The Doug Stanhope Podcast - EPISODE #24: Frosti Gnarr and Jonathan Larroquette
Episode Date: April 14, 2014Doug welcomes Frosti Gnarr, the son of the Mayor of Iceland's capital city ReykjavÃk, and Jonathan Larroquette, 'Uhh Yeah Dude' Podcast, to the Fun House. Doug and Bingo met Frosti on a trip to perfo...rm at ReykjavÃk's prison. Jonathan adds some of his own Icelandic experiences.This podcast sponsored by ORA GREEN BEANS. Available in Iceland.Recorded Mar 20, 2014 in the Fun House in Bisbee, AZ with Doug Stanhope, Frosti Gnarr, Jonathan Larroquette, Chad Shank and Bingo. Produced and Edited by Greg Chaille @gregchaille. Intro music "Don't Cut Yr Hair" by Mishka Shubaly. Closing song by Fufanu.Take a moment to signup for the mailinglist at dougstanhope.com.Support the show: http://www.Patreon.com/stanhopepodcast
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Hey, this is the Doug Stanhope Podcast.
On this podcast we have Bingo and Chad Shank
hosting our friend Frosty Gnar from Reykjavik, Iceland,
has dropped in with Jonathan Larroquette,
who will pop in and out.
And here goes.
All right.
The potato peelings in the sink
Did not turn into vodka as I had hoped
I only start to need a drink
After the liquor stores have closed
I heard you change your
name again
but don't you
change your hair
it was the only thing I liked
about you
in the end.
La, la, la.
Well, actually, it was Shawnee who will probably be by later.
Gretchen, you saw her artwork.
Oh, yeah.
That was cool as shit.
We went into Old Bisbee today
and Gretchen Bear
is a painter.
Has painted a lot of bingo.
I don't know if that's her studio.
It's the major
location, location,
location spot.
Gallery in the
window is a
fucking eight foot painting of bingo.
Two of them.
Two, yeah.
But we have one huge one, which we got out-of-town company here.
We get the Frosty Gnarr.
It's Gnarr.
Perfect pronunciation.
Perfect pronunciation.
You've got it.
You've so got it.
G-N-A-R-R.
How do you pronounce it?
Gnar.
Gnar.
Yeah, not when you go to Iceland.
Gnar.
Oh, you have to put a...
Gnar.
Gnar, okay.
Gnar.
Hard R's.
That sounds way cooler.
Hard R's.
Hard R's?
Yeah.
Yeah, so Frosty Gnar
Go back to Gretchen
Anyway
Go back to Gretchen
Frosty Gnar
Gnar
Yeah, you got it
That sounds almost as cool as Shank
Gnar
Gretchen and Shawnee are good friends here in Bisbee
And at some point a a few years ago,
Shawnee came over.
He was doing some work, and he said,
Gretchen and I were thinking a cool place
to go for Christmas would be Iceland.
It just seems like...
And I said,
yeah, I just read a story where a comedian
got elected as
the mayor of Reykjavik.
Let me see if I can find out more,
because Iceland does sound like a really fucking cool place to go.
So I looked him up,
and I found what seemed to be a government website.
It was all in Icelandic.
But there was a link for an email.
So I emailed some goofy, hey, I think we need to have some kind of diplomatic fucking meeting.
And I got an email back going, hey, it's very strange.
Because he had evidently seen my Charlie Brooker stuff in the UK.
And I just got turned on to you.
And I don't think there's such thing as
coincidence.
So, yeah,
we booked a flight to
Iceland. We fuck off
Shawnee and Gretchen. We're not going to Christmas.
That's just dumb. It's cold as shit.
We're going in September.
And, yeah, we went over
and met with
John Gahr.
I got it right here.
Thanks.
Yeah, I quit smoking, by the way.
But sometimes that's the key to quitting smoking, people,
is if you really need a cigarette, smoke a cigarette,
and then go back to quitting.
It fucking works.
Otherwise, you just go, oh, I failed.
I quit for 11 days, but then I broke down.
And then you just start buying packs.
Well, just fucking, yeah, okay, I broke down for a day.
And then you go back to quitting.
That's how I've quit for over a month is by smoking cigarettes.
We show up in fucking Reykjavik.
We're a mess.
We had just done a vacation with neighbor Dave and Evelyn in North Carolina.
Or already polluted.
Show up.
The fucking mayor.
Frosty here.
Your dad.
Yeah.
Dad and son, meet us at the airport in fucking monkey masks.
Monkey outfits.
Gorilla masks.
Gorilla masks.
That's how we get picked up.
Holding a sign with our name
like they're our drivers.
It was fucking brilliant.
Zipped us off to a breakfast.
With this bad spelling,
if I may add.
It was dog.
Dog Stanhope.
I didn't, you know,
that would have been a great cunt move.
It's like, dude, no.
There's a you in it.
Anyway, so yeah, they whisked us off to...
How do you pronounce the prison?
Lytle Rhône.
Lytle Rhône.
That was close.
That was fucking close
very close
yeah
did a good job
did a show for the prisoners
miserable
horrible
I thought
you know I'll just do
all my old basic dick jokes
like the simplest stuff
and then I went up
and I go
I'd start doing them
I go
I don't remember how they go
this is just a basic
fucking blowjob story
I'm stumbling through
I had nothing but your show was bad but the prison was amazing This is just a basic fucking blowjob story. I'm stumbling through it.
I had nothing.
But your show was bad, but the prison was amazing.
The prison is fucking fantastic. Just such an example of everything that the world should...
I mean, the Scandinavian countries mostly have the same template
and a really low rate of recidivism oh i'm not that
drunk am i ah recidivism can do it twice in a row uh but yeah the the prisoners explain the describe
it well first of all we're like dorms we were carted around into all these dorms that seemed great by someone who we thought worked there.
And he ends up being a murderer.
He's a prisoner.
He's a murderer.
So it was like maximum security.
It wasn't like a soft prison.
Their only maximum security prison, and it had 84 inmates total in dorms.
It's like a college.
Better than a college, probably.
You could have computers, books.
They could read.
They could write.
They had a stainless steel table that they would prepare their own meals on with butcher knives,
but on a cord like a pen in a bank, so you couldn't get it more than a foot from the table.
If you're going to have a knife fight,
you have to do it real close to the celery.
But that's the only thing that seemed like a prison
was the knives being...
They were playing not Wii golf,
but some kind of giant screen video game.
And they were all so incredibly kind to us.
They were so happy we were there.
It was awesome. That's really amazing.
I shipped them a box of jerseys.
Sorry, I'm chewing ice into a mic.
I want to fucking kill myself from my own car listening to that.
Sorry.
And the present they gave us?
Should I go grab that?
Oh yeah I brought it out last night
If you want to go get that thing
Yeah I do
Chaley will edit around it
Okay so
They treat even psychopaths and murderers like people
Yeah and they're all doing college courses
And everyone's cool
It's pretty humane progressive yeah
well you gotta keep in mind first of all iceland is smaller than tucson there's like 330 000 people
so it's a fucking community that's's the problem with America and centralized government,
where you're trying to treat how many fucking million are we up to?
