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this amazingly titled segment Barbecue blue Bonnets in the Bible, A small town Texas
adventure for Modest Mouse. Who admits that two and four or eight one seven
seven eight seven one nine seven one we could call in text all day,
but specifically calling it eight for a chance to win tickets to see Modest Mouse
and the Pixies as we challenge Michael throughout the towns of Texas. I've accepted
the challenge. Yeah, I'm not a native of the lone Star State,
I'll admit that. But he got here, is running. But and I
have not known any Oh, there you go. I just look at the
weather thing behind you, behind you in Paris, Mount Pleasant Bottom, Throckmorton.
I don't remember these Eastland Comanche. I can assure you none of those
will be on the quest because these two too big the backcountry boys are from
tiny West Texas towns, and they don't think I know anything about the real
what really goes on in this the greatest state in the Union. Really big
Mike knows a lot of things about a lot of things, and you're gonna
find out the hard way. Nanny and I have had multiple discussions in the
halls the last couple weeks without you there about but what wait, wait,
you were talking. We're trying to well, what were you talking about?
It's a little things, just like I mean, Look, I don't want
to reveal too much, but I can say this has been quoted multiple times.
It's time for us to take back Texas as it applies to me.
You and all the other people who just zoom into our state and claim it
as their own, learn to love it here very quickly, and then act
like they've always been texting, texting, throw it through my d I don't
love it here that much. Just to be clear, it's not that great.
It's just like a rail state. I mean, foolishly continue to let
me be on the radio. That's kind of the deal. I didn't get
here till I was in third grade. There you go. I'm not a
native carpet bagger London, London carpet Yeah, you from London carpet bagger balis
yep, years old? Moved Were you born? Boston? Boston? Boston,
proper or yeah, like across the mass Pike from Fenway at Beth Israel
Hospital. Really yeah, and you're not at all racist at all. That's
really import We thought everyone from Boston's racist. Well we thought everybody from Texas
was racist. Yeah, that's all just against people who ain't Texan. I
think Kavanall got here like age ak to speak easy two to six from St.
Louis. Okay, huh yeah, Missouri man. Military baby, So
I moved a lot, a lot. I think I went to like ten
different schools before I was ten years old. Oh, go ahead, Sorry,
that's all I am. Yes, yeah, I don't. I know
tons of military babies, but I don't normally associate it with Boston Providence Navy.
So Dad was stationed in Providence. I was adopted born in Boston and
spent ten months in foster care, and then landed at an adoption agency in
Providence, Rhode Island, where I was adopted from there when I was almost
a year old. And then we moved to naval base in Mountain View,
California. And then Dad got out of the Navy, and then we spent
a good amount of time in Memphis, Tennessee, went back to California and
the Alameda, Oakland area, and when my parents divorced, ended up down
here because my mom wanted to live close to where she grew up and she's
a native of Yeah, Texas, West, Texas North. It's the name
of Thalia is the name of her of her tiny town. And dad was
born in Texas too. You know, the parents had adopted me. But
you know, he joined the Navy and was stationed up in Rhode Island.
So that's how that all worked out. That's tough. But I did live
in many, not any places, but several places in Texas and also many
towns in Texas. So Sonora, Texas, Dilly Texas, Burke Burnette.
I'm not They're not going to be on the Sonora was an old district.
Well playoffs, Yeah, playoffs down south. Yeah. I put a couple
of posts up at ninety seven on the freak all over the place, Twitter,
TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, all this stuff. I guess. I
mean, I'm not doing threads, So leave threads alone. I'm not doing
it. They were what's your hometown? No, what's your hometown? Tell
us in the comments, Oh you just did this, Now let me tell
you why I did it. Hey, I curiously do want to know where
your hometown is. B We get a social media report every week and they
tell us interactive things are good. So do you consider your hometown where you're
born or how does that work? I think I think more raised. I
consider it raised. I was born in Archer City. I lived there for
a day. Yeah, I was. I lived in Boston for like three
days. Lived there. Well, you're acting like you're cramming for a test
every time we say it down. I'm just tricking you guys in a name
and city. Where were you born? Mikey, I was born in uh
Broward County, Florida. Hollywood, Florida. You were born in Hollywood,
Florida. That's on your birthday? Yeah? Which is it's Miami and Kevin,
you were born in Archer City, Yes, sir, one of the
last babies born at that hospital. That's cool. The sight of the last
picture show, the Great Great Archer City. What'd you say? You're one
of the last babies born at that hospital? And then what they shut the
hospital down or we're done? Like no, they went this is the show's
yuck. Oh, this is the chosen one. Yes, our our one
year quest. He's going to save our city birth. It's kind of yeah,
immediately walks south to Alney. It's kind of like after after Our Lord
and Savior was born, they just bulldozed the main job, put up a
parking lot. Yeah, I mean for Camel's Yeah. I mean, he
could have recreated it if he wanted to. I guarantee you there are so
many people that live here that are from these tiny little towns that just migrated.
