid me to
or you could go truth go truth Go truth.
Comfort.
Comfort is just been the worst thing that's ever happened to me.
It's the worst addiction I've ever had.
It's the most debilitating to my career, my social life.
Yeah, I'm fine just to sit on my couch and not talk to anyone and i have enough money i don't
need to i don't really have any goals like i i don't see a car and go oh i wish i could afford
that well you didn't wish you could afford it but you you just picked oh i just are yeah and i
already fucking lost the spare key did you well i Well, I think it might be in the dad's Suburban.
If that's the baby Suburban.
Yeah.
Yeah, there's another.
I'm a sucker for the fucking car auctions.
And this is such a weird auction.
I don't even know how you found that one.
It was in the Bisbee Observer.
Where?
And it had an ad.
I never read the ads.
I know.
Exactly.
They put an ad in.
Auction, Naco Elementary School District.
Which is seven miles from here.
It's a little tiny town of maybe 500 people.
I don't know what it is.
Wait.
A thousand people.
On the U.S. side?
Yeah, the U.S. side.
It's nothing.
And they had three cars listed.
the u.s side it's nothing and uh they had three cars listed and it said visit our website or go to our facebook page or our website and then didn't list what the facebook page or website were
just like like when you see a a a a vehicle that says you whatever, handyman. And it has their phone number, but without an area code.
Like everyone knows they go, Oh, just go to our Facebook page.
Well, you don't have to list it.
So I did Google and then I found it was a,
one of the three vehicles was a 1999 suburban
with 113,000
miles on it.
Yeah, 24 years old,
but for a suburban.
Super low miles. Wicked low miles.
And I used to have
one of my favorite cars was a Chevy
Tahoe we got from
a city vehicle that I got
at an auction for $2,500
and it fucking was
just this, it was a 99 same year this is
basically i bought the same vehicle only this one's a suburban so it's a little bit longer
but the exact same dashboard interior the front bench seat is like a couch it's this it's fabric
so in the summer it's fine yeah yeah it's and love that. And bingo after she got out from her fucking coma was driving the Tahoe and broad daylight smashed it into a fucking pole up the street and doesn't remember why or how.
Right in front of a pill, Kim and Dave's place.
We heard something.
Heard a bang.
That's like two blocks away and then
uphill yeah yeah that's a distance and then she doesn't remember where she was going to or from
and then the car had to get back i don't remember the details at this point but the point was
she didn't know the details other than i uh wrecked the Tahoe and I don't know how.
Yeah.
And it was after that.
And she was not drunk or anything.
She's just, I don't.
And I'm like, wow, that's fucked up.
Like, is your brain because we don't know what her brain is going to do now.
Yeah.
And you just go like off the radar, like the Malaysian flight 370.
And that really hurt it was totaled right you did it she gave it to her fucking hillbilly friends and it's i see it driving around now oh
you do yeah they they got it going but it's like sometimes without a hood yeah once you get it to the right people yeah yeah she did uh
but it's like one of those few things that really lingers where you go fuck like i got that for
2500 it would have run forever and it did it ran for i mean yeah it's just probably a theater eight
years that that was going at it.
It was just comfortable.
And I wouldn't take it outside the city limits or Sierra Vista at best.
And this is what replaced it.
So six years later, I think, I think, I think the other,
look for a key that looks like the mom car key.
She had the old 1999 key in the the other suburban because
that's what i dropped it off all it needed was tires after i was sitting around yeah the
lights weren't working because there was a bad fuse easy to fix and uh the battery was fine um
yeah i mean i think the dash is fine i still haven't even written I think the dash is fine. I still haven't even written. No, the dash is fucked. You can't see it from the inside, but the outside.
No, it's all completely broken through. Oh, like whatever is underneath the dashboard.
Yeah. It would be visible electronics.
Like if the dashboard were your torso.
Yeah. You can see all your intestines, heart, lungs and everything through.
It's all stove. Yeah stove in yeah the skin is gone
yeah all the arizona sun wear oh my god we have that other fucking chevy pickup thing it's the
s10 yeah yeah this is 2000 and i went to wipe off the dashboard after i bought that and just all the like the vent slats just crumbled
like necca wafers or bad teeth almost teeth let me just scrub those oh they just fell out yeah but i
mean what needs to work on that truck works yeah it goes to the dump and uh gets back every time. So that's all we need. That's all it's there for.
Yeah. Okay.
Well, we got Seattle coming up.
Let me pull up the date.
That's the 25
and 6.
Yes. Saturday, Sunday, one of them.
So I guess I'm guessing the Saturday
is the sold out.
I don't
know. Brian was telling me like it's completely sold out uh uh i don't know brian was telling me like it's completely sold out well what do you
now you sound like the fucking fans that go hey that's sold out do you have any
extra seats that you keep for people like me that forgot to buy it no and then canada
chaley and i are fucking yeah we're going out of this business in first class
it looks like uh the 26th sunday the 26th of march uh tickets are available looks like uh
yeah there's there's a couple of pairs uh in the floor area not many and then others uh balcony
it's a beautiful theater i love that yeah i love
the neptune yeah and that was where i left you last at the end at the beginning of covid i was
making jokes about it because that's when seattle was ground zero for covid that's where it started
i'm fucking new york stole all its thunder with the Cuomo. But you remember, it was your fucking, that was your game.
They stole your bag.
You were the COVID capital.
11 people died.
Say this last podcast.
No.
When we got shut down in Seattle, a total of 11 people had died of COVID in the United States.
At that time.
At that time.
On that date.
I looked it up at one point.
I thought I was going to write an update for the book.
Seattle shut down after that second show you did.
Yeah.
And then we went to Portland.
Because Todd Barry was going to be there the next night.
He got canceled. Well, not canceled. His show got canceled. And then we went to Portland Because Todd Barry was going to be there the next night And he got cancelled
Well not cancelled
His show got cancelled
And that's when you went out to
I think Philly or Boston or something
Something happened
Actually Baltimore was technically the last date I played
But it felt like
Seattle
So all the
Canada dates are
That's it now
Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg
Edmonton, Calgary
And then two Vancouver dates
May 6th at the House of Comedy in Vancouver
Is a day drinking show again
Yeah, oh shit
When I get the internet back here
My small town
Living out of the back of my
1999 auction By Chevy Suburban.
I think I might pull that into the driveway and sleep here for the spring months before
it gets too hot and just say, I'm living out of my car until I fix my house.
Technically, if I do sleep in my car, it's
technically accurate that
yeah, you forced him to
live out of his car, State Farm.
But you still have the hotel.
When are you going to get out of the hotel?
No, I don't.
As convenient as it is.
I find out April 15th.
They booked me January 5th through April 15th
knowing ahead of time it's going to be
this fucked up.
Yeah.
So we'll see what they booked me on April 16th.
All right.
Stay tuned, kids.
I'm fucking hanging on.
Yeah, some guy was a dragon in his hotmail.
Yeah.
If you didn't kill yourself, don't.
But right now, I
didn't even respond.
I don't even know
what you're talking about.
I know.
My fucking Hannigan says,
you're going to hotmail. This guy's
going to kill himself. I'm like, well, I don't
have internet and I'm not going to use my
data on my phone.
Fuck you, AT&T. Yeah, there's been a lot of
people that got fuck yous today.
Hey, thank you guys for hanging out.
We'll get weirder sooner.
Bye.
Okay, bye-bye now. Thank you.