350 million.
What's the largest ruling?
The mayor?
How much of the stuff does your dad rule over?
The whole thing?
Is there, like, you know what I mean?
He's the mayor of the capital, which is by far the largest.
Yeah, way larger.
And he started his own political party at the time.
Iceland,
you might want to have the details on this,
but they,
they,
they're economic.
They plunged into the fucking toilet so hard.
It was all banking.
I don't understand the whole thing,
but they lost their ass.
And everyone was like, what is Greece and Spain are going through now, basically.
So he was a comedian.
Fucking hilarious.
Tell me the names of the series,
because they're in Icelandic.
But it's Night Shift, Day Shift, Night Shift, and Prison Shift, right?
Prison Shift, yeah.
But say it in Icelandic, because that's the real names, and it's cool.
Nighturvachtin, Dauvachtin, Faunkavachtin.
So you get to do a lot of that.
That's very cool.
People will play that while they fuck.
Yeah.
Such a sexy language.
I'm all over the fucking map with this whole story.
Okay, so here's this.
Okay, so we show up at the prison.
They present us with gifts.
The prison has merch.
They had t-shirts.
A mug?
With a slogan about their prison.
Like they're promoting their prison.
For visitors?
Yeah.
Which they should.
And they wrote this.
This is in calligraphy.
Remind me to get a picture of this, Derek,
because Chaley will want it to put as a thumbnail.
It says, Dear Doug Stanhope, 25th of September, 2011.
Dear Doug Stanhope, our initial idea of showing you our gratitude
for your visiting us prisoners here at Lytlehorn
was to give you a t-shirt with the inscription
I went to prison in Iceland
to do stand-up
and all they gave me
was this lousy t-shirt
which they gagged me with
while fucking me in the ass.
This idea was however
deemed inappropriate
so you get this nice card instead.
This is handwritten
in fucking the most beautiful
calligraphy. They give us
a t-shirt. I did stand
up in a half-court
basketball gymnasium
with folding chairs to a bunch of people
just happy someone stopped by.
Yeah. They were so nice
to us.
And I was fresh off the plane. We get off
at like six in the morning.
Gorilla masks.
The mayor of Reykjavik and his kid
in gorilla masks take us to breakfast.
We had cocktails. We had more
cocktails in the car on the way to the prison.
Out on some fucking volcanic
tundra.
And then spent four days just
drinking cocktails.
And we got to go to...
What was...
Where did he take us?
Where fucking Gorbachev and Reagan...
Yeah, Havadi.
Yeah, it's called Havadi.
It's the house where they did the...
What was it called?
I don't know.
Summit?
Yeah, it was a big fucking summit where they...
Summit? Yeah. it was a big fucking summit where they... Summit?
Yeah.
It was some kind of...
It was a big fucking deal.
I thought it had a name.
But we took pictures in the chairs that Gorbachev and Reagan sat in.
We goofed off.
They gave us presents.
Bingo traded out shoes with...
I don't even know who that woman was.
I don't know who she was.
She was really beautiful, but she loved my,
it was Converse high top boots.
Like wrestling high top.
High high, new high.
Calf high.
And she loved my boots so much.
So I said, oh, okay, I'll give you these boots
and find something cool and we'll trade.
So she got buttons from this place where
we're at whatever the hofty house from the hofty house yeah so we got buttons from the hofty house
and a little matches i think there were matches i mean why would you have matches a caricature uh
a bunch of condoms hofty house condoms and then she takes me into another room
and all she does was show me something and says, do you know what this is?
She pulled it to you.
And then she wraps it in tinfoil.
And she's like, do you know what this is?
And I'm like, well, yes, I know what this is.
Thank you very much.
I'll put it in the bag.
Let's get the fuck out of here.
So anyway.
Mushrooms.
We've got mushrooms.
We've got mushrooms.
We've got mushrooms.
From the fucking elite.
It was some governmental person.
I don't know, city council, whatever.
Just gave us.
Yeah, she's one of the people from city council.
Yeah, yeah.
Gave us mushrooms.
This is cool, but we're not going to fly with them.
So the last night, I'm like, we've got to take mushrooms.
I'm not in the mood.
We're very well hung over.
But we have to.
The fucking mayor's team gave us mushrooms in the fucking room that Gorbachev and fucking Reagan held there.
We had to do it.
So we chew these down.
And it's so hard for me to eat mushrooms anyway.
And we had some lunch meat.
We're eating, I think, ham, sliced ham. You were like roughly in bread also. Yeah. Was had some lunch meat. I think it was ham. Sliced ham.
You were like roughing in bread
also. Was it bread?
Yeah.
I don't know.
We ate a ton of mushrooms.
Just choking these fucking things down.
And we told Frosty here
he was coming over to the hotel
and we saved some for him.
And he shows
up and we go here
is I don't know if they're any good
there's nothing kicking
in for us yet and he's
he says
that is
not mushrooms
they hand me the fucking plate and I
smell the thing and I'm like there's just no
way these are mushrooms.
This is sage.
And I said, what the fuck is sage?
So he's like, it's potpourri.
It's fucking potpourri.
You just ate a bunch of potpourri.
But she gave it to us in such a fashion,
like with a wink and a nudge.
Down low.
Yeah.
So we sat there eating fucking
potpourri.
And then offer it
to him.
Hey, you want to trip your balls off with us?
Yeah, here's
or rub a chicken or bless
a house.
Multiple uses for sage.
And we were going to get gay married.
That was, again, one of those great ideas that's still on.
You actually, in the middle of the night,
while Frosty and us were drinking,
you called up John Narr
and asked for Frosty's hand in marriage at a bar.
Well, because gay marriage, as it still is, was an issue here.
But over there, the prime minister, so lesbian who's gay married to a chick.
And I go, let's see if we can get gay married here.
If we can try to use that as like for clout where I get citizenship here and I can see if we can get gay married here, if we can try to use that as like for clout where I get citizenship here and
I can see if we can get you citizenship there and just try to make a fucking
spectacle out of it.
It's still a great idea.
I just don't get around to shit.
When do you have time to like go to Iceland and get gay married?
Like between gigs,
like death pool.
It's one of those things.
Tomorrow in Visbee downtown.
We can get gay married.
It's civil union, though.
Yeah.
It doesn't carry much.
Only in Bisbee.
Bisbee was the...
It's a redneck state, but Bisbee passed a gay civil union ordinance, which is all just...
What do they say?
Uh,
window dressing.
Yeah.
I think you get,
uh,
you can go to the pool.
Yeah.
It's good.
The public pool.
You can get two for one.
I think that's that.
And getting buried together at a cemetery.
I think the two things you actually get.
That's what I read in the paper. Yeah.
I don't know what the ramifications.
Maybe we do civil union.
Yeah.
We've been engaged for a few years.
It's about time.
I would attend.
I'm all into it.
It means day drinking again.
It means smoking more cigarettes.
All right.
Well, it's on.
Yeah, I think it's definitely on.