It was one of them that migrated to the big city, knock City
Alney. It's this is kind of the closest big ass city to you know,
anybody that grew up between like here in Lubbock, Lubbock. Okay,
you stop it. I always had that theory about why there's a bunch of
hot people in Dallas. It's twenty twenty four. I'm not going to use
a gender, just hot humans. Because any big city where a large swath
around it of other cities where this is the congregation point, is where the
hot people congregate. And I think Dallas is uh top five hottest people cities
in America because the other ones are also under that course they fall into that
as well. In La is because a lot of a lot of people move
there the service time. If I can go to California, Oh my god,
right, you think the girls are hot and boys are hot. Yeah,
beach, it's beach. It's not yeah, but it's beach. It's
wealth. Isn't that great? Because wealth turns into so what happens? And
I have a theory on this. Okay, when you have a lot of
wealth, you can attract people that are more attractive, and it turns into
a breeding cycle. Yeah that hot people if you're rich, like rich old
dudes in Highland Park, like rich Phillips. Yeah, okay, they have
the ability to pair up with maybe women that are way out of their league.
And this may happen vice versa as well, but I think it's probably
more prevalent in men. Like maybe older, not so great looking men will
have these really attractive wives, and they'll have pretty attractive kids, and these
attractive kids grow up with one another in these schools and they know one another,
and then they just kind of keep breeding beautiful babies. That happens in
big towns because in big towns there's probably more wealth than in any other town.
Exactly. I remember a story of I think it was a chic a
chic a sheikh who billionaire chik who married this gorgeous whatever woman and then they
had kids and either I don't think he's either suit her or divorced her.
But they had kids and the kids were ugly. And then the sheik realized
that the woman it had a ton of plastic surgery done and work done that
he was unaware of. And it's something you don't think of, you know,
like with the prevalence of you know, cosmetic surgery, that's not going
to affect how the kids look. That's true, you know. So if
you're super rich and you marry this whatever you believe to be a perfect ten
and you factor in, you know, what the kids might look like as
being something that you do care about, you can't factor in what it was
like before that, you know, the fresh babby. You ain't gonna have
the perfect nose, no, but you can still rework everything though, oh
I know. I mean if like, money can do a lot for pretty
much anything, any imperfect thing you have in your life, you can cover
it up with money, and you can do that in a way that is
not at all real. But as long as you're sleeping good on a big
pile of money. You don't really care how authentic you are. I don't
know, is that too deep? No? No, No, you're onto
something. The Prince of air Tractor speaks. No. No, Kevin's parents
air track. That didn't work there anymore, but I retired. So growing
up in small he's like, I don't want to work anymore. I want
to work when I want to work. So he still works, but he
doesn't like work there. So, growing up in a small town all Nee,
Texas Cavo, about two hours west of here, you didn't have a
lot of access to you're talking about hot ass. No, I'm talking about
built in Jesus, built in ready to go entertainment. You know, like
if you grew up in the city, there's baseball games to go to,
there's sporting events, there's probably big soccer leagues. There's all this kind of
stuff. There's six flat you know, you have access to a lot of
entertainment options from the small town. You create your own fun. You just
make mud pizzas. I'm curious about modern day of small towns. Yeah,
I don't know. Well, I mean with the admin of the Internet and
phones and all that I guarantee you it's a lot different. Yeah, I
do. They have a PlayStation one at city Hall that the kids can line
up on play medal of honor. But if you were, if you were
anything like me, you invented games, You invented stuff to do. Necessarily.
Some of it was some of it was probably quite destructive, but some
of it was really cool. Like I'd be curious to hear, you know
how kids growing up in small towns some of the creative ways they came up
with to to entertain themselves. I'll give you one brief example. Uh,
four guys, me and my two of my best friends, and then one
of my best friend's younger brother. We played the thousand point basketball game first
to one thousand that lasted I think eight days, ridiculous, and we two
on two. One of the guys lived down the street for me. He
had a goal and his uh you know, over his garage and the driveway.
We'd play basketball there all the time. It was like, let's play
first to one thousand wins. You said, was this a summer activity?