I mean, it was such a funny moment, though, being at this bar discussing this and being like,
Oh, it would be fucking amazing because we can be like on a gay parade float.
Being like Doug Stanoff and Frosty like these
long haired blonde dudes like waving
the crowds
and then
being so amped about it like calling my
parents in the middle of the night waking them up
and being like mom I need
you to talk to Doug
we're kind of engaged now
and he would like for you to
give my hand
in marriage.
He said that I would
be adopted, that I would have
to be adopted. Oh yeah, yeah, we were going to
adopt Bingo as our kid.
Yeah, so Frosty, I would be your daughter.
Which I'm totally...
Bingo has two daddies.
Who's your daddy?
I love this video Both of you
Tomorrow
For sure
Oh shit
So
Yeah
We'll see if we can make that happen tomorrow
Yeah
We're supposed to shoot guns too
But
That can be the after party
Yeah
Yeah
Get married
Get hitched
Yeah
And shoot some guns
Do some fucking Islamic Shoot guns in the after party yeah yeah get married get hitched yeah and shoot some guns do some
fucking islamic yeah oh yeah i want to be there for that
you're uh i remember the first night we went to your well i don't know if it's your house did you
were you living with your dad and no i wasn't no and your mom i'm assuming yeah yeah i don't know if it's your house. Were you living with your dad? No, I wasn't.
And your mom, I'm assuming?
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Well, you know, once a guy gets fucking drunk with power,
he's the mayor of Reykjavik.
That might have been some new fucking sluice from the street.
Worn up a little bit.
Yeah.
I remember smoking out the window.
You don't have to go outside You can smoke out the window
But you know they didn't mean it
You and John Gnarr and Brian
Oh fuck Hennigan was there
Brian was with us
And you talked to John Gnarr
And created this thing where
You guys would just start talking in Icelandic
And I would never know
Oh yeah just to fuck with bingo We'd just talking in Icelandic and I would never know this. Oh, yeah, just to fuck with bingo.
We'd just make up Icelandic language.
Everyone but bingo was in on it.
Like everybody else picked it up already.
Yeah, we got...
And I'm like...
And they go...
What the fuck?
I'm serious.
What the fuck?
I'm serious.
So your dad is now about to step down.
He's been mayor since 10?
Yeah.
Yeah, he's been... Four years.
Yeah, it's a four-year term.
So in June, we were trying to plan something
with one of my favorite bands ever.
It's Molotov Jukebox.
Yeah.
We talked about going to Iceland and trying to do
something like
Bon Voyage.
Thanks for your time.
Our own personal festival.
It's one of those things.
If I like put this
if i plan it and then i wake up and go oh fuck i have to do it it's like booking travel i book
all these dumb trips when i'm drunk and you already bought the tickets and now you have to
say this isn't so much harder than flying to australia no he does go but it's like how do
you figuring out all this shit like work permits and visa.
I don't know how to do that.
There's no money in it.
I don't know.
A band has fucking – they have sometimes eight people in their band.
I don't know.
I can't fly eight people on no money.
Right.
It's so much easier doing comedy.
It's just you. Fuck everyone else. I'm going on tour now. I's so much easier doing comedy. It's just you.
Fuck everyone else. I'm going on tour
now. I'm not even bringing Junior. I'm just
going by myself.
A band where you have to just
and share
the pot? Fuck that.
You're in the wrong business, Frosty.
What's the name of your band? Do you have a band
now? Yeah, it's called Fufanu.
Spell it for the people.
F-U-F-A-N-U.
All right.
We should bring him in and take him out on the podcast with that.
Yeah, Chaley will find that.
Okay, yeah.
Is it on iTunes?
You got anything on iTunes?
No.
YouTube?
You'll get us to it.
Yeah, get it to you.
Because we'll take you in and bring you out.
Okay, very cool. You'll get us to it Yeah Get it to you Cause we'll take you in And bring you out Okay Very cool
Don't worry
Don't let dead air scare you
It all just disappears
And then we'll edit
I don't know why
Everybody's looking at me
Like I was supposed to say so
You were kind of like gasping
Like you were scared
Well no fat
Dead air
Fat so I gasp sometimes
Just being out of shape
Yeah
Just to breathe
so why the fuck are you here acting john is like oh yeah yeah no i i feel you yeah yeah yeah yeah
frosty why are you here right yeah why the fuck are you here i haven't even asked you this off
the air it's what a horrible host i am i don't even have interest in why you're in my fucking country. I'm just traveling around.
I'm just seeing the place.
Tell them what you did.
I went on a Greyhound bus from Washington, D.C. to L.A.
73 hours.
Well, that's seeing America.
Jesus, Frosty.
That's not our best side,
man.
No, I was really into it.
I was like really into it.
You'd have to be. Straight no brakes.
No, it's a million brakes.
But the brakes are like the longest
ones are like an hour and 10 minutes,
20 minutes. That's the longest brake you'll
take. So you have to be there. Have you ever ridden
Greyhound? It's more brakes than riding. What's worse longest break you'll take. So you have to be there. Have you ever ridden Greyhound? It's more breaks than riding.
What's worse is
he's a vegetarian.
So probably at best you have Burger King
to eat. No, no, no.
I mean, just gas stations
with nothing in them.
I mean, the menus in these places
were just single cheeseburger
or double cheeseburger
or hot dog. That's like all you possibly get, and it's like the worst.
I mean, it's definitely like the worst-looking food
I've ever seen in my life.
So I didn't even want a bun with nothing in it.
I was just like, these buns are just going to be
the most poisoning, vile thing ever.
So I just ate peanuts and cliff bars and bullshit.
He showed me a picture on his phone
of some freedom fries
as he described them.
It's just some mess of
chili cheese,
wet, oily potato
fries. And then he has a picture of
the woman serving them.
This obese woman in a
yellow reflective vest. like a construction vest.
Construction workers.
He just walked in off the street and started like serving French fries and hamburgers.
Oh, my God.
Grossest thing.
Oh, that's horrible.
Literally.
The closest Greyhound station to us is in Benson, and it's literally the McDonald's.
Yeah.
No, we've picked up.
What's his name?
No, the fucking grasshopper.
That's another guy.
That Australian guy, Nick.
Nick's son.
Nick's son.
We had to pick him up at the Greyhound station.
He's sitting at the McDonald's.
Like, that's it.
There's not even a sign.
No, no, it is the McDonald's.
Yeah.
That's horrible, man.
But it was so interesting
to take that kind of route
through the...
Because everyone on the bus with me
was just like meth heads
and the craziest
prostitutes and
the craziest fucking people.
And I mean, there was two guys,
Mexican guys with like face tattoos,
shaven heads,
that came in with like police officers,
like bringing them into the bus,
making sure they were on the bus.
And then like adios,
and then these guys.
Running them out of town on a rail?
Yeah.
Wow.
It was hectic.
It was.
Wow.
Did you make any friends?
No, I didn't speak a single word for the first 25 hours.
And I actually was kind of hoping that I wouldn't say anything for the 73 hours.
But for the first 25, I just didn't say a single word.
Anything that was said to me, I just nodded.
But then I said something to someone
and my silence was over.
But I mainly just didn't speak to anyone, actually.
I don't know how much time you've spent on the road,
but I remember in the days of living on the road
where you wouldn't speak for days.
Other than talking, getting gassed,
and you'd hear your voice.
It would startle you when you spent days without because you're just a guy in a car in Wyoming and then Salt Lake and then middle of Nevada.
And then you go, hey, how you doing?
And I said, oh, fuck my voice.
When I got out of the army, I drove home from Alaska.
Alcan?
Yeah.
It was a long trip, and I spent a lot of it, like 26-something hours plus straight at one point driving.
And I know what you're talking about, because I remember one time I,
I got to get gas pretty soon, I said.
And then I immediately yelled at myself, I'm not stopping unless there's a fucking Arby's.
And I was like, hey, what the fuck happened here,
man?
I'm not talking anymore.
That might be different than what you were talking about.
No,
you get to a place
where you start talking to yourself.
That's fucking weird.
So who did you finally talk to
on the bus? There on the bus there was this there was this um huge black gay guy that
we kind of like bonded as being like maybe the least messed out people on the bus
so so we we had a few discussions that's great when that's the only common bond you can find.
Yeah, exactly.
It's like, oh, we're pretty much not messed up on math right now,
so maybe we'll have a conversation.
So, Frosty, go ahead.
No, no, I was just going to say,
I've been in some scary-type situations,
and to me, that trip that you described is scary to me. I mean, you know people play the knockout game
in some of those places you're talking about
where people just randomly walk up and punch you in the face?
I don't go in public.
I'm a guy who doesn't go in public a lot,
so your trip scares me.
No, I mean, there was a guy who was taken at,
because there's security stops in Texas.
There was a guy his switchblade was taken
off him so he was taken to the side and like properly strip searched or like searched and
they found this huge switchblade and the guy is just yelling like give me my fucking knife back
give me my fucking knife back and the guy's just like you can't bring this back on the bus like
there's no way we're letting you have this.
First of all, it's been a few years, to say the least,
since I've had to take the Greyhound.
So they actually do pat-down searches?
Yeah.
Randomly?
No, there's like a thing where everyone has to get off the bus,
and there's an hour stop.
I think it's in...
Yeah, I can't remember.'s in Texas but it's everyone
has to go out through the
station and they have their tickets
but then they have to come back in through security
checks and it's just
it's just a one like
you know what's it called like a metal
detector thing but then they have
guys like picking out
sketchy people.
But it's just the one stop.
At the next Burger King,
somebody could hang you.
For sure.
Then you're fine.
Sir, you've been randomly selected.
I'm just fucking with you.
It's not random at all.
It's the teardrop tattoos.
Please get in the fucking booth.
You with the spit mask over the side.
You with the lack of face skin.
Get here.
Get back here.
James Inman is a comic friend of ours.
He's a fucking nutter, as they say.
And he did a whole, the Greyhound Diaries was a one-man show.
And I don't know if it's a book or whatever he ever did with it.
But, yeah, he was always on Greyhounds.
But I remember one time he was supposed to open for me in Portland, Oregon.
He was doing the San Francisco comedy competition, had a week off between rounds.
So he went to the Greyhound.
It was the last bus of the night.
They said that they couldn't let him on the bus
because he was intoxicated,
which he probably was to an extent,
but he's a hardcore drinker.
So calling him drunk that early was an offense.
He's like, what the fuck?
This is a wicked born to lose guy anyway.
He's like Carl Pilkington.
He's that kind of guy, but a wicked alcoholic.
And so he's like, there's no more buses.
So he has to spend the night.
You can get the next bus in the morning.
Now he has no money, except he has enough money to get a bottle from the liquor store.
But he has to stay the night.
The station.
The station closes.
He can't stay in the station.
It's in Sacramento or something.
And so he goes to the liquor store, and they won't serve him because they have a policy against serving homeless people.
He's like, I'm not homeless.
This is just how I fucking dress.
But he's causing a scene. so he's not helping his case.
So now, as he's at that point,
he's probably like 38, 40 years old.
He has to tap outside the fucking liquor store
like a teenager.
Hey, will you buy alcohol for me?
So he gets a guy and he goes, okay, I'll buy.
And the guy fucking beats feet with his money
so now he has no money and no alcohol and he goes to the park
and he's trying to sleep on a fucking bench and the cops show up and start rousting
and he explains his situation and the cops warn him that there's been a rash of fucking homeless killings in the park
so to be careful
and
so yeah so he ended up having to take
a shit so he took a shit on the doorstep
of the fucking Freemasons
building because the Freemasons
are a secret society that control
the world so that was his political statement
and he wiped his ass with a thrifty
nickel newspaper
and then got on the bus in the morning.
Oh, my God.
That's a good bus story.
What do you think of Disney, and where are you going next?
That's the kind of people you rode the bus with.
Yeah, yeah.
Derelicts.
When I was in the Army, I had to ride,
and this was my Greyhound bus claim to fame for a long time.
I had to ride from Kentucky to South carolina and they kept stopping at fast food and just the
shittiest food places so by halfway there i had gas so bad and i kept eking out farts the whole
way they had to make an unscheduled stop because they thought the toilet was backed up
you want to talk about farts?
My farts can stop a Greyhound bus.
I was never scared on a bus.
Yeah.
Back then it was just funny.
Meth changed a whole lot of shit i've you know as you first of
all you don't drink like i would be you know smuggling booze onto a bus and taking sleeping
pills and just okay we'll make this 73 hours go away real fast by snoring did you even have a neck pillow? No, I had a sweater that I tied
around my neck so I could use as a neck pillow.
And then I think like a day and a half in
I found a store that had blankets, so I bought a blanket.
So you were completely ill-prepared.
Did you know going in that you were going to be doing?
No, no, no, no.
It was on a whim.
I was just like, yeah.
Because I was going to do it at some point,
but then I just decided on a whim to do it
as the first part of the trip.
So you were accidentally really well-prepared for Bisbee,
is what you're saying.
Except there's no bus station.
You can't get the fuck out of here.
The conditions are similar.
You can't get out of here.
How fucked up a town is it
where you can't get Greyhound to serve you?
There must be some sort of transportation
out of town.
There's a shuttle out of Douglas
that you can schedule a stop here.
But you can't just walk down to some place and get a thing.
You have to.
Sierra Vista used to have a bus stop.
Now it's Vincent Walmart.
I mean, not Walmart, McDonald's.
Sierra Vista doesn't have Greyhound?
No.
Holy shit.
When we first moved here, they had it in 2002.
And that's a town of like 40,000.
Yeah.
But it's a military town,
so they don't want people
easily,
you know,
leaving.
That town screams AWOL.
Fuck this.
See the world?
No.
Not a chance.
They've got a big
drug interdiction surveillance balloon.
They're supposed to watch the border.
Yeah, it looks like a blimp.
The blimp is watching a Vice documentary on YouTube a couple of weeks ago.
The guy was talking about it.
He's like, we've got these surveillance videos.
He's like, we can track a single person going where they were showing all the infrared tracking.