Yeah, okay, summer activity first to one thousand wins. It took eight
days for somebody to get there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, two on
two on your team with the other team my team, because we were taller,
the other guys had better handles, like they were smaller, but they
could just every putback. Yeah. Do you think it was do they have
like nine hundred? The thing that's funny about the thousand point basketball is,
I don't know it was close. I think that the final score was then
like thirteen points. It was crazy how close it was. But I wonder
if we kind of like subconsciously would sandbag, yeah, to keep it close
because we wanted it to feel like it was competitive all the way. That's
fun. Yeah, But I was like six two at the time. My
buddy was like five eleven six, and then these other two dudes are like
five six and five eight. But they were really good at dribbling. But
anytime if we missed a shot, the rebound was obviously hours unless it was
a long rebound. But that was just one small of paper that you write
the scores down at night. Uh yeah, absolutely, yeah, yeah,
then get out there the next day. Yeah. But it took eight days
playing every day after school to play the thousand point basketball game. Did you
do crap like that? Not the one thousand point game. There wasn't one
hundred inning baseball game in our town one time though, Okay, and that
sucked. Oh it was terrible. And how many days one day? What?
Yeah? What all day thing? Dude? Yeah? I mean we
had an of games to play too, Like we invented go skiing behind my
dad's ski boat. Okay, that's water skiing. Oh that's not a man.
Yeah, that's not inventing something that. Yeah, we invented a game
called go play golf at Darrow. Okay, god, he's that what you
made money? We had to walk to the country club across the highway,
swim in the ocean. If we had to play nine holes on a goat
ranch at only country club, you're playing Durral. So don't understand the games.
Put it on a wall ball number a wallball. That was always fun
because you could peg the guy. Did you play five up five back?
No? On the practice field. Do you know what five up five back?
Is? No? It's you have a team on either side of the
football field and you can either throw it or punt it, and if the
other team catches it, they get to move five yard five steps up.
We caught it five steps five steps, five up, five back. But
if you if you weren't able to field the catch, then you took five
steps back, and the first person to be able to kick it out of
the end zone to throw it out of the end zone, then they got
a point. But yeah, five up, five back. You've probably never
even heard of it, have you. Yeah, he's heard of water skiing,
golf and ocean swimming. What is caviar, Yeah, caviar taste tests.
Yeah. We'd play called seafood eating fresh seafood eating. It was fun.
Oh. We also played visit Disney World regularly game, but it's into
a game called go down to the Keys and snorkel. We played a game
called rock paper Scissors on who was going to go pick up the government cheese.
That week, we played a game called let's try to set this paper
on fire with a magnifying glass. Yeah. Really, yeah, we we
did. Okay, now we'll say this, it's a little bit of a
land. We we did some dangerous stuff with my cousins over at their house,
which is just across a big field in my house and where one of
us would get in a go cart, put the helmet on. You're the
go cart. Cutting across and we're all trying to hit golf balls across and
just nail the golf cart like it's picking up range balls. It was fun
and so dangerous and it hurt if you got hit. Oh my god,
it hurt. You have a big mark on your arm for a week.
But it was so fun when you did nail one. You really just trying
to hit the bar. You're not trying to hit the person in the go
cart. You never hit a golf ball. You can't be that accurate.
Yeah, I know, it was so fun. There's a lot of that
going on. Yeah going shooting was one shooting, Yeah, shoot shooting.
Everyone's shooting. There's too many gun debts in our town. Really hide and
seek where you get just constipated or you have to go take a whiz the
whole time every time you hide, like outdoor on a ranch or something,
not on a ranch. Now he's on a ranch. It was just more
like, okay, on not a ranch. On the sprawling lands, so
you grew up on just there's just more yard space than here, where every
house is built right up next to each other, spread out people. We
got room, got a lot of room. We got a lot of room.
You ever played yell at the housekeeper. Oh my god, this guy,
he's going to fail at eight o'clock. He's going to fail. He's
not going to have a game. But any of these towns are not going
to show you what a private school upbringing looks like. Yell at the housekeeper.
That's a game. On the point is differently, we're all different,
we're all the same. Putting me my bacon, bacon is good for me.
You play a game that was adjacent to that grease the toilet seat when
the babysitters over? Was that when you put grease on over the toilet seat
and she goes to the bathroom and goes, eh, what is this?
Did you really do that? We did vaciline under card or handles? What
does that mean? And what you hide in a boosh and laugh? Yes,
people, look, we told you we had to make our own fun.
It was handed us on a silver platter. Yeah, and that fun
was often at the expense of others. Absolutely, and franks, Yeah,
others had to feel pain for us to feel laughter. Yeah, that's sad.
Look, we all walked through this world treating our fellow humans as collateral
damage and everything we do, yes, in our pursuits of self interest.
That's how we live. We are gluttonous consumers that only care about ourselves,
right, Yes, I mean yeah, pretty much. Well I would like
to think not, and I would like to have some sense of hope for
really anything, but but it's harder by the day. But I mean,
I hope that we have a good show today, have that those are like
the hopeful things I have motivated by self interest. Yes, yes, I'm
excited for Dingy's Morning News today, guys. Danny's got quite an array of
stories, including the fart plane. The fart plane, of course, but
also this murder mystery in case. Dude, why did you read that?