Same fucking balloon. We got over Sierra everything they do. Same fucking balloon we got
over Sierra Vista.
Exact same fucking balloon.
That thing's been sitting there since I moved here
almost nine years.
What's that thing? It's just watching you. Don't worry about it.
Yeah.
They're doing a breakfast cereal
observation to see
who eats most Cheerios.
Do you get any shit coming across the border?
Yeah. Really?
I mean, I got into
on the bus in
New Mexico.
They had
these
guys come on the bus.
These Border Patrol
guys. And ask everyone if they had these guys come on the bus, these, you know, Border Patrol guys,
and ask everyone if they were U.S. citizens and if they had identification and stuff.
And I said I wasn't a U.S. citizen
and started looking for my passport,
couldn't find it,
and realized that it was in the storage thing beneath.
So, and I just woke up at this point i'd been sleeping for like an hour so i'm like groggy as hell don't know what's going on
all these guys like and they're like intense you know it's not like oh do you have it's like
what's your passport it's like totally papers papers papers yeah and so i go and he escorts me out of the bus this guy takes me out
and they'd already opened the luggage thing and he says okay go get your bag and find your passport
and i say oh oh i can't because your dog is already on my thing on my bag so they had picked the dog had picked my
bag out of all the bags and it's like this is a guy who doesn't do any fucking drugs or drink
completely sober and they start grilling me i mean the look on their faces when i say that's my bag
they're like this motherfucker you know like like we got so busted you yes so busted like no passport and the dog picked out your bag
and so and i said you know no i i don't have any drugs and they're like do you do drugs you know
do you have do you do you possibly have any residue in your in your bag and and i'm like
no no i'm completely sober i don't do drugs exactly the canada story yeah and then and then i just opened i said do
you want to like do you want the dog to go like in the bag and they're like no that's no that's
no need sir and then i just open it to find my passport and dog puts his thing in to put his
head in the bag and they just let me go but but that's after that after they fuck with you forever and then don't say sorry.
But after them looking into the passport
and saying you're going to need to come to the officer,
and I say, why?
I mean, there's no stamp or anything.
Malfeasance.
No, no, no.
Oh, no stamp.
It doesn't say anywhere that you've entered America.
And I just say, that can't be.
I flew in like a week ago.
There's no way.
They go through it again and finally find the stamp.
But it was just very, very spooky.
I would think Iceland would be the equivalent
to being a midget, where you go, oh, Iceland,
that's not really a country.
When midgets say, midgets can't claim the same kind of racism
that other people that are actually,
no one's scared of midgets or Iceland people.
I'm not making my point very well.
Border Patrol is not on the fucking lookout
for a six foot seven
blondish fucking Icelander
what I was thinking too is I've been
we have Border Patrol checkpoints when you leave here
I don't know if you've been going out but wherever you leave
oh yeah don't bring drugs out of here
by the way
well with you it doesn't matter they're going to target you anyway
I was pointing to the
back of the room
back of the room pointing to the back of the room. Back of the room.
Pointing to the gold tooth.
That fucking gold tooth is great.
I've been stopped there riding
on my motorcycle
and then, are you an American
citizen?
Did you get a lot of guys on
Harley Davidson, white guys on
Harley Davidson's that aren't American
citizens coming through here? I fucking
hate all this bullshit with
the profiling in
Arizona and then the whole trying to pass
the amendment to ban
you can ban gay people from
your business. I don't know if you heard any of this news
as a couple weeks ago.
That's bad.
That they reserve the right
to not allow gay people into the restaurant?
Yeah, based on religious beliefs.
Yeah.
But every fucking business already
has the sign, we reserve
the right to refuse service.
Yeah, I was kind of on the fence about that.
I thought I kind of liked it.
I'm for it.
If we don't serve fucking queers in our building, then I don't go if I thought I kind of liked it. I'm for it. Right. We don't serve fucking queers in our building.
Then I don't go to your business.
And then you just get other ignorant.
Same with colored only.
Yeah.
I don't know that I was against it.
Rand Paul fucking got a lot of shit because he said something to that same effect.
It's the same premise of being
able to smoke in a bar.
The bar owner, that's your
business. It's the same as your house. You own it.
You should decide what the fucking rules are
and if someone doesn't like it, don't go to my
fucking business. What about hooters?
How many fat chicks do you see at hooters
with small tits? Or, you know, not fat chicks
because fat chicks have big tits. They might get at hooters.
But what about chicks with no tits? That's the saddest thing ever is the fat girl with no tits, or, you know, not fat chicks, because fat chicks have big tits. They might get hit hooters. But what about chicks with no tits?
That's the saddest thing ever, is the fat girl with no tits.
Yeah.
She's got nothing but a big hump belly.
Because even fat girls can delude themselves into saying, well, guys like my big...
No, they don't.
They like big, nice tits.
They don't like your fucking roll of upper fat.
Yeah.
But if you have no tits, you don't even have that myth-ology.
I've had guys do,
oh, look at those big little titties.
That's a fucking fat girl. I'm a fat guy.
I got big tits. It doesn't mean they're nice.
Yeah.
I had a girl email
me.
I should fucking have these printed off
and read them so I don't have to paraphrase
poorly but saying my boyfriend i love your comedy my uh boyfriend said i can have sex with you
if you play wherever seattle i don't fucking know yeah oh that's really nice of both of you um
i said that's some sarcastic reply. It's the
audacity that girls just
you know,
I decided I'll fuck you.
And she wrote
back something like, oh, this could get interesting.
She didn't understand my sarcasm when I wrote
back. And I go, no, I was being
sarcastic, but I'm going to try your approach
and I'm going to email Winona Ryder
with the same to see how I
do. My girlfriend says
it's okay that I fuck you.
So let's go. Yeah.
Once I lost my safe.
Alright, you're in.
Impractical jokers.
Have you seen that where they make myrrh in the fucking
grocery store? Stop the girl
and tell her,
hey, me and my wife have a deal.
We can have sex with anybody we meet
in the grocery store.
That's a good deal.
I'm not going to do it,
but it's a good deal.
That's a good deal, not me.
We'll turn you on to some impractical jokers.
It's one of my favorite shows on TV.
Excellent.
It's a TV show?
Yeah.
Okay. Yeah, it's a TV show? Yeah. Okay.
Yeah, it's like hidden camera pranks, but I won't try to explain it.
Okay.
Yeah, when I started losing my sex drive, the more I lost my sex drive,
the more I would be angry at the fucking that the chicks just assume that,
okay, well, this is a currency.
Well, not if I don't want it.
Really?
Yeah.
It's fucking Bitcoin to me, lady.
I'm talking about that girl that emailed me
and said,
my boyfriend says it's okay if I have sex with you.
Yeah, suck my dick, whatever.
Suck my dick or whatever?
Yeah.
I'm going to be white if you...
Yeah, oh, that's great. Suck my dick or whatever? Yeah. I'm going to be white of you. Yeah, oh, that's great.
How about me and my family?
Did you check with them?
All right.
Well, that's a podcast.
That was fun.
Yeah, it was good.
I have to...
No, no, no.
Never turn it off.
The best stuff is when everybody thinks it's off.
And we have to do sponsors.
Who are we sponsored by this week, Frosty?
We don't know any sponsors.
What about 10 or 11?
Maybe Ora Beans from Iceland?
Spell it.
Ora Beans from Iceland.
Yeah, O-R-A, Ora Beans.
Canned beans.
Is that our sponsor this week? Healthy beans. No. No? No, not at all-A. Ora. Beans. Canned beans. Is that our sponsor this week?
Healthy beans.
No.
No?
No, not at all.
But canned beans.
That's a good choice for me, sir.
Heinz?
Baked beans?
Heinz?
Baked beans?
Yeah, that would be a shitty bean over here.
Canned beans?
I thought you were going to say Bjork.
I just assumed.
We're sponsored by Bjork.
When we were in Iceland, we just kept tweeting
Bjork for a ride to the airport.
She never
responded.
But we kept doing it.
Our flight's at 12.15. I don't know
if you want to meet us at the hotel.
Or the coffee shop.
But they know Bjork.
They're friends with Bjork.
Still didn't fucking respond.
Not a fan.
No.
I'm going to tweet her when we're done.
Go, thanks a lot, Bjork.
No ride to the airport.
See how Frosty gets out of fucking Bisbee.
Not on a Greyhound bus. We know shady people in Bisbee. Can I ask Frosty gets out of fucking Bisbee. Not on a Greyhound bus.
We know shady people in Bisbee.
Can I ask Frosty something real quick?
Yeah.
What do you think of Bisbee
and where are you going next?
That's two things.
I love Bisbee.
Yeah?
I'm so stoked about this town.
It's,
I mean,
it looks and feels very great.
And next up for me is L.A.
Okay.
At least for a month.
Okay.
And then, yeah.
You're going to try to get discovered?
I'm trying to make it.
No, I'm just traveling.
I'm just vacationing and just having a, yeah.
Are you going to L.A. via Greyhound from here?
No, no, no.
Me and Jonathan are driving back there. Phew? No, no, no, me and Jonathan are driving back there
Phew
Yeah, no, no, no
I was going to give you some weapons to hide on your person
A month in LA
and then back to Iceland?
Yeah, I mean, my ticket's for
the 23rd of May
so I can be here for three months
and
it's a flexible ticket so I'm just winging it.
I decided as soon as I get really bored, then I'll go back home.
Okay, cool.
It's still only Iceland air that flies to Reykjavik?
I mean, as far as the U.S.?
No, now there's – I'm pretty sure there's also WOW air out of New York.
WOW air?
Yeah.
That doesn't sound safe at all.
Sounds safer than Malaysia Air.
Zippity-doo-dah, airlines.
Shorten it to wow.
Ding-dong.
Yeah, fucking Reykjavik is fantastic.
Next time, only in the summer.
Amazing.
Or winter.
Yeah, the prison sounds great.
As a potential murderous psychopath,
I really... That's the place
to go. Get busted there.
Get busted there, for sure.
I'll be treated like shit
here.
Yeah, I missed the weekend.
Evidently, on the weekends,
Reykjavik turns into fucking Mardi Gras
every weekend. That's nuts. the weekends Reykjavik turns into fucking Mardi Gras every weekend.
That's nuts.
Jonathan was
describing it just vomit.
Vomit and fist fights.
How many people in the whole place?
The whole country?
330,000.
That's crazy, huh?
Get on, Mike.
Get on here.
All right.
Pee and shit.
That'll be a lot.
I think that we went late September,
so it was almost the worst time to go.
If you could prepare for ultimate cold or nice,
but in that middle ground where you're like,
oh, it's kind of nice during the day.
It's fucking horrific at night.
There was a night where we were out.
It was Friday or Saturday.
And we were out in the strip where just all the bars dump out
as everyone's getting kicked out.
And people are smashing their...
Pull the mic out of the thing.
They're smashing their glasses and all that bullshit.
All the girls, literally, standing outside of every bar,
they walk out with their last pint and then they're just chugging it on the street
and they just start smashing them, smashing them, smashing them.
So there's glasses shattered like everywhere.
Every night that it's like this, it's like that.
And then within, you know, 8 o'clock the next morning,
it's like it never fucking happened.
I mean, it's like Mardi Gras in the sense that they come through
and clean it out so fast.
But we're standing there
and there's a building
across the street from us
that is being repainted.
And there is literally
like a two and a half story scaffolding
that's up against the building.
And a dude
climbs up
on the fucking scaffolding
and starts from the top of it
rocking it back and forth.
I've forgotten about this.
Right?
I totally didn't know what you were talking about.
He's rocking back and forth on it and everyone's
cheering on him and whatever. Security guys come over and fucking are like, he's rocking back and forth on it, and everyone's like cheering on him and whatever.
Security guys come over and fucking are like,
get the fuck down.
Like, two guys from a bar just like,
we're going to save this guy from like fucking killing himself.
Bouncers.
So they're like, get the fuck down.
The guy gets down, and while they're dealing with him,
another dude jumps up onto the scaffolding
and manages to rock it free,
and it's on four fucking wheels,
and the dude climbs up to the top
of it, rocks it until it starts
rolling down the fucking street.
45 degree angle.
Like a proper grade.
Is it the same street we were on?
Yeah, I remember this hill.
So right as you get down to the bottom, on the very
top of it, and he's like,
like, everybody
is just like cheering
and screaming.
And all of a sudden, it starts to just teeter.
And this motherfucker takes a header.
The whole thing tips.
And he falls.
He holds onto it.
Because what the fuck else are you going to do?
This is all you have.
This is your ladder and everything.
And so it starts to go.
And he's just like, wah!
And literally just, like, whammo.
I mean, like, falling off of a fucking building, basically.
It was literally like falling off a roof.
And we stood there.
And then I looked at Frosty and I was like, nobody has their phones out.
Because we were all so mystified by this dude doing it.
Nobody was like, I got to get it.
We were all just like, oh.
But nobody had it.
It was fucking crazy.
He was fucked up. I mean, they carted him off. fucking crazy. He was fucked up.
They carted him off.
He was fucked up.
Alive, but fucked.
It's so nasty.
And he's probably famous now there.
I could probably tweet him for a ride to the airport.
Hey, Bjork isn an answer in her messages.
And you're bigger than her.
Yeah, but he'll pick us up on scaffolding.
Yeah, exactly.
Double bus.
That's wicked good.
That's great.
But then again, Monday morning, everyone's just proper.
Polite.
Almost to the point of being dull.
And that's pretty true for most
of the Scandinavian countries
everyone's so content
there's no rage like that
it's work hard, play hard
though, I mean it's like
it's all in
during the weekends and then it's
all work and proper
getting shit done
it's intense
on all fronts.
The weather's intense. The people are intense.
And like you're saying, I think that like the way that
they work and the way that they party, it's just like
alright, what is it? The most per capita per capita.
Right? We have the most
per capita per capita. Like drink more.
We drink more. Like we do more shit.