I read some of it, and I have my theories, and I'm surprised
this is not a bigger story in the world. It's getting a little bit
of steam. It happened, almost happened two weeks two weeks ago, but
it's it's starting to get a little steam now. People Magazine just ran a
big thing on it. Yeah, yeah, do you know this, Mikey,
no idea? Okay, you know what, it's not We're not doing
this till what eight thirty anyway, Yeah, Okay, so a guy that
is a he's like an HIV researcher, like a protein scientist. All right,
he has three of his friends over. I think maybe more than three
of his friends. We had a few friends over to watch the Chiefs games
happened in Kansas City. These three guys come over to his house, all
right, and apparently they who knows what they were doing. There's no toxicology
reports back yet. But he said that his three friends left after the game
was over, and he lied down on the couch and fell asleep for two
days. In the forty eight hours after the game was over, and he
fell asleep. After this Kansas City Chiefs watch party at his house, something
happened where three of the people, three of his buddies that had left the
party, were found dead in his backyard freezing, and he claims to have
been asleep. He claims to have been asleep for two days as a matter
of fact. One of the fiances, I believe, but one of the
victims, because their families like, where are these people? They went to
this guy's house. Yeah, they're trying to call him. Two days later,
one of the fiances of one of the victims, or the deceased shows
up at this guy's house and is banging on the door and wakes him up,
and he's like, hey, what what day is it? And she
finds the bodies in the backyard, and we know what we don't we'll find
out in Dingu's morning news. One guy has three friends come over. Yeah,
they watch a football game, they leave, They leave the house,
and he goes, all right, cool, I'm gonna go lay down and
take a nap. He sleeps for two days and claims to have slept for
two days, flames and the three of them are dead in his backyard.
Okay, this is a tease, Kevin, This is how teases work.
Yes, we could do like a famous murder mystery every day and tease it
beautifully like that and then reveal what happened in the right Granted, we don't
know what you're gonna be doing two hours from now, but hopefully it'll,
you know, spark something in your brain to go, you know what,
they're You're gonna tell that whole story at eight thirty. I'm gonna I'm gonna
check back in, do you know, But we don't know what. We
don't know what happened yet, do we we have an idea. I've got
an idea. Of God, your mystery models are showing. I'm just saying,
when you look at the image of the three dead people, you can
come to some type of conclusion if you'd like. But they were basically frozen
out there. This is like True Detective season four. Come oh, I
think I know what happened. Allegedly, Jody Foster gets railed in True Detective
season four. You started watching no, okay, I finished Fargo though,
congratulations. Well I tell you what easy selling port there point there. John
Hamm is in Fargo. Jody Foster is in True Detective. Huh, Fargo?
Excellent one. I loved it season finale, the whole season, the
last the last half of the final episode was wonderful. It's the leader in
the clubhouse so far this year. Because I'm the count. It is a
twenty twenty four shows, it must have it aired twenty twenty three, our
best show of the year. Yep. Season five is it? Yep?
Okay? And anyone who was like me and hasn't seen any of Fargo,
it doesn't matter at all. You can you can just start with season five,
like I didn't see one thing that led back to any of the first
two seasons that I watch, because I didn't watch three or four. You
can just go right to I told my mom too, She's like, what
should I watch. I'm like, go to Fargo season five. Be love
it. It was so good, Yes, Christina and I zipped through it.
Yeah, a few days. I just thought though that the final,
like twenty twenty five minutes of it, where you've got the how is He
referred to the guy in a dress with a three stooges haircut, like coming
munch? Is it much? It's smelt much, but I think they're coming
much or something. I don't know. All Right, sever good, fantastic
TV is good. Yes, you're getting a lot of support for wall ball,
a game that people played. Yeah, great amaze with twenty plus wheat
seed palette stacked in the barn. Okay, someone made it a good one.
We we had horse turd fights. Yeah, this guy we played a
game called Let's dig a hole and see if we can fill it up with
p and I don't think he's kidding. Let's dig a hole and see if
we can fill it up with another guy? Seven one three used to play
Red Rover ww f style where if you didn't make it, you were clothes
lined. Yeah, red Red Rover hurt. Yeah. A lot of these
small town games involved violence. Yeah Yeah, wall ball, wall ball,
getting a lot airsoft if you had one of those. Someone asked, Mike,
did you ever play who can take the most money out of the ATM
in a week? That is a fun game. Yeah, money, money
fort We played money for who can build the biggest money for it? So
yeah, Texas, your weird ass games you made up out in the out
in the country as we lead up to eight o'clock, or we're playing an
incredible new game Barbecue blue Bonnets in the Bible, a small town Texas adventure,
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