It's like everything.
We eat all of the stuff. Like we do
whatever it is that we do, we do it more per capita than anybody else. And it feels that way. It feels like. It's like everything. We eat all of the stuff. We do whatever it is that we do.
We do it more per capita than anybody else.
And it feels that way.
It feels like.
It's like the happiest nation per capita, but also like the highest suicide rate.
Highest suicide, yeah.
Really?
Yeah, that's the way it is.
It's just like the craziest yin and yang country.
You talked about the work ethic of people.
What's a welfare type thing?
Take care of people who don't do shit.
So many of the kids are.
I mean the prisoners get taken care of.
All the kids I met while I was there that you introduced me to,
so many of them were like, oh, I work for the city.
I work with seniors.
I work with disabled kids.
There's a phenomenal amount of that.
That small a population.
Again, people know each other. You take care of that. That's small a population. People know each other.
You do...
I mean, you take care of people.
It's definitely closer to utopia than
what we got here.
I think the numbers allow it to...
When you're dealing with a
finite... It's a
workable program because it's like, oh, there's only
135,000 of us doing
this. The rest, let's say, 135 000 people like heavily involved in some sort of civic type
area like minus people that are out in villages and farms and stuff like that and it's like somehow
when you apply those types of like you know whatever ideal socialist stuff and some of that
stuff that it does work in that small format it's as it gets bigger and, that it's just all that corruption moves in and it's impossible to keep.
But it is a testament to the fact that that type of governing in that smaller area really is the key to, I think, making those places work.
Is it like, you know, civic government.
And that's why I think it's also, you know, John becoming mayor, doing that is such a it's quite a
it's very interesting.
It's a pretty interesting
study in just like, you know,
just modern times and like how
shit, you know.
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Actually
If I finish that
He was a comedian
That ran during
The economic depression
And he ran a joke
Campaign for mayor
And
Fucked up
And got elected
So it's the whole
Run up to
Oh shit
We're actually gonna
Win
And it wasn't just
Him as a mayor.
He had a party, the best party.
What were some of his campaign platforms?
Campaign platforms?
Yeah, if I get elected, there's free towels at the public pool.
Yeah, it was...
It was just goofy shit.
Yeah, they said...
They hated the government so much
that this was so refreshing.
Yeah.
It was...
The basic promise was that
if we get elected, we promise
to break all of the promises we've made.
That was like the fundamental...
The base.
The base.
The other stuff was like
importing a polar bear for the base. But the other stuff was like importing a polar bear
for the zoo.
And they were at such a bad place
that this just didn't seem like that
bad of an idea.
Yeah, exactly.
It's total irony.
But everybody got a towel
at the public pool or something like that.
Yeah, exactly.
Just dumb shit, and he got elected.
But the documentary covers the whole, like, hey, let's do this as a goof.
Chad, you would love it.
It's wicked good.
I devoured documentary Stan Host.
I know, but this one.
The recommendations are always good, but I couldn't find that one.
But I didn't know the exact name.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But the comedy series that he does
it's very
I say it's Louis-esque
it's filmed kind of
I asked the fucking his dad
I'm like how do I get
I want to buy DVDs of that
good question
some smart fucky remark
that's why I'm trying to
fucking track down who the fuck I loaned
that to, because I want to watch it again.
It's so good.
Night shift, day shift, prison shift,
and then there was a movie, right?
Yeah, and then there was Bjarne Freyler's one.
Wait, wait, wait, Doug.
Bjarne Freyler's one. If you wrote it down, I could
say it the right way.
Let me write it.
I'm going to have a white off.
I want to have a white off.
Yeah, yeah.
Teach him how to speak.
Okay.
Okay, well, it starts with a B and a J.
We'll skip the blowjob joke,
but those letters don't go together.
It's Bjorn Fredersen.
Bjorn Fredersen.
Bjorn Fredersen.
Okay.
Checking.
Yeah, I'm going to have to say exactly what Stan will say.
Well, you have to say it.
Bjorn Fredersen.
It's not Fredersen.
It's Bjorn Fredersen.
Yeah, Bjorn Fredersen. Go ahead, sayersen. It's beyond Fredersen. Beyond Fredersen.
Go ahead, say it now.
No, you say it.
Beyond Fredersen.
Oh, you know what?
I want to go through your bag.
My dog just hit on your bag.
That's awfully suspicious, sir.
Very suspicious.
I think there's that flight from Malaysia in your bag.
Very coincidental you're visiting here.
It's almost as if you're trying to prove an alibi, sir.
Yeah, yeah.
I love trying to get on as many podcasts as I can while I'm in the States.
Yeah.
I love fucking John sits over there, just sitting there all fucking happy,
texting, walks in, killer story, fucking blows the roof off the podcast,
goes and sits down and texts again.
He's like, I did my job.
He's been doing this every week for eight years.
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Thank you for having me
Yeah
Like generally and on this podcast Hey hey i've never done a podcast with
a guy who was sober thanks yeah it's always i used to like that would bum me out like after
last night we were up till five in the morning drinking which uh derrick really stole the show
but uh there's the sober guy that remembers everything always bums you out because that's a cell phone that you can't go in and erase is his memory.
But yeah, Frosty, now I'm at an age where you go, hey, that guy can drive.
Usually we're stuck here in the fucking safe house fucking compound.
But now we're like, hey, we could do anything because that guy,
not only is he not drinking, he doesn't want to.
Like, usually there's. I didn't think about that angle.
Always the driver.
Yeah, yeah.
Usually, like, Derek will stay sober to drive, but he doesn't want to.
So it's a buzzkill in the back of your head.
You're going, oh, we're fucking him over.
Yeah, this clown
doesn't even want a drink. What a
shithead. I'll
marry this guy in a minute. We could all
go in the van.
Frosty, be my daddy.
Yeah, I will. We're doing it tomorrow.
Be my daddy. Yes, yes, yes.
Can Reverend Derrick do the services tomorrow
in Disney? He's Reverend Derrick? He Can Reverend Derrick do the services tomorrow in Disney?
We should.
Is Reverend Derrick?
He's Reverend Derrick?
I know, but we have to go.
Yeah, that's actually
something we should
bring up at city council.
And the mayor did
call back because I
put a call into the
mayor saying, hey,
will you come by and
have a drink?
I don't want it's a
long story, but the
son of the Reykjavik
mayor is here.
And when I visited
his country, they
met me at the airport in gorilla masks.
So I would like some reciprocation.
If you could just come by for a cocktail,
that would be lovely.
No,
she called back and said she's having dinner with Gretchen.
So she,
yeah,
blew me off till tomorrow.
So yeah,
very cool.
But that's something I want to bring up with the mayor is since we have the gay civil union amendment, whatever it's called, let's do it all night like Vegas where you can get drunk gay married.
I got married in Vegas drunk because you can get married 24 hours.
Why don't we have all night gay marriage in Arizona?
In Bisbee.
Yeah, so you can get drunk gay married.
And then we can have quickie divorces, bring some commerce to some fucking shyster shitty lawyers.
He's not a lawyer anymore.
He's the prosecutor.
Never mind. He's not a lawyer anymore. He's the prosecutor.
He probably needs a buck.
He'll probably push some shit. And we need
commerce here.
Reykjavik
and Bisbee, Sister Cities.
I've so deemed them.
How long have you been doing a podcast?
We started in February of 2006.
We started in February of 2006. We started in February of 2006.
Let's just bring it up again since we're in the suicide house
and he has to sleep here and it gives him the creeps.
Does it give you the creeps?
Oh, yeah.
Eat the mic.
I just didn't want to sleep in the bedroom as well.
Did you sleep on the couch?
I did.
All right.
Which I didn't have any problem with whatsoever.
However, there was a bit of a debacle when I came in.
Yes.
So I'd just barely been in the room for a second with Doug when we first got here.
And he just walked me through and then kind of filled me in.
Oh, boy.
That's a lot.
But then just right out of the room.
Just like, oh, oh yeah by the way
here's a bed you can sleep here
this is where the guy killed himself
that's why the picture is so low
it's covering up the bullet hole
I was just here
and so I was like alright
it might have been a joke
and then after about an hour I was just like
that's not a joke
did you look under the picture?
Frosty did I did not
just a hole That's not a joke. All right. Did you look under the picture? Frosty did. I did not. Okay.
But then I came in.
Yeah, yes.
And I came in late to go to bed, and then there was sage in the bedroom.
Well, just Jen, our friend just Jen. I know.
I have to, for the people listening, had blessed the place with burning sage,
not eating it, thinking it was mushrooms.
But I don't know the whole background of sage,
but evidently they did some voodoo shit
when they had to stay here for Super Bowl
where they had burned that thing right there.
Well, I saw the sage on the table.
I thought it was the foreign guys
that were trying to clear out ghosts
before they had to sleep here.
Well, I guess, I mean, it was here.
It was sitting on the floor.
Yeah, so I'm using it, and I light it, and I'm walking it through the house.
And I set off a chain of smoke alarms.
Oh, that's what.
So the smoke alarm goes off in the bedroom.
Oh, no.
And so I go, and I pull the battery out.
But then there's like a beep in it that tells you that there's no battery in it.
So I thought I had fixed the problem
by just yanking the battery,
but then it was just like, eh.
And I was like, well, first of all,
I'm not that keen on sleeping in the room in the first place,
but now with this beep, I'm just like,
all right, this is too much.
So I'm standing up on a table.
Derek doesn't like sage.
So I'm standing up on a table
trying to fix the smoke alarm,
pressing it over and over again,
and then talking out loud to whatever perceived spirits
that I'm currently contending with in the room.
And so I'm just like, listen, I'm going to get out of here.
I don't know.
So basically what I wound up doing was turning off the lights,
turning on the ceiling fan, and closing the door
just to sort of make it like...
Oh, you should have done it three times
because he was OCD.
Yeah.
Derek was wicked OCD.
If he could look down,
he'd be laughing his fucking ass off right now.
Yeah.
That's beautiful.
Beautiful.
You okay on the couch?
Straight, yeah, totally.
I slept good.
We were in, not this year, but last year, Cincinnati,
and the fire alarm smoke detector kept going off in the hotel.
They were doing some maintenance, and, you know,
it's like dust or the fucking paint fumes
or whatever toxic shit we should not be living in.
Keep setting this off, and it's like 7.30, 8 in the morning,
and I'm real sur 38 in the morning and i i'm real surly in the
morning so i call the front desk and i give them what for and i use the f word so they hang up on
me and you fucking and it goes off the last time and i just picked up a trash can because it's high
ceilings i couldn't reach the thing it was our metal ice bucket oh i thought it was a metal
trash can either way i start fucking hammering the thing,
trying to knock it off the ceiling.
But it's not like these.
It's not a temporary.
It's wired.
Permanent wired.
So I smash the fucking thing off.
And I'm so pissed that I call the front desk and tell them,
yeah, now I knocked your fucking thing off.
Now I'm trashing your room.
What's up now? I just cussed at you. Now I'm trashing your room. Yeah, exactly. What's up now?
I just cussed at you. Now I'm trashing your shit.
What up?
So a short while later, both the
fire department and the police are in our room.
Oh, shit.
And the fire department
is informing the police that it's a
felony what I did.
I could be arrested. So yeah, we went
to a red roof in peacefully, but you know what?
We got a smoking room.
That's the time that where you winked at me and you were like,
keep your clothes off as long as you possibly can.
Yeah.
They're like, you're out bending over crotch.
Go ahead.
Bingo is notorious for always being naked on the road to the point where you don't even think about it.
And the opening act is in your room
and Bingo's walking around naked
and they're like hiding their eyes.
And like, oh, sorry, I forget.
Yeah, she's always naked.
So when she gets out of bed,
like they're saying, you got to go.
Your hotel wants you out.
And she's starting to go for clothes.
And I'm like giving her the high side, no.
But I bent over.
I bent over trying to pick up clothes slowly.
Packing her shit.
Bending over cops and firemen and hotel management.
Our room was packed full of cops and, yeah, firemen.
So, yeah, when you told me that story this morning
about, oh, I got up to try to disassemble the thing,
I would have fucking trashed it.
Yeah.
And I wouldn't have blamed you a bit.
Yeah, I appreciate that.
Yeah.
With the door closed, it was sort of like a,
it was just methodical enough
that you could sort of lull yourself into it.
Does the TV work?
Did you even try it?
It does. I did try it and could sort of lull yourself into it. Does the TV work? Did you even try it? It does.
I did try it, and I could not get it to find this.
All right.
This is shit we need to know while you're staying here.
It's really, no, it's totally fine.
No, we want to fix it.
No, we got to get this shit fixed.
The coach is going to be here.
We have real company coming in.
Actual company coming in.
Yeah.
People that need shit.
Real people that do shit.
Coach of the baseball team.
All right. Kenny's here. That means the fucking, all right. Fun's baseball team. All right, Kenny's here.
That means the fucking...
All right, fun's over.
Podcast is done.
Kenny's here.
He ruins everything.
All right.
You can hit it, honey.
There's a stop button.
I know.
There you go.
All right, that was Jonathan Larroquette, Frosty Gnar,
Bingo Bing Bong Bingaman, and Chad Shank.
And, yeah, next podcast, I think we'll be talking about how that eBay yard sale wrapped up
and a whole bunch of other shit.
Road stories.
The Matoid is out sick this week, so we're going to leave you with Fufanu with Frosty Nair on drums.
You've been listening to the Doug Stanhope Podcast, recorded live at the Funhouse in Bisbee, Arizona,
with Doug Stanhope, Frosty Nair, Jonathan Larroquette, Chad Schenck, and Bingo.
Opening music by Miska Shubale.
Closing song by Fufaru, Frosty's man.
This episode sponsored by Aura, canned green beans.
Available in Iceland.
Check out Jonathan Larroquette's podcast, Uh, Yeah, Dude, at uhyadude.com.
Also available on iTunes.
Catch up with all of Doug's live dates at dougstanhope.com.
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